Skylord Nexus

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Vanderbilt nodded "I vill step out for a bit, see if there this anything possibly hidden outside." Vanderbilt then left the building, only Cecelia, Antonio and the massive wood beast in the room. Cecelia continued to whimper as she began speaking "There were men... I don't now who... they were dressed in black and red cloaks. They came from everywhere and... and... and... killed everyone, even Mama and Papa... I remember Papa's last word was protect, I always assumed he talked about the fragment." Lucius smiled and optimistic smile "Yes! A plan! A plan which is the best plan ever conceived in the history or planning!" This phrase alone elicited Gale, Lance and Jack to say three simple words in unison with the most dead pan expressions ever "Wait for it." Lucius ignored them and continued speaking "We are going to head in this direction *points in random direction* and while we start heading that way I will make a plan to get us out of here." This elicited the three to once again speak in unison with the exact same expression as before "There we go." They all then began walking in the random direction Lucius had picked out, beginning his 'master' plan.

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Vanderbilt shook his head a bit and got to his feet stumbling a little "Vell, I have certainly been better." Cecelia meanwhile continued to cry, but slowly looked up at Antonio "When... when Mama and papa...died." Although not saying anything else, Cecelia slide over a bit and nuzzled into Antonio's shoulder, much like a cat would, and wrapped her arms around him. Lucius looked on for a second speechless "Pumpkin... man... well that's honestly one of the strangest things I've ever seen." Meanwhile Jack and Lance have joined everyone, Jack looked up at the sky labyrinth and whistled "Wow, looks like it's made of nightmares and death... you didn't make this, did you Lucius?" Lucius just shook his head "Nope, but you coulda fooled me, something like this is totally up my street." Lucius then chuckled and patted Perpe on the head before playfully speaking to her "Oh it's cute you think you're not always mine to command." Jack however quickly interjected "Can you please stop being a vindictive prick for just one or two minutes." Lucius just scoffed at the command "You first." Alexander quickly stepped between the two before things could escalate however "Now don't get me wrong, I hate to interrupt such an important discussion sir's, but time is of the essence!" Lucius quickly came back to his senses "Oh god you're right. Alright guys lets get moving, remember to stick together!" Gale grabbed Perpe's hand and began running up to the path along with Lucius, Jack and Lance. Lucius quickly glanced back "Remember to keep an eye out for anything suspicious." Alexander nodded "Will do Sir!"

Fear not! I will save you using my GRAPPLING HOOK! *Fire hook* YAY! *Hook misses Dakcka, bounces off a tree and wraps around @dragon4111 pulling him in* Blast... Sorry!

@Arid_Blitz @dragon4111 @Dakcka Cecelia continued to cry as Antonio talked and shock her head "No... they said... the last thing they said was that I had to protect-" before she could finish Cecelia began shaking, a look of terror on her face, as she curled herself up into a ball "NO! I don't want to see that again! No!" Whatever it was she was seeing or remembering must of really had an effect on the girl to have her in such a state. Alexis looked out the window and saw Draco smiling at her, this slight creepiness caused her to shake a bit as a chill went up her spine, however before she could say anything she found herself being dragged away along with Gale by Perpe. Gale chuckled a bit "Oh come on we still have plenty of ti-" Gale trailed off as she saw the time on a passing clock in a store window, and began matching Perpe for speed. When Perpe kicked down the door she would have been met with a very... peculiar sight, namely one of Lucius, Alexander and Malygos all underneath a large pile of fabric asleep, Alexander to the right, and Malygos with Lucius hands wrapped around him on the left. Lucius opened his eyes rather abruptly before looking at her, then at the position he was still in "Ah!... I mean oh, Perpe what are you talking about we still have plenty of time look." Seemingly refusing to talk about his current 'predicament' Lucius pulled out an ornate pocket watch and opened it "See we have an extremely short amount of time left...! AH! We have an extremely short amount of time left!" Lucius quickly began scrambling, letting go of Malygos in the process, however quickly becoming tangled in the fabric "AH! Alexander! Help!" Alexander quickly scrambled quickly to his feet, but he too quickly became tangled in the fabric "I would sir, bit i'm a little tied up and the moment." Gale quickly peered in and gestured to Lucius "Ladies and Gentlemen: Our 'Great Leader'!"

@Arid_Blitz @dragon4111 @Dakcka Cecelia glanced down at Antonio as he spoke, before yelping and floating back at his sudden flare of energy. As Antonio began exerting force against the beast, the sound of cracking wood could be heard, a sound which was only intensified as the ice began to cover the things paw, before eventually shattering into pieces and causing the strange creature to fall to the floor momentarily immobilized. Cecelia however just stared at Antonio wide eyed, tears still flowing down her face, before eventually floating down onto her knees "I don't no how long, It been so long." She then began crying even louder "MAMA! PAPA!" Gale smirked a bit and leaned in closer to Perpe "Oh Reeeeeally? So then your not into him in the slightest?" Alexis meanwhile was bouncing in her seat "Wait, how do you know what he smells like... did you smell him, what does he smell like?" Alexis had her noes cupped, a little blood seeping from in-between her fingers obviously being to naïve to understand that Perpe hadn't actually smelt Lucius. Gale then turned when Perpe said she saw Draco, and looked at him with a deadpan expression and stuck her middle finger up at him from across the street before turning back and ordering for herself and Alexis "Yeah, I think they're all jerks from what I've seen, I look forward to kicking the shit out of them in the games." Gale then shrugged a bit "Oh yeah, well don't worry we should be back with plenty of time to spare.

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka It seemed that Cecelia was completely breaking down, tears continuously flowed down her cheek as sobs emanated from her and echoed through the halls "NO! You don't understand, get away from me!" This time instead of letting out a second shock wave, she went to push Antonio only to have her hands and arms phase through him. Cecelia looked down at her hands and began crying even louder, as this the massive beast grabbed Antonio in a massive paw, every second increasing the strength of it's grip "They said I had to protect it, they said they are proud of me, I don't want them not to be." Cecelia was really beginning to break down at this point, her words becoming muffled and inaudible in amongst her cries. As the girls began to walk, they walked right past the fancy restaurant and continued down the road a bit until this reached what seemed to be a more 'public' establishment, and walking in it was such, an average seeming bar that lead to a kitchen stood at the back to the place and the rest of the space was filled with tables and chairs of various sizes and amounts. The restaurant itself wasn't very busy and only had one or two tables with people on them. Gale walked along and sat at a table for four, what seemed to be Alexis and not in fact Franziska sat next to her, opening up the menu she gave it a quick look and chucked one to Perpe "So, what do you think of Lucius?" On Gale's face was a smirk showing she was hopping for what she thought would be a rather... 'saucy' answer.

@Dakcka @Arid_Blitz @dragon4111 @reader8363 Vanderbilt pulled at his collar a bit at Antonio's suggestion "Vell... i'll try, although I am not a very talkative person, nor am a good in social situations." Vanderbilt left Antonio and walked up the stairs a bit so he was closer to Cecelia "Um... Lady Darkflare?" Cecelia looked at Vanderbilt and yipped a little, floating back a bit "W... what do you want, just go, please." Vanderbilt looked down "I am sorry ma'am but ve need the fragment, it's of upmost importance." Cecelia shook her head, tears still in her eyes "No! Papa and Mama said that no-one is allowed the fragment, not even me. I'm not going to disobey Papa and Mama." Vanderbilt then began to fumble a bit "Vell I'm sure if your... your um... you Papa and Mama vere here then-" Then was evidently was the worst possible thing Vanderbilt could have said, "SHUT! UP!" as an ear piercing scream echoed throughout the entire house, as well as a green shock wave shooting from the girl and blasting Vanderbilt back into the opposite wall, leaving him dazed. Now every wooden animal in the room began to break apart and shift together into an extremely large cat which seemed to be a mixture of lion, cheetah and tiger, the creature then let out a roar which made the windows crack, apparently Vanderbilt REALLY wasn't the right guy for the job. As the chain came towards Gale a whip quickly slapped it into the air "There will be no need for that, as you can see we are leaving, so please just let us leave... unless you want to make thing worse." Apparently Franziska was just as pissed with these events as Draco, Gale just turned once to the group and smirked at them all, including Sting "I'll be looking forward to kicking all of you asses." She then continued to leave giving Starry the cold shoulder on her way, just dragging Perpe now, probably too afraid to get near the ball of primal rage and horror that was Franziska. The girls were now walking the streets of Crocus, Gale let out a large sigh, and had clearly calmed down a bit "I'm sorry you had to see that Perpe, usually i'm pretty level headed, but that guy just got my blood boiling." Gale paused for a moment thinking "I know! Why don't we all go out for dinner, get our minds off those jerks... and plan how to completely humiliate them in the games, sound good?" By this point Gale had a comically evil grin on her face as she began plotting, Franziska on the other hand didn't want anything to do with it "Well count me out, the last time me and Alexis got caught up in one of your revenge schemes it ended horribly, it took us a week to get that stuff out of our hair!" Apparently Perpe had WILLINGLY join what must have been the strangest guild in Fiore.

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka @dragon4111 Cecelia glanced over to Antonio when he mentioned a map fragment, tears still in her eyes, but quickly turned away again, it seemed she was not a mire projection and obviously did feel emotion, perhaps there was a more peaceful solution to this? Then again maybe not. As Antonio's attack hit the lion, it lurched back, and went to pounce again, however before it could a vial of red liquid hit it and made it explode into pieces across the floor "There! I do you like my new healing potion? it's a real blast isn't it?" Vanderbilt said laughing manically for a second. Two more creatures, a tiger and a panther made up of what once was a dresser and arm chair then both lurched at the two "Um I think ve need a better solution to this, yar?" Gale looked at Leege, pissed, as she rose a fist up in anger "Why you little-" only to be stopped by Alexis... or Franziska, it was hard to tell "I think it would be best if you didn't do that, she meant no harm... besides I don't think she interiorly understands social norms." Gale then turned away from Draco, completely ignoring him, only saying "Sticks and stone may brake my bones, but names will never hurt me. Perhaps you should keep that in mind and stop giving such a damn about what other people think." This statement, ironically enough, coming from the girl who almost hit someone over being called a bully. Gale then grabbed Perpe and Alexis and began to storm out the shop, dragging both girls with her, she only stopped when Canteen dashed for Perpe "Get. Out. Of. My. WAY!" Gale then swung at Canteen, her fist infused with lighting, hoping to hit the freak out the way and get on with her day.

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Vanderbilt looked doubtfully at Antonio "Vell, the problem is, is that you never quite know vhat kind of magics the Darkflare's have put into this place." As if on cue, the whole mansion seemed to react to the lacrima that Antonio released, and went dark, windows shielded, and the door closed it's self, shrouding the room in total Darkness for a few seconds before candles erupted with an eerie green flame "See? This is exactly vhat I'm talking about." Then, some kind of green magical protection of a young girl appeared and beamed at the two "Well hi them nya! I see you've broken into my home, I'm Lady Cecelia Liadrin Darkflare, the Lady of the First House Of Darkflare: Victus!" Her face then seemed rather sad as see continued "Unfortunately I have to dis-pose of you." She sat there thinking for a second, making sure her pronunciation was correct before continuing again "I really am very sorry, you seem like nice people and all, but I was told this is what I have to do." Suddenly, the furniture under the tarps began move, and their wood shifted into that of animals, one of them (A lion) pounced towards the two men, all the while the small girls just sitting there and watching, tears in her eyes as she tried to look away, but couldn't quite. Gale looked at Brume ,disgusted, as he ran his hand through her hair, but she decided to play it cool for the moment "Oh yeah, I've heard of you guys, your a crappy new guild which was founded in order to keep a psychopath in check, and lacks even the most basic of self sufficiency because you are literally that crappy." Gale said, keeping her smile and she swung straight for Brume's face, it seemed that the 'moment' was very short. As Perpe barged out Gale chuckled a bit "Don't worry Perpe I've got this Perv handled!" It seemed the events just then were also enough to flip Alexis, and Franziska cracked her whip in the air and pointed at Brume "Unless you won't me to interject, I subject you leave us ladies alone!"

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Vanderbilt chuckled a bit "Vishful thinking mine friend, I vouldn't let an army come vith in ten miles of anyvhere owned by the Darkflares."Vanderbilt grabbed the book and began flicking through it "No thank you, I try my best not to relay on magical items if I can help it." Vanderbilt then stopped on a page with a rune on it and grabbed a pencil from his pocket, he drew over the rune, altering it and then placed it to the door. A large flash came from the door and it swung open revealing a large lobby type area with pieces of furniture under tarps and a grand staircase in the centre leading to upper floors "Vell... after you." Gale smiled and she put an arm around Perpe's shoulder, eyes sparkling and a fist to the air "Alright we're gonna go clothes shopping, and we are going to find you an outfit that will be AWESOME!" Alexis the came in on the over side of Perpe doing a similar action "Yeah, you are going to look amazing, your going to be all pretty and stuff." Just then a small dark portal appeared next to them with Lucius in it "A chill went up my spine, that means you want money." Lucius quickly chucked a card through the portal "You know the drill, get them to charge it to the tab, and don't cause trouble!" A shout could them be heard from what must have been across which sounded a lot like Jack "Hey! What if me or Lance want to go somewhere and buy stuff?" Lucius turned his head away from the girls, his eye twitching a bit "You can have to card when you go to hell you bastard!" It was then a small fiery ball rolled into Lucius room and began to set everything on fire "Oh god, ALEXANDER! The clothes... no scratch that, everything's burning, HELP!" The last thing the girls were able to see through the portal was a lot of smoke and Lucius and Alexander running around like headless chickens. Gale shrugged "They're... probably fine." Lucius screams could be heard from the other room "See... completely... absolutely... ok they're not, lets just get gone so we can claim deniability." Alexis nodded and they both dragged Perpe out the room, out the hotel, and to the clothing store.

@Arid_Blitz @Dakcka Vanderbilt just looked at the skyline, lost in thought, completely missing whatever Antonio had said, but snapped back to reality when they arrived. He hopped out the vehicle and nodded at Antonio "Indeed, this is the place, just as creepy as I vould come to expect." In front of the two was a large manor house, although still looking luxurious it still appeared rundown, windows were full of dust blocking any view inside. Vanderbilt nodded in reply "Indeed I vould say you'd be a fool not to get a bad feeling here." He then went over to what seemed like the main doors and placed a hand of it, closing his eyes and seemingly focusing on something. After a minute or so Vanderbilt backed off and turned to Antonio "There is some kind of ruin or seal protecting this door, I vill need books on both in order to counteract the effects and get us in." Gale snickered a bit as Perpe awkwardly waddled behind her before going to the counter herself and getting a key for a three person room, she then began walking down a corridor "You know, you remind me a lot of Lucius... your just as socially awkward as he is." Gale then began breaking down into a laughing fit for the next five minutes as they walked, before reaching a door and proceeding to open it. The room itself was extremely big and must have cost an absolute fortunes. Gale just dropped her stuff onto the floor wherever while Alexis went and hummed a random sound as she unpacked her stuff and neatly packed away her stuff. Lucius then barged into the room, giving no regard for common decency "Ok, we have the baths all night, make use of them when you want, break anything and I'll break you, got it?" It was then a pillow came flying into his face from Gale "HEY! YA PERV! KNOCK!" Lucius was about to go storming in there but was grabbed by the collar by Alexander and was dragged out, arms and legs flailing in every direction "Apologies ladies, I'll remove Lord Lucius for you." Alexander and Lucius then disappeared out the door and presumably to their own room.

@@Arid_Blitz, @@Dakcka, Vanderbilt stared at Antonio for a long moment and cocked his head a bit "To be honest I did not expect you to sving that vay, not that I judge of course, any love is good love no matter who vith or chat gender the lovers are." Vanderbilt then gave Antonio a solemn nod "Indeed, in my many years of service I have leant that the council is a fickle thing, and vhen they are done vith you they cast you aside. After Malik shot me they took everything away from me, my commission, my medals, and shut me up in that library, goodness they almost took my knighthood. So now I do vhat I can to get my own back in my own little vay, I challenge vhat they say vhen I think it's wrong, like with Herrn Lucius." Lucius quickly glanced down at Perpe and whispered from the side of his mouth to her as to avoid being heard "I would, but anytime you do something like that, her personality switches to Franziska and whips you, I learn to live with it at this point. Honestly this is probably the best ship she's given me, she's shipped me with Alexander before... oh and also, Jack. Ironically enough this is about the only thing me and him agree on, it would never, ever happen." Alexander smiled and looked down at Perpe "Oh why hello there Miss Perpe, I trust to are doing well?" Alexander then looked from Perpe to Lucius then chuckled a bit "Why, I think you two would make a cute couple ,if you don't mind me saying so, Lord Lucius certainly seems a lot happier than usual, as well as more mentally stable... thank you, for the first time in almost ten years, Lord Lucius seems honestly and truly happy." Although oblivious to the conversation that had just happened, Lucius turned around to face Perpe after her groaning "Well as a matter of fact we are." In front of the group was a reasonably sized building that was extremely luxurious on both the inside and out "Ok when I said hotel I may have lied a bit, I may instead of meant town house... mansion? thing. Anyway make yourselves at home, and then go out or what ever and do your best not to get into trouble." Everyone then began to enter the house, Gale and Alexis then grabbed hold of Perpe and rushed inside ahead of the boys, mid run Gale turned and looked at Perpe "We should hurry up and get our rooms first before the boys get a hold of them."

I mean i guess I should give it a go, got nothing to lose

I remember that, i had a key for it whilest it was in closed beta (i think), used the key, installed the game, never played i single minute, always meant to, just never got around to it XD

@@Arid_Blitz, @@Dakcka, Vanderbilt let out a warm chuckle "Vell I von't go into details, but I assure you that I am fully capable of handling myself, back in the day I von medals for my military accomplishments." Vanderbilt then chuckled again and looked at Antonio "But enough about me, I vant to know more about you, like say who that special someone is who made that vest." Lucius blushed lightly as Perpe clung to him, trying not to look at her in order to keep his composure "Yes, well I know what he's like, believe it or not that's probably the slowest he's gone with anyone, i'd consider yourself quite lucky." Lucius then pointed to the very large city about a quarter mile away "We my dear are going there, Fiore's capital city of Crocus, also known as the Flower Blooming Capital. It is a place of great beauty so I've been told, personally I try to avoid places like this, to many people, never the less we must do what we must, and i'd like to get out hotel sorted out as soon as possible." Lucius then began walking toward the capital, making so effort to remove Perpe, so if she wanted so could stay held onto him. Meanwhile Gale was trying to keep in a laugh whilst Alexis blushed and looked at her new OTP, for the next while Alexis began whispering names such as Pucius, and Lerpe, trying to come up with a name for her new ship.

@@Arid_Blitz, @@Dakcka, Vanderbilt nodded at Antonio's comment "Yar, if someone came at me while soaking vet, I vould do the same, these uniforms aren't cheap you know." Vanderbilt then motioned at his magic council uniform. He then want back towards their vehicle and got out a very old looking map, proceeding to open it up. The map itself seemed pretty old, and lacked detail, however five X's were marked on it "These are the places vhere I believe the map fragments to be, I suggest heading to this one first." Vanderbilt then pointed at one of the circles that seemed to be close to their location "It should be around thirty-five miles north-east from here, give or take a mile or so." Jack felt Perpe nock into him and smirked down at her, putting his left arm around her waist, keeping her pressed against him with a surprising amount of force "Hey there hot stuff. I see after that kiss I gave you, you just want more, well if you insist." Jack then began to move closer to Perpe face, for what surely would be a much more 'romantic' kiss, however when mire millimetres away from Perpe's lips, he let out a grunt, and stumbled backwards, letting go of Perpe; If Perpe was to look, she would see Lucius' sword stuck right through Jack's right shoulder "Try it, go on. I. DARE. YOU.!" Lucius then removed his sword from Jack and looked at Perpe "You should stick with Gale and Alexis, make sure to never be alone with Jack. Got it?" As Lucius said this, there seemed to be a worried tone in his otherwise cold order. Meanwhile Jack had regained some composure, fire then engulfed his wound, after it had dissipated he seemed to be ok. Jack then stormed right past Lucius murmuring to himself "[REDACTED FOR SAKE OF DECENCY]" Gale then came over to Perpe "Yeah Lucius is right, it's probably best you stick with us, or Alexander. We're the three people less likely to make advances on you." Lucius then once again paced up to the front of the group "Ok everyone, Crocus awaits! Let us enter." Lucius and the others then began to enter the Flower Blooming Capital.

@@Dakcka, @@Arid_Blitz, @@reader8363, Vanderbilt smiled and looked at Merri "Vell talking from a purely business point of view, I'm happy your gone! Vithout you efficiency has almost doubled, that vas in less than an hour as vell!." Vanderbilt then patted the Merri on the head, much in the same way an uncle would his niece/nephew "Of course I do miss your smile, always made my day brighter.!" Vanderbilt then stepped in front of Shadow "Vell we are going somevhere on official business, so ve just stopped by. Killing two birds vith just one stone, yar?" Gale laughed at Perpe "Seriously? You think you only need that? What happens when it needs to be washed, you gonna walk around naked? Jack would probably be all over that, literally and physically." She then shrugged "Well it's your choice at the end of the day, if you ever do need any though, feel free to ask." Alexis nodded "Yep! Anytime, anywhere, anywhy!" Meanwhile Lucius was down in his workshop, using various tools ,which he was levitating, to create there uniforms. Alexander had since joined him, and had stood there looking at his master with a worried expression on his face; despite still working Lucius addressed his loyal guardian "What's wrong, you've been standing there like that for half an hour." Alexander looked up and Lucius "Well sir, I'm worried about you, you never seem THIS preoccupied unless you think something bad is going to happen." Lucius softly chuckled at Alexander, lowering everything he had previously levitated "Sometimes I think you know me too well old friend, I'm just worried about the others, I think they could give most of the guilds a run for their money... but Sabretooth, I think they will chew us up and spit us back out. I just don't want them to get hurt." Lucius was now looking at the floor, sadness in his eyes. Alexander gave Lucius a pat on the back and a warm smile "Sir, their stronger than you give them credit for, even if they get torn apart, they'll pull themselves back together. Now how about we get these costumes finished?" This elicited a smile from Lucius "Yeah your right." He then got back to work "We're screwed aren't we?" Although equally busy Alexander answered "Yep." It had almost been an hour since everyone had left, and now they were all back in the throne room, each with a suitcase full of stuff. Lucius and Alexander then both ascended from the floor, Lucius with an extremely large suitcase, and Alexander with a pretty small one, Lucius smiled and looked at the group "Ok everyone, this is it, fail... and I'll kill you... ok maybe not, but I will maim you! Alexander, portal." Alexander nodded and cast a large magic circle on the floor "Ok everything is in order, accommodations are prepared, we shall arrive just outside of Crocus. Now everyone jump in, and make sure not to leave until we all arrive, got it?" Jack quickly leapt into the circle, and disappeared in a shimmer of white, he was quickly followed by Lance who was preaching something about honour or something, Alexander and Malygos then entered the circle and left, Gale and Alexis then followed. All that was left was Lucius and Perpe, Lucius patted the wall "Keep yourself safe old girl, we'll be back soon ok?" Lucius then stepped into the circle, and before disappearing smiled at Perpe "If I were you I'd get in before the circle closes, or you'll be trapped in here. This place can get pretty creepy when on your own." Lucius the disappeared in a shimmer of white.

@@Skylord Nexus, @@Arid_Blitz, Vanderbilt shrugged at Antonio "Vell to be honest I vas going to vork out our first target vhen we reached are destination, as we could go to the closest target as possible in order to be efficient. I have no idea vhat vill be waiting for us to be honest, I know there von't be any people there to oppose us, the building ,vhile in pristine condition, have been abandoned for the better part of two centuries. I expect many long lasting spells and runes, maybe a few magical automations such as golems. Honestly vhile being mostly used to dark magic, the Darkflare's alvays found a vay to get other magic to vork for them." Venderbilt stared intently at the ground then looked up at Antonio "If I may ask you, vhy did you join the magic council, surely there must be more of a reason than to just root out corruption." Lucius glanced at Perpe and then at the screen, which then orientated to face Lucius "Hmm, you do have a point, you girls would have less protection than us guys," Lucius said staring intently at the image, obviously not paying to much head to the actually way Perpe had meant her criticism "Well maybe if we maybe move the crossover at the upper torso higher to cover more of the chest, and then instead of the crossover being so thin we have them much longer to cover the stomach, make it slightly looser for easier movement and that should all be good! Perpe, thank you for the advice, you are already more useful than Jack." Alexander took one step further "Miss Perpe is correct sir, it would prove prudent for us to set off as quickly as possible." Lucius nodded "Yes your right Alexander, alright people! we leave in an hour, grab anything you need and we will meet back here, got it? In the mean time, I'll put a start on to these outfits, if anyone needs me I'll be in my privet workshop." With that Lucius began to decend on the small circular platform into the floor, this hole quickly filled itself in, leaving everyone alone. Alexander remaining stood there motioned towards the hallway with the rooms in "You all heard what Lord Lucius said, get anything you need and bring it back here." Gale waited for Jack and Lance to leave the room before going up to Perpe "Hey, do you have any stuff like cloth with you, if not I'm sure me and Alexis can lend you some." Alexis then popped in from behind Gale "Yep! You can borrow any of my clothes any time, we are going to be besties!" Gale giggled a bit at Alexis "Don't worry, you get used to her after a while, anyway let's go." Gale and Alexis then left for their room.

@@Dakcka, Alexis, or rather Franziska, sneered "Indeed they all deserve to be WHIPPED into submission." As if to add emphasise, Franziska also cracked her whip. Gale just patted Perpe on the back "Yeah, I think we could have taken them, usually they 'play' with us a bit, in truth that's the first time Jack's used one of those spells, you really forced his hand. Nice job." As they all entered the throne room, Alexander was standing next to the throne, playing the part of the loyal guard he was, whilst Lucius stood in the middle of the room with a big smile on his face "I'm glad you asked Perpe! I present to you, Our ticket into the Grand Magic Games!" Lucius then held up the lacrima. Lucius chucked the lacrima into the air, where some unknown magic force made it levitate in place, the recorded message then played. Now that the recording had finished, many over magical displays appeared around Lucius and circled the room "Ok first matter of business, Our team. It shall be as follows-" Jack suddenly interjected before Lucius could continue "HEY! Don't we get a say in this?" Lucius glared at Jack with the anger of a thousand suns "Hmm, how about when you create a guild, you make the chose to vote, but I'm in charge, it's my say, live with it." Despite the obvious animosity between Lucius and Jack, Lucius continued unfazed "Our team shall be as follows: Firstly me, my speed, power and tactics our vital to our success. Second ,as much as a hate to say so, Jack, his pure power and magic reserves, as well as his ability to withstand damage our one of our best assets. Third, Gale, her power and ability to improvise and adapt in battle makes her a challenge for the most skilled of opponents. Fourth is Lance, we require a master of melee combat who can adapt his fighting style to over come his opponents, luckily Lance fits the bill. Last but most certainly not least, Perpe, she's our wild card, she is pretty much an enigma, no one knows what she's capable of, not even me. Anyone have an objection for me to ignore? Good. Now second manner of business... Costumes, we need a team costume." Gale shook her head and face palmed "Here he goes again." A single display then came to Lucius' side "I was thinking something like this: "Of course if any of you want something different, you know the drill, think it and it will appear on a monitor." (Note: Feel completely free to suggest something if you want, I just kinds found a good looking thing on the internet, so if you have an idea, feel free to suggest it.)

@@Arid_Blitz, @@Dakcka, Vanderbilt nodded "Indeed! it seems like ve have everything ve need, I personally do not mind how ve get there." Vanderbilt then began leaving, but quickly turned back "So you're into crochet? Vell everyone has their quirks." Gale smirked at Perpe's comment "Yeah, most people who have gone up against me have said that... right before that lightning burned them to a cinder." Jack then gave Perpe a dark smirk "I'm afraid it won't be that easy hot stuff." Jack then span up into the air and floated there, the whole room seemed to get hotter and a fiery aura radiated from Jack "Hell Fire Cascade!" Then one massive beam of intense fire magic burst forth from him, the beam flickered with reds, yellows, greens and purples. As the two spells clashed they seemed to be evenly matched, stopping an equal distance away from both, in the centre large lashes of a mixture of hell fire and god slayer acid sliced through the room, until a booming voice could be heard "DRACONIC... DISPELL!" A large ethereal purple dragon then began to flay around the room, eventually impacting the centre of the conflict, exploding giving off a large pulse. What both parties would then find was that their magic had been dispelled, and a very angry Lucius was standing in the doorway "Hoe many times do I have to tell you idiots, NO.FIGHTING.IN.THE.GAMES ROOM! If you feel the need to kill each other that badly, do so in the training room, because ,funnily enough, that's what it's meant for. Now everyone into the throne room before I hurt someone." Lucius then began to walk off, and although he seemed normal enough, he did seem to be every so slightly relying on his cane to walk, as well as the occasional purple sparks darting around his arm. "Jack then walked up to Perpe and knelt down a bit so that their faces were at the same height "Nice try hot stuff, maybe next time. Now I know that you are taking care of you will be a breeze." Jack then gave Perpe a quick peck on the lips before darting off in the direction Lucius was going in, closely followed by Lance. Gale and Alexis joined Perpe, Gale was just staring daggers at Jack "Hey don't worry, that jerk always tried that with girls, next time we'll make sure to break every bone in that bastards body." They then began to walk off and Gale gestured for Perpe to come with them "Hey. you coming, it's usually best to listen to Lucius when he's like that, he tends to get cranky when ignored."

@@Arid_Blitz, @@Dakcka, Vanderbilt inspected the numerous books on the shelves "Ah, I very nice collection you have here, I vould say it rivals my own." Vanderbilt then chuckled a bit "But I vork keeps me in the library, so it vould be rather unlikely yar?" Vanderbilt then put a hand to his chin , in thought "Vell, from a purely professional point of view, I guess ve vould require some books on old types of magic, as vell as any on magical inscriptions that may be left as traps for trespassers. On a more personal side however, I've always enjoyed the works of Kemu Zaleon quite a lot, I find his books rather relaxing to read." Seeing the drops of acid flying towards Lance, Jack leapt clear leaving Lance to face this on his own "Bloody hell! She's a god slayer?! Well I gotta give it to that bastard he certainly knows how to pick the strong yet sexy ones." Lance also followed Jack's lead and leapt clear behind a table "Well i'm certainly glad I got through that unscaved!" He then however looked down at his laft arm to see that the acid had indeed hit him and had burn away almost everything on that arm, leaving a few nasty looking marks "Ha, Har! I never good spell by lady, but i'm afraid It will take more than that to beat this mighty Templar! Now my stupendous swords, rain down on them and show them the true might of a knight!" Many different swords then appeared above the girls' head and began to fall. Gale quickly leapt out from behind the table they were hiding behind and made a leap towards Alexis, getting grazed by a few of the swords in the process "Alexis! Buff me!" Alexis then nodded and a light green circle appeared under her, and around Gale "On it! Enhance!" Gale then seemed to get faster, now able to dodge the swords with relative ease "Hey chumps! Have a taste of your own medicine! Dance of sparks!" Little bolts of lighting then came from Gales' hands and danced between the swords, there metal conducting the energy. As the sparks bounds from sword to sword, the number of bolts increased and became more powerful, while not directly effecting anyone, the electricity and swords certainly made for an interesting battle field.

@@Dakcka, @@Arid_Blitz, Jack gain a smug and superior look on him face "Well I can certainly see why Lucius likes ya hot stuff, you have the same sense of smug superiority he has, the bastard, but fine if that's the way ya wanna play, bring it! Simply speaking, if we win you have to go on a date with me, we go where I want, and do what I choose. Lance what do you want?" Lance put a finger into the air and proclaimed his desire with way more sound than he needed "All I desire is my Storm spark blade Lady Gale won off me last poker night, I miss it's warm embrace as it lay next to my in bed." Gale then began to laugh "HA! Sure why not, we accept, and if we win: You guys need to stop flirting with the newbie for the next month, I get my lightning amulet back, you know jack the one you won off me last poker night and just wear around to annoy me... and one more for Alexis, any ideas or dear sweet one?" Alexis' face beamed but also blushed at her idea "Oh I know! I want them to kiss each other, shirtless!" Her face was bright red at this point as she imagined the two in that exact scenario, maybe a little more passionately than the real thing but never the less Jack sniggered and nodded "Sure, we accept, of course the only reason being is because we're still gonna win no matter how many girls you have, I mean look at her! I beat she's just as weak as Alexis! anyway, I guess we shou- INFERNO BLAST!" Then a large pillar of red fire shot from Jack's hand and headed towards the group. Alexis yelped and swiftly dodged behind a table, where as Gale leapt to the side grabbing Perpe in the process and ducking behind another table "Oh that dirty cheating ass! Ok, since he personally attacked you, want the honours for starting the end of these smug pricks?" Vanderbilt's face beamed "Yar! Let's, I must admit it has been ten years since I've done field vork! I'm getting all giddy!" Vanderbilt then disappeared for a few minutes before returning with a briefcase, as well as a map "Ok I have a map here so we know vhere to go, as vell as my tools! Once ve reach Red Rock's guils hall, I vill plan vhere ve shall go first."

@@Dakcka, @@Arid_Blitz, Gale smiled "Yes! we finally have a chance to win for once! The games simple, we beat the crap out of each other until one side concedes, it's usually boys v girls, our problem is though is that Alexis is only good at buffing, as such it's all up to me, against the two lover boys, but know with you here we finally have the advantage, so what do you say? You in?" Vanderbilt burst into laughter, patting Antonio on the back "Vell I vouldn't recommend it, I've been doing alchemy for so long, who knows vhat kind of stuff kissing me could do to you... best you not dwell on it though, yar?" Vanderbilt stared at Antonio before putting up a finger to interject "Vell, I can't necessarily be called a criminal, he has no files linking him to any crimes, plus even if we did have the files it vould be empty, even vhen alive he kept a perfectly clean record... BUT i'm vith you! Together ve vill hunt him down if he lives as you say, and bring him to justice." Vanderbilt then leaned back in his chair "Though the problem is, ve still need to get inside the castle, vhich means we still need that other fabled blueprint, I know the places vhere they may be, although if you start down this path... there's no guaranty you vill make it back alive."

Ticktock chuckled at Rytlock "You know buddy, I really couldn't care what you think of us, nor do a really care what your purpose is here, or what for, but just think for a second, we are the ones who are protecting you from bandits, maybe it would be best to not let your mouth get ahead of the buggy little brain of yours, yes?"

@@Dakcka,@@Arid_Blitz, Lucius smiled and pet Perpe on the head "There, there princess, we can discuss this a little later ok?" Everyone else there had a look of pure shock on there face, Gale then whispered something into Franziska's ear "Hey, um did you hit him in the head too hard or something, I've never seen him this sympathetic in my life... it's a pretty good improvement." Lucius then dusted himself of a bit "Ok everyone, guild meeting, throne room, half an hour! I have some business to take care of so see you then, in the mean time why don't you guys go do some... group...building? I think that's what they call it, or whatever you do whilst your leaching off of my money." Gale then pick Perpe off the floor "Ok then, we have thirty minutes of Lucius free time, fancy a game of something?" Vanderbilt nodded at Antonio impressed "Yar, very true. I can see vhy you got my ol-... er I mean vhy you got vhere you are today." Vanderbilt was coming back with the coffee's when he heard Antonio, he quickly placed the coffee's on the table and chuckled "Oh no, there is only one whole blueprint that exists today, and that is under lock and key, inside one of the most secure vaults ever conceived, inside a fortress that can change near enough eternally, and all that is in the hands of Herrn Lucius... although." Vanderbilt then went into deep thought "No, there is another, or at least so it's said. You see vhile the first and true blueprint is under the control of Herrn Lucius, there may be another, you see the Darkflares' had some kind of rule for protection saying that only one copy of the blueprints can exist at once, however back around four-hundred years ago one of them made a copy, vhen discovered the blueprint was torn apart into five piece's, split apart and given to the ,then, five heads of the family, where as the sixth kept the original copy, I vould be villing to bet that if ve vent to the main estates of the five heads, ve could ,theoretically, find the pieces and put them together and have a full blueprint, of course there is no guaranty that they are there or in one piece, the Darkflare's faded into a single bloodline based at said castle... Mount Zavius around two-hundred year ago. I hate to say, that is your only chance"