Jesús: "Welcome back my friends. I see now that you are here for the promised longer chapter. I want to thank everyone that has been patient and waited for the new chapters and will get to it right away…" [Disclaimer] "…I don't own th RF series nor anything but the originality of this story. All credit for anime/manga/videogames referenced woes to their owners."
Ch. 15
Raguna POV
Here I am at the Green Ruins. Since the week of checking is done I don't have to deal with the mean guard, although the other guard is still here.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" I asked
"Even though they're done with the checking and is opened for the public they still put us to keep watch here just in case something happens." The guard explained.
"Cool, is it only you here?" I asked
"Yeah, the other guy left when I got here about 10 minutes ago." The guard replied. "Also the research crew is still there even if the place was opened. They say there is still much to discover in there."
"OK. Well then, see ya later." I said and walked into the ruins.
Once I got to the bottom of the entrance staircase I saw the research crew.
"Yo Raguna!" Dan called out.
"'Sup Dan." I replied
"I heard about this morning, kinda bold of you." Dan said teasingly and certainly not being discrete.
"Dan." We heard Mr. Kain's voice "You better keep quiet about that."
"Yes Sir!" Dan said sounding frightened
"Wow Dan, I never thought I'd see the day you cowered like that." I said and Dan nudged me.
"You hereto take the Boss out again?" Dan asked
"Again? You mean is back?" I asked surprised
"Yeah, This is that monster's nest so it's bound to come back daily. At least that's what our records of the place say." Dan informed.
"Well I might as well try. But Kin isn't with me today so it might be difficult." I said and started walking "Well, Maybe I'll do better this time. I have a new secret weapon."
"Cool. We'll be waiting here for you just in case." Dan said and I walked to the descending staircase.
After a few minutes I made it to the fifth floor and walked over to the "Boss Gate".
"Well Time to see how this goes. I just hope nothing serious happens to me this time." I said and touched the gate making it open. I walked into the huge room and like last time the door closed behind me. I drew my sword getting ready for battle as I waited for the Centaur-Bird monster thing-a-ma-bob
The monster started hovering down to its nest in the middle of the room. Once it landed it roared/clucked at me. After it stopped making its noises it threw some razor feathers like last time.
"Don't you ever run out of those?" I said as I dodged them, once I stopped moving I waited for it to rush me. Instead of rushing me it just kept throwing feathers after feathers at me.
"That does it!" I said and charged a fireball and threw it at it. The fireball hit it right on the chest but didn't burn it, it kinda exploded.
The beast didn't seem to like that and rushed me. I moved out of the way at just the right time and it hit the wall making it loose consciousness.
"Now!" I said and charged Fire on one of my swords and Lightning on the other one.
I make a cross slash to begin the attack, after that I jumped spinning and cut it three time before landing on the ground again. Once on the ground I did a double rising slash and landed the hit with both swords. The beast started to get up and move to the middle of the room. Once in the middle of the room it clucked again and started Shining like last time.
"Hyper mode already?" I said mockingly trying to get it to rush me.
The beast did rush me and since it was a tiny bit faster I had to move faster myself. I used some of the Lightning magic and released it through my feet like a lightning speed boost, it worked. The Beast didn't crash on the wall; instead it turned around and tried to ram me again. My magic was still active so I side stepped again, and it turned again. I decided to wait for literally the last second and wait leaning on the wall. The beast rushed me again and right when the beast was right in front of me I moved out of the way, I didn't get through that unhurt though wince I waited for the last moment the Beast actually got to hit my arm and making me get a cut on it, I also twisted my ankle from the quick stepping, but all in all I managed to get out of the way.
"AAAAAHHHH!" I yelled and did a three slash combo on the beast with my good arm, fire sword arm, and it just dropped to the ground in defeat.
"Well, that certainly went better than last time…" I said and picked some of the treasures up; Some feathers, Copper, Iron, a piece of Sapphire, and a hard Talon.
I used the return spell after picking up a few things and went back to the entrance.
"YO! Welcome back. You really didn't take long did you?" Dan said.
"Yeah it was certainly easier. Although I have to say…" I said and showed my arm and the fact I was standing on one foot was also revealed.
"Wow. Well, at least you're not half dead like last time. Here" Dan said and handed me an energy drink. "That should heal your foot." He added and then started wrapping my arm in some bandages.
"Thanks." I said and then Dan finished putting on the bandages.
"Did you use it?" Mr. Kain.
"Define it." I replied
"The magic." Mr. Kain said
"Whoa, hey, you can use magic?" Dan said.
"Yeah I did use it. I wanted to test it." I replied
"Congratulations. I honestly thought it would take you longer to get it down." Mr. Kain said.
"Thanks." I said
"Well I heard there was some secret dungeon under the school. Have you checked it out yet?" Mr. Kain said
"Yeah, this girl in class got lost there and a friends and I went to get her." I replied
"When was this? They just opened it recently." Dan said
"I think about a week ago the day after tomorrow." I replied
"How you get in there?" Mr. Kain asked
"Sneaked in like that time when I snuck in here." I said smirking.
"You punk." Mr. Kain said and started laughing. "Well then how about you go there?"
"I was thinking of doing that after I got out of here. That place is actually the reason I thought of learning magic." I said "In any case. Thanks for the treatment again. I'm gonna go see what I can do over there." I added and left the ruins.
"Well, off to school I go." I said and started running in that direction
"But is Saturday!" the guard said and we both just laughed.
Once at the entrance of the school, which was opened for club activities, I walked right in. I started making my way to the place where the dungeon entrance was and was stopped by one of the guards of the school.
"Hey! What are you doing here? What Club are you with? And why do you have a sword?" the guard asked
"I'm not here with any clubs. I'm here to go into the underground dungeon." I replied
"Sorry kid. Only those who have cleared the Green Ruins are allowed to enter this one." He said and showed me a rule book.
"Wow. When did they make this?" I asked taking a look at the book.
"They just made it yesterday and released it today. We, security guards and policemen, are required to get them ASAP." He replied.
"Well in any case. I already cleared the Green Ruins. Twice in fact." I said
"Really? Show me your Pass." The guard said.
"Pass?" I asked really confused
"Yeah. When you clear the Green Ruins you were given a pass right? You know from the man standing at the entrance of the safe room." the guard said referring to the room before the Boss Room.
"Oh, him. That's what he was there for? Sorry, I used something called the return spell to get to the entrance of the Ruins quicker. I didn't see the guy again after I exited the Ruins." I said
"really? Well, I guess it can't be helped. Wait…Return Spell? You mean that spelled that was used a few hundred years ago to escape dungeons and sometime even get home quicker?" the guard asked
"Yeah that's the one. And before you ask my father thought it to me. It's still thought in my family apparently, I mean he was though by his grandpa and his father. So yeah…" I said
"Wow, well do you have some proof that you cleared the Ruins?" the guard asked
"I picked up these Feathers the Boss dropped right before he disappeared." I answered and handed him a few of the feathers.
"These are the feathers of the Boss. OK, you may enter. Just make sure you get a pass. You can request for it at the nearest police station." The guard said and let me through.
I made it to the dungeons in no time and walked right in.
"Wow…this place is as rundown as it was last time. Then again, who was going to fix this place…?" I said and started walking through the hallway.
After a few minutes I made it to the first set of monsters. They were a bunch of rats and roaches.
"Piece of Cake!" I yelled and rushed right in to attack. With my arm damaged and still healing I decided to only use one arm.
"AAHHHH!" I yelled and swung my sword upwards making a fire ring fly at the rats. The rats moved out of the way and lounged at me. I jumped over them and then the roaches started moving. They jumped to the wall and then ran at me with their gravity defying ability.
"Not good enough." I said and used magic with my free arm…What? I said I wouldn't use my sword with it I never mentioned not using Magic. I created a rune that appeared over the roaches head, and followed them. From the rune a lightning appeared and stuck down on them…or side on them…I don't know but they were on the wall.
"Now, your turn!" I yelled and started spinning while using fire magic with my sword. "Flame Tornado!" I called and then a wall of fire appeared around me and started spreading out and taking out the monsters. "And now you!" I yelled and lunged my sword at the spawner.
"Wow. That was pretty tiring…" I said catching my breath. "Well time to move on."
I walked a few minutes with no monster related problems. Almost every monster I found was a monster I saw in the Green Ruins and very rarely I would come across Rats and Roaches like the ones in the entrance. I made it back to the spot where Uzuki and I met Selphy and like that time there were Rats and a few Ants.
"This time is just you all and me. Bring it!" I said calling all the monsters attention and they rushed me.
A few ants started spitting poison at me and I dodged it, either that or just stepped aside. I threw a fire ball to the ants as a distraction so they would move away and direct my attack at the rats. Speaking of rats, they all attacked me at once. I started swinging at them while I covered my sword with Lightning magic, once the slash hit Lightning would spread and hit surrounding monsters, and got all of the rats in that one swing.
"And the spawner!" I yelled and attacked the spawner. Right when I was in front of it more monsters appeared, rats to be exact, so I stepped away. "Darn it!" I said and slashed at the rats.
The ants started coming back and some spat poison at me while the others tried to bite me. I noticed the poison coming at me so I put my sword up to block. The rats saw I wasn't able to use my sword and tried attacking. I appeared a Rune in front of me and fire a few fireballs at the rats. The rats were defeated and in the process some fireballs hit the spawner and took it out.
"Now you!" I yelled and attacked the ants. After a couple minutes I took them out
I kept moving through the dungeon and after a few more minutes of walking I came across a large door like the boos gate at the Green Ruins…I guess this is the boos room…
"Man what time is it?" I said looking at my phone for the time. It showed [7:30 PM] "Wow! I guess I'll just come back tomorrow." I said and did the return spell. Once at the entrance I noticed a second door that lead somewhere that wasn't the entrance…
I walked through the new door and noticed another room with many doors, about 7 total, and only one was open.
"What is this?" I said and walked through the open door. After a couple minutes walking I came to the end of a hallway and was at the Green Ruins.
"This is awesome! This could make traveling a lot quicker…" I said and was about to leave the Green Ruins. "Wait since I'm here I might as well check it the guy that gives the certificates is here. That way I save time from going to the police station." I said and walked to the descending staircase. Once in the fifth floor I walked up to the man, whom was packing his things up.
"Hey. When did you leave the room?" the man asked when he saw me.
"About 4 hours ago. I used the return spell after beating the boss." I said
"Wow. Is there proof you beat it?" he asked
"Like I did with the guards at the school dungeon, I only have these feathers." I said and handed him the boss feather.
After a couple minutes of examining the feather he gave it back to me smiling.
"Congratulations. You have beaten the Green Ruins." The man said "Now can I please get your name so I can give you your Dungeon Pass."
"Cool. My name is Raguna Strife." I said and the man typed it onto a computer he had with him.
"Age?" He asked again
"16." I replied.
"Any other dungeons you've cleared so far?" he asked
"Not yet." I replied and he handed me an ID card that had a stamp on the back of it.
"There you go. Now just show this to the guard when you want to enter any other dungeon and they'll let you pass." The man said and packed his things.
"Thanks." I said and was about to do the return spell.
"Hey. Do you mind giving me a ride?" the man said holding his things.
"No problem. Just hold on to my shoulder." I said and he did as told. After I did the return spell we were both at the entrance and walked right out.
"Thank you. Now, I'll take my leave. Good luck with the other dungeons." He said and left.
"Thank you!" I called out to the man as he left… "Oh yeah the Door room." I said and put my hand to my mouth and whistled. After a few minutes Kin showed up.
"Hey there girl. Hey I need you to take me somewhere." I said and she barked happily. So I climbed on her back. "Alright, to Cinnamon's house!" I said and she took off.
After a couple minutes we arrived at her house.
"Thanks Kin. Please wait here." I said and walked up to the doorbell to ring it.
"Who is it!" Candy called out through the intercom
"Hey Candy!" I replied
"Cinnamon. Your man is here!" she yelled once again loud enough to hear her without the intercom.
'I swear this girl is going to ruin me.' I said to myself
Cinnamon walked out the front door, blushing like last time.
"Hey Raguna. What's up?" she asked
"I'm actually here to talk to your dad." I said
"Come on in." Cinnamon said and lead me to the Living room.
She told me to wait there and a few minutes later she brought Mr. Kain in.
"Hey Raguna! Something up?" Mr. Kain asked
"He's here to get your consent to go out with Cinnamon!" Candy said making Cinnamon blush.
"Is this true…" Mr. Kain said sounding kinda grim.
"Actually Sir…I wanted to talk to you about the Green Ruins." I said calmly.
"You're no Fun!" Candy said.
"Good. Well what's wrong?" Mr. Kain asked
"I found a room you might be interested in." I said
"I'm listening." Mr. Kain said
"I found a room in the school dungeon that had 7 doors in it. I think each of these door leads to a different set of dungeons or Ruins. But I think it has the same ancient system as the stairs to the last floor. When I entered it there was only one door open and it leaded to the Green Ruins." I informed Mr. Kain of the new discovery.
"This is great. Do you think you can show me this room?" Mr. Kain asked
"Sure thing." I said
"Well then Let's go." He said and walked to the front door.
"Now?" I asked
"Of course." He said and walked through the front door and suddenly a car engine was heard
"Well. I think I'll be going." I said
"Raguna." Cinnamon said, picked up my injured hard and healed it.
"Thanks." I said and walked out the door. "Kin you can go home now. Thanks for waiting." I said and Kin went home.
"Well then to the Green Ruins!" Mr. Kain said and took off.
Jesús: "Well this will be all for this update. It is longer than usual, but to be honest is not as long as I wanted this chapter to be. In any case I hope you all enjoyed it and come back, next time for another update. I think I should make it official and make this story updates every other week. So in other words. I'll have the next update done in two weeks. Since I'll have all that time I'll try to make the chapters at least as long as this one. So anyway, once again thanks for reading and leave a review telling me what you think of the story. See ya!"