Authors Note: All of the notes in here, with the exception of this one, are the originial authors notes that I had written. And, uh, lets just say I'm usually not that hyper anymore. If it sounds like I'm begging for reviews in them, I was, but that was then. So only read them if you want to see my stupidity unfold more so. I also reailze there are mistakes in grammar and probably moremistakes from the original series but ifI reallychangedthem then it wouldn't be what I originally wrote.Semper fi


Chapter 2-

What's left?

Last time

At the cave entrance she looked out, only to see a menacing cloud of black smoke rising into the sky.

"Uh oh" Rena muttered and ran outside leaving everything behind except the necklace.

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She darted out of the cave, heading down a slope back to her house sprinting at top speed. The muscles in her legs became numb but ignored the searing pain.

'No this can't be!' she thought, feeling a shiver going her spine. Rena collapsed to her knees as the horror unfolded in front of her.

Everything was in ashes.

"Fay!" Rena gasped, as she ran through the debris.

She fought against the smoke rising from what was her house, and came across where the bathroom should be. Her eyes widened in horror as she kicked away a few smoldering floorboards. There was what was left of her only family, Fay's burnt body.

Rena roared out in anger and kicked a free standing support beam. It flew into where the kitchen used to be and sent up small pieces of wood in all directions.

"Ok, well I guess that's all that's left of this place." Rena whispered. She clenched her hand into a fist and dug her fingernails into her skin.

The walk back to the cave was a long one. Any spark of hope that Rena had when she woke up this morning had disintegrated, and it left her eyes with a slight glaze. She kicked a small rock along with her as she thought.

'I have no where else to go. What am I supposed to do? I'm sure as hell not going into town. I can't fight Jagura, not yet. Alright I'll go to the next town and see what I can do there, maybe it hasn't been taken over yet.'

She packed all of her belongings back in the cave silently, when she went to climb over the mountain she didn't bother to look for a good place to climb.

It was a long climb and every muscle in her body yearned for a rest as Rena reached the top. She sighed and relaxed a little. The sight around her was unbelievable.

Below was a lush, grassy plain that stretched farther than the eye could see. The sky was clear, save for a few small clouds that floated here and there. There were eagles and hawks overhead, yelling at each other, as they flew gracefully in circles. At the base of the mountains there was a small town. Behind that there was a wide flowing river that fed an enormous forest.

'Alrighty then, I'll go to the town and spend the night, then maybe head through the forest and see what I can get into there.' She thought as she took off down the mountain.

"Damn, damn, damn! Ouch, I really need to stop doing that." Rena yelled as she peeled herself off a boulder for the third time. She had lost control of her speed as she ran down the mountain and smashed face first into a rock.

She sighed happily as she found that she was only about 5 minutes away from the town.

In town she looked through a few shops. They were all open air shops except for a very few like books stores, and restaurants. There was even a small pawn shop. 'Wait a pawn shop duh!' Rena thought as she ran in smiling.

"NO DEAL!" the clerk said.

"200 IS MY FINAL OFFER!" Rena roared back.

"I'M NOT GOING ANY HIGHER THAN 125!" he yelled

Rena regained her composure and said smirking "Then I guess I'll just leave then." And she left quietly. "JERK!" she yelled leaning back in the door way and ran off.

A few moments later, the clerk with two maniacs with rakes ran out of the shop and after her.

'Ok maybe I went a little overboard with the "jerk" thing, but come on! It's not like I stole anything!' Rena thought and sprinted to the docks.

"Ha! Pinned like a rat!" the clerk smirked as he and his friends closed in on her.

'Fight and maybe live? Or jump in and have about a 25percent chance of living? Fight duh..' she thought backing up.

She entered a fighting stance waiting for one of them to attack.

"Look at that boys, she gonna take us all on!" The maniac on the left laughed.

Rena smirked and growled "Yeah, sure. One on three, I like those odds."

They all laughed and attacked. She dodged all of the first attacks and kicked one of them in the back of the leg to agitate them.

He growled and charged her again. This time she did the laughing and just simply back jumped over him. As she landed on the wooden dock, the other one with a rake attacked. Rena grabbed the rake in his hands, twisted it and shoved him in the river. She lightly twirled the rake around in her fingers. Goon number one attacked her again, and she blocked it with the rake handle. She slid around behind him and lightly kicked him in the river.

The clerks face drained of any color, as he turned tail and ran off. Rena let him go.

'Well so much for staying here tonight. Oh well, wouldn't be able to stay anywhere anyway.' Rena thought as she checked her pockets, no cash.

She sighed and started down to a bridge that crossed the water. It was only a foot bridge, but it sure beat the hell out of swimming.

The woods were a lot denser than they looked. About fifteen minutes into the damn thing and you could hardly even see anything 10 feet in front of you.

Rena lost track of time and just kept walking until she got tired, then set up camp. She set up a nice little fire pit and set her sleeping bag out about 5 feet from the fire. The fire wasn't lit yet, she would do that in a few minutes.

She lay out on her sleeping bag and stared up at the forest ceiling thinking. A smell came to her nose and she sat up looking around. 'That was definitely a wolf, but I swear I've smelled it before.' She thought for a few minutes and finally figured it out. It was her own smell.

She blushed slightly and sat up sniffing for a pond or something.

"Ah there!" Rena said as she followed the scent to the source.

'Awesome!' she thought and started to undress at the waters edge only leaving a loose green tank top and black shorts on.

The lake was huge. It was fed by a tall waterfall that fell from a sheer cliff.

Rena floated in the water for a few minutes, and just relaxed. She dove to the bottom to observe a little to see what else there was. It was a good 20 feet to the bottom of the lake, and there were a few underground plants growing. Plus the added effect of the boulders that had fallen in long ago.

She swam in between the rocks just goofing around a little bit, and let her golden hair out of its braid. It created a strange halo around her head as she sat on the lake floor and scrubbed her skin.

Rena swam to the surface to breath. That's when she heard voices. It was all male voices to make matters worse. She swam behind a boulder and sank up to her lips in water.

'At least my clothes are hidden.'

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