I really have no excuse for why I haven't updated in so long, except that I completely lost inspiration for this story right after I updated it the last time. I couldn't put out another word if I tried. Then tonight, I looked at the document that was growing dust on my computer and it suddenly hit me what I wanted to do with this. And now, here you guys finally get an update.

Chapter 21

"You mean to tell me that in the entire library, all of this town, and all of the old people we know, not one person or book know how this town got founded or why there is an abandoned carousel in the middle of the woods?" Matthew snapped out. They had spent the past weekends in the library holed up and researching, and not one fact was found.

"Apparently there really is nothing," Lovino snapped back at his friend. Everyone was irritable, tired, and fed up. There was nothing in any book about the history of the town beside what the textbooks said. And even there, they simply stated that the town was founded in the eighteen hundred, and had flourished since then.

Back in the eighteen hundreds, settlers traveled so far they lost track of the days and years, until finally they stopped in the woods and couldn't travel anymore. The settlers built their town, and the small community thrived. It was many years until other people traveled as far as they did and began to keep a record of what the small community was doing. Since then, a detailed record has been kept of the town, but never of what occurred before then.

"This is getting ridiculous. How are we supposed to figure anything out when we can't even find the answer out in books?" Alfred groaned. He himself gave up pacing through the shelves long ago, now lounging on one of the chairs.

The librarian herself gave up trying to shush them hours ago, and now just sent them a dirty look. It hardly mattered though, since besides her the boys were the only ones in the library. Slamming her book down, she stomped over to them, heels clicking in a stampeding beat of a drum. The boys looked at her blandly.

"If you young men aren't going to be quiet, I'm going to have to ask you to leave," she stated calmly, years of practice from having working in the library almost all her life.

With a shrug, the boys got up, not caring to put their books back, and calmly exited the library, being as loud as they could on the way out. Once outside though, they could not think of one thing to do, and not one place to visit.

"There's no place to go?" Kiku asked after a moment of silence. There was no answer to his question, and he let it drop.

"I know a small little book store, it's where I got Arthur's Christmas gift. We could try there?" Alfred thought after many minutes had passed. There was uniform agreement, and they headed out.

As they walked up to the new place that was their destination, and quickly entered and spread. They all said a quiet welcome to the owner, who greeted them all with a smile. Everyone quickly poured over the shelves and when they couldn't find what they were looking for, they asked.

"Do you have any books on the history of this town?" Alfred asked the old man, whose name he found out was Gerald.

"There's a couple on the back shelf, any will do, they all say the same thing," he answered.

"Do you know the founding of this town then? You seem to know more than the books…" Alfred replied. The elder man looked shocked for a moment but then recovered, sitting heavily back down in his chair when he realized he wouldn't have to rise from it. Alfred quickly called his friends to the front where they all gathered around him.

"They say this town was founded solely on religion, as nuns and priests held the town up and let the people prosper when nothing was here but trees. While the men would build the town and buildings, the women would make clothes, entertain the children and cook. Though it was a bit much, for the women that is, the nuns themselves were said to build a playground for them so the children were entertained without their mothers.

"It was said that by the time the town was almost build a young child died an unfortunate accident on the merry go round they built malfunctioned or something, no one really knows the details, and killed a small child. After that they closed the park and no one has touched it since. It's said though that the woods around it are magical and the place thrives on life and love. Didn't they tell you this in school?"

To their unwavering negatives, Gerard shook his head. "Well they say that the woods are home to some of the best berries known to the world, the Elderberries. If you crush them and make them into a paste with milk and untainted blood, then they can achieve any kind of magic."

It was all normal and exciting until he just had to say something about the blood. Matthew simply paled, and everyone else just looked confused. What would someone do to have untainted blood? Would any of them count? How much blood?

"So, blood?"

"Yeah you know, the 'oh let's sacrifice this virgin' back in the old times. It was really simple, and they always meant a drop or two. You're friend still wandering seems like someone they would take into consideration."

All of them breathed a sigh of relief. At least they wouldn't have to travel and go and get a virgin from some far off land. In one easy movement they all turned to see who Gerard meant by the 'friend still wandering' part. Their eyes landed on Feliciano intently reading a book on Italian history that he found. Everyone rolled their eyes, except for one older brother.

"Oh hell no, find someone else," Lovino jumped to his feet in protest, making everyone sigh once again.

"Oh quit you're bitching, it's not like you have any say. I bet Feliciano would be happy to help us out," Alfred cut him off before Lovino could say anymore.

"He doesn't know what he's agreeing to! You're not touching him," Lovino threatened. He stood in front of his brother, obviously not going to back down anytime soon.

"Well we could probably use you if you didn't curse so much," Ivan chimed in. Lovino had almost forgotten that he was there in the first place, and jumped in his own skin.

"It's not happening!" he shouted this time, gathering the attention of his brother.

"What's happening Lovi?"

"Feli! Don't you want to help us out?" Alfred shot out before Lovino could say anything.

"Of course I do!" he answered with a bright smile.

"Great, then it's settled."

"No!"

"Too late!"

There was still shouting and arguing as they left the bookstore, taking with them priceless information that for once, didn't come from books.

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