Afraid

Gajeel x Levy

"Gajeel, are you afraid of anything?" Levy asked while crouch down to look at the adorable rabbits, suddenly in a curious mood.

"Pssh, I ain't afraid of anything, Shrimp," Gajeel replied with a Gihi as he walked through the pet store, Levy quickly catching up with him. The two were currently looking for some catnip for Pantherlily. It truly was comical, Lily most definitely considered himself an Exceed and not a cat, but still went crazy for catnip. However, neither Happy, nor Carla had any reaction to catnip. Lily's addiction was most definitely a strange phenomenon.

"Are you sure?" The Solid-Script mage cocked her head. "I mean, everyone has to be afraid of something. I'm afraid of criminals and bad people, Gray's afraid of deserts – he's scared the heat will melt his ice, Juvia's afraid of the idea that Gray will fall in love with someone besides her, and even Erza's constantly getting scared that strawberry cake will be banished from the world."

At that comment, Gajeel simply snickered as he reached down to grab some catnip. "Nah, I've just got all of you pansies beaten. There's no way that I could ever be afraid of anything. I'm a fear-ee, not a fearer."

Levy giggled a little bit. "Fear-ee isn't a word, Gajeel. Therefore, there are no such things as fear-ees. You'd have to be inhuman to not fear something."

"Well then, I guess I'm inhum- " Gajeel stopped in his tracks upon reaching the end of the Cat aisle. In front of the mages were some mice being show-cased, the cause of Gajeel's sudden stop. His red eyes widened in fear at the sight of the tiny, furry creatures. Their beady eyes and twitching noses simply freaked the living shit out of him. The albino ones were the worst…

But then, Gajeel heard a click, snapping him out of his thoughts. The Iron Dragon Slayer turned around to see Levy holding a camera with a mischievous glint in her eye.

"Damn it, Shorty."

A/N: Aw, Gajeel. Honestly, Gajeel appears as the type of character who would deny being afraid of anything due to his tough attitude, and the idea for this little drabble stemmed from that. But I'm not really sure how I thought up the idea for him to be afraid of mice, it just seems kind of fitting for a character like him. Anyways, I plan to update this regularly, probably once a day, maybe twice if I get inspired. Make sure to review!