So I realized that I might not actually get five reviews or twenty follows with how small the fandom is… but I also realized that I kinda wanna write a story of what happens after Long Dian is defeated… Well, I'll just have to wait and see if anyone actually meets Xiao Lan in real life… I kinda wanna see Gui's reaction… but that will have to wait 'til the manhua is updated… I don't feel like ruining it for myself by reading the novels that have been translated… I'll do that when the manhua is finished… Anyways, here's the next chapter! I wonder if I'll get it done today…

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"Night, as we have discussed before…" That's what my mother dragged me out for, so I couldn't escape. Well, I guess I could completely ignore her but that would just be rude and I'd be punished for it. The only option that I could see was to escape to the teleport, which was actually quite conveniently placed.

"I'm sorry mother, I'm afraid I must cut this trip short. I'm not feeling so well so I suppose that I should go home to rest." I bowed to her before making my way quickly to the teleport.

"I hope you feel better quickly, we don't want to miss the date that it's going to happen." She seemed worried about my health, but more worried about the annoying issue that I never wanted to even think about until the right time. I stepped into the teleport and clicked in my address to the keypad that was on the side, going to the middle of the teleport and keeping my mind blank. Soon enough, I felt the 'flying sensation' that comes with being inside a teleport. I went immediately to my room, deciding to play some more Second Life and level my character up some more before I could meet up with the ones I had met on the trip. I went into my room, pausing when something looked out of place. One of my katana had moved to the right by a bit, barely noticeable if you didn't know exactly where everything is. I walked over to it, noticing the small prints on the glass case, before glancing behind me. I visibly relaxed when I saw Shade stand up from the spot he was lying next to my bed, a spot not visible to the door, and I kneeled down.

"Are you trying to give sissy a heart attack?" I cooed to the gray wolf, scratching behind his ears as he looked back to me. Even though wolves were extinct, if you had the money you could buy a cloned one. You just had to be able to buy the DNA before buying the cloning device and the time of someone who knew how to work it. Not very many people knew how to work it so, even though wolf DNA is not as popular as a lion's or a tiger's, it was kind of difficult to get it to happen. Sadly, one family could only clone an animal once every five years since there was such a high demand for cloned animals, so I only had one wolf. Eventually, I wanted to have a pack of wolves but I would wait another year and a half to get another wolf cloned. "Well, I think sissy is going to play her game, come lay down with her." I said lovingly to the wolf as he followed what I told him he could do. I closed the door, picking up the headband on the way, before I went back to my wolf. Last time, mother saw Shade on the bed with me and freaked out horribly. It was rather upsetting. Before I climbed into the bed, I let my hair out of the bun and the diamonds and rubies fell out almost immediately and I undressed. Luckily for me, no one had bothered to take me out of my training uniform so I could be comfortable while I napped. I went under the comforter and shimmied my way over to where Shade was laying down and scratched his ears before I put the headband on.

I closed my eyes, feeling myself fall, before I opened them again to see the fire and the group was nowhere to be found but I was in the same spot that I was in before. I stood up, stretching, before I looked down to Yoru to see he was waking up. "Come on, Yoru. Let's get to the next town." I said gently, rubbing his head as he stood up. A gigantic wolf was dangerous but only if you're the enemy of one. If you were friends with one, they were absolute sweethearts.

After an hour or two of wandering, I finally found the path we were following before. I gave a cheer when I realized that I was no longer lost before I tried to figure out which way to go. I believe the direction I was following the path to was… to the right? If it isn't then I can always just follow the path to go back. I stepped over the bushes that seemed to be lining the path before turning to the right and following the path that way. It took forever and an hour but finally, finally, we were out of the forest and back to the plains. "I never thought I'd be happy to see the sky." I muttered to myself as I was momentarily blinded by the sudden light from the sun. I saw a sign post a few paces ahead and walked around it to read it. 'Black Forest: WARNING. Do not stray from path. Possibilities of getting lost are high.' I stared at it blankly before turning my head. "Really. Really now. Okay, I see how it is. Pain in the ass, that's what this was. Right, Yoru?" I turned to the black wolf beside me to see he was hanging his head, supposedly at the fail that was written on a sign post… that was not on the other side of the forest. Probably at the fail of us, not at the fail of the sign post, but still. The sign post was more of a fail than looking for mobs to hack at. "Let's just move on, Yoru." We had been standing in front of the sign post for the past six minutes so I turned away from it and looked down the path to see some sort of wall enclosed city. I believe this was the city I've been looking for. A city with a bunch of strong players based there. I wanted to be able to fight some of them. You don't become better until you fight your way to the top. Plus, I believe that I was in the top ten ranking on the website the last I checked. My fame was large but no one seemed to know who I was. I have a feeling that my father had something to do with that. Telling strange stories about my character to people who played Second Life. I moved my bangs to the side, out of my eyes, so I could see where I was going completely. I set off to go to the citadel, only pausing if a monster came at me (which, nine out of ten times, it was a monster wolf), and finally, after an hour and half of walking and hacking, made it. I wonder why it seemed to be taking me much longer to walk to places than usual. Hm. I looked at the clock to see that it was six, about the time that the maids would start making dinner, before I looked back to the gate. It was rather large but it didn't seem all that heavy. It'd be great to keep attackers out of the city though. I walked through the doors, not pausing for very long.

I turned every corner, looking for the face of a character I could remember being on the list, before I got to the castle. I sighed and leaned against the side of it, next to the door, and decided to wait 'til I found the person's face in the crowd. I believe his named was… something Fox, that's what I could remember. I believe he was ranked first or second when I first started the game a month ago. I couldn't quite remember. Didn't much matter to me what his ranking is now, I just wanted to fight the guy. He seemed to be an interesting person to fight to me. I took the Dragon Blade off of my back and set it, point down, in front of me so I could lean on it and observe the people better. There seemed to be a ton of people in the city, slightly upsetting for me, and a lot of them were pretty big avatars. Some of them I could recognize as being on a couple posters advertising Second Life. I believe it was some guy named Prince that was used the most though. Haven't seen him yet, maybe he isn't even in this city. "You know, with how impatient you look… I would think you were waiting for a meteor shower to happen to the city." I looked over to see a samurai looking person. Wait, that's the playboy guy. Well, the light is better now so it's kind of understandable how I didn't see him as a samurai. Plus, I was distracted with Yoru for the most part. I blinked at him before turning back to the crowd to look for Fox again. "Who're you looking for?" He asked, curiosity stuck in his voice as he leaned closer to look where I was looking.

"Someone named Fox." I said shortly, I really didn't feel like dealing with curiosity.

"Fox… well, I wish you good luck. I'm going inside." He didn't seem all that interested in me in the first place. Maybe it was because I was a guy; he seemed to have more of an interest in girls. Eh, whatever, didn't matter to me. I stood there for another hour, bored out of my mind, before the door to the castle opened and someone came outside. I looked over to see the elf leader from before, the one who looked like that girl I saw at the shopping district, before I realized something. That's Prince. The Prince, the one every girl is in love with. The one who's ruthlessness in battle is known far and wide. The one who's gruesome imagination won him a match in a tournament by forfeit of the other team.

"You're… Prince?" I struggled to start the conversation with the question, looking at him straight in the eyes when he turned to me.

"You're that dude, the Nightmare guy!" He seemed shocked as he pointed at me, having jumped away out of surprise.

"Yes. I'm looking for someone with Fox in their avatar name. Do you happen to know where I could find him?" He scratched his head in thought, seeming to get dizzy thinking of somewhere that I could find this Fox guy.

"If you're meaning Arctic Fox, I think he might be at the pub with Kenshin…" Prince thought for a while, before he grinned and started laughing sheepishly with his hand behind his head. "I'm sorry; I don't know where you could find him for sure. He got mad at me the last time I PM'd him for something other than a fight."

"That's what I plan to ask him for when I meet him." Prince seemed shocked for a moment before, looking strange as all hell while doing it, PM-ing someone. He paused for a moment before nodding, turning back to me with a smile.

"Arctic Fox should be here soon, I told him that someone came to challenge him for a fight. He seemed to be in a rather good mood."

"Good." I smiled, bringing the Dragon Blade back around so that it set on my back again, tightening the strap so that it stayed secure on my back. I was ready for the fight; I could only hope that he was too.

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Wow, I think my character is on a suicide mission… -.-' She should've chosen Wicked or Prince or even Doll to fight… Why'd she set out for Fox? Kenshin was barely able to defeat him… ^.^' but I guess now we know Nightmares aren't all they're cracked up to be…

Insulting herself because she can,

Nightmare ;)