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"Well come on Mira we still have the other two to get." Gramps said walking off.

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Violet and Kazi PoV

Violet watched as August and topaz were pulled away, she hoped they would be okay, he could be a real idiot sometimes. The blond girl from the train station walked towards her and kaizi.

"Hi!" she said happily. "You're violet, right?"

violet noded shyly

"Cool!" said the girl "i'm Lucy. you must be so excited, i know i was on my first day! What kind of magic do you to have?"

"Um…" violet usually didn't shut down like this. What was wrong with her? She looked to Kaizi, he could talk as she got her bearings again.

"Well I have transformation magic, I'm best at animals." Kazi grinned from ear to ear.

"awsome!" said Lucy "you should talk to Lisanna she has that too!" she turned to violet again.

"I um…" violet took a deep breath "i sing."

"That's your magic?" lucy said, she looked truly interested.

"It's a little more complicated, but that's mostly it." violet said, opening up. These people were so easy to talk too! No, these weren't her friends. They were targets, nothing more. "You are a celestial wizard right?" violet said trying to keep the conversation going

"Yah!" she answered "how did you know?"

"Um…" viole tried to remember anything from the file that could save her.

"Grand Magic Games," Kazi said winking at Violet. She took a breath of relief.

Kazi continued to speak," Yeah you all were really cool out there, I especially thought Mira's fight was nice," a slight blush formed on his cheeks.

"She's around here somewhere," Lucy said looking over her shoulder, "come to think of it you guys both have something in common, transformation magic for you, and she also a good singer like Violet!"

"Oh really." Kazi said searching the room, the blush on his cheeks getting darker.

"Now that i think about it, you guys need your marks." Lucy said, holding up her hand to show off a pink symbol. that seemed to be the vague outline of a fairy.

"Oh Lucy I was just about to tell them," A short old man said from behind them.

Violet turned and saw august and topaz showing off their new emblems at the bar. She looked to kazi, the one familiar thing in an ocean of strangers. She realized how much she relied on her team, and not just Augest, who had been with her her whole life, but the others too. Was this the same feeling that accompanied being in a guild? Was this what she was going to end?

She didn't want to end it. She wanted to be a part of it. Even if she was only pretending. "Let's go," she said, following Gramps to the bar.

"Coming." Kazi said with another big grin on his face.

"Hey Kazi!" Topaz yelled running over to him," Are you guys getting your guild marks too, finally." Topaz was grinning just like her brother.

"Yep" answered violet.

"Where do you want it?" asked a woman that Violet could only assume was mirajane strauss, the she devil.

"I think here would be good," violet said, patting the inside of her left arm, about halfway between her wrist and elbow.

"Here you go" said mira, placing a stamp on Violet's outstretched arm. A light gray mark appeared against her unusually pale skin.

"My turn, my turn," Kazi said jumping a little.

Violet looked from kaizi to Mira, did he think he was being sutle?

"Were would you like it?" asked Mira, not noticing his abnormal behavior.

'Right here," Kazi said pointing to the back of his left shoulder, he pulled back his shirt so they could clearly see his skin.

Mira once again pushed the stamp to skin.

The coldness from the stamp startled Kazi for a minute and he slightly tensed. Topaz was right next to him and was the only one to notice, she placed her hand on his shoulder and soon Kazi relaxed and the coldness went away when he heard a pop.

"There you are!" Mira said.

'Oh Kazi your mark is crimson red." Topaz said poking him in the back.

"What's the deal with you and poking people today topaz?" August laughed.

"I don't know," Topaz said," I just feel like it.' Topaz poked August again laughing.

"Oh my.." Mira sighed, as August attempted to block yet another blow from Topaz's feared pointer finger.

"I think I'm going to go out and get some fresh air," Topaz said still laughing as she walked towards the door.

"Okay," August said, watching her go. Violet delivered a sharp elbow to his ribs. "What!" he said. Violet gave a look "ohhhh" August headed for the door as well, "wait for me!" he called.

"You know it seems that everytime I start to leave a room you come after me." Topaz laughed as they walked out the guild doors.

"If you need to be alone, then i can leave," August offered.

"No,no," Topaz said," It's okay I enjoy the company." Topaz smiled up at August.

"T-thanks," he blushed, "anything you want to talk about?"

"Well Gramps had such resolve," Topaz said, her smile fading and her eyes filling with guilt and sorrow," I don't feel like I have the courage to take some of his children from him."

August frowned, she had a point, he had no idea how there were going to kill these people. He decided to tell her how he was copping, "think of it this way," he said "his children are the wizards that work at the guild, and the more children he has the more money he makes." even as he said it Augest know that it was a lie. But he also knew that it was a necessary one, for Topaze's sake.

"But I can't," she said, bending down and tucking herself in like a ball," they are all so nice and easy to talk too," Topaz squeaked out tears now forming," i don't get it, i've never felt like this, but this place and these people I…. I just…" Topaz tucked her head in her lap.

"I know…" August said "but we don't have a choice" he sighed, he might as well tell her now, "i know what happens to Compromised agents." He admitted. "They send in another team and there orders are exactly the same as the last one's, with one small addition. They would be coming for us too. Either way Fairy Tail is toast, but if we follow orders, we can still be alive." he looked at the ground, wishing he was still lying.

Topaz tensed and started to shake," Really, he kills his own subordinates." she said turning pale.

"I know for a fact." August said grimly. He hesitated a moment and then bent down next to Topaz. He put his arm around her quivering shoulders, they felt cold, weak, fragile. He knew he shouldn't have told her. He was an idiot.

Topaz relaxed under his touch," I know it seems like it was a stupid decision to tell me, but...thank you," Topaz said, she still was shaking but for some reason she felt it was okay to relax with him.

"If you don't mind," August said, "don't tell Violet. She is already realising that the commander isn't such a great guy, if she knew, she would leave, and they would find her and…" his voice broke.

"I won't," Topaz said quietly her eyes closed, she fell into August's arm.

August saw that her breathing deeped, and that her face was no longer twisted with stress, but relaxed, peaceful. The only reminder that there was any darkness in her life was her still red and swollen eyes. He felt a little guilty that is was his fault they were so puffy, but it was overpowered by the joy he felt from sharing his burden. Sometimes, people are like badly healed bones. There bodys do what they can to repair the damage, but when they are working alone, the bone turns out working, but crooked, and still painful. The only way to fix it was to break it again and then guide it into healing the correct way. He was more than happy to do that for Topaz, because even though she didn't know it, she was doing the same thing for him.