A/N: ooh I'm so excited for this one（＾∇＾）I've been writing this story for just a little while, and I hope it does okay. It's definitely a Gruviafic, with a lot of Gajeel and Erza having a BROTP relationship with Juvia. And I'm posting the ages of everyone, just to give an idea of how old I pictured em' when writing it. (I know Gajeel's and Natsu's ages aren't known, but that's how I imagined how old they would be among the rest)
Laxus: 17
Gajeel: 15
Erza: 15
Mirajane: 15
Cana: 14
Gray: 14
Elfman: 14
Natsu: 13
Juvia: 13
Levy: 13
Lisanna: 12
Chapter .5
"Run, Juvia, run!" shouts a boy with long scruffy black hair and iron piercings running along his face. "We gotta get outta here!"
With him is a girl with pale dark blue hair and the palest of skin. She has a torn dress and dirty shoes. But the most noticeable thing about this girl was her eyes. Lifeless, as if she had just seen tragedy appear right before her. And it did. These two were running from home, not because they got in trouble nor we're they being hunted, but because they had just witnessed their hometown burn down into ashes and they ran to survive the terror that caused this.
"Juvia can't run anymore, Gajeel." she says out of breath. "Juvia has to stop." The boy named Gajeel stops and drops to his knees and turns to look at her.
"Well if you can't run, I'll just carry ya." He says solemnly. "Whatever happens we can't stay here..."
The one named Juvia brings a hand to her mouth and shakes her head quickly. "But Gajeel, Juvia can't let you carry her," she slowly brings her head down, "she'll be a burden."
Gajeel moves over to Juvia and places a firm hand on her shoulder. "I ain't gonna lose anymore family today. And I sure as hell ain't gonna lose you." He drops down to his knees in front of Juvia once more and holds out a hand toward her. "We can make it out together. You and me." He felt determined to convince her to not stay here.
Believing in her friend, Juvia nods and jumps onto his back. "Thank you Gajeel. You're all Juvia has left now." No soon after, exhaustion gets the best of her and she passed out onto his back.
Gajeel ran as fast as he could with Juvia glued to him. He felt the light brushes of air tickling his neck become more and more softer as he realized sleep was overcoming her. He ran for what seemed like hours, until he could barely move his feet, let alone hold Juvia up. Feeling exhaustion start to hit him too, that's when he saw a building and noticed a man retreating out of it at a slow pace and made his way over to said man. The man appeared to be old, no younger than 60, had white hair and a long fur-rimmed coat. And this man would be considered intimidating, if it wasn't for his height.
As Gajeel approached him, the man took notice of his presence and let his mouth open ajar. "Please old man," Gajeel says, startling his own self with his own hoarse voice. "You have to hide us." And with that he collapsed with Juvia on top of him, leaving the short old man with two passed out kids.
A/N: Short, but there will be longer ones to come. This isn't technically chapter one, but it's like an intro so its .5! ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ ...（−＿−；）Intro felt too formal, so .5 was the only other thing my brain could think of. Pushing that aside though don't forget to review, favorite, and follow :D