Chapter 8: All Hell Has Broken Loose

3rd POV

Lucy stretched my limbs, sighing in content when she felt her muscles loosen. She looked down at her lap, finding the head of a certain iron dragon slayer lying upon it. She ran her fingers through his long, silky black locks, her cheeks burning with a blush. His hair was just so warm, and smooth, and that seemed to make her think back to Natsu. Whenever she did this for him, she would be fine with it at first, but his body heat was way too hot and she would soon feel like there was a bucket of molten lava lying on her lap instead. And what she found that she liked about Gajeel's hair, was that it long enough for her to play with, which she found fun, while Natsu's salmon hair was too short for her to play with.

Gajeel mumbled something not understandable under his breath before slightly moving onto his side. The blonde couldn't help but let out a giggle, thinking that the so-called tough dragon slayer looked like a little kid when he was asleep. Feeling a boost of confidence surge through her, Lucy poked the black haired man's cheek light, trying to hold in a bus load of giggles when she saw him first scrunch his nose, then twitch it.

She then felt a sudden urge to kiss his cheek, but pushed it away, shocking herself at the discovery. I wonder why I wanted to kiss him… I mean it's not like I like him like that; we're just friends. Besides, once Fairy Tail gets back to normal he might go back to being acquaintances with me; he'll probably just end up with Levy, the blonde thought herself, and then felt her heart throb painfully. She then realized she never wanted to let go of the friendship she currently held with Gajeel. She wanted to stay friends with him forever. She wanted to continue going on missions with him, talking to him at the guild, and all in all, she just wanted to be near him. She felt relaxed whenever he was nearby, and most of all, she felt like herself near him. She knew that that situation used to be whenever she was with Team Natsu, once upon a time, but now that she thought about it, Lucy wasn't sure if things can go back to the way they used to if she did go back to Team Natsu. That month long separation from them caused a lot of things to get messed up. Lucy wasn't sure if she could still be the same cheerful, kind, blonde with them like last time. In fact, she was pretty sure she would end up being awkward with them, and probably be awkward just talking to them. After all, she spent the entire month talking to only the gruff iron dragon slayer, Mira, and a couple others which made Lucy feel happy because they had still treated her like her nakama.

A loud, screeching voice came over the intercom, knocking the celestial mage out of her thoughts. It announced they had made it their stop. "Gajeel," she whispered, shaking his arm to wake him up.

"Urg," was his only response before he snuggled into her more, making Lucy blush a deep, deep red. "Five more minutes Bunny," he continued absent mindedly.

Lucy frowned at the saying, wondering why he would even say that. Shouldn't he have said Pantherlily, or even Levy? They had been with him more when he was asleep. So why did he say her name? The blonde then just figured he said that because it was her voice he had heard. "Gajeel, get up," she said a bit stricter. Gajeel mumbled something not understandable. "Gajeel, if you don't get up in the next five seconds I'm going to scream into your ear," the blonde threatened, knowing Gajeel wouldn't risk hurting his sensitive hearing. When the pierced man didn't answer her Lucy started to count down, smirking the entire time. "One… Two… Three… Four…"

"Okay! Okay, I'm up. Jeez Bunny," Gajeel said, sitting up almost immediately and sticking his hands up in surrender; he knew not to mess with Bunnygirl, especially when she threatened to Bunny Kick you, damn those things hurt.

"Let's go, we're here."

Gajeel sighed, rubbing the back of his neck. He then remembered his dream and felt his cheeks grow warm but held it down; Gajeel Redfox didn't blush dammit. And the fact that his dream had revolved around Lucy didn't help. "Gajeel, you ready," she suddenly asked, pulling him from his thoughts.

"Yeah."

The duo walked out of the train, lugging their baggage behind them. "Are you going to go back to the guild later," Lucy asked, standing in the train station in front of Gajeel. She was hoping he would say yes, even though they had spent the last couple of days together she still wanted to hang out with him.

"Only if you're going Bunnygirl," he answered, giving her his signature grin. Lucy had to hold her blush down, but it was too late for that, noticing how his handsome features lit up with that simple grin.

"Yeah I am, so I see you there later," she asked, smiling brightly at him, the blush disappearing.

"Yeah," he answered softly, shocking the blonde for a second before she smiled softly at him. The dragon slayer ruffled her hair a bit before heading home. Lucy stood there for only a second, watching his back before she turned to walk her own way home, finding herself already missing him presence. What she didn't know, was that Gajeel was frowning with confusion as he walked to his apartment, and it was all because he found himself missing Bunnygirl's presence.

Lucy POV

I had taken a bath right away, letting the warm water relax me. After I had taken my bath, I decide to finish unpacking, knowing the second I put it off, I won't do it for a long while. I wasn't sure when Gajeel would be down at Fairy Tail, but I felt anxiety going there. If he wasn't there, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. I could talk to Mira, but she is usually busy with the bar. I could also talk to Juvia, surprisingly; we had gotten close, but she would probably be around Gray, drooling over his body, and I didn't really want to near him. I could stay with Wendy and Carla, but they had gone on a two week long mission. I could also hang out with Cana, she was the best option, the only thing I was scared about was the fact that she migt bring up that I went on a mission with Gajeel and would want all the "juicy" info. There was only one other person who talked to me, which was Master, but recently, the guild had been so excited about Lisanna coming back, they have been more excessive when it came to fighting on jobs which meant for the entire past month, Master Makarov has been doing paperwork. I wouldn't be surprised if he hadn't noticed that most of the guild has been ignoring me; I rarely ever see him because of the paperwork.

I felt myself sigh, finding myself doing that a lot of the time these days. I went over and pulled on a bubblegum pink crop top, accompanied with a black skirt instead of a mini-skirt, and some flip flops. I grabbed my keys and left my apartment, heading down to the guild.

Once I had gotten to the guild, I couldn't help but let out a pained breath. I used to be so comfortable there, and would be extremely happy whenever I woke up and would immediately go down to Fairy Tail. I can't' believe over a time of only four weeks, a whole month, I was now very uncomfortable going down the guild, only finding happiness in the fact that the select few who still talk to me are there. I grabbed the guild hall doors, and pulled them open, walking inside the loud guild.

And of course, I look over to see Team Natsu at their table, with none other than Lisanna there. I felt my heart throb painfully, but it strangely didn't hurt nearly as much as when I would think about Gajeel leaving me to date Levy. I shook the thought away and walked over to the bar, smiling happily when I saw Mira immediately go over to my direction. "Strawberry smoothie," she asked and I nodded. "So, how was your mission with Gajeel," she asked mischievously.

"It was fine Mira, actually, we worked together pretty well," I answered.

"Oh," she said with a large smirk and I finally realized what I had just said. I had just dug myself a grave. Before I could correct myself, she burst into a fit of giggles and happiness. "Black haired, brown eye babies! Blonde hair, red eye babies!" she squealed with excitement. Her hands clasped and her eyes dreamy.

"I didn't mean it like that!" I grumbled.

"Lucy," a voice said, breaking our conversation. Mira stopped day dreaming and we both turned to the object of the voice, finding none other than Natsu himself, with Team Natsu behind him and Lisanna.

"What's going on," a new, familiar voice growled, and I looked over to see Gajeel walking my way, his arms crossed and his nostrils flared in rage. I could see his cheeks were a bit flushed and knew he had just gotten here.

"We just want to talk to Lucy," Erza said, stepping up. I sent a curt nod her way, telling her to continue. "We're kicking you off our team." I felt my world come to a halt, my heart beating faster and painfully against my chest.

"Let's cut to the chase," Lisanna said, coming up next to Erza. "Tell her Natsu."

"You're just too weak, and we always have to save you almost all the time. Lisanna is way stronger than you, and she's a way more well of a person," he stated, which made me grimace. Natsu had been my first friend, my partner, my then best friend, and I remember I had crush on him once, but I lost my feelings when he forgot about me.

I opened my mouth to stand up for myself, but Gajeel beat me to the punch. "No way in hell is Lisanna stronger and better than Bunny. Bunny held her own when we were on our mission and I can honestly say, I can tell Lucy can beat white haired bitch in a fight just by looking at her," he snarled, clenching his fists, disregarding his offensive language. I smiled softly at Gajeel, and felt my stomach do flips. I don't know why, but I loved the fact that he was standing up for me.

"He's just saying that," a new voice said, and I saw it belonged to Levy, causing my stomach to drop once more; I feared for what my old friend would have to say about this, would she stand up for me? That was unlikely. "She's probably been seducing him to get him to say that, I mean, I would go as far as to say that I bet she even put a potion on him to make him like her." That was it; tears pushed against my eyes, but I held it back, refusing to let them see me cry, to let them see how truly weak I am.

"You really think I would let myself get poisoned? I just am standing up for someone who was your best friend, Levy," Gajeel snapped at her, causing the blunette to flinch.

"Look, I agree with Gajeel. Lucy's strong and can hold her own just fine," Mira spoke up.

"What's wrong with all of you," Natsu screeched.

"More like, what's wrong with you? You and all of Fairy Tail have been ignoring me for an entire month, except for a small group of you who I really appreciate. But I dealt with it, because Lisanna came back when you all originally thought her to be dead, and I understood your excitement, but this… This is way too far, I'm not going to sit here and take this. You know what, screw all of you except for those who actually treated me like nakama like I did for all of you!" I started out quietly, then ended up yelling, catching the entire guild's attention. I then glared my fullest at everyone, and walked out of the guild.

To be continued…

A/N: So, Lucy has now yelled at the guild, but this time, I added Mira and Gajeel standing up for her. So the reason I took so long to update was because I only got one review which made me think that I had done something bad in the last chapter but then I was like if they thought I did something wrong, they would've pointed it out so here's another chapter. Thank you for following/favorite and thank you Guest for reviewing!

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