A/N: Here's chapter 2. If there are some awkward parts or scenes that don't make a lot of sense, please let me know.

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"Captain! Hurry!" A soldier called out behind him.

"There had better be a good reason for this training halt," the captain replied, clearly annoyed. How dare her training regime be interrupted? Someone wanted to get hacked into pieces that much was obvious, and she was going to give it to them. No one messed with her training. They ran to the deepest parts of the forest, where she was conducting rigorous military training. In the middle of said forest lay a blonde haired girl. From what the captain could discern, she was clearly unconscious.

"It's Lucy Ashley!" One of the soldiers yelled, to which the captain's annoyance skyrocketed. Ashley?! The nerve of that fairy! She really wanted to get killed!

"What is Ashley doing here?! Fairy Tail and the Royal Army working together does not give her the right to mess with my training! And I JUST got reinstated!" The captain was extremely close to ripping her to shreds, even if it meant she'd lose her job again. It didn't matter. Ashely was eating at her time. That stupid fairy acted like she could just go wherever she pleased with no consequences. The blonde be damned! The king be damned! His orders be damned! Erza would have her way this time.

The soldiers could see their captain was fuming. It had been 6 months since they lost magic. All of Edolas was helping rebuild the kingdom thanks to the new King. However, this did not mean that the Royal Army and Fairy Tail were on friendly terms. No. That was not entirely correct. Nearly everyone in the Royal Army had come to friendly terms with Fairy Tail. Aside from the newly reinstated Erza Knightwalker. This hadn't come as a surprise given she had killed nearly half of the mages in Fairy Tail herself. That was not something easily forgiven. Or at least that's what she had convinced herself. Knightwalker didn't seem to mind. She would forever be loyal to the Kingdom, regardless of what the amateur King or anyone said. She kicked the blonde to wake her.

"C-captain...maybe you should be a bit gentler..." one of the soldiers said in a whisper.

Knightwalker turned towards him with a look meant to kill. "Say that again, soldier," she let out through her teeth. Gentler? Ha! This child clearly did not know what Erza had in mind. How she was going to slowly cut the blonde until she begged for forgiveness. Damn those fairies! Always getting in the way! She had to admit that might have been a bit too violent, but she was angry damn it! This woman thought she could mess around with everything the redhead did! The soldier shook his head rapidly to which the captain sighed. On second inspection of the blonde, Knightwalker noticed something was a bit off.

'Her clothes aren't as revealing.' This had caught Erza's eye, as Ashley was known to wear skimpy outfits and pounce around everywhere. Knightwalker kneeled when she noticed something was shining. 'Keys?'

"I wonder when Ashley got a tattoo on her hand," the soldiers had begun to murmur. Argh! Why?! Why now?! They should have been training! Not looking down at this pathetic girl wondering what she had drunk the night before to land her here!

"What do you think happened to the one on her arm?"

"Maybe she painted it?"

"Don't be stupid. That wouldn't work!"

Knightwalker was irritatingly listening to her soldiers in training when it came to her. The blonde in front of her was wearing fairly tame clothing, had multiple keys, and no tattoo on her arm; instead she had one on her hand. Her hair was longer than Ashley's too. Given the latter tended to cut her hair these last 6 months whenever it got too long, something Knightwalker had no intention of repeating.

This girl...She can't be... The soldiers noticed that the captain's annoyance had dimmed considerably and was replaced with composed curiosity.

"First Lieutenant, training continues. I'll take the girl back to the Royal Palace." She heard a few complaints to which she offered a frightening glare. One that had them shut up in an instant. They were still green! What right did they have to complain about training? Joining the Royal Army wasn't all fun and games!

"If you don't want to train, then get lost. I don't need useless soldiers under my command," she tried keeping her voice low, but irritation had gotten the best of her. Sighing heavily, she took the girl in her arms and went to her horse. Being away from those under her, she calmed down surprisingly fast. Looking at the sleeping girl, she laughed to herself, noting how uncharacteristically knightly this was of her.

"Mmm..." The girl had begun to stir. "...Erza," she whispered as she stuck closer to the captain who froze in place, her heart beating very fast and very loudly. She wasn't used to this type of contact. Closing her eyes, she tried to calm herself. 'If she is in fact the Lucy from Earthland, then she's probably dreaming about Scarlet.' "Heh," Knightwalker muffled. 'Probably? Did I actually consider that she might be dreaming of me? The same person who tried to kill her so vehemently? Probably is an understatement. She is most certainly dreaming about Scarlet.' The captain let out a sigh of disappointment. She wasn't sure why.

She decided to walk back to the Royal Palace instead of taking the horse. It wouldn't take that long and she needed to get things sorted in her head anyways. Occasionally, the blonde would stir, as if waking up, which would have Erza stop on occasion but in the end she didn't wake.

Once she reached the Royal Palace, the girl was taken from her and sent to the doctor for a quick check-up. As she was walking to the armory, Erza sensed someone had been following her. She stopped, sighed and spoke, "Coco. Enough with the following. What is it you want?"

The young girl ran up in front of her. "I-I-Is it true?!" The young girl had a habit of being overly excited whenever something noteworthy happened in the palace. Erza didn't blame her of course, since the past few months had been pretty uneventful. However, her over the top excitement would occasionally annoy the knight. Especially when Coco always assumed Erza knew or even cared for what was going on most of the time.

"Is-what-true-Coco." Coco tried to hide herself. When Erza spoke this way, it was obvious that she was not happy. But she couldn't help herself! The rumors! If they were true, she could see her again!

"Is the princess back?!" Coco said excitedly, trying to calm down. She didn't want to anger Erza, but she was too eager.

'Princess?' "Who are you talking about?" Erza asked, confused. The least the girl could do was be precise!

"Lucy! Earthland Lucy! The Princess!" Coco said, unable to control her excitement anymore at seeing an old friend of sorts.

"She's a princess?" Erza wondered out loud to which Coco merely nodded very fast.

"She's being checked right now, since she was found unconscious in the northern forest. You can go see her if you want," Erza exhaled. Even though Coco was trying her best to calm down, her best wasn't much at all.

"I will! I will!" The young girl called as she began to run to the medical wing.

Erza continued to the armoury, all the while, trying very hard to ignore the whispers of maids and soldiers.

"Hey, don't you think Captain Knightwalker has been very agitated lately?"

"I know, right?! It's scary."

"Feels like she'll snap at any moment!"

"Maybe she's going through withdrawal?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, she's killed a lot of people in her life. Suddenly not being allowed to raise her spear at people?"

"So what? She wants to kill?"

"I doubt she's that dark. Maybe it's the lack of magic."

"We all have the same problem. She's not the only one without magic."

"And what's her problem with Fairy Tail? All of us made up aside from her."

"Maybe she wants to betray King Jellal for exiling King Faust!"

"Well, she WAS very loyal to Faust..."

"So? She should grow up. She's acting like a child."

"Maybe she's jealous?"

"Of what?"

"Fairy Tail. Since they have a lot of the King's attention now."

"So she wants King Jellal's attention?"

"Hey, hey! What if she has a crush on the king?!"

"Whaaat?! No way! That would be so weird!"

Erza started walking faster. Faster, faster, faster until she reached the armory. She went in, slammed the door behind her and fell to the floor, holding onto her knees. 'You are a Knightwalker. Keep it together. There is no reason for gossip like this to bother you. They don't even know anything about you.' She shook her head. She would not let this get to her. She was part of a powerful lineage of warriors. If she took offense to these rumors, her ancestors would roll in their graves. She would be shaming her family! She was better than this. Erza Knightwalker would not allow those idiots to get the better of her. Idiots who had barely done anything for the country. They didn't even deserve being under her limelight. She got up, grabbed her Ten Commandments –albeit, it needed a name change given the lack of magic - and went to destroy some straw men.

A while later, she left the training grounds rather sweaty. As she was walking back to her quarters, she noticed the kind old doctor leaving his office.

"Ah, Captain Knightwalker. About the girl you brought in," he waited until Erza was closer to continue, "she's perfectly fine. I'd say she went through a lot of stress the past few days and her body just needed a good amount of rest. She's awake if you wish to see her."

"Thank you, doctor," was Erza's curt reply, as she headed to the girl's room. It's not like she cared for the girl. However, their past encounter wasn't exactly on a friendly note, and she wanted to know what someone from Earthland was doing in Edolas. How she had ended up there and why. Was she planning something? Was it all just an accident? If her presence posed a danger to the country, she would eliminate her without a second's notice. Stopping in front of the door, she heard Coco's typically loud voice speaking in awe.

"- and she carried you all the way here! Apparently, she looked really cool! I wish I could have seen it!"

Coco turned to the door as she heard it open. "Ah! Speak of the devil! We were just talking about you, Erza!"

"That seems to be the case. You are Earthland's Lucy, correct?" Erza asked the one thing bugging her the most at the moment. Lucy nodded.

Silence. There was an awkward silence in the room. Lucy was conflicted. This woman, even though Erza, had tried to kill her on their previous encounter. And yet, there was something attracting her to the older woman. Was it the love she had for Scarlet? She wasn't sure. However, she wasn't the only one conflicted. Erza had no idea how to act in front of the same person she was trying to kill a while back. Why did she care how to act anyways? She had just told herself she would kill the girl if needed. So why was she questioning herself?! Before she could say or do anything, the door opened and the new King of Edolas walked in.

"Lucy, it's been a while," Jellal said cautiously but happily as he walked to the right side of the bed. Erza didn't like him. He had taken Faust's position and started giving out orders left and right. Took her job from her, regardless of the fact that he gave it back! Who did he think he was? His face alone drove her mad. The celestial mage looked at him with a mix of hatred and jealousy. At least, that's what Knightwalker concluded. She knew that look all too well. It was the same one she'd given Fairy Tail, the new king, and her counterpart.

"...Lucy? Hey, it's alright. It's just me, Mystogan," as if snapped out of a daze, Lucy held her head and apologized.

"I'm sorry, Mystogan. I just thought you...-" Before she could continue, Jellal gripped her shoulder.

"Don't worry about it," he said as he smiled. "There's something I want to ask you." The situation was fairly curious, and it was entirely understandable that the King would want to know whatever it was that was going on in his domain.

"I don't know. If your question is how I got here, the answer is I don't know...All I remember is that I was walking outside, saw something that looked like anima, ran towards it because I was worried and then I woke up in this bed..." Lucy looked down, disappointed that she couldn't remember much else.

"It's alright," Jellal looked at her and smiled. "I don't think you'll be going anywhere today; so, care to join us during dinner?" As he said this, Lucy's stomach grumbled and everyone, excluding Knightwalker, laughed.

"I think that's a yes!" Coco said as Lucy blushed.

"Erza, could you bring her over during dinner?" The King got up, glancing at her.

"Why me?" Erza did not want to babysit. She wanted to go take a shower, change, grab dinner and go eat outside. She wanted to be alone, with no Earthland mage stuck to her side.

"You're the one who brought her here! She's your responsibility!" Coco said, happily. Erza looked at Coco, with intent to pierce her. The nerve of the girl. As though she had a choice in the matter! Ok, she did have a choice. She could have told one of the soldiers to take her to the palace. Then she would have been their responsibility. But something kept nagging Erza to take her herself. And whatever that something was, it would have made her crazy if she hadn't listened to it.

"Now, now. I said Erza because having a familiar face Lucy doesn't want dead would be nice," He had a feeling Lucy didn't like Earthland Jellal all that much, which Knightwalker had picked up on earlier. Jellal also wasn't one to pry, so he decided against asking her why she didn't like his counterpart. However, for some reason, Erza wanted to know. She agreed to see the younger mage to dinner, after a much needed shower.

A/N: Thanks for reading! Constructive criticism is much welcome.

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