Shine Like The Moon | Hikari & Raven

Raven sighed for the fourth time, sitting behind the long mahogany desk, designed to perfection. It shined as the rays of sunshine fell on it and Raven ran her hand on it, her other hand supporting her head. She had locked herself inside the big office as she had to take care of this and that which concerned the guild greatly. She went out on missions now and then but came straight back to her office afterwards. Simply putting it, her life was starting to revolve around missions and paperwork. She wasn't complaining though.Just the thought of working hard for her guild was enough to get her up and running on full energy and it wasn't like she was not getting much sleep. However, her mind does often wander to more fun things like hanging out with her guild mates and others. And when that happens, she would put away her work and start going off to dreamland much like how she was doing now. Leaning forward on the desk, one of her hands placed under her head while the others made patterns on the cool surface of the desk. She had been thinking of going on a mission again. Hopefully, her partner would be coming to fetch her.

The knocking sound made the silver haired girl look up, her facial expressions turning from bored to excitement. She pushed away from the desk and stood up before running over to a smaller table to the side of the room. She took her wallet and ring that was placed on it and wore them, looking down to see her complete outfit which included a black t shirt and dark blue jeans. She decided to go with something simple that day as the weather outside told her it was going to be hot. She drew her hair back and placed a clip on it, leaving her neck exposed with just her raven pendant adorning the pinkish skin. With that, she opened the door, greeting Hikari with a smile. Hikari was her first choice for an ace when she thought of who would fit the title of "Paragon of Faith" and she was more than happy to give it to the girl. She deserved it as she had been in the guild the longest and Raven knew of her faith in Sabertooth.

"Hello Hikari. Ready?" She asked but didn't wait for a reply as she took her hand and started leading her out. "You better make this fun for me. You have no idea how boring it is in that office," Raven threw her hands back and stretched. Their destination was the haunted village. Scary name for a scary place, she guessed, chuckling at the thought.

Raven directly passed by her first comment with a roll of her eyes. Leave it to Hikari to say something like that, she chuckled in her mind. Waving her free hand dismissively at the girl, she shrugged it off and continued dragging the girl till she decided to practically glue herself to her. 'How old was this girl again?' Raven thought, finding herself on the verge of laughing out loud at the shorter girl. It was always fun when she took a job with her silver haired ace, she mused, though her face didn't show any of it. This job should be fun, right? Well, their location was not in the least "fun" but then again, it would take something more than a haunted village to scare her off. Though, that might not be the case for Hikari....

Her thoughts trailed off until her gaze shifted to Hikari who was looking down at something. 'What is she looking...oh new shoes? Favorite ones maybe? Well she better hold on to them today,' Raven thought, finally cracking a smile at her favorite ace.  

When they finally reached the haunted village, Raven found her "favorite ace" hiding behind her, keeping a hold on the older girl as if she would fall to her death if she didn't. But then again, the atmosphere wasn't something Raven felt extremely safe around either. Even she could feel it. The chilly winds cutting through her skin and the feeling of something around the corner of her eyes. It felt as if something would jump out of the stillness any moment. She started tapping her foot on the ground, looking around as if she was waiting for something.  However, her rhythm was thrown off when she heard Hikari speak behind her. "I don't know. Do I look like a fortune teller to you?" Raven asked her, partly making fun of the girl and partly being serious with her.  

She would have loved to get out of that place, however. As much as she was used to spooky things, she wasn't used to not knowing what to expect. At that moment, all they had as a clue was that the village they were standing on was filled with werewolves and once in a perfect moon, they would completely lose their mind to the power the moon would supply the half beasts with.  When the job request initially came into Raven's hands one day at work, she knew this was something not to be taken lightly and she was right. In a distance, she could already hear the sound of a howl. "You better get ready for one hell of a fight, Hikari".

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Raven sighed, eying the raging werewolves from the corner of her eyes. Did Hikari really had to leave her with ten crazy strong werewolves? Apparently, yes. The silver haired girl had that much expectations in her guild master. Well, Hikari wasn't taking it very well either, she could tell even without turning back to look at her. They looked far weaker compared to the ones she was facing, but to Hikari, she knew, they were a great challenge. Hikari was strong but the shining full moon hanging above them had supplied these beasts with so much power that they had exceeded their normal rank and consequently, made them lose their sanity in the process. It was evident in their eyes which looked hollow with a dash of red. They clearly had no clear enemies, but just like how a hyperactive kid would have to tire himself out, these half wolves had to have some way to give away the excess energy they had in them, thanks to the moon they worshipped. According to the data she had received, this had happened a long time ago and had been written up as an unfortunate event that cost the lives of many. These charged up beasts had no friends or family. They only had enemies.

She raised an eyebrow against one of them, charging towards her with its fangs bared for her eyes. Considering the level of insanity they were in, Raven quickly flew up, out of reach and made sure she was hanging up there. One wrong move and they could easily strike her down to the ground and the ground was very disadvantageous with the wolves at their full strength. They were slow, which was the only relief that the situation bought for Raven and Hikari. But they had number and strength with them and Raven would have to use more than half of her full strength if she wanted to beat them. Honestly, however, their number was more of a worry than their full strength. One thing she took note, though, was that they had no co-ordination within their current state which could work well for them.

Unfortunate for the poor souls, they had decided to pick a fight with the wrong person.

Raven raised her right arm, her long slender finger lazily curved towards the sky as she concentrated for a second, her eyes burning intensely with a lighter shade of red. The color made her eyes look hazy, violet mixed with light red, it was beautiful but dangerous all at the same time. And in the instant that she fixed her eyes on the wolves, light poured down from the sky as, in sight, it looked like the sky was being drawn with an invisible white ink, curving, twisting and swirling to make a beautiful magic circle, extending in a 60m circular area. And with a quick yet graceful movement, Raven raised her right hand and lowered it, pointing at her targets. They were going to get a quick lesson in why they should not have messed with her.

Towards the group of 10 werewolves bunched together, howling and swiping at the ground in pure madness, Raven unleashed a quick yet effective spell. Towards the middle but a few feet above them appeared a black ball of darkness, roughly in the size of a basketball, it appeared harmless. But within the next few seconds, it started to expand, finally creating a large explosion, encasing all of the were wolves in a large dome of darkness before disappearing as quickly as it had appeared. It didn't leave without nothing because once the blast of darkness had disappeared, the ear-piercing sound of the wolves' painful cry filled Raven's ears.

The battle was not over yet. Yes, the earlier blast had sent them all to the ground and the twitching, groaning bodies of the werewolves were now scattered around, thanks to the violent force of her spell. Raven stood almost motionless and emotionless at the center of it all. Her chest heaved as she took huge gulps of oxygen into her lungs like a starving child. The magic circle remained above the girl. Glowing bright it added to the already bright light of the full moon. To everything around them, the light almost gave the impression that it was morning instead of night. However, the trees and flowers around them remained as still as the dead, giving nothing away.

Taking the momentary silence for granted, Raven took a look behind her to find Hikari struggling with her enemies. From where she stood, Hikari's hair silver tresses shined in the moonlight coupled with the light of her own magic circle.Her small petite body gliding in the air as glistening sweat flew off of her. And for a moment, Raven had a strange thought crossing her mind. That if she was of opposite gender, she would have found Hikari extremely attractive at that time. She chose to believe in the stubbornness of her dear friend and turned back to her own battle.

All the werewolves, previously lying around in pain, were now once again charging towards her, their eyes glowing brilliantly with anger. If Raven had a choice, she would have turned them all back to humans. After all, they were not doing this on their own will. Hurting them was her last option although they didn't leave her with much of a choice. She noted that, some of them were already giving up. Some were limping. Some looked as if they were blaming Raven for their current predicament. One thing was for sure. They had no idea of what they were doing.

Unable to move as the side effect of her currently active spell, Raven stood her ground, her eyes flickering between the approaching gray masses of werewolves in front of her. She was counting for the perfect moment to unleash another attack. In a few seconds, they were about five meters away from her. Without even a second to lose anymore, Raven activated her spell for the second time, following the route that her spell had taken the last time. It had the same effect. The werewolves were thrown back from the explosion once more. But they still looked as savage and bloodthirsty as before. One more hit. One more and her fight would be over for the time being.

Raven was not used to staying at one place for too long. She was far too energetic to do that. But her spell had made it so that she couldn't move an inch from where she stood. It was a drawback of her spell that she had to stay wherever she was before initiating the spell.

She shifted her weight from one foot to another as she waited for the wolves to gather again. It took them longer than the last time to come back at her. She wasn't surprised at that seeing as most of them were limping and breathing heavily. It was obvious that the fight in them had left them. However, the moon was driving them forward again and again, willing them to get back up on their feet until they could not. Raven wasn't complaining. She did feel bad she was hurting innocent people. But, it was either her or them. Hopefully, Hikari was not finding the whole thing too difficult. Compared to the pack she was dealing with, Hika had it easier. But of course, her rank wasn't high enough to deal with them yet. A little more and she would be able to help Hikari.

After all of that, they had to find out more about the werewolves. The brief description on their request was all the clue they had so far about the werewolves. But, maybe, if possible, there could be a small chance that they could really figure out what makes them tick. Maybe they could find the elders? It would be one bloody night but they couldn't possibly keep on fighting like this. For a race that's almost non existent, there were a whole lot of them.

Finally, she redirected her attention to the wolves charging at her again. This time, they actually decided to come at her from all directions. Ah for some beasts that got their mind taken over by immeasurable power, these things sure had the brain to actually mix things up and approach her intelligently. They must have figured out that the explosion works best when they were together. Well, the clearly didn't know her enough then. This time, Raven cooked up a dark ball right within her hands. She quickly directed it, under her and sent it straight to the ground. It exploded right before it touched the ground and the explosion roared around Raven with her shielding her eyes from the stones and debris that flew up. It was over.

After the battle, Raven sat down on the ground before pulling her legs up to her chest. Her ankle burned a little from having been so close to explosion of her own spell. It had already become quite red when Raven lifted the hem of her dress up a little to inspect it. The light of the magic circle above her disappeared slowly afterwards and finally the light of the moon was their sole guide again. She ran a finger over the red area and winced after feeling the pain cut through her. It was sharp but nothing that she couldn't take. Luckily, Raven was still able to get back on her feet after gently rubbing the sore spot for a little. However, if she couldn't treat it, it was more likely that she would have problems with that sore foot later. If she didn't get the map of this place wrong the first time she looked at it, Raven was pretty sure that the village they were in had a clinic.

"The clinic, woman. That's where we are going next. If I don't get this thing inspected, I don't think I'll be very efficient in fighting after this. But really...I got injured from my own attack," Raven complained after puffing up her cheeks in annoyance. The girl who had trouble dealing with the monsters was completely fine too!

"Ugh I'm never going to get used to the eeriness of this pla-WOAH!" Raven fell back with something or rather someone on top of her. "Ugh! I'm not your cushion dammit!" the violet haired girl frustratedly got ahold of her little attacker's face and pushed him off her before taking a good look at the kid that decided it was wise to jump on the face of a stranger. He was small alright. Looked around eight with dark brown mushroom cut hair and similar beady eyes that kept staring at Raven with admiration. "So cool! Grandpa! Look! These two defeated the werewolves!" the kid suddenly turned around and called out to an older looking man, almost bald from his age. He held a long stick in one hand and the other was placed behind him. Two bushy eyebrows hid his eyes from hers and Raven finally lifted an eyebrow at the two.  

"I'll explain in my clinic," he finally spoke and turned around to walk away. "I can fix your ankle up too. Come on. It's not safe out here".

Raven simple shrugged when Hika expressed displeasure at her getting hurt with her own magic. Well, it’s not like she could help it. She wanted to have all the werewolves at a point where she could hit them all and the best spot just happened to be right under her after her jump. Anyhow, the most important thing was that she had managed to take care of all the werewolves that threatened to rip her bones apart and Hika had done the same.

The boy that tackled her turned out to be the grandkid of an old village based doctor. Hikari had helped her walk over to his clinic after she got injured. The clinic was old, Raven could tell from a simple glance at the semi dirty walls and almost broken doors. All that was holding up the door to the room for patients was a small rusty hinge at the top. The lower one was already broken and door was almost hanging on air.

“Is this village full of werewolves?” she asked the old man as she sat down on a small stool beside a bed in the room. Raven tried to exert as little pressure as she possibly could on the slowly rusting stool. The shaking legs of the metal piece painfully told her it would give away if she pushed back further down into it by creating a creaking noise.

“No, we have normal people here too,” the man answered as he instructed his kid to go and bring a small kit from the cupboard. She expected it to contain some ointment plus bandage and stuff but it surprised her a little when she saw different kind of leaves in there. There were leaves of all sizes and shapes. “They are herbs,” he explained to the confused violet haired woman. “I collect them from the forest. They have some really effective medicinal plants there. Also, about the werewolves, only half of the village is their kind. The normal humans are hiding underground in a large room to escape from them. This only lasts a night, after all. However, if they aren’t stopped, after not finding anyone here, they will definitely move out to other villages. Right now, they cannot be beaten with reason. They must be stopped at all costs. I noticed the guild mark on you…you belong to Sabertooth, right? We implore you, please stop them. Don’t kill them! If possible, just knock them unconscious till the morning!” the man’s voice was shaking as he finished with a cough indicating his age restricted him from speaking so much.

“You are right. I’m Raven, the guild master of Sabertooth and with me is Hikari, one of our aces. We will stop them. But we have to figure out a way to trap the werewolves in this village. I don’t want them going out of the village bounds. Do you have any ideas?” she asked the smiling man.

“Yes, I do…”

“This is beautiful,” Raven silently breathed when they reached the top of waterfall. Some meters away from them, Raven was able to clearly see that huge boulders were blocking the water’s path. A rock slide must have affected it at some point. And she did not need Sherlock Holmes to tell her that the old man’s plans had something to do with that awful excuse for a dam.

“Three months ago, there was a rock slide that blocked the course of water from the waterfall. As you can guess, our village used to be surrounded by a wide stream before. Thanks to those pile of rocks, the stream isn’t as fast or wide enough anymore. The werewolves can easily cross them and go out the village. If we restore the stream to its original state…”

“The wolves will be trapped here and we have Hikari here. I have a really good plan now…” Raven completed the old man’s plan for him. First thing first, they had to destroy the rocks blocking the stream’s path.

She kept looking around the area for a few minutes to see if there is something else that she could use. Nothing in particular caught her eye though she could see the complete layout of the village from where they stood. Light of the full moon mercilessly assaulted her when she looked up. Time then was 1:00 AM which meant that they had four to five more hours to fend the werewolves off. If they time it right and manage to round all the werewolves together, it will still be one long night.

She crouched down at the edge of the waterfall before jumping down to the ground several meters below. She intended to take a closer look at the pile of rocks to see if there could be some type of weak spot to it. Contrary to the size she thought it would be from the top of the waterfall, the real structure was very very big. It towered over her and though she probably could take it down by herself, she didn’t want to waste her high ranked spells on it.

“Hika, come down. You take one side and I’ll take one side. Launch a B rank spell on it on the same time as I do, alright?” she instructed the paragon of faith before flying a short distance off to the other side of the stream.

“More than I’ll ever be,” she softly breathed after seeing Hikari take position at the other side of the noisy stream. Then when the picture of what is about to happen next flashed across her thoughts, Raven could delightfully feel a small smile blooming on her rosy lips. She had no idea what she was up against, did she? “I would advise you to stay farther away from the bank and use a long ranged spell if possible, Hikari,” the violet haired girl sounded playful when she informed her, intentionally pointing out to her that she wouldn’t like what Raven was going to do.

The tall wall of boulders still stood proudly at the middle of the stream. Water glistened at the surface of those boulders creating an aura like effect around it with the moon light shining directly over it. From somewhere, Raven’s ears picked up faint noises of wolves howling at the silvery bright orb belonging to the middle of a stream of stars. Their cry sounded like whining. Following the initial howl, there were many more, indicating that the beasts weren’t very far away from the trio.

She found their companion still stationed at the top of hasty waterfall. He looked amused as he dragged his eyes over the two girls, both powerful mages. It was difficult for him to believe that the violet haired girl who couldn’t have been more than nineteen was already a guild master and the shorter one was an ace. More importantly, they were both from a famous guild. He couldn’t remember the name well besides a tiny hunch that its name included some extinct animal.

Returning to her task at hand, Raven felt the familiar pull of magic inside her body. It tugged at her veins and warmed up her blood. The dark and unholy touch of her magic projected outwards in the form of a magical aura around her shapely body. It created a transparent silver robe on her as she got ready to use her spell.

“Remember to keep a good distance,” she told Hikari again and loudly took a deep breath of air in. Not too long after that, an earsplitting scream was heard as the powerful sound waves she produced crashed unorthodoxly at the boulders. It was like the song of an opera singer, except, it was far louder and deadly. It was not made with the intention of shattering glass, after all. Tiny cracks formed over the bundle of rocks first before they completely broke down. The boulders weren’t the only thing cracking though. For as long as she kept it up, she could tell that the ground was also shaking as if trying to tell her to stop.

Told you to stay away, didn’t I? Raven chuckled at the surprised expression Hikari adorned on her childlike face. She waved her arms around, still trying to figure out what Raven just did while the makeshift dam simply gave away and the water regained its free reign over the stream once more.

She hopped off the rock she was standing on without any effort before flying back to the other side of the stream. “That was my spell, Raven Call. It utilizes deadly sound waves. Why do you think I told you to stay away, little Faith?” she called the smaller girl with the name of her title. It was quite nice too. Well, at least Raven felt it so.

The old man came up to them with a grin. It appeared that just the twisting of his lips took a lot of effort for the old man who was nearly in his eighties. She smiled back, quite confident that she knew just what to do after this.

Since the werewolves were now trapped in the village, if they wanted to get out, they would have to cross the stream. She was sure that not many of them would attempt it even in their crazed out state. For one, if they were anything like normal mutts, they wouldn’t like a bath and secondly, the force of water would carry and drown them. Thirdly, Hikari was present. So if they did enter the water, they would be stepping straight into our trap – Not that they knew – but all the possibilities.

Finally, Raven decided it was time to head back. “Let’s go back. We have done what we could here. No werewolf will go out and no poor soul will come inside just to get ripped apart by the beasts,” she told Hikari as they walked back towards the clinic.

“The bad thing, however,” she continued, “is that the wolves would be more prominent inside the village now. This means they would either attempt to smell out the ordinary citizen or just attack anything their eyes locks on to.”

They arrived back at the village as she finished. It was quiet; a little too quiet. With all of the wolves trapped in there, how was it so quiet? It was odd.

Raven didn’t need to ask any longer. From the shadows, like satan in his beastly forms, the werewolves emerged one by one. They were trapped and they wanted nothing more than to see blood.


OOC: Not a good post at all. Rushed it xc Sowwy!

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“This is where we let all our power loose,” she told Hikari as two wolves emerged from the darkness, each drooling at the pair of women and the old man. Raven had known that the wolves would come after and find them even if they didn’t start their hunt since their lust for blood was getting stronger and stronger as the light of moon sneered from above and got brighter and brighter. Raven also guessed that there were other wolves prowling the area while these two found them first. They looked bigger than the normal ones and as if answering her silent question, the old man behind her said that they were the omegas.

Their horrendous figures growled, shortening the distance slowly, savoring the dark look in their preys’ eyes. It was shown brightly in their red eyes that all of this was simply a game for them. They aimed to evoke fear within their targets by revealing sharp edges of their fangs. Raven immediately threw the old man behind her and told him to find somewhere safe for if she started fighting them, the old man would be in danger as well. And quickly, she summoned her chain whip.

The bladed whip coiled and curved outwards like a snake seeking its target. As Raven’s grip tightened around the handle, the wolves jumped, one of them going straight towards Hikari while the other darted towards the violet haired woman. It jumped fifty feet up into the air and landed right beside her. By the time she realized it was originally targeting the old man, the swift creature of the night was already behind her with his claws stretched towards the trembling man.

Before the claws could reach him, however, Raven wrapped the whip around its left hind leg and pulled it back, throwing the huge creature about 3 meters away from them. As it wailed and stood back on its weeping feet. Raven slashed at it again, with the blades of her whip cutting the night, hitting the beast’s chest, slashing open a deep wound it would remember for the rest of its life. Finally, to completely knock it out, Raven jumped up, maneuvered herself through the sky before landing violently on the wolf’s head, listening to its loud howl at it slipped into a deep slumber. Hopefully, it would stay that way till morning light came in search of him.