A New Family

Chapter 1

The Start of a Family

Note: I've been wanting to write this story for a while, but a lot's been going on these past few weeks. Before I get started, I wanted to apologize about my recent lack in updates. I've been at home with my family and decided to take a little bit of a break. However, I promise things will return to normal. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy and be sure to let me know how things go.

A couple of years have gone by and the darkness of the world has finally been extinguished. It took the combined efforts of all of the guilds in order to do it, but they managed to overcome the powers of the Black Magic. Now, the magic guilds such as Fairy Tail, Sabertooth, and Lamia Scale have been subjected to doing much easier jobs. However, the pay is still good and the fun is still present. Makarov has managed to withstand the test of time, but has finally retired. Unfortunately, Gildarts turned down the Guild Master request. Even though that happened, Laxus proved to be the next worthy choice with his efforts against the final duel for magic.

As for the others, not much has changed. The usual people remained within the guild. Some of the big names that decided the stay were Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, and Gajeel. Erza, Gray, and Juvia are all still in the guild, but they've decided to go on the move. With her skills reaching their peak, Erza decided to take on some of the decade-long missions. Although Black Magic is no longer present, there are still problems with normal magic that are left to be solved. Gray and Juvia decided to take it easy for a while. Gray finally warmed up to Juvia so they've been able to live together, in hopes that they'll be able to solve Gray's problem of his Devil Slayer Magic taking over his body.

With things finally calming down, Natsu and Lucy have finally been able to take things a little slower. Natsu went through a lot when they fought against the darkness, but he knew that the guild life was the only way he could go. On the other hand, Lucy developed more and more feelings for Natsu. Unfortunately, she couldn't find the courage to tell him the truth. Now, things are slowly returning to their normal state or chaos and fun inside of the guild.

Lucy took her time getting ready and finally made her way to the guild building as the morning was slowly coming to an end. When she arrived, everyone welcomed her back. She looked around the building and noticed that Natsu wasn't there. She immediately walked over to Mira and asked her if she knew anything about it.

"Hey Mira."

"Morning Lucy. How are things?"

"They're good. Hey, do you know where Natsu is?"

"Not really. I did see him wandering around town earlier today. Why?"

"Oh nothing. I just thought that we could go on a job or something."

"Hey, you're in luck. We just a got a new batch of job requests this morning. Feel free to go and check them out. I'm sure there's something you'll pick up." She smiled at Mira and walked over to the request board. She was surprised to see how many new jobs there were. She did her best to scan the wall, but there was nothing that caught her attention. Out of nowhere, she was grabbed from behind and swung around in the air.

"Hey Lucy, what's up?"

"Whoa! Hey Natsu, what are you doing?"

"What? I can't greet my partner like this?"

"No, it's not that. It's just…"

"Hey, you got some time? I wanted to show you something." All of a sudden, Natsu grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the building.

"Hey! What?! Where are we going?!"

"It's alright. You'll see." She honestly had no idea where he was going or what he was planning. There wasn't anything special about today so this was definitely something on-the-spot. As she was being pulled through the city, she saw a huge smile on his face as he kept his face forward. There were so many things she wanted to ask, but she knew that it was best just to stay quiet and wait for what he had planned for her. The most she could do was brace herself for whatever was to come since he's pulled some pretty interesting stuff on her. After a few minutes, Natsu finally let go of her wrist and quickly walked around behind her and put his hands over her eyes.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"Just calm down. I'm sure you'll enjoy this." She couldn't help but take a deep breath. Although this may seem reassuring, it was hard to tell with Natsu so she decided to stay vigilant until she knew for sure what this little secret he had for her was. After a few more minutes of walking, they finally stopped which made Lucy speak up once again.

"Uuhhh, why are we stopping?"

"Because. I wanted to show you this." He removed his hands and showed Lucy a huge, beautiful house. It was on top of a hill that overlooked the city of Magnolia and right at the front door was Happy. He had something in his hand which he flew over to Natsu and put it in his hand.

"Wow, what is this place?" She took a couple steps forward and continued to adore this house she was in front of.

"It's our new house." Her moment of bliss was suddenly interrupted by that one word.

"Our? You just said our." She turned around and saw holding his hands behind his back. "Natsu, what's going on here?"

"Lucy, we've been through a lot together. And I think we've grown rather close because of it. I mean, you're the only person I've been able to go on jobs with that didn't bug the crap out of me. We've had our good times and our bad times, but I think it was all worth it in the end." She was starting to realize where he was going. "I guess what I'm trying to say is a little hard for me to come out to about." He suddenly got down on his left knee and pulled out the small box from behind his back. "Lucy Heartfilia, will you marry me?" He opened up the small box to a beautiful reddish white diamond that almost looked like it was glowing. "I went searching for the best diamond I could find. Once I found it, I wanted to make it special so I infused my flames inside of it so you'd know that I'd always be there with you. I… I love you." She brought her hands up to her mouth as the tears started to form in her eyes.

"Natsu, I… I… I don't know what to say. It's beautiful."

"Really? I wanted it to be special since you're so special to me. So, what do you say?" She slowly lowered her hands as a tear rolled down her face.

"Of course I will." She stuck out her hand and Natsu pulled out the ring. He gently grabbed her hand and placed it on her left ring finger. "Oh my gosh, Natsu, it's so beautiful. Ah, what are you…?"

"Let's take a tour of the house, shall we?" He picked her up in his arms and carried her through the front door. It immediately opened up to an open front area. To the right was the living room. Right in front of them was the kitchen and to the left of the kitchen was the living room. In the far right corner of the house was the master bedroom with one more room immediately to the left of the entrance. "So what do you think?"

"I…"

"Oh wait, there's one more thing I have to show you." He ran her through the house and to the backyard where there was a nice sized backyard. Around the edges was a small fence that they were able to lean on. Just over the ridge was the view of Magnolia. That's where Lucy nearly lost her composure.

"How… How did you guys afford this?"

"Well, we sold our old house. We didn't get a lot from it, but it definitely helped out. After that, we saved up most of the money we got from jobs and other things that you didn't know about. We wanted it all to be a surprise." There was a smile on her face.

"Well, you've definitely surprised me." All of a sudden, the front door swung open and in walked Wendy. They turned their heads and greeted her with a smile. "Hey Wendy, guess what? Natsu and I are getting married and this is our new house."

"Yeah, I know."

"You know? It just happened. How did you know?"

"Well, it's kind of a long story, but… Natsu took me in as his little sister."

End of Chapter 1

Ending Note: I hope you guys enjoyed this story. There's still more to come so I hope you all are excited for more.