She had disappeared many, many, many years ago, but to her, she had no concept of time or of the age. She had been locked and sealed away, frozen in a pocket between the place there and the place here. She would have never awoken, be it not that she had been stirred by that one Heartfilia girl. The power she possessed and yet untapped…..it reminded her of another Heartfilia who she had had the chance of meeting once before. She possessed the rarest keys, one of the rarest magics, and the trapped one's element. Perhaps this had awoken her?
She had watched her from now and then, such as the horrid time on Tenroujima, oh how she had hated Acnologia with his apocalyptic ways! She had forced back into the stillness, then awakened again when the Eclipse Gate had opened. She had been so close to entering the world, but she had saw…..things.
Her little Ryos, her son torn apart because of seeds of evil. She wanted to reach out to him, to scream at him that she was right there, that she saw everything and she was okay and that she was trying to come home. She wanted to defeat the future Ryos, to banish him because he was not her son, he was from a place beyond, some other dimension. No matter what she tried, he couldn't see or reach her, and in turn, she was kept from son once again.
So now, the dragon's soul trapped as pure celestial energy watched as the Heartfilia was being carried in a potato sack by a supposedly dead demon, and why in the world her mate and Metalicana were following from a distance like giddy little children. A jumping metal pole and a moving shadow in the middle of the street just isn't normal. Not matter the circumstances.
Well, there are no sane dragons.
Would he be rejected?
Rogue didn't want Lucy to reject him. He hoped, with all of his shadowy heart, that she'd love him too. Or accept him. Just holding the beautiful woman in his arms would be a huge slice of heaven.
He sits up, stretching his sleepy arms as far as possible.
Then, he realizes that he can stretch his arms. As far as possible. Looking down, he noticed that his wounds were practically completely healed! Thank God for Porlyusica and her crazy ways!
Looking to his right, he saw that the canteen with Lucy's marvelous soup was empty, but still need to give it back.
Also, he STILL hadn't given her back her wallet. What the hell was wrong with him!? He as such a hoarder of many things, mainly a wallet, a canteen of soup, and basic necessities.
He gets out of his bed and stretches his legs and walks around aimlessly for a bit, hoping it would help.
That is, until Porlyusica bursts into the room from the guest bedroom.
With a burning broom, of all things.
She starts running at him and waving the broom around yelling, "Get outta here, you stinky, smelly human! Ungrateful brat! This is why I don't like humans!"
What?
On instinct he runs out of the door. He didn't mean to stay for so long.
Oh.
Wait a second!
"Hey! This is my house!"
Gajeel woke up to the sound of Levy's scolding voice.
However, he hardly noticed it. He was as hungry as heck, and there, on the ground, was an iron pole.
It shouted at him, but whisper-shouted, because apparently the blue Mage did not hear.
"Baka!"
Gajeel narrows his eyes.
"Who the hell are you?
The script Mage is looking at Gajeel like he's an idiot, the pole notices, and the pole is very satisfied.
"WHOOOOOH! I am your conscious...Nah. Who the hell do you think it is?"
Gajeel snorts.
"Why would I ask ya if I knew?"
"Cause you're a damn idiot", says the metal pole.
The metal pole now noticed that Gajeel's mate is trying to drag him away, to no avail.
"Who are you calling an idiot, iron bastard?"
"You", it answers. "But we shall talk about this later. I need you to do something."
Gajeel frowns at the iron talking pole. What would a pole want him to do?
"What is it?"
"I need you to fulfill tradition my cat- BRAT," the iron pole answered.
"I am not a brat." He sighs. "Never mind. I'm not going to sit here listening to a pole insult me."
The iron dragon slayer begins to stand up.
"No no wait! Gajeel!"
The pole does this weird hopping thing like its possessed and Levy screams and runs off. Said demonic iron pole started rolling down the hill with no apparent off switch.
Gajeel, noticing this just in time, runs after it.
"Wait, you damn, possessed pole!"
"I can't wait because APPARENTLY GRAVITY WORKS!" The pole screams as its rolling downhill.
Gajeel switches to his super awesome, cool looking shadow mode and quickly runs in front of the iron, stopping it from moving. He then picks it up, placing it in front of his tanned face.
"Now what do ya want!?"
"I need you to fulfill the prophecy!" says the pole. "The stars and shadows must unite as one!"
"What fucking stars and shadows are you talking about!?"
"It's something you don't need to know about at this moment. Right now Lucy is being carried away in a potato sack by Mard Geer. Rogue needs to save her. Make it happen."
The pole does this weird hopping ghost pogo stick impression, then flops on the floor.
"Well?"
"Why would I want my sist- ahem - Lucy to be saved by Rogue?"
No way was he letting his son near the woman!
"Life's unfair, face it and take it. This has all happened before. I didn't want Nictrilli to end up with shadow-loser but guess what? YOU REALLY GET TIRED OF ALL THAT EYE SEX THAT GOES ON!"
"No way am I letting Lucy and Rogue have eye sex!"
"It's a real thing, and hell is it annoying. The solution was to stuff them in a cave and block the entrance. I was lucky I got away from her wrath with only a missing toe. It grew back though", the pole shuffled a bit.
Gajeel looked the pole up and down, convinced that something was wrong with it.
It didn't have any toes!
"Wait... Titania and Jellal have eye sex all the time, now that I think about it..."
(A.N. We apologize for not having enough Jerza love in this fic. My, Farry45's, deep, everlasting love for Lucy gets in the way.)
"Exactly! It's annoying and sometimes you just want to hand them a condom and get out of there, but do that later! You need to get Rogue to the aquarium to save Lucy that way I can have kittens!" The pole shouted jumping up and down. It began to roll away.
Kittens...
Sister...
Condoms...
Sister...
Condoms...
Why did Gajeel have a nagging feeling that the pole was referring to incest?
Either way, be it consensual sex or incest that the iron was speaking of, Gajeel ran over and grabbed the hard headed (pun intended) pole.
"Let go of me! You know the way! Don't grab me, I got to meet up with Skia-I mean, Steve!"
"Who the hell is Steve! Your strip club owner?"
(A series of 'ooooooh's could be heard in the background.)
"Just shut up and go get the boy!"
He pouts.
Gajeel. Redfox. Pouts.
"Why the hell should I?"
"Why are you following me Frosch?"
Rogue is walking through the streets of Magnolia, heading to a certain guild's building to look for the celestial mage he had impulsively kissed and had backed into a corner after confessing his newfound urge to love her. He felt the urge to talk to Lucy again, and had set out for Fairy Tail, with Frosch (whom he believed didn't know anything) who was insisting on following his parent.
"Fro wants to come on your date".
"Fro!" Rogue was looking at his froggy exceed with surprise and genuine horror. Frosch was Frosch, and it was just a matter of time before she spilled delicate secrets after being manipulated by certain annoying blue cat that would do anything to get paid in fish.
"Fro saw everything", she giggled.
Rogue stared at her. And stared. And stared just a little bit more.
"Define 'everything.'"
The exceed stares back at him for a moment before tears start to well up in her eyes.
"Fro doesn't know how to define such a big word! Fro is supposed to be a big, smart exceed, worthy of the Sabertooth guild mark! Fro isn't! Fro is so sorry!"
Panicking, Rogue quickly starts patting her head gently in a awkwardly comforting way.
On the way to his destination (A.N. aka, the guild in which we do not speak of because MASHIMA WANTED TO JUST DISBAND THEM), he spent a lot of time thinking of the blonde who had managed to capture his heart in, like, three days, because the authors were idiots and didn't add any time skips. However, he liked the authors very much, so he decided that he wouldn't send them a Shadow Dragon Slayers Roar, but just continue to think of his beloved's eyes... and hair... and lips... and breas-
Dammit! He was spending too much time with Sting!
However, even though he has advanced senses, he did not think anything of the shadow that seemed to be following him on the walls and, if possible, glaring at the metal pole that was hopping around and looked like it was possessed. Nor did he care for the distinct smell of Mard Geer in Magnolia, even though the demon had never been there, or the sound of flapping wings.
He didn't think anything of it. At all.
He was too busy comforting his exceed, begging said exceed to let him in on all the details later, and daydreaming of what Lucy would look like in a bathing suite.
Or, better yet, lack of...
"What's Rogue-sama thinking about?" Frosch asked.
Rogue, being torn from his dirty and perverted thoughts, racked his brain for a good lie to tell his adorably innocent exceed.
"Um..Fro, shouldn't you be with Lector?"
"Fro was, but Fro didn't want Lector to boss Fro around. Fro decided to follow Rogue and meet the Fairy again! Fro wanted to say hello to Fro's new mommy!"
Rogue stopped less than a block away from the guild hall in pure horror.
"No Fro it isn't like..…..that. Rogue is just being….friendly….with Lucy-"
"You kissed her. Mommies and Daddies kiss."
Rogue choked on his breath.
"Fro you don't understand….that was just a Dragon Slayer impulse", he tried to explain.
"So that means you kiss Sting?"
Hopeless. Hopeless.
"No, Frosch I don't kiss Sting. I'm not like that."
"Than do you kiss everyone?"
"No, only people who are really, really special. You may not understand now, but you'll understand some day Frosch. Some day."
"Fro thinks that Rogue-sama is special. Should Frosch kiss Rogue?"
Rogue send the exceed a bewildered look. No way was he doing that!
"No, Frosch. That's called bestiality. And it's illegal. You, little girl, want to date a handsome exceed one day. Like Happy. You should date him."
It was the stupidest thing to ever say, but damn! He did not have time to deal with this.
"Well, Frosch wants a Mommy! Lucy Cheney is a pretty mommy name! Fro loves it so much!"
Again, the dragon slayer sends the exceed a bewildered look. She said 'Lucy Cheney,' instead of Heartfilia. As much as Rogue agreed that it was beautiful. And pretty. And downright amazing. And just gorgeous. He disagreed with referring to her like that yet. That's an infringement of her rights! Or, at least he thinks so...
Better yet, let the exceed believe what she wants.
"Frosch, just go and have fun in the city, okay? I know that you can use the city map to get home".
That complete sentence is a lie, but he just really wants to be alone. With Lucy. Somewhere. Why was that shadow following him? Anyway, alone.
"Fro will go, but Fro wants to see Fro's new mommy later!"
The pink exceed proceeded to retrace her steps, so Rogue began his way to the great guild's doors….
And went under them. Like literally. There are a lot of shadows near those doors, and it's not like Skiadrum hasn't taught his sone the art of being a shaow. It comes in handy when the object of the game is to spy, especially on unsuspecting human females that have just finished bathing. Skiadrum had prepared his son for these days!
Sneaking along the guild, Rogue looked for her. She was nowhere to be found. He had just ended upstairs, watching a certain barmaid send her man on his way. As soon as the 2nd generation dragon slayer was down the stairs, the barmaid went behind one of the doors.
Then, she bust back through the doors, and in a high pitched voice screamed out:
"Rogue I know you're here! Lucy has been captured by a very attractive male!"
...what? What did she say? And-
Oh no! Absolutely no way was he letting a male, nonetheless a very attractive one (he had a feeling that she would fall for a man's beauty) touch his damn woman!
"His hair was so handsome! His jawline was just perfect! And, oh dear God, his voice was just so low and sexy! But, it's okay. You're um... something... too! Anyway, you've got to go save Lucy from him!"
Rogue's sparkly crimson eyes widen considerably at the news, and immediately rushes back out of the guild, attempting to catch a whiff of rainbows.
Through this, he thankfully doesn't notice the blonde dragon slayer of Fairy Tail and the yellow squirrel thing nearly destroy the place in jealousy. How dare his woman speak like that about another man!
Catching the scent, he follows it to an aquarium…..
Where he will destroy his rival!
So like, SO SORRY FOR THE WAIT! We have had very busy lives, and we had End of Terms, so that was a big thing. I got a new puppy who nearly killed my computer that this chapter on it, I went to Farry's house for the FIRST TIME EVER. I found FARRY will move, which SUCKS. Also, I went to her house and being the antisocial people we are, We just sat on her bed and read and wrote and read and wrote fanfiction, and on Farry's Lalu week, when She just finished I was right next her, and the review I wrote just says it all:
Sprintjump chapter 4 . Jan 24
Hi. I just sat next to you and said that this was amazing, so I say it again. It was amazing.