Chapter 36:

Someone Worth Fighting For

Third Preson POV:

"If we keep this up, it will be a stalemate," Precht said as he and Gildarts kept meeting punch for punch and kick for kick.

"You're right, the battle would be pointless if it ended in a stalemate," Gildarts replied and he and Precht jump back and away from each other, "It's end this with our strongest magic, shall we?"

"You're on, Clive," Precht responded and they both created magic circles.

"Crushing Evil, Spreading the Truth: Ikazuchi," Gildarts called.

"Grimoire Law" Precht yelled. The spells clashed, the lighting that Gildarts made was attacking the dark ball light that Precht created. Soon a dust cloud formed and the results came blasting through. When the dust cloud rolled out, there laid Precht knocked out, maybe even died, which one didn't matter to Gildarts because he had to get moving to the next battle which was on Mavis Valley.

"Don't worry Cana," Gildarts whispered to himself, "I'll be home soon."

Meanwhile back at the Dragon Kingdom, Jellal was talking on his Communications Lacrima with Makarov about the battle. "I really didn't want to put you on the battle because each kingdoms' castle involved this war needs protection from the enemy. But Nathan is out because he has both a broken leg and arm and Luke died," Makaro said, "Lucy, even though I wasn't all for it, is headed to help her cousin, Laxus, but I would feel more comfortable if we had someone else, a team of three would suit the situation better."

"I would love to," Jellal replied with a smile, but just then the door to the room where Jellal is, bursted open and a guard with short purple hair and silver eyes was panting with hands on this knees, "What wrong, Anthony?"

"Brain is attacking the castle," Anthony answered and Jellal jumped out of this chair and stayed quiet for a moment.

"Makarov, once I'm finish here, I will head straight to Mavis Valley to join my friends on the battlefield," Jellal said as he looked back at the lacrima.

Makarov nodded and he replied with, "Yeah, good idea Jellal."

"Thank you, Makarov," Jellal said.

"No problem, goodbye," Makarov replied, then the lacrima went dark.

"Anthony lead me to Brain," Jellal ordered and Anthony lead the way.

*TIME SKIP 12 minutes later 3:16pm*

"So we meet again, Jellal," Brain said as Jellal came to the main hallway.

"It's not a pleasure to see you again," Jellal said, "Brain."

"Oh come now," Brain responded, "Your father, what was his name again, umm… Daisuke Fernandes, he was the best military leader I had, but he die a sudden death on one of trips to the mountain. Tragic really, you were 18 when it happened. I was so hoping you take his place but for reasons unknown to me, you went to the Dragon Kingdom and betrayed me."

"I investigated my father's death, you murdered him," Jellal yelled.

"Maybe I did," Brain responded and Jellal gritted his teeth.

"You were the only one with my dad," Jellal said, "When I found out, I decided to leave your Kingdom and any loyalty I had for you. When I came to the Dragon Kingdom, the Dragneels welcomed me with open and showed me more respect than you ever did. And then I met the love of my life."

"So naive, you came here and fell in love," Brain responded, "You know love can give a man a weakness. Like for dragon slayers, if their mate is trouble, they break down and give up almost everything to get them back. They fear the lost of their mate."

Jellal began to laugh as he said, "You are ill-informed."

"What do mean," Brain asked as he and Jellal began to square off.

"The dragon slayer's mate, maybe their greatest weakness," Jellal responded, "But they're also their greatest strength. And while I am not a dragon slayer, I love Erza Scarlet more than life itself, and I will protect her with my life and that's a promise!" Then Jellal charged at Brain and their fist collided and they let out a high wave of energy.

"This is going to be fun," Brain said with a dark laughter, "Show me everything you have Jellal because just like I did your father, I will kill you."

*TIME SKIP 1 hour and 41 minutes later 5:02pm*

Jellal and Brain were now facing off, both panting because of how much energy, both physical and magical they used over the last hour. "You are tiresome, Jellal," Brain spoke as he glared, "Why can't you give up? Join me and I'll save your lover and you can have your very own dragon slayer."

"Erza would kill me if I did that," Jellal replied, "After all, my kingdom is ruled by dragon slayers."

"Is this place where your mother and father lay in their graves," Brain asked as he and Jellal kept meeting punch for punch and kick for kick, "Is this where you grew up? Is the place where you born? Do you think your father would be proud to see you fighting against me?"

"No on all except that last one," Jellal replied and his fist was once again blocked by Brain's hand, "My father was questioning your judgement at the end of his life, thought you were going crazy and he afraid that you would do something that put the whole Kingdom in danger. He was right and died believing it."

"Your father was packing your stuff wasn't he," Brain said, "Daisuke was planning on leaving me, wasn't he?"

"So what if he was," Jellal responded with a growl that was hostile.

"Thats why I killed him," Brain said and he got a creep smile on his face, "You didn't think I was going to let Daisuke walk out of my kingdom with all my secret alive, did you?"

"My dad was right, you have lost your mind," Jellal yelled with anger in his voice, "I will defeat you for my kingdom and for my father!"

"We'll see about that," Brain replied and he and Jellal created magic circles, "Genesis Zero!" Brain first charges green darkness energy on his fingers and summoned thousands of black phantoms to strike at Jellal to the point of them being engulfed completely by their sheer numbers alone.

Jellal was quiet for a moment before he yelled, "Heavenly Beams!" Then Jellal released several powerful beams from his hands toward Brain, causing great damage to him.

"Damn you, Jellal," Brain yelled as Jellal walked out of the dust from the rumble created from the falling walls.

"Brain, you will never harm another soul," Jellal said and he glared at Brain with disgust, "Heavenly Blast!" After that, Jellal closed his fist, except for two fingers and swiped them backwards and a large ball of Heavenly Body Magic appeared and rushes towards Brain. Jellal's final attack resulted in more dust from the rumble to be kicked and when the dust cleared, it was clear that Brain was about to died.

"You're a bastard, Jellal," Brain spoke with his very last breath then he died.

"No, I did what I had to," Jellal responded as he turned away from Brain, "You just wasted your last breath, Brain. Farewell." Following that, Jellal walked away and he made his way to Mavis Valley.

Natsu POV:

*TIME SKIP 3 hours and 31 minutes later 8:41pm*

I had started the fire and Gray and Erza were out getting food while Gajeel pinched a tent. Since Lucy and I had taken care of the fire, we were relaxing. I was staring at Lucy's brown eyes and watched the fire dance along the glossy surface. "This hardly feels real," Lucy said, "Everything that has happened since I join the Fairy Tail crew, it all feels like a dream."

"How so," I asked and Lucy glanced at me.

"Before Levy invited me to join the crew," Lucy said, "Long before, three years before, we had a funeral for you, and the others, it was believed you were dead. I think that I have long to see you for so long that maybe that this is all a dream and I'm back home laying in a bed in a coma."

"Lucy, I know all too well that this real," I told her and she stared at me, "In dreams, you can't feel physical pain. You have felt physical pains remember."

"Yeah, the Kraken," Lucy said and she smiled, "And Happy's hair ball army."

I smiled back at her and we both broke out into laughter when the lacrima began to glow and Makarov appeared. "Natsu, Lucy, I wish to speak to you too," Makarov said and Lucy and I stopped laughing and we looked at the lacrima.

"Yes, Grandpa, what is it," Lucy asked and Makarov looked at Lucy.

"I just got word from Gildarts that he is on his way to Mavis Valley," Makarov said, "And so is Jellal, he finished his battle with Brain."

"Jellal took on Brain," I spoke, "But Brain is from the kingdom he grew up in."

"Yes, but Jellal is fully loyal to the Dragon Kingdom, now," Makarov replied and I nodded, "I highly suggest that everyone get some sleep."

"Don't worry, Grandpa, we will," Lucy replied then the lacrima went dark.

"We're back," Gray said, and he came back carrying some fish and Erza came back carrying a wild pig.

"Great, lets make dinner," I said then we made dinner.

*TIME SKIP 40 minutes later 9:27*

"I wish we do this every night," Lucy whispered as we laid in an open patch of the forest and looked at the sky, "I never could see the stars like this back at the castle, too many lights."

"Yea, I spent some much time at sea," I said, "Seeing the stars like this, just seems normal to me. But does feel way different this time."

"Yeah," Lucy replied and she flipped to her side, "And whys that?"

"Cause I'm looking at them with you," I responded then Lucy jumped onto me and we shared a passionate kiss.

"I love you," Lucy whispered and I smiled.

"I love you too," I responded and we cuddle a little longer before we went to our tent and cuddle together as we fell asleep.

Dear Readers,

After 4 days of writers block, I finally have a awesome kick butt chapter. I loved writing Jellal's part, the idea came to me when thought about the anime and how Jellal had a past withBrain there too. Then I ended the chapter with a sweet Nalu moment. I really like this chapter. Oh, and I wanted to remember everyone that I have a one-shot called The Time Traveling Child that I wrote between chapter 34 and chapter 35 and I really want a review so please check it out and write a review. Speaking of reviews, its that time again, replying to reviewers:
~nalujerz- No, thank you for writing reviews. Its review that keep me motivated me to keep writing. If I didn't get reviews, I probably deleted this story and no one would have gotten to read this story. In fact, one story called Tale of the Great Rescue was almost deleted because I wasn't getting any reviews while I was writing but I had promise that I would write it so I couldn't back out. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter and I hope to see more reviews from you.
~Digi-fanCatt- I get frustrated with spellcheck sometimes and I just want to turn it off because I keep yelling, "NO, NO, NO! THAT IS NOT THE WORD I WANT!" in my head. I found that when spellcheck fails, thesaurus almost always saves my ss but that gets tricky after a while. Anyways, I'm happy to hear that you thought chapter 35 was awesome and I hope you enjoyed this chapter as well.
~BeastlyTick59- Yea, that moment was a well duh moment and those are the usually the moments when people face palm. I love writing those moment because I'm always laughing since I have a fairy tail face palming picture that helps me picture what they look like when they are face palming. Anyways, I'm glad you enjoyed that chapter and I hope you enjoy this chapter.
So there are all the reviews I got between the last update and this update. I like to also announce that I will be doing a one-shot Fairy Tale rewrite that of course be a Nalu for Tell a Fairy Tale Day which is Feb 26 so yea, look forward to that. Anyways, thanks for reviewing and reading!
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