The cold eyes of a Ninja.(Zephira's Intro.)

Despite being sent to kill the guild master of Blue Pegsus she had somehow ended up a member of it, she didn't really care to mention the events to others. She had made her way to the guild hall after Zack's "Challenge" to her, she now stood outside its main doors. She was concerned for what would happen to her family now that she was a member of a Fiorian guild, but she didn't really have a choice in the matter. Zack could have killed her if he wanted, so in her mind her life belonged to him, only he could give her leave. She shifter her weight as she changed to positioning on her blade, it had been cutting a grove into her shoulder for some time and she had been to stubborn to shift it till now. She was not worried about what people would think, she was simply the weapon not the person trying to kill zack AND she had failed. She knew some people would not recgonize the diffreance between the too, she accepted this as fact. Zephira sighed heavily and reached out and opened the door. Stepping inside the guild she looked around, hoping somehow nobody was there. She wanted to get her tatoo and be done with it, in all reality Zephira was not a very social person and because of this she avoided people for the most part. Today... however was not her lucky day.

Inside the main door was a rather pleasant looking greeting room, complete with several tables, comfy looking chairs, and plants. Also in the room was a tall, scar covered man with white hair and an eye patch, currently watering some of the plants. He did not look up as the ninja entered, instead remaining bent over the plant, watering it slowly and evenly. "Good evening. You must be the one we were told to watch for. I am Akryn, Akryn Motomiji, self titled security here, and more often than not these days the main greeter. Zack has not told me the circumstances of how you met, but I gathered something happened." Akryn said, finally straightening and turning to face the ninja, Zephira. "I will lay down the basic rules. Follow the laws of Fiore, do no harm to your guild mates, and do not provoke unnecessary inter guild confrontations. Beyond that you are free to act as you wish. I think Zack should have the tattoo ready for you upstairs."

As time progressed for the less than aging mage, Isabella seemed more inclined to simply be able to accept things as they came little by little, but the fear stuck in her mind- Or more like burned into it had kept her from being able to come to terms fully. Enough so to be against mentioning more things than she would normally expose to others as far as her past was concerned, but that was besides the point of it all. More than anything, livening herself up to appear more adult and accepted was fine with her. It seemed people had enjoyed this new appearance more than they had liked her before anyway, so it wasn't too much to say that she wasn't inclined to accept the compliments and allow herself to continue the outward appearance of it all and observe as she had always done. After all, there's nothing better left to do when it comes to being the next best thing to immortal than to watch life go by and learn from things.

The time mage flipped a page in the book she had been rather sucked into the last couple days. She always had taken her time with reading, and more so to the fact that she enjoyed the read no matter what anyway so it was worth the time spent. Dressed in a well endowed Victorian style dress colored a soft shade of blue and a white colored sword rested on her lap. Her book slowly slid below her eye level as the door opened, revealing a person from whom the mage had never seen before. She wondered whom the person might be, maybe a guest or a new mage. Either way a cordial welcome was the first thing to pop into her mind, but before she could even close the book in hand, Akryn had approached her. His words were beyond her ears reach, but with a simple smile Isabella had set her book down and stood up onto her feet. She began a walk up toward the pair and stopped about a foot away with her sword in one hand, and giving a curtsy with the other. "Greetings madam. It's a pleasure to welcome you to the guild. What may I ask is thy business regarding your arrival here?" She spoke, broken tongue between her normal Elizabethan speech and a normal one.

Zephira Scowled as the first thing she got was some guy spouting about rules and some such, she paid him no heed and walked right past him. She was unimpressed by the room, she was royalty after all, but it was still better then her room back at the Ame estate. She honestly didn't like things that were to fancy, she would be happy in a house with basic furniture, but life had given her royal blood. The girl came next, throwing forth a question of what she was doing here, Zephira didn't bother responding. She found a nice spot where she plopped down and drew her blade, she inspected it for knick and other damage from her "challange" with Zack. She could not see any damage but decided to sharpen and oil the blade anyways. She would go about this for some time, ingoring all those who tired to talk to or interact with her... with one exception. By sparing her life Zephira had basicly become a servant of Zack, she was his blade now, ready to do his bidding. She was still a bit unsure of how he would take that news, he was now a lord of a Royal Ame Ninja... not that the title meant much now. Once she finish she would stand back up and speak, "I am Zephira Ame... of the Ame Ninja Clan..." She would glance at each of the people present as she spoke, here eyes so cold they could freeze water.

Akryn watched Zephira closely and curiously, giving a nod to Isabella as she approached. The guild had gained many new members as of late, many of them strange. These two were certainly no exception. He did note however Zephiras haughty attitude, and the high and mighty air she put on, and it bothered him more than a little. He would watch her walk across the room and choose her seat, watching her closely. Her movements were precise, balanced, and careful, she moved with the grace of a warrior, and when she finally spoke Akryn could understand why. His hand jumped to the hilt of his sword, though he did not draw it.

"The Ame ninja clan you say. I have heard of them actually, had a run in or two with ninja claiming to be of the clan. Though none of them ever lived up to the high standards of the true Ame Clan. Truly it is an honor to have one such as yourself in our presence, should you truly be of the clan. But tell me, why would an Ame Clan Ninja come to our humble guild?" Akryn asked, stepping away from his flowers and slowly walking between Zephira and Isabella, his single eye changing colors to a dull yellow as he watched the ninja ever so closely.

It hadn't really been a very eventful day so far. Sure, the usual training had happened, but Akeya had refrained from going on any jobs so far, and honestly didn't feel like leaving the guild. For one thing the sun was still dominant in the sky, which always got on her nerves. Why couldn't it just be permanently twilight or something? Anybody with proper eyes could see just as fine in twilight as in daylight, and the chances of being blinded were significantly lower, Sure, Akeya had her blindfold to protect her, but the fact that she needed a blindfold in itself annoyed her. Maybe she should look into these rumours she had picked up recently about how one could transfer the magic abilities of an item into tattoos which could be made a permanent part of the body... At least that way she wouldn't constantly have to walk around with that blindfold. It wasn't exactly a hindrance, since it had been made to allow her to see right through it, but she still would be happier if she didn't have to worry about wearing that thing when she was outside.

Akeya was in the library right now, reading through a scroll which told her more about the land of Sin. Well, it tried at least. The land of Sin was not one which a lot was known about, since even the most powerful of mages had to be careful in that place. The half dragon suspected that Shuhei and Zack would be able to go there and come out alive, but beyond that it was not a place where you could just send some researcher and expect them to return with anything but stories of nightmares and horrible things, if they returned at all. The scroll she had in her hands was mostly talking about the landscape itself, although that wasn't much better than the creatures that inhabited it. The magic that ran rampant there had corrupted the very landscape just as much as it had turned everything into a demon or some other kind of monster. There were places where the very air itself was apparently toxic (Akeya wondered how they had learned of that and managed to return in time. Maybe they had ran away after the first died and had somebody with them who could cure the rest). And there were other locations just as dangerous just to stand in.

As the half dragon continued her reading her ears twitched as she picked up on somebody new arriving to the guild. She was so used to the magic presence of most people in the guild that they had almost faded into the background for her senses. That way whenever somebody new arrived they stood out rather harshly from her perspective. Frowning Akeya looked at the scroll, then sighed and rolled it up before standing up and putting it back where she had found it. She could sense Akryn at the entrance, and knowing him it might be a good idea to be there in case the newcomer was one who loved picking a fight. Akryn would most likely accept any challenges thrown at him, which was not the proper way to welcome a new member. Sparring and training was acceptable, but it wouldn't do to have Akryn break their bones just because the newcomer doesn't know when to back down and bares their fangs at anything which looks like a promising opponent.

Once the scroll had been safely stored away Akeya disappeared into the shadows, rapidly travelling towards the entrance. This new arrival actually had quite the impressive magic presence: seeing how Akryn was an expert on fighting she was still pretty sure that if it came down to it he would cause trouble, but when it came to magic power the newcomer didn't lose to either her or Akryn. That was rather surprising. Most mages who reached their level of power had either already joined a guild or didn't want to be in a guild. And those that did join a guild or changed guilds were usually announced. Of course Akeya might just have missed the announcement, but right now she was mostly curious what kind of person had just arrived. Where they actually joining Blue Pegasus? Or was it a mage who came here for something else entirely? She would find out once she saw them.

Arriving at the location where Akryn, Zephira and Isabella were already present, Akeya merged with Akryn's shadow before stepping back into her physical form, looking at the newcomer. For some reason she found it a lot easier to just use Akryn's shadow by default instead of some random shadow which could be found anywhere. Maybe because she had become used to his shadow. Akeya actually wondered if shadows had their individual traits or if she was just imagining it, because she constantly felt like everybody's shadow was distinctly different, beyond what could be seen by most people who only saw the shape on the ground. Either way, the focus here was the newcomer, who gave Akeya a somewhat intriguing but worrying surprise: she had found somebody with the same cold eyes as herself. That was rather rare, especially on a person who couldn't immediately be categorized as bad news.

From the point of view of the others Akeya just stepped out of Akryn's shadow before turning to look at Zephira, her eyes hidden behind her blindfold but her gaze focused enough to be felt regardless. Zephira might take note that this half dragon (who was in no way even attempting to hide her status as a non-human) had a gaze which felt as cold and focused as her own. Akeya's gaze was the gaze of a predator, one who had absolutely no compassion for whatever was determined to be her prey, and who didn't care much for others. A solitary predator who was inspecting a newcomer.

Akeya was still looking straight at Zephira as she addressed Akryn, her only indication being the fact that her tail touched Akryn's leg for a moment before she spoke.

"And who might this be?"

The new arrival/guest as of right now had been a little less than what she had thought of as far as first impressions. Of course, people weren't like her; sunshine and rainbows, trying to see the best in people and smiling often while she could enjoy the friendly and warm greetings of others. No, instead this girl felt distanced. It felt as though she was pushing herself away from the world, attempting as such to make it so she didn't have any attachments to it what so ever so she didn't need to feel compelled to hold herself back if she ever came to a decision of sorts that seemed more crucial and life threatening. Another thought had been -and from her own experience in life- had just been the peer of a higher standing looking down on the peons that were "the people" or even "peasants" depending on the person.

Naturally, she kept from wanting to upset the girl and start anything. Only giving a smile, Isabella stepped aside and let the brunette pass her and watched as she took a seat on the couch, naming herself and her title as a ninja from a clan. Judging by Akryn's reaction, the almost instinct to grab at his weapon made her hold out a hand partially. He didn't do more than that, so mentioning anything about it would be nothing more than blowing it out of proportion. Nothing short of that, he then stepped between the pair of girls in possibly some attempt to thwart any random attempts of violence towards the time mage. Regardless of her own skills, the idea of being protected was both generous, and disrespecting. Though in this case the former applied more than the latter, he hadn't even given thought to if she could protect herself. Only the idea of throwing himself into the line of fire (metaphorically) was in his "right mind".

Her smaller heels clicked as she took a small step to the right of Akryn until Zephira was in her view once more and would give a full curtsy to the woman once more. "Well it's a pleasure to meet you, madam Zephira. I am Isabella Zachirou, a more.. Amateur member of the guild." She would pause to chuckle a herself, not embarrassed to mention her lack of power as compared to some of her other guildmates, but her reasons were hers alone unless she had wanted to share them with others. "S-So, did you come to the guild in the hopes of joining or hath thou already been inducted by someone else?" She wondered, hoping more so that her line of questioning wasn't too invasive for the ninja girls taste.

As one would have expected of a ninja, during a pause of a response from waiting for Zephira to reply to her and Akryn's questions had come another arrival to come. Her attention focused for a moment to her guild mate as a curiosity to what he was doing, when the appearance of a shadowed figure had made her look further over. After doing so, the time mage jumped with a small yelp of surprise as the draconic being known as Akeya had appeared through the shadows. Holding one hand over her chest, the surprise of her arrival in such a manner had her chest pounding almost. "My heavens, madam Akeya. Thou scared the ever loving heak out of me. Thou art making a rather big kick from doing such things. Doth thy agree, Akryn?" Her gaze would pop from her to him for a moment before adding in looking to the new arrival and between the others as well for the time being.

Zephira looked at the man claiming to have gone to blows with on of her family. "I highly doubt that... I am the youngest in my clan and by far the least skilled...." Zephira already hated this man, he claimed something he didn't know off, then again she knew that there was a group claiming to be Ame ninja. "Your guildmaster has already inducted me, i am simply here for the tattoo then i will be on my way." Zephira had no intention of staying here with these people. Zephira looked over the three and tapped her blade's hilt. "out of my way..." Zephira jumped over the group and made her way to the Guildmasters office. "Can't see why i have to join this guild." Zephira muttered to herself, Zephira was fine having a lord or something like that. She figured someone, probuly one of the people she had just met would get in her way.