I'm sorry that it's been so long! I updated new adventures too so go check that out if you want to. I apologize if Gajeel's POV might be OOC but I don't really know how to portray his thought processes and stuff. Anyways enjoy!
Gajeel's POV
While it was easy for the majority of the class to ignore Umbridge's presence, the other dragonslayers and I didn't have as much luck. She smelled like she had used too much perfume and it made the other slayers and I want to gag. The fact that if we got in trouble here Makarov could punish us, didn't help matters. If we had our way, Umbridge would've been sent running from the school, hopefully never to be seen again. When she started interrogating Snape, I could see Salamander and his sister trying to restrain themselves from beating her up.
"Well the class seems very advanced for their level," Umbridge observed as she made her way to the front of the classroom to interrogate Snape. When her back was turned, Evelyn started making hand gestures, mimicking those of the 'high inquisitor.' All of us had to hold back laughter. The sand dragon slayer was smiling but shaking his head, warning her to knock it off. "I think the Ministry would prefer that is was removed from the syllabus." At that Malfoy rolled his eyes and Evelyn snickered. "Now how long have you been teaching at Hogwarts?" And with that the interrogation began.
"Geez, that was terrible," I commented to Malfoy as we made our way to lunch.
"Have you had any inspections yet?" Lisanna asked as she ran up to us.
"Yeah, potions," I answered as the others clustered around us.
"This is madness," Erza cut in as she stormed over to us. "I want to send letters to Jellal and his guild but with the fact that Umbridge is interfering with the mail, I don't want to risk it."
"Do you have a communication lacrima?" Lucy asked. "You could use that instead."
"No I don't," Erza answered bitterly.
"She's terrible," Wendy interrupted the conversation. "How could somebody be so awful?"
"The ministry's afraid that Voldemort actually came back," Draco reiterated what we already knew. "The Minister of Magic thinks that it's just a story Dumbledore came up with to get attention."
"How idiotic can they get?" Evelyn spat. "There's no evidence whatsoever?"
Malfoy shook his head grimly, "they're smart, our enemies are biding their time. I'll tell everyone more when we get back to Magnolia." And with that our group dispersed as we all drifted off to our separate tables.
"I'm bored," the second-generation slayer complained when we got back to the slytherin table. "We only have history of magic and defense against the dark arts so can we just skip?"
"It's not like we're learning anything of value in that class," I agreed. "Lets do it."
"Should we invite the others?" Mirajane asked peering over at the hufflepuff and gryffindor tables. "I would feel bad if we didn't." Malfoy just shrugged in response.
"Just make sure the golden trio doesn't hear about it," was all he added.
"Salamander get over here!" I called and the pink haired teen stood up. A wide grin was plastered on his face and I rolled my eyes. Knowing him he was probably expecting a fight.
"Do you want to fight?" he asked and I rolled my eyes at how predictable he was.
"No moron, I was going to ask if you wanted to go to the room that Loke found out about." Natsu seemed to think about that for a minute before hurrying back to the Gryffindor table. "Hey, give me an answer," I yelled at his retreating back, not that he listened though. After discussing it with the others at that table he flashed me his signature grin while holding up his pointer finger and thumb, the fairy tail hand sign. That idiot I thought. His next destination was the hufflepuff table and he asked Lisanna and Wendy before finally asking Luna. All of the other mages had huddled in the center of the great hall waiting for the other Slytherins and I to go and find the room.
"Lead the way Loke," Lucy instructed and we followed the spirit up several flights of stairs before stopping in front of a plain expanse of stone. The Leo spirit paced in front of the wall three times saying nothing before a door appeared in the middle of the wall.
"This is awesome!" Salamander exclaimed as he threw the door open and raced into it. "Evie look at this! There are candles and stuff so we can eat as much fire as we want!" She shared his enthusiasm but something seemed off about her, like her happiness was forced.
"Wow, this room has everything," Lucy looked around in awe at the bookshelves that lined one wall. "There are even targets to practice with!"
"Loke, if this room will give us anything we want, will it give us communication lacrimas?" Gray asked. The stellar spirit considered that for a moment before answering.
"It could. We won't know unless we try."
"Look there's a box of them!" Lisanna pointed to a box, and true to her word, they were filled with communication lacrimas. "This is great! Now we can contact people at the guild without worrying about our mail being intercepted."
"Now you can contact Jellal, Erza," Wendy added enthusiastically addressing the requip mage.
"Yes, now I can," the redhead agreed with a smile. Lucy leaned down and took four of them.
"I think that one for every house should be fine," she reasoned. "Does everyone agree?" There was nodding before Salamander started complaining.
"Can we fight people now?" he whined and I replied with an iron sword attack to his head. He barely dodged it before retaliating with a fire dragon roar and a two sided fight quickly ensued. Lily had even transformed and was fighting with his own sword while Charle and Happy were flying Natsu, Evelyn, and Wendy around the room to attack people. The Salamander siblings, Lucy, Gray, and Erza were on one team while everyone else was on the second one. The fight only drew to a close once Natsu had blown a hole in a wall with a dragonslayer secret art attack.
While the fight was intense, it was fun. Everyone was laughing and at some point Lisanna had to lean against the wall from laughing so hard. All of us had gotten so strong over the past couple of months.
"I really hope that repairs itself," Lucy muttered. "Natsu, wasn't that a little bit overboard?"
"Don't worry Bunny Girl, the hole's gone already." She sighed in relief and now we were all quietly standing around.
"So what now?" Lisanna asked and silence greeted her question. "Do we go to class and make excuses?"
"No," Gray said immediately. "If we do, we'll have to explain to Umbridge where we were." And that decided that. Mirajane had the room give us food and we sat around talking and eating until class ended.
"I have an idea," the sky dragonslayer announced, "let's call the guild with the communication lacrima!"
"That's a great idea Wendy," Lisanna encouraged and we called the guild.
"Hey Gramps!" Natsu exclaimed when our guild master answered. "We found this awesome room and that we can go to for training and no one will be able to find us! It gives us anything we want! I rolled my eyes at his childlike enthusiasm and soon the rest of us were crowding around, our voices rising and trying to be heard above everyone else's.
Makarov listened to us and when he asked questions we answered eagerly, disagreeing on several topics, but generally having similar opinions on what was asked.
"There hasn't been any property damage has there?" our guild master asked and we sobered instantly.
"Well," Evelyn dragged the word out making Makarov start yelling at us.
"Natsu if you cause any more property damage at the school, you'll be playing my punishment game when you get back for the winter holidays and you'll have to pay for the repair too."
The fire dragonslayer just laughed. "It's ok Gramps, the room we blew up repaired itself immediately." Instead of being relieved like Salamander clearly thought he would be, he continued yelling more until we heard the classroom bells ring. "Crap we gotta go," Natsu swore.
"Tell Levy I say hi," Lucy called and there was a slew of other requests to send greetings to other friends that weren't with us.
"Juvia's probably flooded out Magnolia with her tears," Erza commented when we the communication lacrima stopped working. Gray rolled his eyes and muttered about how she was too clingy.
When we exited the room of requirement, the flood of students carried us to the Great Hall where we all parted our separate ways. "That was fun," Mirajane observed when we sat down.
"We need to do that again some time," Malfoy agreed. "But it'd be more fun if Sting and Rogue were with us."
"No it wouldn't be," Natsu stood up and called from the Gryffindor table. "Gajeel and I know how easy it is to beat those two."
"I don't Salamander since I was busy taking a ride on a mine cart that you pushed me on!" He laughed to my outraged response.
"Take my word for it they're easy to beat," the pinkette assured me. "You would've just gotten in the way." I bristled at his words and the two of us rushed towards each other and wound up in a fistfight in the middle of the Great Hall. Evelyn got pulled into the fight since she was Salamander's little sister and for the hell of it so did Gray. The second-generation dragonslayer joined the fray too to support me since we were in the same house.
"You five enough!" Erza roared and we all stopped short as if a predator had just cornered us. "Act your age for once."
"What fun is that?" Natsu questioned his mouth forming a pout but he slunk over to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Lucy.
"That's what you get for being stupid Natsu," Happy told him cheerfully and Natsu growled. Charle was shaking her head in disdain from her perch on the table next to Wendy and Lisanna.
"I think we should be proud that we haven't used our magic once," my exceed told the three of us and we readily agreed. "It's only a matter of time though."
"Are you getting the feeling that something bad is going to happen soon?" Malfoy asked and I nodded.
"Something doesn't smell right, but I can't place it," I stated before considering that the dragonslayers should have another one of our meetings.
