Hey everyone! So i found time to update this story haha. Semester was more towards the rough side and had to focus more on salvaging than anything else. But winter break is here so i hope to update at least one more time before i go back to school. Thanks for the reviews! Enjoy, I kinda threw some stuff together so it may not be the best but it is what it is.

Like Always:

I do not own Fairy Tail.

TIME SKIP -THREE YEARS- NORMAL POV

"ERZA!" A girl and boy yelled as the red head was taken away from the group.

"It'll be okay. I'll be fine. I'll be strong, Just like you told me Jellal...and like you showed me Lucy... I'm not scared at all."

She gave her signature smile to the group. The girl with blonde hair fell to her knees with clenched fists and tears streaming down her cheeks. The blue haired boy, next to her, punched the cell wall in frustration.

"How could I have let her take the blame for that stupid blonde's escape plan?" The blue haired boy said to himself.

The blonde was crying in the corner, hugging herself, "what if she... *hic* ...doesn't come back, I won't be able to tell her..." She thought to herself between sobs.

'It was all Lucy's fault that Erza is in this situation' the blue haired boy thought.

"Jellal..." The blonde whispered, "Do you think she'll come back?"

Jellal was beyond livid, "How can you not have faith in her, it's YOUR fault she is in there. No wonder why you were sold here, you're so goddamn useless."

She began crying, "D-don't s-say that *hic* I already know it's my fault *hic*. Stop making me feel more useless than I already am. Why does everyone hate me so much?"

'I'm so pissed at Lucy right now 1) because she was the reason we were caught and 2) she took Erza from me.'

Flashback

"Alright so the plan is we have Sho fakes an injury, call the guards over, knock them out grab their keys, run to the third cell on the right, there is a narrow hole that some of the workers attempted to dig before but were caught before it was finished, and now it is which leads out to the sea, and we can escape this tower. There is a boat outside that path that we can take to shore." Lucy held her head high proud of the plan she spent many nights thinking up. Everything was working perfectly until they came across what Lucy didn't account for, Sensor Traps set on the path. Lucy was the last one in the group and everyone was in before lucy tripped and hit one of the hidden traps which alerted all of the guards. "Every please go without me", Lucy begged with tears in her eyes. "No!" Erza, Milli, Sho and Simon yelled, "We all go together, or we all stay together." Jellal grunted wanting to leave the blonde to her own accord. Erza and the others reached out their hand to grab the blonde. What happened in that split second of getting Lucy allowed the guards to meet them at the end of the tunnel and return them back to their cells.

End Flashback

"Lucy..." Simon, Sho, Wally and Milli, comforted her, and hugged her. "It's not your fault Lulu, she'll come back. Jellal just woke up on the wrong side of the floor. You know he doesn't mean that." They all glared at him.

"Yes he does... I hear it every day from him. Erza and Rob are the only ones who stand up for me. And now one is gone."

"Jellal, I can't believe you! You don't know what she's been through. You hurt her you should apologize." Milli yelled.

"No, Why should I apologize to her, she was the reason Erza was taken." He yelled as he back handed Lucy.

"SMACK!"

She began crying again.

"Erza, please be ok…" She whispered as sobbed into her knees and the others, as a hand print emerged on her cheek.

TIME SKIP -TWO DAYS- LUCY POV

"We can't just sit here we have to save her Jellal. Please help me." I begged.

"How do you suppose we do that?" He retorted.

"We'll fight our way of course, we are both strong."

"You, strong? Ha, yeah right. If anything it should be me saving her. You would just get in the way."

"Why are you so cocky? We are nakama and we fight together for Erza."

"How are you gonna fight Lucy, huh? You don't know how to use a weapon. You are not strong enough for hand to hand."

"I-I know magic."

Everyone stared at me.

"Yeah right a useless weakling like you, knows magic." Jellal taunted.

"Jellal stop being so mean to her. She's trying to help and you are being an ass to her." Milli shouted.

"Fine. We'll go. But I'm not taking care of her."

"Fine, let's go then..." I said while I glared at him with my arms folded across my chest.

Jellal and I snuck through the tower, towards the torture room that Erza was being held in. We found the room because I heard Erza's screams and pleas and followed them to where they were originating from. 'I was so furious with myself and the whole system of the tower. I felt guilt stab me through the heart at every scream and plea. I wanted to be there instead of her. Why did she do this?' I thought.

We finally got to the room only to see her tied up. Her body was bruised, and covered with dried blood. She had several cuts over her body, mostly her back, from whippings. And the part that shocked me the most was her right eye. Her eye was beyond recognition and was mutilated to a point where there was nothing there. I looked around for something to cover it. I made a makeshift patch that she could use. I was filled with rage at what happened to her.

"Erza?"

Nothing...

"Erza look at me"

Still nothing.

"Erza, please say something. I need you… More than you know." I whispered the last part as I cupped her cheeks in my hands and turned her head to face me.

ERZA POV

I was unconscious but this voice I heard sounded so familiar, like an angel. She was calling me, then I heard it, "I need you… More than you know." I needed to let her know that I was ok. I felt consciousness coming back to me. I blinked my eyes but only saw out of one. I saw blonde locks crying into my chest.

LUCY POV

"M-my eye..."

"Erza!" I yelled as I was crying and hugged her making sure to avoid her injuries.

"Lucy?"

"I'm so sorry, Erza. It's all my fault. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sor-" I sobbed.

"Lucy... Stop blaming yourself." Erza said weakly.

"B-but I messed up and you had to take the punishment. You didn't deserve to go through that, I did."

"I wanted to Lucy, you are special to me."

"B-bu-"

"Are you two done yet?"

"Oh Jellal, come here."

Jellal walked over to where Erza was.

"Thank you for saving me."

"You're welcome anything for you Erza."

Lucy was pouting. 'It was my idea and he gets the credit.'

'I knew he was lying and I could tell by the look on Lucy's face that she was the one that saved me.' Erza thought. She smiled at the thought.

Jellal walked away after untying Erza.

"I know you saved me Lucy" Erza whispered in my ear.

I blushed as I threw her arm over my shoulder and supported her so we could walk back to the cell. At that time the guards caught wind of what happened and began rushing towards the room.

The three of us walked out Jellal ahead and Erza and I behind.

"Can you walk Erza?"

"I think so."

I let her go slowly so she could get her bearings. She stumbled at first but caught herself and started to walk without any trouble. The only trouble she had was depth perception. I heard footsteps coming this way.

"Guys we gave company."

"Shit..." Jellal cursed under his breath.

We were surrounded by the magic guards, who were brought in when things got out of hand, as well as the standard guards.

"Jellal watch Erza. It's my turn to save you guys."

"Lucy you-"

"Don't worry Erza. I'll protect you two."

The guards charged after me.

"Celestial Dragon's Roar!" A black and gold roar shot out of my mouth and knocked out the guards in front of me, but I didn't realize the ones sneaking up on Jellal.

"Jellal! Behind you." But I was too late that the guards grabbed Jellal and dragged him off to the main torture room while Erza and I were cut off from him. We dodged their magic and were forced away from the room and back towards the cell. I was feeling low on energy so we couldn't turn and fight. We got back into the cell, where they were waiting.

"Where is Jellal?" They asked.

We both looked down. "He got captured. If they couldn't break me than they won't be able to break him." Erza said with confidence

"We were all worried for you Erza, especially Lucy." Simon said. They all hugged Erza.

Erza turned to look at the blonde girl in the corner, hugging her knees to her chest.

"Hey..." Erza opened.

"Hey..." I said looking up.

"How are you feeling?" I asked touching her eye patch. Erza backed away.

"S-Sorry I didn't…"

"It's ugly isn't it…? I'm a freak now aren't I?" Erza said shaking with her hair covering her eyes looking down. I saw tears fall from her left eye and splatter on the floor.

"Erza… It's not ugly. You're not a freak. This doesn't change who you are. You are still as amazingly beautiful as the day I met you." I said reaching and touching her right eye again and wiping the tears off of her cheeks, I gave her a comforting smile, because I meant every word of it.

"Th-Thanks Lucy. You are an amazing friend." She smiled at the touch.

'Friends that's all we'll ever be huh?' I thought to myself feeling rejected and broken. I looked down after she said that.

'Ugh why do I always say the wrong things?' Erza thought.

"You wanna talk about it?" She asked noticing the sudden change in my behavior and moved closer to me.

"Talk about what? I was just think about things that have happened."

"Like?"

"I-I was thinking about all of us and what we should do about Jellal."

"What about all of us exactly?"

"Uhm... W-would it be weird if I h-have a c-crush on someone in our group?"

"N-no, I have a crush on someone as well." We were both blushing, but we didn't notice each other's.

"Oh" I said looking down. "It's Jellal or Simon isn't it?"

"Uhh... N-No I-I mean I like them but I see them as brothers. There is someone else that is so kind; so beautiful that I just can't help falling for them." Erza said.

"Well what should we do about him?" I said changing the subject not wanting to hear her answer in fear of her not feeling the same way.

"L-Lucy, m-my crush is…"

I push her away not wanting to hear it.

"L-Lucy but I…"

"Tell me later, okay? We need to focus on what to do about Jellal." I interrupted her.

"Ok, I guess it can wait…" Erza sighed looking away from Lucy, with her head lowered.

'I'm so stupid, dammit Lucy why did you push her away." I mentally scolded myself.

"I'm getting kind of worried about him. I think it's time." Erza then said.

I nodded in agreement and looked at the others. They nodded back.

"Alright, so we are getting Jellal back and escaping this place." Erza said with confidence, like a natural born leader. 'She looks so strong and beautiful' I thought. The guards came in to quiet us down when Erza grabbed a weapon and knocked them through the cell door. The onlookers were shocked and murmured, "Is it really happening?"

"Everyone we are starting a revolt and getting our freedom back!" Erza yelled and everyone grabbed whatever they could to defend themselves. Erza and I ran towards Jellal's room to save him. We knocked out the guards in his room. I watched the door making sure no one came in while Erza untied him. I had a bad feeling about this. I sensed some dark magic radiating from the room. I turned around to see Jellal give a nasty smirk at Erza and a dark aura surrounded him.

"Erza, that's not Jellal. He's changed."

"Are you going to listen to me, Erza or that dumb blonde whore?"

"Jellal..." Erza gritted her teeth.

"I wouldn't say I've changed at all. I just opened my eyes to Zeref. And realized that I was looking at the wrong things in life. He will give us true freedom." Jellal spoke and laughed.

We stared in shock, 'How could this happen? He was one of the strongest out of us all. He used magic to blast Erza out of the room. 'No way' I thought. I rushed towards Erza only to be caught by Jellal blocking me from her.

"Out of my way Jellal." I said anger laced in my voice.

"You have to make it through me to get to her. Or else she'll leave the tower while you stay here. If you win everyone stays here and you and Erza leave the tower and never come back. It's your choice: Erza or everyone else?"

"Of course I know what I'm going to choose I'll defeat you here and save everyone."

"Nuh uh uh... Not so fast." He blew up the ships that were leaving the tower.

"JELLAL!" I was furious. I unleashed something I've never done before. I looked at my arms. They were covered in scales. My legs were also covered in dragon scales as well.

'Dragonforce' I thought. Urania mentioned that one day I would be able to do it.

"Meteor Fist of the Celestial Dragon" I yelled. I charged at Jellal who wasn't strong enough to block the attack as I sent him through the wall and outside. Everyone was running away from the guards in fear. Erza was left alone against the guards. They shot at her only to be deflected by Rob. He saved her but lost his life because of it. She saw a glimpse of the guild mark in his back. He used to talk about guild life all the time to Erza and me. I was watching her from a distance. She screamed in rage when a red magic circle appeared from under her. All of the discarded tools, and weapons began floating off the ground and impaling the guards destroying half of them. I stared in shock. 'Oh my, she can use magic too. She is so amazing,' I thought to myself. I ran to her side and comforted her. She cried as I embraced her and I began rubbing circles on her back because even though we both saw Rob as a grandfather to us. Erza was closer to him than I was because she never had a father figure to look up to and Rob filled that void in her. Unknown to us at that moment, Jellal woke up and walked next to us. He grabbed Erza by the throat and lifted her up.

"You two will leave the tower, and never comeback or I'll kill everyone here." He spat.

"You can't do that. You need people to work the tower." I said.

"It would only be a delay for the resurrection of Zeref. And all I got is time. I can always find more workers."

"Be gone!"

With a flick of his wrist he sent us flying off the island into the only remaining boat on the shore.

Erza and I were silent as we hugged each other, before she spoke up.

"How can he do that? I hate him so much," Erza seethed.

"I don't know. I feel bad for Sho, Wally, Milli and Simon. I miss them Erza."

"Me too Lucy. What are we gonna do now?"

"How about we try to find the guild that grandpa Rob was in?"

"That's sounds like a plan, Lucy."

"Alright let's head to Magnolia and look around there since it's supposed to be a really nice city. And Rob mentioned it a lot."

"Hey Lucy..."

"Yeah, Erza?"

"Well... when we were talking, and you kept interrupting well I wanted to tell you that you were my crush. But seeing as how you reacted I was a fool to think you felt the same. I'm sorry."

"Erza…" I said with tears falling.

She looked up confused.

"I'm so sorry… *Sniffle* I didn't want to hear you out because I didn't want to deal with you not feeling the same way as I felt about you. I'm sorry for hurting you, I didn't mean to… it's just I'm so happy right now." I cried as a launched into Erza's arms, nearly tipping the boat over.

"I like you a lot Erza." I always have since I first saw you. You are beautiful, smart, kind and caring, brave, and a leader. You are everything I'd ask for in a significant other. I know we are only 11 and are still young but would you be my girlfriend?" I said staring into her deep brown eyes with the biggest smile my face could make and tears welling up in my eyes.

"It would be my honor, Princess." Erza said kissing Lucy on the cheek.

"Let's head to Fairy Tail!" I shouted holding onto Erza's hand as the boat sailed toward our destination and our home.