p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;" data-p-id="18aecff8863398eea44db3b0b31fadb1"Author: Welcome to the side stories! These are u style="box-sizing: border-box;"very/u u style="box-sizing: border-box;"short /upieces written to fit alongside the current story line but diving into other characters and how they interact. This is canon however these stories do not contain any Freed x Laxus. Sorry shippers. This story will explore Gajeel, Levy and Lily a bit more and a possible blooming companionship between them and Chiyo. Enjoy!/p
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