Dear Mother,
I've been though a lot lately but there is one thing continues to stand out. Have you ever hear of the dark mage Zeref? I know you can't respond to this letter but no one in the guild can give me a good answer of who he is, so you were the last person I though of to ask.
I keep hearing his name pop up places so he must be important somehow. Actually, now that I am thinking about it, the monsters Lullaby and Deliora were said to be from the book of Zeref. I wonder how that connects to everything else?
But anyway, just recently we got mixed up in some business involving the tower of heaven, which turned out to be the place Erza had been enslaved for most of her childhood. You might have heard of it somewhere before, it's a tall chaotic looking tower that has the power to revive someone from the dead. They called it the Resurrection system, or the R system, and planned to use it to revive Zeref. That was the first time I really started wondering about the dark mage.
It all started when some of Erza's old friends from the tower of heaven captured us and brought us to the tower. Here we found out about Erza's dark past and that she and many other children had been enslaved to help with the construction of the R system.
We learned that when she was still there Erza had been accused of trying to lead an escape and was tortured, which led to her friend Jellal saving her, but only to be caught in her place.
But unlike Erza, when Jellal was captured he was possessed by Zeref, and then by the time Erza had come to rescue him there was nothing she could do to save him.
Jellal was able to trick Erza into leaving the tower alone, leading everyone else to believe she had abandoned them. For all this time since then, Jellal had kept up the construction of the R system and was very close to completing it.
Jellal was even able to create his own double to become a member of the magic council, and then got the other members to agree to destroy the tower of heaven with the Etherion, the magic council's strongest magic item. But instead of the Etherion destroying the tower like everyone had been led to believe, it actually gave the rest of the magic power Jellal needed to complete the R system.
All he needed to do now was sacrifice someone to the R system and then he would be able to revive Zeref. Crazy right? It was a very thought out plan and he was so close too! But of course we wouldn't let that happen, I mean, he was trying to bring back a famous dark wizard by sacrificing our friend Erza so we had to stop him.
Natsu was able to beat Jellal in a battle and then save Erza, so everything turned out fine. Natsu may not think things through all the time and can cause a lot of unintentional damage, but when a friend's in danger he is always there to help no matter the challenge.
And anyways if he always thought things through, he wouldn't have had the crazy idea to eat part of the tower's Lacrima causing his dragon slayer magic to reach a new level, and we might not have won.
In the end we didn't find out what happened to Jellal after we left the island. The tower of heaven wasn't completed but came very close to causing a lot of destruction.
Erza thinks that the reason we escaped the tower was because Jellal helped stop it's completion. At first I didn't understand but now that I think about it I could be possible. Once Zeref had left possession of Jellal, Jellal could have become good again.
Erza thinks that he had channeled the towers power through his own body then fired it into the sky. We don't know if he lived or not, or where he would be if he did survive. I can tell Erza wants to believe he is still alive and I kind of do too. I mean after all Jellal was just being used by Zeref and most likely returned close to his old self after.
Later that day we had a big celebration and had a big dinner with Erza's old friends. Then after we ate we set of fireworks and wished good luck to them as they sailed off to explore the world.
Okay, I should be getting some sleep now; everyone else has already headed to bed. I'll can worry about Zeref some other time, and for now I can go to sleep knowing that my friends are safe and wishing for Erza's other friends to be safe on there journey as well. Oh, and hopefully Natsu will be over the sickness that Lacrima gave him, by tomorrow.
I will tell about more adventures soon. Sleep well, goodnight.
Love,
Lucy
