We soon arrived in Louen. To me, all the buildings looked the same. Which one was supposed to be the one with the blue flag. After rather a while of wandering through the town... We had came across nothing. "I can't believe Levy lied..." Xavier muttered.
"Levy would never lie to us no matter what!" Bluebell exclaimed. I nodded.
"It's probably just really hard to find unless you know where you're looking..." I murmured. The others nodded, agreeing with my statement.
"The best idea would be to ask people around town..." Melody sighed. It was our best option, even though we didn't really want to talk to the locals... "Where's Candy!?" Lilias suddenly screamed. She was frantically looking around. I had never seen her like this before. We all started looking frantically around for Candy. Where could she have run off to? "Lilias!" a voice called. We all turned around to see the small magenta cat running towards us. "Come and look at this pretty blue flag I found!"
We were now standing in front of a small building with a small plain blue flag at the front. There were small windows nearer the roof. So nobody could look in... or out... I could see secure looking wooden door with an eye whole right at the front of the building. All we had to was knock. Right. I extended my arm and knocked fairly loudly on the wooden door. There was silence. I pressed my ear to the door to see if I could hear anything. Soon enough I heard someone walking towards the wooden door. I was pretty sure that I had also heard them coming up steps. Was there a secret room underneath the small building or something? Dragon hearing never lies. "What are you doing here?" I heard a voice say. I was pretty sure that I recognized the voice... But something sounded... different... Wait! What had Edolas Levy said for us to say to answer the question? Think brain think! "Causing crime!" Xavier answered back. Everyone who was walking by turned their heads towards us. We all knew that wasn't it. I heard Xavier groan as he earned a kick from Miriza. It sounded like it hurt. A lot. "You witch..." I heard Xavier whine. That earned him another kick. I hadn't seen Miriza punish Xavier since... Since we were all younger... Wait 'witch'...
"Witch's Crime," I whispered back through the door. I waited for an answer. "Come round the back and I'll let you in," The voice whispered back. I gestured to the others to go round the back. They followed. On the opposite side of the building away from the public was what looked like a broken down door. Despite being broken, it looked like it wasn't going to break any more. Outside the door was a large padlock. from the inside I saw a pair of hands unlock it. Then the door opened to reveal the person we had spoke to. It was a male around the age of 20. He had waist length light green hair which looked really messy and was tied up out of his greenish blue eyes. Beneath his left eye was a small beauty mark. Jutting out from with side of his head were a pair of thin strands shaped like lightning bolts. We wore a black leather jacket and black leather pants as well as black leather boots. Even though he looked completely different, there was no mistaking it. We knew who this man was. In fact, we knew his Earth Land counter part. "Freed!?" Lilias exclaimed. If he were surprised to see us, he didn't show it. "We received a letter from Fairy Tail about you this morning. Come." We followed Edolas Freed into the building. It looked like I was right, There were a set of stairs beneath an opened trap door leading to... what looked like a room beneath the building. From here I could hardly see what was down there, but I could here faint voices that I hadn't heard before.
Walking down the stairs, I noticed banners spread across the walls. beside each one was a small torch. We didn't want to fall down these hard stairs in the dark now did we? On the banners was a strange symbol which looked a lot like a skull wearing a witches hat... That's what it looked like to me. We eventually reached the room at the bottom of the stairs. It wasn't as far down as I'd originally thought. It was also even bigger than I could have possible imagined. And it was brighter as well. There weren't too much people there. There were also a lot more of those banners on the walls. I noticed a blonde haired man walk up to us. There was no doubt that this was Laxus. Who else would have bright blonde hair, blue eyes and a lightning scar over his right eye? It was odd seeing him here. Since he had been kicked out of Fairy Tail. I was surprised to see him wearing what looked like armor though. "Freed," Edolas Laxus spoke bowing down, "What service do you wish for me to give these guests of ours?"
"Would you knock off the formal crap?" Freed muttered pushing past the bowing Laxus. "You guys should talk to the others over there. Laxus, come with me. We need to discuss with Bickslow and Ever." Laxus followed Freed over to a corner where two figures were waiting. The man in the suit must have been Edolas Bickslow... and the girl with the short light brown hair must have been Evergreen...
We walked over to the other side of the room where I saw 5 figures talking to one another. I couldn't tell who they were... Until I heard one of them talk rather loudly. "Oh don't be all frowns Lilias! Smile! Be a ray of happy sunshine!" I never would have thought I would hear myself say something like that... I was frozen in my tracks. I could swear that I was shaking. I could hear Xavier laughing beside me at my reaction. I would have slapped him or something... But this was... ridiculous... "It seems like they're here," The tallest turned towards us. He looked older than the others, and was sporting a white hair cropped close to the head. There was no doubt it was edolas Xavier... No wonder edolas Mira had been confused about normal Xavier's age. Edolas Xavier walked past us. "I'll go talk to master about this - let her know you've arrived," Xavier walked towards another door behind the bar, "meanwhile yet to know each other OK?"
"My name is Miriza Knightwalker," The girl with scarlet hair spoke. She was wearing a long sleeved knee length dress which was a dark navy blue and white in colour with silver rims. She was also wearing long black tights and tall brown boots as well as a brown leather belt around her waist. I also noticed that her hair was down - which was unusual for Miriza. "OH MY GOD THERE ARE TWO OF MY BEAUTIFUL MIRIZA NOW!" I turned to see what looked like Edolas Lokni. He was wearing a black blazer and pants as well as a white shirt with the top buttons undone. In his blazer pocket was a scarlet rose. He knelt down before normal Miriza. "Even though there are two of you now, I can share my feelings with both of you!"
"What happened to 'Baka'" normal Miriza muttered.
"You and I need to have a little chat," normal Lokni said, grabbing and pulling edolas Lokni away with him.
"I'm Faya! But you already know that!" edolas me spoke. She was in a bright yellow summer dress with pink tropical flowers decorating it. Additionally she was wearing bright green shoes with ribbons that laces around her legs up to her knees. They looked like they'd never come off. I shuddered just thinking about it. Her hair was tied up in two ponytails with bright pink ribbons. "Hey other me!" she spoke, "Why are you wearing black? it's such a dark gloomy colour? Ad why aren't you smiling? You shouldn't frown!" I already didn't like this other version of me... "Would you all just shut up already!?" I voice spoke. I turned to see what looked like edolas Lilias. She was wearing an eye patch over her right eye. She also wore two metal bracelets with spikes. she wore a short, ripped, black leather jacket. On the back were metal studs which formed the strange 'skull with witches hat' symbol I'd been seeing everywhere. She also wore a dark red crop top as well as black denim shorts. Furthermore, she wore a silver belt with a black whip at the side. Attached to the whip were more metal spikes. "They don't even know where we are!" she spoke. She turned towards the rest of us. Both Lokni's had now returned. "This is Crime Sorciere. Independent guild. Top secret. Not controlled by the kingdom." she sighed, "Now that's cleared... Why did you guys bring 5 exceeds down here!?"
Author's note
I'll be going away again tomorrow. The next chapter will most likely be up next week. Anyway, thanks for reading and supporting the story! - I never thought that I'd ever get to 42 chapters.
Also to address some concerns about the zero generation dragon slayers: They will be getting a lot more important in the future (if the story goes to plan) At the moment the main part of the story hasn't really started yet, I'm still working on it though.
If you do have any ideas for the story or have any concerns about it, please let me know. It would be great if you did! :)
