Well hello there people. This is my first Fan Fiction, so please don't harass me with details and little "Oh actually, a seraph spell only does 335-395 damage. Get it right" comments like that. Like a bridge, get over it. Oh also, just a head's up, Ryan WaterGlen (our protagonist) is a girl. Not a very common girls name but, whatever.

"Use centaur and kill the pigs Ryan. Centaur!" said Ashley WinterBreeze, frustrated.

"I can't find it; can I use seraph?" I asked.

"No Ryan! For the last time, don't attack if it's not going to kill them! You'll just throw away your blades! I put that spirit blade on you and I will be very hurt if you waste it," shouted Chris WildFlame.

"Fine…" I muttered.

The ninja pig and his little piggy buddies presumed to kill me and my friends with a Humongofrog and send us back to the Jade Palace.

Great.

I could have killed it with my seraph, but no, I succumbed to peer-pressure. My friends and I have been farming in Tatakai Outpost in Mooshu for the past hour, with little to no luck.

Great.

"See? I told you I should have seraphed," I said to Ashley while I uprooted some cattails from the pond.

"Yeah, yeah. Sorry 'bout that," she said apologetically while rubbing her arm.

"S'ok. Shit happens."

"Hey where'd Chris wander off to?" she said looking around.

"Oh, he went off to go sell the black lotus's we found to that guy by the amulet shop."

You see, my friends Chris, Ashley and I are reagent collectors. We travel all over the spiral collecting reagents, amulets, wands and so on and sell it to the Bazaar in Wizard City. Master Merchant Elik employed us to help keep his "stash" plentiful.

"Ok, I wanna go see what pets they have over by the spiral door, then I'll find Chris," Ashley said wondering off.

"Kay," I called over to her. I walked over to the steps of the Jade Palace and sat myself down heavily, pulled off my boots and poured out the dirt and rubble that was collecting in them. As soon as I pulled of my second shoe, I heard high pitched shrieking and shouting coming from behind the Great Buddha Statue.

"NOO! PUT ME DOWN, YOU SMELLY MONSTER! YOU KNOW, THIS JERKIN OF MINE IS VERY EXPENSIVE! I FARMED FOR AGES DAMMIT!"

Must be Chris. Chris is the supportive, sensitive one in our group (and gay one of course). He was always teased in Storm Training because of his sexual orientation. Chris and I met in by the robe vendor in WinterTusk. He told me that my boots were way too formal for my hat. We both met Ashley when we she was really low on health in Pegasus Place.

I quickly put my shoes on and sprinted over to where the noise was coming from.

That's when I saw the monster. It was this ridiculously tall and scrawny wraith. Its robes were tattered and they dragged along the ground while its face was covered by a hood that reached its chin. In its left hand was a scythe, spattered with blood and mud. Yeesh. In its right was Chris, screaming his incredibly high scream and flailing like a fish out of water. All the village people and vendors fled into stores and buildings and locked themselves in.

Ashley was whacking at the wraith's feet with her staff and wasn't doing much except for annoying it. The wraith kicked her away, so hard she fell unconscious. And with that, the wraith fled off to the Water Temple.

I ran over to Ashley's motionless body.

"Hello? Ashley? Wake up there honeybuns. We have to go and save Chris now," I said softly.

"Ash? Ash? ASHLEY WINTERBREEZE! WAKE UUUUUPPP! Ugh, screw this."

I stood up and stomped on her pinkie finger. She bolted up right.

"Jesus Christ! Ryan WaterGlen! What in hell was that?" she shouted, rubbing her stomped-on hand and her head at the same time. She's always been arrogant and over reactive. When we met in Wysteria, she had roughly 100 health left. Chris and I asked if we could join the battle between her and a wood goblin. She said she was fine and then she was killed by a fire wyvern. Chris, being a caring soul made me come back with him to check on Ashley. We all just clicked and became friends.

"You simply weren't waking up. I had to take drastic measures." I said, lifting her to her feet.

"Ouch. That hurt you know! Anyway, what happened after I blacked out?" Ashley asked. We walked over to the large walls of the inner courtyard and sat down facing the Jade Palace.

"Well, that scary ass wraith thing took Chris and his cashmere jerkin over to the water temple. We gotta do something."

And with that, we strategized.