There had been some very terrible infestations of rats plaguing the city and today they called upon Paradise dawn to send a few good men to come and take care of the issues that they were facing and lucky enough for them Emil was chosen and he with his godly lightning magic will not allow one single rat to get away and he will not allow any loser that he is paired with to hold him back as he has a lot at stake here his good name and the guilds goodish name. The man made his way toward the warehouse in the city which seemed to have the streets mostly empty as the rats seemed to have been out in force today, they were being tasked to clear the warehouse and save the wares that were there, his exceed companion at his side and he was not going to fail no matter what and the newbie that he got paired with better not slow him down as he was not going to take well to a loser dragging him and this request down.

He looked to the newer guy that he had been tasked with baby sitting and he sighed. "You better not hold me back too much slacker or there will be hell to pay." The words from his mouth had a shocky and zappy feel to them that he knew that he was the bigger dog here and that he was not going to back down to this noobie and if he held Emil back he was going to just leave him behind to be either rat food or nothing at all as Emil takes the credit and shows that he is better than being tasked to baby sit a mage that probably has trouble telling his ass from a hole in the ground yet. This was not going to be a fun time with Emil as he was having one of his I am far better than you are days and he was not going to change as far as he was acting at this time.
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Alfyn rolled his eyes as he heard Emil's words when he arrived. Not only did he have to deal with disgusting rats but now he also had to deal with such a rude individual. It was his first time meeting him but his reputation precedes him so it wasn't difficult to understand who he was, although he certainly did not expect that type of behavior and from a fellow guild member of all. Alfyn scoffed and told him that this wasn't a great look for someone with a reputation in the guild, the boy might have been a newcomer but at least he had manners and didn't act like a spoiled brat indirectly berating the guild in such a way.

In any case he focused on the matter at hand, there were numerous rats everywhere and they had to take care of them fast before they became an even bigger problem, as certain as he was that his partner could have very well handled this alone he didn't want to give him even more ground to keep being rude to him. The rats started racing towards them and Alfyn turned to his left, his eyes flaring up with a pinkish purple color as he brought both hands together, opened his mouth and let out an ethereal note that caused a wave of crystal clear water to form in front of him and move towards the rats. It captured them and then converged towards a single point when he extended his hand and the wave splashed down giving way to prickly tendrils that came out from the puddles, forming a cage to keep the rats inside and then creating more tendrils to pierce through their flesh. Slightly out of breath he saw that he had defeated a good number of them but now more were coming, he turned to look at his partner's side.

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Emil was disgusted at this cocky little upstarts attitude and he watched as the noobie used his magic and brought fourth water which just showed that the cocky little shit didn't have any clue really to who he was teamed with and wetting the area only ran the risk of Emil frying the little shit on accident with his lightning magic. The voices in his head argued over if he should just go all out and not even worry about if he fries the little shit or not. Emil sighs knowing better then to do that as he was already on a short leash thanks to his past antics and Yuurei wasn't going to take light of Emil frying a guild mate that wasn't in a combat vs himself. Emil seeing that the next wave of rats was coming just did a punching motion and the beam that fired from his hand hit one rat and in an instant had spread to the other rats them all falling to the ground after the lightning jumped from one to the next like it was nothing and Emil was careful not to lose his focus and have the lightning hit the water on the floor and have it fry the guild mate that had made it wet in a warehouse where goods were kept to be sold.

"You are lucky I am so talented or your ass would have been a burnt piece of toast. Also you need to make sure you don't get blood and water on the goods or you might ruin something." Emil spoke with a pride and authority but grumbled at the end why is it that he has to work with the people with no talent and brain cells that seem to be missing from a common look at things. The man started to walk ahead to start looking to clear another part of the building as this guy had shown that if he works to close to him he might catch a case of the stupid and end up losing his own edge and that was not going to be a pretty sight so he would avoid it while making sure the boy stays alive. The Exceed looked at the other man and then spoke. "Don't mind him he is just more worried about failing than anything else. My name is Indiana."
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Emil might not have a hint of tact but he packed a punch, thunderpunch to be exact. Alfyn saw with his own eyes that the rumors of his power weren't just that but despite his goodwill to get along with the man his attitude was out of this world and made the boy wanna punch him. That would hurt him more than that prick for that he was certain, not to mention he could literally die if he aggravated him too much what with the guy's temper and all. The rules of the guild stated that there was no harm to be done between members and he knew that Emil would uphold those rules but Alfyn didn't exactly want to push his luck. Then again he was so unbearable for no reason at all and he decided to at least try and match his attitude but without provoking him, too much.

"You know, if you paid attention instead of complaining you would have seen that the water has cleaned the blood and dispersed, that's why it's called magic, cause it's not normal water." he said with a normal tone not trying to be too provocative just enough to show the man that maybe he could try to not be such a stuck-up. He added that he was aware as well that they were inside a warehouse and the goods had to be kept in good condition, he was after all trying to help and not to economically ruin the people.

And that's when the Exceed explained about Emil being worried to fail the mission. Alfyn turned his gaze to the creature apologizing for not really interacting saying that his partner got a bit under his skin with his attitude. He also made it absolutely clear that he also wanted to succeed in this mission and instead of throwing slander at each other they could just be done with it. As he finished his sentence his eye caught a stray rat that was trying to hide but with a swift hand movement he trapped it into an oxygen bubble before making it hover by his side. He then asked Emil to leave it alone in case the fae managed to find a solution on creating a repellent for the owner of the warehouse to use. With that he continued deeper into the warehouse.

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"I feel you were sent with me to test if I will beat a shitty upstart up for being a brat." Emil spoke with out a care for if it hurt the other mans little feelings as this is not a day trip to see sights and it seems more and more to Emil that this guy wasn't very well thought rather he used the training he had or not. The exceed is walking around the parts of the warehouse that they had cleared and started setting down little machine things, attaching them to walls and he keeps looking around as he was making sure they were well spaced and not in a place that would cause discomfort to the warehouse owner or would get in the way but they needed to be at certain area and he got them up perfect and then went back to following the two men as once Emil hits them with lightning they will power up and release a wave that keeps rats away that they had made.

Emil kept going forward and looking for decent clusters of rats and he sets them off lightning at them and it bounces around them like it is nothing and Emil doesn't really seem like he is even being challenged and he yawns as this was clearly the guild punishing him and making him have to take a newbie under his wing but there was no point in doing that as he was not a teacher and he had no want to teach or work with little brats like this one. The rats bodies drop to the floor and land in a neat pile and Emil hadn't stopped walking as he wasn't here to see sights or argue with peons. He kept his eyes forward hard fixed on the request and clearing the rats and then keeping them away from the warehouse with the tech they had bought and had made from Talaz.
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Alfyn shook his head in disbelief, if this was one of the finest Paradise Dawn had to offer maybe he was in the wrong guild or maybe this particular individual just had brain damage. Whichever it was, the boy decided to leave him to his antics as he saw no light in the tunnel for this "specimen". He watched as Emil's Exceed dispersed the technology around the warehouse areas that were clear of rats as the mage kept turning the rest of the rats into barbeque. At least for all his annoyance he had strength Alfyn would give him that.

Since Emil was taking care of the rats and he clearly didn't have much need for him, Alfyn instead opted to take a look at that technology item the Exceed was using. He took out some vials and tools from his bag as he started examining the thing. It was quite potent that's certain but this was new technology brought from what appeared to be Talaz Lagaar, he had even seen them being used there when there was a pest problem but it wouldn't be efficient for a place like this. After tinkering a bit more with it with the smell of fried rat in the air accompanying his work he realized it would only prevent the rats from appearing for a short while and getting another one of these, or in this case multiple, wasn't going to be possible.

Unable to withstand the smell while focusing on finding a solution, he conjured some aromatic flowers to freshen the air in the warehouse and make it smell better while not interfering with the gas emitted from the repellent. And that's when the idea came to him, instead of having to study the rat to come up with another repellent he could partially use the formula from the Talaz technology and through his magic create a flower with an aroma that could repel the pests from this area.

Since he had grasped the concept, he wanted to immediately get to working on it but he decided against it and went to the other direction from where Emil had gone to take care of the rats in that area. Despite the warehouse's spacious area he could see his lightning magic at work and yelled at him to not cause any electrocutions or destroy any light switches and power cords. Whether he agreed or cursed at him, with the latter being more believable, he didn't care and even started finding it amusing to irritate him even more.

He made it to a part with more rats and using a few toxic flowers, that of course harmed only the pests and a couple cleansing blossoms later, the rats had been exterminated on his part as well. Now he could focus on creating some seeds of his repellent flower to give to the warehouse owners.

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Emil points a finger at the man that was messing with the tech. A light glowed at the end of his finger, and an angry look on his face. "When were you given permission to touch that which is not yours you dunce?" The voices in his cape request that he kill the boy and give them his body and Emil's lightning changes from yellow lightning to grey lightning and his cape starts to drain mana from the other man. Emil had, had enough of this shit head as at every turn they had just grumbled and caused issues for Emil. Indiana ran up to Emil and hit him on the leg to try and stop him from killing the other idiot that should have just said that he could upgrade the tech and make a better way of it. It seemed that both of them had an ego and pride that the other wasn't willing to work with and that they clearly mixed like oil and water so their dynamic was very far off.

"You both seem to need to grow up, this isn't a play ground dispute. We are here as a team and we need to work together not just keep working as two different groups doing what ever we want!" The exceed spoke sternly as he was getting tired of how both of them were acting, Emil and the boy both had attitudes, Emil for nearly turning on the boy and the boy for messing with something that was not his to mess with, without permission. Indiana is unsure to why they are like this but it needed to stop before someone killed the other here. Emil rolled his eyes at the fact that the exceed had jumped in and hadn't just let him beat the brakes off this little upstart. Emil then released the grey lightning and it flew past Alfyn and the spell turns and homes into another group of rats and it seemed that for now the place was cleared of rats for the most part, so all that was left to do was to set up and clear the stragglers that were missed or were hiding from them.
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Alfyn's long hair was almost seared at the end from how close that lightning streak was, it ended up hitting a pack of rats behind him but he still couldn't understand what that guy's problem was. Turning to Indiana he explained that he had no dispute since Emil was clearly the strong one he let him handle most of the rats as he worked on a more permanent solution for the owners of the warehouse. He continued, addressing only Indiana, that the machinery they brought would be very useful for them but once the liquid in there runs out they won't be able to get their hands on it again, so he examined it to combine it with his magic and give them some flower seeds whose aroma will keep the rats away once they bloom.

As a final act to try and reconcile, even though he thought of it as lost cause, he turned to Emil telling him that he honestly respects him for his power and feels safer with him in the guild, somewhat. He then proceeded to ask him if he could take care of the remaining rats that would be running towards them shortly as he had used a fragrance to lure all the leftovers out. And while Emil would be occupied with that for about, two seconds, he would get to working on the seeds. A little mix of actual seeds, which so happened to be from a Peony so the place smells nice to humanoid beings, a touch of the liquid that was contained in the container from Talaz and a bunch of fairy dust, just for chuckles. Alfyn finished the little binding spell and all he had to do now was give the product to the owners so they can plant them. Of course the repellent that was already in the room would still need to stay put and give time for the flowers to grow, but it should do the trick to keep the quest petitioners satisfied and without pests.

With the quest done Alfyn told the owners about the repellent mechanisms set in the warehouse and handed them the seeds with all the additional info needed, adding that they will grow by themselves without being taken care of. Reward in hand, the boy said a somewhat quick "take care" to Emil as to not enrage him further and to Indiana a hushed "I wish things had gone better between me and your partner", before leaving the place.


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