Gajeel POV
He ran into the forest and sniffed.
That damn girl had put up her defenses again.
He looked around and smiled; going off to his right he saw the ground disturbed and a broken branch. She's being careless he thought. He raced off in the direction hoping to catch her sent or more traces of her.
Dammit levy.
Levy POV
Levy stopped at the bottom of a tall cliff and leaned against it to catch her breath. It was hard to run and cry at the same time she found out.
She slid her back down the smooth stone and sat with a thump exhausted emotionally and physically.
Honestly she didn't really understand why she was so worked up about it. He always teased her and criticized her like that but it was always for her own good. She understood why he'd be upset but yet she still snapped.
why was it so different? She wondered but knew the answer.
It was because of the new strength she had thought she had developed. Even though she knew she would have a long way to go to beat Gajeel or any of the stronger members she had at least wanted some recognition from Gajeel. His was the only one that counted in her book.
She laughed out loud at her own stupidity. How would Gajeel know about her new strength? Technically they hadn't seen each other in three months. Besides he never gave compliments easily.
She heard movement in the trees on the cliff above her. She grew quiet and moved under a protruding rock to hide herself from what was above her.
She heard it run out to the edge of the cliff, a few rocks tumbled down near her hiding spot.
"Levy?" It was Gajeel.
She brought a hand to her mouth. Had he heard her laugh?
She didn't want to see him just yet still being ashamed and embarrassed on how she reacted so she remained quiet hoping he would run off.
It was silent for a moment then she heard him swear and break back onto the forest. After a long while she let out a sigh and stood up, Brushing herself off she looked up to the top of the cliff and saw no one.
guess I should head back to the others. I'll make it up to him the next time I see him. she was about to make her connect when She heard low growls behind her.
"Huh?" She twirled around and saw gleaming eyes in the bush.
"Who's there?" She asked sternly.
Another growl and a huge wolf stepped out
Then another
And another.
Eleven in all.
Crap, levy thought, silver wolves.
They where twice the size of regular wolves with over sized muscles and grey briteling hair. She didn't even want to look at there strong jaws full of sharp teeth standing nearly as tall as she. And they loved to hunt. She has seen the damage they can cause with just one.
And there where eleven of them.
She looked at the cliff behind her. There was no way of climbing it.
She looked back around to the wolves who had begun to circled her, waiting for her to move. She knew even if she did get around them, running would be futile. Even with script speed.
Grimacing came to the only option, she would have to fight.
She prayed her untested strength would be able to beat them. Gritting her teeth she fell into a fighting stance Ezra had taught her.
Just then the first of the wolves pounced
solid script: fire and shot it at him hitting him square on. He fell back onto the ground and Levy could smell the burnt skin, it didn't get back up.
She nearly hurled at the smell. Even if they were silver wolves I hated killing-
Suddenly a wolf to her side lunged at her and she jumped back but not before it claws grazed her thigh. She let out a scream and fell backwards landing hard, paining running through her leg.
The same one attacked again and levy thought this is it, then suddenly everything slowed down and her body reacted on its own. Her body tightened, flexed and relaxed, no longer belonging to her. As the power surged through her, levy hardly realized what she was doing.
From her spot on the ground she let instinct taking over.
Solid Script: Iron
She hit at the wolf that was charging with the iron with a solid crunch on the head and sent him flying into the trees.
The others circled her again as she stood up.
Solid Script: hail
Golf size Hail pelted down around her and it hit the wolves but it only slowed them down. When the hail stopped she wrote out another word.
Solid Script: lightening.
She pointed it at the wolves and hit two of them and making a tree fall over. When the lightening had hit they flew back hitting trees and she could only see one of the bodies, twitching on the ground it's skin charred.
Script: hammer.
A huge hammer formed and as one came at her she swung. Hitting it square on. It flew into the stone of the cliff and lied motionless distorted heap.
She was hardly phased at the sounds of its bones cracking her mind gone.
Script: fire
She aimed it at the others and only a few of the wolves where hit but not down.
Solid Script: Daggers
She backed up to the wall and launched the sharp words at the wolves but they only grazed a few with only one one being directly hit in the throat. It let out a horrid sound but she didn't even flinch.
Another lunged at her, script: spear. She held the shaft to the ground and felt the wolfs body hit it full on it landed motionless on top of her legs pinning her.
The impact shook her out of her daze and realization and fear fell spin her again.
Why - what had just happened? but her though was stopped as the remaining wolves advanced on her.
Panicking, she tried moving but she couldn't budge her legs.
Why did she have to be so weak? If she hadn't woken up so early non of this wouldn't have happened.
She threw another lightening bolt but it missed.
Why did she have to run off and hide from Gajeel?
"Gajeel." She whispered.
A wolf lunged. She closed her eyes waiting for the impact. Instead she heard a whimper and a loud thud.
She opened her eyes and they grew wide. "Gajeel?"
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Gajeel POV
Gajeel had stopped when he heard the lightning bolt.
He looked up in the sky and smelt the air.
There wasn't any storm near by.
He climbed a tree and looked around. He barely missed it but he saw a light flash off in the direction he had come from.
What's going on over there? He then heard string that made his stomach churned. Levy's scream.
"Levy!" He yelled and dropped from the tree and bolted in that direction. His adrenalin pumped as he sprinted towards the area of the scream. He couldn't think except for all these scenarios where levy was being killed.
He almost tripped over a root. Focus Gajeel! He yelled at himself. He cursed himself for losing his temper at the girl.
He suddenly smelt burnt skin and grass and heard a howl. Levy.
He burst out of the forest and onto the cliff he had been standing on earlier where he had though he'd heard her laugh.
Except this time levy was down there on the ground surrounded by Silver wolves.
He smelt the copper of blood, both human and wolf.
His eyes narrowed and his hands morphed into his dragon claws. He saw a wolf lunge at levy and without hesitating jumped of the cliff.
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"Gajeel?" still not believing the sight before her.
"You always seem to get in trouble when you run away from me."Gajeel stood in front of her with a wolf motionless on the ground. His back was towards her and she saw his hands where covered with metallic dragon scales and his hands looked like dragon claws. "So quit fucking doing that."
She had to smile at that despight the situation they where in. But it didn't last long as another wolf lunged. Gajeel punched it sending it flying. when it landed it picked itself up but didn't try to advance.
Gajeel growled menacingly and the last three wolves who howled in response and then ran back into the forest.
"Gajeel." She whispered releaved at the sight of them gone.
His hands morphed back into human hands and he turned to face her. She tried getting up to meet him but the wolf on top her legs didn't allow her. Gajeel walked over and pulled the wolf off her with ease searching her body for wounds.
"I smell blood." he said smelling her copper sent strongly. Then his gaze caught the sight of her hand pressing against blood on her upper leg.
"It's not as bad as it looks." She tried to argue but he touched the area near it and she hissed.
"Sure, now sit still." he ordered. She only nodded adjusting her body so she rested her back against the cliff wall.
Gajeel bent down in front and inspected her leg. Gently he grabbed below her knee and turned her leg to see the wound better. There where three lines of blood running in a slant on her lower outer thigh, luckily they weren't that deep and probably won't need stitches so he didn't have to worry about them hitting any veins. but it was still bleeding pretty bad.
"How does it look?" Levy asked her voice shook slightly at the end.
"Not bad. No major veins or arteries, luckily, just bleeding a lot. Guess you ain't used to such wounds is all." He still didn't look up at her.
"I have some bandages in my bag." she said and fumble in her bag and produced to fresh rolls. And a small case of cut ointment. She started to unravel them but Gajeel saw her hands shaking and she seemed pale. Blood loss he guessed. He rolled his eyes and growled, bending forward.
"Here." he said shortly and grabbed the bandages from her. "Do you have enough strength to script some water to rinse it off?"
she nodded. "Solid script water." she wrote and water splashed her leg washing away the blood and dirt. She bit her lip, it stung.
"solid script towel." she said next.
Gajeel nodded. "Good thinking."
He grabbed the towel word from her hand and gentle dried her skin trying not to hit the scratches. She was so small compared to him. When he grabbed her leg to begin wrapping the cloth she noticed that his hand nearly encircled around her whole lower leg. She was also very soft, Unlike his bodies rough skin.
Guess we grew up in different environments he thought.
He finished wrapping her leg tightly and carefully. When he was done he let go of her leg and stood up.
He looked down at her. She was looking down at her wound and he saw her body shiver slightly when a breeze passed them.
He wanted nothing but to hug her but he only shook his head. "You think you can walk?" He asked.
She nodded and held her hand out for him to grab. He took it and pulled her up.
When she put her full weight on it she swayed and her caught her around the waist. "Guess not." She chuckled nervously.
Suddenly he saw her lurch to the side and vomited behind a rock.
"Fuck." he said grabbing her shoulders so she wouldn't fall over.
She coughed. "Sorry, it's just. I'm not use to killing like that and the smell-" she vomited again.
Gajeel looked around. He had only killed one and yet five laid dead in his sight.
"How many did you kill?"
She wiped her mouth with a cloth from her bag. "I don't know. six, seven?"
What the hell happen here? that meant there had been about eleven total.
"Better?" He asked seeing it better to drop the subject of the fight.
"Yeah, sorry about that."
He shrugged and looked down at her shaking legs. He shook his head and bent down and lifted her into his arms.
"Hey!" She yelled. "You don't have to carry me like this!"
He grunted. "It's faster and I can't exactly carry you on my back. The injury prevents that. This is the only way without straining the injury. Just warn me if ya going to hurl again."
"Im better now." She blushed and looped an arm around his broad shoulder adjusting herself into a better position.
Gajeel took off in the direction of in the direction of her camp.
Levy POV
"We're not going back to Lilly?" She asked.
"You ate sausages tonight didn't you?"
"Yeah?"
"Then I can smell your camps fire then. It is closer to this spot." He said.
"Oh."
They fell into a silence that was strangely not awkward. The only sound was of Gajeels foot steps and the forest. It had been a warm night and the warm breeze felt comfortable, despit the injuries that stung.
After a while she had noticed that Gajeel kept glancing at her.
"Is there something on my face?" She asked. Bring her hand up to inspect it.
"Eh? No it's your eyes. They're different. Like they where like earlier tonight. They are yellow."
She forgot about her night vision. "Oh, I didn't now they changed. It's a new script spell I learned. Night vision. I can see just as we'll as your dragon sight."
He nodded. "You've gotten better at your solid script. Guess you grew over these past three months."
She looked up at him her eyes wide. a compliment from Gajeel Redfox?
"Just saying The old shrimp wouldn't have been able to take out all them silver wolves if it wasn't true."
She smiled an laughed. "Thank you." She hugged him tightly around the neck and it caught him off guard. Her hair rubbed against his cheek causing his mind to go blank a second. Plus her smell didn't help either, even if he could smell the vomit too.
"Eh that wasn't a compliment shorty!" He said. "You should have been able to take them all out! still need a lot of training to be a great Mage! Or to take me on." He said some how embarrassed at what he said.
She only laughed and settled back into his arms mentally rolling her eyes, se'd take what she could get. "Still. I am stronger then I was?"
"I guess."
There was a pause. "Gajeel?" she asked tentatively.
"Yeah, shrimp?"
"Thanks. For coming after me and all. I'm sorry about what I said. It wasn't right of me."
"I don't blame ya."
"Still, I wasn't thinking."
"Not thinking? That is strange for you." He teased and she hit his chest making him laugh more.
"Hey!" She yelled but didn't push father. "Still I'm glad you came, who knows what would have happened if you hadn't."
She looked up at him. "Why did you come?"
"Eh?" He glanced down at her and her eyes looking up at him strangely. He only grunted and looked ahead not wanting to meet that gaze. "Knowing your knack for getting into trouble I had no choice. And guess I was right."
"Guess so. You always seem to be there when I need saving." She laughed more to himself.
Gajeel POV
The rest of the journey ended being in silence.
Halfway there he felt Levy's body go limp and when he looked down he saw she had fallen asleep.
careless girl. He thought snorting.
When he walked into the light of there camp he was surprised to see Jarall, time girl and her little companion.
Ezra stood up and looked like she was about to yell when Gajeel put a finger to his lips. Ezra closed her mouth and walked over.
"She got in a bit of a fight with a pack of Silver wolves. Just a scratch but the fight and whole killing thing took a lot out of her. She deserves some sleep."
Ezra nodded. "Come, and lay her in the wagon." And lead him to the wagon.
Ultear stood up and opened the wagon door. "I'll fix her leg up."
Gajeel nodded and crouched through the door only to stopped in his tracks.
"What the fuck happened here?" Natsu and a few other all laid in make shift bed squirming and glowing red.
"I'll explain outside." Ezra said and Time girl pointed to a bed at the end where Gajeel laid levy down then followed Ezra out the door giving the scene an levy one last look.
They joined the other two at the fire.
Gajeel looked over at Jarall. "Thought you where in prison?"
"So I was."
Gajeel shrugged. "Whatever." He didn't care. He turned to Erzra raising an eyebrow. "So what the hell happened?"
Ezra explained what happened.
Afterwards Gajeel was pissed. "That Damn salamander! Getting out the easy way."
"Trust me he is suffering enough." Ultear said suddenly behind him causing him to almost jump. She was a quiet one. She sat down across from him.
"How's the shrimp?"
"Levy? She will be fine, she won't even have a scar tomorrow."
"Good." Gajeel nodded. "Now what about this sufferin?"
"The opening is quite painful and draining experience. Nastu is probably wishing he had stayed in the real world to train."
"He gets what he deserves." He scoffed then he though about it. "Hey, why ain't levy in there all red as well? Didn't she have her thing opened as well?"
"She did." Said Ultear. "That's where it gets interesting. She some how completed it early and I'm not sure why?"
"So what?"
"Well, there are to explications. it could either be that Levy didn't have much power to open to begin with or that she opened up something so powerful it allowed her to complete it so fast." Ultear explained.
"Which is it?"
"Not the faintest." she said. "It's still a very new skill. I haven done it enough times to understand it fully."
Gajeel leaned back. "Well whatever one she did get a hell lot stronger."
"What makes you say that?" Ultears buddy asked, he never did learn that chicks name.
"She ran into a pack of ten or more silver wolves and had seven dead before I got there to finish them off."
"Levy?" Ezra asked shocked. For mages of Levy's power level and fighting skill that was pretty impressive.
Gajeel nodded. "Yeah, I mean, I trained Levy for the fairy trials, and even though she has no confidence in herself she always had the potential to become a great Mage. She wouldn't have been able to take on so many wolves if that was the her back then so something must of happened."
Jerall spoke up. "Maybe when you unlocked Levy's powers something else opened as well. Something that gave her a different power."
"But what? This is Levy we're taking about." Ezra wondered.
Jerall shrugged. "Don't let her look fool you. I knew a small girl who led a revolution on her own." Gajeel thought he saw Ezra blush but he choose to ignored it.
Seeing this as a good point to leave as any he stood up. "Eh whatever, Levy hasn't changed so I don't care. I got to meet up with Lilly so I'm heading out." he turned to leave not editing for goodbyes.
"Hey Gajeel." Ezra said walking up to him meeting him at the edge of the forest. "I'm glad you where there for Levy, she was lucky to have you around."
Gajeel grunted. "Just keep her safe for me."
He didn't catch Ezra's smile. "Of course. See you in Crocrus then."
"Yeah." he grumbled walking into the forest.
Ezra watched him leave with a secretive smile on her she turned and her smile fading as she looked over at the wagon. What secrets do you hold levy?