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"I hate that lying witch! She and her new friends can just quit the guild for all I care. They don't deserve to be part of Fairy Tail." Levy yelled to the air as she was trying to focus on a script project.
It's been two months since she last saw her beloved fairy sister in the comforting arms of another girl. Evergreen had been gone for two days and the short blue-haired script magician swore that she was with Lucy sharing all the gossip about her Sabertooth lover. 'They're probably picking out baby names now.' Levy thought as she stood up and slammed her book close. Everything was just getting out of hand and the catalyst was no where to be found. Lucy had gone through Edolas and back never once changing, their friendship only grew stronger, but something happened that one night she was gone and it was driving her mad.
"What on Earthland happened that you left me." Levy let her head sink, masking her escaping tears. Nothing made sense; Gajeel had been secluding himself in his home, Wendy rand off with the older traitorous women and Juvia loss the ability to look her in the eyes. One night, one event and everyone was silent. The only clue she had was that there was a huge gossip that Ever took with her and none dare talk about. Mira had her lips unusually shut for someone who initiated love triangles and crazed romances, Makarov was deliberately keeping all details of Lucy to himself and even Laxus looked like he knew something about her former friend.
Tired of being in the pressence of liars and traitors, the shorter woman decided that maybe she should take a break and go prepare for her upcoming wedding, without her destined maid of honor. Opening the guild doors and making eye contact with none she was about to exit, when an all familiar hand picked her up by the collar of her shirt.
"What's down shrimp?" Gajeel said tenderly as he placed a light kiss on her cheek.
Blushing with her feet dangling in the air, all her previous anger and resentment seemed to evaporate into nothingness. Gajeel was the only person that kept her sane, sure he wasn't there often and recently nursing bottles more often, but he was the only one that cared about her.
"Ah can you put me down? It's embarrassing when you pick me up like a kid!" Levy said her cheeks completely drenched in a red blush.
Lightly laughing at his fiancee, Gajeel complied like a gentleman and placed her gently on her feet as he then proceeded to ruffle her blue hair. Annoyed at her juvenile treatment the script mage puffed her cheeks and placed her hands on her hips and declared to the world that she was a woman and not a child.
Lowering his head closer to her trembling face, Gajeel invaded her personal space and blew hot breathe against her pale skin. Wanting to tease, wanting to just forget about everything and focus on his little love he licked the outer side of her ear.
"I can't wait to get you in my bed and see for myself short stuff." Gajeel voice huskily echoed in her ears, before he rose up and gave her playful smirk. Blood rushing to her face and having a difficulty breathing, Levy subconsciously wrote in the sky 'ANVIL' which took form and dropped like a ton of bricks on the confused iron dragon slayer.
Chuckling to himself, Gajeel noticed how cute it was when her nose flared up and the vein at the side of her head swelled up. She wasn't half bad and with time maybe he could forget all about the bunny that had escaped down the rabbit hole. Eating up the metal ANVIL word he rose from the floor and mischievously threw his aggressor over his warm comforting shoulder.
"Gajeel what are you doing, I was heading out, I don't want to go back in there." Levy squirmed and flailed in his arm, as the larger man ignored her, passed all the staring guild mates and sat her at his table.
"Oi Devil-woman get us a round of drinks." Gajeel shouted to Mira.
Unbeknownst to Gajeel, Panther Lily had been gone all morning donating all of the iron dragon slayer's rum collection to a very accepting Cana and warning all the barmaids and bartenders that Gajeel was not allowed a single drop of liquor. Mira nervously looked at scarlet eyes that held an extraordinary desire to consume. Sweat accumulated on her forehead and trickled down her temples as she poured clear water into the bear steins. Walking slowly, she decided that looking the man in the eye wasn't the smartest thing in the world. Placing the water filled glasses on the wood table she gave them a weak smile and quickly turn away to return to the safety of her counter.
"What the hell is this?" Gajeel looked incredulously at Mira not even touching his glass. He asked for booze and by all of Fiore he was gonna get hammered or kill someone trying. Levy just sighed at the man's agitation.
After what seemed like years of trying to learn a new language, Gajeel threatened Mira to give him alcohol or he was gonna have a merry ole time busting up the joint. White hair stood up in anger at the little pup having the audacity of threatening her when all she was doing was following orders. Glaring at the man wasn't doing anything, so her takeover demon form had to do, but before a fight could engage a ear numbing "Stop" came from the second floor.
"Gajeel you are to touch no alcohol until you get married, don't you glare at me young man, you brought this upon yourself." Master Makarov said with a swing of his cape and disappeared.
Growling lowly, he stared as Cana drunk until she passed out, if anyone needed an intervention it was the heavy weight of the guild and not him.
Levy looked at the tense and agitated demeanor of her soon to be husband in worry. 'When did he start drinking so much?' The short blue haired woman thought to herself as Gajeel stomped his way back to his spot to drink his stein of blasphemous water.
"So I talked to Ever a couple of minutes ago and it looks like she's coming home too." Juvia told Gray and Natsu who seem to be injected back with life.
Upon hearing the gossip and seeing the reaction of her guild mates, now Levy was in a fowl mood. Crossing her arms, she started to rock her chair to the edge as she clenched her teeth.
"Juvia too now, seems like I'm not needed for anything anymore." Levy whispered to herself, but loud enough for Gajeel to hear.
Nodding the firecracker of his fiancee, he got no reply and not really in the mood to dig too deep, so the iron dragon slayer decided to drop the subject.
"Lucy's returning to the guild, and she tells everyone and their distant cousin, but forgets to inform her supposed best friend." Levy told a now jittery Gajeel who could only nod.
Back at the Sabertooth Guild, Evergreen was on the verge of going blind after using her stone magic so much. She lost count how many times she had turned both Rogue and Sting into stone. After Lucy fainted into Sting's arms, the idiot decided to carry and watch over her in his bed. Wendy warned the light dragon slayer that Rogue was a bit possessive and his kind gesture was going to seem more like a threatening display to steal his friend mate underneath his nose. The guild went through overwhelming darkness to blinding light, multiple times before the sun could ever set. Frame by frame she tried to contain the reckless fight, each time they would break out and it would consume more of her magic to keep them in their stone states. Air seemed to escape the house of her lungs, sweat took the form of trickling streams and the color from her heavily colored face faded. Magic fatigue symptoms arose and Wendy was no longer content at their foolishness.
Using her sky magic, the young dragon slayer mingled the air with a sedative and both dragons collapsed on the ground. Sighing she then used her magic to carry Evergreen and place her next to Lucy on Sting's king-sized bed. Seconds later one of Lucy's spirit stepped out of their gate.
"Punishment?" A pink-haired made asked with a malicious look in her eyes at Wendy.
The child stared at both Rogue and Sting, then at a passed out Lucy. Nodding her head and smiling, the blue-haired girl pointed to the twin dragon slayers.
"So have they stopped yet?" Ever yawned lazily as she recovered from her fatigued state. Wendy just giggled as she explained the quality time the dragon slayers spent with Virgo getting punishment.
Laughing loudly, the older woman was a bit disappointed she couldn't witness a punishment session from the masochist that was the famed maid.
"Oh before I forget, tomorrow we all, have to go home." Ever said encircling her arm to include Lucy.
Wendy sighed knowing far too well that this was a retrieval mission and not just to stabilize their tormented friend. Lucy had to meet with Gajeel, and she needed to tell her sister that she could reverse Rogue's marking.
"I'm going too!" Rogue said as he chewed through the bandages covering his mouth, while he hung upside-down from the main wood ceiling beam.
So we're going into the dragon's den? Interesting... oh and by the way, don't let the child alone with Lucy too long, she knows how to remove your mark. The shadows quietly informed their master, who just froze in place. Rogue was not happy at all, he thought that dragon mating was permanent.
"It's not like we want to return, but the master specifically said that Lucy must physically return herself, or she will be arrested for treason. She's been gone for months, and she has been within your possession for several weeks. Laxus will not have one of his fairies under any other guilds custody without a valid reason." The oldest of the fairies informed Rogue who looked at an equally bandaged Sting who only nodded in agreement.
"We have another dormant problem... the second we show up with Blondie, her former friend, yes I said former friend Levy is gonna give it to Lucy really bad. Supposedly the shrimp thinks Lucy ended their friendship and replaced years of sisterhood with me. There is also the obvious confrontation with Gajeel. From what Juvia told me, Gajeel is not doing good; he is mostly on edge and losing himself in a bottle. The guy hasn't been sober since Lucy left, his body knows what he's done, his mind just hasn't been invited to the party." Ever said as she got out of bed and flipped her hair, trying to air dry her sweat off. Just thinking about all the girl drama with Levy was giving her stomach cramps, from what the rain lady told her, Levy felt betrayed and neglected.
Rouge was not happy, he didn't want his mate to be anywhere near Gajeel. He also wanted to avoid all this necessary drama and stress, it would most likely affect her pregnacy and emotional state. Lucy ran away, and now her friends who help saved her life were gonna drag her back home.
"Okay. You girls do know I want her as far from Gajeel as possible. We might also want to rethink leaving tomorrow. Remember she did run away. I think we should head out now, while she still sleeps." The raven haired man said seriously as he hung from the large beam. Taking pity upon the dangling duo and feeling their calm auras, Wendy used her concentrated sky magic and sliced through the bandages that hung them to the ceiling. With a loud thump the two dragon slayers fell onto the hard wood floor.
After a light chuckle from the alert fairy maidens, the two sabertooth members stared daggers at their tormentors as they fiddled with their mummied states.
Within half an hour, Sting designated Rufus as interim guild master as he invited himself to this not so fun party. Everyone's luggage was packed and horses were prepared. Tonight they head for Fairy Tail to resolve legal guild issues and also confront the personal battle of a lifetime.
Wendy the most logical of the group, sighed mentally exhausted as she anticipated all the trials and tribulations awaiting her poor shattered-prone friend. Lucy was going to be heavily scolded and have her morals thrown into her face when they all realize that she is pregnant.
'If Gajeel or Levy finds out the truth all hell is gonna break lose.' The blue haired child thought as the horse and buggy trotted along and Charle stared at her master's petrified face.