Kick Forty Seven: Explaining Natsu
Previously on FPG:

"He's not Natsu." Mira finished.

"Yeah..."

"Well, you know what that means," Mira smirked, "It's time to put Natsu to the test."

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Zeref's eyes scanned the page, eyebrows furrowed in concentration. Wendy sighed her chin resting in the crook of her palm. Grandeeney stood on the ladder, gathering more books from her shelf. 

"Mom, have you find anything on where his location could be?" Wendy asked, looking up for a brief moment. 

"No sweetie, but I'm trying."  Grandeeney's glasses slid down her nose, her hair falling down her face, sighing, she continued to search. 

Zeref sighed frustratingly, "Shouldn't we ask for Lucy's help?" 

"No Zeref. We can't work that poor girl up anymore, she's been through hell." Grandeeney said, "Besides, it's safer if she doesn't know."

"But Mom, what if we tied him up? Questioned him. Lucy may have already noticed anyway, she's really smart."

"Wendy..."

"No, she's right, Lucy has to have noticed by now-"

At that moment, Lucy and Mira came in. Lucy's eyes scanned over every book, every face, and she felt the tension the Dragneel's were spurring. 

"I know Natsu isn't Natsu!" Lucy exclaimed, "And Mira and I have an idea." 

Mira chimed in, holding up a white scaled scarf, almost the exact same as Natsu's, "We're putting him to the test."  

Grandeeney sighed, "Oh boy." 

Wendy and Zeref looked at one another smirking, knowing Lucy would come through quickly enough. Grandeeney smiled to herself, she guessed this would happen, and she was right, Lucy and Natsu had been together for a long time.

"Well, get up kids, we don't have all day." Mira skipped cheerfully out of the room, grinning to herself for what was coming. 

~Several Hours Later~

"Okay, so you're telling me that Natsu isn't Natsu, and that the actual Natsu is being held in a prison camp?" Gray asked, one eyebrow cocked up. 

"That's ridiculous, there's no way-" Gajeel stopped in the middle of his sentence. 

Gray and Gajeel looked to each other, "When we left the bunker before we went to war!" 

In unison, the boys looked at the map, drawing several different shapes. Afterwards, they labeled them. 

"If we count the time it took us in the showers, the dining hall, and the middle of the night, it would have been easy to take Natsu." Gray said.

Gajeel nodded, "He didn't want to eat anything, which as all of you can agree, is very unlike Natsu."

Everyone nodded in agreement. 

"So they had to take him before you went to dinner, right? Then when would they have taken him?" Lucy asked.

"The showers, Natsu got out first, and we heard the front door open, we just assumed he was going to grab something to eat. 

"Hmm," Levy pondered, "Then Natsu must've been on his way there, when someone knocked him out with something." 

"What makes you think he was knocked out Lev?" Juvia asked. 

"It's Natsu," Lucy giggled, "He wouldn't go down without a fight."

"Okay, then, everyone knows what happened," Jellal said, "But what's the plan?"

"The plan is, we all go and hide in the Dragneel's house," Mira starts, "And then, Lucy will ask him where his scarf went," Mira continued, "When Natsu looks at her weird, we all jump and tie him to a chair, then go from there."

Lucy nodded in agreement, "On my signal."

The group hummed in agreement, getting ready to hide in the Dragneel's Mansion. Lucy took the look alike scarf from Mira, sighing, "I hope this works,"

"It will Lucy, have faith."