A sprinkle of attraction (A GaLe fanfic) Book 2 of 'Sprinkle of' series

《Chapter ❻》 『An Intimidating Encounter』

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Levy's POV
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I sat on the bed, blushing madly. I tried to comprehend what had just happen but my mind was all over the place. Did he just kiss me? This isnt a dream is it?
I pinched my arm just to make sure that this wasnt a dream, and to my surprise, it wasnt.
"Lev? Are you in here?" I heard someone call out, I then saw the dark blue hair of my brother followed by his face peek through the door.
"Ah! Lev, with everything going on, I just wanted to say- huh?! Lev, your face is all red! Are you okay?!" he yelled, "Y-yeah...I think." I managed to mutter out.
"What happened?"
"Gajeel...kissed me." I softly replied, I can't believe I'm telling Lucas about this.
"He what!? That bastard."
"N-no! I mean, argh I'm so confused, I liked it but..."
"But..?"
I screamed into my pillow, "Boys are so confusing!" I yelled.
"Hehe, I guess so." he replied ruffling my hair, he then stood up and left. I wonder what he was going to tell me?

After everyone had left, we all sat down for dinner, Grandine's homemade curry rice.
"Wendy, uh could you do me a favour and turn off the lights in the kitchen please?" Grandine asked as we all started eating, "Sure."
Wendy got up and proceeded towards the kitchen, she went in and the lights went off.
We continued eating for a few more seconds until Natsu stood up.
"Luce! Start the car! Levy! Gajeel! Go with her! Now!" he yelled, I could hear a slight tone of worry in his voice, we all nodded and got up.
"Natsu dear, whats wrong?" Grandine asked, he ran to the kitchen and flicked on the light. "Wendy's gone!"

Nastu sped down the street as we followed a van through the suburb.
"Oi! Salamander! Slow down!" Gajeel spoke up, "My sister is in danger, and out of all the things, you want me to slow down!?" He replied in a loud tone.
"Well if you want to be alive when we get to her then yes! Slow the fuck down!" Gajeel argued.
"Both of you! Stop it! This isn't the time!" Lucy intervened, the boys just let out a loud sigh and calmed down.
"Natsu, the van turned into that alleyway, I advise we get on foot, its a dead end so it might be a trap. It would be safer if we didn't drive."
"Alright Levy, if you say so."

We all walked into the dimly lit alley, it reeked of rotten food and garbage.
"There, thats the van!" Lucy whispered. We all took cover behind some crates scattered around, we watched as two masked men carried Wendy's limp body out of the vehicle
"Get your filthy hands of Wendy!" Natsu hissed, "Shh! Natsu, don't blow our cover!"
The men started talking, we tried focusing on their conversation, it was hard since they were talking rather soft but we did manage to hear some information
'Do you think the boss would be proud that we managed to keep her alive?'
'I wonder how much she'd sell for'
And
'Those brats are probably heading here soon so lets get this over and done with'

I tried to listen in a bit more but suddenly a pair of rough, dark toned hands grabbed my face, covering my mouth and holding a tight grip around it, making it so I couldn't scream.
"Now, look what we have here. Aren't you Metallicana's son's girlfriend?" a deep voice spoke. The sound coming out from his mouth, the words sounded...dark.
"I wonder how happy he would be if I brought your dead body to him." he whispered into my ear, his breath was as cold as ice.
He then held a small dagger to my neck, "Lets make this quick shall we?"
"I would recommend that you get your hands off my shrimp right now." Gajeel spoke as he twisted the man's arm backwards. Although I couldn't physically see it, there seemed to be a red aura around him, his face showed it all.
I quickly scrambled away from the man's reach and managed to look him in his face.
His tanned face, his dark hair. It reminds me of someone, not entirely sure who, but he seems so similar.
"You...aren't you Rogue's father? I remember you back from elementary school. You, weren't you presumed dead after Igneel defeated you?"
"Thing is boy," he spoke, forcing his arm free of Gajeel's grip. By now several henchmen had found us out and decided to attack us, Natsu, Lucy and Gajeel all had their hands full, meaning that I had to deal with this psycho myself.
"Not everyone goes down so easily. Now I would love to pay him back by killing his daughter right now, but simply killing her wouldn't be right, instead why don't I send her body piece by piece back to Igneel. However, Metallicana wants you, dead or alive, but for me, I would slowly slice you up since you seem to be friends with my son as well, so you better prepare yourself young girl because you're in for a world of hurt!" he yelled before lunging towards me with his knife pointed straight at my stomach.
I jumped out of the way, his knife narrowly missing me, instead cutting my shirt. I flipped backwards and away from him, I guess those five years of gymnastics really paid off! "You bitch! Get back here!" he yelled, charging at me again. I miraculously managed to kick the knife out of his hands, but that just made things a whole lot worse. He pulled out a gun and aimed it at my head. "You know what, slowly killing you would be a waste of my time so I'll end you right here, right now" He hissed.
"Shrimp!" Gajeel yelled across the alley.