NaLu: The Story Of Us

▷▶Chapter 38◀◁

"Hold it right there."

Thank God for father-daughter mind connections.

Jokes, thank God for perfect timing and coincidences.

Otou-sama slowly came into view, his face grim and set as he made his way towards us slowly.

"NANI?!" Alastair, Lisanna and Elfman shrieked. I smirked. Gray struggled to keep from laughing, and the lady boss smiled.

"Hello, Strauss. What are you trying to do to my company, the one I built from scratch with blood and sweat and tears?" Otou-sama said coolly, but with an air of command.

"You....ha. Haha. Give it up, Heartfilias. It's obvious it's a fake. Jude is dead, he cannot be here." Alastair laughed nervously and once again brought pen to paper. Otou-sama walked over and ripped the paper into clean half.

"You..." Alastair seethed with rage.

"Otou-sama!" I cheered and gave him a bear hug.

"My death was fake, Alastair. I did it all because I knew you would try a stunt like this once I was dead." Otou-sama said smoothly.

"How dare you..." Alastair growled. "It's no use. I have been in contact with the Browns."

Just like Otou-sama, the Browns appeared, walking up to the Strauss and glaring us down.

"Oh? I have allies, too. Thanks to my daughter." Otou-sama smiled proudly.

On cue, Natsu, Juvia, Erza and Jellal appeared with their parents into the scene and stood behind us. Natsu squeezed to my side and pecked my cheek. "Hot." He murmured into my ear before Gray pushed our faces away. Sigh. Brothers will be brothers.

"What...what is this?" Alastair shouted. Lisanna looked like she had been impaled in the abdomen, and Elfman was murmuring something about "this is not a man".

Weeeeeeird.

"You will not take away my company, not now, not ever. You may have the Browns, but I have the Locksers, the Dragneels, the Scarlets and the Fernandez. Do or say what you like, Strauss." Otou-sama said in a challenging, mocking tone.

Alastair dismissed everyone but his immediate family and us, and spoke.

"Then I will. Well hello Dragneels. The younger one and the older one. You're the only family without a mother like the Heartfilias. What if I could change that?" Alastair cackled.

Natsu "tch"ed and looked away. Igneel bristled. "You couldn't. She disappeared." Igneel's vemonous voice held a little hope. It was almost painful to hear.

"She didn't disappear. Little Dragneel, didn't my youngest Strauss tell you that she knew about your mother? That is true. You see, she didn't disappear. We had her all along." Alastair gloated.

I snuck a glance at Erza to make sure she was recording the whole thing. Even better, she fixed a camera to her pin in her hair and was videoing the whole thing.

"You....what?" Igneel's voice quivered. "Dragneels, if you come over to us right now, you can have the woman back. She makes too much noise in the cell anyway." Alastair said offhandedly.

There was a moment of silence as Igneel clenched his fist and shook. "Heartfilias....I'm sorry." He muttered. Natsu turned a wide eyed glance upon his father.

Nice acting.

As Alastair triumphantly sneered at us, yet another figure appeared.

I'm loving today.

Natsu's mother, Grandine, came into view. Igneel's jaw dropped and his eyes teared up.

"G-Grandine?" He stammered.

"Hello, Igneel. You haven't changed." Grandine walked up to Igneel and gazed at him. Igneel threw his arms around her and squeezed her tight, afraid to lose her again. "Am I dreaming?' Igneel murmured. "I'm real." Grandine nuzzled her head in his chest.

Alastair was left gawking at them. We, including the Scarlets, Locksers, Fernandez and Natsu smirked at him. Lisanna's eyes widened.

"YOU! HOW DID YOU ESCAPE FROM THE CELL?" Alastair shouted. I glanced at Erza again who beamed and tapped at the camera, presumably still videoing.

"You let your guard down, Strauss. I never gave up hope of leaving the hellhole you brought me to years ago. I met Heartfilia when I escaped; that was good enough for me. He helped me once he knew my plight. How, how dare you kidnap me and force me to divulge confidential information about the Dragneel company?" Grandine fixed a steely glare at him. Alastair looked gutted. The Browns looked taken aback by the sudden turn of events.

"Wait. What the hell is going on?" Lisanna broke in. "What's going on is, I videoed everything down in this camera here. Your father will be charged in court." Erza said in the regal voice of hers, tapping on her pin. Lisanna's eyes widened.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?" Lisanna shouted. "Your father has done pretty despicable things such as kidnap and forceful attempt to take over a company with flimsy reasons. He deserves to be punished for what he did." Jellal broke in. "Juvia agrees." Juvia piped up.

"Done." Natsu emerged from another room. Huh. Didn't see him disappear. "I have informed the police of the situation. They will be arriving in ten minutes."

We smiled triumphantly and hi fived each other.

"No. NO. I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS. GET THE CAMERA!"

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