Thug Infestation

It was early morning and Jin was sound asleep, his alarm sounded and he got up, ”…hmmm, cake”; apparently he was still half asleep. He stretched a bit and got up from his bed, heading into the bathroom to take a shower. He had slept half naked: without a top, so undressing didn’t take long. In about an hour, he was already at the table downstairs and had a breakfast prepared for him. Obviously his breakfast did contain a certain kind of cake along with other nutritional necessities. He was in no hurry, so he took about half an hour to indulge into his food. He couldn’t help but admit that he had been getting better ever since he was made into a chef. ”Having a job isn’t that bad. I improved on my cooking and now I’m getting a hang of it too” he thought as he slowly cherished the last piece of cake in his mouth.

Jin finally stepped out of his house, locking it up as he was ready to go to the guild. ”Hey Jin, how’re ya? Going on a job again?” said his friendly neighbor as he noticed Jin. Jin smiled at the individual and waved, ”Hey, yeah probably”. That was his intention but he didn’t know what would be waiting him when he would get to the guild. ”You guys at Black Rose don’t take a break ha? Good luck to you then” said the neighbor as he departed on his way. Jin only smiled and waved back, it was true; his guild was full of mages who loved helping people.

It was a beautiful sunny day, a day he wouldn’t mind going on a job. He walked to the guild, it wasn’t that far away and in ten minutes he was the guild hall. He looked around to find some familiar faces and walked to the notice board. ”I wonder what jobs are there today” he said out loud as his eyes scanned the job request on the board. There were quite a few D-rank jobs but he wasn’t interested in those. Then there were the C-ranks, those did offer a good reward and a tough challenge at times but he wanted something even better. His eyes were already moving through the B-rank jobs.

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As Jin continued to search for a higher ranked job, he sensed a familiar heat signature nearby. Well this was good, he was finally getting used to the thermal sensing ability. He turned and noticed Myra reading a job request paper, he knew what was next. So he didn’t say anything and allowed her to read as she noticed him and offered him to come along. ”Hi Myra, no worries” he replied as he grabbed the job request and simply nodded. Obviously, he wasn’t one to say no and he wasn’t going to start now either. ”So where are we headed?” he inquired even before reading the job request; making his intention of coming along known.

He read through the job request, apparently it was a distress call from a restaurant owner. The client appeared to be in real trouble having called for mages to help him out. The strong preying on the weak instead of helping them out, something extremely agitating and intolerable for Jin. ”Poor guy, he really needs out help. I’ll take care of getting the job approved. If you wish to prepare or anything, I’ll meet you back at the guild’s exit” said Jin as he departed with the job request looking for Sophie. She must be roaming around being angry at Kakuma or doing something important besides being angry at Kakuma. He asked around and got to her, ”Sophie me and Myra are going on this job. Please approve.” He asked the woman who cast a gaze at the job request and then at Jin, ”That’s a B-rank job. Just be careful you two” she replied which Jin interpreted as an approval.

He walked outside the guild hall as he told Myra he would. It was a bit windy but the sun was still up, a nice weather to be travelling. Not a nice weather to be bullied though, even in this weather the poor client would be worried sick. Jin was sporting his usually contrasting clothes today, a loose fit light grayish t-shirt with full sleeves. A baggy black colored jeans on his bottom and sneakers with white and black colored patterns on it. As usual, he didn’t forget to wear his accessory that he wore on his right hand’s wrist. An accessory made of leather and with a small silver heart shaped attached to it.

Myra walked out of the guild and the two set off on their journey to Hargeon town. Not a troublesome journey, he had gotten used to travelling at sea. The sea breeze was gentle and at a sunny day like this, the journey was enjoyable. Finally they arrived at the town that they were supposed to do the job and it didn’t take them much long either. He stretched a bit and walked along with Myra as they headed to the restaurant. ”So some thugs have been causing trouble in this peaceful town? Despicable people they are” he thought while looking around.

The two walked into the restaurant, not too elite and yet not too sober either. Something simple and yet elegant, it was a pretty nice place to come and eat. ”May be I can learn some recipes from the chef here” he thought as his nose cause the lingering smell of food. Becoming a chef was a pleasant experience for him and he had begun to like the job. It was becoming more of a hobby too, as he enjoyed it he wanted to improve as well. They were greeted by a smiling waiter, Jin bowed his head a little replying to the greeting.

After having told that the two weren’t customers but rather mages, they were lead to the office. There they met the well dressed owner of the place. Jin turned his head a little to the right revealing the guild tattoo on the left side of his neck. ”Jin and Myra from Black Rose, we’ve come to help you get rid of the thugs” he said with a confident smile. The man looked at the two, Jin wasn’t one muscular individual and apparently there wasn’t anything special about him. The man’s gaze did depict that he wasn’t too impressed by the two. ”So you two are supposed to be mages capable of handling these thugs?”, the man was well dressed but he was pretty blunt. ”I apologize..” he quickly said right after he said those rude words, ”… you see those thugs have really been threatening me and I’m just scared of what they are capable of”, he said with an extremely sad expression on his face.

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Jin sat down as Myra did, the man was about to tell his story. He listened quietly, paying attention to each word. It was horrible what had been done to his restaurant and him; not just morally but financially too had he suffered. He nodded when Myra assured him that they weren’t going to let the thugs cause any more harm to him or his business. Then a sound was heard as the thugs arrogantly announced their arrival by causing some sort of ruckus outside. The restaurant owner confirmed this with words and the facial expressions that depicted fear. Jin stood up and looked at Myra before he walked outside.

As he entered the area of the restaurant where clients were eating and the smiling waiter was attending to them. It was empty now, people had fled or had hidden under tables. The smiling waiter was now in a dilemma, as he was raised a few feet above the ground and in the grasp of one of the two thugs. These two large individuals were not only taller but had quite a bit of muscle. Comparatively, Jin was tall too and had some muscle but that was nothing; these guys were seriously buff. He was never one to tolerate someone being oppressed like this, ”Let him go”. Jin said staring angrily at the man who was holding the waiter with a grin on his face. The other guy replied instead, ”Or what?” he inquired while grabbing a chair. Jin knew what was coming next so he began to raise the temperature of his legs, giving himself a boost of speed. He did this, not only to himself but also to Myra, she would feel the boost and change in her legs temperatures. He wasn’t in a position to tell her about it verbally, so he hoped that she would notice.

”Or you mess with mage from Black Rose” Jin said tilting his head and revealing his guild tattoo. Was he hoping for them to be scared of the guild and just run away? No, he wasn’t expecting that. These kind of dull dimwits didn’t know what to fear until they felt things first hand. If he wanted them to fear the name of this bounty hunter guild, he would have to instill fear into their hearts; for that he was ready.

Myra’s sudden movement reflected that she was able to understand what Jin had silently done. As she moved so did he because there were two foes. If Myra confronted one of them by herself the other would just interfere and the two could gang up on her, not while Jin was there though. As she went off after the goon that held the waiter, he went for the other one. Jin jumped into the air and hurled himself at the thug in a flying drop kick, in synch with Myra’s movement. So as her body shot connected, so did Jin’s drop kick. The thug was stronger though and he didn’t fall off but was hit pretty bad so he staggered a little as he stepped a few feet backwards. Jin grabbed the chair that this thug was holding earlier and raised its temperature.

The change in temperature was quick since the size of the chair wasn’t that much and he was touching it directly as well. By the time Jin lifted the chair above his head it was already red and when right before he flung it to the thug, it was on fire. The distance between Jin and the thug wasn’t that much and the chair wasn’t that small a projectile either. He ducked but his head still got hit by the flaming chair. ”So you don’t like your hot seat eh?” said Jin making light of his opponent and the situation. The thug was still under recovery mode from Jin’s chair shot so Jin once again jumped this time swinging face into a round house kick. The thug was faster this time and jumped backwards, making Jin’s shot miss. He landed on his feet but the thug utilized this time in which he gained his balance, the thug launched a clothesline at him. Jin held up his hands and grabbed the man’s arm, quite a strong arm he had.

Though, he did made the wrong move getting so close to a heat mage. All Jin needed to do now was change this guy’s body temperature, which he did. Suddenly reducing the body temperature of the thug, the thug’s body was large so he managed to get his arm free but he was shivering now. His body had been cooled down quite a bit. Jin charged into his foe before he could recover and struck him with a straight shoulder bash, the thug was knocked back this time off his feet. Due to Jin’s full hearted assault, the large foe was knocked outside the building, through the door and was now knocked out. ”Well now that these guys are taken care of. We should probably prepare for more, I doubt they are going to stop with just these two”, he said to Myra as he looked at the waiter making sure that he was okay.

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”What do these guys have against doors anyways?” thought Jin as two more foes appeared. He was just talking about the devils and they arrived, a bit of a cliché thing by now. It was like the combination of hot and cold since one was agitated by Myra’s taunt and the other remained calm. It was right then that Jin knew which one he would be fighting. The angered brute headed for Myra and Jin hoped that she would be careful. He didn’t have time to focus on her though, he had an enemy of his own to fight with.

The two foes stared one another down while the other two engaged one another. Both were calm, quiet and looked at one another; the silence before the storm. ”You won’t back down then?” said the large brute, Jin simply shook his head in reply. The large thug cracked his knuckles probably making his mind to separate Jin’s head from his torso. ”A quiet and calm opponent, those aren’t the easy ones. He’ll surely be a tough one, I better stay on my toes”. His speed boost was going to come in handy but this looked like it was eventually going to turn into a fist fight.

Both of them charged at another the next moment and their fists clashed. One punch followed by another kick which was then followed by another kick, the thug was fast and strong. Jin however, wasn’t relying on his strength. After a few hits the thug backed away, his fist was burned and the punches and kicks Jin had hit him with left burn marks. This was because Jin had just his D-rank spell, “Heat Source”. Jin wasn’t the only one who had landed a few blows, the thug wasn’t too bad either. As he had managed to strike Jin’s torso and kicked the side of his waist. The blows were strong since the foe was so large but it wasn’t that painful. Th real pain would be because of the burns that Jin had caused since it would just continue to grow. Jin was indirectly in contact with the foe and he was already raising the temperature of the wounds that had been burned thus increasing the effects of the burns.

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Meanwhile, Jin’s opponent realized that engaging in a fist fight while Jin’s hands and feet were bright red wasn’t a good idea. Very clever deduction and decision on his part but would be easy to keep Jin away? The brute picked up a table and flung it at Jin who jumped and rolled to avoid the gigantic projectile. As he raised his head to look at his opponent, Jin found the foe to be lifting two chairs. Seriously, this guy was strong and tough not to mention his stamina was way too impressive. This wasn’t the time to be impressed though since those two chairs were now flung at him. He ducked and avoided one of the chairs the last one, he caught in his hands. It did push him back a little but didn’t hurt since the part he held simply set on fire because of his still active spell. Jin raised the temperature of the entire chair and thus set it on fire.

He flung the burning chair at the brute who stepped aside simply letting it fly by. However, Jin wasn’t aiming to hit him by the chair. He was well aware that his opponent was too fast to get hit by the chair, instead he used that as a diversion to get close. Jin’s attempt was a success and he was now close in range. Again another fist fight began but it had little fists from the opposing side and more from Jin since he had caught the thug off guard. Slowly but surely Jin began to prevail since each one of his hits left burn marks and thus the pain began to overwhelm his opponent. Finally, his opponent couldn’t keep up and Jin continued to punch and kick. Two straight punches, one middle kick and finally finishing with a spinning round house kick. The kick knocked the opponent two feet into the air after which he landed on the floor unconscious. Jin looked over at Myra who was done with her opponent as well. The waiters were hiding but still looking at the two mages who had taken down four of those scary thugs. They were now hopeful, even the restaurant owner was peeking at them with a smile.

”I don’t think they’ll attack us anymore during the day. We should probably prepare for the night and just in case, close down the restaurant if they do attack again during the day. The restaurant can stay open in a situation like this, right?”.

For the time being, things were calm and everyone was smiling. The waiters obliged to the request of both Jin and Myra and put a closed sign out of the restaurant. Some customers that had just arrived on the front door had to leave. The owner wasn’t troubled by that though, he seemed like an experience businessman. He knew that once the thugs problem was over, all he needed to do was maintain his food quality and the customers will find their way back to his restaurant. As Myra noticed, a few waiters headed to repair the front door with some nails and hammer. ”I’ll help too”, Jin was about to go help them when one of the waiters stopped him. ”No you won’t” said the owner with a smile, ”Let them do it and you can rest while you have the chance”.

After that, Myra’s stomach growled announcing the fact that she was famished. Jin couldn’t help but notice that he too was hungry and tired from the fight. It would be best if the thugs didn’t attack for some time so the two could recuperate. He pulled his chair and sat down at the table with Myra, a few dishes were placed in front of them. Jin looked at her and waited for her to begin after she did, he began to eat too. The food was tasty and hot as well, freshly prepared specifically for the two of them. ”This is great, you have to tell me your recipe when we’re done” said Jin to the owner who nodded in reply. He probably would have said no under normal circumstances but Jin was helping him, so it was only natural that he helped Jin in return.

After having finished the meal, Jin wondered what the two mages needed to do. ”When those guys return, which I’m sure they will, we need to be ready. There are only two of us and they can be a lot more in number”, he pointed out the obvious to Myra. Of course, she would have already come to that conclusion on her own. What he wanted was to discuss ways to effectively fight their foes.

While Myra walked around thinking about some traps, Jin sat there and thought. He could do what he did last time when they were guarding the house. ”This is a public place though, we can’t be sure that a customer won’t come” he questioned his own plan. Thinking of traps for this kind of a setup was difficult but he believed it wasn’t impossible. ”We will need traps but we can’t damage the restaurant either”, the restaurant owner did say earlier he had no more funds for repairs. ”Thank you, that’s so considerate of you” said the owner smiling at Jin.

It was soon after that, the sound of some approaching individual was heard and Jin accompanied Myra, standing next to the door. While she prepared to punch the individual, he prepared to kick him so it would be double effective. Right when the customer entered, it wasn’t just Myra’s hand that he looked at but Jin’s kick too that stopped a few inches from his stomach. The poor individual must of thought about the restaurant that had no welcoming etiquette. Jin looked at the owner and scratched the back of his neck nervously as he bowed and apologized. It wasn’t their fault really that they were so jumpy. After the client left he resumed his seated position from before and continued to think.

It was then when a crazy idea popped into his mind, it was so crazy that it had the potential of actually working. He smiled and looked at Myra, ”I do have an idea” he said pausing on purpose to increase the anticipation. For a moment, he looked around to make sure that everyone was listening and was curious about what he was going to suggest. ”What do you guys think about Ice skating?” he inquired with a devilish smile. The waiters and the owner had no clue as to what he was suggesting since they didn’t know his magic. He assumed that Myra would probably understand what he meant so he didn’t explain it. Instead, he asked the waiters to remove the chairs and tables from the main hall. Despite having not understood his intention, they began to do as they were asked.

After the furniture was moved by the staff and Myra, Jin began lowering the temperature of the floor. It would take him a couple of minutes to completely freeze the floor. The process did take up a bit of his magic power but wasn’t that hard, this pointed to the fact that his abilities were growing. After he was done freezing the floor, he noticed that the staff was relieved after understanding what he meant earlier. ”With the floor frozen, neither of us have any footing but we are aware of it. So while they are surprised we are already prepared and thus at an advantage”, this was the plan that he had in mind. However, just a simple surprise wouldn’t do; he needed to develop a better trap. ”If I was a thug suddenly on a frozen and slippery floor, I’d probably get to the walls or the pillars to find my footing. In that case..”. His gaze turned to Myra, ”While we’re fighting, you and I must stay away from the walls and the visible pillars”, while he said that he froze the air around the walls and pillars. He did this in a manner that it resulted in large ice spikes emerging from the bottom of those walls and pillars.

He made it so that if those thugs tried to get to the walls or pillars to find their footing, depending on whether they skated their or just slipped there; they would end up pierced. However, that also meant that Jin nor Myra could use those things for their footing either. They could though, if they kept at a distance from the spikes on the bottom and only used the upper body of the walls and pillars. The spikes weren’t that tall since he didn’t mean for the thugs to be killed, he just wanted them injured. Jin was never one to take the life of another; even if they were dark individuals who inflicted harm to others. ”They might attack in numbers so we should keep the place dark. Otherwise, they will just see what we’ve done to the place and possibly avoid it”. In the dark, Jin had an advantage, he could still sense people using his heat perception. He didn’t even have to be directly involved, he could simple take them down at a distance. All he needed to do was use his heat manipulation magic and manipulate the ice he had created by changing the temperatures.

”As long as they are on the ice, they are in my domain and I can take care of them. Those who remain, you make sure they are taken care of” said Jin to Myra. He trusted that whatever his plan lacked, Myra was more than capable of handling it.

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