Fellow Fairy Tail fans I am back! Sorry for the long wait, I've been very busy with work lately so I haven't gotten around to writing but I had a free afternoon so here's chapter 25!
The following few days Gajeel hardly ever saw Levy. Levy, Lucy and Mavis had locked themselves away in the palace library digging through tome after tome to find how they could wake up Zelef. As the girls searched for an answer, Gajeel and the others had started their own search to find where the demons were located now. After the incident in the cavern, no demon had returned there, and almost all of the attacks had stopped. In fact, not only had all attacks stopped but all sightings of demons had ceased. Something wasn't right. Gajeel missed his Shrimp but he knew that if they could free Zelef from both his sleep and his curse then they had a fighting chance against Acnologia.
On day 7 of the search, Gajeel was making his way passed the library to the hall when he heard a very familiar, very high pitched squeal.
"Levy!" he cried as he stormed through the library doors, expecting an onslaught of demons only to find Levy, Lucy and Mavis….Dancing? "Um….. what the hell are you guys doing?" Gajeel asked, clearly thinking the 3 women had lost their minds. Levy, who was cradling a large book in her arms, spun around and greeted her mate excitingly:
"Gajeel! Your here! This is perfect, Gajeel we found how to save Zelef!"
Before Gajeel could response, actually it was more like before he could even blink, Levy had grabbed his hand and started to pull him down the hallway. "O-oi! Shrimp slow down before you pull my arm off!" Gajeel choked as he was pulled at an awkward angle. Levy only giggled as she continued to run, not stopping until she reached the meeting hall.
The doors swung open and everyone in the room turned to see the might Dragon King be pulled in by his tiny wife. Some, such as Natsu and Gray, laughed loudly at their king, while others gave reserved smiles, knowing that truely Levy was the only one who could ever do that. Levy pulled Gajeel to the table and set down the large tome that she had been carrying, the others were drawn in by their own curiosity of what the tome could be. Levy briefly leafed through the tome until she came to a particular page.
"Guys, we found how to release Zelef!" Levy proclaimed proudly, Lucy and Mavis stood nodding next to her.
"What do we need to do?" Erza said as she peered down at the book.
"This book explained that a sleep spell was essentially a seal, only it's placed on the person," Levy began as she pointed out specifics in the tome, "we can break the seal the same way you would break a seal on the door: by rewriting the code in the seal. Only in our case, there's a catch."
Mavis nodded in agreement, "Yes, because Zelef is still under his curse, theoretically the moment we release him he could go back to being the Demon King. Which is why we need to simultaneously break the seal while breaking the curse." The other gazed in question at the two women.
"So how do we do both at the same time?" Cana asked, scratching her head in confusion.
"Well," Levy replied "Mavis believes that Zelef is under actually a couple of layers of seal: an outer layer to prevent anyone from physically touching his and an inner layer that contains the sleep spell. After I break the protection layer Mavis will have to begin admissistrating the cure for the curse while I break the sleep spell. If everything goes according to plan, Zelef should wake up normal."
"And if it doesn't go according to plan?" Gajeel asked warily, not wanting his mate to be anywhere near a homicidal Zelef.
"If something goes wrong that I can just stop undoing the seal. Giving time, the seal should go back to normal. It's a protection mechanism." Levy answered confidently. Gajeel nodded in relief.
"Mavis how long will it take you to be ready?" Gajeel said as he turned to her.
"I have everything I need to create the potion but it's going to take some time. My best guess would be 2 to 3 days. After which we need to use the potion within the day or else the magic will disappear." Mavis answered.
"Alright! Until Mavis has that potion made we need to split our operation into 2 groups!" Gajeel ordered to the group "I need all heavy hitters guarding the cavern at all times while everyone else needs to focus on finding where the demons and Acnologia are located!" Everyone nodded as they raced out of the hall, off to their respective positions. Levy was about to leave as well when a firm grip on her arm halted her.
"Not you shrimp," Gajeel said, grinning like a cat in the cream, "I haven't spent time with my wife in days, there's no way I'm letting you go without a good romping first! Gihi!" Levy turned bright red as Gajeel swung her over his shoulder and dashed off to their room.
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"Levy where did you go off to earlier? I thought you wanted to help Mavis make the potion" Lucy asked over dinner, "you were missing for hours!"
A scarlet blush rushed over Levy's cheeks, "Um….I was just…busy…" Levy stuttered while on Gajeel started to grin.
"Gihi, yeah with me" the Dragon king said proudly, only to cause poor Levy to turn even more red. Lucy shifted her gaze back and forth from Gajeel to Levy in confusion until Gajeel's grin became more of the shit-eating grin when Lucy finally got the hint.
"O-oh…" Lucy stuttered, starting to blush herself in embarrassment. Natsu (with his famous timing) turned to look at Lucy.
"Oi! Luce why are you so red?! Are you sick?!" the Fire Dragon proclaimed loudly, drawing the attention of everyone else at the table, causing both Lucy and Levy to turn unnatural shades of the crimson color. Gajeel started to laugh at their misfortune while Lucy promptly ignored the nosy Fire Dragon while Levy buried her face into her hands. Mavis, ever observant, cleared her throat to draw the attention away from the poor girls:
"As some of you may know, Lucy and I started the potion and it is currently brewing as we speak," Mavis began, "everyone is going to need to be in position tomorrow in case the potion finishes tomorrow. Gajeel, are we stationing anyone to guard the cavern tonight?"
Gajeel nodded in reply, "Yeah, Lily and Erza have already volunteered to take first shift followed by Mira and Elfman. In the morning, myself and Flamebrain will take over. Mira and Elfman! You guys better hit the sack right after dinner and Lily make sure you take a communication lacrima with you!" All addressed members nodded at their king and the rest of dinner was filled with much lighter conversation, however, this wasn't the case somewhere very far away.
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It had been a long few months for John McGarden. Ever since Levy was sucked into the dimensional transporter he had been working night and day to somehow bring her back. Without the support of his family, John didn't think it would be possible to go on. Mary, John's wife and Levy's mother, had stepped in as head of the company alongside their son who had just graduated from college himself. Somehow, they had successfully kept what had happened that night a secret to everyone save a select few people. Not only that, but Levy's school had bought the idea that she was away to help a sick relative and was even willing to give her a break on school work due to how advanced she was already. With the help of his son and Levy's two best friends Jet and Droy, the transporter was nearly complete.
"Dad why don't you take a break? You didn't sleep at all last night," a blue haired young man said as he put his own tools down onto the benchtop, "You can go take a nap and I can completely this part." John looked up wearily at his son before shaking his head.
"No, not yet. If we work together we should be able to finish this in no time."
His son paused before giving a short nod to his father. Turning back towards the tool bench, he picked up the next tool he needed and got to work.
"Jellal," John called out, pausing the young man once more, "after we finish this, then I'll go to bed." Jellal perked up at the notion that his dad would eventually go to sleep and picked up his pace.
Jellal worked on attaching a mirror reflection panel to the micro accelerator as he thought of his little sister. Jellal would never forget the day that his father called him to tell him that Levy was gone, sucked away into another dimension. His heart stopped at the very thought of his little sister, his baby sister, potentially being lost forever. Jellal had scrapped together everything he needed to graduate and raced back home to help their father. After so many months of hard work, they were almost ready to bring Levy home. Jellal glanced over at the computer screen where a series of numbers was displayed: Levy's coordinates. The dememson she was sucked into.
"Don't worry Levy," Jellal spoke quietly, "we'll find you, and bring you home."
Who saw that coming! I would say that I didn't even see that coming but that would be a lie. From the start Jellal was going to be Levy's big brother, LOL. Well, I hope you guys like it! I'm going to try to get another chapter out by thanksgiving so please be patient!