Italic = narrating
"Speak"
- Thought
"CAPS LOCK" = SCREAMING
Disclaimer: not owning Fairy Tail nor the original fairy tales
Jellal and the armor clad princess
When being just a child, before Siegrain moved in, Natsu and Gray rarely fought, but when they did it wasn't a pleasant sight. And whenever Natsu hadn't felt like talking to his mother or seeing his brother he always walked out into the forests. He found something like peace there.
One day, Natsu had stumbled into a pond. After that, he sat at the edge of the pond, dripping wet, and watched the inhabitants swim around. He had never seen such an animal before – a water lizard. Waiting there for longer than he thought, his mother was very worried when he got back. And even though he felt bad for being gone for so long, he left the following day as well, going to the pond. And the next day, and the next, and the next. Sitting completely still, watching the water lizards. Fascinated Natsu watched as they seemingly played and later he also asked his mother – very subtle – about different animals in hope to gain some information on the water lizards without giving away that he had found some. They were his secret.
Or so he thought.
After some time, the water lizards – salamanders – got used to him and became almost tame. He visited them every day and started to consider them friends.
One day he was stopped from visiting the salamanders by a boy some year older than him. A boy with dark ragged hair and red gleaming eyes. For some reason Natsu couldn't remember later, they started fighting.
Without having a winner in the fight, the two boys in the end were unable to fight and had to leave in different directions.
"This ain't over", was the last thing Natsu heard the other boy say.
Several days passed, but Natsu didn't see the other boy again when he went to see his friends and thus, he assumed that the other boy was all words and no action. He couldn't have known that his enemy was spying on him. And without wanting to, Natsu revealed his secret for the other boy. Soon the black-headed boy learned that Natsu was found of the salamanders, visiting them every day.
And then one day, Natsu wasn't the first to have been by the salamanders. When arriving he found his friends without neither front nor back legs and no tails. Dead. They had to be with all those missing limbs.
A knife lay by the pound and a little note.
Don't come back pinky, or I will go after the babies too. This is my forest.
Gajeel Redfox
And Natsu returned crying home, crying because he hadn't been able to save his friends. When Gray asked why he was crying, he didn't even glare at his brother, he just sobbed more.
This was before the brother's always fought, and every once in a while they did share some brotherly moments. This was one of those times.
Gray hugged his brother until he stopped crying, but then they didn't talk to each other for the rest of the day. Later that evening Natsu learned that when salamander's lose limbs they can grow out again, but he didn't dare to see them again anyways.
After this Natsu fought with Gray each day. In the beginning it was all his own fault, but after some time his brother started just as many of the fights. Gray had never known why Natsu had begun to always fight and neither did their mother, because Natsu never told anyone. But he knew for sure that next time whenever his family or friends were in danger, he would protect them. No one would ever get to hurt anyone he cared for again.
Back sooner than expected, woop woop!
Now you know what happened between Gajeel and Natsu, and why Natsu hates Gajeel so much. Gajeel had his own reasons for why he wanted the forest to himself but that is another story. Gajeel isn't one of the main's.
But with a short sum - Gajeel had a bit of a rough childhood and he met a very important person in his life there who he was able to escape from his life with. (That person is Levy)
Since I'm having Easter break now I might be able to write some more, but no promises of an update will be given.
Anonymous 13 : I'm really happy to see you're still here my friend! :) and thanks, that's really a good advice - I usually do that but this time I think it was more a question of not feeling like writing. And of course, school -.-
Never ever apologize for a long review! They're my favorite kind :3 And was this Gajevy / Gale enough for you?;)
Thanks for reviewing, I'm so very glad you're still here (especially since you are a guest and can't follow me through e-mails XD)
JeRza shipper: I'm so glad to hear that! ^-^ Yes, it's based on Cinderella, I foound this picture a fan had made and I just loved the idea. It had Erza dressed in the prince's outfit and Jellal running away in a dress dropping the glass shoe XD So I decided to stick with Erza as the royal and Jellal as Cinderella :) but thinking about the story, I wanted to make my own wich is why I wanted a tournament - I just thought; what has Erza written all over it? A sword fight.
It's actually one of the things I like the best about this story ^-^
Thanks a lot for the review, stay awesome - your review made me very happy (all about the plotline and grammar :3)
Bye guys, a big thank you for reading, stay awesome you guys and I see you when I see you, but I will be back - don't worry!
