Mana: Before The Rise

Rachel brushed the long hair of the dark horse with a little boy who looked just like her was rubbing the horse belly. She could hear the childish laughter of children outside and some grunts from the a.d.u.l.ts.

"Max" Rachel said looking at the horse dark eyes, as it turned its large nose towards here and snorted. She then looked down at the little boy and smiled. "Lance lets clean up and joins your sisters" she rubbed his head.

The boy, Lance smiled as he held his mother's hand when they walked out of the stables. They walked towards his Twin sister Lana who was playing with her older cousin Wei Wei.

Rachel smiled at her husband who seemed to be in a deep conversation with Anders.

"Go, Play" Rachel looked down to Lance who sprinted toward his sister and cousin happily" Rachel went and sat next to Ander's new wife Misty who was watching the two toddlers playing with bricks.

"Not fighting?" Rachel said surprised.

"Surprisingly," Misty said in some disbelief. "Quiet a turn-over from when they first meet. All screaming and fussy."

"Well, it looks like instead, they are ignoring each other"

"Do you think they would make the perfect couple in the future?" Misty suddenly asked

Rachel poked her youngest son's cubby checks "I think they would, that is if your husband doesn't break my son's legs in the future" she commented with a silly expression just imagining it.

Misty laughed just thinking about its starling her daughter that looked at her with her big blue eyes.

Rachel's smiled suddenly froze as she stood up "I'll be right back" she turned and went towards her husband, Sung-Jin smiled "Going out for a bit" she said walking inside the door.

In the Kitchen, Rachel grabbed her keys and drove her car to her law-firm in town. She quickly picked up her current case and uploaded some of its files and sent it to someone. She took the papers with her as she rushed to clean-up.

She then drove away very cleanly to another location and placed the doc.u.ments into a safety deposit box and put the key back on her keyring.

As she once again drove away.

Buzz

Her phone rang, she saw that it was Sung-Jin.

"Hey, when are you coming back?"

"I'm on my way back right now" Rachel smiled, but halted once again as the feeling of death come rushing toward her. She frantically looked around, the road was bare and couldn't find anything. She pulled over immediately and was about to get out of the car when she heard it. It was a small sound, but she heard it. Glancing at the dashboard she saw one simple note.

Karma.

"Woo-Ri?" Sung-Jin question as he noticed the sudden silence.

Rachel trembled as she heard Sung-Jin's worried voice "I'm Sorry"

Bang!

A loud explosion sounds out as the phone call drop. The Noise scared everyone, Sung-Jin dropped his phone as he looked out toward the smoke that was a distance away from the home. The kids started crying at the abrupt noise.