As an apology for not updating my other stories for a very loooong time, here's a short story for you guys x3 And, well, I've really been wanting to write this story since a few months ago, too xD (I just didn't have time to do so, though~)
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Prologue
What if there's someone who can grant you three wishes?
What would you wish for?
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Yes, it's for a price, of course.
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And no, it's not your soul that would be taken when you make a wish...
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...it would be the most thing that you value most in this world.
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Just a small price to pay, isn't it?
Considering that you'll get three wishes - any wish, and thing that you want...
With just the price of one very important thing you love.
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Well, that's what most of the humans think of, anyway.
Most of the humans that my master encounters does so.
Most of those humans that makes a pact with him thought like that.
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...except this one girl.
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She definitely is something.
She wasn't like the other humans who wished selfishly...
Okay, maybe she did wish something selfish, but it was only once;
then later on she realized something that I believe, most of the humans we've made service to, really never thought of;
and after that, made her last wish for someone's sake.
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Yep, she sacrificed the most important thing that she treasure's so much...
...just to make someone else happy.
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Chapter One
It started just the same like everyone else that we've made a pact with.
She was depressed, bullied, sad, angry at herself, lonely, crying, and wishing so hard for something they've been longing to have - just like how those humans were when they asked for our help.
She was locked up in the girl's comfort room by some girls of a certain guy's fan club. What was his name again? Oh yes, Gray, the popular ice-mage on Fairy High. It was the girls from Gray's fan club that locked her up there. They keep threatening her and telling her to stay away from Gray. Especially their leader, the water mage, who's crazily and obsessively in love with him.
Today, they locked the girl in the girl's comfort room again as they usually do - to make her learn a lesson, they say; as a punishment for talking to their Gray-sama, they keep insisting.
Why doesn't she do anything to escape being looked up from this room? Well, it's because comfort rooms - both the male's and female's - nullify all magic, so that students won't be able to use their magic in those areas. So it makes her solid-script magic useless; also, she can't fight them hand to hand. She's just... well, small, compared to those bullying her. And, she never really wants to use her magic to hurt people, anyway. Even when those bullies threaten her outside of school, or inside school where they are free to use magic, she never does use it against them. She's too... kind.
"But... I only helped him with his homework..." she muttered, trying to reason out with the girls whose laughing voices she can hear even inside the locked door. Although she already knew that this wouldn't work - it never did. Those girls listen to no reason, to no one - except Gray, who, well, hardly even notices them.
"How dare you! It still counts as talking to Gray-sama!" their leader answered angrily. "You should just listen to us! Never. Talk. To. Him. Again. Then we'll leave you alone! A girl like you doesn't deserve to be able to talk to Gray-sama! Or even just be noticed by him!"
[[Oh, how come I'm inside the girl's comfort room? Well, it's because I can travel through anywhere, any time, for business purposes, so no need to worry about that. And, just so you know, we - I mean, me, yeah, just me, not my master - has this special ability to read through people's minds and feelings... They're for business purposes only - I'm not allowed to use them unless it's for a certain purpose.]]
This is just normal, really. This always happens to her every time that Gray asks her for a favor. "Levy, can you do my homework for me? I kinda need to do something else important..." is his most-used line when it comes to talking to her.
Levy, this blue-haired, frail and fragile girl, just blindly follows him and lets him order her around like that. Thinking that he's asking her these favors because he likes her, even just a bit; though what she didn't know is that Gray's only after her brains, not really the real her. He only likes her because she does all his homeworks, while he's able to hang-out with this blond celestial mage that he liked. Levy hadn't known that by this part yet; she knew about it too late, when she thought that they're making a good progress together, when she thought that there might be a possibility that he likes her.
Riiiiiiiiing! Their school bell that signifies it's time for class now rings. And now she knows she'll have to get out of being locked using the difficult way again - well, maybe not difficult for her anymore, since she's been doing it often every time they lock her up. She's got a little trick - that she really never liked - but it's her only choice, so... that's what she does.
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Chapter Two
"S-Sorry I'm late, Ma'am!" stutters Levy as she enters the room, her hair messed up, and some of her notebooks wet.
"Levy! This is already the fourth time you were late for my class this week!" scolded her teacher; then looks at the notebooks Levy was carrying. "Why are your notebooks wet?"
"I-It's nothing, ma'am... I just... It... I accidentally poured water on them..." and there she makes up a lie again, not wanting to tell her teacher about what really happened.
"Very well then, go to your seat now..." sighed her teacher.
"Oi, Levy, you really okay?" asked Gray, who was approaching.
"Y-Yes, I am..." she hesitatingly answers.
"Well, you done with my homework?" his usual question, of course. He wasn't really concerned whether Levy is okay or not; all he wanted to know was about his assignment.
"Yeah, but..." she looks done at on of the papers folded inside her notebook. "It got wet."
"It's okay." he smiled as she gave him the homework. "Well, thanks again." And he just walks back to his seat after that.
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Then a little later after that, after classes, she happens to spot Gray talking with the celestial mage, Lucy, on the hallway. Out of curiosity she decides to hide behind one of the nearby lockers and listens to their conversation - which was a really bad mistake that she'll be regretting later on.
"Oh? You're asking me on a date?" asked Lucy, with disbelief in her voice. "But I thought you were dating the blue-haired girl you often talk to!"
"Blue-haired girl? Who?" Gray tried to think who among the blue-haired girls he knew would be who Lucy was talking about.
"You know, the small one with glasses, the smart girl."
"Oh, her... what's her name again..." he mumbled.
I told you. see? Gray doesn't even know Levy unless he needs something from her.
"Um... Levy, I think." the blond girl said.
"Oh, yeah, Levy." he repeated.
"So you weren't dating her?"
"Me? Of course not! I mean, who would? She's small, wears glasses, and not my type." he said. "I just like her for her brains. She does my homeworks for me. Nothing else. I do like you, though. For like, everything."
"So will you go out with me some time?"
"No."
"What?"
"You know I'm already with Natsu."
"But I thought I had a chance. Because, you girls were always hanging around with me -"
"Me, Natsu, Erza, Mirajane, and Lisanna." Lucy corrected. "And I was hanging around with you because one of my girls has a crush on you; but not me, sorry. I really love my boyfriend."
"Wha-"
"And, I'm sorry to say, but I hate playboys. I don't want boys who just plays with other's feelings; or never even notices those around them who cares for them."
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Chapter Three
"I-I think I've hear enough..." mumbles Levy; then she ran out of their school as fast as she can, not looking or caring, wherever she might get to run into.
She didn't want to hear anything else anymore. She was already hurt - a lot. It was hurtful enough that Gray even forgets what her name is when he doesn't need her; but it's even more painful to find out that he only liked her for her brains, that he only liked her because he needed her, nothing else.
"Me? Of course not! I mean, who would? She's small, wears glasses, and not my type." he said. "I just like her for her brains. She does my homeworks for me. Nothing else. I do like you, though. For like, everything."
His words kept repeating and rewinding in her mind. Her eyes were getting blurry from the tears that she had been fighting hard to hold back as she ran. Now really wanting to break down and cry, she stops deep inside the forest of Magnolia, where she's sure that no one would see her.
"Stupid me. Stupid. Me." she mumbled, with tears flowing down on her face. "You shouldn't have thought that he liked you, Levy! You should've known that he was only after your brains all along, just like the others! He was no different that the others! He only knew you because he needed something from you!"
"You should've know. You should've known. You should've known." she kept telling herself while she cried.
"I hate him, I hate him, I hate him. I hate me, I hate me!" she yelled. "I wish I can prove them wrong. I wish I can be strong. I wish I can have the confidence to prove all of them how wrong they were about me."
"Oh, how I just wish there'd be someone who could make my wishes come true!" she continued. "I'm willing to give anything in return! As long as I just get to prove them wrong! Especially him! And the leader of his fan club Juvia... And Gray's fan club members!"
"...please." she said in a low voice, desperate to hear an answer from anyone.
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"Deal accepted." a voice behind her said.
I knew that voice, of course. It was my master's voice, the iron-dragon slayer who was cursed to be a demon that must grant three wishes to a human, and in return, take something important from them.
I don't know how he'll get out of his curse; I think there's no other way out. All I know is that his only choice is to keep moving on as long as a human makes wishes; and other than that, I don't know anything else.
For hundreds and hundreds of years that we've been serving and making pacts, he never told me anything about how he got the curse, or if there is ever a cure for it. He never wanted to talk about it.
How did he get to be my master? I myself am not sure. For as long as I remember, all I know is I was always with him from the start.
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Well, back to the story.
"W-Who's there?" she turned around to look at who spoke.
Black mists were surrounding master's figure, which is just really normal. The mists always appears whenever master shows up. "You called for me, didn't ya?" he said after the mists disappeared. "Iron Dragon Slayer slash Demon Gajeel, at your service."
"S-So, you're not just a rumor? You're for real?" she asked in shock.
Gajeel sighed and said, "I thought you were smart. How long would it take you to know whether or not that I'm real?"
"I-I..."
"Heh, don't worry. I'll make you big. We'll make them all regret that they kept looking down on you; we'll prove them wrong."
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Hurt and desperate, she agrees to our pact.
And around this time was when I first thought that she's just like the other humans: selfish, wanting things for themselves, things to only make them happy; desperate, desperate for revenge; and only wanting everything for herself. Well, yeah, as I've said before, this human did surprise me on her second wish until her last, and even until now, she still does, you know?
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Sorry, I'd have to cut it here... I'll post the next part of the story tomorrow, neh? It's getting pretty late here now and I still have classes early tomorrow...
What do you think of the story so far? :3
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