Day One: Ooba Babasaama
The old Lamia Scale guild master shouted at one of her members, threatening to give them a good spinning for screwing up their latest job request. Jura stood a little bit behind her, shaking his head sympathetically. Ooba certainly liked to use her spinning magic for punishment more than anything else. She soon stopped their torture when the guild doors opened up to reveal three very familiar beings.
So, the trio had returned, had they?
Jura blinked in surprise and he and Ooba sauntered up to the arrivals with hard glares. The trio shrunk back beneath their gazes.
"You three have some nerve showing your faces back here! Or did you come begging for a good spin?!" Ooba yelled.
"Sherry, Toby, Yuka". Jura addressed the trio with a firm tone. "Why are you here?"
"W-We wanted to be a-a part of the guild again..." Yuka replied with a few stutters, talking for all of them.
"Ha!" Ooba chirped and set off in a shrill laughter while Jura shook his head with a heavy sigh.
That's when a new voice made itself known.
"Do not blame them for being gone so long. If anyone is to blame for their absence then it should be mine".
Sherry and Yuka made way for the newcomer to stand at their sides. His pale blue hair set up in a series of numerous spikes, and onyx black eyes that flashed with determination and flickers of redemption. Sherry clasped her hands together and hid her lips behind them. Yuka looked warily between the newcomer and their guild master and it's ace. Toby whimpered softly, fiddling with the lucky sock around his neck.
"And who might you be?" Jura asked with his arms folded while Ooba seemed to begin seething in anger. This fool held himself responsible for the absence of three of her guild members!
The newcomer was not fazed by the tone of Jura's voice. He merely shrugged and placed a hand on his hip. "My name is Lyon Vastia. I'm a lone, travelling mage. I found these three and got them to help me in a regrettable task. The ritual of resurrecting a demon from the book of Zeref". Audible gasps could be heard from surrounding members but Lyon did not seem to acknowledge them or the whispers that followed. "I am merely here to return them and to defend and justify their departure from your guild".
Lyon was brave, Ooba gave him that. She hummed in thought, processing his story carefully. He'd tried to resurrect a demon from the book of Zeref, and had asked for Sherry, Toby and Yuka's help in doing so. The trio weren't all that strong but their magic was quite useful. Had he seen potential in them? Could he have seen something she could not?
"We got beat by some mages from Fairy Tail! They're clever!" Toby barked suddenly and his company - including Lyon - sweatdropped. Toby most definitely wasn't the brightest of the bunch.
Ooba then gave a shout and sent him into a spin which made Sherry and Yuka step behind Lyon, using him as a human shield. Lyon just watched Toby spin on the spot at wicked speed until the sight began to make him dizzy and he looked away.
"Could Lyon possibly join Lamia Scale with us...?" Sherry asked quietly, looking at Ooba's twirling finger almost in fear.
Everyone (except poor Toby) looked at her in surprise. Had she really just asked for a stranger to join their guild?
"Sherry," Lyon spoke first. "I told you I have no interest in joining a guild, I only came to help explain yourselves and then I'll be leaving".
"But I want you to stay with me! Your old friend even suggested you join a guild, didn't he? So please Lyon!" she begged, taking his hand in both of hers making a faint blush dust his cheeks. "You're a really strong mage, almost as strong as Jura, so you can help our guild become even stronger!"
Ooba smiled cunningly. This could work very well in her favour. "You sound like you have confident potential, young man. Why don't you come tell me your story in private, and then we'll decide whether you should get a spin and get lost, or if you shall become a very essential member of my guild".
Once Lyon had finished telling his tale, Ooba took extreme interest when he mentioned that Gray Fullbuster of Fairy Tail was an acquaintance. She hummed in thought before smiling slyly at the young wizard before her.
"You will be of use to us, Lyon".
Lyon looked at her in puzzlement, tilting his head slightly. He'd been a somewhat cruel commander on Galuna Island, yet this old woman wanted him in her guild? Ooba nodded her head to herself pleasingly. Lyon shrugged to himself and a small smirk curved his lips upward. Perhaps being in a guild wouldn't be so bad.