Chapter Eight

It was raining hard that day as it often does the past two weeks.

"Hey, you know..." Gajeel said, hesitating. "You can just make your final wish already. Say that you wish that nothing important to you will be taken by us, and you won't have to lose anything."

"That's possible?" Levy said, slightly surprised.

"Yeah, our deal was to make 'any' of your wishes come true, ain't it?"

"But why hasn't anyone wished for it?"

"They never thought of it," master shrugged. "And, well, it's not like we ain't allowed to tell this to the humans, but, this is supposed to be a secret."

"Why are you telling it to me then?"

"Because..." he sighed. "I don't want to take anything from you, okay? I want you to be happy."

"You ain't like the other humans that we've made deals with, ya know. You're just... so unique." he said. "You managed to snap out of being blinded by power and greed, unlike most humans."

"And..." he hesitated, and stayed silent for a little while.

"Well, just wish for it already." he said instead of continuing what he really wanted to say.

"But what about you?" she asked.

"What about me?" he raised one of his eyebrows.

"When I... make my last wish... that would mean..." she said and looked down on the floor, to hide her sad eyes. "...that would mean that you and Lily will be gone... and there'll be no one else I can talk to like this."

"I... don't really want you guys to go." she continued, her face still down, eyes staring at the floor.

"But, that would be really selfish of me, wouldn't it?"

"Don't worry," he said, while approaching her, then pat her head gently, and grinned. "I promise that we'll be looking over you after your last wish is done. We'll still watch over you, whether you would know it or not."

I know he's only saying this to make her feel better, though... Because we aren't allowed to meet with our past clients, or any human at all, unless we're under a deal with them.

She just remains silent there, thinking of something, I suppose.

"Well, I gotta go," Gajeel said. "Duty calls. See ya later."

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I knew he's just making it up, though. we've been with each other long enough already for me to know him that much. He wants to make her happy; he doesn't want her to be sad; he doesn't want to take anything important to her. That's why he told her to wish for that instead. But deep inside him, he doesn't really want to leave her, too. I suppose he's grown quite a deep attachment to her now.

But what could we do? What would we do? What would happen to the three of us, then?

I guess... It'll be her last wish that'll determine what'll be of us - whether she goes free and nothing gets to be taken away from her, while we go and resume with our usual job, just hunting for humans to make deals with; or something else, it'll be the effect of her final wish.

Yesh, this time it's an apology note... but not because I won't be able to continue it today, but because that this part was short... Sorry, I kinda have to cut it around here... ^^

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