Many years had passed since Jellal had got taken by the Magic Counsel. Nobody seemed to pay much attention or seemed to worry about him in any way.

Nobody except Erza anyways. Erza worried about him day and night, practically 24/7 he was on her mind. She missed him... But she still knew it was the right thing to do.

He DID kill a bunch of innocent people... Well... The thing that was controlling him anyways... She still felt like it was wrong too.

Erza was sitting at the counter, sorta smiling, as Mirajane talked about all the 'cute couples' in the guild.

"OH! ANOTHER CUTE COUPLE IS YOU... And JELLAL!!!!!!" Mira squeaked and smiled as she cleaned a glass.

Erza didn't say anything, she just kept smiling and starting to blush.

Mira soon stopped and looked at Erza. "why are you smiling so much Erzie? Hmmm? You thinking about JELLALLLL?" She smiled.

Erza snapped out of her daydream and was very flustered at Mira's comment.

"W-WHAT?! N-NO... Um... NO I WASN'T!!!" She sat up in her seat and was bright red and shaking her hands. "I wasn't thinking about Jellal... O-or worrying about him... And missing him..." she sighed, dreamily.

Mira just looked at her and smiled. "If you say so!" she giggled and wiped the counter off.

Erza just sat there blushing and kinda hiding her face as Mira started talking about couples again. Natsu and Lucy, Gajeel and Levy, Elfman and Evergreen... Gray and Juvia were already married. They had a kid named Sylvia and Juvia was pregnant with a boy that they were planning on naming Storm.

Gajeel and Levy were hitting it off pretty well too. Ever since that 'underwater kiss', as some people call it, they had been going on missions together more and more. Lucy had seemed to peak interest in Natsu but he didn't seem to take any hints... But that's Natsu for ya. He can't really pick up on hints very well.

Everyone seemed to be getting close. Carla finally started being nice to Happy. Rumors had it that someone saw them kissing once, but who knows. Besides couples, everything else was perfectly fine.

Guildarts and Cana had a better father/daughter relationship. Master Makrov had let Laxus come back so Mira was really really happy about that.

"Erza, you ok?" A little blue haired Wendy looked up at her, hands behind her back.

"Hmm?" Erza looked down at her.

Wendy looked at her with a worried look on her face, "I asked if you were ok."

"OH! I'm fine don't worry about me!" Erza blushed slightly and smiled, "Just thinking about stuff. That's all." She got off the stool she was sitting on and turned to face Wendy.

"Are you sure? You seem to be deep in thought... And blushing quite a bit." She looked up with a slight grin on her face.

"WH-N-N-H-NO I'M NOT BLUSHING!" She put her head in her hands, red as a tomato.

Wendy giggled but then turned back to a slightly worried face, "Hmmm... Do you want to tell me what's troubling you, Erza? I may be able to help."

Erza uncovered her face and looked at the teen. She thought for a moment, "Um... Well... I don't know if you can really help at all, but um sure." Erza looked around... "How about we walk around though? Like... Away from the guild?" She was slightly hesitant.

Wendy nodded and smiled a little more. "Ok, Erza." She turned around and walked to the middle of the guild hall, waiting for her friend.

Erza followed behind, holding her arm slightly... Little did she know that there was to be some excitement while she was gone...