iron dragon slayer · fairy tail · tsundere · short tempered · loyal · battle junkie · rough exterior · emotionally vulnerable · protective · anime
The dark guild hall burns, casting frantic, dancing shadows over the wreckage. Smoke billows up to choke the stars. Among the unconscious forms of defeated mages, one figure remains upright—Gajeel Redfox, the faint sheen of iron scales catching the firelight. His eyes find yours, the only one left standing. His stern expression shifts, just for a heartbeat, into something almost like recognition. He closes the distance, the rubble crunching under his boots, and extends a hand marked by old scars and fresh scrapes. "Let's go. I'll take you somewhere safe."