A Mountain of Knowledge (Anastasia, Miyuki, & Leo)

A yawn interrupted the giddy child's giggling and laughter as she slowly walked down the streets, book in hand and another two bags full of others. She had been too happy to have discovered a town in which kept such large number, as well as large sized books in their towns libraries. It was something to be in awe of what with someone as big a reading enthusiast as Madison had been. She held both bags on her arm while her hand rested in her pocket and the other held the book at a good place enough for her to scan through each line and page with amber orbs. For an avid reader like Madison, having books with the thickness almost that of her fist if not as thick made reading the book all the more fun to read through. Plot twists, side stories, anything was possible in a book like that. Even with some there were series of smaller stories that were rather well organized and thought out, though them being short hadn't been very pleasing, the amount of them in one book was a little more uplifting to say the least.

All in all, Oak town was rather pleasant as well with its weather. Enough so that Madi would be able to wear her normal outfit without a real worry in the world as well. Gentle breezes hadn't disrupted the pages she scanned while she walked, pacing herself by pausing in certain places to go through any big climaxing moments or big plot points in her book. Normally, just by standing by a wall or a nearby bench, she was slowly but surely making her way back to the place she was staying at while in Oak town. However, with as many books and how big they were, she could very well be in this town for a good while; give or take a week if she just sat there and read.. And read.. And.. Well, read. Occasional bits of food, but her love of reading was enough to push away her desire to eat food for quite a while, almost whole days even.

The child wore a white short sundress with thin spaghetti straps, a yellow jacket overtop with a tan, brown, and white plad inner lining to it. A pair of honey yellow shoes to match the jacket had kept her feet comfortable and safe from random people crushing her small feet if they should walk by her. Her orange red hair was tied up into a single ponytail, tied up with a matching shade of a hair tie and covered with a pink colored ribbon tied right over top of it to give the illusion it solely held her hair up. She headed on the move again from resting at a pole near the end of a street corner, when she had smacked into someone and bounced back onto her rear end with few books spilling out onto the ground. "Ow, crud. I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention." She crawled around the ground, trying to scurry and pick up the books to get it cleaned up before people would kick them away or step on them.

Takumi saw her and decided to help. The ice mage bent to help her pick up the books with a smile. His sapphire blue eyes were nearly glowing, a vibrant electric blue. His hair fell in his face, and he blew it away impatiently. His dark cloak pooled around him as he crouched down, a pool of ink. "Are you okay?"

As her books spilled out onto the ground, her mind seemed to become slightly jumbled itself. The initial thump onto the ground had knocked the book she was reading out of her free hand, and into the pile of books that had spilled out into the street in front of her. it was more frazzling to her to think she would need to relocate the point she was in the book, having forgotten to get a bookmark yet again and even then there was possibly the thought that said bookmark would just have popped out from it too. First and foremost in her head was to try and single out this book before she could find the page from which she was mid way through. Her plan was to just get them out of peoples way, then separate them one-by-one until she had found it, then she could pack up the others and move back on to what she was already planning to do anyway... Which was isolate herself in her room and go on a reading marathon. Nothing unusual for her, but then again nothing about her really was too normal when it came to her habits.

While she continued to scramble around while collecting her thoughts into a calm and orderly fashion, she had found that she was albeit quickly surrounded by strangers. Firstly, the woman she had finally noticed she bumped into wasn't a sny sounded or crude pain in the ass, which made things easier. Maybe that was just cause Madison was still a child in some respect, but it seemed as though the blonde woman was sounding as though things were just as much her fault as it was Madi's. "M-Maybe, but I should know better than to read and walk.. Maybe I should sign up for readers anonymous.. ahaha." She tried to brush it all off as nothing more than a little joke at least. Granted, it wouldn't be such a bad idea in her case, but it wasn't anything she should be worried about really.

Amber orbs shifted to the first of two males that had come to the child's aid when the mess spilled out. He came by to ask if she was alright and his smile seemed to be a little spine tingling to her. Between that and the strange clock or coat he wore that seemed to bleed onto the concrete, she wasn't sure whether he was just some strange pedophile trying to make nice or that he was just... creepy. After all, she didn't really make too much contact so the impression of people making on her were much more different than anyone else's would have been. "Y-Yeah, I'm good now. Thanks though.." She slid just a small bit away from him from the bit of an uncomfortable feeling she got being close to another person.. Especially one that looked a lot older than she was.

As it came to the second male, she had looked back to the blonde and the girl she had been walking with. Being around so many people started to make her feel almost claustrophobic, though she wasn't really someone who got that way through any other means, but just so many people around her when she wasn't used to it wasn't very much a right feeling to her. The second man was much more questioning things about her than he was looking in on her condition. Either he knew everything was ok, or he was more similar to the other one than she thought... Looking over, he had opened up and looked into one of her books, making the child snatch the book with a blinding quick action and pack it away into her bag. "If you must know, I only study on weekends. Otherwise, I just do leisure reading, less you not know what that is..." Her words grew bitter from the assumption that he didn't notice the fact he was looking at a large novel rather than some study book.

She blinked in silence as he went on, watching a small amount of blood drip from his nose from the commotion of the pair of females and their discussion. Apparently, there was something that had caused him to drip blood from it, and allergies couldn't be the cause from the lack of signs from excessive nose blowing, or loads of pollen being reported in the news. Looking up, but now not by much as the blonde would be knelt in front of her, covering her plainly large chest as the sparks connected in her mind. Looking back once more to the albino male, he tried to reach a hand out to help her up, but her mind remained focused on cleaning up the books and keeping her own aside and in hand, ignoring the hand and just whacking him upside the head with it. "You're a perv... And yes, I am a mage. Beyond that is really beyond even my own understanding of an explanation to tell you what it is and how it works."

As she took her stand, she took a rather steep step back from the party of 4 in front and brushed the dirt from her dress and coat with a sigh. "I.. don't do well pressured around people like that... S-Sorry if you got offended." Her cheeks grew a soft faint pink of embarrassment from having to share an insecurity of even that, though it was rather obvious to say the least. "O-Oh, I'm Madison by the way, but you can just call me Madi if you'd prefer. Either is acceptable." She kept her amber eyes averted from the group, rather shy almost from the time of the stumble to even now reflecting in her mind.

Takumi looked at her. “i'm a mage too. i'm from Fairy Tail. i came here to avoid Heero's wrath for the most part... i kinda got the better of him when he told me to duel him. serves him right for not looking up.'' Takumi laughed, a wild and free sound. The ice mage brushed brown hair out of his face. “I do hate to be away from Julius though'' his eyes darkened. “my boyfriend.'' he explained. ''by the way, my name is Takumi.''

"N-no! I'm fine" He said as the female elavated her voice. "Haha." He became flustered in embarrassment as he put his hand on his head running a hand through his silky hair. He watched a girl spill some books onto the ground. He suddenly was hit upside the head after the girls bitter words. "I am not a perv! I am far from it!" He sighed deeply and leaned up against the wall of a  building. Nothing made him madder than being called a perv. "Listen little girl. I am far from a pervert.I am a very kind person! It just happens to be that I'm very bashful." His voice was elevated beyond the normal yell. He looked around and seen the people stare at him in confusion. He looked down avoiding the several gazes. He muttered something under his breath. Then he heard the girl that made his nose bleed speak of eating. "That would be very nice..." He said,his head still lowered. His gaze to the floor."But what will we eat?" He felt as if that was a dumb question considering that there were only ramen shops in this part of the town. He adjusted the collar of his jacket. "What about the little girl? She acts as if she's lost always dropping her books like some clumsy animal." His gaze returned to the small child,he kindly stuck his tounge out. He felt as if he were still being judged at the people so he returned his gaze to the ground.He heard the female tell him to clean up..So he took a napkin from his pocket and wiped his nose. "You're acting like my mother...."  He sighed and figured that he would go along with the strangers. (Am I being descriptive enough?)

As even the smallest increments of time passed, things seemed to be rolling in a way that she had no real control over the course of the events from which it seemed as though the four people had come to join together. It was a rather small, but tingling sensation of annoyance as the two males spoke, for very different reasons. The blonde would have been in the same boat, but since she barely spoke but to reply to comments steered towards her directly, there wasn't much to say other than how quiet she was compared to most others with a chest that big or playing the blonde card, so to speak. More so the stereotypical air headed person with the lack of knowledge for anything but how long until their next appointment until they get their hair and nails done again. Then again, maybe she was a bottle blonde-- who knew? Tossing that notion aside, Madi looked up to her, eye-to-eye out of respect to the woman... Since it seemed so far of the three others she was carrying the most maturity... "Well, no I do feel guilty, like it was my fault. Though, I'm not sure how take it this way. I'm used to adults scolding me about how dangerous it is, but I get caught up in such good passages I just zone out." She'd ramble on for a moment without realizing, but silencing herself before she could continue another sentence.

She'd turn her head to the first of the two males. The one she had come to assume was just like some pedo in a black cloak. The way he spoke and looked at the others made her literally shiver, as did the the combined chills they gave her. She knew of one ice Mage, but if there were two of them, the feeling would become that much more cold to her. Maybe it was the pervy male and the pedo one, since it seemed as though the blonde woman was more senseless to her than the others. It was her whole life when she was around certain mages, that she would pick up strange vibes; hotter and colder sensations, strange sensitivities to light and loss of normal perspective. It was an odd case, but she never really felt multiple ones at once. However, as she looked on to the cloaked male, she blinked and tilted her head out of curiosity. "So... Did you play with dolls as a kid or something? I've read that that sort of thing at a young age with sexual confusions can make boys play with dolls like Barbie, Bratz, whatever else is out there." She was oddly curious, but unsure of what she would get as a reply.

When it came to the last male, oh he was saved for last now... He had gotten really offended by her calling him a pervert, which made him lash out loudly at her with his denial of it, and more so to try and act as though he was just being picked on. The child would roll her eyes at him, averting his attention from others that starred at him like he was an idiot... Of which he deserved. With a sigh, she looked up to the blonde as the offer of getting food sounded rather enjoyable. As she would go to reply, she would get cut off by Miyuki insulting her as if she was an incompetent moron. To her, being insulted makes her angrier than anything. Being treated as a child is one thing, but this was a whole other level. Her Amber orbs would glow an eerie red color and she would swiftly grab him up by his throat, showing off a greater strength than one could expect from someone of her size and gritting her teeth in anger. "You got some balls there throwing insults out. I should knock your teeth down your damn throat and teach you to show respect to strangers you pain in the ass little brat!" She tried to keep from stirring up attention, or more of it than necessary, but someone would get hurt if they tried to approach her the wrong way...

(Quick reply) The boy was grabbed by the throat. Making him draw his sword with his hand. "What was that little girl?" He grasped the hilt of his blade and unsheathed it. It gave off an icy vibe. "Do you really want to fight?" He pushed the girl off of him. He did so, hard enough to make her stumble. "You're getting on my nerves." He turned around quickly. letting his cloak fly beside her. "You'll pay for your own meal. Little girl." 

Takumi looked at her. "What? No. I just kinda... realized i was bi one day, and that I liked guys and girls." His cloak rippled, the ragged edges made worse by time. His strange sapphire eyes were glinting, though he had not taken offense at the stereotype. The green spiral pendant about his neck glittered in the sunlight.

I may leave the social. Too many people are joining this was supposed to be a private one.Right

In all honesty, she shouldn't have been surprised by the actions that were taken against her, but actually being involved in a situation as such seemed to have affected her differently than she thought. As her grip tightened on the boys collar, the sound of metal sliding against something caused her to become weary of what was next. Was she going to get struck down in broad daylight for putting her hands on a legal Mage who couldn't act more mature than she was right now? Sure, she knew very well how she was acting, but once her anger stepped into play there became this lack of care for anything except setting the record straight by force. Even so, him even asking her if she wanted to fight set her off even further than before.

She began to let out a small growl in her growing anger before she finally would speak up, though catching herself as not to shout it out for the town to hear, she wouldn't keep a simple calm tone about it either. "You freaking legal mages are all the same, aren't you!?" She chuckled a little as she spoke, blinking full well the answer. "Never try to defuse the situation, no! What do you do? You egg it the hell on until you end up killing someone you didn't have to, but this stupid council throws s little bandage over the "boo-boo" and makes it seem like nothing!" Giving a quick pause, she would quickly get shoved back and before getting her grip back, feeling her another one, even tighter this time on herself.

The child winced as the ponytail she wore her hair up in had been held onto like a leash, keeping her from going anywhere. The voice behind spoke calmly and almost cheery of some sort.. Or maybe not. It was hard to tell with her anger and adrenaline running up so high right now she could hardly tell differences they were plainly obvious to her. Even the blonde woman wanted the pair to stop bickering, and tried to add a bribe of treating them if they apologized. Madison would just told her arms at her chest as it would seem Miyuki would just leave instead of saying anything, making the child scoff at him as finally her attitude settled and her glowing eyes returned to normal. She'd look up at the woman holding her hair and would blink a couple times before putting her hands on her hips. "You keep treating my hair like this, I'll make you brush it so it doesn't get knotted~" Smiling a little, she would then look over to Anastasia in her pause. "I refuse to apologize to him, but I will to you. I'm sorry I lost my temper.. I have a great intolerance for legal guilds and that's one of the reasons... I don't lose my temper easily, but it's a little hard to retain it til I knock a couple heads around." She'd chuckle at her joke and rest her hands in her pocket, waiting now on others to decide what to do, though oddly curious about what was transporting between Anastasia and this new girl.

"God, stop all the fighting. This will get us nowhere. Legal or not, we are all still mages, are we not? So stop the fighting. Apoligize to my guildmate please." Takumi pulled a hand through his mess of floppy brown hair with a sigh. "Honestly, I don't care who you people are, I just want the fighting to stop." Takumi fiddled with his pendant and stepped in between his guildmate and madison.

"I vote actual food.''' Takumi was not in the mind for crappy food right now, he was pissed off now. His blue eyes darkened to a navy blue as he adjusted his cloak.

With her temper still partially flared up, cooling down still from her little outburst, she looked over to the blond as best this new stranger would allow her head to turn. She'd scoff at the comment made, chuckling at how she had only remarked about Fairy Tail. Someone must not know... "It's not just Fairy Tail, Ms. Anastasia. It's all the legal guilds. They all think they can go around and act like they don't have a law to follow like everyone else. It's why I carry such a disdain for them all. Nothing but nuisances and it's honestly a shame that it's that way." With a pause, Madi would peer from Ana to Takumi, then back to Ana. She felt bad it seemed as though he was being picked on a little bit, and with common knowledge of what would go on from all of that, she figured it'd best be easy to turn down the fire under his ass before he got more burnt than he already was.

Turning her attention from the others to the newest arrival, in essence completely ignoring any last words that Miyuki would have tried to give, the child found it to still be a little strange to be corralled in such an odd, slightly demeaning yet effective manner. A smirk would cross her face as the girl would spice up the offer with one of her own, shrugging and nodding to it before she'd answer. "That's good to hear. I'm sure Mother would have been happy to hear someone else but myself catering to something she had for years, tried to get through my head to enjoy more than be burdened by it. Nevertheless, it's old news now, and besides, I've calmed myself down fully so you don't need to keep the grip." As she reached from her pocket to try and see if Mitsuko would let go from there, she gave one last heave of a tug on her ponytail, making her flinch and groan in annoyance from it, butting her head before just forgetting about it and listening to Ana.

She had to think for a less than a moment to the idea of still going to lunch. Just something to relax her from earlier was nice, but the offer to treat her to it was more than she had expected to hear. Of course, she didn't really want to say anything wrong, at risk of being backhanded like Miyuki, but there were probably other reasons why she did that. Regardless of that, Madi would give a small shrug of her shoulders in immediate reply. "Well, I tend to let you pick, considering you're paying it only seems fair, don't you think?" Of course, that was simply just manners she was brought up on, more so than her saying it for any other reason, if there even was one to do so for. Maybe the idea of dating her would have made that seem kinder towards her in some aspect, but being there quote a few years in age difference and Madi's own lack of care for relationships, it was just as easy said as it was done.

"Believe me, I've noticed you." Takumi was not an idiot. He just couldn't talk to 5 people at once. He didn't have 5 mouths after all. Takumi's eyes were so dark they were nearly black now. Takumi stared at her, his eyes seeming to search her very soul.

Her attention faired mostly to that of Anastasia at the time that she had come to explain her views of things. Honestly, the idea of it all hadn't been too much to the degree that she was for or against any being in a light guild, but it just seemed as though they were all too gung ho on being more vigilante's then they were trying to be... protectors to those than need it and want it. With a shrug, she would just nod lightly to the blonde before she spoke. "I suppose I'm being a little more strict than I would normally be. Growing up in a very religious background, violence.. more so the escalated type to lethality is sin. Not in the eyes of the church- though that may be true, I refer to my own moral compass. Never the less, I don't think it's too much of a big deal anymore." With the rolling of her eyes, she just gave up trying to explain herself further than that now. Usually once that's brought about, nothing necessarily ever matters anymore after that, essentially type casting or branding ones self.

More on the subject of it, the idea of remaining fully religious, at least to the standards of the church were beyond anything she wanted. The faith was never pushed on her so much as anyone else, but the use of having something like it to help steer herself seemed to be among the best of choices she could have made in her life. For whatever reason they had decided not to include her into most of the more advanced teaching and entires into joining the monastery were beyond her. However, even in such a case, it was more acceptable to have had that, then the alternative of being brought in and shunned away from the most simple of things, and then rejected and thrown out at the sign of her magic. That in itself was an odd thing even she had no idea what it was, but that was something she preferred to keep to the back of her mind. One thing she always had known and believed would be that if she was to know of it, God would tell her when the time was right and when she was ready for it.

The facial expression of the child had come to turn into a very surprised face at the sudden comment that Anastasia had made towards Takumi. Surely with the rude way he was towards her, he deserved it, but the way he had received the verbal las high had stunned her. "M-Miss Anastasia! W-was that language necessary? I may have a plethora of a vocabulary, but sheesh.." She'd pause and smirk as she got a little quip in her mind. "I may have to have you say your Hail Mary's, young lady~" With an after chuckle to get joke, she would just leave it go before it could escalate to anything and become her fault again. "And as for that place, I'm willing to go anywhere, anyway. Just lead the way and I'll follow suit!~" The cheery voice returned now, flipping around from emotions without much need for other cares in the world right now.

[This social is dead. I'm leaving]