A Day in the Capitol { Open }

Erol flew by Allison and landed in a near by tree. The owl's back was toward her revealing an Eclipse Soul tattoo on the center of his back. The large eagle owl stared at the girl and tilted his head. The owl then puffed his feathers out and rested there just staring at the girl. He shifted his eyes behind the mage to look out for his 'servant.'

Kyll had taken a break from all of the paper work. Well ever since Zeno had to take care of a few things, she was next in line to be in charge of Eclipse Soul when Zeno leaves. So she replied with what she always did. Cool her head. She sighed as she was about to hit the taverns in this town for the second time. Then she looked over to see that Allison a new member she read about in the stacks of paper work was here. Her pale skin turned white as she saw her. Crap! So someone found me slacking off again... Kyll thought. She sighed and thought of how to come up with an excuse. I could say I was following her... then again... that's a bit creepy. She then snapped her fingers. I have an idea.

Kyll wandered over to Allison and sat down next to her. "You know I've only viewed how much work you're doing. I wouldn't blame you if you needed a break," the closed eyes mage said to Allison with a smile. "I don't think I've met you, but the feedback in your jobs has been very good."

Kyll looked at Allison and smiled. "To be fair, I'm not really taking a break." She looked out towards the capital taking a deep breath in through her mouth and then out through her nose. She crossed her legs and then put her hands to her side. "Master Zeno winds up leaving into the Arcane Realm to deal with a few things and then leaves me to take the reigns. So in a sense." She opened on of her eyes and winked at Allison. "Erol and I are taking a small sabbatical from being in charge. So the stick goes down to Sephiria, whom I know will be searching for me."

Kyll smiled mischievously. "I know what my reasons are avoiding the guild at the moment." Kyll lifted a hand up and laid back on the grass. She stared at it for a bit. Every time I go back in the halls I only see ghosts... Kyll smiled and looked out at the pond. "As far as Katherine and I go, yeah we do like the same things. However cats..." She looked up at Erol. "Are a no no around me...." She paused and looked at Allison. "Don't get me wrong, I like them. It's just my pet... Hunts them." She pointed to the owl in the tree staring down at the two.

Kyll looked at her owl. "Erol..." Kyll said and the owl screeched and flew from his perch to beside Kyll. It screeched and hooted as if it was angry at the name. "Funny thing. Only a few people can actually understand what he says, and I still have no clue why." The owl seemed to turn his beak up at Kyll and made a Hmph! sound. Kyll giggled and put a hand on the back of his neck and then scratched him. "He seems to be uppity and snobbish, but he has shown concern for others. Erol has a talent of finding someone once he's seen them." She looked over at Allison and picked her owl up and put the large eagle owl between the two. When Kyll was sitting down, the owl came up eye to eye with her. "He's a large predatory bird and an even better navigator around Master Zeno. However Erol will call you names in his own language."

Immediately the owl looked up at Allison. His golden eyes flashed straight into her's. It seemed like a black line went straight across the eyes revealing how he obtained Allison's signature. "See that?" Kyll pointed out and then scratched under his chin. The owl's eyes closed in satisfaction. "He can now find you if I ever need to send you a message. That's how his ability works." Kyll then took her hand off of Erol and he straightened up and looked at Allison. "Sometimes I wish I could understand him. That way I can know exactly how his powers work."

(OOC: I hope you don't mind if I join in! >w<)

Rita trotted the streets of the Capitol Crocus, her boots thumping against the brick streets. The wind was warm yet gentle, catching and messing up her long caramel hair every so often. The mages day in the capital had been eventful so far. She easily took care of a job and had an unexpected meeting with a wizard from Eclipse soul,Yukine. He was a decent guy but eventually the two parted ways. That was an hour ago--- and ever since then The mage had been looking for a station so she could make her way back to Magnolia but Rita seemed to of lost her way around the city and eventually she even lost track of what she was doing, taking time to sight see instead. Rita lost herself n admiration, amazed how clean and well kept such a massive place like the Capitol was! Everything was perfect, shimmering, and clean!- All except for one piece of litter she spotted...

"..."

She stared dully at the parchment laying in the middle of the street. Kneeling down, she picked it up between her fingers. Before Rita could dispose of it, Rita noticed it was written on. She rose an an eyebrow and scanned it over with her signature sapphire irises. A shopping list? Maybe someone had dropped it... Something sit right with her, The Fairy could of sworn that she had seen this handwriting before. She wanted to say it looked liked Master Chikane's but that was impossible, what would she be doing all the way out in the capital shopping? "Hmm?-" The sound of clicking and flashing of cameras in the distance snagged her attention.

List still in her grasp, She looked in the direction of the commotion and saw none other than Heero and his Exceed prancing off in the other direction. She spaced out for a minute connecting the dots... So he had dropped this?... blinking dumbly, she examined at the two woman he had approached.

The focus zoomed back over to the H-Rank as Rita suddenly appeared and crept out from behind him in a comical fashion. Peering up at Heero, she opened her mouth to speak. "Hope I'm not interrupting anything, but I think ya dropped this...Chikane would probably tear you to shreds or something if you didn't come back with everything she needed." She grinned, wavering the slip of paper between her index finger and her thumb. Rita was glad she could run into him outside of the guild like this. She hadn't got to know Heero or even spend time with him nearly as much as she wanted. She doubt he knew it, Rita probably didn't know it herself, but, He had quickly taken a big brother role in her eyes.

Kyll looked over at Heero and smiled warmly as she fell back into the grass putting her arms around the back of her head then crossing her ankles. She looked over at her owl who was getting ready to soar into the sky. "Erol," Kyll said reaching into her obi. She pulled out a piece of paper and rolled over to tie it onto his talon. "Take this to Einrich. It's important that it reaches him, so no hunting and make sure you don't run into any dark guilds. If they find you, it might wind up in the wrong hands." The owl nodded and spread his large wings. With one swoop of his wings, he left off into the air making a fierce short burst of pressure between Allison and Kyll. The owl screeched as it flew into the sky and away from all of the small animals around. She looked forward.

Heero had mentioned how Zeno had let her out of the guild halls. "Master Zeno has gone off on a job. He never gave me the particulars, but he said that something was wrong in the Arcane Realm. Something got loose again." Kyll smiled and continued to speak. "This is Allison, a member of our guild. If she is hiding anything, it is her right to keep that hidden. It's just how our guild works, Heero. You of all people should know that. We tend to keep our business to ourselves." Kyll turned over to Rita. "It's nice to meet you again... And Viola." Kyll smiled. "I'm glad you found our way to our halls as well. It's good to see you again. You do seem a bit different than the last time I saw you. I have been keeping up with the paperwork and you have been doing a great job as well." Kyll stared up. Mentioning Zeno left an uneasiness in her throat. Something just didn't seem right about this whole set up that Zeno had left Kyll with. He had been gone for a while and it seemed like it was too long. She never received any status report from him or anything. Then again, maybe Alye felt the same way the last time Zeno left on a job. She opened an eye and the pupil moved towards Heero. "Say, Heero, can you tell me about... The Lichborne?"

Rita growled at Heero's comment, scrunching her nose and narrowing her eyes. She crossed her arms stubbornly, siding with Garfield who made a valid point regarding his diet. "Y-Yeah, The cat's right!- Besides why should I have to go and do this for you?!" She stammered, her eye twitching every few seconds.

"?" She turned as she heard a familiar voice pipe in. Rita completely forgot about Heero for a moment and her head darted in the direction of the noise, carmel strands of hair sifting with the movement. Viola looked different, Regardless, Rita immediately recognized her from the dessert table at the meeting, before she went dragon mode of course. Rita hadn't done much to save Viola's scales skin in the first place. Heero was the one who ultimately convince everyone to look the other way. He was truly the one to be thanked, Rita was just...there. Regardless, a quiet smile found it's way onto her face.

The mage forced a quiet chuckle at Heero's next comment, fixating her hands onto her hips. She didn't agree with that statement- well the clear headed part at least.

She blinked back over to the woman, Kyll. Only after a long look did Rita remember...She was the one who had given table 15 ghost pepper soy sauce, and of course Rita was initially the first Fairy that found out. Her mouth burned just thinking about it.

She was about to speak but was cut off when Kyll asked Heero something. Rita rose an eyebrow 'Lichborne?' she wondered, clueless. Everything went deathly quiet afterwards. The only sound was the rustling of leaves and chirping of birds in the distance...It was the voice of the golden salamander himself that broke the silence.

He explained it from the beginning...The shadow mage was quickly intrigued by his tale. She stared in astonishment and curiosity, hanging onto every word. She knew very little when it came to the history of Fiore. After all, She had been kept away from society until just two years ago. She took a seat in the grass with the group, cross legged, and listened like a little kid at a campfire.

A quiet humming met her ears. Rita's eyes glazed over the glowing mark which appeared to be etched into his arm. She could of sworn she caught a glimpse of sorrow in his eyes before it was quickly blinked away and replaced with an exciting fanged grin. Something about that day must of burdened him. She tried not to think about it to much and listened through the rest of the story.

Once his explanation was trough she opened her mouth as if to add something. Hesitating, her voice hit the air "You did all of that?" She wondered amazed with the destruction he had prevented not caused. Her mouth cut into a smirk, smile growing even more heart felt as words left her tongue.  "I knew you were strong, but it looks like your stronger than I could of ever imagined... Never would of guessed you could of done all that. But ya know what they say...." She began with a rare kind tone. "The True Fairies never disappoint, Right?" Rita grinned sweetly.

Kyll smiled and nodded. She listened to every word Heero had to say. It was the story that she had longed to hear for a while. No one spoke of the events ever. "Well... thank you..." Kyll looked up at the sky. Her face had a melancholy look on it. "You see... During that time, I was on a mission. I don't remember which, but I feel that it may come back to haunt me, just as the wish faeries did a while back. Something happened, and it still makes no sense to me... but... I wound up in a long coma. I have no memories of what happened. I only came to. There were whispers of his name through out the guild hall. I needed answers... and back then Frederick had gone mad again, so he wasn't a great source to go to... Well... he came to me. Another story." Kyll took in a deep breath through her nostrils then let them out. "Something about that whole story makes me uneasy, Heero. I don't know why, but something seems off. Banishing means that the soul itself is intact. Not shattered to pieces. A force like that could probably come back to haunt us all. We've witnessed what the Arcane Realm is capable of with that huge chimera that Master Zeno was fighting during the Guild Leader's Meeting."

Kyll sat up from laying down. She looked up at the group. "He left me with a journal as a clue of what he was doing. The pages in that journal described one thing." She opened her eyes. "Your story..." Kyll said with a serious glare. "This only confirms my uneasiness and will continue to worry me." Kyll went back to her closed eyes nature. Kyll didn't want to say her thoughts on how she may think The Lichborne may rise again however she stared forward. As the acting Guild Master she had been taught to keep her sights on her fellow guild members. She could not sit there and worry all day about her guild master. "I will say this though Heero... I have gone into meditation. Searched the stars for Master Zeno's constellation... Only to find no trail." She looked up at him. "I don't know what to make of this."

Lance was resting up in a tree as he got ready for a big concert coming up. He lay there with his eyes closed until he heard a few voices that sounded like Heero, Rita, Viola and two other woman there that he couldn't make out quite yet. He open one eye and listen to there conversation about Lichborne, a dark wizard that was stopped by Heero, Shuhei and Zeno. He looked beside him to see Lea laying down beside him and looked to be in thought.

He heard Viola question Heero about the Arcane realm which caused Heero to explain about the four major realms. He was faintly interested in the subject until he heard that Heero had gotten a delivery and then he said something about photoshoots and delivered. He sat up carefully and a comical glare shot off from him as he and Lea slowly crept down the tree without being seen.

Lea walked over to Heero and slowly climbed up onto his back and got high enough so that she could look over his head and into his eyes "Hi Heero!" she said in a sweet and excited tone as Lance appeared beside Heero and snatched the papers "Ehem..." he cleared his throat as he took a look at the posters then blushed. He opened a small portal to the shadow realm and slid the papers through "I will 'deal' with those later..." he muttered as he looked at the group with a smile "So whats up?" he said happily.

Kyll's worries seemed to melt away. In fact she was shocked that someone actually took a photo of her in that black string bikini with the moon and stars clasps on it. She made it a reason to hide that thing. She never even went on a photo shoot. How did someone actually take a picture of her in that bathing suit? That was something she put aside in secret. Kyll was annoyed. Very annoyed. Then another guild mage came to her. He took the posters and saw. An accomplice. Kyll stood up from her spot and held her right hand up to the sky. "Open the dimension through time and space... bring forth my tool..." Kyll said aloud. Suddenly her signature item. The same one the Sorcerer's Magazine recently photographed covering the cook behind all of the cooking articles appeared in her hand. Kyll swiftly swung the pan as hard as she could at Lance knocking him straight in the face. Normally a swing would leave a dent in the bottom, but not this pan. She immediately looked over at Heero with a simple smirk and both her eyes opened. It seemed like her aura was an angry blue fire burning. If someone was spiritually gifted, they could swear there was an oni mask behind her. Kyll's anger came down upon Heero. With a simple and light tap on the head using her frying pan. "One should not bring his personal collections to him. Along with that..." She held Heero by the collar. Her glowing green eyes thinned. She smirked. "You will take your photographing spies out of my guild hall. I do not want them to catch any of my fellow mages in an unsuitable get up again." Her tone was polite and happy. She still had a cheerful tone, but people around the bridge could feel a sensation in their spines. Something just seemed to cause fear in everyone.

Heat ascended to the mages face, going red in a matter of seconds. To make things worse Lance had showed up out of nowhere and confiscated the posters, but not before her took a look...  She glanced downward and Her bangs cast a shadow over her eyes while her mouth stretched into a thin twitching line, a menacing gloomy aura enveloping her comically. Rita hadn't wanted to pose in front of a camera in the first place!--- She just needed the extra jewels to get back up on the rent for her apartment, And the shoot helped her pay it off in the end. Regardless, no one was supposed to find out about it!... Rita thought she had done enough by scouring Magnolia of the content completely. Back at her apartment in Magnolia a massive pile of collected flyers, news papers, and magazines sat beside a paper shredder.

Rita shot an evil glare back at them, Her eyes gleamed red from beneath her bangs. "You two...." She growled darkly. The brunette clambered to her feet and walked over to where the two idiots laid, sprawled out on the ground thanks to Kyll and Viola's assault. Rita still hadn't settled the score with them and wouldn't be satisfied until then. She snagged them both by the hair and drug them up to eye level, one head in each hand. "Tch- Morons!..." She stammered as she slammed there skulls into each others, letting out a loud and hollow 'ding'. She let go  of the two and stepped back, dusting off her hands on her maxi skirt and leaving the two to crumple back to the ground. Crossing her arms she turned away, anger mark throbbing on the back of her head. Rita kept her pose for a minute or so until she decided it was enough.

Rita let out out a long sigh, a comical smoke puff leaving her lips. She turned back to the group, shrugging it off and restoring her composure, Her expression was no longer menacing, just dull and somewhat agitated. Something still didn't feel right--- She blinked in Kylls direction, the aura she gave off was a whole new level of scary. Rita sweat dropped and took a cautious step back. "............."

Auorra Le Fay was bored.A member of the the savage skull doesn't do anything without a reason.So she stepped out of the shadows and looked at the people talking.She clears her throat and said softly,"Hello how are you?"She waited for them to say anything.

She looked at the sun and yawned.Her black hair was tied in a ponytail.Her dress was a blue T-Shirt.Her pants were black shorts.In other words she looked quite boring.One of the beautiful things about her is her mysterious dark green eyes.She looked at them impatiently as she wasn't used to being waited on.