Ghosts of the past

Chapter 7 : Rain

Hello everyone!

Here's a chapter in which our characters get the chance to know each other a little more.

Enjoy! Lily xx

Levy kept her eyes looked on Gajeel's. She really believed what she told him. While her first impression of the guy, only a couple of days before, was disastrous, she was now seeing him in a completely different way. No profoundly bad person would have helped her the way he did. For a reason she didn't quite understand yet, she was determined to believe in him even though he didn't himself.

As for the problem in which she had unconsciously dragger him and Juvia in, she planned to set things right, at least the best she could. If he thought she would stay here, waiting whit her hams crossed, he was sorely mistaken.

"There must be someone I can talk to!" she insisted.

"For God's sake! You really are stubborn!" Got upset Gajeel. "Keep that in your head once and for all!" he yelled, bringing his face closer to hers, "no one in Phantom will help you! No one!"

"What if I speak to someone above Phantom?"

"Good luck for that."

"The king?" She suggested, destabilizing him. "The organisation may be independent, the king certainly has an authority on it, right?"

Gajeel stared at her for a moment, seeming to think about it a little.

"That idea is stupid" he growled.

It was obviously the only answer he had found, told herself Levy. Whatever, it was her only hope to help them.

"Like you so kindly remind me every ten seconds, I'm small and can't really defend myself. If there's something I'm really good at, it's using words."

"And you are using way too much words right now" he complained.

"You really are unbearable!" She exclaimed, punching him in the chest.

Her fist was sore, but that, no way she was showing it.

"Gihi! It's not hard to believe you can't protect yourself with such lame punches! I bet it hurts you more to punch than the one you actually hit."

"Well show me how to fight if your so good!"

"Why would I want to waste my time on a shrimp like you?"

Anger quickly took over the young woman. Who does he think he his? Yes, she was puny and weak! She had been an idiot thinking he would give her some importance.

"Stupid Gajeel!" she shouted, turning back, making a few quick steps towards the exit.

Then she stumbled once more in her hurry because of her still wounded leg. That was really not the time to fall, she blamed herself, her cheeks on fire, trying without success to rise like nothing just happened.

"Hey! No need to get all worked up like that", sighed Gajeel, reaching her in only two steps. "You'll hurt yourself."

"Why don't you say that I'm too weak to walk, while you're at it!"

"You really are annoying! I'm just saying to calm down. Right now, there's no training possible in your state."

Levy didn't answer. For one of the first times in her life, she was out of words. Had he really just mention training?

"Don't look at me that way!"

"You'd really agree to train me?"

"Jeez! It really is complicated in there" sighed the young man, gently tapping her forehead. "Wasn't it what you just asked?"