OMG! PLEASE DON'T HATE MEE!!! T-T
I have just been so busy with life, I haven't really had time to write. That and I'm back into full Mapling, so that does take up a lot of time. If anyone plays, look me up on Mardia :D. Anywho, a long overdue chapter that isn't as long as you guys deserve. Just some more relationship/character/plox development.
IMPORTANT POLL UP.
Chapter 18
Taking a glance around the spacious room, a lone electronic device lay sprawled out in deep sleep on the floor. It blinked lazily, black screen leaving the numbers to flash 6:37. Silence hung neatly over the room, cut in half only by thick breathing coming from the king sized bed's lone occupant.
Tousled blonde hair flipped back and forth soundlessly as the young girl snuggled further into her blanket.
Sleep, it was so nice and peaceful when you-
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Alex growled and lashed out, the culprit of interruption kicked hard enough to bounce off the wall and lay dead silent back into its fitful slumber. The only difference this time was the mauled state of its plastic container and the small wire sticking out every which way.
After grunting in approval, the blonde drifted back into her delicious sleep, ready for another round of…
Knock! Knock!
"Dammit," the pillow growled, or rather, the girl hiding her eyes beneath the pillow did.
"Alex get your lazy ass up! We're going to be late and I'm starving. Let me in!"
Our guardian sighed and stood up, trudging to the door to let her teammate in.
"I really don't understand how someone can be so awake this early…"
was mumbled under her groggy voice.
Jackie giggled at her.
"I don't see how someone can be so not awake," Jackie blushed slightly, pointing to where Alex's pants should have been.
Alex flushed deep red, her newly earned freckles not visible as she rushed towards her room at a much quicker pace then previously taken. Sliding her trademark wife beater, today in a dark gray color, and hastily grabbing a pair of white comfortable fitting shorts, Alex made her way to the kitchen. Fingers ran through her disheveled hair and palms tried t force the sleep out of her eyes. A distinct growl of "troublesome perky people" was heard throughout the quaint kitchen.
Jackie turned to glare at Alex, who grinned back sheepishly, before pulling two plates and silverware out from their respective cabinets. The breakfast was ate in a comfortable silence, Alex shoveling the food in so fast she sometimes missed. Jackie watched on in mock horror, eating at a much more human rate.
The two made their way back to the meeting grounds, as the official notice has said.
"I wonder what they want today…"
"Who knows Jacks, it takes too much time to guess, and we're always wrong anyway. What's the point?"
"How can you not want to know?"
"Why do you always need to?"
Silence.
Jackie stopped in her tracks.
"Just what is that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing Jackies, it's nothing," Alex's voice seemed tired, having nothing to do with her earlier refusal to wake.
"Just what the fu-"
The raven's words were cut short when Alex shoved her to the side, ducking herself. A single subi throwing star was embedded deep into the wood post behind where Jackie's head was situated mere seconds ago. A weathered scrap of parchment hung from a string tied to the hole in the center of the star, shaking slightly in the morning breeze. Alex angrily snatched it, snarling as the words appeared at her touch.
"Greetings brother/sister,
You have been chosen for the illustrious faction known as Prodigy. Prodigy is a well know organization striving to be one of the best in Victoria. Heed the call and come join greatness.If you accept the challenge, show up at the Dungeon located in Sleepywood for sacred entrance rituals in a week's time. We know we will see you there."
At the bottom of the note was an accompanying one, scrawled in a hurried handwriting,
" You aren't good enough. Victoria's challenge. Kerning sewers. Entrance code. Silver Dagger."
How odd, Alex mused to herself, reviewing both notes for a seccond time.
Most decent guilds didn't recruit anyone until at least their second job advancement. But time had come to prove that Alex wasn't just anyone.
"What the hell was that about?"
"Nothing," Alex replied coolly, inconspicuously sliding the note into a back pocket. She was grateful for the star wielder, they had saved her ass from a conversation she did not wish to have. Sometimes Jackie was just too damn perceptive, and it had been putting an invisible strain on Alex's mind.
"We should get going."
"Mhmmm."
Alex's walk was distracted, as she wondered just what this 'Prodigy' wanted from her.
I know, I know, its short. I think I'm going to end "The Academy" in two chapters or so, and start Part 2 of the story. Or should i just keep it all in one. I can't decide.
If the guilds thing confuses you, don't worry it will be explained later.
I know im slightly rusty, forgive me my readers, and shower me in your feedback
-Dak