The day started wonderfully with the sun cresting the hills of Stella and pouring sunshine on the many cities governed by many kings. However, there was one city within Stella which did not start the day as wonderfully - the city of Marzipan has been threatened by an ornate woman with horns accompanied by a pair of horned, floating eyeballs the size of watermelons. She declared the city of Marzipan the new capital of the New Draconic Empire!

The city designated a messenger for every city and country close enough to help, but the only messengers who were able to survive the vigilant eyes of the threatening woman reached the Fairy Tail Guild and Rune Knights of Fiore. Marzipan was safe for the time being, but if the horned woman was not let into the city walls soon, she would likely start attacking more than just messengers.

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"A message...for me? Oh...a message for anyone - could I see it?" said Poropo as he was given a letter by a wheezing messenger from Marzipan. The messenger collapsed upon giving the letter to the monk, causing the monk to skim the letter, toss the paper aside, and help the messenger find a bed to rest. The monk more or less understood something bad was happening within the country of Stella and decided he best leave immediately!

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Poropo waddled along the path leading to the city of Marzipan, eventually reaching the main gate. The monk arrived as expediently as possible, only taking a couple days thanks to special transformation. Unfortunately, the monk had arrived two days too late - the city seemed to have been breached by something enormously powerful - the gates leading past the large walls and into the city of Marzipan were blown wide open! Poropo was unsure what he was meant to do at this point, but slowly began waddling closer, keeping a vigilant eye on his surroundings just outside the walls of Marzipan.

"There is a chance they only blasted the gate open without entering...I must stay cautious if I am to...survive..." mumbled the monk to himself as he inched closer, sometimes turning around or looking towards the sky for a sign of an attacker. The monk hoped he would be able to get into the city of Marzipan safely, but then the next problem would be figuring out if the intruder had actually entered Marzipan or not.

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Shichiro was stationed in a Rune Knight outpost near the city of Marzipan of the Stella region. He didn't sign up for this being a Kingsguard and all but sometimes he had to do a little bit of grunt work here and there in order to keep up some appearances and maybe spread his name around in other parts of the world and not just Fiore alone. There wasn't much to look at regarding the outpost itself. It was just a bunch of large, wooden squares the size of crates stacked a top of one another to form a makeshift wall there was an opening somewhere in the front so people could get their land vehicles and large mounts through briefly but no real space to park permanently. Well, that wasn't very important to Shichiro as he didn't really care for the layout of the base itself. He wanted a source of entertainment and he wanted it right this moment. Little did he know, his wish would be granted soon, as Shichiro seated on a stool in a makeshift tower at one of the corners of the outpost. Looking over yonder, he could see the city of Marzipan with a bit of a flicker coming from its direction.

Shichiro had assumed it was just the locals through some kind of party with their weird customs and what not so he just shrugged and went back to daydreaming about his fantasies or something. After being lost in his fantasies for a couple of hours, Shichiro was brought to the land of the living when he had seen some kind of charred messenger approaching the outpost. It was one of his many nameless subordinates that seem to be popping up more and more. He tries to remember all of there faces in order to feel closer to them but the sheer amount of them has often been to great. Putting that minor detail aside, this specific rune knight messenger had been gravely injured by burn wounds. Shichiro had jump from the outpost tower, performing a roll when he touched the ground. Running up to the messenger, Shichiro had attempted to question him on what had happened to him. Not much of a sound came out but a pained grunt before handing Shichiro a distress letter. 

Shortly after, the messenger passed out but Shichiro mistook him for being dead. After all, he was still gravely injured. Shichiro yelled for a medic as he wasn't capable of healing people this far gone himself, only some minor injuries here and there. With that, a couple of Rune Knights stationed with him had came forward with a stretcher and hauled the wounded messenger away. Reading the letter, he had learned the city he was stationed nearby had been attacked by a humanoid beast and asking for all available mages and adventurers in the area to come and aid in the fight against the beast. With that, Shichiro had nothing else to say or do before he began to head towards the city of Marzipan in order to aid in anyway he could. Most likely, it'd be going toe to toe with that creature.

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