Hey guys, sorry for the wait. This chapter is dedicated to my friend Caroline who wanted some Annie x Armin ship in here, and to myself because I was feeling very Gajeel x Levy. I had to throw a few changes in here to accomplish stuff, but please enjoy.

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Armin was excited. There were no titans!

After what Hange called "debriefing" (really, Hange, what about 3-hours is brief?), the pink-haired kid who messed his name up said they didn't have any titans. Thus, no death. Thus, no walls.

NO WALLS!

Armin was overjoyed! If he wanted, he could ran for days in any which way, and no 150 meter tall stone was going to stop him! And nobody was going to eat him! He could finally see the outside world.

Armin could see the lands covered in sand or seas filled with ice. Nothing could stop him now!

Except for the fact he had no idea where he was.

After Hange's unbrief debriefing, everybody milled around talking and generally finding people they could relate to.

So Armin headed towards a girl with stacks of books.

The girl was small with blue hair (this place was so interesting) and wore a yellow dress. On top of her head perched reddish pink glasses with winged edges. She mumbled to herself as she looked in book after book.

"Hello. I'm Armin Artlet from the Shiganshina District."

He crossed his fingers, knowing she could be kind and helpful, or she could laugh maniacally and make fun of him. He wanted the first.

She turned around, smiling. The girl had a kind face. "Hi, Armin. I'm Levy McGarden." She stuck out her hand. "From, ummm," Levy looked around the room, "Fairy Tail."

After a small period of silence, she continued, "Aren't you the one who was so interested in the outside world? Do you want to read about it?" Levy gestured to her stacks of books.

Armin could feel his eyes widening and slowly nodded his head. Levy laughed.

"What are you doing with the books?" he asked, still amazed.

"I'm looking up how you guys got here. Natsu over there and his experiment with Lu-chan's keys will have me reading for hours. Not that I mind." She giggled.

"Hours? It would take me weeks to read this many books!" Armin looked at the 50 something books Levy had on the table.

"Oh," Levy said. She took off her glasses. "These are Gale-Force Reading glasses. This pair lets me read 18 times as fast. Wanna try them on?"

Armin was stunned at everything in this world. He greedily grabbed the glasses and the first book an sat down. He gasped as the words flew by, and he understood everyone of them.

Armin took off the glasses and sat back in awe. Turning to the blue-nette, he asked, "You're a wizard right? What kind of magic do you use?"

Levy smiled. "Solid Script. Here, watch." She whipped her fingers around and screamed, "SOLID SCRIPT! IRON!"

Armin watched as the word 'IRON' appeared in the air (he noted a little heart in the center of the O) and crashed down on one man's head. He had a mane of black hair and his body was covered in piercings. Levy laughed.

Armin was confused. He had thought Levy was kind, but he had been wrong. Yet he noticed that the man didn't even seem fazed. He picked up the IRON and took a huge bite out of the I. The man then proceeded to eat the rest of the IRON and purposefully flash the chewed metal in his mouth across the room to Levy. She just kept laughing.

The man walked off, smiling and muttering something about shrimp.

Levy turned back to Armin, and upon seeing his face, commented, "Gajeel. He's an iron dragon slayer."

Armin didn't understand. But he went along with it. It was good to have a new friend. Mikasa and Eren were great, but they would never in a million years drop iron on somebody's head. Even if he could eat it.

Gajeel hadn't meant to crash into the blonde girl, but in his defense, she wasn't exactly the most conspicuous.

He was walking away after his nice iron snack and went to find Pantherlily, and when he wasn't looking up, he ran straight into her.

At first, Gajeel thought it was a pillar. Erza's right, he thought, pillars are jerks. But pillars don't mumble, "Should've joined the military police after all," or talk at all. Or maybe Gajeel just didn't know enough about pillars.

When they looked up face to face, Gajeel took a quick stumble back. "BLONDE ERZA!" Gajeel screamed.

She had startling blue eyes and her face was more serious than Salamander's when somebody insulted Fairy Tail. Whereas, while Gajeel was covered in iron studs and had iron poles for hands, the blonde girl didn't even flinch.

She stuck some hair wisps behind her ear. "Annie," she said and turned.

Levy watched from behind a pillar. Gajeel and Annie were talking in what Levy called tough guy mode. He went all serious and creepy, like before he joined Fairy Tail. She knew he was better now, but she would be lying if Levy said she hadn't had those nights where she woke up in a cold sweat out of fear for their first in counter.

But Annie also had a tough girl mode. Maybe that was how they were connecting. If so, Levy didn't like it one bit.

She wasn't jealous, she told herself. After all, Gajeel towered over Annie, just like he did her. But what if he liked Annie's tough girl act?

Levy shook her head. She was overreacting way to much. She and Gajeel were already dating. Why freak? She knew Gajeel liked her.

Armin followed Levy over to Gajeel and Annie. Levy introduced herself to Annie and Annie just rolled her eyes. The iron dragon slayer? Gajeel turned to Levy and said, "Hey Shrimp, thanks for the snack." They were obviously pretty familiar with each other. But to Armin it didn't make sense. He would have thought Gajeel would be beating up a girl like Levy right now.

But Levy laughed and dropped more IRON on his head. Gajeel rubbed his head and started eating the IRON. We could use people like this in the Survey Corps, Armin thought.

Annie had an amused look on her face. She probably found the two of them funny too.

When Armin turned back to Levy and Gajeel, they were making out, so Armin walked over to Annie. "Hey, Annie."

Annie glared at him, punched Armin in the face, and walked off.