Gray kneeled in front of the queen; Ikaruga.

"You called for me, your majesty?"

"Yes," she said, walking towards him. "Someone has been accused of treason. I want you to kill her."

"Who is it?"

Ikaruga faked a sob. "My own- my own beloved daughter..she tried to kill me."

ugh. i made her so annoying lol

Gray clenched his jaw. Stop with the drama. I don't care.

"Why would I want to kill your daughter anyway?"

"Oh," she said making her way towards him. "Maybe because of the reward. 1,000,000 jewels."

Gray thought about it. Did he really want to kill and innocent girl- well maybe not innocent, but still. Maybe the money could help Porlyusia.

"I'll do it." he finally decided.

Ikaruga smiled. "Good."

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"I don't really like my last name."

"Why?"

"It's too long and hard."

"What do you want it to be?"

"I don't really know. I just wanna be Erza. Just Erza."

"What about Scarlet? It's just like your hair, so I'll never forget!"

"Erza Scarlet, huh? I like it!"

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Sorry if you're not ok with curse words. It's kind of part of Rosemary's personality, and if you don't want them, I can delete it.

That was the downside of her name. How was she supposed to know that she would be dueling him? Yet here she was, staring at a ghost, with a magnificent white wolf next to her.

"Rose-nee?" Jellal said tilting his head.

"What has it done to you??" she sobbed. "You used to look so cute and inncoent- oooh, who's this?" She looked at Erza.

"I, um, I'm Reiki."

She narrowed her eyes at her.

Erza. It's good to see you again. But what are you doing here?

Erza jolted. She knew this voice. The one that had spoken in her mind.

"H-huh??"

Rosemary just shook her head and sighed. She but her hands on her hips and said, "I guess I have a lot of explaining to do, huh?"

We both nodded.

"Alright. First of all, don't call me Rose-nee. It's weird seeing someone that looks older than you call you 'big sister.' Maybe just Rosemary. Rose. Mary? Maryrose?"

With a tight shake of his head, Jellal said, "Just get to the point."

"Right! The point! Um, maybe we should sit down first?"

She fumbled as a bunch of logs formed a circle, and a fire glowed in the middle.

Jellal's eyes widened. "Magic."

Rose snorted. "What are you gonna do, go to hell and execute me? I'm already dead."

She looked at us and said, "My solid form, is basically me as a human." she paused. "Except I'm dead, so that makes me a zombie. I might look pretty beat up in my form because once I felt like eating something."

Erza and Jellal watched as her figure slowly gained color. Surprisingly, her clothes and hair changed too. What was once a shirt is now tied around her chest tightly, and her dark blue hair was in a loose braid. The white wolf that was next to her, rubbed itself against her leg. She still looked like a 12 year old child, even though she would have been 22 if she was still alive. 

She took a deep breath and began. "Okay, so basically, I died in this area of the forest, but nobody noticed my ghost. The only things that can see me are animals, and family members. You can probably see me because of your eye," she nodded to Erza. "Like how you saw before, I have magic. I specialize in gravity magic though, and I'm not that skilled in any other areas. Oh yes, and this wolf you see here," she added, scratching behind its ear, "is Sugar. He kinda follows me around a lot. You could even say that he's my spirit animal."

"Stepfather told us that magic was dangerous."

Rose rolled her eyes. "What lies have they fed you this time," she asked boredly.

"Mother was killed by magic."

"Hah! Mother HAD magic. She's the one who taught me the damn thing."

"She had magic?" Jellal asked surprised.

"And so do you," Rose added. "Well, you have the ability to do so. I bet those stupid excuses of parents didn't teach you."

Erza chuckled. "It's funny how we went looking for Juvia, and we found you instead."

"Juvia," Rose said, confused. "What happened to her?"

"We're looking for her body."

"She died?"Rose said, angry. "That fucking-"

Erza coughed.

"-little female-dog. Ugh! Practicing dark magic, and telling others not to even use normal magic? I'm offended that the throne that is SUPPOSED TO BE MINE IF USING IT TO HER OWN ADVANTAGE," Rose glanced at Jellal. "Of course, you're the rightful heir now."

She huffed. "We're going back to the palace," she finally said, getting back into her normal form. "And we," she said looking at Erza. "We need to ave a talk."

Erza gulped.

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Again, sorry if you don't like curse words! That's kinda how she acts.

Are you glad I gave you a decent-length chapter, and updated early? I am too! 

I promise, there WILL finally be some Gray-Juvia interaction next chapter!

Thank you for reading! <3