Authors Notes: I know it's murky right now but it'll come clear as the chapters progress.

Yes Laxus is Lucy's 'brother' how will be explained later. I just like messing with Freed...he makes me giggle.

Natsu: I just minimized his motion sickness a bit. Only to the point where he's able to handle it with ginger tabs. Also I made it a bit pyschosomatic which is why he names his bike. It's a friend not a vehicle...Fun Fact: It comes back full force when in a confined vehicle such as a car, truck, or plane etc.

Oh yeah: I no own Fairy Tail

Chapter 3

"Look I just need some suggestions. And Erza told me to ask you. Since you deal with cars and shit."

"Don 't force yourself, Salamander. You could just keep stumbling around on your own. Kinda fun to watch. Besides I don't drive no ricers don't hang around with many people who do to that kind of skill level."

"Gajeel!" The tiny woman who was studying her computer screen turns around and chasteses him. "That is NOT appropriate language. Call them "Imports." The burly and overly pieced man simply shrugs. "Whatever."

"Ugh." She frustratedly flips a azure lock over her shoulder before going back to perusing her latest program codes. It had to be perfect. Natsu sighs dealing with the big man was ever the practice of frustration and patience. Ever since the first meeting...and the consicutive ass beating Natsu delt out...they have a tenious partnership at best. Levy being really the only one who can mediate and Erza the only one who can out right prevent rematches. And here he'd swallowed his pride all for naught. Pantherlily came stalking towards Natsu's legs and graced him with a faint brush before walking off towards Gajeel where he promptly leapt up to the mantle of the fireplace to his masters shoulder. His gold eyes staring about clearly like he owned the apartment. Because as cat logic would have it he does.

"But Gajeel has a point...Drifting or Powersliding (if it's a All wheel drive or front wheel drive car) is a delicate art. The person MUST know stick (you'd be laughed off the circut come up there with a auto though theoretically it's not impossible just difficult), have a fine understanding of throddle control. Not to mention feeling the grip and successfully predicting weight transfer which also means that they have to be very familiar with their cars or are a natural behind the wheel of just about any car that's built for it. And they need a good ear for the engine and when to (if they need to powerover to succeed on a turn) a delecate touch with the steering, or they could flip...this is a pretty specific set of skills. Especially if you need someone to learn it. It's not impossible but it's a skill that can take years to master and compete in." She idily rattles off as she makes coding adjustments here and there. Both men break off their glares to stare at her. Natsu with a look of pure shock as he had no clue this entailed all of that. Gajeel, however now looks like he's about to eat Levy for lunch. And Dinner...

Oh what the hell maybe a few snacks in between...

"Better get what I can before those two dissolve into a more than Iwant to see at this time." Natsu directs his attention to the girl as she seems way better informed than his resident car specialist. "Maybe I'm asking the wrong one. Levy? Do you know someone who could fill this role?" Levy blinks and looks up. "I know two, but one certainly doesn't have time and the other...retired from that."

"What are they old?"

"No! Don't let her hear you say that she'd kill you. She's just moved on. The other is busy doing stunt work for movies and is now engaged."

"A girl? Is one of your people?"

"Yeah so? Got a problem with that?" Natsu quickly backs away from the brown eyes that are suddenly glaring at him. The computer monitor giving her a sinister uplight in her darkened apartment. "No, no not at all...heh." Levy sniffs and stands up going to her fridge moving aside her C4 to get to her bottled water.

"I guess our best bet is the one in retirement. Why did they stop drifting?" Gajeel grunts.

The young woman looks up from her new reach for some peanut butter and glares. "Is this really nessicary? It's just a race. We don't show up to those from time to time."

"This thing is hitting big here in Fiore and all the family's are flocking there. We can't aford not to have a presence there. We know that information is going to be passed here and since it's new the Pigs aren't set up to deal with this yet. The lips will be very loose. More at the first than at any consecutive one afterwards."

Gajeel leans off the wall and walks over to his table and picks up one of his many knifes to clean some grease from under his nails. "Hate to admit it shrimp but Salamander's right." he wipes his blade off on his black cover alls. "We need someone bad. At least at the first race to make a good showing."

" How do we contact her?" Natsu asks watching her actions carefully. Levy's reluctant...why? It's not like her when she has help to offer to hesitate...

"You, don't. I handle it." Both Natsu and Gajeel frown at that.

"Come again?" Gajeel rumbles warningly. And that is not the right way to get her to do what you want... Natsu fights the urge to slap Gajeel. Way to possibly make her even more reluctant to help us. Not that he didnt' understand the sentiment. All of Fairy Tail was fiercely protective of who they consider family, but for some reason the men where doubly protective of the women of the group. Levy sighs having known that look was going to show at her terse demand. Natsu was glad. It seemed that though she was irritated she didn't seem to take it personally and didn't feel offended. The boys just took their job as 'men' seriously and having a woman fight what they felt where their battles for them didn't sit well with any one of them. Sure some of it had to do with testosterone, even Natsu agreed to that, but that didn't make it bad or insulting. After all Erza could command any one of them and they wouldn't think. So too could Mira for that matter. But that didn't change the fact that they would feel guilty if those very same girls got hurt. Sure part of it is selfish, they didn't want to see their fierce women as anything less than fearless and capable. The thought of them ever being less than that...

And I'm going to stop that train of thought right there. It would probably cause the worst gang war in history and bully for the fool who caused it. Because he surely wouldn't survive the retribution.

"You heard me. I'm going to handle talking to her. After all I used to be her partner and navigator when in college. She's used to me and will respond to me better. I know how to talk to her." Natsu frowns. "Navigator? But wait you said that in college you was..." Levy slathers peanut butter on a cracker and then a dollop of jam as she looks up at him, rather resembling a kid making a mess. "A Bounty hunter? Yeah?" she pops the cracker sandwich into her mouth before setting about making another.

"What does bounty hunting have to do with drifting?"

"Uh we where two cute girls, in a HOT car with enough horses to out run most porkers and college was too easy for us. Why do you think we'd know about drifting? I got my first steady boyfriend there..." she sighs reminiscing. Gajeel bristles suddenly. Levy's face suddenly frowns. "yeah...but he was a asshole...don't miss him. Left him an awesome good-bye present though...two king size snickers in the gas tank of his mustang." Gajeel's anger suddenly gave away to fear as red eyes suddenly create a very sharp contrast to his dark hair and now abnormally, pale complexion. "He's lucky I didn't leave a "Levy Special" strapped to the engine..."

Natsu was thankful as well. She may have been in jail for that stunt... Levy specials where hand built grenades made by the bomb specialist herself to have no shrapnel. Simply pure explosive power and, surprisingly, actually better control. Also less likely to be lethal, provided you wasn't right on top of it... You always knew they where hers because of the blue smoke that always accompanied their explosions. Ironically that's how she had met Gajeel after a transport job gone wrong.

"But anyway. I need time to butter her up and help her acclimate. She's not going to be all that willing to just come do this for us. She doesn't know Fairy Tail or any of you." Natsu thinks. It's true. What would someone who's a retired drifting bounty hunter serve to gain by joining the Shadow Division of Fairy Tail? Levy smirks. "We have a month right? Let me get to talking with her, maybe I can find something to entice her in. She's stubborn and just as smart as I am..."

"Shit, another braniac...just what we need..."

"But that doesn't mean she doesn't have her weaknesses."

"Like yours being the back of your knees? Gah!" Gajeel got a spoon, still filled with peanut butter tossed onto his face, where it was presently hanging. "Pervert. I'm trying to think up a plan. Please keep your dirty thoughts at bay." She looks at Natsu. "If we can get her you'd get much more than just a drifter, but also someone with experience with firearms, dealing nonlethal damage and mechanics."

"Sounds like she'd make a great Dragonrider. Can't wait to meet her." Natsu grins.

Elsewhere a specific blonde sneezes into her delicious club sandwich. "Ugh. Snot, sure adds that extra flavor this was missing..."

"You'd better not be coming down with anything! Do I need to send you up to bed? "

"Dammit Freed I'm fine! Stop babying me!"