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Fear is a powerful thing. It influences one's reason and sense, inspiring decisions made on instinct and panic. Even a little bit is enough to make a person act out of their comfort zone. But then again, can success and achievement be made while in comfort? Or does it turn out that fear helps, it forces you out of comfort and toward stronger or better things? Such things can be debated forever it seems. For this story, fear plays the part of the catalyst for zecarayus. Whether it is good or bad, that would depend on what he does with the changes.

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Oak town, zecarayus had never been to the town but that wasn't a surprise. He didn't really travel outside of magnolia or the spooky forest unless a job asked for it and he was content with that. Which is why he was here, he was looking for work. After the events with fairy tail turning dark and leaving magnolia after a attack on the public, the members became unwanted in fiore. Zecarayus had learned of this when finding not very happy spirits, victims of fairy tail's attack who accused him of their poisoned waters and ugly deaths. Zecarayus dealt with them easily, but it gave him a grim realization that he was once again hated. Not because of who he was or in this case his magic, but merely because he was part of a guild that went dark, and not one known for its darkness except now. Worse part he was alone, he had not followed the rest of his guild mates to their new guild hall location and no way of even communicating with them. He figured he had been forgotten, but he wasn't going to blame the guild as zecarayus rarely went to the guild hall, rarer times did he actually talk with others.

He had refrained from going into towns except for the essentials and odd jobs, odd jobs because zecarayus didn't really know how to do jobs as a mage without fearing prosecution(in all fairness the only job postings he ever saw was in the guild). So he went back to old work, working in morgues and to help care for cemeteries. It didn't earn a lot, but zecarayus only wanted enough to get by. And he did, for a while. Soon though the reality dawned on him that he was without his own guild and yet carried the danger of being in it. With no one to call help to, he realized that he was alone and weak. Yes he was at this point a mage of considerable strength, but his paranoia fed doubt into his head that he wasn't strong enough. So he had wandered around further in the spooky forest, into unknown territory for him. And he found it, deep in a collapsed cave littered with skeletons of long dead corpses the further one went down, he found the larcima. And with fear in his heart and a want of safety in his head, he went ahead to grasp the power that was before him.

Which brings him to oak town, a few days after being implemented with the larcima that were filled with pain and confusion. This day his head felt a lot better, and in need to get a meal for the next couple days he went here for it. Walking down the sidewalk with his usual wear as he left his armor and gloves back home, he was only concerned for food then to leave. However he felt an incredible power from nearby. Surprised by it he went toward the direction which led him to a shop window. There on display was a beautiful larcima radiating such a bright red and ornage. Zecarayus was amazed by it, then realized it looked very similar to something from before, and realized it looked like the same larcima that was in him! He looked for a name and found it, "Fire dragon slayer larcima?" he said to himself,   and then thought they are larcimas that made people slayers? He looked at the shop and noticed it was close, so odd that something would be close while something like that would be left out but who knew.

However zecarayus now wanted answers, he needed to know more about slayers. So ignoring his growling stomach he went forward to the one place he knew they would have a book on slayers at, the town library. Of course it was no normal library as it was one of the most extensive libraries in all of fiore. Upon entering he would have seen the grand book cases all around. He would have gone to the librarian and ask about any books on slayers. She replied that they did but most of them required a guild master's permission as all of the more powerful books did. But she told him that they did have a few books he could see. He would had asked for one and the librarian would had pulled the book from under the counter. Zecarayus didn't really know how she did that(he had never heard of the book teleportation spell), but thanked her for it before he would had sat down by one of the grand book shelf's on the far right before opening the book titled "Observations, facts, and theories about the slayer magic archetype". He noticed they were sketches included with the words, and would had started looking through it for information about slayer larcimas.


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Zecarayus was now near the topic of second generation slayers in the book when he heard his name called. He looked up with surprise at his name called at a girl he did not recognize. However knowing his name meant one of two things to zecarayus, they had met before or she was another odd case like kanix. One could see the wariness and dark bags under his eyes as he looked over the girl and then he picked it up. Odd smells of books and fur...a cat, he tried to piece together who could that have been. However he would had glanced down and then realized, he wasn't wearing gloves! He was just walking around showing off his guild mark to the whole public and he didn't even know. He would had become frightened at that point and grabbed his marked hand, covering while making quick glances around before setting his sight back on the girl.

He would had narrowed his eyes at the girl, who not only knew his name but probably had good knowledge about his guild mark and what it was. Without thinking he would have started a growl in the back of his throat and started a snarl showing off his new canines. As quickly it would had started, it would had died down as he would have asked her in a demanding tone, "Who are you and how do you know of me? Answer my question and do nothing else." He was still sitting down covering his guild mark now with the book, he felt threatened and if one thought he couldn't do much sitting down then they would be very wrong.

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He would had kept his eyes narrowed, his body tense in case he needed to bolt, but then he heard her. She said she was sorano, his guildmate and has known him from a job from awhile ago. His face of suspicion gave way to that of confusion, however he was assured she was telling the truth when she showed him her guild mark. It was the one thing that made all of the other proof made sense, the smell of books and a cat, her even looking so similar, and how she knew his name. He was relieved that it was someone that knew him and not another freak case.

"Sorano? Oh i'm...i'm sorry about being so off, I uh..." he would had looked away from sorano down toward the book and back looking up at her. "I don't really know what's wrong with me right now." he would had said with a sad chuckle. A thought entered his mind, he recalled that sorano read a lot, so maybe she can help him find out what exactly he put himself? He would had started talking while looking at the book covering the guild mark on his hand. "Listen, I know after what happened with the guild I can expect you've had some trouble, and I can understand if you say no. But uh..." At this point he would had looked up at her from where he was sitting, a tired but hopeful look on his face. "I did something really stupid, I mean(chuckles)really stupid. And I could use someone's help about finding out what exactly I did..." he would had paused to look on the side past sorano to make sure if things were fine out of concern for their safety, and then looked back up at the letter mage. "...Could you help me out?" he would had finished with a question, then looked away from he face while waiting for a response.

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Zecarayus was at first paused and wondered at what sorano meant by her own question. But then he realized, he was not telling sorano anything about his issue and that was the same as asking someone to blindly follow you. He didn't want that and he realized if sorano could help then he needed to tell her as much as possible. "Right...hold on please." He would had said to her before getting up, his guild hand in his sweater pocket while he grabbed the book he had with his free hand. He would had then sat down across from sorano and put the book in front of him at the table. He would had sat with his back toward the rest of the library while setting his left over his right hand to cover the guild mark further from others.

He would had took a deep breath and began to speak, realizing he should speak straight to the point. "I found a lyrium cry-...a larcima, at the bottom of a collapsed cave network. I had never felt such a power as I did from that and I, I put into me. After I did I was left bed ridden in pain, and only now have I had feel relief from it. The thing is I didn't know what I put into me and I still don't know what it is. I came into town originally for food but, then I saw a slayer larcima. I had never seen one before but the way it looked and felt was the same feeling I had when I first found what I put into me. So I came into here to find a book about it and uh...see for yourself." He would had opened the book with his left hand until he came across the page he was looking for. he then turned the book around and scooted it towards sorano. On the page it was opened on their was a sketch of a slayer larcima on it with words as a title and around it. Words because it was clear they were written in an older form of writing(what the words look like if you want the reference), and zecarayus spoke up again, "I think someone switched the dust jackets on this book with another version of it, but that's my issue. I need to find out what I put in me and find out for sure. A good start would be to find out what the words say. So yeah if you can help me figure this out that would be great, but again I understand if you say no." He would had waited for a answer from her after he was done talking.

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