Fairy Tail: A Twist In Tale

4

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Episode 4: Part 1

It's been a week. Seven days. A hundred and sixty-eight hours. Ten thousand and eighty minutes. One hundred and four thousand, eight hundred seconds.

That's how long they have been in Oakland village.

Lucy ran a hand through her now scattered blonde hair as she sat in the golden roomed library, trying to read a novel but failing to. It's very hard to read a novel when your mission hasn't been completed.

How? You ask. It's simple to explain. Like really simple. To not bore with the details, just know that the Fairy Tail members are finding the mission much harder than they thought. And that 'hard' is a big one.

To make you not think that the Fairy Tail members are being lazy, or that they can't do the job, or that they didn't want to leave the golden castle -which they don't want to, by the way- I'll explain it to you.

Of course, the king had said that the kidnappings only happened at night, so the Fairy Tail members thought it wise to be awake at night and watch the village. And in order to do so awake and agile as they watched, the Fairy Tail members decided to sleep earlier than usual, so as to have the energy to watch the village and maybe fight the kidnappers, but that hasn't been happening. For some reason, they couldn't wake up, no matter how much they tried. They just couldn't wake up until morning.

Luckily for them, no child has been kidnapped. Yet.

"Knew you'd be here." Lucy quickly looked up from the novel she was trying to read -where she was still trying to focus on the first paragraph- when she heard the voice.

"Hey Z." She greeted and turned her eyes back to the novel titled 'Under The Stars' by some guy name Tadashi Kiyosaki. The front cover of the book was beautified with stars and two people, a boy and a girl, their faces not seen but gazing at the stars with their hands holding each other.

Because of her all day planning to catch the kidnappers and rescue the missing children, she hasn't had the time to keep on hating the thirteen mages who followed her on the mission -when they weren't invited. So their friendship was better, at least until their mission has been completed and they reluctantly return to their non-gold guild. Then, she'd go back to hating and ignoring them.

For now, let them just get along so that they could leave sooner.

"Trying to read a book but can't?" Zeref asked as he made his way to the seat opposite Lucy. Lucy waited for him to seat down before she answered.

"Yes," She sighed. "My mind has just been to distracted thinking of the mission to actually read this book. For all I know, I haven't gotten through the first paragraph of the book." Giving up on reading the book, she closed it before dropping it on the table. She gave her full attention to the most powerful mage to ever live and may ever live.

"Can't blame you, none of us can concentrate on any other thing. Even Natsu has trouble with focusing on eating and fighting with Gray." Lucy arched an eyebrow and Zeref started to re-think what he said. "Okay, maybe that was over-exaggerated but you get my point."

Lucy ran a hand through her hair again for the millionth time that day, clearly frustrated.

"I just don't understand; if only I can understand this situation. First, no matter how hard we try, we can't wake up in the night -which I am surprised to hear myself say. Who in their right mind would try so hard to wake up in the night and fail?! And it's even more confusing that not even the parents who are practically living in the same house as them, don't wake up when their kids are being kidnapped. I mean, can't they hear the screams and shouts of their children as they're being kidnapped, because it's not possible for a child to be kidnapped without at least giving a struggle! It's just too confusing and strange. It's like they-including us!- have been casted a spell that makes a person, even a mage to never wake up when they intend to -gosh, I sound like a mad person! And the-" Lucy cut herself short. Her brain had be circling and she was beginning to realize something. Zeref seemed to have also, because he gazed at her thoughtfully, like she just said the mystery behind magic.