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Fiore is located on the westernmost peninsula. It is surrounded on three sides by ocean, and has land borders with Bosco and Seven. It is a state in which the current regime is a monarchy and is ruled by a King, who is the head of the government. Next to the King is the power exercised by the government. The part of the government responsible for the supervision of the Magic and the guilds is the Magic Council. It supervises guilds, including outlawing their activities, has the ability to appoint Wizard Saints, gives official orders and sends complaints to the Guild Masters.

Fiore is a place of magic, containing some of the most fruitful, majestic and down right pain in the neck Guilds known to all the land.
Somewhere in this vast place, a young Guild has formed under the name of Storm Shield. Though it has been open for a year, only now has it began to earn itself a reputation.

Every Guild must face hardships that either make or break it, and this young Guild will face them sooner than most. Storm Shield will come up against a deep, brooding darkness, an evil so substantial it will project them into one of two futures. They will fly to fame and Storm shield will be a guild of trust, strength and family or quite the opposite; it will fall before it could even stand and everyone baring the Storm Shield symbol will be destroyed.

Valerie Krone
{Location: Storm Shield}

The sun was shining, the skies were clear and the air felt good and fresh. Nothing, I repeat, nothing should have felt bad about today. It was a day to relax, a day to reflect...

"Get your fat ass outta my seat!"

Or it would be, unless you were Valerie Krone. Valerie's eyes snapped open like a set of blinds to reveal bloodshot eyes. Whoever thought it would be a good idea to have an open door policy for the guild was due a knuckle sandwich. All she needed was a decent lay in but it appeared the mindless fools downstairs were set against her getting anything of the kind. Banging, crashing, loud laughter and arguments. Preposterous.

To be fair to those unknowingly awaiting a bollocking of another kind, it was early afternoon but on Valerie's clock that didn't matter in the slightest. Makarov had challenged her to a drink game at the council meeting yesterday and she'd be damned if she lost to that little man baby! Krone was paying for it today though and soon the kids down stairs would pay for it too.

The young girl known as Kamiki wandered through the town, grinning broadly as she went, holding in one hand a flyer for recruitment for a nearby, rather new, mage guild, and just the kind of place she was looking for, a place that might have the kind of resources she needed to find the certain person she was looking for. As she finally found the building that housed the guild she sought to join, she could tell from the noise it was pretty lively, which made it all the better, more people was always better. Kamiki waltzed right into the front door, despite all the noise, she managed to stick out like a sore thumb, why? because she was munching away on a large chunk of tree bark as if it were candy.

She looked around for someone who looked important, trying to pick out the guild master, but when this failed, she merely went to the only person she saw who seemed to alone for the time being, an older woman, and one who didn't seem to be in a very good mood, though Kamiki failed to notice the latter part. She went right up to her, "Hi there! I'm Kamiki, i wanna join the guild, do you know where the guild master person is? i'm super strong and-" she began cheerfully before cutting herself off, pausing for a moment, sniffing the air a bit, "wow lady you stink like booze, have you been drinking? are you drunk? i thought you weren't supposed to drink this early? or did someone splash you with something? you look like you don't feel good? you're not sick are you?..." she rambled on as she had a tendency to do, completely oblivious to how annoying she might be

It was a bright and cheerful day as birds sang merrily and the laughter of children echoed throughout the street. Such pleasant sounds were merely muted and suffocated by the tense atmosphere of the bookstore as a standoff was taking place between the owner and one determined shopper. The shopkeep was an older woman with grey hair restrained in a tight bun, her mouth set in a firm line as she croaked out "I am not selling that chart for anything less than five hundred Jewel, so either buy it or get out of my shop". The client pursed her lips as she looked down at the seal chart bearing the insigna of the consolation of Cerberus, the mythical guard dog of the Underworld. Who knew how valuable that spirit could be in combat..if Isis could find and if this uptight elder would sell this map to her. Smoothing out the folds of her dress, Isis gave the older woman a pleasant smile "Surely you couldn't bring down the price only just a little Hana. After all who else would you sell this..old..". The shopkeep's mouth puckered even harder at the mention of the age "I mean, piece of forgotten history that the world deserves to see in its full glory once more".

Her compliment's seem to lessen the difficult owner's firm mouth as silence came over the two as Isis nervously bit her lip as she waited for the final price to be made. Her own cash was dwindling as she quickly added up all she had to her name in her head..only about eight hundred Jewels left..not to mention the room she was renting at a local tavern was quickly depleting said supply. Did she really need to find another Key..who knows how difficult that Spirit would be to work with in combat. The high pitched scolding of Ramus echoed through her mind as the youthful looking Spirit lectured her on the dangers of working alone..not to mention the large bump that an apple he had thrown left on her head for about a week. A sigh escaped Isis's lips alerting Hana of her presence once more "Don't give me attitude girl, I need to make a living too. Fine I will lower my price down to four hundred and eighty jewel..Don't you go telling anyone though".



A few minutes passed by as Isis emerged from the shop out into the bright sunshine, well only for a moment as she opened her parasol with one hand and in the other, her prized star chart hopefully a clue to another forgotten Key..now cracking that case would take time and patience. Said matter would have to be put aside as Isis recalled her relatively empty money pouch..only three hundred and twenty jewels left..her room was around five hundred jewels a week. Not to mention it was getting tiresome of not having a place to call her own after six months of becoming a member of Storm Shield..it was a bit risky to try higher paying missions without any back-up so she settled for ones she knows she could manage..meaning she was stuck in her current living situation. Finally reaching the solid doors of the Guild she was slowly learning to open up to, despite the antics of her fellow guild members. The first floor of the Guild was somewhat stable despite a few brawling members and broken stools laying in their wake.

Picking her way slowly through the dust and rubble, Isis settled herself down on a hopefully sturdy bar stool before gently spreading out the star chart before her, her luminous eyes growing wide with excitement as she took in the drawing of the constellation as well as the inscriptions of the origins of Cerberus. Immediately, an image of the Spirit popped in her head, a monstrous hellish dog spewing flames from its maw..a giggle escaped her. Her imagination was very rarely accurate when it came to Spirits as her fingers fondly traced the grayish black keys at her waist secured by a belt..warmth jolted through her body as she prodded one Key bearing the symbol of the Eel. Anguilla was the playful type so to speak..like an eager electric puppy..with not a single sense of boundaries in his head. Still, Isis did love her Spirits despite all the flaws and hopefully her Guild would too one day. Now if only she had chosen a less chaotic guild as the sounds of glass breaking reached her ears. Glancing up from the chart, as wondered when exactly the Guild master would put a stop to the destruction..

Tatsuo busted the door to the guild hall wide open with a strong kick rather then just open it like a normal person. He walked in like he owned the place, not paying mind to the people already there. Tatsuo took a empty seat at a full table. He leaned back in the chair, and propped his feet up on the table, barely even noticing the four men that were already there. The men looked at each other in confusion, a little surprised by the small dragon slayer's disregard for them. Soon a fifth man came to the table holding several drinks.

"Hey punk! That's my seat!" The man said as he slammed the drinks down on the table. "My heart bleeds for you. Go bother someone else." Tatsuo replied, not even looking at the man. "What chu say?! Look at me when I'm talking to you Shrimp!" The man demanded as he shoved Tatsuo's feet off the table. Tatsuo jumped up out of the chair, and the two engaged in an intense stare down. "What did you call me asshole?" Tatsuo asked, his golden eyes not straying from his eyes. "Shrimp. What are you gonna do about it?" The man said and he poked him on his forehead.

"Thought so." Tatsuo smirked. He then gave the man a bone shattering kick to his right knee. This brought the man down to his knees, and below Tatsuo's eye level. "Who's short now bitch?!" Tatsuo asked before he punched the guy in his face, sending him flying across the room. The four other men jumped up from their chairs, and stared Tatsuo down. "Ass kicking's for everyone!" He smirked as he gripped on his red cloak's left sleeve. The man closest to him on his left charged forward at him. And all Tatsuo could do is laugh.

Tatsuo quickly took his cloak off, and threw it at the man, covering his head. While he was getting it off Tatsuo leaped forward, and kicked him in the chest, sending him flying off. One of the men gave Tatsuo a bear hug from behind as another one came forwards towards him. Tatsuo kicked the man coming towards him in the knee, and slammed his head into the nose of the man holding him. The man let go of him, and Tatsuo grabbed his right arm, and tossed him into the other man in a judo-like fashion.

Tatsuo looked over at the last man who had a terrified expression on his face at this point. "All yours pal!" He said, and then ran off. "Smart man." Tatsuo said as he picked up his cloak, and dusted it off before putting it back on. He took his seat back, and leaned back in it, and put his feet up like before, acting almost like nothing happened. He then noticed the guild master coming down after all the commotion that Tatsuo caused died down.

Then a girl came into the guild, while normally he wouldn't even notice unless she was drop dead gorgeous, but this one was chewing on tree bark. She went over to the guild master, who it seems she didn't know was the guild master. She peaked his curiosity, so he nonchalantly moved back some of his hair behind his ear so he could better listen in on them. Sometimes having dragon-like senses was a blessing.

He heard her start to say something about being really strong before she seemed to lose her train of thought, and began talking about Valerie's smell. Well it was a rather strong one, even he could smell it from here. But back to the point, her starting to say something about being strong, and her eating tree bark pretty made a light blub go off in his mind. 'Is she a dragon slayer?'

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Fadil just returned to the guild hall. He had been gone for a couple of weeks on a rather challenging S-Class mission. He entered the hall with a air of intimidation, and respect to him. He scanned the room until he found the guild master with a unfamiliar girl. He walked over to them, with his eyes trailing around the guild, studying everyone there.

He came up to the table Valerie was sitting at, and plopped down a rather large bag of jewel. This was onver half of the reward he got for completing his mission. He usually gives a rather large cut of his profits to the guild master to help keep the guild hall afloat. He gave Valerie a nod that said 'That everything went well'.

He stared at the unfamiliar girl, towering over her. He studied her face, and her entire body with a look like he was staring into her very being. All without saying a word. It was more then a little unsettling.

Yui Kuroshio

Yui was sitting at a dark table near a corner of the guild hall, watching all the goings on around the guild. In her hands was a small shadow she was playing with absentmindedly. Yui watched the new girl as she spoke to the guild master, chewing on what Yui thought was some sort of candy. Then suddenly Tatsuo barged in the guild hall, that stubborn ass, and proceeded to beat up a bunch of people just because he's insecure. 'I swear, Tatsuo is gonna kill someone eventually' Yui thought to herself.

Yui's attention shifted back to the girl talking to the guild master, something about her seemed strange and Yui's curiosity got the better of her. No one noticed as Yui melded into the shadow on the wall behind her, and slowly moved across the room towards the guild master and the new girl. Of course Yui could have just walked up to them both to see what was going on, but that would involve speaking to someone Yui didn't know, and that wouldn't go as well. Finally she had made it close enough to hear, but hopefully far enough to not be noticed, considering she was just a shadow on the floor at that point.

Syfer awoke to find himself slumped over a trash can in an alley not far from the guild hall. He looked up at the sun, his dark eyes wincing from the brightness. He tenderly stood up and yawned heavily, the hangover from the night before ringing. "This sucks..." he whispered under his breath to no one in particular. Taking a heavy sigh he began walking toward the guild hall, realizing that this was likely only the beginning to a long day. It had been a crazy night, from what Syfer could recall. First he was challenged to a drinking contest at a local tavern, and then things escalated from there to the point he now found himself in possession of more money than he had when he was last sober. This means competitions were won and that was good enough for Syfer. "Let's see. I got back into town after a job. Met up with some people at the tavern and then... Things?" Syfer simply shrugged and came to the conclusion that it was better he didn't know.

Syfer arrived at the guild hall, quietly slipping in the best he could. He was supposed to have reported in yesterday, but that didn't exactly happen as planned. He was already on Valerie's bad side after the damage he did to that village trying to stop the members of a dark guild. He moved as inconspicuously as possible to the bar counter, sitting down on a stool and lowering his head. He did not make eye contact with anyone, nor pay much attention to the goings on around him for fear attention might be drawn his way. He motioned the barkeep for a water and kept his arms high and his head low, his chin resting on the counter. "If I can make it through today, everything should be fine. Just drop the guilds cut on her desk and vanish into the city." Syfer grabbed the glass that had been placed in front of him and took small sips, his eyes darting around in paranoia.

Stepping out of her bedroom into the living room, Rin spotted the bag on the table that contained The jewel from her most recent job, and winced. She had gotten back into town the day before but had decided to go straight home, having wanted to finish her most recent piece of work. Of course, that wasn't the only reason she had avoided the guild hall the night before. In large part it had to do with the certain guild member she liked to avoid, though she had been trying to hide the fact from Kiku.

"Maya why haven't you turned the guild's cut into Val yet?" Wincing, Rin turned to see a middle-aged woman with a tail and a bright smile with which Rin returned with a sheepish smile of her own. After a moment Rin raised her hands to reveal her paint covered hands to Kiku. Sighing, Kiku grabbed a rag from the coffee table and tossed it at Rin but smiled all the same. "I know you spend all night on that so at least let me see it." Rin giggled, nodded, and caught the rag before turning and leading Kiku out of the living room and through her bedroom. She had chosen her apartment specifically because of the studio room, especially since it was hidden in the back of the apartment. Opening the door to the room a strong smell of paint filled the air and Rin walked forward, waving her hand towards her easle which held still drawing painting of a desert landscape at sunset. The picture's sky was filled with masterfully blended hues of orange, red, and purple, all fading into black at the top which greatly contrasted the whitish-yellow sand. Kiku gasped in delight and grasped Rin's arm tightly. "It looks just like it did when we were in the Forgotten Desert!" Rin rolled her eyes and turned to walk away only to get smacked on the back of the head by Kiku's tail.

"Ow! Kiku!" "Well? Don't you sass me!" "I have to go turn in my cut..." Rin mutters, closing and locking her studio door after Kiku exited the room. "I'll talk to you when I get back after I pick a job." "Aw but Rin we just got back! Why can't we stay for a few days? I mean, you've been in Storm Shield for almost 6 months and you haven't talk to any of your guild mates for more than five minutes." Rin turned to Kiku angrily. "And that's how it'll stay! You promised you wouldn't do this!" Kiku stared at her defiantly. "if that's what you really wanted than why have you spent so much time learning about them? Admit it. You've grown fond of them." Rin turned halfway through Kiku's response and stormed through her room, grabbing the bag of jewel off of her the table as she went past the kitchen on the way towards the door. "This conversation is over." "Maya..." "hello! I'll be back later." For a moment Rinhesitated at the door, too harsh, but as Kiku reached out for her she stepped away and slam the door behind her.

Ten minutes later, Rin arrived at guild hall with the guild's cut and stepped up to the open door with her eyes narrowed, her face otherwise expressionless. I see you stepped through the doorway Rin's attention was immediately drawn to the man that went flying across the room by Tatsuo's hand. Shaking her head Rin looked away from Tatsuo's fighting only to catch a group of people completely stop talking at the sight of her. Instinctively, Rin's I narrowed further up the group before she restriction and turn completely away from them. Spotting the guild master standing with an unfamiliar girl and Fadil Rin immediately noticed Valerie's annoyed and tense demeanor. "Can't be helped..." She muttered, shooting a pointed glare at another group who was staring at her before walking across the guild hall towards Valerie and her entourage. Not wanting to interrupt the guild master Rin stopped a few paces behind Fadil to wait, knowing that handing over the bag of jewel would only take a moment and then she could pick a new job and leave, allowing no chance to accidentally run into... him. Shaking her head Rin focused her thoughts on what she was doing and shot a sharp glance over at Tatsuo hoping he wouldn't start any more trouble while she was in the hall.

{Valerie Krone}
Location: Storm Shield

Valerie stomped down the stairs like the cranky old cow she was and glared around the guild looking for the culprits that woke her from her much needed beauty sleep. She saw many familiar faces looking joyous until they laid eyes on her expression, she also saw a group of boys just ending a brawl, too dumb to see the Guild Master skulking towards them with an unholy glint to her eyes. She stepped on top of a guy already sprawled on the floor and purposely grounded his face into the floor a little with her boot.

Within a silent second she was looming over the first unlucky culprit still standing within her reach. "WHO WOKE ME UP" she hissed venomously. A noticeable shiver racked its way down the bodies of the guilty. Valerie pulled back a fist and launched it into the side of her first victims face. "TAKE THIS YOU ROWDY BRAT!" He shot sideways and disappeared straight out of the window.

Everyone shrunk away as her eyes turned to them. Valerie growled at them all before storming over to her table positioned near the bar. A helpful member rushed to grab her some coffee and headache remedy. Pulling out a smoke she lit it up and took a long pull on it.

"Hi there! I'm Kamiki, i wanna join the guild, do you know where the guild master person is? i'm super strong and-"

Valerie glanced up at the unwelcome spew of words to see a young girl who hadn't been around before. She looked cheerful, disgustingly cheerful. Kamiki paused and seemed to sniff around her before she innocently said "wow lady you stink like booze, have you been drinking? are you drunk? i thought you weren't supposed to drink this early? or did someone splash you with something? you look like you don't feel good? you're not sick are you?..."

Valerie stared down at the table, her face shadowed by her hair and her muscles growing tenser with every word the girl spoke. Her teeth began to clench into a snarl. A large bag dropped onto the table and Valerie glanced up to see a queue had formed to see her already. She was surrounded. Fadil stood at the very front giving her a look that told her his job had gone well.

She looked up at him with pleading eyes. 'Help me.' her eyes screamed. 'Before I smash this entire, pitiful guild into the ground like the butt of a cigarette."

Kamiki stopped her seemingly infinite series of questions for a moment as Valerie looked up at Fadil, she followed the older woman's line of sight, looking up at the much taller man who was in turn staring at her. Completely unfazed by his otherwise intimidating glare, she smiled up at him cheerfully as she proceeded to introduce herself to him, "hi there! I'm Kamiki Naruno, are you in this guild? do you know the guild master? I want to join too! I'm really tough you know, I've got dragon slayer magic" she says, quite proudly as well, but pauses for a moment, "Oh, but i didn't actually slay a dragon, it's just the name, which is weird... i'm not even close to strong enough to hurt Botanurus, and i'd never want too..." she adds, trailing off into her own thoughts for a moment, she took a few more large bites from the chunk of bark in her hand before she finished it altogether, grinning once more as she managed to put herself back on track, "I can show you too, watch this!" she says taking a step back.

Kamiki held out her arms, baring her fingers like claws as wood sprouted from her fingertips and spread up her arms, creating thick armor over her forearms with large clawed hands, "My wood dragon claws! i can smash rocks pretty easy with these" she says proudly, she then bends over slightly, a large wooden tail sprouting out of her tail bone, "and a tail too! i can also make wings but i can't really fly with them, i can do lots of other stuff too but i don't wanna smash your guild up" she said innocently, her wooden tail curling into a ring on the floor to support her weight as she crossed her legs and sat up on the artificial limb, armored hands clasped on her ankles as she awaited an answer.

Fadil sighed as he looked at his guildmaster, and then to the other mages around them. Why must he always be the adult? 'Wood Dragon-Slayer? Another Dragon-Slayer?' He thought as he watched the new girl, this Kamiki Naruno demonstrate her abilities. "Valerie is our guildmaster." Fadil said in his deep, monotone voice as he pointed out Valerie before them. He glanced over at Tatsuo who was listening in on them. While he was thinking about informing her about Tatsuo, he figured that telling her about him isn't his place. He looked behind him to see Rin waiting to give her cut to Val.

Fadil took the bag of jewel from her, and grabbed his bag. He turned towards the stairs, and started to take the bags upstairs for Val to deal with later. But he was stopped by Oliver who was shoving a bunch of papers in his face. Fadil groaned, and rolled his eyes. He looked over her request of a job. He then looked at her and back at the request. "Alone?" He asked. "Very well. But I suggest taking someone else along. There's Rin, Isis, Syfer, and.....Tatsuo here." Fadil stated.

"And Yui who's hiding in the shadows." He knew his guildmates well enough to know their mannerisms, that and he saw her when he came in, and now she isn't there anymore. He walked on by her, and went upstairs to drop off the bags of jewel. Once he tossed them in Val's room. He returned downstairs, and took his place behind Valerie.

He leaned down beside her, and softly whispered into ear as not to bother her hangover. "It'd probably be a good idea to allow her to join. Given how rare Dragon Slayers are, and since we already have one. Hopefully this one is more.....tamed."

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Tatsuo glared over at Fadil, he could faintly hear them him talking to Valerie about him. He stared over at the wood dragon slayer, trying to figure her out. He was wondering if she was a dragon slayer in the same vain as him, or did she actually learn it. He was tempted to go over and confront her about it, but it'd probably be a bad idea. Maybe just avoid her? Doubtful, but it never hurts try.

Well, he can't sit there, and do nothing all day. He could, but that would be boring. Tatsuo took his feet off the table, and got up. He went over to the job board to find something to do. He scratched his chin as he looked over the jobs. He was looking for the toughest, and most dangerous job on the board. His eyes kept glancing over at Kamiki, he tried his best not to, but he was just too curious about her.

The flurry that was Isis' pen as she began taking notes of her prized map of sorts came to a screeching halt as the grouchy guild master took her moodiness out by sending some unfortunate soul through a window. An excited, giddy voiced broke her determination to continue writing as some bizarre mage somehow managed to change her body with wood-like properties..the faint word dragon slayer reached her ears as Isis put the quill down with a sigh. If the guild were to get another dragon slayer mage as reckless as Tatsuo..the guild would fall into disarray faster than a shooting star in the sky..unless this mage wasn't as rash as the blonde. Speaking of the blonde as her luminous eyes glanced over at earth shifting hothead who seemed to attempting to starve off any urges to start a brawl by staring blankly at the job board.


Easily rolling up the fragile piece of paper with a delicate touch and safety stowing it away in a small satchel as Isis found herself standing next to Tatsuo who was attempting to be inconspicuous with his glances of the chatty visiting mage. Her eyes searched the board as a few jobs popped out to her..escorting a surveying team through a mountain pass known for bandits, find the latest lost pet, and to her surprise a simple waitressing job. Why would someone need a mage to waitress for a simple mission. A faint blush rose on her face as she read the description of the required uniform..something gloriously frilly and elegant..perhaps one could keep it if they did well enough. Exhaling loudly as she quickly put the mission paper back from where it was located as she glanced over at the curious Tatsu before stating "You know, most people are able to introduce themselves to strangers with a polite hello..or I suppose in your case given your usual entrances as fist to the face. Although I think our new guest could easily take you on if given the chance..". Her tone was relatively blunt as it was painfully clear her fellow guild mate was having a dilemma..to punch or to not punch that is the question...

Reaching for the escorting mission as she returned to her original seat at the bar and began her own dilemma of if to go on the mission alone or seek out a partner..it would be either a hinderance or blessing to have back-up on a unknown mission such as this one..

Syfer looked at the glass refill itself in front of him, taking a heavy sigh at how simple such concoctions were to create. He called it "Insta-cure!" a remedy designed to get rid of whatever ails you. In his case it was a hangover. He took a drink and instantly started feeling his headache going away. Syfer would sell it, but for whatever reason when other people drink it they just taste regular water. This phenomenon perplexed his wallet to no end. It would also help with the debt he found himself in on a nearly constant basis. Damn townspeople, can't they just be happy that he slayed the monster? So what if the prized statue of the towns founder was destroyed? Syfer pondered this only a while longer before a figure approached him, dropping a paper in front of him.

Syfer looked up at Oliver, his eyebrow raised. Syfer picked up the paper and looked over the job, clicking his tongue when he finished reading. "Dragon problem. Seriously? These jobs tend to be a waste of time You'd be better of-" Before he could finish his eyes darted across the room to see Valerie, causing him to use the paper to shield his face. "You know what? I'll take the job. Let's just be out of here as soon as possible, shall we?" Syfer continued to use the paper to shield his face, though with how he dressed and his tattoos he didn't exactly blend in. Though he wouldn't admit it, he was never one to refuse a contract when people may get hurt by whatever the job is targeting. "I don't exactly want the boss to know I'm here so if we could move it along that would be great. Unless you want to take anyone else along, I don't really care let's just go as soon as we can." Syfer's eyes shot around the room as he ducked down. Valerie seemed to be in an even fouler mood than usual so he knew to stay away.

Yui Kuroshio

Yui, upon being noticed by Fadil, emerged from her shadow and walked away, no more information useful to her could be gained from sticking around. Another dragon slayer... Huh. Yui thought to herself. As she walked back to her previous seat she couldn't help but overhear Syfer and Oliver talking about the dragon problem job. Yui hadn't taken a job for a while, so she was a bit low on funds. A job would be the most necessary course of action, Yui was hesitant to take one on alone due to her speach problem.

Walking up behind Oliver, Yui tapped her on the shoulder "Uhhh... Hello, I um, couldn't help but hear about... That dragon job... And I um.. Was wondering if, um, I could... Maybe, um.... Come with you?" Yui said, attempting to muster up all the nerve she had to speak. Of course, if Oliver didn't let Yui come with along, than Yui would have to go on a job solo, and that might not be the best option for her. So this dragon job might be the best (and only) option for Yui's future.

Tatsuo's eyes widened as Isis talked to him about this new dragon slayer. 'Is she saying I'm weak or something?!' was the only thought in his head. He repeated her words over, and over. And to his insecure mind she was basically saying that she's the better dragon slayer then him. The more he thought about it, the more looked too much into her words. 'She's a damn Celestial Mage! What does she know about fighting! I can eat rocks like they're biscuits!' He thought to reassure himself. He then turned to her to respond, but she was gone.

Tatsuo marched over to the woman, pissed beyond reason. "Hey Keychain! You trying to say she's better then me?! I'm the goddamn Komodo, the best damn wizard in this joint!" Tatsuo asserted, not caring who heard. "You don't know a thing about fighting! You're just a Celestial Mage! You send your ghost thingamajigs to fight your battles." Tatsuo stated to get a rise out of her. "You want me to say something?! I'll say something so hard that it'll rip the goddamn walls off!" Tatsuo growled, as if he was challenged.

He turned around to face the other dragon slayer, with unreasonable anger swelling up. He marched over to the table, and slammed his hand loudly on the table. "What the hell you old harpy?! You trying to replace me or somethin'?" Tatsuo asked Valerie. "One incredibly badass Dragon Slayer ain't enough for you? You've got to have a useless one for what, kicks? She uses wood for god's sake! How useful can that be?!"

Fadil stepped forward, towering over the Earth Dragon Slayer. He gave him a combo of a glare, and snarl, one that said 'Back off'. Tatsuo returned the favor with a snarl of his own. "Whatever! I'm need something to punch!" Tatsuo growled before he turned away. Then the soft voice saying 'Dragon' reached across his ears. He turned to see several mages gathered at a table.

He strolled over there, and glanced over to see a job request that said 'Dragon'. A sly grin crept across his face. 'Perfect.' Tatsuo yanked the flier away from them without warning. "Huh....probably just a Wyvern or some crap. Might as well go beat the tar out of it." Tatsuo proclaimed. "Thanks, I got this! It's better to leave this to the GOOD wizards. Well, that'd just be me huh?" Tatsuo boasted. This'll show them who's the best Dragon Slayer!'

At the words "dragon slayer" Kamiki instantly forgot about both Fadil and Valerie and turned towards the one yelling so much, it wasn't hard to spot Tatsuo from the crowd with how loud he was. Kamiki hopped down from her wooden tail, her tail and claws she'd grown fading back into her as she rushed over to the short blonde who'd so easily caught her attention. She grabbed onto his arm and excitedly hopped up and down, "no way you're a dragon slayer too?! that's so great! What stuff do you use? I'm a wood dragon slayer, i'm really good with my magic too, except this one technique i still haven't mastered yet but otherwise I'm really good!" she began, once more rambling on just as she did at first with Valerie, however this time she caught herself earlier, without someone else catching her attention first.

"Oh wait wait important stuff first. Where's your dragon? is he still alive? or was yours a girl dragon? what's a girl dragon look like? oh wait no can't be distracted, see Botanurus, that's the name of the dragon i was with, he even raised me and stuff, and then he just disappeared one day and i couldn't find him..." she says, trailing off, looking downcast suddenly, letting go of his arm as she looked down toward the floor, "i... i just wanted to find him... but no matter where i looked there was no sign of him, i hoped... joining a guild might help me..."

The bored expression of Isis's face did not even twitch as the hot-headed mage let out a stream of hissy words and let in a few choice insults towards her own magical ability. Yet like a gust of wind as soon as the blonde mage appeared, he soon turned towards his next target. Unconsciously, her hand had drifted toward her keys kept secured by a metal ring around her waist attached to her belt..interesting. It was true that she wasn't as experienced in close-combat as her accuser, but she wasn't the type to let her emotions dictate her actions which could lead to many poor actions in a fight and result in unnecessary injuries not just for the emotional idiot but to others.

Her eyes widened as Tatsuo flung another choice set of words toward two mages that could easily skin him alive within seconds..the Guildmaster and her relatively quiet unofficial second in command. A smirk came to Isis's face as the blonde backed off quickly after dropping his word vomit on them and ripped an unfortunate flyer off the mission board with ferocity..and it seemed catch the other dragon slayer's eye who naively or was eating a tad too much wood for her brain cells to keep up.

Running a hand through her hair, Isis carefully moved her way towards the Guildmaster and Fadil and asked softly "So..please tell me this wood dragon slayer is able to control herself without flying off the hand like our Tatsuo. Then again she should be able to help replace the furniture unlike that rock munching moron..". A bit of concern slipped into her voice as her eyes darted from the violate Tatsuo to the rambling mage "Should we tell her that Tatsou is the type that doesn't play well with others...".

A single finger traced the grey surfaces of her three keys on her belt as if to sooth them at Tatsuo's earlier words. With Anguilla being the most ticked given the small shocks that came from the key at each passing stroke. While Ramus and Aranea being more so annoyed at being called 'ghosthingies.." there was a distinct difference between Spirits and ghosts thank you very much.

Syfer rolled his eyes as Tatsuo grabbed the paper away, preferring not to engage the dragon slayer. After all, he had just gotten over one headache, so why get another? He turned his eyes to the girl called Yui, his blacked out eyes with red iris' looking the girl over. "Don't worry, quiet one. This should be no problem. Now, I suggest we leave before the needlessly serious one grows impatient." Syfer walked toward the exit, using various objects he found along the way to hide out of Valerie's view. He made it to the exit and took a heavy sigh of relief. He looked at Oliver with a smirk on his face. "You know, the tough girl, 'I don't care what you think' mentality will only get you so far. A little empathy here and there can do wonders." Syfer shrugged as he walked past her and out of the guild. "Or maybe you prefer the distance. Of course, all that gets you in the long run is a lonely fight."

He looked back, his red iris visible out of his peripheral, his normally indifferent expression bearing something far more cold and callous. "We've never worked together so I might just be making assumptions. But, if this is above your heads and you abandon anyone out there, don't bother coming back here. There's enough guilds out there with those just looking out for themselves." Syfer smiled and his expression changed. "Well, let's be off. Since you out this merry band together I believe that dictates you will be the leader. Yui?! Let's go, we might need your slaying." Syfer chose to ignore Tatsuo, slightly hoping the loud one would divert his attention to another job.

Yui Kuroshio

Yui glared angrily at Tatsuo for a moment, appaled at his extreme overreaction to the whole 'new dragon slayer' buisiness. As much as she didn't want to admit it, it would prove difficult to replace that loudmouth, as much as Yui sometimes wish they would. Still, most of his claims were just him spewing out nonsense like verbal diahrea, and worse, most of what he said was egotistical and just plain ignorant. 'Sure you're the best wizard, it's not like anyone here could beat the crap out of the great Tatsuo' Yui thought sarcastically. She didn't know what it was, but he just pissed her off.

Yui's attention shifted to Syfer as he called her name. Her anger left as Tatsuo shifted to the back of her mind, and it fully dawned on her that she was actually going on a job, with other people! She rushed over to Syfer and smiled, sure, maybe Oliver was a bit on the apathetic side, but Syfer seemed nice enough. Yui just hoped that Tatsuo wasn't serious about coming along 'I don't think I could take it if that idiot came along' Yui thought as she caught up with Oliver and Syfer.

Tatsuo was caught off guard by the new dragon slayer as she grabbed his arm, and started jumping up, and down. 'What the hell? Is she a dragon slayer, or a rabbit slayer?' Tatsuo thought to himself, noting her hyperactive nature. "Get off me you weirdo!" Tatsuo ordered. When she finally stopped she began talking about her dragon, which she seemed sad about. 'Well, she is the real deal.' He started to become nervous, he wasn't sure if she was going to start crying or what. He's not quite sure that he could deal with that.

'Crap, what was the dragon's name? It started with a R didn't it?' Tatsuo pondered within his mind about the name he gave his fake dragon daddy. "Um...I'm a Earth Dragon Slayer.....uh.....my dragon's name was Rocirus." Tatsuo stated as he ran his fingers through his hair. What was he going to do if she got into the guild? He can't keep up this lie forever, and with her being a true dragon slayer he doubts that she'll let him be. "He....uh....disappeared a couple years ago." Tatsuo said, obviously uncomfortable with this subject. "Look, just drop it ok? I don't know a thing about this Botanurus." Tatsuo growled, trying to be as un-Tatsuo as he could. He had no clue why he's trying to be nice to her, maybe because she's a dragon slayer as well? Who knows.

They were then interrupted by Oliver. Tatsuo's face turned red when she called Kamiki his girlfriend, but soon it boiled over with rage when he realized she called him Shorty. "Watch your goddamn mouth! I've slapped a bitch for less!" He snarled with a special amount of anger. He was already unhappy about this new dragon slayer, and with her calling him short was just icing on the insecure cake.

"She's not my girlfriend!" Tatsuo made sure to point out as he retook the flyer. He had to make sure they wouldn't leave him behind. "I gotta make sure you guys aren't dumb enough to leave behind the best wizard here, rookie. And she's NOT coming! She's not a member of the guild!" He added as he gave Oliver an angry shoulder bump as he walked past her, and making sure she remembered that he was a class ahead of her. "Let's go Butch." He ordered, obviously referencing the fact she goes by a boy's name.

He walked past the other two, and towards the exit. "Let's go lackeys!" Tatsuo demanded. To add a bit more flare he punched a hole in the wall next to the door. "NOW!"

Kamiki rather reluctantly allowed the other dragon slayer to leave her behind, "hm.... he's busy now... oh well, i can wait till he gets back" she thought, cheering herself up a little, "And if his dragon disappeared a couple years ago then that's a lot later than Botanurus did... maybe there'll be more of a trail to follow... hm..." she thought, briefly attempting to come up with a plan before dismissing the idea, after all dragons don't exactly have to walk along roads to get where they want and a couple of years is more than enough time for a trail to go cold. So instead she turned back towards the interior of the guild again only to stop, her face taking a puzzled expression, "wait... what was i doing again?" she thought out loud, "i was... talking to someone.... oh right!" she exclaimed as she recalled. "I was talking to the drunk lady and the big guy" she thinks aloud as she swiftly returns to the table Valerie and Fadil were at.

"Sorry sorry i got distracted, you know that guy's name right? i wanna make sure to remember him for when he comes back" she said hurriedly, "oh and i still wanna join the guild! I don't even need a lot of money, i already made my own little house a little ways outside town and i'm really good at foraging and hunting, Botanurus taught me lots of good survival things" she says proudly with a broad grin, "especially since you know, i can eat wood, i wish you could do the same thing, tree bark is really tasty you know, it's like um... kinda like beef jerky but really crunchy" she says, beginning to trail off yet again