Chapter 1: The World as It Is
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Earth Land once used to be a very nice and peaceful place for mages who were treated like any other person, but that all changed after the Great War that occurred four hundred years ago. This caused people to become afraid of what these wizards could actually do, because during the war soldiers from both sides witnessed single mages being able to take out whole battalions by themselves. There were many powerful mages who took part of that war, but none of them was more well-known, or feared than Zeref, who during the Great War became known as the Dark Wizard.
He committed many atrocities during the war, unleashing demons that he created on innocent villages. Coming up to battles and completely wiping out both sides of the fight, truly not caring who won this war just happy that it allowed him free reign to do whatever he wanted without the empire focusing on him because of the war that was happening. All of his actions almost single handedly turned every one against mages, which unfortunately caused one of the worst things to happen to mages in their whole history, the mage hunts. But what happened to the mage that caused all of this, well Zeref just seemed to disappear and no one seems to know what happened to him, he seemed to just disappear and was never seen from again.
The mage hunts started right after the war ended all under the new king's orders, as the name suggests people were allowed to try and hunt down all of the mages. And of course if they could capture any mage they were then given a reward for turning the mage into the kingdom to later be publicly executed. This caused a new profession to spring up; they were then known as Witch Hunters, people who specialized in hunting down mages. For the next two hundred years mages were hunted down and executed, almost to the point of extinction, but all was not lost for mages thanks to one kingdom. That was the kingdom of Fiore, which after two hundred years of mage hunts, decided that they were no longer going to pay Witch Hunters for capturing mages and were no longer going to execute all mages.
This of course caused a lot of Witch Hunters to either give up on the profession or move to another country where the Mage Hunts were still supported. This allowed mages to seek, somewhat refuge, in the kingdom of Fiore and once that happened there started to be groups of mages living in certain towns together which then prompted the creation of wizard guilds as the mages of Fiore liked to call them. The king of Fiore took notice of it and decided to legalize it, rather than completely destroying them and making guilds illegal, he saw the potential that these guilds had. And how with them, his country could become a better place by having the guilds take on requests from the citizens of his country, and even requests from him and the kingdom when needed or the task was too great for normal humans. After a while the kingdom set up an organization, known as the Council, that regulates if a guild can be formed and keeps track of all of the guilds, and determines if the guild needs to be disbanded, this of course only came to be because of the formation of, as the kingdom called them, Dark Guilds. The difference between a normal guild and a Dark Guild is that the main purpose of a Dark Guild is to get revenge at the main population for how wizards are treated or simply to just cause destruction, but there is also a difference in the jobs that the wizards perform at their guilds. At a normal guild all of the jobs help the citizens of the kingdom in some way shape or form, while at a Dark Guild their jobs, not so much, they will take pretty much any job as long as it pays enough, such as assassination contracts. So a lot has changed in the kingdom of Fiore.
All of this took place within the last two hundred years, which is impressive because just before that mages where being killed all most every day by the kingdom. But that doesn't mean that mages are not still being hunted down in Fiore anymore, it still happens just not as widespread as it used to be and usually only to mages that don't belong to a guild yet. Which is one of the huge advantages to joining a guild, but it also did have its disadvantages and advantages. The advantages were; like I said before protection from most Witch Hunters, being able to take jobs or quests like the guild members liked to call them, and also being able to practice and strengthen your magic. But some of the disadvantages were in some mages opinions too great to ever consider joining, the main one was that you were then branded as a mage for the rest of your life which some people couldn't deal with, because of the emblem that you got that distinguishes which guild you are from. Not because actually having magic sucked but because mages were still somewhat treated poorly in Fiore and treated as second class citizens, now just to make things clear not everyone treated them that way, but there was a still huge chunk of the population that still did. Most likely because of the Dark Guilds that also occasionally spring up and cause all sorts of trouble. So some mages would rather be rogue mages, which the Council decided to, call any mage that didn't belong to a guild, and live with the risk of being the main targets that Witch Hunters try to capture. Just in the hopes of trying to live a normal life.
So now to the present, there is twenty different legal guilds scattered all throughout the kingdom of Fiore, while only roughly five Dark Guild that seem to actually have a foothold and won't be destroyed easily like most other Dark Guilds are when they are first formed. This is probably due to the strong members that these Dark guilds have and also for their uncanny ability to keep on step ahead of the kingdom. But enough about Dark Guilds, there are plenty of strong guilds in the group of legal guilds, such as Fairy Tail which contains some of the strongest wizards in all of Fiore, but as of right now they are of little importance to this story, but trust me they will later on. One guild among the legal guilds is a very unique, not just because they are the guild that the Council and kingdom will always turn to when they need assistance, or that they almost exclusively only take jobs that are the extermination or killing of monsters and demons, but due to that fact that every member practices a very specific type of magic. And because of this they are even treated worse than other mages, even sometimes by fellow mages. Now you are probably wondering what magic could cause members of this guild to be treated so poorly even by other mages, it is because they can all use lost magic and not just any lost magic they are all some sort of slayer. Which is why the guild is called the Slayers and their emblem is two bloodied swords crossed over a full moon.
Now lost magic is almost exactly what it sounds like it is magic that was pretty much wiped out during the Mage Hunts, which makes them really rare for anyone to use. They are also some of the strongest forms of magic out there, which is why they focused on being eradicated during the Mage Hunts. And the slayer form of lost magic is one of the strongest, not only because of the power that it gave the mage, but because it also changed their bodies as well, and just because of that they treated worse by the main populace. So you are probably asking yourself okay I can understand why normal humans would be more afraid of them and treat them worse, but way are some mages also treating them that way. Well there are two simple reasons for that, the first reason is that the mage was unfortunate and tried to take on or was forced to fight with one of them. Which usually never ends well for the normal mage, which then actually probably helps contribute to the second reason why other mages fear and treat them differently, which is the rumors that are spread about them. Now some of these might be true, while others are just plain false. Of course all of the unfortunate mages that did battle with them will always say that they are total monsters and not even human, while some of the other rumors that circulate are about them doing weird rituals and other things at their guild, or even before they do a job. Other rumors are once again about them not being human anymore because of the experiments and potions that they use on themselves, which would definitely kill any other normal mage or human. But as I said a lot of these things are just rumors, and you know how rumors are they spread like wildfire and at some point it doesn't even matter if they are not true, because they have been told so much that people don't even care if it is wrong.
Now for the guild, The Slayers, they are probably on the smaller side compared to other guilds and only have at max fifty members, and usually they are never at the guild hall at the same time, they probably only ever have ten members at the guildhall at once. Due to the fact that they have requests from all over the country and sometimes even into other countries, which is quite risky, which take a long time to walk to, because for some strange reason most of the members hate transportation. One of their members had just finished the extermination of a monster den, and is now heading back to the client who requested the extermination of those monsters in order to get his pay, he is none other than Natsu Dragneel.
End of chapter
Author's Notes:
Hey readers hope you enjoyed this story I plan on making it a lot different than the usual Fairy Tail story, oh and also it is only the start of my second fanfic ever. And I bet some people can probably tell that I got some of my inspiration for this story from the Witcher, which might I add I just beat the third one of those games ago like last week and man are those game just so awesome. If you haven't played the second or third one and like rpgs that have good stories and great gameplay then I suggest you check them out. Also feel free to leave me a review and tell me what you like or didn't like, and if not who cares. So like I said earlier hope you enjoyed reading this story as much as I enjoyed writing it.
So until the next chapter of this, or another one of my stories
Digem Out!