A Saiyan among Wizards
Chapter Four
Surprises a Pleanty
Author's Notes: This is the last time jump I swear. Anways, here's chapter four. Warning for possiable feels.
* insert TFS disclaimer. Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima and Funamation.
It's been a few days since Natsu, Lucy, and the rest of the team left for the resort that Loke gave them tickets for. "They must've been at the Tower of Heaven by now." I breathed.
"What was that Marc?" inquired Levy, who was sitting with me. I liked talking to Levy, if I had a question about anything, she most likely had the anwer or could point me to the book where I could find it.
"Oh nothing, just wondering what Lucy and the others are up to right now." I lied quickly.
"Knowing Natsu," I heard Jet say, "they've probably destroyed half the resort by now."
Chuckling at the thought, "Probably," I said, "hopefully Erza will be able to keep him and Gray in line." I know better though, they won't even have a chance to destroy anything but the Tower of Heaven.
"Hmmm..." I hummed as I turned towards the guilds front doors. I sense Gajeel and I think Juvia's there too. I got up, saying I was going to look for a job, and walked over to the request board. As soon as I got there, the guild doors opened and the was an audible gasp that ran through the guild members present. Soon, they were all on their feet, ready to fight the ex-Phantom mages.
Leaning against the wall, I heard Macoa yell," What the hell are you two doing here!?" I smirked as Gramps yelled in response, "They are here on my request! Get used to them, because they're joining the guild."
This last statement caused an uproar in the guild, Gajeel chucked at this. I surprised him by laughing with him. I smiled as I walked over and greeted them. "So," offering my right hand, "you figured out what your next move is then?" as he shook it.
"Yeah." he said gruffly, looking away slightly. Was it just my imagination or did I see a light blush on his face. I could feel the shock coming off the guild behind me, but it was nothing compared to the reaction to the next words to come out of my mouth.
"If you need a place to stay, you're welcome at my house." I offered getting an audible gasp out of the others. A few of them flat out told me I was crazy to even suggest such an idea. He didn't answer, only nodding in acknowledgement, possibly blushing harder. I turned to Juvia by the exchange and my friendlyness towards them.
"You must be Ms. Juvia Lockser, yes?" I said charmingly, bringing the rain woman to her senses.
"Oh..yes." She said rather shyly, her thoughts probably on her Gray-Sama.
I took one her gloved hands, kissed it lightly, and said, "Enchanté." I think I made her a little embarressed by this display, so I said quietly so only she and Gajeel could here, "Don't worry, I'm not trying to steal you from Gray. I actually want you two to be together."
"How do you know about my love for Gray." she asked, shocked at my knowledge of personal affairs.
"I have my ways." I said mischievously before Makarov had them and Mira summoned to his office, saying that the rest of the guild should follow my example. Before Gajeel could leave, I grabbed his upperarm to stop him.
Dropping my voice so only he could hear me, "It's good to see that you're alive and well. I was worried that the Senzu had only did half of the job and I had only pronlonged the inevitable." Feeling my throat constrict as I uttered these last few words. Taking a deep breath to calm myself, "But I'm glad to see those fears were baseless after all." trying to smile.
I could tell Gajeel was shocked at how concerned I was for his well-being and how much it affected me. I was glad to let him go up to Makarov's office so I could get away. Walking outside the guild, I flew up to the guild's new bell tower. As soon as I landed, I leaned against one the pillars, sunk down to hug my knees, and allowed sobs to rack through my body. It was too much, days of worring, all for nothing. Gajeel was fine, the Senzu did its job perfectly. I just sat there, waiting for the tears to stop. When they did, I sat for a while longer to calm down and erase any evidence that I had been crying, the pants of my gi were more than a little wet from my tears. It succeeded. Well, mostly. Mira had come back from Gramps' office and was back behind the bar. If she had noticed anything as I asked for something to drink, she didn't bring it up.
I nearly choked when I heard the old man call from his office, "Marcus, I would like a word with you."
"Yes...master." I spluttered as I got up, wiping the drink from my chin. Walking up there, I passed Juvia on my way to his office, she had a slightly confused look on her face. Making nothing of it, I continued to my destination. I shivered as I caught Gajeel's scent when I entered, it was obviously metallic and it was mixed with the smell of a forest after a storm. There something else there that I liked that I couldn't quite place.
Gramps looked serious as he began to speak, "Gajeel tells me that you saved his life, is this true?" This was more of a statement than a question.
"Yes," I said, my tail drooping and I began to fiddle with the folds of my pants, "I had gone overboard in our fight in Phantom Lord. Seeing that I had done more than I meant to, I raced home to get him a Senzu." choking up a little, "If I had killed him, it would have haunted me for the rest of my life. I'd never forgive myself." My voice failing at the end. I sat down rested my head on folded hands, trying hard to control the tempest of emotions whirling inside me. Wiping away the tears that had formed, "I must sound pathetic, don't I." I chuckled darkly.
"Quite the opposite," Makarov said, "I'm proud one of my children has such kind heart."
"It's just the way I am," I said, slightly embarressed, "nothing special." I did feel a little better about myself though.
"Whatever the case, I'm glad you did the right thing, even if he was your enemy at the time." He praised. "You two may go." As we left I had noticed that Gajeel had already recived his guildmark. So that's why Mira was summoned. Things begining to click in my mind.
I left the guild earlier than I usually do, because one, I was emotionally drained and didn't feel like answering any questions the others had. And two, if Gajeel was coming over to stay, I needed to clean up the house. I was still finding splinters in my feet from when I broke down the door looking for the Senzu. So I said my goodbyes and left a piece of paper that had directions to my place with Mira if Gajeel decided to take me up on my offer.
I finished sometime that evening, you wouldn't believe the places I found those damn things. Some of them had even made it clear back to the bedroom. My house isn't that big, but this is a little on the ridiculous side. Anyways, I was about to go bathe when there was knock at the door. I opened it to find Gajeel with a pack on his shoulder and a familiar piece of paper in his right hand.
"Oh, hey Gajeel." I said pleasently, letting him in and getting assulted by his wonderful scent.
"Nice place you got here." He said as he went to sit down on the sectional, stuffing away the paper in his back pocket as he did so.
"Thanks," I said smiling, "so I take it your accepting my offer."
"Yeah. Ya got anything to eat? I'm starvin'." he said, putting his feet on the coffee table.
"Anything to drink?" I asked, pulling out a bag of chips.
"I don't care as long as it doesn't taste like shit." He answered indifferntly.
Grabbing a couple cans of Coke out of the fridge, I walked over and gave him the chips and drink. He immediatly began to shovel 'em into his mouth as I took a seat not to far from him, I began to drink my pop.
"I apologize for my breakdown earlier. I've just been holding that in for a while." I said as nonchalant as I could manage.
" No problem." he responded between chewing and drinking.
"And you should know, I only have one bed. So unless you don't mind sharing, your sleeping on the couch." I said.
After taking a swig of Coke and swallowing, he said, "Screw that, I ain't sleeping here."
"Fine." I said, secretly pleased. Finshing my drink, I got up and headed to the pool, sighing in relief as I sunk into the warm waters. I was washing my hair when I heard, "How the hell did you build this?" Yelping in surprise, I slipped and fell into the water.
"You followed me down here?!" I spluttered when I came back up.
"I was curious." he said playfully, stripping and joining me in the pool.
God he's hot! Thank God that I had spurng for the dimmer lights down here, otherwise Gajeel would see how much I enjoyed what I saw. I very glad that I know how to control myself around naked men, thank you three years of being forced to shower with other guys after gym. I washed out the remaining suds in my hair and focused on washing the rest of my body, trying to ignore the man in the pool with me. Afterwards, I got out and dried myself off quickly, brushed my hair down, and went back upstairs for underwear and a pair of sweatpants to sleep in. By the time Gajeel joined me under the covers, I was already asleep.
The following morning, I woke up feeling pleasently warm. Snuggling closer to the source, I noticed that there was an arm draped over me. Opening my eyes, I was met with an expance of a muscled chest and stomach. Looking up, I locked with Gajeel's sleepy red eyes. He must have pulled me towards him in his sleep. I'd be lying if I said I didn't love it. But all to soon, realized what and who he was holding and flung himself, and me, out of the bed.
I saw stars as I landed on my tail, "Fuck," I said in pain, "the hell did you do that for?!" Pulling myself up by the bed, eyes tearing up from the pain. Seeing his confusion, "I landed on my tail, which really fucking hurts you know!" I growled at him.
"So your not upset?" he said quietly.
"About what? You cuddling me? Not at all." I said while masaging my tail, "I'm just a little pissed that you threw me out of the bed." I grumbled.
"Sorry." he said, looking a little relieved.
Softening, I told him, "I've never been held like that," my face redding, "I kinda liked it." Rubbing my arm nervously.
Whatever Gajeel was going to say next was drowned out by a familar voice yelling from the living room.
"Hey wumbass! Wake up! I'm suppoed to be in Fiore by now!" yelled my sister from the Lacrima screen.
"Who's that?" Gajeel asked, grinning.
"My sister." I said, rubbing the stubble on my chin as I grabbed a tang top to put on.
"'Bout time!" she said after I opened the demensional gate. Her long ginger hair in a mess as usual and even though she was tall for her age, she was barely eye level with me. "What took you so long?" she huffed.
"I was busy, numbnuts! Since when are you up this early?" I retorted.
"Since my brother promised to take me to the guild. Oh this is what you were busy with?" she mocked as Gajeel walked in. I Gibb slapped her, my face redding from embarrassment."Owww" she yelped.
"Anyways," turning to an amused Gajeel, "This is my sister, Malori. Malori, this is Gajeel."
"What's up." she said, raising a hand in greeting, complety unfazed by Gajeel's apperance. She has also watched Fairy Tail, she was actually the one who got me into watching it.
Gajeel and I got dressed, changing from my customary gi to black pants, combat boots, a loose, black shirt, and a long, whitish coat with the sleeves cutoff at the elbows. Kinda like Snow's outfit from FFXIII. Walking out I said, "Let's go." to Malori and left the house.
"So, what's been going on since the last time I was here?" Malori asked as we walked through Magnolia, putting on an air of ignorance at my request. Both of knew a lot about the Fairy Tail cannon, but I choose not to share this with anyone in the guild. But I think some of them figured out that I knew more than I let on.
"Nothing much, got dragged to Galuna by Erza." she giggled at this, "Hey, she's scary when she's on the rampage. Besides, it was fun to watch. You how I don't like interfering with other's fights, especially when it serves to make them stronger."
"Oh really. Then why did you stop me and Salamander from fighting?" sneered Gajeel with an arrogant smile.
"I wanted to test your strength." I shrugged, "And Natsu would have mopped the floor with you if I hadn't anyways."
"The hell he wouldn't." he protested.
"Anyways," returning to my story, "Grumpy's old guild attacked us." earning a "Hey" of annoyance from Gajeel, "I've already disscussed that with you over the lacrima screen. And now he's staying with me until he finds a place of his own, how long that will take..." I shrugged. "Oh, and Natsu's team went on vaction, they've probably met up with some of Erza's old friends by now." I said with a knowing smile.
"The hell are you talking about?" asked an intrigued Gajeel.
"Wouldn't you like to know." my sister said smuggly.
I chuckled at Gajeel's expression of disbelief that this fourteen year old girl had the gall to mock him. He was about to retort when we entered the guild.
"Just drop it," I told him as Malori went to talk with Mira, "She just messing with you to get a rise out of ya. You'll only make it worse if you play into it. Trust me, I've fallen into her traps too many times." I said, speaking from years of experiance. "Come on let's grab a table." I added.
Sorry for the wait, I've been distracted. Shoutout to OneHellOfAFanboy for being my first ever follower. It means a lot. I still want to hear what you guys have to say, so please review. See ya in chapter five!
