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Recap: Harry awoke with a pain in the back of his head from being hit and passing out. He groaned while clenching his eyes and teeth shut. He reached behind him to check his head, or at least he tried to.

Harry's eyes snapped open to see that he was tied up by some kind of magic. He struggled to break free from the spell, but it was no use.

"I see you are awake, Harry Potter," a voice said from in front of him, making Harry turn his attention onto the owner of it. He saw a man with blue hair, dark eyes, and a curl smile on his lips. The man was also wearing dark blue clothing with a hood up over his head. "I have wanted to speak with you."

~Flashback~

Harry and Makarov were walking down the hall when they ran into Siegrain. They spoke for a bit about how the guild was doing before Siegrain asked, "Is it true you have an invisibility cloak, Harry?"

Harry looked over in confusion, but answered nonetheless, "Yes, why do you ask?"

Siegrain shrugged his shoulders. "I was just wondering, to be honest." Harry let the subject drop, but he had a feeling that something was off about the man in front of him.

"Well, it was good to see you again, Siegrain, but Harry and I must be on our way," Makarov's voice sounded. The two left, and if Harry had turned back he would have saw Siegrain looking at were the Elder Wand was pocketed.

~End of Flashback~

Harry glared and gritted his teeth in anger while growling out, "Siegrain…" The man, Siegrain, tilted his head to the side with a smirk that said that he knew something Harry didn't. "What is going on? Are you betraying the Magic Council?" demanded Harry.

The man hummed in amusement, "Well Harry, I guess you could say in a way I am." Harry glared at him even harder.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"My name is Jellal, and to everyone in the Magic Council Siegrain is my twin brother. I'm sure you can guess that that is not true, right Harry?"

Harry growled under his breath. "You mean to say that you have been playing as someone else to get into the Council?"

Jellal smirked. "You are precisely right. Siegrain and I are one and the same. But how I have been doing all of this is not what you would think."

"Oh yeah…then enlighten me!" mocked Harry.

"As you wish." Jellal shrugged. "You must be thinking that I keep going back and forth between here and the Council, right? Well, that is not how it goes. I have not once left this place."

Now Harry was very confused. How can Jellal and Siegrain be the same person, if Jellal never left the tower? Harry would have thought it was Magic Projection, but people have been able to bump into the man before, so that can't be it.

"I understand that you are confused." Harry returned his attention back on Jellal when he began talking again. "It is kind of like Magic Projection, but also not. What happened is that I split my magic into two different bodies, making a twin of sorts," Jellal explained.

Harry is now understanding how all this happened. So now the question is why. "Why did you do all of this?"

"You'll understand when the time comes," said Jellal with a wave of his hand.

Harry was silent for a moment before saying, "Why did you have me captured? I thought you wanted Erza," he asked in anger, remembering the reason why he and his guildmates are there in the first place.

Jellal smirks. "I do want her, but the reason I want you is not the same."

"What do you want from us?"

"Erza is going to be my sacrifice. As for you, I want to have control over the Master of Death," Jellal said, but Harry didn't know that the blue-haired man overheard the guards talking about turning the wizard into a slave.

Harry became shocked after hearing that. "How did you…" he started to say, but Jellal finished.

"Know? I'm sure you remember our first meeting?"

Harry thought back to the memory he had not long ago. He gasped softly as he realized what Jellal asked him that day. "You asked about my invisibility cloak."

Jellal nodded with his smirk still in place. "Yes, and I already knew about the Elder Wand since you use it every day, and I found out about the stone today." Harry didn't have to question how Jellal knew about the stone; after all he summoned the dead not that long ago. "Well, I guess I should say that the knowledge of you having the stone was confirmed. You already had two of the Deathly Hallows, so I figured you had the stone too."

"So you want to control me?" Jellal nodded in answer. "That's not going to happen!" Harry shouted angrily.

Jellal just smirked wider at Harry's outburst. "We will see about that once Zeref returns. Now just be patient till Erza gets here," he said.

"Zeref?" said Harry breathlessly. He wasn't sure if he was just in shock, or if he's still recovering from his angry shout.

"Yes, why else would I need Erza to be a sacrifice?" Harry's eyes widened in horror.

'He's going to kill Erza so he could bring a powerful dark mage back to life? No, I can't let that happen! Besides, wouldn't Zeref not want to come back? Being dead means he's with his family again. Isn't that what Fawkes said before we fought Lullaby?' Harry snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Jellal talking again, but it was not at him, it was to everyone within the tower.

"The Magic Council will be firing the Etherion shortly. They are taking vote now," Harry felt his heart drop. He knew that the chance of the Magic Council not firing that thing was slim to none, but he still hoped that they would take innocent lives into consideration. His jaw dropped at what he catches Jellal saying next. "To all of those that helped me get this far, you are no longer of use to me."

If Harry was an animal with great hearing, he would have heard the outraged shouts from Millianna and Sho. The others had a feeling something like this would happen.

Jellal turned off the announcement. "Why do you want to blow up the tower?" Harry asked softly, like he couldn't believe this – which is the case. He couldn't understand why Jellal would want to blow it up after working on it for so long.

Jellal turned to face him again. "I think I'll just let you find out. Now then, be a good boy and hold off on any questions you may have. I'm going to tell you a story while we wait for Erza to get here."

Harry got the feeling that he wasn't going to like how this story ends. Not able to do anything but listen, Harry shifted his body so he could get a little more comfortable.

Jellal sat back in his throne with what sounded like a relaxed sigh to Harry, but it could have been a mockery. "Now, where to start? I guess I should begin where Erza and I met, shouldn't I?" Jellal said with a smirk aimed at Harry, who decided not to say anything.

"Erza and I met here in this very tower. At the time it was called the R-System, and we were slaves," he started the story. Harry was quite surprised that Jellal and Erza were slaves here. "We were both very young at the time; taken from our homes." Jellal shrugged his shoulders. "That part doesn't really matter much, however. Anyway, we shared the same cell with Millianna, Sho, Wally, Simon, and an old man who was once a member of Fairy Tail named Rob. We were all children.

"Did you know that it was I that gave Erza her last name? It was a name that would be easy to remember, because all I have to do was think about the color of her hair." Harry's eyes widened slightly. He had thought that the name Scarlet was a bit odd since Erza's hair was…well…scarlet. He didn't know that Erza wasn't born with it, though. He wants to ask, but he knows that he will be forced to hold off on any questions until the end, hopefully.

"One day, however, we tried to break out of this place, but as you can guess we were caught. I heard Erza was about to take the blame for me – since I was the one to come up with the plan – but I cut her off telling them it was me. Alas, they heard Erza as well, and believed that I was just trying to protect her from punishment.

"We were all back in the cell, waiting and hoping that Erza would come back to us alive. She did, but with a lost eye." Jellal paused in the story when he realized something. "Now that I think about it, how does she have an eye now? Do you know, Harry?"

Harry was caught off guard by the sudden question, but he shook his head. "I don't know… I joined the guild after her eye was mostly healed. My guess is our healer fixed her eye," he said, not seeing any reason why he couldn't.

Jellal shrugged dismissively. "Fairy Tail must have a good healer. Back to the story: I may have attacked the guards in anger, but I was overpowered and taken to be punished. While there, I was filled with so much hatred I could taste it. I would have loved nothing more than to rip out their throats," said Jellal with a purr.

"Sadly I was too weak from all the magical shocks they gave to my body. They left the room with me still tied up; however, it wasn't long till I met him." Harry had a feeling he knows who it is Jellal is about to say. "Zeref… He came to me. He told me I had power. He helped me awaken it and give in to my hatred of the people there. All I have to do in exchange is to finish the tower and bring him back into our world. How could I say no to that?

"I think it was an hour later that Erza found me again. She helped me down and out of that room. She was telling me that we were able to escape now and that the boats were ready. I told her that we should stay and finish the tower." Jellal laughed, "She thought I was crazy, so I told her what happened, but she wouldn't listen. I couldn't help but think just how foolish she was – and still is. Couldn't she see that with Zeref we will have true freedom? I told her, 'fine, she could leave, but I'm keeping everyone else.' I blew up all the boats so no one could escape the island. You should have seen the look on her face, Harry. She looked so devastated. After that, I told her that if she told anyone about the tower, then I would kill everyone. I sent her away after that. I don't know where she ended up, but it doesn't matter. Anyway I did kill those guards in the end, offered everyone more freedom as long as they continue to work on the tower.

"So, any questions, Harry?" Harry is glaring daggers so sharp and hot that even Voldemort and Severus Snape would have felt the icy claws of fear run down their spines.

"Yeah I have a few questions…" hissed Harry. "How do you know that it was even Zeref that spoke to you? How could you put your friend through so much without feeling even the smallest bit of regret? And are you mad? Zeref or not, there is no such thing as true freedom, but in death!" Harry doesn't know where that last part came from; the words just flew right out of his mouth like new birds leaving the nest for the first time.

Jellal just chuckled in amusement. "Of course I know it was Zeref. Who else could be that strong even as a dead guy? As for how I could do such a terrible thing to Erza? Well, she wasn't much of a friend if she turned her back on me and everyone else first. For your last question, I'm not crazy. Zeref won't kill us; he'll kill everyone else that is destroying our world and making everyone that is not themselves suffer," Jellal answered every one of Harry's questions.

"You may as well join those Zeref plans to kill, because you are no better than them!" Harry cried out in rage. He couldn't believe that someone can be this stupid and insane.

Jellal sighed dramatically with a shake of his head. "I'm sure you will understand one day, Harry. For now, I think that is enough." Jellal used the magic holding Harry down to gag him. "Erza should be here shortly. I don't need you telling her the truth." Harry had no idea what that meant. Is Jellal planning on lying to Erza?

{Fawkes, where are you?} asked Harry.

{FINALLY! And that is my line! I don't know where you are!} Fawkes' angry voice came through the link they share from the familiar bond.

{I'm in the same room as Jellal. Wait…how can you not find me? Shouldn't you be able to track me through my life force? And what do you mean finally? Couldn't you have just asked earlier?}

{Normally yes, but this place for some reason blocks that. I forgot to mention that this place feels like it absorbed the life from those who have died here. As for why I didn't just use telepathy earlier...um...}

{You didn't think of it, did you?} Harry sighed, not receiving an answer from Fawkes. He thought for a moment after realizing that that he wasn't getting an answer. So, dropping Fawkes' forgetfulness, he said, {That would make sense as to why you can't find me; too much life force everywhere. Do you know why this place was called the R-System?}

{Nope.} Harry sighed at the answer. {By the way, the giant snake from your memory is a basilisk.}

{Where did that come from?}

{It was a question you had in the back of your mind. I can still hear those, you know?}

{No I didn't know, but I guess it's a good thing that I do now. This way if I forget to ask you something you can tell me the answer.}

{That's if I see it as important. This is just so you know what it is you might turn into.}

{So, how are you going to find me?}

{I'm following Sho right now, who has Erza within a card. They just ran into a woman with a sword.}

{That's the woman who captured me. Stay with Erza, she will lead you to me, and I also want you to protect her. Jellal has something planed.}

{Gotcha, Harry!}

TBC

Thought I forgot about Fawkes, didn't ya? :p LOL

Anyway, Jellal wants Harry to become his slave, but it sounds more like he's treating him like a pet. At least Harry heard what happened between Jellal and Erza.

Harry: I don't know how I feel about this… :(

Voldy: I agree – for once. I don't like that someone has Harry Potter, but I also like watching him suffer.

Natsu: Why doesn't this surprise me? :(

Zeref: Because he's the bad guy. -_-

Natsu: Oh yeah! Enjali has been taming him so I forgot. :D

Enj/Dark: O_O

Voldy: SS Taming…me…? SS

Natsu: Did he just hiss? :/

Harry: He spoke snake. Enjali, run! DX

Enj/Dark: I'll be back guys! Harry it's your turn! *Runs away with Voldemort following close behind, throwing killing curses at me.*

Zeref: Should we try and help her?

Natsu: She'll be fine. She isn't the Dark Dragon for nothing. ;)

Harry: Please review! It might just save her! DX