Chapter 4: You Can Wonder

Levy POV

"This mission will be awesome, don't you think so Levy," Jet asked excitedly, sending a large smile my way.

Currently, I was at the train station with Jet and Droy, who was obvious bustling with excitement like usual. Shadow Gear had decided to take a mission today, and I agreed hesitantly, for I had a lingeringly fear that if I left, my ex-friend and my amazing, strong, handsome crush would get together.

But then I would remind myself of the things Jet and Droy repeat to me every day, and I my confidence would surge. I convinced myself that I still had a big chance at this; for us.

Deep down, I would sometimes find myself daydreaming about Gajeel telling me all of those things too, though in more of his gruff manner in not in the childish manner Jet and Droy always did.

Of course my used-to-be best friend had to shake her breasts at my crush, wanting to make him like her, and now the poor guy was hooked on her. I was so mad at Lucy, she just had to have all the guys eyes on her, like she doesn't have them curled around her most of the time, and of course she couldn't even let me have Gajeel.

And what made it worse, was the fact that I noticed those two have gotten closer in the past month than we have over the past years of being friends. Gajeel never joked with me, there was never a smile in his eyes when he looked my way, and he never teased me like he did with Lucy, playfully scaring her whenever he got the chance. And I doubted he would ever be fine with me giving him a playful hit like Lucy always does, not like I would ever hit him, but it still hurt to know he had never done these types of things. These were the things you would commonly see with people who were in relationships, simply making me even more furious that she just had to take him away from me.

"Levy, you okay," Jet asks hesitantly, pulling me from my pain filled thoughts.

As much as I wanted Gajeel, and no matter how much I would fight to get him back, in the end he always ran to her. But I decided to store my thoughts away for now, knowing that it will only result in Jet and Droy bugging me about it for the remainder of the trip.

"I'm fine," I grinned in return. Though I can feel Droy glancing my way, inspecting me, and I just give him a brilliant smile, knowing it would vapor any thoughts he had away. He instantly smiles in return, his cheeks lighting up in a hint of a blush.

"If you're sure," he replies softly, suddenly sheepish.

"Woah, I never expected that," Jet practically exclaims, looking out at something in the distance.

I shook my head around, looking for what he was talking about, and when my eyes came upon it, I felt a frown pull at my lips, my eyes narrowing into a glare.

There was Gajeel, my crush, and then there was Lucy boarding the train together and from the looks of it, the iron dragon slayer was growling at all the guys who dared to look her way.

As cheesy as it sounded, my heart stuttered and then it shattered, and I felt couldn't dare to look at them any longer as I ripped my eyes away from the scene. I stared down at my toes instead, suddenly finding them more interesting than anything else around me. Gajeel was never protective of me, and if he was and I just didn't notice; it was never like that. He looks like he'll murder anybody who dares to even think about making a move on her, I thought to myself solemnly, mostly dreary from seeing that, but practically furious thinking about how that could've been mine.

I shook my head, trying to pretend I never saw anything and turned to Jet. "Yeah, neither did I… Anyways, you guys ready to head out," I asked as I immediately moved away from the subject. Jet and Droy answered both with a yes, not suspecting anything as we went onto our train.

I could already feel that this mission was not going to be a pleasant one.

Mira POV

I stood from my place at the bar, smiling softly to myself as I recalled my favorite couple out of all of Fairy Tail; Gajeel and Lucy. I quite enjoyed gazing at them from a distance every day, and I was slightly saddened to know that I wouldn't be able to inwardly gush at their adorableness since they were away on a mission. I really liked watching something slowly brew between the two.

Gajeel always looked so in place whenever he was next to Lucy, and especially when it was only them together. The celestial mage also seemed especially happy to be with him as well; sending him small, genuine, and grateful smiles. At first I suspected Lucy's happiness with Gajeel had a lot to do with the fact that the guild, even her own team, were bluntly ignoring her, and Gajeel was the only person giving her special attention (even though Master and I aren't ignoring her either, we both have been very busy, and haven't gotten much time with the blonde beauty). However I have come to realize that Lucy's joy with Gajeel is because the two have sincerely became great, dare I say, best friends.

I'm glad the two have been getting along; however I can't help but feel a little furious with the guild for ignoring the blonde in favor for Lisanna. Despite loving that my sister was back home, I had noticed these types of things, and felt for Lucy, who I had become to think of as a sister.

When the iron dragon slayer first joined our loud, party-filled guild, I wasn't sure what to think of him, but I still treated him kindly like I would do for any other new members. And I remembered that Gajeel and Levy seemed to hang out a lot; he would always be sitting at the table with her, chomping on his iron, while she would either be talking to him, or reading one of her books.

That was when I first started to ship them; blue haired, red eyed babies, black haired, brown eyed babies. I think at the time, all I wanted was a new couple to ship in hopes we would have some young ones running around here soon, but in due time, I noticed small things about the two, and it seemed as if they weren't as close as the guild had perceived them to be. I think another reason why I shipped them so much at first was because Levy was the first person (and the only person for a while) that Gajeel didn't seem to treat too badly; though it wasn't till later that I noticed he was more annoyed with her than anything.

It's understandable; being with someone as smart as Levy, who also likes to flaunt their smarts can make a person feel slightly inferior. Really, the blonde was the only person who seemed to keep up with Levy when it came to that stuff, but even then I knew Lucy got tired of it quickly.

On the other hand, when I first saw Lucy and Gajeel talking, I wasn't sure what universe I was in. I couldn't remember once of the two talking to each other, other than when he tortured her in the Phantom Lord battle. And then when he joined Fairy Tail, I believe he was so ashamed at what he had done to her, that he didn't want to talk to the celestial mage, and instead, apologized to Levy because it was easier for him to deal with.

He hadn't hurt Levy and the rest of Shadow Gear nearly as much as he did to Lucy.

And yet, I would catch him sending glances towards Lucy every so often, before they started hanging out; before Lisanna came back.

"Hey Mira," Lisanna said, coming up to me as she broke me from my past memores. I smiled sweetly at her; her personality was great, but no matter what others said, I couldn't believe them when they would say Lucy is like Lisanna; to me they were as different as night and day.

"Hi Lisa-nee, what's up," I asked, drying the glass I was holding.

"Oh nothing really… Oh wait, yeah! Team Natsu are planning on kicking out Lucy so that I could join their team, isn't that exciting," Lisanna exclaimed enthusiastically, a large, almost foxy smile pulling at her lips. I felt a frown start to tug at my heart strings, but I kept on the cheery aura, trying to not let my dear younger sister see how displeased at what I was hearing.

"Oh, but what about Lucy? It isn't nice for her team to kick her out," I stated.

"But Mira-nee! We all promised each other when we were younger we would make a team together, and besides, aren't you happy for me," she asked, frowning, with a dejected expression. I shook my hands quickly, trying to usher away the saddened look over taking my sister's features.

"Of course not… but Lisanna, sometimes we have to consider others feelings as well. I hope you remember that when you make your final decision."

"They said she would be fine with it and that she would understand, and if she didn't that would be just selfish. We haven't seen each other in years, and Lucy's only been at the guild, like what, a year, two years at the most? And we promised each other when we were children that we would create a team together; now is the best time than any. Besides, I've already made my final decision."

This time I did frown, my heart filling with equal amounts of fury, and disappointment; I knew my celestial friend would be heart stricken if she were to be kicked out of Team Natsu. After all, she had close ties with all of them, especially Natsu; he had saved her too many times to count, and has cared for her as well. He was also the person that brought her joyful, kind, forgiving spirit to the guild, and I would hate to have my second sister hurt.

No, I did not this at all, in fact, I absolutely loathed this.

To be continued…

Revised 10/6/2016

A/N: Small chapter, I know, I just wanted to show you all of other people's thoughts about Gajeel and Lucy. Also, I'm sorry if you like Levy, and if you find her a little mean, but to tell you, in this FanFic, she will not be a mean person during; if you don't understand you'll find out way, way later.

To All-american rejects: Yeah, sorry, I know you probably wanted more of Gajeel and Lucy, but they'll show up in next chapter… promise!

To mariawalker112: Thank you so much! Your review made my day (was kind of having a bad day that day), and yeah, haters are actually kind of good (sometimes they're not, especially when you are having a bad day) because it just means that they like your story, they just think it needs some improvement, and that actually helps because it makes you write better and try to live up to their expectations. But I'm glad I made you really happy:D