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Warning: self-harm, suicide attempts and depression. If you do not like, do not read.
Chapter 11 hopefully a better chapter. X
A single constant hum filled the room as what Wendy said hit everyone.
"What? No… NO! SHE CAN'T BE-"
"I'm s-sorry G-Gajeel… Levy's g-gone…" Wendy said through a sea of tears.
Gajeel swallowed. His mouth was dry. He didn't believe it. He COULDN'T believe it.
"I promised her! I promised her that I would help her get stronger! She can't be… she can't have…" he couldn't bring himself to say it.
Juvia and Laxus had let go of Gajeel, he swayed on his feet resisting the urge to drop to his knees.
"Alright everyone clear out, give the man some space." Porlyusica said grimly.
Slowly everyone left the room except Laxus who stayed lent up against the wall with his arms crossed with a blank expression on his face. Gajeel finally mustered the energy to stumble forwards towards Levy's still form.
She is sleeping. She has to be sleeping. She can't be… she looks so peaceful…
He looked over her with unbelieving eyes. They had taken her headband off when she had been brought in leaving her loose blue hair spread out on the pillow in little waves framing her face. The blue of her hair showed the paleness of her skin, not in a bad way but in a beautiful soft glow. Her eyes were shut and all her muscles were slack and there was a stillness as if time had stopped but it had only been a minute or so since she passed. Something inside Gajeel snapped and he grabbed her arms. The stillness and peaceful atmosphere evaporated as Gajeel started to shake Levy hysterically.
"Levy please you have to wake up! I promised to help you get stronger, how can I do that if you… if you're…" a broken sob escaped his mouth and he continued to shake her.
Laxus, who until now had stood motionless against the wall, shifted uncomfortably. He wasn't used to dealing with a comrade's death or someone as closed off as Gajeel to suddenly have an outburst and emotional break down. To say the least, dealing with emotions was definably outside of Laxus' comfort zone. He had no idea what to do but what he did know was that Gajeel's violent shaking of Levy's body was annoying him a lot, he found it very disrespectful especially since she had only just passed.
"Oi, punk. Can you cut that out?"
Gajeel didn't hear him and growled something unintelligible. In his grief he hadn't realised that his body had started to turn to metal as he continued to shake her. By this point Laxus was getting angry.
"OI! I was talking to you punk! I understand that your upset but shake'n her ain't gunna do nothin'."
Gajeel still didn't hear. Laxus scowled and the air around him started to crackle with his annoyance.
"You hearin' me?" Nothing. Laxus huffed and ground his teeth together. Pressure in the room began to gather and it started to get humid. The crackling also grew louder.
"I said. Cut! It! out!" Laxus shouted. Unintentionally letting loose a fierce bolt of lightning at Gajeel.
The bolt collided loudly with Gajeel and sent sparks everywhere. Gajeel yelled in surprise and shock as the electricity coursed through his body and sparks bounced around the room. One hit some of the machinery in the room and it exploded with a massive BOOM.
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TIME LAPS: TWO MONTHS LATER.
He stood in the middle of the forest lent up against a tree with his eyes closed, an iron nail was sticking out of his mouth and his head was bowed towards the floor. A headband kept his long, thick, black mane out of his face. The rustle of leaves could be heard as the soft breeze crept through the trees. He was stood on the outside of a clearing. Opening his eyes, he stared at the centre of it. This had been where he had found her the first time, it had been pouring with rain at the time but he remembered. It held such sad memories from the past, a reminder of levy and the turmoil in which she had struggled with for so long by herself. It had been a couple of months but it still felt like a smack in the face to him, he wished that he had noticed sooner that levy had been a war with herself, but he had been so busy trying to hide his emotions and protect her from other people. Even if he had found out sooner. How do you protect someone you love from themselves? He sighed.
Someone suddenly hurled themselves at him from the side. He had been so wrapped up in his own thoughts that he hadn't noticed them. They tumbled further into the clearing. They both leapt to their feet with remarkable speed. Gajeel blocked a kick that was thrown at him and then returned the favour by throwing a punch which was parried. The exchange of blows went on for some time until his opponent let down their guard.
"Come on. You gotta keep your guard up, you're wide open on the right." He stated in a smug tone.
His challenger was a girl, she was starting to breathe heavily from the fighting, her hair was thrown over her face covering her eyes, she wasn't very tall but she was fast. The only part of her face visible to her opponent was her mouth which was slightly open. To prove a point he threw a kick at the small girl's right side. A moment too late he saw her mouth form a devilish grin as she dodged his attack and lunged forward. She kicked his remaining foot from underneath him and sent him sprawling on his back. He looked up at the sky blinking in surprise. She quickly straddled him and focused all her efforts on restraining his hands above his head which she didn't find too difficult in his current shock.
Breathlessly she said "Was that up to standard?"
He laughed. "Yes Squirt. That was very good."
She giggled at the use of the nickname. Before it would annoy her and make her paranoid but now she accepted it and found the nicknames he came up with amusing.
"Plan on getting off me any time soon?" he asked with a studded eyebrow raised.
"oh! Uhhh!" her face started to turn red with the suddenly realisation of the position that they were in.
Taking advantage of her shock and embarrassment, making sure that he didn't put too much weight on her, he flipped them so that she was now underneath him.
Grinning he lent forward. "Remember not to let your guard down," he whispered in her ear. She shivered in response, her face going more red than before. "Geehee!" he laughed at her getting all flustered. Standing up, he offered her his hand with she took. "I think that that's enough for one day, don't you?" he said still grinning.
She just nodded in response, still too embarrassed to speak. Quietly she went to collect her things and at the same time trying to hide the blush that was still on her face. He watched her go and then turned to face the middle of the clearing again. Yes, this place had bad memories of the past but they had chosen here to train because for them it was an unspoken symbol of moving on from the past, of growing stronger mentally and physically and a symbol of how much they mean to one another. He felt a tug on his arm and saw levy's cheerful face staring up at him.
"Shall we go?" she asked him still beaming.
He nodded. Never will Gajeel, for the rest of his life, be able to describe the warmth and joy that this small girl gave him. How did one small girl become to mean so much to him? He knew that he him-self would never be able to work it out. She had come so far in the last few weeks, she had literally come back from the dead. If Laxus hadn't have gotten angry with him that day, he knew that levy wouldn't be here with him now. Because Laxus had electrocuted Gajeel when he was in his dragon slayer form, the current had surged through Gajeel and hit levy as well, and for some reason which he couldn't phantom it has sort of jumpstarted levy's body again. But he wasn't complaining, he would forever be grateful to Laxus even if he wouldn't say it out loud.
He took the chance to look at her out of the corner of his eye. She was looking straight ahead with the genuine smile on her face. Her blue hair stood out in this forest of green and was bobbing up and down in the light breeze. If others were watching, they would have thought that she stood out brighter than anything else in the forest in her orange clothes, but to Gajeel she stood brighter than anything else in the world and in his opinion no one could hold a candle to her. She was smart and beautiful, kind and caring, forgiving and loving, she cherished everything and above everything else she was selfless. Obviously, he wouldn't say that to anyone else or they might think that he had gone mad or was unwell, but he told levy constantly behind closed doors. Yes. Levy definitely had come so far in such a short time and he was proud of her. She was faster, stronger and more confident in her ability's as a Fairytail mage. They still had far to go but he didn't doubt that they would get there eventually.
Levy no longer lived at fairy hills either, she had started staying with Gajeel after she was well enough to be moved from the infirmary, even after she was able to look after herself again levy had continued to stay with Gajeel and Pantherlily. Eventually all her stuff had ended up at theirs and she stopped paying her rent and was unofficially moved in. Jet and Droy sometimes came to visit her there when they were feeling brave enough to face Gajeel, she was still a member of the Fairytail guild and happily so. When she thinks back to it she wouldn't be able to say why she even thought about leaving the guild, they were family after all even if they weren't blood. She still felt down sometimes but everyone was there to help her especially Gajeel.
As Fairytail came into view Gajeel dangled his arm over her shoulders which was sort of difficult considering the Hight difference. Levy started to blush again.
"Ga-Gajeel! There are people! They are starting to look!" she squealed trying to hide her embarrassment.
"So? Let 'em look. That way they know your mine." He growled darkly.
Unable to stop herself, she started laughing. Gajeel was confused but couldn't help grinning. They walked into the guild and everything was how it should be. She was happier than she had ever felt, surrounded by her family and friends and held by the person she cherished and loved most in the world. Gajeel Redfox.
The end!
Okay so I'm so so so so so sorry. And I know you probably don't believe me at this point because I've been so behind on everything and then my laptop broke and I couldn't afford another one and when I could I couldn't load Microsoft office onto it etc etc, and I've been going through some stuff as well. But thank you to everyone who has followed me, this story and reviewed. This was the last chapter so sorry it took so long for me to start writing again. I literally wrote this last chapter today and I'm uploading it straight away.
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