Author's note: Merry Christmas! This has to be one of my favorite chapters for this Christmas series. I hope you all enjoy this!
Chapter 7: Merry Christmas!
"Shrimp!" Gajeel screamed with happiness. Downstairs with the everything Gajeel put away now back in there spots was Levy and Pantherlily, smiling up at him "What are you doing here?!" Levy suddenly blushed while staring at Gajeel and turned her face away.
"Eek!" she screamed.
"What's wrong with you?" he asked in confusion.
"Gajeel," Lily said "I told you a lot of times that you shouldn't walk around the house in your boxers." Gajeel suddenly realized what was wrong and looked down at what he was wearing.
"Oh crap." Gajeel muttered "I'll be right back." He raced upstairs and got a pair of gray sweat pants.
"What are you doing here Shrimp? I thought you weren't going to be here, and Lily I thought you were spending Whatevermas with those cats."
"The Train Station Levy was at was near where the Exceeds live." Lily explained "I felt bad about this whole situation so I offered her a lift back to Magnolia."
"Turns out The Storm was running later then the Weather Lacrima's said so I asked Lily if he could fly me back to Fairy Tail so I can spend Christmas with you like I promised." Gajeel smiled at her reply; this day just got a whole lot better.
"Well, I stayed cause I felt bad and couldn't stand the thought of my best friend spending Christmas alone." Lily explained. Gajeel grabbed Levy and Lily suddenly and pulled them into a tight hug. He began to cry just like he did when Lily first became his Exceed Companion.
"T-thank you." he choked up "Now, Let's open our presents!" the three cheered and made their ways to the tree.
"This is for you Lily!" Gajeel said in a very happy tone. Lily smiled and opened the neatly wrapped gift Gajeel gave him.
"A new sword!" Lily said with his eyes shining! "I think it's made by Musica swords if I'm not mistaken?"
"Damn straight it is, took me forever to track that bastard down. You know he looks like the Ice Stripper?" Lily then opened a gift from Levy and noticed what it was right away.
"A book?" he questioned.
"Not just any book." Levy smiled "Read the title." Lily read the title and his eyes sparkled when he read it: "How to Grow Kiwis."
"This is perfect! Thank you Levy! And Thank you Gajeel for your gift!" The tiny Exceed then walked over to his friends and hugged them both.
"Now It's Gajeel's turn." Levy smiled Lily walked over to Gajeel and gave him a gift; Gajeel's First Christmas Gift. Gajeel took his finger and turned it into a tiny knife and carefully opened the gift. Gajeel's widened when he saw it or them he should say.
"New Boots?!" Gajeel asked.
"Your old ones were getting old so I felt you could use a new pair." Lily shrugged.
"Gihihihi! You know me like the back of your paw Lily. What'd you get me for Christmas Shrimp?" Levy smiled and suddenly left the room. She soon came back carrying a large gift, coated with wrapping paper and seemed very heavy. Gajeel raised an eyebrow to this and left to help her. He suddenly took a whiff of the air.
"Smells like iron." he muttered "Wait, my iron." He put the gift down and began to unwrap it. His eyes widened when he realized what it was. It was a guitar, an electric guitar made with his own iron. The guitar was black in color and had a dragon designed on the bottom of the body; Metalicana. The strings were even made from his iron.
"H-how did you do this-when?" Gajeel asked while studying the guitar.
"I found a guitar company who makes custom guitars." Levy blushed "I know how much you love music and I thought it would be a great idea to give you a guitar made from iron, since you know, your known as The Iron Dragon Slayer. But I didn't want you to be tempted to eat it so I got some of the iron you sheded awhile back and had it turned into a guitar. They said there was difficulty melting it; though, I'm glad they got it done in time." Gajeel gave the biggest smirk he could ever give a person. He went ahead and gave Levy and Lily the biggest hugs he could give.
"Thank you so so much." He muttered. He picked up the guitar and plucked the strings "Sounds amazing." Levy smiled "Your turn Shrimp." Lily and Gajeel handed to Levy two gifts. Levy opened Lily's gift which was a necklace and the pendant was a feather pen.
"I love it Lily!" She smiled "Thank you so much!" she then turned to Gajeel's gift which was wrapped very crappily. She began to open it but soon, she gasped and burst into tears of joy.
"This is the first book my parents ever got me when I was little." she said while wiping away a tear "How did you get this?"
"Bar wench gave us a map of where your old hometown was." Gajeel explained "I followed a very faint scent which belonged to you." Levy continued to try and hold back her tears of joy.
"Thank you so much!" Levy said. She hugged Lily but when she reached Gajeel, she kissed him; on the cheek. She suddenly realized what she did and her cheeks turned red.
"S-sorry." Levy said while looking away "I wasn't sure of hat I was thinking I-" She was suddenly cut off when Gajeel's lips made contact with hers. Levy was shocked at first, but soon, the shock wore off and she soon melted into the kiss.
"Been wanting to do that for quite sometime." Gajeel muttered.
"Yeah, same here." They then collasped into another kiss.
"Let's head to the guild to celebrate!" Lily requositioned.
"Sounds good to me fur ball! Gihihihi." Gajeel smirked. The three soon got up, grabbed their gifts, got in their into their winter clothes and left Gajeel's house.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" is what they were greeted with as soon as they walked through the doors of Fairy Tail. Levy looked above her and found a smile plastered on Gajeel's face.
"You look happy Gajeel." Lucy suddenly said to the Iron Dragon Slayer.
"Damn right I am." Gajeel smirked "My least favorite Holiday turned into my most favorite. And it's all thanks to the Shrimp." he pulled Levy closer to him and gave her another kiss. Lucy looked at them both completely speechless.
"H-how when?!" Lucy asked Levy.
"This morning." Levy smiled "He got me a gift from my childhood and well..." Levy blushed.
"Wait," Jet suddenly said while walking over to Gajeel and Levy.
"Gajeel and Levy did what?!" Droy screamed. The Guild soon payed attention to the situation and soon, burst into cheers of joy.
"Levy, Gajeel." a voice suddenly said. The two looked down and found Makarov walking over to them.
"Congratulations on your new found happiness." he continued to them "I wish you both nothing but pure happiness and a happy relationship. And not only that I have some great news myself!"
"You found more embarrassing photos of Laxus?" Natsu screamed across The Guild before a bolt of lighting hit him from above.
"No," Makarov deadpanned "I found the ornament that Master Mavis created!" Makarov opened up a small box and soon, a beautiful lacrima that was in the shape of the Fairy Tail insignia was revealed; it was meant to be the star on top of the tree.
"Would you and Gajeel like to do the honors, Levy?" Makarov asked and gently handed the tree topper to the newly formed couple.
"It would be an honor." Levy smiled. Two ladders on opposite sides of the tree stood there and both Gajeel and Levy climbed up the opposite ladders. She put the ornament above the tree and let Gajeel grab a hold of the other side. The two then carefully place the Fairy Tail symbol on the tree and a bright light began to shine from the lacrima. The new couple watched as different colored lights began to shine from the special ornament.
Soon, a very bright light enveloped The Guild. When it dispersed, people couldn't believe what was left behind from the lacrima; snow, it was snowing in The Guild, and miniature bright lights floated around The Guild; fairies.
"This is some really powerful magic." Levy said while still in a surprised state.
"I've never seen anything like it." Gajeel muttered.
"Alright brats!" Makarov screamed drunkenly "Time to open gifts!" The Guild of course; cheered.
People began to surround the tree and grab their gifts before heading to tables to open them up individually.
"A magic fire that never runs out!" Natsu screamed "Alright! I always could use this! Thanks Luce!" he hugged the big breasted blonde as his way of expressing his thanks.
"A book on different types of fish!" Happy happily exclaimed "Thank you Levy!"
Gray began to open his gift when he began to question his gift when he saw it.
"A book on Iron Mechanics?" Gray asked out loud "I don't work with Iron..." Juvia noticed this and her eyes widened.
Oh no! she mentally screamed Gray-Sama got Gajeel-kun's gift by mistake! But wait, if Gray-sama got Gajeel-kun's gift, then that means...
"Oi! Stripper!" Gajeel's voice boomed across The Guild. He then walked over to Gray and had between to fingers in a claw-like motion was a G-String "I think Juvia got our Christmas Gifts mixed up." Gray blushed when he noticed the ice blue colored G-string in Gajeel's hand.
The Strauss siblings got themselves Matching Sweaters to wear around The Holidays, Evergreen got a Fairy Necklace from her teammates, Bixlow got a new helmet, Laxus got a new pair of headphones, and Freed got a new sword for his magic. What caught The Guild off guard the most was an anonymous gift for Erza. Before she could open the tag said "For my scarlet haired warrior angel."
"Erza open it up!" Lisanna smiled while putting on her new sweater. Erza carefully opened the package and her eyes began to sparkle; it was armor. White Armor, Angel Armor. It was a dress that had armor underneath, a halo helmet and white angel wings. On the sword that came with it, was the Heart Kruz symbol.
"Sword smells like Jellal." Natsu muttered; Erza blushed she couldn't believe it. Now she needed to find him and give him his gift.
For the rest of Christmas, Fairy tail celebrated their day by checking out their new stuff, getting drunk and singing Christmas songs. Gajeel went on the stage and performed with his new guitar Levy gave him and performed many Christmas songs. Levy, who was completely sober, noticed he looked a little tipsy... ok scratch that, a lot. And fortunately, it seemed to be making him more musically talented. The day continued and soon, sundown arrived and it began to snow.
"I heard it's going to be another bad one tonight." Levy muttered to Lucy, who had a drunken Natsu slumped down on her "I better take Gajeel home. He's been drinking a lot the whole day."
"Good idea." Lucy smiled while wrapping Natsu's arm around her neck and picking Happy up by the tail "Merry Christmas Levy." she told her friend.
"Merry Christmas." Levy nodded back.
She made her way over to Gajeel who was laughing away with some some of the guys and Lily and drank another beer.
"Shrimp!" Gajeel smiled drunkenly at her.
"Time to go home Gajeel." Levy told him "I think you drank enough today."
"No fair." Gajeel pouted at her. She took the beer mug from him and gave it to Mira who was kissing Laxus drunkenly under the mistletoe. She pulled Gajeel's arm and put it around her shoulder.
The starry night sky and snow shined down on the two new love birds. Gajeel was beginning to somewhat sober up from the cold night air but he was still heavily drunk. They arrived back at his home and she got him up to his room. He fell immediately onto his bed with a plop; he looked up at Levy and smiled.
"Shrimp?" he asked suddenly.
"Get some rest." Levy ordered. Gajeel raised an eyebrow.
"We gonna have sex?" Levy blushed at that question.
"No!" she squeaked "We just started dating! Were no where near ready for- for-for-"
"Gihihihi. Just messin with ya Shrimp." he pulled her closer to him and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
"I'm gonna head home Gajeel." she suddenly said "It's getting really late. Good night Gajeel, Merry Christmas." she was about to leave when Gajeel suddenly grabbed her and pulled her close again.
"With what I heard, there's gonna be another bad winter storm tonight." he muttered into her ear "You're staying with me tonight. I love you Shrimp." Levy suddenly blushed at his comment. She stared into his drunken, hazy eyes before he suddenly fell back onto the bed and passed out.
"Gajeel," she whispered. Suddenly, his snores filled the air. She grabbed him underneath his armpits and dragged him to the top of the bed. She put the covers over him and wiggled her way into the other side of the bed "I love you too; Merry Christmas Gajeel." she gave him a gentle kiss on the lips before falling into a deep sleep.