Varian hunkered in a dark room. He could barely move, it felt like he was in a chest. There was screaming, and there was someone nect to him but he couldn't see anything. Reaching his hand up he pressed up on the roof of the small wooden cube. He had been in a chest. A small girl clambered out after him she rubbed her eyes warily and clung close to him. He snuck around the house. It looked to be in tatters and flames were able to be seen from the shattered windows. There was a terrible scream and Varian swung his head towards its direction. A crazed man had just felled a woman. The lady seemed to be middle aged. Her blood oozed out of her wound. At first it was red, then it turned black and began to consume everything. Spreading up the walls and people everything was consumed into the void and he began to fall. He had no idea where he was falling. His skin began to peel. It went from the pale it was in the dream, to his current tanner skin. A white snake slithered towards him Its eyes were red and the invisible light in the void caused it's scales to glint in it. As it got closer it opened its huge, gaping jaws, the snake began to grow in size and its mouth became hundreds of times bigger than Varian. Varian hugged himself as the snake snapped its mouth shut.

Varian was in actual darkness for a moment. Then he pushed his hand up and seemed to break the surface of something. He pushed further and emerged on the side of a grassy hill. The warm air brushed his cheeks and he was slightly confused. How did he get here? He had just been in the snake's mouth. A woman stood on the top of the hill. Her skin was dark, her hair fell in dreadlocks, all the way down to her waist. Her eyes seemed to represent every color in the spectrum at once. Her clothes were silken and had no actual design they were just clumped around her. A large gust of wind blew past him and her clothes fluttered in the wind. She swiped her hand and the sky turned a dark gray and it began to pour. The force of the rain forced varian down. The water began to choke him as it rose above his head. Just as he began to feel out of breath the water sunk back down.

Varian clenched the dirt in his hand, where was the grass? Varian opened his eyes and an elvish girl with pink hair greeted him. She picked him up. But her strength seemed to much and he went flying into the sky, up and far away. As he fell back down into earth he noticed he was falling towards magnolia. As he sped up he began to panic. He was going to hit the ground hard, very hard.

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As he neared where he was going to hit he recognized the building, the building where he woke up. He had no memory of what happened before. Would this be it? The inn where he had woken up? Even though it had only been a short while ago it was a weird memory. Waking up in a room, it was like remembering your birth, except you came out as an adult. It was weird and Varian chose to block out the memory he didn't like it that much and it left him with chills, uncomfortable chills. Varian smashed through the roof, he saw something burn away on his stomach but he couldn't make it out. He smashed into his own body which was laying on the ground.

Varina sprung up in his bed, he was doused in cold sweat. Vega had been sprung off his chest and humphed irritably before settling down at his feet. Varian scratched her head, directly between her ears. He tried to search through his jumbled mind to see why he woke up with such a start. He couldn't remember his dreams, it was all so fuzzy and he couldn't remember a single part of that dream. The only parts were fuzzy bits and a few large shapes, triangles, cylinders, circles. Though most of the shapes weren't geometric, but rather organic. Many existed with curves, like the pinkish one and the white cylindrical one had some curves. Varian rubbed his head. He looked out the window and watched the morning sun rise over the horizon, he should probably get a move on, he had a quest later today with Lady merlin again and he didn't want to be late for it, that would be mean.

Varian slipped out of bed and stripped down, he climbed into the shower to clean himself up, he had drenched himself in sweat with that mysterious dream. Climbing out of the shower he pulled out a set of clothes. He tried to dress less...lumber jack-y today than that time he went on the quest for that rat thing he killed. This time he pulled on a thinner jacket. It was white, black ivy designs crawled up his arms, a hood sat on his back. He pulled on a pair of blue and black shorts, sliding his feet comfortably into flip flops. He looked around for necessities. He began to fill a backpack with a variety of stuff, a water bottle, two actually, one for him and one for Vega. Some money, a magical book or two, a teensy bit of food, only the necessities. Grabbing the key varian walked out the door, stopping for a moment to talk with the secreatary at the front desk. The young man was nice, who was currently just worked this as a side job to buy a house, he was a mage for his actual job. The two had begun actually chatting it up when Varian first rented a room. Varian smiled as they talked.

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Iyne, as the man at the front desk went by, was tall. His skin was paler than varian's own skin. He stood tall, as tall as varian, his hair was darker, almost pitch black. His shoulder's were broader than varian, and he wore rimless glasses that framed his green eyes. He was dressed in a black button down shirt, with his name pinned to his shirt on a little gold metal plaque. He wore tan pants that still had the iron creases in them, he must have gotten to work moments ago. His shoes still adhered to the dress code as well. Their black leather shimmered in the light, but the dull black laces hung limply on the top of the shoe.

"Where are you going?" Iyne asked. "I've got a quest." Varian responded.
"Who's it for?"
"Lady merlin, Im making a gift for her adopted daughter. I helped her out awhile back and she wants me to come back once again to help her."
"Cool, Wish I could come."
"I don't think she'd be upset if you did. You're a mage, and from what i've heard, a good one too."
"You're forgetting I happen to be working at this moment."
Varian waved dismissively, "you can leave." Iyne thought for a moment, "maybe, I have some days off built up, I could cash one in. It'd be more fun." He said. His mind slowly began to lean over towards Varian's argument. Varian shoved his shoulder, " You're not going to be doing anything here, I hope you realize that. " Varian added. Iyne thought for a moment. HIs face crumpled with thought, "Fine, I guess I'll tag along. Gimme a few minutes." He said.

Iyne got up and leaned through the door into the back and told his boss he was leaving early, there was a few shar insults, but luckily there happened to be more than one person there to manage the desk today so Iyne could leave early if he wanted to. He looked back at varian, "Let me get changed than we can leave." He said. Varian nodded and Iyne disappeared through the back. Varian leaned down and gave Vega some more pats, something about this conversation felt familiar. Like he had had one of these in the past. It obviously wasn't with Iyne, because Iyne would have had the same reaction as that lich, so that was out of the question. But he had a jittery feeling of excitement, but nervousness at the same time.

Iyne stepped back out of the back. He wore a plain blue T-shirt and white jean shorts. The one odd, out of weather thing was the long gray trench coat that hung down to his knees. Other than that he wore white sneakers. He gave a smile "C'mon, let's go, we don't have all day do we?" He asked jokingly. Varian nodded with a smile and paraded out the front door. He hoped Merlin would be okay on her own for a bit.

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Iyne, Varian and Vega all walked down the street. Their chatter was innocent and not much happened in it. It was Varian asking more about Iyne's life.

Iyne had grown up in the southern parts of Fiore, a small town outside of Marigold. Both of his parents were members of the rune knights. Growing up in that strict environment he grew to dislike it and chose a different path for his life. And to do so he joined Phantom Lord, Varian didn't mind. Dark guilds were okay with him, even though he was a member of fairytail, he didn't think guilds were any reason to stop a friendship or love. Iyne ran away from home on his 18th birtday, promising to visit his parents once a year in magnolia, in the cupcake shop. He did it every year, they had asked why he had done it the first few times they had met there, but now they just asked how life was going, and their relationship had become harmonious once again. But they still had no idea he was a member of phantom lord, he told them he was a part of a small local guild near oberon forest called Giant's Fang. He had spent months cultivating its existence, planting fake information everywhere. If you looked back through the records and weren't a professional analytic, you'd have no idea it was fake and it never existed. He had made sure it existed for some phantom lord members who wished to escape and tell someone something else, so they would claim relationship to Giant's Fang. But Iyne made sure to only give it out to the careful wizards who never got caught on their quests.

Iyne and Varian arrived at the steps of Lady Merlin's fancy study. "I'll do the talking, she knows me." Varian said. Iyne nodded and the pair walked up the steep steps. Varian knocked on the thick door and a young maid answered the door, "You must be Mr. Varian, and who is this?" She asked, nodding towards Iyne. "This is my S O, Yacob. He's with me today." Varian said without a fault. Iyne took the new name with extreme presence, he must have been a natural at different names. The maid ushered them inside, she directed them up the winding the stairs, towards Lady Merlin's study. Varian gave a smile to the maid.

Upstairs was an interesting sight, bookshelves lined every possible wall they could. Even the doors had writing on them. Lady Merlin flung her door open and pulled them into her study. "Who is this?!" She demanded. "My Name Is Yacob, I'm from Mercia." Iyne responded. Lady Merlin was too distracted to actually think and and analyze the backstory, she had work for them. " I need you to make something, take this amulet and enchant it, I left you some tomes in a door down the hall from here. Its in the room with the black orb above the door, it isn't locked.

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Varian, Iyne, and Vega strolled down the book shelf lined hallway, looking for the door with the black orb on it. Lady Merlin had handed Varian a intricate silver amulet. There were four dragons that encircled a six-facet sapphire. Each silver dragon had perfectly carved scales and teeth, their eyes were small glittering diamonds to match the large sapphire.

Varian held the amulet by its chain, letting it jingle as the trio walked through the long hallway. Finally Iyne pointed out a small door at the end of a branch hallway that had a small black orb fused to its wooden surface. Varian gave him a thank you and a pat on the shoulder before racing down the hallway to his job. The tome room was dusty, incredibly dusty, dusty to the point that it agitated Vega's nose so much she decided to guard the doorway. Varian gave her a little pat on the head as she exited. Varian turned back to the dusty shelves and went on with his business.

He asked Iyne some more questions, like what was his magic? According to Iyne it was something named Dust Make magic, which allowed him to create weapons and attacks with the use of dust. He called it an odd approach to magic, but proved to be very useful and versatile. Waving his hand he condensed a ball of dust in his hand, when he clenched his muscles the ball began to spin, thinning out into a disc. He then stopped the spell and the dust fell apart. But he said that was one of his weaker spels but he didn't want to use it in an old library. Varian nodded before showing off his own little magic white demon slaying wind. Iyne raised an eyebrow at the strength of the magic, he posed the quesiton of How did you get that? Varian responded with a spell gone wrong, which was true. He had been trying to get his memory back and summoned something, that may or may have not given him his current magic.

Varian looked through the array of enchanting tomes. They ranged from simple things like how to enchant a mushroom to glow, to how to enchant a castle to become self-aware. Varian momentarily grabbed that one and began to read through it. Its first warning was "BECOME FRIENDS WITH THE CASTLE, OTHERWISE YOU WILL DIE!" Varian found that odd to have, and now wondered if mercius was sentient in its own nature. Placing the book back he got back to his duty.

He dragged his finger along the dusty books and left a long line from where his finger had been. Slowly he reached the section he needed to be in, health. There was one on how to fix a broken heart, how to give yourself an extra kidney, a third liver, all the none important or out of the ordinary stuff came first. The weirdest one happened to be how to take someone's left lung.

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After getting past the one on the left lung varian finally landed on the one he needed, longevity and perfect health. Reading over the tome he began to gather ingredients from a shelf.
13 Raspberries
2 eyes
3 cups of ash
and a bowl of fresh pine needles.
Varian spread the stuff out, drawing a magic circle with the ash and placing the pine needles at the edges of the circle. Then moving onto his next step he mashed up the raspberries and the eyes into an opaque, pink liquid that almost seemed gelatinous. Placing the ornate amulet in the center of the circle he began the incantation.

Varian moved his hands in a variety of directions, forming a variety of shapes. A triangle, square, hexagon, star, etc. He didn't exactly understand the incantation but it sounded like directions to the molecules of the amulet from what Varian knew about the old magic words. Once the pine needles caught fire and created a flaming circle Varian was to pour the opaque, pink liquid on the amulet. The pink liquid sizzled when it touched the amulet, sinking into its cracks, making a hissing noise and releasing white smoke as the liquid began to burn away or sink into the cracks of the amulet. Once he finsihed the amulet had a new shine to it and varian picked it up with a smile. Iyne gave a nod and the two exited out the door to a impatient Vega who was already half way down the hallway when they came out of the room.

When they returned to the study of Lady Merlin she was pouring over ancient magic books and barely looked at them before snapping her fingers and causing boxes and wrapping paper to fly from corners from around the room and wrap itself around the amulet. "Thank you for making that, please deliver it to my daughter Luciel." Lady Merlin said. Varian nodded then turned out of the room and stretched his legs quickly out the door, he was anxious to get out of here.

He began his search in Luciel's own study but she wasn't there, then he moved on to a potion room and couldn't find her there. But he at last find her in the mercius library in between a large pile of books. She smiled at him and thanked the trio for delivering it to her. Varian walked out and a maid greeted Varian with a pile of money, saying it was from Lady Merlin. Varian nodded and left.

Iyne sighed as they walked out the door, " do you think she guessed I wasn't Yacob?" He asked. varian nodded, "probably, she's very intelligent I would bet 9/10 times she would guess the truth, but I don't think she cares." Varian responded. Iyne and Varian walked for awhile in silence, nothing rising up from the air. Iyne finally stretched his arms, guess for the fun today, guess I'll see you some other time, good night you two.

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