Cantarella

by obako-chan97

Based of Kaito and Miku's Cantarella (Though I hate that pairing for the rest of my life, KAITO MEIKO FTW!) This is a story of Lucy and Natsu of how they cope with forbidden love, lust, rape, and marriage throughout their lives. Will they end up together? But then again, what about Lisanna, Natsu's fiancé? NatsuxLucy, GrayxJuvia, Leo Loki Loke x Aries, Jellal x Erza. R&R! LEMON!

2. The Sorcerer, The Knight, and Hacgnaran

I AM BACK WITH THE PAIRING….

JELLAL X ERZA WOOHOO!

WHO'S EXCITED FOR THESE TWO?

I know… I know… I did put Gruvia cliff-hanger last time, BUT I FEEL LIKE WORKING WITH JELLZA RIGHT NOW!

And maybe after that Loki and Aries

Then lastly, Gray and Juvia

JELLAL AND ERZA HAVEN'T BEEN ELABORATED FURTHER PEOPLE, THAT'S WHY I'M WORKING WITH THEM RIGHT NOW!

So deal with it you Gruvia hardcore fangirls/fanboys -_-

VERY SORRY FOR BEING SO INACTIVE (FeatherGuitar-san has bitchslapped the shit outta me for not updating /dies)

~L.P~

Chapter 2: The Mage and The Knight

~L.P~

"Luucyyyy~"

The blonde groans and rolls over to the other side of the bed, backing away from the pinkette behind her. The guy snuggles onto the crook of her neck and circles his arms on her waist. "Lucyy, come oooonn…" He pleads to the blonde girl.

The girl squeaks as the guy pinches her nip lightly and teasingly. They are currently naked due to the event that occurs last night. She turns over to the guy and frowns at him, ripping out a chuckle from the guy. "No, Natsu! How many times must I tell you that I need rest! Sleep! A break!" She yells at the guy as she tries to hold him back from trying to kiss her.

"Aww… Come on, I need more of it! I haven't had enough!" Natsu replies. "After all, you are enjoying it too, right?!" At this, Lucy's face reddens as she hits the guy playfully in embarrassment. "O-Ouch, ouch ouch!"

"Oh, Lucy… Come on…" Natsu growls sexily as he crawls over to Lucy, towering her small naked figure underneath him. He licks his upper lip and continues in a husky whisper, "This time, I'll make you scream so much that you won't be able to talk, much less denying me to fuck you senseless…"

Lucy's face turns blue as she tries to crawl away but is caught by the guy. She shrieks and hits the guy over and over again but with one single kiss all those resistance are futile and she gives into her man. "S-Stupid—Ah… N-Natsu…" She gasps as his fingers enter her sheath. "W-We've just d-done—U-uhh—it for o-one straight w-week, y-you idio—Unnh…"

The guy smirks and replies smugly, "That's exactly the point!"

And with that another round of love has begun, again…

~S.G~

A man with a shocking blue hair walks down the empty hall of the palace; King Igneel has summoned him for a private reason. The man's dark eyes land on the blue sky outside of the window beside him and his mind lands on a woman with a particular beautiful red hair.

As if on a cue, a woman with beautiful scarlet hair appears in front of him. The woman keeps on walking, seemingly not noticing the existence of the man for she's lowering her head. By the time the woman lifts her head up, their gazes meet.

The calm expression of the woman changes into a burning fury, clearly written on her face and her eyes as she is glaring daggers at the man. If just looks can kill, the man would have died already. Instead of replying the glare with another glare, the man smiles sweetly at the woman with hints of apology which clearly the woman doesn't accept.

Both of them stop in front of each other, but exchange not even a word. Both of them are just exchanging looks. "Jellal Fernandez," The woman spat. "What are you doing here…?" She asks bitterly with clear hints of anger. "You're going to kill the King…? Like what you have done to my parents…?"

The man, Jellal, doesn't answer and instead he keeps on listening to the woman, ignoring all the bitter insult she throws at him. "Erza Scarlet," He begins. "Your hair is as beautiful as ever." He smiles. Every other girl would have fainted by the time the man throws his compliment, but this is Erza Scarlet we're talking about.

She frowns at him more, "Shut it, Fernandez." She walks over to him and roughly grabs him by the collar; the man stays silent as he stares deeply into the girl's brown orbs. "If you dare to try to even touch the King or Natsu, I will kill you for sure this time…" She grits her teeth and clenches her fists on his collar. "I swear I will."

With that, she harshly yanks him off and the guy stumbles a bit. Erza stomps away from Jellal, leaving him alone in the hallway. It's not her fault that she's angry at him like this. Some people might say it's his parents' fault that Erza's parents are killed, but no. It's actually his fault.

He knows that Erza is a straight-forward and a determined person. If something is wrong in her eyes, it will remain wrong. No one can change her mind and the reason Erza hates him the most but not his parent is because he broke her trust which leads to Erza's parents' death.

16 years ago when both of them are 10, Erza meets Jellal in the dark alley. Erza doesn't belong to a high-class family but that doesn't mean her family is poor enough that they can't give their children food. Erza's father is a low-rank soldier and her mother is a maid at the Kingdom. They live somewhere near the forest that is on the edge of the Fairy Tail Kingdom region. Pretty excluded you can say.

The reason they live there is because her father does not want to drag them into danger if someone attacks the Palace, which is located at the City. Little Erza is a very cheerful person and when her parents are at the City, she always comes by on the afternoon to play with other kids in there and wait until her parents are finished with their works.

One particular day, Erza's playing hides and seek with the other kids and that's how she meets Jellal. When she's hiding in a small alley, she hears someone sobbing in pain. Curious of who that is, she follows the voice and sees someone in a white robe, crying.

"Who's there?" She asks. The sobbing stops and the person looks up, it's a young boy. Erza approaches him and kneels in front of where he's sitting. "Hey…" She greets soothingly, "Are you alright? Where are your parents? Why are you here?" She gently pats the young boy's shoulder.

The young boy glances at her before he lowers his head again. Erza is confused by this, maybe he's hungry, and so she takes out a piece of bread from her pocket and gives the bread to him. "Here," she smiles. "Eat it, you must be hungry."

The young boy looks dreamily at the bread before he slowly takes it from Erza's hand and devours it down. Erza giggles at the boy's antics and the boy shies away in embarrassment. Erza looks at him and asks, "So, where are you from?"

The young boy's expression changes, he face saddens and he replies, "I-I have no home." This surprises Erza that her mouth parts open. "I-I... I lost my parents... They're traveller and I somehow got separated from them..."

Erza knits her eyebrows in concern. "I-I'm sorry... I didn't know..." Erza adds apologetically. The young boy smiles sweetly at her and pats her head, taking Erza by surprise. The young boy lifts his head up and Erza can see his hair is just as not normal as hers. Shocking blue and scarlet red; perfect match.

"It's alright..."

Erza nods and fidgets, what's wrong with me... Why is my heart beating so fast...? Erza stares at the boy and realizes that he has a big fresh newly made tattoo on his left eye. She tilts her head, observing the tattoo more thoroughly. "What's that?" She points at his tattoo.

The boy slowly traces his left hand over his left eye and smiles sadly, "oh. This... It's just.." He hesitates. "...My sin..."

Erza cocks an eyebrow, clearly stating her confusion. The boy chuckles softly and replies, "Just don't mind it... So, what's your name? Why are you here?" He asks politely.

"My name is Erza Scarlet," She stretches out her small palm. "I'm here 'cause I live in this kingdom, but I live more on the far end side, not inside of the walls. I'm currently waiting for my mom and dad who are working here."

The young boy shakes Erza's hand and replies, "Jellal. Jellal Fernandez."

And that's where it begins.

"Oi."

Jellal turns around and see... Loki. He smiles at him, which is a sarcastic smile, really, 'cause he never smiles sweetly at anyone. "Yes, what is it Loki?"

The orange headed guy cocks a brow at him, "Was that Erza? The one you were talking to?" He asks. Jellal's smile disappears into a stoic expression, showing his hesitance to answer the question. "Just answer me, dammit."

"What do you want from her?" Jellal replies with an unexpectedly dangerous tone which makes the orange-headed guy flinches. His dark eyes are glowing in pure annoyance and jealousy. Yes, jealousy.

Loki sighs as he runs through his left hand over his hair, ruffling it, "Geez, relax. You're getting all protective over that scarlet headed knight now. I was just asking 'cause a guest of ours wants to see her." Loki points backwards with his thumbs, "The guy is in the lounge room and he said he wants to see Erza Scarlet."

Jellal frowns at this and asks, "Who's the person?" Loki scratches his temple nervously and he stutters. Jellal narrows his eyes at him and deadpans his question, "Spit it, you damned cat."

Loki replies his glare with a glare of his own before he sighs heavily, "It's Simon... You know, that Simon...?"

And Jellal runs to the lounge room despite the fact that the King is waiting for him.

~S.G~

Erza is walking down the alley as he hears there's someone looking for her. She shallowly remembers her encounter with Jellal and a tear slips out of her left eye. It seems that she's surprised by this. "Shit." She curses before she wipes away her tear from her cheek.

She remembers how they meet for the first time, how nice he was once. Well, it turns out that his kindness is an act after all. But no matter how much she wants to lie, she can't. No matter how much she hates that guy, deep down inside of her tiny tiny heart, she knows that she loves him. Not that she'll admit though.

She keeps on walking, trying to forget her sad past, until lastly she arrives in front of two big doors. She's just about to open the big doors but stops herself as she hears yells and roars from inside of the room. She puts her ear onto the door, trying to listen clearly, but seems to be unlucky.

She groans and slowly pulls the door open so that she can both see and hear what's happening inside, so that she can judge what actions she should take later. Her brown orbs widen is surprise as she sees the familiar shocking blue haired guy rants at another person whom she doesn't know because the person's back is facing her.

"What are you doing here?!"

It's Jellal's voice, clearly annoyed by the existence of the guy he's facing with. The man has black hair and his body is well-built. Erza seems to recognize the person, but doesn't seem to get the grasp of him. She decides to listen into their conversation further before she takes action.

"Why can't I be here? I just want to see my beloved friend after all," The man's voice is deep. It is even deeper than Jellal's. Well, you can't really say Jellal's voice is deep, but as a guy, his voice is deep enough. "And what makes you of all people, can question me around while I'm the one who's supposed to ask that questions?"

Erza sees the hurt in Jellal's face and she knows that he's taken aback by the man's encounter. "I-I—" Jellal stutters, looking for words, but nothing comes to his mind. The man stays silent as he watches over Jellal, watching over every slight action the blue-haired man does. Like a sadistic, he seems to enjoy Jellal's pain.

"Well? Answer me, Jellal Fernandez, son of the Fernandez black mage family. What are you doing here? Are you targeting Erza and plan to kill her just like what you did to her parents?" The man's voice is full of accusation and judgement upon the poor blue-haired guy.

Jellal glares at him because of the statement he throws at him and snaps, "Shut it, Simon. You're in no place to talk about that shit!" He throws his arm pointing at 'Simon' and continues, "Where were you when she was hurt, huh? Where were you, when she was hurting because I, indeed, killed her parents?!"

Erza can't believe what she just heard. The person standing in front of Jellal right now and whose back is facing her right now is… Simon? That Simon? The same Simon who left her behind when she has no one to believe anymore? When she's betrayed by Jellal?

Simon is… back?

"Well? Cat got your tongue, huh?" Jellal snaps at him smugly. "You see, Simon. This has been our difference since little. You are too cowardice to stand up for her and protect her from any danger, whilst I dare to do that. Both of us love her, way deeper than what Millianna, Wally, and Sho do. You and I know that, but I am the only one who actually tries to get her. Who actually tries to make her mine. Who actually tries to claim her no matter what it takes." He frowns at Simon.

Erza's body suddenly shivers upon hearing his statement. She's not scared, no, Erza's never scared. Her body is shivering due to… excitement? Why? Little does Erza know that Simon is smirking at the blue-haired guy in front of him.

"But you lost your chance, Jellal." He smirks at him. "You lost your chance by the time you killed her parents." Simon cackles at this and he continues, "What makes you better than me, you pathetic ex-lover of Erza's? Not that you guys are lovers at that time."

"That doesn't mean you still got yours, Simon."

"I know," The guy turns away from him. "But I'll work on that, with a little help from a certain potion, perhaps?" He smirks. Jellal's dark eyes widen as he hears that, he grits his teeth and lunges forward to Simon. But when his fist is about to hit the man's jaw, an armoured arm stops him.

"E-Erza…" Jellal stutters. He looks at her eyes and it's obvious that she's angry. She must've thought that I was about to hurt someone important to her, again… "E-Erza… T-This isn't like what you—"

"Shut it!" The girl roars, surprising Simon and Jellal. "I'm sick of your acts, Jellal! I've been listening to your conversations just then, and all I heard was about you trying to make me yours and how you love me, yadda yadda! But then have you ever think of my feelings?!"

The man stays silent and his fist is still on Erza's grasp. "Do you know how hard it is?! Being betrayed?! Simon's right, though he left me behind that day… AT LEAST HE DIDN'T KILL MY PARENTS!" She yanks his fist off and turns away from him. "Let's go, Simon."

Simon smiles at her and glances at Jellal who's still dumbfounded. He smirks at him and follows Erza from behind. By the time the doors are closes, Jellal curses loudly. He punches the marble floor beneath him and curses. He is trying so hard to restrain himself from clenching his fists harder or else it'd bleed his hands.

Another piece of flashback crawls its way to his mind. He tries to forget it but he can't. This is when Erza's parents find them in the dark alley and pity him so that they bring him home, together. He reluctantly agrees to it, but Erza's smile has given him hope. A hope to start a new life.

On their way back to Erza's home, Erza's parents talk about how they are in here and sometimes ask him of how is his life before he comes here. "I-I'm just a son from a traveller… We travel a lot… But I got separated from them…" He replies.

Her parents nod in understanding and replies, "Well, this is your home for now. Let's just wait here until your parents find you. Okay? I'm sure they will." Jellal looks over at Erza and she smiles at him reassuringly. This time, he smiles to himself from the bottom of his heart.

But young Jellal doesn't know that there are shadows lurking in the night, keeping an eye of him, and trying not to let him get away.

Jellal lives with Erza's parents for a long 5 years. That's also how he gets to know Erza's other friends. Wally is a young boy with a long face, almost making him look like a pixel robot. Millianna is a cat-lover girl and she dresses like a cat; even her teeth and eyes look like a cat's teeth and eyes. Sho is a shy boy who's really close to Erza like a big sister; he's an orphan and he lives with Millianna, but from what he heard he used to live with Erza and that's how they got really close.

Lastly, Simon. Simon is the eldest son and he has a younger sister who is in the same age as Erza named Kagura. Kagura and Erza are close, like sisters and when you add Millianna in, it's perfect. Kagura doesn't seem to like Jellal though, because the guy is her beloved brother's love rival and that he'll take Erza away from her. The girl used to think if Simon ends up with Erza, they can be real sisters; but then Jellal steps into the picture.

Though Jellal is counted as a newcomer, he easily overtaken Simon's place being the 'leader' of the group. Even Erza steps down for him. By the age of 15, no one knows that something horrible is going to happen. Not even Jellal himself. The nightmare that left him for the past 5 years has finally come back to haunt him.

"Jellal-sama. The King is asking for you," A firm voice behind him reminds something he forgets a while ago and nods at him. Jellal snaps out of his mind and stares at the bun haired guy in front of him; realizing that he has been kneeling on the ground for the past minutes. Jellal stays silent that he makes the bun haired man eyes Jellal worriedly, "Is there anything wrong, sir?"

The blue haired man shook his head and smiles painfully, "Nothing, Bacchus. It's just that… I really do feel like killing myself." The man called Bacchus tilts his head, showing his confusion. "…But I know I can't. Not as long as this monster is inside me…"

Jellal walks past Bacchus and heads towards the exit. When he opens the doors, he sees the two people chatting gleefully like they haven't seen each other in such a long time, and he has to admit that his heart throbs a bit. He turns to the other end and keeps on walking.

He arrives in front of the big two door and opens it, revealing the red-headed King on his throne currently fingering his woman. "A-Auh! N-Nah! I-Ign—neel…!" The woman with the blue hair screams in delight, clutching on to the King's red mantle.

The King realizes his arrival and greets him cheerfully as if there's nothing happening, "Oh, hey there Jellal! Where have ya' been? Been looking for you since ages!" The King thrusts in his finger again and the woman squeals.

"N-Nyah! J-Jellal-k-kun…! D-Don't—s-see!"

"Oh come on, Grandine. It's not like you're naked, right?" King Igneel smirks and he jabs in his fingers into the deepest part of her body and she cums. She screams on top of her lungs and collapses on his broad chest straightaway. King Igneel takes out his fingers and licks them one by one; savouring the taste of his beloved wife. "Holy Jeebuz you're as delicious as ever, Grandine…"

The middle aged woman doesn't answer because she can't. As soon as she cums, she collapses and sleeps on his chest straightaway. Lucky for her, she's still fully-clothed and Igneel is touching her through her long blue dress. King Igneel looks over to his wife dreamily and he runs through his hand on her long silky blue-hair gently with his clean hand. Jellal, witnessing all the love and feels exchanged between the couple, can't help but to feel jealous and envy towards the long-lasting couple.

"So… Jellal," The King begins. "I have a quite important mission for you." His loving face turns serious and Jellal can't help but to feel the tension around him is rising and the atmosphere around him is changing. "The mission I have in store for you is—"

~S.G~

"So… What do you say, Erza?"

Erza turns her head to the guy beside him, he smiles down at her and she waits for him to continue. "Do you want to escort me through the Kingdom? Be my guide for a day?" He chuckles lightly. Erza stays silent and her mind drifts off to a certain blue-haired mage.

She quickly pushes the thoughts away and tries to go back to reality. Hesitantly, she answers, "Yeah sure… I mean, why not? It's also a chance to know each other better after all these years we've separated."

The man smiles and replies, "Well then, see you 1 week from now?" Erza nods. The man smiles and waves at her afterwards, he goes to the opposite route she's walking on and disappears from her sight. She sighs heavily and keeps on walking.

She hears horses from afar and looks outside of the window. Jellal… Her mouth parts in surprise. Where is he going? She wonders as she sees him going out of the castle's gates with a black horse. She sees him disappears in the crowd and she assumes that he's out of the kingdom by now.

She can't help but to worry over the blue-haired guy. Out of all people, she knows she's the one who knows Jellal's true colours. She's the one who understands. She's the only one who sees him as what he is and not as what's inside of his body.

I wonder if he's out to do some dangerous missions like last time… She remembers of how Jellal comes back to the kingdom with deep cuts and fatal wounds that can even cost his life. Why didn't the King tell me to come with him? She asks herself. But then no long after, she knows that the reason is because she'll refuse.

Sometimes, she hates herself for hating him. But what can she say? Wouldn't you hate someone who kills your parents right in front of your eyes? Even though the murderer doesn't mean it to be like that? Or even the murderer is controlled by someone else to kill?

She remembers the time when Jellal compliments her hair, saying if it's beautiful. She blushes at the thought but soon dismisses it. She doesn't want anything to do with her past anymore. She's changed now; she's no longer the gleeful Erza Scarlet, but rather the cold-hearted Knight of Fairy Tail.

She looks outside of the window for some time before she turns back and continues walking to her only-God-knows destination. Jellal... Please take care of yourself...

~S.G~

Jellal is right now riding on his beloved horse, the fastest in Fiore named Black Beauty. He is still panicking over the King's words. No matter how he tries NOT to believe it, he still can't. Something deep down inside him is telling him that every single word that the King told him is true.

He remembers back at the time when he's standing in front of the King's throne, jaws open, eyes as wide as a tennis ball, shivers running down on his spine, and sweats are sliding sown his face. The nightmare from many years ago is slowly coming back into his life.

The monster that he has been hiding inside of his body, the mark of his sin painted by the tattoo on his left hand side of his face, will strikes again and this time it will be triggered not by his family but with something else. That something else is the thing that he has to investigate right now.

"The mission I have in store for you is—" The King inhales before he continues, "to investigate the ruins of Hacganaran temple that is located in south of Fiore." King looks straight into his eyes, trying to calm the blue-haired man down for he knows what will happen next.

"...H-Hacgnaran's temple...?" After a long time, Jellal finally manages to recover from his shock and stutters a few words in barely a whisper. The images from the past are running through in his mind again like a film that he can't stop.

The blood.

The fear.

The darkness.

The spell.

The pain.

The scream.

Erza's scream.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screams, waking up the Queen. Queen Grandine stares wide-eyed at Jellal in fear, for that scream was not the scream of a human. It was a scream of agony of something that is NOT human.

King whispers a few words to Porlyusica and she nods, running to the exit and rushes out of the room. "Jellal," the King whispers slowly from his throne. He stares at the blue-haired man in concern before he stands up from his throne and walk towards the vulnerable and broken blue-haired man.

He kneels down in front of him and whispers, "Jellal... If it's not you then who else can do it? You need to overcome that fear in your heart and finish this once and for all, my child. After all, if you don't finish this soon—" The King did not dare to continue.

Jellal slowly lifts his head up and stares at the King with his wide-eyes, urging the king to keep on going. The King sighs and continues, "I-I'm afraid if Erza will be hurt, again..."

Jellal opens his mouth, but nothing comes out from it. His stomach is scrunching as he another yet painful flashback is running in his minds; Erza's face covered in blood and eyes wide as she stares at her parents lying limply and soullessly beneath him.

He shook his head, "S-So tell me, King... What's the mission...?" He says as he tries to sound firm. Jellal slowly stands up followed by the King. The King walks to the window behind his throne and stares outside for a minute.

"It turns out that... There's something wrong with our guest." He begins. Jellal looks at the King in confusion and the King continues, "What was his name again? Simone? Salmon? Simon? Yes, Simon it is. There is something wrong with him."

Jellal's heart skipped a beat, megazillions of questions are running through in his mind. What's wrong with Simon? What happened to him when I was in prison? The King answers these questions with, "I have heard about the murder case that you did."

Jellal stays silent and waits for the King to continue, "I know it was not your fault. But then there's something that has been bugging me. Where was Simon when you disappeared? Why was he not with Erza? Where did he go? People may say that he could have gone anywhere and it is not really one of my concerns. But the fact that someone witnessed him in the southern area of Fiore right after you rampaged is rather disturbing.

"Why would he be there? Why did he go there?" The King turns to face Jellal. "And why was he last seen in the ruins of the Hacgnaran's Temple, alone, in the dark? And why hasn't he come home ever since?"

Jellal's face turns pale, the King is right. If what the King has told him is all true, then why did he do that? As Jellal is still deep in thought, King continues. "These are the things that I want you to investigate for me, Jellal Fernandez. You see, if this Simon turns out to be a potential danger for the kingdom, then he will also be dangerous around Erza."

The King walks toward Jellal and stands firmly in front of him, "And I am pretty sure you won't like that now, would you?" The King walks away from Jellal again and continues, "I also heard that this has something to do with the 'sin' you are carrying...

"It appears that 'The Rage of the Hacgnaran' will only happen every 13 years. But yours happened when you're 15 years old, which means it is still 2 years later than the normal date; it's late. But then, if you count 13 more years from the actual 'normal occurrence' date... How old are you again, Jellal?"

Jellal tilts his head and replies, "Me? This year I will be 26—" He didn't get to finish his sentence because he knows what the King's reply is. If the 'rage' occurs every 13 years and this year Jellal will be 26 then there's no doubt that the rage will happen again at the same date as 13 years ago in this year.

Oh no... Jellal remembers that the rage happened around the dates 15 or 16, and it's 1 more week. "You get it now, Jellal? If you don't know—if we don't know what is Simon's purpose coming back to Fiore around this time, what possibility do you have in your mind?"

Jellal pauses for a second, "Could it be... He's targeting Erza?"

"Might be, might be not. But if you think of it this way, Erza's parents are killed by you... But you refused the urge to kill Erza and so the 'rage of the Hacgnaran' is not finished yet. Because your parents have died, and there are no more medium between you and the Hacgnaran for the Hacgnaran to launch its attack, what if he looks for someone else and uses him as his tool to launch his attack, finishing off the Scarlet family...?" The King asks, again turning Jellal's face pale.

"You see now, Jellal? I didn't tell you to handle this because I want to trouble you, but the information that you may get from this mission might just be valuable for you. No one can understand these things like you do. So, please... I am begging you, please take this mission and come home safely. After all, Erza is like my daughter and I hate to see her troubled and worried face if you came home in the state of a dead person."

Jellal gulps and nods, "Very well then, King. I shall take up this job and be back as soon as possible."

"Yes. That's more like it. Don't forget that you only have 1 week to finish this," The King nods and Jellal runs outside.

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"Argh, Godammit!" He curses as the horse keeps on running. If I don't get there soon, and if I don't gain the sufficient amount of investigation data, then I won't be able to stop him and prevent him to hurt Erza!

"Godammit Erza! Please be okay!"

~S.G~

1st Day...

Erza walks down the hallway with mind full of thoughts. It's just yesterday that Jellal left for a mission, she can't help but to wonder where is he going and what is he supposed to do. If it's another dangerous mission, she'll have to make sure to stop by the King's room next time.

As she keeps on walking, another flashback runs through her mind. It's when they are celebrating Jellal's 15th birthday. It's really fun, back then. But no one knows something horrible is about to happen. They are singing and dancing and ripping out birthday presents for Jellal and Jellal can only laugh at his friends' antics.

Millianna gives him a long clue cloak, which is so cool-looking and made out of good material. Sho gives him a green handkerchief with the Kingdom's symbol printed on it. Simon and Kagura give him a dark blue shirt with gray pattern on the sides of it. Wally gives him a metal belt with a cool-looking symbol printed on it.

While Erza, being the shy Erza she is, doesn't want to show her present and hides it behind her back. When it is her turn to give Jellal present, she lied to them by saying she forgot to buy something for him. Jellal's face is painted with disappointment for a split second but not after he realizes that Erza is holding onto something behind her back.

He smiles warmly at her and said that it's alright for not bringing him something, because organizing this party for him is already enough. Erza blushes at the words and nods nervously as she hides her face away. Jellal knows that Erza is a shy person and she doesn't have the courage to give him his present in front of people, and so he only needs to wait for her to come up to him when they're alone.

After the party finishes, it's true that Erza comes out and greets him in the balcony. She gives him the present which Jellal is being thankful of. He opens the present and is surprised by the present itself—in a good way. It's a necklace, with a blue heart diamond embedded on it.

Erza remembers how happy Jellal is when he opens his present. His eyes sparkles and his lips crack out a really wide smile as he slowly and gently caress the diamond. "Where did you get this, Erza?" He asks, "This is beautiful. Thank you." He hugs her and Erza can never be happier.

He probably got rid of it already… Erza though bitterly. She shook her head and keeps on walking. I can't get rid of those happy memories now can I? She sighs. Why is it even still there? It shouldn't be there anymore, I've gotten rid of Jellal. All my feelings for him on that night…

She then remembers how it happened so fast. In the middle of the night, her mom's scream in agony and her dad's yell trying to wake her up and get her away from the house. She runs down from her room upstairs and witnesses her mom and dad lying on the ground bathed in blood.

Her eyes gone wide and she stutters incoherent vowels. "M-Mom…? D-Dad….?" She manages to splutter out. She kneels in front of her, the blood splashes on to her body. She reaches out for her mom's limp arm and shakes it. Her mom's eyes flip open and her mouth manages to open.

"…run… Erza…ru…n…"

And with that she's gone. Tears are streaming down Erza's face but she doesn't realize it. The smell of blood is everywhere and she can't take it. She's about to scream when she suddenly heard a loud thump and a dangerous growl behind her. She squeaks as she slowly turns around, capturing the sight of a beast with a read tattoo on its left side of its face.

Erza's mind basically died, she can't think of anything. Her body is shaking like crazy, she can't even move. The thing crawls closer toward her and she can barely slide backwards. "A-Ah… U-uh…" The thing is getting closer to her and she can feel its breath right in front of her.

The thing opens its mouth, ready to devour her, before its right hand suddenly punch itself off to the side far from Erza's spot. Then suddenly she hears small whisper from the thing, at first she can't understand it but the more she listens the more she understands. "E-Erza…. Run… no..w…"

In split seconds, shone by the moonlight, Erza can see a small streak of tear slides down the thing's face and she can see the desperation and pain written on the thing's face that resembles someone she knows too well. Someone she loves, someone she cares about…. Jellal's face. And one last thing that she sees shimmering by the moonlight's light, has made her sure that the thing is definitely Jellal. The necklace.

Before she can do anything, the Rune Knights barge in and try to get rid of Jellal. That's when Erza realizes what they are about to do; killing him. "No!" She screams, "Don't kill him! Don't kill Jellal!" She desperately grabs on to one of the knight's leg and yanks it again and again.

The knight turns around and kicks her off his feet, he yells harshly, "Fuck off kid! We've gotta do what we've gotta do! That thing is a monster, a living and walking demon! Do look at what it did to your parents! And you're hoping us not to kill him?! That thing isn't your friend anymore! Whoever your friend was, he's dead! There's only that thing killing off people now!" and with that he stomps away, trying to kill Jellal.

That thing is a monster!

Look what it did to your parents!

That's not your friend anymore!

Your friend is dead!

There's only the monster killing people now!

YOUR FRIEND IS DEAD.

And Erza screams. She grabs one of her dad's biggest swords, runs through the soldiers with an in human speed and quickly jabs into Jellal's chest. She's too desperate to put a scar on him to realize that instead of trying to kill him she's actually avoiding his vital points.

Jellal screams in agony and suddenly white light surronds them, two people appear in the middle of the light and take Jellal along with them. And a black light appears this time and when it's gone, Jellal also gone. Erza inhales deeply and exhales rather loudly, and she does that so many times.

Did he die? Did I get him? No—Did I kill that thing? She thought and with that last thought she faints.

The next morning when she wakes up, her friends are all by her side. Sho has been crying with Milliana, Wally has been trying to calm them down, Kagura rambling and ranting about how they should've not trusted Jellal. But there's someone who's not there, Simon.

Kagura said that Simon is at home when she's coming over to the hospital to visit her. But then she they all gone back to her house, and look for Simon. He's not there. He's nowhere to be found. They look for him for one full week but still haven't found anything.

Erza almost gets into a foster home, but she demands to be in the Knight training camp. The current general at that time laughs and said that it's not for a kid to decide, but when the soldiers who witnessed her action against the monster speak up, the general takes back his words and lets her to be in the training camp.

Soon after, she outranks the general that underestimates her and become the head of all the soldier division in the Kingdom. The strongest knight of all and you know what happen afterwards. She captured Jellal but King Igneel doesn't let the wizards to be killed, much to Erza's dismay.

No matter how she hates it to be working with him, she can't help but to fall for him at some time when he's being so sweet to her. She can't even handle her feelings when she sees him crying over his parents' grave that she hugs him even though she doesn't want to and even though she likes the feeling of hugging him—not that she'll ever admit it out loud.

"Oh God… Why does it have to be like this…?" She curses. Remembering all these will give her two impacts. One, she'll fall for Jellal again. Two, she'll remember the pain and dilemma of falling for him again. She remembers how he looks at her when he first meets her after all those long 9 or 10 years. The longing and affection that shines from his eyes; the way they sparkle when he sees her. But of course, the situation is different back then. His family and him are a fugitive and Erza the knight.

Frankly, she still hasn't got the chance to get over her fear of Jellal. True, she knows everything from the King already when she forced the information out of him. She knows that Jellal has a monster in his body called Hacgnaran. She knows that his Hacgnaran is one of the strongest, called Zeref. She knows that his parents control him to finish her family off—for the reason she doesn't know.

But the fact that he killed them in front of her eyes, still scare her. The wound in her heart is too deep and it will probably take an eternity to heal.

Erza looks up front and she sees Gray and Juvia arguing about something. She decides to take a closer look, because she can't really see from the angle she's in. Gray and Juvia are standing behind this really big cupboard that is randomly placed on the ramp of the alleyway.

"I don't like it, Juvia!"

"What is it that Gray-nii doesn't like? Juvia is just going to have a walk with Lyon-sama! Lyon-sama is no one harmful; Lyon-sama is mom's apprentice! One of the most trusted ones at that! Why is Gray-nii acting all over-protective over Juvia?"

"It's not like I'm being overprotective, okay?!" Gray sounded desperate... Erza thought. "It's just that, the guy already has a fiancée and I don't like you to hang out with some other woman's man! I don't want you to be involved in some lame scandal or something like that!"

"Juvia knows that Lyon-sama has already been engaged to Chelia-san. Wendy-san's best friend. But that does not mean Lyon-sama cannot hangs out with anyone that Lyon-sama wants to hang out with!" Juvia got a point, Erza silently agrees with Juvia in her mind.

"I've known that guy since forever, Juvia. I know that he's a freaking playboy stripper that goes after every woman he likes! I don't want you to be one of the women that he—"

"Gray-nii knows that Juvia is not that kind of woman is Juvia right? And furthermore, if Juvia refuses his proposal it will have bad affect onto mom and dad's reputation! What will Lyon-sama's family thinks about Juvia's family if Juvia refuses his proposal?"

Gray sighs, he finally gives in. "Yeah well—But—Argh... Fine, I can't really argue about this with you now can I? Well, fine... I'll let you go. Just... Be careful, okay?"

Juvia's face brightens up as she nods excitedly. "Yes! Juvia will, Gray-nii! Gray-nii must not worry about Juvia for she can take care of her ownself! Well then, Juvia will take her leave to prepare herself for the lunch with Lyon-sama!"

As Juvia jumps off in glee, Gray clenches his fists and his face expression changes. Hurt, pain, desperation, frustration, jealousies are all written on his face and these don't go unnoticed by Erza. She steps out of her hiding place and taps on Gray's tense shoulder.

The guy flinches and he even manages to let out a small squeak before he turns around in full speed, "E-Erza! Wh-What a-are y-you d-doing h-here? S-Since wh-when have y-you been h-here?"

Erza giggles at him and replies, "long enough to hear you rant about Lyon. Really, I never know you have such a bad mouth. Nor do I know that you can bad-mouth about people so good."

Gray's face turns red and he tries to hide it away, which makes Erza laughs at him even more. But slowly, the laughter fades away and Erza's face turns to a more stern face. "Gray, are you serious?"

Gray stops blushing and looks at Erza straight in the eye, "Well, it's not like I can back down now."

"But what about your father and mother? What about your family?"

He takes out a small bottle from his left pocket and shows it to Erza, "Here. I got this."

Erza sighs in concern, "I know, I can see that... But are you sure about this?"

This time it's Gray's turn to pat onto her shoulder. He smiles at her and his face says it all—his face shows all the determination that he has for this one particular thing.

"I'm dead sure about this. I will make Juvia my woman. Mine and only mine."

~S.G~

2nd Day...

Jellal arrives on the southern forest of magnolia safe and sound. He gets off from his horse and walks through the forest ahead of him. He looks to the left and right, everywhere, for a particular temple that sticks out from the whole forest scenery but finds none.

He sighs aloud and takes a seat near a small pond. "Jeez, what am I doing? I'm supposed to be looking for the damn temple, not resting around!" He huffs before he stands up on his feet again.

Well, you can always use a rest... Foolish human.

The voice inside of his mind startles him, after a split second of recognizing the voice, Jellal growls dangerously. "Shut it, you damned monster." The voice inside him laughs rather loudly at Jellal's remark. "I SAID, SHUT IT!" He yells again.

You can never shut me up, and you know it Jellal Fernandez. Is this how you repay someone who saved your life? Such an ungrateful person you are.

Jellal sneers at the reply, "I would rather be left off dying in that bed when I was a baby rather than be saved by you. I wonder why my mom and dad even agreed to sell my soul to you in exchange of healthiness."

Oh come on, you were having fun hanging out with me... It's not like it's my fault that we killed that girl's parents.

Jellal flinches at this and replies coldly, "don't you dare to categorize us as the same. I did not kill her parents, you did."

But I was in your body, remember? But really, even though she's the one who attempted to kill us, we still gotta thank her for the necklace. After all, it was because of her necklace that she didn't get to jab us through with that damn sword.

Jellal doesn't answer anything at this.

Oh what, now you're shutting up? Where's that shitty arrogant remark of yours have gone, huh?

He still hasn't replied anything.

Hey, didn't you say you're gonna get going? The fastest the better you know.

"Oh now you're on the task, huh?" Jellal replies, dropping off his sarcasm.

Hey, I just wanna help. Don't want to be the bad guys all the time, now, do we?

"Well, you better start talking to me about what you know of all these Hacgnarans. That'd help, but you still won't be the good guy," Jellal dusts off his robe and begins walking with Black Beauty following from behind.

Well... You know me, a monster from the ancient times. Lives off from people, borrowing their forms to kill other people to feast.

"Wow that helps a lot."

Jeebuz, stop with the sarcasm alright? You know that I'm not the talkative type, so before I got into you I never really talk to other Hacgnarans. The only thing I know is that our leader is a douche, a human-woman player, and he loves sex.

But it doesn't stop there, once the woman gives birth to his kid, he'll kill the woman and keep the baby. That, my friend, is what you know as Chimeras. Those half-human and half-monster people. They have their human sense in them, but that doesn't mean they're any less than the Hacgnarans. They got the form of a human though.

We all are douchebags, just pointing that out. I heard everything from that shitty King, by the way. I guess he's right, when you encountered Simon this morning something smells off from him. He doesn't smell quite... human...

I might be wrong—and that's why we're doing this investigation—but let's just keep a safe assumption that Simon is NOT safe. He is dangerous, and if you truly care for the redhead knight I suggest you move your butt faster and get this shit done and over with LESS than 1 week.

Just so we can take some precautions and warning ahead from the deadline date.

Jellal stays silent about and re-think over everything Zeref said to him. Simon doesn't smell quite human…? But how? I mean, there's no way Simon can be… Jellal stops on his tracks, his eyes gone wide. "Shit! Shit! Shit!" He curses as he gets on his horse again, preparing another fast ride.

What's up? Zeref asks.

"If what you say is true, and what the King said was true… Then, there might be a possibility that Simon is the same as us—me! I have you inside of my body, then what if Simon has another Hacgnaran inside of his body?!" Jellal yells out.

That's impossible! Don't ramble around, human! You do know that the Hacgnarans have been wiped out from Fiore by the dragons long long ago and not many of us survived!

"But you survived, right? That doesn't mean that we can be so sure that all Hacgnarans are dead! And anyway, Simon was last seen in the Temple of Hacgnarans the day I killed Erza's parents and he was just back now. What has he been doing in the Temple for those long—what, 9?—10 years?"

Zeref stays silent for a while and continues, you have a point.

"And when you said that he doesn't smell quite human-ish, what if he actually smelled like another Hacgnaran but you just couldn't figure it out because you were an introvert type of Hacgnaran and you didn't hang around with other Hacgnarans that much, that's why you didn't know how they smelled like?!"

Zeref stays silent for another minute.

"Can you tell me at least the candidates of Hacgnarans—that you know—that might possibly still alive even after the 'Dragon wipe out'?! If you can, that'd be much helpful!" Jellal yells again as he rides his horse even faster, and even more desperate.

Zeref stays silent for a while before suddenly gasps, …No way…

"What?! What is it?! You have someone in mind?!"

…I know that I'm supposed to be helping you, and I know that I'm not supposed to scare you even further than this, but… I do have someone in mind, and you're not going to like it…

"Who is it?!"

Zeref gulps and hesitates for a second before continuing, …The King of all Hacganarans… Master E.N.D…

~S.G~

Erza sighs yet again as she looks out from the window. When is he coming home…? She suddenly snaps out of her mind as she realizes what she just thought about. "God, what am I doing? Daydreaming about Jellal… Waiting for him as if I'm the housewife…"

She shook her head and slaps her cheeks, trying to make her mind snap out of the thought. "Stop it, Erza… You've stopped thinking about those things. You are not the old Erza anymore… and he's not the same Jellal anymore… you guys can never be together so just drop it."

With that, she walks off again. Wondering around the castle, trying to clear her mind off from Jellal.

~S.G~

3rd Day…

Jellal has arrived in front of the Temple of Hacgnarans. After a few indications from the local citizens and a few clues from Zeref, Jellal has finally arrived at the Temple. He slowly removes his cape and puts it inside of his travelling bag that he knots onto his horse.

He then takes out a piece of paper to write on and writes a small piece of report to be sent back to the King through his teleportation magic. After finished writing, Jellal folds the small piece of paper into half and blows air onto it.

The paper crumbles away into small blue pieces and slowly vanishes into the wind, being taken to the King. Jellal stares at the paper crumbling away for a split second, before he turns to the entrance of the Temple. The temple itself is very old looking, lots of wild plants are growing on the walls and so many ruins of the temple itself are spread out around the temple.

On the entrance, there's a big unique pattern in Rune script. 'Temple of Hacgnarans' it says. Jellal reads it aloud before stares at it again for another 5 minutes. Everything… Every single truth that I want to know is inside… The only thing that I'm concerned about is… How and where will I get those informations?

These thoughts of Jellal do not go unnoticed by Zeref. Zeref coughs aloud—gaining Jellal's attention—and claims, you know… I may be one of a very introvert Hacgnaran, but that doesn't mean that I don't remember the place where I grew up in… I know this place and what's inside it like the back of my own hand.

Jellal snorts at this, "I see. So you always read people's most privacy thoughts, huh?"

Well, where else do I know that you've been thinking about perverted stuffs of that red-headed girl?

"…You're dead."

I have always been dead, I'm a monster.

"…One more word, and I'll force you out of my body and I will gauge your eyes out, and I will—"

Okay, okay! I get the message already! You don't have to threaten me like that just because I revealed your deepest secrets in front of the readers of this fanfiction!—Oops…

"…You've done it, you bastard… I swear I will kill—"

Before Jellal can finish his threat towards the poor Hacgnaran, suddenly a shrill scream explodes from inside of the Temple. "What the heck was that?!"

I don't know, but it seems like a scream from a Hacgnaran! It's close!

Jellal looks around and realizes that the entrance of the temple suddenly thumps so loud due to a vibration from the inside of the temple. He quickly slaps Black Beauty's ass to signal the horse to flee while he takes cover near one of the big ruins around the temple.

BANG!

The doors fly open, revealing a black-haired guy followed by a big and malicious looking monster behind him. Jellal's eyes gone wide, "S-Simon…" He hissed silently behind his covers. Simon walks out of the entrance and keeps on walking until he's out of Jellal's sight.

Jellal waits for another 5 minutes before he peeks out of his covers again and sighs. "What the heck was that…?" He mumbles.

Well, that's Master E.N.D, you see…

"That big-ass thing?! He's even bigger than you are!" Jellal exclaims as he throws his hands up in the air in frustration. "And are we supposed to fight that thing?"

Well, if you want to protect Erza then yes.

Jellal stops on his tracks when Zeref states that. It's true; in order to protect Erza he must fight anything in his way. He must fight anything that is dangerous for Erza's safety. After all, he promised to her parents that night to protect her no matter what happens.

The truth is, Jellal did not kill Erza's parents. That night on his birthday, after everyone gone asleep, he tells Erza's parents about the 'sin' that he has been carrying for so long. The sin of the Hacgnaran's holder. To kill people in order to survive.

Jellal asks for their permission to let him leave their family alone. But Erza's parents didn't let them. Instead they even sacrifice themselves in order for Jellal to live on and protect Erza at all costs. Jellal disagrees to this, but they insist and the time is running short.

Before he knows it, the 'Rage of Hacgnaran' has begun and he falls into the deepest pit of darkness in his mind. The time when he flips his eyes open is when Zeref almost devour Erza. With all the control he has left, he hits Zeref across the room, separating Erza from them, and forced himself to transform back.

But to no avail, his attempt fails and darkness once again surrounds him. The next thing he knows is Erza's painful scream and the sharp throbbing pain on his chest. Then everything becomes white. He could've stopped it. But he didn't have the power to. That's what makes him keeps on blaming himself for letting such a thing happen to Erza, even though it's not entirely his fault.

Oi, human. Coast is clear, you might wanna move now.

Zeref's whisper snaps Jellal out of his train of thoughts. Jellal quickly takes a peek to make sure that everything is clear, and then he runs as fast as he can inside of the Temple. The inside of the temple is in no better condition than the outside of the temple. Much worse, you can say.

The room that Jellal is in currently is called: 'The Great Hall' according to Zeref. This is where all the women that have been kidnapped brought into, and being selected to be sacrificed to Master E.N.D. The rest of the women who don't appeal to him will be given to the 10 strongest underlings of Master E.N.D.

"This place stinks…" Jellal grumbles as he covers his nose and mouth with his dark blue handkerchief tied up onto his face. "How come there's blood everywhere?" He asks.

Well you see, this is also the place where the women got killed once the babies are born.

Jellal kneels down in front of a dried pool of blood and pokes it before he stares at it then sniffing it. "This one isn't a human blood," He claims.

Zeref raises an eyebrow at him and asks, how come you know about it?

Jellal stays silent for a while before he replies, "…I know how human blood smells like. I've smelled it ever since I haven't even born. My parents are the owner of a guild filled of black mages. You expect nothing from that?"

Point given.

Jellal stares at the blood again nonchalantly, "I can only feel sorry for the woman that has been sacrificed for this thing last night…"

Now you know how long this blood has been here? Kiddo, what are you, psychic or something?

Jella stifles a small laugh at Zeref's comment. "Well, what do you expect? I'm born with a monster inside me, carrying a sin for all my life, and apparently the one and only son of the great dark mages in the history."

Well, true that.

Jellal stands up from his spot and looks around, "this place is a mess…"

What do you expect from a Hacgnaran's temple, son? Bright colors, rainbows, cheerfulness, and gayness?

Jellal laughs again at Zeref's remark. "I never knew you can be very sarcastic towards your own clan…"

Why can't I be sarcastic towards my own clan? Never liked it anyway.

Jellal turns around and looks around for a bit more before he moves onto the next room. Zeref suggests him to go to the supposedly library of the temple straight away and waste no more time. 'Cause his time is limited after all. When he arrives, Jellal expects to see book racks towering high, but the ones he encounters are ancient reliefs and paintings on the walls all over the room.

Jellal lets out a small gasp before he goes through each of the drawings on the wall. He lights up a torch that he found in front of the entrance to the 'library' and brings it along with him as he goes through the reliefs. He sees the one where there's a human that has a big monster connected to him with a chord encountering a woman.

"I figured that man is the same as me, having a Hacgnaran inside of his body without being a half-blooded Hacgnaran. Am I right?" Jellal asks Zeref, Zeref can only nods. "What is he encountering? A woman?"

He wipes out some bit of writing below the painting and it says: 'The encounter with the first woman.' In Runes. "What the hell does that mean?" He goes to the next painting which has the picture of the man, being in a half Hacgnaran form making love to the woman. "What?" Jellal raises one of his eyebrows at this.

The writing below the painting says: 'The first mating night of a Hacgnaran.'

"So, that's how the first Hacgnaran created? That is… weird. I thought an actual Hacgnaran made love to a woman instead of using a man's body, but I kinda figured that'd be quite impossible…" Jellal commented.

The next painting he sees titled as: 'The first Hacgnaran born.' Both Jellal and Zeref look at the painting of the woman carrying a Hacgnaran looking baby in her arms with the man's arms around the woman's body. The couple actually looks happy.

"Wait… So the first Hacgnaran is a mix of a woman and a man possessed by a Hacgnaran spirit? So that means Hacgnaran is actually a spirit?" Jellal asks.

It seems so… That must mean that the spirit of the actual Hacgnaran needs a carrier in order to reproduce…

He goes to the next painting. The next painting shows how the little baby Hacgnaran grows up being a man and bad things started to happen. The father and mother of the first Hacgnaran are both killed by their own son, and their son reigns over the country.

That's when young girls start disappearing from home and more wild spirits of Hacgnaran start to possess men and rape those young girls in order to reproduce and add more population to their clan. The son of the first Hacgnaran and the woman is called: 'E.N.D'

Jellal's eyes widen at this, "What?! That means all these times, E.N.D has lived for what—200 years? Maybe even more than that! What?! I can't believe this!"

He quickly goes to the next painting and examines it. This painting shows that one of the E.N.D's sons brings home a woman with a scarlet short hair and makes love to her. The next morning, both of them flee far away from the Temple in order to stay alive.

It turns out that this one son of E.N.D loves the woman and he wants her to live with him and raise a family of his own. The woman complies to this and soon after their baby boy born. From then on, the clan of the Scarlet hair people raises its population.

"…Scarlet hairs…? N-No way…" Jellal stutters. If the scarlet heads people are all the descendant of one of E.N.D's sons, then… All these times Erza's parents must have known who he is. That's why they sacrifice themselves to him to be killed but ask him to spare Erza's life and lives with her; protect her.

The next painting shows the picture of E.N.D's rage of his son that has betrayed him. He sent all of the Hacgnarans to chase after his son and wipe out all the clan of scarlet head people. But some scarlet head people, being half Hacgnarans they are, manage to defend themselves and keep on living.

I guess now we know from where your girlfriend got her powers… I figured her dad must've been one of those scarlet heads who possess the power of a Hacgnaran…

Jellal remains silent for a while and think over what Zeref just said. It makes sense if Erza's dad if one of those people, because he himself have seen how Erza's dad actually is when he fights for serious. He has been offered to be promoted to a higher rank soldier than his current one so many times but he always refused. Jellal figures it must have been because he wants to keep his profile low.

Then Erza's powers, working with the scarlet head girl for more than 5 years by now has guaranteed him that she indeed possesses the Hacgnaran's power. But she's only ¼ Hacgnaran so that's how she gets most of her human looks but still possesses a power that is beyond humans' powers.

"Does that mean the reason why you suddenly went rampage that night was because of E.N.D's orders through my parents?" Jellal asks quietly.

Zeref remains silent. I know that I should've told you this earlier rather than keeping it to myself, but it was true. Being the medium between me and E.N.D, your parents released the seal that kept my rage on that night, hence you killing her parents… Also E.N.D's rage toward his son is also what you know as the 'rage of the Hacgnaran'.

But then your parents died already, and so… I will no longer be able to be controlled…

Jellal listens to Zeref's explanation silently and carefully, trying to hold back the disappointment he's feeling. A lonely small streak of tear slides down his left cheek, "I see… It's alright. After all, you were controlled by E.N.D. Let's just be grateful that Erza's alive…"

Jellal then moves on to the next painting where it shows E.N.D roars in front of the other Hacgnarans. At first he doesn't get the message, but when he wipes off the dust from the Rune writing below the painting his eyes gone wide.

He quickly turns away from the painting and runs to the exit as fast as possible. Zeref raises an eyebrow at his partner's behaviour's sudden change. Before he leaves with Jellal, Zeref throws a last glance at the Rune writing that Jellal had just read and his eyes also gone wide.

The Rune writing on the painting states: 'In this painting, E.N.D declares that in every night of the 'rage of Hacgnaran' occurs he will take as many as scarlet-haired woman as he can and rape them in order to reproduce offspring with un-imaginable powers. It is also stated that he is doing this in order to avenge his revenge towards the scarlet-haired woman that has taken his son's heart and made him betrayed E.N.D. This is the price that every scarlet-haired people must pay because of what their ancestor once did.'

Jellal grits his teeth and his eyebrows knit together, showing full concern. "Shit Erza, please be okay!" and he runs as fast as he can, whistles to call his horse and rides back to the Kingdom as fast as he can.

~S.G~

4th Day… CONTAINS RAPE, DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T LIKE.

Erza awakes with a feeling that something is bound to get wrong. She looks out at the window next to her bed and looks for nothing in particular until something catches her eyes. A guy with shocking blue hair riding on a very beautiful black horse. "…Jellal!" She gasps as she quickly shoves off her blanket and runs downstairs.

She runs down the stairs not even realizing that she's still wearing her long-sleeved white night-gown. "Jellal is back…! Jellal is back…!" She exclaims happily as she keeps on running downstairs, not even realizing the wide smile that her face has formed.

The front door is loudly slammed open, revealing Jellal's sweaty and concerned face. When Erza arrives on the lowest level, Jellal literally runs toward her and hugs her tight; successfully making the scarlet-head's face as scarlet as her hair.

"J-Jellal…?" Erza manages to stutter out.

Instead of replying, Jellal tightens his hug and whispers, "I'm glad you're alright… Erza…" He breaks the hug and stares at her face with a content smile on his face. "I'm really glad you're fine…" He strokes her face gently, down to her scarlet hair.

"U-Uh, um… Why were you hugging me?" Erza asks as she tries to sound stern and discipline as ever. Jellal's eyes gone wide before his face goes red, he takes 3 steps backwards; backing away from Erza—this makes the scarlet haired frowns a bit in pain.

"Uh… No reason, I was just… I don't know… No reason, really…" He replies, trying to sound as distant as ever knowing that the scarlet-haired girl doesn't like it if he acts oh-so-friendly towards her. "U-Um… Why aren't you wearing your armour?"

Erza raises an eyebrow before she looks down and gasps loudly. She quickly tries to cover her body but fail in attempt to do so. With yet again another red face, she runs back quickly to her room as she yells, "Y-YOU SAW NOTHING, FERNANDEZ!"

Jellal lets out a small laugh at the girl's antics before he smiles longingly at the space where she's in just 5 seconds ago. Soon, the smile wears off and he remembers the real reason why he's back so early. He needs to see the King and talks to him about this matter.

With that, he walks off to the King's room.

In Erza's room, the red head girl is panting heavily as she leans on her door. J-Jellal saw me in my night gown… J-Jellal s-saw m-me in m-my nightgown! What the hell?! Why am I like this?! It's only that Fernandez guy, I am NOT supposed to feel like this!

She calms herself down before she walks over to her wooden bed and sits on it for a little while. She looks over at her wooden desk, the one that her father made for her when she's little. She looks at the happy family portrait where Jellal, her, her dad, and her mom are in.

They are all smiling happily, but there's one face that is being torn off from the picture; Jellal's face. Erza stares at the portrait before she frowns and grits her teeth. "Why am I feeling like this towards the killer of my own father and mother?!" She yells in frustration.

She stands up and intends to walk out of her room and confronts her source of problem, but it turns out that the source of problem comes into her room one step faster than she'd expected. After finishes talking with the King, with a solution in his mind, Jellal steps into Erza's room.

"J-Jellal…!" Erza gasps. That feeling that she tries to forget is rushing back to her chest, causing her heart to beats faster than her own will. But she tries to get that feeling away anyway. After a split second of not replying anything, Erza looks at Jellal thoroughly.

His face is expressionless and his body is very stiff. What's wrong with him…? She thought as she inspects him further. Suddenly his arm grabs her shoulder and with a very strong force, he pushes her down onto her bed; pinning her hands above her head.

"J-Jel—F-Fernandez… What are you doing?" Erza stutters out. No matter how she's called as the bravest woman, this side of Jellal always scares her the most. She can't read him if he goes into this mode. It's like he's another different person that she never knows.

And it scares her.

Meanwhile Jellal is trying to convince himself that the solution that the King gives him is the best option he has. Jellal can't possibly defeat E.N.D at this state, and so the only option he has is to make Erza as his woman when he can. That way, no matter what E.N.D is going to do to Erza, he won't succeed.

He takes out the small bottle he has on his pocket all along and suddenly kisses Erza passionately. No matter how the girl wants to object, she can't help but to moan at the deep kiss he's giving her. When she moans loudly, he quickly shoves the bottle into her mouth and makes her drink the whole bottle down.

This surprises Erza and she tries to spit the liquid that is flowing down her throat out of her body, but Jellal's kiss prevents it once again. Soon after she gulps the whole thing down, Jellal gently hums on her ear.

ありふれた恋心に今罠を仕掛ける。
僅かな隙間覗けば。
Arifureta koigokoro ni ima wana o shikakeru.
Wazuka na sukima nozokeba.
[I now set up a trap to capture your captivated heart.
I now peak into the small crevice,]

捕まえて。
Tsukamaete.

[and capture you.]

Erza's eyes gone wide, "A-Ah…! U-Uh… N-Nghh…" She starts to moan. "N-No… D-Don't do this…." She begs to Jellal. Seeing her flushed face and her heaving chest has sent millions of volts down to his erection, making his pants feel tight all of the sudden.

"No!" Erza screams, trying to get out of his strong grip. "Don't do this! Fuck you, Fernandez! Get off me!" She glares at him at the thought of him raping her. She tries to shake her hands free from his grip, but his grip is too strong for her to break free. Even when she has that inhuman power in her.

When she looks at Jellal's face more thoroughly, she notices how his tattoo grows larger and longer to the left-side of his body. It even grows to his left arm, covering most part of his skin. She looks back to his face and notices the desperation written on his face.

"I'm sorry, Erza…" He whispers silently.

With that, he rips open her nightgown revealing her fully developed massive chest. "N-No..!" She shrieks. She glares dagger at him and grits her teeth, clenching her palms and tries to scratch Jellal's palm on her arm until it bleeds.

"STOP THIS NONSENSE, NOW! I'M TELLING YOU! I SWEAR I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU GO AFTER THIS!" She yells once again, but being ignored by Jellal; again. Jellal stays silent before he closes his eyes and when he flips them open again, her pupils are purple, bright purple.

A smirk suddenly crosses over across his handsome face and he speaks, "Hello there, beautiful. We meet again…"

Erza's eyes grow wide, "Y-You…! Y-You're the monster inside of Jellal! Y-You're m-my father and mother's killer!" 'Jellal' laughs evilly which only makes Erza struggle even more, trying to kill the monster in front of her; the monster which apparently will take her virginity away.

"Whoa, whoa… Easy there girl, I know you can't wait for me to touch you. But stay still, don't worry I'll make sure you'll be satisfied…" He whispers huskily right in front of her face and it sends shivers down to Erza's spine. "You should probably be feeling hot by now, aren't'cha?" 'Jellal' smirks again.

"STOP IT! I BEG YOU! ANYTHING BUT THIS! KILL ME IF YOU WANT, BUT DON'T HUMILIATE ME LIKE THIS!" Erza cries, tears are starting to form on the edges of her eyes. She pleads onto 'Jellal' through her eyes but the guy doesn't budge.

"'Humiliate', you say? Oh really, I wonder if doing this with the guy that you love counts as humiliation…?" He raises an eyebrow cockily at her. Erza's face reddens and she tries to hide it away. "Well…? Haven't you always wanted to do this kind of stuff with me…?"

"…You're not Jellal…" She whispers.

"Let me tell you something, even though it doesn't seem like it, Jellal's conscience is actually controlling over this body. The whole thing that he'll see, feel, and hears will only go to his memory straightaway. I am here basically just to give him the power to hold you back and to talk to you," Zeref explains. "So it's still the same as you're making love to Jellal instead of me."

Erza is about to deny further, but Zeref cuts her off, "Okay then! Enough chit-chat, let's just get this thing over and done with. I'll pass it to you again, Jellal!" Zeref closes his eyes and when his eyes are open again, they're black. Deep black, just like Jellal's eye color.

"Hey, Erza…" He smiles gently at her.

Tears starting to slide down from her eyes again, "J-Jellal… P-Please… not this…. Don't do this…." She begs.

Jellal shook his head, "I'm sorry, Erza… I have to do this.."

"Why?!" She screeches. "Why?! Why this?! Why me?!"

"Simon is planning something bad to you!" Jellal begins. "He's trying to make you as his woman on the anniversary of your parents' death! He's one of me! He has a monster inside of him and that monster is trying to get a revenge over your—"

"Stop it!" Erza yells, cutting him off. "Don't you dare to talk bad about Simon! You do know what the difference between you and him is by now! So what makes you better than him! At least he's more of a gentleman than you are! I wonder what doo those girls see in you?!"

"Erza!" He demands. "At least let me finish!"

"Why must I let you finish if you're only going to bad mouth about my dear frien—"

And Jellal cuts her off with a kiss. He licks her lip, asking for permission to enter and darts his tongue right in. His free arm doesn't stay still; he grabs one of her massive chest and starts to massage it. After 5 minutes of kissing, the urge to breath demands them to stop and take a breath.

But his hand doesn't stop though. It travels more down to her ribbon laced panties, and rubs it in circular motion. Erza's face reddens and she stifles a moan. "A-Ah… J-Jellal…." His rubbing doesn't stop; instead it goes even more intense than it already has.

"Shit… Erza! I don't have much time…!" He groans as he lets go of her arms and unbuckle his pants quickly. Erza uses this as an opportunity to back away from him. After he got rid of his pants, he quickly slides it down and takes it off. Throwing it away to the other side of the room and baring his erection for Erza to see.

He pants heavily, just like her before he quickly pulls her leg down, dragging her back into her previous position. Erza squeaks before she tries to hit Jellal and breaks free—which fails anyway. He spreads her legs apart and holds it down as she keeps on screaming.

He towers over her and her face turns pale, her tears streaming down her cheeks. She can see that the tattoos on his face are moving like a living thing and his left eye keeps on changing colour from yellow to black and vice versa as he tries to keep control over his Hacgnaran powers. Not Zeref, but just his powers.

Erza understands that when he's in her, his self-control probably snaps and he will just do anything to satisfy himself. But then will she let him do it? She thinks over the thing that Jellal told her. That Simon is just like him, but his Hacgnaran is the bad guy. How will she believe it? Will she even believe him after witnessing what happened to her parents?

Before she can even finishes her train of thoughts, Jellal's voice whispers on her ear. " E-Erza… I'm sorry, but when I'm inside you… I might not be able to control myself; I might even break you if you keep on struggling… That's why for just this one time, follow my lead… Alright?"

And before he pushes himself into her sheath in one go, he whispers. "I love you… I really do…"

And he claims her virginity for once and for all.

Erza screams on the top of her lungs and tries to break free. As soon as he's fully in her, his eyes turn yellow in an instant and a smirk appears across his face. A roar follows soon after the smirk appears. Soon after, all you can hear are screaming, moans, thumping sound, and the creaking sound of the bed.

"F-Fuck, Erza! You feel so damn good!" The guy on top of her pants through each pump. Trying so hard to satisfy himself but also makes this moment as an unforgettable moment for the woman. He leans in for a kiss in which Erza complies—only because she's in heaven and is currently seeing stars due to Jellal's penetration inside of her sheath.

One of the things that any girl could ever ask once in a lifetime is maybe to make love with the man she trusts—loves the most. Somewhere in her unconscious of reality state of mind, Erza thinks about her female subordinates that gossip about their love life. They say they have the most beautiful relationship ever and that they are happy with their partners. Especially in bed.

Erza used to think that it is all useless, since she can't even trust a guy—nor that she knows any guy at all (Jellal hasn't count back then). But then after seeing this, after being held on his arms and forced to satisfy the guy that she loves the most; she wonders if those girls had been wrong.

But then again, Jellal said that he has to do this. Or else... Erza doesn't know the continuation because she doesn't let him continue. How stupid, she should have listened to his reasoning first before taking action. She has always been that kind of person, but then why can't she control her emotions and feelings in front of this one guy?

Sure she has kicked some men's arses back then, and not to mention the guy that is moaning her name above her right now is one of the former greatest dark magician fugitive whose arse has she kicked before. Furthermore, this guy kills her mom and dad—with the help of the monster inside him, of course. But then what is this fiery feeling in her stomach and the joy in her heart that she feels when he claims her as his?

Speaking of which, it had just occurred in her mind that she still doesn't know why he killed her parents. Sure that she thinks about this a lot, but rather than attempting to ask him the reason, she has always been locking up herself and convinces herself that he's at fault and there's nothing else to talk or discuss about.

But then in some nights, she just can't help but to wonder what was he thinking when he killed her parents. How did he feel about it? What motivates him to do it? Erza looks at the pained face on top of her face and lifts one of her free hand—she's clutching the bed sheet—and strokes the guy's face.

"...Jellal..."

The guy opens his eyes and his yellow orbs clash with her brown ones. Erza can see, heck everyone can see, that there's the longing feeling masked by his empty stare. He penetrates her insides once more and she lets out a big moan of his name. Oh how he loves hearing his name being called like that, especially by her.

This girl has no idea how long has he thought about these stuffs about her. The thoughts actually start when he reaches the age 11 and it has gotten worse from then on. Sometimes he can't control himself that he feels like he'll just take her right then and there, but heck that's a fucked up thought for an 11 years old boy now isn't it?

He observes the way her chest rises and falls from the fast movement that he's making. He listens dearly to her moans. Secretly he begs that this moment will last forever and it will never end, but then again who is he kidding? There's no way that time will stop and it'll be funny if time stops in this moment; just try to imagine them, frozen in time fucking each other. That's not a good pose to be conserved in a time pause, right?

"Erza... I love you... Very much..." He forces his voice out, hoarsely. He knows that what he's doing is wrong, but he doesn't have much choice either. Of course he won't let Simon or E.N.D to make her as their woman before him. Heck, that's not even an option—don't even think about it.

He kisses her again as he shoves in his erected member fast and hard, hitting a certain spot that makes her scream in delight in process. The pain has subsides it seems, he thought. That means I can go full-on now...

With that he suddenly changes his pace in to an even faster pace that makes Erza choke and grips on his back tighter, leaving red marks that look like claws. He kisses her ear and her cheeks, while Erza just keeps on moaning. "J-Jellal! N-No..! U-Ukh! D-Don't—T-Too fast!" She gasps between the pumps.

Soon after, he feels himself is nearing so he fastens the pace even more and this time hits all of Erza's sweet spots. The girl can't contain it in anymore and she screams on top of her lungs before she cums. Jellal lets out a low dangerous growl before he pulls Erza onto his lap and thrusts deep into her, holding on her back possessively as if she's going to fade away if he hadn't done that.

She can feel the warmth inside her abdomen spreading, something thick and warm is flowing in to her womb area. Her mind stays empty for a second before panic rushing in. He cums inside her, she's gonna carry his baby, does she even want that? Will he even take the responsibility? What if he hurts her again like what he did to her parents? But then again, what about Simon? What is happening?

Who can she trust?

~S.G~

"Yo, Lucy!" Natsu greets the blonde girl with a wide toothy smile before he approaches her and grabs her by the shoulder, circling his arms on her shoulder. He studies her face for a bit—because he doesn't get any respond—and how surprised he is when he sees his wife's face is bright red; as if she has seen something she shouldn't be seeing. "Luce, Luigi? What's wrong?"

Lucy slowly peaks at Natsu before she hides her face on the guy's coat. She keeps on rumbling about something that he can't hear really well. He looks at the door in front of her—slightly opened. He motions forward to the door and peaks into the small gap.

Gasps, moans, creaking sound and sharp breath intakes can be heard. He sees blue and red on the bed and he smirks. Well, there's nothing else need to be said. Natsu slowly closes the door shut, not wanting to disturb the couple in progress and snickers to himself.

"Ooohh boy, tomorrow's gonna be a fun day!" He laughs aloud. He pulls Lucy with him and says, "Come on, Lucy! We must show them that we're better than them!"

Lucy's face goes even redder—if possible—and she stutters out incoherent 'Ah's and Uh's, "W-Wait, Natsu! Wh-What do you mean b-by showing them that w-we're better!?"

Natsu glances at his wife over his shoulder and replies, "Well, we've gotta show them that I can do 100 times better than what Jellal is doing inside there." He then cracks a smile at her, "which basically means we gotta have 100 babies to beat them! Now come on, every second counts!" He yanks her again.

With that, Lucy's scream explodes throughout the castle, "NAAATTTSSSUUUUUUU!"

~S.G~

"Simon-sama, I notice a change from the scarlet hair woman's scent..."

Simon looks over at the Hacgnaran from his throne; his eyes clearly don't show joy after hearing that news. "What change...?" Simon asks dangerously. The Hacgnaran shits uncomfortably on his spot before gulping and looks away from Simon.

"What. Change. Is. It. E.N.D?" Simons asks again, this time impatience can be heard from his voice.

E.N.D shifts again and he finally replies, "Her scent, sir... There's something different with her scent..."

As soon as E.N.D finishes talking, Simon clutches the wine glass filled with blood on his left hand until it breaks and growls dangerously, "Scent...? Her scent...?! Jellal... That fucking Jellal must have done something..."

E.N.D backs off from his master, knowing that Simon is on the edge of his self control line. When the first time E.N.D hypnotizes Simon to come to the Hacgnaran Temple and forcefully take over Simon's body to be his carrier, E.N.D hasn't expect that Simon is able to over-power him and control him instead of him controlling Simon.

E.N.D knows that Simon can be the most convenient tool for him because he knows how the guy feels towards Erza and he is also one of the closest people to Erza after Jellal. He knows that both of them shared the same goal: To have Erza, but E.N.D has never expected for Simon to completely over-power him and controls him instead.

Never in his life has E.N.D regretted doing something. This is the first time he actually regretted for what he had done. When he killed his parents, he doesn't feel anything much less than happy. E.N.D comes to realization not so long after Simon over-powered him that Simon is a guy with unbreakable willpower, and also intelligence that rivals to Jellal himself. E.N.D should have taken precautions and prepare for the worst rather than being so desperate in looking for a carrier.

"Fucking Jellal Fernandez... I'll show you what will happen if you touch my property, even attempt to claim it as yours..."

E.N.D gulps again as a sweat slides down his forehead. Yeap, his master is angry alright.

~S.G~

5th Day...CONTAINS MAJOR HEART BREAK, KEEP ON READING TO ADD GOOSEBUMPS

Upon hearing the chirps of the birds, Erza slowly flips her eyes open. She lets the rays get into her eyes slowly, adjusting it so that she won't hurt her eyes. After feeling comfortably adjusted to the light, Erza slowly spins her head to the left where she finds Jellal sitting on the edge of the left side of the bed, topless and only in his boxers.

She shuts her eyes shut once more to shoo the sleepiness away, and pushes herself up to sit on the bed. She pinches the bridge of her nose and stares at Jellal's back. Had we just done what we did last night? She thought. She remembers the time when he forced her to do all those thing, the times where he dirtied her. She shudders at the thought and pull herself into a small hug.

Jellal glances at the red-head over his shoulder, he can see the pain, fear, disgust, and hopelessness written on her face as clear as day. He clenches his fists at this, he know he should have not done what he did but what else can he do? Let Simon take her as the way it is originally planned by Simon? Of course he would not let that happen. Even if he has to hurt Erza, there's no way he would let her go away from him.

He needs her.

He yearns for her.

He longs for her.

He wants her.

And these feelings inside of his heart are tearing him apart. Having such dilemma is one's greatest problem. He quickly turns around when he heard the creaking sound of the bed and sees Erza trying to walk out of the room—or maybe staggering out of the room. "...Er..za..." He whispers.

The girl stops and inhale a big chunk of air sharply, she then rasps out, "Don't.. Jellal... Please... Leave me be..." with that she proceeds to the bathroom and quickly gets inside. The voice that Erza lets out just then has froze Jellal—worse, it has broke him completely apart.

It's the same voice that she used the night he killed her parents. The hopelessness, the depression, the pain, the fear, the sadness, the betrayal, are so evident in her voice that he's frozen and can't even chase after her. What have I done? A tear slips out his left tattooed eye. All I've ever done is just breaking her apart... Why? Why am I doing this? Why do I even force her to be with me when I know that there will never be a chance of me being with her...? I should've let her be Simon's if I'll just end up breaking her apart like this...

He wipes his tear off and walks over to the bathroom. Erza, who is crouching on the floor right in front of the door on the other side, jumps by the time he knocks on the door. "Erza...? Can you hear me..?" His voice rasps out, Erza notices that his voice is really hoarse like he has been crying. But Jellal would never cry, why would he even?

"Erza... If you're there please listen to me..." He begins and Erza obeys. She sits there clutching onto her towel. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry that I have to do what I did... All I ever thought is just your safety and I somehow think that this is for the best... But then I realized that I was just hurting you more and more... I thought that I can make you mine one day, but I realized that the day will never come..."

He sounds really sappy... and sad... The red-head thought. "I know that even if I tell you what I recently found out, you wouldn't believe in me... Because I've broke your trust long way ago. I think Simon is right, I lost my chance on getting you by the time I killed your parents.." Both people grimace at the last bit of his sentence.

"But you have to know that my feelings for you are true... My feelings for you are real and I'm not lying. I never lied, now do I?" He laughs dryly, trying to ease the tension. Doesn't work. "I.. Uh... I just want to say that I will always love you... And..." He pauses, preparing himself to say what he's going to say next.

"I won't disturb you anymore..." He continues. Erza's eyes widen at this and she unknowingly glances back at the door, as if she's trying to see through the door and see his face. "I won't go near you anymore... I know that's what you want and probably is for the best... I'm not sure whether you'll get pregnant because of my actions or not, but if you do I will be more than happy to take care of the child myself if that's what you want. But if you want to keep the child, I will provide you with a sufficient amount of financial support..." He tries to smile while saying this but his tears disagree with him. He wants a family with her, he wants her to be the person that he sees in the bed every morning.

Erza's eyebrows joined together at his words. "Don't think wrong, it's not like I mean it in the bad way. I figured that you don't want to be stuck with me—the murderer of you parents—for the rest of your life in marriage, so I figured I can give you an option to choose if things actually fall in place like what I mentioned. But if it turns out that you're not pregnant or anything, we can both move on with our lives like nothing happened. Again, I figured that's what you want, probably," He continues again.

"The point is, from this day onward I won't be getting in your way anymore... I won't go near you anymore... I won't do anything that makes you discomforted by my actions. I won't chase after you anymore. I won't be possessive of you anymore; you can live and choose the right guy for yourself. I won't act like I own you, nor will I act like I know you anymore..." Despite the calmness in his voice, Erza feels each word jabs through her heart like knives. It hurts, why? Isn't this what she had wanted for so long?

"I will let you go... You can be with Simon if your heart actually chooses him. If you are happy with him, I will give you to him. Again, I don't mean it in a bad way, I just want you to be happy and I just hope for the best for you... You do know how much I care for you, right?" He smiles dryly again and strokes the door as if he's stroking her hair.

Erza in the other hand is crying; she doesn't know why she's crying. But it's hurting her; every single word that he said hurts her so much. It's not like they hurt her because they are mean words and such. They hurt her because... the words are so sad, and Jellal is... Jellal is saying farewell to her... for eternity. Why does it hurt this much? This is what I've always wanted, right? Of course it is, right? Erza tries to convince herself as she covers her mouth to hide her sobs. But then why does it hurt...? Her tears keep on sliding down her beautiful face, flowing out from the shiny brown orbs.

"Well then, Erza... I shall take my leave..." and she heard his footsteps are getting faint and fainter. Out of nowhere, she harshly stands up—ignoring the pain screaming at her on the lower part of her body—and quickly, desperately opens the bathroom door to see his face and tell him to stay with her.

Stay... with me? Why? She blinks in confusion. By the time she opens the door, Jellal is gone. She steps out of the bathroom, convincing herself that he's just playing tricks at her like what he does back in their childhood and that he's actually hiding in her room; somewhere, trying to scare her. But this is no childhood, this is no pranks, Jellal is gone and that's final.

He's gone.

And he's not coming back.

"N-No..." Erza sobs, falling on her knees. "No..." She crouches on the floor, naked. "Jellal..." Her cries are getting louder.

"Don't leave... Please... Jellal... Come back..."

Never had she felt very lonely, empty, and heartbroken like this before and her cries explode.

~S.G~

6th Day...

Natsu wakes up with a big grin on his face; the thought of teasing Jellal amuses him more than anything. Lucy, still in her beautiful sleep gets a kiss on her forehead from her husband before he rushes off downstairs to tease a certain someone—not Erza though, he could die.

He runs downstairs in his red pajamas when he sees Jellal walking down in the garden, holding a book. "JEELLALLL!" He shouts on top of his lungs and waves at the called guy as the guy turns around to see who calls him. Jellal smiles at him and waves back. "WAIT FOR ME THERE!" Natsu yells once more before he runs down again.

By the time he reaches the garden, Natsu literally jumps at Jellal in which Jellal dodge. "Nice dodge, as expected from Erza's lover," Natsu begins his teasing. But the thing that surprised Natsu is the confused look on his face. Natsu decides not to be bothered by it and continues his teasing.

"So, So... Tell me, you used the potion didn't'cha? You used it, rite? Rite?" Natsu asks knowingly as he nudges on Jellal's arm. Jellal, once again looks confused. The second time that Natsu sees he's confused, Natsu stops his antics and his face turns dead serious.

"Jellal...?"

Jellal simply smiles at Natsu and replies, "What potion, Natsu? And who's Erza?"

Natsu raises one of his eyebrows at this and replies, "Erza, you know, Erza Scarlet the girl that you always love...?" Natsu asks, sounding very uncertain. What's wrong with Jellal...? Did he eat a bad fish this morning? Natsu thought. "Oh come on, Jellal... You guys just did it yesterday, how can you forget?"

Jellal tilts his head, face still looking confused. Natsu can see that Jellal is thinking veeerrryy hard like he's being told to solve a really hard puzzle. It scares Natsu to see him like this; Jellal has never been like this. What's wrong with him...?

"Seriously, Natsu, who the hell is Erza Scarlet? I don't remember of knowing such a girl with that name nor have I ever fallen in love with someone." Jellal asks once again.

And Natsu's eyes gone wide in disbelief.

~S.G~

"Oh, is that so Loki? I see, I shall look into this matter further then." Erza replies to the Lion beside her as she flips through the important letters about the new dark guild that has to be taken down. The said Lion beside her can only nod and listens to the possible plan that the girl is saying afterwards.

"But like, over there, we have to be careful because it seems that the village itself is a part of the dark guild. Lots of other soldier squads fall into their trap in that area," Loki explains as he points at a certain area on the map that he gives her.

Both of them are walking down a hallway, going to the direction of the dining room to have lunch together as they come up with possible plans to fight against the newly found dark guild. That's when Natsu, suddenly comes flying at them out of nowhere.

Being the inhumanely flexible, Loki dodges to the left while Erza just simply catches Natsu by his head—more like she's grabbing onto his pink hair. "Natsu...?" Her voice is low and dangerous. "What do you think you're doing...?"

"ERZA!" He screams at her right in front of her face and struggles free from her grip. After succeed in doing so—for what seemed like taking forever—he inhales heavy breaths and starts rumbling incoherent stuffs to Erza.

"I don't understand, Natsu. Speak slower."

"J-Jellal! What the hell is wrong with Jellal?! He's definitely weird! Very weird to my liking! I went up to him this morning to tease him about last night—about you and him and ...s e x HAHA—b-but then he was being so weird! He said he didn't recall anything from yesterday and he said he doesn't know you! He said he doesn't have anyone that he loves and he said that he doesn't know you! What the hell is happening!? Both of you are scary people, only my cute Luce isn't scary—oh wait, she can be scary too... ARRGH! ALL OF YOU ARE SCARY, WHAT IS THIS!? I AM SO CONFUSED!" Natsu rumbles again.

Of course Erza can't really understand what he's saying but she manages to come up with some things. Jellal said he doesn't know me? Much less love me...? Erza's eyebrows furrow and the familiar sharp attack of pain on her chest comes again. "Wait, how do you know about us anyway?" She asks to the prince.

Natsu rolls his eyes nervously and scratches his cheeks, "W-Well you see... Lucy found out because the door wasn't really locked last night.. A-And... I kinda.. peeped on you guys... haha..."

Erza's face turns red and a big, heavy, deadly punch arrives on the poor pink-haired guy's head, "DON'T 'haha' ME! 'haha' MY ASS! WHY THE HELL DO YOU EVEN JOIN HER PEEPING?! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GET HER AWAY FROM THERE INSTEAD OF PEEPING LIKE HER!"

After the big punch happens, Natsu faints dramatically leaving Loki in charge of dragging him to his bed. When Erza remembers the words that Natsu said, Jellal doesn't know me...? What? Does this have something to do with what he said yesterday...? No... She clenches her teeth. Why must she care..? This has nothing to do with her; he can do whatever he wants and she doesn't care.

Or so that's how it was originally planned.

"Jellal... What's wrong with you...?" She bites her lip in frustration.

~S.G~

7th Day...

It's tomorrow... The 'sightseeing date' with Simon... Erza exhales. Why do I keep on thinking about Jellal...?

It has been 2 days from the last time they meet each other. Has been 2 days after the 'farewell'. It has only been 2 days after the farewell and Erza is thinking about Jellal frantically, what does she supposed to do in order to keep her sanity intact for eternity and not losing her sanity of wanting to see Jellal if Jellal's not going to be with her forever? What will happen to her?

Maybe, just maybe, I do love him... Maybe, I can trust him once again. Let him finish his reasons, you know? Erza thought as another unnoticed tear slips out from her eyes. She quickly wipes it off when a certain scene catches her eyes.

On the garden, right below her, Jellal is kissing a girl with brown curled locks and Erza's world is destroyed. Her body shudders like crazy, her teeth are clacking onto each other, and her grip on the windowsill tightens that she can feel the woods are cracking.

The kiss finishes and Jellal pulls the girl into an embrace and Erza swears the boiling fury inside her explodes. Her eyes are getting hot and soon after, the warm clear liquids are falling. "...Why...?" Her voice croaks out. "...Why does it have to be like this...?"

The girl leaves soon after, waving at him in process, and Erza uses the chance to jump from 3 levels above the garden just to see him. "JELLAL!" She yells as she jumps. The called guy looks upwards and can see the scarlet locks that he had missed for the past 2 days.

But no matter what, he must not break the promise. "Yes..?" He replies, sounding confused. The fury inside Erza hasn't subsided by any whatsoever percent at all, in fact it is actually getting worse that she punches him really hard.

The guy rolls 3 times on the ground and his body slams onto a tree. He curses and yells, "What the hell?! Why are you punching me?! I don't even know you! What's your problem, missy?!" He knows that he sounds waaayy out of character, but this is the only thing that he can do in order to maintain the promise he made to her 2 days ago.

Yes, Jellal never forgets anything in the first place. It's just his act to assure Erza that she can keep on living without him. Erza, meanwhile, glares daggers at him for trying to keep up the lousy act. Oh yes she knows that he has been lying to himself, her, and everybody else. After all, she knows him the most.

She stomps towards him and grabs him by the collar, "Don't you dare, play that lousy act on me, Jellal. How can you lie to everyone, saying that you don't know me and even attempt to try it on me of all people." Jellal's fake-suprised eyes slowly change into something cold.

He stares at her coldly, with no sympathy, feeling, yearning whatsoever. "Oh, so now you're calling me by my first name? Well then, even though you know that I'm lying, does it change the fact that I'm still going to act like this? After all, you're the one who always begs for this, Mrs. Scarlet," Jellal replies coldly. Each word clearly determines the gap between them is now beyond repair.

Erza, taken aback by his reply, yanks off his collar harshly and snaps, "W-Well—I-I know! I fully understand that this is what I want, b-but—I-I... I..." As much as she doesn't want her tears to fall, they still fall anyway. She looks up to him with the tears flowing down like a river from her eyes, "I-I... I-I realize th-that I might... I-I might—"

Without finishing her sentence, Erza quickly turns and runs away from him not wanting to show him her weak side any further. Noticing the sudden change in her heart and knowing that he might still have a chance, Jellal's mask breaks and he attempts to chase after her, but fails.

Seeing her broken-hearted expression, seeing her tears and listening to her unable to deny her feelings anymore are more than enough for Jellal to be convinced that surely there's still a hope for him to be with her. All of the sudden, guilt overwhelms him for what he said to her 2 days ago, for making her feel miserable again. But then what can he do? He's still a human that does mistakes. He's not perfect nor does he know what might happen in the future.

"Erza..." He whispers. "Erza... My Erza..."

~S.G~

THE DAY….

9:00 am

Erza wakes up from her bed and goes to the bathroom straightaway. Vomiting what she has in her stomach. Ugh… What is happening to me…? I'm pretty sure I was fine yesterday… She thought before she vomits again.

She quickly brushes her teeth and takes a nice cool shower to refresh her mind, maybe that way this weird sick feeling will gone from her body. But it turns out that the feeling doesn't fade away that easily, in fact, right after she finishes her shower she quickly vomits again.

Erza walks to the mirror and sees herself looking so pale and somewhat very weak. Sigh... I wouldn't want to show up to Simon looking like this, now do I? She massages her temple and sighs. What should I do...?

A terrifying idea, yet she somehow doesn't mind it, strikes her mind. Her eyes widen and her jaw falls open slightly. Her body is shaking due to both excitement and fear. Could it be... I'm pregnant? Wait, but it's only been 3 days! How can I get pregnant so fast?! Damn Jellal with those healthy seeds inside him!

She looks down at her belly and unconsciously rubbing it. A baby, huh...? Jellal's baby... She suddenly remembers of what he said 3 days ago. About the options that he gave her, she remembers that he didn't give her any option such as: 'Marry him and live happily ever after with him and the baby.'

After a good 5 minutes of thinking, she realizes that he had done that because he knows that she detests him too much that he decides to back off from her. Seriously...? She thought bitterly. If he had loved me that much, he could've fought for the 0.1% chance of him being together with me, rather than just to let go of that possibility and back off like it was nothing...

Maybe I really need to think over the decisions that I've made this far... She sighs. She backs away from the sink and goes back to her room, changing her clothes.

9:30 am

The time Erza walks down the hallway, going to the entrance of the castle, she encounters Jellal talking with Natsu in the other end of the hallway. They are whispering to each other rather silently that she can't hear, and it's also weird for Natsu to be really quiet. After all, we all know how he actually is.

"You could die, Jellal..." Natsu's voice covered in concern and worry.

She can see Jellal smiles at Natsu and replies faintly, "This is all for Erza, Natsu... Also, I can't run away from this any longer... One day, I know that I have to confront Simon and set things right."

'Set things right'..? What does he mean by that? And what was that with Natsu's reply: 'You could die.' What is Jellal planning to do that could make him killed? And what does this have to do with Simon...? The red head thought.

Natsu then looks away, and Jellal smiles at him in knowingly as if he knows what's in the pink-haired guy's mind. "Don't worry, Natsu. I'll be fine."

Natsu purses his mouth shut before he mutters, "...You better be..."

Jellal gives Natsu a playful punch on his shoulder before Jellal teleports to another different place, leaving Natsu alone. Natsu sighs and grumbles, "...Erza... Why are you making things very complicated for Jellal...? Why are you burdening him with all these problems...?"

Erza is about to blow her cover and scream at Natsu's face, making him take back what he said. But as soon as she sees Natsu's sadden face slightly covered with hopelessness, she thinks over about the action she's about to take. After Natsu left, Erza slowly walks out of her hiding place and proceeds walking through the hallway.

And that is when she suddenly hears something behind her cracked and her world darkens.

~S.G~

Zeref's eyes suddenly widens as he notices something weird. The chord that he connects to Erza's soul when Jellal 'mated' with her has been disconnected. Jellal, we have a problem.

Jellal, who is walking down the small path in the Town Centre—buying his bread—pauses eating and asks, "whafs wrongh?" with a mouth full of bread. He swallows the bread in his mouth before taking another big munch into his mouth.

The chord... Zeref hesitates, The chord has been disconnected...

Jellal looks over at the invisible Hacgnaran and replies, "Whaf chorfdh?"

The chord that I connected to Erza when you guys 'mated' has been disconnected... Someone—no—something must have disconnected it... D-Don't tell me... Even though Zeref doesn't continue, Jellal seems to understand what's actually happening.

He drops his bread on the streets, and runs as fast as he can back to the palace to take his Black Beauty.

"Shit...! Shit..! Shit!" He curses as his frown is growing deeper in each second. "Erza...! Dammit, why Simon?! WHY?!"

~S.G~

By the time Erza wakes up, her surrounding is pitch black. She can't see anything and the thing that she sleeps on is very uncomfortable. It is as hard as a rock, or maybe this thing is a rock after all..? She tries to move her hands and legs—trying to get up from the supposedly rock bed—but she can't because her legs and arms are chained to the bed itself.

"What.. the hell...?" She grumbles as she tries to yank free her hands and legs. Suddenly, a seriously dangerous laugh comes out of nowhere and it scares her very much. Erza has never, never ever liked darkness in her whole life. If she has Jellal with her then it's ok, but right now she's in a different circumstances.

"Who's there?!" She yells out to no one in particular because she can't see anyone. Is it just me or this room is getting darker and darker...? Damn it. She hisses in her mind. Her eyes are frantically rolling around trying so desperately to find a single ray of light—which she doesn't find.

Suddenly, quite far from her 'throne', someone's footsteps can be heard as the torches light up along a single pathway. She can see someone is walking towards her along the pathway, but she can't get a grasp onto who the person is. Soon after the person is close enough to her, she can see the person smirks devilishly and Erza stutters, "S-Simon...?"

Simon smiles warmly at her before the smile is changed back to his smirk. Behind him, Erza can see there's a big-ass thing following him all along. She shrieks when she gets a clear sight of the thing with the help of the torches around her throne. "...A-Are you a H-Hacgnaran...?" She braves herself to ask.

The thing slowly nods with an expressionless face, Simon giggles before he adds, "He's the leader of all Hacgnarans if I may add..."
Erza's eyes widen at this and she scowls at the thing. She tries to yank her hands and legs free so harshly that she thinks she may hurt them.

"So you're the leader of whatever-the-hell-thing that is in Jellal's body...?!" Erza tries to suppress her anger by holding back her growl pointed towards the Hacgnaran—doesn't work. "Don't tell me you're also the one who forced the thing to get into Jellal's body...!" She grits her teeth.

Simon laughs at this, "Oh, no, Erza. No. It wasn't E.N.D who forced Zeref into Jellal's body. It was his parents all along..." He flails his arms around to add the unneeded exaggeration into his words.

Erza's eyes widen at this, J-Jellal's parents did that...? S-So he didn't want it all along...? She thinks over the words that Jellal told her: 'Simon is the same as me! We have monsters connected to our body!' Slowly a frown forms on her beautiful face, don't tell me... She looks over at E.N.D and Simon, vice versa, Don't tell me... Simon owns this Hacgnaran?! But then... He said E.N.D is the leader... That makes Simon, indirectly, also the leader, right?

"Oh, Erza... If just you know more about us. By 'us' I meant Jellal and me~" Simon sings. "You know what? Let me tell you something," He says as he leans into her face. "You know? That night, the one who killed your parents and what motivated the person to do it was because of—"

BHAM! BHAM!

"Oh my, our guest is here..." Simon quickly turns away from Erza. Erza looks over at the door, it's vibrating.

BHAM! BHAM!

"Hmm~ I wonder how long will it takes for him to slam that door down...?" Simon snickers as he keeps on watching the vibrated door intently. A spark of hope and excitement crawl their way into Erza's stomach. The feeling of anticipation that maybe, maybe, just maybe, Jellal is here to save her makes her happy more than anything.

BHAM! BHAM!

"Huuh~ That took him 6 punches in total. Quite weak don't you thi—"

CRASH!

"SIIIMOOOOOONNN!" A loud, dangerous, and almost animalistic roar echoes throughout the small chamber, which makes the walls around the chamber itself vibrates. Soon after the roar finishes, a blur of shocking blue colour bolts into the room with a speed of light, punching Simon almost immediately.

The punched guy flies onto the wall behind Erza's throne and stays there like an ancient relic. Because the event is too fast, Erza can't exactly see what happened. But as soon as she sees the man standing in front of her, she knows that she'll be fine.

"J-Jellal..." She chokes out. His eyes are glowing gold, way brighter and more gold than the last time she seen them—which is on their mating session. Anger, fear, fury, possessiveness, jealousy clearly written on his face and the sweats that are sliding down his handsome face prove how hard he looked for her. She has never even seen Jellal scowls as scary as now.

"Don't. Touch. Her. Bastard," He spells out each word with warnings clearly dripping on each word. He ends his sentence with a growl, and his tattoo comes into life again—crawling through his body from his face, down to his chest, arms. It's even clearer to see the tattoos moving on his arm because he's wearing his favourite sleeveless black shirt.

He turns to Erza quickly and his expression changes so fast, from anger into concern, worry, and happiness. "Thank God, you're alright. Come on, shift a bit so I can break the chains for you," says Jellal as he grabs one of the chains on Erza's wrist.

Just as soon as he's about to break it, Jellal suddenly goes flying to the other side of the chamber, making erza screams his name in progress. Simon suddenly appears behind Erza's throne and growls, "You're the one who's not supposed to be touching other people's property. Silly human."

Erza scowls at his comment and replies harshly, "I am no one's property, Simon. If I were someone's property, that'd be Jellal's..." She finishes her sentence with glares.

Simon whistles in amusement as he glances at her, "Wow, what's this. Something happened between you two? You guys seem to be a bit more... intimate...?" and that's when he sees Jellal's infamous smirk.

"Why yes, you get that right, Simon. In fact, I may have made her carry my baby already..." Jellal replies. He slowly gets up from his original spot and counterattacks Simon one more time with his lightning speed, "So who owns who now?" He smirks.

Simon's eyes widen and he roars Jellal's name hatefully as he tries to welcome Jellal's counterattack with another attack from himself. A loud KA-BOOM followed by shining rays of light appears in the chamber and once again the chamber vibrates due to the impact. Erza squeaks due to the shock but quickly gains her composure soon after.

The hand-in-hand fight combined with lightning speed continues for what seem hours. Simon, realizing that he'd have no chance of winning Jellal, decides to use a dirty trick. The state that Jellal is in right now is the state where Jellal's Hacgnaran emerges into Jellal's body itself, that way Jellal can get more access into the Hacgnaran's power. While Simon, practically doesn't emerge E.N.D into himself and can barely keeps up with Jellal.

So he gives a signal to E.N.D to do the plan B: 'Get Erza as hostage and slowly torture Jellal to death.' E.N.D, of course, does what he's told and quickly jumps out of his hiding place and roars when he's right beside Erza. Of course, the fight stops suddenly and all attention is now on the leader of all Hacgnarans.

E.N.D snarls evilly at Jellal as he lets out his sharp claws. He brings them down onto erza's neck and threatens, "Now, now, Fernandez… You won't like it if I chop the pretty little girl's head, will you?" He ends it with smirk.

Jellal's eyes widen as he scowl grows even deeper, "Why you son of a bi—" He doesn't get the time to finish his sentence because Simon—who's standing in front of him—launches his punch on to Jellal's face.

"Jellal!" Erza screams as she tries to get up from her throne—which she, of course, fails in doing so. She turns to Simon and glares at him that maybe if looks can kill Simon'd be dead. "Y-You…! You coward!" she screams again as she tries to break free again, only to be slammed down onto the throne by E.N.D.

Simon cackles, "Now, now, Erza… you shouldn't be going around and accuse people for being a coward you know. Aren't you a coward yourself…? Hiding your feelings from Jellal and not wanting to face them, much less sort them out. Running away from the truth and denying every word that Jellal said just because you don't want to experience 'change', for you are afraid whether you can believe anyone anymore. Don't you think that's also cowardice?"

Erza's lips shake and she turns away in shame, feeling too ashamed to even face Simon again. She may have been a coward, she knows that. She has been scared for what people call 'change' because she's content with all the hatred towards Jellal and wants to stay that way. But then the whole past thing is revealed—sort of—and all she can do now is just to face them, no matter what will happen next.

"Well then, enough with the chit chat. I called both of you here not to be lovey-dovey in front of me, more like I have something to tell you guys. Especially Erza…" He smirks. He walks over to Erza and yells out, "Erza Scarlet, do you or do you not want to hear the truth about your past?"

Jellal's eyes widen as he tries to gets up and prevents Simon continuing further only to be slammed down on the ground again with a massive force from E.N.D. "Now, Jellal. Stay put for a second, for you will be witnessing the mating of the leader of the Hacgnarans and the most powerful red-head race woman."

Race? I am a part of a certain race? Scarlet-haired race? Is there even such a thing…? Erza frowns. Wait, what does Simon mean by 'mating'?

Simon turns to Erza again, "Well? What do you say? Do you or do you not want to know the truth about the past?" He smirks.

"SIMON! NO! STOP!" Jellal yells as he tries to break free from E.N.D's grip. "DON'T CONTINUE ANY FURTHER!"

E.N.D, growing tired of Jellal's behaviour, slams him down onto the ground one more time to shut him up. Earning him a high-pitched scream from Erza, screaming Jellal's name.

"Alright! Fine! I will listen to every single thing you say, just stop hurting Jellal!" She begs, tears forming on the edge of her eyes. Her chest rises and falls for the constant yell at the black-haired guy.

Simon smirks and he begins, "You see… Your race is the race of the Scarlet-haired people. One time, your ancestor—the first scarlet-haired woman called Erza Knightwalker—mated to one of E.N.D's sons. It's weird how her name is also Erza, right?"

Erza stays silent as she urges him to go on with her glare. Simon snickers and he continues, "Anyway, there has been a rule to mate with a girl and kill her after the Hacgnaran baby is born." Erza's eyes widen as this as she quickly turns to look at Jellal, who just keeps on staring at her—not saying anything.

Simon snickers again, "Easy, Erza. Jellal isn't going to do that. Just listen. Apparently, this son of E.N.D is called Jellal Mystogan. Another coincidence, very weird. Mystogan loves Knightwalker too much that he can't bring himself to kill Knightwalker. In the end, both of them fled from the Temple of the Hacgnarans and raise a family together. Soon after, their baby boy born. The baby, being a half Hacgnaran, possesses incredibly inhuman powers and inherits his mom's red-hair trait. From then on, the Scarlet haired race grows."

"E.N.D, of course, hears about this news and rampages when he knows that his son betrays him for some woman. And on the day that Knightwalker and Mystogan's baby borns, he vows that he will kill all scarlet haired males and captures all scarlet haired females to make his other sons mate with them and give birth to another inhumanly powered babies, of course with an army of Hacgnarans—his sons, and his sons' son. Daughters aren't allowed in the Hacgnaran race, for they aren't important. Pretty sick, I suppose, but hey what can I say?" Simon lifts his shoulders.

"Meanwhile Jellal, he was born as a very weak child. Heck, he died when he came out from his mom's vagina. But being the strongest dark mage family, his parents manage to find another Hacgnaran that is left from the age where the Dragons wipe out all Hacgnarans. They force Zeref the Hacgnaran into his small body and he lived in an instant. The tattoo on his face represents the 'sin' that he has to carry, meaning the symbol that a Hacgnaran is forced into his body," He continues.

"The day where E.N.D vows to slaughter all scarlet-haired people was the day where you can call the day of the 'Rage of Hacgnaran' which is today," He pauses, observing Erza whether she can pull the pieces of the puzzle together with just this much information he gave her.

The expression on Erza's face changes, from thoughtful to the expression when you just figured out something, "W-Wait… Today is the day when my parents.. died… Killed by Jellal, right..? I-If today is the rage of Hacgnaran, d-does that mean…? E-E.N.D tells Zeref t-to kill… m-my parents…?"

Simon claps his hand together, "Exactly! As expected from Erza Scarlet, yes, you're right. That night, Jellal knows that he will kill your parents and he begs for them to let him leave you guys alone. But your parents won't let him, instead, they sacrifice themselves to be killed by Jellal in order to protect you, because they of course don't want you to mate with E.N.D nor with one of his sons or his sons' sons. They even said: 'please watch Erza for us, Jellal… Protect her for us...' oh, what a touching scene I must tell you."

Tears are now streaming down on her smooth cheeks as she stifles her sobs. Simon cackles again, "See, Erza? After hearing all these, are you still going to say that you don't want to be with Jellal? Though of course after listening to all these, I can't let you get outta here with his baby inside of you."

Erza frowns, "Wh-What do you mean… Y-You don't mean—" "—SIMON, DON'T YOU DARE TO HURT THE BABY INSIDE HER! I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU DO SOMETHING I WILL—"

"You will what, Jellal?" Simon smirks. "What can you do? Erza's trapped, you're hopeless too. What can you do then, daddy?"

"S-Simon, why are you doing this..?!" Erza hisses between her breaths, glaring daggers at Simon.

Simon slowly and gently strokes Erza's cheeks, "Erza, you don't know how much I have longed for you, don't you? How much I have wanted you to be my bride, and how much I wanted to be with you? Well, my girl, E.N.D gave me the chance to be with you, and the option I have left now is to follow his leads until I can have you to be mine…" He smiles. "Now then, let's start shall we?"

Simon lifts up his left hand and suddenly, from the top of the tower, purple lights shine upon Erza, forming a magic circle around her throne. Her chains suddenly break but she can't move her body to escape. "SIMON! STOP! PLEASE, DON'T HURT HER!" Jellal begs.

"Too late, Fernandez. If just you didn't get in my way when we were little, this wouldn't have to happen," Simon smiles.

Erza's body slowly moved from a laying down position into a standing position and she's floating mid-air. The throne itself emerges back into the ground and slowly she feels that the purple lights are hurting her. No, they are hurting her abdomen—her baby.

Erza screams in agony and pain for the painful treatment as tears burst out from her eyes. Jellal screams at Simon, begging him to stop as tears are also streaming out from his eyes. While Simon just contently smiling there, watching the process goes slowly in satisfaction.

Suddenly, Simon sees a blur of blue charging into Erza's position and knocks her out of the circle. Erza lands on her feet, being the trained soldier she is. She looks up and finds Jellal smiling at her before he mouthed her something: 'Take care of our baby…'

And he explodes.

Jellal explodes.

Simon tsk-ed and he screams, "FUCKING JELLAL! DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW LONG AND HOW MUCH MANA I NEED TO LAUNCH THAT BLAST?! STUPID DOUCHE RUINING MY PLAN!" When he looks back at E.N.D, he's already knocked onto the ground by Zeref who has emerged out from Jellal's body.

Soon after, a high-pitched scream full of despair rings throughout the chamber. Erza runs towards Jellal and sees that his chest has a hollow circle hole. She reaches out for his body and brings him tight to a hug as she keeps on screaming, crying, sobbing, begging for Jellal to open his eyes.

Of course the said guy doesn't open his dark eyes. Erza looks for a pulse, but she found none and it terrifies her. "Jellal…? Jellal, please… please…!" She strokes his head gently as it lies down on her lap. Her tears are dropping onto his pale face, sliding down to his neck from his cheeks.

"Jellal…! Please….!" Erza shuts her eyes and let the tears flow out as she bends down to hug him. "You promised, right…? You promised my parents to take care of me! Are you just going to break your promise like that?! Jellal!" She screams as her sobs take over in middle of her words. "Please don't leave me..."

Suddenly, behind Zeref, E.N.D roars as he charges toward Erza. Though he's suddenly being stopped by another Hacgnaran who's body is smaller than him. E.N.D growls, "What do you want, you old man…? Get outta my way and you won't be hurt… I have to finish my revenge!"

Zeref's hand grasps E.N.D's punch harder that E.N.D flinches due to the pain. Slowly, Zeref's body shifts and he becomes bigger, waaayy bigger than E.N.D. "Huh, is that how you talk to your father, you ungrateful little brat?" Zeref glares down at E.N.D.

E.N.D's eyes widen as his body shakes in fear, sweats are dropping from his face. "F-Father….? D-Don't joke around…! Th-The person you call 'father' died more than 300 years ago! I killed him!" E.N.D denies, most probably just trying to make himself convinced that the Hacgnaran in front of him is not her father's Hacgnaran.

"Oh really…? Then do you want me to prove it, E.N.D?" Zeref suddenly shifts again, turning his appearance into a guy with black hair and wears this weird black and white dress. "Now, don't I look like your father..?"

"Wh-What…!? H-How can you be…! No! This is all doesn't make sense, I KILLED YOU! I'M SURE I DID!" E.N.D roars desperately, fear is taking over him. He slowly steps back, trying to get away from his father. "H-How can you be alive! I killed your body! Your carrier!"

"What if… There's no such thing as 'carriers'…? What Hacgnarans are all shape-shifters..? True that there are some Hacgnarans spirit that you can force into someone's body," Zeref glances back at Jellal's lifeless form, "Like Jellal. But does that mean all Hacgnarans need carriers…?"

"D-Don't tell me…" E.N.D stutters as his back meets the wall across the room. Nowhere to run.

"Yes, I, Zeref, is not a carrier. I am a real Hacgnaran, I can shape-shift into my human form and my Hacgnaran form. The legend that you have in the Temple is sooo wrong. Well, it's true that some bits are right. But that doesn't mean all of it is right," Zeref explains. "And I still can't forgive you for killing Mavis. My one… and only love… Your true mother…!" Zeref's red eyes sparkle in fury as he glares daggers at his son.

He lifts up his left arm and a magic circle appears below E.N.D, "I am tired and sick of your sickening game, E.N.D. I'm ending it here." E.N.D's body suddenly froze above the circle—no matter how much he wants to run away. "死の魔法 Shi no Mahō (Death Spell), Death Pillar…!" He yells.

A final roar from E.N.D can be heard throughout the room before his body turns into ashes that is gone by the blow of the winds. Zeref sighs before he turns to Simon who is quivering on the corner, "N-No… Please, No…" Simon begs.

"Z-Zeref… Y-You don't need to hurt hi—" "I am not doing this for you, Erza Scarlet. For whatever reason, as Hacgnaran, I have to destroy everything that might be a possibility of getting in my carrier's way. This man has tried to take you away from Jellal which, of course as we can see, costs Jellal's life. Now in order to pay back what he has done to Jellal, this is the only thing that I can do," Zeref spats, cutting off Erza's words.

"B-But….!"

"Zeref…!" A small voice suddenly joins in the conversation, Zeref's eyes snap wide as he looks around frantically to look for the source of the voice. Figured, the voice comes from the top of them, from small rays of light. "Zeeereeeff~!" The voice sings.

The rays slowly, shifts into a form of a child-like little girl with long wavy blonde-hair wearing a pink fluttery dress. "M-Mavis…!" Zeref exclaims. He runs towards Mavis, only to be smacked on the head by the little girl. "O-Ouch! What the hell is that for—"

His words are stopped with a warm, welcoming, loving kiss from the girl. "Stupid, Zeref. You promised me you won't kill anymore…!" The girl pouts when they break apart to take some breaths in. "You are NOT supposed to kill anyone else, Zeref…"

"B-But! Th-This guy is going to—" "We're not sure about that, now don't we? I've contacted King Igneel, he knows what happens. Just let him determine what will become to this lad." Mavis strokes Zeref's pale face. "Oh, where's E.N.D?"

"I destroyed him. He's a humiliation as a son. I am ashamed of him. I'm sorry, he must have got those traits from me.." Zeref looks away from his wife, feeling ashamed. Mavis smiles as strokes his face, shaking her head in disagreement.

"No… it's not your fault. It's just his fault for not seeing the right way…" Mavis turn to Erxa who has been looking at them for the past one hour. She walks over to Erza and Jellal and asks, "Is he your husband…?"

Erza squeaks before her face turning red, but slowly her shy face turns into a sad one, "N-No… I mean… He forced me to mate with him in order to protect me from E.N.D… B-but… I-I kept on rejecting him for what seems to be a lie. In the end, as E.N.D tried to hurt me… He sacrificed himself in order to save me…" Droplets of tears fall down onto Jellal's face once again. "I love him… I really do…" She barely whispers.

Mavis smiles sweetly at Erza as she put her hand on top of Jellal's hollow hole on his chest. Bright rays of light suddenly gather and in a blink of an eye, the hole is gone. Jellal suddenly coughs, coughing out blood, as he tries to sit up from Erza's lap.

"Holy—Jeebuz! Wh-What teh heck—?!" He coughs again, coughing out the remaining blood from his throat. Yuck. He looks over at mavis and screams, because Mavis looks like a ghost—with the see-through body and a bit shiny. "Wh-Who the hell—?!" He turns to the other side to see Erza, her eyes widen in disbelief and her jaws are slightly open.

"J-Jellal..." She stutters.

"E-Erza... Wait, what?! I'm alive? How can it b—" Jellal quickly looks at Mavis and lets out a big 'AH' as he realizes what's happening. "Y-You're the one who survived me? How?" Mavis smiles at Jellal before she taps her index finger onto his forehead, transferring all the scenes that happened after since he 'died'.

Erza looks for a pulse, but she found none and it terrifies her. "Jellal…? Jellal, please… please…!" She strokes his head gently as it lies down on her lap. Her tears are dropping onto his pale face, sliding down to his neck from his cheeks.

"Jellal…! Please….!" Erza shuts her eyes and let the tears flow out as she bends down to hug him. "You promised, right…? You promised my parents to take care of me! Are you just going to break your promise like that?! Jellal!" She screams as her sobs take over in middle of her words. "Please don't leave me..."

As the particular scene plays in his head, he can't help but to feel happy, though he also feels guilty for making his beloved one broken hearted. But that's all in the past, right? He can finally face her and tell her his feelings without being scared of rejection.

"Well then! I'd better get going!" Mavis exclaims as she claps her hand together, snapping out the blue-haired guy back to reality from his train of thoughts. She turns to Zeref and discusses something with him. Jellal sees that Zeref smiles lovingly at her before he nods—agreeing to whatever she's saying.

"Then, Jellal, I'm afraid i must bid you farewell in here," Zeref smiles at his 'partner'. "Thank you for taking care of me all these years. The reason why I must stay in this world so desperately that I even need to borrow your body, is also because of E.N.D. As a father, I need to teach him a lesson or two. But now, seeing that it is ended already, I suppose I really need to go back to the other realm with Mavis. After all, the appearance that you all are seeing right now is the appearance of a spirit—just like Mavis."

Both Erza and Jellal gasp. "Then, that means... E.N.D actually did kill you?!" Jellal asks. Zeref slowly nods before his body is engulfed by with lights, and so is Mavis' body. Both of them hold each other's hand and slowly, the light disappears along with the two spirits.

Simon, who has been quivering for God-knows-how-long, suddenly runs in order to flee. Erza's about to chase after him before a pair of two strong arms prevent her to. She turns back to see Jellal, smiling sweetly at her. "I'm glad you're okay..." He says.

And her tears drop. Slowly, she sobs and Jellal pulls her into a hug as she cries on his chest. "I-I thought... *hic* th-that you're *sobs* *sobs* g-gone...!"She clutches onto his ripped black sleeveless shirt. "Y-you promised...! *sobs* Y-You promised, right...!? Th-that's why, d-don't leave me a-agai—"

And her words are cut off by his warm and gentle kiss. They stay like that for a while before he breaks the kiss and replies, "I won't. I figured you'd chase down my ghost and kill it over and over again if i'd ever leave you like that again. So... Little Jellal wouldn't like that now would he?"

Erza pouts at him as she tries to hold her sobs, "D-Damn straight, he wouldn't!" and that sends Jellal burst out laughing, only to be punched by Erza playfully as she keeps on pouting.

He strokes her cheeks and slowly taking in her lips onto his again as he silently whispers—but still loud enough for Erza to hear, "I love you... Erza."

Erza smiles as she closes her eyes, letting him take her fully. This time without any regret or shame, "I love you too, Jellal..."

~S.G~

"Well then, let's celebrate their arrival with a big partym shall we?!" King Igneel yells rather excitedly in the lounge room. Lucy, Natsu, Gray, Juvia, Loki, Erza, and Jellal facepalm as he suggests the idea. "Oh, come on now! Don't be such a party-pooper! Come on, light up a bit!"

"I think I know where did you get your reckless traits from, Natsu..." Lucy silently whispers to her husband accusingly.

Natsu sweatdrops as he denies, "Wh-What are you talking about Luce... Come on, you do know I'm better than this old man of mine. Ha..ha..ha..."

Lucy can only sigh at that.

"Well, then!" King Igneel walks over to his desk and writes down a letter on a piece of paper. "Loki! Send out these invitations to other kingdoms! The list is on the other paper!"

Loki obediently walks over to the King's desk, takes the papers from him and excuses himself to hand out the invitations. Lucy, impressed by his obedience, nudges Natsu and asks, "What a really obedient butler... How long has he been working with you guys?"

Natsu glances over at the door which Loki just went out from and replies, "Uuh... Not sure. I've known him since forever really. But if I'm not wrong... He was a kid that one of the guards found by the seashore in one night with a very big storm...The King heard pf this and then took him in... I guess that happened when I was 10 years old, I don't know." He shrugs.

"Huuh, no wonder he so obedient. He must've felt like he owed the King for saving his life, huh. I mean, if no one took him in, he could've died that night..." Lucy wonders aloud.

"Probably, but I guess it's ok. We're all happy to have him here. He's a great company once you know him close enough," Natsu adds.

"Oh, right... He's your personal butler too right? I remembered you told me that Loki is one of your most trusted people in this corrupted kingdom..." Lucy says, earning a nod from the guy.

Meanwhile, the King has a mind of his own. Behind the hands that are covering his mouth and he leans on the table, he smirks. Now, Loki... if you read the list properly... What will you do?

Loki, the said person, is now shaking in front of the lounge room's door as he reads through the list. He stops at a particular Kingdom name that the King has invited. Stellar Kingdom. He bites his lips as he roughly puts the papers back into his pockets.

King, what are you doing...!? Why must you invite them of all Kingdoms, here?! He hisses inside of his mind.

The King, inside of the lounge room, chuckles and he silently whispers, "Now, Loki... It's your choice whether to or not to sort out this problem of yours..."

And we all know, just by this bit of the story that something is bound to happen.

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TO BE CONTINUED!

YAY! I CAN FINALLY UPDATE NOW. HAHAHHA OMG, SCHOOL IS FINISHED YAAYY ;u;