Gray gave a tired sigh as he walked into Defense Against the Dark Arts. Today he definitely didn't have the energy to try and deal with their "new assistant teacher" or whatever. Despite him, Natsu and Lucy since their first year always taking nights to visit Erza, he still wasn't used to the exhaustion he always felt the day after. Gray knew for sure the first thing he'd do when class got out included going to his dorm room to sleep.

After he sat down, Gray looked over to Natsu and Juvia. Juvia didn't look like she was ready to crash as much as himself, and of course Natsu on the other hand was getting ready to pick a fight, even on three hours of sleep. Gray couldn't hear the pyro from where he sat, but he knew that Natsu was going on about his preparations for today since everyone was meeting Umbridge. There's no way him and Umbridge are going to get along. Erza and Jellal didn't explain too much about Umbridge, other than she would be extremely strict and was in complete denial about the dangers of the wizardry world. Forget Natsu, I don't think I'll be able to handle this crazy chick.

Gray glanced over to Lucy who sat with Levy. Lucy seemed to have given up already, seeing that she was sleeping on her textbook as Levy sat there poking at her. Gray laughed a little, once Lucy was out, she was out. Not even Natsu could wake her up at a time like this.

Class finally began, and Gray knew this was going to take a long time.

"My name is Dolores Umbridge, and you will be referring to me as Professor Umbridge." Were the first words to come out of her mouth. Um, okay…? Gray already hated her attitude. Just as she was about to go on about something probably useless, Cana decided to show up late. She eventually stumbled her way over to her spot next to Gray.

Umbridge clearly wasn't happy about that. "Why are you late dear?" she questioned. Before Cana could answer her, Lockhart began to speak.

"I'll take it from here Dolores." Lockhart turned towards Cana. "Do you Miss- whoever you are, have a valid excuse as to why you're late to my class?"

Cana shrugged, "Honestly, I didn't plan on showing up at all, like yesterday, but I wanted to come see what all the gossip was about with you-" she hiccupped a little as she pointed towards Umbridge, making it obvious that she was drunk already. Gray didn't even know where she could possibly get any alcohol during school hours, but somehow she found it. "and whoever you are. Some name with the word 'um' in it." she laughed. "What kind of name starts with 'um' anyway?"

Umbridge's face flourished with anger. "I'm not even going to begin arguing with a, thing like you. Just get out of my classroom and don't come back until you've become sober again." The whole class looked around awkwardly as Cana shrugged, then picked up her bags and walked out. There had always been something that seemed familiar to Gray about Cana. He couldn't help wonder if she had a sibling or something whom Gray knew… Like usual, he shrugged off that thought then continued watching this nightmare of a class.

"Now, now…" Lockhart began. "Don't forget that you're my assistant teacher, I'm the one who will be taking charge in this classroom." Gray, along with the rest of the class remained silent as Umbridge looked annoyed, taking a seat. Gray chuckled a little, those two are going to get along.

Lucy woke up to the sound of everyone leaving class. Is…is class over already?

"Good morning Lu." Levy laughed, standing by her desk packed up.

"Are you waiting for me?" Lucy asked, still trying to adjust to the reality.

"Yeah silly, we always walk back together. Although I planned on going straight to the library, but it seems you might need help getting to our room."

"I'm not drunk Levy, just extremely tired. Anyway, let's get going. On the way you can catch me up on what happened during class." Lucy replied.

"Wow. I missed a lot. Cana tried to come to class?" Lucy questioned. "That sounds hilarious though, wish I stayed awake for it. And I can't believe that I didn't get yelled at for sleeping during class. You would think one of those two would've had my head."

"Yeah, I was surprised too." Levy responded. Just as Lucy was about to ask more about what they actually learned during class, her and Levy saw Sting, Rogue, and Yukino harassing a student.

"Here we go again. Who's the victim this time?" Lucy asked. There was a large crowd around them, and she could just barely see it was a Gryffindor. Those Slytherins are going to pay…

"You know Rogue, I heard this new chick came from a school that was shut down for a month because of a student getting seriously hurt." Sting remarked. Instantly Lucy grew incredibly pissed off. So they think they can go after Juvia? Rogue remained silent yet still smirking.

"How pathetic." Yukino began, "If I didn't know any better I'd say that she should stay away from our school." If Natsu was here, he'd already be attacking them…

But her boyfriend had rubbed off on her over the years. Most of the time Lucy could stay calm, but when someone dared hurt her friends…

"You don't know anything about her!" she yelled, pushing the crowd to become face-to-face with Sting, Rogue and Yukino.

"Shut up Heartfilia," Sting started to say. "the only reason you're defending this freak is because you think that you have to be as tough as your boyfriend." There was a common 'ohhhh' yelled among the crowd.

"You know I hate it when people call me by that name." Lucy stated.

Rogue chimed in this time, "You think Sting cares about your opinion?" The crowd seemed to get even more excited by that comment.

"I've had enough of your shit!" Lucy screamed, getting ready to summon one of her spirits. Even though she had a low chance of winning, considering she'd be fighting against two dragon slayers and another celestial wizard.

"Don't bother," Sting replied, "Your celestial spirit magic is useless, especially against someone like me." Lucy could see Yukino was hurt by Sting's response as she shoved everyone in the crowd to get away with Sting calling out to her.

"Yu-Yukino! I didn't mean it like that! Your spirits are awesome!"

Lucy smirked, "Some friend you are. I'm not even going to bother fighting you, better go apologize to her." The crowd seemed to become more intrigued. Suddenly, Lucy remembered that Juvia was there. She turned around to check up on her, but she found Juvia to be gone already.

She wanted to go and find her, but the tiredness she felt took over once again. I think I'll just head on over to my room, maybe she'll be there too.

Juvia felt like she should have defended herself more.

Instead, she just ran.

Right after Lucy began getting into her own fight with Sting and his friends, Juvia just slipped away (quite literally, seeing that her body could turn into water).

She didn't know exactly where she was going, but she couldn't stop either. Good way to get familiar with the school I guess…

Juvia of course appreciated Lucy helping her out, but for some reason she ended up resorting back to her other self, running to escape.

Finally after getting too worn out, she paused to take a break. Juvia started to look around, realizing she'd strayed far away from any students. She then looked far in front of her, where a large mirror stood.

"That's…odd." she mumbled. Although it clearly looked like a mirror standing before her, there was no reflection of herself. Then as she walked closer towards it, Juvia saw in the mirror that not only was herself looking back at her, but she somehow stood side by side with Gray, Lucy, Natsu and even Erza and Jellal.

"Eeeh! Juvia is standing next to Gray-sama!" she blurted out.

Then she also noticed how her old friend Keira remained smiling behind her.

Keira… Juvia whipped her head around, finding herself completely alone. She turned back to the mirror again.

"How…?"

She tried to feel someone around her, but she felt nothing. Juvia then came to the conclusion that in front of her were all false reflections in the mirror. She sighed, wishing that what she looked at was a reality.

"Keira…" she started to say, even though she knew that Keira wasn't listening, only a created reflection of her old friend was listening to her.

"I'm…sorry." Juvia said, falling to the ground crying. She didn't know why she talked out loud in first person suddenly, but no one was around her so she assumed it didn't really matter. Keira continued to look at her with that same smiling face. As if Juvia did nothing wrong.

"Stop looking at me like that!" she wanted to punch the mirror so badly, but she knew that wouldn't do any good, plus she was sure it belonged to someone.

Keira still kept smiling while looking like she stood behind her, making Juvia only feel worse.

"Why? Why are you here?" she asked quietly, of course getting no response. She looked at her friend's happy eyes, her long purple hair split into two braids. Finally Juvia stared into her Keira's eyes, looking at her with no fear…with no regret…

Juvia couldn't handle it any longer.

"WHY WOULD YOU LOOK AT ME SO INNOCENTLY? I CAUSED YOU TO FORGET EVERYTHING ABOUT YOURSELF! AND THE WORST PART IS I NEVER EVEN GOT TO SAY SORRY!" she screamed, tears falling down her face. Immediately Juvia covered her mouth, hoping that no one would hear her. She didn't know exactly how close she was to other people.

She remained near the mirror for a while longer, not daring to look into Keira's eyes.

But she did look over to the other Gryffindor wizards, seeing Juvia as the person she would always strive to be. Not one person saw her as a curious case, not one person saw her as someone to pity and try to accept, and Gray…

He kept his arm around her shoulder, holding onto her like Natsu always would with Lucy.

If only this was a reality…

Eventually, she decided to leave, although she promised herself that she'd be back.

Juvia found that she ended up not spending too much of her afternoon with the mirror, and there was still enough time to get some homework done before dinner that night. She wanted to take a nap, but with all of what happened today, she couldn't even sleep.

Sitting at her desk in her dorm room, she began pulling out her supplies from her backpack. She pulled out some textbooks, paper, quill, ink, and a unidentified brown notebook. It took Juvia a few seconds to process what she just took out. A notebook? I don't remember owning this… She opened it up a little, skimming the blank pages, looking all over the notebook to see if it had a label on it. Nope. It's pretty worn out though. Obviously the book she held was very old, and she still didn't have an idea as to how it found its way into her bag in the first place.

Deciding that it wasn't important, she placed the notebook to the side. She hoped that it belonged to one of her roommates and it accidentally slipped into her bag. Juvia shrugged, beginning to crank on her homework.

She didn't have too much today. The only real work Juvia had included reading the first three chapters of her Defense Against the Dark Arts textbook. She couldn't help but agree with Gray and some of the others, just reading this information felt pretty useless. She knew how vital it was to learn how to defend oneself, and a lot of that came from experience, not a textbook. Maybe I should tell that to Lockhart or Umbridge…

Of course, there was no way she'd start arguing with one of her teachers, especially not those two.

Juvia glanced over at the notebook again, feeling tempted to write in it. No no Juvia, it probably belongs to someone. But there was still no sign of a name, or anything written in it at all.

Finally she gave in, looked around the empty room, and began to write.

"This notebook belongs to Juvia Lockser." Juvia wrote. The words then vanished and were soon replaced.

"Hello Juvia Lockser. How did you come by my diary?"

Instinctively, without even wondering why the diary could write back to her, Juvia replied back.

"So this is a diary?" her words vanished, quickly being replaced again.

"Yes. Again may I ask how you came across my diary?"

"Oh right. Well you see Juvia found this in her supply bag. She doesn't know why or how it got in there."

The diary continued to write to her. "I see. Well I promise to keep all of your thoughts safe, you can tell me anything."

Juvia didn't know how to respond. She had no need for a diary, since she had her Gray-sama and her other friends here. But of course, she didn't want to trouble them by complaining about how she hated being bullied by Sting, or that she was terrified that someone might find out about Keira…

She dipped her quill in the ink and began to write.

After being in detention again until midnight last night, Natsu wasn't ready to remain calm in today's class. He managed to stay quiet yesterday, but he had a feeling today wouldn't go so well.

"Okay," Lockhart began. "Today Professor Umbridge will be teaching you all on her own. I expect you to behave, especially you Mr. Dragneel." Natsu clenched his fist, wanting to seriously hit him. He looked over at Lucy, who gave him the look of Natsu-remember-to-breathe. He did breathe in and out, feeling a little better.

"Good afternoon class." Umbridge stated, receiving a few mumbles from the classroom.

"Tut,tut," she responded. "That won't do, now will it? I should like you, please, to reply 'Good Afternoon, Professor Umbridge.' One more time, please. Good afternoon, class!"

"Good afternoon, Professor Umbridge." The whole class, minus Natsu and Gray chanted.

"That's much better. Today, we will finally be handing out the course schedule and what we'll be learning for the remainder of this year." Everyone received a completed course schedule, looking much different than what they'd been on track for before Lockhart and Umbridge showed up.

To Natsu's surprise, Lucy shot up her hand. "Yes dear?" Umbridge asked.

"I'm not sure I understand what this sheet says." Lucy said.

"I think it's perfectly clear dear."

"But, there's nothing on here that includes when we will be actually applying what we learn about the spells." Umbridge gave her a confused look. "Like, I don't see where it says when we'll be trying out these spells, ya know, learning how to use them."

Umbridge gave an obnoxious laugh. "What a silly comment, Miss Heartfilia is it? Can you think of any situation in my classroom where you'll need to use a defensive spell?"

"No." Lucy responded.

"Then why would we need to learn them?" Umbridge asked, giving her fake smile.

Juvia started to speak up before Lucy could reply. "If Juvia may add to the conversation-"

"Students in my classroom will only speak after being called on. What was your name again?"

"Juvia Lockser." she said quietly.

"Well Miss Lockser, what was it you were going to say?"

"Ne-never mind." Juvia stated. Natsu nudged her, trying to encourage her to speak out. Even Gray gave her a 'go on' nod.

Juvia cleared her throat. "Actually, Juvia was just going to say that she agrees with Lucy, or 'Miss Heartfilia' as you call her. It's very key to learn from experience to use a spell, and no textbook can give you experience." Natsu patted her on the back.

"Well said." he whispered. Lucy and Gray seemed to approve too.

"Ms. Lockser. You are a new student here yes?" Umbridge asked. Juvia nodded right after. "It seems to me that maybe you were kicked out of your old school for trying to 'learn from experience'?" Juvia sank in her seat embarrassed. Natsu was getting ready to start defending her when Gray stood up.

"Hey! You don't know her, how dare you just say somethin' like that? You're new here too right? Is it cause you get fired from your last job?" Gray questioned. Natsu didn't expect Gray to make an outburst like that, but definitely liked the way his friends were talking out like this. I've done well teaching them the proper ways of talking back.

Umbridge tried to display a fake smile, but anyone in the class could tell that she was furious.

"Mr. Fullbuster, I'll have you know that I held a very superior position in the Magic Council for many years before coming here and receiving the opportunity to teach students about the defenses against dark magic in the safest way possible."

"But it's not like we're always in this classroom." Lucy started, after raising her hand and Umbridge nodding for her to speak. "There's been talk about dark guilds forming. And even worse there's rumors about-."

"No, no, no sweetie." Umbridge interrupted. "You see, these are all lies."

It was about time Natsu got involved.

"Lies?!" he yelled.

"Mr. Dragneel!" she spat. "Students in my class raise their hands before speaking." Natsu grumbled, looked her directly in the eye as he shot up his hand.

"Fine," Umbridge sighed. "Mr. Dragneel, you have anything to ask about our course schedule for the remainder of this year?"

"The course schedule?" Natsu asked. "That crap is absolutely ridiculous, but I wanted to know what you were saying about this whole 'lies' thing. You're telling us that the world is perfectly safe and we shouldn't be worried at all?"

"Yes, that's exactly it. You see, there are no dark guilds forming, and every little rare danger out there is being taken care of by wizards like Professor Lockhart, me, or wizards in the Magic Council."

Gray stood up again before Natsu could respond back. "Just a friendly reminder that my parents were killed by a monstrous demon, so yeah I would like to learn how to actually use a spell in case, oh maybe if a demon like that appears again it can be killed." Juvia gasped next to Natsu, guess she hasn't learned that about Gray yet huh?

"Your parent's death, Mr. Fullbuster, was a tragic accident." Umbridge said calmly.

"An accident?!" Gray yelled. "It was murder." Natsu could tell that Gray was shaking.

Completely avoiding what Gray said, Umbridge called for him to come to the front.

"Go take a walk outside and come back when you're ready to learn." she then spoke louder, this time to the whole class. "You are all very lucky that I am not giving any of you detention. If any other outbursts happen again however, that student will be receiving detention."

"I've already got detention all this week." Natsu whispered to Juvia as Gray quickly walked out, not even looking at any of them in the eye.

A/N: Sorry this took so long to update! I wanted to write/publish this chapter a lot sooner but alas, here it is!

During that last scene, I may or may not have been listening to Umbridge's theme while writing it. It's so catchy though and it also reminds me of why I hate her so much.

Oh and to make things clear, there was another teacher before Lockhart during the beginning of the year (since it's about October) but then they had to leave for a family emergency.

Sorry, I completely forgot to include that detail in the story!

And plus, everyone in this story uses their usual magic, like Juvia using water or Gray using ice magic.

Hopefully soon we'll get to actually everyone using their magic :D

Again thank you all a ton for reading my story! There's only so many minutes of the day and you're choosing to spend some of those minutes reading my story and that means a lot to me!

Have a Fairy Tail-astic/Hogwarts-full day!

And to the manga readers:

Yas ninja refrences again I love it so much! (Especially since right now I'm reading Naruto)

Also Gajevy was veryy on point :3

I actually am really looking forward to seeing what Team B does, and also to see more of Team A kicking ass as they ruin their infiltration!