VAMPIRE HUNTING (Pt. 1) ; job ; Sara

It was the usual mornings for Sara, the early sun rays shining directly in her face as a means to annoyingly wake her up from her blissful sleep. 'I should really start using my curtains a bit more often' she thought idly as she rubbed her eyes to get some of the sleep away. The usual routine started after that, get up and get dressed in her job clothing minus her coat, and brush her hair before making it in a rough ponytail. Tired eyes looked at the book on her night stand, it was a book that she had picked up in her stay at Oak Town, it was an old book about Lost Magic, she liked studying that certain category of magic, as most was used by one or two people , at least thatwere the people recorded in the book. "Might as well take it with me" she said to her self as she looked through her window one last time before going out to the guild hall. She really wanted it to rain and just stay in for the day.


Her walk to the guild hall was mostly unneventfull taking a few detours to finally look at the Crystalli's many buildings. She was still amazed by the technological and magical marvel the ship itself is, and her amazement wirh it won't dwindle down any soon. Entering the guild hall she went straight to the bar where a barman stood and was cleaning some cups. Taking notice of her the barman spoke up "Good morning miss what would you like?" He greeted with a polite smile "Just a cup of coffee with extra sugar please" Sara said with a smile of her own as the barman went on with her order. Moments later he returned and placed the cup of coffe infront of her, she thanked the man before she took the cup of coffee and went to sit on one of the tables placing her book on it. She glanced at the job board for a moment before sitting and opening her book. She would look for a job later, it was time to wake up a bit.

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Sara wasn't sure how much time time had passed, the only thing she knew for sure that her coffee was now cold, so much for the wake up drink. Time had passes that she was sure of guild members had gone in and out with jobs, not that she payed any attention to anyone that came in and out. The book she was reading had her too occupied, hoping to see one of her parents names in the book was even keeping her even more occupied from the casual things happening around her. Both her parents were lost magic users and yet she couldn't remember anything about their magic.  It was a long time ago she hadn't thought about her parents in a while, a sad smile had made its way to her face as she remembered a simple memory with her parents playing with her. 'Maybe ill visit my old home soon' she thought with sadness, but slowly curiosity replaced that emotion, she needed to look into something there, a lot of things actually, her parents never worked or sold anything only in the farm for fresh vegetables, they lived in a spacious house and never had problems with money, maybe there was more to her family then she knew. Shocking her head from side to side she resumed her reading on the book, the coffee forgotten again.

A few more hours passes from then and early morning was well behind her, not that i mattered to her she didn't expect to do a job in sometime maybe even not today, or so she thought. Moments later the guild doors were opened and someone had rushed in. Looking around for said person Sara saw a girl with dark brown hair rush to the job board and look around for a job to go on. That was the last thing Sara had noted before she returned to reading her book. A few moments later she heard footsteps coming right at her, turning her head towards said person Sara noted that it was the same girl from before but this time with a job request. The girl had greeted Sara with an awkward smile, before asking her if she wanted to go on a job with her. Sara was about to ask about the job request but before she could do that the girl had handed her the job details as she introduced herself. "Its nice to meet you Val, you don't mind me calling you like this right?" she said with a small smile before continuing " I'm Sara. Sara Ravencrest.". Finishing with her own introduction, she took note of the job. The job was in the Cursed Lands 'Great is like that place if following me.' she thought with a sweat drop  taking a look at the next part of the job request made her interested, vampires? They were rare and from the hunters words they probably could take a beating before going down, a perfect test for her new spells. "The job sounds interesting, you can count me in, i'll even get to know more people from the guild" she exclaimed with a smile before handing the job request back to Valeria, and getting up with her book in tow  "You can sign us up, I'll be back in a moment, and before i leave i'm C-rank, i hope its not a problem." she said as she marched towards the doors of the guild hall, once outside she used a bit of her magic to enhance her speed, so she could get her coat and leave the book at home.

A few minutes had passed and she was back, this time her dark coat with her as slivers of black lightning dissipated into the air as she had deactivated her magic. Leaning onto the doorway of the guild hall she spoke up "If everything is ready we can leave." she said as she smiled at the other dark haired female. It was time she made a little bit of more friends and this was the perfect opportunity.

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Sara giggled as her partner mentioned how edgy their job location is. "Aren't all vampires edgy like pearly white skin and some beautiful face under with the mentality of an emo" she said trying to help up with breaking the atmosphere, she noticed that Val was a bit nervous and thought of various ways to make her feel more comfortable. "I just hope there aren't any of the ghoul thingy's there like my last job its was disgusting and it bit me" she said and showed of a bit of her left where she was bitten in a comical matter, of course the wound had healed it was sometime ago when she had finished that mission already. As they landed they entered a town which she couldn't name, she didn't really listen to where the flying ship was going and just waited for it to land every time and figure out where she was in the process. "Don't worry will split the money." Sara reassured Val, she had offered to take a magical carriage and even pay the price alone if Sara didn't want to take, but she wouldn't let her current partner pay for the whole thing. "Its true i don't have a team currently" she answered as Val continued and asked an unexpected question to Sara to join her team. They had just met how could she expect that question but gave it a bit of thought. She had to get into a team sooner or later, or at least do jobs with someone, sooner or later it was going to get harder to do solo jobs. "I'd love to join your team Val" she answered as Val had explained a bit about the other member of the team "I haven't met him or seen him although he probably was there but when something has gotten my attention i tend to ignore what happens around me" Sara said sheepishly, she didn't do it on purpose it was just happening sort of. As they continued walking through the streets Sara spotted a magical carriage and went towards it. As they both paid the man that was driving it she told him to go towards the Cursed Lands,he tried to argue a bit with Sara but she narrowed her eyes dangerously at the man and quickly had agreed to drive them close to their destination. She didn't like being intimidating but sometimes it worked faster then anything else, maybe except flirting but she didn't really feel like flirting with someone that's probably fifteen years older then her or at least he seemed to be that old. As they boarded the carriage Sara looked at her new teammate "We should get to know each other a bit better. Ill start, i like noodles and almost everything with them, exploring and going to places i haven't been to and train riding!" Maybe she said the last part with too much enthusiasm for a girl her age and blushed a bit before continuing  "I dislike the time it takes for the noodles to get ready, dark mages and i don't really talking about my childhood" she said with a sad smile but it didn't stop her from talking more about herself "My motivation is to explore places that people have never been to and be a great mage one day. And this is the magic i use" she said and extended her hand and channel magic to her palm making a small electrical ball appear that was black in color with a purple outline. "Its a type of lost magic that is mainly offensive and for enhancements for my self like speed, reflexes, agility and even physical strength" she finished, asking Val to do the same if she felt like introducing herself a bit more, and reassured her if she didn't want to mention something she would be fine with it.

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Sara listened to Val with a smile as she listed the animals she's had as pets and horses, and she was surprised to hear that she had even more then that, but she had suddenly stopped and when she said the same dislike as her, she had understood why, maybe it brought bad memories, as it did to herself. " I used to have a pet raven. My whole family had one it was like a tradition, i didn't know why every time i used to ask, but they would always say when you grow older." she said trying her best to keep herself from breaking down. Her childhood was a mess after she was ten, everything had went down the drain for her and for years she would isolate herself from others with the exception of a few people that had broken through her shell. She wanted to improve that, the isolated life was choking her and she was going to work on improving that. Val had started talking about her magic then, which sounded quite impressive and not so basic as she said it is. " I didn't name my magic, my mother had given me and old book and i was drawn to it and after my mother used to help me train it everyday. For someone that said 'I don't like talking about my childhood' i talk a lot about it don't i?" she asked as the carriage had stopped.

Both of them stepping outside Sara took notice that they were close to the woods she could see them from here, the dead tree's of the Cursed Lands. She heard Val say they would pay less for not being close enough and chuckled to herself as she brought out her share of jewels. Taking their jewels the man quickly turned the carriage around and in a minute or two he was outside. She let out a sigh "He sure was a big scaredy cat wasn't he" she said. She heard Val tell her they should be careful and nodded, who knows what may be lurking around then just vampires, that place was probably cursed. She agreed to take the lead but she wasn't really leading as Val was walking with her side by side. As they made it right before the forest Sara stopped "Its just like the last time i was here, even the sun tries to hide from this cursed place. At least there is no fog like last time so we won't get lost and end up at a cemetery with a ghoul." she stated and started walking forward again. "Don't worry though you won't see the ghoul and we're not gonna get lost i'm pretty good with directions when i can see." she reassured Val if she didn't like to see decaying purple creature were large teeth or getting lost wasn't her thing, Sara was accustomed to getting lost, almost every explorer was. As the moved Sara was looking around for the the strangely dubbed the House of Lost Souls. "So what are we expecting to see ghosts." she said jokingly, like ghosts were real those things were meant to scare young kids,right? She contemplated on that, knowing this place ghosts were the least that should surprise them. As they continued moving noticed something. There was feint glow there, she mentioned for Val to follow her as a means to grab her attention. Getting closer they could finally make out what it was, a feint glowing barrier and beyond that was a house in a big clearing it seemed oddly out of place for a hunters house there was nothing close. Maybe this was what the hunters had said in the job description, the wall that didn't let beings without magical power to enter. She waited for a second before reaching out with her hand. She probably shouldn't have tried it everything in her was screaming to move her hand back and not touch the barrier she had just found,maybe part of her explorer vibe was telling her to do it and see what happens, but as soon as her hand had touched the barrier it slipped through without a problem. " I think we're here, lets find out why there's a barrier here" Sara said and started to look around, it was odd this house is in the middle of nowhere and it has a barrier, something seemed fishy. "This doesn't feel normal who would put a barrier here, especially if he knew there was a new bred of vampire he knew about, it just doesn't sit right for people without magic to do this" The suspicion in her voice was clear, it didn't seem right for a normal hunter to hire a mage to do a barrier that is if the hunter wasn't a mage himself but they would have known that right?

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The member 'Valeria' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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The member 'Sara Ravencrest' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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Sara halted in her trek towards the house, Val was right they couldn't just stroll in without any information and listened closely to the conversation with the client or more so to Valeria as she couldn't really make out what the client was saying, focusing back on the house in front of them, trying to spot anything abnormal about it, but saw nothing. She felt being watched, as soon as they had passed the barrier she had this feeling of something being there,watching, studying and analyzing every move they make, the feeling was new for her, even when she got lost in the fog and fighting that ghoul she didn't feel anything like this. Val had finished her call by now and had confirmed her suspicion of the hunters not being able to use magic, Sara never knew there was a magic too keep ordinary people out of places, it was useful, but to be used for something like this when it was a hunter's house, it was off in so many ways. "I don't like this" was the only thing she said before she followed Val into the house. 'I'm starting to hate this place more and more' with those thoughts she entered with Val eyes peeled and looking for any danger that may approach them.

Once they had gone inside Valeria warned her to be careful, nodding she to her teammate she started looking around the house was old and Sara felt like it could collapse on them any minute now. The creaking wood made the house all that more creepy. Suddenly Val had called out to her to watch out looking in Val's direction she saw her dodging two translucent figures, ignoring Val as she was now behind them the ghosts went towards Sara, quickly shifting her position she waited for them to get a bit closer, she noticed them extending their hands to touch her, but before she could make her move she felt two more little magical signatures behind her, turning her head slightly she noticed more ghosts trying to grapple her, facing forward again she swiftly tried to move between the two in the front of her narrowly dodging a hand that was aimed at her. Going towards Val, Sara noticed her looking in her direction probably to see if she was alright and keep track of the ghosts, reassuring Val that she was fine, Sara turned her head back towards her previous position the ghosts gone as if they were never there. " I'm slowly starting to hate this place more and more" she said and continued moving forward the ghosts now out of site.

As they had continued moving forward through the house, Sara kept an eye out for those things that had passed them, ghosts or not she didn't feel like getting touched by one today. Stopping in her tracks, she asked if Val was hearing it, something was talking in a strange unknown language. Looking down at her arm she noted that it was shaking, was she feeling fear from just noise? She had also frozen in place she couldn't move her legs, Sara was afraid, afraid of what was talking, it was feint as if it was not there or close, and yet she could perfectly hear it as if it was standing next to her whispering directly into her ear, words unknown to her. Moving her other arm to the shaking one she quickly send a little zap trough her system, stopping the shaking successfully. Pain usually fixed problems like fear and it helped her regain her composure. She had taken a look at Val before continuing, making sure that whatever this was it didn't have the same effects on her as it had on Sara, if it did she would zap her a little bit enough to break her out of her stupor.

In front of them stood on last door that was slightly opened, "I think this is it, lets be careful who knows what we're going to find behind this door" Making her way towards the door handle, she turned around to look at Val one more time to make sure she was ready before pushing the door open. What met them next was a little chapel with an altar at the end like every chapel had. Upon entering the room Sara had ignited her magic, lightning moving between her fingers. They had found the book it was siting on the altar, but it wasn't the book that made her activate her magic it was the thing behind the altar. Sitting on a chair was what looked like to be a vampire, his head resting on his fist as he looked at them with a creepy smile before he spoke up. "Finally the little intruders made their way here, i was starting to get bored waiting for you" he was speaking in a rather deep voice, if he was expecting some kind of retort from Sara he wasn't going to get one, the only he got was a little bit of more electrical increase around her finger making it more profound and clear. If he made a move Sara would match him. The only thing she worried about was Val she didn't know her new teammates battle prowess, if he tried to go for her Sara would engage first.

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Was the owner of the house killed by the vampire? What was in the book so important that even a barrier had to be put up, or had the hunter died out of old age, the house itself was pretty old. Maybe Val was right, maybe he was hiding. Sara hadn't voiced her opinion on it, the best course of action was to get the book and get out of here, the sooner the better.And when they had met the cocky vampire Sara was half sure there was no one except them, well it terms of allies, the cocky vampire could always have more friends waiting to jump on them if their buddy started losing. The vampire had attacked first firing a beam of blood at them, where was he aiming, Sara would have questioned him in a way to mock him, but seeing his great pride and ego with the idea of killed them instantly somehow didn't fit for her. Lightning rushed to her legs as she moved faster the normal, dodging the beam before it even got close, she noticed Val had dodged it also and had given her a signal to distract the vampire, a small wicked smile appeared on her face, as a plan was getting formulated in her brain, it cost a lot of magical power but it was going to buy Val enough time to get the book. Putting her fingers together lightning gathered between her pinky and index finger before it was fired on point with the help of her thumbs acting as aim support "Discharge" calling out the name of her spell as it went towards its desired target. "That's how you aim" she said in a mocking manner as her attack hit dead center, as the smoke cleared Sara grit her teeth as the vampire spoke again "That tingled, you should try something else" he wasn't even hurt one bit by her spell. The vampire started turning his attention towards his other opponent, she was failing to get the plan done and grit her teeth more. Focusing pushed magical power through her whole system, lightning shrouding her "Lightning Step" She murmured, feeling her magical power surge through her was intoxicating, she would have let it take her, but she wasn't alone and she couldn't let her battle tendencies to completely take over her. Charging her hand with more lightning on top of the current one as she put her the hand in a spear like manner, more black lighting appeared on top of her finger tips like a spear tip. "Lighting Cutter" The only warning the vampire got was her calling out the name of her spell and the loud crackling sounds it was making.Sara had closed the distance between them in the a matter of second leaving potent electricity in the air as she moved, the vampire was surprised it was evident that he wasn't expecting such speed from the small girl, when she got closer her hand flew forward in an attempt to stab her opponent with her spell. Spell hitting dead center Sara thought she had gotten him, those thoughts were cut short as a claw was descending towards her, she dashed back instantly getting some distance before stopping. "It seems a draw first blood" the vampire smugly added as he licked the blood of his claws. Sara clenched her right arm as there was a now bleeding wound right below her shoulder, she took a quick glance to examine it, the wound was from her shoulder to her elbow. She would worry about it after they get out of here, it wasn't bleeding too much to be a priority right now. Sara looked around for Val, hoping the girl had gotten the book, once she did Sara would tell her that they needed to leave and run as fast as they could, she would keep the same pace as Val she wasn't someone that would leave her friends behind, and with her attacks not working on him she would just need to keep him occupied more if Val was in need of more time, going on a passive offense was the best course of action here if she had to buy more time.

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Sara quickly followed behind Val, the girl had made a bit of distance before Sara started running but the effects of the Lightning Step ability still lingered and she had quickly caught up, the vampire left behind as he screamed and chased at them. When Sara caught up to Val she deactivated her spell, now running beside her dark haired teammate as they made their escape. They hadn't stopped running, they kept on going and going, till they had reached the initial location when they first started the job, where scared carriage rider dropped them off, while her friend caught her breath, Sara tore off a bit of her now ruined coat and made a makeshift bandage for her arm. "Yea lets do that" She said as she agreed with Valeria, she wanted to get this over with and get a hot shower, they had a bit more left before they we're finished and the hard part was already behind them. "Its time to finally get this over with". Nothing more important had happened on the job from there, they went got a carriage that got them to the address of the hunters, got payed and from there it was the normal trip back to the ship. It was time to get some rest, for both of them.

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