Fairy Tail: A Pirate's Life for Me!

by HappyTheCamper

(*ON PAUSE*) AU: Gajeel was a child pirate under the colors of the notorious Phantom Lord. When he escapes with a young prisoner, he is suddenly thrown into a new world in the Port of Hargeon. Seven years later the same pirates come back for revenge, and kidnap his close friend Levy! How will the former pirate brave the seas once again and take back his lovely blue haired treasure?

12. IMPORTANT MESSAGE

Okay guys...I have come to a decision regarding a few stories on my page (this Fairy Tail GaLe Pirate story one being one of them.)

I have a really busy time now in grad school, and I have too many different story ideas popping up for me to pick and choose which one to write. I finished my last full story back in September, and ever since then I haven't been able to pick a new story to start up again! I currently have 9 different stories I'm fighting over, and the decision is really hard to make when I have 3 stories on my page that haven't been updated in months.

Therefore, it kills me to do this, but I need to TEMPORARILY cancel this story. I may or may not return to it in the future, depending on my taste for the material, but its too distracting for me to move on to other things. This one hurts especially because I have held a drought of unreleased chapters for this story far longer than I would have ever liked to leave. My original pledge after joining this website was to never release a story with long pauses or delays between chapters, and I failed on three different stories including this one.

How did I fail? I'm not entirely sure. I went in strong, with a love for Pirate adventures and a new Fairy Tail couple that I never really explored. I really enjoy GaLe, but out of the four main relationships (NaLu, Jerza, Gruvia, and GaLe) it is my least favorite. I don't feel excited when I write it compared to the other ones, and I often found myself trying to write the final chapters, but instead I would stare at my computer for hours on end without getting anything done. I can't keep kidding myself, and I can't keep doing this to you, the audience (I know this story has a small following, and I might be over-doing it, but sadly this is a big deal for me.)

All that aside, we now move into November, and that marks like 4 or 5 months without this story receiving an update. Therefore I am TEMPORARILY deleting this story from my page. I need it off, because as long as it sits there unfinished it only serves to distract me, but I WILL EVENTUALLY RETURN TO THIS STORY in the distant future. Maybe when the FT manga gets further along with good GaLe, or when the new Pirates of the Caribbean comes out next year I'll be motivated to start it up again? IDK.

If you few but faithful fans actually enjoyed my writing, then I thank you, and ask that you keep up with my page to try and find more stories! Or not, either way is cool with me! All's I know is that over 1 year ago, I joined this website with a promise to always deliver my stories without major delays or road bumps, and I failed on 3 different stories.

Hope you liked what I produced either way, and I will be leaving this notification up for a week before I delete the story permanently.

-HappyCamper999