7 Escape from the Tower of Heaven End (2/2)

He promised himself that he would always protect her. That they would always stay together. That they would grow up together. That they would do everything together. That they would never leave each other.

He promised her...

”STOP!”

As Juliet's attack was about to hit Erza, a large cloud of dust and smoke spread across the entire room. As the smoke began to fade, Juliet widened her eyes in shock as Erza was unharmed.

”What?!”

Erza was also shocked that she was unharmed by Juliet's attack. Right before their eyes, Erza was protected by a barrier of multiple red glowing swords.

”Magic?” Erza muttered in confusion.

”No more...”

The girls turned around and found Ezra back to his feet. Another thing is that they noticed his eyes changed from brown to bright red while releasing a red aura.

”Ezra?”

”No more! Don't hurt my Onee-chan anymore!”

From his loud cry, the weapons around Erza began to spin rapidly in a circular motion as they all pointed towards Juliet while crackling with some kind of red energy. The blue haired girl widened her eyes in shock as the blades all flew towards her.

Juliet began blasting the attack with her magic as the swords shattered into pieces. However, hundreds of swords suddenly appeared in thin air as they quickly flew towards her.

Juliet quickly retaliated by destroying them with another wave of blasting with her magic as she clicked her tongue.

”Tch! I would never anticipate that Ezra would use magic as well. I may not be able to destroy them all, but I can always get rid of the source!”

Erza widened her eyes as Juliet shot a blast of magic towards her brother, ”Ezra! Get out of there!”

As soon as Juliet's attack blasted the boy, the same barrier of swords protected the boy as Ezra remained unharmed.

A single sword suddenly appeared in thin air as it flew towards Juliet. The girl didn't have time to react as the blade slashed her shoulder, leaving a deep bloodied cut.

”Gaaahhh!” Juliet held her injured bleeding shoulder in pain as she fell to a knee.

Multiple glowing swords suddenly appeared and began forming above the girl as they all pointed directly at her. Juliet widened her eyes as many of the blades came down on her.

*BOOM!*

All the swords exploded on impact, greating a strong gust of wind and leaving a large dust cloud in the entire room as Erza was forced to cover her left eye.

As the dust finally settled, Erza uncovered her eye and stared in shock as she found an unconscious Juliet lying on the ground with small cuts and bruises.

Ezra's eyes suddenly changed back to his original colour as he passed out from magic exhaustion. Erza noticed that the swords began to vanish with a spark as soon as her brother fell to the ground.

Erza quickly ran over to her brothers side and shook him, ”Ezra! Ezra, are you okay?!”

Much to the older twins relief, Ezra slowly opened his eyes again at his sister, ”Onee-chan...”

The boy managed to mutter out before passing out again. Seeing that her brother was okay, she lifted him up and carried him on her back.

”Lets get out of here.”

As she was about to leave, Erza stopped for a moment and looked at the unconscious form of Juliet.

In all honesty, as much as Erza wanted to leave the girl who tried to kill her and her brother, and tried to enslave her friends just to continue building the tower, Erza wasn't that heartless to leave Juliet like that.

As Erza was about to approach the blue haired girl, she was then struck to her stomach by a fast and solid round object.

*BAM!*

”Guh!” Erza then fell to her knees and onto the ground in pain. She then heard another young girl's voice.

”How disappointing. To think that Juliet would lose so quickly to a little boy. But, his magic is quite impressive.”

'W-What?!...W-Who is..?' Erza thought as her vision began to quickly fade away

”But no matter, she still has her uses...All will go according to plan...”

As Erza's vision finally faded, she only managed to see a girl around her age with dark purple hair, tending to the unconscious Juliet.

.....

On the Shores of Fiore....

In the middle of the night, Erza woke up on a wet sandy beach in the middle of nowhere. She forcefully pushed herself up with her arms and looked around her surroundings of where she was.

”Ezra....Ezra?!”

She began to frantically turn her head to different directions in search of her brother. Erzastopped moving her head and found her brother lying not too far from where she was.

She quickly got back up to her feet and tried to run towards her brother. Unfortunately, she fell back to the sand, but that didn't stop her.

Erza tried to get up again and rushed to her brother's side and dropped her knees over his body. She rolled him over to his back and quickly placed her ear against his chest.

Much to her relief, Ezra was breathing.

Erza placed her brothers head on her lap as she pressed their foreheads to each other. Tears began to well up on her left eye as they fell onto her brother's face.

Erza began to cry loudly to the full moon.