Jellal was tired and battered yet he stood up and walked around, supporting himself by holding on to walls and damaged buildings that surrounded the city once known as Magnolia. Currently, Magnolia doesn't exist anymore. It has been wiped out by Zeref. Trees had withered, people died and the buildings collapsed. But somehow, Jellal was alive. He didn't know how or why he survived but he's looking for more survivors like himself.
"Meredy, Erik, Solano, Richard, Sawyer, are you safe?" He didn't think of Midnight, however, since he betrayed him and his guild mates and aided Zeref. He didn't know how long he had been searching but he didn't find anyone at all. None of his guild mates could be seen anywhere and neither is anyone from Fairytail.
"That's right, Fairytail. Erza, where are you now?" His heart started beating rapidly. What if she died. No. He couldn't think like that, Erza was strong after all, she'd be able to survive. Then, he remembered. He could use telepathy. After all, that was how he was able to communicate with Ultear and Meredy in the Grand Magic Games and how he was able to contact Erza during her fight with Azuma in Tenrou island. True, he was supposed to be unable to use magic in his cell. But Jellal was no ordinary wizard, he was one of the strongest. So he was able to use a tiny bit of magic in his cell that allowed him to communicate with Erza.
"Erza." he tried calling out to her. But it wouldn't work. There were only three reasons why telepathy wouldn't work. One, he no longer had magic power. But Jellal felt magic still flowing in him, he even tried Meteor but stopped since he was already weak from all his injuries. Two, the person is unconscious. That might be possible since Zeref's attack was nothing to belittle. Or Three, the person is dead. It was possible indeed that Erza might be dead, but he didn't want to believe this. So he kept looking. But this time, he tried to contact his guild mates.
"Meredy. Can you hear me?" Jellal listened for a while for any sign of his magic going through. But he didn't hear anything from Meredy. So he tried Erik. He had the best ears, after all. "Erik, are you there?" he tried. After a whir, he heard a hissing sound in his head. Then a grunt and a low mumble. "Jellal." It was Erik. Jellal's heart leapt at this, at least he managed to contact one of them. "Erik, where are you?" he sat for a while, conserving his energy for later when he would find his guild mates. "I'm in the rubble which was once Fairytail's guildhall. I was saving Kinana." he says, his voice weak. He sounded severely injured and tired. "Alright, I'm coming." Jellal said before running as fast as he could toward Fairytail. He was so happy that Erik was safe, and that Erza, his guild mates and the others at Fairytail too might be there. When he neared the guild, he saw Erik sitting down his back turned towards him. He rushed towards him and called out, "Erik!" Upon saying this, a few people turned their heads towards him. Among them was Mirajane, Natsu, Lucy and Gray. But their faces, there was something wrong. He noticed Natsu was angry his veins were popping out but he was also crying. Gray looked down the instant he saw him. Mirajane who was crying beforehand, cried even harder into Elfman's shoulder. Lucy, Lucy was the worst. Her face was tear-striken and her hair was a mess. She was crying hysterically but she cried even louder upon seeing him. Jellal wondered why though. Jellal walked slowly this time. He knew something was wrong. Yes, everything was wrong. Zeref destroyed their town with such hatred that he drowned with hate and killed himself in the process. Yes, lots of people had died. But he somehow felt that this was greater than all of those combined. But what could be worse than that.
"Everyone," he started. He looked around the place. There was Meredy and Solano with Juvia beside them, they were all unconscious. He noticed Gray was holding her hand. Then Lisanna, who was so badly battered he wasn't sure if she was alive in the arms of Elfman and Mirajane crying beside her. Makarov, Laxus, and the Raijinshu seem alive but battered greatly. Richard and Erik were also there, looking down at Sawyer's body. Jellal realized, he was dead. Erik looked up with sadness and pity in his eyes. Pity? Was it for him, why would he pity him? He was still looking around, searching for the redhead. While doing so, he noticed a lot of people died. And some other guilds were here too. But no matter how hard he looked he couldn't find Erza. It couldn't be true right? Erza was strong, she's alive somewhere. Probably looking for more survivors. That's when he noticed Lucy's staring at him with such gried he couldn't bear to look at her any longer.
"Je-Jellal" her voice was breaking. She seemed to be forming words but Jellal couldn't hear them, he only saw Lucy motioning behind her where a white sheet was. He previously thought it was a makeshift bed somehow, so he didn't pay much attention to it. Jellal felt his gut clench and his heart squeeze, he had a bad feeling about this. He was trying to think badly that this wasn't Erza but his eyes betrayed him. He saw the ends of scarlet hair peek out from the sheet and he fell down to his knees. He thought his heart fell out of his chest and clutched at it. His eyes started forming tears and they eventually poured out uncontrollably. He clutched at his chest and banged at it. Trying to make the pain go away. He never in his life, felt anything like this. This was an exquisite kind of pain, it was agonizing, it was pain beyond description. The people around him tried to look away from the sight. The sight of Jellal breaking down had them all in tears. After all, not only did the sight of Jellal made anyone with a heart feel sad for his loss, but because it was their loss too. Erza Scarlet was their comrade, and they lost her. When Jellal managed tp calm down a bit, he moved towards Erza and with a shaky hand slowly pulled down the sheet that was covering her face. She was beautiful, even in death, her face was calm and she even had a tiny smile on her face. This made Jellal's heart ache with sadness. He held her in his arms and weeped as he pulled her into his chest. He never would have thought that the day that he would be able to hold Erza was on the day of her death.
"Erza." He cried. "Please come back Erza, I don't have a fiancé see?" he laughed shakily. "I'm sorry Erza, I love you. Come back to me please." he pleaded. Upon saying this, he heard a gasp or two and more cries. Jellal stayed in that position and without noticing it, he fell asleep.