"We're on these mountains to train for the Grand Magic Games," Orion explained to the strangers named Zora and Lucifer. "I'm pretty sure a guild with high prestige as yourself would know of the annual competition. No?"
Lucifer simply nodded his head, one of his hands situating itself in front of Lucifer, resembling one half of the natural praying posture. "Of course. Naturally, we are here to train for the competition as well." The Take-Over mage claimed gesturing to himself and Zora beside him. "The rest of our team is at our camp a few miles from here. May I ask which guild are you representing for the games?"
Angela was the one who perked up and spoke this time. "Well, I'm not participating in the games myself," the plant mage explained towards the Lamia Scale mages. "But Orion here is the one of our participants, representing our guild Ender Eye. I'm here to train him prior to the competition."
The monk hummed in response to the male beside the plant mage. eyes inspecting carefully at his competition. "Seems as though we'll be rivals for the games, Orion." Lucifer said with a smirk. "But just because we're competition doesn't mean we can't socialize ourselves. Feel free to stay at our camp for a bit while you're training up here."
"Why thank you," Angela responded. "But we do have a question though: I've heard of a legend of a fruit that grants a gain in magical capabilities up here, do you know where it could possibly be?"
The white-haired male simply gave a chuckle at the question, in which Orion thought was a bit off about the latter. "When I meant socialize, I meant associate ourselves for a friendly rivalry at least, not assisting the enemy." Lucifer claimed, finding the question hilarious. "But in all honesty, from our experiences, us Lamia Scale mages have been training in these mountains for years, but we haven't heard or seen of such myth."
"Oh," Orion simply muttered. He was really hoping that it could be true, he wasn't really feeling confident about himself, especially standing in front of a powerful mage such as Lucifer. "Thank you anyways." Orion said quietly.
"Hey," Lucifer said, confronting the male. "That doesn't mean you can't work hard to improve. If you work hard and try your best, you can succeed."
It was a bit cliche in Orion's opinion, a small smirk forming on his face. But Lucifer was right, that doesn't mean he should give up now. With a small sigh and a smile on his face, Orion said, "Okay, I'll try."
"Zora, take these two to our camp if you will?" Lucifer called to the gravity mage. "I'll be out for a bit, I'll come back to camp soon."
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The blonde celestial mage was about to respond to the purple haired mage, named Viper if he heard correctly, until a loud familiar voice called out to him. The male immediately drooped his head, already knowing who it was. Lucas was about to respond to her request to fight until she immediately ignored him and went to Viper wanting to initiate a fight.
"Nashi," Lucas said, adding sternness into his voice. "Don't bother this stranger too much, he's trying to train, and we're already bothering him." Lucas tried to reason with the latter. "And stop provoking people to fight you, not everyone likes roughhousing y'know." Lucas stating, not stressing enough on how many fights she picks.
Being the older brother was tiring, especially with a sister like Nashi. You would think when your sibling grows up, they'll ease down and go into puberty, that wasn't the case with Nashi. She's still as loud and obnoxious as ever, picking up the traits up their father. Lucas, on the other hand, picked up his persona from his mother more so than his father, evening picking up her Celestial Magic capabilities.
"No fair," A wail came from beside him. Lucas turned to look at Aquarius beside him, a pout residing on her face. "Why does Nashi get to play with him and I don't!" Aquarius shouted at Lucas, whining like any other kid would.
"I'm not letting anyone mess with Viper," Lucas said, pinching his eyebrows in frustration. "Aquarius, go back to the Celestial realm, I'll call you out when i have time." Lucas pulled out Aquarius' Golden Key and swiped it in the air, making the latter disappear into thin air, leaving himself, his sister, and Viper.
Lucas turned back to Nashi, "Why don't you go back to the guild, start sparring with one of the Fullbuster twins of something."
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Fallon's eyes shot open at the sound of the Vulcans roaring towards them, only realizing that this due to Ara's doing. On one hand, he was thanking her for allowing him to fight because he loved fighting. On the other hand, he saw it was pretty reckless, but the former outweighed the latter.
“Bestow me the strength to control the cold winds of autumn. Come forth my Beast! Thunbolt!”
Green aura formed around Fallon and beside him materialized some sort of lion dog with a lightning bolt for a horn. Fallon sat on the saddle on it's back. "Let's go!" The green haired male called out.
With a roar, Thunbolt first released a stream of electricity towards the duo of Vulcan's that came towards him first. Training or not, they have a horde of Vulcan to deal with if they want to actually rest a bit before serious training starts. A third Vulcan came right after, jumping over the crisped duo of Vulcans of front of Thunbolt. A lighting bolt went towards that Vulcan, but it brushed it off like it was nothing.
"Right," Fallon mumbled to himself. Ara did say something about immune and element or something, he didn't catch everything but he was able to piece the puzzle together. Jumping off Thunbolt's back, Fallon wrapped his arm around the next of the Vulcan before giving it an RKO. The Vulcan knocked out and Fallon jumped back onto Thunbolt, who ran towards the beasts, determined to take them out.
