A/N: Ok, so amma just warn you now, this chapter contains cursing. Just so you guys know… Also, I have never been to a hospital for an emergency case (Thank the Lord) and I don't know what the procedures are so in this chapter it's going to be me, mostly improvising.

Ok, enjoy the new chapter.

Chapter Twenty One

Confusion

I explored the whole of my old face with my free hand in front of the mirror. How was I here? I died. This cannot be possible. I searched through my mind what had happened. I was fighting alongside Erza and Jellal versus Midnight and then he turned into some kind of a beast and then… he shot a spell at me and I couldn't dodge in time… Did I die again!? But then why didn't I see that being again and what was that violet light? Everything was all very confusing…

I put the mirror down and looked around. I saw a letter on the cupboard where the mirror was. I hadn't noticed it before. On top of it, it wrote 'Lili'. Hesitantly I opened it.

Hey, Lili

I hope you get well soon. The doctors say that there is a little chance that you will recover from the coma but I believe that you will push through it. I hope you come back to school after you recover, it's not the same without you here.

I hope that you are already top notch after finishing reading this.

With love, Ella.

I closed the letter as I remembered who this girl is. Of course, it was my best friend in this world. It was one of the people who actually pushed through my emotionless exterior and got to know me. One of my few friends. And that just reminded me of how much I had just lost as well. What about Fairy Tail? In the letter, it said I was in a coma. Did I dream all that up?! Oh god, please no…

My frantic mind was interrupted when the door opened and a nurse came in.

The woman gasped as she saw me up from bed.

"Oh my, you're awake!" She said, sounding more like 'How is this possible?'. She hurried next to me and then pushed me towards the bed. "Please, rest now and I will go get the doctor." She rushed back the door.

"Wait, I have some questions!" I yelled after her but she was already gone.

I huffed as I waited, thinking of what I was about to do. Ok, so I look the same as before but I feel as if all the times with Fairy Tail were real. I can even feel emotion again. I am not so closed. And yet I cannot feel even a trace of my power. After Inoreth granted me his power, it was not only that, that he granted me. After that, I could feel the ethernanos in the air. I felt so connected to everything. Wherever I was, I never felt lonely even if I was alone. And now, I just feel a void in the space around me. At least my dragon birthmark was still in it's place.

The doors suddenly opened and a tall man in a doctor's suit came in. He checked on me and did some tests to assure that I was ok.

"Incredible, it seems that you have fully healed in the span of a month." The doctor mused as he watched the results.

"I was in a coma for a month? What happened to me?" I asked, wanting some answers.

"You were brought here after a car crash, miss. You had hit your head really hard. You were with severe brain damage when they brought you here and it's a miracle that you are even alive. In the situation you were it, it was speculated that you would have never been able to overcome the coma that you were in. More good news are, that at the time of the crash, you hit only your head and there is nothing broken." The doctor explained.

I bit my lip. I didn't know if I was 'that' lucky or 'that' unlucky for getting pulled out of Fairy Tail.

"Though, that bids the question… With the brain damage that you have experienced, it is impossible for it to not have some lasting effects. Do you maybe feel any different or perhaps you don't remember anything? Amnesia is a common case in this situation." He asked.

'Amnesia? Brain Damage? Does that mean that I really imagined that whole world? And that it's not real? That everything good and bad that experienced was nothing? Ok… ok… calm down. Some things are foggy, I need some answers.' I thought.

I pretended I was thinking for a minute.

"Well, I don't feel any different. But I don't remember some things. Like the name on that letter over there, 'Lili'. Also, some of my memories are quite foggy." Obviously, I skipped the part where I lived another eighteen years with a new identity and a new life as a whole, otherwise they would think that I'm mental or have a split personality disorder at the very least.

"Ah, I see. Well, your name is Liliana Wilson. Your uncle, Abner Barton, is the only living relative that we are aware of. He visited only once... He didn't really believe that you would make it…"

'What could you expect from that old demon.' I growled like I was used to after the time I lived with Inoreth. Hey, I was still part dragon back then.

"Miss, did you just growl?" The doctor lifted an eyebrow.

'Woops…'

"Huh? No?" I pretended I didn't know what he was talking about.

He eyed me funnily but then proceeded to tell me more information.

"…Ok then. You also had some more visitors, friends mostly I presume. They only visited once but two people were often seen coming here. The first was an old man by the name of Edward Hawks. The other was a girl your age, who visited quite often."

'Guess that was Ella.' I smiled lightly.

"I'm afraid that that is the extent of my knowledge, miss. I'll be sure to notify your uncle of your recovery. It seems that you are good to go, but with your situation, I would like you to stay for at least two more days so that we can monitor and see if there are any complications." I nodded in understanding and the doctor bid me farewell for now.

It was evening already so I just went to rest for today.

The other day went so slow… I had become such a hyperactive person that this was outright torture to just sit in here and do nothing. At least whenever I was in the infirmary at Fairy Tail, all my friends would come and check on me. They would make me laugh and give me something to keep me occupied. Of course, there was the fact that my body healed that much faster and I didn't need to stay more than a day or two. Were those times really just a part of my dying mind? A safe haven where I was at peace while I fought for dear life?

I sighed, drilling a hole in the ceiling with my intense gaze.

So far, a nurse would come and check on me every two hours or so… I cannot describe the feeling I felt when I saw a somewhat familiar face. It was late afternoon right now.

The door to my hospital room opened slowly and a girl with brown hair entered. She closed the door behind her, without noticing me. When she turned around, she dropped the bag she was carrying on the ground and looked with shock at me.

She was somewhat my height, about one meter and eighty centimeters, maybe a bit shorter. She had sea blue eyes and a tanned skin.

"Lili!" She squealed and rushed towards me, without giving me a chance to respond. She hugged me before I could even get out of bed. My god, her grip was stronger than that of Erza when she hugged you.

"Ella… you're…" I gasped for air. "can't… breathe…"

"Oh sorry!" She laughed, with tears in her eyes as she parted away from me. "I'm just so glad to see that you're ok. You had me so worried but I knew that you would pull through."

I laughed happily. I had such an awesome best friend. "Thanks for coming by all the time."

"No problem. What are best friends for?" She inquired. I grinned my trademark toothy grin from ear to ear but I noticed that my canines were now normal. That got me a bit down. I had gotten attached to my dragon parts. They looked cool…

Suddenly Ella gasped. "Lili… did you… just smile?!" She looked in shock but her voice betrayed her excitement.

I laughed again to confirm. "I guess, I did." I put a hand to my mouth to stiffen my laughter over her overreaction.

'Was I really so emotionless that I didn't even smile when I saw her?' The thought went through my mind.

We talked for an hour or two before she had to go home for dinner and I stayed behind. She gave me a book to read before she left and I told her that by tomorrow I should be out. I also promised her that when I'm out I'm right back to school and that we will have a grand time.

She was really shocked by my sudden change, though. She would always comment how much I didn't even look like my old self and asked me what had changed. I smiled lightly and told her that it was someone close to my heart. I had told her that while touching my dragon birthmark.

[Next day, in front of the hospital.]

Throughout my stay in the hospital, I had accepted the fact, that I was now back on Earth. I had two options after all... To cling to what I believe are dreams or to live my life here. I chose the latter, no matter how much it saddened me.

I was currently in front of the hospital, waiting for Edward to pick me up. Apparently, the doctor had informed my douche of an uncle about my recovery and he had sent his butler to pick me up.

By now, I had already remembered who Edward was. He was an old man in his sixties, I believe. He had brown eyes and dark hair with strings of white. He always wore a tuxedo as his job required. He was courteous and nice. How could I even forget about the man? He was slim and tall but he was so much like Beatrice in character.

After my parents died and my uncle took me in, Edward was the one person from all the servants of my uncle that interacted with me on his own will. He was nice to me and he was mostly the one that raised me. Since my uncle made me do the chores with the other servants, Edward showed me how to cook, how to make my bed and clothes, how to speak politely and all that. I don't think that without him or Ella I could have lasted until I was eighteen years old…

Just as I was thinking about him, a black car drove in front of the hospital, stopping in front of me. Edward came out of it to greet me.

The old man hugged me affectionately and I returned the gesture.

"I'm so glad to see you up and well Liliana. I've been so worried." The man let go and then looked at me.

"Same, Edward. Thanks for coming to get me." I smiled lightly. He arched an eyebrow like Ella when he saw me smile but he didn't comment on it.

Instead, he opened the door of the car for the front seat for me. "Come on, let's go home." He beckoned me to go in.

"Yeah… home…" My mood changed as I remembered what I had called home not a few days ago. An image of the guild hall, with all the members of Fairy Tail laughing with me. Natus, Erza, Lucy, Happy, Gray and everyone else having a fun time with me.

I stepped forward, ready to enter the car when I realized that I was actually entering a death machine and my face turned slightly green.

"Is there a problem?" Edward asked as he went to the driver's seat.

"Nah, I'm fine..." I replied, hesitantly entering the car.

Once we started our journey, though, I was surprised that nothing happened. I didn't feel my stomach twisting and what's more of a crazy thought was that I even enjoyed the ride, like… like I used to. But that was just another reminder that I wasn't back there again.

Edward saw that I was not in a good mood and so he didn't pry. He also didn't ask any questions so the journey was relatively quiet. The perfect time to think of what was I going to do.

Was what I experienced all a dream? Was it my brain which put me there while I was in a coma? I mean I was in an anime for god's sake?

I scoffed. Was it all just my imagination? I huffed annoyingly as reality broke my dreams. I can't go back there. Nothing there was real. It was all a part of my mind. And yet I feel so lonely here. Even with Edward and Ella, I feel as if I don't belong here anymore. I was happy and content where I was. Why must I be pulled back here? The boring and cruel world that is Earth.

I had to face it. This is where I lived. No illusions were to be had. I was here, in the world without magic… In the real world. Maybe I really just had a split personality disorder…

I was pulled away from my dilemma as Edward announced that we were here. The car stopped in front of a metal, double gate and the old man next to me lowered his window to speak to a camera. After that, the doors opened and we were in. Behind the doors was a huge mansion, bigger even than the one I had dreamed up while I was in the coma. I drove by a huge pool and then we entered an underground where Edward parked the car next to so many more, expensive looking cars.

After that, we spoke a bit of what I had missed in the past month, which wasn't much really. He took me to my room and told me that tomorrow I didn't have to go to school if I didn't feel like it but I refused, having promised Ella to do it. He left me when we were in front of my room.

"I must go now, Liliana. Your uncle requires my services. He also asked for you to meet him after you are finished dressing up." He informed me.

"Thanks, Edward. I'll be right there." I thanked the man but deep down I scowled at the thought of meeting my uncle. When I was little he used to drink a lot and then he would beat me up for every small mistake. He had changed through the years and now he didn't drink so much but he still didn't hesitate to hit me.

I entered my room after Edward's form disappeared behind the corner. For someone who was abused by the owner of the house, my room was actually quite fancy. It had a big, two people sized bed in the back. A desk with a computer and all necessary equipment for school. I had a closet next to my bed filled with all kinds of luxurious dresses and the windows were covered by professionally made yellow curtains with flowery decorations on them.

I quickly got through my closet. I found a nice violet dress. Hey even if I had imagined that world of my, my personality has still changed and it was for the best. Even if it was in my mind, I had grown as a person back there.

I quickly put it on and looked in the mirror near the closet. It was a nice stylish dress, but it didn't give the same feeling the one from Inoreth gave me. I sighed again.

'Stupid! You have to get over it… It wasn't real… This is real." I tried to sound sure in my own mind but my emotions betrayed me. I felt very sad and lonely right there and then. I had to face the truth... Being reborn in anime sounds much stranger than 'You dreamed all that up while you were in a coma...'. I shook my head and then I quickly recovered as I remembered that I had a task.

After I dressed, I got out of my room and started wondering around the mansion… Needless to say, I got lost.

'Dang it, I forgot to ask Edward where my uncle's room was. Ughhh… If I'm too late he is going to explode again.' I started looking around frantically. I had totally forgotten that Edward wasn't informed that I had a case of slight amnesia. Well more like after eighteen years you forget some things, but that is besides the point… and it wasn't really eighteen years.

After a bit of looking around, I spotted some servants. I asked one of them for direction and thankfully they told me where I had to go.

And that's how I found myself before the doors of Hell in my opinion. Of course, it was just the doors to my uncle's office. I knocked on the huge double door.

"You may enter." Came out a stern voice from behind the door. And so I did.

"You required my presence." I said, monotone. I did not show any sign of emotion towards the man. He was short and plump with dark hair. His eyes were deep brown and he had a tanned skin. He was wearing a brown tuxedo with a red tie and he had a cigar in his arm as he sat with crossed legs on his chair, awaiting for me to approach him.

"Yes, you brat. I heard that you didn't actually die in that car crash of yours. Personally, I would have said 'good riddance' but you somehow managed to pull through. I just wanted to tell you that this doesn't change anything. I expect that you would be going to do your chores as before and I don't want to hear any complaints about it." He said with a scowl. I narrowed my eyes with a barely noticeable frown.

"Yes, of course." I bowed.

"Now, get out!" He waved a hand at me.

I didn't need a second invitation to get away from him. I slammed the doors behind me.

'Ughh… If only it was like in Fairy Tail, I would show him! I can't stand that man. I almost die and that's his attitude towards me?! "Good riddance" He said. The nerve on that guy. If only I still had my magic…' I raged inside of my mind without noticing a servant next to the door.

"Um… miss Wilson?" The girl, who was not much older than me asked. It looked like she was quite shy.

"WHAT!?" I snapped, having been interrupted in my silent rant.

The girl backed away in panic. "I'm s-sorry b-but I've been s-sent here t-t-to h-help you a-around. Mr Hawks s-sent me a-after he found o-out t-that you h-had forgotten your w-w-way around" The poor girl stuttered as she hid behind her hands.

I sighed, now feeling very much guilty. I shouldn't have snapped like that, she was here to help me get around and I just screamed at her for no reason. "Sorry for snapping… I was just really not in a good mood. You didn't deserve to be shouted at." Even though I still worked with the servants, I still had some more authority than them because the owner was still my uncle and for me to shout at someone like that, they probably thought that I was mad at them for something.

"N-No problem mistress but we should probably get going now." The girl inquired. She visibly relaxed as I apologized.

The rest of the day was doing some work around the house with the rest of the servants, like how it was for the rest of my life. At evening, I talked with Ella on Skype. She told me that I had a lot of material to catch up. I was in a highly profound university and missing so much as a month of lectures was going to be hard to catch up. But I knew that I would be fine. Since I was a really closed up person I had a lot of time to study and I always had excellent marks. That's how I got into the university. Also, Ella promised that she would help me.

After that, I went to bed.

The next day, Edward drove me to school. I met up with Ella and we had classes together. Everyone was so shocked to see me show any signs of emotion, though, it was actually quite strange. Some of my other friends, if you could call them that, started asking me questions of what had happened. How was I feeling, why was I suddenly showing emotions and all that crap.

Currently, we were in the cafeteria. I and Ella sat on a table alone. We were just chatting when we both noticed how everyone was looking at me.

"Why is everyone looking at me like that?!" I whispered to her.

"Well, you did undergo a car crash and most speculations led to the fact that you would not survive. But I believe the real reason is how much you've changed." She smiled at me.

"What do you mean? I haven't changed that much, have I?" She looked at me funnily after that.

"Are you kidding me? You are wearing something different that black for one." That was true, I was in an azure T-shirt that I found in my drawer and some jeans. "You are also smiling and having fun and you have a certain confidence to you that just wasn't there before. It's just not like you, in a good way." She pointed out.

"Huh…" I mumbled as I looked around, seeing everyone looking at me. "What are you all looking at?! Don't you have anything better to do?" I yelled the way Erza would, looking all around. Everyone hastily looked in different directions and started gossiping between each other. When I looked back at Ella, her mouth was agape.

"What?" I asked.

"See!" She pointed a finger at me and laughed. "That's what I'm talking about. You would have never even thought about doing that before."

I didn't want to think about what I had lost again. I was just over it, I didn't need anyone reminding me how I had found my happiness and then how I found it was all just a dream...

"People, change Ella." I said sternly. After that I just started nibbling on my food and my best friend just stood there not knowing how to respond.

After lunch, we had some separate classes and after them, we said that we would meet up next to the lockers. I was just heading there with my books when I saw Ella pinned to her locker by a boy with a smirk. There were some more around him. The boy that had pinned my friend uncomfortably to the locker, had his left hand next to her head, blocking her escape. He was one of the 'bad boys' of the university.

As I walked up to them I could overhear what they were talking about.

"Oh, come on babe, don't be like that. Just one drink after school." He pushed.

"Uh… no thanks, I uhh have some more classes after school and I don't really have the time so uhh… yeah." Ella tried to save herself.

"Then you can come after, hmmm?" The guy pushed. At that point, I was already near them.

"Hey Ella, we're still meeting after your additional classes, right?" I tried to save her.

She looked at me with eyes screaming 'Thank you'. "Uh, yeah!" She beamed. The guys near her were obviously annoyed and they turned to look at me.

"Sorry honey, but I think that you will have to change your schedule up a bit. This lovely babe is coming with me tonight." The one that had Ella pinned smirked at me. I frowned on the other hand.

"Is that so?" I grabbed Ella from under him and pulled her near me. "Well, as far as I heard, she declined so tough luck buddy. Come on Ella." And we turned to go away.

"Oi!" The guy grabbed my shoulder. "Who do you think you are to talk to me like that? You bitch! You were trembling whenever someone tried to talk to you before and now you're acting so high and mighty." He snarled.

Ella looked scared at me as we still had our backs at them. I shook my head and beckoned her to move away. She stepped aside to the lockers.

"I suggest you unhand me before things get ugly buddy." I could feel his rage bubbling up from behind me.

He just laughed, making the others behind him laugh as well. "Did you hear her? Things would get ugly, she said. True! They will, but not for me honey." He said mischievously. "Maybe we can play with you a bit after school as well." He implied, still holding my shoulder with a tight grip.

"I warned ya." I suddenly caught his hand with both of mine and I pushed my leg back to his, knocking them in the air and I flung him over my shoulder. He fell to the ground on his back. Everyone was staring at me with shock. Ella's mouth was agape. The other guys too and everyone in the corridor was now staring right at me.

He got up, though, holding his face and then he looked at me with a face full of rage. "Ugh, you bitch! How dare you!" And then he swung at me, but I dodged to the side. He then tried to hit me again but I got a hold of his hand and went with it behind him, locking him in a painful position. After that, I kicked him forward from behind his back and he stumbled forward to the ground, towards his friends.

He got up again and then he pointed at me. "What are you looking at you idiots. Get her!" He snapped. The other four boys that were still with hanging mouths of what had occurred obliged and they all charged at me with that other guy with them. They weren't all that strong. Natsu, Gray and Laxus were much stronger than them, even without their magic.

One of them started swinging at me with another one an I just dodged easily as if I've been doing this my whole life. Well I had but it was just all in my head, right? After I saw an opening I kicked the first guy in the gut, while the third, fourth and the guy who had pinned Ella, tried to attack me from behind.

I sensed them coming and right as the second guy tried to smack me from the front, I moved my head to the side, caught his hand and then I flung him behind me and used him as a shield. The others that were already trying to swing at me hit their friend instead. They were shocked and I used the moment to kick the guy I used as a shield towards them, knocking them on the ground. The one that had pinned Ella was able to jump back but he was starting at the other knocked out four with shock and I didn't hesitate to use that opening.

I charged at him and kicked him right on the cheek. Before he fell on the ground, I grabbed his hand and used the momentum to pin him on the ground and lock him with his hand behind his back.

"I suggest you listen next time and unhand me..." I stated calmly. I hadn't even broken a sweat. True, my body was not as strong as it was in that fantasy world of mine, but somehow I was just too experienced with this...

Unknown to me from all the adrenaline that was pumping in me, a huge group of people were surrounding us like that one time I was fighting with Natsu. Still holding the guy, I looked around, a bit shocked from all the people who were using their phones to record the moment or were just snapping photos. I let go of the guy and went to the, still shocked Ella, ignoring everyone else.

"What was that?!" She asked in astonishment and shock. "Where did you learn how to fight like that?!" She was shouting right into my ear, but it wasn't so painful as if I were to have my heightened senses.

"Ugh…" I tried to think of something. "I've been taking self-defense classes through the internet lately?" I smiled sheepishly. She blinked once at my explanation, then twice and right as she was about to say something a strong voice took everyone's attention.

"What's the meaning of this?!" The headmaster was hurrying towards the scene. The circle of people around us moved aside to make way for the headmaster. When he came to the scene and saw the five boys trying to get up, obviously in pain he looked around.

'This can't be good...' I thought.

"Who is responsible for this?" He narrowed his eyes at everyone. His eyes stopping at us, the only ones who were not in the circle of people.

Suddenly the guy that had pinned Ella, pointed towards me. "It was her! She just straight out attacked us for no reason!" He accused me.

The headmaster arched an eyebrow at me. "Is that true?"

"No!" He seemed to believe me. "They threatened me and my friend, and then I attacked them." I crossed my hands. He looked with shock at me and then at the boys.

"You mean to tell me that you did this to them by yourself?" He looked at the boys all groaning in pain.

I looked sheepishly at him. "Yeah…"

"But they threatened us first!" Ella tried to defend me.

The headmaster huffed, obviously annoyed by the situation. "I will only give you a warning this time but next time I see something like this, everyone involved will be expelled, am I clear?" He said with authority in his voice, looking at me and the boys.

"Yes, sir." I lowered my head.

"And seemingly as you…" He pointed towards the main guy. "And you…" Then he pointed at me. "Are the main wrongdoers here, you will both be serving detention after classes and that's final. Dismissed!" He shouted and everyone scrambled.

"But!" The guy tried.

"No, buts!" The headmaster gave him a stern look and then walked away. I and Ella walked away before anything more could happen. She started shooting questions right as we walked by the corner. I tried to explain how I trained self-defense and all and she actually took my lie. She was then praising me for the rest of the day, right after she yelled at me for being an idiot and getting myself in trouble for her.

After the classes ended I entered the room where the detention was being held. The guy was already there. He looked annoyed. Now that I had a better view of him, he was tall with dark hair and brown eyes. He was slim and his build wasn't anything that I hadn't seen.

He looked at me with rage. "Damnit, look what you got us both into!" He snapped.

"Shut it mud for brains. This ain't pleasant for me as well." I took a seat as far away from him as possible and he just snarled at me. After a few minutes, a teacher entered the room and sat on the desk. He got a timer out and placed in on top of the desk.

"I'll be watching over you two until detention ends. Two hours. Make yourselves at home." He said and then he started doing some of his teacher work.

I huffed in annoyance.

'This is going to be the longest two hours of my life.' I got a book out of my bag and started reading it.

The brat, whose fault was that we were here didn't really try to annoy me for the time being. I guess he learned his lesson. I also took the time to think of what had happened back then. I acted on pure instinct, on muscle memory. I was losing my mind mostly. There was a dilemma inside my mind that I had no answer to. I couldn't ignore the things that were going on. My instinct to growl at something unpleasant, the way I act, the way I fought. I am not Liliana… or am I and I'm just delusional? Maybe the brain damage that the doctor warned me about lingered on and now I'm going crazy… But why does it feel like that now since I'm away from Fairy Tail's world, I'm so lost? Who am I really? And the most important question... Can I go back?

When the two hours expired the timer rang.

"Ok, get out of here." The teacher stood up and walked away from the room.

"Finally!" The dark haired boy yelled and walked out of the room as well.

Narrator

Anora was left alone in the room as she put her book in the bag and prepared to go home. She flung the bag around her shoulder and exited the room, still thinking about what she was going to do.

As she left the room, she failed to notice the black messages that had appeared all over the white board, which the teachers used. In the center of them all, a certain sentence was taking most of the space on the board:

'Anora! Hang in there!'

Answer to a Guest: seen: I don't know who to pair Anora with atm and I don't think that I will find anyone as of the near future, so for now, she stays a matchmaker... *cough* ugh... I mean that is if she returns to Fairy Tail that is... *nervous laughter*

A/N: Oh my gosh, another cliffhanger. What's going to happen to poor Liliana/Anora that the world itself is telling her to hang in there? Hmmm?

And so we delved in Anora's past. But what about her future? Is she going to be able to go back? And most of all, what will be the price for going back?

Ok, with the teasing aside, I'll see ya all in the next chapter.