Hello! I am back with the sequel :D Thank you for your lovely reviews on the last chapters of Five Days in a Lake House :3 and I will quickly state the ships included in this.
Main ships are NaLu, Gruvia, GaLe and Jerza. Side ships (which are just ones that are mentioned and/or appear but not one of the mains) are Lories, ElfGreen Bicksanna and Cappy. Miraxus is kinda inbetween the two.
So... Welcome to Fire at Point Blank! Here's first chapter :3 enjoy!
Levy's POV
Gajeel had been surprised to see me awake so early.
I had made it a point to wake earlier than usual, because I could not stand that mess of his any longer. So I cleaned it.
I woke two hours before him, at 7. That's when I crept out of bed and started putting the stuff on his floor where it was meant to go and putting some of the crap that you just don't want to know about in the bin.
As soon as Gajeel woke up at 9am, he flipped out. His eyes widened and he stared at me, then around the house. "Where am I?"
"Your house, idiot." I told him, placing yet another piece of gunk in the bin. "I'm cleaning it."
"It's not used to it!" He protested, referring to the house as a living creature.
"Shut up," I grabbed a wet cloth and started wiping down the couch. "It needs it."
He pouted at me and I laughed. "Not every day you see the mighty Iron Dragon Slayer looking like that."
"Shut it, short stack." He rolled his eyes and flopped back down on the bed. "I'm tired."
"Get up," I told him. "We have to go back to the guild hall today."
"Don't wanna," he complained bluntly. I rolled my eyes at his childlike behavior.
"Get up, Gajeel." I sighed and threw the cloth in the sink. "We have to get started on the guild repairs."
"Guild re..." He narrowed his eyes in thought before it finally dawned on him. "Oh, yeah!"
"Get up already!" I huffed and stormed over to him, tugging his arm. But he didn't budge.
"Come on," his eyes gleamed. "Why not have a little fun first?" Hr raised his iron-studded eyebrow and I swatted him gently.
"No thanks," I tugged on his arm even harder.
"Aww, you're no fun." He pressed his lips together and folded his arms, despite my unrelenting tugging.
"And you're one to talk," I retorted. "Now come on. Maybe later, but not now."
I let go of his arm and turned away. "I'm not looking. Go ahead and get changed."
There was the sound of covers being thrown to one side and the brd creaked as the weight was taken off it. "Damn, it's so clean..." muttered Gajeel. "It's weird..."
"Quit complaining. It'll be clean as long as I'm here." I told him. "Now hurry up. We have work to do at the guild today and it's already five past nine."
I turned just as he was pulling his shirt over his head and buttoning it up. "Come on, even I could get changed quicker than you."
"What do you mean by that?" Gajeel narrowed his eyes, putting his headband thing on.
"I'm a girl. By stereotypes, girls take way longer to get changed and stuff." I explained impatiently. "Now come on!"
"Why are you so eager to get going?" He asked, pulling his shoes on. "Its not like the guild hall's going anywhere." He snickered. "Neither are any of the people."
"That's horrible!" I exclaimed, swatting him on the arm.
"What? I'm just stating the facts!"
"The fact that you laughed is horrible!" I turned away. "Let's go."
Within minutes we reached the guild hall and it seemed to have deteriorated even more overnight. We glanced at each other before walking inside.
It was quiet. Too quiet, and it creeped me out. I felt Gajeel squeeze my hand, as if he could feel my distress at seeing my guild in ruins.
We seemed to be alone, but little did we know that Makarov, Wendy, Laxus and Mirajane were still in there. Gajeel's hand held my small one and he pulled me close to him. "I think we're alone."
"So? What does th-" He silenced me by pulling me into a kiss, searing with a heat I'd never felt before. I let him kiss me and eventually started kissing him back. He pulled me into his tight embrace and held me close, murmuring my name between kisses.
It wasn't for a while until he pulled away. Breathless from his kiss, I stared at him. "What's... gotten into you?"
"Just... thinking. " He turned away from me. "I'm glad you weren't here at the time of the attack. I wouldn't wanna lose you." He turned back, grinning and laughing. "Coz someone as shrimpy as you would get done in really easily!"
"Hey! That's so mean!"
"Ow! Don't throw that at me!"
As I look back on that day now, I realise how much like an old married couple we argued. Little did we know that our high spirits would soon vanish.
Natsu's POV
"Ughh..." I woke at about 9:30 with a throbbing pain in my abdomen. Oh, I remembered. That's right. I was stabbed.
A hand gripped my own. "Don't move. Just stay there, you're in no condition to be moving yet."
It was Lucy. She spoke gently, more gentle than I'd ever heard her speak before.
"If it weren't for Porlyusica, you'd be dead..." She continued. " She says you'll be fine in a few days, but there'll be a pretty impressive scar for show."
I just groaned and tried to roll over but she held me in place. "Stay. You have to rest."
I was laying in Lucy's bed. She was sitting beside me, carressing my hand with her own. "Lucy..." I murmured.
"What is it?"
"Go..."
"What?"
"Go and help with repairing the guild..."
"No. I'm staying here with you."
"Porlyusica is still-"
"She went to care for the others. If I go, you'll be here alone."
"So?"
"I don't want a replay of last night, and what if you do something stupid?"
She had a good point but I refused to back down. "Go, Lucy. Please. I'll be fine. The guild needs your help."
"Natsu... You do too."
"I'll be fine! Now go."
She bit her lip. "Fine... But if I come back and you're gone..."
"I get it and I'm not going anywhere."
Lucy leant down and kissed my forehead before getting up to leave. "Get some rest, okay?" She didn't wait for my answer and left.
Jellal's POV
That morning, Erza woke me at an ungodly hour of the morning, demanding that we left that instant. I groaned and rolled over. "Wha... Why?"
"Ultear and Meredy are meeting us outside of town in twenty minutes, so hurry up!" She pulled my arm, yanking me off the bed.
"Alright, alright." I clambered to my feet and pulled on my shirt from the night before, not bothering to dig into my bag and get another one. I pulled on my shoes and we left the room.
I took a look at a clock as we passed. It was 7am. No one would be up and about at that time, I hoped.
We ran through the hallways silently until we reached the lobby, where we slowed to a stop and walked outside. We didn't say a word to each other until we got outside of the gates.
"It'll take five minutes tops to get to our meeting place," she told me. "Considering Fairy Hills is on the outskirts of town."
I nodded, then remembering something. "Dammit!"
"What is it?" Erza was alarmed, looking around wildly as if expecting an enemy to jump out from anywhere.
"I forgot my mask!" I rubbed my forehead wearily. "Dammit, dammit, dammit!"
"Calm down, we're not going into town." Erza told me, sighing. "Now come on, we have to meet Ultear and Meredy now."
With that she led me down the path and out of town.
I really suck at cliffhangers :P Well, I'll have the second chapter up as soon as I have it finished.