"A Stomach For A Heart"
A/N- The Sequel to "The Accidental Model". Short Story.
Credit goes to Hiro Mashima for his characters.
Chapter One: A New Class
"Blumenblatt!"
Erza casted as her swords swung in every direction of a cooking studio in Magnolia. Her class mates screamed as bits of vegetables came flying across the room as they watched the poor counter top table get shredded along with it. There was a small shriek as the pointed edge of a turnip came launching towards Lucy's head and impaling itself against the wall besides her.
"E-E-Erza-chan! Please calm down!" Lucy shrieked.
"Seriously, Erza!" Evergreen yelled, "they are just vegetables! Not dark guild mages!"
"Hoh?" Erza glared at her.
Evergreen gulped as she shook from her deathly glare.
"I will cut these vegetables down until the possibility of someone choking is eliminated!" she explained, "Heaven's Wheel!"
The cooking studio shook as Erza's sword shone bright as it quickly revolved around her sending more vegetables flying across the studio.
"M-M-Miss Erza!" The instructor pleaded, "Please stop! The vegetables are cut small enough!"
The swords have stopped as they flashed off in the magical world of Erza's wardrobe, "Certainly" she confirmed, "I do apologize for the mess though."
The instructor groaned and looked around his studio that was now littered with vegetable scraps and bits of wood from Erza's counter top.
Levy groaned as she pushed off the vegetables scraps that buried her underneath and rubbed her eyes off of bits of veggie mush.
"Erza-chan?" Levy called, "You know, you could've mashed the vegetables as a cleaner alternative and much more effective way to reduce the possibility of choking if that what you were worried about."
"Levy-san…" Juvia groaned next to her as she too was also buried in the pile of vegetable scraps. Levy grabbed her hand and helped pull her out of her green tomb.
Erza turned a shade of pink at Levy's statement, "Now that you mention it… mashing them might've been a better alternative."
"Levy!" Evergreen shouted, "Why didn't you say something earlier!"
"Well I couldn't!" she spat back ,"I was buried under a pile of vegetable scraps!"
"Levy-chan!" Lucy gasped, "please don't be angry."
"Sorry Lucy… I didn't mean to yell." She muttered quietly.
"Tch," Evergreen huffed, "Where's the fire, shortcake? I think a bit of Gajeel is rubbing off on you."
"Don't push it Evegreen!" Lucy pleaded.
"What are you talking about?" she smiled, "It was a compliment. She's finally growing a spine."
"Thank you, I guess?" Levy replied.
"Class!" The instructor yelled as everyone's attention turned towards him, "due to this unplanned event, all of you will be cleaning my studio back to the way it was. We will continue lecture next time and I'm sending a bill to Fairy Tail for repairs on Erza's counter top."
They groaned in defeated and spent most of the remaining class cleaning up after the mess and placing vegetable in bin that makes compost out of unused food scraps. After the long tedious clean up, Levy said her goodbyes to her classmates as she was going back to her apartment to clean up vegetable mush stuck on her skin while the rest headed back to the guild.
"Ugh" Levy groaned as she tried to brush away potato mush off her arms, "How did I get myself involved in a cooking class again?"
"You know what they say that a way to man's heart is through his stomach." Said Lucy
"Oh right…Lucy" Levy remembered, "If only what I read, I can perform back."
She faced palmed her forehead, "Who am I kidding? I'm a terrible cook! I can't just feed Gajeel iron all day!"
"Why not?" a gruff voice said.
Levy gasped and turned around to see Gajeel smirking down at her with his arms crossed. He leaned down and raised a brow at her.
"Gajeel!" she gasped.
"Gihi, afternoon shorty!" he smirked, "so what's this about not feeding me iron all day? You know, I happen to like your iron."
"I know…It's just that well…don't you like eating normal food too?" she asked.
"Of course I do." He replied, "I may be part dragon, but I am mostly human still."
"Well, good."
"Is that why you're covered in mush?" he asked, "Is that a lettuce in your hair? Do you swim around in your food too?"
"No!" she yelled as she punched his arm, "I was cooking something for you all right!"
"Did the food attack you while you are cooking?" he teased.
"What? No!" Levy fumed, "It's just…well-that I…the food."
"Oh, I get it." He interrupted, "You can't cook, is that it shrimp?"
"N-n-NO!" she denied, "I can cook. What kind of girlfriend would I be if I couldn't. Haha—ha…"
"I didn't say you'd be a bad girlfriend if you can't cook," he explained, "I know lots of women that can't cook. So don't deny that you can't and lie to me, shrimp."
"Hmph" she huffed, "I'm going to make you eat those words, Gajeel!"
"I'm already eating your solid script iron."
"Touche" she added, "but I will prove to you that I can cook. And it will the best thing that you have ever eaten."
"Oh?" he smirked. "Fine."
"Fine."
Gajeel leaned down and grabbed her chin as he pulled her for a quick kiss.
"I have a mission tomorrow and I'll be back the next day. So you have two days to prepare and impress me with this kick ass cooking of yours that you're claiming."
"I don't need a day." She smirked, "Too bad about tomorrow but I guess I don't have a choice."
"Gihi yeah, how unfortunate." He smirked back and leaned forward again to steal another kiss from Levy's soft lips. "See you in two day."
Gajeel walked off to his apartment and gave a wave back to Levy as she watched him leave. When he was no longer in sight, Levy broke down in a fit of panic.
"Oh my gosh!" Levy gasped, "what did I just do?!"
A/N: As promised, You don't have to read the first story to get this one.
REVISED on 11/11/14