"Daddy les do this one!" Nashi pointed up at the job request board, standing on her tiptoes to reach the one she wanted.
Natsu inspected the job his daughter pointed to. The reward was 100,000 jewl and included a formidable picture of a giant monster. Nashi beamed up at him, proud of her decision. "This one right?"
She nodded. "I liked the picture on it!" Yep, she was definitely like her father, picking a job for the simplest reasons. Natsu smiles down and takes it off the board.
"Yo Luce! We found a job!" He yelled to Lucy from the other side of the guild. She was sitting at the bar talking to Mira. "Alright let me see!"
She made her way over to them and held up the job and squinted her eyes accusingly at Natsu.
"You picked this one because of the monster on the front didn't you..."
Nashi and Natsu nod, pretty satisfied with their choice. Lucy sighs before glaring at her husband.
"Natsu we can't do this one alone! At least ask Gray, Erza and Wendy if they want to come along." She looks to Nashi. "You'd get to play with Silver if they say yes."
Nashi's eyes had never been bigger. She immediately ran over to Gray and tugged on his pants asking him if they were willing to go with them. He looked to Natsu and Lucy and gave a thumbs up. Natsu found Erza and asked her the same thing, receiving a yes as well as from Wendy.
"Alright well we'll leave tomorrow morning! Natsu I'm going to go get some lunch with Nashi. We'll be back later." Lucy takes Nashi's hand and leads them out the door and down the street, returning back to the house about an hour or so later.
(Skip to that night lying in bed)
Natsu had rolled over to face Lucy after he'd gotten into bed. She yawned rubbing the back of her hair, walking over to the edge of the bed and crawling underneath the covers. Once they were both situated, Natsu rolled onto his back and looked up at the ceiling. Lucy had rolled over to her right side and was looking at the wall.
"This will be our first mission since I woke up." Natsu nodded
"Yah, but we'll be fine. We've been through worse. Plus it's not like we'll be alone. We've got Erza, Gray and Wendy. I don't really think Silver counts though. I just hope Ice Ass doesn't try to show off for him."
"Oh and you've never showed off for Nashi?" Lucy flips sides so that she is facing him.
"Psh only when Ice Princess and his offspring are around. Can't have their sissy ice magic show me up! I have a reputation to keep!"
Lucy smirks "Yes because the reputation of the Salamander, dragon slayer who goes over board on every mission, is such a good reputation."
Natsu pretended to be offended. "Well of course! I mean someone has to keep the family traditions up." He snuggled into her, gently laying his arm over her.
"Nashi is definitely not going to be upholding that tradition. I don't think the Master needs a second generation of destructive mages." Lucy laughs as she curls up into his arm. "Yah well the old man doesn't really get a say."
Natsu smiled at the thought of the old man going even more out of his mind with paperwork and more grandkids running around the guild. He pulled Lucy close.
"Night Luce."
"Goodnight Natsu."
"Moooomma Daaaaaddy! Les go! Waaaake uuup!" Nashi had managed to climb onto her parents' bed and was now laying on top of both of them length wise. Of course she would occasionally jump on the bed just to spice it up a bit.
Lucy groaned at the sunlight, never really being a morning person. Natsu on the other hand was wide awake at this point and wrestling with his daughter, letting her win of course.
Once everyone had gotten ready and eaten for the morning, they all walked down to the train station to meet the rest of the team.
"Hey Flame Princess! 'Bout time you got here!" Gray folded his arms letting go of his duffle bag.
"Wanna run that by me again Stripper?!" Natsu charged over to said stripper. Now they were butting heads, spewing insults at each other.
"Break it up both of you!" Erza smashed their heads together, ending their bickering. At this point the train had started boarding and Natsu was laying over Lucy's lap trying not to throw up. Wendy had developed the same motion sickness, but luckily managed to fall asleep.
Nashi and Silver were sitting by the window coloring in a book they had been given. He looked just like a baby Gray except his hair was navy blue. His personality was just like Juvia's, very protective and once he found something he liked, he became very attached to it. He had the same hair style as his father but unfortunately had also inherited his stripping habit...
A couple of hours pass and they finally arrive at the train station and make their way over to where the monster was supposedly located.
"Daaaad are we theeere yet?" Silver whined bending down from Gray's shoulders., his hair covering the majority of his face.
"Almost, you have to be patient." Gray pushed him back into place.
"How bout now?"
"Nope."
"How booout now?"
"Still a no."
"How abou..."
"Sil if you don't stop asking I'll make you walk."
"Fiiine..." He crosses his arms, being as patient as a 6 year old could be. Nashi looked back and smiled up at her best friend, giving him the patience he needed.
"I think I see it!" Wendy pointed up to a series of houses up the road. The job request said to meet in a some small village in the mountains and go and hunt down the monster. Happy picks up Nashi and flies beside everyone as they start running, quickly reaching the village.
"You know I was wondering something, why are Nashi and Silver here? I mean if it's a dangerous mission shouldn't we have left them back at the guild?" Wendy turned around to face everyone and sat on the makeshift bed she had made on the ground.
"Because they get to see me in action!" Natsu threw his pillow onto the ground hard to "demonstrate his power". Gray gave him a dirt look and did the same thing, leading to a brutal pillow fight in seconds.
Lucy and Erza shook their heads at the boys. "It's cause they're getting to the age where they want to start practicing magic, and the best way to figure out what they want to do is see it in action. Besides if it gets to be too much, Happy and Charle can just fly them away."
Erza turned to Lucy "Do you think Nashi's going to want to be a celestial wizard or a dragon slayer Lucy?"
She shrugged. "I don't know. You can't learn Dragon Slayer magic from another Dragon Slayer so she may want to be a celestial wizard."
"What about getting her a lacrima?" Lucy shook her head. "If she wants to learn the same magic as Natsu then he'll want to teach her the best he can. He says it means more than just putting a rock inside of you. And besides, I kind of like the idea of handing some of my keys down to her."
"Awwww that's so sweet! Can't you just imagine Nashi and Silver doing some kind of celestial water unison raid?!" Wendy squeeled.
"What makes you think Silver's going to practice water magic?" Wendy pointed behind them. The kids were playing in a small pond that was near their camp. Silver was splashing Nashi, but it seemed like the water was hanging in mid air just a few seconds longer than it normally would.
"Well I guess that answers that question. He's following in his mother's foot steps." Erza unfolded her arms and requiped into something more comfortable to sleep in besides her armor. Everyone follows suit and starts getting ready for bed.
"Goodnight evry one!" Nashi yawned as Lucy tucked her in with Silver who was in the sleeping bag right next to Gray. Lucy got in hers and Natsu in the one next to her. Erza and Wendy on either side of Gray and Natsu, forming a circle around the fire. Happy and Charle laid on top of Wendy and Natsu.
Within a few minutes everyone was fast asleep, tired from the long trip.
Nearly an hour later screams are heard and the ground begins to shake, waking the team up. Immediately they get up and run towards the sound.
"Happy! Charle! Stay here with the kids! If you have to get them out of here!" Natsu yells and then follows everyone, receiving and Aye Sir as an answer.
They're met by a crowd of people running in the opposite direction. Erza is able to stop one of them.
"What's going on?" She practically had to yell over all the noise. The girl she had grabbed is frantic.
"I-I don't know! Some guy just showed up and and started lighting everything on fire with some kind of magic!" The girl pulled away from Erza's hold and ran away.
The team pushed through and was met by a man who looked to be in his mid twenties. All they could see in the dark was a black cape with a hood that covered the majority of his face. Even though they couldn't see his face, they could tell he was making eye contact.
" 'bout time you all showed up! I was getting bored." A small ball of fire manifested in his hand as he played with it.
"Who are you?! And why are you attacking innocent people?!" Natsu gritted his teeth, feeling uneasy. The lower half of his face was visible.
The dark figure smiled. "You know I'm having a hard time deciding who to kill first. Wendy, the sky dragon slayer, or Gray Ice Devil Slayer? Or maybe the lovely Titania." He pauses "Then there's Miss Lucy Heartfilia. Oh wait sorry. It's Dragneel now isn't it?"
"SHUT UP!" Natsu yells before lighting both his arms on fire and charging the man. Erza requips into her flame empress armor, Wendy goes Dragon Force, half of Grays body becomes covered in black markings, and Lucy transforms into her Aquarious Star-dress.
As they got close enough to attack, he attacks.
"Fire Demons Roar!"
"Hate to burst your bubble buddy but fire magic doesn't work on me!" Natsu gets ready to eat it, but he can't. It's like biting air.
They're all blown back by the blast.
"Natsu you should all people know that you can't eat your own fire..."
Gray is the first to get up off the ground. "Just who are you?!"
He paces back and forth. "You know names are a funny thing. You can give them, take them. And sometimes you can have the same name."
He pulls back his hood revealing pink hair and black eyes. "My name is Etherious Natsu Dragneel. That's E.N.D for short."