Levy McGarden was sitting in the guild at a table near a window, she was by herself. She was trying to read the book in front of her, but the people around her were very distracting. Natsu and Gray were fighting with each other and Lucy was trying to pull them apart; Erza had her eyes locked on a big cake on the counter in front of her, murmuring to herself. Levy wanted to go home but she would just feel as lonely as she felt now.
"Natsu you need to stop! We should really pick out a mission today!" Lucy yelled while pulling him by the arms. Both of them fell backwards, Natsu falling on top of Lucy. Everyone was awing at them and saying they were super cute. Almost everyone girl in the guild was with their crush, Lisanna with Bickslow, Juvia with Gray, Lucy with Natsu, Erza and her cake.
While Levy looked around she saw all the girls from Fairy Tail, they were all tall, skinny and a giant chest. She looked down to herself, she wasn't any of those. Well, she was skinny, but she wasn't much to look at, that's what she thought. Levy had always thought those things, thinking that she was less than everyone else.
Levy just buried her face in the book, it has been a month since the Grand Magic Games and things had been relatively normal; everyone had been through a lot. Lucy and Natsu had been super close, almost ignoring everyone else. Mira had screamed that they were dating, the couple had shut that down and said they weren't at all but everyone knew otherwise.
Jet and Droy even made a few changes and had a long talk with her, they pulled her into the closest room in the guild and told her that they had good news for her. The two of them had giant smiles on their faces, she was trying to come up with an idea of what they wanted to tell them.
"We don't really know how to tell you this. Droy and I have been trying to come up with something for 2 weeks." Jet rambled while wringing his hands. Levy looked between both, seemed very scared to say it.
"It's okay. I'm not going to judge you two. You guys are my best friends." Levy smiled putting her hands behind her back.
"We're dating." Droy immediately shouted out. Levy's eyes widened, that was not what she thought at all. Jet and Droy's smiles became bigger while looking at each other.
"Oh," Levy paused but grinned at them, "That's great!" she hugged them around their necks. They hugged her back, "I'm glad you guys finally figured it out." Levy loved them and was glad that they like each other.
"We just want to keep it from the guild. No one is really out, in the guild yet." Jet warned her, he was right, no one has come out gay in Fairy Tail. They didn't know how they would take it, they would accept them but would still annoy them to no end.
After that day the Shadow Gear group split up, they go out on jobs together but leave out Levy, probably not on purpose, that's what Levy kept telling herself. Levy guessed that, the beginning of a relationship, couples usually ignore the rest of the world. That was okay with Levy, it really wasn't her choice.
She was waiting for Gajeel to come back from is 3-week long mission with Pantherlily. Levy wished she could talk to someone, at least one person this week, all she's been doing this week was reading in her room and trying to talk to people in the guild. So far it hasn't worked, even when she did come in, she sat by herself reading. Almost hoping that someone would come up to talk to her.
Levy sighed as it almost turned 5 o'clock, she should get home soon. She closed her book and stood up, Lucy and Natsu were walking out of the guild with his arm around her. For some reason, the blue-haired girl's shoulders slumped, a thought crossed over her mind, she could have talked to Lucy. She pulled her bag over her shoulder and walked out of the guild. Before should made it 10 feet, she ran into Gajeel and Pantherlily.
The small girl gasped, "Gajeel!" he looked down at her with a straight face, "How was your mission?" she tried to look cute with her big brown eyes.
He sighed and looked away, "It was fine." His voice was so monotoned "Is there something you want?" the dark-haired man crossed his arms and looked towards her with a jaded expression. Pantherlily was standing on Gajeel's shoulder looking down on the ground with his arms crossed.
"Oh, um, I thought that we could hang out." Levy looked to her feet; she shifted, kicking dust up. "We don't have to." She was blushing and messing with her fingers.
"Look Levy," Gajeel dropped his arms, Levy looked up sharply; he almost never used her real name. This was going to be so bad. "I know that you think we have something, but I just don't think we have anything going on. I don't feel anything for you." Pantherlily smacked him on the cheek, Gajeel narrowed his eyes at him but said nothing.
Levy's eyes went wide, she almost cried. The blue- haired adolescent breathed in sharply to she could hold in the tears. She didn't want to give him the satisfaction, she looked down to the foliage in the grass and nodded. She almost saw this coming, everyone ignoring her (unintentionally), Shadow Gear breaking up and now Gajeel kind of rejecting her. "Okay, I understand." She was quiet and started to walk to her room behind Fairy Tail.
"I'm sorry Levy." He shouted after her, but all she did was wave him off. She knew he wasn't really sorry, only sorry he had to be an asshole for her to understand.
Levy made it into her room and looked around to her books, she dropped her bag by the door. She couldn't believe the day she was having, what was she going to do with her life. What was happening? Levy walked around her room, passed the bookshelves, running her fingers over the course material. Books were her only friends, maybe she should talk to Lucy about this. She stared at a stack of books by her bedroom door, he lifted her foot and kicked it over.
Now, standing and looking at the pile on the ground but turned around, she didn't want to deal with this now.
Levy's arm fell from the second shelf, she just remembered that they just went on a job at the guild this morning. She frowned her eyebrows, what was so wrong with her that everyone leaves her?
Her parents were dead.
Her friends' sort of ignored her for weeks.
Her crush rejected her without her even telling him she liked him.
Her best friend hasn't talk to her for almost a month.
Levy sighed, she didn't even have anyone to talk to. Tomorrow she was going to talk to someone, but she had been so shy lately, it was weird, she was never this shy. Only when she first showed up in the guild, but she learned to love everyone and talked with everyone.
Since the games she has felt like she didn't belong in Fairy Tail, like she needed to be somewhere else. She wasn't picked for the games, Gajeel didn't even want to train with her. Before then, Tenrou Island, she was picked but it was a total mistake. There was no way she was going to win and be an S-Class mage.
She read so many stories of someone leaving and finding themselves, they find love, they live happily ever after. She's thought about leaving, there was no one she wanted to bring with her; no one wanted to go with her anyway.
If it was anyone else, they could have someone with them, Lucy had her spirits, Natsu always had Happy, Wendy always had Carla, Gajeel would never leave Pantherlily, Erza would probably go find Jellal and be with him. She had no close friends outside of Fairy Tail, they were all nice in other guilds; maybe not Sabertooth but she could never guess.
She didn't have an exceed to go with her anywhere and never leave her. Her magic wasn't even the strongest, but Levy loved her magic and wouldn't trade it for the world.
The thought of leaving was scary, where was she going to go? She would be by herself with no protection or even supplies. Levy picked up a book from the third bookshelf, forth from the bottom row. It was a survival guide she picked up on a mission with her old team. The title was Living in the wild, she thought it was a little funny.
Flipping through the pages, it was a lot of pictures and how to tie knots and what kind of plants to eat. She already knew which plants were poisonous and which she could survive on. She read on, she was really considering leaving the guild she grew to love. She pushed a lock of blue hair behind her ear, with a glint in her brown eyes, she needed to grow as a person, so people will pay attention to her for once.
Levy needed this, how were people going to respect her if she acted so weak.
Her eyes enlarged to twice its size, she really hated that word. It made her feel worthless and not worth anyone's time, not even Gajeel's. A small tear left her eye and hit the page she was reading causing the page to ripple and darken. The isolated girl wiped her eyes, so she wouldn't ruin the book, that was one thing she could handle at this point.
She looked up from her book, the moon was so bright and shining through her blinds. She had a lot of planning to do, she was not going to get much sleep tonight.
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The next morning, she came to the Guild fully determined to talk to Master, when she walked through the doors she found Gajeel gazing at her from the side table, she just walked to the bar to ask Mira for something to eat, she had forgone eating yesterday to read up on her survival on her own.
"Hey Mira!" Levy chirped while jumping up on the stool. Mira waved to her and strolled over to the small mage, "Can I get some bacon and eggs?"
"Sure, you can." MiraJane turned around to get it all set up, as Levy pulled out her guide book to reread it for the third time.
"What are you reading?" a gruff voice came from behind her and she squealed while shoving her book closed. "You should have seen your face Shrimp." Gajeel started laughing and holding his sides.
Levy hmphed while crossing her tiny arms in front of her chest. "What do you want Gajeel?" the bluentte howled out as much as she could. It was more of an attempted of a sneer than severe as she wanted it to.
The dark-haired man leaned his elbow on the counter next to her, showing off his muscles; for what reason, she didn't really know. "Just wondering why you're reading about survival. You leavin'?" he inquired.
Levy shoved her book into her bag and looked to see how long Mira was taking, which wasn't long, before answering, "I thought you didn't want anything to do with me?" she countered. Mira set down her food in front of her, the bluentte grabbed the plate of bacon and eggs while Gajeel sighed with irritation.
"That's not what I said, and you know that." The iron dragon slayer straightened and crossed his toned arms.
The small girl jumped off the stool and turned to another table, away from Gajeel, and shrugged while also trying to hold back tears. This was so hard for her, she still had feelings for him but every romance book she read was telling her to forget about him. Don't even interact with him, but she didn't think it would hurt so much.
"Shrimp!" It was a rough whisper. She didn't even turn around, "You can't survive on your own, you won't make it." That made her pause before she sighed and kept walking with her head down to the ground.
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"Are you sure you want this?" Makarov uttered. Levy looked up from her lap and hesitated, this was a big thing to do. She was leaving the guild, her home from the time she was 5 years old, to become a better mage.
"Yes, master. I've thought about it for a long time now." Months, she thought, "I think this is best for me."
Makarov nodded slowly, he stood up on his chair and jumped on his desk, to sit on top in front of his child. The old man looked her in the eyes, he exhaled loudly. "If you're sure Levy. You are smart enough to know what you're doing. You better come back here and visit." He commented as the smaller girl turned around to show her guild mark.
He waved his hand over her he white Fairy Tail mark, it glowed a soft yellow and disappeared along with the mark. Now, Levy was a normal lone mage. "I have to tell you the three rules, even though I know you know them." Makarov stated with shine in his eyes, Levy nodded for him to continue, "You must never reveal sensitive information about Fairy Tail to others as long as you live."
Levy started to cry, she never would have thought that he would be telling her this, she's heard it before but never like this. He continued, "You must never us former contacts met through you time being in the guild for personal gain." The blue-haired girl started shaking, why was life so hard on her?
"Though our paths may have diverted, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be insignificant and you must never forget about your friends for as long as you live." Levy hugged him so tight after he was finished talking.
"Thank you so much for letting me grow here. Now, I have to grow somewhere else. I will never forget you." The solid script mage whimpered out.
"I know you won't my child." her old guild master whispered out. "We will see you later."
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As Levy walked through the woods looking at her guide, she had packed her bag a night before and she may have put to many books in there. Her bag was super heavy, with about 10 books, she wasn't sure. She adjusted the strapped on her right side. The first step was to find a dry place that was high up.
She looked around her to find that she was in a valley of some sort, so more walking for her, maybe Mount Hakobe would help. She looked around and didn't know where she was, but she did have an idea of what to do.
"Solid Script: Map!" A large word formed in front of Levy of MAP and then turned into a map of Fiore. She saw that she was right in between Magnolia and Mt. Hakobe, she just needed to keep moving north. It was a good thing that it was in the middle of May, it was warm out, but she assumed that it will be super-hot at night.
It had been 3 hours of her walking, to Mt. Hakobe Levy was starting to feel tired and lonely. She really hasn't talked to anyone, "Gods, I'm going to have to get used to this." She grumbled to herself. Its not like anyone is around to hear her. Now Levy had to figure out how she was going to get stronger, should she learn a new magic to support her original magic? Maybe, if she found the right one.
"Oh, this place looks great." Levy commented, when she got to the base of the mountain, she found a small clearing.
The grass was not a bright green like she pictured, it was a lime green. It was surrounded by pine trees and one weeping willow tree that she would set up her tent and all of her stuff. She set up her tent manually, and then she sat in the middle of her tent under the willow tree and thought about what she was really doing.
"Gods, what the hell? What am I doing?" she groaned and threw her head back. She landed on her pillow and looked up to the dark tent. The sky turned dark when she started putting her tent up. She jumped up, and walked outside, "I forgot the runes!"
Levy pulled out her pen and kneeled on the ground to write a protection spell when she sleeps. She would freak out if there was someone in her tent when she was sleeping.
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It has been a week since Levy has left Fairy Tail and she has nothing to show for. Everyday she would get up to train or even run but she just felt like it was a waist of time, she would step out of her tent to smell the hot air and fresh trees and she just couldn't do it. Levy would grab her book and sit on the other side of her willow tree.
She set her book on her lap and looked up to the clouded sky, has anyone come looking for her? Were they worried at all? She shook her blue hair, she didn't need them, she could get stronger on her own. Levy's shoulder's fell, but she hasn't done anything, well, yesterday she ran around the small area; for like 5 minutes till she got tired.
"Fuck!" she screamed to the tree leaves that fell over her person.
She heard some rustling from behind her and turned her head, she didn't see anything. The solid script mage pulled her book from her lap to behind her on the dirt. She turned herself around to hide behind the tree but had herself on her knees, holding onto the trunk of the old tree.
Levy tried to see behind the ginormous bark, all she saw was leaves floating around. The mage stood to her feet, forgetting about her book altogether, she peered her head more around but saw nothing. "Huh, maybe I just heard nothing." She commented to herself.
She heard a male scream out something she couldn't make out. She stepped in front of the tree, by her tent and saw more rustling to the left of her. The blue-haired girl held her hands together and anticipated something, yelling and running always meant something.
A bright light came from opposite of her and then a body came flying towards her face. Her eyes widened, and she screamed; falling to the dirt. Levy held her head in her hands, hiding her face. The body flew past her but hit the runes that were guarding her tent.
Once he hit the rune, the bright violet surrounded him then he dropped on his stomach and groaned.
"Get back here you fucking asshole!" shouted a male running towards the two on the ground. Levy looked up to the man who hit her runes and he was slowly starting to stand. Levy glance to where she heard the voice, she saw a man run out into the clearing.
She knew that voice and knew that man. It was Sting from Sabertooth, what the hell was he doing here? This was far from Sabertooth, she turned her head when she saw a shadow in the corner of her eye, the shadow morphed into Rogue standing beside his partner.
"Who the hell are you?" Sting yelled to Levy, and pointed his gloved finger to her, "Are you with him?" his fists light up bright and was getting ready for a fight with her.
Levy jumped to her feet, shook her hands out in front of her and shaking her head, "No, I don't even know who that is!" she animated stated. When she jumped to her feet both Saber mages tensed their muscles. "Look, I was here before all of you." She laid a fist on her hip and raised her eyebrows at the men.
The man on his knees beside her was trying to breathe; he was sitting on the balls of his feet and his head in between his arms. Sting was staring him down, "What are you even doing here shorty?" his eyes shifted to her for a split second.
"Well, that really doesn't concern you does –, " Levy yelped and fell to her knees, clutching her left ankle. The man they were chasing shot her in the leg with acid and Levy was not wearing any shoes.
Sting and Rogue both shot him with a dragon roar, he, again, hit the runes behind her while being shot with a shadow and white dragon roar for, what felt like 5 minutes.
Levy paid them no attention, she was just trying to not scream in pain. The acid was spreading from her ankle to her whole foot. She covered her foot and fell on her ass, she was trying to think of what she could do. Nothing was coming to her mind, only thing on her mind was pain. Another hand came to her ankle and she looked up to see ruby colored eyes.
Rogue had come to help with her ankle but didn't know how he could help her, other than bring her to Rufus. "Sting, the guild isn't close. What do we do?"
Sting walked over to the two of them but stood there with his arms crossed over his furred vest. "Ugh, fuck it?" he shrugged with an uninterested expression on his face.
"Sting, you are the guild master. We can't just leave another mage out by herself, injured." Rogue chastised while holding the whole ankle with both hands. He was using his shadows to keep the acid in place.
"Fine!" the blonde-haired master exasperated while slumping back. "What do we do, oh wise one?" the sarcastic comment fell from his mouth while wiggling his fingers at the shadow dragon slayer.
Rogue rolled his ruby red eyes and Levy actually giggled at the dark-haired man. "What about Fairy Tail? They have Wendy that could heal this quickly." He suggested
Levy scrunched up her nose and narrowed her eyes at the ground but said nothing. Rogue looked down at her again, "Can you walk?" she nodded, he helped her stand up. Levy hobbled but stood on her feet, the three of them started walking towards Fairy Tail, her mind started to wonder. They really didn't know who she was, but she didn't want to be seen at Fairy Tail right now, with nothing to show for her disappearance.
She groaned and slumped forward while walking Sting, in front of her, looked back but looked forward again, "Something the matter shorty?"
"Um, I do have a request when we get there." She quietly asked while playing with her fingers.
"Go ahead." Rogue gently spoke from slightly right of her.
The sapphire-haired girl sighed, glancing towards the two slayers, "Can we not," she paused a moment, "I don't want them to see me." She finished while closing her eyes but still hobbling with them.
"Why?" Sting asked turned around to look at her but walking backwards now; he had his hands behind his head in a relaxed pose for this beautiful day.
"I'll tell you when its done." She looked away from them. This was going to be difficult; they were the cockiest people she ever met, and they were going to think she was weak. Sting was going to laugh in her face and Rogue was going to keep silent, but she knew that he was criticizing her in his head.
They arrived at the wide double doors of her former guild hall, Fairy Tail written in red right on top. This was not how she pictured coming back.
This story was a short idea, everyone always picked Lucy to leave the guild, but I thought that Levy should have a turn. Levy is a very smart character and people really don't give her enough credit, I wanted people to know that Levy was strong too. So, this story was her chance on top!
Till next time.
