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Whew! Two chapters in one day!
Jazz ran over to the massive house, and rushed into it. A chef was baking a chocolate cake. "Hey! Couldn't you have knocked first?" he said with a bit of sarcasm in his voice, as he took out his chocolate cake from the range.
"Yummy cake." Jazz commented, as he plopped down on a chair. "Thank you. You're a new adventurer, I suppose. What's your name?" the chef asked.
"Jazz, sir. Jazz Bellamy Vale." he said at once. The chef did a quick nod, and he stepped forward. He was quite big, Jazz noted. Not big, fat is the right word to use, Jazz thought, giggling softly. "Well, Mr. Bellamy, I am Allan, Allan Jorpis. We'll see to your cooking lesson right away." Allan zipped over to his range, ducked down, and opened a cupboard. He grabbed a bucket of water and a pot of flour, before zipping back.
"You're quite fast for a fat, ahem, big guy." Jazz noted, giggling softly again. "Thank you, me' lord." Allan bowed, as he tossed the bucket of water at Jazz, who didn't respond quick enough.
Jazz's POV
The bucket emptied its contents on me as it fell onto the ground. There was a loud clank as the bucket smashed into half.
I was drenched with water. I glared at Allan who just pointed at the sky.
"Watch out for that…"
Poof! Flour emptied itself on my head and some fell onto my arm. Despite this, Allan still had the habit of saying 'sir', and he still had that happy-go-lucky attitude.
I sighed. "Just let me take it myself!" I shouted, and shoved Allan away as I grabbed a bucket of water and a pot of flour. "Now what?" I asked, eager to get the mess away in whatever way possible. "Hey, you got a towel."
"I'm afraid not. You should check in at the Quest Guide's house later. He can give you a room to sleep in, and you can have a bath at the same time. Anyway, let's start. Pour the water from the bucket into the pot." Allan instructed, and I did as told. The dough became damp, and I saw it changing shape.
"Now put that onto the range and you'll have a piece of delicious bread!" Allan said, grinning, clapping his hands together madly. I walked over to the range and emptied my dough on it. Soon enough, it began to shape into a bread shape, before the range began cooking it.
A few seconds later, the bread was entirely cooked. I grabbed the bread and munched on the bread. Yum! It was very crunchy. It erased the thought that there were flour and water on my suit.
"You should go to the Quest Guide's now. You could use a bath." Allan remarked. "Thanks for the reminder." I said angrily, as I pulled open the door. Allan just smirked as I walked out.
A few minutes later, I was standing at the door of a house bigger than Allan's house. I piled into the big house, and a man in his early 30s wearing a brown and white suit, with a brown cap to match, walked up to me. "Good evening. What might your name be, fella'?" the kindly man asked.
"My name is Jazz, Jazz Bellamy Vale." I introduced myself. "OK, Jazz. The name's Kane Rogers. Woah, did you know you have…" Kane started. I finished the question for him. "… water and flour all over me?" I smirked. Kane nodded. "It's already past 10.30pm. You're welcome to stay for the night. Run along, now, go and take a bath." Kane said.
I nodded, thanking Kane, so I made my way to the bathroom, and went in gladly. I dived for the bathtub, and I turned the water on. Ah… It was cooling… very cooling!
A few minutes later, I got out of the bathtub, sighing with pleasure. Kane plodded into the room. Boy, did he have big feet! He handed me a blue book. "Here, this is your Quest Journal. When some person offers you a reward to do something for them, the quest will show up in your journal. Some quests might involve doing simple errands to slaying massive monsters like demons and dragons." Kane said. He lead me to the living room.
"Look." Kane displayed a cabinet. Inside it was a Rune Platemail and a Rune Platelegs. Besides that, five Reward Lamps. Also, there were trophies, many, many trophies. "Heh, I won those trophies by protecting cities from invasions. The Reward Lamps and that Rune Platebody, my prized armour, I got it from quests."
"Nice." I grinned. "Alright, you better tuck into bed. It's already 11." Kane said, and walked me to the stairs. "Just climb to the 3rd floor and you'll see a bedroom. That's for adventurers." Kane said. Just then, an adventurer walked in. Kane ran to her, as he produced a Quest Journal.
I climbed the stairs to the 2nd floor, then the 3rd floor. The floor was even larger than the 1st floor, only it didn't have a kitchen. I wandered to the bedroom, and was face-to-face with a massive double-decker bed.
Wow, Kane's really a billionaire, I thought, as I climbed up the double-decker and rested. The double-decker was so tall, I could touch the ceiling, which was 30 meters above the ground.
I couldn't sleep. I tossed and turned in bed. Finally, I sat up and fished out the Runescape Book Ron had given me. I began to read. My mind was totally into the book until a voice alerted me.
"Hey apple pie." said a cute voice, and I spun round. The girl I had seen earlier walking into Kane's house approached. I observed more carefully. The girl was around my age.
"I'm Gale Larazan Lithe, you?" Gale asked. "Jazz Bellamy Vale here." I murmured. "Well, Kane told me I could sleep over for the night." Gale lay down on the lower deck, which was fifteen meters above the ground, no joke.
Gale lay in bed for awhile, I didn't know if she was asleep. Just then, she popped out a sudden question. "Would you like to travel with me?"
"Travel with you? Oh sure, why not." I said, trying to sound enthusiastic. If you didn't know, I wasn't one bit enthusiastic. I just felt like going to sleep. But Gale kept chirping on about jokes and riddles. She was humorous, a little too humorous.
"What do you call fishes who try to cheat others? Phish! Hahahaha!" Gale burst into tremendous laughter, and I just lay on the bed, trying to drown out her voice. She called that a joke? Hah!
After two hours, when Gale finally fell asleep, I closed my eyes and drifted off to Dreamland.
The next morning
"Ahhh…" I woke up. It was 9am. I climbed down the double-decker. It took me a minute just to climb down. A normal double-decker bed would have only took seconds to climb.
I went out of the room and headed downstairs. Gale was munching into a piece of peanut butter bread. I shoved my cooked shrimp into my piece of bread and munched into it. Boy, tasty! What a perfect combination.
Kane walked us to the back, and opened a trapdoor. "This is the entrance to the underground caves. You'll find the Mining Tutor there. Go on." Kane said, and waved goodbye. Gale and I nodded, and we dived into the trapdoor.
(A/N) If you have read the reviews, you have probably saw DarnedNoob's review on Chapter 1. Well, if you're asking the same question, think about it. The guides' names in the story Ben's Journey through Runescape was the same as Runescape's guides' names, but 20 years has passed since then. Don't you think the guides have gone old? YES. So that's why I'm replacing them. Wait, I sound like the boss of Runescape…
