Chapter 1
The Beginning

21 years ago year 770

Big waves washed over the ship and freezing rain hit from all angels in the howling winds. The ship was like a wooden toy in the storming ocean.
Suddenly a big crash was heard, and the ship came to an sudden stop. The people cried when they realized they had struck a underwater rock.
Then panic broke out as everyone tried to get in the lifeboats, their only chance of survival. Among these were a small family, a five-year-old girl with her parents. But they got separated by the panicking masses, and the last thing the little girl remembered was the deck coming towards her at an alarming rate. She was only five, with golden blond hair, tan skin and eyes as blue as the ocean itself, and they normal shone with sunlight.

The next morning found the storm gone and the sea calm, an abandoned shipwreck lay half way underwater, and on the deck a small girl lay unconscious, after a while she woke up and found herself alone and at the mercy of the god's. And like that she stayed, waiting for someone to come back to get her, but no one came.
4 days passed in a blur, the little girl laid like dead, dehydrated and starving, no longer having the strength to move. But out of the sunrise came a giant bird with feathers in the colors of crimson and gold, a phoenix by the name of Ra. The Phoenix saw the lifeless form in the ship, sensing that she was still alive, so he lifted her up and took her to his home.

He tended her for a week before she woke up, another before she had the strength to move and talk, and two more weeks before she again to go outside. In an attempt not to scare her the Phoenix had transformed into a man with red hair, dark skin and golden eyes. He was sadden when he realized the girl had lost her memory, the trauma of what she's been trough had wiped it clean.
Ra tried to find her parents, but to no avail, no one recognized her and her memory never returned. So the mighty phoenix decided to raise the girl himself, naming her Dawn Sunrise as it symbolized hope and a new beginning. He also taught her magic, the ability to control fire and summon wings whenever she might need it, he also taught her to heal, as it was an old secret art among phoenix. But if she ever found herself empty of magical power, she also trained in more physical arts, running, jumping and swimming. He also gave her two flaming swords forged from a pair of his feathers, and honed her skills whit these weapons to perfection.

12 years ago year 779

Dawn was now the age of 14, her hair longer and her skin tanned from being outside all the time.
She was just returning back to the small cottage that was the only home she knew. She had been spending the night high up on a cliff in order to study the stars, this knowledge was important for navigation. But when she ran up towards her home on a shelve in the cliff facing the ocean, her face paled.
There were marks of battle on the once peaceful ledge, the cottage and willow trees were burned, crushed and destroyed. And... there were blood and feathers on the ground, and her father was nowhere to be seen. He had been taken away from her by evil mages that wanted his powers. She was alone again...

She swore she'd never stop searching for him, even if it took the rest of her life. For he was her father, and the only family she knew.

11 years ago year 780

She had been traveling for a year when she meet him, a boy the same age as her, 15. He's long hair was the color of raven feathers, it was tied up in a samurai style ponytail, and his eyes like amber, with the same calm light as the moon in them.
They meet deep in a forest, and since they both was alone they stayed together for the night, she learned that he's name was Dusk Twilight. He was searching for him mother, whom he only called Nyx, a black phoenix, or shadow bird that had taken him in after he ran away from an orphanage were they treated the kids badly. Nyx had been taken away by the same mages that took Ra. In the light of the discovery that they had the same mission, they decided to travel the land together and they become an invincible team, earning the nicknames of Wildfire (Dawn) and Nocturne (Dusk). For many years they traveled and became close, very close.

7 years ago Year 784

Dusk and Dawn were both now 19, and still traveled the land, earning money from playing music, Dusk on a violin and Dawn played harp and sang. They also took jobs from people that hired mages to do thing only a mage could do.
They had been hired by the mayor of Impdale Town to capture a troublesome thief that used magic to get away after the crime. They had followed his tracks to a cave a few miles from town. Inside they found the man, in the process of hiding his latest stolen treasures. When he saw them he first tried to fight, but it was clear he stood no chance ageist the combined forces of shadow and fire, and he ran into the next chamber of the cave in an attempt to escape.
Dusk and Dawn entered and were stuck by the beauty of the room in front of them, glowing crystals in various sizes dotted the floor, ceiling and walls. Without noticing it themselves, they had wandered to the middle of the floor, and then they heard a sound behind them, they spun around but there was nothing. The sound was heard again, a crazed laughter that sounded from all around them. They looked down just in time to see crystals coming out if the floor at an alarming speed, they summoned their wings and tried to fly but was encased in crystal, frozen it time. And there they would stay for 7 years, only company being the mage thief that trapped them, until two mages from Fairy Tail came there on the same mission as themselves.