Chapter 16

Apologies for the super late update… School has started and I literally have no free time. It is all study…study…study… Totally no life… where has my free time gone to?

Even now I'm typing this story as fast as I can because I need to go off soon… T_T

Well…this is the last chapter…So maybe this is goodbye to most of you…TT

Ah…Well I had a sequel for this story…but I am not sure whether I should write it or not…Oh well…I'll you more about the sequel after this chapter… Hope you guys would enjoy it…


It was like it never happened. Like Erza had never suffered any loss… Like he was never gone…

In fact she was smiling more, talking more, eating more, and laughing more.

But they knew better. She was preparing herself… forcing herself to be happy just in case she would never be happy again. Her shattered heart was desperately pretending to be whole.

Her smiles were tears, she talk to cover her cries, her laughs were trembles that wreak her body and she ate to fill her empty heart.

They knew…but they could not do anything…Because she did not want it…She could not want it…She dared not hope anymore…

"Erza…Are you okay?" Lucy asked.

She laughed, "Of course, I never been better."

"Erza…You can cry if you want to…" Happy sniffed.

"Why would I need to cry, silly?" Erza patted Happy's head, to comfort him.

"It has been over one week and there is still no news…Aren't you worried?" Gray asked.

Erza shook her head, "I decided to give it up…I knew from the start that we were never meant to be…This just proves it all…It is over… the Magic Council would never let him go…I already knew it so it is okay."

"Even though you know he is innocent." Lucy whispered.

Erza kept silent.

"GAAAAH! I HAVE ENOUGH! SHOW MORE FEELING DAMN IT! YOU LOVE HIM DON'T YOU?" Natsu shouted as he slammed his hands on the table, glaring at Erza.

"I did…" Erza whispered.

"You did?" Gray cocked a brow.

"Yes…So don't worry guys…I am fine." Erza smiled weakly.

"Then why are you crying?" Natsu asked flatly.

Erza eyes widened as she raised her hands to touch her wet face.

"I…I…" Erza stuttered as more tears flowed out from her eyes.

"Erza, we are your friends…Please don't hide your feelings from us…It is hurting us too…" Lucy hugged Erza as she stroke Erza's scarlet hair.

Erza burrowed her head into Lucy's neck as she cried for the first time since he was gone…


Three days passed in silence, Erza had moved temporary to Lucy's house. Her room gave her too many memories of him and she cannot take it any longer. Everyone in the guild was worried, for Erza had return to her young self, quiet and anti-social…maybe even worse. She no longer eat with them, she no longer smile, she even stopped eating anything sweet.

"Erza… you have gotten thinner…You should eat something." Mirajane set down a plate of food in front of her.

Erza nodded weakly, "Thanks…"

She picked up the fork and pock her food but never ate it.

Everyone in the guild sighed.

Natsu motioned everyone to gather and when they gathered he whispered in a low husky voice, "We need to save Jellal."

"You mean break him out of prison?" Gray asked flatly.

"No! We are not! He is innocent so we are saving him." Natsu shot back.

"Okay…but how?" Lucy asked.

"Erm… we just go in and beat the living crap out of all of them and save him?"

"…" Everyone stared blankly at Natsu.

"That is ridiculous; do you want all of us to die?" Gray sighed.

"Huh? Then do you have a better plan to make Erza happy? I did all sorts of things to make her happy and she did not smile once! If this continues, our Erza would be no more!"

Everyone in the guild fell silent.

The door of the guild flew open, and Gajeel stormed in. He stared at the silent guild before backing out to check if he had entered the correct guild. He entered the guild cautiously, "Did I miss something?" He asked.

Everybody nodded.

He frowned and walked cautiously to Levy, "What did I miss?"

"When you were out on a job…Erza's boyfriend was taken by the Magic council…" Levi replied with a soft sigh.

"Che, never liked the Magic Council."

Levy sighed.

"So what's the name of the boy?" Gajeel asked as he drank from the counter

"Jellal Fernandes."

Gajeel spat out the drink, "WHAT? ISN'T JELLAL SOME HERO OR SOMETHING?"

Everybody turned to look at him with a weird look on their faces.

"What are you guys staring at me for?"

"What did you just say?" Natsu asked as he moved a little closer to Gajeel.

"Jellal is a hero?"

"Where did you hear it from?" Gray questioned, Gajeel now has everyone's attention, including Erza.

He shifted, clearly uncomfortable at all the attention he was receiving, "When I was on the way back I heard from a bunch of people saying some shit about this Jellal guy fighting this super powerful demon, that even though he was controlled by that demon, because of some love and some shit he defeated the control the stupid demon have on him and he fought the demon with all his strength and he won..."

"…That was not how I remembered…" Natsu muttered, "I thought it was our guild members that defeated her?"

"Oh so it is not true?" Gajeel asked, "Then I'll go beat the living shit outta all of them and tell them to get facts right."

"NO!" They all shouted.

"Erm… okay…"

Makarov strolled into the guild smiling, "I bring fantastic news to all of you."

They all stared at him.

"The Magic council is under heavy pressure by the people and the soldiers to release Jellal."

"You cannot be serious." Erza whispered.

"So where is the genius that spread the rumor?" Makarov asked with a cheery smile.

They all look around, but no one own up.

Makarov raised a brow, "How can it be? Are you sure that none of you spread the rumor?"

"It is not me…" Gray answered.

"Not me either…" Lucy replied.

Everyone in the guild denied spreading the rumor.

"Then who is the one that spread the rumor?" Makarov questioned.


"Ahh…the sky is so blue…" Zeref sighed as he lifted his hands towards the sky.

"Zeref?" A musical voice called out.

Zeref smiled as he got up, "Lilith!"

A girl with beautiful long white hair strolled in, her skin as dark as the night sky, her eyes was like emeralds. Her petite body swayed when the wind blows. Her used to be long tail was gone.

She strolled towards him, "Zeref, it has been a long time."

He hugged her, "Yes it has been a long time…about five hundred years long?"

He sniffed her hair, "I miss you."

She smiled as she hugged him back.

"Zeref…I'm sorry…" She whispered.

He pulled back, "Why do you keep saying sorry every time you meet me?"

"You wished for death…And I made your life worse than death… you cannot die and everything around you dies…" She cried bitterly.

"I'm sorry too…" Zeref caressed her face, "If I did not want death so much, I would never have summoned you…And you would not be suffering like this."

"Don't talk nonsense… I'm glad I met you…I just hate fate… Once you are chosen as a villain, you're a villain, it doesn't matter if your heart is for good and you will just do bad things." She cried, "I want to be a hero…why am I gifted with such disgusting powers?"

Zeref hugged her tightly, "If it hurts you so much…Then don't leave anymore…You can stay with me…I'll be with you forever…Then your curse on me would be a blessing."

She pushed him away, "No. You do not know when I'm unable to control my powers…Look at Mavis! She named her guild after me and what happened? I killed her! How about Hades? He wanted power to improve himself and look at what happened to him? He became a monster! I went to the tower of Babel to save Rob and what happen? He died! I saw Jellal being brainwashed, but instead of saving him, I made the brainwashing power stronger."

"But you helped him in the end." Zeref tried to hold her, but she would not let him.

"It was their love that helped them. My powers would have turned him into a monster if it was not for their love." The Black Fairy replied flatly.

"Still you spread the rumor of Jellal being a hero."

"I brain-washed those humans to make them think that Jellal was a hero, how is that heroic? How about the village that I destroyed? " Lilith forced a smile as she walked away.

"Where are you going?" Zeref called out as he ran after her.

"I'm leaving…I'll hurt you again if I stay too long…" She smiled as she hugged Zeref, giving him a light kiss and she disappeared.

Zeref fell to the ground, "Lilith…if you are a monster…then what am I?"


It took two months for the Magic Council to release Jellal. The Erza and the gang stood outside the magic council, waiting him to come out.

"Why is it taking so long for him to come out?" Natsu grumbled.

"Be patient." Lucy scolded him.

"Hah! Patient and Natsu cannot be together." Gray snorted.

"What did you say, Asshole?" Natsu snapped back as he slammed his head onto Gray.

Erza punched them both, "Quiet!"

A figure slowly emerged from the tower.

"Jellal!" Erza called out as she ran to him, hugging him tightly.

Jellal chuckled, "Calm down Erza."

"I miss you." She hugged him tightly.

He kissed her, "I miss you too."

Lucy blushed at the scene before her, "Shouldn't we give them some privacy."

Natsu looked away from the scene with their face red, "Yea…let's just go."

Gray nodded in agreement.

"Aye…" Happy flew away quickly.

Erza led Jellal to a coffee shop, "You've lost weight." She commented.

"So have you." Jellal smiled.

"I am so glad to have you back…though I would need to leave you soon…" Erza sighed.

"Why would you need to leave?" Jellal asked, his voice was filled with fear.

"The S class trial…I'll explain it to you later." Erza laughed, "I'll be back in a week and we will be together again."

Jellal breath out a sigh of relief, he thought that he had caused some trouble for Erza.

"Jellal, while I'm gone, take care of the guild for me. Don't let anyone misbehave okay?"

Jellal chuckled, "Don't worry, I'll take care of the guild. Don't forget to come back to me quickly…"

Erza grinned as she leaned down to kiss him.

They would live happily from now on…right?

The End…


Now I'll tell you about the sequel that I want to make… it would be called 7 Years of Hell…This would be what the guild did during the seven years when the core members of the guild disappeared. Of course this time there is Jellal in the Guild.

So should I do the sequel or should I just leave it here?

Please review!