Wonderwall Prologue
Erza stood facing Midnight. He made her shiver, 'the fact that he thinks there is only the need for darkness disgusts me' she thought. hearing a gasp of pain from behind her she turned around letting her guard down, and midnight aimed not at Ezra who was unprotected but at Jellal who was at least three metres away from Ezra. Ezra requiped at lightning speed and took off at a run towards Midnight. But it was too late Jellal was being squished and the outsides of his body were fading.
"Jellal!" Erza pleaded to his disappearing body.
Turning away from Jellal, after realising that she couldn't do anything, and back to Midnight she thrusted her sword at him and she wasn't surprised when, without moving, he deflected it. She realized that he could only have deflected her sword by possessing supersonic speed or by using reflector magic. She swung her sword at him again and again but it was not to hurt him but rather to get closer to him. So when Erza had gotten as close as she could, she dropped her sword and rammed her hand into his chest.
"Y-you hit me… H-how did you do it." a puzzled look came over his face as he sunk down against the wall he landed on.
"I noticed that you were using reflector magic. Which is a type of magic that lets no other magic hit the user. So I assumed that if I pushed you hard enough you would be knocked backwards, and my theory proved correct. This means that your magic has two flaws. One:" Ezra told Midnight as she clenched her fists at her sides ready to punch if need be. "Is that although you have the ability to bend a persons sword or even their armour you cannot bend the person themselves, otherwise why not just bend my body instead of bending my armour. Isn't that right?" she stated more than questioned
"Maybe, but why would that matter?" Midnight asked his voice full of hatred. He stretched his hand out and manipulated the armour Erza was wearing squeezing it tightly around her. "I can use all those lovely clothes you wear to squeeze you until you pop, as fast or slow as I want"
Changing the subject of her own popping Ezra said, "Thats one weakness, One more." After saying this she looked up above her opponent's head and a red circle of spinning disk-like light appeared.
Out of the disk of light hundreds of swords appeared and hovered a little closer to midnights head than before. Terror took over midnights face as the swords Erza summoned came raining down on him.
Blue light erupted from where midnight had stood. Erza glanced around to see where he was.
Bells chimed from the other side of Nirvana. Another sound blended in with the bells, so well that Ezra had trouble putting her finger on it. Then she realized it was laughing, the evilest type you can get.
"Your days are over on this earth now! The bell that chimes, chimes my strongest hour, Now you shall shake and fall by my hand. Fall out of the depths of the earth.
And at that moment Ezra had no idea how true that was.
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As her head spun Ezra tried to sit up, a rough hand stopped her midway and got her to lay back down. She was too dizzy to fight back, but not too dizzy to hear a rough voice speak in a strange language. "W-what...?" Ezra managed. She tried to open her eyes but the light made her head hurt. If she squinted it wasn't so bad and she could make out four shapes around her.
"Oh, speak English?" One of the shadows said with a thick accent Ezra didn't recognize. None of these shadows seemed to be Midnight or trying to kill her, so she decided to relax until she could move on her own. It only took a minute before her dizziness went away, and another for the light sensitivity as well.
Sitting up quickly Ezra scanned her surroundings. She seemed to be on a ship of some kind and there were indeed four people in the room with her. Three of them looked to be only to be a little older than her. The third was an older man with silver slicked back hair and cold blue eyes. He looked like an unpleasant man and Ezra immediately didn't like him.
"Where am I?!" Ezra demanded. "Who are you?!"
"Vell, ve are on da Durmstrang Institute ship headed to 'Ogwarts." One of the boys said. His hair almost black.
"Nok tosk!" The older man grunted in a demanding way. The boy who had spoken looked down and the man turned to Ezra. "Who are you?" He demanded. "You suddenly appear on our ship. That's impossible." He didn't have as thick of an accent as the boy had. "No one can apparate on this ship and then demand things of us! One of your colleagues woke up a little while ago and attacked us! He's locked up now! How do we know you won't do the same!?"
Although Erza hated to admit it, he was kind of right. The "colleague" he referred to must have been Jellal. It was good he was somewhere safe. But if this man wasn't going to be civil she didn't have to be. "Look," she said coldly. "I don't know what apperating is and I have no idea how I got here. I'm Erza Scarlet from Fairy Tail and I demand to know how I got here."
"Fairy Tail?" One of the boys half scoffed. "I've never heerd ov dat school."
"It's not a school." Erza snapped. "I'm no child. It's a wizarding guild!" At her words the older man's eyes lit up. She didn't like the way he was looking at her.
"I am Igor Karkaroff, Headmaster of Durmstrang Institute. You're more than welcome here Miss Erza Scarlet." His tone had changed. It was now sly and slippery like a snake. "Krum, why don't you show her around? We'll be arriving at Hogwarts soon."
The only boy who hadn't said anything nodded to the Headmaster before offering a hand to help Erza up. Not really knowing why, she took it and stood. This boy, Krum, was a bit taller than she was and about as broad as she was with her armor on. He had sort hard hair and black eyes that looked hard like winter. Still not saying anything he turned and led her through the ship. She didn't need him to say anything. She had been on a ship before so she knew the basic setup and what all the rooms were called, but there were still some things she didn't know.
"Where are we?" She asked Krum.
"Under vater." He said simply.
"Under water where?!" Ezra snapped.
Krum shrugged. "Eoorup." He obviously wasn't much of a talker, and Ezra wasn't having that.
Grabbing him by the front of his thick red cloak she slammed him against the wall glaring at him. "Look, I'm not the only one who should have made it here. So if anyone else like me has popped up you better tell me now!" She glared up at him.
Krum looked surprised. It was obvious to Erza that he wasn't used to being treated like this, especially not by a woman. All the people they had passed in the halls had bowed or nodded to Krum as they went along, so he was obviously someone of high opinion here. He was probably used to girls fawning over him and making a fuss. This only made her glare at him more. "Are there any other's like me?"
"There is no von like you." His black eyes baring into hers. She wasn't sure if he didn't understand English enough to form the proper sentence or is he was flirting with her. Either way, he was telling the truth. None of her teammates were on the ship. She sighed and let him go, turned and walked ahead of him.
'I need to find them.' Erza thought as she started to make her way to the deck.
Somewhere above her someone shouted, "Zemya! 'Ogwarts!" There was a sudden jerk and Erza would have fallen if Krum hadn't caught her. He had one strong bulky arm around her waist and one hand grabbing a rope above their heads. Looking up she was surprised to see concern in his eyes, though his face stayed emotionless.
"I'm fine," Erza said putting her hands between them to create some distance. "Thanks." She looked up at his with what she hoped looked like gratitude. It must have worked because he smiled down at her as he released her.
Without words he took her hand and led her to the deck. People made way from them as they headed for the railing to get a better look. They were on a huge black lake and across the water was a castle all lit up in the cool dark night. It was beautiful. Erza leaned forward on the railing, scanning the people in the crowd next to the lake for anyone she knew. Nothing. Krum came up behind her and muttered in her ear. "You'll find vem." These simple words lifted a weight that Erza hadn't realized was there and she let out a breath she wasn't sure how long she had been holding it in. She turned and nodded to Krum, then looked back at the castle, hoping her friends were there and alright.
Suddenly the ship rocked again as a giant explosion came from below. Ezra looked down to see a hole in the ship the size of a tusk she brought to the guild once and something swimming away from the ship in a hurry. "Damn it Jellal!" Ezra swore as she dove in after him.
