(This story was edited by my brother…)
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Or do I? ok… I'm not excepting any more Characters…. Thank you all!
Pirre the Pharoah of Nagging ( You misspelled "pharaoh") I'll add "Sasha", and that's the last one to be added… unless my good friend Kumi wants to add one… I think this Chapter is my best yet!

Chapter 6 "Betrayed."

S (Sigma) Server Zone: Grassland, Calm, Field.

"Hey guys!" I finally caught up to Murakami and Miru.
"Kurumi! You look… different!" Murakami greeted me with a warm smile, while Miru walked past me and took interest in the floating cat.
"Is this one of your friends?" He asked me "nicely", then started to talk to Maha, "It is a very interesting cat-character you have."

Maha took off his hat and bowed. The he settled beside me.
"I can see he is not a talkative type…" Murakami's troubled eyes were focused on Maha. How did he know that the cat was a guy? For all he knew it could have been a girl.

To tell you the truth, I didn't even know for sure. That time, after Tsukasa's disappearance, was the only time we spoke. That time Maha had a boyish voice, so I started to refer to him as a "He".
"Yes, he isn't…"Something about the way Murakami acted around Maha seemed suspicious.
"Kurumi, when did you become a Wave Master?" Was it just me, or did Miru just call me by my name?
"I…" I had no idea of how to explain what happened when I met Maha.
"You finished a quest…" Maha somehow talked inside of my head.
"I… finished some kind of a quest…" I was starting to catch on to what Maha was trying to say, "It was a one time quest, and when finished allowed you to change your class if you wanted…" I looked at Maha. He smiled and nodded.

"Aww man… it was a one-timer? Oh well, I think you look better as a Wave Master, then a Twin User!" Murakami smiled, but his eyes never left Maha.
"Yeah!" Miru agreed, "So, how about we test out your strength?"
I nodded, and followed them into a garden that looked like a labyrinth.

"What is this place?" I've never been in a garden area before.
"This is a labyrinth… It is like a cave, but more monsters…" I think Miru was starting to warm up to me, "Although I killed all of them."
"What about Murakami, you should-… A treasure chest!" I ran up to it and was about to open it.
Murakami smiled weekly, "Should we tell her?"
"Tell me what?" I opened it.

A monster that looked like a treasure chest with sharp teeth, and burning red eyes started chasing me around the half of the labyrinth. Murakami started running after me with a katana in his hand, "Hold on, I'll kill it." I stopped for a second, and hit the Mimic with a basic level spell.

Hit: -3 HP

"Only 3 HP!" I started running again. This time I tried my highest level spell attack.

Hit: -17 HP

Mimic was defeated

"Yay!" I jumped.
Miru and Murakami finally caught up with me. I walked up to Miru, and playfully punched him, "You said you cleared the area!"
He looked at Murakami, "You missed one!" Murakami ignored him.
"That was good." Murakami patted my shoulder smiling. I smiled in return.
"Are you ready for the boss?" Miru headed towards a big room and stopped at the entrance. "Ladies first!" I think he was sick or something, he was all of the sudden very nice to me, so I went up to feel his forehead. He snapped at me and told me to just walk into the room. I continued on.

"So, where's the boss…" There was a cute little animal that sort of looked like a fox. "That couldn't possibly be the boss they were talking about…" I though to myself. Then I targeted the creature, "A level 28 fox demon!" They were joking, right? "Alright, we can take him! Come on!"
Murakami was about to walk into the room, but Miru blocked his way.
"Miru… What are you doing? She won't be able to defeated it all by herself!" Murakami was getting nervous.
"She wanted to fight, you wanted to prove to me that she is worth dragging around with us. So, she will fight by herself!" Miru smirked.

I looked down.. if he wants me to fight, I will. I grabbed on to my staff, and conjured my strongest spell, and hit the monster with it. Like I would imagine, it didn't hurt the demon that much. And if it got a hit on me, I would probably die. I tried a variety of different spells and found an Ice spell to be most effective.

I stopped fighting and noticed Murakami. He was watching my battle intensively. Could he really be the kind of person who would betray me? I couldn't believe what I just witnessed.

I didn't realize that the creature took a swing at me until a dumbbell monster, just like Tsukasa's appeared in front of me, and counterattacked the monster. I noticed something I haven't before, inside the sphere in the middle that connected two larger spheres on the dumbbell monster was a golden bracelet.

After a few more Ice spells the creature fell down defeated. I went up to a treasure chest that was left behind, and opened it.
"Kurumi!" Murakami was filled with glee, "You did it!"
I looked at him as he started walking to me, but the dumbbell monster blocked the entrance to the room. "K-kurumi? Kurumi, please listen to me!"
I looked at him without saying a word, as did Maha. Miru avoided the dumbbell monster and walked towards me, but Maha flew up to him and stopped him from coming any closer. Then he turned to me and teleported us away.

Kurumi has gained a level: (Level 5)

I don't know to where we were teleported, and right now I could care less. "They used me…" I picked up a beautiful lycolis flower, "Used me…" I was sitting on top of a big rock, plucking the petals of the flower. Maha was sitting under, in the shade of a rock, looking up at me.
I needed something to get my mind off of that. I saw a pond with water. I had to check it out, since it was the first time I saw one in The World. I jumped off the rock that I was sitting on and ran towards the pond.

It was nothing special… I was about to walk back to the giant rock, but I bumped into Maha.
He didn't say anything this time, just looked at me and his eyes met mine. He handed me the petals from the lycolis I was holding in my hand, but took away from me the "+4 Strength Necklace", and threw it into the pond.
"Hey!" I just got that necklace it my battle with the Demon Fox, "What did you do this for?"
He pointed at the pond. A giant sweat-drop swirled out of the pond. It had weird looking eyes and thick lips.

"Did you drop this Golden Ax? Or this Silver Ax?" It Spoke! A pop up appeared on my screen. The choices were "Golden Ax", "Silver Ax", or "Neither". Well I didn't drop either of them, so I picked "Neither" option.
The Giant sweat-drop sounded worried. "What? Neither? Hmmm… well Just take this instead!" The it swirled up and disintegrated into nothingness.

Item Found: "+15 Strength Necklace."

I thanked Maha, and started to walk back to my "thinking rock".
"Heeelp!" The scream made me trip and fall on my ass, but besides the pain I could feel the entire ground shaking below me. Then suddenly, there was a horrible, deafening roar, unlike anything I had ever heard.

By the way, there is a story parallel to this one. It is story of Murakami's adventures. If you want to read it you'll need to find my friend, Amida-Vine. There you will learn about Murakami's secrets and why he acts like that around Maha. Please review!