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[MINI EVENT] Fayren Attacked

Who: Open.
What: Big Trouble in Little Fayren.
Where: Fayren.
When: Today. Just after midnight.

Arlen was a known summoner in Fayren. He grew up there and so did his wife Vestele. They'd been friends since childhood and started dating in their teens and marriage happened soon after. Arlen returned home and found a letter stating that Vestele had been kidnapped. And if they wanted to see them again, they needed to follow strict instructions. Enclosed in the letter was a wedding ring that belonged to Vestele, just so he would know that this was no bluff.

He was told not to tell anyone what happened and to be a specific location. If anything out of the ordinary happened, his wife would die. So he arrived at the meeting place and met a man dressed in robes, his face obscured by a hood that he was wearing. Vestele was behind the man, bound and gagged.

Before he knew it, he felt a sharp pain in his neck as an unseen assailant injected him with something. Arlen was told that he had just been injected with a poison just to make sure he cooperated. It would take his life in seventy-two hours, but if he did exactly what they wanted then they would give him the antidote. If not, in seventy two hours, he would die, and at that same time, they would take Vestele’s life as well. Arlen only cared to see Vestele set free, even if his actions led to him being imprisoned, that was fine. Just so long as Vestele was safe.

Fast forward to now, he was attempting to complete his final task. Chalk infused with his magic as well as stolen ingredients that were acquired from a thief was used to scribble intricate markings on surfaces not readily visible by people merely passing by. He could feel the point burning in his body all the while.

This preparation was completed quickly, within half an hour for him as he was well versed in this. These circles served as Point B. And Point A? Well, Point A to all of the circles were located within a monster infested ruin.

He activated the circle he was nearest to and it started a chain reaction. Start points and end points were connected and creatures were teleported into the city. Reanimated Skeletons, Fire Bats, Clockroaches and Giant Boars for good measure. Creatures that ranged from annoying to deadly in the right situation.

He completed his task, now the Hands of Decay needed to uphold their side of the bargain and release Vestele. Arlen fled from Fayren using the teleportation circle that he made to send him to the ruins while the creatures began to attack the city, from there he planned to head to his meeting point. He prayed that Vestele would be safe, and that Fayren wouldn't hate him too much.

[ooc: The TL;DR version, Summoner summons in monsters after 12AM when most people are probably in bed. He’s been blackmailed to do so. There are a large number of monsters roaming around/breaking into house/attacking people. So, mini attack in Fayren. ICly, this will only last for one hour. Probably quite a bit of property damage will happen as a result. You know, with giant boars running around and all.]

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"Hehehe gotcha now. Thanks for dropping by. You can be the victory roast!" Natsu roared and gripped the tusks so firmly there were small cracks spreading over the hardened portrution.

The next moment however he would feel a sensation never before experienced. Flight as he was tossed straight up well above the clouds.

What .. what is this? What foolishness - hold on he was feeling a definite sharp pain in his tusks and ... and he suddenly felt like he was losing his footing! The boar bellowed in surprise when his massive body was hoisted upwards, and then soaring. So much soaring he never thought he'd be able to experience the same thing that birds did! In fact, he surprised many a flock of geese when his huge body went sailing through their formation to the tune of angry squawking geese, disappearing into the distance. Though Natsu could hear that _THUD_ of its body landing somewhere in a forest beyond, probably knocking down two or three trees.

"Natsu~!" Not the praise of a job well done, but a call for a little back up - seemed that a flood of reanimated skeletons and bats both were teaming up to try to get past the wall. Actually there was a pile of skeletons all climbing over each other to try and get at the people past it, though Lucy and Saggitarius both were fending them off, firing multi-shot arrows as quickly as they could. For every three they took down, two more popped up in their place. Frustrating, very frustrating!

Natsu was ready to blast the boar if his trajectory was off. However in the end it worked just right judging by the boom. There was no rest for the weary though and he quickly turned to answer Lucy's cry!

Seeing the bony and batty swarm rushing the outer wall he quickly coated his body in flames and lightning and vanished before violently kicking off the ground and leaping smack dab in the middle of hte invaders, unleashing and explosion of fire and lightning around himself.

She and Sagittarius would probably have been able to whittle their foes down in time, but it was a big help with Natsu joining the fray. Especially the way his fire and lightning exploded outwards around him, reducing the swarm to ash, with Lucy and Sagittarius picking off the remainder.

Heaving a mighty sigh, Lucy slumped back against the wall. "Phew... I think that's it for this area. Thanks Sagittarius, you can go on back now." But she doesn't dismiss the stardress. Thankfully Levy didn't live in Fayren so she was probably safe from this fiasco, and the others who had been there likely long gone. She glanced at Natsu, "My bet is that there are still more in the city main." Though maybe not as many by now.

Natsu was perfect for clearing clustered groups of enemies. Natsu smirked at the remaining creatures who seemed to be either dazed or paralyzed by the electricity in his attacks. He looked over his shoulder towards Lucy and then back to the town.

"Looks that way. I can still smell a whole bunch of them. SO what's the plan?" They could easily hold their ground at the guild. The place was more or less built with defenses in mind and there were still the wards Loki had helped with.

"Loke can hold down the fort here. Let's go into town and see how bad the damage is and help clean up the stragglers." She won't comment that Loke would have much rather gone with her. Even though he had the sense that she and Natsu had grown MUCH closer, and he had Aries, he wasn't one to give up to easily. Actually Lucy had worried about how Natsu would take her asking Loke to help guard the guild, considering things... but she never said anything to Natsu about it. She might ask him later, when things calm down though."

His feelings towards Loke were.....much more complicated since certain developments both in this world and back home. He was still a fellow guild member but that flirting habit. It really REALLY grind his gears. Now wasn't the time for that.

"I guess that works. He can call you if we have to rush back right?"

At least she got Taurus to stop doing it -- mostly. Well okay he more or less stopped on his own. Though he did slip up now and again, but after Tartarus, he was more wary of doing it. Especially around Natsu. "Right!" Lucy grinned, turning to sprint along with him into town, keeping her bow ready to be fired.

Well he did send the bovine man flying when that Demon took over his Taurus' body. It was so very easy to send him flying that it had to have been a message of sorts. Despite that the Lion still have his occasionally flirting to deal with.

"I can't feel the scent of a controller or something like that anywhere" Natsu growled under his breath.

The bull-man knew better than to challenge a dragon. The lion on the other hand, had enough ego to test Natsu's patience once in a while. "They might be long gone by now," She glanced over at Natsu, a hand drifting over her keys for a moment. "... all's quiet back at the guild right now at least. Let's check around and see if anyone's been injured in town."

One of these days he'd have to make things clear. Though the lion would probably not stop the teasing flirts anyway just to get a rise out of him no doubt. Or maybe to fluster Lucy since that would remind her how he feels.

"Yeah we should. Lets start with the Inn. Wanna make sure if that nice lady is okay."

That sounded accurate. But Lucy would never respond to his advances anyway, even before things ..changed kinda, between her and Natsu. "Read my mind," she nodded agreement to her partner. "I hope she's barricaded in there." Worry for the innkeeper and her residents, Lucy sprinted along side Natsu back towards the Inn they had called home just a few months ago.

They encountered a couple of boars along the way but between Lucy's arrows and Natsu's fire enhanced fists, nothing got in the way to their approach on the Inn. He was certainly hoping everything was well with the Inn. The chaos of the sudden invasion was not little after all.

Once they arrived at the Inn, Lucy had to bang on the door since it was barricaded. "Ma'am! Are you all right in there?" The cracked windows didn't bode well, but at least none of the windows appeared shattered. Still she started to get anxious when she didn't hear any response - though Natsu would be able to, the slow shuffling steps of the poor old inn woman. Her bones, Lucy, her bones, she can't move as fast as she used to!

Natsu didn't need to press his ear to the door to listen in on situation inside.

"There's someone moving around in there. Probably the lady." Natsu informed his partner while his eyes scanned the immediate surroundings for any sudden stragglers.

"I hope so - it could be one of those Hands of Decay guys, or a thief.." she frowned slightly, though that was really REALLY unlikely. And a good few minutes later, the door was slowly pushed open to the homely, worried visage of the innkeeper.

"Oh it's you two..! I'm so glad you're both all right!" The elderly woman phew'd, looking none the worse for wear herself.

"Nah I don't think so. Can't smell any of those herbs." Natsu pointed out before the door finally opened for them and their fears were put to rest at last.

"It's great to see you alright too! Things seem to be calming down but you'd better stay in there for a while longer." They would certainly clean up any more monsters in the vicinity.

The innkeeper looked a little doubtful, "Well...all right, if you insist. Quite frankly this is the first that something like this has happened in some time. Fortunately everyone was already asleep."

Lucy glanced at Natsu uneasily for a second. "And a good thing no one got hurt." That she knew of. It was still likely that someone might have - not everyone woke up as quickly or had the reflexes to defend or avoid danger when something happened as suddenly as this.

"Yeah maybe we go lucky. Anyway we'll drop by again to let you know it's all clear." Natsu promised with a nod before he started sniffing the immediate vicinity for signs of hidden or lingering monsters. He wasn't taking any chances. Not at this point in time.

The innkeeper smiled, nodding agreement. "I'd appreciate that very much. I'd at least be able to get some decent sleep knowing there weren't any more of those creatures running about.

"Don't worry, this place is like our first home. We're not about to let anything to happen to it." Lucy assured the woman, "Come on, Natsu." She turned, heading outside again and glancing around. The streets were almost creepily quiet now - almost like the beasts were never even there. If not for the signs of damage anyway.

"Take care mam" Natsu said his farewell before following after Lucy as they assessed the situation in the rest of the city.

"Jeez. Seems there were more than we handled. Though with how quick it's all gone quiet There were probably lots of people like us fighting them off."

"Probably... thank goodness for that. I think I saw Sun in the thick of things, fighting with his giant bird thing. The uh... Pokemon." She closed the door behind her, "Let's have another look around before we head back, okay?"

Pokemon? Huh I must have missed it somehow" He had to wonder how but that was all pointless really. The chaos seemed to have passed and they were none the wiser about the truth behind it.

"Yeah I think that's for the best." Can't smell anything else around but doesn't hurt to make sure with our eyes too."

Yet, at least. She fell in step beside her partner with a sigh, glancing around at the damaged carts and booths and such. "We should offer to help out with clean up and repairs in the morning too." Pause. "Well, later in the morning, I mean." Since it was technically morning already.

She strolled along, yawning a little, only to stop mid-yawn. "Huh? Natsu, do you see that?" Maybe she was imagining things - that circular shape drawn in that alley.

The damage was rather intense but being a master of property damage himself he knew it could have been so much worse. Honestly the rapid intervention of Fayren's fighting residents had contained the damage a fair bit.

"Yeah we'll be busy for a bit I guess." Natsu agreed before something caught Lucy's eye.

"Huh? What do you...what the heck?" Natsu said and quickly entered the alleyway stopping at the edge of the array.

"This is new..."

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