Chapter Two: Frozen Flame-The Assassin Poser

Uh-huh. I'm not going to let her get away with it! Yes, I said her! Secretly, Gale, or as in Aiden, is actually a girl in disguise… Shocking isn't it? I call 'him' Chris, 'cause her full name is Christina. I'd rather go to hell than try to remember all these different spellings of 'Christina'. God… 'Kristina', 'Khristina', 'Cristina', 'Chrystina', or however else it is spelt. Do you KNOW how damned annoying it is to remember that many different spellings? I just call her 'Chris'. It fits with her oh so mysterious secret! But I bet people suspected that she really was a girl or thought she was actually guy… but thought 'he' was gay… I wonder how many people will try to find us once someone reads this! Mwahahaha! Oh yeah… Anyways…

"What another boring day…" I thought as I threw 2 kumbis at the bubbling in front of me. I was so bored in fact that I pulled out my communicator and punched up Chris's frequency.

"Hello." came the reply.

"Oye!" I yelled, and I swore I could have heard a groan. "What's up?"

Chris hesitated for a minute and said " I'm actually kinda busy at the moment…"

I knew she was lying but I played along with it. "So what are you doin'?"

"I'm …uh, item hunting?" she replied.

I laughed, "You do realize that you would sooner find a GM to give you 1 mil than find a Maple Item right?"

"That's not true!"

"Whatever" I sighed. "Will you train me now?"

She looked away from the screen for a moment and said "Alright, fine. But this is the last time I'm letting you leech off me."

"That what you said last time." slap (How the f did that hit me?) "Ow…."

She sighed, "Just shut up and get over to the evil eyes cave."

I said in a mocking tone – "Yes dear…." And cut the connection before she could respond….

As I walked out of the subway, I could almost hear an angry shrill scream that sounded a lot like Chris'. Good thing I left Ludibrium…

Much later, I was just arriving in Sleepywood.

"This place is kinda peaceful if you think about it…" I mumble.

I decided to visit the sauna for a bit to refresh myself and buy a few potions. As soon as I got there people were yelling "Selling K FAN REALLY CHEAP" or "COME TO ROOM 20 FOR DROP GAME!" and various other things. I just ignored them and talked to the sauna guy. I had bought my pots and now I left. This is when I remembered how long it took to get to Ant Park. "Shit, now I'm wishing I had taken the time to go back and take a VIP cab…" And with that comment I left to go to the Dungeon of Victoria Island.

Horned and Undead Mushrooms were everywhere inside the dungeon, but I hardly pay any attention to them as I'm not really strong enough for them to be good training. I just used my Dark Sight skill and walked along on my way. I walked past Mages, Archer, Warriors and other Rouges (Such as myself) on my way down the long path. Then I saw some noob-looking kid flying seemingly on nothing above me. "How are you doing that?" I asked. But as soon as he saw me he disappeared in a flash. "Oh well," I thought.

By this point I was about 1 mile from Ant Park and was starting to fatigue. I decided to rest on a nearby rock and heal some HP from the annoying monsters that had hit me when my Dark Sight wore off. As I sat there and looked at the ceiling I wondered to myself "How long will it be before I become strong?"

The truth was, I'm a special class of Rouges. I am what you call a BanditSin. Basically we are Bandits that train as assassins until we are strong enough to become a bandit. But we don't get to learn the basic dagger skills in doing so.

Snapping me from my moment of thought was a young mage. "Hey, could you possibly help me find something?" I was sort of confused but decided to help anyways.

"I'll try, anyways what do you need?"

The mage shuffled slightly and said, "I need help getting out of here and going to Ellinia…" I then realized he had probably gotten lost here. "Ah, no problem," I said as I pulled out a scroll and handed it to him. "That's a special teleport scroll that will get you to Ellinia in a flash" With this the mage said "thanks" and disappeared with a poof. And with another distraction out of the way I walked the rest of the way to ant tunnel non-stop.