Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail of its characters, that right belongs to Hiro Mashima.

It had started out like any other normal day for him, but as soon as he got to the guild, he knew that something was off. Giving a hooded glare around the guild, unable to spot what was wrong, Gajeel made his way to his normal seat in the corner, next to Levy. The seemingly ever-present scowl on his face, looking more prominent as he took his seat, next to the petite word mage, who like always had her face buried in some tome or another.

Giving another furtive look around the guild, Gajeel leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest, to wait for MiraJane to come by with his normal plate of iron nails for breakfast. As the minutes began to crawl by, that of feeling kept growing stronger and stronger, making him start to fidget in place, finally drawing Levy's attention to him.

"Is there something wrong Gajeel?" she asked, her voice soft.

Looking down at her, from the corner of his eye, Gajeel snorted before giving her a reply, "No, not particularly. Just something... seems really off today and I can't figure out what it is."

At his words, Levy tilted her head to the side as her mind started to go to work to figure it out. Everyone in the guild knew how she felt about him, hell he knew by smell alone. Though he didn't exactly return the same feelings, he was rather partial to her, hence the fact he had given her a nickname. So, deciding to let it go because once she got latched onto something that interested her, there was nothing short of death that could stop her from solving it. And he wasn't even sure that Death could stop her curiosity.

At the thought, Gajeel gave a low chuckle that put a frown on her face, as well as a unasked question in her eyes. One that he waved off, before slumping down further into his seat, as he realized that MiraJane hadn't come by with his breakfast yet. With a small turn of his head, he looked at the bar, only just noticing that the Silver-haired, matchmaking crazed woman wasn't there. Narrowing his red eyes, Gajeel tapped Levy on the head, drawing her out of her thoughts, before jerking his thumb towards the bar, silently asking what was going on.

Not even looking at where he was pointing, Levy spoke up, "Oh, yeah, there was an incident this morning involving some of Team Natsu's members. And well, let's say we learned something new, that we really didn't need to know."

As her words trailed off, Gajeel raised a pierced eyebrow down at the bluenette, who just averted her eyes from him as her face flushed a bit pink. Clearing her throat, as he watched her began to fidget under his gaze before he finally decided to let it go. Returning to slumping and brooding as that feeling started to become an itch between his shoulder blades as time continued to pass by, as he slowly became more and more surly.

It was just before noon, when the door to the Master's office burst open, drawing the attention of everyone in the guild. Only to see MiraJane come walking out, eyes flashing dangerously, as she dragged Natsu and Gray behind her by their ears. Inciting just as much fear as Erza did while sporting that same look on her face. But that wasn't what caused a loud gasp to echo through the guild hall and Gajeel to choke on the very air he breathed. Because when Lucy stepped through the doorway after them.

There the normally bubbly blond came out, covered from head to toe in what looked like dirt, but to his nose was clearly manure. All the while her brown eyes were glowing unnaturally in rage, as she lifted a shaky hand up to pull at something just over her face. Only to flinch and growl at seeing a worm wiggling from between her fingertips, as her lips curled up in disgust. The two that were being dragged by the ear, had wide eyes and were sweating bullets in fear, as they watched their teammate grin like a crazed woman.

Gajeel turned away from the scene, doing his best to chuckle softly, as he got elbowed by Levy to be quiet. He knew that later he would have to get it from her, what he had missed that morning. And how a little worm could cause such anger in the blond celestial mage.