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Notus Bebhinn was in one such room. The back office to be more precise , It looked much like Mission Control at NASA and was used in a similar way. Notus was the only one in the room. A headache had kept him horizontal for the past three hours with very little rest. Since he knew there was no way he would be sleeping, he decided to finish off the paperwork for a case.
Though his bed accompanied by no one was not much of a temptation.
Closing the laptop with a long sigh, his free hand placed at the bridge of his nose. By the Gods he wished this headache was gone... The clock read 8:59am " The New recruit should be showing up soon.... I should open the doors for the day"
He gave the door a firm knock and waited for someone to answer. He was slightly excited as he wondered who he would be greeted by. Was he to meet the head of Guardian corp straight away, or was he going to be welcomed by one of the other members? None of this mattered too much because he wouldn't recognise who it was anyway. Then he noticed that the group probably didn't have information on him, so he would have to explain the over abundance of face wear in his bag and why he was chosen over those with training.
Once there, he looked around to see who else was awake. Luckily it was empty, which meant he had all the food for him. He opened the fridge for something to eat. He looked and said in his mind Ehhh, no, no, nope, not either. He closed the fridge and teleported a few feet to the right and looked through the shelves. There was nothing there either, at least nothing he felt like eating. He teleported infront of the other shelve and found some cereals. This will have to do. He shook the box and realized it was empty. Argh! Who leaves the box empty in the shel...oh, right! It was me! Too lazy to put it in the trash bin, he put it back where he found it. He would have to use his back up plan.
He teleported through the living areas and offices until he appeared infront of Notus. He raised his hand and quickly said, "Kitchen is empty. I need 20 bucks for pizza." Pizza, the breakfast of champions.
As he opened the door he noticed a young man. He was standing there with his face covered and a bag full of things. "Ah. your the one that has come to join, eh?" Notus grinned a little. " please come in, set your stuff down and we can have a talk "
Seth noticed Notus and an unknown boy standing near the door. The boy was probably about Seth's age and he wore fairly normal clothing with a bag, the only unusual thing were the goggles he wore.
"Good morning Notus," said Seth. Seth put the two grocery bags in his left hand and then held his right hand out to hand out to the boy. "I'm Seth pleased to make your acquaintance. Are you here to bring a job?" It was quite normal to get customers this early in the morning after all.
When he appeared there, he didn't see him seated, he turned around and found him at the entrance with Seth, who was carrying groceries Hope he didn't bring just "healthy" stuff, and a stranger, who looked to be a young boy. He teleported next to them and said "Pizza anyone?" He then looked at the boy, lifted his top hat as a greeting, and said "Hello! I'm Isaac. Nice to meet you."
Fortunately, Notus has a lot of patience, which was obtained while working for the white council for years. However, he has started his own work. he had grown accustom to living with everyone here at Guardian and he guessed that he kind of was the maid, always picking up, cooking, cleaning for everyone.
He followed the man, who appeared to be in charge, to a back room of the main entrance. It was some sort of office or control room with fancy computers and desks. "My name is Aidrid, or just Aid. I'm from England." Aidrid had just realised that he hadn't introduced himself yet. He couldn't wait to see the equipment that had been mentioned but it was a lot for him to handle. He had never had a fight with someone so how did they expect him to know how to use a weapon?
"Morning," said Mr. Corvain in quite an unfriendly tone. "Good Morning Mr. Corvain," Seth replied in an equally unpleasant tone. Mr. Corvain continued "I have some paperwork for Notus. Where is he at the moment?" "Notus is occupied at the moment you'll have to wait or interrupt him. He's in the equipment room," said Seth. The tones of their voices were still hateful. "Thank-you," said Mr. Corvain, but the thank-you was hollow with no meaning as anyone could tell, it was just there to fill empty space.
Seth left in the direction of the kitchen. "Isaac, come on," said Seth in a no nonsense voice.
Spellgun. The badge.... well you can gess what that is for and the keys are to open the front door and the door to your room. " Notus slid the box over to Aidrid with a smile " now do you have any questions or concerns that we can address that this time?"
"I am Mr. Corvain, I handle a great deal of paperwork for guardian and I have held a position on the white for the last ten years. That should be enough to introduce myself," said Mr. Corvain. Mr. Corvain didn't even hold out his hand to Aidrid, his face was expressionless.
Mr. Corvain spoke once more putting his suit case on the nearest counter. "This is the paperwork that you required from me, Notus. It reduces the property damage costs from our last mission to 131$. They were going to charge 893$, but I took care of it." Mr. COrvain's expression was still cold as Ice even when talking to Notus.
Seth's room was a little messy with a piece of clothes here or there, but mostly clean. His single bed was nicely made. The walls were a very light brown, he had a dresser and small closet, the closet held to very formal outfits and a few boxes.
Seth lay on and gave a deep sign. Funny how seeing his father and exchanging a few hollow words could make him feel this way.
Seth was sitting on his bed when the Magi-note slipped under his door. The writing was Mr. Corvain's. He considered not reading it, but this was usually for missions. The not read "Mission meet in main lobby" Seth headed for the main lobby. When he arrived Notus, Mr. Corvain, and the new one whom he still didn`t know the name of.
"Hey I still didn't get your name," said Seth to Aidrid. "His name is Aidrid Dracnare," said Mr. Corvain flatly. "Thank-you Mr. Corvain," replied Seth unhappily.
He stuffed the rest of the pizza in his mouth, and teleported into the main lobby just as Mr. Corvain was telling them Aidrid's name. "What's the mission?" Tried to say Isaac, but due to the amount of food in his mouth, it sounded more like "Whuum mmmeh miimmioom."
None of the people present in the room looked like battle-hardened fighters but Aidrid was sure they knew what they were doing. Seth and Isaac didn't even know that Aidrid would be joining them yet, in fact they probably thought that he had brought the job that Notus was about to tell them about. The fact that he was standing next to Notus, and his nervous feeling, probably didn't help that either. Aidrid remained there and listened for Notus to tell the group what they would be doing.
After a moment Seth put his arm over Isaac and had the two of them lean away from the others. Seth whispered to Isaac"Hey Isaac, sorry about whipping the Cereal at you, I shouldn't have lost my temper.
After Seth apologized to Isaac he went to Notus and asked "Is Roland gonna be on this mission?" Roland was actually the only person older than Mr. Corvain on the team.
After that, Seth asked about Roland. Isaac finished chewing the pizza, swallowed it and said, "Wait. Didn't we put Roland in jail because we found out he was using chaos magic or something?"
" I've been released early for being a good boy " He pushed himself off a wall with his back and stepped into the light, anticipating their reactions with a rebellious smirk. Roland, the eldest magician of the team stood among them now looking no older than 25, as if he'd literally climbed out of the dusty old photo album he kept in his room; The results of the magic that almost condemned him. He wore a black men's Hooded Toggle Coat, hood down, a pair of slim fitting black jeans and pair of Nike's. Black as well. He was clearly proud of himself, it was written all over his face, and why shouldn't he be? He made an immense gamble and came out on top because he knew going into it that there was a 90% chance he'd be killed, either he would fail the spell and die or succeed and be put to death by The White Council, yet here he stood.
" I know you've got a million questions so go ahead and ask em' so we can get outta here, we've got a job to do "
He said as he walked to the Lobby's exist with his hands jammed into his coat pockets. Even his posture and diction seemed to have rebooted to exemplified youth now in every way, instead of the straight back and proper speech of the former Roland Ash. He stopped at the door and turned to face his comrades and awaited the potential barrage of questions.
"New recruit?" asked Seth "That is, Aidrid will be working with us from today onwards," his speech was mostly without emotion, but there was a note of condenseness in his voice and he seemed to be mostly addressed to Isaac and Seth.
"Now that we are all here should we commence our mission, Notus?" asked Mr. Corvain
Isaac then realized something, and teleported a bunch of times moving away from him. "Waiiiiit a second! How are you out if you are still using chaos magic? Because I'm pretty sure that's how you managed to look like that. Even more, how are you even out!? You are supposed to be in jail for the rest of your life for using chaos magic!" The fact that he was there meant that he either stopped using chaos magic, which it seems he didn't, or that he escaped.
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