After Gajeel had left a crumpled Levy behind he set out for the nearest mountain Lily was flying above him. Gajeel knew he had saw everything that had transpired, and was thankful that Lily had enough respect for him not to ask any questions. They trekked many miles and many days. Finally Gajeel had found what he was looking for, the perfect training spot. For 6 months straight Gajeel and Lily trained day in and day out, only pausing to go to a little village at the mountain base to get their basic necessitates Their jewels soon ran out though and the both Gajeel and Lily realized that something needed to be done.
"You know we could always join another guild, and then we could take on missions to make money" Lily suggested.
"You know better than suggest that, im not joining another guild unless she is there with me" Gajeel growled.
"Well what in the hell do you suppose we do, because your looks sure as hell isn't going to buy us shit" Lily said starting to get irritated with the hard headed iron dragon.
"What did you fucking say cat!" Gajeel said getting pissed.
"You heard me, iron eater. Just because you walked away from Levy doesn't mean we should suffer for it!" Lily said transforming into his battle form knowing his Levy comment would ultimately lead to a fight.
Sure enough hearing him say her name caused a fire to raise in his body, pure rage consumed him and his fist transformed into iron claws. Gajeel began swinging at Lily and Lily returned the favor. The two rolled on the mountain top trading punches, the fight soon took the two tumbling down off the side of the mountain Each of them throwing attacks towards each other in midair. Before either of them realized where exactly they were at they had already destroyed a house in the small mountain town. Town members gather around and looked in horror and the scene the two have made. Both were bloody and panting trying to catch their breath. Through all the whispers Gajeel heard music, and it gave him an idea. Gajeel let go of Lily's neck and grinned up at him.
"What are you grinning about fool?" Lily questioned.
"Listen to that, do you hear it?" Gajeel asked obviously excited.
"Yeah, its some guy playing the guitar. What about it?" Lily asked.
"That's how were are gonna make our money. Ill sing, its perfect don't you see" Gajeel stood up brushing himself off. "Hell I even have a name for us...The Iron Lilly" Gajeel said smiling from ear to ear thinking he had just came up with the most artistic name imaginable. Lily sighed knowing there was no changing his partners mind.
And so a few white suits and fedoras later they set off to find a place that was willing to have Gajeel's "unusual" play. It didn't take too long for the pair to find their first venue, with Gajeel's persuasion powers. What really surprised Lily was how well their first show went. Even the sober people were standing up cheering for Gajeel's shoobie do dops. What was even more surprising was instead of the two having to ask random bar managers if they could play in their bar, they were being called and asked if they would play. The Iron Lilly's popularity continued to soar. Both Gajeel and Lily was able to train their magic throughout the day and make some serious money throughout the night. After a few months of playing in some rink-a-dink bars Lily got a unexpected phone call.
"Hello" Lily said answering his phone.
"Hi, This is Kyle the manager of the Golden Jewel, which as you know is the number one bar in the Royal City, and I have an offer for you" he stated fast "You see our entertainment for tonight suddenly got a case of the flu and are unable to preform, and we would like to offer you the spot."
"I see" Lily said in his business tone. "Since its such short notice, do you mind me asking how much the job pays"
"Of course, since it is so short notice, we are willing to pay one million jewels. Also we will throw in one of the rooms upstairs so you can rest after the performance along with free food and drink. So will you come play for us" Kyle asked politely.
"Well let me call you back in five minutes and ill take a look and make sure we are not already booked." Lily said and he hung up the phone. "GAJEEL! GET YOUR ASS IN HERE!" Lily yelled pumped about the news.
"You better be dying cat, waking me up like that" Gajeel said running out of his room in his boxers panting holding his chest.
"Even better, how would you like to play at the Golden jewel tonight for one million jewels with free food and drinks?" Lily asked with a huge smile on his face.
"Are you serious? Hell yeah im down, I'm gonna pack my shit now" Gajeel said obviously pumped for the trip.
Lily called Kyle back and confirmed they would be there. Soon they had their items pack and was aboard a train, and after three hours of a pitiful looking dragon slayer they both stepped off the train. By this time it was nearly dusk, and Lily turned around about to make a joke about how such a tough iron dragon was a wuss when it came to a tiny train made of of metal, but the serious look Gajeel had on his face made him stop.
"What is it Gajeel" Lily asked noticing his whole change in attitude.
"Its just something I can smell, but im not sure if its what I think it is. Go ahead and get our room set up, I have to check on something." Gajeel said and instantly took off running. Lily being his curious self followed behind the slayer at a safe distance. After 20 minutes of following Gajeel, Lily was about to give up and just head to the bar thinking he was just roaming around. Suddenly Gajeel stopped and tensed. Trying to look around and see if there was any danger Lily froze and finally caught what had made Gajeel act the way he had. Levy, his partners mate, Lily was truly taken aback. He had not expected to see her here, but one thing was for sure...After many years of playing matchmaker with Mira, he was not going to let him get away from her this time. With a sly grin, Lily had his plan in place and just had to wait for the dragon slayer to leave.
It didn't take long for Gajeel to start walking towards the bar after all of Levy's light went out, so Lily jumped into action. He grabbed on of their fliers and circled the name of their band. The Iron Lilly because he would bet all of his money after she read the flier the scribe mage would know who would be standing on stage. He flew to her store and taped a couple of fliers to her bedroom window and proceeded to tap on it until he saw her lights turn on. Her window opened up and she said the paper taped to it.
"what in the world. Who could have put this up here" she said ripping the paper off of her glass. "What is this any way some kind of flier...The Iron Lilly, that's not very creative" she mused out loud "Playing live at the Golden Jewel tonight only starting at midnight, hear the shoobie-do-dops that will soothe the soul" she read out loud and gasped. "There's no way. It cant be him" she said starting to lose her breath. She felt her heart drop and inside she knew it had got to be him, come on the Iron Lilly, there was no way it was just a huge coincidence She was a scribe mage, and the fact the name was circled like it was and the flier being taped onto her window, she new it had to be Lily's sneaky work. "Alright" she said into the night. "Ill be there, but Lily you better keep your mouth shut about this." she said and closed her window. Perched upon her roof, the exceed heard the entire thing. With a large sneaky grin he took off in flight towards the bar. He wasn't going to let the metal head push her away this time.
AN: Alright guys another chapter is in the books, and now that all the flashbacks are done we can move into the present. Are yall as excited as I am? My plan right now is to update once a week, so a new chapter should up either Saturday night or sometime on Sundays. So a few random facts about myself. I have a two year old boy, I work as an EMT Monday-Friday, and im a volunteer firefighter. So Rember to follow and comment and let me know how im doing, or if you have any questions feel free to ask!