The Chaos of Time

Chapter 10

Searching for Something

"Master that's not fair! Why didn't you punish me too?!" Wendy exclaimed.

"Wendy..." He began, but was cut off.

"I should be expelled as well, I am just as guilty as Natsu!"

"Wendy I am not going to kick you out. It was painful enough as it was to kick out Natsu." He said.

"If you won't expel me, then I will leave on my own." She said firmly with a glare.

"Wendy, you can't do that. You are a member of Fairy Tail..." He started before she cut him off.

"I don't care! I don't want to be in Fairy Tail if Natsu isn't in it!" She yelled at him.

"Wendy you need to calm down, you aren't thinking." Erza cut in as she reached out to grab her shoulder.

"Get off me!" Wendy shouted, and released a large blast of wind blowing Erza backwards, into Mira.

Realizing what she had just done, Wendy turned and ran out of the guild.

"Wendy come back here!" Sounded shouts from members, but they fell on deaf ears as she kept running.

Picking herself up, Erza began running towards the door, before she Makarov's hand grabbing her, stopping her.

"Master what are you doing?" She questioned, earning a sigh.

"Wendy is still a child. If she is upset there isn't much we can do. Unfortunately, I truly think that she has her heart set on being with Natsu, and short of allowing him back, she won't return."

"But..." She began, before being cut off.

"Erza just leave it. I need a drink." He said, though he muttered the last part to himself.

Wendy was upset, and she couldn't find Natsu. After running out of the guild, she had tried using her nose to locate him, but had lost the scent.

Wendy looked down at her hands. She knew that her reaction was a little over the top, but she had lashed out and attacked Erza and that was unacceptable.

She had made it to the outskirts of the city before it finally sunk in. She turned around and glanced back. From where she was, she could see the top floor of the guild poking into the sky.

Tears sprung to her eyes and she ran into the forest for a while, before falling onto her knees and weeping.

"Wendy? What are you doing out here?" Said a familiar voice from next to her. She lifted her head and was surprised to see Jellal standing there.

"Jellal?" She questioned as the tears continued to flow.

"Wendy what happened? Are you hurt?" He asked frantically, as her gave her a hug. Wendy pressed her face into his shoulder and shook her head. After few moments she pulled her head back before releasing herself from his arms, and sitting down.

"I'm fine now." She said as she looked up at him. "Where did you go? You put us to sleep and disappeared." She said with a frown.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I just didn't want the guild to see me, and it was better for everyone if the two of you had been asleep too." He said, though she wasn't entirely convinced.

"That aside, what are you doing out here?" He asked pushing the conversation.

"I was looking for Natsu." She said, not really wanting to explain her runaway.

"Wouldn't he be at the guild?" He asked.

"No, he wouldn't." She said bluntly, and he raised an eyebrow. He looked at her for a minute before shrugging.

"If you don't want to talk about it then I won't ask. But, how about I help you look for him?" He suggested, and she smiled. Jellal was always nice to her.

"That would be nice." She said as she stood up and wiped her eyes.

The two blue haired mages walked along the outskirts of the city while engaging in small talk. It was approaching sundown when Wendy felt her nose twitch.

Lifting her head quickly, Wendy locked onto the familiar scent. "I found his scent. He is somewhere in that direction." She said in relief as she pointed into the forest.

Following the scent, Wendy trailed into the trees with Jellal standing behind her. She paused when she came across a clearing. She didn't recognize the area, but she did recognize the boy sitting on a log near the middle, staring into the distance.

"Hey Natsu there you are, we have been looking for you all day." Jellal spoke calmly.

When his voice garnered no response she too spoke. "Natsu are you okay?" She asked while slowly approaching.

When she got no response, she sped up to reach him. She grabbed his shoulder and pulled him around. She was met with closed eyes and drool, and sighed with a smile. He hadn't been ignoring them, he was just asleep.

A frown passed over her face a moment later. She didn't understand how he could look so peaceful after what happened earlier.

A breeze blew from behind her, and she snapped out of a daze. Realizing that she had been staring at Natsu, she turned away ready with an excuse. She was surprised to find that Jellal was no longer there.

"Jellal? Where did you go?" She called out as she walked to where the boy had been standing. Jellal and his scent had vanished, but a piece of paper had been left.

'Sorry that I left again without saying goodbye. Something urgent came up, and I didn't want to disrupt your moment. Good luck!'

Good luck? What was that about...Whatever it was she chose to ignore it. She guessed it had something to do with Edolas, so she let it go with a sigh and walked back to Natsu.

She sat down on the log next to him to think. As the cold night air drifted in, she found herself getting closer and closer to the pink-haired boy. Not much later, she had drifted off to sleep, her head against his shoulder.

A/N: Greetings everyone, I am alive still. Sorry for taking a few weeks to update. I was caught up with Spring Break, and I was watching Hunter x Hunter.

This chapter is only 1k words long, but I am making up for that by writing a second chapter. Hopefully I will have that posted by later today. I felt like this chapter was small stuff, lacking a whole lot of action. Next chapter will get the story moving forward again.

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-Chaos of Time