Hi there! Thank you for trying this story out, hopefully I won't disappoint as I try to fill some of Erza's back story with my own story. But before you dive into it, I would ask that you take the time to go to this link here ( watch?v=5AiSrCPvpco) and enjoy the music. Think of it as the opening for this project I'm so excited about.

Now as is mandatory (or at least kosher) I OWN NOTHING!

The last thing she had remembered was the warm sand underneath her, her cries of agony from the loss of her friends… from the loss of Jellal. She had walked for what had seemed for miles alone upon the beach that night. Hungry, tired, and wounded; she soon passed out from exhaustion. So why was this boy carrying her, how did he find her? Why was he running?

"Don't worry Miss! The towns almost in sight, you're going to be okay Miss! You're going to be okay."

"No… I'm not," she thought to herself. "How could things ever be okay?"

Erza bolted up from her bed, panting desperately for breath. "Damn, why now of all times… do I have to be thinking of him?"

She got up and walked to the window of her apartment, wrapping her blanket tightly around her. Winter had come to the town of Magnolia and snow gently fell upon the town. She punched the window, the glass spider webbed, marring her reflection as cold tears rolled down her eyes.

Chapter 1: They Call Him Jack

eighteen years ago…

"So Doc… is she going to be ok?"

"Jack, stop worrying and let her rest. She'll be fine."

"How many times do I have to say, MY NAME'S NOT JACK!"

"Well, maybe you shouldn't have kept that ridicules title then boy!"

Ezra had been listening to the two voices for the past hour, a boy and a man had been arguing in her room for the past hour. The man was obviously a doctor, though why he was treating her she couldn't say. Slaves were never treated at The Tower except in the rare cases a child was born, and what was she wrapped in! She's never felt something so soft!

"Alright little one, you can open your eye now. You're not going to get any better by just lying in bed all day."

Ezra squeaked and shut her good eye tighter. She was surprised when the man sighed and walked out of the room, dragging the kicking and screaming boy.

"Come on Jack, out guest seems to be a shy one."

"My name's not Jack!" the boy said as the door slammed shut. Ezra waited till she could no longer hear the boy's yelling down the hall before opening her eyes, and couldn't believe what she saw. The room she was in was bright and full of color, it was too much for her mind to handle. She closed her eye as she fought down the encroaching headache. Having only seen the bare stone walls of the tower, the change proved too much for her to handle. She opened her eye again and took in the sight before her, a beautiful mural of a sunset had been painted in front of her in all of its glory. Sunlight streamed in from an open window. The light danced across the painted water, bringing it to life before her. Ezra took a fearful step out of her bed as she made her way to the window. Her sore body protested against the effort, she ignored that constant in her life. It was not the town the coastal town that lay before her, nor the beauty of the ocean before her that took her breath away. No… it was the lack of bars on the window, she climbed up onto the window sill and was about to lower herself to the ground when the door opened suddenly.

"See, what I'd tell you Jack. All we needed was to give the kid some time to herself and she'd get up on her own," the doctor said as he barged into the room. He was a tall man in his early twenties, his short brown hair framing a perfectly carved face. His blue eyes covered by a pair of round glasses that gave him a dignified look, the stark white lab coat concealing his lean body.

"WAH!" the startled Ezra squeaked she fell from the window. When she didn't hit the floor she opened her eyes to see the boy she heard before. His arm was outstretched to her and a small circle of light floated in front of it.

"Miss… I spent most of the night dragging you here. I rather not have saving you become one of those habits," he said with a hint of annoyance as he gently set her down.

"Thank you Jack. Now Miss, you really need to get back to bed," he said as he picked the girl up into his arms. "You shouldn't even be able to stand as beat up as you are, you're going to need at least another day of bed rest before I can let you outside. I'll have Jack keep you company while I check on my other patients." With that the doctor tucked Ezra back into bed and left without another word. The two children just stared at each other, each examining the other with suspicion. The boy seemed tall for his age, he was a little shorter than Simon though much bulkier.

"Probably because he gets to eat like a King," Ezra thought. His hair was a tarnished silver that was messy and unkempt. Golden eyes adorned a face more suited to laughter then tears, making him look both mischievous and serious at once.

"Sigh… I've known Doc Heler for years and he's alright. I just wish he'd call me by my actual name," the boy said laughing while extending his hand to greet her. "I'm Sivo The Jack-of-All and it's a pleasure to meet you Miss."

Erza stared at the hand in horror as Jellal's last words filled her mind. "… I demand that you never tell anyone of this place… if word were to get out, then I'd have no choice but to destroy this tower and anyone inside it. You're forbidden from ever returning here again. Set one foot on this land and I'll kill your friends… ONE FALSE MOVE AND YOUR FRIENDS WILL DIE!"

Ezra froze as the face of her friends flashed in front of her eyes, she had to get out of here before anything happened to them. She reached down inside of herself and remembered the feelings she had when Grandpa Rob had been killed. A magic circle formed beneath her as she screamed out a frightening battle cry. The chair that the boy was sitting on lifted up off the ground and threw him into the floor. Ezra's telekinesis magic then began to tear the room apart, throwing chunks of wall at the boy and burying him under a pile of rubble. Ezra ran out through the window just as Doc Heler barged in standing over the pile of rubble.

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE JACK!" he yelled as Sivo popped his head out.

"How should I know? All I did was say hi," jack cried. "Ah… Why do I have to have such poor luck with woman?"

Doc Heler punched Sivo's head back into the rubble, eliciting a sharp howl of pain from the boy. "You're far too young to be thinking about that kid."

Ezra's body was screaming in protest as she ran throughout the small town, dodging people who barely took notice of the girl.

"I gotta run, as far away as I can! If not Jellal might kill Sho, Simon, and the others if they find out!" Ezra risked a glance behind her and saw that none of the people were following her. "What's the matter with them? Don't they care that I just escaped, there should be alarms going off everywhere and guards chasing after me!"

"Hi there!"

"BWAAAAAAAH!" screamed Erza as she slammed a nearby cart into Sivo with her magic, throwing them both through a wall. "Ha, ha, ha…"

"Look Miss, I know that I can be kind of a jerk but this is ridiculous," the boy said, appearing next to her. Erza threw another cart into him, again sending him through another wall. "Ok… That one I deserved," he mumbled from under the wreckage. Erza ran away as fast as she could, watching every movement she could see. She wouldn't be surprised by that boy a third time.

"You know," Sivo yelled, his voice seemed to emanated around her. "With all the magic power you're throwing out isn't doing your injuries any good. You're going to collapse at this rate, and if your injuries don't kill you Doc probably will!"

Erza continued running, ignoring the boy's voice as best as possible.

"Sigh… you really are quite a pain Miss," Sivo said, appearing in front of her. A silver and red magic circle appeared at the tip of his hand. "Now, Sleep…"