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"I-I'm sorry... I couldn't help but notice how amazing you guys were..." said a soft female voice. The voice seemed to be coming from right beside Loki and Lucy, but no one could be physically seen there. "I-I mean, it's not like I didn't expect that, I mean, you guys are the Fairy Tail mages! ummmm.... Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a stalker or anything, but I've been following you for a really long time now..."

"Miss, I have the up most faith with you and your guildmates, I would be honored if you were to protect me," he said to her with kissing her hand. He then stood up and pulled a book out of the shelf. I will hide in my bunker, they can sense my Magic energy but it will at least keep at their toes should they pass you and your friend that just left." He then walked in, guiding the shy girl with him. The door shut behind him as he closed it from the inside.

Shinigami looked around until he found a guy in red. "This guy wasn't here before," he thought as he threw his blood red scythe at him and sensed his energy. His eyes widen at the level of power he possesses.
Damn, this is where my father's training will pull off"! he thought with an arrogant grin.

"What the?!"
His quick reflexes kicked in, and Sol managed to position his sword in time to block the scythe's blade. He took a few seconds to analyse his adversary. It was clear to him that his opponent is a Fairy Tail mage and was intent on hindering him with his job. Beating the guy senseless was the only option that Sol was willing to take. "That was quite the introduction, but I'll skip mine, because you wouldn't even be able to remember my name when you're DEAD!" he said, in response to the previous attack.

Aiming the palm of his left hand towards Shinigami, a bright-red coloured magic circle was summoned. "Spitfire!" he shouted, sending a rapid barrage of small fireballs in a wide range at Shinigami.

Located somewhere within the building, Starrk stopped for a second and could feel the shaking and noise of the mayhem that his guild mates were creating. "They seem to be having fun..." he sighed. He carried on reluctantly with his search within the vast estate, relying on his luck to find the target. He really wanted to get into some action.




Meanwhile, Hazama had encountered a small girl, with light bluish hair and a dress. What he thought was weird was that she had a brown case grasped within her right hand, and it puzzled him. However, he had no time to waste pondering and instead, he readied himself for battle. After all, she could be a member of the dark guild that his client spoke of earlier. Flicking a pocket knife out of his sleeve, Hazama was thinking of reasoning with her and perhaps avoid bloodshed. "Little girl, if you leave now, I promise I won't hurt you..." he said to her. "Wh-what the hell? That came out totally wrong! Now it sounds like as if I'm the bad guy here!" Hazama thought. Before Hazama could begin to rephrase his previous statement, the girl replied, "Lisette thinks that you're creepy." Her words were like swords that stabbed Hazama right in the heart. "I'm...creepy?"



Within seconds, Lisette had opened her case and laid on the ground. Then, a magic circle of black and blue appeared above the case, and she raised her hands above it with her fingers pointing down at it, "Dark Puppeteer: The Liar." From the magic circle, out came a creature, or a puppet rather. Lisette wriggled her fingers and the puppet moved and readied its weapon, which seemed a lot like a combination of a hammer and the cylinder of a revolver. She wriggled her fingers once again and commanded the puppet to attack. It jumped towards Hazama with its weapon over its head and swung downwards at him. Luckily, he had dived to his right to dodge the attack, which caused an small but lethal explosion from the ground where the puppet's hammer had struck. "Ooh that's pretty dangerous!" he sneered. "Guess it can't be helped, I'll teach you a lesson," he uttered with a slight hint of seriousness, as he loosened his tie.

Hira thought it over a bit before saying, "Well That must suck.......You don't have to call me miss. when people call me miss, it makes me think I have more power then what I really have." Hira sighed and started to scratch her cheek again. She did it when she was thinking hard or nervous. Right now she was nervous. " You can call me Hira, since that's my name anyways." Hira flashed Marx a sad smile, which was really a happy smile. Hira always looked sad no matter what she felt and nobody could tell if she was happy. She started to frown when thinking, Oh no! I told him not to call me miss! He must think that I'm a control freak!! What do I do?! If I say I'm not a control freak, wouldn't it make it seem to be true?!?! Hira sighed, she hates when she worries so much. She gave Marx a nervous glance.

Hira chuckled a sad laugh before saying, "I can't dream of being overconfindent even if my life depended on it. I'm really underconfindent.....all I can do is stay at the side line and just do nothing. I really don't have a reason to BE confindent. I'm not that strong." Hira sighed and added quickly, " The two best things I can do is to dodge, or to run away. But now that I'm in Fairy Tail, I hope I can learn to do more. I hope I haven't made you feel less safe. I'm sure we'll be okay." Hira started to pace around a bit and thinking of stuff she should work on.

Hira began to think and she sighed sadly, "To get stronger? Or to just hang out somewhere? Or make friends? Or to let people know that you exist??" Hira was always told that she was weird and was to never make friends by mean people she met. She wanted to get stronger, she wanted to make friends, and she wanted to make people know that she existed.

Shinigami held on to his pole of his scythe and then swung on it, making him swing out of the way of the sword's swinging path, which he then kicked him while swinging on the scythe's pole.
"Is that all you got!" he shouted with malice in his voice. This feeling of battle, this was the first out of all the times that made him feel alive once more. He wasn't going to hold back.

Blurry visions is the last thing Rein could see as the sleep power that Theodore blew at her face begins to take effect. Instead answers, Rein is overwhelmed with even more questions. Why would Theodore be interested with Evangeline, whom he just met earlier at the guild? Why would Theodore put her to sleep? What is Theodore's true intentions? Is he truly a good person? Questions that would most certainly swirl around in Rein's mind as the mysterious actions of Theodore remains shrouded in mystery as her consciousness fades as she appears fast asleep, however not before seeing a look of regret on Theodore's face as though he never intended to do what he did, a lingering doubt etched in his sad eyes. It's been 15 minutes that Rein remained unconscious until the effects of the sleep power begins to wear off, allowing Rein to awaken from its spell. Though the time span is shorter than expected, Theodore is long gone by then with Evangeline in his arms.

At this point of time, Gray is seen somewhat mourning by the puddle of water that used to be Juvia as he blames her predicament on his earlier plan and his inability to save her when he should. "Oh why didn't I plan to rescue her from her fall when the need arises?" exclaimed Gray with a somewhat melodramatic tone as his concern starts to sound like paranoia as he scratches the back of his head franticly. "If the others see her like this, they will think I've killed her. Maybe I can make glass and hold her in it until I find some cure," mumbled Gray to himself as he is oblivious to the fact that Juvia had already formed into her usual self. "That's stupid. I can't put her in an ice glass, she'll freeze," mumbled Gray anxiously only for his moment of paranoia to be broken by the sound of her voice which prompts her Gray to turn his head and finally has Juvia in his sights. "Juvia! You're alive!" exclaimed Gray excitedly as he dash towards and hugged her as well as spinning her around with delight only to stop and slowly remove his hands off her shoulders. Gray then gave a cough and proceeded to display a somewhat cool and collected expression. "Umm....I knew that. I'm just glad you're okay," remarked Gray with a cool tone. "I think we should look for the others by going deeper into the forest," noted Gray as he offers her his hand.



Meanwhile, an intense atmosphere is apparent within the vicinity of the forest as the leaves sway violently at the mercy of a sudden gust of wind as the carpet of grass appears as though being combed by the breeze in a domino effect manner. Two warriors stood facing down each other as Eiko confronts the battle enthusiastic Jason as his grin grew in anticipation of the battle about to take place while Eiko meets his grin with a serious expression even though her eyes remained closed the entire time. Eiko's spear at the ready as Jason exchanges his current weapon with something more suited for the battle ahead. As a single slowly falls to the ground, Jason made his move as he dash towards Eiko with much enthusiasm while aiming his razor sharp claws at Eiko.

Eiko's ears perked up in response to Jason's attack and proceed to make a slight outward sweeping gesture with her right feet, altering her stance while she raised her spear above her head. Her sharp reflexes allowed her to stab at the ground with great might which enable her to pole vault upwards while using the spear as leverage, dodging Jason's attack as he runs past the spot she once stood and is now below her. "Your confidence would be your undoing," remarked Eiko seriously as she turns her body with much force that it unhinges the sharp end of the spear off the ground as it appears that she is spinning in mid air with her spear spinning along side her until the long spear comes crashing down on Jason with the intention to strike his head with great force.



In lieu of the confrontation between the Fairy Tail mages and the mages from the dark guild that they are assigned to defeat, the atmosphere seems rather settling in the other part of forest. Instead of a furious battle like what is going on with other members of Fairy Tail, the situation seems rather tame with Taura and company as their only confrontation is with a passed out girl laying sound asleep near the path leading to the deeper part of the forest, blocking their way as she did, unknown whether her presence there is intentional or purely coincidental. However, Taura and company appears to be cautious as they remain at a safe distance until Taura decides to approach the supposedly drunk girl. As Taura approached her, the girl barely flinched nor display any sign of waking up as she remains asleep.

When Taura proceeded to inquire the reason for her being there, the girl gave a little groan as her eyes slowly open, allowing her to peek at Taura at her moment of awakening. "Ow...my head...." groaned the girl some more as she placed her hand on her forehead, rubbing it in the process. "I....thought...I...just....enjoy...the view...with a....few...drinks...but I...guess...I've...over did...it" responded the girl with a slow tone as she turned her body to the other side. Just when Taura think that she's a harmless civilian, the girl gave a loud yawn. "You know. I hate to do this but I'll get in big trouble if I don't do anything," remarked the girl suddenly with her back facing Taura. Slowly, she proceeded to lay on her back and then sat up, turning her head to gaze at Taura, Devi and Celina. The girl let out a sigh and proceeded to stretch her arms upwards.

"It's a pain but I guess you girls don't mind having a little brawl now, do ya?" remarked the girl with a lazy tone as she now stood on her feet and is cracking her knuckles. "Ex-quip," announced the girl causally as a pair of silver gauntlets attach themselves on her hands. Without warning, she rushed at Taura with great speed only to punch the ground in front of Taura, causing the dug out dirt to launch itself at Taura, blinding her sight in the process. Using that leverage, the girl followed up with a straight strong punch to Taura's gut before Devi and Celine could do anything.

At that same point of time, Theodore is seen emerging from amongst the trees with Evangeline in his arms which place his position to be behind the gauntlet wielding girl as he continued his advance, ignoring the fact that Taura is being assaulted as he heads deeper int the forest. Taura, Devi and Celine could have interrupted his advance if not for the fact that they're now facing off with the gauntlet wearing girl.



At this moment, the confrontation between the Fairy Tail mages and the dark guild mages escalates as two members of Fairy Tail, namely Nathan and Evalina is faced with a white haired girl that is capable of summoning to her beck and call. Upon their meeting, the girl summoned a huge serpent in front of her that proceeded to lunge itself at Nathan. In retaliation, Nathan swipe his knife at the serpent's mouth while trying his utmost best to protect Evalina who then assisted Nathan's strike with an attack of her own. the knife hits mark at the serpent's head split in two and merciless dismembered by Evalina's water attack as the serpent lay in a heap of cut up flesh. Slowly, the serpent's corpse began to dissipate into nothing. The white haired girl at this point is silent as Evalina hurls a barrage of insults at her which made her cry.

"Why are you so mean? Are you saying that you're better than me? And to think that I envy someone like you. You even killed my pet! I just want to do my job! " exclaimed the girl with a sorrowful tone. "I'm sad that you have someone that cares for you and I don't. I'm mortified that I have no one to protect me when I'm in danger. You people are just too lucky," remarked the white haired girl sadly as she proceeded to create a summoning circle above Nathan and Evalina which in turn causes a large blob to crash into Nathan and Evalina, trapping them in it's slime like body as it tried to drown them. "Be grateful that you get to die together," noted the white haired girl with tears still trickling down her cheeks.



In the event that was currently taking place, Lucid, who is made his way out of the train dodging the barrage of arrows fired at him, is now seen within the vicinity of the forest as his ribbons appear out of nowhere and blocked the arrows from reaching Lucid. The ribbons displaying good form of defense as none of the arrows hit their mark as they were stuck in the tangle of ribbons that Lucid controls. Without warning, the rain of arrows suddenly ceased, revealing a clear blue sky through the wedges between the canopy of trees. As silence filled the surrounding atmosphere, footsteps could be heard from the shroud of the shadowed path of the forest. Slowly a figure could be seen emerging out of the shadowed pathway. Obviously feminine in stature, the stranger is revealed to be fair maiden decked in shrine kimono with quivers of arrows arranged in an orderly manner behind her back. The maiden has a bow in her right hand as she clenched it tightly as a gesture that she might be a threat to Lucid.

"Your magic is impressive and it would be shame to eliminate you right away but my mission is of utmost importance. So, don't blame me for what would happen next," remarked the girl with a serious tone as she slowly raised her free left hand and proceeded to snap her fingers. That action caused the arrows that are stuck in Lucid's ribbons to ignite in flames, engulfing his ribbons in flames in almost an instant. "May your body and soul be purified in flames," replied the girl with a soft serious tone as she bowed her head in prayer for Lucid's supposed death in flames.



At this very moment, Lucy, Taurus and Loki were face to face with a member of a dark guild as her long flowing hair sway along with the cool gentle breeze that blew by. It was supposed to be a three on one advantage for Lucy only for that to dwindle when Taurus took a hit earlier and is seen disappearing out of sight. "Aww...Looks like one prince is out of the game," noted the long hair girl with a sarcastic tone. "Yes. I do enjoy my attitude, thank you very much. However, I believe that your principle of winning is a bit far fetched. If you think about it, even if you do defeat me, there will be another to defeat you and thus the cycle continues. It's ironic that your resolve means nothing in front of this form of common sense," remarked the girl with a mocking tone as she watch Lucy armed herself with the celestial whip.

"The same goes for you. Love is a fleeting thing, you gain it and lose it almost instantly," responded the girl mockingly after hearing Loki's comment. "It seems that we have an invisible friend to boot too. This day just gets getting better and better," mocked the girl with a smirk as she is able to hear a voice from behind Loki and Lucy. "If anyone is winning today, it would the one with a strong resolve. So, I guess you could say that neither one of you would win," noted the girl with a slight smile as her long hair is seen buried into the ground from the moment she started talking. However, before Lucy, Loki and Vivi could do anything, a huge flower made out of hair emerges from beneath Loki's feet as it's razor shape petal launched itself at Loki. As Lucy turns to face Loki, the girl launched another attack as strands of her hair proceeded to take the form of a harpie and is seen flying at great towards Lucy. "I'm saving you for last, my little invisible friend," quipped the girl as she licked her lips.

((Sorry it took a long while to post. Works been hectic and it sapped me of my creative juices. But I've managed to pull through somehow and here we go, one long post. By the way, you're always welcome to join Manga Grl. Glad you came.))