Took The Wrong Trail;; Job

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Frey had not yet gone on a mission on her own since she had joined Savage Skull mostly because she was afraid if she left on her own she would return to find out Marceline being her birth mother was just a dream. However? As time went by the little girl managed to settle down in the dark guild, despite still not understanding the difference between dark and light. Rune did not even really comprehend that they had killed people in Mongolia when she joined up with them upon finding out their guild master was the woman who bore her. Today she was going to be going on her first mission without any of her guildmates. Frey had done this in Fairy Tail and it was no less terrifying, to be going somewhere without her mother or a trusted comrade. Of course how could her comrades trust her when she so easily flipped on Fairy Tail when she found out she had family in Savage Skull, of course who could blame a little girl who just wanted her mother. Maybe if she had not been left alone a second time it would have been different, but now, well things went the way they did.

The little girl was happy with the location of this job, because she had been munching on green tender grass, and succulent juicy branches all the way towards the house of the client. One deep breath and she raised her hand to knock on the door, wondering if another mage would already be there, since she had accepted the job kind of late. “Hello?” she uttered the word knocking on the door, breathing slightly. “My name is Frey, I’m one of the mages who accepted your request.” of course she did not know it was not that simple considering she had the mark of a dark guild clearly visible on her pale shoulder. Rune was just an innocent child, after-all, the only thing she knew about Savage Skull was it had her mother. “So um, can I come in to start my job?” the little girl rocked on her booted feet, pink hair fluttering around her.

Job details:

Ten minutes before Frey opened the door, Mashyuu slipped into an old house and started to talk to an old man who was laying in bed at the center of the room. Mashyuu put his back to the door so anyone walking in would see a tall man with dark brown hair, in a brown martial arts gi covering him from head to ankle. His feet were bare but his hands were wrapped in white tape and gloves. He had already accepted the rather dull job but smelled the young woman coming and could feel her steps as she drew closer to the building.

Not wanting to leave the old man in danger, as much as he didn't want to care for the coot, Mashyuu waited until the door opened. "Oh, a girl... Can I help you?" Mashyuu's deep voice spoke softly, letting his words echoed out around them. The Earth wizard turned to face the girl then looked back at the man. "Yeah you can start the job. I'll carry the basket, you fill it." Mashyuu instructed while looking the girl up and down. Something about her was familiar.

Annoyed with the first job he was doing, Mashyuu stalked past the young woman and out the door, leaving the man and girl in silence while he headed for a near by forest. In times past Mashyuu would have spoken kindly to the girl, learned her name and what guild she was from. But now he just didn't care. Nothing mattered and the only reason he was doing the job was because he needed money at the moment. He stopped at the edge of the forest and turned his head towards the girl, blue eyes narrowing in annoyance for having to stop. "...Girl, are you coming or not?" Mashyuu asked while rolling his shoulders. He could feel the power of the god inside him swelling up and struggling to get free but Mashyuu wouldn't let the creature harm such a small girl, not while he could control the monster within him.

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She very much did dislike the fact she was the second mage to arrive, the little girl had been hopping to make Savage Skull look good, unaware that such a goal was really counterproductive to the Guild itself. No one had figured out that Frey was so innocent yet, that or they did not wish to burst the little girl's delicate bubble and potentially risk facing the wrath of the child's birth mother on the chance the queen of death did not want her daughter corrupted quiet yet. Regardless, the child managed to retain her purity despite the holy energy that caused her green haired and eyed form, having been removed by Vlad several days before. Thus the form she showed now was not the body her adoptive mother and fairy tail had known. Frey wondered if anyone from her past would recognize her without being told it was her, she did not want to lose friends because her appearance changed.

     One fang chewed on her tongue idly as she listened to the taller man and instantly had the idea that he was being a bit jerkish and brisk. As his aqua optics narrowed at her for what he interrupted as being slow, the little girl glared back with her bright pink optics, returning his glare the same as it was given. "That's not my name, it's Frey." she really did not like just being called girl, it made her feel like she was not important, not significant that he could walk away and forget entirely. After being abandon, lost and than abandon again before getting where she was? The idea someone could just dismiss her regardless of who they were or were not, did not sit well with Rune.

        "And of course I'm coming." she failed to inform him how it might take a while to fill the basket, because even as she picked several strawberries from a small plant on the ground? She was eating a few of them as she went. The little slayer girl was almost always eating, Hemlock said it was good for her to do so, as long as her food was from the earth. Anyway's, she had gathered an arm full of strawberries, a few for herself in her other hand.

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With the girl in toe Mashyuu entered the forest as she started to toss strawberries into the basket. He sniffed the air and his eyes went wide. He could smell a dragon near by. Maybe not a dragon but a dragon slayer. Memories of using such magic surged through him with every passing moment as he froze in place and dropped the basket in order to lean against a tree and shake off the feeling of being a different person once upon a time. "You shouldn't eat strawberries if you're trying to keep your strength up. Dragon Slayer of Earth. You should be eating a rock. Keep your magic power as high as you can without entering Dragon Force. Your body consumes magic at an unnatural state. It needs to be fed constantly." Mashyuu advised while picking the basket up again and following the small woman.

He couldn't shake the feeling that the two had met before and it was starting to bother him. "My name is Mashyuu, Sabertooth wizard and former Earth Dragon Slayer." He didn't tell her he was now a God Slayer in case this little woman was an enemy that he had in the past. Mashyuu grumbled under his breath about lost memories that he couldn't recall in any great detail. The man picked up a few mushrooms and tossed them in the basket. For the price the two were being paid the old man could have fed himself for a month by simply asking someone to buy food at the local market. Not wanting to seem like he was a completely rude man Mashyuu forced a smile on his face and sat on an old stump. "So, do you have a name or does Earth Dragon work for you?" Mashyuu noticed the dark guild symbol on the girl but didn't say a word about it. He didn't much care so long as she didn't attack him or the old man.

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She noticed while slowly chewing on another strawberry and part of the vine still attached to it, that her job partner had noticed something. Why was he looking at her like that? The little girl was suddenly afraid she had done something wrong and upset an adult, taking an awkward step back away from him, eyes shaking slightly as she clutched the plants she had picked to her chest waiting for his words. Frey jolted slightly, barely noticeable when he called her out for being a dragon slayer, the only people to do that had been other slayer's thus so far. The even better part was that this man was apparently trying to help her stay healthy as a dragon, it was nice to have someone expressing concern to her health as a slayer because no one had really done it before. The one person she had wanted to accept her as a dragon slayer? Had basically rejected, because of someone else. No one else had really mattered back than besides Kanix, but now Frey had her real family.

"Uh-" she didn't know what to say to him now, looking down timidly after she deposited her next set of plants in the basket. "It may sound strange but the earth is so much more than the ground, and my dragon is one who reflects this, thus thing's like plants are beneficial to me as well. Though I still do prefer stone." but she was still a little girl with a growing body and that meant she needed more forms of nourishment than stone. Of course she did not know that the pink form she had now was likely never going to age again. "But yeah I am always hungry." she appeased him by picking up a rock that had been next to some wild growing carrots, pulling them up as she chewed on the rock.

Frey was happy to have someone who didn't just seem to take her appearance of knowing what she was doing as a slayer, at it's face value, it felt nice to be worried over. However the spell shattered the very second she heard his name, body trembling as she dropped everything she had picked, not even watching as it shattered across the ground. Rune had never thought hearing his name, meeting him, would have any effect on her now that she had found Marceline and Acchim, her birth mother and the brother she had not even been aware of having, her family. However there had been a time she was ready to give up looking for them because she had Kanix and her adoptive mother would introduce her to the rest of their family when frey herself was ready. However by the time the little girl had been ready, Mashyuu had been gone. Unexpectedly, seeing him and knowing this was the man she became a dragon slayer because of, it felt like a knife plunging into her heart and she clutched at her chest.

"You don't get to call me Earth Dragon, my name is Frey Rune, but don't you dare call me by my first name, you don't have the right." her eyes narrowed at him as she sighed out through her nose.

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Frey dropped her belongings and Mashyuu dropped down, picking up the items and placing the in the basket. Then she spoke her name. "Frey... you were... You were important to my wife in a past life. Why?" Mashyuu knew the name but nothing else. His gaze drifted up to the girl who was now standing taller than he was due to him being dropped on a knee. The man stood up and walked closer to the girl. "I died, was possessed by a god and have to walk the earth, knowing that my memories are waiting for me to reclaim. You may have a major part of those memories in your possession. If you do, then you need to give them to me." Mashyuu's fists clenched twice before he too a half step back. From what he could remember, many of his spells didn't have long range as an Earth Dragon slayer and maybe hers did't either. Of course this was assuming that she was going to attack him.

"Don't attack her, you could learn from her. Or she could learn from you. Either way, this is a good thing." A voice echoed out in Mashyuu's mind, causing him to drop his guard and look around as if he could hear the sound from all over. The Wizard soon realized the voice was actually the god that was residing inside him. This was the first time the creature had decided to talk to him instead of simply killing whatever was putting their life in danger. "Are you sure we can trust her? She might try to kill us." Mashyuu asked the god with a quick mental thought. The man had forgotten that his lineage allowed him to shrug off earth attacks almost completely and he could eat her magic while she wouldn't be able to eat his.

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He just went about picking up the stuff she dropped to the ground in her shock and emotional turmoil, as if he had dealt with this a thousand times. This man was cold and callous, the child could not see any reason why the woman who she had once called mommy, had ever loved him! Any thought of him being anything less than some jerkish fiend, it was not an ideal she could entertain right now, she was displeased and frankly confused. Rune believed the most she should be feeling at the moment was nothing expect relief she did not have to deal with this man because she had her birth family now. Yet nothing felt like she expected it to, instead of the indifference she expected and now so badly wanted, she felt betrayed by him and it brought back how much it hurt to be left by Kanix.

        "Important? Well I thought I was, maybe I was until I became an Earth Dragon Slayer to have some connection to the adoptive father I never even got to meet, the man who left her all alone!" the female spoke up almost screaming at him, making sharp body movements as she did so, stomping one foot and shaking her head. No matter how mature or over it the child thought she was? The feelings she had when she thought they were all going to be a happy family, Frey had been unable to erase those and looking at him ripped a wound in her heart, one she thought vanished once she heard Marceline say those words. "I can't give you something you clearly didn't want to hang onto." she was just a little girl, but her words were sharp and her pink eyes although teary were filled with her anger as she turned her back to him.

Frey was unsure of what to do from here.

Mahyuu sighed and sat down on a flat rock, pointed at around one and moved his finger, slashing it with his mind and making a flat seat for Frey. "Have a seat. Let me explain what I remember." Mashyuu stated. He reached into his pocket and drew both his and Kanix's wedding rings. "Kanix and I were being hunted by a cult trying to raise a demon lord. They killed us both at almost the same time. As powerful as we were, it wasn't enough to stop an entire city devoted to a single cause. Mashyuu stopped and reached out, placing the wedding ring in Frey's hand.

"I was possessed by the demon, only to find out it's actually a god. It's not an evil one either. I have a hard time remembering things. I don't remember you, but I know your name. Kanix spoke well of you. I see the path your going down and while I can't stop you, I can tell you that family isn't always blood. I don't want to give something my love had up, but you seem like you need it more than me. If you want it, it's yours." Mashyuu left the ring in her hand and smiled at the girl. "I'm sorry for my attitude. I'm just very defensive right now since I don't remember who anyone is."

The man smiled and stood up, dusting his body off. "I do remember all of my Earth Dragon Slayer spells though, and I can teach you how to use them if you want. Nothing bad can come of that ya know." Mashyuu explained while walking to a small pond and grabbed up a few fruits that were growing on the edge of the pond. The Wizard tossed the fruits in the basket and returned to Frey's side to see if she was doing okay.

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She did not want to sit beside him, heck she did not even want to finish this mission because being near him made her feel sick! Yet she did not outright reject the request he made of her, instead she came to stand in front of him, not willing to give up being slightly taller due to him sitting down, it made her feel somewhat more powerful than she really was. The little girl wanted to hate him and right now she was doing a good job of it, heck if she thought that she was strong enough the child might take slightly aggressive action. Honestly right now she did somewhat want him to feel the pain he was putting her in. Someone so young? Really did not understand this was more painful for him, plus there was part of the story she was unaware of. Maybe it would have been better if she remained blissfully unaware.

At first she did not realize he had placed something in her hand, it was roughly room temperature after-all and her body was the same heat. The little girl however realized what he had given her when she glanced down, it was something she had seen many times before! It was than the words she had been refusing to listen and accept, came crashing through her head. The only thing it took to break the pink haired girl? Was the sight of the simple bone ring sitting in her palm, which he had forced open but that wasn't important. Even as mad and depressive as her adoptive mother had seemed about Mashyuu vanishing sometimes? Frey had never seen the woman without the ring after it was given to her. "You don't remember me because we never got to meet directly before hand. " Kanix had not wanted to rush her into a meeting she might not yet be ready for after loosing the place she grew up. Now? Frey wished she had rushed her, maybe than they would have some family memories! Yet, the two of them were not her family, Marcline and Acchim, they were.

A little girl who just found out the person she called mother for a decent span of time was now dead? Could never be doing alright. Already? She had slipped the ring onto her index finger, playing with it because her finger's were smaller and thus it would not stay on without her hand there. "I guess. Hemlock is teaching me still, but you might have different spells from him." she didn't know what else to say, really what do you say to the man who just told you someone that you had loved was dead?! The earth dragon sighed out, glancing around. "I need to go home soon though, everyone is probably going to worry if I don't get back on time, I don't want to worry-" was it right to call both of them mother? It was confusing now.

Mashyuu could see the confusion in Frey's face and he simply half smiled at her and ruffled her hair. Once upon a time Mashyuu was a loving father who would move heaven and hell for his daughter. Now he had to start life over again and hope that everything was going to be okay in life. He nodded his head and picked up a few more things for the basket as Frey explained that she needed to get going soon. "You're right. Lets get this stuff back and make sure you get home safe." Mashyuu walked with Frey back to the small cabin of the old man and turned in the basket of goods. Thankful the old man gave both Mashyuu and Frey the agreed upon Jewel and his thanks. While he really didn't want to admit that he had a good time when everything was said and done he was happy that he got to meet the little girl Kanix had always spoken so highly of. Mashyuu walked over to Frey and placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. "Do you want me to walk you home?" He asked, even knowing she was in a dark guild he doubted she understood that she was not with good people.

Running a gloved hand through his hair Mashyuu left the building and looked down at Frey. "Frey, the guild you're in. It isn't a good place. Those people will eventually hurt others who have done nothing wrong. Be careful with what you do there. It's not to late to go where you can do real good." He started to explain to the young girl, unsure if she was understanding what was happening at the moment. Mashyuu walked with Frey back to her home and stopped on the edge of the guilds land. "This is as far as I can go. If you need anything ever, hide that mark and come to Ace of Spades, find me or someone who is a close friend. I'll be there in a flash." Mashyuu explained and hugged the girl. He would be sure to watch out for her as he grew in power, and make sure she was safe.

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