Ren's POV
I jumped out of the way as a burst of orange energy escaped from Aro's fist.
"Watch where you're aiming Aro!" I exclaimed, extremely irritated.
"Watch out! There's someone behind you!" The voice was in my head, and belonged to one of my teammates, Yui.
I quickly whirled around, and the person trying to attack me phased right through me. I smirked, sometimes looks can be deceiving, I know mine sure are. I had a pretty scrawny build as a 1I 7-year-old, and my dull gray hair was far from threatening. The only thing remotely threatening about me were my eyes, which were a glowing silver color.
"How are you doing Aro? Any luck getting rid of these annoying Dark Wizards?" I yelled towards Aro, as I myself tried to knock out one of the Dark Wizards.
"No luck!" He exclaimed, clearly agitated that even his powerful magic wasn't strong enough to knock out even a single Dark Wizard.
And then… I fainted. I had no idea why, I just felt a searing pain, and lost consciousness. When I came to, my wrists were shackled to a mossy stone wall, together with Aro and Yui.
"Do you guys have any idea what happened?" I asked, my voice echoing throughout the deserted room.
"No idea." Aro and Yui muttered, almost simultaneously. I groaned, right before losing consciousness once again.
For this story to make any sense, I have to go back about 24 hours, when Aro, Yui, and I were picking a mission at the Silver Fish guild hall.
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I sighed as Aro and Yui dragged me over to the mission board, we all really needed some cash, living alone at 17 isn't always the best thing.
"I know we all really need really need some money to pay rent, and, well, eat, but lets not take any missions that we know we won't be able to complete." But, as always, Aro and Yui completely ignored me, the voice of reasoning.
"Guys! Look at this one!" Aro called out. "All we have to do is bring down this dark guild, which supposedly isn't very strong, and we get 3,000,000 Jewel! That's 1,000,000 Jewel for each of us!"
While it did have a great reward, the mission was A-Class rated, and all of us, me, Aro, and Yui, were all still C-Class. I sighed. "Aro, this mission does have a great reward, but it's A-Class rated, and we're all still C-Class."
"Oh shut up Ren!" Aro exclaimed. "These rating are just suggestions anyway!" Of course, in the end, I gave in, I always did. So, there we were, a bunch of teenagers walking through the outskirts of Magnolia, heading towards a Dark Guild were knew almost nothing about.
We knew a grand total of 2 things about this guild, its name, and its location. It was the Shadow Trail "Independent" Guild, which basically meant they would take any mission illegal for a normal guild. All we knew about its location was that it was west of our guild, the Silver Fish Guild.
After hours upon hours of traveling west, we finally reached a massive, ornately decorated building. We found a spot about a mile west of the building to camp out, after all, nighttime was fast approaching.
When morning came, we decided to stay hidden until we had a definite strategy to take down the guild. We stared at the the building from afar for at least 3 hours before we decided that there were no security flaws, and that the best thing we could do was attack directly. As always,
Yui hung back to use her Future Perception Magic, which allowed her to see almost every possible outcome of the immediate future, and her Telepathy, which let her communicate with people from far away.
Aro and I, who used more offensive magic, advanced apprehensively. After maybe 5 minutes of fighting face to face with the Dark Wizards, Aro and I were captured, and apparently, so was Yui.
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