IRO: Guild Wars
Data 2 ... The Race
"I Ghostfenix challenge any and all assasins for a race in the Alde Baran Labyrinth at 3 in the afternoon of thursday, any who wish to participate there will be a meeting south of the clocktower at noon on the same day", Nechozim reads out a notice while Wing and Delta are looking at some new headgears a merchant is selling nearby, "I love this angel helm im so getting myself one of these one day", " i dunno i kinda like this circlet and gasmask combo", "guys are you listening?", "race for sins today, meeting in an hour. got it!!", Nechozim blinks in shock, " a race is a race, Ghost does it whenever he gets a new agility up item", "i swear hes got an ego like a balloon", "i don't understand", wing and delta get up and walk with nechozim to a nearby juice bar, "Ghost lives to show off and try and proove himself to everyone else that hes the fastest sin alive", "yeah and when he does he never lets you forget it!", "oh, you still gonna go", "yeah, just dont forget to update your spawn point with the local kafra girl", suddenly delta start giggleing all girly, wing and nechozim raise a brow at each other then look at delta, " oi delta shut up your drawing attention to yourself", "i got a date with the kafra girl in geffen", wing starts laughing, necho looks at wing weirdly, "is that the one with the long black hair and the glasses?", " yeah the glasses give her that really intelligent look..."," wing why are you laughing?", " Delta's been lead on again, he does this every now and then. kafra girls arent allowed to date. he organizes a huge dinner and everything, the kafra girl says yes to humor him cus everyone knows they cant date no matter how flirtatious they are, then get's stood up and faces a 75k bill for everything hes ordered", throughout the time wing has explained everything to nechozim, delta's been dreaming of his date, " hahaha poor delta", "well I guess we'd better get to that meeting, catch ya later bro", "seeya delta", "bye guys", nechozim walk up the hill and up a small flight of stairs to the clock tower and save at the kafra girl and notice a load of game moderaters with ghost fenix at the bottom of the slope and realise theres only one other assasin there waiting, "hey look its niight", sure enough it's niight from eternity, they go and join niight waiting for the meeting, " are we the only ones for this meeting", "looks like it guys!!", just as she says it an acolyte run past with ruwach on and uncloaks 15 to 20 assasins gathered on the slope, the 3 of them show the omg emoticon as thier jaws drop to the ground. The clock tower lets everyone know its 12 noon and Ghostfenix calls order among the assasins as a few more show up, "thank you all for coming to my challenge, the GM's have a greed to make this an official event and have also prepared to supply prizes, you can participate as a team or solo, the choice is yours the first sin or team to the bottom of the labyrinth wins and there will be monsters in there so be careful and good luck the race starts in 2 hours and 50 mins. any questions feel free to ask the GM's. see you all on the starting line", "lets us three go together as a team and share the prizes", "ok but what do we call the party?", Necho yells out, " SKELLY SLAYERS ", "no we should be called Sins 2 Society", "why that wing?", asks niight, " society says that sins are loners by nature, but im never alone when ive got friends, so i dont agree with society", "hmm sins 2 society, S2S yeah sounds cool", "then were agreed Team S2S is made", " so what do we do for then next 2 hours and 45 mins?", "uh...", the 3 of them laugh then look at each other, "I dunno about you guys but I said I'd meet seek and phillie here in a lil while, so I'm gonna stay here", wing jumps up on the wall and lays down looking up at the cloudy sky, "well I guess I'll go help kitty for a lil while, I'll be back in about 2 hours", "okay necho", "well I got nothing better to do. guess I'll go shopping", wing laughs to himself as niight walks away on her shopping spree and necho runs off to help kitty, wing shifts his orc helm to cover his face as he sleeps in the midday sun.
Seek and Phillee find thier father on the wall asleep and can tell its him by the way he snores and whistles at the same time, "well at least we know what drove mum insane!!!", "hehehe, you know its your turn to wake him, i woke him last time", seek scowls at phillee for stating the obvious as shes slowly creeping towards him, seek pokesher father in the ribs and wing just scrathces himself then rolls over off the wall and curls up on the grass still asleep, "hmph, fine you asked for it dad", phillee looks wide eyed at seek knowing exactly what shes gonna do and runs to hide behind the kafra girl at the top of the slope, seek closes her eyes and readies her arc wand and sets her feet apart as a small flash of light builds a blue aura around her from the ground, "LIGHTNING BOLT", after 3 seconds a single bolt of lightning shoots off the top of her arc wand into the air then back down onto her fathers bum, "OW", seek smiles innocently as wing rises up from behind the wall with a twitch in his right eye and an evil grin on his face, "good morning daddy, sleep well?", "dont you worry I'll get you back one of these days", seek giggles and phillee comes out from behind the kafra girl and wing grabs hi orc helm and put his back on his head as he climbs back over the wall, "necho, niight and i have entered todays race", "cool good luck dad", "yeah go for the gold dad take no prisoners", "thanks girls", "oh dad the kafra corp finally got your delivery from grandma in lighthalzen", phillie gets a small box out of her satchel and gives it to her father, "about time", wing tear through the wrapping and opens a small box to reveal a rosary and 10 yggdrasil leaves, "ok i know what the rosary is for but whats the funky leaves for dad", wing slips the rosary over his neck and tucks it under his shirt, "these funky leaves as you put it can bring you back to life before you respawn, pretty useful if your in a party or a long way from home", "sweeeet", "so what have you 2 been up to today?", "not much...", "we joined a party in payon cave, theres been an over massing of sohee's lately, but dont worry dad theres plenty left for you", "hahaha, you girls know me to well. heres your pocket money", wing gives them both a small envelope with money inside and a yggdrasil leaf each, they both kiss him on the cheek and both get a static shock as hes still charged from seeks lightning bolt, wing waves as they head off towards the castle.
wing looks up at the clocktower, theres an hour until the race and so he starts looking in his bag, niight walks round the corner and sees wing rummeging, "what up wing you look like you've lost something?", "nah just sorting out my dead weight to put into storage before we head to the labyrinth", wing looks up for a second and nearly falls back, grips the wall then holds his chest as his heart is pounding out of his chest, " whats going on? who are you and what have you done with the real niight?", niight is shocked, "what do you mean wing its me", " you have ONE bag of shopping and yu have a poring on your head", "oh that i didnt have as much money as i thought i had, but this yeah isn't it just darling . i fell in love with it as soon as i saw it", "next you'll be raising one as a pet", niight turns away as if she already has the egg, "hehe... yeah like that would ever happen...hehe", "you scare me sometimes, anyways necho should be back soon", niight nods and goes to put her stuff into storage and wing yawns and stretches some contemplating using an awake potion or to wait until the race starts, necho taps him on the shoulder and wing throws the awake potion he just got out of his bag into the air and starts fumbling trying to catch it. niight laughs hysterically and kitty appears out of nowhere and catches the awake potion, "sigh... thanks kitty", "no problem boss, good luck in the race ill be waiting with subGM04 outside the labyrinth, talking of which shouldnt we be like leaving", wing, necho and niight all look up at the clock tower as it clicks to 2:45, wing jumps up off the wall and straightens himself out as they all head south to the labyrinth and notice the tall grass rustling around them as cloaked sins run past them.
people start to appear at the entrance to the labyrinth as the gm's clear it of non assasins, ghostfenix calls together some order for silence, "ok people to clear up any misconceptions about the warps they are completely random, there is no order in which the rooms you go to, also if you choose to go in as a party you needn't worry about getting split up. a party that goes together warps together. the prizes await you, on the sound of the bell the race will begin", ghostfenix joins the other sins on the starting line, necho niight and wing also joine the line up and kitty stands with the gm's and does a kiss emoticon at necho and every other sin on the starting line does it back, necho growls hearing the puckering of lips aimed at his girlfriend and kitty giggles as the bell sounds to mark the start of the race. all the assasins leave dust clouds as they all race into the labyrinth leaving necho behind, "c'mon necho", "what are you waiting for even ghost has got a head start on us", necho jumps out of his skin and runs into the labyrinth after niight and wing.
they run through portal after portal after portal, after a while its as if thier running around in circles, "hey guys wait up a second", "what is it niight?", "weve been running straight forwards for ages lets go that way", niight points to the right and sure enough theres another portal, "okay", "hey dont you think its weird we havent encountered any monsters yet", both wing and niight look wide eyed at necho, "what!?!", " thanks necho", "waydago necho youv just jinxed us", "well if there is a monster wouldnt that mean were on the right track", " hes got a point, that would mean no one else had been there yet", all three grin at each other and run for the portal and after a small flash they appear in a new room with a doorway at the end, the GM's can be seen past the doorway but before them theres a vagabond wolf and a pack of 12 wolves, " how do we know the prizes havent gone yet?", "1 the gm's would have gone and 2 the vagabond wolf is a boss monster you cant cloak past him", wing starts patting his pockets looking for the awake potion and remembers that kitty still has it, "uh guys", "dont worry wing i have a spare in my backpack", the vagabond wolf focuses in on wing as niight reaches into her bag, "necho grimtooth the pack and keep them occupied ill take the boss", the vagabond wolf starts running at wing as niight puts the awake potion in his hand, he quickly downs it and picks niight up easily and side steps dodgeing the boss monster and puts her back down so she can help necho wing quickly pulls his katars out and turns witha furious swipe into the side of the vagabond wolf, the boss wolf lands with a limps and snarls with a glance that could shatter glass all the while necho confuses the other wolves with spikes flying up from the ground and niight picking them off one at a time, wing leaps into action slicing at the vagabond wolf while it atacks back by biting his arms and legs but it jumps back as wing clips its head with the side of his katar and the wolf stand dizzy for a moment as wing stand sna places the katars next to each other and wing closes his eyes, niight notices this as the vagabond wolf shakes off its confusement and starts running at wing, "WING LOOK OUT!!", wing opens his eyes and his katars glow a deep red, the beast jumps up in the air at him, "SONIC BLOW" a red aura flashes all around as wing slices through the vagabond wolf 9 times with deadly precision then smashes it down to the ground with a finishing blow of both katars right down on his head, wing out of breath points at the GM's as the vagabond wolf and the wolves allk disappear. niight nods and runs for the gm's as ghostfenix appears in the portal, wing and necho join niight with the gm's as ghost sit crosslegged in the doorway sobbing cus someone beat him, "you are the winners of this race, as your prizes you may name any item be it a rare weapon or gear or somthing you use everyday the choice is yours", niight steps up first, "i'll take a slotted ninja suit please", necho steps up, "nothing i really want so ill just take the black cat ears head gear for kitty", "nice choices guys but im going one better, there will never be a better oppertunity. i want a fireblend", everyone looks wide eyed at wings choice, "if those are your choices we will deliver them into your care tomorrow morning and congratualtions".
the GM's use butterfly wings to warp out and ghost steps up to necho niight and wing, "id appreciate it if you told everyone i beat you", necho turns around in disgust, "it'll cost you", "necho leave it, we wont say anything. you can say whatever you like", "thank you, brave and speedy assasins", the 3 of them use butterflywings and warp back to aldebaran where kitty is waiting for them to necho's surprise.
"wing i got a question? what the hell you gonna do with a fireblend", "with one i could hurt somebody, but with 2 i'm gonna slay an army", "you already have one?", "mom left it to me and delta when she left for lighthalzen", "whoa, twin fireblends. thats nuts, waydago boss", "I'll only break them out when i really need them..."
to be continued... stay tuned for data 3