Authors Note: This note is going to be pretty long, but it is the first chapter, so (hopefully) they will be of some reasonable size after this one.

I get that this is (kind of) a weird crossover, I mean, the idea of link in the party belonging to satou kazuma is a bit ridiculous, but if you think about it, link would fit quite well into the word of adventurers that konosuba is. If kazuma had a reliably strong warrior on his team, I assume that they would go quite far.

But, I will be changing up link's personality, in a way that will be explained in the story, for instance, he will know how to talk now (lol) and he will have something of a split personality (once again, it will be explained later) in order to make things more interesting.

Now, I also want to get this out of the way now. Link will be described the way he is on the cover of 'The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild.' I personally find this to be the coolest looking link, so I chose this link. I know that he is older in botw, but in my story he will be about 14 years old, in order to fit into kazuma's party better.

Link will be joining kazuma's party in the time period early on in the canon where kazuma put the poster up in the adventurers guild saying that he was recruiting. BUT I will (unless you want differently) be skipping most events from the canon, as you all know them. I will probably include major things such as the fight with the dullahan and the mobile fortress, but, of course, they will be different because of the knock-on effects of link being introduced in the start.

This story will be written from the point of view of different characters, but I will make it obvious when the perspective changes.

As this is a konosuba story, I will assume that you have watched the anime/read the manga/light novels (personally, i have not yet read the light novels, but I want to as soon as possible) so if I mention an event I skipped in passing, you should know what I mean.

I also hope to upload a new chapter once every week, but I don't know how that will turn out, so it might become once every two weeks (and then the chapters will be longer).

One last thing, I have not written a story in a while, so in a few chapters I hope to improve my writing skills, so bear with me until then.

Now, I hope you enjoy my first story on this site!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own the name Konosuba, it's world, or the characters who inhabit it. Everything belongs to Natsume Akatsuki, except from link, who belongs to nintendo.

Part 1 (Haruo):

No. There was definitely not a more badass way to blackout. I shivered, and thought about it again. Maybe if it had been a bear instead of a… nah, I deserved the record. Seeing as I was now conscious, I guessed I was either in my bed at home, or a hospital. It seemed pretty cold for a hospital… Not only that, but I was sitting up. In a comfy chair. Nothing like a hospital. It was still really cold. I assumed that once I had blacked out, my parents took me home, unconscious, and put me in my desk chair? I considered getting up and turning the heating on. Nah, it was still pretty relaxing, even if it was chilly. In this windy, echoing bedroom. Well, it was somebody else's problem. It didn't concern me. I would just go back to sleep...

'Excuse me Haruo…'

I opened my eyes halfway.

'Hm?'

Wow, it was foggy. I didn't think my bedroom had ever been this foggy before. Reflecting on this, I started thinking that maybe I wasn't making a lot of sense. Hm.

'I apologise, but I need you to wake up, I have other deceased that I need to guide.'

That voice was annoying. Strange choice of words too. I opened my eyes fully, and saw two chairs and a girl. One of the chairs was the one that I was sitting on, and the other had the girl on top. This girl sighed, and proceed to begin talking:

'I am very sorry to inform you that you very recently passed away attempting to protect a child from a dog attack-'

'-How did anybody let that rottweiler kill me!?'

First looking annoyed at my interruption, then amused, she said:

'It was a chihuahua, and-'

'-Ah, well-'

'-Can you let me finish!?'

I shut up. Noticing my silence, she continued talking.

'Seeing as you are dead, and you are so young, I would normally offer you three choices: to be sent to whichever afterlife you believe in, to have your memory wiped and be reborn on earth as a baby, or to be sent, as you are, with all of your memories intact, to a parallel world, in order to help defeat the demon forces that are plaguing it. The latter, because of several circumstances, will be impossible for you. There is a workaround though, so if you choose to do that, I will explain it to you.'

She looked at me expectantly. I looked at her blankly. Part of me knew that I was supposed to choose an option. But my brain was out of commision, because the half of it that was working was shouting at the other half to wake up, so I just continued to stare. I registered that her blue eyes were beginning to look pretty angry. She looked like she was about to go over the edge, but then I managed to finally respond.

'That last option sounds pretty interesting…'

'Sigh'

The blue haired woman put her hands to her mouth and yelled.

'You can come in!'

I looked to the right. A third chair had appeared next to mine, with a figure in front. Wow. He looked pretty tough. He had long blond hair, some of which was coming down in front of his ears, and the rest was tied back in a loose ponytail. He was wearing a light blue short sleeve t-shirt, which was longer than normal, going down to ten inches below his waist, and had a cut going up on each side from the bottom, probably to aid mobility. He had some simple brown trousers, which looked light, but tough, going down to his adventurers' boots. Before he sat down, he took a dark blue shield off of a hook on the back of his shirt, and leaned it on the side of his chair. It had an intricate design on it, and in the middle was a Triangle, with a single, inverted triangle in the centre. After the shield came a sword in a dark blue sheath, and along the metal rim of the sheath, I could make out the words: 'The Sword that Seals the Darkness.' Next came a Bow and a sheath of blue and white feathered arrows. The figure sat down.

The annoying blue-eyed woman spoke, drawing my attention back to her.

'Now that we are all here, please let me explain your situations.'

'Haruo, you are unable to travel to the next world, for several reasons, which I will not care to explain, as they are of lesser importance. What is important however, is that, like i said before, there is a workaround. I have explained your situation to link here,' she gestured to the boy sitting next to me 'And Link agrees that would both benefit from sharing a body, his body. I will combine your minds-'

'-sounds violent, and like some bad opening line for a magic show,' I interrupted bluntly. The boy, Link, sighed beside me, annoyed, but said nothing. 'And you don't talk much, do you?' I addressed him. That annoying woman answered me. Did she ever stop talking?

'That is one of the things that Link will benefit from if I join your minds, because since birth, he has been quite reluctant to talk, and, obviously, you talk too much, so I'm hoping he will balance you out into a normal person,-'

'-Hey, i am-!'

'-What is the item that you would like to bring with you?'

I thought about it for a second, a bag that could fit an infinite number of things in it, but never get bigger or heavier would have been cool. In fact, I had always answered with that if someone asked me one of those stupid 'If you could have any one thing,' questions. Then I realised.

'Don't change the subject!'

The stupid blue-haired woman looked at me critically for a second. She sighed (why was everybody sighing at me so much?) and said:

'Look, I don't even know why I am asking you; Link has already told me, and it's not like you have a choice anyway. Just get going.'

She clicked her fingers and my vision went black.

And my mind exploded.

Part 2 (Link):

It was agony, but I couldn't scream. My mind was being invaded, thoughts, feelings and memories that didn't belong to me were being forced into my head. After what could have been seconds or hours passed, before I wished to die. Then the pain stopped.

I was sitting up again, with my eyes closed. My head was full of memories that didn't belong to me, but also seemed very familiar. I could remember picking up the tablet that hung by my waist in an ancient shrine, but also a similar device called an *pad. I assumed that Haruo's and Link's minds have been combined. In order to avoid referring to myself in third person, I would call myself Link. Haruo could be my family name. I sat still, with my eyes closed, for a bit longer, attempting to take in my surroundings with my other senses. The air was damp, so I guessed either I was in an equatorial or mediterranean region. Probably the latter, as it was not that hot. I could hear heavy breathing and braying to my right, and I could feel that the chair I was sitting in was made of wood. I was in a horse-drawn carriage. Probably I had been teleported by that goddess... Wait. Goddess? I was somehow surprised by this information. But no. She told me that herself before the haruo part of me arrived...

'Sir?'

I finally opened my eyes to realise that I was correct in my assumptions. The driver, the one who had addressed me, realised that I had awoken, and proceed to speak.

'We would be coming into Axel- the town of beginner adventurers, in about an hour, but there is going to be a delay, as we have just received word that a group of thieves have hijacked the previous caravan that passed this road..'

'How long is it going to be before we can get going again?' I asked.

'I apologise, but it looks like we are going to have to spend the night here, sir'

I thought about this. I was not as if I was in a big hurry, but if I could deal with them myself, I could speed things up, not only for me, but for the caravan as well. Not only that, but it would be a good chance to test whatever strengths I had acquired from switching worlds, and gaining a second mind. I jumped out of the back of the back of the carriage, and walked round to the front and addressed the driver.

'Don't worry about it, I will continue on foot. In what direction is the city, and where is the bandit camp?'

'Axel is in that direction,' He pointed to what I assumed to be east, If the sun was the same in this world, 'but it is not advisable to go alone sir,'

'I will be fine, thank you for your help,'

The man at the reins looked worried at my answer, but nodded.

As I walked off, something foreign bumped against my waist. Looking down, I saw an unfamiliar black pouch. Reaching inside, I found a dark blue hood with a half-cape coming off of it. The hood looked far to big to have fit in the small pouch, and I recalled thinking about a bottomless bag when the goddess asked me about an item that I had wanted to bring with me into this world. It would be invaluable.

I reached the bandit camp at dusk, and I creeped up behind one of their carriages, attempting to observe before I attacked, in order to formulate a plan, but as I made contact with my hiding place, I heard a footstep behind me.

'Don't move and I won't hurt you.'

Damn. I was careless. Natural instinct kicked in, and I ducked the blade that had been swung at me from behind.

'Won't hurt me my ass,' I responded.

I attempted to draw the sword still sheathed on my back. But, on touching the hilt, a jab of pain traveled up my arm, and I winced. My opponent growled as he shifted his swords' trajectory downward. To block the blade now coming at me from above, my left arm retrieved the shield stowed on the hook on by back. It stopped his sword dead, and didn't take even a scratch in return.

The impact must have jolted my opponent, as he didn't show much resistance as my right arm shot out from under the shield, grabbed a stone, and hit him in the head with it, knocking him out.

Half of my mind must have been still getting used to it's new body, because normally, I would have noticed him before. My enemy's' lack of consciousness would not last long however, so I would have to get going.

The camp was large, with eight carriages positioned around a central bonfire, in a circular formation. Around the fire was a mass of people, about twenty.

I snuck around the edge of the camp until I was on the opposite side of where I had that, short, silent struggle with the bandit. There, I paused outside one of the carriages, listening for any life inside. After a minute, I came to the conclusion that it was safe, and entered.

Inside, it became apparent that this caravan had not been transporting passengers, but goods, as where there would generally be seats, I could see giant mounds of something, covered by a waterproof canvas, in the light from the bandits' bonfire. I moved over to the smallest of these, lifted up the corner of the canvas, and barely had the time to gasp before I heard chanting outside:

'Wielder of the most glorious, powerful, and grand explosion magic,

My name is Megumin!

The blow that I am given to strike turns a blind eye to the fate of my kindred,

rendering all hope of rebirth and ahhhhhh-'

'-Shut up!'

When I heard the chant beginning, I had frozen for a few seconds, mesmerized, amazed that one person could be so stupid. When had come to my senses, I had swiftly jumped down from the carriage, moved over to the idiot who was shouting, clamped my hand over her mouth, and forced her behind cover. I then froze, and listened. Apart from the 'Hmmmmm-'ing from the girl I had silenced, I heard nothing out of the ordinary, it seemed that we had not been noticed. Somehow.

I turned to the girl.

She about my age, maybe a bit younger, and her black hair came down the side of her face, but stopped at her chin. Her hair was short at the back as well, except for some near her ears, which was draped over her shoulders on each side. She held a staff with a strange blue orb in her left hand, which had earlier been red. Her startling red eyes looked annoyed if I were to be a little optimistic. I whispered to her.

'I'm going to take my hand away now, and you are going to tell me your name, why you are here, and what you were trying to accomplish just there. If you don't whisper, we will be found.'

She still looked annoyed, but nodded her understanding. I took my hand off of her mouth, and helped her into a sitting position. She started:

'My name is Megumin!... Too loud?' she asked, as I glared at her.

I nodded. She started again, actually whispering this time.

'My name is Megumin, the genius of the crimson demon clan, and master of advanced magic! The guild assigned me a mission to retrieve the goods that these thieves have stolen! Before you stopped me, I was about to blow these worthless bandits away!'

She looked way too excited.

'How did you plan to do that if you had just announced your presence to the entire camp!?'

She looked at me as though she was happy that I had asked.

'Baka. I would have blown them away with the greatest of all spells the crimson demons possess- Explosion!'

'I was under the impression that you needed these goods intact to complete your assignment.'

Her excited look faded as I pointed this out.

'Ah.'

Now she looked downright depressed. Somehow, part of me felt bad. I told her:

'We might be able to take them out if we think things through further, and we work together.'

'How do you expect to to that?'

She completely shut me down after my show of optimism. Megumin continued:

'As you pointed out, we would have to have a force of people, at least enough to take these bandits on one on one, because techniques that utilize an area of effect, like my explosion, will risk damage to the goods. The only other option would be to move the enemy away from the carriages, so we can use my explosion. And we cannot make a distraction big enough for them to throw away caution and leave the carriages unguarded: the leader would probably not send a group of more than five men to investigate. We are out of options, we should go back to axel and request backup.'

I stared at her. I had misjudged her. When she had introduced herself, she came off as an over-excited chuunibyou. But she had just perfectly summed up our situation. She was definitely much more intelligent than she appeared at first glance.

'While I am not denying your points, we may not be completely out of options, there may be a way to win with just the two of us.'

'How?' Megumin immediately questioned.

'I need some time to think about it.'

There was silence between us for a few minutes. Megumin broke it.

'So how long-'

'Just shut up for a second, kay?'

I started as a brainwave hit me.

'What happened?' Megumin asked.

'How big is your explosion spell?' I questioned

Megumin, once again, looked happy that I asked.

'About 150 metres of complete destruction from whichever point I center it over! Why? Do you have a plan?'

Oh no. She was getting excited again.

'Maybe, but it needs to take place when they move out, so let's wait until morning.'

Megumin agreed, and we snuck away. A silence fell between us as we searched for a place to spend the night.

When we had found somewhere, a decently-sized cave (I know, cliche right?), we sat down and I turned to my new friend. As we had been searching, she took to an enthusiastic mood.

'When the caravan moves out in the morning, I am going to need you to stow away in the first in the convoy.'

Megumin nodded.

'Don't worry, I will never be found, I will complete this mission, claim the reward, and finally buy some food!'

Why was she getting so excited at that prospect? I proceeded to answer her.

'Well, the thing is, I need you to be caught.'

Part 3 (Megumin):

The Jolt of the cart woke me up. I shouldn't be falling asleep now, that boy, who had introduced himself as Link, would need for the plan. After finding, and hiding, in a cave last night, he had explained his plan to me. It was quite a good one, to be fair, and it at least had a chance of working. But how long had I been asleep? Not long, as the light still held the dark orange of the sun at dawn, instead of the bright yellow of day. But it was Link's fault that I had fallen asleep anyway; he had woken me up early, insisting that I had to stow away in the first carriage of the convoy before the thieves woke up. Link was hiding in the last cart.

The bandits were traveling in the way that Link had predicted they would: In a standard line, one after the other, with one difference. For defensive purposes, the carts were travelling at about two-hundred metres between each one, instead of the normal 30-50. This way, AoE attacks would be much less devastating, and they would still be able to mobilize quickly if there were any threats. But, this time, that would work in our favour.

It was probably about time to get caught.

I pushed the trapdoor that was above me up a little, and it was immediately pulled open by a force on the other side. Hands picked me up, pushed me into the ground, and held a knife to my throat.

'What are you doing here!?' A man's voice shouted.

Damn, he was loud. The whole caravan probably heard him. Perfect.

As my eyes focused, I could see that in this cart, there were four men, all guards by the look of them. Now, for the first, and riskiest, step. In the cave, Link had stressed out that I need not do this, that my life was worth far more than whatever these thieves had stolen. But I assured him that I wanted to go through with it anyway, and teased him about caring so much.

'I'm sorry!' I said, pretending to cry, 'I just wanted a lift to the next town, to see my parents, but I have no money! I didn't realise you would care so much! I'll leave now, just don't hurt me!' I sobbed. Maybe I was overdoing it… The man seemed to be caught up in a moment of indecision.

'It is true that transport costs too much. We can take you to the next town, but only that far!'

Phew. He bought it. The guard continued:

'But I will have to have you guarded.'

He took his knife away from my throat and looked at one of the other men in the cabin.

'Bring her to the boss. She can be held in his cabin.'

The caravan stopped as we got out, and I could feel the stares of many people as we walked down two carts. This was good. Everything was going according to plan, in the best way possible. I climbed into the cart where I assumed the boss was. This cabin had windows, and was obviously built to carry passengers instead of goods.

'What do we have here?'

The only man in the cabin, who I could safely guess was the boss of the operation, was about 50, and had a voice that was disgusting and, for want of a better word, evil. It made my bones shiver, and I almost recoiled as he grabbed my arm and forced me down on the bench close to him. Too close to him.

'What is a pretty girl like you doing here?' He asked, seemingly feigning kindness.

It didn't sound kind. I wanted to hit this disgusting man and run. But I had to play the part.

'Thank you for letting me stay, I just want to get to the next town to see my parents again.'

'Now that won't be a problem will it?' The man draweld in that creepy, horrible voice.

I forced myself to answer.

'Thank you.'

The convoy continued moving. FIve minutes had passed before it stopped again. Another person stepped into the carriage and said:

'Cart 8 has stopped moving sir,'

So Link had succeeded!

'The horse is gone and everything sir.'

The boss replied with exactly what I wanted to hear.

'Send six men of your choice to investigate.'

The boss grabbed my wrist, pulled me up, and dragged me out of the carriage to watch. Up and down the convoy, people from the other carts were doing the same. As expected, even people such as these would have been curious about a driver, guards, and horse mysteriously disappearing from a carriage.

So far, everything was going according to plan. Link and I had successfully drawn everybody out of their carriages. I had served as a distraction while Link took care of the people in the last cart, loaded as many of the more valuable things as he could into this cool bag he had, stolen the horse and ridden away. He must now be hiding somewhere nearby.

After a few minutes, I spotted the six chosen men approaching the carriage cautiously. They moved around it for a bit, then took a look inside. When they came out, one of them held his arms up in confusion, signifying that they had found nothing. The boss, still painfully grasping my wrist, gestured for them to return.

They had only taken one or two steps before the cart exploded.

Part 4 (Link):

(a/n: part 4 takes place at the same time as part 3, it is just from Link's point of view).

I bid farewell to Megumin as I closed the trapdoor above her.

'See you later.' I whispered.

'Yeah,' She yawned.

I looked at her worriedly. She had already said that she was not going to fall asleep. But I was still quite sure that she was going to. Nothing I said was really going to change that. I sighed as the trap door closed with a quiet thud.

I snuck out of the cart, and moved around the outside of the circle to the next carriage. This one would be the last of the convoy. But, unlike I had told Megumin to do, I crawled under the carriage. Last night, when I had investigated this carriage, I had found a horizontal board, with a spare wheel resting on it, underneath. If I removed the wheel, which I now did, there would be the perfect amount of space for someone of my size to stowaway. I stored the wheel I had removed underneath the trap door inside. While there, I found a double edged sword. About three feet long, it would serve until I managed to draw the sword still sheathed on my back, as last time I had been unable to. I dropped the fancy sword into my bottomless pouch, and replaced it with the common broadsword that I had found. I proceeded to go to my hiding place.

About half an hour later, I heard a faint voice shouting from the front of the caravan. A normal person would have been unable to hear it, but I had trained my senses, so I did. It said:

'What are you doing here!?'

I smiled to myself. Perfect, Megumin had been caught. Now. Phase 2.

In one fluid motion, I swung out of my hiding place, around the back of the cart, and jumped in. There was only one guard in this cart, and I silenced him before he could shout by hitting him with the hilt of my new sword, which was still sheathed. I bound him and gagged him.

I proceeded to look around the cart, preparing to store as many of the goods as possible in my bottomless pouch. Despite its name, I found that it was not, in fact endless, and had the storage capacity of about three large suitcases. Luckily though, I was able to fit most of the stolen items in, as this last cart was not full.

Time for phase 3. I reached into my pouch, and pulled out several sticks of dynamite.

Yesterday, when I was investigating the carts, (just before I met Megumin) I had been surprised to find that the cart that I had decided to look in, was full of weaponry. Under the specific canvas cover that I had lifted, was a box full of explosives. When you think about it, it made sense: it explains why the city was taking so long to send men in to retrieve the goods. With the level of power that these criminals were wielding, they would need strong warriors, and a good plan, in order to succeed.

Too bad for them that we would beat them to it.

Thinking that it may come in useful, I had put a handful of dynamite in my pouch.

I was right to do so.

I planted the explosives now, under the trapdoor that I assumed all of the carriages have. I led the fuse through a crack in the side of the trap door. Underneath, there was at least ten minutes worth of fuse wire. I lit it.

I snuck through the front of the cart, and knocked out the driver from behind. I strapped him and the guards' now-unconscious bodies to the horse, cut the ropes binding the horse to the cart, jumped on, and rode away.

In the commotion that Megumin was causing, no-one saw me leave.

Part 5 (Megumin):

They had only taken one or two steps before the cart exploded.

The boss, as creepy as he was, seemed to be an half-good leader. Which was okay, as our plan counted on that. He yelled at the person next to him:

'Stay with her, and don't let her leave this spot! The rest of you come with me and we will find the person responsible!'

They ran toward the wreckage of the now flaming wagon. They all started searching around it.

My guard looked at me.

'Now that my friends are over there, what say we have a little fun?' he asked, and started approaching me.

He was somehow creepier than his boss. I responded.

'I really don't want to, sir...'

'And what are you going to do about it?'

I smiled at him sweetly.

'Absolutely nothing.'

A wet thunking noise was audible, and the man keeled over, with a white and blue feathered arrow in the side of his head.

I looked away, disgusted, to see Link running toward me, with his left hand storing a silver-colored bow on his back. I shouted to him.

'I thought you weren't going to kill him!'

'I wasn't, but then I heard what he was saying. He didn't deserve to live.'

It was true.

'Thanks.'

'No problem.'

He had reached my side. He questioned.

'Are you going to do this?'

I am. If I limit the power, they shouldn't die.

The circumstances were perfect: the majority of the enemies were in one place: the flaming wreckage of the cart that Link blew up. Which was emptied of valuables beforehand. Not only that, but it now a good three-hundred and fifty metres from the next cart in the line. I smiled and began:

'Darkness blacker than black, and darker than dark,'

Link watched in awe as blue light seeped from everything in the surrounding area, and flowed into my staff.

'I beseech thee, combine with my deep crimson,

The time of awakening cometh,

Justice, fallen upon this infallible boundary,'

Giant, flaming, orange rings appeared stacked in the sky above my target- the wreckage of the carriage that link blew up - where the bandits were grouped.

'Appear now as an intangible distortion,

This is the mightiest means of attack known to man:

The ultimate attack magic!'

The blue energy stopped flowing, and the orb on my staff turned red. There were now multicolor sparks appearing in the sky around Link and I. I grinned as I turned and saw his expression: One of pure awe and fear. I turned back toward my target.

'EXXPLOOOOSSION!'

Shockwaves brought Link to his knees as the sky in front of us lit up red. The reverberation shook our very bones. But then it stopped. Link got up shakily.

'Your plan worked,' I mumbled happily as I fell forward from mana exhaustion.

But I didn't fall far, as Link caught my on his back, apparently having stored his shield, sword and bow in that cool bag.

'Thanks.'

'No worries, but don't you think you went a bit overboard?.'

'Sorry, I got caught up in the moment.'

Behind us were two carts full of goods.

In front, there were four carts full of goods.

Beyond that however, there was nothing but a crater.

Part 6 (Link):

After that, I had sat Megumin up against a rock, and we had sat there. My plan worked perfectly, but I had never thought of a way to return the carts to the city. There were seven left, and no horse would be able to drag that weight along. So we waited. Eventually, around midday, a small army charged into the area, and I had to explain to them what had happened. They had a hard time believing it, but eventually they had accepted it, and offered us transport home.

I now jumped off the cart, with Megumin still on my back, and asked:

'Where to?'

'Well, we should probably pick up the reward from the guild. Then we can eat.'

Once again, I wondered why that made her so excited. I started walking. I had only taken a few steps before I realised something.

'Erm… I don't actually know where this guild is…'

'WHAT?!'

Did I offend her? She calmed down a bit. But not much.

'You aren't registered with the adventurers guild!?'

'Erm… no…'

She didn't look angry. Just astounded.

'But… you fight with a sword and shield… you made that plan…'

She trailed off. Then looked determined.

'Right. We now have another reason to go to the guild.'

She jumped off of my back and tried to march off. Apparently, she had forgotten that she couldn't move, as she swiftly fell over again.

'Do you need some help?'

'Please.'

At the guild

'Well Megumin, this is a pleasant surprise! I honestly didn't expect you to succeed in your quest! You are entitled to how much? Eight-hundred thousand eris was it?'

'Yes, the guild owes me 800,000 eris. And I don't know why you doubted me Luna, as I am the strongest mage in the city.' Megumin replied from my back.

I chuckled. Megumin had no modesty. She also didn't appreciate my laugh.

'What's so funny?' She asked into my ear.

'Whos this?' The receptionist, apparently named Luna, asked. 'A team member?'

Somebody in the bar behind us overheard.

'WHAT? THE CRAZY EXPLODING GIRL HAS A TEAMMATE!?'

The entire bar begun shouting incredulously.

I started laughing and replied to them all.

'I think that I am only an acquaintance in arms, but I would be happy to join a team with her.'

Megumin also shouted from my back.

'Of course he is a team member! He doesn't know what he is talking about!'

I continued laughing

After a few minutes, the clamour died down. Megumin and I claimed our money, and split it between us. Then we sat down, and megumin ordered about fifty- thousand eris worth of food. I asked the question that had been on my mind for a while.

'Why are you so excited about food?'

'I haven't eaten in two days.'

My eyes widened as I stared at her. She couldn't' be more than fourteen years old, and even that seemed to be pushing things. I gave her a questioning look, but she turned her attention back to her food, and didn't notice. But then she looked to the side and addressed someone who was standing next to our table, who I had not noticed in my surprise.

'Do you need something?'

The person was actually two. One was a boy probably a little older than me, wearing a green tracksuit. He had brown, messed up hair, and green eyes. Next to him, stood a girl who looked also about my age, maybe a bit older, who had blue hair, blue eyes, and an annoying face. It was a beautiful face, sure, but it annoying because I recognised her.

'Aqua?'

The boy seemed surprised.

'You know her?' He asked me.

'I'll explain later Kazuma! Now ask what you wanted to ask!' Aqua interrupted.

'Oh right…' The boy, Kazuma, said. 'Erm, earlier, I overheard that you guys had recently formed a party. Well, so have we, so I wanted to know whether you two would want to join mine…'

Authors note: Well, there was the first chapter. I hope you enjoyed it! Like I said before, I will hopefully get better at, well, english the more I write... I have already said pretty much everything I wanted to say in that essay earlier so…. See you when I have finished the next chapter. :)