Kind of short and not much happens, it took me ages I know but I've had a lot of work to do recently. Sorry ^^"

Levy was pushed out into the blinding light of the setting sun. She was temporarily blinded by the contrasting brightness from the dark cave. Levy took a look at her companions, if you could call them that, for her first and last venture beyond the castle walls. Juvia was stood in a winter dress, that didn't make sense since it was mid-summer cycle, her deep blue eyes were scanning the old pages of the book Takeshi had given her. Flare and Angel stood behind Levy, the two dressed totally different from one another. Angel wore a short white dress along with short hair while Flare chose a long crimson dress to match her long hair. Sting and Rogue were packing essentials into bags then placing them into a carriage Sting wore a white tunic, Rogue a black one and both had brown trousers. Totomaru was brushing his hair, gaining stern looks from Lily. Gajeel wasn't in sight. Out of the group of people Levy liked Lily the most and Gajeel the least. Lily had helped her, cleaned her injury and gave her his shirt. It was too big for her but only reaching the middle of her thigh Levy felt uncomfortable in it, better then underwear she thought. Lily had turned and was now looking at Levy causing her to quickly look away and blushing. After all he was actually quite handsome, not as handsome as Laxus but still handsome. She couldn't help her mind spin into a wild fantasy of Laxus bravely saving her then having his way with her, making her blush more. Gajeel broke her thoughts when he forcibly pushed past her to yell at Totomaru to help pack.

"Oi, Capocchia! What ya think ya doin?!" Gajeel growled as he pushed Totomaru towards Sting and Rogue "Make yer self useful"

"What about you?! You're not doing anything" Totomaru retaliated

"Gihihi" Gajeel laughed and turned his back "I'm clearly the muscle of this group!" Just as the last word fell from his mouth Lily had tied a long chain around his wrist while the other side was tied around Levy.

"Then you can be the one to look after the princess" He smiled as Gajeel tried biting the chain "Don't waste your time, it's enchanted"

"The fuck Lily?! I ain't a babysitter!" Gajeel protested

"If you have any moral decency please don't force me to be tied to this facinerious neanderthal for my last days on earth" Levy pleaded but Lily simply patted her head. How demeaning.
Gajeel was now glaring at her as she nervously tugged at the chain bonding them together.

"Don't worry. It'll be swapped and she'll be tied to different people during the trip. Juvia is next to be Levy's escort" Juvia said as she looked up from her book.

"Since when have you started addressing her so casually?" Gajeel grumbled

"Juvia has gained the right to because Juvia was civil to her, unlike Gajeel" She stated, looking back at the book.

Lily then took hold of Levys hand and led her to the carriage, he smiled at her questioning glace

"You're going to die soon, might as well make your last days somewhat bearable he smiled. Levy nodded then sat down in the carriage followed by a very grumpy Gajeel.

"Watch your tongue with the young lady" Lily scolded him

"My tongue ain't goin near her, don't ya worry about that" He smirked, clearly meaning something different to what Lily had said but Levy was confused and didn't understand the reference.
Lily shook his head and smiled at Levy before closing the door.

Levy and Gajeel sat in silence as the carriage wobbled left to right, causing the chain binding them to tug at each other. Gajeel refused to look at Levy, his eyes wondered from outside to the bags of food and other essentials Levy would stare outside, glancing at the muscular man sat across from her time to time. He wore a black long sleeved tunic, dark brown trousers and a black cloak.
His big arms were crossed over his broad chest the would rise and fall slowly, his face had sharp features with a menacing look, the piercings didn't help that. His eyes were bright red and fulled with hate, although Levy could swear she also saw pain. He wasn't too bad looking but that all changes when he opens his mouth. Levy realized she was starting to find more men quite attractive these day, she guessed it was because she was at that age. Her mother was already married to her father before she turned 13, yet Levy was 18 and without a husband because her father wouldn't allow her to go anywhere to meet suitors and it didn't seem he was setting up an arranged marriage either.

"What ya looking at Shrimp?" Gajeel had been watching Levy stare at him for the past few minuets, his brow raised and a smirk on his face "like what ya see?" He teased

"Don't be absurd!" Levy blushed and quickly looked away "I was simply lost in thought while looking in no particular direction" She huffed

"Lost in thought, eh? Gihi" Gajeel's smirk widened "No need to be ashamed, many girls have fantasy's about me"

"Wanton-" She was cut short when a loud explosion sent then carriage tumbling on it's side down a tall steep hill. To her surprise Gajeel had dived towards her, wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him as the carriage continued to tumble. Themselves along with the bags were repeatably hitting the walls and each they finally stopped Gajeel was on top of Levy and she was holding onto him tighter then she initially thought.

"You alright?" He asked, not moving from his position until Levy nodded. She knew she'd have a few bruises though. He stood up, the carriage was on it's side so he opened the door above him and climbed out.

"What the hell was that?! Ya suppose to be watching for this kind of crap!" He yelled

As Levy stood up, managing to only just peek over and see everyone else running down the hill towards them. She only heard parts of what Sting was shouting down to Gajeel, who seemed to hear it all fine.

"Bandits ... gunpowder ... simple ... dead"

Levy had heard about gunpowder, a new invention, explosive powder. Suppose to help make life easier but she didn't see how it would, just seemed like a replacement for magic to hurt people. Gajeel turned to look at her, he laughed before asking her pass him the bags. She did as she was told, one by one giving him the bags. When she was finished she attempted to climb out, not managing to do it when she felt the chain around her wrist tighten before she was literally dragged out, falling to the floor she saw Gajeel let go of the chain he'd used to pull her out. Standing she dusted herself down and looked at the carriage which now lay in a complete mess. Looks like she's walking from here.

"No time to fix this, sorry princess, you're walking with us now" Rogue said as he examined the wreck, she couldn't tell if he was trying to be hurtful or not since his facial expression never changed.

"I wouldn't mind that" Levy said as she smiled at him. For a split second Rogue looked shocked and a tint or red brushed his cheeks before he nodded and his face was plain once again.
The group we're walking, Gajeel sulked behind everyone else, dragging Levy behind who was trying to talk to Sting and Rogue.

"How did you join the, um, rebellion?" Levy asked

"Most of us are orphans" Rogue said, not really answering her question.

"Takeshi found us and raised us" Sting filled in the blanks "By us I mean Rogue, Juvia, Gajeel, Flare and myself" He continued

"Is that so? I'm so sorry" Levy was genially feelings for these people, she knew what they were going to do to her but she believed that they thought they were doing the right thing.

"No need, miss. It wasn't your fault" Sting smiled "Juvia never knew her family, Flare ran away from home and me and Rogue killed our dads" Seeing the look of horror on Levy's face Rogue explained further

"Our fathers were abusive and beat us, Sting and I grew up together and I guess one day we decided no more." He said as if it was nothing

"As for metal face" Sting pointed backwards "All we know is his dad left him. Don't know why, he won't talk about it to us."

Levy was silent, trying to take all the information in that she'd just learned when Juvia called out.

"We should rest here tonight and tomorrow we head to Heartfilla manor to obtain the blood amulet for the ritual"

Capocchia = Simpleton

Facinerious = Extremely wicked and vile

Wanton = Immoral