Love At War | JeRza

Chapter Two

Three Years Later...

Erza's P.O.V.
I stare at Natsu, he looks super sick. He's already really bruised, he fought very bravely. What I'm excited about is getting back to the peaceful palace and telling my mom that we won. I look at Lucy, she sat across from me. I tip my head back, resting it on the side of the carriage, "are you excited, Erza?" Gray asks. I look at him and shrug, "after all, your mother wanted you to win, you lead army!"

I smile, "I guess I am a little excited. What is even better is the fact of going back home...to the peaceful palace...and taking a long...needed...nap.." Lucy laughs. She had a bandage around her left arm and her stomach. Gray had bandages on his left leg, on his wrist, and he has a scar on his forehead. Natsu has bandages around his stomach and his leg, and I have a bandage around my arm.

"Just please tell me when we're there..." Natsu groans, "I'm dying!" He has his hand on his stomach.

Lucy shrugs. She looks outside, "looks like we're here!" The carriage stops. Natsu jumps up excitedly, and runs outside, "I miss this place-" Lucy steps outside and freezes.

"What wrong, Lucy?" Gray walks out of the carriage behind her. "Oh..my...God..." He whispers.

I shrug and jump out. I close my eyes and smell the air, "I smell....ashes..?" I open my eyes and look around. There were houses set on fire, families running around in fear, children crying over the ashes of their houses, dragons flying around and helping humans, people cry as they stare at dead bodies, and in the middle of it all was Kernel Yukino, helping everyone. "W-what happened here?" I whisper to myself in disbelief.

"It's been burnt...down?" Natsu looks around, "w-what's happened here? It's like we missed a great big battle between two kingdoms."

"Yeah," Lucy frowns, "who ever did this will pay!"

"Aye," Gray puts his hands him his pockets.

"D-Dragnof..." I whisper, holding back tears. "W-who did this?"

Someone stares at me. He wipes his tears and a smile spreads across his face, "LOOK, EVERYONE!" He points at me and my friends, "the Princess and her friends have returned!"

"Now we're sure to win!" Someone cheers.

"We were gonna win anyway!" Another laughs.

"THE PRINCESS HAS RETURNED!" Children ran around. One of them runs to me, looks up at me, smiles, and hugs me, "you're finally back!"

I hug her back. She lets go and runs to her family. We walk through the kingdom, looking at the left overs of the houses. I spot the palace, unharmed. I see a scarlet haired woman escorting people inside of the palace, "mom." I whisper.

"Hey, Yuikno," Gray walks to her, "what's going on here?" She looks up and smiles.

"It's nice to see you again." She looks down at the kid she was helping. He has an enormous cut on his forehead. He drinks a bottle of juice, not crying about how much it probably hurts. I bit my lip. My people.... "Fiore and Dragnof are at war." She says, wrapping a bandage around the little guy. She kisses his forehead, stands up, and looks at Gray, "They attack us a lot." She looks up, "GRANDENEEY!" She calls. A white dragon flies to the ground, "can you please take him to his family?"

"With pleasure," she tips her wing to help the little guy up, "let's go," she says, flying away once he was on her back.

"Thanks to the Dragons, people are healing faster. Garndeneey is using her healing to heal everyone. She's a big help." She says, looking up at Igneel.