The Bonds Between Natsu and Erza
And I'm back with book two of my series, I hope you all enjoyed book one and I hope I can make this one even better or at least just as good, could do with a beta though, didn't use one or even edit my entire first story except the final chapter but that was just edited. Enjoy the first chapter.
Chapter 1
Erza stood transfixed at the sight of Natsu down on one knee with a ring in his hands as he said, "Will you marry me Erza Scarlet?"
Erza swore her heart had stopped beating for a few seconds as she processed what Natsu just asked her. The rest of the guild was just as shocked as she was at the sudden proposal. Gray was standing next to Natsu with the largest grin he ever had on his face, Cana had spit out her alcohol twice now; once at Natsu stepping out and now at the proposal, Mira had stars in her eyes, Elfman was surprisingly not yelling how manly it was in some away and was speechless. Levy, Jet, and Droy didn't know what to do or say and were staring in shock; Makarov had a tear in his eyes and was thinking, 'My kiddies are all grown up.' While the rest of the guild were all waiting to see how this played out.
Erza slowly got down on her knees in front of Natsu with her hands shakily taking the ring from Natsu not knowing if this was all or dream or was in fact was real. As she looked over the ring and seeing this was in fact real she lunged at Natsu crying out, "YES, YES, YES, YES, OF COURSE I WILL." and kissed him as fiercely as she could when she answered.
Natsu had responded immediately to the kiss and felt like he was flying from how happy he was. There were multiple loud whoops and cheers and a large amount of squealing from Mira who was taking multiple pictures with a camera that she got from who knows where. Makarov was watching the pair with pride in his eyes and felt nothing but happiness for them.
After a few minutes Erza and Natsu broke apart and Natsu had a shit eating grin on his face while Erza was crying in happiness again. As they stood up Natsu pulled Erza into a hug and said, "I love you so much Erza and I couldn't be happier that you accepted my proposal and I promise to make you as happiest as possible for the rest of my life. I will do everything in my power to make sure you live long and happy and will cherish you forever."
As he said that the guild broke out into multiple aww's and Natsu stepped away from Erza taking her hand to place the ring on her finger. As he was putting it on he said, "You probably figured this out from what Igneel told you but the ring's engraving matches the mark that I placed on you the day that you broke me out of my bloodlust when I fought Gajeel. Always know that I love you."
As he got the ring in place Erza couldn't help but stare at her hand in happiness, she loved everything about the ring from its platinum band to the diamond, but most of all she loved the engraving. She also loved the fact that it was a perfect fit.
Once she was done looking it over she pulled Natsu into a passionate kiss trying to convey all her love for him that she could. Natsu kissed back with equal passion and felt nothing but eternal bliss from their kisses. As they broke apart again she whispered softly, "I will always love you too Natsu and I could not be happier that you proposed to me."
After she said that the guild rushed forward to congratulate them on the proposal and to welcome Natsu back as well. As soon as Mira got up to Erza she grasped her hand looking at the ring and squealing in delight for her friend/former rival and said, "Congratulations Erza!" and pulled her into a big hug as the majority of females came up to her too.
As that happened the men came up to congratulate Natsu. First one over was Gray since he had been right next to Natsu and slapped him on the back saying, "Well damn Natsu, congrats on your proposal and how does it feel?"
Natsu just looked sheepish and said, "It feels amazing honestly. I never thought I would be able to do it because of the tower, all I could think about as I tried to stop the tower from blowing us all up was that I couldn't be there for her but I didn't want her to die."
"Well that's understandable and all but if you ever do that again I will kill you myself." Gray said menacingly.
"No worries there, I don't really plan on dying now since I got a second chance." Natsu replied.
Elfman chose to ask at this point, "So what did you even do at the tower?"
Natsu then proceeded to telling everyone around him about his fight with Jellal, Simon saving him and Erza when she tried to intervene with Jellal killing him, and then about how he ate the Etherion and achieved dragon force. He then said, "I've never felt such power before, it was unbelievable. I felt as if I could take a direct blast from Ethernano."
Elfman then went on about how manly Natsu had become and Gray said, "Just don't try that though since you said you won't die again."
Natsu just replied with, "Well I don't, I never want to leave Erza behind again."
As he finished saying that a voice from behind him said, "Well Natsu pray to the gods you live through this then Natsu."
Confused Natsu turned around and let out a soft eep. Standing behind him and towering over him was a furious Gildarts. Looking him in the eye Natsu saw two emotions raging for dominance, fury and happiness; fury won. Gildarts grabbed Natsu by the collar and swung him over his shoulder slamming him into the ground causing a small crater. Natsu let out a soft groan of pain and thought, 'That's going to hurt in the morning.'
The guild had gone quiet as this played out and a thought occurred to Makarov and he called out, "Hey Gildarts, who told you Natsu was back? You weren't here when he showed up."
In answer to his question Happy flew out and landed on Gildarts's shoulder saying, "As soon as I saw him back I left to get Gildarts. I was happy and all he was back but I wanted to see Gildarts pummel him more for making us all sad."
Natsu looked up at Happy from the crater and said, "Traitor."
Gildarts then picked Natsu up again and pulled him into a crushing hug. "I'm so glad you're alive and not dead Natsu, I always saw you as my own son. Never do this again."
Natsu just patted him on the back weakly and said, "You're crushing me, I can't breathe."
"Oh I haven't even started yet Natsu." Gildarts said with an evil smile and started using his crash magic on him to start his punishment.
Natsu felt like his bones were being crushed even though they weren't; Gildarts was just trying to scare him not really kill him. After a few moments Natsu was dropped by Gildarts who proceeded to punt Natsu to the sky. All the guild could here was Natsu screaming.
Erza walked over to Gildarts and said, "Was that really necessary?"
Gildarts looked over to her and said, "Not really but it felt good for that little bastard scaring us so badly."
Erza just shrugged and said, "Well please try not to kill my fiancé, I just got him back after all."
Gildarts sweatdropped and said, "What you're not gonna try and kill me for doing that to him?"
Erza smiled evilly and said, "No because you beat me to it, but then again I still have to punish him myself."
The entire guild had a massive sweat drop at this and started edging away from her.
Natsu also took this moment to walk back into the guild ready to pummel Gildarts only to hear Erza say that and was trying to decide if he should run away and invoke more wrath from her or take it now.
Erza saw him enter and started to glare daggers at him.
Natsu chose to run.
And there you have chapter one of book two, I hope you all like it and if anyone wants to be a beta, send me a message to talk about it and I'll see what we can do, I honestly don't get how to set it up but then again I didn't really read up on it so anyways review on how you liked chapter one. Also I'm not sure what my update schedule will be so please bare with me on that. Until next time