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40 | galatea woods

Galatea tiredly walked into the guild. The rest of her team had left on their job, so she had the day off. She was relaxing in her house earlier when she felt a strange inkling to go to the Guild, like something important was happening. She didn't mind, she'd rather be around people at the moment. Between her weird dreams and abdominal pain, she'd prefer to be around others incase something wrong happened. Granted, she hadn't actually mentioned those weird dreams to anyone yet, though she planned on discussing it with Freed with they got back. As she and Freed were the "brains" of the group, it was most reasonable to discuss her state with him. She'd let the others know in due time, but for now she was simply waiting for them to return home.

She immediately walked over to the bar, where she found Erza and Makarov discussing something. Upon seeing the violet-haired woman, Makarov turned to look at her.

"Tea, you mentioned that you were keeping an eye out for Minerva's whereabouts, right?" Makarov asked, making Galatea tense slightly.

"Yes, Sting informed me of Sabertooth's collaboration with the Rune Knights surrounding Jiemma and Minerva's previous actions. I'm involved seeing as I was the one who handled her burial and was blackmailed, so I'm also keeping an eye and a ear out. Did you two hear anything?" Galatea asked.

"I ran into her on my team's mission to unfreeze the Sun Village." Erza said, "She's a member of a Dark Guild, called Succubus Eye."

Galatea froze.

"And?"

"She escaped our clutches." Erza admitted.

"What about her father?" Makarov asked, thinking deeply. "He was Sabertooth's former master, as I recall."

"His whereabouts are currently unknown." Erza said.

Sighing, Makarov looked up at Erza and Galatea.

"I will inform the Magic Council. Galatea, you should pass her new status onto Sting." Makarov said.

Galatea nodded her head, "Will do Master."

And with that, she walked off. She passed by the table of Dragonslayers, and surprise, surprise, Levy and Lucy were with them.

"Ooh, Tea. You should stick around for this. We might have a lead on where our Dragons are!" Lucy said, making the violet-haired dragonslayer stop.

Skeptic, since according to Andromeda all of the other dragons were dead, she nonetheless entertained their hopeless desires and looked over at the notes.

"Look at this." Levy said. "E.N.D"

At those words, Galatea's vision blurred slightly for just a moment, making her shake her head.

Damm headache.

"This doesn't do into detail, but it's apparently a demon on a whole different level than Lullaby and Deliora." Levy continued.

"Is it the most powerful demon of the Book of Zeref, then?" Lucy questioned, making a sharp pain ring through Galatea's head again.

Just what was going on here? Why was I feeling like this?

"That's scary." Wendy commented.

"What is a demon of the Books of Zeref, anyway?" Panther Lily asked, unfamiliar with the term.

Galatea, knowing a great deal on demons, spoke up.

"Here in Earthland, one can create Demons through high levels of Dark Magic. Zeref is the most famous Dark Wizard of all time, and he created several demons in his lifetime, though the number is unknown. A demon's summoning spell and code are so long that they are put in book form. The Demon's from the Books of Zeref are arguably the most widely-known Demons, as many of the older ones like Books of Percutio or Hades were killed by Zeref or his creations." Galatea explained.