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I was in class. Just dozing off thinking of the different ways I could go about this competition. On way would be to join one of the top guilds which didn't sound appealing to me. I didn't want to bother with working my way up to the top five positions of the guild just to compete. My only other option was to make a guild of my own. The problem with that is that I would have to get a team of five and have them all level 200. I wasn't even there myself yet. Of course that there is going to be the event that should have enough exp to get people even people who are just beginning to max. The quest would take weeks of real life time though. Even after someone were to complete the quest and get a team to level 200 they would have to work to be one of the top ten guilds. Could I do that? Could I make a team or a guild that could complete the quest and get to max? I don't know if I had the leadership or the power. The only two people I know that could be near max level were Zexion and Shiro. I have never seen either of them play.

"Hello!" a voice yelled into my ear waking me from my trance. I looked up to see Jake, but something was different about him. He had hair… not much, but there was definitely hair.

"Are you going to cut your hair?" I asked him in wonder of why he hasn't already

"No I'm not!" he yelled in annoyance. He looked to the side and then mumbled "The only reason it was bald in the first place is because I lost a bet with Shiro…" His face became red and I started cracking up. I had also forgotten that Jake goes to my school, but he was two years younger so he didn't take the same classes as me.

"Dude you need to clean your desk." He noticed the marks on my desk and immediately started to scrape them with his finger. Jake could be a member, but with his level it would be hard to do the quest to level him to 200. The quest would already take weeks of real life time. Plus I would have to teach him how to legitly fight against something that would fight back. What am I thinking? I had no time to be picky about the members.

"Jake do you want to be a part of my guild in Alfhiem? I want to join a competition and I need five members" His eyes went immediately went from the desk to me

"Really?" He asked in wonder. He took his finger away from my desk and grabbed my shoulders with both his hands. "You want me?" he shook me back and forth in wonder. "You want me?" … and now he was repeating

"You wan~"

"Yes I want you!" I yelled a little too loud getting the attention of the class. They all looked at me and Jake as I was in his hands.

"No I didn't mean it like that!? I'm not~" before I could finish people were already whispering sending rumors throughout the school.

I face palmed "…Great" I muttered not taking my hand away from my face. "Just great…"

I heard Zexion snicker from the back of the class

"Zexion!? Not you too!" I give up! This class was annoying… I couldn't wait to get back to Japan once I graduate. Class started soon afterwards and ended a little while later. Once class was over I wanted to talk to Zexion about the guild. He was in front of the school building talking to that girl that he always talks to. She had long black hair all the way down to her… yup I just realized… That is the knuckles girl that Jake and I helped out.

"Yo Zexion!" I called out to him as I approached. Zexion had just a t-shirt on today and I personally thought he looked better that way

"Zexion no jacket?" I popped the question "Usually you just standing there with your hood on and like" I pause for a second with my hands pretending to be in jacket pockets with a little frown on my face "Sup." I tried to imitate Zexion's voice, but failed.

"Trust spent the night and put my jacket in the wash… and I don't sound like that…" He grumbled and I fell back in my wheelchair laughing, but then sat back up bit sad. That joke was not something I would usually say, but I have been missing Kagura… so the joke kind of reminded me of him.

"Hay Zexion I~" before I could ask him if he wanted to join my guild he interrupted me

"Yea I'll join your guild." He shrugged giving me a calm feeling

"I guess that makes me in your guild too!" Trust made her way into our conversation "Zexion hasn't finished teaching me how to play the game yet so I'm going where he is going!"

"I'm fine with that" I nervously laughed. With Trust and Zexion the guild now had four members. For a guild to be official a person needs seven a complete party. The competition only requires five to be on a team, but a guild has to have at least seven members. So if I got Shiro on my team that would make five. I should actually ask him if he was on a guild

"Guys… I have to go" I left Zexion and Trust and started heading towards the dorm. I made my way past the café and supermarket the two things that I haven't even visited yet and got to the front of the door of the dorm. I entered and greeted the help service people at the front. After I made my way to the left of the desk into the elevator taking it to the second floor and exiting it to get to my room.

Sure enough as soon as I opened my door I saw Shiro on his messy bed. He was on his computer looking at sites that had quest information about Alfhiem

"That can't be the only quest!" he raised his voice, but after he raised his voice he noticed I was in the room and put his eyes back on the computer.

"Sorry." He mumbled. Exiting the site so he could look for another site with quest information. His little outburst made me a bit doubtful of asking him "Sorry" he apologized again "I'm a bit mad because I had don't a quest hundreds of times for nothing." Once he had said that I kind of understood his anger.

"I don't suppose you have a guild?" he asked me knowing that I played Alfhiem

"Yes I do. Why?" I wondered why he wanted to know if I had a guild. Did that mean he was interested?

"Can I join?" Shiro made asking him a whole lot easier than I thought

"Yes!" I said happily, but also I wondered something "Why do you want to be a part of my guild?"

He closed his laptop "Because a NPC won't give me something I need… and I'm going to use this competition to get the wish from Exes Cores and force her to give me the item with a bright little smile on her face." His motives… weren't right at all, but he was the only person I know that could fill a spot in the guild.

Later

Jake came into the dorm with his school bag and he set it in its proper place near his bed in a straight position. Afterwards he came up to me.

"Hay Zen did you see this?" he handed me a piece of paper. The paper was from the school. It had a spot at the bottom where a person could sign and at the top it read.

Field Trip to Japan

Hello this is Persona and I just have to tell the viewers this so that no one gets confused. This story is going to be mostly Zen's point of view, but for the times that it is not in Zen's in the beginning of each chapter I will write whose point of view the chapter will be on. The only points of view that there will ever be is Zen's, Zexion's, and Shiro's because this arc is going to focus around them mostly until later on. If it doesn't say the point of view it will be Zen's point of view by default. Thanks for reading