"Well first, let me tell you what I know. I KNOW that Ariel, in an attempt to help the poor boy, used Charm magic on him numerous times to try and get him over his fear. I also know that Charm magic is...fickle. As it stands, this whole thing for Nolan is an unfortunate side effect of a good willed effort. So before you do ANYTHING," he locked an unintentionally cold gaze on Marlene, "let the poor girl undo the damage. Then, well, you're on your own after that. I'm a soldier, not a love guru."

Jackie frowned at her Master.
"You're trying not to laugh. But as for your suggestions: I rather like diamonds, I even have a few. As for her catching the eye of someone I like, I have no one like that so there is no way it can be that. As for her as a person, I don't even know her." Jackie said.

"Maybe your jealous then. Maybe she has something you wish you have or had." Amelia said

Jackie looked at the younger girl.
"What do you mean?"

"I'm jealous of most people. They have and know their families. I never knew mine and the only person to be like family to me is dead. It's like the world is denying me the ability to get close to others." Amelia said, a sad look entering her eyes as her expression lost the happiness it had held earlier.

Master Jamie
@Crimson Raven
Jamie watched Grant go, narrowing her eyes, but didn't pursue him. For now, Grant didn't matter. As Jamie looked back to Ferrin, the glow from the candle caught his eyes. Jamie blinked, looking back to Ferrin in amusement. ""So I'll just go right on up then, shall I?" Without waiting for an answer, Jamie started into the building, intent of her goal.

Sasha
@yipeeXD

That could have meant anything, but again, Sasha didn't press. It was clear that Lazarus didn't want to tell her yet, and that was okay. She gave him a smile, looking at the battle again. it seemed that it was at a high, were it could go either way, still Karn was doing well.

Gabriel
@lugubrious
Having made it back to the camp, and his tent, Gabriel sat for a time, until the dragon formed before him. He studied the spirit, wondering what had pulled it to him. Normally, Gabriel had to go through a trail to receive his spirits. This time...it had been like an overwhelming force that he had to get out before it killed him.

After settling the contract, Gabriel laid back and closed his eyes, not intending to sleep but doing so. The sound of clashing and banging woke him, and he crawled out the tent hurriedly, looking about a little bleary eyed. And stood frozen for a second. The camp was being attacked!

Tired, still annoyed and just over it all, Gabriel pushed himself out of his frozen state, and stepped forward, knowing he was no match for them really by himself, but he couldn't just let the camp be attacked!

"So you'll settle the score by attack a mostly empty camp like a coward? Oh wow! Too bad I'm here, to ruin it for you!" He was getting himself into a mess. Again. He just couldn't seem to stop himself. Without wishing for it, the Dragon spirit appeared once more, and let out a roar.

Penny
@Zarkun@lmpkio
The battle didn't seem to be coming to any end, and time was ticking away. Penny sat on her bed, and slid on her boots, not caring particularly for heels or other shoes. And she could kick butt in boots. If that was the only flaw in her outfit, then so be it. As there appeared to be a lull in the battle, Penny heard voices wafting up, raised and it sounded like two girls fighting, in that feminine sort of way.

Wondering what else could possible happen today, Penny gave a sigh, and rose to investigate it, ,grabbing the vision lacrima on the way out. Just what they needed would be a cat fight in the hotel after everything else. She followed the voices, frowning as they seemed to come from Damian's room.

Deciding that there had been enough drama for one day, she knocked on the door almost politely.

@Lugubrious
Cody smirked as the man flew towards him as he clicked his fingers, causing the man to stop mid-air and smacked into the ground, skidding and falling just short of Cody. It hurt the man slightly, but it as the best Cody could do. Negating momentum like that was child's play for Cody so he didn't need his shield to block that.
"An attack like that is nothing before my absolute defence." Cody replied coldly, waving his hand in front of Levi. This motion caused his shield to move from him to Levi, therefore leaving him exposed.
"Run." He told the man as he put his other hand up in case the creature went after the man again. With his shield defending Levi, he would now have to rely on his Defense Spell.

As Stacy spoke up from behind them, Mark stopped and started to turn. Luna inevitably turned around faster than her counterpart, and shoved Mark as she saw the first coming for him. It only Clip Mark's head, and once he stood up normally he'd give the bird-person a raised eyebrow. "You sure your 'wingman' doesn't just have poor judgement? Attacking a pair of S-Class wizards from a 'dark guild' might not be a good idea." He'd smile a bit before crossing his arms and looking stacy as she started speaking again. "As for coming quietly, coming quietly where exactly? If you're tyring to act the vigilante I'd like to say I haven't done anything wrong. Yet." Luna glanced between the two very odd-looking individuals before her before pulling her hood up and hiding har hands in the loong sleeves of her robe, which was quickly taking on a dark blue/gray hue, with the center symbol having almost changed from a sun to the current phase of the moon and taking on a pale white hue instead of the yellow hue it had during the day. Her eyes, not invisible due to her magic, now flit back and forth between the two mystic beasts.

"I'd much rather go back to my guild's hotel and sleep off my injuries Miss." The young girl would say in a cold, almost monotone, voice to Stacy. She was clearly more than ready to do magic, and after her show in the games today, one might think twice before vexing her.

Mithera sat with her head barely sticking out of the pillow for quite a time before she saw the candle flame starting to change colors towards red. She wasn't sure who else was outside, but she was sure it couldn't be a good thing, and the little dragoness ducked her head back under the pillow, it completely hiding her form, though it would leave a sizable lump in the middle of the pillow. After a few moments of lying there, it would suddenly occur to Mithera that this was actually very warm and comfortable, and she soon found herself having trouble staying awake. Dozing off every couple of moments, but shaking herself awake since she wanted to find out who it was coming up towards their room.

@Caits@Yoshua171@Crimson Raven@Lugubrious

Rest, rest, rest, rest. Magni kept on thinking that to himself as his body was refusing to ease itself into the soft embrace of sleep. So, he was just laying on the ground staring into the back of his eyelids, the little light was able to penetrate through his mask and eyelids. After a few more minutes of this unrest, Magni slammed his fist into the ground, almost screaming in frustration. They found him, how could they track him down? He was sure that he covered his tracks, but they might have sent another one after him... Funny, since he was the original. The Antimage placed his hand upon his mask, dragging it down as he let out an exasperated sigh. He would most likely have to do some explaining for those two idiots, and if those two were loyal then they wouldn't spill any secrets. Like they even could if they wanted. So, Magni just continued to stare off into space, delving into his past as an individual memory started escape from their locks. And the one thought came up to his mind, he wondered when they were going to send her.

Later, still inside of his rather foul mood, his ears managed to catch something in the distance. Huh? He thought that everyone had left for the arena, or at least that is what the Dullahan had said to him. With a little twinge of pain, Magni managed to push himself off of the ground, his paranoia might be a nuisance at times, but it did save his life on multiple occasions. So, the Antimage moved his ears over towards the sound, he wondered if it was just some sort of wild animal. No, this presence wouldn't have this much power. He continued to stay still, his ears keen to find any sort of abrupt noise, and a rather large crash was heard in the distance. Without a second thought, Magni raised himself from his restless slumber, it seems something was here.

Pushing away the flaps of the tent, Magni gripped onto the two handles of his weapon and yanked them out of the ground. He started to spin them around checking to see if his body was still fit to fight... Good enough. The Antimage quietly made his way over towards the noise, barging in without any idea was a rather bad idea.

Weaving through the tents, a loud sound ripped through the area. He didn't know what side this creature's roar was, but it led him to the spot with ease. Sticking close to the shadows, Magni managed to find the source of the disturbance. Two hostiles, both pretty hard to miss in the uninhabited camp. One was a man inside of a diving-suit with a rather strange arm while the other was carrying two giant snakes... How were they not arrested yet for looking evil yet? The Antimage's gaze ran over towards the roaring individual, he was carrying the symbol of Frenzy Plant, but Magni didn't seem to recognize him. However, Magni did know that this boy would die without his help against the two foes. Though, he kept to the shadows, gripping the handles of his weapon tightly, waiting for the right moment.



A bright smile couldn't be helped as one appeared upon her face. This may have been the first time Eve was helping someone, rather than someone helping her... It was about time that she would do something helpful for her friends. With a mental light pat upon the back, Eve's ego was filled to the very top, those words coming out of Nero's mouth was something that couldn't be ignored. So, Eve was just about to move out, forgetting her rather shaky attitude once the Magic Range was uttered. Though, something seemed to be holding their trip... Ayame was giving a rather large sum of money to that stranger! Eve was impressed by the selfless act, she knew that sharing was an important thing to be a good person, but the amount she was randomly giving away was outstanding! The Necromancer looked over towards Nero as he started to go off into another one of his speeches, though Eve never minded to hear another one. It seemed that he was discussing that even Dark Mages could be good people, even better than other people. She nodded her head to the statement, however she did know that some people didn't like them at all, even out right attacking them on sight... She wondered what would be going on in their heads. Lost in thought, she soon found herself moving once again, and it seemed that the Miracle Eye were off!

The trip took longer than expected, it seemed that Nero's sense of direction stumbled at the challenge ahead, finding a range for magic users. Eve felt slightly uneasy once again, however she would stick to her plan! Watching from the sidelines was always a viable strategy, using her rather dark powers for combat was a nightmare for her, she could never harm the living or the dead. So, the three continued to wander around Crocus and all this walking was making her body feel heavier than it should be after walking for this long, it seemed that one of the side effects of being this large was affecting her, but it wasn't too bad, she has been in worse situations.

The three arrived at the place, it looked pretty nice from the outside, and it didn't seem to shady as well. She peered into the windows, checking to see if it was mainly filled scary burly men, but it seemed that it was filled with rather normal people. The Necromancer sighed in relief, she thought that these ranges were just filled with scary people that wanted to hurt others! Nero soon opened the doors for the two ladies, again, it was gentleman thing to do. Eve did a little curtsy bow to Nero before entering the building, it was calmer than she had first expected. The Necromancer turned over towards the Genie entering the building, "I'd rather not show off my magic in this building," Eve nervously chuckled, "I'd be happy to try a weapon, but I don't think I'll use it to hurt others."

"Tea, What's that?" Argus asked curiously, walking over to the kitchen only to get lost in all of the weird tools and objects he found inside. He was in the middle of playing with a whisk, pulling at the thing, only to have them spring back into to place, when he came back to his senses, putting it down with a embarrassed blush spreading over his face. "Heh, sorry about that. I've just never been in a place as comfortable and posh as this before, though to be fair, my previous accomadations weren't the most stellar either."

Argus chuckled a little bit as he began opening cupboards through out the kitchen in search of this 'tea' substance. After some more searching, he came back to Isla with a confused expression as he set down a few packets of some stuff that had the word tea written on the side along with other stuff. "Um, is this it? I thought cups were for drinking stuff, but this doesn't look that drinkable?" Argus could help the small pout that presented itself on his face as he looked down at the packets with a look of intense concentration, trying to figure out the secrets it housed within.

@Liferusher

@Lugubrious@zarkun@lunarlors34@hatakekuro
It looked like the black moth person was eager to fight and lunged at James. Putting one foot back she raised her arms and a bow appeared in her hand Drawing back a magic arrow formed and she let it fly toward The Emperor. The hope would be that he was engrossed in his attack and would not spot the arrow. She drew back another ready to protect her familiar.

@Zarkun
@Caits


"Aren't we all..." Samir replies faintly as she looks at Marlene, who shuddered slightly at Damian's stare.

Suddenly, the three would hear knocking on Damian's door.

"Who is it?" asks Samir politely as she stands up, ready to open the door if necessary.

@hatakekuro
Location: Crocus -> Phoenix Wing Hotel

After the argument between the wizards finished, Kaitlyn was at a loss again and didn't know what to do. However, now that I think about it, I did sense an interesting amount of magic gathering around that one wizard trying to protect his friend, or girlfriend hmm. But who was he? I can't really recall seeing his guild mark, but I do remember that he headed in that general direction. She tried going down that one street, but kept getting distracted by every store that caught her attention. Eventually, she found herself in front of Phoenix Wing's hotel and decided to give the place a small search.

She was able to find a the staff member for help, but seemed a bit reluctance to give the guild's member names. Apparently he overheard some attack happened at another guild's hotel and rather not have another happen here. When Kaitlyn told him who she was and showed him proof, the man jumped up and apologized, but she told him not to tell anyone about who she was since "It's fun to keep some things as a surprise. slightly grinning about it. Although the man was willing to help now, Kaitlyn's description of the wizard wasn't of much help, but the man directed her to where the rooms were to start her search.

Inside Phoenix Wing's hotel, there were various rooms occupied by a few people. Since she wasn't in the mood to search each room, she noticed a exceed across the hallway and decided to question him instead. "Excuse me Mr. Cat, do you think you could help me? I'm trying to find this guy I saw earlier. He's a wizard about this tall, brown hair, with a girl earlier, might still be. And has a face that could lack emotion." She tried to describe Nolan as best as she could by try to standing as tall as him and showing an expression less face. It was a bit difficult since she only saw him for a few minutes, but hopefully her description could help give the exceed some idea of who she's talking about.

@Expolar
DALTON

The exceed was whistling as he made his way through the hotel hallways. He may as well give Nolan and Ariel a little privacy if they were doing what he thought they were doing...though that actually wouldn't make sense. Nolan was afraid of women so why he would do the deed with her at all? Then again he was a strange guy so anything was possible. Dalton wouldn't think much more of it, not with his newest distraction walking down the hall. A pretty brown haired woman with black armor and a black attire with a blue bow around her was walking around and she was approaching him! He pulled his comb out and ran it through his hair to make it extra tidy. Dalton showed his fanged grin to the woman that began to talk to him and it drooped down when he realized that she was looking for Nolan. Just how many beautiful woman did this guy know?! "Ya looking for Nolan...ya want to go to the third floor and head to room 302. Be careful not to spook him." He stormed off muttering something about Nolan being a lucky bastard.

@Lunarlors34@Lugubrious
LEVI

This woman truly was the devil! No one be that evil enough to throw a person at a barrier just to screw with someone's head! Thankfully Cody was able to somehow stop the man from turning into a red stain on the pavement and somehow was able to block the hex from hitting Levi. He ran out from the barrier and multiple black tendrils of energy began to wrap around his arm over and over again at a fast rate, forming into a large, dark mass resembling an arm with claws for fingers and some of it clad over his head like a helmet. The mass of magic pulsated like blood veins pumping blood. He swung the arm towards her in a sweeping motion, the arm extended out as it reached out to her.

@hatakekuro
Location: Phoenix Wing Hotel

"Great, thanks for the help." before she could ask the cat if he could lead her to Nolan's room, he stormed off muttering something. I suppose I could try and search Nolan's room by myself. But I wished that cat was around, he was really cute and been a long time since I last ran into an exceed. Hmm, I wonder what she's doing now.

She was able to find her way up to the third floor and found the room number that Dalton told her. After taking a deep breath, she hoped her guess about this guy was right and would prove what that tin man told her was true and not a joke. She knocked a few times on the door, but no one came. A few minutes later and still no one came. She could try opening the door, but could be a bit rude if Nolan was busy or doing something inside. Waiting was starting to get bored and didn't know when to come if she came back tomorrow. Thinking on how to cure her growing boredom, she decided to start knocking on the door with a good rhyme from some music she heard earlier today and kept the beat while waiting for someone from inside to open.

@Expolar
NOLAN

Nolan was sleeping in a chair, his arms crossed and his body slouched back into the comfy material. His peaceful sleep was disrupted by the sound of multiple knocks in a rhythmic pattern. His eye's fluttered open and he grunted as he slowly got up on his feet. Who in the world could've it been right now? Master Jamie? No, he would've made his presence known by opening that door and shaking him. Marlene? No, she would probably go climb through his window if she wanted to talk to him. No one that he could think of knew that he was there unless they were told about the incident from before. God he hoped that wasn't the case. He didn't want to explain to Fleo or Karn why he kissed Ariel and why Marlene went on a rampage. The former was just an odd situation he's in and the latter was an explainable situation. "I'm coming, I'm coming." Nolan grumbled as he made his way to the door.

He looked into the peep hole on the door and saw that it was the woman that thought the entire thing with Marlene was a street performance or at least tried to disguise it as one. Just how the hell did she find this room and why was she even there? His head was foggy from just waking up and he was concerned that this would wake Ariel up if the knocking persisted. Grumbling some words in a completely different language, he opened the door and looked at the woman. "Can I help you?"

@hatakekuro
Location: Phoenix Wing Hotel

"Ah, you are the wizard from earlier!" Sounding excited as she hopped into the air and quickly shook his hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you Nolan. That is your name, right? Sorry if I woke you up, but I was really curious about you when I saw how you protected your friend earlier." Taking a small glance inside the room, Kaitlyn was able to see at the corner of the room was the girl from earlier, Ariel, the girl that Nolan was protecting. Blushing, she clapped her hands together "Oh, sorry if I was interrupting anything between you and your girlfriend. Wait, I'm doing it again, focus." After taking a short breath to relax to help collect her thoughts and focused on her main question, she asked. "Do you by chance happen to use a slayer magic. And here's my guess that I hope was right, do you use god slayer magic?"

@Expolar
NOLAN

Blood rushed to his face at Ariel being called his girlfriend. This really wasn't going to end today was it? Nolan pushed his hair out of his eyes and sighed in annoyance. "S-she's not my girlfriend. I'd rather not explain the hell that has been my day and my situation with her if that's what you're here to ask." Apparently this woman had the attention span of a dog, but she seemed to be able to bring herself back to her original intent. Whoever this woman was, she seemed to have a good eye for spotting long lost ancient magic such as God Slaying magic. "Yes, I'm a God Slayer. It is my main magic, followed by a couple of supplementary magics. Just what is this about and who are you exactly? You're not a mage from Phoenix Wing and since there have been attacks on other guilds recently I'm assuming that you're from a neutral party since it seems like you haven't forced your way in. Let me guess, you're employed by the Magic Council?" He eyed her suspiciously, not exactly trusting her since every person he had met today was simply some weirdo in one way or another.

Hearing the knock, Damian put the top part of his armor on just in case this wasn't Penny. Again. Standing and resting Durandal against the edge the chair he'd been in, he approached the door. Looking through the peep hole, he didn't hesitate to open the door, smiling at Penny before hearing a familiar female voice from down the hall. It couldn't be...could it?. Turning and poking his head out the door, he was torn between smiling because the strange requip mage had survived the avalanche and frowning because he knew she'd want to finish their match from Mount Hakobe. "Well, I guess she did survive the avalanche." He pointed down the hall at Kaitlyn, then frowned at Nolan's question.

"Penny, you come in and try to figure out what happened with Nolan and Marlene, because I'm not sure I'm fit to handle the issue, and I'll go chat with out Saint friend over there." Stepping out, allowing Penny to see Samir and Marlene sitting on his bed with Durandal leaning against a chair with a fresh whetstone resting on the table next to it. He didn't try to hide his approach, since he needed to talk with Nolan and Ariel to find out exactly what had happened, but the Wizard Saint came first. "Kaitlyn, I'm surprised you're here and not watching the fight going on right now."

@Expolar@hatakekuro
The knocking did manage to wake Ariel slightly. But she didn't get up or say anything. Glancing out the door she saw the woman in black armor. Who would bother Nolan at this hour. They seemed to be talking about magic. She overheard God Slayer mentioned but didn't get much else. The Damian approached the two at the door. Rolling over she grabbed the pillow and put it over her head.

@Zarkun
@Caits


The door reveals the girl Penny, who perhaps decided to visit Damian on his own. Samir and Marlene initially feared it might've been Ariel, but alas it was not.

"Penny, you come in and try to figure out what happened with Nolan and Marlene, because I'm not sure I'm fit to handle the issue, and I'll go chat with out Saint friend over there."

Samir was rather disappointed in Damian's decision to leave it to someone else.

"Damnit Damian! I thought we'd keep this secret!" she remarks disappointingly at him as she crosses her arms.

Marlene continues to sit on the bad thinking more to herself on what happened, blanking out as she does so.

ninjas ninjas everywhere

Penny
@lmpkio

Penny gave a soft sigh, looking at Samir and Marlene wearily. Like she knew what to do? She didn't even know what was going on. She leaned against the door frame and rolled her eyes at the comment about keeping it a secret, "Then you shouldn't be yelling so that people can hear and get worried that something bad is happening" She said, giving another sigh, she looked them both over again "Well, you look like you've gone through hell today. Well, it's been a weird day all round. Who are you both?" She had yet to actually meet Marlene, but had seen her around and had no idea who Samir was. "And what am I suppose to be figuring out?" she rolled the vision lacarmia between her hands, listening to the battle as well. "Obviously it's something to do with Nolan. Which is curious in itself, given that he shakes at even a shadow of a girl"