James sat through the girl's speech and shook his head. It was the sort of things a hopeful and idealistic person would say to dismiss the realism that is the world they live in. As a paladin himself, he sought to erase the darkness to create the world she spoke of, but it would not happen in his lifetime, without any doubt. So when it was decided that Mayt would help them learn to control their magic, and Virtue, as she called herself, said the didn't know how to even summon their magic, James came forward again and pointed at their necklaces.

"Your magic coincides with symbols on the necklace. However, your symbols are very different." He points to the red and yellow one's on Sin's necklace. "Wrath and Greed. Two of the Seven Sins. You have learned how to unleash the power of your Wrath symbol, sort of. The bashing I gave him with my shield was to negate the awakening power. It seems to have had just that effect. Learning to control that first and foremost will be important."

He took a moment to study Virtue's necklace and then snapped his fingers. "And where one finds the Seven Sins, one will also find the Seven Virtues. You are the essential good to your brother's essential evil. In other words, you must learn to work together."




Jack considered the wizard in front of him and his request. While he didn't particularly care for this so-called Genie's idea of fun and wish granting, it would make him and his guild look less than hospitable to other people. "Fine, but you will keep your magic to yourself while under the roof of my guild. Am I clear?"

As Zenoram watched he could help, but feel so helpless. So... Weak. He couldn't do anything. Still he could trust Gideon. And for a moment it seemed perfect. His comrade came up with a plan and they were nearly able to get out, but the mad man showed the true extent of what he could do. Everything going on was indeed because of him. Sure it was possible that Zenoram could possibly freeze time, but that wouldn't do much. He could give maybe 3 minutes of spare time while holding his breath.

"Zero? Zero come on. Answer me! You have to do something! We... I mean... I know that losing Hemlock has been hard. But we can't just give up. We have comrades, and a new family to protect. So... I need you to help."

It was quiet. Zero still didn't answer. Zenoram was stuck. What could he do? This wizard was obviously on another level than they had initially thought. No... He wasn't about to give up. He knew exactly how to get Zero to come out. And it was going to be much easier since Mithera and Gideon were the only ones under attack right now.

"So that's it then? All the promises you made. Everything you've ever said. This is as far as your resolve goes? This is such... Such bullshit! You're just a scare, weak Shithead! Even Mithera is attacking and that could be suicide as she is right now!"

To the naked eye it looked like Zenoram had given up and wouldn't be doing anything any time soon. But then... The young man cracked his knuckles.

"Fuck. I get it already." The young man cracked his knuckles and rolled his head on his shoulders taking great satisfaction in the cracking sounds coming from his neck. "Mithera! Gideon! Get the fuck out of the way!" He shouted as he charged at the evil mage from the side easily breaking any rock at all that might get in his way before launching a powerful punch at him, his fist engulfed in a mass of poison. "Poison Dragon's Iron Fist!" Regardless of what happened next. If Zero was blocked, dodged, or countered, he would immediately follow up with another attack. "Poison Dragon's Roar!" Of course, he'd make sure nobody was in the crossfire before releasing poison into the form of such a devastating breath attack. Still, luckily for Zenoram, Zero was back. And he was mad.

@hatakekuro

Nolan reacted quickly to the Chimera attack, spinning around and screaming a attack and launching a attack at Karn. Going to swing his fist into the beast's cheek. Not having too much time to react, the beast turned his head, golden flames errupting from his jaws. "Eastern Chimera bite!" he roared, mouth entirely enveloped in burning golden fire and fangs completely surrounding it before enveloping the fist between his jaws to catch it.

Although, his fangs didn't actually crunch down, simply holding. It in place, the flames probably wouldn't effect the Ash Godslayer so much. One, because now it was dark out so his solar magic was least effective. That and Nolan was a Ash Godslayer. Both of these points probably wouldn't lead to a too painful of a attack by flames.

But instead, the beast suddenly ran his rough tongue against the fist, effectively licking it and mouthing it like some dog demanding attention, before changing back into human form and playfully kissed it before leaping away with a amused giggle but soon coughed and stuck his tongue out at the ashy taste that was left in his mouth.

He had to wonder how Nolan managed to eat the stuff. Humming a little, Karn turned back into a Chimera, slamming his tail down to the ground and kicked up a flurry of earth and rock, before tail slamming against a large rock and launching it at Nolan.


@Oblivion666@Caits

Prince chuckled as Michael rushed while Prince more or less casually put his clothes back on, while in the room. Stretching out a little before looking to Michael as he named the kitten and couldn't help but chuckle. "Beautiful name." he chuckled, pulling out a notebook and heading toward the balcony.

"You two get some sleep okay?" he grinned before walking outside.

Mayt glanced over to Jarvis as he spoke, then back over to Virtue and Sin. When Virtue began speaking, he let out a soft sigh, and smiled just a little. "Don't worry, I've got all the time in the world." He turned towards Jarvis. "I'd be honored to take care of them for you Mister Jarvis, should I just give them any two empty rooms? Also, what about when most of the guild is away for the Magic Games?" James started talking, and he looked over, and nodded, He thought he understood. "So if I understand you right, their magic is linked not only to their necklaces but to their emotions and how those around them are acting? Way to make things a pain Magic." He chuckled softly before offering his hand to Virtue. "Anyway, I'm Mayt, currently the only S-Class wizard here. You'll probably meet the other two sometime soon." He smiled a little, trying to be friendly.

Mithera kept scratching the man as best he could, but he didn't seem to be affected by it at all, and all the sudden she heard Zero calling for her to move, and she did, just before the he threw the punch. Her heart lifted, and she yelled down at him. "Go Zero!" Before flying over to the rock the girl was trapped in, and she hid behind it while trying to see if there were any cracks or other ways to start to break the child out. "Hang on! We'll get you out!" She yelled at the rock, hoping the individual inside could hear her. She wasn't going to let some asshole wizard hurt anyone, espescially not an innocent.

Virtue smiled back at Mayt, acknowledging the charitable attitude he was possessing at the moment and felt like this man would be a good mentor as it seemed he didn't share too much hatred to her brother, which would cloud his judgement on training if he did. She also listened closely towards the knowledgeable man about their magic and nodded her head, trying to grasp what he was saying. It would explain the reason of their necklaces saying Sin or Virtue on the back of the runes, they just thought that was their names on the back just in case they would get lost or something similar to that. Well, she knew that with her powers, she needs to involve great discipline to use her powers for good, rather than waste them doing nothing. Virtue soon noticed the hand stretched out to her and gently shook his hand, "Well, I belive we should start on this training, the sooner the better we can learn to use our magic for good."

Sin groaned once again, he didn't like this at all. The group of do-gooders are now going to basically keep him locked tight in their sights which means he can't do anything that would be morally wrong. However, this was going to be interesting as the only way to activate his magic was to act evil? He smirked as they are going to have to let him do bad stuff to actually control whatever magic that might come out. Sin got straight onto his feet and broke the handshake with a smile. "So, are we going to start this mystic mumbo jumbo stuff or what?"

James bowed to Mayt while nodding in agreement before freezing and standing up straight quite quickly. He didn't know about Damian and Penny leaving to go training for the next two months? That could be...problematic and it seemed that the paladin got to deliver the news. "Actually Mayt, they tried to find you to let you now, but they're gone to train for the next two months off near Mount Hakobe. I suppose given recent events, Master Jarvis forgot to say anything." He then turned to Virtue and her brother. "Rather rude of me to not introduce myself. I am James Hunt, wielder of Paladin Magic and the man who healed your injuries Miss Virtue. Welcome to Phoenix Wing." He bowed again, this time finishing the motion completely. He also waited for Mayt to smack him or something.

@Lugubrious@CirusArvennicus@Jangel13
Slightly more occupied with freeing Fleo she didn't really notice Annalise's ramblings until she stepped up and made a comment about mood swings and being a real woman. What was this girl's problem? Oh wait, she just told her. But Ariel was not in one of her more agreeable states. The sword turning to flames did manage to distract her enough to remind her of freeing Fleo first.

Of course with her friend free she looked a bit relieved before turning to the newcomer. Crossing her arms Ariel did not look particularly thrilled. And at being introduced there was a moment were Annalise didn't either. "Hey, what was with that look? Do you have a problem or something?" There was fire in her eyes and she finally remembered the comment from earlier. How did she know about the changes in her personality within a minutes of them meeting?

@Silver Fox
NOLAN
Chimera Magic? This was a first for Nolan. He never knew that there was a magic that was meant to slay chimeras, but now he knew that there was such magic that is similar to his own. Golden flames covered his mouth and then locked down against Nolan's arm with no intent to crush it, but to keep it in place. There was only the slightest of tingling from the flames, but nothing that would make the Ash God Slayer cringe in pain. What shocked him was Karn's giant tongue licking his fist ever so slowly with its rough tongue and chewed on it like a dog with a bone. Nolan didn't even know how to react to that. He just stood there watching with disbelief all of this just happened. After Karn's kiss on the hand, Nolan was so dumbstruck that he almost didn't notice that Karn had pranced away from him and turned back into a chimera, sending a flipping small boulder straight towards the God Slayer. In a split second Nolan placed both hands on his sword Hermes and with swift downward cut the boulder split in two, each side passed by the him.

"I-I think I need a break." Never had a spar been so emotionally and mentally draining in such a short time. Nolan dragged himself back over the campsite and then slumped back against a rock, watching the deer stew cook until he took two bowls, two spoons, and a ladle out followed by serving said stew. He didn't even say anything to Karn. He sat there and slowly ate the searing hot stew with a far away gaze, wondering where he went wrong with all of this.

Jack sighed before grabbing Shujin's shoulder and turning him around.
"You will fight us." She said, pointing to herself."Watching you fight will not be effective. We have fought many people in our lives and we will be more then happy to take you on. We are sure that we can provide a big enough challenge, should you have the courage to accept."



Amelia sighed, shutting her book as the fighting finally seemed to be over. She walked outside the office and walked over to the group, her expression slightly annoyed. She glanced around at the situation and sighed. Sometimes she felt like she was the only one who knew how to keep their cool in the guild. A fact which gave her a headache. She had managed to catch the last parts of the conversation and had mixed feelings about it. She glanced over at Virtue and Sin. She didn't think they would be too much trouble. Sighing again, she walked over to Jarvis. She wasn't in the mood to study her book any longer, something that was not helped by the headache she now had. She just wanted to go someplace nice and quiet but even her room wasn't likely to be that at this point.
"Mr. Jarvis, is there anything I can do to help right now? I need something to do to help with this headache." She said.

jarvis
@joshua Tamashii

Jarvis just gave a nod, but narrowed his eyes at Sin "there is more then one way to activate your magic, child. You have found one way. We shall find another. You will behave. I have special time out Lacrima's that can hold you" it was a threat, and Jarvis left it at that, looking to Amelia when she approached.

"I need to go and get some things. Would you like to come along?" he asked, giving her a smile.

michael
@oblivion666@silver fox

Michael nodded, watching the kitten a moment, before sighing and leaning back. Hermes could take moments, or hours to return. A lot of time to think. He bit his lip, thoughtful, looking at his hand, and subsequently the guild mark. He had a home, a place to go. He had people he could trust, and yet, there was some grief. He hadn't been so far, and so long without gabriel before.

But michael knew this was something he needed to do. And they were nearly adults, they were going to have different lives. Michael suddenly found himself exhausted, so he wriggled into his sleeping back, and closed his eyes.

rock mage
@soren@burthstone@demon shinobi

The rock mage just laughed, cackling like someone completely crazy, and a wall flung up between himself and zero, thick and quite compact, stopping the Posion dragon slayer in his tracks, the ground once more shaking violently, the young girl screaming

sasha

Sasha just wanted some time to relax now, her exhaustion was someone gone, and she was hungry. She turned away from Mayt, sin and virtue, deciding that she couldn't offer much help there, and she really didn't want to deal with Sin anymore.

But she frowned at the mention of Penny and Damian away training. Sasha didn't even know that Penny was going, and for two months? Well, she supposed that was necessary for the games, but Penny hadn't gotten into the team. Shrugging it off for now, she turned to Lazarus "lets get something to eat and then continue training"

@soren@demon shinobi@caits@burthstone
Given the current situation she was not sure how best her abilities could be used. Her sword drawn she made a swift slash at the air and the the slice went out further than the blade itself. The falling rocks were blown to pieces but that wouldn't quite do much. Here Gideon seemed to have the better skill set needed. Perhaps she should apply her magic to boosting his abilities. Deciding that may be best she became a sword once more and flew above Gideon's head. "I shall lend you my power, Gideon."

@cirusarvennicus@lugubrious

Angelo sighed softly rubbing his temple softly in confusion as Trinity told him that training wasn't a way to welcome a guest but Angelo didn't even know if "guest" was a good way to classify this mood swingy woman who he cant read! Angelo wasn't sure if she was threating or nice or if she was just plain scatter brained but he just didn't know what to do "fine lets bring her inside and take a break from sparring for a while" he said resigned in just letting things go as they may since he had no idea how to handle the situation. Angelo was starting to wonder if all women were this crazy or just the one who looked like she would kill Angelo before she said sorry...

Fleo Plector – Magnolia Street

”Yeah, that'll be great!” Fleo bubbled, clapping a hand around Annalise's should, whose owner visibly flinched. Reluctantly, still sustaining her staring contest with the ground, the stranger trudged along with the group, lagging behind. Having apparently noticed for the first time the rather showy top she was wearing, Annalise had shaken her cloak until it fell all around her, making her look somewhat like a nun—if nuns dyed their hair hypnotic shades of blue and violet. Barely speaking above a whisper, she fumbled through a response to Ariel's aggressive questioning. “N-no, no problem, p-please, just, it's all fine, I'm sorry...”

It took a couple of minutes to get back to the guild hall on foot. Though still somewhat soggy, Fleo didn't appear much worse for wear, but Annalise. In the course of the short journey back, the strangely-accented swordswoman changed moods a whopping five times, first to creepy, then to sarcastic, then to flirty with Angelo before quickly turning shy again, and finally becoming loud and excitable when the guild came into sight. ”Oh, wow! The amazing Phoenix Wing Guild Hall, at last! I have traveled much far to see it. Now I know for sure I can find wizard who can help with my job!”

Laughing but quickly tiring of Annalise's shiftiness, Fleo led the way inside. As they passed a generic guild member, the motion kicked up a slight wind that knocked Annalise's hood off. Though very difficult to see in this light, there nestled a glinting, greenish, polygonal shape in the lower left side of the back of her head, one that didn't resemble any sort of conventional jewelry. Taking no notice, Annalise pulled a roll of paper from a pocket and opened her mouth to say something. In that instant, her demeanor changed from one of cheerfulness to one of surliness. “...I will return in a minute,” she said in a slightly deeper voice, though still in that same clipped accent. “Grab me some lemonade or somethin', will ya?”

With that, she headed to the job board, unrolled her slip, and began tacking it on, ignorant of any proper custom. Fleo watched her for a moment before her gaze shifted to Sin and Virtue, whose current situation caught her interest intensely. What exactly had been going on in her absence?”

Nero – Dragon Fang Guild Hall

Nero chuckled and waved his hand at Ayame, giving her the signal that the coast was clear and she could come in. With his back to her, he wasn't too sure that she could see him, but for the moment his thoughts were elsewhere. “Nooooooo problem, sir,” he assured Master Goran. “All I'll give is money, and all I'll take is hospitality. In the metaphorical sense, of course. Scout's honor.”

Upon entering, he found the Dragon Fang hall to be of grand design. Like Shirotsume proper it boasted a certain rugged, quaint quality indigenous to mountain towns, but this particular edifice bore a flavor all its own. A look around at dents, burns, cuts, and other markings all over the place gave the impression that the members physically contended with one another on a daily, if not hourly basis. “Neat!” He remarked, and mimed taking a snapshot with a photo-lacrima. Not far away from him, Jackie spun Shujin around, fixing for a brawl. “Ooh, looks like we've got a quarrel fixing to begin. And Shoe Chin, to boot! I'd go and say hi to my old buddy if I didn't hate his guts so much. Ah hah, just kidding.” He raised an eyebrow at the guild master as he held the door open for Ayame. “D'you wanna take a sec to stop the fisticuffs, or could ya maybe show us to a room?”

Location: Mt Hakobe

As various blades appeared around her, Kaitlyn summoned what appeared to be an umbrella, a dimly lit lamp pole that was planted outside near the crater, and the ground beneath vanished with nothing but a hole that was big enough for her to fit in and the umbrella completely covering her. The umbrella, to what may be surprising, didn't get damage by Damian's attack and simply bounced off. After she felt the shower of blades stop, her umbrella disappeared as the ground beneath returned but shot up and caused her to rocket into the air with a surprise. There was a dark shadow that was slowly getting bigger as it approached the crater. Since Damian was probably keeping track of where Kaitlyn was, he probably noticed that she stopped and landed right beneath the giant piece of land that disappeared earlier and was now falling into the crater.

Seeing as her lamp pole got brighter from absorbing the magic that Damian released. She simply looked at the up, created a small enough hold for her to fit through and quickly dug her way up while returning the pieces of earth behind her. It didn't take long for her to reach the top of the falling mass, but once she was up, she ran and jumped off to where her lamp pole was while using her umbrella to slow her decent as she got close.

@Caits@Zarkun

Again things happened at a fast pace. The water didn't faze him and the little girl was recaptured and brought back down into the cave. Gideon was a bit frustrated...no..more than frustrated he was angry. The wizard had collapsed the cave entrance and Gideon barely got out of the way. The wizard again attacked Gideon. The ground beneath him began to rise and rocks fell from above. Fate destroyed the rocks that were falling on him and then she transformed herself into her sword form. Strength filled him and Gideon swiped his his trident and the earth beneath him stopped. He stood and the rock beneath him lowered him down as Zenoram..wait no that wasn't his magic..Dragon Slayer Magic!? Gideon wasn't sure what was going on but he would have to accept his new ally for now unless he decided to attack him. Suddenly a wall came between the wizard, Mithera, and the little girl from Zenoram and Gideon.

This was enough! Gideon slammed his trident and parts of the wall came down. The rock wizard was strong but Gideon was getting stronger by the second. Water formed underneath Gideon and then he road it through a hole in the wall. "This ends!" Gideon summoned all of his weapons at once and began to fling each of them at the rock wizard in a rage. He also drew from the power of the water in the lake and fired water from his trident at him. Hopefully his new ally would get the chance to attack the wizard if this even slightly distracted him.

@caits @burthstone @demon shinobi @t2wave

@hatakekuro

Karn watched as Nolan evened quite stunned by the transformation wizard's stunt, barely managing to catch the Boulder and cut it in two. It was then the Ash God Slayer said he needed a break before walking off. Transforming back into his human form and watching Nolan get the stew ready. Had he gone a little far? Nolan didn't seem used to these sort of silly attacks and he was scared of girls. Claire was in Dragon Fang, and that's been her tactic so far, except much worse nowadays. He just wanted to prepare Nolan at the possibilty of competeing with a girl and opponents who seemed quite random.

As he walked over and Nolan silently served the stew, Karn blinked as he looked at the Godslayer before plopping down beside him. Gingerly brushing the dress up so he can curl his legs under him so he can sit on them. Gently taking a bite of soup, humming a little at how good it was before looking at Nolan.

"Did I go too hard on you Ashy?" he asked with wide curious emerald eyes.

@Silver Fox
NOLAN

The God Slayer shook his head an continued to sip on his stew. "No, keep it up. I'll get used to it eventually." Unexpectedly this was actually good training for Nolan. If he puts up two months of this then he'll surely get so desensitized to it that his focus will sky rocket! However that was the furthest thing from his mind. What he was thinking about was his method of increasing their power tremendously, but there is a risk. While Karn wouldn't face any of the risks, Nolan on the other hand takes all of it and potentially could lose his mind and then cease to exist. When he learned he absorbed the gods' messenger's Shaman Magic he had studied up on it, reading every source he could get his hand on. The taboo of this magic was to never absorb souls to prolong one's life span or else they will enter a state of madness and then soon their souls would implode on itself, killing the mage in the process. What Nolan hypothesized is that the souls of the wandering dead could be absorbed not to prolong one's life, but force the growth of the second origin then a mage could obtain it. That is that they don't absorb the souls to prolong their life in the process.

Nolan wasn't going to explain it to him. If Karn knew how much Nolan was at risk then he would never accept Nolan's help. That guy was too much of a good person for his own good. "You did a good job. It'll help me fight in the games, but I know there will be even more powerful mages in the games as well. I've been hypothesizing on how to become stronger faster and I think I cracked it. There is no risk for either one of us so what do you say?" Nolan about there being no risk, no risk for Nolan that is, but he knew how naive Karn was so he didn't expect him to figure out that he lied.

Kassimir Phoenix Wing Guild Hall

As Kassimir was just about to give up for the day he saw the master leaving a group of mages one of which was welcoming what looked like new members of the guild. He walked calmly over to them to say hello.

"welcome to the Phoenix Wing Guild" the mage said as he took a bow. It was by then that Kass had finally reached them, he calmly, yet, a little awkwardly waved his hand at shoulder level. He spoke hesitantly not wishing to interrupt or interject, "Uh... Hey, I'm Kassimir. Uh... A little new here and trying to get acquainted." he peacefully extended his right hand towards the group waiting for someone to shake his hand. His jacket still smelling faintly of pipe tobacco he stuck his left hand into his pocket and smiled warmly.@Zarkun@Invisible Man@Burthstone

@soren@burthstone@demon shinobi@t2wave

The rock wizard cackled madly, defending himself, the ground shook as if it was going to be ripped about, stronger and more violent then before, as if he had summoned more power, and the rock wizard moved out the way, deliberately moving so that the child was in front of him, in her dome prison.

"You can't escape! You shall die here! YOU SHALL FAIL" He roared, madness in his voice. The rocks continued to fall, Any attacks that landed didn't seem to phase him, but gauges formed where they landed, almost as if he were made of rock.

He didn't seem to care that the whole cave might cave in on himself as well as the others. "SHE DOESN'T DESERVE HAPPINESS! WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING FOR HER?"


@zarkun@yipeeXDwhoever else is in the guild at the moment

The Timelord embarked on a train, using the time it took to travel to Dragon Fang to simply watch the scenery, imagining that anywhere that passed would show him a sign or two of where he needed to go, what he needed to do.

He sighed heavily, and closing his eyes, weary. Lines marked his face, weariness and perhaps the markings of age etched his face, but it was still impossible to tell how old he was. 12 years. 10 long, weary, slow years. And, yet no answers. Just more questions. Was I taken from all I knew, simply to end in failure? i thought I was going to adventure, was going to show the world that despite my magic, I could be something great. What a foolish little child I was. Still, I'm closer to finding answers then I was, even months ago

At a voice, he looked up, and shook his head at a woman passing around refreshments, closing his eyes once more. WHen the train stopped, he was no more rested then when he began, but he felt calmer.

He continued on his way to Dragon Fang, noting the sinking sun, and then continued, whistling as he walked. He studied the guild hall, and then entered. "Hello?"

Mithera had to hide behind the rock the girl was trapped in in order to not get hit by the barrage of rock and water hitting the man, some of it going past him. As he called out that the woman didn't deserve happiness, Mithera yelled back. "You don't get to decide whether or not she deserve happiness! No matter what she's done she deserve a second chance! You don't get to be judge, jury, and executioner!" She swallowed, before looking to her friends. "Gideon! This isn't the actual wizard! This is just a bunch of rocks shaped like him!" She started digging at the rock tomb again, and she wished she had just stayed in her giant dragon form, though, she wouldn't of been able to fit down here if she was. Thinking quickly, Mithera started to blow her tiny flames at the weakest spot she could find on the rock, hoping to heat it up enough she could push through it and have the child get out on her own. "Try to push out of here if you can!"

Mayt sighed when James explained he would be the only S-Class for two months. "Yeah, sure, just leave the guy who barely has any idea what the duties of his position includes as the only person of that position available." He rolled his eyes a little, before crossing his arms. "Well, I guess I can't fault them for wanting to train at least. Thanks for telling me James." He glanced back over to Sin and Virtue. "We can begin your training in magic whenever you wish, but I've never heard of your magic, so I won't really know where to start. But we can always try at least. If you've activated it once then we can work from there."

He brought in a breath, only to find that another person had joined in on the conversation, apparently someone new here. Mayt hesitated only a moment before taking his hand and giving it a firm shake. "Well, welcome to Phoenix Wing then, I'm Mayt, one of Phoenix Wing's three S-Class wizards. The other two are apparently off training fo the Magic Games in two months, so if Jarvis isn't available I'm the go-to guy, I guess." He made a little shrug, glancing over to Jarvis, seeing if he'd confirm his suspicions. He idly hoped he wouldn't end up with someone constantly challenging him because he was S-Class though. But with Lazarus around that hope would probably never get realized. If anyone in the guild had a chip on their shoulder, it was the 'angel' more than anybody.