AN: Thank you for the reviews, they mean a lot, they really do :D and Smith, regarding your question-

The Crystal Swordsman Alatheus "Yes, I appear more in the future"

Me: "Alatheus, I didn't ask you to-"

Alatheus: "I know, but considering you left the damned door open..."

Me: "The door...? Ah crap, knew I forgot something... anyway, hope you lot enjoy the next chapter, over and out!" :D

"That last boss was pathetic" Joel chuckled as they walked up the staircase and entered floor twenty-five

"Joel, you got punched… by its foot!" Ross taunted, face palming, "it didn't even touch the rest of us…"

Dan rolled his eyes; Joel was being the same person as he always was, one of the biggest pricks in gaming history, "I still don't get how that's even possible…"

"Hello there" a girl smiled as she walked over, she had a heavy Italian accent and looked about seventeen, with light purple eyes and a bubbly smile "Welcome to floor twenty-five, the Grand Casino floor, and the home of the legendary Mithril Casino"

Adam walks over to her, raising an eyebrow and standing beside her with a small smirk on his face "Hey gal"

"Um… may I help you?" The girl sweat drops slightly, stepping to the side

"Adam" Megan huffed, placing her hands on her hips in disgust "Quit pestering the poor girl" then turns to the girl "Apologies, Adam is a loner in both this world and the real world, he's just that desperate for attention"

The girl chuckles lightly "it's no problem" then clicks her fingers and curtsies "My name is Crystal; I am a dancer at the Casino"

Dan smiled "Name's Dan" he points to Joel and Ross "That's Moron and Ross"

"Hey!" Joel yells, raising his hand and giving Daniel the middle finger "Go fuck yourself, and my name is Joel!"

Dan nods to Adam "Mr Fail-to-Flirt over there is Adam" and finally points to Tomm and Megan "and that there is the pair of lovebirds, Tomm and Megan"

Crystal smiles, nodding "Ok, I got to go, but will I see you guys later at the casino?"

Adam nods, wrapping an arm around her shoulders "Sure thing Beautiful"

Crystal smiles nodding, then slips out of his arm and dashes to the Casino

Tomm face-palmed "Adam…" then simply sighs, not bothering to finish his sentence…

"Hey, wait!" Adam yelled, raising a hand

Crystal turned, hearing him "Hmm?"

"Could I come with you? Just to get to know you better?"

"Sure" she smiled, as Adam ran over and joined her, the two of them heading towards the Casino…

"So…" Adam smiled putting his arm around her shoulder "What's it like being a dancer for a famous casino?"

"Umm… it pays a lot of money, which helps with supporting the family, buying food and water… you know"

Adam nods, smiling "yea, I get ya…"

Dan raised an eyebrow as they watched Adam and Crystal leave "who else thinks this could go wrong so, so quickly…?"

Ross nods in agreement "bet you it won't last long…"

"Come on guys" Joel shrugged slightly "give him a try at least, I mean, you never know… this could work out for them"

Tomm gave what sounded between a laugh and a snort "in his dreams…"

A couple of hours pass, and the six remaining gamers are training in a field when Crystal and Adam approach them, something in her hands and him smiling "you seven are heading towards the boss room, right?"

Jordan nods "Yes" then pulls a bag full of confetti out of his jacket and chucks it at Joel "Buffs be upon you, good sir!"

"Thanks!" Joel catches the bag, and opens it to reveal… an explosion which launched him (again) through a Tree that stood next to the Casino.

"GODDAMMIT JORDAN!"

Crystal sweat-drops slightly "Ok…"

"Don't mind them, their morons" Dan interrupts "but yea, we're heading towards the boss" he nods

"Hey Dan" Jordan called out

"What?" Dan turned, looking at him

"Duck"

Dan ducks as Jordan throws a bag to the girl "Buffs be upon you, my dear"

Crystal was unsure at first after witnessing what happened with Joel and the first bag, but opened the bag anyway to reveal… 250 gold coins

"Thanks" Crystal smiled sweetly, then looked at them "Come on, I'll take you to the boss room"

They arrive at the boss room, but something is not right… They look around the room expectantly, but it soon became apparent that the room was empty.

"Umm…" Joel looked around "Where's the big death thingy?"

Ross looked over at Joel with a blank expression, then face-palms "Fucking hell Joel, I knew you were retarded, but…"

Tomm steps forward "It is strange that there is no boss… what's going on?"

"Umm… may I ask all of you something… before you go?" Crystal looked at them, a slight blush on her cheeks "Do you… think I'm beautiful?"

Adam nods "Beautiful? You're not…"

Crystal twitched, before Adam finished his sentence- "You're beyond Beautiful"

Dan nods, a small smile on his face "I agree with Adam on that, you're beautiful Crys"

She blushed deeply, glancing away embarrassed "T-Thank you…"

Finally, it was down to Joel's answer… "Umm… I mean you're nice but not my type"

"W-What… was… that…?"

Jordan sweat-drops, as they all stepped backwards slightly "Is it me… or is shit going down?"

Crystal's smiled had vanished instantly and her hands were giving the smallest, but still noticeable, twitches as a purple flame-like aura slowly appeared around her, eyes gleaming slightly…

Ross turned to Joel "Really? You gay bastard, couldn't you wait till AFTER we left to say that?"

Crystal giggled quietly, which became louder and louder until it became a shriek and was surrounded by an aura that was royal purple in colour "You'll all have a pleasant death in hell!" there was a blinding flash, as she now floated there in her true form, a Succubus. She had large bat wings coming from her shoulder blades and was wearing a purple veil, like a wedding dress but was more transparent and had two bracelets; one on each wrist, her hair was platinum in colour and went down her back, stopping just past the ro of her thighs.

"I'm guessing this is the boss?" Joel asked

"No Joel, she's a random fucking enemy," Ross sighed clearly fed up with Joel,

Dan sighed, drawing his blades "Can't just be straight for once can you?"

"I'M… NOT… GAY!" Joel yelled, getting angry like he always did when they called him gay

"Can we just kill this thing please?" Tomm sighed, drawing his sword and shield

Writing appeared in front of the Succubus reading: "Lucy the Vain" and fourteen green health bars come up beside it.

Megan unholsters her revolver "Cover me" and started firing shots at Lucy's head

who laughed, raising her hands in front of her which put up a reflective shield, causing the bullets to simply bounce off around the room as she giggled insanely

"She can reflect Bullets?!" Joel yells, "But I bet you can't block this…" charging up a blue flaming orb between his hands "HADOUKEN!"

Lucy smiled devilishly, vanishing suddenly-

"Ach!" Joel spins around "Where is she? Where…"

"Right here Hunnie bun" she grins appearing behind him. She brought her hand up, her fingers in a claw-like shape, as Joel was suddenly lifted into the air by a purple aura and hung there spasing in pain as she drained his health

"Joel" Dan yelled, dashing forward and jumping, slashing Lucy's back in mid-air which had caused her to screech and drop Joel

"Thanks…" Joel murmured, as Ross healed him. The seven looked at each other as they realised this would be a tough fight…

"Ah!" Tomm groaned as he is launched into a wall, slumping to the ground in pain, shaking his head gently and standing up "grr… Bitch!"

Lucy floated backwards weakly; landing "Gu… u…" then shook herself, standing up "Sorry Boys…" then exploded into a purple fire-like aura "but playtime, is over…!" She smiled, raising her hands, as there was a blinding light

Adam raised a hand to his eyes, shielding them "Crystal!" moving towards her "Crys! Joel didn't mean it, Calm down, please!"

"Damn it Adam!" Ross shook his head; his eyes shielded as well "That isn't Crystal! You can't reason with her, she won't listen!"

"Mmm… Fine!" Adam removed his hand from his eyes, drawing his knife of bloodloss from its sheath and dashed forward; "Sorry girl, but I gotta do this!" he jumped, slashing horizontally at the Succubus' torso

"AAAHHHH!"

There was a massive explosion, knocking all the players back into a wall…

The smoke cleared, as the gamers stood up.

Dan rubbed his head painfully from when he had hit the wall "did we…win?"

Megan murmured, getting out of the wall weakly before standing, shaking her head "No, look…" and points towards the staircase, where Lucy is seen kneeling, hands across her torso, crying in pain

Joel gets up, and runs towards the figure intending to finish it with a single punch "Die Bitch!"

The figure's head snaps up suddenly, and she vanishes-

"Wha…" Joel mumbles, looking around for Crystal "Succu-Bitch more like!" he yelled

Lucy appears right in front of Joel, "Bad boy…!" kicking him rapidly, and launches him back into the wall

Lucy giggles insanely, letting her arms fall to her sides and walks towards them, her torso bleeding heavily, and her dress was badly torn and covered in blood, with some blood on her face as well. She smiled, giggling insanely before coughing up some blood "…you thought you could win…?" her purple eyes glow "T-The fun begins N-Now… are you R-Ready…? HeeHehe…" her aura becomes stronger and she laughs again

Dan groans, then looked at Lucy's health bars "She has two bars left… this must be her enraged form… but she doesn't seem mad at all…"

"T-that's because I-I'm not…" Lucy giggles walking forward weakly, her bat-like wings spreading out and her eyes glow purple

"I'm… h-having lots of f-fun… HeeHee…"

"Take this!" A figure dashed forward, speeding past them and slashing upward with their weapon, launching Lucy into a wall that created an explosion as she made contact with the wall

"Who?" Tomm turns, looking at the person who had just appeared-

Alatheus turns to them, frowning slightly "You kids ok?"

Joel shook his head "you again! Where the hell'd you come from?"

He chuckles "I see you remember me…" Turning to Lucy "this isn't her enraged state, by the way; she reaches that when on her last health bar…"

Lucy frowns weakly, dragging herself forward "Spoil-sport… I h-have to kill you n-now…" and smiled as she watched her health vanish and go onto its last bar "HeeHee…" she was surrounded in the purple aura yet again, her eyes going a dark purple as she smiled "here we go!" Then speeds forward at Alatheus, intending to sink her poison-coated nails into his skin

Alatheus puts a foot back to brace himself and draws his sword "Come at me, Bitch" then dashing forward and raising his sword to counter her nails, swinging his leg around and catching the back of her legs, knocking her to the ground and swinging his sword downwards.

Lucy smiled insanely, disappearing and reappearing in front of Alatheus, slashing at him

Megan swears and so reloads her revolver "come on guys, he needs our help!" and pulls the trigger repeatedly, but Lucy turned and raises the reflective wall, making the bullets bounce away yet again "Damn…" Megan hissed

Dan, Ross and Tomm dashed forward, both drawing their blades while Ross held his hammer out "Now!"

Lucy turned to them, just as the three blades struck her, severing her arms and as the hammer struck her directly in the stomach, launching her into a wall

"Guuh!" she screams as she hits the wall, falling to her knees and vomiting up blood "Gi… uhh…." Lucy slumped forward, her arms cut off and weakly sitting on her knees, unable to move…

Dan, Ross and Tomm chuckled, and high-five each other as Alatheus walked over and stood in front of her, watching as her last health drains to nearly nothing, "one last hit should do the trick…"

Alatheus holds his sword to her neck, and smiles slightly "Any last words foul Demon?"

"Y-yes…" she looks up to Adam and smiles lightly "A-Adam… thank you… f-for truly loving me… u-unlike others… I… L-Love you… too…" then closed her eyes as Alatheus landed the final blow, bringing his sword up and cutting through her neck, her body collapsing to the ground and despawning followed by the message: "Congratulations! You beat the first major boss; you have obtained a pair of 'Fishnet Stockings'. Please progress onto the next floor"

Alatheus turns to them, sheathing his sword "congrats, but…" he smirks, as two other players' teleport next to him; one had a large mace and a shield while the other had a minigun.

"I have a test for you kids, have a good one" and turns, leaving his companions behind

"Heh, our lucky day, hey Jonathon?" the first player chuckled

"Sure is Damian…" replies the second one, smiling

Jordan chuckled, looking smug "Heh, you wish!" then chucks a bag of confetti at them "Debuffs be upon you!"

Damian catches the bag and opens it, chuckling "Heh… was this meant to be bad…?" pulling out a couple of magazines with red bullets "Thanks for the flame rounds" he smiles, putting them into his minigun

"JORDAN what the hell!" Joel turned to him angrily, slapping him across the face.

"Heh…" Jordan chuckled nervously, as they all turned to the two members of the guild, preparing themselves…