Chapter 5

Should I give some warning here? Cause there are bad language in this chapter…Tread carefully?

Year X 787

Macao buried his face in his arm, how could he have been so stupid? Why did he allow that man to trick him into making Fairy Tail go into such a debt? He looked up and saw the trashed up guild. Jet and Droy were laying at the comer, bruised and unconscious. Reedus nearly had his drawing hand broken; if Nab had not taken his place, goodness know how he would ever repay Reedus.

Romeo…Oh GOD! Romeo!

"Romeo? Where are you?" He called out as he searched the wrecked place, finding him buried somewhere underneath the wood planks.

"Coward…" Romeo whimpered as he covered his bruised face, "How could my father be such a coward?"

Macao started inspecting his wounds, "Thank God, you are okay…"

Romeo smacked his hands off, "Why didn't you fight? Have you lost all sense of pride of being Fairy Tail Mage? If they were here…"

"We owe them money…there is nothing we can do…" He said sadly.

Romeo scoffed, "Then you should have told everyone before making a stupid decision of borrowing money from those monsters…I don't even want to look at you anymore."

He stood up shakily and left the premise.

Macao wanted to call out to him, but was too ashamed; he bowed his head to cry for the first time since they were gone.

Bisca entered the guild with Asuka in her arms. When she saw the guild in such a mess she growled dangerously, "What happen?"

"Someone call Porlyusica here…Nab's hand is broken." Wakaba ordered, "Macao! Get a hold of yourself! Stop crying!"

Reedus got up, his eyes had a glazed look over it as if he could not believe what had just happen, "I…I'll go and call her." He said as he dashed out of the guild.

"Jet! Droy! Wake up!" Wakaba went over to them to try and wake them up, "Damn it! Their heads are bleeding, might be a concussion."

"What happened?!" Alzack entered into the guild, shocked at the state it was in.

"I got no idea…I just came in with Asuka and it was already like this." Bisca replied.

"Damn it! Who did this?!" Alzack demanded as he looked at Macao.

Macao stood at one corner trying to look as small as possible, he whispered, "The Twilight Ogre…I borrowed money from them to try and sustain the tavern…but…I'm sorry. I should have known it was all a trick, they intend oppress us…Is Fairy Tail going to fall at my hands?"

"Shut up with your whining!" Wakaba scolded him, "We need to help the injured first, and then we will all figure out what we need to do about this Twilight Ogre."

"How much do we owe them?" Bisca asked.

"About 150 million now…"

"150 MILLION?!" Wakaba roared, "How did it become a 150 million?! I thought you only needed 50 million?"

"I borrowed 50 million!" Macao said miserably, "But we were on a verge of closing…That I just…the interest… They tricked me…"

"Those bastards!" Bisca cursed, "Those Fuc-"

"Bisca…Asuka is here..." Alzack quickly whispered into her ear. Bisca looked down and saw Asuka staring at her curiously. "Asuka dear, those words are only reserve for really BAD people that hurts our family, you cannot use it anyhow, do you understand?" Bisca said sweetly and proceeded to coo her to sleep. Everyone stared at her in shock. When she was done, she looked up with fire in her eyes "Macao, we can beat them; I mean they tricked us with the interest rates!"

"It is all in black and white…If only I had studied the contract-"Macao said bitterly.

"But we cannot just allow them to run all over us!" Alzack exclaimed. The guild door opened and Porlyusica and Reedus walked in, her eyes widened at the destruction of the guild.

She started commanding the guild members "Quickly, get those people injured to the side! NOW!"

The guild members, whoever was well enough to move started helping.

She closed her eyes, how did Fairy Tail end up like this? She knew things were rough…But not like this…

She felt her throat started to constrict, and the tears were starting to build up in her eyes, "Stupid Makarov…why did you leave your children behind?"

Jellal felt like a walking dead where even hell does not want his soul.

Erza's dead…What was he going to do now? He started over because of her…Now that she is gone, what does that make him? Maybe it was his sins that caused her to die...

He dragged himself through the town of Magnolia, ignoring the whispers around him. He troughed his way to Fairy Hill and entered the dusty building. He walked through the familiar halls and climbed up the stair and entered a room. He was greeted by rows and rows of dirty and unpolished armour. The room smelled musky. He walked in slowly, using his fingertips to brush across the armours as he reminisces the time he spent with Erza.

He slowly walked to the bedroom; He wanted to spend a night in Erza's room, on Erza's bed. He missed her… He fell onto her bed and cuddled with her pillow, before he knew it, he fell asleep.

"Meredy…You know…" Ultear stopped walking suddenly, "Should we…Do you…I mean…If you don't mind…Can we…you know…" She shifted around uncomfortably, unable to speak her mind.

Meredy smiled knowingly, "I heard that about a dark guild near Magnolia. They are causing quite a ruckus, so if you want to, we can go and pay them a little visit; make sure they are never heard again…"

"Really?" Ultear beamed.

She nodded, "And if you want to, we can even visit to Jellal to see how he is doing…I mean he did left us looking like a dead person...But where would we find him?"

"Don't worry; he is most probably in Erza's room crying his eyes out." Ultear chuckled.

"Then we should go a cheer him up and see his crying face at the same time!" Meredy chirped.

Ultear smiled, thinking to herself that she was glad to have Meredy by her side.

Jellel awoke when he felt something grabbing his waist and something tickling his nose. He slowly opened his eyes and was greeted by a sea of red. He pushed himself away and saw a girl cuddling next to him.

He immediately jumped out of the bed, pushing the girl away from him. Someone in the room cleared their throat.

"Ne, Ultear…It seems that there was no need to visit him. Look he already found a partner." A familiar voice spoke.

He turned and saw Meredy and Ultear studying him and the sleeping girl.

"Yes…It would seem to be the case…And here I was worried that he might be depressed…" Ultear shook her head in fake disappointment, "I thought of him as a more faithful type."

"Wait…I have no idea what is going on! She was not here when I slept." Jellal tried to defend himself, even though he had no idea why he needed to defend himself. He was innocent!

Meredy sighed, "How could you forget sleeping with another girl? My respect for you has dropped…"

"Wait!" Jellal panicked and he grabbed the sleeping girl's collar and shook her, "Wake up! I need you to explain why you are doing here!"

"Mmmm…Sakana…" She mumbled as she started drooling.

"What did you do to her to make her so tired?!" Meredy gasped dramatically.

"Nothing! I did nothing! I swear!" He cried out. The girl's eyes fluttered open

She rubbed her sleepy eyes as she took a look around the room. She stared at the people surrounding her.

"Who are all of you?" She asked.

"Erm…I think that should be our question…" Meredy gave a weird laugh.

"I…I only remember waking up at a beach…I don't really remember much…" She replied after a while.

"Then do you remember your name?" Jellal asked gently.

"Azazel…" She said.

"That is an interesting name…" Ultear forced a smile and look to Jellal, "Jellal take care of her."

"What-"

"No arguing, Just do as I say, do you understand?" Ultear said shakily, "We got to go… now."

"Ultear what is-" Meredy was about to argue.

"NOW!" Ultear shouted as she ran out of the building.

"Ultear wait! What do you want me to do with her?!" Jellal called out, but there was no one there anymore.

"Ultear, what's wrong? Your face has gone pale." Meredy asked when they had travelled quite a distance away.

"It is impossible…" She whispered.
"What is impossible?" Meredy asked.

"But if it is real…it means that they are alive…" Ultear looked at Meredy, "Meredy, do you remember this ancient spell…."

Romeo wondered when did his father become so weak? He literally allowed those monsters to wreak the place… If Natsu was there, he would have beaten up those monsters, those bastards, those cruel Twilight Ogre. If they were still there…Those monsters would never even be allowed to hurt anyone…If they were still here…

He started choking on his tears; three years…That was how long they were gone….they were never ever going to return. How could he just realise it now? They would never have let them wait for three years unless they were dead. Natsu is dead. Natsu was never ever going to come back to see his newly learn fire magic. He would never be able to go on a quest with Natsu…He was never going to see them anymore…

Jellal took care of the girl as she rolled around muttering about fishes. He sighed as he sat down beside in a chair.

"Jellal…" She mumbled suddenly.

He froze, he never once told her his name, how did she know it?

He started studying the girl, she looked kind of familiar yet he cannot recognise her. Did he meet her somewhere before?

He sighed and got up, needing some fresh air, he decided to take a walk outside. As he was walking he suddenly felt somebody was watching him. He continued to take a slow walk as he tried to sense the location of the person. He could literally smell the murderous intent all over the place. He pretended to let his guard down and heard the leaves rustled on his left side. He immediately blocks the blow, shocking his hooded assailant.

"Fuck you Jellal." The person cursed as she tried to kick him in the gut, but he was faster, dodging the blow and kicking the assailant in the face.

The hood fell back and Jellal gasped at the revelation at the person he had just hurt, "Millianna!"

He ran to her to check her wounds but she swatted his hand away, "You monster! You tricked Erza into thinking you are innocent but I know better! You who killed Simon with your own hands should never ever gain happiness! How dare you! It is because of you that Erza is gone!" She spat as she got up.

Jellal looked away guiltily, "Simon's death would always be on my hands…I know that no matter what I do, I could never erase the pain that I had cause in your life…I'm really sorry…"

"Fuck you! Don't pretend you are in pain! You have no rights to! Because of your sins, Erza is gone! You killed Erza! You Should DIE!" She cried as she drew out a dagger and ran towards him.

He could feel his heart being stabbed repeatedly by Millianna's words. He almost agreed with her, until something red ran in front of him, stopping Millianna's attack with a sword.

"What this?" She said bitterly, "You managed to trick another girl after Erza died."

"Azazel…how did you get the sword?" Jellal stared at her shocked.

"I don't know…It just appeared… I don't know why…I'm sorry, I really don't know. But I know one thing…you mustn't die…You cannot…A promise I don't know but I cannot allow you to die!" She cried out. Memories of his time with Erza flashed though his mind, strengthening his will to live.

"Milliana, I'm sorry...I know you wanted revenge…But I promised Erza that I'll live…I cannot die, at least not yet."

"Excuses!" She cried bitterly, "I'll kill you even if it is the last thing I do!"

"Then so be it. Find a guild and get stronger."

Millianna smiled darkly and used her dagger and cut off her long hair, "This is my oath, I'll kill you like how I cut off my hair."

And she left, leaving a bitter taste in Jellal.

Millianna felt bitter and angry as she walked away from the town of Magnolia. She touched her now shortened hair; she will one day cut down Jellal like what she had done to her hair. When she heard that Jellal was freed and was staying with Erza, she went crazy in anger, wondering what kind of magic did Jellal used to trick Erza. Then she heard rumours about him defeating Zeref demons, she got so worked up that she asked Sho and Wally to fight Jellal. But they told her that though they cannot forgive Jellal just yet but they respect Erza decisions and that she could accept Jellal, then maybe Jellal had become good, which sounded like total bullshit to her. She left them and trained by herself, she will show Erza his true colour and break whatever spells Jellal is using. Wally and Sho and travel all they want but she will protect Erza…but within weeks news of Fairytail reached her ears. She mourned for Erza death and her hatred for Jellal grew, it was all his fault…

She trained with the intent to kill him but as she saw today, it was not enough, he was still too powerful. She needed to get stronger, way stronger to even touch him.

She continued walking only to see a beautiful lady with long black hair and sharp brown eyes; a white ribbon was tied to her hair with the bows facing upwards. She was walking around with a picture in her hand, when the lady saw her she ran up to her.

"Nice to meet you. May I ask if you have seen this man?" She shows her the picture.

"Si…Simon…" Millianna stuttered when she saw the picture.

"You know him?" She beamed, hope written all over her face.

Millianna heart felt heavy as she internally cursed Jellal for hurting another person.

"I do…" She said sadly, "I'm sorry…But he is dead…"

The girl was taken aback, "How?...No…How can it be…Brother, Why? How? How did…how my brother die?"

Millianna felt her throat constrict with guilt and sadness, "He was brutally killed by a man named Jellal…"

Ever since Bisca found out about what had happened to Fairy Tail She started feeling frustrated and it slowly progress to feeling useless, If only she did not have Asuka...She would at least be able to help Fairy Tail a little. Protect her Alzack more…But here she was doing nothing but taking care of…

"Bisca!" Alzack called out to her softly.

Bisca turned to face him, "Alzack…" She whispered his name as she studied his handsome face. She slowly reached out to touch his face. He had lost weight from overworking. She leaned in to kiss him.

"B…B…Bisca…What…" He stuttered as his face turned red.

She buried her face at his nape.

"I'm so useless…If I don't have Asuka, then you would not need to suffer so much…"

Alzack pulled her away, "What are you talking about?!"

"Look at you, you been working non-stop since you found about the debt, and I am here looking after a baby!" She cried out.

Alzack gaze softened, "Bisca, my dear beloved Bisca, I have never once thought that you are useless. Asuka and you are gifts that I will treasure with my life."

He hugged her tightly, "When I heard that Master, Natsu and the rest were gone…I was so thankful, so thankful that you were by my side, so relieve that I did not lose you. I felt so relieved that it made me feel guilty that I was that relief. Bisca, for you I'll do anything."

She blushed as she hugged him back, "You idiot…"

Alzack kissed her neck, "If you really want to know, Macao has been nagging me to take Asuka from you so he can show her off to Bob."

"You know, that day…when you propose to me…I was going to propose to you" Bisca confessed, "What made you propose?"

Alzack looked away guiltily, "Jellal…When I saw him losing Erza…I knew I cannot afford to lose you...I just got to…You know…" He hung his head low, "I didn't really want you to know that I propose to with that kind of thought…"

Bisca smiled, "Don't worry; I had the exact same thought when I decided that I must marry you."

Romeo walked past a clothing shop and saw a set of clothes that reminded him of Natsu. He went toward the shop and bought the clothes without any second thought. When he reached home, he went straight to his room and stared at the clothes he had bought. Natsu may be gone, but Fairy Tail was not. He is going to become stronger and make Fairy Tail strong again.

Jellal had a hard time locating the guild. He did not know when but during his time when he was doing quest, they had moved somewhere. He was a little angry that the people had so quickly switched to another guild. They had simply kicked Fairy Tail to one side. That was kind of irritating.

He turned to look at the girl that kept following him after the Millianna incident, shocked to see her face seething with pure anger.

"We will show them what Fairy Tail is made of." She declared angrily.

"How do you know about Fairy Tail?" He asked.

She stared at him blankly, "I don't know, but I feel that Fairy Tail is a nice place."

He pushed the door of the guild open. Everyone looked at him in shocked, as if they are wondering if he is alive or a spirit.

"Hi…" He greeted, uncomfortable with the sudden attention.

"You are alive…" Macao said in wonderment, "Did you complete it?"

"I did. I'm here to pass the money to you."

Macao smiled, "Thank the heavens, we can finally pay off some of our debts!"

"Debts?" Jellal asked curiously.

"We borrowed some money…and we don't have the money to pay them back…" Wakaba explained.

"Was Nab's injury an accident?" Jellal asked solemnly.

Macao nodded, "Yea...Just an accident..."

"I see…Is the money enough to repay?" Jellal said knowingly

"Not quite…We just need a little more…" Macao said as he ran though his hand through his hair, "About 30 million more…"

"Okay, I'll go and do a jo-" He fell silent when he saw the emptiness of the request board.

"We got last in a Grand Magic Games, it was a humiliating defeat…We could not even pass the preliminary round…" Macao said, "And with that the request board got emptier and emptier."

Azazel walked straight to Macao, and showed her left arm.

"Please let me join this guild." She said seriously.

"Missy, this guild is rank last, do you know?" Wakaba asked.

She stared at them straight in the eye, showing them how serious she was in joining, that the two men felt chills down their back. They felt like the missing members of Fairy Tail had suddenly returned to them but shook that feeling off.

"Okay…I'll let you join." Macao said as he took out the Fairytail Stamp.

As he stamped her upper left arm, he had flashes of a blond hair girl praying. He shook his head to clear the flashes.

"Welcome to Fairy Tail!" Wakaba grinned, "Well what is left of it."

Jellal was already leaving the guild with a quest in his hands.

"Jellal wait! Azazel is coming with you!" She called out as she ran after him.

Macao and Wakaba stared at each other.

"Did you see her hair? It is like Erza's" Wakaba commented, "Her eyes is like Lucy, yet at some time it is like Natsu…I don't what is going on…But that girl…"

"Yeah but it is just a coincidence right? She, having some features that remind us of them…" Macao said.

"Yeah…Should be…"