Disclaimer: I don't own ALSFS or its characters. I only owned my characters and this storyline.

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~Fandazam: Sadly I can't tell you. I'm not the type who like to spoiler her own stories. Thank you for pointing out some errors in the chapter. I did say there will be errors due I was in a hurry but thank you for pointing where.

Phoenixofdarkness62: I'm trying to not make this fic surround by OCs. Also there is a reason why I'm bringing Salt and Pepper into the story but I'm not saying why.

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Chapter Summary: Poor Saga. Regina hasn't woken up yet and there is a rumor going around town that isn't making things easier for her. At the same time, Sugar and her pals check what Salt found. Wonder what that could be?

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Chapter 3: What A Strange Sight

"Are you still mad?"

"Of course."

"C'mon, Sugar. It's best you left Saga alone." The two fairies were at their meeting spot. Salt let go of Sugar's hand and rub his nose. "Saga is fine. You don't need to treat her like a wall ornament."

"What! I was not! I was trying to help her. You saw her cast. She needed help."

"Sugar, if she just had the cast like yesterday than I would had let you stay but she didn't. Her boss even let her go to work meaning she is getting better."

"But still-"

"Sugar." He put his hands on his hips. "I swear you always get this way when someone get hurt." Sugar imitated his movements. "Like what?"

"You always overreacted when someone gets hurt."

"Do not!"

"Do so!"

"Name one time I have overreacted."

"The time when you saw me with a black eye. When Basil got pecked by a crow, and that other time when-"

"Fine! I get your point!" She put her hands up in a defense pose. A sign meaning surrender. "I can't help it, Salt. When someone gets hurt like that, I freaked out. Anyone would have done the same thing."

"Yeah but you take it too far."

"Do not!"

"Do so!"

"I swear you two never change" said the person behind them. The voice sounded feminine. "I hope I'm not intruding anything important."

The two fairies turned to look at the person behind them. The fairy looked around thirteen. Her long waving brown locks flows down her body like a strong current in a river, contrasting from her calming brown orbs and round-shape glasses. She wore a knee-length light green chiffon dress with brown/white ribbons sleeves. Her tied up brown sandals went up to her knees. Both fairies realized who this was. "Pepper!" They both yelled. Pepper waved her hand at them. "Hey."

Sugar jump and hug the girl, covering her wind fairy with her kisses. "Aw Sugar." Sugar stopped kissing the girl but never let go of her. "Oh, you never change."

"Pepper. I missed you so much. Why are you here? I thought you were in the Spring section?"

"Well I was but the Spring Advisor said I should work in different seasons to see which seasons I like working the best, so I decided to join the winter section."

"Waffo! This is great. We're together again." The snow fairy put her arms up in the air. This time meaning victory. Salt nodded in agreement. "Also since you're here means you been given the chance to become a high-ranking fairy too?"

The wind fairy nodded. "Of course."

"Eh? You guys too." She looked at her friends oddity. The two fairies gave her the same look. "Of course. We wouldn't be here if that wasn't the case."

"Eh?"

"Sugar. Don't tell me you didn't realize that only high-class fairies and high-class trainees are assigned to come to these areas."

"Well, I-" she blushed as she played with her fingers. A sign meaning embarrassment. She did this for a second until she shot her head up to look at them. "Hey, why though? Did anyone tell you guys why?"

Salt and Pepper looked at each other, giving a silence message to each other in their eyes. "No, I thought you would have know but I should have realize you wouldn't" said Salt. Sugar glared at him. "What that's supposed to mean?" Luckily, the wind fairy brought up a different topic before the two started to bicker again. "So Salt, you wanted to show us something?"

The thirteen year-old boy smile a big smile like he did when he was eight. "Yeah. I found it last night when I was going home. Since I noticed everyone was in the same area. I figure I show it to my two best friends."

"Where is it, Salt?" The way Salt was making it, it sounded amazing in the snow fairy's ears. "Well I'd have to show you. C'mon, follow me." He motion the girls to followed him and that what they did.

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"Hey, grandma."

No response.

"How you doing?"

Once again, no response.

Saga sighed as she sat in her chair in the hospital room. She wasn't surprised by this. Her grandmother has not yet awakened since the 'incident'. Dr. Wilmer said if you talk to her, she might wake up but she been doing that since she been able to go see her. It was disturbing to see her grandmother like this. The old woman she has known throughout her life was so alive and so happy in her eyes. Now to see her like this. Looking like some corpse. It was disturbing. The sight was truly disturbing to her but she had to be strong. She knew Regina was going wake up soon. She just knew it. So until then she'll wait for her.

"You won't believe what I heard today, grandma. To tell you the truth, I'm surprised that I didn't hear of this sooner. I mean I've been out of the hospital for properly a month now so I should have heard of this or even seen it in the newspapers but strangely I didn't. I guess I was only focus on the issues I'm been having." She smiled softly at the sleeping woman but then frown. "You see, grandma. There been rumors been going around town that…" She bit her bottom lip before she continued. She still couldn't believe what she just heard only a few hours ago. "There is a killer in Muhlenberg."

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"We're here."

The three fairies looked at the scene below them. Outside of the town of Muhlenberg, It was big dark blue A-frame house that was near a large lake that seems its water has not yet been frozen. The dead widow trees surrounded the lake like a stone gate as snow surrounded them with its soft ice. It was a hidden winter wonderland by the looks of it.

"Wow!" Sugar said as she scanned the area. "This is amazing, Salt." Pepper nodded. "This is beautiful, Salt. How you found it?"

He smile at his friends' reactions. "It was by accident, really. I was coming through this way until I saw something shine. I went down to investigated and I saw this place."

As the two fairies were talking, Sugar saw something that caught her eye.

"You never figure out where the light was coming from?"

"I figure the light was coming from the house over there and left. It was night time when I found this place so it obvious that a human may have turn on a light in a room."

"Hey, Salt?" Sugar called, her eyes never leaving the ground. "Yeah, Sugar?"

"Is that the light?" Salt and Pepper looked where Sugar was pointing. In the house, something was shining in the upper floor. "That's funny. It's not nighttime. So… why is the light on?"

"Maybe someone forgot to shut it off."

"But Pepper it wasn't shining a few seconds ago."

Then it stopped and the fairies look where it was glowing moments before. "Huh? It stop?"

"That's weird. To turn off like that…" The wind fairy trail off.

It was then that Sugar snapped her fingers. "I know! I'll go see what was shining, ok?" With that reply, the snow fairy flew down to the house. "Sugar, wait!" Soon the others followed the jovial girl.

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"A murderer? Would you believe it, grandma? Never once had I imagine that our town will be infested with a murderer. From what I heard from Freya, the Stadtpolizei (1) finally announced yesterday they will contact the higher authorizes as soon as they can. But still…"

She thought back to the conversation with her friend. Her distress over it was still turning in her stomach.

"What? A killer?"

Freya took a sip from her coffee. "Yes, for the last month, someone has been killing men at night."

"I see". Saga was horrified. A murderer was in town and she didn't know about it for over a month. How was that even possible? Was it because of everything that been happening to her these last two months? Yeah. That was it. That must be it.

"So far, there been four killings. Each dying the same way: Drowning." She took another sip of coffee before she continued. "They all have one connection though."

"What?"

"You."

Her coffee-color eyes went large of what Freya just said. "W-what you said?" Saga stuttered. Freya broke her brownie into two pieces as she spoke. "All the men that had been killed are the men who were involved in that 'incident'." She could feel the acid in the blonde's tone when she said the word 'incident'. "There been another rumor going around that…you're the one doing the killings."

She couldn't believe what she just heard. Was this the reason why people has been avoiding her? Was this one of the reasons why Norma has been glaring at her every time she sees her? Was this the reason why most of her friends won't talk to her anymore? Because of these rumors? Saga clutched her chest hard. Her heart beating so fast, it could beat a hare in any race it throw at her. "Saga?" Freya stood up from her seat. Her voice echoed her face. She was worried.

"They…" She couldn't even say it but she knew she had to get a better understanding what Freya was saying. "They think I'm the one doing the murders."

Freya immediately went behind the counter and rub Saga's back in small circles, hoping to calm her down. "Calm down Saga. I didn't mean to scare you but it's the truth. There some people who thinks you're doing these things but it's only some."

"Why…"

"Because they're saying you summon some ghost or whatever to get back at them. Particularly Saga, they just need someone to blame and sadly that's you." The blonde sigh and Saga could hear her friend muttering the words "damn animals" under her breath. "I thought you knew about this. That is why I never said anything but… when I saw you walking home last night. I got concerned."

Saga looked at her. Brown meeting green. "So that why you ask if I was walking home alone tonight?"

"Yes. Especially now."

"Now?"

She pull out a newspaper from inside her red petite coat and give it to Saga. "You remember Wolfgang Timderman?"

"Yes, he is Trevor's best friend. They're like brothers to each other. He even help Trevor in the… 'incident'."

"You might want to see this."

She took the paper out of her hands. The moment she looked at the front page, she couldn't get her eyes off of it. There he was. Wolfgang Timderman but it wasn't because of something good. In the newspaper show him being another victim to the killer. The killer had strike again.

Meaning another man's death was going to be blame on her.

"I'm really scared, grandma." She holds her grandmother's cold hand with her warm one. The fact that it was cold reminded her once again of a corpse. "I didn't do it, Grandma. I never once taken another's life. The fact that there are people even saying it bothers me." She was trying not to cry. No, she refused to cry. She had to be the strong one here despite everything that has been happening to her, she had to be strong. "I really thought my luck was finally turning around but I guess it hasn't."

She exhaled a deep breath, hoping it will help her control her emotions. Why? Why couldn't her luck just around?

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"Wow!" Shouted the snow fairy as she entered the house through one of the open windows. The room was quite queer from what she seen in human's homes. In the room she entered, there were a lots of bottles and containers of all different shapes and sizes as well as colors. Some of them were on some sort of heating pad, similar to the one she seen in Saga's school long ago. Others were connected to each other by tubes, making the substances inside them transfer to different containments. "Sugar! Come back here. I don't think it's a good idea to come inside" said Salt as he looked around the room too. Pepper did as well. "Ok, wow. It's a laboratory."

"A laboratory? What's that, Pepper?" Asked Sugar as she went to one of the colorful bottles and began to touch it. Salt soon began yelling at her to not touch it. "A laboratory is where humans do experiments to benefit in helping people for the future."

"Really? That great!"

"Sadly I disagree."

"Huh?"

Pepper look at one of the tubes instead of Sugar but Sugar knew the brown-haired girl was frowning. "Some humans who do these experiments can be so cruel. From what I heard from some animals, some humans experimenting on anything that is alive. Either it's a small defenseless creture to their own kind. They would even go to the point of dissecting the poor creature while it's still breathing."

"While it's still alive?" Salt said in shock and horror. He couldn't imagine anyone doing such a thing. "That's so mean. Why would anyone do such a thing?"

"For knowledge, I guess." She look at her friends again. She gave them a weak smile. "I really don't know."

"Pepper…"

Something shined for a second in the corner of the room. The fairies look where the object excel moments ago. "There it is." Sugar flew to it. The closer she got to it, the object started to dimly glow continuously until she saw it. It was in a weird- shape purple bottle. In the bottle was some sort ball of blue light. It was no longer flickering like it did where she was far away from it but now gleaming strong like the sun. "Guys, I think I found it." The other went to it as soon as they heard Sugar's reply.

When they both saw it, they both look at it with wonder. "What do you think it is?" Asked Salt. Pepper went closer to it. "Why does this ball look ….familiar?" It was then her eyes widened as she covered her mouth in horror and alarm. She quickly back away from it. "Oh my…"

"Pepper? Pepper, what wrong?" They both started to worry. It was truth they haven't been seeing each other that much now but they both knew Pepper has never acted like this before. Not once. "That's… that's…."

She gulped. Sugar thought she wasn't going to said anything but she was wrong as her wind fairy friend said something that made her whole body turn into stone.

"That's a human soul."

TBC…

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1: Stadtpolizei is what police are called in Germany.

Author's Note: Dun dun dunnnnnn.

Ah another turn of events. Please understand that this isn't going become some action story where there going to a lot fighting and have to fight a evil bad guy. No, it isn't going to that. Well, there are bad guys but that's aside a point. I wanted to make that point out before people began asking question where this story is heading. Also another thing, I may have to reload some of the chapters due the line between scenes is disappearing which really bugs me.

Oh, here some good news for my fellow readers!

Despite being force to use paint because I don't have a scanner, I draw what Sugar would look like in this fic. If you want to see it, go on my profile and click the link under Pictures/Bittersweet Harmony and one other thing, I now have flash pro which means I may animate some scenes from this fic. Hehe!

Until next time.