Living in the Shadows (a Jerza fanfic)

Chapter 1

(Erza's pov)
"Hey you little slut," Milliana smirked at me. "It's playtime."

I knew very well what this meant. It was time for me to get abused, verbally and physically.

"This is going to give me so much pleasure," Shô cracked his knuckles. "Beating up ugly ass sluts makes me so happy."

"This is the big time," Wally laughed.

"Whenever you are ready, boss," Simon nodded at the other one.

"Let's do this," The other one, Jellal, laughed.

This always hurt me; my former best friend lead the group that made my life miserable. It didn't matter though, they couldn't achieve what others did. Also, they would never be allowed to see what they want to, them breaking me.

After they shouted insult after insult at me, Milliana and Shô decided to beat me up. In the past, it has always been those two, with Wally occasionally joining in. Simon and Jellal typically stayed out of it, because they didn't want to get caught. Absolutely pathetic.

"C'mon slut just cry already," Milliana sneered, while kicking me in the gut. "You make this a lot less fun when you are a bitch about it."

"She probably just has no more tears to cry because she is so weak," Shô laughed, throwing a punch at my jaw.

I dealt with everything they threw at me without retaliating. They weren't worth it. Jellal isn't worth anything.

"Hey can you guys wrap this up quickly?" Jellal asked. "I have to insult the Heartfilia girl before next period as well."

That little jerk. Milliana smirked and started to beat me up at a faster rate. Shô grabbed my shoulder then aimed to punch the side of my stomach, but he hit too high. His face turned red and he walked away slowly. Even bullies know that they can't touch anyone there, I guess. Wally followed behind him, dying of laughter.

"What a weakling," Milliana laughed. "You can't even fight back, coward."

She continued to punch and kick me, and it still didn't really bother me. That is, until she shoved my head into the corner of a locker. I reached up to touch my forehead, and blood was dripping from it. She smirked, and repeated shoved that same area of my head into the locker. Everything started to become blurry and I fell to the ground. The last thing I saw was a foot heading towards my face, then everything went dark.

(Jellal's pov)
Once Erza got knocked out, I had no idea what to do with the girl. Most guys would probably do weird stuff to her, but she isn't gifted enough in that area for me to do that. Plus, I'm not a pervert. She was unconscious on the ground. Even I know that Milli took it too far this time.

"Jellal, take her to the nurse," Simon sighed.

"But why me?" I whined. "Why not you? You are stronger. And what about Milli? It's her fault."

"If you haven't noticed, Milli ran away," Simon sighed. "And I have grades to uphold, since you don't care about yours."

"Fine," I rolled my eyes and looked at her. "But how am I even supposed to get her there?"

When I turned around, Simon had already left me. Great, just great. I couldn't just drag Erza to the nurses office, then my lie about how this happened would be completely unbelievable. There was only one way to do this. I picked her up bridal style and started heading towards the nurse. If someone sees me doing this, I'll blackmail them into forgetting it. This is so awkward.

There was once a time where Erza and I were friends, back when we were young. She and I were completely inseparable, the best of friends. That was all until one day, four years ago. The popular crowd and I had a lot of classes together and they started to really like me. They said I had to make a choice, Erza or them. Naturally, I chose popularity. To prove it, I had to start bullying Erza. It was hard for me at first, but I quickly got used to it.

Looking down at the girl in my arms, I realized that she is actually pretty hot. It's a shame that she is such a cold hearted girl, maybe she would actually have friends and a boyfriend. Her younger sister, Wendy, seemed to be her only friend. Wendy is lucky to have Erza as protection, or else everyone would torture her. Everyone knew that Erza would only retaliate if you messed with her sister. That's the only thing about this girl that isn't weak.

Once I got to the nurses office, I lied about what happened, and she easily believed me. I get perks because I kiss up majorly to the teachers, which is the only reason I can get away with all that I do. However, she forced me to stay in here with Erza until she wakes up, and to let her know that she is free to leave the school for the day, and since I brought her there I'm free to go as well. At least this is getting me out of class. I stared at the unconscious nerd until she started stirring.

"Where am I?" She rubbed her eyes slowly.

"You are in the nurses office," I laughed at her. "You are free to leave the school now."

"Oh, you're here," She glared at me, and got up. "Well, au revoir dickhead."

Erza turned around and left the room as quick as possible. Did she just call me that? After I went through all of the trouble of bringing her here instead of just leaving her unconscious in a hallway that would be stampeded in the next period? No, this was not acceptable at all, she should be thanking me. I got up at once and started to pursue her down the hallway.

Following her out of the school, I wondered what her deal was. She was nerdy, quiet, rude, and she didn't have any sense of style at all. It was as if she wanted to be teased by people and not have any friends. I stayed hidden as much as possible, to not seem like a stalker. All I wanted was the thanks that I deserved.

She walked into the forest, giving me plenty of space to hide. A little monkey like thing jumped onto her, and she threw it on the ground immediately and started looking around. That's strange, I didn't think we had monkey's in our town. Suddenly, this guy in a black robe with black hair jumped out of nowhere, and pinned her against a tree.

"Erza, it's time to give up now and just let me kill you," The mysterious man said, and I could've sworn that his eyes looked red.

"Oh Zeref," She laughed. "We both know that isn't going to happen."

She kneed this guy, Zeref I guess, in the place where the sun don't shine. Next, she punched him in the stomach, and flipped him onto the ground.

"Curse you Titania," Zeref growled. "You'll pay for that!"

Did he just say Titania? As in the leader of an infamous gang that goes around murdering people? The gang that supposedly stole one of my younger sisters from me? There is no way that could be weak little Erza, right?

"Don't let your guard down next time," She sighed and continued to walk on as if nothing had happened.

Something was up with this girl. None of her actions seemed normal. If she has the power to flip a grown man, why would she just let people beat her up? And could she really be Titania? I continued to follow her, determined to get an answer to my questions.

Hey minna! So this is my new story! I got inspiration for this story from a story called Out of the Shadows. Of course I'm going to not copy the entire story line, but it will be kinda similar. I can't remember the username of that author but yeah idea credit goes to them. So this will mainly be a Jerza story but it will also contain some other ships. It probably isn't smart of me to write two stories at once, but oh well. I'm on spring break right now so I'll try to write as much of this and Mad World as I can, but I'm also going to be on vacation so idk how much I can get done. Bye!
~Sky