What the hell is someone like that doing in a place like this!? Gajeel thought as he watched the tiny blunette disappear into the Pit. Folding his arms across his chest, he felt someone standing next to him. Looking to his right, he saw Natsu, with his pink hair and black eyes. Tch.
"She was cute!" Natsu screamed over the roar of the crowd and the pounding music. As Natsu started after the little blunette, Gajeel grabbed him by the elbow. He knew his face was hard and angry. He didn't care. As Natsu looked back at him, Gajeel growled a single word at him "Mine." As Gajeel brushed past Natsu, he missed Natsu's knowing grin, though he did feel Natsu following behind him.
She was hard to spot, being so small. When he did find her she looked so out of place. So awkward. She wasn't really into this music. He could tell just by looking at her. Her eyes held fear, and her dancing was...cute. She wasn't feeling the music. Her eyebrows, so perfectly plucked, were pinched together, and she seemed to be looking for a way out. Gajeel looked to the blond she was dancing with. Must be why she's here. He thought to himself. He nodded to the blond, knowing Natsu would get the idea. Natsu's face broke out into a huge grin as he moved in to go dance with the blond.
Gajeel made his way to the little blunette. He had hoped it had been a trick of the light, but when he had picked her up from the ground, he thought he had spotted a shiner on her eye. He would kill anyone who had hit her. Who hits someone so small?! He planned on laying the guy flat on his ass for even looking at her the wrong way. Standing behind her, he tilted his head to Natsu to get the blond out of the Pit. He figured the blunette would follow. He hadn't been wrong.
Outside the Pit, he "found" Natsu and the girls. "Natsu! Let those poor ladies go! They don't want you buzzin' 'round their heads, irritatin' 'em." The blunette turned with a smile on her face. Her smile fell flat when she realized who it was.
"Gajeel! Who invited your sorry ass to this party?!" Natsu smiled as he threw his arm around the blond. "I have just asked these lovely ladies to meet me after the Scarlet Bolt's stop playing for something to eat." Both women spoke at the same time.
"I don't think that's a good idea. We should really get headed home." But the blond was louder and seemed to ignore her friend completely. "Awesome! I'm starving! How about we just go now?"
How insensitive. Gajeel thought to himself. But he waited for the blunette to respond to her friend.
"Lu-Chan, please. Let's just go home..." Again the blunette was ignored.
"Where are you guys going? We'll meet you there?" Gajeel saw the questioning look in Natsu's eyes and nodded imperceptibly. "Phantom's. It's open all night." Natsu said with a smile.
Natsu let go of "Lu-Chan" as she grabbed the blunette's hand and pulled her in the direction of the parking lot. "Someone hit the little one Gajeel. He hit her hard." Natsu cracked his knuckles as he looked at the Pit. "That bastard's going to pay!" Gajeel grabbed Natsu's shoulder, growling. "No. We need to get to Phantom's. Go find Gray. I'll get Wendy."