Blue with a hand holding a brain

"What does it do?" I thought to myself. I mean, my ring has such an awesome power. So maybe this one could do something cool too. "Sir, how much is this ring?" I ask the middle aged man who seems to be the proprietor of the goods.

"Well it is a magic ring so around 2,000 jewels" the man says smiling.

"More like free" I think to myself laughing. "Well I want you to give it to me" I saw snarky.

The man smiles again laughing a little. "I saw you over at that little old lady's stand. Free fruit huh? Smells like illegal charm magic if you ask me." He just looks at me, shit he knows so it won't work, i grimace. "And I think you're gonna buy that ring today for 5,000 jewels today too!"

"And why would i do that?" I ask confused.

"Well there is some guards around here. And if they find out about a charm ring on a kid at the market, what would they do? That could ruin a young man's life." He just smiles maliciously. 5,000 jewels is all I got, and if this guy knows about my charm ring then there may be others. This might not work out as well as I originally had hoped. But I think i have to buy this ring, and just hope that it's a good one. I reach into my pocket and take out my band of jewel and stare at the man for a moment. I guess I only have myself to blame here, walking up to a shady salesman selling random goods. A con man is what he is! I hand it over to the man and clutch the ring in my hand in anger. I can't believe I'm broke now.

So I wander back to Hio's place to hope he can tell me some good news. I walk into his place and walk straight to the back of his room. "Don't even knock any more do you?" he asks never looking up from the book he has in front of him.

"I have something else I want you to look at, another ring" I slam it down onto his table. He turns and grabs the ring, giving it a good look.

"I've never seen anything like this. I don't know if its rare or just a dud. Could even be a fake ring. I wouldn't know.

"IT COULD BE FAKE" I scream. "I just got swindled into spending my last 5k Jewels on that ring!"

"whoa, calm down, I said it might be. Could be something though. I think you should ask someone who knows more, or at least has more books then I do." He stands up and hands me the ring. "Wait here, I gotta set something up." he walked out of the room grabbing a communication lacrima.

As he walks back into the room he sits down. " So I talked to an old friend of mine, her name is Levy. She is a wizard at the Fairy Tail guild. She has lots of books, and knows more then I do. She said she'll meet us in a couple hours at the little diner at the corner."

So sometimes later, I'm sitting at a table. We ordered drinks and a small snack, thankfully on the back of my charm ring. As I take a drink I see a girl walking towards us. A petite Blue haired girl. "Wow she's cute" is whats slips outta my mouth.

"Don't even think about it dude. She's a real wizard, that charm ring wouldn't work on her man." He sneers at me as she walks up. "Levy, long time no see" Hio says to her as he stands up and gives her a hug. They both sit done and Levy and Hio catch up for a little bit.

"So a magic ring right?" she brings up as I was spacing out feeling like the third wheel. "Can I see it?". I take the ring out of my pocket and hand it to her. "I brought a couple books that could help figure out what this is." She reaches into her bag and pulls out a couple books and slides glasses onto her face. After looking at the ring for a moment she picks picks a book and starts ready. After only a minute or two she put the book away and grabs another. So then after a few minutes she looks up at me and puts the ring on the table.

"It's a fake isn't it?" I say in defeat as she looks slightly concerned.

"Well I don't know if it's fake or a real ring, but if it is real it could be dangerous" she looks at me as I grab the ring, she continues. "From one of my books on old magics it would seem like it's something called Influence magic. It says here that it was used in the days of war by some warlords, they you use it during peace treaties so one side would get all they wanted from the other." She explains while reading more.

"So what exactly does it do then?" I examine the ring as I ask.

"Well I says the user can influence the decisions and behavior of the person they touch. So as soon as the warlords would shake hands the Influence was already set." She kept reading. "But in this book about magic in rings, it seems like the magic isn't as strong. So you can only influence someone while you touch them. And the suggestions will stay with them as long as you come into contact with them every so often." She closes the books and looks at Hio and then to me.

"But you said it could also be a fake right?" I ask still nervous about my **** purchase.

"Yes it could, with such an old magic people could try to just make a ring with no magic just looks. Or put some false, lesser magic in it." As she speaks about the ring all I can do is stare at it. I need to test it. But how?

"I think we should turn the ring over, it's bound to be trouble if someone bad got it." As she said this I snapped my head up. There is no way I'm just gonna give this away. I slid the ring on and laid my hand on her arm. I guess it's all or nothing.

"I don't think you want to do that. The ring is mine. Maybe you just need to be less just. Be a little more dangerous." As I said all of this I was nervous. She know what the ring does. So if it didn't work, she'll know that I tried to use it on her.

"Maybe your right, the ring is yours and who am I to say what you have to do with your belongings." I had a sigh of relief I think it worked. And it seems when i use it, the person doesn't realize that they've been influenced. Right after this Hio looked at me a little concerned. Just then Levy got up.

"Well I have to go. Jet and Droy are waiting for me." As she spoke she stood up and grabbed her bag.

"Well thank you" Hio stood up and hugged her, then she walked away. "Dude, remember what she said? If you don't have contact with her again she'll want to turn over the ring." Oh shit...

"What guild did you say she was in? Fairy tail right?" I asked.

"Don't tell me you're gonna try and join are you?" He was wide eyed as he spoke.

"I've got magic now so why not?" I flashed both my rings as I spoke. "I'll just try to get more magic objects, maybe something more offensive. Who knows?" As I speak i walk away from Hio. With my two rings, I will use my charm spell to get them close, and then my influence to get what I want. I put the rings away and formulate a plan to get in Fairy Tail.