Love At War | JeRza

Chapter Twenty-one

Jellal's P.O.V.
Swan runs into the forest, showing off her legs as she runs. Erza and someone else just walked into the forest 30 minuets ago. Swan is one of my grandfather's personal guards. Her and her two friends.

I stand there, trying not to hurt any of Queen Irene's army. We're allies, at least Erza and I are, so I don't want to hurt her army. After a couple of minutes Swan runs to me, her legs wet.

"Where'd you go, Swan?" I ask as she bows down to me. She looks up at me with a evil grin. She quickly looks away, begins twirling her hair, and blushing. "What did you do, Swan? I saw that, you know."

"I was just taking out that poor excuse for a princess." She places her hands on her hips and says proudly. As in Erza? My eyes widen and you can see the fear in them. "She's dead. People said she's very strong. Must have been a bluff."

"As in Princess Erza?" I ask, an angered tone in my voice. She nods and looks at her nails proudly. I shove her aside and walk to the forest. She stares at me in shock, "where were you?" I stop but don't face her.

"Why do you care!?" She yells at me. "Why? Do you care for the enemy? Wait until King Makarov hears this, he'll hate you forever." Dark aura surrounds me. She looks away from her nails and at me.

"Where is she?" I turn around and say in a harsh voice. She looks like she's about to jump out of her skin.

"She's in the forest, sir! In the river, trapped in my chains!" She quickly says.

I turn around and walk into the forest. I walk deeper in, looking around for the picnic basket. I spot a picnic blanket and walk towards it. The same girl that Erza walked into the forest with was sitting on the blanket.

They're seriously having a picnic in the middle of war? She stands up and holds up a hand, "I don't pose a threat, sir, Erza told me everything. I'm Mirajane Strauss, one of Fiore's army members. Why are you here?"

"You're the She Devil? It's nice to meet you." I smile, "I'm Jellal Fernandes. I'm here because someone told me something bad happened to Erza. Did you both come in here together, Mirajane?"

"Yes. She was having a bad day so I decided to cheer her up by taking her here. She went to get water from the river. Nobody else came around here." Mirajane stands up, turns around, and begins walking to the river. She stops, "by the way, just call me Mira."

"As you please, Mira." I said.

Erza's P.O.V.
I open my eyes and look around. I look down at the ground and cough out a bunch of water. I remember what happened. "You're finally awake." Jellal said. I look to my right. I'm in his arms.

"J-Jellal?" I blush as he puts me down. "You saved me? Again?" He chuckled and I shook my head. I burry my face in my hands out of embarrassment. The "all mighty Titania" almost drowned to death.

"I guess you can say that." He shrugs, "it's fine. We're comrades after all, Erza." I look up into his green eyes. He closes them and smiles.

At that moment I realized; Larcade isn't the one I love. He didn't save me a lot of times. He couldn't care less about his kingdom and mine. When I'm around him, I feel uncomfortable... When I'm around Jellal, I can act like myself.

Jellal's always there for me... He cares for me... Larcade isn't the one I love, Jellal is.

Mirajane's P.O.V.
I smile as I lean against the tree. Erza still hasn't noticed me but it doesn't matter, they're having a romantic moment and I don't wanna ruin it.

Out of the blue, Erza grabs Jellal's collar, closes her eyes, and kisses him passionately. OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD! He closes his eyes and cups both of her cheeks with his hands.

I hold in my shriek and cheers. It's not easy tho! I sprint back to the picnic blanket, they need sometime alone. After three minuets of waiting, they come back. I look up at them. They're both blushing and looking down.

I place my hand on my chin, "so... Jellal, Erza, how was the kiss?" Erza's face became even brighter. She looks like she's going to explode of embarrassment, "come on, tell me." I tease.

"I'm sorry, Jellal.." Mumbles Erza.

"Y-yeah, it's fine, Erza.." Mumbles Jellal.

"Aren't you two the cutest!" I make kissy faces at them.

Lucy's P.O.V.
"What?" Natsu tosses the book on the ground. I look at Wendy. Laxus wraps his injured arm around the little Mage. They're like brother and sister. Now thinking about it, all of Fiore is a family.

And hey, they're my family too. "We didn't know what to do so we told you guys..." I said in a hushed voice. Meredy picks the book up and looks inside. Ultear looks at the book over her shoulder.

"What is this? It's disgusting." Ultear spat, "why would a mother kill her own daughter?" Suddenly, Wendy shrieks and pulls her hair in fear. "W-Wendy?" Ultear looks down at the terrified Wendy.

"That's the thing.. Wendy told me that the beginning of the book sounds like how Jellal and Erza met, she's afraid that what happens in the end of the book with the princess, might happen to Erza.." I quickly say.

"I see," Rogue says. Sting grabs the book and flips through the pages. Rogue looks at Wendy as she holds her hands over her ears, her eyes closed tightly, and tears dripping down her cheeks.

"I-I saw something..." She opens her eyes. "In my sleep... It was Erza... And Jellal, they got in trouble because the King and Queen found out what they were doing. In my dream, Erza was executed the next morning."

"It's just a dream." Gray smiles, trying to comfort her. "It's not real, Wendy." Juvia places her hand on his shoulder and shakes her head. He looks down at Wendy in worry. We're all worried. Very worried.

"Well, where'd you get the book from?" Gajeel asks.

"I got it from Titania's library.."

"Then let's go back there and ask her about the book." Natsu stands up, "if we're going to protect our friends, we must know if what happened in the book will happen to our friends. And the only way to do that is by talking to the fairy that knows everything." He holds out his hand to Wendy. She looks up at him. "What do you say, Wendy? One last trip to that wicked fairy's library?"

Wendy looks at us as we smile and nod. She grabs his hand and stands up. She wipes her tears with her sleeve and smiles, "no one, and I mean no one, can mess with Fairy Tail and Dragnof!"

"No, we're all a part of one, big, happy family!" Happy says. He's grown a lot for some reason. He's much taller and older, I don't know why.

I smile. Natsu's maturing, becoming stronger, more kind, more trustful. I'm very happy. I have such an amazing boyfriend.

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