Chapter 10-If You Had My Love
Elsewhere on the island, Natsu, Lucy, and Happy were searching one of the artifact pieces. They suddenly found out that it was being held in the middle of an arena where the ground of it had a pattern of square-like platforms.
"Wait a minute." Lucy advised "There's something strange about this setup."
"While you figure that out, I'm going to go get the artifact." Natsu replied.
"Natsu, wait!" Lucy shouted.
As Natsu stepped into the arena, he suddenly found himself attacked by various incoming spears and flames. He was able to dodge them most of the time, but got hit repeatedly up to the extent that he hit so hard that he was pushed out of the arena.
"I'm going to get you for that!" Natsu shouted.
"Hold up for a moment." Lucy replied.
Lucy then stepped onto one of the square platforms and it begun to make the sound of a music note. She then jumped to another which was two feet away which made the sound of another music note.
"It's a pattern." Lucy commented.
Lucy continued to jump on the square platforms in a specific order to make the right pattern. Eventually, she reached the artifact and begun to take it from its pedestal.
"Now, that's how you do it, Natsu." Lucy gloated towards Natsu.
"That's great, Lucy, but I think you need to get out of there now." Happy commented.
Lucy then turned to look behind her, and noticed that the large statues that were at the end of the arena were walking towards her. Lucy ran as fast as she could to avoid getting trampled, but as she was about to exit the arena, she tripped and fell down on the ground with a twisted ankle. Luckily, Happy was able to fly over there and carry Lucy out the arena. After Happy carried Lucy out of the arena, he let her down, which caused her to fall down.
"You know, you could have let me down gently." Lucy commented.
"Sorry about that, Lucy." Happy replied.
Lucy then stood herself back up on her feet, but as she continued to walk, she struggled because her left ankle was still a bit sore from being twisted. As Lucy walked further, she tripped again but Natsu was there in front of her to catch her.
"Don't worry, I got you." Natsu said.
Later that night, the team had assembled tents on a specific campsite place as they were staying on the island for the night. Natsu, Lucy, and Happy were the last to arrive at the campsite where they saw the tents already being set up. As Lucy was about to go inside one of the tents, she saw Juvia walk out of one.
"Juvia, where are you heading to?" Lucy asked.
"Juvia w-was just heading somewhere to get some fresh air." Juvia answered.
"Just be careful out there, okay?" Lucy replied before entering one of the tents.
Juvia didn't want to tell Lucy, but where Juvia was really headed was back to the lake where she and Gray went to earlier in the day in order to meet Gray for a romantic encounter.
Erza was all by herself in a tent with Jellal where she was tending to his bruises. When they were both all alone in the tent, Erza prepared a bucket of water and a wash cloth. She then had sat down with Jellal walking towards her. She took off his shirt and laid him down in her arms. Erza then took the wash cloth and began to tend to his bruises.
As Erza began to move the wash cloth all over Jellal's upper body skin, he looked into her eyes and began to speak to her.
"Thanks for saving me back there." Jellal said.
"Don't mention it." Erza replied "So, you were under another person's mind control?"
"Yes, I was." Jellal explained "It was like being in a nightmare. All I knew that I was that couldn't stop myself even though I saw it all happening."
"Before you were put under that trance, what do you remember?" Erza asked.
"I don't remember anything." Jellal answered "I was just in the dark entirely being under torture."
"That sounds really tragic." Erza commented.
"You know, I'm glad that you found me." Jellal commented back "I'm grateful that I got another chance to see you once again."
After that comment, Erza and Jellal looked into each other's eyes and began to feel an emotional affection in their hearts. Jellal then moved closer to Erza and kissed her on the lips. They began to make out with each other and be held in each other's arms. While they were kissing, Jellal moved his right hand and began to move it underneath Erza's armour to touch her skin. Erza suddenly had felt Jellal's hand, and when his touch got stronger, she ended up doing a reflex move where she unintentionally punched Jellal in the stomach.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that." Erza commented as she let go of Jellal.
"What did you do that for?" Jellal asked.
"I—I'm not accustomed to being touched like that." Erza commented.
"Don't worry. I'm not going to hurt you." Jellal replied.
Erza then requipped out of her armour and was completely naked in front of him.
"I would like to do what you would like to do." Erza nervously explained.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Jellal asked.
"I've waited long enough." Erza answered "I'm ready."
Jellal then took off the rest of his clothes and both of them began to lie down together and were ready to engage in intercourse. The blanket they were lying under was up to their waists. As both of them proceeded to kiss each other, Erza got on top of Jellal and began to plant kisses all over his face. Erza and Jellal put their arms around each other as they continued to kiss. Jellal placed his left hand on Erza's right shoulder while Erza placed her right hand on Jellal's chest. As Jellal placed his right arm over Erza's chest, she began to suddenly moan.
"Are you feeling alright?" Jellal asked.
"Don't worry, I'm not afraid." Erza answered "Just keep going."
Jellal then continued to kiss Erza and move his hands down to her stomach, while Erza was also touching Jellal's stomach. Erza and Jellal's bodies were then pressed against each other as they continued to go further. After a while, Erza and Jellal suddenly finished when they both began to breathe very heavily. In the aftermath, Erza continued to hold onto Jellal. Jellal could feel how much Erza was drawn to him, as much as he was drawn to her. Jellal also continued to hold onto Erza with his arms. They both continued to be held in each other's arms which they would do until the end of the night.