Anxious for battle
As soon as Reid watched the waves of light cover his body, he felt strangely calm for a few seconds. Then, as soon as the light had come, it disappeared. Reid gaped at the beautiful scenery around him. A clear blue sky with small wispy clouds covered the horizon, and the rolling hills of green grass almost felt as tho-
"Hey! Are you going to daydream the entire time!?" Snapped Rain. "Pay attention."
Shaking his head, Reid glanced at Rain. She looked really irritated.
"Well, what do we do now?" Reid asked. She shook her head disapprovingly. "Man, you are hopeless." Reid frowned at the snide remark.
"What are we supposed to do then?" He asked again. Rain took out her enormous sword and waved it around carelessly.
"We'll battle stuff." She told him as she swung it around some more. Reid was confused.
"What stuff? You mean…monsters?"
She stabbed the ground and leaned on her sword. "Yeah, them."
"How?"
She sighed. "It's too hard to explain." She muttered. "All we have to do is walk to a magic portal and the monsters come out, okay?"
"Oh, um….okay, I guess." Reid looked down at his shoes for a few seconds, and as he raised his head, he spied something in the distance. "Is that big yellow thing a magic portal?" He pointed to the mysterious object shining in the sunset.
Rain turned around and tried to match his gaze. She squinted her eyes, and then turned back to Reid. "Um, that's a big rock."
"Oh…." Reid felt his face burn a bright red, although he wasn't sure if it showed in the game. A minute passed. Rain just silently stood there, facing the sunset. Reid paused for a second to ask Rain something, and then stumbled over the wording. "What?" Rain asked.
"Umm…can we, uh, go?" Reid asked weakly. Rain picked up her sword casually, "Sure. I mean, if you want to." She started walking down towards a large tree. Reid stood there for a second, thinking. Was that… nervousness he had detected in her voice? He quickly shook his head and ran off after her.
They both slowly approached the large tree. Beside it floated a large circle that somewhat reminded Reid of a more primitive version of the Chaos Gate. They stopped about 10 feet away from the floating demi-sphere. A minute slowly passed.
"Well, are you gonna activate it or what?" Rain nudged Reid. Reid stumbled a couple feet towards the gate. Suddenly, the gate dissolved and out of the sparkling lights stepped a… goblin.
It charged at Reid and swung a sharp dagger at him. "Whoa!!" Reid dodged the attack and fell backwards. "Ahh! Kill it! Kill it!!" Rain was shrieking as the goblin started the attack her.
"Kill it!" Suddenly, Reid angrily screamed back. "You've got the over-sized sword! You kill it!"
Rain grabbed her sword and started swinging wildly at the air. "Argghh!!!"
"Hey, hey, watch it!!" Reid yelled as she came swinging blindly over towards where Reid was lying on the ground. "Oof!" The side of Rain's blade smashed into the Reid's head.
"Owww!!! Watch where you're swinging that thing!" Reid rubbed the back of hid head with his hand. Rain continued swinging around while the goblin stood there, watching this amusing act with the utmost interest. After the initial pain of a sword being swung at his head, Reid painfully got up, walked over to the goblin, who was more interested in Rain's strange tactics than Reid, and smashed the goblin over the head with his rod. The goblin crumbled into the crash and disappeared.
Reid just stood there for a couple moments watching Rain, who for some uncanny reason didn't figure that the battle was over, swing blindly at the tall grass. He finally called her over.
"Rain! The battle's over, you know."
She stopped swinging and opened her eyes. "Oh." Then she collapsed on the grass, exhausted. She raised her head to look at Reid. "Well, that was fun, wasn't it?" She gave him a shaky smile.
He didn't return the smile. Instead, he looked into the sky and sighed. His eyes followed a cloud that moved across the horizon. Behind him, Rain, who was clearly humiliated, attempted to look like she was inspecting her sword for defects. The shadow of the tree slowly turned like a sundial's shade and covered them both. Reid looked again at the sky, and smiled.
He turned around to face Rain, who was dumbfounded to see him grinning.
"That was fun," He exclaimed happily. "Let's do it again!"