Notes: (I am only listing the majors that are used by the main characters in the story.)
- Magicians use wands, pirates use gauntlets, archers use bows, and thieves use knives.
- Bards use throwing stars, assassins use claws, hunters use axes, and witches use whips.
- You must have finished thief and archer majors at top ranks 4, to be a bard. You finish warrior and thief to be assassins, finished warrior and archer for hunters, and you must finish magician and thief majors to be a witch.
I lived all around Maple World. I was born in Mu Lung, raised in Leafre, spent my elementary years in South Perry, spent a year of middle school in New Leaf City, spent the rest of my middle school years in Perion, and now I'm moving to Ludibrium for high school.
In Ludibrium, the Eos Tower is filled with different schools. But there's a large and prestigious school that takes up the bottom ten floors of the Eos Tower. You have to take the elevator all the way down to the first floor. I on have a dead grandmother who is was the previous chairman of the school and gave my parents her large house near the Eos Tower in her will. Lucky, aren't I?
As I was snoring away, someone taps me on my shoulder. I open one eyelid and peek over at the person. It was a girl. She had long brown hair that was extremely smooth, and she wore an orange hair band with white polka dots on it. She had large, dark blue eyes that seemed to sparkle somehow.
"What?" I mutter irritably. The girl flinches from the tone of my voice but regains composure and looks at me fearlessly.
"As you should know, I am the class president, Meena Stone, an archer major and a rank four. I'm sorry Williams but homeroom is over so why don't you just snooze away in your next class." She speaks haughtily. I can already tell she's some snobby bitch. She even called me by my last name as if she's better than me.
"I'm very sorry, Stone." I pound my fist onto the desk angrily. "But I don't think I want to listen to a bitch like you." I glare at her and she steps back.
"Excuse me?" she asks. I can tell she's irritated. I grimace.
"Stop acting all high and mighty when you're really just weak. God, I hate girls like you the most." I slowly make to the door, ignoring all her crude comments and went to my next class.
My first class is on the third floor where all the science rooms are. I enter the room and sit all the way in the back. A tall and lean male sits next to me. He had shaggy brown hair and deep blue eyes. He has his ears pierced, wears large, orange sunglasses, and I noticed a scar on his left eye. We didn't speak to each other and I suddenly thought that I might get along with the guy. He wasn't paying attention to the lesson and was listening to music secretly instead. I took out a small pillow from my bag and fell asleep on it.
"Andy!" the teacher suddenly calls out. I shoot my head up to the board. "Are you paying attention? Give me the answer to my question." He says angrily.
"The equation to making photosynthesis is light + 6CO2 + 12H2O 'reaction' C6H12O6 + 6O2 + 6H20." I state matter-of-factly. The teacher and the other students' eyes widen.
"Ah, good, so you were paying attention!" The teacher smiles and turns back to the board. I chuckle and rest my head on the table again. The guy who sits next to me gives me a grin and starts to speak, "'Sup? Nice answer Andy. My name's Shawn Malix, a pirate major, rank three." I grin.
"'Sup Shawn. I'm a hunter major, rank one." I greet him. Shawn looks impressed.
"Nice, smart and strong. We're gonna get along well." He says and puts his red, headphones back on.
"Likewise," I say and went back to sleep.
I have math next. I was about to sit in the back, when a nerdy-looking boy came up to me. He had short, blazing orange hair that made your eyes burn. He had dark blue eyes and thick, brown eyebrows. He must've dyed his hair to make himself look, uh, cool? Well whatever the reason was, it was not working for him.
"Hi, I'm Danny Brook, a magician major, rank four." He says. "I have the same homeroom as you and I must say that you were extremely rude to Ms. Meena." Oh, great, a fan of that bitch is about to complain to me. I decided to just ignore him and went over to the back. Danny follows me and keeps on speaking as if that'll ever get me to apologize to the girl. But no matter how much I try to ignore him, he keeps on annoying me. I lose focus and end up punching him in the face, leaving a large red bruise on his left cheek.
"You!" he yells.
"Just shut the hell up or else you might end up with a concussion." I give him a death glare and turn on my mp3 player and listen to music to calm myself down. Danny stands up and runs to his seat. The other students snicker at him but sit back down when the teacher arrives.
I look at my schedule to see that I have a free period. Sweet, I can sleep even more. I headed to my locker on the fifth floor. There weren't that many people on the floor so I feel that it is the best time to sleep. But I was interrupted when an attractive girl went to her locker. She had long, wavy brown hair that looked soft and fluffy with a mushroom pin on the left. She had navy blue eyes and black moon earrings. Her legs were long and creamy and I had a pretty good view on her ass since I was kind of under her. The girl notices me staring up her skirt and immediately moves away from me. I smirk as I watch her blush deeply and pull on her skirt.
"Nice lace," I comment on her underwear. The girl blushes brighter and covers her face with her books. I find her kind of cute. "I'm Andy Williams, a hunter major, rank one." I introduce myself to her. The girl's eyes widen when she hears my level. She hesitates and looks down.
"I-I'm Jennifer Black, a thief major, rank four." She says shyly.
"A pleasure to meet you," I step closer to her and she flinches to see my so close to her.
"U-Uh, umm…" she stutters. I chuckle and step backwards.
"Cute. See you later." I say and walk away slowly. I wave at her without looking back.
Now I have lunch. I step into the cafeteria to notice all four of the new people I met today so far. Danny was sitting with Stone on one table along with some other nerds. They noticed me and looked at me as if disgusted by my presence. I roll my eyes at them. The cute girl, Jennifer, was sitting with a few other girls who weren't as pretty but still decent looking. When she sees my face she blushes and turns her head away. I smirk at her. I found Shawn sitting alone and decided to sit with him.
"Hey," I greet him.
"Oh, Andy! 'Sup, man." Shawn grins.
"How were your classes?" I ask.
"I went up to being a rank four. I just punched something with great accuracy and power so they just brought me up just like that."
"Wow, nice."
"So made any other friends…or…girls?" Shawn winks. I laugh and glance over at Jennifer.
"That girl," I say. "Is interesting."
"Ah, Jennifer Black. Yeah, she's cute. But I found a slight interest in Meena instead." I spit out my juice when I heard the name.
"Meena Stone?" I repeat. "That bitch?"
"You know her?"
"Yeah. It was NOT pleasant meeting her."
"Well, if you say so." Shawn shrugs and continues to eat his sandwich.
I arrive home t notice that none of my parents are home. They must be busy at work or something. I take my red visor off and place it on a random table. My grandma's house is a mansion. I didn't expect it to be so large but our family was very excited to be living in such a big place. It is two stories high, with a large front and back yard. The outside walls are colored ivory and I can tell that the paint is new and fresh. The front door is large and made of polished wood, giving the mansion a homey feel. I walk up through the west staircase and walk towards my room. My room's walls are painted ivory and brown marble floors. I have an orange rug in the center of my room, right in front of my television. I have a large bookcase filled with who-knows-what books. There is a balcony with a nice view on the left wall and my king-size bed centered in the back. The bed has black and white striped pillows and a poufy, orange blanket that keeps me extremely warm. I drop my black book bag onto the floor and jump on my bed. I close my eyes and quickly fall asleep.
The next morning, I wake up groggily. I step out of bed and walk into the bathroom. I take a nice, warm shower before brushing my teeth and fixing my hair. I put on my uniform and red visor on. I walk downstairs to see my parents.
"'Morning," I greet them. My mother smiles brightly and gives me a strong hug.
"Good morning Andy, dear!" She squeals.
"…I-I can't…breathe…" I choke on my words. Mom immediately let goes and apologizes. I say it's okay but that really hurt. My dad greets me a good morning too and I say hi as I sit down next to him. Mom brings me a plate of fresh chocolate-chip waffles. The best thing Mom does is cook. I dig into my food quickly, not leaving any crumb behind. The thing with Mom's cooking is that it makes you want to savor the nice taste. After I finish I grab my book bag.
"Bye guys, see you later," I say good-bye to them and walk out the house.
During homeroom, Meena keeps on glaring daggers at me. I couldn't help feeling just a bit pressured. As our homeroom teacher was talking about school rules and such, an alarm suddenly goes off. The lights turn red and we can all hear the chairman speaking.
"Attention everyone," he says clearly and calmly as possible. "The Omega sector is suddenly under attack by ghouls from Crimson Wood. Everyone just slowly evacuate to Ludibrium. As for the five names I call out, I want you to come up to the tenth floor to my office: Meena Stone, Jennifer Black, Danny Brook, Shawn Malix, and Andy Williams." The chairman stops speaking and the other students run out of the room along with the teacher. Meena and Danny come up to me with worried looks.
"Wait, why do we have to go see the principal?" Danny asks nervously.
"Let's go up to the tenth floor first." I say. Meena nods.
"Good idea, let's go." She agrees and we run up to the tenth floor. Buy the time we get there, Jennifer and Shawn are already waiting outside the room.
"Jennifer!" I call out her name. Jennifer looks at me with a startled face but looks relieved.
"Andy!" she walks over to me. "Hey, do you maybe know why we were called up here?" I shake my head no. She looks a bit sad but slightly smiles. "Oh well, at least you're here." I couldn't help but blush a little. The door suddenly opens and a man dressed in black opens the door for us.
"Come in." he simply says. The five of us cautiously enter the room. The chairman, who was sitting at his desk gestures for us to come towards him.
"Hello," he speaks. "The reason why you five are here is because you are all the strongest in level of my school. Danny Brook, you are rank four magician. You learned mostly of fire and poison spells. Jennifer Black, you are a rank four thief, and you have extremely high speed and luck. Shawn Malix, you are a rank four pirate, and was the captain of boxing team in middle school. Meena Stone, you a rank four archer, with great accuracy and leadership." Then he looks at me proudly. "You, Andy Williams is the one of the very few who have maxed out two different majors in just fifteen years of your life!" Danny and Meena look at me in awe. "Andy, you are a rank one hunter, and you have great strength and speed. If anyone's going to the leader, it's you."
"Whoa, slow down. Leader for what? Why are you mentioning our levels? Why are we even here when the Omega Sector is being attacked?" I throw all my questions at him.
"Ahem," the Chairman just smiles. "Right now, Masteria is calling war upon Ludibrium." All our eyes widen.
"What, why?" Meena asks.
"There is a dictator over at Masteria now, and he wishes to create his own new kingdom. Of course, no one wishes for that to happen. So, we need to send out messengers to help us gain allies to fend off the Masteria troops. Those messengers are you five." The Chairman explains. "I need you all to head to the different cities to seek help for the war."
"But why us? Why can't you guys go instead?" Shawn asks. The Chairman shakes his head.
"We need to stay in Ludibrium to fend off the armies that come attack. That's why you five must go. We feel that if it's you five, then nothing will go wrong." He says.
"…" We were all silent. Then, Meena speaks out. "Fine! And you want Williams to be the leader right? Then so be it! If the Chairman is asking us, then we'll help out for anything right guys?" Danny and Jennifer nods. Shawn and I look at each other and just shrug. The Chairman smiles in satisfaction.
"Then, I wish that you accept these…" he snaps his fingers and a man walks up to the table and places a large suitcase on it. He snapped it open to see several weapons inside. The man first takes out a large axe with a black blade and a red jewel on it. It held a small symbol on the jewel that looked like an Eos crystal on it. He gestured for me to take it. I cautiously took it in my hands to be surprised by its weight. It was extremely light!
"Umm," I mumble. The man continues to give out the other weapons to the others but I can tell he's listening. "Axes shouldn't be this light. They at least weigh about fifty more pounds than this…" The man raises his eyebrow.
"What are you talking about? That thing is immensely heavy! It was hard for me to even give it to you!" he exclaims.
"That's probably because these weapons are blessings from this tower. The weapons choose their master and will react in a special way if they are used by the ones they chose. In other words, you five are all special enough for the weapons to choose you all." The chairman explains to us.
"Hmm…" I grin in satisfaction. Shawn starts to suddenly punch the air with his new, red and silver gauntlets.
"Hehe, with fists light as these, no one will be able to match with my speed!" he exclaims happily.
"Wow, I've never felt such a sharp blade in my life before!" Jennifer examines her new knife that was jet black with silver on the tip of the blade.
"This bow doesn't weigh too much, letting my arms relax better," says Meena. She grins in satisfaction.
"This wand is particularly thin and very portable compared to my old one." Danny says.
"So," I begin to speak. "Where do you want us to head out to first?" The chairman hands me a small map.
"I want you to travel to Orbis first. It is where all different transportation lead to and being able to access the ships and trains quickly will be very useful." He says. "The rest afterwards is up to you. But remember, Masteria is closet to Victoria Island and Maple Island. It would be best to avoid those countries for now." I nod.
"But how will we be able to persuade the countries to help join forces?" Jennifer asks the chairman.
"Every country has something they want. Speak of things that might benefit them if they help us. Ms. Stone, I'm pretty sure that you know all about Ludas Lake right?" the chairman gestures towards Meena.
"Well, yes, I suppose so…" Meena nods. "Alright, I'll see what I can do."
"Take these mesos to help assist you during your travel…" the chairman gives me an envelope. I look into it. My eyes widen. There was a billion mesos in hundred bills. I look at the chairman, stunned. "Now, now, this is not all from my account. Many people donated a great sum of mesos so that the war could end. So, make sure to use them wisely!" he laughs. I still gawked at the amount of money and my mood was all of a sudden great.
"Alright! Now let's go save Maple World!" I yell off-character.
"Woot!" Shawn gave me a high five.
"Good luck," the chairman bids us as the five of us leave the room.