Marcus didn't really feel like messing with poisonous meat if he could help it so he let Kai do most of the preparing of the meat and only helped out when he was asked to help. He enjoyed being in the kitchen as it reminded him of his travels around the land when he had to prepare his own food to survive. "I've missed our Fairy Tail parties. Though we did have one last week but that is beside the point because this if for some new members." He said to Kai when he was asked what he thought about having a party for the new recruits as his mouth started to water and it took all his focus just not to take all the food and eat it all himself. 

When Chewy leaped off of Marcus' shoulder and followed after Kai, he was knocked to the ground and was surprised that he hadn't even noticed that creature sitting on his shoulder for who knows how long. Marcus picked himself up and grabbed several plates to carry out into the main hall where the rest of the people were waiting with watering mouths for the food. He gave a small smile as he heard Kai shout out to everyone that was in the hall and knew that the ice dragon was over doing it just a little bit but didn't matter as he saw his plate set off the the side. 

As he settled into a seat in front of his food and watched as the party continued he didn't really feel like being a part of the party all together for some reason. Marcus had a strange itch in the back of his head that he always seemed to get whenever he really wanted to go on a mission and was hoping that the Master would post up the new missions soon so that he could pick a really hard one to do, maybe he would even ask some of the others to join him as he didn't have a set team made.