Liberation of Slaves [Job ll Myra and Jin]

Jin had been getting up going on jobs and returning only to fall asleep like a log. Not that he didn’t like it, he had always hoped that one day he’d be able to help people. He had learned magic, joined a guild and then worked long enough to start improving at it too. It was early morning and he was at the guild’s hall, he had just finished making some breakfast. Still learning as a chef under the instructions of the head chef, he was improving in his job as a chef. He walked to the table, placed his plate on it and sat getting ready to eat. He noticed Myra walking up to the notice board, probably getting a new job.

With the intention of going on a job with her, he gobbled down the food as fast as he could. Right after when he was done, Myra had walked to him instead. With the last bit of food in his mouth, he stared at his friend and then looked at the job request. ”Okay” he replied without even reading the job request. The reason was the way Myra had asked, Jin was a person who could never say ‘no’ to others. Myra wasn’t just simply another person, she was a guild member and a friend too. There was no way Jin would ever say no to her.

After that he stood up, grabbed the piece of paper and read through it. ”This is just awful, we need to get there and fast. We can’t let them take any more ladies out of Fiore”. His guild wasn’t directly concerned with Fiore neither was he, but he cared about people. These people needed help and Jin wasn’t going to step back.

Jin couldn’t say or do anything next, right after he agreed he was dragged along. He could feel how tense his friend was by the way she had clenched his hand in hers. He didn’t say a word and just followed her, so that she could calm down on her own accord. Finally she calmed down a little and let go of his hand, ”No need to apologize, I understand”. He could give her some long and boring motivational lecture but he thought it would be best to stay quiet for a while. Sometimes words aren’t needed and all one needs is someone to stay beside them.

Without wasting much time, the two were off on their journey to Fiore. It was understandable why Myra was so frustrated, she must be worried and agitated at those smugglers. Her words confirmed what Jin had suspected, he heard her; she probably didn’t want to say that out loud. ”It’s never too late you know” said Jin as he straightened his hair with his right hand. She was getting depressed and was worried even before they had gotten there. Being pessimistic wasn’t going to help them anyways, it was better to have hope and continue moving forward. That’s what Jin meant when he said what he did.

Finally their journey ended and they arrived at Fiore, the place where it was all happening. Jin agreed with Myra, that was the right thing to do but who would do what? He was pretty sure that if Myra came across the slavers, she’d probably kill them. Jin didn’t like what they were doing but taking someone’s life was a completely different matter to him, ”Alright let’s split up, I’ll go to the slavers you go to the Rune knights. Don’t worry, if I end up in trouble I have a few cards up my sleeves”. That was true, he could even summon spirit warriors to aid himself if the need be. He hoped that Myra would do as he had requested her; not that he wouldn’t do what Myra would tell him to.

He wasn’t sure if Myra would agree with him since she had been angry and frustrated the entire time. Thank fully she didn’t seem okay with it but agreed regardless. She went on her way and Jin headed to the destination that was told in the job request. He assumed that the Rune knights must’ve tried but had failed at taking care of these slavers. That must mean that either the Rune knights weren’t good at it or these slavers were too good. After reaching the destination, he sat on the ground and touched the earth with his right. He used his ability to sense heat signatures so that he could find some clues but it wasn’t useful. This was a harbor and there were too many heat signatures around to specifically pin point the one’s he needed to find.

”It is broad day light, would they be moving slaves at this time of the day?”, indeed that was a valid thought. Even if they were strong enough to fight off the Rune knights, these kind of thugs should normally work at night. However, his assumption was wrong and as he stood there trying to locate some clues he heard a loud voice. ”Move you dumb creatures, we don’t have time to waste” said a large man as he walked along with five females. There was the sound of chains that followed along with them and as he turned, he did notice chains. These guys weren’t afraid of anything apparently and were freely doing whatever they wanted.

Thinking that the best course of action to take was to stay back and watch for the time being, Jin head behind a wall and kept watch over the slavers. One of them, the big one that was leading the slaves had a large whip that he kept cracking at them. The other was a well dressed man with a cane in his hand, he followed along quietly. Jin had no way of finding out but he was sure that these two were the brains of this operation. For now, he waited and watched awaiting the arrival of Myra. Only after she would arrive and pass on the information that she would have acquired would he do things that really mattered.

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Finally Myra arrived and told him what she knew. Jin was right about the thugs being too good at it, the Rune knights were having trouble with them. Rushing in would be an extremely bad idea, they needed a strategy. He put his right hand on his chin and began to think of ways to fight the thugs. While he did that, apparently Myra snapped and revealed herself. ”So much for a strategy, well there are two guys anyways” he thought as he stood along with her. So Myra was agitated by the way these guys were manhandling the ladies, Jin wasn’t okay with that either. However, the way Myra had just snapped he had expected something like that. That was the reason why he had asked her to go the Rune Knight instead of keeping watch over them. It was a good decision now that he thought about it because by the time he had gone to the Rune knight. Myra would have already gotten into a fight with these slavers. She hadn’t been here five minutes and she already had enough of those guys. Jin didn’t like it, that was true but he wanted to find a way to rescue all of the slaves and take these guys out.

Myra’s words made Jin think that she was trying to agitate the slavers on purpose, not a bad plan. Forcing the two to make a step and launch an attack, if it was a one on one battle; these guys were as good as goners. However, that planned didn’t work as the man called out to his men. Well, Jin was right about one thing that these guys were the ones running the operation. This was no time to think about that though since they were suddenly outnumbered now. If both Myra and Jin ended up fighting these guys, it was highly likely that both of them would end up getting caught.

Whether it was a reflex or something out of pure thought Jin froze the floor behind him and stepped forward. He cast a gaze at Myra as if to tell her to step back and then pushed her gently. The floor was frozen so if pushed she would slide over and go way back. Then Jin jumped in the middle of the foes that were converging on them to divert their focus towards him.

”As she said, she’s not too fond of clowns. I’ll be your opponent” said Jin as he prepared himself to take on overwhelming odds. Would the heat magician be able to survive this many opponents?

”Boy, this is going to be painful” thought Jin as he made sure his friend was safe. The opponents he was up against were eleven in number. Each one of them had either a gun or a sword and was probably ready to rip his head off. ”Well Mr. Hero, what do you think you’re going to do having saved your useless friend” said the man who was apparently pretty happy now. Jin wouldn’t mind if he was bad mouthed, he’d probably not even care. This was a completely different matter and he wasn’t going to stand it. ”No choice then, I’ll have to go all out” thought Jin.

He couldn’t rely on his spirit warriors because if he did he wouldn’t be able to use them later. He knew that without them, he was as good as dead; or may be these guys would take him alive. The men with the swords, five of them charged at him at once. Five men against one, that was so not fair; not to mention five others who were pointing their guns at him. Jin stepped back avoiding the first slash and kicked that guy in the torso. The other two came in rushing to pierce right through him, he stepped aside but the sword cut his clothes and his flesh. His left arm and the right side of his stomach were cut and now bleeding. As these two guys went by him, he punched one and kicked the other knocking them out as well. The other came slashing as well in a downward diagonal slash, he could only step back to avoid getting cut in half. Though he didn’t get cut in half, he still received one big cut starting from his right shoulder to the left side of his waist. His shirt was completely torn and now blood had began to gush out even more. He grabbed this slaver since he was that close and hit his stomach with his knee.

Five of them were out and he was already bleeding heavily; not to mention out of breath. ”Five of my men? What does this guy eat anyways? What’re you guys standing there for? Shoot the bastard” said the now angered boss. Jin lowered the temperature of his body to stop the bleeding and smiled at the guy: ”cake”. Well the slaver was curious as to what Jin ate so he let him know. Now in this injured state, he was about to face five men who were just about to shoot at him. Was this the end of the line?

Jin was thinking of ways to fight off these guys when Myra intervened. He had a moment to breathe and decided to take advantage of the distraction she created for him. His blood had stopped flowing out of his body for now, thanks to his heat manipulation it had clotted. Myra had reduced the number of foes he had to take on, he wasn’t planning on winning. If he could reduce their numbers even more that would prove helpful for later. So he rushed in at the three foes who were holding the guns at him, one shot as he saw him move. At such a close range, he wasn’t planning on avoid the bullets anyways; the bullet pierced through his shoulder. The pain was excruciating but he did get close and so he kicked one of them out. The other two were taken by surprise and aimed their guns at him but he was already moving. He punched one slaver, with his uninjured hand and slammed his head into the remaining slaver.

Angered by the movements of this one injured individual, the boss didn’t shout this time and said only one word, ”Oi..”. ”…yeah” replied the large individual who had been spoken to. The stepped towards the injured heat mage and launched a sudden strike that hit right in his torso. Jin was lifted into the air and crashed onto the ground, the impact was too much for him to beat. His wounds had been temporarily closed and so they opened up because of the strike. He was knocked unconscious and his apparently lifeless body was dragged away as the slavers fled from Myra.

Jin didn’t know how long had it been when he opened he regained conscious. It felt like his arms and feet were bound to something, as he tried to move them the sound of chains were heard. He opened his eyes and sat up struggling. Along with the other female slaves from before, he appeared to be locked up in a dark place.

Jin’s body was in pain but he couldn’t see what shape it was in, it took some time for his eyes to adjust. The place was dark, probably cramped too since he could feel quite a few people around him using his thermal vision. There was little light coming in from a few holes in the walls around him. Getting caught was part of his plan but getting so badly injured wasn’t. He could feel that his shirt was missing, as his senses recovered he also felt some covering on his wounds. Someone had treated his wounds and cuts, thought it only felt temporary but something had been done at least.

”You’re awake now, don’t move much” said a dark female figure with a gentle voice. She told him not to move much so that must mean that she was the one who treated to his wounds. This also meant that the female could move freely unlike Jin who was chained to the wall. ”Thank you for your care” said Jin looking at the figure who had spoken earlier as he sat up. ”Some mage you are..” said another dark figure; from what Jin could make out of it, she felt like an older lady. ”..not only you failed to help us. You ended up getting injured and caught yourself”, said the female. It appeared she was greatly displeased with Jin, guess he must’ve given her hope when he had appeared earlier. Little did the older lady know, when Jin sat up he had already begun to cool down the temperature of the chains.

”I’m sorry madam, I didn’t mean to disappoint you. We needed to know how these guys were operating to make sure this would come to an end. We can’t allow them to do it over and over. Now that we know this is there ship, it won’t be long now”. He replied as a cracking sound suddenly echoed in the area he was being held. The chains had frozen and he simply pulled them to break them off. The female that was doubtful earlier was now quiet, Jin’s reply revealed his plan to her so she probably understood. ”Now then, let’s capture these despicable excuses for humans” said Jin as he stood up and cracked his knuckles.

His shirt had been ripped, his wounds were only holding because the clotting that happened when he reduced his body temperature and his body was aching because of the beating. Despite all that, he smiled and prepared to take on the foe more seriously this time around. It’s not like he was some veteran warrior who could ignore the pain, no actually this was his first time getting this badly hurt. He hadn’t ever before been beaten like this on a job. He was smiling because this time he could use his magic to really help people. What he would do now would significantly affect the lives of these slaves and slavers. It was time to show these slavers what Black Rose mages were all about.

He placed his ear on the wooden door to hear any kind of sound from the outside. It would appear that there was no ruckus outside, so Myra was still being cautious. He was sure that his friend would be close somewhere. He used his thermal vision ability to sense the presence of foes nearby, there were two guards out the door. He needed to be smooth and silent to avoid getting detected. That wasn’t much of a problem since these guys were standing on the same surface as Jin was; which meant that he was indirectly touching them. Actually, everyone on the ship was so his abilities could affect everyone on the ship.

He placed his hands on the door and began to raise the temperature of the door only and the temperature of the guns that the two gunmen outside were holding. The door was heated way faster than the guns were because it was closer. Jin’s abilities were dependant on the distance and the area of contact. Slowly the door began to become red until it set ablaze. This did caught the attention of everyone; so much for being subtle. Actually, there was no need to be subtle anyways so the gunmen turned and reached for their guns. Only to have their hands burned instead of being able to grab their guns. The door continued to burn until it fell down and instead of the fire catching on, it was suddenly cooled. Releasing some smoke in the air as Jin emerged and punched one gunman while kicked the other in the guts. ”Show time” he said out loud as everyone was now staring at the man who was badly injured earlier.

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Myra finally decided to appear, as Jin had expected of her she was close by. As he had just barged in with guns blazing, it had probably ruined Myra’s attempt at stealth. He was confident that their combined strength was enough to take down these slavers, that’s why he did what he did. Two of the slavers had fallen to him, two more appeared; both of them with swords. Jin’s body already had enough cuts on it for one day, so he decided it was best to avoid getting cut again. He raised the temperature of his legs allowing him to move with more speed than before. The two charged in at him and he stood still so that for a moment the two would feel confident; he would then take advantage of it.

He stepped aside avoiding the slash of one of them and grabbed his arm heating it suddenly to the point that he had to let go of the sword. As he grabbed him, Jin moved along with the person. The slaver moved ahead, Jin moved to the side and he struck his knee to the back of that individual, throwing him away. The other did miss but he was untouched by Jin and now outraged seeing the damage done to his comrade. Enraged the slaver charged at him, anger does make one prone to make mistakes. So this person failed to notice the slight frozen area where his next foot step ended. The result was the guy suddenly slipping and landing next to Jin’s feet, who in turn gladly kicked this individual’s face.

After taking down these two foe, he turned to look at Myra who was overwhelming her opposition. With a smile on his face, the topless and bruised individual smiled and waved at her: ”Yo!” he said out loud.

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Jin noticed the tone of concern that Myra’s voice had, ”If I rest now, what good is my magic and my abilities? This is the time that I really shouldn’t be resting.” His words had determination and sincerity within them, he meant what he said. Soon after two more slavers appeared and faced off against Myra. Right after their attack it was revealed that the two were capable of using magic unlike the previous foes Jin had faced. The good thing was that these guys used water magic; not much of a problem. Sadly, he couldn’t save Myra from getting hit by one of their attacks, he didn’t like that; not one bit. He stepped in front of Myra, now standing between her and the two foes; announcing to them that he would be their opponent now.

Then began a stare down, between the injured heat magician who had his hands in his pocket and the two sword mages. While they were busy staring at Jin and waiting for him to make his move, he was already making it. He had already begun to lower the temperature of the water surrounding their swords. Only after the water began to freeze did one of them notice that something was wrong. He tried using the same attack that hit Myra but instead the water had now turned to ice. A little delay and due to the reduced distance, Jin took advantage of it. Their water lacrima had now frozen and the cutlasses turned to simple swords. Having accomplished that Jin launched his attack at the two as ice projectiles appeared above his head suddenly and launched at the two slavers. “Piercers” was the spell he used, using cold projectiles to freeze the struck areas. The slavers were knocked back, one’s shoulder pierced by the projectile, the other’s leg. They were still tough one’s though, they stood up still prepared to take them on.

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