The Enchanter of Fairy Tale

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tale or it's characters.

Chapter 9: Secrets of the Tome. Part 2

Year: X752. 32 years till Canon begins.

Cade POV:

The Fairy Tale Guilds basement… wasn't all that exciting. It had a stone floor and housed several round tables complete with chairs, as well as a number of barrels piled up one on the other and some wooden crates. The walls seemed to consists of cement reinforced with wood beams, and other, coarse wood beams placed vertically held up the ceiling, with smaller ones branching off from them horizontally and connecting them to the walls and to each other. Not a single person was down there.

"Well there you go! The perfect place to focus and translate that spell book." Gildarts smiled, as he sat down on a chair next to a table. I sat down on the chair next to him and lit the book on the table before opening it up.

"It sure is." I said with a dry tone, taking in the calmness.

As time went on, I began to translate more and more of the second page. As this was happening, Gildarts asked me question.

"Hey when you learn how to use magic how about we go on jobs together?" He suggested said to me.

"Really? Why me?" I asked with confusion, looking up from book and towards Gildarts.

"Well me, you and Ivan are the only people in the guild in our age range so I'd be nice to go on jobs with people around that age. I mean… I would go with Ivan… but I get the feeling that he'd rather work alone. Also his magic is kinda creepy if you ask me." Gildarts explained to me, shivering when he mentioned Ivan's magic.

"Well that's kinda funny you know, because I was actually thinking about asking you if you'd like to go on jobs together once I get magic." I said smiling at him.

"Woah really?! I guess great minds think alike after all." Gildarts chuckled to himself. "I'm sure we'll be a great team together. In fact, our first job could be getting those pages translated till you learn magic!" He said, laughing towards the end of that sentence with me joining him. "So how are you getting on with the translating anyway?"

"It seems a bit harder than the last one I did, just need to find the right syllable for each rune." I replied back to him, as I returned to translating the spell book. Here I was hoping that I wouldn't encounter another bad tree joke like last time.

As I continued to translate, I began to wonder what I would come across on this page. Another diary page? Perhaps I would finally get a spell this time? Or maybe it would be something completely different - of what I wasn't sure but it doesn't hurt to keep an open mind.

After a few more minutes, I turned back to look at Gildarts to ask another question. "Earlier you said Ivan's magic kinda creeps you out. What magic does he use?" I said, puzzled at what kind of magic Ivan wielded.

Gildarts tensed up at hearing me say that. "He uses Shikigami magic. It's a magic that lets you turn things into small paper dolls that you can then use for battle or other things like communication." Gildarts told me with a serious look on his face as he said it.

"What's creepy about that?" I wondered in confusion

"Because I once saw him use it to turn a rabbit outside the guild into a paper doll! The worst part was… I think the rabbit may have still felt it happening to him as he was being transformed." Gildarts explained shivering.

"O… oh… right… I see." I muttered with a horrified look on my face. "But why would he do that to a live animal!?" I wondered with a bit of disgust, when my horror had worn off.

Gildarts simply shrugged his shoulders at me. "I asked him a few times after it happened and he just said that he was practicing his magic." I was rather shaken after hearing what Ivan liked to do to smaller creatures to increase his own power.

"If I were him I'd just someone in the guild to help me with my magic." I said turning back towards the book.

"Yeah well, Ivan doesn't really want help with that many things. He normally spends time down here away from everybody else in the guild." Gildarts sighed after saying that.

Deciding to put the topic of Ivan out my head, I got back to work deciphering page 2 of the spell book. After around an hour, I finished translating the page and placed my hand on the paper and said the following.

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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

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Just like before, the page glowed a brilliant purple before disappearing to reveal the true contents of page 2, Gildarts looking quite surprised at what he saw just there.

'Well that was a lot nicer this time. Better that, than a rather horrible tree joke. Seems the founders had a bit of wisdom to them after all.' I thought to myself smiling. Me and Gildarts took a look at the page to see what it said:

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Basic Enchantment - Kaen

Enchants a non-magical weapon of choice with a basic fire enchantment. The weapon of choice will eventually run out of power and need to be re-enchanted. Refer to the back of this page to learn the technique to use this enchantment.

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The back page referred to instructions on how to focus my magic properly onto an item and give it an enchantment which in this case is fire. What I found interesting was that I didn't have fire magic, (or at least I didn't think I did) so it made me curious on how I could enchant a weapon with fire.

"Woah! That's enchanting magic! I hear that's incredibly rare, so you're lucky this book has a lot of spells like that in there - or at least I assume it will." Gildarts said in awe.

"What can enchantment magic actually do? Other than enchant a single item with fire." I asked in confusion.

"Oh… well I don't actually know myself. I just head Master say that we would be really good to have an enchantment mage as they are really powerful." Came Gildarts, as he scratched his head. "Maybe he's back at the guild by now?"

"Yeah let's go and see if he's back yet." I said as I put the book back in my pocket, before me and Gildarts started to walk back up to the first floor. When we got there, Gildarts asked a wizard nearby whether Master was back or not.

"Yeah he came back a few minutes ago with his son. He should still be in his office if you want to go see him." He informed to the both of us.

With that question answered, me and Gildarts headed to the door that led to Master's office.

"I'll wait out here." Gildarts said to me as we both made it to the door that led to where Makarov was. "I've got something to do out here, so I'll let you do your thing in there." He said as he bid me farewell and went off into the guildhall. After he left I knocked on the door.

"Come in." Said Master from the other side.

I opened the door, and I entered his office.

When I entered, I was surprised to see Ivan in the room as well. It seemed like Makarov was having a conversation with him before we entered, as he was staring right at Ivan with a rather serious look on his face. He then noticed me before turning back to Ivan.

"That will be all Ivan. I have a visitor now so you will have to leave me now." Makarov spoke up, giving Ivan a stern look.

Ivan didn't say a single word in response. He simply stood up from his chair and turned to walk out of the room, taking a quick glance at me before leaving and closing the door.

Upon leaving Makarov simply sighed loudly before muttering something under his breath. He then turned to me. "Sorry you had to see that just there. Is there anything I can help you with?" Makarov asked, as he relaxed himself in his chair.

I decided to put whatever may have been happening with Ivan out of my head and get straight to the point.

"Well a few things Master, but I think the most important thing is that I was able to translate some of the spell book." I informed to the Master of the guild. "The interesting thing is that the first actual page of the spell book had a diary entry instead of a spell." I said as I pulled out the spell book to show him.

"You found what now?!" Exclaimed Makarov, in disbelief. "Please could I see it Cade?" He requested, calming himself down. I handed Makarov the spell book in which he quickly opened it to the first page and began to read it carefully.

As he did I noticed a mixture of emotions on his face that ranged from shock, surprise, and… sadness? "This is certainly interesting Cade. Thank you for letting me read it just now." He thanked me slowly nodding his head at me.

"There was one other thing Master. I was able to decode page 2 and I saw what kind of magic the book has inside of it. I just had a few questions regarding that." I explained as I pointed back to the spell book.

"Oh! Well then let me see… Hmmm, enchantment magic eh?" He whispered as his eyes widened a little upon seeing the spell. "Interesting… Not many enchantment mages out there. You're lucky to have found this book. Enchantment magic is quite powerful." He mentioned as he handed it back to me.

"Now then you had questions about the type of magic, which is enchantment magic correct? Well I, have to admit that my knowledge on the matter is limited due to how incredibly rare that form of magic is, but I'll still try to help you however I can." Makarov said back to me.

"Well the first question is that the spell on page 2 says that I can focus my magic to enchant fire onto a weapon. Well how can I do that if I don't have fire magic?" I asked, choosing to get the most important question out of the way first.

"You see Cade the reason enchantment magic is so powerful is that you don't need a certain type of magic to put a certain type of magic enchantment that is the same as your magic on a particular item." Master explained.

"In this case, you would simply need to focus your Ethernano while casting the spell on the item you are enchanting and it would gain an enchantment of that kind. The spell on page 2 would give you a fire enchantment as you saw." Makarov said as he began to stroke his moustache.

"Oh, ok. My next question is this: The enchantment on page 2 says I need to focus my Ethernano to use the spell. Well how do I do that exactly when I haven't even awoken my magic yet?" I wondered scratching my head.

"Ah! Well you don't actually need to awaken your magic to use/harness Ethernano that is inside of you. In fact with a day or so of training, you could probably do it." Makarov then held out his hand in front of me. A few seconds later I could feel a strange warm flow coming from his hand.

"This is me doing it right now." He said smirking. "As for how you can actually get to the point to where you can harness your Ethernano, there are a few ways. Meditation is perhaps the best example for you right now as the other options are quite a bit more… dangerous."

"Ok… is that easy enough to do? Like could I do it before I run out of time to learn magic for the first time?" I asked nervously to him.

"No need to worry, it won't take that long for you to learn how to do it. You just need to find a nice quiet area to focus your body at." He informed waving my concerns aside.

"There was one more question I have for you Master. Exactly how powerful is enchantment magic?" I said. After hearing both Master and Gildarts say it was powerful, I was curious at exactly how powerful this magic was.

Makarov began to stroke his moustache much more fiercely than he did earlier upon hearing that. "Well, in all my years I've never met an enchantment mage before. But from what I've heard from Master Precht…" Makarov took a deep breath before opening his mouth again.

"Enchantment mages can be ranked into three separate classes: Basic Enchanter, High Enchanters and finally Master Enchanters. Basic enchanters are able to enchant items such as weapons, armour and other various objects. They are also able to enchant other individuals with an increase to their abilities such as strength and speed." Makarov explained.

High enchanters are able to convert solid material into another different solid material, like turning wood into stone. Perhaps most frightening of them all, Master Enchanters are able to attach their magic to the environment and alter it to their liking." Makarov continued firmly.

"They can change the weather, the geography of the land, the altitude of the atmosphere. That's not all they can do though, they can also enchant items such as weapons into living creatures." Makarov finished speaking with a deep sigh at the end of his knowledge of Enchanters.

"WH-WHAT!" I yelled out in complete shock and horror at what I just heard from Master Makarov. "Change the geography?! Turn weapons into living creatures?! How can this sort of magic exist?!" I exclaimed at Makarov.

"From what I learned from Master Precht, there hasn't been a Master Enchanter in the last few hundred years." Makarov said in a stern voice. "Perhaps that is for the best, if they have that much power in their hands."

"B-But hold on Master. Malvel's book here has a basic enchant spell on the second page! Does that mean I'll find Master Enchants towards the end of the book?!" I wondered in bewilderment.

"I'm… not sure, and honestly that terrifies me Cade. We need to be careful that this book doesn't fall into the wrong hands now that it's open. Tell me, what have you done with the Translating Tome since I used it to open the spell book?" Makarov demanded, in a very serious tone.

"Don't worry Master, it's locked up in our manor. My mother figured that I'd be best if it remains hidden in there. I don't think anyone will find it anytime soon." I quickly explained to ensure Master that it was safe.

"Good… As for the spell book, I want you to keep it safe in the manor from now on. Do any translating there, we can't risk it getting lost in Magnolia. Understood?" He ordered in a stern voice.

"Yes Master, of course!" I said back to him.

"Thank you. If you ever want me to have a look at it just come by the guild and I'll come up and see it." He told me, changing his voice back to his much more calm and kind demeanour.

"Thank you for that offer Master." I said smiling at him. "Now… I suppose the next thing for me to do is to learn how to focus Ethernano to use magic. To do that I'll have to start meditating. I think that be tomorrows job though, mainly because I've got a lot of questions that I don't think either of us can answer." I gave an half laugh in exhaustion.

Makarov chuckled at my comment before speaking up. "Listen to me Cade. It's important that a lot of people don't find out right now that you have an enchantment tome with you. Who else knows about what spells are inside the book?" Makarov asked.

"Gildarts was with me so he knows, everyone at the manor will probably find out eventually, so that's six people altogether." I said counting in my head.

"Hmmm, good to know. Now then why don't you head back on home and get some rest? I know a good place where you can practise meditation tomorrow if you want to come and try it?" Makarov suggested as I stood up and made my way to the door.

"Sure! I need all the help I can get right now anyway. Thanks for the help Master! See you tomorrow!" I thanked as I made my way out of his office closing the door behind me.

Stepping back out into the guildhall, I took a deep breath after everything that I heard inside that office about enchantments. Looking around the guildhall, I saw that not that many people were in the main hall anymore.

However I could hear some shouted coming from the basement. I was curious about that and made my way over to investigate. When I made it down the stairs I saw Gildarts in a conversation with Ivan over at a bench. I began to make my way over to them, and picked up bits of their conversation.

"What were you thinking Ivan?! You're not strong enough yet. Master denying you that is proof of that!" Shouted Gildarts to Ivan.

"What gives you the right to say that to me!? You can't even control your own magic!" Ivan yelled back at Gildarts.

"I can control the easier spells! It's just the harder ones I'm having trouble getting!" Gildarts rebutted back to Ivan.

"Well how about we got outside and-"

"Um guys?" I exclaimed to them as I made it to the table. Both of the boys turned to see me with a bit of surprise on their face. "You know that you are shouting right? I think some people upstairs can hear you." I informed, hoping to end the spat between the two.

Ivan was a bit surprised to hear that, and stood up from his chair and turned back to Gildarts, and scoffed at him. He then made his way to stairs of the basement and went back upstairs to the main hall. Upon him leaving Gildarts sighed out loud.

"What was that all about?" I whispered to Gildarts curiously. Gildarts just sighed again when I said that.

"When Ivan left Masters office he went to the basement, so I followed him to see what he was doing there." Gildarts then turned to me. "You won't even believe what he asked Master for. He wanted to be put on the list of candidates for the S-Class trials coming up!" Gildarts said loudly.

"That's… what determines if you are worthy of being S-Class right?" I said, as I had never really heard of the S-Class trial other than when I heard it from my fathers last recording yesterday.

Gildarts nodded his head in response. "Yeah, but there's so many things wrong with him asking!" Gildarts yelled, not at me, but rather in thin air.

"Like what?" I asked curiously.

"Well for a start, he definitely isn't strong enough to be S-Class. S-Class wizards are really, really strong. Strength is a huge factor that determines whether you can make it or not. Mainly so you are ready for the S-Class quests as they are really hard."

"Look I've seen Ivan and I just don't think he's strong enough yet. I mean yeah… I can barely control my own magic, but I know I'm not ready right now that's the difference." Gildarts said as he turned to look at me.

"The second thing is that he asked Master directly about whether he could be put forward for the trials. Cause of that, he'll never be put forward for a while as it kinda shows that he is too eager to get the promotion. Master won't chose people who have always wanted the role from the moment the joined the guild." Gildarts continued to explain.

"The final thing is that Ivan's only just turned 14 years old! Thats the minimum age required to be valid for S-Class. Even then, I've never heard of anyone getting picked that's fourteen during the promotion trial." Gildarts finished saying.

"Wow…" I said in disbelief. "Master refused him right?" I said with hope.

"Oh yeah, he was refused all right. He said that he protested, but Master got a little bit more serious and after that happened he backed down a bit before you came in." Gildarts answered chucking. "So how did it go with you?" He asked curiously.

"Well tomorrow I'll be heading out with Master to practise meditating. That will help me to learn how to focus my Ethernano. The I can start casting spells." I said, choosing to conceal the fact that I leaned that in a few years time, I could potentially start re-arranging the entirely of Fiore for fun. "Apparently it doesn't matter if I don't have fire magic, as long as I focus my Ethernano the right way, I'll be able to cast a fire enchantment." I said with hope.

"Cool! So where are you going tomorrow?" Gildarts asked me.

"Oh I don't know, but Master said it's a good place to focus." I said to Gildarts.

"We'll be sure to tell me all about it when you get back!" Gildarts said as he stood up from his chair and began to head upstairs, me choosing to follow him. When we got up to the top, Gildarts headed over to the job board.

"Choosing a job?" I wondered looking at them all.

"Mmm hmm" Gildarts said in response not taking his eyes off the flyers. "I'll take… this one right here!" He shouted as he ripped it off the board. "250,000 jewel here I come!" He yelled as he ran out the door of the guild. "See ya when you get back Cade!" I heard him yell as he ran off.

"So how was the guild today? Did you learn a spell?" Mother asked as I made my way into the lounge to relax for a bit. After Gildarts sped off like that, I decided to head home for the day and let Mother what was going to happen with me going out tomorrow to practise mediation.

"Makarov will be with you right?" She inquired to me, quite quickly after I told her.

"Yeah he'll be with me for the whole day while I'm there." I assured back to her.

"Well I'm that case I don't have any issues with it. As long as he's with you I see no problem with it, he is a Wizard Saint after all." She said relaxing a little.

"A Wizard Saint? What's that?" I wondered in confusion.

"You don't know? Strange, I thought you would have found out one way or another since joining the guild." She then smirked at me. "Wizard Saints are ranked as the strongest Wizards in all of Ishgar. There are ten of them and Master is on that list."

"What!? Really!?" I shouted in shock. Mother simply nodded. "Is that why so many people were staring at him during the party?" I wondered.

"Most likely yes, he was wearing his Wizard Saint robes during the party to look fashionable." Mother said laughing at that last part.

"No wonder uncle Jack felt underdressed." I piped up, with the both of us laughing after me saying that.

As we both finished laughing, my mother asked me another question. "So where are you going tomorrow?" She wondered curiously.

"I don't actually know. Master just said that it would help me learn to focus my Ethernano. Maybe a forest?" I said thinking about all the possible places.

"Well why don't you relax for the rest of the day now that you are in. It's a nice day outside, why don't you go and read a book from the library out there? Who knows you may find something on focusing Ethernano?" My mother said smiling as I stood up from my chair and left the room to take it easy for the rest of the day.

After all, I did just learn that I may be able to become powerful enough to the point where I can just stop it from raining whenever I what. I think I needed the rest of the day off after learning about that insane possibility.

Makarov POV:

"Hmmm, good to know. Now then why don't you head back on home and get some rest? I know a good place where you can practise meditation tomorrow if you want to come and try it?" I suggested as Cade then stood up and made his way to the door.

"Sure! I need all the help I can get right now anyway. Thanks for the help Master! See you tomorrow!" Smiled Cade as he left my office, shutting the door behind him.

I sighed and stood up from my comfy chair.

'A lot really has happened recently, even though it may not seem like much.' I mussed to myself.

First I find some decade or so old Lacrima that had a message from Cobalt on it for his wife and son. Then after delivering it to them, I was able to unlock that spell book. After that Cade joined Fairy Tale and was welcomed with open arms. Of course, I had to tell my children that I might be cancelling the S-Class Trials this year. I hated the idea of doing that, but it might be for the best in the end.

Next Ivan walks in and requests that I put him on the list for S-Class Candidates this year. What was that boy thinking? He's clearly not strong enough, he's far too young and I wasn't even sure I was planning to host an S-Class trial this year. I had been watching my children progress for the past few months, but I wasn't sure if any of them were ready yet for S-Class.

'There's always next year.'

Then there was Cade coming in here and revealing that Malvel kept diary entries in his spell book. Not only that but he had enchantment magic as well!

'To think it was enchantment magic inside of that book. I can see why you four were so worried now.' I began to pace round my office. I couldn't stop thinking about what would happen if that book actually had Master Level Enchant Spells inside of it.

It really was for the best that there wasn't any Wizards with that power in the world. To have power on that scale… perhaps even the Four Emperors of Ishgar would fail to stop such a threat – though I didn't plan on saying that in front of them of course.

'I can see why you were afraid Master Precht.' I remembered back to when my old Master had told the story of Enchantment Wizards to me. He said that it would be best if that sort of power was destroyed or locked away – which of course he and the others did do in the end.

Now wasn't the time for mussing my thoughts though. There was only one way I could find out whether Malvel had Master Level Enchants or not. Tomorrow after dropping off Cade, I'll have to go see a very old friend, perhaps he would have the answers I need.

And there you have it everyone that's this part done! Next time Cade will be heading out with Makarov to the place that will be good for mediation. It won't be long now before Cade learns how use enchantment magic. Just a few more chapters!

Seems like Makarov is a little bit paranoid of this ancient power being unlocked again, who do you think the old friend he is going to see is?

Well, questions that you may have had in this chapter will be answered in the next chapter. I'll see you guys then!

P.S – Special thanks to Helen Keller for that inspiring quote in this chapter (the verse that unlocked page 2)