Rita continued to watch for an hour or so before continuing deeper. This time, her goal was too look for any of the ninjas that were under Loheart.

As Rita made herself further and further through the forest, she entered the 'danger zone'. As she walked tiredly through the rather grimmer looking forest area, a snake lengthening up to 75 feet with the head and body size of a house glared at her, slamming its nose into the ground aiming to swallow her.

"W-what is this!? A-a snake this large, that's impossible...!" She screeches, throwing a few kunai and shuriken that just bounced off it's impenetrable skin.

"Tokugi: Disaster Fall!"
"Tokugi: Mirage Shuriken!"
"Ougi: Katana Blitz!"
"Ougi: Binding Linen!"

Rita tried everything, the snakes skin was too strong. The hide was too thick. Nothing would injure it... Rita was backed into a corner. She was trapped. "I can't do this... it's the end." She cries to herself.

Rita rembered. Hissatsuwaza: Phantom Rush, that technique could save her. Even snakes fine hearing wouldn't be able to counter such a move, as the constant thumping of feet would disrupt its senses. Rita had to pull off this move, all or nothing. She tried once, failing completely as she jumps sideways avoiding the snakes attack.

"I have to do this... Be strong, like everyone you've met." She breathes in calmly and out uninterruptedly. As she does so, she thinks about the adventures she's been on.

"I want to help people. I'm sure its not hard," Umi once said to her. She remembered Umi clearly, he was the first person she met. Also one of the strongest, magical wise. He was frail and weak, but he could use some hell of a lot of spells. He gave Rita a slight bit of courage as she met more people.

"So long as you know what they are you can manipulate them to some extent, so long as the person controlling it has a weaker will than you." She remembered Mortimer say this once during a mission. He didn't give up under pressure, Rita couldn't either.

"Go-good luck, Ritia." Larita encouraged Rita once. Larita was never the type of person Rita would like; how Larita was always whining, saying she's not strong. She's a girl, just like Rita... Rita knew she was strong and had potential and she wanted to see this potential in the future.

An odd memory also happened, she remembered destroy the school. It seemed like a huge accomplishment at the time, but it brought a tear to her eye. Umi and Yoko were forced to leave, it made her less active as a Magic Research Society member. She closes her eyes in determination... "Hissastsuwaza: Phantom Rush." Were the words she mutters... initiating her move.

She charged her ki in her feet, she done a 360 degrees axel spin and amazingly... her move was a success, the Phantom Rush technique was successfully completed. Ten phantoms of Rita dashed at the snake as she did, the snake wasn't sure which one was real as it flailed helplessly hoping to eat the real one. However, Rita made her way out successfully. "I did it!!! I'm getting stronger!!!!" She cheers amazed at her progress.

She made her way back to the shack, hoping for some people to return.

As she made her way back to the shack, she could smell an odd taste of blood. She rushed to the shack, seeing the bodies of all her colleagues bodies stuck and pinned to a wooden stake. Rita rushed over, trying to keep her feelings in and staying strong as she checks for some life. They were all dead. A tear drips down, as she enters the shack... blood dripping could be heard.

"Kill... Everlast..." was in scarlet red text wrote in a hateful way with an arm and blood splatter next to it. She inspected the arm; it was her master... Master Loheart's arm. She gasped in fear and had a panic attack, however she successfully overcome it.

Hours of crying and burying her comrades... She gulps the burden. "I'll do it Master... I'll defeat all the people in Everlast Magic School... My enemies..." She cries, preparing for the battle.

~I want the skill Hissatsuwaza: Phantom Rush, so I hope I get a decent amount of KP!!~

Rewards

Ritia: 4 SP, 3 KP