Fairy Tail, Detectives for a Day!

Hera walked through Clover Town, it seemed like a rather peaceful day there. Despite the reason the four mages were there. Fairy Tail had been asked to solve a rather, interesting problem.

A Dark Guild known as "White Hand" was literally terrorizing Fiore, with their robberies and thefts. They had struck almost every major city and now; their Guild Hall had been located, it was somewhere in Clover Town. Apparently, they had to find it; because the only information they gained by intercepting one of their Lacrima crystals and listening to the message was "to meet at the Guild Hall back in Clover" which to Hera was amazing, since Clover Town was one of the few towns with a Wizard's Guild in it. Blue Pegasus. Although, rumor had it that the once proud and legendary Guild would be disbanding soon.

If that was the case, then Fairy Tail could expect a LOT more Job requests to come out of Clover Town in the following days to come.

As they moved through the streets: A girl with long pink hair and a white scarf, a young man dressed dashingly with a long blonde ponytail, a man who had long dark hair also in a ponytail, carrying a sword and, then there was the last one---who was attracting attention. He had robes that only started at his waist; exposing his chest, and he seemed to---glow a bit.

"Takumi can you turn down the glow for christs sake......we're supposed to be meeting up with Miss Zoe, and if White Hand spots us before we do; they may just get rid of all the stolen contraband and claim they're innocent...even if we found their Guild Hall which no one has done before....." she said, as she walked in the center of the group of boys; her arms crossed, hips switching as she did so. "This is her address now....." Hera said as she held up the Job Sheet and then crumpled it up; tossing it into a trash can as the four of them stood in front of a nice place in Clover.

However, the glass was broken on one of the windows in the front; and it was a general mess in the front yard. Furrowing her eyebrow, Hera would look around the yard as a lady popped up in the doorway.

"Um, can I help you all?" she said, a broom in her hand and tears in her eyes. She had been through a lot recently. "Are you?" as she said this, Hera would nod.

"Yep, we're from Fairy Tail." and as she said this, the woman would drop the broom and walk up; grabbing both Edward and Seryth's hands as they looked the toughest. She would drag them up her stairs into her home.

"PLEASE MAKE WHITE HAND PAY FOR THIS, LOOK AT MY HOME!" and as Hera would walk up with Takumi up the stairs and enter the house, she was right. This place was completely ran through. It was terrible. As Hera moved around the room looking for clues, she would see a picture of her family on the wall.

"Oh? You have a husband and kids? Guess they're out of town?" as she said this, the woman would nod.

"Yes, they went up north to Rose Garden. My husband has been trying to save up for a trip there so the boys could enjoy the amusement park with just those 3, you know, Father Son time." she said as she held up the picture, it's glass being slightly broken as she looked endearingly at it. "I don't know how I'm going to explain to him what happened here...." she said as she choked a bit and started crying again silently as Hera picked up the broom she'd dropped from outside.

"You keep at it here, and we'll make sure they pay." she said with a nod and a fist clenched. Eventually, the woman would smile as she looked around the room at all four of them.

"So the rumors are true.....Fairy Tail has returned." she said as she took it all in. "When you all disappeared the world felt a little less...hopeful, less right." she said raising her eyebrows happily as she shoed them on. "Well, go on and get to it. Oh I forgot.....no one knows where their guild is in town but.....one of them dropped this." she held out a bag of completely black gunpowder.

Gunpowder huh? I wonder.....if we tried to sell it, they might stick their heads out to try and buy it back.... she thought to herself as she inspected the bag. "We'll do our best for sure....here." she took it and passed it to Seryth as she would turn and bow to the lady. "Keep an eye on your TV and the news lady, White Hand is going to be destroyed today in town!" Hera said as she was exiting, leaning back into the doorway and yelling. Tapping her way down the steps with bouncing steps; she hopped onto the ground excited. "ALRIGHT! Now to try our best to get their attention.......guess we should go shop to shop and try to sell that stuff?" she would then turn to Edward.

"You have a way with words, why don't you do the talking at the shops?" she said to Edward as she put a hand on her hip. Eventually, they would make their way into Downtown Clover and try to get the rumor flowing that someone was selling Gunpowder in town.

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It seemed that Seryth had been called out of retirement by none other than Hera herself in a job, his talents needed to cover a vital role in the team. The job had brought him back to a familiar locale from his past. Clover Town, familiar enough to the young adult that had traveled throughout both Fiore and Earthland in his adolescence in the purpose of maiming and assassination - something his skill set was apt to deal with in comparison to most others, after all the young adult had been granted a prestigious position which had allowed him to learn the 'clan secret' magic but that was a topic for another time. Seryth had always liked the town, it was a peaceful place most of the time. As the group came together and introductions were in order, Seryth introduced himself. "Greetings, all. I am Seryth, the heir of Clan Essora. I am a former assassin of some measurable skill back in the day, but it seems now that my unique skills are being put to use for other, much more noble, purposes. I am glad, I really didn't like my previous job."

At the moment, he was noticeably bereft of magic though he was an assassin and so it was easy enough to conceal such things. One such way was simply not to use magic which was the young adult's intents at the moment, the others with him at the moment had more than enough magic in spades, Seryth would only cast if needed. He had to think about the team present - the priest, the dragon slayer, the god-possessed, and the assassin. When one came to it in the end, they didn't make a bad team at all. Each had their own individual strengths which could be applied when necessary to cover for each other in a unique way. Enough about others, they probably wondered who this kid was. Standing tall at six foot high, Seryth was a young man with an attractive appearance. His long hair of midnight hue was tied back into a loose ponytail with a red cord, spiked bangs covering his forehead and framed his handsome countenance. Eyes the color of coal belie his keen wit. Seryth was well-built due to a life of training with the sword or polearm, and kept himself fit by continuing this training when he can. He tended to wear a white dress shirt with a red tie and black dress slacks with dress shoes. At this time, he is seen wearing a black cloak with golden trim.

"I agree with Hera, we should approach this as inconspicuous as possible. We don't want to alert our quarry that we are on to them before we can conduct the mission. Take my advice, I am a former assassin after all." ranted the italian man in a thick italian accent, a playful smile playing on his handsome countenance. By this time they had come upon the house, ramshackle as it was. For the moment, Seryth slid into observer mod and let Hera and Edward take to the talking. At the way the glass had broken, a fight had broke out inside the house. Seryth zoomed in with forensic viewing, observing the panes and shards of glass. Interestingly, he had calculated in his mind the exact level of pressure needed to convex the glass and have it land that way. "Boss, the glass was intentionally broken by an intentional heavy blow of I'd say around six hundred PSI. Definitely the work of our targets, I'd say. Also, when we go check out with the merchants, I'll head into the back row to ensure the merchant doesn't get away from us."

With that, he would leave the rest of the conversation to others, and the dealing of the shopping to Ed of course. Seryth could talk shop, but he was no diplomat - no, he was much more of a fast-talker personally. Still, Seryth had a role to play once they found out the lead they were seeking, and so when the others approached the merchant row, Seryth had slipped off to ensure the merchants couldn't use a back route to escape should he recognize the sack. It was one of the oldest tricks in the book but still effective if you didn't have a spotter like Seryth with you. Well, no matter what there would be no issues today. Seryth now spent his time casually perusing a nearby news stand, but maintained his full perception on the alleyway leading from the back of merchant row. Rule one about being a spotter, never look out of place, and with how ordinary Seryth could look, he certainly did not suffer on that front, One thing though, he had to wonder what the others were doing at this moment in time.

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Takumi did not appreciate Hera telling him to turn down the glow, or the priest telling him to cover up. "Hera, you know I can't help the glow, I'm the sun god, it's not like I can turn off the glow from the sun. As for you, priest, my clothing is fine. Besides, it's not like it's going to hinder my movement in any way. You don't need to pay for more clothes, and regardless of if i'm wearing proper clothes or not, the moment it starts to rain, I will get sick. I'm the SUN god, rain will wash me out no matter what."That was his response to the comments made by Hera and Edward, and after it had been made clear that he wasn't going to listen, he turned away, when the tall italian man interjected. He too, seemed to think Takumi would jeapordize the stealth of the mission, to which he snorted.

"Are you guys forgetting Fairy Tail doesn't exactly do stealth 99% of the time? I know it might be better for the mission, but seriously, don't tell me how to do a job. Remember, I know how dark guilds work as well as anybody, I was forced to be a dark mage for all of my teenage years. If these guys are really smuggling gunpowder, I don't think stealth will help. They will have high security, and even if I could turn off my glow, the matter remains that at least half of us are more than likely not capable of the stealth required to sneak past guards and such."

Takumi was not thrilled that they seemed to be telling him what to do, especially since two of his three current companions were lower ranked mages than he was. His exceed, also beside him, snorted as well, knowing that, although Takumi was far from subtle, he knew what he was doing. Coal, like her master, wasn't a subtle creature, but she did indeed understand what he wastrying to say.

"Takumi is right, guys. Now he may not be a subtle person, but he knows what he is doing. Remember, if he wasn't special, he never would have become a god. Think about it. The 8 gods he hosted when he was human chose him for a reason. So if he says no to something, he usually has a reason for doing so. I mean, he even hosted Ares himself, who is the GOD OF WAR. That counts for something, no?"

As Coal went on a slightly defensive rant about her master, her blood-red eyes scanned each and every one of the members of the party. Though they were few, each would certainly bring unique properties to the table. Takumi, representation of the sun and light, but also an incarnation of a demon at the same time, Hera, with her fire and wind magic, the priest, whose abilities were yet unknown, and the mysterious Seryth, who no doubt had his own unique powers. Coal herself was also a unique being in the group, with her lightning magic that matched what Takumi once was. Takumi himself was sulking a bit, though it looked a bit like a child pouting due to his short stature. He couldn't prevent his line tattoos from glowing any more than Hera could stop herself from burning down entire buildings with her magic.  Takumi played around with his magical weapon as they began, twirling it between his fingers, currently in gun mode. Sakura-no-hana, a rather powerful weapon, was capable of dissolving into thousands of razor-sharp cherry blossom petals to overwhelm an enemy with their numbers, and Takumi almost always kept it nearby in case he needed it. Contrary to the other's predictions, it was not Takumi himself that drew attention, but his conpanion, Coal the exceed. She was fairly unusual for an exceed, with her jet black fur and blood red eyes, so people, of course, were curious about her.

Takumi shooed them away as Hera and Edward would no doubt do most the talking, closing his eyes momentarily. He had a feeling this wasn't going to be easy, even with four mages of decent strength. Hera, he knew, was strong, but would be limited by her own magic, since gunpowder would be involved here. The other two mages weren't quite as high-ranked as he was, and he didn't know their abilities, so he couldn't judge how much they would help. That left Takumi, who was also somewhat limited by this job, as his magic involved large amounts of fire as well. But he was not quite as limited as Hera, for his magic had other aspects to it, some involving music, some archery, some just light in general. As the incarnation of Apollo, he was god of many things, and knew very well that, although it limited him somewhat, also gave him a variety of things he could do.

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"Fairy Tail is a guild of mages that does what it has to do." Hera said, raising an eyebrow at Takumi as they left a merchants shop who said he'd never seen that kind of powder before. "Lamia Scale doesn't say 'if it's not a job on the high seas we don't take it', there are hundreds of espionage jobs that Fairy Tail is involved in all around the world, some of our mages are undercover even in other guilds." she informed him of things that he should know. The fact that Fairy Tail was known as a guild that accomplished their goals with fancy explosions made them great spies since no one would expect it out of them. Double agents were easy to make in the Guild. "Don't stereotype your own Guild, we're capable of anything. Spying, direct battle, deciphering ancient riddles....Fairy Tail is the guild of magical secrets."

Hera herself was an excellent spy. She had been through a lot to get to this point as a mage. Although she actually

"You can do it...by lowering your magic power." she said, as one of the strongest mages on the planet; she knew how magic worked. "If you try to lower your power, the tattoos on your body should stop glowing so much.......if not, then you won't ever be able to be a good spy or remain hidden if you need too right? What if someone's after you in the dark who's more powerful than you after all!" she said, raising a finger matter of factly and blushing; she worried about Takumi like a brother after all.

In the background, as they walked; Coal was flailing and ranting on and on about Takumi. Causing Hera to facepalm. This was supposed to be a stealth mission.

"NO ONE IS SPECIAL, JUST CAN IT COAL, THIS ISN'T A FIELD TRIP TO SHOW OFF OUR ABILITIES!!!" Hera got fired up and turned around. Her father had always behaved as a superstar, tried to be special all the time. It's what got him killed. "WE'RE ALL JUST PEOPLE!!! TAKUMI ISN'T THE FIRST MORTAL TO BECOME A GOD,  EVER HEARD THE STORY OF HERCULES?! AND HE WON'T BE THE LAST!!! HE'S NOT SPECIAL, I'M NOT SPECIAL, NONE OF US ARE!!! BEING SPECIAL WILL JUST END UP GETTING ONE OF US HURT, AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF I LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO THE PEOPLE I LOVE....TO EDWARD, TAKUMI, YOU, OR SERYTH BECAUSE HE WANTS TO WALK THROUGH TOWN SHIRTLESS AND GLOWING!!!!! NOW LET'S JUST DO OUR DAMN JOBS!!!" Hera literally fumed, turning around and not saying anything else.

They came upon another shop. This one was a store that specialized in Hunting equipment. Hera still walked with her arms crossed, a serious look on her face as Seryth took on the role of the backup chase and hid out of view of the shop; but not to far at a news stand. Damn he blended in good. This made her crack a smile as she nodded to Edward to follow her in. When the entered the shop, it was pretty busy with people here and there. Some people waved at Edward and Hera, noticing them as mages of Fairy Tail instantly; she waved back and then eventually walked up to the counter and leaned on it.

"Hey there, I was wondering if you could take a look at this stuff...." she said putting the gunpowder on the counter. The merchant would pick up the bag and shake his head, sighing to himself. He explained that while they sold only hunting gear and equipment for camping; they were pressured by a dark guild recently, named White Hand to try and get this stuff on the shelves here.

"They wanted me to sell it...and give them more than fifty percent of the profits....letting me keep only 100j a month no matter how much of it I sold....I told them to beat it. Naturally; they broke in and tore this place up a few times." he looked like he got a headache just thinking about it as he rubbed his head. "They usually pop in and out of here to fuck with me, so if you wait around you might get luck-------there's one of them in the shop now." he cut himself off as he nodded to a group of people both men and women who seemed to notice Hera and Edward talking to the merchant. The moment he nodded at them and they turned around; it was all she wrote.

Spells literally erupted from everywhere as Hera dove on top of a mother who was shopping with her kids for tents nearby in the store. She pulled them to the ground just as a huge blast of flames came from one of them. She would look around as another one of them would stomp hard on the ground; causing Earth Magic to ripple through the entire shop; windows exploding from inside as people on the streets stopped and caused a huge circle to form around the shop in a huge crowd. The earthquake inside was hard to stand in; but not for Hera as she literally stood up and balled up her fists as people went running from the shop back into the streets.

The owner of the shop inched towards the door and then made a break for it. One of their fire mages spotted him, and raised an open palm towards him. Thinking quickly, Hera would jump in front of the blast since he was carrying gunpowder. With a massive inhale like Kirby, the flames would whip around unnaturally and whirl into Hera's mouth as she chewed on the flames ate em down. They literally stopped firing spells and looked around unsure of what they'd just seen. Only one of them seemed to know what it was.

"Dragon Slayer magic....that's impossible." he said as he literally backed away from her a bit. It was then that he noticed the trail of gunpowder heading out of the door from the man who'd ran away. Snapping his fingers at it, the trail would ignite and zip out the door into the city as a stream of flames on the ground.

The man was running, unaware that he was leaking gunpowder. As flames literally began to follow him on the ground, lighting the black sand as he ran. It was nearing him now, and Hera would only hope that Seryth or Takumi would smack the bag out of his hand somehow; or do something to save him from exploding once the flames zipped up the trail and reached him. On the inside of the shop; the others would form a huge circle around Edward and Hera.

One of them would freak out and make a break for it. Screaming that he was "headed for the Guild Hall to get backup!" as he bolted, literally waving his hand as the wood moved out of his way as an Earth Mage. The wall would close behind him, leaving Edward and Hera back to back and surrounded.

"Looks like the odds are against us...." she said, smiling and punching her hand into a fist like a UFC fighter getting ready for battle. "Hope that guy forgives us for this...but his shop is about to get wrecked!" Hera knew that the guild would pay for it, but if it meant saving that guys life and teaching these guys a  lesson it was worth it. One came running at Hera as she would spin and kick right forward; her strength surprising them as he literally exploded out of the shop; bouncing on the ground in the street outside and slamming into a fountain; completely knocked out with one kick. Hera held her leg in the air briefly after the kick; lowering it and signaling the others to come on. They obliged and charged both Hera and Edward screaming at the top of their lungs and charging Earth and Fire Magic at them.

As they unleashed barrages of magic; Hera inhaled again as she sidestepped the Earth Magic best she could and inhaled all of the fire magic that went whooshing around in the air. Causing them to start shouting at one another to stop trying to hit her directly with it and blow up the shop.

"Hehehehe, once he makes it back to the Guild you guys are done...White Hand won't lose to Fairy Tail!" one of them gloated as he waved his hand, causing a tree from outside to stretch it's branches unnaturally; as they exploded through walls and tried to slap at Hera and Edward. Hera leaped out of the way, and could only hope Ed would do the same as there were about ten of these guys. She could take them all out now but...there's no telling how much of Clover Town would go up in the explosions if she really did start using her magic.

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The member 'Hera-senpai' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Monster Dice' :

Hera seemed to have an issue with those whose claim to fame was that they were different - something that Seryth tended to agree with generally. Those who thought themselves special (as in above others) were only going to bring trouble upon themselves whether through one way or another. In the end, Karma was a bitch, though it wasn't his business right now. The lilting sun overcast the merchant square as the group of them had now gone by several stalls and open shops in search of the strange origins of the pouch of gunpowder - though to be honest, Seryth could probably tell Hera more about it than she could learn here as it was a special product of the clan among other vile machinations such as poison. If anything, Seryth respected the leadership being presented by Hera and so said nothing for the moment, simply keeping out of sight and out of mind for now. The paper he currently held in his hand was one dealing with events in the town itself - a minor news publication but if Seryth knew anything about sleuthing, it was that these generally provided one or two solid leads though it took some doing to sift out these leads. And so, as Hera and Edward approached the survival shoppe, Seryth picked through the articles presented upon the paper and found one interesting article that, upon further scrutiny, provided a lead that Seryth had been looking for. He kept the paper presented in-front of him, but was now fully focused on the target in observation.

Seryth immediately noticed the strange group of -obvious wizards- enter the shop and was about to follow them for an ambush, however a plan came to him. Knowing Hera, she would do what she did and it would cause at least one of them to flee at which point Seryth was going to be ready to shadow them. And so, the event began to unravel as first, the ship owner fled in egress from the scene - though almost comically, he didn't notice the gunpowder spilling from  the pouch in his grasp. If his plan was to work, he couldn't directly help this man - and so when the owner passed by he simply stepped in the trail of the falling gunpowder and then back in such a way that the fizzling spark broke up at the stall and caused some minor fire damage. Using this as a cover, Seryth began patting down his coat, while yelling in his sexy italian voice, "Bollocks! I've caught on fire!" as a ruse, using it as a reason to 'accidentally' collide with the dark wizard while trying to pat himself out. Using this as an opportunity, he 'attached' a small sphere to the dark wizard, the little ball clenching onto his garment with two little pincers. Finally, he depressed what seemed to be a button as an eye opened on the outside, the man rushing off to whatever destination was planned as a reconnoiter. Only problem with this was that Seryth was a sly mother-fucker.

Folding up his newspaper, Seryth quickly checked up on the merchant to ensure he was alive before heading back into the scene - most likely just as it was being wrapped up, though perhaps Seryth would get the chance to enter the fray of the battle. In the off-chance that Seryth was allowed to do his thing, he would be quick about returning to the shop. Immediately, as Seryth was coming upon the scene, he noticed he was behind an Earth Wizard of sorts. Well, that guy had been dumb in standing there, and now he was about to find out why. As Seryth came flying in, an electric discharge of plasma was oozing from his hand as it slammed into the back of the wizard, throwing him to the ground with a bad burn on his back. "Plasmic Combustion....Now, fall." spoke Seryth in his sexy italian accent, though seemingly in a serious tone now.

Seryth had just revealed his own magic to the other two - unknowing where Takumi was in this as of yet. Apparently, from appearances, Seryth could both manifest and manipulate this strange red electric napalm-like semi-gas matter known as Plasma. It's touch didn't even seem to effect him in the slightest, though that other wizard had some pretty intense burns on his back. From this, they would get a window into his life merely that his magic was highly deadly to whoever it touched. From this, much could be gleaned but Seryth trusted his companions not to reveal his secrets for the moment. At the moment he released the plasma, his magical energy spiked up from nothingness for just a moment before returning to nothing. If nothing else, Seryth was an expert at hiding everything though unfortunately he couldn't hide his magic aura permanently yet. Seems even Seryth wasn't done learning, though while he had tons of experience, Seryth lacked real power to back it up. Now that the goons were focused on Seryth, Hera and Takumi had leave to get in a sneak attack and possibly end this fight.

If the fight did continue despite the advantage which Seryth had afforded, he would continue to use his plasma-based powers for the benefit of the team - preparing to plant two plasma bombs at the shop entrance - forming a spheroid bomb in each hand before implanting them in the doorway on either side, in case the other wizard had gotten his backup before the scuffle was finished. Should the fight be finished as he intended, Seryth revealed a small round golden ball, almost like a bell in shape, with one large eye, a mouth, two dragon-like golden metal wings, and a long tail with a plume of gold on the end. Opening it's eye, the creature would show the vision that it's 'child' who had been attached to the runaway was now displaying. "We should head on with continuing our mission now that we've discovered the White Hand's guild hall. Timcanpy, show us the way." He said, the creature flapping up to flight and showing the party the way to the guild hall, should all come to pass as Seryth had hoped it would. The team could formulate a plan once they were on their way to the destination. Thanks to Timcanpy, they would also know if the White Hand planned to ambush them as well.

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Takumi's response to Edward was simple. "I always get sick while it rains, though it will not kill me." was all he said, before turning away, not about to follow orders from some weird priest. As they entered the shop, he sighed, rolling his eyes at the other's responses, especially Hera's. "Hera, I really don't care what happens to me. You are aware I am immortal, so even if I die I will come back, right? Anyways, I don't have many reasons for living anyhow. I'm also going to point out even if I can't come back, Yazuki can revive me pretty easily." He said, glaring at the girl with golden eyes narrowed. For such a small man, he sure could look ferocious when he felt like it. Hands on his hips, he was about to start yelling at Edward again, when they were attacked. Spells flew all over the place, and Takumi did his best to shield the patrons of the shop. When the spells stopped flying for a second, Takumi began shooting with the expert aim of a true marksman, aiming for nonfatal but still debilitating wounds for their enemies.

The gun shot off a quick round of shots before Takumi had to duck behind a shelf to avoid being blasted in the face with magic. He was glowing brighter than ever, his golden eyes and lines tattoos such a bright gold it was almost blinding to look at. His exceed, who had wisely brought sunglasses for when Takumi's power acted up, stood besides her master, waiting for an opportunity to use one of her lightning spells that would surely knock the enemy flat. The next time Takumi emerged, he shot at the specific mage he had been targeting, who seemed to be rather powerful and may pose a challenge for the two lower ranked mages. Hera's magic of course, was ineffective in here, with that gunpowder in the way. Takumi's magic was also largely ineffective, but he would do his best to not be a burden. The next thing he would do, however, would be rather difficult to pull off, but very worth it.

"Cherry Blossom Whirlwind!" he shouted as he dropped the gun, which dissolved into thousands of razor-sharp petals. Takumi would have to control these very carefully to avoid shredding his allies or any innocent bystanders, but these petals were known for shredding enemies pretty well, so it was worth it. The petals would swirl through the air, converging on their enemies and swamping them in pink. The petals wouldn't take long to cover the weakest two mages Takumi could see in hundreds of tiny cuts, effectively stopping any plans the two may have had. Unfortunately, it did not quite take the other four mages they were fighting out of the running, as those were more powerful than their now badly shredded comrades.

The four more powerful mages of the six who had attacked seemed to be bleeding from plenty of cuts, but were still standing as they faced off against them, though Seryth seemed to have done a good job of neatly flooring one of them as Takumi had attempted to shred the others with his petals. His exceed, next to him, saw her chance and launched snakes made of electricity at the most powerful one she could find, which would wrap around him, not restricting his movement but doing a great deal of damage to him over the next little while. The snakes were handy, and would take care of that mage, leaving the remaining two left. Takumi's petal would swirl through the air once more, all of them now converging on the two enemy mages, and probably taking them out, though they shouldn't stick around to find out. "Come on guys! Let's go before more of them show up, we need to find their guild hall!" he would yell, looking at Hera before gesturing at Edward to follow Seryth, who seemed to know what he was doing. Takumi himself would be right behind Seryth as they would leave, looking back to make sure Hera and Edward were alright. They appeared to be fine, so Takumi wasn't too concerned. Coal appeared to have taken a minor spell to the shoulder, which seemed to be slightly burnt, filling the air with the acrid stench of burning fur. Takumi was almost distracted by Seryth's voice, but shook his head to clear it and continued on, annoyed that he would ever let himself be distracted. His tattoos were glowing less violently now, but were still glowing as he followed Seryth, probably looking like the world's largest glow lamp.

"Takumi, I may not be able to carry you if I need to with this burn on my shoulder." Coal said as she looked at her master, who appeared to be somewhat conflicted. She didn't know what he was thinking, but this might help bring him back to focus. Takumi heard Coal's words and stiffened slightly. These mages had hurt Coal, and they were going to pay for that. He would burn every single one of them to the ground if he had to, they couldn't keep hurting people.

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Hera would smirk as one of the goons came rushing in, she would lean her back against Ed's gently; swaying him to the side as she would deliver a crushing right hand to him. Her black and gold kung fu robes flaring up with momentum as he literally plummeted into the basement of the shop; the floor shattering beneath them.

"SHE'S SOME KIND OF MONSTER?!" they yelled as they literally began to pepper them with Fire spells that would whirl around Edward and Hera at the sound of an inhaling noise; the flames literally spun around them like an X-Men movie harmlessly; wrapping and whipping up into Hera's mouth with a loud hiss! as she wiped her mouth; breathing smoke.

Punching her hand into a fist; she would smile at the two guys and begin walking towards them as smoke came out of her nose. They let out yells at one another; and then the Earth Mage among them stepped forward, shoving the other two aside. Raising a hand, as Hera stopped and readied herself for an attack; that never came.

What did come however, was an awesome image of Seryth flying literally out of nowhere. His right hand was leaking some crazy powerful red magic. All she could do was watch him make contact with the guys back; who flayed out like a pancake in an awesome slow-mo as a plasma like noise filled the air; twisting around him and exploding as Seryth turned towards the remaining two fire mages; hand leaking the crazy plasma like energy as they looked at one another...and then made a break for it. As Hera blushed a little bit at Seryth's entrance as the goons ran off before erupting into laughter and roasting them.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA, THAT'S RIGHT RUN FOR IT YOU BUMS!!! FAIRY TAIL IS HERE!" she said as she flexed, and grabbed onto her muscle with her other arm. Rolling her shoulder a bit as Takumi literally comboed the shit out of the other two guys running away with a dazzling display of his magical gun; that literally transformed into Rose Petals and swirled around the one of the guys and lifted him up; slamming him around and slicing him good. Takumi's Exceed pursued the other one and zapped at him with a lightning spell as he ran, making him run even faster. "HAHAHA, get em Coal!" Hera laughed as she walked up; putting her hands on her hips as Edward and Seryth would likely join her.

As Seryth explained what this...golden snitch looking thing was, it flapped it's wings. It had a really cute name too. As it took off, Seryth explained that he'd placed a tracer on one of the White Hand members earlier. The little ball bat thingy opened it's eye and through it; they could actually watch like a T.V. As they stood around and watched; they saw him going into Clover Town's museum. Even though it was closed.

Nodding to the group; she would jog up ahead to the large building and look up the gigantic white steps too the building. Keeping stolen items in a museum...how funny. she thought of White Hand's location as she literally shook her head. Walking into the museum, she realized it was empty as hell. Although it was closed. They footsteps would echo around; as statues, rare old weapons, ancient religious relics, and manuscripts and scrolls were everywhere.

Large white pillars inbetween each item, which was held in a glass case of course. From out of nowhere, about twenty people stepped out. All of them were in various different clothing and literally all of them had their Guild Crest. A symbol of a "Hand" somewhere on their body, all in different colors not just white. Their guild was here a lot of their mages anyway.

"You're fools to come here Fairy Tail, this is just where we keep all the items we take from all around Fiore, our Guild Hall is somewhere else entirely." as he said this, he would open his arms as they would all raise guns at them as a few of them raised their arms and began to power up all different kinds of magics in different hand formations. "But the boss can't just let our main warehouse go down....after it took so long securing it." Hera knew that there was a hidden room somewhere in here that the people of Clover Town knew nothing about; but where. Clover Museum was huge.

"No one has to get hurt if you jus---" a gunshot rang out, as one of them held a smoking gun, laughing. Hera however, held a bullet between her fingers. As the guy literally stopped laughing, the smoke of his gun rising in front of his shocked face. The bullet between her fingers would literally melt away as she got pissed off. "Well then.....go ahead open fire!" she dared them as she started walking forward, more of an angry march. They quickly panicked as the guy from before told them to do exactly what Hera had said.

As they fired with a bunch of gunshots however, Hera would merely just power up as heatwaves in the air melted the bullets long before they got to her; and began to melt the guns in their hands; causing them to glow orange hot and drop their weapons. As the actual stone pillars began to melt away, Hera would stop increasing the heat in the area; as she got near the group. Now weaponless, she continued her march of a walk towards them as one came forward. She delivered a backhand from hell that sent him soaring through a wall; outside into the streets.

The rest of the group stared through the crumbled section of the wall that they could now see outside in in disbelief as Hera would warn everyone else to stand back.

"There's a hidden room where they're keeping all the stuff we're after...." Hera would then raise a fist as golden flames would erupt in a noise like a grenade exploding. As the golden flames wrapped around her fist, they were so hot that they literally were whistling in the air like a teapot. Not to mention they had a holy "choir" noise effect to them. "Thank's Ed, now you bastards are in for it!!!" as Hera would bend her knees, she would literally leap up into the rafters as a few of them would aim their spells up at her. However, she stood on a chandelier way up above. Most of the spells missed, but one actually hit the chandelier and sent it falling downward; along with Hera; who had her own spell now ready, her fist practically an inferno of golden flames now that literally had the sound of angels singing whirling from it. Whatever the hell magic Edward had hit her with, it was really cool.

Fire Dragon's Angelic FIST!!! she said as both the chandelier hit the ground; and she did, throwing her fist downward as it fell onto the huge group of White Hand mages with a noise like a bomb going off as a 250ft explosion of flames erupted out in all directions; the flames splashed into the air and took the form of angels as it disappated off into nothingness.

The walls were literally roasted and crumbling, some spots, glowing orange. The glass cases were shattered, and some relics were lost however; the huge hole in the floor revealed a trove of stolen goods down below. Even a damn stolen motorcycle. The remaining White Hand guys who stood up barely could function as they flailed around; swinging their weapons through the smoke as Hera backed up, amused as they flailed about.

"Seryth, finish these guys off!" she didn't want to do anything as explosive again. Plus, she noticed he was some kind of damn ninja or something! Or maybe there was more too it than that, but with the smoke from her fire magic still all around them; he should have no problem downing 10 guys who were basically limping around in a smokescreen; probably hurt and burnt up already. As she looked around, she didn't see Takumi or Coal anywhere; if she knew them which she did they were probably torturing the crap out of one of the guys who they'd knocked out at the Shop earlier.

"Edward....go and alert the authorities that we've found the Dark Guild...and that they were using the Museum as a damn Stash House." she said as she kept herself at the ready. "Go on now, git!" she said as she looked back at him and smiled boldly.

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It seemed that he had impressed them with his quick thinking and use of tracking gadgetry, but his use of his magic seemed to have impressed Hera the most, which was quite the feat of accomplishment with how powerful her own magic was. If Seryth could be relied on more now by his comrades, then that was the better. They fought much better and cleaner when they fought together, playing on each-other's strengths and weaknesses, than trying as individuals. Even Edward who seemed down in spirit right now, had his own power that only he was good with and Seryth wasn't referring to the power of lecture either. Hera was the team leader, though, so it was her job to determine how best to utilize everyone's individual talents and decide on the direction they would follow while Seryth was there to ensure this direction wasn't impeded, and Edward's role to be their liason to the authorities.

Seryth was admittedly impressed that the White Hand had the sway to take over a municipal building such as the Museum without the local authorities not knowing of it already, it clarified a great deal in the former assassin's mind as to just how much pull these people may have when it came to Clover Town. It was best if the team took down these people on their own than garner to local jurisdiction - it was possible that they may have some of the police in their own pockets - but he might guess as to why Hera had sent Edward off to do so. As they eventually did arrive at the Museum, the golden golem's eye returned to normal as the television-like sight faded away.

As they entered the museum proper, Hera attempted to negotiate to which the opposing mages had to be just dumb or had no clue about exactly who Hera was. Resulting in the end of the barrage of shots, Hera responded in kind with the aid of Edward. It seemed the attack had destroyed some of the treasures, but revealed the hidden cache, and the remaining White Hand gunsman flailed about in an attempt to hit Hera? Seryth wasn't entirely sure, just sure that the remaining ten White Hand were about to be in a lot more pain as Hera had ordered him to 'finish them off'. Seryth had no intention to kill them, but maiming wasn't out of the question and the former assassin felt like teaching these guys a lesson.

"Well well... I suppose that you lot are in luck that I'm the one handling you rather than my mentor, she would be sure you payed in pain for your transgressions, I'm sure. Me, I'd rather just take from you now and ensure that you won't be standing to oppose us. Plasmic Leash!" commanded Seryth, using the flames which Hera had already channeled as catalyst for his technique - requiring no hand movements as normal. Seryth simply yanked back bard on his arm ans a whip of plasma whirled about, striking the first two hard on the thigh, then raking across another at the knee. His eyes focused intently on the remaining seven as they filled with madness. This was a madness that none of his team-mates had seen before, yet somewhere deep within he fought to control the madness to the best of his ability. Injure... but not kill... he told himself. With that, Seryth moved, this time much faster, and with electric blue flames adhering around his hand, brought it to the leg of the fourth White Hand, then with newfound strength, tossed him to the ground.

As the remaining six brought revolvers to bear, Seryth surrounded himself with a ball of plasma-like energy with many spikes jutting out defensively. Each bullet shot was burned up easily within the plasma, before falling uselessly as metal lumps to the ground. Seryth didn't waste any time, breaking into a rush towards the nearest and ramming him into the ground - spikes of plasma breaking through his skin as his body got lambasted, and then dissipated. This left... five men for Seryth to continue to defeat, he caculated, as he quickly re-positioned himself. It had already depleted his mana by slightly more than a fourth of his reserves, and so Seryth resolved to finishing off the rest of these men with his martial skill.

Withdrawing a sharp object and spinning it around his index finger, Seryth quickly yanked forth to release three shuriken from his palm - striking three of them dead on as he brought a steel blade out from a small wooden scabbard into the gut of a fourth. As the fifth mage prepared to shoot Seryth, he quickly drug the wizard he had just impaled in the shoulder foront of him as a bullet sponge, then pushed off with his food and tossed the gunslinger into the other one - using the opportunity to bash the other in the head hard with the pommel of his short sword. With this done, he hopped down and approached Hera with a wry grin on his face. "All sorted out, Hera. Anything else that I should be doing? I didn't kill any of them, just maimed them and incapacitated them, so the local authorities can still take them in and such."

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Just before Edward ran out, Hera could've swore she heard him say that her name had sucked for the move she'd just used. She'd thought of it on the spot; give her a break!

"WHAT, that name was awesome!!! GET BACK HERE YO!!! Edwaaaaaaaard!" she flailed and yelled, but it was too late. He was gone already to get the authorities. "Dammit.......I'll yell at him later." she was distracted then by what sounded like a Lightsaber from one of those Bosco movies behind her. Through the smoke a literal whip of plasma shot through it and wrapped up one of the guys, yanking and slamming him around.

"WHOOOOOAAAAAAAAA!" her eyes were literal stars as she continued to watch Serryth absolute terrorize these guys with some kind of takedown technique combined with his magic. She literally had expected a show, but got much more. His style of fighting was pretty amazing. When he grabbed one guy and just lifted him up slamming him; Hera lost it and cheered him on with a fistpump into the air. "YES, GET EM!!!!" as she yelled at him. One of the guys got frustrated and fired a gunshot at her; she ducked just in time comically.

Then however, Serryth formed literal ninja stars in his hand made of the same blue energy as Hera's eyes widened as he threw them. Hitting their mark with a loud energetic whoosh; Hera got the stars in her eyes again as the guys were taken down.

"Not....bad...at all." she said to him as the smoke cleared, and only he remained. Soon enough, the authorities and Edward eventually returned to the Museum.

"LOOK AT THIS PLACE, THOSE WHITE HAND BASTARDS......." someone shouted as soon as they entered. A bunch of official looking people, both men and women joined by Edward began running around the room.

"When they said after hours the place was off limits period....we knew they were using it for something, but during the day we didn't find any.....HOLY SHIT look at that huge hole in the floor!" a guy yellled, pointing at it as Hera innocently turned her back and moved Serryth toward Edward and Takumi. "THOSE WHITE HAND ASSES!"

"YEAH, don't worry....look at how banged up they are!!!" as authorities, and then even Rune Knights showed up to take the guys away; since they were magic users and not normal humans. They were cuffed with anit-magic handcuffs and "booooed" loudly by the crowd as they paraded them out of the museum and down the white steps of it for all to see.

As soon as Edward, Hera, Takumi, and Serryth walked outside however; the crowds ERUPTED into cheers and ear pitch level yells and hoots. The sound of clapping filling the air.

Hera would wave her hand at the top of the steps to the crowd; even making flames appear on her thumb during a thumbs up. Eventually the applause would die down as they made their way down the steps and into the streets proper as several men wearing yellow vests and carrying ladders made their way past them up into the destroyed Museum now to begin work on it.

"Oh, we need to grab the clients stuff!" Hera said as she ran back inside and got the exact stuff that they needed to return to the older woman. Carrying it in her arms as she came back out, she would return it to her house with a big smile as the woman opened the door and saw all four of them standing there. With tears in her eyes she outright hugged Edward who was the closest to her.

"I'm so happy to see you four again....thank god you're safe...White Hand is......" she said as she obviously felt guilty for sending them to face them alone.

"Don't worry......it was nothin!" she said as she patted the older ladies back while she hugged Edward. With a look that said 'great job' she made eye contact with Serryth first, and then Edward, and then Takumi.

Seryth had to agree with Edward on this one, the name that Hera chose could use some work to synergize better with how the spell had worked with her own magic. Seryth didn't tell Hera that, she didn't want to hear her rant about how that gaudy name was actually good. He couldn't help but inwardly laugh about the argument between Edward and Hera. He didn't have the time to dawdle on such thoughts, as he had an important job before himself. Seryth couldn't help but be swelled up by the boasting that Hera was doing in his favor, whether she was truthfully surprised and amazed or whether she was simply attempting to boost Seryth's morale; though he thought her more truthful and that she was actually impressed with his magic. Seryth's chest welled with the thoughts that someone so strong and powerful thought that he was special, and so he quickly finished his job and returned to the group of them.

From the sound of it, the men looked impressed at the group's work - Seryth had done his best to keep structural damage to a minimum after all - and seemed enraged when they discovered about the stash literally underneath the Museum. Seryth finally had a moment to restore some of his lost mana reserves, tossing a capsule into his mouth and biting down upon it. While not exactly tasty, the pill would replenish some of the mana he had lost. He then head out with his comrades and heard the loud cheers of the crowd as they exited the Museum. She did a bit of Savoire-faire while Hera retreated into the Museum to gather the client's goods. He opened his lips and began releasing rings of mana into the air like someone would release rings of smoke after puffing on a cigar. His usually emotionless persona had cracked and revealed a warm smile on his handsome features. He spoke, his fine italian accent causing girls to swoon. "It's a pleasure to have taken care of those clowns who were unjustly causing issues for this beautiful and wonderful town. If you ever fall on such hard times again, do not for a second hesitate to call upon Fairy Tail again. We're back, folks, and we're here to stay."

Making girls swoon with his sexy voice was fine and good, but Seryth truly had his eyes on someone who was far above what he could offer at the moment. This was why he worked, so he could become a worthy man in her eyes and finally confess his feelings. Perhaps that day would come or perhaps it wouldn't, but Seryth would continue to follow it as one of his goals. As they returned on their walk to the house, Seryth thought hard about exactly what it would mean to confess his feelings fully to the woman. the chance of being shot down as great, but they were heroes right now, he couldn't be thinking about such matters. He was happy to be successfully returning the goods that the White Hand had stolen to their owner, it's always a good feeling to help someone out. For now, he was just content to sit in the background for now. He didn't need the attention, he just needed to see this - that in the end the client has their justice. With that, a grin enveloped his mouth as he watched on and grinned at Hera.

"So then, Hera, Edward, Takumi. That was a great job and I much enjoyed helping these people. I hope that we can do this again, it was fun for me to work together as a team like this. But, now that this job is done, what now? Are we heading back to the guild or do you have other plans for us Hera? I'm fine with anything to be truthful, perhaps it would be best to not let this momentum die, but I will leave the decision to you." Seryth pitched as they left the woman's house at last, genuinely curious about any moves they could make next to further capitalize on the momentum they had just earned from finishing that job. Whatever was decided, he would continue along with it as Hera had already lead them well insofar. There was no need to change anything up in their party dynamic aside from Edward taking a more progressive role.

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