Of Fire and Ice

C.61

As Ari and I flew overhead, I saw the scoreboard now read "Henley vs Freed; both wizards forced to forefiet." And saw a lot of the wizards look up to Ari and I flying away.

"Hen, are you okay?" Ari asked. "I'm fine." "I'm think you're lying." "Well I don't exactly have any choice but to be fine." I snapped and she was silent.

"I'm sorry, Ari. I just need to cool down." I said, hugging her neck. "You take out your feelings on people too often." She sighed. "I can't help it." I sighed, tears filling my eyes.

"Don't cry, Hen. It's alright." She said and I sniffled and chuckled a little. "It's never alright." I cried a little. Ari landed right outside of the cathedral. "Why are we here?" I asked. "Because you need to pray, girl!" Ari exclaimed and there was an explosion inside. Then all the glass shattered.

I peeked inside and saw a cloaked dude fighting Laxus. Natsu and Erza ran in past me. "So here you are." They said in unison.

"Erza. Natsu." I said and stepped up. "Hey. You two made it out of there." Erza said and I nodded. "Wait, who the heck is that guy?" Natsu asked. "That's Mystogan." Erza answered. Laxus shot the dude with some lightning and the dudes mask and head thing fell off, revealing blue hair and a face tattoo.

"Jellal?" Erza breathed and I was so lost. "Wait, I don't get it. So Mystogan is really Jellal?" Natsu asked and I tilted my head in confusion. "Wait, who the fuck is Jellal?" I asked.

"Jellal, I..." Erza started, but he cut her off. "Erza. Please forgive me. I was afraid you'd see this. I'm not your friend Jellal. I do know of him, but... I'm not him." He said and I was even more confused than ever. "My head hurts..." I groaned.

He disappeared, but my headache didn't.

Laxus shot Erza, who screamed, and the sound hurt my ears. He threw her back and I jumped back in shock. Natsu held up a flaming fist and I pushed past him and walked up straight to Laxus who looked so confused.

"Look, buddy. Thanks to you I now have a migraine and I am pretty pissed off. So you know what you're going to do? You're going to go THE FUCK AWAY and leave us THE FUCK ALONE so I can FINALLY FUCKING SLEEP AND GET OVER THIS BULLSHIT, YOU FUCKING HEAR ME?!" I yelled in his face and he tried to shoot me with lightning, but with no effect.

"Holy crap." I heard Natsu breath and I screamed and fire engulfed Laxus completely. He screamed and I stood back and watched, breathing deeply.

He finally fell down in defeat and I sighed. "Wow." I heard Gajeel say and turned back to see Erza, Natsu, Gajeel, and Levy. "C'mon, the Thunder Palace is still up. I'll see if I can find a way to take it down." Erza said and started conjuring up swords. I watched from the cathedral as she had near two hundred, but looked as if she was going to pass out.

Then I heard her voice in my head, asking me to give her strength. I looked over to Gajeel and Levy and Natsu, who seemed just as clueless.

Then another voice was in my head, a male's voice. "Hey, Fairy Tailers! Can ya hear me?! Things aren't looking so good for us. Check out what's floating in the sky. We're gonna have to pull together, so get off your butts and lend us a hand!" He said and I held my head.

"Oh shit, am I hearing voices again?" I groaned. "No, Henley, you're not. And what do you mean, 'again'?!" I heard Grey say, and the three others chuckled next to me. "Tell ya later, Grey." I groaned.

"Anyway, if any of you are still fighting, just give it a rest for a second. Now listen carefully, those lacromite up there are part of a dangerous spell called the Thunder Palace. Laxus is using it to threaten the entire town. So we have to take it out before he can set it off. We don't have much time, so we have to work together." He said and I sighed now walking to a place where I could see a ton of those things, Ari still beside me.

"Okay, but one second. Henley, I have a question." I heard Grey say. "Yeah?" I asked. "Why did you forfeit the fight with Freed?" He asked. "Oh, Mira stopped me before I could kill him. Believe me, I was going to." I said. "Ah. Makes sense. Thanks Mira." Grey said. "Oh sure." "Carry on." Grey said.

"My telepathy can't reach all the way to the guild hall, so we'll have to make do with the people we have now." I heard the first voice say. Then a bunch of people started bickering about who they got into fights with.

I honestly couldn't care less.