The Rhythm of Love!

I know, I know. I haven't updated any of my stories in, what, a year? and I'm posting NEW STUFF? I should be hung, drawn and quartered immediately. I am so very sorry. I am a horrible horrible person.


Levy is finally reunited with old friends at her new University! But old friends have new friends and one said new friend has wickedly long hair, piercings and a fearsome scowl...along with an almost hilariously cute side to him. Levy is hopelessly drawn towards this dangerously handsome man but with the stress of hard classes and him being a stubborn idiot, hope is she going to cope?


"Good day today!" Levy sang in the shower. She was starting her first day of university!

After drying off she dressed in a cute, pale blue, short-sleeved, knee-length dress with a pearl-buckle belt that was slightly dressier than her usual attire, white leggings, a cute pair of sandals and a white headband. She put very light make up on, than ran out to her room to double-check she had packed everything; after today, she'll be moving from her parent's house to the dorm.

Most of her books were in boxes already and were stuffed in her parent's car, all she had yet to pack was her clothes. She grabbed her duffel and threw it on her bed, opened her closet and messily piled everything in(without the hangers..). She emptied her drawers of underwear, socks and bras, sighing in a depressed way as she was reminded of her tiny bust size (B-small C). She then packed hair and make-up supplies, bathroom essentials, a few CDs and DVDs, her laptop and charger plus the rest of her books.

"Levy honey, come eat breakfast! I made your favourite!" her mother, Martha, called down downstairs.

"Coming, Mum!" Levy replied cheerfully and dragged her duffel and bookbag, bouncing down the stairs and nearly crashing into her nine-year-old little brother, Zach.

"Watch it, Levy-nee!" he grumbled, slapping playfully at his sister's hand as she ruffled his spiky brown hair. His hazel-brown eyes widened a little when he saw her bags. "Oh, yeah, forgot you're leaving today.." he pouted.

"Aww, don't worry lil' bro! As if I'd forget my own family!" Levy grinned, dumping her bags by the front door and pulling Zach with her to the kitchen where breakfast was waiting.

"Pancakes to celebrate!" Martha cheered, her face covered in batter and her long blue hair -that Levy inherited - tied in a messy ponytail. At Levy's seat sat a plate of mini pancakes.

"Pan-Pan!" Levy's three-year-old sister squealed happily, her chocolate-brown hair pulled into a ponytail on each side of her head and her blue eyes bright. She slapped her hands on her toddler seat repeatedly.

"Cute, Naomi! Yum, mini, just like I like them!" Levy kissed her mum on the cheek and sat down, pouring maple syrup and eating them quickly. After eating five, she rinsed her plate, gave her sister a hug and kiss before going to grab her bags.

Her dad, Trevor McGarden, was waiting by the (open) front door. He had brown hair and blue eyes, and a warm smile and personality to match. He opened his arms and Levy ran to him, hugging him for the last time.

Her mother, now cleaned up, came over, grabbed her keys and went to go start the car.

Zach pounced on his sister the moment she let go of her dad. "Bye Levy-nee," he mumbled into her dress. Levy hugged her brother tight.

"Bye, Zach. I'll stop by and see you guys on the weekend."

Levy waved them goodbye, grabbed her bags and packed them and herself into the car. After buckling up her mum drove an hour to her new Uni, Fairy Tail, where she parked near to the entrance.

"Excited to be going to your dream Uni, honey?" Martha asked with a knowing grin.

"Yes! I can't wait!" Levy smiled.

"Well, I guess I'll wait here while you go get your dorm rooms sorted, and then I'll help you unpack."

"Thanks Mom!" Levy hugged her and got out of the car, leaving all her things apart from her bookbag with her mom.


After following some signs she found the grand hall where the Master was waiting to welcome new students. She got there just as he started.

"Welcome, new students!" A tiny man wearing colourful clothes, Master Makarov, spoke cheerfully into the microphone. "Time to sort out the arrangements!" he clapped his hands and a few teachers joined him on stage.

"Boys, go and form a line in front of Gildarts and draw a piece of paper from the bowl to decide which dorm you'll be staying in. Girls, go to Aquarius."

As he pointed out who they were, Levy noted that the master didn't give the teachers the title 'Mr.' or 'Miss/Mrs/Ms'. Odd.

"Then, boys, please form a line in front of the table where Macau and Wakaba are sitting, where they'll find your schedule for you. Girls, form a line in front of Aries and Virgo. Now remember, kids, to treat everyone here at Fairy Tail University as your nakama! Just as treat my fellow teachers as my brothers and sisters, I give all my students my love as if they were my own sons and daughters! So, make love, not war! That's all, no classes today!"

The crowd cheered and split, going to indicated lines.

Levy got in line and bounced up and down on the spot.

When it got to her turn to pick her dorm, Aquarius gave her the stink eye. What was her problem?

She withdrew her hand to see she picked Dorm 5. There were 10 dorms for each gender and with split between first and second years. Underneath she read that she'd be sharing with two other first years and two second years. I hope I get along with them! she thought cheerfully.

She quickly moved out of the way of the girls behind her and spotted a head of blond hair that seemed vaguely familiar. The girl was of average height, but with an hourglass shape and large bust that seemed to want to fall out of her military-style sleeveless vest, which was tucked into a pair of black skinny jeans and boots with a small heel to them. Her hair was down for the most part, but she sported a small ponytail on the side of her head that Levy instantly recognised.

"Lu-chan?"

The blonde whirled around at the old nickname, startled. She looked around for a bit until she spotted the bluenette.

"Levy-chan! Oh my gosh is that you?!" She squealed and raced towards the shorter girl, who ran into the girl's arms.

"Lucy! It's so good to see you again finally!" Levy yelled happily. She leaned back a little to look her old friend in the eyes. They both had chocolate-brown eyes in the exact same shade, something they'd both liked when they were younger. "It's been how many years?"

"Since you skipped your way through school ahead of me? Hmm, two?" Lucy grinned, though she did look a little sad. "How was teacher-training college? You must've been so awkward, being the only 16-year-old amongst 18-year-old college students!"

"I couldn't help that I finished highschool in my second year instead of the fourth, I'm just too smart," Levy joked, making her friend laugh. They parted from their hug, but linked arms to walk to the other table together. "Teacher-training college wasn't so bad. Mostly girls wanting to be primary school teachers thinking it'd be easy, but ending up struggling to pass the maths exams. I had to coach so many of them! I don't even wanna teach maths!"

Lucy laughed at her friend's antics. It was like they'd never been apart. Especially since one of them hadn't gown an inch.

They stood in line for their schedules, and noticed that the lecturers also had small laptops with moveable webcams attached to them. As they got closer to the front they realised that the webcams took pictures of the students and the laptop printed their picture and student information onto a small ID card.

Finally reaching the front, Levy sat down in front of Aries, who immediately apologised for having to take her picture. Levy simply smiled and said it was fine. She smiled for her picture, and while they waited for it to be printed Aries searched for her schedule.

A couple of minutes later and she and Lucy were both done and they compared their schedules. They applied for a couple of the same lectures apparently, as well as a few clubs.

"Wow, we have a couple of the same lectures," Lucy grinned, looking between the sheets, "and clubs too."

"Literacy Studies, Journalism 101, Dance Club, Gymnastics Club, and Meditation and Yoga Club!" Levy announced after carefully scanning both schedules.

"Wow, Levy, some of those classes...or all of them really...really?" Lucy grabbed Levy's sheet and read out Levy's other lectures with a shocked and slightly frightened tone to her voice. "Language History, Advanced Japanese Studies, History of Ancient and Extinct Languages, Advanced Italian Studies, Advanced Russian Studies?!"

"Yeah, so? I've already mastered Latin, Greek, French and Spanish. They didn't have Portuguese on offer though, shame." Levy shrugged. "What're your other classes?"

"Author Studies, Fashion Studies, Photography 101, and Modeling 101."

"Modeling!" Levy squealed. "Perfect! You'll make an excellent model! I always knew you'd get into it!" She clapped her hands gleefully whilst Lucy blushed.

"Actually, that's a funny story..." Lucy giggled. Levy made to gesture for her to continue. "Do you remember Natsu? The annoying boy with pink hair?" Levy nodded. Of course she remembered. "Well he's kind of my boyfriend now..."

"No way?!" Levy gasped. She remembered that Natsu had the biggest crush on Lucy, and he would tease and annoy her to no end, just to get her attention. And it seems like his effort had won through!

"Yes way," Lucy giggled again, though she seemed slightly embarrassed. "We're keeping it low-key for now though, since it only happened a month or so ago, during summer. But he's the one who persuaded me to do the modeling class."

Suddenly she jumped and clicked her fingers together, starting to grin. "Do you remember Gray as well? Natsu's best friend."

Levy nodded.

"Well those two dared each other to take a girly class or club for the whole year, no dropping out. I can't wait to find them and see what they took!"

"Well shouldn't we find our dorms first? We kind of have to move in today," Levy reminded her.

"Oh, I'm already sorted, I had my stuff brought to Dorm 5 after I found out that was where I was staying,"

"Dorm 5? That's where I am!"

"Oh my gosh! We have to hurry and get you the room next to mine!"

The girls laughed loudly as the broke off into a run towards the dormitories, without a care of who saw them.


In the end, they succeeded in securing the room next to Lucy's for Levy. Each dorm was a simple, two-story building; a spacious shared living room and open kitchen-diner on the ground floor, and five en suite bedrooms on the second floor. Lucy pointed out to the blunette that the two rooms on the opposite side of the hall belonged to the two second-year students, and the third room was at the end of the hall. After securing a piece of sticky tape to stick up the make-shift "Levy's Room!" poster to her door and a similar one for Lucy's, the pair headed down to the living room, only to find two older girls standing in the middle of the room, arguing.

"I'm telling you, Mira, we should have made strawberry cheesecake to welcome the girls!"

"Nonsense, I'm sure they would prefer these blueberry muffins I made."

The one girl, 'Mira', had long, blonde-white hair that curled slightly and had her fringe clipped back. She had bright blue eyes and sported a pretty lilac dress. In her hands she held a tray of muffins.

The other girl had strikingly red hair and brown eyes, and looked very scary. She was frowning severely and had a vein popping on her forehead. She was wearing a Uni-branded black polo shirt over a plain blue pleated skirt that went to her knees where they met black boots.

"But strawberries are obviously the better fruit!"

"Erza, this isn't the right time of year for strawberries anyway, or are you just an idiot?"

The two girls had a very dark aura around each other, though only one was openly angry. Both of them scared the souls out of Lucy and Levy.

They must have been spotted though, because both girls turned to them at once and smiled a sickly sweet smile.

"Hi girls!" The blonde chirped happily. "Welcome to the dorm!"

"MiraJane and I, Erza, are your second year dorm mates," The redhead greeted, though not as overly happy as the other. "Mira is slightly damaged in the head, as you can tell since she didn't buy me- I mean you any strawberries-"

"Shut yer frickin' trap 'bout yer bloody strawberries!" A muffin flew off the tray and smacked Erza full on in the face.

MiraJane kept the smile on her face as she held the tray of remaining muffins out to them. "Blueberry muffin?"

Lucy and Levy were too shocked to say anything.

Suddenly, a small cough revealed the presence of another person. A short girl with long, dark blue hair entered the room very carefully.

"Um, is this dorm 5? I'm Wendy, I'm staying here..."


Read, review, don't kill me... please...

(also... the relationship between MiraJane and Erza will be similar to how they were as kids...Wendy is slightly older than canon...Levy and Lucy are slightly more like their Edo versions... Gajeel will have a sibling [take a guess who]... and this is a T-rated story...make outs will happen...)