Evil Arises - Part III [ Job | Rima ]

Rima had finally left the room she was put into for interrogation. As she left the room she heard Pluto barking loudly outside, she thought maybe he was just wanting Diana to pay attention to him. However, the barking went on for another minute and still no sign of Diana. Rima's heart suddenly sunk as she realized something was wrong, she then quickly made her way outside. Pluto reacted to Rima immediately by signaling her to go over towards him. She quickly dashed towards the great beast, as he began to lower his body for her to get on. Rima then hopped on top of him and he suddenly began sprinting through the alleyway next to them.

Diana must have went by herself to go find the killer. Rima knew Diana could hold her own, but that masked maniac was on an entirely different level. As Rima, and Pluto made it back to where they encountered the criminals, Pluto's nose began to sniff everything in sight. After picking up a scent he quickly dashed through another alleyway and took a left turn.

Directly ahead was the enemy, she was currently locked in combat with Diana. She basically had her blade pressing against her neck. Pluto reacted to seeing his owner in danger immediately, going so fast that Rima was actually knocked off of him and onto the ground. He quickly swiped his paw, knocking the woman into a nearby building dealing D-Tier damage.

Rima found herself slightly dazed and confused after picking herself off the ground. "Watch where you're throwing me you dumb dog!" she yelled out. However, her sentence ended abruptly as the enemy quickly got on her feet and sprinted towards in a strange pattern. Rima wasn't able to dodge her Serpent Bite causing her borg to break instantly, knocking her back into the wall behind her. Rima's took a good look at who attacked her, it was the killer from before. However, her mask was gone revealing her dark-skin and pale yellow eyes. Her hair was a dark green and she had multiple scars on her face.

The dark-skinned criminal took no breaks in between her attacks, quickly lunging forward towards Rima once more. Rima still dazed was not capable of dodging, took B-Tier damage to her shoulder from the enemies Striking Cobra. Rima let out a scream as the pain quickly spread throughout her body. She grasped her shoulder to stop the bleeding some, her gaze then focused on the enemy in front of her. Black Rukh began to flutter around Rima as her malice towards the woman who just injured her grew.

Magoi: 275/280[-5 Magoi]

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Rima gripped her shoulder as blood poured from the wound. "Shit!" She struggled immensely but finally managed to pick both her and Diana off of the ground. Rima wasn't entirely sure, but Diana had to have been poisoned. She had also seen this in her hometown, and if it's the same kind of poison...then she had to get Diana to a doctor immediately. The wounded girl managed to lay Diana on top of the lowered beast "Hold on..." she said walking towards what remained of the previous enemy. There wasn't much left, except a small pouch and some shredded clothing. Rima quickly gathered them putting them in her bag.

She hobbled back towards Pluto and got on top of him, the beast then began to run back towards the city quickly, but not fast enough to knock Rima or his master off. Rima thought about trying to use her healing spell, but there was no point for a wound this deep. It also wouldn't help Diana's condition at all..this was a good sign that she needed to train her healing abilities more often. As they made their way back to the town Diana's state worsened. Sweat was dripping from her face as if she just taken a bath, and she obviously had a fever. This worried Rima, however she also knew Diana had the spirit of a fighter and would refuse to die due to something simple as being poisoned. Rima wasn't entirely sure what it was, but she was also positive Diana had some sort of dream, so just another reason she could not let her friend die like this.

Rima felt dizzy and sick to her stomach due to the constant bleeding from her shoulder wound. She had managed to wrap some cloth around it to lessen the bleeding, but they were going to need a doctor fast...or they were both going to die. As we finally got back to the center of town Pluto let out a loud and long howl, for everyone to hear. Rima could see a lot of villagers stayed back, looking from a cracked open door. However, a somewhat short and stout elderly man started to come out of his home. Unlike everyone else, he actually noticed the two slouched over figures on top of the giant howling beast.

"Hello?" he said under his breath, making his way even closer to us. Rima snapped out of her daze and stumbled off of Pluto. Her entire right side was caked with blood, still pouring from the wound. "Please...you have to help my friend. I think she's been poisoned..." she said weakly. Rima suddenly gripped her shoulder even tighter due to the pain and fell to her knees. "Please...I'll pay you whatever you however you want...please just help her." tears began to stream down her desperate face. The old man started to shout something but Rima was too far gone to understand a word of it.

An unknown amount of time passes.

Rima's eyes begin to flutter open as she quickly jumps up looking around at her surroundings, leaving her already out of breath. After looking around for a moment she notices that Diana was sleeping in the bed next to hers. "You girls really had me worried, if it were even just a single minute later I would have lost both of you." a gentle elderly voice came from the doorway. Memories of Faris flashed across Rima's mind as she quickly looked towards the doorway. However, it was not Faris...nor did it look anything like him at all. It was a very short and fat little man with a large grin on his face.

"Thank you..." Rima looked towards Diana once more with an eyeful of tears. "Is she going to be okay?" she said directed towards their savior. "Well...it's completely up to her at this point. She's stable so far, but that poison was and still is incredibly nasty." he said losing the cheerful expression. "Your friend is one hell of a fighter for being able to fight it for as long as she did. Personally, I think she'll pull through with a fighting spirit like that."

Rima noticed Diana's breath was starting to slow down at a rapid pace. At first, it didn't worry her too much she thought that maybe she was just starting to stabilize or something. That was not the case, after about a minute of this happening her breath came to a halt altogether. Rima's eyes widened for a moment as she waited to see her friends chest go up and down, but it didn't. "Hey!... Diana!" she screamed, falling out of her bed. Her shoulder wound reopened, causing blood to start gushing out again. She ignored the pain the best she could and crawled her way to Diana's bedside. "Someone help! Please..." she screamed once again, trying to get someones attention.

The old man finally heard Rima's desperate cries as he dashed back into the room. "What's wrong?!" he said, quickly noticing both Diana not breathing and Rima's reopened wound. He quickly made his way towards Diana and checked her pulse. "Nothing...she has no pulse." Hearing this made Rima burst into tears instantly. "Diana...please don't leave me!" she said, sobbing into the blanket underneath Diana. Causing Black Rukh to flock around Rima's grief and sorrow as she continued to wail.

However, all of the sudden Diana let out a couple of coughs as she jumped up in her bed, breathing heavy and hard. Hearing this, Rima looked up in excitement expecting to see her friends normal cold face. That was not the case this time, Diana's facial expression instead was more like a look of horror, with tears streaming down her face. "Diana...?" Rima said, still crying at her friends' bedside.

"Hey Diana?..." Rima said wiping the tears from her eyes. She could sense anger and grief coming from her dear friend. "I'm sorry if I made you made you mad for any reason...but I'm glad you're doing better. For a moment there I thought I had lost you." she said with tears welling up in her eyes again. She walked back over towards her bed and sat down, pulling her traveling bag up with her. One of the nurses came over to her and started to restitch her shoulder wound. After she finished and walked away Rima started to scour throughout the bag. Eventually, she pulled out a small pouch and a couple pieces of ripped clothing.

She untied the bag and dumped the contents onto her sheets, only to find a silver ring. She picked it up and began to investigate it. The symbols carved onto the ring were symbols from Kou, she could remember these symbols specifically. They were carved into a great stone shrine in her hometown when she lived with her brother. They meant "Peace" and "Good-will" which was a load of crap coming from who had owned the ring. She looked towards Diana after this discovery. "I feel I need to go back to Kou soon. It's where I grew up, and if there is any place that will hold the secrets to my brothers death...then it has to be there." she said shaking nervously, fearing her inevitable return to that place.

Rima gave Diana a faint smile after hearing she would be fine. She knew very well Diana was hurting inside, but she was incredibly bad at handling things like this. She wanted to help her friend but honestly, she didn't know the first thing about her. "Kou is absolutely gorgeous around this time of year." she said looking towards the sky as she mounted Pluto's back. After fully getting on top of him she pulled out the ring once again to look at the words. Even though the ring came from a horrible person, it honestly felt like a gift directly from her brother. She clenched it tightly into her hand and held it close to her heart before sliding it onto her index finger.