Gajeel is slowly rising to the top of my favorite character list. Isn't it strange that my favorite is a three way tie between Lucy, Levy, and Lissana?
"She has to remember!" Mavis cried. "She has to!" Natsu scratched his head. "Um, why? Sure, it'll cause me pain to see that every time she sees my face she sees a total stranger, but I can just retell all of it. Sure I'm sad, but I'm done with sulking." Mavis blinked. And then… "Well, you got over it quick." He nodded. "Two week in a stuffy room. Two weeks with no TV. No video games. No pizza. I felt so… ancient." They heard a crash behind them.
"Oh sh*t!" Gajeel yelled. "I broke her!" Sure enough, a bloodied and bruised Lucy lay on the floor. And sure enough, Natsu, Levy, and Mavis decked out their fists. "Hand over the girl and no one gets hurt. I'm giving you up to three." They said simultaneously. Gajeel quickly dropped Lucy to the ground, but it was too late, mostly due to the fact that they said three immediately after finishing their sentence. Gajeel now lay side by side next to Lucy.
"That's it! Why don't we ask Mest to recover her memories?" Natsu asked. Mavis and Levy stared at him, blinked, and then pointed shaky fingers at him. "You're the dumb one!" Levy exclaimed. Natsu stared before he too blinked. "No, we're/ they're contagious!"
"Ok, recover Lucy's memory," Levy said. Mest blinked. "F*ck you asking me? I'm not a memory mage, I'm a teleportation mage. I just ate a memory charm when I was three and now I have all its powers."
"So he really is dumb!" Mavis yelled gleefully. The three maniacally laughed together. "I'm dumb!" Natsu exclaimed happily. "Intelligence is not contagious!" Levy cheered. Mest silently stared at them. "You do realize that you guys didn't realize I was a teleportation mage all this time, right?" He was ignored by the three who were currently celebrating. Gajeel sighed. "I'll go ask Rufus."
"So, you want me to recover Lucy's memory?" Rufus asked. Gajeel nodded. "When you know I can't use magic because of the seal?" Gajeel stopped nodding. "Sh*t!" "Well, there is a way to recover it without magic." Gajeel perked up. "Only a task manageable by a dragon slayer." Gajeel stared at the ever so cheerful Natsu. "It improves their magic and physical strength." And he knew right then. "The retrieval of the lost flower from landreka, land of dragons." That this was his destiny. "I'll do it." 'Then maybe Levy will ask me out and I'll finally beat Natsu.'
Nope. He will not drink the sh*t. He will not. "Gajeel, you have to finish drinking this to break your seal." Rufus said. He refused. One drop made him wash his mouth with Lysol. And then bleach. "Think about it. You're free from your seal forever. You can unseal one person with a little over your current magic power remaining after finding the flower. Maybe your crush Levy?" Darn, he got him on the spot. "Fine, I'll do it." Needless to say, Gajeel had gagged endlessly after this incident.
"Screw you, point Everest!" Gajeel yelled. Rufus stared at him wearily. "I don't know what that is but this is Mount Hokabe. And we haven't even started climb yet." Gajeel paled. "No one has climbed Mount Hokabe and made it out alive." "Probably because no one actually climbed it." "Still," Gajeel said. "We don't know what's out there." Rufus looked him dead in the eye. "It's only 1 mile (1609.34 meters)." "But we could d-" Gajeel was surprised when he noticed they had already reached the top of the mountain. "Right, I knew we could do it." Rufus silently wondered to himself if he was the only smart one in this universe. "You know," Rufus said. "This reminds me. I think past this mountain is Minerva's personal training ground." A loud bang resonated throughout the area. "And that might just be her." When they climbed down the mountain to the other side, they were horrified.
"So you think you can beat me?" Erza yelled. "I know I can!" Minerva shrieked. The two monsters were at it again, kicking, punching, and blocking strikes. No words could express the horror that Gajeel and Rufus's face read. "They're demons." Gajeel whispered. "I wanna go home."
"It's time to break out the knives." Erza said. The two simultaneously pulled out blades from who knows where. Rufus covered his eyes. "I can't watch this." When he reopened them, he watched in pure shock as the two stabbed each other in the gut. Gajeel's brain short-circuited a while ago from immense mental trauma. Erza gave Minerva a pat on the back. "Good job. Looks like your skill set has improved a lot." Minerva sighed. "Well, I kinda thought I could have defeated you this time."
"How the hell are you two still alive?! I swear I saw you stab each other in the gut!" Gajeel yelled. Erza stole a glance at him. "Oh, sorry, I didn't notice you there." And that was when Rufus got the most 'brilliant' idea ever. Oh how much easier this would be with the two she-devils on their side.
"Screw you psychos," Gajeel muttered under his breath. He could hear them talk in whispers about something.
"So, do you think we should lock them in a broom closet?" Rufus asked. Gajeel briefly wondered who he was talking about. "Or I could threaten them." Erza suggested. Whoever 'they' were, Gajeel pitied the poor souls. "Am I the only one who's taking this rationally? They won't realize it if they were threatened." Minerva pointed out. Gajeel briefly had a fantasy of him and Levy in a broom closet, most definitely a hard one to make PG. "I heard her do it in the shower in the darkness of night." Erza said. "Do we have any evidence that he reciprocals her feelings? And even if that is the case, does his feeling go to the same degree as hers? We need this information if we were to set them up for passion." Rufus calculated. Minerva groaned in exasperation. "Come on, people! They obviously have a cute and fluffy relationship. We need to go with subtlety." Erza and Rufus looked her dead in the eyes. With serious voices, they said "Screw subtlety. Let us get to the down and dirty hard core lemons." Minerva briefly wondered how many erotic novels the two had been reading. Gajeel, on the other hand, was now curious to who they were trying to setup. So he asked. "Io, who're ya tryna set up?" Gajeel pretended to be casual. Nope. Not interested in this conversation. Erza slowly turned to him and a pit of dread settled in his stomach.
"You and Levy."