Moon´glade` n. 1. The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water.
“MOONGLADE” is a non-canon Fairy Tail rp. Our story begins in the northern continent of Giltena, more than 400 years after the “disappearance of dragons”. With a focus on the Kingdom of Valeria, a country with a deep history revolving around the Moon Dragon, you will be able to play a vital role in the development of this kingdom--unless you choose a different journey. In Giltena, revered dragons have chosen to walk among you, and villains posing as heroes litter both the royal courts and the city streets. Weary traveller, what will you bring to the kingdom? Forge your path, and push forward through a world of magic and dreams.
WATER DRAGON FEST
The portside Town of Elmina is holding their annual Water Dragon Festival in honor of the Water Dragon Waka. Water Dragon Waka is a known foodie, so there will be a cooking competition held by the city lord as well as a variety of street vendors set up to celebrate the festivities. Additionally, the royal family of Valeria will be holding a hunt in the nearby Pouring Rainforest in honor of this event. This forest is controlled terrain so they will be releasing captive beasts into it. Choose. Do you want to help or hinder with these activities? The choices are yours.
This skin was made by Pharaohleap of pixel-perfect. Moonglade is the ugly bastard child of Baby and Spade and is a Fairy Tail roleplay. A special thanks to Hiko for his contributions. Fairy Tail is created by Hiro Mashima. All images on site belong to their respective artists.
uther felt for enlil. he wanted something to happen, and the circumstances just wasn't letting them get what they want. they do not have any means of escalating the matter, however. any wrong action may get the perpetrator to back off as well, further making the stakeout a waste of time.
waiting was their only choice.
enlil seemed to entertain himself however, which uther appreciated. "thank you, thank you," he'd hum as he indulged on the other's carefree mood.
he'd munch on the berry, savoring its flavors, as he'd take his eyes off of the noble's window for a moment. he'd chew on it briefly before turning back on their target. hands quickly scrambled for his rifle when he thought he saw a movement by the room.
his rifle's sight would run through the silhouette by the window. the dim light from a lamp from within the room provided minimal lighting, but it was enough for uther to distinguish the shadows from each other. he'd attach a silencer as he aimed.
a shot would ring from the vicinity as soon as he locked on.
the perpetrator would soon run away. his shot barely grazed him, but it hit. blood would trickle from the wound as the member of the gang made its escape. uther would follow, though he stayed for a moment as he turned to enlil. "you can follow the scent, right?" he'd ask, a nervous smile present on his expression.
it was only through luck that he managed to find the dragon slayer who he had already acquainted himself with within the city at the same time as he took the mission. 'the clients are nobles' or something along those lines were enough to keep him interested in the rewards and stay with him for the entirety of the mission.
houses in the neighborhood were turning their lights off one after the other. night already claimed the sky and activity in the streets died down. soon enough, everyone will be asleep.
uther and his companion found themselves hidden somewhere within the city lord's mansion's garden. their client's window was on their sight... or at least, it would be if it wasn't too dark. he supposed it was why he was lucky enlil was there.
the dragon slayer was supposed to tell uther when he smells or hears anyone else enter the vicinity. he doesn't know if they also have enhanced night vision, but it should be fine even if he doesn't.
a large man awaits him on the outskirts of a town. finding him in the designated meeting place did not take long. even if they had not been in an area outside populated places, uther figured that he'd still be easy to identify among the crowds.
"hello," he greets out loud as he enters the scene.
he assumes a subjugation mission would go easy with someone who looked as lethal as the person in front of him. he's still working on his combat, having little option against large groups of enemies. he hopes that his partner would be able to patch his weakness up.
then again, that would simply sound as if he'd be relying on him to carry him throughout the mission. he shrugs the thought for now.
"you're the one i was supposed to work with, right?" he asks, clarifying things before he forgets to do so and things get awkward. it has happened before, being one of the cons of being a rogue and not having a proper guild. he'd join one if his current circumstance did not restrict him from doing so.
he extends a hand as he introduces himself should he confirm his thoughts. "call me cain!"
he'd try to catch enlil, but the knockback from his magic was too much for his strength to handle. he'd end up crashing on the ground with him
"they're too agile!" he'd point out, his tone almost bordering for it to sound like a complaint. "i'll give it a try though."
he foregoes his pistols and goes to his rifle. the two smaller handguns would dissipate into particles as they get replaced with a gun with a larger barrel.
uther aims at the skeleton that targeted vincent, more precisely, at its eyes. he figures it would be the easiest target out of everyone as it just finished an action. if nothing else, at least it would stop it from chasing after vincent and give him time to regroup with him and enlil.
"bang," he'd quietly whisper as the shot goes off.
he readies his gun for a second shot and aims right afterwards, eyes never leaving the sights of his gun. "if you guys can restrict their movements a bit, it'll help me thin down their numbers from afar," he tells them much like a request.
five wolves... he wasn't sure if he could handle that, but it should be less dangerous than the orc, he supposed.
he aimed his rifle at one of them from afar. the shoot connected, landing on the animal's torso. the wolf would fall, though the attention of half of the pack would come to him.
their legs brought them close to uther in no time, giving him not a moment to fire off another shot. one of them, one who uther would assume to be the most senior out of the remaining four, pounced on him. using his rifle as a bat, he'd throw the wolf to the side with it.
his hands would let go of the rifle soon afterwards, disappearing in the air as he replaced them with dual pistols with his requip.
the guns would be aimed at two dogs charging straight at him. a single shot in their heads would knock both of them out at the same time. magic-based bullets meant that uther can tone it down to non-lethal forces. his victims would not suffer the same punishment as enlil's.
the last one would get past his defenses and managed to pin him down after a pounce. uther would instinctively protect his face with his guns. the wolf bit down, though it was blocked by one of his pistols. the other one would point its barrel under the canine's jaw, shooting it and knocking it unconscious.
he'd turn to look for the one he batted away, but it seemed as if it already ran away after seeing the display of barbarism enlil did.
"y-yeah," he'd answer enlil as he stood up from his position. he'd comment about the mess he left, but it wasn't like anyone else would be worried about the slaughter of wild animals that endanger nearby farms.
"we still have time to continue searching though," he'd remind him. sun was still up and the hunt was still on. "do you still want to?"
a breath? he'd assume it to be dragon slayer magic, but with too much on his plate right now, he disregards the matter for a moment to concentrate on what was in front of him.
"requip!"
twin pistols materialized on both of his hands almost immediately. arms outstretched into a more aggressive stance, he'd point them towards the enemy. with no real body or vitals, however, he knows he has to aim it somewhere instead of just firing indiscriminately.
the head was his first choice, until he notices the lacrima in their eyes.
uther backs away, making distance so that both the dragon slayers were in between him and the enemy. he starts firing shots, aiming at those that enlil might have missed hitting with his knives.
the corpse was the first thing that attracted his attention.
it takes uther a moment to collect his thoughts and force himself to move after he sees it. only then did he realize the wreckage within the tent. various objects were strewn all over the floor. another glance at the body, along with the status of the tent, suggested that it was murder.
he starts to collect the papers on the ground to get a clue of what was going on. compiling them in a nice bundle, he starts to read its contents when ishtar barged in inside. uther momentarily stops what he was doing upon hearing her statement.
"is it something helpful?" he asks in the most hopeful manner.
his head motions to the body, trying to shift ishtar's attention to it. "i found a human though. he seems like an important person for our mission, i think."
he starts to shift the papers on his hand, giving ishtar parts of the papers he had already skimmed over. "i'm thinking that maybe there's something relevant in all these. what do you think?"
the winds start to pick up. uther requips a pair of goggles to protect his eyes from the sand while his hand tugged the collar of his shirt closer to the orifices of his face, not wanting sand to enter his respiratory system.
enlil takes note of a sound of the bell, which he couldn't quite discern it from the ambient noises. perhaps it was the strong winds that drowned it. no, it probably wasn't. enlil had to remind himself that dragon slayers do have better senses than average humans.
he wasn't sure if he was being too naive by following the directions of a person he met a single time before, but since there wasn't any leads, he supposed there wouldn't be any harm in doing so.
ishtar points him to the direction of a camp site. eyes immediately widened at the discovery. it meant that they probably made progress, and progress was good.
"ooh! looks like we're into something!"
he gets excited, clasping his hands and rubbing his palms against each other in anticipation. he hopes to gain anything relevant within the abandoned settlement, no matter how small they are.
not unlike his companion, he moves in a faster pace towards their current target. he would have probably considered running too, had the desert not been a pain enough. the desert heat did its job of getting them more fatigued after all.
excited after a long time of travelling in the desert and not seeing anything of importance, he hastily goes for the tent. his hands went into a finger gun pose, ready to call for his pistols at a moment's notice.
he was thankful that he was all the way out of the gore. he didn't mind the mess, but he'd rather not have his clothes dirtied and smelling like animal insides.
"well, i don't know if i'd be able to take care of that as easily on my own. thanks!"
he'd return the rifle back to his own pocket dimension, dispelling his requip. it would be a hassle to carry it around. besides, that was the whole point of his magic: not having to carry his weapons around, but still being able to call for them at any given time.
he'd take a few steps towards the cage that housed the bear, pointing a finger at it as he lowered his torso so as his head meets its eye level. "lucky you!" he'd tell the mohawk bear before leaving it alone.
uther would have suggested using the scent of the orc's blood as bait for beasts to come to them, but he realized that maybe moving along would be the better idea. only smaller prey would probably be attracted to it anyways.
"yeah. let's get one that gives more of a challenge this time."
"thank you, thank you," he responds to enlil. "i do my best after all."
this was good, or at least, for uther.
the orc's attention was still on enlil instead of him, and with it, he uses the opportunity to reposition himself to the orc's blind side. noise was kept to a minimum this time, afraid to actually get the orc's recognition. then again, with what enlil has been doing, he found it hard to believe that the orc will take notice of him.
he watches the dragon slayer ravage the orc's face with his magic. he wanted to say that what he was doing was not only gross and heartless, but also unnecessary, but he couldn't be bothered. he was already aiming, after all.
he holds his gun close to him. his target was larger and easier to hit this time. he was confident on hitting it without making too much preparation this time.
a charged shot lands on the back of the orc's knees, aiming to destabilize its footing.
he couldn't say that he knows anything about giant's bane. perhaps it was really brand new as vince mentioned. uther wouldn't pry on the matter too much.
he takes note on enlil's opinion about guilds. "money, huh? that's a valid point." he took a large sum of money with him when he left his previous residence without permission. he's careful with it, but he can't say that his monetary situation's getting any better with each job he takes.
fights are mentioned. uther's spirits liven up (as if they were down at all) as he finger guns the red sand by his feet playfully. he had not noticed the transition of the sand's coloring, but they changed anyways.
"that would be fun," he chimes in agreement. "much easier than going to a library to find ways to lift a curse or something too!"
he doesn't actually believe that he can defeat a demon by his own. he'd seen enlil fight though, and they have a third member this time around as well. they should be fine in any encounter that results in a fight.
maybe he should have learned a more versatile magic than what he was currently using. better yet, maybe he should have brought something to help him brave the hazards of the deserts. thanking her was the best thing he could do at that moment.
her question got him thinking as well. he takes out a nicely folded piece of paper that entailed the mission description and unfolded it. there was nothing specific in the paper that could help them however.
"we're going straight," he announces in a cheerful note as he returns the quest notice back on his pocket. "we'll just keep going until we find something interesting, i suppose."
he continues walking, though his pace is controlled so that he remains under the shade provided by ishtar.
he'd scratch his chin upon being met with a question that he wasn't quite ready to answer. there was nervous chuckling to buffer up his answer, though he supposed there wasn't anything wrong in telling him the current state he was in.
"hehe... i don't really have a guild."
affiliating in one makes him easier to track, if his family does plan on doing that. it was no secret that his father, the king, doted on him, and thus, have been overprotective towards him. it was annoying not being allowed to go to dangerous adventures, but that was why he left.
"i'm just a traveler," he continues. "just taking odd jobs like these to make ends meet, i suppose."
he tries to find any marks of any influential guild in enlil's body, though it doesn't seem that it was visible. that, or he was just blind and couldn't find the obvious.
this wouldn't be the first experience he had with that kind of exotic magic. nonetheless, it still was enough to put him in awe. watching it applied to a scenario up close was different from just observing it from afar.
it was powerful, but that doesn't mean he gets to just watch.
"i'll do my best!"
while enlil takes on the large beast head on, uther lines up his rifle to his sights and aims. he backs up a few steps away from the target, not wanting to get in the way of both enlil's attacks and the opponent's, and readies his trigger finger.
aiming was the only thing he got going for him. compared to dragon slaying magic, requip just doesn't have that much power behind it unless he gets his hands on better equipment. that wasn't to say that the ones he has right now where nowhere near satisfactory though.
