I'm Turning Radioactive • Private, Event-Job [Des & Hika]

Desirée Blooms

As the white and pink mire wolf's paws quickly hit the ground as it ran, the smell of pumpkin spice muffins filled the air of Fat Monsterland. Behind where Desirée sat on the wolf was an entire rack of these muffins, delicately wrapped and stacked in a basket while also being entirely secured by a flexible rod of rainbow-based light. It was about a month after the starfall occurred, and Rose Garden was entirely repaired from the mishap, looking as normal as it would any other day upon the beach. It was difficult to repair the giant crater that the falling star caused, along with the red blood and deposits of color nearly everywhere. Her solid white house had to be re-painted in its entirety, along with the beach having to be filled with fresh sand once again. It was how the Ace of Diamonds was killed the first time, something that she did not expect ever happening in her life until she reached her older years. She was now immortal due to her transcendence into one of her summons, a Crystal, and now fully fit her title as The Crystal Queen. Her blood changed from an opaque crimson red to that of the skies, an opaque sky-blue with white and gold swirls twirling throughout as the liquid would shift. The insides of her stomach switched as an average human's would look to one with a rainbow glaze on the inner wall, turning anything she would consume into liquid rainbows infused with stardust. She was like a child of the stars, something she never pictured herself as being. The issue was that this was not of consent, and with that, it destroyed some of the things that comforted her the most.

One of these things was her golden hoop of worry stones. This housed her summoning tools and contracts, which was one the first things to go during the starfall after her humanity. She sobbed as she watched the hoop float upward and split into two, causing each crystal worry stone to spin around and crack. One by one, each multi-colored crystal shattered into light and colored reflections, causing her heart to break more and more. She felt her magical power slowly drain in this event, and with that, her new magic was absorbed to take its place. She was now the essence of stardust and Diamond, The Queen of Chrysalis. She was now her own worry stone, entirely filled with worry and fear of the unknown. She learned so much that day, things that changed her life as a whole. She learned that a fifth dragon emerged in Chrysalis, causing all of the Crystals to change from their extremely humanoid forms to that of a more beastly feel, she found out that her hoop would not be able to be repaired for months on end, and she found out that her radiance of a human was gone. She was now of the rainbows and stars, and with that, the human presence in Black Rose fell more and more. She now fit in more with the yokai there in the sense that they were not human, but she was different than all the others there in the sense that she was not animalistic. She stood out, and with that, she was named the Ace of Diamonds. It was a rather fitting name since her Crystal name was also Diamond, and with that, the set of cards was complete for now.

With being hit by a star of The Seventh Aisle came its perks, as she now supported two new magical items on her person. One consisted of a crystal necklace, which allowed her to create adorable teddy bears and ribbons out of thin air. This was the harmless item, while the other was definitely not the case. Her back now supported a large sniper rifle at all times, something she knew she could result to using to protect herself at extremely long ranges as well as short ranges if her magical power began to falter. This is something she could also do with the help of her lifelong companion, Kiwi. Now with her immortality she could live forever with Kiwi and Strawberry, her two bio-luminescent organisms that flew along the sides of her body as she rode through the trees. Pitaya was also immortal, being a descendant of Fenrir and having an origin tracing back to the early days of Vintermyr. She made for a good means of transportation in the sense that she could run very fast, so fast that the muffins behind Desirée were still warm despite purchasing them hours before. She would always forget that she was capable of taking flight now, as well as teleporting across the cosmos to get to any destination she would wish to go to. Her magic was an entirely new concept for her mind to adjust to, but she knew exactly what she was capable of doing when it came to using her magic. She trained ever since the starfall, and with that, her magical power grew more and more. She even considered herself more powerful with this type of magic, being that she was entirely independent during this stage. She could blast around the battlefield alone and knock out waves of enemies if she wished, something she could not do earlier without her golden hoop. She now channeled her magic through her body instead of the golden hoop, something that was useful in the sense of independence. She missed her summoning hoop, but she knew it would be repaired someday in the future.

As the party of four traveled rapidly through the woods of Fat Monsterland, the sun began to rise. She was here to rid the land of monsters and corruption, the first job she was assigned since becoming a guild ace. This was not her first time being here, however, being that she was assigned a similar task months earlier. She had grown so much since then, and with that, change was apparent. Her long and wavy blue hair was now replaced with a stylized version of itself, now being blonde and fitting her status as one with the stars. Her radiance became more apparent as well, her blood filled with light unlike how her human blood once did. She was now open to foreign styles of clothing she was scared to wear at first, which was certainly apparent on this day. She was wearing a beautiful outfit with white, brown, and golden hues, and looked a bit old fashioned in regards to what era it was reminiscent of. She was in a short dress that featured a corset, falling to one third of the thigh at length and featuring her long and white legs. She also had on long and striped socks in a darker color, hitting boots of golden origin and being made of leather. This was a newer outfit added to her collection, being that she designated it for jobs that could possibly heighten her image in the public eye. Her favorite part of this outfit was the hat that hit the top of her head, being very fashionable yet something one would find in an antique store. From the right of the solid surface came a white, faux fur puff, following a golden and orange-amber pin which was representative of a flower.


As her stylized and twisted hair flew behind her shoulders, she realized that she was as close to her destination as one would consider themselves to be; she was where the monsters were the last time she was at this location. It felt as though she was here the day after the fight, except it was much more peaceful in the sense that it was extremely quiet and peaceful on this morning. Desirée commanded Pitaya to stop running where she was situated, and hopped off the side of the mire wolf and pet its fur back to its flattened state. She untied the basket of two dozen pumpkin spice muffins and unwrapped their heat sealing layer of saran-wrap, removing her pumpkin spice latte tucked in the center of these muffins and began to sip it. She looked across the area and saw a large rock sitting right next to a large tree that stretched over the clearing, and decided to walk toward it to eat her small breakfast. She went a bit overboard when ordering this muffins, but she knew that her party would be hungry once the job was done. As they all sat on the rock, Pitaya shrunk into her smaller form and sat in Desirée's lap patiently, awaiting her permission to eat a muffin.

Desirée passed each of the animals a pumpkin spice muffin, and they slowly began to nibble on the sides in a fashionable manner. Desirée began to do the same while also sipping her pumpkin spice latte, embracing her inner white bitch before pulling out her rose gold iLac. She slowly scrolled through her Lacrimagram and watched her follower count bounce up by the minutes, hitting nearly 37 million by the time she was done watching. She began to scroll through the pictures that were uploaded by her fellow guild members, slapping a like at the bottom of the page before scrolling to the next. She loved watching her friends upload cute photos of themselves, so much so that she aspired to be like them in a sense. Her Lacrimagram was almost like a blog in a sense, and was very aesthetically pleasing in regards to how she stuck to themes of color. She was in a golden color theme at the moment, which was fitting, so she decided to take a picture of herself in her golden outfit with her pumpkin spice latte. She angled the phone and took the picture, adding a filter and uploading it to her page. She watched as the likes began to flow in, and switched to Mageify. She began to play classical music as she bit into her muffin, savoring all of the bad bitch pumpkin spice flavors that entered her mouth and hit the rainbow glaze of her throat. She felt this turn into liquefied rainbow and all she could do was burp, producing a small haze of rainbow dust and stars that slowly faded away into the air around her. It was like she was smoking rainbows, but it was really just the result of her inner rainbow.

If she were lucky, more allies would show up like they did the last time she was here, but she was confident in facing these monsters by herself. With her new magic came a better chance of her to succeed, but she knew that the more there would be here, the merrier. All she had to do was wait for the monsters to approach as they did last time, and she would begin to use her new magic to her advantage. For now all she could do is sit on this large rock and enjoy her white people food, mentally preparing for the unknown to come.

"Don't be afraid to radiate."

The warm summer days had long faded. Rose Garden was slowly being blanketed by a soft snowfall in the early morning. It was the time of day when thoughts weren’t even stirred by the soft natural sounds of the usual bustling city. It was as if time itself had stopped and for most, it was a time to be grateful for. Most people came to Rose Garden, seeking a life of party and seemingly endless noise, which was what the city was known for at this point. However, its moments like this one were what kept people living here. To enjoy the small little things as the world slowly wakes up. There was a surprising amount of people awake for it being early in the morning but the sound of chatter never escalated louder than a quiet hum. If you found a quiet enough spot, you could easily sit and enjoy simply being the town at this time of year. It was snowing but it was still comfortable weather. The colourful rooftops were now slightly coated with a thin layer of snow, making their vibrant colours somewhat muted as the snow gently fell on the ground. Despite having to wake up early, it was a moment you could always appreciate if you got the chance to see it.

Hikari was basking in the glory of what the world could do naturally. It was an unforgettable sight but, something like this deserved to be captured. Taking her iLac out of the Vault, she would hover it to make sure the shot was balanced and there was no tilting on either side. With a quiet click, the holy mage would grab her iLac and view the photo that she just took. Smiling at how the photo turned out, the holy mage would decide to finally upload something to the Lacrimagram app that she installed who knows how long ago. She didn’t use it much do to not enjoying how the app works, but this is something she’d be content with posting. After waiting for an update, the Rising Star would look at her notifications and all be startled at the 46 unread messages in the top right corner of her app. Hesitantly tapping it, she noticed all of them were from one of her guildmates: Desirée Blooms. That was the idol girl in her guild if her memory didn’t fail her. They have probably spoken once or twice, but why had she sent Hikari close to 50 messages? The holy mage clicked the conversation and she gave a sideways glance to nothing in particular. Had she really been asking Hikari to do a job for close to four months? They saw each other often enough that she could have asked her directly if she wanted to do something. All she had to do was approach her instead of sideways glances or mentioning it subtly. Like, Hikari couldn’t see into her thoughts based on the probably two times they have interacted. But no matter, Hikari was looking forward to doing a job with her but that’ll have to remain a thought until after breakfast.

The real reason Hikari was awake this early in the morning was that it was requested of her, once again, to help with the slaying of monsters in a different area this time, appropriately named ‘Fat Monster Lands’… whoever came up with these names needed to be more subtle as to what they named places on Fiore. Sometimes it was just sad. Either way, the Magic Council must have been getting desperate for volunteers if they were going to send Hikari to do this job about two months after announcing that they were recruiting, but sometimes, you just have to suck it up. The holy mage walked into a café and headed to the counter. The cashier, a young male who probably seemed to just wake up, seemed somewhat tired still and Hikari sympathized greatly with him. She’d probably be feeling the same as him this morning should she have stuck to her normal sleeping schedule which was basically stay up until the sun came up again. She smiled at him saying, Hello there! I’d like a cheese croissant and a hot cocoa if you please. The male nodded quietly as he yawned, grabbing a paper bag and a pair of tongs to grab the aforementioned pastry. The sleepy man almost grabbed the wrong one before promptly realizing his mistake and grabbing the cheese croissant. He grabbed a cup and filled with hot cocoa mix whilst adding steaming milk. He stirred patiently while glancing at Hikari, whose eyes were basically looking at the whipped cream cannister in the fridge behind him. Grabbing the can, he would add some decorative flare to the drink by adding some chocolate shavings on top of the drink. Getting her jewels ready, Hikari would open a portal to the Vault, grabbing her wallet and taking a card out. Tapping on the machine to pay, the cashier would be ready to hand her the drink and pastry. After paying Hikari safely deposited the drink, wallet and croissant into the vault, smiling before waving at the man, who was ready to go back to sleep. Have a nice day, sir. Closing the door softly, the holy mage would look at the sky and then back to her clothes. She needed a little more layers if she wanted to fly high today.

Summoning a white beanie with a matching white scarf, the holy mage would zip up her relatively thin jacket, not really wanting to wear a thicker one. As nice as it would be, it just would feel way too constricting and she probably needed to get to the job site fast as the Magic Council told her to expect her partners there surprisingly early. The word ‘partners’ caused the Rising Star’s eyes to roll. Hikari really wanted to figure out what the Magic Council’s process was for picking out job partners. Did they pick names out of a hat or did they do something akin to it because most of the time, Hikari feels like her or her partners on jobs got the short end of the stick. It was either Hikari doing a job with someone who potentially ends up hating her or the partner being so powerful they basically don’t even need her there. But, even so, she still somehow ends up hurting that particular person’s feelings without intending to. Which also causes the other person on the job to literally want to kill her. No. She wasn’t bitter about her last few job partners. But still, going into this moody would cause her to want to hit whoever she meets, whether they are nice or not. So, patting her face to wake up, the holy mage would cast Petasos, causing a golden crest to appear on her back despite the multiple layers. From this, she felt two golden wings unveil themselves with golden feathers appearing as she took a couple of running steps. The strides eventually got longer before the holy mage rose into the sky, wings helping her soar. She opened her iLac through a portal underneath her so that it was at a comfortable height, and she made sure she read the email from the Magic Council once again. The Fat Monster Lands has been apparently causing disturbance within trader routes and now, transport routes. It had become increasingly more dangerous ever since the last time Hikari had helped clear out monsters. So, this was probably presumably where they came from. Observing her surroundings, she noticed that this part of Rose Garden that she was flying over was still in good shape which probably meant she had a while to go. It was right over the Silver Moon Inn coincidently, which made the holy mage wonder if anyone in her guild potentially signed up to go on this job too. There was no shortage of capable mages from her guild so it should be fine if she saw someone from the guild. She’d be able to interact with some fellow guildmates too so in her books, it was a win-win situation. Her gaze fixated forward once again as she looked at the coordinates the Magic Council had sent her versus her current coordinates. Sighing to herself, the red headed woman knew that this wasn’t going to be a short flight, so she decided to play some music whilst she increased her speed towards the destination.

The area she was going to be fighting in was different to the one she was at before because the last time, the holy mage was responsible for defending an entire city as opposed to a trader’s route. It… didn’t feel like a battle ground at all to be completely honest. It felt like this was somewhere someone might consider going to get married. It was honestly just a gorgeous open space. Her classical music being paused, the holy mage would gently float to the ground with her wings flapping. Sitting down, she wouldn’t dispel the crest but she had the wings burst into feathers that would fade into a soft golden light. The holy mage would look upon the clearing, pulling out her croissant and taking rather miniscule bites. Apparently, the natural sights of nature came more often than one thought. It was more about looking for them. Taking a sip of hot cocoa then standing up, the holy mage would look around before seeing someone she had been in her thoughts earlier this morning. It was Desirée, sitting on a rather large rock with an entire basket of muffins. Based on how many treats she brought and the general kind-hearted nature of the new Ace of Black Rose, she was probably ready to provide treats for those who were on this mission with her. Hikari began her walk over to her guildmate, as the smell of the muffins slowly filled the entire clearing that they were in. Hikari smiled as thoughts invaded her mind. Oh. She was one of those people. The kind that were all about the seasonal goods and never what the celebration was actually about. Hikari smiled to hide her thoughts being just about finished before she officially even met Desirée. Just people like that made her mad and the smell of pumpkin spice from that one particular café the holy mage generally avoided going to. Walking over to her rock, the holy mage would smile at the blonde woman while saying, Planning a feast are we? Hikari would take a sip of her hot cocoa to mask the scent of basic while not dropping her smile. Desirée is probably a nice person. But, just knowing that she was the kind of person to celebrate the holiday like this and literally just load up on seasonal treats made the caster a tiny bit annoyed. But it’s honestly fine. If she said this to her, she might start feeling attacked and take it personally then run away in sadness. Wait. Wrong white person. But, Hikari would finish off her croissant before curtsying, saying, You already know me and I know you, but I’m not really one to skip introductions. My name is Hikari, and I look forward to being your partner on this mission. Hikari would quietly sip her drink, probably five feet apart from Desirée because she didn’t want to catch whatever ailment came over Desirée.

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Desirée Blooms

As she bit into her pumpkin spice muffin, she could feel the soft taste of the white girl food slowly develop her mouth in flavor and texture. The way these muffins were produced were simply divine and were clearly freshly made, resembling little fluffy clouds of beige and orange tones of fall as they created this seasonal treat. Of course, Desirée was one to typically stock up with pumpkin spice before it was to go off the shelves, so much so that she would have an entire refrigerator-freezer combo filled with treats of the sort in order to have anything she would need going throughout the year. From coffee creamers to pumpkin spice muffins, she had it stocked by the day the beautiful and spice-filled assortments of sweets would rid the shelves of every store that was in Rose Garden. However, these treats always tasted the best when they were fresh. The warmth of the muffins along with the fluffy texture made Desirée swoon at the taste, along with her three pets eating the soft muffins upon the same rock they were sitting.

"Hey Strawberry, guess where we are sitting." Kiwi told Strawberry as he floated over toward her, holding his pumpkin spice muffin in hand. "Um... I don't know..? Maybe we... we are on a historical monument?" Strawberry said in a nervous tone, as her eyes began to water. She was a very introverted and nervous bio-luminescent organism, despite how close one would be able to get to her. However, she loved her companions, and vowed to keep her past caretaker's wishes. "We are on a damn ass rock. A gay damn ass rock." Kiwi said to the pink bio-luminescent organism as she gasped, dropping her muffin onto the rock and beginning to glare. "Wa... wa... watch your profanity!" she said as she began to cry, Pitaya soon walking toward her to pick up her muffin and eat it. "I... I don't like it when you say that!" she cried to Kiwi, as he came over and pat her on her forehead. "It was just a joke..." he said to her as she let her tears flow, soon hopping into Desirée and causing a strip around her arm to glow pink. Kiwi soon followed and caused a strip beside it turn green, leaving Desirée and Pitaya sitting on the damn ass rock with only each-other.

Desirée sighed after she watched the two fight and retreat into her body, something only the bio-luminescent organisms were capable of doing. However, this sigh was soon interrupted by a similar yet different version of the music that Desirée was listening to through her iLac reigning down from the sky above, classical music by a different composer. As she looked in-front of herself, it was another guild member of Black Rose. Her name was Hikari, and honestly, Desirée did not know much about her. She did not look that much different than how she looked since the last time they say each-other, besides her Halloween outfit was now consisting of a winter-styled type of clothing. Desirée felt very warm in the clothing she was currently in despite her appearance looking as something she would wear in the spring, as the inside had a thin yet compressed thermal layer used for versatile traveling. "It is nice to see you, Hikari. I assume you have read my texts?" she told the other member of Black Rose, as she stood from the damn ass rock that she was sitting on and picked up the basket of muffins. "I bought extra for those that would be assigned this mission with me. Would you like one? I don't think my pets can eat any more." she told Hikari, as she motioned the basket over to her in case she would want one to eat. Desirée would sit back down and turn toward Hikari, slipping her iLac under her waistband before beginning to speak with Hikari to update her on some important things that the guild may not have been able to hear about.

"As you may have heard or seen about a month ago, a shooting star slammed into the beach of Rose Garden. Its a bit of a strange story, now that I think about it..." she began to tell her as Pitaya curled up in her lap, her hand stroking the soft and white fur that was marked with red-pink markings around multiple places of her coat. "The shooting star killed me, and with that, I lost my human essence and ability to summon Crystals." She said it, and with that, she looked down and sighed. She hated that she was no longer human, she really did. It angered her that she was to live forever, considering she would outlive those that age around her. It angered her that she would live to see the world end. It angered her that she would never be able to be reunited with Lele in the afterlife. Lele Stone, her first guild master. She was her apprentice when she was younger, and assisted her in training before she was famous and a high ranked mage. It was a shame that the angelic summoner was to die, especially at the young age of 27. It all came down to the responsibility of Desirée's father, which made her feel at fault. However, she could not harbor her hard feelings at this moment. It was a rather constant thought, something she wished to not think about when she was with others.

"The magical power built up inside of the star from the places it passed through and came from killed me with enough force to rewire my insides, causing me to transcend with an entirely new type of magic. With that, my summoning hoop was destroyed." she told Hikari as she angled her head downward, slightly ashamed for the event that had occurred. She did not want to be a Crystal, it was an entirely new concept for her that she did not want to accept. She wanted to be human, and she wanted to be able to die. She wanted to be able to reunite with her master in Valhalla, as she was the closest thing she ever had to a mother. The orphan began to shift her feet through the soft dirt that sat among the exterior of the rock that met the ground, causing it to shift around her boots. "Has... anything happened to you since we have spoke last?" she asked her as she suddenly heard the noise of something hitting the dirt in-front of her, and soon she found herself flying through the air.

She was trampled and pinned to the ground, by what appeared to be a wide eyed and semi-drooling monster of white. Who was she and what was she doing here? 'Do I know her from somewhere?' Desirée thought to herself, as she began to scan the face of the violet-eyed woman on top of her with confusion. Was it from a sales commercial? Sorcerers Weekly? A poster? A job flyer? She was entirely unsure what or who this woman was, only knowing that she looked to be very white, almost as white as the queen of all white bitches was; Desirée. "I... um... hello?" she asked the white haired girl with extreme confusion on her face, trying to close her eyes due to the extreme amount of awkwardness she felt in her stomach. Was this awkwardness, or were the muffins just making her gassy? She was unaware, nor could she care, all she was here for was to complete a task which was ridding the land of monsters.

"Muffins...? Muffins! Mu-" Desirée began to say, as her eyes widened in embarrassment. The muffins indeed were causing her to become very gassy, and one of the curses of her magic would begin to come into play in the mere seconds. Around the bottom of her body produced a haze of multi-colored smoke, which smelled like cotton candy and glowed with small flakes of golden stardust inside. Desirée quickly scrambled out from under the white-haired girl, wafted away her fart, re-adjusted her sniper rifle on her back, and quickly jogged over to the basket of pumpkin spice muffins that sat on the rock near Pitaya. The basket had about thirteen muffins inside of it, organized in a beautiful stack and delicately wrapped in silver ribbons and light-pink holders. She walked over to Astrid and held the basket in-front of her, smiling before performing a quick bow. "Sorry about what happened when you knocked me over, my perfume bottle in my back pocket must have activated and sprayed. I am Desirée Blooms, Black Rose's Ace of Diamonds. I assume that you are here to assist us with our mission?" she asked the white-haired girl with a wide smile, as two bright flashes of green and pink light formed around each of her shoulders and erupted into Kiwi and Strawberry. "This is Kiwi, and this is Strawberry. They are my bio-luminescent organisms. As for the white-furred wolf on that rock, that is Pitaya, my mire wolf." she told her, as she looked over at the damn ass rock and saw the wolf asleep, curled up in a small dent inside of the rock formation.

"I picked up some extra muffins before I came here for those who would be assisting me on this quest, so perhaps you would like some? They are pumpkin spice flavo-" Desirée said as she witnessed a sharp blade of ice launch in-between her and the white-haired girl's heads, nearly skimming her nose. She quickly turned and saw that there was a horde of monsters approaching them through the clearing, looking extremely different than the monsters she experienced before in this same location. "They are here. We need to act fast." she said aloud, as Strawberry screamed and hopped into the soul of Pitaya. Pitaya quickly bounced into the air and flew overhead, sitting in a grotto of the tree that stretched above the clearing. Kiwi hopped into the soul of Desirée and caused her aura to glow a bright green, resulting in her taking a deep breath and raising her hand above her.

As she raised her hand above her body, a golden beam of light stretched directly above her and latched onto a thick tree-branch. She then pulled herself quickly toward the branch with this flexible cord of stardust, swinging from it and launching herself in the air at a rapid space. As she launched into the air she quickly withdrew the sniper rifle from her back and zoomed into her sights, quickly locking onto what appeared to be a dragon-based humanoid walking with one similar of the sorts. "Two shots." she thought to herself, as her scope began to glow a bright gold, symbolizing that it was ready to fire. She placed her finger onto the trigger and quickly fired these shots, causing two golden bullets to rain out of the front of the sniper rifle and fly toward a singular half-dragon. Both of these shots hit each of his shoulders, causing him to falter and have small streams of blood gush out of his bullet wounds. She swung her rifle to her back as she flew toward the ground, quickly landing it with a firm hold on her feet and meeting the flat ground of the surrounding terrain with her hands.

She let out a small breath and closed her eyes as her hand began to glow where it met the ground, causing it to glow a range of multi-colored particles as a magical circle formed. She quickly reached her hand into the circle and pulled out a large and thin double-sided sword, that of which was made of crystallized light and reflected many different colors of the rainbow. The two dragon men began to run toward her, and she soon began to run toward them with all of her might with both sides of the blade. As she ran she began to spin the blade around her head, causing the double-sided blade to appear as if it were the blades on a helicopter. She quickly ran toward these dragon-based humanoids with the rapidly spinning blade and sliced into both of their hilts at once, causing them to slowly crack away and spill blood onto the outside. However, as these dragon men were finally in melee range of Desirée, they gaped over her in regards to their height. This resulted in her having to focus on a single enemy at once, while also having to attempt to manage her defense on the other as they tried to punch and kick her with their razor-sharp limbs. As she kept hacking away at a single draconian being, he finally burst into smoke to symbolize that he was defeated, but it was too much to manage at one time. The other dragon-man kicked her in the back and caused her to slam into the ground at full force, her arm beginning to welt up with her Crystal blood.

The dragon man also looked to be weak, therefore Desirée blast back upward and began to swing her blade once again. With every hit, another would be deflected, and it became a full-on battle between blade and fist. As Desirée attacked faster and faster, the half dragon also increased in speed, and kicked her so hard that she flew nearly 10 meters backwards. As she landed on her feet she let out many quick breaths, and quickly threw the bladed weapon toward the monster. As the weapon flew it twinkled through the sky, and luckily sunk into the body of the dragon-man and caused him to burst into smoke. The weapon also shattered, causing it to produce many different colors of smoke along with the grey that the monster produced, luckily resulting in her being able to retreat from the center of the battlefield. As she made it to the edge she removed a water bottle from her bag and quickly drank from it, satisfying her heavy breaths for the time being.

"Don't be afraid to radiate."

Hikari looked at the basket of muffins, in all their basic, pumpkin spice glory. The mere smell of the festive muffins made the holy mage want to kick the basket, even if that was a waste of a lot of resources. However, the fact that Desireé wanted to share these with all those who had come meant a lot and Hikari took one, and with a hand behind her back threw it into an opening of the Vault she had made. There was probably enough people in the Vault that they would want to eat it anyways. They all seemed like the types that would do it. All those holy people, most of them didn’t seem to enjoy good flavor anyways. Snickering quietly to herself, another portal opened above the holy mage and out dropped the pumpkin spice muffin. Wincing slightly as it hit her head, the holy mage would take in a frustrated breath as she caught the muffin before it hit the ground. Now was one of the times it wasn’t good to toy with her whoever opened that gate. Hikari got into a throwing stance and opened another entry point to the Treasury. Overhand throwing the muffin as if it was a baseball, the dessert would zoom through the air before appearing to disappear. Huffing, Hikari would turn to Desireé as she rubbed the back of head, I’m sure that someone who is there would love to eat your muffin because I just ate. Thank you so much for the muffin though. That was a very rare moment in that Hikari broke down the character that she has managed to upkeep for many years. One could probably count on a hand how many times that Hikari has shown what she was like before she left. And most of those instances were fairly recently. Something had changed recently and the holy mage couldn’t quite put her finger on what exactly had changed.

Hikari’s eyebrow raised slightly when she heard the recent Black Rose ace mention the shooting star that had passed by. How could anyone forget. Hearing about a shooting star was just game changer for Hikari. She had always researched about the phenomena and having the chance to experience one was spectacular. The holy mage had been extra careful about her missions leading up to that week just so that she wasn’t away on a mission when the shooting star passed over Rose Garden. On that night, Hikari had made sure she had made full use of her magic to analyze the sight in all ways she could. The following morning, the horrific news that the shooting star had crashed into a place. The news wasn’t able to report if there were any casualties because they only had figured out recently that it had crashed into the land. But, now knowing that Desireé had been under the meteor as it fell, it was aweing. Something that caused that much wonder in human hearts had ended the life of someone. It was still scary to think that of all people to happen to, it happened to someone the holy mage knew. Hikari felt bad for the new Ace of Diamonds but didn’t know quite how to mention it. She wanted to be there for her but she doesn’t know Desireé well enough to comfort way. Also, Hikari hasn’t died either so she can only empathize how the former human felt. It sounds like a nightmare. Seeing everyone around you age while you remain the same. Nobody wants to die but they probably don’t want to live forever too. It would drive someone insane. When Desireé had asked if anything new happened with her, the holy mage replied, I think whatever I did won’t compare to what you went through. I’m always here if you want to talk okay? Hikari was going to grab the woman’s hand until a white blur had knocked her over and pinned her to the ground. The magical presence of the new person felt… familiar. When the voice spoke, Hikari tried not to scream. It was Astrid. Again.

Somehow, they had been teamed up on this mission. Someone at the Magic Council must be reading the mission reports and want to keep pairing these two up until Hikari actually screamed. Smiling at the new presence, she was going to greet her until she heard her say muffins. Resisting the urge to face palm, Hikari would look at the ground as she thought about it. It would make sense if Astrid was the type of person who indulged in the pumpkin spice craze every season, after all, everything about Astrid screamed white. Her outfit, her shoes, even her hair. It just added up that Astrid was kind of basic. Looking at Desireé panic, she would raise her eyebrows as she saw a cloud of smoke emerge from her as she crawled away from Astrid. Hikari watched as she grabbed the muffin basket and explained that her perfume bottle must have sprayed. But, upon further analysis of her outfit, didn’t have a single pocket on her person. What was that? It probably wouldn’t matter to make questions of this despite how intriguing the conversation might be. Hikari heard the sound of a icicle whizzing by. Summoning a spear, the holy mage took up a fighting stance as her eyes emitted a golden glow. There were enemies approaching and they didn’t seem like complete pushovers. Hikari watched as Desireé fought for a little. So, this is what the shooting star transformed her magic into. It was quite fitting for the idol. Hikari noticed some more enemies up ahead. These ones seemed rather interesting actually. Running over to them, the holy mage noticed that these monsters had the appearances of dragons morphed with humans. Just seeing them made her think about dragon slayers. These dragon giants didn’t hesitate to fight, as all four charged at the holy mage.

Summoning her wings, the holy mage flew up to avoid their charge and watched from the air as they spread their wings in order to fly up to meet her. Usually, the Rising Star fought enemies who couldn’t fly as well, giving her the complete advantage of the air to fight. No matter, despite this shortcoming, she still should have air superiority. Glancing at her spear, the holy mage would stab the fist of one of the dragon giants, who was aiming for a straight shot at her. It was a predictably sad attempt however, as the creature winced in pain as blood rushed out of the wound. Making the spear fade into light, the holy mage would spin as she summoned a whip blade. Slashing at one enemy, the sword would break into fragments allowing the weapon to wrap around the monster’s waist, digging into their pseudo human flesh. The holy mage would pull the creature over as it screeched in pain. The holy mage was aware of the one attempting to sneak up behind her as she tossed the one she was throwing into it. Smirking as she kicked one of them down towards the ground, the holy mage would smile as she tossed an arrow glowing with gold magical energy into the air as she summoned a bow. Catching the arrow would cause it to glow brighter, and aiming towards the sky, the holy mage would pierce through the thin veil of clouds. After a brief moment’s delay, the sky became painted with a shimmering gold colour. The gold glow from Hikari’s eyes had completely transformed her normally reddish-pink eyes to the same colour that the sky now was. Raising her hand, she would dodge an attack from another half-dragon giant as she stabbed it with a sword she summoned. Forcing the sword downward caused the creature to fall as Hikari pointed her raised hand downwards towards the four wounded creatures. Not blinking an eye, weapons would begin to fall around her, stabbing multiple parts of the creatures. The dust build up from this was quite large as it was hard to see for a moment afterwards. The holy mage would use her wings to dissipate the dust in order to make sure that the foes were downed. As it turns out, they didn’t survive the onslaught of weapons. Snapping her fingers, the sky turn blue as the gold colour seemed to form a circle above Hikari. When the circle got small, the arrow began to fall near the holy mage as she opened a portal to the Treasury where it fell in. Flying back over to where Desireé had finished her battle, the holy mage’s eyes would turn from gold back to their normal reddish-pink as she looked at Astrid. It seems fate continually is having us meet again and again. How are you doing, Astrid? She watched as Desireé chugged her water bottle and sat down on the grass once again, not really wondering as to what Astrid might have to say. After all, they saw each other pretty recently anyways.



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