Good Intentions

First Misgivings

Disclaimer: All Fairy Tail Characters Belong to Hiro Mashima.

Chapter 8: First Misgivings

Wendy Marvell, Fairy Tail's Sky Dragon Slayer was troubled. She couldn't explain why exactly she was troubled but she was a healer and she knew when someone felt off. She had been having that feeling about Natsu Dragneel for the last few days. Ever since the night that Gajeel had been telling them stories about his missions. The mere fact that the Fire Dragon Slayer had been sitting with the Iron Dragon Slayer instead of his team was a big sign. Then there was the issue of his scent being different. She had hoped that the other scent was temporary and that Natsu would go back to normal but instead it had intensified and had become more him than his own scent.

Another guild member that was troubling her was Fairy Tail's only ice mage, Gray Fullbuster. He also had the same strange scent mixed in with his own natural scent. She had noticed it that same night when she had been sitting at Team Natsu's table. Like Natsu, that scent had now intensified to be stronger than his own. She had made sure to check Lucy and Erza without them noticing but neither one of them carried the strange scent. Whatever this was only affected the ice and fire mages.

Soon after, she had been surprised to smell Natsu and Gray's scents mingling on each other in a way that made it clear that they had entered some kind of relationship. However, instead of their scents mingling into one as was expected it was the other smell that had intensified. She did not know what that meant. She had been watching them and if they were indeed in a relationship they were keeping it to themselves for the time being. She needed the Iron Dragon Slayer to help her confirm her suspicions but he wasn't exactly known for his discretion and she knew that he would love to have something to lord over the Salamander. He was also friendly with Juvia Lockser who was unhealthily obsessed with her Gray-sama. Nothing good would come of Juvia finding out about them before they were ready for people to know.

When she noticed Gajeel sitting alone at his usual table she decided to approach him for help. She steeled herself and sat down across from the Iron Dragon Slayer.

"Good afternoon, Gajeel-san", Wendy greeted, "May I speak to you for a moment?"

"Sure thing Squirt, what's up?", the Iron Dragon Slayer answered affably.

"I need your help with something but I need you to promise me that you won't talk to anyone else about it.", Wendy looked at him hopefully.

"What do you need help with?", Gajeel asked curiously.

"It's about Natsu-san.", Wendy replied carefully.

"Salamander? What about him?", Gajeel was definitely interested now.

"You have to promise you won't talk about this to anyone and that includes Levy.", Wendy said firmly. She was not about to hand him this type of information without extracting a promise first.

Gajeel looked at Wendy and saw that she looked troubled. Whatever she was worried about was important to her. He would love to have something on the Salamander but not at the cost of the the young girl's trust. He sighed and gave her his promise.