Saisho No Kasai

Jenny quickly pulls herself together, crossing her arms and trying not to embarrass herself any more than she already is.

Jenny: Well, I had no way of knowing, and think from my point of view too.

Matheus: But you can't just go around hitting people like that, ask for an explanation and if it's not enough, then only then can you hit them if you agree.

Jenny: Nah, lies can be invented very easily.

Jonathan: Anyway, since you insisted on ruining the surprise, let's go, I already have everything ready, in fact, I already know, you're going to pretend that none of this happened, okay?

Jenny: It's okay, even if it makes you a little silly.

Jenny goes up the stairs, then starts going down the stairs and before she finishes going down, Jonathan appears, excitedly raising his arms.

Jonathan: Jenny! Matheus and I have a surprise for you!

Jenny: Oh! Really? I'm excited to know what it is!

Matheus, watching the two perform, can't help but show glimpses of laughter

Matheus: What a joke...

Jonathan: The surprise is right in that room over there!

Jenny: Really? So you managed to get that room ready for today?

Matheus: It wasn't that hard, it's a free-use room and prefers activities like birthdays

Jonathan: Can't you even pretend she doesn't know?

Matheus: This is already getting old

The three of them go to the room and celebrate Jenny's birthday, some other students were there to celebrate together

Six months later...

Jenny had decided to join Jonathan and Matheus' career, serving as a mage, while the two would be soldiers, one of the trainings to join the arch would be to survive a forest full of creatures.

Jenny: Really? This is a mess, I didn't remember this forest being so disorganized

Jonathan: whatever, I imagine a forest shouldn't be very organized

Matheus: will this be easy?

Jonathan: relax, I'm here, and besides, you and Jenny are also very strong

Jenny: one day! I'll make sure to humiliate you

Jonathan: why do you hate me so much?

Jenny: I don't know, there's something about you that makes me act like this

Matheus: that sentence was out of context...

Everyone rolls their eyes and continues on their way, until, without them knowing, a tangle of creatures begins to gather around them, since, in previous expeditions, the other participants chose to avoid confrontations and so, more and more, they accumulated and reached the current point, where a greater number than necessary is present in the forest.

Jenny: hey... Are you feeling this?

Jonathan: if you're referring to the exaggerated amount of creatures... Yes, but if it's something else, then no

Jenny: stop it! I'm not kidding! This isn't abnormal, is it?

Matheus: it's very likely that it is, instructions from past participants say that we should avoid comforts and just survive by running away, with that in mind, the justification for the amount of creatures is that no one killed a single one, so they accumulated to this point

Jonathan: that makes a lot of sense, and if that's really it, then we have a huge problem, because right when it's our turn, we won't be able to do what they did...

A Purussaur approaches, emerging from a lake next to the path the three were walking on. It tries to grab Matheus, but he dodges back before anything else.

Matheus: Be careful! They'll probably come again.

Jonathan: I already know that.

The three quickly arm themselves. Soon after, tearing through the sky, a Thalassodromeus descends, hitting the ground, missing its target, Jonathan. Jenny raises her staff and begins to launch offensive attacks. Several luminous golden spines go against the pterodactyl, but the creature defends itself with its wings and then roars, giving up the attack when it notices the approach of another creature. The ground shakes with footsteps as something large approaches.

Matheus: By the way! Remember! This swamp was made to inhabit any creature, so don't be guided by the environment to know which creature is here

Jonathan: I know that too, besides, this animal here proves that point

A tarbosaurus roars as it approaches the group, it tries to bite them, but they move away, Jenny smiles

Jenny: I've wanted to use her for a while, unlike you two, I've already gone ahead and now... Watch!

Jenny raises her hand and makes the Uma hand seal. Her Vitalis focuses in front of her, forming the silhouette and then forming the creature itself, a triceratops. The creature stretches and roars. The two dinosaurs face each other and advance towards each other. The tarbosaurus steps on the triceratops' head, supporting itself on it, and then bites the collar on its head, moving and causing more pain. However, the triceratops manages to resist its pressure and pushes it away, making it stagger backwards. Then it runs towards it, plunging its horns into its chest. It starts to give in, but starts fighting again when it sees the opportunity. It uses a nearby tree, where it supports its leg and pushes itself to push the triceratops to the ground. Of course, before that, its horns had dug deeper into it, making it fall to the ground.

Jenny: I won! Easy, easy

Jonathan: It was your creature that won, not you

Jenny: Well, I own her, so technically, I won! Idiot!!!!!

Jonathan: Look at your girl... Don't go thinking you're all that...

Jenny: Or what?

Jenny and Jonathan approach each other, staring at each other and tilting their heads toward each other. Matheus, who lost the context, has just arrived, exhausted from fighting the purussauro

Matheus: I'm killing myself here and you're kissing over there! You could go help me, right?!

Jenny: What?! I would never kiss that useless guy

Jonathan: Useless?!

Jenny: Yes, yes, useless! Tell me, who defeated that animal, huh?!

Jonathan: Damn...

Matheus sighs, clearly seeing the future of those two, so, because of that, he gets distracted, not noticing the sneaky approach of a gigantoraptor that whips his legs, knocking him down and grabbing him by the collar of his clothes and throwing him away from Jenny and Jonathan, but before they can do anything, a woolly rhinoceros interferes, attacking the two and also pushing them away, even more so from Matheus, through looks, the two communicate to meet there at that place later, while they are separated by their respective fights.

Jonathan: Let's finish them off soon

Jenny: Calm down! It's not like it's a simple thing, summoning her at any time

Jenny makes the Uma hand seal and summons the triceratops, however, a deinocheiros arrives at the scene, and together with the rhinoceros the two defeat the triceratops in an instant

Jonathan: what?! Weren't you the good one?

Jenny: calm down! I tried, okay?! Now is not the time to complain about me!

The deinocheiros turns its attention to the two, the rhinoceros prepares itself and runs towards them, Jonathan realizes how dodging would cost more time that he doesn't have, so he tries to defend the blow, Jenny approaches in an attempt to help, but is stopped by the deinocheiros' claws. He manages to pierce Jenny's stomach, weakening her and throwing her against a tree, but without giving her time to recover, the deinocheiros bites her abdomen and swings her in the air, trying to divide her, in the end, he drops her on the ground, leaving her to die, giving up and leaving the place, since Jenny used magic to make her odor unbearable for the dinosaur, Jonathan had withstood the rhinoceros' first attack, and in the second, he diverts the trajectory of the attack, managing to punch the side of his face, making him almost fall, but he doesn't notice that the rhinoceros was preparing something, which hits him precisely in the stomach, making him spit blood, then the creature roars and uses Protexistioppugnationem generating a shield of Vitalis in front of him and stabbing Jonathan's stomach with his horn, then he sweats the Mollisimpact going with everything towards him, the impact throwing him back, close to where Jenny was, she holds his arm and uses her magic on Jonathan, the rhinoceros smells it and decides to move away.

Jenny: I'm... Really bad

Jonathan: I can imagine, just by looking at it... You, by the way, your hand... It's warm

Jenny: Idiot... I'm going to let go of yours, okay?

Jonathan: No, no, forget what I said

Jenny: No way, was that flirting?

Jonathan: That makes it even more embarrassing for you, by the way!... If I have a chance... It might be flirting

Jenny: When I get better again... I'm going to kill you, damn it...

Jonathan laughs lightly, watching Jenny close her eyes while trying to contain her blushing and her hand trembling in his.

Jonathan: Hehe... You're embarrassed, are you going to tell me I have a chance

Jenny: Shut up... Idiot

Jenny uses her little strength to hit Jonathan's chest, which makes him feel great pain since he was very weak

Jonathan: Damn... Did that hurt a lot, thrush?

Jenny: I don't care! That's what you deserve for making me blush!

Jonathan: But you... Look...

Jenny looks at Jonathan, noticing how he seems afraid to say something

Jenny: What is it?

Jonathan: You... Look... Embarrassed cutie

Jenny: You... Idiot!

Jenny starts beating Jonathan wildly, even though she didn't have much strength for it, obviously making Jonathan grunt in pain since he was still weak, so, nothing that couldn't get worse, the ground shakes and the deinocheiros that was previously driven away returns, and since Jenny was too weak to continue using the magic of removal, then the deinocheiros pierces the stomachs of both of them and starts throwing them from one side to the other, cutting and mutilating them, Jenny thinks about what to do, even though she didn't have much strength for anything, but she sees Jonathan's face, his eyes wide, while one of them closes, with a mark remaining over his eye, a golden star, then he splits the air, punching the creature's face, then he does a triple kick, knocking the creature down, Jenny, following his awakening, manages to activate her own Elemental Mark, the same symbol, now having access to several other magics, one of them being the healing one, she regenerates the two and they manage to knock down the deinocheiros easily

1 year and six months later...

Jenny had finished giving birth to Julian is her greatest happiness, while Jonathan carried the child in his arms, his loving gaze as he played with the child, visibly as happy as she was, the two were happier than ever at that moment.

The scene returns to a white expanse...

Jenny: I remember the feeling, in this case, not of the birth, it was very painful, but the feeling of seeing my son move... It was simply... Achiever

Jenny: That's normal, besides, during the boy's life, you were the best mother possible for him, you know that, when you see his happiness every day

Jenny: I appreciate it... But... I just... I wish I could... Stay with him a little longer, I wish... Not to die

Jenny starts to cry, regretting having "abandoned" her son, her inner self puts a hand on her shoulder and wipes her tears

Jenny: It's okay, your body, your will, made one last move to save your son, he'll be fine

Back to the real scene

Jenny instinctively uses a repulsion spell, sending Jack away with any remaining strength, collapsing soon after, Jonathan feels his heart beat faster, his breathing irregular, while Julian falls to his knees, disbelieving what happened, Joana looked away, covering her mouth and closing her eyes.