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It has been 3 months since Levy has seen anyone, she's still talking to Rogue over Lacrima and getting advice from him, but she hasn't seen anyone in her area for a while. Levy has been on a steady schedule of running and strength training that she learned from Rogue.
Levy ran around the same tree for the tenth time, it was the same routine after she was saved for the second time in a week. She knew that she needed to find herself out here. When Levy stopped by her tent with her hands on her hips, breathing heavily. The sweat dripping down her eyebrow thinking about what she needed to do next.
The letter mage thought about a new magic she might want to learn, she's thought about a holder type, but she needed a book to know all the spells. Maybe she should go into town to find a library but what is the closest town? It wasn't Magnolia that's for sure, was it Clover? Levy crawled into her tent to pull out her map, scanning where she was, the closest town was Shirotsume.
The sapphire-haired mage knew that town, Lucy was telling her that her first job with Natsu was in that town. She sighed, she really missed her friends, but it didn't seem to be the same back, no one has contacted her or even asked about where she was. It seemed like she was the background character in everyone else's book. It sucked to know that no one was looking for her, no one seemed to care that she was gone.
Levy held her chin up and clenched her fists around the map, crinkling the parchment paper. I will show them, Levy McGarden is not to be ignored! Maybe when she becomes stronger she'll join a new guild, it didn't seem that Fairy Tail wanted her there. She gasped lowly, she could show them at the next Grand Magic Games!
The lone mage looked up to the sun, she calculated that it was around noon, she would get into Shirotsume by 1 if she left now. She knew that the town didn't have a railway system, so she would have to walk. Levy sighed again, no strength training today.
After Levy got dressed, she walked out of her area after putting a rune around the whole region to ward off everyone.
It only took 30 minutes to get to town, it was weird to be around people again, after so long by herself; it just felt weird. She crossed her arms around her stomach, she thought that they were looking at her but on the logically side of her brain, no one knew who she was. Levy wanted to ask someone where the library was but felt like it wasn't her place.
Levy walked around for 10 minutes before she found the small library, and it was super small. It could have been the size of the run down Fairy Tail guild they use to have. The small mage walked in and she could see that whole place from her vantage point.
I don't think that I'll find anything here.
The librarian at the desk just looked up from her and looked back down to her magazine. Levy just walked around the book, itching to grab ones that she wanted to read but she had a mission to do. Several times her hand reached up to the books on the shelf, but she had to stop herself.
She found a small area with spell books and tomes, only 2 shelves full. The shelves weren't that tall either, just a few inches taller than Levy. She scanned the books, lots of old looking books she's never seen. Loads of basic ones, fire, water, rock, she didn't want anything basic.
Then she found several books on alchemy and enchantments, she picked them all up, stacking them in her hands. She looked around for a desk to sit at but couldn't find one, adjusting the books in her hands she sat in the corner on the floor.
30 minutes passed, and Levy had a lot of books laid off on the floor, spread out with some of them open, she found a lot of what she needed actually. The librarian walked around Levy but never said anything to her, which was fine with Levy. The sapphire-haired girl didn't even know what time it was, after reading many spells, she lost count of the time.
When she picked up a thick book that was heavy and looked like it had never been open, the brown cover was dusty and new-ish. Levy opened the cover and moved the flyleaf over, seeing the title of the book in there; a language she didn't know at all.
O Daίmonas Thymόs Grafί "I wonder what that means." She whispered to herself but as she tried to read further the book shut on itself. She yelped and snapped her hands away; the dust flew away from the book and it glowed a deep red color but faded away pretty quickly. Then the books around it scattered away from her and the brown book.
Levy tried to pick up the scattered books but once she got close it shifted away from her again. She groaned and glanced towards the book again, "What do you want?" she asked the book, but it didn't answer or do anything again.
It was oddly quiet around the bookshop, why was it so quiet? She stood up and tried to walk to the front of the store, but it felt like there was an invisible wall. She moved her hand up, but it wouldn't move anymore, normally there would be a ripple of color with runes, but there was no color here.
Levy turned around to her pile of books, but they were gone except the brown book. She sighed and bent to pick it up, nothing weird happened. She carried it out to the front of the store, the librarian was gone; she looked to the window to see that it was dark.
"Did she really just leave me in her store?" she asked herself, throwing her hand in exasperation.
She walked out into the quiet town, shops were closing and there were hardly any people out. She could either stay at a hotel here or she could walk to her tent right now. The book in her hand was pulling her towards a street to her left. Then shifted to down another street.
When the book stopped pulling her, she lifted to her head to see it was a hotel, "I guess I'm staying here." Levy stated lowly to herself.
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when Levy left in the morning it was really early, almost 5 in the morning. The book was safely tucked in her bag, although she thought the book wouldn't leave her alone anyway. The sapphire-haired girl was shifting her bag around her shoulder when she heard a gruff voice that she knew too well.
"So, that's all we need to do?" she heard Laxus ask across the street form her. The solid script mage saw that the whole thunder legion was with him too. Shit, I have to get out of here, or maybe they forgot about me. Levy thought that maybe if she just walked right on past them.
She took a deep breath and held her chin up, walking across the street, right past the Fairies. Laxus sniffed the air, he knew that smell but he hasn't sensed it in a while. His eyebrows furrowed at the thought, Evergreen eyed him but didn't say anything.
"Laxus, is something the matter?" Freed asked with concern in his voice.
"Boss is probably thinking this job is super simple. Finding a book, how difficult is that?" Bickslow stated with his tongue hanging out of his mouth, smiling like a madman.
Laxus rolled his eyes, "No, I thought I smelled something familiar." He growled out.
Evergreen hit Bickslow with her fan when he stuck his face in her face, "We really need to find the book store fast, I really want to get home." The glamorous fairy mage said.
Everyone agreed with her while Levy walked down the street further from them, but then her bag was pulling itself towards them. "No, no, no! I really don't want to see them." She whispered to her bag even though she didn't know if the book could hear her or who she was talking to. Levy was pulling the other way from the thunder legion and Laxus.
Bickslow turn his head when he heard scuffing and soft whispers, he saw a small girl with blue hair and bag that was pulling itself. "That's weird." He simply stated.
Laxus turned his head to his wicked teammate, then saw what he was staring at. "What the hell is your bag doing?" Laxus yelled out to the small girl.
Levy's head shot up at them, but the bag was not stopping until she was right in front of all of them. "Uh," She paused, didn't they know who she was? Sighing, she knew this would happen, "It's just an ornery bag." She laughed nervously. He bag started to shake as if the book was laughing at her.
Laxus leaned in closer to her, Levy leaned away from him, "Why do you smell familiar?" Levy was sweating, she didn't want to answer it, but she didn't want to know if they remember her. The large man scoffed and turned away, "Eh, it doesn't matter. Let's go get the job done."
The lightning dragon slayer turned his body away from the solid script mage and his buddies, letting his coat flap in the wind. "Wait Laxus!" Freed yelled running after his leader.
Bickslow just laughed at the two as Evergreen wondered after them, the Seith mage turned back to Levy who had her head bent to the ground. "See ya later pipsqueak!" hanging his tongue out then ran after his friends.
"Uh." Levy was utterly confused, they didn't even care that she was here. Was she supposed to be sad? She somehow didn't feel anything. Her eyes drifted down to her bag that was vibrating, the inside was glowing red again.
Her gazed went forward again, her eyebrows furrowed, what was happening? Her feet started moving towards the woods again, she needed to train more. She can worry about this later, she had stuff to do.
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Two weeks later, Levy still hasn't touched the book again. She set it in her tent by her pillow, not even opened. Levy has been working on her internal magic and her magic containers, since she opened her second origin with the rest of team Natsu before the games. It has been difficult, but it's been worth it.
The sapphire-haired girl was sitting outside with her legs crossed meditating with the sound of birds chirping and the leaves rustling in the wind. Her breathing was connected with her heartbeat. Rogue told her that her breathing was important to training one's magic. When she closed her eyes, words started flying around her, different words in different languages.
The words started to glow gold, the leaves were tangled in her magical energy.
Suddenly something sliced threw her energy, cutting her words and wind, her eyes flew open. Seeing a sword sticking out of the tree by her tent. Levy spun her behind her, she didn't see anything in the foliage. "Hello?" she spoke. Still nothing.
The solid script mage stood up on her bare feet, preparing for a fight, maybe it was another team hunting someone down. She just remembered that her runes weren't up, and she was open to hunt for.
The sword was suddenly shaking in the tree, the flew out towards where it came from. Levy was only clad in shorts and a loose t-shirt. Her hair was flat on her head without her headband, it felt better anyway. Her hands clenched in fists, she thinks she can do it. Hopefully.
A dark-skinned man came from the bushes and gave her a creepy smile. He held his sword in his left hand, wearing an armor-clad chest piece. His legs even had silver armor on them but that was all the armor he was wearing. His long hair was brown and hang low down his back but still in a ponytail.
"Is there something you want?" she asked the man, maybe she could reason with him, with trying to keep her voice steady.
He nodded his head but said nothing, what if he wanted her dead? She shook her head, that was dumb, he would have done that already.
"Can I help you with it?" Levy tried to be nice, but his smile was very concerning. His smile grew more, his grip on the sword was getting tighter.
He suddenly ran to her gripping his weapon with both hands; Levy shifted to the right, out of the way. He had different plans as he threw his sword behind himself to try to stab Levy, but she was in a different spot then he intended; the sword went through her legs but cut her left leg.
The sapphire-haired girl jumped out of the way, a gritted her teeth together. "What do you want?" she screamed at the man, her leg still bleeding.
"The book." He had a deep voice, deeper than she thought.
"What book? I have a lot!" Levy had forgot about how many books she has, maybe she took one of his, but she has never stolen anything. Moving away again to the ground when he tried to cut off her head, it seemed. "Hey!" she yelled as she pulled herself back up to her feet.
"Solid script: fire!" the orange fiery word of fire appeared before them and she threw it towards him. the dark-skinned man through up his arm to fight against it. His shirt caught on fire, but it went out quickly, but Levy was ready to fight him.
His gaze turned up to her with narrowed eyes, he held up his arms with his sword in one hand and his other hand open. Then his other hand held another sword, now having two. What? Can he duplicate things? She gritted her teeth and clench her hands. What else can he duplicate, she was too deep in thought when his charged forward crossing the swords in an 'x' position.
"Solid script – " She didn't finish, he swiped the swords across her chest, he only got part of her right collarbone when he fell back, having blood drip down her shirt. Levy grunted as she scurried back when he came after her again. Brushing the leaves aside behind her as he kept slicing at her, only hitting the ground between her legs.
Then a red glow appeared in her tent a few feet away, Levy stared with her head tilted and her attacker was also looking towards her tent.
"Oh, there you are." His voice was deep as he slowly walked towards her tent. Then her gaze turned to him, what book was doing that? She followed the guy to her tent, but he fell back as he was hit with something in the face. "What the hell?" he groaned leaning on his elbows.
The book fell to the ground and flipped open to the center of the book and stopped and a red light was sent to the sky, a figure then manifested right in front of Levy.
The figure looked dark and creepy in Levy's opinion, he had deep red hair that hung in his face, his eyes had no pupils just a black abyss. His skin was pale white but with patches of black all around his body. His outfit was a dirty pair of black pants and no shirt. It made Levy blush and turn her head away from his black eyes.
The demon looking creature still stared at her but turned his head when her attacker tried to execute but he out his whole hand on his head he stopped. His face started to decay and crack, the dark skin started to peel away, his eyes rolled to the back of his head.
The demon looked over to the sapphire-haired girl who was staring wide eyed at him, he suddenly appeared in front of the girl, squealing, she stepped back. His dark eyes blinked until he laughed, holding his stomach. She furrowed her eyebrows at him, what the hell is with this guy?
"Um, something funny?" she tried conversating with him, he wiped away a tear from his eye as he stopped, putting his hands on his darkened hips.
"Yeah, I had to get stuck with someone like you?"
Levy felt offended and narrowed her eyes at him, although it may not be a good idea, but she figured he wouldn't hurt her; he could have done it already. "What the hell does that mean?"
He waved her off, smiling as he walked past her and crossing his arms. The demon sat on a stump by the lake, Levy just stared at him until she slowly walked to him. the sapphire-haired girl stood off to the side while he sat there with a smile on his face, "Should a demon be smiling?" she asked crossing her arms.
"Should you really be giving attitude to a demon?" his smile turned sinister showing Levy his sharp teeth. She cringed but didn't back down, she needed to show him that she wasn't going to fear him. "Aw, what's the matter? Not scared tiny human?"
"Well, I mean it wouldn't be smart to not be scared of you. I just didn't want to show it." Levy turned her head, not noticing the spark in the demon's eyes. "Were you in the book that wouldn't leave me alone?"
He nodded while standing again, looking into her eyes with his black holes. He reached up slowly and touched her right cheek. Levy didn't know what to do, so she didn't move at all. "You will be given something, and you better use it wisely." His thumb tilted her chin and Levy was entranced, his index finger traced down her throat.
"W-what is this-s g-gift?" Levy stuttered as she tried to find her voice. His eyes were focused on her throat but when she spoke his idled eyes moved to hers.
He didn't answer he as his other hand suddenly gripped her throat, cutting off her air, she grabbed at his arm with both her hands trying to fight him off. Levy even tried to kick him but that did nothing.
"Stop struggling." His voice was an octave deeper than normal. Levy immediately stopped but she didn't know why, she didn't want to listen to him. His nails dug into her pastel skin, drawing blood from her neck. She yelped but then she felt the warmest feeling she's ever felt.
"What is your name?" he asked as he gently set her back on her feet. Levy touched her neck but felt nothing, not even nicks from his nails.
"Levy." Her voice came out raspy.
"You can call me Thymos." Walking over to Levy's tent and just climbing into it, to which Levy raised an eyebrow and climbed into her tent as well.
Thymos was sitting crossed legged and flipping through her books and throwing them to the side when he was done. "Hey!" Levy ran over to fix and reorganize her books. "Can you not throw my things?"
Thymos just shrugged while looking at the book that Levy assumed he came from because Levy had not read that before. She sat down beside him and tried to read over his shoulder, but she didn't know the language. He started laughing at her, "Trying to read?"
"Uh, maybe." She suddenly felt nervous, he almost tried to kill her a few moments ago, she should be afraid of him. He didn't say anything else, she didn't know if she should ask him to tell her what it says but her lacrima started going off, he didn't even look over.
Levy grabbed it and saw that it was Rogue calling her, her head turned to Thymos, who still didn't look at her, "Can you leave?"
"He can't see me anyway." Flipping a page, leaning back on one hand.
"Uh," How come? She answered it, "Hey Ryos! How is everything?" trying to keep her voice even.
"Hey Lev, uh," he paused and looked towards her neck. Levy gazed down to her lap. "What is wrong with your neck?" the eyebrow she could see.
"Oh, what are you talking about?" the sapphire-haired girl tried to act like she didn't know what he was talking about. She started twirling a strand of hair around her finger.
Rogue looked to the side, she could see he had his hair in a ponytail, she once told him that he looked better with his hair like that and he did it every time they talked. Levy's face was a light pink, she tried to hide it, "You have a black mist on your neck. It looks like my shadows are swirling around you. Are you okay?" he asked really concerned.
She touched her neck but felt nothing, it felt like her own neck, no marks or bumps. Levy turned her head to Thymos who was just smiling sinisterly at her.
"You're welcome."
Aww, thanks for the love guys! I really didn't think this story would get much love because Levy is a not a main character but thank you! I might make it a LevyxRogue story. Till next time!