The Watering Hole ~ Candyman and Cookielady

As Shiraz got closer his guildmaster, the Lady Ebony, used quite a beautiful spell to fell one of the alcoholic mages. He was charging forward and as he did he held his hands together with their fingers intertwined, with the top of the hand facing forward (so the thumbs facing upwards). Suddenly he spread them apart whilst focusing magic power and in front of him formed a large 8ft tall purple gummi bear. It roared and charged at one of the mages. The shock of its sudden appearance was enough for it to get a few blows with its razor sharp rock claws. Still, that was not the extent of Shiraz's attack. He ran at the gummi bear and up its back before springing off to the side suddenly forming a candy cane sword.

Once more the element of surprise was on his side, but feeling it wouldn't be enough as he got close to the opponent he suddenly dropped the sword and grabbed it with his hair. The man had been expecting a stab, but instead he got Shiraz leaping into him and driving him to the ground. Shiraz punched the man shattering his nose and knocked him unconcious. He rose to his feet and turned to see how his bear was doing. He took his sword from his hair as he watched. The bear was doing quite well. It was one of his strongest spells, but the bear was not smart. It was just pre-programmed to attack.  The man seemed to have worked that out and leapt back launching a bolt of dark energy that sliced through one of the bear's legs. The leg dissapeared but was soon replaced. Yet it seemed that the bear was going slower now. SHiraz knew the bear wouldn't last much longer. He could see the man preparing more of his dark magic.

He lunged at the man and stabbed out with his sword. The man leapt as if to dodge it, but Shiraz had expected as much and had wrapped thin strands of his hair around it so that when the man leapt to the side and 'out of reach' the blade left Shiraz's hand and kept going stabbing the man in the arm. He let out a yelp of pain and that was when the bear ended it. Shiraz nodded. "A fitting death for such an ugly brute." he said pulling the sword back and cleaning it off on one of the knocked out man's robes.

Out of nowhere though a bullet flew past him and narrowly grazed the tip of his nose. It hit the bear followed by a geyser of dark magic beneath it destroying the bear. Shiraz turned, a strange look on his face. "Did I give you permission to destroy my gummi bear?" Another alcoholic mage and some thuggish looking guy wielding a revolver. He didn't look much.

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Ebony, or Lady Ebony as Shiraz preferred to call her, was quite an amazing fighter. Her magic was also beautiful and deadly. Truly worthy of being a guild master and truly worthy of being HIS guildmaster, which was a different matter entirely. He swept a hand through his hair and looked at the fallen enemies. They had done exceptionally well in defeating so many with so little effort. He had used a lot of magic though which was a shame, but he wasn't as powerful as Lady Ebony yet. Yes, he had used quite a lot of magic power, but he had a feeling it would of impressed the guild master to some extent. OR at least he hoped he had.

It seemed another three dark mages had three spikes of darkness hurtled towards him. Two he dodged and the third he sliced down with his sword and stared at the men. "More ruffians milady. I wonder when their boss will show up." he said and then swept his hand through his hair again. "His cowardice and disregard for his allies is truly ugly."

He walked towards them his sword raised up and twisted slightly. He wondered how best to deal with this group. He had used most of his strongest spell then he grinned. There were three of them and he had a spell ideally suited for taking down three. He dashed forward suddenly and changed his grip so that he was once more wielding the sword with his hair. As he got close he slammed his hands together and then slammed them on the ground before performing a quick cartwheel to land on his feet. A faint rumble was heard beneath the feet of each of the men and they looked down in confusion and surprise. Just as he'd intended. One of them leapt back, but the other two were hit by boiling hot soda. "Candy Make Mentos Geyser" The third had only narrowly dodged it. He had a scared look on his face as he heard his friends scream in agony before falling to the floor, the pain knocking them out.

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It seemed the guild master didn't mind herself getting hurt, but didn't like him risking himself. Did she understand his beauty was sacred? Or did she just believe her comrades lives were more important than her own? It did not matter at this moment. Suddenly, he was forced to leap backward as a large blast of dark energy hit the ground followed by the sound of a large belch.

"You missed him brother." said a voice.

"Aye, he moved. That's not fair." said another. Shiraz turned and saw two people sitting on a roof. Each of them had a jug in one hand and a sawn off shotgun in the other. Both were clearly drunk. However, they also seeemed quite powerful in dark magic. Their guns and jug actually had coating of it. "Let's see if he can dodge this." He took a swig of his jug and then spat launching a huge blob of dark energy. Rather than dodging it he slashed it in two with a look of disgust on his face.

"Ah he saw that one coming brother. You need to be quicker than that."  he said.

"How dare you spit at me. That's just disgusting." Shiraz said and chucked a rock at the man using his hair. The rock hit the jug and smashed it causing the man to stare at Shiraz with a look of shock and anger upon his face.

"You broke the bottle that big brother gave to me." he said rising to his feet and leaping down. "Let's show them what we think of that boys." At those words another  three gunners game out of the shadows. One held a rifle, one a revolver and one some kind of rocket launcher. Where were they getting this tech from? They weren't alone though as another two of the dark mages turned up. Now there were two 'moonshiners', two 'alcoholics' and three 'gunners'. It was a ragtag crew, but their numbers were getting a bit ridiculous. What's more there appeared to be no sign of their mysterious boss.

"Shall we show them the power of Fairy Tail Lady Ebony?" Shiraz said preparing to charge into the fray.

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Shiraz had wanted to make these people himself, but it seemed that the guildmaster wanted to show her skills, the true power of Fairy Tail. In one attack she wiped out most of the opponents and sent the rest running. It was a truly devastating attack that she had unleashed. "It seems your power frightens them Lady Ebony." he said calmly In truth it frightened him a bit. He had never seen such a display of power. "Perhaps their boss will show himself soon." He hoped so. Fighting subordinates like this, even if they challenged him a little, was not beautiful. In fact, it was downright ugly. Shiraz sensed the approach of someone and with a flick of his wrist his candy cane sword flew at a man impaling the wood next to him. The man stared at it for a second, and saw the glowing blue eyes of Shiraz, before turning and running. "Though I doubt he will pose much of a threat to you milady." he said and turned to begin walking towards the place they were supposed to be guarding

It was then that a bullet tore towards him cutting off the tip of his nose. It seemed that he had moved at a different pace to what they were expecting. If he'd been walking a fraction of a second fast that would of hit him a lot harder. He turned, his eyes glowing in fury, looking for the target. He saw the man atop a roof with a sniper rifle. Behind him was another mage, one of the alcoholic mages by the looks of him, generating a translucent barrier of darkness to protect both of them from attacks. It seemed they wanted to take him out so they could focus their efforts entirely on Lady Ebony. He broke into a run towards them, zigging and zagging so as to make it harder to get a direct hit on him. A few bullets clipped him as he got close, but not enough to stop his approach. He made a gesture with his hand and then threw a large blob of cotton candy at the opponents. It wasn't meant to damage them. In fact, it did exactly what he hoped and covered the barrel of the gun, which was sticking out of the barrier slightly, in the sticky goop. AS the man tried to fire the stickiness prevented it and caused the weapon to backfire. That was all the opening he needed.

He leapt upwards, using his hair to grab onto the wall, and flung himself up onto the roof. "You dare damage my face you ugly wretches?" he said forming hand gestures ready to attack. "Do you know how much a decent rhinoplasty costs nowadays?" A blast of darkness flew at him, but he dodged it with a movement of his head. "I guess you wouldn't. Candy Make: Jaw Breaker." as he punched the floor. A faint rumble was heard before a large fist of candy came up and hit the dark mage in the jaw sending him flying upwards. The barrier was dispelled with that blow allowing Shiraz to launch a powerful kick to the sniper, who was still recovering from his backfired weapon.

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It seemed more opponents had turned up, but whether because she was getting stressed out or bored at these weaker opponents and the length of the mission she eliminated them almost instantly. He stood atop a building observing his surroundings. Things had gone well so far, but where was the boss. There was no sign of him and it didn't look he was turning up anytime soon.


"The boss is getting quite pissed and not in the good way." said a voice from behind him. He turned and leapt to the side believing, quite correctly, that only enemies would be speaking behind him like that.  ANother one of the moonshiners had turned up. "Very pissed indeed." He was forced to move more as he saw two more hired thugs each with pistols aimed at him. THey were revolvers so quite slow, but still it was an annoyance he did not need. Particularly when he spotted two more mages with very red faces. Five opponents. Three of which were either equal to or stronger than him and most of his best spells were not able to be used yet. He leapt back using his hair to move him through the air as if he was flying, in reality he was holding himself up by them. As he leapt back he formed a gesture with his hands and flung his hand forward causing popping candy to fly out and explode in front of the faces of his opponents. The bright flashes provided enough distraction for him to get nearer to his guildmaster.

"Lady ebony more guests have arrived. Would you like to deal with them?" he asked. HE did not want to rely on her, but right now most of his magic was unable to be used and he didn't have much to deal with these numbers or power. "If you could protect me for a short while then I should have recovered enough to aid you properly." With her spell out for so long it likely wouldn't last long so this would also give her a way to use it and not waste it. Or so he hoped.

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It seemed that whilst Ebony was indeed powerful, much stronger than he, and her magic was beautiful, at least as beautiful as his own, she was not infallible. Her power had defeated four of the opponents, but a fifth remainined. He swept a hand through his hair and dashed forward. "Candy Make: Lollipop Hammer" he said forming in his hands once more the powerful hammer that looked strangely like a lollipop. He leapt into the air using his subtle control of his hair to propel himself and came down with a pile driving strike the man's head. There was a loud crack, the sound of his skull fracturing and then the man fell unconcious. Shiraz stood atop him for a moment before walking back over to lady ebony.

When he got near her he noticed that her leg was injured. "How dare they hurt my lady." he murmured with an angry tone to his voice his eyes glowing that piercing blue for a moment. He bowed to her and then with a quick motion formed a large triple chocolate chip cookie and handed it to her. "I wish we could spend the rest of the day just eating candy and enjoying ourselves too." he added with a smile. It was something he dearly wished. He liked to see people enjoy his candy. He enjoyed seeing them enjoy it.

He wondered when the boss of this group would show. He must be getting pretty pissed by now. They had wiped out enough of his men to conquer this town. His resources must be getting low now and he would make his appearance soon. Right? That was what Shiraz hoped. "Perhaps their boss is a coward." he mused. "And is too afraid to face you milady."

It was a plausible hypothesis. She was the powerful current guildmaster of the legendary fairy tail guild. She was a woman who with barely any effort had knocked out many, many people on this mission. Plus there was the fact that she appeared quite young. Perhaps he was worried that if he lost he would lose face because of that. Losing to a young woman would do nobodies reputation any good even if that woman was a guildmaster. He doubted the boss would be afraid of him even if he had done some serious damage to the troops.

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It seemed a splendid idea and Shiraz dispelled his hammer entirely and walked over with her to sit down. Shiraz glanced over the menu and raised an eyebrow before making a quick calculation in his head. In order for these dishes to be this expensive the ingredients would have to be the finest and such ingredients didn't come from this area. He knew this for a fact for he had travelled the land searching for recipes and delicious ingredients. The reason the prices were so expensive was therefore that they imported these ingredients. Another quick calculation suggested that if they had not preserved them magically then the quality of such items would not be worth this price. "These prices are quite...ex...spenive." he said directly to the waiter restraining himself from using the word extortionate. "I expect that is due to a high quality chef and the importing of fine ingredients. I would like to speak with your chef and see him work...cooking is a hobby of mine. Perhaps I can assist him or learn something myself" The waiter seemed to consider this, but before he could answer Shiraz was already on his feet. "I know the way. Please serve Lady Ebony in my absence." He made a gesture with his hand and formed another edible glass of soda for the cosmic mage in front of her. There was a message on it saying 'I'll be right back'

With that he left and headed to the kitchen. As soon as he entered the smell alone told him something was off. He ran a finger along the side and stared at it in disgust. [/color]"This is the state a fine establishment keeps its kitchen in?"[/color] the chef, a large heavyset man and also quite fat walked over to him with a cleaver in his hand.

"What you saying about my kitchen?" the man snarled, but suddenly found himself unable to move. "What you doing to me?" Shiraz shook his head.

"I thought that would be obvious. I am restraining you. Why? So I can cook my own food. I do not trust your cooking a true chef would not let their kitchen get to this state. If you let me cook as I see fit I will release you to your work." the man strained against the bonds for a while whilst Shiraz began working preparing the kitchen to his liking. After a few moments the chef relented and Shiraz released him. Shiraz walked about and using his hair and his actual limbs began to clean the kitchen till it was sparkling clean. "Much better. Now I wonder what Lady Ebony will order?" He mused this over picturing the menu and thinking about what he knew of her. It would likely be something sweet and prepared without alcohol at a guess. What would she order?

(I thought i'd have some fun with his cooking knowledge XD)

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It was as she jumped down onto the table that Shiraz came out with plates floating next to him as if suspended by telekinesis. In reality they were held by his hair, but that was not possible to be seen by the naked eye. They were tiny, thinner then ordinary hairs. Some had her chicken burgers on. Some atlas' wedges and some a meal for himself. There was also a trolley being pulled from behind him. "Your meal Lady Ebony, Lord Atlas. I hope it meets your standards" he said placing the plates in front of them. "When you are ready for dessert I will prepare them for you." He added indicating the trolley. With that he sat down at his own plate. This plate consisted of a simple chicken salad. However, it seemed to be prepared in such a way as if to emphasise the beauty of the ingredients. The other plates, the ones he had given to the others were the same. Presentation was everything.

"I am sorry for the delay milady. The kitchen, particularly for such an expensive restaurant, was frankly disgusting." he said and swept a hand through his hair. "It had to be cleaned thoroughly before it was suitable for your food. The chef was also...incooperative which caused further delays. I am afraid I will have to write a rather stern letter when I return to the guild." He paused briefly and then whistled and from the sky descended Syrup once more. Shiraz gestured with his hand and a plate filled with sweets appeared on the table from which the alicorn began to eat happily though also politely and without making mess.

"The chef and kitchen might of been a state, but the equipment was top quality. The oven in particular outclasses the one back at Fairy Tail by a factor of five or perhaps even six." he said thoughtfully holding a piece of chicken up to observe its beauty. The dressing glistened on it in such a way that it almost sparkled. "I might have to consider upgrading the Fairy Tail kitchen somewhat. It should make meeting the demand for food at Fairy Tail all the easier."

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