Draco was looking at the remains of what had been her first attempt to make a Dragon Locator and trying to figure out what went wrong. Draco sighed as she was distracted by her father's laughter as well as other various soinds around the guildhall. Draco heard Gajeel ask her what she was looking at and replied, "Well, this<span style="font-style: italic">used</span>to be a Dragon Locator until Cain pulled a prank on me during a test run making me drop it on the ground and causing it to open a portal that sent me and Fenrir back in time for about two days. For you guys, we were gone for two hours." Draco then gathered up the cloth that the device was resting on and decided to head to her cavern laboratory.<br/><br/>Draco soon arrived in the failed experiment chamber in the cavern. She placed the broken Dragon Locator in it's usual spot before leaving the chamber and sealing it behind her. Draco decided that she would resume her work in creating protective spells against Dark Magic. Draco remembered how her father and Gajeel had reacted upon discovering her research and hesitated entering the room with the Dark Magic artifacts. Draco knew that her father and Gajeel hadn't told anyone about her research because she hadn't been confronted by her mother, or Master Erza, about it, but she wondered how long they would stay quiet about it. They already made it clear that they didn't approve of her researching Dark Magic, which she didn't find surprising since no one in their right mind would approve of a child researching Dark Magic, or even an adult for that matter. Draco just hoped she could keep it a secret for a while longer, she wasn't ready to tell the guild about her research just yet, but then again, she never would be ready if she was comppletely honest. Draco sighed and left the cave without messing with the Dark Magic artifacts.<br/><br/>Draco walked back into the guild around lunchtime and saw that all the members were in the guildhall. No one was on a job, not even Gildarts. Draco sighed and thought to herself,<span style="font-style: italic">Now's as good a time as ever to come clean about my forbidden research... I just hope I don't get kicked out of the guild for it...</span>Draco tapped her father's shoulder and said, "Daddy... I'm ready to tell them..." Draco could only mean one thing when she told her father that, it meant she was going to confess her activities.