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I walk into the kitchen as my mother is cooking some meat. I have so many questions. Who is my father? Why isn't he here all the time? How did they meet? I am one curious child. I have gathered the courage to ask mom now. She never talks about dad like at all and the kids at in the village talk about how great of a mage their fathers are. I want to boast too. I crawl up to my seat on the table.
So, I ask her. She stops the fire by blowing it out and stands there. She sighs.
"I guess you're old enough Cirki aren't you?"
"Ya." I reply.
She walks over to the seat next to me; Her silver hair glistening in the light. She sits. "Well I myself believe its time you learn about you father and yourself as well."
"I'm listening." I say and rest my hands on the table.
"Me and your father met while we were learning magic at a nearby school like thing. We were best friends and I would go over to his family's house often for lunch or dinner. I myself was an orphan so his family was considered my family as well. Soon the dragon raids started and your fathers village was hit so he left me in the village nearby, this village and went to go see the damage. He disappeared for two whole years and I believed he would come back and he did. When he did, we had you. But he informed me that his parents died except his baby brother. But, he had to go again saying something about dealing with his brother and the casualties. The next time he came, he came with his baby brother, your uncle, Natsu. He came again a year later, just last year, with Natsu. Remember, you and Natsu played by that fountain?"
"Yeah I remember." I say.
"I don't know when he will come back. But I cant keep this village safe for long," My mother says. She looks at her arms.
Somehow a thought crossed my mind that my mom wasn't telling the whole truth.
"What about me? You said I need to learn about myself?"
She looks at me. "T-theres nothing. You're normal. You're just an eathernano godslayer like me." She gets up and goes back to the fire stove. I guess our conversation about father and me ended. I shrug and let it go. I still don't know my father's magic and anything. Many of the other kids fathers are great mages who left to fight the dragons. My mother does that too and I have to go next door to stay with the elderly couple there. But, what does my father do? Is he just a coward who left? Is that who he is? I was disappointed.
"I'm going outside." I get off my seat and run to the door.
"C-Cirki!!! Your lunch! C-"
I shut the door and look down as I walk.

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It was finally my 18th birthday. My mother had been gone for a month to go to the capital to help some people there with the dragon crisis again. She's been leaving for these events more often these past five years. The dragon threat had got greater and people were scared for their lives. I sit in the living room of our small cottage. Mom promised to be back home for my birthday but it is already past noon and she isn't back. I also need to tell her about the immense headaches and this black mist that appears around me lately. The past year was weird and just after my mom left a month ago I sensed some sinister black magic near me and it felt creepy. I ignored it at first, going to the forest and just practicing my godslayer magic, specifically one of the secret godslayer arts, Reapers Blow. But now I've gotten scared and now I'm not just waiting for mom because to celebrate my birthday but to ask her what is happening to me. I go into the forest to do my usual training. I should take over my moms job now since I could see my mom getting weaker and weaker every time she comes home. I have collected a few of the nearby children's magics since I can learn practically any type of magic. I reach the tree I practice on. The Reapers Blow is a hard technique and I haven't even achieved it at all. I look at my hands which look bloody and full of blisters, the evidence of the training. I need to learn it fast to help mother. After a few hours of training I grab some food for dinner. I look up at the sky. When will she be home?
"Did you hear about the dragon attacks in Crocus? Their horrible. A friend of mine used to live there and she decided to evacuate all the way to Bosco." One of my neighbors say as I walk by going back to my house with a loaf of bread.
"Shh shh. That child's mother is fighting there right now. She's alone." Another says.
"Where's her father?"
"Dunno. I've seen him a few times but I don't think hes here."
"He died?"
"Could be."
I stop on the front of my door. What if my father had died? He stopped visiting us. He came alone without Uncle five years ago and then he just disappeared. Mom just let him and told me not to worry. He never came back after that. What if they're both dead...? I open the door and start coughing. The black smoke appeared again. It was sinister and intoxicating. I was choking. "H-H-Help" I try to scream. But nothing came out. My throat was on fire. I was on the ground in pain. This is different. Its getting worse whatever this is. "M-Mom."
"Cirki. Oh My God." I turn around. My mother appears behind me.
"Mom?"
"Oh god it's happening now isn't it? I knew it would when you turned 18."
"You're here?" I try to say.
"Yes I just came back here. Come here." She sets me on the wooden couch. "You'll just have to get through this by yourself." She looks around and goes out the door again. The pain was immense but it disappeared immediately just a few seconds later. I look around. What in the world? My mom comes back in coughing.
"What happened? Did someone cast a spell on this house or something?" I ask.
She gives me sad eyes. I was confused. "No honey. Unfortunately, you are causing the black mist. Your magic."
"My magic. Is this the effect of godslaying?"
My mom looked down again. "No. You know what? Its time I tell you." I look at her confused.
"What?"
"You're inheriting your fathers magic." She says. "You have both of our magics inside you. Lets just say your body is introducing your father magic to you and that the differences in our magic is causing a clash that will soon get situated."
"My fathers magic? This? What is it really?" Do I get to finally know something about my father?
My mom keeps on looking down. She sits next to me. "You will find out yourself. I'm sorry." She looks away. I was disappointed. "But I'm worried you might have inherited something more from him.."
"Tell me please. I'm 18. Who am I? I have the right to know right?" I say. I was angry. I literally know nothing. "Why do you and father just go away? Why isn't he here? WHO IS HE?" I stand up.
She looks at me. "Cirki, its better you not think about your father anymore. C-consider him dead."
"DEAD? SO he's not dead but I should just forget about him regardless the fact that I'm getting his magic as well." I look at my hands. "What one day you're gonna go to Crocus to fight and never come back just like him because thats what I think. Everyone in this village pity's me because I have NO FAMILY."
"Cirki please just-"
Just then something hits the center of the village and a huge noise rings. "What is that?" I say.
"Crap. They're here. I forgot. I-I lost track of time. I messed up." She stands up coughing. "They're here?" Another blast happens nearby now.
"Th-the DRAGONS?" I ask.
"Yes I was supposed to warn everyone but I got sidetracked. Or village was going to be attacked."
"How did you know?"
"I-I just knew. The dragons were going this way..." She coughs and grabs my hands and we head out the front door. I stare in horror at what I saw. The houses around us were on fire and people were outside running. Some houses crumbled. Some people were already dead. The fountain was completely evaporated. Metal spikes appeared from the sky and stabbed a little kid right across the village. I cover my mouth with my hands, horrified. I look up. Big beasts with wings flew above the clouds.
"I messed up. This is all my fault." My mother kneels on the bare ground. I look at her.
"We have time. Lets help everyone escape the village to the forests. You can fight the dragons like you do right?" I say.
She stands up. "Right. Sorry." She gets up coughing and I go get the villagers alive to head to the forest leaving any material behind them. My mother gets on her eathernano cross and heads for the skies. I look around while helping an elderly couple. This is what my mom has to deal with? I run around the village looking for the ones that were talking earlier about me and any leftover ones that aren't dead. I stared helplessly at the casualties. Pulling them out till I got back to the house and bumped into the bodies of the ones that were talking about me. But they weren't bloody they were normal. The dragons didn't kill them. I look around and then back at the bodies. I look closely and fall back. A black smoke covered them lightly. Just like on me.
"Cirki come." My mother appeared behind me.
"Did... I... do.. this...?" I say. My hands covered my mouth and tears left my eyes. What kind of magic did I inherit. I stare in horror as my mom desperately tells me to get up.
"CIRKI!" My mom screams. I get up and turn around. She looked weak. I look up the dragons weren't gone and they were still causing buildings to fall in the empty village."
"We have to get you somewhere safe."
"Why? I can help." I look back at the villagers bodies. "And-"
"You killed them Cirki." Just then our own house fell with a shower of metal. The wood crumbled. My mom grabs my hand and drags me to our backyard and into the forest.
"I killed them? I did?" I ask.
"I'm sorry." She stands up. "I'll explain later. DO NOT LEAVE! If I don't make it back. Go north and find this dragon named Atlas Flame. He's one of the good ones. "
"Your going to be okay. I can help." I say. I walk with her. She wont die.
"Stay here." She pushes me to the ground and wraps me with earth metal. She must have acquired metal magic. She then leaves through the bushes.
She goes back into the village and I see her fight the dragons. A jade looking dragon come close to her. My mom looked so weak. I tried struggling out of the metal but I couldn't even use any magic. She must have put an anti magic barrier. "MOM!" I shout. But she couldn't hear me. My eyes stare in horror as the jade dragon flings her on to a fallen stone wall. She coughs up blood.
"MOTHER!!!" I scream. Tears fall. She gets up slowly. She starts limping and throws some eather nano spikes at the dragon. She was very weak. She wasn't even well when she came back. She didn't have time to recover? Was she in a hurry to come back to warn the village? She gets thrown near me on the fallen roof of our house. She coughs up more blood. A heap of smoke appears all around her from the rubble.
"Well look at this. I've never seen you in this bad of a state. I guess you weren't great like everyone says." A voice says. A shadow appears in the smoke. I squint behind the bushes. The dragons land on the ground behind the shadow. A face appears and I stood there shocked. He was wearing a long clean cloak and his hair, jet black like usual. It was my father. I smile in excitement. He looks the same as five years ago. He's back. He looks around then sets his eyes on the bodies near the house.
"Well I guess this wasn't just a party for the dragons." He picks up a body. I stare. "It seems my daughter did a little party herself."
"D-Don't ever think of her like that. She ju-just inherited it today, Zeref." My mom coughs up some more blood. My dad flings the body to the dragons. They back away.
"HAHAHA you can't eat that. It had dark magic written all over it." my father says. Dark Magic? He looks back at mom. "And I see that our daughters magic took a toll on you too. You tried to help her when you know she kills anyone at range. You used ur magic to keep yourself from dying and now you're weak. Well less work for me." My eyes widen. I hurt my mom too?
"I knew you would be here... eventually." She says.
"Well of course. I told you that if you didn't join me, I would come destroy everything you have. Come to think of it where that daughter of ours. It seems I have to go kill her as well. Shes a threat to me and that runt can destroy my plans. Or... she can join me instead." He grins.
I stood there my eyes widening. Is this my father? But five years ago... he was nice. I was so confused and scared now.
"She's dead. She died before she could complete her fusion of your dark magic, your curse and immortality." My mom says. Is she protecting me from my father? Is my fathers magic Dark Magic? Curse? Immortality? My mom hid a lot of things. Is this really my father?
Zeref grabs her by her collar. "You don't look like your telling the truth."
"I-I am." She struggles with his grip. He looks behind the house. Straight. At. Me. I stare in horror. Did he find me? Is he going to kill me? My heart was beating fast.
"What a nice field with her gravestone I see. So she did die. Well how unfortunate." He frowned. He didn't see me? How? I look around and see something shining on the floor. Runes. My mom drew runes to hide me. Zeref looks back at my mother. He lets go of her collar and she stands.
"You know I have to kill you now. You get in the way of my plans as well." He taps his feet on the broken wood.
"Why are you doing this? I keep on asking you. What are your plans?"
"Me resurrecting my brother started this stupid Ankhseram Curse. Humanity will be annihilated if I even think of being humane. My demons will come kill me. Especially my little brother, Etherious Natsu Dragneel, will come kill me in the future. That's if this plan fails."
"Why do you cause all these deaths? Why did you cause this war with the dragons?"
"I have plans. To create something big so that I can defeat Achnologia. He is becoming a threat and a nuisance to me and these dragons. But this thing will destroy humanity as well. What can I do?" He laughs so sinisterly. "So I made demons to stop me. I even turned my dead brother into one." He continues laughing. I was horrified at what I heard.
"Why do you have to kill so many people?" My mother was crying.
"You think I give a crap about this era. Its messed up and my curse will kill them all. I don't care." My fathers eyes were red. "I'll leave my brother any everyone important in my plan in the next era hence those gates I created."
"And your telling this to me now.. why? Why can't we just go think about it again. Is this why you kept on leaving. To get all these dragons on your side and start this war because you reject this era? You are the one who needs to die. Ankhseram wanted that to be your fate and the next era will be the same to you. Who knows maybe your brother will reject the demon side of him. I don't see Natsu as that type of person."
"Shut up." He kicks her. She rolls over something sharp. She gasps in pain. I stare in utter horror.
"Its time I kill you now." He raises his hands and blasts a dark ray straight through her chest. Tears fall as I see a hole right through my mothers chest. Her eyes fall dead and her body rolls down to the grass. Zeref stands there laughing. His laughs get louder and louder. He goes down and kneels beside her. I couldn't even scream. I was so scared. He grabs her hands.
"I really wanted you to be beside me. We could've been a team like the old times." He stood up frowning and walked to the dragons. "We must go. This place is cleared. Grab any bodies for food if you like but don't get hers. She will just lay there as a memory of my past. I'll obtain her again. Someday." They clear out and the metal and runes start disappearing. My moms magic is weakening. I run out of the forest to her. She was still alive.
"MOM! MOTHER!" I scream.
"You saw it all. I'm so sorry for being irresponsible to you. I even put you in this horrible situation." She mutters coughing up blood. Her chest had a huge hole in it and blood was spilling everywhere. Tears continued falling down my eyes.
"Mom you're gonna be okay. I'll get a doctor in the nearby village. You will be okay." I say.
"Cirki. You can't anymore. I need to die. I failed." She looks up at me crying.
"You didn't. I can heal you. I'll do healing magic although I haven't learned it yet. I'm the reason why you were weak."
"You cant. Do you see your father? If I hadn't let him go back to his village the first time, he wouldn't have tried to resurrect his brother. He wouldn't have gotten that curse and now you have it because I never knew till five years ago what he turned to be. Now you have the curse. You have his immortality. You have his Dark Magic. My own daughter now carries his sins as well. I am a failure. Your curse already killed those villagers." I stare at her. This was so much to take in. "Cirki go. Go to the north. Let me be. Learn curse control because you can learn any magic unlike your father. You can change the next era. Your immortality will let you live past then. Find Natsu and the other dragonslayers there. Become strong. Atlas Flame will train you and give you all the rest of the answers I couldn't bare to tell you." I grab her hand. She pushes me away. "GO!" She tries to scream. I back away and start running. Tears kept on falling. It was my 18th birthday. I killed people. My village was attacked. I learned the truth about my father. My mother was killed before my very own eyes. I turned my sadness into anger and revenge after training with Atlas Flame. I got the power of Reapers Blow. I learned healing magic. I learned about my now famous father, the dark wizard Zeref and his demons.

The war ended and there were rumors of Zerefs death but knowing he's immortal, I knew he was alive planning for the next era. I planned on finding someone to teach me curse control. I met my half brother. I met Fairy Tail. I wanted to get stronger so I can defeat my father.

Last of all, I never aged since that day. Time has stopped for me. Telling me that defeating Zeref will only let time continue. That the things that happen that day is still fresh on my body even if its hundreds of years later.