I appeared near the docks of the town where my next target is. I was still injured from the fight and I didn't heal myself as I wanted to use it to my advantage to meet her. My target this time lives in a secluded corner of this port town with her grandmother from what I can tell. There wasn't much information about her past in the canon so it took some time to find her. Luckily I already did, because I wouldn't have had the time to do so after attacking that last time on Achnologia. My target this time is the pet.i.t and cheerful bookworm of Fairy Tail.

Levy McGarden.

As I said before not much of her past was told in the original storyline so I have to really put in effort in order to win her heart as I don't know which events will happen in her life and what led her to join Fairy Tail. I need to come up with various situations to meet her and slowly make my way to her heart.

As soon as I appeared, I searched for Levi and found her helping her grandmother around in their house. It looks like it will take some time for her to come out of her house so I'll just wait here. And boy did I wait.

I laid there leaning on a wall constantly keeping tracks on her movement and guess what. She didn't come out of her house for a week. I just sat there like an idiot with dazed look and just kept on waiting. That's it, I have to do something about it.

Hm, ah that's it. I sent the smell of my blood through s.p.a.ce to right in front of her face. She frowned a bit and started looking around to the source of the smell and as she stood up to find it I kept moving the smell, leading her to my direction as I teleported near the window of her room and pretended to be unconscious.

As she opened the window she gave a shriek upon finding a similar aged boy unconscious and bloodied and ran to find her grandmother. After a while they came to the place I was and checked for any signs of vitality. Upon sensing that I was just unconscious, they quickly brought me inside where Levy's grandmother cleaned my body with the help of Levy who had a bright red face upon seeing my naked body. And the blush further increased when she saw my full body after being cleaned up.

"Levy can you look after him for a while. Grandma is going to rest for a while but if you need help with anything just call me ok? His injuries are starting to heal already and he should wake up after some rest."

After putting some new clothes on me that she brought out of nowhere, she gave instructions to Levi who stayed behind while she retreated back to her room. Levy upon the door being closed sat on a chair at the bedside placing her elbows on the bed and cupping her face on her hands. After that she just kept staring at me with both curiosity and interest.

As the adrenaline from the fight went away exhaustion kicked in as I slowly lost myself to the world of the dreams. Levy was still sitting there studying my face without showing any signs of getting bored.

After a long time, I opened my eyes to see a new day beginning through the window. It seems I slept through the entirety of yesterday. I turned my face to my right to the sound of light breathing sounds and saw that it was Levy.

I observed her adorable sleeping figure and closed in on her. I neared her ear as I lightly blew onto the elf-like ears. She seemed ticklish as she squirmed a bit but still didn't wake up. I repeated the process a couple of times and I must say, her reactions were quite adorable. I might get addicted to this.

She woke up and stretched with a yawn and as she was sending away her sleep, seeing my face look at her completely blew it away as she opened her eyes wide. She seemed dazed for a bit as she seemed to have lost focus on her surrounding but then came to as she ran out calling out to her grandmother.

After a while she came back hiding behind her grandmother with only her head sticking out. Cla.s.sic, but still cute. Her grandmother checked how I was feeling and when she saw that I was doing better than when they at least found me felt relieved.

"For now, stay here and recover. Now then, can you tell me about yourself and how you got injured? From the looks of it, it looked like someone injured you on purpose. Was it your parents? Or were you being bullied? "

"My name is Ray Cross. I did get injured by someone but it wasn't my parents as I don't have any and it wasn't my friends as well because, again, I don't have any friends hear. It was just the results of the fight we had."

She smiled at me gently filled with kindness and concern and asked me a string of questions. I answered her honestly as I really didn't have any friends. At least in this town and even then only Elfman can be considered my friend. The girls I met aren't friends. I don't want to be friend zoned.

"Is that so? Listen Ray, you look the same age as my granddaughter over here, her name is Levy. You shouldn't be fighting at your age. So, since you don't have any family then I will take care of you the best I can. By the way, my name is Avira."

"I'm sorry but I can't stay here. You will be in danger if he finds me with you. And it's not like I want to fight, it's just that he won't stop until I'm dead."

Hearing my introduction, she gave me a smile but then turned serious as she gave me a light lecture and then I refused her invitation to stay here but I knew with what I just said she will be even more adamant on keeping me hear. As for Achnologia finding me, well since he revealed he can sense me using time then I just cover myself with a separate s.p.a.ce when using it so that he won't sense me. Oh, by the way I reverted back into a six-year-old when I teleported to Levy's window.

"What!? Then you must absolutely never run around outside. That's it, I've decided. You will stay here, as long as you be careful you will be safe here. And I won't take no for an answer, so you can forget about trying to convince me Ray."

As I expected, she 'forced' me into staying here and I acted worried while groaning a bit. After that she went to cook some food for me leaving behind the six-year-old Levy. She was fidgeting around with her head lowered. She couldn't stand the awkwardness so she dashed towards the kitchen to help her Avira. And that's how I joined the little family of two.