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It was a bright sunny morning, the perfect way to start a 16 birthday. Blaze woke up and was excited, it was the day he got to choose what he wanted to do with his life. He knew that his profession would be permanent so he had to choose wisely. His father was a warrior and his mother was a monk. He knew he had time to think about what he wanted to do he met with the profession manager discuss what he wanted to do with his life. Blaze thought a walk around the Lakeside country would be a great place to think and plus he could talk to the trainers. He also wanted to talk to his friends Fefnir, but he liked being called "Fef", and Leene, Blaze's Girlfriend. Blaze knew Leene wanted to be a Elementalist, and Fef wanted to be a Ranger. This helped Blaze knew he wanted to be something different so Elementalist and Ranger was off the list. Blaze knew that Necromancers were just creepy their amour was just hideous. So that left Warrior, Mesmer, Monk. Well that made the list smaller, he decided to take his friends and go talk to the trainers. First he went to Ciglo the Monk, He said "The way of the Monk is a hard but rewarding Profession, Dwayna will always smile on you even after death. When you become A Monk you can remove your friend that just died, out of the hands of Grenth." After talking with him I thought being a Monk sounded cool because you could heal your friends and you could resurrect your friends from the dead. His mind was made up he would follow in his mothers footsteps and become a Monk. So Blaze, Leene, and Fef went to go talk to Sir Tydus, He was the Profession Manager, He told each one of them who their trainers were and where to go. Blaze had to go Ciglo the Monk, Fef had to see Artemis the Ranger, and Leene had to see Howland the Elementalist. Even thought they had to go in separate directions they swore they would go everywhere together. They drew straws as to which trainer they would see first. They were to see Leene's trainer first, so they traveled to Wizard Folly to go see her trainer. It was a long Journey but it was safe and fun, they were in to real danger from the Skales and Worms, they even found gold when they looted the bodies, Fef had received a skinning knife from Sir Tydus, Blaze got some healing salve and Leene got a Spell Tome. They decided on the way to Wizard's Folly they decided to train and just gain some gold and so Fef could practice skinning. It was easy finding money, they decided the first thing they would buy was a guild so they could be identified as a group, every monster they fought dropped gold and they saved their money for a while. When they went to Wizard's Folly they decided that camping in Foible's Fair would be a good idea, there was guards that stood watch over the small camp, and plus they would meet other new adventures. While they were setting up camp they meet a Boy their age named Shadow. Shadow was an orphan who was raised in a wilderness camp where he learned the way of the Ranger. As Shadow continued his story the others felt sad for him, so they decided that he could travel with them and even be in the guild with them. They continued to travel to Leene's trainer, along the way they fought ferocious beasts such as ice elements, bandits, wolfs, and bears. They all fought valiantly, Blaze healed, Leene burned their enemies to a crisp, Fef shot his enemies from a distance, and Shadow laid traps. Shadow had already talked to his trainer so he had been taught to lay traps and how to survive in the wilderness. Wizard's Folly was on a mountain path and some of the path was solely ice no ground underneath. As they were going round the mountain they heard a loud rumble. After the rumble large ice chunks fell off the mountain and into the path, Blaze and Leene found a small ice cave, and Shadow and Fef found themselves surrounded by Bandits.