Jesús: "Hey everyone. I am SO sorry for the long wait. My laptop had been acting up and I hadn't had much of a chance to work on this nor my other story. Man, I first get the Blue screen and then Word won't start up. Just my luck. I managed to get my laptop's word to work so might as well try to work on this, anyway. Let's see how long it took me to make this with these problems, is Thursday May 9th. Ok now to the chapter shall we…" [Disclaimer] "…I don't own the RF series nor any anime/manga/videogame referenced in this story. All credit for them goes to their respective owners."
Ch. 22
Raguna POV
Done with school one more day. I just hope I can have some enjoyment after this.
"So Raguna. Is been a while since we've played Dungeon Crawler." Cinnamon said
"It has hasn't it? Man, I haven't even touched that since you and I played it." I replied
"Weren't you going to play it with Mist too?" Cinnamon asked
"I was, but then after I got together with you she got all defensive and has been avoiding me. You see, she always plays around about wanting to be together with me…if you know what I mean…" I replied
"Oh…I didn't know she liked you that way?" Cinnamon asked
"Yeah. You see since we were little we heard stories about great-great grandpa Raguna. How he mastered all three dungeons, saved Whale Island, and even how he and great-great grandma Mist met and ended up getting together to create our family." I said
"Wait…you two were named after your great-great grandparents?" Cinnamon asked
"Yeah why?" I asked
"I was named after my great-great grandmother too." Cinnamon said.
"Wow. That's intense. Wait by any chance; have your family ever talked about how you looked like your great-great grandma?" I asked
"Yeah, whenever I see my grandma she keeps telling me how I look so much like my great-great grandmother." Cinnamon asked
"Wow…that's crazy…wow, talk about off-topic." I said
Cinnamon raised her hand to her mouth and giggled. "Is true. You were telling me about Mist."
"Oh yeah, well since she heard those stories as a little girl and we grew up together she's been growing a bit of a Cousin Complex. She has tried to come on to me in the pass. So I guess that you and I getting together just made her angry that she can't get with me now." I finished
"I can see how that could happen. I feel a little bad for Mist though she won't be able to get together with you even if I wasn't with you." Cinnamon said
"Yeah, my friends used to tell me to get with her. that it would be ok since we're just cousins. I just don't think it's right…But anyway, want to come over and maybe play some Dungeon Crawler?" I asked
"Sure, sounds good to me." Cinnamon said and we started walking to my house.
When we arrived I opened the door for her and we walked in.
"I'm home…!" I yelled there was no reply "…and I have company!" I said and then my mom came out from the living room.
"Oh Cinnamon. You've been coming both into conversation and over quite often. It is almost as if you were Raguna's Girlfriend." Mom said
"Actually Mom…" I replied. I had forgotten to tell my parents.
"Whoa? Wait? What? Kain actually let you get with his daughter?" Dad yelled and popped his head out from the living room.
"Kain?" both Cinnamon and I asked
"Do you know my father?" Cinnamon asked
"Yeah. Back in High School we used to be the randomest/stupidest duo in campus." Dad said
"Stupidest? That's doesn't sounds like Mr. Kain at all. Also Last time I checked randomest wasn't a word in the dictionary." I said
"I'm serious. We were both really stupid for our own good. But we were the top of our class too. So while we were the stupidest in campus we were also the smartest." Dad said
"And most handsome too." Mom said and started kissing Dad.
"Mom, Dad, Hello we're still here." I said
"Right sorry." They both said
"So how's Cari?" Mom asked
"You also know my mom?"
"Yeah, we were best friends at the time. We started going out with your dads at around the same time." Mom said
"Now that you mention that Kain stopped being as stupid as he used to be. He still was random as all hell but not as stupid as usual." Dad said
"Wow…" both Cinnamon and I said
"So then, what brings you two here today?" Mom asked
"We were going to play in my room." I replied
"Son if you need to borrow a co-"
"We're going to play Dungeon Crawler." I added right before my dad finished.
"Oh…then carry on." Dad said and we both just went to my room.
The two of us walked into my room and put our bags off to the side. I started up the system and set up the Linkers.
"Ready?" I asked handing Cinnamon the LinkerV2
"Yeah." Cinnamon replied and put on the Linker.
"I'll just lie on the floor again." I said
"There's enough space here for both of us." Cinnamon said then there was a small 'ow' coming from behind the door.
"Give me a second…" I said and walked over to the door and opened it. Both my parents fell into my room. "Wow…is that really all the trust there is for me?"
"I told you to be quiet!" Mom said
"You're the one that hit me." Dad said. When Cinnamon said that last sentence apparently my mom jerked back and hit my dad on the gut making him yelp in pain.
"How about a little privacy? I mean even though we are only playing videogames. If you need anything, talk through the microphone on the desk and we'll hear you." I sad and then my parents left the room.
Cinnamon and I both laid down on my bed but even though there was enough space for both of us to be side to side Cinnamon cuddled onto me and laid her head on my shoulder putting her arm around me.
"Ready?" I asked
"Yeah." Cinnamon said
"Synch!" we both said and started up the game.
Once we spawned we were in the Inn we last left off on. I was back to being a swordsman, hopefully soon to be dual-swordsman, and Cinnamon a Mage.
"OK then, are you ready?" I asked opening the quest log.
"Yeah, what should we do first?" Cinnamon asked
"Let's see…Last time we played I managed to pick up some side quest to level up and also some area maps to know 1) where we're going and 2) where the monsters around our level are at so we can level grind. I think we should go to the caves north from here. The level rage is about 5 levels ahead of us but if we play and manage to get through then we can get a lot of EXP and quick." I said explaining the plan.
"Sounds good to me. Just let me equip something before we take off." Cinnamon said and then a light appeared on her and she appeared dressed in a black leather suit and on her back there was a new staff that on the tip it had a crescent moon.
"I like the new look. The weapon also looks like it could come in handy in close combat." I said
"Thank you. This is just a starter set though. We'll find better armor later in the game." Cinnamon said
"Aware of it. That's why I decided to spend my money on info. Well then Shall we?" I said and opened the door to of the room.
Cinnamon and I started walking and soon we reached the village gate.
"Are you sure you're ready to take off?" I asked one last time.
"I think that's my line." She said laughing and then the two of us just walked out of the village and towards the cave.
On the way we took out a few monsters and managed to go up 2 levels each.
"Man I am going to miss the simplicity of this when we reach level 30+." I said
"I'm sure we'll be fine. Maybe leveling won't be as easy then, but there will still be a challenge." Cinnamon replied and once again we walked towards the cave.
When we finally made it to the cave we went inside of it and started looking around for lout boxes and enemy monsters. The quest we set out to do was to find a rare figure of a legendary beast. The item was the major's but on his travels he dropped it inside the cave somewhere and asked us to retrieve it.
"So where are we going to find this figure?" Cinnamon asked looking through a chest we came across.
"Not sure. The quest info just said it was in this cave. It might be a drop item, it might be a lout item, heck it might even be a boss drop item. I am really hoping is not that last one because I don't think we are ready for any level bosses right now." I replied
"Oh, I sure we'd be ok. We are a great mage and an amazing swordsman. We can take anything." Cinnamon said sounding, in all honesty, a little sexy-like.
"Is that teasing I hear? I could really go for a little bit of action right about now." I replied making Cinnamon blush. "What's wrong? I'm talking about the fact that monsters are starting to get closer."
"Oh, right…" Cinnamon said and drew her magic-staff.
The monsters started entering the area we were in and we got ready for battle.
"Well? Do you want to take the Slimes and the Boars? Or maybe you want the Goblins and the Living Plants?" I asked
"I'll take the Slimes and Boars. I think it'll be easier on me." Cinnamon said and rushed the enemy.
"Alright." I said and rushed the enemy too.
Normal POV
Cinnamon neared her enemy and swung her staff over her head placing the bladed end towards the enemy and then lunged at the closest boar. The boar's health went down to a little over half and then she continued her attack by hitting the boar with the un-bladed end of her staff, which even though un-bladed her attack stats were now increased and she gave it enough damage to make it stumble back.
"Fireball!" she yelled and blasted a fireball towards the boar finishing it up. More boars came up from behind and she jumped over them.
"Earth Spikes!" She yelled and few earth spikes took off towards the previously attacking boars, these spikes either hit a weak spot or were the strong element against the boars because the boars died in that one hit.
"Raguna! Attacking the Boars from behind or using earth based moves takes the down easiest!" Cinnamon yelled passing on her new found info.
"Thanks, but those are your target!" Raguna said as he clashed swords with a goblin.
Raguna then pushed the Goblin away and he did a quick cross slash across the Goblin's chest taking the goblin down. More goblins attacked and he just spun around creating a vortex like aura around him.
"So that's "Spin Vortex"?" Raguna said as he saw the Goblins fly off and dying from the hit of the spinning blade.
"What do you mean?" Cinnamon said
"I just saw the name of the attack in my skill tree; I never really did any research on how to do it or how it looked." Raguna said and then jumped spinning vertically and then slamming his sword into the ground barely missing a walking plant. From the surrounding area of the hit fire raised and burned the plants to death.
"…and that was "Flame Geyser"." Raguna said "It is very convenient I had those skills from the beginning." Raguna said
"Then again those are the basic elements learned in RPGs." Cinnamon replied and then continued her melee attacks against the slimes.
"I though, you didn't play much videogames." Raguna replied
"I played a few Turn-Based-Strategy RPGs when I didn't feel like reading a book." Cinnamon replied and used her fireball again to try and get rid of the slimes faster.
"So you do have a bit of gaming experience aside from last time we played." Raguna replied as he got his sword back handed slashed at the last remaining plant monster. Right after he finished the monster he threw his sword at the slime Cinnamon was fighting and lowered it's health enough for Cinnamon to kill it in one hit.
They started picking up the dropped Items from the monsters and then they started scanning the items.
"Did you get the figure?" Cinnamon asked
"Nope, I'm guessing you didn't either?" Raguna replied and then he closed his inventory.
"No. We should keep looking." Cinnamon said and she closed her inventory.
After they walked for a few minutes they found some lout and still none of them was the required item.
"I have a real bad feeling about this…" Raguna said scratching the bridge of his nose.
"Why's that?" Cinnamon asked.
"Well, according to the map. There are only two chests left in this dungeon. Also, we are so deep into the cave that you could say we could encounter the boss in any second." Raguna explained the reasoning behind his fear.
"So in other words we either find the lost item, or fight a boss to get it?" Cinnamons asked
"Yup, but this being a side quest makes my fear come down, if it's a side quest there is no way the boss has the item." Raguna said and the two kept walking.
Soon enough they reached the boss room door. The two remaining treasure chest rested right next to the door, one at each side.
"Well, let's get the chest then." Cinnamon said
"Right." Raguna replied and then two went to the chest.
Both opened the chest at the same time.
"I found it!" Cinnamon said happily.
"Watch out!" Rauna said as he pushed Cinnamon out of an incoming attack.
"What was that?" Cinnamon asked
"My chest was a Mimic." Raguna said and drew his sword.
"But what was that blast just now?" Cinnamon asked getting ready for battle too.
"As if Mimics weren't annoying enough apparently they decided to make them have laser breath. So in short, they can shot lasers out of their mouths." Raguna explained and started running at the Mimic dodging laser after laser.
"Raguna, I'll call its attention. You hit its weak spot. It should be on its back." Cinnamon said and charged many fireballs and blasted them one after the other while running in the opposite direction to Raguna.
"Wait! I never even agreed to the plan!" Raguna said and then a larger than normal laser flew towards Cinnamon.
Cinnamon took the hit directly and then dropped to the ground as smoke appeared from the spot where the laser made contact. Her health was at just below a quarter and the Mimic was still targeted on her.
"I won't let you get to her!" Raguna yelled as he jumped high and started spinning vertically again. "Flame…! Geyser!" Raguna yelled again as he slammed his sword into the Mimic instead of the ground.
The Mimic burst into flames and then vanished.
"Cinnamon! Cinnamon, are you ok?" Raguna asked
"Y-yeah…I guess the new equipment helped me survive that attack." Cinnamon said as she started getting up and pulled out a small health potion.
After Cinnamon rested for a second the two decided to go back to the village and turn in the mission. The Major rewarded the two with some money as well as some equipment; Raguna got a new sword, although it was the same one he already had. And Cinnamon got a new witch dress that increased her Physical Defense and Magic Attack, the dressed was an add-on dress so it just went over her current outfit.
"You know aside from that Mimic. That went really well." Cinnamon said
"Yeah, we also did take some time. Maybe we should just log out. We still need to get our Homework done" Raguna said.
"Right." Cinnamon said and the two went back to reality.
Raguna and Cinnamon did their homework and soon after Raguna took Cinnamon back home.
Jesús: "Hey everyone. That's it for this update. I tried making it a bit longer than usual because of the last one, or two, I missed. I already took my Laptop and Desktop to the Computer technician's to get them fixed and they are back as 200%...Trust me, I know anything higher than 100% is not possible, but my Desktop runs much, Much, MUCH faster than even when it was brand new. Anyway. That was this update and next one will come in the scheduled time, two weeks. Please leave a review letting me know what you think and I'll see you all next time! Bye! By the way is Saturday June 23…WOW!"