All Rights to Hiro Mashima

This will be a 6 shot, complete with weird situations, badassery, Laxus-the-moron, as well as some good old fashioned smut. (Heed the M warnings and the section will be denoted with XXX like usual.) This is set after the Alvarez war, somewhere between a year and two in the future.

Drew is an OC of mine with no depth of character and no reappearance. Just a stand in for the situation at hand.

BEWARE! THE REALISATION! THE IDIOT DRAGON AND THE BEAUTIFUL BADASS PRINCESS!

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Chapter 1: The Moment

In which Laxus realises he isn't as adverse to the idea of settling down as he thought.

A typical day at the guild.

Cana making love to her whiskey barrel, Gajeel in the dark corner brooding over something or other while munching on the silverware, Natsu in his END form taking a crack at the Ice Devil Slayer while spewing a stream of childish insults, Titania completely engrossed in her newly found orgasmic strawberry confection – all was normal, all was perfect.

Erza had finally given up trying to make the two boys behave for the day, only knocking their heads together like coconuts twice before Mira distracted her from her sacred peacekeeping duties with a mound of strawberries covered in whipped cream and enough sugar to make dentists for ten square miles cry tears of joy just thinking of the inevitable cavities.

Laxus sat on the second floor watching over his guild members like the proverbial mother hen he had somehow turned into over the last year or so. Being a guild Master wasn't easy, but he found it doable thanks to his Grandfather's training a little bit of help he had garnered from an unlikely source.

No one knew, but Fairy Tail's Celestial mage had been helping out the newly appointed Master with – he shuddered just thinking the words and downed his whole glass of bourbon in one gulp – paperwork. Laxus lifted his hand slightly and caught Kinana's eye, who nodded and set out to bring him a new glass.

Luckily enough, it seemed that Lucy's upbringing had been helpful in some ways. She had a very shrewd mind when it came down to numbers, could balance the guild's books (which had consisted of a ream of loose-leaf lined papers with almost intelligible scribbles dating back to when Mavis was Master and some strange looking IOU's), and could pick apart a contract with apparent ease. She had brought in massive amounts of revenue especially from the magic council, for the things that Fairy Tail had done but never been compensated for, like destroying the Balam Alliance for one, or the destruction of the Lullaby Demon.

He once thought he saw her try to sneak in the obliteration of Zeref into an invoice and was pleasantly surprised – and slightly scared – when they received a cheque in the mail for bringing down the Black Wizard. Lucy had cackled at that point and he could only watch dumbfounded as her slightly maniacal side peeked out.

Since Alvarez, and the construction of yet another Guild Hall, Lucy had become his confidant and right-hand man (woman), always sassy while challenging him to do more for his family. He had already changed his will, which stated which charities would get his fortune should he die unexpectedly (half going to the guild and half going to the orphanages of Magnolia) – as he had no next of kin, no real family to speak of at the moment – and named Lucy Heartfilia his successor for the mantle of Guild Master. Most would have suspected Natsu, or Erza or even the young Romeo, but they would be entirely mistaken. He had seen something in her as of late that he enjoyed more than he could say, not that he could he put his finger on it, but there was a…light…that she had that made her instant Master material.

She had no idea of course and would leave it as a surprise for as long as he could.

But at the moment, his glowering and dark muttering had everything to do with the woman he now considered one of his closest friends. The Thunder Legion was avoiding him, knowing that his mood was something that he would never talk to them about; he could barely even put his mood into words as it was, but it was close to frustrated and annoyed with a healthy helping of surly teenager sprinkled on top.

It all started a little over four months ago on an innocuous spring morning. Lucy had come in bright and early to ask him for the night off – they did the paperwork in secret after most of the members had gone home for the evening – so that she could go on another date.

She had only revealed that the guy's name was Drew from the newly minted guild "Crescent Moon" and that he dabbled in Strength Magic – something to do with using spells like Wendy to power up his limbs…he wasn't truly listening at that point, just trying not to growl – and that this would be their second date.

Lucy was excited to get out and see if this guy could be the 'one' for her.

Laxus only wanted to know why he had gripped his favourite pen so hard at the news that it had splintered and splattered him with blue ink.

He had let her off for the day, telling her to enjoy herself while sending Lucy a truly pained grimace that had maybe once been a smile, but now looked like he was constipated. She had asked if he was alright and he had waved her off and lied that he had a headache. Well…not totally a lie, he knew he would have a headache by the end of the day, but that was beside the point.

She had come in the day after and the girls had bombarded her with all manner of questions, while Cana had wanted to know what sexual positions she had used with her new boy toy. Lucy had laughed them all off and told them that a lady should never kiss and tell – his beer stein had shattered in his hand then – and then fucking winked at them all causing the Demon and her little sister to twitter about with more questions and insinuations.

Lucy hadn't smelled like she had just come from a spectacular night of debauchery, so that night calmed him down somewhat…but she could have showered more than twice in an effort to fool all the Slayer's noses. But that was unlikely, he knew Lucy was partial to a good bubble bath, but at the moment she still smelled like fine wine and a hint of cologne.

It was more than likely that the guy had taken her to a fancy restaurant then dropped her off at home. Laxus also knew that Lucy liked to flaunt her god given gifts, but she wasn't like that. She had told him that she was searching for her 'one and only' and getting to know a person before ploughing them seemed more her style.

He respected the hell out of her.

Natsu had wanted to know just who this guy was and where he lived so that he could pound his face in (just like a good big brother would) – truthfully Laxus had wondered the same, but would never ask – which prompted Lucy into donning her Taurus Star Dress and kicking her best friend through the roof. After that, the questions stopped, but Mira had looked like she was in a shipping haze for a week after that.

Three months later, Lucy's boyfriend – he used that term very loosely – had asked her to move in with him. This had sent Laxus into a fit of rage, and he had no idea why.

Until Gajeel had found him beating the ever loving shit out of the magically enhanced dummies in the training yard later that same day. That conversation had been…painful, but enlightening.

"What the hell prompted this kind of carnage?"

Laxus had snorted. "What do you mean Lightning Rod? I'm just training."

"Sure. And I'm the King of Fiore."

"Tch, whatever."

"Have anything to do with a certain Bunny?"

The Thunder God momentarily forgot his ire and whirled around to point a single finger in Gajeel's pierced face. "…no."

"You are such a fucking liar. We all see the way you watch her."

"What?" Stunned, Laxus forgot to be mad.

"Tch. Idiot. The other Slayers and I, either you claimed the girl as kin…or as a possible mate."

"What the hell?"

"Look it up Sparky, it's in the library. Shrimp found a couple of books that could probably help...that is if you know how to read. Believe me…if we thought that this was just a passing thing, we would be all over you to get over her. You know how everyone feels about Bunny. Especially the Squirt."

He did know. Natsu was her best friend and fiercest protector, Gajeel her doting big brother after they had bonded seeing as he spent so much time with his Shrimp, but he didn't have anything to worry about with them, they still didn't match his power on a good day. The one he was truly terrified of was Wendy. She had adopted the Celestial Mage as her Mother figure and had once gone into Dragon Force when Happy had made a passing comment on the size of Lucy's ass. She was…feral when she wanted to be.

"Fuck off Metal Brows." They had dissolved into a good ole fashioned brawl that had thankfully released some of the tension he was feeling.

He heeded Gajeel's advice and found himself inside the guild's library. It took him days to finish three old tomes and each one hammered home the idea that the lacrima inside him – while giving him badass Lighting Dragon Slaying – also give him the instincts of a fucking Dragon. Not that he needed anything else weird to happen in his already incredibly strange life, but that was the way of the world. Lucy was either kin – which at this point was obviously incorrect because he had never wanted to throw her on his desk and fuck her raw more than he did now – or she was someone that stupid little beasty inside of him had seen as a possible mate.

The last book he read that was published almost three hundred years prior specified that Dragons looked for someone who had equal standing with them. With Laxus being an alpha male personality, he needed to find someone that would try to dominate the interactions they had and not be totally submissive to his will. Lucy had challenged him at every turn and he found himself actually looking forward to talking to her and coveted their debates over different issues.

It had nothing to do with magic power – because he would probably never find his equal except in other Wizard Saints, or when Natsu fell into the darkness of his END form (no he wasn't conceded, he was just that good) – but instead had everything to do with temperament, personality, and a smidge of sexual attraction.

And damn was he attracted to her.

Everything about her just called to him like he was a sailor and she was a siren, singing a sweet song that would lead him to his doom.

Oh, but what a pleasurable doom it would be. Her smell, her eyes, the curve of her back, even her goddamn fingers playing with a pencil made Laxus Jr sit up and beg for her attention.

Nothing could stop this, short of pulling the lacrima out of him of course, but that would probably kill him in the process. His body had become so dependent on it over the years and his magic was too closely linked with that tiny sphere to be separated from it now.

So Lucy was the one that the stupid lizard living in his brain had chosen and that was it. He didn't have a chance to change his mind like a normal person. It had taken three full days after he had learned that he had his love life mapped out by the magic that he had been burdened by in his youth until he had been sane enough to step into the guild hall once again without going on an electrically charged rampage.

When he had figured out that he admired Lucy deeply and couldn't see himself being with anyone else…ever, he clued into the fact that he was quite possibly in love. It had happened so slowly that he didn't even realise it and over the course of the past year of being a guild master he had started to want something different in his life.

He wanted to settle down and start his own family with someone.

And that someone was Lucy. He had a dream about her sitting on a rocking chair humming a soft tune while smiling down at a book splayed on her swelling stomach. He had somehow known that it was him who had given her a child and that rocked him to the core. Laxus had woken up painfully aroused – which was strange – and absolutely aching in need for that vision to become true. He wanted a family. He wanted children.

He wanted Lucy to be the one to make that dream come true no matter how long it took.

That realisation hit him like a sock filled with coins right in the testicles and he had pulled both Freed and Bickslow into ten straight hours of bar hopping and two and a half of recovering from their hangovers.

His lightbulb moment would forever be engrained in his mind accompanied by the smell and taste of malt liquor and peanuts.

Never again.

All this had happened in the span of ten days, and as far as he knew Lucy still hadn't given…ugh…Drew an answer about moving in yet. She was surprisingly pragmatic and thought things through almost to the point of overthinking almost everything, so this decision (being as big as it was) was going to take her sometime. Which he was eternally thankful for, because there was a chance that she would say no and he could swoop in with his hulking muscles, devil-may-care attitude and cocky grin and change her relationship status from 'single' to 'mated-for-life' faster than you could say hotdamn.

As much as he wanted her to be happy, Laxus wanted her to be happy with him even more. Because he was a selfish bastard and wanted to horde her like the Dragon he apparently was. If he had been saddled with these instincts, he was going to fucking embrace the shit out of them and get his chosen mate come hell or high water.

So here he was, brooding over yet another glass of bourbon on the second floor of his guild, watching his family interact and laugh and have a joyous time together without a thought to his inner turmoil.

It wasn't fair!

They didn't have to deal with this Dragon shit all the time, and the ones that did had grown up with an actual fucking scaly-lizard-parent to help them along the way with this stuff.

His surly mood was palpable, and the black cloud of 'fuck you' wafted around the second floor so much that the Thunder Legion could physically feel his ire. Or it could have been small sparks of his magic that prickled nearby guild mates, but the result was the same and they had relocated downstairs almost an hour ago.

Laxus was waiting for Lucy to come in and tell Mira – whom he could hear whispering to Cana about the Celestial Mage from all the fucking way up here – about her giving her final answer to Drew.

Goddamn Drew.

His nose twitched at the smell of spring (Lucy) and pine (fucking Drew) that wafted along the air currents from the grand doors that opened up into the beer hall. It had been hot for days as summer had been blazing this year and those double wooden doors had been propped open to catch any and all breezes to cool off the stifling room.

Faint voices could be heard from the outside, one male and one female, and Laxus surmised that both Lucy and her beau were on their way here, but he couldn't hear what they were saying yet. As the smell came in on the wind, he realised he could smell perspiration (who wasn't sweating in this heat?), hormones (particularly the kind that someone gives off when they're furious) and an awful lot of woman's perfume.

He knew that Lucy never wore strong scents to save her best friend's nose – and subsequently his as well – from being bombarded by heavy smells. That probably meant that there was another woman with them, or Drew had recently started to enjoy wearing Eau d' every-fucking-flower-in-Earthland. It was unlikely, but one could hope he had shitty taste in things if only to save Laxus some of his pride that Drew the Dipshit was with his dream girl and he was watching from the sidelines.

The voices were getting louder.

It was an argument of some kind and he could hear Lucy's voice drop into a deadly sharp tone full of venom while Drew came back with something equally scathing that made her scoff. Laxus could practically see the look on her face. It had become one that he had learned to love immensely…especially when it wasn't directed at him that is. Her eyes would narrow into slits and she would radiate this ultimate badass aura that made him extremely excited yet scared.

Exhilarated beyond belief.

And so aroused it fucking hurt.

The two arguing mages finally made it through the front doors into plain view of the whole beer hall, and even though it was still loud enough in here to make his ears flippin' bleed, he could still listen in like the creepy stalker Dragon that he had become.

But Lucy made it easy for him – and everyone else in a mile's vicinity to be quite honest – to overhear their conversation.

Because she was screaming.

Really, really loudly.

"-do you fucking explain it then? You just tripped while both of you were fully naked and accidentally shoved your dick into her vagina repeatedly?"

Oh. Well…fuck. Laxus' grin turned feral. This was going to be interesting, he had yet to witness Scary Lucy after Alvarez and he was so intrigued that he almost forgot to be mad that her boyfriend had actually had the gall to cheat.

Almost.

In the back of his mind, he was pissed as all hell that sweet, kind, gives-way-too-many-chances-for-her-own-good Lucy had to go through something like this. He could only hope that she wouldn't give this asshat another chance.

He looked around the guild, and Laxus could see that everyone had the same look in their eyes.

Fury.

But none would dare to step in and try to "save" her. They knew what was going to happen; they had all seen a dumb downed version every time Natsu did something incredibly stupid.

Drew entirely passed by this question to say something that was so dumb, Laxus was sure even Natsu lost some IQ points from listening to it. "You weren't supposed to come back so soon!" He cringed at the whiny tone.

Amusement lit up inside everyone's eyes and shook their heads sadly. This dipshit had just dug his own grave.

"You…you didn't think I would come back from a job so early?" She hissed out, eyebrows scrunched up in incredulous anger.

"Yes?"

She stayed silent and just watched the pathetic man-child in front of her fidget with his fingers for a while.

Lucy deflated suddenly. "Why? I thought…I did everything for you…I was going to move in, and we were happy…right? What happened?" She whispered across the entirely still guild hall, more to herself than anything. But Laxus could hear her clear as day and despised the way she was second guessing herself because of some man whore that didn't deserve to lick her boots let alone date her.

That question seemed to bolster the idiot into saying what he really felt. "I was just done waiting for you to put out."

"What?" Her breathless growl was recognised by her family and everyone scrambled back, giving Lucy and Drew a wide birth.

"It's been four fucking months! I waited patiently enough. I thought you would be an easy lay, you practically spill out of your clothes anyways and I just wanted to fuck you once but then you kept keeping me at arm's length. You were just supposed to be a stupidly weak mage that would fawn over me and fall into my arms like everyone else. I never wanted a relationship with you…"

Everyone sucked in a quick breath, their eyes blowing wide and took an extra step back. Charles and Wendy sprinted around the counter of the bar to hide with Mira, Lisanna, Kinana, and Laki. They knew something was coming, but they didn't know what.

Erza started to wonder how much of the guild was going to be left after this as Gray and Natsu stood solidly together (without fighting) while trying to kill Drew with only their thoughts.

Booming laughter spilt out of Laxus' mouth. This situation, while slightly infuriating, was hilarious to him. Here was a man Lucy wanted to give her heart to and he had thrown it away, insulted the way she dressed, called her weak and apparently had been living under a rock. All while fucking other women.

Had he even heard of her efforts in the war? Had Drew never made the connection nor heard what she was now called? Lucy never threw around her acclaim so that sounded like the most obvious reason. He knew that she hated all the names that people gave her (since she had so many nicknames) but would tolerate what her Spirits and family gave her to a point.

He yelled down from the second floor, eyes glinting with mirth and mischief, catching Lucy's gaze and winking subtly at her. Maybe it was a bit flirty for this situation, but he really meant to convey that he had her back. "You are a fucking idiot…calling Lucy weak. Ever heard of the 'Star Bringer?' the Celestial Mage who holds ten of the twelve legendary keys of the Zodiac and Master of all Star Dresses, the only mage in existence to hold favour with the Spirit King?"

Drew nodded sceptically.

Laxus stood and walked calmly down until he stood behind the fuming Celestial Mage and smiled wide, his canines glinting in the light. "You just insulted her little man."

Obviously this slight to Drew's ego could not be overlooked. "Who the hell are you anyways?"

He growled low in his throat, the sound like two boulders colliding. But before he could answer; Lucy spoke for him, her tone proud. "Master Laxus Dreyer, one of the Four Gods of Ishgar." Earlier in his life, Laxus would have loved the fact that he was powerful enough to be considered one of the four Gods, but now, the title 'Master' held so much more weight with him. Once he had wanted it for the prestige, but now he had earned it through hard work. He knew it was infinitely better this way.

But he could admit, if only to himself, that it did sound pretty impressive out loud.

Drew paled. "You're that Celestial Mage? Why didn't you tell me?"

Lucy's eyes bled gold while Leo and Virgo stepped out of their gates, faces like thunder and smiles wicked. Their key – wielder was patient and eternally kind, except when anyone called her weak. She had worked long and hard to stop feeling that way and her Spirit friends would do anything and everything to keep her from thinking that ever again.

Twinkling lights surrounded Lucy until she was revealed in her Taurus Star Dress, hefting a gigantic two-sided axe over her bare shoulders. "Why would I tell you that? You shouldn't have needed to hear who I was to respect me."

Drew made the fatal mistake of stretching is arm out to try and touch Lucy, and she flinched back almost hitting Laxus who still stood behind her. He placed a comforting hand on her shoulder and pulled Lucy until she was pressed up against his chest, relishing in the warmth and the feel of her body against his. "Don't you fucking touch me, Drew, we're over. Never speak to me again."

Her now ex-boyfriend stood stonily in place, then opened his mouth to say something stupid once again, his lips twisted into a disgusted sneer.

But before he could get a single syllable out of his mouth, Drew went soaring out the propped open doors and down the cobblestone street, his scream trailing out behind him.

Laxus looked down to see a smirking Lucy lowering her leg from her amped up 'Lucy Kick' she had all but perfected over the years and felt his pride in her abilities and the fact that she could take care of herself soar through the roof.

He steered her towards the She-Demon behind the bar, while Leo swooped down on some unsuspecting girls in the corner to flirt his ass off while Virgo bowed then collapsed her own gate. "Come on Blondie. Let's get you a drink, I bet you need it after that shitty afternoon."

She looked up at him with those gigantic brown eyes filled with thanks and a small amount of pain and he fell head over heals in love with her once again. How could anyone cheat on this wonderful, beautiful woman?

She was blinding, like the sun. And just like the sun, he needed her in his life every single day.

"Thanks, Thunder Thighs." They reached their destination and she waved at Mira a little sheepishly. "Can I have a whisky sour Mira?"

When that was placed in front of her, Lucy downed it in a single gulp and he watched her throat swallow, the movement smooth and erotic in a way he didn't quite understand. A couple of her friends had tried to come over to ask what happened, or if she was alright, but Laxus' intimidating aura sent them scurrying in the other direction.

No doubt she would need to talk to someone about her ordeal, but he was bound and determined to be that person. She had become his confidant, the one human in all of Earthland he told absolutely everything to, and he wanted to become that for her as well. At least all the truly important things (except for this mating ordeal…he didn't really know how to tell her about that…)

For now, this would be enough.

They sat on their respective bar stools for hours, sipping different drinks and chatting about inconsequential things, avoiding heavy topics – at least for now. All their interactions had been in secret in his office doing paperwork, so this felt refreshing. Not hiding the fact that he liked to talk to her.

Before she left for the night, to sleep off the fact that she was slightly tipsy, Lucy had given him one of those heartfelt smiles that made him melt into a mushy pile. "Thank you for tonight Laxus, I really needed it after today. We'll start the next batch of paperwork tomorrow?"

"You can bet your cute little ass we will Blondie. Your team seems determined to wreck every building in Earthland at least once. We have apologies to mail out…"

She laughed, the sound a bit off, the usual levity strained from her ordeal, but her eyes filled with happiness. "See yah tomorrow Thunder Thighs."

And then she was gone, weaving her way to the door.

Laxus glanced around for Gajeel, the one Slayer who seemed to be both old enough to understand the situation and not a total bonehead, vowing that tomorrow he would start in his quest to win Lucy's heart for good.

Hopefully, Metal Brows would know what the fuck to do to woo a mate.