Unleash the Demon: Something Smells Off
The sun was bright and shining off the cobbled sidewalk of the fiore market place his shoes also clicking against it making loud 'clack' sounds. The pavement reflection nearly blinding Laxus in the face as he walked down the aisles. He was looking for the cart he was told to buy his goods from stall 31b. He passed 31a and looked up to see 'Asuka Apple Cart' in full view. He approached the Fruit stand. The clerk looked to be a middle age man with brown hair and a red collar uniform shirt on with a nametag that read 'Steve'. Laxus pointed at the barrel of bright red apples and addressed Steve "I'll take 10 pounds of those please".
"Ahh, those just came into season, good choice. That will be 100 Jewels sir" said Steve as he smiled at Laxus. Laxus handed him the large red bag he sent out with to put the apples in. The apples were carefully placed inside the bag with a 'click' for each apple that hit the others. The bag was handed back over.
Laxus handed the Jewels over to Steve behind the wood fruit cart. "Here you go sir, 10 pounds of apples". The apples were handed over to Laxus. "Have a great day sir".
Laxus gave a 'tt' over his shoulder and flashed his signature three finger wave over his shoulder.
He starts to walk back towards the restaurant he came from.
Laxus had been sent by the rest of the Thunder Legion to get some groceries after being kicked out of the kitchen by Bixlow and Freed. Plus he's lousy at customer service, something about him not smiling and being grumpy.
The Thunder Legion is currently taking a job at a restaurant run by a past magic council member. As soon as the job was posted on the wall Freed jumped at the chance to put his cooking skills to the test. Laxus was happy to go along with this job because he viewed it as an opportunity to take an easy job compared to the other jobs they take.
This was a shock to some of the other guild members who didn't see this as up Laxus alley. They were right of course, he expected that he would get kicked out of the kitchen as soon as they took the job, but he faked it at first because he didn't wanna let Freed down after he asked Laxus to help him in the kitchen with sparkling eyes and Laxus just couldn't say no to that face. As soon as he touched the grill though that plan literally went up in flames and he got kicked out of the kitchen and sent to get food. He was now on his way back from getting the apples requested by the kitchen staff.
Suddenly he stops dead in his tracks. Something smells off. He always has the faint smell of Freed in the back of his mind but suddenly it's different. Freed usually smells of oranges and lemon shampoo, but his smell was different. It smelled of the normal scent mixed with something bitter and metallic. Laxus being a dragon slayer is able to smell any person within a few mile radius so this was nothing new, the freaky part is that the scent almost never changes. Laxus new what metalic scents on people meant, it means fear. Freed was not the type of person to become afraid on the average job request especially not one that didn't involve battle nevertheless let his fear show in his appearance or his scent. Laxus took this to mean that Freed was in trouble.
The panic set in, his heart started racing and his adrenalin was pumping. The bags of apples he was carrying were instantly dropped to the floor in a loud 'splat' and 'thud'. The red bag split open and the goods rolled out and down the cobbled floor. Laxus took off as fast as he could in lightning bolt from, bouncing off several walls and thought the air in the direction of Freed's scent. He had one need, to go to Freed, Evergreen and Bixlow.
AN: (sorry my fic summary sucks, but i'll work on it)
(1) Firstly I looked it up before adding it in and apparently the actual smell of fear is metallic
Source: What-does-fear-smell-like.
(2) This is my first Fairy Tail Fanfic and my first fanfic i've tried to write since high school so please be nice in the Comments. Also I started this on a spur of the moment at 1 am so idk how many chapters this will be.
(3) Constructive feedback is welcome, I tried to catch grammar and spelling before posting, but i'm not perfect and probably missed a few.
(4) I need a beta :)
(5) I have a lot of plans for how I want this fic to go though, I plan on making this really interesting and semi- aligned with the main story arc.
(6) Please read, review, and follow :)