"EEEEEEEEPPPP!" Grandeeney squeals, "LUCY, LUCY, LUCY, LUCY!"

"Um, yes?" I Turn around to see Grandeeney running towards Natsu and I, who were taking a stroll at the plaza.

When I see she's running to the speed of light, I take a few steps back, "Uh...Grandeeney...?"

"Grand," Natsu takes a few steps back with me, "Slow down...!"

"LUUUCCCCYYYY!" She yells one last time, before crashing into me, picking my feet off the ground and swirling around.

Help, i'm dizzy.

She finally puts me down and squeals, "LUCY!"

"Yes?"

She squeals some more.

"Grandeeney, what is it?"

She presses her fingers to my lips and hushes me, "Lucy, please, i'm the one talking."

"M'kay," I say through the corners of my lips.

"Grand, what is your deal?" Natsu asks, walking up to us.

"I just finished Lucy's dress for the ceremony!" She announces, "I stayed up all night preparing it and fixing it and making it especially beautiful for my Lucy!"

She hugs me one last time.

As crazy as she is, Grandeeney can be really sweet.

I hug her back, "Aw, Grandeeney, I can never thank you enough."

"Baby."

"What?"

"You, Natsu, Baby, now," She points at me and Natsu.

I blush and giggle a bit.

"Grand, that kind of stuff takes time," Natsu pinches the bridge of his nose, trying to hide his blush.

"NO! I want a little Natsu or Lucy now! I could dress them up, spoil them, and give them lots of love!" She sings, hugging herself tightly.

"Maybe later," I giggle.

"No. Sooner. Keep trying until I get one!" She demands.

"Even if Luce and I did have a baby, you can't have it!" Natsu shoots back.

"Why not?!" Grandeeney whines.

"Because!"

"Fine, if you wont get me a grand-baby, I'm taking Lucy," Grandeeney snatches me arm.

"First you insist on taking my baby and now my mate?!" Natsu growls.

"Shut up, Natsu. You keep Lucy all to yourself, and she's just so cute! Can't I have her?"

"Grandeeney," I hide my beet red face with my hands.

Natsu and Grandeeney go back and forth on who should have me.

Grandeeney is just so bold, but I find it cute that she likes me a lot.

"The dogs have lost her scent," Erza tells Gray.

Gray curses under his breath.

"It doesn't help with this weather," Jellal points out.

"Jellal is right," Juvia adds, "The rain cover up her scent."

"We must go back," Loke says.

"We're not going back," Gray growls, "We are going to find her."

"How do you expect to find her in weather like his?" Erza asks Gray, "We have now way of tracking her now."

Gray stay silent, but refuses to go back empty handed, "We need to split up."

Everyone goes wide eyed at the prince.

"Split up?" Loke repeats.

"Precisely," Gray turns his horse to the, "We will split up into two groups."

Everyone exchanges glances. Gray turns to Erza, "You come with me."

Ezra nods in reply.

"The rest of you will head east. If you are to find her, meet back here in four hours," Gray orders.

They all obey and Jellal, Juvia, and Loke head in the opposite direction. He turns to Erza and continues west as the follow.

"So, Grandeeney," I say to the bluenette. Grandeeney did end up taking me away from Natsu, who was indeed, very angry about it. "How old were you when you got your first mate?"

"Who, Igneel? Oh, I met him when I was about your age," She reminisces, "I originally came from a different tribe of dragons. It was the second day of Mate Hunting and we met in the forest. Now, I know this is very cliche, but when I first laid eyes on him, I feel instantly in love."

"How sweet," I smile at the story.

"He may seems like and idiot, and he is, but he is SOOO romantic. Not a day goes by where he doesn't tell me he loves me. When we met, he definitely was something of a looker, and that he was the son of a chief, OH, I was sold. So, we did the deed-in our human form of course- had the ceremony, and later along the line we had Wendy and Natsu."

Wait...WHAT!?

"I'm sorry," I say softly, eyes as wide as saucers, "Did you just say, that you had Natsu and Wendy...?"

"Yes. He's my son," Grandeeney says, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, "And Wendy is my little baby!"

"I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE HIS MOM! LET ALONE THAT WENDY WAS HIS SISTER!" I squeal.

"Well you see," She smiles with a cheeky blush, "When Natsu was a baby, he was a listener. And because we never really taught him to call me mommy, he would hear his Dad call me Grand. That's where he got that from. As for Wendy, well she calls me mommy. But He probably didn't tell you because to him, it's obvious that i'm his mom and Wendy is his sister. With my idiot son, if something is obvious to him, he thinks it's obvious to everyone else."

I blink at her.

Oh he is getting a HUGE talk when I get home.

"Anything else he hasn't told me that you know of?" I ask, resting my head on my hand.

"I don't think so. Unless you haven't seen Natsu's dragon form," Grandeeney suggests.

"No, I haven't," I reply.

No that I think of it, I haven't seen anyone's dragon form.

"Good," Grandeeney suddenly becomes serious, "And pray that you never do."

"Why? He's a dragon, isn't he? Shouldn't it be normal if he's in his dragon form?"

Grandeeney shakes her head, "It is forbidden to become your dragon from within the tribe. When a dragon goes into their dragon form, it means they feel threatened or territorial."

I shrug, "Well, that reasonable."

"However, when in the dragon form,you are for blood. You lose total control and track of mind," She adds.

That sounds kind of scary.

"Luckily, no one has ever gone into their dragon form while in the tribe yet," Grandeeney smiles again, "Down here, we're pretty civil."

I send a smile back to her.

Gray and the others meet back at where they were supposed to meet, but Gray was utterly disappointed to see they came back empty handed.

"No sign of the princess, my lord," Jellal confirms.

"What a shame," Gray says calmly, "Then it appears we must keep searching."

"My lord, it is raining sheets out here," Juvia says, "We are not going to find the princess in weather like this."

"We'll turn back when I give the word!" Gray snaps at the woman, "Right now, I say we keep searching! We shall continue searching west. Any objections?"

The soldiers keep quiet.

"Good," Gray concludes "Onward."

The soldiers follow after Gray. Juvia and Loke follow right in the front and Jellal and Erza fall behind.

"Why do you think he is so determined to find the princess?" Erza asks Jellal in a low tone so the prince could not hear.

"We are all determined to find the princess," Jellal replies.

"But we are her comrades," Erza points out, "And her guards. We actually care about what happens to the princess."

"And he is her fiance," Jellal says to he red head.

"Through her father."

Jellal stays silent.

"They are betrothed and expected to be married for the good of the kingdom. They have not even spoken a word to each other and I don't believe she actually loves him or he loves her," Erza continues, "So why is it that all of a sudden, he has been nearly driven mad to find the princess."

"There is only one answer for that, and you and I both know what it is," Jellal finally says.

"Of course I do," Erza nearly scoffs.

DONE. Ooh, a short chapter with a cliff hanger! Don't you just love it XD