A/N: Here is the sequel that most of you had been asking for! :) Sorry it took a while for me to work on it, but hey, here it is finally! I was actually considering the comment of color theory and a guest who wrote a review that OHDAFC should stand alone. But then I told myself "How about the rest who wanted a happy ending?" :)
Just don't expect too much about this one, because I really prefer writing tragic love stories than the happily ever afters. (I honestly don't know why :D)
Anyway, thanks to you dear readers, I have gathered enough guts (LOL) to actually come up with this one.
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Sequel to Of Halcyon Days and Folded Paper Cranes
Chasing Equations and Painting Radicals
the hardest thing to let go is the one you never really had
Erza could feel the water vapor clinging to the soft material of her clothes. The redhead stripped down, leaving nothing on as she swiftly floated off to the stratosphere. Soon she arrived at the point between heaven and earth.
The Event Horizon.
She closed her eyes, her mortal skin burning and glowing from the immense pressure of heat and light. It was an unpleasant feeling, however it was necessary for her to return to her ethereal state. Her rosy mundane complexion got peeled off as a new layer of translucent skin covered her entire being. The War Goddess could feel her powers returning to her in an instant as her eyes adjusted to the blinding white rays of light that bathed the entrance back to where she had always belonged to.
She had finally ascended to the Heavens.
Waves of dazzling pure color radiated from the expanse of the sky as pillars of clear liquid held the vast and endless space of the holy realms together, acting like gravity. Somehow, the redhead goddess found the place foreign.
No. I have stayed far too long in the human world. This must be the underlying effect.
Back in Earthland, Erza had finally decided that she was going to confront the three gods who were responsible for her bittersweet escapades and so, she made use of the snow-flecked dust to immediately transport herself to the place where she could find them.
Three mighty looking personas stood before her—one clad in strips of white-hot flames, the other dressed in twinkling spheres of fire and the last one clothed in diaphanous streams of frozen liquid.
"Erza," the male god known as Natsu greeted. "I believe you've found Earthland to be quite an interesting domain yes?"
"And I believe you've found my absence quite fascinating as well, did you not?" she frowned, her bronze eyes blazing in pent up rage. "Why send me to the human world? Why send me to...to him?"
"Jellal Fernandes," Erza flinched as the familiar name slithered out of the Ice God's lips. "He was a loyal believer and follower, until we took everything away from him. We thought that his faith in us would deepen but alas we seemed to have miscalculated that part."
Gray's ice cold orbs sliced through her sienna ones and the hollowness of his vision almost sent her stumbling backwards.
"You feel for that man?" the female goddess, Lucy nonchalantly asked.
Silence enveloped the extensive halls of the Heavens when Erza failed to respond.
"You have become emotionally attached to the humans. Specifically to that blue-haired earthling." Lucy stated as she grabbed Erza's transparent hand. "This is the first time we've actually seen you elicit an emotion my dear friend." she smiled as the two gods beside her offered a warm smile as well.
Erza frowned in confusion because clearly she knew that gods and goddesses were void of emotions.
"We all have emotions Erza, you were the only one who closed your heart to the wonderful feeling of having to feel. That is the reason why we sent you to Earthland." Natsu placed a hand on his equal's shoulder. "Now it is all up to you if you wish to return to your infallible state that which you were so proud of during the past eons, or embrace your newly discovered inner self."
The War Goddess thought long and hard about what she really wanted, and it was not about restoring her holiness nor embracing the feelings she picked up in the human world. She wanted none of those.
"I wish to be with him." her voice croaked and the three heavenly beings held back a sharp intake of breath.
"Erza, our love for the humans can never be destined to one." Gray slowly reminded the goddess about their fate.
"I believe there is a way." Erza's face suddenly lit up as an idea crossed her mind. "The Master told me that a God or a Goddess could sin deliberately to lose their sacredness and thus become fallen and...human."
The Goddess of the Stars gripped both the flame-haired goddess' wrists to catch her attention. "Are you willing to sacrifice your divinity for that? Once you've fallen, there is no turning back." she warned.
Erza was determined and this was the first time the three celestial beings saw the Queen of Fairies, the War Goddess risk something valiant such as honor and divinity for a mere human being.
"How are you going to do that exactly?" Gray asked, feeling chills run up his spine.
Natsu smiled as he pulled off a strip of white-hot flame from his wardrobe and prepared to wrap it around the flame-haired goddess.
"This will lead you directly to the Master, once you're there, try your best to convince him of your mundane fantasies and if he refuses, I think you already know what to do."
Erza smiled as she felt the heat surging through her entire body, flowing through the transparent structure of her frame evenly. In a blast powerful than a supernova could produce, she was gone in an instant, leaving the three celestial beings all by themselves.
"Best of luck, Erza." they whispered in unison.
"You want to become human?" the Master's voice was so clear and subtle that Erza nearly trembled.
"Yes, Master." she kept her head low and wished for the best. After all it was out of character if she acted on pure instinct by having to lose her divinity in a blasphemous way when she could apparently ask permission to the God of the Heavens first.
"Very well."
Eh?
"I beg your pardon my Lord?"
"I'll allow it my child."
Erza felt her heart tightening and expanding at the same time due to the joy and happiness overflowing and overwhelming her from within.
"But," the low rumble of God told her that it won't be for free. "It comes with a price."
"What is it my Lord?"
"You shall lose what is most valuable to you."
Oh, is he talking about my divinity?
She puffed her chest out and stood up gallantly.
"I am most willing to."
The Master merely nodded at this as he waved a hand. A portal eventually appeared and she was ready to step in, ready to be back to the foreign land which she had learned to love, ready to meet the humble office worker Jellal Fernandes once more when something important popped out of her mind.
"Thank you Master. A-Aren't you going to ask me why I am doing this?"
The Master embraced her and placed his hand on top of her scarlet hair.
"My child, I created you, I know that everything you do, you do for love."
She smiled and stepped into the waiting portal. She relayed her message of goodbye to the other gods and goddesses who wished her all the best and soon she found herself falling into an endless abyss.
The first thing that Erza noticed when she regained consciousness was the tiled bathroom floor—an utterly familiar view that had her jumping in the process.
She was back on Earth.
And she was back in his apartment.
She was busy assessing herself in the mirror, checking for possible complications during the dimensional transfer when all of a sudden the doorknob turned.
A man clad in nothing but black slacks entered and Erza, seeing the all too familiar tattoo and the ultramarine locks jumped at him.
The man grunted in pain as his back hit the cold floor and gaped in shock as the woman—who was busy showering him kisses—was stark naked.
"Oh Jellal! I've missed you so much!" she cradled his head on both the palms of her hands and softly planted butterfly kisses on his face.
"Wow, is it my birthday?" Jellal smiled handsomely as he relished the feeling of the beautiful female lying on top of him. Erza giggled in response and looked him in the eyes. She sighed in contentment as his viridian orbs glinted with the same hue as she remembered.
"You're always the smooth talker," she teased, lightly tracing the contours of his well-defined muscles on the expanse of his chest. "Aren't you surprised to see me at all?"
Jellal pulled her down for a passionate kiss and Erza let out a sound that she never knew she was capable of producing.
"Of course I'm surprised! Who wouldn't be if a stunning lady such as you—naked—would just jump at me?" he chuckled and the redhead pressed their bodies together in an attempt to make up for the time they lost.
"Oh Jellal...I've really missed you so much."
The ultramarine grabbed her gently by the shoulders and lifted her up, high enough to look at her face.
"You keep calling me by my first name,"
He smirked handsomely and Erza nearly melted in his arms were it not for the continuation of his statement.
"Do I know you?"
She froze and then she remembered the Master's words.
You shall lose what is most valuable to you.
His memories.
His love.
They're gone.
Lost.
He had forgotten all about her.
A/N: Now now, this isn't the end. Aaaaand it's short I know :( LOL. This is going to be a multi-chap story with a lot of twists and turns :) I hope I hadn't butchered your expectations. *fingers crossed* So what do you think? :D