Inside the darkest archives of the Blue Pegasus guild, where only the most fearful of dark magics were kept, an empty spot was on the shelf where a particular tome of great power should have been. No doubt this would have caused confusion to Acacia, who may be wondering if the Guild was expecting her. Of coarse, they weren't. There was no reason to suspect an intrusion, so thus no reason for the tome to have been removed. Before Acacia could question it any further, a voice spoke from the shadows.
"Are you looking for this?" the voice was high pitched and sounded more like a dying animal than a person. The sound of slow, heavy footsteps approached Acacia and when she turned around she saw a young man holding the tome she was searching for in his hands. "We've been looking for you a long time, Miss Cornet. Master has been punishing us for so very long because we could not track you down." When the man spoke, wisps of black hair gently floated and drifted away from his mouth. These wisps also laced his entire body, like a systems of intricicate veins running all over him. His eyes were completely blank. The mans head began to twitch, and suddenly his body spazzed out into a fit of screams. He banged his head against the wall, practically crying.
"We've found you! We've found you! No more pain for us. No more punishments! We will make sure." He was growing angrier with every word, turning to face Acacia with the thin laces of darkness coming from his mouth thickening into tendrils. These tendrils charged at the tome that was now on the floor, wrapping it up tightly before pulling it towards the man's mouth. His mouth stretched out to an unnatural size, swalling the tome and the tendrils whole.
"Meet us outside! We will give you the tome there!" Before Acacia could respond, the man keeled other and began to cough up the thick, dark tendrils in large quantities. When they hit the ground, they scattered once more and seeped into every nook and cranny they could fit into; leaving nothing behind but the empty shell of the Blue Pegasus member that now lay lifeless in front of Acacia.

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Zy really wasn't in the mood to be taunted; especiallty by Ben of all people. With a quick motion, Zy grabbed him by the collar and readied his right hand back to swing at him. He was ready to knock that stupid grin off of his face. He would have done it, if not for Mary interrupting the two of them to butt in on their business.
"Buzz off, Boyce." Zy growled, but immedietely regretted snapping at Mary. She could be somewhat annoying, but she'd done nothing to warrant being spoken to in such a way. Not to mention she could destroy Zy if she wanted to. "Sorry, I'm just... nevermind." He let go of Ben, folding his arms over his chest just as he spotted Sanguin sitting at a table near them.
"Ben thinks that we should try and convince Master Pollux let us go on the mission he took down because obviously Ben knows much better than our Master." He wasn't even trying to hide the malice in his tone at this point. He had no reason to be so defensive over the Master, since Ben hadn't actually said anything against him. He was just annoyed. He had grown up with Master Pollux and had a great deal of respect for the man, and it was an unspoken rule in Fairy Tail that anyone who spoke ill of the Master would receive a wallop from just about everyone in the Guild. He was a great man who many admired.
"If you really respect the Master's decision to remove that quest, then I suggest you give it back to him with an apology for being a nosy little klepto. And even if he does let you go on the quest, I don't want any part of it. Find someone else." He began to walk away from them, pointing a thumb back at Sanguin. "Ask her. If she has nothing better to do than eavesdrop on conversations than I'm sure she won't mind hunting a monster that doesn't even exist." Zy stormed away, taking a seat at the bar where Alicia was sitting. Alicia had long since given up on scolding Chloe or trying to talk sense into her Grandfather. For now she would just try and get all of her work done in quiet.
"Everyone in this guild just pisses me off," Zy remarked, resting his head on the bench to sulk.
"Preaching to the choir, Zy." Alicia bluntly remarked, continuing with her work as if nothing had happened.

Meanwhile Pollux was admiring Yukiko's interesting gift before he was removed from thought by a young man claiming to be a dragon slayer. Pollux chuckled, patting the young man on the shoulder.
"Aren't you the young fellow that took down that giant crab, or something of the sorts?" Pollux remembered reading of that story. Dragon Slayers were always a particular interest of the old man. "A pirate that uses lost magic. Now that takes me back." Pollux looked off into the distance, a little saddened by something. "Oh, forgive me. Just remembering an old friend that I haven't seen in a very long time. She's a pirate, like you. Now then, if you wish to join then I suppose I should rewrite the announcement I had planned." Pollux was interrupted by Isabella coming up to him from finishing a request and begin talking about the Haven request he thought he had removed.
"I'm going to start needing to magically seal my office door from you people." He sighed, smiling to the new member through his whiskers. "As for you, Izzy, you go away for such a long period of time and this is the first thing you say to me when you come back? I'm a little offended. All work and no play makes Izzy a very dull girl." The master joked. He knew her real name, but figured that she preferred the nickname. She was a rather independent person. Not that he could blame her.
"Now as for that request, there's really no story to it at all. I put it up, then Alicia told me that the Magic Council has ordered us to cancel it. They said that they had sent their Rune Knights to 'control the situation'. When will the council learn that we wizards should be working together with the Rune Knights to help better our nation?" Pollux shook his head, taking a seat on a stool. "Just in case I think I will organise a small party to go and help out. My old friend Zephyr on the Magic Council can bail us out if needed. Remembering so many old faces all in one day? It must be a sign." The master laughed, but the tone behind his voice suggested that reuiniting with his old friends from his days as just a regular mage of the guild would make him incredibly happy.

Yukiko began to gently move back towards the ground, her wings giving one final thrust before curling up behind her. She landed with a small thud in front of Chloe, eyeing the girl up and down before taking a step back. She almost stepped back into the hole.
"You smell like fresh soil and soft grass." She remarked, her wings fluttering a little. "Um, I'm Yukiko. I like the smell of fresh soil and soft grass." She smiled up at Chloe, taking a step closer to her now that the initial shock of the girl coming up from the earth had settled.