"Wow lucy… I didn't know you were having triplets… I would have got you a bigger gift then…"
*lucia was shocked to here lucy mentioned she was having triplets as she had came to visit her. It's been a while since she last left with sting to crocus, also she had begun to show her her own hump by now that she was 5 months along.*
"Oh there's no need to do that lucia, I think it's better if you save your money to buy your own things you will need when your due.. so how has it been living in crocus?"
*lucy was now 7 months, she is as big as she felt like she will ever get and felt her stomach stretch to some uncomfortable size as she knew she would get the most stretch marks this time around.*
"I have been great… I joined the sabertooth guild for protection from my father. As long as I'm a member my father or the man he sold me off to can't hurt me. They would be charged of attacking the guild and would have to answer to sting.."
*lucia was finally able to travel alone whenever she wanted thanks to this, sting thought about marrying her as soon as he can but rogue had come up with this idea better.*
"That's great!"
The two women drank tea at the Dragneels residence as Nashi and Liddan played outside.
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Natsu had a celebration party today at the guild as he told the news about him having triplets. Most of the guys didn't believe him till he showed off his picture of the triplets on the ultra-magic took. Everyone decided to drink with natsu, gildarts even came back to not miss congratulating the punk.
"Congratulations natsu.. you've become a father once again…"
*gildarts laugh boastingly as he was mildly drunk, alcohol didn't get him drunk as he did when he was younger.*
Natsu drank a pint of fire as he laughed heartily at how everyone was happy for him. Stupid grey even gave him a hug… now that was creepy. But what natsu failed to notice was a mage spying on the celebration as she was hired by a dark guild that had been waiting for a perfect moment to strike.
'Just you wait Natsu Dragneel… I'll take the most precious thing from you and make you pay..'
The woman disappeared into a dark corner waiting for natsu to walk home.. alone.
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Natsu wasn't drunk at all, he could hold his liquor pretty well. But he was more drunk on the feeling if finally going home after a quick mission and getting to see Lucy once again with his five children now~
"Life is soo~ beautiful~ how could I ever want anything more?"
*natsu chuckled to himself as he walked alone bavk home. He was about to come to the bridge that connects to the forest until he saw a girl crying by the bridge. Natsu snapped out of his daydream as he got serious as to what was wrong with the girl. He was about to approach her but then he heard a different voice.. this one sounded feminine too but it whispered something to him from a far distance almost like mests ability to talk to or connect everyone's mind voice.*
'Don't touch her… turn around and run …'
"Who are you? Tell me first why?"
*natsu only turned around to face where that voice came from but the voice sounded desperate now.*
'Leave!!! Get away now!!! You have to get home to lucy now!'
*natsu felt a cold shiver go down his spine imagining something bad had happened to Lucy but as he turned around again to make a run for the bridge to head home… a sharp pain was felt in his heart as he looked down to see the same girl who was crying had stabbed him with some energy source omitting from her hand?*
"Too late natsu, you really should have not stopped to daydream… I'm taking the thing you live most and that's your memories of who you love the most…"
*the girl still had her hand impaling him in his heart reached up to yank his hair closer to his face… she was about to plant her signature which was the 'kiss of death' but she was smacked and thrown to the ground far away from natus who just collapsed at the sudden pain electrocuting him.*
"Your fight is with me!!! Not with him!"
*the woman yelled at the dark guild mage who stood up to wipe a smear of blood from her mouth.*
"Ah… if it isn't firecracker? What are you here to do? Are you here to save your daddy? Hmm?"
*the woman smirked as she taunted the angry mage who protected natsu just now.. she had a cape on so it was hard to see her face but with a gust of wind a frightening gold color eyes could be seen glowing as her face was a bit similar to Lucy's.*
"I'm here to stop you from destroying my family, Vidal.."
*the woman clenched her fangs as she kept an eye on her enemy but touched a part of natsu before warping away from that location as Vidal cussed and began to smirk.*
"This will be fun… I'll find you and kill you and your stupid father…. Nashi. "
*vidal swished her cape as she disappeared in midair to a unknown location.*
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Nashi was panicking now as she had warped her and natsu to a nearby abandoned farm with some magic of teleportation she picked up from uncle mest but natsu was screaming and clutching his chest showing how much in pain he was.
Nashi began to cry as she saw her father in pain and she didn't know how to make it feel better… that's until she calmed herself down and began igniting a flame on her finger for the first time in a long time… she was scared to burn him but remember how he would calm her pains with the same technique… maybe it will work too..
"Relax natsu… let me make the pain go away.."
*Nashi pressed her finger into his chest as he began calming down and panted less.*
"Wha- was, that?"
*natsu still felt pain but somehow the fire was relieving the pain, but he couldn't let himself get caught of guard again as he lit his whole body on flames and burned off whatever the witch had done to him.*
Nashi pulled back her arm as she saw natsu stand up and engulf his body in flames. She watched in awe as she used to remember always excited whenever she saw her father train or use magic.. it was a dead feeling that she had promised to never feel again or use 'fire magic' but couldn't help wishing things didn't turn out like she had been through.
Natsu relaxed now feeling the 'spell' or 'curse' had burned off his body as he looked at the stranger who saved him.
"Who are you? And why did you save me?"
*natsu furrowed his brow as he squatted down to the woman's level. She had been sitting down this whole time.*
Nashi kept some hard lumps from escaping from her throat as memories came to taunt her of her father.. he was alive! And he was right here! All she had to do was tell him who she was and he would fix everything just how like he always did whenever she got hurt! She beat herself up as she looked away from him trying to hide her glossy eyes in her hoody before flinching when natsu lifted her hood.
"… Nashi?… is that you??.."
*natsu wasn't even surprised anymore by things like seeing his baby girl time travel to the past like before and he assumed something went wrong again causing her to travel back in time again to him… he had to admit she looked like Lucy but the dead give away was the pink hair and the way she would quiver her lip when she held in her cry.. he knew it was her.. how could he not?*
"Ba.. PAPA!!!"
*Nashi fell apart as she lunged herself at natsu and tackled him down with a big oomph! She was a adult now so natsu was crushed under her new weight…*
"Nashi… your killing me…"
"Ba!! Don't joke about death like that!!"
*Nashi got up from her tackle on him as she stood by the entrance of the barn seeing the rain fall.*
"Nashi… what's wrong? Did I die in the future?"
*natsu asked as he got up dusted himself as he stood next to her.*
"Ba… in the future you got hit by videl that witch and she put you in a death like trance making you her puppet.. Ba.. you killed people who mattered to you the most.. you killed mommy…"
*Nashi felt how natsu suddenly tensed up at how serious this was.. him kill lucy? No, he couldn't believe it.. but this is Nashi from the future he's talking too…*
"How do we stop 'me' then?"
*natsu looked at Nashi who looked at him then began to tear up again..*
"We don't, nobody couldn't stop you because you were someone we couldn't hurt Ba… that's until Liddan found out about mommy's death…"
*things took a turn now as natsu couldn't believe that nobody was willing to stop him, even if that meant to kill him.. but, did Liddan kill him?*
"Liddan got so furious that he fought your 'zombie' self with all his might… at the end he won by killing you with his red king dragon roar… we were 18 when you finally died. Vidal warned us this wouldn't be over until we heard she was planning to time travel.. Liddan wanted to kill you at the root before you kill mommy but I had pushed him out of the vortex and took his place.. I couldn't see you sue again daddy…"
*Nashi sobbed now as nastu hugged her.. his poor little Nashi had seen him die once already, and seen him at his worst… he didn't want to turn into the monster Nashi explained to him so he grabbed Nashi by her shoulders as he looked at her now.*
"Nashi, I promise I will fight with every single cell in my body to not turn into that monster again.."
"Good, we need to go now Ba.. I came back to bring you to the future.. here we can't do anything to prevent you from turning into Vidals puppet but in th future we have a machine that can break any curse."
*Nashi drew a circle on the ground as she chanted in a spirit world language. Natus felt proud seeing his daughter become such a great mage. But suddenly he began feeling sick as he realized.. time traveling is a vehicle..*
In a white light, both Nashi and natsu disappear from inside the abandoned barn…
Lucia had decided to stay over now as lucy looked out the window watching the rain drops falling..
"Natsu… where are you?"
Lucy talked to herself as she caressed her belly feeling that something bad happened to him.