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Levy's POV
An eerie silence hung in the air, sometimes my ears picked up the hoot of a nearby owl or the chirp of crickets, as I came back to the world of the living and
slowly opened my eyes. I propped myself up on my elbows, groaning when I noticed the pounding in my head. I clutched at my forehead and bent over to stop
my head from spinning. After the pain had slightly subsided I looked around slowly. I was surrounded by poisonous looking grass and trees, dew lacing the
leaves that hung on their branches. Everything around me had a slight dark purple hue and a lavender mist bore down heavily on the ground. It was dark in this
forest and eventhough I could make out the profile of the sun through the dome of leaves it felt like the forest was under a neverending twilight . It felt
suffocating to be here and the immense headache wasn't helping. That's when I noticed the figure lying next to me. Gajeel's jet black hair stretched out behind
him on the thick stems of grass. His eyes were closed and his breath came out in steady strokes. Even though he seemed to be sleeping peacefully, his ever
furrowed brow remained. I couldn't help but smile at him as he lay there. I carefully stretched out my hand to stroke his long, black mane but right when my
hand was hovering above his face his lids snapped open revealing the scarlet, cat like, eyes. I yelled out in surprise.
"Christ, Gajeel don't scare me like that!" I panted, trying to calm my fluttering heart. He looked at me with his pierced brows knitted tightly together in a frown.
Then he turned his head in the other direction to look around. After a few seconds he had a very annoyed and accusing expression on his face directed straight
at me.
"Where the hell are we shrimp?" he demanded as if I was responsible for bringing us here. I felt myself getting angry at the accusation. My face turned a dark
shade of red and I punched him on the head with as much strength as I could muster. I knew it would hurt
me more than it hurt him but I felt that it was more than appropriate.
"How should I know? Where did you get the idea that I would know?" I snapped. His reaction was minimal as I punched him, he blinked once and grabbed my
hand to push it away.
"Ok, ok, calm down," he mumbled, "so, what do you know?"I sighed in annoyance and pinched the bridge of my nose with my thumb and forefinger, displaying
my frustration clearly.
"I just woke up so I know just as little as you Gajeel…" I started, "ok so maybe a little more than you. All I can tell you is that we're no longer in Fiore," I
replied, motioning my hand toward our unknown surroundings. He glared at me for a while, still suspicious, until deciding
otherwise and looked around again.
"So how did we get here?" he asked me, again he seemed to be expecting some
sort of explanation from me.
"Gajeel I don't know! I can't remember anyth-" as I attempted to reply my words got stuck in my throat. I tried to speak, or move for that matter, but an
incredible feeling of helplessness had
befallen me. I saw Gajeel moving his lips but my ears only heard muffled sounds, I squinted and tried to tune in but I still couldn't hear. I started to panic. Then
I felt as if a strong wave of electricity passed through my frame, causing me to shake in my place. Once it had
ceased I suddenly felt a fierce desire when I looked at the pierced man in front of me. My mouth smiled and my body moved without my consent. I moved
steadily forward and I could see the confused look on Gajeel's face staring back at me, I tried to stop, however none of my efforts helped the cause. Not a single
nerve in my body would listen to my commands. It was like a wall had been placed in my head, and I was on the side of the wall that wasn't in control of my
body. I hammered and pushed against the black wall with all my force but to no avail, I could only watch from the inside of my mind as my body continuously
stalked forward. A feeling of panic was slowly spreading and consuming my thoughts until all I could do was watch helplessly. When I was but inches from his
chest my head turned upwards to look into his eyes. I could see the unease on his face as I put my hands on his well-built chest. I slowly reached for his face
with my own, and had I been in control a crimson blush would have spread over my face. I could see his stunned form frozen in place due to the shock of my
actions. Then, finally I quickly placed my lips on his. I kissed him passionately putting forward all my unresolved feelings. What unresolved feelings...? When did
I start to feel like this? I pondered as I continued to press on his lips with mine. A confidence, that was not my own, explored every inch of his lips. I continued
struggling against the barrier in my mind when I felt my control starting to return. I attempted to flex my fingers and they responded. Finally I felt my arms, my
legs and my lips. Under my lips Gajeel still stood as motionless as a rock, swaying slightly. Fully in control again I broke away from the kiss, the warmth of his
lips still saturating mine, and compulsively I bushed. I backed away from Gajeel, my hands raised in apology, when I stepped on a loose rock, lost my balance,
and fell to the ground painfully with a thump!
Gajeel POV
My lips still tingled after the small sized bluenette had attacked me with her mouth. For a while I could only stand and stare at her big almond eyes. My mouth
was still hanging open slightly from the lack of contact. In truth I didn't want her to stop, her lips felt heavenly as they crashed onto mine. But I could see that
she was not herself as much as I wanted too I wouldn't take advantage of her situation. Levy stared at me her face covered in an adorable blush.
"I'm so sorry!" She blurted out and tears formed in the corners of her eyes. I almost pitied her as she was lying on the ground shaking.
"It's fine, you were obviously not in control. What happened to you," I asked her frankly. I held out my hand and she took it gratefully as I heaved her back to
her feet.
"I honestly, don't know," she confessed, wiping away the foliage that clung to her orange dress. " I wasn't in control, it was like I was looking on from the inside
of my head while someone else was controlling my body. I-I'm really sorry Gajeel," she added quickly.
"It was just a kiss," I shrugged, my shoulders slouching, trying to be indifferent.
"I see…I guess it wasn't pleasant for you," her voice seemed calm but her eyes clearly told me that she was pissed off at my comment .
"I didn't say that," I replied in attempt to tell her how wrong she was.
"I get it. No need to try to spare my feelings now Gajeel. It's true I never meant to do it anyway, I don't know what came over me. Let's forget about it and
move on shall we?" She pivoted on her heel and stalked away. My guts churned at her words and even though it's what I had told her several seconds before it
hurt to hear it out of her mouth. All I could do in response was shrug and sulk on the inside. After a few minutes of me trotting after her, her face returned to
her slightly more cheery self.
"We have to find out why we're here first of all. And get away from this place, it isn't exactly the nicest place to be," she said. Then she seemed to remember
something as she finished her sentence, "where's Pantherlily? I remember him being with us before we woke up here!" I lifted my head up in response and
sniffed the air in order to try and pick up my partner's scent. I recognized it faintly and quickly ran in the direction where it was coming from.
"Lily?!" I ran through the dark trees and noticed a movement from the corner of my eye. I stopped to turn and look at it. Before me there was a giant pale
spider with crimson eyes staring back at me. I quickly extended my arm towards it as the iron pole emerged from my hand. I smashed the creature straight in
the stomach and with a crash and it flew against the tree. Then I heard the bushes rustle behind me and Levy entered the scene. She screamed when she saw
the body lying against the tree, green fluids emerging from its stomach.
"What is that?" She asked with disgust.
"I don't know, but it's dead now." I kept following Lily's scent. I saw Levy look at the corpse one more time before jogging to catch up. I quickly made my way
through the labyrinth of bark tree trunks until I reached a misty clearing steaming with the smell of death. I worriedly looked around until I spotted the small
black bundle lying near a tree at the edge of the clearing. I ran over and held the tiny panther in my arms. His eyes were closed and his breathing shallow. It
came out in short strokes and turned to pale fog in the fresh air. I pressed him close to my chest and ran over to Levy who just entered the clearing.
"We have to find someone who can help! now!" I yelped. She hurried over and looked at Lily with great concern. I felt panicked and scared as my dearest friend
suffered in my grip. But then he slowly opened his eyes.
"Lily! you're awake!" I felt something wet slide down my cheek and reached to touch it. I realised it was tears and I quickly wiped them away. Lily looked at me
in dismay as he regained his strength.
"Gajeel! why are you crying? My partner is not a wimp," he grumbled in disappointment. I grinned at him as he jumped out of my hands with all the agility he
could muster. He stretched his limbs and turned around to face me.
"Where are we?" He asked me with his ever serious face. I shook my head.
"We don't know either, but never mind that! What happened to you?" At my question he quickly tuned his face away and remained silent. I cocked my head in
silent questioning and Lily shifted on his paws.
"I thought i heard thun..." The panther's words trailed off, almost so inaudible that even my super human ears couldn't hear what he said.
"Say that again?" I told him.
"I thought I heard thu..." Pantherlily moved his lips but I only caught phrases of his quiet sentence. I edged closer to him.
"Speak up!" I told him. Then he practically yelled in my ear.
"I thought I heard thunder!" He bellowed. I jumped back in shock and covered my ear with my hand as pain shot through my ear due to the sudden change in
volume. Even though I was partially deafened, I could still heard Levy's laughter behind me and I glared at her. Her laughter cut short.
"Lily you made us worry over nothing!" Levy cooed, happy to see the little exceed too. "Lily's right though, we have to find out where we are. I've been
wondering this for a while now but do you guys see that light as well?."
I looked in the direction she was pointing and squinted my eyes. In the distance a small flickering white light shone through the trees. My eyes brightened and I
stood up to leave. I felt someone tug at my arm.
"Wait just one second. We don't know what that light is, or who it's from. We have to move carefully and slowly. The wildlife here is completely different as we
just witnessed with the giant spider," Levy warned me sternly. I nodded my agreement at her advice. I was glad to have Levy with me since she always thinks of
these things. If I were me by myself I probably would have walked into a fight without further notice. Which wasn't really a problem for me as much as for the
person I was fighting against. And so without further ado we quietly crept towards the light.
After some time, we were close enough to make out what the light was. In fact it turned out the light was one of many lights. There was people there, some
dressed in rags and a few others covered in heavy armour. There was not many, but enough for a small village. I and the rest walked into the center where a
stone statue was placed. The whole town consisted of about five or six wooden buildings in total, of which some were badly damaged. Beside me Levy decided
to walk up to the nearest person. It was a man clad in black leather armour. He had a stern face covered in scars. Levy smiled at him calmly but I could see her
nervousness when she approached the man who was more than two heads taller than her.
"Hello, my name is Levy. Me and my friend were wondering if you could please tell us where we are. We got a bit lost you see," she gave out a nervous laugh as
the man looked her up and down suspiciously. Finally after he had apparently deemed her no threat he spoke.
"This town is located in Duskwood. It does not bode well to travel through these woods unarmed," he told Levy. She smiled again. I then realised how much we
really stood out. Our clothes were completely different from theirs and everyone here, including the people dressed in rags, were either carrying a weapon
openly or concealing one under their clothes. Swords, knives and guns alike could all be found. Levy and I stuck out like sore thumbs with her short, bright
yellow summer dress and my nomadic style.
"I apologize, but where exactly is Duskwood located, if you don't mind my asking?" Levy asked again, fidgeting with the hem of her man then finally showed
emotion; surprise.
"The Eastern Kingdoms, surely you have heard of them," he spluttered. Levy tried to stay composed as she visibly grew uneasier by the minute.
"We have come from very far, I'm sorry if these questions sound foolish to you. But could you please tell me in more detail. We have never heard of the Eastern
Kingdoms or Duskwood," she continued her questioning. The man then looked slightly alarmed as he uttered his next words.
"I must say this is uncanny. You must come from a different part of Azeroth or the outlands judging from your clear lack of knowledge about our geography."
Levy furrowed her brows as he explained once again.
"A…Azeroth?" She stammered. The man's eyes spread wide at Levy's words and he looked around until he spotted a woman clad the same way as him. He
turned his face briefly to Levy before leaving to speak with the woman urgently. Levy then looked back at me and I saw the same alarm in her face as I was
feeling.