Author's note: I made Levy a bit taller than the normal, as I said, added a lot from my life. As a girl, I'm 174 cm (I think it's 5'8'' in the non-metrical system). Above average here, in Romania, since the normal height for girls is 165 cm and 175-180 for guys. And I have some Aikido in me, but not as I wrote Levy. I'm waiting for my toddler to grow up a little, so we can go together ^_^

EDIT:

Thanks to The MTB Skiing Mister Smith , who noticed I had a little mistake (had no idea rugby didn't have quarterbacks lol), I edited the chapter

CHAPTER 2:

The college year started without any trouble, Levy quickly befriending her four roommates. She was forgetting the pain of leaving her loved ones back home thanks to the lovely girls she could now call 'girl-friends'. About two weeks after the classes officially started, she was recruited by the Anime Club and the 'Bookworms', a club for people who loved reading. And, since she was majoring in foreign literature and culture, she felt quite at home.

Another week passed without any incident, joining the Aikido Club, since she already had her green belt. She advanced quickly to her blue belt, being the no. 1 from her class.

In her third week, Levy was walking to her English practical course, heading for her locker to get her English books and notes. That's when she met him. The American football quarterback. He had long, black hair and plenty of piercings. She asked herself how could someone like him actually got to the prestigious 'Fairy Tail', since he had no learning stuff. He was violent and cold, and, above everything else, what she hated the most. A bully.

She sighed heavily when she passed him in the hall, pushing a short, slender boy hard on the wall, laughing superiorly. Levy couldn't stand people like that. Not back home, not anywhere. Natsu, a silly, pink haired boy, always challenged him, but he rarely touched him. The poor boy, he always went to the infirmary either with a swollen lip or a bruised eye. And, so, in her fourth week since coming to Japan, when Levy saw Gajeel Redfox bully a shorter girl, she snapped.

"Stop that!" Levy put herself between Laki and her bully.

"Hoo... Never took you for one with a suicide wish, shrimp." Gajeel was pretty tall, but, for a girl, so was Levy, even though he was half a head taller than her.

"I'm not the one with a suicide wish, caveman." She brought herself to her full height, crossing her arms over her chest. A vein twitched on Gajeel's forehead.

"Caveman?" Levy parried Gajeel's fist, directing it in the metal locker, leaving a dent in it. Gajeel pulled back from his surprise, sending another punch Levy's way, again the girl parrying it with ease. She dropped her stuff on the ground and took a defensive stance, Gajeel grinning. "You don't know who you're messin' with, blue head." Gajeel took boxing stance, making Levy smile exhilarated.

"Let's see then." Gajeel wasn't grinning anymore, finding Levy's attitude cheeky. And he didn't like cheeky girls. He wanted to teach her a lesson. So he sent punch after punch, Levy dancing away from his attacker. When she found an opening, Levy took him by the arm and whirled his surprised form, tripping him enough to fall flat on his face.

By this point, people gathered around them, cheering loudly as the two fought. Gajeel snarled and tackled her with rage, taking the breath out of her lungs when they landed on the floor. Before Gajeel could punch her, Levy tumbled him over, escaping from under him and getting back on her feet, resuming her defensive stance.

"You're gonna get hurt if you keep attacking me. I suggest you stay down." Levy warned, changing her position to attack.

"Big words for a shrimp." He laughed maniacally as he stood back on his feet, huffing. Levy didn't smile, concentrating on ending the fight with his next attack. Gajeel lunged himself again at her, exhaustion clear on his face and on his stance, leaving his body wide open. Levy kneed his liver and grabbed his arm, twisting it painfully, finishing him with a well placed foot between his legs. Gajeel grabbed his crotch, gasping for air from the liver blow as Levy looked disgusted at his crouched form.

"Next time, pick a fight with someone your own size." With that, she grabbed her stuff and hurried to cheer Laki up, who looked at her with awe.

Everyone else was speechless, no one daring to say a word or cheer Levy for her victory. Because Gajeel 'Kurogane' Redfox fought her. And lost.

This is how Levy made a name for herself in 'Fairy Tail', even though she hated the attention. Gajeel picked a fight with Levy every time he saw her walking calmly on the halls, each time getting a whoop-ass from the gaijin. His reputation was getting a serious beating, and it was something he hated.

The word of Gajeel being kicked around by a gaijin girl quickly came to the gang boss Gajeel was involved with. So the 'Phantom Lord' boss told Gajeel he would get kicked out if he didn't make a name for himself again, by any means necessary. Levy was the one who tarnished his name, so she needed to be punished. So Gajeel was ordered to follow her around town every day.

Instead of finding any openings, Gajeel found himself fascinated by this blue haired gaijin. If he looked her over better, she looked quite familiar, something that bothered him terribly, since he never saw her in his life before "Fairy Tail" college. Gajeel noticed how warm and kind she was with everyone else except for him. A strange feeling bubbled in the pit of his stomach when Freed, the 'Bookworm' club president befriended her, spending his time with Levy exchanging ideas about books. Loke, the school playboy, was her partner in the Anime Club, again making Gajeel rub his knuckles in anticipation. Natsu, Gray and Cana were her partners in Martial Arts Club and they were praising her efforts and her dedication to learning new types of martial arts.

She was rarely alone, since she was so easy to befriend. So Gajeel decided on another approach.

Levy found a secluded place somewhere behind the building. She took her book and her drawings and climbed a tree, making herself comfortable. She was halfway through her sketch when a deep voice startled her.

" Whacha doin' way up there, Shrimp?" Oh, hell no... Levy peeked down, hoping with all her might it wouldn't be who she thought it was. "Yo!" Gajeel, the quarterback, was smiling crookedly at her.

"What do you want?" Levy asked with a bored voice, resuming her sketch. She didn't even bother with him, not watching what he was doing. So he surprised her when his head popped between her legs, making her yelp.

"Kyaa!" Levy hit him in the head with her lever arch file, where she kept her 200+ drawings, sending him back on the ground flat on his back. "What the hell do you think you're doing, you freak? You want another whoop-ass?" Levy blushed a hot shade of red when she went to the spot where emerged to glare at Gajeel's sprawled form.

"Ite...te... te... That fucking hurt, you idiot!" Gajeel sprang to his feet, snarling at Levy, who was still up in the tree.

"Well, you asked for it when you decided you could look up my skirt without consequences!"

"I didn't see shit because of your shorts, dumbass!" Levy was about to argue, but she placed her hand underneath her school uniform, lifting it just to make sure. And, sure enough, she was wearing shorts under her skirt. "See?" Gajeel crossed his arms, looking away upset.

"W... well it's your damn fault you came up in the first place! This is my spot!"

"Sais who?"

"Sais me!" Levy's drawings slipped from her fingers right on Gajeel's head before she could catch it, Levy barely escaping an "AH!" before it hit Gajeel hard on the head, tumbling him on the ground unconscious.

"Shimatta... Shitshitshit!" Levy climbed down from the tree worried. She turned Gajeel over, feeling his head for the bump he would surely have. She slapped his face easily, without luck. He was knocked out cold. She grabbed her water bottle from her bag and splashed it all over Gajeel's face, bringing him back to his senses.

"The hell are trying to do? Drown me?" Gajeel jumped into a sitting position, coughing violently all the water that got into his breathing tubes.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to drop it on your head! I'm so sorry! Are you OK?" Levy's big eyes stopped Gajeel from continuing his verbal assault, staring dumbstruck at her genuinely sorry face, apologizing after she hurt him. And it hit him again. Her face was something he knew damn well, and he remembered how silky her blue hair was. In a dreamy haze, Gajeel lifted his hand from the ground and placed it on top of her head, ruffling the blue strands in a familiar way, and feeling his way down her cheek. At this point, Levy's cheeks turned a hot shade of red as she swallowed her words, staring speechless at the guy who picked a fight with her every single day since they first met. "Wh… What the hell do you think you're doing?" Levy pulled herself together and slapped Gajeel hard on the face, grabbing her stuff in a hurry and running away. The raven haired man was left speechless, not even getting the chance to bark his indignation back at her. He got up, dusted himself, noticing some papers on the ground. Gajeel picked them up, looking them over.

"Impressive… You've got some talent, shrimp." He smiled at a sketchy drawing of himself, looking after Levy as she disappeared around a corner.

TBC

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