I'm very sorry for my delay, but I had some troubles on doing this one. I had lots of friends visiting me for a sleepover – silly name, we barely slept xD – and for two days, I was entirely busy. The others days I spent on thinking and writing it, not satisfied with my results.
Also, MistyQueHarper was a sweetheart and corrected it, so it took a bit longer to publish.
Check her out! You'll see how great her stories are o3o
But, well, we finally did it. Hope you enjoy it!
I do not own Fairy Tail nor Tangled!
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A Tangled Fairy Tale
Chapter 4
Levy toyed with her food absently. Her mother, after bathing, came straight to bed, saying she was too tired to eat. Sighing heavily, she gave up on eating, purposely missing Athena's condemning gaze.
- Levy.- the girl had her eyes glued on the dishes, in which poor surface she threw her despair, not bothering to answer the owl's call.
She went through all of her fear, and was happy only for trying to face her mom, even if that meant being beaten up again. And the only reward she got was... Silence?
Pure disregard?
She knew her mother had a difficult...Temperament...
But sometimes she couldn't stand it!
Even so, Levy remembered herself, she gave her education, food, and a bed to lay at night.
The silver haired girl always wondered how she maintained the household, but never troubled herself to ask how could they afford items that could not be grown (such as the frying pans).
She knew the brunette was a mage, but how could anyone hire her without being in a Guild? What kind of work did she engage? Was she merely selling potions or did she use the hidden, violent self undernieth that sweet face?
She hunched her shoulders in defeat, wiping a stubborn tear from her cheek. She knew that if things kept going that way, Levy would never be able to be someone in her mother's eyes.
And she would never be able to meet the moving stars!
With a sad smile, she looked outside the tall window. The twinkling stars were the only thing she loved above reading.
Ever since she was little, she had horrid nightmares that startled her awake in the dead of the night. Her mother never bothered interrupting her beauty sleep to comfort her, and Athena was often out hunting.
The only thing that could calm her terrifying lingers of nightmares was the stargazing.
When she stared at the silver light – the same color of her hair – she felt as she was home. As if she was... Complete.
However, not even the stars could calm her in this moment, with her brain buzzing from all the thinking.
Her frustration brought back old doubts and made her remember the dark parts from her life.
Yes, she lived deprived of information of lots of matters of the Starlight Kingdom; the only things she knew about it for sure were three:
One: Minerva herself told her the coming of age was at eighteen. The potion mage told her that would be the time when they could talk about her leaving from the tower.
Two: She and her mother were mages (but Levy always made sure that her mom was unaware of her true skills) nothing out of the ordinary in Starlight Kingdom. Also, Minerva's often complainant over Guilds "who would ruin her business", so she knew for sure there were other mages in this world (and hoped she would meet some).
Three: The forest they lived was somewhat far from the Capital and was told to be wicked. With that, no one could ever dream that actual people could live there, and leaving her home by herself would be beyond dangerous (Well, she had Athena, but, still, it was just an owl that had the odd ability to speak in human tongue).
Levy also knew that her and her mother weren't blood related, for Minerva told her, when she was still a little girl, she found the poor child abandoned on her doorstep. Other than that, she never told Levy more.
And thus begun her never ending pondering:
Who were her actual parents?
Where really did she came from?
Why was she abandoned?
Why she could never leave the tower?
And why, for heaven's sake, did those moving stars always appeared only on her birthday?
With an annoyed look, Athena perceived Levy would not come back of her "insane-puzzle-solving-land" with any kind of persuasion she had on her wings and beak.
Seriously, it was almost possible to see the wheels turning in her head!
Suspiringly, she left the girl with her raging thoughts, hoping the rising sun could give her strength to fight her mother's will.
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In the next chapter, we will have Gajeel again, in case you were missing him x3
I am thinking on writing on the way I've been doing, alternating Gajeel and Levy.
I do think they will meet soon, but we still have some story going on before. ;3
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