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Okay, this is a story that has literally been bubbling through my head ever since the chapter came out! Taken from chapter 242, I was wondering what it would have been like if Juvia hadn't been knocked out. (If you've forgotten what happened, I strongly advise that you read that chapter again.) This is just a little something about what happened to Juvia before they were 'frozen' for seven years.

Sorry for my little spelling and grammer mistakes, but I have school to correct me and rubbish like that. If it seems rushed, that's becasue, I don't want to go to school today. Don't get me wrong, I'm not bunking, but we were supposed to go on a school trip, but my name wasn't on the list, so they told me to go back to school. AS IF! After I spent all that time walking through the snow just to get to the train station, you tell me to go to SCHOOL? I don' think so! (Yesh, there is a lot of snow in England right now!) So I'm sitting at home, alone and I've just finished writing this. It took me an hour.

I don't own Fairy Tail or their cool characters! I only own this little fanfic that will never show up in the manga! Hehehehehe

Enjoy!

Let me catch up with you

Zeref looked at the fallen people around him. From his wild eyes to soft gentle ones, Zeref immediately felt sorry for what he had just done. "I'm so sorry; I didn't even get to know your name." He looked at the unconscious Meredy and Juvia and he sighed. "That's good; at least you guys are okay." He turned to leave them just on the ground. He had no reason to be in this age. This wasn't his time line. Why couldn't he just die?

"Nngh!" Zeref stopped dead. The noise had paralyzed him and he sensed movement from behind him. He slowly turned round to see the blue haired mage stirring from the floor. Her clothes were tattered and torn and the amount of wounds that she had on her was unbelievable. She tried to stand up by pushing herself off of the floor, but to no avail, she was just too weak. She looked up in defeat and was shocked to see a figure standing not too fay away from her.

"Gray-Sama?" was the simple words that tumbled out of her mouth. She squinted her eyes as if the sun was blinding her, then they finally refocused. "Zeref! What are you still doing here? Wait, Juvia must get you!" He watched as she tried to stand up yet again. "Juvia must get you, because Gray-Sama told her to!" He watched her with sad eyes as she tried to get up. This was his entire fault! If he hadn't been angry, she might still be able to gather enough strength to get up.

He walked up to her slowly and watched as she tensed as though she were afraid of him. "W-what are you going to do to Juvia?" She tried to move backwards, but her body wasn't responding with her brain. Shit! Why can't Juvia move? She was getting angry with herself for not moving, yet part of her wanted to stay there and see what he would do. He approached her and bent down. Juvia scrunched her eyes tightly and waited for some sort of attack to hit her. When nothing came, she opened her eyes in confusion. She could feel a pair of arms wrap around her waist and snake under her arm.

"I'll help you up, seeing as you are already awake now." The water mage stared up at him in awe as he pulled her up from the ground. "Zeref? What are you going to do to Juvia now?" He continued to lift her up until he got her propped up against a tree. He sighed and moved away. "I'm not going to do anything. I don't deserve to be in this day and age. I should just die for all of the lives that I took, for all of the sins that I committed. It won't be fair on all of the people that I killed if I'm still alive and they're not."

Juvia saw his face fall and his eyes moved to Zancrow. In her mind, Juvia was sort of glad that he was dead. Who knows what he would have done? She turned her head back to look at the man in front of her. She was surprised when she got a clear view of his face. His hair style was sort of like Gray's; he had the biggest brown chocolate eyes that she had ever seen. What shocked her the most was that he looked young. He looked about her age, or maybe even younger. Was he really from hundreds of years ago?

"Yes, yes I am." Juvia clamped her hand over her mouth. She hadn't meant for that to get out. Zeref rested his sad eyes on Juvia. "I'm sorry for what I did. Will you kill me now?" Juvia looked appalled. She hadn't expected for that question to come out of his mouth. "No, Juvia will not kill you. It just wouldn't seem right to Juvia." If it could actually be possible, Zeref was sadder than before." Juvia could feel her magic coming back slowly and she was regaining strength.

She tilted her head to one side to observe him some more. "Why do you look so sad? Juvia doesn't understand why you look so sad that you can't die." The man just sighed. "My magic is dark. That's not how I want my magic to be. I don't want to get angry so easily now. It shouldn't be part of me." Juvia nodded. Although she knew that he was the reason for all of this, she couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him. She had tried to capture him just because Gray told her to, not knowing anything about the man in front of her.

"Juvia is very sorry. Why don't you just try to do the right thing from now on then? Wouldn't that be easier? If Zeref was to die now, he might feel regret when he was to die." Zeref shook his head. He didn't know why he was still here talking to this girl, but something made him attached to her. "I know that I would feel fine if I was to die. There's nothing left for me right now. You don't understand pain." Juvia felt like laughing at the statement. "Zeref is right, Juvia does not understand pain. Juvia feels pain. Wherever I am, there is always rain following me. That was until I met Gray-Sama. He made the rain stop. Maybe, if you just try to find the right person to talk about these things, than maybe you will feel fine afterwards. Just have some friends and that way, you won't regret anything."

Zeref took in her words and turned away from her. Why did she understand him so much? "Thank you very much for that Juvia, but with me being Zeref, I don't think that anyone would want to understand me. Look what I did just now. I just killed someone again and I just hurt you and that little girl. How could you be okay with this?" Juvia shrugged, feeling a whole lot stronger than before. "Maybe it's because Juvia was that way before. Juvia just used to kill people because Juvia was told to. Juvia would hurt anyone and once Juvia came to Fairy Tail, they just over looked all of that and accepted Juvia right away."

So this is what Fairy Tail is like? I would have liked to have been in such a guild. He shook his head. "That's different. Look at who you are, it's fine for you. I'm in legends that people are scared of. No worries. I'm sorry to leave you like this, but I have to go. You will get hut even more. I also need to stop some people from 'awakening' me. Goodbye, Juvia." She watched as the dark mage walked away from her. She cursed herself for not being to move more. She managed to push herself up from the tree. Why did everyone she meets just want to walk away from her? She knew that Gray didn't like her in that way, but she tried no matter what.

Wait? Did that mean that she was finally falling for Zeref or something? No, she just liked him as a friend, the same way that she likes Gajeel. She just felt intrigued by someone like him. Although he seemed so confused, it made her feel like she could finally help someone, and not be useless and stand around waiting for someone else to do it. She managed to push away from the tree and she stumbled in her first step. "Zeref? Zeref wait for me!" The said man stiffened after being called. Just why was she even calling out to him? He tried to quicken his pace.

Juvia saw this and took more steps, stepping over Meredy and Zancrow in the process. "Zeref, please! Let Juvia just come with you!" That bit hit Zeref. Hard. Why would she want to come with him? He stopped walking, and Juvia stopped a few meters away from him leaving a big gap between them. She didn't know what he would end up doing, so she still kept her distance. "Do you even know what you are saying?" He still had his back towards her. There was a gentle breeze and his robes started fluttering out behind him.

"You're guild is getting hurt all because of my very existence, while you're here saying that you want to come with me? I have no allies, yet I have no enemies. You could still get hurt." He shut his eyes waiting for Juvia to reply. She looked off to the side and smiled almost sadly and guiltily. "Juvia doesn't exactly know herself. Juvia just feels like she should just help you out, you know? Juvia doesn't want to see any more people sad. Zeref is really trying his best to be a better person, so why shouldn't he be given the chance to be one? It might sound stupid, but Juvia is just saying it how it is."

He shut his eyes and let the breeze blow his hair. He could hear Juvia taking unsure steps behind him. She stopped as soon as she got right next to him. "Zeref says that he has no allies or enemies, then why doesn't Juvia become a friend?" His eyes shot open and he looked to see the water mage standing next to him giving him a smile of her own. He couldn't help but actually smile at it. "Are you sure? I've never really had a friend before, so I don't know how it works." Juvia just waved it off. "Just be yourself, or who you would like to be anyway. Juvia will still be friends with you."

He gave her a quick smile and walked ahead. "I appreciate it a lot Juvia, but right now I just have a little something to do." Juvia had a worried look on her face, and Zeref felt as though he could feel it. "Don't worry though, I will still be coming back to see you. I just need to punish some people and teach them that darkness is not the way." He was suddenly gone and Juvia couldn't help but smile. She looked up while beaming, then fell to the ground. It took a lot of energy just to stand up, but then she had used a whole lot more to try and walk too. It didn't help that she had a broken bone too.

"Juvia will wait here for you, Zeref," she looked up and said a loud.

~x~

Everyone was back at the camp, celebrating that Hades had just fallen. They were all hugging and shouting, until Gray realized that Juvia wasn't there. "Hey, guys have you all seen Juvia?" Everyone stopped and shook their heads. It had been a while since they had seen their blue haired friend and no one knew where she was right now. They all tried calling out to her, but unknown to them, Juvia was still on the other side of the Island, waiting for Zeref to come back to her.

Juvia had seen Ultear come by and she quickly hid herself. Meredy had woken up and the two of them left, leaving Zancrow's body to rot on the ground. As soon as they left, Juvia came out from the bushes. She wondered if they were all looking for her yet. Either way, she was waiting for a friend, a friend who needed her right now. It had been a while since Zeref left and Juvia was wondering if he was actually going to come back like her said he would. She shook her head. Of course her should! He said he would! Juvia knew from experience that it was never good to bottle things up inside of you, so she knew that one day; Zeref was going to explode and do plenty more things that were worse than he had already done before.

In the silence of the mini jungle, her belly began to rumble. She sighed sheepishly although she knew that there was no one there. It had really been a while since she last ate. She just hoped that Zeref would come back quickly so that she could get back and eat. As if he heard her thoughts, he appeared right in front of the starving girl. "Eep!" Juvia was a little taken back, but then smiled. "You came back!" Zeref didn't know what it was, but there was something about that smile that made him want to smile back. "Of course I did. I brought you some food and a healing kit for you."

Juvia didn't even question where he got it all from. He could have poisoned it for all she cared, just as long as she didn't die of starvation. She set to eating the berries and bread while Zeref attended to her wounded leg. They sat I silence, one eating, while the other was doing important business. After he finished, het sat back and watched her as she ate. After watching for a while, he decided to open his mouth. "So why did you want me to stay with you?" Juvia finished the last bit of bread and looked at him. She gave him a shy smile. "Because Zeref needs a friend, someone who can understand him. Juvia might not be much, but Juvia wants to do everything to help."

Zeref sighed. "If that's really the way you want it then. To be honest with you, I feel fine right now. Thank you Juvia. You might not know it, but you've already been a good friend to me. Just you talking to me and not trying to use my power for evil is already more than enough." Juvia looked up in surprise, and then smiled again. "That's good to hear. Juvia is happy that you are happy, even if it is Zeref." He stood up and took Juvia's hand within his. "I think that your guild will be wondering where you are right now. It would be wise if you were to go back to them right now."

Juvia let her hand drop from his, but very slowly. She looked in the direction of the camp. "Juvia guesses that you would be right. Juvia will go now. Will Zeref be okay?" He nodded and shooed Juvia away. "You have to go now okay?" Juvia nodded. "Juvia will see you again soon!" She ran off while waving behind her. Zeref sighed. He didn't know anyone who had so much courage to befriend him. Juvia was definitely something else.

~x~

"So where do you think that Juvia is?" Nobody knew what the answer to that question was. All of a sudden, a tired looking Juvia came running out of the bushes. "Juvia is here! Juvia ran in to some trouble, but she is okay now!" The all nodded and circled her. Erza was checking for any injuries. "Weren't you hurt before? I thought your leg was broken." Juvia waved it off. "No, no, Juvia got some help. Juvia healed it!" As they were all talking, a dragon circled them overhead. All of their eyes widened in fear while the three dragon slayers were in pure shock.

"A dragon!" The said dragon opened its mouth and they knew what was coming. A dragon's roar. Juvia squinted her eyes as she saw a figure on the back of the dragon. That can't be Zeref, is it? Unfortunately, it was. Zeref looked down at her with sad eyes. It was such a shame to this. The whole place glowed, and before they knew it, they were all knocked out.

As Juvia went down, she couldn't help but let a tear escape. Let me catch up with you, so that you don't have to do this alone. She hit the ground with a massive 'thud'.

So what did you think of it? Did you like it? I hope so!

I've left the ending sort of open, so that if anybody wants to know more (if people actually read this) then you can just ask me and I will. If not, then I will just leave it there until someone asks for another chapter! Remember, this has been in my mind for ages and I've only just written it, I know how the plot will go!

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