- Chapter Twelve -

We all got up on the fourth day and walked to the guild building. A few of the larger guilds asked us to liaison on a meeting involving the dungeon they found possibly holding the floor one boss. A lot of the other guilds have one person they dub as the leader. We don't follow those guidelines. Everything The Twin Gryphon Alliance does is unanimous. Everyone has a say so.

We showed up 15 minutes early. Thad, the level 15 leader of the tank guild 'Withered Iron', was sitting outside of the building. His guild consists of 12 tank class guys, all decked out with heavy armor and shields. Literally the go to guild when you need to rush a dungeon without losing anyone. We knew him from one of the quests he helped us with on the second day.

He stood up as we approached and shook my hand. I may be a big guy, but he literally towers over me. 6' 7" and could easily be a stunt double for Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.

He greeted everyone and turned back to me, "Just the man I wanted to see." He said with a grin.

"Uh oh…"

"What's your blacksmith skill up to?" He asked.

"Level 5. What you got in mind?" I replied hesitantly.

"I'm looking for a battle axe. Starting to get tired of the old sword and shield and I can't find a decent one in any of the shops around here."

I was almost in shock when I replied. "You don't want to be a tank anymore!? What about your guild?"

He chuckled, "You don't have to be a tank to be in Withered Iron." One of his guild members walked up as he was talking, "Gojira here," he pointed towards his approaching friend, "Took up the bow yesterday. So you could say we're broadening our horizons."

I started nodding. "Sounds good to me. We can talk about it after the meeting."

He smiled, grabbed my shoulder and leaned in to whisper, "you think you can hook me up with Firefly?" nodding his head in her direction.

I almost laughed out loud, "You'd break that poor girl in half." We both broke out in uncontrollable laughter and started walking into the building.

You were only permitted 5 members of your guild to attend a guild meeting. This happened to work out perfectly for us because we only had 5 members. This kept the room from getting over crowded because there were only 30 chairs at the table.

Thad sat down at the table next to us with his right hand man, Gojira.

Another man, who I'd never met before, walked in accompanied by four almost identical guys dressed in the same armor. All five of them had bows attached to their backs. The leader made it a point to sit at the very end of the table, as if he were leading the meeting with his guild members sitting to his right and left.

"Ahhh." I said, leaning over to Parks and Ronin. "I've heard of those guys. I don't know their guild name but they apparently only recruit archers."

Parks chuckled. "I'd out-shoot every one of those assholes." He said, staring at their apparent leader.

Just then, two more guild leaders walked into the room. I recognized one of them immediately. Long blonde hair, an almost perfect beard and a one handed war hammer sheathed to his side. And yes, just in case you were wondering, his name was Thor. He's level 14 and the guild leader of Valhalla, and he's also a raging prick. He shook hands with the archers and sat at the table next to them.

I haven't met the woman he was walking with though. She had short black hair in a ponytail, dark grey heavy armor and a wicked two handed battle axe. Not to mention she was smoking hot.

I don't really know if it was intentional, but she walked right past the lead archer without even acknowledging him and sat completely on the other side of the table.

Firefly learned over to Thad, "I'm sensing some tension between them two."

"Milo is a piece of shit that almost got her entire guild killed." He replied.

Firefly gasped.

I chuckled, "Milo? Really?"

Parks replied, "Shut up, Fat Jesus." And everyone started chuckling.

We watched the other members of everyone's guilds fill the rest of the seats and it seemed the meeting was about to start.