When I was a little girl I was told about a group of wizards who went on a job and never returned. They just vanished into thin air. Everyone anxiously awaited their return, even though it was hopeless by now. There were two survivors who never lost hope. That was twenty-five years ago. I'm sure if they came back they wouldn't know what their world had turned into. Everything has changed in those twenty-five years.

I see the Redfox family sitting over their meal, Levy fussing over her daughter's hair. Her daughter is shrugging her mom off, rolling her eyes saying she doesn't need help, taking a sip from the beer in front of her. The son is secretly watching from behind his book. Gajeel is drinking a beer, laughing at the whole situation. Olive and Talon Redfox, the twins. They use Shadow Magic and Letter Magic respectively. The two of them, and Paxton are my best friends.

Paxton sits at the bar, chatting happily with one of the visitors to the guild's bars. He has a charming, though somewhat brutish smile on his face. Watching him flirt it hilarious. He adjusts his glasses and the girl lets out a giggle. He and his sister, Lydia, are the pride of the guild, being the son and daughter of Evergreen and Elfman. Paxton uses Takeover Magic like his dad. It's gotten my team out of some serious situations. He's also the unofficial leader of our group, as the oldest. He glances my way and gives me a wave, motioning for me to come over. Upon seeing me the girl he was flirting with leaves, looking vaguely annoyed. Paxton is dense at times. "What are you up to, Ivie?"

"This and that. Not much. I was thinking about looking for a job before too long," I say quietly.

"We can go out whenever you want. Go grab one off the board. I'll go grab Olive and Talon."

I give him a nod and walk over to look at the board. There aren't many people crowding there now days. The strongest wizards are all parents who go out on S-Class requests to make more money to support their families. Fairy Tail is known for our successful S-Class wizards anyway. Besides the twins, Paxton and myself there are only a handful of wizards that aren't too young to take on requests on their own but aren't S-Class level yet: Lydia Strauss, Paxton's sister, and my younger sisters, Ruby and Ceila. The three of them are on a job now. All the other kids of the guild, as we're called, are too young to go out by themselves.

"This looks interesting," I mutter to no one in particular. "It pays well too. I'll be able to pay rent with this at least." Unlike the other younger members of the guild my sister's and I don't have parents in the guild. It was luck we were found. The guild master found us and took us here, feeling sorry for us probably. I would have felt sorry for us too. We were helpless. I was six at the time, Ruby four and Ceila two. I'm the only one who knows what happened, why we needed to be rescued in the first place. I'm not ever going to tell Ruby or Ceila. They don't need that burden.

"Whatcha got there, Ivie?" I jump when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around and see it's Olive. She's short, not even breaking five feet tall. She looks a lot like her mom, blue hair, petite features, but takes after her dad, with piercings dotting both ears like crazy. She alternates between her mom's gentle smile and her father's scowl depending on what the situation calls for. She looks out for me, keeping me from being too impulsive and keeping me from getting myself into dangerous situations from my absentmindedness, and I talk her through life choices, and occasionally force her into going out and acting social, though she tends to take the lead once we're out.

Her brother comes up behind her and takes the request from my hands with a smile. "This looks interesting." Talon takes after his father, over six feet tall with black hair and similar complexion, but has his mother's personality, soft smile, kind eyes and love of books. He and I spend hours talking about the books we've read and often exchange stories to read. Freed often brings the two of us new books he finds as well. It's quieter with Talon, but that's not a bad thing. I'm comfortable with him. "What do you think, Pax?"

Paxton takes the paper from Talon. If Talon is tall then Paxton is a giant. He looks like his dad with some more delicate features that he no doubt inherited from his mom and aunts. If his dad was a runner instead of a body builder that is what Pax would look like. With glasses. Pax can't see ten feet in front of him without them. I've seen him use his takeover magic and accidentally destroyed his glassed on multiple occasions. It makes things difficult for the rest of us. "Oak Town, huh?"

I nod. "Yeah. The request is from the mayor. They said there is a group of wizards wreaking havoc on the forest just outside. The request said they had Fairy Tail emblems, but didn't recognize any of them as ours. They wanted someone to go stop it before they reached the city."

"Alright then. Let's go." Paxton leads us out. I notice the older wizards looking at us with nostalgic looks in their eyes. Many of them were on teams with close friends. I notice Wendy looking at us especially close. She gives me a smile and her daughter waves at me.

"Good luck!" the little girl waves at me.

"Thanks, Navi."

It's not a long journey to get to Oak Town. We're able to catch a ride on a carriage, getting there pretty smoothly despite Olive's mild motion sickness. Once we see the forest we can see exactly why we were called. "This is it, huh?" Olive asks. "Well, let's go." Pax goes right ahead and Talon and I hang back. There are a group of trees that look like they recently encountered a large fire and another group that look like they've been attacked by an avalanche. Talon and I don't hang back because we're scared, but because Talon wants to gather more information and I'd rather not leave him alone. When he starts investigating he can become isolated from the world around him, not realizing he's in a fight until he's been hit. Right now he's crouching down over an ice covered tree branch.

"You find anything, Talon?" I hardly speak above a whisper, not knowing who is listening.

He nods. "Ivie, could you use some of your magic? I want to compare something."

"Uh okay?" I look at the wreckage before us. "Ice-Make branch, I guess." I cast the spell and create a tree branch like one of the ones that has been frozen over or burnt to ashes. I pass the ice to Talon who recoils when he touches it, then pulls a pair of gloves from his pocket and puts them on before taking the branch once again. "Sorry."

He gives a shrug. "No, it's not your fault. It's ice. Ice is cold. I should have known before touching it."

I look around the burnt landscape and let out a sigh. "I guess it would help if CeCe was here." My younger sisters and I each specialize in a different elemental magic, ice, air and fire. If Ceila was here we could use her fire magic to compare to the wreckage we see here.

"Can't you try to use some fire magic, Ivie?" Talon's voice pulls me out of my thoughts and I shake my head.

"Not yet. I'm still haven't made a connection with fire." When I'm not on a job or reading I'm usually studying. I specialize in Ice Magic but I can use all sorts of different types of magic, though I'm not very good at any of them. I study the connections between magic. It's a fascinating subject, seeing how I can connect the different types of magic to one another. I have a theory all magic is interconnected and if we wanted to we could find all the connections and have access to all types of magic.

"Alright." I see Talon get up and tear one of the branches off the remaining unharmed trees before grabbing the pen that rested behind his ear. "Solid Script Fire." He set the branch on fire watching it as it became a mere shell of what it once was. I didn't know what Talon was looking at while investigating the branches.

"So, find anything?"

"I can tell it's powerful wizards we'll be dealing with." As if on cue flashes of light from deeper in the forest pulled us away from our investigation. I could almost hear Olive and Paxton yelling at us to hurry up and fight. Talon and I jog to catch up to the pair, who are following the light source.

"So, what's the plan?" I ask Paxton. He has his arms crossed over his chest while he thinks of a battle strategy.

"We don't really know what we're dealing with, do we?"

"At least one fire wizard and one ice wizard," Talon replies cooly. "So we need to keep Ivie away from the fire wizard. She doesn't stand a chance."

"Hey!" Olive got more offended than I did. I can see her face turning red.

"Don't worry about it, Olive. It's true. I don't stand a chance. I've never beat CeCe in a spar. Why don't you take the fire wizard, Olive? It's not like you can burn a shadow."

She shrugs. "Alright. Pax, you take the ice wizard? You have a beast form that can outlast the cold, right?" He nodded. "Great! Talon you be on standby for the two of us. Ivie, stay out of sight. If we need you then we'll call you."

This sounds like the usual plan. Two people go on the offense, one goes on the defense, and I stay out of sight. I'm not as powerful as the rest of my team. They all had proper training for their magic, Levy and Freed teaching Talon how to use his magic to its full potential, Elfman and his sisters teaching Paxton to master his takeover spells, and even Olive, learning some basics from Gajeel before getting taught by Rogue from Sabertooth for a year. I am self taught. I learn a bit from Lyon from Lamia Scale when he drops by the guild, but I never went to train, to seek a teacher. I couldn't abandon Ruby and Ceila. I'm proud of what I've accomplished by myself.

I climb a tree with low hanging branches, climbing tree to tree so I could keep an eye on my guild-mates. I hate how useless I am. I want to get strong one day. Eventually we reach a trio of wizards who are passed out in the middle of the clearing. I hop out of the tree. I can see we're all confused. "I was expecting a fight," Olive says quietly, more out of confusion than disappointment.

"Solid Script Prison." Immediately the words enclose the three wizards in a cage made up of the words.

I take a step closer, investigating the wizards closely. The look to be our age, a year or two older maybe, two guys and a girl, the guys with pink and black hair and the girl with blonde. I could see a guild mark on each of them. "Should we just wait for them to wake up?"

Paxton takes that as an invitation to turn into one of his beasts and let out a roar. Immediately the three wake up, looking around confused. When someone finally speaks it's the guy with the pink hair, looking around at the prison. "Well this sucks."

A/N

Thank you all so much for reading the first chapter. I recently binged the entirety of Fairy Tail and fell in love with the series. Please let me know what you all think and if there is anything you'd like to see in the future!