Chapter 9: What a Pain that girls are…

I left the Mercenary Agency with a copy of the quest info. "Let's see, the forest where that flower blooms is to the east and the desert is to the west, so it's that way!" I figured out the west direction from the travels from the western desert.

Sky travels east, with his hood on half of his face and with two swords at both sides of his waist looking like a dual blader. Sky just looks like a wanderer in the eyes of the citizens of Mercredius , he isn't very noticeable by people and people tend to only look at him for a bit and that's it.

The forest was not far away from where he was at, from the central of Mercredius to the Eastern Low forests surrounded by fog. The Forest where he was suppose to find the flower was a very hazardous forest packed with lots of Veteran ranked monsters and highest can even get to Gladiator level. To Sky, that's not much as long as the monster there doesn't actually meet a highly experienced Gladiator leveled monster he should be fine. After all if he uses the Aurorus and Bloodline power he should be able to take on low level Gladiator leveled monsters. His true level currently is a Gladiator, which is very impressive for a 15 year old on this world.

Sky started to wonder in the woods like a newbie looking around the trees and plants for the Somnias flower. During Sky's search, he does not notice that Nathalie girl from before is following him…

"Guess this is not it either…" Sky talked to himself as he flips through a flower bush. The towering trees in the forest provided good spots for the monsters here to live and to hide making finding stuff hard here. Sky has been searching forever in the lower forests to try to be lucky and find one of those flowers but the flower seems to only live deeper in the forest… "Well, I really should have listened and not try to try my luck, I've been looking for hours!" Sky held his hand in front of his eyes to cover them from the sun even though he got used to the burning sun in the desert but he had done that on instinct. Night started to befall the forest as Sky treaded farther into the Forest he started hearing more and more monster howls like some hungry wolves. He had walked casually even though he knows there are lots of monsters around.

A bustling sound coming from the tall grasses alarmed Sky for a second as he prepared to draw his sword. Sky still had his hood on but inside you could see his blood red eyes like rubies shining into the dark forest. A group of five people looking like mercenaries emerged out of the tall grass most of them covered in blood except for a girl with short red hair and light armor like a stealth fighter who appears to be the leader. Sky kept his hood on to be safe and examined the other 4. The other 4, 3 were guys with heavy swords to their backs and the other one… an elf girl. Sky had found it weird that the elf girl was with them because in this world elves despised human as inferior creatures and to have an elf traveling with humans was a disgrace to them.

The warrior girl seems to have noticed Sky but her first reaction was to draw her sword which was a small dagger looking sword about 80 centimeters. Sky had also drawn the blood red blade and had let his gold streaked blade sit in its scabbard. The other members had an exhausted look on them and appear to have giving up on life as they look at Sky with a hopeless sight. The Elf girl seems to be emotionless but in her pupils Sky could see fear but she did not act it out like the other three guys. "Who are you?" Sky was surprised at who spoke first. When he had looked, it was the elf girl. "I'm Sky LaGuardia, here to find a flower for a quest." Sky spoke clearly to not make the situation even more complicated. The warrior girl obviously didn't take Sky's answer but the other three guys seem much more relaxed as they plumped their bottoms on the forest floor and started taking deep breaths. Sky started to put his sword into his sheath to hint his innocence after seeing this, the warrior girl seems to have taken his hint and put away her dagger.

"And who are you?" Sky was confused as the warrior girl started another question the same as the elf girl's. "It's just me, who are you talking to?" Sky looked all confused and before he could turn around the Nathalie girl appeared into his sight with her dagger unsheathed too. "So you are only the decoy, and the attacker is actually the girl," the warrior girl said with a smirk like as if she knew what's going on. The warrior girl had seen through Sky's power level, it was only gold ranked and the other girl(Nathalie) obviously had a higher power level of a top Veteran so that made her rethink Sky's friendly actions. Sky was now very confused, first he did not realize Nathalie following him and second of all he does not even know her that well except for that weight room incident. Last of all, why is this warrior lady all violent again?

"I don't know this girl, don't lump me with her, she's a just a stalker," I started to explain. Nathalie looked at me with the look as if trying to say, "What, I just saved your lucky ass and you are telling me that you don't know me." If Sky had known what she was thinking right now Sky would have been the one knocking her out, if she hadn't appeared everything wouldn't have been like this. "What a pain…"