Amaia in: "Daddy Daycare!" [private social with Mashyuu]

Amaia woke up early in the morning, she moved quietly not to disturb her father. It was around 6 am, she knew that her father Mashyuu had just recently came back from a very difficult job, to show appreciation for his hard work she decided to make her father breakfast. To others the small apartment would seem to be quite cramped for the parent and child, but to Amaia the apartment was still too big, still too empty, after all... someone was missing. Amaia thought about her mother as she made her way through the multitude of trophies her father had accumulated during his heroic escapades. She was well aware that her mother was busy being the new guild leader,  so she had no right to pout. Even so, Amaia wished to have her family together. She quickly dismissed the thought and quickly wrote a note for her father saying to meet her at the dining area of the guildhall.

She quickly got dressed and made her way through the city to buy the ingredients she needed. As Amaia walked through the streets of Ace of Spades, she marveled at the growth of the guild. She was quite proud to be a member of the Sabertooth guild. In an hour or so she managed to buy all the things she needed and headed back to the guild. She waved at a few mages of Sabertooth as she made her way back into the guild and in to the dining area. As soon as she arrived at the kitchen she started taking ingredients and other sorts of cooking utensils she was going to need. After an hour or two of meticulously measuring, prepping, and balancing on a chair to reach the stove she began to make the breakfast for her father. Eventually the ingredients meshed together and cooked over the fire until it became a beautiful meal.

Amaia set the plate down and arranged it accordingly. It was a three dragon shaped pancakes that stood beside four bacon strips on top of scrambled eggs seasoned with various spices and herbs. She then set a large cup of orange juice, and apple next to the plate. She then put a bottle of maple syrup just in case her father wanted it for the pancakes. Amaia looked at her work satisfied. A smile crawled upon her lips as she had a brilliant idea. She then rushed outside and picked up a rock, washed it, and placed it next to the plate with a note that said "Dessert".

"Hmmm seems like everything is in order...a job well done Amaia, a job well done indeed." As she stood there admiring her work, her stomach growled. In her rush to make her father breakfast she forgot to have some breakfast for herself. Amaia quickly went back to the kitchen and whipped herself a bowl of Dragon-O's, her favorite cereal. Even the bowl of cereal looked stunning due to the cut strawberries and blueberries she put on top of her cereal. She then plopped down in front of the breakfast she had made for her father to keep watch, making sure no one else would eat her surprise for her daddy.

Amaia felt her fathers hand rest over her eyes. She immediately knew the roughness of her fathers palms. She giggled and took her tiny hands to move her fathers hands away. She then looked up at him and smiled sweetly."Good morning papa. Hmmmmmmm.... Egging the Guild Masters office?.... That does sound like a tempting offer papa hahaha.... well...let's see.." She paused and moved her spoon through the milk and cereal in her bowl as she quickly went through her mental to do list.

"Well..... Since you don't have any work today... would you like to accompany me as I go shopping today? I am going to look for some books, and various other sorts of equipment for a.... my chemistry projects. If we still have some more time, would it be alright if you educate me more about your magic?" She had a multitude of things she needed to buy for her laboratory she was planning to construct once she had a venue for her set up. She finished her cereal, leaving the bowl nearly empty with the exception of the last remaining of drops of milk. She waited for her father to finish his breakfast before she began to clean the table. She swiftly yet gracefully finished washing the dishes and hurried along to her father side.

"I need to get my bag in our apartment. I'll meet you in the front of the guild once I get my stuff." Amaia finished cleaning up the table before she started to head back to the small apartment she came from that morning.

Amaia entered the room she shared with her father, she then saw a door that was not on the wall that morning. She curiously opened the door to find her own little room. It was neat and spacious, she noticed all the little fine details, the furniture all placed in convenient parts of the room. Amaia smiled at her father. "This is amazing! Thanks papa." she ran up to Mashyuu and gave him a tight hug. She let go of her father and turned back at her room to look at it once more before grabbing her bag. She was glad she had her own place, she was even more happy that her room was so close to her fathers. She chuckled at her fathers notion of not blowing up the guild hall. She was absolutely sure it wouldn't happen. after all she wasn't planning to set up her lab there. Amaia had another location in mind. Soon enough she led her father out of the guild and through the town. She led the way to a near by oddity shop where she began browsing for random trinkets and metals she planned to experiment with.

As she picked up a bottle with some sort of monster eye floating in some sort of liquid preservative she asked her father "Papa...since you're an earth and iron dragon slayer, can you feel the various rock sediments in the ground, the various type of metals? If so...can you also sense other elements such as different types of metal like gold... When moving the earth can you also sense elements like sulfur?" She looked into the bottle swishing it around watching as the eye ball swirled in the bottle.

"Well the reason why I'd like to know is.... for my magic.... I've recently started to teach myself a bit of alchemy.... I can do just a little bit with the elements, and bits of metal I buy from the store... but I want to be able to do it on a bigger scale, like call upon the elements within the ground... I can't exactly ask my opponent to wait for me as I go off to the store to buy the elements I need for my alchemy" Amaia spoke her words in a calm fashion as she brought the items she wanted to purchase at the counter.

"And of course papa, I intended to do all my chores hahaha after all the principle of alchemy is equivalent exchange. I'll be happy to do my share of the work in the guild." Amaia quickly took out her coin purse and paid for her items before looking up at her father with a smile.

Amaia placed the items in her bag and began to think of what else she needed, she then recalled a book she had placed on hold at a secondhand bookstore a few blocks away. "Next on the list would be a book I need... hey papa do you know when we'll be able to visit mama?" inquired Amaia absent mindlessly as she doubled checked the items she just purchased. Amaia quickly realized what she had said and immediately felt guilty for asking the question, she was well aware of the situation she had no right to selfishly ask for her mother when other people needed her more. "Ah!...Sorry...never mind papa... l-lets get going..." Amaia said quickly as she hastened her pace.

Amaia embraced her father she gave him a pat on the head"It's okay papa I understand...we'll see her soon" she took her tiny hands and put them on her fathers cheeks and smooshed them until she molded her fathers face to a funny looking expression. She giggled and hugged him tightly once more.

"Let's go and get those books now papa." she smiled as she took her fathers hand and led her down the bustling city. A few individuals that Amaia had helped before approached her and greeted her father. Some had gifts to offer, others offered a heart warming thanks and smile. Soon enough the approached the secondhand bookstore that Amaia was so fond of.

Amaia opened the door to the shop, it rang the bell softly. An old couple made their way to the desk and gave Amia a smile clearly glad to see their faithful customer come by again. "Amaia...good to see you dear....it seems that you brought some company." smiled the old lady.

Amaia nodded and beamed as she introduced her father to the elderly couple "Yup
"Yup this man here is my father!"

Mashyuu smiled at Amaia, seeing how she understood the situation so well warmed his heart in a great way. He wasn't sure how she managed when every day was a struggle for the brown haired young man who had a child under magical means and was now raising someone who could barely pass as his daughter based on how old he was.

As she pushed his cheeks together Mashyuu couldn't help but chuckle to himself and make a silly sound at Amaia. "Mhm, books, then we work on your magic." Mashyuu agreed with the little girl. Dragged by his hand Mashyuu smiled and waved at some folks who offered the pair a kind word or tried to give them gifts. Mashyuu explained to Amaia how accepting gifts could be bad because people might try to use that against you the next time they need help but to know when to take things to not offend others while they drew closer to the book store.

Once inside Mashyuu waved to the elder couple that Amaia had clearly bought books from in the past and grinned ear to ear. "I got my first Dragon Slayer Magic book here. Almost a year ago." Mashyuu expressed while slipping a few jewels into Amaia's pocket for her purchases today.