@hatakekuro@Caits@Lugubrious



He followed the bear to a spot that seemed normal and fine. No one was here so this was a load off his back should he need to do something. Yet then the bear stopped and would paw at the ground in front of him. "Hmm? Whats wrong? Keep going we don't have tim-" Before he could finish, the bear spirit would vanish from sight, causing Ike to blink as he stared at where the sprit was. "..... Well if that was my hint its a shitty one." Ike mumbled to himself as he looked around the area, it seemed fine from what he saw. So grumbling he got closer to the ground and started digging at the spot the bear pawed at. Was their a secret switch buried maybe? As he dug a bit he heard a muffled voice way beneath him. Which caused him to stop and groan. "Idiot, if you are buried underground talking will..... not.... help.... huh?" Ike spoke to himself as his eyes flashed and he looked around. He would spot in the distance energy orbs flowing out of this one spot only, which tended to happen only when magic users were around or where excess magic was used. Walking over to the area was a rather big hole from which led to a wide open area. Gazing down, he dropped some green orbs to brighten the area a bit. Sure enough their were the missing culprits. "So answer me this! How the hell did all three of you fall down this hole? Ugh. Okay so we can do this the easy way of getting you out, or the fast but most likely dangerous way! Option one being I make an energy rope and send it down for you to grab and I pull you up one at a time! Option two is I blow a diagonal hole towards you three! Faster but It might invoke everything falling in! Choose wisely, unless you have a better idea!" Ike shouted down towards them, in which he would rub his forehead at how stupid this felt and looked. Yet then something popped inside his head. "Wait! Gabriel, don't you have a dragon spirit!? Why not summon it and have it give you all a ride up and out of there?!"

@Raijinslayer@Zarkun@Joshua Tamashii@Roseletta@Infichi@Caits
The hammer James created never hit its intended target as a shield of light appeared briefly above of Jessica. Clashing swords with James now, Jessica stepped back as she was overpowered by the Paladin as darkness swirled around her sword.
"My guild is my family Paladin. Anyone who messes with it shall face justice." Jessica responded as the darkness began to take a similar shape to chains around of her "Darkness Make: Chains of the Abyss." Turns out it wasn't just a similar shape, but the darkness had indeed formed chains and now raced towards James faster than most could even blink.

Ethel had an annoyed look on her as Verrick talked. She was perfectly fine, she had changed into her iron form in preparation for a fight but she hadn't expected to be blindsided by someone else entirely.
"Ethel doesn't know how to push buttons...Ethel thinks it might just be childish name calling." She looked at Verrick strangely as he talked. Call a girl obviously younger than herself flat-chested? It had never occurred to her, but perhaps if Verrick knew Amelia was only 11 then he wouldn't have brought up the subject.
"Ethel is fine. Will take more than that to hurt Ethel." Well Ethel wasn't wrong. She had had been training with Sora for the last two years, so an attack of this scale while it had knocked her back had barely left a scratch. And even if she was hurt she had regenerative abilities which were second to none. So it would take more than one attack to bring her down.
Unless it was from Sora. Sora could finish her in one hit if he tried.
"Ethel fight fire with fire." A bow now appeared in Ethel's hands.

As James left Mai nodded briefly without taking her eyes off of Shiro. The instant she did, she knew Shiro would make a move. It was a waiting game now.
"You people again...leave me alone. I don't know how many times I must repeat this; I have no family." Shiro stated as bluntly as humanly possible. She was sick of this group with the girl who claimed to be her sister. Shiro was an orphan abandoned by her parents at a church; Manami was the only thing she could remotely call family.
She wasn't sure what they gained by doing this either, maybe they just wanted to turn her in. She didn't care regardless of whether or not their claims turned out to be true either.
"This again? Really? Oh I am so not in the mood for having this argument. I'm sure Ethel can forgive me if I fry you a little, I just want to kick your ass that much." Mai spat out as she fired another stream of electricity towards Shiro. Shiro disappeared before it could make contact and before Mai could react a blinding white light suddenly filled her vision.
Next thing she knew, she could feel Shiro's fist connecting with her stomach. The impact of the punch caused a shockwave to ring out and send Mai flying quite quickly into and through a nearby building.
Jess fared not much better. Staggering around due to becoming blind, she tripped over some nearby rubble and dropped Chu. The Chu now rolled away as she felt around her surroundings.

Cody had finally gotten up after listening to what Ferrin had to say earlier. During the chaos unraveling around of him, he had simply been sitting down in deep thought. However now he quickly found that there were quite a few extra wizards compared to before.
Jeez this situation was getting way out of hand...if only he hadn't tried attacking Nidhogg. Then maybe none of this would've happened... Shaking his head suddenly, he quickly reprimanded himself. It was no use dwelling on the past now. Maybe he could still prove he was somewhat useful.

Shiro, having dealt with Mai, now quickly made her way over to Manami as the light around of her flickered slightly. Next thing anyone knew, a man with dark, night-like hair and brown eyes in a casual black suit.
"Arthur and Angela are hanging back if needed. Shiro take Manami and get out of here quickly. Me and Jessica will buy you time." James stepped between the two female mages and the rest of the wizards as he talked. It was the job of the lesser wizards to buy their superiors time to retreat in James' opinion, and there was no way he was going to let his guild mates be hurt any more either.

Sora shrugged at Ferrin's response. Sora wasn't the magic councils fan, nor would they probably be his either, and he agreed that they were rather pathetic at their jobs. But this was a new low, even for the magic council.
Sora could see this fight happening from far off, so surely they wouldn't be too far off.
"Why are all governing bodies absolutely useless?" Sora didn't seem to be talking to Ferrin as he said this, more like he was speaking his mind. Glancing over at the fight happening behind of them he frowned slightly but turned back to Ferrin as he introduced himself.
"Ferrin huh? Well Ferrin, I'm Sora. I honestly don't know why someone of your strength bothered coming here. There isn't a single person of note to fight here." Sora yawned as he talked now. He could feel the immense magical power Ferrin had, as Ferrin could probably feel Sora's own immense magical power. Although Sora seemed bored, he wasn't.
He had found a powerful mage, perhaps one powerful enough to give him a challenge. But he seemed like he was preoccupied with whomever was in the rubble and he didn't like intruding on other peoples fights. It was kinda rude, even for him.
Besides he wouldn't want to fight Ferrin. Not in the city anyway, he didn't want to pay for damages or have the council baring down on him. Even if they were horrendous at their jobs they still weren't THAT bad at doing them.



@Caits
Jasmine let out a loud scream as they suddenly shoot into the air. Although Penny's fire was warm and soothing, so she quickly got over any feelings of vertigo or the like. Jasmine was obviously surprised to be not being burnt by Penny's magic...there really was all kinds of magic in the world wasn't there?!
She watched with eyes wide in amazement at the sight before her. She would never had thought it possible to view Crocus from above like this...the city was just bursting with people and activities. It was a rather nice view to be perfectly honestly.
Clinging tightly to Penny she nodded briefly when she realised she was being talked to.
"Ah yeah...just a little surprised is all." Surprised was an understatement, but that mattered little anyway. At the speed they were going, they would get there in record time!

"Shining Light!" A golden light flew right into the chains and shattered them, once more crossing blades with the darkness make user once more. "And those who seek to harm others for the hell of it will face true justice. Keep that word off your tongue, tainted one." James was clearly a more than capable mage and swordsman and he leveraged that against his current opponent. Fighting Shiro had been difficult only in the sense that he couldn't attempt to disarm her normally nor could he have locked their weapons. Against another sword? His whole world of options opened up.

Clashing again, James used his left foot to kick at hers, attempting to knock her center of balance off before shoulder checking her and hitting her with another Smite, this time in the form of a beam of light that shot straight at her. Following that, he used a Shield of Retribution, his shield ricocheting to come from several angles for an attempt at hitting her before returning to James, who once more crossed blades with her again, and using his shield to lock them between them. He hoped Amelia would be able to handle any others who appeared. Spotting Cody finally moving, he called out to him. "We can't let Manami and Shiro get away! Stop them somehow!"

gabriel
@Oblivion666@hatakekuro@lugubrious
Gabriel was momentarily stuned. He had completely forgotten about his dragon spirit, and his was pretty sure he was blushing. How could he forget? But he looked around wildly, as if looking for an escape for his own forgetfulness. "Damn it" he muttered

"you want me to summon a dragon here? If we weren't going to dig our way out because of collapse, what makes you think the dragon won't cause a collapse?" he called up, pleased with himself for figuring it out. Hopefully no one will notice his momentarily lapse, and he could maintain some dignity. Small as it was. And while it was a serpintine dragon, ne didn't want to think about what would happen if its tail smashed against a wall.

"just make a damn rope, we have already fallen once, don't care to repeat that! Is the fat woman still out there? Be careful, she opened this hole!" they didn't need Ike falling down either. He glanced to the others.

Penny
@Lunarlors34
Penny gave a soft laugh, and while it was a little filled with sadness. "it is shocking the first time" she said, "tell me if anything looks familiar, okay?" she asked, as she turned towards the west side of the city. There was something about being in the air, flying, that was oddly...calming. "and let me know if it becomes too much"

Master Jamie
@zarkun
Jamie knew a lot about the going ons in Fiore, but bandits could be tricky. She gave a sigh, and said "there have been numerous rumors, reports and other such things about such a bandit, however no serious confirmations about where they are. I will be happy to help, of course"

Mako Kurohiko, Exiled Warrior|Crocus City Park

@Caits@GamerXZ

Mako put his left fist into the palm of his right hand and bowed, standing straight again after a couple of seconds. "I am Mako Kurohiko, from the country of Isvan." He waits until Alan introduces himself and Aura before continuing. "Five years ago, I was charged with escorting a diplomat from my country to your own, a duty that should have been easy enough. However, ten miles past the border between our two countries, we were set upon by bandits in an incredibly coordinated ambush. It resulted in the deaths of both the diplomat and his honor guard and wounds to myself. The bandit I'm searching for is the leader, a man with a metal stump that bore a cutlass blade when I last saw him and an eye patch over his right eye. He also had a rather distinctive scar down his back, in the shape of a lion's paw and was large from the amount of muscle on his body. I am hoping that you might have information on this man and his location."

Alan followed Mako's lead and bowed in respect of the guild leader as well. He turned to Aura who was half-asleep in his knapsack, "Aura? Perhaps you could bow too?" The sprite sighed but did as requested, floating out of the knapsack and bowing respectfully. The two of them then remained quiet as they listened to Mako explain his story. Alan wanted to say something but he felt there was not much he COULD say. Sure, he had run across some nasty folks in his travels but the person Mako described didn't match the description of any bandit leader he knew of. Just another sign of how little he knew of the world outside of his community.

"I'm Alan Smith, this is my friend Aura. We're just a couple of wanderers travelling across Fiore. Not really part of a guild. We got our own business we'd like to discuss but that can wait as I think it might be quicker and easier to deal with Mako's request first. By the way, um..." He chuckled nervously as he kept his head bowed, "It's...a great honor to meet an actual Guild Master face to face..."

Mako nodded appreciately. At least he had surfaced in ways that others thought would require a guild. "A information on his most recent sighting and where would be most helpful. If I act fast enough, I might finally catch him and be able to go home." The thought made the young martial artist mage shiver in anticipation, if only slightly. Despite the discipline instilled in them at a young age, the members of the Kurohiko Clan were all close to each other and, if he was honest, he missed his mother. She had been ill when he left, but duty required he leave her at that time. He also missed the discussions he used to have with his father, theories on what other countries had clans like their own, among other things. Please be well, mother, father. I'll be home soon.

time lord

Walking around Crocus, Time Lord could sense the expendititure of Magic, that could only mean a battle, or two. Curiosity was his nature, and he trotted over towards it, amusing himself by watching. Turning to Cody after he was given a lecture, he said "don't worry about him. I remember getting that speech a time or two as a kid. That's just how he is" he mused on that a moment, before shrugging, and studying the destroyed building. He walked on over.

A chuckle escaped him at the mention of the destroyed building, "the magic council is what it is, and that is why I am here. Even now, I'm around to clean up your messes, Ferrin" not that Ferrin would even know who he was, but he amused himself by playing with him.

Raising a hand, he closed his fingers one by one and Then opened them one by one, like their own miniature Mexican wave. Te building restored itself, and then in a blink of the eye, Timelord was gone.

master Jamie

Jamie flicked through her mental files, and some might think it was a form of archive magic, but in fact Jamie just had an exceptional good memory. "well, the most recent one I am aware of is two years old. I think it was about being hunted by Rosalina idwal and her rune Knights. It's not much, but I imagine it is the most recent one you will find"

Amelia groaned as more and more people kept coming. She was tempted to do something stupid or leave but she fought back both urges. Still, she listened to her new opponent, whose speech habits made her smile a bit. Despite being older then her, this 'Ethel' talked more like a child then she did.
"I don't see what makes her so 'scary'. I actually think Miss Manami is a bit... sad and in need of some help. I want to help her but it seems like others don't like that idea and keep getting in the way." She said calmly. Ethel's short but blunt sentences clued her into a few things, namely that she either thought or actually was someone else's sister here. The second was that she had no qualms using a hostage and therefore was probably capable of other questionable acts. Glancing around, she saw a physical resemblance between this Ethel and another girl there. But a lot of people shared similar traits so that was too little to go on.

Her eyes widened when Ethel took a hit to the chest, only to narrow when a sword was pointed at her. The weapon didn't honestly scare her. The threat of pain or death really didn't bother her after the hell she had been through. The thing that bothered her was that even more people were here. These one's seemed to be from Manami's guild. Thankfully James once again rushed into battle. Sighing, Verick's comment about her chest didn't get by her and, while it highly annoyed her, she pushed it aside, making it a point to slap the man later. Or have Phlegethon do it for her. Or Ellis. Maybe both.

Realizing she was getting off track, she moved away from the fight and attempted to move over to Manami. If successful, she would hold out a hand and give Manami a smile.
"I can get us out of here. I just want to talk a bit. Would you care to join me?" She would ask.

Mai Butcher, Jess Butcher, Ethel Storm, Jessica Albert, Manami Fuyu, Cody Bloodstein, Shiro Hime, Sora Kaze and James Lumin

And Verick... Yaaaay

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@Raijinslayer@Zarkun@Joshua Tamashii@Roseletta@Infichi@Caits
The hammer James created never hit its intended target as a shield of light appeared briefly above of Jessica. Clashing swords with James now, Jessica stepped back as she was overpowered by the Paladin as darkness swirled around her sword.
"My guild is my family Paladin. Anyone who messes with it shall face justice." Jessica responded as the darkness began to take a similar shape to chains around of her "Darkness Make: Chains of the Abyss." Turns out it wasn't just a similar shape, but the darkness had indeed formed chains and now raced towards James faster than most could even blink.

Ethel had an annoyed look on her as Verrick talked. She was perfectly fine, she had changed into her iron form in preparation for a fight but she hadn't expected to be blindsided by someone else entirely.
"Ethel doesn't know how to push buttons...Ethel thinks it might just be childish name calling." She looked at Verrick strangely as he talked. Call a girl obviously younger than herself flat-chested? It had never occurred to her, but perhaps if Verrick knew Amelia was only 11 then he wouldn't have brought up the subject.
"Ethel is fine. Will take more than that to hurt Ethel." Well Ethel wasn't wrong. She had had been training with Sora for the last two years, so an attack of this scale while it had knocked her back had barely left a scratch. And even if she was hurt she had regenerative abilities which were second to none. So it would take more than one attack to bring her down.
Unless it was from Sora. Sora could finish her in one hit if he tried.
"Ethel fight fire with fire." A bow now appeared in Ethel's hands.

As James left Mai nodded briefly without taking her eyes off of Shiro. The instant she did, she knew Shiro would make a move. It was a waiting game now.
"You people again...leave me alone. I don't know how many times I must repeat this; I have no family." Shiro stated as bluntly as humanly possible. She was sick of this group with the girl who claimed to be her sister. Shiro was an orphan abandoned by her parents at a church; Manami was the only thing she could remotely call family.
She wasn't sure what they gained by doing this either, maybe they just wanted to turn her in. She didn't care regardless of whether or not their claims turned out to be true either.
"This again? Really? Oh I am so not in the mood for having this argument. I'm sure Ethel can forgive me if I fry you a little, I just want to kick your ass that much." Mai spat out as she fired another stream of electricity towards Shiro. Shiro disappeared before it could make contact and before Mai could react a blinding white light suddenly filled her vision.
Next thing she knew, she could feel Shiro's fist connecting with her stomach. The impact of the punch caused a shockwave to ring out and send Mai flying quite quickly into and through a nearby building.
Jess fared not much better. Staggering around due to becoming blind, she tripped over some nearby rubble and dropped Chu. The Chu now rolled away as she felt around her surroundings.

Cody had finally gotten up after listening to what Ferrin had to say earlier. During the chaos unraveling around of him, he had simply been sitting down in deep thought. However now he quickly found that there were quite a few extra wizards compared to before.
Jeez this situation was getting way out of hand...if only he hadn't tried attacking Nidhogg. Then maybe none of this would've happened... Shaking his head suddenly, he quickly reprimanded himself. It was no use dwelling on the past now. Maybe he could still prove he was somewhat useful.

Shiro, having dealt with Mai, now quickly made her way over to Manami as the light around of her flickered slightly. Next thing anyone knew, a man with dark, night-like hair and brown eyes in a casual black suit.
"Arthur and Angela are hanging back if needed. Shiro take Manami and get out of here quickly. Me and Jessica will buy you time." James stepped between the two female mages and the rest of the wizards as he talked. It was the job of the lesser wizards to buy their superiors time to retreat in James' opinion, and there was no way he was going to let his guild mates be hurt any more either.

Sora shrugged at Ferrin's response. Sora wasn't the magic councils fan, nor would they probably be his either, and he agreed that they were rather pathetic at their jobs. But this was a new low, even for the magic council.
Sora could see this fight happening from far off, so surely they wouldn't be too far off.
"Why are all governing bodies absolutely useless?" Sora didn't seem to be talking to Ferrin as he said this, more like he was speaking his mind. Glancing over at the fight happening behind of them he frowned slightly but turned back to Ferrin as he introduced himself.
"Ferrin huh? Well Ferrin, I'm Sora. I honestly don't know why someone of your strength bothered coming here. There isn't a single person of note to fight here." Sora yawned as he talked now. He could feel the immense magical power Ferrin had, as Ferrin could probably feel Sora's own immense magical power. Although Sora seemed bored, he wasn't.
He had found a powerful mage, perhaps one powerful enough to give him a challenge. But he seemed like he was preoccupied with whomever was in the rubble and he didn't like intruding on other peoples fights. It was kinda rude, even for him.
Besides he wouldn't want to fight Ferrin. Not in the city anyway, he didn't want to pay for damages or have the council baring down on him. Even if they were horrendous at their jobs they still weren't THAT bad at doing them.

Jasmine Lockwood

My Hider [+]

@Caits
Jasmine let out a loud scream as they suddenly shoot into the air. Although Penny's fire was warm and soothing, so she quickly got over any feelings of vertigo or the like. Jasmine was obviously surprised to be not being burnt by Penny's magic...there really was all kinds of magic in the world wasn't there?!
She watched with eyes wide in amazement at the sight before her. She would never had thought it possible to view Crocus from above like this...the city was just bursting with people and activities. It was a rather nice view to be perfectly honestly.
Clinging tightly to Penny she nodded briefly when she realised she was being talked to.
"Ah yeah...just a little surprised is all." Surprised was an understatement, but that mattered little anyway. At the speed they were going, they would get there in record time!

Verick watched Ethel as she got right back up after taking that hit. “Well it’s good to know you’re not hurt.” He didn’t want his source of income dying on him now. That would just be really bad for business and you don’t want to lose your only source of income so quickly. “Well then, I don’t really know what all you want from me. But I Think I’ve come up with a plan for how to distract as many people as possible.” He cracked his neck and his knuckles, extending his hands outwards from his chest.

“Alright, so you know how I can make Chu’s right.” He looked down at the kid, “Well, I thought about it, Chu’s are cute, every girl so far has like Chu’s, There’s girls around here. Your sister is a girl. Girls like Chu’s.” He nodded, the math was simple, 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 obviously. So this plan had to be a solid plan, it had to be good, it couldn’t fail. It was impossible to fail. THERE IS NO WAY FOR THIS TO FAIL! He had to reassure himself so he could concentrate enough in order to actually make the damned Chu’s in the first place.

“Alright, Alright” He coughed into his hand and closed his eyes. “Chu’s… Massive amounts of Chu’s… I’ll have to go through my Magic power like crazy to do this… So I’ll just make… ALL THE CHU’S I CAN!” With that, He poured all of his Magical power into making as many of the little fluffballs as he could manage to create. “GO MY CHU ARMY! SPREAD YOUR CUTENESS!” He commanded, laughing manically as he did so.

Who - Shane
Location - At a Inn inside of the city

“ Shane how could you !. How could you do this to my family. To your family.. You Monster be gone away from my sight. I will never love you and I will never forgive you “ Shane woke up with a start and looked around his room in a inn he arrived at just a few nights ago. He rubbed his eyes and got dressed as fast as he could before walking towards the door. He placed his hand on the door and closed his eyes as he fought back tears and memories of what he did. He could not prevent what happened and he could not unhear the screams of his family as he killed them in a rage. He shook his head quickly brushing away the memories and made his way down the staircase made of the finest marble and covered with the finest carpet that one could afford in the city. He reached the bottom step and stopped when he heard a voice. The Voice was raspy and almost a faint Whisper. “ All these people deserve to die, Kill them “. He blinked a few times and looked around trying to find out who said those words but he could see nobody near him. Curious he moved closer to the bar section of the inn and noticed a handful of people sipping their drinks and speaking to each other. They soon all turned towards him and one lady pointed a finger at him “ Murderer… Murderer !. You killed all those innocent people “ He shook his head and placed his hands around it trying to tune out the voice telling him he was a murderer. He heard the rasby voice once again “ Silence them by killing them, Its is the only way to shut them up “. He shook his head trying to ignore the voice that was telling him to kill as he walked towards the door of the inn and tried to open it..Only to find it lock. He turned back at the people inside of the inn and growled at them

“ Why have you locked me in this place.. Why have you locked me in this place like some Animal. Tell me ! Tell me Now !. “He screamed at those at the bar who looked at him with no emotions on their faces. He growled at them again and clenched his hand in anger.. He was slowly losing control once more. Soon he began to laugh as he unleashed a first volley of Shadow spikes at the inn keeper. He then unleashed another volley of spikes at the people sitting around at the tables and at the bar itself. He unleashed volley after volley of Shadow spikes in all directions all while laughing and smiling at the blood around him. He could hear the screams of pain not sure if he killed any of them but not really caring if he did or not. This to him was the greatest release of frustration.. To hear the screams of people in pain.. To see the blood on the ground and the broken objects as well. He looked on and then stopped and sat down on a empty chair in the back of the inn and waited to see who would show up to investigate what happened at the inn.

@Caits
FERRIS

Of all the things he expected that would happen, Ferris was sure that Jessie would want to punch their faces as he would have to hold back her back while she yelled vulgar things at them. Surprisingly, that's what she didn't do. What she did do was stake her claim on him in front of the three models as if he was a piece of valuable land that she had conquered in the face of many prospective rivals. "Uh, yeah. I guess I was going to." Ferris chuckled, shooting her a flirtatious smirk before looking back at the trio of models. "As I said, a much more important-" He was cut off as Jessie decided to kiss him without any warning. His eyes were wide in surprise, but eased shut as he kissed her. His arms wrapped around her waist and were just about to travel around her as he realized that the three women were standing there, staring at them with jaws agape

Clearing his throat, he look at the women and said, "Oh right, shower. You ladies may want to be careful walking around here. Some punks are throwing around stink potions from a carriage. We were unlucky to encounter them." Even though he was being perfectly friendly and socialable. he wanted to get away from the three. He had other plans and he also didn't want to wait for the charms to wear off and stink up the entire capital.

"Uh...thanks." They were at a loss for words at their predicament. They didn't imagine that Ferris would have a girlfriend, let alone of someone of her 'stature.' They all had secretly wanted to take him for their own selves as well as advancing their careers though it looked like a certain petty pink haired woman had already beat them to it.

"Well I'd like to stay and chat, but we gotta go!" Ferris grabbed Jessie's hand tightly and was pratically running back to the hotel. At some point they had reached the door to his room and it swung open, followed by Ferris carrying Jessie and flopping on the bed with her in his arms. Never had he missed having a bed as much as he did now. It was an understatement that he was nervous when he met Drew; he was in full panic mode before they already arrived at the restaurant. He was so worried about leaving a good impression and who wouldn't be when they're dating a Council member's sister?

"You want the first shower or should I go?" He nuzzled his head on her shoulder, the palms of his hands rubbed her belly.

@Caits@Oblivion666@Lugubrious
ENMA

"Gabriel, your ditziness knows no bounds." Enma wasn't mad at Gabriel, just disappointed. How could a mage forget the capabilities of his own powers? There is no excuse that could justify any mage to forget something as big as that. Still, he couldn't stay mad at him; it wasn't worth the energy. Besides, Gabriel's spirit did lead Ike to finding them eventually. "Hey Ike, did you happen to bump into a fat pig that calls itself a lady? That flabby bitch was the one that trapped us down here. Tricked us into believing that she was mugged."

Well, really it was mainly him that was tricked by the woman. He just wanted to do some good even if it meant straying from the mission for a bit though it looked like that at the very least that they may had found something out from this so at least that's the silverlining. "Just make us a rope. I'm rather found of not dying."

gabriel
@hatakekuro@lugubrious@oblivion666
Gabriel deflated a little, but he nevertheless defended himself "oh, I'm sorry, the annoying chatter box of a spirit forced on me has completely filled my mind. I got the dragon, what yesterday?" had he even formed s contract with the dragon? He couldn't quite remember. "besides, like I said. every spirit has its own skills, and I use them as see fit: I didn't think of the dragon because I'd rather not be squished by a collapse" he gave a sigh, and fell silent, troubled.

The blue haired youth looked down, feeling like he was a failure as a celestial Mage, he couldn't even keep his spirits straight in his own mind. Someone else had to remind him.

He wasn't worth his keys, he knew that, but he was trying. He just wished it didn't often seem like failing. "I'm sorry" he said softly, and this time it was genuine rather then sarcastic.

jessie
@hatakekuro
As Ferris just about swept her away, she looked back over her shoulder and sent one last smirk at the girls, but one that was also laced with physical retributions if they so much as thought of trying to steal Ferris from her. Not that she was worried any of them would succeed, but she would rather not have her self esteem take another hit.

She wasn't expecting to literally be swept of her feet and carried to the bed, but she snuggled into him, as he held her. Never had she felt so...warm, and safe. It made her feel reassured, and well, wanted. She relaxed, and as he nuzzled her, she could feel that warm feeling flow through her.

He was just so perfect. Kind, caring, wonderfully geeky and nerdy, funny and just down right amazing. Those girls wouldn't see that, all they saw was the outer shell, and not the wonderful inward one that was truly Ferris. Oh, was she truly gone over him. She smiled, and wrapped her arms around him once more, hugging him. "You can go first" she said, quite happy to just lay there and enjoy what she was feeling for a little bit. "only cause I should go get some clothes that aren't covered in that stuff" perhaps she should think about keeping clothes here.

@Caits@hatakekuro@Lugubrious



Sighing as he rubbed his forehead at what he was sure was an excuse. He just waved it off before looking around the area for a fat woman. She opened this hole? Was it with pure power or did she know magic as well? It pointed to pure power, maybe even a trap laid out for them, since magic didn't seem common at all. After all Sanders told them to keep it under wraps, yet with them hurrying him to send the rope down he frowned a bit. "Oh thank you Ike for coming to help us, not like you could just leave us in here for not knowing how to say fucking please!" Ike mocked a bit groaning as he held his hand above the hole and would shoot out a rope, with one end attached to him and the other dangling before them. "Well hurry up assholes, don't have all day for you to figure out how to grab a rope and climb it." Ike said a bit irritated now, and wanting to get to the chapel before everything went to shit. He braced himself to help pull, mostly when Enma started to climb.

Mako quickly bows again in thanks. "I thank you for your time, Jamie. May you find peace on your path." He then turns to Alan and Aura and bows again. "I'm afraid this is where we part ways. I get the sense that this will not end as peacefully as speaking with Jamie did. Be well and may you find peace on your path." And then he was gone, back into the crowd. It wasn't hard to find someone who had seen the apparently new Magic Council member and they directed him in the right direction.

As he walked, he could feel himself become more excited with each step. Finding this bandit leader meant he was finally able to see his chance to return home and he could feel his body tense up in anticipation of the trip. But he also knew that Fiore and Isvan were two very different countries and that certain cultural aspects did not cross well. He only hoped that this Rosalina Idwal was understanding. And besides, it wasn't like he was going to force the man to his knees and slit his throat. It would be a traditional Death Duel, where both men's honor was on the line, and only one lived to reclaim their's.

After several minutes of walking and two double checks with other passerbys, he found the Captain of the Rune Knights and Grand Magic Council member Rosalina Idwal. She was dressed interestingly for a woman, but then he never claimed to understand how Fiore worked. Approaching the Council member, he bowed as he addressed her. "Rosalina Idwal? I require a moment of your time."

@Caits

Shane turned his head to the woman's voice and listened to them closely before noticing that he was surrounded by a cage of some sort. Strange how this cage appeared as the last thing he saw were butterflies around him and now he was in a cage of some sort. He doubted it would be hard to break out of but he would let the woman have her fun for now. He looked around him and noticed the people were still scattered on the floor, None of them appeared dead although most of them were bleeding still nothing could be traced back to him besides word of mouth. He would have to deal with that later now he needed to figure out what this woman wanted and how she even entered the building as he thought the doors were locked.

“ I do not know what happened here Miss. I just came down after staying the night with a fine woman and I come down here and see all of these people lying on the ground some of them bleeding from wounds from what i could tell. I do not know who would do such a thing to innocent people. After all none of these people did anything bad..Well besides being at a inn because that is never a good sign. But regardless whoever done this must have a twisted mind to attack innocents “ He said in a calm voice as he did not want to give away that it was he that had done this to these people. That it was because of a voice in his head that told him he must do it and that he was trapped and had no choice. No he would not mention that to the woman because it would not look good at all.

“ I do not suppose you are willing to say your name Miss.. After all it is rude of you to lock me in a cage without a proper name for which i should call you by and also it is rude to lock me in a cage in general because after all I am innocent! Anyway My Name is.. Well I do not know my name currently.. It must be all the drinks I had the other night.. The fine lady was a party girl and she insisted that i drink all night. It will come to me I assure you ! “ He said with a laugh as he looked at the woman and waited for her response. Oh how good it was to play games with people..What good fun indeed.

Woops

Master Jamie
@Zarkun
Troubled, Jamie watched mako leave. There was something going on, of course there was quite a lot going on. She gave a sigh, glancing back to the battles, she searched for Amelia's magic, reassured it was still there and strong. She let out a soft breath, and figuring all was okay, she glanced about. Sensing some powerful magic, she once more thought tnere was more going on then anyone knew.

Perhaps it was a mistake to participate in the games.

Jamie glanced once more to the battle, and hoping Amelia was truly okay and figuring Ellis at least would tell her if she wasn't, Jamie started towards the Dragon Fang hotel, figuring she would start there for Jack. It seemed it was time to share everything she knew.

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Jessica grimaced slightly from the effort to keep her blade in check against James...to be honest, while she was skilled with the blade, Jessica's sword was more for show and for aiding her magic than actual combat. So against a swordsman of James calibre, she didn't stand a chance alone. However, she wasn't alone.
She managed to peel away and dodge the kick, as well as the shoulder check, but the smite slammed straight into her gut. She skidded backwards from the blow but quickly stopped by slamming her sword into the ground.
"I care not for what you say Paladin, your words are meaningless against justice itself." With the flick of her wrist, the darkness which had enveloped the blade now formed a solid barrier in front of her. Unfortunately she wasn't prepared for it to ricochet and slammed into her back now. That made her shield disappear and allow James to lock blades with her once more.

The other James meanwhile (Lumin that is) couldn't stand by and watch Jessica fighting James (not him). Quickly forgetting the entire reason they were here, he sent a single spear of light aimed at James' (not him, the other one XD) back as he prepared a spell to blind him. However with James focusing on James (...eh I'm sure you can work out who is who XD), that left Shiro and Manami open in a brief window.

At the mention of a plan, Ethel looked up towards Verrick with her head cocked ever so slightly to the side.
"Verrick makes plans?" It was tough to gauge whether Ethel was messing with him or not, as she said it with a deadpan serious look. Well as serious as a look of surprise can look I suppose.
She nodded briefly at the points he made. Yes her sister was (surprisingly) a girl. Ethel wasn't sure why he had to state something so obvious, and state that girls like Chu's twice, but she simply nodded and went along with it. However at the mention of a Chu army...that got her attention.
A grand image of Chu's in armor mounted atop more, smaller Chu's charging into battle quickly entered her naive, childlike mind. Each Chu wielding a small, chu sized sword (or other weaponry). Now that was something she had to see!
She was somewhat disappointed by the sight of just....well a large amount of ordinary Chu's. But only somewhat. It was still a lot of Chu's! As Verrick gave his army his evil, devious orders and laughed manianically Ethel had already scooped up an entire armful of the fluffballs and nuzzled her face up against them while muttering one, single word.
"Cute."

Cody looked over as Time Lord spoke to him....who the heck was that? He gave him a surprised, confused look as Time Lord walked up but before he could really think about much he found James calling out to him to stop Shiro and Manami. That left a question in Cody's mind, how? Surely his magic couldn't be cast in time to stop them. I mean it wasn't like an army of super adorable, fluffy creatures would swarm over and distract them long enough to throw up a barrier.
That was just crazy talk.....or maybe not. Cody watched on in disbelief as the army of Chu's swarmed across the battlefield, hereby causing the distraction he needed. With just the tips of his fingers glowing as he drew imaginary lines in the air before him.
"Here goes nothing....Absolute Dome." Cody hadn't quite gotten this spell down to a fine art just yet, but he didn't need it to repel attacks right now so it should serve it's purpose of locking Shiro and Manami within. It would be fragile, but as long as no one did anything crazy it should hold.

Shiro was peacefully attempting to help Manami up, but that all changed when the Chu army attacked. The sheer surprise of such an adorable army running at her caught her off guard, as they now knocked her over and swarmed her downed body before unleashing their ferocious attacks of nuzzling, licking and letting out various cute noises and other cute things they would do which were also harmless.
"Wait....stop...help..." Shiro let out as she held back an urge she hadn't felt for a long time, the urge to laugh. These Chu's were worthy foes. They had found out her one, true weakness. She was highly ticklish.
An almost invisible barrier was now erected around the two dark mages and Amelia, since she had walked into the spell just as Cody had cast it. So while he hadn't meant for her to get trapped within it, she ended up getting herself stuck.
Oh well between Shiro being swarmed by Chu's and Manami having lost consciousness at this point, it wasn't like any harm would come to her anyway. In fact, she would be slightly safer within the dome.

@Caits

"Um, excuse me?" Alan called out as he ran towards where the guild master was, "My apologies but, there is a rather urgent matter I need to discuss with you. Do you have some time?" Alan hoped he didn't come off as too needy but this was the closest thing he and Aura had to a lead in quite some time. They needed to take the chance while they had it.

@Caits

"Hm..." He didn't really respond, but he seemed to be enjoying the physical intimacy. His arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her in closer so that she was pressed tighly against him, his lips pressed against her in a tender kiss. He could still taste the sweet nectar of the fruits on her lips from before. Soon Ferris pulled away probably much to Jessie's disappointment, but soon went down to kiss her neck as his hands began to rub her back gently. The blush on his face was evident as he shyly touched her though he was getting braver. The only time they were like this was on their first date, but he was so plastered that he didn't have any recollection of it so for him he was nervous and stiff. Sure he talked a big game and acted flirtatious with her though he really was just a shy young guy trying to impress his girl.

Ferris pulled away reluctantly and laid her down on her back, with him on top of her. "Jessie, I-" Things were going well, but as bad luck would have it, the charm had wore off. The pungent stink that radiated off him like gouda cheese that was sitting out in the sun for too long while sitting on an overheated radiator. The smell curled his nose all the way up, eyes teared up, his stomach lurching; he needed to wash up fast. "Loveyouseeyousoon!" Ferris spoke so quickly that his words ran together as he hopped off the bed and into the shower. Well, that was a mood killer.

@Caits@Oblivion666@Lugubrious
ENMA

"Oh quit your bitching Ike and just lend us a hand." The oni shouted back at the frail looking white haired man. He glanced at Gabriel and pat the top of his head as if he was a guilty child that needed reassurance that things were fine. Perhaps the guild had been hard on him lately, but it wasn't without purpose; Gabriel could become a much more powerful mage if he just used his head more and also took his head out of his ass when confronting others.

Enma gripped the rope that Ike had thrown down to the trapped three and gave it a tug. "Brace your scrawny pale ass!" Ike would feel as if he was trying to lift up a boulder as soon as Enma had begun to climb up the rope. Now Enma wasn't fat, far from it, but when someone is nearly seven feet tall and his body weight consists of mostly bulky muscle then it's safe to assume that he was packing some weight.