Dragon heart

Chapter 1: The Captain

A female around the age of twenty-one was currently making her way down a small set of streets. She had straight, short black hair that fell down to her neck, bright emerald green eyes, and fair skin with an almost perfect complexion. Her frame was thin, slender, and overall very petite, with slight hints of a muscular undertone showing that she did train to at least some extent. This female was known as Rose.

At the moment she was carrying a small folded-up piece of paper. Another application that she planned on submitting to another guild. At first, the non-responses, that she got from some of the guilds didn't bother her that much, but now it was starting to weigh heavily on her conscience. She had sent out over fifty applications and was still yet to be accepted into one of the many guilds that littered the land.

She knew most guilds wouldn't accept her because she didn't have a rank, but she couldn't get a rank without joining a guild. She wasn't even applying for the top guilds at this point, she was just submitting a letter to whatever guild she heard about. She was reading magazines and asking around as much as she could but at this point, she was just starting to get discouraged at the idea of not being to find one that was accepting new members.

As she was walking she heard a loud crash the sounded like a glass breaking and Rose turned to see the source of the sound and saw a building that at this point had become a shadow of its former self. It was recently discovered that the head of the guard was corrupt, and when confronted he was able to evade being apprehended, and now he and a few other guards that had defected had taken up residence in the old guard barracks.

Rose knew they had made a few attempts to try and apprehend him once again, but from what she had heard none of the attempts went very well. Their mayor had even gathered some money to send out requests to help to a few local guilds. As Rose stared at the building she began to slowly form a plan with a slight smile. Rose wasn't really interested in the reward since she knew it wasn't much.

But the idea of having some kind of a feat under her belt, it might be worth mentioning on her applications, and it might make a few of the guilds take her a bit more seriously. At least then she'd have some chance of getting accepted into a guild. Rose smiled and nodded before walking away from the building. As much as she wanted to just burst into the building and try to attack them that way, she knew she wouldn't get very far doing that.

Not only did they have her out-numbered, but the building also had a slight security system that she needed to worry about. Combine that with the fact that the captain wasn't exactly a common soldier when it came to his combatant capabilities, and she might as well just tied herself up and hand herself over to them willingly. So she was going to take a bit of time to think about how she was going to defeat them and free the former guard barracks.

As she walked away she began to slowly form a plan and before long turned and walked into a local magic supplies shop. As she did she began to look around for what she needed, it wasn't long before she found what she was looking for and picked it up. Two-piece of chalk that seemed to give off a slight light. After she paid for what she needed she walked back to the building and began to draw a circle around it.

Rose knew she needed to be careful since if she was spotted it could have been bad. She took her time around the sides of the building knowing that not many people came there, but she was much quicker around the back and front of the building trying to draw the circle as quickly as possible before she was noticed. When it was complete Rose took a deep breath and looked at the building in front of her.

"Round-guard," Rose said as a round-disk-shaped shield appeared on her arm and she walked up to the door. "Ricochet," Rose said causing the shield to glow for a moment. Rose then threw the door open and tossed her shield into the room causing it to begin bouncing around the move. "Accelerate," Rose said causing her shield to begin moving even faster. Rose then slammed the door shut and ran to the side of the building. She could hear the disorganization from within the building as her shield bounced around.