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Chapter 8-Join Us:

The battle didn't last long, Vulcan mercilessly wiping the floor with all of them, the two exceeds had stayed with Vanessa holding on to her legs as she shot. The master was last and was feeling very sorry for himself.

"Council guards are on their way, they'll be tried and imprisoned" Mari says returning from town to report the incident.

"Good" John says cleaning his sword, the red exceed had come up to him and John looked down at him.

"You're cool I guess, but Vulcan is way cooler!" he says and walks over to Vulcan, John raises an eyebrow in confusion, Aaron smiles.

"He means thank you"

"Thank you!" John almost fell over as the yellow exceed flew full force into him hugging his chest.

"Its fine, no problem" he tries to say.

"I'm Apollo! The moody one is Ares"

"I'm not moody!" Ares yells folding his arms and standing behind Vulcan's legs.

"Nice to meet you" John settles on saying, while Dax tries not to laugh, Mari however was kneeling next to the red exceed and consequentially Vulcan, the exceed still had his arms folded.

"You're so cute!" she coos, Ares stares at her losing his folded arms expression.

"Uh…I guess" he says and Mari hugs him, Apollo laughs bouncing over so he can be hugged too.

"So what are your plans?" John asks the two men, Vulcan shrugs.

"I have an older brother, we're orphans and we've been put in orphanages around the kingdom, Cal joined Lamia Scale and I kind of went off on my own, maybe I should go see him"

"We're orphans too" Vanessa says, Aaron who had been embarrassingly staring at his shoes looks up.

"Yeah John, Dax and I were in the same orphanage, when the matron died she left us this building and we've turned it into a guild, a home for people who have none, you don't have to leave, if you want to go see your brother that's fine but if you want, you two could stay" Dax and John nod in agreement.

"Yeah, you helped us out, you didn't need to, you had no reason to, you guys deserve better than to be in a dark guild, you're not bad" Dax says.

"Thanks, we didn't exactly end up in a dark guild on purpose, I've been in Scarecrow for three years? I'm twenty two, I was by myself before that, working was hard, living was harder. Before that I was with my dad, he was a dragon, the lava dragon close friend and subject under Igneel the Fire Dragon King and Atlas Flame another fire dragon, he died and I had to live on my own. Scarecrow they kind of picked me up and I had no reason to leave, I could eat, go on jobs be by myself they didn't care"

"Did you find Apollo and Ares?" Mari asks.

"Yeah their egg hatched in front of me on one of my jobs so I looked after them that was…five years ago?"

"Yep" Apollo confirms helpfully.

"What about you Aaron?" Vanessa asks.

"My names Aaron Valen I'm sixteen, my magic is Phoenix Flame which has regenerative powers, more than offensive power and honestly I wouldn't mind joining, I'll write to my brother maybe visit some time but I'm sick of working under prats, I don't think you'll be that bad John Raven"

"Thanks" John says Aaron smiles, and looks to Vulcan.

"You're guild is brand new"

"I know" John answers.

"You've only been an S class mage for three days"

"Yeah"

"But you and your friends, they're not bad, more powerful than I first thought, if someone else tries to pull something on you, it would be bad"

"I guess so"

"And you saved Apollo and Ares when I should have been"

"It was nothing"

"It wasn't nothing, I owe you for that so I'll join too if you'll have us" John smiles.

"I'd be happy to have you, you guys have proven yourselves to have heart, you care about others, and I trust if given the same respect you'll be loyal as well, so welcome to Raven Heart" John says.

"Oh can we join too?!" Apollo asks.

"Yeah do we get the marks too?!" Ares asks seeing the one Mari was sporting.

"Of course" John says, why not?

"Yay!" they cheered.


"Okay who's first?" John asks holding the guild stamp later that day.

"Me!"

"Me first!"

"No me!" Ares and Apollo argued.

"I'll go first" Aaron says, John nods watching the two exceeds tumble on the floor, Vulcan picks Ares up off Apollo with one hand and they calm down.

"Aww no fair" Ares pouts.

"Where would you like the mark, what colour and how big?" John asks.

"Orange, right forearm, about the size of my hand" Aaron decides, pulling up his sleeve, John applies it moving to Vulcan.

"How about you next?" he asks, Vulcan nods.

"Red, right shoulder, fist size" he says, shrugging off his jacket, his sleeveless shirt underneath offered no resistance to the stamp John puts on.

"Okay Ares or Apollo next?"

"Me!" Ares says first, jumping onto the table.

"What colour would you like?" John asks.

"Black!" he says, turning around so John can put it on his back, John makes sure its small enough to go on his back and puts the stamp on.

"Oh cool! Me next!" Apollo says standing on the table and turning around.

"Would you like the same colour?" John asks.

"Of course we're twins" he says, John wasn't sure what that had to do with anything but he does the same stamp on Apollo's back.

"We're members of Raven Heart yay!" Apollo cheers.

"Cool" Ares agrees dancing with his brother on the table.

"Lucky I just finished setting up more rooms upstairs" Vanessa says.

"Yeah by the way John, if we do get more members and I'm going to assume we will, where are we going to put everyone?" Dax asks.

"We'll have to get a residential building, maybe two" John says.

"Something to plan for later" Vanessa agrees.

"We're okay for now, we could fit another three people but after than we'd have to start doubling up.

"I'm fine sharing with Vanessa" Mari says.

"I could share with you" Dax says to John who nods.

"It's not a problem anyway we'll be getting jobs soon we'll be able to save up for it"

"The tax will help" Vulcan says.

"Tax?" John asks, Vulcan looks surprised at him.

"You don't know about guild taxes?"

"No" three voices echo.

"When you do a job there's a tax of the reward given to the guild to go towards things like food, restoration of damaged property, inside and outside the guild, in this case you'd use it to help save for these residential buildings but remember some may just purchase an apartment in town"

"True but we want to accommodate as many people who can't afford that as we can, speaking of which, what about your stuff still at Scarecrow, what are you going to do?"

"We'll go get it tomorrow" Vulcan says, Aaron nods.

"Dinner's ready!" Mari calls from the kitchen.

"Thanks Mari!" Dax calls, going for the food. The group happily eats the delicious food Mari cooked Dax keeping up a solid string of funny conversations to keep the mood light which is broken when the guild doors bang open.

"Is this Raven Heart the mage guild?!" a person hidden in the shadows demands.

"Yes" John says standing from the table.

"Thank god I need your help!"


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