The restaurant wasn't anything special, in fact it was actually very simple. It was serving just meat items from locations pretty much found anywhere, Hamburgers, steaks, kebabs; The list just goes on and on and on. Moon was on one side, Lone on the other, staring each other down. "You sure you wanna do this?" Moon nodded with a small grin. "You not gonna win this y'know..." Moon didn't give damn, her blasé expression gave it away. The servers appeared suddenly with the absurd amount of plates full of meats. "The meat eating contest begins!" Lone declared right as the food was served.

Half-hour later, Lone laid back, Moon was rolled over on her back, both were stuffed. "You're one hell of eater, Moon." The ferret yawned in response, though one of the server's voice was heard. "Sir... your meal is worth two gold coins and I'm assuming you're not ordering anymore." Lone sprang up to a sitting position and Moon stood on her feet. Both watched each other for a time, when they had the same idea. Three...Two...One... They both bolted for the door, it felt likes minutes had past though several seconds had only. "Run Moon! Run!" He yelled as they made it through the door only to hear soon after; "2 gold for whoever bring the criminal and his pet back or kills them!" Criminal? All he did was Dine-and-Dash... worth 2 gold. Lone sighed and looked behind him to noticed about ten other players chasing him, weapons drawn. "After him!"

"I need the cash! Hurry catch him!"

"Any thieves or bards with us!?"

The crowd were developing strategies as they were chasing him. It didnt take long for a man to step and suddenly summon a wall of fire in the city. Lone and moon skidded to a stop. "H-hey I thought we couldn't use abilities inside cities."

"You have a bounty on your head so everyone who's knows about the bounty can use their abilities to catch the criminal." The man who spoke up had long, orange hair and at the tips were flame red, he also had bangs that covered his left, or was it the right, eye. He has snake bites and underneath his right eye is a red line that stops next to his ear, probably one of those "magic marks" mages usually have. He was wearing a black opened robe with a white t-shirt and black pants underneath. The robe had a red rose on his right, left?, shoulder and the red vines crawling down until the robe ends. He also seemed to be wearing big black studded boots. To Lone though, he looked like one of those young, pervy prodigy you often see in stories or anime.

"Now if you would kindly turn yourself in, We can end this quickly without killing you." He said with a small smile. The kind of smile you usually see on politicians or celebrities to convince people they are friendly.

"How about you all just leave Moon and me alone then we won't have to kill ya?" Though he said that without even knowing if Moon can even fight. He looked at the ferret and saw she took an aggressive stance as her fur was erected and her body was lowered into a pouncing stance.

Everyone is the group just laughed. "Alright! Let's claim the bounty!"

"Wait! You all can't really claim the bounty. and splitting it ten or more ways means you get way less. No to mention what stops the guy who captures me from just getting the reward and bolting?"

The group looked at each other, then suddenly one pulled an axe out and slashed at his 'comrades'.

"Those gold pieces are mine!"

"Hey fuck off! I need the cash more!"

Suddenly a fight broke out in the group, lone stared there... shocked by how stupidly it worked. He snatched Moon up and repeated his wall jump from earlier when he ran to a nearby alleyway pass the group.

He panted thankful for human stupidity. "Wow, I really can't believe that worked either." Lone looked up and saw the man that answered him before. "How the hell did you get up here!?" Lone growled.

The man stood there for moment then the next he had wings. It was mainly white but the bottom was trimmed with black feathers. "Celestial. Not many can fly but the ones who do are usually much powerful."

"You trying to scare me? Cause I'll tell you right now, I ain't exactly petrified now. "

The man sighed and took out his weapon. It was a red staff with the generic design of a hand holding a gem, although the gem now was coaxed in a purple flame. Lone assume that a fight was going to happen. He took out Evergreen in bow shape and loaded two arrows. This guy didn't hesitate once lone drew his weapon Three fireballs came flying at him, lone managed to dodge out of the way , and once got steady footing fire the bow, only for them to be deflected by sparks of lighting coming from around him. What the!? He began to summon more fireballs to attack Lone but something was different about them. He started to dodge but suddenly all his fur on his ears and tail spike up. He realized what happened, Lone took most of the shock and felt his body stop reacting for a moment as he felt sharp pain of electricity and the absolute fury of the flames strike him. He flew back and just landed on the nearest rooftop. He felt the singes from the fireball but he wasn't burned ... yet.

He struggled to get back on his feet and even load Evergreen to fire again. The man was standing there, looking disappointed. He didn't bother saying another word. I'm going to die here, aren't I... Dammit.

Lone began to just run and turn back to fire the occasional arrow, only for his 'defenses' to shock it down. The chase didn't last long, soon the building were rapidly spreading, making fissures that lone couldn't jump over. He almost stumbled into the road below, just barely to grab onto the edge. The man had flew over the gap and had him cornered. Lone quickly transformed Evergreen into its saber form. He held it in a reverse grip, knowing that the proper way to hold a quick weapon is in reverse grip since it allows for much faster attacks though they are a bit weaker. Also, Lone is going to be stupid and attack head-on.

Lone charged straight ahead attempting to slash the man, only to be shocked and thrown back. Lone began to foolishly retry, even though his health was rapidly reducing to minuscule amounts. After maybe the fifth attempt, he just collapsed. "Well, That was easy. I was hoping you would be some kind of challenge or maybe you would've been reasonable at least. You act like any other hard-head criminal."

"F-fuck y-you."

Lone watched the final blow be dealt then just thought. I'm dead. My first death. Hm, Not as bad as I thought it would be.

He opened his eyes only to be found in a room with that strange pillar he found before. The room was empty and when he stepped outside it was just the same city. Nothing's really change, though he felt weaker. He shook his head, Whatever I died. I was stupid. He sighed and looked around. Moon. Where the hell is Moon?

He looked around for any signs of her, only to hear that man from earlier. "Get this rat off of me!" It was loud and coming from nearby. Lone jogged towards where he heard the screams and saw the man from earlier flailing around. He had developed a crowd of people from the city looking at with astonished looks. "Dammit! Someone help would you!" He called out though no one stepped up to help. Lone saw Moon pop up from his shirt chomp down on his ear then jump off. She hissed at the boy, "Why you little..." He looked ready to smash down on her until Lone came forth and picked her up. "Good girl, Moon. We'll get some more food right after this."

"That's your pet?"

"Yes. I don't think she likes you much either."

They both stared at each other for a time and the other man sighed. "You aren't worth my time. Challenge me when you actually learn to fight." He walked away acting as if nothing happened.

"The very least you can say is your name."

"Flare."

"Well I hope you burn yourself Flare."Lone watched as the man left and sighed. He had a feeling he was going to see him again. Lone patted Moon, "I believe I owe you something to eat, but first I think we should find the others before we try that."

Moon looked at him confused. "Right, You don't know about them yet. You'll see soon."

It took awhile but Lone figured out how the PM system worked and got replies from both in no time. Juliet was apparently with friends, grinding for gold and Experience and was going to be busy for awhile. Raze was out doing certain quests to replace his lost gear that were confiscated, same results He said He probably be done by tomorrow. Main point: Lone couldn't really do anything to leave the city. He could go searching for quests or maybe just grind some mobs or just log off.

Almost on cue, Lone just got a PM. He suddenly got a Message board in front of him with New mail from someone named Dorothy.

"Hello there.

You don't know me, but Everyone seems to know you. So I'll make this quick, I want you to come meet me at The Keeper's Cave tomorrow(in rl) at night (in-game time). I don't really care when, but try not to keep me waiting. I'll explain the reason why once you arrive.

-the Rare Item Hunter, Dorothy"

Lone read the message and sighed, Well He had something to do tomorrow at least. To which He was compensating to just log off and get some actual rest or maybe just do something else for awhile, He admits to be addicted to the game for awhile. Ah screw it, He jogged around for a bit until he found a spot on the wall that had a nice view of the city and sky. He set Moon down nearby and he laid back. Within minutes he closed his eyes and slept, waiting to log off naturally and log back in for tomorrow where his "date" should be waiting. The Rare Item hunter.