Meisters
Chapter 11: A princess without her prince part 1
[ONLINE]
Great. Black*Star and Camellia ditched me again for another couple quest. They didn't say anything until the last minute before they headed out for it. So, I was left alone without a plan of what I would do. We had planned to go and hunt but that is out since I won't go alone. I can't have some PKer finding me and killing me and taking all of my things! That would be waste of wonderful gift Eater gave me.
Eater. Is he online? I check his statues and lucky me, he is. I smile wide and quickly send out an email to him. Hopefully I didn't disturb him in something important.
"Hey Eater! Do you want to team up?"
As I wait for a reply, I hear a lot of people talking more than usual and all of them are surrounding the board. It seems like a new event is up. The title of it is "Princess in need" and it seems to involve escorting a prince through a haunted castle to the top tower where the princess lies in a deep slumber. It also says we are supposed to figure out a way to awaken the princess with the prince's help.
The event quest sounds very interesting in my opinion. It sounds like a lot of fun and since I started to play the game months ago, I haven't gone on a single quest or event. Well, I did enter an event but that was accidentally and I didn't exactly enjoy it very much. Being chased by Kishins isn't that much fun, but meeting Eater was fun, maybe not the ideal way of meeting another player, but we did meet and I wouldn't want to change it.
Eater and Black*Star have grown friends and they all get along very well. Even Eater's friend Death came and joined us from time to time. It felt really good playing alongside everyone. We all got along swimmingly and we turned to be great friends.
I get an email and it is from Eater. "Sure. I will meet you in Death City. I will send you a party invitation." A second later I get a party invitation from Eater and I immediately accept. Surprisingly, I see Eater coming from the area where the thieves and criminals are holding up. He wasn't in the area, but he moves away from it. What was he doing there? I know he is a PKer and all, but he is a nice guy. I thought he only killed players when he needed to.
Images of the man begging Eater to not kill him comes to my mind. How he begged him to kill me instead but Eater ended up killing him and erasing his account. Why did he do that? I mean, he was a PKer but he did beg for him to spare him. Wasn't it enough for him to let him go?
The crowd let out small gaps and shrieks and they move aside. I already know it must be Eater coming toward me and sure enough, the people part, even throwing them away from him and I see Eater walking toward me. People start whispering about Eater going to duel me because of my twin scythes but oh they must be surprised when we meet each other with smiles instead of drawn weapons and a dual invitation.
"So," Eater says while he flashes his pointy teeth. "Where do you want to go?"
I lift my hand and points toward the board. "I feel like doing an event quest. You want to help me with that one?"
Eater's eyes wander to the board and he chuckles a little. "So, you want to do a couple event?"
"Huh?!" My eyes widen and my cheeks heat up. At the bottom of the board is clearly says, "Couple quest." How embarrassing! "W-We don't need to do it then! Let's just go and―"
Eater cuts me off my opening up his menu and the next thing I know is a couple request is in front of me. "If you want to do the event then let's do it. It looks like fun." Eater says and smiles gently at me. "I don't mind temporarily being a couple. This event looks like fun and I wouldn't want to do it with anyone else than you."
My cheeks turned even brighter and tomatoes would feel ashamed next to me. "O-only if you are okay with it."
"I'm cool with it."
Slowly I nod and accept the couple request. A little confetti is thrown around us and there are small fireworks. Oh man, talk about drawing attention to us! Now people will definitely talk about this, the infamous Eater gets a girlfriend.
Eater smirks and grabs my hand. "Let's go." I notice the heart besides his name and when I focus on it; my name appears inside of the heart. Now everybody will definitely know my name after this. I have a bad feeling about it but I still want to do this quest.
Eater drags me closer to the board and the people create a path for us. The players stare at Eater with fear and puzzlement. Then their eyes find me, they look at me with confusion and curiosity. They definitely wonder how I got the infamous Eater to be my online boyfriend.
Eater takes up his menu and before I know it, an orange light surrounds us. "You better hold on tight." Eater says and holds my hand tighter. I cling onto his hand tighter when the next thing I know we are falling. I let out a loud scream as we fall together. Eater laughs loudly at me while he holds my hand. The wind whips at my clothes and hair, I look over at Eater and he looks really good falling. He doesn't make any weird faces like I am and I get a better look at his face now when his bangs are out of the way. His facial features are sharp and curvy, they are so beautiful and his red eyes are sparkling with happiness. How come he always looks so damned good?
"We are reaching the ground!" Eater yells and the next thing I know, I'm in Eater's arms and he is standing on the ground. He holds me close to him and he chuckles lowly. "You have never used a teleport before, haven't you?"
I blush a bright red and I can smell the leather from his jacket and belts. Oh he smells amazingly. "N-no, I have never had to use one before." Eater slowly sets me down on the ground. In front of us is a very large and very scary-looking castle. Lighting lights up the sky and it looks like it's about to rain.
"We should go inside before it starts to rain. Rain in here is very much real and I would like to avoid it." Eater grabs my hand and we start walking toward the castle. The castle garden is filled with naked trees along with dead bushes. Up along the castle walls are dead vines and the windows are covered with white sheets. The castle looks abandoned and to think we will find a princess inside of there is unbelievable.
"Look," I say when I see a person standing in front of the castle's doors. He's dressed in blue silk and he wears a golden crown. In his hand is a sword. "That must be the prince we are supposed to escort to the princess."
Eater slowly nods and he releases my hand and grabs his scythe. "Grab your weapons and stay close to me. Kishins will start spawning from now on."
We reach the prince and he chants quietly for himself. "My princess, my princess, I'm coming my dear." He keeps chanting it over and over for himself.
"I will take the front while you take the back." Eater says while he opens the large wooden doors, they creek loudly. "Our motive is to protect the prince and let him lead the way to the princess." I have to say, hearing him taking the lead sounds very… very… I don't really know. It makes me… happy, sort of. I like following him, it makes my stomach flutter with joy and my heart start to race while my hands get a little sweaty. Hopefully sweaty hands won't affect the battles.
"Right." I reach behind my back and grab my two scythes. Eater takes the lead while I walk closely behind the prince and keeps a close eye on our back. The heavy doors close behind us after we walk inside and I can hear the Kishins groan, awakening from their slumber. "Eater."
"Focus. They are going to attack us any second now." Eater tightens his grip on his scythe and I hear heavy footsteps coming toward us. Orange pair of eyes lights up in the darkness, one pair after another. My hands tighten around my scythes and I'm more than ready to protect the prince while he slowly moves forward. Slowly I walk backwards, following the prince while I keep a watchful eye on the Kishins luring in the dark.
A loud roar makes the Kishin whimper and immediately they disappear and the shadows becomes as dark as they were again.
"What was that?"
"I'm guessing that was the boss Kishin guarding this castle. If this is going to be a cliché story about a prince saving a damsel in distress, I'm guessing the Kishin will be a dragon." Eater says while he keeps walking a little in front of the prince.
"Will we fight this Kishin at the top of the castle?"
"Definitely. I bet the Kishin is in the same chamber as the princess." Eater says and we keep following the prince. "This won't be this easy. The quest adjusts to our levels so there will be Kishins on my level and on your and in between. If you see a Kishin on my level, say it immediately and dodge it. We will switch places so you take the front and I take the back."
I nod slowly. "O-okay." I wasn't expecting to see Kishins on Eater's level. This will be harder than I thought it would be. I hoped I could be of any use but it seems like I will be dead weight to Eater because I'm here and it will make his job difficult. He won't just have to protect the prince, but me as well. I really hate being dead weight and always have to be extra baggage. Eater has had to protect me several times and I want to do something good for him. It sucks always being dead weight and I want to help him, but always the table is turned and he has to step in and save me again and again.
In split a second, I almost hadn't time to react. A Kishin out of the darkness crawled out and attacks me and just barely blocks its attack.
"Maka!" Eater yells and I hear his scythe connecting with a Kishins's blade. "Are you okay?!"
I grunt and push the heavy lizard Kishin away from me. "I'm fine!" The Kishin lizard drips saliva on the floor and leaps toward me again. I block the Kishin's attack and use my free scythe to dig it into the Kishin's head. "I can take it!" The Kishin's level is high, almost so high I can't take it, but I'm going to take it on and I'm going to win. I refuse to call for Eater's help. I'm going to show him I can take care of myself.
"You sure?" Eater grunts and I hear the sound of the Kishin shatters into blue sand. "That Kishin is strong."
"I'm fine!" I yell louder and push the Kishin away from me. "I can take it!" The lizard leaps toward me again and I step aside and the Kishin's claw digs into the ground. I jump up and my scythes start to gravitate around my waist and arm. I yell loudly and dig the scythes into the Kishin's head again. The Kishin shrieks loudly in pain and the attacks haven't dealt that much damage to it. How am I supposed to defeat it in this rate? It has still so much HP left!
The Kishin growls loudly and it sweeps its claws at my legs and I just manage to avoid it but the Kishin's claw touches my foot and I see my HP drop quickly.
"Maka!" Eater screams and I lose my footing and falls on the ground. The Kishin in front of me raises its humongous claws to then drop it at me.
"EATER!" I scream loudly and before I know it, he stands in front of me with his scythe blocking the claw.
"You take the front. Protect the prince." Eater says and pushes the Kishin away from us. Quickly he gets his menu up and before I know it I'm healed. "Go before Kishins get to him."
"Right!" I say and get up on my feet and get in front of the prince. He had to save me again. He had to recklessly jump in front of me and save me. I really hate myself for being so weak. I don't want to put him in that situation again.
Before I know it, a wall comes up behind me and immediately I turn around. "Eater!" I yell and start hitting the wall but it doesn't budge. "Eater! I'm on the other side!"
"Maka!" I hear him on the other side. "I'm going to get through this! Just you wait!" I hear him hit the wall and behind.
Behind me I hear a loud roar. "Eater!" I yell loudly. I turn around and I see a huge black dragon with piercing orange eyes. Its level is far beyond mine, it is even higher than Eater's. "Eater! The dragon is here!" I yell loudly and my body turns to stone. I'm scared and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I can't fight it! What am I going to do?!
"Run! Run Maka! I will find you! Run as quick as you possibly can!" Eater screams as loud as he can.
I don't know what took over me, but I started to run. I run toward the huge dragon with my trusty scythes at either side of me. All I need to do is get pass the dragon. I can't fail! I just can't fail now!
Suddenly the ground starts to shake and I collapse on the floor. My scythes escape my hands and they slide along the floor away from me. The ground starts falling apart and the next thing I know is I'm falling, screaming at the top of my lungs.