Beauty and the Beast

Day and Night

The Night... Nuit... Nacht... Noche...It doesn't matter what language you put that word in, the night belongs to him...he is the night, ...the darkness that lurks around every dark corner. He is the bogey man that hides underneath childrens beds. He is their worst nightmare...the name that many fear to speak out loud in fear that he will appear right in front of them...He is Gajeel...Black Steel Gajeel, the mighty warrior for Phantom Lord.

Sitting down in the dinning hall of the big and now infamous Phantom Lord thanks to their attack on the weak Fairy Tail, Gajeel Redfox sits there in the darkest corner away from the rest of the guild wizards, chowing down on his favorite thing to eat, Iron.

They may have lost to Fairy Tail, but Phantom Lord relishes in the victory of at least plucking wings off of a few fairy's. Gajeel taking down a good amount of fairy's out of the sky if he does say so himself, though for some reason...that first fairy of the night...he can't forget for some reason. He may have taken her down, but there was something about her, something different from the rest of her fairy friends...

What am I thinking? I took that fairy down, end of discussion...there's no reason for me to be thinking about her still...

He could think about his revenge to salamander instead, the one and only fairy he couldn't take down. The very thought of that pink haired freak rages Gajeel to chomp down his iron faster, prepping for the next time he meets salamander and gives him the iron knuckle sandwich he deserves. Then out of nowhere, hair as blue as a clear sunny sky comes before Gajeel's eyes then vanishes as soon as it appears.

Fairy?!...

The thought of her being here stops Gajeel's rage eating and causes him to suddenly stand up, surprising everyone around him into sudden heart attacks as he looks around for that brilliantly beautiful blue hair.,but all he see's are the rodents from his so called guild...

Of course she isn't here.. Gajeel laughs quietly at himself for his stupidity. I beat that little fairy up pretty good...I'm pretty sure her small body is lying somewhere in the hospital by now...and even if she was fine, there's no way she'd be here of all places.

Going back to his nightly snacking, Gajeel stares off into space as he chews on his iron as if it was as soft as bread.

("You'll never break me! Cause I know my Fairy Tail friends have my back, they'll always be right besides me...cause that's what makes us friends...we're family, and no amount of strength in the world will break that bond we have in Fairy Tail, you hear me!")

Shaking himself out of his thoughts, Gajeel frowns at himself.

I thought I was gonna stop thinking about that puny little fairy...family...huh...

What they have at Phantom Lord is far from anything like being a family, but Gajeel never minded that, he didn't care since the only one he could of called family left and disappeared, leaving him behind. If that's what family does, leave you behind to take care and fend for yourself, that was something Gajeel didn't want or need.

It was then seven years ago he was found wandering aimlessly as a young boy by the master of the Phantom Lord guild, who then took him in, feeding him, clothing him, and teaching him the things he needed to know in the world. But even after all of that, it wasn't really like having a family. The master may have took in Gajeel, but he never loved or truly cared for Gajeel.

Who needs love...who needs family...all I need is power...

Deciding that his appetite was lost by his own thoughts, Gajeel stands up and storms out of the guild hill, his guild mates quickly moving out of his way in fear. This is the true Gajeel, striking fear into peoples hearts and bodies just by his very presence. He is very much like a beast of night...