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Chapter 8 is out, I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: Fairy tail belongs to Hiro senpai, if it belonged to me, Jerza would def have more moments together!

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Chapter 8: Friendship

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Two days passed and Erza woke up feeling just fine and was now taking breakfast with Lucy.

"Are you sure you can go to school today? I mean, you did have a high fever not long ago." Lucy stated, worried about her friend.

"I'm fine, I promise." Erza assured. "Besides, today we have a Math test, exams are finally here so I can't really skip school you know."

Lucy yawned tired, she didn't know if she was ready to take this exam and thought that only Erza and 2 or 3 more people would be able to have a good grade on this one, she was better at Astronomy,but yes… they didn't have it anymore as a subject, how lame.

"Tomorrow we have Science… and in two days we will have English and Physics on the same day. Leaving us with Geometry in four days." Erza mumbled to herself.

"Wait, we have two tests on the same day? That should totally be illegal!" Lucy exclaimed, feeling betrayed by the world for some reason.

Erza was snapped out of her thoughts and chuckled at her friend, the read head put an arm around her funny friend saying. "C'mon, don't be insecure, you are pretty good at English and I can help you with Physics, even though you are not that bad at it either." She winked at her friend, pulling her out of their dorm.

Lucy grinned at her friend and happily followed her to school, feeling more confident now.

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As soon as they got there, they could see people gathered around something, or someone, at the entrance of their school.

"Erza, do you hear that? It seems like someone is fighting someone for me." Lucy frowned as they approached, they could hear everyone murmuring but couldn't make out what they were saying, even though they didn't need to, it wasn't the first time this happened after all.

Lucy glanced over Erza and saw her frowning and fastening the pace.

"Erza, what are you going to do now?" The blonde girl was trying to keep the pace, but was hesitant to decide if to follow her or not. She knew Erza could deal with whatever that was.

Erza was passing through the crowed people and could hear someone's voice clearer as she approached.

"What did you say?"

The student council president recognized this voice, it was Natsu. The red haired girl then heard a sound like someone punching someone and finally passed through the curious students, spotting the scene occuring in front of her school.

Natsu was on the left side, with Gray just behind with his arms crossed. At the right side was a Blond spiky haired guy, she knew this guy, it was Sting from Sabertooth High school, he was on the ground after being punched by what seemed, Natsu. Beside Sting was Rogue, a black haired guy with red eyes that was always with Sting, his hair was mostly brushed to the right side, covering his right eye.

Before Rogue could launch at Natsu, Erza stepped in the middle of the two groups and shouted. "What's going on here?"

Sting got up on his feet, blood slowly going down the right side of his mouth. "If it isn't Tittania…" He declared. "I didn't know you had such delinquent friends."

"Shut up." Natsu muttered.

Erza frowned, she didn't know what happened but it was rare for her to see Natsu so angry.

The girl could see the four of them had some bruises here and there, insinuating they all fought earlier.

"What are you doing at the entrance of our school?" Erza asked, crossing her arms, now turning to face Sting and Rogue.

"We were just passing by... or is this street named Fairy Tail now?" Sting poisoned.

"Your friend saw us and suddenly started hissing at us." This time, Rogue was the one doing the explanation, his face calm. "We couldn't leave him and do nothing, then when we all got into an argument. He mustn't like to hear the truth… I see violence is the way your school show its resolve, like always." He spat.

Erza's eyes blazed with annoyance, her fists clenched and she looked at Natsu asking for an explanation on why did they fight people from another school, creating an already hard situation for them. She could see Lucy was now there as well, behind Natsu and Gray, with some other students. Ultear and Jellal were also there, as well as lots of others surounding them and just staring, waiting for whatever they were waiting for.

Natsu flinched at Erza's fiery stare but nonetheless backed up, he tried explaining to Erza as fast and firm as he could, without getting much information out, since Lucy was there too. He recalled what happened on his head before talking to his red haired friend.

"Oi, Rogue look who it is, Fairy Natsu and his gay friend." Sting smirked when he spotted Natsu and Gray about to go inside their school.

"You want to tell me something princess? Or do you want a kiss, perhaps?" Gray hissed, turning with Natsu to face the two other.

Sting frowned, his eyes showing nothing but hatred at what Gray implied, he then took some steps forward, getting now only 1 meter of distance from them and muttered. "You are disgusting."

"Gray, let's not waste our time with this guys, remember we are not supposed to fight." Natsu tried to calm down, pulling Gray with him.

Gray's eye brow quirked up at this, confused at his sudden action. - Natsu avoiding fighting? That was new. -

"Yes, go inside and take some clothes for your friend to wear. Or maybe that's just how this school works? Even that blonde haired girl friend of yours is always wearing so little, maybe one day we should test if she really deserves to dress like that." Sting continued, provoking them. He knew pretty well what he just insinuated, but that was exactly what he wanted.

Suddenly Natsu glared at him and punched him hard, getting blood out from his mouth. Rogue tried to punch Natsu for what he did but Gray got ahead of him and punched him instead, on his stomach.

The group of four people were suddenly fighting and people started to gather around them. Natsu and Gray sensing this wasn't good for them, started to calm down and continued by just speaking instead, but when Sting said something awful again, Natsu punched him again, at the same exact spot as his first punch.

Natsu shook his head, he couldn't possibly tell Erza exactly what happened, not with everyone here to hear, so he just tried the best he could. "They started it." He stated. Yes, that was the best he could.

Erza stared into Natsu's eyes, thinking that this stupid guy had to know that that wasn't really an explanation, she discarded her feeling of punching him right now and thought that this wasn't like him at all so she would try to talk to him about it, later. The red haired girl glanced over Sting and Rogue and meditated on what to do. It was hard to think when she herself didn't even know what happened. Besides, the best thing to do was to not provoke them more or they would create a commotion at their school, giving Fairy High a bad reputation and creating maybe a School wars, even though they already kind of had both.

"Not even an explanation you have uh? Because you know you did wrong." Sting insinuated. "I think we are done here then, I won't say anything about this so don't worry, just punish them as they deserve." Sting winked at Erza before starting to leave with Rogue.

Erza glanced back at Natsu, his head was lowered and his fists were clenched, she could feel he was still angry, and not because of the punishment comment, but because of what happened before between them, if he wasn't saying anything, was most likely for her sake.

"Wait." Erza muttered, getting all the attention on her.

Sting and Rogue paused on their tracks and glanced over the scarlet head, waiting for what she could possibly want from them, they were probably expecting an apology.

"Who said I was going to punish them?" Erza snapped, clenching her fists. She stared at the two Sabertooth students with her known fiery eyes.

Erza knew she should've just ignore them and do as they said so they wouldn't have any trouble but, she couldn't just ignore Natsu's feelings. The girl knew a good president would maybe just do what they supposed to and that what she was doing right now was stupid, but…

Sting and Rogue looked at her confused, asking for more explanation.

"Natsu can be very irresponsible and impulsive… but he isn't a liar." She stated, angry. "If he says you started it, then I believe in him."

Natsu raised his head, his eyes wide… "I won't ask you what you did to deserve your beating because I know you will come up with more lies. What I want to do is… warn you."

Sting and Rogue couldn't believe what they were hearing, Sting opened his mouth to say something but Erza just continued from where she paused.

"If you two come here to hurt one of my friends again, or any student... I will be the one to punch you!" She exclaimed calmly but surely.

Sting could feel her fiery calm eyes on him and his friend, he wanted to say something, anything, but couldn't. He didn't dare to… Her eyes were intimidating.

"You… This won't end like this." Rogue said, unsure. Sting could see he was also intimidated just like him, and hell he didn't blame him.

They both walked away quickly and Erza sighed in relief, not really regretting what she did but afraid that if they said something more she could actually punch them right there.

Fairy High was known to get into fights with other schools, true… But Erza was cautious everytime they did, and more with certain schools like Sabertooth. They had one troublemaker hell of a council president there, her name was Minerva and she knew that girl didn't play clean.

"Erza, are you sure about this?" Gray asked, unsure.

"Nope, but what's done is done." She answered, shacking her head.

"I love you ERZAAA!" Natsu shouted, trying to hug Erza, only to get punched by an embarrassed red haired girl. "Shut up. Let's go, we have a test." She said, walking away, Natsu happily following with Gray and Lucy just behind.

Everyone was walking inside the school, going to their respective classes.

Jellal and Ultear were the only ones left, they were waiting for a certain pink haired girl to arrive when all that occurred.

"So… who were those guys?" Jellal asked out of boredom as usual, he was leaning against the wall, his arms crossed.

"The guys from the other school? The blond one is Sting and the black haired one is Rogue. They are both from Sabertooth High School. If you ask me why they were here I would say they like trouble. They always tend to come by to 'talk' to Natsu and Gajeel, another student from class A." Ultear explained the best she could. "I think they just don't get along with each other."

"I see… only because of that uh..." He said, more like to himself. He could feel this wouldn't end here, not only because that guy said it.

And now not only Natsu or Gajeel were involved, they all were.

"It's going to be okay, this is always happening." Ultear reassured.

Jellal raised an eyebrow at her comment. "What do you mean this is always happening?"

Ultear giggled with an evil grin on her face, recalling all the times they were in a conflict with another school. "Fairy High is famous for that, we always get into fights with another schools, well… I shouldn't say 'we'.. It's always involving Erza, Natsu, Gray and Lucy somehow… more than others." She affirmed smirking. "At the competitions every year it's really hard because we have so many enemies." She laughed, how is this funny? "But we also have some neutral or friendly schools, like 'Blue Pegasus' or 'Lamia Scale'."

Jellal sighed, he somehow wasn't really looking foward to these club tournaments, which was in a month, he was happy he didn't get into any club. "I'm happy I didn't get into any club." He jblurted out his thoughts.

"I really wanted to get into Jujutsu and help Erza a little but, I'm so busy with all the council activities." Ultear mumbled.

"Isn't the president also busy with it? Why on earth did she get into a club?" The blue haired boy asked, curious.

"That girl is not from the same world as the rest of us." She simply replied. "She isn't even into only one club, she also is at kendo club." She added.

Jellal sweat dropped at this. She is even more stupid than I thought, now I understand why she's never around, plus why she gets sick.

Ultear could see Jellal's unbelief expression, she didn't blame him, it was hard to believe, or more like hard to accept.

"So…" The black haired girl changed the subject, recalling something. "Why were you smiling earlier like a proud moma?" She smirked, recalling how she spotted him smiling over what Erza was saying at Sting and Rogue.

Jellal flinched at her question, not really getting what she was saying, he didn't remember about him smiling.

He thought about what earlier could mean, the only possibility was when that confrontation happened, and he recalled how annoyed he was at Sting since Jellal and Ultear heard them from the very beginning.

When Sting commented about Lucy, Jellal frowned, feeling annoyed at the comment. They probably didn't see them and were confident no one was listening.

He saw how Natsu and Gray defended their friends and how they fought, he knew he or Ultear didn't have to do anything because they were obviously winning.

As soon as Erza appeared later on, he could hear how those two were lying about what happened before and how the red haired girl was hesitant. He thought that when they were both leaving he would have to interfere because this wasn't right in his eyes, the president had to know what really happened, she couldn't really leave her friends feeling like that. But at the same time he assumed she as the president wouldn't do a thing because she didn't want to create an commotion to Fairy Tail, but even so.. He wanted for her to just…

He didn't have to continue his thinking though, Jellal saw how Erza snapped and defended Natsu, not only that she told them what they deserved without creating too much of a commotion.

He smiled at her actions… - This girl really… - He didn't even know why he was so proud and satisfied with it, but he was.

He remembered, Jellal knew now what she was talking about.

Her smirk widened when she saw Jellal's cheeks going slightly red with embarrassment. "You know, I never saw you smiling like that before, I was really surprised."

"Shut up." He whispered, feeling nervous, he didn't think anyone would see it. "What's wrong with it? I just felt satisfied with the result of what happened." He tried explaining, without giving her too much to think about.

"Yes, ok, let's just say that was the reason." Ultear smiled knowing he wouldn't tell her what he really thinks anyway, but she was sure something was going on here. "Look, Meredy is finally coming." She added, as she spotted the girl running towards them.

Jellal felt his body relax at the sight of their friend, thanking Meredy in his head, he moved from the wall and they all started walking inside, after an apology from Meredy. "Sorry, my parents talk a lot." That was her excuse.

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AN: This was the end of chapter 8, I hope you enjoy and review if you like the story so far, or even if you don't :) Just leave your thinking below ;D