(A/N): A desire to write a video game story was sparked years ago when I first played .Hack on the PS2. Then years later I watched Sword Art Online and felt the same desire. After reading the SAO light novels I finally had come up with an idea for one, thus this fic.

Chapter 1

ALfheim Online

Sitting on a rock looking over the fields of Aincrad's 82nd floor sat a Cait Sith. Her straw colored hair was cut short with her cat ears sticking out of her mop of hair. Bright yellow orbs looked over the area to see what was going on around the girl. A common enough high grade leather chestpiece, with a light brown shirt underneath, covered the girl's torso. Hanging on the side of her leather armor pants was a rare dagger called Fenrir's Fang. Swishing back and forth against the stone the girl was sitting on was her tail, the same color as her hair. Perched on her shoulder was the Cait Sith girl's monster, it looked like a dragon with its four legs and wings on its back, however it was covered in feathers rather than scales. It was a monster that was found near the 39th floor simply called Feathered Dragon, these monsters came in different colors but possessed most of the same abilities. When she had tamed the little monster she had given it the name Masir and it had stuck with her for more than 43 floors.

Aincrad's 82nd floor was a small flat prairie with little to obstruct the view. That wasn't to say there was no place to hide. There were rocks and the tall grass could easily conceal a player if they laid down. Most of the monsters on the floor were tall and stuck out in the open field letting players see them coming. This floor wasn't without its dangers though, while the majority were out in the open and easily found, the floor's strongest monsters were small enough to hid in the grass and take unwary players by surprise if they didn't have a high enough Searching skill.

"Ciro when's your sister going to be done? I'm bored here and I want to go flying." Flying, the power that was still drawing people to ALfheim Online after all these years. New players had to use a one handed controller to fly at first before they got use to the feeling of their wings. With enough practice a player could imagine their wings and the muscles that went with them, once able to do this they could master what was referred to as voluntary flight.

As she complained the girl stood up and approached the Pooka she was talking to. This Pooka was dressed in green cloth armor, the pant legs had music notes going across them down near his boots. His light blonde hair looked like someone had recently his hair, of course no one had actually done this, it was just the hairstyle he was given upon creating his character and he saw no need to change it. In the Pooka's hand was a harp, Siren's Wail, a good weapon for a character who used music as a way to cast magic. Made in the standard U-shape of most harps in the game, Siren's Wail was made of metal that molded into the shape of wings. Green was the main color of the harp with the tips of the wings were black. Since a harp wasn't exactly something people used as a weapon, they had the second ability to cause music notes appear that would fly out and hit the target.

"Settle down Iris," Ciro told her in a caring tone that spoke of their familiarity with one another. "Ceres will be done soon enough and then we'll fly back down to the 35th floor."

The last member of the group's party was a Salamander who was off fighting a group of three Obsidian Giants, which as their name suggested were really tall humanoid creatures that were as black as the stone they were named after. Each giant had a wooden club with a nail stuck in the end held in their hands. Crimson armor covered the Salamander's body, an ornate chestplate protected her biggest weak points. She had chosen a simple black skirt saying that she rather the freedom of movement it brought over the protection armored leggings could give her. Still, she wasn't a fool and wore knee high plated boots to offer a higher armor rating. Light red hair that bordered on being called pink hung halfway down her back. In her right hand she held an English style longsword called Radiant Edge that she had obtained on the last floor from the boss that respawned every few days. Most of the blade was white but around the edges and a tiny line down the middle were gold. A round red shield covered her left arm offering the swordswoman not only more protection but another means of attack. In this group she was the tank and trained herself to be able to take on multiple opponents alone.

Jumping backwards Ceres narrowly avoided the nail of the giant's hammer, her red wings fluttered giving her the extra push she needed to avoid the attack. Charging forward Ceres slashed at the monster's kneecap causing it to kneel down. Raising her shield she was able to stop the fist of another giant cold. Even with her high shield skill some of her hit points vanished from the strength of the attack. Already she had been down in the yellow, below half of her total HP. Ignoring the giant that had attacked her Ceres spun around and slashed again at the kneeling Obsidian Giant's back,taking away the last of its HP, turning it into nothing more than blue polygons as it died.

With two of the monsters left and about half of her HP remaining Ceres moved away from the giants. Once she put enough distance between them she pointed her blade at the giant that had just attacked her. Ceres wasn't one to rely simply on her Sword Skills to get her through a battle, she had trained her fire magic skill up in order to deal with foes at distance. Chanting a quick single strike spell that consisted of only three words, she launched a fireball off the tip of her sword. Expected from a spell that was quick to cast, the damage it inflicted wasn't the greatest against a monster that was on the 82nd floor. Ceres hadn't cast the spell for to inflict damage but rather the impact that came with it, causing the giant to stagger backwards. Red wings sprung to life as Ceres jumped towards the giant still suffering from the effects of the blast. Flying up at a slight angle she brought her sword across the giant's neck severing its head from the body before it too turned into blue polygons and died.

Now only one Obsidian Giant remained for Ceres to deal with. While the other two had been weakened over the course of the battle Ceres hadn't gotten a single hit on the third one so it's blue HP bar, floating near its head, was completely full. Taking a ready stance Ceres stared at her last foe waiting to see what it was going to do. If this was a player she was facing they might be intimidated by the fact she had just taken out two of his allies single handedly. Sadly the intelligence of monsters didn't extend this far, most of them had no desire for self-preservation and would keep attacking until they were either defeated or the player got far enough away from them. In keeping with this theme, the last Obsidian Giant let out a roar that seemed like a cry for its fallen brethren and ran straight for Ceres. Having faced a good number of this specific monster Ceres had expected the charge attack to come. As the giant swung its club down to squash her she rolled out of its path and towards the giant. As she came up her sword glowed red with the trigger of a Sword Skill, Rolling Strike, a move that was meant to be used at the end of a dodge roll. The red trail of the blade came up and sliced along the giant's leg up to the middle of its stomach, 30% of the giant's HP vanished due to the attack.

After using a skill there was a small amount of time where the player couldn't do anything so Ceres had to kneel near the giant waiting for this negative effect to wear off. Her plan had been to get in close and use a skill that would not only cause a good amount of damage but would may also cause a staggering effect. As luck would have it, the secondary stun effect of Rolling Strike didn't trigger leaving the giant with ample time to strike back at Ceres. Seeing the monster's club coming from her right Ceres braced for the attack, while in a game she wouldn't truly feel the attack, there would still be a numbing feeling afterwards. However the sounds of a harp playing reached her ears and the giant's club stopped dangerously close to her. Able to once again move Ceres stood up and held her sword in front of her, like she was praying to the blade. Not wanting to use another Sword Skill again Ceres slashed at the confused giant with all of her might, putting as much speed and strength into each attack that she could muster. It took a total of twelve strikes at the monster to reduce its HP to nothing.

"Damnit Ciro," Ceres cursed as the giant disappeared. "I told you to leave things to me this time."

"Like I could sit back and watch you die? I really rather not revive you when I can simply prevent your death, it's a lot cheaper." As one of the Pooka Ciro was able to play music that could disorient monsters, which was precisely what he had done to prevent his twin sister from getting clubbed to death.

Ceres held her sword tightly as she stared at her brother. In ALfheim Online players could attack each other in neutral zones such as the area the trio was currently in. At the moment Ceres was clearly debating whether or not to use this and take out her anger on her brother. It didn't take much to remove a person from the party, in a matter of seconds she could leave it and turn him into a Remain Light.

"Can we go now?" Iris questioned, stepping in between the two. "I need to empty my inventory soon or I won't be able to carry any more loot." The girl's obsession with treasure was great, so much so that her companions often wondered if she shouldn't have been a Spriggan instead, the masters of Illusion Magic and known treasure hunters. When asked why she had picked Cait Sith as her race Iris simply responded saying she liked having ears and a tail.

"Then go to town and sell or store your stuff," Ceres said angrily. "I'm staying here till I can defeat three Obsidian Giants ON MY OWN." Pointing her sword in Ciro's direction the Salamander emphasized the last three words making sure her point got across.

Shaking his head Ciro pulled up the purple tinted menu by putting his left index finger and middle finger together and slicing downward. He then unequipped his harp to show that he had no intentions of assisting his sister. "You heard her Iris, she's going to be stubborn and stay here to die fighting monsters she can't handle yet. We might as well head back to town and wait for her to revive." His menu still opened Ciro manipulated it and opened up his item bag. Calling up an item from his inventory, a small bottle with silver energy swirling around, he tossed it over to Ceres. "Holds the song I just used. Try not to die with it, takes a lot of effort to bottle a song." Pookas with high enough skills were able to bottle their performance to be used later. If Ceres uncorked the bottle music would flow forth as the silver energy trickled out.

"I'll try another two sets and if I don't finish them off I'll meet you back at the 35th floor's inn." Ceres placed the bottle in a pouch that dangled at her waist. That pouch contained a few sets of healing potions for quick use.

Four light green wings appeared on Ciro's back and he took to the skies. Iris looked back once at Ceres before a set of yellow wings appeared on her back and she took off after Ciro with her pet monster flying alongside her. All three players partied together quite constantly and had set up an unofficial guild base on the 35th floor. For Ceres and Ciro the reason they played together was somewhat obvious, being brother and sister, twins in fact, they often logged in at the same time. It had taken them a while to figure it out but after a few weeks of playing with Iris the twins found out that they had a real world connection with the girl, she was their younger cousin. The young Cait Sith hadn't even bothered to change her name upon entering the game and her personality didn't change like most people's while in the virtual world making it easier to recognize her.

While Ceres fought solo most of the time, joining a party mostly out of necessity, Ciro and Iris had a large friends list of people they enjoyed playing with. Whenever Ceres insisted on doing something stupid like challenging monsters above her skill level Ciro would feel obligated to go and make sure she didn't die and lose anything to the death penalty. Still, there were times like now where she was too stubborn to let her family help out and insisted on fighting alone. At these times Iris and Ciro would sit back and watch, keeping other monsters at bay so Ceres could accomplish her self-imposed mission.

Flying above the tall grass Ciro and Iris were easily able to avoid any monsters that may have been hiding for them if they had simply walked through the area. Iris, as a Cait Sith, had great eyesight and she had trained her Searching to better detect such monsters so even if they had decided to walk they would have been able to avoid the hidden enemies. Reaching the edge of the floor they were able to see the cloudy sky that surround the floating castle known as Aincrad. Clear blue sky with the sun just now starting to descend, greeted them as they left the castle behind. Looking down from the castle as they headed towards the 32nd floor they were able to catch sight of the vast surface world known as Alfheim. It was separated nine territories, one for each of the fairy races that existed in ALO.

The 35th floor was home to two notable locations. First was the floor's town, Mishe, a medieval European style place, with white buildings and red roofs. The streets are paved with stone, while oil lamps hang from supports and over doorways, and brick is used in some construction. What really made the floor well known was one of its dungeons, the Forest of Wandering. As one would expect of a forest, there were trees everywhere that helped hide the monsters. These hidden monsters weren't the main problem of the dungeon, no, the forest is a labyrinth. Laid out like a chess board there were segments of forest that teleported you to other parts of the forest, spend longer than a minute in one section and you'd be randomly teleported to another section. Teleportation spells and items would only move you to another square of forest rather than back to town. An expensive map was sold in Mishe, which checks what sections your current square is linked, it is the best way to navigate out of the dungeon.

Iris and Ciro were heading to the shopping district of Mishe to empty their inventory of unwanted items. To some, going all the way down to the 35th floor to sell items they had obtained from the 82nd made little sense. When you took into account that one of Ciro's many friends had set up shop on that floor it made all the sense in the world. Ciro's friend was an Imp that had recently taken to appraising items and was counting on his friends to bring him rare items so he could get his skill up faster than he would be able to alone. None of the items the two had collected while training with Ceres had been rare, but still some of them needed appraisal and the Imp was more than fine with taking the weapons and armor off of the their hands. Ciro and Iris would sell the Imp the item at the unappraised price, the Imp would then find out what hidden values the item had, then sell it at a higher price based on the attributes he had discovered.

Flying over the city Iris suddenly stopped and dropped down to one of the red roofs. Something had caught her eye while she had gone over an alleyway. A shimmer that meant a player was hiding themselves. In a neutral town like Mishe, and every other town in Aincrad, players couldn't attack each other randomly, you had to send a duel challenge to fight within city limits. This didn't mean that players couldn't cause each other problems in town. Get enough people and you could form a wall preventing someone from escaping unless they knew a teleportation spell or were willing to use an item. The amount of people able and willing to do those things were few. Iris looked at the glimmer, her Searching skill letting her see past the spell, and could only count four people, all of them Spriggans, just enough to block the alley itself. Any player the tried to ambush could simply take to the sky and be on their merry way.

"What is it Iris?" Ciro quietly asked as he landed next to her. While Ciro had ways to dispel the magic that was hiding the four players, he had no way of detecting them to begin with.

"There's four people hiding themselves and I can't figure out why." If any one of the four that were hidden looked up at the roof Iris was currently perched on they would know that they had been spotted. However, they were too interested in what they were doing to bother to look up. "Not enough for an ambush really but they seem focused on watching the alley."

"Maybe they plan to follow someone out into the field and then attack there." This was a common enough occurrence. Once players sold all their loot they felt safer and wouldn't be on the lookout for thugs and thieves. Walking through town they would attract the attention of players like the ones hiding who would then follow them out into the field. There the group of thugs would attack the player, kill him, and take the player's Yurudo. Not as great as player killing(PKing) for the items themselves but with the money they PKers earned from this they could afford to buy rare items.

"Let's lay a trap for them then," Iris grinned while her tail twitched back and forth with anticipation. "You know, follow after them while they follow after someone else. When they go to attack, we attack them!"

"We first need to get clear up some space in our inventory if we're going PKing," Ciro stated. It wasn't going to do them any good to kill other players if when all was said and done they had nothing to show for their efforts.

"True," Iris blinked as she remembered why she had come to Mishe in the first place. "Ah!" Iris pulled up her menu, "I'll move everything into the party inventory that I don't want and then you can go sell it." While in a party there was a section of the player's inventory that was considered the groups, anyone from the party could take from that section.

"If they start moving I might not reach you in time to help out. Good as you and Masir are together I don't think simple Dagger Skills are going to take down four players."

Most of Iris' magic spells lay in the direction of making her little pet stronger. Her normal fight style was to power up Masir while letting her allies fight, once she buffed up her dragon enough the two would join the fight. If Iris was alone she wouldn't have time to cast the spells needed to make Masir strong enough. Sure she could cast them now but the buffs might not last as long as they needed to and in the middle of the fight Masir would become severely weakened.

"Then you better hurry up," Iris smiled as she closed her menu window, done with putting everything into the shared inventory. With a sigh and a shake of his head Ciro moved back a few steps do he wouldn't reveal Iris' location, and took off into the sky at a frightening pace.

As if on cue a random player, this one a male Sylph, came walking down the alley the second that Ciro was out of sight. Lowering herself to reduce the chance of being spotted Iris kept an eye on the hidden group. Just like Ciro had expected of the group, they followed after the lone Sylph through the alley. Their illusion broke the second they started after her so none of them had high magic power. Spriggans that put the effort into their natural magic could keep an illusion like that going even while moving, at the cost of some extra magic points.

Stealthily the Cait Sith girl moved across the rooftop following after the Spriggans without making a sound. When the Sylph stopped moving, as if to figure out where he was going, Iris would take the time to cast a quick buff on Masir to prepare him for the battle ahead. If she really was going to fight these four alone she was going to want as much help from her pet as possible, even if he weakened mid battle. At these times the Spriggan mage would use an illusion spell to hide his group in case their target turned around to face them.

Reaching the outskirt of the city Iris noticed that they were heading towards the forest. This was the direction of the Forest of Wandering lied in. Iris hoped that the Spriggans didn't have a map of the Forest dungeon, if they didn't they probably wouldn't let the Sylph into the dungeon before they killed him. There was a bit of forest before they would reach the dungeon so there was time for an attack to be launched.

Letting the five people get ahead of her Iris jumped off the roof and onto the ground, her light weight caused nothing more than soft thump that was easily drowned out by the noise of the city as she hit the street. With her right hand on her dagger's hilt Iris bolted towards the forest and hid behind a tree. Using her race's enhanced sight Iris was able to stand further back to reduce her chances of being spotted.

Once under the canopy of trees the world got darker as little light made it through the leaves. There was still enough light that Iris could clearly make out the people in front of her. About six minutes into the forest Iris began to wonder if maybe the Spriggan thugs did have a map and planned to attack the Sylph there, without a map of her own venturing into the forest would cause her to get lost quite easily and there was no guarantee she would be able to follow after the others.

Putting her mind at ease the sounds of battle soon echoed through the forest as the Sylph came under attack. With a quick check on Masir's buffs, Iris drew Fenrir's Fang out of its sheath. A full twelve inch double edged blade made of high grade metal caught the remaining light and let off nice shine. Being a Cait Sith Iris was agile, having the racial skill called Enhanced Speed she was able to attack with blinding speed. It was because of this skill that she had chosen to use daggers as her weapon since they specialized in long, quick, combos in order to whittle down the opponents HP. For Iris, her speed was key in fighting since she lacked a weapon that did a lot of damage. All the trees around her would give her lots of places to run and hide between attacks.

With Masir fluttering after her Iris ran towards the sounds of battle. Arriving at the scene Iris found that the Sylph under attack by the Spriggans, each of them lashing out with their swords trying to overwhelm their opponent. All four black clad fairies were using cheap swords but with the combination of them and the speed with which they attacked they were able to quickly bring the Sylph HP's down into the yellow zone. Even four on one the Sylph was able to get a strike or two in, his speed was greater and his weapon of a higher quality so when he did manage to hit he was able to do a fair amount of damage. None of the combatants noticed the approaching Cait Sith.

Taking advantage of her apparent stealth Iris literally flew in and stabbed one of the Spriggans in the back. Since she wasn't noticed Iris was considered Hidden by the system for damage calculation, meaning she did a more damage than the attack would have normally produced. Her strong dagger coupled with her speed and stealth attack was able to bring the Spriggan's health down from slighty full straight into the red zone.

"Wow your armor sucks," Iris announced her presence as she watch the HP bar deplete. "I know this is the 35th floor and all but what are you doing running around with armor that weak? The monsters here will eat you up in no time flat." She was truly shocked that her attack had been able to do so much damage.

Before he was able to form a comeback, verbal or physical, Masir appeared in front of the Spriggan and blew out a spray of bubbles. They did very little damage as they burst against the player's face, but they disoriented him enough that Iris was able to hit him again, turning him into a Remain Light.

Now noticing the other player they had to deal with the three remaining Spriggans looked at the Remain Light of their companion. Shock and rage was clear on their faces thanks to the system, hiding your emotions in a VRMMO was much harder than it was in real life as the system would exaggerate them. Seeing his opportunity, the Sylph that was under attack, sliced at a nearby Spriggan. When his health dissipated the Spriggan leapt back into action.

With the battle shifted to two against three, or three against three if you counted Masir, Iris landed and stood ready to see what her enemy was going to do. One Spriggan was fighting against the Sylph while the other two stood there not knowing what to do. The tides had turned and their easy mark had suddenly turned into a real battle. Thieves such as these guys weren't known for their guts, they were known for running away in a tight situation. Fully expecting them to turn around and flee, Iris was shocked when one of them ran over to help their friend. The last one turned his sword to Iris and Masir ready to take on the Cait Sith and her pet.

"You'll regret interrupting our kill," was all the guy said before charging straight for Iris.

What Iris had thought looked like a standard run of the mill sword turned out to be something much better. Intricate runes ran down the length of the sword's silver blade, this wasn't something you could just pick up in any shop, this was something forged by a player with a high Blacksmithing skill. Placing runes on the sword would give it magical properties that an opponent would have to be weary of. Having runes wasn't always a good thing as each rune stood for something very specific. Some players had taken to studying what these runes meant so when faced with a weapon like this they would be able to tell what powers the sword had been instilled with. Iris was not one of these players.

Wings spread wide Iris flew up into the trees in an attempt to use them as cover. Too bad for her that the Spriggan was right on her tail. Landing on a branch Iris started jumping between trees rather than flying, high speed flight ran the risk of taking a branch to the face. Iris' foe was more sure of his flying abilities, moving through the trees with ease. Coming to rest on a branch Iris' eyes widened as she saw the blade coming towards her. Taking the full force of the sword to her side Iris stumbled backwards and fell off of her branch, 40% of her HP bar vanished in that one attack. Automatically her wings appeared as she fell, after hitting three tree limbs on her way down Iris was able to right herself and start flying.

"I'm not done with you just yet!"

Iris flew down to the ground away from the branches. Having to dodge only the trunks of the trees, and the random rock or root, she was able to fly closer to her top speed. Ducking behind one of the many trees Iris tried to hide. She had forgotten something important though, Masir couldn't fly as fast as her. Coming to rest on her shoulder, Masir had lead the Spriggan right to her. Dropping down to her knees was the only thing she could think of to avoid the sword coming straight for her head. Masir had taken to the air and spewed out a wall of bubbles. Having seen the attack before the Spriggan jumped backwards out of their path and far enough away that he'd be able to see Iris coming at him.

Words that Iris didn't understand started flowing out of the Spriggan's mouth. While she didn't know what the words meant, she understood that a spell was being cast. Running to the other side of the tree Iris quickly pulled open her menu and located her potions. Taking out a HP bottle she quickly downed it and waited for the drink to restore her health.

"I really need to memorize that healing spell," Iris muttered to Masir as she got ready to face whatever the Spriggan was going to unleash. Straining her Cait Sith ears Iris tried to listen for the sounds of the spell being cast. Ears perking up Iris started to run as she heard the sounds of fire tearing through the air. Salamanders were the best at Fire Magic but any race could learn the lower spells. Judging by how the fireball followed after her Iris figured that her enemy had cast a mid-level homing spell. Even at her speeds the fireball was catching up to her.

An explosion echoed through the forest as the spell collided with something. Turning to see what had stopped the spell Iris was flabbergasted to see Ceres standing in the path of the fireball, her shield smoking. Coming out from behind her shield Ceres looked in the direction the fireball had come from.

"Ceres what are you doing here?!" Iris called out to her cousin.

"We're still in a party. I saw your health drop." Sure enough Iris looked over at her HP bar located in the upper left of her field of vision. Underneath her bar were another two, both marked with their owner's name, proof they were still in a party. "Now would you mind please telling me where my good for nothing brother's at?"

"Oh, Ciro's at the shop selling all our stuff," Iris answered happy that at the moment that her useless items were being turned into money.

"And you went off without him?" Ceres was appalled that Ciro had let their cousin run off on her own like that. Iris had a habit of getting lost when out on her own and they were very close to a labyrinth.

"You two girls done talking?" From the direction that Iris had fled came the Spriggan, sword in hand ready to fight some more.

"Stay back Iris," with that command Ceres took a step forward and raised her shield ready to defend both herself and Iris from attack. A grin spread on the Spriggan's face as he found another opponent to face off against. "I'm not an idiot," Ceres nodded to the sword in her opponent's hand, "I know that your sword has a magical effect. However, I don't plan on letting you use it."

Kicking off the ground Ceres flew directly at the black clad fairy and brought down her white blade. Blocking it with his sword, he attempted to shove Ceres back with all his might. Between Ceres' strength and the weight of her armor the Spriggan was able to do little more than hold push against her sword.

Coming in from the side Iris took a stab at the Spriggan catching him in shoulder of his sword arm. Momentarily weakened by that attack, he was no longer to hold Ceres at bay and her sword came crashing down on her other shoulder. Between the two attacks they were able to take away enough health to drop him down below 50%. With her shield Ceres slammed Iris away from her.

"I told you to stay back!" She shouted at her Cait Sith party member. Ceres was raging as she looked back down on the Spriggan. Finding him no longer there Ceres started to look around for any trace of him.

"Up here!" Looking up Ceres barely had time to bring her shield up to block the sword. Cracks formed in her shield as the blade collided with it. With another hit from the magical blade Ceres' defense was broken.

"Ceres!" Iris called out uselessly. Shield gone, Ceres stood baffled by the outcome of the battle. Not letting the surprise he had induced go to waste the Spriggan launched a three hit combo on Ceres. Whatever power his sword held didn't work on her armor which stood up to the attacks just fine. Over the initial shock of losing a piece of her equipment Ceres was able to strike back causing the Spriggan to back off.

"Thought you weren't going to let me use my sword's power," the Spriggan taunted.

"What, what was that?" Ceres asked as she had never seen nor heard of an ability that could so easily destroy her shield.

"Destroy. Only works against shields and weak armor but it tears through their durability in only a few hits. With how quickly your shield was destroyed I'm guessing you haven't had it repaired recently."

"She did not that long ago but after today she would have needed to do it again." Flying in from behind Iris was Ciro who was holding his harp. A little strumming on the strings and music notes appeared around Ciro before flying straight for the Spriggan who slashed the notes away. "Do you really think you'll be able to fight three on one?"

"Not when he odds are against me." With a growl the Spriggan sheathed his sword on his back and took off. Cere moved to go after him but was stopped by Ciro placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Let me go Ciro, even without my shield I'll be able to take him done. That sword of his won't work on my armor."

"Nuh uh, you depend on that shield too much," Iris pointed out. "Besides, if you would have just let me help you this wouldn't have happened."

"I'm heading to the inn, then logging out" Ceres scowled as she spoke. Red wings appeared and she took off in the direction of Mishe. With a sigh at Ceres' antics Ciro and Iris followed after her.