I'm not entirely sure if there IS a character named Santo Devolo, so therefore I don't own him...I think...yeah, pretty sure I don't...I don't own Ragnarok Online but I DO own Aromia and Crickette. THEY ARE MINE! Possessive I am being? Nah, couldn't be. This is my first fanfic let alone being my first RO fanfic. Please review and thanks!

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After three hours of traveling, our heroes are having un-technical difficulties.

"GAH! Stupid map! I can't read it!" Aromia complained.

"Uhhhh….. maybe you're reading it upside down," Crickette said cautiously not to get her partner mad.

"Pshaw! NO! I can't read it because it's in ITALIAN!" Aromia shouted to no one in particular. Soon Aromia started to swear with all her might at the piece of paper in her hand before turning to Crickette with a kind smile saying, "Whatever you do, Crick, never buy a map from the Smiley Mask Girl, ok?"

"Heh, ok I won't," Crickette replied with a smile of relief from the conclusion of her partner's tantrum, "But I wonder where we are…" she pondered.

As the duo stood and stared at the ground in deep thought, a poring bounced by. Then a drops, then a poporing. Soon the ground couldn't be seen because of the vast living jelly creatures hopping around merrily doing absolutely nothing BUT bouncing around. Our heroes didn't quite notice this until they were knee deep in green, orange, and pink jelly creatures.

(A/N: Are they REALLY heroes? Oh, well. They are as long as I'M the author.)

"Um…..Aromia…..what are we knee deep in?" Crickette asked.

"IT'S JELLY! YUMMY!" Aromia cried merrily as she picked up a poring. But just as she was going to take a bite, she saw that the glob of jelly had two tiny black eyes and a thin lined mouth smiling at her.

"MERPH! ...Merph? IT'S ALIVE!" Aromia shouted as she threw the poring ten feet away from her. The poring's landing was soft and squishy because it landed on it's brethren poring, drops, and poporing, but never the less, it started crying from being rejected.

"HA! TAKE THAT YOU UNEDIBLE JELLY DEMON!" Aromia laughed at the top of her lungs before something larger than her approached from behind.

"LOOK OUT! A GIANT UNEDIBLE JELLY DEMON OF DEATH IS BEHIND YOU!" Crickette shouted. Aromia was just in time to turn around and see a Master Ring coming straight at her along with a large swarm of poring, drops, and poporings trailing behind it.

"This looks like it's time for my handy-dandy………DAGGER!" Aromia proclaimed, but by the time she had looked at her waist belt to pull out her dagger and look up at the Master Ring again, it was already dead.

Aromia simply said, agitated, "Well that just takes the fun out of everything, doesn't it?"

Something had caught Crickette's eye though, "Look up there, Aromia!"

Up on a looming hill was a boy wearing strange clothing and a large sakkat. The boy had long white hair whoressembled one whowas in the assassin's class. In one of his hands he was holding a small shurikan, the same type that the Master Ring seemed to have been vanquished with.

"WHO THE BLOODY HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" Aromia shouted at the top of her voice.

"I am Santo Devolo!" the boy said, "And just so you know, I'm NOT at your service."

Aromia was quite confused, "Then why'd you kill that Master Ring for us?" meanwhile, Crickette was drowning in the sea of porings, drops, and poporings.

Santo Devolostood there, confused.But only for a split second, "I HAVE MY REASONS!"

"Suuure you do," Aromia muttered under her breathwhile saving Crickette from choking on the jelly creatures.

Once the boy had finally regained his composure, he started to speak once more, "No matter," he jumped into the air and threw the ninja star he was holding at Aromia, "Till we meet again……BWAHAHAHAHAHA" And with that, he disappeared.

When the shurikan was only a few feet from Aromia, it transformed into a rose before piercing the dirt.

Along with the rose landed a small tag that read, "Junko's Magic Store $0.25"

"Tch, loser," muttered Aromia, "crazy, crazy loser."

"Well, that was a bit awkward," Crickette said, "but the good news is that we don't have to fight the Master Ring anymore."

"Yeah," Aromia said absentmindedly, "C'mon, let's go."

As the duo left, they didn't notice the young assassin watching them from behind a nearby tree. A thought of realization had then just struck the boy, "Great," he said, "that was my last shurikan let alone my last magic shop shurikan……damn it all."

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Ta-Da! It's longer than the rest so far! BOO-YA! Please review, comments help a lot! YOU CAN CHANGE THE FUTURE WITH A SINGLE REVIEW! No, you can't. I was just kidding. I'd just like to know how to make it better. Thanks!