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chapter 3

"Honestly! He is the most gorgeous boy ever...." Ali told Becky, hugging herself "I just want to squeeze him to death!!"

"Sure you do..." Becky gave Ali a strange look, and continued brushing her hair "Well, I'm going to bed now... see you on-"

"Monday!" Ali added quickly "Er... Monday because... I am going to visit my Uncle on the other side of Pioneer 2 and my Mum won't let me go anywhere else..."

"Okay... goodnight then." Becky put her brush down and her face disappeared from the screen.

Ali really had to get a move on if she really wanted to get a GDSM. She was running out of time. She must get one before Gronya. And so, she decided that she would go down to the shops tonight and get a Saber.

"Okay then, I'm going now... I won't be long Chaz. If Mum asks where I am tell her I'm at Julie's." Ali called from the doorway.

After a short period of time, full of sneaking around in the dark corners, she reached the shops. The weapons and equipment shops.

"Okay, which one is for the weapons..." Ali peered round the small room of different counters. When she finally spotted that one of the counters had a picture of some sort of sword above it, she nervously approached it.

"Er... I was given this..." Ali passed the shop keeper the voucher she had gained with her licence.

The shop keeper examined the voucher for a few minutes, occasionally peering back at her. "Licence please."

"Oh! Of course." Ali passed him the licence too, and the shopkeeper, obviously now convinced ducked down under his counter and took out three metal handles. He laid them in a display on the counter in front of her and pointed to each one in turn. "Purple, Green or Blue?"

"Oh shit!"

"What's wrong? What did I say to-"

"No, it's nothing to do with you... it's just..." Ali added quickly, "I hate making decisions..." After a long time of deciding, she finally chose the purple one, since she liked the green and blue better.

"Okay, I just have to inform you with a few...er, you are new to this aren't you?"

"Yeah."

The shopkeeper continued "At the moment the Saber is on it's locked form. This means that it can't become exposed and cause damage." the shopkeeper took the Saber in his own hands, "When you want to use it... you do this..." the keeper rested his palm onto the bottom of the handle and a shoot of purple sprung out of the opposite end making a whooshing sound.

"Cool!" Ali was amazed "Gimme gimme!"

"I'm sorry but you'll have to keep it on lock until you are on Ragol's surface..." the purple beam disappeared from site.

"Ohhhhh! Unfair!"

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"I don't know... It's really hard to explain... I am really, really thankful for my life... for everything in have... for my family, my friends... and for the people that are really really s-" Ali suddenly remembered who she was talking to, "Er, I mean... the people that are very important to me..." Ali got to her feet, "I mean... It's not fair! it's not fair how I have such a perfect life! It's not fair how some people practically slave out to feed their families, when people like me only have to jump in their own teleporter and sit at a desk in an office... well, actually I'm still at school. But that's another very good point! I get to go to such a good school! Not everyone goes to my school!" Ali plopped back onto the soft chair again and sighed, "I dunno... I still don't feel like that's the way to put it... what should I do Grandma?" The elderly woman in the chair, sitting opposite her gave a short snort. "Oh thanks allot! I try to tell you something really important, and you just go and fall asleep!!" Ali then stood up and crept silently out of the room.

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Ali entered the Guild. The same old woman was at the desk, this time admiring herself in the mirror.

Ali was scared. She'd never done anything like this before and what would happen if someone found out she was doing this? Everyone would hate her. They'd all look at her all strange, even if she was helping the scientists, and them. But what else was she supposed to do? /Whenever I want something, I get it!/ that was her motto, and she was going to get a GDSM.

"Who cares if this is scary? I'm sure it'll be loadsa fun!" Ali thought to herself.

The woman at the desk gave a little jump when she finally noticed Ali "Oh! Don't do that to me!" but when she realised that Ali was a customer, "Oh sorry! Here are today's vacant jobs... there are only three left though. Goodness me, we'll be in Ragol in no time." She beamed at Ali.

Ali took the list and read-

Stakey- 500 meseta reward

Magnitude of Metal- 500 meseta reward

IMPORTANT! - 600 meseta reward

Ali studied the list and finally stated, "Boring, boring and... hey boring."

"Oh no they certainly are not boring! Please, we need people like you. Please take a job."

"Er........... all right then! I'll do um... inny minny minie mo, catch a rabbit by its toe, if it screams let it go, inny minny minie mo..." Ali went on "er... you are the one that I am not going to pick!" She pointed out the "Stakey" and then continued.

The woman sighed. When Ali had finally finished her inny minnys, the result came to her as,

"IMPORTANT!?! Do you think that I am really stupid? Everyone knows that when something has "important" written on it, it's the hardest!!" Ali bellowed.

The woman smiled "Yes, but that's also the one that you get paid the most from."

"Okay I'll take it!"

"Licence please." Ali swung her bag off her back and dug into her bag, finally pulling out a rather battered licence. The woman fiddled with something out of Ali's visibility (because of the desk) and muttered "Good luck."

Ali started for the teleporter when a tall man in green armour and a long gun ran past her. The man muttered something to the woman at the desk and she pointed to Ali. The man turned round to face her and introduced himself.

"Hello. My name is Dankab. I will be working with you in your mission." Dankab shook hands with Ali.

"Ali." From a closer look, she noticed that he had big, spiky, blonde hair and dark brown eyes. A scar sat across his eyebrow.

"He's a pro so he'll teach you loads. This mission will help him too. Dankab has never worked with a partner before... is that right Dankab?" the woman asked.

"That's right. Well... we'd better get a move on then." Dankab invited Ali out of the room and they started for the teleporter.

"Are you quite new to this. Are you scared?" Dankab asked.

"Er, yeah..."

"I remember when I first started. I was really scared. But as I went on, it got easier. Don't worry about a thing... especially that I am here." Dankab led Ali to the transporter and she was surrounded by swirling lights. Then finally the lights disappeared and they stood in a beautiful forest. Ali instantly felt like she was on Earth again. All the big trees, plants, flowers, rocks, soils.

"Er... can the sort of ladies first thing not come here, it's just that... I don't really fancy going first... heh heh..." Ali and Dankab started up the path through the forest.

"Sure." Dankab replied. It was then that they came to a clearing in the forest. Dankab paused.

"Shhh..." Dankab and Ali were now in the middle of the clearing, almost silence was surrounding them.

Ali kept looking around uncomfortably. Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry... she kept telling herself.

Now Dankab was as still as a statue. They stayed like that for a couple of minutes when all of a sudden, Dankab withdrew his Saber and in a flash of light, there was a dead creature at Ali's feet.

The creature was rather big with a sausage-like body. In fact, it was most like a dog. It had dog ears, dog snout, a dog's body.

"Nasty little buggers. Always creep up on you." Dankab sighed "I would get your Saber ready if I were you."

"Why??" Ali was still trying to get over the terrifying few minutes she had just spent.

Dankab was looking dead ahead of him and almost straight away a huge group of "Dogs" stampeded their way through a bush and dived at the two hunters.

It all came naturally to Ali. She just swung her Saber around and it seemed to work for her. As for Dankab, he was fighting a larger horde of monsters and was swerving and dodging all of their swipes and slashes.

"Ouch!!!" a monster had just picked of Ali's arm "How dare you!!!" she took a vicious slash at the invading monster "That!" slash! "was!" slash "my!" slash "Favourite!" slash "TOP!!!" Although the monster was now of course dead, Ali continued beating the ground and only stopped when she noticed Dankab standing over her.

"Ali it is dead."

Ali peered up "Oh yeah... silly me, heh heh!"

"You're pretty good! What did you get for your fitness test? I bet it was really good wasn't it?" Dankab said, offering Ali a hand up.

"Er... yeah but I can't remember what I got for it." Ali replied quickly.

"You can't remember?? Man! I'll never forget my level!" Level A!" He finished proudly.

Then a familiar voice called over to the two. "Hey are you two al-" Ali looked over towards the person calling to them. It wasn't just anybody though. It was Gronya.

Ali stared in disbelief. So did Gronya, but she finally ran out of view.

"Mmmm... Ali grinned. Looky looky who's the freak now!" Ali giggled to herself. "Oh no wait... that means I'm a freak too..."

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