Thor had almost fully healed their legs, but they still were a little red from the burn just now. Thor had caught the tatoos on the upper body of the old man. It certainly didn't look the old man his first fight from the looks of it. Soon the fight started after the signal. Thor stood still for a moment and stared at the man. He was waiting for Thor to attack first. Thor started to wonder what kind of magic the old man had or why he was such a low rank despites looking so strong. Thor's body slowly started glowing as their body surrounded by lightning. Quick strikes would probably be best against the old man, he shouldn't have that much reaction time so that would be a plus for Thor "Lightning body." Thor dashed towards the man and gave a quick kick with their lower leg against the side of his body. Thor quickly dashed away again and gave another quick kick with the bottom of their foot against his back. Thor dashed away again and pulled herself towards the ceiling just above him "Cling." Thor only just looked over at him to see if she did any damage. Her strikes wouldn't do to much damage to his body but they would atleast make the spots on his body numb so that it was harder to move.

The girl sniffled, but she eventually calmed down, enough so that she finally seemed to notice the ground shaking, and blinked, the vibrations stopping, and she looked to the rock guardian. She blinked again, wide brown eyes watery and pained. She sniffled again, and the rock guardian crouched.

"Bye bye"

The guardian lose shape, and just became a pile of rocks once more. The rocks in front of the cAve mouth fell, opening the mouth once more. They could then hear the cries, and shots of Donna, who when mouth was open again, came stumbling in, straight to the girl.

She clutched the girl to her, holding her right, as if she would never let her go. She looked to the guild members, "im sorry, I couldn't tell you. A month ago...a shadow mage Attacked our town, and...killed my husband, Cat's father. They would have killed her, too, but her own magic protected her, just like I imagine you have seen. But if they knew she was alone...@ she trailed off, and hugged the girl even closer

Lazarus

He smiled. "It was nothing, really." He grinned some more, before giving the waiter his drink preference. It was brought to him in a short glass. He swilled it, taking a sip. The golden alcoholic nectar trickled down his throat, with a slight burning sensation, but that was fine. He leaned across the table, offering the glass up. "Here. Try some. I wonder if maker wizards have a refined taste like slayers." He chuckled, kidding, knowing she probably wouldn't like it.

Shujin

He simply paused scratching his chin. "Oh? Smart too. You're the kind of wizard I needed in the special team in my previous line of work." He grinned, excited. "You're right, you shouldn't rush in." He paced a little. "You're also probably just preparing yourself for anything I can throw at you. Maker magic doesn't work like that. I'm surprised a smart girl like yourself hadn't come to that conclusion." He paused again before sighing, looking at her. "My maker magic is of a solid form, yours is not. You are at a disadvantage when facing someone like me. This is why this training is vital to you become a master of maker magic." He narrowed his eyes. "Metal make... Binding!... impact!" He waved his hands to the side, causing an iron chain to wrap around Jack's hands, constricting tight. He brought his left hand down, bringing down a large wall of iron on top of her. He relaxed his hands, expecting her to deal with the wall without the use of her magic. "You see, it's not about strategy. It's about this." He pointed to his heart. "You make what you love, and you allow your love to flow into your magic." He folded his arms. "That's how you become strong." He released the chains from her hand, deforming the metal. "Now come at me!"

@caits@Lugubrious
Seeing that Jarvis didn't quite pick up what Annalise needed she stepped up to help. "She wants to have her job approved to put on the board. But I would like to take it if you approve of the job." Knowing a little bit about mood/personality swings and wanted to try and help out Annalise. Her condition didn't appear to be her fault. Smiling a bit she glanced at Annalise. "I think I can understand where she's coming from."

That piece said Ariel glanced at Annalise. The glass shard was an odd feature but the job had mentioned it specifically. Curious she leaned closer to look at it briefly before looking directly at Annalise. "What is the glass shard? If you don't mind my asking."

sasha
@yipeeXD

Sasha didn't think it was nothing, but she left it at that for now, and narrowed her eyes at the slight challenge with the drink. She gave a smile, almost cheeky, and took the drink, taking a sip of it, she passed the glass back, she poked her tongue out at him, "tastes fine to me" she said with amusement, "a little strong, but good" she returned to her own drink, a non-alchololic drink. While sasha did drink alchol on occasion, she didn't like to indulge with it.

She still wondered what Lazarus had been about to say, but didn't bring it up again, deciding if it were important, he would say something sooner or later.

jarvis

Jarvis read the job again, but of Ariel wanted to take it, then that was fine by him. "alright then. You may take the job, but please, take someone else. The dark guilds are getting reckless and more confident"

@hatakekuro

Karn listened to the story curiously, all the while munching on a piece of meat and gulping it down. Soon enough the box was completely empty and he lightly wiped his mouth with a handkerchief. Sipping the tea as Nolan explained the most probable reason why the yokai didn't reveal themselves, the blonde thought for a moment.

"Maybe, I'm super scary looking to them?" he chuckled in amusement.

@Silver Fox
NOLAN
"Can't blame them for being distrustful. Humanity keeps taking away more and more of their land each year leaving the yokai to figure out what to do with their lost homes. The yokai all are separated all over the world and they're resources are growing fewer and fewer. Their options are few. They can either put their differences aside and band together to form their own kingdom or they can integrate into human life at the risk of losing their culture." Nolan took a sip of tea and finished off his own bizarre and delicious meal. The yokai's situation certainly wasn't an easy one to be solved. There were complex political issues involving many noble families from the yokai and each city had their own special interests. He had only been to this one city and only learned of these issues by the inhabitants of this island. The deeper, ancient problems were beyond his understanding.

Nolan hopped back to his feet and tossed a now empty cup over to a bin. "There isn't much point in thinking about complicated issues. Everything will work out eventually. I'm more interested in stuffing my face." It seemed strangely out of character for Nolan to be this social, especially with someone like Karn that made his skin freak out with goosebumps and a river of sweat. Perhaps there was hope for him after all. Nolan had stopped in front of a stall that was serving fried Yamata-no-Orochi, eight headed snake, on a stick and Kappa Fin Sake. It's been awhile since Nolan had felt this hungry and by god after the whole craziness of the day he was going to stop giving a damn and let loose a bit.

Gideon smiled at Donna. "It's ok miss I understand your reasoning. Your little girl is very strong and will someday be one of the greatest Earth Wizards of our time. Once she learns to control her magic maybe she can even join Phoenix Wing." Something was bothering Gideon though. He didn't want to intrude or seem insensitive to Donna or Cat but he felt he had to ask. "Donna? If I may call you that instead of being formal. How is it that Cat got here? And why this island? I've no doubt that she could have beaten any monster that this island may hold with her magic but is this place special? Also when we get back I would like to talk to you about that Shadow Wizard...Someone needs to put a stop to him and I just might be able to get my Guild Master to take a look into it. I want to see the man who caused both of your suffering put to justice." He knew it wasn't exactly his place. After all he was no enforcer of the law but he had always felt that if something needed to be put right where no one else had done so then he needed to do something. He went over to them and knelled before Cat and Donna. He then looked into Cat's eyes and said. "I am glad you are safe now Cat. My name is Gideon. I and the rest of my companions would like to take you and your mommy home now. Would that be ok?" He did this to try and show some respect where he had not given it before and in a way as an apology for not figuring the situation out sooner. All his action scared her hopefully that could all be cleared up now.

@t2wave @demon shinobi @caits @burthstone

Mayt chuckled, and made a shrug. "I have no idea how either of your magic works, or how to activate it. But that's what we're going to learn. As of right now, we might as well start with basic self defense. Since regardless of what you do, at some point in your life you will come across a situation you can't overcome peacefully." The last statement was pointed at Virtue, since Mayt figured she'd likely berate him for suggesting violence at all. He also had a secondary motive, Sin had said he had gotten super powerful when he had gotten angry, and so Mayt hoped to trigger that again by doing something that'd probably get him worked up. Mayt removed the scabbard for his sword from his belt, and held it in his hand as he looked over the two carefully, sizing them up. After a moment, Mayt would take a step back, and swing his sword scabbard hard towards Sin's side. "One at a time or both of you at once, I don't care." He'd start to say during the attack, taking a few steps back after it landed, or handn't.

Mithera was glad she had, with a little help, succeeded in calming the little girl down. But once the mother came, and mither relocated herself back to Zero's shoulder, she only gave a sullen glare at the mother. There were too many unanswered questions, such as why the job request only mentioned he bracelet, or how the mother herself never said anything about the child. Before Donna had arrived, Mithera had had half a mind to only bring the bracelet back to the mother, and suggest that they take the child to Phoenix Wing, since she showed a certain amount of raw talent just now. Conjuring up a fake man made of stone was no small feat for any wizard, not to mention the power she had besides. Mithera decided to keep her mouth shut however, the girl's mother was here, and she didn't want to railroad anyone into making a decision they didn't want to make.

Sin's excitement lessened as Mayt stated that he couldn't activate their magic, he imagined they would have some sort of artifact to do something about that. Like, something that would just force his magic out or just unlock some sort of points in his body to make the magic flow through his body and make him find his true potential. Sin blew a raspberry towards Mayt as he started to become bored, but chuckled at the advice given to Virtue as she obviously took offense to that, however, she was good at hiding her emotions. Sin looked over towards the trainer to see that he had taken out his sword! Or, at least the scabbard of the sword. Sin was excited, were they going to pratice sword fighting!? That would be exciting, but something completely irrelevant to the lesson at hand.

Virtue looked around, she was also disappointed at the fact that the guild didn't have something to activate their power, but they just meant more training. She did take offense to the advice that was given to her though, she knew that everything could be solved in a peaceful manner as sheathing the sword is the best way to defeat an enemy. However, she didn't really expect Mayt to actually bring out his scabbard and swing the thing over towards her daydreaming brother. Virtue quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the way from harm, barley dodging the swing. This obviously pulled Sin out of his daydream and took him a few seconds before realizing what had just happened, only to make him angry. Virtue tried to grab his arm to stay down, but Sin easily stood up, making Virtue stand up with him. "What the hell!? You dick! You don't go swinging things around when people are daydreaming!"

"Sin, please. Try to stay calm. He is obviously trying to spur a reaction out of you. Think, please." Virtue tried to say before making Sin angrier.

"You don't tell me how to think! I think for myself, and I think I should punch this guy in the face!" Sin broke out of her grasp and charged Mayt with his fist hoping to connect with Mayt's face, however, it was obvious that his anger made him make many mistakes in his stance and positioning. This only made Virtue sigh in disbelief as she covered her eyes waiting for the counter measure that Mayt was prepared to lay down on her stupid brother.

Ayame followed after Jack towards the bar still behind Nero of course and was found by surprise when her money was given back to her. She dumbfoundedly stood there, her hands in front of her chest with her eyes focused on the coin. She angled her head a little in confusion and panicked a little when she got the free drink from him. She quickly placed the coin in her wallet again and took the tea from him. It was at least a sweet drink that she knew instead of those weird milk shakes. She made a slight bow and blew softly into the cup a few times to cool down the hot tea some more. Ayame tried to drink it but burnt her tongue in the progress since it was still to hot. She made a small yelp and fanned her tongue with her hand. Despites the heat of the tea it was still sweet and reminded her a lot of candy, well anything sweet to be exact. Once she was near the bottom of the cup she noticed that she had been standing here alone in the guild hall and that Nero had disappeared without much talking for already quite a long time. She hurriedly looked around the room to find Nero but figure he already went over to the room. Ayame figured it would be a good time to scam her eyes over the big guild hall. There wasn't anything weird about the guild hall nor the guild master. It all looked rather normal and ordered. Ayame started walking a little while slowly drinking the remainings of the tea.

Once Ayame finished her tea she had put the cup on the counter and made a slight bow and softly spoke to him "T-thank you very mu-uch." She started to head over to the room Jack had showed her and Nero. She vaguely reminded his words "Don't disturb the other guests in the first room." Ayame glanced over the few doors down the hallway but hadn't paid much attention to which room theirs was exactly. Ayame took a blind guess and headed through the second door on the right. To Ayame's blind surprise it wasn't the right room. She stared a few seconds at the other people sitting in the room and pretended like nothing happened by slowly walking out of the door. Ayame figured it was the next door to the right since there wasn't much choice. Luckily she was right this time and started heading into the room.

Once she had entered the first thing she could immediately spot was Nero lying stretched out on the ground. She quickly jumped over to his side sitting down on her knees and tried to wake him up multiple times out of panic "Nero! Nero!" She was shaking his body around on the ground but no movements of the genie. He was still breathing and it didn't look like he collapsed or something by the wide smile on his face. She had a worried expression on her face despites him looking fine and figure she had to take care of him a little. Ayame had to get him onto the bed so that he didn't catch a cold while being in dream world. Ayame tried to lift his upper body off of the ground but with not success.

She had to use something else. Well since nobody was here anyway it was a good idea to use her powers so that she wouldn't break her own back. Ayame took a few steps back and used her own magic. The floor in the room began to tremble a little before the floor under Nero began to lift him. Ayame used the wood of the floor and the ground under it to make a arm that would only lift Nero a little and roll him onto the bed. Before anyone could enter the room everything was already back to normal. The floor looked like it hadn't moved an inch and Nero was safe and sound on the bed. She smiled a little and began covering him in the sheets on the bed.

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Donna was silent for what seemed like a long time, rocking with Cat. She was almost debating about what to say, and she looked down at the girl in her arms, "There are certain things that I'd rather not think about, any more. We were young, and foolish...and they spoke of bringing Magic back to its old glory, to having a better life...To not being shunned because of what we had. It didn't matter that it was a dark guild, for the first time, I felt like I belonged...I was a powerful mage once, but I gave it all up, to walk away with Cat's father, and the prospect of a child. That was ten years ago...We thought we were safe...You don't just walk away from a dark guild, and we took precautions..."

She shook her head, and hugged Cat closer, "We were happy! And then, we weren't. How could I say anything, about Cat being missing, about her being here, without alerting them? She has so much potential...and they would take that, use it.....I couldn't let it be known that she was alone..." She fell silent, rising with Cat still in her arms, "And every time I got close, the guardian would send me away. I don't have much magic anymore, and what use would I be to her, dead? If her magic killed me? I needed help...""

She trailed off

Mayt chuckled a little, and stood up straighter as Sin charged him. "Energy Control Magic, Reflect: Motion." A magic circle would appear between Sin's fist and Mayt's face, and Sin's attack would be sent backwards. Though only at half the force he put into it was sent back, it would throw him off-balance if not throw him over, and Mayt would gladly give any extra force needed to send Sin toppling with a quick swipe at his legs using his sword scabbard. "Maybe you shouldn't be daydreaming then, then I can't try to hit you while you're not paying attention." He couldn't hide the little smirk on his face, and he moved back, making sure that Sin couldn't get to him while he was on the ground. He glanced up at Virtue. "My intention is to piss him off, as you noticed. I feel like it's be a... Starting point, since it activated his magic before." He shrugged a little. "Don't worry about him hurting me, or me hurting him. If he hurts himself, I can't help him there."

Gideon sighed when Donna told him that she didn't wanna think about it anymore but as she went on an idea struck him. "Donna would you like to start a new life? They know where you live and hiding a Cat with this much power is going to be difficult. I can think of two people that might be able to help you with this. There is my father who doesn't live to far from here. He helps run a cafe and has a decent sized house. I know he misses having someone young around the house and he is amazing with children. The second is come with us to Phoenix Wing. I know I said before when she gets older she would make a great wizard and might be able to join but if you guys need protection then I'm pretty sure that we can help and train Cat so she doesn't loose control. This way if any dark guild does come looking for you at either place you will be protected. Trust me my father is no pushover. What do you say? We want to do anything possible to keep you and her safe. I wouldn't want Cat to loose you too or have something like this happen again. If you don't I understand but I will be making checks on you every week by mail and if I don't get a letter back I'm going to be bringing Phoenix Wing back out here with me!" He knew this was probably a bit to much but he hated the idea of leaving Donna and Cat in the town where a dark guild knew they were. Sure they might find them again in Magnolia but Gideon had no doubt that they would be protected there.

@caits @burthstone @demon shinobi @t2wave

Sin continued running towards Mayt, ignoring the words he had just said as it was probably some attempt to teach him a lesson in mid fight. He didn't even notice the large circle around his fist when he tried to throw the punch, resulting him stumbling backwards, trying to keep his already unbalanced footing before being suddenly stuck on his legs with a scabbard, making him yelp in pain before falling down on his butt. Sin started to rub his butt, trying to ease the pain and turned around to see Virtue hiding her face away from the fight, which only made him embarrassed... And even angrier. His face was flushed red as he started to get up and was scowling at Mayt, however, he noticed something glowing and it was his necklace. It was glowing red? Sin looked confused and then surprised, finally he looked excited at the sight of his necklace glowing red.

Virtue opened her eyes once the fight was over to see Sin standing up once again, rubbing his butt and noticed Mayt was saying something to her. "Yes, it maybe the easiest way in activating his magic. However, it is a natural evil to want to harm someone, I do not condone this at all!" Virtue replied back to Mayt. However, her eyes soon locked on the glowing necklace of Sin and her eyes widened. The last time his necklace was like that, it had taken a lot to make that thing activate... Does it want to be used again? She looked down at her neck and noticed that her necklace was glowing pink, just like last time. "What is happening?" Virtue mumbled under her breath, she tried to grab the necklace to get a better look at it before a sudden burst of light hit everyone in the face.

Sin was excited! He was always angry, but excited at the same time! Now, all he needed to do was somehow activate this thing... Did he need to become more angry to activate? Was there some kind of ancient word that would somehow make him all powerful? Sin looked over to Virtue to figure this out before his eyes were suddenly blinded. Sin quickly covered his eyes, and it took a few moments before they could readjust, he couldn't believe at what he was looking at. Virtue was glowing pink and had, fucking, wings protruding from her back. Sin looked down to see his necklace still glowing red and he tried grabbing it, seeing if there was some kind of switch before he was suddenly invigorated with power. The boy exhaled deeply as his muscles suddenly started to grow in size and stopped when he was ripped as hell.

Sin looked over to thank Mayt in figuring out how to activate their magic before something clouded his mind, it was a never ending cease of rage that entered his body. The aura became blood red and as he was about to charge at Mayt with all his new found strength before Virtue touched his head, she forced peaceful thoughts into his head before he soon became less aggressive, but still really angry. The aura became a bright red color again and Sin looked at Mayt without wanting to rip his spine from his throat anymore. "Huh... I guess it worked. I still want to punch your face until all your teeth fall out, but I think Virtue is helping me control this... Rage. Still want to fight?"

Trinity was pleased that Fleo had accepted her offer. Taking a job would be a lot more fun with a friend along. It was a little exciting, really. She hasn't purposefully gone anywhere with someone in a long time. "It'll be fun, traveling together." As Fleo excuses herself to go change, Trinity looks up from her meal with a full mouth and gives the magess a thumbs-up. When Fleo returns, Trinity has finished her eggs, bacon and hash browns, and is eating her English muffin with strawberry preserves.

She puts a hand over her mouth to respond. "What now?" She swallows her current mouthful after a bit more chewing. "Well... We could go back to sparring, but I think I hurt my shoulder a little bit with that last maneuver. Landed right on it..." She rolls her right shoulder a little bit, eating with her left hand. "Might be best to give it a rest, put a little ice on it. Oh." She dismisses her bow from her back, shoving the rest of her breakfast in her mouth before she draws an ice arrow and rubs the flat of it against her shoulder.

"Annalise? Yeah, yeah, interesting is a way to put it. It looks like she at least understands flattery and high society, though..." Trinity couldn't help but notice the strange young lady's formal behavior when regarding Jarvis, even from the bar. And from what she could also see... "Ah, looks like Ariel wants to go on the job Annalise brought. Maybe we should go with her?" Trinity turned her gaze back to Fleo, wondering what she thought.

Listening and watching. Staring down the group, with his steely gaze. That was the position Zero had been sidelined too. The glare and annoyance was evident. Things had seemed to turn out pretty well, but going this far. "This guy is almost as nice as Karn. Or Zenormam." Zero sighed, speaking in a whisper to Mithera who was on his shoulder. As far as he was concerned their job was done. They could get paid and leave. Though Zenoram was siding with Gideon within the depths of their mind. A never ending argument that would be if Zero said or even thought something. "And what do you think about all of this you little fuzzball of a dragon?" Zero asked quietly as he folding his arms over his chest and watched everything play out. He wasn't about to get involved further. He had been paying much attention. And he did feel for the girl. Her loss was nothing small. But this woman. Donna. She had gone about things in such a roundabout way. It was all too shady. She could have said something. About her daughter. About the mages. Hopefully this would be over soon. He was getting impatient and ready to leave. Something about it all. He didn't like it. Not even in the slightest.

Unfortunately, after her plea, Annalise's sycophantic mood evaporated into rigid, unflappable seriousness. She greeted Ariel's question with a look totally devoid of emotion, expression, or intelligence. In slow, lethargic words, ones dry as the Kalahari heat for lack of tone, she sounded out, “What...shard...of...glass?” At that moment, the scabbard in her hand cracked, and two pieces of its surface broke off and transformed into butterflies. The little, ebony-black insects flitted around her head, and Annalise watched them with empty green eyes, her face a blank canvas. The butterflies flew for only a few moments before reuniting with the rest of the scabbard, and Annalise sank into the nearest empty table.

A drop of salty water leaked from the corner of her eye. Her eyes stared off into the distance, focused on nothing, but it was obvious her mood had shifted again. “...Thank you for asking to do this,” she whispered, a trace of her true self breaking through. “It's so hard to focus. Whenever I try...it really hurts. I hope you'll put up with me long enough to find out how to cure me.”

A look of pain crossed her face, leaving a happy smile in its wake. “Hello! So what is your name?”



Fleo smiled apologetically. “Sorry! If it's any consolation, I think you had the upper hand. Your arrows were coming so fast, I was forced to fight very defensively. At least you didn't wreck anything!” It was pretty obvious, however, that Fleo didn't feel too badly about her magical mishap. She looked at the remains of Trinity's breakfast with a sort of longing. “That meal looked excellent, I wish I could afford to eat like that. If today meal's not a special occasion, you must exercise almost daily to keep in such good shape.”

After watching Annalise's actions for a moment, though too far to hear her moment of lucidity, the dusty woman nodded her assent to the minstrel's suggestion. “Yeah, I'd like to help her if possible. I didn't see her flier, so I don't know the job's specifics, but anything helps, you know?” She got up, straightened her cap, and made her way to Ariel, expecting Trinity to follow her. Not wanting to interrupt, she waited for their own conversation to end.



Nestled in the bed thanks to Ayame, Nero dreamed a strange dream. Though not happy, it was by no means a nightmare. Nero sat, in a schoolboy's uniform at a desk in a classroom. Looking around, he could see to his relief that these walls did not belong to Strychnine; that dark Academy had hosted few windows, and through what few of them there were lay only views of twisted trees. The grim forest surrounding that old boarding school of terror had been a constant reminder of Nero's entrapment, for however horrible the teachers and other kids were, a chance of survival within the walls beat the certain death that awaited him in those woods. At least, until the fateful day...but that mattered not, for Nero sat not in one of Strychnine's 'classrooms'.

Instead, he sat in a chamber of tile floor and brick wall. Thirty other desks occupied the room with them, and several were tenanted, though all tenants were sound asleep. Nearest to Nero was a young girl he recognized in Ayame, though she wore different clothes—ones that he hadn't given to her. There were others he almost immediately identified, including Trinity from Phoenix Wing, and Shujin and Prince from Dragon Fang. Beyond them, also asleep at desks, were Ginger and Free. After that, the faces got more and more obscure, and Nero didn't want to get up to look for fear of waking them up, so instead he looked at the walls. They were plastered with stickers and signs in a language he did not understand. Frustrated now, and growing bored, Nero tiptoed his way to the windows and was shocked to see every person asleep in the room outside, romping on a sunlit hill. Absolute joy and ease, on their faces and in the air, and sealed away from Nero by a wall of glass. He pressed his hands against the surface, but so icy-cold was the crystal surface that he gasped and drew back. He knew he wanted nothing better than to go out and join with them, to fit in and be normal, but he knew that he could never get through that glass.

Screaming suddenly in anger, Nero pounded on the glass, and the image changed. Nero sucked in his breath, terrified at the monster he now saw. It was navy-skinned, with wide, dead-white eyes, a third, vertical eye on its forehead, long, pointed ears, and spindly fingers. It, however, looked just as surprised as Nero, and it didn't take a genius to figure out why. “Well, this must be a dream,” the genie said, looking at what he guessed was his reflection. “Real life isn't this ironic. No wonder I'm stuck in here. Let's see, now that I've figured out that this is a dream, I ought to be able to control it.”

Unfortunately, he couldn't. In his wrath he loosed incredible power on the sleeping bodies in the classroom, loosing every Curse Law he knew and some he didn't, for after all, there were no consequences in a dream.



Some time later, Nero awoke. His neck hurt incredibly when he tried to move. He remembered dreaming, but couldn't for the life of him remember anything about it. Sitting up, he found himself in bed. After a puzzled moment, he decided that Ayame must have stumbled in on him, found him unconscious, and either gotten someone else to help her -which was unlikely- or done something on her own to make him more comfortable. “Aw, what a sweet kid.”

Donna shook her bead "no, thank you for the offer though. I can't take Cat away from all she knows, not now. We willbe alright. Thank you for getting through to her when I couldnt. I owe you a great debt. You can get your reward back at the house" she darted out the cave, with Cat, not giving them any more chance to delay, hugging the girl to her

@Lugubrious@CirusArvennicus@Caits
Nodding to Jarvis' instructions she smiled. "I'll be sure to get some others to go along. Thank you Master Jarvis." Turning her attention back to Annalise the seemed to have moved to a table. Following, Ariel took a seat next to her. "It's no problem. I have these weird mood swings too, or personality changes. Something like that. It is rather strange, like I've been split apart or something." The thought didn't last long with the Light mage as Annalise brightened up as well. "Oh yes, my name is Ariel Gratas. I'm still pretty new here but I've had a lot of opportunity to grow. Still not exactly sure how my magic works though."

Fleo and Trinity approached the two and Ariel waved. "I'm taking the job Annalise brought. Jarvis said I need to bring some others with me though. Would you like to join us?" She put the job page out on the table so they could read it. She'd worked with Fleo before but not as much with Trinity. Not that it really mattered at the moment.

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@soren@demon shinobi@caits@burthstone
The job having been completed and everything calmed down Fate walked over to her sword and pulled it from the ground. Carefully wiping the blade on her sleeve she sheathed it and walked back over to the others. Being away from the blade felt odd, like she was incomplete. Which was probably true to some extent. Her humanly form was simply a manifestation. "Come on guys. We've saved a life today." Smiling she headed after Donna to collect the reward. By now it was quite late and likely everyone could use a little rest before heading back to their guild hall.