Chapter 9

Mira and Lisanna make their way down another hallway in their search of princess levy's where a bouts "Mira-nee she wasn't in the dungeons… if she was there prisoner wouldn't she be there?" asked Lisanna a little dejected so far their search was coming up empty handed " not necessarily Lisanna if they want her for her abilities they would set her up some where she can work like a study or something… besides we must be thorough " replied Mira, she knew what her sister was thinking, if levy wasn't here they didn't even know where to begin looking for her next, but tried not to dwell on it or let Lisanna for that matter.

They had been walking for hours it seemed, searching room after room finding not a single trace of her, both girls were beginning to lose hope when they heard voices coming their way, now they weren't bothered by this at all as it turned out there was a few new maids who had just started and blamed their inexperience of the castle layout on being one of the new starts, but what did get them was the fact the sources of the voices just turned the corner and where none other than the suspected prince and his exceed.

"Oi take these to laundry for me and have them cleaned" said gajeel as lily handed the stack of cloths to Mira while Lisanna stood frozen "of Course my prince right away" replied Mira bowing her head slightly, looking back at the two she noticed the studded eyebrow of the prince raise before lily asked "is she ok "looking at Lisanna, "yes she's fine.. please forgive my sister she's just a little overwhelmed, she didn't expect to be in the presence of the prince on her first day" replied Mira her sweet smile never faltering , " tch s'no big deal" grunted gajeel "ahh first day nerves we've all been there " said lily, Lisanna slightly back with us, smiled at the exceed with a brief nod "should I bring these back to your chambers my prince?" asked Mira "no… lily will collect them personally" replied gajeel "as you wish my prince " said Mira with a slight bow as gajeel and lily continued down the hall.

Mira and Lisanna made for the laundry room getting out of ear shot from the dragon slayer "what was that Lisanna… "Asked Mira she knew her sister was better than that they weren't just simple palace staff after all they were fairy's "I'm sorry Mira-nee but look… those are levy's cloths she was wearing them before she left for H.q. " replied Lisanna she knew she had messed up back there but this was a personal case levy was not just her princess but her friend and at the sight of the last outfit she had seen her in a sudden mix of emotions washed over her, relief, happiness, confusion, anger she could only freeze up or she would blow there cover completely, luckily Mira had stepped in and she had regained her composure " are you sure? " asked Mira, "yes.. I'm sure "said Lisanna "ok come on this way "said Mira, "where we going Mira-nee?" asked Lisanna "laundry of course" replied Mira as if the most obvious thing in the world.

Levy set out hell bent on proving her gramps innocence in this whole mess, but somewhere in the pit of her stomach she knew she was also doing this for gajeel, she had no idea why but she just had to help him, maybe it was the confusion or the disbelief she seen briefly flash through his unwavering face or the pain in his eyes at having to further deal with the loss of his father, and that just broke levy's heart to think about, she has also lost her parents and knows the pain that comes with it, and with that she knew instantly she was going to get to the bottom of this no matter what.

It was like lily was making it easy for her she had been walking the hall's no more than five minutes before a maid with purple hair stopped her and asked if she was one of the new maids and obviously levy went along with it saying she was and had gotten lost, kina the purple haired girl gave her a map of sorts with the palace lay out and informed her to head to the maids room 'sue' will give her small jobs to do levy bowed her head politely and took of once more armed with just what she needed, it was perfect, mavis was surely looking down on her today, not just ten seconds before bumping into kina had it crossed levy's mind how on earthland she would find her way around this labyrinth of a palace.

Levy was outside the door the palace map titled the kings study, listening for voices, after deciding the coast was clear she took out her quill and wrote the word open on the lock, the word then glowed and faded leaving the door unlocked, after sucking in a deep breath she opened the door and entered the room carefully, confirming it was indeed empty she closed the door behind her and got to work searching for clues or evidence in the rather grand study. She searched carefully making sure she left things just how she found them, she searched through drawers, in cabinets, in book shelves, filing cabinets, she even wrote x-ray on her eyelids and searched for secret compartment's or a safe of some sorts but nothing, she found absolutely nothing.

"ughh there's nothing here… there must be somewhere else he would keep it" though she didn't know what it was she knew there must be something "unless jose didn't do it… but that would imply… no levy you know gramps didn't… but do you? Shut up gramps would never "after her internal battle levy noticed the clock and realized shed been gone a lot longer than planed and if she didn't hurry gajeel or lily would get back before her and not sure about lily she knew the oak prince was known for his short temper and he would be mad, so she left making sure the room looked untouched and locking the door behind her, she hurried back to the princes room "next chance I have I must search his chambers that would be good place to look nobody would enter the kings room without permission or authority it's the perfect place to hid evidence " lost in her thoughts levy was stopped suddenly by the gruff sounding deep voice of the prince, "ohh no… ohh mavis noo if he finds me out of the room he won't leave me alone again I won't be able to leave… maybe… I should…" levy peeked round the corner and seen the slayer and his exceed, levy whipped her head back turned and ran. Taking off down the hall way she just kept going until two big doors showed up at her right and she stepped inside to hide gathering her scattered thoughts, levy finds herself in the library walking farther into the room she inhales a few deep breaths letting them out slowly almost instantly calming down enough to think, something about the smell of the parchment and old leather just always seemed to calm her she loved books they were her escape when things got too much.

Levy knew she had to get back on her own he gajeel would be mad but if she went back to his room on her own he may not be as mad as he would dragging her back there himself, keeping him as calm as possible was something she definitely had to do, he was a dragon slayer and a worrier he could snap levy like a twig and they both knew it, suddenly the door handle turned and levy dashed for the nearest bookshelf peering through the books she seen nothing the door remained closed, "maybe it was my imagination… ohh" levy's eyes snapped back towards the door and suddenly a man in armour entered he had a helmet on so she could not see his face he locked the door behind him and then began searching the room and levy instantly took out her pen and wrote the word invisible on herself and clothing, she watched the man look around though it didn't seem he was sent to look for her more like he was casually making sure no one was around, and well that screamed suspicious so she watched him followed him silently as he neared a book case at the back of the room ,skimming his armour clad hand along the books he stopped at one and pulled it out a little opening a secret door.

" ughh a secret door way behind a book case in a creepy library… what a cliché " thought levy as she neared the entrance she noticed the book that opened the door it was titled -fateful encounter- levy looked at it in utter disbelief "cana… your going to laugh your ass of when I tell you the fateful encounter was a book" whispered levy before silently creeping down the stairs the passage way opened up to.

Levy stood firm against the wall looking into the room at the button of the stairs she was still under the cover of her invisibility script , in the room was the man in armour and none other than king jose himself, she was trying to hear the conversation but it was barely audible she couldn't make it out she decided to get closer, just as levy was about to enter the room the armoured man removed his head gear revealing his face, "no. no… no no noo how, why is he here" thought levy as she scrambled back behind the wall she was losing her grip on her magic her spell was wearing of she could feel the panic taking hold and then suddenly her legs couldn't hold her anymore her head was spinning and she began to fall…

Well there yous have it chapter 9, this one took a bit longer than expected

Hope yous like it I will try to get the next one up within the next couple of days but no promises

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