(Jennifer POV):
I was at home when my friends called me that afternoon. They wanted to hunt for tougher monster, so we decided to explore through the tree hole in Henesys. Rumors were spreading that there were new monsters there. Out of our group of five, we were all still first jobbers. Alyssa and Jessica, the twins, were our thieves, Alex was our hyperactive warrior, and Luna, my best friend, was our bowman. As for me, I was a magician wanting to become a cleric.
"When we find a new monster and kill it, I want what it drops," Alex yelled, waving his bamboo sword to the rest of the group that were behind him.
"Alex, we talked about this. We all planned to share the profits, remember?" Luna said as they all trotted along the carcasses of orange and green mushrooms.
"Jennifer, the sun's starting to set and we're starting to get hungry," the twins whined in unison.
"Alright then let's take a break," I said, acting as if I was the leader.
Coming from different parts of the continent, we all had a variety of foods to eat once we found a place to settle. I pulled out a few chunk of meat I had bought from the store, Alex pulled out whatever food and potions he had received from his training, Luna began distributing the cooked pizzas and hotdogs she had, and the twins began sharing the blue potions they had in their possession. Together we all toasted to our new adventures.
My mana replenished as soon as the potion hit my lips. I could feel the magic once again run through my veins.
After a few minutes of eating, Alex was the first one done. "Let's go already," he said impatiently to the rest of us.
Everyone packed up before advancing deeper into an area full of mushrooms. What we saw there was astounding. It was a mushroom that we had never encountered before. The cap was covered in horns and its body was blue. We all attacked at once, but soon realized that it was harder to kill than the usual mushrooms we had stumbled upon. The mushroom flocked at us in groups, trying to overwhelm us with their numbers.
After thirty minutes of killing, we looked at our EXP. The twins had risen to a new level and I was on the verge of doing the same. We congratulated the twins and then continued on exploring the new area. On our exploration we found a house sitting at the end of the road, from what we could see, with doors oddly shaped. It looked like it was meant for huge mushrooms. As we observed it some more the ground began to shake. Everyone raised their weapons and shields in fear and prepared for the worse to come.
"Guys, it's getting closer," Luna warned. "Let's hide!" She turned to look at me, her eyes were full of fear.
I looked at the group and saw the terror in everyone's eyes. The ground around us shook and the snails and mushrooms were fleeing from the area. I looked around for a solution.
"Over here," I said, referring to a bush we could all take cover in. Alex dived in without a second thought.
As we hurried into the bushes, what we saw was both stunning and frightening. An enormous orange mushroom appeared and saw the piles of dead mushrooms we left on the floor. It turned to look around; its eyes seemed to reflect like mirrors.
Luna whispered, "What are we going to do?!"
I closed my eyes and thought for a minute when it suddenly came to me. Not wasting a moment, I dialed my brother's cell. Once he answered, I quickly brought him up to speed of our predicament. Before I got to describe the monster in front of us, the cell phone disconnected. I tried redialing, but it kept going to his voicemail. I slowly put the phone down and waited for something to happen. The clouds started moving across the sky and the nightly winds started howling. We all huddled together and prayed that the monster would give up.
But I could tell that the monster knew we were there, it saw the footprints we had made while we explored. Each second that passed caused us more fright. I closed my eyes tightly in fear, hoping it would move on from us. That's when I suddenly couldn't feel the wind blowing onto my face.
POOF. The sound caused me to open my eyes. A white smoke cloud appeared out of nowhere in front of me and a familiar dagger emerged through the air.
"You…" the voice said with annoyance, "…You are a huge pain in my ass." I recognized the voice immediately and breathed out a sigh of relief, it was my brother, Honson. My brother had just become a Chief Bandit a couple of nights ago, but he had yet to find a Kandina to replace his Deadly Fin.
As the mushroom eyed Honson, he simply smirked back at it, not afraid of the challenge faced before him. He lunged at the mushroom and we all looked at him in awe.
"Savage blow!" he screamed, causing deep gashes in the mushroom. Honson attacked the beast a few more times before gushes of blood spilled out from the freshly carved wounds and onto the surrounding area. He paused as if he was unsure he should finish the job, but that apprehension changed as he ran it yelling "Assaulter!" As he roared out his attack and hit the mushroom, he soon disappeared from sight only to re-emerge right in front of us. Honson was kneeling on one leg and his left arm supporting him while he held his dagger high in the air in his right hand.
The monster turned around and laughed, thinking it wasn't hit, but the laugh died as a huge cut materialized underneath its cap. A split second later, the cap fell off and the body collapsed on itself. The mushroom had died.
Honson walked toward the now dead monster and pulled out about a thousand mesos from the bloody body and a giant spore. He looked down at it, pulled it out from the remains and shoved it into his bag. He smiled and waved to the rest of us to come out of hiding.
Slowly we crawled out from our hiding spot and got ready to leave, but not before taking one last glimpse at the pile of bloody body parts.