Disclaimer: All Fairy Tail Characters Belong To Hiro Mashima

Chapter 2: The First Master

I stared at the blinking cursor at the top the empty Google Docs page . I was running out of time to publish my first assignment but I just couldn't think of anything to write. My mind was a complete blank. I had spent most of my time getting sucked into other people's work. There were stories on just about everything I could think of. There were only three days left before school let out and Mr. Conbolt had demanded that I publish something so he could test everything out before summer break.

I looked at the section called Legacy User Stats under Traffic Stats.

'You are on the favorites list of 2 members.'

When I clicked on the number 2 it showed the names of the two users as Ladies-Man, which I can only assume is Gildarts idea of a joke and Purple-Fire.

'Just write anything, it doesn't matter what', I screamed at myself.

Just to amuse myself I wrote:

It was a dark and stormy night.

I looked at it for awhile and then snorted. It didn't work for Snoopy so I suppose I should not be surprised when it didn't do much for me either. That phrase almost guarantees writer's block. I deleted the words and got up to get a snack.

"Still stuck?", Wendy asked me from the dining room. She was having a snack as well so I sat down to join her.

"Yeah, I just can't think of anything.", I said with frustration, "I thought it would be easy to write about whatever I wanted but I don't seem to have anything to say."

Wendy had been thinking of this for a few days. She wasn't sure how her brother was going to react to her suggestion but she figured it was worth a shot.

"What about Fairy Tail?", Wendy suggested carefully.

"What about it?"

"Why don't you write some of those? I used to love those stories."

I looked at her, surprised that she even remembered.

"Those were just kid stories.", I said evenly.

"Maybe, but you already wrote them years ago. At least it would get your first requirement done."

I stared at her and thought about her suggestion, she kind of had a point and I certainly had not been able to come up with anything better after days of trying.

When I was younger I'd had a group of friends that I was very close to. Gray, Erza and Lucy had been my best friends and we used to be together all the time.

One afternoon there had been a thunderstorm and we had all been stuck inside my house. We were bored and starting to get on each other's nerves when a four year old Wendy had run into my room in tears. The storm had caused the power to go out and she was terrified of thunder.

Gray had cuddled her in his arms and tried to tell her a story but he wasn't very good at it and Wendy was still upset. She looked at me hopefully and I sighed and gave in,

I had always been good at storytelling, had always had what my mother referred to as a vivid imagination. I made up a story for my sister but decided to include everyone else in the room as well.

I weaved together a world where we were all wizards living in the kingdom of Fiore. We belonged to a guild called Fairy Tail and went on missions to help people. I combined my two favorite things and made myself a Fire Dragon but they all complained that I couldn't be a dragon, so I became a Fire dragon slayer instead, with powerful spells of fire. Lucy, who always had her head in the clouds, became a celestial wizard. Gray, who had trouble making friends but was an amazing artist, at least in my eight year old opinion, became an ice wizard who could mold anything out of ice, while Erza who could terrify even adults with her glare became a mighty warrior. A knight wizard with the ability to change into multiple armors and weapons. Wendy was my sister so of course she also had to be a dragon slayer but since she was so light I made her a sky dragon slayer who's magic had to do with air and she was so kind, even at that age, that I had also made her a healer. I mean every party needs a healer. I added in our cats, Happy and Carla, who had passed away recently, and gave them wings since our mother had told us that the two were now angels.

They had spent the rest of the afternoon happily listening to my story as our characters went on multiple adventures. They had tried to add their own pieces to the story but only Lucy had really been any good at it so the others were content to just sit and listen.

From that day on, whenever we were stuck inside they would eventually ask me to tell them more stories about Fairy Tail right up until middle school when we all decided we were too old for such things. It was just as well, my mother had died by then and I no longer liked to make up stories about the Fairy Tail Guild. You see, I did not create the guild myself. No, that honor belonged to its first master, my mother Mavis Vermillion Dragneel. I had just borrowed it for Wendy's entertainment. I figured if it was created by our mother it belonged to her as well.

My mother always began her Fairy Tail stories the same way:

"In a land far, far away, lies the Kingdom of Fiore, a small peaceful nation of 17 million, and a place filled with magic! Found in every home, bought and sold in every marketplace, for most, magic is merely a tool, a mundane part of everyday life. For some, however, magic is an art, and they have devoted their lives to its practice. These are the mages. Banded together into magical guilds they apply their skills in search of fame and fortune. Many such guilds dot the landscape of Fiore. But there is a certain guild in a certain town that soars high above the rest, one from which countless legends have been born... a guild that will no doubt continue to create legends well into the future. Its name... is Fairy Tail."1

I remember the first time she told me about Fairy Tail. I was four years old and I was sick. I was stuck in bed, tired of watching television but too ill to play video games or read a book. My mother, no stranger to being sick herself felt sorry for me and asked me if I would like her to tell me a story. I quickly told her yes. My mother always told the best stories and having and older sibling and another due to arrive any day I greedily basked in the attention she was giving me while Zeref was in school. She climbed into bed with me and held me as close to her as her 8 month pregnant belly would allow. I inhaled her scent and instantly felt a little better. Over the course of three days, while I was stuck in bed she wove a tale of treasure hunters and magic and two girls named Mavis and Zera and how they all together created the Fairy Tail Guild, a place where everyone was treated as family and they went around helping people.

My mother was a beautiful woman. She had long blonde hair that went down all the way to her knees. Sometimes she would wear it in two high pigtails that would make her look very young. She had beautiful green eyes that twinkled with excitement when she talked. I have often been told, by people who knew her, that I have her eyes but I don't believe it. My eyes have always looked dull to me.

She was not very tall either but don't let that fool you, she could make anyone feel small if the situation called for it. She was a very intelligent woman with a thirst for knowledge that would have her reading any book she could get her hands on. I'm told she was a great chess player, her opponents called her the Fairy Tactician. To my knowledge she never lost a game. She was always 20 moves ahead of anyone who challenged her. Even so she was a gracious winner. Everyone who met my mother loved her for she was also very kind. Even though they don't look very much alike, Wendy reminds me of her sometimes and I'm sad to say that after my mother died it took me months to be able to look at Wendy without bursting into tears.

You might be curious to know how the Fairy Tail Guild came about. This is what she told me when I was a little older.

"I was orphaned at a very young age, and like Zeref I was very sickly. I was a hard case to adopt because even though I was young I required a lot of medical attention which is not exactly what people are looking for in a child. I saw countless friends get adopted and I became sad and lonely. I read every book in that orphanage by the time I was seven and I especially loved adventure and fantasy stories, especially those having to do with fairies, but I had no one to share them with. I was tired of being left behind so I created an imaginary friend and named her Zera. Actually, I gave Zeref his name because I wanted to bring her to life in some way. I felt like I owed her that for everything she gave me.", my mother began.

"I was finally adopted by the Dreyar family when I was ten years old. They wanted a companion for their son Yuri and they were wealthy enough that they did not care about the cost for my medical needs but by the time I was ready to enter high school I became very sick and could not attend so my parents arranged for me to be tutored at the hospital. The name of the high school was Fairy Tail High. Yuri was a good brother and he would come to the hospital every day to see me. He would tell me lots of details about his friends so that I would not feel left out, even brought them to visit me a couple of times", she smiled as she remembered her brother who had passed away recently.

"One day, we started playing a game he liked to play called Game of Wits, I'll explain the rules when you're older. Suffice it to say that he lost as usual and he had to do whatever I wanted as a reward. I told him he had to take me out of the hospital. Since I couldn't actually leave we made up stories to keep my mind off of my illness, at least while he was there. Together we created the Fairy Tail Guild with Zera and some of his friends along for the ride, and he made me its First Master.", she got a little weepy at the memory and all I could do was hug her. God, I loved her.

She had died less than a year after she had told me that. Before she died she had handed over the guild and all its secrets to me but I had left it all behind. With her gone it was too painful and I wanted no more part of it. As far as I know she never told Zeref or Wendy about it. It was our special thing. I wonder now if she knew I would need a way to keep her with me, she was always a very smart woman.

I looked down at my desk in surprise when I noticed a wet spot and looked around for its source. It had been so long since I had felt any emotion that I didn't even think that it could be coming from me. I sniffled and when I went to wipe my nose I felt them. The tears that I had not been able to shed since my father had been taken away from me had come at last while I was busy thinking about my mother and her short life. I wiped the tears away and began to type:

"In a land far, far away, lies the Kingdom of Fiore, a small peaceful nation of 17 million, and a place filled with magic! Found in every home, bought and sold in every marketplace, for most, magic is merely a tool, a mundane part of everyday life. For some, however, magic is an art, and they have devoted their lives to its practice. These are the mages. Banded together into magical guilds they apply their skills in search of fame and fortune. Many such guilds dot the landscape of Fiore. But there is a certain guild in a certain town that soars high above the rest, one from which countless legends have been born... a guild that will no doubt continue to create legends well into the future. Its name... is Fairy Tail."1

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A/N I'm sorry, this was kind of sad to write but I hope you like it. Let me know what you think. The next chapter will have the actual story or chapter he wrote.

I obviously did not write the intro to the show. I copied the quote from tvtropes.org