An Iron Galaxy. ¤ Gajeel Redfox Love Story

Vol 3. Promises. #7

Amy returns to the guild, but as it turns out, so are Gajeel and Lily. They were getting ready to leave when Amy got to their house. She hides behind Gajeel in order to sneak to the back without being seen. Even though she's on a break, she stays curious if any interesting nearby jobs have arrived. The job request board is almost empty. Most of the job requests that are still available are relatively easy, at least for Amy. She is hesitating though. She has nothing to do, nowhere to be. Is there something she could do to help time speed up? Amy thinks it over due to the fact that she's still recovering.
Amy her attention is drawn by a loud bang in the middle of the guild hall, bursting her thoughts.

"You know you can't win, right Natsu?" It's Gildarts. He returned recently from his job. He knocked Natsu down again after another attempt to defeat him. Next thing they know, Gray also gives it a try with his Ice Molding magic. And despite the cheering from Juvia, he also gets knocked down. Gildarts is laughing.
"Please, feel free to try again!" but instead of Natsu and Gray giving it another try, they pick a fight with each other.
"How dare you go for Gildarts, Gray?! He's mine to beat! You should stay out it!"
"Oh yeah? You can't even beat me, you pathetic lizard slayer!"
"I've beaten you a hundred times Gray! Don't lie, you frozen popsicle!" And the insults go on and on, even a few punches are given, causing multiple fights throughout the entire guild. Others also fall into fight with each other for no reason.. Even Gajeel gets caught in a fight with Elfman, even though they did not taunt each other.

She walks up to Mirajane at the bar.
"What is up with everyone, Mira?" Mirajane smiles.
"Nothing special really. But we always get a little more energized when Gildarts returns. Especially Natsu." Amy sighs..
"Just another day in the guild, is it not?"

A few moments later the fights start to settle down. Most people are still yelling but exhausted from fighting over nothing while others are just done fighting in all kind of ways.

In the meantime Amy began to doodle in her sketchbook. Unfortunately, they aren't happy doodles, but rather sad or dark ones. She can't help but to draw her dreams again. Previous sketchbooks are full of her nightmares. Even spending the night with someone as strong and secretly protective as Gajeel didn't do the trick.

"Amy-chan!" Levy calls for her, bursting her bubble. Her timing could not be more perfect, seriously. Amy was about to get sucked into her bad dreams. She closes her book as Levy is walking up to her.
"Let's train together! I've sparred too much with Droy and Jett, it gets boring and predictable, haha."
"Ehm, combat or magic?" Amy asks.
"Mostly combat.. Kyaa, I suck at combat really." She's acting all cute and ashamed, but Amy couldn't be more happy to help. Combat is something Amy really excels in, at least, that is what her teacher used to say. She grants Levy a big smile and responds.
"I'd love to!" As she gets up from the bar she notices Gajeel, glaring at her, as if he's in a trance. She decides smile and wave, adding an innocent wink. Before following Levy, Amy also notices that her action bursts his bubble and he begins to blush. He looks away with a fake grumpy expression and waves back. It makes her blush as well and she begins to giggle.

While Amy and Levy are heading out, Gajeel tries to realize what just happen. Without any sound he watched Amy draw. Even when Levy walked up to her, he only had eyes for her. As she leaves she looks at him. Gajeel is still in his trance until she winked and waved at him. His eyes follow her as she runs after Levy. He is absolutely clueless of what they are going to do or where they are headed. Why can Levy walk up to every single person in this guild and talk to them, while Gajeel is too stubborn to let anyone in and ends up on is own, most of the time. He's starstruck.. Somehow he really liked that Amy came to his house to thank him, on the other hand: he wouldn't mind if she stayed..

'Damn.. She might not know it yet, but she has me wrapped around her fingers!'