GC Storyline
The internet is finally back, but I'm bored since the stupid patcher STILL won't work. I don't have anything to write so I just decided to write the ever repetitive GC storyline. Owing to the fact that I can't access GC, this story would be regularly updated (every once in a while, I'll make some more randomness, but mainly I'll work on this). Enjoy or not, idc, I'm just killing time (HAYYA! METEOR! DIE TIME! DIE!)
Elesis walked through the rocky path leading to Serdin. Once again, she read the much-folded paper she had found pinned on her door.
'Grand Chase-Recruiting' it read 'Are you willing to destroy the cause of Chaos in Bermesiah? To save the whole world? To be a hero? Join the Grand Chase, the elite team, now!
'The team would consist of no more than fifteen people, so as not to attract the attention of Kaze'aze's minions. You must be fearless*. We accept all sorts, as long as you can pass the test**. Must be at least 14 years old. Apply at Serdin Castle. Ask for the Knight Master
'*It is totally okay, however, to be afraid of the dark.
'**Or rather, tests.'
Elesis once again shook her head in disbelief. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Maybe leaving home and leaving only a note to her mother was also wasn't a good idea. And anyway, who would put something like this on people's doors, where Anmon Scouts and other minions of Kaze'aze could get their hands/tentacles/teeth on it? She sighed. This was to avenge her father, who had been a tracker sent out by the queen of Kanavan to search for Kaze'aze and destroy her, but, like all others, had not been heard of since.
A stone hit the 15 year old's head. It was followed by several others. Of course, this was enough to make the short-tempered knight go berserk. And after that, she *This section had been blocked out. It will give any kids reading this nightmares*.
Cutting a long story short, the red headed knight was about to reach Serdin in 2 days. She had forgotten to take money/clothing/etc. with her, and she was in trouble, as she had eaten the last food she had packed (that was the only thing she thought about packing, besides her armour and sword). She approached the gate, when a goblin jumped from behind a hill and smashed a spade into Elesis's armour. She nearly lost footing, but she managed to stay standing. She just slashed at the goblin and cut it in two. Elesis was about to proceed, when the goblin's corpse spewed out some money. Elesis didn't really notice anything strange about this, so she took the coins and danced a victory dance. Unknown to her, a little bar appeared above her head and filled up with a little green liquid (about 10% of it got filled). On it was written 'EXP'.
The next day, Elesis headed to Serdin castle after spending the night at a barn she had found empty (of course, she had more important things to do with that money than getting a bed for the night, for example food).
"Halt! What business do you have?" A guard standing at the gate asked.
"Umm…I'm here to join this Grand Chase, and it says here-no, here, that I need to talk to some 'Knight Master'"
"You shall pass-as long as you pay, of course"
"Wait, what! But I-I already spent my money, and-and it was a necessity! I mean-"
"Just kidding, you may pass" The previously stony faced guard now had a big grin on his face. Elesis gave him a death glare and proceeded. "The Knight Master is waiting for you at the Throne Room!" The guard called back. Elesis was surprised. She had never thought that she had to actually go to the Throne room. Nevertheless, she did (she got lost and accidentally went to the kitchen, where the French chef yelled at her some gibberish, and then she bumped into a servant, but then made a run for it and found that she had ended up in front of the throne room).
Elesis knocked on the door. "Come in!" said a voice from inside. Elesis held her breath and opened the greatly decorated giant doors, revealing a circular chamber with nothing but a big chair and a row of seats in it.
"Is this it?" She muttered her thoughts aloud, not hiding any disappointment.
"Yes, it is" The voice of the queen made Elesis jump.
"I-I'm sorry, you're Majesty. I'm here to apply for the Grand Chase, and I was told to meet the Knight Master here. Where is he?"
"Excuse me, but I'm a she" A voice came from behind Elesis. She turned around and found a woman in red armour. She had golden hair and seemed to be in her 30's.
"You're this Knight Master?" Elesis asked disbelievingly. The queen coughed, which caught Elesis's attention.
"Please take a seat" Elesis sat down in one of the chairs. The Knight Master came to the side of the queen and started talking to Elesis.
"So you want to join the Grand Chase?"
"Yes. I do."
"It won't be easy, like you probably think."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever, can't we just get on and go to do this test?"
"THAT IS IN NO WAY HOW TO SPEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF ROYALTY!" The Knight Master exploded.
The queen was rather surprised, but she told the Knight Master to calm down.
"So, what is your name, and your age?" The Knight Master, obviously still angry, continued "And your job, of course"
"My name is Elesis, I'm 15, and as you can clearly see, I'm a knight"
"Knight as in, sword user?"
"Obviously"
"Stop being arrogant." The Knight Master sighed "Anyway, your test is to go to Trial Forest and kill Treant, the moving tree, and bring back his apple. You can use that teleporting pad over there" The Knight Master pointed to a blue little pad on Elesis's left. "To activate it, just stand on it and do this" The Knight Master stretched her left arm in front of her, and then turned it to the left. "Understood?" Elesis nodded. She stepped onto the pad. "Oh, and just to let you know" The Knight Master added "You are the first person to apply" Again, Elesis nodded.
And so, we find out red head in a beautiful forest full of (poisonous) mushrooms and (living) slime puddles.
"This is supposed to be a test?" Elesis thought. Suddenly a mushroom moved and headbutted into Elesis making her lose balance. Needless to say, what was left of it wasn't enough to fill a potion bottle (small size). And so, the knight progressed slashing through mushrooms and slimes, until she reached a clearing. There in the middle, was what looked like a tree with a man's face, only more hideous and with a very big chin.
Elesis raised an eyebrow. This was way too simple. She charged up her mana, a skill taught to her by her father, and rushed to the being.
"AIR SPIRAL!"
A bar, couloured fully yellow, appeared under Treant. The yellow liquid in it decreased, leaving only half of it behind. Of course, no one noticed this. Time froze, something called delay and caused by mana usage. It quickly resumed. Another bar, this time coloured blue, appeared above Elesis. It, too, started losing liquid, but this time it was fully emptied.
Elesis landed on the ground and started slashing at Treant. The tree raised its hands and clawed at Elesis, who was far too busy slashing to notice, and she was thrown back and into a (normal) tree. Treant raised another hand and pulled out an apple from his…'head' and threw it at Elesis. Of course, Elesis cut it into two instead of just taking it. Then she ran at Treant and continued her slashing frenzy. Let's just say that she eventually killed him. She went back victorious, holding a very big apple.
Lire got off the boat from Eruyell Island. She was an elf, and what's more, she was the youngest recruit of the Elven Corps. She had been sent by her clan to destroy Kaze'aze, as the elves had had enough of hiding away from war (of course, they did the right thing and sent a 15 year old to do all the work).
To cut another long story short, Lire walked through Serding and into the castle and underwent the same experience in there as Elesis, although in a rather different way. She now stood on a teleporter in front of a peaceful forest.
"Excuse me" Came a voice. A richly dressed woman came to Lire "Can I ask a favour of you?"
"Sure, I guess"
"Can you get me some tears of slimes from that forest? I heard it's good for the skin"
"How did you know I was going into the forest?"
The lady pointed at the teleport pad that Lire was standing on. It had 'Grand Chase' stamped all over it.
"Oh"
"So, can you get some for me? Please? I'll give you this if you do…"
The lady took out a big bag of coins.
"YES! I mean, I would be honoured to help you, madame"
"Thank you. You are very kind"
And so Lire entered the peaceful forest. She looked around, but was caught unaware when slime bumped into her from behind and ran (it could run?) away. This wasn't a problem for Lire, as she was an archer. She shot an arrow which sunk into the slime but did not kill it. It…cried…and then walked away. Lire took some of the solidified tears and put them in her pocket. She then continued looking for Treant, encountering on her way lots of mushrooms and other slimes.
She finally found Treant-who had been killed 5 minutes ago by Elesis. Lire was more intelligent than Elesis, so she just reached out to take an apple from Treant, but she couldn't free both her hand and the apple from the branches, and she couldn't see any other apples (there were, in fact, 19 more hidden in the tangle of branches and leaves). After several minutes of trying, Lire was about to give in. For once, she regretted having a bow instead of a weapon that could cut through the branches. She started looking around for anything that could help, when she could feel her arm being jerked upwards. She looked and saw that the previously dead Treant was now very much alive, and was standing up with her still clinging to the apple (it is not a known fact except to the Knight Master and the queen that Treants come back to life after 10 minutes of death).
Lire let go of the apple and ran to a place where she could safely fire arrows at the tree.
"Big shot!" Lire shot five arrows, all of them hitting Treant.
"Big shot! Big shot!" Lire shot 2 sets of five arrows, killing out all of her mana. Now it was Treant's turn. It raised both of its arms into the air and slammed them into the ground (along with some delay). Vines suddenly broke the ground underneath Lire and wrapped around her, preventing her from moving. Treant then came closer, and swiped at her with his hands, slamming her into the same tree that Elesis had been slammed into earlier.
Lire got up and ran, firing arrows behind her. The arrows didn't seem to exactly damage Treant, but they restored some of her mana. Treant got bored of this running, and attempted the vine attack again. But this time, Lire was ready. She jumped into the air right before Treant's arms made impact. She did a double jump, something every elven archer just had to master otherwise they were a noob, and landed on Treant's head.
"Shooting star!" Lire shot a storm of arrows which somehow kept cycling around Treant's head cutting off branches. Lire took one of the apples-or rather, she tried, but she got knocked off by one of Treant's hands. She looked for her bow, but found that it was stuck on one of Treant's branches. She attempted a double jump, but this time, Treant just whacked her away with his hands. So she did the only thing she could do-she ran away. At least, that's what it looked like to Treant, but in fact, Lire had run around the clearing and was now standing on the tree opposite Treant's back. She did another double jump, this time followed by a kick onto Treant's head, and it was caught off guard. Lire grabbed her bow and the apple and jumped off, firing arrows at the same time.
"Big shot!" This time, it really hurt, because it stuck Treant at…an awkward place. Lire double jumped and kicked Treant, successfully knocking it out, and then proceeded back to the portal. To her surprise, the lady was still standing exactly where she had been, even though it was probably over an hour since Lire had left.
Lire gave the lady the tears, and in return got the coins. She opened the sack they were in and found that they totaled 1392GP. On her way back to the castle she bought a new bow, which the shop keeper said was made in roman times, along with some armour that was apparently worn by Bermesiahn adventurers. She still had 42GP left (not sure about adventurer armour price :P) and she wanted to buy more stuff, but she also didn't want to keep the Knight Master waiting, so she hurried back to Serdin castle (actually, she went to the teleporter).
The violet haired girl stormed out of her guild. She was mad at Elena, one of the higher leveled of the Violet Mage Guild, for not teaching her how to use the magic types she really wanted to learn because she was 'not ready for them yet'.
Arme, for that was her name, suddenly had an idea. She ran back inside the guild and apologized to Elena-and then used a small reverse gravity spell to lift Elena's spell book. Elena, unaware of this, asked if Arme needed anything else. Being Arme, she invented a lie about getting her necklace enchanted with some gems(Elena upgraded the necklaces of the guild and gave them magical properties by using an amount of gems), and while she was distracted, Arme snatched the book and hid it in her backpack(which, like in every MMO, carried an infinite amount of things that who-knows-how even fit in there).
"Success! Wow Arme, you're lucky, I've never enchanted a beginner's necklace to a level higher than 15 before without breaking it!"
"Thanks Elena, I'll now-wait, did you just call me…a beginner?" Arme's eyes suddenly sprouted flames, but she couldn't feel them.
"No, of course not, it's just that you're using a beginner's necklace, bye!" Elena said with a big grin on her face before teleporting to somewhere.
Arme, using her magic, checked for any traces of Elena. Thankfully, Elena turned out to be at the training room, so Arme took out her newly 'borrowed' book. It was titled 'A magician's skill tree by A. Mujji Shen'. Arme opened it and read the first page:
'What is a skill tree?
'A skill tree is new skills to be learned that change the user's attacking style, or add extra abilities, allowing that the user has enough skill. Some skills can be learnt naturally, whereas others have to be bought with cash because of their immense powers. Publishing their way of usage is illegal unless sold by Ntreev.
'Skill trees usually consist of 3 main categories. The first is the 'basic' category, which deals with abilities that do not require mana usage, such as attacking combos. The second, the 'skills' category, consists of the user's mana skills. This is where it is sorted out into normal and destructive magic that needs to be bought with cash. There are two types of skills: the 'dominant' skills, which totally replace your skill, and the 'recessive' skills, which you can use alongside your normal skills or your assigned dominant skills. Dominant skills can be normal or destructive, while recessive skills are only destructive and few. There are usually only 3 or 6 of these, and you can only use them a set number of times, as after that amount, they give you a sort of magical amnesia that makes you forget how to cast them. The third and final category is called the 'shared' category. It includes the skills that you can use throughout all of your jobs'
Arme continued to the second page, but now she was just over viewing the skills she would learn. Magician's puppet…Magical combo…Nature attack…*flip*…Ice trap…Satellite bomb…Cure Lv.2…Penta-Striker…
Just then she caught sight of the recessive skills-particularly the one labeled 'Firestorm'. Arme looked around to make sure that no one was around and that there weren't any flammable objects in the room. She then pulled out a tablet she had bought once when she had cash for her birthday, but then regretted it as she thought it was useless. She placed the tablet, which had a dull picture of three flame pillars, on top of the box labeled 'Firestorm' in the book. Arme held her breath. A minute passed nothing happened. Arme considered the possibility that she had done a wrong thing or possibly bought a fake item. However, the tablet began to glow and seemed to melt into the box. The light it produced was blinding, Arme had to close her eyes. When she looked again, she saw the picture of the flame pillars, now coloured and very life-like, in the box, but otherwise, no changes had occurred. Out of curiosity, Arme touched the box. She felt nothing, but then the effects kicked in and her finger seemed to be on fire. She tried to remove her finger, but it was stuck as if the book had some of Bozo's Magical Magic Glue. Arme stifled a scream of pain. Her eyes began tearing up. And then, as suddenly as it came, the pain disappeared. Arme looked again, but still nothing had happened. Except…text had appeared under the 'Firestorm' picture. It stated how to use the skill. Unfortunately, it is illegal to tell readers who haven't bought Firestorm what the text said.
Now Arme knew how to use the skill. She then *illegal content* and pillars of flame shot out of the ground. Arme was overjoyed. Still, she managed not to show it and continued reading 'her' book. She was too intrigued that she bumped straight into the bulletin board and fell.
"Ouch…"
She looked at the bulletin board. One thing that caught her eye was a notice about joining the 'Grand Chase'. She immediately went to apply. However, her true intentions were not saving the world. She had heard a lot about Kaze'aze's powers, and being the selfish, greedy little mage we all know, she wanted to possess such powers.
Needless to say, she underwent the same things that happened to Elesis and Lire, except for the part where the guard asked her for money. Being from such a respected guild, Arme had 150 thousand GP, so she handed the guard what he asked for and passed through, oblivious to the dumb-struck guard staring back at her.
And so, we now find the purple mage hiding behind a tree close to the clearing. She suddenly jumped to the left and yelled "Lightning bolt!" A bolt of electricity shot out of her wand and into Treant. This was useless, as every one knows that wood is an insulator of electricity, but at least Treant took notice of Arme. It groped its head and then took out an apple and threw it at Arme, who caught it and placed it into her backpack.
However, Arme was too sadistic to leave such a chance for torture go by, so she ran to Treant and shouted "Fire storm!" Arme quickly teleported back to the teleport pad (she couldn't manage to teleport any further). She had unknowingly caused a HUGE forest fire that was spreading at too fast a rate for any one to put out.
A mysterious figure stood amidst the fire. It loved destruction, particularly such massive destruction. It hated little destruction though. Particularly if it was pointless. Ugh. However, all it could do for now was watch and wait. The seal had not been broken yet, so the figure tried to kill time while its butlers worked on breaking the seal of dimension…
And so ends the first chapter. 5 1/2 pages in Microsoft word :P. I just realized, though, that I forgot the disclaimer, so:
DISCLAIMER: Afrost does not own Grand Chase or any of its characters, and whatever of the plot that is mentioned in the game. However, he does own the part about the *cough*Mysterious Figure's*cough* appearance in Trial Forest as well as the forest fire.
Meh, I don't know why I added the *cough*Mysterious Figure*cough*. Like I always do, I worked out what to write next while already writing what I had thought of. Reviews are VERY welcome. And yes, the skill types came from genes XD