|Nashi's POV|

What the hell happened?

Grandine had curled up in a ball, hugging her knees and bawling her eyes out. I remember me being there...

After the enemy disappeared, the rain led up and the clouds slowly moving to reveal the sun. I saw Storm and Reiki pass out. And Miza had a stab wound in her stomach.

I was about to fall myself, but Jellal caught me in time.

"They're a lot stronger than when I last saw them," he told me.

"Wait, you knew that Rin came back to life?" I asked confusingly.

Jellal helped me walk a couple steps to a rock to sit down.

"He was never dead to begin with," he said, slowly placing me on the rock.

"What?!" I said a little loud.

Jellal closed his eyes for a moment and opened them again, his wet hair hanging over them.

He sighed, "No one knew, except for me and another person."

"Who are they?" I asked.

"It doesn't matter," Jellal said.

I shake my head slowly and look at the wet ground, "Ok, fine. But... even Wendy said that Rin didn't survive that blast. At least, that's what Reiki told me."

"Illusion magic," Jellal informs.

I dart my head up and look at him above me, "Was it Mavis who-"

He cuts me off, "No no no! It was, someone else. Again, it doesn't matter."

It hurts, but I stand up to get more on his level, "Yes, it does! What if they can tell us about where their base is and we can save Ro-"

He grabs me by the shoulders and pushes me back down on the rock, "It doesn't matter because she's dead!"

I just look at him with wide eyes.

"I didn't figure it out until now," he says with sad eyes.

"What are you..."

He puts his hand over his eyes and shakes his head, "It doesn't matter."

I hear a familiar voice behind me, "I-I killed her didn't I?"

Jellal looks away from my face and over my head, which isn't hard to do because I'm sitting and he's standing.

"Rosemary..." he speaks softly.

I turn around and Rosemary walks backward, she stumbles but Sylvia is there to catch her, her hands under Rosemary's arms. "Are you ok?" She asks worriedly.

Rosemary shakes her head, "No, I killed our only chance at finding their base..." she clenches her teeth.

Caleb stands up from the wounded brunette and says, "She wasn't our only chance, when I showed up, I could of took one of them on and then they could've told us. I was too slow."

"It's fine," Asuka joins in, "there's always more ways to save them."

"Wait," Sylvia says, looking at Caleb, "Do you know?"

Caleb sighed, "Yeah... Gramps- I mean Gildarts told me a while back."

|Author's POV|

Caleb tries to refrain from calling his grandpa, Gildarts, "gramps" only because some of the older members called Makarov that, it just doesn't feel right to call him that. Except, for when Gildarts is there. And it doesn't feel right to him to call him "Grandpa" either.

Gale stands next to him, "What? We just figured out recently. Well, Nova, Nashi, and I anyway. I was told that no one else knew, except for specific members. And you weren't one of them."

"No, that's because it was only between Gildarts and I." He informs.

Wendy looks up from Reiki with a worried expression, "We have to get to the guild. Now."

"W-what's wrong?" Rosemary asks, worried about her brother.

"It's Reiki, there's poison spreading from his leg around his body."

"Shit," Jellal whispers fiercely, he practically runs towards Reiki and squats next to him. He lifts up his left pant leg and looks closely at it. "It's one of her poison swords, Eileen's. Erza doesn't own this sword."

"We have too many injured, and passed out, how are we supposed to carry them all?" Nashi asks.

"We'll have to go in groups," Asuka suggests, "We can get carriages, there's too many of us and It'll be too suspicious as a large group."

"Ok, what are the groups then?" Rosemary asks.

"Gale, Nova, and Caleb. Then, Sylvia, Reiki, and Jellal. Next would be, Nashi, Miza, and Rosemary. Last squad would be Wendy, Grandine, Storm, and I."

"Um... are you sure it's a good idea for Nashi to be in a group without a supervisor ya know... older than her?" Sylvia asks with concern.

"Are you saying I can't handle myself?!" Nashi yells.

"I'll take care of her Sylvia," Rosemary nudges her with her elbow.

Gale rolls his eyes, "Alright, I'm fine with this. Should we get going?"

The clouds are starting to get enough out of the way that you can see the sun.

"We better hurry," Jellal says, "We'll leave first."

Asuka nods, "Ok."

Wendy looks down, remembering those words that she said earlier when she came with Romeo.

Grandine sniffles and tries to look strong as she approaches her mother, "Mom... we'll get daddy back. Nashi promised me he would come back alive." She then hugs Wendy tightly.

Wendy blinks then turns her eyes towards Nashi and mouths, 'Thank You' she then tries to smile.

Nashi simply smiles back at her.

Jellal picks up his son and throws him over his shoulder, "Let's go Sylvia."

Sylvia took one last look at her brother and nodded, "Ok. Take of him ok?"

"Yeah, he'll be fine with us." Asuka says.

And with that, Sylvia, Jellal with Reiki, left to find a horse or carriage. Whichever comes first.

|Sylvia's POV|

This is going to be awkward... I've never been with Jellal by myself. And I just met him after about...
10 years? Yeah. And I don't even remember seeing him.

Why Asuka. Just Why?

-----|Time skip|2 hours later|-----

It pains me to see Reiki in this condition. I've never ever seen him like this, it reminds me a lot of when Storm was in the hospital.

He's been breathing hard and beads of sweat have been dripping down his face for the past 2 hours. Every once in a while he'll clench his teeth and close his eyes tightly, tears would fall down his face along with his sweat.

But, every 10-20 minutes, he'd let out a scream and hold it for about 30 seconds.

He's having nightmares. I know he is. I just don't know if it's the poison spreading through him.

"Reiki, calm down," Jellal says, knowing that Reiki can't hear him.

"AAAAH!" Reiki would scream. Sounding like he was being tortured.

"He's heating up again," Jellal said, having his hand to Reiki's forehead.

I take the rag on his head and put ice cold water on it, using my magic of course.

He stopped screaming, but was clenching his teeth and breathing really hard.

What has Eileen done to him?

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Well... I hope he gets better.

I AIN'T GONNA KILL HIM IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE WONDERING!

He's just... going through a lot of pain. Yeah... sorry.

I actually REALLY like Reiki and want to tie him to the story more...
K.

Sye.