"Perhaps I am stronger than I think." –Thomas Merton

It had been two weeks since Lir found herself in that world. The people of Fairy tail had already gotten used to her. They didn't mind if a not-mage hung around their guild. Lir got along well with Lucy and slept at her apartment. She also got a lot of part-time jobs in the town. They mostly existed out of running around town delivering things, or gather ingredients and materials outside of it.

She also got used to the constant fights in Fairy tail. She still found it unlucky that most of the attacks ended up in her direction, but she was skilled enough to evade most of them, with the emphasis on most.

'Are they fighting again?' Lir asked as she walked over to Lucy to watch the fight between Erza and Natsu. 'Does he never learn?' Lucy sighed in answer. Erza took out a spear and threw it at Natsu, but he evaded it. 'Wait… It's coming this way…' Lucy and Lir jumped out of the way for the spear, but it hooked onto the jacket Lir was wearing.

'Ack!' She flew away, dragged by the spear. How was it possible to fly that far away because a spear hit your jacket? She thought about the question as she saw Magnolia getting further and further away.

'… Is that even possible?' Lucy asked out loud as she saw Lir flying far away from Magnolia. 'Think she'll be alright when she lands?' 'I hope so.'

'Ow…' Lir groaned. She slid out of her jacket and fell on the ground. She turned to see that the spear had pinned the jacket to a tree. She climbed the tree all the way to the top and looked around, but couldn't see any sign of a town. 'Just how far did I fly?' She asked aloud.

She dropped herself from the upper part of the tree and landed on the spear. No matter how much she pulled, she couldn't remove it. She sighed as she sat down on the spear, and let out a small scream when it suddenly got loose. 'At least it's out of that tree … But now my butt hurts.' She picked up the jacket and inspected the damage. 'Damn it, a hole in the back. I leant this from Lucy!'

She picked up the spear and took a few steps in one direction, only to stop and sigh. 'So I'm lost in the middle of a forest, great.' She sighed as she sat down against the tree. Why did she always end up in places she didn't know? She closed her eyes and cursed her bad luck.

Not far from there: Laxus looked around. He could swear he heard a small scream just now, but he didn't hear anything now. Had it been his imagination? For some reason he started thinking about the guild. Ever since he was excommunicated he had avoided thinking about it, so why then?

There he heard something again. For a second he thought he had heard someone talking. He stood there in silence, until he heard a thud somewhere to his right. A normal person wouldn't have heard all that, but a dragonslayer would. He walked towards the sound. He was in the middle of nowhere; who would make so much noise there?

When he reached the place the sounds supposedly came from someone caught his eye. A girl around his age was leaning against a tree with her head one her knees. She sighed. Then he noticed the spear next to her.

'Hey.' Lir raised her head. A few meters in front of her stood a guy with blond hair and a scar. 'That spear.' He said pointing to the one next to Lir. 'Isn't that Erza's?' He had recognised it immediately. Erza often fought with that one. He didn't need an answer when he saw the girls face light up a bit. 'You know Erza Scarlet?' Lir recited Erza's whole name just so there would be no misunderstandings. 'Yeah, I'm, I mean I was in the same guild as her.' Was the girl a new member? She didn't look like a mage.

Lir let a sigh of relief. Seems she still had a little bit of luck left. 'That's great. Can you tell me the way to the guild please? I'm lost.' 'How did you get so far from the guild?' 'I sort of got thrown here.' Lir could tell he doubted her, but that really was what had happened.

Laxus found it very hard to believe she was thrown there, but she didn't seem to be lying. He decided to give her the benefit of the doubt. And besides, how much of a threat could she pose? 'I'll show you the way back; don't fall too far behind.' 'Thank you!'

They just walked in silence, Laxus leading and Lir walking about a meter behind him. Neither of them felt the need to say anything. It wasn't an awkward silence though. Lir felt slightly comforted by the back of the man named Laxus. She had never felt so safe because of a stranger. Then again, she had never ended up in the middle of a forest with no idea how to get out.

After a few hours of walking they reached a dirt road straight trough the forest. 'Not too tired?' Laxus asked. The girl didn't seem too sturdy so he shouldn't push her. 'No, I'm fine thank you.' 'Either way; it's going to be night soon so I'd say we'd better make a camp.'

Soon they were sitting around a fire Laxus started by directing lightning to a stack of wood. Lir didn't know there were lightning mages. She wondered how many different kinds of magic there existed. After a night's rest they were walking again. By noon they reached Magnolia and the guild. Lir was surprised she had been thrown that far.

'Lir!' 'Ah, Erza.' Lir turned around to see Erza walking towards her. Lir handed her the spear she had been dragging along all the time. 'Sorry for what happened, I didn't mean to throw you too.' Erza said, before noticing Laxus who was following their conversation. So Lir was an acquaintance of Erza. 'Laxus, did you bring Lir back? Thanks.' Laxus shrugged and walked away. From the way Erza acted, Lir wasn't a mage. Laxus wondered who the girl was then. But whoever she was, he was glad Erza didn't mention his excommunication in front of her; for some reason he liked that girl.