This chapter started to become a little long. So here its its a extra long chapter ;) enjoy


Chapter 3

Gajeel was awakened by an icy bucked of water someone poured over his head.
"What tha fuck! " He roared swinging his arms just to hit the person who had woken him up.
He could hear a small scream and things falling to the ground. As he removed the wet hairs covering his face he could to his shock see a small boy sitting on the floor with that looked like a first aid kit scattered everywhere.
"Oi, who the fuck are you?" He growled trying to fix his wild mane monitoring the boy.
"My name is Yuri. I'm here to take care of your wounds and give you something to eat"
So the boy was around Wendy's age, he had short black hair covering most of his face, he where wearing a shirt and shorts looking more like some potato sacks than clothes.

The part of him he could see where pale and thin looking more like bone, he could understand that since the only (food) he had brought him was a small piece of bread and a glass of brown water.
Gajeel also noticed the collar around his neck thinking that he probably where a prisoner her as well.
" Sorry I had to wake you up like that. It was a direct order from master.
"Master?"
"The one called Taizo. Everyone must call him master or you will get punished, it's the first rule" He whispered Taizo's name like it was a dirty word and he could see in his eyes that he was afraid.
He started picking everything up from the floor sitting down in front of him.
"Let me see the wound on your right side" Gajeel hesitated but if the boy could make the pain go away just a little it was worth the risk. He winced in pain when he began to touch the wound
"It looks like it starting to get infected, but it's not as deep as I thought so it should heal in a couple of days" He applied an ointment that stung like hell making him pull back.
"Please sit still, I need to cover the whole wound.
"Easy for you to say," he muttered all crotchety, but soon enough he was done. He had covered the wound on his side with bandage and just cleaned the once on his back,
"So what's your name?" The boy asked looking up at him from the floor.
"Gajeel, Gajeel Redfox" That's a weird name the boy giggled taking Gajeel off-guard. Had the boy really called him weird?
"What's that mark on your arm?"
"It's a guild mark"
"Wow really? I have always wanted to be in a guild, I can a little healing magic but I would want to learn more. But then I was bought by master and I'm only aloud to heal him and that does not happened very often.

"Hold up for a second there! You were bought?" He stared down at him not believing what he just had heard.
"Yea most of us where bought by master, but some were taking by force I think."
Slave trading, he had heard about it before but would never had imagined that it happened so close.
"You will get used to it eventually, as long as you follow the rules it's not that bad."
He couldn't believe it, he smiled when saying this? How long have he been here to get used to being a slave?
"Like hell I'm going to get used to it! I'm not a Slave I'm a dragon slayer and a member of Fairytail!
He just stared at him like he was crazy or something.
"And you are not a slave either! No one should be. I will get out of here and beat that bloody moron to next week. And you and the others are going with me. He could see small tears building up in Yuri's eyes.
"I would like that Gajeel, I would really like that" He froze as he could hear steps from the door quickly drying his tears.
"It's time for me to go I have been her far too long." He took his stuff running to the door
"Gajeel Nii-chan… did you really mean that? About getting out of here?
"Do I look like I'm kidding?
He gave him a big smile before closing the door behind him.
The boy had mentioned others, wonder how many more their where captured like him. Sitting down trying to eat the bread Yuri had brought him, it was stone hard so it was lucky he was used to eating iron and the water tasted more like sand. After he finish he felt more hungry than before, if only he could eat anything in the room, but everything made out of iron had runes over it and everything else was stone or wood. Wonder how long it will take before he will get his next meal? If anything at all, he signed.
He stood up looking out the window.
"Wonder if Lily is looking for me? Gihi bet he's worried like crazy.


GAJEEL! Natsu yelled as he searched surroundings. As if he hoped Gajeel would answer jumping out from a bush starting their normal fighting. Levy and Lily had questioned everyone in the village again since it was the only thing they had to go on. Natsu yelled again making Lucy yell in return.
" Natsu! Stop screaming, you have been screaming for hours and he hasn't responded so he will not begin now!" Natsu looked gloomy kicking the ground.
"It's not like we have anything else to do" He muttered. 'Natsu have really been grumpy since Gajeel gone missing, guess their daily fights really where a god stress reliever'. Lucy thought going back questioning an old lady.
"I have told you everything I know already. I haven't seen the one you seek and I don't know what have happened to the children who have disappeared from here. If I knew I would tell you, can you now please leave me alone?" The old lady smashed the door in Lucy's face like the other ten she had talked to. It seemed like Lily was right when he told them that the villagers really didn't know anything, but Levy had been so stubborn to get more information so she and Natsu had decided to go with them.
'God I hope he's alright' she sighed starting to walk in the direction of Levy and Lily.
"You most know something!" She heard Levy scream before hearing the familiar sound of a door shouting shut, seemed like Levy had just as much luck as her and Natsu.
" Levy we have been here all day and no one knows anything and Natsu can't find a sent trail of Gajeel. We don't have anything to go on, the best thing is to go back to the guild and wait for information to come in.
"No! I know they are hiding something. He can't just be gone" Levy yelled ignoring Lucy's suggestion. Her eyes where puffy from crying and big bags under them where evidence of her lack of sleep. Lily landed on her shoulder
"Levy, I have told you we are not getting anywhere. Gajeel can take care of himself and I'm sure he will contact us in some way and if not someone will give us something to go on, but the people here cant. Time to go home" Levy nodded drying the tears forming under her eyes.
Natsu laid his hand on her other shoulder
"Don't worry Levy well get him back. Nobody messes with Fairytail and gets away with it and besides he's a dragon slayer, nothing can take down a dragon.


Yuri now came to see him at a regular basis looking at his wounds and giving him the little food he where offered. Mostly just a piece of bread and the disgusting brown water, the wound on his right side had now healed completely but the burns on his back still stung like hell.
"How is it on the outside nii-chan?" Yuri asked sitting down next to him.
"It's okay I guess. A lot of morons out there trying to get on your nerves." Looking down at Yuri's disappointing face he quickly started talking again
"But it's a lot of decent people too. Like my cat Lily, he's the one that normally keeps me out of troubles like these. Gihi he will scold me so hard when I see him.
" A cat will talk to you?"
" He's an exceed, so he's a talking flying cat. Wow it really sounds crazy when I'm saying it out loud. Gihi. And then it's the bookworm I guess. She can make iron out of thin air and can talk in any language and can make these dam runes go away and… "
"She sounds really special nii-chan"
"She is, I have never met someone like her and I don't think I ever will." He drifted off in his thoughts remembering how she used to read to him out load, but he never listened instead just looked at her. So small so fragile so so…. He snapped back when Yuri told him he had to go.
"I will be back tomorrow okay? "
" Well I'm not going anywhere" Gajeel muttered pulling the chain making Yuri blush in embarrassment."

This really had started to be a habit. He comes and gives him food, stays for a while asking him about everything outside of these walls and slavery and then runs of. He really started to feel sorry for the kid. He looked so cheerful and full of hope since he said he would bust them out. But the days had passed bye and he really has started to consider this room dragon prof as he quickly had run out of escape plans. "Sigh"
He was so frustrated he started banging his head to the wall.
"Come-on-get-a-idea!"
"Oh, little dragon why are you hurting our little head like that?" Gajeel froze. He hadn't noticed the tall man walking into his cell now leaning on one of the walls with his arm crossed. 'Taizo'
"Well we haven't seen each other for a while, so I decided to pay you a visit. Seems like your wounds have healed nicely.
"It's not thanks to you" Gajeel muttered pushing his back to the wall.
"Yea that boy has really done a nice job, he really have a thing for herbs and medicine."
"What do you really want?" Gajeel could see right through him, he wasn't here just to talk and see how he was doing.
"You are hurting my feelings, can't a master just walk by to see his little slave?"
"Like hell I'm your slave your son of a bitch" His ruff mouth was rewarded with a fist to the face cracking his lip.
"Seems like you are very god at forgetting little dragon, I thought I told you last time that I don't appreciate being called names.

"More like you are the one forgetting, I'm a dragon slayer and a fairytail wizard, like hell I'm going to act like a pathetic slave." He smiled at him licking up the blood running down his jawline.
He could suddenly feel the chains tighten, what a fuck he hadn't moved?
"You will learn to respect me little one, it's a reason I'm the boss around here."

Gajeel recognized the look on Taizo's face from the last time he disrespected him. The chains on the wall started to rattle and he could fell a strong magic arura coming from the man in front of him.
Then to his shock he could feel the chains holding his arms loosen, he felt very suspicious but he would be stupid not taking this chance. He dragged his hands lose giving Taizo uppercut making him slide back. 'I hit him?' Gajeel thought quite surprised since in the woods he hadn't made a single hit o the man.
A deep lough started to fill the room, Gajeel could feel the chill making its way through his body.
"You should have done that little dragon" Taizo whispered slowly raising his hand to Gajeel.
Gajeel was on his guard but nothing could have prepared him for the chains and hand cuffs flying against him from the wall catching him once more. He was then pulled to the wall like a cross feeling the handcuffs and chains almost crushing him, especially the one across his chest making it hard to breath.
"I will teach you what will happen after you have been warned okay? He smiled wide dragging his hand done and up Gajeel's chest.
"Get your stinking paws of me!" Gajeel roared trying to take deep breaths.
"Naaw that's not the way to talk to you master is it? Now shall we begin then? "
Gajeel could see the door open and the big man that had struck him from behind in the woods rolled in a table. Gajeel stared in horror. It was full of tools. Rusty knifes gadgets he didn't know what it was but looked nasty and the well-known whip, but more of them. One with 3 long metal chains on it and another with big spikes! He wanted to shiver but he wouldn't, Taizo would not win this, he was strong he was Kurogane Redfox fairytales iron dragon slayer.