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Disclaimer I do not own Fairy Tail. Why would I be writing fanfiction if I owned something like that?

Beta Reader: volfwildman

(Age 6)

Well, mom was able to find a job. It's as a pastry chef at a very popular restaurant at the south end of town. Pays very well, not as much as Dad's job but rather close. Happy for her and glad she found a good place to work.

I was able to find a calm in my mind after the…. incident. Still not sure why I would be that way after someone dying. Happens all the time, right? Why I should feel guilty for not feeling anything…. Right?

Not that it matters now, no point in letting the past control you. Better to move on and not let it weigh on things.

I'm currently working on making sure that the image quality of my illusions is perfect. Once that's done I plan to move on to sound. After all, if you can't hear a creature in front of you that clearly should be making noise then chances are you going to know somethings up.

Those two shouldn't be too hard since what little research that has been done on illusions is centered around those two things. The other three senses: touch, smell, and taste, on the other hand, will probably take a good bit of time to get down. It's one thing to make an image in your head or make a sound in your head but trying to mentally detail a touch, smell or taste is easier said than done.

Body training is going well too. Only so much muscle can be on a six-year-old, but all of this is for my future body. Not planning to look like a bodybuilder or something nor am I going to wrestle a person to death but having a strong durable body would be good for future endeavors.

As for swordplay, it's coming along good for the most part. That saber is great but, it's a tad too big for me right now. For the most part, I'm just going through some books about techniques. A little physical training with that horrible practice sword is helping to.

If things keep going like this, it should all work out. Keyword being should.

(Age 7)

The Bond finally happened. You know the thing that screws me out of using other types of magic effectively. It almost looked like I might be able to develop my magic channels enough to do something else before the Bond happened but luck wasn't on my side.

Speaking of Magic there's been an interesting development with my magic core. A very confusing development to be precise. Whoever came up with this magic system organization really wanted to confuse people.

After checking with my magic physician and some books on the subject I've been able to somehow figure it out.

A magic core can both develop and grow. They sound like the same thing but apparently for the magic core they're not. Development refers to the quality of magic in the core. Growth refers to the quantity of magic in the core.

My magic core is fully developed like that of an adult so there's little more it can develop. The growth of my is currently the size of an average adult mage but unlike the development, growth does not stop just slows down.

From the ages of 5 to about 17 the growth of the magic core is rapid. Afterward, it still grows but at slower levels. It's also believed that development also doesn't completely stop but just becomes really slow. It's said that after the age of 18 it takes 10 years for the core to grow as much as 1 year before the drop-off. 100 years for 1 when it comes to development.

Therefore only 10% of the population are mages. You need to start very early to become a confident mage, add on nature born talent and teaching then the number of potential mages really falls. I also assume this is the reason beings like that black dragon and dark mage are so powerful. Their magic cores are so developed and grown that after so many centuries or even millenniums they just don't really need to put much effort into magic anymore to be overpowered.

Anyway, all that confusing mess aside it appears that my magic core as only just started growing. It nearly twice what it was at the beginning and there's no telling how big it will be by the time I get to adulthood.

So much magic and all I can mostly use it on is illusions, which is one of the lowest costing magic to use…why does God hate me? Now that I think of it, I wonder what happens when I pour an insane amount of magic into a localized illusion? Going to need to test that out for later.

(Age 8)

Did you know poison was a thing in Fiore?

Let me rephrase that. Of course, poison is a thing here. If there's a king to be assassinated, then there's going to be a poison out there to kill him.

What I meant was that the Kingdom of Fiore had a lot of types of poisons in it. According to some research I did there are 143 different poisons that originated from here. If it's wasn't for the large number of mage guilds and other magical stuff here, then the kingdom would be known for poison and not magic.

All kinds of interesting poisons. The Stilling Rest which slowly puts the victim into a coma until the antidote is used. The Pale Beast which cause the victims to pale and going into an animal-like rage. The Explosive Brown which gives the victim bathroom problems.

I think my favorite is the Blue Waltz named due to its light blue color and the fact that victims of this poison end up doing a little dance before blackout for a few hours. Sounds like a weird name but considering that there's a poison call The Red Mega Killer Extreme it's a tame name if you ask me.

What is with this world and its weird names?

Anyway, the point is that there's a lot of poisons that are very useful. After some talking with Mom she agreed to help me set up a little garden to grow some poisons. Just can't grow any deadly stuff and she's fine with it.

Should be very useful in a fight. Just got to be careful with making and handling the poisons don't want to be affected by any of them. Especially the Explosive Brown, one time was enough…

(Age 9)

I finally got a bit of an instructor in swordplay. It's not anything official just happened thanks to Mom.

Basically, a swordmage happened to get to town and was going to stay for a bit. He looks like a bad Zoro from one piece cosplay. Mom learned he was hereafter he ate at the restaurant she works at and decided that the guy could help her kid with sword training. Totally not dangerous…

She's paying him with a place to sleep and food. Good deal if you ask me. He's all but addicted to mom's food and I'm pretty sure he's trying to flirt with her. Mom's got no interest in him but tolerates him due to me.

Some better good news is that I'm finally big enough to wield that saber without too much trouble. It's a great blade and even the swordmage tried to buy it off me, that didn't last long. I should investigate getting it enchanted.

The swordmage who's name I not interested enough to learn is pretty good at swordplay. Not amazing though, it seems like he mainly just likes swinging his swords around with magic flying off them. Impressive I guess but any mage with a tad bit more firepower could defeat him easily.

The guy as a person though was a very different story. Very egotistical and full of himself. Kept talking about how he'd be the next big mage to take the kingdom by storm. Considering I have no memory of him from the show I have a feeling he's not going to do that great.

He was here for about two weeks before he asked about my magic. Once he learned of it can you guess what his response was? Did he say that no matter the magic I could be a great mage? Or maybe he said nothing but started training me better?

Nope. He just started laughing at me and said how I should just give up on being a mage. Amazing thing to say to a young impressionable kid. Shame he smacked his face on his way into the house. I mean really the door was a full foot to the right and he just walked right into the wall. Just ignore the small smile on my face and my slightly smaller magic supply.

Mom heard of what he said too. Not sure how considering I didn't tell her but either way he didn't stay long after that. She all but kicked him out the door. She was nice enough to give him some cookies for the road.

Also, I'm just going to ignore how I saw her mix in some of the Explosive Brown poison into the cookie batter.

(Age 10)

Things have gone very well for me. After a few years of training and preparing, I feel like I could probably put up a good fight if push comes to shove.

Magic wise my illusions have gotten good. I've practiced with people around town and no has yet to suspect the things I create aren't real no matter how silly I make them. Both images and sound are near perfect and using them together can be trying, but still very possible. I'm currently working on the sense of touch. Felt was more important than smell or taste.

It's been one big experiment to make my illusions feel real on a person's skin but, I'm starting to make headway. Aftertouch I'll work on smell than taste. Doubt I'll need to make imaginary food any time soon.

Both my magic core and channels are coming along great as well. My core is almost four times as big as it was at the beginning. My channels have developed very nicely, I can now pump magic through them easily. Working on pushing large amounts of magic through my channels for very large illusions as well as a side project I'm working on.

Also working on using other types of magic. Haven't had that much success which is to be expected when you've Bonded with illusions. Lucky, I have made some headway with Requip magic. Having a small little pocket dimension to store things in is rather nice for vials of poison.

Body's looking good too. Currently, I have a few good feet on me and my muscles have toned nicely. I'm more durable than strong but then again, I was looking for that, so it works out. I can probably take a good few hits before it really affects me. Hopefully, my illusions keep me from being hit at all. In a perfect world, I would win a battle unscathed.

Swordplay is probably the thing I really need to work on most right now. The swordmage did help me with all his faults but it only gave me a small foundation to work on. The saber is still a tad too big for me but, I'm starting to get used to its handle. Hopefully, I can find someone to teach me better than that horrible excuse for a sword user.

Something I've found rather surprising is my gardening and poison making skills. Gardening I've found to be very nice and peaceful even more than reading in the library. Poison making is also a very nice way of passing the time. I now have a good amount of poison in storage. Can't wait to use the Blue Waltz on someone. Saving the Explosive Brown for a special occasion.

If I keep up my routine then by the time I'm an adult I'll be a pretty impressive mage. Then I can find a nice little job in Kingston and weather all those coming storms. It won't be long now, in fact in a few days it'll be my eleventh birthday. Seven more years to wait.

If there are no surprises waiting for me in the future things should progress very smoothly.

…Why do I feel like I've just jinxed myself?

(Age 11)

God damn you, Murphy…

I could only stare at the scene in front of me.

Both me and Mom were outside the house. She was standing beside looking like there was nothing wrong with the world with a very pleased inhuman smile on her face. My eyes were currently set on the house. To be more specific I was staring at the big men that were moving in and out of our house putting furniture in a moving vehicle.

I slowly turned to look at my Mom. My face set into a deadpan stare as I asked a very simple question "What's going on?"

Mom just looked at me happily before saying "Why we're moving sweetie." She said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. To be fair it was but that wasn't really my question.

"Why?" I say in the most even voice I could. There's a joke here and I'm currently being let out of it.

"Well~," Mom says with a hum "My cousin just died and left her house and possessions to me. So we're moving to her house."

"Cousin?" I say in a very disbelieving voice. "Yep," She says without missing a beat "We got along very well, me and Katherine." She then pauses before looking up with a thoughtful expression. "Or was it Kelly? It began with a K I'm sure."

I could only look up at her with disbelief all over my face. Thousands of other questions race in my mind before I silenced them and let out a sigh. Mom was a mystery and questioning her would just result in a loss of sanity. Might as well go with the flow on this one.

"Fine," I say "I'm getting all the important things packed then." With that said I began walking toward the house with my mind thinking of all the things I would need to pack.

Just before I got into the house I stop and call back to Mom to ask her a question. "Where is this new house were going to?" She puts on a thoughtful expression before say "A nice little city call Magnolia." She finishes with a smile.

At hearing the name, I froze. I knew it well. The center of many of the coming storms. I had been planning to avoid that town at all cost. My teeth are currently grinding against each other.

"I hear it has a nice little mage guild," She says with her wide inhuman smile. "You can join it and get better at magic."

Oh, now my left eyelid is twitching violently. Lovely.

Fuck my life.

Why do I hear laughter in the distance?!

AN: Nothing special. Just a few time skips to progress both character and story. Hope it was an enjoyable read at least.

Thanks once again to volfwildman for being a Beta. He also just released a new story that both me and him have been working on for a few weeks. Its called Skyrim? Naruto? Error! Basically, a Naruto SI/OC that has Skyrim powers rather than chakra.

Once again feel free to leave a review to show what you thought. I got to be doing something good since this story grows very nicely.

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