Before going to Tendrou Island, Jellal wanted to figure out a safer way to get to the book because Tendrou Island was one extremely dangerous land. He had heard that a woman, a storyteller knew plenty of information about places like Tendrou Island and went to question her.

She was in the square of a town telling stories to a group of people who were becoming fascinated by each word she spoke. She was a very beautiful and fair young woman wearing a flowing dress of yellow and peach with bits of seashells in her blue hair. When her story finished the audience tossed coins her way which she collected into her pouch.

When everyone left Jellal approached the young woman.

"Excuse me but are you the storyteller?" He asked her. "Are you Levy?"

"I am. What can I do for you Commodore Fernandes?"

"You know me?"

"I've seen you and your militia a couple times when visiting the city."

"I see. I do apologise for disturbing you but I'm seeking information regarding an island that I have been told that you know about. I'm planning a journey to said island."

"What island is that?"

"Tendrou Island."

"Why on Earth would you go to that God forsaken island?"

"A pirate crew is headed there and they've taken the governor's daughter as their prisoner. I am under strict orders to hunt them down and retrieve her."

"You're sure to fail. No human has ever gone to Tendrou Island and come back...alive."

"From what I hear you've been to the island."

"I have."

"You're still alive aren't you? You went to the island and came back."

"I never said that I was human."

Jellal stepped back from her a little bit when she said those words. He had heard many legends of mysterious creatures who passed themselves off as human beings but he was always skeptical about them.

"What are you?" He cautiously put his hand over his musket.

"You don't have to pull out your gun, I am not a monster and unlike many of my kind I bear no ill will toward humanity. To the contrary I prefer to live among them rather than my own kind."

"Why is that?"

"I don't know. It's just how I am now what is it that you want me to tell you about Tendrou Island?"

"Are there any safe routes on that island? Any at all?"

"No. That island was created to specifically be a death trap so no one would be able to get their hands on the evil treasure it holds."

"The book of E.N.D."

"So you know of that cursed book?"

"I've seen it only once but I know that it's very real. Miss we do not seek the book we only want to rescue an innocent woman and return her to her father."

"Hmm..." Levy thought for a moment. "If you're telling the truth then perhaps you will have a chance. The island's purpose is to destroy anyone who seeks to steal the book of E.N.D but my cousins the sirens once told me that those who go there for a much nobler purpose say to rescue an innocent will be spared from the island's wrath."

"Is that a fact?"

"I don't know. Sirens aren't exactly the most honest creatures but I believe that someone like you may have a chance. Let me see your hand."

He held out his hand to her, she took hold of it and ran her fingers up his palm.

"You're not just going after them to save a prisoner of theirs."

"Yes I am."

"Yes it's one reason why you've taken this journey but there's another reason isn't there?" Her fingers went further down his palm, feeling his true emotions. "You're hunting them out of vengeance but I sense these pirates have done you no wrong and that you blame them for the mistakes of others."

Jellal jerked his hand away from her.

"Revenge is a foolish goal commodore, even more so when it's targeted at the wrong people."

"With all due respect ma'am my feelings are none of your concern."

"You're right they're not but I warn you, a person that gives into anger and hatred end up destroying themselves."

"I came to you to find out if there was a safe route on Tendrou Island, you gave me the information I need so thank you but don't pry into my personal business."

He turned and started to walk away.

"She might be alive you know." Levy said.

Jellal stopped.

"What?"

"The little girl you thought had been killed years ago, the one who's supposed death sparked your hatred toward pirates, she could still be alive."

Jellal turned around and looked back her, his green eyes full of disbelief.

"Erza? She's alive?"

"Possibly."

"Why do you think that?"

She held up a strand of red hair.

"It was on your jacket sleeve. As I sensed your feelings I learned about your history with a little girl with red hair and I sense that this strand of red hair once belonged to a woman who has connection to you."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that the little girl you knew then and the woman you got this strand of hair from may be the same person."

"Don't toy with my emotions, I warn you."

"I mean you no emotional pain and I never confirmed that they were the same person, it's just a theory."

He just stood there, staring at her. Wondering if she could be right and that if he dared hope that Erza could possibly still alive. He opened his mouth as though he was going to say something to her but then he closed his mouth and left, trying to convince himself that the woman was wrong. That his dear friend Erza was lost forever and that there was no way she could possibly still be alive.

Levy's heart pitied the young man, she knew that he had been suffering for a very long time and that he had lost so much. However she also knew that in his heart he was a good man with good intentions. She hoped that he wouldn't let his pain get the better of him because she had seen many men like him give into darkness, resulting in their own demises. Pain and suffering had a way of turning even the most golden of hearts and black.

And being a human was truly the hardest struggle of all because humans are much more emotionally fragile then creatures like her. They are also more prone to give in to anger and revenge however it didn't mean her kind wasn't incapable of knowing great pain, loss, and heartbreak. She herself had her heart broken once a long time ago by a man. A sailor who she loved above everything else in the world but when they had the chance to be together he shattered her dreams.

Little did she know that the man she had loved, the man who had broken her heart, was a part of the pirate crew that Jellal was pursuing. But she would learn this fact, in time she would learn it.