Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters; they belong to the one and only Hiro Mashima.

I do own the idea for the fic though.

AN: Sweet~! More reviews! That made my day brighter indeed! Aside this awesome cup of coffee… but never mind that, you guys are awesome, thanks. Let's see now… there were a few calls for something that can completely tag this story as… Jerza? Jelza? All in all, the same thing. I shall answer to those calls of yours, since this is why I wrote some built up in the earlier chapters. *chuckles amusedly*

Onto the story…

Stargazer.

Crocus's Central Station…

"Ice Make: Lances!" Gray yelled as he shot another barrage of ice lances at the target flying inside the station, missing every single shot and jumping to the side when the target shot several beams to break and pierce through his attack. He rolled on the ground to avoid the hits and glared at the flying orb of magenta color that was harassing them, which was responsible for the derailment of the train in which they were. "Stay still, dammit!"

The orb bounced off a wall, obliterating it with its touch and avoided a slash from a woman wearing a winged silver armor, flying off the other side of the station while dropping several blasts of a color similar to its own that blew up on contact with the ground, causing large explosions.

'What kind of magic is that?' Erza thought as she saw the blasts destroying more and more of the huge building, her glance more focused on the civilians trying to escape and the guards that were doing their best to contain the situation. 'We didn't notice the train was under attack until it hit us.' Her blond friend was over there with them, making sure no one got hurt by the fallen debris with her spirits at her sides. She looked at Gray trying to land a hit on the flare again, failing to do so but allowing her an opening to try another strike that also failed. She glared at the orb and summoned a quintet of swords to shoot at it. 'And it feels much more oppressive than Dark Magic.'

"Erza!" The Ice wizard called making a shield to defend himself from another bombing, the ice shattering on impact and sending him tumbling a few meters back, off the platform and over the rails, close to the destroyed train cars. He got up from the ground and remained on a kneeling position, keeping an eye on the flying orb and its movement patterns. "It repeats its runs!"

"Alright!" 'If I make it more aware of the swords,' The woman yelled back with her mind commanding her swords to follow the orb across the building, tailing its movements and making the swords get in the way of any new bombings. 'It'll change its pattern,' she rushed forward when she thought she had its pattern figured out, getting ready to slash at it when at reach… 'And when it does, it's time to strike!' "Aaaaaaahhh!"

"Don't touch it!"

"Aghh!?" 'W-what…!?' …but she ended up being pushed aside when the sword was a millimeter from reaching its aim, her eyes catching a glimpse of blue-hair and golden light before she hit the floor of the platform. 'W-who…?' Quickly collecting her thoughts and composure, she raised her torso from the floor and looked at the person that stopped her, finding the young man of blue hair standing in front of her, glaring at the same orb she was going to destroy. "Jonah! What are you-!?"

"Don't touch it, it explodes on contact." Jonah explained with his eyes not missing any movement of the orb, raising one of his guns and shooting a volley of beams to pursue it, seeing the target releasing beams of its own to counter his and stay on flight. 'It's booby-trapped… more dangerous than the ones it releases…'

"I know it does, but why did you stop me?" Erza asked standing up from the ground, holding her swords tight and waiting for an answer from the youngster. She already saw what that spell could do and she wasn't afraid of getting a few scratches so to stop it. Why was this kid so worked up over that?

"'Why?' Are you really asking me that?" He clicked his tongue and looked over his shoulder, giving a stern look to the woman behind him. "If you touch it, it explodes, if it explodes, you will be injured." His brown eyes narrowed dangerously, keeping the red-head on the spot and attentive to listen carefully to his next words. "I will never allow that."

And he flew off in pursue of the orb, leaving a confused Erza behind him to wonder about what he meant, watching him shoot volley after volley of beams to make the orb explode from a safe distance, with other beams serving to stop any more bombings.

'What did he mean by that?' She questioned internally, narrowing her eyes and stepping aside when the man and the orb flew close to her place. Was it perhaps related to what he told her that morning? How? 'Protect someone…' She recalled his words, her eyelids opening slowly as realization struck her and her gaze fully focused on the young man. 'He's here to protect me?'

"Heaven's Rain!" Jonah yelled while shooting another volley, seeing the same thing as before happening again and the orb keeping on with its path of destruction. He clenched his teeth in annoyance and sent his gun back to the pocket dimension, extending his arms to the sides and creating spheres of Heavenly Body Magic. He glared at the roaming orb of his enemy. "You won't escape my Orion's Belt!"

The spheres flew around the station with little control on the minor destruction they were causing, after the purple orb through train cars, hallways and the close to the ceiling by crushing everything on their path to do so, windows, pillars, posters, signs, benches and other random ware falling victim to their rampage while on the chase of the enemy's spell.

'I need to set up a trap of my own.' He commanded the golden spheres forward and made them follow the other one, creating more in the process and placing them in spots he knew the purple orb was going to take. 'Cage it inside a barrier.' he moved his hands in a certain motion and the spheres that were on the way of the orb flew around in a triangular formation, creating bars of light to connect each other before shutting down any escape routes with thick layers of the same golden magic. He smirked in satisfaction. 'And then cause a controlled explosion inside it.'

"H-he did it…?" Gray asked after seeing the strategy of the young man, seeing the purple orb they were trying to take down darting from one place to the other inside the barrier in search of a way to escape.

"Good work, Jonah!" Lucy yelled from the entrance to the main platform, waving a hand to the blue-haired man and his accomplishment.

"Who is that boy?" Another spectator in between the broken train cars asked, clearly intrigued with this young man who looked like him and that could use the same magic with ease. He moved a few seats out of his way and got to a better position, taking a closer inspection of the young man.

"So, you truly don't know him?" Meredy blinked a couple of times, moving from her place to follow the man in readjusting their view of the situation and saw him shaking his head in negative at her question. "I really thought he was a relative of yours."

"He's not… I'm sure I have no family." Jellal said in wondering, sensing something off with the boy and his magic, aside how good he could use it. There was something that was hidden at the core. Something dark and frightening that he could compare to something he felt once before. His eyes widened in shock as the realization dawned on him. "I think we found our killer, Meredy."

"Uh?" The girl turned her head to the man in surprise, shifting her eyes from one blue-haired to the other. This boy was the killer? But he was helping the wizards of Fairy Tail… how did he reach that conclusion? "W-what do you mean?"

"Now I only need to make it explode." Jonah murmured to himself, crossing his hands in front of him and getting ready to give the last command. It was difficult to control that many spheres at the same time to orchestrate this kind of tactic but it was worth it. He needed to get rid of this menace and trace the culprit at once before it could do any more damage.

Speaking of the devil.

"Do you know how much of a pain," a cold voice whispered behind him, making his eyes widen in fear and stop his actions completely. The voice behind him smirked in amusement, one hand holding a similar orb to the one trapped inside the Heavenly Body spell. "It is to create that kind of Explosion Magic?"

'B-behind me!?' The blue-haired teen turned around as quickly as he could, forming another sphere of golden magic in one hand to meet the one of his foe. A blinding explosion occurred when both spells crashed against each other, leaving the Fairies and the people in the dark staring in amazement and distress at the cloud of smoke that formed after the blast.

"W-what the hell!?" Gray yelled in shock, seeing something moving from one of the corners of the cloud and later finding that to be a heavily burnt Jonah. He was going to run and try to catch him but a whip of sorts that came from the cloud made him stop and stare in bafflement at how it tied itself around the young man and swung him harshly against the ceiling. "Jonah!"

"G-gah!" The youngster gasped at the sudden crash, feeling his lungs losing the little oxygen they had aside an intense pain that only served to add itself to the one he could feel from the burns. It made him scream with the remnant of his air.

"I will tell you again because you seem to forget it." An amused voice rung inside the cloud of smoke; it was the one flinging the blue-haired man against the walls of the station without holding back. The smoke started to clear bit by bit with so much movement from the whip and a young girl with long, purple hair was revealed to the people inside the station. She let go of the young man by throwing him towards the Ice wizard and smirked widely at his bruised aspect. "I hate your meddling around in my business, Jonah."

"W-woah! I've got you!" The wizard reassured when he caught the young man in his arms, feeling the heat from the burns and the slight bleeding from some wounds that was dropping on his hands. He checked the youngster and found him to be conscious, if barely, and directed his most hateful glare to the one who did this. "Who the fuck are you!?"

The girl gave a smile and shrugged, both hands rising to the sides to make her point. "Who knows? Who cares?"

Erza snapped out of her shock when she heard her friend's question to the purple-haired girl, shifting on her feet and taking off to the air, floating at the same height with the revealed enemy. She frowned when she noticed the girl looking at her with the same smirk. "What is your name?"

"Oh… a familiar face I haven't seen in a while." The girl teased with her smile changing to a growing smirk, moving a few strands of her hair with little attention to the glares sent in her direction. "This really is the past."

"I asked you something," the woman repeated sternly, gripping her swords tightly for when she had to beat the answer out of the wizard. She didn't know who she was, and honestly, she couldn't care one bit despite the obvious hint in her words that said she belonged to the future as well as the blue-haired youngster. All that mattered was that she injured, gravely, one of their guild mates and that could only mean one thing. "Answer me!"

"I dunno if I should tell you," the girl giggled with a hollowed voice, narrowing her eyes at the Titania in a gleeful way with one hand covering her mouth and pointing at something behind the woman at the same time. "You look very busy now, Erza."

"Uh?" Erza looked taken aback for a second before noticing the approaching attack to her back, taking one quick look over her shoulder to see the orb that the young man managed to encage heading straight towards her. The barrier must have had dispelled itself after the heavy damage its creator suffered. She spread her armor's wings and took off to the ceiling, seeing with shock that the orb was now set on following her. She clicked her tongue in annoyance and sent three swords to hit it, the orb merely dodging or getting out-of-the-way to continue with the pursuit. 'I cannot fight if that thing's hot on my trail.'

"G-Gray!" Lucy called as soon as she reached the dark-haired wizard with Taurus and Scorpio on toe, casting a worried glance over the wounds and burns across the young man's body. She knelt next to them and attempted to lay a hand on him only to stop midway, remembering that her action could add more pain to his nerves. She looked at her friend and saw him with his attention on the battle. "I-Is he going to be alright?"

"I don't know, but if we don't deal with that girl and take him to a hospital…!" Gray gritted his teeth and glared at the girl of purple hair, finding her to be familiar somehow or really close to looking like someone he knew. He clicked his tongue and passed the youngster on his arms to the blonde, standing up and getting ready to join the fight. "Look after him! I'll go and give Erza a hand!"

"G-Gray, stop!" The girl tried to stop him but her pleas fell on deaf ears, she saw the man doing a spell and shooting a huge hammer at the enemy, only for the purple-haired to shatter it with a movement of her hand. "W-who could she be?"

"She's enveloped by a thick and hostile magic power." Scorpio answered her, looking at the girl with careful eyes and clenched fists. "It feels cold from the inside out."

"Moooooo! Want us to help in the fight, Lucy-san?" Taurus asked with his ax at the ready, hunching slightly in preparation.

"N-no, you two stay here and protect us if she tries to attack us." Lucy ordered to her spirits, not knowing what else to do. She was sure that if they tried to make a run for it and take Jonah to the hospital, the girl would attack them and close any kind of escape routes. She closed her eyes tightly in impotence. 'W-what else can we do!?'

"O-overwhelm… her…"

"Uh? Jonah…?" Looking down at the young man, she found him with one eye partly open and fixed on the girl floating in the middle of the station, one hand trying to rise itself from the ground to point in her direction. "W-what did you say?"

"O-overwhelm her… s-she cannot…" He felt like coughing from trying to force his body to move and speak but contained himself. They didn't know how dangerous this girl could be and he just remembered how much she could. "S-she cannot defend from a large offensive… o-overwhelm her…!"

'If we surround her with many spells… will that work?' She saw the battleground around her and found Erza still running away from the orb and Gray trying to land a hit on the girl, both unsuccessful on their tries to get rid of their targets. If she helped Erza, she would have her joining the joint attack, but, if she were to send both of her spirits to help Gray, if they happened to hit the girl and knock her off her concentration… "Alright!" She nodded firmly and looked at her spirits, pointing at the girl. "Help Gray! Coordinate to attack at the same time with him!"

"Right on!"

"Mooo! Understood!"

"Ice Make!" Gray got ready to launch another spell and saw the spirits stepping forward to help him. An eyebrow lifted in questioning, 'A joint assault?' and grinned in appraisement for his friend's idea, 'I can work with that!' bringing his hands back before bringing them forward with a huge bow of ice on their grip. "Bow and…! A flurry of frozen arrows shot themselves at the purple-haired girl when he gave the last command in his mind. "Arrows!"

Taurus lifted a stray piece of rubble from the ground and threw it at the girl, knowing his axe-attacks wouldn't be of much use in this situation, while Scorpio used his Sand Buster to push the rubble ahead steadily with more force and speed.

"Oh, trying to overpower me?" The girl grinned at the array of spells sent in her direction and shook her head, using a simple flick of her wrist to send the boulder and the sand thrown at her to stop the Ice mage's arrows, the attack finally colliding with a wall to her left, much to the wizards' and the spirits' shock. "You'll have to try harder than that."

"Fire Dragon's…!"

"Uhm?" She looked up at the sound of a scream and her eyes widened in surprise when the glass that served as the station's roof shattered above her. A young man of pink hair and scaly scarf, carried by a winged cat, was descending upon her at full speed with a fist lit in flames. "W-what…?"

"…Fist!" Natsu roared at the top of his lungs, his fist connecting with the girl's cheek and sending her crashing to the rubble below with him and Happy, a huge cloud of dust rising from the collision and covering the sight from prying eyes. The Dragon Slayer stood up in the middle, imposing as ever with his eyes fixed on the little girl that was harming his friends. He clutched his scarf and accommodated it. "How's this for harder?"

"Natsu!" Lucy called happily at the sight of the pink-haired, relieved to see him on the scene and helping them take down the dangerous girl.

Gray shook his head in dry amusement and crossed his arms, relieved as the blonde for the guy's help. "Took you long enough, idiot."

"Hey! Who're you calling an idiot!?" The fire-eater yelled back from his place, holding a shaky fist in front of him to emphasize that if the other one was willing, they could fight right then and there. Though, the sound of rustling clothes and movement below him called his attention back to the enemy, his head tilting down just in time to receive a hammering blast of purple energy to the face that sent him flying against the walls of the station. "W-what the..!?"

"More and more trash continues to appear." The girl murmured quietly, rising from the ground with no help from her arms, levitating on her own, with a burnt cheek and emotionless eyes looking at the group of wizards. She tilted her head to the side and smiled freakishly, her tone chilling the wizards to the bone. "Why cannot we get along and kill each other like good friends?"

"S-something seriously wrong with her…" Gray whispered to himself, sweat falling from his brow, his body shaking in slight fear. It wasn't that the sight was terrifying, even if it was for a normal human, but the oppressive power she was exuding while talking was seriously getting to him.

"D-damn, that hurt…" Natsu groaned, taking one arm from the wall to scratch his sore shoulders with his hand, feeling something moving on his back in between the wall and him and forcing him to drop face-first to the floor. When looking up, he found Happy buried on the stone wall, gasping for breath and thin as a paper sheet. "Oh! Happy! There you are!"

"I-I couldn't… breathe…" The blue feline squeaked out in between pants, his eyes rolling from the intense pain he could feel in his head. The pink-haired man scratched the back of his head apologetically and caught his friend when he detached himself from the wall, murmuring incoherencies to the Dragon Slayer. "N-Natsu… everything's spinning…"

"A-aye, sorry about that…"

"Are you done?" The girl asked them from behind, making Natsu turned around on the spot and look at her in seriousness. She didn't move one inch, except for her head and neck, but she was looking at them. And what's more, and that he didn't like, she was looking at them as if they were simple bugs to her. "I have a tight schedule, please, don't waste my time with soap operas."

"What? And who the hell are you?" The Dragon Slayer asked after placing his boggling friend on the floor. He stood up and glared at the girl, noticing the destruction she caused around the station through the corner of his eyes, spotting the wounds made to his friends and the heavily burnt blue-haired on the blonde's arms.

"So many asked me that today, what makes you think I will answer you?" The girl said with the same creepy smile, earning a threatening growl from the fire-eater. She brought a hand to cover her mouth and chuckled in amusement, looking at the young wizard with glee in her eyes. "Oh, not scared of my magic?"

"You stink that's all I can say." Natsu growled again, getting ready to jump in and attack in less than a second. His flaming fists were testament of that, aside his fierce eyes and impatient posture; he was not going to forgive anyone who dared to harm his friends. "Why did you beat Jonah the other night?"

"I hate his insistence and everything related to him." She shrugged nonchalantly and stepped to the side, letting a slash passed right next to her with the same grace of a feather in the wind. She looked at the red-haired woman who almost cut her shoulder and brought a hand forward, beneath the woman's chest, summoning one of her purple orbs in one second and making it explode. "Such a nuisance."

"A-agh!" Erza cried out in pain as she shot out from the cloud of smoke with her broken armor, falling to the ground and rolling over it until a wall made her stop. The attack itself didn't look like much, but the energy used for it seemed to be of a kind that could directly ignore her defenses and strike to her very core. She looked at the ground through half-lidded eyes and saw the Dragon Slayer lunging to attack the girl himself, dodging her strikes and trying to land his own.

'I should've been more careful.' Her eyes went to the blue-haired teen on Lucy's arms, his wrecked and panting form bringing a strange feeling of concern to her that she didn't feel before. 'Now I understand why he told me to avoid those orbs…' She groaned and moved her arms to her sides, to raise herself from the ground and help in the fight once more. '…the blast's power avoided all magic and physical endurance, and struck the body as if it was the same of a newborn's.' Though her strength failed, strangely, and she returned to the floor with a sharp thud, her teeth grinding together in powerlessness. It was as if the blast had drained every last bit of her magic. 'I can feel my muscles numbing…! This is not good…!'

"Hey! Let me kick your ass!" Natsu yelled in annoyance, swinging another fiery kick at the girl, only to see it being avoided with a quick crouch and roll to the side before the girl stood up again, later dodging a fist to her face by just leaning backwards, seeing it pass by harmlessly close to her chin. He growled and jumped high when she dodged another fist, engulfing his leg on fire and using the same element to propel himself down. "Fire Dragon's Claw!"

"My my, I don't think you will hit me like that." The girl giggled in amusement while jumping back from an axe kick to her earlier position, the pink-haired taking a swift turn on his foot and lunging at her again with a fist to her chest that she dodged by merely twisting mid-way. "One hit is a lucky one for you." She grabbed the arm of the guy by the elbow and let the purple magic encircle the wizard's arm, raising her arm after that and throwing the Dragon Slayer against the glazed ceiling of the station with little difficulties. "A second one? Impossible." The purple magic keeping itself attached to the man while she did the same move as with Jonah and flung him around against walls, columns and the floor, too fast for the man to try or even think of a way to free himself. "This is the consequence of your optimism."

"Natsu!" Lucy yelled desperately, leaning forward when the pink-haired was released from the wicked girl's hold and flying towards the train cars, crashing hardly against them and breaking through a large part before stopping with a large, lineal cloud of smoke depicting his trail, her eyes following the whole trek attentively. Her spirits moved on instinct to look and secure the well-being of the young man. "Are you alright, Natsu!?"

"Now that the nuisances have been dealt with," the purple-haired female turned her eyes to the scarlet-haired knight to her right and then to the blue-haired youngster to the front, grinning evilly while lifting both of her hands, showing to have two more spheres at the ready. "Why don't we end this before it gets tedious?"

She channeled her power through the small orbs and the next the last remaining wizards saw was an array of beams shooting high to the ceiling before changing their course and going on a rapid descend towards all of them. The projectiles landing on their targets and causing massive explosions inside the station that only served to raise more dust and smoke to mix with the air. Her laugher could be heard in the midst of the destruction, madly enjoying the dead of the ones who she knew that could stop her plans.

It was short-lived, for when the smoke cleared, her eyes caught sight of some things she did not wish to see, yet at the same time, she was looking forward to, if her still smiling face could say anything. Gray rushed to protect Lucy and the wounded Jonah with a thick wall of ice made in front of him, gasping hardly at how quick he had to move and put up the defense. On the side, Erza was safe behind a barrier of golden light, a man of blue-hair standing defiantly to defend her with his arms extended forward to keep the spell working. His eyes were aimed straight at the girl of purple-hair while Meredy stood behind him with the unconscious Natsu on her shoulder, her eyes also focused on the girl.

"What do we have here? More visitors?" The girl asked sweetly, her undertone sounding acid and spiteful at the sight of the Crime Sorciere mages. She called off her orbs and folded her arms, knowing it was a good time to leave as any. Now that these wizards were here, she wasn't sure she could escape, at least not without earning a few scratches. She laid her gaze on Jellal and sneered. "Time-traveling is very annoying if it means I have to deal with you again."

"J-Jellal…" Erza groaned weakly, using her arms to rest on her side and see her savior standing there with her, protecting her from what could have been a killing blow. She felt her inside aflutter, even if slightly in her condition, at the sight of the man. "W-what are you… doing here…?"

"Rest for now, Erza," Jellal said softly without looking back, keeping his gaze on the girl who destroyed the station and dared to try to kill his beloved. "We'll take care of this." He dispelled the barrier and looked over his shoulder at his partner, noticing the pink-haired man resting on her shoulder. "Meredy, take them to a safe place."

"Aye, right away." Meredy nodded quickly and knelt next to the Titania, working out how to lift two mages and take to safety while the girl in the middle of the station laughed at their actions. She stopped and paid attention to what she was going to say, intuiting a possible follow-up to the failed attack of just a moment ago. 'What's up with her?'

"No need to try and face me, Jellal." The girl yelled amusedly to them, grinning widely when she saw the look of shock on the man's face. How did she know his name? "I'll take my leave now, if you don't mind," she turned around and walked towards the entrance of the station that was used by the trains, hopping from one piece of rubble to the next, pretending to be an innocent little girl. "I don't like one-on-one fights."

"You're not going anywhere!" The blue-haired man bellowed, appearing right in front of the little girl with Meteor enhancing his overall speed and strength, one fist kept back and swung forward to hit the purple-haired while his other hand took a firm grip of her shoulder. This was the killer, not his lookalike. They both had the same feeling in their magic, but this girl's was far more malicious. "You'll answer for your actions!" He brought his fist forward and saw it, wide-eyed, how it went through her head like if she weren't there, hearing her wicked laughter echoing inside the station as the rest of her supposed body disappeared. 'A thought-projection…!?'

"Answer for my actions? That's neat coming from you." Her voice reverberated through the place, losing volume with each word spoken, signaling her leaving from the area. "Fear not though, we'll see each other again." Her chuckles were heard again. "Take care of little Jonah while I'm away, 'kay?"

And it vanished completely, in both voice and presence, leaving a battered group of mages at the destroyed train station with the question that screamed to be answered in their minds.

Who was she?

To be continued…?

AN: Sweet. No words right now, I need to rest. Writing fight scenes, especially a full chapter with one, is really taxing on the mind. Not even my sweet... erh... my sour, but precious, coffee can help me with this. A few things though; wait for the next chapter, if you can, many things will be answered there, especially now that the complete set of players has been gathered. *chuckles* It is time, yes indeed, for things to be explained... though, will you like the explanation? *grins* Such a good story.

Anyhow, a few reviews for this chapter? Can you do me that little favor?

Saludos.