There was a large crowd gathering around the statue of Odin in Prontera, everyone was talking about the same thing, the bard Finn and the dancer Mizu, two well known traveling performers, had come to Prontera!

Finn and Mizu were husband and wife, they had married a few months ago, and there were rumors of a new child. Finn was nice, he doesn't like to be arrogant, and keeps to himself, except when the topic of politics come up, then it's hard to drag him away from the conversation, let along get him to stop talking!

Mizu, like her husband, was very quiet, she prefers not to fight, unless it's because someone is being mean, that, she can't stand…

As soon as Finn began to play his musical instrument, Mizu began dancing, the crowd was instantly mesmerized, if not by the tune played by Finn, then the elegant and fast dancing by Mizu, the audience felt relief, happiness, lightness, strength, and many other emotions.

Finn's lips began to move as he sung a song in a long forgotten language, sweet, yet sorrowful, it was one of the bard's most well kept secrets, only the best of the best knew the song…it created many different reactions as the crowd heard it.

Finally Finn stopped singing and his instrument stopped playing, Mizu stopped and sat down next to Finn, the crowd moved forward to donate zenny to them, some of the smaller payments were near 100 and some were as large as 100k, Finn personally thanked anyone that donated to them, after all, it provided them with the food and necessities they required to travel.

After a while, the crowd dispersed and everyone went back to what they were doing, leaving the two to count their total zenny,

"Wow, we did well today, two million eight hundred fifty eight thousand three hundred zenny!" Finn said happily,

Mizu nodded in agreement, they were fortunate to come across so much money too; Prontera was one of the most expensive places in Rune Midgard! "Where do you suggest we eat?" Mizu asked,

"I have no idea; I haven't been to Prontera for what seems like ages…" Finn admitted looking around, he got up and walked in a circle, there were advertisements everywhere, you could buy anything from a savage chop to a minotaur burger… the choices were overwhelming!

"Finn!" someone yelled from across the street,

"Huh?" Finn said turning around expecting to see another fan; instead, it was a friend from when he was training,

"Keryil!" Finn laughed happily, embracing the monk,

"Haven't seen you in like… five years! How have you been?" Keryil smiled,

"I'm fine, I've been traveling and playing music with my wife, how are you?"

"Well, I've been a Prontera Enforcer1 for the three years or so. Great to see you finally decided to get married; sorry I couldn't go to your wedding, I had one of my own you see."

"You didn't invite me!"

"I didn't know where you were!"

"So who's the lucky guy?"

"Uh…"

"Keryil dear, its lunch time, let's go get something to eat!" Sakura yelled from across the street,

"Huh? Does this mean you're gay Keryil?" Finn asked,

"The proper term is tribade, and yes." Keryil said sheepishly,

"Maybe we should get something to eat together?" Mizu suggested,

"Sounds great!" Keryil said calling Sakura over, "Hey hun, look, it's Finn!"

Sakura smiled, "Hi Finn, sounds like you've been pretty successful. Hey, I know this great French café that's not too far from here. Let's eat there!"

The three others agreed and they walked, it was a short distance away, about a two minute walk, they got their seats and order, Keryil had a phen sandwich with a coffee, Sakura ordered a small plate of picky wings with cold milk tea on the side, Finn decided on a green salad with water, Mizu had a cream cheese bagel and drank soda.

"So how's it been?" Sakura asked between bites,

"It's been okay, the rain really started to come down hard as we were traveling, just a bit of bad luck, how's the clinic?" Finn asked with a mouthful of greens,

"It's been… weird, there are a lot of brutal murder cases lately, and they don't seem to be the work of humans…"

"Yeah, some of the other Enforcers and me are working overtime to find out what's behind this." Keryil said taking a bite out of her sandwich,

"Maybe it's a demon?" Mizu suggested taking a sip of her soda,

"Nah can't be, hmm… I'm going to ask Homer about this one, see if the old fool has any new predictions."

"He gets things right once in a while…" Sakura said,

"More often wrong than right, but hey, if he says something related, it's worth looking into, I'm desperate for any leads here."

They decided to drop the subject and instead talk about more pleasant things, Keryil mentally made a note to talk to Homer when she had the time.

Mita entered a small study, there were stacks of books everywhere and in the middle was a middle aged man, with a fake white mustache and a monocle,

"Excuse me sir, do you know anything about an impending evil?" Mita asked,

The man turned and took his monocle off, "Oh my Shingen… it's bad…"

"What is?" Mita said suddenly very interested,

"The city of Prontera… it … it…"

"It's what?"

"IT'S GOING TO BE OVERRUN BY PORINGS!!! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!" then books and robe went flying as the man dashed under the table,

"Err… that was interesting…" Mita murmured.

1 Enforcers are kinda like the police/FBI