<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/dJtXslK.jpgg)<br/></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Ralena Tharin</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Guild hall<br/><strong>With:</strong>Shun<br/><br/><br/>Ralena would be lost in her own head until she heard a voice ring out behind her, and felt a hand on her back. She would roll her head over, groaning a little when Shun came up to her and asked her what happened during the fight. "You don't really want to know... Alice just hit me with a few cheap shots, and now I feel kinda funny..." She would break a bit of a smile as she sat more straight up and seemed to lean more into the back rub that she was receiving. "Heh, you have some real soft hands, you know that?" her mind was still cloudy from that fight with Alice, and the aphrodisiac that she had been shot with. As a result, a series of rather vulgar thoughts were starting to work through her head. She was just about to open her mouth again with something a bit more suggestive before the doors to the guild hall suddenly slammed open, and a lone man walked through the front door. "Good afternoon, faries... Hope I'm not interrupting anything."<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/Blj66.jpg)<br/></div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Gaius Eigenfilter</span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Guild hall<br/><strong>With:</strong>Everybody<br/><br/>Gaius walked in with a broad, confident smirk as he strolled right into the guild hall with both hands firmly in his pockets. He would glance from side to side, his eyes in particular catching Alice just after her current battle. "Well hello again, blondie... You dress like that often? I might pay visits more often if you did." He'd give her a wink before moving closer in, feeling countless eyes bore into the back of his head even as he did. He would stroll up onto the combat arena and stretch both of his arms out. "Kind of surprised that nobody's attacked me yet, pretty sweet of you all, really." A voice would roar out from the crowd, a hot blooded guild member breaking what was otherwise dead silence.<strong>"What the hell are you doing in here? Who are you?"</strong><br/><br/>Gaius would press a hand against his heart, frowning at the crowd. "Me? I've met a few of your mages in the past, I'm surprised that I'm not a bigger deal. Name's Gaius Eigenfilter, and I've come as something of a herald for things to come. You see, I come bringing a warning from a dark guild known as<em>Liestra Eclipsium</em>." The name 'Eclipsium' was probably vaguely familiar to Luca and Alice at the very least, as being the name of the country that had been sealed away centuries ago in the story told by Mr. Poulbelter. "You see, they've got a festival of their own that they've been looking to start for a while now, and Fairy Tail has been nominated as being the first ever guild to participate. So, welcome one, welcome ALL, to the first ever<em>Liestra Eclipsium blood festival!</em>"<br/><br/>As soon as he finished his statement, runes would surge up and coat the walls of the guild hall, though the doors to the hall would remain open and it would be easy for people to leave. In fact, the people who did walk out into the city outside would see that the runes coated the entirety of the city! However, all of the non-mage residents in the city would be caught in small crystal cages, seemingly stuck in time within them. "No need to worry about the innocent residents, they're just sleeping... Once the blood festival is over, they'll wake up as if nothing happened. Now, here are the rules of the blood festival! If you leave town, you die. If you lose your fights, you die. There are eight expert mages throughout the city, the eight executioners of Liestra Eclipsium... Once these eight executioners have been defeated, the blood festival is over. However, we can't have you all just overwhelming our eight champions with sheer numbers, can we? As a result..."<br/><br/>fingers would snap again, and all eight of the champion runners would see small symbols appear on the palms of their hands. "If those without a rune try to fight an executioner, they die. Eight champion runners, eight executioners... Seems to line up pretty well, doesn't it?" It didn't seem like Gaius was done with his tangent at this point, but he was interrupted when about ten of the more reckless and hot blooded Fairy Tail mages suddenly rushed the battle stage, all attacking him with various forms of magic while Gaius simply rolled his eyes and extended his arm outwards. Clones of the redheaded male would appear in thin air, grappling with all ten before knocking them away and slamming them into various walls. "You lot are lucky that I'm not an executioner, I'm just here to watch the fireworks... Now that I've explained the rules, are there any questions?"