"I'll go in through the kitchen while you create a diversion at the entrance." Lucy said in a urging tone.

Natsu sat staring at the mansion in front of them, not questioning his partner's plan. He knew the risks of this mission. He knew what was at stake, and they weren't going to lose this battle. His eyes burned with determination and his muscles were tensing at the thoughts of ripping off heads. He turned to view Lucy. It surprised him at even moments like this, she stole his breath away. She wore the same plain black t-shirt and pants he was wearing and her face was scowled with fury, but to him she looked like an heavenly goddess. A goddess retrieving her stolen Angel.

He leaned over and kissed her cheek with a smile. " See you later, I've got work to do." and he stalked off to the front door, which he instantly kicked in and let out a challenging roar.

Lucy moved along the wall to the back door into the kitchen. Her booted feet moved soundlessly and she quickly summoned some back up, just in case Natsu hadn't got all the attention.

" Open, door of the lion." she whispered holding the golden key in her fingers. A flash of light beamed in front of her and so made a mention for Loke to be quiet. She had previously filled him in with what was happening so thankfully she didn't have to know. He peered around the corner and made a dash for the back door. Silently pulling it opening, the two slipped in undetected. They hid behind a counter and took in their surroundings.

The kitchen was filled with stainless steel counters lining the white walls, and islands floating in the middle. Racks of pots and pans hang from the ceiling, catching the overhead lights blindingly. Steam was raising from pots on the stove tops and five chefs were in the room, preparing meals. The last thing they noticed was the two guards standing by the door, their exit. Lucy had a sudden thought and whirled around. Sure enough there were two guards at the door they just went through. She instantly pick up the closest object and swung at the advancing figure. A frying pan connected with his face and he slumped to the floor.

" Humph, this is actually really good. Who knew?" she chuckled.

The blonde reached over the counter and grabbed another one. By this time, all the guards were rushing towards them and Loke was already in action. Lucy hiked herself up on a counter and was jumping from island to island when a hand caught her foot, causing her to fall ungracefully on top. She rolled over and swung both pans at the attacker's face. Both hits made a satisfying crunching-popping noise. She momentarily looked up and saw Loke just finish up with the other two. The chefs were cowering against their counters, scared of what was happening in their sanctuary.

" Alright princess, go ahead, I'll watch your back." Loke stated.

Lucy jumped off the island and skipped to the door. Peeking it open, she saw at least ten guys running down the hall. Most like towards a certain angry dragon slayer.

'Have fun Natsu.' she thought with a smirk. She motioned for Loke to follow her and they snuck out of the kitchen into the corridor. Now she didn't want to waste time, and she wanted her baby back, so she ran full speed down the halls, checking every room on her way. Occasionally there would be a brute along the way but they were easily taken care of with a few hits from the frying pan. All in all, Loke actually wasn't needed so he left to not waste any of Lucy's energy. Lucy continued to run with her hands holding the pans at her side and all through out the house, she could hear Natsu's roars and the commotion he was causing. She let out a suppressing laugh, then got serious again.

Up ahead was the last door of the wing, and something inside was telling her it was 'the' door. She raised a pan to eye level then slowly stalked to the door. Once there, she gave a twist of the door knob to find it locked. Not having any patience left, she kicked at the door and swung her pans, effectively banging it open.

" Mommy!" an excited squeal escaped the darkness.

Lucy immediately felt the relief pour into her chest as she dropped the pans and held her arms out for her daughter. The small figure launched herself into her mother's arms, hugging tightly into her warm embrace. Lucy felt tears wash down her cheeks as she rubbed her hands in her daughter's hair. She straightened up to look at the child's brown eyes and smiled at the happiness that she was now safe and reunited with her goddess.

" How charming. A mother and her daughter. Who would have guessed that the infamous salamander and the Lucy Heartfilia would come for their child?" A hiss rebounded off the walls of the room, cluing Lucy in on the evil presence around her.

She instinctively tugged Nashi behind her and picked up her only weapons, the frying pans. Her stance held all her anger and need to protect her angel. " It's Dragneel now."

" Oh, the young couple wed. How I love weddings, tell me how was yours?"

By the sounds of the voice, Lucy guessed it was a cackly old woman, but its unwise to judge. All she did was heighten the angle of the pans and brought her face into a deeper scowl.

" Ah, now you didn't need to take the chefs' pans. They use those." the voice tsked.

" It does well for me as well." Lucy sneered.

A chuckled echoed throughout the room, and Lucy felt Nashi clasp onto her leg, tightly. Her baby was scared and Lucy would never forgive this creature inside for causing this emotion inside Nashi.

" I'm tired of this Game!" She growled, uncharacteristic of her.

She scooped up Nashi and bolted in the opposite direction, the way she came. Nashi let out a shriek indicating that they were being followed. Lucy fought the urge to turn around and quickened her pace. This time when running, instead of keeping to the maze of back halls that the servants used, she ventured to the main corridor and slid down the master staircase into the grand foyer. Now she took a look back and saw what scared Nashi.

At the top of the staircase was an old woman. She was gray in color and had a wild frenzy of silver and black hair on her head. In her hand was a dagger, grasped tightly to not fall out of her fragile hand. A wide grin was painted on her face, lifting her hundreds of wrinkles on her face. The sight almost scared Lucy also, but she refused to show anything other then her anger.

" Lucy! Watch out!" Natsu screamed from the left side of the room, causing Lucy to look up.

The grand chandelier made of Gold was falling directly above her. She tucked Nashi into her and rolled, barely getting out of the way in time. She didn't move the entire time crashing was heard and glass was flying. She could hear Nashi screaming and felt horrible for the poor four year old. Then it was piled on top of her anger and Lucy felt like she was going to explode.

" Lucy, are you okay? How's Nashi?" Natsu whispered in her ear, concern, terror, and anger tripping over each other in his voice.

Lucy sat up and glared at the witch descending the stairs. "Happy!" she shouted, calling for the waiting blue exceed.

"Aye!" He called out when he flew in above the window. He dashed down at max speed and lifted the crying Nashi. Lucy gave her a kiss on the hand before she was out of reach. Happy did his part by delivering the young girl outside the mansion, where Erza and Gray were told to wait for her. The two other mages wanted to come in and help, but Lucy told them that it had to be her and Natsu to deal with this. They threatened Nashi and they would regret it. So they agreed to be her escort back to Magnolia.

Now the couple stood side by side, fire burning in their eyes and revenge read in their body language.

" Summon Taurus." Natsu muttered.

" No."

Lucy instead pulled out her whip and grabbed a sword of the fallen weapon mages. She wanted to be the one to punish this evil woman, not her spirits. She even went as far as to ask Erza to train her in the art of sword wielding.

This was a look entirely new to Natsu. He had never seen her so feral. The sword in her hand was pointed at the witch and her whip was ready to snap and draw in her enemy. Her eyes were hard steel and her lips curled into a snarl. This Lucy even gave him shivers down his spine.

' Damn, I'm lucky.' he thought with a smirk. He had nothing to do right now. All the troops were down and all that was left was the cackling old lady that Lucy had claimed.

He watched for the first move to be made, wanting to see how this played out. For the longest time they just stared at each other. Finally the old witch charged at her and gave a warrior cry. Lucy flicked her wrist and grabbed a foot with the whip then threw her across the room. Instantly the woman was up and charging again. This time Lucy swiped her sword at her, cutting her cheek. The action seemed to enrage the woman more as she tackled Lucy and rolled onto the floor. Natsu started to run forward but saw Lucy's whip wrap around the wrinkly saggy neck and pull. The woman fell backwards off of Lucy and the young blonde climbed on top of the woman. She brought the sword up and placed the blade directly above her heart.

" No! Lucy, don't!" Natsu shouted, trying to get into Lucy's mind. Seeing she was distracted the witch popped out a small bag and threw something at Lucy's chest. A burst of light exploded and Lucy was thrown off and across the room.

" Lucy!" Natsu screamed, running over to her.

The blonde wasn't down long but when she stood up she wiped blood of the corner of her mouth. This time Lucy yelled and ran at the witch. She flicked her wrist, the whip grabbing the old brittle wrists of the witch. She tugged her forward and placed the sword to her neck. The witch froze.

" Don't you ever take my baby again!" she hissed loudly. She brought the sword down and dropped it to the floor. She released the kidnapper and walked over to Natsu. She threw yourself in his arms and he could feel the happiness that was radiating from her.

" We have Nashi back!" she squealed with a smile and Natsu's heart fluttered.

He leaned into her and gave her a full, overwhelming kiss. It was short, much shorter than Natsu would like.

" Let's go see Nashi." she was beaming with excitement, and Natsu could only smile at his wife. Just a minute ago, she was murderous and now she was bubbly and lovey.

They walked out of the large mansion hand in hand, smiling like the goofs they were. The other half of the team was still standing outside with an antsy looking Nashi. The minute she saw her parents, she ran at them giggling. Natsu bent down and scooped her up into his arms.

They were finally all together again. Him, Lucy, and Nashi. A separation like that would never happen again, he would have to die first. Now they walked home, Natsu and Lucy holding hands and a ecstatic Nashi sleeping on her father's shoulder. Not even Gray could say anything insulting about Natsu at this moment. Of course he wouldn't try at the moment. Erza was right beside him and he knew what happened inside. Lucy was almost as scary as Erza, and he whether not die at the hands of demons today.

Author's note: I don't know what I was thinking when I came up with this, but I am kinda pleased with how it turned out. Actually thinking about writing a full story of this one, who knows. Thanks for reading :)