Seems like a nice change of scenery

Lanta looks around the quiet looking town, smiling in the soft daylight as he paces through the streets from the railway station, heading to where he was told the guild hall was located. He thought about the activity of his morning, arriving at one guild hall cold and staring at the sheer walls of stone ahead and around himself, not a person in sight. And now here, in a nice looking town, following the trail of this Mavis girl. Would have been easier if he risked his spine by running along the steps down with her. But hindsight is always 20/20. "At least it's sunny." he says to himself, feeling the warmth against his skin, he rolls up the sleeves of his shirt, though keeping his red waistcoat done up. He finally arrives at the doors of the guild hall. "Sounds coming from inside. That's a good start." he notes casually to himself as he knocks briskly on the door, five sharp knocks against the door as he takes the step back from the door just in case it swung outwards and towards him.

Another day, another chance to enjoy the increasing growth and progression of the, not so long ago  life supported guild. The Pegasus was once again thriving, and the green haired lad was more than happy to be apart of it. That being said it did seem like people were coming in left and right, not that it was particularly a bad thing, but it sure is making it rowdy at times. Being a bystander in most of those situations however, it never fully reaches him why all of the fuss needs to be made. Perhaps that is just something he will once again comprehend once he becomes closer to his goal.

But for now he had nothing better to do than casually relax at a table in the back, on looking the joyous faces leaving his blank mind with something to focus on. But over all of the noise there was an odd knocking sound, turning all around him to see if anyone had been tapping away or something, but to no avail. If it were someone at the hall usually those just walk in, so it is rather odd to hear it after so long. Claiming to be the one to check, letting the others continue their noisy enjoyment, he couldn't help but have a head tilt when quickly pulling the large door open. Awkwardly standing for a moment face to face with this unfamiliar, but sly looking appearance. As Luard would normally do, he tried to break the ice with courtesy and etiquette.

"Um, greetings. Would you happen to be the pizza delivery guy? I do tip nicely." While trying not to sound insulting or rude as it being a playful joke, he stood there with a goofy smile rubbing the back of his already messy head. "But in actuality, what brings your visit today. Don't believe I've seen your face before, think I would be able to recall it." He paused for a minute giving an extra scan of the fellow just to double-check his already hazy memory. "Well no matter, why don't you come on in. It will most likely be easier for a handful of us to help rather than simply little Ole me." With a swift turn, Luard marched back to the center area, with the guy hopefully following, Wasn't much of a walk but Luard would listen if he decided to speak his reason now, or at least an introduction of sorts. While he was slightly interested in the man's reason, this was something he was fairly new too so someone a bit more experience with new or random people showing up to the guild could probably be of better assistance. It isn't everyday that some superbly well dressed individual comes knocking at the guild doors, at least not when he's around.

Lanta waits at the door, starting to get bored at this point; he heard people inside, he knew they were in there... maybe another knock on the door would do. At that moment the door swings open to reveal a boy? Man maybe, with green hair, interesting fashion statement, he had a very happy face though, almost too happy in Lanta's opinion. Nobody smiles at the sky like it is a long lost relative unless they wish it to be. He smiles back awkwardly to the man, realising they were both stood there staring at eachother and smiling. Awkward moment to have as the first impression.

He smooths his hair back then stops at the question, looking down at his garments, fitting of a casino dealer, before looking back up to Luard, raising an eyebrow with a smirk "If your pizza delivery guys wear outfits like this, I know who I am going to be getting to make the calls to them, although tips are still more than welcomed by me." he chuckles gently to himself, rubbing his forearm. He raises his hand, index finger extended in that pose to suggest one wanting to talk, before he saw the man walking along to the inside area, he shrugs to himself; this man was very strange and oddly friendly. But that seemed the way of all the guild members he had met so far from this guild. So he follows, lowering his hand.

As Mavis had woken up from her sleep, by one of the employees working on the train she embarrassingly smiled. She couldn't believe she fell asleep on the train, she must've been exhausted travelling to Infinity Hydra, plus she had accidentally recruited a man from Infinity Hydra to Blue Pegasus. She smiled, apologizing to Ardere under her breath. It's not like the man would notice he had lost a new member, he probably went under the radar, however he didn't for Blue Pegasus. Mavis was glad he decided to join, he seemed to be a big gambler from what Mavis acquired talking to him. She had ran to the guild, pushing open the doors.

As the light from outside cleared she saw Luard and Lanta. Mavis smiled, walking over.

"Hey Luard~ and hey Lanta, so about that gamble, what was it? We can do it now if you want too that is." Mavis smiled, hopefully he remembered and was up to it. "I apologize to being late I fell asleep on the train... that was embarrassing."

Mavis sat at a round table drinking on a glass of water which was given to her by the Bartender. It was much needed her mouth always got dry when she slept. It was annoying but it was an easy curse, thankfully.

It made Luard tap his fingers together in joy that he not only seemed the fine-looking gentlemen not only found his joke amusing, but threw one right back at him. He could already tell this was a person he could handle being around, letting a small chuckle at his response. Luard was a man of himself and did what so ever his mind decided to do, so he can come of standoffish and rude, that being noted how he would simply walk back into the guild when it seemed he still had more to talk about. Nonetheless it was much easier to do so inside, with the mass of Pegasi instead of one of the new calves.

And the first face his eyes had met with was of course none other than Miss Diligence herself, very fitting as she was one of the few that managed to stick out for the complex young man. Luard would let out a gesturing wave towards the already approaching female with spirits as high as always. She spoke very relaxed to the random gentlemen, giving the assumption that the two had been acquaintances. Well perhaps Mavis had a guest over today or possibly a new companion for their humble abode, he didn't call her Miss Diligence for nothing.

"Ah, nice to see you again, Mavis. I take it you know this gentlemen here, how wonderful I suppose this makes things much clearer of his odd arrival then." Trying to justify his own interpretation of the situation going on here, raising a finger with a metaphoric light bulb starting to flicker up above him. "But this gamble activity, makes it sound rather luck based. How intriguing." He spoke quietly too himself, knowing the general term but as for this act of gambling was beyond his year of exploration. No matter he followed Mavis to the bar before giving a response to her later words.

"I do find it rather amusing that Miss Diligence, would be a bit careless and sleep on a train, ergo being late for your guest. I suppose all of us can overwork ourselves, especially during such difficult times." For a second almost forgetting about Lanta, whom he just now realized he hadn't known his name before. Assuming he would join along and begin chatting with Mavis, feeling he should notify of his position before rudely losing focus upon them. "But I suppose you two would wish to discuss your business in peace, I'll be here if you need, or want me however." He flashed a final smile towards the two next to him before taking a moment to once again scan around the guild hall letting the two of them chat about his reason for coming. He would however simply overhear the details while waiting for a moment to interject himself, or if he is asked to join back in,

Lanta grins; this kid had flair. Seemed rather charismatic, and full of appreciation for genuine fun; his kind of guy really. He glances around the guild hall, noticing the woman who brought him wasn't there, seemed weird since she was on the train before him; had he ended up at the wrong guild through all of this?

Suddenly the doors burst open, as he looked, he smiles in relief at seeing Mavis walking in, and oh. She'd fallen asleep on the train. Lucky for her it must have terminated at the station she was meant to be getting off at. It would have been awful if he had worried about being in the wrong place any longer. He claps his hands with a laugh "Absolutely we can, hey, funny guy; don't try and get away so soon. Come, let us sit down at a table and play; cards is a social activity after all." he smiles to the two, a glint in his eye "Who enjoys Blackjack?" he asks as he sits next to Mavis. "After all. There is no private business with me. Besides, we do not know eachother yet. Although I am sure the two of you know one another quite well."

Mavis was staring into Luard's eyes, paying attention to him as he told her he assumed she knew him, she only nodded. Looking at Lanta she smiled.

"Why yes, I was traveling to the guild hall of Infinity Hydra to get an unofficial treaty and just scope out the guild for personal data." Mavis smiled, "However ran into this guy, who turns out he hates mountains and rather join Blue Pegasus." 

Luard had called out the Pegasus woman's mistake for passing out on the train.

"Hey... I didn't mean too." She sounded sad but quickly giggled. "Also Luard, you don't have to exclude yourself, mister~" 

She pouted. As Lanta explained the gamble, Mavis made a concentrated face.

"U-Uh blackjack?" Mavis questioned herself, whispering.

She quickly opened multiple projected flat screens searching for information on the card game. She found few stored information on it, she squinted her eyes and puckered her lips, like a child.

"H-How about goldfish or maybe just a drink and chat." Mavis offered, chuckling.

It wasn't that she wasn't capable of playing it was more so she didn't wanna take the time to learn it.

Having new members in the guild brought with it some changes. One of them was that it had become noisier. Akeya wasn't sure if she considered that an improvement, although she guessed that it was better to have a noisy guild which at least could sustain itself than a silent guild which was slowly dying and withering away. Still, Akeya tended to sleep during the day due to her nocturnal nature, so having people actually make sound during the day meant she had to retreat further into the bowels of the guild hall to find a good place to sleep which people wouldn't interrupt with their lively noisiness.

Having woken up only half an hour ago Akeya was already making her way through the guild hall, planning to head for the training grounds to help her wake up completely through some rigorous exercises. Another change that had occurred due to new people joining the guild en masse was that there was more value in training and improving than before. Of course, improvement had always been an important factor in Akeya's life, but even someone as dedicated as her could still gain some additional motivation from the threat of competition (although she wouldn't actually allow these newcomers to know that she saw them as that. The moment they knew she took them seriously as threats to her own position they'd become very bold). None of the newcomers seemed to share her profession, but there were still several who could favour a more physical fighting style...

Walking through the guild Akeya altered her path when she sensed a new source of magic. Another newcomer entering the guild? The dragoness was aware that with the rebirth of Blue Pegasus more mages would be interested in joining, but it was still surprising her just how many people had suddenly decided to join a guild which had fallen into decay, and that new applicants were still arriving. It wasn't really her job to keep an eye on who joined and who didn't, but she did feel a certain curiosity to see what kind of people she would have to deal with and tolerate. Some of the newcomers had actually been quite promising, but that didn't mean all of them would be without issue...

Entering the open room which was used as bar and meeting place for most of the Blue Pegasus mages Akeya looked around, her emerald eyes quickly picking out the one whose magic she hadn't sensed before. A bit of a strange one, but not that much stranger than most mages tended to be. Akeya had the theory that every single mage was just odd in some way, because each of them had their magic affect their lives and thus also their personalities. As such one had to be more suspicious of a mage which appeared to be completely normal, since it was either an anomaly or someone trying to hide their true self.

Regardless, the newcomer didn't seem to be a real threat. Two of the others had already encountered him and were currently chatting with him. Akeya recognized one as being Mavis, although she wasn't so sure about the other one, although she had seen him before. Maybe he just had never told her his name? Anyway, there wasn't too much reason for Akeya to stick around. If the new one was a problem those two should be able to handle it, and if they couldn't there would be enough havoc that others could step in and help. Akeya's job wasn't to act like the moderator and caretaker of the newcomers of the guild, and she doubted they would appreciate her acting like a mother hen either, especially since she wouldn't be able to pretend to be enthusiastic about it.

However, just in case... Akeya motioned towards the group of three, Lanta, Mavis and Luard. Her shadow darkened for a moment before something slipped off, after which the dragoness walked off towards the training grounds. The dark spot that had detached itself circled around the tree before sliding closer, hiding in the shadows until it could attach itself to Lanta's shadow, where it stealthily remained.