A Metal Rose

🌹 The Coddiwomple

Coddiwomple 
(v.)
English
"To travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination."
Ex: "Akemi always wants to help people, no matter the task. I guess she coddiwomple herself into these things."

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   "You're polite and cultured, just like me!"

   "And I think your wild and cool charms are precisely like my own! You should know that I am very talented at singing and musical instruments."

   "Oh! That's another thing we have in common!"

The two Gajeel's jumped apart and bumped elbows, grinning madly at each other.

   "Ah, is the bro-fest done?" Gabbriel pouted from behind the two, raising an eyebrow at them. 

   "You're just jealous that we haven't found your Edolas counterpart!" Gajeel chuckled, grabbing Gabbey into a choke hold and ruffling her hair. "Aw, poor Gabbey!"

   "Get off me!" Gabbriel snapped with a smile on her face, shoving Gajeel away and fixing her hair. "So not cool!"

   "I see. . .that you and your sister are close," Edo-Gajeel said slowly, watching the two of them interact with each other. 

   "She's the only family I have left," Gajeel grunted, throwing an arm over her shoulder. "Don't know what I would do without her."

   "We may fight, but we'll always be at each others' side," Gabbey commented, looking around the cobblestone path they were on. 

Edo-Gajeel furrowed his eyebrows - a thing this Gajeel actually had - before simply nodding. 

   "By the way," Gajeel started, walking forwards once he noted where they were. "Could you do something for us?"

   "Which is?"

   "A number of my buddies should be coming through here," Gajeel peaked around the corner, Gabbey right behind him as they stared at the group of soldiers. "I'm sure they'll cause a big commotion before long."

   "And then," Edo-Gajeel put the pieces together. "Sure. I'll let you know right away. My information network has its fingers even inside the Kingdom and the Exceed. . ."

   "We're counting on you. We'll make our move based on that," Gajeel sent a sly grin to Edo-Gajeel as Gabbey and him started walking away. 

   "Be careful," Edo-Gajeel paused. "Both of you."

   "Same to you," The twins replied in sync. 

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Akemi couldn't help it. She loved to go an adventures, and she loved meeting new people. Helping people was the one thing she also loved to do. She was a people person. 

When the other world Wendy, Lucy, and Natsu explained briefly what had happened, how they needed help to fight for their guild, everyone in her guild knew what was coming. 

So, Akemi joined the three humans and two cats on their trip. Well, exceeds. It was a long process to explain to the older girl, but she did stop bowing down. 

Even when her Lucy left to go gather their guild, she stayed. Akemi started a mission, and she wasn't going to stop until she finished it. 

Akemi also loved to learn new things. So, hearing there was another world with their counterparts, she just had to find out all that she could. What kind of magic they had, if their culture was any difference from theirs, everything about the place. She even asked about her counterpart, but none of the Earthland people have met her other self yet.