Chapter 15

Levy

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Alumina made her way around the brawling men within the Guild Hall, heading straight for a door near the bar. She jumped back a little to avoid having Elfman fall on top of her as Gajeel flung the large man away.

In an instant Elfman was back in his feet and fighting, Alumina quickly rushed over to the door and pushed it open, stepping inside and closing it softly behind her. The loud sounds coming from the main part of the hall were muffled by the shut door, and she turned around to see what was on the inside.

Books

Hundreds and hundreds of large shelves rose up in front of her, all filled up with hundreds more books.

Levy is a Bookworm... So this makes sense, I suppose...

She walked forward slowly, passing between shelves and constantly glancing up. The shelves towered over her, and she was getting a little unnerved by the close confines in this room.

Mira had told her Levy had gone into the library a bit ago, and explained she would be able to find the Script-Mage here. But Mira didn't tell her that the Library was a labyrinth. She was more likely to get lost, before ever finding Levy in here.

Alumina kept heading forward, constantly looking around.

"Levy?" Alumina called out quietly.

The sudden sound of crashing caused Alumina to stop, and she heard someone let out a low hiss of pain.

Alumina sped up and turned sharply down another row of books, stopping upon seeing several books on the floor. Levy was crouching on the ground holding her head, Alumina walked forward quickly.

"Are you ok?" Alumina asked. Levy looked up in surprise, her cheeks were damp with tears she must have shed not too long ago, and Alumina frowned a little.

"Oh, uh.. Yeah, yeah!" Levy replied quickly and grabbed a few book as he stood up. "I'm fine, I just hit my head on the shelf when I was looking through the books." Levy explained, replacing the books she had picked up back on the shelf.

Alumina blinked once, before bending down and helping to pick up the fallen books along with Levy. Once they were done, Levy gave her a smile and wiped the water off her cheeks.

"Are you sure you're ok?" Alumina asked again, worried that Levy had hit her head harder than she was letting on. Levy nodded,

"Yes, I'm sure." Levy told her and turned around as she started heading down the shelves, her hands skimming over the books. "Did you need something?" Levy asked her.

"No, not really. I was just wondering where you had run off to.." Alumina told her slowly. "..So I could see if you were ok."

"Well, more than often I'm in here." Levy told her as she read the title of a book she had paused at, before continuing. "Thanks for worrying though, its sweet." Levy smiled a little and turned away as she began walking through the shelves. Alumina followed her, not wanting to risk getting lost. Silence passed between them and Alumina stayed close to the Script-Mage.

"I'm glad you joined the Guild, Alumina..." Levy said quietly and Alumina blinked in surprise. "What you said in the Main Hall... It was exactly what everyone needed to hear." Levy explained, and stopped, turning to face her.

"So you heard that?" Alumina asked, she didn't remember seeing Levy in the hall earlier.

"Of course, you got everyone listening to you." Levy laughed lightly. "But thank you for saying it, its great to see people back to their old selves." Levy told her with a warm smile. "Master's right, you really do fit in here."

Alumina blinked in shock at the Script-Mage standing before her, not believing what she was hearing. She was slightly flustered by it too, and she gave Levy a smile.

"Thanks." She murmured.

"You're welcome!" Levy said cheerfully.

"You know, there actually was something I wanted to ask you." Alumina said as she tapped a finger to her chin, just now remembering.

"Hmm?"

"Ever heard of GameMaker Magic?" Alumina asked and Levy blinked a few times.

"GameMaker Magic..?" Levy echoed and her eyes narrowed in thought. "Huh... I might have..." Levy said quietly, almost to herself as she turned around and started walking.

Alumina followed after her quickly, Levy started sweeping her doe brown gaze over the books on either side of her as she passed.

"It sounds familiar, I just don't remember where I read it..." Levy murmured as she came to a halt, and reached up to grab a book off the shelf. She skimmed through it quickly and put it back, turning, and walking again. "Why do you ask?" Levy said as she glanced over her shoulder at Alumina briefly.

"Fought against a woman who used GameMaker Magic on my mission with Erza and Happy." Alumina explained.

"Oh, are you ok? I noticed the bandages on your arm." Levy asked and Alumina nodded a little.

"Yeah, I'm fine its just a minor slash." Alumina replied.

Levy came to a sudden stop and looked up at a shelf of books, eyes narrowed. Alumina glanced up too, trying to see what she was looking at. Levy let out an annoyed sigh and glanced around,

"I think that's the book up there." Levy said pointing at a book with gold letters and a dark leather cover, "But I'm not tall enough to reach it," her eyes switched over Alumina.

Alumina blinked and reached up, standing on her toes, her fingers just barely grazed the bottom of the shelf the book sat on, and she stopped trying to reach it. She sighed silently and glanced around, trying to come up with another way to reach it.

"You're not tall enough either..." Levy murmured.

Levy wouldn't have gotten close, being a small as she already was. But Alumina wasn't small, in fact she was rather tall. But even she couldn't reach it, and it only began to annoy her when she realized it.

"Such a Shrimp."

Alumina and Levy jumped at the gruff voice, and they stared in shock to see a scarred arm with metal piercing's in it, reach up and pull the book off the shelf, handing it to Levy. Both girls stared wide-eyed at Gajeel as they suddenly noticed him there, they hadn't even heard him coming, or seen him walk up.

"G-Gajeel...?" Levy stammered.

"You got to work on gettin' bigger, Shrimp." Gajeel huffed at her, parting her head a little. "How else are you gonna reach books like that?" He asked and Levy looked away.

"Why do I need to get bigger when you are always around to reach them for me...?" Levy murmured with a slight blush dusting her cheeks. Gajeel stopped patting her head in an instant, "Thanks for getting it for me." Levy told him quietly, and Gajeel blushed faintly too.

Alumina smiled at the scene, she was giggling on the inside at how cute the two were.

Gajeel pulled his hand away, keeping a straight face, beside the faint blush, crossed his arms over his chest and looked away.

"Whatever." He huffed.

Alumina stepped forward to stand behind Levy and placed her hands on the smaller girls shoulders.

"Like Levy said, thanks for getting the book down, Gajeel. Now we can start looking for the information again." Alumina thanked him, and he glanced her way out of the corner of his eye. He shrugged and looked away again, Alumina smirked as she leaned down a little to get close to Levy's ear. "You two are so cute!" Alumina whispered excitedly and immediately Levy's face turned bright red.

Alumina glanced up at Gajeel to see his face had turned bright red too, he had heard what she said thanks to his Dragon Ears. Alumina laughed at them a little,

"H-how about we get back to what we were doing?" Levy asked hastily, desperately trying to steer away from what Alumina had said to her. Alumina nodded and let Levy lead the way, as the Script-Mage passed he she gave her a playful look.

Levy and Gajeel wouldn't get out of this so easily...

As Levy lead the way, Alumina noticed that Gajeel followed behind both of them slowly. The shelves stopped as they came across a lounge area with a few couches and comfy chairs spread around some coffee tables. Levy plopped down into one of the armchairs, while Alumina sat across from her on a couch, Gajeel leaned up against the side of a shelf, not looking interested, but listening all the same.

Levy opened the book and started to flip through it, her eyes darting back and forth as she read what was printed in the book. Alumina watched her silently,

"What are you two trying to find anyway?" Gajeel asked in his gruff tone and Alumina glanced his way.

"I met a woman who used a magic I've never heard of before on my mission with Erza and Happy." Alumina explained. "Levy's helping me find out more about it." She finished.

Silence passed again until Levy stopped flipping pages and her eyes narrowed in thought as she continued reading.

"Here we go," Levy said as she straightened up, "GameMaker Magic is a relatively unknown magic that was created by combining Maker Magic and Creativity Magic." Levy read out loud, "The details of the magic are currently unfinished and not a lot had been recorded of its usage." Levy explained and glanced up.

"All it says is the user is able to create whatever it is they need, in order to make a Game, or Competition, something along those lines. The amount of power of the caster determines how much one person can create, and how difficult and elaborate their 'Games' will be." Levy told her. "What was the woman's magic like?" Levy asked, now looking very interested now.

Alumina blinked once, then sweatdropped a little. "Oh, it was very...uh... Elaborate." Alumina told her. "A big Hedge Maze filled with traps and Monsters, where Erza was separated from Happy and I when the woman transported us into the Game." Alumina told her. "It took all day to get through, we didn't get back till midnight last night." She explained.

"That sounds amazing!" Levy murmured excitedly, "This woman must have been pretty powerful then, too bad she was trying to hurt you." Levy said. "You would think that if somebody who uses GameMaker Magic might be able to use it for fun things too."

"Sounds like they could, it is too bad that woman was a part of a Dark Guild." Alumina agreed.

"Gajeel!" They all turned to the sound of the voice, and blinked in surprise to see PantherLily walking toward them, looking relatively annoyed. Gajeel looked toward his Exceed partner with a raised eyebrow, and Lily stopped before them.

"What's up?" Gajeel huffed. Lily didn't answer right away once he noticed who Gajeel was with, and Alumina could see a smirk pulling at his lips when he realized one of them wasLevy.

"You walked away right in the middle of the match." Lily said with a stern tone. "A true warrior would never just up and leave a battle." He scolded his partner.

Gajeel looked away from him, his red eyes glancing up toward the ceiling as he let out an annoyed sigh.

"Fine," he muttered, looking back down at Lily. "I don't see the point of brawling with those idiots though." He growled under his breath, heading straight past Lily. Lily looked toward Alumina and Levy,

"Coming?" He asked the two. Alumina and Levy exchanged glances, before Levy closed the book and stood up with Alumina.

"Alright."

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