Jesús: "Hey everyone. First off, I'd like to say that just now I realized I messed up towards the end of the chapter last time and said "bod gate" instead of "Boss Gate" kinda surprised no one pointed that out. I also think once, if not twice, I accidentally put "she" instead of "he" when Raguna was talking. Usually when I mess up like that my friends are all over me rubbing the fact I messed up on my face. I guess you are all nicer than my friends…or don't care. Either way is update time and it is also time for a fight, and a big one at that. So without further ado…" [Disclaimer] "…I don't own the RF series or anything else referenced in this story. The only thing I own is the originality of it."

Ch. 9

Raguna POV

I gave 5 steps into the room and everything was pretty dark and barely illuminated by some sunlight creaking through a crack on the ceiling. After a couple more steps into the room, the door suddenly closed behind me.

"Um…Kin I don't like the feeling I'm getting from this." I said and Kin started growling in the direction of the middle of the room.

After my eyes focused and got used to the lighting I noticed there was a gigantic bird's nest in the middle of the room, but the nest was empty.

"Now I don't like the look of that." I said. I tried doing the Return spell dad thought me, but it wouldn't work. Kin and I were trapped in this room.

From above a screeching noise, like an animal's roar of some sort, came and then a giant centaur-chicken (Green Ruin boss) came into view.

"Now I really don't like it here." I said and got Dueledge ready for anything.

The gigantic beast landed in the nest and screeched at us. After that it flapped its wings and some of its feathers flew at us. I pictured it wasn't a good idea getting hit by them so I blocked them with Dueledge and one of them actually graced me on the cheek. The feathers were sharp as knives.

"OK. Don't get hit by those directly." I said and then got ready for the beast.

The giant bird thing rushed at us and Kin got me out of the way by getting under my legs and picking me up. Once out of the way, she dropped me and pounced at the half-bird, she lashed on to the right front leg.

"Kin, watch out!" I said and moved in for an attack myself.

When I was close enough, I jumped and tried slashing at the neck, which according to what I knew and had learned through the training time I had, landed some sort of critical hit and really weakened the monsters. The slash barely made a cut on its neck since it didn't reach high enough.

"Man, why does this thing has to be so tall?" I said jumping away to keep my distance. Kin let go and went next to me.

The beast started getting ready to rush us and then it did. Kin and I stepped out of the way and it rammed into the wall, and this made it fall. I figured this was my perfect chance to attack so I started using my sword to attack as fast as I could. The beast started getting up after about 7 slashes, and it didn't look happy. It got back to the nest and then screeched at us again, but this time it started glowing a red-golden color, made me wonder what was different. Right after the beast stopped screeching, and still glowed, it flapped its wings again, but this time I wasn't able to see the feathers flying at me and got stabbed on the left arm. Kin came up to me and started licking the wound.

"I'll be ok Kin. We have to deal with this guy first." I said and picked up my sword with my right hand. "I guess since I can't use my left hand it'll be harder to fight now. I guess I could try that…" I said and split the sword with the one hand and one of the two fell on the ground. I picked up the sword that was on my hand and put it in my mouth and picked up the other sword (Like Zoro from One Piece just that using only two swords and not three).

"Let's do this." I mumbled with the sword in my mouth and both Kin and I rushed the beast.

Kin again pounced and lashed on to the front leg of the beast trying to catch it attention and give me an opening to attack. While the beast looked away I jumped on its back pushing off the back talons. Once on its back I proceeded to try and get closer to the head, which wasn't easy since it was moving too much from Kin's attack. I jumped forward diving off its back and slashing down on the beast and getting a good hit on its neck with the sword in my mouth. Before getting too far from it I spun in midair and slashed again with my right sword.

Kin let go and caught me before hitting the ground. The beast was really angry about this and rushed us again and Kin moved. Instead of running into the wall again, it stopped and turned towards us and rushed again. Kin wasn't able to move in time and we got hit, the bird backed away into the nest again. Kin got up and whined on me.

"I'm ok. At least better than I thought I'd be after that." I said and only picked up one sword. "At my current state I can't do much. We have to finish it on the next hit." I finished and waited for the beast's attack.

The beast rushed at us with no second though and since Kin and I were at the wall we just timed the rush and stepped out of the way making it ram into the wall again and attack while it was down.

"Now!" I yelled and Kin started clawing and I slashed as quickly and fiercely as I could. It was starting to get up and we were too exhausted to survive another attack.

"ARGH!" I yelled and thrust my sword into the beast's front right leg. The beast flew back into the middle of the room where the nest was.

"Darn it, did that not work?" I said and the beast didn't attack, in fact it just fell over on its side and started to slowly vanish leaving some things behind.

"What's all this. First off, I'm guessing even this monster went back to the first forest. But secondly, how come it dropped these things? I mean, I understand feathers, but what about this?" Raguna said looking at the things left behind by the giant beast. There were a couple feathers, some scrap pieces of copper, a piece of iron, and lastly an emerald.

"Meh, I guess taking these wouldn't hurt. Besides, they could be taken prove that I got this guy done with." I said and picked up some pieces of the scrap copper, the iron piece, a couple feathers as a trophy for my arm, and the emerald. Lastly I picked up the sword that was stabbed into the monster's leg and went to pick up the other sword to put it back together.

"Well kin time to go back." I said and got on her back then did the return spell.

Normal POV

The research lab was starting to pack their things to leave when suddenly Raguna and Kin appeared on the entrance.

"Raguna!" Dan yelled seeing the blood coming from Raguna's arm, the bruises and scratches he had.

Kin walked up to the group of scientist and let Raguna fall slowly to the ground so the adults could give him a look.

"Hey Dan. What's up?" Raguna said weakly.

"What happened to you? It looks like you ran a marathon through a trap field." Dan said and picked Raguna up to put him on a table that was still up.

"I kinda got to the boss gate." Raguna said.

"Wow! Were the Monsters protecting it that strong?" Dan said

"That's not it..." Kain said looking at Kin and treating her wounds. "…Regular monsters don't make this kind of injuries."

"Then you're saying?" Dan asked a bit confused.

"Yup, I took the big guy out." Raguna said and pulled out the treasures.

"Wow, this is amazing. Now I have the honor of knowing someone who has made it and beaten the so called boss." Dan said "and to think that it's just a kid. Here, drink this. It should at least give you some stamina back." Dan said and gave me an energy drink like the one from before.

"You know, I still have the other one you gave me." Raguna said and took the bottle.

"Is ok. I got many of them at home." Dan said putting some bandages on Raguna's arm.

"The treatment he'll be getting here won't be enough, we need to take him someplace else, at least some place more sanitary than here." another researcher said.

"I'll take him home. I think I can help him. Besides, it would be too troublesome if we took him to the hospital." Kain said and everyone said ok and got out of there. Raguna was out in Kain's car along with Kin and then Kain drove home. Raguna passed out of exhaustion even after the energy drink.

A few hours later Raguna started waking up. Everything was lit enough for him to see, but the room he was in was dark non-the-less.

"I see you're starting to wake up." Someone said and Raguna looked in the direction of the voice.

"Hey Cinnamon. How long have I been out?" Raguna asked seating up.

"A couple hours." Cinnamon replied

"Wow! There is no pain anymore. And the cut is gone." Raguna said looking at his arm.

"Although you were bleeding a lot, the cut wasn't actually too deep. You didn't lose too much blood, but that's mostly the reason you passed out." Cinnamon replied.

"But if I've been out for about two hours, how come I don't have a scar? I mean what kind of treatment helps enough as to not even leave a scar?" Raguna asked

"We did a "special" treatment." Cinnamon said.

"What was it? That is, may I know what it was?" Raguna said

"Cinnamon used some Magic. She used to use Magic a few years ago, she hasn't been doing much of it anymore lately, but I thought she could help." Kain said walking into the room. "Is good to see you're ok now."

"Raguna! I heard what you did. Was the monster scary?" Candy said running into the room.

"Hey Candy. The monster wasn't that scary. Either that or seeing all the monsters just got me used to them." Raguna replied.

Raguna and Kin spent some time there resting before actually going back home. While there Raguna played some games with Candy, and even did his homework with Cinnamon.

"Thanks for helping me." Raguna said from the front gate.

"No problem Kid. You saved my life; this is just paying the debt." Kain replied with a smile.

"Well, I'll be leaving now. See ya tomorrow Cinnamon." Raguna said and went home along with Kin.

After taking a shower and explaining to his parents where he was, he went to bed and slept until morning.

The next day when he got to school everyone started talking in a big group.

"What is it now? Another rumor about me and Cinnamon?" Raguna asked irritated.

"That's not the case this time…" Erik said. "…Apparently, the Janitors found some secret entrance on the storage area of the school. Apparently it goes underground." Erik said

"That's not all, the Janitors say they could hear a voice coming from inside. When they went to check, they couldn't see anyone, and then a monster attacked them." Mist said

'Someone in some secret room of the school? I think I'll check it out.' Raguna said to himself and then class started.

Jesús: "Chapter end. Man, not gonna lie, usually it's easy for me writing battle scenes. But this time, for some reason, I actually kind of struggled. In any case, I'd like to thank Hoytti once again for the name of the sword and a chapter idea. As you can see although Raguna is just out of one dungeon but he is on his way to another. So if you want to see what happens next please come back next time and join me for another chapter. Thank you for reading and please leave a review, you know let me know what you think. See ya!"