Chapter 16: What Really Happened

Anyway, I think i kept you guys waiting long enough for this chapter x3
Enjoy!~
So many months had passed since I found out I was pregnant. My belly is now visible and plump. Not a day goes by I don't think about what my child would look like. I always rub my belly to sooth them. Boy or girl, they're very active.

"Princess?" Levy peeks her head in my room.

"Levy!" I cheer as she hurries to me and hugs me,

"Look at you!" She adjusts her glasses, "I can't believe you're going to be a mother."

"I still can't either," I smile at her.

"I hope you're going to let me see them everyday," Levy chirps, "I've always wanted a baby, but the suitors these days are pricks."

I laugh a bit, "Don't worry Levy, you'll find someone someday."

She sighs, "Sometime's I wonder if true love even exists."

"I believe it's true."

The bluenette quirks a brow at me.

I look down a my belly and caress it, "My baby is my true love."

She smiles down at me and then snaps her fingers at me, "Maybe I should get a cat."

I lay in bed, about to go to sleep, when I get an excruciating pain in my stomach. I wince my nose in pain and let out a hiss as I try to sit up. As I shift in my bed, it felt wet.

"Oh no!" I cry, "Jellal!"

Jellal was outside my door and he comes rushing in once I call his name, "Princess?!"

"The baby!" I say as the pain gets more intense.

"Oh,hold still, princess! I will get the doctor!"

He leaves the room like the speed of light, and was left there, waiting for some help to come.

The doctor returns and I go into labor. As intense as the atmosphere is, there's a roar that makes the castle shake. Guards and soldiers run past my door and the bell tower goes off, signaling the people, they were under attack.

Oh, my child. Why couldn't you have picked a better time to come into the world?

"What's going on?!" Jellal asks a soldier who passes by the open door.

"It's Achonologia, sir!" The soldier replies, "It's coming this way!"

"What?!"

"Ach...Achonologia?" I mumble.

"Dammit," Jellal curses under his breath, "Get Lucy safe."

"What?" I turn to Jellal.

"I have to go, princess," He turns to me, "Be safe."

He turns on his heel and runs out the door.

"Jellal, no!" I cry as he leaves.

I needed Jellal to be by my side for this birth. I can't be left alone again...

"Everybody!" Erza orders, "Ready the cannons! Steady your bows! Prepare for battle! If we we die, we die for the sake of our kingdom."

"Erza!" Jellal calls as he runs up to the red head.

"Jellal?"

"I have a plan," He explains, "But I will need your assistance."

Erza quirks her brow at her second in command, then nods her head. After Jellal explains the plan, Erza instantly becomes hesitant.

"Jellal, how do you expect this plan to work?"

"I don't," He deadpans, climbing up his horse.

"This is suicide!"

"Maybe so, but if it keeps the princess and her child safe, and if it's our only chance in saving the kingdom, we have to try!"

"You'll be killed by the king. That is if the tribe doesn't kill you first," Erza says.

"Then I guess i'm taking my last breaths."

Erza's eyes become wide.

"Now, are you with me, or not?" Jellal quickly barks at the woman.

She stands her ground, and Jellal gallops off. Once Erza realizes he was serious, she hops her her horse and catches up to Jellal.

"Don't try and stop me!" He says.

"I'm not!" She replies, "I'm coming with you!"

Together, the two soldiers ride off to the tribe full of dragons, in hope of aid. The run through the cave, and to the tribe.

It was in ruins from the last battle. The day they took Lucy from her lover and told her ever since it was a dream. Nothing was real. The tribe, the people, the experiences she had. It was all a dream.

But it was all a lie.

Jellal had lied to the only person who trusted him, under the king's orders. Oh, how Jellal wanted to tell Lucy the truth. That her lover was indeed real, and the child was surely his.

He remembers the fight. What took place. And it haunted him. Every second of everyday.

He saw Lucy jump in the way, defending her lover. Gray retract his sword.

"If he dies, then I die too!"

They all stood there in shock, unaware of what to do. That's when Erza and Jellal make a decision. Jellal had been carrying a cross bow with dart that would make you fall asleep. As Lucy and Gray bicker, he loads the crossbow, aims it at the princess, and fires. She falls to the floor unconscious. Then he sees Natsu become filled with rage when Jellal shoots him with a dart as well.

He remembers feeling terrible for what he did. The feeling of guilt never left his mind. He remember's Gray walk up to him with Lucy in his arms, and leaving Natsu unconscious and giving him a praising pat on the shoulder. He remembers seeing his soldiers hold back the people of the tribe, holding the chief hostage so no one would try anything. And finally, he remembers taking Lucy home, and being ordered that she was to not know what had happened. No one was to speak a word of what had taken place and she was to be lead to think it was all her imagination.

Jellal had never planned on getting close to Lucy. He wasn't supposed to befriend her. Now, Jellal regrets it all. How he wished he could have said something. Now, he felt it was his place to reunite the two lovers. Somehow.

"Forgive me, Lucy," He whispers to himself, "But I promise you...I will bring you back to Natsu."

It was true what Erza had said. That his plan was nearly a death wish. He was going to present himself to the tribe, tell them Lucy was well, and then ask of them to help defeat Achonologia.

The two run to the center of the village for everyone to see them.

"Natsu!" Jellal calls for the pink-headed male, "Show yourself!"

The villagers mumble amongst themselves and wait for the male to show himself.

"You bastard..." A low voice growls, "You have a lot of nerve showing your face to me."

The people make a path for the fire breather and his dark onyx eyes lock with Jellal's golden ones.

"Natsu," Erza calls, "We mean you no harm."

"Well of course you don't," Natsu snarls, "It's not like you didn't rob me of my mate or anything."

"If you love her, you will shut up and listen," Jellal snaps.

Natsu just crosses his arms to listen.

"Lucy is well and alive," Jellal tells the people who surround him, "She is currently in labor."

"WHAT?!" A female voice booms.

There's some scuffling, people groaning, sorry's being exchanged, and then a woman with blue hair and big glasses shows herself.

"My baby is having a baby!?" She squeaks.

"Grand, now's not the time," Natsu scowls at his mother.

"Yes, she is," Jellal replies, "However, our kingdom is under attack. Achonologia, is on it's way to the castle. The very place were Lucy is giving birth."

Everyone gasps.

"That is why we ask of your help to stop Achonologia," Erza adds.

"Absolutely not!" Igneel roars, as he makes his way to the soldiers.

"Dad!" Natsu looks at his father, "We have to! If we don't, Achonologia will kill Lucy and the baby!"

"I DON'T CARE!"

Everyone stays silent and watches a raged Igneel.

"How dare you? Waltz right in here and expect me to risk the lives of my people for filthy humans who held a blade to my neck, to tear my son from his mate. You all are as inhumane as we'll ever be."

Jellal and Erza exchange glances, unaware of what to do or say next.

"Leave at once!" Igneel orders, "Before I turn you both into ash."

Erza clicks her heel against the side of her horse and Jellal follows after a moment.

Natsu tries to follow, but Igneel holds him back.

"Dad-"

"No, son. Let her go. She isn't worth the risk."

Natsu glares at his father, and mutters in a sinister tone, his face becoming deathly close to his father's, "Don't you dare utter such words about her. If I ever hear you even whisper her name, I will not hesitate soak the earth with your blood."

He bumps shoulders with his father before storming away to his hut.

I am done. DONE DONE DIDDLY DONE DONE. So, it's getting pretty tense now x3

I hope you all liked and sorry for the late update :3

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