Chapter 4: Good Morning Final Fantasy!... Or Something Like That...

Normally, I'm a good morning person, as long as I got enough sleep. Normally. Not today. For this morning, what woke me up wasn't a alarm, or even a dying cat. No, this morning, it was the sound of several people giggling.

"Huh?" I managed to get out, before someone either dumped a bucket of water on my head, or threw a Water spell at me. Either way, I shot up and screamed:

"YOU LOT ARE DEAD MEN!"

Ok, ok, once I got over the fact that I got woken up by Tayla, Charles and Mathew dumping a Water spell on me, it WAS pretty funny. Not as funny as watching Charles dance around while being chased by Thunder spells though. This, and my swearing from before, woke up the others, which gave me a chance to look them over.

Lathen didn't seem to have any weapon, although he did have gloves with metal studs on the knuckles. Might be a Monk I thought.

Hannah was wearing clothes that were similar to mine, but with darker shades of blue. Plus, no pointing hat. Blue Mage

Tayla's robes were all brown and green, very earthy. Plus, I saw her accidently open up a hole in the ground while she was cracking up at Charles "dancing". COULD be a Geomancer.

Reece was a Time Mage. Only Time Mages had robes THAT silly. And orange. He was like a walking neon sign.

Kyle was wearing, surprisingly, the most normal clothes out of all of us. Not one piece of armour on him. (Hell, even I, the Black Mage of all people, had a leather chest piece underneath my jacket, as well as a metal bracer on my left arm.) He also had two "small" (size was relative to all the other weapons around.) curved daggers. Plus he tried to steal my hat earlier. That earnt him a few cuts and a head full of on fire hair. Thief. Has to be

Amylee, well, she looked like a mad professor. Jacket, dress type thingy (not sure want to call it) that stopped halfway down her lower leg, and a small bag handing off her belt that rattled when she walked. Only thing I can think of is a Chemist. Please don't blow us up Amylee I prayed silently.

Sam. Well... Animal furs and a massive axe. Berserker.

Morgan. Bow and Arrows. Lots and lots of arrows. Ranger

Charles. Naturey clothing. All browns and greens. Some form of animal horn on his belt. Hmmm... Summoner?

At least, I think that's what they are. Anyway, didn't matter. What DID matter was that we were down a person. Damnit, How did I miss that?

"Hey guys. Where's Harley?" I asked, looking around.

"Umm... I dunno Josh. Harley?" shouted Amylee, looking around. I did the same, while getting very annoyed at a buzzy sound that strangely sound like someone...

"... Going "weeee"," I mused out loud, before having a horrible feeling that something painful was about to happen. Slowly, I looked up.

And saw Harley coming down from the sky.

We both went "Oh FUCK."

Then impact.

BOOOOM. I swear, the castle must of heard the impact. And if they didn't hear that, they sure as hell heard me swearing.

"Stupid Harley and his stupid Jump. Had to land right on top of me," I steamed, stomping along ahead of everyone else. Thank god that Shayna was a White Mage, else I would be a Black Mage shaped pile of flesh and broken bones right now. Still, didn't stop it for hurting. Feeling very angry, I walked onto the beach that sat on the lakeside and kicked a stone into the lake, imagining that it was Harley's head. For good measure, I also toasted the stone with a Fire spell.

Wait, I just remembered. How are we gonna get across the lake?

"Shit," I said, as Mathew walked up alongside me.

"What?" he asked, taking his hat off and flicking imaginary dust off of it. Seriously, he is getting OCD about that hat of his.

"How we gonna get across this?" I said, waving a hand at the lake. It was easily 2 kilometres wide, aka too wide to swim across. No boats anywhere in sight. And the forests along the edge looked about as inviting as a pissed off, PMSing grizzly bear. Please God, don't let there be grizzlies here I suddenly prayed.

'Well... Shit," Mathew said, putting his hat back on. He then sighed, and cast a small Blizzard spell, creating a small chunk of ice, which he then started sucking on. Smart man I thought, before doing the same. Except my spell didn't create a small chunk, but instead sent a massive shard into the lake, freezing a small part of the surface in front of us. We then looked at each other. And nodded.

"Well, this sure beats swimming," I said, casting Blizzard spells every few seconds. Me and Mathew were walking ahead and behind everyone else, freezing the lake water in front and behind us with Blizzard.

'Yea, but what about the fish in the lake?" asked Tayla, who had elected to walk alongside me after she had a mishap with a thin patch of ice which nearly lead to her untimely death.

"We're only freezing the surface of the lake. At least, I think we are. Besides, its the fish or us," I replied, nearly slipping over once I had finished speaking. Once I regained my footing, I looked and saw that we had crossed most of the lake. Good, I'm starting to get tired I thought. That was true, as it was getting harder and harder to summon forth the ice shards with every casting.

"You sure you can get us across?" asked Tayla, noticing my growing weariness.

"Yea, I can do it," I said, trying my very best to sound confident. Yeap, keep telling yourself that. No, Shut up negativity.

"Ok then. Just don't go and kill yourself, ok?" said Tayla. Wait, did she just say she gave a shit about me? Well shit, someone does care.

"Ok," I muttered, before casting Blizzard one more time, linking our moving ice platform with the shore. Quickly, I ran and jumped onto the beach, cocked up the landing and fell to the ground, panting like crazy.

"Wow... Ok... That was.. Tiring... Must... Recover... Energy..." I muttered, before giving in to my body's cries for rest and passing out.