Bfly here with chapter 2! Thanks for all the reviews and faves! It means a lot to me! I'm getting off the Natsu/Lucy pairing for a while but bear with me! Mira and Erza are not letting them off the hook so easily!
As for names, I'm not sure what the official spellings are, so I went with what I usually read in the manga, so I'm using Juvia instead of Jubia/Lluvia, Cana instead of Kana and Gajeel instead of Gazille.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, or its characters and I don't make any money off of this. I just want everyone to enjoy!
Since the Natsu/Lucy incident, everyone was now wary of where they stood. Well, most everyone. Juvia was determined to get kissed by Gray, but she wasn't having any luck. As for Team Shadow Gear, things were starting to heat up. Jet and Droy were determined to get the girl of their dreams, Levy MacGarden, under the mistletoe, but Levy had other things in mind. After two near hits, Levy figured out their plan and decided to take extra precautions. Even though both guys were her best friends, the blue haired mage wasn't too thrilled about the prospect of kissing either guy. So she stopped reading at the bar, since she tended to space out when she was reading and was at her most vulnerable. She also stopped arriving and leaving with them. She had struck up a partnership with Lucy and Cana, and they each looked out for each others' back.
This particular morning found Levy in front of the request board. She had decided to take a job with Lucy and Cana to get out of the guild. Dodging Jet and Droy for an entire week was tiring, she needed a break, and Lucy needed to pay her rent, which was why she was reluctant to go with Natsu, Erza and Gray since they always over did things. This was not setting in well with Natsu, and Happy was angry at Lucy for not including him with everyone else. It was relatively early, so Lucy and Cana weren't there yet. Jet and Droy were also absent, and she had let her guard down. As she was looking at the request, hoping to find one near a hot spring, she felt a presence behind her. She looked back, and saw Gajeel behind her. She sighed in relief, which caused the iron dragon slayer to look at her questioningly.
"Sorry, I thought you were Jet or Droy." She explained.
"Aren't those two your team members?" he asked the little blue haired mage.
"Yes, I've been…avoiding them." She said quietly.
Avoiding them, why would she be avoiding those two? Well it's not his problem. He had just come back from a job and found the guild looking like some freaking winter wonderland. It was very…disturbing. Lily was at the bar ordering some breakfast. Gajeel wanted to get another job right away and escape the guild. Looking over the short bookworm, he picked a job and was going ask the waitress where the Master was when slam! He walked right into something solid.
"What the hell is that?" he said out loud. Was someone looking for a fight? Well they were going to get one. He was ready to look for whoever did this when he heard a small gasp. He looked beside him and saw the girl look at him and then directly to the ceiling. He looked up too, and saw a little green plant hanging there. What the hell?
"When did that get there?" said the bookworm.
"What?" he leaves for a week and things get weird. Correction, weirder.
"Oh I put it there last night, Levy-chan." Levy and Gajeel looked at Mira, who was at the bar looking at them with a smile of victory across her face.
"What's going on?" asked Gajeel, he was irritated as hell.
"Mistletoe" whispered Levy.
"Mistletoe?"
"Mira placed mistletoe around the guild last week. She had Fried enchant them. Any two people caught have to kiss to break the spell."
"Wha-" he was trying to wrap his head around his predicament when he heard two men yell.
"Levy!" it was her two dumbass teammates, great.
"Gajeel! How could you!" said the guy with the funny hair.
"You forced her under didn't you!" said the guy with the funny hat.
He was about to answer back when he heard "Levy?" Oh great more people, thought the very irritated dragon slayer. It was blondie and the alcoholic chick this time. He looked over to see the petite woman, who was for some reason very red in the face. Was she angry? With him? He didn't do anything to get them in this situation. Heck he didn't even want to be in this situation in the first place!
"It's no one's fault, we got caught by accident, so stop accusing him." Said the bookworm to her friends. So she wasn't angry at him? He felt relief and… was it gratitude? He blushed when she set her warm, brown eyes on his red, cold ones. "Gajeel, I'll get us out of this, I promise!"
Whether it was more for her sake than his, he felt that her words were the thing he wanted to hear the most, to know that someone regarded him as a part of Fairy Tail. It was ironic that it should be her that gave him that sense of belonging, after attacking her team and crucifying them. He knew he could never undo what he had done, but he felt like he could atone for it.
"So all we have to do is kiss?" he asked. He almost laughed when he saw her turn so red. Almost.
"Wha- Gajeel. I was…that's not what I…what I want to say is…" she was blushing and stuttering from just the thought of kissing him. What was he thinking?
"Hey Gajeel, if you think about doing anything to her…" said Jet. He had almost forgotten that they had an audience. He had watched team Shadow Gear enough to figure out what was going on. The reason Levy was avoiding them was that she didn't want to get stuck under this mistle-thingy with them. And he could bet his life that those two would try anything to do the exact opposite. He made his decision.
"It's just a kiss." He said, looking at both Jet and Droy. He looked at the bookworm, who was still an intense shade of red. He could hear her heart pounding furiously, her eyes locked on his, as if searching for something. He stepped up to her and to his surprise she didn't back away, still staring intensely in his eyes. He put his hand under her chin, bent down and kissed her gently on the lips.
With that the spell was broken, but her teammates were furious. They immediately jumped in to attack Gajeel, but in a blink of an eye he scooped her up and moved out of the range. The boys charged again, only to hit a solid wall.
"What the…?" Levy had come back to her senses, but she couldn't figure out what happened.
"The mistletoe activated again? But it's Jet and Droy!" Said Lucy who had rushed over to Levy's side. Gajeel still held her, and after seeing Lucy, he set her down gently to her feet, and took a step back.
"Mira, what's going on?" asked Cana.
Mirajane gave a very sweet smile and said "I don't discriminate any type of love. Even if it's two boys, the same rules apply."
Jet and Droy's color faded from their face. The only way out was by kissing each other?
"Serves them right for trying to force themselves on you." Gajeel said in a voice low enough that only she could hear him. So he figured out what she had meant earlier. The iron dragon was sharp; she'd have to remember that. In a louder voice he said, "You may want to break them out of that, and soon."
"Y-yeah"
A couple of days later, Levy was back in the guild, hiding out in the relatively safe library. She had just come back from a job with Lucy and Cana, and Lucy was able to pay her rent for once. Today was their first day back. The job wasn't as long as they hoped, but they got to bond during the four days they were gone. She still kept a sharp look out, but after the incident, Jet and Droy had stopped trying to catch her under the mistletoe. Fortunately, Levy was able to get Jet and Droy out of the spell (surprisingly Erza had not stopped her this time, which made Natsu protest and get beaten up by the red-head), but it took her nearly an hour to do so. By then everyone was in the guild, except for Gajeel. The dragon slayer had left soon after he had kissed her, off on another mission.
That had been her very first kiss, not exactly how she imagined it, but in all honesty, she had enjoyed it. Who would've imagined that iron could be so warm and soft? She blushed as she remembered the kiss. Pull yourself together! You heard him say that it was only a kiss. And then, she saw him walk in with his cat, Lily. She blushed even harder when she saw that he looked her way, and started to walk towards her. He sat down right next to her, and her heart started to beat frantically. What was the matter with her?
Hope you enjoyed it! Chapter 3 deals with what happened when Levy, Lucy and Cana were out. Please review!
