Levy walked into the guild after a good nights rest. The entire day before she had spent with Gajeel, training so she could take some harder jobs for herself as well as be more help when her team was in trouble.

It had already been an entire week since they had won the Magic Games. They were yet again known as the strongest guild in Fiore. That's when she decided to ask Gajeel to train her, so she could get stronger and possibly compete with Lucy in magical power.

She had spent the entire last week training with Gajeel; to build up her magic power for when she needed it. It was her first day off since she started training and the next day she was going back into training with him.

Having heard two very familiar voices behind her, she and slammed right into Gajeel; who hadn't expected her to turn as fast as she did. She squeaked as her nose slammed right into his iron hard chest; looking up, she was met with vibrant red eyes and the same old wide grin he has when he is not pissed off or bored.

"What are ya doin' Shirmp? Might wanna watch what you're runnin' into."

She took a step back from him; pouting with her arms crossed in front of her chest as she complained. "Stop calling me that! You know my name! Why don't you start using it?"

"What's wrong? The nickname finally starting to get to ya? Gihihi. Besides its fun to tease ya about your shortness." He took a moment to pause before grinning. "Shrimp." He laughed as she continued to pout.

She huffed in annoyance before deciding it wasn't worth it to even try to argue with him for a second longer. She started to walk over to her teammates of Shadow Gear, Jet and Droy. They seemed a bit on edge, so she decided to try and cheer them up thinking they just missed hanging out with her.

"Hey Jet! Hey Droy!" She called out to both of her teammates with a smile on her face as she got closer to them so they could hear without her having to yell.

They didn't respond at first and just kind of ignored her until Jet turned to Levy speaking. "What are you already bored of your new teammate?" Jet snapped at her as she took another step toward them.

She took a step back I surprise as he snapped at her, all the anger and sadness showing clearly in his eyes and voice. W-what...do you me-"

He cut her off before she could even finish the question; the anger and sadness that filled his voice a minute ago was now gone as he began to speak. "You know exactly what I'm talking about! You have been spending all of your time with that stupid metal head and avoiding us!"

"No! No I was-"

"Don't give us your stupid excuses! We don't want to hear them!"

"I'm no-"

"Just shut up! You didn't care for us then and you care even less now! You were just using us while you were waiting for someone better and stronger than us to come along!"

The many tears she was holding back began to fill her eyes, on the verge of overflowing as her whole body began to shake. "That's not true..."

Jet was tired of hearing Levy's attempt to give them excuses and had one final thing to stay. "You know what? You are becoming a real pest. Why don't you make a new team with that damn metal head?" His voice was stable as he spoke stowing that he was being completely and utterly serious.

"Y-you don't mean-"

She was cut off as he stared her down and said the words she never thought he would say and she never wanted to hear them either.

"Our team is done. For good."

The tears she kept from leaving her eyes were slowly falling down her cheeks as she stared in shock at her former teammate. He turned and walked away from her with Droy; leaving her alone to stand there as she silently cried to herself.

After a few minutes of silently crying to herself, her sadness slowly shifted to anger towards her former teammates. She assumed that they thought she was too weak and needed someone stronger and more useful teammate. Unbeknownst to her that had nothing to do with their sudden out burst. She decided it would be time to take a job to let some anger out and prove to them she was strong enough as well as to test the limits of her magical power. Slowly she made her way to the Request Board; spending some time to look at the available jobs left after everyone else went on jobs earlier. As she searched a job caught her eye and she took a closer look to see that it was a capture mission for two hundred thousand jewel; it didn't seem too hard so she took it and left a note for Mira stating she had accepted the job and left in her way to pack.

Gajeel watched as Levy made her way to her fellow teammates; as he sat down at his table he always sat at away from most of the others. He had a small smile on his face as he continued to watch the blue-haired bookworm. His smile soon began to slowly fade as he heard what her teammates had to say to her about her training with him for the past week. The more he heard the more it pissed him off; taking it out on her for fucks sake. A small paw on his arm snapped him out of his death glare at Jet and Droy; looking down at his little exceed partner and ignoring him until a punch from the exceed brought his attention back down. When he spoke it came out harsh and full of anger, without meaning it to. "What the hell do you want?"

"Gajeel, you need to calm down. It shouldn't bug you at what they have to say about you. Why is it pissing you off so much?" Lily watched him quite concerned for his guild mates lives.

"I ain't pissed off, just annoyed at the Shrimp. Now, mind your own business." He was trying his best to tell Lily to fuck off with out actually telling him to.

"Gajeel, I know that that is a complete lie and we both know it. Just tell me what is really going on." Lily knew Gajeel better than anyone and wasn't going to leave now with a possibility of fellow guild mates getting hurt.

"It's none of your business, I already said it once. I'm not going to say it again." As soon as Gajeel finished speaking he stood and started to walk to the bar to get away from his little pestering exceed.

As he walked toward the bar he passed Levy, he didn't get any closer than a table length. He could smell the saltiness of her tears even from the distance he was at. He glanced over to see she was still standing in the place her so called friends and guild mates left her, basically abandoning her. The thought of trying to talk to her crossed his mind but he just kept going knowing he would only end up making it worse than it already was, instead he headed to the bar like he had first planned and sat down on one of the stools. After a few minutes of staring at his glass and letting his thoughts wonder he looked up to see the blue-haired Mage standing in front of the Request Board. Looking at the left over jobs that were there after almost everyone in the guild went on a job themselves. He watched as she scanned the few jobs that were still available. He shrugged to himself and went back to his drink figuring she had already forgiven them and was just going to do a job to give them some time to cool their heads.

He spent a few hours sitting at the bar chatting to Mira every so often when she spoke to him. After she spoke to him she was pulled off to the side by Makarov, and Gajeel decided to use his heightened senses to eavesdrop since he had nothing better to do. He heard them talking about a job someone had taken earlier that day. Knowing Levy was the only one who accepted a job that day he decided to poke into the conversation.

He stood and walked over to where the two had been chatting at. "What's the job you guys are talking about?"

"There was a job that I put on the Request Board earlier and apparently it was labeled wrong when it was sent to us. It was originally a S-Class job." Mira explained it to him hoping he saw who had accepted the job since Lisanna had left an hour before to train with Elfman and she was the only other one there at the time since Mira had just gotten back from The Weekly Sorceror.

"What did the job say that you posted?"

"The job stated it was a capturing of some troublesome bandits causing trouble for the people of the town and the reward was two hundred thousand jewel, but..." Mira trailed off as she picked up a file and slowly flipped through the papers about the detail of what the actual job was.

"There always has to be a but..." He grumbled, more to himself than to the two he was talking to.

"Originally it was filed as an S-Class Mage job to capture some very dangerous criminals who had escaped as well as the traitor who had helped them to make it out of the building. The Magic Council was going through recently sent jobs to check for abnormalities in sent jobs. They managed to find one that was approved by a name that no one had heard of let alone knew. After searching through their entire building they found the original files hidden in a Dark Magic book that was sealed with an intricate magic spell. They sent the file to Master and he was going to fix it but the job is gone from the Request Board."

Gajeel took a moment to think of who all was at the request board and he went through the entire day in his head be fore coming to a realization. Levy. She was the only one at the board the entire day and she has spoke to Lisanna earlier about it and let Levy take the job. Levy was in danger and he knew it, he was the only one who knew that it was Levy who took it. "Levy!" He shouted as he took off out the door with the original Job poster that said it was an S-Class job.

Pantherlily had been sitting on the counter listening and watching the group talk when it got silent before Gajeel yelled and took off without another word. He spoke out after looking at the door Gajeel had just ran out. "Levy was the only one who had been at the Request Board all day and she spoke to Lisanna about it and told her it was fine for her to take the job."

Both Makarov and Mira looked over to the exceed who was walking toward them as he spoke.

"Earlier Levy went to talk to her teammates and the argued until Jet split up Shadow Gear, Levy of course was crying and I believe she took the job to try and get her mind off the fact that the team she had been part of for so long was done. I also think it was to give the two along with herself sometime to cool off and level their emotions. In her state of stress she must have not noticed it was a fake and decided to take it since it was rather simple, or so it seemed. The reason Gajeel took off is because he knows she can't protect herself from this enemy what so ever. Along with the fact he thinks he still needs to make up for that day."

When Lily mentioned that day both Makarov and Mira understood exactly what he meant by that; that day still haunts Gajeel to this day; the day he beat the Shadow Gear Team and hung them on the tree. After a moment of silently remembering that horrible day Makarov decided to speak out and change the subject.

"Pantherlily, I need you to go with that boy, there is no telling what could happen to the two of them if you aren't there to help Gajeel out; those two have a special bond and he doesn't need to be ruining it by being reckless. For the most part you just need to let them try to work everything out on their own, if he starts to deviate from he right path you need to turn him back toward the right path. I believe this may lead to some interesting information if it works out."

Makarov gave a hearty smile to the little exceed as they al three knew what he was meaning by his words.

Mira went to grab the file to hand to Lily but he was already holding it in his paws.

"I will keep this with me in case of an emergency, I will aslo be taking him his bag because I know for a fact he didn't grab it. You don't have to worry I promise to bring them back alive

Makarov looked at the little exceed a bit confused by the words he used, and he asked one last question before he took off after Gajeel. "Why do you only say alive and not safe or unharmed?"

Lily smiled at the Master before answering his question. " You know that metal heads luck, he can't do any job with out getting hurt in some form or way. So there is no possibility of me being able to keep the promise." After finisheing what he was saying he nodded to the two and took of flying out the door after his thick metal headed teammate.

Makarov waved at Pantherlily as he flew out the door. "I can't wait to see how this will turn out..." With that last comment Makarov went back to his drink.