Erza and her mother walked throughout the village, enjoying the scenery. They had a full basket of various kinds of fruit, the most being strawberries. They both enjoyed making starwberry cake almost weekly.

"Erza, you don't mind helping me out with the cake, do you?" Erza had a bright smile when she heard that question, making her jump around with excitement.

"Of course I'll help!"

Erza couldnt wait much longer and quickend her pace back to their miniture home.

"I'm going to be their first!" Her mother chuckled at her daughter's behavior and decided to quicken her pace as well. "Oh, I don't think so Erza!"

They made their way back to the house opening the door, setting down the basket full of barries. Erza and her mother got the ingredients out for the cake and got ready to make it.

At last they've finished the cake, and started eating with enjoyment. As they've finished a sound was heard from out side their house. It was a sound of shattering glass hitting the ground. Erza's mother put down the plate she was cleaning, suspicious of the sound.

"Erza, stay here I'm going to go check what that odd sound was." Erza stayed where she was feeling just as suspicious as her mother. She cracked the door open peeking out through the small space of the door.

What her mother saw frightened her. She slammed the door shut and grabbed Erza's hand heading to another door from the back of the small house.

"Erza don't make any sound just follow me, were in trouble." Erza was quite worried and frightened to death to see her mother react this way. But she did what she was told by her mother, her heart racing rapidly.

When her mother opened the door the scenery Erza saw seemed like a nightmare. People were running, and screaming in agony, the village was on fire, it looked like a war was going off. Erza saw innocent people killed, sacrificing their lifes.

Erza heard some voices hollering out, "Over their, kill the adults and take the children!"

Erza was distracted with what just occurred that she didnt realize what was comming up to them. A mad man seemed to have a weapon he was heading to Erza's mother.

The weapon pierced right into her mother, making her loose her balence falling to the ground. The man seemed not to see Erza and left with her mother in a serious condition.

"No, mother!" Erza cried out, kneeling by her mother. Her mother faced Erza reachinng her hand out to place it on Erza's cheek.

"Erza, run away, be safe and live for me, I love you very much." With all the energy her mother had left, she kissed Erza's forehead giving her reassurance. Small tears escaped her mother's eyes and her mother became lifeless.

Young Erza's pov:

I yelled out to my mother but she wouldn't say a word, that's when I knew she was gone. I had heavy tears comming out, it was so much that my vision became blurry. I finally wiped them away because I knew I needed to do what my mother told me, so I ran as fast as I could advoiding to get caught.

I ran as fast as possible increasing my pase as much my body will let me, until I saw a girl that was younger than me. I headed my way up to her. She was calling for someone. Some boy named Simon? She also seemed to be yelling out for onii- I suppose it was her older brother.

I took a hold of her hand. "Com'on we need to get out of here, it's not safe." She protested at first but quickend her pace with me. We ran through the village what seemed like forever. I finally spotted a crate like box. I knew what I had to do.

I put the girl inside the box. She protested saying, how about my onni-san? I gave her a smile for reassurence, "Live, be strong." I removed her hands from the edge of the box and closed the top of the box. I hushed at her and walked away from the box.

I decide to relax for a minute until I heard muffled voices. They came more clear and they seemed to be comming closer to where I was located. I moved a little to peek out and right there they spotted me. One man yelled out to the rest of the men saying, "Look, theres one over there, don't let her escape!"

I ran as fast as I could, they were getting close to me so I tried to quicken my pace. They only catched up to me. I was panting and my heart was beating rapidly from being frightened and runing. I couldn't get away and they've to grab me, pushing me down to the ground. I felt pain rushing into me and then it slowly faded away while everything went black.

Erza was awoken by movement. She realized she was on a boat sailing thorugh water with other people showing horrified expressions, like they'd lost everything. Erza was confused, she didnt know where she was heading, and why. She also seemed to forget everything about herself.

Erza decided to ask someone to give her an explanation on what was occuring."Excuse me, but can anyone tell me where we're heading to?" she paused but continued. "And if you don't mind telling me, who I am, I don't remember anything." Erza tried not to sound to upsetting, she didn't want to cause much problem, the situation seemed bad enough to her.

An old women faced Erza, reconizing her voice. "Where heading to a tower, mainly called "The tower of heaven, we were captured and will be treated as slaves, and your name is Erza, you lived at a village called "rosemarry", I'm sorry to disapoint you, but I dont seem to remember your parents very well, your hair just gives it away, I only remember you, child."

Erza nodded and said nothing more, feeling emotions other's had in the boat. Soon the boat came to a stop and Erza had the idea that they arrived to the terrifying tower. The men took her and the people on the said boat. Erza was put into a dark cellar like everyone else, locked inside and working for them to revive evil.