A/N: I am going to camp over the weekend, so I thought I'd be nice to my readers and finish up this chapter before I leave. All of your reviews are completely awesome, and makes me feel the warm fuzzies inside every time I read them, so please keep reviewing with your thoughts!
Also, if you haven't checked it out lately, I decided to make a little one-shot romance/drama. Leave me some reviews on what you think on that,too!
The power behind my thrust made my arm actually enter the hole I left in the undead werewolf's chest (I didn't even know a zombie werewolf was even possible!). I pulled my arm out of the hole, and the body fell with a loud thump. I grimaced at the green ooze that was up to my bicep. "So gross." I mumbled to myself, shaking the ooze off me. This discomfort left me quite distracted- So distracted in fact, that I did not notice the Skeleton Werewolf mini-boss stalking up behind me. The Skeleton Werewolf grabbed me from behind by the neck, choking my airway. The giant lifted me off the ground and knocked my sword out of my hand in one single motion, just leaving me hanging twenty feet in the air by the neck. I struggled for even a small breath, clawing at his bony hand with my nails. Just when I thought I'd be sent to the rebirth point for sure, a voice rang out.
"Holy Blessing!" It cried, a gold light surrounding the Skeleton Werewolf. The monster howled, and threw me to the ground. I didn't like the taste of the dirt the first time I tried it when I first had logged into the game, and I sure as hell didn't like it the second time. My arms shook violently as I lifted myself up, seeing a small puddle of blood where my mouth and neck were. I touched my neck and winced. I didn't know I lost that much health!
"Curatio!" The voice shouted once more, now recognizing it to be male. White light surrounded me, and I felt the sliced skin around my throat reconnect and mend together, as if nothing had ever happened. The small scratches that stung my cheeks, chin and mouth that I had felt also seemed to have disappeared as well. Gotta love a priest.
The boss was furious that it had lost its prey, and started to lumber towards the priest at an alarming speed. Its speed was no match for mine, though. I grabbed my sword and raced after it, jumping on its back when I was close enough. I clung to its spine as it whipped around back and forth, trying to shake me off and make a grab for me. I gritted my teeth and made my ascent up its back till I reached its shoulders. I took my sword and plunged it right between two of its vertebrae. The top portion, which contained a little of the neck and its skull, fell off smoothly to the ground. The body fell apart and crumbled right after it; leaving me in a sprawled mess in the pile of loot and bones. I removed a part of a pinky finger from underneath of me, "Ugh, that wasn't painless at all." My sarcasm rolling off my tongue.
"That... Was really cool..." The priest whispered with awe. I quirked an eyebrow, a little bewildered at what was apparently 'cool'. The priest, who looked a boy no older than twelve, blushed a little as he saw my confused look. "I-I mean, how you took down that boss! Most warriors hack and whack until it dies, making things drag on for a long time. But you took it down with one move, and how you did it was just... So cool..."
I stood up, and smiled at him. "It's not as cool as you think, kid. I don't have that much strength or stamina, I just knew the right place to stick my blade."
His whole face went red, looking furious he exclaimed, "I am not a little kid! I'm almost eighteen for the love of God!" I stared, my mouth slightly ajar. This guy is actually older than me!? He looks like he should still be in primary school! The priest blinked a few times, and started to hurriedly apologize. "I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry! Please forgive me, I didn't mean to yell! It's just so many people keep thinking I'm like ten or eleven and it's really frustrating and-"
I couldn't help it, I started laughing uncontrollably. So hard in fact I fell back down, clutching at my sides. Are you serious? Are you serious!? "O-Oh my-haha! Really? Really?"
The priest frowned, "Stop laughing! Do you know how hard it is to find a girlfriend looking like this!? I can't hit on a girl without her thinking it's cute that a 'kid' has a crush on her, or that they're weirded out by my baby face!"
I calmed myself enough to speak clearly, "I-I'm sorry! It's just... So weird. And coming from me, that's saying a lot because my whole family is weird!" I finally stopped laughing, and cleared my throat. I stood up once more, and held out my hand. "I'm Yi Min, what about you?"
The priest seemed to relax a bit, and took my hand. "Zhi Sano*."
"Chinese and Latin, huh? That's an interesting combination." I pointed out as we started to walk towards Infinite City. Zhi turned to me in great surprise.
"You know Latin!?" He gasped, quite astonished at my knowledge. I couldn't help but smile at his expression.
"A little bit. My father is a well known professor of literature, so I kind of got spoon fed all sorts of things. It is really rare for people to recognize Latin, anymore." Zhi nodded vigorously, his dark brown hair getting messier and messier.
"Wow, that's so cool! The reason why I know it is because I want to be a medieval historian! A lot of documents are in Latin, so I better know it well if I am going to be the best there can be!" Zhi said excitedly, fiery determination in his eyes.
Seeing the look in his eyes also fired me up. "Yeah! I want to be an amazing computer programmer, and I am going to do all that I can to learn to make it better and faster! I replied, feeling a crazed smile tugging on my lips at the thought of being hailed as the top programmer in the world. As we continued down the path, Infinite City's walls in sight, we excitedly talked about this and that- A marker of a new friendship.
We decided to get a bite to eat, and sat down at a table. As we were looking through our menus, the waitress came up to take our order. I ordered two servings of Sanbeiji, three things of Cong you Bing and some Baobing for dessert.* Zhi looked curiously at me, probably wondering if I could possibly eat everything. My dear friend, my mother still eats me under the table! Zhi then made his order, obviously flirting with the waitress the entire time. She seemed greatly amused by his efforts, as if a toddler was announcing he wanted to marry his mother. I couldn't help but chuckle, which seemed to have flustered the waitress for some reason. Did I embarrass her? When she left our table, Zhi stuck his bottom lip out. "No fair, Yi Min! She won't even bat an eyelash at me, but you make one noise and she's falling all over you!"
I was bewildered by his comment, "What are you talking about, Zhi? I just seemed to have embarrassed her somehow, that's all." I stated matter-of-factly. There was a loud thump from the table closest to us, that had two cloaked figures that were sitting quietly. One of them was now rubbing their wrist, muttering under their breath. The waitress came back with our food and rocketed towards the table with the cloaked figures as soon as she set everything down. I started working on my chicken, "You know, if you're so ba'thered by yur looks why didn't you chanse them?" I said with my mouth full of delicious meat. Another thump was heard from the cloaked table, with the same cloaked figure rubbing their hand now. What a clumsy person!
"That's what happened, though. I did change them." Zhi said as he finished swallowing one of his mouthfuls, "I'm actually much more mature looking in real life, and I asked the person helping me if I could a little more boyish right before entering the game for the first time. They didn't even let me see if I liked it or not after they changed it, throwing me right into the game! When I went to look in a reflection, I found myself looking like this!" He pinched his chubby cheek.
I let a snort of laughter come out, which made my food go down the wrong way. I coughed a bit from it, but started chuckling again. "Oh man, that's rough. But it's okay, it's just in game." Zhi nodded, still chewing his food. I figured that my new found friend should know about my plans. "Zhi, I should tell you the reason why I joined Life 2.0.
"Hm?" He replied while slurping on his noodles.
"I joined because there's some big secret my family is hiding from me, and it involves that Prince guy." I whispered to him, not wanting to be overheard.
Zhi dropped his noodles in his bowl, "What!? Pr-" I covered his mouth with my hand, disgruntled that he had decided to yell so loudly that the whole cafe was looking at us. "Prince? As in the City's Overlord? The most famous individual in the world who's secret identity has yet to be found in over thirty years? As in that super bishie elf, Prince?" He asked in a hushed voice.
"Yes, yes. The very same. I don't know what connection the guy has to my family, but my family looked like they had all seen a ghost when I asked them about it. And if there's anything I hate, it's when information like thatiskept from me." I glanced over at the other tables, reassuring myself that no one was paying attention. The only table that worried me were the two with the cloaks, since they were so close and had not left yet.
"So, how are you going to find out about it through this game? You can't just waltz right into the castle and talk to Prince. That castle is so heavily guarded that the God of Monsters couldn't get to Prince." Zhi said, referring to the ultimate boss of Life 2.0.
"I'm participating in the Battle Tournament, where the winner gets to have a match with Prince himself. I don't care about beating him in combat or whatever; he's way more experienced than me, anyway. I'm interested in getting his attention, and being able to get an audience with him. Then I can find out what his connection is with my family." Zhi seemed to have agreed that it was a good idea, as he had a smile on his face while he nodded vigorously once more.
System Notice: Attention, there has been an outside disturbance.
Bewildered, I looked at the time through the pop-up screen and it said that it was 7 A.M in real life. I noticed what day it was and grimaced, "I'm sorry, Zhi. I'm going to have to go. My ridiculous father is trying to wake me up." I sighed. I looked to left to see the cloaked figures were gone now. At least I don't have to worry about leaving Zhi alone with a bunch of suspicious characters, now.
"It's alright, I gotta wake up in a couple of hours for my first university class, anyway. I'll catch you later, Yi Min!" He waved, and I waved goodbye in return as I logged off.
Zhi Sano: Zhi means "Wisdom" in Chinese, and Sano means "In Healing" in Latin. So his name literally means "Wisdom in Healing"
Sanbeiji: Meaning "Three-Cup-Chicken" it's a popular Chinese dish in Taiwan.
Cong you Bing: A popular Chinese/Taiwanese flatbeard snack.
Baobing: A Chinese shaved ice dessert that typically has a ton of fruit toppings and topped with condensed milk. (And I would really like to try some.)
