The Mares, Kanix and Frey;; Private

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@Frey Rune

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Kanix glanced up from where she was sitting at one of the many tables located in Fairy Tail's newest guild hall. Her gaze remained steady and unwavering as a man walked into the guild hall as if he owned the place and approached Frey and her. With her back turned to the man, she was not able to clearly see the man's physique, not that it would have mattered anyway. When the man was close enough to the duo, the Guild Master of Fairy Tail straightened her posture and spoke. "What are you doing on the grounds of Fairy Tail? Do you not recognize that we are a guild no longer to be safe around?" she inquired. However, her mild threat would remain empty as the man had waved off her words and was focused on something more. Turning around, the blind magus stared blankly ahead of herself as she waited to hear what the man had to say.

"I've heard of your renown in the land of Fiore, both the good and the bad, but mostly the good of your renown," the man said as he approached the duo. "There are some rare animals that I've been searching for, for many years, and have just recently managed to gain. However, a barbarian had come to my stables and ransacked it, leaving everything behind aside from the saddles and. . . well. . . the animals. The last place I've seen the thief gone off to was the Cursed Lands, but I'm damn terrified of going in there myself. If you're willing to, I'll pay you a hefty sum for going into Cursed Lands yourself and retrieving my stolen animals for me."

"What makes you think I'll do such a thing? Haven't you noticed? Fairy Tail is a dark guild now, we no longer help the needy and defenseless," Kanix answered in a cold tone.

"Look, I know that you're a dark guild now, but I trust that there is some part of your guild deep down that is still willing to help," he stated quickly.

She sighed and stood to her feet; however, her short stature was visible next to the man, who was nearly a foot taller than her. "All right, then we'll help you, but if something so much as terrible happens to either Frey or myself, I will ruin you," she threatened him.

"Ah-ah yes, of course. Understood. There's just one thing that you need to know: the horses, they eat the flesh of humans, so it's advised their muzzles remain shut," he informed her. "Otherwise, if their mouths don't remain shut, then they are more than likely to attack you and I doubt you want that."

"Go," Kanix stated in a hard tone, lifting a hand and pointing toward the entrance to her guild, ushering the man off. Once the man left, her attention would be brought back to Frey, who had asked her if the man was asking them to help. "Yes, he was asking for our help and I told him that we would help him; so, we're going to be going on an adventure to the Cursed Lands. Shall we go?" A smile laced her lips as the blind woman looked to Frey and held out a hand to lead her. . . well. . . for Frey to lead her out of the guild hall. When she did, a dragon-sized, black Thunderbird would be waiting on the outside in order to take them through the Wakusei Portals and back into Fiore.

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@Frey Rune

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Normally, Kanix would not have picked up a third child, not when she knew she still had her son out there in the world and a new daughter to care for. However, when that dire wolf had brought the bleeding child into the home of Fairy Tail, she simply could not turn the helpless child down. So, she had taken Frey in, mended her wounds, made sure she had enough to eat and drink, and offered her a roof over her head. As such, Frey became her total responsibility, with the guild members being her other caretakers if she happened to not be around for a given time. Frey wouldn’t have to worry about losing her home to a disaster because Kanix would never allow Fairy Tail to be destroyed. She could expect an eternal home in Fairy Tail for as long as she was alive and then some, as that was how Fairy Tail was meant to be. They were to care for and help those who are in need, not purposefully search out destruction and catastrophe wherever they pleased.

Kanix chuckled when Frey mentioned how she had found Silver and that she loved going on adventures, as per her explanation. “Well, I’m glad that you were able to save him and as you can tell, he greatly appreciates that you saved him,” she answered her. It was a hard story on how she had gotten Ancalagon, but she appreciated having the giant bird in her life now that he was. A smile played across her lips and she pulled Frey up and onto Ancalagon’s back, situating her in front herself, so she could hold on better. In fact, she had been found with the baby Thunderbird back when Askuwheteau had run across her that time in the forest fourteen years ago. “Feel free to just grab on to a bunch of his feathers, he can’t feel it anyway, so it’s not like he is going to be hurt if you grab too hard.” She wrapped her arms around Frey so that she wouldn’t fall off Ancalagon when they took off, looking down at Silver in the process.

She tilted her head a little, beckoning for the wolf to get onto the back of the bird since he was capable of carrying 3 people at once. “Silver can join us, I’d hate to separate you and your companion when the two of you are so close to each other,” she stated quickly. Once the wolf was settled onto the back of Ancalagon, she would dig her heels into the sides of the bird and force him to take off. Now, they would pursue their journey to Cursed Lands, one that would be rather long and foreboding with how they were on a different planet. Sometimes, traveling to places was a bit of a pain in the ass, taking longer than it should and they didn’t have teleportation devices. “So, what other adventures have you gone on before you joined Fairy Tail? Or is this your first actual mission that you’ve been on?” Kanix was curious to know since she hardly knew anything about Frey other than that Silver had brought her to the guild on a whim.

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@Frey Rune

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Kanix had never known either of her birth parents, as from an early age, she had been taken away from her family in a forcible manner. From then on, life had become harsh for the woman, moving from one place to the next, her health slowly deteriorating as time went on. It wasn’t until at the age of fourteen that she had gotten sick of it all and escaped from the hell that would have been the rest of her life. Life took her from the grasp of her captors to a new one running for freedom, hiding in every place that she could manage to hide in. Until one day, when she had hidden in the depths of a forest somewhere in Fiore and a strange-looking, older man had found her. This elder was not like the men she had lived with for fourteen years of her life; no, this man was much kinder and gentler than they were. He gave her loving smiles and helpful words, took her back to his village, and introduced her to all of the people that lived there. That was the start of her new life.

“Animals are not meant to be held captive in places they do not claim as their homes,” Kanix responded in a hard tone of voice. She never liked hearing that an animal had been captured and put into a cage that wasn’t fit for a living space of one such as Silver. Even for a creature like Ancalagon, a world that was not their own was not a safe place for them to live, and that was something she had learned as a Nirvit child. When she had found the tiny Thunderbird as just a wee baby, she had known to let him live in the outside world, not to keep him too long in the teepee. Of course, her mentor had allowed her to keep him inside of the teepee when it was too cold or the weather didn’t permit it. As time went on, he grew too large for the teepee and that was when she knew she had to let him freely roam the village and forest. Ever since then, the two had always held a close relationship to each other, bound by the laws of nature of a mother and child, pet and owner.

The soft fur of Silver brushed against her skin and Kanix looked down at the creature, moving a hand to lightly stroke its head. It was nice that a beast as wild as this one had come to tame itself and view Frey as its owner and something it needed to protect. In fact, it was much like Ancalagon, who had learned over time that Kanix was someone he needed to protect, not just be thankful for. In return, the woman would protect him if he were ever to be in danger, just as Frey would protect Silver in his times of need. Moving her hand away, the woman placed it back into Ancalagon’s feathers, gripping a decent chunk as they flew through the sky. The duo quickly passed through the portal that would lead them into Fiore, where Kanix knew they would likely be hunted by Rune Knights. As they burst through the other side, Kanix blinked her single eye and glanced around, letting the aura of the world fill her senses.

Hearing Frey’s words, the woman focused back in on the little girl, curious to know what these “Earthmates” and “Dragon Guardians” were. She had known the young girl had come from a strange place, left here at the doorstep of her guild by the wolf in the end. Her eyebrows scrunched together and she had to think for a moment what they could have possibly been; some sort of magus perhaps. “Earthmates. . . are they a type of magus that you lived with, and these Dragon Guardians, I presume are simply just dragons?” she inquired. To have a surplus of dragons as guardians meant that whatever place she had once been at was a nest waiting for Dragonslayers. Kanix didn’t like the idea of that, but she knew that it was impossible for Dragonslayers to not want to kill another dragon, as it was a part of their magic. Even for herself, she often found it difficult to not want to hunt down a dragon she had seen and slaughter it with her own hands.

Instantaneously, as Ancalagon began to descend on instinct, Silver pushed Kanix out of the way and grabbed hold of Frey, making off with her. This had taken Kanix by surprise, but she didn’t have time to react and had to focus on the guards that were down below. “Ancalagon, I want you to loop around and attack as many guards as you find necessary! These are not nice guards,” she ordered her bird. With that being said the woman stood to her feet and dropped off the bird, letting him take care of the guards while she headed toward the mares. Lightning bolts would come striking down from the sky, perfectly aimed by the beast so that each bolt of electricity landed on a guard. The guards would not have time to react in escaping from the lightning bolts, forced to either roll out of the way or be struck. Unfortunately, many of the guards were struck down by the bolts as they came flashing down at the literal speed of light.

Kanix, on the other hand, went straight for the three mares that had been kept in the barn, hearing them whinnying and neighing. When she reached them, she instinctively moved out a hand to pet the nose of one, only to have it snap at her and try to tear skin off. She yelled at the creature, scolding it for wanting to eat her when she was there to help it get out of the cage it didn’t belong in. Unlocking the doors of the stalls the woman led two of the mares out, keeping them tied to one of the trees so that they couldn’t escape. Afterward, she went back in for the third that had tried to bite her, grabbing a muzzle to place it on the mouth of the creature. However, it would prove to be a little more difficult that it was meant to be, as the horse had reared up and tried biting at her again. Angrily, Kanix reached out a hand and roughly grabbed hold of the beast’s mouth, forcing down to all fours and binding the muzzle on it.

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