Dragon Family Values
Disclaimer – I do not own Fairy Tail
Summary: Gajeel shares something he shouldn't.
Author's Note #1 – I'm using the 100 Theme Fanfiction Challenge for this collection. I thought it'd be something different.
Author's Note #2 – This one I am rating T.
Author's Note #3 – These drabbles are pretty much one-shots and are not related to each other in any way unless otherwise indicated.
Drive (Rated T)
"Are you sure we should be doing this?" Natsu asked for what was probably the tenth time.
"Gihi. Of course. Bunny-girl won't mind," said Gajeel, clutching his newfound treasure to his chest.
The fire dragon-slayer sighed. "She's gonna kill us. We'll never escape her clutches if she finds out."
"She's not gonna find out. She's out shopping with Levy."
It was a stroke of dumb luck that Gajeel had been able to find the rough draft of Lucy's short story. If he was right—and he always was—Lucy have given Levy the draft to read. He'd grinned sadistically when he'd found it on Levy's desk. It was too good an opportunity to pass up.
He was going to read the story to the entire guild. And no one—not even Natsu—was going to stop him.
"All right, everyone," Gajeel shouted to the entire guild so all eyes were on him. "Who wants to hear the first draft of a story one of our members has written?"
Everyone perked up with interest, so Gajeel sat down on the bar counter and began to read.
The Story
Natsu Dragneel was thinking about Wendy Marvell again. Wendy was a violent animal with vast spots and brown fingers.
Natsu walked over to the window and reflected on his dull surroundings. He had always loved picturesque Fairy Tail with its vain, valid volcanoes. It was a place that encourages his tendency to feel anxious.
Then he saw something in the distance, or rather someone. It was the violent figure of Wendy Marvell.
Natsu gulped. He glanced at his own reflection. He was a friendly, daring, cocoa drinker with sticky spots and spiky fingers. His friends saw him as a knowledgeable, kooky knight. Once, he had even revived a dying, baby bird.
But not even a friendly person who had once revived a dying, baby bird was prepared for what Wendy had in store today.
The wind blew like loving horses, making Natsu surprised. Natsu grabbed a spotty blade that had been strewn nearby; he massaged it with his fingers.
As Natsu stepped outside and Wendy came closer, he could see the joyous smile on her face.
"I am here because I want equality," Wendy bellowed in a sympathetic tone. She slammed her fist against Natsu's chest with the force of 9,255 donkeys. "I frigging hate you, Natsu Dragneel."
Natsu looked back, even more surprised, and still fingering the spotty blade. "Wendy, you must think I was born yesterday," he replied.
They looked at each other with ambivalent feelings, like two pongy, plain puppies swimming at a very snooty carol service, which had drum and bass music playing in the background and two charming uncles drinking to the beat.
Natsu regarded Wendy's vast spots and brown fingers. He held out his hand. "Let's not fight," he whispered gently.
"Hmph," pondered Wendy.
"Please?" begged Natsu with puppy-dog eyes.
Wendy looked calm, her body blushing like a moldy, mute map.
Then Wendy came inside for a nice mug of cocoa.
The End
Natsu paled when Gajeel finished the story. Lucy wrote this? It was so…awful.
A deafening silence came over the guild, only to be broken by Gajeel clutching the story as if his life depended on it.
"Shit," the iron dragon-slayer muttered as he turned a sickly green.
"What is it?" Natsu asked halfheartedly. What was he supposed to say to Lucy when she found out about this? He couldn't lie…could he?
"Lucy didn't write this," Gajeel stammered.
Natsu's head snapped in his direction. "Who wrote it then?" He was home free!
Gajeel swallowed hard. "Levy."
"What's going on?" inquired Lucy, who'd just entered the guild with Levy, bags from their obvious shopping in their arms.
Natsu patted Gajeel consolingly on the back. "It was nice knowing you," he said as he made his way over to Lucy. "We should go. Let me help you with that."
Lucy looked at Natsu dumbfounded when he grabbed her bags and started dragging her out of the guild. "What's going on?" she repeated.
"Gajeel read Levy's story to the whole guild," he replied, pulling Lucy even more forcefully when he realized the script mage heard her. "This isn't going to end well."
"GAAJEEL!" Levy roared as she launched herself at the iron dragon-slayer. "YOU IDIOT!"
Gajeel felt himself fly across the guild when Levy kicked him in the face. He really should have read the story first before sharing it with the guild. If he'd done that, he would have noticed her Levy's name scribbled on the bottom. He was screwed.
"COME BACK HERE! I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!"
Lucy sighed as she walked beside Natsu and headed for her apartment. If that didn't drive Levy to improve her writing, she didn't know what would. At the sounds coming from the guild, perhaps Levy could start with the inscription on Gajeel's tombstone.
Author's Note – This theme stumped me. Please review!
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