Dave Strider woke up from that dream again. The dream of the girl with the scarlet red hair. He'd never seen a girl with that color hair before. It was a vibrant scarlet red, too. Like it was part of a rainbow, only not as translucent. They're about the same age if she's not a little older. She had a single brown eye with bags underneath as if she hadn't slept in months, the other covered with some kind of eye patch. She always looked beat up with open cuts and bruises sprinkled all over any part of her body that was visible. She had blood in the corner of her mouth, her forearms and biceps were wrapped in bandages, thick and heavy looking restraints on her wrists, and she always looked tired, sad, and a bit frightened. Vulnerable, even, like she was barely able to pick herself up. She always stared at him from her spot on the dirt covered ground. She'd ask him,"When are you coming for me, Knight?" He'd just stare at her, in shock, and watch as a ghastly and sickeningly depressed smile appear on her tormented face. "You'll understand someday... And you'll save me.. Some day... Some day soon... I hope" Even though it's creepy how she says these things to him, the blonde boy still feels for her. His heart wrenches seeing her like that. He doesn't tell Bro about her, knowing he'd get teased mercilessly about her and never be able to live it down...Ever. He doesn't tell his friends either, a bit worried about what they might think. They never said anything about her so he figured it was just him. She was just a dream. So he decided to forget about her... But he never really does...
You are Dave Strider.
You see someone who doesn't exist.
You are trying to save a fantasy girl.
You dream about her up until the time you turn fourteen.
By this time, she looks older and more put together now.
Sometimes she even manages to smile.
But then, out of the blue, the dreams stop.
And you, Dave Strider, begin to forget about her as time goes on.
Three years later, however, you get to meet the maiden...
Erza Scarlet's head lifted from under the rubble. She needed sleep after the constant battle and turmoil that she was suffering through. She had the dream about that boy again. He seemed a bit younger, younger then her at least, but he stood to her like he was older and more mature then herself. The wiser one. He'd always give her the ghost of a smile and say,"I'm going to come and save you...Some day...Some day soon...I hope" She knew better then to tell anyone about him. No one was coming to save them. Only they could save them. So she fought.. She fought and she fought some more. That's what she had to do. The young scarlethaired girl rose to her feet and stared at the rising sun,"If you're coming here then come, but don't keep me waiting forever" She stood there, feeling like an idiot for thinking that he was going to ride up on a horse and take her and all these people away from this hell hole. But, alas, he didn't come. And he wouldn't. That day marked her eleventh year of living. Six of those she was a slave. Now.. She was free.. But at what cost? Jellal hd betrayed her and the knight from her dreams still hadn't cometo save her. "Don't come... I wouldn't want you to see me like this anyways" By the time she turned fifteen, she had almost completely forgot about the knight in red armor. What she didn't know was that he was coming for her... In just three more years.
This is Erza Scarlet.
She dreamed of a knight in shining armor coming to save her.
She dreamed he'd come and take her away from being a Child of Heaven.
He did not.
He was a dream.
She soon forgot about him after joining a guild called "Fairy Tail"
Three years later, her knight came... But he was wearing red pajamas...
