(I'm on a rooooooooooolllll!~ :D
One and half chapter a day, take this!) – Original note.
Actually, it's five chapters a day.
It was funny, that when you don't remember some facts from your life they still flash before your eyes with the rest, and you just can't separate them out. Levy saw a lot of white hair, a screaming child, heard flapping of wings and someone asking 'Little child, who are you?', before it all quickened – her reading with grandpa and cheering on Erza when she fought with Mirajane in the bar, when she broke her left hand or when she was celebrating Christmas. It all flashed before her eyes and hummed in her ears, and suddenly, she was ripped out from the death trance when a clawed hand caught her and pulled up, and up, and up, into the sky.
She screamed. A bloodcurdling, piercing, terrifying scream. And the dragon roared with her, so loudly that she almost lost her hearing. She was once up, once down to the earth, but when she thought she was going to throw up, the hand grabbed her more securely and the beast started flying in a more reasonable direction – sadly, not back to the village. When she realized it, she started bashing her fists on the scales.
"Let… Me… Go!..."
"You really want to?" Came a deep voice from beside her, because she was facing the other way. "Fine."
The hand suddenly let go and she screamed as she tried to hold onto one of his claws, but he was flying too fast and it was too smooth to hold on. With a terrified shriek Levy started falling down like a rock, and closed her eyes, waiting for the death.
Before that happened, she once again was held in his grasp, but now that the dragon didn't have to pick her up with his claws, she rested between two paws.
"Want me to let you go again?" The dragon asked again, chuckling.
Levy wondered if all monsters really had such a twisted way of thinking, or if it was a special case. She shook her head, almost certain that he wouldn't catch her again, and added a "No." for a good measure. The dragon seemed satisfied by her answer, and loosened up his hold so she could sit with her knees against her chest and rest her head on them. She wouldn't run anymore, as long as they were flying.
"What do you want from me?" Levy asked, small tears in the corner of her eyes starting to grow the longer she was aware that somebody just kidnapped her. "You want to eat me?"
"Maybe…" The beast growled lightly. Levy raised her head, eyes wide and terrified.
"You are going to eat me!" She screamed. And then she tried to escape again, but remembered that she can't when she looked down at the ground under them. That was a whole long way down.
So she sat back, and rocked hysterically back and forth, crying loudly at the same time.
Gajeel felt bad. He didn't think that she may act so harshly at this little joke, but, he thought mentally slapping himself, how else could she react? Laugh?
And he was supposed to earn damn love from her.
Right. Well, he was making an amazing job at doing so.
Sighing, he growled lightly to get her attention, and sighing at the teary look she gave him, started to comfort her. "Look, I'm sorry, don't cry. I… didn't mean to."
"You didn't m-mean to?" She yelled at him, trembling. "You… You kidnapped me and said you m-may e-e-eat me! I don't s-see anything u-unintentional in it." She huffed, and looked away, sniffling. "What do you w-want from me?"
Gajeel was silent for a second. Surely he'll scare her away by telling that he want, no, need to have a kid with her, and she seemingly forgot about their encounter ten years ago.
Just great.
He sighed and thought something up.
"I became an adult dragon." He said slowly. "And now, I start to gather my treasures. I don't have anything yet, but that will change. When I saw the village, I thought about taking myself a human, because to us, dragons." He continued smoothly. "Young maidens are very important treasures. Plus they attract people in armor, and I eat armor." He grinned and gave himself a mental pat on the back. "And you happened to be the most… exotic one out there."
Levy was so stunned that she stopped crying.
"Just don't you think of running away." Gajeel growled. "I live days away from that village of yours. And I set up traps. Plus, bears would be very eager to eat you up to the bone." He warned.
"O-okay!" Levy shouted, trembling at yet another idea of being eaten.
"Good. I am Kurogane Gajeel."
"Gajeel." Levy repeated. "I am… I… uch… was… Levy McGarden."
Levy. So her name was Levy.
"Nice to meet you, Shrimp."
"Don't call me a shrimp." Levy breathed out quietly, offended and scared.
When it was afternoon, they arrived at his lair, on the edge of a cliff, with a grassy landing spot and barely visible roads leading into the woods at the left from it.
It was a huge, deep cave with completely flat floor made of one, huge rock, a hole in the ceiling that had vines dropping inside from the edges, and a huge ancient tree shielding it from too-harsh sun and rain. The ceiling in the depths of it had hundreds of stalactites growing out like tiny icicles on her window in the winter, but as soon as she pointed them out Gajeel destroyed almost all the longer ones for her safety. A piece of sharpened rock was nothing for a skull made of iron, but she looked much too frail to stand something like that.
Gajeel burned down all the spider webs and destroyed every longer or unstable piece of rock in his patch, and then blew it all out. Finally, he left her alone after scaring with bears to find some plants he could get her a nice bed from.
Levy walked slowly to the centre of the cave and sat down in the circle of green light that shined from above, bringing her knees to her chest and resting her forehead on them. She was still rather scared, and definitely lonely, and despite the dragons best efforts, wished that Erza would come here, kick his ass and take her home. But as she thought more and more of it, her voice was less sure and after a while she didn't knew anything. Something in her head was telling her to trust him, despite everything that happened.
She took one more look at the beautiful cave, and had the tiniest, most shy thought that maybe, just maybe, she may survive in here.
Gajeel took few hours to gather a nice amount of the softest plants and vines, and he worried a little that the Shrimp didn't listen and took off on her own. He had to take his human form for his task - and before he could find a hole between the trees he needed to stay this way. Once, when he was 80, so, like eight, he tried to fly between them but got tangled in vines, and had to change into a human to untangle himself. Then he fell from ten meters on his butt and didn't try it again.
He also wondered on how much the Shrimp changed since he met her the last time. For him, ten years equaled one year, and for her one year was one year, like it should. Still, she looked much better then he predicted, with that sweet face, huge brown eyes and pretty blue hair. Well, her butt wasn't bad either… and her hips… Maybe he could do this. He felt like he could do this, but what afterwards? He didn't want the Shrimp to hate him for leaving her all alone with a small child. He just couldn't make those two pictures of his life work together.
He finally found a hole between two gigantic oaks and decided that he will spend some time with her before deciding. Plus, he couldn't wait to start gathering up treasures, too.
When he made his way above the trees, green bundle in his claws, he was greatly surprised that it was later than he expected. Walking around as a human sure was slow…
Grumbling to himself he made his way home quickly, and almost ran to see if she was inside-
Only to see her partially sprawled on the ground, asleep. The yellow dress she wore was already, miraculously, right above her knees.
Gajeel wondered who on earth would sleep on a rock, but he just shook his head and made her a comfortable place to rest somewhere around the centre of his lair, before gently scooping her up in one hand and placing her down on it. When he was setting her down, the dress unsurprisingly went all the way up, and he caught a sight of red underwear.
It caused the dragon to immediately turn his head away.
If he was human at the moment, he would blush. Shrimp didn't seem like the person that would wear – He took one more look, just to be sure – such articles of clothing.
He took one more look – well, it's not like he was wishing for her to walk around without panties, but she seemed rather shy – he changed into a human and crouched to examine the polka dots. – And it wasn't something a shy girl would wear. So… Maybe she was a seductress in disguise?
This made him blush even more. If he was supposed to… do something like that with such a person it would be… Uch…
Different?
Or maybe someone made her wear something like this? What… What was she doing before he kidnapped her? He looked at her with wide eyes – She wouldn't.
Unless she was a seductress in disguise-
He slammed his fist to his forehead and decided to stop this inward conversation right there. Taking the hem of her dress, he pulled it back down up to her ankles.
Still – he couldn't help that last thought as he stole one final glance – she looked damn sexy in it.
But it wasn't the only one of his, ach, adventures that night. When he was laying down on his own nest of leaves and vines, and felt like a boss, because it was used by his father before – he noticed a small sound, like hitting small rocks over and over at a breakneck peace.
It took him few seconds to realize that it was sound of teeth hitting together, and he shot out to his Shrimp's side to see her rather pale, shivering, with chattering teeth and the damn dress once again lifted above her hips. He sighed, looked at his huge 'bed', at the rock under him and back at her. Shaking his head, he lifted Levy up carefully (She didn't even stir – God, she wouldn't wake up probably even if something exploded next to her) and made his way to his bed on three legs, where he gave her his dragon hug, this time making a fire on the rock surface before him and calmly watching it.
The chattering soon stopped and the girl became comfortable. She gripped his scaly hands with her tiny ones, before making a small sound and trying to turn around. He let her do it, and then she was completely content, laying on her belly on the warm, flat surface of his stomach with her breathing soft and even. Gajeel also let his eyes close, feeling like he had a small kitty on his chest, with quick pounds of a small heart and similar softness. Levy was a little like a cat – he decided. He liked cats even if he was a dragon. He liked her too, even if he was a dragon.
It wasn't forbidden for dragons to like a human, he guessed. They just… had to look out, that's all…
And with that, he too, fell asleep.
(I'm sleepy and it's only 6 P.M.! :O
Och no! The writing spree that made me write those one and half of a chapter completely got me tired! *yawn*
But I'm happy ^^
Also, yes, underwear. I couldn't stop it, seriously, I couldn't. I hope it was funny.
I'm proud of this chapter, and screw the rules, I'm publishing what I have, and… It makes no sense. Three chapters at once would be too good. *shakes head*
Just so you guys know, I am writing this note when I ended writing the chapter.
HeartGold12, over.) – Original note.
The notes were always written after that - when I ended the chapter and was about to post it.
P.S. About the 'look out' part, Gajeel is thinking about humans betraying dragons.