Chapter 11 Erza Scarlet

'It hurt, a lot. I could feel my magic being sucked out of me as fast as I could replenish it. I am pathetic aren't I? I never seem to do anything right, and now I have left Grey and Juvia to fight the most powerful mage on this plant. At least that is what the Master said, and he now has all of our power to go along with it. I just hope that he doesn't realize that our guild mark is what is powering us. If he does them we are all dead. I was face down in the dirt so I couldn't see the fight but I could feel just how much magic power was being thrown around. Nothing was more prevalent that the heat though.

"Damn won't that flame-brain calm down a bit?" I heard Grey remark as he waited for his arm to regenerate.

"Juvia can't fight with that kind of heat Grey-sama."

"I know, he's melting my ice too. That bastard is making it impossible to fight this guy." Grey grunts out as he parries another one of August's attacks. Each defense take up nearly all their magic power so that they don't have a chance to make a quick counter strike. "Damn, it take so much out of me just to block him. I have never felt power like this before except from that pyro over there. Who knows what he doing in that fire ball up there?" Grey says while scowling and trying to come up with a plan.

"Grey-sama!" Juvia yells. "Heaven and Earth!" Grey smiles at her when he remembers their training, making Juvia swoon.

"Now is not the time Juvia!" Grey shouts as he catches her before hitting the ground.

"Right Grey-sama, Juvia is sorry." She says embarrassedly. "But Grey-sama, can you keep your hand on Juvia's behind? Please?" She begged as hearts floated around her eyes. At this moment Grey looked down and realized that his hand was not secured around her legs as he previously thought. But gripped tightly on her far cheek.

"Ack!" He sputtered as he dropped her onto the ground, turning around just in time to see August finish an incredibly complex magic circle. "Wha-a?"

Momento Mori!

"Oh not this shit again." Gray whines as he assumes the position to receive the blow once again. "This is going to hurt, again."

An infinite wall of blackness surrounded Grey and Juvia as August attempted to use magic to formulate the ultimate curse from noting but magic. He successfully pulled it off and a sphere of black curse surrounded and then exploded around Juvia and Grey. As the all-consuming blackness began to dissipate, a layer of Earth was found to be bulged in one spot. As the bulge shook Grey was standing in front of Juvia, who was on her knees crying as she saw that more than half of her love's body had become completely black. As Grey fell to the floor, Juvia rose and stumbled her way to his unconscious body.

"Not possible." August said shocked by what he saw. "You should no longer exist. How is it that you are alive? That was the cure that was supposed to kill Zeref when we finished our genocide!"

Juvia begins to glow, her eyes turn black and she bites down so hard blood trickles out of the corner of her mouth. "I will take revenge for Grey-sama! I will kill you!"

Juvia charges August

Bang.

'One hit, that's all it took.' Juvia thinks as she lays in an impression in the hot Earth. 'I couldn't do anything for Grey-sama, and now I can't even move. His gravity is pinning me down so that I can't even breathe. I am sorry Grey-sama, Juvia has failed you.'

At this moment an explosion lit up the evening sky. And a ring of fire descended upon the Earth. Juvia and August were right in the path of the descending flames. Grey stood up and fired his cannon at August, temporarily loosening his gravity grip on Juvia. At this moment Rouge, who had just shown up, slipped Juvia out of the way of the fire while Sting hit August with a Holy Nova blast.

"Silly boy." August chuckled. "I will be out of this seal in under 2 seconds." He said as the seal started to fade.

"One second longer than you have." Sting said smiling as he switched places with a boulder that Minerva traded him out with.

"What!?" August yelled as he noticed the ring of fire approaching him. "Nooo!"

The fire completely stripped him of his magic in an instant, removing the holy seal and the body link that connected him to Fairy Tail disappears, freeing its members, who, since having already been drained of their magic, was not drained further by their link to August. August was burned within a second leaving nothing at all as Natsu fell from the sky. Erza quickly got up and requiped into her flight armor. She hurdled over to Natsu as fast as she could go, and when catching him, brought him gently down to the scorched surface beneath them.

Erza PoV

'I held him in my arms. After the fight. I was supposed to be there for him, he asked me to, and I wasn't there for him.' I thought. So I checked for his pulse, but there wasn't one. This is where I started crying. No sobs, just silent tears. Mourning the loss of my lifelong friend and my now not so secret love. I was never able to tell him until it was time for me to lose him. It seems that that has been a lifelong trend for me. I only admitted to loving Jellal when I could no longer have him. I became close with Rob right before he sacrificed himself for me. Then Simon, and now Natsu.

"Erza! Erza! I did it Erza!" Levy yelled while running towards me. I looked at her with tears in my eyes while she was smiling and waving this glowing object above her head. She squatted down next to me and showed it with a big cute smile but I was no longer paying attention. I went back to holding Natsu close as everyone was now gathering around.

"I could hear happy and Lucy crying, Grey being held up in Juvia's arms as she begged him to say something. But still Levy was smiling. I was crying tears onto Natsu's face while Levy was trying to get my attention. But I refused to look at her until I was hit with the glowing object.

I looked at levy with tears still in my eyes, not even mad about getting hit. Her smile was gone as she presented me with the glowing object. I took a closer look and I realized that it resembled the shape of a large book and had a hand outline on the front. I place my hand where the outline is and find that it fits perfectly, but just for a second. After that I could feel the print searing my hand, as if it was trying to burn away my hand, and I just see Levy staring in wonder. The pain was bearable of course, but I couldn't remove my hand. A green spiral of energy moved up my hand and wouldn't stop. It quickly enveloped my entire body as I rose into the air, now glowing a brilliant shade of emerald green. The book was still attached to my hand as we rose. When we were 10 feet of the ground we leveled out and the green energy began to seep away from my body and bound my feet together.

From below all that could be seen at this point as a clout of green mist and light as a trail of green began to make its way back down.

The green light around my feet slowly made its way to Natsu, and entered his chest. The longer that I was in the air, the more brightly he was glowing. I then realized that this must be the book of END that Natsu had been talking about. But I still could not understand what exactly was happening.

In less than a minute it was all over and I was set back down on the ground. Confused I looked over at Levy, who by the way was completely ecstatic. Jumping for joy on the inside now doubt. She motioned at Natsu and I was nearly in tears again, except that I started to imagine that his Fairy Tail mark had begun to glow again. Of course this was a trick of my mind that tried to make me believe what I wanted most, so I ignored it. Every one's is glowing right now, so of course I would imagine his glowing too. Levy saw my eyes droop and placed her hand on mine. She took my hand and placed it on Natsu's chest, and when I turned to ask her why, I felt a heartbeat. And then another, and another. I looked at him in shock as she handed me the book of END off the ground. I looked at it and saw the name Zeref Dragneel, disappear before my eyes. It was then replaced.

Erza Scarlet- master of END

That is what it read. A collective gasp was heard from the surrounding guild members as my name replaced that of Zeref's. Now I understood. END must always have a living master, and just like the other demons of Zeref's books, he can be revived as long as that master is alive.

I lifted Natsu into the Air and held him in my arms. I requiped into my flight armor once again and headed to the guild. I turned around to look back at everyone and they had decoded to follow me, Grey being carried by Juvia of course. As I rose higher I could see the entire battlefield. The entire area we were in was just one large crater. We didn't notice it because Fairy Heart was protecting us, but Natsu and Zeref's fight had pushed the Earth within 5 miles from them nearly 500 feet down. And the exit of the crater was too far to see from down below.

When I reached the guild I didn't say a word, I just laid Natsu down in the infirmary, and then laid next to him. Drifting into a deep sleep as soon as I snuggled up next to him, I dreamed of the future I now had. My love was not too late this time, and I intend to hold onto it. This was my final thought before I drifted into pleasant dreams.

Outside, in the guild hall, Makarov was briefed on the fight my Grey and Mirajane, since Juvia has been clinging onto Grey for dear life ever since Grey said that they were now official on the walk back from the battle field. Gajeel Locked up Levy for some reason and she looked readily disappointed as Gajeel was laughing his ass off. Panther Lily was shaking his head in embarrassment st the scene before him and Lucy was drinking her sorrows away.

'I lost to Erza, Natsu was stolen by Erza.' She thought. 'Its ok, they have known each other longer. Plus nobody died, that a great thing. Come on Luce you have to keep your spirits up, and I don't mean booze.' She thought to herself again.

Erza was asleep Next to Natsu but nobody disturbed them because Levy said that the book would heal him this time, that he didn't need Porlyusca to come.

Everyone gathered around the center tables to hear Makarov speak, one prepared beforehand it had seamed.

"To everyone who has survived this, I say, we are Fairy Tail, and we are forever. We are now the police force of time. We are the protectors of both Fairy Heart and the book of END. None of you here may ever leave this guild with your mark. To leave, you must become mortal once more, and once the seal is removed, there is no going back. You cannot become immortal again. After one year's time, the mark of the guild will only be able to be removed by the wearer, so it cannot be stripped against your will. The members that are standing here are those whom I trust with infinite power. And will live forever as Fairy Tail mages."

As Makarov said this he removed his Jacket and stripped himself of his guild mark, only to quickly replace it with an exact replica.

"Oi! What the hell was that old man?!" Grey protested.

"I have lived long enough, Grey. I will not be a part of the eternal Fairy Tail, but I will stay long enough to lead the ones who will be into the light.

Do not worry every one! I am not done writing this story! Basically I will write an epilogue arc. This is a Naza fanfic anyway, now its time to get to the daily life and romance part, yay! I don't know how good I am at this but I know I am skilled at writing lemons so I will probably put some in eventually. Because I love them. Don't judge. But seriously, I am not going to be done with this for a while, also My chapters will remain around 2 thousand words of content each chapter, its simple and makes me control my stopping points. Please check out my profile as I am looking for new topics to write about. Peace!