Fairy Tail not belongs to me is owned by Hiro Mashima
The cover belongs to omake of Hiro Mashima 'Fairy Tail of the dead'
—PRIDE + PREJUDICE + ICHIYAS—
A Fairy Tail fanfic 100% ~meeeeeeeeen, inspired by the omake of Hiro Mashima, Fairy Tail of the dead and the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride, prejudice and zombies (Austen, J. 1813, Pride and Prejudice)
WARNING: Gruesome scenes of ichiyas who terrorize and sniff humans
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OPENING: Escape the Fate - You are so beautiful
—o9o—
—ROYAL HEAVENLY—
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JELLAL LOOKED THROUGH the window of the carriage to the abhorrent who wandered through the meadow. A few hours ago he had left Crocus City and was heading towards Westernshire. He breathed a sigh of relief that he was not forced to interrupt the journey to annihilate the monsters that were far enough away so as not to arouse the fear of an imminent attack. He also did not address Era, the headquarters of the Magic Council, although he also remembered that he had to be present as soon as possible to present his report, otherwise, there was a possibility that the members of the Council would take him for a rebel. It was important? No, because as was customary, since leaving Fairyshire, he thinking in… Erza.
"What is Erza doing? What is she thinking about? Will she be safe?" Jellal gave a deep sigh full of uncertainty. He has not seen her in a long time, three weeks! Almost immediately he began to feel fear and doubt invading him, but he shook his head in an attempt to get rid of all those thoughts that at any moment would end up driving him crazy.
"If I keep thinking of her like that, anyone, even the most skeptical, Erik for example, would think that I'm really in love." Himself said alarmed to realize that he even saw the face of that girl in his mind, as if she were there… with him.
"In love?" Jellal tried to convince himself that he was incapable of feeling such a thing, that it was a subject he could not assimilate and that he had long since abandoned. But no, he was not in love, simply because it could not be, it should not be! It would not be fair to fall in love with Erza, that girl so brave and beautiful, strong and intelligent and so…"Erza."
Being her was her best quality, being incredibly determined, reckless and dangerous, and having that determination that did not wane regardless of the dangers or obstacles. Jellal smiled at the thought of that, thinking of her, but that smile was quickly replaced by a grimace of anguish.
"You do not deserve her," he scolded again harshly, clenching his fists hard.
"Are we there yet?" Natsu, scattered in the seat in front, managed to babble.
Jellal, after hearing that question returned to the harsh and painful reality, although that did not make much difference.
"Did you find a very long trip Natsu?" Happy asked between amused and worried, while he rubbed his back.
The wizard saint was surprised when he noticed that the carriage was already on the path that led to his house. Time passed like a whirlwind, because he did not know if that trip seemed short or long, it did not matter.
The carriage ran along the shadowed roadway, flanked by trees and just over half way. Jellal and what was left of the Dragon Slayer could already envision the magnificent Royal Heavenly Keep. Before they even stopped of the majestic building, unable to stand the wait any longer, Jellal opened the carriage door and jumped down quickly. He entered the house with great strides and if at that moment he took anyone ahead, then he would apologize, all he wanted was to see Wendy!
When he entered the training room, the first thing he saw was a white exceed floated in the air, and kneeling on the ground, in the middle of a magic circle, a small girl with blue hair, who recited an enchantment.
Jellal was touched to hear the sweet voice of his sister, for the first time, in many days.
"Brother!" The blue-haired girl was filled with happiness when she saw Jellal and ran to hug him while he picked her up and twirled her through the air. "I'm so happy you're back!" Wendy exclaimed.
"Me too," Jellal had a huge smile when he returned her sister to the floor, "I even got to believe that I was not coming back."
"Are the territories of the lake so bad?" The little exceed interrupted that pleasant meeting.
"Natsu," Wendy directed that friendly greeting to the newcomer boy, who was standing in the doorway.
The Dragon Slayer responded with a slight nod and retired in silence, because although he was relieved by the end of the trip, he did not feel any enthusiasm for being in Heavenly. Wendy noticed it and as soon as she saw Natsu walking down the hall she asked her brother in a tone of concern.
"Does something happen with Natsu?"
"He's going through a difficult situation." Jellal had no choice but to confess that something bad was happening with Natsu and considering that at any moment they would return to combat Jellal had an idea, "I wish that during the time that Natsu stays here, you help him to be the same as before," he asked his sister. "Would you do it for me?"
And how it could be otherwise, Wendy willingly agreed, "I will do everything in my power, but," the girl made a brief pause, "The magic of healing does not heal the wounds of the heart, dear brother."
"How do you know?" Jellal asked surprised.
"A hunch, do not worry," Wendy clarified, reassuring his brother, "Charle has not told me anything," she smile, "But even I can tell."
At that moment, an older woman with pink hair and red eyes entered the room.
"Girl, I brought the book of enchantments I told you about."
"Mrs. Porlyusica," Jellal said with a wave of his hand, "It's a pleasure to see you again."
"It's you?" The pink-haired woman made a gesture of displeasure and crossed her arms. "I already thought you were dead."
"How do you say that, Porlyusica?" Jellal pretended indignation, "If I even missed you, old witch," he smiled.
"Stop calling me old, okay?" Porlyusica said angry and took out an intimidating broom began to pursue the Commander of the army of the north, a scandalous ridiculous scene of which only a few could be witnesses, this time, the little girl with blue hair, the white exceed and…
"Aye!"
"I should have seen it coming," Charle lamented, shaking her head.
And so…
"I never wanted to interrupt," Jellal apologized watching the garden through the window, "But I could not stand the urge to see Wendy."
"Yes, anyway," the woman replied sourly, "You saw her and now get out of here! I have things to do." Porlyusica gave that talk finished and returned to her own, but noticing that the magician was still in the room said, "What's wrong? Did not I say you were going?"
"I met her Porlyusica," Jellal whispered with a touch of melancholy, "with Kagura."
"Humans are no different from the abhorrent." Porlyusica snapped her tongue and crossed her arms." What they do instinctively, you do it for fun."
"Are you so severe with those of your own kind?" Jellal asked hiding a smile, because he already knew the answer.
"Always!"
"You must be more cautious when it comes to issuing a sentence or you risk being hated and rightly so," Jellal warned. "You can change your mind."
"I will not do it!" Porlyusica answered resolutely. "And it's about time to tell the girl about that issue, or do you prefer me to do it?"
"No," Jellal looked down at the floor. "That's something I must do. I'll do it soon, meanwhile," the wizard saint was alarmed to realize he was rambling, was that normal? He needed to better organize his thoughts. "Tomorrow we'll talk."
"Well, you'll do it by yourself, because I do not want to talk to you." Porlyusica pointed toward the exit door.
Jellal smiled, he knew perfectly well when his presence was annoying and unwanted by that special woman and he withdrew silently raising his hand in farewell.
"Humans," Porlyusica muttered.
—oOo—
The following days did not mean a single minute of peace, since Jellal had to be absent for various reasons. The blue-haired boy had to go back to tedious administrative work; therefore, he had left Heavenly every morning. Finally, one afternoon when he was free, he found Wendy reading amusingly in the garden.
"What are you reading, Wendy?" He asked curiously.
"A magic story," the little girl answered, looking up from her reading. "Really, love. Miss Meredy gave it to me a long time ago, it's very beautiful, but sad," she said thoughtfully. "How far would you be able to reach out of love?"
Strangely, Jellal was affected by that question of his little sister, so he could not help but ask, "What do you mean?"
"This book talks about the first magic," explained the girl, "about a cursed boy and girl who could not be together and then something terrible happened."
"Wendy." Jellal whispered.
Charle's intervention, clearing her throat, interrupted the uncomfortable moment.
"This came to you in the morning," she turned to Jellal waving the letter in her hand. "Read it, you will find it very interesting."
"For real?" Jellal said and Wendy, not wanting to pass for impertinent pretended to return to her reading, while his brother taking that letter began to read.
Hello Jellal!
You do not know how relieved I feel to know that you are back in Westernshire, when we heard about the quarantine we started to believe that you were not going to return, but it is good to know that everything went well.
Now I have to give you very bad news, not to mention, terrible news!
Meredy! I remind you that this is my letter
The council has met and demands our presence in Era, I hope that it is only a meeting to present our respective reports, maybe they will give us a new assignment or finally they will send us to the north front. We have moved to Lupinus until we are reassigned. Come as soon as possible, we are in an amazing place!
Ultear and Meredy
Jellal sighed when he finished reading that letter from Ultear or was it Meredy? Wendy was about to ask what the letter was saying, but Jellal said, "It's from Crime Sorcière, Ultear and the others returned from their last mission. Would you mind if I go to see them?"
"And since when my brother has to ask me permission to go out to see his friends?" Wendy replied with a funny smile. "Try to return as soon as possible," she said put on some supplicant eyes, "we have barely had time to chat and that I remember, you still owe me a story."
"What story?" Jellal asked bewildered.
"The story of that girl you met in Fairyshire."
"How did you know about Erza?" Jellal asked, not remembering to mention her at any time.
"Aye!" was heard from somewhere nearby.
"And so, the mystery is solved." Charle raised that sarcastic comment.
"Miss Mirajane once wrote to me about some incredible things that Happy undertook to confirm," Wendy explained. "He told me you had an unfortunate link with a girl in Fairyshire."
"It was nothing." Jellal became tense or nervous and did not really know and did not give importance, "I'll tell you as soon as I return soon, and please, take care of our Natsu."
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Soon, Jellal left Heavenly and while he was heading towards the Crime Sorcière base in Lupinus, he thought about how difficult it was to get used to the relaxed atmosphere of the safest region of Fiore. In fact, to hear of the presence of a horde besieging some small town, was a novelty.
"The problem is not the lack of action, in Fairyshire we had to be alert, even in peacetime," he said rested his chin on the palm of his hand. He was sure that this sensation would pass to him immediately, that he would become accustomed to the tranquility of Westernshire, to the tedious life behind a desk.
Arriving at Lupinus, the address that said the letter, Jellal met Ultear, a magician with black hair, who received him with a smile that did not inspire any confidence.
"You're fast," the witch greeted as a joke as they entered the room.
"I was very surprised by the letter you sent me this morning," Jellal replied.
"Until you finally deign to appear," said a girl with pink hair waiting in the hall and added pointing with her finger, "She said you were dead."
"What?"
"It's not true." Ultear shrugged.
"Whatever you say," Jellal crossed his arms indignant.
"How is Wendy?" The pink-haired girl asked.
"Excellent, Meredy," Jellal replied with a smile. "Much stronger than the last time I saw her."
"Yes, I'm glad," Ultear interjected and then spoke with a higher tone. "Erik or low or I'll look for you!"
"I challenge you." That voice was heard from some corridor on the upper floors of the house, which belonged to the Poison Dragon Slayer.
Ultear ran up the stairs, moment that Meredy took the opportunity to ask, "Jellal, what do you think if we first take a walk through the wall?"
"I do not know, maybe I should stay," Jellal answered when he heard the screams and struggles on the top floor.
"It will not take long," Meredy insisted. "I can guess that Erik will come, too." she smiled.
"If you put it that way," the blue-haired boy sighed defeated.
—oOo—
"Do not you think something strange is happening?" Wendy asked Charle as they drank tea on one of the terraces that faced the garden.
"What do you mean?"
"Jellal, since my brother arrived, he has not stopped joking and smiling and Natsu… I wonder, why will he be like that?"
"For a girl," Charle replied in a neutral voice because she was not sure if Wendy meant Natsu or Jellal or both.
Wendy assumed this last, so she quickly asked, "Is that girl involved with the other girl?" she whispered. "Miss Erza?"
"Yes, both are Fairy Tail magicians," Happy suddenly appeared interrupting the conversation.
"Happy!" Wendy exclaimed in amazement and Charle rolled her eyes.
"They call themselves the Fairyshire's Fairies," Happy continued. "Sisters in adversity and fight and Erza is the older sister of all."
"Fight sisters?" Wendy said thoughtfully. "And while Natsu spent time with Miss Erza's sister, was my brother with…?"
"No," Charle shook her head. "It's complicated."
"They were never so much alone," Happy was in charge of clarifying everything, "And the time they were together was not pleasant for neither of them, the truth was very funny."
"Can you tell me, Happy?" Wendy asked, moved by curiosity.
"I would not recommend it," Charle protested, "But I'm curious too and then male cat?"
"Aye!" Happy exclaimed and began to relate. "It all started a month ago, at the Fairy Tail Hall party…"
—P+P+I—
Although Jellal had once walked on the walls of Lupinus, he was always impressed by the sight of them. The perimeter wall had an exorbitant height and appearance, adorned by some fortified tower or embrasure. As a whole, that castle city was so huge that it seemed incredible that it had been built by human hands.
Surprisingly, Jellal halted his footsteps and leaning over the battlement, he cast a melancholy glance toward the ashen horizon and murmured, "If we were in Fairyshire it would be six in the afternoon."
"It would be six o'clock anywhere in Fiore," Ultear said oddly.
"I mean," Jellal replied his eyes lost in the distant mountains, "That at this hour there would be a beautiful scarlet sky, I do not see anything here."
The witch was speechless; she missed seeing the blue-haired boy that way, she thought maybe he felt nostalgic, "for leaving Fairyshire?"
"At least you're in Westernshire, at any time you can go home with Wendy," Meredy commented nonchalantly, keeping her balance as she walked along the edge of the wall. "Jellal, do you feel good?" the girl asked when noticing that Jellal was in another universe.
"Of course," Jellal nodded knowingly that he was not deceiving anyone.
"Really?" The boy with the red hair that accompanied the walk laughed sarcastically. "I see you so distracted, maybe… no," he shook his head. "It must be an idea of mine," he insinuated, with a wicked smile. "But I suppose it will be because of your fatal encounter in Fairyshire," he said. "I'm very sorry."
"Are you sorry, Erik?" Jellal asked reproachfully. "Did you know I was thinking about that the girl of Fairyshire?"
"There the reason for your distraction." Ultear concluded.
"So you've fallen in love?" Meredy addressed that question to Jellal. "Then you're tolerant of being distracted." She shrugged, "Everything for your lady."
"No, Meredy, you're wrong." Erik corrected the girl. "Jellal was thinking of a girl with whom he has outstanding accounts."
"That issue that nobody tells me anything about?" Meredy exclaimed disappointment. "Anyway, we should put an ad that says, A good-looking guy of twenty-six years, with the title of wizard saint and quite grumpy, look for lady who is willing to follow his step in the annihilation of abhorrent for the rest of her life or by less three months. What do you say, Ultear?"
"I do not think that's going to work." The Ark Time magician could not stop laughing. "How do you think of those things, Meredy?"
"In desperate times, desperate measures, also, I keep hoping that one day Jellal will find his warrior fairy."
"Warrior fairy?" Ultear showed off that title raising a loud laugh.
"Warrior fairy," Jellal thought. It so happened that Meredy had come up with the denomination of the Magnolia defenders whose leader was, "Erza."
The thoughts of the blue-haired boy returned to that redhead girl once more. Jellal had long since lost control of everything she thought, but he embraced reality and returned to the meeting table as he listened to his classmates comment on Natsu.
"Jellal, is what I'm listening right? Is Natsu a broken heart?" Richard regretted and Meredy commented, "It is impossible for me to even imagine it."
"I feel very bad for Natsu," Jellal said annoyed with himself. "The worst thing is that I have many reasons to believe that if it continues, this will not end well. The honor of one of the fairies is involved and Fairy Tail has already shown that the debt for a dishonor is paid with blood."
"Maybe you're right," Erik mused. "The best thing in this case would have been to let things take their course."
"And that Natsu ruined it as it usually happens?" Sawyer chuckled mischievously.
"Anyway," said Ultear, giving that talk finished and looking at the members of Crime Sorcière began to relate. "I just received the report that abhorrent hordes are lurking in North Heavenly in Westernshire, in a few weeks it will be hundreds," she said in a worried tone.
"But we already got rid of all those abhorrent," complained a white-haired wizard, ignoring the man who slept beside her. "Where do they reproduce?"
"North Westernshire is mountainous," Jellal said quite seriously. "Even if they meet it will take days to arrive and any of those ichiyas who dare to set foot in Royal Heavenly will see its end."
"Ichiyas?" Meredy asked with a curious smile.
"Long story," Jellal answered, downplaying the matter.
That assembly, the first in several months, continued on a regular basis, with the presentation of reports, the formation of teams, new assignments, representations and preparations for the early incursion into the lands of the north, without neglecting the adjectives used and the witty comments that looked more like poisonous daggers directed at anyone who was not alert, a typical meeting.
"Are you going to stay here tonight?" Meredy asked Jellal as soon as the meeting was over.
"No, I promised Wendy that Heavenly would return as soon as possible," Jellal excused himself.
"Then we'll see each other when you get back from Akane," Ultear said with a smile.
"Keep without being sniffed until then." Meredy said goodbye effusive.
—oOo—
Jellal returned to Heavenly after the meeting with Crime Sorcière. How it could be otherwise, I thought of Erza. When he arrived, he entered the house and, greeting everyone, walked through the corridors at a quick pace to the training room to see Wendy, because she remembered that she had wanted to show her progress in the fight, but he stopped his hand on the latch of the door to realize that his little sister and pink-haired friend had a serious conversation.
"For all I heard, I think they are for each other, do you both feel the same affection?" Wendy asked.
"I'm not sure she loves me as much as I love her," Natsu answered and then laughed aloud. "Excuse me, Wendy; really, I do not know what stupid things I'm saying."
Jellal was sad to hear Natsu, to hear him repeat his words. "If we both felt the same affection," he sighed.
"Miss Lucy," Wendy mused, "Must be incredible because of the way Happy expresses herself about her."
Natsu looked at the little blue-haired girl carefully and Wendy noticed his pain when he finally declared to her, "Lucy is… Lucy."
"Does she know? Maybe you should go back to Fairyshire and tell her."
"Do you think I can do that?" Natsu asked distressedly. "To tell Luce what I think I feel, how special is she to me?"
Jellal noticed the bitterness in Natsu's voice and decided it was time to put an end to the conversation. He pushed with his hands the huge doors of the room opening them wide and entering greeted.
"I'm home now." He smiled.
"Brother!" Wendy exclaimed. "It's good that you arrived early."
"I promised I would," Jellal answered with a shrug.
"How's everybody?"
"I think that well, they have not lost that strange sense of humor that they have, especially Meredy, you know how happy she is."
"Jellal, could you tell me what motivated you to come earlier?" Natsu asked.
"All in due time Natsu," Jellal replied. "I will tell you the news during dinner," he said inviting Natsu and his sister to go to the dining room to taste the food he had ordered to serve.
—oOo—
"I'm sorry to have to leave again." Jellal apologized to Natsu and went back to review the documents he had on his desk. "I would not do it if the matter was not important."
"Job?" Natsu pointed out, looking distractedly at the nothingness.
"No, this time it's the Magical Council." Jellal sighed.
"What happens?" Natsu asked.
"Etherion," the blue-haired boy muttered. "Etherion is our ultimate weapon."
"Have you seen his destructive power?" Natsu reproached Jellal. "It has the power to destroy an entire country."
Jellal look at Natsu, wanting to see in his face some expression different from the disappointment that had presented the last days, really cared for him. But he gave up when he did not find anything.
"I should go to Akane Beach soon to the Etherion demonstration," Jellal said, taking a thinking attitude. "It has been a good time since I have not attended a session of the Magical Council that they may feel off ended and even threatened by my disappearance."
"Maybe I also have to go there. Sorry, I'll go, too?"
"No, Natsu," Jellal replied, shaking her head, "The trip is very long and I do not want you to break down, the best thing is that you stay here, Erik was not too excited to travel either. Richard and me can take charge without any problem. Besides, I feel safer with you here to take care of Wendy." He smiled.
At that moment, Wendy ran into the study and said, "Chelia arrives tomorrow!" she exclaimed. "I am anxious to show her my new magical power. I've practiced a lot and I want to show you before you leave."
"I have a better idea" Jellal gave a smile, "Why do not you show it to me now?"
"Sure, are not you tired from the trip?"
Jellal laughed, "You know I'm never too tired for you," he reproached to Wendy. "Only I'll be serious."
"I will also fight seriously!" Wendy replied.
For the first time in several days, Natsu flashed a broad and contagious smile and exclaimed, "This I want to see!"
And so, brother and sister had a fight in the training room.
Jellal and Wendy kept their eyes fixed on the other. Both began to release the magical power, which made the enclosure tremble. The first movement was Jellal, who made use of the meteor attacked the girl with a kick that she blocked with her arm. Wendy did not stay behind and increasing her speed with Ile Vernier attacking with the sky dragon's wing. Jellal backed away avoiding the blow with his hands, but he did not count on Wendy jumping in the air and attacking with the sky dragon's claw. The Dragon Slayer was left unprotected and Jellal took the opportunity to attack, but she, moving her hands, created a powerful current of air as a barrier between the two, and directed sky drill to her brother, who after being dragged by the updraft fell to the ground and Wendy totally exhausted sat on her knees.
"Excuse me, I still do not control the Shattering Ligth," the panting girl apologized.
"What are you talking about, Wendy? You were phenomenal." Jellal congratulated her sister, sitting up.
"If he had been a more rested and alert, you would not have done anything to him." Charle flew into the room. "It's Jellal's fault," she said, laying her paws on the floor.
"That's right, only someone stupid can think of facing a Dragon Slayer without using any kind of defensive spell," Natsu laughed. "Hey, Wendy, what do you think if starting tomorrow we train the two together?" he proposed and Wendy nodded.
While the Dragon Slayers planned the training for the next few days, Jellal took the opportunity to ask Charle for a private interview.
"What are you going to do?" She answered resigned.
"Wendy has progressed incredibly fast, right Charle?" Jellal began that conversation by closing the door of his office.
"Wendy is quite motivated with the raid to the north," the white kitty replied, "Which reminds me…"
"Not Charle, I'm not going to back down." Jellal said.
"I'm glad to hear that much." Charle flew to the chair where the blue-haired boy was waiting for her. "But that's not the reason why you asked me to talk, right?"
"Of course," Jellal took a seat, "It's about what you told me, about that meeting in Fairyshire. As you already knew," Jellal put his hands together and thought about what he was going to say, after much meditating, he finally said, "Do you know that I ran into Kagura in the Magnolia Town camp?"
"That's right," said Charle. "I knew you would suffer because of that encounter."
"Are you sure it was that the only encounter?" Jellal asked, unable to hide his annoyance. "Did you know anything about Miss Scarlet?"
"Nothing more than what I had told you before you left for Fairyshire." Charle raised her hand to her head, "That a scarlet knight will pierce your heart."
"Scarlet kinght?" Jellal sighed as he remembered Erza and how Charle had called her a knight. And to think that people called her Titania, to think that he had seen her that night in Fairy Tail Hall, that he would turn his face over and over again to see her and only her!
"A scarlet knight will pierce your heart," rumbled in his head, "Scarlet? Scarlet like her hair, scarlet like her name… Scarlet."
"Did I say something wrong?" Charle asked seeing him so deep in thought.
"No," said Jellal, shaking his head, "Do you think if we continue our conversation as soon as I get back from Akane? Is something happening to you, Charle?" He asked seeing her in shock.
"Nothing."
"Very well," Jellal got up and went to the exit. "I feel tired, because of the combat, you understand me."
"Of course," said Charle. "Is there anything else I can do for you?"
"No, do not worry, see you tomorrow."
After crossing the threshold, Jellal closed his eyes and twisted his lips in an incipient smile.
"Erza, it will be that you," The human and the exceed thought at the same time.
"I must tell him?"
"I must tell her?"
Jellal retired to his room while thinking everything at once, in Kagura and Simon, Wendy and Natsu, Crime Sorcière and the campaign in the north, Etherion, Erza. When was the last time you had to think about so many things at once? He decided that the best thing would be to relax and he blocked his mind from all the problems that worried him and he only focused on one person, on Erza.
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ENDING: David Bowie - As the World Falls Down
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***Romance is possible even in a world dominated by ichiyas***
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