It was a nice bright day when Gajeel went to the guild, cause he needed a job so that he actually could pay for his rent. Gajeel stood outside, almost weighing the thought of being kicked out of his home, because he felt too lazy to do anything, or if he really should take a job so that he could pay for his house. He hesitated but opened the door slowly and walked inside of the guild. Fairy tail really was the greatest place for him. He really did feel accepted, well almost everybody accepted him, the only person not being able to was Laxus Dreyar, the lightning dragon slayer. It bugged him somehow, that he felt like Laxus still hadn't forgiven him for the shit he had to do because of the bastard Jose.

Gajeel walked through the hall silently, while some of the girls, including Levy, kept looking at him like he was the last piece of cake. He hated to admit it but he liked getting some attention for his good looks, even though he had his piercings, he still looked badass as hell.

Gajeel walked to the other end of the room to end up at the quest board where he started looking through some of the jobs available. There wasn't really something that really caught his attention, until he suddenly saw it. It was a quest to get some strong mages to take down an extremely strong beast in the mountains, the monster was big and was a giant thread to the people living near the mountains, because the beast weekly would show up randomly in town and kill the citizens fiercely, without mercy. This quest would take about five days.

The iron dragon slayer slowly reached up after the quest so that he could take it to Mirajane so she could check him off, but then suddenly a bigger hand shot out faster than gajeel's and took the quest before his eyes and ripped of the paper before him.

Gajeel felt his rage build up inside him so he turned around to go after the damn idiot who took his job from him, but he quickly stumbled into something big and massive. Gajeel was frozen for a second on the thing he just walked into, but it wasn't a thing, it was Laxus. Gajeel only took a step back to glare up at the idiot who had just stolen his job while he clenched his fists. Laxus had felt Gajeel walk into him and choose to ignore him, until he got smacked in the head with such great force, that he fell to the floor.

"Hey you damn brat, don't hit me because YOU walked into me!" Laxus said, he slowly felt anger rush up in his mind, he suddenly got back on his feet and gave Gajeel a hard punch to the guts, so he got on his knees.

"You are the damn brat, for taking my job from me. I saw that request first and ya know it!" Gajeel grunted in his position and faced Laxus. They glared at each other for what felt like eternity, then a loud voice saying "STOP" cut through the mass of rage and caught the two dragon slayers' attention.

Master Makarov was on a chair at the bar, looking at the ridiculous fight in front of him done by his grandson and Gajeel. When The guild master knew he had their attention he spoke. "You damn kids have got way too many problems with each other. How am I supposed to stop this?"

Mirajane was right beside Makarov and decided to whisper to master Makarov so he was filled in.

"Excuse me guild master but I do know what happened. Gajeel got in here and started looking at jobs and suddenly Laxus stood from his seat and did the same. It seems that Laxus took the quest that Gajeel had set his eyes on." Mirajane told him all the while Gajeel and Laxus stared daggers at each other.

When Makarov had processed the words through, he got an idea to make both of the dragon slayers learn from this.

"I have come to a conclusion. Both of you have to go on this job together, so you two maybe can learn to be more friendly towards each other and if you still hate each other after you come back to the guild, you have to clean the guild house for a year."

Laxus and Gajeel dropped their jaws to the floor and looked at the guild master, like he had grown a second head. "What the hell gramps!? We can't stand each other!" Laxus exclaimed.

Gajeel just stared and stared at them both, until he could find his words. "What the fuck! We can't. We will more likely kill each other!"

Laxus snorted at this, almost forgetting what was assigned the two.

"You will never be able to beat me and I would most like kill you" Laxus said with an evil smirk.

Gajeel wanted to stay calm but ended up clenching his fists so tight that he poked holes in his palms with the sharp nails of his. He wanted so badly to retort, but knew inside of himself that he wasn't as strong as Laxus. Not yet at least.

This surprised Laxus and Makarov a bit, they definitely did see that Gajeel had his hands smeared in his own blood. The iron dragon slayer actually remained silent, without passing any insult over to the other dragon slayer. This was certainly new behavior.

"When do we need to leave, Laxus?" Was the only reply the lightning dragon slayer got from the iron eater. This made Laxus lose his mind. ,, is the metal head okay right now? Did I hit him a bit too hard?,, Laxus was at a loss for words, until his grandfather talked for him. "You two will be taking the ferry to the island in about two hours, so hurry up and pack your bags for about a week."

Gajeel slowly nodded and went out the guild to get to his home so that he could pack. Laxus was still mute and stared with wide eyes at Gajeel's back as he left the guild. "What the hell just happened gramps?" Was the only thing Laxus could mutter.

"I think he just agreed to do this job with you, that and he just took that rough insult of your's and didn't even throw one back at you." Was all Makarov could answer.

"Yeah well it looks like I have to be nicer if he tries this hard too." Laxus said, feeling a little amazed that the metal head could be this way. Laxus began walking out of the guild too and soon ended up at his house.

This is the first chapter of Strong Hearts. I really do love this pairing and have got some inspiration from the other Laxeel fanfics on this site. I would love to see some reviews and requests so that you readers also could have a part in this. Please review 3