THIS IS THE RESULT OF BOREDOM + TOO MUCH MAPLEING (YES IT IS A VERB) + RE-READING 1/2 PRINCE + BEING A DUMMY.
So a little explanation,
this is just for pure fun. the idea was going around in my head while i was playing maplestory (with my sister sitting next to me, training her priest, which as of last night, is a bishop!) and randomly started this.
Maple Island:
"ARGH! WHY DID EVAN MOVE TO HENESEY?" Alex yelled to no one in particular.
Siirya sighed and tried to calm her childhood friend down. "It can't be helped," she said kindly, "his parents had to move their pig farm to a better place."
Alex ignored her and continued to rage. Most of it mixed together and turned into an incoherent "BLERGH".
Mark, noticing that Siirya was on snapping point, if not already well past it, and quickly interjected by saying, "Well, if you're so desperate to be with Evan, why not become an adventurer?"
Alex stopped yelling and a light bulb went off in his head. "OMG MARK! That's the best idea ever! Come on guys, we're off to see the Chief!"
Chief Lucas looked down at the 3 kids who watched him with big, round, puppy dog eyes. These kids wanted to go off into the world and become adventurers. It was a dangerous and lonely life ("Lonely? I've got these 3 idiots to deal with!"), as some would say. He caved in after looking at those faces again. "FINE!" he yelled. "I'll go give you an introduction letter to Mai."
"Who's Mai?" Alex asked Siirya in a stage whisper.
"She's a trainer." Siirya replied.
"Who does she train? Dogs? Mushrooms? BE SPECFIC!"
"PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE AN ADVENTURER OBVIOUSLY!" Siirya smacked him on his head, hard.
Lucas sighed into his half-completed letter and wondered if he was doing the right thing.
A FEW MINUTES AWAY FROM AMHERST
Mai looked over at the kids from the letter she was reading. It basically told her to train these 3 kids so that they could go off to Victoria Island and become adventurers. On the bottom, there was a note saying to watch out for Alex, he was the stupidest one out of the 3.
"Okay, let's start off by killing Stumps. They're not too difficult and they're one of the weakest monsters you'll ever encounter," Mai said, crumpling the paper and tossing it over her shoulder.
"How many do you want us to kill?" Siirya asked.
"5. I'll be right here, watching, so don't try to cheat. And bring me 3 branches from the stumps. I want good quality branches, not the crappy ones."
Alex nodded enthusiastically, happy that he could show off his "mad skills". Mark looked slightly worried that his hair would get messed up and immediately tried to think of a strategy that would keep his hair safe. Siirya's face was unreadable. She looked like she was contemplating the meaning of life and death. She shook her head and went off to kill her prey.
And so the trio of friends went off to kill the stump monsters, Siirya using a sword, Alex using a cheap pole arm, and Mark using a microphone.
After killing the stumps and giving Mai the 3 tree branches (which took a lot of time for Alex who was just picking things up carelessly), Mai, with a bored look on her face, said "Okay, now go kill Red Snails."
"Red Snails?" Alex asked in incredueously.
"Yes. Red Snails. They're stronger than the Blue Snails and regular Snails, and they're harder to kill than Stumps. Go kill 5 and then we'll break for lunch."
Alex grumbled to himself as he went off to go kill the snails. Mark heard him mutter, "sprinkle salt on them and watch them explode."
Killing monsters is hard work, so the group stopped for a lunch break of eggs and oranges as a starter. Mai, seeing their depressed faces, said, "You'll get the real food after you hunt pigs."
"When do pigs come up?" Mark asked.
"After the slimes," Mai said simply.
"Can I skip the eggs and go hunt for slimes?" Alex asked, looking down at his food portion sadly.
"Are you that eager to train?" Mai asked in shock.
"No. I want the real food. Not this crap." Alex said in his most serious voice.
"… Fine. Go ahead. Bring me 1 of the Squishy Liquids they drop. Just grab a handful of the slime's body."
Siirya shuddered at the thought and Mark choked on his food. Alex went off to the slimes. Siirya said under her voice, "God, I hope he washes his hands after that."
HUNTING PIGS:
"Argh, DAMNIT PIGS! STOP MOVING AROUND SO MUCH! LET ME KILL YOU!" Alex yelled at an uncooperative pig who just didn't want to become bacon that day.
"Yelling at the pigs won't work," Mai called from behind the fence. Alex turned around and was about to say something mean and inappropriate when Mark "accidently" threw his mike at Alex's head.
"MARK! AVOID YOUR COMRADES!" Alex yelled, rubbing the slowly forming bruise on his head. Mark smiled in such a way that said, "I don't see you as anything more than a good scapegoat and monster bait."
"See Alex, no one cares about you," Siirya called, her voice coming from his left. The 3 of them were surrounded by Pigs on all sides and we're fighting them off slowly.
"Ah, Alex, toss me my mike back, these guys don't look too friendly," Mark yelled to Alex, holding his hand out.
10 minutes later, all the pigs enclosed in the mid-sized, 15'x15' square pig farm, were all dead. Mai smiled proudly at the 3 tired and hungry kids and handed each of them 15 pieces of meat.
IN SOME OLD MAN'S HOUSE. SPECIFICALLY, HIS DINING ROOM. EVEN MORE SPECIFICALLY, IN HIS DINING ROOM WITH HIS DAUGHTER.
Lucas was eating dinner with his daughter, Yoona, when the front door to his house in Amhest opened up violently and a loud, annoyingly familiar voice called out, "Hey, Chief! We've finished training! Maybe you should let us leave now!"
Lucas didn't answer right away and tried to pretend that he was hearing things in his old age.
"HEY LUCAS, OLD BUDDY! WE'RE OFF TO VICTORIA ISLAND! GIVE US A FAREWELL OR SOMETHING!" Alex yelled, this time strolling casually into Lucas's dining room.
Lucas tried even harder to ignore his "guests".
"LUCAS! WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER?" Alex yelled again. "DID YOU NOT HEAR ME? ARE YOU THAT OLD?" He walked up to Lucas and yelled into his ear, "WE'RE LEAVING MISTER. AREN'T YOU GONNA SAY GOODBYE?"
Lucas got up and yelled right back at Alex. "DAMNIT BOY! I'M OLD BUT I'M NOT DEAF. AND GREAT, YOU'RE LEAVING, I DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH YOU ANYMORE!" He stopped and realized what he was saying. "I DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH YOU ANYMORE!" he shouted gleefully. Lucas started to dance a happy jig until his back pain started up again.
After complaining of his bad back for 20 minutes, Lucas sat down and gestured to Alex, Siirya, and Mark to gather around him. "I'll write you guys a letter to Shanks. He's the captain of the boat that will take you to Victoria Island. He charges a lot but with the letter, he'll bring it down to maybe 100 mesos each. It's that or 1000. I don't remember anymore."
Alex, Siirya and Mark left Lucas's house feeling happy and excited. "Hey, I need to go tell my family I'm leaving, so I'll meet you at Southperry," Siirya said to Alex and Mark.
"Oh yeah, I should tell my mom I'm off to get a job. She'll be so proud," Mark said. "Meet you at Southperry Alex." Mark and Siirya left, leaving Alex standing on the road to Southperry.
"Yeah, see you guys there," he said to them, long after they had left. He turned and started down the path, hands behind his head, saying softly to himself, "Shoot, what should I do to kill some time?"
um so its not too obvious what the jobs are going to be, i'll just list it out.
Alex: Warrior
Siirya: Dual Blade (hehe, it's the name for my dual blade in kradia. I HATE IT)
Mark: Cleric/priest/bishop (it goes along that path, pick one, stick with it, I DONT CARE)
Evan: (pretty obvious) Evan. (i couldn't think of a name and didn't want to use TOBI!)
i think the next chapter will be the continuation of this (job advancements :D)
ALSO: if i spelled things wrong, please tell me. i wasn't really paying attention to the guide, so yeah. i just realized amherst wasn't AMEHEST. (wow, 5 years reading 1 thing wrong... -.-)