A/N: I do not own Fairy Tail or its characters. All that wonderful jazz belongs to Mashima and whatnot. Sorry the story doesn't pick up right away, i needed to set things up first. ALL NAUGHTY THINGS HAPPEN WHEN SHE IS OLDER. REMEMBER THAT.

7 August, X777

I again looked at my distorted reflection in a water-filled pothole in the courtyard of an ancient, crumbling castle. Again I listed my features to myself so that I could not forget them. Silky white-blonde hair spilled from the crown of my head and flowed down to the small of my back, with two red streaks that had no business being there. Violet eyes were set into a creamy, round face. I'd heard from passersby that my nine year old body was adorable, though I couldn't see it. I sighed and walked along the rim of the courtyard to the hallway that led to the precarious tower that I had made my home. I kicked a rock down the walkway and once again pondered the facts that I had been coming to terms with for the past month. Shintag was gone, and I'd come to grudgingly accept that reality.

Thunk!

I spun to what had hit my head, fist glowing with magic that sparkled like a diamond under a light. What I found was an abnormally large egg with black markings that looked like claw marks. Its parent was some type of large bird, perhaps? I looked around, but didn't spot any birds or nests, high or low. I snatched up the egg and with it scurried up the crumbling step to my room. The little nest of straw I slept on was given to the egg. I didn't really feel like eating it, so I was going to hatch it. Time passed, and I kept the egg warm and didn't let things hurt it. I took it everywhere.

One day as I was fishing with the egg beside me, I heard a crack. When I looked over at the egg, it was hatching. My fishing pole dropped to the ground as I looked in awe at the egg. Out of it popped a little purple cat with a black coloring the tip of its tail and a black design that covered its left ear and eye. The most shocking part though, was that it had wings. Little angel wings. I launched myself and hugged it. "Fweh!" it yelped. "Fweh?" I asked, and then I smiled. "Then that's your name! Fey!" Fey's eyes wandered to the basket of fish I'd piled up. I roasted them and we ate, and I told her about Shintag. We got bored of living in the ruins about a week after she was born, so we began to travel.

From town to town, we began to hear about guilds, places where wizards go to find work and make friends. One guild in particular kept coming up wherever there was reconstruction going on. Fairy Tail. People kept saying things like "Man, those Fairy Tail kids get the job done, but I wish they wouldn't destroy the place they were trying to protect." Kids would say things like, "When I grow up I wanna be a wizard!" Their mothers would deny them with something along the lines of how wizards were all drunkards or that it wasn't a very stable line of work. Even though people had so many bad things to say about wizards, I was intrigued. Fey and I didn't have any obligations, so we set off to find the guild we'd heard so much about. My flying cat and I wandered towards the town of Magnolia, where we would find the guild Fairy Tail.

Once we arrived we discovered that Magnolia was a lively city, and we were excited. I asked a nice looking man how to get to Fairy Tail, and he replied, "Oh ho! Another young recruit! Just down the road the road and take a right. It should be just there." I thanked him wholeheartedly and sprinted down the road with Fey at my side. Soon, we were in front of the building. Fey and I looked at each other and smiled, then ran inside. The first thing I saw were two boys about my age fighting in a cloud of smoke; one had pink hair, and the other was only in his underwear.

"Look Fey!" I said, pointing to the right of the room, "A flying cat like you!" A blue flying cat with a green backpack floated just outside the cloud of the brawling boys. A girl with scarlet hair sat by herself eating cake in a corner. The adults were drinking and laughing. This seems like a wonderful place.

I walked up to the bar, where a slightly pudgy woman with purple hair was tending, and a tiny old man was perched on one of the seats, drinking and laughing as well. Instead of clambering up onto the barstool, Fey grabbed my shoulders and drifted me up between the eye levels of the two. The bartender looked surprised, "You have a cat like Happy-kina."

Fey spoke for herself, "I am Fey, and this is Dio."

I nodded. "We're here to join the guild."

The old man spoke to us, "I'm the Master of this guild, Makarov. We'll get you in right away!" He smiled and nodded to the bartender.

"Excuse me just a moment-kina," she addressed us. "I'll be right there." Fey let me down and we walked to a table a bit away, but I could still hear them. The bartender said to Makarov, "Are you thinking of when she's older-kina?"

He just grinned and replied, "I don't see how it could hurt to take her in." The bartender sighed and grabbed a magic stamp. She smiled warmly as she approached us and inquired, "Where and what color?" I chose red on the outside of my left forearm and Fey chose black on her back. We were now official Fairy Tail wizards, simple as that.