Please bear in mind that this is my first upload and I am only seeing how it goes...I do not own fairy tail or any fairy tail characters...however I have made some original characters but I don't know the legal stuff...please enjoy the story...there is more to come...this sets up for a BIG story...feedback is always welcome...thanks :)

Chapter . 1:

The 14 year old scrambled through the dense forests of Tenrow Island, glancing back the way she'd ran. She turned back in time the branch yet she still trips. Crashing through a thick bush she comes to a stop in a long glade. Relaxing for a moment, she rests her head on the soft, bright ground with a heavy sigh, her long black hair sprawling across the green floor. Sensing danger she kneels off the ground and looks around the clearing and into the overgrown tree line spotting an approaching figure. Quickly trying to escape, she attempts to run yet a sharp, burning pain runs up her left leg. Looking down reveals a sharp, serrated branch impaled in her leg, crimson blood dripping from the tip. Gritting her teeth, the girl slowly drags herself to the bush she'd crashed through and painfully rolls herself under cover in time to sense a powerful presence enter the glade. Slowly rolling to see into the clearing, the injured girl spots a young man donning a high collared, black robe trimmed with gold. The man also donned a large, flowing white toga draped around his torso. The young man started at a slow pace toward her hiding place, stopping steps away. As the mysterious figure crouched and hand cm's away from revealing the scared girls hiding place a deep and powerful voice echoed from the darkest part of the tree line, across the glade, hidden in the shadows,

"I see you have finally tracked me down dark Mage," echoed the voice, "I was beginning to think you couldn't find me."

Slowly the man in the glade stood from his crouch and faced the direction of the hidden voice and replied,

"It's not nearly as difficult as you may believe my son, you practically radiate magic power."

The voice answered with controlled anger,

"You have no right to call me your son, Zeref!"

Zeref answered with evil mirth,

"Why, I have the right of blood to call you my son and me your father."

The voice replied with the same controlled anger yet much more power in his words,

"You lost that right with the death of my guild!"

The dark Mage laughed,

"Ha, that guild was a joke."

"Then why do you fear the prophecy? Why do you fear the prophecy that for tells the return of my guild? Why do you fear the return of the Shadow Legion?"

"NO!" Shouted Zeref, evidently enraged, "I am the living embodiment of fear, I am fear, I do not feel it!" With that a huge wave of dark energy burst from within Zeref. Ripples of magic energy spread from Zeref yet seemed to dissipate as they closed on the observing girl as if she was protected fro the dark force. As if in answer to Zeref, second after the dark pulse ceased, a huge surge of energy radiated from the trees, striking Zeref in the chest yet bending around the girl. Zeref stumbled and fell.

"I...I have an army!"shouted Zeref, obviously winded,"Nobody mocks the Lord of Shadows!"

A tall figure walked from the tree line, shrouded in shadows. The figure slowly stepped the collapsed dark Mage,

"Didn't you hear the High-Priest 400 years ago? I am the King of Shadows!"

At this the dark Mage passed out and the shrouded figure turned towards the girl. After witnessing what she just had, she panicked and tried to roll out of her hiding spot and run yet the loss of blood he taken its toll. As she struggled, her vision blurred. The figure knelt beside her,

"Don't worry, I'm on your side." the figure said, "What's your name?"

The girl looked at the figure,

"My na...name is...Em...Emira...Vermilion.?

The girl passed out at the figure saying,

"You're safe, you'll be fine."

End of chapter 1...