The Serpents Shadow Grows (Famine/Madison)

Sol smirked as he sat on his throne in his castle on Mt Hakobe, he greatly enjoyed that he had this fortress all to himself an his other guild mates and even if someone tried to attack here he had an army ready to crush most intruders, while his guild mates could take the hidden path up the mountain to find his castle the poison dragon had taken to making a few special mirrors and having them put in the castle and in Basilisk Fang for easy travel. The first one he had given to Famine as a gift and it lead her right to his Throne room if she ever needed him.

He had sent for her and left a note in her room to meet him here in the castle since he had two things of interested for her, a gift and a powerful pawn, he also was hoping to show her around as well since she had yet to actually tour his castle and he wanted her to know her way around. He had sent for his pawn and was also waiting on her arrival, she he had left some triggers in the young girl he knew she would heed his call since he had broken her mind heavily.

The child let out a loud yawn in the early mornings time, kicking the sheets from off of her and giving off an odd sound as she tried to wake herself up some. She sat up in her bed and looked around the dark room, rubbing the back of her messy head before sliding over to the edge and letting her feet hang off before popping down onto the floor and headed toward her bathroom as her normal routine inquired. After showering and brushing her teeth, she exited the bathroom and locked her door before moving back to her bed and kneeling for her usual morning prayers. The normal, quiet moments she spent at her bedside had been probably one of the best mood setting things for the day and had been a rather enjoyable thing for the little red head.

As she had said her final graces, a random voice called out and her mind and body went numb for a moment. Her bright eyes dimmed into a glazed over look and seemed to only stare towards her freshly made bed. With not a word spoken, the entranced girl stood up onto her feet and walked over to her closet, pulling out her maid uniform that had been given to her upon her meeting Sol and dressing herself into it. Her long, red hair had been left down completely and brushing out any and all wrinkles and anything that may have gotten on her outfit.

After her hypnotic mind had come to find the appearance was suitable to her masters liking, she walked to her dresser where her Rosario, a lacrima gifted by Sol, and a small mirror also gifted by him had sat. She wrapped the Rosario around her neck and picked up the mirror, vanishing from her room and appearing almost instantly at the foot of the castle. With hands clasped in front of her, she approached the doors before they opened for her just enough for her tiny frame to fit in without a problem. She'd mindlessly walk through the halls, being starred at by the inhabitants before she approached the throne room and walked up to the bottom of the staircase to the throne and kneeling on both knees, her head facing the floor with her hair falling all around her. "Good morning, master. It's a pleasure to serve under you once more." Her dead tone spoke out, remaining still until he would tell her otherwise.

The room fell cold…(well colder than usual) almost instantaneously as Basilisk’s master opened the passage into Sol’s domain. The Mirror at the corner of the room rippled behind her like jello as she peeled away from the glass frame and stepping through the vortex and into the throne room fully. She was quick to brush off her black garments, bare toes curling against the chilly throne room floor.

Famine almost thought that she had stepped into the wrong castle at first for her greeting sight had been none other than Madison’s petite redheaded form knelt at the center of the room. The girl  was young and dressed in an outfit constructed of a maid’s lace and frills. Famine’s eyebrow furrowed at the odd display. The seer’s eyes cast upwards eventually finding Sol where he sat in the high arching throne at the end of the room.

“So now you're the one summoning me to your feet, what is it you want?” She spoke, as though displeased he had taken her away from the fortress… Had Ahote not been comfortable and fast asleep at that she would not have even considered leaving the vicinity of their home… But the placement of the note on the mirror gave the guild master the impression that it was urgent.

With dead silent foot falls she sidled up behind Sol’s prize and didn’t think twice before taking a rough handful of ruby hair and yanking her feet. Her spare hand laid instinctively and possessively at the girl’s arms to keep her still in case she showed any kind of shock or struggle

Bottomless and dead blue pools stared up at the slayer on his perch.

“And what’s this?” Famine said, tugging back on their scalp harder, straining the girls head upwards. “Breakfast?” The maker-mage guessed, recalling Sol’s cannibalistic ways and the blood-splashing carnage she had witnessed on numerous accounts.

Sol grinned as his puppet appeared before him and in her blank state as well, it was a good thing too since what he planned on talking to Famine couldn’t be heard by just anyone.” very good Madison” he said before he caught sight of his guild master stepping out of the mirror and into the throne room, she seemed to sound displeased at that fact that he had summoned her and not the other way around but sol could only smirk slightly.”I must admit this is an interesting change of pace but no matter , I asked you here Mistress because I have two things of interest for you” he explained before Famine moved before he could finish his explanation.

The blond guild master grabbed Madison by the hair and lifted her up, it would hurt but Sol knew it wasent enough to knock her out of that state since his curse was incredibly powerful.Famine questioned if she was his breakfast and Sol scowled as he stood and started to descend down the set of stairs to where the two were at,”She isn’t a meal and she is one of the reasons I called you here so let her go we can’t have her harmed or people will ask questions” he told her his voice was stern when he told her to let Madison go since he knew that her being the guild masters daughter that there was a chance Aiyana might get suspicious if she was hurt.

“She is Madison Richter from Pharohs Call and the adopted daughter of the guild master there. I brought her here to show her to you and to find out some new information since I have her under my power now” Sol explained as he stood before Famine and Madison

Despite being in her entranced state, a smile lit her blank face from the words complimenting her on her manners and obedient greeting towards her master. He had remained silent as well, and even with the sound of encroaching footsteps, her head hadn't budged an inch from it's spot. Her body acted only on command or by force and without a word spoken towards her since then, she simply remained still like a doll positioned on the shelf. A womans voice spoke out towards Sol even as the steps continued to close in on the little red head. Her voice seemed rather annoyed by having to be here, but she wasn't berating the man over having to come here either. From the sounds of it, it was like they had known one another, however in her current state her mind wouldn't process a single thing without being told to.

The little god slayer let out a small grunt as her hair was gripped onto and yanked up to her feet by force. Her arms pinned behind her back as well, she began to ask questions about who the girl was. She forced her head backward, wincing without much of another word spoken and listening to her refer to her as potential food. If she'd look at the girls face, she would see the one open eye of which would seem dead and hazy. After being let go, if let go, she'd give a curtsy to the woman as she was introduced and standing beside her master like the mindless minion she had become, not even phased anymore by the actions taken against her, including the slightly messy hair she had. That however didn't seem to matter right now. "It's a pleasure to meet you, madam. Master speaks highly of you."

Famine released a sigh-- a frustrating sounding breath. “So you swiped a prized possession from the hall of the Pharos,” under normal circumstances, Famine may have been impressed by Sol’s efforts...though thanks to recent happenings she only managed to ever fall back on the negativities.

Harshly she let go of the little one, keeping a close glare.

“What then?... We keep the little jailbait here and wait for the guild to crash in looking for her.” She spat, unable to quite understand her slayer's aim. Sol was dear to her; granted as an asset on the chessboard, but one of her biggest players. She only wished that they could see this on the same page. “And the end game is to make another enemy?” the seer added in a cruel tone….She was aggravated as of late--- and the idea of Sol taking this into his own hands well, was frustrated. She had a hard time trusting anyone but herself in deciding for the guild--- especially when it meant their prey…..

What could Pharos Call offer them in this?

Despite Famine sounding rather upset and annoyed with him once she released Madison from her grasp Sol grinned widely, she didn’t seemed to understand why he had ensnared Madison despite all that he told her.” I wouldn’t really say swiped as much as it waltzed right into my lair who am I to turn down such a Prize” he said with a chuckle before he became serious. “Famine I may do thing without your permission and sometimes they may be seen as disobedience but rest assured I do them for good reason and for the good of the guild always” he said before he turned to Madison and continued his explination.”I have find no use in keeping the little one here and you are correct it would draw suspicion and we don’t want that but with my new ability that’s not a problem” the son of Ballom said before he suddenly gained a grin that would make a Cheshire cat jealous.

“in her last visit I used my curse and ripped away her ability to think and took her free will away, what you see now is the result, not a brain in her cute little head she is completely mindless, no matter the order she will obey but that’s not all she has a few triggers which make it so I can call her back to the castle at anytime and no one is any wiser.” he explained before he let out a laugh at how lucky he had been before he spoke to the red haired girl.”Now Madison I want you to tell me anything important that has happened in your guild leave out no detail and should my mistress hear ask you a question you will answer her to the best of your ability understand?” he explained as he waited for his report.

It was as if the pain pushed on her from the grip of the older blonde woman had been entirely ignored and blocked from her blank mind. She hadn't resisted, spoke, or even so much as blinked when she was held and restrained by her while she waited to confirm her suspicions of the girls appearance here. When she finally did let go, the mindless maid had fixed her stance and placed her hands back where they had been before and stood in sheer and slightly creepy silence while the others had discussed amongst one another. Even as they spoke to one another, usually like any other person would do, they would keep eyes on whomever was speaking while they did so to gain more out of what they said. In this case however, her attention solely faced ahead of her and had not moved a single bit but to blink.

Upon hearing Sol call her name, just as if she had snapped out of a daydream, her head snapped up at him. She listened to her orders and then looked to the blonde as he mentioned her as his mistress. Looking back to Sol, she would nod to his words and straighten up a little. "I do not have much unfortunately master, but I have heard on several occasions of an alliance with one or two other legal affiliated guilds. However, I do not know of any names and I apologize for not giving more useful information." She had gone quiet for a moment, her dead gaze crawling over until she was looking at Famine and gave a curtsy, before returning to her former position. "And it's a pleasure to meet and serve you as well, mistress. I hope I can be useful to you and whomever else master brings here."

She paused and looked back to Sol as something ticked her in emptied skull. Not saying anything at first, she simply tried to form the thought and quietly cleared her throat before speaking. "Would master like me to get him anything?" She offered, whether it was within her entranced state or not was unknown to her, but perhaps something Sol may have laid in wait for her.

Famine gave a quick and unimpressed roll of her azure optics.”And your prize is hardly resourceful despite what you might have thought. She doesn't seem to know a thing that I don’t.”[.b] The guild overseer finalized without another glance to the ruby haired girl. “It was not worth the Risk Sol.” Famine finalized, again showing her dissatisfaction.

The maker mage didn’t yet have another path set out for her empire since the fall of Fairy Tail…. But she was smart enough to know that the enslavement and brainwashing of a Guild Master’s loved one only fanned the flames of a conflict.Things changed but certainly this law did not.

The plains of Fiore had since evolved rapidly in the course of a few months new factions rose and fall, guild masters passed on their power to new personalities...The  important part was that. She wished to rebuild the hierarchy of Fiore where the hardest working mages remained at the bottom and the ordinary human beings above them…. Putting them in harm's way for petty tasks. If a mage died it was their job well done… Damned if a human died it was the mage’s, who had become defender of the human, fault…

She hated the world because those with the greatest talent and powers were forced to make such dangerous lives for themselves…. And yet the legal mage was oblivious to their slavery to the law…. Famine abandoned her light guild because she was tired of being a night. Now she had to destroy knights to put the petty townspeople in their rightful places,where they worked for themselves.  How could one slave girl from Pharoh’s Call aid this mission?

“Did you wish to propose a plan to eradicate Pharoh's Call? Is this why you brought me here to see your play thing? Or maybe you want my praise, a pat on the head, a golden star for your puny efforts?”

Sol narrowed his eyes as Famine seemed to shoot down his servants usefulness since she knew things that the guildmaster already knew.”Mistress I respectfully disagree, even if she does not know anything useful now what is to say that she won’t later” he explained before he caught Madison asking if he wanted anything, turning his attention to the red haired girl he nodded.”yes please go fetch Famine the gift I have for her I‘m sure you remember what room you need to go to“ he said simply as he turned his attention back to Famine, he was sure she would like the dress he had made for her but she was still wondering what he had planned for this brainwashed legal mage.

“I had you come here to show you her and also I havea gift for you, but if your curious as to why I have such a dangerous person as a servent I did it for two reasons Mistress, the first is that as you heard Pharoahs call is potentially in an alliance with a few other guilds, my idea is not to wipe of Pharohs calls but to completely wipe this alliance out if they cannot work together they are weaker and more able to be picked off by others such as us.’ he explained before he spoke again.”the second reason is more for my own goal the hunt for Achnologia, I want that Dragons throne for myself Famine and the more eyes and ears I have for it the better” Sol said looking at her with a serious look on his face and his tone was just as serious.