Naughty (Find this book! Jester Kalman[Aceflux] private job)

Jester sighed as he walked into the library. While he didnt particularly like reading, he did enjoy to have the peace and quiet that came with a library once and a while. He walked past the librarian, and elderly man with small round glasses and long white hair, who welcomed him to library on the way in. "Im here to find a book, and ive heard that this is one of the only places that owns it. The Ancient World Of Dragon's?" Jester said calmly to the elderly man behind the reception desk.

"Why, we havent had someone come in for that book in years! It should be in the back of the library in the history section." The Librarian said in a quiet, meager little voice that seemed to be focused at nobody in particular. "Though, with those brat's running around and mixing everything up I'm not sure where anything is anymore..." His voiced, while still quiet, had a minuscule hint of annoyance in it, as his eye's focused on a book in his lap.

With a small laugh, Jester looked at the man and said "Thank's, if it's not there ill be sure to find it." Kids, that was the last thing Jester would think of making this difficult. Everywhere he went, kid's seemed to be doing something! A kid collecting mice to drop in woman's purse (That was a fun job, though particularly annoying), kid's running around and trashing a library. Heck, even his own guild master was a kid! Twelve year's old or something, that had to be some kind of record! He began his trek to the back of the library, looking at the old oak book shelves in the dim orange lighting that kept them in good condition.

It was a mess. The creative literature section had books from scientific discovery, history, and magic training, but not one book that actually belonged there! This may be harder then he thought. The next section over seemed, which was magic training, was almost okay. There was enough books in the right place to pass it off as a careless mistake! He searched through the section to see if the book he was looking for was there.

No luck. While he did find two book's that interested him, they weren't the one's he was looking for. He sighed, picking up the two books that caught his interest and dropping them into his bag. The first book was "A Novice's Guide To Brawler Magic (More then just basic spells!)", which had a dusty black leather cover with golden letters sewn onto it. The second was "A New Mage's Guide to Take-Over and Size Manipulation Magic". This book was newer, with a hard cover featuring an image of two wizards fighting it out at the Grand Magic Game's, each one using Take Over magic.

As Jester traveled further back into the library, the state of each section got worse and worse. He could hear the laughter of the two children, each sounding about male and around 9 year's old. The current section, "Magical Beast's and Where to Find Them", had practically no books in it! They had all been moved to a different section. There were two books in here, each one being something along the lines of fairy's and raven's. Jester got to back of the library, the most dimly lit section, and headed to the corner where the history section resided.

There was one shelf worth of books in the history section, and to Jester's shock "The Ancient World of Dragon's" resided in the very corner. He had never taken into consideration that when he go back there, the laughter of the children had stopped dead in it's tracks. He picked up the book, which was thick and covered in dust with a brown leather cover and sewn on black letter's which made the grammatical error in the word Dragon's glaringly obvious (They don't own anything, and its not a contraction so why is there an apostrophe?). As soon as it entered his hand's, it was snatched right out by two small children with black hair that took off in the other direction with it.

"Hey, I need that to complete the job!" He shouted as he took off after them. The two children laughed at him in a mocking sort of way, knocking down books as they went. "Don't hurt the children Jester, don't damage the books Jester. Don't do this Jester, don't do that Jester." the word's rang in his mind as he didn't let his compulsive attitude and tendency to use his magic for simple situations tried to make him act on impulse. With all the stepping over book's and having to move piles out of his way, Jester had lost them.

While Jester's spells were not applicable here (Since he didn't want to damage anything of course), his magic still was. He could do all sorts of tricks with it! Flaming hair, shadowy eye's, a frozen head! Since his magic was simply just focusing on a body part and thinking of an element, he could do anything he could imagine. Jester turned the corner of the "Historical Fiction" section and began to hunt for those little brats. Not in the bathroom's, not in the east wing, not in the west wing, and not in the north wing which he just came from. They had to be near the entrance.

After a short walk around the small building, Jester made his way to the entrance and spotted the two kids below one of the reading table's. Unluckily for him, they spotted him to and took off towards east wing. He mumbled a few angry word's, and a joke about how they were under a desk, under his breath as he trudged over to the east wing after them.

The east wing was different compared to the west wing. It was the "Great Library" section. In here was the collection of all books that had been written and published by famous wizard's from every guild long ago. Of course, not many wizard's took up writing, only a select few (One's in particular being a celestial key wizard, an Ice god slayer who used ice make as his secondary, and a guild master from a long since disbanded guild). The room was a large circle with floor's the second having a small lounge for reading and eating.

This room had remained entirely untouched, no trail's of destruction left behind to signify where they went. Jester let a heavy, irritated sigh as he looked through the rustic, dark old shelves to see if the kid's stashed the book away somewhere. Nope. The two kids had hidden themselves in the lounge on the second floor, in the corner of the room. Jester finished his search on the bottom floor, and then headed up to the second.

The second floor was much better lit with a chandelier hanging from the ceiling of the grand room, the bookshelves here delicately designed with many popular books, each one kept in well condition by the librarian. Jester wondered if that poor old man had to do everything by himself, he didn't see anybody else working here. He searched around, hearing laughter coming from the lounge and headed inside, shutting the door behind him. The to kid's bolted up and went straight for the door, but with a man twice their size in the way (That being Jester of course), they couldn't make any progress. Jester decided it was time to show off one of his "Party tricks"

He glared down at them, channeling iron into his eyes to make them emit a thing layer of black smoke. "Okay kid's, fun's over. I know you two think that this is a game and all, and while I love to play, not when there's 750 jewel on the stake here." He said, still glaring at them angrily. "And do you know what happened to the last two runt's that got in my way?" The two kid's, now shaking shook their heads no as they nervously waited for a response.

As if the work of a demon, Jester's head burst into flame. He was unharmed of course, it was just his magic at work. He let out a agonizing yell that sounded as realistic as he could make it (Which wasnt that realistic, but those kids didnt know), and killed off the fire, his face covered in a thick layer of black ash, which was another affect of his magic. He fell over, to scare the kid's a bit more as they shook. He looked at them from the ground, the ash falling off of his face as his magic wore off quickly.

"Im a demon who punish's naughty kids and tell's their parents what they've done. Tell me, what do would your parents think of you damaging this lovely library's property and torturing a its owner and patrons?" Jester said as he stood back up and looked at the shaking kid's. They told him that they didnt know, in which Jester replied with "Fine then, if you give me the book ill forget all about this."

The kid's handed the book to Jester hurriedly, and he put it into his bag where they couldn't reach. He clapped his hands together a smiled. "Oh and guess what, I'm no demon. I'm just a mage, but there may be a demon like that out there. Guess that really burns you to up doesn't it." Jester said, laughing at his own joke. The two children went from horrified to angry, but knew what they had done was wrong. While Jester's solution wasn't the best option to solve this, he was still in the restrictions of the job. Nobody got hurt, nothing was damaged so he was fine. "Now you two run along and get home, forget about this. Plus, if you tell your parents about this, you'll also have to tell them what you were doing to the library." And with that, Jester left the lounge leaving the two angry children behind.

He walked to the front desk, handing the three books he had picked up to the receptionist. "Those two shouldn't be bothering you anymore." He said shortly and sweetly, watching as the small elderly man grin.

After a quick exchange, the librarian let him have the books on the house. No due return date, no fee's, nothing. Jester thanked him and walked out of the library to find it was well into night now. Probably past those kid's curfew. He walked along the stone path to a small stone cottage and knocked on the door. A few minutes later the door was opened by a tall elderly woman, with short white hair and a floral dress on.

"Hello, who's there?" She said, looking directly at Jester. "Im the mage who accepted your job madam, I got the book for you." He said, taking the old book out of his bag and handed to her. She thanked him, shutting the door quickly with a warm smile. Jester turned to walk away, almost forgetting his reward. The woman appeared in the doorway, calling him back and giving him the Jewel that was his reward. "Thank you madam, I hope you enjoy the book." He said kindly, as he headed out of the village, and back to the laughing coffin guild hall.