LSMR

It was just another normal day in Magnolia. The people were out and about and having a great time on this beautiful spring day. This was also a rare time of peace where there were no great threats to the country or its people. One person in particular was looking forward to a nice day of writing and relaxing. This was none other than Fairy Tail’s resident novelist Lucy Heartfilia. The busty blond was smiling as she opened her window and felt a faint breeze blow against her face. She smiled as she looked out into her town, she loved living here. She had the best friends, the best job and she had all the time in the world. Life was good. She looked over at her writing desk where she had a stack of paper and pens at the ready for another productive day of writing. She had her coffee poured and was ready to begin. But as she took a step closer to her desk…it seemed further away…she shook her head as she imagined this was just her head playing tricks on her. Taking another step…the

“Why did you bother coming here, Zach? You knew from the start this was just another false lead,” Zach Mason chided himself come the third hour of his expedition into Wilburton forest. “Remember how after your last wild goose chase you promised you'd be more selective of what leads to follow? Now here you are, one month later, going into another forest because one kid told you there were fairies in here. He probably saw some birds or butterflies when he was half-asleep and dreamt they were fairies, like the other kid half a year back who mistook a raccoon for a gnome, or the one who thought the deer walking by her window at night was the Jersey devil.” But for all that he kept berating himself, Zach refused to turn around, walking still deeper into the forest despite his aching feet and the developing sunburn on the nape of his neck. Even after more than ten years of nothing but false leads and dead ends, he couldn't let so much as a single reported sighting go unexplored, lest it