The Dragneel Children

{~} Preparing For A Ambush {~}

Natsu huffed and panted, desperately trying to presway his legs to continue at there fast pace to his wife and children. He turned and past many halls and doorways but he was following the specific sent her new all to well, vanilla and strawberries.

"Lucy is this way!" He panted to Happy who was green with all the motion. The poor cat was nearly vomiting but was working hard to keep his precious fishies where they belong.

"Ya think Carla and the rest are with there?" He asked and Natsu took a deep sniff. "Nah, metal punk smells a little ways off, I dought he's near Lucy." But the cat shook his head.

"No I mean Lucky, Blue, and Calypso." He said sickly. "Who are they?" Asked the dragon slayer turning anouther hall. "My kittens."

Natsu nearly choaked on air.

"YOUR WHAT!?"

"My kittens, I smell then near by, cats have a great sence of smell ya know!" But Natsu stayed silent for a moment. He had been gone for too long, everyone moved on with there lives, starting families and new memories of there own, and yet the dragon slayer barly managed to keep his in check. "A lot has changed since I left, huh bud?"

"Aye." The cat muttered sadly, his head tilting down and and eyes now brimming with sadness.

The pinkette took in a deep breath and haulted his movements causing the exeed to hit the pinkette's leg, tail still clamped in his fist.

Happy huffed and snatched his tail away from Natsu seeing the white fur dishivled and scruffed. "Huph!" He muttered pettily and sent Natsu a glare before noticing the dark door, a puddle of water pooling at the crack between the floor and the door, that had clearly been there for a while, and loud voices on the other side.

"She's in there?"

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Gajeel huffed. "I don't smell blondie, it's a dead end!"

Wendy shook her head and took anouther wiff of her shirt, but the sent of the blonde was barley recognizable, already replaced with her own light and and airy sent. The brown eyed girl turned to Laxus with hopefull eyes but the blonde shrugged and continued to sniff in different places in the room.

"Oh Lu-chan, where are you." Levy mumbled, kicking some rubble with her shoes. The short girl had tears in her eyes and huddled her arms close to her chest, trying to find some warmth in the cold place. She had missed Lucy dearly but now that she had finially found her best friend, it seemed as though she was never coming back.

Even with Gajeel, she couldn't help but feel alone, she didn't have her reading buddy to blab about her favorite series with, or a trusting person to tell gossip to. She never had the chance to go baby clothe shopping with Lucy or walk there kids to the first day of school together.

It was hard, she didn't have those moments she talked to Lucy about during there many girl nights or library session and it hurt. Gajeel was swift to wrap his arms behind her and barry his head in the crook of her neck, not knowing what to say to comfort her. Levy just wrapped her arms around his and let the silence be.

Wendy nearly burst out in tears at the scene and Laxus rolled his eyes and tried to take in every detail of the picture before him, knowing very well that his wife would give him hell if he didn't tell her in exact detail.

Erza smiled warmly and looked over to see Juvia and Gray were eyeing eachother. "Looks like we're getting a new Fullbuster."

"No."

"Yes."

Gray and Juvia looked at eachother awkwardly, having said different asnswers at the same time. "Uh, okay." Daichi muttered and tried to walk past the two.

"I-I think I have an idea on where Lucy is." He spoke up catching the group's attention. "Boss- I- I mean K-Ketsu." He stuttered nerveously, normally if any spy even caught wind that you said Ketsu's first name and snitched then you would be as good as dead, but Daichi refused to let Ketsu control him any more, he was so close to freedome.

"He usually talked about how if he ever were to catch Natsu.." The boy looked around nervously, every spy new the key to this plan was a man named Natsu Dragneel and his four children, they just didn't know why. "-Or his wife, he would give them a 'front row seat'." The orange haired boy scratched his unruly hair, showing the brown roots of his head, and thought for a moment. "What could that mean?"

"Front row seat? Like a show." Lucky pitched in, feeling huffy at the fact that he was being left out. By this time his blue brother was groaning and squinting his large eyes trying to get use to the dim lighting.

Panther Lily huffed and slid from his place on Gajeel's shoulder to the ground, he then walked over to Blue and patted his head telling him to relax his eyes to get use to the room. "Like a movie?" He asked.

"Ya know, I've never actually seen a movie." Said the two-toned cat cheerfully. "The closest I ever got to watching one was stargazing!"

To Lucky's words Daichi's eyes widened. "Stars...the moon! The Eclipse Gate!" He then grabbed onto Erza's arm and started to run down the halls. The exeeds tiredly spread there wings and flew into the air, Panther Lily having his tail wrapped around Carla to carry her.

"Slow down there kid!" Laxus mumbled and picked up his pace.

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The group came to a halt, the exeeds crashing into the back of Gajeel's head because of his height. All of the mages (and cats) were panting slightly, trying to catch there breath. Erza took note of the hall, it was bland but it had a different feeling then the other ones they passed. "This magic power.." Mumbled Wendy as she pressed her hand on the cool stone of the walls.

She took in a sharp breath, memories passing through her head. "Wait a moment, you with the orange hair-" The dark haired girl said pointing at the male who huffed and mumbled a 'Daichi'. "D-Did you say Eclipse Gate earlier?"

The boy nodded and pointed to the left, which leaded to yet another endless hallway, except the more steps they took the stronger this feeling of dread boiled up in there chests. "A couple of hallways down."

Laxus kept a close eye on Lisanna and Wendy, who were taking soft steps next to Levy. "There's an ambush coming." He whispered to Gajeel who nodded, keeping his crimson eyes steady on his wife. "How can you be so sure?"

Laxus grumbled. "I don't know, but ambush or not something big is going to happen, an' I'm starting to feel uneasy about Natsu."

"Salamander? What the hell can he do?" Scoffed the iron dragon slayer. "I picked out those chains myself, the day he brakes out of those is the day I dress up as Shrimp and sing about some shitty stuff like, well like-"

"How good fishies are!" Lucky shouted and flew around Gajeel's head. "And I'll take you up on that bet Gawjeel! I'll have you know cats have great hearing, almost as good as a dragon slayer!" But that was simply not the case, in fact, the only reason the fish loving cat had heard Gajeel was because of his loud mouth.

Heyo!

Sorry I couldn't update this weeked, a cousin of mine dies and I had a cremation to attend. I didn't know her that well but my mom did so I was there to support her, although I did cry because she left behind two girls. Honestly, it was so sad and I guess I was to depressed to write, which is most likely the reason why this chapter is short and doesn't have that battle promised. Sorry.

Now it's time to deal with my sadness, if ya need me I'll be stuffing my face with chocolate and watching Back To The Future.

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~Ari~