Hello everyone! So I guess I have some explaining to do. I know it has been over a month since I have updated. For this I apologize, I'm pretty sure you guys don't want to hear excuses but I am going to give them to you anyway. So in the beginning of April my boss at work was fired. How does this effect me? Well he left the place a total sty. Nothing was in place with no attempt of an organizational layout, items were missing, people were mad (including me) and it was a mess. So in order to clear this mess they asked, or should I say demanded overtime. I started working 50+ hours a week instead of the usual 40 hour week. Instead of coming home and writing, I came home showered, went to bed, and woke up again in like 6 hours. This continued for a while (awesome right?). So what about weekends? Well let me tell you... baby showers, multiple Easters, various other random family gatherings and a tragedy, pampered chief meeting I was guilted into going to, depression rearing its ugly head, and much much more. Then recently my oldest cockatiel started stress plucking and it's breaking my heart, he is spoiled rotten so I don't see why he is doing so... my poor baby. Anyway...like I said you guys probably don't want excuses, but please lend me some slack. I will try my best to update weekly again, but I CAN NOT make promises. This is not discontinued, please don't worry and be patient with me. Thank you for your patience, I hope my month of crap didn't cause me to lose readers. I promise this story has a lot of greatness ahead, I just need to get there!
SO ON TO THE STORY! EVEN THOUGH I DOUBT THIS CHAPTER IS GOING TO MAKE UP FOR LOST TIME AND I AM SORRY! Especially because the last chapter was humorous, and this one not so much...
Fairy Tail does not belong to me, it belongs to Hiro Mashima.
A New Beginning Chapter 11: Team Mission
The entire situation was awkward and uncomfortable. Both Mira and The Master had some sick sense of humor. It was true that Levy had recommended the probation period for Gajeel, and this was probably her fault. BUT why did she have to monitor him on his missions? Well to be more accurate their mission. Why couldn't team Natsu watch him. Lucy and/or Erza were more than capable of monitoring him and reporting back to the master.
It was too late to turn back now. The mission was recorded in Mira's book and they were on their way to the client. Levy was leading the small group. She was briskly walking with a frustrated look on her face. On either side of her stood Jet and Droy. Both of them were clearly uncomfortable with the new additions to their team. Lily and Gajeel were stalking in the back. Gajeel muttering multiple profanities as he angrily stomped behind the shortest mage in the group. Lily simply hovered next to the angry man in silence.
The air was so thick you could just about cut it with a knife. Lily hovered up to Levy and plopped down on her shoulder. "So do we have any plans yet?" The small exceed spoke up breaking the silence knowing no one else would. Levy reached up and pet the small creature on the head.
"We marked off everything we could gather from the mission request form." She said pulling out a map from her bag. "All the activity seems to be localized within these areas." She said circling various locations with her fingers. "We need to talk to our client first and gather more information on the gang itself. If their location is known, then we can plan an attack based on the layout, however it probably won't be that simple."
"Hmm... Because the authorities are having problems apprehending them, I am assuming we are going to be on our own. Clearly they do not know a lot about these people." Lily spoke up peering at the map in the small girls hands.
"I'm sure we will figure it out." Levy said with a smile. "Team Shadow Gear always succeeds."
Jet and Droy smiled and called out Levy's name in a cheer. Gajeel rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. Lily softly removed himself from Levy's shoulder and hoovered back to his partner. "Cheer up Gajeel. This could be fun, you can take your anger out on some gang members." Lily said with a chuckle. His response was a growl, in which Levy just rolled her eyes to.
The rest of the walk was done in silence. The usual cheer and chattiness of Team Shadow Gear was replaced with awkward silence. Before long the five team members met up with their client. He was the lead investigator in the recent incidents. "Ah you must be the Wizards from Fairy Tail." The man said bowing his head. Levy smiled and nodded her head. It was odd to see a figure of authority acting so kindly towards Fairy Tail members. After all Fairy Tail was know far and wide for its naturally destructive nature. The authorities always meant bad new, as they always arrived with damage reports and the occasional court call.
"That's right. We are Team Shadow Gear of Fairy Tail." Levy said with a proud smile. "And these are some of our newest guild members, Gajeel and Lily." She said referring to the two behind her. She felt bad lumping Lily with Gajeel but both of them were new, and both of them were not a part of her team.
The officer starting informing the group about their mission. More areas had been affected by the gangs activity than originally mentioned. This increased the search range dramatically. When questioned about the gangs location or hideout the officer could not provide any information, he mentioned some areas they had already investigated with no turnout. When asked about numbers the officer was not much help either, he could only provide an estimate based on what people saw.
"So essentially nothing is known about these people..." Levy said staring at the map like it was the most important thing in the world.
"Sounds like it." Jet added in. "It might not be a gang... The reports filed by multiple store owners states that they only saw three people when each crime was committed."
"Do you think it could be the same three every time? Or do they only send three out at a time to keep their chances of being caught low. The more people out on the field, the bigger chance there is for an accident." Droy added in.
"I think for now we should assume it is just three people." Levy said looking up at her teammates.
"One of the shop keepers mentioned a dark blue cape in their report." Lily said putting a paw to his chin. "I wonder if it has a special meaning to the culprits, or if its just a way to hide their identity."
"Wearing something like that in public would make you stick out." Levy said thinking out loud. "I think anyone running through the streets in a dark cape would be seen as suspicious."
"There are no reports of seeing anyone suspicious before or after the attacks on any close by streets. They must be hiding in the shadows, or have a hidden route somewhere." Lily spoke up once again.
"The reports also state that jewels and valuables were taken. Because theft seems to be the main focus, and the amount of people committing these thefts are kept low, I think it's more likely a small group of Bandits rather than a gang. I mean none of these attacks happened at the same time on the same day. They are all at least a day apart. A large gang would plan multiple targets at once for a higher reward, and less struggle with authority right?" Levy said looking down at the map.
"So you think we are just dealing with a few random people?" Jet questioned, so much for a gang.
"Based off of the information we have, I would like to say yes. However we still are left with a lot of holes. Regardless we know they can use magic, and are dangerous. Its probably best to play it safe." Levy smiled up at her teammate. They could do this no problem, they wouldn't need Gajeel.
"Oye. This is great in all but lets just go. I'm tired of waitin around." Gajeel growled angerly. Levy turned towards Gajeel and glared straight back at him with a scrunched up face.
"How can we go when we don't have any idea where we are going?" She snapped, it came out a bit angerier than she meant it to.
"I can smell em out. Lets just go to the last place they stole from." He pointed to himself, he was a powerful dragon slayer after all. Sniffing out a few bandits wouldn't be that hard right?
"He can really do that?" Droy leaned over and whispered to Jet.
Gajeel shot him a glare. "I can hear you. I have the same powers as Salamander and that girl, but i'm stronger."
"I doubt that." Levy murmured, her fellow guild mates could be very destructive. Natsu more so than Wendy, but she was nothing to over look either. She was a force to be reckoned with as well. Gajeel was just a pain.
He shot her an angry glare and stormed off. "Fine I will do this with Lily. Who needs weaklings anyway?"
Jet and Droy were about to open their mouths to speak, but Levy beat them to it. "Excuse me!? This is OUR mission, you are just coming along because you are not allowed to be alone."
Gajeel turned around and headed for the small mage, his tall figure towering over her. "Alright Shrimp. Whats yer plan?"
"MY plan is to investigate the areas recently effected by our suspects and look for clues." Levy said as a matter of factly.
Gajeel growled. They were heading to the same place, the brat HAD to be annoying and argumentative. "Smellin em out is a hell of a lot easier!"
"Do you know how many people walk through this town? Isolating the smell a single person, who I might add you DON'T know the scent of, is probably impossible." Levy's arms were crossed and she was staring up at the angry man, who was returning an angry glare.
"Hey I have a better chance of findin em then you!" His eyes narrowed at the blue haired mage.
"I doubt that!" She retorted placing her hands on her hips.
Jet, Droy, and Lily stared at two not knowing what to do. Interrupting them seemed dangerous, and none of them wanted to make this mission more uncomfortable than it already was. After watching the two banter back and forth for the next 5 minutes Lily had enough and decided to speak up.
"Relax you two." He started closing his eyes and remaining calm. "Both of your plans require us to go to their last known location. Instead of arguing why don't we head there and BOTH of you can look for what you need. It does not matter who finds our lead, as long as someone does. We are a team and we should all be working TOGETHER." Lily opened his eyes and saw the two silently staring each other down... well up for Levy. He looked at his other teammates and saw them sweat dropping. At least he got the two to settle down a bit. He made a sigh himself and looked at the town map. The official from earlier had stared the last location vandalized. "Lets go."
The group of five proceeded to the location in question. Gajeel and Levy stomping angerly side by side, refusing to look at each other, as the rest of their team remained silently behind them. When they reached the location, which was a magic supply store, Gajeel quickly started sniffing around. Unfortunately he was finding himself overwhelmed with a mixture of unusual scents. However he refused to let the shrimp be right, so he continued on, even though he was at a complete loss. Levy was in a similar situation. The place was full of unusual objects, who knew what the suspects might have used, or where they could have gone. Jet and Droy kept themselves busy talking to the owner and workers who had been present the day of the break in. After an hour of searching and sniffing around the group came up empty handed and decided to regroup. Because all the members had been working away from each other Levy and Gajeel both seemed to have settled down a bit.
"None of the workers can give us helpful information... They don't seem to remember because they were too scared at the time to focus on the details." Jet said crossing his arms, as Droy stood there deep in thought.
"I didn't find anything suspicious laying around." Levy said still looking around waiting for something, anything at all to stick out.
"Can't get their scent." Gajeel muttered under his breath.
"Looks like this is gonna be harder than we thought..." Jet mumbled crossing his arms.
"Maybe we should look for the route they took to and from here. If people didn't see them on the street they had to take a hidden path." Droy said looking at his distraught partners.
"There is always the chance they used a time manipulation magic." Jet added in.
"I doubt that. If they did none of the witnesses would have seen them at all. They would have taken what they needed and gone without anyone knowing what happened." Levy said.
"Then our best bet is to look outside." Lily said popping out his wings and heading for the door. The group followed close behind and appeared on a busy street.
"There is no way they left through the front door..." Levy said looking along the bustling street. "There must be a back door that empties along an ally way or roof access."
"Gajeel and I can check the roof." Lily said lifting his partner into the air. "You guys check the parameter of the building."
The original members of Shadow Gear did just that. They looked around the building, where they found a side door that let out to an ally way. "So this is probably where they got out, but where did they go?"
"I don't see a ladder or anything that would give them access to the roof." Jet added in.
"If they are mages they might not need ladders. It depends on what their abilities. My guess is each one has a specialty skill that allows them to get where they are going." Suddenly Gajeel jumped down from the roof, which made Levy jump. She was about to snap at him, but decided against it.
"Ain't no one been up there." Gajeel said crossing his arms as Lily hovered down next to him. "Only birds." He scratched his nose and crumpled his face. Clearly he was not a fan of the scent.
"So they didn't go up..." Levy murmured to herself as she looked around. There were only two exits, both if which empties onto busy streets. Levy took out the map, which had all the locations hit marked. The neighboring building had been stolen from as well. "Wait a minute..." Levy pointed to the map. "It seems business are mostly picked in pairs... Each on either side of ally ways..."
"But all the locations are spread apart... We still don't know how they are getting from A to B yet." Lily said placing a paw on his face.
"We have to be overlooking something..." Levy mumbled looking around the ally way. The only things she could see were dumpsters and lose garbage bags. She took a step back to get a larger view but her sandle got caught on something and she started falling to the side. Gajeel, who just happened to be close by instinctively grabbed her arm and pulled her up before she hit the ground as her teammates cried out her name.
"Watch where yer steppin shrimp!" He scolded her as she steadied herself.
"T-thank you." She said flustered, embarrassed that she would trip. "What did I trip on?" She asked as Gajeel let go of her wrist, which was a bit sore from the sudden jolt that had just occurred. Behind her was a weather drain. The heel of her shoe managed to get stuck in the grate which caused her to fall.
"I think we found em." Gajeel said easily lifting the protective cover from the drain. Down below was a steady flow of water and various pipes. "Ladies first." He said with a devilish grin. Oh how she just wanted to slap him across the face. She seemed to want to do that a lot though.
"I insist..." She said looking down the drain. "Your the manly man." She added in. He shrugged once, and to her surprise he jumped right down, Lily on his tail. A distinctive splash was heard followed by the sounds of Gajeel wading through knee deep water.
"Do you see anything?" Droy called down.
"Its dark, but the're tunnels." He answered blandly.
"Guess down we go." Levy said less than excited, she was glad she didn't wear leggings today.
Jet and Droy hopped down next. Because of their heights the jump was nothing for them. Levy on the other hand was much shorter and would have a rougher landing. If the water was up to Gajeel's knees that meant that it would be up to her mid thigh. That would make walking much more energy consuming for her than the others.
"Want me to catch you?" Jet called up, seeing Levy hesitate.
"No I can catch her!" Droy called up, wanting to be the one to assist her.
"Its alright guys, I can do it myself." However it was too late and the pair started to bicker. Levy sweat dropped. Of course they would argue about this. Gajeel was growing irritated. Why the hell couldn't the shrimp just jump down on her own like everyone else?
"Oye get the hell down here!" He called up angerly looking up the short girl. "Water ain't gonna kill ya!"
"I know that!" She yelled down. "They are just being gentlemen!"
He growled. "I will catch ya if it gets yer ass down here faster." He was not one for patience.
"Fine!" Levy yelled back angerly and without a second thought she lept down. She should have really thought about it first, it was Gajeel after all. But he is the one that insisted. He was expecting some verbal retort not for her to actually jump down. He cursed under his breath and awkwardly caught her by her upper legs. She gasped in surprise as she felt his hands under the material of her dress, extremely close to her butt. Her belly was against his face, and with the awkward position she was unable to keep balance. She ended up leaning forward a bit, which caused Gajeel to fall back and crash into the murky water pulling Levy down with him. She manged to make a scared squeak before she hit the water. The two disappeared under the water for a few seconds before their heads resurfaced for air. "What the heck was that!?" She yelled at him as muddy water dripped from her hair. "You said you would catch me!"
He growled and glared at her. "I wasn't expecting you to jump right away!" He stood up completely drenched, as the members Shadow Gear rushed to Levy's side and helped the soaked girl up.
"You said fast! I couldn't get down here any faster!" She should have just jumped down on her own... She would have been drier.
"Come on you two, stop fighting!" Lily said tired of the bickering. "You two are acting like an old married couple! What's done is done, we can only go forward."
Levy pulled her hair back with her head band, and tried to wring out her dress as best she could with it on. "Lily is right. Which way should we go?" She knew arguing with that man was pointless and a waste of time. She really wanted to get this mission done today. There were two dirrections. One that went with the water flow, and one that went against it.
"I think we should split up." Lily said looking at the group. "Its impossible to know which way they went, the water would have washed away any clues."
"Alright. Shadow Gear can go one way, and Gajeel and Lily the other." Jet announced more than eager to split ways with the dragon slayer.
"We can't do that..." Levy mumbled. No matter how much she wanted to split up, she knew they couldn't... at least not like Jet proposed.
"Why the hell not?" Gajeel ask, more like barked.
"Because I have to keep my eyes on you. Remember your on probation." She was not to fond of this, but The Master had entrusted this job to her.
"So that means Levy and Gajeel go one direction, and Jet and Droy go the other." Lily said looking at the pairs. "Who shall I assist?"
"I want you to go with Jet and Droy." Levy wanted the small exceed to come with them, after all he was the only one who could play peace maker. However she knew Jet and Droy would need him more than Gajeel and she would if a battle were to arise.
"But Levy..." Droy started, but Levy silenced him by putting her hand up.
"Its alright boys. You take down stream, and we will take up stream." Jet and Droy wanted to protest, however their leader had spoken. The only other option was to stay together, and if they picked the wrong direction there was no way the mission would be completed within a day. The group hesitantly broke apart and went their separate directions. Each group agreed to meet up back in the ally way by the end of the day.
"Ya know I can go off on my own." Gajeel mumbled as they wadded through the murky water.
"No. Master said you need to monitored, and he entrusted you to me." Levy was having a much harder time traveling through the water than the dragon slayer. Not only because they were traveling up current, but shorter legs made it harder to wade forward.
"Tch. Always do what yer told?" He grunted.
"If the master is the one telling me to do it then yes."
"If yer just doin what yer told yer a pawn."
"Excuse me, watch your mouth! In Fairy Tail we have so many freedoms. The missions we select are our own, and we do them however we please. When the master makes a decision we listen to him because he is only doing what he believes is best for the guild. We all trust him, if we didn't we wouldn't be members of Fairy Tail." The guild did stick together, and somehow that short old man had earned everyone's trust. Gajeel simply rolled his eyes and the two continued on in silence.
As they trudged forward the water was starting to get noticeably shallower. The water that was halfway up Levy's thighs soon was to her knees, and eventually at her ankles. This made walking a lot easier for the small girl.
Soon the darkened tunnels started to narrow and light could be seen in the distance. "It lets out ahead." Gajeel spoke up breaking the silence. "Keep up yer guard."
Levy nodded, and the two silenced their steps in the shallow water. They cautiously approached the exit and peered around the corner. There was no one. "I guess we chose the wrong direction? Gajeel do you smell anyone?"
He closed his eyes and sniffed the air. "Yeah. I smell people." His eyes shot open and he looked around. "I can hear people not to far."
The pair carefully made their way out of the water tunnels. They were now outside of Magnolia and surrounded by a forest. "This is a great place for a hide out... Easy access to the town, and a lot of coverage for hiding." She whispered. Gajeel remained silent and continued to scan the area. "Is something wrong?" She asked looking at the dragon slayer who appeared to be overly cautious.
"Somthin ain't sittin right." He looked around. "Smells funny."
"That's probably the water..." The two had dried off since their fall earlier, but they had a distinctive smell to them. Hopefully it wouldn't make them stick out to much. "So which way are they?"
He nodded his head to their left. Levy made her way towards that direction with Gajeel close behind her. They silently and cautiously worked their way forward. Suddenly as if out of nowhere Gajeel grabbed the white strap of Levy's dress that was wrapped behind her neck and pulled causing her back to crash into his chest.
"What the heck was that for?" She scolded him keeping her voice down and looking straight up at him.
He looked down at her and growled. "I just saved yer ass!" He yelled louder than he meant to. She looked at where she was previously standing and saw what looked like a sharpened PVC pipe sticking out of the ground. Her eyes widened. It appeared that the culprits not only camped out in the woods but had set up booby traps as well. If it had not killed her, it would have caused her a pretty nasty injury. "Be more careful. Im tired of savin yer ass." He growled pushing the small girl away from him and continuing on. He took a position in front of her and lead the way. "Stay right behind me shrimp."
She nodded her head and they continued on. "T-thank you." Gajeel occasionally stopped them to avoid traps and dodging ones that he had overlooked, pulling Levy along with him. If he let the shrimp get hurt there would be no way the probationary period would be lifted. Maybe if this mission went smoothly enough it would disappear right away. Before long they were hiding in some bushes in front of a camp site. Before them sat multiple tents, it appeared empty.
"I don't see anyone." She whispered.
"I hear them." He mumbled back, pointing to a rather large tent. "In there." The two were so focused on the camp before them that they had not noticed a presence behind them.
"Looks like we have some intruders! That is so not cool!" Gajeel and Levy spun around and were face to face with a young girl. She was about Levy's height, with her brunette hair in pigtails. A deep blue cloak was draped over her shoulders hiding the entirety of her body. "Its time to disappear now." Her voice was overly cheerful as she lifted her arm out of the cloak to reveal a crossbow in her grasp. Gajeel was getting ready to attack when a razor sharp arrows shot at the pair. The speed was incredible, they were almost unable to dodge. "Aw you're quick little things." She said with a giggle. "Hey guys we have some guests!" She called out towards the camp. Gajeel could hear some commotion within the tent. Three girls emerged at once, all of them appeared older and taller than the one who had shot at them.
"A group of girls?" Gajeel asked looking at his opponents. He was expecting a group of burly men, not young girls.
"You got a problem with that?" The tallest woman asked. She was dressed in a deep purple cloak, and had a short tomboyish hair cut.
"Nah, but I ain't gonna go easy on ya." He said cracking his knuckles and smirking at the girl.
"We wouldn't want you to." Another women dressed in a deep green cloak said with a smirk.
Levy and Gajeel were back to back, as the women surrounded them. Levy glanced between them not knowing their abilities.
"So why have you come here?" The last girl, a blonde in a deep red cape asked.
"You are the ones stealing from the businesses in Magnolia!" Levy called out glaring at the blonde.
"Are you sure? Where is your proof?" The one in the green cape asked.
Gajeel growing tired and rather bored launched at the girl in the green cape. She retained the smirk on her face and placed her hands out. The wind around her started to swirl and she launched a powerful horizontal cyclone at Gajeel. He managed to dodge the attack. "Wind magic huh?" He grunted staring her down. She was quick. He noticed something coming at him from the corner of his eyes and did his best to dodge. He was barely able to do so getting a small scratch on his cheek that started to steadily bleed.
"Aw I missed again!" The girl in blue whined.
"Nikki..." The girl in green started. "Stop playing around and get serious." She was clearly not amused and much more serious than the young girl in Blue, who was apparently named Nikki.
"Just turn yourself in and return the stolen goods." Levy called out.
The woman in purple laughed. "Yeah right. Now why would we do that? It would be much easier to just get rid of you!" The woman in purple launched at Levy. Her fist out and armed with a brass knuckles.
Levy was able to write out the word barrier before the woman reached her. When she made contact with the word she was deflected with a bright flash of light. "A solid script user huh? Faye this is more your style."
The woman in red stepped forward. She was calm and relaxed. A single hand raised from the safety of her cape. It was holding what appeared to be a microphone. She spoke into it and Levy was blasted with an attack.
"Oye shrimp are you alright!?" Gajeel asked looking at her from other corner of his eyes.
"I'm fine." She said picking herself up with a smile on her face. "If there is one type of magic I know how to handle it sound magic." After all that is what Luke used.
"You can think that all you want shorty." The red clocked girl said with her microphone out. "You don't stand a chance!"
So they had a sound mage, wind mage, a fist fighter, and a crossbow user. Their powers didn't seem to compliment each other and appeared quite random.
Levy and Gajeel were surrounded on all sides by the four women. Gajeel had a smirk on his face. "I wanna take out knuckles over there." Gajeel said referring to the girl in purple. "You got loud mouth over there?"
The girls did not appear fond of their nicknames. The young girl in blue lifted her cross bow and aimed it at Levy.
"The last thing you want to do is mock us." She said glaring at the pair in front of her.
The mage in green launched another horizontal cyclone at the pair and successfully separated the two as they dodged the attack. The cloaked girls proceeded to break off into pairs. The wind mage and fighter facing Gajeel, and the sound mage and crossbow user against Levy.
"You asked for this!" The sound mage called out as she lashed out a verbal attack of fire. Levy nullified the fire with her solid script water. Steam formed as fire met water blocking any visuals between the girls. Levy stood there keeping quiet, if she couldn't see anything neither could her opponent right?
Before the steam cleared out a glint of light appeared and skimmed past Levy. As the object flew by her, it was obvious to tell it was an arrow from the cross bow user. Levy was grateful that her aim was off, because she would not have had the time to dodge. "Not to shabby." The sound mage said with a smirk as the the steam cleared. "Looks like we need to turn it up a bit."
Levy grinned she could take on whatever these two had coming. The sound mage called out stone. The rocks under Levy's feet and the surrounding area shot up into a tight cluster and threw itself at her. Levy wrote out the word barrier but it unfortunately was unable to keep her safe. She felt a sharp pain on her side. She looked down and saw a tare in her dress exposing a large gash in her side. How did that happen? Both her opponents were in front of her, and she never saw an arrow. If there was an arrow her barrier should have blocked it, but this was clearly not the case.
"Figure it out yet?" The crossbow user asked with a smirk. She could tell that Levy was confused and shocked by the injury she had just sustained. She pointed her bow straight up in the air and fired. Instead of coming straight down the arrow hoovered and re-positioned itself to aim at Levy.
"I use my magic on my arrows. I focus them on your magic output. Once targeted your in trouble.~" She giggled as the arrow shot down towards Levy, who jumped to the side. As if reading her movements the arrow adjusted its projection in curved towards her new position.
"Crap! Solid script wood!" A large board of wood appeared before Levy, the arrow pierced the thick material, yet was unable to completely go through it. Levy made a sigh of relief as she stared at the arrow tip which had punctured through the wood. That could be very problematic, especially if the sound mage distracted her. She had to focus on one and take her out, but which mage should she isolate? As she dodged another attack from the sound mage she decided that the girl with the cross bow was more problematic. Not to mention the wound she received was greatly slowing her down.
"Solid script binds!" Levy called out as snake like ropes appeared out of nowhere and tightly wrapped around the crossbow mage.
"W-what the heck!?" The young girl called out in surprise and squirmed against her binds. "Let me go!" The more she squirmed the tighter they got. The sound mage didn't let her partners situation distract her. She launched another attack at Levy which Levy easily dodged.
"You won't be able to beat me alone." Levy said with a smirk. Even if she was injured, she knew the best way to beat a sound mage. She used this trick on Luke a few times they had gotten into arguments. "Solid script silence!" The word materialized like a blast of air and crashed into the sound mage. She was knocked off her feet and thrown onto the ground. She sat up and glared at Levy. In retaliation she brought the microphone to her lips and attempted to speak, however no sound came out. She blinked stunned and put her hand on her throat. She attempted to say something once more and no words came out again. She shot and angry glare at Levy.
"Can't fight if you can't speak." Levy said happily. "Solid script binds!" Levy called out trapping the silenced sound mage like her partner. This was perfect, there was no way for either of them to escape. The authorities could come and take them away. She turned to help Gajeel out, just to see him flip over the girl wearing brass knuckles. The wind mage was pinned by the wrists to a tree kicking her feet widely. "Looks like you have them under control." Levy said with a smile.
"Ya didn't do bad yerself shrimp." He said looking at the short girl and the restrained mages. "This one is better than I thought." He said referring to the the girl he was now pinning to the ground.
"I will call our team and authorities." Levy said reaching into her bag and pulling out a communication lacrima. The orb lit up and Jets face appeared. Apparently they were still in the storm drain. She informed them of their location and told them to direct authorities there. She got a few cheers from both Jet and Droy, and soon the lacrima dimmed. "They will be here as soon as they can." She said with a smile putting the lacrima back in her bag. "Would you like help with her?" Levy asked making her way over to Gajeel and looking at the struggling cussing woman in purple below him. He simply shrugged, so she took that as a yes. She bound the woman up like she did with the sound and crossbow mages.
"Oye, you should take care of that." Gajeel said motioning his head towards the injury on her abdomen.
"Huh?" She blinked for a moment and looked down. "Oh! right. I almost forgot." The cut has been sharp and clean, therefore it wasn't causing much pain. It was bleeding though, it looked a lot worse than it was. She scripted herself some bandaged and got to work.
Gajeel sat there watching, what else was there to do? It's not like he could just leave. She wrapped the bandages around herself over her clothes. She made a messy knot and made a mental note to clean it out and wrap it better later when she got home.
"What're ya doin?" Gajeel asked flatly staring at her. "Ain't gonna heal like that."
She made a soft smile. Was this him being concerned? "I will clean it up when I get home. As long as the bleeding stops its fine."
"Whatever shrimp..." Her turned his attention away from her and looked at their captives. This mission had been a lot easier than he expected. With the way criminals has talked, and the manner in which they preformed their crimes he was hoping for more of a challenge. If it were up to him he would have picked a harder mission, but much to his dismay it wasn't.
Thirty minutes came and passed without a word being said between the two. The only sounds were from the girl trying to negotiate their releases, in which they were completely ignored. After a while they had given up negotiating, and were attempting to worm their ways out. None of them were making any sorts of progress. Gajeel was growing irritated, partially because it was taking forever for the authorities to get there. The main irritant was the smell. He could smell the metallic scent of Levy's blood, and it was driving him crazy. Yes he loved iorn, but blood was different, it was not something he enjoyed.
"Oye!" Gajeel said breaking the silence as her turned to look at Levy who was looking a bit paler. "Get yer ass over here." He growled angrily.
"What?" She said looking at him confused. What could he possibly want?
"Just get yer ass over here." If she wasn't going to wrap that wound properly he would. It was more annoying to him than to her.
Levy rolled her eyes and stood up. She was a bit wobbly, but nothing she couldn't handle. As soon as she was within grasping range Gajeel grabbed her wrist an pulled her forward. "What do you think you are doing?!" She yelled at him as she winced in a bit of pain.
"This is annoying." He said pulling off the blood soaked bandaged. Clearly she had not tied it tight enough to stop the blooding. "Make more." He said holding up the dirty bandaged as he examined her wound.
"There was nothing wrong with the one I had!" She protested looking down at him. He simply glance up at her his face in a scowl. "Fine!" She did as she was told and made some more bandages with her script magic. He snapped the bandages out of her hand. Was it really that hard for him to be nice?
What happened next was just a series of unfortunate events. In order to reach her injuries, which were located on her side close to her hip he needed to lift up her dress. Now typically a gentleman would inform a lady of his intentions so she would be prepared and not freak out. But as we all know Gajeel is not a gentleman. "What the hell are you doing!?" She shrieked as her dress lifted exposing not only her wound, but her panty clad body.
"Can't make it tight over yer dress." He said calmly grabbing her hip with one hand and holding the bandage in place with another. Her face was bright red and she immediately squirmed out of his grasp. Her dress fell back into place.
"You don't just go lifting a girl's dress! Were you raised in a cave or something!?" She screamed at him. He rolled his eyes. What was she being so shy about.
"Don't get yer panties in a bunch, calm down." He said grabbing her wrist and pulling her back to him. "I'm helpin yer ass."
"I don't need your help!" She yelled as he started to lift her dress again. "Let go of me!"
"Stay still will ya!?" He growled. "I ain't lookin at nothin but the wound." He had started wrapping the bandaged tightly around her hips. The whole while she was blabbering on about something or other that he didn't give a shit about. When he was done he looked at his job, saw no blood seeping through, and let her go. She quickly scurried behind a tree and glared at him in embarrassment.
"You are a monster!" She was completely embarrassed. What was even worse is she had started wearing the nice panties Louise had sent her. Today's was a deep red lacy pair that boarded on being a thong. "I could have done that myself!"
"But ya didn't so I had to. It's what teammates do right?" He said said wiping his hands and leaning against another tree with a playful smirk. "By the way nice choice." He said with a full out grin forming on his face, he rather enjoyed ruffling her feathers. "Red ain't to bold for ya?"
"You jerk!" She screamed, her face turning as red as her panties. "Solid script sand!" Before Gajeel could react Levy had launched what appeared to be a sand storm at him. The grainy stones got in his eyes, tangled in his dark messy locks, and just irritated him.
He coughed trying to exhale some particles that had made it into his lungs. The mage in green was also hacking away because she was pinned to a tree that happened to be a bit to close to Gajeel.
"Yer gonna pay for that shrimp!" He said lifting himself away from the tree and cracking his knuckles. Of course he was not gonna hurt her, she just needed to learn her lesson and be a bit more grateful for his help. Levy eeped before taking a defensive stance. She could beat him right? Maybe? You never know until you try, and try she did. However it did not end well for the small mage. After dodging a few of his attacks she somehow ended up between him and a tree. She was pretty well boxed in.
"This isn't funny Gajeel!" She yelled glaring at him.
"I ain't jokin shorty." He said punching the tree to the right of her head. She cringed as she heard the bark snapping. What was he trying to prove anyway? She was now boxed in completely, her back pressed against the tree and her chest inches away from his. "Ya should be more greatful, I aint nice often."
"Your not nice ever!" She had to try to get out and quick. She ducked under his arms and started to run for it. Not wanting her to get away he extended his arm into a metal rod and tripped her. As if by instinct she reached out to catch herself from the fall.
Other than the tree only one object was within reach. This was Gajeel. Not expecting her to grab him by the shirt Gajeel temporally lost balance and topple over with the smaller mage. To stop himself from crushing the shrimp he braced himself with his hands on the dirt of either side of her. He didn't even want to think about how the guild would react if he had crushed her...
Levy had her eyes closed waiting for the impact against the ground, and her impending doom of being crushed by a man double her size. She had hit the ground with an ungraceful thud, but she wasn't crushed. She slowly opened her eyes and looked up at the glaring man.
"Pain in the ass! Look whatcha did!" He growled at her.
"Levy!" Her named echoed from a not so far distance. Both the mages on the ground froze then looked to the side. There stood the Jet, Droy, Lily, and authorities and their employer. Oh this was not good. Lily had his face in his paw, he couldn't leave his partner for a minute.
"Oh...H-hey guys." Levy said awkwardly, she had a feeling this was not going to turn out well.
"Get off of her your bastard!" Jet said charging at Gajeel ready to attack.
"W-wait!" Levy started seeing her angered teammate's charge. They probably misunderstood the situation...I mean it did look quite unusual. "I-I tripped!" She blurted out. Gajeel looked down at her a bit confused. He was sure she was going to let them attack her. After all he was the one that tripped her. "Gajeel tried to catch me, and lost his footings too. Right Gajeel?" She asked looking up at him. She had a look on her face that encouraged, more like pleaded, him to play along. Hell it was for his sake so he might as well.
"Whatever" He said finally removing himself from over her. Levy sat up and dusted herself off. If Gajeel was to get off probation she had to make him look good. Even if he was a slimy jerk that pissed her off. Jet helped Levy to her feet as the authorities grabbed their culprits.
"Nice job." Their employer said walking up to the the group. "I hope this job went smoothly?"
"Smooth enough." Levy said with a smile. The group was rewarded with the jewel payment and the authorities escorted the criminals away and collected stolen merchandise from the camp.
The group headed back to the guild. Jet and Droy were still leery of Gajeel, and for good reasons. Levy was exhausted, she just wanted to go home, shower, and spend the night with her daughter. Upon their arrival to the guild Jet and Droy went to report their success to Mira and her record book. Gajeel had disappeared, and she honestly didn't care where he went... She wanted to go home, and that's just what she planned on doing. 'Tomorrow I will take an easy solo mission. Maybe a translation job.' She thought to herself. It would be peaceful by herself right? She had no idea how wrong she would be.
So this was the chapters guys. Sorry if it was a let down. The next one will be better. I really wanted to get this chapter posted because I made you guys wait so long. I typed it over so many days, and stopped and started it a lot. It almost feels rushed to me. I dunno, its just meh. Oh and sorry if there are any errors...because the chapter is so long I only proof read it once... and I have lotsa things to do :(
So its time for thanks yous. I am sorry that it took so long to post you guys are all amazing!
I would like to start with a super amazing awesome thank you to five different people! OMG its a record! To HolyAngel1996 (lol Lacy feeling towards Gajeel are going to be great. Sorry its taking me so long to get there :( I promise next chapter will be out a lot quicker than this one was.), The MTB Skiing Mister Smith (Oh my gosh thank you so much. I'm so happy the last chapter made you laugh :D You are so very welcome. I know this chapter was not full of laughs, but I have some more juicy and funny moments ahead! I promise I wont stop! Thank you so much for reading!), LumiSusi (First off I want to thank you for checking in on me, that was so sweet. I'm glad that someone likes this story that much, it really made me smile. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. As for the last chapter im glad you liked it :) The "Dog toys" will be making another appearance. Lol and for my experience uh... well hrm... I never found my parents toys...even though I have been told about them in a very disturbing fashion... I did find magazines and videos as a kid tho lol. My parents are very open... It was funny because literally the next day after I posted this I was invited to one of my coworkers pleasure parties and I just laughed thinking about the chapter I had just posted. As for what Gajeel got from Louise that is explained around the time Gajeel meets Lacy so we still need to wait :P I hoped you liked this mission :) I honestly didn't, the incoming ones are MUCH MUCH better. More funny and cute moments. For ages I imagine Levy meeting Luke around the age she is in FT so she was 17... so that means current age of Levy would be like 23 maybe 24? Once again I am sorry it took so long to update!), saphiredragonstorm (Im glad you enjoyed the boxes contents :) I know this chapter wasn't as funny but I hoped you liked it. Now to Jasper she is going to have bigger problems in the future than Jet and/or Droy finding the, lol Just wait and see.), and brittneyangel (Im glad the last chapter made you laugh :D I hope this one was enjoyable too, the next one will be even better ;)) for the Faves, follows, and most importantly reviews! I love you guys so much!
An awesome amazing thank you goes to membridget (I will keep going, no worries it just might take a little while. Sorry for the wait!), SakuraIchigoDark (Karma is cruel indeed. Oh Lacy will remember those "dog toys" lol it will be great.), lexie loves anime (I'm glad you liked the idea of Gajeel stuck with shadow gear, I hope you enjoyed it. Lol and im glad you enjoyed the sex toys. Lets see...hrm how did I learn about sex toys, I have lotsa dirty friends with things that will blow your mind. Lol i didnt find my parents like poor little Lacy lol. Its funny because the day after I posted the last chapter one of my coworkers invited me to a pleasure party and I just laughed thinking about what I had just posted. As for how did Lucy learn, I feel like as a woman of her age she would have some experence with toys lol. Or maybe I am way off base in my own little world.), nellikins (Im glad this made you laugh. I hope you continue to be entertained! :D), sngsngsnyrslp (I am so happy you loved it! I hope I can continue to entertain you fpr chapters to come!) for the follows and reviews! you guys are amazing!
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