Chapter 3

Gajeel had ran so fast he was a blur he didn't even bother to look up from his running. Anyone who was in his way would be knocked down, and hell if he cared. Nobody else did so why should he start, he ran to the edge of town and stopped.

Dawn was approaching, and Gajeel knew that people would be looking for him or at least for the source of the scream. His thoughts trailed back to a few minutes ago. What he had seen was so beyond what the norm was that it had to be a hallucination. Brought on by the guilt that consumed his thoughts everyday and everynight.

Gajeel had seen and talked to levy a multitude of times, he was even her partner for Tenrou Island. She had talked to him as if nothing had happen, and he struggled to understand why she was accepting him. He couldn't even accept himself so why could she he pondered for a minute. "She's trying to get back at me by fucking with my head" Gajeel said thinking out loud, he thought about it for a second "no Levy is too nice to do such a thing". Gajeel was conflicted and decided to go to his favorite waterfall to meditate on things.

He got to the falls just outside of the town in the forest, he was always soothed by the noise of the falls. The large man had discovered this place a few days after arriving here, and nobody seemed to come to this area of the forest for some reason.

Gajeel took up his usual position and started his deep meditation. He was soon deep in his meditative state thinking about the events of the past and trying to release them from his body, but to no avail. He sat there trying as hard as he could to get his mind to focus on calm serenity, but to no avail.

Gajeel got angry that he couldn't release them as he so planned, he got up and yelled " God how can i forget what i have done when i can't even forgive myself fuck this!".

Gajeel yelled to the empty forest or seemingly empty. Gajeel quickly picked up a familiar scent "Come out you damn cat". Pantherlily came out from behind a nearby tree " i wondered when you were going to sense me". Lily walked calmly over to the Iron Dragon Slayer. Gajeel responded with a middle finger and a "screw you cat, what do you want?". Lily responded sternly " What do i want? you know what i want".

Gajeel simply shrugged his shoulders, and turned away. Lily transformed into his battle form to show Gajeel he meant business. "Listen you stupid bastard i want to know why i woke up to a of a full grown man screaming at the top of his lungs, and running out from the house like a maniac!"

Gajeel turned and was in lily's face within seconds closing the considerable gap in a flash. " That's not your problem, so don't ask me again" Gajeels magic began to crackle and a dark aura surrounded him. Lily was strong but not strong enough to stand up to Gajeel. The man was an absolute monster when it came to fighting. Lily transformed back into his original form, he knew he had been defeated in intimidation. Lily decided to keep pushing the boundaries of the question. "You can't keep beating yourself up over this" lily said with a worried tone.

"Don't worry about me Lil its not worth your time now leave me alone" Gajeel then turned on his heel and started to walk away. Lily pressed on "If this is about your time in Phantom lord then it should be resolved". Gajeel stopped dead in his tracks Lily kept speaking "that was a different time and people" Gajeel turned around and with fury and angry eyes spoke "you better stop what you're saying" .

Lily knew there was no turning back now so he kept prying " i've heard some of the fucked up things you did when you were in that guild". This made Gajeels blood boil and he started walking up to Lily "I told you to Shut the fuck up you Damn bastard, you don't know me or my past so stay out of it".

Gajeel's expression was that of a murder intent on killing. lily knew he shouldn't have said it he really didn't wish to, but he had an idea of the reason behind the man's troubles and he simply said it. "i know what you did to levy and her friends" he said it so nonchalantly that Gajeel was simply astounded at his friend's words. Gajeel looked eyes wide open and mouth hung, then he spoke "what did you just say?"

Lily knew he had crossed the line and he knew it. He was going to pay for his pressing of Gajeel's past. Gajeel spoke with venom "Don't you ever bring that up again" He turned his leg into iron and kicked the cat up in the air. Lily changed his form fell back to earth ready for the punishment he would soon endeavor.

After a few tense seconds Lily realized The moment never came when Lily looked up, he saw nothing it seemed the Dragon Slayer had Vanished "Damn that Gajeel he has to face this sometime" Lily then changed back and started the walk back to the house.

On his way back to the house Pantherlily had crossed the fountain in the main square, he decided to sit down for a moment decently tired from walking and getting kicked into the air. Lily thought about the days events, and it seemed it was gearing up to be one of those days. Lily sweat dropped and had a sad look on his face. Until he heard a sweet voice that could not belong to anyone else but the script mage. Lily looked down again yup its definitely going to be one of those days.

Levy ran up to Pantherlily with a spring in her step "how are you Lily?" Levy always had a smile on her face she was known for this. Lily looked up and saw the script mage. Seeing levy's face and radiant smile gave Lily a smile of his own. "Ahh good morning levy-chan" Lily said with a plain expression "how are you this morning?". Levy responded with her cheerful expression "Im fine Lil I just got a new book from the store".

"That sounds like a good morning for you" Lily said trying not to let out his drag of a morning known. "What about you Lily? you have a good morning?" Lily got up and responded with a head nod and a simple "yes".

Levy followed the Cats path to where he was standing. Lily didn't want to tell levy what had occurred that morning, because he didn't want to drag her in on Gajeels problems. Although when he thought about it she had been the source of the problems. He stood there thinking for a few moments long enough for levy to figure out something was wrong.

"What's wrong Lil?" Lily stood there for a second and breathed deeply he just said "screw it if you want to know how my morning was you can ask the Iron headed idiot." Levy looked confused and looked at Lily with confusion so basically she was confused "What do you mean by that?" Levy said. Lily looked at her and thought to himself "God this generation is just full of smart people" Lily looked at levy "talk to Gajeel he told me to tell you he wanted to talk".

Levy was even more confused now "why would he want to talk to me?" Lily looked at levy "you're a smart girl im sure you could figure out something" Lily knew he would pay for this come morning but this was his payback. Levy got pretty excited at Lily's words and seemed to glow when he said that."I wonder what he has to talk about thought levy i guess ill have to wait and see."

So Levy told Lily "alright if i see him ill talk to him" she was about to leave, but she forgot to ask lily so she stopped dead in her tracks and turned to Lily " Hey lily? did you hear about that guy who was screaming bloody murder this morning? it was in your area of town." Lily looked back at Levy and yelled "yes i did actually the guy was an idiot woke up half the neighbors including me" Lily then turned around with a grin and a chuckle, and walked away.

Levy nodded her head and turned it "hmm weird I guess i should go find Gajeel then". She trailed off to go find the Dragon Slayer wherever he may be.

That's the end of chapter 3 hope you enjoyed ill try and upload the next chapter tonight, but i got the first day of classes tomorrow so we shall see. thanks for reading and please review if you get the chance.