Gajevy/Gale is my total OTP, and I am obsessed. So I'll be participating in Gajevy week!
Title: Levy's Cooking Challenge
Prompt: Cooking
Word Count: 617 (I think)
Summary: Levy loves her books, but maybe, just maybe...a little something new is in the mix for today. Of course, a certain dragonslayer will be the judge!
Levy's Cooking Challenge
Levy fussed with her books for a while, making sure they were in order. She had many, as her room was basically a library. But besides the books she used for jobs, she had shelves of other books. Fiction and non-fiction, how-to and poetry. As she finished up the shelf and moved on, she noticed a very interesting little book and picked it up.
She leafed through the cookbook, finding it full of all sorts of recipes. She, finding herself interested, began to walk to the guildhall.
She found three seemingly tasty dishes and approached the bar of the guildhall. "Mira?" she asked. "Can I borrow the guild kitchen for a bit?"
Mira smiled sweetly. "Of course Levy! How unusual for you. Any special occasion?"
Levy smiled in response. "Not really, but I found a few recipes to try out." She showed the book to the barmaid.
"Oh, how nice. May I borrow it after you're done?"
"Of course!"
Levy had all the ingredients set out when a bout of nervousness settled over her. Oh no, she thought. I've never cooked too much before. Will it turn out alright?
Don't fret, she told herself. If it doesn't come out well, just try again.
She boiled water on the stove while chopping up the vegetables. She poured the vegetables in, then added a few spices. She stirred for a while, checking the recipe every so often before placing the soup on the countertop. She began the next recipe straight afterwards, taking premarinated meat, courtesy of Mira.
She sliced the meat and grilled it, while simultaneously making rice. She layed the meat on the rice and placed it on the counter.
She began the final recipe by mixing cream cheese, butter, eggs and more into a bowl, quickly. She took a crust and filled the mixture into the crust. She put it into the oven, almost robotically, and waited for it to finish.
Gajeel walked into the guildhall with Pantherlily flying not too far behind. The exceed joined Happy and Carla at a table while the iron dragonslayer went to the bar and sat down.
"Anything I can get you?" Mira asked.
"Just...a beer. What's that smell?" He noticed immediately.
"Isn't it nice? Levy's cooking in the kitchen."
Gajeel smirked. "Gihihi, shrimp? This I gotta see."
He stepped into the kitchen to see the bookworm subsituting freezing a delicious looking cake with using "Solid Script: Ice".
His jaw dropped. "Woah...shorty, you can cook?!"
She turned rapidly. "Gajeel!" she blushed slightly when she realized he saw her cook. "I'm...uh, trying it out." She thought for a second. And grinned. "You'd be the perfect test subject! Here!" She gave him a bowl of soup, a plate of rice and chicken, and a slice of the now cold cheesecake.
He stared at her. "Y-Ya want me to try your cooking?" he asked, slightly confused.
She nodded. "Tell me what you think!"
He took a seat, somewhat still in shock, and began to try the food. A small sip of the soup...a bite of the chicken and rice...a forkful of cake...
"S-So?" Levvy stammered nervously.
He kept eating. After a few more bites, he smirked. "Gihihi...not bad, shrimp."
Levy sighed in relief. "I'm glad!" she smiled. "Thank you Gajeel!"
"Now you'd better come over every day ta cook for me and Lily!"
"W-What?! Why?!"
"Come on, shrimp!"
"Uh...um...maybe occasionally."
He ruffled her hair, much to her disdain. "Good. Ya rock, short stuff."
She puffed her cheeks out with a blush. "Th-Thanks, Gajeel." she muttered.
How was it? Good? Bad? Let me know!
~Phantom-chan