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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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"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.

"Yeah, let's just keep an eye on them while we're looking around. It's a little too quiet for my liking." Maybe they were walking into a trap. . . or maybe the culprit didn't think they'd be found. Still the question he asked her was puzzling, and she glanced at him curiously as she followed alongside him. "What? Why?"

"Yeah. I can't sense anything but monsters around us." That was rather ominous in of itself. The sent was human and yet he didn't sense a human presence. Even so they followed his nose occasionally scaring off any braver monsters with a show of force before proceeding.

"Why? Well I was thinking we'd want to get those circles recorded somewhere. Maybe those would have a clue."

Wait a second... "... you... can't sense anything but monsters? But that trail we're following..." That wouldn't be monster too - she thinks. "So maybe... they're already long gone...?" She shifted her grip on the bow in her hand, the other hand pulling an arrow to arm it, just in case.

"Ah - yeah, I see what you mean. I don't have one on me, but I can call Virgo to bring it from the room to me so I can copy the symbol down."

"That's right. I don't hear any voices either. They're probably long gone...doesn't mean we shouldn't follow the trail anyway. There might be some kind of clue." Natsu insisted though the further along they went the greater that sense of dread would swell. They could be gone. But his instincts...told him a different story.

"That might be a good idea. We've got mages from this world back at the guild. They can give it a look and tell us what they know."

"... Right. Right." She glanced at his face hesitantly. He looked even more serious than usual. Was that really what he thought?

Honestly, the methods of the Hands of Decay aside... in any story with this kind of plot, she knew how things would end up. "... Let's.. hurry up before it gets cold." Picking up the pace to jog forward, hoping her wild imagination was wrong.

Yeah. Reading a book about something like this, if they knew the attack failed, the responsible party would probably...

IT was just his instinct at first. However as they started making their way towards the west, the frown on Natsu's face suddenly turned grim. "...This is....the scent of the dead." Natsu warned Lucy before he quickly picked up the pace towards a cluster of broken walls further up ahead.

It was what she had been hoping they wouldn't find. "D..dead?" She echoed. "You mean someone was... was killed?" Was it because they hadn't investigated this area fast enough? When Natsu picked up the pace, she broke into a run after him, even though her legs felt like lead. She really didn't want to see...

Natsu quickly pushed through what was left of an archway just in time for the stench to hit him in full. Unfortunately it wasn't just one dead body. There splayed out before him were the bodies of a man and a woman. The woman still carried the scent of blood but the odor of death was considerably stronger.

"Shit! We got here too late." Natsu cursed under his breath. He wasn't about to ask Lucy to check the bodies so he took that initiative and walked up to the two bodies, first heading over to the woman and immediately scowling seeing the signs of stabbing.

Hot on his heels, Lucy was quick to regret the decision - though the smell of the woman's dead body was probably far worse for Natsu. She still stumbled to a stop, clapping a hand over her nose and mouth and pivoting away to get get her composure back. "Khg..." Too late... but how would they have even known - suspected that something like this ... maybe if she had noticed the summoning circle sooner?

Even though Natsu wouldn't ask her to check the bodies, she intended to get closer to look for herself. Very reluctantly, but she couldn't leave it to him alone, right? He was checking the woman's body, and Lucy could barely bring herself to look at it - she moved towards the unmoving body of the man, her stomach turning somersaults.

Natsu didn't touch the body too much instead simply turning it over to examine the back as well before returning her to the original position she'd been found.

"She's been stabbed to death. But the way her scent is now I'd say she died way before the guy did." Natsu announced his findings before he got up with a faint sigh. This was not going as well as he'd hoped. He shook his head and walked over to Lucy next.

"Anything on the guy?"

Lucy was squeamish as anything when it came to touching dead bodies - but at least this guy wasn't -as- stiff and dead as his wife. But it was just as bad. Still when she turned him over, mentally cringing, she was a bit surprised to see no obvious injuries on him. So what killed him?

She rolled his body back over the way she found it and sat back on her heels, shaking her head. "N-no. I don't even see what could have killed him." She glanced at the pair, wondering if they'd have been able to keep them from getting killed. "I do know they're not anyone from the group of mages that sought sanctuary at the guild." She'd have felt even worse if they were.

"We have to notify the City Guard. Maybe they'll have some idea of who these two are."

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