[IC] The First Dragons [Kilt & Agni's Fairy Tail RP]

[AgniSpirit]

Rina always loved climbing. As a child growing up in the snowy mountains, climbing was an essential part of her survival. Even though her foster mother, Glaciel, was a caring parent, she was also a staunch believer of off-hands parenting. So when Rina was able to walk on her own, Glaciel began a tough training regimen to enable her to survive the snowy wasteland on her own. It took a long time before the dragon would even allow Rina to scale down their mountain home to hunt for food but to the brunette, it was worth the wait. Still, she never would have imagined that years later, she would be leaving her cave and Glaciel all behind to explore the world. She missed her mother dearly but the excitement of discovering new lands was enough to keep her away.

Rina shook away thoughts of her mother as she pulled herself up onto one more tree branch. She kept low, testing the branch's sturdiness before rising up and pushing away the leaves above her. Light shone through, blinding her momentarily. She blinked away the tiny little lights behind her eyes until her vision cleared, allowing her to see the vast forest surrounding her like a green ocean. The sight took Rina's breath away and she wished she could soak up more of the landscape, but her mission always came first.

Covering the sun's rays by cupping one hand over her eyes, Rina scanned the sea of trees. Nothing to her right, nothing to her left. She turned around and still saw nothing. Letting out a frustrated sigh, Rina turned back to her previous position when something suddenly caught her eye. She squinted a bit, trying to really get the details out of what she was inspecting. It looked like trees from this height, but upon closer examination Rina could catch hints of gray and brown underneath the green. And the green itself didn't look like leaves, but moss. Grinning to herself, Rina ducked down beneath the leaves again and jumped off the tree branch. She expertly jumped from branch to branch until she was certain she wouldn't fall to her death. On the last branch, she kicked off and jumped, landing next to a shaggy, blond-haired guy.

"Found the temple, it's just over yonder." She announced enthusiastically, pointing to the direction that she had been looking at moments ago, "We should get going before someone else finds it."

[KiltmanBagz]

A blond young man took a seat on the ground, leaning his back against the trunk of a tree as he watched his guild mate scramble up another one to try and get a good glimpse of their goal. Her ability, willingness, and her over all enjoyment of a task like climbing all the way to the tree tops of a thick forest really made a pointed fact of how different the pair of them were despite using similar magic's. Two dragon slays, one of Ice and the other of Sea. Theoretically they should be quite the compatible and formable pair, but Kiza, a medium height blond young man who wore long, loose pants similar to that of a sailors and a sleeveless tank top of a briny green color, was a bit unsure.

Oh, he got along well enough with Rina. He could count the people in his guild he wasn't overly found of on one hand and even then he didn't dislike them all that much. He just...well, if he had to put words to it, he felt like a pale imitation of Rina as a dragon slayer. She was far more bold and confident, she had a great deal many more offensive techniques, and she was a first generation dragon slayer who had actually been RAISED be a dragon! Kiza had gotten his dragon slaying through Larciam, and had never seen a dragon in his life. A great deal of his techniques were self taught, or simple learned by doing his best to mimic Rina's.

Being raised in a bustling sea-port town didn't seem to prepare him for adventures like this so much as her unique dragon parenting had. He pushed the somewhat self deprecating thoughts from his mind as she reappeared from the branches, dropping down next to him. He rose to his feat and brushed some twigs and leaves that and fallowed her down out of his hair.

"Lead the way." he replied before sighing a little "I hate it when jobs are posted to multiple guilds like this. What if we do all this work and someone has beaten us to the punch? I really need some rent money."

[AgniSpirit]

"Well this is a retrieval mission so if someone tries to take the artifact before us, we'll just beat it out of them. Simple enough." Rina stated resolutely as she began walking towards their destination, the tails of her asymmetrical black dress rustling behind her. The ruins were a bit far, but it wouldn't be a hassle for Dragonslayers like themselves. Well... she could clearly say that about herself. In regards to Kiza, she wasn't so sure. Sure, Kiza was a Dragonslayer like her but she had learned that he wasn't raised by dragons like she was. He apparently got his magic from a Lacri... Lacria.... something with an L. She still wasn't sure on how that thing worked...

Either way, Kiza wasn't a traditional Dragonslayer like Rina had learned about from her mother but that didn't mean he was any less of a person. Yeah, he was kinda quiet and didn't try to participate in the daily brawls of their guild, but he was still a good guy. He even went out of his way to teach her stuff about the world, instead of teasing her like half of the guild did.

After twenty minutes, the amount of trees thinned out and a large clearing came into view. In the center of the clearing was a wide, moss-covered stone building. It looked like a temple and had been long abandoned. Standing in front of what looked like the stairs, Rina gave the building a glance over before digging into her satchel. She pulled out a piece of paper that had the mission request on it. "The client wants us to find this orb-thingy that's supposed to be inside here." She went over with Kiza, showing her a picture of a sketch of a spherical-object with writings etched all over it, "Guess we'll have to start looking for an entrance. Let's split up, I'll look on the east side and you take the west. Shout if you find something." And with that, Rina sprinted down the right side of the building, trying to find something that looked remotely like a door.

[KiltmanBagz]

"I knoooow..." he said with a sigh, walking after the confident young woman . His eyes shifted from side to side, the city boy wasn't used to such a wild environment. "But then I'll start thinking about how they are probable poor guild mages like us, who are just after that next pay check." Kiza was always the kind of over think things, or have a heart to kind for his own good. The sort of boy that would spend hours using his command of water to weave the rain out of the way of a stray cat to keep it from getting wet in a summer shower. "Let's just hope we get there first." he mumbled more to himself this time. He was still sketch on the mission details.

Getting pulled into the mission had bit of a whirl wind experience. Rina was rarely allowed to go on missions solo. She had trouble out in the 'normal' world. But her normal partners were all tied up. She didn't have any serious long term partners mind you, and Kiza was free and needed the money, so next thing he knew he was on a train with her heading towards the edge of the jungle territories praying she didn't get motion sickness all over him. He honestly didn't understand why that happened to her, she seemed to tough otherwise. oddly enough this was their first time doing a mission together. You'd think the two dragons of the guild would have naturally paired up sooner. They were friendly enough at the guild ground as well. The only two dragon slayers around, much less in the guild.

There were rumors that another guild or two may have one, even scary rumors that a couple may run with a dark guild. But people make allot of bold claims in the magical world, so never believe it till you see it with your own eyes.

But that is besides the point, friendly though they were this was their first time actually working together. So far it was honestly going alot smoother than Kiza had expected. Due to his general shyness he tended to not partner with the wilder guild members like her, they always seemed to get into some big crazy situations. But this was going just fine, perhaps he was being to judgmental of them.

The came into a clearing where the massive building stood, time had not been kind to it and yet it still stood mostly intact and imposing. It seemed oddly unnatural here in the middle of the woods. Typically, or so he had read, a temple like this should be in the center of an ancient town. The fact that it was just built here in the middle of the woods with not visible signs of civilization, past or present, meant it was certainty a special, and more than likely, dangerous place. He looked at the job notice closely as it was held to him. "That orb looks familiar...I feel like I've seen it in a book somewhere before..." He pursed his lips in thought "Though for the life of me I can't seem to recall in details."

While still lost in thought Rina suddenly sprinted away talking about splitting up and looking for an entrance. "AH!" he called out fruitlessly "I don't think that-" she was well out sight "...is a good idea..." he finished quietly to himself before sighing and tending to his half of the temple. He couldn't find anything that looked like a proper entrance, or even the set up to a proper entrance.

He took to looking for smaller details, staining his knowledge. He was a well read boy, when living with his father he had access to the impressive book collection that was practically a private library filled with excellent gems of literature and history. Something caught his eye and a puzzle piece seemed to fall into place.

A pair of statues built into the temple wall, there were many statues mind you but these two were different. They didn't look like monsters or long forgotten gods; but like a pair of men with outstretched arms. Many of the features had been weathered away but he got the feeling they represented priests. He examined one closer and found that one of the arms was actually a leaver. He was sure that the mirroring statue was the same.

"KISA!" he called out "I think I found a Secret Entrance! I believe we need to pull on these hidden levers together!"