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Chapter 19: Chapter 17: A Wizards First Jobs
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI slowly open my eyes and yawn loudly, stretching my arms. I quickly check the clock next to me and see it is a little bit later than 8 in the morning. I am honestly surprised I managed to wake up so early after everything that happened yesterday. I am still shocked that I even made it this far. Now I have to do my actual job as a guild master.
Getting out of bed and heading to the washroom, I try and organize my thoughts about what I have to do today. I wanted to grab the S-class quest and see if I could finish it early so I could focus more on the guild members and what magic I am going to teach them. Already I could think of what I magic to teach a few of them, but there was still a lot to do. I go through what I have in mind for who as I am washing myself down.
Once I am nice, cleaned and dried, I go over to my closet and grab my clothes for the day. I decided to grab one of the outfits from another anime. Ino Yamanaka’s outfit to be exact. It consisted of a pair black open toed sandals, some mesh armor around my elbows and knees and I even put my hair into a ponytail like the kunoichi. I had a perfect purple, high collar blouse to go over my chest, yet show odd my midriff and a pair of short shorts that look like bandages beneath an apron skirt that matched my blouse. I also grabbed one of my bras that actually had some pockets in them so I could hold the contracts I was going to do in the one spot no one would try and grab.
Once I had my outfit on and ready, I head out of my bedroom and am immediately greeted by the smell of food cooking in the kitchen. I smile to myself as I head over to the request board, grabbing the S-class quest from Fleur and head down to the main floor. I glance around the room quickly, finding Zen at his position behind the bar, and I could see a familiar hen and unicorn in the kitchen. Swift, Nate and Trixie I found all looking at the request board.
“Morning Lex, nice sleep?” I turn to Sonbā as he asks that. The stallion was wearing a simple black muscle shirt beneath a dark blue jacket and and dark grey jeans.
“Morning Sonbā. Yeah, after last night, I am honestly surprised how well my sleep was.” I say with a laugh, sitting at the bar. “Hey Zen, mind making me a banana and strawberry smoothie please?” The canine nods to me and grabs the blender and the necessary ingredient.
“Hey boss, Sonbā! What do you guys want to eat?” Flora asks, popping her head out the kitchen.
“Mind making me a ham and tomato omelette?” I request.
“Cheese and tomato for me please.” Sonbā asks, sitting next to me. The griffon salutes and goes back into the kitchen. I release a relaxed sigh and dig into my shirt, taking out the contract from Fleur.
‘Now, where would I find this flower. I just need to find one then I could use my Green magic to make more grow.’ I ponder, looking over the info Fleur put on the contract. Sonbā glances over my shoulder and looks at the image on the contract.
“Oh, your looking for one of those rainbow roses?” I look to Sonbā with slightly widened eyes, nodding slowly. “Well, Trixie found one earlier. You could ask her for it.”
I go wide eyed and look to the unicorn mare who was still looking at the B-class quests.
“Hey Trixie!” I call, the mare jumping slightly and looking over. I motion her over, the mare clearly a little nervous.
“Yes Faekage?” She asks formally.
“Trix, relax. I may be the leader, but you don’t need to be so nervous around me. Anyways, I heard you found a rainbow coloured rose earlier?”
“Um yes. During the first part of the examination, I found it on the root to the Tree of Harmony. I am not sure why, but I almost felt compelled to take it, like it was asking me to bring it with me.” She says with a thoughtful expression. Meanwhile I am beginning to imitate a fish as no words came out of my mouth. I feel a tapping on my shoulder and turn to see Zen with my drink. I nod in thanks and take a large swig of the fruity smoothie.
“Do you still have it?” I ask after swallowing some of my drink, the mare nodding.
“I put it in a small pot in my room. Why do you ask?” Rather than answer, I hand the unicorn the contract, Trixie reading it over, before looking at me with wide eyes.
“Trixie Lulamoon, you just inadvertently finished the guilds first S-class quest.” I state with a small amount of shock. I see the mare beginning to wobble, so I grab her and sit her down on the chair next to me.
“I don’t believe it.” I hear her mumble softly.
“Alright, nice job Trixie.” Spark says, coming out of the kitchen with mine and Sonbā’s food in his magical grip. I thank him and we begin to eat, Trixie still in a stunned state before I snap my fingers, summoning the communication card for contacting Fleur.
“Trixie, can you go and grab that flower from your room? I wanna try something before I inform the contractor that the quest is done.” The mare nods and heads out of the guild and to her room in the barracks. Sonbā and I finish our food and I take them to the dish pit. I saw that a few more members were slowly beginning to filter in, the CMC, Gilda and Zecora being some that immediately go to the job board.
“Hey, if you guys need any help with a job, remember to ask for it.” I tell the members, the others nodding before looking over the board again. There was plenty of E, D and C class quests, and only a few that were higher than that. I checked a Lacrima screen I had set up for the gym, and see Applejack, Rainbow and, surprisingly, Azure Skies heading in and looking over some of the equipment. I am really glad I put up some instructions for some of the devices.
I hop up and take a seat on the bar, just watching over the guild hall for a minute before Trixie comes back with a small pot in her hands. Just like she said, Trixie has a single Harmony Rose growing in the pot. I smile as Trixie brings it over, handing the pot to me.
“Alright. Let’s see if this works.” I mutter to myself. I place my hand on the stem of the plant, leaning in and taking a small sniff before raising my right hand and focusing on my Green magic. I allowed my magic to flow into the flower, magically recording its composition and its magic signature, before connecting it to my hand. It took a couple of seconds, but a small bud slowly began to appear and then grow. In about a minute, a new Harmony Rose had fully bloomed in the palm of my hand.
“Wow.” Trixie says softly. I smile and slightly alter the plant in my hand, making it produce seeds for more roses before allowing it to wilt. I smile as I have a half dozen Harmony Rose seeds in my hand before snapping my fingers and summoning a vase I made earlier while practicing my Alchemy. I use some Earth and Water magic and fill the vase with equal parts fertile dirt and pure water, before planting the seeds. I then focus on my Arc of Time and accelerate the growth of the flowers, causing six new Harmony Roses to grow and bloom in the vase.
“There we go.” I mutter softly. I quickly wipe my brow and just now notice that almost everyone in the guild has been watching me while I make these flowers. I blush slightly and rub the back of my head before picking up the vase and placing it on the corner of the bar table.
“Hey Trix. Even though I didn’t approve and it was an accident, you should know that you will be getting a cut of the reward for completing the quest.” I inform the mare while taking out the telepathy card. Trixie nods and begins to talk to Zen about getting some food, the others going back to their own devices.
‘Hello? Fleur De Lis, you there?’ I ask through telepathy.
“Oh! Um, hello, is somepony there?” I hear her reply, sounding a little far away.
‘Fleur, it’s Lex Justine of Fairy Tail. I am using the telepathy card I gave you earlier.’ I inform, hearing some shifting from the other side of the connection.
“Oh, lady Justine. Good to hear from you again, and so early as well. I just got out of the shower.” She says, and from the volume and quality of her voice, I can tell she is holding the card.
‘Sorry, I didn’t mean to startle or interrupt anything. I just wanted to inform you of something. You remember that contract you signed earlier?’ I grin as I hear Fleur gasp and the audio wavered, signifying she dropped the card.
“Y-you mean?!” She asks with excitement.
‘Yup. During the entrance exam, one of the new members found a Harmony Rose. I have a few growing in a pot next to me as a matter of fact. If you and your husband could come by some time, your contract will be finished.’ I inform with a smile. Though, I cringed slightly as I hear Fleur squealing very loudly through the card and I imagine she is probably bouncing on her bed if the sound of bed springs was any indication.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can’t believe it! I have a couple of photo shoots and my husband has some meetings, but we will be down to the guild in two days tops. Thank you again!” She says with, I imagine, a huge smile on her face.
“I am not the only one you should be thanking Fleur. Be sure to tell me when you are on your way to the guild so I can have the wizard responsible here as well.” I say aloud, the others seeing my card and realizing I was using telepathy.
“Of course. I’ll let you go for now. Be seeing you soon love!” She says and I cut the connection.
“Hey Trixie.” The mare looks over to me as she finished her hay bacon and toast. “The contractor for the S-class quest will be down in a couple of days, and I want you to be here. I know they would want to thank the wizard who found the roses.” Trixie nods as Flora takes her plates and I head over to the request board. It was still early, and I wanted to do something aside from sitting in the guild hall all day.
Looking over the request board, I look to the ones the CMC grabbed, the trio planning to help Miss Cheerilee with flower picking. In particular looking for a rare purple rose that’s said to bloom around this time of year near the edge of the Whitetail woods.
“Hey girls, remember not to do something above your skill sets and to ask for help if you need it.” I remind the fillies, who nod before looking around the guild. I could hear them talking to Raine about going with them on the quest, and from the sounds of them leaving, she agreed.
“Having trouble finding a job Faekage?” I hear Emerald ask as he walks up along with Echo and Sonbā.
“Sorta. Even if I am the master of the guild, I can and will go on some quests as well. I am just trying to decide which of the more dangerous ones to take so we can get them off the board.” I say, looking at the two A-class quests we have. One was to gather Hydra’s Venom, a very poisonous lily that can be repurposed into a universal anti-venom. The other was to collect some Cragodile teeth for forgeing some kind of enameled iron alloy for some swords.
“Yeah, I think I’ll take the Cragodiles teeth.” I mutter to myself, grabbing the quest and stamping the ‘approved’ mark on it before stuffing it into my bra.
“I guess I am looking for Hydra’s Venom then.” Sonbā says, grabbing the contract and holding out to me, allowing me to stamp it.
“Emerald, you’re in charge till I get back. Hopefully this won’t take too long.” I state, heading to the door. I barely made it to the doors before they open up, Spike walking in and bumping into me.
“Oh, sorry Lex. Just came to try and get some work.” He says. I think for a moment before grabbing his shoulder as he walks past.
“Hey Spike, wanna come with me to collect some Cragodile teeth? It can give you a chance to practice your Dragon Slayer magic.” I ask. He seemed to deliberate for about a second before grinning and nodding.
“Alright, let’s go.”
The two of us head out of the guild and into the forest. The contract was asking for about a hundred individual teeth for forgeing the swords, so we were going to the swamp area where Trace and his group encountered the Cragodile clutch. I am note sure why, but I had a feeling this wouldn’t be too hard even though the contractor and I labeled it as an A-class quest.
Spike and I must have been walking through the forest for about half an hour before we arrive on the northern edge of the swamp area. I looked around, not finding where Trace and his friends were at during the exam, but shrug at not seeing any Cragodiles either.
“Alright. Looks like this’ll take a bit. Spike, I am going to look for the teeth underwater, can you walk around the bank and collect any you find?” I ask, handing the drake a bucket to use. Spike nods and begins to walk around the bank of the swamp, keeping an eye out for any teeth. I take a deep breath before jumping into the water and using some magic.
‘Takeover Animal Soul.’ With that thought, I feel as my body from the waist down along with the sides of my neck go numb before transforming. I was using a partial takeover, allowing my legs to turn into the tail and waist of a salmon, as well as gaining some gills on my neck to let me breath. Basically I turned myself into a mermaid, so I could stay under for as long as I wanted.
I was glad for this magic ability, since I could tell the swamp was much deeper in some parts than one would think. I spent like fifteen minutes underwater, finding maybe a dozen good Cragodile teeth on the bottom of the lake, before I decided to pop back up to see how Spike was going. I swim upwards quickly before breaching the water, taking a deep breath. I looked around for a second before finding the drake looking near some trees that had fallen into the water.
“Hey Spike! How many you got?!” I call out.
“I don’t know, ten good ones I think!” He yells back.
“Damn, this is taking longer than I thought. At least we aren’t having to fight anything.” And with that, I knew I had all but begged Murphy to come by and play.
I felt a ripple in the water next to Spike, and saw as a couple of adolescent Cragodiles broke their disguises of rocks and made their way to Spike as he was looking around a tree.
“Spike! Cragodiles at four o’clock!” I yell in alarm, the drake dropping his bucket and jumping back just in time for one of the rocky reptiles to try and take a bite out of him.
“Crap!” I hear him yell before igniting his hands in sparkling emerald flames.
“Hang on Spike!” I call out before diving and swimming to him. At least I was going to before seeing I had my own problems. Five other Cragodiles either swimming below the water or walking on the floor of the lake were making their ways to either me or Spike. “Well crapbaskets.”
I quickly swim away as four of the rocky reptiles follow me. I really was stuck since, as far as I knew, I couldn’t use any other forms of magic while using Takeover magic unless I turned into something that already had magical abilities.
“This is bad, I can’t turn back to normal or I’d risk drowning, and I only have so many aquatic forms.” I mutter to myself before yelping as one of the Cragodile nearly bit my tail-fins off. Those things are surprisingly fast swimmers for reptiles that wears rocks as armor.
“I need to get up to the land.” I decide, but it was easier said than done since I was swimming even farther into the lake and away from land. I quickly look around before spotting an old boat sunk at the bottom of the lake. Swimming down and purposeful kicking up some muck and dirt, I dive under the overturned boat and hide. I am really glad I have near perfect hearing even when underwater with this Takeover.
I am not sure how long I waited for before I saw the shadows cast by the Cragodile disappear. I release a breath I didn’t know I was holding before cautiously poking my head out and scanning the area. No sign of the reptiles or the rocks that they use as armor. I swim as fast as I can out from under the boat and towards where I could see the roots of a tree. And where there is a tree, there is typically land.
I managed to breach the water and jump onto the side of tree, deactivating my Takeover. I release a small sigh before I hear roars of pain a ways down the lake.
“SPIKE!” I immediately get up and ignite my Wings spells, flying over the water to where I heard the roars. I managed to get to where the roars and sounds of fighting were coming from, but what I find in shocking.
Spike, covered in blood that is clearly not his own, with two dead Cragodiles on either sides of him with their armor melted off and shattered, one of them having a hole in their chests. I look in shock as Spike faced down two more of the reptiles with a snarl. One of them hisses at him and charges, Spike prepping himself.
“Emerald Dragon Shattering Fist!” he yells before slamming his fist on the Cragodiles head, right between the eyes and sent it flying through a tree. I can see the other one is still stunned so I shake my head and focus my own magic while I am above it. I managed to make the magic swirl in my hand faster than before, so once ready, it was perfect timing with the Cragodile charging at Spike. It barely made it half the distance before I rushed down to it from above.
“Mana Rasengan!” Much like with the chakra variant, the attack bores through the Cragodiles back, causing a burst as it comes through its front, the reptile weakly hissing in pain.
“Lex, are you ok?” Spike questions, attempting to wipe the blood off himself.
“Am I ok?! Spike you are covered in Cragodile blood!” I all but scream at him before rolling my eyes. “Water Lock.” Spike yelps as he is surrounded by an orb of water, holding his breath. I shift the water surround the drake, cleaning off all the blood before the bubble bursts, Spike now clean of any blood, but just soaked with water.
“Thanks.” He says as he spits out some water. I get a good look at the grown drake and see that, aside from a couple scratches, his looks perfectly fine.
“Wow, you’re actually ok.” I say in shock, walking over to one of the dead Cragodiles and opening up its jaw. I smirk slightly as I count the teeth in its mouth.
“Yeah, I guess having a Dragon Slayers instincs comes in handy. After you swam away I started using a couple spells to take them down. And I am not even that tired.” He says with only a small hitch in his voice, Spike coughing a bit. I walk over and pat his back before taking out a water bottle I brought with me. He nods in thanks and takes a couple of big gulps before handing it back to me.
“So you found your punching attack and your breath attack. What else did you use?” I question as I grab two of the dead reptiles by the tails and begin to drag them to the guild, Spike grabbing the last one.
“Well, I remember using Emerald Dragon Talons to shatter the armor of the one you’re carrying, and then I used Emerald Dragon Shining Blaze to melt the armor of this one.” He says.
“Shining Blaze? I take that attack is similar to Brilliant Flame?” I question, using my Plant magic to make our path clear of any roots or vines.
“I guess? I focused my magic in between my hands and made a ball of green fire that somehow had some gem shards floating in it.” He described.
“Interesting.” I mutter, the two of us passing one of the outposts. The two of us walk in relative silence for a while before Spike broke it.
“So, is there a reason we are taking the entire Cragodiles back to the guild and not just taking their teeth?” He questions, to which I just grin at him over my shoulder.
“Ever have Cragodile jerky before?” I remember while I was going around Equestria I visited a couple of libraries around the bigger towns like Manehatten, Canterlot and Cloudsdale, so there are a couple of cookbooks back in the guild. Spike looks to me with widened eyes before smirking and licking his lips at the prospect.
“In the immortal words of Big Mac, eenope.” He says with a laugh, the two of us breaking the tree line and heading towards the guild. I have to say, that was actually pretty fun, even if we ended up killing some animals.
‘And that was just my first job. I wonder what else my guild mates and I will end up doing.’