Fire and Ice

Royals Down (Pt. 3)

                      [Flashback continued]
                              ~Levy's POV~

"Norman? Norman what's wrong?" I asked him as he ran out of the library.

I dropped the book I was reading and ran out after him.
At the door I stopped and watch as Norman rushed away and out of sight.

"Norman?" I whispered, knowing he wouldn't hear me.

Was it something he read?

Venturing back into the library I looked back through the shelves Norman ran out of.
I eventually found myself in the records section deep in the many bookcase of bound papers and filed parchments.

While hunting through the shelves for any sigh of Norman I felt the crunch of paper under my feet.

I peered down at my shoes to see that there wasn't one paper left on the ground but many. They were all scattered on the ground with a few other record books.

"Was this Norman's doing?" I mumbled to myself as I knelt down on the floor to read what he was looking at.

I read through several of the pages as books, taking a good amount of time to do so.
But now I finally had the whole picture.

I skimmed through the last page I found in one of the birth certificate books that was left out.
There I found two certificates, one Norman's and one of an Akatsuki.

Then as I looked on to the pages behind it, it became clear to me.

"The same person but a name change!" I called out looking at the certificate of Akatsuki.

For the father on the second birth record, all that was written was 'S. E.'.

"I know who that is.....that's.....oh no." I said standing up from shock.

I know why he left now.

Scrambling back to the floor I picked up all of the papers and ran to find Norman.
I wanted to tell him who S. E. was.

Exiting the library, stacks of pages in my hands, I raced down the hall to search for the brunette young man.

I decided to search our room first, he may have went there.
Running to the servant quarters, I burst through the door to see the room quiet and empty.

I walked across the room today Norman's bed, it was nicely made and plank.
Peering around I couldn't see any of Norman's things.

"Is he leaving?" I questioned to the air.

If he was leaving....then he would be in the stable yard.
Without hesitation I hurried up the stairs and rushed to the entrance.

Before I got there though a comforting face caught my eye.

"Gajeel!" I panted, running up to him.

"Levy? What the..." he began before I cut him off.

"I have to find Norman." I huffed, clenching the pages I still had close to my chest.