Chapter one is here!

A few warnings though:

This is obviously an AU but there may SPOILERS from the manga in the next chapters to come.

The pairings are : NaLu JeRza Gruvia GaLe

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail.

Chaper 1: The Strongest Guild

Fairy Tail rises and reclaims former glory. This was the headline of every copy of Sorcerer's Weekly. Unsurprisingly, the whole guild is celebrating their almost unlikely victory. Through everyone's hard work and dedication, Fairy Tail is back to being the best and the strongest guild in Fiore.

They received their old guild back in Magnolia. The mayor gave it to them for winning the Grand Magic Games. As for their jewels, let's just say that Makarov's a very happy man.

As usual, Natsu and Gray are fighting, calling each other names.

"Ice princess" Natsu jabs at Gray, throwing a punch at him.

"Flame breath" Gray retorts back, not backing down from a fight, narrowly dodging Natsu's punch as he proceeded to punch him as well.

"Ice stripper"

"Slanty eyes"

Whilst fighting, Natsu accindentally punches Elfman who then joins the fight, screaming out "A man never backs down from a fight". This leads to a chain of events where the whole guild ends up fighting each other, once again destroying the guild.

"oh my, they're at it again" says Mirajane, gigling a bit.

Lucy just sits at her usual seat at the bar and she orders a milkshake.

"Here you go." says Mira smiling at Lucy, seeing the blond's distress as Lucy proceeds to bang her head on the table.

"I need to pay my rent" She moans out before stopping as she notices Erza sitting next to her. Erza seems to be quite distracted as she's just sitting there, oblivious to the whole brawl happening in the guild, playing slightly with her favourite strawberry cake. Although, Erza not berating the whole guild for the destruction they are causing may have been an obvious sign that Erza's not her usual self, Lucy found the fact that she's not eating cake more surprising.

"Are you alright?" Lucy asks her. Erza breaks out of her thoughts and looks at Lucy in surprise, not noticing the blond sitting next to her until now. This set alarms off ringing in Lucy's mind. Erza's never surprised. If anything, she actually believes that Erza has a pair of eyes placed at the back of her neck.

"Yes. I'm fine Lucy. I'm sorry for worrying you" Erza says as she tries to smile, sighing softy once she realises that Lucy is not convinced. "To be honest... It's about Jellal." She finally gives in.

"Huh? Did he leave again?" Lucy asks sympathetically. She knows that that the blunette has this tendency of blaming himself for Erza's pain even if he is partly causing her pain, though Jellal intentionally distancing himself from Erza, not noticing that it causes the red head even more pain. Erza's expresiion says everything Lucy needs to know.

"Yes, but that's not what's bothering me." She says seriously. "Before the games, when we were training he said something to me. I knew even then that he was lying but I can't help but think that it may be true."

Lucy gestures at Erza to go on.

"He said that he has a fiance" Erza continues.

"You can't possibly believe that! Even an idiot can see that he loves you Erza and only you!" Lucy bursts off.

"I know that he's lying! But a part of me thinks it's true, and don't be ridiculous we're just friends. That's all." Erza tries to convince Lucy and herself.

Everyone in Fairy Tail knows that Erza and Jellal have somthing going on between them. Of course no one ever says it to the red head's face in fear of the titania's wrath. However, close friends of Erza, namely Team Natsu + Juvia, Mirajane, Wendy and Levy, can get away with saying things about Jellal.

Lucy is just about to speak when Natsu runs up to her. He wraps his arm around her shoulders and starts to drag her along.

"Let's go do a job, Luce!" He said excitedly.

"S-sure but I'm still talking to Erza" Lucy stutters slightly, blushing red like a tomato. She looks at Erza for support but the titania smirks at her and leaving her at Natsu's mercy, happily eating her cake.

"Huh?" Natsu looks at them and scratches his head in confusion. "I don't see any talking going on here."

'Erza you traitor' Lucy thinks. With her face still flushed red, she hopes that Natsu won't notice. 'Calm down Lucy. He's just your bestfriend, your partner. You should be used to this by now.'

Unfortunately Natsu notices this.

"Oi, Luce are you okay? Your face is all red" He says as he puts his hand on hr forehead to check if she has a fever or something. The action makes Lucy blush harder.

"I-I'm fine. Let's just pick a job." Lucy stutters once more as she starts to walk towards the board.

Of course, their little moment didn't go unnoticed by the little blue exceed as he flies up to them.

"They like each other~" Happy drawls out, teasing his denes friends. Even the seemingly stupid exceed noticies that they do indeed, like each other.

"W-we do not!" Lucy and Natsu vehemently denies, even Natsu blushed a little at the implications of his friend. Happy just snickers and flies off to give Carla some fish.

Before the duo could walk towards the requests' board, Mirajane's voice pipes up behind them.

"Sorry guys but Master said that no one can go on any jobs at the moment. He didn't state why but I've heard that some other guild's aren't allowed to go on jobs as well." Mira says apologetically.

Natsu sighs in disappointment. The duo then started a casual conversation without noticing some of the teasing looks others are sending them.

Three figures are talking outside the guild in hushed voices as if to not attract any attention. The figures then opens the guild doors and enters the hall. Everyone stops in ther place and looks at the three strangers.

As they take off the hoods of their cloaks and reveal their faces. All are suprised to see Crime Sorciere, the independent guild.

Erza drops her fork in surprise and softly says "Jellal". Although it was said in a whisper, they all heard it as if it was said loudly.

To much of the guild's relief, some of the tension breaks as Juvia ran over to Meredy starting a conversation, her tears of joy flooding the guild hall slightly.

Ultear then walks towards Gray and talks to him, leaving Jellal to talk to Erza atmosphere between the two is awkward. The tension is so thick that you couldcut it with a knife.

"Jellal..." Erza states trying to start a conversation.

"Erza" Jellal replies just as awkwardly as Erza.

"Um... So how are you?"

"We just finished destroying a small dark guild near Magnolia so we decided to pay a visit" Jellas says, still awkward.

"Oh... but aren't you worried that the council might find you." asked Erza worry clearly laced in her voice.

"We are, but we covered our tracks well. And, I want to talk to you about something" he admits.

"What is it?"

"I'm sure that you already know but I lied." Erza looks up expectantly at him, waiting for him to continue. "I'm stupid and I'm selfish. I'm sorry that I caused you so much pain but I love you!" he declares. Erza gasps as a few tears slowly starts to fall from her eyes. "I love you. That I know, but I can't love you Erza. I don't deserve you. You deserve more that I could ever give you."

Before Erza could reply, the guild doors burst open, and Lahar and Doranbolt walk in. Everyone immeadiately goes silent. Crime Sorciere became nervous and tries to escape but Lahar speaks up before they could do anything.

"Jellal Fernandes a.k.a. Siegrain, infriltrated the council and fired the etherion, Ultear Milkovich and Meredy, former Grimoire Hearts members..." Everyone is nervous at this point and said people flinched as they hear their names. "From the decree and unanimous decision of the Council, I hereby give you three full pardon under the rules of joining Fairy Tail and being observed for the rest of the day, due to your services of eliminating dark guilds." They are still in shock when Lahar and Doranbolt starts to leave. No one but Natsu noticed Makarov give Doranbolt a weird look as he is leaving.

Erza is speechless and overjoyed by the fortunate turn of events but could not help but wonder "Excuse me sir, but what caused the Council to reconsider their views on Crime Sorciere?" Doranbolt is at the door and he turns around to answer the question, "Your guild master vouched for them greatly." And with that the two council members leaves.

"WHAT ARE YOU BRATS WAITING FOR? IT'S TIME FOR A CELEBRATION!" Makarov shouts jumping up to emphasise his point.

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"YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The guild shouts and starts to party, Fairy Tail style, which means brawls + drinking.

Crime Sorciere walks up to Makarov and thanks him. Makarov then states "I know you brats are good anyways and I'm doing this a favour to Erza". He then heads towards his office with a grim expression that nobody caught, nobody but Natsu who just shrugs it off.

Mirajane walks up to them and asks where they want their guild marks. Ultear had hers placed just a bit below her collar bone in silver. Meredy had hers on her left thigh in blue. Finally, Jellal had his on the same place where Erza has hers and had it in his favourite colour, scarlet red.

The situation is just too surreal for erza that she couldn't contain her happiness as she out of characteristically runs up to Jellal and hugs him. Everyone's jaws drops to the floor as Jellal lifts erza up and spins her around before kissing her. It is just like a scene from a romance film.

No one could believe what they are seeing because Jellal and Erza kissed, KISSED right in the midle of the guild. Lucy and Levy fangirl at the sight and Mirajane faints from delight. Wolfwhistles and catcalls erupts which caused the two to break away from the kiss, both blushing. This is truly an amazing sight to behold, the mighty Titania blushing.

"I love you too and I don't care about anything else" Erza whispers in Jellal's ears.

Unknown to Fairy Tail as they celebrate, there is a lone figure looking through the window hidden away from sight. Tears start falling from this person's eyes as if mourning. 'Soon... It's starting soon and onl they can stop it, It's near... but they aren't strong enough. They need time but even that is running out for them'. The person thinks before disappearing into the shadows.

CHAPTER END

I hope this is significantly better than my previous work :D

If any errors are seen please tell me.

I also need OCs (villains and anti-heroes in particular)

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