Tir na nOg

The Mission

Dedicated to Star_May the first person to read my story.

The Official video of Tir Na NOg is above for those who want to listen to it. I will post a lyric video in the next chapter. I got more from seeing the words personally, but the music video is just so magical. (No pun intended.) Anyway without further adieu.

Levy

"Gajeel! Hurry up; we are almost there." I yelled as I sprinted ahead, turning around briefly so I could stick my tongue out at Gajeel. I know he hates it. That's why I do it; it makes up for him calling me Shrimp all the time. We have just left for a 2-month mission, (actually it's more like ten smaller missions) there has been a small cluster of villages being attacked by Bandits, Monsters, Demons, and the like. Since they aren't very far from one another, the villagers decided to put their money together and have one big reward instead of 10 smaller ones, which would have cost them more in the long run.

"Yeah yeah... I'm com.... Geez Shrimp, you know I HATE when you do that!" Gajeel huffed as he pushed his sprint into a full on run to catch up with me.

"You do?" I responded innocently. "You've never mentioned that before." Dang, it was so much fun to mess with Gajeel! "Hey LOOK! We are finally here!!!" I stopped suddenly as I yelled in excitement, almost blowing Gajeel's eardrum in the process. I almost feel sorry, ALMOST.

Gajeel didn't say anything; I'm assuming because he was still recovering from my yell. I smiled slightly to myself. It had been a week worth of travel, but we were finally here. Poor Gajeel though, first a train, then a ship, then back to a different train, and then a small sail boat. He begged me to walk this last part of the journey, and although I wasn't too excited about it, I had reluctantly agreed. It was a 2-day walk. But I honestly couldn't see the poor Dragon Slayer in pain anymore.

"Hey Shrimp, I hate to burst your tiny bubble, but it's still a ways off and getting late, We'll set up camp here for the night and get there in the early morning, ok?"

"It's not that late... We could still get there before dark." I exclaimed even knowing as I did so he was right. It was still about 6 miles to the first town, and the sun was close to setting. I was a bit annoyed at that thought of taking another whole night to get to the comfort.

Gajeel didn't respond; he just looked at me with a glare that seemed to speak for itself, it said... You know I'm right.

"UGH fine!!!! But I'm getting you up before dawn so we can get moving!" I huffed as I crossed my arms in defiance and plopped down angrily on a nearby rotting log.
To be honest wanting to be in a warm bed was only part of the reason I was in such a rush to get to the inn. There's a horrible secret I've been hiding from everyone at the guild for the past couple months, and no, I'm not pregnant. I wish I were though; anything would be better then what I have to hide right now.

It's just pretty hard to hide with Gajeel and his advanced dragon senses around all the time. It definitely would be easier if I were on my own for this mission. But my friends at the guild would never let that happen.

I turned to look at Gajeel, he had already set up my sleeping pack and was now cooking something over the fire. I couldn't help but admire the way he moved as he sauntered around the camp, so confident with himself. There was something so... intoxicating the way he moved. Just as I thought that Gajeel turns looks at me. I know I'm blushing, I can't help it.

Gajeel acts as if he doesn't notice instead asking with a smirk. "Want some food shrimp?"

I shake my head, "Not hungry; I'm headed to bed." I didn't mean for my response to come out so sharp, but it did nonetheless.

"Ok shrimp," I heard a voice say as I rolled over in my sleeping bag.