In The Times Of Fairy Tails

Drosselmayer's Mansion:
Parthenia:



Sara's pov:
A trap?! We saved your lives! It was no trap, it was a rescue. What a lie. "I do not know where you come from, but having a weapon out on someone does not mean that they are rescuing us or you could be." calming herself slightly "I grew up on the streets. When someone has a weapon on you there is no rescue. When on the streets a person with a weapon wants money or wants to kill you." Her anger a clearly there, but not what it once was. Then Clear said that they were not enemies. "If you want to join a guild then you can not trust everyone you come across. Not everyone is what they seem to be. I will go for this now. We do not know anything about Sugar Plum Princess." This was truth enough. Clearly they were not at all going to be helpful. What was the point of this? She was ready to do something else. She walked away from them she was ready to go. Ever since she lost her necklace her emotions were not the same. She wondered if she would be the same if she found it. It always seemed like it had some sort of power over her. It seemed like it only left her with shyness and nothing else. Then Alessia said something to her. She took a deep breath. She clamed herself down. "You are right Alessia." Did she have the power that the necklace once had on her or was this just some random thing? The sea of storms. How were they to get there? Then there was that name again. Prince Eric, who was he. What did he do or did not do? She turned back to Major Mint and Captain Candy she did not know what to do. Her emotions were under control for now, but for how long. "What mess? Who is Prince Eric? He did something. What did he do?" She had to say her intress was peaked. The sound of the Sugar Plum Princess, did she have some sort of magic? Did she have a weapon? There was so much unknown. One thing was for centan they needed answers. "What about the mouse king? What do you know of him? Why is he doing this? Is it for money, power something else?"

 

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There had been some tension in the air among the group. Between Dale and Ander made since seeing as how Ander had appeared to be on Dale's case for quite some time. With that in mind he figured that Dale being annoyed with Ander was giving off a pretty negative vibe. Whelp, there wasn't much that he could do about that. What he did do instead was to head towards the temple entrance. Therity had been the first to make her way towards the the inside of the temple so he just followed suit.

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Lucia had agreed with him in how they should leave a note for Ollie and she proceeded to do so once out of the pot. It certainly looked noticeable provided Ollie could read. The note was now taken care of so there was nothing stopping him from regrouping with the others. When he did he say the dumbstruck expression that Thomas had on his face. "Did something happen up here?"

With Zéphyrine's input it had been decided that Aoki would be the one to don on the maid outfit. That took care of one part which just left them getting her into the manor. If they could do that then they would be set. So she's just going to walk up to the manor, introduce herself and hopefully get let in. Sounds easy enough. Zephyr did a quick mental check on how he assumed things were suppose to play out. If things didn't work out like that, then Zéphyrine's already prepared to be Plan B.

 

Scarlett was relieved to see the group members exit the pot. Now maybe they could get back to the missio- And then Thomas kissed Annika. Scarlett watched the event unfold, her eyes widening a bit and her lips curled in annoyance and something she couldn't quite put her finger on. Her fists clenched and she squinted her eyes back into their normal pissed off position. "Yeah something happened here. That idiot is too busy fantasizing about the princess to be focused on this mission." Scarlett walked over to the group members who had just gotten out of the pot, thankfully alive (unfortunately Thomas was one of them). She considered slapping him or even punching him, but decided that she was so mad she'd probably knock him out. Instead she walked right up to him, within a few inches, and stared angrily at him. "You. You need to stop this. This is pathetic. Grow up a little. Learn to be ****ing mature. Now is not the time to be prancing around kissing people. Sooner or later you are going to jeopardize this mission and probably get all of us killed. Grow. The. ****. Up." With the last for words her glare hardened and she pointed an accusing finger at his chest, getting closer at each word until it hit his shirt on the last one. She pushed him back roughly (or at least tried to because no direct hits) and stared him down.​

 

Astedia: Forbidden Forest​

"Did he seriously just do that? He's braver then I thought" Aidan told Scarlett and Amanda.

Annika was too shocked to anything, for while Scarlett was cursing out Thomas, she saw the Jar of Dirt he had shine. It grew to his height.

"Annika, do you see what I see?" Brietta asked her.

“Thomas, you're a genius!"

"Thomas, the Jar. It's exactly your height. Exactly Your measure. A Measure of Courage." Brietta urged them to remember the item on their list. And in their surprise, the Jar turned into a long, purple staff, about Thomas' height.

"Look Sapphire Eclipse! We did it!" Annika said, hugging her sister. "Now, we just have to find a Gem of Ice, lit by hope's eternal flame."

“You actually think you’re going to build a wand of light?” Aidan scoffed.

"And your point is? What are you doing here anyway?" Annika asked.

“Trying to rescue you and your friends, again.” He said. “But it looks like they can take care of themselves. But that's not the point. You can't build a Wand Of Light, it's just an old Fairy Tale!"

"Did you see what just happened?!" Annika exclaimed, holding the staff.

"Okay, so that was a little weird, but nothing's normal in this forest. That's no Wand of Light. You know why? Because it doesn't exist."

 

Ra listened quietly as Ander told the story of his past. He'd been working with magic since he was incredibly young. Ra himself had started as a young boy, but not quite as young as Ander had. He nodded slightly, once he was done. "I see." He said, giving a simple acknowledgement. He didn't let on his opinion one way or another, more so just said that he understood. He could see why he thought he would be a suitable leader for the mission. Yet still, he'd never heard of Dale's past. He was clearly the more experienced of the two, despite Ander's long training. He'd withhold his opinion for the moment. In any case, it seemed they had reached their destination. In front of them stood the temple. "Still no sign of Calxiyn. Perhaps she is within..." He said to no one in particular.

 

Galuna Island:



Ander’s pov:
While walking towards the temple there was on thing left he wanted to tell Ra. "I do not want Dale to make the same mistakes I did. I did everything that I could, but it still happened. Dale needs to pay more attention to things going on, because one day if he does not change he will get someone killed, for his negative ways. I do not want to be to be a leader anymore Ra, but that does not mean I will stop helping those in need." If they did not want help should he still help? "My days of being a leader are over." Him being a leader got people killed. Unknown to him the whole thing was set up. While he waited for Ra to answer him or respond he looked at the others. Charlotte walked over to Dale and started talking to him. He would not put it past her to agree with him, after all that all she has been doing this mission. He would have to ask her about that. Then Veilen looked over to were Ra and him were talking. He did not seem that interested in what they were saying. Then there was Dale. If Dale did not get rid of chip there will be problems. Chip lives on Dale’s shoulder and he need to get rid of it. Dale should not treat people like he has. Then he reached the temple. Ra did not give really any thing that he was doing anything to take a side. Standing at the temple entrance was Charlotte and Ra. At least some people had enough brains not to go blindly into a unknown building. Ra then he said that Calxiyn was Perhaps inside the temple. He looked in to the temple and all he saw was Therity and Veilen. "Well she not in this spot. she either not here or in a different part of the temple." He stood at the entrance of the temple with Charlotte and Ra. Charlotte said that they should look into the temple. "Maybe Charlotte, but I am not so sure." Temples have a secrets in them. Secrets and traps. Maybe this one did not and they would not have to worry about that. He did not trust that though. "Temples have secrets, secrets that have been lost for a long time. Along with traps. This temple is old. I would not be surprised if this thing fell apart right now." In short this was dangerous going in there. He then looked at the walls and the floor of the temple closely, looking for any thing that might trigger a trap.

 

Drosselmayer's Mansion:

Parthenia​

"Prince Eric is the son of the King, who ruled before the Mouse King took over." Captain Candy explained. "He left the throne and the golden scepter to the royal adviser at the time, The Mouse. Until he could prove himself."

"The Mouse King wanted power, and now he has what he wants as King. He controls the fear and safety of all subjects in the Kingdom. Prove himself?! HMPF! HA! Yes that is the STORY everyone tells. Prove himself? BAH. He just wanted to goof off, and look where that has got us?! Something else with his life? Young Lady, do you see the gravity of the situation. Even if the Prince wished to do something else with his life, he should have never gave away the crown. There were many alternatives. But did he care, of course not, why- "


“Major Mint, you’re forgetting that Prince Eric was my friend.” Captain Candy laughed awkwardly, trying to stop the rant he had heard many times before.

Major Mint looked shocked, his arms crossed behind his back and he looked down on the Captain. “Captain Candy!? You are forgetting that I am your SUPERIOR.”

Captain Candy rolled his eyes.

“I had high hopes for that boy… Bluehuhuha. No matter I have more important things to do, like keeping the rest of the subjects safe.”

“Then maybe you should look through the Princess too.” Clara said, looking at the Nutcracker. He seemed very detached, as he looked away from the group.

“I don’t have time to search for some Sugar pie.” He started to cough.

“Sugar Plum.” She corrected.

“Imaginary Princess.” Major Mint continued.

~ Mission Information: Convince Major Mint and Captain Candy to join you, or ask questions ~

 

Drosselmayer's Mansion:
Parthenia:



Sara's pov:
She took a look at Thea. Thea was shaking her head. I will not stand by while someone takes blame Thea was so young. She thought back to the man she killed, what would he have done? He would have done what she was doing now, take the blame. Was that why he tired to get her to stop stealing? Thinking back, he would have took them blame for her if she ever was caught. Thea need someone that would, do that. She still wished someone in her life would be there for her. She was no longer in this guild for herself, for the money, she could make a difference. Her bow was the only thing holding her back. She would have to get someone to remove the curse from it. She looked at Major Mint and Captain Candy she wondered if they could help her. Then Captain Candy explained who prince Eric was. "Were is the king? With the prince Eric missing in action, shouldn't he be taking over?" It was odd that the king did not take over the kingdom. "To prove himself to who? To prove what?" The Mouse King wanted power. Of course he did. He controls the fear and safety of all subjects in the Kingdom. "Why? If people banded together they could take him down." She still did not get why people would be afraid of him. "You say that prince Eric went off to goof off. That Prince Eric wished to do something else with his life. That he should have never gave away the crown. That there were many alternatives. That he did not care, and he should not care. To me Prince Eric seems like he was in it for him self. That all he thinks of is him." This got her thinking this could work. She smiled before saying anything else. "Are you any better? You say prince Eric done these things, but you are doing the same thing. You are turning your back on people that need your help." She let this sink in before continuing. "You are just like everyone else in this world. You are in it for your self. Unless you want to prove me wrong and come with us then you can get going."

 

Drosselmayer's Mansion

Jack's pov: "You say this prince is goofing off. How do you know what he is doing? Maybe the mouse stole the crown from him and capture him. Or the prince got away. Either way I haven't heard anything to make me believe he went to goof off other that what you believe he did through storys. How do you know these stories are real? Did you see him goof off. Who told you these stories? If your trying to protect the people what are you doing here? You don't seem better then he is, you ran off. I agree with Sara prove your better then him. You ran away so maybe your the ones goofing off and your blameing the prince for what your doing. Also how is Thea's fire going to help wouldn't any fire work?" Something didn't add up they said they were trying to to protect the people then why were they in the middle of nowhere trying to trap strangers.

Astedia

Amanda's pov: How was kissing someone a show of courage? These parts must not know what courage is. "Ok so were is the next part?" She asked shyly.

 

Scarlett was too absorbed in her rant that she hasn't noticed the jar of dirt grow. Once the princess pointed it out, Scarlett took a small step back and her mouth opened a little. Her face was a mix of confusion and surprise and a little bit of awe. Once Thomas turned back to her, she tried to wipe it off so he wouldn't see. She put one hand on her hip as rolled her eyes as he tried to show off with a little side smirk, I should wipe that annoying little smirk off his face in one punch. But, she didn't. They had more important things to do. "Congratulations on accomplishing one small thing in the entire span of your lifetime. Do you want a freakin medal or something?" She rolled her eyes sarcastically, irritated at his edge over her. She hated second place, especially to someone like Thomas. At this moment she realized she was still standing really close to Thomas. She hesitated for a fraction of a second, but quickly stepped away, annoyed. They needed to get this mission completed already.

 

"Don't mess up, ok? Break a leg." Zéphyrine told Aoki. That's when, from out of the ground below them, a giant, titan sized maid stood on the marble.

"So you're a maid?" The maid narrowed her eyes at Aoki. "I assume you're here, because you saw the ad the master placed in the paper." The booming, masculine voice said.

"Did I hear someone say master?!" The Master also came out of the ground, twirling his mustache. He looked at Aoki. "Let's see here..." He looked at her intently. "I'll pass, now scram ugly."

Zéphyrine's jaw dropped. "Who does this guy think he is?!" She said from behind a tree.

"Sorry, but a man of my standing has certain standards to upload." He said, as a crowd of interesting looking maids crowded around him. "That's why I only hire the fairest of the fair."

 

As Lucia was waiting for an answer from someone about Thomas, the ever so kind and nurturing being that was Scarlett, had decided to fill them in on what had just happened. While she was ranting and raving at Thomas about how much of a stupid idiot he was being, Lucia started to notice that something was shining on his person as it grew into a large wand. Apparently that was the measure of courage they were looking for. So, that was pretty dang swell. Scarlett however, didn't really seem to appreciate Thomas's actions still, and was still acting like one of the most obnoxious people she had ever met. Lucia looked back to Thomas, who seemed both happy and smug, and Annika, the kissed, who seemed relatively unfazed by the whole thing. Lucia looked at Scarlett with a bit of a questioning look on her face and said, "listen, no harm was done to anyone and in fact, we're way better off than before he did anything. I mean, I know it must be hard seeing as you seem to just have the worst bed ever that you just keep waking up on the wrong side of it, but could you quit being such a snarky prick to him?"

She then turned to Thomas and walked over to him. Giving a hefty congratulatory pat on the back to the young magical gunslinger, she said, "way to go Thomas, your overzealous antics have finally done something. So congrats on your courage. Put 'em here!" with a grin on her face she held out her hand to the boy for a high five. After that was done with, she then exclaimed out, "alright. Time to go get some ice and fire!" She bet there was also an awesome song about them too.

 

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As Scarlet gave them a pretty bitter explanation of what had happened while they were gone, Zwei was more concerned with the jar of dirt that turned into a wand which was definitely an odd thing to see. Annika, who was more concerned about the wand that had appeared than the fact that she was kissed out of nowhere, had said that the jar of his measure of courage. Well it certainly took courage to kiss a girl out of nowhere, just as it was lucky that she didn't just outright slap him. So he guessed that it all made sense. "Where are we suppose to find fire and ice anyway?"

 

As Aoki was standing there, a bit on the nervous side given just what she was doing, it was then that a crazy pink haired maid had just sort of popped out of the ground and looked straight at Aoki. She was a bit taken a back by the large woman's appearance but simply nodded her head when the maid asked if she was here because of the job application. It was then that the master of the house had appeared and decided to size the blue haired girl up...only for her to be immediately rejected. She froze in place and was slightly in disbelief as she was called ugly and she saw some of the other more, "beautiful" maids. She twitched in anger for just a moment, as she was ready to absolutely murder the man and all that he had stood for at that very moment...but murder was a crime...and jail wasn't a nice place to be.

Despite the internal rage equivalent to the fury of four stars exploding in perfect synchronization, her face had become one that seemed saddened as she bowed to the man before her and said, "please, I may not be up to your standards in appearance," no matter how absolutely garbage they happened to be, "but I have no where else to go to acquire work," literally picking any other job on the mission board would have been better. "Besides, who wouldn't want to work under the esteemed and well renowned Sir Everlue?" most likely anyone with more than a few brain cells. "So please, would you allow me to be a part of your workforce and learn the ways to make myself more desirable from your already lovely maids?" It was going to be a long time before she had any semblance of something known as "shame" after this.

 

Drosselmayer's Mansion:

Parthenia​

"The King was murdered by the Mouse King, not too long before Prince Eric left the crown to him. Of course we had no idea he was the murderer until after." Captain Candy explained. "He wanted to prove he could rule the land with the greatness of his father. Maybe you're right Silva."

"Banded together!? You have not heard the tales. Others have tried, he's turned them all to sautes, lawn ornaments, paper weights, book ends! "

Major Mint looked shocked again. His eyes going wide. "In it for ourselves!? Why young lady, I'll have you know- How do we know?! Young man, we were the King's trusted members of the court, and the royal guard! We are here to plan! That's how we are protecting people! RAN OFF?! YOU THINK WE'RE COWARDS?!"

“We will go with you, of course we will.” Captain Candy winked, picking up on Sara and Jack's trick. He also had some kind of sadness seeing Thea so upset. He knelt down and put his hand on her shoulder “I once overheard the King telling Prince Eric about a Powerful Princess. The King himself believed in her Magic, and we've tried everything else.”


“Hmmm...Do you know where she is?” Major Mint asked, obvious to the young girls crying.

“We've learnt she's on an island, across the Sea of Storms.” The Nutcracker told them.

“Very well, we’ll all go looking for this Sugar Plum Princess. But I’ll be in charge of the expedition!"

“As you wish.” Nutcracker said, bowing a little. “We should rest.” He told the group, as The Nutcracker walked outside of the office craved into the tree, in which they had been taken into before, the the Captain caught his arm.

“Do you know what became of the Prince?” Captain Candy asked sadly. The Nutcracker put his good arm on his shoulder.

“The Mouse King destroyed him..” The Nutcracker replied, with the same amount of sadness. The Captain hung his head.


~ Mission Information: Free Time: Talk to each other, Clara, The Nutcracker, The Major, The Captain, Sleep, Look Around, Etc ~

Astedia: Forbidden Forest​

“Like I'm going to take advice from you lover boy. Gem of ice.. Idiots." Aidan said. He didn't need a kid to prove the existence of some make believe wand.

"Anymore helpful comments?" Annika rolled her eyes irritated.

"Nope, that about does it. I'm going home." Aidan lifted up his hands in surrender, before walking to his horse.

"You live around here?" Annika asked, a smug look on her face as she crossed her arms.

"As a matter a fact." He raised an eyebrow.

"Funny, I'm not surprised."

"Pf. Wand of Light... what a load of bullshit. Go ahead, knock yourselves out!"

"What an *******." Annika groaned at her sister.

"But cute."

"I... didn't notice. Still that doesn't change his-"

"Umm hmm." Something suddenly caught Annika's eye. Aidan's sword.

“Wait… that sword, where did you get it?”

“I made it.” He said proudly.

"You made it?" Annika asked amused.

"Don't sound so surprised, some people actually pay for my work."

"Like us!" Brietta jumped in. "Remember Aidan, we said we would pay you. We need your help, We'll need someone like you to put the wand together."

"Like me?"

"Skilled."

"I'm busy."

"Please Aidan. We don't have a lot of time. We have to safe my parents, my people. I... I made a mistake. And I need a second chance." Annika took him honestly, hanging onto his sleeve. Aidan looked somehow moved by these words, like something about them clicked with him.

"Another chance?"

"We'll pay you for your services. Right Scarlett, Amanda? You heard them before. All the gems you can carry."

"Okay." Aidan finally gave in, and shone a small small. "I know just where we need to go, but we'll have to walk." Aidan got onto his horse, and Annika onto Brietta.

~ Mission Information: Talk to Annika, Brietta, Aidan, each other, look around, etc ~

 

Drosselmayer's Mansion:
Parthenia:



Sara's pov:
She stood there not believing what Jack was doing. He going to mess up the plan. Well there goes that idea. She gave him a sharp look. What was with him? Men nothing but problems. This one in particular, she wanted to throw off the edge of the tree house and never see him again. How could someone be so dumb? Now the chance of them getting help from Major Mint and Captain Candy dropped, because of Jack. Then Thea said she wanted to help and beat the mouse king. She then gave a sharp glance at Major Mint and Captain Candy. What have they done? They made a young girl cry. What was with these two men uggh men again, nothing, but problems all of them. Then Silvia opened her moth and said something. Tying prove himself by fixing everything. ok maybe. This plan is so not going work now, because people are dumb. Learn to think people. apparently that was to hard for them. The King was murdered. Well that makes since, that he was no were to be seen. Lucky that Major Mint and Captain Candy did not take what Jack said the wrong way. oh good they did not listen to that dumb head. Needless to say her plan worked. Jack was the least helpful person here right now. At least Major Mint and Captain Candy had enough since to listen to her. Captain Candy picked up on what she was trying to do and before Major Mint could say other wise they joined them. Good it worked. She was quite happy with herself. Now to find the nearest ledge and accidently push Jack off opps. oh well we did not need him any way. She looked at the nutcracker. The Prince just went missing and then he shows up. The more she thought about it the more she thought that the nutcracker was the prince. "The prince maybe closer then you think." She eyed the nutcracker closely. Captain Candy seemed to be taking care of Thea so no reason to go there, Jack was useless, Beucette was who knew were, Mikuzi was no fun. That just left Silvia, and Alessia left to talk to. Now which one to talk to? Maybe it was best she did not talk to anyone. She took one last look at the two and headed for the door.

 

Drosselmayer's Mansion

Jack's pov: "Are you sure he is gone? Are you the prince?" He whispered to the nutcracker. He turned to Silvia "I noticed you like healing people. Who tought you, or are you self tought? Maybe we can teach each other things. I went around healing people before I joined the guild. Do you use plants with your healing or do you use tea? How about just using the cure spell? I know there are some useful stuff in books I have read.

Astedia

Amanda's pov: "your not actually going to reword him are you? He should help us regardless of a reword." She wispered to Annika.

 

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"Is that what he calls fair? I heard this backwards country had different standards but I didn't expect them to be... well... this different. Judging by his other maids I'd probably make a more suitable servant for this guy than the girl we sent out" Malkira stated, after noticing the looks he got he glared back at them "That doesn't mean I'm doing it!" he thought for a second "Zephyros... Zephyrine sorry... if you can shapeshift can you become... less attractive? I know it's not fashionable but it might be our best shot". Malkira was tired of waiting around, he turned to Edric "Taking seven people onto this mission just to have one person infiltrate is illogical. I have concluded that there is more required from us, could you elaborate?"