Sabertooth's Pool Party! | Open to Sabertooth

A full weeks vacation and along with a ton of other Sabertooth Guild members Mashyuu was there to enjoy the stay. Unlike most however, the Earth Slayer had been used to traveling and living off the land. Dressed in a pair of orange swim trunks, the brown haired Wizard showed off the tattoo on his pectoral with pride. He had only been in the guild for some three months but already he had found a team, worked with half the guild and saw some members come and go as well. All in all the Wizard had to admit that life was looking up.

Mashyuu and Rocky walked along the beach while water gently ran over their feet, washing away the tracks they made. He could see the Guild master and the new Ace, some members playing in the sand and Kite running up to join the Guild Master. Mashyuu hadn't had much interaction with the Guild Master, something about her made him uneasy. Instead he and Rocky took a few steps away from the shore line and raised his arm, a two level tall sand castle erupted from the sand at the Earth Wizards feet. "Not bad..." He said to himself while Rocky ran around it lazily.

The blonde nun stepped out from the changing tent out onto the beach, one hand going over her eyes to shield them from the light of the sun streaming down towards them. Whilst she would have preferred a relaxing time in the library, the Guild Master had declared that everybody was to come to this island in the ocean... and that had included dragging her along for the ride. Thankfully she did have something appropriate for the beach to wear, thanks to the original Water Dragon Slayer (as far as she was concerned) whom she still sorely missed.

Admittedly, putting on the blue bathing suit was always a bit tricky, but eventually it was put on. She kept her ring which held Avalon on her, as well as the bracelet which housed Coma. On her hip were her Keys as well... just because they were at the beach didn't mean they had to drop all their guard. And of course in her hand that wasn't shielding her sight from the sun... was a book. Yes, the blonde nun, Paragon of Selflessness of Sabertooth, had brought a book to the beach.

Kiersa looked around to see her fellow guild-mates and then went to find a little quiet spot with a good view as well as some shade to sit down and read. The truth was she'd never actually had a chance to learn how to swim... and given they were on a desert island in the middle of the ocean... well she figured it was easiest to play it safe.

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Itori felt just a tad awkward about being part of a celebration of an achievement which was totally unrelated to her. Sabertooth had proven itself to be the biggest and most active of the legal guilds in Fiore this season, fulfilling the most jobs and performing the best out of all the guilds that had participated. Yet this had nothing to do with Itori, since she had only joined the guild very recently and hadn't done any big jobs yet. The biggest job she had been part of so far was the one where she had helped Mashyuu and those twins to free some slaves and capture the slavers. And even then Itori herself hadn't even done a lot. She was actually the only one who had killed slavers instead of capturing them, having used some of the explosives hidden in the slavers own hold to blow up most of the ship. Beyond that she had only made things a bit easier with clever application of her illusions and that was it.

Yet here she was, on the beach together with everybody else. The fact that this celebration was not related to the fox girl in any way besides the fact that she happened to recently join Sabertooth apparently wasn't a problem, since she had been dragged along with everybody else who wasn't completely enthusiastic about the event. In Itori's case it wasn't like she didn't look forward to the idea of a beach party, but even so she hadn't been part of the group who replied with cheers. However now that she was here she might as well try her best to make the most of it. At least she had a swimsuit.

Right now Itori was sitting right next to the fire on which meat was being grilled, and she was drooling slightly. Her three tails were also freely wagging to and fro behind her, her gaze fixed on the meat that was slowly being grilled to perfection, her nose twitching as she took in that delicious smell. Itori, as always, was rather hungry. More than that, as a fox her preferred foot was meat, so seeing so much meat being prepared made it difficult for her to hold back and not steal some of it for herself. Not that she would have enough with just some. Her gluttony reached nearly legendary proportions, and so did her ability to stay slim and slender even if she ate mountains of food without pause. Her eyes were sparkling as she stared at the food, her entire posture that of a fox waiting for the right time to strike. She really wanted that meat, and anybody who tried to stop her from eating as much of it as possible once the feast started would most likely get themselves some nasty illusions to deal with. Itori always tried to be as polite and restrained as possible, but when it came to food her self-control tended to fly straight out of the window.

Of course it wasn't like her entire mind was occupied with thoughts of that meat (just most of it). Itori was also wondering where her sisters were. They should also be part of this beach party, but she hadn't seen them yet. She had looked around and found that even if she had met a couple of mage from Sabertooth the majority were still mostly unfamiliar to her. With most she could claim that she had seen them once or twice, but that was about where it started and ended, and some of them she had just never seen or heard of at all. Before she had been distracted by the meat Itori had sought out the soul of everybody present, so she at least had some idea of the proper headcount even if she hadn't been able to detect her sisters. As expected the Guild Master herself was the strongest mage present. Although currently one of the other members was playing around with her. From the way that they interacted the Kumiho had the suspicion those two were a couple. Must be nice, being able to be both the leader of the biggest guild and having a good looking boyfriend. And the boyfriend should be ecstatic having somebody like Hikari as his mate.

Itori was too careful to get caught staring, but Hikari had definitely drawn some glances from her. She wasn't very good at getting friendly with Hikari, but she had to admit that their Guild Master was a very good looking human female. Seeing how this three-tailed Kumiho liked both males and females, that meant that she was basically eye candy, especially since Itori couldn't expect to be able to do anything besides appreciate the view. That male was making it very clear that he wouldn't tolerate anybody else getting too close to the Guild Master, and this fox girl wasn't going to press the issue. Especially since she was pretty sure it would be a fruitless endeavour. She might be looking forward to having a proper mate (it's been thousands of years for god's sake) but she wasn't going to just approach every single person she encountered who happened to be good looking.

Itori shook her head as she returned to the meat. Right. Food. Good food. As a chef Itori knew a lot of ways to make good use of meat, but sometimes the best way to prepare it was to just grill it like this. It might not be as refined as the other methods Itori knows of, but hey, sometimes refined isn't automatically good. At a beach party you don't want an exquisite dinner. You just want something tasty and most likely unhealthy that you can eat while at the same time having fun with other people. Something Itori hadn't done yet, but the beach party was only just beginning and would last a whole week.

At least she didn't have to hide her nature as a Kumiho right now, so she could reveal her white fur, large fox ears and three silky tails without hesitation. Those very same ears twitched as she heard a familiar voice in the distance (she's got really good ears), looking around to see Mashyuu walk on the division between water and beach. He was focused on some kind of sand structure that he had created, so Itori just watched him for a bit before returning to staring at the meat, crouching in front of the fire with sparkling eyes and drooling at the thought of biting some of those juicy steaks.

Those looking for Itori would find a fox girl crouching there staring at the grilled meat with obvious intent, wearing a simple black two-piece which allowed them to see that her entire body appeared to be without any real flaws, with unmarked smooth pale skin and a slender build. Her three tails grow out of her lower back, right above her ass, and her white fur complemented the white hair on her head perfectly. The same counted for the white fox ears which sat atop her head instead of the smaller monkey ears most humans have. The only real mark on Itori is the guild stamp on her left forearm, of the same shade of vermilion as her own vulpine eyes.

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