Mosspath636 I've been on another server people there sell stuff for 999 mil if I'm not mistaken xD My ingame name is Igunius, and I usually hang out at TitanMC OP1 (if you see me on OP2 &3 that's my bro and sis)
I failed my Add Math and History, like seriously, man. I'm doing badly this semester. I need a change :(
MetroMass POV
All six of us lied down on the flat roof in a star shape. The stars are beautiful. Being a city boy, I'd never seen a full night sky of stars. Aquarius and Rex raced each other at pointing out constellations, arguing which is which in the process.
"Cut it out, man," Hakime slapped Rex on the forehead, which is what he could do since Rex is just opposite him. "I just want to watch the stars,"
"Hey, it's Orion," Aquarius pointed at a spot. "If I'm not mistaken, Orion was a giant created to kill Artemis and Apollo, but he doesn't want to follow his destiny. At first, he joined some king's hunting party, but then was blinded by the king for having an affair or whatsoever with the princess. Then-"
"Hell, no, stop it!" Neonz yelled. "I am here to enjoy the night, not the story behind every constellation!"
"If I can find every constellation, you'll get the package," Aquarius said. "But I can't find them, so your ears are safe,"
"Good," Neonz said sarcastically. None of us said anything, since none of us know what to reply. We stared at the stars, until Metro broke the silence.
"Guys," He asked. "If we can choose between this world and Earth, which one would you choose?"
"I like Earth better," Neonz answered. "I can't even play League of Legends here. It's killing all day,"
"But you kill in LOL too," Aquarius pointed out. "Except you're experiencing it for real here,"
"I like this place better," Rex said. "I can never study well on Earth. It's killing me every day,"
"Me too," Hakime replied. "Who likes studying?"
"At least we don't have to fight to stay alive on Earth," I yawned. "We have our parents doing it for us,"
Aquarius made no comments. I looked over and saw her eyes unfocused. After a while, she spoke.
"There are Pros and Cons in two of these worlds," She explained. "On Earth, we have to work hard, but at least we don't have to use our physical strength much. Here, we have to fight for our lives, but our mind doesn't get crowded by 'useless' knowledge. If you ask me, I… I don't know what to choose,"
"Can you tell the story of Orion again?" Metro asked after a moment of silence. "You stopped at where he was blinded by the king. What's next?"
Neonz didn't complain about the idea, so Aquarius continued on. "The king kicked Orion out, of course. He then met Hephaestus, who made him better mechanical eyes,"
"Mechanical eyes?" I sat up. "That's so cool, man!"
"It is," Aquarius smiled. "And it's better than Orion's old organic ones. Later, Orion joined Artemis' hunting party, becoming the first and only male to join her all-female party. Apollo was afraid that Orion's presence would make Artemis throw away her vow of being a maiden forever, so he killed Orion, I think, or something like that. Artemis was so sad about her friend's death, so she made him a constellation,"
"Wow," Hakime said. "You're good at storytelling, Aquarius. You never do that in our Skype calls,"
"Maybe because I know that I annoy people easily," Aquarius got up and patted off the dusts on her jacket. "Let's go back in. It's probably late already,"
AshleyMarie POV
"Come look at this map, guys," Zek unfolded an old map on the coffee table. "It shows all the cities in this world. Which one are we in?"
"Pluto City," Ian answered. "It's written on the auction house,"
"The last one we're in is called Loki Village," Jason said. "It was written on the church,"
"It has different icons for all the cities," Mitch leaned in. "Oh wait. There are actually 5 different icons. Why did they do that, though?"
I looked up to see the kids coming through the door. "What are you guys looking at?"
"An old map we found in the basement," Zek tapped the map. "But it doesn't label the names of each city- Wait, what the heck?"
Zek had tapped his fingers on one of the icons. A blue holographic bar appeared, hovering above the icon. The words inside the bar are written in enchantment table letters, and we stared at the letters in confusion.
"'Apollo Town'," Rex translated. "It's named after the Norse love goddess?"
"Seems like it," Preston said. "This city is called 'Pluto City', and the last one we're in is called 'Loki Village',"
"Maybe the guys that named the cities are obsessed with myths, like Aquarius," Neonz suggested, stealing a glance at Aquarius.
"There's no harm in that, right?" Aquarius replied. "And it wasn't your business that I like those stories,"
"Quit it, you two," Hakime said. "That's not the point, so stop it,"
"Hey, Rex," Zek passed the map to Rex with the holographic bar still glowing. "Since you know these letters by heart, why don't you hold this map? It would be more useful for you than for us,"
"Wasn't this found in the house?" Rex took the map from Zek. "Won't this be stealing?"
"I don't think so," Zek shrugged. "This parchment was covered in dust when I found it. No one had touched it for a very long time. It would be more useful to us than sitting around in a dusty room,"
"Okay…" Rex tapped each icon. After a while, I noticed a pattern. There are 5 different colored icons, and the holograms are adjacent to the color of the icons. Lime green for villages, red for towns, blue for cities, pink for kingdoms and purple for empires.
"I guess the title of these places go by the area of their perimeter," Rex said after a while. "The smallest is village, followed by town and city. What about kingdom and empire, though?"
"Empire is the largest, and the second largest is kingdom," Aquarius suggested from behind a book of exotic potions. I can't believe that she would read those kinds of books, but come to think of it, she liked mythology, so a bit of magic-related things won't bother her.
"Let's assume it's like that for now," Rex tapped on one of the icons. "We're here in Pluto City. The nearest civilization to us is due south, which is Bellona Kingdom,"
"Bellona is a Roman goddess of war," Aquarius said, eyes not leaving the book. "It's said that she could share her strength to her allies,"
"Dude, enough with that," Neonz looked up from his laptop which, strangely, was with him when he was kidnapped. "We are not in mythology class, so shut up,"
"Stop it," I sighed. "We'll head south tomorrow after collecting our armor, right?"
