It's been a little over a month since Lost Treasure and Muramasa was beaten. Ichigo and his team with Natsu's and Lucy's kids gathered around Natsu as he was telling them one of Fairy Tail's famous stories.

"That's when Gray blasted him with an arrow made of ice." Natsu finished with telling them the battle with a dark guild Tartaros.

"Oh man, you guys must have the worst luck or something to get stuck fighting an enemy like that." Rukia said.

"Wow, Dad. You usually fight with Gray, but you two actually work well together." Nagato said.

"Now if only it would stay like that. It's so annoying when you two constantly fight." Uryu said and all of them agreed with that.

"What's going on? I heard my name." Gray said as he came over.

"Natsu just got done telling us how you took on those demons that made an entire guild." Ichigo said.

"That sounded like the toughest fight Fairy Tail has ever been in." Orihime said. "I bet there's no enemy Fairy Tail can't beat."

"You can say that again. Our guild could handle everything and anything." Renji said.

"Actually…..that's not exactly true. There was one challenge that some of our toughest couldn't handle." Gray said.

"Fairy Tail's Hardest Challenge"

"Are you serious?" Rukia said.

"There's no way. Our guild can take on any challenge. What was so tough that not even our toughest members could handle?" Ichigo said.

"Yeah and why didn't I take part in it?" Natsu said.

"Could you please tell us?" Igneel said.

"Sure. You might find this hard to believe, but some members were in charge of watching a baby." Gray said. "That baby caused the guild so much trouble for the guild."

"Really? I hate to see the poor guy that kid grew up to be?" Nagato said as he took a sip of his drink.

"Nagato that baby was you." Gray said. Nagato spat out his drink that Lilly tried to block from.

"Watch it." Lilly said.

"Me?! What the heck did I do as a baby?" Nagato said.

"You have our interest." Lilly said.

"You've got to tell us." Ichigo said.

"Sure. It happened just a few months after Nagato was born." Gray said as he began to tell the story of the hardest challenge Fairy Tail ever had to go through.

…

Flashback

This story took place many years ago. At the moment, Natsu was resting his head against the bar and he looked awful.

"Natsu, are you alright?" Gray said as he came over and nudge him on the shoulder, but Natsu smacked him in the chest. "What the hell is your problem?"

"Sorry." Natsu said as he lifted his head up and he had dark circles around his eyes.

"What's the matter? You look exhausted." Gray said.

"It's Nagato." Natsu said. "He keeps waking me and Lucy up. Lucy thinks he's going through some kind of phase and he's having trouble getting back to sleep."

"It's not so much better during the day either." Lucy said as she came by with a baby Nagato and she looked just as bad. "Nagato always seems to want something and we've hardly had any time to ourselves."

"Why do people have kids? They are horrible." Natsu said. They all let that go because they knew he was exhausted and didn't really mean it.

"Okay, give him here." Gray said as he walked over to Lucy and took Nagato out of her arms.

"What are you doing?" Lucy said. Gray dug around his pocket and pulled out a couple tickets.

"Here. I got these tickets as a reward from a job." Gray said. "They're to a spa that's a few miles out of town. I was going to take Juvia, but you two look like you need it more. I'll keep an eye on the kid while you're gone."

"Gray, I don't know about this." Lucy said.

"You'll only be gone for a while and I have the guild to watch over him." Gray said. Gray wasn't going to take no for an answer and with Natsu and Lucy too exhausted to even argue. So they just agreed to it.

…

The Next Day

"Alright, here's some fresh diapers, his favorite toys, what else am I forgetting?" Lucy said as she made sure Gray had everything. She was nervous since this was the first time she was going to be without Nagato.

"Nothing. Everything is going to be fine. You're only going to be gone for a few hours." Gray reassured.

"We better get going, Lucy. I don't like leaving my son with Ice Panties, but everyone else in the guild will watch him." Natsu said.

"Alright. Bye honey. Mommy and Daddy will be back soon." Lucy said as she kissed her son with Nagato reaching out for her. Natsu grabbed her hand and the two of them left the guild to have the whole day to themselves.

"Alright. I know he's Natsu's son, but how bad can it be?" Gray said, but soon would regret those words. He placed Nagato down and searched around the bag Lucy left for him. "Man, Lucy made it seem like she would be gone for days."

"What are you doing?" Laxus said as he walked by.

"Natsu and Lucy just left for a day to themselves and I offered to watch Nagato." Gray said.

"Is that all?" Laxus said, but he saw the first sign of trouble. "Not good!" Gray looked up and saw Nagato reaching for a cloth that was hanging off the bar counter, but if he pulled down, it would cause a box of silverware to land on him.

"Nagato, don't!" Gray said. Nagato was able to grab it and pull down with the silverware falling. Both of them acted quickly. Gray pushed Nagato out of the way and Laxus was able to use the box and move fast enough to catch the forks and knives. Nagato laughed out how funny they looked.

"That was close. You're going to need to keep a closer eye on the kid." Laxus said.

"No kidding." Gray said. Then, Nagato's laughter changed to crying. "What? Crying already?" Gray took him over to a table to try and find the problem. "What's the matter?"

"Check his diaper. Maybe he has a full one." Laxus suggested. Nagato was flailing around and it was making it hard for Gray to do that.

"I'm not sure if it is. I don't really smell anything." Gray said. Nagato's cries were getting louder and people were starting to get annoyed by it.

"What's all the crying about?" Levy and Gajeel were the next ones to come by.

"Who keeps crying?" Gajeel said.

"It's Nagato. He won't stop. Laxus, there were a few baby toys in the bag Lucy gave me." Gray said.

"Alright." Laxus said as he pulled out a few toys. They tried a rattle, stuffed animals, and all that other stuff, but Nagato was pushing them all away. "Let's try this." Laxus pulled out a pacifier and put it right in the mouth. "There." Nagato just spat it out and it hit Laxus in the head with him crying again.

"That's it. Stop that crying or I'm going to do something about it." Gray said.

"Gajeel, he's just a baby." Levy scowled.

"Come on." Gray said as he lifted up Nagato and started rocking him. "Maybe he needs a nap." He kept rocking him, but Nagato was falling asleep or anything.

"Let me try a few faces." Levy said as she took him. She placed Nagato back down. "Nagato, look here." She tried making a few funny faces, but they weren't helping either. "Nothing."

"Look kid, stop it or else." Gajeel said, but that only made things worse.

"Gajeel, you're scaring him!" Levy said.

"Sorry, but I'm starting to get annoyed with this kid." Gajeel said.

"You're going to be one heck of a Dad." Gray said with sarcasm.

"My kids won't be as annoying as Salamander's." Gajeel said.

"Enugh. Let's just try to figure out how to get him to stop crying." Laxus said. They've tried everything they could think of, but Nagato has been crying for hours. None of them thought a kid could cry for this long. They tried music, playing, Levy even convinced the guys to put on silly costumes, but nothing was working. Some members offered their help, but that didn't do much good and others just left. They were just about ready to give up.

"Nothing seems to stop this kid from crying!" Gray shouted with his ears covered.

"He's a Dragneel. We should have known this would be trouble." Laxus complained.

"What's all the noise about?" Erza said as she came down. "I've been trying to do some work, but that crying hasn't stopped."

"It's Nagato." Levy said.

"We've tried everything until Natsu and Lucy come back, but the kid won't shut up." Gray said.

"I see. In that case, I'll silence him." Erza said as she took Nagato right out of Levy's arms and held up Nagato. "I'll cease this noise and make sure it stops." Erza was giving off the impression that she was about to do something scary and sinister to the kid by the way she looked and talked. So you can imagine their surprise and their stupidity when they saw Erza feeding Nagato with a bottle of milk. "Yes. You're such a good baby. Who's a good boy? It's you. Yes it is. Yes it is." She cooed and all of them felt stupid.

"All we had to do was feed the kid milk?!" Gajeel shouted.

"I thought Lucy was still breastfeeding him. I guess that's the thing she forgot to tell me." Gray said. "Although, it's so weird seeing Erza act so motherly." All of the noise settled after that and Lucy and Natsu soon returned with Lucy running right in the guild.

"We're back. Where's my baby boy?" Lucy said.

"Here he is." Erza said as she walked over and Nagato was all giggly with him being happy to be in Lucy's arms again. Both she and Natsu looked good as new.

"Thanks Erza, but where's Gray?" Natsu said. Erza turned her head and they saw Gray and the others were exhausted this time.

"I don't know what happened, but thanks for pitching in to take care of Nagato." Lucy said. "Maybe we should leave Nagato in your care more often." She joked and got a few laughs.

"NO!" The other four shouted.

End of Flashback

…

"That's the story." Gray said.

"Wow, you were even trouble back when you were a baby." Lilly said.

"I remember when you were a baby. You weren't any better." Nagato said.

"Nice work, Pinky." Ichigo joked.

"Still, I was tough even back when I was a baby." Nagato said. "And my hair is not pink. It's a light shade of red." All of them shared a laugh after hearing an amusing story. Who would have thought one baby would cause so much trouble? Then again, he is a Dragneel. Meanwhile, Erza was up in her office and was looking over a letter she just received and thinking over something serious.

'So far, four spirit slayers have been accounted for.' Erza thought. 'Things are becoming interesting and something tells me we're going to need that kind of power. This letter I got from the Magic Council is very unsettling. I knew something was going on and it was just like how it was all those years ago. History is starting to repeat itself.'

…

Out in a darkened area, one man stood in the dead of the night. He had black spikey hair with a leather zipped up vest that stopped in the middle of his chest with the inside white with a black emblem that looked like an R between a one and a zero. He wore red pants tucked in combat boots with wristbands and he had a dark aura around him.

"Our time is drawing near. An ultimate power is about to be awaken. A new beginning is starting. The beginning of the light's destruction."

…

Orihime: Ichigo, light guilds work together, but do dark guilds?

Ichigo: I've heard about that, but I doubt they stay loyal to each other.

Orihime: I heard that there are some that have succumb to the strength of others.

Ichigo: That's why they are low lives. There are some that use strength to scare others while light guilds treat each other like equals.

Orihime/Ichigo: Next Time: Allies

Ichigo: You just got to be careful with what you do and say with those around you.