Humaru stares at the group as they let Drake go "Are you kidding me.." He murmurs, running down the road, back toward Fairytail, angry "Pathetic.." He continues, and as they watch him, he slams his foot down, the ice beneath his feet shining into ice.

Doge stepped hesitantly onto the rough cobble stones that led into the city. "Magnolia, I'm finally here..." He strapped his bag and continued strolling down the street where he happened upon a blacksmith struggling to reach a sword. He stopped and grabbed the sword for the unethically short man. "Here you are~." He said cheerfully, but the smith just spat on his shoes and told him to get lost. "Actually I was wondering if you had some work maybe?..."Doge said downheartedly. "Mmmh...well you can sweep the place and handle the toiletries, pick me up some iron ingots for me if you would treebark." He stepped back, used to the discrimination. "Treebark?..."He muttered."I guess I'll be going." The smith looked at him patronizingly as he walked away. "Aren't you for forgetting the jewel for the ingots slug?" Doge just kept walking ahead, forgetting he ever helped the bitter man, not that any person he'd met before wasn't bitter toward him...

Drake moved a little, and then sat up from where he fell. He wasted no time in picking up the cuff on the ground and clasping it to his arm again. there was a faint glow to it from the small amount of extra magic energy given to him from Cilia." Th-thanks," he said as he caught his breath. Seeing that Eli wasn't here anymore he looked out to the woods.

"I should have knocked him out instead," he stated, but in his mind he thought,"I hope I didn't make a mistake letting him out of here "
He brushed himself off and turned toward the group, "Well, a deal's a deal. I'll follow you back to your guild."

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Ander inspected the small blue crystal he had just plucked out of a new prisoner. The mage fell to the floor, weakened by his lack of power.
"Well, you won't be needing this anymore," he said as he popped the crystal into the crest on his chest. He flexed his hand and then punched toward a training dummy across the room and a bolt of lightning shot out, blasting the target to pieces. "Oh, you were a thunder mage... interesting..."
A guard walked into the room, "Sir, I have reports saying a Drake Morrison has just been captured and is being escorted to the Fairy Tail guild."

Ander nodded and started walking for the door and added, "put him in his cell." After that he walked right out, headed for Fairy Tail.

The guard was uncertain. It must have been a big target for him to go see to the captive and possibly retrieve it. Especially when throwing a man in the jail cell was one of Ander's favorite pastimes.

Rayne walked into the town, wishing for nothing more than a nice sit-down at a bar with an ice-cold drink. She hadn't had the pleasure of relaxing for quite some time. Luckily, there was a bar nearby. She walked in, her white and black katanas on her back in an "X" pattern. She sat in a stool and signaled the bartender for a drink. Her demeanor was very quiet, yet she conveyed an air of strength, even given her slender frame.

Doge walking past a quaint looking bar he decided to try his luck one more time, not that he hadn't tryed his luck enough. He opened the door nonchalantly hearing the small bell . He stepped in a slowly made his way to a stool at the end. The bartender there gave him a mean look. "Who says I should have to give YOU anything to drink?" Doge slapped a sack of jewels on the table. "A whole bottle of Fairy Ale, I am a paying customer you know." He put down the glass he was drying and annoyed as he was pulled a bottle off the shelf and slammed it on his hand. It didn't faze Doge. He was used to things like this now. Even though he had a grimaced look on his face, all he could think about was another person who hated him for no reason. *Must be cursed I guess...* He thought to himself.

Eli was far away from the group now. " like i said, they are better off without. Im doing this for them." Eli looked into they made. " if i die,well i dies with for a good cost."

Gao nodded. " yeah,I'll come your funeral .."

" gao! I was just kidding about that that. Have some faith in me." He said with a sweat

" sorry ...im just so scared.." gao smiled faintly

"So..." Ciskel finally had a fire going.
"Your name is Drake, your magic involves punching things really hard and for some reason our government really, really, really wants you captured."
Ciskel gestured for everyone to sit down.
"Tell us a story"

"No problem." Cilia said glancing over at her sister to make sure she was okay

Drake sat next to the fire thinking. He didn't want to open up to them yet, but he wasn't going to be rude to them either. He looked down at his hands, "That is the gist of it I guess, but its a bit more complicated than that." He looked back up to them, " You see, when I touch someone or something, it saps their magical power, the stronger the contact, the stronger it pulls from the target. Normally, with my strength, I can sap all of someone's magic energy in one shot unless they have an abundance of power. The power that was taken from them is absorbed into my body, overall increasing my physical abilities. The stronger I get, the stronger I can sap energy. Your friend from earlier, must have had a plethera of energy available to him for him to be able to get back up. There is no doubt he is strong and can take care of himself."

"This however," he started pointing to the cuff on his arm, " this is something I had made for me a while back. It puts a lock on my powers so that it won't keep going while I don't need it. My power will also gradually get stronger if I don't make contact with anyone because I am making contact with the ground, if I take out too much energy in one area, it withers away, causing plant life to die and eventually a collapse of the ground around me. With this cuff, that power is inactive. If I put the cuff on with any extra energy, it will store its power as a weapon I can hit with once. It is one of my most powerful attacks, however, since my arm is in its normal state during this, it can cause serious injury to myself."

He paused to let it sink in for a moment while he considered himself telling a story. "I'm afraid I'm not much of a story teller."

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Ander was at Fairy Tail for a while before he grew impatient. " If they already captured him then where is he," He thought.
He removed the large silver crystal from his side without touching it and stepped onto it with one foot. using it like a skate he flew through the air, the crystal seemlessly switching feet as he went toward the south gate.

Ris's nose twitched and she stood up. "I smell someone unfamiliar." The pink haired dragon slayer said looking out past the trees towards the south gate

At this time, eli was sleep . Gao was to,but he woke up when he smelt some strange. A powerful magic

Cilia was on her feet in a quick movement

Gao sniffed the air,following the scent. Eli woke up and followed gao. " gao ...hang on."

Ris made her way quickly towards the gates with light feet. The normally hyper, bouncy, and clumsy dragon slayer moved with a quick and quiet grace.

Ander flew in low and hopped off the crystal, storing it back in its pouch. He looked around and saw the light of the small fire in the distance. He thought about heading to the fire, but instead decided to wait at the gate. He drew his crystal again and used it as a platform to float to the top of the gate. There was a slope in the architecture that was a usual spot for him so he decided to wait for them there.

" Sure seems to take a while to turn one guy in considering he has already been caught," he thought to himself as he got comfortable. He pulled his hood and muffler up, mostly to hide his eyes from the sun. As a jailer, hiding your face from the prisoners was a necessity, to him at least.

"What happens when you touch a charged lacrima?" Ciskel pondered, oblivious to Cecilia and Ris leaving.

Gao slid down a slope, while eli fell face first. " damn it!" He pulled his self and followed gao in a cave. They had no choice

Cilia stopped and let her sister go and investigate. She knew she would call if someone bad was near.

Ris looked up at the top of the gate and saw the figure of a person. She crouched in the brush watching the person

Drake pondered this, "I don't know, I'd suppose that I'd drain it of its energy. Do you have one I could test it on?"

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Ander noticed the slight movement in the woods.

"Ya know, if you decided to capture the guy, you are supposed to turn him in, not 'hang out' with him. He's still a wanted man you know," he said while slightly swinging his leg forward and back. He had his hand resting behind his head. A black symbol in the shape of a padlock with a red keyhole was on his left shoulder.

Eli wiped his bleeding noise and saw a dozen eyes staring eyes." Bats!" He shouted. The bats where alerted and and flew around him. Eli screamed and beat gao out the cave