Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Erza's POV
"RAAHH!" Kanji slammed his arms into the ground and shattered the crystals around him.
I've never seen him like this before, it's terrifying. And that scar, was that always there?
Kanji's POV
"Ugh." I grabbed at my chest as it pulsed.
Crap. This is the first time I've used the Dragon Slayer Lacrima in years, I'm pushing it too hard too soon. I need to discharge some of the power.
I let off a bolt and it split the sky with the power it held.
Perfect, realigned my charge.
"Jellal!" I ran forward and kneed the man in the face "You did this!" I grabbed him and threw him through the floor "You made Erza cry! You did something I can never forgive!"
"Shut up!" Jellal teleported behind me to avoid the ground.
"I'm as fast as lightning!" I said changing into energy and jumping after him.
"Demolition Fist!" I sent Jellal flying back with a single punch.
"You can't defeat me! I'm the one who will create a land of freedom! Zeref called out to me in my darkest hour, he promised me true freedom. I'm the only one who can hear his voice, I'm the chosen one! Together with Zeref I will create a world of true freedom!" Jellal stated angrily.
"What a load of crap! Create freedom by destroying freedom, Ha!"
"I will usher in a new era! Just wait and see!" Jellal drew the magic circle for Abyss Break.
The fool will destroy his own tower like that.
"What are you doing you'll destroy the tower you worked to create." Erza told him.
"Just give me another eight years. Now this time I'll do it in four. Just wait a little longer Lord Zeref!"
He's lost it.
Jellal clutched at his side in pain.
Time to end this, what a waste of time this fight was.
I jumped into the air after Jellal "I have no time for the ramblings of a deranged man!" I jolted behind Jellal "Now shut up!"
I put my hands together above my head "Dragon Slayer Secret Art: Lightning Dragon's Storm Crush!" I slammed my fist in to Jellal head and sent him crashing through his precious tower.
I should have killed you…but then I'd be no better than you.
I fell to the ground rather gently. I got my footing and went towards Natsu and Erza.
"What was that?!" Natsu yelled "Since when are you a Dragon Slayer! I have so many questions!"
"You're giving me a headache." I slammed my fist into his head.
Natsu groaned and fell to the ground out cold.
"Whoops." I shrugged.
"That was incredible." Erza said.
"Sorry for lying to you all this time." I told her "It was something I wanted to keep to myself, part of me still does. Maybe I can convince Natsu that part was a dream?"
"You can tell him whenever you want." Erza told me, she put a hand to my face and touched my scar "This doesn't look new?"
"It's always been there. I'm just good at keeping it hidden." I told her.
"I like it, it gives you some character." She laughed.
I'm so tired…
"Yeah…" I slumped forward unable to finish my sentence.
"Kanji!"
LATER
What the hell is all this noise? Sounds like something's exploding.
"Gah!"
Erza?
I slowly managed to open my eyes and I was faced to face with a sleeping Natsu and a bunch of crystals that were molding and changing shape. I scanned the area around me and found Erza forcing her arm into the lacrima.
What the hell is she doing?
"Erza?"
"Kanji?!"
"What are you doing, get your arm away from that thing." I told her as I tried to sit up.
"This is the only way to stop the Etherion."
So that's why the tower's melting like this. There's too much energy.
"If I fuse with the tower I can take the power and redirect it."
NO!
"If you do that you'll…!"
"GAH!" The lacrima started pulling Erza in more and more.
"Erza!" I started getting my weak body off the ground and crawling my way to Erza.
"Don't worry I can stop this."
"Erza don't!"
Please stop…
I got close and Erza put her hand on my face "I can't imagine a world without you in it. You've always been there for me, ever since we first met. You'll never know how much you really mean to me."
"no…stop…please…" I felt the tears pouring out of my eyes "we still have so much to do…"
Erza started slipping further away from me.
I still haven't gotten to ask you yet. You can't leave me!
"I love you."
And just like that she slipped away into the lacrima.
"no…no…nonononononono. NO! Erza come back!"
I sat there like a fool slamming my hands into the wall keeping me from Erza but I didn't have the strength to break it.
"ERZAAAAA!"
And like that, the Tower of Heaven was wiped off the map.
Harver's POV
"Next time you ask me for a ride don't bring me into the rubble of the trashed council building." I grumbled to the woman riding on my bird.
"I'm sure you had no trouble. And why are we riding this nasty toucan? I much prefer the swan, it suits me more." Ultear commented.
"I'm not saying I had trouble. But jeez be more careful with you rendezvous points. And Athena is not 'nasty', Aphrodite isn't big enough to carry the two of us."
"It's no matter, land there." She instructed "We have a call to make."
I landed and she took out a communication lacrima and made a call.
"Master Hades hello."
She explained her master plan and how it had played out for Master.
"What became of Jellal?" Hades asked.
"He was still alive when I left." I told him "But when I was flying away the tower exploded so who knows?"
"It's hard to believe after all that time Jellal never once realized I was the ghost of Zeref." Ultear smiled.
"It's not nice to play with a man's emotions like that." I told her.
"Says the man who came running at the mere sight of my hand writing." Ultear joked.
"I only came because you told me the tower was going to be destroyed. I didn't come to see you!"
"Let get going, time to get back to the airship. And is it wrong for me to think you came for me." Ultear instructed with a smile.
"You know Meredy is never this rude to me. She'd say how I'm a great big brother and that I always do nice things for her."
"She's a young girl you shouldn't play with her emotions like that. What if she fell in love with you?"
"What! She's like half my age. Besides I already have somebody and you know that. Meredy is like a sister to me I'd never look at her that way." I said climbing back on Athena.
"I'm sure your beloved would be crushed to find out you moved from her to a young girl ten years younger than you." She said as I helped her on.
"Can we stop talking about this please?"
"It's just that Meredy will be at that age soon. She's growing up so fast, soon she'll be looking at boys and…and, Ahh I can't bear to think about it!" Ultear droned on and on.
"Someone shoot me." I deadpanned.
Kanji's POV
I sloshed my way through the water carrying Natsu and Erza.
What the hell happened back there? Erza got spit out and then the tower exploded. I was lucky to get a strong shield up in time to save all of us.
I stopped dragging Natsu and let him fall to shallow part of the water and moved Erza from over my shoulder to carrying her princess style. I came to a stop, still holding Erza and saw everyone else wasn't far behind the two of us.
"Erza!" they all yelled happy to see that she was okay.
"Where am I?" Erza said looking at her hands "I…I'm alive?" she finally looked at me "Did you, but how?
I fell to my knees in the shallow end of the water "I feel the same about you. I love you" I told her.
She just smiled.
"Please promise never to do something like that again." I asked her "Promise!"
She just shook her head.
I reached into my pocket.
Good it's still there.
"Erza." I said taking her hand "There's something I have to say. I can't even begin to think about life without you. I want you by my side forever." I told her showing her the ring. The look on her face was so heartwarming I'd never forget it "Erza Scarlet, will you marry me?"
She started crying; only for the first time in a while these were tears of happiness not sadness so I wasn't angry.
"Of course, I can't think of anyone else. I'm so happy you're in my life." She said placing her forehead against mine.
"Me too." I said slipping the ring onto her finger and giving her a kiss "We're certainly gonna have a lot to do when we get home huh?"
"Yeah, our lives are gonna get pretty complicated."
"You wanna tell these bums?" I joked "Or do we make them wait like the others back in Magnolia?"
"They're our friends, we should be honest with them." She said turning around to greet everyone.
LATER
The next day I spent most of it lying around in bed. I may have beaten Jellal but that didn't mean he didn't leave a few marks. The scar on my eye wasn't going away. Everyone tried to ask how I got it but I brushed them off. Erza kept saying I need to tell them but I wanted a little more time. My fiancée, feels weird to say that, was willing to allow it.
"Can someone explain why you're all in our room?" I asked sitting up in bed "Wait you're not all here, where'd your girlfriend go Gray?"
"She's not my girlfriend!" He yelled "She left already, wanted to get a head start on joining Fairy Tail and headed off to talk with Master."
"I'm sick of sitting around; I'm going for a walk on the beach." I told them "would you like to come, Erza?"
"Sounds like fun."
Erza and I headed outside to take a walk outside. It was nice just walking hand in hand like this, no one to bother us. About halfway down the beach we came across Erza's friends from the tower.
"Hello." I said politely.
"Hey." Sho said.
"Hi Erza." The block guy said. I think I remember Erza saying his name was Wally.
"Hi!" the girl with the cat ears remarked. I think her name is Millianna.
They were all acting odd.
*sigh* "What's wrong?" Erza asked.
"Yeah, Uhh so…We're sorry Erza." Wally told her.
"Sorry." The cat girl added.
"Stop." Erza told them "I'm the one who didn't act for eight years. I owe you the apology."
"No you were being threatened by Jellal you had no choice." Sho said.
"I won't fall back on excuses." Erza told them "If I had acted sooner than Simon…"
Don't think like that.
"Simon was a real man!" The block man told her "I mean you should know he always lo…"
"Wally shut up!" Millianna told him "That her fiancée."
"It's fine." I told them "I already knew."
"I understand how it must have felt to have me leave you behind." Erza told them "But now we have to move forward to the future Simon left us."
"What are we gonna do now?" Millianna asked.
"If you unsure you can always come to Fairy Tail." Erza told them "I'm sure you'd be welcome."
"Maybe Erza's right. Fairy Tail certainly has a way of expressing the freedom you were after. You'd probably like it there." I told them
They seemed excited by the idea and we headed back to the hotel to introduce them to everyone else. Right before we started walking Erza turned around and looked out to sea before taking my hand and going back inside.
LATER
The rest of the night was spent eating or in my case taking a nap. I was barely awake when Erza came into the room.
"Have you seen Sho and the others?"
"No I've been asleep, weren't they staying down the hall?" I asked "Just go knock."
"I did they weren't there." She said.
"That's odd. They don't seem like the type to run off without a word. You wanna go look for them."
"Go tell Natsu and Gray to get the fireworks ready." She said walking out of the room.
Ahh. I see. she's going to cry again tonight.
I went and got Natsu, Gray, and Lucy and told them what Erza wanted us to do. We got set up on the top of the beach and waited for Erza's signal. When she put her spear in the air we began.
"Alright!" I slapped my hand together and shot some small bolts into the air and lit up the sky alongside some other spells.
It was nice to meet people who care so much about Erza. I think we'll meet again someday; you'll see. I guess it time for us to go home.
AN
Thank you for reading. Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns.
Since Meredy has no age listed anywhere I looked (i.e. the wiki) I just said she was 12, like Wendy.
Till Next Time!