Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, honestly if I did there would be a lot of crack pairings and a crappy storyline. Thank God Fairy Tail isn't under my control. Thank. God.
This is my first fanfic. Be kind, no flames, even if Natsu would want that, I am no flame inhaling dragon slayer. Though I admit there might be some OOCness.
Also, I don't know Levy's birthday so I made it up. I also made up Kitai-kun. I felt there needed to be comedic relief in a serious story like this. Kitai means hope in Japanese. At least google translate says so. Hopefully they didn't screw up that one word. But lets face it, Google Translate isn't the best...
Love is a Fight
by ElectricBlue12387
begins now.
Five years ago: Levy, 12 years old.
Levy fell to her knees as a sudden weight seemed to settle upon her small fragile shoulders. It was August 17th 2:23 PM or so, three days away from her birthday, when Levy's parents died in a car accident as they rushed to the hospital. August 17th, the day her mother was going to give birth to Levy's little brother. Yes, for Levy McGarden August 17th was a date that marked the worst point in her life.
"Levy-chan," Her grandmother's voice called out as Levy dropped the phone after hearing the news, "Is something the matter?"
She said nothing, did nothing. At that moment, she was nothing.
"Levy-chan?" Her grandmother said again. Levy heard sounds of movement from the kitchen as her grandmother popped her head out for a quick look. Seeing her granddaughter's distress, she entered the living room and picked up the wireless phone and bent down to study Levy.
"Miss McGarden? Miss?"
"Yes?" Levy's grandmother asked, feeling dread fill her from how Levy reacted, who was always calm and patient, always smiling, and from the urgency in the man's voice.
In the end, Levy's grandmother learned of her son and his wife's demise.
"What about the child?"
No hope, Levy couldn't help but think, if Mama's dead then...then...
"Really? Alive?" Levy's grandmother began to cry.
That one word, Alive, finally allowed Levy room to breathe, "We have to... hurry. To the... hospital," Levy said, her breathing out of control. Gasping and panting, she got to her feet, made her way to the front door as she slipped on her shoes. Without a thought, Levy ran.
Present time: Levy, 17 years old.
"Kitai! Rise and shine!" Levy shouted, grinning at the five-year old who groaned and sat up, his green eyes blurry. Levy had always admired the green eyes that her mother had in life. Kitai was taking after their mother where as Levy took after their father.
Well, you know what's been said... Girls tend to take after their dad and boys take after their mom. Levy had read that in a book, she couldn't agree more.
"Onee-san," Kitai mumbled as he swayed in bed, "Is breakfast ready already?" He rubbed the sleep from his hazy eyes and blinked, the wavy black hairs on his way.
"Yes, and I'm thinking later today I'll cut your hair." She had meant to for the past few weeks but day after day work would take up her free time. Being a waitress and an assistant librarian wasn't as fun as she had hoped for it to be, especially with her never getting to see her dear little brother, Kitai. She thought back on her schedule, her shoulders tensing slightly as she realized she wouldn't be free.
"Today!?" Kitai asked grinning as he began to bounce, "Onee-san gives the best hair cuts!"
She mentally scolded herself for getting his hopes up. How to get out of this... An idea struck her almost instantaneously. "Actually Kitai-kun. I have a friend who gives even better hair cuts than me. In fact, he does my hair," Levy stroked a lock of her blue hair.
"Wha-what!? I don't believe it," he said laughing, "You're the best at everything, onee-san."
"Well if you don't believe me... I guess... I guess I'll have to break the news to my dear friend Mr. Crab."
"CRAB!? Onee-san is friends with a crab?" Kitai's eyes were wide as he stared into Levy's eyes full of wonder.
"Yes, Ebi." Well... it's a small lie. Cancer does cosplay as a crab sometimes. I hope Lucy's willing to help me out today.
"E-ebi...?" Kitai mumbled, uncertain of th word."
"Yup, Ebi. He talks like that."
"Ebi...ebi, ebi, ebi," Kitai put his hands up in the fashion crab's 'hands' were like, "I want to meet him, Ebi." Levy laughed as her brother began to walk like a crab.
"W-well," Levy said shaking with laughter at her brother's silliness, "You'll have to wait a bit then. You see,"
Levy said pulling a straight face, "My friend can only be summoned once a week."
Kitai narrowed his eyes in suspicion, as he studied his sister. Levy tried for a smile hoping Kitai couldn't see through her obvious fib. After a moment Kitai grinned, "Okay, I'll wait! B-but I'm hungry now so lets eat breakfast."
Levy looked at her brother, Does he plan to eat Cancer? The thought almost brought her to tears with her laughter.
"I love you, Kitai."
He was the reason Levy even believed in love or the existence of it.
At lunch, the school cafeteria:
Levy smiled at all her friends as she sat down, "What happened to going to the roof for lunch?" She asked Lucy as the other girl returned the smile.
The blonde sighed as she pointed to Natsu and Gray who were glaring at each other, "These two idiots decided to start a fight with each other in English today. They damaged school property, yada, yada. You get the idea. Anyway, the teacher was going to get them suspended on their second strike for damaging school property so in the end, I negotiated with her so that they wouldn't be allowed leave the cafeteria for the rest of the week and they would serve detention for two months."
"You've had it rough," Levy commented with a sympathetic gaze.
"Nakama shouldn't fight," Erza said, sitting next to the two boys and stopping their staring contest with a glare.
"Yes," Levy said silently laughing at the irony of Erza's actions.
Lucy leaned back as she sighed out again, " Anyway, to add to my problems Loke and Aries, a couple of my friends from middle school are eloping... a-and," Lucy sniffled, "I won't see them for a while. I know I'll start to miss them and I'll start to eat my feelings and then... and then Capricorn will start me on one of his special diets."
The three girls shivered at the thought of Capricorn's "diet". It was more like being starved.
"Lu-chan, don't worry. You can call them, or text them. I'm sure they'll answer to you. They love you."
Now isn't the time to ask if I can borrow her hair stylist, Levy thought feeling bummed at the thought of her brother waiting.
"You have strong bonds with them, you'll see them again soon with no worries," Erza said patting Lucy's shoulder.
"You-," Lucy began but had been cut off by Natsu.
"You eat your feelings!?" he asked, his eyes wide open, "Is that possible? I don't think you're human Lucy." Natsu leaned across the table to touch her, "You're not a ghost. At least, I think. You could be... an alien!? But... you feel like a human to me with how sq-."
Natsu didn't finish his sentence before Lucy cut him off with a loud, "Shut the hell up Natsu!", as she pushed his hand away.
They so need to get together. Such a cute couple, Levy thought fondly of her friends bickering.
"Ne, Lu-chan, I'm going to the library to check out a book I've wanted to read, wanna come with?"
Her offer fell to deaf ears as Natsu and Lucy got into an animated argument, ahem, talk about her possibly being a being a swamp monster. Shrugging, Levy stood up with her book bag and left the cafeteria. Humming to herself Levy let her mind wander as she made the all too familiar walk to the library; it was after all, her favorite place in the school.
Entering the room, she was hit with the comforting scent of aged books and the often sprayed scent of air freshener. Glancing around the nearly deserted place, Levy made her way to where the book was kept. But before she could look get the book, Levy's eyes rested upon a man sitting alone, clutching his stomach and laying stiffly on his back. Forgetting about the book she had come for, Levy walked toward the guy filled with concern.
"Umm, hello?"
Nothing.
Anxious, she knelt besides the large man. If he stood next to me, he'd tower over me, she thought. Though that wouldn't be very suprising considering, almost everyone in school was taller than Levy. Shaking her head of the useless thoughts, Levy studied the man's face. Getting all those piercings must've hurt. In fact, the thought of all of those piercings made her nervous. Well, piercings can be related to needles and dear god are those scary. She shivered thinking of her distant uncle who was a doctor. Imagine if I had to deal with needles all day like him. Ahhhh... I'd die. Probably. Anyway... this guy is kinda... okay looking. He looked terrifying while at the same time gentle. Weird...,Levy thought, blushing for no clear reason.
"Are you okay?" Levy asked as she shook the guy hesitantly. He's clutching his stomach... Is he hurt? Levy gently took his hand from his stomach and couldn't help but think, wow, it's so large and rough. Blushing even harder, Levy set the hand on the floor as she rolled up the strangers shirt to see if there was an injury. There wasn't any blood, thank goodness, but Levy saw large bruise on lightly tanned skin. He's really fit, Levy thought and she shook her head as she blushed furiously, No, Levy. Focus. You got a unconcious man with a bruise right where, if I recall correctly from that healthcare book, is a place, if hit hard enough, can cause internal bleeding.
"Sir...?"She said as she tried wake him up. I have no idea what to do. Is he going to die? Is he going to die in front of me?
"Lily..."
He spoke! But wait... Lily...? Is that his girlfriend? Levy jumped away like he was the plague, I just touched another girl's guy... But wait. Levy! Focus. He's hurt. Don't think of stuff like that. Levy's heart began to settle down as she thought about her predicament. The moment she thought about it, ideas began to form in her mind. I'm an idiot! Why did I just start thinking of real solutions? I should've been doing this all along.
Scolding herself, Levy left the guy and went to find the librarian.
Gajeel woke up to the sensation of being dragged across the floor. For a second, he thought it was a dream and that his cat, Lily, somehow grew really big and strong and was doing the act. The girl's voice broke him out of the delusion.
"This guy... he must weigh a ton!" The girl's voice sounded breathless. Opening his eyes, Gajeel saw that a small girl was pulling his body all by herself. What's going on? Why is this small girl dragging... me? Is this a kidnapping?! Gajeel began to think up impossible situations and was about to make an escape when the girl stopped, "Finally. The nurses office."
The nurses office? Was he hurt? Gajeel dimly recalled how he had just gotten out of his advanced fighting class when he'd began to feel dizzy and his stomach began to hurt like knives were stabbing in. Had I lost in class or something...? No... I got hit in the stomach by that Erza girl. Man, is she scary.
Before he could think anymore on it, the shrimp opened the door and called out, "Hello?" No one answered and she sighed, "Why is nobody where their supposed to be...?" Another sigh, "I'll just get this guy comfortable." The girl glanced at Gajeel's body, not staring long enough to notice Gajeel's eyes were open, "Just lift with your legs, Levy. You've carried heavier things at the dinner... Yeah, like flour and stuff," the girl sighed yet again, "Hopefully this doesn't kill me..."
Okay. Time to "wake up" before she tries to lift me and dies. This girl is too tiny. Groaning, Gajeel pretended to open his eyes and sit up, only to wince as the pain came back. Despite how he reacted outwardly, He would give the pain a 2 out of 100 in terms of how painful it was with his expirience. This made me weak enough to pass out? I must be getting more pathetic as time goes on.
"You're up! Yay!" The girl did a strange dance as she jumped up laughing and smiling. A second later, she caught herself and stopped, her face aflame with embarresment, "I m-mean, good. You're awake. I'll help you up," She said and gently grabbed Gajeel's hand, "My name is Levy McGarden."
"Gajeel Redfox," He said as Levy got ahold of his forearm. With strength Gajeel didn't know Levy had in that tiny body of hers, she jerked him up off the floor and made it so Gajeel was leaning on her.
"You're hurt so you'll have to rest here," She told him walking him to one of the beds and setting him down gently. She smiled at him slightly, "I'll go find the nurse and be right back."
It's so weird. I don't want her to leave... Thinking as quick as he could, he grabbed her small soft hand before she could leave.
"Stay. You must be curious as to why I'm hurt like this."
Damn, I'll have to tell her of my defeat against Erza.
Levy sat down on a chair close by the bed Gajeel was on, "I guess we can just wait for the nurse to return."
Oh well.
I didn't go that deep into Gajeel's past but thats to come later. Have a nice day and maybe... leave a review? :p Until next time, Ja nai ಥ‿ಥ
