Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia

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Pairing: Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia

Pairing Name: NaLu, Natsu and Lucy

Status: Semi-Canon

Manga/Anime Series: Fairy Tail

Natsu Dragneel

Natsu Dragneel is a Fairy Tail Guild member and the younger brother of the dark mage Zeref Dragneel. He is one of the five dragon slayers that were sent to the future to defeat Acnologia. He is also known as the Salamander. Natsu suffers from motion sickness and although he is known with a carefree and happy go lucky attitude, he deeply cares for his friends and shows compassion to others even if they are enemies.

Lucy Heartfilia

Lucy Heartfilia is the only child of the wealthy Heartfilia Family. Following the death of her mother, Lucy left home and started her journey to become a novelist and a Celestial Wizard. After meeting Natsu and Happy, Lucy joined the Fairy Tail guild, meeting new friends and fellow wizards. She is a capable wizard who helps her teammates during their missions.

Their Relationship

Natsu and Lucy are considered very close as they spent most of their time and missions with each other with Happy accompanying the two of them. Their bond started when Natsu meet her at the town of Hargeon and invited Lucy to join their guild. While she is bothered by Natsu’s reckless and childish acts, Lucy shows tolerance and deep understanding with Natsu. Natsu also drops by her home and invading her privacy together with Happy, sometimes even falling asleep in her place while waiting for her to come home.

Natsu believes in Lucy’s capabilities even if sometimes she doubts herself. He always helps Lucy whenever when she is in trouble. Because of their unusual closeness, some of their guildmates and enemies perceived them as a couple which Lucy frequently denies when pointed out.

A year after the war against the Alvarez Empire, Lucy finally fulfilled her dream to become a famous novelist. After the celebration, Lucy found Natsu and Happy invading her home once again telling her that they have received the mission for one hundred year quest and must start immediately. Feeling a bit dejected by Natsu’s eagerness, Lucy was caught off guard when Natsu declares that they will be together forever.

Trivia

• Natsu collects items to serve as memorabilia on every mission and quest he did together with Happy and Lucy. On one occasion, it was shown that he had kept the maid outfit that Lucy used on one of their quests.
• Mirajane always teases Lucy and mentioned that they always get along and understand each other well. She also keeps a duplicate key of Lucy’s home which she often lends to Natsu.
• Zeref implies that Lucy has a deep-rooted influence on Natsu’s feelings.
• Happy always implies that the two of them really like each other.
• On most story arcs, Natsu always shows concern at Lucy often saving her and getting angry whenever she cries or in danger.
• Hiro Mashima drew Natsu and Lucy’s daughter during the New York City Comic Con in 2017 when a fan requested what will the child looks like if they have a child. The daughter was relatively known as “Nashi” or “Luna” on Fairy Tail fandom.

Zeref Dragneel and Mavis Vermilion

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Pairing: Zeref Dragneel and Mavis Vermillion
Pairing Name: Zeref and Mavis, Zeref x Mavis, Zervis
Status: Canon
Manga/Anime Series: Fairy Tail
Child/ren: August

Zeref Dragneel 

Zeref Dragneel commonly known as "The Black Mage" and considered as the strongest and most evil wizard within the Fairy Tail Universe. Being a genius wizard, he was able to master the black arts and create demons which led to several misfortunes and havoc around the world. He has a detached personality, hating himself for not being able to control his powers at will.

Zeref is the older brother of Natsu Dragneel and he fathered a son to Mavis. He also has founded and served as the emperor of Alvarez Empire. Four hundred years ago, Zeref was cursed by Ankhseram with the Curse of Contradiction when he attempts to revive his brother Natsu by twisting the balance between life and death. This curse was also been suffered by Mavis Vermilion later. The curse made them immortal and unconsciously made them kill all living ones they encountered. To lessen the symptoms and effect, the cursed one should forget the value of one's life.

Mavis Vermilion 

Mavis Vermilion was the first Guild Master of Fairy Tail Guild. She was also known as the Fairy Tactician due to her exceptional strategies on the battleground. She has a cheerful and almost childish personality and very protective of her guild members. Mavis also has a playful and reckless side. She is also always seen barefooted throughout the series.

After performing an incomplete version of Law to save the life her friend Yuri Dreyar, she was cursed with the same Curse of Contradiction Zeref has.

Their Relationship 

Around X686, years before Mavis founded the Fairy Tail Guild, she first met Zeref while contemplating on her next actions stumbled upon him bathing at a pond. He quickly dressed intent on leaving her alone so she wouldn't suffer the effects of his curse. Surprisingly, she deducted the nature of his 'magic' and guessed that it was a curse cast upon him. She was able to ease his loneliness by summoning an illusion of different kinds of animals. After these, Zeref agreed on teaching her and friends magic.

Ten years later, they met again. Mavis was so happy and excited to meet him and had leaped up to hug him much to his surprise. During this meeting, Zeref revealed himself as the infamous Black Wizard Zeref which at first she didn't believe. After learning that she had performed an incomplete version of Law, he informed her that she was cursed with the Curse of Contradiction like him hence she is immortal and will not age. Devastated to this revelation, she runs away from him. As he was left behind, Zeref comments on how Mavis has the power to be able to walk beside him.

A year later, Zeref found her again secluded in a forest, trying to kill herself by starvation. He told her that there is no way that could able to kill them while under the curse. Desperate to be free from the curse, Mavis asked him to kill her but he couldn't. As Mavis saw how Zeref contradict himself while talking about starting a war with her, she felt she could relate to his suffering. She hugged him tight and told him they will be together forever.

Moved by Mavis' words, he told her how he never had to love anyone before. The two shared a kiss which instantly killed Mavis as the effects of their shared curse took her life away. The love between the two mages was the highest contradiction on both parties that it took the life of an immortal one. Zeref was so broken by this, he cried over her dead body.

Afterwards, he brought her lifeless body to Percht and swore he will never love anyone again. Percht sensed some magic still lingering in her heart, encase her body within a giant lacrima. He hides her body in the basement of the guild and took several experiments in the hope he will be able to revive her.

Around this time (August of the year X697 as Zeref stated), Mavis conceived a son with Zeref as the father which later named August by Zeref himself.

When the Grand Magic Games comes to end, they met once again although Zeref couldn't see her physically. They declared war between each other deciding to forget their romantic feelings to achieve their goal. Despite their claims that they didn't love each other anymore, their actions say otherwise. Zeref felt sadness when he watched Mavis in great pain while Irene extracted the Fairy Heart from her body and when Mavis, after learning that he intended to erase the timeline they're on, begged him not to erase the time when she met him.

After Zeref being defeated by his brother Natsu, Mavis says she still loves him despite everything he had done and hopes they could be with each other forever. She claimed that if only she had believed his love for her before, she could've ended his suffering. Zeref then realizes that to end his life and suffering, he has to accept Mavis' love for him because love is the greatest contradiction to their curses. They confessed their love for each other and shared a kiss. He told her how happy she made him and tells her to live on without him. He started to disappear but notices that she also starts to fade away with him realizing that his love for her killing her for the second time. They both died in each other's arms finally ending the eternity of sadness together.

On the last chapter of the series, it was later revealed that they have been reincarnated giving them a second chance to be together. Zeref as Arleos who is an amateur writer looking up to Lucy's works and Mavis as Mio which currently works at a small publishing company.