Chapter 40- The girl with no Soul

"It was 498 years ago. I was an ordinary girl living on Earthland. I wasn't a magic user. Not a magic bone in my body. I always envied those with magic, they got all the attention, they had all the fun. I wished so much to be like them, I cried myself to sleep every night praying that the non-existent god would smile down upon me and grant me powers above everyone else.

Back in those days, my parents were arranging my marriage to some 'gentleman' I'd never met before. I wasn't overly fund of my parents and that wasn't helping, and like every other teenager I felt as if they could never understand me, no one could. I just wanted to run away because I knew I wouldn't regret leaving that place and those people behind.

I was so unhappy with my life that I began to train like crazy. I decided I didn't need to be a wizard to be strong, one day I hoped that I'd be strong enough to leave town on my own and join a guild somewhere. The day I was decided it, I was walking home with my head down just thinking about things. It was that day also that I was kidnapped by a group of men. They were wizards, but the kind that didn't have magic but carried magic items with them. They took me away through the anima to another world. To Edolas. In Edolas the men who had kidnapped me sold me to a man and his wife as a slave. I had no escape, and even if I did, I had nowhere to go. But still in secret I trained everyday thinking, 'at least I'm not being forced into marriage.' But I was a fool to think so soon, the man who owned me began to rape me when his wife wasn't home and forbid me to say a word to her or he'd abuse me. But one day, his wife came home unexpectedly and caught him in the act. Of course, she thought it was my fault, that I'd seduced him or something stupid like that, she abused me for a while and then eventually threw me out of the house.

I was still bound to that couple though so I sat outside a while peering over the fence expecting to see something greener on the other side. And that's when I saw her and she spotted me, Eleanor, the 'maid' of the neighbouring family. Same nonchalant expression and maid dress she wears today. She saw me out in the cold and offered me the warm scraps of her family's meal. I didn't accept, however although we had a friendship from that day forward." recounted Souless.

Next Virgo spoke, "I had a harsh family to serve as well. Twins, and an abusive mother and father. There was one day that we saw hope though. The young Prince was travelling through the village one day, by chance, because no Royals went through a village rough and dirty like ours unless the main roads were closed like they were. One of the twins ran out onto the road that morning and almost got run over by his carriage, but I came and pulled him out of the way before he was hit. My masters came of the house and started yelling at me for almost getting their son killed, until they spotted the Prince."

"But I'd seen enough," said Loke.

"You were the Prince!?" exclaimed Lucy,

"Yes, I was. And you are a Princess, so I think it must just be fated!" Loke flirtaceously added.

"You irritate me!" growled Sting.

"Just continue the story!" yelled Lucy breaking them apart.

"So when I got the chance and my men had fallen off a cliff-" began Loke,

"WHAT!?"

"It was a tragic accident I swear! Luckily, I was a lone survivor." he continued, "Continuing… Long story short I went back for Virgo after seeing how she was being treated and took her to this shack of a hideout on the outskirts of the village away from that family and the watchful eye of the law. The owner of this little shack was Zeref. He was a kind and generous person living alone for some unknown reason. He often used to spend his time developing some kind of medicine we eventually found out to be a medicine that allowed magic users to use magic in Edolas. He agreed to help me with saving the slaves. Virgo told me about Nina and Zeref and I agreed to go back and get her to. Soon the four of us living in the little shack turned into a whole community of other slaves we found being mistreated in that village. Even if I begged the law to leave these people alone, father still would enforce slave laws and if you're not the King, your opinions don't even matter. So we lived in our own little community which grew in population by the day, luckily as Prince I had so many connections that I could illegally supply and support everyone. Eventually law enforcements caught on and came after us, thanks to the same connections that also supported us. He knew they would also bring as down as well. After I pleaded my case on their and my behalf, the King, my own father, was disgusted and disowned me. As punishment for the rebellion against slavery he sentenced us all to death." Loke finished.

"Preparation for the gallows was made. We were all taken into custody by the law except Zeref who escaped the first night of our imprisonment. I understood he couldn't free all of us without the guards finding out, but he abandoned us. He said he was going to complete his medicine and come back for us. The next days we were lined up to be hung and he wasn't showing. We had acknowledged we were done for and waited for our evident deaths. Luckily no lives were lost that day. Zeref came back. He said he finally completed his medicine and that he now had the magic to save us all…. But he also said it would come with a price. It was pay the price or the sacrifice of hundreds of onlookers and all enforcements. Back then he really valued life. So of course, we paid the price. As you know, Zeref is a very powerful user of both living and death magic. There is also evidence of a celestial type magic. He created a magic circle around us, chanting some kind of ancient spell about something to do with the stars which is why I suspected celestial magic. The circle divided us slaves and the rest of the people and Zeref. He said he couldn't come with us and that he was sorry it came to this. I began to see what was happening, the circle was sealing us off away from the world. But I admit, I was in love with Zeref, and at the time he meant everything to me. Being in a world sealed away from him, I couldn't take it. When he performed the last part of the spell I had stepped out of the circle with one foot, I changed my mind, I wanted to be with him even if it meant death, I just wanted one more second with him. The small time we had spent living together wasn't enough. I found myself being torn between the world known as Edolas and the world being created as a seal, the Celestial World. Because of this, I began to die, slowly withering away in front of the man I loved. He told me there was only one way to make me live, although he didn't know what would happen next. He reached into my chest, and pulled out a white orb. It was my soul. He told me I was now immortal as long as my soul was alive and is his care. But what happened next was what hurt me the most. I don't exactly know what happened, but I felt like I was being ripped apart. I woke up partially healed in the celestial world, because my soul was still human and the rest of me is spirit. Of course, the injuries that couldn't heal in the celestial world didn't matter anyway, because I was immortal, just like every other spirit." said Nina.

"And so it is said that on that day, when the Celestial Spirit World was sealed away from all other realms, Zeref had created the thirteen golden keys of the zodiac and the silver keys of the constellations. The rest of the development of the Celestial World is unknown. We never quite understood how we gained our powers or how some of us grew mermaid tails, or lion's ears, or scorpion tails, it just happened according to the laws of the World. It is rumored that Zeref scattered the keys throughout Earthland for Celestial wizards to find and unlock the gate to the Celestial World for each now spirit. So in the end, we still ended up as slaves. Only this time, some of us were lucky enough to have a friend like our master, Princess." concluded Virgo.

"But I didn't have a key…" continued Nina, "I was the lost key not even the wizards hadn't heard about. I was known only to the Celestial Spirits that come and go. I had to eventually gain enough strength to open my gate on my own will which wasn't supposed to possible when a spirit doesn't have a contract with a human, but considering I was half human, the rules bend for me a bit. But every time I summon myself I had no clue where I was. Then about a year ago, I had finally had enough strength to remain on Earthland for as long as I wanted as long as I didn't get myself injured. I began to seek Zeref in desperation to have my soul returned to I didn't have to keep returning to the Celestial World."

"And that's we she met me." added Rena, "Because I know everything, I found out about the war between Grimiore Heart and Fairy Tail. We waited a whole seven years and then some to track down Juvia Lockser after Meredy Milkovich to get information on Zeref. When we came after fairy Tail with Silence, we had no intention of really hurting anyone. We just wanted what we were looking for. In fact, Silence was once a very good independent guild until Nirvana. I never told anyone because I am a neutral being who isn't supposed to take sides, but Nirvana was actually the thought projection of her 'sister' Naturi. Naturi's thought projection became dangerous when it started to evolve into an independent soul. This was thought to be impossible, but if the caster isn't careful, things can take unpredictable turns even unexplainable by the laws of magic, much like Nina's soul being taken by Zeref. When the thought projection went haywire, it managed to fuse itself with the Nirvana magic, trying to use the body as a container for the extreme power. Somehow, it was successful and she began using her incredible magic for changing light to dark but never dark to light. That was where the fault in Silence lie. Nirvana then began bringing in dark wizards in order to create the strongest guild to begin creating some sort of empire. But she under estimated Fairy Tail and was eventually killed." said Rena.

"And that's how we are all where we are today." explained Nina.

So I hope that made sense for everyone,

I also hope it wasn't too far-fetched but I figured, "Hey, its Fairy Tail, nothing is too far-fetched for Fairy Tail."

So give me your thoughts and review?

Thanks everyone for reading!

~Hermit!