A/N: I decided I need to get this show on the road. In the summer I made a commission to luciasatalina on tumblr for the cover art, having been planning this story for months. I write primarily for Naruto and thus getting in the Fairy Tail mindset has proved to be a slight struggle and slowed progress. With that in mind, I bring you this and I hope you enjoy!
Reviews are really super appreciated!
Beyond Two Worlds
Prologue
She felt her breath catch as she met his gaze. Her eyes widened, and she felt the warmth in her face leave, almost evaporating into the air with the cold sweat that broke out across her forehead. Her wrist was starting to hurt as he held tightly onto hers, and she was starting to feel almost…afraid.
"H-Hello, sir?" Levy asked, eyes taking in the unruly, sharp edged hair and noting the piercings that covered his nose and other surfaces of his body and face. She had never really thought anything necessarily bad was connected to people with tattoos and the like, but this man seemed to take it to an extreme. Plus, he smelled faintly of blood, sweat, and steel.
"Levy?" The man replied, and her head began to feel…faint.
He knows my name…?
Swallowing on instinct, Levy felt her eyes sluggishly blink before the world was spinning in front of her and she was swaying into the man's arms.
Where had he come from…?
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"Where the fuck am I?" Gajeel asked, voice sounding hollow even to his own ears as he looked around himself. A place he would have never recognize, with a distinctive growth in the population around him, Gajeel spun around and regarded everything with a bewildered expression.
He wondered what the hell was even happening, couldn't even begin to explain it.
At first he had been merely relaxing at home, preparing himself for another day at the auto parts shop. He had been petting his cat, Lily, and everything had been just…good. For the first time in his life he had gathered a steady job, a better than shitty apartment, and had even been going to visit his adoptive father frequently. Everything had been falling into place for him.
He was good.
But this was…not good.
In fact, Gajeel Redfox was not happy. He was not pleased. And he really didn't want to miss work today. He needed those hours to keep that better than shitty apartment, after all.
Bringing a hand to his face, Gajeel looked around himself frantically, and couldn't help but note the odd outfits some of the citizens around him were wearing. This sort of led him to seeing...a man float up in the air like a nonchalant fuck that he was.
He blinked.
"Gajeel-kun!"
He turned.
The voice had turned out to be a girl with sparkling blue hair and just the sort of slight frame he usually looked for in the women he went out with. Pixie like face, a bright, charming smile—wait, she knew his name.
How did she know his name?
"U-Um, hello?" The girl looked concerned when he said nothing in response, closing the distance between them as she came to look up at him a few inches away. "Are you okay, Gajeel-kun?"
Gajeel retrained the instincts that told him to run away like a bitch. Instead, he pointedly looked her in the eyes and seriously intoned, "Who are you?"