When I got to the guild and started to look for a quest someone snuck up on me and put their hand on my shoulder. Turning to see who it was, I saw Kaji smiling at me.
"So, you finished the quest?" I inquired
"Um, actually, I didn't go on the quest either." Kaji replied timidly, "I intended to just talk to you for a bit and then go back, but I couldn't find you, and then when I got back here, the girls had already left."
"What! You let them go alone! Hurry help me look for a quest to get us in the ruins!"
"Calm down, I'll help. Don't worry, they'll be fine. They both can fight as well as anyone else I know."
After searching for a few minutes Kaji exclaimed, "Found one! Oh no. Researchers lost in an earthquake, wait the quest that I was going to go on was protecting researchers, well after that it is the usual stuff, high level hunters, dangerous, etc."
"Oh man, take that quest! We have to make sure that they're okay!"
Calm down I'm letting the operator know that we want to take the quest now. You ready?"
"Of course I'm ready, lets hurry up and go, and the longer we take the more likely something will happen to the girls."
"So you two are taking the quest From the Depths?" the operator politely asked when we got there.
"Yes! Please hurry!" I exclaimed in reply.
Alright, the client will meet you in room 665 in two minutes."
"Thank you miss, we really appreciate it." said Kaji.
After that we walked off to room 665. As we were walking, Kaji said, "I know you're worried but please calm down in front of our client, okay? Things will be worse if our client see you so worried."
As soon as he finished saying this we arrived at the room and then stepped inside to wait. As we were waiting, the flashback from before continued again.
"My name's Rico, yoroshiku, nice to meet you, who are you?"
Startled by her energy, I stared in amazement a few seconds before replying, "I'm Hono'o, yoroshiku. Now I'm glad that you're down here because you saved me, but why are you down here?"
"Because I've been having that Pioneer 1 isn't quite what it appeared. I've been looking into things and it didn't seem to add up, it turns out that the military was using us hunters to clear out Ragol so that they could experiment, but now, things have gotten worse, they've detected a great power in the ruins and so they're trying to capture it. But that's not all."
"Huh, what?"
"Well by deciphering the characters on these pillars, I've concluded that there is an eternal evil here that awakens every millennium to feed, this beast has no form of its own and takes the form of the planet's strongest life form and wreaks havoc. So now it's awakened and as far as I can see there's no hope in fighting it, it wouldn't have been sent here if it could be killed, the last time it awakened, it seemed like all the people could do was seal it on this ship and send it to another planet, Ragol."
"So the other hunters' going insane was this beast's fault?"
"Most likely, and I think I've found the name of the beast…" she suddenly fell onto the floor, "Dark Falz, god of chaos and destruction." She managed to whisper.
"Well I say we go try to slay a god."
"No, not we. You go back to Pioneer 1 and let them know; I'll go on and try to buy you more time."
I agreed, and went back to the transport to try to tell the people, but as I got to the transport, I was shaken off my feet by a big earthquake. I looked up and noticed that the teleporter was no longer working. Thinking quickly, I decided to go try to help Rico, after all it's not like I could get back to Pioneer 1 at this point. I reached the final transporter, and it was a huge one, I stepped inside feeling like this would take me to Falz.
I activated it and was taken to a cave cut off from a circle of land. I saw Rico trying to take on the god of chaos but before I could do anything to help, it struck the last blow and then absorbed her body into its own. I was able to teleport back and I ran away, but I would spend nearly a month in horror before I would escape from the ruins and finally be rescued by the people of Pioneer 2.
Just then our client stepped in. She bowed politely and said, "My name is Irene, and I'm a secretary for the principal. As you know researchers were lost in the ruins and we want you to find them. We have sent several teams in but we have received no word of what happened to them. Please help us."
"No problem, we'll do our best to try to find the researchers." I replied shortly after.
After this, we walked off to the transport and went into the ruins. The first ruins were pretty uneventful, just the dimineans and claws with the occasional bug monster. But when we reached a big open room in the second part, an unknown FOmarl came up to us and asked for help. Suddenly a light flashed, and just like my nightmare of a memory, she went tisane and began attacking us. I quickly struck a blow to her head knocking her out, but as soon as she fell unconscious, her body disappeared. Confused as we were, Kaji and I kept going forward to complete the mission, and to find our friends, I hoped that they hadn't been taken by Falz and silently prayed that if anything had happened to them, that Falz hadn't gotten them.