Author's note: Ok, we got something exciting going on with Levy, now that she out of Gajeel's castle, let's see what happens next! And ya this is a long one, I got carried away. Lol and big surprise to the fans in this chapter!
(Please note: I do not own Fairy Tail or Beauty and the beast)
Chapter 7: Something that wasn't there before.
Levy trudged in the snowy tundra which was once the beautiful spring road she use to play with her mother in as a little girl. Now things were different. Levy wasn't there to play, she was on the run. From a beast who lived in a castle and refused to let her leave. But she left because he scared her nearly to death. She had no horse or anything to make her run faster. This Blizzard in front of her was too much for her. She has been walking since an hour before dawn and she needed to rest. Levy found a nearby cave and decided to rest there. She sat down and breathed out a huge sigh. She had to be a mile away from the castle now. Just when she was about to get up, she felt a warm breath on the left side of her neck. Levy looked to see where the breath came from and to horror discovered this cave was already occupied.
Vulcans. About 20 of them. All sleeping in a huge pile like a pile of dirty laundry. Levy held her gasp at the sight of these creatures. She only read about them in books but never seen one (or so many) up-close. Levy began to move slowly and get out of this cave before they woke up. She began to tip-toe out of the cave when her foot knocked over a tiny rock. Levy froze for a moment and it seemed like forever. But nothing happened. The Vulcans didn't stir the slightest bit. She continued her way out of the cave when suddenly, she sneezed. Levy didn't think much of it because she was out of range but that was until a cold shiver went down her spine from a monkey like voice.
"Pretty Woman." the voice said. Levy dared to look behind herself and seen a Vulcan along with his other 19 buddies waking up.
"PRETTY WOMAN! PRETTY WOMAN! ME LIKE PRETTY WOMAN!" they screamed in unison. Levy screamed and began to run as fast as her small feet could take her. The Vulcans were gaining on her. Levy immediately screamed "Solid Script: Stone!" The word "STONE" appeared out of thin air and whacked some of The Vulcans square in the forehead. But it didn't stop them. Levy was soon cornered into a tree and to protect herself, she screamed "Solid Script: Shield!" The word "SHEILD" appeared out of thin air and protected the young bookworm. But it wasn't long until a Vulcan managed to break the spell and attempt to grab her. Instead, he scratched Levy. She could feel the singing pain in her leg and her blood coming out of the wound. She clenched onto the wound trying to stop the bleeding.
"PRETTY WOMAN!" some of The Vulcans screamed.
"MINE! MY PRETTY WOMAN!" other Vulcans screamed. Was this going to be Levy's fate? The forced captive to about 20 Vulcans? They got closer and closer to Levy. She backed further and further into the tree until she couldn't any more. This is it. She thought I'm done for. Levy closed her eyes and expected the worst when suddenly, she heard the sound of metal clunking against the hallow skull of one of The Vulcans. Levy opened an eye to see what caused this and discovered Gajeel attacking the Vulcan with his... arm made of Iron?
"I told you not to leave my castle." he murmured to Levy. Levy just stared at him and began to blush. She couldn't believe this was happening. The Vulcans were beginning to not like Gajeel being in the area. They began to growl and grow red with anger.
"NO LIKE MAN!" they hollered. "WE WANT WOMAN!" They banged their chest with their fists in frustration. Levy could feel her heart beat faster than normal. She wanted to run.
Gi hihi hi hi!" laughed Gajeel "I'm an Iron dragon slayer. My magic can beat you freaking stinking monkeys." The Vulcans at that moment launched their attacks at Gajeel. Some bit; scratched and tried to strangle him. One of the Vulcans succeeded in biting him and at that moment Gajeel screamed "Iron Dragon's: ROAR!" A huge cyclone of air and metal (what Levy believed to be iron) appeared and it sent The Vulcans flying into the air. He managed to defeat 7. Only 13 to go. The Vulcans began to run at Gajeel only for him to turn his arms into iron clubs and punch two unconscious. 11 were left. The fight continued as Gajeel roared, scratched and turned his arm into a sword just to defeat about 10 more. Now there was only one. This one was the largest and had a large scar on its chest. Levy could tell immediately this was the leader.
"ME WANT PRETTY WOMAN!" it screamed while banging his fist on his chest.
"Shut up monkey." snarled Gajeel while clenching his arm from his earlier bite. "You'll have to go through me to get her." Levy didn't like the look of this Vulcan. He looked like he could destroy and entire village without breaking a sweat. Levy wanted to run but the pain in her leg was too much. The Vulcan ran towards Gajeel and pinned him to a near-by tree.
"Ga-Gajeel!" Levy screamed. The Vulcan began to crush Gajeel's windpipe until finally. Gajeel gathered what strength he had left and punched The Vulcan square in the temple. The Vulcan then fell to the ground in defeat. Gajeel gathered all the air he could and walked over to where Levy was. He gave her a cold glare like he was going to grab her and drag her back to his castle himself. But; instead, he fell to his knees then fell to the ground, unconscious. Levy saw this moment as her way of escaping. She managed to get all the strength she could gather and begin to limp. But, she stopped. She looked back at Gajeel who was lying face first in the snow. Was she starting to feel guilty for planning to just leave him there? He did save me... I owe my life to him. She thought to herself. At that moment, Levy walked over to were Gajeel lied and lifted him up. She carried him by shoulder all the way back to the castle.
Thirty minutes into the walk back, Gajeel woke up and helped Levy limp back to the castle. Once there, Gajeel sat in his chair near the fire and tried to heal his wounds by himself. Instead, Levy had a cloth with an anti-biotic ready to clean his wounds.
"Ok," she began "This is going to sting." She pressed the towel onto the bite from The Vulcan and at that moment. An inhuman scream filled the hallways of the castle. The Servants coward in fear from the scream.
"That hurts!" Gajeel screamed at Levy.
"I warned you it would!" she replied.
"Well maybe if you didn't run off, we wouldn't be in this mess!"
"Well maybe if you didn't scare me, I wouldn't of left!"
"Well maybe if you ACTUALLY listened to me about going into the West Corridor, we wouldn't be having this conversation!"
"Well maybe if you learned to control your temper... We wouldn't be here in the first place!"
Gajeel tried to come up with a come-back but knew that he couldn't. Levy got to him. And won. She continued to clean the wounds on his body and bandaged them all. No one dared to try and break the silence.
"Anyway." Levy began finally breaking the silence "Thanks... for saving me."
A moment of silence passed and then finally, Gajeel said
"No problem. I'm- I'm sorry I scared you. I won't do it again." The Servants looked at Gajeel in complete shock.
"H-Holy crap." Natsu whispered to the others "He- He apologized?!"
"Aye!" Happy replied.
Levy and Gajeel were beginning to stare at each other but this time, with a smile. Gajeel playfully tickled Levy under the armpit which made her giggle. The next few days couldn't have been better for the two. They seemed to of been getting along more and more every day. They would play together in the snow, sit by the fire (they removed his big chair and replaced a couch instead), and have a couple of laughs. Gajeel even gave Levy as a gift his library. A week had past and already these two were best friends. One evening, Gajeel and Levy were sitting by the fire reading a book and relaxing. The Servants were watching from afar and smiling at this.
"You know." Juvia began "I can't believe how much of a difference one week could make."
"It's like…" Natsu began "I can't put my finger on it but it feels like there's-"
"Something that wasn't there before?" asked Carla.
"Yeah, that's it!" Natsu replied.
"So…" Gray replied "Something that wasn't there before…"
"Gray your panels…" Happy said.
"OH CRAP!"
Back in Magnolia, the town bar The Fairy Tail was busy with customers coming in and out. Laxus was there with his friends drinking away his rejection from Levy after she rejected his marriage proposal. PantherLilly, The barkeep was watching Laxus who was downing as many mugs of beer as he can.
"Man, you look like crap." said PantherLilly while cleaning some of the glasses.
"He was rejected." Freed explained to PantherLilly.
"Oh really? By who?"
"Levy McGarden."
"The Spell Maker's daughter? Yeah she's a tough nut to crack." Hearing that, Laxus downed his mug of beer like it was nothing.
"I'm worthless." Laxus said "I can't even win the woman I like."
"Who, you? Never!" said Freed "Laxus, you've got to pull yourself together.
Jesus it disturbs me to see you, Laxus
Looking so down in the dumps
Every guy here'd love to be you Laxus!" The bar cheered when they heard that, Bixlow then continued
"Even when taking your lumps
There's no man in town as admired as you
You're everyone's favorite guy
Everyone's awed and inspired by you
And it's not very hard to see why!"
The whole Bar suddenly busted into song and sang
"No one's slick as Laxus, no one's quick as Laxus,
No one's next as incredibly thick as Laxus,
For there's no man in town half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon!
You can ask any Jet, Droy, or Macao
And they'll tell you whose team they'd prefer to be on!" Freed then sang
"No one's been like Laxus, a Mage like Laxus
No one's got a swell cleft in his chin like Lax-"
"Hey! No musical numbers in my bar!" PantherLilly screamed. The whole bar stayed silent.
"That killed the mood." muttered EverGreen. Before the bar could return to normal, Makarov suddenly burst through the door. And from the looks of it, it's like he's seen a ghost.
"Someone! Help!" he screamed. "Please, it's urgent!"
"Take it easy Makarov," said Reedus calmly "what's wrong?"
"It's-It's my Levy!" he screamed "She was taken by a horrible beast!" The whole bar gasped hearing those words.
"You sure it was a Beast?" asked Laxus sarcastically.
"No doubt about it! He had long black hair; bumps on his face that I think were piercings, scaly silver skin, horns on his head and piecing red eyes!" The women in the bar screamed when they heard those words. Laxus and his friends exchanged glances then walked over to Makarov.
"Ok old man." Laxus said in a kind yet sarcastic tone "My friends and I will take care of the 'big scary beast' for you."
"You- you will?" Makarov said with a look of hope "Oh thank you Laxus! I owe you one for this!" as he spoke, Bixlow's babies began to carry the old man out of the bar which left the whole bar in laughter.
"Hey Laxus," laughed Bixlow "this just gave me a wonderful idea on your whole Levy situation. Why don't you just threaten her that you'll throw her dad in a loony bin and then she'll be your wife?"
Laxus thought for a moment and realized Bixlow had a wonderful idea. Levy would do anything to keep her father's freedom. If he gave her the ultimatum to marry him, then she would.
"It does seem he lost his sanity." Laxus said with a smile showing he liked Bixlow's idea "A month from today, we will set the plan into motion."
"Why a month?" asked Freed.
"It would look suspicious if we did it now." Replied Laxus "I mean, the whole 'situation' is fresh to the old man. He needs to get 'help' somehow." After his reply, Laxus began to sing:
"Now the wheels in my head have been turning
Since I looked at that loony old man
See I promised myself I'd be married to Levy,
And right now I see now could be the time!"
The bar began to sing again:
"No one plots like Laxus, takes cheap shots like Laxus
Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Laxus
So his marriage we soon we'll be celebrating!
My what a guy…."
"HEY! What did I just go through with you people?! NO MUSICAL NUMBERS IN THE BAR!" PantherLilly screamed.
Outside the bar, Makarov heard how they made fun of him and formed his hand into a fist.
"If no one will save my daughter, then I will!" he screamed "I'll make a spell that can save my Levy!"
