In The Times Of Fairy Tails

As Caleb listened to what was going on, it became more and more evident that this place...kind of sucked. More importantly though, this Turpin and Beadle person were people that certainly had to be found. He had a couple of questions he wanted to ask ms lovette, but he was unable to do so. No, finding Turpin and the Beadle came first. So, he simply waited.


Skadi thought for a moment about the situation at hand. The guardians had gone missing, and everyone was getting sick. Could the two be related? "Silvia, I'll stay to help you heal them. I'm not so great at it, certainly not as good as you, but the sooner we get through this the sooner we can find the guardians, which I'd say is our top priority. If these guardians are what was keeping them from being sick before, I'd say finding them should be top priority. So" the ice mage said, taking a step away from the group momentarily. "Shall we get started?" she questioned.


"Fine we'll help you. You probably shouldn't stay here though, place is full of fightin' all the time. One moment it's peaceful, the next someone's beating the crap out of someone, it's a bit too dangerous for people being hunted down. I know a place you could hide out until then, but I think we should just go find them and stop them ourselves" Gaius suggested, as hot headed as ever.


"Gaius, calm down. The place would be far less dangerous if you weren't always picking fights, I swear" Gexln said with a sigh as he approached the group. He looked straight at the demons. "He's right though. If you're being hunted, hiding won't do you much good. It might delay them for a little bit, but it's always going to end up the same. We've handled pretty big things before. Hell, most of these guys just got back from stopping a madman from releasing an unstoppable demon. If you want to hide while we go stop them, go for it, but you should confront it head on with us and help us make the hunters become the hunted" the dragon slayer stated. He was pretty eager to go and kick some ass. If he could make it half as painful for the hunters as the headache he had was making it for him, well they'd never mess with the demons ever again. It was a little odd, helping demons. He remembered a time where he would've been far more likely to go and help the demon hunters, but times had very much changed since then.​

 

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Hmm? Oh, Vance was talking to him. Uh, well this was awkward. "Umm... well... truthfully no" Damian stammered "I have Telepathy, God Slayer and... uh..." Damian blushed slightly "...Rainbow fire". Rainbow fire. Seriously? He had seriously been given rainbow fire? It was kind of a hinter wasn't it? Why did he have to get stuck with it. It wasn't a bad magic, but it was just... embarassing "I don't think anything I have can be of help here" Damian stated.

 

Aias' brow furrowed as she spoke. They had no reason not to believe her, but something about what she said left a bad taste in his mouth. One that made him look down on her, feeling as though she were lesser. As though the words were offensive to his very existence. He realized, he knew she was lying. The unpleasant feeling from her, she had sinned. The part of him that was now an angel could feel the wrongdoings of a person. No one was without their sin, and so he could feel a slight unpleasantness from most people, but he'd quickly learned to tune it out. Though, it was more apparent when it was fresh. Like, when someone lied. The worst of it, he'd gotten from Ezekiel. The blood on that man's hands had nearly made him sick.

"Thank you for your time. We must be going now." Aias stood after she'd shrugged in regards to the beadle's location, and hurried out the door along with the rest of them. "She lied. When she told us what happened to the family, I could feel it. She wasn't entirely truthful about what happened. Nevertheless, it would still be best to find the Judge." Aias said, informing them of her dishonesty. ​

 

"So she lied? That doesn't surprise me. She doesn't seem like honest person." Dale replied. He sighed. They should have asked where to find the judge, but knowing her she'd either know nothing or lie to them. He paced around the street, trying to think of a solution. "Any ideas for how we're going to find this judge? This place is big, and I've no idea where to start." Dale felt vaguely unsatisfied with the length of this post, but later reflected that the reason was probably because there wasn't much to say.




"Telepathy, Rainbow Fire, and God Slayer? God Slayer sounds powerful indeed..." Vance mused. However, he was right. That didn't help in the slightest. "No, I don't think any of that helps. Conrad?" He looked over at the other nobleman. It was a slim chance that he had anything useful. If that was the case then... They'd need another solution. He looked up. They could climb, but he shuddered at the thought. He was not built for climbing.

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The Demon War

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"We can't let you guys have all the fun." Erik smiled, mostly to himself.

"I have one more request. To help you we must heal." James told the others.


"Take from me, then." Cassandra walked down the stairs from the S-Class floor, and presented herself to the boys. "If they are to help you you gotta sap their strength. Please, come with me."

"Only a hand touching your own will do, that should be more comfortable for you."

Cassandra nodded to James, and looked towards Edric. "I suggest while they heal you start thinking of a battle plan."

"She's right. First, maybe we should call Theodosia and see what she can tell us." Calxiyn told the others. "If you think about it, the Theodosia summoned them from somewhere, and whatever she did that, that's where they found the boys. Theodosia had to come here for the trial and left them alone, and somewhere inbetween then they were tracked and the Hunters found them, then they ran here. If Theodosia tells us where exactly, we can find the Hunters again. They must have set up somewhere close by in order to trap them again, wouldn't you agree?" Calxiyn was speaking out loud mostly for her own benefit of clearing her head.

 

Garrett's pov:



A magic power brought him here, he was unsure how he got her or why. He then spotted someone Cal. "Do you know how I got here. You know what never mind." He then walked to a near by wall walking through it back to where he was before.

 

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street​

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The group, though clueless as what to do, heard something in the distance, like the song of an angel and the tweeting of birds. Dale, and the others could see a beautiful, blonde hair, pale women looking outside from her bared window as she was sowing something.

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"Green finch and linnet bird, Nightingale, blackbird, How is it you sing?" She looked out the window, but didn't see the group below. "How can you jubilate, Sitting in cages, Never taking wing? Outside the sky waits, Beckoning, beckoning, Just beyond the bars." She reached out to the sky from her window. "How can you remain staring at the rain maddened by the stars? How is it you sing... anything? How is it you sing?" Her voice was heavenly, and as the group got closer they could see a sign on the door.

'House of Judge Sir William Turpin.'


"Green finch and linnet bird, Nightingale, blackbird, How is it you sing? Whence comes this melody constantly flowing? Is it rejoicing or merely halloing? Are you discussing or fussing Or simply dreaming? Are you crowing?" Suddenly a look of horror crossed her face. "Are you screaming? Ringdove and robinet, Is it for wages, Singing to be sold? Have you decided it's Safer in cages, Singing when you're told?" She then went back into the darkness of her room.

"My cage has many rooms damask and dark. Nothing there sings, not even my lark. Larks never will, you know, when they're captive. Teach me to be more adaptive..." She then walked back to the window.

The girl looked down to see Dale, and she seemed transfixed by him. She gave him a small, gentle smile. "Green finch and linnet bird, Nightingale, blackbird, Teach me how to sing. If I cannot fly, Let me sing." She gazed upon them almost disconsolately.


"Alms! Alms! For a miserable Women... Beg ya pardon." She pulled on Dale. "Are you lost or are you daft, standing around Ol' Judge Turpin's house like 'ou're up to no good. I wouldn't go trespassing there young man, at least not if you value your frank and beans at all. Temper there, and there's more then a good whipping for you." She wagged a finger at the group.

The Island Expedition: On The Island​

"Good idea Ander!" Johanna said. The computers turned on. "SMRF Authorization Required: Password:_______" Johanna narrowed her eyes at it. "Fantastic..." Johanna sighed. "Well, it doesn't look like we're getting past that."

"The SMRF? Do you guys know?" She turned to the Prince and his Comrade. They both shook their head. "Well, at least we got something. Shall we move on? Where should we go?"

Mission Breakthrough!

Mission Information: Anything that is underlined in speaking or description is a clue. You can have your character look at it and try attempt to figure out what significance it has. This could be harder or easier depending on what location you have first/last. You can look more in depth at the clues presented. To recap, this is what we know:

1. There are computers here
2. There are tents here
3. Someone left here moments ago
4. It seems to be recent
5. These tents aren't put here by the natives.
6. Breakthrough! An Organization called the SMRF.

I will say if the evidence has been fully "completed" or if there's anything else you could say about the evidence. This may be easier for some characters then others depending on different backgrounds as well as magic. Either way, all of the evidence is important in other to get the maximum amount of points.

 

Ander's pov:



The Island Expedition:
He watched the computers turn on The screen said SMRF Authorization Required: Then asked for a password. Johanna then said that she did not think there were going to be past that. He was not about to give up on this. He did not see how useful knowing the name of the company was, but it was information and that was good he guessed. "Aoki do you think any Celestial spirits you have would be helpful here? Do any of you have any ideas?" It was a effort to keep the computers on, but any information now may help them down the road. Maybe they had some sort of idea or something that would help.

 

The Fairy Curse of Laverna: Magic Meadow


"I don't know a lot about Magic in the Human World, but we don't have it hear. It could just make it worse if their bodies aren't used to the human magics, and we don't use herbs here since they're taller then us. I think you're better off coming with us. I don't know if your magic will be safe, but the guardians will I'm sure."

"Again, I'm not sure. I've never really been past the Meadow, for uh..." Elivana started talking to Jack, when she looked at her back and sighed. "Obvious reasons." Elivana smiled sadly. "The Queen is even farther I'm afraid. The sickness of the flowers is because Topaz is missing, but the reasons the fairies can't fly is something different." She explained to Jack. "If anything, Azure can give us something to help the fairies so we can at least keep the flowers from dying, even if they aren't healthy."

"Well, let's move then." Elivana told them.

After some walking, the group came across a new place where the flowers were wilting, all of them blue bells. "Well, they say that after the hedge road, fairy wings will guide your way, but I don't see fairy wings anywhere. Maybe if we climbed up on some of the flowers, we would be able to see, but... it may be dangerous if you fall. Any ideas?"

Mission Information: Find a way to get up on top the flowers without injuring yourself.

 

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Well they had managed to get the computers turned on, but all that did was give them a password protection from some group named SMRF that no one seemed to know. Not much help that was. So long as the password was there, not much could be done about the contexts of the computers. "Unless someone here knows how to hack computers, I got nothing. Though that isn't the best of ideas since there could be some sort of alarm or something on the computer in the event someone tries to bypass the code." None of his magic would help at all in this case, thus limiting most options he could think of.

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Something about both Cassandra's sudden appearance and wiliness to help out the demons seemed...a little bit desperate to him, but Veilen thought nothing much on that. Instead he listen to Cal's proposed game plan and simply gave a nod. To him it seemed like a a pretty good idea to start with the one who had summoned the group of demons in the first place. "Sounds like a good idea to me."

 

Edric turned at the sound of Cassie's voice. No, that wouldn't do. As soon as she suggested allowing them to suck the energy out of her instead, he shook his head and began to protest.
"Cassie, ye cannae let them fill themselves off yer energy, tha's madness an' ye ken et." Edric protested, but his protests fell on deaf ears. She was set on it, and told him to start making a battle plan. He nodded, resigning himself to the fact that Cassandra would have to be subjected to whatever process they had to do. Just a hand touching? He didn't believe it. Demons... He didn't like this at all. If it was his choice, he wouldn't have helped now that he thought about it. They weren't part of their life, their world. Dale had talked about Deliora. From that, he knew that he couldn't tolerate any of their kin. "Feene. Ee'll figure somethin' oot. Take care o' yerself Cassie. Don' let them drain ye too much. I don' trust 'em." He glared at the five demons for a few seconds before turning to pay attention to Calxiyn's suggestion.
"Aye. Ee'll fetch her for ye lot." Edric stalked towards the tower. Theodosia kept herself in there with MIkasa. As he walked over, he spotted Boreal standing by the entranceway, watching everything. His fist immediately bunched up. "The **** are ye doin' oot o' yer cell?" His bad mood was not helped by the man rolling up his left sleeve and displaying the emblem of Sapphire Eclipse on his forearm.
"A Guild Member does not need to be in a cell. Ask Evanora if she's still up there if you don't believe me." The S-Class wizard shook his head. There was no faking that. He sighed and pushed past him, deliberately driving his shoulder into Boreal's. He reached Mikasa's cell and flung the door open unsubtly.
"Oi, Theodosia. Yer needed downstairs. Somethin' aboot yer demon friends. Apparently they en't exactly popular." Edric stated. He looked over at Mikasa and nodded. "G'day Mikasa. How are ya? Things en the cell been alreet?"




Why he decided to go listen to the girl sing, he did not know at first. The voice reminded him of one he knew, and the singing was beautiful. The girl was pretty enough, some might say she was more than that, but it wasn't about the girl. It was the song. He knew that song. He had heard it for many years. That was one of the songs that Johanna knew. A small ray of hope fell on him. Perhaps there was a chance to find her yet! That girl knew the same song, she must know Johanna as well. Or at least, something. As they approached the house, it felt as if it could only be fate that caused her to sing out of the window, to sing that specific song at that specific moment. And then, for whatever reason, she smiled at him. He was a little confused, but returned her smile regardless. It would be rude not to. What's going on here? This is just too much of a coincidence. Before he could think any more, an woman tugged on his arm, speaking frantically in her strange drawl. He was warned about Turpin. He smiled in a strange sort of amusement as he remembered the story of the girl named Johanna that Ms Lovette told them.
"Frankly miss, I don't think the good judge could lay a finger on me if he tried. Nor on any of my friends here. But thank you for the warning." Dale spoke confidently. They were Wizards, and there was no sign of any magic here. "But since you seem to know a bit about him, care to elaborate?"




"Maybe the password is something obvious? We could try to guess it. Maybe it's password?" She suggested, not being all that knowledgeable about these matters. Computers were fairly new to her and she didn't know an awful lot. "One other thing. Zephyr - What if someone who does know the password types it wrong? I doubt there'd be an alarm because it would always get set off. Having an alarm doesn't sound right to me." ​

 

The Demon War​

"She's telling the most depressing stories. I can't wait till it's night time." Mikasa mumbled to Edric unhappily. That's when he realized what he said. "Demons?" She looked at Theodosia.

"Demon friends?" Porlyusica looked at her student in disbelief. "What is he talking about Theodosia?" Porlyusica demanded to know, looking horribly cross. Theodosia's heart stopped when Edric came into the room, and she looked in horror as he spoke.

"Oh no..." Her voice trialed off as she looked a ghostly white. "Master I-" Her eyes watered. "They needed our help so I summoned them, I'm sorry!" She spoke frantically. Porlyusica didn't say anything, but looked around with unspeakable anger.

"Go with Edric, and tell them what's going on. Then Edric will come back up here and explain to me." Her red eyes stung her as Theodosia nodded. She walked back down the staircase with Edric.


"Is this Theodosia?" Calxiyn questioned. She looked... familiar. She shook it out of her head. "Do you think you could tell us some things about James, Sam, Damian, Erik and Matthew?"

Theodosia sighed. "Those aren't their real names. Just their human ones. All the demons have fake names, as the real names can be used for summoning reasons and even to harm them. That's why back in some older traditions, you give your child three names: One that only the mother knows, their true name, and the one they're called by every day." She explained. "I know a lot about demons, and even more about Incubi, as they're less threatening to talk to and won't try to make deals with you like other demons." Theodosia told them. "I first met Damian, as he was trying to communicate with someone, and he found me. I'm not really sure why, but I think it just has something to do with our hearts finding each other. I told him about the human world, because he was so interested by humans. I heard all about him, and I wanted to help the brothers, so I brought them here with my own magic. It's easy for even non-wizards to summon Evil demon's spirits, but they aren't evil nor did I need to bring just the spirit. I needed to bring their bodies as well, so it took more time. I don't have the power to summon them, but it's magical objects like Ouija boards that can assist someone."

"Why are you asking me all this? When the trial happened I had to keep them at home..." Theodosia closed her eyes. "They're here, aren't they? I can feel it. Did something happen?"

 

Conrad Heinrich Adelbrecht Carsten von Eisenstein II

The young noble listened to the magics Damian had, devil slayer? Damn that sounded pretty powerful, but it was no use. Vance asked him about his magics, he turned to his fellow noble. "Concealment, Dark Écriture and Heavenly body magic... I know they don't sound too useful, but I believe both Dark Écriture and Heavenly body possesed spells that granted flight...it will however be more dangerous than it already would be... seeing we have only just learned our magics and are far from mastering them. It will be risky, but if I carry someone....and Zephyros carries someone we got 4 people up there... I think between four of us we'll be able to figure it out." Conrad spoke offering up the idea. He would otherwise be up for some climbing.

 

Jack's pov:

The Fairy Curse of Laverna: Magic Meadow: "I have air/wind magic I can fly up there I probably also have a celestial spirit that can get me or someone else up without a proper way to do so. I can also try and carry one person up with me if I fly up. What do you guys think?" He asked everyone.

 

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The group's movements were stopped at they came across some large wilting blue flowers shaped like bells. The supposed 'fairy wings' that were supposed to guide them were no where to be found and it was suggested that they get up on higher ground to see of that would help. Alisa thought about her recently obtained magics to see which of the three would be helpful here. Still not knowing anything about Satan soul, since it was chosen on a whim, that one was out. Transformation could be helpful, but she had zero practice with it so that crossed that one off the list. Lastly there was gravity magic, probably the simplest out of the three. "I could use my gravity magic to float us to the top."

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When Theodosia had arrived to give them a run down of what had happened, which included how and why the demons were summoned here and other such things. Now she was wondering why the demons were here. "Basically they wanted to help James escape becoming a spitting image of their father while sticking together." Veilen summarized, figuring that someone could fill in anything his missed/make correction to anywhere needed.

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"I assume that if they did place some sort of alarm, it was set up with the assumption that no one in there SMRF guys would mess up the password. Still we probably shouldn't mess with it until we at least have some clues as to what the password is." Zephyr ended his response to Alessia with a suggestion to everyone. They knew where this place was, so they could still come back later. Assuming everything would still be here if they did leave and returned later.

 

"It will be dubious, but it's the only solution that we have." Vance agreed. He thought for a while as to how to realise the spell that he wanted. He began experimenting, writing out test script to try and make things work. He began by getting a rock to flutter up, and with that he began to experiment with himself. Forming the purple script into wings that were attached to his back, Vance was able to slowly but surely raise himself into the air on wings of Dark Écriture. He added extras to compensate for the weight of an extra person, but knew that his meagre strength could only hold someone light. "Thea, I shall take you up. Say, have you ever wanted to fly?" He asked, before picking up his daughter and pushing himself up. His jump only gained him a little distance into the air but the wings kicked in, pushing him up higher. He kept his face straight, but felt the burn of Thea's light weight in his weak arms, and so clasped her all the tighter as they climbed ever higher into the air. He didn't want to drop her at this height. Such a fall would surely kill her. He struggled harder and pumped magical energy into the questionable appendages in order to ascend. As soon as he was high enough, he hovered just above the bridge around 1 foot off the ground, then released Thea. Once her weight was lifted, Vance cancelled the spell and fell to the floor himself. He landed, panting on the ground and lying on his back, beads of sweat running down his face.
"Okay, we made it..." Vance panted, wiping his forehead. "Just give me a minute or two to... Catch my breath... Gods I'm so unfit." Vance sat against the wall of the bridge to try and make himself more comfortable. This was kind of embarrassing, but what else was he meant to do? Human beings were heavy!

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He hurriedly wiped the sweat off his brow and started to stand up again. He dusted himself off and straightened his coat. He tried to put on his best 'normal' face, but it probably looked like he was pretending horribly because he was so damn tired from carrying her up here.
"Yes, yes, I'm quite alright Thea don't worry." He said, attempting to reassure her that he was alright. He knew how protective she could get when it came to him, so he figured it was best for everyone if he pretended everything was just fine and there was nothing wrong. That way, she wouldn't get anxious and have a magical explosion again. And on a bridge... He shuddered at the thought. He looked over the edge to see what the ground looked like from up here. All it did was make him remember that they had to get down. If he wanted to get down again, there was no chance of using his magic up here, otherwise he was going to be in big trouble.

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Charlotte didn't really pay much heed to the comments about the undead by Malkira. Even if he were nothing more than a possessed statue, it didn't exactly revoke what Orpheus and his undead had done to the guild as well. Exceptions were only exceptions because they only happened every so often, and thus, when presented with demons who were inherently sinful, lying, and cheating beings, she couldn't help but not immediately accept the idea that they were the exceptions. Soon enough, Edric had went to get the person who had helped summon the demons here in the first place, while Cassandra appeared with a sort of full understanding of the situation, and an odd willingness to immediately aid these demons and allow them to drain energy from her. Charlotte had continued to wait, until the woman that had brought the demons here came out to explain just what had happened with them. Once her exposition dump over and done with, Charlotte had nodded as Veilen made his explanation and pointed in the direction of the demons. "They're over there, feeding off of Cassandra. Apparently your plan to bring them to this world did not go unnoticed as they're being hunted by demon hunters now."

Luica stared at the flower and pondered just what she could do to get up there. She was definitely limber and athletic enough to probably climb it, but the stability of the flower and whether or not she would be able to stay up there after doing such, well she was a bit unsure about that. Going off the list of the magics that she had in her head, she tried to think if any of them would particularly useful in this situation. Her arc of time was mostly only useful on inorganic things at the moment, which flowers were very much not. The only thing she knew about heavenly body was that it let her blow things up. And her ice devil slayer powers...well, freezing things didn't seem entirely too useful in this situation. So, she would leave this problem to her party members, as they all seemed to have different solutions to this problem as well. Giving a thumbs up to the rest of the party who expressed ides with their magics she said, "if you guys think you can do it, then go for it! Nothing ventured nothing gained after all, right?"

Aoki wasn't entirely too sure what she could make out about the camp that they had seen. She wasn't entirely too familiar with computers...or rather, wasn't familiar with them at all, and the fact that there was a whole array of them here, she wasn't feeling any sort of confidence in her detective skills to figure out what was up with this place. Not to mention that she had no idea what this organization called the SMRF was, so she was drawing a blank on that one as well. Then there was Ander who asked if she had any celestial spirits that could deal with computers. There was Polaris, who was a silver key so she wasn't entirely expecting it to be all that useful. Then there was the key she got from Zephyr off screen, which had Virgo in it, and while the maid was definitely more than met the eye, a tech genius was probably not within her skill set. Then finally there was the one key that she knew nothing about. There was an odd feeling of darkness coming from it, and overall the key was just a bit off putting to her at the moment. "Sorry," she said to Ander, "I don't think I have any spirit to match that sort of need." She then turned to Alessia and Zephyr and said, "I think Zephyr's right. It's best if we let sleeping dogs lie here. Besides," she looked around the rest of the camp, "the people here recently left right? So that just means we have to see if there are any tracks or something we can follow to find the people who built this outpost."

Rho wasn't entirely sure what it was with the people in this town. Having an accent was one thing, and something that he understood existing. But everyone in this town either seemed to speak through song or in riddles. Or maybe even a combination of both. He wondered how anyone here ever really knew what was going on, but simply perished the thought as they left in search of the judge. As the group had started listening to the song of the woman who was in the house, soon enough a passerby had come by to give them a warning of not dawdling around this place. As Trevor spoke up about what he thought there course of action should be, Rho simply said, "we have no other leads as to what we're looking for, so it would be for the best if we did not simply give up chase here because of a small warning." After Dale had questioned the woman, Rho then followed up by saying, "yes please inform us about him. I am curious as to what makes him such a frightfully dreadful man."