Freedom

Chapter 10

(Fair warning guys, in the chapter Cobra tells his kids his own version of the birds and bees.)

Reminisce

"Wow, so your really married?" Wendy asked. She was seated across from Natsu at one of the many tables the little guild hall had. Erik and Aaron sat with her eating their lunch and many of the other guild members surrounded them. All listening intently to any story their long lost friend had to tell.

"That's right." The salamnder said smiling. She held up her left hand and flashed the gold wedding band that sat comfortably on her ring finger. Many of her friends oohed and ahhed at it.

"Did you propose to Cobra or he to you?" Cana asked, chuckling to herself.

Natsu pouted, her cheeks puffing out. "He proposed to me!"

Everyone laughed.

"Was the wedding beautiful?" Lucy asked, Happy clutched in her arms.

"Was there fish?"

Natsu giggled. "Yes there was fish, Happy."

"I wish I had been there!"

"We all do." Erza said sadly. "I bet you looked beautiful in your dress,
Natsu."

The woman blushed and looked down, fiddling with the ring she held on her finger for all these years. She felt so nostalgic thinking of the memory.

"Momma what's a wedding?" Aaron asked.

Natsu looked down at her pink haired son and smiled. "A wedding is like a party, you throw it when two people who love each other a lot promise to stay with each other for the rest of their lives."

"A party?!" Eric asked excitedly. "Can we do a wedding?!"

Natsu laughed along with most of the guild making the little maroon haired boy blush and hide his face, probably thinking he said something stupid.

"Oh don't do that, baby." His mother said still laughing. She grabbed him and hugged him to her, he wrapped his little arms around her and hugged back, burying his face into her chest to hide it. "We were only playing,"

"Natsu." Carle got the pinkette's attention and looked over to where the white Exeed stood on the table next to Wendy. "Tell us the story of your wedding day."

"That's a great idea!" Wendy cheered.

Everyone started joining in on that.

"Story time!"

"We missed the actual thing so tell us what happened!"

"Was it nice?"

"Okay okay guys!" Natsu said throwing her hands out to quiet down her friends. "I'll tell you the story. Well... The day of the wedding wasn't all that great..."

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Natsu jumped and yelped as a sudden burst of lightening exploded outside her window. Thick drops of water fell from the sky and landed hard against the window pains, drowning out any normal sounds with their roar. The pinkette stared sadly out the window as she sat on a chair in a back room of the town church. Her wedding dress hung peacefully on a closet door. It was a beautiful dress, pure white and fluffy at the bottom, it got much more snug from the hips up. A sash made up of her precious scarf was tied around the waist and the long sleeves were see through and glittery, her shoulders and collar bone would be visible when she wore it. Her vail was simple, just attached to a plain white headband and came down over her front to cloud her face.

She loved the dress and she loved Elipton more for buying it for her. She would have done it herself but their restaurant had just opened and they hadn't picked up enough speed to gain a lot of money yet.