A/N: Ok, well, I see basically no one but my friends at school read this, but my friends think it's ok, so I'ma keep goin, k? Maybe it's 'cause I keep changin' my name? Let's leave it at that.

Disclaimer: Blash Blah, hurre ya go, I dun own dis thing. Ragnarok Online is not muh thang.

"Whoa, that's odd..." Mandis mumbled as she took a bite out of some bread, "Hmm, so, you're sayin' this guy was goin on about some master or somethin'?"

"Yup, that's what he said, he also seemed to wanna kill me, or Iciris at least." I leaned back and watched as Mandis and Alexia took it all in.

"Well then, why don't we move on?" Alexia asked, "May as well get away from the danger right?" She sounded generally scared.

"Yeah, hey, I got an Idea, why not go to Morroc?" Mandis asked.

"You?" I scoffed, "You wanna run away too?"

"No, I just have someone I wanna visit, that's all."

"Morroc it is."

We headed off to see the Kafra, it was much easier than walking.

"Hey!" Mandis yelled.

"Yes?" The Kafra asked.

"Yes, we would like to go to Morroc," Alexia smiled sweetly.

"Ok, well then," He held out his hand. Alexia smiled sweetly again.

"umm," Alexia liked her lips, "We really don't have the money," She bit her lip as she walked up to him. She stroked a single finger along his arm.

"You couldn't just let us go there could you?"

"Um well," He looked her over. "I don't think I'm allowed." I walked over to Mandis and whispered in her ear.

"Mandis, listen, I know you have the money, so either use it, or help us out." Mandis walked off towards the Kafra, I grabbed her arm, "And don't kill him." She shook me off and walked up beside him.

"Mmm," She leaned up against him, "I think you can send us, and I can, give you something." She whispered something in his ear.

In an instant Alexia and I were in Morroc, then, a moment later, so was Mandis.

"That, was disgusting," She spat.

"What was?" Alexia mumbled.

"Yeah, what did you give him," She spat on the ground as I asked it.

"A kiss, alright!" she asked as she spat some more, "I gave him a Fing kiss." Alexia and I laughed. "Yeah, ha ha, let's go." She stomped off into town.

"Where are we going?" I asked as I jogged up beside her.

"I have to see a friend at a restaurant."

"Ok, so then, if you two are going there, mind if I just go to the Inn and meet you there later?" Alexia asked looking around worriedly.

"Ha, no prob, see you later," I smiled and waved goodbye then Mandis pointed out the restaurant we were goin' to.

"He's meeting me there, you can come if you like but I'll need to speak to him in private," She stated bluntly.

"Whatever, I'll just ask around some more for Iciris then," I walked up the steps to the restaurant and walked over to the bar as Mandis looked around for her friend, a rather large man came up to the counter.

"What can I get you?" He asked as he grabbed a mug from a rack.

"Oh, nothing thanks, I was just wondering," I pulled Iciris' picture from my robe and showed it to him, "Have you seen this guy?" He took the picture from me and looked it over, then handed it back, shaking his head.

"Nope, I woulda remembered seein' a guy like that walkin' 'round here, sorry I can't help ya," He smiled then walked off, then glanced back at my hand, I saw what he was looking at and quickly tugged it back into my robe then walked away to ask around a little more.

After a little while Mandis came back holding a bag of gold coins, then tucked them into a pouch on the back of her sash.

"So, of to the Inn now?" She asked.

"No, I want to look around a little more, you can go back if you want," I smiled, "I'll be fine."

"Nah, I'll stick around for a little while," She walked along beside me as I walked up to people, asking if they'd seen my friend, I got a few strange looks and a few people even asked me why I carried his picture around. I blushed slightly, and laughed.

"He's just a good friend, I assure you," I chuckled as they would roll there eyes and walk away.

"So, William, why do you carry his picture around?" Mandis asked, "Unless I'm prying into something I don't want to hear."

"Oh, well, can you keep a secret?" I asked her.

"Do I even want to know?" She asked.

"See this mark?" I asked showing her my hand.

"Yeah,"

"Well," I breathed out deeply, "It means that when I was born, I was designated as the Advisor to the Child of Prophecy, I suppose you've heard that legend?"

"Of course! Duh, who hasn't?"

"Oh, well, Iciris here," I showed her the picture, "See how one eyes is different from the other?"

"Yeah."

"Well, that's because he is the Child of Prophecy."

"What! No way! That's so cool!" She laughed.

"Oh yes, except he ran away, and now I have to find him,"

"Why should you find him just because he ran away?" She asked.

"Well, I sorta helped him escape, so yeah," I mumbled tracing a foot accross the ground.

"Okay, so?" She slapped me on the back as I looked at her in surprise, "So you helped a friend, don't get so worked up about it, so Tristan thinks it's your fault,"

"Tristan?" I thought it over, "Oh, you mean King Tristan?"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," She took out her Main Gauge and was slicing it around through the air, then put her fingers up against a wall and stabbed the spaces between all her fingers, faster and faster, not even nicking her fingers.

"You're good at that," I stared in awe.

"What this?" She scoffed, "This is nothing, maybe you'll see my skills someday," She winked walking off, then turning around and walking back up to me she mumbled," you tell anyone, ANYONE, I winked at you, I swear, the Mighty fist of Mandis shall smite thee." I laughed.

"You mean midiocre, right?" I asked as she walked off, she whiped around.

"What was that!" She screamed.

"Nothin'," I shrugged walking up to her, flicking her nose, "Your kinda cute when yer angry," I laughed walking past her.

"To bad we can't all be so lucky," She yelled as she ran up beside me, "Let's just head back to the inn," she stomped off to the Inn, "Now."

"Oh, Yes sir, Ma'am, Ma'am, sir, Ma'am, Yes," I rolled my eyes walking up beside her.

We got to the Inn a few minutes later and walked up to the desk,

"Yeah, is there an Alexia here?" We asked the Innkeeper. He looked back at us,

"Yeah, you her friends?" He asked.

"Yup, William and Mandis," Mandis interjected.

"She left with some guy a little while ago, but she left this here for your eyes only, He handed me the note and walked off. Mandis and I walked back outside to read the letter more clearly

Dear William and Mandis,

I have the girl, she wasn't much fun, I'd come to the oasis alone if I were you. Unless you wanna just let her die, that works for me too, but just know I'll be back for you both, and William? You won't die as quickly as your little friends, and just wait to know what will do to the C.o.P.

Sincerely,

Jonriad.

At the end of the note there was a spot of dried blood. I looked over to Mandis.

"I'm thinkin' it'd probably be a good idea to go to the oasis alone and get Alexia back from this Jonriad guy, hmm?" Mandis asked, but I was all ready running there, Mandis soon at my side. I looked around, damn!

"Where is this oasis thingy anyways?" I asked Mandis.

"I'm not sure, and what's a cop?" she asked.

"No, C.o.P." I explained, "Child of Prophecy."

"Oh I see, well then, this guy's probably tied with our friend from before, or the 'Master' guy huh?"

"Yeah, probably," I mumbled thinking it over, who could want to kill Iciris so bad they'd hurt civilians? And who is this 'Master' character anyways?

We ran flat out fir about five minutes before we stopped, out of breath. I looked around, then looked back to Mandis.

"This is hopeless!" I yelled into the nothingness.

"Maybe thats it over there," Mandis pointed out a palm tree in a grassy area, with a small spring in the middle of fresh, blue water behind us, where we had come from.

"Ya think?" I asked sarcastically as Mandis and I ran up to it, looking around for this Jonriad person.

"Welcome, mien freund." I heard from behind. I turned to see an assassin come out from around a tree holding Alexia, his hand over her mouth and a Katar to her neck.

-Jonriad-

Name: Jonriad

Hair: short, jet black

Eyes: Emerald green

Identifying marks: Scar under left eye

History: Twenty years ago in an elite training camp for assassins, the leaders of the camp told their team the way to commence into the higher ranks of the team, they had to kill another of their troop. Everyone was on edge, except for the first years, who had just finished the Thief test and held promise as assassins. On the night of the test, a student killed all the others, without even a gleam of pity or regret, and he hadn't even completed his first year yet, He left the camp then to take the assassin tests, then disappeared, they say to hire him all you have to do is look into a dark shadow and call his name.

"Jonriad" then hope he doesn't kill you for waking him...

"Now, I beleive you know vy you are 'ere, non?" he asked.

"Not perticularly, no, why are we here?" I asked calmly as Mandis took out her Main Gauge. She walked around the tree, waiting behind Jonriad, he hadn't seemed to see her, just me.

"Well, then, I'll tell you," He said matter-of-factly, "You are here, because I have been hired to kill you so that the master will never have to deal with the Child of Prophecy., and seeing as how you are his advisor, we thought that if you are dead, and never find him, then we won't have to worry about him being strong enough to defeat the master when he is ready to cleanse this world of you reached humans."

"The Child of Prophecy will defeat the dark lord, there is nothing you can do to stop it, and you said you humans, do you not concider yourself a human?" I asked, stalling for time.

"Yes, unfortunatly you are right, I am a human, but I pray that my evil deeds here in the world of the living will earn me the right and freedom of being a demon when I die," He smiled broadly at the prospect.

"You're a very twisted man aren't you?" I asked, as I watched Mandis sneak up behind him. She took her knife and lodged it deep into his back.

"I hope you've done enough evil deeds already in you're life, for you're sake," She hissed into his ear as he let go of Alexia and yelled in pain.

Alexia fell to the ground and coughed, catching her breathe, then she got up and ran accross the oasis to me, cocking an arrow into her bow.

"You alright?" I asked, as I watched Jonriad try to attack Mandis, but he was still in pain. He hopped up into the palm tree and then lept into the water, out of our view. Alexia fired her arrow into the water where he had fell into it then cocked another, I scanned the water, a magic missle spell prepped and ready to go. Mandis scanned the water then her eyes opened wide.

"Watch out William!" She yelled as Jonriad lept out of the water behind me, stabbing me many times in the back, quickly and deathly, then he lept back into the water just as Mandis got to me and Alexia fired off more arrows into the water. She looked down at me, then back to Jonriad as he lept from the water again, this time behind Alexia.

Mandis dashed out after him, getting to him just in time to shove Alexia out of the way. She took her Main Gauge and lunged forward, feeling it sink deep into the tender flesh of his neck.

"May he rest in peace, and never return to this world," She mumbled as he fell to the ground. I chuckled softly, then coughed up blood, as I faded out of consciousness I watched as a hooded figure came down over me.

"No..." I mumbled as I fell into darkness.

I looked around me, I was in the dark room again, the hooded figure was before me once more.

"I see Jonriad has failed us, a pity, the legends really were lies," He smirked, "His bark was worse then his bite."

"Yes, and I see you have yet to capture The Child of Prophecy."

"As have you," He stared coldly as he spat the words.

"It will only be a matter of time," I whispered calmly.

"You seem confident, so you are not afraid to put your friends in even more danger?" He asked slighly as he disapeared into the darkness. Then I saw Alexia and Mandis, they were lying channed to a wall, there clothes shredded, burn marks and stab marks all along them. Alexia sobbed solemnly as Mandis screamed to some unknown tormentor, "We don't know where he is!" Then it all disappeared and the hooded figure returned.

"Do yourself a favor and give up your quest, you are a blessed man, you travel with two women, take pride in that and let darkness envelope the earth."

"Never!" I screamed into the darkness.

"Then die!" He screamed as the air turned red and his robe flew up with an unknown force.

I bolted up roght, sweat dripping from my face.

"I see you are up," a hooded figure mumbled.

"What have you done with Alexia and Mandis!" I yelled, trying to stand. I had been bandaged but the pain was still there, I collapsed back onto the bed.

"They are sleeping, and you are healing," He explained, as he raised two Tattood arms and took back his hood. "My names Richard, I saved you." He held out a hand to me.

"I'm William," I took his hand and shook it.

"I know, the other two told me, you're lucky I came along when I did, now rest." Even before the words slipped from his lips i fell back asleep...

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