Note- This is my first story so I would love it if people could love (Or hate it -_-), but most importantly review it.
She looked around the active guild full of members up to their usual arguments and drinking.
"Oh, why didn't I go on that job with Jet and Droy?" Levy asked out loud to herself.
Of-course she knew why. She had come back form the S-Class Promotion Trials and was feeling a bit under the weather, so when her teammates came to her with a job she declined going with them. Though now looking back on it she had nothing to do now. Her book reading was on hold until she got enough jewels to get the next set, and the current jobs were beyond her abilities alone. Levy sighed and walked over from her table to the bar where the beautiful white haired mage Mirajane was cleaning a glass.
"Hey Levy." The S-Class mage cheerfully said "Why do you look so down?"
"I have nothing to do. I need to get some jewels, but Jet and Droy are out on a job already."
Levy spun herself around on the bar stool and took another look around the guild. She was thinking that she might be able to convince another member to help her, but she was only really close with Lucy who was out with Natsu, Gray, Erza, and Juvia on some super hard quest having to do with a hoard of monsters. She saw Cana chugging several beers down and thought that she might be able to talk her into a job, but between the two of them there probably wasn't a high enough paying job within there skills. Levy continued to scan the area until she felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned her head and there was the metal dragon-slayer, Gajeel.
"Gajeel, what are you doing here?" Levy asked. The last she heard he had gone on a job alone to deal with a small Dark Guild.
"Well turns out that guild was a lot weaker then I thought. It took no time to wipe them all out." He frowned at the disappointment. "What about you? What jobs have you done?"
"None." She tilted her head down "Jet and Droy went on this other job and I have no one to help me on any other job."
"Well I'll go with you."
"Thanks, and even though your really strong I think that I would weigh you down."
"Hey stop talking like that you were one of the participates in the S-Class Promotion trials! Listen you and me did good then, so we can handle anything on the job list."
"Ok, just let me grab someone."
The blue haired mage stood and walked in her orange and red dress with the detached long-sleeves and black stockings. She had her hair pushed back with a head band , but left a few strands framing her face. Gajeel saw her walk to Cana and after the two held a brief conversation then they walked back over to him.
"Ok, Cana said she'd like to come with us on our job Gajeel."
Cana smiled and Gajeel frowned slightly before bringing back his usual scowl.
"K I'm going to go pick out a job; you two stay here I'll be right back." Levy said before turning to the Job Board.
Cana and Gajeel sat at the bar, not saying anything. The two didn't really know each other, but they didn't not like each other they just had nothing in common. The seconds seemed like hours as they both wished Levy would hurry up.
"So... read any good futures lately." Gajeel asked not looking at Cana
"Well, it doesn't really work like that straight good or bad, but no I haven't read anyone's future recently."
"Wana read mine?"
"Yeah sure why not."
Cana took out her deck of tarot cards and they both spun to face that bar. She shuffled and spread the deck in her hands, and told Gajeel to just pick three cards for a quick reading. He rolled his eyes a little and pulled out the three in the middle with one tug. Cana took and put the face down on the bar before flipping them over. She stared at the pictures which all looked incredibly foreign to Gajeel. She made a "Hmmm" noise before turning her head at him.
"Well the cards say that you'll be forced with a choice, and will suffer much trouble before hand."
"Ah, no big whoop it's not like I believe in that fortune mumbo jumbo."
Cana looked like she was about to give him an earful when Levy returned gingerly grasping a request sheet.
"Look at this one! It's such cake we can do it." Levy exclaimed with a huge grin.
Cana took the sheet from her and read it over.
ROBBERY! ROBBERY!
Help! We and other stores have been robbed by these bandits.
They keep coming back no matter what.
We need someone to take care of them once and for all.
Reward : 40,000J
"You wanted are help to do this?" Gajeel asked in a laughing tone.
"Well all the other big reward jobs were taken so I thought why not do this one since it had a fair reward with an easy job."
"This is way to easy it's not even going to be a challenge for me."
"Well you already said you would, so I don't want to hear it." Levy said with a cute, but angered look on her face.
"If you two are done with the couple spat then maybe we could start on our job." Cana said annoyed and standing.
The two looked embarrassed at first before turning and following Cana out the guild doors.
The train ride to Xeaon was rather long so Levy was glad she had brought a classic book with her. Gajeel was sitting across from her snoring up a storm, so she had to concentrate more then normal.
Searching the room, Detective Jace stumbled upon a book that was out of place on the shelf. He took it out and began looking for wear the burgundy covered book would go on this color coded bookcase. He found a barely visible spot and put the book in. The bookcase started to shake and Jace took a step back. He couldn't believe what was going on the bookcase opened up and their on the other side was...
Levy was interrupted by a sudden burp. She jump a bit, startled, and looked to her left to see Cana's head reading over her shoulder. From the smell of her breath she had found the dinning car's stash of wine.
"Guess what, I challenged an attendant to high card wins in a game of chance, and I won!" Cana gave a goofy smile when she said it, clearly surprised, and happy. "He had to pay for my whole drinking tab, lets just say that he'll be working overtime here for a while."
Levy smiled, but inwardly rolled her eyes. Of course this would happen Cana had been gone for a while now, but Levy was hoping this was a dry train. She invited Cana to sit next to her and the two talked for a bit when the train screeched to a halt, waking Gajeel from his slumber. An intercom switched on and the drivers voice came in through it.
"We're sorry for the delay, but we unfortunately have to stop and refuel. We'll be moving again in one hour so passengers you may take this time to leave the train and take a look around the town. We have stopped in Clorias town, but remember that before you leave you must receive a stamp from the train attendants."
Levy was about to return to her book, having no interest in walking outside when Gajeel stretched his arms and grabbed her hand.
"Come on lets take a break I'm getting sick of just laying her."
The two were followed by Cana on their way out of the train. Levy and Gajeel both got stamped on the top of their hands, but the attendant refused to stamp Cana's hand.
"Come on just stamp it!'
"No, you made me pay your bill and it was enormous." The attendant was clearly pissed, and determined not to stamp Cana's hand.
She gave him a hard look before saying to Levy and Gajeel to go ahead and that she would be back at the dining car racking up more wine that the attendant would have to pay. Gajeel shrugged and took Levy by the arm and ran to the nearest two walked into what appeared to be a very medieval dining eatery. It had tables that looked like they were made out of stone and wooden benches with a soft cushion to sit on while you ate. The floor was a gray cobblestone and the serving staff was dressed like medieval servers completely with a brown bandanna. Levy and Gajeel took a seat that had a view onto the main street which was busy with people going in and out of shops with bags and friends. A waitress came over and her name-tag said her name was Delia. The woman was probably in her late twenties, but working in this place must be hell on your skin because she had more wrinkles then you could count and you could see gray hairs in her other wise nice auburn ponytail. She asked for their order and Levy asked for a chicken salad and some tea while Gajeel ordered three of the 'Black Knight' burgers and whatever scrap metal they had in a cup. Delia looked at him weird for a second, not in a mood to be hassled by kids, but decided to just take his order to the chef. The two sat and looked out the window for a while just staring at pedestrians who occasionally would give the smile or, more commonly, a funny face back. Their food came and Gajeel made quick work of the burgers and chewed on what looked like pieces of a rusted spatula while Levy took small bites out of her salad.
"Ahhh, that was good" Gajeel said relaxing himself on the bench. "Other then the bitter metal. The burgers were nicely cooked though."
Levy ate her salad a bit faster and the two paid the bill 50/50 and walked out the door. They spent the next 20 minutes or so just looking at books (Levy's choice) and metal workshops (Gajeels choice) before they ended up in what appeared to be town square with a fountain of a large brid shooting water out of it's beak and it falling back down into the pool below. Levy checked the time in a nearby clock store and saw that they had 10 minutes to make it back to the station.
"Come on Gajeel lets get..."
She was cut off as a man dressed like one of the servers back at the restaurant shoved passed her. She gave him a confused look before seeing a chubby man chase after him yelling to come back followed by a string of distasteful words.
"Levy stay here I'll be right back." Gajeel quickly said to here before taking off down the street after the man.
Gajeel easily caught up with the man and chased him into an alley. The man hit a dead end and turned around, Gajeel could see he was clutching something in a paper bag.
"Hey, bub why don't you just give back what you took and everyone can be happy?" Gajeel said with a smirk. He really hoped the scrawny looking boy put up a fight.
"Stay back" The slim brown haired man said "I know magic."
"Oh what a coincidence so do I." Gajeel had an devilish grin on wanting the thief to make a move so he could slam him into that wall.
"Charm Magic: Missile Barrage!" A voice from above called.
Gajeel looked up and saw several small missiles heading his way. He jumped back avoiding the first few and jumped off the two walls to the roof avoiding the others. He rolled onto the top and saw a woman with a short, red, pixie cut hair. She wore a sleeveless black shirt that wrapped around her neck and went down to just below her waist. It had a small tear-shape opening that reveled some cleavage and a snug gray short skirt with fish nets coming down and ending at her knees. She had on black boots that topped at the middle of her calf and wore to silver bands around her wrists each with an assortment of charms dangling off.
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you beat up my delivery boy." The woman said in a seductive, but scary way.
"Oh, and who are you to stop me?" Gajeel said grinning he could pratically smell the intense magic leaking from the woman.
"Oh, well I go by Charmcaster, but a strong man like you can call me charming."
"Well Charmcaster you caught me at just the right time I've been looking for someone to beat down."
"Well then lets see if you can keep up with my Charm Magic."
"Club of the Iron Dragon!" Gajeel yelled as he ran at Charmcaster with his arm becoming a gaint metal club.
"Charm Magic: Sheild" A charm on her right band bagan to glow and out popped a huge shield that could easily cover 5 meters across and a story high.
Gajeel slammed his club in the shield creating a huge dent, he pushed some more and multiple smaller clubs jetted out of his club also slamming into the shield.
"Give it up honey, none can get passed my shield."
Gajeel changed his hand back to normal and jumped back a few feet.
"Roar of the Iron Dragon!" Gajeel focused his spinning shards of metal into the dent he made and it tore through the shield leaving a gaping hole.
Gajeel gave a grin, but his victory was short lived because through the smoke came large missile. He tried to jump over it, but it hit the roof and exploded sending him flying into what was left of the shield and ended up falling through the other side. Gajeel regained his balance in air and landed on his feet facing his enemy a few feet away.
"Charm Magic: Blade!" Charmcaster said as a charm on her left band glowed and a curved red blade came out of the top of the band and curved so it went over hand.
"Looks like this'll be fun." Gajeel said grinning hard.
End of Chapter One.
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