Skylord Nexus

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka @dragon4111 The inn keeper just shook his head at Antonio "Well I warned you, that's all I can do, just don't want anyone else going through the pain of loosing there child." The Inn keeper although looking very stoic, had a glint of sadness in his eyes. Vanderbilt began looking through the menu "Vell, I guess I vill have the Caesar Salad. Vhat do you want Lady Cecelia?" Cecelia stared at the menu before beaming a big slime and extravagantly pointing at two meals "I want the honey and mustard chicken, and Myou will have some salmon please." Vanderbilt then turned the lacrima on that showed the Grand Magic Games. Cecelia immediately pointed towards Lucius with a big smile "Hey! That's Lucius, he's a living member of my family, he always used to visit me when I was in the mansion, it was him who showed me how to make living things out of wood!" Lucius smirked and chuckled at Draco's threat "Oh I look forward to it, I hope it is less of a disappointment then your previous career." Lucius gave Lance a nod before he disappeared into the fake town and looked at Perpe "Don't worry, Lance is great at this kind of thing, he used to be a high ranking Templar who some kind of church, Lance has a sense bordering on premonition, he is able to sense when an attack is coming towards him, given it only really works properly with melee attacks, but when it comes to pure dodging Lance is a king. Anyway, go head up to the stands, I just need to take care of something quickly." When Perpe and the others will has reached the stand where Alexander, Malygos and Alexis were, they would be met with the sight of Alexander trying to push a very heavy, smaller version of the throne from the guild hall into that stands "This was the package Lord Lucius was expecting." Meanwhile Lucius went over to the Red Rock guild, more specifically Merri "You, person with the sand or something, I require you for a second." Without giving her anytime to respond Lucius lifted the Sand Dragon Slayer with his magic and walked over to a slightly more secluded area. Merri now had this tall dark mage in front of her, with a kind of scary look on his face "You used to work at the council correct? Tell me, the Raven Tail's guild, it was a dark guild wasn't it? When did they become legitimate?" Lance meanwhile began doing his best to blend into the crowd of himself, waiting to spot something out of the ordinary.

@Arid_Blitz @dragon4111 @reader8363 @Dakcka Cecelia's face lit up at Antonio's words and she hugged Myou close to her chest "You hear that Myou? We could play magic games together, wouldn't that be fun?" Myou just gave a rather neutral meow as a kind of "I don't really care". Vanderbilt just chuckled at the young girls cluelessness and leaned down to her "Vhy don't we go take a seat and vait for Antonio to sort everything out?" Cecelia gave the an one of her cute little nods and walked with him over to a table. The Inn keeper meanwhile had moved closer to Antonio and had began speaking quieter so that Cecelia couldn't here him "Well sir I can not stop you, but I will warn you to keep an eye on the girl, a lot of the people going missing have been young, so keep a close eye on her. Oh and also, I would advise not snooping around, the last people who did that ended up hung... but by none of us." Curiously he had seemed to skim over the question about help from people. The older man then handed Antonio a few menus and went down to some kind of cellar, leaving the group alone. (No idea what would be on the menu's, just have whatever you can think of) Lucius glanced over to Draco at his comment and gave the man a kind of evil smirk and chuckled "Come now my dear boy, when your as good at magic as me a simple cantrip like that it nothing. I mean I honestly you would know something like that...Captain." As Shadow's small discharge shredded the symbol the residual sparkles of magic began to swirl around into a ball before shooting up creating a firework explosion which gained a few extra cheers from the crowd. Lucius, Gale and Lance then all looked down as the illusions appeared in the sky, trying their best to ignore them, while Jack just stood there taking in the view. A bead of sweat trickled down Lucius' face as both Fairy Tail teams came out, he then proceeded to dart Alexander a rather irritated look to which his only reply was a confused shrug. Lucius sighed and looked at Perpe "Indeed. Just remember always try your best, and if you fail don't except it, get up and kick failures ass! And the answer to who's doing the challenge is pretty simple, it's gonna be Lance. After all he's the only one of us ,except me, who can control the amount of destruction he causes." As he said this he deliberately looked towards Jack and Gale. Lance just stood at attention and bowed "I'll do my best to do you proud Lord Lucius!"

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka The older inn keeper chuckled for a bit "Ah I see, magic council are you? I'm guessing so, the uniforms are generally a giveaway. Well if you what to watch the games, I have a lacrima set up down here to broadcast it for the patrons. Feel free to use it as much as you like." Cecelia quickly whispered to Vanderbilt while this other conversation was going on "Mr Vanderbilt, what are the Grand Magic Games?" Vanderbilt smiled at the young girl "Ve vill tell you over dinner, how does that sound?" Cecilia just nodded cutely at him in response. At the mention of staying for a few nights the inn keeper gained a fearful expression "While i'm fine giving you food and stuff, I wouldn't advise staying here over night. People have been going missing recently, at least two to three people every night. The towns already been cut down to a third of it's population." As Polaris Flare, or more noticeably Lucius walked out there wasn't much in the way of applause and more in the way of muttering through the crowd, although Alexander, Malygos and Alexis were doing the bet to cheer. Lucius gave a heavy sigh before smirking, he then proceeded to shout up at the muttering crowd above "All of you quit that murmuring, we're not here to gossip, we're here to watch amazing feats of magical prowess... and I for one am certainly not going to disappoint." Lucius then flurried his cane around in a skilful manner and made magic circles appear on the ground circling where they were standing. Great beams of different colours of magic suddenly shot up into the sky, proceeding to swirl around each other like a beautiful dance before shattering into small multi-coloured sparks which slowly floated down to the ground but it it's place was a shimmering Polaris Flare guild mark flying high above their heads. This warranted the crowd to cheer pretty load for the guild, or at least for the magic. After this however Lucius darted a smug, superior look up to Brume as if to say "I'd like to see your guild beat that."

Custom name... Welp you know what they say, go big or go home. Calbius The Ethereal Reaper It's the only thing better than a name, a name and an awesome title!

After looking through them for a bit, Eldrad Ulthran looks pretty cool, would that be ok?

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Vanderbilt shook his head "No, i'm afraid not. I believe the plaque is on the other side, I vould suggest us getting accommodation sorted first though, then ve can have a look around." Cecelia looked up at the statue and cocked her head "Something about that statue looks familiar, I can't tell from the back though." Vanderbilt then patted the young girl on the head "Vell my dear, let's sort our rooms first, then ve can go look, yar?" Cecelia nodded ok Mister Vanderbilt!" Vanderbilt walked into the large establishment, the inside was pretty basic, just the same as any other inn, the first floor seemed to be a bar and restaurant and the upstairs seemed to be for guests. There was a man standing at the bar cleaning a cup, the man looked to be in his early fifties, his hair mostly grey with a few stands of fair hair left "Oh! Why hello there friends! It isn't often we get travellers coming through our little town. Though I should warn you about the er... nothing, it shouldn't be of any concern unless you intend to stay here over night." Lucius blushed a little again as he looked down at his hand and quickly pulled it out of Perpe's grip, now the moment drew closer Lucius seemed slightly nervous but never the less kept most of his normal attitude "Don't worry, at least half the people on this team have killed before, go all out! Just don't kill 'em, you can maim them, just not kill... unless necessary, but you didn't hear that from me got it? Just get out there and kick ass, most of those pitiful guild should be beneath us anyway, no need to take them seriously-" Lucius then became very serious as he looked out "Except Fairy Tail and Sabertooth, look out for them, NEVER underestimate them, when fighting them, fight as if your life depends on it... because it might." Lucius then took a step forward "Ok guy's let's do this." And then began walking out.

Anime... 10/10 Trust me, it's a song.

Jailed for being hypocritical.

Well then... for jailing someone without any good reason.

Everything, jailed for everything!

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Cecelia lent her head on Antonio's arm and nuzzled into him a bit and nodded "Ok that sounds good." Vanderbilt got out of the vehicle and began walking "I understand Antonio. Although I vould mock the name of a place, there is alvays some reason behind it." After walking a bit the group would find themselves in the town centre, in the centre was a massive statue made of what seemed to be onyx or some kind of other black rock; the statue itself seemed to be of a man in his mid twenties to mid thirties holding some kind of book in one hand and a flask in the other, on the other side from where Antonio, Vanderbilt and Cecelia were was presumable a plaque although it was hard to work out from the angle they were at. Closer to them however was a reasonably large building with a sign above the door which depicted a withered hand rising from the ground, a tombstone behind it saying "The Dead Man's Rising" less threateningly however was a sing in the window which said "Family restaurant and Inn, anybody welcome" Vanderbilt looked at the signs and slightly shifted his spectacles higher up his nose "Vell... that's slightly disappointing." When everyone had arrived Alexander, Alexis and Malygos had gone up to the stands while the others got changed, needless to say Perpe had been the quickest if only because of the argument between Jack and Gale, who were both shouting at each other through the walls. Lucius meanwhile slowly began to look up as he heard Perpe "Oh why thank you, you look nice yourse-" Lucius trailed off as he looked at Perpe in the outfit, a hint of red appearing on his cheeks, however that would have only been visible for a second as he quickly faced the other direction "Um... i'm not sure if you know or not, but um the fabric I used is made to be extremely flexible, basically the only thing you have achieved from this is being slightly cooler." It was at that moment that Jack, Lance and Gale entered the room, needless to say, Perpe was the fruit of Jack's eye "Well hey there hot stuff, lookin' pretty sexy in that, i'd love to see you out of it." Lucius however quickly interjected "Leave her be flamehead,or the only thing you'll be seeing out if your heart when I rip it from your chest." Jack then skulked into the corner and began murmuring to himself "Anyway, ok everyone this is it, now I want all of you to do your best and get us a good spot, and by that I mean you better get us first or I will be very...'unhappy', got it?" Jack, Land and Gale all nodded there head in agreement "Ok great, now who's ready to kick some ass!"

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@Dakcka @Arid_Blitz @reader8363 @dragon4111 Cecelia's eyes glimmered in an adorable fashion as Antonio described school to her "That sounds really fun! when this entire adventure is over I want to go right away, is that ok Mr Antonio?" Vanderbilt sighed and nodded "Yes I do believe that vould be for the best. According to my map there is an inn towards the centre of town that way, bit of an ominous name though, The Dead Man's Rising." Gale, Alexis and Perpe would find themselves being woken up by a knock at their door and a particularly perky voice "Hello ladies! It's Alexander, I have come to inform you it's time to go, sorry for the early wake up call but Lord Lucius prefers to not travel by carriage so we all have to walk." Gale jumped out of her bed and let out an extremely loud "WHOOP" She then rushed to get ready and bolted out the door "Come on Perpe, todays the day we kick their asses!" Alexis meanwhile slowly slumped out of bed and rubbed her eyes "Yeah... you go get them Gale, you to Perpe." Alexander then went to wait for everyone in the lobby, where Lucius had just woken up, it seemed he had fallen asleep whilst drinking, the table he had been at was obvious, there was probably around fifteen wine bottles laying there "Hung over sir?" Lucius chuckled "You know me old friend, of course not. In my current state it's impossible for me to feel the effects of alcohol, nice to pretend though." Lucius then stretched his back a bit before beginning to leave "I'm going to go ahead and get ready, I have a delivery to sort out, should arrive at our seating area later on today so if you could be aware of that I would be grateful." Alexander nodded and bowed "As you wish sir." By the time then others would have go there Lucius would have been waiting, dressed in his costume, with the colours of his cane changes to white and orange to match the clothing. (Note: Female version is nowhere near that revealing, nor does it have heels. Though feel free to have slight changes for Perpe Dakcka)

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Cecelia cocked her head at Antonio "Um... Mr Antonio, what's school? Is it like when you go inside the library and your tutor teaches you stuff, that's how I learnt." Myou turned and scowled at Antonio and then at Vanderbilt but purred and snuggled up to Cecelia when she hugged him "Don't be silly Mr Antonio, Myou loves everyone." Myou then gave Vanderbilt the cat equivalent of a smirk. Vanderbilt scowled at the cat and began muttering under his breath "Evil, evil incarnate, that's vhat that cat is." Gale smirked and giggled a bit "Sure Perpe, that's good enough for me, night." Gale then patted Perpe on the head and began to walk back but stopped and turned for a second "You know, I can see why Lucius likes you so much." She then went and lay in her bed "One last thing Perpe, if anything was to ever happen to me, can you promise to look after Alexis for me?" Gale then shut her eyes and went to sleep.

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka @dragon4111 As Antonio introduced him Vanderbilt gave Cecelia a polite nod "It is indeed a pleasure to meet you acquaintance Lady Darkflare, I hope ve can get on well." Cecelia just giggled at Vanderbilt "I'm sorry Mister Vanderbilt, but you need to stop speaking in that funny voice, it's too funny." Vanderbilt scoffed at Cecelia's mocking of his accent "For you information Lady Darkflare I happen to be from a different part of the world and therefore have a different accent." Cecelia cocked her head a bit at the strange man "Don't be silly! Fiore is the entire world Mister Vanderbilt, it's not nice to make up stories." Vanderbilt just sat there, speechless "Um... Antonio I think ve should start heading off, in the mean time I vill have to teach Lady Darkflare some basic facts." Gale looked at Perpe with a stoic look on her face "Why did you join this guild? All of us joined because we didn't really have anywhere else to go, this was really our only route. But you, you got into the Fairy Tail guild, you had loads of other paths you could have taken, so why join this one? In truth non of us are the best people, some of us are criminals, some of use are outcasts, and some of us..." Gale then took a long pause before continuing "... and some of us are escaping our lives. So why did you join this guild?" While Draco had been speaking Alexander had been taking notes and when he had finish began to walk off when he tripped and let out a vary audible "Ouch!" Quickly realising what he did, Alexander began making a B-line down the street.

No, he looks too nice, he'd never do it.

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka @dragon4111 Cecelia nodded a little "I will thank you Mr... um what do you want me to call you?" At the cat food remark Myou hissed in disapproval, this was probably because he preferred to eat gourmet meals, not that it really mattered of course, he was made of wood, the only thing he needed was a lack of fire. Vanderbilt nodded and made a quick note so he could remember what they needed to do "Ok vell if I may make a suggestion, vhen ve reach this town I believe it may be best for us not to mention anything right away, ve don't want to accidently set something off, after all vith all the strange stuff the various Darkflare sub-families vould likely have and given the fact the vould have been left unattended for many years, unstable magic could have the potensial to create some... 'interesting' physical and psychological effects on people with long term exposure. Eventually the rest of the Polaris Flare team made it back and also headed straight to bed, when Gale got into her room she saw Perpe had just passed out without changing out of her clothes and Alexis asleep like a baby in the other bed. After a few minutes of hesitation Gale when over and sat on Perpe's bed and poked her "Hey, Perpe. I know your asleep but I kinda want to talk to you about something." Lucius meanwhile was sat at the bar, about ten empty wine bottles lay sprawled around him and he drank straight out of an eleventh one. Alexander entered the room and gave him a light tap on the shoulder "Um Sir? We have a little situation." Lucius turned to Alexander and replied ,surprisingly soberly, "Yeah I know, it's how we not only got through be the skin of our teeth, but also made massive prats of ourselves in the process!" Alexander shook his head "No sir, well yes, but no not that. This concerns the... blueprint shards." Lucius then stopped dead cold "You see Sir, the magic alarm you had placed went off at the house of Victus so I went to investigate, and well... the shards gone, as well as Lady Cecelia." By this point Lucius had stood up and began pacing up and down the room "Ok, this is not good. We cannot allow anyone to get there hands on the shar-... no, no wait I have a plan! Although I hate to admit it, I will require... their services. If you could Alexander make all appropriate actions and have them lying in wait at all possible locations. Understand?" Alexander gave a short bow "Indeed sir, I will have it dealt with" and then left, leaving Lucius to continue drinking unsafe amounts of alcohol. As Alexander was going to complete his task, he passed by the building where the Red Rock and Fairy Tail guilds were staying at. He looked up to see Draco on the balcony with slightly glowing magical chains on him "Hmm, seeing the way they get along, Lord Lucius may be interested in this." Alexander then blended into the shadows within listening distance of the blood rager and listened for any more juicy information.

9/10

I do the same too you. Because it's a cartoon

Bug spray

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka @dragon4111 @reader8363 Cecelia's face beamed with happiness at Antonio's words as she hugged him "Yep! Ok come on Myou." As Cecelia walked away from Antonio Myou turned as hissed at him as if to say "You touch her your going to die!" well that word it was a little salty about Antonio shattering it's paw earlier, either way Myou was not Antonio's biggest fan. Cecelia then jumped into the cart, closely followed by her devil cat and looked at Vanderbilt "So mister where are we going?" Vanderbilt put a hand to his chin in thought and got out the map and scanned over it "Vell there are three locations for us to go in, there is one to the North of us, by the looked of it, it is on a mountain. The second one is South-Vest from here, it seems to be in the middle of a desert, oh that's one of the hottest deserts in Fiore, if ve go there ve vill need more specialist supplies. And this last one is... in the middle of quite a large town according to this. I vill leave the choice up to you Antonio." An orchestral yell of pain came from the ball as the acid hit everyone inside. As Draco stopped the ball, he was faced with a very red Gale who was too stunned from words and just kept flinching and trying to tug her arms out from under the, now, pile of people. Failing this however sparks began bouncing across Gale's body "L-l-lightning salvo!" She said with a scream This prompted Jack of all people to respond "Wait Gale! That spell comes out from you h-" Before Jack could finish however the entire ball was covered in lightning, electrocuting all five people in it and causing the horse to shimmer out of existence. Lucius then crawled from the pile, his skin scorched and slightly off coloured like he was going to be sick and clothing burnt through in places. He then stumbled to his feet and tried to point at Draco, but due to his current state managed to point everywhere but towards the blood rager "Ha... you may say that but... but... ah shit! I got nothing, next time chump!" Lucius then began stumbling further into the exit "I am gonna need a. Very. Very. Strong. Drink!"

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka @dragon4111 @reader8363 After Antonio had got the gem Cecelia proceeded to grab onto him again with a vice like grip "No, I wanna stay with you!" At the same time though she shook her head "And no there is nothing I want to take apart from Myou. Come on girl!" The giant beast which still sat in the room then began to crumble until it became the size of a normal cat, however it was still obviously made of wood, and from it's insides a magical green glow could be seen. When Antonio chucked the crystal to Vanderbilt, the old made struggled to catch it, almost juggling it for a few minutes before grabbing and inspecting it "Vell that vas not vhat I expected, it vill be harder to repair ,though not impossible, as ve get more I should be able to understand how to better repair it." Lucius nodded "Thank you that's all I need to know... unfortunately I don't need more competitors so I'm afraid I have no choice but to dro-" Lucius then quickly recoiled ,dropping his spell, as sand was spat into his face and more importantly his eyes "AHH! AHH CRAP!" After getting some of the sand out of his eyes, a very eyed Lucius turned to Rouen "Hey, all's fair here." Lucius then smirked a bit at Canteen "If I cared, which I don't, that insult would mean a lot coming from a psychotic peasant like you." The dark mage was also slightly confused as one of then was actually talking to him decently, prompting a rather awkward response from him "Um.. yes hello... I'd love to chat and all, but given the circumstances I don't think this is the best time." Lucius then rolled his eyes at Perpe and before she even finished her sentence Lucius had already turned into a dark mist and had reformed in front of her, all the sand that had been on him left where he was last stood "Fast enough for you Princess? Now you lot hurry it up!" Lance nodded stepping in front of Gale and Jack and began proclaiming "Fear not by noble friends, for I shall deliver us from this excruciating dilemma! Spectral Summon!" A turquoise magic circle then appeared in front of the 'noble knight' and out from it emerged a beautiful steel made of a turquoise light; Lance proceeded to climb aboard his steed, before grabbing Gale and Jack and chucking then on-board, the horse then began galloping towards the exit. Meanwhile Lucius looked at Draco with a smirk "You may call it war 'friend' and from your perspective it may be, but from my perspective... this is pest control, for you see-" What was sure to be an inspirational and possibly evil speech however was cut short by the sound of chains, a ghostly neigh, and three screams, as a cartoonish ball consisting of Lance, Gale, Jack the horse came rolling towards Lucius and hit him, making him part of the ball. Now the ball rolled with renewed speed towards the exit, and Perpe. (And let us all never forget this post, as it represents the day when I used a genuine Japanese word for a name... shame it was just for a cat XD )

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Cecelia held onto Antonio even harder as he spoke, tears still streaming down her face, but once Antonio had finished she looked up at him with a smile and nodded "I... i'd like that a lot... thank you." Cecelia then quickly let go of Antonio and ran down the stairs until she was in the middle of the room "You said you were after the fragment? Well I wanna give it to you as a thank you." A light green circle then appeared on the floor, as that entire section rose until it reached the ceiling. Inside the now risen pillar was a dark purple crystal, waiting to be claimed. Lucius nodded at Perpe "I agree, I think it's best we avoid conflict if we can help it, the more damage we sustain here, the more damage we will carry over into the over rounds." As they continued walking Lucius grabbed Perpe's hand and forced her to put the vail back into her pocket "We want to avoid those at the moment, we'll need as many trumps as possible in order to succeed; for this very reason i'd go as far as suggesting we avoid using out magic in here if possible. And no I don't have a plan bu-" Lucius then stopped and quickly swiped his cane in the air and smashing another random person off, only to levitate him so he was suspended god knows how high in the air "Good news! I have a plan! Now buddy, your going to tell me and my friends here everything you know about this place and if you have any idea as to where the exit is that would also be a big help, unless of course you want to have a lovely little... skydive."

Preech it sister