A/N: Alright, maybe after this chapter I'll upload the fic (and update it at the same tie, lol~ *kicked*)
So yeah! Here comes the others into the party! v
*Warning and Disclaimer are in the first chapter, thank you very much~*
Enjoy~!
Chronicles of the Drowned City
Chapter 2: Welcome to our Guild!
The Princess and the Hoplite looked around the western part of the city. In fact, this is actually their 3rd time going around it, yet they still couldn't find the Explorer's Guild.
Finally, Adisa bumped into a lady with short brown hair wearing red clothes and weird looking gloves.
"Umph! S-sorry, ma'am!" Adisa apoligized. The lady looked down in surprise. Adisa looked up. The lady's gaze was sharp, piercing at her like knives. She also has this mysterious aura around her, that seemed to agitate Adisa a bit.
"Oh, no, no! I wasn't looking at where I was going," The lady began. Her presence immediately changed as she said this. It became much... calmer-softer, so to say. That mysterious aura seems to have subsided a little bit, but is still there. But her gaze just turned a lot softer. It isn't piercing at Adisa like knives anymore.
Adisa chuckled a bit before asking ,"Listen, I know this is sudden, but do you know the way to the Explorer's Guild?"
The young lady smiled and pointed at the building behind her. "I do. It's this building back here," she said. Adisa looked dumbfounded. How the hell...?
Okay, that building looks grand as hell. So how in the world did they miss it?
She then bowed and thanked the lady and ran off to find Heinrich.
Elsewhere, Heinrich is looking around, having trouble moving because of his heavy and thick armor.
"Heinrich!" He heard someone call. He turned to where the voice came from. Adisa.
"Adisa. Have you found it?" Heinrich asked. Adisa nodded and dragged the man to where the building is.
Heinrich looked at the grand looking building in front of him. A part of it looks to be perched on top of a hill.
Now, how did he miss that?
"How we missed it, I have no idea. But c'mon!" She said and started walking into the building. Heinrich snapped out of it and rushed after Adisa.
Honestly, that girl sometimes...
The minute they went inside the guild, they knew just how crowded this place is. And could get.
And they also had a feeling that this place could get much more crowded than this. I mean, a short person could actually die here!
Well, there goes a list of other places you could die in besides the Labyrinth.
In the middle of the crowd, they could see a tan man sitting in a counter, busy filling out paperwork, as well as passing certificates, scrolls and documents to the new guilds as well as answering some questions from some other guilds all at once. Man, that guy must really hate his job...
Adisa partly wanted to wait a bit until at least this place gets less crowded and the man in the counter gets a chance to catch his breath. But another part of her also wants to just dive in there and get this over with so the man has less to worry about by the time the day ends.
Adisa decided to just dive in there. She walked into the crowd-which left little space for her to move, carefully navigating her way to the man in the counter. Heinrich however... isn't having such an easy time.
Each time he took a step, he bumped into someone. And again, this is all because of this armor he's wearing. He's actually much thinner than he looks while his armor's on.
Finally reaching the counter in the middle of the crowd, Adisa called to the man sitting in it.
"Excuse me," She said rather loudly, just so the man can hear her. Heinrich stood behind her. As the man in the counter handed another scroll to the other group of explorers, he turned his head towards the two newcomers, biting his brush since his hand is full.
"Yeah?!" Came a loud, muffled response. It's really hard to talk when your in a crowd like this. It's way too noisy.
"This is the Explorer's Guild, right?" Heinrich said. The man nodded as he filled in a set of paperwork.
"Then we want to make a guild!" Adisa said. The man's brush hovered in mid-air. He then sighed heavily. Ok, just how bad could today get...?
"*sigh* Alright, alright, here," The man said as he handed a pile of scrolls and papers to the two of them. Adisa took the whole pile in her arms, but she couldn't carry it all, so Heinrich took most of the pile in his hands. The man sighed and handed them a quill pen and a bottle of ink.
"Here. See that parchment on top of the pile that guy's holding?" He began, pointing at the pile of scrolls and paperwork Heinrich is holding. Adisa nodded and let the man continue.
"Fill in that parchment with the details of your guild. Like your Guild name, for example," the man said. "Think long and hard about it. Your guild may become famous someday," the man finished and got back to work. Heinrich stood there for a second. Guild name... now, what would a good guild name be...?
"Heinrich," Adisa called. Heinrich turned his attention to her. Adisa then gestured towards the empty seats just across the crowd.
"Let's go sit over there and fill these up," she said and started walking, Heinrich following behind her.
Once seated, they got to work on filling the parchment.
"Guild name, huh? What would a good one be...?" Adisa thought out loud. Heinrich is also thinking the same thing as well. Then, something came to mind.
"How about "Zephyr"?" He said.
" 'Zephyr'...," Adisa repeated ,"yeah, I think that sounds good," Adisa said, and filled in the parchment.
"Now all we have to do is gather members," Heinrich said and grabbed a scroll labeled "Guild candidates". He opened it and holy cow, there is a lot of names here. But before he could go through the names and pick some people he wanted to interview, he heard people coming towards where the two of them are right now.
"C'mon, let's go ask those guys!" A voice, which sounded female said.
"Do you even know if they're forming a Guild or not?" Another voice, this time sounding male, responded, sounding rather irritated.
"That's exactly why we're asking them!" The female voice responded. Heinrich raised an eyebrow. Did they mean him and Adisa?
"Ah! Hello, I'm sorry to interrupt you like this," the young lady who Heinrich heard said, sheepishly smiling at him, scratching the back of her head. She's a red-head, with foreign looking clothes. It looked tattered at the ends and her hands are bandaged for some odd reason. She also had baggy red pants on (of you could call it pants) with sandals on. But other than that, she looked pretty much armorless. Weird for an explorer heading into the Labyrinth, but Heinrich decided not to question her.
"We're very sorry for interrupting you like this," the young boy behind her began ,"are you, perhaps, new explorers?" the young boy asked. He also wears foreign clothes, but he had light, full body armor on. His clothes are nearly all red-save his armor and "pants", with two swords snugged rather loosely on what looked to be a cloth tied around him-one shorter than the other, brown hair tied in a pony-tail and looked rather messy.
His gaze is cold. It pierced like knives-nearly like the lady Adisa met, only much more intense. He also had this aura around him- a fearsome aura. Whereas the girl next to him is the exact opposite. Just her presence seems uplifting somehow. Her gaze is lively and she's cheery. Like I said, the exact opposite of the man next to her.
From this, Adisa could conclude that both of these people are from the east. Only she didn't say that because it's not important. At all. Especially not when your on the same boat.
"Yes, we are. I heard your little argument back there. I take it you came to us so that you can join the Guild?" Heinrich guessed. The red-head lady nodded eagerly. The brown haired man sighed.
"Yes, we are. We've been here for days now, but we still haven't been accepted into any of the Guilds," the man said rather coldly. The red-head frowned at him, but then she smiled when as she turned towards Heinrich and Adisa.
"So... can we join in yours?" She asked. Adisa nodded.
"Yeah, sure you can!" Adisa agreed. Heinrich jolted slightly.
"W-wait, are you sure that's alright?" Heinrich said. Adisa looked at him. Heinrich sighed. Oh well...
"First, tell me your name and class," he said. The red-head smiled and looked at the young man behind her, who just stared at her with a stare saying "go on, tell him".
"Alright! I'm Cia, a monk!" The red-head, Cia introduced herself.
"Hiroyuki, shogun," The young man, Hiroyuki introduced himself. Cia chuckled slightly.
"But you can call him Yuki," she said, trying to hold back her laughter. Yuki sighed. Just what is it with people thinking Yuki is a girl only name...?
"Upmh!" They heard someone yelp, then turned to where that voice came from.
A girl wearing a dark purple dress... something... is lying on the ground, a book, which they assumed is her's, lying on the ground as well in front of her, closed. It looks like she got out of that crowd, but then tripped on something. She looks pretty short too. Glad she didn't get stomped to death in there.
"Nngh...," the young lady groaned as she got up, those things on her back following her movement. She then repositioned her hat and took notice of the presence of people in front of her, feeling their gazes at the young girl.
"U-umm...," the young lady shyly began ,"are you... a new guild?" She nervously asked. Her voice sounded soft, and very quite, too. Her hair is a straight, light purple, going all the way to her lower back. Her frame is also small compared to everyone else in this whole entire building- they could easily tell that she's still very young, but they could also feel that wise air around her. Heinrich knew immediately upon sight, though, that the girl's a Zodiak.
"Yes, we are. Are you here to join?" Heinrich asked. The young Zodiak nodded.
"Yes! I'm Zakaria, a Zodiak," she said. Adisa nodded as she filled in the parchment. Zakaria walked closer to the group as Yuki went to where the girl fell and got her book.
"Here," he said, handing over the book to her. Zakaria took it and held it close to her.
"Thank you," she said. Yuki smiled softly. He then turned towards Heinrich and Adisa.
"Alright, that's five!" Adisa said. "It says here that your only allowed to bring in 5 members at a time into the Labyrinth," Adisa continued. Heinrich nodded.
"Just the five of us should suffice for now. We'll be seeing more members as we go in deeper, though," Heinrich said and stood up.
"So... what's the Guild's name?" Cia asked.
"Zephyr!" Adisa said.
-TBC-
A/N: Well, now, this was long! Anyway... that's enough for now... Wow, 3 chapters at once... *facepalms*
And now, I shall upload all these chapters ... *creeps into FFN*