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YokoTenshi-chan - You didn't know Edward Cullen? Thank god. I'll curse the day I was first exposed to that crappy ruined-vampires-forever story when my brother told me to rename my cat after that loser.

Chapter 10

I got this part from both Jellal and Erza, and their stories didn't match up perfectly so I don't feel that I can vouch for its truth. There are some parts that both of them said happened, or that clearly did anyway so at least it's not all a lie, though.

The lightning, obviously, didn't kill Jellal right away. It took him a minute, but he managed to fix that before he hit the ground, after which point he had to recover again. He healed Erza too after she landed and the two of them searched for a shelter. They eventually came across a cave that was being used as a nest for one of those violent wild purple Chocobo. Erza scared it away with lightning and the two of them went in there. I guess that sounds a little cruel, but that Chocobo had big thick feathers to protect it from the blizzard that was starting up, and between Jellal and Erza they had one jacket.

Once the two were safely inside the cave Erza apologized to Jellal. She always went mute when I asked her why she'd attacked him, but Jellal told me (with a glum expression) that she'd said that she'd remember some of the horrible things he'd done to her when they were younger before remembering that he was good again. He then added cheerfully that she'd also told him they were friends as kids. I'd been feeling a little mean spirited right then so I told him that that just made it that much worse that he'd betrayed her.

Jellal supposedly accepted her apology in a heartbeat, having remembered her telling him what a horrible person he was during that whole Nirvana fiasco. According to both of them this was followed by a very long and awkward silence during which time the rest of us were trying to run through a blizzard in the hopes of finding them.

After a while GJellal noticed Erza shivering. I choose to believe Erza's claim that he actually told her something along the lines of "Take off your armor" and Jellal's claim that she replied with something like "N-no. I'm not wearing anything underneath, not even a bra." Because the more I listened to them the more I noticed there tendency to make their words sound much more… elegant, and the other person's a little more awkward or unintentionally perverted. Even if they were both talking naturally the perverted way just sounds funnier. Either way Jellal told Erza not to wear her ice cold metal armor and she didn't want to remove it.

Jellal removed that jacket I'd given him and offered it to her and explained it in a way that neither of them made sound randy that he thought she'd be warmer with that instead. Since both reported that she'd made him turn the other way while she changed…

I'm sure hearing this will put you to sleep, but after this it descended into awkwardness again. They were, in Erza's words, 'only saved from dying of awkwardness' when it happened.

I told you they kicked that Chocobo out, right? Yeah, so that Chocobo had actually been guarding an egg. The little baby had probably spent a good deal of time trying to get out of its shell but that's when it finally broke through. Jellal and Erza, most likely looking for a way to distract themselves from one another, engrossed themselves in taking care of the stupid thing.

Now here's the really iffy part. Both gave me the whole conversation, word for word, but neither agreed on who said what. The conversation went like this (minus the stuttering. They were both stuttering when we found them).

"We must have scarred its mommy away." Yes, one of them said mommy.

"Will it be alright?"

"I'm sure we could take care of it."

"It's probably hungry. Do you have any food with you?"

"I've got some crackers. Can birds eat crackers?" Erza might have been the one who said that, since she'd been hanging around the monastery and was more likely to have food, but Jellal liked to keep supplies on hand… Who knows.

"Maybe. Do we need to chew them up first?"

"Probably?"

By both reports it was Erza who chewed up the crackers.

"It doesn't look like it likes them very much."

"Is it a boy or a girl?"

"I don't know. How can you tell?"

"I don't know. I think birds normally have different colors depending on gender but I don't think that applies to Chocobo."

"We should give it a name. We can't just call it 'it'"

"Of course we can. It's a bird."

"What would you name a chicken? Chocobo really look like chickens."

"I wouldn't name a chicken. That'd make them hard to eat."

"Probably."

"How long have we been in here? I'm starved. Chicken sounds really good right now."

"Yeah… it really does. I could do with a wing."

"I prefer drum sticks."

"That's it! We'll call him Drum Stick!"

"No we won't"

And from there it reportedly degraded into one of those "Yes" "No" "Yes" "No" arguments. Eventually whichever one of them was saying "No" just gave up, and that's how Drum Stick got his name.

I mean, really! Drum Stick! And whichever one of them picked it must have known how utterly stupid that name was since neither of them would own up to it. Drum Stick. For as long as that bird lives, and for some time after, I won't be getting over that. No, I will never be getting over that. And the worst part is that now it comes on missions with us. So we'll be about to fight and Erza will go "Wait! I need to get Drum Stick out of the way." And put that stupid thing in a tree so it can fall off the branch and start crying so she'll get distracted from whatever infinitely more important thing she's doing.

I'm not a bird person, in case you never noticed. When I was little and Lyon and I were still training together he'd always sic his stupid ice birds on me. Sometimes it still gives me bad dreams. Did I ever tell you about me and Lyon training together?

Oh…Lucy told you? Alright. No, I'm not surprised. I know you two talk to each other a lot.

I really got of topic, didn't I? Where was I? Oh, yes. So Jellal and Erza had this baby Chocobo that one or the other of them had named Drum Stick. In order to avoid things like what Jellal had done to Erza, that he was trying really hard to remember, or how Jellal was supposed to be in jail, which Erza was trying really hard to forget, they focused on this little baby bird.

We found them really late. It was lucky for them that they were both clearly freezing or else we'd have been furious at them for going and making us search in a blizzard. They were just shaking too much for anyone to give them much grief.

When we got back the first thing the two did, understandably, was search out the warmest room in the monastery and plant their butts right in front of the fireplace. A couple Clavats asked them to take Drum Stick to the barn, but they refused to part with the little heap of feathers. The Clavat walked off mumbling something about rowdy Selkie and came back with newspaper for Drum Stick to sit on so it wouldn't make a mess on the rug. It seems like pooping is all that purple pipsqueak is good for anyway.

Erza and Jellal fell asleep in front of the fireplace after a few minutes. They were leaning against each other in a way that would have been really cute if I hadn't seen them both screaming about how they were going to kill the other one only a month prior. They both have some serious issues.

While they were sleeping Lyon explained that Erza knew how to get us back. He'd been too relieved when we found them to get the information from her, and since she was asleep then all he could read was her dream. He also made an… er… interesting comment about Jellal's dream. You know that wonderful liquid that can be used in laundry that people call 'bleach'? I had to apply some to my brain afterward.

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Rune Caster: Oops. I finished this right after writing the last chapter, but I got so into making tarot cards (they're Fairy Tail themed) that I forgot to post it. No harm done, right?

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