Chapter 1: An Adventure

It was almost the same as any typical day in the world of Britannia. Meryl woke up early in the morning and changed from her robes to her favorite Rose Armor. She grabbed the bag of reagents she kept in one of the bookshelves in her room, and also brought a few bottles of Mana Refresh just in case she had no time to meditate. Then, she was all set to go.

She randomly picked a shrunken Zostrich in the crate beside the bookshelf. It turned out that the one she chose was the Black Rock Zostrich. Meryl released it and mounted after she exited her house.

It was a beautiful day and the breeze was calm and gentle. Meryl took out some reagents from her bag and held out a rune, and chanted, "Kal Ort Por." Soon, she found herself in the busy town of Vesper. As she trotted on her Zostrich towards Vesper Bank, she decided to venture through Wrong Dungeon in order to earn herself some gold since she seemed to be running low on them.

At the bank, she picked up her Viking Sword of Vanquishing and her Rose heater shield. She also caught sight of her young cousin known as Saber, who seemed to be picking up his shield and weapons from his bank box, too. He was the type of person who enjoyed going on adventures, especially dangerous ones. Meryl figured that he might want to come with her to Wrong because of this.

"Saber!" Meryl called.

"Good morning, Meryl!" Saber replied.

"I was wondering if you would like to join me in cleaning up Wrong Dungeon."

"Of course I would!" Saber answered excitedly. "As long as it will be fun, I'm always in!"

"Alright. But on one condition," Meryl replied, "Don't make me use up all my reagents for rescuing you!" She smirked.

"I'll try." Saber replied with a tone of annoyance.

He pulled out an Elven Bow and some arrows from his bank box. He also withdrew a set of Agapite Armor.

"Alright. These are all I'm taking." Saber told the banker.

"Thank you, sir, and good day!" The baker replied with a smile.

Meryl pulled out two runes from her bank box: one Wrong Dungeon rune and one Vesper rune.

"I'm done here too." She told the banker.

"Yes, milady. Good day to you!" The banker said.

Meryl and Saber exited the bank and mounted zostriches.

"Ready?" Meryl asked her cousin as she held out the Wrong Dungeon rune.

Before Saber could answer, someone from afar yelled their names and started running towards them.

"YOU'RE NOT LEAVING WITHOUT ME!"

Meryl and Saber turned to see the one who interrupted them. It was Jerk, Meryl's cousin and Saber's older brother.

"Well, if it isn't my idiotic brother, Jerk." Saber said with sarcasm and rolled is eyes.

"Long time no see, Jerk!" Meryl exclaimed.

He panted as he reached his two relatives.

"If you are going to Wrong, I'm coming with you." Jerk said between breaths.

"Alright." Meryl replied. "Get yourself ready and hurry it up."

Jerk went inside Vesper bank and soon came out armed and ready with his Old Copper Armor, and a Broadsword of Vanquishing. With the words, "Kal Xen", he summoned himself a horse and mounted on it.

"Let's go." Meryl said.

She held up the rune with one hand and a handful of reagents with the other and chanted, "Vas Rel Por". Soon, the reagents disintegrated and a red moongate opened. Meryl placed the rune back into her bag and she, Saber, and Jerk entered the gate.

Somewhere near Vesper bank, two men clad in Bronze armor and Bloodrock armor watched the three young Criterions disappear as they entered the moongate.

"Well, they're at it again." The man in Bloodrock armor said as he leaned forward on the hilt of his Viking sword. "Don't you think we should go after them, Greenarcher?"

Greenarcher, who was busy eating a loaf of bread, replied.

"No. They're a waste of reagents if you ask me, Lestat."

Lestat chuckled and sheathed his sword, then went into the Magery shop to buy more reagents.