A quick tour of Siegrain's evil lair (By now, it was fairly obvious that he didn't like the name Siegrain... Which was more than enough reason for me to call him by that anyway), and I was sent out into the lower levels of the tower to 'patrol.' This was an easy excuse to get me out of his way and out from under his skin. I think that even as the big bad Jellal could only handle so much time being in the same room as me, seeing especially since there was an endless number of topics in which I could irritate him with when we were trapped within twenty feet of each other.

Besides the fact that neither of us would have survived each other's company for too much longer, there was too much I needed to think about without him around. Just the tip of the iceberg would have to be the fact that Siegrain had the redhead captive and that he obviously intended to sacrifice her for some reason that he didn't want to tell me. After that, I could think about needing to dispose of Trinity Raven before news of my continued existence made it back to Death's Hand. I really didn't want to kill anyone, but that was lower on my list of priorities than making sure that no one I cared about got hurt.

If word about my existence spread, I had no doubts that dark guilds all over would be sending people to check my last known location, which would lead them straight to my friends.

As I walked past a room with far too many cats, I ground to a halt; an irritatingly familiar voice was coming from inside the room, followed by a high-pitched voice that had me facepalming just out of sight of the idiot in the room. Of course, that pink haired idiot had gotten wrapped up in this, and if he was here, I had no doubt that the rest of his group had somehow gotten wrapped up in all this... They were all magnets for trouble. (Quick clarification, trouble was not attracted to them, they watched trouble happen from about twenty miles away and came running, meaning the fault was solely with them.)

I'm sure Siegrain would have loved me to run in there and finish him off, but I happened to be lacking all forms of motivation to help this dirtbag.

Sure enough, as soon as I was about a corridor away from the pink haired idiot, I think Icyman called him flames for brains, Siegran's voice echoed slightly around me, "May I ask why you didn't engage? I believe that is why I brought you here."

My eyes instinctively rolled at the stupidity, "No, that's what you brought Trinity Raven here for, you still haven't told me what I'm here for. Until somebody fills me in, I don't really feel motivated to do anything but walk around, that make sense, Siegrain?"

His exasperation was palpable, but if anything, that made my sadistic side come out to play even more, "I thought I told you, I need your help with my current... project," Could he not just say experiment or something like it? "Your job is to contain the situation and make sure it doesn't get out of control."

"Then what the hell is Trinity Raven here for?" I asked incredulously, that sounded like I was to patrol the whole tower.

A heavy sigh reached me and I could almost see Siegrain pinching the bridge of his nose, "They are to assist you and deal with the members of Fairy Tail more directly, you are simply here for backup in the unlikely event that one of them is beaten. I would also enjoy having your assistance when it comes time to break the fairies' spirits, that would prove to be rather amusing."

So that was his goal, interesting.

I sighed heavily, not wanting to show just how irritated I was to be relegated to a mere side act, "Oh, so I'm just to walk around and look pretty?" Siegrain tried to interject but I cut him off before he could, "I told you that I refuse to play into your kinks, Siegrain."

"This is your last warning Miss Ghost, do as I tell you or you'll be disposed of." Siegrain's tone hardened significantly in an obvious attempt to intimidate me.

Unfortunately, I needed to play along for now, but everything inside of me was screaming out to see how far he would take that petty threat, but I settled instead for humming noncommittally, "We'll see Siegrain, let's just hope this stays interesting enough for me."

A vicious grin covered my face as I continued on, his brain may be a bit scrambled but Siegrain was smart enough to recognize a threat when he heard one.

One small problem down, two to go. Unfortunately, the redhead was a bit out of my reach for now and I was willing to bet that Siegrain would leave her alone until he could get the biggest shock factor out of her. That left Trinity Raven, which was a large problem in and of itself. The easiest solution would be to kill them, which would slow down, and perhaps even stop the news from spreading, but how could I do it?

I had my weapons with me, thankfully Siegrain brought them when he kidnapped me, so I wasn't left without my babies (Shit, I can never say that again, it sounded far too much like Bixslow, which is not the image I was going for), but if I straight up attacked anyone, Siegrain would certainly carry out his threat. The only other things I had were the darts I kept in my belt and one or two potions that miraculously survived coming here. The potions were... Well, one of them was a magic draining solution and the other was a shield lacrima that I was keeping just in case, but neither of those things would help with my current situation.

If only Gavin were here right now, mainly to give him a black eye, but after that, I could... get... God damn it, that bitch!

One thing I picked up before I left Siegrain on the top of the tower was another one of Gavin's potions that was specially made. If I was right about this, I was still giving that idiot a black eye when I saw him next, but I would also probably have to thank him as well.

***

I strode confidently towards one of the 'problem' areas that Siegrain asked me to keep an eye on, a bottle of once putrid yellow liquid that changed to an alarming shade of blue once I added a few drops of my magic draining potion. Now I not only had a direction, I was nearly 50% sure of what I needed to do; which, admittedly wasn't all that much, but I knew better than to doubt my intuition and my faith in Gavin, which was odd to think.

Once I got to the room where a large amount of chaos was ensuing a large smile grew on my face, The blonde and Juvia (I know, I was surprised that I remembered her name as well, be very impressed) were in the middle of a powerful unison raid that wiped out the guy they were going against, a man with long black hair and rock band makeup all over. He was obviously one of the members of Trinity Raven who had been hiding in the one body, and while the girls looked exhausted, I could see the pride that was shining from them. He had to have been a difficult opponent, but I knew all to well the sense of pride and accomplishment that came from beating someone who pushed your limits.

"This is where you come in," Siegrain's voice whispered in my ear, "They shouldn't be hard to defeat now, just clean up the mess."

This is where my smooth talking would have to come in, as there was no way I would attack members of my guild, but I still needed to convince Siegrain that I was on his side, which would be difficult. "How about not," I hummed out quietly, sticking to the shadows while keeping my ears as open as they would go, "I know you've got a lot to pay attention to up there, but taking these two out now would be a really bad idea."

Indignation rose up through the link that Siegrain established between us, "Either attack them now or I will bring the ceiling down in your area. Unless of course, you have a good reason to leave them alive?"

Did I have a good reason to not kill the two girls? My mind was whirling at a hundred miles per hour to think up a good excuse, "You mentioned that you wanted me as shock value for Fairy Tail, correct?" I asked, catching a faint sound of crashing that seemed to indicate another battle was drawing to a close. Siegrain briefly mentioned other helpers who were here, people who, apparently, had a close connection to this tower, Siegrain, and the redhead, which brought in more questions than they answered, but perhaps now I could use them to my advantage.

"That is correct, why do you ask?" I knew by the curiosity that I had caught Siegrain's attention, "I don't see how that would be any relevance to this moment."

Neither did I, but I never promised not to lie, so here we go, "Because, if I show myself now, there's a good chance that I'll be revealed to the rest of the Fairies; you see, there's a group coming this way, and I guarantee that they're leaning more towards being sympathetic towards Fairy Tail then they are towards you."

Okay, so it was only a partial lie, I could hear a group approaching, but I had no idea where their allegiance laid. They could be Siegrain's biggest fans for all I knew, but as long as I could sow the seeds of doubt in Siegrain, then I would succeed.

There was a brief silence as he seemed to contemplate my words, that wasn't one of my best lies, but I had to have some amount of faith in it or it would never work. "I suppose you're right," From the tone of his voice, he seemed to hate himself for admitting that, "For now I'll have you stay back and collect Vidaldus when everyone else leaves, then head over to where Fukuro is... It seems that his battle has begun to go badly as well."

"Um, sure," I murmured uncertainly, Vidaldus, Fukuro, who in the world were they?! I mean, by process of elimination Vidaldus had to be the rock band wannabe that Blonde and Juvia had taken out, but Fukuro? I was lost...

The connection ended just as I realized that I missed an opportunity to mock Siegrain! Now I wouldn't be able to tease him for underestimating Fairy Tail so badly, which is something I was genuinely upset about. Oh well, the opportunity would certainly come up again.

The group came and went, dragging Blonde and Juvia along with them while I sat lost in thought; it was a lie, but the way the blockhead (literally, his head was a cube, this wasn't a comment on his intelligence) was talking, they may have actually turned on Siegrain... Who'd've thought?

Anyways, they left and I slipped into the room, preparing myself to carry out my own personal self-preservation mission. The darts were tucked into my palm as I took special care to ensure that I wasn't pricked, and the special potion that I had used to prep the first dart was carefully in a pouch on my belt. I picked up the Wannabe carefully, slipping the dart in his underarm as I draped him across my back. My muscles strained, yet if I could pick up that beast of a man back in Fairy Tail while half dead, I could certainly handle this man.

His body was limp against mine, which made carrying his dead weight much more difficult, but even with that, I made my way out of the room with no issues, stepping carefully over the puddles of water that were left behind from the battle. 

As I looked for a place to dump the Wannabe I felt his body react quickly to the unknown poison I injected him with. His skin heated up quickly and his heart began to race to the point where even if I didn't have enhanced senses I would be able to tell something was wrong. Hot breath fanned against my neck at an ever-increasing pace, to the point where I was concerned that he would throw up on me or something equally revolting.

Outwardly, it didn't seem as though anything was wrong, the Wannabe's body remained still and it looked as though the only thing happening was me dragging him towards a room where he could recover. However, each step I took made it more apparent that something was terribly wrong with this man. Something hot and wet touched my neck, causing me to flinch heavily, before flinging him to the ground. I could take a lot of gross crap, but bodily fluids touching my neck was where I drew the line.

As though a sudden shock was exactly what he was waiting for, the instant the Wannabe's body hit the floor it all stopped, the heavy breathing, the fast pulse... His pulse in general... The entire process took less than a minute, but I was familiar enough with death to know when it came knocking. Blood may have stained a bit of my neck from where it leaked out of this man's mouth, but otherwise, there were no outward signs that he had died.

The first member of Trinity Raven was dead.

The Ghost of Fiore had returned.

***

It took a few minutes of roaming through the halls, refusing to ask for help from Siegrain, before I found the second member who was also lying knocked out on the ground. The half owl was covered in cuts that seemed to all be frostbitten as well as a plethora of burns. It really didn't take too much to guess exactly who had been involved in this fight. Even after only a week or so of hanging around the guild, it was still far to easy to recognize exactly who these magics belonged to.

The same process that I did with the Wannabe was repeated with the owl, which included a small amount of blood being drooled onto my neck. I honestly thought I could handle blood no matter what the situation was, but that, that proved me wrong... A shudder ran through my body as it touched me, making me want to sanitize the area it touched before setting it on fire to make sure it was clean.

The owl was disposed of with the same courtesy that the Wannabe had been handled with before I left the room and nodded, unsure of where to go from there. I mean, I could ask Siegrain where he needed me next (everything inside of me also wanted to ask how well hiring second rate assassins had gone over for him, but I would need to restrain myself for a little bit longer), but that would mean telling Siegrain that I was lost, which fell around the same place on my list of things to do that stabbing myself in the eye with a rusty nail fell... Right around halfway.

Thankfully, the tower wasn't soundproof, so it only took a few minutes of snooping to hear the beautiful sound of swords clashing against each other. As an adept swordswoman, that sound was as familiar to me as my own heartbeat.

Granted, hearing where the noise was coming from, and finding the noise itself were two completely different challenges, one was easy and the other ended up with me being lost... Probably ten minutes passed before I was able to find where the third member of Trinity Raven was lying in front on a bridge singing something terribly in words that made zero sense.

"The light of justice will rain, 

Destroying those who lie below, 

The beauty will grow, 

as all life goes."

Unfortunately for me, she was still awake, which meant that I couldn't just shove the dart into her arm and she might even alert Siegrain to my treachery. It was moments like this when I remembered just how much I hate people.

"That's an... interesting song," I said hesitantly as I plopped down next to the pink haired woman, shifting the dart in my hand carefully.

The woman smiled at me happily, "I'm glad you enjoyed it, are you here to kill me?" Well, that was abrupt. I sweatdropped slightly, but she wasn't quite done, "I've known since the moment I saw you that you would be the one to kill us, which is quite an honor if you think about it."

Wait, did she mean that the opportunity to kill Trinity Raven was quite an honor, or that being killed by me was quite an honor? Perhaps it didn't matter, but the way she was looking at me held so much sincerity that her words made me feel as though I were missing a larger point.

I would have loved to ask her what the hell she meant, but Siegrain could be listening, which meant I had to be vague, "Why would you think I'm here to kill you?" I asked innocently, meeting her eyes and sending her a small grin, "Siegrain asked me to pull you guys out of the way so you would have time to recover before the final fight."

The look in her eyes made me sigh slightly, I wasn't fooling her at all, "I think the question is more why wouldn't you kill us, we represent a danger to the way of life you've found. I would do the exact same in your position."

She really just had to be so understanding, didn't she? If I was being honest, I would tell her that she is someone who I would really prefer not to kill, she seems like a decent enough person, but I couldn't afford to be honest.

"Well," My voice was quiet as I reached over to grab the woman's arm before moving into a position to stand, pulling her up with me as the dart slipped unnoticed into her arm, "I found something good with Fairy Tail, I would certainly prefer to protect it." 

The woman gasped slightly as the effects of the poison started to affect her, "You know?" I started walking out of the room with her on my back, thankfully she was still coherent for a little bit longer, "I found somewhere that has accepted me wholeheartedly. If I have any regrets from today it will be the fact that you met me before you could find somewhere like that as well."