"W-who said that?" Max muttered, looking around.

Something jumped down infront of them, a girl dressed in white with blue trimming around the edge and a yellow bow. she wore a jester-like hat on her head and had browny pink hair.

"Who are you!" Monk yelled, jumping back in suprise,

the girl smiled and waved "Im Mireille-chan! The rare item hunter of love and bravery!"

"Im Monk" She smiled, maybe the world wasnt so bad after all. if they made a few new friends.

"Max"

"What are you guys doing in a lv 10 area? your just newbies entcha?" Mireille asked

"level 10! i thought you said this was a low level area monk!" max cried, grabbing her friend by the arm and shaking her slightly

"Must have read the manual wrong, woops!" Monk blushed, pulling away

"Woops is right! you guys are lucky i was passing by! you should come train with us sometime" Mireille giggled

"Really? that would be great!" Max smiled, she knew they both needed lots and lots of training!

"well then c'mon!" Mireille nodded, leading the way back to the chaos gate, and getting rid of any monsters they met along the way.

"MAC ANU!" they shouted together, and arrived in the city.

"so.. are you friends at a bar or something?" Max asked, looking around, expecting to see a troupe of wavemasters

"Nope they'll be at my hideout. Which is a rare item in itself" Mireille smiled, continuing to lead the way.

They arrived at a door which seemed a little weird as it was just a door on a wall. but when the item hunter opened the door, it was a massive storage room, filled with weird but most of all rare items.

A young boy stood up, he had greeny blue hair and red triangles on his face, a thick gold bracelet was around his left wrist.

"Whos this mireille?" He asked, brushing a strand of hair out his eye.

"Oh! Shugo! This is max, and this is monk. they're a couple of newbies that i found whilst hunting" She explained, gesturing to the two girls.

shugo nodded, then looked to the bracelette on his wrist "uh..theyre not item hunters like you are they?" he mused, hiding it behind his back

"Nope,. Max is a heavy blade. and monk is a wavemaster" she exclaimed "although i wouldnt mind your braclett myself!"

"Hi! Im Rena kunisaki. shugos sister. Im a blade master too" A girl with light pink hair smiled, she had tanned skin and yellow markings on her torso, arms and face.

"Rena? Shugo? Oh! you guys are the ones with the dot hackers avatars right! i heard all about you in the news groups! what you did for that A.I really was cool!" Monk exclaimed, shaking both they're hands. Shugo and rena exchanged glances then laughed.

"thanks!" rena giggled

"its nice to have a fan... i think" shugo smirked slightly

"ooh! I almost forgot! this is Hotaru. and this is Ouka" Mireille said, gesturing to a wolf girl with greyish purple hair and a blonde haired girl with a green pigish thing asleep on her head. "Ouka and i go waaaaay back. shes my mentor. and Hotaru is playing on the japanese server from america"

"Konnichiwa" Hotaru smiled, bowing slightly

"hey" Ouka grinned, "you guys up for some training?"

"sure.." Max smiled weakly. she had to meet up with al. but maybe she could spare some time.

"Lets go then!" Mireille laughed, grabbing her rare staff from the side "Shugo, Rena? You comming?"

"Uh...love to. But ive gotta make dinner" Rena sighed

"Mhm.. and ive got study" Shugo smiled, waving slightly "see you later though"

" Sure" Ouka replied, standing up and walking outside

A few minutes later, they arrived at a high level field

"what are we doing here? Me and monk wont last 2 minutes!" max objected, looking around at all the monsters that were appearing

"if you two just stand back, as long as your in the party. you'll level up in no time, just swing your blade or something" mireille told them, swinging her staff and shouting a few attacks.

Ouka took a running jump at a monster, kicked it in the gut then jumped higher and kicked it in the head. she landed gracefully on the floor and watched as the monster fell and disapeared. The two girls watched in awe. theyd never seen anyone fight like that, she didnt seem to get tired either.

"Your leveling up already! not suprising, oukas practically the best!" mireille smiled, casting another spell.

"Yeah..shes really good" Max muttered, she didnt mind people helping her level up. but she would have rather been out there fighting herself.

"Reki!...REKI!" A young man with shoulder length silverish hair waved his gloved hand infront of his subordinate's face, who appeared to be out of it through exaustion.

"Oh..sorry sir. Im kinda out of it today" The blonde wavemaster smiled apologeticaly "what was it you wanted?"

"Theres a couple of files i need for a report..could you fetch them for me?" Balmung asked, drawing up a script from the past few days. to a normal person it would look like a complicated script. but it was basically just a log database. used for tracking people who had violated the user terms of agreement and find out where they were. Or just seeing who had/ was logged in.

Reki nodded obediantly and went to find the script. He stopped. A email? from max? He wondered what it could be about. and had they even exchanged member adresses? That wasnt important, His eyes widened as he read the email. why did she want to know about that, and why now of all times? he checked the log script. she'd logged out 5 minutes ago. he sighed and collected the file. It would have to wait till later.