Chapter 2
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"Good Morning Erza" Lucy waved at the scarlet colored student that she saw entering the class few minutes late than her usual time of arrival. And Erza looked like she was deep in thought as she entered the classroom
And forget about Natsu's usual trap consist of a bucket full of water on top of the classroom door.
Splash
"Lucy! You fell for it again?" Natsu shouted happily as he run towards the entrance door.
"Anou.. Natsu" Lucy called his name as she tried to get his attention from laughing as his prank once again succeeded. "I am here"
"huh?" Natsu stopped laughing as he take a second look at who fell into his trap.
"N-A-T-S-U!"
"E-erza" Natsu gulped as he saw the scarlet president with a bucket on top of her head and her whole body soaked by water. "It's really sunny today, hehehe"
"So, this is your doing?" Erza looked beyond angry at Natsu as she summoned her Heaven's wheel Armor.
"Erza, I am sorry" Natsu is whimpering as he takes a look at Erza's face. And Erza didn't seem to hear his voice as she spoke lowly under her breath.
"First them and now you? I just want to have my peaceful morning" Natsu saw Erza seemed rather upset rather than angry but it was only for few second before he heard Erza summoned her swords and her target is no other than Natsu Dragneel
"Blumenbatt"
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"Jellal, I am sorry" Meredy begged as she followed Jellal all the way in the hall of Heaven Academy.
"I don't appreciate you breaking into my house in the morning no matter what your reason is."
"But, last year it is okay for me and Ultear to come at anytime" Mereddy in the verge of crying as she said this "I just want to surprise you since Ultear already leave her place early"
"And it is a good thing Erza didn't summon any of her swords to Meredy's direction." Jellal thought as he remembered the incident that morning.
FLASHBACK
"Good Morning Jellal" Jellal woke up to see Erza is ready to go to school as she prepared breakfast for the two of them. as her way to thank him, Erza insist on making breakfast and dinner as long as she stay in his apartment. and Jellal really don't have any problem with it, he usually skip breakfast as he bought bread in the cafeteria in the morning.
"Good Morning Erza"
"Can I ask you something?" Erza said as he put his bag on the chair next to where he was seated in the dining room.
"What is it about?"
"What will Heaven Academy do if this year Magic Contest's rumor about pairing up with other school is false rumor?"
"I don't know. Our Principal just told us to find suitable candidate if we somehow ended up need to pair up with other school." Jellal shrugged.
"You are the Student council President. Surely you must know something? Those people from ERA didn't tell you anything?"
"Slow down" Jellal raised his hand before Erza could ask him anymore question. "Even us don't know anything about Magic Contest. This year we decided to join this event because Student Council think student at Heaven Academy should merge with other student once in a while"
"You mean, you want to participate. And dragged the whole school into it" Erza said as she pointed the spatula to Jellal's direction.
"Ultear and Meredy also agree with it." Jellal said to her. "People from Heaven Academy started to become stubborn as they thought they are the strongest mage in the entire Fiore. Just because everyone in Heaven Academy is guarantee a place in ERA, it didn't mean they can do as they pleased"
"It will be bad for your school image if you lose"
"True. But I will not lose that easily" Jellal said as he finish his breakfast and about to pour the tea into his cup when Erza suddenly became very tense.
"Jellal!" a very cheery voice could be heard from the entrance along with voices from someone's running towards the dining room.
The tea kept pouring as Jellal has this horrified look on his face as he look at the scarlet colored woman that no one supposed to know about her living in his place.
"Erza, Hide!" Jellal tried to hide Erza somewhere, but there is no place for her to hide in the dining room or in the kitchen.
"Jellal, I will find a way to leave this place. But you have to stop that person before she went passed the living room" Erza ordered as she used her re-equip magic to change into her Flight Armor.
"Got it." Jellal uses his magic, Meteor as he tried to stop the person, Jellal have a pretty good guess on this person's identity, before that person saw Erza.
Flashback end
"Meredy, you should not enter a boy's room in the first place. Who knows what kind of secret Jellal might kept in his room" Ultear's voice caught Jellal's attention. It is rare to see Ultear come to class normally. She used to use her 'Time Ark' magic to arrive to class exactly as the bell rings.
"But Ul, Jellal even use Meteor in his own house when he greeted me." Meredy protested. Ultear have her devil smirk as she took a look at Jellal's face. She had known Jellal from his first year of school in Heaven Academy. And not for once Jellal use his magic carelessly.
"Is that so? I never knew you are that eager to meet with Meredy" Ultear said as she spoke to Jellal.
"But Ul, Jellal dragged me out from his place as soon as he saw me. I was going to greet Jellal's guest since I saw an unfamiliar shoes in his place"
"You have guest that early in the morning? I wonder who it might be." Ultear can see the sweat forming on Jellal's forehead as he tried to think of a lie that Ultear might believe. But Jellal Fernandez is never good at lying.
"Everyone, return to your seat" the three of them heard their teacher ordered them. it seems while they spoke, they missed the sound of the bell. Jellal breathe a relieve breath as Ultear and Meredy return to their seat. "Jellal, you are needed in the meeting room. Representatives from Oracion Academy are here to see you"
Jellal stood up from his seat, but he took one last look to Ultear's direction as he saw Ultear looking at him suspiciously. Jellal have to think of a way to clear Ultear's suspicion before she dig deeper into his secret. And there is a possibility of Erza thinking whoever visit him this morning is his fiancé. He need o prepare a good excuse if Erza suddenly thought of moving out from his apartment. There is no way he would let her to move in with her so called ex-boyfriend
But right now, he need to find out if people from ERA decided to pair up some schools in this year's Magic Contest. And if it's true, he need to find a way to be teamed up with Erza's school and protect her along with winning the Magic Contest.
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"You are in a bad mood this morning, Erza-san" Lucy said as the two of them entering the student council room. School already over for most of them but those who enlisted in student council need to stay extra hour after school to discuss about Magic Contest.
"I just have a bad morning, that's all" Erza said. She remembered the pink colored hair girl as she enter her room just few seconds before Jellal close his front door. Jellal did the right thing using his Meteor Magic and left his apartment since Erza forget to put her shoes in the shoebox. She hoped the woman who visited Jellal's apartment this morning didn't see her shoes.
Erza widened her eyes as something dawned upon her. what if that woman is Jellal's fiancé and she come to visit him in the morning? For the month she stay in Jellal's place, not once she had seen his fiancé's picture in Jellal's apartment.
"I am soo stupid" Erza said as she hit herself in the nearest wall.
"Erza-san!?" Lucy jumped when the scarlet colored woman suddenly hit herself in the nearest wall without any reason.
"What if Jellal didn't want to create trouble and make his fiancé think that Jellal cheat on her with Erza? She need to apologize to Jellal's fiancé and ask for her permission to stay in his apartment" Erza thought. She nodded to herself before she frowned as another thought crossed her mind
"What if his fiancé wants you to leave Jella's life? Forever?"
"Erza-san?" Lucy called her friend when she saw the sad look on Erza's face.
"Sorry. I was spacing out for a moment"
"Are you okay? We are going to have another difficult meeting today with everyone" Lucy said. by difficult, it means stopping Natsu from breaking things, stopping Gray from fighting with Natsu and also running everything and the other school member who sometimes ended up in big fight in the meeting room.
"I am fine. Let's go Lucy"
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Jellal has been sitting in the meeting room since the first school arrived in Heaven Academy this morning. And so far, he had decline more than fifteen schools for the past eight hours.
And his plan to surprise Erza with her favorite strawberry cake will not happen today.
"soo, how is it? do you want to be teaming up with our school?"
What worse, he had to see someone he really didn't want to see the most in the meeting room. he try to hold the urge to crush this man with his Magic and leave no trace of him in this world.
"If you don't want to be teaming up with my school, I will ask Erza-chan's school to be teaming up with me"
"It is still not official whether there is a need to make a team or not in this Magic Contest. I need time to discuss with my Principal about considering your school" Jellal spoke to the male student in front of him.
"Fine then! I will just ask Erza-chan's school" he told Jellal before he left the room. Jellal sighed as he closed the folder in his hand. it is not until another month the people in ERA will announce the theme for this year's Magic Contest. And people who give their proposal to Heaven Academy, hoping to be its partner if the rumor about fighting in pair ended up being true.
And the way this man calls Erza. Is it possible this man is Erza's ex-boyfriend? Erza never mention her ex's name to him. he know Erza having a boyfriend when he read in the weekly sorcerer that the powerful Titania from Fairy Academy caught being lovey-dovey with another male species. There are no other article about that man and Jellal assume Erza has broken up with that boy.
She accepted his offer to move in to his place, wasn't she?
What if Erza never broke up with that boy? Jellal thought.
"Is there something on your mind, Jellal?" Ultear's voice bring him back from debating inside his mind. He saw Ultear has her devilish smile as she pull out a picture from her pocket. "Thinking about your little Fairy Queen?"
"What are you talking about?" Jellal stopped talking when he saw the picture in his desk. It is a picture of him and Erza when they were still in orphanage. And that is a picture he always carry in his wallet since Erza move into his place.
"You should be more careful with your secret, Jellal"
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AN:
This is the next chapter~
Note for this chapter: as I write in this chapter, Erza never met Meredy and Ultear until the event in first chapter. Also, ERA is the place where someone get paid a lot in this story. by working in ERA it means that person have great magical ability and gain lots of respect from their peers. There are lots of other places to work (will be revealed in the later chapters) but ERA will be every mage's first choice.
Still bunch of drabble since I haven't finish re-downloading the Edolas arc. I need to remember about Erza Knightwalker and Mystogan in Edolas. But oh well…
Thank you for your reviews and support on my first chapter . I am happy that someone actually like this story even if my grammar is not that good. And I am hoping you also like this chapter
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Review answer:
Kathlinee: I will try to update fast~ hehehe depend on the amount of free time that I have. Since Ultear and Meredy has never meet with Erza, it will be even funnier when they meet.. right? I just love the trio Jellal-Ultear-Meredy and how clueless Jellal is when he is supposedly in love with Erza
StuffStuff: thank you~ I hope you also like this chapter~
TheSecretDreamer: hehehe I have this idea when I saw Fairytail ova and the amount Erza need to rent the room in Fairyhill. And Jellal will always want to be with Erza. I think this might be a good idea. And please don't expect any lemons from me. I have never written one and I am still learning the art of description. There will be some fluff for the two lovebirds in the future chapters. Afterall, it is fun to write character that are idiots in love
Guest: Thank you~ this is another chapter and I hope you also like this one