There was a soft breeze in the air, blowing her long raven black hair in her face. The Take Over mage stared up at the building that was in front of her. Perhaps building wasn't the right word as it was some sort of arena, the only spot in Crocus that she basically had not visit yet, if you didn't count some famous art market or something like that. She looked up at the arena, it looked quite big but that would have it's reasons. She heard that you could train here for nothing and since she and Persephone had their difficult start, she wanted to be save from any mistakes with her nature magic and an angry Goddess.

She took a deep breath and took a firm grip on the shoulder bag that she was carrying over her right shoulder and stepped inside. She felt very out of place, dressed in tight training pants, more like yoga pants.. but they were comfortable and an oversized gray shirt. She had some water, food; a basic salad, and some paper with her to write notes when Persephone would give her information. She didn't know what to say yet about what would happen, but she stepped into the arena. Someone quickly came towards her to explain that today was a normal regular training morning for which ever mage showed up and he pointed out the red lines that were in the arena, making smaller spaces within there but big enough. If you picked a field, you didn't have to worry about other people their spells as they wouldn't be able to cross the red barriers, which was great news.

The man looked up Phoebe and she eyed him with her lilac eyes and asked the unspoken question why he was looking at her. "I'll be fine on my own." She said with a hint of sarcasm, she didn't like people staring at her as if she was fragile. She should teach the world a damn lesson that she was anything but a fragile porcelain doll. She picked an empty field on the left side around the back to focus on herself, there were only a handfull of other mages and she didn't feel the need to talk to anyone if she needed to focus on Persephone her teaching.

Savannah was taking a casual stroll through the city; so far she has meet three people, if you don’t count the people she meet at Batra’s bar during that one mission, two if you don’t want to count that one lady that lets Savannah stay at her place. Savannah realized that she wasn’t as strong as she hoped she was, not that she didn’t know she was weaker than most, but the fact she only was able to finish the mission was her wits. So she decided to train a recent spell to help her out of difficult situations and thus was on her way to the Domus Flau. Savannah snorted at the name, sounded like someone’s shit attempt at doing Latin whether it was correct or not.

It was a warm day so she had her brown leather Jacket tied around her waist, even if it got in the way of her hip-bags. The Jacket was important to her. Although she did change from tight blue pants to plain brown knee-length shorts, still the same red shirt though. Savannah started to walk quicker at the peoples stares, was it that odd too see a woman of her height? 5’10 was regular where she was from, but…Savannah gave a sigh once she saw the arena and immediately walked inside.

A man ran up to her and explained about that it was a normal regular training morning, red lines, and barriers. He stared at her for a bit amazed at the difference in height the two had. Soon he pointed at a woman in the far corner and told her all the fields were taken, but there were only a handful of mages. But Savannah didn’t have a choice and soon she was in front of the lady.

Savannah tried to see where the man went, but he disappeared. “What the hell.” She muttered in annoyance, Savannah rubbed at her head and looked toward the woman. “Sorry, he kinda pushed me ‘ere and I didn’t ‘ave much of a choice.” She held her hand over her chest, “I’m Savannah Knight, if you don’t mind I will stay here. I will stay out of your way. It’s just…” She pointed to a group of people staring at her, “Usually stares don't bother me, but something is making me uneasy. A bit weird I know, but.” She shrugged.

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Varian looked up at the Domus Flau once more. He had been here once before a few nights ago and had fought someone. the Slayer had Vega by his side. The companion was believably powerful and friendly and was never hard to work with. She was just a little sassy sometimes. Which Varian found funny. And along with that she was also a force to be reckoned with, she was light years ahead of Varian in strength, but his speed surpassed hers, which was uncommon in his opinion.

As he walked through the hallways he unzipped ran over the spells he had come up with to train. His personal opinion was to find a good place to go train. And once he did that he'd be able to make himself stronger, but he had no Idea how it would end up working. He had decided on some stronger spells.

He himself was dressed in a pair of hiking boots and a pair of jeans. Though his pullover sweatshirt was gray and tattered, something that he had found in his closet when he had woken up back in magnolia, but it would do for the moment. The sunlight was better at the moment then it had been a few nights ago

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Phoebe had just dropped her bag and was trying to focus on her breathing, when someone showed up in her arena. She had seen it happen before, as the guy pointed towards her and she narrowed her eyes at the easy gesture that he made. The girl couldn't of course help what happened but of course, how easy. She came on time, claimed a spot, there were many open spots before she got one and now suddely the others picked all one for themselves? With 6 people having all one of the 6 arenas of course there were no others left.

She stood up straight, this mage, or so Phoebe assumed, was taller than her was and she definitely didn't like that. There was enough she needed to worry about and that was for example to get an empty mind, which was very hard if there were two entities in one body. She looked over the girl as she started to speak and had to focus on what was actually said to be able to give an answer. She looked around the girl and nodded, they were staring, it probably had to do with her clothing. It was in the middle of winter or well to Phoebe her feelings and she was wearing barely any clothing. "I bet they are jealous that you don't feel cold."

Which was something Phoebe had but not like that, she would still dress up warm enough but warm up her body with her fire magic to stay at a right temperature to feel warm, but not like that, not just walking around without a jacket and in shorts. What kind of magic user would she be? Apart from that Phoebe was no longer a fire mage, she was a Nature Take-Over user and that made things a whole lot different. We need allies, it doesn't harm to try. Persephone said in her mind and Phoebe gave an invisible nodd and turned to Savannah, "I'm Phoebe by the way, Phoebe Rainsworth. It's nice to meet you, shame of the circumstances but there is enough space to train. Don't mind my curiousity but what kind of magic do you use?" It was always good to get bits of information right? Perhaps she could try out her spells together but she wasn't sure if that worked well with Persephone talking in her mind too. Focusing on two conversations would be difficult.

"I bet they are jealous that you don't feel cold." The woman said. Savannah blinked then it came to her. It’s winter, and winter means cold. Savannah just scratched the back of her head, it’s odd, usually she get cold in the winter, but it has been a while since she’s been in winter. A lot has certainly changed since then she thought a bit dejectedly. She crossed her arms and waited as it looked like the woman was thinking.

The woman soon turned around, "I'm Phoebe by the way, Phoebe Rainsworth. It's nice to meet you, shame of the circumstances but there is enough space to train. Don't mind my curiosity but what kind of magic do you use?" Phoebe asked, Savannah nodded Nice name. She gave a slight smile and responded to the question give to her. “My name is Knight, Savannah Knight… and same to you, it’s a pleasure. And no, I don’t mind. I’m an Ice-Make Mage, probably why i'm not cold, you see I forgot that it was winter and the last time I was in winter was before I had my magic.”

Savannah thought about it and realized she didn’t know the other’s magic, “What about you, what kind of magic do you do?” She hope she wasn’t being rude by talking with Phoebe, interrupting her training.

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Varian looked around the arena, judging those that seemed to be around him. There was a tall, black woman who held an ethereal presence, and someone who he recognized from the artisan building, Savannah Knight.

He slid through the groups of sparring partners. Dodging a few blasts from those he had walked in between. Once he reached the area where Savannah and the other stranger stood he introduced, “Savannah, nice to see you again. And I’m sorry I don’t know who you are, but My name is Varian Chevalier.” He said with a kind smile. He didn’t want to start off on a bad foot and this seemed like a good way to make sure they were all friends in the end. “Since you’re here I’m assuming you’re here training new spells as well, if you don’t mind me asking which ones? I’m here to experiment some more on my new magic.” He said. His demon slayer magic wasn’t exactly new, but it was still new to him. “I think I’ve gotten some new demon slayer spells I’d like to practice so that’s my purpose.” He added on.

Vega strolled up beside him, brushing underneath her legs. She must have gotten left behind when he dashed trough the crowds. He felt a little bad for leaving her, but she was a smart animal and could easily take her own in almost any fight. Varian leaned down and gave her a scratch between the ears.

Turning his attention back to the others he posed a simple question, “I’ve always heard three heads are better than one so maybe we could train together and help each other along the way.” He asked. He hadn’t sparred much, except for the last time he had trained. And other than that, never, at least not to his current memory. “We don’t have to spar, but we can, or we can do something else, I don’t really know?” He said, which was true he had never shown his magic off to someone else. He raised an eyebrow as he waited for their response

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Phoebe was in a conversation with Savannah and laughed a little about the conversation, "Ah that sounds interesting, it must be very nice to not notice the cold." She didn't feel the need to share her change of magic, because some people might ask for details and she was definitely not up to sharing that she was sharing a soul with an old Goddess, "Hey!" Phoebe heard in her mind from Persephone, because the Goddess would never say that she was old after all she didn't really age. But she could answer the question about what kind of magic she was using but before she could answer, her mouth open to make the sound, someone else showed up.

So she shut her mouth and turned towards the stranger that seemed to know Savannah, oh great, being polite brought more people but she smiled politely. "Hi, Phoebe Rainsworth." it would be annoying to say nice to meet you again but she gave that friendly smile and looked between Savannah and Varian and in the end gave her attention to the companion that followed Varian. What an interesting pretty creature, Phoebe liked things that were pretty. She turned her eyes back on Varian, wondering if the question was for her or Savannah but as she still had to tell the ice-make mage what kind of magic she used, she could just say it, "I use Nature Take-over magic." She simply stated and brushed the black hair back over her shoulder.

So instead of being able to train alone with Persephone guiding her, she now had to accept this for her own future and gave another polite smile after staring from one at the other, "What a lovely plan. I don't mind." She turned to Savannah to see her answer. [color:1a37=cc99ff]"I recently aquired this version of my magic, I haven't had much practice so I'm open for suggestions."

Savannah was nodding to Phoebe when Varian showed up, and a small creature following behind him albeit quite far away. “Savannah, nice to see you again. And I’m sorry I don’t know who you are, but my name is Varian Chevalier.” Savannah waved a hello to Varian their adventure still slightly fresh in her mind. She turned back to Phoebe as she introduced herself to Varian. Varian gave a form of agreement then seemed to address both of them, “Since you’re here I’m assuming you’re here training new spells as well, if you don’t mind me asking which ones? I’m here to experiment some more on my new magic.”

Varian gave a pause before continuing, “I think I’ve gotten some new demon slayer spells I’d like to practice so that’s my purpose.” Savannah blinked, Demon Slayer? Savannah frowned a bit, you see she had read about demons before and had a good view on them, among other reasons. Her mother…Savannah came out of her thoughts as Phoebe told them about her Nature type magic. Varian then suggested that they all work together.

Savannah took a glance a Phoebe a bit curious on how she might answer. And once Phoebe gave her agreement, Savannah nodded as well. “I don’t mind, but how will we go about it?” Phoebe spoke up, "I recently acquired this version of my magic, and I haven't had much practice so I'm open for suggestions." As interesting as that story sounded, since Phoebe didn’t ask about how Savannah came across hers, she didn’t press.

Savannah put her hand to her chin, “There is meditation, or we know what spells were going to attempt in a broad sense. I’m working on some ice grappling hooks. But…I’m not sure”

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Phoebe turned her eyes to Savannah suggesting meditation but than why come to a fighting arena if she wanted to do meditation, you could do that in a silent hotel room or whatever place you stayed at, at the moment. "Meditation won't do it for me, but the use of spells is what I came here for." She moved her hand in a wave to gesture to the other people in the arena, "If you look at the others around you, you can see they made dummies, got dummies or fight against each other to understand the purpose of their spells. I came here with a magic that recently became mine." Her lilac eyes turning towards Varian as he had mentioned something about a new aquired magic, "That means I want to work on creating spells that I at the moment only have in my mind and haven't actually made yet." turning her eyes to Savannah again, something about ice hooks or so? She didn't really remember but that didn't matter for now as she didn't need to make them and so on, that was up to the user herself.

Phoebe would have to work on the ones that Persephone had in mind. She could use the almond spell that Perse had thought about, a defending spell, so she turned to look at Savannah, "Of course we could support each other by helping making spells or making shields against offensive spells, depend on your capability of spell use of course." She had no idea what else she should say without starting to sound offensive. She didn't want to say much more and looked from one to another, "So what kind of spell was this, miss Savannah?"

Savannah took a passing glance at the dummies that others were abusing. Then Phoebe addressed her and questioned her abilities looking between her and Varian. And probably not wanting to sound offensive- too late, but Savannah doesn’t mind- Asked about what spell Savannah had in mind. “I had in mind something that could lift me up if I needed to get out of the way quickly or maybe swing, cause that be cool. And I have my Cryokinetic Surfing, but…” Savannah coughed a bit.

“I did a little research and came upon Grappling hooks. Now I want to see if I can form my Ice magic into a grappling hook shape and possibly shoot out to latch onto something.” Savannah leaned onto her left leg, switching to her right, her chin in her right hand with the pointer finger and thumb making a check mark over her chin. Savannah’s right elbow was cupped on her left hand. “I also have a D-ranked shield if you need use for it. I also have a lance and hammer spell, to answer your question on my abilities. I got another, but I rather keep that one to myself.”

Savannah walked more into the field next to Phoebe and crossed her arms. “What do you have in mind for your spell? I can use a shield or attack for your spell. Maybe you can make something for me to hook my Grappling Hooks onto?” Savannah put her hands on her hips, giving Phoebe a small smile.

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Persephone had an influence on her talking as she noticed how she was juding people without knowing them. Even if the Goddess wanted her to make allies, she wanted to be appraised for being a higher being than the rest of them and that made Phoebe offend people without her honest intention. If she would work together and figure things out in a better way, it would be fine because than she would only be offensive when she really wanted to. Which wasn't now but at least Savannah didn't seem to be hurt by it, which she definitely liked. No one would be happy with people that would cry over words. Surely words could sound mean but they didn't hurt not really at least, she would throw a spell at them to show what really hurt. Bu she should let go of this violent state of mind and focus on what this training was about. Persephone wasn't really happy about having to speak to Phoebe in perhaps moments that would ask too much attention.

She also had to pay attention to Savannah as she spoke, it would only be rude not to and her Lilac eyes started at the person she just got to know and would sort of train with now. She seemed to be capable of a few spells, but that was no problem. "That's fine," she replied casually with a smile when the girl said she wanted to keep a spell to herself, she was also keeping to herself that she actually now had two souls, basically. Phoebe crossed her arms and tapped with her right index finger against her cheek as she made a humming sound, indicating that she was thinking. She could indeed try to make some root spell, after all Persephone had one in mind, to remain in action so Savannah could use her grapling hooks. She gave a short look at Varian but they couldn't please everyone at the same time right, and she was going to be rather selfish without them hoping. "I got a small idea for that. I have an offensive spell that I would like to use, if you could make a shield for that," she almost said would be able, that would give the intention that she believed indeed that Savannah might not and she didn't want to give that idea.

"I can try to sustain them after that to see if you could use your own hook spell on it. What do you think about that?" She said with a careful smile, it might not be an immediate satisfied plan but if Varian wouldn't offer a spell either, she would believe that her roots would be good enough. If Savannah would agree, she would have to do one more thing,

"Anthos."

"Anthos."

A double set of voices, but only one person, for now.

Savannah nodded when Phoebe asked her if she could make a shield for that. Her Swords of Beira's Guards could handle a lot, but too much and it would shatter. In that case Savannah would just use Cryokinetic Surfing to get out of the way or hopefully use her Grappling Hooks. Savannah was about to move when Phoebe spoke up again, curious as what Savannah thought of her plan. Savannah just continued to smile and nodded, and with a series of pops from her back as she stretched she moved to the opposite side of Phoebe.

Savannah looked at Phoebe waiting for her signal and soon she said, with an echo in her voice though Savannah dismissed that as the effect of the dome, “Anthos.” Savannah quickly takes her right foot and makes a semi-circle in front of her. She swung her arms to her front toward Phoebe in conjunction with her right leg while keeping her hips steady with her left leg. She then tangles her fingers together and pushes down at the "semi-circle". From this "semi-circle" slid out wide pointed blades of ice that connect above her.

The blades were reminiscent of typical knight broadswords at 1 meter thickness and 1 meter in width. The blades slid out quickly as they raced to meet each other where they started to sharpen into a pointed triangle. They were a bland blue ice color, but shone wonderfully in the light. Phoebe spell raced at her shield and Savannah took in the view, ready when she would need to call upon her Grappling Hooks.

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As she spoke about the spell or the world, who knew, that would unlock Persephone her potential and with that magical energy, her own lilac eyes turned towards green and her hair shortly showed a streak of orange hair that disappeared as soon as it appeared but that didn't matter. Now they were really one, combining their thoughts and movement. No longer having to talk and think to each other, perfectly in sync for this point. The both of them hoped to perfect this working together to be able to have a step forward shen it came to the point that they would have to fight an enemy. At this point they had none, they didn't care too much about one to make someone their enemy.

And if you considered Persephone her whole track of thoughts, everyone that litered or took the world and with that the nature for granted would be an enemy of her and Phoebe would only be there to help her to take care of nature and the people that intended to destroy it by their inattentiveness of nature. Which she definitely saw as a crime that needed to be punished. But not now, right now all they needed was to figure out how much power Phoebe her body could take and hold. Which could be an infurating thing for the former Immolation mage, her fire power had been fine, but now she was on the exact different side of the coin; Nature. She could have harmed herself with that magic but yet Persephone took the action and taken over Phoebe and look at them now, only months later.

Two months they were together and from each other enemy, they became the union that was needed to be this one person forming the spells. The combination of Phoebe and Persephone would remain calm, this was only to train, no heat of the battle and wait for Savannah to be done with her shield spell, she had no idea how it worked but as soon as they thought that the spell was done in it's shape she would send her spell, normally Persephone mentioned, they would do that a lot quicker. She moved up her hand from around her lower left hip in a half a circle to touch her left shoulder and created the spell that would put their part of the arena up in a broken ground.

About a two meter area of effect would show the roots that were a meter thick and as she tried to send them in a different way than normal to not surprise or accidentally hurt Savannah in a way that would be inconfienent to the training. All she needed was the girl to show her support and help her but that wouldn't happen if Phoebe immediately would hurt her by throwing spells up from the ground, so the roots came up and made their way towards the ice mage, being blocked by the sword shield, yet trying to pry, pressumingly destroying both the shield and the roots, but Phoebe, trying her very best to have them cast again so Savannah could use those hooks, "Would this be okay?" asked the Nature mage to her training companion as she lifted up both her hands so the roots would raise a bit more above the ground and she could try.

The thin, but thick roots, smashed against Savannah’s shield and it seems the spells were equally matched. As Savannah’s shield cracked and shaved off in sheets Phoebe’s vines skin flicked off and squished on the shield. And it seemed as though both mages were struggling to keep their respective spells up. Soon both spells dispersed in their differing effect, Savannah’s in little shards that gleamed in the light casting lines in rainbow’s colors around the field. Savannah sat down after that and for the first time in a while was grinning.

It seemed like Phoebe casted the root once more and held them just above the ground. When Phoebe asked Savannah if that would be okay Savannah looked at Phoebe and noticed that Phoebe’s natural lilac eyes were now a beautiful green. Savannah gave Phoebe a thumb up as she thought about her spell. She didn’t have anything as showy as Phoebe’s change in eye color, but she sure can give a light show. Savannah gained a mischievous smile as she crossed her legs, criss cross apple sauce she thought as she always did when crossing her legs.

Savannah laid her arms in front of her and clutched her hands. Raising her arms in the direction of Phoebe’s roots she brought her hands together. A bright gleaming light surrounded Savannah’s hands. The light was a florescent blue and seemed to inch down her arms, but oddly didn’t seem to cast any shadows. Savannah separated her arms a bit to give room when she noticed in the fading light, patches of ice that became thicker as new patches formed underneath.

Then the light was gone leaving in its wake a pair of ice gloves that were smooth around her wrist and fingers, but still shown small lined in the light where they grew in patches. The smooth ice became visibly blocky as it formed on top of her hands, arms, and fingers. Savannah was slightly confused, but noticed a little chain like nub at her middle finger. Her arms still pointed at Phoebe’s roots she focused on extending the chain like nub. And without warning a chain sprung from the nub and at the roots and a quarter ways through a small platform – no larger than that thing you put cups upon – formed on each chain and four-pointed hooks that appeared an equal 90 degrees from each other sprouted from the platform.

Both hooks wrapped around the vines and Savannah, still crossing her legs, lifted herself from the ground. Savannah looked haply at Phoebe a large, but still her mouth closed, smile on her face. “I did it.” She laughed out and with a slight wave of her arms, dispersed the gauntlet/grappling hooks. She plopped to the ground and dust puffed up from her landing. Savannah then stood wiping away the dust from her shorts.

“Anythin’ else captin’?” She asked Phoebe in a slightly joking way. That was fun, the last time she trained for a spell was in a forest where you didn’t know what happened. That and she had Aard to help her with most as he was the more experienced one.

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Varian stood silently in thought as he watched the other two female members began. He had waved them on as he leaned down and watched. He wanted to see what they could do. Vega snuggles up close, her yellow mane brushed up against his leg. Each hair seemed to create warmth and each brush created some kind of tingling warmth that spread through his leg. The heat wasn't like getting burnt or stepping into a hot spring, but more like laying out on a tropical beach, letting the sun's rays pierce your skin as you lay on the sun, creating a slow spreading heat that calmed you down. He gave Vega a gentle scratch in between her ears, some more of the subtle heat crawling up his fingers where he gave her a scratch. Whatever she was, was certainly some genetic phenomenon that couldn't be easily explained. She was almost alien or ethereal in her powers. He knew she had a power cap But she seemed to be very versatile and helpful friend when fighting. That way you didn't have to worry about your back, they'd be there.

When Savannah suggested meditation, Phoebe shot the idea down, but she did it rather politely. She then suggested one of the dummies that happened to be set up around the area. The dummies looked to be enchanted to put themselves back together once they were broken, at least the ones that had been provided by the government were like that. There were some homemade ones that looked like a flick would knock them down. Phoebe prepared to cast a spell, her first, and only words for the spell happened to be Anthos. The odd thing was the tone behind it. There was a second voice behind it. Varian took a mental note. He doubted it would be any kind of threat, but if she was not who she said she was, he'd be ready, but he crossed his fingers that she was just a talented mage with a formidable magic.

Whatever she had cast created thick roots that began to spread out. But to Varian's surprise she made them as a stepping stool for Savnnah who then created her own spell, something lice Ice-grappling hooks. They were interesting, something Varian wouldn't expect, and a little out of the ordinary. He thought about doing a little bit of magical handy work himself to show off and be funny, but not before he gave them a bit of a heads up. He placed Vega gently on the grunt, receiving a disgruntled "flare" from her. He gave a bit of a smirk in response but payed little attention but then moved on.

He approached phoebe from behind and smiled, "mind if I take a spin?" He asked. "If you have a strong defense spell that'd be nice I'd like to try out its strength, just let me know. But for Know I'll try something a little more docile out." He said. He hoped he got to try out his howl. He had devised its creation when he was thinking about demons. They always had some kind of howl or screech, so he had devised a way to enchant wind inside his lungs to deliver a powerful blast. But now he was going to try something else.

Holding out one hand he summoned white wind in his hand. It formed a small triangular prism in his hand, four inches in width at the base. Looking for something to aim at, he found a dummy not to far way. Holding the prism, he gave a quick underhand throw. Caught in a mysterious wind the prism was carried farther than Varian himself could have thrown it. As it reached the dummy near Savannah it shattered into hundreds of tiny needles that pierced that ground and dummy in a four meter radius. The mass of needles caused B-rank piercing damage. He gave a little smile. "Not so bad if I say so myself." He said with a nod.

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Not one of her strongest spells but Persephone told her with ease that they had to start low to work up themselves and get stronger, she nodded, that made much sense but it still could be insulting to herself and with that the Goddess to be easily defeated by such a weak roots spell. But it was a practice to make perfect and she would have to cast the spell again, the ring that she had found in an old boutique gloated to give her some sort of magical energy to be able to use the same energy of the roots again. Avoiding the recharging energy that she would have normally needed, a good buy if she said so herself. Her green eyes, Persephone's eyes followed the spell making of Savannah, turning it into an interest observation to see how others used their magic, she barely had seen any others use magic, even for research. She didn't have to focus on her roots, she simply have to see if Savannah her spell worked. That's when she felt the looks of someone on her and turned around to look at Varian who had taken a few steps towards her and talked.

She nodded, "Let's try easy, we could always back it up with another spell." which was not what Phoebe wanted, she wanted to know her maximum power but Persephone pointed out that stamina was more important than going to maximum power and as her spells might be too strong for Phoebe, they had to make sure to find the capicity that Phoebe could handle. She turned to look at Savannah, "Glad it worked, good job. Anything else you would want to try." She turned her back on Savannah but casted her sensory spell to make sure she wouldn't be caught into another spell by being careless, not that she suspected these people to do that. But you would never know and she better be prepared.

However Varian didn't throw the spell towards her but towards the dummy, "I thought you said you wanted to start slow." Phoebe said with a little smirk, while Persephone cursed that this guy might be stronger than she at first had thought and they might have to top their defensive quality, even though she had no idea how strong that spell had been and all they could do to figure it out, was to being hit. Phoebe definitely didn't look forward to that but she didn't say a thing about it and simply kept up her appearance of no problems. "I would like to give it a try."

Savannah watched as Varian chatted with Phoebe from behind. She got a nervous look on her face as she noticed Varian raise his hands in her direction. But then a prism like thing flew by her and at the dummy near her before bursting into needles. Savannah dogged to the left barley missing a needle and glared at Varian. She walked up to the two; standing opposite of Varian on Phoebe’s other side.

Savannah had a frown on her face before turning to Phoebe, “Not really. That was about it really.” Savannah shrugs then crossed her arms. “I should go now that I learned my spell. Sorry Varian, but I don’t think my shield can handle your spell.” Throwing a smile at Phoebe and possibly sharing a handshake to Varian or giving a nod to him. Savannah popped her fingers, then her back, followed by curling her toes to the point where they pop.

She had a few butterflies in her stomach as she thought if she should do what she is thinking. It would be odd if she just did it to Phoebe, if Phoebe would let her, and not Varian, but… Savannah bent at the waist she leaned over to give Phoebe a kiss on the cheek. Then walked off a bit giving a shrug, “I would give you a kiss too Varian, but your personality doesn’t draw me in. To clarify I’m Asexual, but whatev’s.” Savannah waited for them to say something and the waved as she left the place.

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Phoebe added a little bit of snark into her comment, but Varian didn't mind, he actually thought it was funny. Though moments later Savannan ran up and talked quickly. She said her goodbyes and then oddly stated her sexual orientation, but varian didn't care, he had no idea who he liked? Did it change after he woke up? And speaking of that how much of him was different from when he woke up in magnolia?

Varian shook his head, he was training and that should be his main focus at the moment. Giving a quick nod the Phoebe he ran away from her and ended up about 18 meters away, far enough away that it made a visible impact and close enough to actually hit her defensive spell. He'd give a quick wave so she'd have time to summon her defensive spell. Barely waiting a few seconds varian began his spell. Widening his stance he leaned his head back and opened his mouth, slowly inhaling air. He could feel the air changing and becoming infused with magic in his lungs. A large pressure began to build up inside of his chest, like an animal clawing to escape. Then, he'd snapp his head forward, expelling all the trapped air. It would swirl into a half a meter wide beam of white air that would shoot towards Phoebe's shield.

Upon impact beam would let off a deafening crunch, but if she had created a high enough defensive spell she'd be fine. But on impact the spell would deal A-rank piercing damage to anyone hit by it.

Varian ran over to make she that she was okay and that the spell had been a success. His singular question wasn't much. It was just a simple, "How was that spell?" Then he'd quietly wait, or attend to her wounds, either one.

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The spell Varian had used had Persephone thinking and not being entirely happy about it considering the capabilities that Phoebe had at the moment to be able to control her own nature magic. While the Goddess was making a whole plan in her mind, Phoebe kept a neutral expression and tried to push Persephone her thoughts out so she could focus. She looked at Savannah as the girl showed up next to her and gave her another short smile, she had just asked Savannah if there was anything else she would want to try. Where Savannah addressed Varian and the potential of her own spell, she thought about it as well, this might get a few issues and she definitely didn't look forward to being hit.

Phoebe turned to look at Varian to see if he would say anything, surprised about the kiss that she let Savannah give her on her cheek. She had noticed her getting closer but not changed her face direction as she had not been sure what was going to happen. When Savannah planted the kiss and took the steps quickly away, she did look towards Savannah, a bit taken aback by the bold gesture and the statement of her sexual orientation, she simply waved goodbye with a smile on her face, "Well we can consider that an ally I suppose." Persephone said, finally stopped rambling about possible potential spells.

When she turned her green eyes, or well Persephone her green eyes on Varian, he seemed to move a bigger distance between them. He gave her a quick nodd and Persephone muttered that they would try their first spell first and than plant the second, a little stronger behind it so that they might not get hit but could figure out the strength of that spell that Varian might use, the spell that had splintered the dummy had looked very powerful, who knew what Varian could do even more. Silently but moving her lips she formed the word almond, shaping the little almond shaped into a two meter shield so she could stand behind it with ease, but she took a few steps back and formed the Onyx wall, moving her lips and silently saying the spell again; Black Onyx.

Immediately feeling the drop of her magical power, she took a deep breath and tried to calm herself, ready to possibly feel an impact. The black wall would take her view away for Varian, but she could see through the substance herself, the spell what seemed to be coming from his mouth, she wasn't sure, looked like a beam of white air that broke her almond spell with ease. Her green eyes turning big as the spell went on to the Black Onyx. She moved her hands up to protect her face but as she heard the loud crashing sound of both spells, they seemed to be in equal amount of rank because both stopped to exist and saved Phoebe from a damaged skin.

She lowered her arms and stared at Varian, who had come closer now to see. "Quite scary if it is coming towards you." She said with a weak smile, "At least I know that my second wall can take the damage, the first was definitely just a test to form it for me." Was her honest answer, she had never used the almond spell before, perhaps it had been able to defend against Savannah, but she didn't want to underestimate her as well. A mistake Persephone had just made but corrected on time.

Varain’s Spell of choice, his howl happened to have been quite a tattle. But luckily Phoebe had a strong enough defense to block it. Varian was amazed at the duos power, he hadn’t expected her to block the most powerful spell he had at the moment and she may not have expected a spell that strong. Varian’s muscled tensed this had turned out to be a fun and exciting day. He looked back at Phoebe who seemed to be thinking her own way through things. “why don’t you launch a spell at me, i’ve Got a strong enough defense as well. “ He said. Which was true he had been planning a spell to compensate for a stronger offensive spell then he could defend for. If he had planned it correctly, the wind funnel he would summon if she launched the spell would be enough to stop it in its tracks, just like her black wall blocked his howl, hopefully she wasn’t stronger than she was letting on and she was.

Taking a breath he’d walk over, a little ways away, if she launched a spell he’d be ready to cast his spell and block it. He was rather proud of his spell.

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She was still trying to catch her breath. The almond shaped spell had not been able to block it and it had given her a slight racing of her heart afraid that her black onyx wall wouldn't be able to handle it either. But it had been able to and she tried to calm down, even Persephone had been a little taken aback and wondered how she would be able to give Phoebe the ability to understand spells and their possible rank or more like being able to defend herself, she would scratch Almond in general but there might be lower ranks. The Goddess wondered if the spell would have worked against Savannah, but it was too late to figure that one out. "That was a very impressive spell, what kind of magic do you use, if you don't mind me asking of course." she said with an interest as Persephone kept pushing her to get more information and all that.

The game of Life was getting more interesting and difficult if Phoebe and Persephone bumped into people of that caliber and she wasn't sure, Phoebe that is, if she was happy about that. If that spell would have hit her, she would sure as hell get something in her face and imagine the wounds. Would they have a healer around here in Domus Flau? She should have asked that before training, but than again she had planned to train alone. But now she could use her own spell, which was a good thing as she had no more defensive spells and the black wall was destroyed as well, thank god no other piece of his magic has gone through. She was still a bit shaken and Persephone remembered something and whispered it, though unnecessary since Varian wouldn't be able to hear her voice, to instruct Phoebe what to do. There wasn't much nature around her but the ground was made of very harsh sand so she could obviously use that and she moved her right foot a little more forward, to create a steady stance and moved her hand forward, her eyes flashing again to green and she created her ivy spell. To sense the sensory of the things around her through this spell.

The bad thing was that it caught her around the area of the whole of Domus Flau and too much information seeped into her brain and it felt for a second as if her head would explode from a headache but Persephone quickly helped her to get things sorted and it would be fine. "I haven't got my hands on this magic for long, so would you mind if I start with a few lower spells? I mean I haven't actually used anything before that was fighting or well what I mean, useable for a fight, I have spells that are useful but eh." Suddenly she felt insecure about the abilities that Persephone had granted her and that she wouldn't be able to use. She had to use the magical ability that she got to throw out the power that she would be able to gain as long as she trained more.

She moved her hands up in the air when Varian agreed to use a lower spell and created the flower rain of Narcissus. What meant that it would rain in a two by two meter area of flowers. Some people around them stopped to look, it surely looked pretty but it could do some damage too. She could do another spell but it was not up to herself to decide that on her own.

Varian looked around the domus Flau, people had slowly began edging out as the sun began to slowly finish their training. Slowly it ended up only being a few people left in the arena. He turned his attention back to phoebe who had decided to do some more prying on his power. Varian wasn't trying to keep anything secret, he wasn't any good at that and it wasn't like he had that much to hide in the first place. "My magic... that's an interesting question. I don't know about much myself. I came by it after a failed experiment, but from what I gathered it has to do with the slaying of demons." Varian responded. "Thank you for the compliment though, I had no idea I had power like this at my fingertips." Varian explained.

He closed his eyes for only a moment, but it felt like a lifetime. Every time his mind managed to drift towards the concept of his missing memories, he would throw himself into the same line of questions. Who had he been? Had he left anyone behind? Those were only the biggest, it felt like everything split off into smaller questions, like water seeping into the ground. A chill ran up his spine, he had to pull himself out of this pond of depression, it wasn't healthy. If he allowed himself to wallow in it any longer he''d end up crying on the bed all day tomorrow as he sobbed at the darkness in his brain. Varian eyes snapped open, he felt like he was dazed for a moment but he quickly snapped out of it.

Phoebe agreed to help him practice his spell. With the flick of her wrist she cast a rain of rose petals down on varian. With a simple extension of one of his hands white wind would pool out of his hand, he had decided to use a weaker spell as to honor phoebe's request. The white wind pooled like blood, creating a 1 meter by 1 meter shield that would take the blunt of her spell head on. He hoped it would be enough to stop the simple spell, but he had no way to gauge the strength of the spell. He tried not to flinch when the two spells collided with a crunch. Luckily, when the barrage stopped, Varian was still there and the wind shield just melted away. Varian gave a little nod to Phoebe, "That turned out great. If you want to try a stronger spell Im up to it if you are." Varian said. He clasped his hands together, he had a feeling his mana could be running low, but his fingers were crossed that he was currently fine and that it wouldn't be a problem for him. Vega still sat on the far end absently licking her paws as she waited for Varian and phoebe to finish. Last time they had trained, she had helped him attack someone, personally he thought it had been pretty cool, but he was enjoying also fighting Phoebe.

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"Slaying demons hmm." The Goddess in Phoebe her mind spoke. Persephone had pushed the raven haired lady to ask her opponent about his magic, the swirling look of elements, some light and something that she had not been able to place, perhaps air? Persephone had dismissed it, "I've heard about Dragon Slayers but Demon Slayers, I thought they were all extinct. How interesting. Make sure he likes you Phoebe.. as a person." To which Phoebe had to restrain herself from shaking her head from Persephone her comments, as a person. What kind of comment was that! Had that been a reference to Victor because she sure as hell didn't need a person like that and if she had not already restrained her from making dumb movements and had not learned to ignore movements she wanted to make based on Persephone her comments; she would have wiped her lips with the back of her hand. Well thank the Goddess for reminding her off those stupid kisses! She would even turn around, throw her hair over her shoulder and run towards Magnolia if only she knew that King was there but at the moment it seemed like no option and besides that; she had vowed to herself to stop falling for people. It might be a shame to drop King like that, but they had not seen each other for months, he had not come to find her either and after Victor, she sure wasn't ready for another disaster on such thing.

"The game of life might make you able to use people like that. Don't worry it takes time but you will learn." Persephone purred before Phoebe focused back on Varian, the conversation and track of thoughts in her mind had only been gone in seconds, nothing to miss. She smiled at Varian, "One day I hope to be powerful as well." With perhaps more of her own capability instead of only depending on Persephone, though of course not forgetting that she was the source of this magic. She noticed the curiousity of the Goddess but all the questions that the Goddess had, Phoebe couldn't ask so she tried to ignore it as best as she could.

As she had asked if she could use lower rank spells, it was easy to understand that Varian could block it without much difficulty, just a wave of his hand to be realistic and it was actually very frustrating, she had not been a nature mage for long so it was understandable and she had been afraid in the end for her fire magic that it wasn't quite difficult to understand that Phoebe had not been great at magic, with a teacher as Persephone now, it might even become a little easier. With the way he had created his defensive spell, Persephone was now sure that it was wind magic. She looked up considering what to do now, she had one lower rank spell but it had not much effect and was it necessary to train that or would it be useless in this case and would she rather focus on other spells, it was surely a difficult question and Phoebe took a deep breaht, looking up as Varian asked if she wanted to try another spell, perhaps a bit stronger.

"Let me think." Persephone said, she would only need a few seconds for that so Phoebe decided to talk already, "If you wouldn't mind." Like she had said before she didn't have this magic for long and it was perhaps a bit obvious that the black haired beauty was nervous about using magic. Something Persephone would teach her to get used to as well, she wasn't sure if the nature Goddess her magic would be limited to what was around them or if they could create something out of thin air. The fire she used to be able to control came from the warmth from within.

"Ready." The Goddess said shortly after and Phoebe nodded, first making sure that Varian was alright with her casting a spell right now and if he was she would move up her hand, above her head and create a dark green like substance that looked like a combination of wood and stone that would form a branch that was send towards him from about 2 meters away from her and as it was three meters long it would get close enough to hit him if he wouldn't send up a strong enough defensive spell. Phoebe didn't want to hurt Varian and surprisingly Persephone wasn't hoping for that either, they just wanted to test the strength of their spells and abilities, the whole reason why the duo, looking as one person, had come towards Domus Flau to train.

Phoebe's words were simple, but well chosen, she responded quickly and with good remarks. Varian smiled, no matter the wall that existed, he enjoyed her company, she happened to be one of the stronger mage's he had met on his journey. There had been the lich, but he had no idea how strong the lich was in reality. He rolled over the people he had met during his short time of remembrance. There was Kazuki, the first person he actually remembered meeting, the kind soul had welcomed him into Fairy tail, but other than that first encounter he hadn't seen or heard anything about the boy since then. Afterwards he came to crocus and met people like Savannah and Phoebe, oh, and there was the lich, Lucifer was his name. Varian realized how little friends he actually had, at least to his knowledge. Maybe, before he lost his memory, he was never alone, a person with hundreds of friends, a life like that seemed nice and happy, he would have liked that.

Taking a deep breath he cleared his mind, turning his attention back to phoebe. The Female mage seemed to be a bit tense, like she was out of her comfort zone, Varian took that into consideration but still went on with his preparations for the spell. He walked a little ways away, centering himself he drew up his own mana reserves. It felt a little odd using up this much mana, it was more than he had ever used at once before. He opened his eyes, his hand twitched, ready for Phoebe's offensive spell to fly at him.

She created a long ornate wood and stone branch that held a deathly beauty to its name. With it's release Varian waved his hand up, the quick air movement spiraled itself into a funnel of white wind that was 4 meters wide by 4 meters tall. The funnel stopped the branch, shattering it with its superior force. Varian's defensive spell seemed to be stronger than Phoebe's spell, it even survived the blast, unlike the defensive spell he used barely moments ago. Waving his hand he released it from existence and it dissipated into normal colored wind. "That was fantastic," Varian said, "You did great." Varian smiled, and added a nod, he wanted to create a lasting impression on Phoebe, a good impression. "So, is there anything else you'd like to try, or we can walk around and go bad guy hunting." He joked. Varian realized he was grasping at straws and that he was most certainly flustered, taking a deep breath. " As I was saying, I've run through most of my spells, but I've still got some stronger spells I can play around with and Vega," he gave a quick nod to his partner, "would probably love doing something other than sleeping." He said. Vega's ears twitched and she opened her eyes at the sound of her name. She stretched her orange body out, raising her hind in the air, and wagging her yellow tail before prancing over to varian and sliding between his legs. Leaning down Varian picked up the orange and yellow feline creature and held her in his arms. "So any ideas?"


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The game of life had had its ups and downs for Phoebe. Which made her weak and vunerable in the eyes of the Goddess and in the eyes of the raven haired mage herself. Where she had been trained as a fire mage, lost control and trained by King, she had gained a total opposite magic and that had made things very different, as well as some sort of parasite form in the back of her mind talking to her as if she was an idiot at first. But by being lured and shaped into something else because of the vunerability and thus deciding to work together. Perhaps Persephone started to like her or else she seemed to be a great player of the game of life and with that easy to manipulate others. She might be playing that trick thus on Phoebe even though the mage believed that the Goddess really liked her and since they worked together now, Phoebe fully accepting Persephone and not wanting to get rid of her as she first had, a normal reaction right? It was only natural that they worked together and what they planned to now was to train Phoebe in not getting attached to anyone but play this game of life and see it as attaining allies and that was all. Having her heart broken by being left by all her friends and not hearing anything from her crush, being left again by her partner, which had been great fun, it was done. Especially since the last punch came from her own family, her mother having a second family, dying over there in Sin simply because she wanted to protect her other family and not thinking about Phoebe, Mary or their father made that woman so selfish that Phoebe was almost glad that she was gone. It gave her this feeling of rage that she would have to learn to let go and be glad of the riddance of her mother. But she could use Silver, for now and she had to think about that some more.

But that wasn't at the moment what was happening, she was in a fight to train her magic and where she had originally tried to train alone with the guidance from Persephone, since she was never alone. However that's when Savannah and Varian showed up and his companion to which Phoebe had not given any attention yet as she basically was not good with companions, hence why she wasn't looking for one herself. The training with both of the other mages had made it a lot different from what Phoebe had expected from today, but the Nature mage wasn't going to complain at this point and she let it happen, even Persephone at first very grumpy about the change of the event had seen the difference and with that the ease that came by training this way. But it also meant that she was using far more advanced spells than she had done ever before and which made her very tired because of that, the magical energy and potential that she needed made her breath shortened and Persephone tried her best to take that away from her, this would probably mean muscle pain tomorrow.

Their Agate Branch didn't survive the defensive spell that Varian made and as Phoebe expected that Varian could use stronger spells than Phoebe could, it was still a bit of a bummer. Persephone tried to calm the raven haired lady down by mentioning that everyone had to learn and that Phoebe had the potential and that they would only have to train more to get to that point of reaching it. However surprisingly Varian said it was fantastic, to which Phoebe assumed he meant his own spell but he said she did great. Which made her smile, "Dont fall for it," The Goddess mentioned in her mind, "He is but a pawn in the game that we are all playing and we don't want anything like the past." Phoeb gave a short almost invisible nod, but that still meant that she would have to play the game as well. "You flatter me too much but thank you, that was a very impressive spell you showed." She thought about it when he asked her what she wanted to do next, walk around? That might be good for her tense muscles and tired body because of the magical energy she used.

Hunting bad guys made her laugh, she wasn't a knight, so she didn't consider it her job, but before she could say anything about that, she hadn't even noticed it was a joke or that Varian was flustered, she simply looked at him and his companion which he now pointed out again. She brushed her long raven hair over her shoulder and nodded, she actually had one more spell that Persephone wanted to try out before working some more on the bigger ones, "Vega looks like a very rare being, I have never seen a creature like that." She wanted to try out that C-rank spell but she also didn't want to harm his companion but apart from that, it was probably a fire companion and she was Nature, that meant she would not even be able to make a scratch.

Just when Phoebe was about to answer on what they should do, some loud mouth on the other side of the arena started to speak. There had been people already leaving and that left space for the lower mages to try and train without being bullied for their abilities, which was nice but now.. someone had returned and started to yell at them, throw some darkness spells towards them and seemed to hurt people on purpose, "It seemed the bad guys found us." She said her lilac eyes shortly looking at Varian. The man, probably the leader, wasn't alone, there were 6 others, making it a total of seven. Although the six were only watching their leader and snicker behind his back, "People like that are such a disappontment for others." She didn't even listen to what he said, the loud mouth, she just basically ignored him, until he pointed at her, "You, be my girl." She rolled her eyes but the man seemed to not be happy that she didn't say anything.

Persephone ushered her to say that she could handle him but she wasn't sure and she wasn't entirely sure if she wanted to try out, "No thank you." But when he would attack someone else in his frustration and yell at her that it was her fault, she couldn't help but throw her daisy spell towards him. He laughed at her for the use of a mere flower, not expecting the explosion that came next with it, "and that," she started, looking at the guy in anger, "was but a warning."