Accidents Happen


It's common knowledge that every now and again, accidents occur. Levy herself, a proud member of Fairy Tail, knew this herself all too well. How many times has she opened a spell book and tried to power up her solid script, only to have it backfire? She'd once turned her hair green for a week…people had mistaken her for Freed a couple of times, even though she'd still been wearing her normal clothes.

There were a few friends that were smart enough to know that she was herself, though. Surprisingly, one of those had been Gajeel. His way of figuring out it was her had not improved her mood at the time. "You're too short to be that other guy," he had said.

But the accident she had made this time was different than any other, mainly because this time, she wasn't the only one affected…

The day had started off like any normal one. Levy had woken up, berating herself for staying up until the early hours of the morning to read, and had prepared for the day. She'd gone to the guild, taken a small mission, earned a small payment, bid good evening to her friends, and gone back home. Then, she had picked out a spell book and begun to rifle through it.

Levy had been trying to find ways to make her magic stronger, and sometimes the spell books gave her ideas to try. She'd read through the book until it was nearly midnight, and then she had gone to bed. What she failed to realize were two things.

One, she had left the spell book open. Two, without her realizing she'd mumbled a couple of words from the currently displayed spelled before heading to bed. She tended to read a lot of things out loud without meaning to.

As she slept fitfully that night, her body changed.

.:Morning:.

Gajeel was exhausted. After a long mission of pounding the snot out of a bunch of weaklings, and then taking a rather hard hit from behind courtesy of the strongest of the weaklings, he'd been ready to just come home and sleep. But then there had been some weird feeling in his stomach, and his mind and body refused to let him rest.

He had lain in his bed all night, staring at the ceiling and letting his thoughts wander. Pantherlily had slept like a rock beside him, and now with the sun filtering through the slightly dirty window, his cat began to wake.

"Good morning," Lily said, yawning and rubbing his eyes tiredly. His vision was still kind of blurry after sleeping so well. "I hope you remembered to pick up some kiwis last time you were out…"
Gajeel grumbled at his cat, wondering why his chest felt so heavy all of a sudden. He stretched his arms above his head and cracked his neck, the thought crossing his mind, 'Why the hell do my arms seem so skinny? Is it because they're above me or something?'

His kiwi-living partner had finally cleared the fuzziness out of his eyes, and glanced over his shoulder to check on his partner's progress. Gajeel was always so slow in the mornings… Poor Pantherlily hadn't been prepared for the sight that greeted him. "G-Gajeel?"

"What?" A gloved, small hand clapped over his mouth and the dragon slayer's red irises widened drastically. "WHAT?!" His shriek…wasn't manly, at all. His voice, why was it so high-pitched? "Why's my hand so tiny? It's like it belongs to the Shrimp or somethin'…"

"Gajeel, why don't you go to the bathroom and take a look in the mirror?" Lily looked like he'd just gone through a violent thunderstorm, with his paws pressed against the sides of his head and his expression very odd, to say in the least. 'Something is messing with my head. I could've sworn Gajeel looked almost like…'

A loud scream cut off his thoughts for a moment, confirming what he'd believed he saw. 'Like a girl!'

.: At Fairy Hills :.

The opposite gender is not allowed, normally, to set foot in Fairy Hills; the place where the majority of females in the Fairy Tail guild reside. There are various reasons for this, ranging from protection from perverts to preventing the destruction of the girls' living space.

But that morning in Fairy Hills, there was a male in the building. He hadn't snuck through a door or window, and he hadn't broken in. He'd simply stayed in the place overnight, but last night, he'd been a girl.

Now the wide-awake Levy ran frantic hands through a mop of significantly shorter blue hair, wide hazel eyes peering at the reflection of a mirror. "I'm a boy." Her voice was a lot deeper, her face more angular, and she had gained at least a couple of inches in height. Her chest was flat, but sadly, that was normal.
Levy prided herself in having a rational mind, and that rationality was the only thing that was keeping her from yelling so loud that she brought every mage in the vicinity rushing to the room. First things first, she needed to get out of here, quietly.

'Do I call myself a she or a he?' Levy wondered, before deciding it didn't matter. Scampering out of the bathroom, she grabbed her satchel from the chair it hung on, and then slung it over her shoulder. After tossing in a few books at random, she examined her window.

It was quite a long ways down. Luckily, there was a tree that grew very close. That was her best shot at getting out of Fairy Hills unnoticed. Going unseen was key; who knows what Erza would do if she saw the opposite gender sneaking out of the building?

Her hands grasped the closest branch firmly, and she carefully eased herself out the window. 'Amazing! I'm so strong…' Indeed, her tiny wrists, ankles, arms and legs weren't so tiny anymore. She'd developed some nice muscles with the transformation she'd gone through last night.

She slowly made her way down the tree, avoiding a bee hive and some thinner branches that didn't look like they'd hold the weight of her new body. Levy's feet touched the ground and she smiled in triumph. It was then she'd noticed something.

She was still wearing the same clothes as she'd been wearing the previous night. With a huff of annoyance, she quickly scaled the tree and crept back into her room. After rummaging through her drawers, she found a pair of sweatpants and a T-shirt that had used to be too large on her.

Once again the girl turned boy made her way to the window, and was halfway down the tree when she heard a feminine voice cry out, "Hey, don't step on me idiot!" Hazel eyes looked downward and met red. "Gajeel?!"


To be continued…


A/N: I am not in a good state of mind at the moment. Something weird happened and screwed up my computer: everything is gone. I'm really upset. There won't be any replies this chapter, but please do review and let me know if you'd like to know how this idea of mine ends.

NOTE: Next week I'll be at camp. Sorry for the lack of updates!