Please Kari?

Kari: Never.

Fine. Yoso, will you do the honers?

Yoso: As you wish. Angels101 does not own, or claim to own etrian odessey.

Thank you~ Least I know who my friends are~

Kari: Hey!

The boxcar couldn't hold the two. Who in their right mind would have put them in there? Kari thought as she opened her eyes, the effect of chlorine wearing off rather quickly-she had always had a very fast recovery rate. The groggy fog that always appeared to waft around her when she first awoke vanished finally, and she dully noted that Noroi was beginning to stir beside her.

The pink-headed seventeen year old pushed lightly on the box. It didn't budge. Kari sighed, and brushed strands of pink hair behind her ear, her purple eyes flashing annoyance. If she didn't have enough power the open the box she was in herself she'd have to wait for Noroi to wake up too, which wasn't favorable, because the kid took forever to wake up in the first place.

It was cold-kind of made Kari wish she knew if Noroi had anything under that cape thingy she was wearing-she highly doubted it. Oh well. At least the younger was warm. Made her wish she had more than that tiny black coat and short black shorts on. that flimsy black cape couldn't keep a fire warm. oh well, at least with the boots she was wearing her legs were warm.

By now Noroi was mostly awake. Her short brown hair was more ruffled that it usually was-her brown eyes showed the weary-ness both were feeling. Kari numbly yelled at her self-wasn't the first time-how she had got a kid like Noroi into this. She was no older that fourteen. Still a child. Oh well, the had no time to lament about mistakes. Noroi combined with Kari's strength opened up the door holding them in. The two hoped down-into the grass. Free again. Kari thought darkly.

"come on." Kari said, pulling Noroi to her feet.

"Are you okay?" Kari asked, looking Noroi over, relieved to see no injury, and further relieved when Noroi dipped her head as a yes.

"Come on, maybe we'll find a town of village up ahead, Noroi." Kari said and began to walk, Noroi falling in behind her.

Kari opened her eyes at the distressed memory entering her memories. She jumped to her feet.

"Noroi?" She called. The younger usually slept in their room-so Kari could keep an eye on her. She was no-where to be seen.

"Noroi!" Kari called the younger's name again. No answer. 'This was bad! We were to start a new life here. They can't have found us...' Kari rushed out the door, only to find Noroi, eyes cloaking the terror she must have felt, a huge looking man towering over her. If Kari listened, she could hear Noroi's whimpering. She grabbed her whip, but to her surprise, a young looking man with bright blonde hair pushed Noroi behind him, as he made venom-like eyes at the taller male.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing- picking on a child like this? Huh?!" The man asked, his sword pointed up at him, eyes flashing. Kari ran to Noroi and the man, hand on her whip.

"We must get out of here!" Kari wailed, gripping the hand of Noroi, and dragging the man by the arm.

"whoa. Wh-ait. Hold-ow!" The man cried as Kari let go of his arm.

"ahaha. I'm Saventh. Who are you?" Saventh introduced himself.

"Um..I'm Kari and this is Noroi." Noroi waved shyly, as Kari grinned at him.

"Cool! Are you all joining a guide?" Saventh asked them.

"A...oh! That's right. For the labyrinth? Sure. Sounds like fun." Kari said. 'maybe we'll lose their trail that way...'

"Awesome! Tell you what. I'll join. My buddy will-wait, where did he go?" Saventh looked around for his apparent friend while Kari and Noroi both sweat-dropped.

"WHERE WERE YOU YOU MORON?! I OUTTA BLAST YOU-!" " Oh, there he is." Saventh said as a medic came barreling into him, yelling, as he prodded Saventh's chest with his index finger, totally ignoring Kari and Noroi.

" I turn by back for a second! To look at the clinic! And where are you?! WHO KNOWS, BECAUSE YOU WERE GONE! VANISHED! POOF! How many times must I tell you! STOP DISAPPEARING!" The medic roared, as Saventh pleaded with him to stop yelling, but the medic only pushed his orange hair out of his eyes, before continuing his tirade, until Noroi sighed and walked up to him, tapping his shoulder.

"huh? Oh, hey. Do you need a medic? I can finish this later." the medic nearly seemed like a different person. It was sort of creepy to be honest.

"No. We are to create a guild, and your acquaintance was going to join." Kari explained shortly.

"Oh, i see. So you found us a guild, Saveth? Well, the explorer's guide is this way. Oh, and welcome to Etria. My name is Kenko." Kenko introduced himself.

"Hm? I haven't seen you before. If you've come to explore the Labyrinth, then welcome to the Explorers Guild." A rough looking man introduced himself.

"Since you're new here, I'd like to set you up with a veteran group... but not many guilds are recruiting." The man continued.

"Shortsighted treasure hunters care too much about petty trifles to do any real investigation." The man said, sighing.

"In any case, if you've got the guts, you could make a guild entirely made up of newcomers." The man STILL wasn't done.

"There are loads of people just sitting around twiddling their thumbs, eager to join any guild that would take 'em." He finished, gesturing toward Saventh and Kenko who both nodded in agreement.

Kari stepped up "I shall make a guild." She said, voice firm.

"Great, let's get started. Write down what you would like your guild to be named here in this ledger." The man states, handing Kari a piece of parchment.

"This name may someday be known throughout the world, so think carefully before committing to it." Th man warns.

"Hm..." Kari thinks, before writing down a name, looking pleased. The guild-master took a peek at the name.

"Wrath, huh. Not a bad name." Kari grinned proudly at the compliment.

"Now that you've got a guild, try getting some adventurers to fill your ranks." The man advises.

"Having more adventurers gives you more options, and less of a chance of dying down there." Kari shivered. 'you can die down there?! What have I got Noroi and myself into?'

"Give it some thought, and make sure you recruit a variety of classes into your guild." 'That's right, Noroi was a hexer, and I'm a Dark hunter...Saventh is a protector by the looks of him, and it was obvious that Kenko was a medic.' Kari thought to herself.

"Let's see...I guess five is a good number. That's not too many and not too few." The man almost says to himself.

After Kari finished registering the four of them, the man told them to go to Radha hall-they couldn't explore the labyrinth until they mapped the first floor, so he said.

On their way there, though they bumped into two mean looking dark hunters picking on a smaller Alchemist, who seemed to be pointedly ignoring them.

"Arther! Yui! Leave the kid ALONE!" Saventh roared at them, rolling his eyes as they both fled.

"Hey, kid. You alright?" Saventh asked, a loopy grin on his face. The Alchemist nodded, unfazed.

"It was admirable how you took that without a word. What's your name?" Kari asked.

"Yoso." The Alchemist replied shortly, totally stoic.

"Ah. Would you like to join our guild, Yoso?" Yoso seemed mildly shocked for a matter of three seconds, before his face was blank again.

"As you wish." the blonde Alchemist nodded. 'short of words, I see. He'll warm up on his own time, just like Noroi did. Maybe it's the class he's in, or something happened. Oh well, i'll find out soon enough.' People that went cold at such an early age, Yoso was around sixteen, always intrigued her. (Or people like Saventh, what acted two at twenty, which was his age.)

'It seems that I've gotten little Noroi and myself into something big, hopefully out new friends will pull though for us...heh. This will be interesting...' Kari thought, a smirk slowly growing on her face.

'most certainly...interesting.'

End of first chapter.