Fairy Tales

Chapter 19: Cherry Blossom Trees

One problem- how was he supposed to kill this girl?

She's always got Wendy or Gajeel by her side. He's never alone with her.

I mean, you could've just did it when we were gathering berries, he thought. But he just couldn't bring himself to.

What was going on with him??

Gray knew Wendy had magic. He could sense it. He knew a bit of magic himself. Before he went to Magnolia, he had a teacher. He was rather weak when it came to magic, though, and he didn't want to practice, solely because he didn't think he's need it in the future.

They didn't trust him yet. He assumed he would need to gain their trust to be able to kill her.

It's been 3 days.

He managed to break his ankle, and naive Juvia convinced him to stay till he was healed.

He didn't on plan on it, but at least it gave him more time. The only problem is that it would be harder to go in for the kill.

"Gray-san?"

Gray spun around, only to see little Wendy waiting for him.

"Dinner is ready," she said.

"Ok . . . I'll be there in a few minutes," he said.

"Ok!" Wendy closed the door behind her.

Gray took a deep breath and got a pen and paper from the dresser.

It was time to start planning.

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Jellal was outside, looking over the nearby lake.

"Hey, Blueberry."

"You can't call me that, 'cause you're a blueberry yourself, y'know?" Jellal said.

"Why'd Mom and Dad call me 'Rosemary' if I'm actually a Blueberry?"

"Mother told me that she found a beautiful blue rose that was the same color as your hair."

Rose grabbed her hair in fists. "It wasn't quite the hair she wanted," she grumbled under her breath.

"What did you say?"

"That must've been a real ugly rose," Rosemary piped. "A dark blue rose? Almost black? People might think it's cursed or something! Have you ever seen a really dark colored flower, Blueberry?"

Jellal thought about it. "Nope," he admitted.

"That's what I thought," Rose said with a grin on her face. "Anyway, you never did take off Reiki's helmet, did you?"

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Why do you care so much?"

Rose was tempted to scream, 'cause I want my ship to sail!!' but she didn't.

"I just wanna know who he is," Rose said casually. "Let's go right now?"

"I guess so."

As they walked, Rosemary began to hum her song again. The tune was so beautiful, the birds began to sing along.

"What were the words to your song again?" He asked.

Rose grumbled under her breath. Jellal could only hear parts of the song.

"-she ate-"

"-killed me-"

"-My siblings, they-"