Hey you guys. So you mighta seen the new summary, in that, well, there isn't a summary anymore. I'm finally going to formally discontinue this story. I'm sorry, I know there were a lot of people who loved it, but I'm just really not that good at writing long overarching stories and this was too big of a project to take on and while I did have a lot of hopes for it, I haven't touched it in a really long time and honestly don't feel the need to again.

And I guess as an apology, the following are bits and pieces that I was going to include at some point in the story, one way or another. You'll get some idea of where I was going with this story, and hey, if any of y'all wanna take this concept and run with it, feel free!

I had like four more full chapters that I wrote, but unfortunately, the only copies I had were saved on , and I didn't make sure to keep them saved and they were automatically deleted. There was some good stuff in there, too, that I would've included in this little thing below. Whoops. Keep your files in multiple places, folks.

Lucy Confession

"Duke Jinelle. His family owns many of the railways, which we could easily use to expand our wealth."

Lucy sighed. "I'm sorry, Father."

Jude's eyes shot up from the papers he'd been looking at on his desk. "What!?" He asked, confusedly and angrily.

"I'm sorry, but I'm done with these engagement interviews," Lucy said calmly, despite the completely uncalm and chaotic storm of butterflies and thunder raging within her. "I'm not going to marry someone just so you can become richer."

Jude stood from his desk, knocking his chair over to crash into a nearby vase. "You will marry whoever I say you'll marry! You are an asset of my estate and I will use you as such!"

"That's just the thing!" Lucy's fists clenched at her sides, needing something to ground herself so she wouldn't explode. Blowing up would do nothing to help her. "I'm not part of your property. I am your daughter; a human being who gets to make choices."

"Well, let's hear it, then! Who do you want to marry?" Jude didn't really care about her answer, but he was curious to see what whelp she was interested in. "What's wrong with the dukes and lords you've seen?"

"I..." Lucy started. "I want to marry someone I love!"

"Ha!" Jude laughed haughtily. "I didn't love your mother when we were betrothed, but let's tease this silly notion for a second! What makes you say that you won't fall in love with Duke Jinelle?"

"Because-" Lucy started out strong, but then she had to pause and think. What did make her say that? Perhaps this Duke Jinelle was someone she could fall in love with. Sure, that wasn't really the point, since it was the idea of arranged marriage that she was fighting, but why couldn't she fall in love with one of these dukes her father wanted her with?

An image of Natsu's bright grin flashed in her mind.

And Lucy realized why she couldn't fall in love with any of these dukes.

"Because I'm already in love with someone else!"

Gildarts and Natsu

"Natsu, come with me," Gildarts told the boy.

"Yeah, okay," Natsu gave a wave goodbye to Lucy before following his long-time idol. They didn't go far, stopping just in the hall outside the room. "What's up?"

"Every day, you remind me even more of another young lad. He'd been in the army during the first Baram Wars."

"How come I remind you of him?"

"He was about your age when he..." Gildarts paused. "You have his spunk, his excitement, his confidence. He'd always been so lively and with a fiery personality. He was eager for fights, just like you. Of course, he wasn't particularly happy about the Baram Wars..." Gildarts paused, smiling at the memories of the boy, despite how those memories ended. Gildarts looked up to Natsu again. "You know, you kinda look like him, too. I never really realized that." With a soft smile, he studied the features of Natsu, who looked thoroughly confused. "Ha, yeah, you really do. If your hair was green and a bit less spiky, you'd be the spitting image. And you act the exact same with your lady," he added, causing Natsu to blush furiously at the implication. "Lucy, right? She looks quite a bit like her, even. Her hair had been browner, though." Gildarts laughed. "Funny how the world works sometimes, isn't it?"

"Why are you telling me?" Natsu asked, tilting his head to the side.

"I don't know," Gildarts admitted. "But I couldn't save him and I want to make sure I save you. Of course, you being the crown prince will probably help keep you off the front lines, but I want you to be able to live your life. August didn't get to. He had a girl that he never got to see again - they had to get married via a letter through the mail while we were on the front lines. She was pregnant. She found out and told August about a month after he left. He never even got to meet his child." Natsu was struck with an unending sadness that he didn't understand at the news. Sure, he was empathetic, but the way he felt, it was almost like he himself was feeling the pain of this 'August' man that Gildarts knew. He wanted to know more.

"What... What happened to his wife?" Natsu asked tentatively.

"Passed away. Only a few months after August had. I never got to apologize to her," Gildarts admitted.

Natsu felt another pang of intense grief and even felt his eyes start to well up. Why was he so depressed over the late August and his mysterious wife? Natsu had never met either of them, never even known about either of them!

"Don't be stupid, Natsu," Gildarts reiterated, interrupting Natsu's thoughts. "I don't want to have to hear that you were killed in a battle."

"Hey, I've never been one to lose! You know that!" Natsu reminded Gildarts.

"Don't get cocky, either," Gildarts told him roughly. "Being cocky will get you into trouble. My being cocky is what got that entire troop killed." Natsu didn't want to press, but he was curious about what Gildarts had done. Gildarts saw his wondering and sighed. "Makarov ordered us to stay where we were because we didn't have any idea what Baram's next move was going to be. We had a few men behind their lines to gather intel, but they hadn't gotten back to us yet. I didn't listen. I didn't wait. I was certain that Baram was going to be moving to another location, and I thought we could catch them by surprise, so I sent August's troop over there." Gildarts paused with a sigh. "Baram anticipated that. They ambushed them. The entirety of that troop was slaughtered. A lot of good men were killed, August included. I regret every one of those deaths. They died fighting; they took out a lot of the ambushers from Baram, but they all succumbed in the end."

Natsu nodded his head in memorial.

Mavis' Debate

A Fairy of Light, Life, and Love, approached the formless Fae standing in this void. Depending upon how this went, the Fae would turn into one of its two forms: Life or Death. "Listen, I need a favor..."

"Mavis, I've done you many favors," the corporeal being replied.

"You see that young man there?" Mavis gestured to the Fae's Watchful Eye, an orb that displayed any scene it wished. Right now, at Mavis's words, it showed the young man she wanted to show the Fae. "You can't let him die. Life has to protect him from Death."

The Fae showed no reaction and no emotion. "Death will take him on the battlefield."

"But I gave him a gift! He has to live!" Mavis insisted.

"What gift? And why?"

"When he was just a boy, he saved me from being caught by hunters. I told him that if he were to make a promise from the bottom of his heart, then it would certainly come true."

"You've involved me too much with that gift. Stop giving it to humanity."

Mavis nodded her understanding. She did give that gift to people quite frequently, and it had oftentimes brought her to this void. "I will, but please. Just look at this one last case."

The Fae of Life and Death touched the orb in front of it and watched both the scene Mavis spoke of and the promise that the man had made.

"He truly did love her. But Death cannot let him live."

Mavis' heart dropped. "There is no way that he can live and return to her?"

"No."

Mavis searched through her mind for a solution. No, she had to reunite them! They were more truly in love with each other than any couple she'd seen for centuries. She had to advocate for their happiness! "What if Life lets him live again?" She already knew the Fae's answer, but she was desperate.

"No. You know that humans cannot be brought into life again after Death has taken them. These two cannot be an exception. Death is due to take them."

"'Them'?"

"Yes, 'them'. The man will die on the battlefield and the woman will die within her next year."

"Why will Death take her?"

"Life has given another breath into her, but Death will take both her and the unborn child."

"So Death will take both the man and the woman? As well as their babe?"

"Yes."

It was quite unfortunate, really, that all three would die, but perhaps Mavis could use this. Perhaps she could convince Life to reunite them in a different way. "May I please speak with Life? I'd like to make an arrangement. It should not go against Death's laws."

The formless figure pondered for a second. Then, just as Mavis hoped, it became the form of a woman with butterfly wings and flowered horns. "What will you suggest?" A more feminine voice than before spoke.

"What if you were to give their breaths to someone else?"

"I do not understand."

"Instead of breathing a new life into two wombs, I want you to reuse these two's breaths." Mavis gestured to the orb, where an image of the couple embracing was waiting.

"You are speaking of reincarnation."

"Yes."

"Death does not like reincarnation."

"But it is not against Death's laws." Mavis pointed out. The fairy could tell that Life wanted to comply to the request. Life liked to do anything that would let love prevail. Love created life, after all.

"Death does not like for me to do it often."

"The last time you did it was five hundred years ago."

"Time does not exist for us," Life smiled to Mavis, who returned the grin cheerily. "but I will do it."

"Thank you. You know how much I hate it when my gifts go unfulfilled. And if you could do it right away, then that would be great. I don't want to wait too long to see this play out."

"You do realize that they will not have their memories? Nor is there a way to guarantee they will meet again."

"Don't worry," Mavis smiled cheekily. "I've already made my plan."

Life then reverted to its faceless form. "You are a tricky fairy," it said. "You should be more careful about the gifts you give and the requests you make, lest you yourself end up with Death."

Mavis gave a smile that said nothing in particular to the Fae before fading from the void and returning to the tangible world.

Natsu and Mavis

Natsu was still falling, until he suddenly felt himself slow down. Before long, he was simply floating down when his feet hit another invisible floor, like the one he'd just fallen from. Natsu watched as the darkness surrounding him suddenly faded and blurred into scenery. He was in a forest. It was funny how often that had happened, although he didn't think this looked like the same forest from his first Lucy dream.

Natsu turned in circles, looking around him. What was so special about this place? Why had Mavis sent him here?

A sound from behind him had him turning around. It sounded like... footsteps. They were light and fast. Was it a child running? His question was answered when the line of trees and bushes was broken through and he saw...

Himself!?

It was a child, his assumption had been correct, but it looked just like a younger him. What the heck!?

"Hey, kid!" Natsu called as he ran past. The child didn't stop. "Hey! Why do you look like me!?" Natsu went to grab his shoulder, only for his hand to pass right through. "What the heck!?" Natsu followed after the kid, not knowing what else to do.

For a good while, he watched as the child wandered around, getting distracted by everything from honeybees to deer. He was also picking all sorts of flowers, one of which had come from a purple flowering vine that Natsu recognized from the mountain dream.

And then there was a cry.

Natsu and Kid-Natsu both heard it and whipped around to find out who or what it had come from. Both of their sets of eyes widened when they saw who it was. The kid, because it was a mythical creature that he'd only heard of in stories, and Natsu, because it was the fairy he'd just been talking to.

"Mavis!?" Natsu exclaimed. "What is this place? Why am I here!?" She was her human-size rather than her fairy-size, for some reason.

Mavis ran right through him and shrieked again when she saw the child.

"You- you're a fairy!" Natsu heard his younger self cry at seeing Mavis's wings. "They're broken!" the child continued. Natsu took closer look to see that one of her gossamer wings was, in fact, torn in some spots.

"Yes, yes," Mavis agreed, "But I don't have time to let you gawk!" Natsu suddenly became aware of more voices behind him, shouting about how the fairy went this or that way. "One of my wings is out of commission for now and my magic is acting haywire, so I must be going!" Her magic must control her size! Natsu smiled as he figured it out, remembering what Mavis had told him once about it being easier to be small while in the mortal realm, but shook his head and started paying attention to the scene again. Mavis was about to start running again before the kid grabbed her arm. Mavis yelped again and tried to pull away, but Kid-Natsu shushed her.

"I have a place for you to hide!" Kid-Natsu led her to a patch of bushes nearby before moving a branch to reveal a sort of little-kid hideout. Natsu could tell it wasn't very big, but it would be big enough to hide the almost child-sized woman for a short while. Without another word, the kid pushed Mavis through the entrance to what he probably thought was the coolest secret clubhouse ever. Mavis clambered in, taking care not to damage her wings further before the child let the branch drop again, hiding the fairy and his hideout once again.

It didn't take long for the previous group of voices to show up. Natsu could tell from their appearance now that they were cocky hunters, most of them riding horses, armed with obviously expensive bows and knives, and showing off their previous kills in the form of pelts on their clothing. Natsu didn't know how they'd ever made a single kill with how loud they were.

"Boy!" the seeming leader shouted at the kid, making him jump. "We are on the hunt for a fairy! Did you see her come this way!?"

The child cocked his head. "Fairy? Aren't those only in fairy tales? Seems kinda weird that grown men are looking for them." As the leader and many of his underlings grew beet red at his comment, Natsu tried hard not to laugh. Then he remembered that apparently no one could see or hear him, so he let his laughter go unrestrained. Natsu could see that the child was sifting through the plants at their feet, but what he was doing, Natsu couldn't tell.

"I will not be attacked like this, whelp!" the leader cried at the kid. "Either you tell us where the fairy went or you run back home to your mother and stop disrupting our hunt!"

Kid-Natsu glared at the man. "Even if I had seen a fairy, I doubt I would reveal it to the likes of you!"

"If you know something, boy, you'd better tell us," the leader demanded. The child finally stood up from digging around in the plants, and Natsu could see he had something clutched in his hands. What was he planning?

"I know nothing," the kid said pointedly, and then he threw his item into the face of the leader's horse.

Natsu could see now that it was a spider, a big one with really long legs, which the horse could tell easily enough, as well. It reared up, almost knocking its rider off in the process, before he was darting away from Natsu, the kid, and Mavis's hiding place. Not knowing what else to do, the other hunters rode after the leader and his runaway horse.

The kid grinned at his success and turned around to let Mavis out, only to see her already crawling out if the hideout. She was giggling, and obviously had been holding it in.

"That was great," Mavis told the kid. "What scared the horse off?"

Kid-Natsu grinned wider. "Spider in its face." Natsu couldn't help but be proud of the kid. He didn't know why the kid looked like him and he didn't remember any of this ever happening, but still.

"Well, in my gratitude, you'll forever have the blessing of Mavis the fairy. But... I should give you a gift, too."

"A gift?" Kid-Natsu questioned excitedly. Then, he must've remembered something his parents had told him about doing good without expecting something in return, because he suddenly became meek and said, "I don't-"

"Oh, I insist! And I know you want one. I can see it in your eyes." The kid blushed and Natsu laughed at the reaction. "Now let's see..." Mavis began pacing as she tried to decide on what she could give the boy who'd saved her life. "I could... No, that wouldn't work. How about...? Oh yeah, that one ended badly the last time I used it... Oh, I know! Why didn't I think of it before? It's one of my favorites to give!" Mavis stood in front of the kid, where he was standing and waiting eagerly. She smiled at the sight. "Alright, here's your gift," she said, and the kid put his hands out. Mavis laughed, then placed her hands on the boys forehead, putting a confused look on both Natsu and Kid-Natsu's faces.

"When you make a promise from the very depths of your heart," Mavis told him, "it will most certainly come true."

"Huh?" Both Natsus said.

Mavis smiled in amusement. "It means just what I said. When you make a promise from the very bottom of your heart, then it'll come true," she repeated. "Oh, but you only have one! So be careful about what you promise!" The kid still looked confused, Natsu noticed, but he nodded uncertainly. "Now, I really must be going, but I'll always be looking out for you," she told him before darting away, leaving Natsu still confused about why Mavis was showing him this.

August and Lucette

Lucy could feel that pounding in the back of her head that she'd figured out was Lucette. She was trying to come through, and instead of fighting it, Lucy let her.

Lucette looked around her. This wasn't right and she would have to let Lucy back before too long, but she wanted to find him.

The redhead and some of the others were still fighting, but he had just finished. Lucette felt her entire being just melt at the sight. It was him. He looked a bit different, and so did she, but it didn't matter. She was seeing him again after so long! With their souls still in the mortal realm, neither of them had been able to ascend to the golden plains of Heaven, but now they could see each other again. They'd seen each other as Natsu and Lucy, but that hadn't been the same. Lucy and Natsu may have been their reincarnations and the same people as she and August, but the two didn't possess all the memories of their past lives. They didn't have all the memories of she and August's love for each other.

"August!" she called. Lucette knew that wasn't his name in this life, but it was the name she knew him as.

Natsu felt a pulsing in his head before feeling like his subconscious had been shoved aside. And then August took the reigns.

August turned to the voice he hadn't truly heard in almost 20 long years. The sound was so beautiful, so refreshing, that it brought actual tears to his eyes. They didn't fall, but they were there.

"Luce!" he called back in a desperate, excited voice, and then they were running to each other. August cupped Lucette's face in his palms and Lucette wrapped her arms around his neck. Their lips mashed as if they'd never separated, and with a gasp for air, they separated again, but continued pecking their lips against one anothers.

August leaned his forehead against hers. "Lucette, I've missed you so much. When- When Natsu met Lucy - in that forest, in that dream - I just wanted to reach out and grab you and kiss you and never let you go again.

Lucette laughed. "I think that would've scared Lucy. And Natsu."

"Yeah, probably would've," August agreed with a chuckle. He kissed her again. "I didn't think we'd ever really see each other again, Luce. I've been watching Natsu and Lucy grow close, but I didn't think we'd ever really get to talk as we were in our last lives..."

"I know, August. I've been feeling the same. But you don't have to worry. Natsu is as much you as you are and Lucy is as much me as I am. We're the same people, just with different memories. We have the same soul and the same feelings. We're still here with each other."

"Why're you always talking so profound and beautiful, Luce?" August asked with a smile. Lucy just laughed and kissed him in reply. "I'm sorry I left you, Luce," he apologized sincerely. "I tried hard as fuck to come out of that battle alive, but they got me in the end..."

"Shh... August, it's okay. You fulfilled your promise in the end, didn't you? We found each other again, in that forest we loved so, just like you said."

"What happened to you after I... General Clive told Natsu that you... How are you reincarnated? How did you..." August gulped as a horrifying thought crossed his mind. "Wait, you didn't-"

"No, I didn't take my own life," Lucette quickly reassured him.

August sighed in relief. He wouldn't have wanted her to give up like that over him. He wished she could've lived out her life, but even so, he couldn't say he wasn't happy that they could basically live again. "Well then how..." August suddenly remembered another person from his past life. "What happened to our baby!? Gildarts never said- Is he still..." August flinched a little at the thought that he could have a child still alive and well despite himself being only 18. "He'd be my age by now!" And then he noticed that Lucette was looking away from him and biting her lip. There was something she was finding hard to say. "Lucette, what happened?"

"Our baby..." Lucette sighed. "He died. I... I went into labor prematurely and because of the complications, neither of us made it. That's how I was able to be reincarnated as Lucy."

August and Lucette both took a solemn silence and held each other in a tight hug as a few tears fell down each of their cheeks. August had only known about their baby for a couple months before he'd been taken by Death, and then it had been only a month after that that Natsu had been conceived. Lucette had gone into labor only four months after August's death, two months too early, and they'd both been taken away by Death then. Neither of them had really been able to grieve over the loss.

"We'll have another one, Luce," August whispered in a low, breathy voice against her ear. "We'll wait a bit of course, but we will. Okay?" He felt Lucette nod her head against his shoulder. She leaned back, wiping at her eyes.

"I loved that baby," she told him. "I was devastated that I wouldn't be able to raise him with you, but I loved him. I never really got to mourn him... He was going to be my little August Jr. Whether he'd been a boy or a girl, that's what his name would've been."

August smiled. "Well now we can have a little Natsu Jr. or a Lucy Jr."

Lucette gave her own small smile at that. "Yeah... Yeah, we'll do that." She gave another sniffle, and August kissed her cheek. "Speaking of Natsu and Lucy, I think it's time we let them back in."

August nodded. "Yeah, we probably should." Even though they agreed, neither made any movement to leave. They didn't know what would happen after this. Natsu was still August and Lucy was still Lucette, but would it be different? Finally they both sighed, squeezing each other in their arms once more before deciding to let go. "I love you, Lucette."

"I love you, August."

And then they kissed again, warmly, desperately, and using it to convey every powerful emotion they were feeling and had felt for the years they hadn't been together.

They let their own subconsciousnesses fall back so that Natsu and Lucy could take over again, and when they did, every single one of August and Lucette's memories swarmed into Natsu and Lucy's minds, and for the first time, the two truly remembered their past lives.

They remembered meeting for the first time, when August had mistaken Lucette for the princess. They remembered growing closer to each other in friendship, a friendship that had easily transformed to infatuation. Lucy remembered Lucette secretly admiring August while he trained and Natsu remembered when he'd noticed Lucette doing so. They remembered when the truth had finally spilled - the night of the banquet, their stupid fight, and finally the kiss that had served as an announcement of their feelings for one another. They remembered the teasing of fellow servants and knights of the castle who had long insisted that the two would be together someday. They remembered their first time being fully intimate with one another: the goodbye night, which had ended with August's promise that had made this moment possible. They remembered when Cornelia and Elizabeth had arranged for their marriage through the mail. Lucy remembered finding out that August had impregnated her that one fateful night and Natsu remembered reading the letter Lucette had sent to tell him, waving it around the soldiers' camp, ecstatic about the news and wanting to share it with everyone.

And it wasn't just each other that they remembered. Natsu remembered his childhood. He remembered his single father training him in swordplay since he was tiny. He remembered discovering Mavis in that forest and rescuing her, setting everything else into motion. He remembered moving to the Fioran castle at 13 when his father had died to complete his training and be knighted. He remembered General Gildarts and how fond he'd been of August, almost like a surrogate father figure. He remembered sparring with a younger Macao and Wakaba and everyone else who'd been his fellow trainees and knights.

Lucy remembered being raised by her own single parent - her loving mother who'd also died far too young. She remembered the king finding her begging in the street at the age of seven and bringing her to the castle to be cared for and eventually start a job there. She remembered when Prince Laxus had been born and she remembered when, a few years later, his parents had to be exiled for conspiracy against the kingdom. She even remembered hearing news about each of the births of her apparent sisters, Yukino and Sorano Ceres of Celestia, as well as hearing of the birth of Gray, that is, Prince Jitensha of Koori. She remembered her actual first meeting with Cornelia and Elizabeth, who'd become Lucette's very best friends. She remembered helping Cornelia and Gildarts care for the newborn Cana, and she remembered everything else they'd all done for each other.

Natsu and Lucy's eyes fluttered open, their lips still pressed in a kiss from August and Lucette's goodbye until they realized they were out of air and were forced to separate, Lucy resting her head against Natsu's shoulder.

"Augus- I mean Natsu... How do you feel? This is weird... I'm still me, but I'm also her... I have all of Lucette's memories, I know all the experiences she went through like they were my own..."

"Because they were your own," Natsu reminded her. "It's like Lucette said, I'm still Natsu and you're still Lucy but we're also August and Lucette. We're the same people, right Luce?"

Lucy nodded. "Yeah... Yeah, we are. We have the same hearts and the same minds, and now we have their memories, too." Lucy smiled and pecked his cheek. "And now I have an extra set of memories of your goofs to tease you for," she laughed.

"Mm-hmm... And I have an extra set of memories of how weird you are," and he smooched her lips again, a smile adorning them.

"I'll let that comment slide this time, Augu- Natsu. Argh, that'll take some getting used to. I have more memories of calling you August than Natsu. We knew each other for much longer then. We met when I was fourteen."

"Well, we'll just have to make more memories now, Luce," he told her with a grin.

"You're lucky, you know!" she said with a pout (those puffed-up cheeks that both Natsu and August adored so!), "You can just say 'Luce' and you'll be right, because you've called me 'Luce' in both of my lives!"

"Yeah, I'm very lucky," he said before taking her lips with his again, this time much more sensually and lovingly than his teasing peck before.

Yeah, there was a cute flashback to Lucy's previous life - oh yeah I guess I never got into that in the story yet. Lucy and Natsu are reincarnations. Yeah, ooh big twist, haha. Anyway, August (Natsu's previous life) got sent to war before they got married, so Lucette's (Lucy's previous life), best friends (who'd been Cana's mom and Levy's mom, Cornelia and Elizabeth) arranged for them to get married over a letter, that was a sweet moment I'd have included. And there were parts where Lucy got the chance to talk to Cornelia and Elizabeth, learn a bit more about Lucette and August, though that was before she'd really figured out what was going on with her and Natsu.

Some more little details I'd planned before I stopped working on it:

Gray was the prince of Koori, Ur was a general of Koori's army, and managed to escape with baby Gray and Lyon, who was the son of a knight of no importance. Ur gave Ultear to Hades to watch over her just before the battle broke loose and she got caught up in trying to get Baby Gray out. By the time she made it back to Hades, he'd already whisked her away to Baram and convinced Ultear her mother had abandoned her.

Yukino and Angel were the princesses of Celeste, and technically Lucy, too, though she was born after it'd fallen and didn't have the same father as Yukino and Angel. Yukino and Layla both escaped to Heartfilia Manor, Layla was quickly coerced into marriage by Jude, Yukino was raised as Capricorn's own daughter. Angel snuck her way into Baram's ranks in order to keep a check on them and try to prevent them from finding her sister.

Erza was five during Baram Wars, she had been captured from her home in Fiore and was a child slave for two years before she broke free, the others had all been recaptured; Hades had brainwashed Jellal into thinking that Baram would purge the world of evil and start the world over. Jellal helped in the recapture and started being raised as a future general but let Erza go