A Saiyan Among Wizards

Chapter Five

Lightning

Author's Notes: Thanks to a helping hand from a reviewer and a little thinking, this story is going to take a different route than I had originally planned. But it's not going to be much of detour. Thanks for all the support thus far, it means a great deal.

*instert TFS disclaimer. Fairy Tail is owned by Hiro Mashima and Funamation.

I let Gajeel go pick out a table as I went to pull Malori away from Mira to talk to her in private.

"What?" she huffed as went into one the guilds back hallways that no one knew about.

"Gajeel's acting...," I paused, "different. And I mean different than he should at this point of the story. I think I've meddled to much and caused a butterfly affect on the time line." I said, looking around for any wandering guild members.

"You dumbass!" She almost yelled, punching me as hard as she could in the head. "If something terrible happens to the story like Natsu dying or something like that, I will fucking murder you in your sleep!" She threatened. I gulped, I know very well that she would follow through with it if I screwed up.

"Hold on," trying to keep any fear from entering my voice, "this has no effect on the original continuety, so it won't be for realzies. And if I do fuck up, I might get killed by something else before you even get the chance." I assured, rubbing throbing bump on the side of my head. I added, "C'mon, before someone comes looking for us."

Natsu's team came back from the Tower of Heavan, Oh, thank Gomikai, just as my sister and I entered the guild's main hall. Ducking back into the hallway behind us, we watched as the entirety of Natsu's team entered, safe and sound. "See, nothing to worry about." I sighed with relief. We watched as Juvia walked up to them and showed that she had joined the guild.

Malori was about to leave our hiding spot, but I pulled her back. "Wait a minute," I hissed. Natsu had just noticed Gajeel, I watched with bated breath as the scene from the anime played out. I didn't let it go untill they started brawling. "So he's only acting different towards me. I wonder why that is?" I questioned.

"I don't know. Let's just go find a good seat for Mira and Gajeel's performance." She said excitedly.

"Hell yeah." I agreed.

We found seats near to Natsu's so we could watch both the performance and the guild brawl that followed start. Mira's song went by without a hitch, but when Gajeel started playing, the entire guild broke out in booing and throwing things on the stage. This kinda ticked me off, Gajeel's got an awesome singing voice, especially for his style of music.

"There goes the guitar," I narrated with Malori, "and there's Erza's cake," she spotted as Gray stood up to yell at Natsu, "And Elfman steps on it. Boom! Guild brawl!" we finised in unison as Erza sent Elfman flying over our heads. I quickly got out of the way so I didn't get entangle in the fighting. Malori, on the other hand, jumped into the fray with an enthusiasism that would put Natsu to shame.

I was pulling her out the way of Natsu and Gray when I sensed Laxus closing in on Gajeel and the others. How did they slip by me? Taking off, I almost didn't make it in time for Laxus' attack on Gajeel. Speeding between the bolt of lightining and Gajeel, I extended my hand to use the redirection technique from Avatar. How different can it be from engery manipulation? Very different in fact. It felt like I was on fire and hurt like hell, but I didn't make a sound. Even though my energy took a sudden plunge.

"Enough Laxus!" I shouted, "There's no need to act like a child over something that happened the past!" getting more and more angery as each word flew from my mouth.

"And what are you gonna do about it, huh?" he sneered, "Lecture me to death."

"No. But I might just kick your pompous ass into the atmosphere." I growled.

"You can try, but I doubt it." he said turning to leave.

I let him leave, I didn't have the energy or will to fight him and I needed to stop meddling. But it's too late for that, isn't it. Soon I dropped to one knee, no longer able to stand and panting heavly.

"Marcus!" Levy exclaimed.

"It's alright," I gasped between breaths, "Just a little low on energy. It's strange, his magic seemed to drain it somehow. Like it was feeding off it. Besides, I needed to make up for a mistake I made towards Gajeel." Coughing from the effort, "But it'll probably never be enough though." Looking at the sullen dragonslayer.

"You don't have to..." he said, trailing off.

"Yes, I do. There's no excuse for what I've done." I said firmly.

"Whatever Hero, I got a job to do." he scoffed, leaving to do just that. Did he just give me a nickname? Pleased by this, I tried to get up but ended up needing Jet and Droy for support most of the way to the guild.

"Where the hell have you been?" Malori questioned as I staggered over to her table, a pile of unconscious guildmembers behind her.

"Had a run in with Laxus, tried to use the redirection technique, and failed." I said, "You've been busy." gesturing to the pile. "Guess I should've warned them, don't mess with my sister." chuckling. "Let's head out, I need some Senzu and I left them at home."

It was about 4 o'clock when we made it through front door. Has it really been that long? Walking over to the kitchen, I began looking for the Senzu while Malori began fiddling around with the lacarima screen. Finding them easier than last time, I took one and turned to see that Malori had somehow rigged up my PS3 to the screen and she had brought most of our games over in her bag.

"Can't go one night without technology, can you?" I mocked.

"Nope." She replied shamelessly.

"Fine, then hand me a controller. It's been a while since I've touched this so you'll have to wait." I said, taking the controller and popping in Arkham City for the hell of it. Gajeel didn't show up till later that evening, by that time I was about halfway into the new campaign I had started.

"How'd your job go?" I said, eyes never leaving the screen as I was working on the Ra's boss fight.

"Alright. What the hell is this?" He asked, gesturing at the game.

"In our world, we have these devices that allow you to play games on things like lacrima screens. There's actully a huge market for them." I explained, never missing a beat. "It like being control of a lacrimovie."

Gajeel was intrigued by this, but he didn't try it. So, he just sat down and watched, asking questions occasionally when something happened he didn't understand. I ended up giving him a quick synopsis on Arkham Asylum and the story up to where I was when he walked in. I ended up having to play through the entire game so Gajeel could see the ending. By the time I had finished, it was well into the night and I was getting tired. So as soon as the credits began to roll, I handed off the controller to Malori, bathed, and went to bed.

I was on Tenrou Island fighting Acnolgia with the others, but no matter how much energy I threw into my attacks, I couldn't bring him down. It was like his wounds regerated instantly, the dream changed. I was standing in front of Gajeel as though I were talking to him, our surroundings completly white, he had turned his arm into a sword and stabbed me in the chest without expression, my vision turning crimson. I bolted up, woken up by the nightmare. I was panting like I ran a marathon and was shaking as though I had been left out in the cold. I whipped my head around as I heard movement to my left, it was just Gajeel. He looked at me with sleepy eyes full of concern.

"I just had a nightmare, go back to sleep." I said quietly, laying back down, facing him. But he didn't close his eyes, instead he pulled me into his chest, causing me to gasp in surprise. Without thought, I wrapped my arms around him and any panic that remained melted away, calmed by the steady rythem of his heartbeat. I fell asleep quickly and wasn't plagued by nightmares for the rest of the night.

Phew! This one took a while to write almost from scratch. I was toying with the idea of Gajeel calling Marcus "princess" before I settled on "hero" and I'm glad I did. I might be taking a small break since I got Cards Against Humanity in the mail today. See ya in chapter six!