The continuation of Wendy's Turtle Adventures! I haven't updated in forever and it's short I'm sorry please don't hurt me

There were times, many of them, when Gajeel didn't understand children. This was one of them.

Attempting to find a Salamander-free place to train, he had chanced upon a lake in the woods directly outside of Magnolia. It would have been perfect, had it not been for the fact that the only female Dragonslayer was kneeled besides it, staring intently at the water's surface.

"Wendy?"

He was ignored. Gajeel disliked being ignored, and so marched up to the little girl and firmly tapped her on the shoulder. "Oi, Wendy! What're you-"

"Shhhhhhh!" she whispered fiercely, flipping her head around and slamming a finger over his lips to shut him up. "You'll interrupt the ritual!"

Gajeel was extremely confused. Pushing her hand away, he asked (without lowering his voice at all, "The hell you talkin' about? What ritual?"

Wendy gave him a glare that would make Erza Scarlet proud. "Be. Quiet!" she whispered again, though this time it was more of a hiss. "I'm trying to summon my turtle minions!"

Gajeel blinked. Twice.

Noticing the abject confusion that was obvious on Gajeel's face, Wendy rolled her eyes and explained. "I'm the turtle whisperer, see? And this," she added, grandly gesturing to the lake, "is my turtle army."

"..there aren't any turtles." Gajeel flatly pointed out. Wendy gave him a long-suffering look and an exasperated sigh.

"There were," she said slowly, as if to make sure this time he understood, "before you scared them off."

Gajeel was no expert on kids, but he figured this was when he was supposed to apologize. Luckily for him (as Gajeel Redfox despised apologizing, and sucked at it too), Wendy beat him to it.

"It's quite alright, though," she said, waving off his impending apology and adopting a business-like tone and expression he just knew she learned from Charle, "They'll be back soon enough."

"When...oh." True to her words, as soon as she had said 'enough', little turtle heads began poking out from the water as they began swimming in the two Fairy Tail mages' direction. One, two, ten, fifteen...how many was that?!

Gajeel was not expecting this. When Wendy said turtle army, he expected a few baby turtles who Wendy had managed to befriend. He had not imagined about three hundred turtle heads who he swore had glassy looks in their eyes hypnotically making their way towards his young friend.

Now they were all crowded in the water around Wendy's knees, pushing and shoving to nudge her as she ran her hand over their smooth green shells. "See? They're my personal army!" she exclaimed happily, giving him a huge grin.

Gajeel sighed. For all her maturity and magic power, she really acted like the kid she was sometimes. "Kid, I hate to break it to ya, but you can't have a turtle army."

"Why not?" the bluenette asked, tilting her head sideways.

"Turtles don't understand human speech."

He would have said more, but a sudden feeling of dark foreboding struck him as Wendy continued to smile just as brightly as before. Without falter, she jumped to her feet, raised a hand in the air, and proceeded to scream something Gajeel would not have expected to hear coming out of Wendy Marvell's mouth, "TURTLES UNITE! Sacrifice the unbelievers!"

The turtles literally (literally!) leapt out of the water at her call, presumable to catch Gajeel and use him for a sacrifice. Gajeel did not stick around to find out as Wendy cackled.

And considering that the fearsome Black Steel Gajeel spent the next six-and-a-half hours hiding from three hundred turtles thirsting for blood, the world was once again reminded to keep Wendy Marvell happy, no matter what the cost.

*sings* lalalallalala revieeeeeewwwwwwwww thanks!