Introduction

A long time ago there was a shadow wandering trough the empty nothing. After endless wandering the shadow split itself in 3 parts. Every part was called a God. The first God was called Iblis. Iblis was the part of life. The second God was called Shade. Shade was the part of death. The third God was called Buble. Buble was the part of mistery and was also needed for the balance between Iblis and Shade.

Buble created a world, later it would get called Madrigal. Iblis made plants, animals, dwarfs and humans. Shade made the night, personalities and made sure that everything could end. The freshmade world lived in peace. Thanks to Iblish the world kept living. Thanks to Buble the dwarves, humands and animals kept searching and evoluated. Thanks to Shade everything had an end so there were diffrences and alternation.

The humans, who evoluated stronger as dwarfs and animals, maintained the world the most. The humans made machines who could help them with their work in Madrigal. To makde those machines, they asked the intelligence of the darfs. The dwarfs didn't want to give what the humans wanted first but after an agreement that the humans would leave the dwarfs in peace for ever, they gave their secrets to the humans. Like that, the humans created Cranes, Steamwalkers, Drillers, Shuhammas and alot other machines. At last the humans made the Clockworks, the strongest and most powerful machine that the human ever made.

At night, when the humans were sleeping, the 3 Gods sneaked to the machines. Admiring about the power of the cooperation of the dwarfs and humans they touched the machines. Cause the touch by Iblis, the machines got their own life. Cause the touch of Buble, the machines started to think about their target in their lives. Cause the touch of Shade, who was the most impressed, the machines got feeded by death. In that night, the world got destroyed. The world cracked in 5 pieces cause the power of the Clockworks. Every piece got called an island later. Now the people call them: Flaris, Saint Morning, Darkon and Azria. The animals got angry cause the creatons of the dwarfs and humans disturbed their peace. In their anger they attacked the humans and dwarfs.

When the sun woke up the animals and machines were calmed down. Shade was tired cause all death and anger from that night. Iblis and Buble called all the people who were left together. The 2 Gods couldn't bring the world in balance again without their help. The dwarfs and human hàd to help them.

Since that moment the humans fight with the the intelligence of the dwarfs against the animals, machines and mostly against the Clockworks. Every new born human is intended to help the Gods to keep the world in balance. Heroes and new Gods got born in the once so peaceful Madrigal.

 

Chapter 1 - The story of Smoer -

 Smoer ran into her room. She smashed the door behind her. Downstairs she heared the voices of her quarreling parents. Smoer's finger pushed on the power button of the computer. She put her hand on the computermouse. The screen lighted up. It was always like this. Annoying friends at school, empty feeling and when she came home her parents were having a quarrel again. Why she put herself again behind the computer, she didn't know. Her hand moved from the left to the right. What was she searching for actually? Site after site opened and closed again. Sudden she saw something that took her attention. A picture of a smiling person. 'Fly for Fun, will you be the next hero?' She clicked on the picture. Letters appeared on her screen 'Flyff' and disappeared again. "Download here!" Without hesitate she pressed the button. A bit later 'Download completed' appeared. Smoer smiled. 'Start!' She made an account and a character. A girl with long brown hair. She called her 'Smoer'. That's how her friends called her. When she pressed 'ok' she was on a nice square. She wore a funny red-brown dress and held a wooden sword in her hand. She wore light brown shoes and gloves. Characters like hers were running around. They all weared diffrent clothes and weapons. She ran to a bridge. At the other side of the bridge flied little monsters. She clicked on one 'Small Aibatt (level 1)'. She clicked again and with the little wooden sword she started to hit the Aibatt. After a few hits, the brave Aibatt felt down. On top of her screen she saw her experience points getting higher. She hit a few more Aibatts and blue lights surrounded her. 'LEVEL UP! New skillpoints are available.' Smoer smiled. This could be a great game to spend time. She already looked jealous to a group people who could make magicballs out of a little stick.

 

Chapter 2 - The story of Sammz -

 Sam settled on the ground. She sweated all over her body. Her knuckle and shield were lying near her. The sun was shining pretty heavily, that made all this even worse. ‘97%’. Another 3% and she would be level 60. 6 More of this aweful Elderguards had to die. Thèn she would be happy. Assist Sammz would become Ringmaster Sammz then. She would be strong. Sammz stood up, tired. She put her hand back in her knuckle. She took her shield from the ground and walked to the nearest Elderguard. Her knuckle hit the back of the Elderguard. The monster turned his face to Sammz. That was a bad idea. Sam hit him in his face. The Elderguard grawled and trew his long arm to the little girl. The little girl didn't get afraid of that. Not at all. She hit him hard on his leggs, followed by one in his belly. He fell down. '97,50%'. Sam ran to 5 other Elderguards. They all fell down cause the strengthens of the girl. Then she danced around. 'Level 60!' She made it!. As fast as she could she took a blinkwing to Darken out of her bag and flew away.

It was again crowded in Darken. Heroes were selling their stuff everywhere. There were people buying food in the foodstore and alot people were looking to the newest equipment in the weapon and armour store. Sam looked to the pettamer. An egg hatched and a dragon appeared. The dragon flew happy around his new boss and they walked into the crowd. Sam dreamed also from a pet or a friend, she felt so lonely at the moment... No monster dropped an egg for her yet and she didn't want to buy one. It felt like she needed to find the egg herself if she wanted a pet. Sam had also no good friends. She met a few nice people but everytime they split again after a while, then she was alone again. They never stayed. She walked through the crowd and ignored annoying people who tried to sell her broken stuff. She walked to the north of Darken. There she found the person who she needed. The Ringmaster Trainer. Sam took a deep breath and walked to the trainer. "I want to be a Ringmaster!" "Are you sure of that young hero?" asked the Trainer with a formal voice. Sam nodded. "Ok... if you really want to be a Ringmaster, you'll have to prove me something. Destroy first 20 drillers, then come back." Sam nodded again, jumped on her board and flew away. She landed near the drillers. She was pretty dissappointed. She tought she could be Ringmaster immediately. But first she had to kill 20 drillers. Who knows what she had to do after that. Sam took her stick and buffed herself, then she took her shield and knuckle again. It would be a good idea to try her Area of Effect skill here. 5 Drillers got hit by Sam her knuckle. The drillers got angry and moved towards Sam. Sam ignored their growling and pushed her knuckle on the ground. That move made a blue circle on the ground. All 5 drillers got hit by the circle. After a few times doing that skill they all felt down. '5/20' appeared on her screen. Another 15 to go thought Sam. She took a deep sigh.

The Ringmaster Trained looked unqualified to Sam. "You have done well. Now, take this letter to the wise man in Flaris. He will be near the death fountain. But first, kill the Ren. He got something that the wise man wants. You can find the Ren somewhere in Saint Morning. He looks like a Demian, but watch out, he'll be stronger than a common Demian." Sam bought a blinkwing in the Magic store and flew to Saint City. The big city still impressed her. She looked at the houses while she walked to the main square. She didn't know where the Ren was so she decided to ask someone of the city. A woman was standing in the crowd. She smiled and waved at everyone and kept asking: "Can I help you?" Sam smiled and walked to the woman. "Hi!" said Sam. The woman looked friendly: "What's up little girl?" "I need to find the Ren, for my quest. Do you know where I can find it?" The smile on the face of the woman faded away. "We can't help you with such stuff, I'm sorry." Sam nodded. "Thanks anyway." Sam took a deep sight and walked trough Saint City without noticing where she was going. She wondered why the woman couldn't help her. Maybe she had to find a Ringmaster and ask him. Suddenly she saw a group of young heroes. One of them was hurt badly. Others were listening carefully to the story he was telling. Sam walked to the little boy. Sam buffed him and healed him. The boy looked thankful to Sam. "Thanks alot!" Sam smiled. "You are welcome, how did you get hurt that bad?" The little boy laughed. "Well, I was running to Dumbulls to train and sudden I saw a little Demian, but his name wasn't Demian. I was thinking what he was doing there and I attacked it. Suddenly he took alot dammage on me! I ran away in fear." "What was the name of it?" asked Sam. "Ren, I think. Why do you ask that?" asked the boy. Sam hugged the little boy. "Where did you see it again?" The little boy was surprised. "If you run from entrance of the Desert to Dumbulls you'll have to see it." Sam jumped on her board and flew away. "Thanks little one!" The boy stared at the sky. His friends began to laugh.

Sam was so happy, she knew where she had to find the Ren now. She followed the mainroad that ran through Saint Morning. She knew if she would follow this one, she would fly straight to entrance of the Desert. In a few minutes she was there. She flew slower and followed the desert to the place were Dumbulls hidden. The wise man and the little kid said it was a Demian so she looked at the ground trying to find a Demian. Suddenly she saw it. A little Demian with a knife. She landed on a few meters of the Ren. Sam buffed herself, took her knuckle and shield and moved towards the Ren. The Ren growled at Sam. For a moment, Sam was scared but then she tought that she couldn't be Ringmaster if she was scared from a Demian! Her knuckle hit the Demian. The Demian fought back with his little knife but... Sam was stronger! It died and dropped a chest. Sam took the chest and flew to Flarine.

It was pretty long ago since the last time she came here. Sam smiled, so many memories were hidden in this little village. She jumped on her board and landed near the bangs. The fountain was close. On her way to the fountain she buffed a few young heroes. The little guys were so happy with the buffs. It made Sam smile, she really took the right second job. She climbed up a small hill. On the top of it there was a small lake with 8 old men around it. Sam took her letter and took a look to each man. She felt warm when she looked to one. "That one is the one I need to talk with." The old man smiled. "Let the Gods be with you so you can be Ringmaster with a beautiful sunset. Now, you have to bring this message to a woman in Flarine. She leads the small group of hired soldiers of Kyon." Sam nodded and flew back to Flarine. She landed at north Flarine and looked at the little houses. She saw Siege managers, make-up girl, a drunk man,... but no woman with a small army. She walked to Central Flarine. She saw people who sold armour, the mayor, general store, pettamer,... still no army. She walked to east-Flarine. Food sellers, magic store,... Sam passed a house and heared screaming voices. She ran scared for the life of someone to the back of the house. There she saw the weirdest thing she had ever seen. Some weird dressed old men and a crazy young little woman. The woman screamed: "We are going to protect Madrigal from the evil beasts!" Sam walked to the woman and showed the letter that the old man at the fountain gave her. The woman stared first 5 seconds to the letter, then she took it and danced around. Sam decided for herself that this was the weirdest woman ever in Madrigal. The woman came back to Sam and said: "Good job girl! Now, go to Darkon and find Hunter X, kill it and bring the lost treasure that it should drop to the Ringmaster Priest Heedan at Altar of the Ringmaster in Darkon 3. The end of the test is nearly there!" Sam, who had never heared of Hunter X before, took a blinkwing to Darken. She jumped on her board and flew through Darkon, she hoped that she would see it somewhere but... no. After a few hours she gave up. Dissapointed she landed near the volts. She would have to find someone again to help her. She decided to search someone in Darken after taking a rest. A knight tried to kill Giant volt in front of her. He had his second job. He cleared all quests. Sam not... She stared at the giant. "Help please?" Sam looked around. "It would suprise me if you didn't see this giant nearly knocked me down." Sam got up and ran to the knight. She knew what she had to do! She took her stick, healed and buffed the knight till the giant fell down. The knight put his helmet off and picked up the drops. The long hair of the knight felt over her shoulders. "What? You are... a girl?" "Ofcourse!" answered the Knight. "Can't girls be a knight?" The knight looked carefully to what the giant had dropped. "Are you going to be a Ringmaster? Your buffs where very nice!" Sam nodded but stared at the ground. "I dont deserve it." The knight looked at Sam. "Why not? You are good!" Sam shook her head. "I cant find the Hunter X and if I don't defeat it I can't clear the next quest." The knight laughed, "I know where that thing hides itself. And I'll bring you to it... If you promise me one thing." Sam looked surprised to the Knight. "I would do everything for you if you bring me to it!" 'Well...' said the knight. 'I'll bring you to it if you want to be my partner sometimes. I've been looking for a good Ringmaster, since a long time, to go on adventure with. And, please, take this helmet.' In the hands of the knight was lying a beautiful golden Ringmaster helmet. Sam's eyes shined. "With pleasure!" The knight shaked Sam her hand. "I'm Larimar, Knight." Sam blushed. "I'm Sammz, Assist."

A bit later, Sam and Larimar landed near some bushes. Lari pushed some bushes away and pointed at some weird big monster. "Thàt's what you have to kill." Sam looked at it. It was a bit bigger as Sam, with a strange sword. It was looking around. Sam took some starcandy and puted it on a place where she could get it easly. She buffed herself and took her knuckle and shield. Lari smiled to Sam. Sam sweeped her knuckle and ran to the Hunter X. She would kill it, she would be Ringmaster and she would go on adventure with Larimar! Sam was happy.

Sam felt a breath of wind passing her face. She opened her eyes. A beginning summersun was shinning on her face. She was lieing on the ground. Sudden she remembered why she was here. Last day, she was very tired after she killed the Hunter X. Lari told her that she had to rest before she continued her quest. Sam asked herself where the wind came from. It looked like there was no wind at the moment but she did woke up from a breath of wind? Like yesterday the sun was shining bright. Sam smiled. A nice day to become a Ringmaster. She poked Larimar and got up. Lari yawned, got also up, took her sword and attacked the nearest monster. In a few hits the monster was dead. Sam looked at Lari with big eyes. Lari laughed. "Sorry, I like to do that to wake up." Sam smiled. In any case, she was safe with Larimar, Sam never met someone as brave as Larimar before. Lari walked back to Sam. "We'll have to go to Darkon 3 today. To the Altar of the Ringmaster." Sam blushed. "What's wrong?" asked Larimar. "I've never been there before..." Answered Sam. Lari laughed. "No worries! I'll guid you trough Darkon 3 and I'll protect you." Sam was so happy that she met Larimar. They took a blinkwing to Darken.

Sam followed Lari trough Darken. Lari was looking to a few shops, bought vitaldrinks and bought food for her and Sam. Then they passed the equipment store. Sam stared at a Ringmaster suit. "Why don't you buy it?" asked Larimar. Sam looked to Lari. "I'm not Ringmaster yet!" "But you will soon, if you buy it now you can wear it as soon you are a Ringmaster." Sam knew Larimar was right so she bought the suit. She put it carefully in her bag. "Ok," said Lari "We got everything. Let's go!" She walked to the west of Darken and walked into the cave. Sam asked Larimar to stop. "What's wrong?" asked Larimar for the second time today. Sam blushed again. "I hope it's no problem for you to help me. Don't you want to train or something?" Larimar shaked her head. "When you are Ringmaster, I'll train, with you! I like you and I guess a friend to have adventures with is always fun." Sam smiled, once again this day. She felt a breath of wind. Strange...

 

Chapter 3 - Darkon 3 -

 Sam and Lari ran trough a dark cave. "I prefer to go by foot here." said Lari. "I don't like to fly in a cave." Lari told a lot of stories about Darkon 3. About the nice views and the big monsters. She didn't see all monsters there yet, but she heared amazing stories about them. Suddenly they were at a big gate. 'This is it.' said Lari, and she jumped on her board. Sam hurried up on her board too when she saw that Lari started to fly away already. She tried to follow Lari through the labyrint of plants and hills. Finally Lari started to slow down. Sam was happy with that. They landed on a big mushroom. Lari looked at another big mushroom. On top of it was an altar. "There it is, hurry!" Sam flew to the other mushroom. She landed in front of the altar and kneeled in front of the priest. She placed the treasure in front of her. The priest put her hand on Sam's head. "You have one last task. You have to destroy the demon Venel to prove that you are worthy to wear the name Ringmaster. If you can defeat it, the guardians of the gods will await you." Sam jumped back on her board, back to Larimar. Sam looked a bit stressed. She wasn't sure if she could defeat the Venel. She actually never heared of it! "I have to destroy the Venel." said Sammz. Lari nodded "I tought so, let's go. It's a long way to there." They jumped on their boards and flew away. First they flew over the swamps of Cilindir. Then they passed a gate and they were surrounded by amazing, big trees. They passed deep valleys and high volcanoes. After a while they finally saw something that looked like a big building. Lari flew slower and lower to the ground. They entered the gate. They flew slowly trough a hall, then they got into a big 'room'. Sam looked with big eyes at the amazing things that she saw. She wasn't only surprised oby the monsters that she never saw before, but also the pyramids and huge blocks. Lari flew west and flew into a cave. Lari got off her board. Sam landed near Lari. They were in a orange room. In the corner of the room a big beast was staring with his little eyes to Sam and Larimar. "Is that... The Venel?" asked Sam scared. "Yes." answered Larimar. "Do I have to defeat that thing... alone?" Lari smiled at Sam. "No. I'll make sure that the Venel will attack me and not you so, you can defeat it without paying attention to your health." Sam looked shocked at Larimar. "You don't have to offer yourself for me!" "I don't do that," answered Lari. "I'm strong enough, I just want to to help you. I don't want you to die. Besides, if I die you can ressurect me. I can't ressurect you." Sam blushed and looked to the ground. "What can I ever do back to say thank you?" "Come with me on adventure after you become a Ringmaster. That's all I ask!" Lari walked to the Venel. "Wait!" shouted Sam. She took her stick and buffed Lari and herself. Lari looked thankfully at Sam and took her sword in her hands. She hit the beast once with it. The beast growled and hit Lari with one of his big arms. Sam was shocked. "Fight Sam! It almost doesn't hurt me at all!" Sam looked angrily at the monster. She was going to defeat it! Her knuckle hit the monster. First, Sam was scared that the monster would attack her, but it just didn't. She only felt a weak breeze. For some reason it gave her courage. Like, she wasn't standing alone here. Lari was helping her and the monster had to die! Hit after hit reached the Venel. The HP of the Venel started to go lower and lower... The monster growled harder and harder... "Keep going Sam! He's almost dead. You are doing great!" Sam looked at Lari and saw that she got hurt. She had some blood in her face. Sam wanted to take her stick to heal her but Lari was faster. She already ate some food. The blood was gone. Sam kept hitting the Venel. 'QUEST COMPLETE' The monster fell down. Sam laughed. "Hoeray!" Lari looked proud.od was gone. Sam kept hitting the Venel. 'QUEST COMPLETE' The monster felt down. Sam laughed. "Hoeray!" Lari looked proud.

Lari and Sam jumped on their boards and left the cave. Sam breathed fresh air. "To the guardians!" Together they climbed the big stairs that lead to the Guardians. There they were... The 8 Guardians... Sam walked to the Ringmaster Guardian Romvoette. Lari stayed at the stairs. "Welcome, successor. You passed the last test! Now I appoint you the successor of the Ringmaster Hero! Now you will get the power of the Ringmaster. Don't use it wrong, but use it to help other people and to save the world. I wish you good luck!" Sam lifted her stick in the air. Blue light appeared around her. 'YOU ARE NOW A RINGMASTER' Lari ran to Sam and gave her a big hug. They kept hugging for a while. "Well..." "Well what?" asked Sam. "Put your Ringmaster suit on! I want to see it!" Sam put her new suit on quickly. Her old blue suit disappeared in her bag. Sam and Lari left the stairs. The last sun rays of the day lit up the newest Ringmaster of Madrigal. Sammz the Ringmaster..

 

Chapter 4 - The breath of wind -

 Sam walked trough Darkon 2. She went already on adventure with Lari for a few times. Sam was stronger now. She learned the new Ringmaster skills very fast. Now she was waiting on Larimar. Meanwhile she buffed some young heroes and she smiled with every nice memory at the places where she passed. When Larimar came they would go kill a giant. Giant Sycliaca! It wasn't going to be easy but after long talking they decided the could try atleast. Lari was in Darken to buy more food, pills and other stuff. Sam put herself down on a small grassfield. She watched to a few people who killed steamwalkers. A breath of wind moved her hair. She was used at it now. It happened alot. She didn't know what it was but she didn't care anymore. Sam felt fine with it. One steamwalked died and the young hero shouted happy. The steamwalked dropped something good for him. Sudden someone appeared near her. Sam shocked and looked near her. Right near her, a little girl sat down. She stared also to the steamwalker that died. It was an acrobat, she saw that at the white clothes. The sun made the suit almost shine. "Who are you?" asked Sam shocked. "Hmm... Something that you call the mystirious breath of wind." "Are you thàt?" "Yes..." said the acrobat. "Why do you follow me all the time?" The little girl lifted her shoulders. "I don't know." Sam looked to the girl. Her skin was almost as white as her clothes. Her face looked friendly but shy. "Do you mind that I follow you?" The question made Sam thinking. She didn't know. It was weird that someone followed her all the time but... for some reason it gave her a safe feeling, like she was never alone. Sam didn't reply but stared at the steamwalkers. "Are you going to stay following me?" "I don't know," she answered. "Maybe, maybe not. Would you mind it?" Sam smiled. "I wont." Will Larimar like this if I told her this? "Why did I never saw you before if you are following me all the time?" The girl took some yoyos out of her bag and dissapeared. Sudden she was back at the other side of Sam. "Cause I'm an acrobat! Acrobat are masters in the skill Dark Illusion." A board passed Sam. It was Larimar. The girl dissapeared. "Ready for the giant?" Sam nodded. The girl would follow her, she knew that. Sam took her best stick and followed Lari. They entered the Syliaca cave.

The cave was cold. The floor was filled with water, not deep. Alot big fishes swam around in the water. In the middle of all those fishes there was a bigger one. "Giant sylica..." whispered Sam. Lari pushed her sword in the air. Some lights appeared around Lari. She was using Knight skills. It made her stronger. Sam buffed Lari as good as she could. Sam looked at her MP. When it was filled she nodded to Lari. Lari lifted her sword and moved towards the Syliaca. Her sword hit the fish. The fish hit back inmidately. Sam healed. For a while it went ok but soon her MP started to get really low. She took a refresher and her MP was a bit higher again. Sam healed, Lari fought. They were almost done. Lari had to hit few more times then the giant would be dead! Sam healed. Three more hits to go. Lari hited the fish. Two more times... One more time... Lari lifted her sword for the last time. Right before the sword would hit the fish, the HP of the fish went back to halfway. Sam and Lari didn't expect that! Lari shouted. "No! My FP is to low to do this!" Sam watched her MP, that wasn't high enough either! Every time she wanted to drink, she had to heal. Lari tried to fight but her hits were low. The buffs started to run out... Sam started to panic. They would die like this. "Lari, we need to run!" Lari looked angry at the fish. "Never!" Sam sighted. There was only one way left to safe them both. "Mysterious wind... Help us!" Lari looked to Sam. "Are you a Magician now?" "No..." said Sam. "But..." "But she is a Ringmaster with great powers." said the little girl who suddenly appeared. She trew her yoyos to the fish. The fish couldn't move cause the skill that the girl used. As fast as she could, she trew some vitaldrinks to Larimar. Sam used that time to drink some refreshers. Lari lifted her sword, full power again, and hit the Syliaca. She could block a hit of the giant and puted her sword in the head of the fish. The fish screamed and died. They survived it!

"How long were you already following us?" "I don't follow you! I follow Sam." "I just found it out..." said Sam. Lari picked up the drops and walked to the entrance of the cave. She threw her sword on the cround and put herself down. Sam and the acrobat followed Lari. "Thanks..." said Larimar. The acrobat smiled. "I'm Neocropain! I'm an acrobat in training to be a Jester' "In training you said? Your skills looked good enough to do your second job quest." said Larimar. Neocro lifted up her shoulders. They stayed a while in front of the cave and shared the drops from the giant. Lari, Sam ànd Neocro got a part of it.

 

Chapter 5 - A scream for help -

 Smoer flied above Darkon. The stars shone bright. She moved her broom between trees and across hills. Suddenly she heared something. "Help!" Smoer moved her broom down. There, with the giant, Crane a boy was lieing on the ground. "Someone there? Help!" There was pain in the voice of the boy. Smoer landed and stepped off her broom. Her feet almost didn't touch the ground. The boy who called for her help was lieing under the giant crane. She couldn't reach him like this. Smoer called her Fox. "Fox, search some help, as fast as you can!" The fox ran away. Smoer took her wand and shield. She murmeled some spells. She felt power coming up in her body. Then she jumped in the air and screamed: "Demonology!" The crane got hited by a lightball. He almost felt down but stayed on his leggs. Then he trew his ball to Smoer. Smoer jumped on the ground. She lifted her head. The ball moved again towards her. She rolled on her back and lifted her wand. A lightball hit the crane. Smoer ate some starcandy. Her HP got higher again. She pushed herself from the ground, stayed a while in the air and pushed some spells out of her wand. The crane moved his ball to Smoer. This time she was to late. The ball hit Smoer hard. She felt on the ground. Her HP got lower, and lower, and lower... and suddenly it got higher again. She felt her powers running back. She could stand again on her leggs. Her fox ran to Smoer followed by a Knight, a Ringmaster and an Acrobat. "Good job Fox!" Smoer smiled happy. The Ringmaster buffed Smoer. The crane didn't stop attacking. He threw his ball to Smoer again. The knight jumped in front of Smoer and slashed the ball. The ball hit the crane itself. The acro trew her yoyos to the crane. The crane got stunned. Smoer screamed a last spell and the crane died. Smoer sighted. "Thanks..." "Why did you attack that thing? You are all alone!" Before Smoer could answer the question of the Knight she heared a weak voice. "Can someone help me now?" The Ringmaster walked to the boy and ressed him. A few seconds later, the boy standed on his leggs again. "And who are you?" asked the Knight. "I'm a Billposter! I'm Zirion. Everyone fears me. I'm even better as..." Smoer saw the acrobat dissapearing and appearing again behind Zirion. Her yoyos flied to Zirion and Zirion felt on the ground again, stunned. Smoer had to hold herself to not laugh. The acrobat smiled. '"He isn't thàt good... and I'm not afraid of him either." "So... who are you?" asked Smoer. The Ringmaster points at the Knight. "That's Larimar, Knight. That acrobat is Neocropain, an Acrobat and I'm Sammz the Ringmaster." Smoer looked carefully to the three and said: "I'm Smoer. Psykeeper. Nice to meet you! I help people who are in troubles. Thanks for helping me but... I guess I'm going again." The Knight shaked her head. "Don't you want to join us? Maybe next time your Fox can't find someone to help you." Smoer blushes. "If you don't mind, I would be happy to join you three." Sam and Neocro shaked their heads. "We don't mind, we would like to have you, a great psykeeper, in our team." They jumped on their board and Smoer stepped on her broom. They flied away. Everything was back quiet in Darkon 2 except one little voice. "Help... Someone?"

 

Chapter 6 - Mas mines-

 All Flaris is a place of happyness for every hero, small or big. All Flaris is free of the biggest darkness. All Flaris? No, everywhere darkness hides. In the deep ground of Flaris there is a hole. A hole where monsters hide and kill everyone who they see. "And we are going into that hole?" Smoer nodded "I heared someone begging for help here. And every call of help, I answer." Sam looked scared. Lari stepped into the hole. "It can't be thàt bad." Smoer followed Lari and finally with a deep sight, Sam and Neocro followed too. After they walked a bit trough the hole they stopped walking. They let their eyes get used to the soft light of the tunnel. Then Lari continued. They heared scary noises out of the deep. The tunnel was wet and the ground was slippery. Smoer walked right behind Lari. Sudden, Lari stopped walking. She looked to the ground. Some green water lied there. A lightflash flied above Lari her shoulder. A scream sounded trough the hole. A monster fell in front of Larimar. Lari looked shocked but thankfull to Smoer. There was a monster hanging at the ceiling that wanted to attack Lari right when Smoer saved her. They continued. It started to be quiet in the hole, dangerous quiet. The sound of their boots on the ground echoed trough the tunnel. Slowly the tunnel started to get lighter and wider. Smoer started to walk near Lar. Sam let the group stop for a while. She pushed her stick trough the air. Now they were all protected by protection. Slowly and prudent they continued walking. It was almost like you could smell the danger here and no one missed that. Something came closer to the group, fast, very fast. But Lari was fast too. A net shot out of her sword and fell over the thing that came really fast to the group. First they looked with big eyes to the animal. Then Lari started to laugh. "It's just a little kitty!" She would have been walked to the animal if Smoer didn't hold her. "Nynyangs look very cute but they are as nimble as a monkey, as fast as a cheetah and as dangerous as a hungry dragon." Her wand moved towards the Nynyang. The Nyn fell down. Fast, they walked over the dead body of the Nynyang.

After a long walk without any more monsters they reached a big hall. They entered slowly, scared from what could be hided in this hall. They saw 3 giant monsters. "So, the legend of the mines doesn't lie..." said Sam. "Lord bang, Queen Nyn and Master Fern..." murmled Smoer. "I'll defeat the bang!" said Lari brave. "Smoer can kill the Nyn and Neocro the Fern." Sam shocked. "Do you want Neocro dead?! Do you want her to fight thàt thing?" Lari put her sword in the air. Some light surround her. "You are a Ringmaster, right? If you help him, nothing can happen to her." Neocro put her hand on Sam her shoulder. "It's ok! I'll do it. I trust your help."

Sam buffed everyone as good as she could. For beeing sure, she buffed herself too. She felt the power running trough her body. Neocro winked to Sam. "We'll do it!" Then she let her yoyos turning around. With alot power she trew the yoyos to the Fern. The fight started. Sam fired holycrosses and heals. She get drowned into the fight and forgot everything around her. She only tought about Neocro. Sudden the Fern pushed his head to Neocro. Neocro got pushed aside. Sam healed as fast as she ccould. Neocro looked angry to the monster. She pushed on her yoyos. Knifes appeared. They cut into the rough skin of the monster. Blood of the monster fell on the ground. The knifes dissapeared again. Sam looks to Neocro, it seemed like the knifes took alot of Neocro her power! The fern trew his legg to Neocro. Neocro saw it, but couldn't move. She felt how she got trowed away, she felt how she got smacked against the wall and then she felt nothing anymore. Sam screamed, she ran to Neocro. Lari and Smoer looked shocked but they couldn't look for long. They were busy with their monsters. Smoer pushed a big boll of power to her monster. The monster couldn't move for a while. Smoer ran to Sam who was crying near the body of Neocro. She pulled Sam on her leggs. "Do what you have to do Sam, you know what you have to do." She turned back and started fighting again. Sam knew indeed what she had to do. She put her stick near Neocro and took her knuckle and shield. It felt strange but she was angry! Strange but powerful Sam hit the monster. She saw Lari looking surprised. "This is cause what you have done to Neocro!" She started to hit faster, more powerful... The Bang and Nyn felt down. Lari and Smoer saw how Sam knocked down the Fern in no-time. Sam turned back to Neocro and put herself down near her body. Lari put her helmet off. "Wow, I didn't know a Ringmaster could be that strong." Sam took her stick. "We are stronger than we look like."

 

Chapter 7 - Purple dream -

 "Dead, I have to be dead. Cold... I didn't know beeing dead would be that cold. I have to get warm, I might get killed by coldness! But... I am dead. I don't have to fear the cold. I'm not scared of the cold." Suddenly someting warm pushed Neocro. No... she wasn't scared.

"Dreamless sleep... Have to see where I am... Have to open eyes. So tired..." 1 eye opens a bit. "Purple... Dark... Rest, to tired."

Neocro opened her eyes. It was a little purple dragon that gave her heat. She lied in a cave, it was pretty cold here but not wet. She started to feel hungry. Neocro wasn't dead, dead people can't feel hungry? But if she wasn't dead. Where was she then? Neocro sat traight. The dragon woke up. Momentarely it looked scared to Neocro. Neocro pat the head of the dragon. The dragon put itself down again. They were safe together. A pang fired trough her head. For a moment she tought she saw Sam fighting a big Fern. "Sam!" Neocro jumped on her leggs. She had to go to her friends! She walked to the entrance of the cave. She felt so weak... The dragon flied slow to Neocro. Neocro her eyes got used to the bright light from outside the cave. She was on a mountain. There was a nice valley down. She didn't know this place. Where was she? How did she have to get back? How did she have to get back to her friends? With a big sight Neocro put herself down again. The dragon looked with big eyes to Neocro. It seemed like he asked what was wrong. "I have to find food." said Neocro to the Dragon. She walked back into the cave. With a smile she found her old good yoyos near the place where she slept. She took them and turned them around. They still worked great! Neocro climbed down the mountain. Downstairs she would have to find some animals. If she was lucky, they would drop some food. The dragon followed Neocro. After a short walk they found some trange looking monster. They looked like bears but their leggs were tiny and they had a head like a cat. Neocro didn't know if she could handle this monsters bit she had no choise. Neocro's yoyos flied to a monster. After a few hits the monster felt down. Neocro almost didn'g get hurt. She killed 20 monster. Now she had enough food for a while. She gave a part to the dragon who ate it happy. A gust of happyness flied trough Neocro. She saw a fern dieing. "Sam!" Did she kill the Fern?

Sam waved with her stick and kneeled near Neocro. Lights surrounded Sam and Neocro. Neocro was still lieing dead on the ground. Sam got up again. "Doesn't Neocro normally comes alive now?" Sam looked recommend free to Lari. "Yes... But she doesn't accept that I want to ressurect her."

Neocro stooth in front of the cave and looked to the valley. She felt like she has to walk to the top of the mountain. It felt like she had to do something there. "Come dragon..." She put her food away and took her yoyos in her hand. Something is on the top. She felt it. And she would destroy it. Determinded she climbed to the top. The dragon followed her. Almost on the top she let her yoyos turn around. Extra power ran trough Neocro now. Fast she ran the last part of the way to the top. Now she saw what she had to kill. Now she knew what she was doing on this strange place. "Finally!" laughed Neocro. The dragon flied around from happyness.

Sam tried again, and again... Tired she put herselfdown. "She's just angry on us... Cause we let her fight that thing." Smoer closed her eyes. "Wait... Neocro will come back soon. I think she's doing something. Something important. You'll see."

The dragon standed brave behind Neocro. The Venel growled. Neocro didn't care. She turned her yoyos around. First slow, then faster. Then she trew them to the Venel. The knifes came out the yoyos and made deep wounds into the Venel. Neocro sweated. The Venel made a movement towards Neocro but.. Neocro dissapeared and appeared again behind the Venel. Fast her yoyos flied to the Venel. The monster reacted surprised. He wanted to hit again the little girl but she dissapeared again. The Venel got tired and fell down from the pain. He is defeated.

Sammz sat on the ground. At one side, Neocro lied down. At the other side her stick. Sudden she looked to Neocro. Arround Neocro, purple lights appeared. A few seconds later, she was standing on her leggs again. "Where are you lookign at?" asked Neocro. Sam got up and took her stick. "Your... clothes?" Now Neocro looked to her clothes. Her nice white suit was gone, it changed into a good purple suit. Her gauntlets were black. "This are no acrobat clothes... This belongs to a Jester!" said Smoer. "That can't be!" answered Lari. "You told us that you were training to be a Jester. How did you train that fast?" Neocro turned away her head. "I'm sorry..." "Explain us, please." asked Sam friendly. "Well... I'm actually already level 60 since I met you. When I was level 60 I went to the Jester trainer but he didn't want to train me. I have never trained by myself alot... I always got help. He said I wasn't good enough to became Jester. Sad I left the trainer and went to the weapon store. I sold my old low level yoyos and bought new, better ones. With those new yoyos I started to train and I learned pretty fast how to fight with those things. But the Jestertrainer still said I wasn't ready yet. He didn't want to say more. So... I started to walk trough Darken and I saw Sam! She had also troubles to get her 2nd job so I followed her. And then Sam became Ringmaster... Then I came out of Dark Illusion, to help Sam and Lari with that giant. I always wanted to ask you Sam, how I could be a real Jester, but... I was scared. That's why I stayed with you. I couldn't do alot more. I'm sorry that I lied..." Sam hugged Neocro. "How did you became a Jester right now?" "She dreamed..." answered Smoer. "Legends tell that the one who doesn't have the power to get his/her second job will wake up in a dream after he/she prooved her/his power." Lari stared with big eyes to Neocro. "I'm just a normal knight, you surprised me alot Neocro." Sam laughed. "Without such a brave knight as you, Neocro would never became a Jester." Smoer nodded. "Let's forgive Neocro and use her new powers to destroy the darkness of this dungeon." Neocro looked thankfull to everyone. She looked a bit longer to Lari who smiled. "It's ok, Neocro. You are one of us."

 

Chapter 8 - Saving of the son -

 While walking, Neocro tried her new skills. The cave got lighted green, blue, and red. Those Jester skills are amazing..." Smoer,who walked first, let Neocro stop using his new skills. "We are getting close to the end of the dungeon. What ever there is, I don't want it to see us before we can see it." "Shouldn't we send Neocro in Dark Illusion to the end of the cave? The monster wouldn't see her and she could tell us what there is. So we will be prepaired." said Sam. Everyone agreed. Neocro lifted her shoulders and disappeared. A few minutes later she was back. "And?" asked Lari. "Woaw!" answered Neocro. "A big snake! But not a normal snake! Half of her body is from a woman. She looked really dangerous. She's at the end of the cave. There is a hall. At the side there is a jail. I guess there is the person where we are looking for. Oh, and I saw a key at the tail of the monster." "Typical..." said Lari. Smoer stared to the darkness. "I don't know how strong that thing is but I don't want to take any more risks. We can make a plan so we don't have to kill that snake." Lari nodded. "Good idea, but how do we make a plan?"

Neocro disappeared. Lari ran out of the tunnel to the end. Smoer and Sam followed. For a while even Larimar was impressed. The monster looked aweful. Sam buffed Smoer and Lari. Then they waited. Lari sneaked the monster and tried to take its attention. Sam walked to the jail. "Hey?" Out of the darkness, a boy appeared. His eyes looked full of fear. "Who are you?" Sam looked behind her. Lari and Smoer were making the snake angry. They took distance so they won't get hitted. Neocro stooth behind the monster. "I'll tell you later who we are. Take your stuff, we take you with us." The boy disappeared in the darkness and caùe back with a knuckle and shield. Neocro trew her yoyos to the tail of the snake. Thanks to the knifes the key came with the yoyos to Neocro. The snake turned but it saw nothing. Neocro was back in Dark Illusion. Sam looked around her. Neocro should trow the key now to her. The monster its attention was back to Smoer and Larimar. Sometimes Smoer fired some magic balls to the monster that confused it. Finaly she saw Neocro. She trew the key to Sam. The flying object took the attention of the snake and it saw Sam. The tail of the snake flied to Sam and hit her in her belly. Sam got pushed against the wall and her HP got dangerous low. Lari stepped forward and hit the snake with her sword. The monster growled and her tail flied again to Sam. Sam knew that she was going to die now, she didn't think bout healing or buffing herself! She felt that she got hit but she staid on her leggs. Surprised she looked around. Someone healed her? "Watch out you." The boy in the cage held a stick. The attention of the snake was again to Lari and Smoer. Sam picked up the key and opened the jail. She gave the boy quikstep and together they ran to Lari and Smoer. "We have to leave, fast!" Smoer and Lari tried to block the attakcs of the snake. "Where is Neocro?" Sam looked around. "I don't know, it doesn't care. She'll be fine. We really need to go." answered Lari. Sam gave everyone as fast as she could quikstep. Lari turned around and ran back into the tunnel. Sam and the boy followed. Smoer pushed a last final magicball to the snake and followed too. Sneak ran out... The snake followed the 4. They ran as fast as they could. The snake came dangerous closer. "Run! I'll try to stop him." Smoer fired a big lightball to the snake. The snake growled and moved towards to Smoer. Smoer turned around and fell. The slippery ground made her fall. The snake came closer to Smoer. Smoer tried to get up. The snake came closer. Smoer closed her eyes. Sudden, a blue light appeared in the tunnel. The snake screamed and moved back where it came from. Neocro pulled Smoer on her leggs. "Come."

Smoer, Neocro, Sam, Lari and the boy sat in the sun in front of Mas Mines. They took deep breaths. Lari looked to the boy. "So... Who are you?" "Sven." answered the boy. "Just Sven?" The boy nodded. "Sven, son of Mayor of Saint City." "Good." said Smoer. "Then we bring you back as soon as we can." "No!" shouted Sven. "I don't want to go back! I want to be a hero too, like you. I want to fight. But my mom doesn't allow me. She says I need to stay in the city and become a Major too when I grow up. She doesn't believe that I can became a hero. To proove her, I came to here. But I met a boy and he locked me up in Mas Mines." The 4 looked to Sven. "A boy you said?" Sven nodded. "Worries for later. First getting that boy back." said Lari "I guess we'll get a good reward if we bring him back." Sven looked angry. 'Without me, your Ringmaster was dead." Now they looked all to Sam. "It's true." said Sam sad. "I didn't expect that the snake would attack me so I didn't buff myself and I was to shocked to heal myself or grab some food." Neocro giggled. Sam hit Neocro with her stick. Smoer looked annoyed to Sam and Neocro. "Well... thanks for saving Sam but, without you we wouldn't even have been here." Sven looked angry. "Now, let's go to Saint City." Lari looked in her bag. "Ehm... does anyone got some extra Saint Morning blinkwings?" Sam, Smoer, Neocro and Sven looked too their bag. They all shaked their head. "I got one left." said Smoer, Sam and Neocro. Sven laughed. "And I have none!" Lari growled. "Ok, I'll take Sven on my board. We'll fly. Go, I'll be there soon." Lari stepped on her board and pulled Sven with her. Sam, Smoer and Neocro disappeared with their blinkwings. "Don't fall off, Sven. I want to be fast in Saint Morning." Lari left Flaris. They flied now above clouds. Under the clouds, there was nothing. If they fell, they would be lost for ever. Sven looked around. He saw someone coming on a board. "Lari! Fly faster! That boy that flies to us is the one who locked me up in Mas Mines!" Lari looked behind her. She saw someone coming closer. "But... That's Zirion!"

"What do you want from us Zirion? You are fooling yourself." "You fooled me! I'll let you see why I am the strongest. First I kill you, then your friends." Lari sighted. She saw Saint Morning already. She had to get there! Lari took her sword in her hands. "I'm going to sneak him, that must hold him a bit. I can't fight that good on a board. We have to win time. I want you to fly for a bit. I have to get close enough to Zirion." Sven nodded. He was scared. He didn't want that that boy locked him up again. Zirion was to far away to sneak. Lari standed on the side of the board. For a while she closed her eyes to not see the clouds. Then she lifted her sword. A net flied out of it, on Zirion. Zirion turned around and flied to the other direction. Lari screamed. Cause the power of her sword she slipped of the board. Sven trew himself on the board and took Lari her hand. "Hold on! We are nearly there!" Lari her hand sliped slowly out of that from Sven. "I don't hold it! Go alone to Saint City and tell the other to kill Zirion." Sven shaked his head. "I don't let you fall. Just hold on!" Lari smiled. Her hand sliped out of that from Sven. "No!" screamed Sven. Lari fell and landed in the grass of Saint Morning. "That was fun!" Lari laughed and got up. Sven landed near her. "Woaw." Lari turned around. She was standing on a cliff of Saint Morning. Right in front of her feet, the ground disappeared and clouds started. She lifted her shoulders and walked up a hill. "Do you mind we continue without board?" Sven laughed and followed Lari.

"They are there!" Neocro ran into Saint City. Smoer and Sam got up. "Where have you been that long?" Lari took Sven his hand. "I'll tell that later. First I need to entreduce this boy to his mother." Sven looked sad but didn't refuse. They walked to the main square of Saint City. The Major saw Sven coming and ran to him. "My son! Where was he? How... Oh Sven..." Sven blushed. "I'm sorry..." The Mayor hugged Sven. "I'm so happy. Thanks for this! I'll give you cloaks with the sign of the hero. You are with four, right?" Lari shaked her head. "With 5. Without Sven I would never been able to see your lovely city anymore. If he wants, and you allow him. He can join us." Everyone looked shocked to Lari. The Major took Sven with his shoulders. "Do you really want to become a hero?" Sven nodded. "It's a dream! And even a bigger dream to join this 4 great girls." The major smiled. "Are you going to keep an eye on him?" Sam, Smoer and Lari nodded. "With all my might." said Neocro.

A bit later, 5 young heroes left Saint City with 5 Hero cloaks. Ready to search anoter adventure.

 

Chapter 9 - Beginning of a new Adventure -

 The 5 put themselves down on a hill near Fantasy Desert with a view over the place where puppets stayed. This place was almost always crowded and it was funny to see the little heroes figting. Sven stood up and trained on the puppets. Sometimes Sam buffed him so he could train more easy. Often someone looked jealously to the cloaks of the 5. "Tell us, Lari. Why you did you allow Sven to join us so sudden." Neocro played a bit with her new yoyos that she bought in Saint City. Lari told them what happened on their way to Saint City. Sam looked surprised, then she laughed. "He is angry cause we flied away without ressing him after Neocro took him down. Talking bout ressing, I guess that girl there needs ress." Sam standed up and ran to a Magician that lay on the ground. Smoer smiled when she saw the Mage. "A youngh Mage...I remember how hard it was to combinate power and inteligence when I started." Lari yawned and lay down on her back. She sighted. "You know? This lazy stuff is not good for me. Is here nothing exiting to do?" Smoer and Neocro lifted their shoulders. Sven passed Lari, followed by 6 puppets. "There is a cool cave here." "A cave?" asked Neocro. Sven pushed his knuckle on the ground. "Yes, it's called Ivilish I guess." The puppets felt down. Smoer stared behind her, to Fantasy Desert. "Ivilish... I heared alot bout that." Sam put herself down again near Neocro. "Sounds cool but... Don't you guys want to take a rest? I still dream bout that snake." "Ivilish is mysterious." continued Smoer. "They say it's a labyrint with behind every corner a monster. It's still a guess what's hiding there. They say if you got the 3 treasures of the 3 biggest monster and you bring them to a special place. Then a path will open. What's there behind that path... No one knows." While Smoer was talking, everyone was quiet. Smoer looked up. Everyone was staring at her with big eyes. Even the little heroes who were training were looking at Smoer. "Look..." said Sam. "It sounds really great to go into that cave but. Can't we stay here for a while?" Lari got up and put her knight suit on. "No, let's go before someone else finds the secret." "It's not like someone else will go into Ivilish the next month but..." Smoer looked to Sam. "I'm fine with another adventure. We can rest after it, right?" Sam stooth also up and looked at Sven and Neocro. "What do you want to do?" "Well..." said Sven. "I want to train a bit. I'm not from alot use with my power at the moment." Lari rolled with her eyes. "You are just scared. Maybe I had to leave you in Saint City." Sven looked angry and hit Lari with his knuckle. Lari looked annoyed and lifted her sword. Neocro trew as fast as she could her yoyos to Lari. "Don't do that, you are way to strong for him. You'll kill him. Sam could stay here with Sven to train and I'll go with you and Smoer, if Sam doesn't mind." Sam tried to smile. "It's ok, go. I'll help Sven. I'll wait here till you come back out." A bit later, Smoer, Lari and Neocro left the hill to Fantasy Desert.

Sven killed monster after monster. Sam healed a bit without paying attention. "Why do you mind that bad that Neocro is gone?" Sam lifted her head. "Well... uhm... She was always near me since I became level 60 and... She was always near me to help me out." Sven put himself down near Sam. "Don't worry. I'm now near you and if someone touches you I'll kill him!" Sam shaked her head. "Help is diffrent than revange." Sven lifted his shoulders and ran again to the puppets. Sam stared to the sky. Sudden Sven didn't run anymore. "Sam... I can't run anymore!" Sam jumped up and tried to run to Sven but... She couldn't run either! When 2 blades appeared Sam and Sven looked to eachother with fear in their eyes. It were 2 boys. "What did Zirion say? They are really hard to catch and defeat? This 2 are even easyer as an aibatt!" The tallest boy laughed. "Watch out bro, maybe they are difficult. We didn't bring them to Zirion yet." Sam looked really angry after hearing Zirion his name and buffed herself. Then she took her knuckle and shield in her hands. "Come here, I won't let me capture that easy!" The tallest boy shaked his head. "You are standing fine there, we won't fight with you." The smallest boy poked the other one. "Scared to fight?" "Why don't you fight her? You are even scared to fight me." The smallest boy looked angry. "I don't want to fight you cause you are my brother." Then he took his swords and made a cross in the air. Lights surounded him. Then he walked to Sam. Sven looked to Sam. "Don't fight him! He's a blade!" Sam ignored Sven and stared to the blade. He standed in front of her. Sam wanted to run to him but was still not able to run. The blade pointed the swords to Sam and passes her with big speed. Sam her shield fell on the ground. With her free hand she pushed to her legg. The swords hit her very hard. Her legg was bleeding. Sam tried to ignore the pain and kicked the blade who was standing a bit closer as before now. The tallest boy laughed. Sam hit the blade again and again. His HP gots lower. "Hey, stop that!" said the tallest boy. "Narf, run away from her!" The smallest boy was so suprised from her dammage that he didn't move. Sam had to hit one more time, then he would die. But she did nothing. The boy looked scared to her. Then she trew her knuckle away. "I don't kill other players, only monsters." Then she fell down. Her legg hurted alot and drained the power out of her. Sven screamed. The reason why Sven and Sam couldn't move anymore had seem to be passed cause Sven ran to Sam. He ran to the blade an hit him with his fists. The tallest brother ran to the 3 and cought Sven. A breath of air passed. When he wanted to trow Sven on the ground a whire surrounded him. Sven fell softly on the ground and the blade was stucked in a... yoyo whire! Sven looked around and saw Neocro getting closer with a big speed. A fox followed her. She trew another yoyo around the other blade. Then she put herself down near Sam. "Sam?" Sam opened her eyes. "You... you came?" She smiled.

Sam sat on the ground and ate some food and drank refreshers to gain her powers back. The fox sat near Sam. Neocro stepped to the blades who were still stucked in the whires of the yoyo. "Why?" The boys stared to the ground. Sam hit the smallest boy pretty hard. The tallest boy answered. "We met a billposter named Zirion. He looked like he lost a battle. We asked him how that happened. He said some team did it without any reason. He said, if we would catch the team we would get a big reward." Neocro her eyes looked really angry. "Zirion is the one who attacks us without any reason! Ok there is a little reason but not big enough to kidnap Sven and put him in some dangerous dungeon to try to kill us. He also nearly killed one of our friends while she was flying." The tallest boy looked sad. "I'm so sorry... We didn't know." Neocro took back her whires and trew a bit food to the smallest boy. The boy looked thankfull. "I'm Deathspike, but call me Narf. This is my big brother Mindheadmass. I call him MrBored... I'm sorry too." Neocro turned around and walked to Sven who sat near Sam. "Everthing ok Sven?" "I don't think I'm ready yet to join you. I couldn't even help Sam." The blades came closer. "If you want, Sven, We can train you. I think we need to say sorry on some way so... And we are planning to go train again cause this idea to earn money was a really bad idea." Sven looked up to the blades. "Me? Training from 2 blades?" Neocro smiled. "Go with them, Sven. Then I can go with Sam to save our 2 friends." Sam looked surprised to Neocro. "How you mean, saving?" Neocro laughed. "I think I forgot to tell that Lari and Smoer were fighting when they got lost in Ivilish. I got crazy from them so I called Smoer her fox and came looking for you."

 

Chapter 10 - Iviliss Dungeon -

 Sam and Neocro waved to MrBored, Narf and Sven till they were gone. Then they step into Ivilish Dungeon. The fox followed. "Where did you leave Smoer and Larimar?" Neocro stared into the darkness. "I don't remember... But we'll find them." Sam looked in the direction where Neocro was staring. She saw something yellow moving. "Neocro...?" Neocro turned her yoyos around. "It's full of monsters here, walk behind me, the monsters aren't that strong." The yoyos of Neocro hit the yellow thing. "Graa!" Sam still didn't see the monster but she recognized the sound. "But... That's the sound of a Gigglebox!" "Yes." said Neocro. "But we call this an Ivilish Boxter and it is double that strong as a Gigglebox." With a last 'graa' the Boxter fell down. Then it dissapeared. All what was left is a little chest. Sam picked it up. "Grr bandage?" Neocro looked to the chest. "Ivilish is strange..." Sam walked further into the dungeon. "Stop!" screamed Neocro. Sam looked behind her. "What? You just killed that thing, nothing can happen." Sam got hit. Neocro jumped forward and trew her yoyos. A few seconds later a big Totemia lied on the ground in front of Sam. "Behind this Boxer, a Red Otem was hidden. Sam looked scared. "I guess I'll walk behind you..." Neocro giggled and walked into the darkness.

Neocro followed the left path when the path splitted. In the bend she slowed down. "Watch out, there is another Otem here. Stay here." Neocro disappeared in dark illusion. A bit later she was back. "I paralyzed him, follow me fast." Sam ran behind Neocro. Everywhere in the tunnel at the sided big debris from columns lied down. Carefully they walked trough the tunnel till they reached a big hall. "I don't remember wich side we chose here. Let's stay close to the wall. There are alot monsters here." While Neocro and Sam sneaked into the hall Smoer looked into the darkness. "This cave is darker as Mars mines..." Neocro nodded. "That's cause this cave is under the ground. Mars mines was in a hill." "You know alot." answered Sam. Neocro laughed. "If you ran all the time with Smoer here you would be as smart as me, her stories are very intresting." Sam smiled and looked again into the darkness. "I see alot big rocks there." "True," says Neocro. "That are ivilish crashers." Neocro looked thoughtful in front of her. "I see light, but I can't remember I saw that with Lari and Smoer." A dark shadow passed the lights. Neocro and Sam got closer. The light came from 2 torches who standed at the sides from a big stone. Neocro stared at the stone while Sam looked around her. The dark shadow that they saw wasn't here anymore. "Altar of Ivilish Guardian." read Neocro. Sam saw something on the ground. "Neocro look!" Neocro turned around while Sam kneeled on the ground. Neocro's eyes got big. A giant Luia tried to hit Sam. The Luia missed Sam cause she kneeled and hit Neocro instead. Neocro lied a while on the ground till she realised that she was still alive. How could she survive a hit of a Luia? Her HP didn't get any lower. Sam looked surprised to Neocro and the Luia. She buffed herselfs and then she trew her stick to Neocro. "If that Luia did that low dammage on you I would like to get him down before you do!" She picked her knuckle and shield and started to attack the Luia. Neocro looked confused to Sam who attacked the monster. After a few hits the Luia was already dead. Sam smiled. Then she took her stick again and picked something from the ground. "Look what I found before the Luia attacked you." In her hand a yellow ruby is shining. "Maybe we should show it to Smoer, she'll know what it is." said Neocro. Sam nodded. "Let's go!"

Sam and Neocro kept following the side of the hall. Sudden Neocro saw a Boxer near a hole in the wall. "Did we came out of this tunnel?" asked Sam. "No," said Neocro. "I don't think there was a Boxer when we entered this room." Neocro disappeared in dark illusion. He appeared again behind the Boxer and paralysed it. Sam passed fast the monster and ran behind Neocro who was alrdy walking into the tunnel. Neocro her eyes stared into the darkness, she didn't want to get surprised by a monster again. When the tunnel splitted, they choose left. Sudden Sam and Neocro heared voices. "Sneak that thing so I can come help you!" "Can't you help without sneaker? I can barely move!" "I can try but I'm scared it will attack me then." The voices continued. Sam laughed. She recognized Lari her voice. She ran out of the tunnel and reached another big room. Neocro wanted to stop Sam to warn her but she was already gone. "Lari!" shouted Sam. Sudden she standed in front of a big scorpion. She wanted to take her knuckle but before she had a chance to do that the scorpion was aready dead. Neocro standed behind her. "Watch out Sam, it's dangerous here!" "Neocro? Sam?" Smoer looked surprised to the 2 girls. She standed in front of a big monster that looked like a big blue Kern. "We found you!" shouted Neocro happy. "If you want to help, please?" Lari her voice sounded fuggy. Neocro and Sam walked to Smoer and then they saw the problem. One of the big feet of the Kern standed on Lari. "Lari tried to attack the monster but the monster saw her first." Smoer tried to not laugh. "If this thing is like the Guardian that we killed then it will die in a few seconds." Sam buffed Smoer and Neocro. Then the yoyos of Neocro flied to the Kern. The Kern lifted his giant head to Neocro and ran to him, on a Kern speed ofcourse. Neocro was a bit scared that he would hit hard but... After the first hit of the Kern she knew she didn't have to be scared. This Kern was as weak as the Luia. Sam ran to Lari who lied still on the ground. Sam sticked her arm out and Lari standed thankful up. "Maybe I'll need to be more careful." Sam laughed. "Well, this is how I know you and I don't have any problems with it." Smoer fired some of her magicballs to the Kern. A bit later the Kern was dead. Neocro picked another diamond of the ground. A blue one this time. "Now we have two!" "How you mean, two?" asked Lari. Sam and Neocro told their story about the ivilish Guardian. When the story is done Sam and Neocro looked to Smoer. "Do you know more about this?" Smoer took the two diamonds in her hands. "When I saw the Kern I had already a guess. But I didn't want to take the risk that this Ivilish Quaker, cause that's his name, could be a real Kern. But if I tought a bit better I would know that this couldn't be a Kern. Kern lives near lava cause that's what they are made of." Lari who felt already a bit better looked around. "...Where is Sven?" Neocro and Sam looked to eachother for a while then Sam started to talk. "When I was training with Sven we got attacked by two blades. Zirion sended them to punish us cause we were mean to him. Neocro came just at time to save us. We explained who Zirion was and then they felt guilty. Sven could go with them to train." Lari and Smoer looked surprised. Then Lari nodded. "Good, now Sven isn't here anymore we can make speed without paying attention to him." Smoer shaked her head. But didn't gave any comments. "Let's look for the third big monster so we can find the secret here. If everyone is agreed, ofcourse." Sam waved with her stick and buffed everyone. "Those last two monsters weren't that bad. The third can't be that strong either. Let's go for it!"

A bit later Smoer, Larimar, Sammz and Neocro ran again trough the tunnels of Ivilish Temple. "What is the third monsters?" asked Sam. "A greenmong." answered Smoer. "But a special one." The tunnel splitted. They heared alot noises in the left tunnel. The right one was quiet. "What one we take?" asked Neocro. Lari smiled. "The left one!" Sam shaked her head. "I would take the right one, looks more safe." "Neocro? Couldn't you go check it in dark illusion?" Neocro nodded and disappeared. Lari, Smoer and Sam put themselves down. "I wonder what will happen when we got the 3 diamonds." said Sam more to herself then to the others. Lari looked dreamy to the wall. "Money! A room full of gold will open!" Smoer laughed. "Keep dreaming Lari, I think we'll find a monster who is locked there cause it was that dangerous." "And I think we need to take the left tunnel." A voice sounded behind Smoer. Scared they looked to the place where the voice came from. Then Sam got up. "Neocro, you are still in Dark Illusion." "Oh, oops." Neocro appeared again. "The tunnel is full of Ivilish Otems. Then the tunnel splits again. The left came out in a room with an altar. The right came out in a room with a lake." Smoer nodded. "And with the lake we'll find the Greemong." Lari put her knighthelmet on her head and stooth up. "Let's go for it." Sam buffed everyone and herself, then she nodded that she was ready. Lari put her sword in the air. Neocro turned her yoyos around. Smoer waved with her wand. "Guys, don't touch me now." said Smoer. "I'll do dammage without doing something if you touch me now." The three nodded and stepped into the tunnel. The first Otem they saw was killed in a few seconds. "This is easy!" shouted Lari out loud. Smoer, Neocro and Lari killed all the Otems in no-time. When they ran out of the tunnel they saw the tunnel split. They followed the right tunnel. Soon they reached a big room. In the middle of the room they saw a small lake. Big monsters with stones on their back walked around. Behind it they saw big puppets and a huge greemong. "Watch out," said Smoer. "The big ones with stones on their back are Ivilish Thiefs and are strong." Lari lifted her shoulders and ran with her sword to one Thief. She hit powerfull with her sword on the Thief. The Thief lifted the stone from his back and hit Lari with it. Lari her HP got lower immediately. Sam ran to Lari and healed her as fast as she could. Neocro and Smoer attacked meanwhile the same Thief. A bit later the Thief was dead. "Wow..." whispered Lari. "That thing was strong!" Sam looked worried. "Let's kill another one!" shouted Lari. Neocro sighted. "You really can't stop doing dangerous stuff, can you? I'm curious when you'll die." Lari took Neocro with her shoulders. "I never die, Neocro. Heroes never die." She took her sword in her hands again and started to attack a new Thief. "Heroes never die..." repeated Neocro quiet. She moved her hand to her cloak and touched it. It's her Hero cloak that the Mayor of Saint City gave. Then she turned her yoyos around and helped Lari and Smoer killing the Thiefs. A bit later they are all killed.

The Greenmong slided a bit around near the lake. He was surrounded by puppets who stared around with their flint look in their eyes. Sam buffed herself and took her knuckle. She tried careful to kill one puppet. Smoer, Neocro and Lari standed at the side and watched Sam killing. After Sam killed one she walks to the three girls. "If someone of you wants to hit the puppets then I can kill them with Lari with our AoE skills. Neocro and Smoer hit together all puppets. Then Lari and Sam killed them. "That was a great idea." said Smoer after the puppets died. Then the four looked to the Greemong. "So... Who will attack first?" asked Neocro. Lari smiled and tried to run to the Greemong. Neocro trew her yoyos around her feet. "This time, we'll make a plan before you go attack it without any idea if you'll die or not." Lari smacked on the ground. "If Lari attacks it first. Then Neocro can trow her yoyos to makes it paralyzed. I'll trow as many Magic Balls as I can." Everyone agreed with Smoer her plan. Except Lari who tried to escape from the yoyos. A bit later Lari hit the Greemong in his belly. Neocro turned his yoyos around and trew them the Greemong. The Greemong got Paralyzed. Smoer pushed as many magic balls as she could to the Greemong. They fight a few minutes in silence. If the Greemong hit Lari then Sam healed. It didn't take long till the Greemong was dead. A diamond lied on the ground.

Smoer took the last diamond in her hands. "Come, let's take a look at the big secret from Ivilish." They left the room with the lake and ran into the tunnel where they came from. When the tunnel splitted they took the right tunnel. When they wanted to enter the room Neocro held them. "Look," said Neocro. "Here are a few Thiefs around." Smoer looked to the three diamonds in her hand and then to the Altar. "Neocro, run as fast as you can to the Altar and put them on it. I'll distract the Thiefs with Lari." She gave the diamonds to Neocro. Sam rebuffed everyone. Then Neocro disappeared. Lari and Smoer ran to the altar. Sam stayed at the entrance. With the altar Neocro appeared again. Lari and Smoer fighted against the Thiefs who tried to kill them. Sam heared Lari shouting really angry and she heared Smoer shouting that she had to shut up. She looked worried to the three. Then she heared Neocro screaming. Sam wanted to ask what is happening but everything got black in front of her eyes.

Sam opened her eyes. She lied on the ground. She saw torchers burning and heared a deep breath. She tried to get up. Lari, Smoer and Neocro lied around her. Sam looked scared and tried to ress them. "The skill doesn't work!" said Sam when nothing happened. Sudden Smoer got up. "It does work, it's just... We aren't dead." Now Sam saw that Neocro and Lari also opened their eyes. Neocro rubed her head. "Where are we?" They all got up and looked into the room. They were in a big room with torches at all walls. In the middle of the room they saw a big shadow. They heared that it was breathing. "I think it sleeps." said Neocro. He stepped slowly to the shadow. Smoer and Larimar followed. Sam too, but slow and careful. On a few meters in front of the shadow they stopped walking. The shadow was a giant Prankster. He was sleeping. There were chains at his leggs and arms. They were fixed at the sailing and the floor. "Great secret." said Lari disappointed. "A sleeping prankster..." Smoer shaked her head. "I read bout this..." Neocro looked curious to Smoer. "What did you read?" Smoer closed her eyes. "I'm not sure I really read about this thing but I know about this Prankster. It's a Prankster that got bigger and bigger and more powerful without any reason. Some Heroes put it away in a cave. Like I tought... I don't remember more about it at the moment. I need time to remember it again. Let's get out of here." Larimar put her helmet on. "No way! I want to kill it." She lifted her sword in the air. Neocro stepped backwards. "Don't do this, Lari. Let's wait till Smoer remembers more about this Prankster. You can't know how dangerous it is!" Lari growled but turned around and walked away from the monster.

The four girls sat against the wall of the room. They couldn't find any exit. "What now?" asked Sam. "Wait till Smoer knows more. But she sits there already for an half our with her eyes closed. I think she felt asleep." Lari played annoyed with her sword. Sudden she got up. "I'm sick of it. I go kill it." Before someone could stop her she ran to the prankster. Smoer opened her eyes. "Ivilish Prankster..." Neocro ran behind Lari who was meanwhile already with the Prankster. Larimar hit the Prankster with her sword. The monster stopped breathing. It opened his eyes. Neocro stopped running. Sam and Smoer got up and stared at the Prankster. The monster brulled to Lari. Lari stared with open mounth. The Prankster brulled again and the chaines broke. The monster lifted his arms and moved his arm with a piece of chain to Larimar. Lari stared and did nothing. Neocro trew er yoyos around the arm of the monster. Sam screamed. The arm missed Lari but the yoyos were stucked around the arm of the Prankster. Neocro got trowed away. She fell unconsciously on the ground. Lari closed her mounth. She shamed cause her fear but then she ran to the prankster who tried to hit Neocro again. She hit the prankster with alot power. The prankster turned around. Sam buffed Lari as fast as she could. Lari got trowed away cause the Prankster. Now the Prankster ran to Sam. Sam put her hands in front of her eyes and waited till she felt pain. The pain that she tought that would come... didn't come. She opened her eyes again. She seaw Smoer firing alot magic balls with big speed. "Heal Larimar, then heal me. Lari if you gained your powers back, run to Neocro and look if she's alright." Sam and Lari nodded. Sam healed and rebuffed Lari. Then she buffed Smoer and started to heal her. Lari ran to Neocro and dragged her away, away from the monster. "Neocro?" she looked for a second to Smoer and Sam. "Smoer, do I have to sneak it?" Smoer shaked her head. "No skill got effect on it. That's why Neocro her skill didn't work." Lari looked again to Neocro. She tried to give him some vital drinks. Sudden Neocro took the bottle and drank from it. "You are still alive!" screamed Larimar. "Sam, Smoer! Neocro is still alive!" "Ofcourse," answered Neocro. "Heroes never die." Lari laughed and hugged Neocro. "Time to fight Neocro, we can't let Smoer kill it alone!" Neocro smiled.

Sam buffed Neocro and continued to heal Smoer. "This time I ask the smartest person here. What's the best we can do, Smoer?" asked Larimar. Smoer sighted. "The best we could do was trying to find a way out without killing it. But now all you can do is take care that the Prankster hits you, and not me. Sam will heal you. Neocro should try to trow her yoyos around his legs, or hit his leggs so he'll fall down. If it falls on his back, Lari should pierce his heart with her sword. There is no other way that we can kill it." Lari and Neocro nodded. Lari hit the monster. The attention of the monster moved to Lari. Sam healed as fast as she could. Neocro turned her yoyos around and trew to it's leggs. Smoer ate some starcandy and drank some refreshers. Then she continued with firing magic balls. They fight with alot attention. Sudden the Prankster started to shake on it's leggs. The monster fell down. Sam and Lari jumped aside. The monster felt on his belly. Lari moaned. "Now I cant put my sword in its heart!" The monster didn't move but it was still alive. Sam looked to the head of the monster. "What if we turned it on his back?" "Great idea!" shouted Neocro. "Let's turn a giant Prankster on his back!" Smoer laughed. "Why not, good idea Sam." Neocro and Lari stared surprised. "Lari, put your sword at one side a bit under it. Neocro, drag that stone here and let Lari her sword lean on it." Lari and Neocro did what Smoer asked. When it was ready Smoer continued. "Now, push as hard as you can on your sword, Lari. Sam, Neocro and me will try to help with our hands." Lari pushed on her sword as hard as she could. Slowly the Prankster turned a bit. Neocro crept under it and pushed. A bit later Sam and Smoer helped too. The Prankster lied on his back, finaly. Lari climbed slowly on the Prankster. Right when she wanted to push the sword into his heart Sam started to scream. "His eyes! They move!" Lari looked scared to the Prankster but lifted her sword to push it in his heart. The Prankster tried to get up but Larimar was faster. Her sword stuck into his heart. With alot power Lari flied of the Prankster. Her sword was still in his heart. Surprised the four looked how the Prankster stooth on his leggs. It screamed and growled. Then it felt down and disappeared. A mountain of items is al what was left. The four jumped in eachother arms. "We did it!"

When Sam, Smoer, Lari and Neocro ran to the items they could sing from happyness. A historic wand, Historic big axe, a guardian stick, guardian yoyos, historic knuckle and two historic swords. They all agreed really fast that Lari got the big axe, Smoer the wand, Sam the stick, Neocro the yoyos. They would give the knuckle to Sven and they would sell the sword. After they took the items they saw a hole opening in the wall. It leaded back to the altar. Happy with their new items they ran out of ivilish, who wasn't that scary anymore as before. When they reached the entrance and saw the sun they ran as fast as they could outside. There, they found a really weird scene. A billposter sat on a bade and wanted to give the final hit. Shocked the four looked what would happen. The billposter looked up. "Sam! Smoer! Lari! Neocro!" "Sven?" called the four. The blade that lied on the ground stood up. "You are here!" MrBored ran to the four. "We trained Sven as we promised. And you can see that too." Surprised Neocro looked to Sven. The first small, annoying boy with the nervous sight was changed into a strong billposter. Larimar nodded unqualified. "So this is Mindheadmass and Deathspike where Sam talked about." The two blades stared to the ground. "We are sorry what we did. And please, call us MrBored and Narf." Sam laughed. "It's ok. I'm alright." "What did you do there inside?" asked Sven who looked jealously to the new weapons. "Alot!" answered Sam. "What if you joined our camp so we can spend the night together. Then you can tell us everything near the campfire." said MrBored. The four smiled with the idea that they could tell what happened.

A bit later it started to get dark. Sam, Smoer, Larimar, Neocropain, Sven, MrBored and Narf sat around the campfire. First Sam and Sven told bout what happened while they were training. Then Neocro told about how he got out of Ivilish and saved Sam. Then everyone listend with open mounth to the story of Smoer. Even Neocro, Sam and Larimar looked with open mounth even they were there with it. Smoer could tell wonderful. "When the Prankster was dead we were so happy. He left us alot treasures." She took the knuckle out of her bag and gave to Sven. "This is for you, Sven." Sven took the knuckle in his hands with proud. "And this..." she took the two swords. "I give them to you, MrBored and Narf. Cause you trained Sven." Lari, Neocro and Sam didn't mind that Smoer gave the swords to the two blades. The two blades smiled. They were happy that they found such good friends.

The seven around the campfire talked a bit more and went sleep. Taking a good rest for another adventure in Madrigal.

 

Chapter 11 - Hero in town

 The seven friends woke up late the next morning. They ate in silence from the food that they had left and walked back to Sain City. On their way they discussed what to do next. "Lets look for another dangerous cave to explore!" shouted Larimar. Smoer shook her head. "I want to learn and train first. I felt in Ivilish that I'm not as smart as I tought." Neocro played proudly with his new yoyos. "I want to train, getting stronger." Sam nodded. "That's what I want too." "You can go to Cendil Swamps. It's a bit further than where we trained Sven." said Narf. "What do you mean?" asked Larimar. "Are you going to leave us?" They entered Saint City. Sven disappeared immediately into the crowd, looking for his mother. Neocro followed him. "Me and Narf decided to go train in Deadwallderness. We heared that we can find monsters there with a lower level. We are going to train there for a while. It's a long way but we'll be alone." said MrBored. Lari made a sad face. "I hope you'll come back soon." "Of course!" shouted Narf. Sudden the crowd in Saint City started to get louder. Some people screamed. They all ran to one place, to the Mayor. The 4 walked to the Mayor. There, a boy and a girl were standing near the Mayor. A knight with bloody red armour and a Ringmaster with a golden suit. The knight had his long hair in a tail. You couldn't see his eyes because of his dark sunglasses. He was talking to the Mayor. The girl with the shiny golden suit stood behind the Knight and said nothing. Her face had no expression. In her hand she held a bloody red stick. Neocro and Sven stood near them. The 4 couldn't understand their conversation because the crowd kept screaming. When the conversation was over the Knight and the Ringmaster took a blinkwing and disappeared. The 4 ran to Neocro and Sven. "Who were that?" asked Larimar curious. "Don't you know?" asked Sven surprised. "A Hero and his assistant." answered Smoer. "SouleaterEl and the Unknown girl." Sven nodded. "The knight is my nephew." "A few years ago, when Sven was a little boy and SouleaterEl was your age, a Clockworks attacked our city." Continued the Mayor. "My brother, the dad of SouleaterEl, was a guardian of this city. He was a brave knight and attacked the Clockworks. He made sure that the Clockworks left the city and a heavy fight followed outside of the city. The Clockworks was getting weaker and weaker but when he was nearly dead he killed SouleaterEl's dad. SouleaterEl, who was looking at the fight from out of the hills got blinded by grief and anger. He ran down from the hills to the dead body of his dad. He took the bloody sword of his dad and killed the Clockworks. Since that day I took care of him. Real Guardians never die. If they die they quit. That's how they are and allways will be. Because of the sadness of SouleaterEl he left the city almost all the time with the equipment of his dad. He went training in places that no one knows and got to Master in a fast time. A bit later he was Hero. When he came back after he had become a Hero, there was a girl with him. She never talks more than necessary. No one knows who she is and Souleater doesn't talk about her." "Woaw!" said Larimar quiet. "Why did he never help Sven with training?" asked Narf. Sven lifted his shoulders. "He almost never talked. I was scared of him. Not anymore, but he's busy with tasks of a true Hero and Guardian." Sven's mother looked to the group. "Who made out of my little boy, a strong boy?" The 2 blades looked surprised. "Your boy?" Sven laughed. "My mother is the Mayor of Sain City!" The Mayor held 2 cloaks in her hand. "Those are yours now."

 

Chapter 12 - Infinty and infinity

 The 7 left Saint City after shopping. They took a blinkwing to Darken and left the city for Darkon 3. They jumped on their boards and flew slowly trough the labyrint of hills and plants. Suddenly, the sandground disappeared and a swamp took its place. They had reached Cendil. A big gate appeared. They landed. "I think we have to say good-bye here." said MrBored. They were all quiet. "It was fun with you." said Lari. They gave eachother hugs, then MrBored and Narf disappeared trough the gate. "What are we going to do now?" asked Neocro. "We need to go to the east." said Smoer "There are Mushpoie and Irens hidden in the swamp. We can train there." They jumped on their boards and followed Smoer to the east. Huge mushrooms appeared. The air was moist but warm. They landed on one of the mushrooms. "I recognize this place." said Sam. "You should." said Lari. "The Ringmaster Altar is here." "Something is wrong..." said Smoer quiet, she looked down. "There is alot fog, but it isn't supposed to be here." Now the other looked down too. The swamp that they normally would see wasn't there. All they could see was an infinite fog.

"Stay here" commanded Smoer as she jumped off the mushroom. Neocro, Sam, Sven and Lari looked down. They worried a bit. Smoer disappeared into the fog. It took a while before they saw anything changing in the fog. A lightning bolt flew out of the fog and hit something on another place in the fog. Stones flew from that place back to where the lightning came from. Waterpulses, firesweeps, stones, ligtnings and wind flew from the one to the other place. The fog got pushed away. Suddenly the 4 on the mushroom saw what was happening. Lari jumped down. "Stop!" The attacks stopped. Smoer kept her wand ready to attack, her shield in front of her. Then she saw who she was fighting with. She left her wand hanging. A bit further from her a boy was standing. He wore a blue snowman suit, gloves and shoes. "I'm... sorry..." murmeled Smoer. The boy had a staff in his hand and looked proud. "I tought y-you..." The boy laughed and walked to Smoer. "It's ok, as long you don't do this again. I tought an invasion started." Smoer blushed. Neocro, Sam and Sven jumped down and walked to Smoer, Lari and the boy. "Seems like you are with a few friends here. Nice cloaks." Sven lifted his head. Proud that the cloaks were from his mom. "I'm Infinty, but you can call me David. I'm an elementor. You?" "Ps-psykeeper Smoer." murmeled Smoer. "And th-this are my fr-friends..." Lari pushed Smoer away. "What's wrong with you?" laughed Lari and she moved her hand towards David. "Larimar, Knight. That there," she pointed at Sam. "is Sammz, Ringmaster." "I'm Neocro, Jester." continued Neocro. "And I'm Sven, Billposter and son of the Mayor of Sain City." David looked attentivly at the 5 young heroes. "I was plvling a Billposter here, using my windfield. That's why there was alot of fog. He hid himself when Smoer... Well yeah." He looked around. "Zirion, where are you hiding?" Smoer, Sam, Sven, Neocro and Larimar almost screamed it out. "Zirion?" "Yes," answered David. "Do you know him?" "We do..." said Sven. "Maybe it's better he doesn't show up, because I might kill him." "I hope he will show up cause he promised me money." answered David surprised. "I think you can forget that money." said Lari and she pointed at the sky. Zirion was flying away on his board.

David chatted with Smoer on a mushroom while Sven trained with Neocro. Sam was training with Larimar. "So you met Zirion before?" "Yes," sighed Smoer. "I wanted to help him but after that, he wasn't very nice, so Neocro stunned him before we left." David laughed. "You almost never see such a big group together. Why are you together?' Smoer stared to the sky and started to talk about their adventures. "And when we were in Mars mines, Neocro became a Jester in a dream after he proved his courage." David mumbled admiring. "When we were in Ivilish I found out I wasn't that smart as I tought I was. I couldn't remember things that I tought I should remember... Still, I'm not sure where I remembered it from." David put his hand on Smoer's shoulder. "You are wise, you are smart. I feel that. Your stories make me feel like I was there. And you have great friends." Smoer sighed. "Don't worry that much, you're young." Smoer blushed. Then she took a look at David who were looking at the training pairs. He said she was young... but he didn't look that old either. She shook her head and stared at her training friends. Neocro and Sven both helped killing the same monster. That made their killingspeed faster. Lari did AoE and Sam healed as fast as she could. It's true... she had great friends.

 

Chapter 13 - Behind the game -

 Smoer sighted and streched her leggs. She looked at the clock on the bottom of her screen. "00:46" She was hungry. How long was she already playing this game today? To long probably. Her hands flied over her keyboard. "Brb." Appeared on her screen. She pressed enter. She got up and sneaked out of her room. As quiet as she could she sneaked off the stairs and opened the kitchendoor. In the dark she tried to find the right cabinet. Smoer opened a cabinet door and took a sac of chips out of it. Then she sneaked again on the stairs. Her little sister was waiting on the highest step of the stairs. Smoer looked suprised to her little sister. "What are you doing here Magali?" "I couldn't sleep and I heared you." said her little sister. Smoer sighted and took the hand of her sister. "Come a bit in my room till you can sleep." Happy she followed her sister to her room. When they entered, her little eyes stared to the computerscreen. "What is that?" Smoer put herself down again in front of the computer and took her sister on her lap. "That is a game." She typed fast some words. "Back, with my little sister, she can't sleep." "Welcome back!" said David who sat still near Smoer her character. Magali looked careful to the characters on the screen. "I didn't know you had a sister." said Neocro while killing a Mushpoie. "Now you do!" said Smoer. "Her name is Magali." "Nice name." said Sam who was rebuffing Larimar. Smoer tickled her sister. "They like your name." Magali smiled proud. "Who are they?" Smoer pointed at Sam. "This is Sammz, she likes to help people and she makes us stronger with her magic." Then she pointed to Larimar. "That's Larimar, she is really brave." Thereafter she pointed to Neocro and Sven. "This is Neocro, she is really... attentionful. And then Sven. First he was a little annoying boy but now he's strong and brave." Magali had listened really good to Smoer. "You forgot two people." Her finger pointed to David and Smoer. "That boy is David. He's really wise and proud. The girl is... She can tell beautiful stories." Magali yawned. Smoer took Magali in her arms and put her in her bed. She put a blanket over Magali and put herself down behind the computer again. Again one with the game.

 

Chapter 14 - Laola -

 "It is getting dark." said Larimar who walked to David and Smoer. "I think it's time to find a safe place to sleep." Smoer nodded. "Good idea." Sam, Neocro and Sven walked to the others. "Where can we sleep?" Everyone looked to David. David looked to the 5 friends. "I sleep at the moment in a little house near the forest of Darkon 3. It is the house of Laola. I'll ask if you can sleep there too." The 5 nodded. "We'll walk." said David and he got up. Sam gave everyone quikstep. They walked slow trough the swamp and reached the gate that leaded to the forest of Darkon 3, here they said good-bye to MrBored and Narf. David walked trough the gate. The swampground changed into a soft forestground where the trees trew big dark shadows on. The sun was getting lower. They entered the forest. "Twilight." said David. Smoer looked to David. "What?" "Twilight," said David. "That's how we call it when sun is almost gone." "Oh..." said Smoer. Sudden they saw a little house on the foot of a big tree. The house seemed to give light. "There it is." said David. He knocked on the door of the little house. The house was pretty small but it looked strong. A little, old woman opened the door. She weared pink clothes what was very unusual with old women. "Oh, hi David." said the woman. "I see you brought some friends." David nodded once. "They train on the same place where I trained today. I met them on a really confrontational way." David winked to Smoer. "But, they search a place to stay for the night." The woman stared trough the doorway to the 5 friends. Her look felt as heat over their body. The cold that they cought cause walking trough the swamp was suddenly gone. "As long you don't mind, David, that they sleep in the same place as you do." David smiled. "No problem!"

A bit later they all lied down upstairs on the attic. "That was a warm welcome." said Sam. "Literally." Shuddered Neocro. "I don't know if I like her..." said Larimar. David laughed bright. "You like nothing that doesn't link to physically power." Lari looked angry to David. "Explain a bit please, David." said Neocro curious. "She looks really old and not strong, physically. But her mind is youngh and full of power." Smoer coughed. "She is a Hamba." "A what?" asked Lari. David talked before Smoer could talk. "I guess it's time to sleep guys. It's already late." A bit later everyone was in dreamland.

The friends stayed a few days training. During the day they trained 2 by 2. Larimar with Sam, Sven with Neocro and Smoer with David. When it started to get dark, they walked to the little house of Laola. There they could find a good nightrest. Lari still didn't feel ok with Laola but she was already happy that she could sleep on a safe place. One evening they sat in front of Laola her little house around a campfire, talking bout random objects. Sudden David asked the attention. "I... leave tomorow." Everyone was quiet. "Why?" asked Lari. David scratched his skin. "I go to the city for a while. Normal stuff... Selling items, buying items and hoping to find some old friends." Lari nodded. "Then I go too. It's not that I don't like the life what we got now but I miss MrBored and Narf..." "And you don't like Laola." giggled Neocro. The others laughed too. "I'm going with you then." said Sam. "I promised you to go on adventure with you so I follow you where ever you go. Last time I didn't followed you is not one of my favorite memories." Lari smiled then she looked to Sven and Neocro. "What about you?" Sven stared to the fire. "I want to visit my mom for 1 day and then I want to search Irens and train there, I like training here." "Sounds ok." answered Neocro. "I go with you cause atleast someone needs to watch you." Sven glared at Neocro. Then everyone looked to Smoer. Smoer didn't know what to say. "Err... I don't like that we split..." Lari lifted her shoulders. We are all diffrent, it's obvious that we can't stay together for ever." Smoer nodded. "That's right... Well... Who can I go with?" "With me!" shouted everyone. Smoer laughed. "Why then?" "Without you," laughed Lari. "I'm scared to lose the right path in deadwalderness." "I like to have you with me." Continued Neocro. "I love your stories, you learn me alot." Sven and Sam nodded. Then Smoer looked to David. "And you?" David lifted his shoulders and put himself on his back. His eyes stared to the stars. He was quiet. "I guess whe should go sleep," said Smoer. "I'll decide tomorow what I will do."

That night Smoer couldn't sleep. She couldn't decide what to do. She listened to the breathing of her friends. Smoer wanted that she could go with all of them. Sudden David moved to Smoer. "Do you know why I want you to come with me?" Whispered David. "No..." Whispered Smoer back. "I love beeing with you." said David quiet. Smoer was happy that it was that dark so David couldn't see she was blushing from head to toes. They felt asleep near eachother.

The next day Smoer logged in. She was standing in the attic. The others seemed to be not online yet. She stepped off the stairs. When she came downstairs she saw Laola sitting at a small table. She was reading a book. She looked up from her book and stared to Smoer. "Hi Smoer." said Laola. "Hi..." said Smoer back, a bit shy. This was the first time that she was alone with Laola. Loala pointed at the chair in front of her. Smoer hesistated but walked to the chair and puted herself down. For a moment none of the two talked. Then Loala talked. "It's always difficult to make choises. Specialy when you have to choose between friendship, love and concern." Smoer stared to the table. "No one is going to help with your choise, Smoer." Continued Laola. "Ask to yourself what you want, not who you want." Smoer stared asking to Laola. "I want to learn, to be smarter." said Smoer. Laola put her book away and took Smoer her hands. The touches felt good to Smoer, she closed her eyes. Sudden a voice in her head appeared, the voice of Laola... "I know that you know what I am. You should also know that this supposes to be a secret. If you want, stay here. I'll teach you every day about things that I know but... not to much." "Why not?" tought Smoer. "Knowing to much can hurt you and destroy your soul. I would like to teach you things like I teached David." Smoer opened her eyes. "I would like that." Said Smoer happy. Laola looked surprised to Smoer. "Where are you talking about?" Smoer and Laola laughed. At that moment David came downstairs. He greeted Laola friendly and opened the front door. He looked to Smoer. Laola winked to Smoer. Smoer got up and walked with David outside. "You are to early." said David. They walked trough the fresh grass. Smoer lifted her shoulders. "Maybe." David looked into Smoer her eyes. "How comes?" Smoer looked to the ground. She ignored the question of David. He didn't had to know, not yet. They put themselves down and started to talk bout other things. A bit later Sven and Neocro came outside, followed by Sam. At last Larimar came outside. When they were finished bout talking bout their day, Larimar came with the big question. "And, what did you decide Smoer?" Smoer looked to all her friends, and to David. She smiled. Everyone was quiet. "I decided to stay here." said Smoer. Everyone looked surprised, except David. "Laola will teach me. During day I'll study here and when it's evening I can tell stories to Sven and Neocro. In that way I get smarter and I will keep an eye on Sven. It's the best I can do." Everyone was agreed with Smoer her choise.

Smoer was standing in front of Loala's house. David came outside with a big bag full of items that he found. "It's not good." said Smoer. "What?" asked David. Smoer looked to Sam and Neocro. "That..." They sat near eachother in the grass. Sam looked sad and Neocro tried to cheer her up. "They aren't supposed to be seprated." David smiled. "Don't worry that much, Smoer." Neocro got up and pulled Sam on her feet. They hugged. Then Sam walked into the house for getting her stuff. Neocro walked to Smoer and David. She sighted. "I hope we'll be back together soon." A bit later Sam and Larimar flied away. Sven and Neocro took a blinkwing to Saint Morning. "Well... I'm going too..." said David. "Yes," said Smoer. "Bye David." "Bye Smoer." said David and he took a blinkwing. Right before he disappeared he gave Smoer a kiss on her cheek. Smoer stared to the place where David standed 1 second ago. "Bye David..." She stared to the flowers and the green grass around the house. Then she shaked her head and entered the house.

 

Chapter 15 - When the group splits -

 Laola looked to Smoer. 'Let's start...' Smoer felt not alright with only her in this room, like she was really small and Laola really big. But Smoer didn't want to leave. 'What do you know about me, Smoer?' said Laola sudden. Smoer hesistated. 'You are a Hamba.' Laola nodded. 'Continue please.' 'Hambas are a kind of halfgods. They were born in Madrigal and their life in Madrigal is a big test. Their body gets really old but their mind stays youngh. Their brain absorbs every kind of information that they can get. When their bodies die... and their spirit is ready, they can start their job as Hamba...' Laola nodded again. 'Everything you said you can read on the first page of this book.' Laola got up and took a book. She puted the book in front of Smoer. Smoer hesistated. 'I know this book...' 'Where did you read it?' asked Laola. Smoer shaked her head. 'I... I don't know...' 'Like I tought.' answered Laola. She smiled. 'Today you start to read this book.' 'Why?' asked Smoer. Laola didn't answer but walked outside. 'Read, I come back soon.'

Sam flied behind Lari. They were still passing high trees. They flied to a direction where Sam never been before. A bit later they left the trees behind them and flied over a kind of swamp. Monsters that she never saw before were swimming in the water. They flied over the swamp and flied over green grass now. Darkon 3 was beautiful, that was sure. High mountains showed up. There was a path between 2 mountains. Sam sighted when she saw that Lari wanted to enter that path. While flying trough the 2 mountains, the grass disappeared and only dry sand was left. Lari flied slower so Sam could fly next to her. 'We have to find MrBored and Narf here somewhere...' 'Are you sure?' asked Sam. She looked around. All she could see was sand, sand and sand. Lari started to fly faster.'Yes.'

When it started to get dark, Sven and Neocro came back from Saint Morning. They entered Laola her house. Smoer was sitting in a chair, still reading. 'Smoer!' Smoer looked up. 'Neocro! Sven!' They hugged. 'Something new in Saint City?' Sven shaked his head. 'Mom said everything was fine. When we were enjoying the sight from out of the top if Saint Hall some man entered. He said there was a clockworks spotted in Darkon 3, deadwalderness. But we are far from there and SouleaterEl with a friend are sended to kill it. Smoer jumped out of her chair. 'Guys... Sam and Larimar are there!'

Sam woke up. The wind was blowing around her. She slept with Lari against a hill. She wished she stayed with Laola but... that was to late. She climbed op the small hill and looked around. She could see nothing, once again. Only sand and sand. Sudden something took her attention. Something moved there far away. Sam jumped off the hill and poked Lari. 'Lari! Wake up!' Lari opened her eyes. 'Let me sleep a bit more, please?' Sam poked again. 'I saw something! Maybe it's Day and Night!' Lari lifted her head. 'Are you sure?' Sam nodded and then shaked her head. 'I'm sure I saw something, I'm not sure that it was Day and Night.' Lari standed up. 'Let's check it out.' She took her sword and climbed up the hill. Now she saw something too. Far away something huge was moving, they heared screaming voices. Sam and Lari jumped on their board and flied to the place. When they got closed they flied slower. What they saw... was a huge clockworks...

Smoer sat in front of Laola her house. She tried to free her mind. She wanted to know if Lari and Sam were fine. Neocro came outside. 'Smoer?' Smoer looked up. 'Stop worrying Smoer, SouleaterEl is there. They won't get killed.' Smoer tried to smile.

'Lari!' screamed Sam. 'We have to get out of here!' Lari didn't listen. She saw MrBored and Narf near the clockworks. She remembered the story of Souleater. 'Souleater killed it, so why couldn't we?' Sam almost got out of breath. 'Are you getting crazy? We are not that strong Lari. We barely couldn't handle the Prankster.' Lari ignored Sam and flied to MrBored and Narf. Sam followed. They landed near them. Then they saw what happened.

David landed in front of Laola her house. Smoer standed up. 'And?' David walked to the frontdoor. 'Don't worry, I met Souleater and his friend. They'll catch the clockworks as fast as they can.' He entered the house and Smoer puted herself down again.

Narf was lieing dead on the ground. Sam kneeled near him. "W-what happened?" Sam tried to ressurect him. 'Stop trying Sam...' Sam looked up. MrBored was staring to the clockworks. 'He quits.' Sam tried to ressurect again. 'No!' Lari was standing near MrBored. She also stared to the clockworks. Two knights were fighting the clockworks. 'It's SouleaterEl...' murmeled Lari. 'Yes... and Toro...' Lari looked to Day. 'Who is Toro?' 'A friend of Souleater, not a Hero yet but he's a Master. He's almost as strong as SouleaterEl. If Souleater is planning to do dangerous stuff, Toro joins him.' Lari looked behind her. Sam sat near Narf. 'What happened here?' asked Lari. MrBored sighted. 'We had a few good trainingdays. Everything went fine till...' She puted herself down. 'Till one night we woke up. It was the clockworks. He reached our camp. I sended as fast as I could a message to Saint City to warn that there was a clockworks. I told Narf that we could better run away. Night didn't get that it was a serious thing. He asked if I was to scared to fight the clockworks. I said we would die but he didn't listen. Right when he wanted to run to the clockworks, someone sneaked him. We looked behind us and there were 2 knights and a Ringmaster. Souleater, the Unknown girl and Toro. They heared from the clockworks before we saw it. Narf was angry and when Souleater passed him, he attacked Souleater. His friend, Toro, lifted his sword and killed Narf. Then they started to attack the clockworks.' Lari was still staring to the clockworks. Then she puted herself also down and tried to find something to say. 'I-I'm sorry...' said Larimar. MrBored shaked his head. 'It's his own stupid fault.' Sam puted herself also down near MrBored and watched to the fight of the two knights. It looked from here really easy to handle the clockworks but they all knew better. After 20 minutes, the clockworks was killed.

Souleater, the Unknown girl and Toro walked to MrBored, Night, Sam and Lari. Sam and Lari got up. Toro trew his axe on the ground and looked to Narf. He nodded his head. 'What did he think he wanted to do?' MrBored murmeled. 'I-I tried to stop him...' 'Ressurect him.' commanded Toro to Sam. 'I tried already...' said Sam. 'He doesn't accept.' 'He quits.' said MrBored. Toro smiled. 'Better he does, trying to attack a clockworks on your own... You must be stupid.' Lari blushed and looked to the ground. 'Why couldn't he, Souleater did it too!' shouted Lari. Toro laughed. 'So, another to brave boy here.' Lari trew her helmet off. 'I'm a girl!' Souleater spoke for the first time. 'I did attack the clockworks on my own. But it was stupid. The hate for the clockworks cause he killed my dad was so big that it blinded me. Hate destroys you, little girl.' 'Maybe...' answered Lari, glaring cause he called her little. 'But you did it, you killed it. On your own!' Souleater smiled too now. 'It was almost dead... Besided, the sword of my dad is legendary good. With a normal sword I wouldn't have killed it. And also, when my dad was on dangerous missions I was always with him. I knew what I had to do cause I watched to my dad so many times. The only thing I forgot was that I was to young.' Toro picked his axe from the ground and stretched. 'You'd better go away from here, train in safety places. This place is not fine for you.' Souleater lookedd to Lari. 'Aren't you that girl that took care of my little cousin, Sven?' Lari nodded. 'We... did it.' She pointed at Sam. 'I heared you would watch him, then why isn't he here with you?' Sam answered befor Lari could. 'Smoer and Neocro take care of him now. We came to Deadwalderness to search our friends, MrBored and Narf. I'm sure that Sven is fine.' Souleater smiled. Suddenly Narf disappeared, his Historic sword was all what was left of him. MrBored started to cry. Sam hugged MrBored. 'Where are you going now?' asked Toro. "Back to Laola, our other friends are there." "I go with you." said Toro. "Oh gross.. A nanny." answered Lari. Souleater laughed. "Take care guys. I'm out of here." He took a blinkwing with the Ringmaster and disappeared. Lari, Sam, MrBored and Toro took their boards and left Deadwalderness.

 

Chapter 16 - Arrow out of the sky -

 They flew the same way back as Sam and Lari took to Deadwalderness. After flying over the path between the 2 mountains that split the swamps from Deadwalderness they flew over the swamps. The forest got closer fast. Toro started to fly lower and slower. The others followed him. They flew over the soft forestground now. Around them the big trees appeared. Suddenly an arrow pierced the sky. The arrow hit Toro in his back. "@#°x&è!" shouted Toro. The others looked surprised, his red suit didn't let the arrow trough. "Land on the ground, now!" shouted Toro angrily. They all slowed down and jumped of their boards. Afraid of getting hit by another arrow, the 3 looked around. Where did that arrow come from? Toro kept mumbling curses. Even Lari was to scared to ask what was wrong. Another arrow pierced the air. It flew towards Toro again and got stuck in his helmet . Toro pulled the arrow out of his helmet and broke it. "It's enough now, Foloya!" shouted Toro. "Get down, now!" They heared a giggling voice coming out of the tops of the trees. Someone jumped out of a tree and disappeared. Toro's face began to get red, red like his armour. "Stand back kids." said Toro and pushed Sam, Lari and Bored a bit away. Suprised the 3 stared at Toro when he pushed his axe on the ground. An AoE circle like Larimar used while aoeing appeared. "That hurts, Toro." said a voice. A girl in green appeared. She stood in front of Toro. The 3 came closer. "Hi Toro." said the girl and started to laugh. Sam changed her toughts about seeing the weirdest girl ever. The one she saw in Flaris with the small army was definitely not any weirder than this girl. Toro lifted the girl in the air with 1 arm. Her bow fell to the ground. "I told you to quit doing this when I pass!" shouted Toro. The girl poked Toro's nose. "You were on my domain!" "This is not your domain." said Toro angrily. He let the girl go. She picked up her bow and stared at the 3 behind Toro. "Oh, you got tiny little friends with you." Larimar glared at the girl. "Playing nanny again?" asked the girl. Sam tought Toro would PK her now but he did nothing. "I swear, one day I'll kill you Foloya." She giggled. "I'll wait, big guy." She walked to Lari, Sam and Bored. "Who are you and why are you with such a mean boy? I feel sorry for you..." The 3 said nothing after seeing the angry face of Toro. Foloya turned back to Toro when she saw the scared faces of Sam, Lari and Bored. "Where are you going?" asked Foloya. "To Laola." answered Toro. "And we go now." He jumped on his board and commanded the 3 to do the same. "I go with you." said Foloya. "I'm going to tell Laola how mean you are to me." She smiled. Toro wanted to throw his axe at Foloya but shook his head and flied away. Sam, Lari and MrBored followed. Foloya flew circles around Toro.

moer woke up from someone calling her name. She opened her eyes. David was kneeling in front of her. She fell asleep while waiting on news out of Deadwalderness. "Smoer?" asked David. Smoer yawned. "Yes, I'm awake. Are there any news?" David took her hand and pulled her up on her leggs. "Come!" Smoer followed David to a hill. She stared in the direction David pointed. 5 people on boards came closer. When they came closer Smoer could see that it were her friends. Smoer jumped and waved. "You are alive!"
The 5 landed in front of Laola's the little house. Smoer ran off the hill followed by David. She gave Sam a hug. "Sam, Lari, MrBored, are you all right?" They nodded slowly. "What's wrong?" asked Smoer after seeing the sad faces. Then she saw who was missing at the side of MrBored. "Where is Narf?" MrBored lifted his shoulders and put himself down with his back against the house. Sam ran to him and put an arm around MrBored. Lari pushed her sword in the ground and entered the house. Smoer didn't know what to think or do. David put his hand on her shoulder and looked to Toro who tried to keep his helmet on. Foloya was trying to pull his helmet off to use as a football. "What happened, Toro?" Toro pushed Foloya aside and walked to David and Smoer. "Is Laola here?" "Yes..." answered David. "Do I need to get her?" Toro nodded and pushed Foloya away, again. David and Smoer walked into the little house while Foloya looked angrily at Toro. "If Laola comes outside I'll tell her how mean you are to me." Toro sighed. A bit later Laola came outside with Smoer, David and Lari. Laola walked to Toro while David, Smoer and Lari sat down near Sam and MrBored. Lari had taken off her knight suit and wore a vagrant suit. She sighed. "I never knew becoming a Hero would be with such pain. Physical pain is ok but losing a friend is not fun." "Where is Narf?" asked Smoer. Sam wanted to answer but MrBored started to talk about what happened. After the story ended, Smoer sighed. "It was not such a smart choice he did... But... It's not a good reason to quit." MrBored sighed. "I'll stay with you now, if I can. I don't want to go on adventures alone." Sam smiled. "It's ok, stay with us." MrBored tried to smile. They looked at Toro and Laola who were talking. They saw Laola nodding and she wanted to turn back to her house but Foloya held her. "Laola can I talk to you?" "What's wrong, Foloya?" answered Laola. "It's nothing that serious but Toro isn't nice to me anymore." Laola smiled. "Foloya, are you nice to him?" Toro pulled Foloya away from Laola. "Sorry for disturbing you with such unimportant stuff, Laola." said Toro. Foloya wanted to talk again but Toro put his hand on her mouth. Laola smiled again and entered her house.

 

Chapter 17 - Message for Toro -

Days passed. Toro stayed also near the house from Laola now with Foloya. Foloya was pretty friendly if she wasn't annoying Toro. Smoer and David studied with Laola during the day. Sven, Neocro, Lari, Sam and MrBored trained with Foloya in the swamps of Celindir and in the forest. Toro stayed near them. They trained on Irens and Watangkas. Sometimes they attacked a moving tree. "It's not a tree." said Smoer. "It's a Antiquery." "What ever." said Sven. They sat like every evening around a campfire near Laola her house. Toro coughed. "Um kids, tomorow I'll leave you." "Why?" asked the others. They started to like the knight. It felt safe when you had a strong knight close to you. "I recived a message today, there are problems in Dekane Mines. I go take a look cause Souleater is to busy." "What are Dekane Mines?" asked Neocro. Smoer started to talk. "Dekane mines lie under a big part of Darkon 2. Keakoon workers are digging eron crystals there. They work almost every day and night. Great evil awakened there cause the Keakoons digged deeper and deeper. Sometimes heroes train on monsters in the mines cause they give great experience. Some young heroes who enter never return though." "Woaw!" said Lari. "Can I go with you Toro?" asked Lari. Toro answered fast. "No way." Lari looked sad. "Come on, please!" Toro shaked his head. "It's dangerous there." "Only the first and last part, Toro." said David. Toro looked angrly to David. "The monsters in the middle are good for training on." continued David, ignoring Toro. "If you go with him, I go too." Toro didn't answer. "If Toro doesn't mind, we can join him, right?" asked MrBored. "I want to leave here for a while. Everytime I look to the south I feel the pain of losing my brother. I want to do something that keeps my mind busy." Toro still didn't answer. "Sounds like a nice adventure." said Neocro. "It's not..." said Toro quiet. Lari jumped up. "So, is everyone agreed that we go with Toro to Dekane Mines?" "I'll follow you Lari, where ever you go." said Sam. Lari smiled with the idea of a new dangerous adventure. Toro sighted. "Ok, fine. Are you going too Foloya?" asked Toro. Foloya shaked her head. "It was fun training with you but I prefere to stay in the forest." Toro was relieved now he knew Foloya wouldn't join. He got up. "Then it's sleeptime for all who wants to come with me. But remember, you will stay in the middle of the Mines. Only I am going to the end." Lari shaked her head but all the others nodded.

The next morning started with bright sunlight. Smoer got up really early and was reading a book about Dekane mines in front of the house. David sat near her and enjoyed the first sunrays of the day. A bit later Toro came outside. "Morning." said Toro. David lifted his head to Toro but Smoer didn't react. She was to busy reading. "Good morning noble knight." said David. Toro tried to smile. "Are you sure you want to go with me?" David smiled. "Ofcourse we are. Besides, you can use a bit help, can't you?" Toro put himself down and ate some bread. "I don't need help, I'm strong enough." David shaked his head but said nothing. "So, what kind of problem is there in Dekane?" Toro lifted his shoulders. "It was a weird message, I don't really get it but Souleater is to busy. I want to solve the problem before Souleater gets troubles with it. He's busy enough and he can use some rest too." David stared to the bright sky. "Are you sure it's not a false message?" Toro was quiet for a bit but then he answered. "It can be, Hamba David, but it's time for me to leave this place anyway. I'm not made to take a rest. I have to help Madrigal." David looked shocked to Toro. Toro called him a Hamba. Smoer lifted her head. She looked to Toro. "Did you say the word Hamba?" Toro looked to David who looked really angry to him. "I said that Hambas are weird creatures, but really smart." Smoer looked to David who looked relieved and continued reading. "Don't talk about things where you don't know about, Toro." said David. Toro smiled and got up. "I'm not as smart as you, but I know enough." He walked into the house to wake the others.

A bit later everyone was sitting outside. Sven, Neocro and MrBored had big sleepy eyes cause they talked a big part of the night about Dekane. They were exited to go. Lari ran around while waving her big sword in the air. "When do we leave?" asked Lari every 5 minutes. Toro sighted. "Let me talk to Laola and then we'll leave." Lari jumped on the ground. "Don't talk to long, please!" Toro entered the house and saw Laola in the kitchen. Toro walked to her and wanted to say something. Laola was faster. "Stop worrying." Toro sighted and put himself down on a chair. "They survived Mars Mines and Ivillish. What do you want more? Don't forget you also got 2 really smart youngh heroes with you." Toro drummed with his fingers on table. "Dekane is harder as iviliss and Mars Mines together." "True." said Laola. She turned around and watched to Toro. "But they are stronger too, they trained really hard. Each of them gained more experience as you think they did." Toro watched asking. "They made fun, they didn't train. Most of time they were singing or laughing. It didn't look like they were training serious." Laola smiled. "They trained really hard, Toro, but they made fun at the same time. That's why it doesn't look that they trained hard. Trust me, they got great power. Go to Darken, before you leave to Dekane, and help them buying new armour." Toro nodded and got up from his chair. He wanted to leave the house but he wanted to ask one more thing. "Will... Will this help me to proove that I'm a true Hero?" Laola looked out of the window. "I'm sure of that, Toro. Everything what you do will help you to proove the Gods that you are worth it." Toro smiled relieved. Laola picked up the pot filled with a weird colour water and gave it to Toro. "Take this outside please."

Laola and Toro walked outside. Toro put the pot down and Laola took a big spoon. She filled some bottles with it. Then she gave 5 bottles to each of the ones who wanted to go to Dekane. Lari looked with a weird face to the bottles. "What's this?" "This is a collector, Larimar. If you are in danger and you are about to die then drink one and you'll feel back healty. Don't waste them!" warned Laola. Then she tipped David and Toro to her. "I want you two to help the others find good armour. David, you know what ones they need. Toro, help them find the armours and buy them." The two nodded.
After they all checked if they forgot nothing they were ready to go. Laola standed in front of the house. She wished them good luck and entered the house. Foloya said good-bye and jumped into a tree. Toro couldn't resist to smile when she disappeared. Then they all took a blinkwing to Darken. David and Toro tried to calm them all down cause Sven wanted to run to food story, Neocro to general, Smoer to Magic story, Lari to weapon store, Sam wanted to check her mail and MrBored wanted to go check his money on the bank. "We promised Laola to help you buy new sets." said Toro. "So please stay calm and let me see what armour each of you need." The words of Toro looked pretty useless cause now they all wanted to run to the armour store. Toro sighted. "Don't move and be quiet!" The 5 looked suprised. David laughed. "But you said we would buy new armour." said Sven. David smiled. "You always bought diffrent armour as we are going to buy now. You need sets. Those sets give extra effects so you'll be stronger as in a normal set." "And where do we find those sets?" asked Neocro. Toro and David pointed at the playershops. "Others find parts and sell them. Now let me first find out what ones you need." said David. Lari jumped in front of David. "Me first!" David nodded. "You need a Warspon for now. It makes you hit better and it gives more critical. Search parts of them in the shops." Lari nodded and ran away. David walked to Sam. "You need a flury set. It's a low level set but it's the best for a RM. You'll heal faster." Sam ran behind Lari. "You, Neocro, need a Hyperrset. It's a level 45 set." Neocro laughed. "Good joke David, I know I didn't say first that I was already 60 but I'm really higher as 45 now!" David shaked serious his head. "A hyperset gives alot extras that you can use, trust me and go look for one." Neocro used fastwalker and disappeared. Then David looked to Sven. "You can choose, or you buy a set for more health or one for more critical hits." "Critical hits, ofcourse." said Sven. "Then you need a level 30 set, Talin." Sven looked surprised but lifted his shoulders and walked away trough the crowd. MrBored standed nervous in front of David now. "What do I need?" "A Recornset." said David. "It's a level 60 set but it will give you a higher attack speed ànd health." MrBored smiled happy and disappeared. Then David walked to Smoer. "I need a Roshel set." said Smoer. "It will give me alot defence, some intelligence and it will make me get more out of my magic power. David smiled and took Smoer her hand. Together they went looking for Roshel parts.

An hour or two later everyone was sitting near the General store wearing their new equipment. Toro helped everyone to pay the new sets since the 5 young heroes weren't that rich. "You look like a poor mercanery again." laughed Lari after she saw MrBored his Recorn set. Bored lifted his shoulders. "With this set I could get you on the ground in 5 seconds." Lari and MrBored started a discussion about who was the strongest. Sam was happy with her Flury set. It looked like her old blue set she had. It felt better as a Ringmaster set and it made her give buffs faster. Neocro didn't wear a purple set anymore. She was back as white when Sam met Neocro for the first time. It brought back memories. David was telling more about equipment and sets to Smoer when Toro called their attention. "It's almost noon now, let's fly to the entrance of Dekane mines." "Where is the entrance of Dekane mines?" asked Neocro. "Near Elderguards and Garbapiders." answered Smoer and she stooth up. "Did everyone bought enough food and stuff?" Everyone nodded. Then they jumped on their board and flied into the sky. They flied above the caves where Carrierbombs, Greemongs and Sylicia were hid. Then the cave ended and they passed the Elderguards. When Toro saw the first Garbepider he landed. The others followed. Garbepiders ran around a valley. A bit more north there were Cranes. Sam, Lari and Neocro found Smoer there a long time ago. "So where to now?" asked Neocro when he saw that Toro was just looking around. "We need to go to that dwarve there." He pointed to a little guy who was digging a hole with a shovle. They walked slow to the dwarve. When they came closer they saw there was a mine entrance behind the guy. "Hi..." said Toro to the dwarve. The dwarve looked up to Toro. "Oh, hi there Toro. How can I help you?" "We'd like to enter the mines." said Toro. The dwarve looked to the 7 who were standing curious around Toro. "If I think 'we' is you and those little kids you got there with you, am I right then?" Toro nodded and turned with his eyes. "They wanted to come with me so... I'll help them entering and leave them alone with the Pink Roaches. I received a message that said there was something wrong in Dekane. Did you send it?" The dwarve shaked his head. "Nothing or no one passed here last weeks and as far as I know everything quiet there inside. Well... 'quiet'. Those Keakoons make alot of noise." The dwarve smiled. Toro looked to the entrance of the mines. "Hmm, weird. Anyway, do we get the permission to enter?" "You can enter when you want Toro, you know that but... are your little friends strong enough?" Lari heared for the second time 'little' now from the dwarve and started to get annoyed. "Look you dwarve, we survived Mars Mines and Ivilliss. Ofcourse we are strong enough we trained days near the house of Laola and gained alot experience." The dwarve looked surprised. "Don't talk like that to me young man or you'll never enter here." Lari trew her helmet on the ground. "I am a girl! If everyone is going to call me a boy then my helmet will break one day." David jumped to Lari, took the helmet off the ground and bowed for the dwarve. "My apologizes, my friends are pretty exiting to go. Please let us enter." The dwarve looked surprised. "You are here too, Infinty?" He took a key and walked to the mine entrance. "It's cause you are here, mister Infinty, and cause Toro is here to protect you and your friends." 'I don't need protection." said David while giving the helmet back to Lari. The dwarve looked up to David. "You stay a mistery, Infinty." The door opened. "Good luck."

 

Chapter 18 - Dekane Mines: The Tunnels -

For the third time Smoer, Lari, Sam and Neocro entered a dungeon. This time they had Sven, David, MrBored and Toro with them. They entered the darkness. Toro walked first in the small group. Lari walked near him. Behind them walked David and Smoer. Sven, Neocro, Sam and MrBored closed off the group. Sam gave everyone quickstep. The tunnel was pretty small but the ceiling was high. The walls were made of wood. At the sides they saw old broken mining carts. On the ground there was broken train tracks. The tunnel turned to the right. They started to hear a noise. 'Tik... tik... tik...' It sounded like there was someone mining in hard stone. "What's that noise?" asked Sven after a while. "It's the keakoons who are working." said Toro. "We'll have to pass them soon." "Are they dangerous?" asked Neocro. Toro turned around. "Yes, and that's why I didn't want to take you with me. Are you scared?" Neocro and Sven shook their heads decisively. Toro turned around again and continued walking. The tunnel split. There was a way to the left and one to the right. Toro turned his head to David and Smoer. Smoer closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "We have to go to the right." David nodded to Toro and Toro took the right tunnel. Lari yawned. "How long do we have to walk? I want to fight." Toro sighed. "Have patience..." Toro kept walking but Smoer suddenly stopped. David stopped too. "What's wrong?" asked David. "We've missed a tunnel." said Smoer and she walked a meter back. There in the right wall of the tunnel was a hole. Another tunnel started there. "Thanks." said Toro and climbed trough the hole. When they were all at the other side of the hole Smoer asked Sam to buff everyone. Sam buffed everyone with a lot of attention. Then they continued walking. The ticking noise got louder. "Are we close to the monsters now?" asked Larimar excited. Toro nodded. "We are not going to fight with them but I still need your help." Lari's face went from sad to happy. "How can I help?" The hall turned to the left. "We need to pass them. Neocro can use dark illusion. Smoer and David can use blinkpool but the others have to pass them in another way. I think the best we can do is sneak them." Lari sighed. "Lame... But fine, I'll help." They reached the end of the tunnel. A big hall appeared. Everywhere burnt fires between tents. In the shadows big green and brown monsters with hoes were working. Some were smaller but didn't work any slower than the bigger ones. They didn't see that a group of young heroes entered their hall. Toro showed everyone that they had to be quiet. The others nodded. Then Toro and Lari stepped quietly into the hall. At the left side a Keakoon worker turned around. Toro sneaked as fast as he could. The keakoon looked surprised when he noticed he couldn't walk anymore, but he saw nothing. Toro and Lari ran further already. Toro sneaked another worker who was at the side. Then Lari sneaked a big brown Keakoon. Toro wnted to hold Lari but it was to late. The big Keakoon was to close and saw Lari. The brown Keakoon roared. The other Keakoons came closer to see what was wrong. Sven, Neocro, MrBored, Smoer and David came to help. Sam followed them closely. One Keakoon hit Toro but Sam healed before his HP went down. Sven moved his knuckle and hit the Keakoon so he was stunned by stonehand. Neocro trew his yoyos around another Keakoon while Lari and MrBored tried to sneak every monster that came closer. Smoer trew magicballs to confuse the Keakoons and David used windfield so they ran slower. "Try to pass them!" shouted Toro to Neocro. "And open the gate!" Neocro disappeared in Dark Illusion and ran to the gate. Smoer and David used blinkpool and reached the gate too. Neocro pulled a lever at the side of the gate. The ground started to shake. "Get to the gate!" shouted Toro to Sven, Sam, Lari and MrBored now. They tried to pass the Keakoons who tried time after time to hit them. Suddenly Lari got hit but Sam was fast enough to heal. They ran away from Toro and ran to Smoer, David and Neocro. Then Toro followed. MrBored and Sam ran through the gate. "Fast! The gate is going to close." shouted Neocro when she saw that the gate started to close slowly. Lari and Sven ran reached the gate too now and ran trough it. Toro sneaked one last monster and threw himself on the ground. He slid over the ground and managed to get through the gate one second before it fell down. The Keakoons roared in anger but the 8 young heroes laughed. "Nicely done everyone." said Toro. "I guess I have to change my mind. You are really good enough." The 6 smiled proudly. David just stared in front of him. "We should keep going." Lari pulled Toro on his leggs. Then they continued their journey through the tunnel of Dekane Mines.

The tunnel took a left turn and after that the tunnel turned to the right. When they saw that the tunnel turned left again, Lari started to complain. "I hate this walking, when can we fight?" Toro ignored Lari. He asked Sam to buff everyone again. Lari's eyes started to shine. "Are we going to fight?" "No," said Toro. "We'll enter the Blue Roaches room soon. We have to pass them as fast as we can." Lari pushed her sword in the air. Lights surrounded her. "Are they as strong as the Keakoons?" Neocro asked Smoer. "No, but they are many. They lay like 100 eggs a day." They entered the light of the Blue Roaches hall. The light looked blue and there was a small pond. Everywhere lay eggs, spread on the floor of the whole room. "Okay guys, don't step on the eggs please..." said Toro. "They'll open and Larva will come out of them. They will attack us and wake up their parents and so they'll attack us too. So please watch your steps. We just need to cross the room, there the tunnel starts again." Neocro used fastwalker and disappeared in Dark Illusion. Toro took the first step between the eggs. Sven, Sam, MrBored and Lari followed. Smoer and David waited. They could use their blinkpool later. After 5 meters Larimar started to swear. "There are so many eggs, it's so hard to not touch them!" Sven smiled. "Ask Toro to take you in his arms so you don't have to walk." Lari wanted to turn around and hit Sven on his head but MrBored put his hands in the air to stop Lari. "If you make one wrong move we'll have to fight and that, again, because of you. Calm down." Lari roared and followed Toro again who was already a few meters further along, he finally reached a place with less eggs. He made a movement to David and Smoer who blinkpooled immediately to the place where Toro was standing. Then Toro continued. They were halfway. Lari was at the spot with less eggs too now. She sighed and let the others pass. She followed as the last one now. Everyone concentrated on the eggs on the ground. David and Smoer blinkpooled again and reached the tunnel. The others almost reached the tunnel too now, except Lari who had to try really hard to not step the eggs. Neocro appeared near Smoer and David. She whispered in Smoer's ear. Smoer started to smile and whispered to David. Toro reached the tunnel too now. Sven, MrBored and Sam followed fast. Lari had a few more meters to go. Smoer winked to David and at the same time they fired flameballs at eggs behind Lari. Lari screamed for help when the little Larvas ran towards her. Lari jumped over the eggs and reached the tunnel. The others laughed. Then they all ran into the tunnel because none of them wanted to get bitten by the larva.

 

Chapter 19 - Dekane Mines: Pink Roaches -

The tunnel turned to the right, then to the left. Then Toro stopped walking. "We'll have to spend the night here, behind this corner is the Pink Roaches room. You'll have to stay here until I'm back." Neocro looked around. This part of the tunnel was full of old wooden boxes. At the side there was a broken train track and some broken fences. This wasn't a fun place to stay. "How long will you be away?" asked Neocro while the others put them down and grabbed some food. "I don't know, the road is long. If there is a big danger I can stay away for a week. If not then I'll be back in 2 days." Neocro sighed and put herself down near Sven. They spent the evening telling stories. Late in the night they fell asleep. The mines were not quiet. There was a soft sound from the working Keakoons. The sound of the Roaches and another sound that Neocro didn't know what it was. It didn't make Neocro feel ok, but she was with her friends. Nothing could happen. That's what she tought.

The next morning they said good bye to Toro. He ran carefully through the Pink Roaches room and reached a gate at the left. There he waved for the last time, there he disappeared behind the gate. "So, we are alone. Let's train!" said Lari and she put her sword in the air. Lights surrounded her. After Sam buffed her she ran into to room and got attacked by a lot of Pink Roaches. Sam wanted to buff the others before helping Lari but Lari was already about to die. Sam sighed and started to heal Lari. "Wait a minute, Lari." After the aoe finished Lari sat down at the side and waited till everyone was buffed. Neocro, Sven, MrBored and Smoer started to train too now. David sat aside and kept an eye on everyone. When someone was in danger David came closer to help them out. After an hour of training Smoer walked to David. She smiled. "It's good training here, why don't you train?" She put herself down near David. "I don't need to train." answered David.

Toro sighed and tried to remember the way in the mines. After he left the group and walked through the gate he got into another tunnel. The tunnel turned fast to the right, then to the left and then, once again, to the right. He reached a big hall. A little dwarf was standing at the side. Toro walked to him. "Hi Kazen, how are things going?" The dwarf didn't look intrested by the young knight. "Everything fine here Toro, why are you here?" "I receiverd a message," said Toro. "The message said that there was something in the mines that needed attention." The dwarf laughed, or it at least tried to. The dust in the mines wasn't good if you stayed long inside the mine. "There is nothing wrong here, Toro. Go fight your way to the end, you'll see. The lava river is still flowing and the Trillipies don't leave their room. Everything is as it should be." Then the eyes of the dwarf got smaller. "You are just here to prove your courage again, aren't you? Do the Gods still refuse to accept you as a true Hero?" He laughed again. Toro closed his hands to fists. He tried to keep his axe on the ground. Then he did an AoE attack on the ground and walked away. In his head there was still the sound of the laughing dwarf. "He'll pay for it later." whispered Toro.

Sven's knuckle hit the Pink Roaches on all places where he could get to. The swords of MrBored looked like they had their own life. Lari's sword hit the ground time after time. Neocro's yoyos turned around with a high speed. Smoer's wand made more magicballs than ever before. And Sam ran behind Lari and healed the best that she could. Between 2 aoes she rebuffed the others. David sat at the side and was reading a book. He looked into the room to see if everyone was alright after every page. The day passed fast. That night they slept heavily. They were all tired from a long days training.

Toro woke up. He slept near the gate that lead to the end of the mines. He would have to pass the Violet Trillipies first, but that was no problem for him. He ate some food and entered the gate. After a short tunnel he reached anoter big hall. This hall had a violet light. Toro looked at the Trillipies. They looked awful. There were no words to describe them. He walked slowly into the room, trying to not grab the attention of the monsters. It was alot easyer now than with the 7 behind him. He smiled. After an half hour he reached the other side. He walked into the tunnel. At the end he saw that what the dwarf said was true. Nothing changed, nothing was wrong. The tunnel here was broken and ran down. Down there the hot lava river was still running. He grabbed the paper where the message was written on. Suddenly he realised that nothing on the paper said that the 'problem' was at the end of the mines. It could be in the room near the Pink Roaches too. Toro wanted to turn around and run back to the Pink Roaches room. If they died, he'd never forgive himself. But before he could turn around he got pushed, he was right at the edge of the tunnel. Scared he looked at the lava..

Another day started. Like the day before the training was good. Neocro and Sven were training in a corner. Suddenly Neocro looked at the wall. There was a gate there, and not the gate where Toro disappeared. She walked slowly to the gate and looked up. Then she put her ear against the gate. There, she heared the sound. The sound that kept her awake the first night. "Smoer?" shouted Neocro. Smoer looked up. "Where does this gate lead to?" Smoer came closer. "Behind the gate there used to live a Blue Meteonyker." said Smoer. "Not anymore then?" asked Neocro. "I hear weird noises there..." David and the others came closer too now. Smoer stood in front of the gate and put her hand on the gate. Then she closed her eyes. After a minute she opened her eyes again. "You are right, there is something..." Lari ran forward. "Let's take a look!" MrBored looked afraid. "Maybe it's the danger that Toro was talking about, maybe that's why he's called here. Not for the end of the mines but for the thing that's behind this gate." Neocro took a step backwards. "Let's get out of here..."

Toro grabbed a trainrail with his hand. He trew his axe into the tunnel. Then he pulled himself up. A Trillipy seemed to have seen him. It followed Toro and hit him in his back. Toro swore while he grabbed his axe, lifted it up in the air and killed the sneaky monster. Then he ran trough the Trillipy room. He didn't care if they saw him, he had to go save the 7 young heroes. When he reached the hall where the dwarf Kazen was standing, he started to swear again. "You little... Do you check the whole mines? Also the room near the Pink Roaches?" The dwarf who as busy digging Cillin out of the rocks looked up. "Why would I... The room is empty." Toro shook his head. "There used to live a monster there, right?" Kazen laughed with his broken voice. "Toro, the Blue Meteonyker that was there years ago is gone. It will never come back. The Gods sent the Blue Meteonyker away. And even if it was there, and if you could kill it, it wouldn't make you a true Hero." Toro grabbed the dwarf's clothes. "I don't need to be a Hero to show what I'm worth." He threw the dwarf on the ground and continued running back to the Pink Roaches room.

 

Chapter 20 - Dekane Mines: Danger -

Toro reached the Pink Roaches room right at the time that the 7 were fighting with eachother. "I want to stay here!" said Lari. "Training is good here, and nothing dangerous happened." Sven was standing in front of Lari. "If you stay, then stay. I'll leave. I don't want to die from that... Whatever it is." Sven stepped away. Neocro held him. "If Lari stays, then Sam stays too. I'll stay too then. I can't live with the feeling that I left Sam at a dangerous place like this." Toro ran to them. "You all have to leave." The 7 looked surprised. "Already done?", David asked. Toro shook his head. He was out of breath from the running. "I think, that the problem is not at the end, but in the room near the Pink Roaches room." "Like I tought." said MrBored. Toro just looked at MrBored. "Neocro heard weird noises from that room, and Smoer confirmed that there is a monster there." Toro ran to the gate. "What monster could it be?" asked Neocro. "A Blue Meteonyker." said Toro. Lari and the others were standing behind Neocro and Sven. Smoer shook her head. "It can't be, the Gods send it away. I saw... I..." David put a hand on Smoers shoulder. "Smoer is right, the Gods sent it away. The Blue Meteonyker wasn't supposed to live here. Some Heroes locked him up here because he caused alot of trouble when he was free in Madrigal with his brother, the green Meteonyker. They are both sons of the Red Meteonyker. The Blue Meteonyker got crazy without his brother. The Gods brought them together in an unknown place." Toro shook his head. "He's back, what else will be there?" David didn't reply. "So, are we going to kill it?" asked Lari. Sven glared at Lari. "It's probably way to strong for us, even for Toro." "Even if Fabio could kill it, it's not right." said Smoer. She called for her fox and wrote a short message. The tied the message to the fox and the fox ran away. "I'm sending a message about this to Saint City. We'll wait for a response here. Meanwhile, we can train. I'm sure that the Blue Meteonyker won't break out. He can't..."

Days passed. When it was quiet you could hear noises from behind the gate. But it was only quiet late in the night. The young heroes had almost forgot about the Blue Meteonyker already. The training was good and they sang while fighting. They leveled many times every day. Toro and David sat aside. They didn't talk with eachother but watched the others training. One morning Smoer's fox came back. He had another message with him. Smoer kneeled next to the fox and grabbed the paper. She started to read the message out loud. "Don't enter the room, do nothing. We will come as fast as we can." It was signed by SouleaterEl. Toro sighed. "I messed up my task... SouleaterEl will come." Neocro put her arm around Toro's shoulders. "No worries, that thing is way too dangerous to handle alone. You would have needed help from someone else anyway. We are not strong enough to help you." Toro tried to smile. In the late afternoon SouleaterEl arrived with the Unknown Girl. He nodded to Toro and walked to the gate. He grabbed a key out of his pocket and the gate opened. The young heroes were all standing behind SouleaterEl to see what was inside, but the only thing they saw was another gate. Souleater waved with his hand. "Stay here, continue training. I'll come back when I'm done." Lari looked sad. "I want to come with you!" Souleater turned to Lari. "I see you alot little girl, that means nothing good. I only come in danger. But you are brave, and that is good." He turned and entered the gate with the Unknown Girl. Then the gate closed.

Lari punshed her axe on the ground. "It's not fair! He says I'm brave, but I can't go with them. I want to fight it!" Lari sat with David, Toro, Sven and Smoer in in the tunnel. They heared Sven, Neocro and Sven training on the Pinkies. "Fighting isn't always fun." said Toro. "For once I agree with you." said David quietly. Smoer sighed. "Is he going to kill the Blue Meteonyker?" Toro nodded. "I think he's just going to check if it's really there. If it's not the Blue Meteonyker he'll kill whatever there is. If it is the Blue Meteonyker he'll call for the Gods, I think." They were quiet. All with their own toughts. Suddenly Sam got up and ran to the end of the tunnel, to look into the Pink Roaches room. "Guys, we have a problem." Lari, Toro, David and Smoer followed Sam. Neocro, Sven and MrBored weren't training anymore. They were gone...

Smoer, Sam and David ran to the gate that lead to the end of the dungeon. Toro and Larimar looked at the gate where SouleaterEl disappeared. "I hope Smoer and David will find the 3 idiots..." said Toro. He sighed and opened the gate. They walked through a short tunnel and opened a second gate. What they saw there... Was amazing...

David, Sam and Smoer ran as fast they could. They passed the dwarf. "Oh, hi Infinty. Also on a journey in the Mines? You got some pretty girls with you this time." David kneeled near Kazen. "Have you seen other people here?" The dwarf looked at Infinty. "Lucky that you ask me questions friendlier than Toro." David shook his head. "Please, tell me fast. I have no time." Kazen sighed. "Except that Knight, Toro, I saw no one. And I hope not many more people will pass. I like to be alone here." He grabbed his shovel and continued digging.

SouleaterEl was standing in front of a huge monster, the Blue Meteonyker. Lari heared a lot of stories about Meteonykers but this was the first time that she saw one. "Wow..." murmeled Lari, impressed by the legendary monster. The Blue Meteonyker spread his wings and screamed at Souleater. The Unknown Girl healed. Souleater was hitting the monster. Toro looked around. He saw no one else in the room. He sat down, sure that the 3 ran to the end of the Mines and not to this room. Lari, still impressed, sat down too. A bit later Smoer, Sam and David ran into the room. Smoer looked at the Blue Meteonyker and screamed. "No, no!" Souleater looked behind him. "Didn't I tell you to stay away, go away from here, now!" Smoer ran forward. David held her. "Let me go, David. He's killing it!" David pulled her back. Souleater turned around and tried to evade a hit from the Meteonyker. "I'm just making it weaker so the Gods can bring it back to where it belongs." Suddenly Toro saw 3 little heads behind a rock at the side of the room. What he also saw was that the Blue Meteonyker lost his attention on the Hero and saw the 3 little heads too. Toro jumped on his legs and ran as fast he could to the rock where the 3 were hiding. He lifted his axe and hit the Meteonyker who tried to catch one of the 3 with his claws. The Blue Meteonyker screamed. This all happened in such a short time that the others couldn't even react. The Blue Meteonyker screamed at his new enemy now, Toro the Knight. Toro stood right in front of the Meteonyker. For a second he was afraid but he knew this was the only way to save the 3 stupid kids. He hit the Meteonyker again, powerfully. Toro forgot only one thing. He had no buffs, he was not a Hero yet and... The Meteonyker was strong. The Meteonyker turned his head to Toro, he opened his mounth and grabbed Toro with it. Toro dropped his axe on the ground. Everyone was shocked. Souleater lifted his sword and attacked the Meteonyker. His powerful slashes made the Meteonyker release his prey. He moved his wings and tried to attack Souleater again. Toro flew trough the air and landed against a wall. He groaned from the pain. Souleater tried to keep the attention of the Blue Meteonyker. That was pretty hard with so many people in the room now. David took Sam and Lari by their arms and ran to Toro. "Try to heal him a bit and pull him to the entrance." Sam and Lari nodded. Sam healed Toro while Lari grabbed him under his shoulders and tried to pull him away. The Meteonyker saw that his old prey got brought away and swung his tail to girls and David. David held his staff in front of him and took the blow. Sam looked scared at David but David didn't get hurt. It looked like he didn't even feel the hit. Then David ran to Sven, Neocro and MrBored. On his way to the 3 he picked up Toros Bloody Axe. "Get out of here, now!" The three, now really scared, hurried on their legs and ran to the entrance. Once again, the Meteonyker tried to attack them but David blocked the hit again. When he arrived at the entrance he made everyone leave. Souleater and the Unknown Girl were alone with the Meteonyker again.

Neocro, Sven and MrBored sat on the ground outside the entrance of the Mines. They stared at the ground. Sam tried to recover the wounds of Toro who lay on the ground. They left the Mines as fast as they could. Lari and Sam carried Toro and David lead them. With the Keakoons and Blue Roaches he made a lot of fog. How they actually passed the monsters, they didn't know. Toro opened his eyes. Sam smiled. "He'll be fine, I'm sure of that." David tried to smile and walked around. Sam and Lari sat near Neocro, Sven and MrBored. No one was in the mood to talk. Then David talked. "Why... Why did you enter that room." Neocro, Sven and MrBored looked at eachother. Sven started to talk. "I said to Neocro that I wanted to see the Meteonyker. Neocro and her friends defeated that Ivilish monster and rescued me from the Snakes in Mars Mines. Now I wanted to see something like that too." "I wanted the same, so Neocro finally agreed with just taking a look." continued MrBored. "We only tought the story of the Blue Meteonyker wasn't true... We didn't know it would be that dangerous." said Neocro. David sighed. Smoer got up and walked to David. "I understand them, I wanted to take a look too. I'm just smart enough to not do it but they are so young." Lari shook her head. "Even I was smart enough. Weren't you afraid to die?" Neocro lifted her head and looked to Larimar. "You were the one that told me that Heroes never die." Toro pushed himself up. "Then I'm a Hero too." The others smiled. Toro survived.

 

Chapter 21 - Back to Laola -

They spend the night outside Dekane mines. The next morning Sam checked Toro his wounds. "I can't heal them all, I don't have the power yet." David came closer and took a look at the wounds. "We should go back to Laola, she can heal him completly." "So, that's it!" shouted Lari. "How do you mean?" asked Sven. "We can finaly go back on adventure and you 3 ruin it. Now we can go back to those swamps getting eaten by musquitos." MrBored glared to Larimar but said nothing. He knew they did something wrong. Toro pushed himself up. Everyone saw he had pain. "Lari... No one told you that you have to go with me." For a moment everyone was quiet. Neocro jumped up. "Ofcourse we go with you. Without us you wouldn't have been in such troubles." Toro smiled. "Are you sure? I mean, I won't be able to go all alone but if only one of you go with me, then I'll be fine." Smoer shaked her head. "We'll go with you. If you are back alright we'll go on another adventure." Lari was quiet. "I don't want to go back to Laola." "And what if I promise that I'll take you to Azria after I'm back ok?" said Toro. Lari her eyes started to shine. "Azria...? Sounds like a dangerous place!" Smoer and David looked to eachother and smiled. "Very dangerous, Larimar." said David. Lari took a blinkwing out of her bag. "Come, Toro needs to get healed fast." The others laughed. Sam and Neocro helped Toro on his leggs. Then they all took a blinkwing to Darken.
A boy stepped out of the shadow of the entrance of Dekane mines. He sweared. "They just nèver die!"

The 8 came in Darken city. Toro put himself down near the bank to rest while the other looked around in the shops. When Toro felt like he would be fine they step slowly to the north of the city. They walked trough the cave that leaded to the big gate of Darkon 3. Sometimes they had to stop to give Toro some rest. When they finaly reached the gate they jumped on their boards. When everyone was sure that Toro wouldn't fall off it, they flied trough the labyrint of plants and hills where the Hoppres were hidden. Smoer looked to the sky. There was smoke in the air. And behind the hills, that seprated Celindir from the big forest, the air was red. Smoer flied near David. "Why is the sky red?" David his eyes looked scared. "Fire..." He started to fly faster. Smoer followed him. The others stayed around Toro.

Smoer saw David standing in the gate that leaded to the forest. He held his breath for a moment and ran trough the gate. Smoer jumped off her broom. David disappeared into the direction of Laola her house. When she reached the gate she couldn't believe her eyes. After she took time to take a deep breath she ran after David. The others reached the gate a bit later. Neocro and Sam walked near Toro so he could lean on them. When they walked trough the gate they shocked. The forest... It was burning. Everywhere lied broken trees. There was alot smoke and it was difficult to breath. This was once a place with fresh air. This was once a peaceful place where high trees made the sky. "What... What the hell?" said Larimar. Toro walked forward. "This can't be..." "Laola!" said Neocro. "We have to go to her house!" Toro tried to run but the pain held him. It took a while before they finaly reached Laola her house. Again, they couldn't believe their eyes. The house wasn't a house anymore. It was broken and on fire. There was David, on his knees and hands on the ground. Smoer was standing near him, her hand on his back. At the side sat Foloya. They all remembered her as a happy girl. She looked sad now, really sad. Sam, Lari, Neocro, Sven, MrBored and Toro came closer. "What... What happened?" asked Sven. No one answered. David got up. "We have to find Laola." Foloya shaked her head and walked to the young heroes. "She... She ran behind the clockworks." "In what direction did she run?" shouted David. Foloya pointed to the place where Antiqueries walked around. "David... Don't go... It's already too late." said Foloya before David ran away. But he didn't listen. He ran to the direction where Foloya pointed to. Smoer, Lari, Sven and MrBored followed. Sam and Neocro stayed behind with Toro who was too tired to walk. After running for a while they found a dead clockworks between some heavy burning trees. David ran around the clockworks. Trying to stay far enough from the fire. "Laola? Laola!" He kept shouting her name but no one answered. The others looked around. There happened a big fight here. Alot broken and burning trees. Foloya came closer. "She's dead." Smoer stepped backwards. "It can't be..." "Please tell me it's a lie." David came closer. "She's dead damned!" shouted Foloya. David standed in front of Foloya, watching down on her. "Don't say such things. She was a Hamba, almost a God. Gods can't die!" Foloya looked to the ground. "I wish it was a lie. She died trying to stop the clockworks. The clockworks and her died at the same time. Her body disappeared... I couldn't help her, I'm not strong enough for a Clockworks." David stepped away. "No... I need her..." Sven walked closer to the clockworks. "Why do you need her, David. You seem to be a Hero. I saw how you blocked the Meteonyker his hits..." David stared to the ground. "I'm not a Hero." "Then what are you?" asked Larimar. "Even Toro couldn't handle it's hits." David looked to Smoer. Smoer took a deep breath. "David is... well was the pupil of Laola, a Hamba." Lari sighted. "What's all that stuff with those Hambas?" "David said that Gods can't die, but they can. So there need to come new Gods. They get trained by living a humanlife long in Madrigal. They have to learn alot about life to fill the task as a God. But they can die..." "How?" asked MrBored. "Like this." said Smoer. "Monsters, other Gods or just Heroes." Sven stepped away from the Clockworks. "How can a Hero win from a God, aren't they really powerful?" Smoer smiled. "You should listen more to Larimar sometimes." "Heroes never die..." murmeled Lari. "Gods do..." continued David.

They sat near the ruins of Laola her house. No one was talking. After they watched how the Clockworks disappeared, then they walked back to the house of Laola and told the others the bad news. Toro was really shocked since he always found peace with Laola. She was good to talk with when he didn't know what to do anymore. He lost something really worthful. But that's what everyone was thinking. Sam looked worried to Toro. He had pain but he tried to hide it. "We should go search other help for Toro..." said Sam quiet, breaking the silence. The others agreed. "Where can we go to?" asked MrBored. "To Saint City." said Sven. "They have a sort of hospital there." Neocro and Sam helped Toro on his leggs. Smoer looked around. "David, Foloya... I don't know if you want to but... Feel free to come with us." David nodded. Foloya smiled. "Thanks, I lost my dear woods. I don't know where I have to go now." Toro looked to Larimar who was sweeping around with her big sword. "Larimar... Once again, you don't have to go with me. I'll be fine with only Neocro and Sam their help." Lari shaked her head. "You should keep your promise and get better soon, then we can go to... Azria!" Her eyes sparkled. "A new adventure..." David and Smoer looked to eachother. David smiled. Then they took all a blinkwing to Saint City. After the accident when they left Mas Mines, they always made sure that they had enough blinkwings with them.

 

Chapter 22 - Sain City hospital -

When they arrived in Saint City, Sven leaded them to the hospital. It was a house near the main square of Saint City, across the Saint City quest office. While Sam and Neocro helped Toro inside, Sven and MrBored ran to the Mayor. David, Smoer, Lari and Foloya put themselves outside the building, watching the crowd. At the quest office, Lancomi, the head of the quest center in Sain City, was disucssing with a young hero. He wanted to give her the wrong quest items. If they weren't that sad, they would have laughed with this situation where Lancomi was in. She tried to explain time after time what she needed. The boy didn't get it. "Are you planning to go to Azria after Toro is better?" asked Foloya. "Yes!" said Larimar. "Toro promised to Larimar to take her to Azria, probably we'll go with them." "Not for long then..." said David. "Why not?" asked Larimar. "We need money for new equipment for you. The sets you need now are not as cheep as the ones you got now." "So how will we earn money?" asked Larimar. "The best thing to do is giant hunt in Darkon 3." Answered David. "Cool." said Larimar. Sudden MrBored ran to them. "Come, SouleaterEl is here! He has some news." They ran to the Mayor. SouleaterEl and the Unknown girl were standing near her. Sven was listening carefully. When Souleater saw that the others came closer he greeted them. "I have news about the Blue Meteonyker." said Souleater. "Is he alright?" asked Smoer. Souleater nodded. "The real Blue Meteonyker is still with his brother, the Green Meteonyker. The Blue Meteonyker that we saw wasn't the real one." "What..." said David. "When you left we continued making the Meteonyker weaker. But... Only his HP got lower, he didn't became weaker. Then I realised that there was something wrong. We ran back to the Pink Roaches room and send a message to the Gods to tell about this situation. We received at night a message back. The message told that the Blue Meteonyker was still with his brother. With other words, this was a fake one." "How can a monster be fake?" asked MrBored. "Hackers, scripters." said Sven. He looked angrely. "Anyway, we killed the monster and came back to Saint City. How is Toro doing?" "We just brought him to the hospital." said Larimar. "He'll be fine." said David. "Lucky, then nothing bad happened. But, how does it come that you are that late here?" "We went to Laola... We tought she could help Toro." said Smoer. "But when we came there..." continued Larimar. David stared in front of him. "The forest was burning, Laola died in a fight with a Clockworks." Souleater looked shocked.

Souleater stood at Toro his bed. "There just need to be more Heroes Souleater... There are not enough Heroes to defend whole Madrigal for danger." Souleater sighted. "True... But why did you went to Dekane? If you stayed with Laola nothing would have happened." "I received a message." said Toro. "It said there was danger in Dekane Mines, so I went taking a look. This little kids wanted to go with me. I agreed if they stayed in the Pink Roaches room." Lucky that Larimar was outside, else she would have gotten angry when Toro said 'little kids'. "Who send that message?" asked Souleater. "I don't know..." Toro took the message out of his bag. Souleater took it and started to read. "This message is probably send by the one who spawned the Blue Meteonyker... We have to catch him." Toro nodded and wanted to get up. Sam pushed him back. "No! You stay here till your wounds are healed." "And then you will show us Azria, like you promised." continued Neocro. Souleater laughed. "You are in good hands, Toro. I'll leave Saint City again and I'll search who send this message. Take a good rest, you deserve it."

The days passed slowly by in Sain City. The city was big but there was not alot to do. Neocro noticed that not only Larimar got inpatience, but MrBored and Sven too. Neocro sighted and opened the window of Toro his room in the hospital. She watched over the main square of Sain City. There down, Lari was playing a sort of runninggame with Sven, Foloya, MrBored and Sam. Smoer and David weren't with them. They were in th library, like all past days. There they read big books. Neocro once saw one of those books. They were that huge that Neocro tought she wouldn't even be able to read it if she had her whole life as time to read it. Lari joked sometimes that Smoer and David did more as only reading in the dark corners of the library, but Neocro shaked everytime her head. They were not like that. "We should leave the city this week." Neocro shocked. She didn't notice that Toro was standing near her. She was that busy with thinking about this situation. "Sorry." said Toro when he noticed that Neocro shocked. Neocro shaked her head and smiled. "You aren't ready yet for an adventure and we don't want to leave you." Toro stared out of the window. A little smile played on his face. "Azria is a beautiful land, and quiet. I didn't told that to Lari yet. There is almost no danger. The monsters are weak. There is no danger except snowstorms, but they mostly happen at nights." Neocro laughed. "I tought Azria was some dangerous dungeon like the things we did before." Toro shaked his head. "Don't you think we could leave then?" Neocro nodded. "Let's ask the others."

 

Chapter 23 - Twilight Dentifrice -

Neocro and Toro left the hospital. Toro walked already alot easyer and didn't need help anymore from others. The others ran to them. "Is Toro finaly better?" asked Sam. Foloya laughed. "He might walk better, in his head he's still mad. Toro sighted. "He's almost perfect again." said Neocro. "But we think we can leave the town." "Woohoo!" screamed Lari. Some young heroes looked surprised to he weird knight. "Can we finaly go to Azria now?" "Yes we can, Larimar." said Toro. Sven and MrBored began to smile too now. Sam hesistated. "I hope it's not that dangerous... I'm getting afraid of our adventures." "Don't worry Sam." said Neocro. "I'll protect you from dangerous monsters and Larimar." "What? Why from me?" "I'll get David and Smoer." said MrBored, and he ran away. "And I'll warn my mom!" said Sven. "You don't need to." The mayor walked to the group young heroes. "Larimar managed to get my attention with that screaming of her. Are you going to leave again?" Neocro nodded. "We would like to go to discover Azria." "That sounds like a good idea." said the mayor. "But then you need to try to get some Azria tickets first." Larimar her face turned from a smile into a big question. "Tickets?" "Azria is an island." said Smoer. She came closer with David and MrBored. "It's covered by snow. An icecold river splits the island in 2 parts, north and south. Long before the first Heroes entered Madrigal, the island was born. Before the Heroes came, no one could enter the island. When the first Heroes were born and when they discovered the island, they said that Azria was as cold as the heart of Shade. Thanks to the Heroes we can all enter the island without troubles." "All you need to do is to pay a ticket for a ship to Azria." continued David. "A ship?" asked Sam. "In the north of Sain City, on the hill, you can go with a flying ship to Azria." said Toro. "So, that's where those ships are for, mom always told me they went to a far destination." The mayor smiled. "I didn't want that you would go there, but with this friends you'll be fine." "I'll take care of him!" said Larimar, she poked Sven. Sven pushed Larimar away. "I don't need someone to take care of me." Lari laughed. "Without me you were still a silly boy." She ran fast away when she saw Sven his face getting angry. Sven ran behind her. MrBored sighted. "Do those two always have to fight?" The mayor shaked her head but smiled. "I'm serious, he's on his place with you kids. I'm happy you take care of him." She took 2 cloaks out of her bag. "Toro, you saved my son by risking your own life I heared. You might be not a true Hero yet, but you deserve this cloak more than anyone else." The mayor handed over the cloak to Toro. Toro hesistated but when he saw Neocro and Sam smiling proud, he took the cloak from the mayor. "Thanks." Then the mayor gave another cloak to Foloya. "You were with Laola unill she started to fight with the Clockworks. It's not cause you could't help her that you didn't deserve this. Foloya looked sad. "I wish I could have hold her atleast." Sam put her hand on Foloya her shoulder. "We all wish that we could have done that." Foloya tried to smile and took the cloak. "Thanks, I'll proove myself as a Hero, I promise." Toro wrapped his cloak on his back. "If I can't be a Hero, why you can?" Foloya lifted her head. "Cause I'm a girl, and you are a red peanut." Toro glared but he could hold himself this time.

Lari and Sven came back, gasping from the hard running. "Before you leave..." said the mayor. "I want you to give you the chance to make a guild." Sven his eyes sparkled. "A guild!" The mayor nodded. "It's like a confirming that you'll stay together as one group." "Cool..." said MrBored. Toro sighted. "If Foloya joins too I really don't know if I want to join that guild... Staying forever with Foloya will be the reason of my death!" "Who said you could join our guild?" asked Neocro. Toro hesistated. "I... Oh well... I don't have to..." The others started to laugh. "All we need now is a name." said Sven. All the heads turned to Smoer and David. The 2 looked around the group. "Why do we have to come up with a name?" "You two probably know a word with a meaningful explenation." said Lari. "Yes!" said Sven. "Like, true heroes!" MrBored sighted. "That sounds so wanna-be..." "What about Dentifrice?" asked Neocro. The group got quiet. "That sounds pretty cool." said MrBored after a while. "What does it mean?" asked Sam. Neocro looked to Smoer. They both smiled. "It's... Just a word." said Neocro. "Twilight..." said David. He watched to the air. Everyone looked up. The air was orange coloured. Black clowds floated around. "Twilight Dentifrice..." murmeled Smoer. Everyone was agreed with the name. From now on the group would travel under the name Twilight Dentifrice, a group that'll stay togeter as one. Side by side... even when they meet twilight.

 

Chapter 24 - Call from real life -

Smoer stretched her legs. She yawned. On the computerscreen she saw the mayor of Sain City. She managed to get Azria tickets for everyone from Twilight Dentifrice for a cheap price. She gave the tickets to Sven and his friends, as a gift. Smoer smiled. She was so happy that she met this group. Everyone was so special and diffrent. She liked them all. Without them, her Flyff-life would be so boring. Probably she quit this game too without meeting Sam, Lari and Neocro at the cranes. It was weird, tought Smoer. They were all people like her, playing a game behind a computerscreen. Were they also how they are ingame in real life? Was Lari also an active girl in real? Was Sam also that shy? And what about David? He was a Hamba in this game... She heared Toro saying it. Laola learned Smoer about Hambas. Everything she learned leaded to that David was a Hamba, and herself? How could someone be a God in a game and a normal kid in real life. Kid... Maybe David was an adult? Maybe David wasn't a real person? She didn't know. The idea that David wouldn't be real made Smoer a bit sad. It would be nice to know someone like David in her life behind the screen. The group just never talked about their other lives, the lives at the other side of the computerscreen. "Triiing." Smoer looked around her. She found her phone near the keyboard. "Hello?" "Hi Muriel!" said the voice at the other side of the phone. "Oh, hi... Who is this?" "It's Lisa. You told me to call you." Smoer blushed. As soon she came home she forgot about school. On school the teacher gave them a project to work on with 2. Smoer her partner was Lisa. "Are you still there?" asked Lisa. "Oh, yes. Sorry." "Is it ok that I come to your place to work at the project?" Smoer gave her adress and looked back to the computerscreen. "Yes, see you soon." She put her phone away.

Everyone received their Azria ticket. Larimar, MrBored and Sven were very exited to go. "Where are those ships?" asked Lari. "I can't wait to kill monsters." "Ehm..." said Sam quiet. "Can we leave tomorow? I have a big test tomorow and..." Lari sighted. "Why do you have to study right now?" "Let's go tomorow." said Neocro. "Yes, go support Sam again." said Larimar angry. "I have to work for school too." said Neocro calm, ignoring Lari. Toro smiled. "That's ok. Go study you two. I'll take the rest to the arena so we can test how strong we are against other players." "Sounds cool..." said MrBored. "Yes," said Sven. "Now I can kill Lari without doing a crime!" "You, killing me?" laughed Lari. "We'll see who kills who..." Sven turned his knuckle around. "I'll annoy Toro in the arena then," said Foloya by shooting fire arrows in his ass." Toro sighted. "Do you really have to?" Foloya smiled. Toro shaked his head. "Fine then... Don't cry when I kill you. Anyway. David and Smoer, are you comig too with us?" David coughed. "I prefere staying out of the arena..." "Why?" asked MrBored curious. "It was amazing how you blocked the hits of the Blue Meteonyker. With those skills you could own everyone on the arena!" "You did whàt?" asked Toro. "I think I go study a bit more in the library. Do you want to come with me, Smoer?" "I... have also some schoolwork to do. I'm sorry." David nodded, turned around and walked away. Toro watched how David disappeared into the building where all the books of Sain City where hidden. He took a deep breath and walked into the direction of the arena. MrBored, Sven, Lari and Foloya followed. Smoer, Neocro and Sam logged out.

Toro was standing at the side of the arena. He saw MrBored and Sven running after Lari, trying to kill her. Foloya ran around them with her walkspeed skill and tried to slow MrBored and Sven down with her ice arrow. When Foloya saw Toro was watching to them she waved. "Aren't you coming in Toro?" Toro shaked his head. "Scared of me nubby?" laughed Foloya. Toro grabbed his axe. "Want me to show how scared I am?" Foloya giggled and ran after MrBored and Sven again. Toro smiled. Suddenly a group of higher levels killed Sven and MrBored. Lari turned around and ran to the group higher levels. Toro couldn't hear what she was saying but the higher levels were laughing with her. Toro ran into the arena. Lari was standing in front of a Billposter who seemed to be a lower level as the ones behind him. Foloya was standing behind Lari. The Billposter laughed. "Do you have problems with me?" Lari looked angrly. "I have alot problems with you and... Why did you kill them?" "Do I need a reason for that?" asked the Billposter. He and his friends laughed. "If you didn't need a reason then I don't need a reason to kill you!" said Lari. She lifted her sword. Lights surrounded her. The Billposter laughed again. "Does that sword actualy does any dammage?" Lari tried to run to the Billposter but... Toro hold her. "What's your problem kid?" asked Toro. "You got friends!" said the Billposter to Larimar. Sven and MrBored pressed lodestar and standed near Larimar now. "She has more friends as you, Zirion." said Sven. Zirion looked up. "Well, well... Our little Sven looks stronger!" Toro looked to Sven. "Do you know this kid?" "It's Zirion..." said Larimar. Zirion took a look to Toro. "So, you must be that new friend of them. I tought you got killed by the Blue Meteonyker that I put in Dekane mines." "What..." said MrBored. "Did you do that?" Zirion smiled. Toro lifted his axe in the air. "I would like that you leave my friends alone, Zirion. Or I'm going to use my axe." One of the friends of Zirion started to laugh. "Aren't you Toro? That kid that runs behind Souleater but can't be a Hero like him? I don't think we need to be afraid from something like you." This were words that Toro didn't like to hear. "You made him angry..." said Foloya quiet. Toro pushed Lari, Sven, MrBored and Foloya back. Then he punshed his axe on the ground. A big AoE circle appeared. Zirion and his friends got pushed away a bit. Toro repeated his AoE for a few times. Then he quit. He looked up to Zirion who lied on the ground. "Don't mess... With ANY of the Twilight Dentifrice members." Then he turned around and wanted to walk away. Lari, Sven, MrBored and Foloya turned around too and followed Toro. Zirion growled. He got up and grabbed his knuckle in his hand. He headed towards Toro. "Hi Toro! Want to see my new skill?" Toro turned around. He saw Zirion take the pose of Asal. He was too late to do something now. The knuckle of Zirion got closer. Suddenly a big fog cought them all. The expecting Asal didn't arrive Toro. Foloya grabbed Toro his hand and pulled him out of the arena.

The doorbell rang. Smoer closed her MSN and turned her computescreen off. She ran of the stairs and opened the door. Lisa smiled. "I found it pretty fast. It's really not that far away from my house." Smoer smiled too. "Let's go to my room, there we can work without getting disturbed." The door from the living room opened. Magali stared with big eyes to Lisa. "Lisa kneeled in front of Magali. "And who are you?" Magali murmeled something. "Her name is Magali." said Smoer. Then she said to Magali: "Go back to mom." Magali nodded and ran away. "Funny, I know someone else with a little sister with the same name as her. I like the name." They walked to Smoer her room and worked at the project. When they were finished for the day Lisa got up. "I should head home, dinner will be ready soon." Smoer nodded and let Lisa out.

 

Chapter 25 - Strenght versus intelligence -

Toro looked angry to David. "Why did you do that?" David sighted. "Don't tell me you're angry now cause I saved you..." MrBored looked admiring to David. "I knew you could do it..." "Do what?" asked David. "You killed all that high levels and Zirion!" said Sven. "It's the arena... I don't need to get saved there." Sudden Smoer and Neocro appeared at the group. They smiled. "We're back. We heared your voices so we came walking into this direction." said Smoer. Then she saw the angrly faces of David and Toro. "Don't tell me you were having a fight again..." Neocro sighted. "David saved Toro in the arena when Zirion wanted to do asal." said MrBored "Zirion..." murmeled Smoer. "Not only that." said Toro angry. "He also killed the high levels around Zirion. Just with one winfield." "What's wrong with that?" asked Neocro. "Don't you get it? He's not like you. He's not around level 90 like you are. He looks like it but he's not. Also, he's a Hamba." "Are you there again with your Hamba theory?" asked Neocro angry now. "Who cares if he is one! And if he doens't say his real level then he has a reason to, like I had. Also, Lari, Sam and Smoer accepted me when I apoligzed. Why wouldn't you accept David how he is?" The group was quiet. Neocro turned to David now. "And if you keep your secret for us, then that's fine. But don't forget none of us has a secrets for you." Neocro ran away to Sain City. The others stared how Neocro disappeared into the city. "Well..." said Smoer. "She's right." said MrBored. "You also accepted me in the group." "And me..." said Sven. "Why wouldn't you accept David like he is, Toro?" "I'm going to take a look if Sam is back..." said Lari. "And I'm going to look where Neocro is..." said Sven. Lari and Sven walked away, Foloya and MrBored followed them. David and Toro were alone now.

A bit later David and Toro walked into Sain City. At the main square they saw the group sitting near the fountain in the middle. "We talked..." said Toro. David nodded. The others looked up curiously. "And...?"asked Larimar. "Where is Neocro?" asked Toro. "Sven lifted his shoulders. We couldn't find her. We only found Sam." Sam smiled. Toro and David greeted her. "Where can she be?" asked Toro. "Here..." said a voice. Sudden Neocro appeared. "I was in Dark Illusion..." "She was with us, Toro. She was listening all the time to our conversation." said David calm. "Couldn't you tell..." asked Toro annoyed. "If I told you then you would have acted diffrent like you did now, so I decided to not tell you." Toro sighted and looked to Neocro. "Could you forgive us? We'll try to not fight anymore..." Neocro smiled and hugged Toro. Then David took the attention. "I... Have to tell you something." "Finaly..." murmeled Lari. Sven hit her on her armour. "Like Toro let fall a few times, I'm a Hamba." "Cool!" said Lari. "Now we have a God in our guild, isn't that awesome?" David was surprised by Lari her reaction. "A half-God actualy and I don't know if I can handle the task of a God..." "So, now we never have to be afraid anymore that we can die cause you'll protect us?" asked MrBored. "Well..." said David. "My powers aren't complete yet. So the actions I did like in the arena or with the Blue Meteonyker were with a bit of luck with the timing. I'm like you just around level 90 but sometimes I'm like a full trained Hero. That's why I'm scared to use my powers. I prefere to train alone with no one around so others can't see who I really am." David looked nervous to Smoer. She just smiled. "So... Aren't you going to kick us out of the guild now?" asked Toro. Everyone shaked their head. "You have to do more to escape from us." said Larimar. She got up. "When are we going to Azria now?" David and Smoer walked away. "It surprises me that you could keep this as a secret for us for that long." said Smoer. David looked to the ground. Smoer took his hand. "I knew what you were David." David looked up. "How?" "I don't know." said Smoer, she smiled. "I'm happy to have you by my side."