Love At War | JeRza

Chapter Nine

Erza's P.O.V.
To my surprise, he agreed! I am thrilled and excited about this, the war will finally end. That is, we have to find who stole the jewel. We cannot, and I mean cannot, let our parents find out. Especially my mom, she would kill me. Literally.

Today, I decided not to go to war. Natsu stays behind with me. We're going to explore the palace, see what we have and what we don't. Natsu hasn't been talking at all. He would just nod, shake his head, and look down at his feet. "Natsu, what's wrong?" I finally ask. He looks at me in wonder, "you haven't said anything the past thirty minuets."

He shrugs, "you're just not the type to help the enemy, that's all. I'm not sure about this, if her majesty finds out..." His voice trailed off. I look down at my feet and bite my lip, "what would Igneel say?"

"Igneel is fine with this." I look up at him. He has a shocked expression on his face, "he's the one who told me about the idea. I guess I forgot about it until Jellal and I were alone." We began walking down the hallway again. He put his hands in his pockets.

"Erza," Natsu began. "Can I ask you something?" I smile and nod, "why are you helping them?" My smile fades, "You love fighting and stuff..."

"Well...I guess my kingdom is suffering a lot. You know that this has never happened before, other kingdoms would ether surrender or get beaten. Fiore's innocent people are injured too. And I guess the prince was really kind to me the first day we met, I have to repay the favor." Natsu stops, smirks, and begins wiggling his eyebrows. I blush, "I-I DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT!" He let out a soft laugh and began walking again. I roll my eyes and walk after him, "first stop, the storage room."

"Why the storage room?"

"Well that's where my mom keeps all our jewel, in a special storage room." I lead him to the third floor. We walk to the door at the end off the hallway, my mother's room. We enter the bedroom and look around, "Oh. My. God."

"What happened in here?" Natsu's eyes widen when he looks at the photos of people above my mom's bed. Her room is messy, ripped up, and dirty. Her phone book is open to a page with about a thousand phone numbers in it.

"Looks like she's been strategizing." I point at the map with all of our army members on it, "I wonder what she'll say when she finds out I refused to go to battle and instead went into her room." I walk to her bed and lift it up to reveal a iron door in the ground. I put the code in and hop inside the room.

"How is it possible to have a room in between the floors?" Natsu hops down and looks around. He ignites his fists so we can see better.

"Remember that fancy looking door downstairs and how no one can open it anymore?" I ask him. He nods, "this is it. This is the room behind that door. Before we left to fight alongside Stella, she told me that she changed the place of the jewel." I look around at the safes full of jewel. "Where is it?" I look around.

"Where is what?" Natsu walks around the place.

"Where's the sheet that record the money we make over time." I spot it in the corner, "ah, here we go." He walks to me and places his hand over the paper, "we left three years ago this day." I point at the amount of money we made that day, "we made 6,000,000 jewel. And the next day, we made 300,000 more, the next day we made 500,000 more, and the day of the war... We lost money?"

"No way." Natsu looks over the paper, "you lost 100,000 jewel." He placed his hand on his chin and said thoughtfully, "so Queen Irene was telling the truth?" I nod, "we need to show this to King Mokorov!"

"No," I fold the paper in my poker and begin walking out, "he doesn't trust us yet. We need to show this to someone King Mokorov and we trust. Prince Jellal Fernandez." He nods and walks after me. He walks out. I slowly walk to the phone book, "I wonder who my mother was planning on calling-" that's when I see it. My feet become weak and my hands begin to shake.

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Third Person P.O.V.
Erza and Natsu bravely walk to the war zone. They look around at the people fighting, "I'll look for Jellal, you go to the campsite I told you about." Erza orders. He nods and runs away. Erza slowly walks into battle, watching people scream in pain.

She grabs one of the enemy by the neck and pulls them up to her face, "w-what do you want!?" They chocked out.

"Where is your prince?" She frowns.

"I-I don't know." He chocked. Erza squeezes his neck harder, "okay, okay!" She let him go, "he's fighting a ice demon-slayer!"

"No..." Erza sprints after the crystal beam of light that shoots into the sky, "no, no, no, no," she keeps on mumbling as she runs there, "great, just great!" She saw an injured, naked Gray get thrown at a tree. He struggles to get up. Erza runs to his aid, helps him up, and gives Jellal a stare.

"Erza..." Gray looks up at her, "let me have this one, I got this."

"It's fine, you need to rest. I've got this, Gray." She orders. Gray opens his mouth to speak but she gave him her scary stare. He gulps and limps away. "We need to talk." She looks at Jellal. He nods and walks to her, "it's not safe here, we should go to the camp."

"Sure, lead the way." Jellal shrugs. Erza nods and begins running to the forest, Jellal right beside her.

Once they reach the campsite, they walk in, and sit on the beds. Erza sits on the bed next to Natsu and Jellal sits on the bed across from them. Natsu gave Jellal a frown, causing Jellal to move farther away. Erza elbows Natsu. "Whatever," he rolls his eyes.

"Uh, I found this..." She hands him the paper, "my mom really wasn't lying...one more thing..." He looks up at her. Natsu, who looks surprised, looks up at her, "I-I found my mother's phone book open to the page with the number's of Acnologia, Zeref, and The Spriggan 12."

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