Chapter 14:

See You Again

I realized something was off when peoples's luggage starting falling from the compartments.

"What the heck?" I murmured. Juvia leaned across my chest to see what was going on.

Gray rolled his eyes and pulled Juvia back. We were all sitting in the three seat lane on the plane. Gray was at the window, Juvia in the middle, and I on the edge. Right across the walkway for the attendants to walk up and down with carts was Lucy and Lisanna. Lucy was accompanying me to find Gajeel, as well as find Natsu, because apparently he wasn't answering his phone. Lisanna stated that Mirajane told her to go with us.

I wasn't too sure after hearing what happened to Lisanna during his heat. The look in her eyes wasn't hate, but every time she smiled at Lucy, it wasn't a friendly one. Lucy didn't see to notice because she was watching a movie on the screen attached to the back on the seat in front of her. They were both watching the same movie and talking about it.

"Juvia is hungry." Juvia whined.

Gray put his hand up like a kindergartener and a flight attendant came down. "Yes, sir?"

"Could I please have two Cokes and a bag of peanuts?"

She nodded and went off to get what he requested.

"Why didn't you get that when they were giving out the snacks?" I exclaimed. Juvia's stomach growled.

"Because Juvia's tummy wasn't hungry then!"

To my surprised, Gray took her hand in his, his thumb stroking the skin between her thumb and pointer finger.

"Calm yourself," he whispered.

I glanced around and realized that a lot of people were looking at us ever so often. Juvia was talking pretty loud, but I don't think that was the case. They were all looking about us. I glanced up and my eyes widened. The bag which I had made sure to secure in the compartment, was teetering on the edge. I flinched and braced myself when it came falling down.

"Waterlock!"

I looked up and saw the magic circle fading and the bag secured in Juvia's water lock. She gently put the bag back in the compartment with her waterlock still on, but not until I spotted a black shadow flicker away.

My eyes widened. Juvia glanced at me and Gray. We all knew who that shadow was. Rogue.

"He's on the plane." I hissed.

Gray rubbed his jaw. "He sent his shadow to do the work, or the shadow of another person nearby. Look for someone who's shadow is missing. We have a few minutes until they tell us to close down the windows. They light will cast a shadow, so look for anyone who doesn't.

We glanced up and down the aisles, telling Lucy and Lisanna to do the same.

"There!" Lucy said. I glanced to where he finger was pointed. It was in the same aisle we were sitting oppposite each other from. It was past the attendant section, all the way at the front. The non existent shadow belonged to a blond boy, and next to him was... Rogue Chenney.

"What do we do?" Lucy whispered fiercely.

I hesitated. I had no idea what to do. I didn't know how to deal with this situation. I wasn't about to get up and make a scene in front of all these passengers. Gray, on the other hand, had no problem with something like that.

"Ice Make: Lance!"

Lances of Ice flew from where his fist and palm were connected, heading straight to Rogue.

He turned his head, then his figure blurred and he vanished, a dark shadow flitting about the plane.

"Be on guard," Gray muttered standing up.

Juvia shrieked and covered her eyes. "Gray-sama, your clothes!"

Mothers shielding their children's eyes from the nakedness of Gray. He looked down and quickly pulled up his underwear and pants.

"Alright, let's get started." Lucy said, standing up. "Open! Gate of the Lion: Leo!"

Instead, Plue came out.

Lucy groaned as Plue let out a flurry of quakes and shivers which only Lucy understood. "What do you mean 'he's on a business trip?!' I am his business!"

Plue disappeared and Virgo showed up, her hand over her heart as she bowed.

"Punishment time, yes?"

Lucy slapped her forehead. "Never mind that, try to find a black shadow thats on this plane."

Lisanna climbed up on her seat. "Everyone please stay calm and move to the front of the plane.

In a matter of minutes every one was in the next compartment, including the flight attendants. I saw a black shadow try to creep past us, but I quickly wrote out runes that trapped the shadow.

Lucy sighed. "Virgo? Where are you?"

The shadow grew taller and faded, revealing Rogue with his arm hooked around Virgo's neck.

"Princess, shall I stay?"

Lucy sweat-dropped. "You honestly think I will let you be in danger? Don't worry, I can handle this, just go-and yell at Loke for me!"

"Okay then, Princess."

She vanished.

Rogue, not knowing that she was a Celestial spirit, was startled.

Juvia, who was suddenly coming out of the attendance section, had her arms full of bottled water. "Hold him down!" she yelled.

Lucy took out her whip and wrapped it around Rogue which Gray froze his feet. She opened the water bottles and used the water to hold Rogue in a water lock. Lucy slowly retracted her whip.

"Now what do we do?" Lisanna asked.

I stood up wriggled past Gray, lifting the shutter for the window. We had landed.

"Questioning time." I said, pulling back. However, when I turned around, he was gone, and so was Lisanna.

"What on Earthland happened?" I exclaimed.

Juvia groaned. "Now what do we do?"

Gray sighed and started clothing himself after Lucy pointed out that his shirt was still missing. "I guess we search this place for Lucy and Lisanna. Where are we anyway. I had Lucy and Juvia buy the tickets."

Lucy reached for a pink backpack that was in the compartment above her. "Oh that? We're in Ikebukoro."

"Ikebukoro?" I asked, borrowing Gray's jacket since it looked pretty cold. There were several people with vests on that were wearing gloves and boots.

"Yeah, it's where I heard Natsu spotted Gajeel last." Gray said.

Three hours and two coffees later we had finally reached the heart of Ikebukoro. It was dark outside by the time we reached because we had issues at baggage claim. Some old hag kept on declaring that her blue bag was something that Juvia stole even though Juvia's bag actually had her name stitched on the side. Security pulled her back after she started waving her walker when we tried walking away as she was speaking to her son.

"I made reservations at the hotel earlier," Gray muttered. "Though it's going to be tight fit since I only booked a two room suite in case Levy decided that she wanted to go to go with me to Ikebukoro."

I sighed and walked into the motel. "We'll make it somehow."

And somehow we did. It wasn't really that much of a fit. Lucy and I were sleeping in one bed and Gray and Juvia were sprawled out on the other.

"Levy?"

I turned on the side and faced Juvia, who was at the end.

"Yes?"

"Juvia is afraid that Gajeel will not remember you."

"Why are you guys saying stuff like that. I'm sure he is going to remember me! I talked to him the other nigh-"

I shut my mouth but it was too late. Juvia's eyes went wide and she abruptly propped herself on one elbow as her jaw dropped. "Juvia can't believe that you dreamt of Gajeel!" she paused, then whispered... "that means you're his mate."

The water mage's cheeks tinted red when Gray turned around and threw an arm lazily over her waist. I think she just became unconcious.

"Levy-chan? Why aren't you sleep-"

I hushed Lucy. "Sorry Lu-chan. Just go to sleep. There's nothing to worry about."

My dream consisted of Gray and the old lady that we met at the baggage claim. I could tell this dream had no Gajeel in it since we weren't in the white place. Instead we were back home, in Hokkaido... at school?

It was in the library. Gray was fighting with some unknown invisible force, the old lady was swinging her walker at something nonexistent. I felt a cold chill run up my spine, like on of the random shivers you get when you're in a cold place and the temperature seems to jump or drop.

Then I was able to see it. With me, behind the circulation desk, was Lucy. The only think was that she was invisible- kind of. It was like someone had made them invisble, but then put some eternal waterfall effect on their bodies because I could see the outline of them. Gray was fighting with Natsu, the old lady was swinging her walker at... Juvia?

Then the roof and the skylight was ripped clean off and a dragon that resembled Igneel from what Natsu told us appeared. He reached down and tapped his claw on the tip of Natsu's spine. He became visible, then swallowed in flames. When the flames died out, he was in Dragon Force. He let out a fearsome roar, fire spewing from his mouth and high into the air. The dragon then vanished, leaving a Dragon Force Natsu heading straight to Lucy and I. No, just Lucy. His eyes were fixed on hers. The moment that his fingertips came in contact with her, she became visible.

The doors burst open and in walked Lisanna, throwing her arms around Natsu.

They were speaking, but I couldn't hear them. Lucy was thrown back by Lisanna, and Natsu lunged after her, catching her waist the second before her spine hit the table behind the circulation desk.

Natsu growled when Lisanna reached for him, then picked up Lucy and stayed by the new books area, snarling at anyone who got close.

My attention was drawn to Gray went he brushed up against Juvia. They both turned visible, and that old lady had vanished.

I could tell that the first thing Juvia did was yell out "Gray-sama!" and fling herself into his open arms. What I didn't expect was for Gray to pull back and turn his head to the side- pretending that she didn't exist.

Juvia had tears in her eyes as she tried to get Gray to look at her, but he would just turn his head. Finally he mouthed the words "I hate you." then sat near the Sci-Fi and Fantasy section across the room where the New Books were.

Juvia cried, and this time, I think it was real tears because the library didn't flood.

"Here."

I turned my head to the side and saw a small kid with get black hair and red eyes. His hair shadowed most of his features, but I could see a few things that tied him to who I thought he was. Piercings were on his arms, just like Gajeel.

"Are you-"

He held up a finger to his lips, his facial expression not changing. "Here." he handed me a tissue boxes of Puffs with lotion.

I sat down on my chair in the circulation desk and plucked a tissues from the box wiping my tears. I hadn't even realized that I was crying for Juvia.

"Here." he said, turned around and pointing to the clock that was above the circulation desk.

"What about it?"

He wriggled off a black watch and changed the time to five minutes past the time on the library clock.

"Here." he said pointing to the watch.

I picked it up in my hands, and the watch morphed into one of the old silver pocket watches that butlers whipped out to check how much time it was until dinner. The hands were the same, but the numbers were different. they were all in Roman numerals.

When I looked up my surrounding had changed. I was at Ikebukoro. No one was with me- no wait. Gray, Juvia, Lucy, and Happy were there. They were running around, trying to find someone.

"Levy!" Lucy called out with Juvia.

"Lisanna!" Happy yelled.

Gray just stood still looking around and trying to find the people that the others whose names were being called out.

My vision turned black I and I was in the white place. "Here." he murmured. It was the boy, his voice scratchy and deep. I knew that husky voice. My head jerked up and my eyes met with Gajeel.

"Here." he said again. His rough, calloused hands reaching for my waist. For some reason, I had this urge to hold him, to love him.

"What is it?"

That pocket watch flew out of my hand and turned slowly, opening. The time had stayed at the time it was put at. No wait. That second hand was ticking, and the minute one just went to five.

It was like a bomb dropped. Gajeel instantly went into dragon force, his skin turned steel as it rippled across his boy. His eyes became a darker red. His canines more elongated than last time.

His grip on my arm was rough, brutal even, as she shoved me to the floor. His tongue met with mine and sparks flew. He was ripping at my clothes. Desperately trying to remove them. They became torn and scratched, full rips and tears. The cloth of what once was my favorite shirt was now just barely clinging on to me.

He tugged down my shirt along with my bra, his lip closed around a nipple and he bit down gently. I arched in his arms and he growled in satisfaction.

"Gajeel, w-wait, slow down!"

I was NOT about to have a wet dream about my boyfriend whos about to go on a killing/raping spree in a few days.

He snarled when I tugged at his head. His fingers closed around my wrist and jerked me forward until I was chest to chest with him. He laid my palm over his bare chest and I could feel an irregular heartbeat. My eyes widened. I recognized the rhythm of that heartbeat. It was a dragon's heart beat.

When Gajeel realized that I understood that, he becames gentle, pulling my legs over his lap and holding me close, kissing every inch of open skin he could find.

His tongue dropped once more, tracing a map over my breasts. The wet pink muscle was hot and his lips were cold do to the steel.

I shuddered on the inside but repressed it. The hot-cold sensation was extremely...pleasing.

His fingers tugging at the skirt I was wearing and I hesitantly stepped out of it.

Almost immediately he froze, his hands tracing something on my hip bone. I looked down and saw a marking. It looked like a silver dragon with light blue eyes.

"Mate," he croaked, his eyes meeting mine.

Not knowing what to do, I nodded. "Yes, I-I'm your mate."

Well someone must've handed Grumpy cat a Happy Meal because Gajeel looked like the most happiest person on Earthland.

He ripped off my bra and pushed my down to the floor, lapping at my breasts like a dog. "G-Gajeel, stop! Slow down!"

He whined and nuzzled me just under my belly button. I shivered when he let his tongue sneak under the blue fabric of my underwear.

"N-no, y-you can't do t-that, Gajeel!"

Instead of listening to me, he hooked his thumbs in the elastic of my underwear and dragged it down.

My face must've resembled a bright cherry.

And suddenly there was a door above us that opened and white light poured in. Gajeel was out of Dragon Force and back to himself in Dragon Heat.

He snarled at the light, then held my chin firmly as he gave me a deep kiss. When I pulled back, he was gone and the light had enveloped me.

"-wake up!"

I gasped, sitting straight up in bed. A cold sweat broke out on my forehead. "Oh god. What happened?"

Juvia pointed to my body. At first I thought I was naked, but I was only in my underwear with the long T-Shirt that I used at a nightie.

I slowly pushed back the covers and what I saw stole my breath. The silver dragon was on my body, only much more bigger than the six inch version on my hip-not to mention that it could MOVE. The dragon curled itself around my left leg, it's tail wrapped around my ankle and it's head on my hip. It seemed to go to sleep, because the blue eyes closed.

I looked up at Juvia. "What the hell is on my leg?"

"Mark." Lucy murmured, deep in though. She shrugged off he crop top and turned around. "It's a mating mark."

On her back was a red dragon with golden brown eyes. "My mating mark is a dragon that resembled Igneel."

Gray sat down on the bed across me. "So that must be what Metalicana looks like."

"Why would I have his mating mark if we haven't mated?" I asked.

"That's part of the mating ritual. When did you meet Gajeel?" Lucy said.

"I met him in my dream again."

Juvia's head jerked up. "Again? Juvia needs to know how long you have been seeing Gajeel in the dream?"

"Since the day after he went missing."

Juvia looked like she wanted to say something, but she held back.

Gray stood up abruptly. "Well, Juvia, Levy, go change. Lucy and I will get us some breakfast from the lobby."

I called the shower first after Lucy and Gray left.

As the water ran down my body, the dragon woke up and stretched a bit, then crawled up my body and put its body just under my breasts. I blushed. This was insane. This dragon tattoo couldn't possibly be moving. But then again we lived in a world of magic. I grabbed the soap bar and ran in down my arm. The dragon creeped on my arm, right where I was putting the soap. I switched hands and rubbed the soap on my right arm and the dragon made a U-turn and travelled across my collarbone and onto my left arm.

Hesitantly, I rubbed soap on the spine of the dragon and if it was possible, the dragon purred. Since I couldn't put soap anywhere until I cleaned the dragon, it took my several more minutes than usual to take a shower.

I was drying my hair with the blow dryer that Lucy left near the sink.

"Levy?"

I turned off the blow dryers and stepped outside with a towel around my waist and tossed my clothes into my suitcase.

"Yeah?"

"Those dreams-"

She never got to finish because Gray and Lucy opened the door with coffee and french toast with blueberries and raspberries on a platter.

Gray set the platter for him and Juvia on the bed that they were sharing and Lucy put our platter on the desk.

Gray took a shower while I changed. Juvia and Lucy had already taken one earlier.

Once I was finally dressed, I made sure that I was prepared. This time of year in Ikebukoro had several cold spells now and then, so I was wearing snug knee-high brown boots that I borrowed from Lucy, a white leather jacket over the blue white and blue dress I had worn the first time Gajeel came over.

As I was putting on my headband and tying the ends, Lucy called out one of her spirits.

"Do you need your hair done or something?" I asked.

Lucy laughed and shook her head. "Nope. You do, however. I don't think you realize how much of a mess it looks now after you blow dried it."

Cancer pulled a seat from the desk and forced me to sit in it. He turned on the lights as the other began eating their breakfast.

I shut my eyes as Cancer began to work on my hair. When he was done, the first ting I noticed is that he didn't cut a lot of my hair like I expected him to.

Instead, he just tied it up into a ponytail and tamed it with a bit of scented oil. Now my hair had a cherry blossom scent. He parted my hair so that two pieces of hair on each side framed my face.

Lucy grinned and Cancer vanished after doing a strange pose with his scissors.

"Hehe scissors." Juvia giggled.

"Did you just say skizers?"

"No. I said scissors."

I smiled at Gray and Juvia continued to argue about the pronunciation of scissors as we walked out of the motel and onto the streets of Ikebukoro.

"So where do we look first?" Lucy stated.

I swear, that sentence had a 99.9% chance of going wrong, but that 00.1% chance that was good had graced us that day because right across the street we see a family pink head and flames shooting every now and then.

"Natsu!" Gray hollered.

The pink haired dragon slayer looked behind him. "Catch up! I'm on his trail!" Then he continued to chase after a black blur flitting among the crowd.

Gray caught up pretty fast, and so did Juvia and Lucy. However I was going at a rate of a snail against their cheetah speed.

I kept getting caught in between two people and when I finally worm my way past, theres a randome fountain in front of me and I can't get past quickly unless I trek through the water. Or theres a bunch of homeless people waiting at the entrance to some gang related meeting place.

I had already lost Juvia and Lucy, and Gray was long gone.

Sighing, I sat down on a swing at the nearby park. This one was pretty far out so not a lot of people were crowding this area. Even so, this area looked pretty bad. There were rotten buildings and women that had almost nothing on and men with a cigarette in their mouthes.

Then I heard a familiar scream.

"AH! NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! NATSU! GRAY! JUVIA, LEVY! SOMEBODY SAVE ME!"

My spine straightened and I stood up. Lisanna. It had to be her. I turned my head, observing the people around. Bluenette, blond, blond, brown, brown, brown, white- Lisanna!

She was being held against Rogue's chest and he hand a bleeding hand. Lisanna must've bitten him. She was being taken under ground. Music was pouring out from the club that Rogue was taking her to.

Quickly, I stood up and followed them, doing my best to be discreet.

I was going to reach them at the entrance of the club but the bouncer held me back just as I crossed. He inspected me.

"You want to go in a club dressed like that?"

Since I was in a rush, I made something up on the spot. "It's a game my husband and I do. We role-play."

He looked at me, as if searching for more proof.

I bit my lip. "He's the delinquent and I'm the goody-two-shoes that he has to find."

The bouncer seemed to think that was reasonable and let me pass.

I had lost sight of them.

"Rogue! Good to see you man! What are you doing Ikebukoro? I thought you were supposed to be near Juvia and Gajeel."

"They're both here, Sting."

Sting?

I struggled to look above the mass of heads of tall people in my way. I finally spotted them- they were right across the club where the pool tables were. The only way to get through there was to dance your way to the other side, and the only dance I knew was how to slow dance.

I analyzed the crowd as a head-banging song came on. Most of these people were wearing piercings and had tattoos- something a lot like Gajeel's style. And mine apparently. As if responding to my thoughts, the dragon moved across my skin, sending shivers across my body and goosebumps to rise. The dragon curled loosley around my arm and stretched it's head on my collarbone. A few people did a double take, and it's not because they thought the tattoo move. I think it was because it was weird seeing a girl like me with a tattoo anywhere on her body.

Then it started. Those whispers that begin when someone notices something about that is either amazing, awful, or strange. That, or theres something or someone that's important behind you.

"-isn't that-"

"-yes that is him!-"

"-the infamous Iron Dragon!"

"Gajeel!"

I turned my head and saw Gajeel in front of me. This was no dream. This was the real deal. I could see every detail of him. How long had it been since I had last seen the real him? Too long. He seemed different. His arms were buffer, as was every other part of his body. His broad shoulders seemed even broader, his muscles flexing when he took a step closer. Gajeel was wearing the same thing I saw him wear the first time we met.

I thought back on how I had described him... "He had baggy black jeans with a silver studded belt, a black wife beater that clung to his muscles like a second skin and a black leather jacket with a high collar."

Gajeel gave me a smirk full of sharp teeth when I said that out loud.

"Shrimp. What are you doing here?"

His voice was gruff. He sounded like he had been in the desert for several weeks. The husky tone added onto the hotness.

I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. He smiled and leaned down, one hand brushing away the tears that I had no idea were there. "Not that it matters. Now that you came here and I found you," his teeth bit on my earlobe. "I'm not letting you go." he whispered hotly.

I squeaked out a silent shriek when he picked me up and jumped onto one of the tables.

"Sting, Rogue. You've lost. I got to her before you. You too, Lisanna. Give up. My Shrimp isn't stupid enough to fall for your tricks."

"Excuse me?!" I hissed. "I am not stupid."

"Shut up, bookworm, not now." he muttered.

I kept quiet, then realized that he messed up on his accusation. Lisanna didn't do anything.

But I was proven wrong. Dead wrong. Lisanna stood on the pool table. "Natsu was mine! He IS mine! I refuse to let another dragon slayer get happiness after what happened. NO ONE deserves happiness after what happened to me! Natsu chose that skank Lucy over me just because she had bigger boobs!"

I shook my head as Gajeel set me down. "No. You're wrong. Natsu didn't realize that he was going in Dragon Heat. But you don't go in Heat when you're around your mate. That's what I realized. He really did care about you. He cared about you so much that he went into Heat. The Dragon Heat doesn't work like how everyone thinks it does. While they're in Heat, they're actually searching for their mate. That's why Gajeel didn't go insane when he found me. In fact, he was the same as usual! Listen Lisanna. I don't want to make you out as the bad guy, but you have to

stop. You too, Rogue. Whatever your reasons are-they're pointless."

Rogue snarled and joined Lisanna up on the pool table. "He killed my father. That's plenty enough for a reason to kill him."

"Gajeel killed your father for a legitimate reason. Have you ever wondered why you look so much like Gajeel and nothing like you parents? It's because your father was doing tests on you, using Gajeel's blood, in order to make you into his own Gajeel. You're actually a blond-haired, green-eyes boy. Juvia has been with both of you since a very young age. She knows everything that happened, which is why she left with Gajeel to go to Fairy Tail Academy. All to get away from the sick twisted school called Phantom Lord Academy."

Sting snorted. "Good job, Velma. You solved the case. But that's a case that we're over with. THIS-this is a whole new game. And this is the one that you can't get out of." I noticed several people lining up near the doors and exits, even the bathrooms. "We're not mad at you. We're not doing this for revenge. Sure, that's one of the reasons, but that's not all of them. Principal Jose wants Fairy Tail Academy to burn. You always think that you're better than us, that you'll always be at the top. But that's not true. We can be on the top if we wanted to. I've brought in my school as well. Sabertooth Academy isn't something to be taken likely. We've been close on your trail in every school event-sports and eduations. So we thought- why train harder? Why do all that work when we can get their Dragon Slayers? Without the Dragon Slayers, Fairy Tail Academy would be nothing."

That's when Gajeel smirked. "Don't forget about the others. Dragon Slayers aren't the only thing that stand in your way of achieving your goal. There is plenty more in Fairy Tail Academy that could hand your ass to you- and most would be women. Cana Alberona- the drunk who has magic cards. Even without those cards, she is still powerful because she bears one of the three Fairy Tail Academy magics. She has Fairy Glitter. The magic that blew off the magic meter if you don't remember last time we made it to the nationals at the Grand Magic Games. Gray Fullbuster- the mage who uses Ice Make magic. This is the sparring partner of a dragon slayer. He is rather strong and is level with Natsu. He can trap you into an eternal ice prison. Lucy Heartfilia- the daughter of a wealty man, and yet she refuses to use the money and makes it all on her own. She may seem like nothing, but she has a lot of potential. Una Meteoria, a magic spell with two magic circles and one in her eye which gathers all the planets and the stars, then uses them against you. She's able to summon ALL of her Celestial Spirits at once, which is something that people have died from trying. If it weren't for her extreme blondness, she'd be able to defeat you just as Natsu would. And now Titania, then Scarlet Flower of Fairy Tail Academy. The mage who defeated 100 monsters single-handedly during the Grand Magic Games. The current top S-Class mage and our student council president. You see, even if you take away the Dragon Slayers, you won't ever win. Fairy Tail Academy... it's #1 for a reason, and it's going to stay that way."

Just then, a flash of pink appeared, and Natsu stood up, Juvia by his side. "I believe I've heard my fill. Now let's get to it, Gajeel. I'm all fired up!"

There. That's it. Again, longer updates since school started. Hopefully they'll be up sooner than this one.

Toodles,

Sitboy10