Chapter 7

"Je-Jellal is that you?" Erza says trying not to burst into tears

"Yeah" her childhood friend replied sheepishly "We need Wendy, Juvia needs to be healed quickly"

He calls only to see the young dragon slayer already run towards her friend along with Gray who had at some point managed to grab Juvia from Jellal moving her towards the infirmary.

"What's happening Jellal? Why are you bring a hurt Juvia back? And where is Lucy?" Erza asks walking towards the tired mage

Jellal's POV

~Flashback~

I need to help.

"True Heavenly body Magic: Sema" the remaining mages are knocked to the ground unfortunately this included the two girls, who were already worse for wear, as I got closer I saw the blonde covered in dried blood and mud and then I realised why she had been so familiar, it was Lucy and the water mage, Juvia I think, form fairy tail, but why was she here without Erza, they are team mates aren't they? It had been a while since he'd seen Erza and how he missed her. Enough of that, I need to do something about their wounds.

~Time Skip: 1 hour~

I done as much as I can, I've cleaned and bandaged their wounds, but they need to wake up soon I'm worried about them, and Erza would kill me if she found out I'd let them die. I'm really worried about the water Mage the wound in her stomach is in bad shape. The other is at least breathing normally

*shuffle*

"Juvia?" the blonde mutters sitting up slowly "Juvia?" she continues a tone of panic creeping into her voice

"Jellal!" Lucy cries out having just noticed her surroundings "Where is Juvia? Is she okay?"

"Yeah but not for long she needs to get help soon" I reply "I couldn't carry you both"

I could see Lucy processing everything before her face darkened with an emotion I don't recognise

"Take her to the guild, Wendy is there she can heal her. It shouldn't take more than an hour if you go via the spirit world, I'll get permission for you" she finally answered

"What are you on about? What do you mean me take her through the spirit world? You're coming too right?" I say slightly panicked at the thought of going to the spirit world without the expert, my mood not improved at how Erza would react if she found I left her wounded friend alone while she was being hunted

"No I need to finish the mission. I'm okay and you need to go now, I've got permission for you, you'll be fine" She answers, I notice her trying to hide a hint of fear in her voice

"Fine but I'll tell the guild everything that happened so they can do something about the fact that you were targeted, they can come and help you finish the mission" I counter

"No" Lucy interrupts "Juvia will tell them when she wakes up it will be better coming from her. Just take her to the guild and say hi to Erza she's been missing you" she giggles

Erza missed me, does that mean she might… Shit Lucy did that on purpose, so she could run while I was distracted

~End of Flashback~

No one's POV

Erza looked at the mage quizzically.

"JELLAL" she yelled in his ear

"Ow, that hurt Erza" Jellal spoke clutching his ear

"You were lost in thought, what happened?" she asked again

"I came across the girls in the forest and helped them but Juvia was hurt so Lucy asked me to bring her back" he finally said

"You helped them against what?" she quizzed again

"oh just, some thugs in the forest, they were doing okay but there last attack took it out of them. I was impressed though I thought the Unison Raid was a fluke but to see it again…" He quickly answers trying very hard to avoid Erza asking questions he couldn't answer

"They did a unison raid? AGAIN?" she freaks, attracting the attention of the entire guild

"Well yeah I mean back in the tower I thought it was a fluke I mean they hardly knew each other, the water mage was turned evil and I thought the blonde was weak, but I've seen it twice so there is no way it's a coincidence" Jellal answers confusion written on his face

"Wait she actually did do a unison raid with Juvia?" Max said appearing near the couple

"I thought Juvia was lying trying to defend her friend" Freed answers as he too moves towards the conversation slowly the rest of the guild were gravitating towards the group to hear more

"What did we do?" Cana mutters regretting all she said about the blonde who had helped her reunite with her father without complaining,

Jellal grasped Erza's hand quickly dragging her to a corner while the guild is distracted with their guilt

"Hi, I've missed you" he whispers, making a light blush grace Erza's pale cheeks

"I've missed you too, but you have to go before anybody tells the council you're here" she replied giving him a small but lingering peck on his cheek, her voice sounding her concern that he would be taken from her again "Wait you saw Lucy? You know where she is? Tell me"

"Juvia will tell you when she wakes, I promised I'd let her do it, bye" he said sliding out the door into the darkness leaving Erza confused and waiting for Juvia's awakening

~In the infirmary~

Juvia is still out but in no immediate danger, sleeping after she hasn't for so long, Happy is curled up on her lap waiting for her to wake up so he can ask about Lucy. Gray is sat next to the bed stroking his ex-stalkers long hair.

Juvia's POV

Urgh my head hurts, we need to get up, Juvia think trying to get up owww, no, no getting up Juvia's stomach hurts too. Finally Juvia looks around the room we now find ourself in, Juvia recognise it. Why are we in Fairy Tail? We can't be it just looks like it, Juvia mean if it was Fairy tail there would be Gray-sama, Lily, Gajeel, Charle and Wendy. Looking around more Juvia realises there is one of those things here with Juvia, Why is Gray-sama here? And Happy? Juvia thinks trying to move away

But my movement just stirs both of them from their sleep

"Juvia your awake" Gray-Sama cries out as he sees Juvia partially sat up, Gray-sama is holding Juvia's hand, yay, no wait where is Lucy?

"Gray where is Lucy-san? Juvia can't see her" Juvia squeaks, they both look at Juvia with worry in their eyes

"You don't know where Lushy is? We thought you knew" the small blue exceed asks starting to cry

"No, she promised she wouldn't make Juvia leave" I join Happy in crying, she promised

"She sent you back here to be healed, you were dying. She had no choice" Gray says smoothing my hair in an attempt to sooth me. Oh… that's why and it's not like she'd could come back as well.

"I'm sorry Happy but I don't know where she was after we were attacked" Juvia says. Juvia wishes Juvia could give him the answer he searched for.

"It's okay I know I'll find her one day" He replies, patting his little green bag, bouncing off Juvia's bed leaving me and Gray-sama alone

Juvia doesn't know what to say now Juvia means the last time she saw him, she told him he wasn't who she thought he was

"Juvia, I never should have treated Lucy like that and I never should have let you go, I should have my friend and asked her what happened first" Juvia looks at him seeing the man she fell for "Juvia after you left I realised I never wanted you to leave me, I realised I care for you more than a friend" What is Gray-sama saying?

"Juvia I realised I love you" Gray-sama said he loved Juvia, Juvia is so happy

~No one's POV~

After Juvia had finally woken up from fainting, after Gray confessed to her she went to see the guild, she sat at the bar her eyes drifting to notice Gajeel and Levy who were tucked into the corner of the room hugging, Erza and Cana sulking at one of the tables, Erza drinking while Cana didn't touch a drop. As her eyes went around the room she realised although some people appeared happy it was not the same happy as when they had left. She could still hear the whispers of people gossiping about no matter what they'd been through Lucy still attacked Lisanna first.

"Where is it?" a frantic Happy flew through the room searching desperately. "I can't find it" Happy cries