It's morning time, everyone is outside and Luna is noticeably annoyed.
"Well it's 4:30 in the morning, never been awake this early in my life, but here we are all in front of the house. Oh goodie."
"Luna you be careful and Jin you make sure to keep my daughter safe. If anything happens to her it's your butt."
"Don't worry Mrs. Yi I will die before I fail my mission to bring her to the village safe."
"Luna can I speak to you alone please?"
An over zealous Kit, "Man I wish I was the one getting to go off training, I'd be the greatest guardian ever even better than Lunaclipseia. Jin I want to go too."
"I'm sure you do but now is not the time maybe next time."
"Yeah nice try but I'm not so little to fall for that."
"No I'm serious here take this."
Jin gives Kit a small dagger.
"Now don't let your mother see you have this but this is a Guardian weapon it can draw out and absorb your Ki when we get back I will show you how to use it."
"Aw cool thanks Jin."
Meanwhile Luna and her mom talk
"Now Luna you know I don't like this at all but it's for your own safety but I definitely don't like you going off alone with a boy."
"Mom."
"Just promise me you won't come back pregnant."
"MOM!!! EW NO! HOW COULD YOU THINK THAT!"
"Luna I might be "Old" but I'm no fool. You are a beautiful young woman and he is an attractive healthy young man who has already saved your life once, and now you're going to be alone on the road together with him as your protector. It's like something out of a novel or something. So NO HANKY PANKY OK."
"OMG! MOM!"
"JIN! I expect you to be a complete gentleman during your trip I'm too young to be a grandmother do you understand."
"I-I-I-I have no words. I'm literally lost for words."
"Mom stop being weird. I have absolutely zero interest in him."
"Um Luna we should get going soon it's going to be a long trip."
Luna and Jin say their goodbyes and begin walking down the road.
Jin and Luna hit the road on their journey to Toji Village the home of the Guardians.
"So what's the plan are we catching a bus or something?"
"The plan is very simple we walk walk and walk some more take a lunch break walk again until we get there."
"Walk? how long of a walk?"
"Well if we keep a good pace with breaks we should be there by the afternoon..."
"Well that's not too bad."
"Friday the afternoon of Friday you didn't let me finish."
"TWO DAYS?!? WE HAVE TO WALK FOR TWO DAYS?!? OMG why can't we just take a bus or something?"
"You got bus money? I don't. Plus it would still be about a days walk no bus comes even close to Toji Village."
"Great just great... Ok then well as the reincarnation of The Great Lunaclipseia I demand that you carry me."
"Yeaaaaah that will happen about the same time demons come flying out of my ass."
"Grrrr fine."
A few hours pass Jin and Luna are out of the city and walking on the countryside. Luna is starting to lag a few steps behind as the walking is starting to get to her.
"OH MY GOD IM SOOOOOO BORED!"
"Jin I'm hungry."
Jin ignores her.
"I'm tired."
Jin getting frustrated still ignores her.
"Jiiiiiin I need to pee."
"SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT THE HELL UP WE WILL TAKE A BREAK IF IT WILL SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD."
"Well you don't have to be rude about it."
Luna and Jin find a shade spot on the countryside to take a break and eat some food. While eating Luna hears a rustling in the bushes behind her.
"Jin there is something in the bushes over there."
"Just leave it alone and eat we have a lot of walking to do."
"Jin seriously you should check it out."
"If you're so worried why don't you check it out?"
"One because you're the guy that's your job and two you're supposed to be protecting me so that makes it double your job."
Before Jin could reply out from the bushes pops out a little cabbit.
Luna screams in excitement, "OH MY GOD IT'S SO CUTE! I've never seen a real life cabbit before."
"Oh hey what do ya know a cabbit."
"I thought they were only in Mythios."
"Someone who visited Mythios must have brought some back they are very rare over here I've seen them in guardian villages they make good allies when trained but this one looks to be a stray."
"It's so so cute. Are you hungry little guy? Huh? You want some food?"
"Come on Luna don't feed it."
"Hey Jin...... shut up. I want to feed the cabbit ok."
"Fine whatever but hurry up I'm leaving."
Luna feeds the cabbit some of her food then pets it. Then chases after Jin who already started walking. Little did they notice at first but the cabbit followed behind them. It wasn't until about a hour later that Luna noticed.
"Jin look the cabbit is still following us."
"Damn it Luna see this why I didn't want you feeding the thing now we'll never get rid of him."
"Oh shut up Jin who put the stick up your ass today. Maybe I don't want to get rid of him."
"I just want to get home and complete my mission ok, and besides what's the point of letting him tag along the village isn't going to let you bring a stray in."
"Well we will cross that bridge when comes up but for now Minou is coming with us."
"Minou what the crap?"
"That's what I'm going to call him."
"Well yeah I gathered that much but where did that name come from."
"I don't know just a feeling inside me told me to call him that."
Luna picks up the cabbit, "Do you like that huh do you like that name Minou?"
"Rewo"
"Whatever Luna can we walk now."
Hours pass as Jin, Luna, and Minou walk till nightfall until Jin stops and just drops his gear.
"Ok we should stop for the night eat and get some sleep."
"Um sleep where?"
"Look to your left now look to your right pick a spot."
"Wait we are going to sleep outside?"
"Yeah what's the problem?"
"What's the problem? What's the problem? What's the problem? I'll tell you what the problem is we have walking from sunup to sundown only breaking 3 times all damn day and now we are going to sleep outside in the middle of nowhere I'm sweaty, I stink, I'm starving, and I don't get to take a shower I don't get to eat a real meal and I don't even get to sleep in a bed."
"Are you done? Are you done? No no no if you're not I'll wait."
"This sucks you suck this whole situation sucks."
"Yeah and I'm just having a great time."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"I'll tell you what it means princess. It means I'd rather be doing a thousand other things then being stuck walking with a whiny little titty baby like you. The only thing you've done today besides slow me down is complain complain complain complain. I will say one thing though those few seconds you did shut up were the highlights of my day."
"You are such a big JERK!!! If that's how you feel then fine I'll go sleep way over there."
"Fine, why don't you do that you can complain to Minou all night maybe then you'll scare him off."
"That's it! That is it! I'm not talking to you anymore. GOODNIGHT!"
"Hey hey hey don't go doing me any favors."
Luna storms off to create some distance between them and find somewhere to sleep.
"Who the hell does he think he is talking to me like that. I didn't want to go in the first place damn bastard. He's a big fat jerk right Minou."
While Luna is storming off angrily Minou hears something in the distance and begins to hiss.
"Hey Minou what is it whats wrong?"
Suddenly a giant centipede like demon comes busting out the ground and lunges at Luna. Luna somehow dodges. Minou jumps out in front of her.
"Minou what are you doing? Get out of there."
Minou jumps at the demon attacking it in vain. The demon swats Minou down with very little effort.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY YOU DUMB CABBIT!! AAAAAHHHHHHH! TAKE THIS DEMON! KINETIC PUNCH!"
Suddenly Jin comes
flying in out of nowhere and his hands are glowing red. Upon yelling his
right hand is engulfed in a red ball of energy.
With a loud roar Jin punches the demon and it disintegrates. After killing the demon Jin turns his attention towards Luna.
"Are you ok?"
"What was that?"
"ARE YOU OK?"
"Yes I'm ok. What was that thing you just did?"
"It was a Ki attack just like when you knocked those demons back but I have years of training I know how to focus my Ki for pinpoint attack."
"Wow..... Oh my God Minou where's Minou? Are you ok?"
"Reow!"
"Oh Minou my poor baby you tried to protect me."
"Yeah good work for a stray little cabbit. Ok now how bout you to come back over here so we can all get some sleep."
"Ok..... Jin."
"Huh?"
"Thank you for saving me."
Everyone goes to sleep. Morning arrives and Jin Luna and Minou are awake and ready to go.
"Luna jump on my back."
"Huh?"
"Look its not a big deal you and Minou get on my back we have a lot of time to make up and I can move much faster even with you on my back than we can walking. I can at least go for a few hours before we would have to take a break."
"Um ok if you are sure."
With Luna and Minou on his back Jin surges towards Toji Village.
"So Jin you never told me what's Toji Village like anyways?"
"Simply it's home. It's nothing like the city that you are used to. It's a small village in the woods with a river running down the south side of it. Its populated with men and women of all different ages and everyone of them have a purpose and every minute of they day is used to complete our daily tasks with perfect precision. I love it there."
"What's your purpose?"
"Huh?"
"You said everyone there has a purpose what's yours?"
"Well I'm a graduated Guardian so my purpose is to go fulfil missions. Our village gets daily messages for requests on on surveillance and protection from possible demons and one or group of us are sent out to take care of those daily missions and if we find anything we take care of it very simple. When we aren't off on missions we are training."
"Doesn't sound very fun."
"Fun isn't a a luxury that a guardian is given. We are tasked with keeping the Human world safe."
"Isn't that the Protection Forces job though?"
"The Protection Force is only a first line of defense and they are only in the major cities think about it all this time we have been on the road all you've seen is countryside and farms right. Well do you think the Protection Force is going to come all the way out here? And furthermore they are full of just everyday humans, Guardians are Ki sensitive and have a lifetime of training in mastering Ki. Then there are Sorcerers and Sorceresses villages out there too who have mastery of magic to help aid in the fight against demons."
"Oh so I guess it's pretty important..... Sorry for not taking it seriously before."
"The fact that you didn't know how serious it is shows how good we are at our jobs."
"What do you mean?"
"Well one of the most important jobs that a guardian has is to allow the people of the world to have a normal life and not burden them with the realities that we face every day."
"Realities?"
"Realities like the fact that demons being in human world isn't as rare as you think it is. Truth is that more than likely every hour of everyday one of the three pillars are in a confrontation with a low class demon."
"Three pillars?"
"The Protection Force, Guardians and Magic users."
"Oh."
"Ok hop off we are almost there."
As they get closer Minou starts freaking out.
"What's wrong Minou calm down calm down."
"He is right to be acting that way."
"What do you mean?"
"Something is not right."
"What do you mean?"
"Something is very very wrong..... STAY HERE!"
Jin rushes ahead through the woods leaving Luna and Minou behind. Minou is still freaking out and pulling away from Luna.
"Minou stop calm down everything is going to be ok."
Minou gets free from Luna and runs off the same direction as Jin did. Luna goes chasing after him.
"Minou! Minou get back her Jin told us to stay back. Minou! Minou!"
Luna catches up with Minou and sees Jin dropped to his knees.
"Jin! Jin what is it?"
Luna rushes over to Jin.
"Its gone it's all gone."
Then Luna looks up and sees what Jin sees Toji Village has been completed destroyed.
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