That night Lucy couldn't sleep, her thoughts kept returning to the pink haired survivor. Rolling out of bed she stumbled towards the kitchen to get some milk. Down the hall she noticed a light coming from the lab. Grabbing two glasses of milk, Lucy walked to the room where she knew her friend would be studying. Lucy looked at levy laying over her books, her eyes fluttering open and shut behind her red glasses. Setting the milk down Lucy glanced at her books. Most were about ancient magic, meaning the titles were in some weird language. Levy was quietly writing in her journal. Lucy clicked her fingers, getting Levy's attention.
"You should go to bed." She stroked circles into her friends back.
"I know, I wanted to get this down, why it was still in my head," She took the milk, "Thanks." Lucy picked up the book and flicked through the pages of writing.
"Right." She turned it around showing one of Levy's drawings. Levy blushed furiously, snatching the picture of Gajeel out of her friends hand. "Never thought you'd get a crush on someone like that."
"Lu, no!" Levy set her books down and took her milk back to her room.
Gajeel looked down at the body pressed against the wall. She was panting, beads of sweat dripping down her naked body. His crimson eyes taking in every inch of the blunettes petite form. Her soft hands glided up his abs, licking her lips. He hooked her chin and kissed her, he grinded against her making her gasp, allowing him to deepen the kiss. She wrapped her legs around him, her tiny hands clawing his back.
"Gajeel!"
"Gajeel!"
"Gajeel!" Juvia shook him awake. "Gajeel! Are you ok?" Gajeel cursed and gripped his head, what a weird dream.
"I'm fine."
"Great…so who's Levy?" Juvia giggled, causing Gajeel to bolt up falling out of bed.
"No-one!"
"Sure, thats why you kept saying her name in your sleep."
"Go back to bed rain woman!" Gajeel pulled his covers over his head and tried to forget the dream.
Evergreen was stuck on watch that morning, she had to look for their visitors. She sipped at the chicken noodle soup Droy had made. She gripped her faux fur coat closer in the morning cold. She hummed contently as she watched Bixlow and Lily spar while Freed and Jellal were working on something in the Lab. Wendy skipped out of the base with a clip board in her hand.
"Have you seen Gray any where?"
"No, why?" Wendy help up a needle. "Try Lucy, she'll know." Wendy thanked her and skipped away, Ever watched her with a slight smile.
"So this is the base?"
"This Base in Manly!" Ever turned to see two white haired survivors coming into view, they were followed by a few others.
"Hello." The young white haired girl smiled.
"Hello." Ever greeted more cold then she meant to.
"I'm Lissana."
"Evergreen, follow me."
"Well isn't she just a ray of sunshine." Gajeel mumbled under his breath. Juvia scolded him as he followed the Strauss siblings into the base. Natsu, Juvia, Erza, Lissana, Elfman and Happy followed Evergreen through their base only to find a dark haired man being pinned to the ground as a little girl tried to give him a shot.
"Let me go!"
"Stop moving you big baby!" Levy said pinning down his right arm.
"Woman up!" Lucy said pinning down a leg.
"The more you move, the more it'll hurt." Wendy groaned.
"So help me Gray, if you don't stop moving, we'll do what we used to when we were kids!" Lucy threatened. "And trust me, Levy and I are much stronger than when we were 8!" Gray stopped flailing long enough for Wendy to jab in the needle.
The two girls jumped off him and straightened up, noticing they had spectators.
"Hi." Levy said slightly flustered from pinning their friend down, Lucy waved, sweat dripping down their foreheads.
"Gray can you patch us through to the bridge?" Lily asked walking in with Bixlow. Gray went to work at the control panel, mumbling angrily.
"Levy, Jellal needs you in the Lab." Jet said running in.
"I swear if he set something on fire again…" She mumbled following the ginger man. Gajeels eyes lingered on her butt as it wiggled down the hall, normally Juvia would scold him if she weren't watching the dark haired man at the control desk. Sweat dripping down his neck as he punched in a code.
Yukino and Carla appeared on screen.
"Hey Lucy!" Yukino greeted.
"Hey girl! We have the survivors here."
"This is Natsu, Gajeel, Juvia, Erza, Elfman, Happy and I'm Lissana." The girl who looked like Yukino pointed at each of them individually.
"This is amazing, Levy and Jellal were right all along!" Carla smiled, a rare occurrence. "And Wendy are you doing well."
"Yes Carla." Wendy Smiled.
"Jet just sent me the updates on your mission, but this seems to be enough confirmation that Earth is survivable." Yukino said disappearing from the screen for a second.
"I will go discuss it with the council, good bye." Carla ended the transmission.
"Sooooooo…" Lucy started "Would you like a tour?" The survivors nodded. "Well this is the bridge, I'm Lucy and this is Gray, our Mechanic, and Wendy, our medic."
"Little young, isn't she?" Elfman wondered aloud.
"But powerful, I sense." Erza smiled.
"Sure is, our little angel here is a dragon slayer."
"WHAT?!" The group questioned.
"I'm the air dragon slayer, I use support and healing magic." Wendy blushed before excusing herself. Lucy led them through the kitchens, where Jet and Droy were eating lunch and through to their quarters where Ever and Bixslow were talking. Eventually they got to the labs where Pantherlily was reading a book over Levy's shoulder.
"Hey guys!" Lucy called.
"Hey." Jellal called back from where he and Freed were deciphering ruins, Lucy introduced them and then moved on to her oblivious friend.
"Lev?" Lucy clicked her fingers. Lily then removed the book from her face.
"Lily!" Levy snapped into reality.
"And this is Levy, our head researcher, and Pantherlily, special forces."
"Nice to meet you guys." Levy waved before grabbing her book back from Lily and setting it down on the pile.
"Must say your base is nice." Juvia mused.
"Thanks, I built it myself." Grey walked in, smiling at Juvia.
"You liiiiiiiike him." Happy giggled as Juvia blushed.
"Levy, do you know these runes? We don't recognise it." Jellal called her over.
"It's dragon script, It's about the dragon king Achnelogia."
"You know about Achnelogia?" Gajeel asked.
"My Levy's read every book, scroll and record we have on fairy dome."
"Plus Polyusica taught me dragon script." She blushed at the attention. Gajeel tried to shake visions of his dream last night, but her blushing face made that difficult. Although he was fascinated by her intellect.
"So who's your warriors?" Bixslow walked in.
"Oh if you wanna fight, it's on!" Natsu's interest spiked. The group took this outside, Elfmen vs. Ever, Lily vs. Gajeel, Bixslow vs. Natsu, Erza Vs. Grey. As they fought, walloping on each other Lily saw as the dragonslayer stole glances of the blunette talking to Lissana.
"Checking out my friend?"
"No, and even if I was, could ya blame me?"
"She's my best friend, and if you even wanna shot you gotta go through me."
"I'm gonna make you my cat!" Gajeel grinned as he continued his fight.
Evergreen and Erza won their fights, the others tied after Lucy called the fights.
"We should get back to the colony." Ezra stated, stealing glances at Jellal, she was sure she knew him, but where from?