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Something was off about this town. Laxus could feel it in his bones. The Thunder Legion had been in town for an hour now and no one had even looked at them. They town's people weren't hiding, they weren't even snubbing the Thunder Legion; The townspeople would have acted no different if The Thunder Legion wasn't there at all. No one responded when they tried to speak to them. The one fellow who Evergreen cornered had ducked into an alley before continuing with his life.
There was one exception. A woman with curly purple hair and startling green eyes that rivaled Bickslow's, had arrived a few minutes ago and was studying them as they budded in the market square trying to figure out what to do. Laxus was debating on weather or not to approach her when she moved.
"You are from the Fairytail guild are you not." The woman was fast that was for sure. She was in front of him staring him down with those intense eyes before Laxus realized what had happened.
"We are." Laxus confirmed. The towns people were still moving, but the square had gone quoth he could feel them listening to the conversation. The woman gave a curt nod.
"I only got to see the very end of the Grand Magic Games but if my memory serves, you are Laxus Dreyar." Laxus merely inclined his head and an affirmative. The woman nodded again before turning to Evergreen.
"Are you Lucy Heartfilia?" Alarm bells started going off in Laxus's head. He could feel Evergreen start to protest so he cut her off. This was not the time for a Fairy Queen tangent.
"She is not." The woman studied Evergreen for a few moments to confirm his statement.
"Very well them." She said "I am Josie Abraham. When you see Lucy Heartfilia tell her to find me. She has an inheritance waiting for her here." The alarm bells got louder.
"I didn't think Ms Heartfilia had any living relatives left." Fried interjected.
Josie gaze snapped from Laxus to Freed in an instant. She studied him for several moments before speaking. "I suppose that depends on what you define as living. But no, this is not from a relative. It is a celestial Inheritance." Evergreen was now sputtering and muttering about queens and fairies... Everyone ignored her.
"So, yer sayin' that someone left cosplayer a bunch of Keys and stuff. Why do you think they should be hers?" Josie spent a much longer time studying Bickslow. In fact, Laxus was beginning to think she was not going to answer.
"Because Moses said it was for her before he died." There was a rather awkward silence.
"Sorry Ms. Abraham" Thank God for Freed. "We are here investigating a string of murders, our guild master believes this was the first did Moses pass on recently?"
Josie's eyes were really starting to get under Laxus skin. Even when she wasn't looking at him. It vaguely registered in his brain that she might have Magic in them but he was more focused on the problem at hand. "Moses and Aaron Abraham were assassinated Eight days ago by a man named Cain. I can give you a description but I don't know anything else about him."
The Thunder Legion did a collective blink. And then another one. "I am so sorry for your loss." Freed recovered first, as always. "But we do need to know if it is the same perpetrator."
"Brown hair, Sword that he doesn't use, funny accent." Josies gaze was hard and her words cut like a knife.
"That is the bastard" Bickslow muttered.
"I am sorry about this but any information you have will be useful for apprehending the perpetrator." Freed prodded. "You said Moses had Celestial magic Was Aaron also a mage. Was there anything strange about their magic before their deaths?"
"Aaron was Moses's apprentices. There was nothing obviously strange but Moses did mention something about that. It just didn't make any sense at the time."
"You herd their conversation?" Bickslow inquired. Josie simply nodded in return.
"I am sorry but could you recite it to us? There might be something there that doesn't seem important but could lead to his capture."
Josie grimaced but nodded. "Cain said that he was given their names specifically their for they had to die. Like I said assassination but he made it sound like he had a whole list. Moses asked who sent him and Cain replied that Moses already knew or Cain would be here in the first place."
Josie fowned "This is where it starts to get confusing. Moses then called Cain by his name, I don't know how he knew it. and Cain replied with 'no wonder his boss wants him dead'." Josie made quotation marks in the air.
"And this part is really odd. 'We have the same magic and you don't have much skill though you carry a swards, you can not hurt us.' that was a direct quote." She clarified again. "Then Cain said he wouldn't have been sent unless they would end up dead. That was the end of the conversation."
Laxus glanced at Fried who had been frantically scribbling notes. Freed had started chowing on the end of the pen. That usually meant Freed had a theory and it wasn't a good one. "If you don't mind could we see the bodies?"
Josie sighed. Her body visibly sagged, she seemed exhausted "You can see the one that is left. Follow me."
"How were you related to Moses and Aaron?" Josie looked up at her. Evergreen had a gift for telling when people needed to talk and Josie REALLY needed to talk.
Josie looked off into nothingness "I was Married to Aaron but I meat Moses first."
"O?" This at least promised to be interesting, if still sad.
"Moses was in an apprentice set of three. Rare but whatever." She shrugged "When they finally graduated? I guess you would call it, they all scattered so Moses ended up losing most of the family he had known. He settled here in search of a peaceful life." She sighed. "Being a Celestial Mage is not exactly safe."
Evergreen frowned, that definitely seemed to be the trend. "Anyway, he found me when I was still a munchkin. I was an orphan so we kind of adopted each other. Aaron is his fourth Nephew twice removed or something like that." Josie smirked and Evergreen couldn't help but Join her. "He got sent here to train with Moses when it was discovered he had Celestial Magic. Really, they just happen to have the same last name."
"Are you a Celestial Mage?" Evergreen was honestly curious.
Josie shook her head. "I dont have the aptitude for it. I am a mage and Moses helped me control my magic but I could never be a celestial mage even if I wanted to."
Josie must have seen Evergreens confusion because she elaborated. "Everyone has a certain aptitude for magic. It will be easier for some people to learn a psychic based magic and other to learn an elemental based magic. I am sure you have experienced it, some things just come more naturally to some people than others. Everyone has their thing."
Evergreen nodded so Josie continued "It is just a lot rarer for ANYONE to have an aptitude for Celestial Magic. In a way, it's dying off. The aptitude for Celestial Magic is almost a genetic trait. You can trace it though family trees. There are exceptions but not many. And nowadays being a Celestial Mage pains a target on your head. There aren't any Celestial Mages who can just settle down and have a family."
Evergreen raised and eyebrow. "Before we came here we were researching celestial magic because our Guild master believes... well, one, he believes Lucy can't control magic. He wont say it but he thinks it. And two, he thinks she is a target." To her surprise Josie nodded.
"How old is she Seventeen? Eighteen ish?" Evergreen shrugged and nodded signaling it was something along those lines. "And you said she had no living family. I don't care how much of a prodigy she is, there is no way she has full control of her powers. Aaron was almost 25 and still an apprentice. That is not to say she is not powerful but powerful and control are two different things." That made Evergreens eyebrows go up even more.
Josie fixed Evergreen was a hard stare "And Celestial Mages are always a target. I will bet you anything that if this Cain, has a list of targets, it is not these guild he is going after. It is a list of Celestial Mages that he is picking off in the chaos."
Evergreen didn't know what to say to that. "You should contact the mage that Moses apprenticed with. If he knew Cain then there is a chance that they will to. Dr. Rebekah and Prof. Joseph, they studied under an Eve someone but I think she is dead. I can give your their contact information."
Just then the Morgue door burst open and Freed exited muttering to himself and scribbling in his notebook. That, was a very bad sign. Laxus and Bickslow were on his heels looking very confused. That was an even worse sign.
"Moses died from Magic deprivation." He announced a if the world was waiting for his prognosis. There was a beat or two of silence before anyone spoke.
"That doesn't make any sense" Josie countered "He wasn't sick before and he only opened one key for a few seconds. I have seen him open three silver gates for an hour before."
Freed simply nodded as if that was obvious and began tapping his pen on the notebook. "This is very important." He fixed Josie with an unreadable expression. "Aaron how did he die? Did he explode, like there was a bomb inside of his body"
Josie faltered "Yes how did you know that."
Freed paled and stopped tapping. "I was afraid of that. This is catastrophic. This is very very... bad." Everyone else exchanged confused glances. "We need to contact the Master."
"We actually have a loot of people we need to contact." Evergreen stated before gesturing to Josie. "She knows some people who might be able to help."
Freed nodded. "Is there an Inn in this town?"
"Uh ya." Josie smirked "You are looking at the inn keeper."
"Very well let's go we have a lot to do and there is a high probability of people dying if does not get done."
Okay, confession time.
Two things. Please don't hate me
1. I messed up the timeline. Nothing major, but it is still a little funky if anyone was keeping track. I did a dumb and didn't write out the sequence of events before I started posting stuff and now some of it is out of order. Mostly between Chapters 6 and 8. I am planning on going back and editing soon (nothing to major just making it flow better) and I will fix it then but for now, there is a correct timeline below... I hope it makes sense.
2. Way back in Chapter 5 when the bad guys are introduced, It is written as the boss talking to Cain about Antipas. For those of you who haven't realized or been confused, it is actually the boss talking to Antipas about Cain... another thing that I will fix soon.
I apologize, Please don't hate me.
Timeline
Day 1
Chapters 1 - 4
Laxus corners Makarov about Freed's Research.
The Thunder Legions Discussion
Loke and Makarov's conversation
Lucy and Capricorns conversation
Day 2
Chapters 5 - 6.1
Lucy's First attempts at Celestial Vision (Totally open for name suggestions)
First meeting with Cain and 'the boss man'
Thunder Legions Assignment to Crocus.
Day 3 Here is where it starts to get a bit wonky.
Chapter 6.3
Natsu drags Windy to check on Lucy
Thunder Legion Travel
Cain's attack on Mountain Village (Name suggestions?)
Day 4
No chapter coverage
Happy drags Windy to check on Lucy
Thunder Legion Travel
Cain's attack on Hound Holy.
Day 5
Chapters 6.2 -_- yes I am a fool
Lucy wakes up to Natsu and Loke arguing
Thunder Legion travel
Day 6
Chapter 7.1 and 7.2
Lucy's panic about her lost journal
Thunder Legion arrived in Crocus
Cains attack on Dwarf Gear
Day 7
Chapter 8.1
Lucy Training
Thunder Legion with Princess Hisui and Yukino
Cain's ***********************
Day 8
Chapter 7.3 (I know I am sorry)
Lucy Training
Cains attack on Titan Nose
Makarov send Fairytale to investigate.
Day 9
Chapter 8.2 and 9.1
Lucy makes her map
Thunder Legion head to the Mountain village
Cain's ***********************
Day 10
The rest of Chapter 9
Exploration of Destroyed Guilds
Day 11
Chapter 10 and soon to be 11 and possibly 12
Thunder Legion in Mountain village
Lucy *************
Cain **************************************
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