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Zerkon was filled with maliciousness towards silver after his remarks.He had finally snapped "Secrets...flaws...stains...BULLSHIT!" Zerkon's anger flared up. "You don't know anything! No one is perfect! "Zerkon walked up to Silver's unconscious body. "We're fairy tail! We accept each other, flaws and all! But YOU wouldn't know about that, Would you? You are coward and a traitor!" Zerkon aimed a full force kick at Silver's chest, not caring about his injuries. "You abandoned us!" Another kick was aimed at his back."How could Mirajane ever love a cruel wretch such as yourself!" Zerkon pointed and explosion blade at his neck. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you selfish,egotiscal, Son of a-

"That's right...kill him. It's what you're for, right? Anger is such a wonderful thing, isn't it?"

"No...get OUT."

"It's a matter of time..." Sacrifar laughed, and then faded away.

"You....You...No...It's not worth losing my sanity over..." Zerkon breathed heavily, body shaking between breaths, and turned away. "I can't face her, not like this."

Zerkon turned to lia, and was still quite angry. "No! I will not back down! He's not a member of our guild, he never has been." Zerkon then realized that the only people who knew why he was angry were Silver and himself, so he began to explain. "He left Tiresia for dead; To him, his blasted secret is worth more than someone else's life! He threatened me to protect his secret, otherwise he wouldn't protect Tiresia! What kind of guild member does that!? I was a fool to trust him!" Zerkon yelled, pointing at Silver, having already moved a good distance away. "He's not our nakama. Hell, he hates us!"

Zerkon stopped, breathing heavily from his ranting, and saw lia pointing the gun at him. "Look at you, all ready to shoot me for his sake....He doesn't even care. You'd be willing to sacrifice your life for him...but he'd sacrifice you in a heartbeat to keep his precious 'secret' safe. Just like he was willing to sacrifice a sickly ill woman possibly on her deathbed." Zerkon walked a few feet away from the tree in silence. Suddenly, he had occured to him he had ironically been in a similar situation recently, and laughed.

"Heh...I guess this is how you felt when I created Sacrifar,huh,Ladencia?" He spoke aloud to him, and began to walk to the guild. "I still won't forgive you for abandoning me, but...I feel like I understand why you said what you did a little more..."

((Social Link UP! lol.))

It was clear Zerkon was still angry when he piped up. "If you refuse to see how selfish he is, then so be it! And Silver...you digust me." Then he sighed, trying to tame his temper. "Until I can calm down enough to face Tiresia, I will be at the guild."

And with that, he left., leaving no room for argument.((Literally.))

(And thus, my final appearance in this arc. I hope.)

When Ladencia heard Zerkon go on in rage about Silver's heartlessness, he created an unenchanted shield with spikes on the end of it, as he felt bloodlust start to emanate from Zerkon. However, the bloodlust quickly dissipated when Lia pointed her guns at him, and Zerkon's anger became less murderous. When Zerkon realized about the Sacrifar incident, Ladencia both felt indignation and relief at the same time. And, naturally, he replied with "NO DUH, YOU IDIOT!" However, Zerkon began walking off towards the guild, leaving Ladencia to stand there and ponder. So he does understand after all...Furthermore, it felt like Sacrifar was about to control him, but he stopped it. ... ... ...Maybe it isn't a bad idea to make peace with him after all. For the moment, however, he decided deal with the book issue first, and he tossed books from the pile onto the unconscious Silver, as he had forgotten to let Silver get his book. After Silver's book finally landed on top of him and reacted, he heard Jeri speak up again to stop him from burning the books. "What about Tiresia? She's out, so she can't speak up if she wants to keep her book." "That's true...let me figure out which one it is." Ladencia brought up the image of Mindgrab in his mind again, and used Blacksmith to create it on his right arm. He pulled energy from all the books and detected Tiresia's energy. He pulled the book out of the stack, and handed it to Jeri. "You can go ahead and give it to her; she can decide when she wakes whether she wants to keep it or not. As for the rest, I assume there are no objections!" Ladencia pulled out the purple book mentioning the "dark guild member" out of his own bag, and threw it onto the pile. What neither he nor Herald saw was that a couple of pages filled out in the book when they held it, but the rest of it was somehow still blank. Not caring about the book's contents, Ladencia smashed the lacrima into the pile and that book, burning them and forever eliminating any secrets within them from prying eyes.

...However, as he left...one secret, one line from one of the books drifted up into the forest, unseen by Ladencia and the others. It turned to ash, never revealing its deadly truth to anyone... "One day, I will betray Fairy Tail...and kill everyone." As that piece drifted off, someone watching from afar breathed a sigh of relief. "A most excellent result from my old friend...if things had continued, everything I've worked for these long years would've been lost. Now, there's enough time to set up the chessboard. Who gets first move in this game of ours, friend?" The man smirked and, looking to the horizon, disappeared.

(Arc 2: Secret Swap...End.

Edit by Zerkon: HA HA HA, YOU'RE GETTING HIJACKED AGAIN.

Everyone, just try to finish up, show how you reacted if you wish, and then head on back or wherever you need to be next...Then the timeskip to the next arc will happen. Also, we don't move to the next arc until Everyone's posted at least one thing; I don't want to leave people like Zafrina behind continutally.)

Shinia peeks to check on Silver. Smiling with relief, Shinia greets Silver, "Ah...Silver-san! I'm glad you look much better now. Are you feeling any better?" Shinia gets a wet towel attempting to wipe off Silver's sweat. "Nee-san already went back to the guild to check on Zerkon-san.... If you feel better we can go to the guild. Oh and Tiresia-san is better too...anyways... Now you're awake I shall be going back to the guild now, hope to see you soon silver-san" Shinia looks at Silver and smiles gently and she walks out, heading back to the guild.

((OOC: done ill wait till next arc!))

(It's okay, it happens. That why I insisted that we wait for you. and just so you guys know, the next arc is going to happen a month from that date, because let's face it, Tiresia's not gonna wanna party if she's still recovering.)

It had been a full month since the incident. Zerkon was sitting at the guild, comtemplating things and speaking to himself..."I don't know how much longer we're going to last...We have to do something..." He sighed, hanging his head in his hands. "And on top of that, Macou wants to start a search party? I hate to say it...but we don't really have time...We'll have to work overtime just to keep this place in operations..." Standing up from his table, He walked over to the bar, And fixed himself another Chai tea. "...I suppose fretting about it won't help... I've been calculating things all day." Zerkon looked at his watch and sighed. "...It's time again." After the last arc (lol, I just broke the fourth wall.) Zerkon's secret about being a piano player and a flustist got out, So he had become one of the main forms of entertainment since Mirajane was Absent from the guild. As such he got up, walked up to the piano and sat down, beginning to play on the piano that was already there, trying to keep his mind of the math he'd been doing.

Ladencia came out of his room and sat down at a bar, trying to find something to eat. Ugh, so hungry...all this research is tiring me out. It's not the research and you know it. After all, that incident has probably accel--- SHUT UP! I...I'm not in the mood to hear it! I just...I want some food, darnit! Ladencia had spent the last month recovering from his own injuries inflicted during the ordeal with Thero. Herald and Ladencia both were happy to hear that Thero had not been heard from since that day, and were glad their secrets never got out. However, after they had recovered from the hidden injuries, they spent the last month or so alone in their room as usual, performing more research on the ancient artifacts they sought. Ladencia, remind me: Why are we still IN HERE when the Tools are OUT THERE? We know where they are, and we could've gone after them at any time. Really? You're asking me that? I thought you always said "it's best to get as much information about everything as possible." Besides, we need to know how they work first. We could've just figured it out after we got them. Ruce may have found us already. There's no rush, Herald! Seriously, usually YOU'RE the calm one. What's happened? I don't know. Just this uneasy feeling... The two ceased their inner argument, and sat down at a table next to Zerkon's piano, his body sprawled out all over it like a deflated balloon.