So… I've decided to add character profiles… Awesome,right? I think so too. First I'll have Hana's and Tanaku's and that's only because they were born on the same exact day. I'm going to use the months in the game. You can find when you press Y. Yes, those strange words next to the menu. You're mad lucky; I slept in the Inn for almost six months! (With a level one character, to save all of the money and I didn't even save the game. I wrote down all the months and the days in them. I'm one heck of a time traveler!)

Age:14

Class:Zodiac

Birthday:Emperor 10th

Name: Hana Venus Zaki

Hometown:Tharsis

Eye color: Orange

Hair color: Light Orange

Notable facts: Is the daughter of the most power Zodiac ever to exist. Has luscious,thick,and fragrant hair. Has an obsession with the is unable to use fire. At all. And she combusts quickly. This caused her to be afraid of using it. She's also very frightened of the dark,but doesn't want anyone to know. Only Ryuu and Hanasaku know. Currently… She can't swim 's a leftie. And she very talented at using voltage.

Pros: She's talented and highly strategic.

Cons: She's willful and inconsiderate. She's bossy and only shuts her mouth when you shove something in it. She's far-sighted,but likes to have everything close to her. Very afraid of the dark due to child traumatization.

Hobbies: Drawing in her journal, actually writing in her journal, playing the piano(only when no one's around.), Stargazing, baking, and doing hair(especially Ryuu's)

Age:14

Class:Arbalist

Birthday:Emperor 10th

Name:Tanaku Lothair

Hometown:Olympus

Eye color: Blue

Hair color: Light blonde

Notable facts: Although she likes explosions and speaks improperly, she is the youngest daughter a very wealthy family. She loves fireworks and explosions. She has a very similar personality to Hana, so most call her "The Second Hana". She has two sisters and a brother. And she also has germaphobic parents.(That, for some reason, let her become an Arbalist.)

Pros: Makes her own bombs, Her parents loan her money, knows what she's doing.

Cons: Hey do you guys remember when I told you, "Hana never closed her mouth unless you shove something in it?"

Yeah,Tanaku never shuts her mouth,even if you shove something in it.

Hobbies: Making bombs, dancing,shining her equipment, looking at fireworks and bad-mouthing Hana.

"Pandora? What brings you here?" A blonde man spoke. This man was the king of Jotunheim. The most feared king in all of the world,Victor Tori."It must be formal… You're actually wearing clothes."

"Haha. Victor… Very funny." Pandora looked around,"Okay, here is my reason…" She inhaled before she decided to talk again,"I intend to look for your daughter."

The king sat up in his throne,"Hm…?"

"I am looking of your daughter, Meru Tori." Pandora sounded agitated. She knew Victor was just trying to hear her say it. Yes, his daughter,Meru, ran away. To be exact she ran away four years ago. Not a single person in Jotunheim knew she was… Except for Pandora. She knew that she was in Armoroad and she knew she was in RAGNAROK."I'll even kill anyone who tries to stop me… But you have to pay me twice the reward."

Victor froze and stared at her. As if he were considering,but you can probably tell he already made his mind. Victor was only hesitating to annoy Pandora. Victor was just a disgusting person, one perfect for Pandora's taste. Victor was married off though. He married, "Lady" Elizabeth. But the marriage was far from happy.

"Think, Vicky. She is the only heir to the throne. And you made it that way and raised her to think she had it all… You don't want her to die. Well, I don't think so, at least. But, if she dies… You'll loose everything, including your pride. And you'll have to start again."Pandora smiled as she said every sentence."And if I kill everyone involved… Meru will finally see past her stupidity and see the true privilege she has…"

"Fine, Pandora."Victor or "Vicky" finally replied.

"Thank you." Pandora smirked,"You know, I would have done it anyway."

"I know that.." The king face palmed,"Go start your 'investigation' Pandora."

Pandora gave the king a genuine smile as she got up and simply responded with a wave and closed the doors behind her.

He knew he couldn't trust her… She was no mortal… She was a demon; no matter what she did she'd always sin. Or that's what Victor thought ,and for once it was actually close to reality. Victor walked out of his Throne room, where his guards were. He had backup. Just in case Pandora "sinned".

"Guards, send Maki and Magnolia down here. Immediately." Victor would go for his last resort to find his daughter, only after he checked the last place in the Southern Isles…

Armoroad.

"We aren't lost, right?" Ryuu checked his surroundings.

"Nope! I have everything under control!" Hana walked down the street with her to be guild."Now, remember. When I choose guild members for the party; don't be offended if I don't pick you. Since I expect to finish the first floor by tomorrow… If I don't pick you for the mission you get to explore the rest of the first floor. Got it?"

"Okay. Hana." Aoimi said. But she was already offended. She knew exactly who Hana was going to pick. Ryuu,Meru,Dove ,and some other useless person to fill in the extra spot. She knew that she'd be able to explore the rest of the floor, but she knew there would't be much left to explore.

"Are we headed to the Explorer's Guild?" Luna was peacefully bounding beside Hana for once. She looked as if she were skipping, but Luna was too cool for that. Well… that's what everyone thought, except for Luna.

"Yep!" Hana stopped in front of an exotic building with no roof,"And here we are!"

Everyone walked in the guild like they were famous. The inside looked very similar to the outside. Guild Gears was sitting there idly and staring at the flowers that were scattered all over the place. Hana exhaled. Ryuu pointed to the nearby Guild-master and Hana nodded.

"Guys, we're headed over there to do the paperwork. Okay?"Ryuu stated.

"Yeah, okay."Hanasaku muttered.

Hana and Ryuu fled toward the Guild-master. He was covered in different cloth and carried two swords on his hips. He stood next to a blonde woman wearing luxurious clothing. Her eyes were a cold blue and her hair was although she wasn't wearing armor or equipped with anything, she had a strong aura. In fact, it gave Ryuu and Hana the creeps ,and they felt as though they were getting eaten by it. The Guild-master had a similar aura just that it was't as overwhelming. Hana and Ryuu snapped out of their dazes as the woman and the Guild-master began to speak.

"Marin, you forgot to seal your power."the Guild-master glanced at her.

"Like you have any right. I can leave it out if I want to. And you haven't even sealed yours." Marin said scornfully.

"You're startling them."He pointed to Ryuu and Hana, who stood still with expressions of awe.

"Oh?"Marin turned towards them,"Well then…I'll go over here. My,apologies." Marin walked over to a bench that was behind Ryuu and sat down. Everyone in Gears glared at her as she did so. She smiled back at them like they weren't shooting daggers at her. Hana turned away from that and faced the Guild-master.

"Hello, I'm Hana Venus Zaki-"Hana was cut off by Marin who was still lurking behind them.

"I knew it. Are you here to make a guild?" Hana gave Marin an almost glare. She was just another woman who had known Hana's mother.

"Yes. We are." Hana said in an annoyed tone of voice.

Marin frowned slightly,"So disrespectful, Hana… I'm pretty sure your mother wouldn't approve of that sass of yours." she turned for the exit turned to Gears one last time and waved to the Guild-master and spoke a couple more words."I have to go now, Kise and Kujura are probably waiting for me." as she left the Explorer's Guild felt a lot more upbeat.

The Guild-master sighed and handed Hana the huge pile of paper work. Hana sat down on the bench that Marin was sitting on earlier with Ryuu by her side, as usual. There was an odd silence that eventually changed in to quiet chatter. Hana blandly scribbled on the papers without a single word.

"Are you okay?"Ryuu looked at Hana with concern.

"Yes, Ryuu I'm totally fine." Hana exhaled,"I just don't like it when people talk about my mother like that."

Ryuu nodded,"Same thing for me… I feel really left out when people do that to me." Hana flipped through the paperwork some and smiled.

"Yeah. You're right."

Guild Gears creepily and suddenly spawned beside them. Ezra stared at the two ,who just stared back.

"Hi…Ezra" Ryuu said with a weirded out look on his face,"Can I help you?"He was trembling.

"No!"Mei Ling shouted ,and a few people laughed at her accent.

A few more moments went by like this and Hana finished the work. So, she went to turn it in. Leaving Ryuu with the weirdos that were staring at him. It was fairly awkward for Ryuu.

"Okay. Will you quit it?"

"I can't believe Hana spoke to her like that…"Zero murmured,"I thought we were the only ones."

"What?"Ryuu asked.

Kogageru spoke up for once, he was talking to Ryuu, but was faced the other direction. It was a shame he was blind.

"Marin. You know the woman from earlier…?" Ryuu nodded once again. Kogageru continued,"She is the strongest woman in Armoroad."

"You mean, person. There is no man here who can defeat her, not even the Guild-master. That's the only thing I like about her."Zero added

"Oh, okay…" Ryuu scratched the back of his head,"Where's Lady Isis?"

"Where do you think she is?"Zero snapped back.

"Well, I don't know."

"She is collecting bacteria inside her dirty bed, and doesn't even know it. It's gross she only takes showers after she wakes up! I take showers whenever I wake up! Even in the middle of the night!" Himi the germaphobe walked over and sounded more paranoid than an arachnophobe in a room full of spiders.

"You! That's why we've been paying more for the water bill!" Zero exclaimed Zero and Himi began to argue; Hana slowly approached. She had a smug look on her face. She waltzed over to Ezra and began to talk cockily.

"Ezra, what floor are you on?"

"Why do you ask?" he sounded irate.

"I just want to know what floor our friendly competition is on."

"Oh really?" Ezra smirked back at her. Ryuu knew that this wouldn't end well… At all.

"Yes."

Ezra looked at his nails when he said the floor number,"We're on the second floor."

"Wait… Really? That doesn't sound too hard…"

"You didn't let me finish. We're on the second floor of the second stratum." Hana's mouth dropped open. "But don't worry, I'll let you use my maps!" Ezra began to laugh at their dumbfounded faces and clapped his hands once again."Come on everyone. Let's go conquer that floor."Ezra's voice had changed was the commanding voice he had used earlier. And when Zero and Himi heard it they immediately stopped their antics and followed Ezra out.

"We have to get Isi ,right?" Zero asked on the way out.

"Of course."Ezra replied.

With that the group of five vanished into the city. Hana examined her area and called the rest of the guild over. They all came over. Hana grinned.

"Okay,guys. From this day on, we are going to be known as the Armoroad branch of RAGNAROK." Hana said staring at Hanasaku who smiled back."Now, I'm going to pick the party I'm going exploring with. And remember what I said eairler."

Aoimi groaned. Hana glared at her.

"I'm taking Ryuu,Meru,Dove,and…" She paused and thought a bit. Aoimi put her hands in her pockets; she knew Hana would pick those she was wondering who Hana was going to pick to take up space."And, Niku." just the perfect pick.

"We're leaving now ,and if everything goes according to Ryuu's schedule we should be back by dusk. Until then I recommend you guys do something that doesn't stir up any trouble. Aoimi." Hana gave her an extremely dirty was that so dirty Himi might have been horrified by it. Hana leapt up from her spot and went off with her group into town. Aoimi turned to Bare,Luna, and Tanaku and gave them a big toothy and devious grin.

"Who would like to stir up some trouble?"

"She won't budge,Ezra. We shouldn't try." Kogageru crossed his arms.

"She will. She has no authority over the explorers of Armoroad."

"She won't, stop trying!"Zero whined

"No.I am in charge of this guild,and you will listen to me."

Right now Guild Gears was in the second stratum on the sixth floor headed towards the seventh. They reached the staircase and they knew the problem would be waiting for them to make their twenty-fifth attempt. This problem had a special name…

"Maaarriinn!" Ezra collapsed in front of her,"Why won't you let us pass?!" Marin was in a black undershirt and long blue skirt with metal boots. And used a meter stick. Yes, that was all she was equipped with. Yet she could make her enemies fly across rooms and even break walls with them. Marin seemed to be tried of the topic.

"We've had this conversation several times. And I've told you each time." She whacked Ezra in the face with the meter stick. Causing him to skid across the ocean floor.

"Marin…You've done that each time too."Zero glared at her.

"I cannot allow you to pass. If you do so, you'll be risking your lives."

"This is bull, Marin. That's not true."Ezra got up slowly and rubbed his face,"If you really thought that way you would have stopped all the other guilds, but you let them die. And you know we won't die… So what is the point of this? The real point?"

Marin grew a frightening smile ,"You know, maybe the rumors were true." She raised her arm and whacked Ezra several times. Everyone else in Gears stood still… They knew this was going to happen and they knew it would happen every single time. They didn't need to be Isis to know. But today was slightly different, Marin seemed to be a bit harder on Ezra fell (again) she placed her foot on his head. And began to speak in an angry tone.

"You know the rumors. Are you some type of god reading my mind like that? That's what you say you are. Is it true?"

Ezra looked up at the half-armored woman with one eye and closed the other because his cheek was in the way of his vision. "Yes, woman. I am a god."

"Oh, really?" Marin gave a strange giggle,"I shall not let you past at all…" she hesitated,"Until there are five guilds of decent powers and abilities, including Guild RAGNAROK. On the second stratum…"She gazed at Gears,"Even I have very high expectations for RAGNAROK…"

"Why do we need to wait?" Ezra's voice was muffled by his cheek.

"For a project. A project that will ensure your survival."

"Why can't we go now? We have have Guild Fang and Brawn?" Zero asked from behind Isis.

"Yes I want to finish exploration here as quickly as possible. I am sick and tired of searching this germ-infested maze in search of a city that might not even exist!" Himi squealed. Mei Ling slapped Himi's arms. She frowned in response.

"I do not intend to bring Fang in on the project." Marin looked off into the distance,"They can be rather…contentious."

"Then, what's the point of this?"Ezra muttered.

"To see if you really have god powers."

Ezra smirked up at her,"Well then, I look forward to this project." Marin removed her foot from a top Ezra's face.

"Farewell, Gears. I have throughly enjoyed this talk of ours…"

"What do you know, we're almost done with this cruddy map." Hana adjusted her red glasses. The beginning of the adventure wasn't as interesting as Hana thought it would be. But she embraced the fact that no on was gravely injured, yet.

"Hey, we haven't explored over here yet." Meru pointed to a narrow pathway.

"Yeah. I don't think we did…"Dove shrugged.

Hana sighed and looked up to the sky; it was near noon."We're almost done and it's noon…" she paused,"I'm taking a break. You two can go on over there if you want."

Meru and Dove exchanged nervous stares,"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Dove asked.

Hana snapped her teeth,"Why are you asking? You didn't ask to look through my pantie drawer that one time."

Dove smiled a creepy perverted one."Bro, this is different. It's more ,you know, dangerous and involves lives."

"That time it involved lives… It showed me you didn't have one."

Ryuu scowled at them, these weren't things he wanted to remember."Okay, let's not. I'll will go with you long as someone else comes." Not even the accepting Ryuu wanted to be alone with Dove.

"I'll go with you!"Meru quickly raised her hand.

"Alright then, I'll stay here with Niku."Hana elbowed the farmer who was in some sort of a daze. Ryuu noticed this and immediately attempted to snap him out of it.

"Niku." Ryuu almost exclaimed at him.

Still nothing.

"Niku?"Dove put her hand in his face. Niku was afriad of everything including Dove, but he still stared as if nothing was there.

"Niku!"Ryuu raised his voice. It even frightened Hana slightly; she had never heard him yell like that.

"What?!" exclaimed Niku as his stare into space became a stare at Ryuu's angry face.

"You shouldn't doze off like that. You end up putting us in danger, like always." Ryuu went off with the two females. Ryuu was not a fan of Niku and he was forcing himself not to act like that the entire time. He just didn't like the fact that Niku's clumsiness almost killed everyone each time he'd messed up. Meru gave him an odd stare. He put a fake smile on his face. And Meru began to blush. Of course he noticed it he just ignored it; everything female blushed when he smiled. And he was done with it. He only truly trusted Hana, she always blushed even before he had training. And grinned when Ryuu needed it the most. Hanasaku was his second. She never blushed at him she only glared and frowned at him. She felt like Ryuu was taking Hana away from her, for some odd reason.

"Hey. there's something stuck here."Meru moved to examine some vines in her path. "It's a Platypus." Meru pulled out a dagger.

Ryuu held her hand,"Let me do this." Meru gave in and put both hands in the winked at her. Not a good sign.

Ryuu easily cut the vines and set it free, and Ryuu stared at it an flashed a small smile in response.

"Wait a moment." Ryuu closely examined it. It was, no it couldn't be. Never mind.

It blushed at him.

Two other Platypi came over and stared. Ryuu knew those were it's parents and tensed up at the sight of the medium-sized one blushed too. And the three of them walked away. Ryuu really felt like breaking something and was having a hard time refraining himself from breaking Dove or Niku.

"Crud~!" a very familiar voice exclaimed. It was Hana's voice. Ryuu was he thinking? He just now realized that he had left the two most reckless people in the guild(not including Aoimi) alone to kill themselves on accident.

"Let's go see what it is…"He muttered.

Hana and Niku were running from a giant cat. A Great Lynx at that.

"How did this happen?!"Ryuu bellowed.

"I'll explain after you kill it!"Niku took a sharp turn toward Meru.

"Niku you idiot! Don't bring it near me!" Meru began to hide behind Ryuu.

"Where's Hana!?"

Niku looked back,"She was just behind me!"

"There!" Meru pointed at Hana,who was behind the Great Lynx was startled by Meru's shouting and went to go pounce on her. Until…

"Ryuu!"Meru's face was covered in a deeper red than Ryuu's scarf. Ryuu had gotten in the way of the blow Meru should have taken. After he gave an awkward smile he fell to the ground with the yellow cat atop of him. Dove and Niku gave Meru hopeless stares.

"W-what should we do?" Niku whispered.

"I have a 't worry."Meru replied.

"What is it?This thing is weak to fire ,and Hana is our only offense."Dove paused. An anxious expression came on her face,"And Hana can't use fire!"she barked.

"Hana! Do you know how to use elemental attacks yet?!"Meru exclaimed.

Hana seemed pretty worked up about this. "W-well. I only know how to use volt currently…"She stuttered

"Attack when I tell you to,okay?!"

"Fine."

Niku suddenly pushed the two females to the right. "Meru, do you not remember what just happened? When you shout you provoke the beast."

"One…Two…Three!"Meru roared, "Attack now, Hana!" she ordered.

Hana was still lurking behind the Lynx and spoke some,"You seem to be hungry,cat. Here, I'll let you have a taste if this!"

After her words echoed through the labyrinth she vanished and appeared beneath the cat. She quickly put her hand on its torso and mumbled,

"Volt Star.", The cat vaporized as she said so.

Everyone stopped panicking at the sight of that. Niku covered his mouth ,and Dove had some stupid look on her face. Meru stood with triumph like she did all of the work.

"I learned Attack Order. No need to praise me like this."

"Meru… We don't care about you! Did you see Hana!? she obliterated that thing with a single strike! And it wasn't even weak to volt!"Dove ran over Hana. She looked confused and stared at her left hand."How'd you do that Hana?!"

"I-I don't know…I…"She glanced to her side,"We have better things to worry about…" she stared at Ryuu, who was still unconscious on the flowered labyrinth floor."Like… Ryuu. How are we going to get him home? I'm pretty sure no one is strong enough to carry him."

"I am!" Meru ran over and easily picked him up. Hana nodded and made her way back to town.

"Your guild is so peculiar. You've only been here for a day and five hours, and you have already been arrested." Marin walked into a questioning room. Aoimi, Bare, Luna,Tanaku, Hanasaku,Yoshiko ,and Tsukiro were inside. "Would you mind explaining yourselves?"

"I just wanted to have some fun."Aoimi put her legs up on nearing table. "But, I doubt you know what that is."

"I don't think pushing the elderly is any fun."

"That was an accident."Aoimi crossed her arms.

Marin laughed, "You have quite the record. Did you seriously burn down half of a village and devour all of the iced treats in a burning ice-cream shop?"

"We didn't burn the city."Luna added,"Some brigands did. So we saved the ice-cream."

"Okay…? I assume you're waiting for your leader to come and save your skins."

"You mean Hana? She won't save us, Hanasaku will. Hana always follows what she says." Bare stated.

"Yes,but that does not mean I'll give you four a freebie. I only intend to stand up for Yoshiko , Tsukiro and myself. That means you have to find your own way out of this."

Marin had a generally blank look on her face,"You are acting like you are about to get a life sentence in prison. You only caused public disturbance ,and you only have to pay a small fee."

"Fee?"Tsukiro sat up,"How much, Miss?"

"Two hundred fifty en."

"Yep, you four are on your own."Tsukiro adjusted his glasses. Luna didn't care about what Hana would do,Aoimi seemed petrified, Bare fell straight on her face when she heard the word fee ,and Tanaku wasn't worried seemed happy about some thing.

"You guys don't need to freak out. My parents gave me ten times that amount. I'll pay it off now so Hana won't even know."Tanaku pulled out a large sack and handed Marin some en."Here."

"Thank you. Now shoo. You have no business here."

"Bye-bye Marebare!"Aoimi slammed the door."Hey,wanna head for that bistro down the road?"

"That's the only good idea you've had this entire trip…"Yoshiko whined.

Haha, change of plans! I'm sick and tired of this chapter so… Ryuu No Escape will be next chapter… Sad isn't it? But no need to fear the next chapters will be straightforward and make a lot more sense. Boy I'm so lazy, and this took me about two weekends to type this! Argh!