This is my new project, and first chapter was finished today. This won't have a lot of chapters, I think, but then again, I could change my mind. Hope you'll like it, and I'll keep writing as fast as I can, but I warn you, I do not know when the next chapter will be out, it could take some time, I need to find some inspiration to write again.

Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima.

Kidnapped

"Help! Please, you have to help us!" Droy knocked down the door to main hall screaming in tears and panic.

The whole guild jolted and turned their heads quickly to see what the hell was going on. "Droy, What happened to you!?" Lucy covered her mouth as she realized that Droy was carrying a body in his arms, she felt sick when she saw the lifeless face of Jet hanging down with streams of blood running down his cheeks. "Oh my god! Someone get Wendy, NOW!" Erza ran up to Droy and helped him carry Jet to one of the wooden benches in the hall. They laid him down the same second Wendy flew inside in Carla's arms. "I'm here, where is Jet?" Wendy shouted with her tiny voice, scared and confused at the scene that met her. Droy sat on the floor, holding his best friends arm in his, praying that he would make it.

Wendy placed her hands close to his body and focused hard to rescue her friend. After a little while she let her hands down and wiped some sweat from her forehead. She offered to help Droy as well, but he told her he couldn't think about himself before Jet woke up. Wendy assured him many times that he was still alive and would make it, but Droy didn't listen. He sat by Jet and watched his chest to make sure he was breathing.

Suddenly Lucy asked "Wasn't Levy with you on this job? Where is she?" Lucy's voice was clearly concerned and she looked around hoping she would see the blue haired mage in the guild.

Droy's eyes went wide as he realized he had forgotten to tell the guild what had happened. "Oh shit! Levy! How could I forget to tell!? I'm so stupid!" Droy hit his own head and cringed in shame.

Lucy came up to him and placed a calm hand on his shoulder. "Droy, tell us what happened, where is Levy?" she was getting really worried.

"I don't know," Droy sobbed.

"What do you mean you don't know?! Where the fuck is she!?" everybody turned slowly around and looked to Gajeel who had his hand slammed on the table, panting hard from his own scream.

Droy's eyes filled with fear and he turned away from Gajeel who as walking towards him. When he reached him, he knelt next to Droy and repeated himself, "where is she?" he tried to keep his voice calm.

"She was taken," Droy muttered

"Taken? By who? Where?"

"I don't know. We were just doing a small job and these guys attacked us out of nowhere. They knocked me and Jet out first and when I woke up, she was gone." Droy covered his face and cried loud.

Gajeel stood up quickly and stormed out the door without a word. Natsu tried to grab his arm and stop him but he just shook him off. "Gajeel, wait we have to- "

"Get the fuck off me!"

"Okay, since Master is gone, we'll have to deal with this on our own. We'll split up into groups and head out to find Levy." Erza stood on the bar as the whole guild was eager to get out and find their friend. Erza split the guild up into many small groups to cover as most land as possible. "Lucy. You, Happy and Natsu; find Gajeel. Natsu you can track him down right?" Erza was in a hurry as she spoke and it wasn't a question she had pointed at Natsu, it was a demand. Find Gajeel before he does something stupid.

"I'll find him," Natsu waved at Erza and dragged Lucy out of the guild so he could track Gajeel down while his smell was still fresh in the air.

Lucy willingly followed.

It didn't take too much time for the dragon slayer to hunt down Gajeel. They found him in the outskirts of the forest, near the place Levy was last seen with Jet and Droy. He was sniffing around, trying to follow Levy's scent and find her. "Danm! I can't catch it!" he cursed and hit a nearby tree so the leaves fell to the ground.

"Poor guy," Lucy whispered next to Natsu.

"I'll go get him," Natsu declared, but Lucy held him back.

"Please let me talk to him. You'll just piss him off again."

"What? When did I ever…" He stopped himself remembering how much he loved teasing the older dragon slayer and held out his hand for Lucy to go.

She smiled at him and went down, preparing a speech in her head.

"Hey, Gajeel. Found anything yet?" Lucy came up behind him and smiled

"No, nothing. Her smell is everywhere but I can't find out where they went," he turned to Lucy with a shaking head, fury burning in his eyes.

"Don't worry, we'll find her. Why don't you come with me and Natsu and we'll search together. To dragon noses are better than one, you know," she was glad to see him smile at her comment and walk over to Natsu.

"I'll find her ages before that hot-head, but I guess it won't hurt to be more people,"

"That's right," Lucy shook her head as she walked behind him. Always so competitive, aren't you?

They searched until the sun threatened to dive into the ocean and let the night take over before Lucy finally managed to convince the two dragons to get some rest. They found a clearing in the forest near the place Levy's smell was still strong, hoping she would find her way back or that the attackers would return. Gajeel chopped down a huge tree and smoothly make perfect cut firewood for Natsu to set on fire. Lucy thought it was nice to see them actually working together for a change. After sitting quietly by the fire for some time Natsu fell asleep with Happy tucked under his arm. They grunted in and talked to each other in their sleep, making cute little noises. Lucy couldn't help but smile.

Gajeel looked over at her and lifted his eyebrow while chewing down some metal. "What?" Lucy huffed.

"I didn't say anything…" He shrugged his shoulders.

Lucy hadn't had time to pack before leaving so she had nothing to make time pass by faster. She wished she had gotten at least one book with her. It made her crazy to watch Gajeel looking restlessly into the dark forest, sniffing hard every now and then and getting up to sniff around just to make sure he hadn't missed something. When he dropped down next to her she couldn't take her eyes of his devastated look. His head was bowed to the ground and his black hair fell forwards and covered his eyes, much to his relief. "You really care about her, don't you?" Lucy whispered.

Gajeel lifted his head to her, but quickly looked the other way to avoid her eyes. "Of course I do, she's family, like everybody in the guild."

Lucy rested her chin on her knees that she had pulled up against her body to keep warm. She sighed, "I know. You know, Gajeel, you really have changed a lot since you joined Fairy Tail, I'm really impressed, it's not easy to turn your whole life around like that."

Gajeel huffed, and was bothered by her sudden sentimentality. "I've learned how to take care of my own, that's all. It's something I had almost forgotten how to do before I met you guys."

It was obvious that he didn't like to have this conversation, or any conversation for that matter, but Lucy felt that deep inside he really had a lot to get of his chest. He just needed someone that would listen to him and not judge his past self. "Well, I'm really proud of you. I mean, I met the guild you used to be in, and I met the Gajeel who was in that guild. It was... brutal and harsh. I don't know where you got the strength to completely turn your mind around." Lucy said

"Honestly, neither do I. I don't know what made me change my mind, I mean it was Makarov first of all, but I remember that fight I had with flame-brain over there, and well, I saw how you guys stuck together no matter what and I somehow ended up admiring that. Bing in Phantom Lord wasn't pretty, Blondie, I'll tell you that. It was awful and cold, but after Metalicana left I just lost faith in kindness, that dragon left me without even so much as a goodbye, and I felt that it was me that wasn't good enough. I guess I ended up hating everybody cause I thought they didn't find me good enough either, that why I started gaining peoples fear to be respected. I know now how wrong that was, and I'm really grateful for being allowed into Fairy Tail." He took a deep breath when he let his mouth rest and immediately regretted pouring his heart out like that, but he also felt good by getting the burden of his chest. He was happy Lucy had listened to him.

"I know how it feels to not feel good enough. The feeling of being abandoned and neglected can take you to some dark places, but I think it's important to tell yourself that it's nothing wrong with you. You just have to fight through and then suddenly it's all better. I can feel you devotion in finding Levy and I think it's great that you care so much about her, but I think it's more to it than her being family, isn't there?" Lucy picked up a stick and stuck in into the fire to stir it up, it flew millions of glows into the nightly sky and it looked like flying stars above them. "What do you mean by that? After the way I hurt her that time I have to do anything I can to make it up to her. No matter what, I owe her," Gajeel lowered his voice and sighed.

Lucy didn't look at him anymore, her eyes was locked on the dancing flames in the fire, "It's more than that, you don't have to pretend with me. You care for her in a very deep way, you're just too scared to tell her, or even admit it to yourself." She was trying to provoke him, to poke the sleeping dragon and make him realize how obvious he acted.

Gajeel looked at her in disbelieve, was this blonde really teasing him? "Even if I do care for her, I don't deserve to tell her how I feel. Not after what I did to her and her friends."

Lucy turned to him with a sharp look, "I think you're wrong, you've been trying so hard to be a good guild member and she knows that. She knows that you have changed and that you regret what you did. You can't hold on to the past anymore, Gajeel. Let it go or you'll miss your chance of happiness."

"What about you?" he asked. She was confused by his question, what was he talking about so suddenly? He saw her questioning look and figured he had to explain it to her, "I see that way you look at Natsu, don't try to deny it, a dragon senses never fail. Why won't you give happiness a shot?" Lucy was stunned at his words, how could he possibly know about her feelings, she didn't even really know about them herself. "How did you know? I haven't told anybody…"

Gajeel chuckled, surprised to see his sensitive side, eh, Lucy?

"I see myself in you, you're scared to ruin something that's already good. You want to be closer to someone, but risking to be pushed even further away isn't something you do easily. You and I are very much alike on the inside"

"It's different," she demanded

"No, it's not. You're just as scared as me."

Lucy glanced over at Natsu, reminding herself why she couldn't tell him what she felt. How can Gajeel be this sensitive and emotional? He always seem to be so careless about everything…

"I know. But it would change everything, and I'm not sure I'm ready to take that risk, I don't know of I'll ever be ready." Lucy said

"I know how you feel. But now, that Levy is gone i keep thinking what I'll feel like if we never find her."

"We will find her!"

"Yes, but, if we don't, I'll never be able to tell her what I feel. How thankful I am for her forgiveness. I never even told her... How amazing she is." Gajeel rubbed his hands together and shut his eyelids close to stop his eyes from tearing up, but there was more he needed to say, "I think that if you love someone, you owe yourself to tell them. You can't go around burying your feelings forever, it'll tear you apart, and that's what happening to me right now. If you want something you have to fight for it, and if you lose, at least you tried. I think the 'what-could-have-been's is what breaks us down in the long run" Gajeel continued.

"I've never thought about it like that, but even so I don't know where to get the courage to tell him. I'm too scared he'll freak out and that it'll ruin our friendship"

"If you never play, because you're scared of losing, you'll definitely never win."

That last remark stuck to Lucy's mind for the next days.

End of chapter one

So, what did you think? I know the beginning leads on to a fic with a lot of action and violence, but that's not me, yet at least. I've never written anything like that and it could take sometime before I try doing it. I'll stick to romance, or what ever you'd call it, for now. We'll see how this one turns out, please let me know what you think of this first chapter, should I keep working on it or start a new project?