Author's Note: Hello all! Back with number 4 today! I really hope you're enjoying and I can't thank you enough for tuning in! Now let's find out if Gajeel survived the night...
Also I do not own Fairy Tail.
Chapter Four - A Plan for Action?
Gajeel awoke under a white roofed tent with a rough breeze passing over his exposed face. He felt a sting of pain and several bruising sensations running though his left upper body, and as he tried to sit up he noticed his chest was bandaged pretty tightly.
"Thank god you're alive!" Yelled one of the medical aids by his raised cot. "We're having a hard time finding any survivors!"
"Huh?" Gajeel rubbed his head while he reached up to touch his painful left shoulder. "Well no duh? My wound isn't fatal."
The man froze with fear and stuttered in his response. "Y-yes sir, that's a good observation."
Gajeel started looking around. "How many town's folk got hurt? They didn't touch the tavern square did they?"
"Um no sir I think we halted their advancement right at the shore. In fact after an hour or so the pirates seemed to retreat rather quickly."
"Hmm…" Gajeel pondered. "Well my building should be okay, and the square stayed safe so I guess Cana and all the other business guys fared pretty well too."
Then, the last few scenes of his night reconnected as he remembered two familiar pirate faces dragging off a good friend.
"Ah fuck." He sighed while trying to turn and leave his bed. The current doctor and several other medical soldiers ran over to try and get him to stop.
"Sir you can't leave yet until that wound has…!"
"Agh just shut up!" Gajeel yelled though the pain with two piercing red eyes. "Look the town was in serious trouble last night…I wanna see the governor."
A crossed the town, Jude Heartfilia stood atop the tall, stone citadel that over looked the sea. He kept a stern expression over his face as he discussed several ideas with his minor commanders in their booth atop the wall.
However, before they could begin any actually strategies, Natsu Dragneel and his own daughter Lucy stormed up through the guards and ran right to the table.
"OKAY WE NEED TO TALK!" Natsu yelled slashing his brand new sword around and stabbing it right into the table.
Jude sighed and looked to his top commander. "Admiral Clive would you escort your foster boy out of my meeting?"
Lucy jumped over before Gildarts could move. She looked just as concerned but chose to handle it differently. "Daddy why aren't we doing anything about Levy!? No one's seen her all morning!"
Jude took off his golden reading glasses and looked to the two youngest members of the meeting. "Natsu you are a new commander in the ranks, and I will let you stay, but you need to sheath that sword before it gets revoked…as for you Lucy. I want you to return to the house at once. This is no place for you to be…"
Natsu twisted his blade deeper into the wood and looked his governor right in the eye. "That's funny, I thought I heard you kicking your own daughter away without answering her question?!"
Jude noticed Natsu had now ruined their perfectly good map of the southern sea front. As a result, he stood up and walked around the table. "Mr Dragneel I'm going to be blunt. When you were promoted I had my concerns, but I suffered through them for the good of the crown. When you proposed to my daughter yesterday evening I also had my concerns, but again I put them away for the sake of my daughter…" He then inched closer and got right into Natsu's space and looked down to meet his eyes.
"This however is none of your concern, and I will voice mine as much as I like." He then grabbed the sword out of the table, stuffed it in Gildart's hand and took Natsu by the shoulder.
"You will not give me an order on the predicament of my city, you will not give me an order on the situation regarding my missing employee…and you will not step in when I am having a conversation with my very own daughter."
Natsu then had to fight hard as two upper level guards took him by the arms and carried him out. "AGH! I'M MARCHIN' RIGHT BACK UP HERE AFTER THEY…!" His yells were becoming less audible as the guards carried him further down the stairs.
Jude went to turn to his remaining two guards, and as they approached his daughter she smacked the first one's hand away and looked back to her father with tiny tears in her eyes.
"You know I can't judge your job as governor…but Mom always was the better parent." She then turned swiftly and stormed off to fetch her missing fiancé.
As Jude let his blood finish boiling, Gildarts laughed and looked to the now petrified guard. "Hehe, man I'm glad I don't have daughter!"
Now, we find Gajeel Redfox once again drinking his blues away at the Love & Lucky Tavern. He decided to order a larger glass of rum this time and downed it in one go before ordering another one.
Cana remained silent as she looked him over. "Gajeel, I think you may wanna start taking a break. After all that's you're 4th one in the last half hour."
Gajeel raised his hand and slammed several papers bills on the counter. "I'll take a break when this pile of cash runs out."
The brown haired beauty rolled her eyes and left his area while trying to ignore his protests.
"AH WHAT'S THE MATTER? YOU WORRIED I'LL DIE LIKE THE REST OF THEM?! WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYONE CARE ABOUT…!?"
"Man, would you just shut up!? God you sound like a little girl or something!"
Gajeel new that sharp voice and turned slowly to see a young boy his age dressed in a very fancy Commodore's outfit. The kid also removed his hat to reveal a nice head of spiky pink hair and a toothy grin.
He went to say something, but then a girl came up behind him dressed in a brown colored cloak, but as she took off the hood she revealed the most beautiful head of blonde hair Gajeel had ever seen.
Then, the iron hearted black smith rolled his eyes. "Ah get outta here you two. I don't what to deal with this crap right now."
Natsu laughed and walked up to grab an empty glass. "Really? Hehe, it looks like you're doing that already!"
Lucy slapped the glass out of Natsu's hand and began to rub Gajeel's injured shoulder. "Hey, you look like you got hurt. What happened?"
Gajeel normally didn't like people bugging in on his space, but for some reason he let Natsu and Lucy continue to harass him. "I got shot last night…the fucker woulda killed me if your little boy toy wasn't there to finish him first."
Lucy blushed and looked to a very proud Natsu raising his eyebrow. "Eh he's not lyin! I got the guy pretty good!"
Gajeel picked up his cash and turned away from Lucy and jumped off his stool. "Like I said. Get the hell away from me before I lose my mind."
Cana stormed over on her side of the bar and yelled over to Gajeel. "HOLD ON! YOU NEVER PAID A CENT FOR YOUR DRINKS!"
Natsu laughed and waved his hand. "Ah hell we got that! Lucy pay the girl!"
"Uh!" Lucy yelled out, even though she kind of liked it when he bossed her around. Natsu continued to give her a smile until she finally broke.
"…Fine." She then pulled out her pocketbook and began to pull out several large colonial bills of money until Cana raised an eyebrow.
"Well hold on now. I could never take money from a cutie like you…" She gave out a fake giggle as Lucy blushed.
"Um, should I be hearing this right now!?" She froze with her wallet in hand until Gajeel stormed over and slammed his money back in front of Cana.
"There." He then turned around and left for his blacksmith's barn.
"Agh! Pain in the ass…" Natsu growled and grabbed Lucy's arm while quickly dragging her out to follow Gajeel.
"Hey wait up!" he yelled over to Gajeel in a furious sprint.
"GET LOST PUNK!" Gajeel was having none of it from the pester couple until Lucy marched forward.
"WE HAVE A PLAN TO GET LEVY BACK!"
Gajeel stopped in his tracks as that name passed through his ear. Lucy smiled and stopped as well as Natsu still looked confused. "Hold on Levy!? You said he was after treasure!"
Lucy ignored Natsu's dimwitted remark and kept walking forward. "Gajeel…I know the pirate crew that took her, and so do you. We can track her down together and bring her back to Hargeon."
Gajeel spat on the ground. "Eh I'll just let your little father send out a rescue team…"
"REALLY!?" Lucy yelled back in anger. "CAUSE RIGHT NOW HE HAS NO INTENTIONS ON DOING THAT!"
Gajeel's world nearly shattered at that realization. "Huh? You're saying he's not…?"
Lucy shook her head. "And maybe if he does, it won't be for another week, or two!" She then ran up and grabbed his hands with tears filling her eyes.
"Please Gajeel…I don't want to lose her, and I know you don't either…"
Gajeel was starting to fold as he raised an eyebrow. "Okay Blondie, so let's agree that I say yes. If your daddy isn't gonna fund our trip or give us a boat…where's our ship to go fetch her?
Lucy smiled and rubbed her eyes clean as she turned back to her idiotic fiancé.
"*Sob* …Well that's where he comes in."
They're moving on! Comments?
It's really nice because I recently re-watch the first Pirates of the Caribbean film recently, so my mind is ready to write! Haha the sound track also helps me get in the mood.
Anyway I'm glad Lucy and Natsu are reaching out to Gajeel! Let's see where they go tomorrow!