She clutched the bars tightly until her knuckles where drained from any color, her head hanging down, as if someone had delivered a blow to her face and she was on the verge of blacking out, she let out small breaths that turned into white mist on her lips as her blue hair clung to her face, wet from the sobs she had let out in an attempt to relieve herself from the pain she felt within her, an attempt that had failed. She was a prisoner now, and the one who she would give her life for is possibly doing the same for her right now. It was safe to say Levy Mcgarden's luck was starting to run out.
It was a beautiful day in Magnolia town. The sun was shining, birds were singing heavenly songs, and everyone was around the streets buying groceries, chattering, and enjoying each others company, everyone...except Levy. Levy was busy, sitting in the middle of the floor, books covering every square inch of her room, trying to find one on ancient languages.
The blue haired mage sighed as she looked through her colossal collection of books, none of them where even close to the one she needed. As she pulled out another book she read the title and quickly threw it down, usually she would never treat books with such disrespect, but in this situation, she could care less. She gave a disgruntled groan and put two more books on the ground almost immediately after pulling them out, this was beginning to push her on the brink of insanity.
As she ran her finger down the row of books, she pulled out a thick light purple one, which caused another smaller book to fall out along with it. Relief swept over her entire being as she read the title "Languages From Before Time" and stood up with it in her hand. "Finally, I've been looking forever for this!" she exclaimed proudly to herself. She then saw the other book that had fallen from the corner of her eye and picked it up, placing it in front of the other bulkier book. "The Roar of Hate" she read aloud, and suddenly a light bulb went off in her head. She had read the book before, it was about a dragon who despised humans since they had murdered his father, he then would destroy villages, but before he would burn them to dust, he would cry out what he called was "The Roar of Hate."
Oh!, I remember this book, I got to the part where the dragon got injured in a battle with a village he was destroying and a woman finds him in a field and tries to heal him.
She remembered nothing after that, she had probably gotten too caught up with a job or mission of some sort and stopped reading it. She gave a small smile,
I loved the woman in this book, she was so warmhearted to help the dragon, even though when he first met her he had burned her arm in attempt to scare her away, but she still helped him, because she not only wanted to heal his wound, but his sunken heart.
With that, Levy made a mental note to re-read it from cover to cover, it was too good of a book not to be finished. She took a deep breath and decided to go back to work, heading over to her desk with the two books in her hands she pulled out her chair, sat down, and turned her thinking gears on.
While on a job, Lucy had found an old page in a book that was in an unknown language and asked Levy if she could decode it for her, she of course accepted, with pride. Now since she had finally found the book she needed, without hesitation, she picked up the old paper Lucy had given her, and began working to finish translating the last sentence of the note.
"Tartulus ferman dra srevy pright" Levy read the sentence aloud as she opened the old purple book in front of her, it opened with a loud thud and small particles of dust escaped from the leathery pages causing her to cough.
Levy looked up the words carefully and wrote down the meaning on a piece of paper.
"Okay, so it mean 'let the light shine through', well, that's the last of this note, so all together it means 'when darkness takes over the soul, do not be afraid, just take a deep breath and smile, do not let darkness consume, let the light shine through."
Levy gave a smile, she couldn't wait to give this to Lucy, and if she was correct, Lucy would probably be at the guild with Natsu, Gray, Erza, and the rest of her team. As she got up she folded the note and slipped it into her cross-shoulder purse, and went out the door.
The walk to the guild was very peaceful, the feeling of sunshine and the sound of nature and families enjoying each others company made Levy feel more upbeat and positive. When she got to the doors of the guild hall and pulled them open, she expected there to be people cheering, fights brewing, tables being thrown, and curses filling the air...but to her surprise, the guild was fairly peaceful. As Levy took a few steps in, allowing the doors to clunk behind her, she looked around for a sign of Lucy, or the other members of her team, but found no one. She allowed her smile to fall into a small frown, she had been excited to give the note to Lucy, it had taken her quite awhile to decipher, and she wanted to give it to Lucy for evaluation as soon as possible.
Levy shook her head,
maybe Mirajane has seen them?
As the she pondered the thought she decided to ask and began to walk over to the small bar, where a Cana Alberona had been passed out on a stool, clutching a jug of beer with spit dripping from her mouth into a pool of drool. Levy gave a sight chuckle as she sat down on the stool next to her unconscious comrade and waited for Mirajane. After a few seconds of waiting a beautiful white haired woman stepped out in her usual pink dress with a smile lighting up her face.
"Good afternoon Levy!" Mira greeted cheerfully, "May I help you with something?"
Levy returned the smile and gave a slight nod, "Hello Mira, and...yes...I was just wondering if Lucy or the others have stopped in today by any chance?"
Mira put one delicate finger to her chin as she thought until a look of remembrance crossed her face.
"Yes, actually, they had come by earlier this morning, but only to bid us farewell, it seems they've taken on another job! You know Natsu, right after one adventure is finished, another is soon to follow it up!"
Levy sighed, yes she did know that, and she also knew how excited she was to give Lucy the translation, but hey, they did need to make money, and she was glad that they where also working their best.
"Thank you Mira, and yeah, they're always on a job, but I should have guessed that they would be since when I walked in I didn't get hit by a flying table...or worse...person." Mirajane covered her mouth as she gave a slight giggle, but that was soon replaced with a look of concern.
"Speaking of jobs Levy, it appears you haven't been on one for awhile, isn't your rent due soon?"
Levy bit her lip and nodded "Yeah, but both Jet and Droy seem to have come down with a nasty cold, they've been bed ridden for a week now, and there aren't many jobs that don't include a lot of fighting, and we know how good I am at that..."
Mira gave a slight frown "I hope your other team members start to feel better soon, but I still must insist you look at the jobs posted, perhaps you could find one that doesn't have a lot of action."
Levy smiled "Thank you, and I'll try to find one, thank you for your concern Mira!" Mira gave a slight nod before disappearing into the back, leaving Levy alone.
She didn't particularly want to look at jobs, she knew that she couldn't fight well, and she knew a lot better than to assume someones main problem would be that they were unable to decipher old texts, but she forced herself off of the stool and dragged her legs to the board where papers filled with pleas for help overlapped. She heard the doors to the guild bang together in the distance, notifying her that someone had walked in, but she was too wrapped up reading the jobs descriptions.
Just as she suspected, nothing that suited her. She gave a sigh of defeat and was about to leave the guild when she felt something strong and sturdy rest against the top of her head, and a familiar voice soon followed it.
"You lookin' for a job shrimp? Gihihi, I'd like to see you fight off a fly before anything that can actually be called threatening."
Levy rolled her eyes, she knew this voice all too well.
It was the one and only, Gajeel Redfox.
Author's Note: Okay, this wasn't as exciting as I wanted it to be, but I honestly believe it is a hell of a lot better than the old Chapter 1.
If you have any ideas, questions, comments, feel free to PM me or leave them in a review. I tried super hard to put a good amount of detail in this
and keep it at a decent length, and I went through and corrected as many errors as I could find. I am so thankful I had enough time to actually
put a chapter up I'm not embarrassed to read to myself... Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and there will be more on the way!
I honestly can't think of what the job should be in particular that she picks, but I know it just has to need the use of her super decoding abilities.
If you have any ideas, I repeat, do not be afraid to PM me or leave the idea in a review. Hugs and Kisses until next time I get off my lazy butt and
type! Hopefully the chapters won't be as short as this one, I just wanted to get it out so you could get rid of the horrible images of my old
Chapter 1. Until next time, stay pretty.
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