" ": You talking

' ': You thinking

* *: Narrator/Voice-off

Your POV:

Jellal: Seven minutes left. In seven minutes' time, Etherion will strike this place. Let us enjoy those seven minutes.

"So it means we got seven minutes to take you down and exit this god damn tower. Piece of cake."

Erza: Right now, there is nothing that I fear. Even if Etherion does fall upon me, I will be satisfied as long as I take you with me.

Jellal: Here I come !!

"I can't understand ! It took you eight years to build that huge tower, and now you're smashing it up ?! Make up your damn mind already !"

Jellal: It's just a pillar or two... Nothing more than decorations.

Erza: Shô and the others worked eight hard long years, believing in you, to make those "decorations" !!!

Jellal: Oh, don't play your little word-games with me. What's important here is the R-System. That's what those eight years were for. AND NOW IT IS FINALLY COMPLETE !!!

"That's fine by me, because if it's complete, then destroying it will be even easier !! AERIAL ACE !!"

Jellal: GUAHHH !!

Erza: What are you really after here, Jellal ? You haven't really competed the R-System at all, have you ?

Jellal: Ugh...

Erza: Don't think I've been doing nothing for those eight years. I've done my research on R-System. Sure, you constructed the building itself perfectly, in accordance with the blueprints from back then. But you're still missing one basic thing to actually complete it.

Jellal: I already told you... The sacrifice will be you- Ack !

"Woops, looks like I slipped. How careless of me. Proceed."

Erza: I mean something much more basic than that. The thing you're lacking here is magic.

Erza: To activate a magical spell of this scale, requires a total of at least 27 billion ideas of sheer magical power.

"Such a thing... Even gathering all the mages on the continent might not be enough..."

Jellal: Yes... It is utterly impossible for a single human to gather up and store all of that magic in this tower...

Erza: And that's not the only thing. You are perfectly aware of the council's intents to destroy this place, yet you're not making the slightest move to run. What exactly are you planning ?

Jellal: ... Three minutes until Etherion falls...

Erza: JELLAL !! YOUR DREAM IS OVER !! IT WAS OVER A LONG TIME AGO !! DO YOU REALLY JUST WANT TO DIE, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW ?!!

Jellal: Nnn... Gh...

Erza: IF SO, THEN DIE HERE WITH ME !!! I'LL HOLD YOU DOWN RIGHT HERE UNTIL THAT FINAL MOMENT ARRIVES !!!

Jellal: Y... yeah... That doesn't sound too bad... My body was possessed by the ghost of Zeref, there was nothing that I could do... I was nothing more than a doll, working to bring about Zeref's resurrection.

"Possessed ?"

Jellal: In the end, I couldn't save myself... There was nobody who could save me... paradise, freedom... In the end, they were nowhere to be found... It was all over before it had ever even begun...

Jellal: I knew I could never really complete the R-System... But, Zeref's ghost just wouldn't allow me to stop. I... Can't do this anymore. I'm just a broken-down engine. Erza... You win this fight... So please, kill me. That's what you came here for, right ?

Jellal: There's no need for me to even lift a finger... This rumbling... The satellite square must already be expanding in the sky above the tower.

Erza: ... It's over. For you, and for me.

Jellal: You little screw-up, you...

Erza: You were just another sacrifice for Zeref too, weren't you.

Jellal: This is my sin, for giving in to my own weakness. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality.

"But don't you think that burying your weaknesses, to put it away, is what comrades are there for ? I've learned that the hard way."

Erza: I have a sin to atone, as well... For the sin of being unable to save you.

Jellal: Oh, no... You saved me.

Erza: ... Y/n, the Etherion will be fired at any moment now... You have to get out now. Please.

"Are you sue this is what you want ? I may not be the most innocent one, far from it... But even I can tell when one is truly evil. Playing with her opponent's feelings, to trick her into his plan, I know that. You can't hide that obnoxious presence to me, Jellal."

Jellal: ... Sharp as expected, but too late.

"Don't be so sure of it. It's when one's thinking his victory's ensured that he'll lower his guard. Just you wait, I'll see you in an instant.

Era:

Council member: ETHERION SUCCESSFULLY FIRED ! A DIRECT HIT !! I REPEAT ! A DIRECT HIT !!

Council member: Has it been successfully destroyed ?!! We need confirmation !!

Council member: Aether nano fusion density increasing steadily. Unusual weather conditions are likely to occur as a result.

Org: Just how many people were inside that tower... ?

Michello: We have prevented the resurrection of Zeref. If a few were sacrificed, then it was for a good reason.

Org: We can try to justify our action as much as we like... But it will not hearts of the families of those who perished.

"I think you can get up. It should be safe now."

Erza: What... ? We're alive ?

Jellal: Heheh...

Erza: Jellal ?

Erza: J- Jellal... ?

"Don't you get it, Erza ? He was merely playing a role until now. He never felt sorry, nor did he wished for his life to end here. All was part of his plan, including tricking you, manipulating your feeling, so you'd be at the right place at the right time. This, is the real Paradise Tower, the 'completed' R-System."

Jellal: Finally... FINALLY, THE TIME HAS COME !!!! he he heh... Surprised, are you, Erza ? This is the true form of the tower of Paradise. A gigantic pillar of lacryma. And through the power of the council's Etherion... I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN GATHERING 27 BILLION IDEAS OF MAGIC ENERGY !!! FINALLY, THE R-SYSTEM IS TRULY COMPLETE !!! Phew... Well, that's what I'd be saying in other circumstances, but...

"Oh, so you have noticed, haven't you. The amount of power currently contained in your tower isn't nearly enough. Really, I wonder where did all the magic go ? Can you guess ?"

Jellal: ... When ? When did you manage to take it back and use it ?

"You were so absorbed with your little act, I felt like it would've been rude of me not to take it. But now the power from the Etherion has been split in half. Face it, Jellal, you cannot win here."

Erza: Y/n... What is...

"My property, although quite altered, but undoubtedly mine, Erza."

"That makes the third one now. But certainly not the last. And once I've disposed of you here and now, Jellal, I'll personally erase every single trace of what you've done these last eight years."

Erza: Jellal, you... You tricked me... !

Siegrain: Oh, you were very cute, Erza.

Erza: Wha- ?!

"That explains quite a lot of things. Why the magic council wasn't aware of that tower for so long, and also the firing of the Etherion. You were Jellal's accomplice all along. Siegrain."

Erza: Siegrain ?! Wh... What are you doing here ?!

Siegrain: Think back to the first time we ever met, Erza. You and Makarov came to present the council a written apology. But you mistook me for Jellal and attacked me at once. Well, we do have the same face, so I can hardly blame you... I finally managed to calm you down by telling you that I was his twin brother. But I don't think you ever truly lost your hostility towards me.

Erza: AND WHY SHOULD I HAVE ?!! YOU'RE HIS BROTHER, AND YET YOU DID NOTHING TO STOP WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO DO... !! NO, WORSE, YOU WERE KEEPING WATCH OVER ME FOR HIM !!!

Siegrain: yes... I made a mistake there. I should probably have said something like "I will find Jellal and kill him, without fail", back then. But my greatest miscalculation was meeting you at all, after I had finally managed to become a member of the council. Having to come up with an excuse on the spot isn't easy.

"So, the two of you were together on this, all this time from the very beginning ?"

Siegrain: "Together on this" ? Well, you're not exactly wrong, but that's not completely true either.

Siegrain/Jellal: The two of us are one and the same. We always were.

Erza: N... No... You can't be... !

"A psychic projection..."

Jellal: Yes. Siegrain is me, plain and simple.

Erza: IMPOSSIBLE !! B... BUT THEN, IT WAS YOU WHO JUST FIRED THE ETHERION... UPON YOUR OWN BODY !!! YOU'RE SAYING THAT'S WHY YOU WORMED YOUR WAY INTO THE COUNCIL ?!!

Jellal: I hope you enjoyed your fleeting freedom, Erza. It was all part of my plan... A plan to resurrect Zeref.

"How many people do you intend to deceive, exactly ?"

Jellal: How many people will regret you once you're gone ? But, if you let me borrow your words, once I've disposed of you, here and now, I will use your remains to complete my plan. You said it yourself, a human cannot provide the right amount of magical power. A god, on the other hand...

"I'm not even gonna ask why and how. I'm just gonna pound you so hard your mother will be jealous."

Jellal: Hahaha... My power... My magic has returned.