Chapter 9: Familiar Face

Before we left to go wherever else Joe had planned, we had to wait for him to come back from his cruise with Paco. After a few hours, we saw Joe in the distance.

"Ugh, FINALLY! Now we can get some chili!" said Chili Bob.

Paco flew down, and gracefully landed near us, as Joe said,

"Holy crap…did you forget to feed Chili Bob?"

Karan giggled, and Chili Bob yelled,

"Ahahahahaha…SHUT UP!"

"No, believe it or not, King Black Dragon attacked the whole guild." I said.

"What? Impossible! He can't break through the magical barrier put around his cave." Joe said.

"We know, we suspect somebody managed to remove the barrier and command King Black Dragon to attack the guild."

"So, what happened?" asked Joe.

"Well, Ajjat, Chili Bob, and I, fought back. Ajjat is…gone, and me and Chili Bob were almost killed as well. But Karan came and saved us, thankfully."

"So that's who this chick is?"

"Yes, I'm Karan. I'm guessing you're Joe?"

"You guess correctly."

"Have we met?"

I noticed Joe looked a little nervous.

"Erm, uh, no…never. Nope. Doesn't ring a bell." Joe chuckled nervously.

"Huh. Oh, well. Where to now, Chase?" Karan asked.

"Woah, woah, woah. She's coming with?"

"Yeah…is that a problem?" I asked.

"Well, it's just that…um…Paco can't fly with that many people! Yeah!"

"Oh…well, I can make a steroid or strength potion of some sort for him."

"Oh, no…potions don't agree with him."

"Caw?" crowed Paco.

"I can fly on my raven, too."

"Well, um…why are you coming, anyways?"

"Joe! Excuse us, Karan…" I said

"Um, ok…"

"Ok, first off, why would you decline help, extremely good help at that?"

"Because-"

"Second, I know Paco is perfectly capable of carrying Karan as well."

"Actually-"

"Third, I know Paco can ingest potions because he drank a medicinal potion when his wing was injured."

"Well-"

"Fourth, why are you so nervous?"

"I am-"

"Fifth-"

"NO! Joe's turn to speak."

"I'm listening."

"…What if she's a Black Dragon member?"

"Why would she save me and Chili if she was?"

"…"

"Yeah, exactly. She's coming with."

"…Fine…"

"Ok, Karan, we worked it out. Joe was just a little paranoid you were an undercover Black Dragon Gang member." I said.

"Ugh, not even close. I've had a lot of problems with them." said Karan.

"Problems? As in more than one?" said Joe.

"Yeah, they aren't too hard to get rid of when they arrive at my castle."

"…That's a little hard to believe…but whatever, let's get on Paco and head on out before something else happens."

Joe, Karan, and I got on Paco. Chili Bob got in my inventory. Then, Paco lifted off with ease. In a few minutes, we were in Varrock.

"I just realized, what was the vacation equipment was for?" I asked.

"Well, I did plan on resting for a while, but when I saw the Warrior's Guild I couldn't pass up that chance."

"Right…"

I couldn't believe Joe would just totally switch plans like that.

"Lovely place you have here." Karan said.

"Thanks." said Joe.

"Where's Chase?"

"Training room probably."

I burst out of the training room, yelling "The equipment is still missing!"

"Yeah, I sold it to the General Store."

"What?"

"You don't need it. I have plenty more trips planned."

"They had better be good."

Little did I know, those trips we planned on cruising to, we'd end up running for our lives there.