Normally I make it a point to kept tract on the progress or rather lack of progress of any improvement I got when it comes to composing fiction, thats why I make it a point to put the complete date when I start or when I continue a story. Problem is I made an error on this one, I forgot to tag the first day I poise an ink and start this story but im still lucky to manage to pin point an estimate coz the next paragraph of the story got a date on it. This was written way back around july 2005 which make this a 5 year old manuscript! Hurray!

To continue, this is downloaded verbatim on this website coz im too lazy to do edit and I since of old, I dont ask for my relatives tips or suggestion on how to write a proper grammar sentences because im the only writer in the family that..of


this is inspired by Ragnarok online. And there's no chapter, I suck at starting and ending chapters...

Joseph look with mistrust and resentment at the trio who finally succeeded in entrapping him somewhat.

The trap was beautiful. Joseph grudgingly admitted as he stood in the middle of the encircling hex ground-being careful not to move even an inch of a muscle least he suffer being electrocuted.

" At least one of the hundred traps I paid for- paid off!" Lynx, the female hunter of the group said with relief.

"Wonder how long he'd been here"Sarah, the full support priestess muse out loud. She look with amusement at the littered of empty milk can which puddled by Joseph's feet.

"Well, if he had SAY something, he'll probably catch our attention much earlier" Knives, the crusader grumbled unhappily. "Not even a pip, a squek—JESUS!"

"Maybe Lynx had hex also his mouth," Sarah teased. And burst laughing at Sarah's sputtering.

"I'm no whiz!" Sarah was huffing with indignation. "Who were they kidding? Wizard are almost the same as witches for all I care!" she was thinking.

They return their attention back at the masked assassin. Now that they finally caught the guy after many years starting way back in their novice days -they don't know what to do with him.

"now what?" Knives said out loud their combined thoughts. They glare at Joseph seeming to convery that this is his fault.

Joseph glare back as defiant as ever.

Sarah remembered their novice days where Lynx, knives and herself was already a party and she saw that same look today as that novice days ago, where joseph wearing a flu mask and an eggshell hat pick a picky card and fought them for it with that defiant glare.

"first lets release him and THEN get his equipment and items AND release him," she said out loud now.

Sarah and Knives look at her in shock.

"sarah we shall just let the Knight Errant deal with him,"lynx offer.

Sarah shrugged cheerfully, "Its just a suggestion!"

Knives scratched his beard and eyed the assasin. "I think we can get good prices with his stuff," he announce. Unlike the girls, Knives had spend more time on the market square and is well-informed with the current prices.

"let me hear it" Lynx said firmly dragging the boy on a sleeve and the 2 went out of hearing range.

Sarah squat in almost unpriestly fashion in front of the trap and look at Joseph with a frank but admiring stare.

"Oh a wound!" she exclaimed pointing at a cut on Joseph's arm. She look back at her friends and seeing them trying to kill each other on shares, she gleefully whisper a spell at joseph. "heal! .heal!"

joseph sweat-drop completely taken aback by her level one healing and all.

Forgetting himself he blurted, "Why arent u interested in the conversation?"

Sarah change her green feeler with a big ribbon and then change it back again to feeler. "Im not interested in earning zennies, but my friends they're lovely people, they give me free rein in picking any loots or items I like- I have lots of them in kafra...stuff like head gears and such..."she shrug "...im not just interested thats all" she ended

She gave him a final grin before she stood up and met her approaching friends.

"Well split his equipment three ways" knives was saying, "and lets do whatever we want with it..if we found a card-well just sell it and have zennies"

to which sarah agreed readily.

"okey, lets get to work pipz" lynx clap her hand just to keep things going. She studied the trap and had spotted the lock-in mechanism when Sarah said,

" IF we surrender him to the Knight Errants we're suppose to provide evidence right? To charge him with?"

Making lynx paused. Her mouth clamp in concentration and then said, " I think I still got pictures of him stealing our loots somewhere..." she sat down and then began rummaging her knapsack.

After awhile, she produce a girl's diary. "Told u I got it in here somewhere!" she wink at Sarah and the three watch excitedly as Lynx open the book.

Joseph' s curiosity was piqued especially at their reaction but in his spot, he cant see a damn thing!

"oH my god! Im so fat!" Lynx was saying totally horrified.

Knives was giggling hysterically, "look at our party name!"

"i was pressured!" Sarah, for the first time, was cross.

Fortunately for Joseph, a sudden gust of wind swept in and the pictures scattered on the ground. Some of them was in his line of sight and sure enough he can see the three novices in the foreground while he was picking something else in the background.

Lynx, yellow-haired and wearing a ribbon, was sticking her tongue out at Knives, who ever since then favored anything that got good defense against melee attack, like the safety helm he is wearing- awas attacking a picky. Sarah, violet-haired got a smiley mask and was sitting by knives side.

Lynx was gathering the shots and tucking it back into the diary, looking quite harass. "Darn!"

Sarah sigh and cast boredly, "Increase Agility!" causing Lynx to feel so much better.

Later...

"Sarah don't look" Knives order primly after succeeding in tying Joseph's wrist and ankles and let him lie on the ground like a sack of potatoes. Joseph's green eyes was shooting daggers at Knives. If only looks could kill.

Then almost like an afterthought, "You too, Lynx"

Lynx grin fractured and the two girls chorus whinely, "WHY?"
Knives was feeling mad. "coz ure girls. NOW do it!"

Lynx grumbled under his breath as the two turn around out of respect and obedience. Knives only order in a shout rarely.

"darn but I feel like a low-level thief"Knives, a crusader not only in job but by heart moaned as he kneel down and began to strip Joseph in obvious distates.

He first remove the guy's jur, his boots, mocking manteau and assasin mask and sakkat. And pile them together by his side.

"you need a haircut, man. No wonder you wear a sakkat." he told the guy, actually softening a bit coz with Joseph's face completely exposed the assasin didnt look quite sinister.

Joseph bare his fangs at him.

Knives ignore it and produce a dagger . "jesh and to think since your profession requires stealing and all, they could at least have provided u guys with a descent costume to wear instead of this bandages, " he commented.

Lynx snort her agreement. "they probably stole bandages from mummies, wash it and then hang it to dry on Morroc," she said.

Knives almost change his mind in completely stripping the guy. "im finished" he announced

Lynx eagerly turn around and was crestfallen. "with the way you almost shout to save our "purity" I thought you had him NAKED, " she complain.

"Im not peeking,"sarah meanwhile sang, her eyes still covered with both hands