Hey, guys! I'm thinking of continuing my truth or dare fanfiction in a little while, tell me if you want that! Hiro Mashima owns fairy tail and all of it's characters (other than Lillia), not me.

Lillia stood before the Titania, who was holding her regular sword.

"You may call me sensei. There will be no breaks, eating or sleeping until I say so, understood?"

"Hai! Sensei!" the knight smiled at the child's enthusiasm.

"First, show me how much you know so far!" Erza ordered. Lillia gave her a sheepish look.

"I don't know any kind of magic, Sensei," Lillia explained quietly. Erza gave her a strange look.

"I see, this will be harder than I thought. First, look into the darkness of inside," She instructed.

Lillia closed her eyes tightly.

"Look for your something that isn't dark, and touch it." Lillia's hand moved, and it tried to clutch something.

"I... I can't see anything, but I can sense it close by," Lillia said after a time.

"Call it by name," Erza said.

"I don't know it's name..." the small girl replied.

"Think!" Erza commanded. Lillia's eyes closed tighter.

"E-E-EZEIKIEL!" Lillia suddenly cried, and a very Large, elegant sword materialized in her hands.

Lillia toppled over from the extra weight. She was panting, and her skin was already covered in a thin fim of sweat.

"Ezeikiel? That's an odd name for a sword, and where did you get it from?" Erza asked, examining the weapon.

"I-I don't know... The name j-just came to me i-in a flash," Lillia panted

"You had to have obtained this sword from somewhere, it seems like a rare metal, and the craftsmanship is very unique," she commented. "Now send it back," she commanded. Lillia tried to get back up, but stumbled. She tried again, and this time got a good balance.

"How?" Lillia asked.

"Let the darkness take it again."

Again, the darkness seemed to be hiding something, but Lillia was concentrating on making the sword go against a current forcing the it out.

"This isn't working," Lillia said after a struggle.

"Don't force it."

Lillia again closed her eyes and though of how little she needed the weapon at this point. The weapon in her hands faded into stardust and was swept away by the strange currents that flowed around her. Lillia was already feeling fatigue from magic use.

"Call out another weapon," Erza comanded.

"But I can't remember, for all I know, Ezeikiel is my only sword!" Lillia exclaimed.

"I said, call out another weapon," Erza repeated sternely. Lillia felt small. She screwed up her eyes yet again, and felt around in the darkness for whatever it was hiding. A name floated into her mind drowsily.

"Beacon?" She quietly called, an object hesitantly came closer. "Beacon!" She said more loudly this time. It came to her hand quickly. She was holding the shaft of a spear with a silver tip. suddenly, she felt more fatigued, and had to lean on it as if it were a staff.

"The spear's name is Beacon, where have I heard of that before?" Erza said. Suddenly, the spear dematerialised, and Lillia fell over from lack of energy.

"Get up."

"I can't."

"I said, Get up!"

Lillia slowly crawled to her knees, and then got into a standing position as the world spun.

"Call out two weapons at once," Erza said. Lillia knew she couldn't argue, so she closed her eyes again.

"Eyalaye!" Lillia Said in one last attempt to draw something out. She was holding two swords with cherrywood handles wrapped with leather string when she peeked one eye open. The blades were long, and they bent at the tip. The smell of cherry blossoms filled the air when they appeared. She fell to her knees, and the dual swords turned into stardust again.

Erza raised one eyebrow at her student. She had very little magical energy for now, but she had forced herself to endure. She would work her harder tomorrow.

After a good night's sleep, Lillia had reagained her energy and a little more. but as she walked onto the training field, she noticed someone else standing next to Erza. As she got closer, she realised it was Romeo, another fire mage she had met the day before.

"Hai, Sensei! Romeo, right?" Lillia greeted them. Romeo waved.

"Yeah, you got it," he comfirmed.

"Romeo will be your sparring partner, because he's closest to your size and your age other than Wendy, who won't agree to fight you," Erza explained.

"Sensei, I can hardly summon weapons, let alone fight someone with them!" Lillia hissed.

"This is how you learn," Erza responded forcefully. "Go and get ready."

Lillia mentally prepared herself for the worst, and started thinking of a battle plan.

When Erza finally told them to start, Lillia reached into the darkness, calling for Ezeikiel. Suddenly she was grasping the handle of the spear.

"Waugh!" she exclaimed as some fire shot past her. she clung onto the weapon for dear life as she avoided the fiery assaults, soon, she was nearly drained of energy. Lillia took a wild jab in the direction of Romeo, there was no contact. she swung at a passing fireball and missed again. Lillia quickly turned and avoided another attack of the blue fire. This time, it was too close for comfort. Running, she nimbly stepped a few more of the fire attacks, and jumped into the air, with that, she slashed downwards at her attacker. She missed, and a blaze hit her on the shoulder.

She ignored the newfound pain, and closed her eyes in a facade of groans as she searched for the sword. She let the spear dematerialise and grabbed for the elegant sword. Her hand closed around the handle of the weapon, and she opened her eyes again.

Romeo set his fists aflame, and started a new round of attacks. Lillia deflected a few of them, and one hit her ankle, she stumbled downwards towards the ground. Quickly catching herself, she slashed wildly at Romeo, who got a cut on his arm.

Erza held up one hand, and helped Lillia up from the ground. Wendy had come to observe the fight, and she instisted on healing the sparring partners. The two stood up again, and much to Lillia's fear, she saw the corner of Erza's mouth twitch.

"Before you fight," Erza started, then drew a circle in the ground with a radius of about four feet. "You need to step into this circle, and neither of you are allowed to let your feet out. This is close combat training, may the lucky one win."

The two sparring partners blushed slightly, and then stepped into the circle. They were a lot closer than they had hoped, and Lillia realized something.

"Sensei! I don't have any weapons that would work in this situation!" Lillia cried.

"May the fight begin,"Erza said in a monotone voice.

Romeo, with a bleak face, set his fists aflaim and threw a punch at his opponent. Lillia ducked just in time, and clung to her enemy's ankles, quickly unbalancing him. He hit her back with a blazing fist, causing Lillia to release her hold. She quickly regained her composure, and scurried behind him, hugging him as if she were drowning and temporarily pinning his arms to his sides.

He broke the grip for long enough to burn her arm, but not long enough to turn around before she struck him in the back of the head. Still behind him, she frantically tried to stay out of his line of vision. Romeo whipped around, but Lillia had clung to the back of his vest, effectively staying behind him.

Suddenly, Romeo turned in the other direction, flinging Lillia to the edge of the circle. She quickly swung a small fist at his face, but he caught it in a flaming hand, burning her skin. She winced at the sudden heat, and nearly got pushed out of the circle if she hadn't ducked, causing him to be imbalanced again. Freeing her hand of his grasp, she rolled out of the way of another attack, and hugged him again.

Romeo blushed as she did so, and then suddenly realised that he was completely immobilized in this position. He flicked some fire at her, but she seemed not to notice the flames. Romeo started to grow frantic as he couldn't move at all. After two minutes or so, Romeo finally surrendered.

Erza looked at the duo, who now scurried away from eachother to a safe distance. Romeo had hardly been injured, and yet, he was the one who surrendered first. Now Lillia was examining all of the places she had been wounded from the flames, and pouted at how the burns covered her arms and legs.

Wendy scampered over to the other bluenette, unaware of the way Romeo was looking at her.

"You look so burned! Are you okay?" Wendy asked as she started healing the different colored wounds.

"Oh, I'm okay. Looks like I was pretty badly hurt. Victory comes at a price, doesn't it?" Lillia said casually.

"Don't take it so lightly, battle is won with fighting spirit!" Erza said.

"Hai, Sensei!"