Hi guys! For those of you, who think that the story so far is too unrealistic or the characters are acting childish, please know that they won't be like that forever. The first couple of chapters were just the beginning of something that will evolve into something much deeper than people think. My goal in the previous chapters were to just have people see that as drastic as the characters situation is; the characters can still be silly and mess about as unrealistic the scenes in the chapters may be. This story will grow into something much more than it's letting on. At the moment I just want people to read it and enjoy it and want to at least see where it will lead to; and soon more and more depth will be added. If people want to comment about their opinions on this, then I fully understand and respect. I know that people have their opinions and that everyone is different, I will always be ready to listen to people and lend an ear. I will take what you all have to say into consideration and I will improve and grow along with my stories.
Anyway please enjoy this chapter and the future chapters to come.
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The closer the gang got the more the scene unfolded before them. A sea of zombies swarmed on the docks and around the bottom of the Ware house. Armoured people were stood above it all, raining down on the zombie horde with hundreds of bullets. All the cars stopped a few miles away. Everyone got of the cars and took in the destruction.
"What the hell?" Questioned Gray.
"Erza, Lucy was right." Mira Jane stood next to a solemn looking Erza.
"As we said earlier when it was brought to attention, this scenario was a large possibility. If only we had seen this coming earlier."
"What are we gonna do now?" Cana added, "We can't fight a horde that big."
"Well…" While everyone gathered into a group to discuss their approach to the situation; Levy, Gajeel, Lucy and Natsu carried on taking in the scene.
"It looks like those guys are only surviving by the skin of their teeth." Levy whispered.
"It's a death trap. I don't even think we can help them now shrimp." Gajeel said.
"mmm…" Was all levy said before everything went quiet, the only things that could be heard were the distant zombie noises and the rest of the gang strategizing.
"We can't leave them. Our team mates are still alive over there." Lucy added after a while of silence. All four of them grimaced as their thoughts of were forced to a stop. Gajeel, as unfortunate as it was, was right. They would most likely be turned or die if the attacked now. Just then Lucy had an idea. She turned to Erza and spoke out over the others.
"Erza! What if we just run them over?"
Everyone stopped and gave Lucy a confused look. Natsu came over and put a hand on her shoulder.
"What are you going on about, Luce?"
"What if we all drove straight towards the ware house and Rescue the survivors? If all of us worked together then we would be able to get rid of quite a lot of those zombies."
Erza thought for a moment before looking Lucy in the eye. "I think I can sort of understand your plan of action but you would have to explain to me fully before I can give the O.K." Lucy nodded and began to explain her plan. After a very brief but detailed explanation everyone was finally on the same wavelength as Lucy.
"Well it's a little last minute but it will serve us well." Erza said as Lucy finished her explanation. Everyone nodded in agreement. This time it was Guildarts turn to speak, "Ok, everyone. We have all been in dangerous situations. But this is one of the bigger ones. This will take team work and communication if we don't wanna die. Remember if you're stuck just call and one of us will come running. Now we all know our positions and what we need to do. Erza and co with me the rest of you… do what you do best. Now, let's go" Guildarts finished and made his way back to his car.
"Yessir!" everyone shouted in unison and sped back to their cars. Everyone started their engines and started to zoom towards the docks. 3 cars made a bee line for the ware house as the other 2 cars split off in different directions. The 3 cars knocked out zombies left and right speeding their way towards the doors. All the zombies focused their attention onto the rampaging cars and staggered towards them. The 3 cars were forced to a stop as they came up to the ware house doors. The zombies made their way towards them steadily; but just before the cars became fully surrounded the 2 other cars came in from both directions and drifted into the zombie horde but safely passing by the other cars. More than half the amount of zombies that had swarmed around the cars were now obliterated. Cana appeared out of the roof of the car and began to shoot madly at the zombies, each bullet hitting its target in the head every time. Erza and Mira exited out the car doors with serious expressions. They kept out of Cana's way as they took on zombies that were in range. Erza went from one zombie to another cutting off their limbs and heads with deadly precision; Mira fought with a machine gun and grenades, blowing up groups of zombies and sending bullets through other zombie heads. Guildarts was on the opposite side fighting on his own with great power. He had a double ended sword, he fought with strength and precision; going as far as cutting several zombies in half one after the other at an amazing and terrifying speed. While They were being covered Natsu, Lucy, Levy, Gajeel, Juvia and Gray emerged from their cars and towards the ware house doors.
"Ok. Me and Luce will go in and search for survivors, Levy and Gajeel see what you can salvage and Gray and Juvia keep an eye on the situation out here. Back the others up if things get out of hand."
They all nodded and opened the doors. Lucy and Natsu ran in and began to search for the survivors. They heard shouts from the top floor and also heard familiar voices.
"Their upstairs!" Lucy shouted over to Natsu. They both sprinted up the stairs and slammed open the door to see their friends. They sighed in relief to see their friends alive, Lucy was actually relieved to see Aquarius's scowl; looking around the room everyone was there, from the flirtatious Leo to shy Aries. But they were shocked when they saw who else was with them...
"Wait a minute! Is that-"
"I-I-It can't be! But Erza said-"
"But he's stood right there!"
Both teens gazed in shock at the person before them. It was like they had seen a ghost. Right there standing before them; back from the dead. There stood...
"Jellal?"
jellal nodded at the 2 as they stood wide eyed, momentarily forgetting what they were doing.
"Guys! What's taking so long!?" Levy shouted from down the stairs. Her voice snapped Natsu and Lucy back to reality.
"Natsu, lets just get everyone out of here . We can ask questions later."
"Ok..." he whispered before shouting out to everyone in the room, "We gotta go! Everyone make their way down stairs! There are cars waiting out front! we have salvaged what we can but if we're gonna get out of here with all limbs attached, then we need to move now!" Natsu announced sternly.
"Aye!"
With that everyone grabbed all their stuff and ran down to the cars. The moment Erza saw Jellal, she became frozen and she turned slightly pale; she almost got herself killed but thankfully Mira had her back. Luckily their was enough room for everyone, although it was a tight squeeze. Everyone was safe and unharmed. They booked it out of there, taking out a couple of zombies along the way and soon enough they were back on the road. Levy and Lucy conversed over the radio on a private channel, about what happened as they sped their way back towards the camp.
"I wonder how everyone will take the news?"
"I don't know, Lu. I mean... we just found out that Jellal has come back from the dead, how are they meant to take it? how are we meant to take it?"
"Did you see Erza's face?"
"Yeah..."
"Out of all of us she has it the worse. We all thought he was dead. I mean Erza saw him... Right?"
"I don't know, but-"
Before Levy could finish, the radio cut out and static was all that could be heard until finally it went completely silent.
"Levy?" Lucy looked at the radio with a confused expression, "What's going on?"
"The batteries have run out." Natsu mumbled. Although he mumbled it quietly, Lucy was still able to hear him.
"Oh. Do we have any spare?"
"Not here."
"Oh, ok."
The car became quiet. Everyone in the car was asleep apart from Natsu and Lucy. Their soft snores could be faintly heard as they floated through their dreams.
"Hey Luce maybe you should catch a couple winks as well. we won't be back till a lot later."
"Yeah I guess."
Lucy turned around to face the window and closed her eyes. After a while of being unable to sleep she spoke up.
"Hey Natsu. Do you think Erza is ok?"
Lucy heard Natsu sigh quietly before answering.
"I don't know, Luce. But I hope that she's not in pain." "Yeah. Me too. We'll be there for her though. No matter what?"
"Course. Jeez, Luce who do you take me for?"
Lucy just giggled slightly and she felt her eye lids become heavy and then she could see nothing but blackness as sleep enveloped her tired body and mind.
A few cars ahead Erza sat very still in her seat, it was almost like she was made of stone. her eyes were trained on her hand that laid in her lap. her eyes were distant and dull as memories that she had tuned out came flooding back. she thought... she contemplated... was it possible was Jellal really back? or was this all a dream? either way, whatever it was it was bringing back painful memories and a lot of confusion with it.
in Erza's memories...
They sat in a battlefield of chaos. Zombies had free reign over their camp. Peoples screaming could be heard everywhere; gunshots rang out as well. As many Zombies were being killed, twice as many people were being turned in contrast. there was no end. Erza was positioned on top of a car shooting as many Zombies as she could making sure none of them could get to her comrades.
*where? where is he? he should be back by now?*
Erza scanned the area, keeping her eye out for a certain boy with blue hair and a tattoo under his eye. she couldn't see him. He had been gone for a while now. Had something happened to him.
"ERZA! WHERE'S YOUR FRIEND AND THE OTHERS!? WE NEED TO GET OUTTA HERE BEFORE THE ZOMBIES GET TOO DENSE!"
"I DON'T KNOW! BUT PLEASE JUST HOLD ON A LITTLE LONGER!" she shouted back. The man grunted in frustration before yelling out to the people around the car.
"KEEP 'EM BUSY FOR A LITTLE LONGER! WE'VE STILL GOT PEOPLE COMING!" They all just nodded struggling to keep the zombies at bay. Erza stared back out, she was becoming impatient and her fears were beginning to consume her. Just as she thought her worries were really reality, she saw him running towards the car carrying a little girl in his arms. he was sprinting away from a horde of zombies that staggered after him.
"JELLAL!"
"ERZA!"
He dodged zombies left and right and had to keep on re-adjusting his grasp on the girl. he jumped over the corpses of fallen allies and carried on towards the car at full sprint. Just as he was coming up to the car, he reached out his hand and Erza reached out in return.
"Grab onto my hand!"
"TAKE HER FIRST!"
His hand quickly retreated and instead grabbed onto the little girl and threw her over to Erza, who only just caught her. Jellal quickly scrambled onto the car, he was out of breath. his ears were ringing like everyone elses from all the noise.
"I will get them to start the car. Then we're out of here."
Jellal didn't reply, so instead of question him further, she just turned and began to make her way to the front of the car. Once everyone was in the car was set in motion it sped through all the chaos and the carnage. It was unsafe and bumpy. Erza and Jellal who were sat on the roof because there was no other place for them to sit were barely hanging on. Suddenly the car ran over a ramp as a way to get over the group of zombies that had formed and was too thick to drive through without someone getting hurt.
"WHAT ARE THEY DOING!?"
"I DUNNO- SHIT! ERZA!"
Erza looked round to see Jellal sliding off the roof of the car as it jumped over the herd of Zombies. She grabbed onto his hand, using her other hand to hold them both onto the vehicle. when the car landed, it made them jerk. Erza's grip was weakening by the second and it wouldn't be long before they both fell to their deaths. Jellal had noticed and he knew what had to be done and the consequences that came with it. But Erza wasn't ready to let go.
"ERZA! YOU NEED TO LET ME GO!"
"WHAT!? NO! I'M NOT LETTING YOU GO!"
"IF YOU DON'T LET GO, THEN WE BOTH DIE!"
"NO! WE NEED YOU! I NEED YOU! I'M NOT LETTING GO! I CAN HOLD ON! WE'LL BE FINE!"
"NO, WE WON'T! ERZA JUST LET GO!"
"NO! I CAN'T! I WON'T LET YOU DIE, I'D NEVER FORGIVE MYSELF!"
"AND I WON'T FORGIVE MYSELF IF I LET YOU DIE WITH ME! Please... just let go..." he stared into her eyes with sad but great determination, she needed to let go. There was no other way. He would kill himself for enternity, if it meant she got to live. But Erza was stubborn and she shook her head, tears of frustration began to brim the corners of her eyes.
"NO!" She screamed.
"ERZA, LET GO!"
Suddenly the car jerked and Jellals hand slipped from Erzas grip, everything went into slow motion and silence. Erza screamed as Jellal fell into the chaos. he had been saying something as he fell to his demise but Erza could never work out what he had said, because as the car got further and further away, something inside Erza broke and it had broken into a million pieces.
"NOOOOOOO!"
Back in reality...
"Jellal? Are you really back?" Erza whispered quietly as tears streamed down her cheeks.
Really sorry about how short this chapter is but I promise to make a longer one to make up for it. Please comment as well so that I can improve my story for you guys. Thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed!