The cloaked figure enters the city of Magnolia it is around mid-day so the streets are crowded with people bustling around, the man sighs a small shallow sigh adjusting the sack on his back full of his supplies as a tepid wind slightly flutters his cloak Kai then slides into the crowd trying to blend in while not making eye contact with anyone from under his mask, slightly moving so not to bump into anyone or make contact with them at all. Kai stops to look around noticing most if not all of the people around him are human and mumbles to himself in Val'Elvarin. "Not sure this is such a good idea.” Kai remembers his masters words of not to blame all humans for the misdeeds of some, shaking his head slightly Kai snaps out of it and spots a group of four people baring the mark of this city's guild Fairy Tail, Kai maneuvers through the crowd that Kai was currently in making extra sure his cloak is well secured to minimize the chance of anyone touching his skin and causing a panic if in his rush Kai bumps into someone he is passing, keeping the group in his sight Kai follows them toward their guild hall while trying to stay low profile saying in his head you are clearly stalking someone that is gonna probably cause a scene if you get noticed.

Kai looks away from the group of four as Kai leaves the crowd walking forward about six feet and gently taps the forehead of his own mask with two fingers while looking down sighing to himself. Kai keeps thinking if he is really ready, then kai hears the sound of foot steps getting closer and looks up and sees that two of the people from the group are missing and the other two are walking toward him, Kai sees a club being swung from the very edge of his vision, Kai spins on the heel of his foot, just barely not taking a heavy hit, realizing he is off balance, Kai slides the sack on his back up using it as a counter balance pulling it to the front of his body in his spin to catch his balance again, then releases the sack making it rocket into the club wielding member sending him toppling over, as he plants his feet from his spin slightly dizzy and disoriented raising his hands.

”I am not looking for a fight!” Kai looks around to see where the others are and sees two of the others running at him from either side coming in fists at the ready to try and make a team attack, Kai steadies himself and as the punch from either side comes in Kai shifts his footing and spins with them making them both barely miss him and Kai chops the back of their necks them falling limp to the ground. The last of the group has a cocky smile and you will pay for that written in his eyes then pulls his fist back and a brown magic seal appears the man puts his fist into it, cloaking his fist in earthen magic energy to try to end it in one punch, Kai knowing this attack means business, kai withdraws his right hand into his cloak sleeve and moves his arm around a little. The man starts coming at kai and throws the punch, Kai moves slightly to the side and a loop of rope comes out from his cloak sleeve, the loop lands around the guys wrist Kai pulling on the rope tightened the loop around their wrist quickly, Kai fluently in the same motion sweeps the attackers legs and with his left arm Kai tries to flip him but failed to cause enough rotation, seeing the man is about to fall on his head Kai pulls hard while leaning to the side in doing so the rope bites into Kai's arm slightly slipping rope burning his arm, causing the mans body to finish the flip rotation, the man lands flat on his back just knocking the wind out of him.

Kai felt that his ankle is injured by moving at a bad angle and his arm is pretty decently rope burned. Kai gets back on his feet then limps to the man still laying flat on his back and removes the rope from his wrist taking a cursory look over him to make sure the poor guy isn't dead as Kai rewraps the rope on his own arm, Kai then makes his way over to the two that tried to attack him in sync with the other and rolls them on to their backs seeing they are still alive, Kai limps to his sack of supplies and sees the other guy is out of it but not dead, Kai straightens his mask and hood then lifts his sack placing it back across his back. ”Well this didn't go as planned, I need to get out of here.”

Kai starts going away from the scene to get back into the crowd to blend in, Kai then realizes has nearly no chance of fleeing the city and not wanting to test his luck in having to fight more guild members on a sprained ankle and a slightly rope burned arm Kai figures the best move is going into the guilds grounds and take shelter behind a bush next to the guild building on the side placing his Travel sack down, then placing himself down as softly as Kai could. Kai gets into the sack and gets out two wraps then gets his shoe off and sees it is already starting to swell and discolor, Kai wraps the first one on the ankle slightly wincing under his mask, then gets a couple study enough sticks then wraps them to his ankle to support and stabilize it loosely placing his shoe back on. Kai takes a quick peek out of his hiding place to see if anyone is close then returns to sitting and opens his cloak slowly and removes his left glove and gets a small container with a balm in it and he starts rubbing it on his forearm. ”I was too careless. I am probably dead if they find me.” Kai knows there are only three options to go from here, limp into the guild hall admit he assaulted four of their members and take the beating and maybe be locked up, stay here till night fall and hope his ankle is able to be walked on and escape, or turn his cloak to the reverse side, change his mask and force himself not to limp and go into the guild hall and fake having not known about what happened.

Oh what a beautiful day, When your the always positive minded and always happy Judith the Mother of Fairies, the caretaker of Fairy Tail. every day could interesting, Not just with what she did but the other members, New or Old got themselves into or had happen in life. It was a normal day for Judith for the most part, She had collected some flowers and head off to the graveyard to continue what she always did in clearing away anything in terms of dead plants or unneeded around the graves of her loved ones she always visited in her free time. Even taking some time out to talk to people who owned the place the graves where at to even check up on them to see how they where doing as well. Making sure she was not really bothering them by coming around so often and leaving a lot of flowers as she normally did.

Even if there was another underlying reason, Judith was asking if anyone else has visited the graves of these three since she had been last around or in general. In which she got if anything the answer she wanted, Leaving it as it is. She would see aside from the flowers she would leave, If they left anything. In which it showed Judith, Showed her some one else was here besides Judith here and leaving things, Just what people  was an interesting question, Nonetheless after she had left her flowers, took a few minutes to enjoy being around here, Judith then would quietly head back towards the market.

Then she would pick up some more interesting things to feed the members of Fairy Tail. Last time it was curry in which had gone well for Judith since she had a feeling it left her a chance to explore new ideas and interesting things to make. Just needing the idea. Upon roaming the lanes of the store she was at, She saw what was perfect, getting them quickly she would head buy the things she needed for this idea and head off.

She just had to hope this would be as well liked as the curry part. Perigoi's would be Fairy Tail's next food test, Eventually as it's members got comfort with these Judith would just continuing exploring as many options as she could for food. Or she could trick them all into something super spicy or bitter. Nonetheless Judith would head off to the guild. To start what she normally did, Most likely at this point a few members either wanted something to think or something to snack on, But at least for most members, Judith even if sometimes was busy and late the food was worth it.

Then turning one of the many corners to Fairy Tail. Looking around Judith would look to see some people on the ground in which even considering the area and her guild this was a bit common."Huh, No doubt they did something stupid."Judith mentioned assuming when they would wake up they would come back to the guild and maybe get a drink or five, Nonetheless she would continue on her way.

For Kai however, This would be her introduction to Judith, Just not right away for she would walk past the bush as she continue into the Fairy Tail building. Stopping for a moment. These words would be close enough for Kai to hear."Hmm...interesting..."Judith was not forcing him to come out, If anything Judith worked differently, She had her own ways and she often did not hurt anyone.

Putting her supplies down she would delay opening up her normal cooking hours, because well she wanted a cup of tea, So she would make two of them and walk outside. She would delay her normal operations to have a cup of tea with the second cup just held by a branch waiting, Just waiting to see if could maybe make whomever it was to come out or maybe come talk. It was a really nice time of day for tea after all and Judith was curious, Just not wanting to call them out for it might not be fitting too.

Hearing the woman speak Kai had a sinking feeling she had seen him, knowing it is pointless cause they know, kai steels himself to just meet them, kai not being as use to dealing with people himself knows it is time to man up and face what he did. Kai gets his arm back in his cloak, the balm back in his sack and gloves back on his hands. ”I think I am just acting like a child, just go out there and at least talk to them.” Kai makes sure his mask is secured so he looks a little presentable besides being slightly dirty.

Kai slowly gets back to his feet then slowly takes a look out before getting his sack from the ground, he sees her sitting outside with tea, Kai wonders why she would be drinking tea outside like that, and if that branch is drinking that tea from that cup also why she has horns like that. Figuring now as a good a time as ever he walks out from behind the brush trying to force himself not to limp showing not wanting to show weakness as he walks toward where she is. ”Sorry for causing a mess, it was a misunderstanding that spiraled out of control...” Kai stops just short of her so there is still space in case she attacks him, to defend or dodge out of the way. Kai knows that there is need to be careful she doesn't physically touch his skin and to not let someone absent mindedly walk into him as well making sure his cloak is still closed tight and being hyper aware of if anyone is near him, Kai also notes the tea smells good even from his distance.  ”Is there any chance I can still join or did I sorta made those chances poof into smoke by fighting them ?” Kai rubs the back of his hooded head nervously with a slightly tilted head looking her way still trying not to lose line of sight of her.

Well it seemed it was a good call for Judith to remain so, calm with taking her time and waiting. The fun part was Judith did seem to tend to and deal with most of the member because she was here the most."I will not assume anything wrong of you."Judith would mention to him with a smile on her face."I would like to hear from they why they choose to do what they did to start with."no doubt, Judith would have a few words for them whoever they where and most likely it being risk for the people who ended up at conflict with because well, Judith by nature was a rather peaceful person, to get into pointless fights was to get on her bad side.

Even making it worst, The person they got into a fight with was trying to join the guild."I however, Do not mean you any harm."She was an odd one that was fore sure her:white hair, red horns, dress that stood out a fair amount with add ons of a butterfly, Vines hanging off of them. Judith was a lady who stood out."It will not be a problem to still join the guild."The vine with the cup of tea Judith did not hand in her hands, slowly drifted towards this man.

Judith then said."You will also get more then just tea from Fairy Tail if joining them, Take it from a member herself."Judith would not say it was her who did cooks, cleaning and drink serving, But that would come in time."It is green tea with out anything in it, Do take it if you want." Seems this part would need to be taken slower then most, At least in Judith's view of it.

”I think I can fathom a guess to why they came at me.” Kai stands leaning pressure off his ankle but is trying not to make it obvious. ”I was following them for over a good part of the city, probably mistook me for someone looking for trouble.” Knowing he is a big figure probably didn't help him either. ”I think I would probably be wary of myself as well if I saw me coming, cloaked, masked, wearing gloves I pretty much am a walking probably trouble sign.”

Kai looks closer at her when she says she means him no harm, cause he didn't sense intent for a fight from her at all. ”I didn't figure you were gonna look for a fight, you have more of a mother vibe, that you don't look for trouble but you can sure deal with it, if it comes your way.” He laughs softly to himself, thinking how silly he had been thinking she might be a monster. Kai takes the cup gently from the vine and gently moves the mask up a bit and sips the tea and it tastes as good as it smells. ”It is good to hear I didn't blow it.”

Kai finishes the tea and slides his mask back down. ”What do you mean by I'll get more then tea?” Her words seemed inviting yet ambiguous, so he tilts his head to try and emote a quizzical look to her. Wondering what the more she spoke of means, he slowly walks closer watching the vine as he passes it not sure what she is capable of, if she is good at hiding her intent or if that vine could just impale him from behind. Kai wants to trust her so he relaxes defenses and hopes for the best.

This man seemed to have it right Judith was the mother type."I raised four children before, So you are not far off."It was good this man was a good judge of character, She did not laugh about it this time. It was a good an interesting time and place to keep it a bit settled for a moment."I do not take the other members as the type to ask first and deal with the out comes later, However they sure would benefit from it."There were some members who did work that way but sometimes they were easily overshadowed.

What did she mean? well one of the many things that made Fairy Tail it's name sake so to say."I am Judith Karlinus, One of the more noted members of the guild your wishing to join."It seemed almost unneeded however there was more details to come that would most likely reveal why she was mentioning these details right away."I am the lady who handle guild recruitment when our guild master is out."But wait there was more.

after all there always should be more."However, My main job with Fairy Tail is serving drinks and food for the working guild members, I also clean the guild building. So when I mean more, There is plenty more then just a mere warm cup of tea."What all Judith could make, Might be up to Kai to guess or ask.

"So, Why don't you enjoy that cup of tea and come in side. I will find you a chair to sit down you can ask any questions you might wonder, Then if you really wish to join. I will be sure you to give you the tattoo of Fairy Tail."Judith more suggesting and not trying to force into anything, It was just upon Kai to choose, The vine after Kai have taken the tea cup just seemingly starting going away, Then Judith would talk to the door of the guild and open it up, Waiting to see what would happen, After all she never assumed anything.

”Sometimes thinking leads to hesitation which can get you killed. They probably felt fight or flight, so they tried to seem bigger in a pack like wolves.” He rubs the side of his mask and shakes his head slightly. ”They doing well ?” More of a polite asking tone in his voice to feel her out a little still staying relaxed.

He looks her over a bit more. ”The master must truly trust you to keep the house clean while they are away. ” He looks at the building as he closes in closer to where she was standing making sure he doesn't let his clumsy hands to drop the cup. He feels safer here at the moment then in how he felt in the city he past through to get to the guild hall.

He nods and understands she meant the guild itself had more to it then just tea. ”Sorry you had to spell that out for me, I can be a little dense sometimes. What is your house specialty? ” He wonders how appreciated she is by the members she cooks and serves, but figures it is too rude to ask that. Kai is not use to being tended to, mostly fishing, hunting, foraging and cooking for himself when not staying at a inn or using a restaurant as he passed through a town.

Kai not wanting to be rude to his kind host follows her letting the vine take the cup so he doesn't drop it. ”I do have a word of caution, if you give me the tattoo make sure not to accidently touch your skin to mine or you will suffer a little. ” He looks at the ground a bit nervously, but he keeps on following behind her. ”I'm sorry if that happens.”

So they both thought about it differently, However not one to ruin a mind set Judith could easily just simply state things to make it fairly easy. Judith was also a far different mage or even if she had ever wanted too, Kind of fighter then him, Thus different ways of working about it."Might be just my experience as a mage who is focused on healing."Then well when she asked about them Judith not trying to sound heartless would just simply state."I am unsure, But I will ask a few members lounging around to go to them pick them up and move them somewhere safe for me to look after later."Judith being the guild cook seems to most likely have her ways of working, She did not seem to abuse them too much, She just merely did it for what she was use too.

Kazimir trust Judith with a few things."He does, After all I have been in Fairy Tail longer then him, I know my way around the place a fair amount."Or well she knew this place fairly good enough in and out where to look at things and where to clean it."So, I just knew how the manage things to keep his work simple."Judith was a fairly good figure head that way.

So now he would have to list to go through."It does change every two weeks, However the most recent ones have been:Yellow curry chicken, Beef stir fry, Pan fried steak with roasted vegetables, Mash potatos and gravy, Pan fried salmon with asparagus and mash sweet potatoes and one that seemed fairly popular was 10 hour roast pork."She had a lot of things already at the top of her head."I had picked up supplies for making potato and cheese pierogi's with fried onions and bacon."So she had a lot off hand on her list.

Even then she had simpler things as well."I do also serve more simple things in the earlier parts of the day: Egg dishes, pancakes. Various other breakfast items."Almost if anything seemed like being a member of Fairy Tail could get spoiled from this red horned woman in a kitchen as long as they worked and behaved anyway."I often leave a note pad for suggestion, It is more often then not used by the members to make sure I get particular kinds of alcoholic drinks rather then food."But he was given the run down by Judith what she does, She kept herself a really busy woman but seemed to make time for everything.

With that warning Judith did listen fairly carefully."Interesting, I am curious why that is, But I feel it might be better to be respectful and not ask about it."Judith did make sure if need be if he did not want to talk about it, he did not need too. She would pick up that basket with various things to make not only the food she had mentioned she was cooking up today, There was various different kind of breads, Home made breads It seemingly almost filled up the room just as much as the tea she carried out to talk to him.

Nonetheless Kai would now be through the door, Judith would then close it behind her because that was normal of her."Tattoo and needed guild things now? Or did you want something else other than tea?"Judith said to be sure, as she left the lay out pretty simple there where area were some of the normal guild members were, But also various empty places by an open window that was Judith's work station, you could tell from the open and close sign, flowers and family pictures Judith had around it. Walking past the window Judith placed her basket of thing through a door she opened by the window and placed the basket down, Waiting to see what their possible new member wished to do.

Realizing he made a mistake some how in how he worded it he puts his hands up. ”Sorry I am a little newer to speaking human tongue so much I caused a misunderstanding, I was speaking of your children not the members I fought.” He looks sorta flustered, at causing the misunderstanding with her. ”Nothing wrong with being a more healing oriented mage, it is the backbone of a team and the one you have to please and keep happy if you want to make it. I don't have a talent for healing. So I have to relay on my survival skills, instinct and my luck to fight, cause I go it alone so if I get hurt badly I would be in deep trouble.”

He softly laughs to himself. ”you don't look like you are over fifty.” He is aiming to flatter her a little to lighten the mood, he lived and trained with wood and half-elves with his master so he know they kept younger looks longer the humans like him. ”Sounds he was lucky to have you as his right hand woman.” He looks at how nice and well kept it is in the hall and looks around at others that are in the hall probably waiting on her return.

He tries to listen to her, while she listed everything off but not being so use to this he got lost so he just started nods and hopes he will find it around some where maybe on a menu so he doesn't hurt her feelings or to ask her to slow done cause she seemed excited. ”I bet it all will taste great.”

Kai smiles feels like maybe this place was the right choice to join. ”When do you ever get to rest or sleep, you weren't joking when you said you work hard.” He nods about the alcohol. ”Yeah I stay away from the stuff it dulls the senses and slows reaction times, which is probably weird to hear, but i will keep it in mind if i think of anything.”

Kai takes a deep breath. ”As you have been kind I will explain, I was born cursed, I was told I was the reason my mother died cause after giving birth to me she suffered from it, the curse doesn't do physical damage it is more like it causes a sensation in the person that touches me, I'm not sure what she felt. The four most common to happen are the feeling like your skin is melting off the bone, like you have been poisoned and a foam is blocking your wind pipe, the feeling of drowning and The feeling of being frozen/freezing. My master in her unlucky style got the feeling of death the first time she touched me when she was trying to save me only person to get that one.” Kai sighs slightly then keeps talking. ”It stops soon after stopping touching my skin depending how long contact is and it doesn't leave any lasting effects and as far as I know my mother is the only death of my curse.”

Kai grabs a seat and sits looking around more seeing all the pictures and faint sounds of people humming in the room. ”I am okay for now, do I have to sign anything or do anything special?” He looks back at her watching her and wondering how swamped she is about to get. He also is trying to keep it hidden he is hurt but he knows he has to remove his cloak to get the tattoo. He slowly slides the cloak off reveling his tied back auburn hair with blonde streaks, keeping the mask on and unwraps the rope off his arm sliding it into the inner pocket of his cloak, the rope burns on his arm look less red from the balm smoothing the burns.

It was a simple thing to mix up, because Judith in a sense did view some of their members as her children, Even if pretty much everyone where responsible adults in the end."Both would still in correct, So In the end neither is wrong."It would not really effect much in the end, Just how Judith deals with these things would be more in the eyes of a mother then anything else, But at least she did not treat her adult children much like she would treat the guild members they were both rather different things they she had knew to keep different.

Were most woman seemed to be bother about bringing up her age Judith was a bit different."I am over 60, Just helps to be an elf."So she was not trying to trick anyone with anything that made her look different this time, She was just being rather honest about it, In any other case where if she was still human, which was up until recently any pictures of her around here, Where still of her as a human. Life was always interesting in that way. There was still people who was use to the old Judith.

With her list only being left with that in return, It was something where she assume she might have overloaded the amount of information."The effort always at least pays off for it, In my view anyway."No one went hungry and she kept herself busy, not much else still seemed to be of note yet.

It was an interesting tale that is for sure, But lucky enough for him."I do not require touching you for the needed tattoo, It is a magical stamping object."So Judith was safe in the end form all of that. Even then she had vines to also make it easier as needed. It was a simple stamp object."Anything else would be more for records, Name the typical information."It was a simple run down, Not a lot needed it seemed.

So Judith would just pick up pieces of needed paper for filing and the object for the magical stamp object in which would give him the tattoo. Placing the paper work before him, a pen and would end this moment with asking."Where did you want your guild tattoo and what colour would you want for it?"These were simple questions.

Kai looks at her for a few seconds upon realizing he is just making a fool of himself firmly shuts his mouth and just passively nods as she speaks to him, he is listening and doesn't make eye contact with her anymore just keeps it to the papers he is signing or the floor some of his loose hair frames his mask, Kai points to his upper right arm and starts writing in the info in all the spots that require it.

”Blood red please. I just told you so you could be safe and not end up with you sorry. Sorry for troubling you and giving you more work to do.” His voice seems more distant and cold, Kai starts thinking about a good spot he saw in the surrounding area out side of the city to set up camp for the night.

He plans to start looking around the city and get more use to it in the morning while seeing the sights and maybe see about taking up a quest if he saw one that catches his eye. Kai slides his left arm back into his cloak and puts the hood back up on his head hiding his head again leaving his right arm out for her to use the tattoo stamper on as he hands her the paper work back with the pen she had given him still without looking up.

To Judith work was work and needed to be done, She would could forever keep herself busy and still be herself, She balanced everything as needed, sometimes it might not be noted but she tried to balance her life in many ways. Nonetheless everything had to keep going some how, Everything was slow enough currently that she could just manage what the small tasks before the normal ones, New members did not walk into the door super often now days, At least to what she recalled.

"All is well that will end well."even if he was starting to seem one way, Judith still was carefree and happy. Eventually returning with the magical object that gave guild members their tattoo, That just looked like a large stamp press like one used for mailing letters just large enough to be able to make the size of a guild tattoo that was standard across Fairy Tail guild members, Could assume it was all guild because Judith had never seen any and all guilds tattoos before.

Since it was left out,Kai would just feel the stamp press upon the part he had left for Judith to stamp on her hand or anything other then the stamp press did not touch him, Judith seemed to be in enough control where he could feel the tattoo being applied but nothing else really, It would just leave a red Fairy Tail tattoo for him."There is your tattoo, Paperwork is not going to be all that much to do and you can submit it to or the office whenever it is done."Making sure not to rush him, Judith would go to put away the stamp press since it was not needed anymore.

”I hope you have a good full day with them.”Kai slightly winced as she stamped his arm then finishes the paperwork then Kai hands the paper work to her and looks at his guild tattoo and is pleased by it, he puts his cloak back over his arm and stands up being carful how much pressure he puts on his ankle. Kai pulls the strap on his travel sack and gets it up over his shoulder and back across his back. ”Thanks for the tea and taking your time to help me with getting the tattoo and to welcome me to the guild. I am gonna go find a good place to camp.”  Kai watches her go to put the stuff away.

Kai turns back and starts walking toward the front door passing other members filing in past as he actively dodges not bumping into them. Kai decides to stand off to the side resting on the wall till the way is more clear to walk out and not risk getting bumped into.
”You can do this, you have to do this.” mumbling to himself in Val'Elvarin, once the way out cleared he pushes himself up away from the wall and leaves out the door slightly happy to have joined such a nice place.

(-exit-)

It was all a pretty simple matter in the end, Before opening the kitchen up to start her normal things of the day she would walk over to one of the table with the many members who were around talking casually and Judith ask them nicely to do something for her, After all there where guild members to collect to check up on them. With a promise after they returned with them of a free glass of beer that they each would get with out need to pay, It was just Judith's way of getting things done.

She would do all of her food prep before moving on other tasks, Content with her day and the other matters that happen, So far food and cooking would take off as normal, It would not be until the small group Judith requested earlier would return with the people in which Judith asked them to leaving in chair by the kitchen until they woke up.

Then she would talk to them, Since they were slowly coming to, Judith made sure to give the group their on the house beers and then prepared glasses of water and come crackers and cheese for the ones who would brought back, They ended up getting a rather stern talking too from Judith but she did not yell at them, Just would give her a talking too like she would anyone else about being more careful, sparing them the dreaded phrase of being disappointed in them, Because it was not too bad, Then she would finish her day at Fairy Tail go home and enjoy the evening with her husband.

(Exit.)