Helloooooo wonderful people!
So, before we begin on this contemporary romance journey, I'll like to give you all a disclaimer: I have NOT fully finished watching Fairy Tail. In fact, I'm... about 10% through only. (Please don't murder me!) But it's so good so far with all the drama, ridiculous antics and cuteness that I just HAVE to write a fan-fic on them. Don't worry, I promise I'll continue watching at my own slow pace, projected finish date will be around 2051.
I'm aiming to finish this story in around 6 months? I have it pretty much all planned out.
Okay, so for the summary...
**IMPORTANT**
This story is going to be in the human world. On Earth. All the characters are just your typical teenagers attending high school. Except... some of them might have a pretty shady past. All will be revealed in good time.
The main pairing of this story will be Gajeel and Levy. Now, I initially wanted to make this a series, with GaLe followed by MiraXus and then Jerza, but I think what I'm going to do is combine the first two into one entire story. This means that this story will have both GaLe as well as MiraXus. The side pairings will be Gruvia and NaLu - you'll be seeing lots of them and their antics, so don't worry. It won't purely be just the two characters in love, I like to mix it up abit. This is Fairy Tail after all, what is it without any mayhem? And wherever mayhem goes, Natsu follows. And wherever Natsu goes, Lucy follows... Get my drift?
TL;DR - The main pairings of this story will be Gajeel and Levy as well as Mirajane and Laxus. Side pairings are NaLu and Gruvia, with a very lonely Erza till I catch up with the anime and Jellal appears since I have no idea how he's like.
So now, a little bit of a synopsis for these two pairings...
GaLe
Gajeel RedFox is the power forward of Fairy Tail High School's all-star basketball team. Diagnosed with dyslexia from a young age, he knows his only hope to get to college is through a sports scholarship, and he will stop at nothing to get it. His rock solid performances on the court have raised a few eyebrows, and there's a stir among the community with more and more scouts from numerous esteemed colleges stopping by his games to take a look at the exciting prospect. He was flying high... and intended to stay that way.
However, it was only a matter of time before his miserable results come back to haunt him. The board of directors gives him an ultimatum - either pull up his results, or be dropped from the team.
Levy McGarden is your typical high school under-the-radar girl who wanted nothing to do with jocks, period. More often than not, they're all brawn and no brains and full of themselves. So when this particularly good-looking bad boy basketball ace comes knocking at her door requesting tuition, she had every intention of turning him down and telling him to go away, but she just can't seem to. Stuck tutoring a infuriatingly stubborn boy who never ceases to surprise her at every turn with his sardonic sense of humor and outlook on life, Levy finds herself growing more and more attached to the man he sees in him.
But with so much going on in his life and his past playing a game of catch-up, can the two of them find the courage to take that leap of faith towards a better future... together?
MiraXus
Laxus Dreyar, the electrifying youngster that burst onto the high school basketball scene and took it by storm in his freshman year has a long way to go if he is to prove his critics wrong. His behavior on and off the field leaves much to be desired, and even though he has talent in the buckets, many scouts are wary of approaching him due to his volatile temper. Now, as a senior, he only has one year left to rectify his wrongs and turn over a new leaf, or risk missing his only shot at a prestigious sports scholarship.
Mirajane Strauss, a foreign transfer student, came to Fairy Tail High School a year ago looking for a clean slate; a way of running away from her past. With graduation looming, she finds herself constantly stressed out and moody. In a chance meeting with the hot-headed captain of the renowned basketball team one night, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to Laxus. Sparks fly, and after one incredible night of sizzling passion which caused them to draw up a mutually beneficial agreement to be friends-with-benefits, things take a turn for the better. Laxus is no longer as rash on the court, and Mirajane finds herself much more relaxed than before.
But as their agreement pans out, it becomes apparent to them that there's no such thing as "just friends" when sex is involved...
So, for NaLu and Gruvia, these couples both have relatively simple plots which will progress throughout the story. Both couples are literally just a few chapters from getting together as they have already developed feelings for each other, so for the most part of this story, they'll just be contributing to the drama and handing out relationship advice (good or bad, noone knows!) to the lovebirds.
So here's the first chapter! It's just a short teaser, talking about Gajeel's transfer to the school in the start of senior year and his thought process or whatnot, considering he's going to be the main star of this story.
The next chapter will pick off two months from now, after he has settled down into the school and was recruited into the basketball team. Yes, a tad bit unbelievable, but hey, I'm fresh out of ideas. And they have to be of legal age to fuck like bunnies, so... yeah. Senior year it is.
Ah, yes, of course. Regarding the rating of this story, it's going to be T until I get to the juicy portions. More on that in subsequent chapters or when we reach a lemon (which won't be too far off, by the way, seeing how Miraxus will have one preeeeetty soon, heh)
So, sit back and enjoy, and tell me what you guys think! I'm open to all sorts of suggestions, so please just share them with me!
Chapter 1: Enrolment
"I'm so fired up now that you've finally decided to enrol, couz! Geez, I was wondering when you'll finally make up your rusty mind to come and join me here! Fairy Tail High School is fucking awesome; you'll love it here! I mean, the teachers are pretty much just older versions of us, so they understand that we're all really active and can't stay in one place for a very long time, and…"
The pink-haired boy droned on and on, and Gajeel Redfox found himself zoning out like he always did with pointless conversation. He sighed, scrubbing a hand down his face roughly as he regarded his babbling cousin next to him with a grimace. Natsu Dragneel actually looked over the moon to be going to school. Fucking school.
He, on the other hand, felt like a criminal on death row trudging slowly to his demise.
Gajeel mentally noted to ask his cousin's father, Igneel, for some of the drugs his son was obviously on. If he was going to be attending school for an entire year, he definitely needed some of it to assuage the dull throbbing in his head at the prospect of picking up books and studying.
He didn't just hate studying – he despised it with a vengeance. It's not that he hadn't tried to, he just plain couldn't. Diagnosed with dyslexia from a very young age, becoming literate quickly lost its appeal when he realized that he just couldn't concentrate. Words didn't make sense at all, dancing in front of his eyes in a mocking jingle, and his old teachers didn't understand his condition enough to extend to him the sort of patience he required if he was to pick up a language.
Only his mom did, and he had her to thank for how far he had come so far. She had home-schooled him for the entirety of his life until she –
Sobering instantly, Gajeel shook his head. Not going there, remember?
It was then that Natsu tapped the side of his head, breaking him out of his reverie. "Knock knock, buckethead. Anybody home?"
"What do you want, asshole?"
A snort. "Is that the best insult you could come up with, metal freak?"
"Better than you, pyromaniac. At least I didn't get into trouble for burning down a fucking kitchen."
It's probably time to mention that his dearest cousin, Natsu, took great pleasure in playing with fire. He wasn't kidding when he called him a pyromaniac. Gajeel still recalled bursting into laughter when he had watched the video of baby Natsu attempting to consume the candle flame instead of blowing it out on his first birthday. He never looked back since.
His obsession with flames would have freaked out any other parent, but Igneel had taken the news surprisingly well. Part of it could be attributed to how he himself ran a company that mass-produced the pyrotechnic devices used to produce fireworks, but Natsu's father had always been pretty quirky. He supported his son's hobby wholeheartedly, at times even "accidentally" leaving certain highly explosive devices around the house for Natsu to tear apart and inspect as part of his education as a growing man.
Needless to say, Gajeel had already prepared the speech he was going to give at Natsu's funeral.
Five years ago, to be exact.
Hey, he liked to be prepared.
Natsu sneered at him. "At least I don't have so many piercings that a magnet can pull me towards it!"
In his defence, he didn't have that many piercings. He only had three on right now, one on each each earlobe and the final one a helix piercing on his left ear. He had taken out the rest a few months back, for… reasons.
"At least I'll have enough courage to tell my best friend that I love her if I did!"
Freezing on the spot, Natsu levelled him with a glare that would have sent lesser men running for their lives. "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY, YOU LOVELESS BASTARD?!"
The two teenagers growled menacingly and gripped each other's shirt collar, their foreheads meeting in the middle as they pushed and shoved to try to get into a more advantageous position.
"YOU WANNA FIGHT, PIECE OF SHIT!?" Natsu yelled, drawing a few curious glances from passers-by: mainly the student body of Fairy Tail High School. They were fully accustomed to such confrontations by then, so a majority of them just shrugged and waved it off, continuing on their way to school as if they hadn't witnessed the beginning of what could very well be the brawl of the century.
"WHY WOULD I? I'LL WIPE THE FLOOR SO EASILY, IT'S NOT EVEN GOING TO BE WORTH IT!"
"I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS WHEN I KNOCK YOU OUT IN FIVE SECONDS FLAT!"
"FUCKING COME AT ME THEN!"
"Erhem."
A distinctly feminine voice halted their colourful verbal battle, and with both their hands still stubbornly holding onto the other party's collars, the duo turned their heads to the source of the interruption.
A redhead girl stood a few steps away, her face shrouded in shadows. She was also wearing an identical uniform as them, so Gajeel assumed that she was also from Fairy Tail High.
"E-Erza!" Natsu squeaked in surprise, the first of the two to release his grip and take a step back, shoving Gajeel off of him forcefully when he refused to do the same. He frantically patted his uniform down into a semblance of order, all the while glancing back at the redhead repeatedly with what Gajeel could only describe as… apprehension? "He started it, I swear! I'm innocent!"
Gajeel frowned down at the finger poking into his chest. "You better remove that finger right now, pipsqueak, or I'll – "
"Shut up," Natsu hissed, arms gesturing in a panicked manner that would have made Gajeel laugh if it wasn't for the undercurrent of fear he could hear in his cousin's voice. "Do you even know who that girl is?! She's Erza Scarlet, for crying out loud!"
The raven-haired boy took a step back before crossing his arms over his chest. "So what?"
Natsu blanched at his response, making the sign of the cross before looking up to the sky as if seeking divine protection. "Dear God, please let me live to see another day. I still haven't gotten Lucy to agree to be my girlfriend – "
A hand snaked around the back of his neck and Gajeel watched in disbelief as the petite redhead lifted Natsu up effortlessly, dangling him in the air. Holy fucking shit.
"What did I warn you about fighting outside school campus, Natsu?" The girl – Erza, was it? – asked the struggling boy in a tone that sent shivers down his spine. "Do I need to remind you exactly why you stopped doing it totally for the past… three days?"
A bloodcurdling scream was Natsu's response, followed by a hurried, "No, NOOOOOO, dear Lord, anything but that. PLEASE, if you have any compassion at all Erza, you won't – "
"I will." Two simple words that drained the blood out of the pink-haired boy's face. Releasing Natsu, his cousin fell to the ground in a crumpled, defeated heap, mumbling incoherently to himself.
Then Erza Scarlet turned her sights on him, and Gajeel got his first taste of pure, unadulterated fear. Forcing himself to stand straight under her unnerving scrutiny, he glared defiantly back at the girl who had single-handedly destroyed his cousin – and Natsu wasn't a push-over in anyway. Who the hell was she?
His entire body had tensed for combat he thought inevitable, so he was taken aback when after a few seconds, a smile graced the redhead's face and she stepped forward, offering her right hand. "You must be the new student, Gajeel Redfox. Natsu wouldn't stop rambling about you. I'm Erza Scarlet, student body president of Fairy Tail High School. It's a pleasure to meet you."
His brain was still reeling in shock from the girl's abrupt change in demeanour, but his first conscious thought was that she was beautiful.
In a cross-me-and-I'll-fucking-destroy-you-with-my-bare-hands sort of way, but still beautiful regardless.
After the somewhat embarrassing observation, Gajeel realized that he was gaping down at Erza and she raised an eyebrow. Thankfully still in possession enough functioning brain cells and good sense to shake the proffered hand, he cleared his throat. "That's right, I'm Gajeel," he said gruffly, unsure of how he was supposed to act considering that she had just reduced his cousin to a crying wreck. Cocking his head towards the now prone and lifeless body of Natsu, he asked, "is he going to be alright?"
"Ah, don't worry about him." Erza waved her hand in the air dismissively without even looking in his direction. "It'll take more than just that to kill him."
Gajeel thought it wise not to point out how she seemed to be speaking from experience – she probably was. Casting one last sympathetic glance towards his fallen friend, he followed as Erza started walking off. "Do we just… leave him there?"
"There's still time before school starts. He'll catch up." A short pause, then, "if he doesn't, I'll just have to remind him again about the importance of punctuality."
The previously motionless body behind them emitted a high-pitched yelp akin to a dog being kicked and a heartbeat later, Natsu fell into step once again next to Gajeel, careful to keep a wide berth between him and Erza.
"Now I know why you're suddenly so well-behaved."
"Shut up."
Allowing himself a rare smile, Gajeel's gaze fell on the grand building that was coming into view slowly. There was an almost oriental feel to it which was totally at odds with the western castle-like structure. From where he was standing, he could discern five stories in total, with a huge bell occupying the entire hollowed-out space of the top story. Glass windows lined the pale beige walls vertically, almost from floor to ceiling, and the bricks used to lay the building could be seen peeking out from certain places, the paint having worn and peeled off over time.
The school looked very well lived in and full of rich history.
Gajeel felt an indescribable sense of contentment just looking at it.
Fairy Tail High School, huh? He thought, and unconsciously, his smile got bigger.
Maybe he'll actually like it here.
TBC
