(12 years ago)

7 year old Minerva appeared in the forest holding baby Mercedes in her arms. Mercedes was cringing and Minerva held her tightly trying to calm her. As Minerva was on her knees holding her little sister she felt a heavy presence behind her and looked over her shoulder to see her father standing there, glaring down at her. Out of fear Minerva turned around but was still holding her sister in her arms and started pleading.

"Father, please! Don't kill her!"

Gemma just glared down at her but then to Minerva's surprise he didn't say anything or strike her like he would always do if she pleaded him for anything. Still feeling the need to plead him she went on.

"Please spare her, Father! I'll do anything! Let her live!"

Gemma just put a hand on his beard as if he was in deep thought then spoke.

"Since you showed another sign of your magic I will spare your sister, but if you show any affection to her, I will kill her in front of you."

Minerva lowered her head but if that meant her sister would be spared and be given a chance of life then she will do as her father says.

"I understand, Father."

With that Gemma walked on and Minerva followed with baby Mercedes in her arms. It wasn't before night time that Gemma had Minerva to wait in a shack with her sister who was awake but wasn't crying.

Elsewhere

A servant that had worked in the Orlando home was holding baby Mynosyne who was crying in her arms. She was trying to calm her down then she froze when she saw Gemma coming towards her.

"Master..."

Gemma glared at the servant and at Mynosyne who was her arms.

"So both of them are alive."

"..."

"This one won't be joining the family. She doesn't show any sings of magic so just do whatever you want with her. She's your problem."

With that he turned to leave.

"If I see that one in my guild, I will kill you and that child."

With that he left out of her sight. The woman looked down at the crying infant in her arms then she dropped to her knees hugging the baby to her.

"It's going to be alright, Myonsyne."

It wasn't too long for the baby to stop crying and fell asleep in her arms then the woman left that area taking Mynosyne with her to a different place to live in.

11 years later

Mynosyne was showing signs of magic. At first it scared but then she began to teach herself how to control her magic. One day as she was in her room she looked up to see her foster mother coming to her.

"Mynosyne, is something wrong?"

Mynosyne looked at her.

"I keep having these dreams about this girl. I don't know who she is but she looks just like me."

"What's her name?"

"Her name is Mercedes."

The woman's eyes widen then she looked away.

"Mynosyne, there's something that you need to know."

"What is it?"

"This Mercedes girl, she's actually your twin little sister."

The room was full of silence then Mynosyne spoke.

"I have a twin sister?"

"You have two sisters, a younger one named Mercedes and and older one named Minerva."

Mynosyne smiled.

"Can I meet them?"

The woman had a sad smile on her face as she looked at Mynosyne.

"I wish I could let you but I was ordered not to by your father."

Mynosyne just looked at her foster mother in question.

"My father? Who is he?"

"He's the guild master of Sabertooth, Master Gemma Orlando."

Mynosyne could tell just by listening that her foster mother was afraid of Gemma but she still wanted to meet her two sisters who she never met.

"Please, I promise that he won't even know."

Her foster mother thought about it then spoke.

"Alright but you have to promise me that you won't be seen by him."

Mynosyne smiled and hugged her foster mother.

"I promise! Thank you!"

With that Mynosyne left out of the house and rushed to Magnolia city. She was so happy to be walking around the city but was soon approaching the Sabertooth guild. When she got to it she smiled.

"Wow one of these days, I'll be a member in this guild."

Just then she heard a voice.

"Mercedes, what are you doing here?"

Mynosyne looked behind her to see an upset Minerva coming her way. She just stared and in her mind she was shaking.

'I haven't even been at the guild for five minutes and already I got seen by my older sist- wait a second, did she just call me Mercedes? Maybe I could play it off.'

"I was just taking a walk, Minerva."

Minerva raised a brow then she frowned.

"Go back to the house, Mercedes."

"But-"

"Now."

Mynosyne lowered her head in shame then she mumbled.

"I can't."

"Why?"

"I'm lost."

Minerva looked away annoyed.

"Lucky for you I finished my quest early, otherwise I would have made you find your own way back to the house."

Mynosyne looked at her blankly.

'Wow, I'm meeting for the first time and already I don't like you.'

Minerva and Mynosyne left from the area and went to a boat that was ready for them to sail to another place which was a large house. Mynosyne was able to keep herself quiet and wasn't looking at Minerva who was clearly annoyed.

When they arrived to the house Minerva frowned as they went inside.

"I may as well spend the night at this rate."

Just then a male servant came to greet them.

"Greetings Lady Minerva."

Minerva didn't greet him back but spoke.

"Why was Mercedes in the city without supervision?"

The servant kept his head down.

"She wanted to pay a visit to Sabertooth."

Minerva frowned.

"That's not a reason and you know my father wouldn't be pleased. She is not to set foot in the guild until next year."

Mynosyne looked away.

'Maybe I'm lucky that I didn't know who she was in the first place and judging how she acts I bet Father is the same way. At this rate I'm afraid of what my twin is like.'

The servant looked at Minerva.

"Yes Milady."

Minerva looked away.

"Good, now get a room ready for me, I am spending the night tonight."

"Yes ma'am."

The servant nodded then left them alone. Mynosyne figured that she leave but then she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked at Minerva who was looking angry at her.

"And where do you think you're going?"

"To my room."

Minerva let her go then Mynosyne left down the hallway.

After she was out of Minerva's sight Mynosyne sat down in a room that didn't have a bed and was sitting in a corner.

It wasn't long that she heard the door open and looked up to see Mercedes coming into the room.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Mynosyne, I take it that you're Mercedes."

"Yep."

"I'm sorry for getting you and that man in trouble."

"It's mostly my fault, I did leave but I saw you in the city. I thought that I was seeing things but then Minerva saw you so I rushed back here."

Mynosyne was surprised, she was impressed that Mercedes was nice to her but then she remembered something.

"Um, Mercedes?"

"Yes?"

"Minerva will be spending the night."

Mynosyne saw Mercedes face go pale then she looked away.

"Well we both messed up but I don't them to know that you're here."

"It's my fault mostly so let me face her later, I can tell that you don't like her."

"Alright, but since Minerva is mad you won't be calling her by her name."

Mynosyne raised a brow.

"So what am I going to call her?"

"Whenever Minerva is angry with me I have to call her 'Milady' okay?"

"Have you ever called her sister?"

Mercedes looked at the floor.

"No. Minerva hates it whenever I call her that."

"Wow, you had it rough."

"Well I much rather be scolded by Minerva than Father?"

"Why?"

"He's much worse than she is. Minerva is a little nicer when it comes to punishing me but as for Father he takes it to a whole new level of pain."

"Okay."

They both hugged and Mercedes spoke.

"Please stay here. I can tell the servants about you because they are very trustworthy I just don't want to be alone with a cruel father and an older sister."

"Okay, I'll stay with you."

"Thank you."

Just then the servant came into the room.

"Lady Mercedes, your sister wants you."

Mynosyne got to her feet then left out of the room while Mercedes just watched her. The servant knew which twin was which but for their sake, he played along with it.

Mercedes went to the room where Minerva was in waiting for her. When she got to the room Minerva looked at her.

"You wanted to see me, Milady?"

Minerva sat on the foot on of her bed and frowned.

"Come to me."

Mynosyne went to her.

"Yes, Milady?"

Minerva slapped her and frowned.

"What were you doing in front of the guild?"

"I-I was just...looking at the guild. I just couldn't wait to see the guild."

"It's not like you're going to be a member at your age. You're a weak piece of trash who can't use magic. What future could you have in Sabertooth, the strongest guild in Fiore!"

Mynosyne was hurt just from listening to her then Minerva looked away.

"Lucky for you it's me here and not Father."

Minerva stood up then left out of the room.

"Let's go eat something."

"...I'm not hungry."

Minerva turned around and grabbed Mynosyne by her jawline.

"Hungry or not, you're going to eat with me."

With that they left out of the room to the kitchen.

After an awkward meal Mynosyne left to go to Mercedes who was in the room where they had met. Mercedes could tell how hurt Mynosyne was so then she wrapped her arms around her.

"It's okay. One of these days we'll be happy and get away from our sister and Father."

"I hope so. You're stronger than me, I'm just now meeting Minerva and I already hate her."

"I know but we have to get through this."

"We'll stay together."

"Agreed."

They both left to Mercedes room and climbed into the bed and went to sleep, hugging each other.

It had been a month since Mynosyne had moved in with Mercedes in the house. Both of them were in the art room. Mercedes would paint and Myonsyne would pose for her. Both of the twins were careful with what they did whenever Minerva would pay a visit to the house.

One day Mynosyne had to hide and Mercedes was forced to train in hard raining weather. When it was over she watched Minerva sleep with Mercedes to give her body heat. The whole time as they laid there Minerva spoke.

"Just this once I will show affection to you but I'm not doing this again."

Mynosyne just frowned when she heard that then she looked at the painting of the tiger.

The next day Mynosyne had watched how cruel Gemma was to Mercedes then she saw Minerva step in the punishment but slapped Mercedes after Gemma had left out of the room.

About a few months later Mercedes turned 12 and was out of the house to live with Minerva and Gemma in the Sabertooth guild. Mynosyne managed to sneak into the guild from time to time.

Mynosyne tried to keep herself out of sight when she witnessed what had happened to Yukino, Lucy, Kagura, Millianna and Mercedes. She wanted to hurt Minerva for what happened but then she saw that Erza beat Minerva.

Mynosyne had followed Minerva to guild and was going to argue but then she saw that Minerva was crying.

'What is a cruel person like you crying about?'

To her surprise she saw Minerva get a few pieces of paper and began to write something down. She was crying so much that she had to start over on what she was writing. When Minerva was finally done she put the letter into a package then wiped her tears away and took the package with her as she left out of the room.

Shortly after Minerva left out of the room and went to the where the balled up papers were. She picked one of the balled up papers up and opened it. She saw that it was a letter that was an apology but from the middle near the end the paper was wet from Minerva's tears.

After learning about the truth Mynosyne left out of the room and rushed to looked for Mercedes but couldn't find her but then she saw that Mercedes was with Erza crying in her arms about what had happened. Myonsyne didn't tell her but then she left into the ball and Sting saw her. Sting mistook her for Mercedes and handed her the package she had seen Minerva had with her when she left then she went to where Mercedes had been staying, which was with Fairy Tail and placed it under the bed for Mercedes.

AN: Hello! Sorry for the long wait. I wasn't sure how to write this chapter. I will update soon. Take Care!