Chapter 4

Last time

I look at the item and see it is a longsword; Demon's blade. I equip it and pull the blade from its sheath and we both look at it in awe.

"Woah…."

This time

It's the day after the events of receiving the Demon's blade, early in the morning, and I am woken up abruptly by the sound of shuffling and steel coming in contact with wood. I sit up to see that it was just Erin, who looked as if she had already been up for a couple minutes.

"Look who finally decided to wake up, lazy. We got up so early yesterday to do a quest, which you got an awesome sword from, and you won't even wake up so we can do a quest I want to do." Erin says with a little bit of sarcasm in her voice.

"Hey, don't antagonize me! We never made a plan to get up extra early so we can do a quest." I say sitting up and crossing my arms.

"Well, it's a plan now! So get up, lazy butt!" she says jokingly as she flips her dagger up and down in the air.

"Grr, fine." I get up and get ready submissively, quickly equipping my armor and sword, then walking downstairs to the ground floor of the inn.

"Alright, I get to choose the quest today. Follow me." She says, somehow getting to the bottom of the stairs before me. I nod with an "Ok" and then start following her as she leads me out of the inn and through the town. She looks around for a quest giver with a smile on her face.

After about 10 minutes, she finally finds a quest giver. This one seemed to be a large, overweight guy wearing a kimono and had long hair that was partially put into a bun on the back of his head; he looks a lot like a sumo, I'm just going to call him jumbo.

Once we approach Jumbo, he starts talking. "Hello, travelers. Please aid me in my time of need. Monsters have seized my home and taken my wife as hostage." The man says, owning a deep, Japanese accent. Great, now he seems like a samurai.

Erin nods, "Sure! We can help!" she says, accepting the quest and it appears in the top right hand corner of the HUD.

"Yes. We must save his famiry! FOR HONOR-U!" I say, mocking the quest giver's accent.

"Oh, shut it." She pushes me, laughing.

I chuckle and smile. I look at the quest.

Quest: In My Time of Need

Objective: Rescue the man's wife and kill the monsters in his home.

Reward: 4,000 Exp, 2,000 Col, 2 healing crystals, 1 teleport crystal, and a rare weapon.

"Oo, a rare weapon. This one is yours since I got the last hit bonus yesterday."

"Thanks. Come on. Let's do this!"

I nod and unsheathe my sword, she takes out her dagger. We start sprinting to the man's small home, which has its windows broken and its door kicked down, most likely because of the monsters that have broken into it. Before we can even reach the front door though, four, level 6 wolves hop out of the two broken front windows and they charge at us, snarling.

"Alright! Action already!" I charge up a horizontal sword skill and swing my sword as fast as I can at two of them, making 2 large red particle slices at the wolves on the right, making them burst into blue crystals.

Erin smirks as the other two charge her left, but right before they try to bite at her she dodges out of the way and charges up a sword skill. She turns around and stabs the blade straight through the back of one wolf and slices it open, then she charges at the last and darts forward like a bullet, slicing straight through the beast and causing massive amounts of damage. She lands with a roll and the two wolves burst into crystals behind her.

"Get ready to fight some more!" I yell with a thumbs up as I continue charging towards the house. Erin quickly joins me.

She jumps in through one of the windows, with a sword skill charged, and she stabs her dagger through a wolf inside the home and continues fighting the monsters inside. There are about 16 wolves inside, and it seems like they will be attacking in waves.

I charge up another one of sword skills and charge through the front door at full speed with my sword raised above my head. Once inside, I thrust my sword forwards and stab the blade through one wolf. I pull the blade out, sideways, and I slice through two other wolves. The four we have just killed together burst into blue crystals.

The rest of the wolves charge at us and we dash right back at them. Erin, insanely quick, starts to slice and shank at the wolves, moving so quick it is hard to keep up with her tiny dagger as it creates dozens of red injuries on her half of the wolves. I move just a bit slower, spinning and cutting through my half with incredible skill, causing massive amounts of damage with fewer cuts than Erin's dagger; damn this sword was amazing!

After a few moments of fighting, the boars we were fighting burst into blue crystals and we stand up. "ALRIGHT! THAT WAS AWESOME! WOO!" I yell, laughing.

"Yeah, but look at our health." She says with a bit of relieved sigh.

I look and our health bars have dropped dangerously low into the red region. I gulp, "Yeah… we should be more careful from now on." I chuckle nervously.

"Yeah, and buy some new armor." She says the idea as if it was obvious… which it was…

"Let's do that when we get back to town. But, first, let's complete the quest and get you that 'rare weapon.'" I smile and she nods back in agreement, with a smirk.

We look around for the woman that we needed to save, only to find her hiding in a closet in the back of the home. After a brief explanation of who we are, and convincing the lady that we aren't with the monsters that attempted to murder her, she comes willingly and we lead her back to Jumbo, that samurai guy.

"Thank you very much for helping me and my wife. Please, accept this sword as a token of our gratitude." The man picks up the sword, which was leaning against the log behind him and was wrapped in cloth, and holds it in front of Erin. He carefully unwraps the blade and it appears to be a beautiful, ornate katana, excellently crafted and it has an Oni symbol engraved into the handle. Erin happily accepts the sword, obviously amazed at how awesome it is, and we complete the quest. We each level up again and we dish out our earned points to where we want them to go.

Erin equips the sword and it rests very nicely on her back in a sheath that was generated by the game.

"Awesome, now we both have sexy swords." I chuckle and smile.

She smiles and chuckles, "I had a lot of fun, Sean. In fact, even though we are technically trapped in this game and may actually die, I am happy."

I stare at her, smiling widely at that.

"Let's do another quest, okay? I wanna test this bad boy out!" she says very enthusiastically and I nod.

"Alright! That's the spirit! LET'S GO!"

A/N: I had a lot of fun writing this one, so much action! AND ERIN GETS A SICK NEW SWORD! AWESOME! things seem to be going pretty good for our heroes. stay tuned for next time. I may be introducing some canon characters into this story. and maybe some characters of my own imagination. WHO KNOWS! YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND OUT! :D