Chapter 10:

Lemons and Licorice

When I was in the third grade, I had an overwhelming number of nightmares. This was because Metalicana, the iron dragon who took care of me, had disappeared. Juvia had become more like a mother-figure to me at that time. So whenever I had nightmares, she would give me lemons.

Yes.

LEMONS.

She would get a half a glass of water, and at least FIVE FUCKING LEMONS and use her water magic to squeeze every bit of the lemon juice into that glass, until the lemons were as dry as the Sahara desert.

You would think that she would put some sugar or dilute it with a bit more water, but no. She forced my jaws open and splashed the sour tasting liquid in the back of mouth, until I was forced to swallow every last drop.

And then she would make four more glasses.

But even though it stung, that's what made me forget. Forget about how Metalicana disappeared. Forget how alone I was. How I had no one to take care of me before I met Juvia and Rogue, The harsh taste of the lemon brought me back to reality.

So that's what I did with Levy, but on a tamer scale.

I pried her away from me, but she kept latching on to my body, like Panther Lily when it was storming outside.

"Gajeel!" she moaned, reaching for me.

I picked her up and carried her to the bar, setting her down on the granite countertop while I got some water and some lemons.

Every five seconds, she was moaning my name and it took all I had not to jump over the damn counter and take her, to hell with whoever watched.

"Levy, stop it." I said, trying to be strict with her.

She started crying.

I gave myself a mental slap. Nice job. Get her to cry.

"Good lord, it's like she's drunk again." I muttered, squeezing some lemons into a full glass of water.

I couldn't do it as well as Juvia, but I made sure that most of the juice was in. I took a sip and winced. Yup. This was Juvia's drink for nightmares alright.

"Here. Drink." I passed the glass to her and she stared at it.

"What is this?"

"Lemon water."

She blinked. "I have to drink this?"

I nodded.

Levy grabbed the drink, then handed it to me with a sly smile. "Give it to me. With your mouth."

And just when I was thinking she had gone back to normal.

Since I had no complaints, I took a sip and forced her chin down, kissing her and efficiently giving her a good dose of Juvia's lemon water.

Immediately she pushed back, her lips puckered. She shook her head violently. "Oh god, that-that was SOUR!"

Finally. No more drunk-like Levy.

She rubbed her temples, "Great, now I have a head-ache."

"Not my problem."

Levy glanced at me, a sad smile on her face. "Sorry about that. Thanks for not taking advantage of me."

I shrugged. "It's okay. You weren't ready. But next time, I'll be sure to take you, and I swear that it's going to be rough, hard, animalistic sex." I grinned at her slightly frightened expression. "I mean, I am an iron dragon after all."

She giggled, a light blush spread on her cheeks. "Yeah, yeah, okay. Now let's go back to sleep."

Levy's P.O.V.

Now that I think about it, I must've been acting like some cheap fifty cent hooker.

"Um, Gajeel?"

He groaned. "Shrimp, please don't tell me you have a nightmare."

"No, it's just that- what was I like?"

He sighed and peppered my face with lots of kisses. "To be honest?You were like a bitch in heat, love."

"Good bitch or bad bitch?"

"A very naughty, sexy, little bitch."

His fingers skimmed across my waist, his heat wrapping me up tightly. Gajeel tucked my head under his chin. "You need to sleep. We'll talk in the morning."

******HER IRON DRAGON******

"Ugh, I hate this," Natsu groaned, his cheeks swelling as he felt the overwhelming urge to hurl.

"Sorry, Wendy can't use her Troia on you since you developed a resistance against it." Lucy murmured, pushing back his pink hair from his forehead.

"Levy, can't you do anything for his motion sickness?" Lucy asked me.

I winced, shifting in Gajeel's lap. "Sorry. I don't have anything for that."

Gajeel muttered under his breath about mangoes and yogurt. Let me elaborate:

This morning we all went to get breakfast. By all I mean ALL. It was pretty crowded in the lobby, so we moved outside, sending a few people in to get what everyone else wanted.

Gajeel told me the one thing he wanted was a yogurt and some of my iron. Well, since they were out of yogurt by the time I even got NEAR the food, they only had some mangoes.

So I took a mango for him and a peach for me. Now, you would think he would be greatful that I at least got him something, but NOOOO. The slayer decided to make a scene, yelling about how I never do stuff right and how I was so stupid that I couldn't see the difference between a MANGO and some YOGURT.

What I did is take some chubby kids' peach yogurt and emptied it out on his head. Because that's what an angry bookworm would do.

I paid for it when we got back because Gajeel forced me to clean out every bit of peach yogurt from his hair, and then he leaned against the door of the bathroom on the other side, locking me in.

"Hey, you doing okay, Shrimp?"

I nodded. "I'm fine. Just thinking back on this morning."

He growled and nipped at my shoulder. "I don't want to hear anymore of it. Just go to sleep or something."

The principal picked us up and this time he cast magic circles around the ship so that it was cool and relaxing.

"Alright, fairies, when we come back, pick up your assignment from the board and go. Any one who comes back within an hour gets an A+. Hour and a half, A-. Two hours, B+. And so forth. School is in session for eight hours. If you come back later that seven hours, you will fail. It is simple and easy. You must take a job-all which pay the same amount of money- and partner up with somebody. Get the job done. Come back. Split the money. The end."

I glanced around. All the couples had their teams except for Erza. "Principal, can their be teams of three?"

"If there's not enough partners, then yes."

I stood up as we pulled into the docks. "Erza-san, do you want to be in our group?"

She smiled. "Sure."

Out of the blue she turned into the Flight armor, running in the direction of the school. She came back two minutes later with a flyer for a job in her hand.

"I must get an A+ because I am part of S Class. I took this job. I hope it's okay with you because I am not changing it."

She thrust the flyer into my hands before re-quipping into her regular armor.

"Let's go then," Gajeel muttered. "So, Titania, do you have a car?"

"Nope. We're going to use a magic powered car."

I blinked. "Wait, doesn't that take up a lot of magic energy?"

"Yes. However, it is the quickest way to get to the top of the mountain."

"I don't think that's a good idea," I reasoned. "From what the flyer says, this monster will need a lot of magic power against it."

"I have enough magic power to take out a hundred monsters of different rank and I have done that before, in the Grand Magic Games, if you remember."

I hesitantly nodded.

So we ended up taking the magic powered car.

It's true that we made it to the top in under twenty minutes, but Erza looked kind of beat. She must've seen the worry on my face.

"Do not worry about me. There is incantations around this mountain. Gajeel, take Levy to the top of the mountain. That's were the source is. Stay there with her. Mount Hakobe still has Vulcans roaming around from what Lucy and Natsu told me. The moment the incantations are off, I'll handle the monster. Now go!"

Her figure began to glow, but I never got to see what she re-quipped into because Gajeel had thrown me over his shoulder and taken off to the tip of the mountain.

Bye the time w e reached, another 3 minutes had passed. I scanned the snowy ground, looking for the incantations. I spotted a pink incantations half hidden under the snow. I dropped to my knees and brushed away the snow. Pulling out my reading glasses, I scanned over the incantations, learning more about it.

Once my scan was complete, I worked to re-write it. If we didn't have any distractions, we would be done in a matter of minutes.

Heavy thunking sounded on the ground and I looked up. Two or three of the Vulcans were here.

"Hurry, hurry!" Gajeel told me, turning his fists into iron. "I'll give you a few minutes."

A few minutes was all I needed. While I was halfway done with the incantations, I heard Gajeel release and Iron Dragon Roar. I flinched when one of the Vulcans, knocked out cold, landed a few feet away from me.

"Damn, they just keep coming like moths attracted to heat-"

"DONE!" I yelled, jumping up. The incantations turned blue and then exploded into magic dust.

There was a giant roar, the mountain shook just from the sound. I held onto Gajeel for leverage before I pulled myself back up. "What was that?"

"That was the sound of the beast that Titania is facing. Come on, let's go."

When we reached, I was nearly pierced with one of her swords as she re-quipped into her Heaven's Wheel Armor.

The monster's head came from the cave in the mountain. It looked like a huge black bear mixed with a cat.

"Blumenblatt!" her flurry of swords pierced the monster, making it roar once more. Then I realized why the mountain was shaking. The bear-cat had a sonic roar. I also realized that the roar was heading toward Gajeel and I, not Erza.

In a second she was in front of both of us, her Adamantine armor, bracing herself against he sonic roar as she locked the two halves of her shield together.

"Once more," Erza said, re-quipping into her Purgatory armor. She brought the sword down across the bear-cat's chest.

What seemed to be a hologram flickered to life in front of each of us. It was the flyer. The time was magically written on the edge. Forty five minutes. And we have fifteen minutes to get back.

Gajeel sliced down a tree and carved the inside into three seats. I got in the second one and Erza climbed in the first. He gave a little push, then hopped in as we skidded down wards. Erza was guiding the make-shift sled so as to not crash into tree and large rocks. We reached the bottom of the mountain with the record time of seven minutes. Fairy Tail Academy wasn't far off from here.

Erza, Gajeel and I burst through the door of our classroom. The principal was talking to Professor Gildarts about bloomers.

"Ah, Erza, first as always. An A+ plus for you as well as Levy and Gajeel. Wait in the library until the others come."

I nodded and made my way to the librabry with Gajeel and Erza ahead of me. Once we got in, I pulled out bottles of water and handed them to Erza and Gajeel.

"Any one up for some licorice?"

And that's how the rest of the day went, with us eating licorice and gulping down water as the others came by.

You perverts, you thought I was actually going to put a lemon? Come on, like one of the reviewers said, that was moving way too fast. They just got back together! I simply wanted to see your reaction to a lemon. *dodges pineapples and tomatoes* However, don't be mad at me. I'll give you lemons. Lots and lots of lemons. Just not now. Sorry that it's short. I'll make the next one longer.

Toodles,

Sitboy10