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Erza's eyes cleared, and she blinked, looking once around.
A cave, some kind of…Dark, foreboding cave, illuminated by flickering torches, surrounded her, and she exhaled, breath catching in her throat, strangled.
Jellal…There, chained to the wall, ahead of her, head hanging, on his knees, bound to the cave around him, the love of her life... She felt tears welling up in her eyes, covering her mouth, shuddering, sickly feelings rising in her stomach…
He was impaled, perforated, pierced from every angle, from every side, by spikes, blades and knives, and he rested on a circle of fire, coiling up around his kneeling form, smoke billowing up into the cave…She took a step towards him, crying noiselessly, nauseated.
"J…Jellal…?"
He twitched at the sound of his name, raising his head, slowly, tortured, staring up at her, through half-lidded eyes.
She fell to her knees in front of him, shaking, holding her mouth with both hands, wracking sobs filling her, mortified.
"Good…" He whispered, grinning faintly, voice hoarse, at last, blinking, mistaking her for a new apparition, sent to torture him. "You're perfect…These wounds were growing dull."
She tried to speak, struck mute, eyes wide, quivering…Erza reached a hand out towards him, slowly, tears streaming down her face.
He watched her, bewildered, eyes half-lidded, tilting his head, when she set her hands on his face, gently, tenderly, sobbing.
He twitched, eyes growing wide.
Erza yanked a sword out of his chest, and pulled a knife from his arm, with tiny, shaking fingers. She mumbled something, desperately, incoherently, flushed, and Blood poured down him, ceaselessly, onto her. "J-Jellal…Come home with me…"
"Erza..?" He breathed, disbelieving.
Addled, understanding dawned on him, at last.
She dragged a sickle out of his ribcage, gnashing her teeth, still crying, as crimson blood seeped from his endless wounds. His eyes flashed.
Jellal fed magic to his thought projection, taking control of it, and Siegrain's eyes blinked open, in the Throne room, wounds healing, rising to his feet, slowly, scowling.
A blinding white light enveloped her, once more, as she felt her body being yanked out of the cave, ripped through space-time, and she hit the ground hard, skidding across the floor, back in the throne room.
"ENOUGH-" She heard his voice, full of rage, and heard a clap of ringing thunder, looking up, dazed, ears ringing, seeing double. Siegrain was stalking towards her, hand outstretched, still smoking.
He lifted her body, telekinetically, by the throat, as she squirmed, dizzied, flushed, and blasted her again. She dropped to her knees, before throwing herself down at his feet, sobbing, shuddering, overcome.
"Leave this place-" Siegrain hissed, turning away, and she summoned all her strength, reaching out along the ground, managing to wrap her fingers around the blade of her sword, still stuck into the floor, inside the circle, just beside her.
A flash of light, and she was back in the cave, in front of Jellal, breathless, winded; Erza tried to grab him, panicked, but Siegrain kicked her backwards, off the sword, and she was blinded yet again, whirling down into her body, into the throne room, knocked senseless.
She looked up, gasping, head spinning, tears swimming in her eyes, struggling for air.
"What's wrong, Erza-?!" He crowed, approaching her, dangerously, eyes flashing.
She whimpered, sore, bleeding from her forehead, rolling over on the ground, struggling to rise to her feet, thoughts racing, tears still leaking from her eyes as he towered above her, threatening.
Siegrain brought his fist down, viciously, striking her head, jarring her; Erza's neck jerked around, and whiplash rocked her body, driving the air from her lungs. He grabbed her hair, yanking her up, and she took a deep breath, chest heaving, burning, from the strain and exertion, eyes tightly shut, sweating profusely, bleeding from her eyebrow.
He raised his hand again, to strike her down, speechless, but she grabbed his fist, exhaling, and cracked one eye open, meeting his twitching glare.
"Y-You know…" She whispered, breathless, eyes narrowing at him, heartbeat racing. "I want three kids-"
He trembled, blown away, for a moment, turning slightly in place, bewildered, as she steadied herself on her feet, and shoved him away, backwards, off her, rising slowly, shakily.
"Why three-?!" He managed, brow furrowing, suddenly distracted. She swung a huge mace at him, and he barely stepped out of its path, seething, eyes wide.
She brought the weapon around, shattering the floor, and requipped into a slender rapier, cutting across his body as he dodged, lithely, away. "Because twins are cute-" She screeched, flustered, faintly red.
He skidded to a stop, along the ground, in a wide stance, pulling his jacket off, hissing.
"Don't you think I would be a great mother-?" She wondered, peering thoughtfully up into the corner of the room, humming faintly, breathless, faintly red.
"That much is clear." He ground his teeth, dragging his forearm across his mouth, wiping the blood away.
Siegrain was behind her, suddenly, kicking her knee out, and she stabbed at him, feverishly, as he swept backwards, away from her blade. She rolled, hurling a knife at him, that he ducked, lunging towards her; Erza scampered back to her feet, whipping another knife into his face, but he blasted it aside, before scorching the ground she was standing on with a gout of flame. She soared, above him, in the air, and he danced backwards, grinning faintly, dodging low thrusts from two spears she brandished around him.
"Don't you think I'd look great in a wedding dress-?!" She shrieked, flushed, as her fantasies of marriage and motherhood played in her mind, behind her eyes, heart throbbing. He twitched, slamming one of her spears out of his path, snapping the other in one hand, as she requipped into a spiked ball on a chain, hurling it at him, gritting her teeth.
"Don't you look great in everything-?" He grinned, wickedly, stepping in close to her, weaving around her massive weapon, counter-acting the advantage of the spiked flail, grabbing her hand, and drilling his elbow into her stomach. She coughed, staggering backwards, twisting around, and sliced him across the shoulder with a longsword; He exhaled, sharply, taking a step back, eyes wide.
Lightning split the sky, and thunder boomed above them; The sloshing sounds of pouring rain filled the room, in the brief silence, as they stared across at one another.
Erza panted, kneeling, and Siegrain was barely breathing at all, eyes narrowing at her, standing in her way, blocking her path to the sword in the circle.
The atmosphere between them was electric, heated, like fire, raging noiselessly in the space between them. Muted Passion surged around them, arcing, in the silence.
His feelings for her ached, numbly, throbbing in his chest.
It was agonizing.
"What color…" She grinned, weakly, a moment later, shakily, as thunder rolled in the distance. "W-What color hair…do you think our kids would have?"
The storm raged outside, and he laughed, covering his face with one hand.
Ex-V: Did you have fun? Did you like it?
I hope so! This story has been SO much fun to write, I have to say~ :D If you want, I'll post the next chapter tomorrow- I really think we're getting to the good parts!
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