A/N: edited 13/08/2021
Earth
A seven-year-old girl left on the streets of earth would normally panic. After all, they wouldn't have any idea where they are, what to do or how to survive. But I wasn't stupid. I had known that the possibility of me being taken to Earth had been the only eventuality.
After all, no one knew that I could do magic, and I was needed somewhere else, so I didn't enlighten them to the truth.
Prior to being taken from my home planet, I had been allowed to pack a bag. My parents hadn't wanted to leave me without anything even though they couldn't keep me in their life, so my mother had traded a very difficult to make and valuable fertility potion for a specially enchanted bag. Into the bag my parents had packed clothes, not just for my current size but also for several larger sizes, food for several weeks, a few bottles of water with the assumption that I would be able find clean water to use on Earth, healing herbs and potions that mum had provided me, and finally the weapons that father had ensured I was trained in before leaving.
My father had traded valuable ore that he had found so that the Senior Blacksmith would enchant my weapons so that I could hid them on my person; the dagger was turned into a bracelet, the bow was turned into a ring and the staff a watch. Very complicate magic that very few Senior blacksmiths were able to do because it requires the inscription of runes to make a transmutation permanent, reversable and triggerable by another individual than the one who made the magic.
I knew that my parents loved me, and that it killed them to leave me on Earth. That was why they had gone through so much trouble to get the best they could for me, to make sure that I had the best possible chance of surviving whatever I might face.
What they hadn't know, what I couldn't tell them, was that I had wanted to be left on Earth. That I had kept the truth of my own magic from them because I knew that I couldn't remain on Tenebris. Since I was old enough to be aware of my surroundings, I'd been having dreams, dreams which told me where I needed to be and what I needed to do.
It was a rare gift for Tenebrians to be born with the 'gift of knowing', which presented itself in different ways depending on the Tenebrian in question. For some it was just a feeling, a sense that there was something they needed to do or say or somewhere they needed to be; for others, a vision; but for me, it was dreams. Dreams of the future, of the past, of the could be, would be and should be and of the in-between which wasn't quite either.
When I was dropped off on Earth, I ventured out from the alley and began exploring the area in order to get an idea of this place and whether I would be calling it home. There were large buildings, smaller homes, moving vehicles traveling along a stretch of paved road; it was a lot more advanced than what Tenebris had managed because they relied on engineering and science instead of magic like my people. It didn't take long for me to find a large sign post which announced the city that I had found myself in as being 'Gardenia', the very city that I had been dreaming about and been hoping to find on Earth once I was left here. It seemed the King had accidently done me a favour.
After wondering the streets for a few hours, I located the library, a small park and a larger park which backed onto a forest. A forest, which was big enough and thick enough for me to call home.
Three years past and I got to know earth. The library I found on my first day was a fountain of knowledge, especially when the teenager who worked there showed me how to work the 'computers' and access the 'World Wide Web'. Since my people had isolated themselves from the dimensions so much, we were even further behind than Earth who didn't benefit from communication with the universe and magic and so were slower to advance. Which had left me behind when it came to technology; I was going to have to reach out to the Magix dimension to learn their technology before I entered that world since I wouldn't be able to hid behind 'childish ignorance'.
Despite not living in a dangerous world anymore, I continued to practice my fighting skills in the forest which was rarely visited by the people of the city who preferred to visit the park. I knew that I was going to need to be able to fight in the future, and I couldn't afford to forget anything my father or the professors and juniors had taught me.
Now I was no longer on my home planet, I began training in Magic. Although I had yet to take my magic form (which would determine whether I was a fairy, a warrior, a witch or a joiner) I could form shields, increase my bodies physical endurance and had recently learnt to transport to Magix where I regularly started to take out books to learn more about the rest of the planet's in Magix.
I had also made friends with a young girl named Bloom. Of all the people I had seen, she was the only one who I had sensed magic in, and it was strong magic at that. Despite how young she was when I met her, I recognised Bloom; recognised the girl she would become, and the baby she had been. It was for this girl that I had hidden the truth of my magic from my parents, from my people, because she was important.
I played with Bloom at the park, and sometimes visited her around her house where we would play games. However, my close association with Bloom, meant that her parents – Vanessa and Mike – got me to attend high school with their daughter when they realised that I wasn't attending any form of education. Luckily, they did not figure out that I didn't have a guardian. Only Bloom knew that, and it took me two years of friendship to reveal the information after getting a promise from Bloom that she wouldn't say anything.
When I was twelve, I was finally able to access my magic form. I became a fairy, much to my joy since it meant that when I decided to re-enter the rest of magix officially I wouldn't stand out or be shunned. I would just be another fairy. It also meant that I wouldn't have to attend Cloud Tower, where I knew that they had projects which weren't particularly kind or light and I would prefer to stay away from that.
As my sixteenth birthday got closer, I decided it was time to apply to Alfea and begin truly learning how to use my powers instead of reading books and practicing on my own.
