Major Arcana; Episode 1 [ Job | Rina ]

Job Info:

WC : 839 /9000

Rina had gotten a notice only a few days ago. It wasn't as though it was immediate, but Rina knew that she had to go on this job. However, she had suspected something powerful was waiting for them once they got to the location of the suspected kidnappings. She had really hoped that the two of them wouldn't be taken away like the others who had investigated the area. She gritted her teeth as she looked down the dirt road that began to spread out ahead of her. It was kind of scary that they would be doing this job together, because last time, the most grueling and horrible job had been forced upon them. They had both touched a mysterious creature that led them to 12 locations. Each one had a boss with strength that scared both of them horribly. Although Rina had been able to finish the job with Nessa quickly, Rina had to rest herself for about a week before her soreness had left her body. It was extremely painful for her, even now as she though about it. Something about this job, had felt a tiny bit more similar to her than the one before, which was not a great sign. She did not want to get stuck in another area, where she had to fight multiple "bosses" or whatever. However, she thought that this job would be as good of a time as any to use her newfound abilities blessed upon her by the Heavenly Garden's Goddess. Rina knew she had a duty to the creatures and things that lived there, which was why she took the job anyways. The powers were just a plus.

She tried to begin running through the new abilities Rina had. Although the Goddess had said something about new spells for Rina to cast, Rina didn't quite now when she would be able to use them. The Goddess was very vague about her abilities, but to an extent. Some abilities she was able to tell Rina, while others were just left to Rina's imagination. She went through the ones she had confirmed were real first. So, she remembered that she had been able to actually glow a white light. Apparently, her allies found the light more soothing than what her past glow had been, but to her enemies, it would cast a blindness upon them. She found that ability way more interesting than her little glow spurts from before. She began looking at her hands and arms to see them encased with a faint white glow. It was a beautiful sight that even Rina was surprised by it. She couldn't believe something as small as a title could make her glow with such an intensity like this. She had also heard from the Goddess, that her spear would be upgraded to better suit Rina's needs. What this meant, Rina wouldn't know. Unless she found an actual threat that required her spear to be used, she wouldn't know how much more powerful it was than before. So, Rina was pretty much just left with her imagination to clearly understand how its new power would handle itself. One thing that truly amazed Rina, was the fact that she was able to form new versions of herself, almost like illusions. They were made of light, and followed her bidding. They were able to damage enemies, or even heal allies. They were useful, and could even be used to help Rina distract enemies. She really wanted to activate the skill now, but she knew for sure she would need them.

Something about the job her and Nessa took was really bothering her. The place they were in, clearly didn't seem like one that people could just be picked off the road. Surely, people would've helped people who were being kidnapped, or maybe even see what happened to them. It just didn't make sense to her that something like this could happen to people. Even other mages had been sent here, and haven't been able to come back. She was almost positive that some mages could easily have defended themselves and fight off some culprit. Either way, there was no time for what ifs then, the both of them needed to find the person or thing taking away these people and do it safely. All of a sudden, Nessa picked up something off the ground. Rina arched her brow, realizing it was some sort of tarot card. On it, was a title, "The Fool". With question in her eyes, Rina began to realize what was happening and tried to yell at Nessa to put it down. However, it was too late. Rina's fears had been realized as the both of them had been transported to a new area. In front of her, was a door with a roman numeral. As Rina walked over to the left wall of the room, she put her hands on it and began smacking her head into it. With that, she heard a voice. Rina then took a glance towards Nessa, and said to her, "So, I guess we don't really have much of a choice. Let's hope that this isn't like last time, where we have to go to 12 new places and fight a grueling battle." To Rina's luck, she wouldn't have to fight 12 bosses, she would need to fight around 22.

wc:896
tc:896/9000

Job Info:

WC : 907
Total : 1746 /9000

Rina looked up from the door she had banged her head on, and looked up to see that it had some sort of symbol on this. Rina wondered what this meant for both Nessa and Rina. Was it something that would be able to explain what the two would need to do? Was it some sort of warning? Or...was this all just a game, and that was just there to confuse them. As she continued investigating it, she looked over to Nessa, to hear her say something. Rina had really hoped it wasn't something too important. So, Rina said half-heartedly, "Sure..." For now though, Rina needed to make sure that this wasn't some sort of trap, or even if Rina and Nessa could go through it. Biting her lip a tiny bit, Rina touched it and received some sort of vision. It was fast, and almost like a blur, but for some reason Rina could remember it. The visions were sort of framed in some sort of movie. It seemed to look like a child.

The child, didn't look like he had any parents at all. All he was doing, was frolicking in the nature around him, almost as though he had no cares in the world. He had no one to talk to, or even an imaginary friend to keep him company. The only things that he care about, was the forest around him, and himself. As her walked through the forest, he saw some sort of butterfly. He began following it, faster and faster. As it sped up, the little boy did too. As he tripped and fell, he laughed and giggled. With the remembrance of that part, Rina smiled a tiny bit, and tried to remember what happened next. Trying to form the image in her mind. Continuing from there, she remembered the boy getting up quickly and trying to continue chasing down that butterfly. He was close to it, almost enough for him to get the tip of his finger to touch it. To her surprise, she saw the boy lose his patience, and happily jump at the butterfly. As he did, he began to fall towards the ground. One second passes by as he's falling...then two seconds...the three...and after a while, the boy went out of the vision. All of a sudden, Rina could hear the sound of an impact in her head. With a small tear rolling down her cheek, Rina wiped it away. She had wondered what that vision was, and why it happened whenever she touched the sign. However, she knew for sure that something was wrong with it. She didn't know how, or why, but she knew that it had to have been important.

As Rina began to come back into reality, she looked in front of her to see Nessa by the door. With that, Rina asked Nessa to open it, not letting her on to what Rina had seen just now. Rina didn't care if she asked, all she cared about was not ever needing to think of that moment again. With a deep gulp, Rina walked into the area. She looked around to see a beautiful forest. It seemed similar to something she had seen before, but she couldn't put her finger on it. As she looked around, she heard the moving of something large. She felt the ground beneath her shake, as she looked forward to see some sort of large creature made of wood. He was frolicking around the forest. He was happy, and Rina felt cheerful by the sounds of its creaking wood. With surprise on her face, Rina saw as the giant monster like creature face towards them. Anger filled his eyes as the his glowing white and misty insides turned into a red glow that struck fear into Rina. She couldn't believe something like that could become so angry. She was shocked, for maybe a few seconds, as she saw it charge towards them. All of a sudden, Rina's shock seemed to feel like it was going on for ages. She could still see what was happening around her, but she couldn't move. As her eyes moved over to Nessa, she saw quick flashes of what was happening. She saw a vine crawl up her, trying to take her down, but Nessa was quick. She had clearly grown in power since last time. This was especially clear when Rina saw Nessa unleash a flurry of spheres towards the monster, damaging him.

As she saw Nessa unleash her attack, Rina become to feel her body move again. She stretched out her arms, getting back into the needed stance for battle. As she did, she summoned to her hand, her heavenly spear. As it filled the space she made with her fist, she began running for the beast. The beast looked over towards Rina, using the root of one of the trees, to try and trip her. Luckily, Rina was able to hop over it, making sure to keep an eye on her surroundings. Sadly, as she was in the air, the monster used a vine and rapidly sent it towards the foot of Rina. As it began to wrap itself around Rina, Rina began to fall towards the ground from the pull of the vine. Its pull was strong, but Rina knew that she could get out of it if she tried hard enough. She then summoned to her hand, her Heavenly Thorn. With the sharp blade of light, she sliced through the vine and stood up. She then stood up without caring about the dirt that had made its way on her body and clothes, and began rushing back towards the beast. All of a sudden, he screamed. As he covered his eyes, Rina realized that her glow must've blinded him. So, she turned her run into a dash, activating her heavenly petals to travel with her. Although they were faster than her, Rina was able to keep up with them as they slammed right into the body of the wooden creature, making definitive marks in their armor. She then took her spear and jabbed it into one of the marks the petals left behind, creating an even bigger wound into the creature.

wc:1041
tc:1937/9000

WC : 537
Total :  2273 /9000

Rina stood there as Nessa sent out a flurry of attacks towards the creature. Rina, now stuck within the grasp of the enclosing wood that was beginning to regenerate from its body, was now waiting to be freed. She hoped that something would happen to where she would be free, and would actually be able to help against the foe that stood before her. As Rina continuously pulled on the spear, she held it with such a grip, that even the vines pulling at her legs couldn't take her off. In all honesty, they were helping her more than harming her. She tried to use the force of their grappling to her advantage, using it to get her spear out inch by inch. She wondered how much more strain her spear could handle before it snapped in half. It had never happened to her before, but she knew it was a possibility. Although it would be able to regenerate back in the Heavenly gardens for about an hour, she knew that that was an hour too long. She couldn't just let that happen to her, especially not at this point in time. She had no idea what awaited them after that, so she pulled with all her strength she could muster up. With that, the spear popped out as a sudden force hit Rina across the side. She felt her back feel a sharp pain, as a tree stopped her from going as far as she could. She was dazed for at most, a few seconds. However, she could make out the outline of something big looking down upon her. As well as this, she saw 2 other large outlines on its sides. As her vision became clear, she saw as the beast tried to slam his fists down on Rina. Rina looked up in fear, wondering what she was going to do. Then, with the grace of Nessa, her magic was able to push it backwards.

As he was knocked away from Rina, he saw him shake his head in rage. The red glowing from inside him, was clearly the anger he felt. She wondered what in the world this creature could've gotten so mad about. Especially when they were hitting him and attacking him without him getting mad. There had to be something special that Nessa or Rina did that angered him that way. However, Rina couldn't think about something like that at that point in time. So, she looked over towards Nessa and then looked back towards the wooden beast. As the beast rushed straight towards her guildmate, Rina activated her heavenly blossom, as it spread into multiple petals, shooting straight towards the beast. As they sliced into his back, he screamed in pain. That didn't stop his rampage though, as he rushed right towards Nessa. Closer and clsoer he got to her. So, Rina thought this would be a good time for her to do something else. All of a sudden, she turned into an orb of light as she traveled up the body of the beast. Looking at the multiple holes in his neck, Rina activated her heavenly thorn and stabbed it in a wound a foot from her. It arched its back in pain, which caused Rina to pierce through another gash in his wooden skin, creating a handle for her to hold on to. It constantly swirled around, trying to get Rina off of him. As Rina flung around constantly, she yelled out and said to Nessa, "Now would be a good time to attack!" All of a sudden, she was hanging by a thread as she was held on by one hand gripping onto the spear.

wc:615
tc:2552/9000

notes-Just trying to get as many posts done over the weekend before school starts back up

WC : 531
Tot3al :  2803 /9000

As Rina felt the beast begin to slowly fall backwards, Rina grabbed her spear and tore it out of th beast's skin. Rina looked as it tried to slowly recover it's wound. However, the wounds stopped healing after a few minutes. It seemed like the regeneration was trying to reach somewhere else. Rina wondered where. If it wasn't able to sustain its external injuries, that meant there had to be some sort of internal injury. As Aura looked through one of the deep gashes made by the two mages, she saw the inside of the beast blinking, as thought its light had been dying away. It was as though its light was being ripped away from it. In the eyes of Rina, she realized that the beast itself was dying. As she climbed up it's body, she looked downwards towards its head to see that it was dozing off. It looked up at Rina, but Rina could tell that it wasn't actually looking at Rina. She realized that he must've been looking at the sky. As he did, he began to find comfort in his state of living. His eyes began to slowly open and close, each time having a longer gap than before. For some reason, Rina felt sadness fill her eyes as a tear dropped onto the body of the beast. She couldn't believe she was crying for something that tried to kill him. She didn't want to feel remorse for him, but something within her made her cry. Over and over again, she pictured the image, and the sound in her mind. She went over that scene in her head over and over again. She knew that that beast wasn't that child, but her brain couldn't help but think. She couldn't help but think it. All of a sudden, the beast completely closed it's eyes, saying goodbye to the world it lived in.

Rina then began to climb down the beast and looked towards Nessa. She hoped that the girl wouldn't bring it up, but Rina wasn't even sure what Nessa would have said or done after that series of actions. For now though, Rina looked over towards the newly appeared door. Like before, it had a number above it. Rina wasn't exactly sure about what was going to happen next, but she hoped that that remorse wouldn't have to be felt again. She had to be strong, if she was going to have the energy to fight a strong beast like that one. So, Rina wiped away her tears and walked slowly towards the door. All of a sudden, she heard the fluttering of something, or multiple things behind her. As she turned her head around, she saw the beast glowing with a beautiful blue light as it exploded. With the explosion of the beast, came hundreds, or thousands of beautiful blue butterflies as they flew up into the air. Rina opened her mouth in awe as she looked toward Nessa, wondering what her reaction to all of this was.

wc:504
tc:3056/9000

WC : 530
Tot3al :  3333 /9000

Rina retracted her tears, as her face became to calm down. She knew for a fact that the spirit of that little boy was now in peace. Wherever he was, he was most likely okay. Rina had to say that in her head a few times before it actually began resonating with her. As it did, she looked over to Nessa, and smiled. With that, she said with a cheerful and calming tone in her voice, "Thanks for that! It's just hard to do what we do sometimes. Especially when it means that a life is on the line, even if it isn't our own. But, don't forget...sometimes we have to go through so much fighting, for our lives, for money, or whatever else. Just don't forget, that the lives you are taking are alive. They carry throughout forever. Through your memories, through the memories of others, and more. Don't lose your humanity when it comes to doing jobs. Keep those monsters or people you faced and remember them. They are really important, and it wouldn't do them or you any justice if you remember that. I promise you, you will become a stronger and better mage for it." After those words were said, she took in a deep breath as she waited for something. Whether it be Nessa just ignoring her or replying back.

As Rina looked into the doorway, she saw a graveyard. Looking through it all, she saw dead bodies. There was so much about the place that seemed eerie. She could hear the cries of pain coming from each grave, as though they were looking for repentance. The cries were so painful to Rina. She couldn't even think without feeling the unimaginable pain the corpses felt. They must have been feeling so hurt. So lost, just broken. As she looked up, she saw a woman in golden armor above them. However, Rina felt that trying to attack her now wouldn't work. For some reason, she felt it in her bones that going up there wouldn't work. That was when it happened, the woman pointed to Rina and Nessa as she said the words, "Attack..." She said it so somberly and bored, it felt like she didn't care for them. Rina believed that all she thought was that they were nobodies. People who didn't matter in this world. Just another soul to take. Before Rina could ponder anymore on it, she saw a rotting corpse rush insanely quick at her. As she summoned her heavenly spear to her hand, the corpse ran into it. However, even through all his cries of pain, he kept tryng to come straight at her. Rina looked over at Nessa, trying to see if she could help her. She had no more free hands, with her trying to keep the zombie like creature impaled, and away from her. She really didn't know how long she could hold out, because this thing was way stronger than Rina thought it would be. All she could hope for now was for Nessa to try and distract it or something.

wc: 514
tc: 3570/9000

WC :  751
Tot3al :  4084 /9000

As Rina looked over towards Nessa, she had seen that the light mage was doing extremely well for herself in the moment. Rina was extremely glad to see that she was doing extremely great thing, like fighting this beast as well as being able to understand their weak points, right as she stabbed the beast in the head. While in this moment of amazement by Nessa, Rina just kicked the zombie esque creature back everytime it got close enough to claw at her, or bite her. Until then, she just waited to see what Nessa was going. Then, she heard the thing she needed to her, where the weak point on the beast was.

As the undead was up in her face, she could smell the breath of it's rot. She was trying not to gag, but it felt inevitable. She was strong, but she wasn't sure if she could handle something so gross and vile right up in front of her. She's seen worse, tasted worse, but she had never smelt anything like it before. She had always left if she had killed a monster, but actually smelling one after years and years of decomposing made Rina nearly tear up. With that, she took her foot and slammed it into the stomach of the zombie. She then prepared her spear, waiting for the perfect moment to strike at it's head. As it grasped at it' s stomach, it looked up in anger. This was her time, the moment where it was vulnerable. The moment where it was open to be killed. So, she raised up her spear, putting every ounce of her strength into this hit. She hoped it would be enough to actually put it to rest. Like that, it was dead. It's soul had finally been released, at least that's what she hoped. She knew these zombies just wanted to be set free from everything, so Rina hoped that she gave it the wish it desired. However, as it died, its soul went straight towards the woman above. As it did, it went straight towards her sword, making a section of it begin to glow. It seemed like at least half of it was lit up. Before she could look at it further, she heard a noise behind her. It was a zombie, one that had already leaped onto her back.

She felt its nails digging into her as it tried to bite onto her. Rina consistently dodged her head from its grasp, hoping that she would be able to find a better solution. As she tried to think of one, she was still darting her head around. As the zombie was about to clasp down on her skin, Rina realized that she had a spell that could easily defeat this beast. As she felt her magical strength go towards the palm of her hand, she slammed it down into the ground. From it, erupted a beautiful lotus made of light as the zombie was flung off of her. It skid across the ground, leaving marks. It had even encountered a tombstone, crashing into it as it turned to dust. Obviously, these things were old, especially if the tombstones were brittle enough for an impact like that to destroy it. Rina then looked over to the zombie, with sorrow in her eyes. She could empathize with how the zombies felt. They had spent their whole lives here, dead with nothing else to live for. All they wanted was to prove themselves, so they could leave this world and be free and happy. She whispered under her breath, a tiny "I'm sorry." As Rina raised her spear, she jabbed it right into the zombie's head, hearing it let out a little whimper. As Rina twitched from sadness, she looked over to see how Nessa was doing against her beast.

wc: 4211/7000

WC: 654
Total WC: 4738 / 7000

Rina looked to see that Nessa had burst in anger. Rina had wondered how annoyed she truly could've been to be able to be filled up to this amount of rage. It was sort of scary and intense being around her, because she had really changed from the girl before who had so much remorse for those that she killed. Sure, their last experience was pretty bad, but Rina expected Dez to be able to be more contained. She may be a strong mage, but over these past few jobs she's been in, Nessa really needs to overcome her emotions. Whenever she feels them, she gets overly extreme, no matter what type of emotion it is, whether it is anger, remorse or something else. However, Rina could easily be wrong. She was, after all, once a homeless person. Most people she saw, she never was able to actually see through them. That was mostly because she had only ever see the world as black and white during that time, there was no in between at all. The world was cruel, but it could also be giving, same with the people who passed her alley by every single day. They would look at her and her family in disgust, hating on them for not being able to live through the months. It felt cruel to her to have so many people around her hate her family, even though they were trying their best. However, there were also some extremely good people out there. Those that notice you, and actually smile. It was one of the most redeeming things about humans to her, and is the reason why she cares so much for them, as well as life now. So, when Rina thought about Nessa, she tried to look at all sides as best she could. She knew she was a good person, it was just sometimes that she could get carried away with her emotions. However, that doesn't mean she can't go over them, it just means it'll make it hard for her to.

As Rina was in thought, she saw that some time had passed her by. Now, she was on looking the valkyrie-esque woman from above coming down onto them, with a burning bright white light. Rina looked over to Nessa, as she stopped for a tiny bit, probably from exhaustion. Looking back up at the lady, she was coming extremely close to Dez. As she looked at her, she tried to yell at her, but she was too slow. Luckily though, Dez had enough energy to dodge the blow to her head. More unluckily though, the knight outsmarted Nessa, and kicked her in the gut while clashing swords with her. As Nessa skidded off, the knight know looked onto to Rina, as though she was just another target. As she dashed right towards her, Rina knew what she was going to do. With that, she closed her eyes, feeling all the energy around her. Although it was dead, she could tell everything apart, living and dead. Although the dead things weren't identified for her, the living things were. She felt a deep sense of nature in the ground below her. As she did this, she felt roots coming from her feet, as they dug into the ground, rooting themself there, in order to absorb the life source from it. As she did, she opened her eyes and locked her's with the knight's eyes. With that, Rina took her spear and raised it up in the air, using it sort of like a shield. The knight then smiled at Rina and said to her, "You're just an idiot aren't you!" With that, she kicked Rina in the gut like she did with Nessa. However, Rina just looked at her with a dead look on her face. Although the kick to the gut hurt, it didn't hurt as much as her seeing her friend get hurt.

With a confused look on her face, the knight backed up. With that, Rina took this oppurtinity, and dropped her spear onto the ground. As she looked up at the woman, Rina took her fists, and activated her heavenly rose spell, and created rose gauntlets around her hands. As she did, she shot 10 rounds of rose blasts right towards the knight. As she did, the knight tried to fly away, only to have one of her wings blasted by Rina's rose shots. Then, as she was struggling to get up any higher, Rina closed her eyes, and said to herself, "For the souls who have been trapped here, be set free." With that, she unleashed one final blast outwards towards the knight. As she did, her weight gave way, as she began to fall from the sky, screaming aloud. As she did, Rina felt remorse for her, but she felt more remorse for the people this woman had tricked and schemed against. With that, Rina heard the thud of the woman as a cloud of dust surrounded her. With that, she went over to Nessa, and reached out her hand to pick her up.

wc:851
tc:5062/7000