One Sneeze

Laxus closed the door behind us, seeing how he was the only one that could reach the doorknob. I walked over to my training room and stopped in front of the closed door.

"Brace yourselves," I said.

"Huh?"

"Area dome."

A clear white dome appeared over the group as I opened the door. Books on books started falling on the dome. I motioned for them to follow me. After minutes of struggling, we made it to the middle of the room, the only place with space.

"So.... many... books!" Levy shrieked, jumping in the pile of books.

I picked up the book next to my foot: Celestial Magic. I opened the book and frowned. I flipped it upside-down and shook it. A key fell out of the page onto the floor. I bent over to pick it up and examined it. Why was Gemini in a book?

I shrugged and decided to say some words for fun, not knowing if it would work first try. It probably wouldn't. I didn't even have a contract with them yet.

"Open, Gate of the Twins, Gemini."

"Gemi, mini!" two little spirits cried.

I was too shocked to scream so I fainted instead.

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"Gemi, mini!"

I opened my eyes to see the two spirits still in front of me. I sat up suddenly, hitting Laxus on the head. We both clutched our foreheads in pain.

"Sorry, Laxi-nii!"

I turned towards Gemini. "How did you come out?"

"We found disturbance. But disturbance belongs here. We wrong, mini!" one of the spirits said.

"..."

I was silent at their comment. I was the disturbance. But... I belonged here? That was new.

"Gemini, can you turn into me?" I asked curiously.

They nodded and in the blink of an eye, I was looking at myself. Or rather, the past me. The one that was all grown up and bruised, living in a strict house that allowed no mistakes.

"Woah. You look pretty!" Natsu yelled, breaking into the room.

I ignored his comment and looked at Gemini.

"Does your back hurt?" I murmured.

They shook their head, but I could see hints of pain in their eyes. My eyes lowered.

"Change back."

They looked at me in surprise and protested.

"Please..."

A cloud of smoke appeared around the "me" and left two blue spirits standing.

"You guys can go now. Sorry for calling you out," I apologized.

They shook their head and patted my head before leaving. My vision was getting a bit blurry. Laxus started wiping my face with a tissue. The group looked at me in concern. I only smiled and chuckled.

"Never trying Celestial Magic again."

This brought laughter to everyone. But deep down inside, I knew I wasn't ever going to heal from those scars.

"By the way, what's your name?" Lisanna asked, looking up from her book.

"L-Lilith Winters."

"Is Winters your last name?" Gray asked, looking over in surprise.

I shook my head. "It's a middle name."

That got everyone's attention. "What's your last name?"

"...Don't have one," I muttered. "But I'm fine! Really!"

Laxus let out a shout and grabbed my shoulders. I looked at him, tilting my head. What was he doing?

"Where's the rest of the food?"

I could have sworn, everyone behind him fell down anime style.

"It's... put somewhere!" I yelled, running out of the room, Laxus following me.

I laughed as I ran up and down the stairs, leading Laxus in a wild goose chase.

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Months passed and winter arrived. The group and I were in my training room, practicing our magic. Oh! Levy and Lisanna also moved into my house. I also renamed it "Fairy Hills". I mean, that was its original name in the first place.

"I'm going to the guild for hot cocoa. Lis said it's ready. Does anyone want some?" I asked, getting back up onto my feet.

"Me!"

"Us too!"

I looked at Laxus, who didn't say a word. "Laxi-nii?"

"...whatever." He had a tint of pink on his cheeks and I giggled.

"Whatever you say, Laxi-nii!"

I was about to teleport out of the room when I sneezed.

"Achoo!"

A cold breeze hit me and a group of kids was staring at me.

"Yo, Lilith. W-where are we?" Natsu shivered.

"Aw, yeah. It's cold! You shivering, Flame brain?" Gray cheered as the kids around us started screaming.

"Gray, clothes!" Cana called.

I looked around and my eyes stopped on a little girl with red hair. She was on the floor screaming, shovels from fallen comrades rising. She shot them right at the bewildered soldiers. Erza Scarlet.

"You know Er-chan?" a little girl with cat ears asked.

I turned towards the voice. Milianna. I grabbed her hands. Maybe this was an opportunity to make Erza happy.

"How would you like it if I took you all out ofhere?"

Everyone froze and turned towards me.

"You're crazy!"

"You can't do that!"

"We don't even know where we are!"

Another cold breeze swept by and I sneezed again. Taking the group and all the workers in the tower with me.

My hair started being drenched. I looked up and water met my face. I spun around to my right and saw a streak of blue hiding behind a trash can.

"Juvia?"

A black-haired boy stepped up in front of her with his arms out. Gajeel?

Before I could do anything, I sneezed again, bringing us to my original destination. FairyTail.

I looked around. Everyone was soaking wet, tired, sore, bruised. I closed my eyes as I imagined a warm breeze surrounding us. I opened my eyes to see big thick blades in my hand.

Smaller.

Rounder.

Softer.

Warmer.

Within minutes, everyone was toasty warm. A coat was dumped on my head. I tried to look up at the person but they put their arm on me.

"Wow. It's hot in here. I'll just leave my coat here," Laxus said.

Giggles from the adults and my friends were heard throughout the guild. I wrapped the coat around myself and kissed Laxus on the cheek. He froze.

"Thanks, Laxi-nii!"

"Hot chocolate, anyone? There's plenty," Lisanna said, looking at the group of people I just brought into the guild.

Soon, everyone was sitting on benches, sipping on hot chocolate. I saw a blue-haired boy rubbing a red-haired girl's back.

"U-Uncle Rob," she sobbed.

This got the Master's attention. He jumped down to her. "Did you just say Rob?"

She sniffed and nodded. "Uncle Rob died protecting me."

His eyes widened before rubbing her back.

"It was his kind of style. Never leave a comrade behind."

She looked up at Master in surprise. I walked over to them.

"Why don't you all join FairyTail?" I asked.

Erza and Jellal looked at me in surprise. So did the Master.

"W-where would we sleep?" Jellal sputtered.

"In my house! It's pretty big and empty, even with Levy-chan and Lis-chan living with me. I could use some more roommates," I said, smiling.

The kids looked at each other before slowly nodding. Master sighed.

"What in the world even happened?" he asked.

I froze and started walking for the kitchen entrance. "I think I hear Lis calling me."

A hand caught the coat and dragged me back to the Master. I pouted.

"Laxi-nii, what a traitor."

He shrugged. "But you know. I think we would all like to know."

I laughed nervously. "You see..."

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After the group had walked into the room, I started looking around the room for a book I didn't read yet. I had almost read and mastered most of the moves in the books. A book fell down from the shelf and hit me on the head.

"Tower of Heaven?" I read out loud. I shrugged. What's the harm?

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"Sorry, Master. I wasn't paying attention when I teleported."

He ruffled my hair. "Call me Gramps like Laxus does."

I looked up in surprise.

"If Laxus is your nii-chan, I might as well be your Gramps," he mused.

I squealed and jumped on him, getting laughter from the crowd. I teleported right in front of Juvia and Gajeel, who were trying to sneak out the front entrance.

"No."

Juvia looked at me in surprise and Gajeel just hissed at me.

"Just stay. We could use more people here."

"B-but. Juvia is a rain woman. Juvia just makes it rain," she murmured.

I shook my head and threw open the doors, welcoming in the sunlight.

"Not exactly. Look! There's a rainbow!" I cried, pointing at the sky.

"I-it's pretty," Juvia admitted.

"So, are you and Gajeel going to- where's Gajeel?"

Juvia and I looked at each other and turned towards the mess behind us. Flying streaks of ice, fire, metal. Oh boy.

A table came flying towards us.

"Time stop!" I shouted.

Everything slowed down. I started rearranging everything and fixing all the tables.

"Time start," I snapped my fingers and all the flying people fell onto their butts.

"No more fighting. Am I clear?" Erza said, a scary aura behind her.

"Y-yes, m'am!"

"A-aye!"

I burst out laughing as I put my arm around Erza and much to Jellal's disappointment, she didn't move it.

"I like you, Erza-nee!"

She blushed, her face just one shade lighter than her hair.

"Oh, yeah. Bring it on, Flame Brain!"

The guild was thrown into chaos again. Erza, Juvia, and Laxus were all trying to protect me from the flying shards as I sat on my butt laughing.

This was home.