Hi hi,

I had actually finished a good amount of this last week. But I was having trouble of the last part and only manged to finish it now.

I hope you enjoy it.

I have ideas for the next chapter already :)

Next week at the Prontera church

"Narumi-Sensei!" Mikan called out to get his attention.

"Hello Mi-chan, came to visit your dear sensei today?" He replies with a smile.

"Yes I did Sensei. I want to talk to you about changing to my second class and become a priestess."

"What's the rush Mi-chan?"

"Well, my friends are all changing to their second classes. I don't want to be left behind."

"Mi-chan, you know that's not a very good reason to change into a priestess. Changing classes is not something you should rush. You should really master your acolyte skills first before changing. On top of that, you should be mentally ready for the change. More power means more responsibilities and the responsibilities of a priestess are quite heavy."

"But, I don't want to be left behind. I feel so useless being a first class while all my friends are moving on to their second classes."

"Don't worry, they won't leave you behind. Just because they changed into their second job class doesn't mean they won't train with you. Take your time. You need to be mentally prepared and ready for the extra responsibilities that come with being a priestess before you change. I will not allow you to change until I'm sure that you're ready. I know you've been training really hard to become stronger. But I still feel that you're missing something. Don't worry about it too much; I'm sure you'll find it soon. I need to get going now Mi-chan. Why don't you go find Yuki-chan and the others?" Narumi-sensei said as he pranced off.

Mikan sighed and left to find Yuki. She was upset that her mentor wouldn't let her change into her second class but there's not much she can do about it for now. She'll just have to train harder to show him that she's ready.

I wonder what he means when he said I'm missing something. I know I haven't finished mastering all my skills yet, but besides that, what am I missing? Mikan thought as she wonders around the church looking for Yuki.

Meanwhile with Ruka

Ruka steps off the airship as it lands in Hugel. He looks around to take in his surroundings. This is his first time in Hugel. He would love to be able to explore the town but right now he's here to apply for his second job.

After asking a local, he was able to locate the building to apply for his job change. It wasn't really that hard to find, there was a big sign with the word "Hunters" above the door of the building.

Ruka opens the door and goes inside the building.

Ruka POV (A/N wow this is my first chapter where I actually write in first person POV :P we'll see how this works out)

I walked up to the hunter behind the desk and spoke up, "Hi, I'm here to apply for a job change. I would like to become a hunter."

The hunter looks at me first and then hands me a piece of paper.

"Please fill out that application."

I took the application and started to answer all the questions. It was just a short application to make sure I'm qualified for the job change. Once I finished answering all the questions I handed it back to the hunter. I watched her scan over my application before fishing out some other paper work.

"Great, you seem to qualify for the job change. I'm Sharon and I'll explain to you how the job change here works. First, there will be a short written test to see if you will be a good addition to the hunter's guild. Second test is an item gathering test. The last test will test your marksmanship. Someone at each stage of the test will further explain the details to you. Now, here's the written test. It's quite simple, you have half an hour to finish it and hand it back to me." She said as she hands me the test papers.

I thanked her as I took the papers and a pencil and went to the designated corner for people writing the test. I sat down at one of the desks at that corner and began to work my way through the test.

I guess she was right about the difficulty of the test. It was fairly easy; it seemed more like a personality quiz then a technical test. I wonder what that's all about. Once I finished my test, I went to hand it in.

She took my test and scanned over my answers then directed me to another Hunter for the next task.

I guess I passed that part of the test.

I found the Hunter that was supposed to give me the next challenge. I think lady luck is on my side today as this too was an easy task. He asked me to go gather 5 Claws of dessert wolves, 5 Trunks and 3 White herbs.

Lucky, I had saved all my loot from our training sessions so I had all the items ready. Dessert wolves are not something I want to fight again to just to collect their claws. After that bad experience with Mikan with the wolves, I really didn't want to go hunt them. Lucky, I was told by upper classmen of all the possible items they'll ask me to collect so I saved all the loot whenever we went training. A quick trip to the Karfa storage and I was able to hand in all the items.

After handing in the items, I was sent to go back to Payon to the actual hunter's guild for my final test.

I was lucky enough that someone had a warp to Payon or else I would have had to take the airship back to Prontera before I could use the Karfa warps to get to Payon.

I quickly found the hunter guild and spoke to the examiner there. I was warped to some maze that is a part of the examination. This maze is full of different type of monsters. Some are aggressive and some are not. They are all wearing different tags. I am only to hit the ones that say "Job Change Monster." If I hit any other monster, I would fail the test.

As I walk through the maze, I carefully looked at the tag of each monster before attacking. It was very tricky since some of the tags looked like the target ones. Some monsters had the tag "Job Change Monsters" and "job change monster". I almost shot an arrow at those monsters since their tags were so similar to the ones I have to kill. Another thing that made the test so difficult was the fact that there are aggressive monsters that I'm not allowed to hit. I have to run away from those monsters while keeping an eye out for the ones I can hit. I was so happy when I finished killing 4 monsters with the tag "Job Change Monster." I ran to the exit portal immediately.

Once I was out of the maze, the guildsman gave me a "Necklace of Wisdom" to give to Sharon as a symbol that I have passed the test. I felt so happy about passing I immediately warped to Izlude to get on the airship to fly to Hugel once again. I really despise the airship since it was so slow. But it's the only way I can get to Hugel if I can't find a priest to warp.

Once I was in Hugel, I headed back to the Hunter's building and went straight to Sharon.

I handed her the necklace of wisdom and she congratulates me.

She gives me my new uniform and directed me to the change room to change.

After changing into my new uniform I went back to Sharon. She gives me the proper introduction to the Hunter's guild and assigns an experience hunter to go through the basic skills with me.

Looks like I'll be here for another week to complete my crash course on being a hunter. They can't just let newly appointed hunters go without learning the basics. It would ruin the guild image I guess.

I turned on my communicator and called Mikan, "Hey Mikan."

"Hi Ruka!" I heard her voice reply to me.

"I just wanted to let you know that I just completed my hunter test and I got initiated into the guild! But it looks like I'll be training in Hugel for the next week. They want to teach me the basics before I start training on my own."

"Congratulations Ruka! I knew you would be able to do it. I guess I won't be able to see you for another week. Just give me a call when you can train again."

"I sure will. I just wanted to give you a heads up. I'll call you again when I get back from Hugel next week. See you later Mikan."

"Bye Ruka. Good luck!" she replied before we closed off our communication.

Meanwhile with Hotaru (Hotaru POV)

"Bye Yuu, good luck with your Sage test." I said before we parted.

"Thanks Hotaru, good luck with your test too! I'll see you later." Yuu replied before he got a warp from the Karfa lady to head to Juno.

Once he left I went inside Geffen Tower and started my walk up to the top floor where the wizard examination takes place. Why they have it all the way at the top of the building never made any sense to me.

Once I got to the top floor I approached the wizard sitting behind the desk.

"I would like to apply to become a wizard." I said to him.

He silently hands me an application to fill out. Once I was done with it, I handed it back to him for examination.

"It looks like you finished mastering all your skills. As a reward you get to bypass the item collection part of the test. The first part of your exam will be a written exam. Are you ready to take it?" he asks me.

"Yes I am ready" Then he hands me a booklet with the questions and a scantron card.

"It's multiple choices. Please pick the correct answer for each question and fill it out on this card. Once you're done with the test, feed the answer sheet through that machine there in the corner and it will tally up your score. You must get above 80% to pass the test. Good luck."

I thanked him and went over to a desk to take my test. Once I was finished with my test, I stuck my answer sheet into the machine. Of course my score was 100%. I wouldn't expect anything less.

I took my result sheet back to the examiner and he directs me to another wizard for the practical examination.

Once I talked to the gloomy looking wizard, he warps me to the waiting room for the practical exam. Once the mage that went in before me finished the test, I was able to start my exam. The practical exam consists of 3 different rooms of monsters. I have 3 minutes to clear out each room and I must not faint at any time during the test.

The moment I stepped into the first room I notice that it was all water element type of monsters. I was glad I brought along my clip of undercast with me since there were aggressive monsters in this room. Under normal circumstances, if I get hit by a monster, my cast will be interrupted rendering me useless. But this clip has special enchantments that allow me to ignore everything and finish casting my spells without being interrupted.

I quickly started to cast thunderstorm to try and to take out a bunch of the monsters at once. The Marine Sphere exploded before I could finish casting destroying itself and damaging some of the monsters around it. Luckily I was far enough from it that it wasn't able to hurt me. The amount of damage it's capable of dealing when it self destruct would have knocked me unconscious instantly.

Once my spell finished casting it destroyed the rest of the monsters in the room. The portal to exit this room activated when all the monsters were destroyed. I quickly downed a couple of red potions before going into the next room.

The moment I stepped into the next room, the room lit up and I surveyed the area around me.
The monsters took a moment before realizing that I was here.

I took a quick glance around the room to find that all the monsters here were earth element type of monsters.
Some of the aggressive monsters started to approach me.
I quickly casted several firewalls to keep them from touching me.

The stupidity of the monsters work to my advantage. You would think that they'll stop moving once they hit that wall of fire. But instead of stopping, they keep on trying to move towards me only to be repelled in pain by the firewall.

I quickly casted my fireball spell at the aggressive monsters that were running into my firewall and breaking it. Fireballs worked very well since it hits multiple monsters at the same time.
Once I was finished with the aggressive monsters, I started casting normal firebolt spells on the other monsters in the room.

"One Minute left."
I heard the announcement on the speaker.
I had to hurry and finish killing the Bigfoot that is left. That huge bear can somehow detect spells so I had to cast a firewall first before I targeted him with my firebolt spell. As the rain of fire came down on the Bigfoot, the announcement for 30 seconds left was announced.
Once the Bigfoot fell, the portal to the next room opened. Once again I quickly downed a couple of potions to restore my health and spiritual energy.
"Last room" I thought to myself as I walked through the portal into the last room.

Once again, I quickly surveyed the room.
"Crap, they saved the worst for last." I thought as I finished reviewing the monsters in the room.
All the monsters in this room belong to the fire element. They are also the most aggressive out of all the monsters I had faced so far.
Firewall will not keep them off of me, and I don't have any ice elemental spells that can hit multiple monsters at once.
The Dessert Wolf started to charge at me at once. Out of all the aggressive monsters here, the wolf was the fastest moving one. I quickly cast Frost Diver to freeze it in place.
Once it was frozen, I noticed the other aggressive monsters were also making their way to me, however at a much slower pace. I quickly cast Frost Diver on the rest of the aggressive monster to stop them from approaching me.

I figured that the Wolf would be able to get out of the ice block before I finish casting my bolt spell so I choose to cast cold bolt on it instead of lightening.
Just as I was about finished casting my spell, the wolf broke of the ice.
It shook off the remained of the ice on its fur and growled at me. Just as it pounced, my spell finished casting and the shards of ice stabbed at him causing it to fall onto the ground dead.

The high level cold bolt spell took too long for me to cast. I didn't really have a choice since the Dessert wolf is quite tough and requires a lot of damage to bring it down. Problem with high level spells is that it takes much longer to cast. The other monsters I have frozen are slowing thawing one by one.
I attracted the aggressive monsters to one location and quickly cast Frost Diver on each of the monster so they're still bunched up together.
Once they were frozen, I started to cast thunder storm. Since they were frozen, it temporarily changes their element to water. Lightening spells does double damage to water element.
I noticed the ice was starting to crack at the end of my spell. I was lucky that my spell finished casting and hit the group before they thawed.
"One Minute left." The speakers announced.
I quickly spotted the Peco Peco and Metaller hiding in the corner of the room.
Lucky for me that these monsters are much weaker than the rest so I casted my Ice bolt at half the maximum strength to kill them. Casting at lower strength allows me to cast faster and finish the test in time.
Once the two monsters fell, the portal to exit the room opened.
I stepped onto the portal and was immediately teleported back to the room where I signed up to become a wizard.
I went to talk to the wizard behind the desk again and he congratulates me for doing a good job with the test.
He hands me my new wizard uniform and directs me to the change room.
I like the wizard uniform a lot more then the mage's uniform. The mage's uniform was too revealing and attracted too much attention for my liking.

The standard wizard dress is a blue short sleeve dress. It has a v-neck and gold embroidery around the v-cut.
It's dress goes to about mid thigh and has the gold trimmings at the edges.
Even though the dress is fairly short, the knee boots limits the amount of skin that shows.
I'm also quite happy with my new cape. Unlike the mage's cape which only covers your back, this one actually wrap around my body and falls all the way to my ankles.

Satisfied with my new uniform, I used a fire spell to burn away my old uniform.
"Good riddance," I mutter as I watched it burn away.

I walked back to the wizard and he hands me extra sets of uniform and new textbooks that will teach me new wizard skills.
I gave him my thanks and broke my butterfly wing to send me home.

Back to Mikan

After a long day of failed attempts to convince her mentor that she's ready to change into a priestess, Mikan retires to her garden.
She couldn't go home all depressed like this. What would Ji-Chan say if he saw her like this?
She lets out a long sigh as she sat herself down under her favourite tree.

"I don't understand why he won't let me change into a priestess. Sure, there are still some more skills I need to finish mastering, but I can do that later can't I? What am I missing?!" Mikan shouted with frustration, and then her eyes soften and whimpered, "I don't want to be left behind."

She let out another sigh and stared at the fluffy clouds in the sky. She took long deep breaths while humming a soft tune in attempts to get herself out of depression. As she began to relax, her eyelids grew heavy and slowly, she closed her eyes and drifted off to dreamland.

After the sunset

Mikan was still peacefully sleeping in her garden after dark. It seems like her frustrating day has worn her out and her nap got a little out of hand.
Suddenly, a shrill alarm sounded from inside Prontera. It was loud enough that it brought the little brunette out or dreamland.
Hazily, she slowly rubbed her eyes and tried to comprehend what's going on.
Realizing that it's all dark and she couldn't see anything, she casted Ruwach to light up the area.

Then she realized that she was still out in her garden and it's now after dark.
"Oh no, something must have happened in town for the city alarm to go off. And I'm outside the city right now, this can't be good." Mikan started to freak out.
She could make out noises that sound like yelling from a distance and lots of movement.
"What should I do? The guards are probably all over the place right now. It probably wouldn't be smart for me to walk on the streets. But I should really go home; Ji-Chan will be worried." Mikan talked to herself while running around in little circles with her arms waving in the arm.

While running in her panic mode, she wasn't really paying attention to where she was going and ran right into something, actually to be more accurate, ran straight into someone.

She ran into him with so much force that she toppled on top of him.

"Itai," she whimpered while still on top of him.

"How long are you going to stay on top of me." A familiar voice asked her roughly.

"Eeks," she lets out a loud shriek.

The assassin quickly rolls them over right into a bush. Now that he's on top of her, he places a hand over her mouth. "No screaming." He said quietly.

Mikan struggles under his weight and fights to get his hand off of her mouth.

"Damn it, stop struggling. I don't want to hurt you." He commands her.

"I'll lift my hand away from your mouth but you can't scream ok?" He asks her.

Mikan gives a small nod.

He slowly lifts his hand off of her mouth.

"What do you think you were doing?!" Mikan yelled at him.

"Damn it, I told you to be quiet." He places his hand back on her mouth.

Mikan struggles again under his weight. They could both hear faint footsteps running around somewhere outside the garden.

"Stop moving or they'll find us."

Then he notice Mikan was trying to move his hand away from her mouth and her face was starting to change color.

"Crap, sorry" He quickly lifted his hand.

Mikan quickly sucks in air to her lungs. Once she decided that she had enough she glares at the assassin, "What are you trying to do! Kill me?" She said rather loudly.

He winced at what she said and replied softly, "You know I would never do that."

"I don't know what I know anymore." Her voice started to get louder again.

Then they heard the footsteps getting closer. It seemed to be coming towards the trees and bushes that hide the garden. It was getting quite close to where they were since they were in the bushes surrounding the garden.

Mikan was still squealing and struggling under his weight and it was sure to attract attention when they get close enough.

The assassin quickly grabbed both her hands to stop her from struggling only to earn more squeals from her. Then he silences her by capturing her lips with his own and swallowing her squeals.

Mikan became still as a statue and her eyes grew big as she realized that he is now kissing her.

Voices could be heard talking basically right beside them on the other side of the tree right beside this bush they're hiding in.

"I swear I thought I heard something." A voice said.

"Maybe we should look around." A second voice suggested.

Natsume became alarm at that suggestion. He spotted a Fabre, grabbed it and threw it out of the bush.

"Gahhh" The second voice they heard screamed.

"Relax, it's just a Fabre. Don't tell me you're scared of a little insect." (A/N Fabre is a green little insect in the game. I guess it's kinda like a baby caterpillar....~shivers~ I'm scared of bugs)

"It just startled me, that's all. I didn't expect it to come flying out of the bush at me." The second speaker defended himself.

"It must be protecting it's home. Probably scared some novice away from here too which caused all the screaming."

"Probably. Kids these days just aren't the same as when we were kids."

"Oh please, you screamed like a little girl when it jumped on you. How did you ever become a knight."

"Shut up. Lets keep on moving."

Then they left the little tree area.

Once the assassin as sure that they were gone, his lips left hers and he slowly got up away from her.

Mikan finally snaps out of her trance when she felt his weight gone.

"You stole my first kiss" She exclaims.

"How will I ever get married?! I'm tainted now." She wails.

"What's the big deal. It's just a kiss." He responds.

"Of course it's important. Your first kiss is important. I wanted to share it with someone I love!" She fought back fiercely.

The assassin lets out a sigh and mutters something about innocent little acolytes while Mikan continue to raves on about her lost inability to get married now.

"Be quiet or else I'll kiss you again." He said as he plops down on the ground beside her.

Mikan stops her complaining and glares at him.

"It was my first kiss too, you know." He said softly.

Mikan stared at him in disbelief. The anger she felt was melting away. "This is his way of trying to cheer me up", Mikan thought to herself.

Sigh, "don't think I'm letting you off the hook so easily." Mikan said to him.

"Now tell me, what's going on out there! Why did the alarm sound? Were they chasing after you?"

"You know, some things you're better off not knowing." He responded.

"Then how am I suppose to know if I can trust you or not. You never tell me anything when we meet here. I don't even know your name." Mikan said in frustration.

"I wish I could tell you, I really do." He responded. "But if you know too much, it'll just put you in danger." He said the last part softly.

"Please, if you can't tell me what you do, at least tell me your name. I really don't want to keep on calling you Neko-san."

The assassin looked at her and sighed. "One day, I promise I'll tell you. But that day is not now, Mikan."

Mikan blushed when he said her name. It was nice to hear the sound of her name from his lips. She doesn't know why it had this effect on her. Maybe it's because he rarely calls her by her name. It's always Ugly, little girl, stupid, even the pattern on her underwear! She still doesn't know how he figures out what she's wearing that day. Maybe she should stop tripping and falling in front of him all the time.

"You should go back home now. Your Ji-Chan will be worried." He said snapping her out of her thoughts.

"I guess I should, but just walking back into Prontera right now probably isn't a good idea."

"You really are stupid aren't you? Use your teleport spell. If you have mastered your skill, you have a choice to teleport to anywhere in the current field or to the memo you saved as home."

"Oh yeah." Mikan giggles. "I can teleport to the church then walk home."

"Wait, before I go, are you ok? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine, don't worry about me." He responded, he was going to say more but stopped himself.

He has a hesitant look at his face while thinking. "I'm not going to be here for a while. So don't wait for me."

"Eh? Where are you going?" Mikan asks.

"None of your business. You better get going. It's late."

Mikan lets out a sigh, "I'll be here anyways. So when you need me, just drop by."

Then she teleports away from the garden back into the city.

After he watched her teleport away, he takes out a really expensive looking necklace and sighs. Then he crushes the butterfly wing in his hand and disappears as well.

I hope the whole job changing thing wasn't boring. I really needed to explain at least 2 of their job change process so you understand how it works.

Each job change quest is different in the game. It depends on what class you are changing into and what job level you go to before you change.

If you change at job 50, you usually get some sort of bonus.

I was scared that the job changing bits were boring so I upgrade my NxM scene to be a kissing scene.

At first I was just going to have them talk and get Natsume to comfort her. But I thought this would be much more fun :P

Thanks HyuugaYingLang and oObroken-wingsOo for the story alert

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