With a little huff, Raguna heaved the hoe over her shoulder and followed Mist across the small wooden bridge. Mist was up ahead, waiting near a shabby looking home which once could have appeared quite nice, especially with the ornate designs above its doorway. They looked similar to the designs that hung above Mist's doorway. Mist hummed loudly to herself; in her limited time with Mist, Raguna found that the blonde's kindness was only matched by her quirkiness.

"Mist? What's this place?" asked Raguna.

"Your new home, my dear!" cried Mist with a shrill of joy as if she was about to explode with excitement. The fact that Mist hopped up as she said it also made Raguna have second thoughts about this arrangement.

But what was a girl to do? Raguna had woken up on Mist's front door, begging for food and water- and Mist gave Raguna what she had. True, Mist had first give Raguna a cheap looking hoe and a watering can that looked like it was about to fall apart before she gave Raguna food, but she was grateful for the stranger's kindness none the less. In fact, everything was strange to Raguna now…

"Raguna?"

Raguna snapped back into reality. "Hm? Yes?"

"I hope I didn't rush you into a name you didn't like," said Mist, "I mean, don't get me wrong, but doesn't Raguna sound rather masculine to you? Jill is a perfectly nice name too… though some what plain…"

"Oh no!" she reassured Mist, "Raguna has a tough ring to it, you know? I feel as though I might need to be tough right about now." Raguna looked out into the field, "Especially now." The farm was a disaster! There were stones, tree stumps and weeds as far as the land went! No wonder mist was so eager to offer a complete stranger help, she didn't want to do the work all by herself! Raguna sighed.

Other then the horrid field, it was a beautiful spring day. Wildflowers grew along the far side of the field and the makeshift well in front of the house. The clouds overhead were poofy and white. And the odd pig-like creature on running toward the two of them…

"MIST! Watch out!" shouted Raguna as she pushed her companion out of the way of the rampaging monster. "Stay back!" Mist did as she was told and distanced herself from the fray.

Raguna charged forward with hoe in hand and swung at the creature, bashing it against the shoulder. The pig faced monster cried sharply and took a swing at Raguna's head. Raguna ducked and kicked down at the monster's legs making it fall to the ground. Raguna scrambled to her feet and thrust her hoe down, missing the creature who had rolled to the side quick enough to miss the hoe's blade, but its shirt was caught and torn by the hoe. Raguna was thrown of balance and when she looked up once more she saw the monster swing its club as hard as it could right at her! In the final moment Raguna dodged the club and swung her hoe into the monster's back. The creature fell to the ground and did not move.

"Oh Raguna!" Mist rushed to her side. Raguna was a bit surprised. "Are you all right! You did wonderfully! It was inspiring! Truly it was! I think that perhaps you have some real talent! Perhaps you are an Earthmate! Oh my goodness! What a day! What a day! The way you fought that monster!"

"Oh! I hope I didn't kill it…" Raguna looked over her shoulder just in time to see the pig faced creature scurry back over the bridge, limping as fast as it could. "Oh! I think he's really hurt… I didn't want to hurt the poor thing…"

"Oh I doubt you would have killed it, Raguna- monsters don't die, their spirits return to the First Forest. But never mind that! You have to be an Earthmate Raguna! You just have to be- there would be no other way a monster could be called forth like that!!"

"An Earthmate?" repeated Raguna. Mist began to ramble on, however Raguna had a funny feeling that this was the start of something big. Rather the start of it all… Raguna had no memories past a few days ago, wandering the forests for a place to rest. She looked about the farm, was this where she would stay and rest?

"Are you listening Raguna?!" With Mist around, that was highly questionable indeed.

Note from the Author: Hello everyone! Just a quick note I'd like to share. If any of you have read my other fanfic "Beauty and the Beloved" fear not! I will have the final 6 chapters up very soon to complete that love story. As for this little ditty- I think it's quite obvious I love Harvest Moon and I felt it unfair to make the cool "Rune Factory Fantasy Harvest Moon" without a female game counter part. Thus; I made one. As the story goes on we'll meet several of our favorite characters from the Rune Factory game as well as some 'revamped' characters in this one. I plan to have the next chapter up soon and I hope you guys will enjoy all the little surprises I have in store. Oh! I also have drawn out the female Raguna; I'll have a link to that pic soon. Thanks everyone for reading! Please comment with any suggestions you might have, they really help! Bye!