I slowly walked up to the inn and opened up the door. I dropped my gear at the bar and gestured to the NPC bartender. "Can I get some food over here?" The third week is over, the first floor is done, but this is just the beginning, and it's gonna suck. I bit into a piece of stale bread just as someone slammed the door open behind me. She had long black hair that fell in the lower region of her back and she was wearing a skirt with leggings and had a brown tan top on with a long light pink shirt underneath. She walked up and sat next to me, I tossed her a roll. "It's not much, but its all we can get right now."
"Where are the others?"
"They're not here yet," I yawned, "You're early Andreana."
"Seriously, it is 9 A.M., get moving Adam."
"It's fine, you and I both know how urgently we need to find the boss room," I said, then the door opened, or at least, what was left of it. I saw my friend Nick walk into the door with his party, "That's our cue, to the meeting room."
It was a rather dark room and I grabbed a seat next to the head of the table
"Damn it's dark in here!" Then I heard a loud thud. "Ow! Son of a-"
"Shut it shorty!" I heard a familiar voice exclaim.
"What, I'm NOT short!" Andreana exclaimed in a angry voice.
I would have just sat there and laughed, that is, until I was tackled onto the ground. Someone flicked on a light. "I hate all of you," I said, "And I am willing to be an orange player if you don't get off me!"
Nick turned the lights on and everyone organized themselves. "I suppose now would be the time for introductions, I'm Nick, Swordsman, lvl 11."
"Maddie, Axe Wielder, lvl 10"
"Luis, Swordsman, lvl 10"
"Andreana, Swordswoman, lvl 11"
"Adam, Swordsman, lvl 11. So, we know where the labyrinth is, the only problem is that we don't know where the boss room inside there is."
"Exactly," said Nick, "Our job is to search that room out and report back to the elites."
"So wait, weren't there about 3 search parties already sent? Where are they?"
"The 1st one the 2nd party found all over the place, the 2nd barely made it back, and the third…"
"Is still missing," I said, "Check your supplies, we head out in half an hour."
The Dungeon:
"We'll split up from here into two groups," said Nick.
"Stay on alert at all times," I continued, "otherwise it's gonna be messier than it needs to be."
"Yeah, yeah," Andreana replied in a bored tone, but she turned to Maddie instantly perking up. "Hey how bout us girls go together?" She asked with a smirk.
"Eh why not?" Maddie replied bored.
"Great let's get goin buddy!"
"Hold a sec that might be dangerous Andreana." I warned she just turned to me and smiled.
"Oh don't worry we'll be fine, I'll contact you guys if we find anything." And with that they left leaving me with Nick and Luis.
"Well we should get started." Luis stated breaking the silence.
"Yeah, you're right." Nick agreed.
For a while we were just searching around the dungeon but then I got a note sent to me 'Hey I found two really big doors and I think you should come and check it out, so hurry up! Oh and we will be waiting outside the doors fighting some monsters so if you dont want to fall behind on levels you should come and fast! ;P -Andreana P.S I'll send you guys our location'
from the looks on Nick's and Louis's faces they probably got the same note.
"C'mon guys let's hurry we don't want to fall behind the girls." I said turning and walking to the destination the note gave us. Eventually we caught up to the girls who had just finished off some monster, Maddie turned and noticed us.
"Hey guys! Took ya long enough." She said with a smile.
"Yeah no joke," Andreana stated walking towards us. "I thought that we would have to deal with the boss ourselves."
"You do realize that we're not supposed to go in there," I said.
"Eh, forget the stupid rules. I slash smack a monster up!" She stated with a smirk
"Is rushing in there really the best idea?" Nick chimed in. "I think we should take a look at the boss first. Then we can think of the best plan of att-"
He was interrupted by a boy who looked about the same age as him yelling while sprinting into the boss room with nothing but a stick.
"Delbert wait for me!" There was another teenage boy, armed with nothing but a pebble running after him into the boss room.
The five of us stared at each other in confusion, wondering whether to go in and attack or wait to hear the sounds of screaming and HP hitting zero.
"I don't know about you guys, but I'm not going to wait around for the death of two players." He said as he sprinted into the dimmed boss room.
Nothing was visible but two red glowing circles on the far side of the room. He took a single step forward to the middle of the room and the floor began to glow. He turned to look behind him and he saw his friends come running through the door and the two players leaning up against the wall in fear.
He turned back around to find the dungeon's boss staring straight at him.
"Ok here's what we'll do!" Nick yelled in a thundering voice. "Andreana, Luis, you two take the rear! Adam, Maddie, and I will take the front! I'll attack from the side! Let's go, we have no time to waste!"
"Gotcha!" Andreana shouted while her and Louis sprinted towards the back of the boss.
"You two!" Nick yelled again, pointing at the other players. "Quit your crying and get your minds out of the gutter. If you want to make yourselves useful than go distract that thing so we can get a clear shot. This is your fault after all, running in here as if they were selling ice cream."
Andreana then sliced through the monster's back while Louis hit it's neck from behind. While Maddie hit it's knees making it stumble a bit and then I sliced at it's stomach. Nick then rushed up and tried to hit it's side but it dodged and punched him from the side. He quickly regained his composure and managed to hit it's side leaving a scar.
"Oi, stop gettin beat up you moron!" Andreana shouted at Nick while giving him a healing crystal.
"It's not like I'm trying to lose HP." He groaned through clenched teeth.
"Whatever pay attent- watch out!" She shouted at Maddie. Luckily Maddie managed to dodge that nearly fatal attack.
"Thanks!" She shouted with genuine appreciation.
Maddie hit the boss's shines, causing it to wince from the pain while Adam was able to deliver a hit from the front. And then Andreana was able to land a hit from behind and sliced through it from the side delivering the final blow.
"Finally!" Andreana groaned in annoyance while she was looking at her reward Nick walked up to the two idiot players who did nothing but whimper in fear.
"You two are probably the most unskilled excuses for players I have ever met!" He said obviously upset. "I mean really? You two charge into a boss room at level 1 with a stick and a pebble! You're lucky I'm not an orange player...yet. But in the meantime, I guess you can use these." He opened the menu and pulled out a shield and a dagger. "Now don't kill yourselves with them."
"Oi, Moron's!" Andreana shouted running towards them and hitting them on the head with her fists. "You two caused this! So I believe a little payment is due to us for saving your sorry behinds!"
"W-what do you mean?" The one with the pebble asked nervously. She just smirked.
"Hmmmm… How bout you two just be our guinea pigs." She said smiling evilly.
"What!" The one with a tree shouted.
"Yeah I think that seems like a fair punishment." Maddie said walking up to them. "Unless you prefer to get the pixels beat out of you."
"You see, I'm not much of a negotiator." Andreana said while cracking her knuckles.
"Yes ma'am!" The two said simultaneously shouted with absolute fear. She just chuckled.
"Good, now that the boss is over I should be getting some rest. Let's head to an inn guys."
"Oh yeah, I forgot to ask you." Maddie stated. "What did you get for landing the final blow Andreana?" She turned facing Andreana.
"Oh well I got some cool armor and a nice sword, and I leveled up" She replied.
"Neat, but I should be getting rest, let's go head to an inn and talk more there." Maddie said.
"Hold on," Nick said. "I need to add these two...tree huggers to my party." He pulled out his menu and sighed, realizing that he was stuck with the two from now on. "What are your names?"
"My name is Delbert." said the one with the stick and the dagger.
"And mine is Dieter." replied the one with the pebble and the shield.
"And...There we go. Looks like I'm stuck with you two now." Nick said with a sigh.
"Oh don't worry Nick. Maybe I can train these two losers a thing or two." Andreana said while smirking. "Oh and believe me, these two are going to have a real hard time."
"Thanks for the offer, but I'm fine. Maybe I can make them useful to us somehow, but I don't need anyone else to get sucker punched in the ribs because of these two." I responded glaring at them.
"Ok fine, but let me give them a word of advice," Andreana said then walked over to them. "You two are probably the biggest losers of the game." At this the two seemed to feel bad. "But it takes audacity to just run into a boss room with nothing but a pebble and a stick, so if you work hard you two might actually to make it somewhere, but next time, think things through before you do it understand?" She said with a genuine smile, They seemed to cheer up.
"Yes ma'am!" They shouted looking proud.
"Good," She then turned and looked at Nick. "Good luck, I'll meet you guys up at the inn tonight see ya there!" And with that she headed out.
"So, I'm assuming that neither of you know how to use your weapons?" Nick asked.
"Nope." they both repeated.
"We have a lot of work to do." He sighed. "At least tell me you know how to use the menu."
"More or less."
"You guys are hopeless. Forget training in the morning, we start now!"
"Wait," I said and pulled out my guide book, "That guy had only two bars of health…"
"So," replied Nick.
"It says here that the boss of the Second floor has four bars of health, that was clearly the boss room but, well, it looks like you'd have to take out a mini-boss in order to take on the real one." The ground started shaking. "It looks like it was just released…"