It's another regular day in the guild when Lucy comes up to me. "Hey Brooke. You want to go on another mission together?"

I think about it for a second. "I'm not sure, Lucy. I'm still not able to control my magic all the way yet."

This catches Erza's attention.

"Really? I happened to think that your magic has been on a good streak lately."

"Umm…Not really. Remember back on our first mission when I got the leader of the bandits off of that woman?"

When we had went to turn the bandits a doctor had checked their injuries and reported that some of his brain vessels were nearly damaged.

"I need to learn how to get to it under control before I do something worse to someone else."

"Well I may not use the same kind of magic that you do but I can help train you."

"Hmm… I like that idea ,thanks Erza."

Erza then stands up from her chair. "I'll come and get you in a while, I'm going to prepare for our trip." With that Erza exits the guild.

Lucy then turns to me.

"Wow."

"What?" I ask.

She gives me a playfully worried look. "You're gonna be training with ERZA."

"What's wrong with that?"

"Nothing. Just… try not to die." She takes a sip of her smoothie.

In the distance we hear a bunch of commotion.

"You'd better watch your mouth, popsicle!"

"What about you, flame-brain?!"

Geez… Every time I turn around they're fighting.

"Natsu and Gray are pretty strong fighters aren't they."

Lucy looks over at me questioningly. "What are you thinking?! You're not gonna ask them to help train you too, are you?! Lucy starts to flip out.

"No, calm down. Maybe just Gray only because he seems like he has a little more common sense than Natsu."

I get up from the bar without another word. I start to make my way towards the brawl.

"Hey! Guys!"

They ignore me and continue to fight.

"Gray!" I whine.

They continue to ignore me.

The Elfman comes up. "I've got this."

Elfman manages to bash them both on the heads. He then pulls Gray up by the collar.

"Listen to the lady, when she's talking to you."

'Geez… Elfman.'

He puts Gray down as Gray rubs the back of his head.

Gray looks at me."What?"

"You're gonna come help me train!"

He looks confused."Well, how do you know I didn't have plans today."

"If you had plans today you wouldn't be wasting your time here at the guild fighting with Natsu."

He smirks at me."Yeah, I guess you're right."

"Alright, well you can do whatever you need to do before we go. Right now we're just waiting for Erza."

Gray decides to just wait with me at the guild and soon after we leave with Erza to the train station.


Later on we are brought to an empty field probably somewhere in east Fiore.

"Alright, so before we start I need to know about all the different emotions and magic types you use."

"Well for anger, there's annoyed, frustrated, and infuriated which in that order is a heat beam, the ability to provoke thoughts and raise someone's blood temperature, and the last one allows me to summon tornadoes and sometimes earthquakes."

Erza looks focused."Okay well we won't be using that last one. What's next?"

"There's a playful state that goes to energized and then mischievous. The 1st one is lame and just gives people playful thoughts, then I have increased speed, and I can control objects and manipulate their state of matter."

" I think we'll just work on those two emotions for now. I wouldn't want to stress you out by making you move from one emotion to the other so many times."

"But I will tell you this… Don't go easy on me because you're afraid of hurting me."

Erza observes me closely. "We'll start with anger since you seem slightly irritated."

She then requips into her fire armor.

"I want you to shoot a straight ray of heat directly at me and nothing else."

I nod and prepare to do so. With all of my strength a thick ray of heat shoots from my hands towards Erza. So far the ray is still straight. Erza is holding up a shield to protect herself from the heat.

The next moment other rays of heat start to shoot out of my body going in different directions.

'Crap! I'm starting to lose control!'

"Brooke! You can stop now! I need you to calm down!"

I try to stop but I can't, I don't have any more control.

Slowly Erza struggles to push forward towards me until she is within arms length. She then raises her arm and strikes me on the shoulder.

The impact is so strong that I fall over on my face

'Well at least she got me to stop.'

"I apologize for striking you, it was the only way to calm you down."

I start to feel kind of upset."This is exactly what I was afraid of."

"Don't feel discouraged. With success comes patience. Since it would probably be too dangerous to use your 2nd and 3rd stage of anger we'll move onto a different emotion."

She looks over at Gray standing to the side.

"Gray why don't you take over from here?"

"Alright." He walks over to take Erza's place." Then why don't we move onto playful then."

"But how am I supposed to suddenly move from being irritated to playful?"

"Hmm… Well here's something… Whenever you're in combat try to think of only your loved ones and who you want to protect. You should never let your magic get the best of you. Because you're the one in control."

I take a moment to myself.

'Alright. I can do this.'

I smile to myself."Okay. I'm ready."

Gray nods."Ice Make: Obstacle Course!"

There is then a large set of things to dodge, duck under, and jump over spread across the field.

"On most missions you're gonna need to act fast but there's gonna be a ton of stuff in your way. You can't let that stop you."

I stare at the course for a while. It looks pretty complicated ,but I guess I can get through it.

"So do I just need to reach the end of the course and that's it?"

Gray ponders."Well yeah, but... " He then makes what looks like an iceman."Your mission is to catch this guy and bring him back here."

"Back through the obstacle course?" I questioned.

"That's up to you. You do have the choice of going around."

The iceman then reappears halfway through the obstacle course.

"Go!"

I start to run towards the obstacle course. And because I'm starting to feel energized my super speed is activated. Time around me seems to slow down a lot. I crouch to slide under a bar and quickly get back up to leap over a pile of ice boxes. I keep running to come to a dead end.

'What?'

I look around and there's nowhere else to go. I quickly start to beat on the ice wall and realize that it's thin as hell. I quickly bust through the wall to see the iceman still making a break for it.

'Gotcha!'

I don't hesitate to run up behind him and put him in a headlock. He then uses his leg to kick my legs from under me and I fall onto my back.

'It fights back?!'

I get back up and try to punch him in the back of the head but its ice skull is just as thick as a human one. I then find an ice pickaxe laying against a crate. I bash him in the back, but probably a little too hard. The iceman then crumbles before my eyes.

My first reaction is to try and collect his remaining pieces and run around the obstacle course back to Gray.

I drop all the contents of the iceman in front of him.

"Uhh… Why did you… ?"

"You didn't say anything about bringing him back in one piece."

He shrugs. "Okay. Your time was 13 seconds by the way."

"You were timing me?"

"Of course. You actually did a good job today, though." He smirks.

"Thanks."

Erza then approaches us."I guess it's time for us to head back then."

It's a good thing I accepted their help that day because I was going to need it. I actually felt much better about using my magic from this point on.