A sigh escaped Natsu's lips as he sat on a rock besides a little lake in Magnolia's forest, fishing rod buried in the water. His dark sandals tapped repeatedly against the grass as he hummed a slow tune to himself.

His exceed friend who sat besides him looked at him.

Under the father's eyes Happy observed little dark bags. It worried the cat.

"Have you been getting any sleep lately Natsu?", Happy asked. His friend ignored his question as he felt a tug on his rod. "Ha! I got one!" Natsu pulled on the rod and out popped a medium sized grey fish who wiggled side to side.

Happy watched as Natsu dumped the flopping fish with the previous fishes he collected in a bucket.

He placed another bait on the fishing rod's hook before placing it back in the water.

Happy glanced at Natsu's over filled bucket then at his bucket which only held three fishes.

"Hey! That's no fair Natsu! How come you have more fishes than me-Hm!" Happy pouted as his little blue ears flopped in defeat.

Natsu glanced at Happy and chuckled.

How am I going to surprise Carla now with only three fishes..  Happy thought.

The exceed jumped in surprise when his bucket made a sound. He turned and noticed his bucket was half filled with fishes he didn't earned. Happy bit his lips in joy before he flew directly at Natsu and cried in his chest.

"Oh thank you thank you Natsu-I knew you loved me-Oh thank you thank you!" the exceed cried in gratitude as Natsu grinned. 

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At The Guild

"I'll take a strawberry milkshake on the go Mira!", Nashi announced excitedly as she sat on one of the bar stools in the guild's bar. "Coming right up!" the white haired she-devil smiled.

Her long pink hair was tied in two pigtails as she wore a white tank top, a dark blue mini skirt and dark knee length combat boots. Who sat besides her on one of the stools was Ryan, Erza's son. He was too engrossed in his strawberry short cake he didn't noticed Nashi's presence. 

Nashi ruffled the child's spikey blue locks. "Hi-ah there Ryan!", the pinkette grinned.

The small gesture caused him to clumsily drop his fork on the dirty floor below. 

He gritted his teeth in anger as Nashi awkwardly rose her hands in surrender. "I-I'm sorry-" "Look what you've done you imbecile!" Ryan snapped with his fist hitting the counter then he quickly realized who he snapped at.

His cheeks quickly turned a dark shade of red as he apologized. "I-I'm s-sorry Nashi I thought you were Luke. He always bothers me when I'm eating my favourite dessert"

"It's okay Ryan" 

Damn.. He really was Erza's kid.

She felt as if her heart was gonna stop by the look he gave.

"Haha!", approached Lance Dreyar as he pointed at Nashi, "You've got told off by a nine year old!"

Nashi sweat dropped.

Soon Lance received a table which sent him flying at the side of the guild. "Leave my sister alone!", barked Luke as his fists engulfed in flames. Lance stood up and growled, electricity flowing through his body.

"You wanna go flame butt!" 

"Bring it on lightning!" 

"Lightning Dragon's Breakdown Fist!" yelled the 11 year old as a giant fist made from thunder was sent in Luke's direction but Luke quickly dodged his attack, the fist destroying some of the guild's pillars. Luke jumped high into the air.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!" the 9 year old twin released flames from his mouth as it aimed at the target.

Lance dodged, the flames destroying some of the tables and chairs behind . He jumped in the air towards Luke, his fist engulfed in lightning with rage.

"How rude!", the white exceed, Carla remarked as she sat by a table with Pantherlily, Wendy and her boyfriend Romeo. They all stared at the fight, wondering who was gonna stop it this time.

Laxus smirked in satisfaction, holding his daughter, Stella, in his arms. Where was Natsu to see his son beat his in a battle. He couldn't feel more proud as a father.

Luke braced for the impact but a yell stopped the blonde. 

"Lance!" 

Lance's eyes turned to the devil in the bar who glared darkly at him. He quickly stopped his actions, feeling scared.

"Haha! I win!" Luke boasted in victory with a smirk until his smirk quickly disappeared. He observed as a certain requip mage slowly stood up, a knocked over cake squashed on the floor. 

"Oh no.." he tried to make a run for it but Erza held onto his shirt, glaring at him.

"I'm sorry Aunt Erza.." Luke looked down in guilt. Soon him and Lance was facing the wall in the guild.

Nashi couldn't help but giggle.

.

"Thanks for coming over Levy" Lucy smiled as her blue haired friend entered her bedroom holding a bag.

"Thanks for having me over. How are you feeling today?" Levy sat on the edge of her bed as Lucy straightened up on her pillow. Under the blonde's eyes was a bit dark.

"Have you been avoiding sleep", Levy gave her a look and Lucy forced a laugh. "Anything but that, my back just hurts that's all"

"What did Porlyusica recommend this time?" Lucy asked as Levy dug in a bag and took out a potion bottle filled with a bubbly, purple liquid.

"She says it helps with the pain and the effect lasts for 3 days but you only need to take a sip" Levy handed Lucy the bottle.

Levy observed as the blonde opened and took a sip of what seemed to be a gross liquid. "Ugh" Lucy groaned.

"Where's Natsu?"

Lucy shrugged.

"Do you get pain as well?" Levy shook her head as she rubbed her baby bump through the thin strap purple dress the script mage wore.

Lucy sighed, "He's been no help at all. He only brings home jewels from missions time to time but besides that he's distanced himself from this family", she pouted.

"Don't think like that I'm sure he just wants time to think"

"Psh.. for a year and some months, yeah right" she placed the potion on her nightstand table and stood up. 

"You feeling alright?"

"A little bit, where's Igneel?"

"He's in the twins' room playing with their toys" Levy responded. "Oh.."

"I hope Luke and Luna isn't giving Nashi any trouble at the guild. Especially Luke" Lucy facepalmed herself.

Luke took a lot after his father. 

Loud, wild and quick to start fights.

"I'm happy you're feeling a little better" Levy smiled. 

"Yeah, thanks again for your help" 

The pregnant mages hugged.

.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

Luna looked up at gasped at the card mage brunette, Cana Alberona.

Cana looked down at the blonde girl twin and asked, "Where's your parents?"

"Mom's at home and I don't know where Dad is. We came here with Nashi" Luna responded before sighing. She played with her two celestial gold keys her mother had given her and pouted. 

She preferred dragon slayer magic over being a dumb celestial wizard like her mother. She envied her older sister and brothers for inheriting their father's magic while she got her mother's. It angered and even made her sad.

"You okay kiddo?" Cana sat besides her and looked at the keys in the child's hand.

She held the Aries and Gemini gold keys.

"Lucky you"

"I wanted the Leo and Virgo keys instead" Luna pouted before putting the keys away. Of course her mother had to give her the less interesting ones.

"Don't be so hard on yourself kiddo. At least you got something" Cana mouthed a barrel of rum and Luna sweat dropped.

"Being a celestial wizard sucks. I wanted to shoot fire like the rest of them" Luna looked at Lance and Luke in the distance and pushed out her bottom lip. 

Her eyes then landed on Erza and her son. Her cheeks tainted a pink at Ryan and the sight didn't went unnoticed by Cana who smirked. 

"You like Ryan don't cha" Luna gasped and immediately tried dismissing the talk while blushing furiously.

"W-what n-no! Of course not!-"

"Hehe you liar!" Cana laughed at the blushing twin who hid her face behind her hands in embarrassment.

.

Nashi sipped on her drink. Wondering what was taking her boyfriend so long to come in the guild. 

It was already pass noon and Storm was no where in sight. 

Nashi sighed.

"What's the matter Nashi?", Mira asked, wiping a glass.

"Storm's taking too long. I wonder if he's alright"

"I'm sure he's on his way by now", Mira showed a smile. 

"Yeah, I hope so.." 

"Nashi, I'm hungry!" Luke yelled who still faced the wall.

Honestly, Nashi forgot about her brother and sister.

"There you two go" the twins' sister placed two hot plates down on the table. One plate was filled with ten fried chicken covered in hot sauce while the other was plain spaghetti and meatballs. 

Luke devoured his plate while Luna sighed at him. She hated the fact that she hated hot sauce while her brother ate it with ease. 

Her siblings and father really loves hot sauce and sometimes her mother drinks some from time to time and her, she hated it.

She couldn't help the feeling of being different.

.

An annoyed Happy sat down, waiting on a fish to pull his little rod as his best friend chummed away his fried fish in satisfaction.

"Nothing goes better than eating fried fish on a sunny day!", Natsu chuckled, taking a large bite. "Mmm..."

Happy hit him a side glare. Natsu probably ate thirty fishes by now and the cat still haven't caught one.

This was depressing.

Minutes passed by and things went quiet again. Happy was still annoyed he only achieved three fishes and as for Natsu, he looked like he was in deep thought.

"What's wrong?", Happy asked.

"Hmm.. nothing", Natsu replied in a monotone voice.

"Are we heading to the guild after?" 

Natsu shrugged.

Surely Lucy was mad at him again for just taking off this morning and he didn't wanted to face her wrath at the guild so he thought he should head home instead.

"You can go ahead Happy. I'll just go home and heat up the rest of fish"

"You can talk to me if anything's bothering you", Happy suggested, concerned of his friend.

Natsu hasn't been himself lately and it was becoming worrisome. One minute he was okay the next he wasn't. The exceed was suspecting the fire dragon slayer became bipolar but he wasn't really sure what was going on with him.

With that, Happy stood up.

They've been fishing for rather long and he wanted to attend to Carla before she got mad at him. Happy held his bucket, offered to carry Natsu home but Natsu rejected then flew off into the guild's direction.

Natsu sighed before he stood up and packed everything to head home.

.

The guild's door was pushed opened and everyone watched as Levy entered.

"Hai!" Levy waved at the Dragneel family before walking up to them.

"How's Mom?"

"She seems to be doing okay she just needs more rest"

"That's good to hear" Nashi smiled then hummed.

"What's wrong?"

"Have you seen Storm?"

"Oh yeah he was walking right behind me with the twin he's supposed to be here by now-"

The guild doors opened and there Nashi saw her boyfriend Storm who waved at her.

The dark haired girl besides him was no other than

"Emily.." Nashi gritted her teeth in anger.