"Hey man," the priest in white garments said, "I'm running low on mana potions and my pool isn't that big anymore either. Let's go back to the Aquarium, 'kay?"
"Sure sure, just lemme finish these last Gobi fishies." the crusader responded, while taking down a large pink eel with a powerful slash. He wielded his Devil's Sunrise with ease and within no time, he and the priest left the deep sea and headed up the cave again and into the Aquarium.
The two walked through a wall of water and entered the big shell into the dry Aquarium Hall. They walked up the stairs and entered the store area in the core of the shell.
"Fury, I dunno why you like training over there, but I've been electrocuted enough times for today." growled the priest while he paid Oannes, the shop owner, for the new potions. Fury looked surprised at his friend.
"Oh come on!" he said, "Those fishies aren't as bad as those Bone Fish you're usually at! You know I don't like boney monsters.."
After putting his potions in his bag, the priest walked to the place Fury sat. Fury had stood up and was now looking for food to buy from Oannes. Still mad at the Gobi that shocked him, the priest said:
"At least they're sensitive to my healing abilities." He sat down and waited for Fury to finish his purchase.
"True true," he replied. "Here's the money, sir" and gave Oannes the proper amount of mesos to fit the bill.
"Anyway," continued the priest as the two friends walked out the watery barrier into the open ocean again, "I promised Hellz I'd help his team out at the Vic dungeon. You know what he's like when it comes to promises."
"Oh.." said Fury, defeated by that argument. Not knowing what to do next he mumbled "So.. this ends our party?"
The priest looked at his friend and slowly said "Yeah, sorry mate. By the way, don't you need a new armor soon? That blue Battle Road is looking quite bad now."
Fury looked down at his armor and turned and twisted about to check out the back too. The more he looked, the sadder he looked and agreed.
"Iucounu, can't you lend me some mesos to let me buy a new armor? I'm not as rich as I used to be since I got this baby here." he said and looked proudly at his shining weapon.
"Dark Rituals aren't exactly cheap either..." said Iucounu.
Both buddies looked at each other's faces. Then both burst out in laughs.
"We haven't changed in all these years, have we?"
"Good one mate!"
"Well then," said the crusader while sheathing his sword, "I'll be off to El Nath. Huntin' Lycans for a BS."
The priest didn't quite understand and tilted his head while asking "BS?"
"Ohhh! Yeah, Blue Screamer. Yeah. You sold your previous one to buy your Sunrise right?"
"I confess. Thirty-five million mesos for that last one, hehe." Fury's smile went from ear to ear.
"Thirty-five?! And you're beggin' me for mesos now? You really haven't changed at all, haha!" Both the priest and the crusader laughed again.
"Well, good luck with the hunt, Fury!" Iucounu waved goodbye and half teleporting and walking he went towards the base of the tower that leads to the sky land Orbis.
"Good luck to you too, man." Fury said to himself.
He searched his bag for a magical red whip for its magic speeding ability, picked out a golden round Kalkan shield and sped off after his friend.
He knew, that by the time he'd arrive at the base of the tower, Iucounu would've long since used the Teleport Rock and be on his way to the Orbis Station to take the boat flight to Victoria.
Fury, however, would leave the tower after going from Basement Two to the first floor. Outside was, as always in El Nath, freezing cold and the crusader quickly ran towards the nearby town to warm up a bit, before setting out to the far east.
The snow and ice made the short run a slippery one, but Fury was prepared for it and enjoyed sliding to the market area. What he saw there wasn't all that ordinary.
A whole crowd of people were shouting and there was a special message on the board. It said that "there hasn't been snowfall in the past week."
"No new snow in the past week?!" surprised Fury said to himself. His expression turned serious.
"That's hard to believe, since there have never been two snowless days in a row since.. since people found this place!" he said, thinking out loud.
"Something is fishy here. And it ain't the Gobies. I guess the Lycans will have to wait."