Sisters Returning Home to Find a Book
"Wow, I can't believe we're finally here!" Elina excited.
"Yep, sure felt like forever since we've seen it consider we were in another world." Leina said.
"Indeed, it's not like castle we used to live in, but seeing it now makes my heart feel at east." Claudette smiled as Lucy smiles of seeing her older sisters recognizing their home. The giant mansion that the sisters and team Natsu are standing in front of it.
The reason they're here is because after fighting three of the Legion Platoon and the clock key that Lucy had was stolen by them, they decided to figure out what's going on and find out more about this mysterious clock the Platoon wanted it so badly. Lucy had an idea that they may be able to find a clue or two at the sisters' former home, the Heartfilia mansion.
"Doesn't this place look familiar?" Natsu asked, trying to remember.
"This is where Lucy grew up or in this case, Lucy and her sisters grew up." Erza answered.
"Wow, I never thought you lived in a place like this." Wendy amazed.
"I'll say, you must've been loaded with tons of crash." Nanael commented.
"Yep, this is the place was my home before I joined Fairy Tail." Lucy said.
"It looks like someone has been keeping this place clean." Happy pointed out.
"Yeah, now that you mentioned it. Dad lost all the money and went to join that banking guild." Elina recalled.
"I would've thought the place would be abandoned by now." Leina blurted out.
"I suppose they'd want to keep it clean and well maintained until a buyer can be found." Carla stated while being held in Wendy's arms.
"Apparently, that hasn't been easy. People have checked it out, but nobody's made an offer to buy it." Lucy explained.
"Because nobody can afford it." Gray added.
"Really?" Lucy, just how much land did you say our family owns?" Elina asked curious.
"All the way up to that mountain." Lucy pointed at the mountain and the three older sisters became completely shock that the Heartfilia family were that rich.
"…I had no idea we were that loaded." Leina said.
"Trust me, we were all pretty shocked when Lucy told us about her home even Erza was in a complete daze." Happy explained.
"Yet we have no idea of how me, Leina, and Elina ended in that other world and lost our memories of our family here." Claudette pointed out as the question has been pondering in her head for a while now.
"I'm sure there's an explanation behind it." Michelle hoped.
"So, Michelle, you used to play with us whenever you came here to visit?" Elina asked.
"Oh yes, your house always reminds me of a beautiful palace." Michelle nodded.
"I guess we wouldn't know about that since we were separated, but I bet we used to do a lot of fun stuff together." Leina said.
"That's right, we played any kind of game we can think of and Lucy used to make me dresses too." Michelle mentioned.
"Huh, I made dresses for you?" Luck confused.
"Was mother with her to help because I don't think Lucy could handle a needle without poking her finger a few times." Claudette asked.
"Oh no, the dresses she used to make for were made of papers and flowers." Michelle explained causing the Four-Star sisters to gasp while blushing.
"Now that's a weird hobby." Gray commented.
"How exactly do you even wear papers and flowers?" Natsu asked. Then the boys started imagining them wearing bikinis made of papers and flowers which made them chuckle a bit until their thoughts were stopped when the Four-Star sisters smack them hard.
"Don't be all creepy!" They shouted at the same time.
Soon, everyone went inside the mansion and Erza gave the boys a good scolding to take this mission serious.
"Okay. Where do you think we should get started?" Wendy asked.
"Yes, and what type of clues should we be looking for?" Carla added the question.
"The first order of business is splitting into teams two. Each team will take a different area and scour every room from top to bottom. We're looking for old clocks. Anything related to clocks. If something reminds you of the inscription, take note of it. Any literature written in ancient Potamelian. Anything out of the ordinary, clues may present themselves in any form, so keep an open mind." Erza explained the goal of the search mission through the mansion.
The pair has been decided that Gray will go with Erza, Wendy with Carla, Natsu with Happy, Claudette with Elina, Lucy with Leina, and Michelle will be with Nanael though she want to go with Lucy and Elina so the two teams join forces.
Everyone splits into different areas of the mansion, they search for whatever they can find about the mysterious clock and its pieces also about the what the weird writing on it, but so far no one has found anything though they'll keep searching.
Lucy's group went upstairs to search through the attic.
"Oh my, there's certainly a lot of furniture up here." Michelle pointed out.
"Yeah, there's a lot of stuff in general. Some of it priceless. And I'm sure some of it's and I'm sure some of it completely worthless." Lucy said.
"If some of them are completely worthless then why even keep them?" Nanael asked.
"Man, this all this stuff wasn't here than this place will be all roomy to hang out sometime or maybe make into a new room." Elina said.
"I guess so." Lucy chuckled then notice Michelle staring at a cloth. She walks there and remove the cloth revealing old painting of Lucy as a little girl with her mom and dad though there are some ripped holes.
"Hey, that's you!" Elina squealed a little seeing how cute Lucy was as a kid.
"I remember posing for this, it wasn't long before Mom passed away." Lucy remembered that time." Lucy remembered that time.
"It must've been the time after me, Leina, and Claudette were taken away too." Elina said sad as she looks at the picture of her long-lost mother, she looked just like Lucy but older and beautiful.
"I had a heck of a time sitting still for this painting, all I wanted to do was play. It was really hard on me when I lost her." Lucy explained.
"I know the feeling; we had a mom back in the other world who looked just like Leina. She died in the Queen's Blade tournament." Elina explained.
"I took it out on everyone, and I think I was a little terror. I probably just made the whole thing harder for them." Lucy recalled.
"It's okay." Michelle comforted her.
"Yeah, it's not easy getting over the loss of someone you love, especially at a young age." Elina said also comforting Lucy.
"And as an Angel myself, I'm sure your parents are happy together in Heaven watching over you all." Nanael said which made Lucy and Elina happy to hear that.
"Someday, I'm gonna get enough money to buy this place! I'll put everything back how it used to be!" Lucy determined shocking Michelle as tears began to come out.
"I'm sure your father would be very happy." Michelle smiled.
"Sheesh, no need to get all emotional like that." Elina chuckled.
"Hey, Michelle just gave me an idea." Lucy said.
(Study Room)
"Wow, this is amazing!" Michelle amazed upon seeing hundreds of books in the room.
"Whoa, I forgot we had this many books here that dad brought!" Elina shocked of seeing so many books here.
"This was Dad's library, he's actually the reason that I grew up to be such a bookworm myself." Lucy explained.
"I'm guessing you were bored when you ran out of fun things to play in the house." Nanael giggled making Lucy laugh nervous.
"There's so many!" Michelle amazed.
"And I'm willing to bet there's a book here that'll give us a clue." Lucy believed.
"Mind if we help out?" Leina asked as she and Claudette walked into the library.
"Leina, Claudette, did you guys find anything?" Elina asked.
"No, we searched the part of the house we were at and found nothing, I can believe that the others aren't having much luck as we are." Leina answered shaking her head.
"So, we decided to come see how your search was going and see that you may have idea for coming here." Claudette added.
"Yep, start searching girls!" Lucy said and all five of the sisters started checking every book they can think it might be, but none of the books seem to have the clues they need.
"Oh man, looking through all these is gonna take forever." Lucy winced.
"Damn it, why does dad have so many books…?" Elina complained.
"Calm down, Elina, I'm sure we'll find the right book." Leina assured.
"What about this one?" Michelle showed Lucy the found she book that titled "To My Daughter" which Lucy admits that she never seen this book before.
Lucy opens the book and flip through all the pages finding the book to be completely blank.
"How odd, why would there be a blank book in father's library?" Leina confused.
"Maybe an author had a writers block and ask your dad to keep it safe for a while." Nanael guessed.
"No, I think there's more to this book than what it appears to be." Claudette stated.
"Maybe a spell was caste on it, and I wonder about something else…" Michelle looked up from the book and stare at Lucy's Celestial Spirit Crux as he appears be sleeping.
"Is he asleep?" Michelle asked.
"No, he's doing a search. If anyone can figure this out, it's Grandpa Crux." Lucy answered and suddenly the snort-bubble from Crux's nose pop and he screams loud that scared most of the girls except for Lucy as she's use to this.
"Any luck?" Lucy asked.
"What we have here is nothing more than a stack of incredibly old paper. There are no spells, invisible inks, or watermarks to be found inside. And it would appear to be the case that your late father himself bound the book by hand." Grandpa Crux reported.
"I see, is there anything else worth mentioning?" Luck asked.
"Like if you never scream like that again." Elina said shaken up a little.
"I do have a suggestion for you: it might serve you well to consider approaching this book as a riddle of some sort. Think of the tittle "To My Daughter", perhaps it could be an anagram?" Crux said.
"Yeah, you're right." Lucy understand this.
"So, we should rearrange the letters?" Michelle asked.
(Later)
Natsu and Happy walk into the library after finding nothing about the clock or anything related to that.
"Damn it, all that searching a complete waste." Natsu complained.
"Let's go search for some food." Happy suggested as he feels a little hungry.
Natsu notice something he just stepped on, looking down to see a piece of paper with a single letter and look around seeing a bunch of those on the floor. And not just that, but also the whole team is here looking through the letters.
"You guys just playing a game?" Natsu asked.
"No, we're not." Wendy protested.
"Please, be quiet." Erza demanded.
"We're trying to concentrate." Gray said.
"Is it some kind of puzzle?" Happy asked curious.
"Yeah, you could say that." Nanael said.
"We're figuring out anagrams. It's basically just a word puzzle." Lucy explained as Natsu act like he knew.
"Well, might as well join you guys since Happy and I didn't find anything." Natsu said.
"Don't know, Natsu, you're much of a thinker and" Leina's sentence was cut off when Natsu suddenly sneezed blowing the papers away.
"You just ruined our train of thoughts!" Carla snapped.
"And we were working hard on it too." Wendy winced.
"Sorry, my bad." Natsu apologized just before avoiding Erza's sword who is more angry about this.
"I was on the verge of a huge breakthrough!" Erza claimed.
"Erza looks pretty serious, doesn't she?" Wendy asked scared of seeing Erza angry.
"Yeah, no kidding. Remind me to never break her out of her concentration." Gray said scared of Erza too.
"Calm down, Erza. It was just an accident, but I believe Natsu may have given us a clue." Claudette said confusing the others until she points down at four letters put together. Crux wake up screaming again.
"The letters before you are spelled "myth"." Crux said.
"Will you PLEASE stop doing that?!" Elina demanded.
"Hmph. That could be important." Crux believed, ignoring Elina.
"I think he might be on to something." Gray stated.
"So, what can we spell with the other letters?" Erza asked.
Soon, they managed to put together all the letters together into two words that goes along with the myth word.
"Duo. Great. Myth." Claudette read the words.
"Oh, I know!" Lucy realized what those letters mean.
"Check it out. There is a pair of books known as "the two great myth", both were written by Will Neville. One is called "Life of the Clockwork" and it also just happens to be where the strange inscription came from!" Lucy explained.
"You have that book in your apartment, isn't that right?" Michelle recalled seeing that book.
"Yep! Talk about a coincidence!" Lucy said.
"And instinct is telling that the second book is here too!" Leina said cheerfully.
"You got that right." Lucy smirked before going to one of the bookshelves to find that very book, a minute later and Lucy came back with the book in her hand.
"Ta-da! "Key of the Starry Heavens"!" Lucy showed the book.
"Isn't that just a picture book?" Natsu confused of why this book is so special.
"It's not just a picture book, it's an amazing work of art!" Lucy offended that she liked this book when she was a little girl.
"Well, whatever it is, I bet ya the word 'key' is pretty important." Gray said.
"This book was written by the same author who wrote the other book that knows the written on the clock piece then that means this book may hold other information about the whole clock." Claudette theorized.
"It seems like the perfect place to begin looking for that." Erza agreed.
"You guys think it could be another anagram?" Lucy asked.
"I don't think so, maybe if we look at the book in a different way, we maybe able to find something." Leina said.
Meanwhile, as the others talk about the book Carla is looking at the front cover of the book getting a strange feeling from it and started seeing that the person on the cover turns around being all gray color with a scary face and it spoke to her in a deep dark voice.
"Don't…"
Carla gasp that the character suddenly spoke, Wendy notice this and ask if she's okay.
"I don't know if there will anything to do with the clock hand or not, but maybe my dad left some kind of message for me to find inside this book." Lucy believed.
"Well, then I guess it's about time we greet the two uninvited guests who are waiting outside right now." Nanael blurted out.
"What?!" Everyone shocked.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Lucy and the gang have searched through the Heartfilia mansion until they found the next clue about the clock pieces in the form of a children picture book, and Nanael just told them that two strangers are here too right after they found the book. They'll have to prepare themselves for when these strangers reveal themselves as they probably come for the book too.
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