Disclaimer: Fairy tail is owned by Hiring Mashima.
He remembered the day hhe named her like it was yesterday.
The sky was smitten with darkness and there she sat looking at it,knees hugging her chest,rags barely covering her shivering body,hair shining under the stars she was engrossed in.
Sweat and dirt stuck to her form like a second skin and yet he believed her spirit was the brightest of them all.
An exchange of names was transpiring between them and when Shou and Wally turned to her expectantly,she just shook her head and claimed she knew remembered nothing about herself except her name Erza.
And so he went up and touched her flaming red hair and named her Scarlet.
Like a fierce rose blooming in a meadow of darkness.