FIVE; THE GIRL WITH SCARLET HAIR

PUBLISHED; JUNE 28, 2015

WORD COUNT; 1331 (EDITED)

MIRAJANE's POV

"My name's Erza Scarlet, it's nice to meet you Mr. Fernandes." a voice that I found very familiar was heard. And it's coming from the main door.

I walked towards the main door to see Jellal standing still but I can still see a hint of red in front of him.

"Erza?" I called when I realized the same long scarlet hair dressed in black clothing.

Jellal turned around and cast a questioning look to me. I smiled.

"Prince Jellal, this is Erza Scarlet, the caterer and drink manager for Master's food, desserts, cake and drinks for the ball.

Jellal straightened his face before turning to Erza.

"Nice to meet you too, Ms. Scarlet." his voice deep and alluring while shaking Erza's hand.

I catched a hint of pink on Erza's cheeks as they shook hands.

Now this should be interesting.

After working for hours, we then decided to call it a day. Every time we are the organizer's for the Dreyar Family, we would sleep on their guest rooms that are like more than 10 in the palace and 3 are specially for us.

One for Lisanna, one for me and one for Elfman.

But now, since Erza is new to the palace, we decided that Elfman's room will be Erza's since Elfman is now married.

When we all decided to go to bed, my mind instantly went back to the time when we first met Erza.

I was walking alone in the park when I saw a hint of red and black in the corner of my eyes. I turned my head to it's direction, landing on a girl with red–no, scarlet hair and black dress.

Her face was full of sorrow and deep frustration as she played with the strands of her hair. And I decided to talk to her.

When I sat by her side, she didn't moved and inch. Not even looking at my side.

So I tried getting her attention by clearing my throat, which is successful because she glanced at my side with wide eyes.

"Hello there" I said, trying to be sweet and gentle not to startle her.

"H-Hi" she hesitated talking to me. I know that. Of course you will hesitate to talk to a complete stranger who came out of nowhere.

"Why are you sad?" I asked and she frowned deeper, averting her gaze to the grass.

When she didn't answered, "It's ok if you don't want to talk about it, I just want-"

"No. It's fine. It's just... I just got out of the jail I've been at and now... I don't know where to start." she spoke while turning to me and smiled a little.

I placed a hand on her shoulder, smiling back to her. And that's when she told her story to me.

How she was locked up in a tower that she called 'Tower of Heaven' and how she met her friends.

She even told me she has a crush on a friend of hers. The sad thing is, she forgot his name and the only thing she remembered was his voice.

ERZA's POV

That voice... I remember that voice...

Could it be?

No... it can't be...

But that voice...

Could it be him?

Could Prince Jellal be the one I knew before?

GRAY's POV

I walked towards the balcony that faces the beach. It's the only part of the palace that I want to be at.

Peace and Quiet

No one else bothering you... peaceful... relaxing...

"I Will Be As One, I want to try to protect you"

Very relaxing... wait what?

"Stay With Me I love you..."

W-where does that come from?

"I'll tell you my overflowing thoughts without hiding them"

That voice... I heard it before...

But where?

I tried to look around but...

there's nothing but the whole beach.

The same beach I last saw the girl with blue curls yesterday.

I still can't believe that she's a mermaid.

Although I'm very sure that she's the same person I saw in my dream...

I walked back to my bedroom and plopped on my bed.

Whatever I'm gonna dream tonight, please make her more visible than before.

Is this water?

I looked around to find myself underwater and full of fishes and... mermaids?

"Master Jose, the princess is nowhere to be found." a boy with black and white hair said to a big guy with red & black hair.

The big guy with black & red hair who is known as Master Jose glared at the boy with black and white hair.

"Find her, Totomaru, find Sol and Aria to look with you too. Don't fail me." the Jose guy said to the boy named Totomaru.

"Y-Yes, Master"

Totomaru swam to his right and stopped when a girl with blue hair was in front of him.

"Princess Juvia!" Juvia? I know that name...

"Totomaru, what seems to be the problem?" I heard a voice... her voice...

"Where the hell were you!" Jose came and hit Juvia on her cheeks.

I gritted my teeth, narrowing my eyes to that Jose guy.

I was about to swim towards them but an unknown force was pulling me down and down to the bottom of the sea.

I reached out my hand, trying to grasp something. But nothing.

Come on! There has to be something!

But still, I was pulled to a darker part of the sea.

And the last thing I heard was a scream.

"Gray! Gray!"

My eyes opened immediately to see Jellal, dad, Wendy and Carla all staring at me with worry on their eyes–well, except for Carla, the girl's colder than I thought.

"Huh?" I asked, wondering why they're all gathered here in my room.

"You were screaming for help, we thought someone was attempting to kill you." Dad joked and I scoffed.

"Gray-nii, are you ok?" Wendy asked and I just nodded at her, I'm not in a mood to talk.

"Seriously, what have you dreamt about?" dad asked and I sighed.

"It's not just a dream..." I whispered and I prayed all the Gods that no one heard it.

But I was wrong.

"It's just a normal effect of the mating season." Jellal spoke and all of us looked at him.

"Natsu dreamt of Lucy the nights after the night he first dreamt of her. It was not just a dream, it's Lucy's life." Jellal explained and dad nodded.

"So... what does she look like, Gray-nii?" my little sister, Wendy asked while looking at me with her eyes sparkling and lips formed into a toothy grin.

"Uhh... she has curly blue hair and has unique voice too... What I haven't seen was her eyes... is that some kind of rule not to see their eyes? It's kind of irritating." I complained.

"We can't see their eyes?" Wendy asked, eyebrows raising.

"Yes. I never saw your mother's eyes when I dreamt of her before." dad said and I nodded.

"Well, that's a good news" I sarcastically said while Wendy giggles.

"Do you know her name? We can ask the villagers if you'd like." Dad suggested and I grinned.

"Nah. I already know where I can find her."

A/N: Hi there! Since one of my best friend is already reading this story... Her OTP is Jerza so... I decided to make this chapter a little bit dedicated to her lol.

Anyways... I will update sooner and maybe the next chapter will be full of NaLu moments... just a maybe though Don't worry GrUvia fans! I will be making lots and lots of GrUvia soon!

-rossyla