Chapter 4; Brother and Sister
In our current view we see Erza gently rocking two sleeping babies in a rocking chair. While at the same time Ben was showing Ezra a photo album on the couch. "And here's a picture of your mother and I's first date" he said pointing to one picture.
It had Erza wrapped tightly in his arms on the beach near his house, "I'm surprised really, you're so mature for a few months" Ben added tickling Ezra. She giggled at it, "her deformity seemed to speed up her aging again" his wife said noticing. And she had been right, since Ezra's last growth spurt last month she got another again.
Now she looked about three, her daughter then seemed a little down because of that statement. "Hey it's okay baby" Erza said gesturing Ezra to come over, to which she did.
"That's what makes you special, you're big and strong like me and daddy" she said. Ezra looked at her little hands "I'm... strong?" She asked, "yes, you're so mature then your older siblings. And you're so cute and beautiful" Erza doted.
"And since your our kid, you're bound to become more so" Ben said, "Okay daddy" Ezra said now a little happier. "Man, things have been rather calm lately" Beth said a few feet away.
"You're right on that sis" Ben replied "there's nothing to do, for anyone else at least, me and Erza have our hands full" he added. "And aunt Lulu couldn't come over" Ezra said pouting, "she had to go on a job with Uncle Natsu, Uncle happy and big sisters Wendy and Amber" she added.
Ezra really did love her sisters, adopted or not both girls had shown great affection to their new little sister. Wendy was always making Ezra feel happy with her sweetness and Amber making her laugh with her outgoing personality. Not to mention her god mother and favorite non blood related aunt Lucy.
As said Ezra rather liked being around Lucy when her parents weren't around, and even gave her an adorable nickname. Aunt Lulu, she was like a combination of Wendy and Amber, she was so nice and sweet yet so cool and funny.
Oh rare moments Ezra would ask Ben and Erza to take her to Lucy's to visit, and as her parents they couldn't say no. No one could resist Ezra's cuteness, and there was also one more person.
"I wonder how Tahu's doing?" Ben said to himself, two weeks after they came back he met Tahu again. You know the fire mage who beat Natsu when Wendy first arrived.
He'd changed a lot, firstly he didn't use fire magic anymore, instead he had a magic similar to re-quip called swap. Like Erza's magic he can vary his arsenal of abilities only instead f armors he swaps out the gems in his sword. And has a large variety of gems which gives his swords different applications.
He even looked different, for one thing his hair was shorter and he lost the side burns. And for some reason he wore armor like Erza's only for males.
After a month the two have been good friends, "probably making my request for Hearts Cruz" Erza giggled. Did I forget to mention? Tahu also now works for Erza's favorite place to get armors from. And because of that she had repeatedly asked him for any new armors.
Ben chuckled knowing the poor guy was goin at rapid pace not wanting to deny the mighty Erza her armors.
The next day the Tennyson family was at the guild with the twins in the stroller and Ezra riding on Erza's shoulders. "Any new job requests?" Ben asked his wife, she shook her head "nothing safe enough for the kids to come with or have a high enough pay" she replied.
Ben groaned, Sure they weren't struggling to get by because of the money interest plant but it normally takes about one month for it to actually spit up more money. The real reason they wanted to go was to take their daughter on a nice easy safe first mission.
"Hey Ben" a voice said, looking back the gang saw Tahu coming into the guild hall. "Hey Tahu what's up?" Ben asked high fiving him, "I Uh... I decided to hang up a job request at the guild" he said.
He then took out a flier, "huh? Why do you want to all of a sudden?" Erza asked him. "Well because I've gotten lonely recently, I Uh never told anyone this but the town I lived in was attacked when I was only a few years old" Tahu explained.
"Oh?" The red head inquired, "Yeah, The place was ransacked and burned to the ground. I already knew my parents died but I had an older sister" the swordsman added.
"She hid me away from the town and went back in to help any survivors, but after that she never came back" he explained. "I'm sure she's still out there somewhere, so I need help to find her"
"Well if you need help, Fairy Tail's always welcome to" Ben had said while Erza nodded. "Thanks, Anyway I'll hang up this flier now" Tahu then put up a flier. The flier had said "need assistance finding long lost family member. Reward 50,000 jewels" and it had a picture of Tahu's sister.
From before she had vanished, "does this look good to you?" The sword mage asked the shapeshifter. "Looks fine to me" he answered, however Erza's were wide, as if she saw a ghost.
"Uh... yeah looks good to me?" She said before walking to Lucy who had just came in, "Uh Pardon Lucy But would you mind watching Ezra for a moment?" She asked. Lucy nodded and the red head went over to the boys again she told Tahu that he should join the guild. In order to get more information about his sister, at first he initially denied.
Then Erza got scary saying that he was joining, Ben was taken aback by this action. And to fearful to argue the swordsman reluctantly agreed, Erza then turned her attention to the smoothie machine and went to get one.
What no one hadn't noticed was, as she was walking she was crying for some reason "I... I can't believe... I forgot..." she muttered inaudibly. "He... he had... he had to live... seventeen years of his life... with out knowing... his own flesh and blood..." she added mortified.
With Ben and Tahu "what's up with Erza?" He asked, "she wasn't like that this morning" Ben replied. Then he looked at the photo on Tahu's flier "I have to say your sister does look familiar though" He commented.
"I can't remember anything else, I only got that photo because when me and my foster family went back to my old town... I found a picture of me in a house" Tahu explained. "And at the same time I saw a picture of a This girl to, when I tried to remember her all I could was fire... and red."
The next few days went by as normal, the universe's hero decided to do something constructive with all the free time he has while taking care of his kids. Ben is now seen at a large field with two goals on either side "Hey Ben what's going on?" Natsu asked his pal.
"Hey Natsu, Just setting something up" Ben explained before pulling out a black and white ball. "Since I got to this world I noticed one of my favorite sports wasn't mentioned" he said.
Erza then came over holding Ken and Kelly "so I assume you're going to bring it here as you did with your smoothies" she inquired. "Yup, this is called Soccer" Ben answered before setting the ball down and multiplying by 11 and running to either side of the court.
And they all started playing, "it's just kicking a ball around" Natsu said "but I got to admit adding our Magic to it may make it more fun" Gray said suddenly appearing. Lucy was also there but was covering Ezra's eyes in case Gray stripped.
"You can if you wanted" Ben said as they merged back into one, "Hey that seems cool" Tahu said coming over. "Mind if I play?" He asked "you'll need about a few more players on your team" Ben said before a bright flash of light.
Tahu was now seen swapping the gem present in his sword with another one making him multiply also. "Clone gem" he answered before the rest of him got to the other side of the field. Erza had felt a little uncomfortable when Tahu arrived.
She then turned her attention to Ezra, who in the mean time was trying to draw herself. And wasn't fairing to well, "this is hard" she said trying to draw her own eyes. "Honey, maybe you should try drawing using a point of reference like maybe a mirror or a picture of yourself" Erza said.
Ezra nodded and was about to ask Lucy if she could borrow Gemini until she spotted a piece of paper on the ground. She picked it up and looked at it with wide eyes.
Then smiled and went back to the bench and started drawing again, after the game was done Ben walked over to his family. "So how'd you like that game?" He asked, "you played marvelously my darling" Erza said.
"Yeah Dad you were cool!" Ezra said, Ben then looked at her drawing and was stunned. She made a picture of herself, and a rather good one at that.
"Hey Ezra this looks great" he said picking it up "thanks daddy, it wasn't easy but I managed" she replied. "Our little daughter is so talented" Erza gushed nuzzling her baby girl. "Weird, for some reason, I felt like I've seen a girl who looks exactly like Ezra before but I can't put my finger on it" Ben said.
Tahu then came over "good game Ben" he said sweating buckets, "whew that was a work out" he added breathing heavily. "Hi Tahu" Ezra greeted "Hey Ezra, Erza good to see you again" he said as both nodded.
He then spotted his flier nearby "Hey I guess I dropped it while getting here" he said picking it up. "Huh, that's yours?" Ezra asked walking over to him "Yeah, it's the flier that I was gonna hang on the request board at the guild" he answered. "But, that's my reference" Ezra added, "huh?" Tahu inquired.
Just then Natsu barreled in and tackled both Ben and Tahu, "I GOT THE DROP ON YOU THIS TIME!!!" He roared putting them in a wrestling hold. "Hey Natsu Get off!" Both men yelled angrily, that was when Tahu's flier fell in Ben's face.
"Huh?" He said pulling it off his face, "Tahu's flier? Wait" Ben then picked up Ezra's drawing that fell nearby. And looked at both, "Uh Tahu, Erza" he said before tossing Natsu away.
"Yeah Ben?" The swordsman asked while Erza acknowledged him, "I think I know why I said that Ezra and Tahu's sister seemed familiar" he said.
Then showed both to them, the two then stared with wide eyes, the pictures were practically identical. "Ezra looks like Tahu's sister" Ben explained, "Wait so, that means I have to be related to her... or her..." Tahu then looked to Erza when a voice sounded and startled them.
"Mother, yes that's it" Paradox said "Professor Paradox!" Ben said annoyed, "sorry Benjamin by I was only here to finish Tahu's sentence" the time walker said. The two looked at each other "indeed Erza is in fact Tahu's sister, as to why she never recognized him perhaps I shall elaborate" he said.
In a flash everyone on the soccer field was transported to a small town, "does this is place seem familiar?" Paradox asked Tahu. "Yeah it's my home town, and wait that's me" he said pointing to him.
And behind young Tahu was a young Erza, "come on big sister let's go" the boy cried happily. "Slow down brother, you'll get hurt" Erza shouted back concerned.
"Those are us!" Erza said, "yes, back then you two were always together. That was until that night during the raid, and Erza was taken away, forced to build the tower of heaven" Paradox said.
Tahu's eyes geared lightly "but, why didn't either of us recognize each other?" He asked. Erza was about to say that she was a bad sister until the tile walker spoke up. "The easiest question, thinking that your sister had perished had traumatized you and made you forget how she looked" he said.
"And Erza has endured so much pain from her slavery that her memories had been corrupted making her forget" Paradox added. Then be brought them all back to the field, "so my sister, was actually closer than I thought?" Tahu asked looking at Erza.
"I, I admit I found out earlier" Erza said disappointed in herself, "when you brought out that picture of me from all those years ago it... it made me remember" she said. Ben then went up to her "but, why didn't you say anything?" He asked, "Well, I knew how you and my brother became friends. And I was afraid that if Tahu found out if I was his sister you'd start to act differently towards each other" she said crying.
"Why would we act different from one another?" Tahu asked, "Well, I thought you'd get mad at Ben, because you knew he made me pregnant... and Ben may have become a little possessive knowing that you'd want to spend more time with me leaving no time for him" she said.
Then screamed into her hands "I know it was stupid but I don't know why I didn't listen to myself!!" She yelled. "I don't deserve to be married if I can't tell my husband anything!! I can't be a good sister if I abandoned my brother for seventeen years of his life!!" She wept crying into her arms.
At this point she expected Ben to at least say something or lecture her about being more honest. Or Tahu to lash out or something, but she heard none of the sort, instead she felt a gentle hand touch her shoulder. "Erza" she heard Ben say, "if your brother wants to spend time with you I wouldn't mind" he said.
"And Erza... I know how special Ben is to you and I can respect you enough not to but in" Tahu said. "I know... but I'm the one at fault, I..." She was then interrupted by Ben.
"You didn't know, until this morning" he said, she looked at him "what?". "This morning, you started to act strangely around Tahu when you saw his flier right?" Ben asked. She nodded, "then that means you didn't lie about anything?" Tahu said, "you just wanted to say it at the right time, we understand" he added.
"Look, I'm not mad at you for leaving me, actually to be honest I thought you were dead" the swordsman said. "And when I had first seen you seven years ago I thought you looked familiar but decided it wasn't important. So in a way we're both at fault" Tahu said.
"Besides if you haven't forgotten I didn't even know who Bethany was or that she was my sister. So I'm just as guilty as you two" Ben said.
"So... neither of you are mad?" She asked, "how can I be, you're my queen Erza" Ben said hugging her. "I'll stay by your side" he added then held her hand with her ring with his ring hand. "For better or worse", "and besides I know Ben's a good guy, so he has my blessing" Tahu joked.
"Thanks, at least now I know I have a brother now" Erza said, "and I know I have a sister" Tahu said putting a hand on Erza's shoulder. "Also a nephew, four nieces, a brother and sister in-law, cousin in-laws and a grand in-laws" Ben mentioned.
"Right, brother" Tahu said high fiving Ben, Erza was glad the two had taken it in a positive way. And the day was complete with a happy resolution, well it would've been hadn't Natsu tried to get them from above and Tahu knocked right towards his house.
Which lead to the place being utterly destroyed by the dragon slayer, and he chased the pink hair around for a solid hour. At least that was a good opportunity to show Ben and Erza what he was made of.
And he was real good with his sword, took down Natsu faster than he did last time. Unfortunately now he has no place to live on account of the dragons slayer destroying his home.
But luckily his sister and brother in-law were nice enough to let him stay until he can buy a new house. Only problem was, Ezra didn't let anyone into the guest bedroom where Lucy slept and the other two were bad on account Natsu slept in them when he snuck in.
So Tahu was forced to sleep on the couch, but I could've.. (gets mouth covered) okay that was close.
Anyway, it seems Ben and Erza's family had just gotten bigger. In unrelated news the shapeshifter was then made Magnolia's first never soccer coach.
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