SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 14 out, this is Chapter 15 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 15: Destiny

"Gray Fullbuster…" Simon mused. "You are much stronger than our reports indicated."

"Idiot." Ulyo scolded, catching the exhausted ice mage before he collapsed.

"I have to hurry up…" Gray panted. "And find Erza."

"No, the strong feelings for his friend must have enhanced his magical power." Simon corrected himself, Gray having fainted in Ulyo's arms.

"Natsu, open your eyes!" Happy tried to shake Natsu awake.

"It's a fine Guild you've joined, Erza." Simon smiled.

"Happy," Ulyo instructed. "Get Gray out of the tower. No ands, ifs or buts." She cut off the Exceed's pending protest. "If my hunch is correct, then even Jellal is a pawn in all of this."

"Ulyo, what do you mean?" Simon was puzzled.

"That voice from the throne room, was it really Zeref?" Ulyo questioned. "The closer we get to the throne room, the nostalgic feeling I get becomes stronger. It's as if… I know this person… no…" she clenched her fist. "I'm sure it's that person!"

"That person?" Happy echoed.

"That's right." Ulyo nodded. "The only living person who shares the same blood as I; my older sister, Ultear."

"Huh?" Natsu stirred.

"Finally opened your eyes, Natsu?" Simon noted.

"I remember being caught up in some weird vehicle…" Natsu mused.

"After you were devoured by Fukuro, Gray came and saved you." Ulyo explained. "But the idiot took quite a lot of damage."

"You're so heavy…" Happy whined, Gray dangling from his tail. "Gray, diet…"

"Shut up…" the ice mage muttered.

"Happy is carrying him away from here." Ulyo added.

"The ships…" Happy whined, the fleet had already sailed off.

"Look over there…" Gray alerted the Exceed.

"I found a boat." Happy beamed.

"It's the one we used to get here." Gray supplied.

"I can't believe this!" Natsu whined. "I lost and Gray won? He's gonna lord this one over me for at least a month! He doesn't know when to let up!"

"This is not the time for that!" Ulyo snapped, knowing what Natsu was thinking.

"Listen carefully the two of you." Simon voiced. "Wally sent me a message. He found Lucy and Juvia collapsed on the floor, along with a defeated Trinity Raven. They don't know the details of what happened. But they've agreed to carry your friends out of the tower. And I've been contacted by Shô, confirming that all three Trinity Raven have been defeated."

"That means only Jellal is left." Ulyo mused.

"Yes, and Erza is heading for him." Simon verified. "She's trying to handle things all by herself. Those two have been trapped in a twist of fate for eight long years. It's their destiny to end up fighting each other. However, Jellal is not that simple. I beg of you… save Erza."

"No way." Natsu rejected outright.

"Damn it…" Gray cursed as the boat left the shore. "Turn the boat around."

"I can't do that." Wally protested.

"We were told to get as far away from here as possible." Milliana added.

"But Erza is still in there." Lucy reminded. "Ulyo and Natsu, too!"

"Nee-san will be fine." Shô assured. "I trust her."

"I can't just leave her and Ulyo to Natsu." Gray stated.

"There's no choice." Wally voiced. "Simon is with them. They will figure something out."

"Be quiet!" Happy roared, silencing everyone. "What's with you all? I want to go back too! But it truly is pointless. Aetherion will fire anytime now. I believe that Natsu and Ulyo will bring Erza back. Simon told me so."

"Damn you!" Simon glared. "Are you saying that you're going to abandon Erza, your friend?"

"Erza need to settle things with her enemy, herself." Natsu defended. "It's not something I should stick my nose into."

"No," Simon corrected. "Erza cannot win against Jellal. It's not sheer power or magic I'm talking about here. Erza… even now, she's still trying to save Jellal. I know… she'd never be able to make herself hate him. Jellal is extremely cunning. He will manipulate those feelings of hers. And that's not the worst of it. You do know the Council is going to discharge Aetherion on this place, right? If that happens, everyone in this tower will be obliterated. According to Shô, we have less than 10 minutes."

"She went to fight him alone after telling the rest of evacuate." Ulyo supplied. "The both of us know what she's up to, right? She has no intention of surviving this; she's using the Aetherion to kill both Jellal and herself."

"Why didn't you tell me that in the first place?" Natsu snapped. "Where's Erza?"

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