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Chapter 3

"Fire," Levy shouted raising her arms to make the energy residing in her flow better. Once the spell was cast she wandered over to the nearest tree to catch her breath.

A yowl was soon heard and so was Gajeel's triumphant shout.

"Midget! I got it!"

"My name is not Midget! And without me you couldn't have caught it." Levy pouted while getting back to her feet.

"Yer short, ain't yeah?" Gajeel said ignoring her second statement, while gesturing to her body.

"No, I am not! Also it's 'you are' or 'you're' not 'yer'. If you're going to join a guild a guild, make it sound as though you're educated." She scolded him.

He started to walk back the way they had come through into the forest. "I got you for that, don't I?"

The bluenette stood her ground. "But you might not always have me."

Gajeel turned back and stared at her before stating, "Well then I'll have to glue you to me. Gihi!"

Levy sighed and gave up knowing that her companion wouldn't see reason. She didn't dwell on him (he made her head hurt) and instead thought about the reward. Her face immediately brightened. "Let's go get the reward!"

She started running towards the exit of the forest only to be stopped. "Huh? What are you doing Gajeel?"

"Why did you use your magic when it was my part?"

Levy stared at him confused before realizing what he meant, "Oh! I used because you had an opening and it was about to charge."

When they had teamed up two weeks ago, they had devised a plan. The team would only accept eliminating small monsters because Levy was still learning how to use her magic, which they found out was called solid-script, and Gajeel didn't want her to get hurt. To first catch the monster, Levy would trap him with a combination of runes that she had read in a library and her solid-script, then to eliminate it, Gajeel would beat its ass.

But this time Levy had interfered when it was Gajeel's turn and had exhausted herself more than usual.

"As if I would allow it to hurt me."

"Well, I was just trying to protect you because that's what friends do!"

His eye's widened, she thought of him as a friend! Gajeel smirked, maybe interacting with humans wouldn't be as hard as he thought.

"Thank you so much!" Levy shouted as she put on her newly acquired gale-force reading glasses.

The mayor shook his head slightly, smiling at her joy, "No, thank you for defeating the monsters that were terrorizing our town."

"It was no problem," Levy said while still grinning.

"Do you belong to a guild?"

"Not yet, though we are searching for a guild called Phantom Lord."

"Ah, a strong guild. Do you know where it is?"

"Yeah, though we sort of got lost…" Levy said sheepishly scratching her blue hair.

The mayor rubbed the bottom of his chin, "I can't remember what the town is called but I know it's near Magnolia which is a two day walk from here."

"Thank you again, mister!" Levy said following Gajeel as he walked out of the Mayor's office.

Once they were outside, Levy turned to Gajeel, "why didn't you say anything?"

He shrugged, he wasn't too sure himself. Levy let it go and quickly got out a book to test out her new reading glasses. They worked even better than she thought! She let a squeal escape her, "Yes!"

Gajeel looked at her, she was dancing in a circle clutching the book to her chest with the energy only a child could have. Gajeel's lips twitched as he continued watching her before nodding his head in a determined way, he would protect her if it was the last thing he did.

The two days passed quickly as they encountered little trouble. They were finally at Magnolia and Gajeel was about to ask where Phantom Lord was to a store owner when he heard a shout.

"You stupid ice princess!"

"Take that back flamebrain!"

"Flamebrain?! That's so lame!"

"Well so is ice princess!"

"Guys! Erza is coming!" This one was a feminine voice.

"Er-"

"-za!"

The black haired boy smirked, whoever this Erza was, she/he must be strong, he could hear the fear in the way they had said her name. In fact, he wanted to see who this Erza was. Phantom Lord could wait.

He walked out of the store leaving the owner wondering what he had wanted to know.

Is enhanced hearing heard another voice join the others, "Natsu, Gray, were you fighting again? Because I'm almost certain I heard you guys screaming."

"Us? Fighting?! Erza, we're best buds, right Natsu?"

"Yeah, the best of best buds!"

"Are they lying, Lisanna?"

"No and I have been here the whole time."

"Okay, I believe you."

There was a sigh of relief as a set of footsteps got fainter.

"Thanks Lisanna!"

"Your welcome, Natsu!"

Gajeel sighed, he had come too late, Erza had already left. Oh well, once he had joined Phantom Lord he would come back and challenge Erza to fight him.

"Gajeel!" He turned in surprise finding Levy staring at him in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing, short stuff."

"The library is right there," she pointed to the building right across the street. "So what are you doing here?"

"Uh…" Gajeel didn't want to tell her he had come to fight someone. She wouldn't like it. So what would be a good excuse? He wanted to eat, no she wouldn't buy that. He had to go to the restroom! Yeah, that should do the trick. "I had to go to the restroom."

"So what are you doing in an alley?"

The boy glanced around and saw that he indeed in a alley that was littered with crates and scrapes of paper. "…I don't know."

Levy sighed, "You're hopeless."

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