I like nalu and a lot of the other ships but I'm a really big fan of Galu

but this story will have no gavy and yes I know thats sad but I want to try and write navy and galu instead I've read some and I really like them I hope you all like this story and thanks for reading

Disclaimer I own none of these characters sadly if I did Gajeel and Lucy would so be together

warning OOCNESS

-S

3rd pov

Lucy Heartfillia was the last member of her team to come back to the guild, no matter where they looked they couldn't find her and none of the other guilds knew where she was and so a year passed by since the guild had come back together,

but when she finally returned she still had her sunny smile and warm personality with her forever forgiving nature, but there was always something different about her and they only got a clue when she took 15 solo missions after a week of being there and wouldn't let anyone come with her and if they tried it never went well Natsu had learned that for all of them the hard way. Of course they were all very worried and when she came back it was like she never even took all of those solo missions, but the thing wasn't the amount of missions she took it was the type that she had taken they were all fighting missions one that she would have never taken two years ago.

(AN so the guild was disbanded for a year and came back together but without Lucy so that means they haven't seen her for two years all together).

The Lucy that fairy tail once knew was gone she had changed and they knew nothing about this new Lucy and that was something that saddened them all greatly, and there was also the fact that after some missions she would have the scent of alcohol on her even though she should be miles away from one. This Lucy was a great mystery to everyone

Gajeel's POV

I watched her from the dark corner I was in. She was dressed in a gray t-shirt and some dark wash blue jean shorts that went down to her knees. She had long since forgone her old style of short miniskirts and revealing tank tops it worried some at first especially for someone that had pride in herself on her looks, but all she said was that "' times change people in different ways '". With the heat that Magnolia had been getting, the pink haired flame thrower may be enjoying himself, but with the way his partner would grimace she was not enjoying herself with him trying to latch onto her, but the best part was when he wouldn't release her she would end up kicking him straight out of the guild hall. Though I would never tell this to someone else, but the sweat that was on her skin would glisten when the light hit it and it just made my mind go even further into the gutter than what it already was about her.

I never really talked to bunny girl much, but I didn't really know how talk to her there were times where she would take missions by herself and she would then tell the the shrimp to look after her team while she was gone and if shrimp wasn't here then it was the youngest strauss to take her place on the missions with team Natsu. It didn't make any sense to anyone at what she was doing or why and when she would come back from those missions she would smell different, not like her normal honey and strawberries with a hint of metal from her keys, but there would be a strong scent of alcohol mixed into it and I would sometimes hear Wendy ask her about it but she would always say her mission involved her going to a bar. I would tune out all of the mushy stuff that the girls of the guild would tell her and the red haired demons questions if she must protect bunny girls honor about some man that had flirted with her I shuddered at what would befall anyone that had to have that kind of pain .

I was brought from my thoughts of bunny girl by shrimp coming to sit at my table. I looked at her she normally wanted me to go on missions with her and her team that were a little harder than the ones that they normally took. Or she would just sit there and read one of her many books but she had neither one of those things with her today and that made me curious on what she was up to and somewhere in my gut I had a really bad feeling about what she was going to say.

" Hey Gajeel." I grunted my response to her, she took her sit across from me like she usually did.

" Gajeel I want to ask you a favor…" I looked up at her letting her know that I was listening to what she was saying before going back to my metal scrapes

"Well I was wondering if you could follow Lucy when she next went out on another one of her solo missions, me and the girls are getting worried on why she comes back from them smelling like alcohol even when Mira says that most of them don't even go near one, yet she still comes back from them smelling like she just came from a bar."

I just looked at her let my brain process all that she had said when it was fully processed

"what's in it fer me if I do this for you and the others." then the scariest shit I'd ever see happened, her face went from calm and normal to no expressions at all and there was a shadow over her face with the next words she spoke

" If you don't do this Mira will either kill you and no one will ever find your body or Erza will take away the one thing that lets you call yourself a true man." I turned white as a sheet of paper she had a small hint of a smile knowing that she a had won this hands down for I knew that the demon and the monster truly would follow through with those threats I shiver at the images it gave me

"Alright I'll do it, but you have to answer my question"

"Ok" Levy said

"Why did y'all want me to follow Bunny? Why not the walking torch or Sparky plug?"

"Lu-chan would know Natsu was following the moment she got on the train, and Laxus can't go anywhere without the thunder god tribe following him and Lucy would then beat him to a pulp for daring to following her even if he is like a brother to her now and we all have seen what she did to Natsu when he pissed her off and tried to follow her the first time, so then there's you, she's always fighting with you but she has never once told you specifically not to follow her she's only said that to Natsu and Laxus...and she lets you get away with calling her 'bunny girl' when laxus can barely get away with calling her 'blondie' so we decided that you would be the one to stalk mean follow Lu-chan on her missions."

"What about when the poison freak comes in why can't he be the one to follow bunny?" I was doing everything I could so that I wouldn't be the one that had to follow bunny she had gotten a lot stronger now and everyone had seen what she did to the flame thrower I was in no hurry to sign my own death certificate

"Well we did ask but then Lu-chan came and Cobra went from his usual tan face to almost make it seem like midnight's sink look healthy then he told us no and bolted whatever Lu-chan thought scared Cobra"

If whatever bunny thought could scare the snake freak only made me that much more reluctant to go and follow her on a mission.