First mission Part 2

RIN

"Ugh, I coulda had him Lucas! I coulda gotten myself a really hot boyfriend. Or just a hot fling at least."

Lucas gives me an exasperated look, "Your still on about that? We are 16 anyways. He looked like he was in his 20s."

"So? It's not like he'd get in trouble. Hell, my cousin Jin is 16 and married to some 20 year old land owner."

He rolls his eyes and Dia pats his back sympathetically. She looks to me, "What I think he's saying is go for someone around our age."

I cross my arms and rolls my eyes, "I think I can go for whoever I like."

I walk faster so I can pass them. Dia gives Lucas a sympathetic smile and shrugs, "I tried dude," she mouths to him and he gives her a sheepish smile.

Lucas stares at Rin as she walks off in front of us in a huff. Dia walks beside me, "You know she will come around eventually."

"Is it that obvious that I like her?"

She nods and I can't help but think back to when I saw her.

her pink long hair blowing in the wind and how she didn't back down when that man tried to pick a fight with her. Or how hot she looked while she fought those monsters at the exam.

I let put an audible swoon and Dia gives me a knowing smirk, "Thinking about her?"

"She's just so amazingly cool and so beautiful. And when she fought at the exam? It was like watching a pro...she was simply divine to watch in action..." I trail off just focusing on every little thing about her that gives me tingles.

***

"### Help! Someone please help us!" we hear someone cry out by a nearby field. We had just barely reached the gate to the small village. I run towards the cries for help, Lucas and Dia right behind me.

I reach the scene first and see that it's the ogre we were hired to kill, had one of the villagers kids. I spring into action, shooting spikes from the ground straight towards the back of the ogre.

It yells in pain, whipping it's head in my direction. It drops the kid and runs towards me, about to swing a heavy hand down on me, but is stop by a big floating blue shield, "I got your back Rin!"

"I coulda blocked that!" I yell back at him, but am angered when Dia takes a big slash to the ogre's leg, toppling it.

"Hey its MY kill guys!"

"Don't be stupid, we are a team," Dia yells as she takes another slash outta the ogre. Lucas fires arrows into the monster's chest, but only manages to slow it down a bit. The creature grabs a hold of Dia and throws her onto Lucas' feet.

It swings it's large hand towards me, but I dodge and run up behind it and slam it into the ground with a kick backed with my magic, giving Lucas time to shoot more arrows into the ogre's face. It yells out in pain just as Dia deals the final blow. With her sword she deals a blow to his heart.

I wipe the sweat from my face and walk up to the woman and her kid, "You two ok?"

"We are now! Thank you very much!" The woman hugs me tightly and I awkwardly pat her back. Her kid is staring at me with wonder in his eyes, "Thank you so much miss!" I give him a warm smile.

"There must be a way we can repay you for your help? That ogre has been picking us off and our herd for months."

I rub the back of my neck, "Well, we were hired to kill it so we will be getting paid for it anyways."

"But, yall must at least let us feed you and house you for the night, the capitol is far, and the closest mission guild is in the City of Dawn."

I look to Lucas and he shrugs, not knowing what to say. Before I could look to Dia she blurts out, "Yes, that sounds like an amazing idea! Thank you very much ma'am!"

Before Lucas or I could say anything the boy takes my hand in his and excitedly drags me towards the village.

"I wanna show you around the town!"

He looks back to his mom, "We will be back before dinner!"

I look back and I see Lucas has a very angry look on his face.

***

LUCAS

"### Who the hell does that kid think he is!" Dia pats my back and apologizes to the woman.

"That's alright. I guess there is no stopping people these days." The mother sighs.

After talking to Dia and her mother for some time, we all decided to grab a bite to eat since we all have had a hard day today.

We walk into the town square and look at the shops where we can eat at.

She takes us to her little shop and has one of her cooks make us something.

I pick at my food thinking about that little brat that took Rin to show her around.

Dia notices and she hands me a piece of angel food cake to cheer me up. I smile at her and take a bite.

The sweet taste fills my mouth and I groan happily.

Dia gives me an incredulous look, "You are such a child!"

"No I'm not, it tastes so good." I respond and take another bite.

She snorts, "Oh yeah?"

I nod, taking another bite, "It does. Like really really delicious."

She smiles and I see Mia, the mom of that child, looking at us, probably trying to figure out why we're smiling.

Dia stands up and pulls me with her, "Come on! Let's explore!"

I stand up and follow Dia, but I stop for a second when I notice someone following us.

I whip around but the person was gone. I look around searching the room for who it was but, everyone was sitting down or just going about their day.

"what's wrong Lucas?" Dia says a concerned look on her face.

I shake my head, "I-Its nothing, I thought I just saw something out of the corner of my eye."

***

RIN

"Oh! This is my favorite place to hang!"

I roll my eyes, tired of this boy dragging me around. He looks to be fourteen, now that I look closely, he has green eyes.

He gives me a big grin and I blush as I think he noticed me staring.

"Wanna make this a date?" He says with a wink.

I rip my hand from his grip, "Hehe, I don't know, I'm a very busy girl ya'know? My team members are probably worried about me. Oh and your mom is probably wondering where we are too!"

He pours on the charm, grabbing a nearby bouque, "C'mon I'm sure my mom is fine with me staying out late with a strong beautiful woman like you."

"I'm 16," I say in a flat voice.

"Like I said, beautiful young woman!" He hands the bouque to me and hooks his arm in mine, taking me into his favorite hangout place.

When we get there we sit across from each other on a barstool, the place is dimly lit and filled with chatter, laughter and loud music. A few girls look over at us when they spot us, they glare at me and turn to each other, stealing glares at me and giggling to each other.

Justin doesn't notice, but I sure do. He must be pretty popular with the village girls. I smirk, wanting to be petty, I steal a kiss from him.

He happily kisses me back turning into a make-out. I hear the scrape of chairs as I'm guessing the two girls are leaving, but before they could leave I open one eye and levitate a drink over both their heads, and soak them in their own drinks. Satisfied now, with my payback. They start screeching and yelling, running out of the tavern. Justin pulls away curious to see what happened, but he was too late, they had already left.

"What happened? Who was yelling?"

"Oh two girls got their drinks spilled on them by some rando," I say with a smirk.

"Oh, well that sucks," he says with a shrug.

He then goes in for another kiss but thankfully his food arrives.

"There yall go." The waitress places his food in front of him and gives me my drink.

"Let me know if yall need anything else!"

I drink from my cup, and notice he had ordered me an alcoholic drink. I frown at him, " I can't drink this. I have to be up early morning to go off to Dawn City."

"C'mon one drink and then we can leave. Promise."

I roll my eyes but drink my drink. He starts talking about himself and his simple village life. I listen with my cheek rested on my hand as I listen to him, bored already. My vision blurs abit but focus for a shirt second, noticing a male staring at me. I perk up, startling my "date".

"What? what's wrong Rin?"

I focus my vision, but it's like the guy wasn't there. "Uhm...nothing...I just thought I saw someone..."

He laughs, "Well there are people around here silly."

I laugh nervously, "Y-Yeah, totally, how silly of me."

I can't shake off the feeling like I'm being watched, but why, and by who.

I decide to put it aside and continue to listen to him ramble about the history of the town. His words are almost incomprehensible.

I finish my drink and set the empty cup on the table. "Thanks for the drink, it was delicious!" I say politely as I slide off the stool.

Justin grabs my wrist, "Hey wait-"

I pull my hand away quickly, "Somethings come up and I can't stay, but thanks again for the lovely conversation, sorry!" I give him a wave and rush past him. I push through the crowd trying to find an exit but I keep bumping into people.

I feel a hand catch my wrist, I whip around about to punch a fool, when I notice it's Justin.

"Hey, I was gonna say, we are going to my family's place so I'll walk with you." He says holding onto my wrist.

"Okay, I'm sorry I rushed off without you," I apologize softly, looking anywhere but at him.

He lets go of my wrist and wraps his arm around my shoulder, pulling me close to him, "No, it's ok. Now, let's head to my place."

***

We arrive to his house and I'm surprised it's pretty big. He must be one of the rich ones in the village.

"Welcome to my home, sweet home!" He says with a flourish.

I take my hand from his, and rush to the door, wanting to see my teammates. They probably hand more fun than I did with Justin. All he did was ramble on about himself and show me around his village. I burst in and see that only Justin's mom is home.

"Where's Lucas and Dia?"

Mia looks up from her ledger she was writing in, "Oh, they went out for a night on the town."

I pout, "They went without me..."

"Don't worry dear, they won't be long and will be back soon. Just enjoy yourself tonight with Justin."

"I just came back from spending time with Justin, I was hoping to turn in for the night. I only asked about them because we got to leave first thing in the morning."

She shrugs, " I'll tell them when I see them come in, why don't you go wash up and head to our guest room."

I nod and Justin shows me where the bathroom is and where the guest room is.

I thank him and head back to the bathroom, I take out some clothes from my travel bag, and set them aside on the counter.

***

I sigh, warm and refreshed from my shower. I dry my hair as I walk towards the door to the quest bedroom.

"Rin! I missed you!" Lucas practically yells as he tackle hugs me. I push at him, Dia tugging at him too, "Sorry, he had a bit too much to drink," she says sheepishly as we finally get him to let go.

He's a sentimental mess, sobbing and saying how much he loves us and how he is so greatful that we are his teammates. I just smile to myself and put my backpack by theirs.

Soon enough Lucas passes out on the floor. I levitate him to his cot, and head towards mine, "Hey..." I hear Dia say softly, "uhm...you know, I really hope, we have more fun nights like this..."

I look at her with a weirded out look, "I'm just saying is, I enjoyed today, even if you weren't with us...it felt like we are getting along..."

"Aren't we always getting along?"

She rubs the back of her neck, "I don't know...sometimes you feel distant..."

I blink at her, dumbfounded. I open my mouth but close it. I had been a bit stand-offish. I've just been so caught up in myself and...my mom.

"Yeah...sorry, I've had a lot on my mind..."

She gives me a small smile, "It's ok...but you know you can confide in us. We are your teammates after all." With that she turns on her side and heads to sleep.

I lay on my back staring up at the ceiling. "Mom..." I say under my breath, the inky darkness consumes me as I drift off to sleep.

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