"My feet ache!" I moaned and sat down to rub them. The entire day had gone by with just one lousy rest.

"Why couldn't we have more breaks, Alex? This is killing me!" I said and rubbed my feet again, hoping the pain would lessen. 'If I have blisters tomorrow, I'll blame you Alex!'

Alex replied with 'us being followed' or something.

"We continue tomorrow, so sleep as much as you can for now." He said. I looked at what Shik was doing, but he too, like Alex, was getting ready to go to sleep.

When I had laid my head on a soft, customized shirt I called a pillow, Alex said 'good night, boys.'

Little time had passed before sleep caught me and a dream started to take shape in my head...

"Hey! Daydreamer!" someone faintly shouted. I didn't pay attention to it; I was more occupied by looking at the landscape. It seemed to familiar, but I couldn't figure it out.

"Hey man. You awake?" a hand landed on my shoulder. I blinked and broke the trance-like state with it. I turned around and looked at two big blue eyes and a little button nose.

She giggled when I took hasty steps back.

A yellow glowing sword and a big tower-like shield were in her hands, a blue-ish pointy hat protected her head. A black fitted mail armor covered her body and her look a bit sexy. I had taken some time to look at her before continuing the conversation she had started.

She was still looking at me, it made me smile. 'Dang she's hot' I thought.

"So what's your name handsome?" she asked while coming closer. I could barely answer normally: "I'm ehh.. my name.. is.. Chris!"

"I'm Jessica!" she said and shook my hand fairly rough for a girl. "Pleasure to meet ya."

"As you saw, I'm a warrior. A Page." she continued and smiled. "I see you're a wizard, but what kind of magic do you know?"

I looked up to the sky while I thought of a good answer. "Me? Well I'm a..." "Cleric!" she interrupted.

'Huh?' I thought 'how does she know that?' but when I looked back down and at her, she held a Navy blue book that she had taken out of my bag.

"Heey, that's mine!" I said "Give it back, please."

"Aww," she said disappointed "I can't seen anything written in it.. all the pages are blank!" she sobbed and gave the book back. 'That's odd' I thought while I looked at it 'I can read it all, while she sees nothing.'

"Must be old Grendell's protection." Jessica muttered.

"Anyway, since you're a cleric, ya can help me!" she continued, walking around me. A little voice in my head started talking, saying 'Accept, accept! Help her, she's hot and cute!' I couldn't ignore such a pretty girl and leave her like this.

"Sure thing, sweety.. I mean Jessica." I said and blushed while I looked at my feet. "H-How can I help?"

"Well, you could start by partying me and heal me." A part of that plan I couldn't do... 'I dunno how to heal someone else' I thought and said "Okay, while you set up the party, I'll look in my book and look at the party heal bit." to get me some time to find out how to heal someone else. "Cos I haven't ever done that." I said, shaming myself a bit. I sat down and opened my cleric book.

"You don't have to feel ashamed! Aww.. come here you." she stood up, walked to me and gave me a big hug.

"Every cleric I met could do it, " she said while leaning on me, "so I'm sure you can do it with ease too, Chrissy."

That little bit of confidence gave me a good feeling and I opened my book. I looked at the 'Table of Contents of a Cleric's Guide' and saw this at chapter five:

Chapter Five: Healing Abilities

A: Introduction to Healing

B: Healing Yourself

C: Healing versus Undead

D: Healing Others

"Aha!" I triumphantly said "Found it!"

"Oh good. Now read it and try it on me, I'll make the party." She stood up and started to mumble the chant for Party Leader. I hit pages until I got to chapter 5:

There are two ways to heal other people; One way is outside a Party, the other way is inside a Party. This Section will explain both ways. There is little difference between the two ways of healing, because the Basic Healing (As described under section B).

Healing Outside Party

'No, I need healing inside a party' I thought and skipped the outside party bit.

Healing Inside Party

Jessica had finished the Leader chant and asked me if I wanted to party her. Of course I accepted and she started to chant again so I would be in a party soon after.

I concentrated on the book again.

The Inside Party Heal is quite similar to the Normal Heal. The Cleric has to enable the Party Heal as shown in the positions below:

The positions were little figures of a cleric enabling the party heal. I studied them before I continued to read.

After the Party Heal has been enabled by the Cleric, he/she is to use the Standard Heal to heal all other party members in the vicinity. This action radius depends on the skill of the Cleric. The minimum radius is 30 feet (or 10 meters).

Also, if a party member does not require healing, he/she will not receive healing fro the Cleric. This enables the Cleric to heal the other Party members more efficient and keep Mana loss minimal.

Party members who are dead, do not receive healing. To revive a dead member, please look in chapter three, section B of the 11th part of the "Mage's Guides: The Bishop's Guide".

I knew what to do. Jessica was soon finished with the party making, so I said: "Jessica?"

"Hmm?"

"Could you hold the book like this while I try something?"

"Oh, yeah sure." She too the book and held it like I had asked. I took a good look at the positions and then closely followed them.

"Ooh, that's tingly." Jessica giggled when I was done.

'Now all I need to do is heal.' I thought and as I did I heard a sigh of relief and felt relieved myself.

"That was wonderful, Chrissy!" she said, "I feel like new thanks to you!"

"Oh it wasn't all that much, really." I muttered, but she said that I shouldn't be like that and that I did a great job on my first party heal.

"Thanks!"

"Now what would you say when I asked you to go down with me and kick some stone golem asses?" She looked at me and pointed down the huge pit.

'Golems?' I thought, 'Of course golems! That's where we are! I knew this place was looking familiar.'

"I'm not sure if I can handle them as good as you can..."

"No need to! You got me, right Chrissy?" and she closed her eyes, tilted her head to the left and smiled at me.

"Follow me then, hehee!" she was having so much fun, I just knew that.

She grabbed her things she had put on the ground and walked towards the edge of the pit. She then grabbed a rope from below and climbed down.

"Come on, it's okay!" she shouted back when she was on the bottom. Alas, it wasn't because the steak she, or someone else, had jabbed in the ground, came loose and I fell all the way down. The surroundings turned black and I was awake again.

'What a sad ending of such a beautiful dream.' I sighed and broke the silence that existed in the early morning, or late night. The sun wasn't up yet and the stars were gone again, meaning that sunrise couldn't be far ahead anymore.

I wasn't the only one awake, because Shikotei was standing on the grass. "Good morning Shik" I said. No reaction, until he suddenly shouted "This is IMPOSSIBLE!"

"What is?" I asked him and stood up.

"Aahhhh, NO WAY." he yelled.

"What is it Shik? You hurt or something? Are we lost?"

"This can't be! I was only... NO No NOOOO."

'This looks bad' I thought, 'He's lost it, and he's gone hysterical... I'll have to wake Alex, maybe he knows how to get him back to earth...'

And so I walked to Alex and started to wake him up.