Strange Bits of Happiness- Chapter 2
Title- Hopes
Pairing- Jellal x Erza
Summary- She never loses hope, even after what has happened. Her heart bleeds and her soul aches, but he never leaves her mind.
A/N- I know I had said that these one shots are mostly going to be about Natsu and Lucy- but change of plans. Now the stories will revolve around whichever characters my fickle mind attaches itself to. But the stories will mostly be either NaLu or Jerza.
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Sand hits her palms and knees, and a moment later she feels water lapping at her feet. A warm, slightly salty breeze ruffles her short red hair and stings her raw wounds. She can hear water pounding against the rocks, and knows that she far, far away from the tower.
Yet she does not open her eyes to see her surroundings, she does not savour her freedom. For what is the use of this freedom when she has no one to share it with? Her friends are either dead or are still enslaved. She is away from the tower, but never before has she felt this lonely or imprisoned.
Tears leak out of her shut eyes and drip onto the sand.
She has failed to fulfil her promise. She has attained freedom, but lost the ones precious to her. Her promise. She had promised all of them that one day they would taste freedom, together, and that has backfired onto her. And more importantly, she wasn't able to rescue him.
The bitterness and unfairness of it all is overwhelming, and she opens her eyes for the first time after reaching this faraway place, and looks up to the large silver moon. Silver, like her tears which stream down her cheeks. She screams in anguish and pain, sobbing copiously, cursing everything and everyone for this agony. What has she done, to receive this crushing despair? More importantly, what has he done to receive this destiny?
The tower, which he had wanted to escape, is now his home.
And now she is free, but is also alone.
Hours pass before she has the courage to stand up and look around. Sand, water, rocks….she knows what it is called but she can't recall its name. What does it matter, anyway? Remembering its name will not help her get her friends back.
She wanders around aimlessly, the past events still haunting her with every step. Then she remembers. She remembers Grandpa Rob's last words:
"Go… to….. F-Fairy Tail…."
Fairy Tail? What in the world is that? But she must find it, whatever it is, for Grandpa Rob's sake.
Her torn feet ache and bleed, her wounds prickle and throb, but that is nothing compared to the turmoil inside her head. But in the end, she makes up her mind to live her life as fully as she can. She owes it to all her friends, especially to him. She thinks and she thinks, and then comes to the conclusion that, one day, he will snap out of this stupor and return to the kind, gentle boy that he once was.
Her poor, human heart still aches and bleeds, but she clings onto false hopes and embraces them with all her strength. Her wishes are what keep her from giving up, and her hopes, her false hopes, that one day he will be free from the chains of evil that bind his mind.
In the end her hopes escape, ripping her heart and draining her blood, until, after regaining consciousness, she falls into the snares of delusion all over again.
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