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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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"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..."

"I've seen something like this before..." Lucy mused as she joined him, running her fingers over the wall and eyeing the chalk that came away on her fingertips. "This design..." Of course the scent of those beasts probably lingered in this area since this was one of the points they emerged from, but... give her a minute, she's trying to recall where she saw that circle before.

"You have?!" Natsu was surprised to hear that however now that this suspicious place had been found, Natsu padded over closer to the circle, running his finger over the edge before bringing it up to his nose.

"Monsters....a lot of monsters just like the ones we beat down. My guess would be they came from here."

"Yeah... not too long ago too... but -- AH! That's it!" She snapped her fingers, glancing at him. "You said monsters, right? Someone must have used this summoning circle to bring those things here. But the thing is, I remember speaking to Sun not long ago and he found a circle similar to this in the ruins. I -bet- that's where the monsters came from."

And if there was another circle -there- then they were bound to find something related to this incident there too..!

"The ruins? Hmmmm you know where these ruins are?" Natsu asked, standing up from where he had crouched down to examine the circle. They wouldn't find much here since all he could smell was a faint human smell and a lot of monster stench. Nothing conclusive.

"Mm, yeah, it's outside of town in those ruins Sun found a few months back. Want to go check it out?" She tilted her head, stepping back when he straightened up.

"Yeah. We should. Before the trail gets any colder." Natsu nodded before looking back towards Lucy. "You feeling up to it? You've been using your magic quite a bit and there's Loke back at the guild."

Tired she might be, she wasn't going to admit to it and let him go off on his own. "Y-yeah, I'll be fine. I'll just get plenty of sleep tonight to make up for it. Loke came on his own when he found out about what was going on and offered to cover things, so he's not using my magic." He actually insisted on helping out. "Come on, it's this way." She turned, starting back down the path and not really giving him any chance to argue the point. She was fiiiiiiiine.

Of course she wouldn't. Well in the end it didn't matter. He intended to stay as close to Lucy as possible. "Lots of sleep sounds good. I'll make sure you get it~" Natsu promised with a grin before the two of them head out from the town and onto the main road. He was quite happy she didn't suggest vehicle transport this time.

It hadn't occurred to her to suggest it - but eh, a quick jog out would do them both good to unwind and relax. She flashed a grin at him in response to his promise, and she chuckled, reaching out to nab his hand as she led the way down the road, well into the forest for quite a bit of hiking until they reached the ruins an hour later. "Here it is. See, over there? There's that summoning circle again - only reversed."

Just because they were tracking a potential lead didn't meant they couldn't just be themselves along the way so hand in hand they traveled up to the ruins, occasionally getting updates from the guild. Natsu was ready to just run them both back if something happened. In the end they reached the ruins.

"Hmmmmm I guess they really are connected. Doesn't seem to still work or anything." Natsu grumbled and drew closer. There it was again. That faint human scent in a sea of monster stench.

"Someone was here...."

Lucy kept her free hand on her keys the entire way, listening to the updates as they went. "Loke says that the town is completely clear - Virgo scouted the area. The attack only lasted about an hour, but they're keeping an eye on things just in case all the same." She sent a silent thank you to the two spirits for their help, glancing at Natsu again. "Hm... maybe they were only temporarily active?" Her eyes widened slightly, "Someone -- are they still here?" She glanced around.

"That's good to hear. Means we kept our end of the promise after all since no one made it through to the Guild." Natsu nodded before he scanned the surroundings with both his eyes and his nose. There was no doubt the monsters came from here. But his target was the faint human scent. In fact he could even feel faint magic from them though he wasn't sure if that was residual from the circle or if they were a mage who made the circle in the first place.

"The trail leads away from the circle. But it starts at the circle. That means they probably came through from the city to here." Such a deduction was easy to make. After all he could hear a robbery from miles away and even intervene from that distance to take out the robbers in one hit.

"The scent seems to go that way."

"So it starts and leads away from here, huh..." She studied the circle, glancing up in surprise when he mentioned the trail. "The scent? You can - can you follow it, see where it goes?" She got to her feet, "It's probably a good thing that the circle isn't active. I can see those clockroach things over there - if it was still active, these things would still be going through to Fayren.

"I think I can. It's really faint though. WE should go now if we want to have a chance to follow it." Natsu growled before throwing a fireball at one of the clockroaches that seemed to ponder if he should approach the two humans or not.

She stretched a little after straightening from the circle, nodding firmly. "Then it's probably a ways a way. Let's get moving - that move might keep the beasties at bay for a while, but I don't want to stick around long enough for them to change their minds."

These guys didn't experience the fiery burning or pincushiony pain that the Dragonslayer and Celestial Mage dealt out on their brethren.

"Heh I'll give them a taste of my breath if they don't get the point. Though I don't wanna go that far since it would mix up the scent we're following." Natsu was taking this very very seriously. Something about the whole situation gave him a very bad feeling to the pit of his stomach.

"Say do you have anything to draw with?" He asked as they made their way down a trail following the scent.

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