Weird? Calling Gajeel weird was an understatement. He was fine with being weird too. He didn't particularly like all the other villagers. Since it was a small village, everyone knew each other and everyone was happy with each other. Well except Gajeel. No one really liked him. But he was fine with that too.

However, he was not fine with having to go to the other side of town to go to the market and get some eggs.

As the pierced man walked through the town, he wasn't oblivious to the cold stares he got from the villagers. When he and his father first came to this village, everyone feared him because of his appearance. He supposed he couldn't blame them too much. He was at least six feet tall, pierced all over the place, spiky black hair, and he always seemed to wear a scowl. Of course they still feared him, but they were less fearful and most cruel to him. They never said it to him in person though, but he could hear them talking behind his back. Whispering.

Whatever, he didn't care. They could think what they like. They weren't his problem.

Gajeel kept walking down the small village, the happy conversations and smiles stopping as he passed by the villagers. Sometimes even the birds stopped singing. Though one person dared to look at him, the cocky girl of the village, Ikaruga, that kept flirting with him even when he told her to screw off. She was no doubt the hottest girl in town, but that meant squat to Gajeel. Sure, she was nice to look at, but gosh her voice was so annoying. It was like a parrot, and it never shut up. Especially when she was around Gajeel.

Which was now.

"Gajeel-sama~ Wanna go on a walk together?" The pink haired girl asked as she clung onto Gajeel's arm. She had pink long hair that went down to her butt and it was tied up at the top so it looked like she was wearing a bow on the top of her head. She wear white, low cut, kimono with red scars at the bottom and large blue heels. Not to mention all the make up she wore.

"No." Gajeel stated simply as he brushed the woman off, shaking his arm a bit to get her off of him, which she did. But she was obviously not happy as she did. Gajeel didn't care. She was annoying as heck, she could be as mad as she wanted to be at him. He wouldn't ever care.

"Why not." She pouted, deliberately trying to put her cleavage more into his view by leaning a certain way, but again, he didn't care. At all.

"Because I don't like you." The black haired man said honestly without shame as he kept his pace, not bothering to waste another breath on her, especially if he had to speed up to do so. He was fine with running, but he didn't think she was worth the extra energy.

"What? Why not?" Ikaruga suddenly shouted and stomped her foot on the ground, outraged at him. But once more, he didn't care. He didn't ever care about her. She was just annoying, and it's not like she even cared about him. It was like she was trying to seduce him so she could say she catches the eye of every guy in the village. Which wouldn't be surprising for her. She's broken up relationships before just to prove that she was right. Though it couldn't all be blamed on her, if the guy was willing to cheat, then it wouldn't work. Still..she shouldn't do that to prove she was right.

Yet even after she's seduced, manipulated, made fun of, and targeted people, she was somehow the star of the village. The person that everyone loved. The 'popular' girl. No, that was mean. Gajeel wouldn't say every popular girl was like that, just the stereotypical popular girl. And oh wow, was she ever one.

As the girl just stormed away, offended, Gajeel kept walking until he reached the market. He quickly bought some eggs there, while the shop own cowered in fear at Gajeel's presence. Gajeel just snorted at him as he bought the eggs, giving him the exact money he needed. No more, no less. Though he had an idea there would be rumors that he didn't pay full price. That happened a lot. Though they never had proof, so he never really got in trouble.

Which was fine with him.

Gajeel walked back into his house quietly, his house further from the rest of the village, which gave him more of a place his farm. Though he wasn't too fond of the farm, it definitely paid the bills. He had a few chickens and a small garden, not much, but enough for now. He walked into the empty house and placed the eggs he bought from the market into the cub boards. Normally he would just use the eggs he got from his chickens but the two were sick at the moment so they weren't laying eggs, but it was only a small cold so they would be fine soon.

He grunted lightly as he walked down to his basement to see his little workshop he had set up. He made a lot of different things that had to do with metal really, metal was his fascination. So when the farm didn't pay, like with the eggs now, he relied on his skills. The eggs and plants paid for the house and food, but with the money he made by being a black smith, that was for fun things. Like more metal.

He loved making things out metal, it didn't matter what, he would even make jewelry. As long was it was made from metal. His dad taoght him how to do this, it was his passion to. He was also the town blacksmith, though the town liked him more than they liked Gajeel. He was still considered a fool and a weird guy, but he got more customers than Gajeel did.

That was..until he disappeared. Gajeel didn't know why his dad disappeared, he just left, without a word. All of his stuff was gone too, some people suggested that he was kidnapped, but they found no proof of that. So most people just suggested that he didn't want to live with Gajeel anymore, that Gajeel was too weird for him. Too much of a monster.

But Gajeel never believed that for a second. He knew his father had a reason for leaving, Gajeel just didn't know what. However, Gajeel knew he would come back. Even if no one else did, since it's been seven years and Gajeel was now an adult.

Twenty years old at that as well. Twenty years old without a fiance or a wife. He knew people talked about that behind his back, but he didn't care. He's also heard rumors of him and Ikaruga getting married. He did care about that one though. Because it made him angry.

Gajeel didn't even know why he had to get married and why people were so..what's the word? Suspicious? Yeah. Suspicious about it he supposed. Like he was doing something wrong or something. Which he probably was in their eyes. Whenever someone was at marrying age they should get married right away to them. Which was stupid. Gajeel wasn't against getting married. Not at all. But right away? Shouldn't they at least get to know the person first? To get to love them?

His thoughts were cut off by the sound of fast footsteps to show running come barging into his workshop while Gajeel played around with his metal, just holding it over the fire to see what ways he could mold it. He glanced over at the owner of the footsteps, curious as to who would barge into his workshop like this, when he noticed that it was Ikaruga's henchwoman. The girl was extraordinarily tall and pretty like Ikaruga, but she was always the 'minion', being put down by Ikaruga, but the girl stood by her even with all the teasing. Which Gajeel didn't see why she would, but it wasn't any of his concern.

Instead, what she said was his concern.

"You're father is in the forest!"

So how was that? I've had this idea for months but haven't actually done anything with it. But I'm a bit proud, and I'm curious to see what you guys think. This is also my first main Gale story so it's pretty cool.

I'm excited for this at least :D.