Gajeel and Levy I
Levy sighed, as she lit her candle. While it was a full moon, since coming to the Badlands, Levy made a devoted effort to avoid being outside with her and Gajeel's "glorious army".
She still wasn't sure how she, Gajeel, and Pantherlily got where they did, she did understand just what exactly they had managed to accomplish since then. Simply put, the portal spat the three of them out in the middle of a blazing wasteland. Not long after that, they were caught by dozens of hulking green creatures aptly called "Greenskins". Then, through a series of events, Gajeel took control of the tribe they were part of, by killing the war boss. Things only escalated from there.
Even after nearly two weeks, the sound of the cackling Greenskins still made her skin crawl. Something about the way they did it just seemed… wrong. However, considering what the victory they just had, it probably wasn't entirely unearned. They had just finished a battle with a tribe called the "Black Thumbs", and after Gajeel killed their boss, the survivors joined the Iron Choppas. They had done the same thing with the Bone Bitas who hadn't fled into the mountains.
"Oy, Ms. Lavy!" Levy sighed, recognizing that voice, and breaking her from her memories.
"Its 'Levy'," she said, not looking up, as a goblin called "Skak" scuttled up to her, "What is that now, four times?"
"Sorry, Boss lady," Skak said, as he put a series of scrolls on the table, "'Ere're da maps you wanted." Skak was originally a lower goblin in the Iron Choppas, until Gajeel convinced him to give them the key to get out of the cages they were stuck in. As a reward, he was made one of their personal aides.
"Thank you," Levy said, unraveling one of them. These were maps of the badlands, and a general territory of the various tribes. Currently, the Iron Choppas were focused around the Southeastern badlands, nestled in a fort in a small ravine they took from the Bone Bitas called "Blood Tooth Gully".
"Aside from the Black Thumbs, what's the nearest tribe?" Levy asked.
"Dat wud be da Giant Stompas," Skak answered, "Dose gits will prob'bly come afta us next." Levy frowned, as she bit her lip.
"What're you doing all the way up here, shrimp?" Gajeel called, as he walked up to where Levy was, with Lily floating beside him.
"Boss!" Skak said, as he quickly came up to Gajeel, and started groveling at his feet, "I was jus' telling da boss lady…"
"Get out of here," Gajeel ordered.
"Right away, Boss!" Skak said, as he scurried away. Levy just rolled her eyes.
"Say what you will about orcs," she said, looking back at the maps, "At least they aren't so wimpy."
"Why aren't you at the celebration?" Gajeel asked, holding up a mug of brown liquid the greenskins called "grog".
"I think that stuff would kill me," Levy answered with a sweat drop, "I think the only reason you can drink it is because you're a dragon slayer."
"Your loss," Gajeel said, as he downed another mug, "I beat up three orcs to get this." Levy rolled her eyes again, before looking back to her maps.
"How many do we have now?" Lily asked. The blue haired mage quickly pulled out a stencil and started counting.
"Now that we've assimilated the Black Thumbs, we have 4000 orc warriors, 1200 goblins, 23 trolls, and 4 giants," Levy answered, after she finished crunching the numbers.
"That's not bad," Lily said, folding his paws.
"No its not," Levy said, "Its definitely better than what we had when we got here. But I'm not sure if our swelling numbers is such a good thing."
"Why?" Gajeel asked.
"Do you think its a coincidence that the Black Thumbs showed up only a few days after we beat the Bone Bitas?" Levy asked, frowning, "They were looking for a fight, which our army can give them. No doubt, we're going to be getting more tribes' attention now."
"If they decide to mess with us, we'll just do what we did to the others," Gajeel said confidently.
"You remember what Skak told us? About an orc called Grimgor Ironhide, right?"
"Yeah," Gajeel said, "What about him?" He and Levy both were told about that orc. According to Skak, he was the most violent, and powerful orc in the Badlands.
"How long will it be before Grimgor, or any of the other great war bosses decide we're a threat?" Levy explained, "Word is one of Grimgor's lieutenants is traveling to the West, and he's got over 20,000 orcs in his horde." Gajeel tossed the mug over his shoulder, before rubbing the back of his head.
"Look," he said, "we can't keep moping around wonder what might happen. Let's just deal with things as they come."
"I'm not sure if we can do that now that we're in this world," Levy said, looking back at the map, "Don't forget we have no idea where the others are, and Skak said this world is huge."
"Since when does Fairy Tail plan things ahead?" Gajeel said, patting Levy on the head. Despite wanting to be mad, Levy couldn't help but snigger slightly.
"Can't we just have some kind of plan?" she asked.
"Fine," Gajeel relented after a moment, "What did you have in mind?"
"Well," Levy said, pointing the map, "We keep to the mountains as long as we can, beating up on whatever comes our way to keep the army happy. Then we start moving West towards the ocean. Maybe we can get away there."
"That sounds more like an outline to a plan than an actual plan," Lily said skeptically.
"I know, but its all I got right now," Levy said, before smiling, "And Gajeel was actually right for a change, when does Fairy Tail plan things so far ahead?"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
Note: Sorry this was so short. It was mostly just to establish where Gajeel and Levy are, and what's been happening them since they got to the Warhammer world. Putting them with the Greenskins was a serious no brainer. Things seem to be going okay for them, but what'll happen when they get the attention of someone like Grimgor?
Writing the Greenskin dialogue is actually pretty difficult, since you've got to represent their verbal tics in writing form, which is never really easy. If you ever have trouble reading it, just mutter it out loud briefly, and that should do the trick.
Please review. Next chapter is Juvia.