There's a feeling you get, that when you're disappointed, you seem detached from everyone. The disappointment inside, causes you to distance yourself from others, as you feel you've let them down, and that you're the cause of their disappointment in you. You feel as though you can't look anyone close to you in the eye. You feel that you aren't strong enough. You feel as though you can't face them.

That's the exact way that Ciella Redfox felt. All her life, she's felt disappointed. Ever since she was young. Ever since she could remember, her childhood was spent with only her brother and adoptive father. He was strict on them, trained them hard. He may have seemed selfish, but he only wanted to protect the precious younglings he had grown to care for. But he was no ordinary human. No, he was a dragon. An Iron Dragon to be specific.

One of his children, the eldest, he latched onto the Iron Dragon Slaying Magic he taught so easily. But there was problems with Ciella, she had found it hard to learn the Magic, in fact, she found it impossible. Unlike her brother, she could not produce even a single iron dragon club or sword. That was the start of her disappointment. She couldn't live up to her fathers expectations.

Then the next disappointment came. Being detached from society, the siblings found it hard to even overcome simple illnesses. Ciella became seriously ill, and without any form of medical help for miles around, they feared that she may die. Her brother, Gejeel, not wishing to lose his sister, pleaded their father Metalicana to help her in any way possible. Luckily, he had something very powerful that could help the young girl, who was only seven at the time.

A dragon Lacrima. Given to him by an old friend, the spherical object was filled Magic energy that could help Ciella recover. The fact as well that the Lacrima had once belonged to a powerful earth dragon, it would also give the girl the powers of an Earth Dragon Slayer.

Even so, when the Lacrima was implanted in her body, a problem occurred. Once she had recovered fully, Ciella found that she could not fully harness and control the Magic energy the Lacrima gave her. So once again she was disappointed that she could not live up to the expectations, or he brothers standard.

The disappointment only grew, as two years later on the day of July the 7th, X777, Metalicana, the dragon that had taken the years to raise them, had suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. They had woken up on that day, confused and startled to find their dragon missing. They searched, but they could not find him. Both the siblings felt abandoned, but Gajeel was quick to move on, not giving any second thought to the dragon who he had deemed as selfish for leaving them. His only focus now was protecting his nine year old sister, when he was only twelve years old himself.

Shortly after their abandonment as they had seen it, they joined a guild by the name of Phantom Lord.

But Ciella still had disappointment following her like a shadow. For four years she had spent at Phantom Lord, she had been trained by Sol of the element four. But yet, her training was still getting nowhere. Her Magic was still unpredictable, and unwilling to work with her. Her supposed mentor wasn't making it any better. His stupid French accent made him irritating, and she found with every year that passed that she was very impatient. Even when her brother still tried to encourage her, nothing ever worked. She felt as though she couldn't look him in the eye, and couldn't help but think that she had let him down. She could never live up to his standard.

She became so detached from those around her, that she felt as if she was floating away from them. Nothing could keep her grounded.

Which is why, in the year X781, when she was thirteen years old, she decided that she must take matters into her own hands. If she is to ever become as her brother, she came to the conclusion that she must go down her own path in order to find a way to come into control of herself.

Authors Note

Hey guys, so here's the first part of "Down To Earth". Here's just a few things that I've decided to set in order for this story to work out.

- I've decided to set Gajeels age from the Phantom Lord Arc to be 19, and Ciella is 16.

- I do know about Gajeels real age, so please don't comment anything about that with what I've said, as it might give people who haven't got any info about the manga or haven't read the manga spoilers.

- If I do make any mistakes and there are some wrong facts about this series, then please let me know and I'll fix them to be more accurate to the original storyline.

- I may end up making a few changes to what happens canonically, as I might find that it will fir with my OC's story. So if I make any changes to the original plot, then that's why.

- I'll be following the plot line of the anime, and I'll also be using the dub version.

Thanks guys, and hope you'll enjoy reading this story, and I'll try and make it as accurate as possible.