Chapter TWENTY FIVE

The temperature in the room lowered by around ten degrees. Everyone in the room turned to stare at Carla. Lucy slowly turned her gaze from the exceed to the spirit, who had leaped to her feet.

"What?" Lucy whispered. "Is that...true?"

Darque's eyes widened in panic. "I'm so sorry." She gasped, then burst into smoke, returning to her key.

"Wait!" Lucy reached towards her, but all she managed to grasp was a puff of black smoke, before it slipped from her fingers.

Jellal stared at the spot Darque had disappeared. "Are Celestial Spirits people before they become Celestial Spirits?" He asked.

Lucy slowly shrug. "I've never heard of that before." She said.

Rogue crossed his arms. "Can you tell us what you mean?" He asked, glancing at Carla.

The white exceed now looked unsure, but nodded nonetheless. "I don't know much, but everything I do know, I think comes from a story I heard a very long time ago..." She trailed of with a shudder. "According to the story, Darque di Daemon and Lite di Angelo were both born to one of the five Tribes that supported the great kingdom of Purudentia, the land of Foresight." She said.

"Each of the five Tribes were said to have a special ability that supported the village, and made sure it functioned and stayed above the other villages in both technology and economy." Carla said. "The tribe Darque and Lite were said to have been born to was known as the Tribe of Night, which was the most mysterious out of all five. They kept to themselves, to the point no one had any idea to how many people this tribe actually housed. Not many of the people trusted this tribe, and to cut the story short, planned a massacre."

Wendy let out an audible gasp. Sting's eyes widened and even Rogue looked shocked, as shocked as he could look. Lucy and Jellal glanced at each other, their looks mirrored by the other. Cobra didn't have his usual smirk on his face and Midnight had one eye open, listening.

Finally, Midnight asked the question that everyone had been wondering about. "Then, what happened?"

Carla frowned. "The village had no idea to how many people were part of the Night Tribe. No one had ever seen anyone enter or leave the Tribe Manor for at least five years, so for all they knew, their best friends could be part of the Night tribe. But thinking logically, the rest of the villagers had the advantage of numbers." She said. "They stormed the manor, backed up by the three tribes and the king's arm, only to find that it was empty, and the only inhabitants turning out to be corpses."

"The reason the Tribe hadn't made a appearance for the last five years was because the whole tribe had already been wiped out." Carla said. "By two individuals that also wiped out the rest of the kingdom." She said. "That's all I remember."

Lucy, always having been the smart one, put the whole thing together. "By Darque and Lite." She said. It sounded more like a question. Lucy grabbed Darque's key, and muttered the summoning words.

The mist appeared, but seemed much slower in putting itself together. Finally Darque appeared, her eyes lifeless.

Everyone stared at the spirit for a while before Lucy put her hands defiantly onto her hips. "Now, I'm not going to question you, because I'm sure you had your reasons." She began. "I'm going to trust you, so it's your job to make sure we don't regret it." She said.

Darque glanced at her slowly. "What?" She whispered.

Sting shrug. "Well, if that's what Blondie wants to do, I'm not gonna complain." He said.

Rogue nodded, agreeing with his friend. Cobra glanced at Midnight, and nodded. Jellal smiled. Wendy and Carla glanced at each other, then turned back to face the spirit.

"B-but, I've killed." Darque said. "I've killed hundreds, maybe thousands of people for reasons I can no longer remember!" She shrieked the last few words out, her hands flying to her hair. "I don't remember how or why I'm a spirit, neither can I remember my life before the massacre. I don't remember my relationship with Lite or why we're trapped in a cycle of fight to the death." She said. "I don't know-"

Lucy held up her hand. "The Binding ceremony is to make one swear their loyalty, right?" She interrupted.

Darque slowly nodded.

"We're going to trust you, but in order for us to do that, we need you to trust us." Lucy said gently. "According to what you said, even if we perform the ceremony, Lite can't attack us until he has his own team sorted out." She said. "We'll hold the ceremony tomorrow, since we'll have a bit over two weeks until the full moon. Before that, we'll sort out the guild forms."

Darque nodded, gently rubbing her eyes. "The clearing where we first talked." She said. "We'll hold it there." She clenched her fists and firmly looked up and caught everyone's gaze. "No more lying." She announced. "Ask me anything, and I'll answer them to the best of my abilities." She said. "I, Darque di Daemon, promise you that. I'll include that into the list of things that you'll get for working with me."

Lucy glanced at the guild signup sheets left on the table. She grabbed them and began filling it in.

"What about the guild name?" Sting asked, reading over Lucy's shoulder.

Cobra snorted. "What kind of name is-" Sting pounced onto the Poison Dragon slayer, knocking him off the couch.

"Shut up!" Sting yelled, clamping his hand over Cobra's mouth. Lucy sighed, and left them to their fight as she turned back to the form.

She felt something brush her leg and looked down, just managing to hold back a scream. Midnight sat under the table, staring back up at her. "So, name?" He asked.

Lucy grinned. "I think I got it." She said.

POLL:

We've put up a poll to decide the Guild name. Thank you to those of you how gave us ideas. We've gotten many suggestions, but we've picked out a few we liked the most. We also mashed a few of the names together, and a few were our ideas.

Erebus Soul

Grim Requiem

Valkyrie Feather

Valkyrie Requiem

Serpent Chaos

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Darque is starting to sound like Aries. Anyways...

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