Levy woke up to find herself in a dungeon sitting beside….
"Elfman?!" She shouted and in an attempt to help him out of his shackles, she found herself in the same predicament as him. "What happened?"
"I should be asking you that. I got knocked out without even seeing the guy who did it." He replied
"Well, the last thing I can remember is Mira handing me a lacrima with a picture of you on it, then the lacrima grew really big and swallowed me up. I must not have been able to breathe because everything after that is hazy." She replied deep in thought
Elfman was deep in thought too, but of course it didn't last for long
"WELL A REAL MAN DOESN'T USE COWARDLY TRICKS! COME OUT AND FACE ME! MAN TO MAN!"
Elfman kept yelling things along those lines for a while barely fazing Levy.
But why? Why would I be taken here? Where are we? There has to be a way out of here. Wait! If I could just find my light pen….. She thought looking around Or anything that could get these chains off-
"Oi, someone's coming" Elfman said nudging Levy and breaking her train of thought
"So you're finally awake" Said a voice from the other side of the bars "I'm guessing you slept well"
"LET US OUT AND FIGHT ME LIKE A REAL MAN!" Elfman shouted at the man
"I'm afraid I can't do that" The man said "But I can do this." He raised his hand and Elfman started screaming
"Elfman! Elfman what's wrong?!" Levy said worried and trying to keep him conscious
"Oh, don't worry I didn't forget about you pretty lady." The man said mischievously
"D-Don't you dare…..h-hurt her" Elfman said through strangled breaths "This doesn't have anything to do with her anyway so w-why did you drag Levy into this?"
"Because your partner broke the rules of the game and enlisted the help of this one, but don't worry I won't kill her, I only plan to torture her until her boyfriend comes so I can get a REAL challenge from a REAL man" The man said with a cocky smirk
Something inside Elfman snapped and by defying logic he broke the chains holding him down with brute strength, knocked down the iron bars and with one punch, defeated the mage holding him and Levy hostage and somehow ended up back at the guild with literally all of the single ladies (None of them being Evergreen) fawning over how amazing he was. Then a girl with glasses ran towards him with a wide grin on her face ready to hug him and yelling his name. (Can you guess who?)
"Elfman!" The woman's body started distorting
"Elfman!" The whole guild started distorting
"Elfman, wake up!"
He opened his eyes to the teary eyed script mage who had been shouting his name for a while. Then it all came back to him; he had passed out thanks to that guy's stupid spell that took away his oxygen.
"Thank goodness, I was starting to worry you might never wake up" She said smiling and wiping away her tears
"It takes a lot more than that to take out this man!" He shouted, then he remembered something from earlier "Hey Levy?"
"Yes?"
"Can you move the small rock behind me?" He whined "It's been there for a while and it's really annoying"
"Yeah sure" But to her surprise, that 'annoying rock' was actually her light pen "My light pen! Finally I can get us out of here!" She said and without a moment's hesitation she cried
"Solid Script CUT!" Both mages' chains were cut and Elfman had immediately changed into his beast soul take over and knocked down the bars of their dungeon (For real this time) using his heightened sense of smell and hearing to find the man that had deemed him 'unmanly', but before he could Levy stopped him
"Elfman, you need to calm down. First we're going to find an exit together ok?" She said in a you-have-to-listen-to-me kind of tone
"Fine." He said turning back into his regular form
"By the way, do you know who kidnapped us?" Levy said walking up a spiral stone staircase
"Yeah, about 100 or so wizards and their leader was the one mocking me earlier and they were the mages that Evergreen and I failed to capture on our latest mission. The leader's name is-"
"Elphonze"
Back at the guild
"What the hell?! This better not be some stupid prank!" Gajeel shouted to Mira
"You better watch your tone with me young man" She said in her demonic voice
"A-Aye!" Said Gajeel uncharacteristically
"Hey Mira, look at this" Evergreen said pointing to a note where Levy was sitting
All four mages (Don't forget Pantherlily was there too) read the note, the two male mages sat there in confusion until Mira remembered that they hadn't read the first note so she explained the situation along with the first note.
"But who sent the notes?" Asked Lily "And why did they capture Levy if they were after you and Elfman?"
"I know who sent the notes, but I have no idea why they would want Levy" Evergreen said contemplating the different reasons for the kidnapping
"Who cares? As long as the Shrimp is saved I get to beat up the guy when I find him!" Shouted an obviously irritated Gajeel
"And how do you suppose we do that? There's absolutely no clues to follow and-"
"Are you suggesting we just give up?" Asked Lily
"NO! But I'm just saying that we can't rush into things." She glared at Gajeel "So what was your plan of finding her anyway?" She asked skeptically
"Hello, dragon slayer with heightened senses, including SMELL." Gajeel said pointing to his nose
"Well then what are you two waiting for?" Asked Mira "Go find my brother and Levy. Lily and I will start getting ready for the welcome home party"
Lily was about to say that it would be more efficient if he went with them but caught Mira's just-follow-my-lead-no-questions-asked look and said "Y-Yeah we better get to it. So bring them home safe"
"Just leave it to me!" Gajeel said running out the door with Evergreen flying after him
"Hey!" She shouted angrily "Wait for me!"