Call of the Past (social with Cirven)

It had been a bit since Adalinda had a chance to settle down on Tolgalen after a few jobs. She was impatiently waiting for her children to come into the world, which wasn't uncommon for her to feel anymore. She was eager to meet the children that she now loved so much without getting to meet them. She quietly thinks to herself how she was glad to have Yuudai with her, who seemed just as eager for their kids, but that thought drew another thought to the dragon slayers mind. Her own father, Metallicana. She frowns as she looks to the flask she held in her hand, then glanced to the pods her babies were in. With a small smile, she touched the top of each of them. "I wonder if he's still alive... Would you three wait till I see what I can do?" She whispers quietly. Of course the mother-to-be knew she wasn't getting a response from them yet, that, and Tamaria was off in her own room.

She takes a sip of her drink before she goes over to knock on her exceeds door, opening it a crack. "Hey. Wanna help me with something, Tammy?" She calls out. The exceed had been going through books in her human form, learning more about how to control herself. Ada smiles, it looked like she had a child already with how small Tamaria looked. The purple eyed exceed looked up with a smile. Adalinda was still surprised that Tamaria still had purple hair and ears, and allowed her outfit to be purple still as well. At the same time, she expected nothing less of her exceed. She would have been more surprised if she chose some other color clothes to go with. "Sure! What is it?" "I wanna search for Metallicana. I should have started looking sooner... but I want to see if I can really find him..." She murmurs.

Tamaria was quick to get to her feet and threw her book on the bed before she goes running after Adalinda. "It'd be great if we can find him! I wanna meet him! Maybe he'll want to meet Lethe, Akio, and Setsuna as well!" The exceed was clearly excited as she went running out of the room. She was trying to see how long she can hold the transformation for, and was bouncing around excitedly. Tammy puts on her sweater and smiles back to Adalinda, who could only put her hand on her chest as she melted for the little exceed's look. She was weak to children already, she knew it, and she bet it would suck if she ever had an enemy who was, or looked like, a child.

The two had decided to make way towards the guild hall from their home, and see if they could find anything there. Maybe in the library even though Ada didn't like it? Adalinda walks through the halls of the guild to the last place she wanted to go to as she tries to think of where she would find any information on the dragons in general. "Hey, Ada. Where was the last place you saw Metallicana, hm?" The exceed asks as she puts her hands behind her back. Ada stops in her tracks as she looks down to the exceed. "Uh... I don't remember exactly..." She tells the exceed quietly. "He raised me in a forest, I remember a waterfall not being too far from there, but then again, Metallicana was the one who took me there on his back, so maybe that's why it wasn't far away..." She mumbles to herself.

The purple haired child grins as she grabs hold of Ada's hand and quickly drags her faster through the halls. "C'mon! Lets get to the library to see if we can find a map!" The exceed cries out as Ada sighs, defeated by the cat's eagerness to help her. Honestly, Adalinda never expected Tamaria to want to help her so easily with this, even though she had complained on occasion to the exceed that she wanted to find him. A smile grows on her face as she felt happy over this. Tammy then stops, causing Ada to almost accidentally tackle her. "What about Cirven? Should we go talk to him? Or...?" Adalinda frowns for a moment. She actually hadn't seen her mentor in a while. He had gone off to do whatever, and she had just been doing her own thing and taking on jobs and the like. Tamaria yanked hr again, going to the library. "We'll figure it out after we have a lead! We need to find a map of Fiore!" She laughs as she pulls her to the library. Ada was visually searching for Cirven, even keeping her ears open and sniffing him out a bit in case he was in the guild, on their way to the library.

The now seven year old CEO of the company floated around the library looking for any books on how to dispell the magic placed on him and the rest of the leaders of the guild. They had all been turned into younger versions of themselves during a job they had recently gone on that ended up being much more than they expected. The idea was the spell would cause the group to be less effective as children which in truth worked but it had different qualities of working on each of them. Like in Ruvel's case he lost all of his magic as well as his ability to speak English to others. Demiari was the only one of his summons that could produce herself from what magic he had but he could not control any of his magic power due to his frail body. Sol turned into a younger version of himself that liked naps a lot and probably would fight more over food than most things, while Johann was the older of them still and didn't have much a change compared to the others. The CEO himself had issues controlling his magic and bloodlusting urges in his child form but he managed to stay in control unless provoked severely. He had not alone in his research and had others researching possible spells to reverse the magic affecting each of the VPs and himself. Nothing had come up though which caused him and the others to remain in their current forms.

"I already had to explain to the leaders of the areas of the country what was going on in person as well as tell those who hold any position of power in the WFTC in person about what is going on but I'm not looking forward to having to do meetings with other companies like this. Hopefully people understand that age is nothing but a number when it comes to leadership. Not saying it makes me any better at it though." He joked with the researchers around him after yawning in front of a book. Researching like this was not exactly his thing at all. He was a hands on type of guy but knew he had to do things like this to avoid any possible further implications coming to him or the others. His sense of smell picked up on a duo of familiar scents not too far away from him that was getting stronger. It was Adalinda and Tamaria. He let out a grunt but figured it had to happen at some point. He got up from where he was and floated near the entrance where he waited for his mentee to show herself. "Ada." He would say when he saw her and hoped she would put the pieces together that he was Cirven and not some offspring or something.

As the dragon slayer made her way towards the library, she smelt Cirven's scent near immediately. A grin was on her face as she quickened her pace and was making her way to the library. She wanted to see if she could find the location quickly of where she last saw Metallicana, and then see if her mentor would care to join her in finding what happened to him. "Cirv's there already, Tammy." She chuckles to the cat. She had managed to get her hand free of the cat's grip, and was walking behind her. "Good! Maybe he can help us look for where you last saw him! Sure he won't have issues helping out there. Especially if it gets him out of doing work for the guild!" The cat teases to the other. Tamaria giggles a little as she started to skip on ahead. Ada pouts to herself while hanging her head. How could this cat do this to her? Shaking her head, Adalinda nearly toppled over Tammy as she had stopped short of the entrance to the library.

When she hears her name, she looks up with a grin, figuring it was Cirven, but stopped as she sees a kid floating. Her smile drops as she stares at him in pure confusion. Who was this kid? He looked similar to her mentor, he smelled like him, but obviously he was way too young to be him! Tamaria stepped forward a bit before Ada grabbed the exceeds arm and swung her onto her back rather gracefully. She wasn't too trusting of this child like version of her mentor and CEO of the guild. "Did Cirven have a kid? I wonder who the mom is." Tammy says. "Hey! Are you a clone of Cirven? Or are you his kid?" Tamaria calls out to him, moving to sit on Ada's shoulders, fixing her skirt to not let it expose the clothes underneath. Ada was now looking like she was contemplating something the more she stood there looking, and smelling his scent. "Cirven...? Why are you a child...?" She mutters quietly to him. Tammy gaps and grabs the sides of Ada's head with her hands to yank the slayers head up to her. "No! It's not really Cirven! Is it?!" The humanoid exceed quickly looks up to Cirven with wide purple eyes while continuing to hold her slayers head up.

"Goddamnit Tammy! Let go of my head! Smells like Cirven, and Cirven only you damn brat! Don't think a damn clone could smell exactly like him, and a child of him would have their own unique smell while still having hints of Cirven on them!" She growls and grabs the Exceed to throw her off her back, but she held onto her and made her get on her feet. The move surprised Tamaria and she poofed back to her exceed self, in which she was dangling in Ada's arms, pouting as she was no longer child like. Ada drops Tammy onto her butt, and looks to the little Cirven before her. She at least hoped she was right that this was Cirven. She had a mission she wanted to do, and didn't want to have this kid not be him and cause her issues.

"Tammy, it's me." He looked at the exceed into her eyes in an attempt to show her that he was himself. "This is what happens when you have too many enemies. One has to get you somehow eventually. We were kind of lucky to get out of this one but we did." He floated in the air and made sure he was at Ada's height among the others in the room. He hated feeling so short compared to others, especially with the seat of power he held in the company. He tried to make it not noticeable but his height being a mere three foot tall in his kid form bothered him. "I have the our researchers looking into ways of curing this now but so far nothing. I'm also not the only one affected by this. Ruvel, Johann and Sol were all turned into child forms also. Some of us affected much less than the others but yes, it is a big issue all around for us." He let out a sigh as he thought about it more. "Do not let my size fool you though. I am just as strong as I was, if not stronger." He gave her a stern look to make her believe him more than just in his words.

"Other than my new predicament though, what are you doing here for? I thought I told you to take on jobs and train yourself through them while we were not together? I was looking forward to see how you have developed while I was away so I hope you haven't been slacking off. You have a lot of potential so I expect you to live up to it or exceed it." He reverted back into his mentor-like persona with her while still sounding like a child to her which he figured would not come off as intimidating as he wanted it to sound.

Tamaria grew wide eyed at Cirven as he said it was him and how it happened. Adalinda covers her mouth and tries to not snicker at Cirven as he came up to her height. "I'm glad you're okay, would suck if my mentor decided to die on me on a job without me." She couldn't help but snort to him. As he told the girls that the Vice Presidents had the same fate as him, Ada frowns. "What exactly did you guys go and do to end up like this? Jeez..." Tamaria questions, saying exactly what was on Adalinda's mind as well. The dragon slayer gives Cirven an 'ok' hand sign, when he told her he was just as strong as before despite his size. She honestly had no doubt that he was as strong still. If he wasn't, she would had tried to help herself, if she could.

As he questioned what she was doing, Adalinda scoffs. "You think I didn't do jobs and train while you were gone? You're funny. I wasn't slacking off... only this morning." She snorts. The girl was beaming though, kind of enjoying him telling her she had potential, it did urge her on to work harder. She then shakes her head and puts her hands on her hips. "I got back a couple days ago from a job myself. And I'm wanting to search for my father. I don't exactly remember where it had been I lived with him... or where I saw him last... but I wanna search for him still." She nervously rubbed her arm a little. "I kinda want to introduce him to the kids when they come... but... I don't know how long it'd take to find him... if at all..." Tammy nods to Cirven as she claps her hands together, making Ada look down to her.

The exceed grins. "Cirven! Why don't you help us?! Bet you'd get better luck than Ada, especially since all she remembers is a forest, and a waterfall that is not too far on a dragon's back." "There was also some mountains to the east of the waterfall..." She scratches the back of her head and nervously smiles. Tamaria grabs Ada's hand again, and yanks her into the library to find where the maps of Fiore were.

It hadn't taken Tammy too long to find a few, as well as a book on the land as well, and already Adalinda is looking the map over diligently. The book was of Fiore with paintings of famous areas pertaining to the area that she looked in. She crosses her arms over her chest as she looks over the map that showed the lower half of Fiore. She was intent on looking for it. "Any place else near where you were at?" Ada thinks as she looks up to the exceed. "We lived near a place that had old buildings, and there was also a canyon as well." Tamaria nods as she was looking at her own map and a the book. "Hey... Could it be the ruins?" Tamaria leaned forward as she pointed to a point on the map. She moves the book she had next to her to show some waterfalls, and then flips the page to some mountains.

Ada gasps and grabs the book. "Yes! These are around the area! Why was that so easy to find... I feel it shouldn't of been..." She slumps her shoulders a bit, but slowly shakes her head. Not everything had to be this super hard thing to accomplish. A small smile was on her face as she was hoping Metallicana was still there. "Hey Cirv...?" She looks up to her mentor. "Can I ask a favor and have Zinny take us there? Please?" Ada's voice was soft for once in her life. She looks back to the book that Tammy gave her, and was slightly smiling as she recalled a few memories there with her foster father.

"Having so many enemies that have actual plans to deal with you and fight you can cause a lot of unwanted circumstances to happen. This is pretty much my punishment for falling into a trap with the others." He reworded his earlier comment on why he was changed into a younger form of himself in reply to Tamaria. He knew that his chosen mentee would not slack off but wanted to make sure she knew that he wanted her to better herself and to get stronger. He still did not want to bring her into his life as much as he did the others with how powerful she was. He wanted to keep as many as he could away from his past either way to avoid any possible casualties or anything else happening. It wasn't that he did not trust anyone but he did not want anyone to become wrapped up in something with their lives on the line when they really had no reason to be involved. It did lead to his VPs all becoming affected in some way and now being sought after by Neo-Cor Torva for experiments after all.

"Help?" He questioned his mentee's companion as she practically told him to help them. "I'd do more than that with this. I will use what resources we have to find him. It isn't everyday that you find a dragon and can possible gain its knowledge or even just talk to it." Cirven floated away from them to speak with some of the researchers nearby. He asked that they research into any appearances of any dragons in the world and report it to him as soon as they found anything. He returned to the cat and woman duo to hear that Tamaria had found out where the place was that Adalinda was trying to remember which seemed like perfect timing as he was asked about taking Zinny to go to the area. "No." He simply replied with a stern look. He then smiled at both of them. "I have a much faster way to get around now. It should be pretty fun to use." He floated out of the room and through the halls of the HQ until he arrived outside. He knew his mentee would follow him but he would not answer anything she had said on their way outside.

"Tammy, get on Ada's shoulders. We will be going for a ride." He would wait for the exceed to obey him and then touch Adalinda's shoulder. Their bodies would morph quickly into purple lightning and they would quickly fly into the sky above them and move through the clouds like the lightning bolts they had become. Not too long later they would fly down through the air into the area of the ruins causing sparks of electricity to shoot out from all around them as their bodies formed back to normal. "Fun ride, right?" The child mentor said after removing his hand from her and again smiling at her.