*On the last night of Chanukah the-real-narnia gave to me:

A lot of insanity...*

If you're a boy...get over it.

Chapter Ninety One - The 'Talk'...Part Two

"ELLE DIED?" Erik yelled. "What the hell?"

Well, that's a way to get everyone's attention.

I sighed as all eyes turned towards me.

"In my previous life, I did die," I said evenly, wondering who was even thinking about that, and planning to possibly punch them into the next room. "But I am fine with it."

He gaped at me, but a different voice interrupted me before I could continue.

"HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY BE OKAY WITH IT?" Macbeth roared, storming up.

"BECAUSE IT'S BETTER HERE!" I yelled back, before turning and hiding my face into Laxus's chest.

I couldn't see him, but I knew he was glaring at Macbeth.

"What do you mean?" It was a deathly whisper that came from Jellal, and I realized that most of the kids still didn't even know about my other life – I'm pretty sure that the last time I really talked about it was during the games.

And even then, I don't think I mentioned that I died.

"Everyone sit down," I said quietly.

They obeyed, scooting closer as if it were story time, and the adults in the room followed suit.

Damn eavesdroppers.

Though they probably do deserve to know…

"My last life wasn't the best," I started. "In fact, I might even call it horrible. It's so bad, the one who sent me here apparently blocked a lot of the memories, and they will come back slowly as I get older. Because of that, I can't tell you everything that happened; after all, I don't know myself."

"It wasn't fun," I continued. "From what I remember, I grew up in an orphanage, and I never had any friends or family. It was 'everyone for themselves' in the orphanage, so when I found the stories of this universe, it hit me extremely deeply. I wanted that for myself. Maybe part of the reason I've come here is because I want to help you all, but it's also because I'm selfish. Because I wanted a family this time around."

"There's nothing wrong with that," Erza said quietly, and the others nodded.

"When I looked old enough, I ran away from the orphanage and posed as an adult, getting a job and living in an abandoned apartment. One day, I got hit by a car. I died."

"HOW CAN YOU BE SO CASUAL ABOUT IT?" Macbeth yelled.

"Because, like I said, IT'S BETTER HERE!" I shouted back. "I have a family here, Macbeth. I have Fairy Tail. In my original life, I had no one. I died alone, alright?"

I panted a bit, trying to catch my breath and feeling like I had run an emotional marathon, and Laxus put his hands on my shoulders. "This time I had the type of life I thought I could never have. So, I'm fine with it."

Macbeth moved forward and gripped my shoulders. "Promise me. Promise me you won't be okay with dying again, Elle."

"I won't," I said, putting my hands on his arms. "I've got too much to lose, this time around. Alright, Macbeth?"

Slowly, he nodded, his eyes locked on mine, and he pulled away.

This, of course, didn't do much, because I was immediately slammed into by a river of crying children, led by Lucy and Juvia, who were sobbing about my death (which they apparently hadn't previously known about).

Laxus growled a bit under his breath, but he still held me steady as the two of us were dog piled.

"Be careful, she's still recovering!" he told the kids, and they actually slowed down a bit on their journey to smothering us.

I laughed a bit, opening my arms. "Hey, guys, I'm right here. We'll have another sleepover tonight, alright? I'm sorry about running off before."

The younger kids went up in cheers and we all settled down again. As the kids got off of me (and Laxus), Yukino came up and climbed into my lap.

"Hey, Yukino," I said, running my hand through her hair. "What's up?"

She didn't answer, just curled up more into my lap, and I relaxed into Laxus and just laid with Yukino lying on top of me.

"Are you trying to squish me?" Laxus asked.

"If you want me to get off so badly…" I trailed off, and I had a teasing tone in my voice.

He wrapped his arms around me again, pinning me back to his chest. "Not a chance."

Yukino giggled.

While everyone was watching the movie, I started making a list, before eventually passing it to Laxus. "This is the right order, right? I'm not missing anyone?"

"No, why?" he asked.

I smirked. "You'll see."

The first three names were Cana, Elle and Laxus, and then, in order:

Juvia

Levy

Freed

Bickslow

Evergreen

Lucy

Brandish

Erigor

Nab

Gray, Lyon and Ultear

Jet and Droy

Kagura

Jellal, Erza, Millianna, Simon, Sho, Wally

Macbeth, Erik, Sorano, Richard, Sawyer and Orga

Eventually, the movie ended and I clapped my hands, getting everyone's attention. "Alright, guys, listen up. We're not going to watch another movie."

There was a myriad of complaints, but I ignored them. "Alright, if you guys aren't a part of this generation….get out!"

"What?" Gildarts asked.

"Out!" I shouted. "Shoo! This is secretive stuff. So, get out!"

"Are you serious?" Silver asked.

Ur grabbed him and started pulling him out of the room.

"Thank you, Ur!" I called as the rest of them followed suit.

When the door shut behind them, I turned to Freed. "Freed, activate the runes for me, will you?"

He nodded, approaching the doors and pulling up the barriers.

"Are we allowed to stay?" Mavis asked, flying over.

"Depends," I said, amused. "Will you tell any of the adults what we're planning?"

She shook her head. "Nuh-uh!"

I smiled at her. I might not have told her that I forgave her, but it seemed that she already knew. "Alright, you can stay."

"Hooray!" she cheered, spinning around, and Zeref chuckled at his…girlfriend? Wife? Lover? What even were they, officially?

I'm just glad they're happy again.

"What are we doing?" Macbeth asked.

"We're going to be grouping up in pairs of six. Yukino doesn't count," I said.

"I would like to be in Ella-sama's group!" Freed declared.

"No," I said.

He deflated.

"Neither of us are in a group, Freed," I continued.

At his confused look, I started to smile, giving him a sly look. "After all, the first group of six – you, me, Laxus, Levy, Juvia, and Cana – already accomplished our mission."

His eyes widened as he got it, and he began to cackle.

"Wait, what?" Erik shouted, reading his mind.

"You seem to be shouting a lot today," Macbeth commented.

"I THINK I'M ENTITLED!" Erik shouted.

"What are we missing?" Sawyer asked.

"I'll explain," I offered, raising a hand.

Yukino curled up on me, and I smiled at the kids around me. "It's time for FAIRY TAIL INITIATION!"

"We have an initiation?" Mavis asked, cocking her head.

"Kinda," I smirked. "You see, after Me, Laxus, Cana, Juvia, Levy and Freed all joined Fairy Tail, we decided to do something. We spent around four months practicing, in fact."

By now, the whole group of us were smiling, though Levy had figured it out only a few seconds after Freed had.

"You see, we decided to fight Gildarts," I said.

And then:

"WHAT?"

"Good thing we put up those runes," Laxus muttered.

I continued. "You see, Cana hadn't told Gildarts that she was his daughter yet, and she felt like she might be a bit unworthy. Because of that, I suggested that we fight him. So we did."

There was silence, before Gray screeched. "And?"

"And we won," I said, shrugging. "Mostly through luck and cheating, I'll admit. But we're going to do it again! And by 'we', I mean 'you'."

"I don't want to fight Gildarts!" Lyon yelled.

Erigor was laughing over to the side.

I looked at him. "What are you laughing about? You need to fight him, too."

He went deathly pale; which is saying something, because he's already pretty pale.

"We can't do that!" Bickslow cried.

The only people who weren't protesting were ones who hadn't seen Gildarts fight. Since Erik was able to hear through memories, he was not among them.

"I DON'T THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA, ELLE!" he shouted.

I sighed. "Fine. If you guys don't want to do it, fine, but I think it'd be a good experience. At the very least, I want you to group up with the people you would've been in a group with and discuss ways you could use your power to overwhelm the guy, alright? It's a good mental exercise, and it's how we developed a lot of our spells."

There was grumbling, but everyone else was mostly relieved as they went to their groups, which I pointed out for them.

"Bicks, what's wrong?" Laxus's voice rumbled his chest, and I followed his gaze over to Bickslow, who was staring at us in shock, contemplating.

"I don't get it," Bickslow said slowly.

Everyone stopped to look at him.

"Don't get what?" Evergreen asked, annoyed that he wasn't joining their group.

"You said that you spent four months preparing…but if you take the time that I joined and the time that Freed joined, there's only a few days left over…"

I nodded, "Yeah, that's about right."

"But then you would've only been nine years old," Bickslow pointed out. "Laxus wasn't even twelve then. Freed would be eight, Cana would be six, and Juvia and Levy would've been five."

I blinked at him. "So?"

"Are you insane!?" he shrieked.

"Yes."

"Brandish and I have decided that we want to do it. Just the two of us," Lucy announced.

"Look what you've done now!" Bickslow cried.

I shrugged.

"We'll do it too," Jellal said, gesturing to him and Erza.

I nodded. "Anyone else?"

Macbeth, Erigor, Erik and Orga exchanged looks. "We'll probably do it eventually…but not right now."

I nodded. "Great."

A few things happened over the next few weeks.

For one, Laxus took Erik into the woods for Dragon Slayer training.

During which Macbeth decided to break into my house.

I had teleported back home, and laid down on my bed, which seemed kinda empty without Laxus there, and soon fell asleep listening to music.

When I woke up, the songs had finished cycling through. We were able to record all of the songs that the kids did and put them on the SoundPods, but we still couldn't put my specific memories onto them.

I put down my SoundPod and shuffled through my Memory Songs, coming to the more depressing ones that I would try and keep the kids away from.

I stopped at one memory, realizing that I hadn't listened to this artist in forever, and grabbed one of his songs off the top.

It wasn't until it started playing that I realized how eerily close the lyrics were to my current situation.

I remembered what Mari had said, about how a wizard's lungs became more powerful because of absorbing Ethernano.

And I began to sing.

"Insidious is blind inception…

What's reality with all these questions?

Feels like I missed my alarm and slept in…(slept in)…

Broken legs, but I chase perfection

These walls are my blank expression…

My mind is a home I'm trapped in

And it's lonely inside this mansion."

I stopped singing, because next was the rap verse (and I will never be able to rap). It needed a lot of work, but it kinda sounded…good.

"Not too bad," came a voice.

I jumped a few feet in the air and shot a beam of Venus directly at the culprit. Luckily, Macbeth is a Reflector Mage, and wasn't hurt by it.

"Don't scare me like that!" I scolded.

He shrugged. "Are you going to join a band?"

He walked into the room and sat down on the side of my bed, which I had sat back down upon.

"I don't think so," I said quietly. "I mean, I'm not that good."

I wasn't bad, but I guess I had what could be called a 'unique voice'. Some people would like it, and others would probably hate it. But it wasn't amazing, like Lucy's beautiful light soprano voice or Cana's deeper alto.

Macbeth was quiet, before sighing and saying, "I think you should sing at Laxus's birthday."

"What?" I asked.

"Look, you know Erik and I are close. We both consider you our sister, and Laxus is a topic that tends to come up a lot…"

I glared at him.

He shrugged. "Anyway…you guys are together, and it's pretty obvious that you'll stay like that. So, we were thinking of a way to help you guys get better."

"Okay…" I trailed off.

"So, Erik already told you about how Laxus wanted to play with your hair. But he also wants you to sing to him on his birthday, just like he does for you. Even if it's horrible, he still wants it. Of course, according to Erik, he romanticizes it in his mind so you sound pretty good, but he really just wants you to do that for him. Even if it's embarrassing for you."

I sighed. Geez, Macbeth and Erik playing cupid was not something I saw coming.

"Alright. I think I even have the right song for him," I said quietly. "So, I'll get to work on that. Thanks, Macbeth. Also, GET OUT OF MY HOUSE. KNOCK NEXT TIME!"

He smiled and slipped away, and I rolled my eyes.

I knew what song I wanted to do, but if I wanted to take it a step further, I guess I could also play the instruments too, rather than just sing.

Which meant…I needed to learn how to play piano.

Great.

Unfortunately, I did not finish learning piano by the time Laxus came back, but Freed let me borrow his keyboard and promised that he wouldn't tell.

Though I doubt it would be on his mind.

Time passed pretty quickly, and I ended up kicking Laxus out of my house so I could practice. All he knew was that it was part of his present, and that he wasn't allowed to go near the place.

And on November 1st, I got a present.

Not a good one, though.

"PORLYUSICA, I GOT MY PERIOD!" I shouted, kicking in the door.

"So what, you stupid brat?" she called grabbing her broom.

"So do you have something for it?" I whined. I had gotten the usual toiletries I needed, but that didn't take care of the cramps. "I feel like stabbing myself would hurt less. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!"

I wasn't really lying about the 'stabbing' thing. It had hurt like hell in my last life, but this brought it to a whole new level.

"PLEASE," I shouted, clutching my lower abdomen. I had been using Mars to heat up my hands, which seemed to be helping a bit. "It hurts."

"Fine!" she shouted, grabbing a pink potion and shoving it at me. "Here! But-"

I already gulped it down.

"-You can't use magic as long as it lasts."

I put down the empty glass. "Shit."

So I had to walk to the guild, rather than teleport.

Porlyusica gave me some more (it apparently lasts four hours) and warned me about how I used it.

She told me that I never knew when I could get in a fight, and she wasn't wrong.

If a person was strong enough, they'd still be able to use magic under the potion, but it generally redirected all of your magic specifically to that one place in order to get it over faster.

On the bright side, periods generally only last two or three days, on the potion.

So at least it wouldn't be a week of no magic or no pain.

It was when I entered the guild that I discovered the real problem.

"ELLE?" Laxus shouted, running for me. "Are you okay? I smell blood. What's wrong?"

I simply stared at him for a bit. "It's just my time of month, Laxus."

He blinked at me, completely clueless. "What do you mean? What does that have to do with you bleeding?"

I looked at him, and then nodded, shouting. "ALRIGHT, ALL BOYS IN OUR GENERATION, GET YOUR ASSES IN THE TRAINING ROOM NOW!"

"Why?" Orga asked.

"Because I said so!" I yelled.

They all filed into the room, and I looked over all of them. "If you're not going to be older than 10 by the end of this year, get out."

In the end, the only kids in the room were Erigor, Richard, Laxus, Macbeth, Erik, Nab, Freed, Jellal, Wally, Simon, Lyon, Gray, Jet, Droy, and Sawyer.

"Why are we here?" Erigor asked.

I went over to the wall and activated the runes. "You're here for 'The Talk'…part two."

Most of the kids went screaming for the door.

Gray stayed where he was, confused. "But I didn't get the first part."

I sighed and surveyed the kids. "Sit. Down."

Erigor, Laxus, Macbeth and Erik seemed more than a bit confused, but ultimately knew what 'the Talk' was about. Richard looked completely oblivious.

"Gray is right," I started. "He, as well as some of you, didn't get the Talk yet. But this is a special talk."

I grabbed a light pen and drew a very sloppy uterus. "As most of you know, babies don't stay in the stomach, but rather a different organ, called the uterus. The DNA, which is your genetic code – think of a recipe to make you who you are. Anyway, the DNA for the mom is in an egg – yes, it's an egg, please don't interrupt."

Several boys shut their mouths at that, and it seemed to me that these boys also had no clue just what a period was.

"Basically, the egg comes down this tube and stays in the uterus, attaching itself to a wall, and an egg is released about once a month. If the male DNA is waiting for it, then they combine and it turns into a baby."

Gray raised his hand. "How does...the male DNA...get there?"

I sighed. "I'll explain that to you guys in December, okay? But it does." I turned back to the board. "If there isn't male DNA waiting, something else happens. Does anyone know what?"

Everyone exchanged clueless looks, and I sighed. "If there isn't male DNA waiting, then the egg will slowly, over the course of a week, tear itself off of the wall."

"That sounds painful," Lyon muttered.

"It is," I hissed. "Over that week, the girl is bleeding from there constantly. And I mean constantly. The uterus comes out down here," I pointed at the vagina. "And so does the blood. For a week, there's constant blood coming out here."

The boys began to look sicker and sicker.

"So, for a constant week, girls are in extreme pain, and constantly bleeding. Everything hurts and everything sucks. So try to remember than anything you can do…I can do bleeding."

The boys were all extremely pale now.

I smiled, satisfied that I had gotten my point across. I directed my gaze over to Gray and Lyon as I took down the rune walls. "Really drives home how badass Ur is, right?"

Their eyes widened and they burst out the door, running for Ur and tacking her in a hug.

"You're so cool!" Lyon cried, squeezing her.

"Lyon? Gray? What's wrong?" she asked.

"We had no idea!" Gray yelled, hugging her.

"Okay, what is going on?" she asked, laughing.

"It's probably nothing," Silver said.

"Don't be a dick, Dad!" Gray said, turning to his dad and throwing a hammer made of ice at him.

"Ah, what the hell, Gray?" Silver yelled, blocking the attack and batting away the ice.

"Do I even want to know what you did?" Enno asked.

"I explained periods to them," I said, and then turned to Laxus. "Speaking of which, why didn't you know? It's not as if I'm the only girl in the guild that has periods. You should've been able to smell the others."

He looked away, blushing. "Now that you've explained it, periods smell a bit different than normal blood does. Probably because of the…organ…stuff…." He started turning green.

I pinned him with a look. "So why'd you freak out with me?"

"It's because his dragon is really protective of you," Erik commented, popping up next to us.

I jumped a bit (this was only going to get worse once Rogue got here, wasn't it?) and hit him. "I said to stop that!"

"And stop reading my mind!" Laxus complained.

"I hear souls!" Erik repeated.

"I don't care what the fuck it is, you can smell songs for all I care, just stop."

I laughed, and settled onto the chair.

To me, this was perfect.

Next chapter should be up for Christmas Eve! :)

Next chapter for Dreams of Dragon should be up Christmas morning.

All of my Chanukah things are up now; some of my notifications haven't gone out, so if you check my author's profile page, you should be able to find the rest.

Also, the song is 'Mansion' by NF. NF is a rapper, but some of his songs make me fucking cry like crazy. It's not the type of 'rap' people tend to think of, and I suggest you check him out.