A/N: Hi guys! This is my first fanfic and I'm so glad that I'm finally posting this fanfic. This is just the first chapter so I will be updating monthly, maybe. Don't get mad at me if I don't post the second chapter soon. Anyways, hope you enjoy the first chapter of this Jerza (Jellal X Erza) fanfic!
Disclaimer - Everything in here belongs to Hiro Mashima and not me, hehe.
Erza
I was in my dorm of Fairy Hills thinking of a new design for my armor. All I came up with was the sword. My mind became mush because of how hard I was thinking about it, well, about everything really.
A light sigh left my mouth. I was so tired of Natsu and Gray's bickering today since we went on a mission together along with Lucy and Wendy. We earned a high reward and got to split it up with everyone getting 700,000 jewels.
Natsu probably bought a lifetime supply of food along with some fish for Happy, Wendy bought medicine just in case something happened along the way back, Gray…. I don't know, but he should probably buy more clothes because of his stripping hab… Ahem, talent is what he prefers us to call it, and Lucy, I bet she'll be praising Mavis that she has enough jewels to pay her rent.
I still don't really know what I should do with my part of the jewels. Hmmmm….Oh wait! I could buy a ton of strawberry cake with the special edition strawberries! Hehe, now no one can steal my cake if I put it behind the library books where there is a walk in freezer and where I store my thousand cakes. I schedule when, where, and what time I eat each and every cake. I'll keep them all to myself!
Ahhh, the delicious thought of having cake and buying them from the bakery tomorrow.
I looked up at the window and the sky was a royal blue. Mm, kinda like Jellal's hair…. Wait, WHAT!? Wow I must be really worked up today. I need to stop thinking about these kind of things! Sigh, today must have been a long day for me to think like this.
I stood up feeling my arms and my back ache because of how long I sat down working on my new design. I ignored how much my body hurt and stretched while taking the piece of paper I was working on into a drawer that I'm surprised I never used before. I moved aside all the crumpled paper that was laying on the ground due to the many mistakes I made and threw them into the nearest trash bin making all of them. Swoosh, swoosh, I felt myself feel competitive each time I throw a crumpled paper ball.
A light knock disturbed my thoughts and my little game of throwing all the balled up paper in the trash bin across the room. Wow I must have really been out of it today. I can't even control my own thoughts and my mind.
I opened the door finding a blonde. Lucy looked like she dipped her face into a bowl of tomato sauce because of how flustered she looked.
"What's wrong, Lucy?"
She played with her fingers looking like a guilty toddler. She mumbled something that I couldn't hear.
"Um L-Lucy, could you speak a little louder?"
Lucy let out a sigh looking down at the floor.
"I have feelings for someone," she said softly.
"What?! Please don't tell me it's Loke!"
"N-No, of course it's not. Someone else that's a bit closer than us."
"Why would you have the hots for someone that's literally walking around naked all the time?! Might as call off the perfect wedding I planned for you and Natsu."
Lucy's eyes widen when she heard that. She blushed furiously while continuing to play with the hem of her skirt. She stayed silent until she continued.
"I have feelings for Natsu."
"Awwwwwww, Mira and I always knew you two were perfect for each other and that we should tell the whole guild you guys are together!"
"Erzaaaaa. We're not dating yet plus I don't know if he likes me yet!"
"Oh, you just wait Lucy Heartfilia."
I gave her a smirk then reached behind her to shut the door pulling Lucy inside. When we sat down on the couch facing each other, she told me that she always had feelings for him from the start and that she never wanted it to get in the way of their relationship so that's why she needed to tell someone other than Natsu, of course.
Lucy ended up telling me everything she loved about Natsu and how much she wished that Natsu had the same feelings for her.
"You know, Erza."
"What is it?"
"I always wondered if you ever liked anyone," she asked curiously.
I nodded my head quickly and felt my face growing hot.
"No, I don't have feelings for anyone."
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure because if I ever liked someone or went out with anyone I would tell you guys."
"Oh," Lucy said with an unsatisfied voice, "but you always talk about how Ichiya makes you heads over heels for him!"
"No, it isn't like that! I would say that I would faint because of his really weird attraction to me and him saying that my 'parfum' is good."
"Yeah, yeah, okay. Whatever you say."
I gave her one of my "I'm Always Right" face.
"I'll go tell Juvia that you aren't her love rival… anymore."
"Hey, when did I ever like Gray one bit?!"
"Um, Juvia might have just always thought you guys like each other and are doing things together."
"Yeah, like hell would I ever do that! Anyways, thanks for taking the time for me to tell you about it."
She stood up from the couch and headed towards the door. I opened the door for her and waved her off.
"Bye Erza!"
"Bye Lucy. I would love to see you and Natsu get together sometime!"
She gave me a scowl before walking off. I closed the door and locked it. Then I felt the need for cake so I went to get a strawberry cake from the secret place I keep all my cakes in. I carefully took it out and set it on the kitchen counter. I began to cut one slice for myself. That one slice made me drool while I served it on a plate. Each bite made my eyes twinkle.
I finished my cake sighing with relief that the cake made my stress decrease a little. It was midnight already so I decided to go head to bed. I requiped into one of my comfiest pajamas and plopped onto the bed. I closed my eyes not even bothering to cover myself with my blanket. I tried to visualize everything that happened in this exhausting day but my mind was thinking about one thing besides everything else.
Jellal.
Jellal
My childhood was something that I wouldn't want to remember. It made me shiver every time I thought of it. Working in chains, child labor, orphans, and getting abused by the people who would order you to continue working no matter how tired you were, but we still kept on going to reach the only thing that we all wanted, freedom.
I woke up gasping for air. My eyes were still closed. I felt beads of sweat forming on my forehead and my hands feeling a bit clammy. I struggled to sit up but felt something pushing me down on my shoulder. I open my eyes finding Meredy looking at me with a worried expression.
"Meredy?" I questioned hoarsely.
"Oh, sorry!" she squeaked taking her hand off my shoulder. "You were talking in your sleep again. I just didn't want to startle you."
I sat up wiping sweat off my forehead with my sleeves. "It's okay."
I gave out a light sigh and looked up at the clouds. I spaced out thinking about everything that happened… I wonder what Erza's doing right now. No, I shook my head trying to shake off the thought. I shouldn't be thinking about her right now. Meredy saw me nodding my head, "Are you okay, Jellal?"
"Mm-hmm." I answered trying to think of what to do now after spacing out.
I peered over to see Meredy looking down at her hands. Her bangs were covering her eyes and in the corner of my eye, I saw a tear stream down her cheek. She wiped it away with her hand. I started to walk towards putting a hand on her back. We were both still suffering from Ultear sacrificing her life back at Crocus during the Dragon King Festival.
Meredy turned around hugging one of my legs and sobbed quietly. I looked straight forward wishing that Ultear was still here with us, supporting us, and making Meredy happy. I took one step back and I held out my hand.
I looked down at her and whispered, "We can't stay sad like this forever. We can only look into the future and see everything that's ahead of us."
Meredy wiped her tears away and taking my hand, she said, "You're right, we have to stop crying and look forward. Like, who's going to hit you in the face!" Meredy lifted one hand and was about to slap me.
"Hey!", I said and caught her wrist right before she hit me. Meredy was puffing up her cheeks and crossing her arms over her chest.
"I'm not a little girl, Jellal!"
"But at least I taught you a lesson."
"Of what?" she asked lifting an eyebrow up.
"You'll understand… when you get older." I said.
"Mouu!" She started slapping me.
Before she even got to hit me, I lifted my hands up surrendering and said, "Okay, okay. I get it now that you aren't a little girl, now cut it out!"
Meredy calmed down a bit but she still had her temper still left in her.
"Sigh, where are we supposed to go next?" I asked exhaustingly.
Meredy took out the lacrima out of her cloak and looked through a list of dark guilds we were still suppose to go after.
"Why can't we take a break and visit a good guild for once?" Meredy said, wanting a break. She was still angry at me.
"Okay, but which guild?" I said, teasing her.
"Oh, you know which guild I'm talking about, Jellal." she said while jabbing her elbow to my arm.
"Well, actually no." I acted oblivious.
Meredy facepalmed herself, "Ugh!"
"Okay, okay. Yeah, I know what guild you're talking about," I said rolling my eyes.
We walked off towards the town where the guild was, pulling our hoods over eyes and our cloaks flowing behind us.
We came to Magnolia and I took in a deep breath. Lots of things happened in this town from what I've heard. Meredy looked at me and said, "This place must really be awesome!"
"Yeah, I can tell." I said with a bit of excitement in my tone. We walked through the town in silence making sure that people didn't pay much attention to us since we were wearing cloaks which made us stand out from everyone else.
"Hey, this must be Kardia Cathedral!" she whispered to me while jerking her head towards the building.
I nodded while staring at the ground wondering about what we'll do once we get to the guild. Just seeing everyone's faces again after a while. I just don't want to be blamed for anything anymore and being chased after because of what happened at the Tower of Heaven.
"Hey, Jellal?" Meredy poked me, interrupting my thoughts.
"Yeah?"
"How long 'till we get there?"
"Just a few more minutes of walking, I guess." I said, shrugging.
The rest of the walk was quiet, but at some point, we were just pointing out some fascinating shops or buildings. Meredy was kicking rocks along the way to cure her boredom but lost track of the rocks so she went back doing nothing. Our stomachs started to growl and we looked at each other like it was a cue to buy some food.
I pointed over at a booth that sold food. Meredy followed my finger and whispered, "That looks promising."
I walked over to the booth while Meredy went to find a bench for us to enjoy our meal while taking a break from walking. I looked at the menu that stood in front of the booth. The menu said 'Sells raw or grilled fish, chicken, and soup'. This was a weird place to sell these food at the same place. I bought everything from the menu. The chicken for me, soup for Meredy, and the raw fish for Happy as a gift.
I purchased the food then turned around not aware of my surroundings, bumped into a woman.
"Oof!", the person said when they fell down along with the food that was in the plastic bags.
"S-sorry." I blurted out.
"It's fine." she said brushing dust off her blue skirt and adjusting her armor.
The woman bent down and started to pick up the food that was dropped on the floor. I started to pick up the last bag that was one the floor. After seeing what the woman was wearing… wait. Blue skirt, armor, AND RED HAIR!? Then both of our eyes widened when we faced each other.
"Erza?"
"Jellal?"