Frey's Secondary Training [Private]: Lacrima Implanting.

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Frey’s morning started off fairly normal with waking up in her mother’s castle, in a room reserved for herself with the ice wolf known as Silver laying at the foot of the bed. The first thing she did with her day? Was pull back the sheets to gaze at her own body in the mirror so she would know what form her body had taken on. Recently she had noticed her magic was abusing her body in ways she didn’t believe it would have done before, as if the more potent it became the more it took control of her physical form or destabilized her. The child herself had a hard time believing she was four chronologically, it just didn’t make any sense when her body was eight but could also be a teenager, and her hair/eye color changed almost on its own will. This morning she was lucky enough to end up with a body she knew when her gaze hit the mirror, long pink hair with bright rose optics staring back at her young body clad in pajamas now too big for her. Rune took the time to change into a set of clothing that fit her body, having told the servants not to bother her today when she came back to the castle the night before, wanting to sort out her strange form on her own, she knew no one would be interrupting her this morning. The girl finally managed to dress in a way that she found comfortable and as she watched Silver rouse from the bed she recalled her Mother had given her something to do on her way out the last time, simply telling her to go see this man called Razia when she had time. “Come on boy.” she spoke up gathering her wolf’s attention and watching as he jumped from the bed to her side, following her out as they started off to the location they were suppose to meet the unknown male at.

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The little girl had been the one who got to pick the meeting location when it was stated they would be interacting. Normally? Frey would just pick the Guild Hall because not only was it convenient but it was also very tasty so long as no one caught her nomming on the pillars or other parts of the stone structure. However, for some reason, she had picked another planet entirely to meet up with Raiza on, a place that he likely had no experience with, while she had plenty of time spent in the realm due to the time she had been part of Fairy Tail, though she had not been back since. Maybe that was the reason she wanted to meet up here, go to this place with someone besides just herself and Silver! Frey knew that eventually, she would have to return to Tetsukazu in order to learn more Dragon Slaying spells from Hemlock, but she did not think he would take too well to how long she had been gone, how long she spent without getting even a single lesson even though she could not have helped it due to not living in the same realm as him anymore. Perhaps she asked Razia to meet her here so that he could be an extra person around when she told Hemlock everything that had happened if there was one entity in the world with the ability to scare Frey besides for the thought of Marceline abandoning her? It was Hemlock being upset with her since he gave her the magic she had and was far better at using this magic than she was, since he happened to be a dragon!

After a while of standing against one of the weird natural structures that existed on the planet with Silver leaning his head against her hip while he laid down? She saw another person. “Razia?” she could not be sure since she honestly did not take much time to memorize people outside of her royal family, but she thought it was someone she might have seen in passing once or twice during her brief moments in the guild hall. Hopefully she was right about the blonde haired man being the one she was waiting for, it would be embarrassing to call out for the wrong person. Since she thought the man she was supposed to meet was finally here the girl stood up straight, her wolf rising as well with a soft growl, affirming for her that the man before her was part of her guild, since Silver seemed to hate all of savage skull. “I’m Frey.” she made the comment, incase he was dim enough to not recognize her, smoothing down the simple white shirt she was wearing. Frey didn’t want to wear anything good encase she saw Hemlock and he decided she needed more training.

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He called her lady in the way that he should and the little pink haired girl smiled contently, a small smirk taking over her features happily. This one? He knew his place very well! The child liked when someone knew that their place was obedience to the ruling family of everything. Razia was good in her book even if Silver was snarling with all teeth bared, instantly deeming the man extremely bad news for his owner. The wolf did not seem to like anything Razia was saying even if seemed to make Frey very happy, seemingly the pet had suddenly developed his own will once more, going against the wishes of his master to protect her from what he deemed a threat. “It would be better if you didn’t give him a piece of you to chew on. It could encourage him to actually bite our guild-mates.” and sadly her own Mother was one of the who risked being made a victim of the wolf if he thought that he could get away with biting someone. However, this was the best response she had heard to the wolf's behavior before so she gig chuckle slightly as she clarified that the blue eyed male should not give the blue creature any reason to bite people. Suddenly the girl lifted her hand and put it on the growling beast's nose, causing him to stop even though his golden eyes glared with pure hatred at the mage before them.

“I’m- I’m meeting someone I haven’t seen in a long time in the clearing on this planet, it's possible he might get upset with me and he’s not someone I can beat myself.” the best reason she could think that they were supposed to meet up had been her mentioning of wishing to go see her dragon again and the fact he had a slight temper sometimes. If anything? He was a very strict teacher and she had missed several lessons, stopped talking to the stuffed toy he gave her, which was likely to leave the dragon significantly less than happy. Thus she guessed that was what would be happening today, they would go meet up with Hemlock and hope they did not seriously have to fight the massive dragon. When did she speak of him casually? The little girl might have severely understated the sheer mass of the earth dragon. Having spoken the girl nodded off towards a path into the woods.

Once she was sure razia understood the direction they were headed the pink haired girl let her wings take form behind her and flapped them to take to the air, though only by about a foot or two. “I find this easier than walking.” she explained, letting him know they didn’t have to cross anything that could not be walked.

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Frey’s gaze changed when he started talking about Silver in the way he spoke of the large wolf, she was the only one allowed to directly call the male a pet and untrained! Honestly, she had never trained the cold-blooded creature because he really did not need it until she joined Savage Skull, prior to that event he had been perfect. Something about the dark guild? Simply rubbed the wolf in the wrong way, she just wished that she could figure out what. However right now the important thing was that Razia was rubbing her the wrong way, earning a deathly intense stare from her light pink optics, those orbs narrowing as she decided exactly what she was going to say, her wings flapping once to keep her levitated. “First off Silver is not a pet, he’s repaying a life debt of his own will.” it wasn’t like she went to a pet store and picked him out, no circumstance combined them together into an intense bond that got stronger as time went on. Silver was more of a knight than a pet. “And trying to train him would be the same as me trying to teach you to sit. Heck where we originally came from his breed isn’t even really tamable, only the best from the village were able to escape confrontation with them. You know one thing though? No matter how “hostile” his showing dislike for people is, he’d still die for anyone in the guild.” the little girl huffed slightly, flying down the small trail in the forest.

Silver remained still for a few seconds, golden optics carefully observing what had transpired. As much as he hated it? Frey was likely right, he’d probably give his life so she didn’t lose anyone in Savage Skull since she had grown attached to the cursed place. The wolf looked at Razia almost as if he was considering doing something, though it wasn’t the ‘I am going to bite you now’ sort of face, it was more so the face someone made when they were trying to decide to say something to keep their mouth shut. That expression on a wolf whom to everyone’s knowledge was incapable of human speech? Was weird. However eventually he walked down the path after frey with doing nothing, his tail limp behind him as he kept track of the flying child's scent.

“Oh, he’s-” just as she went to explain everything to her accompaniment on the way to see Hemlock, a dark shadow flew over them, the heavy sound of flapping wings filling the air, and frey flipped over to look above herself. “Shit.” the creature shifted it’s dark gaze as her voice filled the air, suddenly banking and dive bombing to stand in their way. Once it was on the ground, having crushed a good deal of trees by landing? One could clearly see this was a dragon, his wing’s coming into his sides, eyes narrowing. “You’ve been gone a long time my student. You best have a good reason for skipping all those training sessions and ceasing replies through the doll I gave you.” the dragon seemed ticked off, his tail lashing and easily sending another few of the extremely tall tree’s around to their death. Sharp claws tapped against the ground as he stared down the little dragon slayer.

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"Uh yeah, About All That." she sounded unsure as she spoke to the large earth dragon. Why shouldn't she be nervous? He was her mentor and she had been ducking him for the better part of the last few weeks, maybe even a handful of months. Frey did not know how to explain everything that had happened to him, all the confusion that she'd endured and what had changed in her life. Honestly, so much had happened she did not know which thing to inform the male about! However she was going to have to pick somewhere to start and soon otherwise, he would be upset.

"Remember how I told you I didn't know who my birth mother was?" maybe that was the best place to start because honestly, it was the first thing that lead to her long absence from training. Hemlock seemed to look at her with a raised brow, encouraging her to go on. At least Frey knew she was lucky that he was more peaceful of a sort and very opened to listening to what other's told him. "Well that isn't the case anymore." his eyes seemed to widen at that and she giggled sheepishly. The young girl took a single step forward as her wolf kept a close enough on the situation now standing closer to Raiza and ignoring his hatred from before as the dragon was more of a threat until he accepted the girl's explanation. "Marceline Anicetus, that's her name, she's the Guild Master of Savage Skull, so I moved to the Guild so I could be with her." after that things had gotten a bit, eer busy.

"Hmpf, You really are a hopeless girl aren't you kiddo?" the dragon smirked as he spoke, tucking his wings into his back and sighing out with a chortle. Once he had spoken? The massive beast turned around, flicking his tail as if he wanted to be followed. "You have a lot to catch up on child, come. Also why did you bring someone besides Silver with you, never once did you bring someone from Fairy Tail to see me, so who is the man?" oh yes now she had to explain raiza to him somehow, shit.

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Hemlock did not look very kindly upon Razia instead the dragon seemed to legitimately be sizing him up to see if the 'mortal' stood any chance in a fight. Of course, Drakes were apex predators, the creatures were powerful mythical beasts who were difficult to fight and often hunted, so the creatures caution was easily understandable. In fact, if one looked closer than Frey typically did? They could see mostly healed scarring along his flanks and such that suggested he'd been in fights with knights or even dragon slayer's, one's he might have only narrowly won. Honestly, he was against the existence of slayer's in most cases and Frey was a new experiment for the dragon who did not support what so many other's of his kind had done.

"Well than Razia, I am Hemlock, one of the Earth Dragon species and the one who gave Frey her magic when she was younger." it was clear the child had grown again to some degree and thus he used the word younger even though it had not been too awfully long ago that things happened. "And she will be missing from the guild every two weeks for a few days in order to continue her training with me." the drake lowered himself to the ground, tail sweeping over to lay against his front feet like a cat would, but he sat regally like a dog, gaze stern and cold. "She has a lot of catching up to do." his deep voice honestly was one of the few things expect his golden eyes that made it look as if he was not just a formation that happened to look like a dragon.

"I Know Hemlock, I Know, but I think that I need to start learning supportive or defensive magic again. Honestly, my dragon sword is very potent and my other moves cover the time needed to recharge it and vise Versa. Focusing solely on attack would be stupid when I have things to protect."  the drake glanced down at the child looking a bit shocked she had asked about positive use magic instead of the offensive she had been fixated on before today. The large creature nodded, glancing around. She kind of ruined his lesson since he had offensive things prepared. "Go practice your melee fighting for a bit." he said, watching as she huffed and ran towards the nearest tree punching it, which sufficed enough for melee training for him.

Hemlock glanced at Razia again and flicked his tail as if summoning the other male to him. The drake wanted to speak to someone from 'Savage Skull' to get a feel of the sort of spells Frey would need to learn, the sort of life she was leading now. "So tell me about the guild Frey joined."

At first, Raiza thought of the various ploys or lies he could tell the creature when asked about the guild Frey had joined. However at this point in time, why lie? Savage skull was such a well known guild of evil, and dark. A guild of murder, along with Raiza's own name being well known for such as well. Surely, this dragon should have heard of such before, no? At the very least, Raiza assumed the dragon did know, but was playing coy, or perhaps they didn't know? Would revealing what the guild was really like going to hurt Frey's student relation with the dragon? Perhaps but even fairy tail was a dark guild up till recently, when it had started to venture back into the neutral guild zone.

"You wish for me to tell you about the guild? I can easily answer with that it is all in the name. However for a more in depth, I suppose the straight forward answer is the best. We are a dark guild. Our members range from vast past paths, and while that is the case, we always will look out for our fellow guild member. As so long as they don't betray us, we will fight with them when they need aid. What the guild is like however is a hard question, simply because we are not the predictable kind. Never were, and never will be. Of everything though, I can certainly say, its a warm home to many."

Crossing his arms after the explanation, half-expecting to be attacked right then and there. His gaze would instinctively look towards the dragon right away. These mystical creatures topped the power scale, they definitely were alpha level predators all right. However, in the world of fairy tail, and the shit Raiza had seen or gone through he knew there existed powers beyond the dragons. Namely, gods and demons. So, for Raiza to stand there, staring at the enourmous yet powerful creature, the only reason was for this, was to show he was not afraid of the creature, not now, and not even after his explanation of the guild, and if attacked at this point, Raiza was more than ready to fight back, no matter to what length it was required. The only thing about this he regretted though, was the fact if something did go down, it would not be an easy fight nor would it be one he could appreciate later. Though, another thing he did regret, was to not try and stop Frey from just going off to punch a tree. Such a horrid melee physical training regime that was, made Raiza sort of annoyed with this so called teacher that was such a potent threat.

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Hemlock was aware his method of training Frey likely looked off or entirely neglectful to some common place observer. Yet? This was not always the case, it so happened that today the training was more to keep the pink haired girl occupied because he knew that she would not reveal very much about the new life she was heading into with 'savage skull' and he wanted to know those details. While he could never abandon his pupil now that he had taken her on? The drake did desire and kind of need to know what the girls future held in order to train her properly for it. Not often was he given a window into Rune's world, Raiza was a window and since such an encounter was rare for the several stories tall dragon, he wanted to take full advantage of it.

"So her role could change over night?" he collected the unpredictable element, and chose to not comment on the 'Dark Guild' part for Fairy Tail had been one as well. However? He suspected Savage Skull was a different kind of dark then the other group, the kind of evil that would attack and pillage a village just because it was fun. Should he directly ask about that since it was bothering him? hemlock sighed out, blinking slightly and softening his gaze as he looked at Frey once more, then back to Razia. "What do you do for the guild besides what you've mentioned?......Savage Skull is it you know the sort of guild's whose mages are hunted." was Frey going to be hunted for existing now? The dragon did not like that idea, at leats in Fairy Tail in spite of them being Dark he had felt as if the Guild did not make any enemies, Savage Skull sounded like a guild that had its share of people who would rather the guild not exist.

Pondering how the dragon in front of him was acting, Raiza's expression changed. So, this mystical creature was curious, and the intellectual type too. If it actually came down to a fight, surely that would be more than just brute strength involved. Though, for now Raiza decided to not withhold too much. There were secrets he wouldn't share, like the existence of the beast that laid within the guild, one that made Raiza as much on guard as he is now, or the existence of other slayers within the guild or among other select things.

"Her role, only if she so chooses. While we are a dark guild, and while I am one of the 7 sinners of fiore, the guild itself is not composed of just narrow-minded killers. The guild is a home to anyone that can be considered a dark mage for what ever reason. Murder, theft, rape, science, and other things. The higher ups such as myself, have more of a name in the destruction parts because that is what we have done, and as for being hunted, sure some of us are. However, Frey? I've not even seen her name in the bounty book yet, let alone even heard any word of anything targeting her yet. May be in a dark guild, but unless you do something, you're not actively hunted. Well, as far as I know, she hasn't done anything. "

Sighing after that longer winded speech, just out of habit, and not because he needed to breath, Raiza would shift his gaze back to Frey momentarily before shifting back to the dragon. "I give you this, you're cautious, but if you're so worried, you can always join the guild as well. We've accepted non-humaniod members before." Figuring that was the best action to make there, Raiza mentally was still taking note to keep a guard up just in case his words upset the massive creature. After all, it wasn't every day that you met a dragon, and especially one that rivaled the guild's pet in size. However it wasn't just himself he was calculating on how to protect, especially if he had to activate release level one.

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"You mention her never having committed a crime and theft in the same line of speech." the dragon chuckled richly, his body shaking slightly and with it the ground subtly.  "I should bother to inform you that the child is a kleptomaniac" he had known it within the first few days after they met when she made off with a few jewels from his small stash when she sometimes brought something shiny to him that clearly did not belong to her. Though as a dragon he did not consider the theft of shiny objects as theft, not real theft anyways, how could humans make shiny things and expect dragons not to take them! "She is a very good pickpocket, you might already be missing something shiny since you've been unaware, best check yourself swiftly. If she gets something and is allowed to keep it too long, she never gives it back, heck she may even eat it." he had lost quite a few gemstones that way, to her stomach and the fact she always seemed to be hungry. Which was not unexpected since he did tell her to eat whenever she could.


"Science is an unusual comment when relating to darkness as it is an advance to an understanding that seeks to throw away shrouds created by narrow-mindedness." He tilted his head so that half of it lay against the ground, his voice coming out of the side of his mouth, throat rumbling with each word, one golden eye focused on Razia but seemingly calm enough to leave a more vulnerable part of him laying on the ground. if you were going to kill a dragon? taking off its head was likely the easiest way. "Is it safe to assume you're a scientist who has done some things humanoid society deems unacceptable?" as he spoke he glanced at Frey and seemed to be considering something. Unless it was deathly situations? he rarely knew a doctor who would implant a lacrima into someone since sometimes a body did reject the magic and humans barely understood the process. However, the golden eyed male knew that if he decided he wanted one in her, Frey's body would accept it, since she had adjusted so well to the enchantment into Dragon Slaying magic. He had not broached the subject because he didn't want some chop shop job, but if Razia was such a man, hemlock doubted he was in a shed somewhere with a hack saw.  

Joining Savage Skull? The dragon narrowed his eyes dangerously for a split second. His kind were protectors not the kind to stand for darkness, alongside it directly very often but Frey had managed to shift his views of the world slightly. "While it seems tempting, you have nowhere to hide something of my size, I barely am able to keep my body concealed here, I would make your guild more targeted and I have no desire to be hunted by slayer's trying to prove themselves." While he had been laying down the dragon once more sat up to again empathize his size, lowering seconds later because he did not wish to draw attention to the area. "Though I could further enchant the doll I gave her and make it mobile, allow my conscious to take over it, so she stops leaving it behind." it did tick him off that he could no longer see into her life.

At the very least encounter, a creature like Razia was actually pleasant, intelligent beasts were not the most common thing around here, so to be able to enjoy a highly evolved conversation was refreshing.

A subtle smile replaced the expression on Raiza's face. Scientist? Sure, he went into that area after he started to give up his gamer magic awhile ago, but to say that was all would be an underestimation. He was the lead member in a division specifically meant for such, and torture, which just so happened to be the  pillar of screams. Though it was no longer called that now. Members didn't get broken up into segments like before, instead it was much more fluid in Raiza's opinion.

"Primarily, no I'm not a scientist, conducting experiments and the alike is more of a hobby, much like gaming to me. However yes, you can call me one as I'm still skilled in the field. It used to be a job to break people through various methods of torture. Through that I learned about the body far more than one would expect. Especially when I started to do genetic experiments."

After giving the dragon a little speech, Raiza smiled a bit. He was fully aware of the girl's kleptomaniac personality. Though truth be told, he wasn't worried as so much as most would be, simply because he has to allow her to touch him in the first place. Which, Raiza did notice Frey take that opportunity the moment he had changed his body to be physical earlier. Though, to take a chance to steal something off of someone with a symbiotic pet living within him was something else that was to be dealt with. The object Frey had taken from Raiza? It was quite a cruel joke of Raiza to even do this in the first place, but also it was well deserved. Raiza had used his pet to create an object out of their own body. The object looked like a pure black onyx gem, however it was by all regards, dying flesh that after Frey had pocketed it, or stashed it, it would have turned into a eye ball with the words 'nice try' written on it. It was a mixture of a few high level spells, and his pet's changeling ability.

"Oh, when Frey realizes what she stole, it'll be all fine and dandy. I don't think she'll try it on me again. Though, I did say as far as I'm aware, didn't I?". His grin turned into him simply letting out a soft chuckle. Though, when he had done this would also be the same time Frey would have even had the chance to try to steal from him in the first place. Perhaps it was just a good idea to not try and steal from someone who has passive sensory techniques, or a second mind within his own body.

Though more Raiza talked, the more he had the chance to ponder other words spoken to him. A few in mind made him curious, but also wary at the same time. "So, Hemlock, why do you ask about the scientific side? I assume there is a reason?"

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The dragon glanced at the blonde male, stealing a quick glance at Frey to make sure she was not listening. "There is a secondary way her strength can be increased." the large drake said, taking a breath as he turned his clawed paw with the palm up a small green lacrima forming within it, slowly pulsing with a lively glow. Honestly, he had been thinking of giving this to the slayer for some time, but he never had the chance considering Frey had no way to implate it within herself and he could not leave this planet to find someone for her, few people would just hear a dragon out. Thus today seemed to be a golden opportunity, it appeared he had found someone capable of implanting the lacrima in his charge.

Gingerly hemlock let the orb roll so he could catch it between two long talons, holding it there, lowering it so Razia could clearly see what he had created. "I trust you're a smart enough man to imply what I'm asking of you. Can you do it without harming her? I am already sure her body will accept it."  with how well she had taken to her current dragon slaying magic, Hemlock saw no way that her body would reject the lacrima, thus the only risk was in the operation itself. The item to be implanted itself? Was roughly 3 inches in diameter, something that might be perfectly alright for an adult, but it was slightly riskier for someone of Frey's current size.

While Frey was not a maddened killer like some people who existed around her? The little girl had also quickly desensitized to murder and gore upon joining the Guild, it seemed as if she did not truly understand what was going on or just did not care. The skulls in the graveyard often found a second purpose as a toy for Silver and herself. Thus when she noticed the optic it would not be as sharp of a reaction as the male might have hoped for. Instead of freaking out and shrieking like most children? She stared at it for a second, looked at her companion told silver 'snack time' and thrown it at him so the wolf could eat it. Frey did not particularly care about the 'failure' since her treasure had turned to flesh, but she did make a mental note to somehow obtain something shiny from him eventually, no matter the cost.

Raiza's facial expression had changed. Not only did he fully know what the dragon was implying, and not only had Raiza done it himself. Perhaps not slayer magic, but he had implanted a lacrima into a being before. It wasn't too hard of a process, as lacrima were as a normal wizard percieves them, just crystals of magic. However, The truth was that lacrima were just a condensed, breakable source of magic. Typically though, certain lacrima possessed irreplaceable magic, and if implanted, the body would quickly adapt until it became part of them. The lacrima itself was still alive after all. Though that was only true if you possessed the train of thought Raiza did. Where as he believed all magic was 'alive' in some sense. Even his own death magic, had some sort of 'living' variable to it. So the lacrima implanting was a possibility that was more than certain. Even how to do it was not out of the question. It simply varied on exactly what was best. Implant it as a whole object, or implant the lacrima as shards throughout the body. Which, the latter actually sounded more plausiable. Harder to rip them out of a body, and less detrimental. The other fact was that while it was large, and Frey herself was small. Lacrima was still condensed magic. If Frey could transform at will then this would become a lot easier too, seeing as if she accepted the lacrima while she was bigger, then once she transformed to a smaller state, it too would shrink.

"I can do it, but to say without harm is impossible Hemlock. No operation, even the most legal ones, are never done without harm. Though I suspect you're not regarding me cutting her open as harm. Truly, to do this sort of thing, a variety of ways could be done. Especially if I were to have her transform prior to surgery. Though the other concepts of liquifying it, or breaking it down to shards also can be addressed. No matter the process that is done. I'll still have to cut her open for such a thing. Can't just risk teleportation spells to place it into her after all. Not if I want to risk causing her body to immediately not set right with it, and cause backlash. You also say you're sure the body will accept it. However, I'll still be doing some pre operation testing. Simple magic injection, no harm in that, but it will be painful if her body does end up not accepting it. A signal that the operation would not be gone through."

Thinking for a moment, only to ensure he was covering every ground here, he finally opened his mouth to add one last thing " Lastly, once the surgery is complete. The last time I did this sort of operation, it took awhile for the patient which so happened to be my own pet to heal. So If she does not have any natural enhanced healing, I will need to force her body to heal. Which is simple healing magic. In either case, this will put her out of commission for awhile, and training will not be something that is advised. It may take weeks, or months, depending on how fast her body heals."

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