Hey guys (and possibly females)! As I said before, review if you wanna. In terms of new things going on, I am at the point in writing where I plan to put Social Links if I even do them. I have no idea about this, so I organized a little poll over on my profile in order to assess what you guys/females (all seven of you who read to chapter 3 thus far) want me to do. I'm open to anything. So please go and vote!

My eyes flipped open to the sound of my alarm. I groaned, then rolled over and looked at the clock. It was 8:00.

"It's been way too long since I last got a chance to sleep in like this. Isn't that right, Ac?" I called Oni Achilles by that name for no other reason than that it annoyed him. He still wouldn't say anything, which was starting to worry me. I sat up, and my eyes were instantly drawn to the silver briefcase that was set up against my desk. It definitely piqued my curiosity, even though I already had an idea of what it was. I opened it, and was greeted with tools for a trade that I thought I had abandoned. There sat ten Evokers, tucked away in their own little piece of fluffy, protective material. I noticed, however, that there was one that stood out from the rest. The Evoker on the far left had a different model than the other ones. While the others looked like a typical semi-automatic handgun, this one was shaped like a revolver, with a interesting twist. This revolver seemed to have way too many barrels for even something as weird as this. I decided to take this one with me. However, looking at it, it seemed to be a little harder to control than the other Evokers, so I decided to take a standard one with me as well.

"Sounds like today is going to be a fun day." My phone went off right as I said that. It was a message from Mia.

Good morning! I know this is kind of early, but we have to go to school. Anyway, how about we all meet out in front of the usual spot at about 5?

I couldn't help but smile. After all, the "usual spot" she was talking about had been used by us for years now. I wonder if it has changed any? It was only 8:15 now, so I would be left wondering pretty much all day. Wait, 8:15? I realized that I had been staring at the Evokers for almost fifteen minutes. Talk about absorbed in your work. Oh well. I hopped in the shower and finally got to sit down for something to eat. I recalled that I was too busy last night to even bother trying to eat, so this would be my first meal commemorating my return to Athens. Fun, right?

After eating, I grabbed my set of two Evokers and holstered them. Looking around my new apartment, I realized that there was no reason for me to stay here. There was nothing to do. I remembered the gun range that was down the street from here. I decided that I would spend my day there. I picked up my M4 Carbine Rifle that was so lovingly given to me by my military superiors, and before I left, I checked myself. The man in the mirror was so different than when I had left to enroll in the military. He had straight black hair that hung down into his steely gray eyes. His face was devoid of all fat, burned off through hard exercise. He had a cleft chin, round face, and was tall, almost 6'6".

"Hehe. Been awhile since I just looked at myself. Anyway, time to go."

I looked at the target that I had been shooting at. It had a nice ring of bullet holes right in its head area.

"Still got it" I chucked. I looked at the clock. It was 4:30. I said my goodbyes and paid my tab, and walked out of the store and to the usual spot.

Our "usual spot" was just a building that was bought by the city a few years back that was renovated with furniture and the like. It was supposed to be a "gathering place" for the community, but no one but us wanted to be anywhere near it. Probably because the place was rumored to be haunted. Or not. Who knows? Anyway, I headed over there and walked in.

"He's here! Welcome back, Seth!" I walked in to see my friends waiting there for me. There was Mia, as well as two others, Colin and Sarah. Colin was a tall (almost 6'5"), thickly built person with green eyes and sharp features. He honestly looked like some of the people that I knew in the military, except he would never join. He did, however, play football and was pretty good at it, from what I heard.

Sarah was shorter than Colin, by about 4 or 5 inches. She was from the deep South, just like me, so we often ganged up and made fun of the Yank's stupid accents back in the good ol' days. She had strawberry blonde hair, light brown eyes, and was generally very pretty, so a lot of guys hit on her, at least from what I could glean from her and Mia's letters.

"What's up, guys?" I asked.

"Welp, we kinda were wondering what we would do today." Sarah decided to answer. "What do you suggest?"

"Why don't we sit down and have you guys catch me up to speed on what's happened during my absence."

"Alright. So..."

We spent a couple hours just talking. I was having so much fun talking and laughing with my old friends that I didn't want the day to be over. I sat and thought about what a huge difference this was for the military. I noticed that I was being talked to.

"Hey, earth to Seth!" Colin was talking to me. "Did you hear anything that I just said?"

"No, care to fill me in?"

"You could have at least tried to sound like you were paying attention." Colin tried his best to look hurt, but his smile was kind of ruining the whole setup.

"So what were you saying?"

"There are rumors going around that if you show up here at 11:11, then you can see the ghosts that haunt this place! Talk about crazy!"

"I dunno."Mia spoke up,"There is just something about this that seems too far-fetched to be fake. I think that we should try it."

I raised an eyebrow at her, but I thought I might as well go along with it. She was right. The rumor seemed to be a little too completely insane to not be at least somewhat real.

"Alright, Mia, have it your way. Let's all be here at 11 o'clock sharp to see what this is. We don't have school tomorrow, so this will be the perfect time to go."

I nodded and got up. Looking at my watch, I saw that it was only 7:45. It was going to be a long wait.

"Hey, how about we go out to eat for a while? That should cut down the wait time." Sarah spoke up.

"Sure, girlie. You got it."

"Quit calling me 'girlie'! You sound like my dad!"

I couldn't help but laugh at her.