Sorry I've been distracted with college work and this chapter isn't great I'll get round to something more interesting next chapter ^^"

Levy woke in a dark, cold room. Correction, a prison cell. She sat up but a wave a dizziness overcame her and she vomited as she stood, placing the hand on the back of her head she felt it was warm and wet. She must have been hit really hard to cause her to black out and begin bleeding. Using the wall for support Levy pulled herself to her feet and shuffled to the bars of the cell, grasping them she looked out to see two men stood guard.

"Where am I?!" Levy demanded

"Shut it" One of them men yelled, hitting the bars with his staff causing Levy to stumble backwards. She furiously paced the cell, the last thing she remembered was sitting with Lily after Gajeel had hit her, suddenly sharp pain on the back of her head then darkness. She had no idea where she was of what had happened so she waited,
listening for any sign that someone was going to free her. Anyone. However she was very impatient and didn't like to be kept waiting. She took one more look at the guards in front of her cell before getting to work. Using her Solid Script she created a small word saying sleep in a sort of pink smoke. Holding it softly she called the guards over, when they were close enough Levy blew the smoke word into their faces. They fell to the floor instantaneously, she then put her arm through the bars to look for keys.
She hoped they had keys on them. After a few moments of searching she found them in one of the pockets on the second guard. She unlocked the cell door, stepped out and smiled smugly.

"I don't know why princesses wait to be rescued in books, seems like a simple enough task to do without a knight in shining armor" She said to herself

Levy was just about to leave when she looked at the first guards clothes. His outfit consisted of black trousers, a long sleeved purple tunic with a gold pattern around the neck and bottom of the sleeves, a darker purple scarf and a black hat. Idea. Quickly Levy undressed the sleeping guard, leaving him in his underwear with Lily's shirt folded neatly next to him and put the clothes on herself. Tucking her hair into the hat and hiding the bottom half of her face with the scarf. Looking down at herself she smiled at her plan, since her chest was fairly flat her breasts were hardly noticeable. She could do this, just walk out nice and calm like, no one would suspect a thing.
With some effort she dragged the two sleeping guards into the cell and locked the door, dropped the key on the floor in the empty hallway and proceeded in the way, she hoped she would find an exit. With each step she felt herself becoming more and more nervous. She thought that if things got violent, she wouldn't stand a chance. Yet she kept walking, even with the cold breath of fear on her neck she took each step further down the stone corridor telling herself in her head that she can do this. She will do this.
After what felt like hours, but most likely was just a few minutes Levy came across some concrete steps, leading up to a wooden door. She took a deep breath before striding up them with full confidence and opening the door. All confidence gone when she saw a huge room full of wooden tables with at least 25 people scattered around the room. She didn't think there would be this many people for a simple kidnapping. She felt as if all eyes were on her but they weren't, she went unnoticed as she slowly walked across the room towards the doors at the other end. She was about half way when someone called out.

"Hey, where you going? I thought you were looking after that short maiden" Levy turned around to see a tall man holding the chains of a child, a young girl who wouldn't look up. Levy panicked, clearing her throat and placing her hands on her hips she attempted to mimic the voice of the man that told her to shut up previously

"Oh, yeah. Well I was just going to get fresh air, he'd say he'd watch her. Haha" She knew she'd blew it by the look on the mans face, her smile dropped as everyone in the room was standing up slowly. She knew the smart thing to do would be to run as fast as she can towards the door but she didn't,she just looked at the childs terrified brown eyes. Her dark blue hair in tangles around her waist. She really wished she had that knight now, shining armor or not.

"What ya think yer doin?" Someone said from behind her, Levy turned to see that she was now surrounded. No running away now. Without any thought Levy charged at the man holding the girls chain, catching him by surprise just enough to loosen his grip allowing Levy to pull it from his hands and drag the girl towards her. Various voices yelled at her, backing her against the wall of the room.

"Stop playin around girl!"

"We ain't gunna hurt you!"

"Bitch we're gunna kill you!"

instinctively Levy pushed the girl behind her and glared at the many people now closing in on her. Suddenly the doors flew open to show Gajeel and Sting, slightly bruised but still in fighting condition.

"I didn't think that there was this many!" Sting exclaimed as he took the attention away from Levy, she looked up to see a large chandelier hanging just above the crowd. Using Solid Script again she wrote sharp to create a silver word with very sharp edges and threw it towards the rope holding the chandelier. When it fell it must have taken out at least half the men, crushing their bodies under its weight. For a moment Gajeel and Sting stared at Levy who smiled nervously until the rest of the men ran towards her, doing her best to use her body to protect the child Levy wrapped her arms around her, closed her eyes and hoped for the best. She heard a gargling sound, slowly opening her eyes she saw a man staring down at her with cold glassy eyes, blood filling his mouth and a large spiked sword bulging from his abdominal. A tall dark figure standing behind him with glowing red eyes. Gajeel. Slowly he removed his sword, revealing that it was in fact his arm turned into a sword. The child gave a shriek of fear and she watched the look on Gajeels face as the mans limp body fell in a heap on the floor, he was smiling but not a kind smile more of a psychotic grin.

"Don't look" Levy said to the child. She turned away quickly "I'll keep you safe, I promise" Levy held the girl's hand tight as Gajeel charged off to help Sting keep the kidnappers at bay as Levy walked hand in hand with the child across the room and if anyone came to close Levy would use Solid Script hole to make sure they don't get any closer. When reaching the door Levy softly pushed the girl out of the door but just as she was about to leave herself someone grabbed her from behind. The man who had hold of her pushed her to the ground as he brought a large metal hammer above his head as he grinned at Levy's small form.

"You use your hands to write words of magic" He sneered as he pinned Levy's right hand to the floor, she knew what he intended to do. She struggled to escape but it was futile, he had a tight grip.

"What would happen if you couldn't use them?!" He laughed as he brought the hammer down hard onto Levy's right hand. She screamed as she felt the bones break. The man kept bringing the hammer down onto her hand again and again and again. She could feel a burning pain as her hand was being crushed, no matter how hard she tried to pull away the man was too strong so she continued to cry out in pain, tears began falling from her eyes, she'd never felt so much pain before. The hammer came down again. There was literally nothing she could do but try to fight back the tears and she was failing at that. Feeling so helpless she looked up to her attacker, seeing Gajeel and Sting stood behind the man, Levy closed her eyes tight as she heard him scream. Warm liquid splattered on her face. Blood.

"Hey Shrimp, you can open yer eyes now" That was Gajeel's voice, Levy shook her head.

"Don't you know normal girls are sensitive to these things?" Sting spoke now as he helped Levy to her feet, she assumed it was Sting. "Shit. You're hand is in bad shape"

"I-It hurts" Levy stammered as she was led out of the room away from the smell of blood that overwhelmed her. She was thankful for that at least.

Once outside Levy opened her eyes to see the little girl had waited for her, Gajeel had his back to her and Sting was staring at her hand. She didn't want to look but she knew that at some point she would have too. Looking down she saw her hand was covered in blood and distorted, trying to move her fingers sent pain all up her arm. She used the dark purple scarf as a make shift bandage.

"M-miss, are you going to be okay?" The little girl asked

"Yeah, no problem" Levy smiled despite the tears rolling off her cheeks

"You're a wizard? You can use magic" Gajeel said, matter of fact without even looking at her

"Could" Levy corrected him "Not anymore" She sighed then continued "I need my hands in perfect working condition to use Solid Script"

"Not the point" Gajeel turned to look at her "You were one of us. You taught yourself magic as a rebellion against your father, correct?"

"Wrong. I am nothing like you" Levy defended herself, she didn't want to think of herself anything like people who were willing to kill thousands of innocent people just so they could use magic for their own selfish needs. She never needed permission for anything anyway, that's how she thought. Since she was alone most days and had nothing better to do. Her reaction caused Gajeels face to twist into a glare. Just as the little girl came closer.

"I can help, maybe" She said shyly "Can I see your hand?"

Levy complied, holding out her right hand. The girl held her hands over it and a glow emitted from them for a few moments.

"I'm not strong enough to heal you fully but lots of little pushes everyday might allow it to heal faster and better" She smiled

"Thank you but I think you need to go home instead of staying with us" Levy smiled

"No" Gajeel folded his arms "She's coming with us,a healer will be useful. Besides we need as many ways as possible to keep you in line. You're full of surprises"

"Gajeel is that really necessary?" Sting sighed but Gajeel just nodded.

"I-I don't mind, I don't have a home to go too" The little girl looked down sadly "I-I'm Wendy"

"I'm Levy" She smiled "And I will keep my promise to make sure you're safe. Don't worry"

"Right then, wanna tell us how you ended up in boys clothes in the middle of a mob?" Sting asked Levy

"Long story" Levy removed the hat, letting her hair and bangs fall free because it was starting to make her head itch

"You can tell us as we walk back to the others" Sting grinned as they began walking back to camp. Levy was trying to act brave but her hand hurt so much, she didn't know why she was trying so much, they'd already seen her cry because of it so she tried ignoring the pain and explaining what she remembered.

... Later ...

"She then made the light fall and crush most of them while protecting the little girl! It was awesome!" Sting was describing everything that Levy had already told him and Gajeel.
That she'd knocked guards out ans stole their clothes, everything. He seemed really excited about the whole thing

"So, the little princess is intelligent?" Lily smiled as he looked over at Levy who was sat with Wendy, allowing her to give her hand another healing push.

"Yeah!" Sting exclaimed "If we weren't going to kill her then she'd be a great member of our team, right?" He grinned

"We're not a team Sting, stop being ridiculous" Angel sighed causing Sting to shrink back into himself and sit quietly next to Rogue at the campfire. Gajeel was sat by himself out of the fires light in deep thought. He'd let the shrimp out of his sight and he nearly lost his sacrifice to some stupid bandits. Probably the same ones who'd attacked them earlier that day. He didn't regret leaving the group when he did and he didn't care that she'd had her hand crushed, did he? The gatekeepers words were spinning in his head when Lily pulled him out of his thoughts.

"You okay? You look a little distracted" He smiled

Gajeel grunted, of course it was just a coincidence and he wasn't going to dwell on in anymore.

"Angry about the princess using magic?" Lily asked

He'd forgotten about that, the wench had acted all innocent and weak but she could have gotten out of that by herself if she wasn't so soft-hearted and saved the girl. He sighed and nodded "Yeah, it ain't right for her to use magic but be on the wrong side" he growled

"So, you want her on our side?" Lily laughed and patted his back

"I ain't saying that!" Gajeel yelled defensively then after a slight pause he continued "We're still going to kill her, no matter what happens"

Lily sighed and looked down "You don't know what might happen"

"Nothing will change the fact that she's a princess, we need a princess to summon a dragon to destroy the world" Gajeel sneered

"If this dragon is as grumpy as my dragon then the world doesn't stand a chance" Lily teased, earning him a disapproving glare from Gajeel.

... Meanwhile ...

Levy sat across from Wendy who was giving her hand another heal push. Wendy looked up at her and smiled.

"So, you're a princess?" She asked

"Yeah" Levy nodded at her "But it's actually quite boring"

Once Wendy had finished, Levy moved to sit behind her and began stroking her hair, leaving her injured hand resting on her lap.

"Really? How so?" Wendy was shocked at her comment

"There was nothing to do, I wasn't allowed to leave the castle so I spent most days in my room reading" Levy sighed when Juvia came over to them.

"Juvia thinks this might work better" She gave Levy a brush and sat down with them. Levy smiled and nodded a thank as she began brushing Wendy's hair.

"So, you do not like being a princess?" Juvia asked

Levy shook her head "People tell you how to dress and who to be. No one wants that"

After not much conversation happened and eventually everyone fell asleep.