Bboyz: This seems to be a little bad habit of mine but hey, sorry for the long absence! Anywayz, it's not that I don't want to continue with the fic. I just needed to spend more time with studying 'cos there's an upcoming exam this November. Anywayz, enough with my lame excuses, let's get on with the fic!

DISCLAIMERS: I do not own Ragnarok Online. Short and simple.

Lush green trees and blinding rays met my eyes as I tried to open them. I wish my eyes would adjust to the lights faster because I'm dying to look at how the world is outside of Lutie for myself. As the blinding rays decreased, I set my eyes upon the sight in front of me. Lust green trees surrounded us while its leaves swayed soundly with the gentle breeze that blew over the fields of Prontera. It was quite a picturesque sight since we didn't really have other seasons in Lutie except for winter.

"Quite a sight, right Ray?" Lee asked. I scanned to my right from where his voice was coming from. His gaze met mine which made both of use smiled gently. I made my way to get closer to him since I didn't really feel too safe being out in the open alone. I felt like I was a sitting duck to an unexpected predator.

"Ummm………" I heard a murmur coming from behind us. I gave a little giggle as I saw Kyle still wasn't up. He was probably dreaming of something. He made a cute sight when he is asleep and dreaming. His face was calm and had no worries written on it. Traveling from Lutie, training at the centre and warping here was quite tiring and I wasn't too surprised that Kyle was still sleeping. But something was weird. Something didn't feel right. I know something was not right but I just couldn't put my mind to figuring out what it was. Lee saw my confused look and smiled at me.

"Don't worry, Drew is ok. He's just over there, picking up some stuff other travelers has left behind", Lee explained to me. Then I turned to where he was pointing and saw Drew picking up items on the ground. A few porings bounced around him, trying to get to the fruits but he blocked them from getting what they wanted. That Drew……… Never missing any chances that came pass him. After a few while, he managed to pick up all the stuff that was there and made the porings go empty handed (when did porings grow hands?). He waved at me as he made his way back to us, wearing a happy expression on his face. I chuckled at the sight which brought back cheerful memories of our childhood in Lutie.

-Flashback-

The snow fell gracefully down from the heavens above, swaying in the gentle winds that blew over Lutie. It was another ordinary day in the lives of the children in Lutie.

"Gotcha Ray!" a brown haired boy shouted cheerfully as he had successfully hit his friend with his snowballs.

"You sneak! How did you get there without me noticing?" I shouted partly amused and partly annoyed. Kyle just put on a cute smile.

"Talent", he replied shortly. It was kind of funny to me how he can come up with these answers. I chuckled and headed straight for him. He was on the ground giggling and didn't see me coming until it was too late. I made a huge leap and jumped on him, making both of us roll in the gentle white snow. I was on top of him, both of us covered in snow when we managed to come to a halt. He both laughed and lay down on the ground, looking up to the sky.

"Don't you two have better things to do then to play in the snow?" a boy with blond hair came up to us, asking. We looked at each other and then looked at Lee.

"Nope!" the word came out of both of our mouth automatically and we both started to laugh again. Lee shook his head and sighed. He then smiled at the sight of two of his best friends.

"That reminds me, where's Drew?" Kyle asked. I bolted up to a sitting position, trying to find the green haired boy. He was no where in sight. Lee too was quite confused and didn't know the whereabouts of our friend.

"He was behind me a few seconds ago……… Couldn't have gone too far", Lee said as he too sat down next to me. It was strange of Drew to disappear just like that without informing Lee.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late", a voice came from behind the three of us. Kyle sat up and we turned around to find our friend with a few weird items in his hands. Lee raised an eyebrow, signaling Drew for an explanation while Kyle and I stood up and snatched the items from Drew's hands to investigate. Lee sighed at our childish behaviors while Drew only chuckled

"Explain", Lee demanded and the three of us jolted straight as a reaction to his monotonous voice.

"Umm……… well, as I was walking with you, I saw a few items that some foreign traveler discarded from his bag. So, I thought that it would go to waste to leave it there. My curiosity got the better of me and I just went up and investigated that stuff to see if it was still ok and you can probably guess what happened next?" Drew told his story. I saw that Lee's expression was becoming angrier by the second and he jolted up on his feet.

"You could have at least told me you were………" Lee said angrily but was cut short when Kyle threw a snowball right to his face.

"Sorry……… I wasn't aiming for you face", Kyle apologized. Seeing the situation, I think we were in for a hectic day. Lee fumed and started to chase Kyle who ran as fast as he could. I didn't want to miss all the fun so I followed them with Drew tailing close behind.

-End flashback-

'Those were the good old days', I taught to myself. A smile crept upon face.

"Don't you think it's time to wake Kyle up yet?" Drew asked. Lee nodded and looked at me. Well, here it goes again. It is always me that had to do the hard work.

"Why me?" I asked. The other two shook their heads and shrugged.

"Since the beginning of time, the only three people that I've seen successfully wakes him up are both his parents and you", Lee explained. It was true thought. There were absolutely right. It was a known fact between us and our parents that Kyle is one heavy sleeper. They knew since we had slumber parties and stuff. There were only three ways of waking him up. Kyle's mother knows one way while his father knows another. I'm the only one that knows all three!

I crept up to him and saw his peaceful face. It felt cruel to wake him up. He looked like an angel, innocent and serene but he's slept long enough anyway. I sat up and placed his head on my lap. Then I tickled him behind his right ear. At once, his eyelids made a few movements and he opened his eyes slowly.

"Hey………" I said in a soft voice. He smiled, yawned and stretched himself while still being on my lap. Then his eyes were fully opened.

"Where are we? Have I been sleeping for too long again?" he asked innocently. I chuckled and gave a nod. He then jolted up from his lying position and looked at Lee and Drew. He gave them a smile. Drew returned his smile with a wave while Lee shook his head disapprovingly.

"It's amazing how you can sleep soundly even when your body has to adapt to a new environment", Lee said. I stood up, pulled Kyle up and went towards Drew and Lee.

"So where are we?" Kyle asked. Drew and I sweat dropped but Lee just shook his head.

"We couldn't really go much anywhere since you've been sleeping from the time we were warped here. Well, anyway from what that man said, we must be in the fields around Prontera", Lee explained. Drew, Kyle and I looked around and breathed in the fresh, supple air.

"Let's get going then!" Kyle shouted and he stood up and started marching away. I got up and pulled at his shirt, trying to stop him from going any further, "What's wrong with you?"

"Do you even know where to go?" I asked. Kyle thought for a few moments and scratched his head. He then looked at all of us.

"Where are we going?" Kyle asked. Drew, Lee and I fell down (anime-style!), wandering what Kyle actually think of half the time. Lee got up and took out his watch. He pressed a few buttons and a hologram of the world map came out. Kyle and I looked in awe at the watch while Drew already got his hand observing the watched. Lee pulled his hand away.

"It's pretty obvious you guys have never seen this gadget before", Lee said sarcastically," Anyway, let's go up north since we'll be heading towards Prontera soon to shop for some groceries. Oh yes, I almost forgot. Here are identical watches for you guys. It will help track down anyone if we lost our ways and there are also other features on it. You can read the manual for yourself. It's really handy and I really have to thank my uncle for giving six to me………"

Our party started to walk when suddenly; there was a strange but familiar blue light appeared in front of us, blinding our eyesight. After the light has faded, there were two figures in front of us. From the looks of it, there were newly approved novices as well.

"Umm……… Hi?" one of them said. I gave him a smile, identical to the one that Drew was making. Kyle made a grin while Lee gave them a nod.

"I'm Lee, this is Drew, Kyle and Ray", Lee introduced us.

"I'm Henry and this is Paul. Nice to meet you", the former introduced them. Paul seemed to be quieter.

Name: Henry Wong

Hometown: Izlude

Features: Blue hair, blue eyes and light-toned skin colour.

Name: Paul Li

Hometown: Morroc

Features: Black hair, brown eyes and dark-toned skin colour.

"Hi! Nice to meet you too", Kyle said as he shook hands with Henry and tried to shake hands with Paul, which seemed to be impossible. Paul just stared blankly elsewhere. Kyle gave up and returned to our side. I just put a thumb up and gave them a wink.

"You look kind of familiar……… but I can't seem to remember where from", Henry said to me. I tried to think back and searched my memory for someone that looked like Henry but nothing came to mind.

"You both do have the same surname. Maybe you are related?" Lee asked. Both Henry and I looked at each other. We both looked quite like each other and felt a familiar aura coming from one another.

"That is a possibility", Drew said as he nodded, agreeing with Lee's assumption. I smiled.

"Well, if we are related then this must not be a coincidence. It was probably meant to be", I said cheerfully. Henry smiled. Hey, his smile reminded me of my brother. Maybe we were related. I noticed that Kyle, Lee and Drew were discussing something behind me. When Kyle noticed what I was doing, he smiled and came up to me.

"Why don't you invite them to join our party? The more the merrier right?" he whispered. I thought for a moment and then came to a conclusion that Kyle does come up with good suggestion sometimes.

"Hey Henry, why don't you two join our party? We are new novices as well and it's safer and better to travel in big groups", I asked him. He turned to Paul who just shrugged.

"Yeah, sure. Thanks for inviting us" Henry answered. Lee gave them both the remaining watches he got from his uncle.

"Thank you", Paul said. Lee was surprised, just like the rest of us but he put on a happy face and smiles at Paul. Paul smiled back. It felt kind of strange but somehow I knew that we were all destined to meet and travel with each other. We then started to train against porings and all those little creatures around us as we headed north towards Prontera.

It was kind of a hectic day training today. I had some trouble with porings just now. Ten of those cute things came out of nowhere and started to attack me. I did manage to handle about five but then I was too tired to fight the others. Luckly Kyle and Lee saw the situation and came to the rescue. They were both tired then so it did gave them quite a hard time. After that I thank them and gave Paul a carton of milk. He hesitated at first, motioning that it was unnecessary but I gave it to him anyway to show my gratitude. I was not too hard to get to know Paul actually. We had a short chat afterwards and then were when I remembered to thank Kyle. I searched for him and saw that he was lying exhaustedly. I ran up to him and sat down next to him.

"Are you ok Kyle? You look really………" I was cut short when he put a finger on my lips. That was when I knew that he was really tired and needed to rest. I took out a bottle of red potion and let him have a few sips.

"Thanks Ray. I thought you wouldn't have came since you were busy talking to Paul over there………" Kyle said as he rested his head on my laps.

"Auw……… My little cute friend is jealous of Paul………" I said softly into his ears. That made him blush a little. I'm really glad that I knew how to get to him.

"Am not!" Kyle protested and I just gave him a chuckle. I raised an eyebrow which made a sign saying that it was too obvious. We both then chuckled knowing that the argument won't get anywhere and that I was right from the very beginning.

"I wanted to come to your rescue………" he said shyly. I blushed knowing that we both can tend to get a little childish once in a while.

"You'll always be my saviour Kyle……… always………" I whispered into his ears. He smiled and gently went to sleep.

"Auw……… How romantic?" Drew said as he reached the both of us. I gave him a level 7 punch straight to the stomach as he sat down. Lee chuckled and came up to us with Henry tailing closely behind. Paul came soon after and we all had a rest. I placed my backpack under Kyle's head and made my way to talk with the rest.

All of us took out a few fruits and milk which was given by the man from the registration office. They were quite nice, tastes fresher that the ones my sister usually brought back but it's not to easy to get to Lutie………

Day turned into night as we were enjoying ourselves. It really worried me on how we were supposed to handle ourselves at night where we were all novices.

"You'd never know……… Maybe a zombie or an orc could come out at anytime and devour us for its midnight snack", I said. Lee, Drew and Henry looked at me in fright while Paul chuckled at my thought. Kyle was still asleep.

"Don't worry you guys. It won't be too dangerous out here in the fields around Prontera but if you are still worried, we'll stay and protect you", came a voice from behind me. I saw that all my friends' eyes have focused on the figures that were behind me. I then turned around.

My eyes were met with the eyes of a huge Peco peco. I gave a little shriek and stumbled a few steps back. That was when I was the handsome knight that was riding the huge bird. He had short blond hair and brown eyes. Then I noticed that he wasn't alone. There were three other people behind him, a sage, a priestess and a bard. There were probably a party.

After they introduced themselves, they told us that we could sleep the whole night and that they would keep and eye on all of us. We thank them and got ready for bed. I took out my sleeping bag from my rucksack that I gently pulled from under Kyle's head and combined it with Kyle's which I took out from his backpack. I laid it on the ground.

I pushed him onto the sleeping bags. Lee, Drew and Henry came by soon after and laid their sleeping bags next to ours while Paul had a chat with the bard. I settled down and nuzzled into the soft and comfy sleeping bags and soon dozed off.

In a matter of seconds, I woke up. To me, it did felt as if a few seconds but in the real world, it's been two hours. I searched around me. Kyle was still asleep as well as Paul, Drew and Henry. Then I saw that Lee too has just woken up. We both saw the older party were also sleeping except for the priestess who was probably on watch. I came closer to Lee as he tried to whisper something to me.

"Did you feel it too?" Lee asked in a hushed voice. I thought for a few seconds and then remembered why I woke up. Then I nodded and made a face to Lee so that he would actually explain what had happened. He shrugged.

"I don't know what exactly happened but I felt something strange. Then I woke up and saw that you just woke up as well", he explained. Then, we both saw that the sage opened his eyes for a few moment, sat up and looked towards the west. Then he sighed and went back to sleep with a worried look. We both looked at each other with worried looks painted on our faces. We then saw the priestess coming towards us and summoned something out of thin air.

"Angelus!" she said quietly. Why was she doing this in the middle of the night? We didn't need our defences raised at this time of……… Yawn. I' m too tired to even………

As Lee and I lay back down on the ground, I saw a huge bell with feathers scattering everywhere, ringing a soft gentle lullaby.

"Angelus………" was the last thing I remembered whispering before heading back to slumber town.

The priestess looked worriedly at the two boys then she too looked towards the west from Prontera which lies, the magical city of Geffen.

-Geffen Tower - Geffen, the city of magic-

A professor made his way smoothly up the tower's stairs. It didn't take long for him to reach the very top of the tower. He then waited for the other sages to arrive which took a few minutes. Then all three of them raised their hands, motioning to an ancient wall.

Suddenly, the wall erupted into flames as a wooden oak door started to materialize. After the flames subsided, the three messengers from Yuno knocked on the door ad entered into a dim hallway lit by several enchanted candles.

The three of them started to walk down the hallway and soon after found another dead end. The two elders looked confusedly at the professor.

"Isn't this where the Elders of Geffen supposed to be?" they asked. The professor smirked.

"They are here………" said the professor and with that, the wall suddenly swallowed the three messengers from Yuno. An enchanted room lit by magical candles and huge chandeliers met the three messengers from Yuno. In front of them was an old round table which seated a few people at the opposite end.

"We were expecting you……… please come and join us", a high wizard invited them. The professor and the sages made their way and seated themselves near the wizards.

"I think you would probably know our intentions of coming here already?" asked the professor. The high wizard as well as the other wizards nodded.

"We need to start the discussion right away".

Bboyz: That's all for now. I think this chapter is longer than the previous two but hey, you guys like lo g chappies right? So, now it's your turn to review! Help me in making this fic better and sorry if the jobs used in this fic are unfamiliar to some of you because I typed this fic based on Malaysia's Ragnarok Online, MRO.

Professor:Job level after Sages

High Wizard:Job level after wizards