The next morning we were all waiting outside the royal castle. We were waiting to find some royal soldiers. Just at that moment, three came walking round the corner. Perfect. That was when it was time to strike! "Fire dragon iron fist!"

"Sky dragon talon!"

"Ice dragon wing attack!"

After Xavier, normal Miriza and I had landed one attack - the soldiers were down for the count. Earth land magic really was stronger than edolas magic. After that, we brought the unconscious royal soldiers back to the others. Then we stripped them. We needed their armor for our plan. It wasn't the most original plan - but it would work as the edolas royal army helmets covered most of the face. Now we needed to decide who would wear it. It was already decided that edolas Miriza and Lokni would be wearing a set each as they couldn't use earth land magic so wouldn't be at all suspicious. Now we only needed to figure out who would wear the remaining pair... And what the exceeds would be doing.

"I'll do it." Xavier spoke up.

"You shouldn't do this, you'll probably mess up somewhere," normal Miriza answered. Xavier didn't seem too pleased, but didn't answer Miriza back. "If nobody else wants to do it I will..." Lilias murmured. Miriza shook her head once again.

"To do this you need to play the part of a soldier. Lilias, you're too kind and honest for something like this" Miriza then looked towards me. "In my opinion, Faya would be perfect for this job." Why me? Am I not kind and honest or something!?

"I don't think Faya's a good choice," Xavier interrupted my thoughts, "The armor is too big for her. She's too small."

"I think you're right," Miriza muttered. Why did Xavier have to mention my height? It has nothing to do with anything!?

"I'll do it if you want," Lokni suggested. Miriza nodded.

"Yes! You'd be perfect!" Now all we needed to do was figure out what the exceeds were going to do.

Our plan was for those of us dressed up as royal soldiers to pretend to take the rest of us into custody. They'd say that we're earth land fugitives on the loose. We'd heard a few royal soldiers talking about earth land wizards and the need to capture them. That's how we'd be able to sneak in. Accept, the exceeds didn't fit into the plan at all. And looking at how heavily guarded the walls of the royal city were, there was no way they could sneak in though the air. We wouldn't be able to sneak them past the guards either. While the others talked about what to do, I thought I'd check the book on edolas to see if there was anything there. I had taken it with me from Crime Sorciere. I skipped to the part about exceeds again.

The fearsome magical tribe of cat-like creatures live in a place above the royal city of edolas on an island known as 'Extalia'. The exceeds have never been friendly towards humans. In fact, their Queen has the power to decide who lives and who dies. Not just the exceeds, but us humans as well. Their Queen is a goddess, so the exceeds are considered angels. Try not to approach an exceed due to the wrath of their Queen.

I really didn't like the way that book was written. It was supposed to be a book of fact. Not a guide. But this piece of text had given me an idea. Extalia was where all the exceeds were from. It was also situated above the royal city. Therefore, it was likely that they would have a bird's eye view of the royal city and would know where the lacrima containing our friends was. Since it implied that the exceeds were enemies of humans, the only ones who could go to ask them were the exceeds. I got up and explained my plan to the others. "And then you exceeds can come back to us by flying straight into the royal city to find us and let us know exactly where it is! You could even fly us there!"

"The plan is a little risky..." normal Miriza murmured.

"But I think it could work," Edolas Miriza added. Then the plan was settled.

The 5 exceeds flew upwards into the viridescent sky. After they all resembled small dots shrinking out of sight. I looked forwards to see three Edolas royal soldiers... Accept it was Edolas Miriza, Lokni and Lokni. I could tell which one edolas Miriza was due to her dark brown eyes. But Lokni and Lokni... I had no clue. They even smelt the same. I would have to call them Lokni A and Lokni B. But I had no idea who was Lokni A and who was Lokni B. My head was starting to hurt with all of the Loknis. A Lokni grabbed my hands and tied them behind my back. Which Lokni was it? No clue. The other Lokni held Lilias while Edolas Miriza held normal Miriza and Xavier. Then, we walked straight into the royal city. The guards asked us what we were doing. My Lokni told the guards the lie about the earth land wizards. Accept it wasn't a lie, since we were from earth land. Whichever Lokni was my Lokni was a good actor, as the guards believed every word he said. With that we were let in.

As soon as we were in the grounds of the royal palace we began to look for any sign of a giant lacrima. But with no luck. We then decided to go inside the palace itself to get a better view of the grounds etc. If anyone walked by we'd have to pretend to be prisoners again. Though we knew that this would start to get suspicious after a while - royal soldiers just walking around with prisoners. Nothing could be more suspicious. We didn't earn any more luck on the search by wandering inside the palace. Thankfully, we didn't bump into any people on our walk around. That was until...

I looked over the railings of the royal city to see a lot of the royal army gathered in the court yard. Looking down I just hoped that the guards we had stolen armor from hadn't woken up and told the rest of the army about us... If so we didn't have much time left. "The prison is the other way," a voice broke our silence. I looked forwards to see a face all too familiar. I had known who it was as soon as they'd spoken. The woman before us had long flowing wavy scarlet hair with an elegant loosely tied knot at the back. She wore a revealing armored breastplate top along with light armored gauntlets and greaves on her forearms and forelegs. She also wore a dark bikini bottom with a piece of cloth obscuring her hips. There was no doubt about it. This was the Edolas counterpart of Erza Scarlet - Erza Knightwalker. "You're not a part of the army here are you?" Edolas Erza began. She looked towards those of us who were not armored. "I suspect that you are Earth Land wizards - There's even the Earth Land counterpart of my sister," Edolas Erza glanced at normal Miriza, "It's fascinating - how much you both look alike... Tell me..." Erza Knightwalker looked over those of us who were dressed in armor, "Are you in one of those pitiful disguises Miriza? If so... I'm ready to fight."

"Run," Edolas Miriza spoke - taking off her helmet revealing her face, "I'll fight her." Edolas Miriza brought out what looked like a small compact light blue cylinder. She opened up the cylinder slightly. I noticed the magic power filling the room. This was wind magic. "I'll help you!" on of the Loknis said also taking off his helmet and drawing a sword that looked as if it had been infused with lightning. Most likely a lightning lacrima. So this Lokni was Edolas Lokni. I noticed that I was still being held captive by my Lokni. I breathed a sigh of relief as I realized that the Lokni watching over me was the real one. "Go find your friends," Edolas Lokni spoke, "We can hold her off."


Author's note

Here is a link to where I'm going to put all drawings of generation zero characters. It's not here on Fanfiction as you can't add pictures. The only one in there at the moment is Faya. I almost didn't publish it. I still can't bevel that I did. Sorry if the drawings aren't any good... I get nervous when I show others my drawings and art etc...

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