The Gods of Fairy Tail

Chapter 13

When Juvia finally awoke she found herself lying on a very comfortable bed with downy feathered cushions and warm quilts. As she became more awake she realized that she was in the middle of an elegant bedroom designed for the likes of a queen.

The room had it's own fireplace which had a warm flame burning and crackling in it. Next to the fireplace was a vanity that was set with perfumes, rouges, combs, brushes, and hair pins.

"How did I get here?" She wondered.

Just then she heard a knock at the door. She pulled the quilt of her bed to her chest even though she was still fully clothed.

"Um...Come in." She said nervously.

The door to her bedroom opened and a young girl with pink hair came in.

"Feeling better?" She said.

"Who are you?" Juvia asked.

"I'm Meredy. Guardian of the tapestry of fate, faithful servant of the Lord of the underworld, and now your personal hand maid."

"Hand maid?"

"Yes Juvia."

"You know my name?"

"Oh I know much more than that. You're the Goddess of spring, you spent you're whole life sheltered in a secret garden, you're the younger sister of Levy Goddess of harvest, and you secretly hope that one day she'll marry Gajeel God of blacksmiths because he's like an older brother to you."

"How do you know all that?"

"I protect and sometimes help weave the tapestry of fate and that allows me to learn a lot about people. When they were born, how they live, what they like, all that stuff."

"Where am I?"

"You're in the underworld."

"The underworld? Does that mean I'm dead?"

"Oh no you're very much alive."

"How did I get here?"

"His majesty, Gray God of the underworld found you and brought you back here. In the nick of time too because if you had been out in the cold a moment longer you might've been a goner."

"I...I wanna go home. My sister will become very worried if I'm gone for too long."

"I'm afraid you'll have to wait for a month. The gates to the underworld have been closed for inspection."

"Inspection?"

"Someone caused the earth to briefly split open and it wasn't his majesty so he's beginning to fear that it was the work of one the evil souls or titans locked away in Tartarus trying to escape. He won't open the gates until he figures out who did that."

"So I'm trapped here?"

"Oh no, it's not like that. My lord has every intention of sending you back home once this is all settled but he has a responsibility to make sure that no one who was sent to Tartarus gets back to earth. However until you return home he's insisted that you stay here as his guest."

"His guest?"

Meredy looked at the bruises and scratches on Juvia's hands, arms, legs, and feet. She had received them from her fall down into the underworld and from the thorns and branches of dead trees that scratched her while she was running from that fury.

"Oh you poor thing, just look at you all scratched up. I'll go draw you a bath and once you are clean I have a new dress waiting for you. Don't worry with my help, you'll be as fresh as a daisy."