Chapter 3

Three months had passed since the start of Forsaken Heavens online. Surprisingly the first territory of the game had already been cleared. This new territory proved to be stone filled in appearance. Mostly barren and large boulders everywhere. Out in the waste land an orange haired girl fought alone against the mobs here. Her light weight blade danced through the air at the mob, not allowing it a chance to either learn he attack pattern or to defend itself. The Roller Guard, a bug looking creature with a hard outer shell on its back shrieked ear shattering cries as the girl's blade repeatedly pierced its softened belly.

Once it did the orange haired girl gave a quick glance around. When she saw that no more of the mobs were around she went to go searching for more. She needed to level up quickly if she was going to survive. She checked the stats on her Iron rapier that she wielded. Its durability was good but the weapons hp was low now. She was going to have to repair it soon; luckily she bought a few repair gems before going out. She re-sheathed the blade, and took out a water bottle. Her thirst meter was getting empty, and if a player let it empty out, their health would drain till either they drank something or they died. Another killer factor she had found out in this game, it was the same way with that hunger bar.

After taking a few sips of the water, she re clipped the bottle to her side clip and continued to walk through the barren wasteland that the second territory; known as Truskah, proved to be. Her eyes skimmed the horizon which seemed to move and writhe from the heat distortion. Her heavy steps, exhausted from the heat, kept dragging her on despite their protest. It seemed that the longer she stayed out here the more the risk of death increased.

"Why did that guy have to make the second territory a blasted desert?" She asked herself just before taking another swig of the water clipped to her side.

She could hear a distant tremor, and it seemed to get louder. As the girl turned around she could see that there was a team of three people arriving toward her position. Each one rode on top of an Iron Shell Beetle, which is one of the higher up mobs for this area, which also had the ability to be tamed by a beast tamer. These beetles were large and armed with six sharp talon armed legs. They had a hard metallic shell and the small multi-lensed eyes. They're horns were thick like tree branches and sharp enough to skewer a person in a flash.

The girl placed her hand on the hilt of her blade, just in case these people were going to be hostile. Meanwhile she was trying to formulate a plan of escape in her mind. The ground tremored even more as the creatures approached. Then with a sharp command from the leading player the three of them stopped. The lead player tried to calm his Iron Shelled Beetle, which was riled up on adrenaline. Once the rider calmed it down he dismounted off of his beetle.

The rider wore thin leather armor right now, which was dyed purple. He had sand colored hair, which was straight and extended only an inch past his ears. It was accompanied by electric blue eyes which glittered like gem stones. The person put on a cheerful smile, and put his hands up to show that he came in peace. One his back was a sword and shield, but however the sword had a longer blade, which meant it was an Iron Claymore.

"Hello there, we come in peace so no need to worry about pking," he said.

The girl relaxed a little bit, but she still kept her hand at her side just in case this was a deception.

"The name is Ashbrooke; and I had recently founded a guild. We are looking for recruits," he explained, "We heard that you were experience in guilds and would make a good member."

"How can I trust you?" the girl asked.

"Well, a person with your credentials would be useful; it would be stupid to kill you off. It would be much wiser to have you join us. Safety in numbers right?" Ashbrooke explained.

This person's reasoning's were sound and logical. Also her past experience would be useful, but also past experience told her to be careful of whom she hangs around with. The last time she was in a guild, it didn't end up too well. But however this person was around her age, and he looked innocent enough. In fact there could be no way that this person was Hysteria in disguise.

A small window appeared and it posed a question. There question sat in her mind for a little while as she thought it over.

"The guild 'Templers of the Night Sky' is requesting you to join them! Do you accept?" it read.

"If you don't want to join, we understand," Ashbrooke said.

The girl reached out with her hand, hesitant at first, and originally hovering her finger over the deny button. But then she quickly switched over and was about to press the accept button.

"One condition, I can leave the guild whenever I want, no exceptions," she said.

"Understandable, and acceptable terms," Ashbrooke said with a charming smile on his face.

The girl pressed the accept button, and immediately her stats change to say that she was now in the guild "Templars of the Night Sky", and she was given the rank of lieutenant, which she noticed wasn't the lowest rank, but it wasn't close to being a high official in the guild.

"I hope that you understand why I can't put you in a high position of power immediately, if I did the other members would get jealous. But if you complete missions , I'm sure you'll quickly rise in the ranks," Ashbrooke assured.

"I understand," the girl replied.

"Well then, welcome to The Templers of the Night Sky, Asuna."

End

[Apparently I got repeated emails complaing about the short episode length stories so I will combine them all into one story but have multiple parts that are episode length. Each acting as a separate story.]