Hunter felt relieved, even if a bit skeptical over Jin's words. Sure, he was joking about expelling him over any little flaw, but, he is unsure if he would be the exception. Still, Hunter merely gave a hmph over the joke at his own expense. He then looked down at his own drink as Jin partook in his own. He would need to sit his case down to lift up the face plate to drink from his own mug. Yet he hadn't the time to do so as Jin explained what they expected from their members. They seemed pretty lenient and only wanted good team work, which he understands. The issue for himself was, he never was apart of a team for long until he met with expulsion. He could work by himself to help earn more time but it seems this guild was heavily team oriented. He wasn't quite sure about the aura bit, sure he may seem alright enough, but...there are some things to the contrary.

He decided to follow Jin's advice as he nodded when he left to go do the paperwork. "Well, they do have some basic procedures." Hunter thought to himself. He decided to sit himself down at the bar with his drink as he sat his luggage to the side. He did talk with a few, but some found it difficult to hear him through the helmet. Then that led to the inevitable question of why the helmet? It was then Hunter responded with a dead coldness, "That is business of my own, do not ask me again." He said without ever raising his voice. Yet the tone made those around him feel quite frightened of the man, he was definitely not the person to mess with. He then placed a few fingers at the tip of his helmet and lifted the face plate as it slid a bit over his eyes. Some Guild members could help but take a peak. Unfortunately for them, the face plate only revealed his chin and part of his lips. Hardly the exposé they wanted.

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Besides the minor threat, the rest of the celebration was uneventful. While some did seem to consider fighting alongside him, the rest of the guild couldn't get a good reading on the helmeted mage, like Jin seems to have done. This uncertainty surrounding him and his obvious predilection for privacy, will make it hard for immediate team building. Some already believe he will be another Equtas except for the fact Hunter will actually speak. It was getting late, and Hunter was in his room getting himself acclimated to it's surroundings. He unpacked his suitcase and was in his late night dressings, the only constant was his helmet. He believed he may have heard a few guild mages stirring about outside, but it didn't really interest the new member. He very much was content to just staying inside. He looked at the unsealed mattress and decided to lie his helmeted head down on the pillow.

It would seem rather silly to sleep with such a thing on your head. It must not be very comfortable to begin with, let alone sleeping the whole night away still wearing it. Hunter has done this time and time again, he wouldn't be comfortable without it on. He doesn't trust that no curious soul would check in on him while he was asleep. No, he can't let down his guard that easily, despite his ease of access to this guild. He continued to stare at the suitcase propped up next to the closest. He has unpacked his several changes of clothes and stuffed them in the closet, leaving only few items tucked away in the case. The case was locked and one would need a key to open it. A key, that Hunter always keeps on his person for safekeeping. His mind drifted back to his past as he closed his eyes, trying to remember pleasant memories.

5 weeks later...

Jindal stepped into the guild hall closed in shadows as normal when it happened. He got a odd chill in his spine before the guild door was violently thrown open. He put both his hands up out of instinct and wondered where that idea had come from. He then looked at the door and saw a group of council enforcers standing there holding a paper. "Jindal the black dragon you're hereby under arrest for crimes against the council and the destruction of a building in this very town. The other charges are as follows:

48 counts of assassination.
77 counts of hiding evidence.
223 counts of using forbidden magic.
3 counts of murdering a council member.
1 count of joining a dark guild.
99 counts of theft.
221 counts of defacing public property.
800 counts of assault and battery.
3 counts of arson
And finally 2 counts of using the secret magic of death head cactus. Death head law a thousand executions."

Jindal stood up shocked and a large amount of gasps could be heard. He looked at them shocked then at everybody else before taking a deep breathe and sighing. "I don't remember any of that but I trust the council's judgement. I may or may not be guilty but I certainly won't add to the list of crimes." He said before turning to walk to them without putting up resistance. He was arrested quickly.

Jamboree looked stunned and almost tried to fight for Jindal but decided against it. "You guys are making a mistake! He's innocent." He stated before turning to go to his room on the second floor of the building.

For Hunter Briggs the past Five Weeks, since starting, have been relatively busy. Not taking much time to settling in, the first week he was amiss, away on a mission he took upon himself from the bulletin board. These were quite simple missions that didn't require a group of mages to undertake. The only reason it took Hunter a week to complete was because of traveling. This first mission he underwent was quite far from Cait Shelter on some distant part of Fiore. The first few days were arriving to a small village that seems to have had an minor nuisance of diminutive monsters causing mischief for the villagers. Hunter took care of the issue by scaring them away. He then returned with some Jewel.

The next following weeks was filled with more jobs, another on his own which again took a week to complete, most of it based on travel. Yet one job was completed with the help of two other mages from the guild. He was approached one day by Mimi Tronoux, she asked if he would join her and her normal partner, Xiros Farfetcher, on a particularly difficult job. It would have been difficult for Hunter to agree to such a team up. The reason he was taking jobs alone was to in fact protect himself. He could cut loose and use his Chaos Magic without fear of the repercussions if certain mages caught sight of his taboo technique. Yet, he has done the whole, lone wolf routine before and with mixed results. More time than naught, he was still caught and expelled. He supposes being alone all the time was too suspicious for most. So he at times, teamed up with guildmates in order to redirect suspicions off himself. Yet that too has met with mixed results.

Depending on the jobs and other, unforseen, consequences, Hunter has been forced to use his full power in order to survive. Despite accomplishing the Guild's goals, he revealed himself before members of the Guild. And of course expulsion has followed. He has traveled very far and across many lands in order to find a place where he has yet to be recognized. Fiore was a nice place, far out west, and here no one knows of him and his many expulsions. Still if he is to have success he must be smart and find pleasant balances between being alone and keeping up appearances. So, refusing Mimi would be too alarming he fears. Hunter agreed, despite him knowing that he would have the fight at half power. He used only his Holy Magic during the quest and therefor it took longer than it would have if he could use his darker powers. He could have used Darkness Magic instead, but, many Mages fear that dark art and think it purely evil. Holy Magic is seen much more favorably.

After he returned, it seemed Mimi and Xiros, who were quite uncertain of him at first, returned with praise for his help and skills. This in turned helped to place Hunter in a brighter light for the new recruit. Making his fellow Guildmates to feel not so uneasy about him. Except now, if he were to be asked to go on a mission he will have to confine himself to only Holy Magic. Its what they all will expect of him now. Frustrating indeed, but a necessary risk. After he returned from the previous mission he took the time to actually get some rest. Something he hasn't truly done for quite awhile now. It was on the day when madness seemed to have broken out in the guild that he was prepared to leave on a new job.

He was in the Guild Hall when the Enforcers entered the scene. "What!? How did they find me so quickly!? I never revealed my true power to anyone here!" Hunter thought to himself. "No! I can't leave, not now, I just arrived!" He began to panic. That was until the Enforcers asked for Jindal. "Jindal?" Hunter thought as he looked towards the boy in black. Despite his being there, he hadn't met with all of the Guild members, nor talked to them for any long period of time. The most interactions hes had with are with Mimi, Xiros, Jamboree, and Jin. The others were either too afraid to speak with him, or he simply avoided most interactions. He didn't know much about this Jindal, he was quite the mystery to him. Yet, everyone he did speak with, thought highly of the boy. Their picture of him surely did not match the one the Council was painting. Hunter couldn't help but think it hard to believe that Jindal was that dangerous.

He worried for Jamboree, he seemed brash enough to attack the Enforcers, but luckily he didn't. It would seem Jindal would go quietly, furthering everyone else's point and even rousing Hunter to feel outraged. It was then that Asa interfered with the situation making that much more worse. She revealed her abilities and they turned to chase after her. "NO! That foolish girl! Why would she reveal herself in such a way!? It was pointless!" He thought angrily to himself. He was wondering what should he do? If he were to interfere he would most surely reveal his powers too, and then he would be hauled off to the council as well! Curses! He felt so incapable, so helpless, as his guildmates were being arrested for no good reason! It was an outrage, but if he is to help them, then he must not get involved. He will do them no good if he was detained as well. He just hoped Asa would escape them. As for Jindal...well, he was beginning to wish they had a Guild Master for times like these.

"Excuse me, my name is Lyla Lighthand and if you are going to take one of my best team mates you will have to do much more explaining." I say as I cast a teleporting spell on Asa and send her onto the roof where no one can get to her thanks to a dark scripture I placed up the forever ago, unfortunately Asa would be stuck up there unless she could fly past the clouds. "Jin, don't fight them. I demand to see the council member who declared this action and if he isn't here within the day I will be forced to practice Code 44187 of the Magic Council's law and practice mine and Jindal's right to a fair trail away from the Council's court In a court of mine or Jindal's choosing, which means you can't take Jindal from this Guild with force without breaking your own law, which in effect will unbind all laws of magic!" Every one in the hall was staring, most likely because we all cared for Jindal and another thing, no one knew I knew so much about magical law.

Since the Magical council member never showed we decided to take the trial in the same city as Cait Shelter and as the trial began I represented Jin in the court room. "Since this is the first day in court I would like to point out we don't have any evidence in the city yet so we would like to start the case with character witnesses first up me, Lyla Lighthand. I have know Jindal for about 2 years and in that time he has kept to him self mostly but since the Guild master has passed me, him and Janborre have been keeping the Guild together and in the past seven months we have become closer, my character assessment of Jindal is he is secretive, but he is also hard working and never takes a case that seems remotely shady. Anyone else who wants to be a character witness we have two days before the actual evidence shows up."

"Um so if no one else wants to come forward, *waits to see if anyone else would like to go up* My name is Lily Heartcove and I have know Jin, I mean Jindal as long as Lyla but I feel like I am possibly closer to him than Lyla only because every time he comes back from a mission I try to check in on him and ask how he is doing, most of the time he either falls asleep or just grunts at me but I feel just from those reactions that Jin doesn't have the time or energy to do any of those things you say he did. Anyways that is all.

The evidence arrived late today and now myself, Jindal and Jamboree must review it, "It seems they don't have much and it is all circumstantial if we have a nice jury we could escape this incident." Lyla says. "However if they have witnesses it will be difficult to intervene. The witnesses will no dout cry and tell a heart felt story, then it won't matter what we do unless we can get a light sentence.

"I brought drinks! Here is coffee for every one and if you don't want that I got Lyla's favorite blue-raspberry tonic water." said Lily.
"Thank you Lily now go to bed." "Okay, good luck!"

In the court room there where lots of eye witnesses with tears and heartfelt stories and in the end Jindal was taken away.

Back at the Guild.

Alright every one I know we lost one of our big shot wizards but we can still continue on, we will postpone the election in respect and continue with our daily activities so please try to get jobs done, now we are down an S class wizard I will be taking on more jobs and won't be here as much.