It's Not a Date!
Welcome to my collection of fluff and then some for my main story 'Taming a Dragon' featuring my main couple Laxus and my OC character, aka. Fairy Tail's resident dragoness. This collection will house my deleted scenes that are a little too unrelated to the main story and thus have been banished here. I will make a note of how far you should have read to before each scene to avoid spoilers. Scenes may or may not be connected with one another. Other pairings may also be featured as I go along.
Warning: Please read 'Taming a Dragon' up until Chapter 22/23 before you start reading, or else things will probably not make sense.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, only Hiro Mashima does. I do however, take full ownership of my lovely OC dragon, Leora!
Chapter 1
Timeline: In between Chapter 22/23 (read up to this before reading below)
Featured pairing: Gajeel x Levy
It's Not a Shopping Trip!
Laxus grumbled as he stood with Bickslow and Freed in the middle of the market. They had been waiting here for ten minutes already. He was starting to forget why he agreed to come in the first place.
He was immediately reminded why when he caught the scent of wild lightning. Turning towards the scent, he watched as Leora and Evergreen approached them from the main street. Somehow, Evergreen had convinced her to wear a floral dress this morning. A floral dress.
As his heart beat just a little faster from her entrance, he wasn't so sure of this anymore. This didn't exactly fit into his whole, let's be friends policy. The one he had set for himself after the night of the Grand Magic Ball.
Bickslow waved at the pair as they walked over. "Good morning!"
Evergreen smirked. "A good morning it is, right Laxus?" She didn't miss the stare he was directing towards Fairy Tail's resident dragoness. She had made sure to match Leora's dress with the colour of her eyes as well as her long golden hair. It also happened to complement the amber stone necklace that was currently resting around her neck.
It was something Laxus noticed as well, as he tried to remain unaffected. "A-Ah."
"Isn't it great that the Master is treating us all to a trip to Akane Resort tomorrow!" Evergreen smiled. "All because we won the Grand Magic Games. Which is why we need to go shopping!"
"I don't see why we all need to be here…" Laxus grumbled.
"It's a team outing boss," Bickslow said as he slapped Laxus on the back. "You've got to show."
"Yes, it would be great if you stayed with us, Laxus," Freed added in.
"What are we even shopping for?" Leora asked, confused. She knew that the brunette loved to shop, but she didn't really see what she needed.
Evergreen's eyes held a dark glint. "Swimsuits."
Laxus immediately froze while Bickslow howled in laughter. The seith mage was proud of his teammate for thinking of this.
"But I already have one-" Leora pointed out.
"Nonsense!" Evergreen cut her off with a wave of her fan. "A woman could never have too many swimsuits."
"If you say so…"
It was time for the Raijinshuu to go to work.
Which meant it was time for them to disappear.
"Well, I think it'll be more time efficient for us to divide and conquer no?" Bickslow grinned. "So Freed and I will take Ever this way, while you take Leora that way."
"O-Oi," Laxus protested, but in the blink of an eye, the Raijinshuu had already disappeared. Sighing he glanced down at the dragoness who was already starting to stare at the many shops that lined the main market. "Let's go."
Though it wasn't long before something else unexpected happened.
"Oi…How the hell did this happen…"
"How the hell am I supposed to know…"
Gajeel and Laxus both glared at each other while they were sitting on a couch together in front of a dressing room. Somehow, by some act of god, the two 'couples' managed to bump into each other in the same store. Turns out Levy was also looking for a swimsuit that day.
Laxus smirked at the iron dragon slayer. "Well it makes slightly more sense for me…but how did you two end up here together?" He immediately got the reaction he was fishing for.
"I-I just happened to have bumped into her…that's all," Gajeel responded gruffly.
"In a women's swimsuit store…" Laxus said with a wolfish grin. "And just you? Where's your cat?"
"Lily's off with Charle and Happy today…Oi! Why are you so damn nosy?" Gajeel shouted in annoyance.
Laxus snorted, leaning casually back against the couch. "No reason. Need something to pass the time with."
Gajeel only glared at the lightning dragon slayer.
A few minutes later, Leora walked over with what seemed like an endless pile of swimsuits in her hands. Laxus groaned. This was going to take all day…
"Levy," Leora called out to the curtained dressing room. "Did you find anything?"
There was a pause before a heavy sigh. "No…"
"I figured you'd say that," Leora said before she boldly walked into Levy's change room. Laxus and Gajeel cocked their heads towards the change room as they listened in on their conversation.
"…Why not that one? It's cute."
"…but I don't want to be cute…"
"Ohh…so you want something sexy…How about this one…"
"A-Are you sure..."
"Positive."
"Alright…"
The boys didn't know what to make of their conversation until Levy was pushed out of the dressing room wearing a black bikini with matching bottoms. Though the defining factor was the fact that it was…iron studded. Along the waist band of the bottoms as well as the outer edge of the bikini top.
Let's just say Gajeel was left speechless, while blood rushed to other parts of his body aside from his brain.
Levy blushed under the stares of the two men in front of her. "W-What do you think?"
Laxus knew that his opinion was not the one she wanted so he kept his mouth appropriately shut. Though the dragon slayer next to him wasn't exactly taking his cue either.
Completely dejected by Gajeel's silence, Levy wanted to turn back around, but Leora had come out of the dressing room as well and held her down by the shoulders.
Leora sighed inwardly. She already knew what the iron dragon slayer thought of Levy's bikini, it was evident from his scent, but Levy didn't know that. She needed to hear it. So Leora figured she'd leave him no choice but to have to answer.
"Gajeel-kun…" Leora said in a dangerous tone. She stepped out from behind Levy, revealing her outfit as well. The dragoness wore a haltered royal blue bikini with a matching bottom that was held up by two ties on the side. The amber stone from her necklace as well as the golden colour of her eyes matched surprisingly well to the deep blues of the fabric. "Which one of ours looks better?"
Levy looked to Leora in surprise before glancing down at herself, dejected. Of course she knew who he'd pick. She glanced at Leora again and noticed how well the blonde's voluptuous breasts fit into her bikini before realizing how sad her own breasts paled in comparison.
But Leora wasn't looking at Levy. Leora was only staring at Gajeel with a glare that meant one thing.
There's only one right answer.
Gajeel gulped. He obviously knew that there was only one right answer. But to say it out loud…in a large store like this…
But the longer he waited the more Levy's expression saddened. Swallowing his pride, he answered with a slight blush. "S-Shrimp's…looks better."
If Laxus had been paying attention to the conversation, he would've been amused at how well Leora had played the dragon slayer next to him. But his mind…and his body were too focused on the dragoness in front of him. On how well the swimsuit had accented her body, revealing not just her black and gold shimmered Fairy Tail mark on her right torso, but also the black lightning shaped mark on the inner side of her left breast.
Levy's expression immediately brightened before she flushed and ran back inside the dressing room. "I-I'll get this one."
Leora smiled, though she still felt like she needed some confirmation for her pick as well.
Thinking that the girls' attentions were still on the man next to him, Laxus let himself follow Leora's long creamy legs all the way down before coming up-
"Laxus?"
The distracted dragon slayer was jolted out of his thoughts. Thoughts that weren't exactly appropriate in nature. His voice was rough. "W-What?"
"What do you think of this one?" Leora asked, before she gave him a quick twirl, giving him just a glance of what it looked like in the back.
Laxus groaned inwardly. Why did she do that… They're just friends…just friends… He kept on repeating that trying to get his brain to rewire. "I-It's fine."
He expected her to be angry at his curt response, but she only smiled. "Don't worry. I already know what you and every other male in this store think of it." She spun around and headed back into the change room.
Laxus groaned out loud this time. The dragoness definitely caught scent of his arousal…and apparently everyone else's.
Gajeel turned to him with a smirk. "Better control your body there, lightning rod."
"Shut up," Laxus retorted with a scowl. "It's not like you did any better when Levy was out here."
Gajeel scoffed. "But at least my girl doesn't have the nose of dragon." He paled when Laxus gave him a wolfish grin.
"You do know that someone with 'your girl' also has the hearing of dragon," Laxus laughed when Gajeel started to blush and stammer, probably realizing that he just called Levy 'his girl' and that the dragoness most definitely had heard him say it.
"Oh, please," Gajeel snorted after gaining his composure. "Like its any different for you."
Laxus shot him a dark glare. "What."
"Trust me," Gajeel said. "You wouldn't be sitting here in this uncomfortable lumpy couch, waiting, if you didn't lik-" The iron dragon slayer yelped as he was 'lightly' electrocuted. He shot Laxus a glare, but the man was casually lounging on the chair as if nothing happened, leaving Gajeel to grumble about stupid lightning dragon slayers and their stupid feelings.
The girls came out soon after, changed and carrying their swimsuit of choice before heading towards the cashier.
Gajeel stared at the girls by the cashier. "Strange. I didn't think Leora would have jewels."
"She doesn't," Laxus grumbled. "Her and Ever stole one of my credit cards and haven't given it back since."
"Well…where's Evergreen then?" Gajeel pointed out, smirking when Laxus paled. "You know, when girls don't have the money to pay for something, they resort to other means."
Laxus immediately shot up from the couch, intending to head towards the cashiers, though he paused after two steps, turning his head back around. "What makes you think she ain't gonna teach that to Levy as well."
"Shrimp ain't that dumb to-" Both Gajeel and Laxus paused as their dragon hearing picked up on the conversation by the cashier.
"That will be five thousand jewels."
"I-I don't h-have that kind of m-money…would you b-be a-able to h-help us?"
"Shit," Gajeel cursed as he got up as well, following the lightning dragon slayer who had already started to head towards the cashier. That was definitely the Shrimp's voice.
"You've got to have more conviction Levy," Leora whispered, as she stood right behind the blue-haired mage. "Watch."
Leora straightened up, and put on a pout that she knew would work on human men. Tried and tested. "Is there nothing you can do for such a cute girl as this one?" Her hands rested on Levy's shoulders.
The poor young male cashier could do nothing but stutter as he was bombarded by the two women. "W-Well…I guess-" He yelped when a large gloved hand slammed heavily onto the countertop.
Levy turned to look up behind her, slightly stunned. Gajeel had practically shoved Leora out of the way and now his large frame was right behind her, his arm stretching over her. She blushed at the close contact.
Gajeel's voice was low and rough, jealousy evident in his tone. "I'm paying for this one." His hand released a couple of thousand jewel notes before swiftly grabbing Levy by the arm and dragging her out of the store.
Leora smirked at the dragon slayer's behaviour before focusing her attention back on cashier. "Well…" She leaned forward, taking note of the name tag on his uniform. "Iason…what about-"
Before she could finish her sentence, Laxus' form appeared behind her as well, also slamming a couple of jewel notes on the table.
His scowl scared the poor boy to the bone. "Keep the change." He too dragged the protesting dragoness out of the store.
Meanwhile, hidden in an alleyway across from the store, the Raijinshuu snickered as they watched the scene enfold in front of them. It didn't exactly turn out the way they wanted, but this was better than they had expected.
"You didn't let me finish!" Leora complained to Laxus as they reached Levy and Gajeel. "It would've been free."
Laxus glared at her. "I'm under no shortage of money Sunshine."
Gajeel took that moment to scold the blue-haired mage as well. "Why the hell did you even listen to her?"
Levy looked down at the floor. "I-I just wanted to try it at least once." She wanted to know if someone would actually appreciate her looks like they did with the dragoness'. Leora was practically a golden goddess.
Gajeel growled. "Who the hell cares about that? You've got brains. That's more than enough!"
Levy blushed as red as a tomato at Gajeel's comment.
Leora rolled her eyes and started to walk through the market again. "I'm saving you money you know. That technique works every time."
Gajeel raised his brow. "Works every time? Exactly how many times have you done this before?" He grinned as he watched Laxus' eye twitch in annoyance.
"Lost count," Leora replied, which only served to further dampen Laxus' mood. She walked a couple of steps ahead. "All human men are the same, easy to manipulate since they only think with the lower half of their body."
The two men choked up. Gajeel earning himself a glare from Levy. Laxus wanted to tell her that he cared about more than just her body, but once again, that wouldn't fit into his 'let's be friend's policy.
Leora continued. "Though, intimidation works as well, but Ever said that I wasn't allowed to threaten the shop keeps."
Laxus didn't know whether to roll his eyes at how disappointed the dragoness was, or smile at the how casually she used Ever's nickname. One that was normally reserved for just him and the rest of the Raijinshuu.
Levy, trying to change the topic of the conversation, decided to suggest something that the dragon slayers would definitely agree to. "Hey, while we're here let's try out that restaurant over there." She pointed to the building across the street. "I've done the research; it has a great reviews in Café Digest. From what I read they also do special requests…like iron scraps."
"That's the best idea you've had all day Shrimp," Gajeel grinned as he started to think with his stomach instead. He turned towards Laxus flashing him a smug grin as if saying-
Now that's my girl.
Laxus snorted before nodding his head towards the girls who had already walked ahead of them. Gajeel followed Laxus' gaze just in time to watch as the girls were about to get robbed. He was about to run over and deal with the punk, but then paused. His eyes bugged out and his jaw dropped as he watched Leora perform a perfect roundhouse kick just as the punk reached for their bags, sending him crashing into a nearby building.
Laxus merely stood proudly by, appreciating the generous flash of leg and lace, revealed by the lifting of her dress during her kick. Even as Levy was struggling to hold Leora back from killing the thief, Laxus took the time to send Gajeel a smug look of his own as if saying-
Now that's my dragon.
Gajeel couldn't even find a comeback for that. The men quickly walked up to the girls, Laxus placing a hand on top of Leora's head, absorbing the sparks of anger that was surrounding her body.
"I think you've scared him enough, Sunshine."
Leora sneered at the man who decided it was a good idea to rob a dragon and growled at him, causing the poor man to faint. Before Leora could do anything else to the unconscious thief, Laxus grabbed her by the shoulders and started steering her away.
"We're going for food, come on," Laxus said. Despite being annoyed that she couldn't finish off the thief, Leora followed obediently, much to Laxus' pleasure.
Half an hour later at the restaurant Levy recommended, the women found themselves surrounded by two sets of the entire menu of the restaurant. Other patrons were staring at them with wide eyes, wondering how the four of them could finish all of that. Though the women knew that it would only take the two dragon slayers to eat everything.
Laxus glanced up from a plate of pulled pork to see Leora picking at yet another bowl of fruit. He narrowed his eyes, he thought he had gotten rid of her habit back during the Grand Magic Games.
"Oi, Sunshine, eat," Laxus commanded as he dug his fork into a piece of chicken and pointed it in her direction. He paused when he realized how familiar this scenario was, and his mind immediately reminded him of what she tended to do whenever she ate human food…
But before he could pull back, her hand had already shot forward and grabbed into his before pulling the fork towards her mouth and eating the piece of chicken directly off the fork. The tiniest of blushes appeared on Laxus face as the nearby tables commented on how cute of a couple they were. His hand tingled where hers was holding it.
Meanwhile, Levy watched the exchange with a blush while Gajeel snickered. He had remembered a similar scene with Erza during the Grand Magic Games. Guess he now knew who had taught her this.
After another five minutes of this, Gajeel decided to put himself out of the misery of watching their display…as well as get payback for his earlier embarrassment. "Oi, Leora. You do know it tastes the same if you feed yourself you know."
Laxus immediately shot him a dark glare that had hints of panic laced within his eyes. Gajeel only smirked at him, trying to imagine what was going to happen next.
"Gajeel," Levy scolded, before giving Laxus an apologetic look. She too had a feeling that something bad was about to happen.
"What?" Leora asked innocently, just after she made Laxus feed her a piece of steak.
Gajeel gave her a wolfish grin. "Trust me. Just try it yourself."
"Oi, you don't have to if you don't want to," Laxus groaned inwardly. She was going to kill him when she realized he had lied to her for so long. It had started out only as a harmless joke…
But Leora had already let go of Laxus' hand and grabbed her own fork before stabbing it into a piece of steak and hesitantly placing it into her own mouth, savoring the flavours that…tasted…
Just the same.
The dark aura that erupted from the dragoness' body was twice as scary as the one commonly emitted by Erza when someone ruins one of her strawberry cakes. It was enough that even the customers from nearby tables shrank away. Laxus, holding onto his pride, struggled to stay put, staring down the dragoness as she glared at him with darkened eyes.
"It tastes the same," Leora's voice was low and ghostly. Sparks started to gather around her body as she stood up from the table, leaning over towards Laxus who was sitting across from her.
"Now let's not be hasty…" Laxus said, his voice betraying his slight fear. Despite knowing that she couldn't hurt him, she still scared the hell out of him at the moment.
"Leora…it might be best if you just sat down…" Levy said nervously.
Meanwhile, Gajeel was sitting there with an amused look on his face and bowl of iron chips ready to watch the show.
Leora roughly stabbed her fork into the nearest piece of food she could find before pointing it in Laxus' direction. "It tastes the same…"
He lied to her.
"Oi…calm dow-mmpfh!" Before Laxus could finish protesting, Leora had already stuffed the piece of chicken straight into his mouth. Not giving the lightning dragon slayer time to swallow, she struck again, this time with a piece of carrot.
"Trust me, he said," Leora huffed, before stuffing a piece of pie into Laxus mouth.
"It'll taste better, he said," Leora snarled. Another fork of mashed potatoes.
"Close your eyes, he said!" Leora shouted. A fork of salmon.
Leora managed to jam in another five forks of food before Levy finally grabbed Leora's wrist, begging her to stop.
"You're going to choke him!"
Leora's voice was dripping with acid. "Don't worry…dragons are capable of wolfing down an entire deer whole. I'm sure he'll be fine." She tried to stab at a slice of zucchini, but Levy held her down.
"Oi," Laxus cried out, his voice muffled by all the food stuck in his mouth. "Arl you tryin tu kill me!"
Leora shot him a dark glare, her body heaving in rage before throwing the fork back on the table. She cried out in anger before turning on her heel and leaving.
"Umm…you guys finish up, I'll follow her and make sure she doesn't do anything rash," Levy said as she ran out the door to follow the dragoness.
For a few moments, the restaurant remained quiet, everyone still trying to process what had just happened. Then a loud howl of laughter filled the air, courtesy of a certain iron dragon slayer.
"That. Was. Gold," Gajeel wheezed as he imprinted the image of the angry dragoness stuffing food down Laxus' throat. It was a million times better than any scenario he could've imagined. By now, the lightning dragon slayer had already coughed up all the food, gasping for air.
Another dark aura and a deep scowl later and Gajeel realized just how unfortunate it was that iron was a good conductor of electricity.
Across the street from the restaurant, Bickslow was practically biting his own hand trying to hold in his laughter, while Freed was crying at the poor treatment of his precious Laxus. Evergreen only shook her head in disappointment.
Men.
After footing the bill, the men finally found the girls walking down another street with a cart full of bags behind them. Levy looked at them nervously as they approached. The dragoness on the other hand didn't even acknowledge Laxus' presence, her head facing the other direction. While it had calmed down significantly, an aura of anger still surrounded Leora.
Laxus gulped. He wasn't quite sure how to fix this.
"Sorry, Laxus," Levy said sheepishly. "But you may see a large bill at the end of the month…she kind of put everything on your tab."
Laxus' eye twitched as soon as he saw exactly how many purchases she had made in the span of less than half an hour. How she was capable of doing that he didn't even know. Though he knew he had to make up for his mistake somehow.
He grabbed the handle of the cart Leora was pulling. "Let me pull it." She paused and with her head still facing away from him, her hand immediately letting go of the handle as if his touch had tainted it. Laxus heart clenched a little in pain at the gesture. To make it worse as soon as she let go, the purchases in the cart all disappeared in a swirl of lightning. She had sent them back to the house.
She didn't need his help.
She was still angry at him.
Levy, feeling bad for Laxus who currently looked like as miserable as a wet dog, even though he tried not to show it, turned to Gajeel and hissed. "This is your fault."
Gajeel turned back with a retort. "She was going to figure it out eventually, sooner is better than later I'd say."
Levy sighed as she followed next to Gajeel. She couldn't argue with that.
A couple of minutes of silence later and suddenly a loud growl penetrated the air.
"Oi, lightning rod are you seriously still hungry?!" Gajeel shouted to Laxus in front of him.
"Shut up, iron head. I didn't get to eat an entire bucket of iron scraps," Laxus retored.
"What are you talking about?" Gajeel argued. "There was a whole plate of lightning pork in front of you, but you let it go to waste."
"Heh, I ain't like you, eating any kind of iron that he sees," Laxus grunted. His stomach chose that moment to grumble again.
"Whatever," Gajeel snorted. "I'm not the one who's hungry."
Laxus glanced at Leora next to him, who still refused to look at him as she walked. He sighed. There goes the even possibility of being just friends…
An open palm suddenly appeared in front of Laxus' face. He stared at it with furrowed brows, but when it burst into sparks, he couldn't hold back a small smile. He eagerly, but not too eagerly, grabbed hold of the hand, inhaling the fresh lightning and inwardly moaning at the heavenly taste. Nothing could ever beat Leora's lightning.
Laxus turned slightly to address Gajeel behind him with a snort of his own. "Why should I settle for anything less than the best?" That earned him another sarcastic eye roll from Gajeel. Glancing back to the dragoness beside him, he noted that she was still facing away from him, but he swore he saw the edges of her lips curl upwards into a reluctant smile. Grinning, he continued to eat the lightning off of the palm of her hand as they headed home.
Levy smiled at the cute display in front of her as she walked next to Gajeel, who offered to hold her bags.
Trailing a couple of steps behind them all, the Raijinshuu stared up ahead, smiling to themselves as well, thankful that the pair had made up.
Well that was one hell of a shopping trip.
A/N: What did you think? Is it worth continuing with similar type of stuff? I'm not quite sure how good I am at writing at this level of fluff (fluff? Am I using the term right?) so any feedback would be welcome. If there is enough interest, the next chapters will be focused on their trip to Akane Beach, featuring their newly bought swimsuits.