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Recap: {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!}


Erza broke out of the card Sho placed her in. She saw that he was injured; that would explain how she got out now. She also heard a trill that told her that Fawkes was there with them. 'Why is he here?' she questioned. While glaring and not taking her eyes off the woman in front of her, she asked, "Fawkes, where is Harry?"

Fawkes trilled while flying overhead of the light pink-haired lady. It was enough to tell Erza what she needed to know.

"What have you done to Harry? Answer me!" she demanded.

The woman chuckled. "I have done nothing," she said with a shrug of her shoulders. "I merely knocked him out and gave him Jellal. He wanted to talk with him. That's all I know."

Erza tighten her grip on the sword she summoned while the woman in front of her spoke. "Who are you?" she asked.

"My name is Ikaruga," she replied. "Now then, shall we see who the better swordswoman is?"

Erza changed her armor. "Let's…" The two started clashing swords. It didn't take long before Erza's armor is destroyed. She changed it to give her more speed.

Erza ran around Ikaruga while going in for a strike every now and then, but this was still not enough. The armor is destroyed just like the last one. She changed her outfit again for something more defensive. It lasted a bit longer, but it too was smashed to bits.

Erza goes into her black winged armor. This one lasted the longest. She charged and swung her blade in an arc. The attack was parried and the two fighters jumped back from the other to get some space between them. They attacked again and again, until Erza's armor is destroyed…again.

The two are panting, well mostly Erza, Ikaruga didn't looked all that winded. "Is that all you got?" Erza's enemy mocked, which earned her a glare.

"I must get Harry away from Jellal," Erza said softly. "Who knows what he plans on doing with him." She stands up and changes her armor. The armor she now wears is not really armor at all. Her red hair is up in a pony tail, her top are wrapped in white bandages, and her legs are clad in yellow pants with red flames on them. In her hands are duel blades. "I'm not going to hold anything back," she said loud enough for all those in the area to hear.

Ikaruga laughed, "Do you really think you can beat me with just that when your other armors were destroyed?" she kept laughing.

Erza heard Fawkes trill. "Stay out of this Fawkes," she ordered. "This is my fight."

"Aw, you don't want help from the little birdy?" Erza didn't say anything to the scorn. "I guess you don't want your pride to be hurt. After all, if I had to have help from some bird, I would never be able to show my face again…" Ikaruga trailed off and widened her eyes. The little birdy is no longer small, but huge! Fawkes went into his flame form, and Erza can feel from behind her that he is feeling insulted. Fawkes screeched, scaring Ikaruga and allowing an opening for Erza to strike. It was a dirty move, but sometimes a woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do.

Erza was finally able to land a hit on the pink-haired lady, who is now angry for getting distracted. "I wouldn't insult a phoenix if I were you," Erza said with a small grin.

"So that bird is a phoenix? I thought they didn't exist anymore." Ikaruga said in slight surprise.

"Yeah well, leave it to Harry to find something like that," Erza said for the final time. She attacked again with speed, skill, and brutality.

Erza would dodge when she is being attacked, she would strike accurately and fast when attacking, and when she blocked she used her other sword to cut into Ikaruga's skin.

After a few minutes of fighting, Erza and Ikaruga are bloody and panting. They were not looking too good. They charged one last time, putting all their strength into this last attack. Erza used her left sword to push away the sword that was coming down in an arc, and used her right blade to give the final, but not the true final, blow.

Ikaruga passed out from both blood loss and pain. Fawkes was back to normal, and signed Erza to wait right where she is. He cried a little on Ikaruga so she didn't die from her injuries, and then teleported her so she can be placed behind bars. When he came back, he had a bag of money, which he handed over to Erza, since she is the one to defeat the woman. She also now just noticed another bag that is the same as the one Fawkes gave her. She guessed it was for Harry or someone else in their guild that came here to the tower.

"Thank you Fawkes. Now let's go find Harry and Jellal," Erza said, and Fawkes nodded in agreement. The two left the garden and climbed higher to where Erza is sure Jellal would be.


Harry is struggling as must as he can within his bonds. He's been making more of an effort when Jellal mentioned that Erza would be there very soon. At the very least, Harry is trying to get the gag off, which is making him growl, but his growls of frustration sound more like hissing for some reason.

Jellal laughed at his struggle. "You might as well give up. Why are you so stubborn?" he asked innocently. Harry glared and hissed at him since that is all he can do. "Oh right, you can't speak. Oh well, it doesn't matter, I guess. Erza will be here any second now." That made alarms bells go off in Harry's head.

Jellal got up from his throne and stalked over to Harry. He grabbed him and pulled him over closer to the chair he was sitting on so he was more hidden. Harry didn't understand why Jellal did this, but he knows he's not going to like it.

"Be a good little death and stay here quietly," Jellal said mockingly. With a chuckle, he moved away to wait for Erza's arrival.

Not long after that, Harry heard Erza come in demanding Jellal to tell her where he was. Jellal, of course, only told her that he was safe and sound. Harry didn't realize that the throne hid him that well.

He jumped when a loud explosion sounded. He tried his best to see what was happening, but he couldn't really see; that was until Jellal and Erza's fighting made it to an angle that he saw them.

Erza was in her last stand, as Harry likes to call it, armor. Erza was attacking Jellal for only a few moments, before the fighting stopped and the two were talking. Harry was too far away to hear anything they were saying.

{Fawkes, are you here?} Harry asked.

{Yeah, I'm here, but where are you? I can feel your life force, but can't pinpoint it,} answered Fawkes impatiently.

{I'm by the throne,} replied Harry. He shortly heard a trill above him, so now he knows that Fawkes was there.

{You looked tied up, but not with ropes,} Fawkes said. {How am I going to get you out of that?}

Harry shrugged. {No idea.} Fawkes didn't say anything else for a while. He was probably thinking of a way to get Harry free.

{Oh no…} Harry became confused and alarmed when he heard that.

{What's wrong?} he asked.

{Jellal just said that the Etherion Cannon just fired, and Erza just agreed to just sit there with him. I'm hearing her saying sorry that she was unable to save you,} Fawkes explained.

Harry's eyes widened and looked over to where Erza and Jellal are. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Jellal and Erza are hugging. He struggled with new vigor so he can get the gag out of his mouth so he can warn her that something isn't right about this whole thing. He even told Fawkes to try and warn her, but that wouldn't work too well either, since he can't talk to her. If also wouldn't work, because Erza only has her eyes on Jellal.

Harry couldn't understand something, however. How is Jellal going to use the trap for Erza if they are all about to be blown up? Just as that thought hit Harry he saw a bright light heading straight for them. He panicked, wanting to get Fawkes to teleport at least Erza out, but he didn't have time. He closed his eyes and awaited death.

The cannon fire hit the tower, causing it to shake, but what confused Harry was that that was all he felt. There was no pain of him being obliterated into nothing, no screaming from anyone in the room, and no heat from the huge wave of magic.

Harry opens his eye, fearing what he might see. He opens them slowly, but when he fully revealed them he saw that the tower is now a giant crystal. Harry's eye widen farther in shock. 'The tower was a lacrima?'


Erza was confused when she realized that she wasn't dead. She looked around and saw the same thing Harry did not moments before. She felt Jellal get up out of her hold, and then hear him start laughing insanely.

"What happened?" Erza demanded.

Jellal stopped cackling and looked down to meet her eyes. "Ah, you see, Erza, I needed the Etherion to power up the tower. Since the cannon had so much magical power to it, I needed to use it to get enough power to bring Zeref back to life. Now there is only one thing left to do."

Erza glared. "And what's that?"

"The true reason I wanted you here was so you can be my sacrifice," Jellal said bluntly.

Erza's eyes widened, but then she finally heard a muffled shout by the throne. She looked over to see Harry bound and gagged. "Harry!" she called out in concern.

"Oh, don't worry about him. He's not going to die anytime soon. Killing you and bringing Zeref back in front of him should be enough to break him into cooperating."

"What do you need him for? He has nothing to do with this! Let him go!" she said loudly after whipping her head back to Jellal.

"Why would I do that when he's the Master of Death?" Jellal asked with a sneer. "I plan on giving him to Zeref as a welcome back present. I'm sure he'll like a pet, don't you?" Jellal had the most evil grin that either Erza or Harry have seen.

"I agree," Jellal's voice said from behind Erza, but to her that couldn't be right, because Jellal is standing right in front of her. So how is he behind her too? To make sure that she's hearing right she turns around and sees that it was Siegrain who spoke.


Harry knew that Siegrain and Jellal are one and the same, but it is still weird seeing them both in two places at once. For some reason this makes him think of a small hourglass necklace and seeing another him and his bushy-haired friend who was with him at the time in another place, but the other them were not allowed to see them.

"I do believe that Lord Zeref would love to have the Master of Death as his pet," Harry heard Siegrain say. "And just so you know, Jellal, it was harder than I thought it would be to convince the Magic Council to give up the power we needed to fully complete the R-System, because they knew there were people here who were trying to stop you."

"I figured that was the case when I saw that Harry sent the slaves away, and that it was taking them so long to fire," Jellal said.

"Siegrain, what…what are you doing here?" Erza asked, making Harry wish he wasn't gagged right then, he would have been able to tell her that they were the same person. He couldn't blame her for being confused he guessed, because he did the same thing.

"Think back to the time we first met, Erza. Kind of like Harry, you and Makarov came to the Council with a written apology to me. You mistook me for Jellal and attacked me. I guess I can't blame you, we do have the same face," Siegrain said.

Now Harry remembered why he and the master where at the Council that day. Natsu blew up half a town while fighting something, but Natsu couldn't go because he got too injured by Erza when she scolded him for it. So Harry took his place so he could apologize to the Council on Natsu's behalf. They took it, mostly because Harry himself doesn't normally create so must destruction.

Harry started to listen to what they were talking about again, but he noticed that he missed some things. Fawkes told him that at the time Erza and Siegrain first met, he calmed her down by explaining that he was Jellal's twin brother, but he believed that she never lost her hostility toward him.

"Why should I have my hostility?! You're his older brother, yet you did nothing to stop him!" Erza shouted. "To make it worse, you watch over me for him!"

"Yes, I have made a mistake there. I should have said that I was going to find Jellal and kill him back then, but it's too late for that now isn't it?" Siegrain said with a smirk. "But my biggest mistake was meeting you at all."

"Coming up with a lie on the spot wasn't easy," Jellal took over from there.

Harry knew where this was going without having to listen to it anymore, but it was still weird as heck watching Siegrain merge with Jellal like that. Jellal told Erza pretty much what he told him while they waited for her, and now he's worried, because Jellal used half his magic to make the projection. {Fawkes, Erza's in trouble. Jellal is at full power now that half his magic returned to him,} Harry told his familiar.

{Yeah, I noticed, and Erza is not at full strength at all. She's in more than just trouble,} said Fawkes.

Erza tried to fight Jellal again, but not long after she started, her body froze. Harry could see, even from where he was lying that what stopped Erza in her tracks was the same magic that is pinning him down.

"What is this?" Erza demanded.

"A binding serpent spell," Jellal answered. "I placed it on you while you were hugging me." He pushed Erza into one of the crystals. She started to sink into it, making Harry panic. He shouted from behind the gag and tried to crawl like a caterpillar toward her, but Jellal showed up and placed a foot down on his back, preventing him from moving.

"Oh, Lord Zeref! I am here before you! I offer this woman's body as your sacrifice!" Jellal called out with his arm spread open. Harry tried to get Jellal's foot off his body, but he is smaller and weaker than him. He hissed under the gag, trying to call out for Erza, while Erza shouted Jellal's name.

All of a sudden everything stopped. Harry abandoned his struggling and looked over to Erza – followed by Jellal – and saw that Natsu finally showed up, pulling Erza out of the lacrima.

TBC


Yeah, I know, the fight scene was a bit sucky. I felt rushed, and I am no longer use to sword fighting. I need to write more Bleach fanfics to get back into it. Luckily that is the next fanfic I'm writing.

Natsu: Jellal is a jerk! DX

Harry: Yeah he is!

Zeref: You are writing him very well.

Enj/Dark: I needed to let my darker side out for a bit. So I let it out while writing Jellal… mostly.

Harry: Makes sense. :/

Natsu: Is it Voldy's turn?

Zeref: It is, but he's kind of busy right now.

Harry: Why?

Enj/Dark: *points at the chair I'm sitting on.*

Natsu: I don't get it… :(

Zeref: She turned Voldemort into a chair.

Harry&Natsu: Oh! O.O Harry: Why did you do that?

Enj/Dark: He tried to kill me last time. He'll be back to normal next chapter.

Zeref: So he'll be like that for two weeks?

Enj/Dark: You got it! ;) But I'll let him speak for this. If you do this, Voldy, I'll no longer sit on you and you will be able to speak from now on till your normal again. Deal?

Voldy: Yes, you have a deal! Now get off me! DX *feels Enjali get off.* Please review… *pouts*