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December 13 X784

A lone figure walked the halls of Fairy Hills. If any of the Mages who lived inside the building saw this figure they would either something out of a horror story or one of Zerefs' demons. The figure wore black armor with no helmet and instead of a face his white skull was visible. As he got to a door he placed the small box down and left.


Next Morning

Levy McGarden stretched as she got up for the day. Today was a big day and she couldn't help feeling excited. As she opened her door she heard it hit something. Judging by the sounds of the other residents of Fairy Hills it wasn't one of them. As she looked around for the source of the sound she noticed a small box. Levy chuckled neither Droy or Jet gave her jewelry so it must be Gajeel trying to say sorry.

She picked up the box and opened it. She blinked at the strange abstractionist human face on a pedant. It wasn't her style, but she could use it to get some laughs with the other girls of Fairy Tail.


Guild Hall

Makarov grinned as he looked at the members of Fairy Tail. Today was the day he was going to tell them of those who would have the chance to become S-ranked. He saw Levy sitting with Erza, Cana, and Wendy. He smiled as he saw Levy pull a small box out of one of her pockets and opened it up and pulled out a necklace with her left hand.

"Gajeel left this tacky piece of jewelry at my door last night." Levy showed Erza, Cana, and Wendy the strange necklace.

"That is tacky, what do you think Erza?" Cana chuckled. She stopped chuckling as she turned to face Erza. Erza pupils had dilated and her body seized up. Before they could ask what was wrong Erza lurched sideways.

Levy tried to catch Erza as she fell off her chair, but was unable to do so. Erza began to convulse as she hit the floor. Wendy rushed over to Erza and turned her head to the side. "Someone get a belt!" She yelled. The rest of the guild rushed over as they tried to prevent Erza from further injuring herself.

"Got it." Cana removed her belt and held Erzas' mouth open as Wendy used the belt to keep Erza mouth from closing.

"How does a piece of jewelry cause a seizure?" Levy muttered.

"No freaking idea shrimp." Gajeel stated as got over to them.

"You gave her the freaking thing Gajeel." Cana snapped at the Iron Dragon Slayer.

"I didn't give Levy that… Bahelit." Gajeel stated after looking at the necklace dangling from Levy's left hand. Color drained from Levy's face as she heard the word Bahelit.

"Baywhat?" Natsu looked confused.

"Something that is supposed to be only a legend." Mesh stated.

Gajeel took the Bahelit out of Levy's slack left hand and felt the outer layer begin to collapse as he tightened his grip on it revealing a Lacrima inside of it. "It's a fake."

"How did a fake Bahelit cause Erza to collapse?" Cana shook her head.

Levy finally getting over the shock of what she had unwittingly brought to the guild. At the same time Erza stopped convulsing. Levy quickly moved into a position that allowed her to look at the back of Erzas' neck and moved Erzas' hair out of the way. "Fuck." There was no other way to describe what she felt as she saw a near double square with a line going through it.

"Language." Carla chastised Levy.

"Get her to the infirmary." Makarov ordered.

"I need to look in the library for something." Levy quickly got to her feet as Elfman and Bickslow picked Erza up.

"I'll go with shrimp I think I know what she's looking for." Gajeel pocketed the Lacrima as he followed Levy, Panther Lily followed the Iron Dragonslayer.

"If it can help Erza I'll help." Natsu pounded his chest as he followed them.

"You have no idea what you're looking for flame brain." Gray sighed as he followed the Fire Dragon Slayer. Lucy sighed as she and Happy followed the two rivals.


"Can you two not antagonize each other while we try and help your teammate." Gajeel glared at the Fire Dragon Slayer and Ice-Make Mage. The two of them had been trading insults since they had gotten to the library and things looked like they had the potential to escalate even more. He noticed the Jet and Droy where trying to spy on them and failing terribly.

"Found it." Levy called as she removed a heavy book from the bookcase. The book was pure black and written on the side was The Legend of The Black Swordsman.

"Are you sure this is the right book, I've never heard of that legend?" Gray asked.

"I'm sure… hard to forget a book that made me puke multiple times." Levy stated as she walked towards the infirmary.

"She's not the only one." Gajeel added then sighed as he saw the questioning looks pointed at him "Human sacrifice, and 'fairy' war scene."

"Wait there are fairies in this book?" Natsu eyes widen.

"There called elves, but they look like what we consider fairies." Gajeel explained as they reached the infirmary.

"How do you think this book will help?" Gray asked.

"It has drawings in it of scenes and images." Levy explained.

"Does it have pictures of fish?" Happy began to drool at the thought of pictures of fish.

"Idiot." Pantherlily slapped the blue exceed.

"None that I would recommend trying to eat." Levy glared at Happy. She put the book down one of the tables and pulled Gale-Force Reading Glasses out of one of her pockets, Gajeel grabbed a puke bucket and placed it on the table. "Thanks."

Wendy looked up from the side of the cot where Erza motionless body lay. Her Heart Kreuz had been removed and replaced with hospital gown. "Makarov ordered everyone out so Erza wouldn't be bombarded by questions when she wakes up."

"Smart thinking." Gajeel nodded.

"Found it." Levy stopped on page showing a seal over the mark that looked identical to the one of Erza. She was glad she had an idea were the seal was at and managed to avoid many stomach churning scenes.

"Is it the same position?" Gajeel inquired.

Levy froze before nodding. "Yes, it is."

"Same position as what?" Natsu snapped. He hated how cryptic the two of them had suddenly become.

"The protagonist in this book." Levy replied.

"Juvia told me parts of what happened at the Tower of Heaven. That is nothing compared to what his life was like." Gajeel supplied.

"How can anything be worse than what Erza went through?" Gray wondered.

"Friends used as human sacrifice in front of his eyes." Levy answered. This cause everyone, but Gajeel to pale Wendy in particular looked ready to puke.

"Could she wield it?" Gajeel quickly asked before the others could ask any more stomach churning questions.

"Without a doubt." Levy confidentially replied.

"Wield what?" Lucy tried to keep up with how Gajeel and Levy shifted between different areas of Erza condition.

"A slab of iron." Gajeel grimaced.

"Of course, you would call it that." Levy chuckled.

"What's so funny about of slab of iron?" Panther Lily blinked at Levys' reaction.

"Gajeel is only calling it that, because its name is Dragonslayer." Levy stated.

"That thing couldn't kill a dragon." Gajeel countered.

"No sword can hurt a dragon." Natsu nodded.

"It's 6 and half feet long, and weighs 400 pounds. I seriously doubt a full powered swing from it would not be able to cut through a dragon." Levy retorted.

"Whatever." Gajeel snorted.

"I'm going to put the seal on Erza now. I can't do it with you guys hovering over me." Levy voice brokered no room for argument.

"Got it." Gajeel nodded as he and the others left Levy to place the suppression seal on Erza.


Two hours later

Levy wiped her brow as she finished the seal. She had expected it to be hard due this being far different from her Letter Magic, but she managed do so after three attempts. Luckily for her the failed attempts did not cause any injuries to Erza as they just appeared to shrivel like a piece of paper in a fire and left only no marks of their present what so ever.

"So that is why you cleared the room." Makarov voice caused Levy to nearly jump into the air. She turned around to see Makarov sitting at the table where she had originally set the book down, with the chair turned to face her. She also noticed Mesh leaning in the doorway. "Been here over an hour. I announced those that are going to participate in this year's S-rank trials. I left your name off since I decided not to allow Erza to help with the trials and seeing how long it took you to apply that seal on her I think you can understand why I want someone who knows how to apply it staying behind."

"I was going to withdraw myself if Erza stayed behind." Levy nodded.

"Glad to see you're putting a guildmates safety over promotion." Makarov statement told Levy that if she had tried to argue she would have gotten a lecture on the subject.

"Have you talked with Warren about seeing if he can look inside Erzas' head, and find out what's wrong?" Levy enquired.

"You and I both know that is a bad idea if she now contains the Beast." Makarov shook his head.

"We both know that isn't the only reason you don't want Warren in her head." Levy replied crisply.

"True I don't want for him to see the abuse Erza went through." Makarov nodded.

"Anything to add Mesh?" Levy asked the teleporting member of Fairy Tail.

"Just wondering how long we can keep her here without endangering her health." Mesh took a couple of steps into the infirmary.

"At least two weeks." Makarov replied.

"Might want to move Erza anyways. If it lasts for more than a week even with new S-Rank mages it will definitely affect the rest of us." Mesh crossed his arms.

"I know, but consider the flip side of if we move her and she wakes up. I don't want to have deal with the fallout of her accidently destroying part of a hospital due to her waking up delirious." Makarov replied.

"Definitely something that should be avoided." Mesh winced.

"That's without even considering the much higher chance that something that is attracted to her brand would make its home at a hospital." Levy grimaced thinking of all the times that possession had been mentioned in The Black Swordsman.

"I'll talk with the hospital and try to secure what we need to keep her here for over two weeks." Mesh stated as he teleported out of the room.

"He's got a good head on his shoulders." Makarov smiled as he got down from the chair.

"That he does." Levy nodded.

"I suggest you get something to eat then talk with your teammates once they wake up. Gajeel had to knock them out so they didn't enter while you worked on Erzas' seal."

"Figures they'd try something like that." Levy chuckled as she and Makarov left the infirmary.