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Life on the Mist Farm

Second Week of Spring: Sightseeing

Raguna was quickly getting used to the town and everyone accepted him as if he always lived in Kardia. Emmett invited him to have a drink with him, though Raguna doesn't favor drinking that much, Jasper invited him to a big feast where he caught several glares at him by Bianca, Melody accidentally peeked at him when he slipped in the bath house (the both felt a little awkward around each other the next day but they got over it), and Rosetta's still teasing him and Mist about the other day when he went into her shop to pick up some more seeds, of course Lukas was there and annoyed Rosetta too, although Raguna started to twitch a little also.

"So it's the middle of your second week in Kardia and you've been doing well here," Godwin told him while walking down the streets with Raguna.

"Yeah, well I probably couldn't have gotten this far without Mist's help and everyone else's kindness."

"I guess Mist chose well for a person to tend to her farm. She's a little odd at times but deep down, she's a good girl at heart."

"Yeah, I guess, hehe."

"Well, I guess I could give you this pass here to start exploring the Carmite cave."

"Thanks a lot Mayor!"

"Just be careful in there, Dr. Edward's not a warrior and he can't go into caves to save you."

"Okay, I understand." Though now Raguna has a problem, he could probably use his hoe like he did last time but chances are that the monsters he heard about in the cave were many times stronger than the one he fought before.

"I'm really sorry Raguna, but Zavier took the last available spell book with him," Russell said regrettably.

"I guess that's fine, do you at least have anything I could possibly use?"

"Well, I do have an extra escape spellbook if you want it, I really don't have any use for it anymore so you can have it if you want."

"Really? Thanks!"

"Just think of it as a belated welcoming present." And so now he had a spellbook that he could use but now he needs a sword, so he decided to pay a visit to Leo.

"Sorry lad, I can't make it any cheaper than that, I don't have a lot of material since there aren't a lot of people here who goes into those caves."

"Are you sure?"

"I'd be 'appy to just give you a sword but I haven't constructed one in a while, not since Zavier asked for another one after he gone and broke the previous one I forged for him."

"I guess if that's the only way."

"Tell you what lad, I have an extra hammer you can use for crushing rocks, mining and can be used as a weapon like that axe you've got there. But just wait til tomorrow cause I'll get some materials for the sword you wanted."

"Okay thanks." So he decided to use the rest of the day to explore. Which at first lead him towards the Carmite cave and explore very little of it, so he reached the entrance of it and saw some sort of weird device and it's teleporting monsters.

"What is that?"

"Mist? What are you doing here?"

"I heard you were going into Carmite cave so I decided to see what's up, and I'm glad I did, is that the reason for that monster on the farm last week?"

"I'm not sure, but it's coming for us!" Raguna pulled out his axe, which was a lot heavier than the hoe he used before, so he fumbled around for a bit until he finally killed it, "Okay, that does it."

"Raguna, I think another one's coming after us."

"What?" Another monster appeared out of nowhere and tried to attack Raguna, luckily he blocked the sword with his axe but then got swatted away from the monster's open hand.

"Raguna!" Mist ran towards him in order to protect him and before the monster swung down, it disappeared and teleported away and standing behind it was Zavier sheathing his sword.

"Well, there goes another one," Zavier said, dusting off his gloves and then looking at the two of them with Mist holding tightly on to him. "Um… did I miss something?" while he seemed calm, for the most part, in him mind he's panicking thinking "Oh god, oh god, oh god, Mist likes Raguna already? But it's only been a week!"

"Uh, Zavier?" Raguna noticed that Zavier was actually panicking out in the open. And then Zavier forgot to notice another monster sneak up behind him. "Zavier, behind you!" Raguna immediately took Zavier's sword and sent the monster away and at the same time destroyed the strange machine. "okay, I think that should be the last of them."

"Wow, you're pretty skilled with a sword Raguna." Mist stated, oblivious to Zavier's reactions.

"What? She's praising him too? I won't lose Mist to him! I'll impress her with my sword skills!" unaware at the fact that he started mumbling to himself.

"Um… Zavier, you're talking to yourself again…"

"What?" he started to panic again "Oh no… did she hear what I said?!" but actually regained his composure and actually started talking normally again. "Ahem, well, we're probably not see anyone monsters for a while."

"Why is that?" Raguna asked.

"Well, from what I got, that strange device is what is spawning the monsters."

"Really? I wouldn't guess that they would decide to put it back while we're not looking are they?"

"Actually they do, I destroyed this one and the one after it and after about a day or so, I see the same machines I took out."

"I see, so take these out and they put one back in… but who are putting these in?" Mist thought about it for a second and came up with an answer.

"What about the Sechs Empire?" She wondered

"You mean that mechanized empire near us, it couldn't be, we have nothing here that they want."

"I guess you're right, but what are we going to do?"

"The only thing we can do, take these things out and get to the bottom of this mess," Raguna told the both of them.

"I guess we can't do much about it now, I'm going to go to the bath house now, I'll see you two later." And with that, Mist left the cave and seeing that there wasn't much they had to do here, Raguna and Zavier decided to leave. At least they were until…

"Well here's your sword back," Raguna handed back Zavier's sword, but then Zavier yelled…

"I will surpass you and Mist will be impressed with me! I'll win her back from you!"

"But I," a confused Raguna said, "we're not…"

"I know you like Mist and I know Mist likes you too! Rosetta and everyone else said so!"

"Well, that explains a lot" Raguna thought, slightly annoyed. "Look, Zavier I just met Mist about a week ago and we're just friends…" is what he says but… "He's not listening isn't he…"

"We may be friends but I will win Mist's heart."

"I don't think it's right to make this like a competition… and he's walking away and not listening to me again…" but it was true, he didn't like Mist like that the way Zavier does… at least that's what he told himself. "But maybe… I think… I mean I think she's cute and all… but…" though while thinking about this he walked outside and relized that it is still the middle of the day, so he decided to walk around the outskirts of town a little bit more and eventually reached the Kasimir Ruins and found someone there.

"Oh, I didn't expect to have a visitor here."

"I didn't expect to see anyone here."

"You are not afraid?"

"Why would I be? I mean after Mist, you can't really get any weirder than her."

"Oh, I see you've met Sharron!" Raguna turned around to see Melody standing near where Sharron and Raguna are. "Sharron, this is Raguna, he's the one I talked about the other day."

"I see, you're the one with the lost memory like her."

"Melody, you lost your memory too?" said a surprised Raguna.

"Well, yeah, I come to talk to Sharron a lot because… she's like me, she doesn't have any parents and I lost mine about a year ago."

"Oh… I'm sorry Melody…"

"But, I know I'm not alone because I have her, and you and everyone else in the town."

"Yeah, I guess that's true."

"Oh was this also that one boy you were talking about yesterday?"

"What are you talking about Sharron?" asked a curious Melody

"You know the one you accidentally peeked at and said that he had a nice…" and somehow Melody immediately ran at light speed to shut Sharron's mouth and her whole body was bright red.

"hehehe… let's not talk about it here…" Melody whispered trying to make sure that Raguna didn't hear a word out of Sharron's mouth about that time where Melody accidentally peeked at Raguna, hoping that wouldn't make such an awkward moment like that time before.

"Hey Melody, I'm taking a bath here today, here's the 10G."

"Okay! The changing room is off to the right as always." About 20 minutes later, Raguna got out of the bath, unfortunately, Melody forgot to mention that she had everything cleaned recently so about a couple seconds after getting out, Raguna slipped and fell. His yell made Melody a bit concerned so, forgetting that the side Raguna was in was for guys only, she ran into the room.

"Hey, are you all…" obviously cut off by the fact that Raguna was sitting there with only a towel, she and Raguna were just staring at each other for about five seconds until the both of them screamed their lungs out. It was loud enough to be heard by Mist where, at the time, was at her house and was the furthest away from the bath house. The both of them were so embarrassed, the more or less started to glow this really deep shade of red. "Um… uh… I'm sorry… I didn't… oh… wow…. Uh…"

"um… I'm just… going to… get my clothes now…" so he ran into the changing room, quickly put on his clothes and then started to walk out. "Um… thanks for… uh… the bath… and…"

"No problem, I uh… hope you come back soon… yeah… uh…" The both of them felt too embarrassed to talk to each other at this point so then Raguna just left only to find Camus right there about to go in to see what happened.

"Hey Raguna, did anything happen in there, I heard a loud scream, is everything okay?" said a concerned Camus.

"Yeah… uh… everything's just fine, I… uh… gotta go now… sorry." And with that, Raguna just ran out of there leaving Camus a bit curious, so he walked inside to talk to Melody about it.

"Hey, is everything alright in here? I heard screaming and…"

"Oh, um… Me and Raguna… just saw something we probably shouldn't have…"

"You mean like a spider or something?"

"Yeah… sure… I guess you could s-say that… maybe something bigger..."

Fortunately for Melody, Raguna didn't catch on to what Sharron was going to say… "So Raguna, how's the farm lately?"

"It's going along pretty nicely, I mean I get a lot of help from Mist too."

"Really, that's pretty great."

"Melody also tells me that you are about to go into the Carmite cave," Sharron asked.

"Yeah, it's a lot harder than I thought, I mean I haven't bought a sword yet so I really shouldn't say that now."

"But still I can see some potential in you."

"Yeah, Mist said the same thing."

"You know, speaking of Mist," Melody said smiling, "how are things between you two? Hehehe."

"Not you too…" Raguna obviously a bit annoyed that everyone thinks that the both of them like each other and are dating "look, we're not dating…"

"But you like her don't you?"

"Well yeah I like her," Raguna said, realizing the statement he forgot to rephrase, "I mean, not like that… I like her as a friend and that's it for now."

"So you're saying that you might hook up with her eventually?" Raguna realized that he can't fight this so he sighed and decided to leave.

"I'm going to… leave now… I guess I'll see you guys later."

"Okay later!" And both Sharron and Melody both waved at Raguna as he made his way back home. On the way there, he saw Mist heading towards town and decided to talk to her.

"Hey Mist, wait up!" He obviously got her attention as she turned towards him and he ran towards her after she looked. "What are you doing waking towards the town?" he asked when caught up to her.

"Oh, I'm just heading to Jean and Rosetta's place to pick up some things; I think they said they had a couple of accessories I might like too."

"Really now," Raguna responded sounding a bit curious, "oh by the way, I got something for you, I know you like radishes so before I stashed the other ones away, I saved one for you." And out of his bag was a fresh (and oddly clean) radish.

"Oh Raguna, thank you so much!"

"It's no big deal, I just had a lot at the time and I," Raguna stopped after looking at the sky, "Oh, sorry Mist, you should hurry and get that stuff, the sun is starting to set."

"Oh, I guess I'll see you tomorrow then!" Mist started running off towards the town hoping there was still daylight. Raguna just stared at her for a while and Mist stopped for a second to look back at him before continuing to run to the shop.

At that time the both of them were thinking, "How do I feel about you…this isn't right... I just met you and I…"