Chapter 1 - Shadow Gear is…OVER?!
It has been a couple weeks since everything happened…..A week since the Grand magic games and …. The Dragons. For Levy It feels like such a long time ago…..but also like it was just yesterday. After the party and the few days everyone took to heal, Levy asked Gajeel to help her train to become stronger. While they were healing she had a lot of time to think about everything that happened recently, and realized she had a quick mind, but she was physically weak.
It had been a long week of using all her free time to train her magic, as well as her physical strength and speed. Levy made her way into the guild hall with a smile glad to have some free time to hang out with Shadow Gear again. She missed her two best friends Jet and Droy. Taking a second to look around giggling at the dragon slayers fighting for the millionth time over something small then spotting Jet and Droy.
As Levy made her way down the stairs towards them she ran straight into a wall nearly falling backwards with a squeak. Looking up she saw the intense red eyes that she had seen a lot of in the last week. Gajeel pulled her back up as he had caught her arm before she hit the ground. Letting out a laugh with his signature smirk, he spoke. "Gihihi…I think you might need to work on your awareness, Shrimp." He let go of her arm as she took a step back to be able to look up at him properly.
With a pout while crossing her arms she looked at him with a small glare and huffing in annoyance. "Stop calling me that! You know my name, so how about actually using it?" She huffed again and looked to the side, mumbling under her breath. "Not like you used it all week while training."
Gajeel leaned down to be eye level with her still having his grin in place. "What's wrong, Shrimp? Is the nickname finally getting to ya? Gihihihi. I am only telling the truth, you are barely half my height!" He paused for a minute standing all the way back up and grinning. "Shrimp." He laughed as she stomped her foot and kept facing to the side with a very light pink dusting her cheeks."Whatever…" She pouted as she walked away blushing and deciding she really didn't want to argue with an iron skulled dragon slayer.
Unbeknownst to the two, Jet and Droy were watching the interaction and how well they got along. They looked away before she turned and started walking but very much noticing the blush on her cheeks from the dragon slayer.
As she went to sit down she heard Jet scoff at her in annoyance. Looking at him confused she tried to speak. "Jet, wha-" She didn't even get to finish the second work before she was interrupted. "What are you doing here?" She looked taken aback by both of them. After looking between them a few times she spoke. "W-what do you mean? This is our-" Getting cut off again jet spoke. "Our? OUR?! Since when did you care about us?"
Levy stood there at a complete loss for words at what she heard out of him. "I-I…..What? You guys are my best friends-" Jet glared at her this time making her stop and take a step back and holding her hands to her chest. "Yeah, we were. We aren't anymore. You should go back to your new best friend and leave us the hell alone." Levy went from shocked to mad in a matter of seconds. "What the fuck do you mean?!" The entire guild turned to look at Team Shadow Gear, as none of them have ever heard Levy really cuss like that.
"We are! Not past tense but present tense! What the hell is wrong with you Jet?!" After a moment of utter silence Jet slammed his fists into the table and got in Levy's face screaming at her. "NO! YOU DON'T GET TO FUCKING SAY THAT!" He lowered his voice some but it was unnerving at the drastic change in volume. "You….You know exactly what I am fucking talking about. Don't even try to deny it cause we both know…IT'S A LOAD OF BULLSHIT!" He took a breath before continuing. "You have spent every free moment with that stupid metal head. How can you be around a monster like him after what he did!"
She was caught off guard before she glared at him taking a step forward jabbing him in the chest with her finger. "Monster? You are calling HIM a MONSTER?! What about you? YOU ARE A GROWN ASS ADULT JUST LIKE ME BUT YOU DONT HAVE THE FUCKING BALLS TO HAVE A FUCKING CONVERSTAION WITH ME! INSTEAD YOU GET IN MY FACE SCREAM AT ME AND INSULT A MEMBER OR OUR GUILD OF OUR FAMILY LIKE THAT? " She took a breath before continuing. "Look I have no fucking idea what your stupid problem is but you need to calm the fuck down before you say another fucking word."
The air was filled with an eerie and tense silence before Droy tried to speak only to get interrupted by Jet. "No." One word but it hit levy like a punch to the gut. "No? What do you mean-" Jet grabbed Levy by the front of her shirt getting to her face again. "NO! HE ISNT FUCKING FAMILY, YOU ARE FUCKING DELUSIONAL!" Levy slapped him across the face making him drop her. After a minute she stood up and looked at him only for her to have his hand meet her face.
"J-Jet….you are going too f-far…." Droy tried to talk some sense into him. "Oh, are you on the whore's side now?" Jet took a moment before speaking again. "You know what? We are done. You two can fuck off and do whatever." Droy stood up and grabbed Jet's are. "H-key…W-what do you mean?" Jet looked Levy straight in the eyes. Shadow Gear is disbanded. And I am leaving. For. Good."
Jet stormed out as everyone stood frozen, except Natsu and Erza. The latter keeping the other from taking off. No one dared to move, no one knew what to do or how to react. Droy ran out after Jet a minute later. Levy stood there with her hand on her cheek where Jet slapped her leaving a bright red mark in the shape of his hand. Tears pricked at her eyes before she walked out of the guild hall to find a small space to hide and figure out what just happened.
A/N:
I know that is wayyyyy out of character for Jet, but we got to have some angst going on! lol This is the cliff hanger you all never wanted! See you in the next chapter~