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CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: YUKI AND JELLAL

"There's the intruders!" The guards yelled as they charged at them. Snow and Erza attack them easily, knocking them out.

"Erza! Snow!" The team exclaimed, sighing in relief.

"Why are you guys here?" Snow asked.

"Because..." Lucy started to say.

Juvia starts to back up. "Juvia will..."

"Go back!" Erza shouted. "This is not a place for you!"

"Don't say that, Erza! If we leave then we'll be ruining Fairy Tail's name! Plus, I need to pay a visit to Yuki." Natsu said.

"Yuki?" Snow questioned.

"Just go back." Erza ordered.

"Happy and Genie have been kidnapped! Do you really think I would leave them both behind?!" Natsu asked.

"Genie? He's gone?! You should've looked after him, Natsu!" Snow shouted, grabbing onto his collar.

"He's your partner, not mine!" Natsu shouted back.

"Happy and Genie? Millianna must have..." Erza said to herself.

"Where are they?" Natsu asked.

"I don't know." Erza responded.

"Happy and Genie! Don't worry I'm coming!" Natsu said, sprinting out of the room.

"Sheesh..." Snow muttered.

"We're coming with you!" Lucy said.

"No!" Erza said as she holds up her sword. "Millianna loves cats above all else. She wouldn't harm them. Snow and I will bring them both back. You two are going to leave." Erza told them.

"Why does Snow get to stay?" Gray asked.

"He has a reason too. He has bad memories here as well." Erza replied.

"We're not leaving without you guys!" Lucy informed.

"Erza has her own problems and I have mine." Snow told them. "We don't want to drag you into it." Erza nodded in agreement.

"Little bit late for that." Gray said. "You saw how Natsu took off."

"Erza... what is this tower? And who are Yuki and Jellal?" Lucy asked. She doesn't get a response from Snow or Erza. "If you guys don't want to tell us that's okay. But Yuki was your brother, right Snow? And the people who brought you back were your old friends, right Erza? But you guys have us. We'll be here no matter what!"

"She explained it." Gray said.

Erza sighed. "You want to tell your story first or should I?" Erza asked Snow.

"I will." Snow replied, walking up to them. "Yuki isn't just my brother. He's my identical twin."

"Wha...?" Gray and Lucy both said in shock.

"Why didn't you tell us this before?" Lucy asked.

"I didn't think it really mattered. I thought he died so I didn't tell anyone except Genie." Snow replied, continuing on with the story.

"Anyway, this is called the Tower of Heaven or the R-System, but before I get to that story let me explain beforehand before the child hunt and the promise I made to Yuki..." Snow said.

Past...

A younger Yuki rushed up to a younger Snow as he was crying. "What's wrong, Yuki?" Snow asked, holding his brother close to him.

"Mommy and Daddy are fighting again. Daddy is hitting Mommy." Yuki replied, sobbing.

"Shut up, you slut!" Came a voice from the living room followed by a crash.

"Don't worry, Yuki. I'll always be here to protect you." Snow said.

"You promise?"

"I promise."

Present...

Gray and Lucy stared in shock.

"My parents were always fighting. My old man abused my mother and Yuki was always the scared one. I guess you can say I was the strong one. I was always there for him and protected him while our parents were arguing." Snow continued.

"So, how did you get here?" Lucy asked.

"The child hunt..." Snow replied.

Past...

Houses were burning up in flames. In fact, the whole village was burning.

"Slaughter the adults and take the children!" A child hunter shouted.

"Yuki! Where are you?" Snow shouted.

"I'm right here!" Yuki shouted back. He was under a piece of wood.

Snow lifted the wood up and grabbed onto Yuki, carefully setting the wood back down. "Where are Mom and Dad?" Snow asked.

"They got killed... I saw them get slaughterd by those evil men..." Yuki replied, sobbing.

"Don't cry, Yuki... We might get found out." Snow said, wiping his tear.

"I think I hear a child crying!" A child hunter said as they rush over to where Snow and Yuki were.

"We need to run!" Snow said, grabbing Yuki's hand as they started running.

The child hunters finally caught up to Snow and Yuki, pinning them down.

Present...

"And then there was the building of the Tower of Heaven." Snow said.

Past...

"Come on, work! The R-System needs to be completed!" A guard ordered.

"I can't do this anymore!" Yuki said, sobbing into his hands.

"It's all right. Don't cry. You know I hate it when you cry." Snow said, hugging his brother.

"Why are they doing this to us? They slaughtered our parents and burned our village." Yuki said, still crying.

"I will always be here for you, Yuki. I'll protect you." Snow said.

"You promise?"

"I promise..."

Present...

"And that's basically it." Snow said, finishing his story. Erza then told hers which left Gray and Lucy in shock.

"I need to fight Jellal." Erza said.

"And I need to knock some sense into my brother." Snow said, sighing.

"Wait. So Snow, you made a promise to protect your brother and then you escaped and left him behind?" Gray asked.

"Yes, that's why he hates me." Snow replied.

"Wait, I'm confused on Erza's story. Wasn't Jellal the traitor and not you?" Lucy asked.

"He must've brainwashed them when I left." Erza replied.

"But you were trying to let them have their freedom." Lucy argued. "And yet..."

"It doesn't matter now, Lucy." Erza replied.

"Wh-What is with that story, Sister?" Sho asked, coming up to them. "Are you telling your friends false lies? The truth was nothing like that." Sho said. "You blew up our boats and escaped on your own. We would have died if it wasn't for Jellal. He said that this is the fate of people who can't use magic the right way. He said you got obsessed with magic and that you never wanted to help us!"

"He really said that?" Gray said.

"Why would Erza do something like that?" Lucy asked.

"Why would you know about it? I lived on Jellal's words. I spent eight years finishing the tower because of Jellal! You're saying that it was all a lie? That you were right and he was wrong?" Sho asked.

"That's correct." A voice said. Simon walks over to them with Yuki right behind him.

"It's you!" Gray growled.

"Wait, Gray-sama!" Juvia said, stopping him. "He knew he was attacking your double back at the casino."

"Huh?!" Gray said, confused.

"As a dark spell wizard, I'm pretty sure he saw everything clearly." Juvia explained. "That's why Juvia came with you."

"That's right." Simon said, nodding in agreement.

"What does this mean?" Sho asked.

"Sho... I didn't bring everyone in this tower for no reason." Simon said.

"Why would you?" Sho started to say.

"Jellal has everyone fooled Sho. Even I was playing along." Simon explained.

"You were..."

"I always had faith in you, Erza." Simon said to her.

"Simon..." Erza said, hugging him.

"How could everyone have so much faith in you, Sister?" Sho said, crying. "Why didn't I have faith in you?" Sho slammed his fist onto the ground. "Who should I believe in?"

Erza kneels down. "Over the past eight years, I never forgot any of you. I'm sorry that I was weak..." Erza said, hugging him.

"But now you're strong enough, right?" Simon asked. Erza nodded. "I have been waiting for this moment... For powerful wizards to come."

Yuki scofffed. "If you guys think that you can defeat Jellal then you have another thing coming. Of course, I'm always loyal to him." Yuki said as he walked out of the room.

"Powerful wizards?" Lucy asked, confused.

"We're going to defeat Jellal... By working together." Simon responded. They all nodded in agreement. "But first we need to find the Salamander before he finds the others."

A/N: There you go!

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~Kyle