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Sweeney Todd AU

Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd - Gajeel

Lucy Barker - Levy

Mrs. Lovett - Evergreen

Anthony Hope - Gray

Johanna Barker - Juvia

Judge Turpin - Laxus

Beadle Bramford - Freed

Adolfo Pirelli - Bickslow

Toby - Romeo

Gajeel Redfox was once a peaceful and kind man who lived happily with his beautiful wife Levy and their baby daughter Juvia, but his happiness is shattered when the corrupted Judge Laxus Dreyar lusts after his wife and has Gajeel transported from Magnolia to a prison on false charges. Seventeen years later Gajeel is brought back to Magnolia by Gray a young sailor who befriends him.

Gajeel returns to his home to find his family gone. He learns from his neighbor Evergreen that during his time away, Laxus pursued Levy but she remained faithful to her husband. Eventually Laxus raped Levy and when she went to report it to the authorities the judge convinces the court that she's mad from grief and deems her to be an unfit parent so baby Juvia was taken from her and placed in the judge's care. With the two people she loved most in her life gone, Levy takes arsenic and (according to Evergreen) dies from it. Angry and vengeful, Gajeel vows to kill Laxus for what he's done to him no matter what.

Meanwhile Juvia now a beautiful young woman has grown up isolated in the judge's house, forbidden to have contact with anyone from the outside world and raised to believe that she had been abandoned by her parents with birds as her only companions. One day Gray hears her singing to the birds from her window and is almost immediately smitten with her. He calls out to her, they start talking, and they start to like each other but the conversation is cut short by a jealous Laxus who warns Gray to never speak or even look at his ward again. He also has his second in command Freed beat him up to make his point. However the two still see each other by having Gray secretly sneak into her room and paying a mentally ill beggar woman to deliver messages between them.

As Gajeel plans his revenge against Laxus, he re opens his barber shop and changes his name. Luckily only a few people recognize him, one of which is Bickslow a rival barber who threatens to expose Gajeel to Laxus unless he drops out of business. Panicked, he isn't sure what to do. Evergreen urges him to kill the man to which he complies and he slits Bickslow's throat. They hide his body and taken in his young assistant Romeo who becomes very fond of Evergreen. Before long Gajeel decides to kill men who he believes are evil hoping that will draw the judge out. On the side Evergreen tries to seduce Gajeel but he ignores her advances.

As for Gray and Juvia, during all their secret visits and messages they fall in love. But Laxus is lusting after Juvia just as he had lusted after her mother. Desperate to keep her all to himself he decides to marry her. Naturally she's horrified and disgusted by this and rejects him but he threatens to force himself on to her if she doesn't accept him. In tears she tells Gray who proposes that they elope together and she accepts but Freed over hears their plan and informs Laxus. In response the judge decides to send her to an asylum.

With Gajeel being his only known friend, Gray goes to him for help. He agrees to help him so that he can be reunited with his daughter and gives him the idea to pose as a wig maker to get into the asylum then provide his shop as a hiding place for them. But Freed has heard their plan and rushes to warn Laxus but Gajeel and Evergreen chase him down and kill him. Later Gray rescues Juvia from the asylum, disguises her as a sailor, and brings her to Gajeel's shop. Laxus sees them and follows them with the intention of killing Gray and reclaiming Juvia but he runs into Gajeel who tells him that she's repented and offers him a free shave which he agrees to.

Gray leaves to get a carriage and the beggar woman enters the shop, she appears to recognize Juvia and starts to cry and hug her much to the girl's confusion. When they see Gajeel and Laxus coming the two of them hide. As Gajeel shaves Laxus he reveals to him who he is and after angrily berating him he slits his throat. He finds Juvia but does not recognize her due to her disguise and he believes her to be a spy for Laxus so he tries to kill her. But as he moves his blade to strike the beggar woman throws herself in front of Juvia causing her to be fatally stabbed instead. Juvia's hat and scarf falls off, exposing her long hair and fair face allowing Gajeel to finally recognize her as his lost daughter. Horrified that he had almost killed his own child he realizes that he's become no better than Laxus and that Juvia would be better off with Gray than him and he tells her to leave which she does.

Evergreen walks in and she starts to panic when she sees the beggar woman and desperately tries to get rid of her body. Suspicious, Gajeel takes a closer look at the mortally wounded beggar woman and recognizes her as his wife Levy who did not die from taking the arsenic but instead had gone mad. As she dies, some of her sanity returns and she tells her husband that she can now die happy knowing that her daughter is finally free and that she got to see him again. Evergreen is then forced to admit that she lied about Levy's death because she wanted him for herself. Enraged he kills her and in tears, cradles his wife's dead body in his arms.

Romeo having learned Gajeel's secret as a murderer kills him to prevent him from harming anyone else and to avenge Evergreen. Gray returns just in time to see Gajeel die alongside Levy but not before he begs Gray (Who had earlier deduced that Gajeel was in fact Juvia's true father) not to tell Juvia the truth about him declaring that she has suffered enough pain in her life. After this Gray reunites with Juvia and they leave to town to marry. During the carriage ride out of town Juvia mentions how she would like to find out about her parents one day and he replies that it's better she doesn't know but assures her that both of her parents loved her more than she would ever know.