Author:Ah…uploaded a new chapter finally. First of; you will not find any of these character names in pRO or trinity server for that matter. I dun really like the idea of being stalked just bcos I haven't uploaded a new chapter . Second, I never really used the actual name of some of the skill castings cos it takes the fun out of finding out what the real skills are actually being used. Third, I will try my utmost not to write so much like anime things like sweatdrops, anger veins or the like.
Now, enjoy :D
At the guild leader's orders, the members under Harun are to resume their normal peace keeping duties until the arrival of the Guardians. The sudden release of monsters had been minor; Wraiths, High Orcs, Goblins, nothing powerful and even some of the adventurers took the opportunity to battle head on just to improve their fighting skills.
Two years later, Harun and his guild members found themselves in a secluded part of the Mt.Mjolnir forests investigating a rising increase of deadbranch abuse. Apparently, some youngsters took delight in summoning a large number of monsters by breaking a hundred deadbranches.
"Ah for crying out loud!" Xuan whined as he got rid of ten zombies. "They should really raise the prices of those dead branches!"
Xuan quickly swung his bible behind him and killed an orc that had tried to attack him from behind. The blade had cut deep into the orc's neck; dissecting the arteries and muscles. Only Xuan would fit blades onto the edges of his holy bible as he can enchant two souls into it. The swordmace, however, could only be enchanted with one, which wasn't satisfactory to a battlepriest.
"Never," Xuan smirked as he turned behind and looked at the other orcs that stared at him cautiously, "attack a high priest from behind."
"GGGYYYYYAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" came a scream as a dark hair, champion-classed, appeared and ran towards Xuan.
"Adrian wha…" Xuan's sentence stopped when he saw a group of shinobi monsters chasing after the champion.
"SHIT!" His sprint followed and Adrian's dash just managed to caught up with him.
"Why can't you just teleport, you damn monk!"
"Because I just used my AsuraStrike!"
'Figures..' Xuan felt his own despair as they ran into the forest, the monsters still hot on their heels, 'Well, can't leave him like that can't I…' Evil thoughts contemplating, nonetheless.
Both ducked as a blade swooped down; missing them by a hair's breadth.
"Damn it!"
"Basilica, Xuan! Basilica!"
"Do I look like I have a freaking Basilica spell ! "
"You don't have a god damn sign that says you can't cast basilica!"
"Shut up!" Xuan saw a figure at a clearing.
"Suke!"
"Honey!" Adrian cried out in tearful joy.
Suke saw the two running in her direction and the unbelievably large number of monsters that followed. Her face paled.
"Cast Stormgust Suke! Hurry!"
"Yes sweetheart! Cast…"
poof.
"DAMN YOU SUKE!"
"GYAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
They entered another forest; twigs and leaves cracked and crumbled as they hastily jumped over fallen trees and low lying branches. Xuan made a quick glance behind him; the shinobi creatures were nowhere to be found but he knew they were in hiding, seven orcs were still hot on their heels.
'Damn it! What the hell am I supposed to do now!'
"Everyone ducked!" a female voice rang out of nowhere.
Both quickly sank to the ground as a large shadow went overhead them. Xuan caught a glimpse of pecopeco feet as the stranger swung her crescent scythe. A loud crack rang through the forest as the blade made contact against the thick skin of the orcs. Muscles, bones and tissue made a sickening tear as the blade was forced deeper to the orcs. Two more sweeping slash and the orcs fell dead.
"Are you alright?" The question aimed at Xuan and Adrian.
"Yes, thank you." Xuan helped Adrian on his feet.'A little girl? She looked no more than 16!'
Her armored pecopeco squawked.
No.
A grandpeco.
'A Lord Knight?' Xuan realized. 'At such a young age?'
"Moi, move." A figure appeared and threw a bottle in her direction.
Moi instantly dodged and the bottle broke as it impacted the shinobi's head. It's skin suddenly boiled furiously and black fluid ooze out. The head exploded. The creator-classed whipped out more of those bottles.
'Eeeww…' Xuan cringed, 'Effective but eeewww….'
More shinobis appeared; Moi took on a fighting stance.
"We'll just…sit back and watch the show, eh." Xuan said as he cast a myriad of blessing spells to aid the two.
"Thank you." The creator bowed slightly, he had a soft airy voice and Xuan wondered if he was as young as the lordknight. The dimly lit area didn't helped him one bit.
It took merely 15 minutes, and the mob was wiped out.
"My apologies," the creator said, "My name is Yuki, I should have introduced myself earlier."
"Apology accepted," Xuan didn't bother being humble, "Call me Xuan, that's Adrian."
Adrian laughed uneasily.
"Let's get back to the pathway," Xuan motioned, "I don't really like being stuck in this deep forest for long."
They walked out of the forest and entered a wide clearing; a dirt pathway led to the mountains on one end and another towards the city. Harun had told them to meet up at dusk near the entrance to the west of Prontera gate. Xuan looked at the sky; the sun was yet to set, a falcon flew past. He turned to Yuki and Moi to inquire about their destination when he stopped short.
The whole time they were walking, Xuan did not noticed that Yuki was blindfolded. Mostly because Adrian and himself were walking at the front and Moi and Yuki walked behind. Beneath the loose white hat, Yuki had silver hair just like Xuan, the jawline and skin texture however indicate the man was in his 30's though he still looked strong and able. There were old wounds that peeked out of the blindfolds. Come to think of it; Xuan was able to see the structure of a person's face even after being wrapped in cloth. Yuki's upper face…looked wrong somehow.
"Yes, Xuan?" Yuki inquired.
"Eh?" Xuan broke off.
"Oh," Xuan laughed, "Adrian and I were supposed to meet our Captain later on at the west gate. So I was wondering where you two need to go."
"Ah come to think of it," Yuki turned to Moi, "We do feel a little bored besides our earlier adventure…"
'Adventure…' Xuan thought back in despair.
"If it's not too troublesome," Yuki continued, "May we accompany you while waiting for your Captain?"
"That shouldn't be a problem I guess," Adrian scratched his head.
"Really?" Moi's pink eyes sparkled.
Another odd one. Xuan remembered Leena when he saw the twin ribbons that was pinned on both sides of Moi's head. Xuan merely mumbled a consent and ignore the lordknight's excited glee. Really. An odd one.
They waited for a few hours at the west gate; most of the time talking about their hometown, their friends, the monsters that were mysteriously summoned in towns. The summoning hadgrew lessand fortunately there were many experienced fighters that were able to hold off. Due to that, lives of innocents were spared and injury was minimal.
"Oh they're here." Moi sat up, then cried out excitedly, "Rose is here too! Hey!"
'Rose?' Xuan and Adrian thought.
"Yo!" Harun called out to the two.
Behind him followed another whitesmith, she wore the same headgear as Harun. Her brown eyes lit up when she saw Moi and waved back at the ecstatic lord knight. Rose sported short brown hair that lengthens at the front. Her tanned lean body somewhat made Rose and Harun looked like siblings. Behind Rose, walked Suke.
"Adrian darling, I am so sorry!" Suke ran forward; looking all teary and guilt-ridden.
'Why you…' Xuan was about to bark at her.
"Oh Suke, sweetheart!" Adrian rushed forward and locked her in a tight embrace.
'Traitor…' Xuan thought bitterly.
Ignoring the married couple's conversations, Xuan turned to Harun and introduced Yuki and Moi. Harun took a moment to pause before he shook hands.
"Well, well," Harun grinned, "The Four Guardians really did came to look for me."
"Eh?" Everyone paused.
"I had wanted to come look for you much earlier," Yuki said, "But I realized it would be better if I gathered the other guardians first before setting out. Who would have thought Moi and I would chanced upon Xuan and Adrian while we were on our way to Prontera."
"My real spelling for my name is M..o..u..i," Moi said sheepishly, "But anyways, just called me Moi."
"Well, where's the other one?" Xuan looked around. "Twilight wasn't it?"
"Oh, Higure needed to take care of something," Rose said, "He'll be back, he already met up with Harun."
"Well, that's nice to know." Xuan said as the group entered the west gate.
The sun had just nicely set.
Author...again: Yay! Another chapter uploaded! Hope you enjoy this one cos' I really liked it too :D Wish me luck, I hope I can upload the next chapter soon