Takeshi and Kaze were inside the Thief guild listening to the Thief drone on about what the test was and what they were to do. Kaze was nodding energetically while Takeshi was shaking somewhat, afraid they'd be caught.
Oh God, what if they find out? He was twitching abnormally, and was holding onto his blade tightly. The Thief eyed him strangely. 'Oi, kid.'
Takeshi stiffened and gasped a bit as the Thief called him, he almost threw the blade at him. 'Huh? What? I'm not plotting anything I swear, why'd you call me!?'
He stared at Takeshi blankly and at the blade that almost impaled him, 'Eh.. I just wanted to wish you good luck and not to be so nervous, it's an easy test kid.'
'Um, ah, yeah, yes sir!' He saluted the Thief with his blade hand, which passed his face, barely cutting him.
'Urk...' The Thief leaned back some, and was sweating a bit. 'C'mon Takeshi-kuuun!' Kaze ran for the door, grabbing Takeshi as he passed him. 'Waaaugh!' They disappeared with their voices slowly fading.
'Hmmmm..' There was a female Thief leaning on the counter, 'What d'you think?'
The male Thief scratched his head, 'He's gotten stronger, yeah..' He waved his hand, 'But that's not the only thing you need to be a successful Adventurer.' He sat down in his chair and leaned back, 'His friend sure was weird, yeah? What kinda Thief uses Swords...?'
Kaze and Takeshi had just made it out of the pyramids into the bright, hot desert field. 'I wonders where that guy is?' Kaze put his hand on his forehead to shade his face from the sun, and looked around.
Takeshi casually walked past him with his hands behind his head, 'Follow me, follow me.'
'Henh? Okay.' And with that, he ran after Kaze.
They walked past an oasis, which Takeshi nodded at when he saw it. Good, we're going the right way... Soon after they had spotted a person wearing a white coat with messy yellow hair sticking in different directions.
'Hey, hey! I bet that's 'im!' Kaze ran towards him excitedly.
'Eh, oi, wait up!' And Takeshi chased after him.
The man in the white coat and yellow hair was sweating heavily, 'Geez.. Why do they make me do this?' He sighed, but soon heard voices approaching him, 'Eh? More Thief wannabes?'
'Hey, Mister, the Thieves at the guild told me to find somebody, you're him, ne?'
The man wiped some sweat off his forehead, 'Yeah, just call me Mr. Irrelevant. You know what to do?'
Kaze nodded excitedly while Takeshi came behind him dragging his feet, panting.
'Eh? You with him?'
Takeshi looked at the man and nodded, 'Yeah..'
'Well, look more energetic kid!' He slapped Takeshi on the back hard, straightening his back, Takeshi winced. He pointed to the cave entrance, 'The mushrooms are over there, careful though, the monsters in there are spunky.'
'Ow, yeah, yeah..' Takeshi rubbed his back, and started walking slowly towards the cave.
'C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, hurry, hurry, hurry!' Kaze ran past him, once again grabbing his hand, dragging him along.
'Wah!'
The cave was dark with barely any light except for the sunlight shining from outside. There were lots of mushrooms and squeaks, buzzes, and squishing noises were echoing throughout the cave.
'Woooow, lookit all the mushrooms! There're a lot, ne?'
'Yeah, but we gotta look carefully, just 'cause there's a lot doesn't mean they're the right ones.' He crouched down to look at a mushroom and check if it was the right one before slicing it out of the ground and stuffing it into his bag.
Kaze whined, 'Waaah, this is gonna take all day!' He quickly grabbed every mushroom he saw, stuffing everyone into his bag. 'This is faster! Hurry, hurry, grab, grab, grab!'
He sighed, 'Ah.. why the hell not?' He followed Kaze's example and quickly cut and stuffed every mushroom he saw into his bag.
Soon their bags were filled to the brim with mushrooms. Kaze cheered, 'Hurray! I'mma pass this test for sure, ne?'
Takeshi nodded, 'Yeah, even if half of these aren't even the right ones.'
They started to walk out of the cave when they noticed another Novice in the cave with them. They quickly dived into a nearby bush by impulse.
'Hey, I bet he's taking the test too..' Takeshi looked at the Novice, he had messy hair somewhat like Takeshi's, except yellow.
'Woooow, lookit all his mushrooms!' Kaze got up into a crouching position.
'Hey..! What're you gonna do...?'
'Steal 'is mushrooms 'o course!' He got up and quickly dashed behind the other Novice before Takeshi could protest. But just as he reached into the person's bag, the Novice quickly turned around throwing a dagger aimed for Kaze's head. If he hadn't tilted his head to the side...
'KAZE!' Takeshi got up and ran towards them with his blade in his hand.
'Hmph, what the hell do you think you're doing?!' The stranger pointed a spare dagger he had at Kaze who was sitting on the ground with a sharp, pointy dagger in his face.
'Oi! Get your damn dagger outta his face!' He held the blade with both of his hands, charging towards the Novice. 'Raaaah!' He sliced down, but the person nimbly dodged to the side. The person tightened their grip on the dagger and aimed a slash towards Takeshi's unguarded back. Crap!! He flipped onto his back and used his blade as a guard, pushing the blade up with his freehand.
'Kaze! Get to the Thief guild now!' He finally found some strength to push the person back and get free. 'Raaaar! BASH!!' His sword shined and he jumped up and cut down on the Novice. The Novice quickly and strongly flicked his arm out and blocked the attack with his dagger.
'Heh.. a Bash attack? You're not a Novice are you?'
'And what if I'm not?' Takeshi gripped his sword tightly, panting. Fighting another person in real life is harder then it is in-game.. But I guess everything is harder in real life, huh?
'Makes thing interesting, you're slick kid. I figured out your plan, it's nice you want to help your friend...!' He threw the dagger he had, which Takeshi barely dodged, and quickly drew another dagger from his bag. He swiftly dashed towards Takeshi's open side..
Kaze was running towards the pyramids, 'I've gotta help Takeshi-kun!' He ran through the entrance of the pyramids, and into the Thieves' Guild. He ran into the Thief Test room and slammed down his bag of mushrooms. 'I want to be a Thief now!!'
((Oooo, suspense. :D Review please! :3))