Gajeel checked around his room one last time to make sure everything was packed for the job he was going on with Levy. If there's anything I hate more than man-made transportation, it's forgetting a simple item like money or somethin'. Not to mention, it really irritates me when I look like the 'typical dumb dragon slayer' in front of Levy (thank you Natsu for giving us that reputation). "Okay it looks like I have everything." he mumbled.
After Gajeel waited five minutes at the crowded train station, Levy came running up to him.
"Sorry I'm late," she panted, "I got caught up in this book and one minute I was on chapter three then the next-"
"It's okay little one, we still have plenty of time to get on the train." Gajeel smiled, then his face turned sour as he remembered how they had a long ride ahead of them. "Ugh, well we better get goin'." Levy nodded in agreement as they headed out. "You have the request paper right?"
She pulled it out of her brown book bag, "Yeah. So basically it's our job to go to this village and get rid of this 'evil' spell." Apparently, this town had some 'evil' spell that was cast a few years ago by an insane wizard. The only information the paper contained about the spell was how it helped bring back the memories of some villager. "Although, I don't really understand why the spell was so destructive. I mean sure it was cast by a wizard who uses dark magic, but the spell itself seems harmless."
"Don't ask me, I just try to get the job done as fast as possible, without thinkin' too hard about the details. And it seems to me that we just rip a piece of paper apart." Gajeel shrugged, as did Levy.
"That is something you would say," she smiled. "I'm sure there's some sort of barrier surrounding it that's extremely hard to break though."
Gajeel laughed, "Breaking shit is Fairy Tail's specialty," his laugh was cut off as the train started to move, instantly sending him pain.
"Here we go." Levy sighed. Gajeel could see her pull out a book after leaning his head on the window.
"Gajeel," he heard Levy whisper while he still was holding onto his stomach. "Gajeel, the train isn't moving anymore, I guess it was planning on making an hour pit stop in this town about half way to our destination."
Gajeel looked out the window, still looking pale, "Isn't this the same town that Sabertooth is in?"
"Hmm, yeah I think you're correct." Levy commented, making Gajeel smile a little bit. She knows I love it when she points out how I was right. He tried to shake that thought out of his head, seeing that it was making him turn slightly red.
"Well maybe they have some information on our mission, specially that Rufus guy."
"We should check it out, you want to get off this train anyway right?" Levy smirked.
"Absolutely."
It didn't take them very long to reach Sabertooth, seeing as their guild hall was even larger than Fairy Tail's.
Walking into an unfamiliar guild brought back bitter memories to Gajeel of entering Fairy Tail for the first time, being looked down upon by all of the wizards there. Especially that salamander freak.
Then taking a beating by Jet and Droy was even better, along with Laxus going after him. Levy was more forgiving though, Mavis I can't believe what I did to her when I was in Phantom Lord…
"Gaj-eel?" Levy looked up at him, confused as to why he looked so depressed.
"Oh, uh it's nothin', I'm fine." he stuttered out, still receiving a concerned glance from Levy. "C'mon let's go in." Without giving it a second thought, he grabbed her hand and started pulling her in.
Sabertooth seemed similar to Fairy Tail, with everyone enjoying themselves, but at the same time every wizard he saw seemed worn out since they were all doing some sort of training.
"They seem to never rest here." Gajeel mumbled, realizing he was still holding Levy's hand. He hesitated to let go but did, seeing as he didn't understand why he was doing that in the first place. I should give her some space…
His thoughts were interrupted as Rogue came running up to them. "GAJEEL?!" he coughed, trying to calm himself down, "What brings you here?"
"Oh we're just seeing if that memory friend of yours had an input on this job we're goin' on." Gajeel commented, seeing Sting and Yukino coming to join them. Since Levy never got a chance to fight in the Grand Magic Games, they seemed to not notice her that much.
"Rufus?" Sting asked, "Yeah he's here somewhere, I'll try to find him, oh and feel free to use our swimming pool, it's freakin' amazing!" Yukino rolled her eyes, but still smiled.
"You're so weird Sting," she gave him a kiss on the cheek before they both walked away, requiring Gajeel to do a double take. I guess they're a thing now.
"Don't mind those two, they just got together a few days ago." Rogue said to them. After a few moments of awkward silence, Gajeel heard Rufus coming up to them from behind.
"I most certainly remember you, iron dragon slayer." Gajeel whipped around, finding Rufus looking exactly like he did during the games.
"Hey! It's been a while. Oh an' by the way," he looked around, realizing he hadn't introduced Levy yet, "This is Levy McGarden, she's a very talented solid script-user-mage-bookworm-"
"I'm a mage who uses solid script," she interrupted, "and who loves to read books."
"I as well, books are glorious. And it's a pleasure to meet you." he placed a kiss on her hand, instinctively making Gajeel feel annoyed.
"Any way," Gajeel said harsher than planned, "We were wondering if you knew anything about this spell." he looked down at Levy who was already taking out the job description paper, handing it to Rufus.
He scanned it over a few times, "Hmm, well I do remember reading about his spell a few different times, but each book that's described it tells a different story. It's a very superficial situation. One detail that always appeared however was that the spell has brought shame and embarrassment to the village it oriented from, thus why they always try to minimize anyone's knowledge of it. I would be careful getting involved with it, you might get hurt if you try to use the spell."
"Well of course we're not plannin' on using it." Gajeel replied, "It's our job to destroy it."
"Good, as you should." Rufus stated. Gajeel looked up at the wall clock.
"Uh small fry, should we be gettin' back? I forgot to see what time it was when we left the train," Since I was dying from motion sickness and all… Gajeel thought to himself. Levy's eyes widened.
"Yeah, we'd better get back soon. Thank you for the advice." Levy responded. Rufus nodded his head.
"Anytime." On their way out, the other wizards said their goodbyes and sent them their best wishes, with Sting still insisting on them to try out the swimming pool.
Levy knew that whenever she was riding a train with Gajeel, it was best to sit across from him. That's exactly what she planned to do until two young girls came up to them in a panic.
"We're so sorry. We didn't realize that our spots were going to be taken when we left to look around town. Can we sit with you two?" one with long purple hair asked them. Levy started to move to Gajeel's side.
"Yes, that's totally fine. " she smiled at them. Gajeel, who was leaning against the window suddenly shifted to lean onto her. Levy froze, becoming completely immobile. Ya big lug…
"It's our faults, we should have gotten here sooner." the other older looking girl said. The four of them felt a jerk as the train started to move again.
"No no, really it's okay. We only got here on time because the guy next to me hates being late." Levy laughed, remembering her and Gajeel's first job together. It was when many of Levy's closest friends in Fairy Tail were out fighting the Oración Seis.
"Shrimp hurry up, we're going to be late!" he inquired impatiently as Levy was sitting a table in the guild, packing up her books. "Don't make me carry you out of here."
"But Gajeel it takes twenty minutes to walk to the train station and the train doesn't leave for another hour. Plus, we already have our tickets." Levy tried to tell him, wondering if he thought the train was leaving sooner.
"So? You never know what could happen. What if it takes longer than we thought? What if we run into trouble? What if the train leaves early? What if-"
"Okay, okay! Wow Gajeel, I never imagined that out of all people you would be a timely person." Levy commented, I would've never expected Gajeel to be the one waiting around for me considering how, well, irresponsible and wild he is. Levy ended up finding this trait of Gajeel's to be a little cute, but quickly tried to brush that idea off.
That was back when Levy felt unsure of her feelings towards Gajeel. Now, there was no denying it. Even now, when he was groaning of motion sickness, pale and leaned up against her, she still felt butterflies in her stomach.
A/N: Hello everyone! Hope you enjoyed Gajeel and Levy's visit to Sabertooth. And also, I'm definitely a multi-shipper when it comes to Sabertooth, I'd honestly be happy with any of the ships. I just chose for StingYu to be 'canon' cause why not?
Anyway, thanks a ton for reading, next chapter will probably explain Natsu and Lucy's situation more :3
Have a Fairy Tail-astic day!