No One POV
The plan was to make it to a town before sun down. The plan failed.
Del pointed at the sun as it sunk down into the sky, trying to get the attention of the talking males. "Uh? Guys?" Midnight added when Mini and Nogla still hadn't noticed. They both looked at Midnight who turned his head to Delirious who was still pointing at the lowering sun.
"Oh no. Everyone," Mini started climbing a tree, "Up here." It took a few minutes for Mini to realize that they were not climbing. He looked down and did not see them.
"Mini! Up here!" Nogla called out in amusement. Mini looked up to find everyone else already up (each on there own branch), including Midnight.
"How?" Delirious giggled before pointing at Midnight. Mini sweatdropped. He forgot about Midnight's shadow powers. "HELP. ME." Mini yelled up before being teleported to them.
"Who wants to take the first watch?" Nogla asked, curious who was willing to give up sleep first.
"I will. If anything and, I really doubt, anyone comes near, I'll tell you guys." Delirious answered calmly. Soon, everyone was asleep but Delirious and Midnight.
"Del, when you become a peacekeeper, can I still be your companion?" Midnight questioned quietly and nervously.
"Of course." Delirious whispered back reassuring. With that, Midnight fell asleep. Delirious dangled his feet. He stayed in that position until the moon was in the middle of the sky.
"HELP!" Delirious jumped. He looked to see if they woke up from the yell. They didn't. Del then started getting up, grabbing his katana. He shook Midnight awake.
"Someone yelled for help just a minute ago. I'm going to go. You stay here, watch over them, and if I yell for help, wake them up and come and save my ass." Midnight looked like he was about to disagree but Delirious shook his head, fox ears standing straight up.
"It is safer and better this way. If I don't need help, those two can still sleep." With Midnight's help, he was on his way. As he ran, he noticed ghosts following behind him. He giggled at how protective Midnight was. He ran for about a minute. Delirious and his ghost pals came up the scene of an all-out battle between two guys and an army of trolls. One of them had cat attributes like his fox. This one had dirty blonde hair, green eyes, and wore zebra pants. The other had monkey attributes, dark black hair, dark eyes, and wore white shorts.
"Son of a bitch, Marcel! I am pretty fucking sure we are gonna fucking die!" The cat yelled at the monkey in a panic tone. Delirious nodded at the ghosts. They started ripping through everything, to the shock of the other two.
"Who the fuck?" The monkey yelled. Delirious giggled, getting their attention. "A fox?!"
"You got it, bitches." He yelled as he jumped in the fight, swinging his katana like professional.
In no time, three managed to defeat the army together. The trolls dropped three food packs and a few water bottles.
"Ok, guys, you can go back." Delirious told the still protecting him ghosts. They shook their heads.
"DUDE, HOW DO YOU HAVE GHOSTS?" The cat yelled in confusement. The monkey nodded in agreement.
"Not my ghosts. I was with three others when I heard you calling for help. One has the Hades spell on them. Anyway, you coming back with me or?" Delirious let the question hang in the air. The other two looked around the dark woods. They gulped. "We would rather come with your ass than stay here." The monkey answered.
"I'm Tyler, but call me Wildcat." The cat told him, "I'm a neko, class I am is archer."
"Marcel, but I PREFER Basically." The monkey emphasized 'prefer' to Wildcat. "I am the monkey king. Class is thief."
"Mhmm, Wildcat and Basically, I'm a kitsune with no class yet. Ok, we best get back before Midnight throws the other two down the tree in worry. How fast are you?"
Thy looked at him with fire in their eyes. Delirious giggled again before taking off the ghosts swarming right behind him. The other two nodded at each other before racing after him. After a while, they arrived at the tree. As soon as Delirious got there, he was tackled by three bodies.
"DON'T DO THAT AGAIN."
"DO YOU KNOW HOW WORRIED WE WERE?!"
"NO FOX TREATS FOR YOU."
This was the scene the monkey and cat came upon. They stopped at the sight of the poor fox underneath wolf/somewhat human pile.
"Wow, is that a fucking wolf?" Both Mini and Midnight popped their heads up.
"I'm a werewolf." Mini pipped in. "Midnight is a wolf."
"I'm a bonefied wolf who wouldn't mind some bones." Midnight added cheerfully.
"Guys, I think we might want to get ready for a fight." Nogla's voice cut through the conversation. They soon were surrounded.
"Midnight, teleport Wildcat, Mini, Nogla, and yourself up. Wildcat, you have a bow and some arrows, right?" Wildcat shook his head in shame.
"Mini?" Mini threw his bow and arrows at Wildcat.
"He is an archer. Basically, you got a weapon?" Basically raised up a plain sword.
"Basically and I will stick to the ground. Mini, you can attack with spells, yeah?" Mini nodded. "You and Wildcat cover us. Nogla," Delirious tossed him his switch-blade, "If anything comes up, send it back down. Midnight, try and end the ones away from us."
"We good?" Delirious asked once everyone was in position.
"We good." The others replied together in confidence.
"Let's kill those sons of bitches!"
They fought until dawn. By then, Delirious, Wildcat, and Basically were running on low reserves as they did not sleep the night before.
"Midnight, bring Basically and I up!" Delirious yelled, exhausted beyond belief. Midnight managed to bring up Basically, but Delirious was attacked before he could bring him up.
"DELIRIOUS!" They all screamed as Delirious was thrown into a tree. He let out a yelp of pain and began to whimper. Mini and Midnight jumped down, the others following behind. They all hoped to get there before the trolls.
"GO BACK UP!" Delirious screamed at them in worry. "MIDNIGHT, PLEASE!"
Midnight paused before doing as told. His fox did this to protect them, not get them injured.
"Don't worry. I'll spawn in the next town." Del managed out. Before they could think, he disappeared.
Mini looked down in disappointment. He promised to help Del and he failed him.
"Any of you know how to heal?" A voice called out. A fellow male player appeared. He had an Asian face, dark hair, dark eyes, and owl wings. He wore only dark jean shorts and ruined red tennis shoes. He held Delirious in his arms, the fox barely alive.
"Give him to me." Mini managed out. As soon as he was given Delirious, he started healing as fast as he could.
The owl landed next to Mini afterwards. He observed the fox he had just saved.
"Uh, guys? Not to ruin the moment but..." Nogla started out before looking down, "The trolls still exist beneath us."
Midnight lifted his head. "I'll fight them. If I die, I'll just spawn where Delirious is."
Midnight jumped down, his black fur frailing around him. He growled before ghosts and shadows alike flew around him, his fur began glowing.
After a minute, Del was healed. He still was exhausted though so, as soon as he tried to jump down to help, he began to fall. The owl jumped down and saved him again.
"Could you just hold him? He is a little bit stubborn." Mini asked the owl, before adding, "I'm Mini, that's Delirious. Wolf is Midnight. Tall man is Nogla. Cat is Wildcat and monkey is Basically."
"Vanoss. And yeah, I can hold to him." Vanoss lifted the fox as proof. "Maybe he'll take a nap."
"Don't need nap. Need to fight... Help Midnight." Delirious muttered out before falling asleep.
"Guys, these two are exhausted." Nogla interrupted, pointing at Wildcat and Basically who were barely awake.
"I'll watch Wildcat, Nogla you watch Basically." Mini told Nogla. "Vanoss will watch Delirious."
Below, Midnight had finished off everyone and pounced back up.
"They dropped another scroll, two food packs, a dozen water bottles, and an ivory bow with some arrows." Midnight instantly gave Mini the bow and arrows. He handed Nogla the water bottles. The food packs went to Wildcat and Basically.
"What we will do about the scroll?" Nogla questioned.
"Here I'll read it." Mini said before taking the scroll.
"It says,
'The scroll of Athena.
Contains knowledge of one secret in the game.
Side effect: easier to die for 30 minute.'
What do you think?"
"I don't want it," Midnight muttered out, "I already have the Hades scroll."
"Neither do I." Mini added. "I already know a lot."
"Well, we could wait for the others to wake up." Vanoss suggested. Delirious snuggled close to Vanoss.
"I agree. I don't want it through." Nogla commented on the suggestion.
"Do we want to begin walking?" Mini asked curiously.
"I can carry Delirious... So if you can carry them, then I think we should." Vanoss answered back.
"I can carry Wildcat." Mini stated nervously.
"I guess I got Basically." Midnight inserted himself in. Nogla looked offended. "No offense, bud. I just want to be helpful."
Author's Note
I have literally nothing to add. :)