Home (Book 3)

Chapter Sixteen

Canissa's POV

Oh no.

I looked at the room. It was deathly quiet. Nothing was heard. The room was... blood-stained. The blood smelled fresh. It was the smell of... something familiar. But I couldn't wrap my head around it. The blood was stained on the walls, on the ground, and there was something shiny on the floor. I started to slowly make my way over to the shiny item.

"Cani!!!" Someone shouted. Natsu. "Be quick!"

I sighed and quickly ran back up the 777 stairs. I looked behind me one last time. It worried me, but I have to find Musicaux. I ran over to the left hallway, then up a set of stairs, then to the right hallway, and saw a purple door. I sighed with relief.

Then I frowned. It was a magical door. Maybe it was the writing room I found. I went in and I was correct. The old books were still there. Sky Crete Mey. I smiled at the wonderful book. I looked at the book and frowned.

"Gate of the Southern Cross, I open thee! Crux!" I chanted, holding up Crux's key. A light appeared and when it disappeared, Crux appeared.

"Canissa-san, how may I help you?" Crux asked politely.

"This book looks weird, maybe you can help me figure out what's wrong with it." I replied.

He glanced at the book and nodded. Then, he... fell asleep? "Um, Crux-san?" I asked. He stayed quiet. What a weird spirit.

"GAH!" He exclaimed, scaring the daylights out of me.

"Kya!" I exclaimed.

"I am very sorry for scaring you, Canissa-san." Crux said. "I found nothing about the book at all, but I have a theory."

Crux paused, asking for my permission to continue. I nodded indicating that he may continue. "Back when Lucy-san was still alive, around seven years ago, there was a mystery she solved. The clue her father left her led her to the Infinity Palace. Try switching the letters around."

"Oh." I replied. It made a lot of sense. I looked over at the book Sky Crete Mey. Hmm... Sky Crete Mey. "Um, Crux-san, I'm not very good with puzzles so can you help me?" I asked, embarrassed.

"Well, there may be multiple words, so you see, the title has three words, so maybe the secret message might have three words as well." Crux said and I nodded. "The words can't be that long, so the look at it and make up some words."

I looked at the title. "Cry." I said.

"Good, now cross C R and Y off your list and make up some other words that don't have the letters C R and Y." Crux nodded approvingly.

"Meets." I said.

"Good, one last one." Crux sighed.

"Um... you can't spell anything with K Y E and T." I whined.

"It may be a name." Crux sighed again. "I must be going, good luck, Canissa-san." With that, he disappeared.

"Name..." I mumbled. They can be Tkye, Keyt, Ekty, Etyk, Tkey, Tyke, and so many more. "But the most possible is probably Kety, Tyke, Tkye, and Keyt." I turned the book around. There was a huge H written behind it. Should I add H to the list?

"What if I got the whole thing wrong?" I asked myself. "What if the words aren't MEET, CRY and something else?" I inspected the whole thing once again. Around 4 minutes later, I realized that I was still in the Dragon World and Natsu is still waiting outside. I grabbed Sky Crete Mey and Noun Pleat Aim (the really weird book) and hurried outside. Natsu was still waiting there, frowning.

"Took you long enough." Natsu glared at me. "Send us back home now!"

"Don't order me around, Natsu." I said. I held up an emerald key with the earth drawn on it. "Portal to Earthland, I open thee!" I chanted. A portal appeared and Natsu rushed in. I shook my head and walked in with both books securely in my hand.