Uni life is interesting :P

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Chapter 29

The next day, I trained again with Juvia and this happens every day when she is/I am not going on a job. On the days that Juvia goes away, I trained on my own to control and manipulate water. Day by day, I improve. Surprisingly, I am learning fast with the water element. It has been about two and a half months, and I can now create a bubble of water and trapping things in it as big as an average person. I practiced this on Natsu, Happy and Lucy daily. Once I tried to trap Gray but he froze the water.

"Hah! You missed me!" Natsu yells as he manages to dodge my water trap. I pout at him while secretly putting another magic circle, setting another trap under him. Then I smirk at him; his smile falters as he realizes what is about to happen. He looks down to his feet and sees the blue magic circle, "Shit." A blue light appears, from the bottom and engulfs him in a circle. The water trap hovers a little of the ground while Natsu crosses his arm. He gives a laugh and quickly escapes the trap by using his fire magic. He throws a fireball at me and I try to put up the bubble shield but failed. The fireball hit me and I yelp with pain. He continues to attack me while I run away.

"Crap! Stupid bubble! Why won't you come out?" I yell at myself.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA I'm winning this!" Natsu laughs with delight.

"Err, they're running in circles." Wendy points at us while Charle says nonchalantly, "They're idiots."

I run and run, and true enough, I realized that we were indeed running in circles. I roll my eyes at the both of us. "Kay, no more running. I hate running." I huff, trying to catch my breath. So, I stop running and face Natsu. "If that stupid bubble doesn't want to to work, I'm gonna have to improvise."

"YAAHH!" Natsu throws more fire at me and I stand my ground, concentrate and improvise my magic.

Instead of creating a bubble, I create a mirror. "Mirā mamoru!" A wall of mirror appears in front of me and nullifies Natsu's fire from hitting me. I stand with my hands on my waist, proud of myself. "Take that!"

"Woah! When did you learn how to do that?" Gray asks as he enters the field, eating a snow cone.

"I've been training and improvising my magic." I reply proudly.

"But you're in the defense so I win." Natsu says.

"Naah even in the defense I can still win. Watch this." As Natsu does his fire dragon roar, I create another mirror but with a different property. "Mirā reflect!" A mirror appears in front of me once again, but this time the fire dragon roar hits the mirror and bounces off back towards Natsu. He is stunned by the suddden change and is hit by his own magic. "Hah! What did I tell you?"

"Wow, that is impressive!" The group cheers and I curtsied.

"Yeah, that took me by surprised! Nice!" Natsu smacks me on the back.

"Thank you." I reply with pride.

We are in the guild chatting with one another after a long day of training. I trained further with Gray on ice magic as it seems to be the next easiest one compare to fire.

"Are you guys going to participate in the Miss Fiore Contest?" Levy asks.

"Huh? There's a Miss Fiore contest now? When is the contest by the way?" Lucy asks Levy.

"Yup, it's new. I read about it in the Sorcerer's Magazine. Female mages from all over Fiore region will participate in this contest. It has a number of tasks that participants have to compete in order to win a holiday trip to Sola Island. Apparently, the winner can take whoever she wants with her for the trip. Hmm, it won't be happening till the end of summer."

"Ohh. It sounds interesting." We nod in agreement.

"Oh my god. Sola Island? They recently opened a new theme park there and they have a nice beach too! I am so going to participate in this contest!" Cana says happily, and then chugs down a barrel of alcohol.

"If Cana is participating then I will too!" Lucy pumps her fist showing her newfound determination.

"Me too!" Levy says.

"Hmm, I can join too." Erza adds. "Mira, Lisanna, Bisca, are you joining?"

"Yes, definitely!" Mirajane and Lisanna chimes.

"I would love to but I think I will sit this one out. Gotta take care of family." Bisca says politely.

"I guess I can join too. We'll have fun Charle!" Wendy cheers.

"I am joining too and Gray-sama will be my partner!" Juvia says cheerfully while latching her arms around Gray.

"Woi, it's a competition for girls only!" Grays says, trying to remove himself from Juvia's grasp.

"I'm gonna kick everyone's asses!" Natsu cracks his knuckes.

"Baka! Like I said, it's a competition for girls only!" Gray snaps at Natsu, still struggling with Juvia's tight grasp.

"Lia, are you going to join?" Juvia asks me.

"Uhh I don't know, depends on the task..." I scratch my head.

Mirajane appears with a clipboard and says, "Don't worry, I've already signed you all up for the contest!"

"Including me?" Bisca gasps.

"Yes!" Mirajane smiles cheerfully.

"Don't worry, I can take care of Asuka." Alzack pats her on the back and smiles encouragingly.

So, all female mages are participating in the contest, including me. 'How did I get into this?'

I spent my time training at the beach with Lucy, Natsu, Gray, Wendy, Erza, Juvia. At first I trained further with my transformation magic - transforming into all cat-like creatures. Then I practiced water magic (control, and creating rain), and finally requip. When I get bored, I asked Gray to teach me more about ice magic and when I had the chance, I read the magic scroll of Halcyon Reis.

I am sitting on the sand cross-legged practicing ice magic. I am trying my hand at creating a piece of ice when a thought comes into my mind. 'Hmm... Halcyon Reis. That's a really fancy name. Speaking of names, what the hell does that bubble thing I do called? It's a bubble that is not popped easily, protecting and shading me from attacks... Hmm... Bubble protect?' I think to myself. I imagine myself crying out 'Bubble Protect!' I sigh, 'Nahh, sounds strange. Bubbbbleeee... Bubble no pop~yy. What the fuck? Bubble shadey? Bubble shade? Ooohh Bubble Shade it is!' I grin widely, successfully claiming a name for my never-seen before magic. I sense a shift of vibrations in the air, like I am about to be attacked so I quickly chant and put up Bubble Shade. True enough, fire erupts beneath me but I stay unmoving and watch the fire becomes divided and engulf me around the bubble before dying out.

"Aww man! How did you know?" Natsu moans.

"You forget she is half-cat. She can hear as well as you." Gray says.

Natsu turns to Happy and asks, "Happy, did you sense it?"

"Sense what?" Happy replies wide-eyed. Charle massages her temples at this.

"That I was about to attack her? Come on, you're a cat."

Happy blinks. There is silence, us waiting for Happy to reply and I just have a feeling that he is going to say- "No." Just as I thought.

"Ugh never mind." Natsu sighs while the rest of us giggle.

Team Shadowgear decides to join us at the beach today. "Hi guys! Mind if we join you to train?" The three of them greet us.

"You mean just Levy?" Lucy asks sarcastically.

"We're here to support her!" Jet and Droy reply.

"Wait so this competition, what does it actually involve?"

"Definitely there will be battle between mages, possibly some kind of fashion show. At least, that's what they said in the magazine." Levy answers.

"Levy, fight me!" Natsu suddenly demands to challenge Levy.

"Wha-at?!" She stutters. "Are you crazy? I'm not as strong as you, so save your magic."

"But I heard you got stronger! I want to see how strong you got!" He crosses his arms.

"Well, I, uh no." She struggles to find the words.

"I'll fight her. Since I'm new, I'm sure I'm not even on the same level as any of you, including Happy."

They laugh at this and Happy agrees, "Aye!" 'I don't think Happy got my sarcasm at the end there...'

"Okay I can do that. Make sure you give it your all." Levy gets into battle stance.

I nod acknowledging her and gets ready for battle, planting my feet firmly on the ground. My ears flicking slightly, listening to any movement and my tail wavering slowly. Everyone else spread out in a circle not too far from us, so that we are in the centre. I watch Levy, and she watches me. The rest are watching to see which one of us will make the first move. Finally, Levy chants "Solid Script: Iron!" A massive Iron word that is made up of Iron appears on top of my head. I look up to see it fall down on me, fast with gravity's help but quickly jump out of the way. While I am jumping, thanks to my cat-like reflexes, I notice there's a Solid Script: Hole trap right where I am about to land. My feet touched it and I immediately sprout wings and fly away from it as the ground collapses.

I land on my two feet while our comrades let out a bit of 'oohs' and 'aahs'. "Aha, that was clever! I almost fell for your trap."

"Thank you Lia-chan. You have extremely fast reflexes." She compliments me in which I nod thanking her.

"Hmm, hmm. That's a clever way to beat your enemy." Erza observes.

I requip into Cat Soldier armor and weapons (initial ones I stole from the shops) and run towards Levy, slashing her with my two-handed weapons. She chants again, "Solid Script: Guard!", and creates a barrier to protect her against my attacks. Then she attacks me again, "Solid Script: Stone!", and a large STONE word appears in midair and is thrown at me. I am taken aback by her abilities and got hit my the stone.

"Damn! That thing is really made out of stone!" I say, getting back to my feet. She continues to throw the STONE and this time I am prepared. I make my weapons disappear and chant, "Water Crush!", and engulf them in a bubble of water that crushes them into pieces. There are still many of the Solid Script: Stone flying towards me so I chant again "Mirā reflect!", and they bounce off the mirror and fly back towards Levy. She is hit by her own magic and fell down to the ground.

"Wow, you're really strong! Your type of magic is the Remus Magic. You can literally create different types of magic which is quite an Ancient type! Also, if I'm not mistaken, your ability to only transform into feline creatures is called Panthera Magic." says Levy.

"No no I'm not strong at all. I am overwhelmed by your magic!" I say to Levy, while the rest looks confused, "Remus Magic?" Everyone scratches their head.

"Yes, I see. Lia visualises a form of magic attack or defense and creates them just like that." Lucy snaps her fingers. "Once she names the various magic and they are activated and can be used properly."

"Yeah, I guess so. That's what I did with Bubble Shade-"

"The massive bubble you create and you float in it and nothing touches you?" Natsu asks.

I nod, "and the Mirā mamoru-"

"The mirror you create to protect you from a single attack." Grays finishes my sentence.

I nod again, "and Mirā reflect-"

"The one that reflects attack back to the opponent." Erza says.

"Yes but then I also learned other types of magic abilities like telekinesis, creation/control of water and in progress ice and also requip."

"Aha, so Remus Magic also allows Lia to learn other types of magic without much difficulty.?" Charle asks.

"No, I think it depends on her compatibility with the elements. It was harder for Lia-san to learn Fire compare to Water and Ice. She learned Water from Juvia pretty fast and also Ice is made out of water, the next easiest element." Wendy explains.

"Wow, Levy you have gotten stronger!" Lucy compliments Levy.

"Thank you." Levy blushes. "But Lia still beat me."

"No, the match didn't end properly. So I didn't really beat you." I contest.

"Hmm then what is after ice?" Jet asks.

"Earth magic and sand magic?" Juvia suggests.

"Why?" Lucy asks her.

"Juvia thinks water comes from underground and sand is from earth." Juvia explains. 'I don't get what she said.'

"What about storm magic and lightning magic? Droy offers a suggestion.

"Storm combines wind, water and lightning magic I think, but that makes sense." Erza rubs her chin, thinking hard.

The debate continues while we walk back to our homes. 'Hmm...' I look down and count with my fingers, 'Transformation, Requip, Water, Ice... Four! I'm impressed with myself.'


Well till next time~