Then, the top of a Spore head was poking out of the bushes. "What the?" Kemi said, but before she could say anything else, Jake quickly covered her mouth. "Shh…" he warned. "You see that? That doesn't look like a real spore to me. Wait here.." Jake started crouching up to it, and…

"Ahh!" he yelled, touching the Spore's head. "Holy Light!" yelled someone under the head. "It's alive!" Jake quickly dashed back to Kemi and knocked her to the ground. Laughing, the thing under the Spore head appeared to be a human.

"You weaklings." Said that someone. They then looked at each other. "Oh, um… sorry." Kemi and Jake said, realizing they were on top of one-another. As they started to get back up, they noticed it was an Acolyte. "Oh, just a weak Acolyte…" mumbled Kemi.

"What did you just call me?" the Acolyte, who appeared to be a girl, started running up, choking Kemi by slightly wrapping her hand around Kemi's neck. "N-n-nothing!" coughed Kemi, trying to gulp. The Acolyte sighed, and let her go, and then looked at both Kemi and Jake.

"I see that you two are traveling together! Great! My name's Mika. If you don't mind, may I travel with you as well?" the Acolyte, addressed as Mika, asked. "Yes, sure. We don't mind. Riiight, Kemi?" smirked Jake. "Uh… uh, y-ya. We don't mind.." Kemi, of course, wasn't used around Acolytes.

"Nice hat." Complimented Jake as they started walking a while ago. "Thanks." Said Mika. Kemi groaned, she appeared to love Jake, and didn't want to let Jake take this Acolyte as a bride. "So, um… I got at least 50 Trunks" Kemi said. "Wow! Fifty! That's amazing! You better go to Archer Village, now!" Jake said happily.

"But the guy said 150." Sighed Kemi. "No, no. He meant 150 points, not 150 Trunks. Geez, girl. You have more than enough. They're all regular Trunks, right? Or just mixed?" asked Jake. "Regular." "Wow! It's been that long! I suppose.. Hey, Mika, know how to Warp?" he asked, knowing that Mika was rather strong.

"Yes. Yes, I do in fact. Were to?" Mika said in a decent reply. "Well, Payon or Archer Village." "I can't do Archer Village, but I can do Payon town." "Ok, take us there then." "Ok!" Mika hummed something, and then said, "Warp Portal !" as she did so, a swirling white-ish blue figure appeared before them. "Go on in!" Mika waited for the two to go in. They did as they were told. After they went in, Mika followed behind.

"Here she is!" Jake said a while ago, finally hitting Payon. "Ouch!" Kemi screamed, falling on top of Jake. "Watch it!" "Sorry." Kemi said, getting up, dusting herself off. "C'mon guys, you're so slow!" Mika yelled, what almost looked like she was a mile away from Kemi and Jake. "How does she do that?" Jake mumbled, running behind Mika. "Who knows." Kemi said, running besides Jake.

"We're here!" Mika cheered, stopping inside the house of the Archer Test. "Here you go, sir. I got 50 Trunks from Willows. I collected them all by my self." Explained Kemi, as she handed over the Trunks to the man. "Ah, thank you dear. Here is your new Bow, and 330 Arrows. Here's a bag for them so you don't have to carry it a lot. Ohh, look over there!" said the man, as Kemi looked to where he was pointing.

"Ta-da! You're now officially an Archer!" he said, changing Kemi's job. "Here are your clothes, go put them on in the dresser room." "Right away, sir." Kemi went in the dresser room and put them on. As she did so, Jake was peeking inside the dresser room Kemi was in. He blushed seeing her naked-ness.

Before Kemi walked out, Jake quickly rushed back to Mika before anyone noticed that he was a pervert. "Ah. Those fit perfectly on you, Kemi." Everyone said. "Thanks! I shall be going now, my father's in the Caves still getting stuff." The three of them started walking out, waving good-bye to everyone in the house.

"Hmm, are you sure you want to go back home? I mean, you could stick with us two for a while if you want." Asked Jake. "Really? You mean it? Wow… I, I don't know.. I never really traveled alone before." Replied Kemi. "But you aren't alone, you have us. And besides, you can go back once you're transcendent, ok?" "Oh, alright. I geuss I'll stay." She sighed, not sure if she was doing the right thing or not, but always wanted to be on an adventurer.

"Yay! Let's go level!" Mika butted in, almost charging into the caves. "No, stop!" Kemi said, grabbing Mika's shoulder. "Why?" Mika stayed. "Because, if my father sees us, he'll take us home. Lets go else where, like the Spore area, perhaps. Or some other place." "Alrighty then." Jake started walking into a forest.

"Boing!" hearing something, the three of them stopped. "Holy shit!" Jake yelled.

Is it another friend or foe? Did they walk into the wrong place? Why do they always end up in such danger?

To be continued…