Levy scrunched her eyes, not wanting the rising sun to ruin her comfortable sleep.
Not yet. She pleaded to herself as she gave a grunt of discomfort and turned to hide her eyes in her pillow in a hopes to go back to sleep. Her eyes shot open. Wait- the sun rises in the east, this window faces west.
She sat up and rubbed her eyes looking at the clock, 5:43pm. "I slept the whole day away again! And the Banquet starts at eight!"
The bed suddenly shifted and two arms grabbed at her suddenly, pulling her back down into bed. "Gajeel! We don't have time for this! The banquet starts in two hours!"
She twisted around to look at the man who still had his eyes firmly closed, his arms now firmly wrapped around her. When she tried to push away and yelled at him to let go his face scrunched in annoyance and his grip tightened stubbornly.
Levy stopping her struggles to appreciate the man, it was almost cute. She smiled and leaned up, pecking his lips to try a different approach, "It's time to wake up you thickheaded dragon sl- hey!"
Gajeel gave out a low growl and moved over body trapping her under him. He bent down and captured her lips immediately in a searing kiss. She put up a small struggle, saying they needed to get up but he just grabbed her hands in his and kissed harder, shutting her up. She laughed and then kissed back giving a small moan in pleasant defeated. Levy felt Gajeel smirk in his victory and ran his tongue across her lips, demanding she'd open for him, which she did. As he delved into her mouth greedily, his hands moved from hers and began roaming over her bare skin, one landing tightly on her hip, the other sliding down her stomach...
No you don't mister. Sensing his intentions she gave him a hard shove and pushed him back onto the bed. His grip on her waist pulling her along with so she ended up sprawled on top of him. She sat up on his lower abdomen, pushing her hands on his chest to keep her righted and blowing some of her locks out of her face. When she looked down she saw an evil smile growing on his face as he brought one of his hands behind his head, the other trailing down her side.
"I knew you enjoyed it when you were on top last night." He teased and she blushed horribly, hitting him in the chest at his blunt comment. "Hey!"
She stuck her tongue out. "Well at least I know you're up now. Come on we need to get ready for the kings banquet."
He groaned in annoyance. "Fuck the king, actually I take that back-" He grabbed her waist pulling her down to lie on his chest, bringn her face close to his. "Fuck me, and we don't go to the banquet thing."
She pecked his lips then rolled off him before he could do anything else. "You're a damn pervert Gajeel. And we've practically been in this room for four days straight. Only to go out to eat and get our bandages changed. You can use the fresh air."
"Yeah, and we slept the first day and a half recovering." He said following her and grabbing her around the waist pulling her back. She felt his lips land in her neck and suckle at the sensitive spot behind her ear.
"Gajeel!"
"I don't think I'm fully recovered yet, we should stay here and sleep." He voiced into her neck, nipping at its skin with his teeth.
Sleep? Ha. She pinched the skin on his hand and he let go with a shout, allowing her to get up out of the bed. "I'm, taking a shower, you can have one afterwards or you can get dressed." She pulled on a bathrobe and picked up a parcel and placed it on the bed giving him a stern look. "Clothes for tonight, wear them."
He gave her hard look, red eyes boring into brown. She held it and he soon smirked and lied back in bed muttering under his breath. "Fine you stubborn ass women."
She laughed at his comment and opened the bathroom door. When it was shut she leaned against it, sighing and shaking her head. That man.
It had been four days since the incident with Zarin and the dragons. After getting patched up by Porlyusica and Wendy in the lower floor of their hotel, the place, for reason unknown to her had somehow managed to survive the onslaught of dragons, before moving up to his room to sleep. It hadn't even crossed their minds to have Levy go up to her own room to keep their relationship under wraps, they were exhausted and after all that just wanted to be together.
Of course the consequence for their lack of awareness came later, when they came down from his room the next evening (Having slept the whole night and day). As they walked in the main room it had exploded in cat whistles and drunken cheers. Turns out Mirajane had been in the hall when they walked into his room, and of course Gajeel just had to stop and kiss her before entering it. They had only slept, literally just slept together that night but the kiss had been more then enough, Mirajane letting the whole guild know in a matter of hours.
Not that Levy was complaining really.
She smiled and blushed at the memory. She had been a little red in the face by how they had found out, but what Gajeel did made it worse. After first slapping his palms to his forehead and choosing a few choice swear words on the matter, he'd grinned like a mad man at her and looped a possessive arm around her waist, turning right around, and carrying her back to their room as the cat whistles intensified behind them. That had been embarrassing.
She walked over to the mirror and muttered at the few hickies he had left on her neck, the man being very thorough in making what everyone had thought had happened the night before happen. As if I wasn't bruised enough without them. Her body still help signs of that day.
She pulled off her bathrobe and took a closer look at her shoulder inspecting it, on it was the white scar of her old wound, and an inch away laid a red line with three stitches where Zarin had freshly stabbed her. She'd been lucky. But besides that injury and the burns on her wrists, which will only slightly scar, she only had a handful of bruises, cuts, small burns, and also strangely frost bite on the back of one of her legs from the dragon. Most of those had already been healed by Wendy but the bruises where still at large, one large one on her thigh, a bunch on her arms, and one on the ribcage from bruised ribs.
He would have done more if he could, She thought looking down at her palms thinking of that moment of insight.
She still hadn't been able to figure out why she, and it turns out everyone else, had at that moment been able to se into the future. She had her theories, but they were so far fetched she's already tossed them out the window. Whatever it had been had saved many of their lives, and for that she was grateful.
She turned on the water and when it was hot slipped into it with a sigh. This is so unreal, I still can't believe that only a few days ago we where fighting of your lives, and now I'm in the shower, after spending the night with Gajeel, getting ready to go to a banquet at the kings castle. In a way like nothing had happened. Like Zarin hadn't nearly killed me and the world was threatened to be over run by dragons.
She heard the door click open and she peeked out to see a Gajeel with a blanket from the bed wrapped around his lower half. He caught her eyes and grinned evilly as he moved towards her. Her eyes widened, "No you don't-Gajeel! No! Wait your turn!"
"It's huge!" Remarked Levy as they where led up to the grand entrance of the castle.
"Yeah, yeah." He muttered as he tugged at the tight collar of his get up. Why the hell do I have to wear this damn thing? And why in gods name did they pick white?
"It says here that the castles ballroom, where the party will be, was refurbished 85 years ago, the old stones being to, as the king then puts it, drab and medieval. It says that it's now nearly solid jade, with natural gold rivets running along inside it and trimmed with pearl! Said its worth up to more than 30 million Jewels!"
Gajeel glanced down at her and rolled his eyes. Even at a damn party she still manages to have her nose in a book. Somehow when he wasn't looking she'd gotten her hands on a book with information on the castle, and the whole walk over he had to listen to her jabber about trivia on the bloody place. Like he cared that the kitchen had twenty stoves, a walk in fridge and freezer, and top chefs from all over the land.
As they entered the hall her eyes looked up shining at the wonder and glamour of it all. He looked as well, the walls did look green and he could see the gold streaks in them. The place was packed from all members of every guild at the tournament, minus that of Raven Tail of course. She glanced up at him excitedly nearly jumping out of her damn dress and he couldn't help but grin at her.
She looked dang gorgeous in her get up. An emerald green and gold embroidered frilly thing, that poofed out like all those dresses did, but she still looked like a goddamn princess in it. She only pulled her hair back in a new headband and he liked it most like that, it meant he didn't have to worry about messing it up. Because even if he was enjoying how she looked, he still preferred her the most without anything on.
As he was trying to figure out the fastest way of getting her out of the fabric and Levy chatting about something to do with silk drapes, Grey had walked up to them. The ice mage gave him the once over and smirked.
"That looks really bad on you."
"At least I'm wearing clothes." He shot back.
The ice mage looked down and swore, looking around for his jacket.
At least he still had his damn pants on; he chuckled and while turning back his face fell into a scowl. In that short moment Levy had wondered off from his side to a look at a statue on practically the other side of the place. He grumbled and went headed towards the tables of food and drink, tugging again at the tight collar. First she makes me get into this ridiculous get up then she chooses a bloody statue over me!
She'll get her payback later. He grinned to himself at the thoughts of the previous days. All retaining to the image of a certain naked bluenette squirming under him.
So, maybe he was a bit of a pervert.
But then again he was only having these thoughts because of her.
When they had come down to the hotel hall the evening after Mirajane saw them enter his room had made that in stone writing. At first he had been annoyed that it got out but then he decided to make it work out for him, dragging the hopelessly embarrassed Levy back to their room. He remembered the priceless faces on Jet and Droy when he had lifted her up and turned around. That had been a good night.
He looked over at the shrimp. Of course they were right next to her, not as suffocating as it use to be, but still close enough for him to get slightly ticked off. To distract himself he grabbed a piece of meat from the table and chomped down on it hard. Not bad, guess the chef thing was right-
"Natsu-san! Let's have a drink!"/ "Let's do this natsu-kan!"
He looked and saw the two sabertoooth dragon slayers and their cats approaching him.
"Salamander ain't here." He said taking another bite of the meat.
"What! I was about to put a seal on him to close the gap between us!" Shouted the hurt Sting.
"Houston we have a problem." Muttered his cat. What was his name?
"Frosh thinks so too." Chimed in the frog cat. He never understood that silly frog suite she wore.
He rolled his eyes and tossed away his bone turning to the other twin dragon, the one he was more interested in. "Ryos."
The shadow dragon slayer shook his head. "Please call me Rogue."
"So about that guy that came from the future..." that kidnapped and used my girlfriend, He thought but didn't add.
Rogue rubbed his head embarrassed. "Truth be told I'm as clueless as you are." He looked him in the eyes, a determined look settling on his face. "But I won't turn into him. I definitely won't."
"Frosh Thinks so too!"
Gajeel smirked and nodded. He understood what it felt like to have what you could become thrown in your face and not wanting anything to do with it. He nearly made the mistake himself, but a certain bluenette helped him think otherwise. He glanced down at the small cat next to him that was beaming up at him. Guess he has someone too.
The moment between the two ended quickly when a blond, already tipsy Sting hung an arm over his shoulder waving a bottle. "I'll settle for Gajeel-san! Let's drink!"
This boy's got a problem.
"Settle!" He growled. "I have this sudden urge to smack you."
Sting hardly noticed the threat and took a swig of his bottle.
"He's quite the unruly one." spoke up his cat. "Please be friends with him."
Great another idiot dragon slayer, and I had enough to deal with with salamander and lighting head. Now I have to deal with Sparkles here too.
"Here, let me get him off your back." Rogue offered embarrassed at his friends' actions. He began to move when he noticed Sting had stopped laughing and was staring at something behind him.
He turned and looked and Gajeel followed their gaze, landing on a trio of girls, He recognized them as Lucy, Mirajane and that Yukino chick.
What's the deal? He thought raising an eyebrow annoyed. They still aren't all friendly yet?
He watched as they guilds began to fight over the girl. He clicked his tongue, not that he didn't care per say, he just wasn't interested. He looked around and found Levy, hanging in the back by one of the large windows, watching the scene with a huge grin on her face. He smirked and made a path up behind her. Grabbing her waist and before she could shout out open the window door and pulling her outside onto the large balcony.
And just in time, he heard the roar of the fight break out just as the door shut behind them. "Gajeel? What are you doing?" She whispered, why the hell is she whispering?
"Thought that we could use some fresh air, weren't you saying something about the gardens?" He wondered over to the balcony and she followed after him.
"Yes, but they are off limit to guest-" She stopped as they reached the balcony; Gajeel was a bit taken aback by the sight too.
Below them, about an acre wide, where rows and twists of rose bushes, making intrecet designs in the grounds. They where all lit up with small blue lights, larger lights lighting the pathways. Also in the garden where hedges of animals, he could recognize many of the exotic animals. There were also five fountain situated throughout out the place like on a dice, Each a statue of some scene of romance or strength, the waters around the inner statues lit with changing colors as the water fell or splashed up. The wall surrounding the garden was lit by torches from the guard posts and past it they could see the glowing amber lights of the city peeking above it. Above the Sky was absolutely clear, a full moon watching above them surrounded by stars, perfecting the scene all the more.
"It's beautiful..." Levy whispered.
"Yeah." He leaned on the banister next to her. He looked at the garden and his eyes landed on one of the hedges cut in the shape of a dragon sitting. "Have you talked to Levienvany since then?"
"Yeah, when you where asleep."
Figures. "What does she have to say about all of this? And the dragon control magic?"
She sighed, her lower lip pushing out like she did when she was stuck on something. "Not much, since she forbid her hologram to mention anything about it. And as for the dragon control she had had that scroll in her library, but had been stolen and thought lost. She doesn't know the magic and since I never technically read the scroll I have no clue either. And no one found the scroll so either he destroyed it or it went back into the future with him."
"To bad, that magic could have been handy if we ever meet another dragon."
"I guess so." She wondered. But if he found it then it's still out there somewhere, hidden away form the world. Maybe it will arise." She smiled, "Who knows maybe Rogue will stumble apron it again."
"That would be interesting. Though this time I hope he asks for your permission to read it, not kidnap you and hire a psychotic man to force it out of you."
She laughed, "Yeah, that would be nice."
She grew quite and he glanced over and saw her face had fallen as she starred at the moon .
"Penny for ya thoughts shrimp?"
She looked up and shrugged. "When ever I felt lonely, I'd always go to the roof of the orphanage and stare at the moon, it was something that me and dad always did. It's funny but in all these years, it always seems the moon is there when an important event happens. It was a full moon the day I found out dad died, again on the trip back seven years later for fairy island, I remember it was a crescent moon the night you attack me and shadow gear, and it was nearly full moon when you saved me from the wolves. And now it's full after all this, Zarin and the dragons. It's always been there, a marker for all the bad times and good time. A silent record of it all."
He thought about it a moment. "It was a full moon when Metalicana disappeared."
"Really?"
He nodded. It was a comfortable silence between them, only broken by a loud commotion. they glanced back to see everyone pointing up at something inside they couldn't see. They shrugged and turned back, both not ready to go back yet.
"Gajeel?"
"Yeah?"
She paused. "I don't know, I just kind a wish that the way things ended with Zarin, hadn't ended how they did."
"Ya mean let him kill you?"
"No!" She said. "Just, I wish he could have changed. That killing him wasn't the only option to stop him. Maybe if I had tried more, done something different, maybe things could have turned out differently..."
He sighed seeing how the thought of killing someone, even if he was a crazing psycho who deserved it, was taking its toll on her. "What's done is done, and I say good riddance."
"Gajeel-"
"What can I say? I don't regret one minute that he's dead, what he's done to you, the things he made ya go through, I would have killed him even before the whole dragon thing." He looked at the short girl and leaned over poking her forehead. "He made his choices, and he pushed ya to do what had to be done. No one will say different. So don't dwell on it. Hell, if it's killing ya at least think now he won't be suffering in this damn world he hated so much."
She rubbed her forehead and gave him a look trying to hide her smile, "You know just what to say to a girl."
He grinned at her sarcastic comment, seeing he had won. "There was nothing no one could have done, he brought himself to his own demise."
"still, maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if he had never met me."
He sighed in annoyance, "Well, If he hadn't of met you then you would probably never have joined fairy tail and I wouldn't have never met you, so shut it. Conversation closed. Whats done is done. It's history."
"Still..."
So she still going to beat herself up? "If this is how you're going to be, you need something to distract you and cheer ya up."
He suddenly lifted her up bridal style. "Gajeel what are you-" He grinned at her before jumping down the two stories to the ground.
As they fell Levy gave out a scream and when they landed she hit him in the arm. "What the hell are you thinking?"
"That you needed some cheering up."
"And that was what you thought of? Jumping off a building!"
"No," He sat her down on her feet and turned her around to look at where they landed. "But I thought this might."
They stood at the edge of the garden, now even bigger that they where at eye level. Down here they could smell the fragrance of the roses strongly, the sounds of the party muffled by the distance and running water of the fountains. He saw her face soften at the sight and her eyes sparkle. She turned around at him smiling he noticing that the reason her eyes sparkled was because they had tears growing in them.
"Hell Shrimp, don't cry, it wasn't that far of a drop."
She wiped a tear. "I'm not crying because of that you big dork."
She grabbed at his collar and pulled him down to place a soft kiss on his lips which surprised him. "I'm just happy, happy that we are here."
"In this garden? It's pretty, I know, but I dot think it's cry worthy-"
She punched him in the arm, "Not the garden, I mean that it's you here with me, showing me the garden. Out of everything, all that's happened in both our pasts, the events in our lives that brought us to this point, all the good and bad, the things that changed our paths, the things we'd wish rather didn't happen. It all added up to us being able to meet. It's like you just said, because of these things, because of Zarin, my father, Lele, Fairy Tail, Phantom Lord, Metalicana, all these came together making our paths crashed into each other head on. If anything had happened differently, if one of those bad events didn't happen, like if I hadn't been picked on by Zarin, We might have missed each other, and I would have never had found you. So despite it all, in the end maybe it was worth it; they allow me to be here in this garden, under that same moon thats witnessed it all; allowed me to be with the one man I was destined to meet and fall in love with. And it's because of that I'm happy, grateful of it all in some weird way that all those things did happen."
He looked at the girl stunned by her words. This was why he loved her, that despite their difficult pasts, despite their first meeting, despite the hell she'd been through, despite everything, she would go through it all again. He loved that girl too much for his own good. She was crazy, that she loved a guy like him, that she'd been through all that and more and still smiled genuinely. That she really did love him.
She was right, standing where he was now, he wouldn't change a single thing. Because he honestly couldn't imagine himself without her now.
Of course being himself he couldn't say these things, it wasn't how he did things. instead he couldn't help but tease the girl. "And they think I'm the sap in the relationship?"
"Gajeel!" She said in a half hearted frustration before she sighed and smiled up at him, knowing all to well that he would never say something as sappy as that, even if he wanted too. "Lets go see the garden-"
But her words where lost as he suddenly pulled her into a passionate kiss. The garden can wait; right now he needed to tell the girl how much she meant to him in his own way. His actions just as loud as the words she had spoke, in an answer that he would be worth it all; just as she was worth it all to him...
And the the moon can be witness to that.
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Mean while... miles away, in a cell in the high security section of the prison, a man looked up at the same moon...
The scar on his eye warped his sight but tilting his head slightly he could see the moon outside the small barred window; letting in the only light to his otherwise dark cell.
I'll have to get use to this one eye. He thought as he kicked his boots up and pushed some of his new red bangs out of his other eye, examining the magic restraints on his wrists as he did. Still, cobra, I have to admit, when I found you I was quite surprised at what you were keeping in your head. It was fate I should find you. Shame I couldn't learn more before I killed you though, but what I gained is more then satisfying, and the magic I keep with you being dead will work for now.
He reached into the pocket of the white coat and pulled out something and played with it between his fingers. Oracion Seis, the netherworld... As long as that Doranbolt man doesn't effect these memories things will turn out.
Rogue had failed him, still being to weak, like all mages. But these new ones he learned in Cobra head will be quite a different story. He leaned forward and held the object up to the light, a lock of blue hair. A smile grew on his face. "I'll be a good boy and be patient Levy, but sooner or later you, fairy tail, and I will pick up the game where we left off. And this time I'll be the one holding all the cards."
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Okay I'm completely and totally evil. I couldn't help it! when I read that part I practically screamed at the chance I saw and damn I took it. I was intending to kill Zarin off but I just couldn't.
A short but I think a good chapter to end this story, I may but most likely won't do a sequel. (I have imprisoned love and a new one I'm writing...;)
Lets just say Cobra/Zarin dies in prison so he can never fill out his plans. How's that?
Thank you to all my avid readers, even if they don't follow or comment love the story (I'm like that, I love a story but don't even follow or comment on it so yeah, I love you guys!) And and even bigger shout out to all the ones who do comment and follow, ya all make me smile.
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