Author's note: Well I sure as hell got a lot done these past two weeks. If you don't know, I run an art channel on face book (mainly sculpting but I branch out into other things like drawing and whatnot) and not too long ago, I left an app I was allied with due to massive personal differences. Since I don't work with them anymore and I was advertising them on my channel, I had to redo my entire intro/outro.
I got into animation (thank you blender . Org ) and since this was something I always wanted to try but could never succeed at, I was hesitant to try it but I managed to do it! I created my own animations which will be solely on my Face book channel! I got other stuff I did these past two weeks but right now it's not the time to tell. Back to the story!
Ps. This is going to be more-so of a quiet chapter. I wanted this to be more focusing on their budding feelings for each other and also take a small break from the action, and let the cute moments happen.
Chapter 6: Quiet Night
Three days had passed since The White Mage hijacked the local tv waves and made their threat clear on live tv. The whole town was completely stunned from it and spoke about it for days when walking on the streets. The politicians went insane and would go as far as screaming like crows in a forest when discussing The White Mage's threats. Touka however, tried her best to not let it phase her; but everyone could see it was eating her up on the inside. Even when Liberus threatened to attack the upcoming Mayoral Debate.
Gajeel has been silent a lot since that day and personally would rather be. Business with Shadow Gear has been low key for what Levy wants is to be a few weeks. It wasn't serious, but it basically meant anyone who helped with production in their "side business" was going to take time off work for a few weeks until this was sorted out.
Motor cycle repairs became a little lagged in the next few days since not a lot of the members were leaving the hideout and some even went as far as bunking out in the hide out for good measure. Since that was going on, Gajeel found himself with more free time than he could handle in the longest time and decided to check out a few of the apparent "games" the city had to offer.
One such game was where he had to drive a car off a ramp in the middle of the ocean outside the city and activate a built-in parachute, only to try and make it on a landing pad and earn points for your team. It's was a dangerous game, but it also earned Gajeel a few extra bucks. Otherwise, it's been very quiet since then.
Gajeel was walking out of a finished game, counting some money he earned, plotting to use some to get take out for him and Natsu tonight and save the rest for his savings. Maybe also a trip to the local stripe club wouldn't hurt to be honest. Been a while since he had some "company".
He pulled out his cellphone to order from a local Chinese restarting and began to dial their number.
"Gajeel?" he looked up and was surprised to see Levy making her way to him "I knew it was you! This has to be the second time this has happened!"
"You stalking me shrimp?" Gajeel chuckled which made Levy's whole face turn red.
"N-no I'm not!" She defended in an embarrassed tone "I wanted to check out some of the stuff here and I just saw yo-" she suddenly witnessed Gajeel go into a fit of laughter "Oh you jerk!"
"I couldn't pass the opportunity gihihi." Gajeel laughed as he wiped a tear away from his eye.
"Seriously though," Gajeel finally spoke "what're ya doing here?"
"Needed a breather." Levy sighed "Since that broadcast, my mind has been in a million places." Gajeel stared at Levy and noticed she looked distressed. This whole situation was stressful to everyone; but Gajeel realized its had to have been more stressful on Levy since she's the leader of Shadow Gear.
Levy looked down at her feet which showed Gajeel she was upset and before she realized it, Gajeel places his large hand on her shoulder gently and bent down to her eye level, making Levy blush at the closeness they were.
"You wanna grab dinner?" he asked her.
8-island Noodle Bar and restaurant was one of the best in town. Known for its "Big Fucker" bowl which was a challenge that if you could succeed at, your meals will be free for a year. The restaurant was having one of its slow nights which of course meant they were served quicker.
Levy decided to order the "Healthy Lifestyle" bowl which consisted of grilled chicken, veggie broth, freshly chopped vegetables and soba noodles with a side of vegetable dumplings, while Gajeel decided to order the "Big Fucker" bowl. The bowl itself was a gigantic mixing bowl filled with different broths, different veggies, meats and noodles.
"There's no way you can eat all that." Levy spoke as she stared at the bowl, her chopsticks with soba noodles in them.
"Try me Levy." Gajeel smirked "Men in my family are known for their gigantic appetites Gihi."Gajeel began to devour that bowl as Levy watched him and ate her's.
"Gajeel.." she suddenly spoke.
"Hngk?" He garbled as he made it to the half way mark with his dinner.
"What do you think of all this, with The White Mage I mean?" he put his chopsticks down for a moment not only to answer Levy's question, but to take a moment to breathe from this gigantic bowl.
"Ya want the honest to God answer or the sweet shit?" He asked her.
"Uhh, honest to God." Levy opted.
"I think we're in deep shit. This is only just the beginning, and we don't fucking know how far this White Mage is gonna go. Fucker probably has some evil plot under their sleeve."
Levy blinked hearing Gajeel's words before watching him return to his bowl which surprisingly was almost done.
"I think I agree with you." Levy suddenly admitted "I'm just not happy we got dragged into the mud through this, but I think The White Mage is plotting something. What, I don't know and it's obvious I won't like it. Because people like them, give gangs like us a bad name."
"I can agree to that." Gajeel nodded as he lifted the bowl and began to drink the rest of the soup. Completely cleaning the whole bowl "Done! Where the fuck's my free meals for a year?"
"H-holy shit." Levy cursed in shock.
"Gihihi, I told ya I can do it. And did you just curse?"
Levy didn't answer that and continued to stare at the now empty bowl, completely shocked by the fact Gajeel managed to finish that monster.
"But to be honest;" Gajeel suddenly spoke, snapping Levy out of her state of shock "I think they'll attack again soon. And we're gonna have to be even more careful than ever."
"Y-yeah." Levy swallowed "Can I be honest with you?"
"Feel free." Gajeel shrugged as he took a toothpick to a few of his teeth.
"I'm starting to get scared. Touka White threatened Shadow Gear and with Liberus acting out, I feel were going to be killed or worse, end up like Diablos. I haven't even slept that well since I saw that video three days ago." Gajeel leaned into the table and looked at Levy with seriousness.
"Wanna stay with me tonight?" he asked, Levy wanted to protest at first; but she felt that she truly needed the company tonight.
After they finished their meal, Gajeel broke into a car in a nearby parking lot, hot wired it, and drove him and Levy to her apartment where she got a set of spare clothes before returning to Gajeel's house. Not much had changed since that night they met, except maybe a new poster or two. But otherwise, the same as before.
When they entered the place, they found Natsu, sitting on the couch in his black underwear with flames designed on it, with a large bag of chips and a bottle of beer, legs sprawled out and watching tv.
"Oh, hey Gajeel!" Natsu smiled "Who's your friend? Is she some floozy from the strip club?"
"Fucking Christ ya idiot!" hollered Gajeel "I walk in here with my boss and ya lying here literally close to being naked and calling her a hooker?!" Levy just stood there and covered her face in embarrassment
"Shit! That's the leader of Shadow Gear?!" Natsu hollered before jumping up, making his way to Levy and extending his hand to her "Nice to you, I'm Natsu. Gajeel's cousin."
"GET OUTTA HERE AND GET SOME FUCKING CLOTHES ON!" Gajeel hollered before grabbing his cousin and forcing him into Natsu's messy bedroom and slamming the door "Jesus Christ what an idiot. You okay?" he turned to Levy who just nodded without a word "Shower is in the next room, you can have my room tonight and I'll take the couch."
"I can't ask that of you." Levy spoke in a soft tone.
"Look, it's fine." Gajeel explained "We don't really have a guest room to be honest with yeh, and I'd feel like an asshole if I let ya sleep on the couch. Go take a shower." She nodded before grabbing her pajamas, and underwear and heading for the shower.
Gajeel made his way to the kitchen and grabbed an extremely large bottle of Jack Daniels and the hand vacuum so he could clean up the potato chip crumbs his cousin left behind. He turned the tiny vacuum on and managed to get most of the crumbs before finding an old scratchy blanket in the closet and an old worn down pillow. He placed both on the couch and soon got a shot glass, sat down, poured himself a shot and downed it.
"Mind if I join you?" Gajeel looked behind himself to find Levy, her hair soaking wet and wearing her pajamas coming out of the bathroom.
"Feel free." Gajeel shrugged as he got up to grab another shot glass. Levy joined Gajeel on the couch and watched as Gajeel poured two shots while she changed the channel on the tv to what appeared to be a very lewd anime.
"You watch this shit?" Gajeel asked while taking his shot and making a face from the effects of the alcohol.
"No." Levy admitted "Normally I prefer reading in my spare time, but I am an occasional anime geek."
"Gihihi," Gajeel cackled "knew you were a bookworm since I met ya."
"How do you think I learned how to make meth?" She replies before taking a shot.
"Sure as hell ain't from that show everyone's all crazy for." they shared a laugh before taking another shot and watched as the leading lady of this series began to get a little lewd.
"So Gajeel," Levy suddenly asked "what do you do in your spare time?"
"Mainly hang around." Gajeel shrugged as he took another shot "or cause trouble if I'm in the mood. I also like hitting the strip club every now and then."
For some odd reason, Levy felt a twinge of annoyance at that.
"Really?" She asked.
"Hardly though." Gajeel shrugged "Their topless dances are fucking expensive. Plus the women there are nothing but vultures. Not my type." She could feel relief in her chest from hearing that. Levy then poured herself another shot and downed it.
"Hey don't drink too much!" Gajeel chuckles "Yer gonna get sick."
"I can handle my alcohol." Levy smirked before downing another shot.
"Whatever yeh say, but if ya puke you're cleaning it up."
"Jerk!" She then playfully smacked him on the arm for that before the two let out a large laugh.
"Ugh isn't there anything good on?" Levy asked suddenly as she channel surfed.
"Doubt it." Gajeel admitted "Cable plan isn't the best to be exact." eventually, Levy landed on a channel that seemed to have been about a robot.
"The Loneliest Robot in Great Britain?" Levy asked.
"I thought that movie was still in movie was still in theaters." Gajeel admitted.
"That's the only movie our theaters can afford." Levy explained "The movie left the theatre years ago. Our town's budget is so bad, the theatres only can afford one film."
"Fucking Christ that's pathetic."
"You want to watch it?" she asked.
"Sure I guess." He shrugged as he downed another shot. And that's how they spent their night, drinking until they reached the halfway mark, chatting, watching the film and pointing out how pathetic it really was until they both passed out on the couch.
Natsu, who got up from bed to go to the bathroom, walked into the room to see this sight and decided to grab the blanket on the couch and cover the two with it. The movie had ended about ten minutes ago and was now onto the late night news. As Natsu took the remote to shut down the tv for the night the news flash appeared on screen caught his eye for a second but then disappeared with the tv when it faded to black.
It said: "Mayoral Debate Is To Press Forward Despite Threats Of Violence"