Chapter 1: The People Known as the Magus

The wizards of ancient times were a different kind of human. They lived long lives and wielded great mysterious power. Their eyes would always sparkle as if stars were placed in coloured skies. Each of these wizards were known as the magus. A long time ago they travelled to many places taking care of village after village. Helping the normal humans who did not yet know they too possessed magic.

A man helped many villages in his travels. His name was King Zaccai, ruler of the magus. Back before he was made king he travelled alone. That was when he met his wife, the Queen, Agape. He remembered the day he met her very well.

The village was suffering the wrath of a dragon. He was eating the villagers one by one. Each night, the people were living in terror. Zaccai with his blonde hair and sparkling rose eyes calmed the people. He told them he would take care of it. Each villager approached him in gratitude. They expressed concern for his safety. He said, "don't worry my fellow comrades. I will defeat this dragon."

He took off into the nearby forests searching for the man-eating creature. His head hung low, "why did I lie? There's no magic to kill a dragon."

"You'll do it! I'll help!" a woman's voice said from above him.

He looked up and he saw a beautiful bright blonde young woman. Her sparkling eyes were like a reflection of the sky. She was sitting on a branch right above him. She smiled brightly at him. Her dress flew in the wind as she gracefully jumped down. Her great leap revealed her slender legs. The rest of her seemed to be quite slender as well. Her chest was a little large for her figure, but it wasn't too big. Zaccai, being the young man that he was, blushed deeply. She looked at him, her smile never once leaving her face, "you said you have a dragon problem? I'll help!"

"You know magic to defeat a dragon?"

"There's no magic like that that exists, but I'm sure we'll figure it out."

Zaccai walks past her. "Thanks for the offer, but I promised the villagers that'd I take care of it myself."

Her smile becomes gentle when they rest on his tall back. "I'm sure they won't mind you getting help. Everyone needs help sometimes."

Zaccai kept walking forward and did not say anything. The young woman followed him. They walked quite a ways. In a clearing they found the dragon resting on top of a pile of human bones. "I'll take care of it. They'll eat us magus too if we're not careful so you better stay out of this," when he finished speaking he turned to look at the woman, but she was gone.

She was already standing near the dragon. She was about to poke it when Zaccai teleported with magic to her and took her hand away. "Are you crazy? Trying to get us killed?"

"But I know the language of dragons," Zaccai lets go of her and remains silent. Listening to her closely, "I figured we could talk it out with him and maybe convince him to stop eating the villagers."

"You think that would work?" he asks.

"We could try."

Zaccai steps out of way. They managed to talk to the dragon. The young woman talked to the dragon in his language. She nodded at him, he nodded back and flew away. Zaccai was surprised by how fast it took her. The dragon promised to leave the village alone.

"You have amazing skills of diplomacy, what is your name?" Zaccai asks her.

"Agape," she said with a smile.

Zaccai smiled back at her.

The two travelled for awhile and made a name for themselves. When the time for a city of magus came they were summoned to lead as King and Queen. Their city became well-known amongst the normal people who dwelled in villages. They ruled for five hundred years. Near the end of their ruling they had a daughter named, Eleanor, who closely resembled her mother, she had her hair, figure and eyes. There was peace in the land until a dark wizard caused chaos in the villages. He convinced the dragons to eat as many villagers as they could. He manipulated spirits and fairies to bring harm to humans. The humans became enraged and attacked the city. The magus wanted to defend in full force against the humans, but the King told them to bring no harm to them. The people gathered an army of an overwhelming number. They surprised the magus by wielding magic. Zaccai and Agape did not expect their trump card. The magus were defeated, and killed. All except for the young Eleanor. She was spared and taken as a slave. She served her duties as a slave until she turned eighteen. She snuck away on her birthday.

The slender Eleanor began to travel that day. Helping people. She went to many different countries. She met a wizard on her travels. Her eyes gave her away, but the man did not try to harm her. He took her in and taught her magic. She lived with him until he died. She still looked young when he died. Almost as though she had barely aged since eighteen. Eleanor travelled again, helping people using her magic. She discovered many things, humans who could use magic to bring down a dragon. She also discovered that people are slowly forgetting about the magus. In three hundred years this granted her to roam freely in her home country, that called itself, Fiore.

She did not respond to him out of fear. Soon four hundred years passed and she looked as young as a woman in her twenties. She continued her travels until she came across a rural village.

She was shopping in the market when a man lightly bumped into her shoulder. Eleanor turned to him and he was an ordinary young man in his twenties. He gazed into her eyes. "They're like stars in a blue sky," he said to her.

Eleanor smiled at him. She settled down with the man and together they had a child, a daughter. They named her Enrie. She looked as identical and beautiful as her mother. Except her eyes sparkled only on certain occasions.

Eleanor told the ordinary man who her people were and what happened to them. He promised to keep her secret safe. Enrie was three when she told him. She watched them talk about it from behind a crack in the door. When they finished she scurried off to bed.

By five years Enrie had forgotten about their talk. She was a happy sweet loving child. Eleanor gave Enrie a unique blue necklace. It sparkled as her eyes did. Her mother said, "this is an ancient stone. It'll protect you when I'm not around."

A week later after she gave the necklace her mother left. Her reasons were unknown. After her mother left her father was quite cold to Enrie.

The child developed a love for magic. She would watch in awe whenever wizards would come to town. Her father always took her away from them too early. Whenever she tried to learn it from one of his books he would snatch it away and slap her cheek. Eventually, she stayed away from his library. Her father abandoned her when she turned nine.

Since then she was taken in by an orphanage with a cruel house mother. The cruel woman starved the children, made them wear rags and made them pickpocket. Enrie is clumsy, thus she was poor at this and always got caught. They would snatch their wallet back and slap her cheek. The house mother even stole her blue necklace and kept it. When she was nine and living at the orphanage she saw something that made her curious about magic again.

She was running from pickpocketing a man when she stumbled into a newspaper stand. One flew down to where she lay. She got up and the first thing she saw was a headline. It read, "Fairy Tail Members go missing at Tenrou Island."

"Fairy Tail?" she asked herself.

The man she stole from grabbed her rags and lifted her into the air. "You brat! I'll teach you a lesson!"

The newspaper merchant put his hand on the man. The merchant was a brittle old man. The man turned to him with a scowl, "what?!"

"The child is still learning. Soon she'll see that there is always another way of living," the old man said.

The angry man sighed and let Enrie down. The child bowed to the old man, the old man nodded his head at her. Before she left she asked, "what is Fairy Tail?"

"A mage's guild," the man said with a smile, "they are said to be like family."

"Like family?"

The old man waved goodbye. Enrie ran off toward the orphanage. "Family," she whispered quietly to herself.

She lived at the orphanage for seven more years. When she turned sixteen she left. Wearing nothing more than rags and the necklace that she secretly took back from the house mother. Enrie looked back at the village only once. She stood at the edge of the village and waved goodbye. Then with a bright smile she took off. Heading towards Fairy Tail.

Enrie laid in the street of a small town. Her stomach is rumbling loudly. "Uhhhh... so hungry…" she said to herself, "I don't have any money. Maybe I should have taken some from that hag."

Her stomach rumbles again. She tries to move but falls down. Her body starts twitching and she is making a weird face. A nobleman approaches her. "Miss, are you alright?" he asks.

She looks up at him with tears in her eyes. "I'm way too hungry," she says.

The nobleman laughs, "I see, well I have plenty of food at my house," he picks her up short slender body in his arms, "I'll feed you little miss."

He takes her to a glorious mansion. She stares in awe, mouth gaping open. Drool goes down her chin. The nobleman laughs again, "you are a funny one little miss."

He takes her inside and calls for a maid. An older woman in uniform approaches them. "Aisla, we have a weary traveller."

The maid bows. She takes Enrie in her arms and carries her to the kitchen. The maid feeds the girl roast beef, soup, and bread. When Enrie is done eating the maid glares, "who are you young one?"

Enrie flinches, "just a passing traveller."

"We fed you and you won't tell us your name?"

"M-my name is Enrie."

"Any last name?"

"I've long forgotten it."

"I see."

Enrie smiles at the older woman, "thanks for feeding me! I will never forget your kindness."

The maid smiles gently at her. Enrie looked around the kitchen then an idea struck her. She stood up grinning at the older woman, "can I become a maid here?!"

"A what? Why? We have no openings," she told Enrie.

"Please! I need money to get there!"

"To where?"

"To Fairy Tail!"

The maid laughs, "Fairy Tail is dead. Their core members may be back, but they have been away for seven years. Their strength has dwindled. Why would you want to go there and not Sabertooth?"

"Because, I want a family," Enrie said with a downcast gaze.

The maid pats her on the shoulder, "well, I'll ask the Master."

Enrie gives Aisla a big hug. "I can't believe I'll be able to go there," she says with a big smile.

Enrie was so happy that her eyes for a brief moment sparkled. The maid got a glimpse of it. She rubbed her eyes, the sparkles in Enrie's eyes were gone. Aisla shrugged it off and left to ask the Master. He allowed for Enrie to become a maid. Thus, Enrie began her days working for the Carter Household.

Author's Note: I daydreamed and imagined this story and fell in love with it. So I decided I couldn't wait to write it!