A long red haired woman with a battle axe was looking at Simon. She wanted to fight him to get the name Soaring Lions, since she couldn't before due to Simon taking it before hand. Simon sighs, he only came up with the name on the spot. He didn't think it was something worth getting upset over.

"Listen, miss... Let's not-" - Simon was trying to handle this calmly the woman didn't listen.

"SHUT UP! FIGHT ME, YOU COWARD!" -???

"...Coward? Alright missy! You're on!" - Simon

Owen stood betwern the two.

"Let's not do it in here, okay?!? We just cleaned up!" - Owen

"Hmph. Alright. Let's take this to the outskirts." - Simon

They've begun walking to the gates, each time Simon looked over to the green eyed, red haired, barbarian woman she looked back with anger. Eventually the three exited out the gates and found an open field.

" Now, we fight. " - The woman spun around his short axe in hand

"Okay... Try not to hurt yourself."-Simon

This remark made the woman even more angry. She leaped at Simon who managed to dodge in time. Her leap left a giant hole in the ground, it seemed she was quite strong. Simon counter attacked and as he saw the woman in the ground tried to stab at her hand. He didn't want to hurt her toi bad but also didn't want to lose.

"Underestimating me a bit too much." - The woman jumped back and Simon ended up thrusting his sword into thin air. The woman sliced at Simon's back opening a huge but not deep cut on his back.

"If you want to give up now, It's okay... You didn't seem strong any-" - The woman tried to taunt Simon what she didn't notice that Simon was already infront of her ready to slice down her torso. She junps away just in time.

"Heh, I see... Not too weak." - the woman said as she swung her axe once more. Simon dodges and as the axe gets stuck in the ground he cuts at her arm.

"You're underestimating me."-Simon said as long cut spurted out blood from her arm. She still grabbed on to the axe and swung at Simon's legs. It cut them and spurted blood all over her. Simin grunted in pain. Bioth of their injuried were getting severe but neither side was giving up. If this would go on both would suffer from either conclusion.

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"ALRIGHT STOP!" - Owen stood between them. His legs quivering

"Th-there's no reason to fight!" - Owen said to the fighters

"...She started it." - Simon

"You took my cool name!" - Woman

"Ah, come on! Isn't this a bit childish?" - Owen said his fear slowly dying down.

"Listen Kristina, rather than fighting for the name why don' t you join the guild?" - Owen

"Huh? Owen you want her to join? Isn't she dangerous!" - Simon

"Leader... We need members, the fact that she's dangerous is because she's strong! We need members like that!" - Owen

"...Tsk- fair... I guess it wouldn't hurt to have her on our Guild."-Simon

"...Join a guild huh... Never thought of that. But why would I want to join you guys? What would I benefit from it."-Kristina

"You'd be in a guild named Soaring Lions" - Owen

"Deal." - Kristina

The three walked back to the guild house. They've talked a bit and eventually Simon didn't mind their scuffle earlier.

"So, Kristina... What's your track record?" - Simon

"Uh... I've think I had done around 3 E rank requests... I've only been an adventurer for a few weeks." - Kristina seemed like she was around 20 years old. 4 years older then Owen and Simon. It seemed she spent a lot of time preparing for her adventures, as she was quite muscular.

" Well alright, I'll have you registered to our Guild, that way our Guild has done a total of 4 E rank requests... Tomorrow we'll check the request board out... We need to get ready for the rankings. That way we'll have more members. We'll need a chef... And someone who can heal us, a mage perhaps. " - Simon

" Huh, you'll save me the paper work then..."-Kristina didn't really know about having to sign up for the guild, she doesn't really understand the Guild system very well, but honestly neither does Simon. The three talked until night time, eventually the moon came up and they've decided it should be time to head to sleep. The three slept in the beds, luckily for them Owen cleaned them quite well so they had no trouble falling asleep. Tomorrow they'll look for requests to do.

The sun has risen. It shined onto the eyes of Simon who wakes up to it. A new day has begun and he woke up the other two. They all eventually got up and went out to the main board in the village square. There were a lot of E-rank requests a few C's but these were rare to find. The village seemed quite peacful as higher rank requests weren't found. Kristina ripped off an E-rank request.

"I'll handle this myself."-Kristina said as she showed Simon the request, it was a request of retriving an item from deep inside the forest. Seems like a normal E-rank request. Kristina was strong enough to do this on her own. So the two decided she'll be fine. Owen and Simon also took up an E-rank request this one contained this information 'A group of large spiders have been seen getting too close to the west road. If they find it and block path it might limit our resources. The spiders are 4ft tall. They don' t seem to be venomous. Please, be careful! "

Simon took the request of the board but Owen wasn't too happy about it. Still he couldn't do a request alone so he decided to tag along with Simon. Owen has gotten a bow now, due to the adventurers that used the guild house leaving equipment behind. The two arrived at the West road. The coast seemed clear. The woods made it a bit dark but the two could see each other.

"See anything Simon?" - Owen said as he looked around.

"No... Do you see anyth-" - Simon said as he looked back to Owen suddenly, web was shot at Simon and he got pulled away from the roads into the dark forest

"SIMON!!!" - Owen yelled out as he saw Simon getting pulled away.

(To Be Continued)