A/N: Hello there, everyone! This will be my first Fairy Tail fanfic! DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairy Tail and any of the characters inside of it, I only own my character, Charlotte. Alrighty then, got that out of the way. You may see me refer to my story as "ACE" in some later chapters. A: A. C: Child's. E: Enchantment. Now that's cleared up. Let's start the story now, yes?

People say that life sucks. Isn't that true? I would know. I was born into a very, very poor family, then I was stripped from my parents and siblings and thrown into a prison because of my hair color. A little discriminant, huh? Their reason was "All strange-haired children shall be taken into custody." That didn't really clear things up, it was pretty much the same sentence I said above. I was checked on every day for six years, until they believed I was "capable of going into the outside world without causing destruction". I didn't quite understand this, at the age of 10, but I soon found out that they believed I had magic powers.

Hah, me?

I don't think so.

My family was a line of no-magic defects, whereas pretty much everyone else in the world could summon some people, or make something out of thin air, or shoot stuff from their hands. I wasn't jealous of those who dwelled in the land of magic, no, I pitied them. I pitied them because they always seemed to be the one getting hurt, getting mixed up in things they shouldn't be getting mixed up in. I liked to be hidden in the crowd. I was an NPC, when all the magic holders played in their fun little world called life.

If only I could have told the guards that when I was taken away. Maybe they would have let me go back to my family, my home, my life. Nah, they were cruel. They hooked me up to wires every day, shocking me for no apparent reason. Then they would crowd around a steel podium that had flashy lights on it, gasping and pressing things. They would then call for another person, and that person would mess with the podium, shocking me once again, while the flashy lights continued to freak them out.

Well, that was all behind me. I will never change my mind about the magicians and how they lived their life. We were separate people, players and non-players.

So, I moved away from the child abuse center into a new town, Magnolia. Of course, I didn't know that Magnolia was home to one of the most powerful guilds. I thought that Magnolia was a small town with a good economy and a nice range of products and trade with no magic people. How wrong I was.

I got a small apartment next to a river where men would row their boats down with cargo behind them. They would shout to me every time I passed by, telling me to "watch out" and "be careful". I ignored them. Then, some blonde moved in next to me and caused a racket every night. She would scream things like, "Gate of the Bull! I open thee!" so I guessed she was dwelled in the magic world, and was just dropping by the town for a while.

Then many months past. More yelling and screaming, "I open thee!" and more and more and more. There was a male voice that came once and a while but it left quickly after the blonde yelled some more. I realized that she was here to stay. One day, I went outside in the morning to get some fresh air after a nice, relaxing bath and she was out there with some red-haired chick. They saw me and stared at me for a long time, looking me up and down and then whispering to each other.

Finally, one of them came up to me and asked me if I knew a guy by the name of Natsu. I replied, "Who the hell is that?" They never talked to me again. I guess this guy was pretty important because I heard the name once again when I was passing through the market street.

"I heard that Natsu and Happy returned from a job just yesterday!"

I was starting to get curious about this Natsu character. He sounded pretty famous to the Magnolia townspeople. After that, I would hear other people chatting away about Natsu in the streets. More and more often I would hear the name.

"Natsu, Erza, Lucy and Gray all went out on a job together! I heard they kicked ass!"

"Natsu and Happy are such a great team!"

"Natsu is so cool!"

"Natsu is this!"

"Natsu is that!"

I was getting pissed off. The curiosity was building up in my stomach and was eating the protective layer off of it. Soon the curiosity would make a hole right through my stomach and sizzle right through my intestines. I had to find out who this guy was. I asked the nearest person where I could meet Natsu, and he said,

"Oh, are you a fan? Meet him at Fairy Tail, of course ~chichi. But, I think he's off on a job at the moment, yes ~chichi?"

I was confused about the ~chichi at the end, but I didn't really think about it. I headed off to Fairy Tail, the guild.

When I got there, everyone inside of it was mixed up in a heated fight. A lady with white hair was standing behind a bar table smiling, with a small old man sitting on the counter, also smiling. I inched my way over to the two.

"Hi, you're Fairy Tail, correct?"

"I am not Fairy Tail. We are part of the Guild: Fairy Tail. Would you like to join, miss?" The old man grinned.

"No, no…I don't have magic. I was just wondering, who is the person everyone keeps talking about, by the name of Natsu?" I asked with my eyebrow raised.

"NATSU!" The man exclaimed. "He's a crazy brat that causes destruction on every job that he takes! He's got freaky, spiky, pink hair and wears a white scarf. His full name is Natsu 'Salamander' Dragneel, he's a Dragon Slayer, and he slayed Igneel, who took him in as a child and trained him."

"Dragon Slayer, you say?"

"Yes! We have two others here, Gajeel and Wendy. Gajeel slayed Metalicana and Wendy slayed Grandeen. They're very powerful and hate to lose!" The man was grinning even wider now, as if he couldn't stop. I smiled too, the curiosity finally relaxing in my stomach. I wanted to meet this Dragon Slayer.

Speak of the devil.

A group of seven walked in through the guild's doors. The red-haired lady I saw before, my annoying blonde neighbor, a young man with bluish-black hair, a girl with dark blue hair, two cats (one blue, one white), and a pink haired young man. The pink haired one was laughing his head off as the red-haired lady was grinning.

Finally, Mister Pink stopped laughing and looked up at me and made complete eye-contact. We stared for what seems like eternity, our eyes locked on each other and we didn't seem to know how to break away from the trance. He took one step forward, still looking at me, and then another. More and more until we were only a foot away. He choked on his words for a second, but managed to get them out.

"Who are you?"

I tried to force myself to respond, a burning sensation danced across my face. My ears were getting hot and I opened my mouth, but no words came out. The man behind me chuckled and embarrassed me even more, if possible.

"She came here by herself asking about you! She said she heard your name lots of times on the streets and she got curious."

Natsu. So this was him. From what I've heard from others he was amazing, but he was even more amazing in the flesh. His eyes kept staring at me and I had no other choice but to look back. His face was getting a little red, and he was the first to break the eye contact. He rubbed his left arm and looked up at me again, and finally spoke.

"So… um, are you a mage like everyone else in the guild?"

"No. No one in my family has ever acquired magic…and even if they tried none of them had enough potential."

His eyes showed disbelief. He shook his head and pulled out a flyer from his pocket.

"Everyone can learn magic." He handed the flyer to me. "We have a program here at Fairy Tail that teaches people how to learn magic. The program takes two months and costs…let's see…350 dollars."

I was taken aback by the price. I couldn't afford that on top of my rent and trying to get food and supplies for myself. But for some reason, the whole illusion I made for myself about looking down on the mages completely disappeared when someone actually introduced me to magic. I was so tempted to do the program, but alas, I couldn't.

"I'm sorry, I can't afford that."

Natsu had a glint of hurt in his eyes. He looked at the flyer in my hands then shoved his hand in his pocket. He was fishing around for something. Then suddenly, he pulled out a couple greens and put them in my hand. I stared at the money, counting 350.

"I'll pay for it."

The war going on around us stopped and everyone stared at us. I was utterly embarrassed, first getting introduced by someone else to Natsu, then having an awkward staring contest with him, then getting paid to acquire magic. What else could happen?

I shouldn't have asked that.

"Aww"s and "ooh"s broke out from the guild members. Some girl was glaring at me from the crowd, she had the same white hair as the lady behind the bar table. I heard whispers like:

"Natsu has a crush!"

"They look so cute together!"

"They llllllllike each other."

Natsu took a deep breath to try to calm the redness spreading across his face. I smiled and put the money in the flyer. I bowed to him gratefully.

"What are you bowing for? Get back up!"

I was shocked by his reaction, and I looked up to see him covering his face. Natsu finally took his hands away from his face and looked at me. I smiled and straightened myself back up. I didn't want to say "thank you" because it was so plain and had no emotion and meaning to it. I walked up and hugged him. My face was against his hot ears and his was against mine. He whispered to me:

"You said your family never acquired magic, right? Well, you can be the first."