Hi everyone! This is my first fanfiction, so I hope you enjoy it as the story continues to unfold.

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DISCLAIMER: I in no way own any of the MAGI characters.

"Mama!"

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"Mama!"

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When there was no reply the sound of small fists desperately banging on the wooden door echoed throughout the one roomed shack. The older brown haired women, who was leaning against the door for support, could feel the tiny thuds reverberate though her back. Fresh, hot tears that she had been trying to hold in then suddenly broke free of her emerald orbs. Right as she was about to throw open the door and embrace her little girl once more, the dark outline of a figure appeared in room.

"Tsk, tsk Eliza," a smooth baritone warned, "Opening that door would not be part of our deal. And you know exactly what happens when you break your part of the deal, don't you?"

"But she's only ei-"

"A deal, is a deal."

As much as every fiber in Eliza's being told her that this was wrong, the women could not bring herself to turn the knob. There was the fear that if she did then Al-Thamen would go after her daughter's life next.

"Delphine. I want you to leave and never come back! Do you hear me?! I hate you. Ever since the day you had been born my life became hell! I wish you were never born. So just leave, and never come back!" Eliza screamed, her voice cracking as sobs threatened to break though the facade.

The other side of the door suddenly became overwhelmingly silent.

As the words of her mother sank in Delphine, Eliza's eight-year-old daughter, had sunk to the ground. Her topaz orbs that had been wide with shock then closed as tear after tear began to fall. Unlike her mother's tears though, Delphine's tears were accompanied by hysterical sobs and cries for her mother.

For what seemed like hours the tears went on. They did not stop when dawn fell, nor did they yield when the Moon was perched high in the sky. Finally, when daybreak came did they recede. With legs stiff from remaining perched on the dirt floor all night Delphine slowly stood up.

Only to fall back over once more from exhaustion and lack of water.

When Eliza was sure that Delphine was out, she opened the door and fell to her knees. Cradling her daughter one last time Eliza watched as a horse drawn wagon slowly approached her home from down the street. Within seconds it had stopped in front of the duo and a man wearing a large black cowboy hat stepped off the wagon. It was too low to see his face, but Eliza could make out the blood red eyes that glowed from underneath.

Steadily he walked over and hovered over the mother and daughter duo. The man seemed to be observing them from under the rim of his hat.

"This's her," He stated with a southern drawl, "That girl with the topaz eyes."

Without a warning the man then reached down and tore Delphine away from her mother's grasp. No words were spoken as the man placed the girl in the back of his wagon, hopped in and then drove off.

Thanks for reading!

Hope to see you around next chapter (whenever that will be-probably soon)