"Why don't we," Giitar slammed her hands on the table dramatically. Elizabeth jumped. "Kiss?"

The leader paused, her heart stopping. "What?"

"What's with everyone's reaction?" The girl crossed her arms and pouted as though someone had taken a treat from her. "If you won't kiss me, I'll take your waiter!" They both looked at him at the same time to see his reaction. Nothing happened as he kept polishing a glass. "Well that was boring." Nobody knew that he had somehow stopped himself from blushing.

"I'm back!" shouted Tainaka. "Oh, it's just you two. Waiter, a pint please!"

"You seem happy," asked the archer. The mage sat next to her and placed puller her close.

"Who wouldn't be in their favourite bar?" She caught the mug and began drinking.

"This is the only bar you've been to." She pushed the mage away and waited for the others to arrive. "So what do you think we're going to do today?"

Tainaka, "The dungeon!"

Elizabeth, "Are you drunk already?"

"We met up with some girls yesterday," pointed out Ritsu, "whilst you were on a date with that spear guy…"

Elizabeth hid her blush. "Zack."

"Yeah, that one. Anyway, the three were in a band and are friends with our players so we're going to team up together!"

"What are they like?" Knowing your hand is essential during battle.

"A fighting Cleric, Yoshida. A mute Sniper, Sacchan. A Ravager, Rosalie."

"Yui says I'm cuter than her," pointed out Giitar, needlessly.

"What's a Ravager?" asked the leader. She brought up the skills menu to find out. "A cross between a fighter and a mage. Interesting." The Ravager skills generally imbued the user's weapon with magic and could cast a lot of self-buffs. However, debuffing the enemy was the main point of their skill roster. "They seem like they would be really useful."

"I know right?" A message popped up for all of them and they read it quickly. "Ah, The Prince and Azu-nyan are in the lobby."

"I'm going first!" shouted Giitar, racing out the door. Tainaka followed, Elizabeth close behind. The waiter cleared up, closing the door behind them.

/*Author's notes

How did I make them, Azu-nyan and Tainaka (and sometimes Elizabeth), alcoholics? All the cocktails that I have mentioned are taken randomly from Wikipedia's list of cocktails. I have not stated any opinions on them, as I haven't ever had any of them before (I don't drink/I don't like the taste of alcohol.) I could rant about alcohol and the like but I won't force my opinions on readers.

Besides, everything in moderation. He says whilst writing twice as many chapters of this fan fiction in half the time it took to write that many chapters in the other fan fiction.

Also, two characters are mentioned here that are in 'K-ON! Continued!' but not anywhere else (or check my profile page- there may be spoilers though). The group know them of course but I'll put in some brief introductions and backgrounds at the appropriate time.

To differentiate between the new people and their characters, I will list them here.

Character: Avatar

Akira Wada: Rosalie

Ayame Yoshida: Yoshida

Sachi Hayashi: Sacchan

/*Warning: There is some pretty violent talk soon…*/

Time to stop procrastinating in the author's notes; time to procrastinate with the story!

*/

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Elizabeth. My name is Rosalie and these are my comrades, Yoshida and Sacchan."

"Right…" Elizabeth was fairly surprised. "Nice to meet you too." She was sensing a personality rift between her group and their group. That was until she saw Yoshida and Azu-nyan conversing politely.

Azu-nyan, "I like to spear my enemies all the way though. The bleeding effect lasts even after a few minutes whilst their innards drip out."

Yoshida, "I don't have any sharp weapons, like. I love to use my fists to break their bones and generally smash them to pieces so that they don't have any arms to retaliate. I randomly get the bleeding effect if the bones shatter into shards and pierce the flesh from the inside though."

Azu-nyan, "I've had that a few times with the blunt side of my Lance, particularly when I use Sunder and get a critical head shot. Brains and blood go everywhere and it gets messy. Good thing we don't have to clean up."

Yoshida, "Cool! When I fight, they never expect a Cleric's fist to go through go through skulls like crows smashing eggs on the floor."

In the background, Prince Triton stepped out of the lobby area to hurl. When she returned, Sacchan comforted her as nobody noticed her temporary disappearance.

"Where is she?" asked Akira, referring to the Mage of the group. "She was supposed to be here half an hour ago."

"Sorry," replied Mio. "She's just had a lecture on the other side of the campus. She'll be here soon."

"Seriously, she asks for our help and then makes us wait." The guitarist sighed. "And why is Yui in my room?"

"Because it's more fun together!" The smaller guitarist clung onto her and the others could only imagine what was going in there.

"Sorry I'm late," shouted Ritsu as they heard her running into her room. "My lecturer held me back."

"Did you forget to do your assignment again?" Mio knew she was spot on and didn't bother waiting for a reply. "Seriously, you should stop playing this game so often and concentrate on your studies."

Soon, Tainaka joined the lobby. Mio was the party leader again but she no longer questioned it.

"Right, lets begin then!"

"Burst!" Elizabeth initiated the first attack, arrows sinking into the flesh of the enemy goblins that waited in ambush. Tainaka followed up with her Fire attack, lighting up their way. As the opponent archers counterattacked, Yoshida stepped forwards and held up her staff and cast a barrier, deflecting them harmlessly to the side.

The close range fighters charged. Azu-nyan led the attack, her Lance leading the way into the enemy. "Pierce!" she cried, breaking through the enemy ranks allowing her teammates to follow through as well. Before they knew it, they had routed the enemy. This time, Azu-nyan didn't give chase. However-

"Let's go!" and Yoshida ran into the dark tunnels.

The cat eared girl couldn't help but to smile. "Someone who understands me." And she gave chase.

"Azu-nyan, wait up!" They whole group stormed after them, expecting to fall into a pit at any moment. Halting at the crossroads, Yoshida motioned them to jump into the pit.

"Come on, they went down this way!" She jumped off before they could stop her.

"Does she know it's a trap?" asked Elizabeth to Rosalie. The guitarist smiled back.

"Of course. We have been here before. I think it is most important to stick together." So she followed suit, Sacchan right behind her.

Elizabeth sighed. "If you guys knew it was a trap, why jump down?" Tainaka slapped her on the back, almost pushing her head over heels down the steep slope into the pit.

Tainaka, "Come on, we're together and that's what matters."

Elizabeth, "Since when were you so chummy?"

Azusa waited by the doors of the pit, expecting the army of goblins about to arrive soon. With a glance at the Cleric beside her, she wondered what she was doing on the front lines. "Ayame-sempai?" she asked, "Don't most clerics stay at the back and heal?"

"Yeah, but I'm also a Monk who are close range fighters." Her character pumped her fists, tightening the gloves on her hands whilst holding her staff between her legs. "It's no fun if all I do is stand around and heal." Azusa agreed silently in her head but wondered what came first to her, healing the party or smiting enemies.

The rest of the group arrived behind them as the doors suddenly opened, goblins armed with swords and shields charged.

Yoshida, being the closest to the door, stuck first though. "Shockwave!" Slamming her fist into the ground, a ripple of energy shot forwards through the floor and caused a tremor, shaking the earth and disorientating the enemy.

"Sunder!" Azu-nyan followed up. The stunned goblins blocked the entrance and Tainaka took advantage of the clustered enemy, sending in a fireball that engulfed them all.

"Pierce!" The Fighter thrust her spear, pushing the goblins back into the corridor they had just arrived. If they could hold the door, they could fight them one by one in the narrow hallway. Too bad they all couldn't fight at once since Azu-nyan and Yoshida took the whole doorway. Elizabeth supported, firing arrows over her allies. Beside her, Sacchan readied a sniper rifle, something that caught Triton's eye. They waited for her to announce a skill but she just fired, a bullet soaring through the door and piercing several enemies at once.

"One," she said, surprising everyone.

Reloaded. "Two," as another bullet cut through the enemy. Reload, "Three."

"She keeps count of how many bullets are in that clip," answered Rosalie. "It's important for a Gunner to know how much ammo they have, especially at our level."

"Four." With a click, the clip dropped out and the sniper replaced it quickly, aiming down the sights again.

"Ammo is really hard to get below floor ten of the tower," Rosalie explained, "and even then it's expensive." The Sniper stopped firing, figuring she had supported enough. With a look towards the guitarist, she nodded. "I'm going in now. Please tell Azu-nyan to switch out with me."

Elizabeth nodded and shouted at the cat girl, telling her to stop taking all the kills. "Fine." She fell back behind Yoshida and the Ravager dived in, flicking out a rapier style weapon and began lunging in quick succession, a silver blur piercing the enemies' shields. The Prince supported her, running to her side.

"Darkness," Rosalie whispered. A black cloud enveloped her blade and she sent it forwards, blinding the enemy. "Poison." Now, green swathed the area and they goblins began choking. The Prince stepped back but Rosalie comforted her, knowing the effects didn't affect allies.

"Ravagers are debilitators," said Ayame to the group. "They hinder the enemy in various ways so that we have an easier time beating them."

Mio nodded. "I wouldn't expect Akira to be a Ravager though. I thought she would have been a Fighter."

"She is," answered Sachi. "But if combined with a Mage, you can become a Ravager. Akira's magic isn't very good though."

"Hey, I'm going to let you clean up then." She ordered Rosalie to retreat, her job finished.

"My turn!" shouted Yui and Giitar complied. Rosalie felt a small gust of wind as the girl darted past. "Twister!" The Prince stepped back out of the way of the spinning top called Giitar as her skill pulled the enemy towards the spinning blades. A small tornado built around her and when she stopped, the vortex was sent forwards and clustered the enemy together. Together, Triton and Giitar finished off the enemy.

"That was surprisingly easy," noted Ritsu. "I barely used any skills."

Ayame, "Yeah, it was. Normally, they make it through the doors and Sachi has to waste all her ammo. You guys are good."

Mio, "No, we've never made it this far as easily as this. You guys were really helpful, particularly the Ravager's debuffs."

Akira laughed. "Thanks."

Ayame, "We might be able to defeat the boss this time!"

Mio paused. "I thought you had beaten him before?" Yesterday, Ritsu had told her they were going to complete the dungeon with some more friends without much more explanation after that. Of course, she had learned from Yui it were the Gang of Girls that were going to help but they gave off the impression of confidence they were sure to win. Now, Mio was not so sure.

Akira, "What gave you that idea? Was Ritsu getting carried away again?"

Ayame, "Don't worry about it. The last time we came here we were level thirteen and we're much better now, we even had a teacher!"

Yui, "Wow, who was your teacher?"

Sachi, "It was Koyuki and Runa sempai."

Mugi, "It seems like the whole Light Music Club plays this game."

Koyuki and Runa are fourth year students studying psychology and art respectively and are living out. Both are musicians as a hobby but it seems they like to play games too.

"That's surprising," though Mio. "I thought they would be studying hard for their final year."

"People need to wind down sometimes." Their characters arrived a large set of doors, the entrance to the boss room. "Wait, that's it?" Turns out, after the pit, the corridor led straight to the boss room. "I thought there would be more enemies."

"There are down that way." Ayame pointed out the other pathway that would lead back to the crossroad. "Lots of archers there though. We could back attack them if we like but they won't bother us if we don't bother them."

Mio sighed. 'Right, we should come up with a plan."

Elizabeth agreed with her master. "We've been here four times before but every time we have been slain. This time, the Gang of Girls are here to support us and we them. Since last time, we have new equipment," she looked at Triton, "new skills," she looked at Giitar, "and we're all a higher level." In fact, she had levelled the most because of the territory raid she went on that no one else had. As the strongest at level twenty, Azu-nyan was close behind at nineteen whilst the other three were at a comfortable eighteen. The Gang of Girls were also at that level making them fairly balanced altogether.

"I should go in first," answered Akira. "If I get my debuffs down first, they'll be a big help throughout the battle. Aside from that, we should play as normal."

Mio gave it some thought. "Sounds good."

Elizabeth shook her head. "Guys, stick to the roles which you are used to. Prince Triton, make sure to keep the Toblin away from Sacchan, Tainaka and I since we have no defences. Yoshida, I don't know how you play but make sure to stay alive. Your healing skills should be really helpful, particularly if Triton gets low on health."

"What about the Toblin's weapon?" asked Ritsu. "Should we go for the weapon or just attack the boss?"

Sachi, "Koyuki and Runa said that if any of us have breaker skills or something like that then breaking the weapon as early as possible is for the best. Otherwise, don't bother."

"What are breaker skills?" asked Azusa.

"Skills that break things, obviously," retorted Akira. "Something like your Sunder skill if you've levelled it up enough."

The girl checked. "Yeah, I have."

"Let's try breaking the weapon then. It should get easier after that."

"Also, Runa said that the Toblin's knock back is the hardest thing about the boss, even with its shield. The best way of beating it is just to not get hit, and that it's quite slow for a boss." They all were taking it in. Ritsu commented on the 'don't get hit' part, claiming how obvious it was.

"Right, is everyone ready?" asked Mio, ignoring her friend. Elizabeth waved her hand in front of the door, sending a message to her master.

"Do you want to fight the boss?"

"Ready!" everyone chorused.

Mio moved her mouse to the tick symbol. "Okay."

Everything seemed much faster this time. The doors opened, the lamps burned and the boss appeared. The doors shut, locking them in, the boss roared and the health bars appeared, initiating the battle.

"Toblin." And everything was back to its usual pace.

"Darkness!" shouted Akira and smoke poured from her blade. She ran in towards the charging goblin, Yui close behind and ready to support. The Toblin swung its club down but Rosalie was fast, side stepping at the right time and slashed up towards its face, trying to get the black mist into its eyes. But the creature blocked with its shield, deflecting the Ravager to the side. Giitar followed up, striking its unguarded arms. And she darted back, avoiding another swing of its weapon.

"Sunder!" shouted Azu-nyan before it could retreat behind its shield. Her attack struck its body, knocking it back. The girl hopped up again, raising the lance above her head. "Sunder!" she screamed, slamming the weapon into its chest. However, it recovered quickly, aiming a punch with its off hand arm at the girl.

"Force Shot!" A bullet flew through the air, knocking the boss back before the counter attack. Azu-nyan looked back to see Sacchan count a one and reload.

"Don't space out Azu-nyan," called out Yoshida. "Shockwave!" The Monk punched the boss's weapon, causing damage to it. "Shockwave!" She punched again then retreated before the thing could strike back.

Elizabeth moved closer but didn't circle round, staying behind the guard. "Burst!" she shouted as soon as she saw an opening. Hailing her arrows down, Tainaka followed suit, both of them targeting the weapon.

"Fire!" The boss raised its shield but it was too slow; the fire engulfed the club instead. Surprised, it retreated back a few steps.

"Silencer!" shouted Yui as her Ninja appeared from the air, cutting downwards as both her blades aimed at the creature's throat. Its health began dropping; a double critical bleeding effect clung beside its nametag. The Ninja disappeared again stealth-ing and waiting for the next perfect opportunity to attack. Akira followed up, casting a poisonous cloud about her weapon. This time, she struck at the legs. In a yelp of pain, it kicked out, sending the Ravager flying away but it had been poisoned, the gradual damage over time sending its health to the second bar.

"We're doing well guys!" Mio cried out the words of encouragement as Elizabeth fired more arrows. They were doing much better this time. Yoshida healed her allies before diving back into the fray, sending more shockwaves at the Toblin. As cracked floor caused it to stumble, Azu-nyan took the opportunity to attack the weapon.

"Sunder!" The weapon's health dropped below half and they cheered. Triton moved forwards to apply pressure on the boss as it retreated further and further back. Sacchan moved forwards to get a better shot.

"Two," and she fired. A piercing shot cut through he weapon and into the beast, dealing damage to both. Soon afterwards, fire struck the creature, setting its weapon ablaze as the wood caught fire.

Azu-nyan stepped back. "What the-" She was flung back, the flaming weapon striking her whilst the flames distracted her.

"Azu-nyan!" cried out Yoshida, retreating to heal her. Triton stepped up, guarding her allies.

"Well this is awkward," noted Elizabeth. The Toblin was now wielding a flaming club. The only good thing they could see was that the weapon was being damaged. "Everyone on the defensive. If you can, destroy its weapon! Burst!" arrows flew but did little against the club.

"Sunder!" shouted Azu-nyan, stepping in front of the Guard and lashing out. This time, the boss blocked with its shield. During the lag after the attack, the Toblin swung, knocking the fighter out of the way. Yoshida was healing quickly as Triton stood her ground.

"Bulwark!" Mugi cried, her avatar raising her shield up and creating a barrier of her mana. The Toblin kept swinging its club down onto her, her mana dropping with each blow.

Akira tried the darkness attack again, attacking from behind. But, somehow, it knew and it twisted round and struck out, catching the Ravager off guard. She landed off to the side, caught by Yui's hidden ninja. Before the Toblin could attack the girl on the floor, they both disappeared under Yui's Stealth skill.

"Sunder!" Azusa was running low on mana but Ayame had completely run out. Yet the Cleric still charged in, flinging punches at the boss. Watching the second health bar of the boss drop to zero fuelled her resolve.

"Get back!" shouted Mugi, running forwards but her allies did not head her warning as the blazing club caught Ayame. Suddenly, her health dropped to zero from full and she evaporated from view.

Azu-nyan stepped away, surprised at the sudden death of her comrade. It was the first time the Cleric had been hit. "Died in one hit. I will avenge you, Yoshida!" Diving in, she called out one last "Sunder!" The Toblin parried the weapon with his then lashed out with its shield, knocking the girl to the ground. Tainaka appeared from nowhere, sending healing magic to her fallen comrade. As the boss struck downwards, Triton defended. Then, as the club glanced off her shield, she swung her weapon upwards, dealing one last bit of damage to the weapon.

With a loud shattering noise like the smashing of a thousand panes of glass, the club broke into shards of light and disappeared into the air.

"What now?" asked Mio, edging her character forwards. Sachi followed closely.

"ROAR!" The Toblin was mad. It swung its arms round in a mad flurry, forcing some space around itself. Then, it charged.

Mugi held her ground as the Toblin headed right at her. Elizabeth and Sacchan were far enough away but Tainaka was too frail to leave alone. The Guard took the full force of the attack, her character being sent to the ground several yards away. As Tainaka was sending her healing magic, Rosalie had reappeared.

"Darkness!" she cried, back attacking the distracted boss. Success, the cloud enveloped the monster's head and it wailed, struggling to see.

"Silencer!" The darkness would give the Ninja more perfect opportunities to get criticals and she took advantage of it instantly, stacking more bleeding effects. It swung out though, the shield large enough to catch her. Suddenly, it recoiled as a bullet knocked the arm the wrong way.

"Three, Force Shot."

Azu-nyan stabbed at the boss's legs as Rosalie kept applying debuffs, decreasing its natural stats with each lunge of her blade.

"Burst!" Elizabeth was much closer now, tasting victory in the air. "One last push!" Even Prince Triton was attacking, carefully blocking blows with her shield as she swung her blade. They watched the health begin dropping to zero, finally.

"Four," and the final bullet killed the boss. Sacchan reloaded instinctively, replacing the clip, as the Toblin called out in agony and began fading away, feet first. The sound of doors being unlocked could be heard as the boss disappeared.

"We did it!" shouted Yui, suddenly jumping onto and clinging to Akira.

"What! I forgot you were in my room!" she shouted back as the rest of the group laughed.

/*Author's notes

I've finally finished the opening part of the fiction. I'm going to skip some levels since I am definitely not going to go through one hundred floors of bosses; interesting as it may be to come up with a unique final enemy for each floor. Even then, they may lose some battles so they'll have to redo bosses. Basically, I can put in filler chapters to develop characters (and their relationships) as they approach the next part of the story, VR systems.

Runa and Koyuki will have some moments in a few chapters but that's for then, not now. The Gang of Girls won't be hanging with the Afterschool Tea Time most of the time (because the party is too big for me to handle- try visualising all eight characters at once then describe it all in real time to someone!)

VR is short for Virtual Reality, taken from the anime 'Sword Art Online.' I can't wait until they get implemented- I lie, I can wait since I'm putting in filler.

Due to upcoming exams on my part, the next chapter will be a while. Please be patient, thank you. (A better explanation is in the final author's notes of 'K-ON Continued Chapter 8')

Also, please review. I like them :D

Time to hit the bar!

*/

"Kampai!" They all raised their glasses and clinked the glasses together. After a long drink, each of them began chatting away. Elizabeth smiled at their group. It felt as though a weight had been lifted off her shoulders now that they could continue.

"Three, two, one, go!" Suddenly, Tainaka and Yoshida was downing a pint each, struggling to get the golden liquid down their throats. The Mage finished first obviously, slamming the glass on the table to prove her win.

"Victory!" she shouted, slapping her new drinking buddy on the back. "Once more!"

Rosalie, "This is a lovely bar you have here, Elizabeth." The Ravager gave the Archer a smile. "It's a very nice place to be in." Sacchan nodded in agreement.

"Thank you but it was already here when I arrived. It belongs to Mio."

"Eh?" shouted Yoshida across the table. "No fair, all I get is a bed." With a look around the room, her eyes fixated onto the waiter. "And you get a man too, I want him!" Luckily for him, the drunk didn't make a move. "And you get an egg."

"That was a boss prize," the Archer replied. "I don't know what will hatch though."

"I'm hungry. Let's have scrambled eggs!"

"No!"

"I'm kidding." Yoshida was surprised to see Elizabeth with her bow out. Trying to take the attention off her, she changed the subject. "Hey Sacchan, what boss prize did you get?"

In reply, the Sniper showed everyone an item card.

Elizabeth, "A medic pack?" It was equip-able as an accessory. "Allows for quick use of the healing item stored in the medic pack." Sacchan put it on to demonstrate, a white box with a red cross strapped to her belt. Rather than wasting a potion, she inserted a glass of water from the bar into the item. Then, when she pressed the cross, water sprayed over her.

"Oh, that's cool." Yoshida frowned. "But a weapon would have been so much cooler." She imagined the possibilities. "A giant flamethrower would be really awesome."

"Can you even get flamethrowers in this game?" asked Elizabeth. The Cleric shrugged.

"I bet there are Anyway, I need to head off. Ayame's turning off her computer now." Rosalie and Sacchan said their goodbyes and quickly jumped into the Internet.

Elizabeth, "Giitar, you haven't said very much this evening. Is something wrong?"

The Ninja shook her head. "I was just wondering what's inside that egg."

"I don't know but I hope it will hatch soon."

Giitar nodded. "So does Yui. She's kind of excited." The girl took off towards the door. "Good night!"