[Odd Samson guild house]
On the rooftop, Stacen was sitting there, with her legs and arms hurdled in front of her chest.
She said, "The time shall come for I, thy warrior of the northern tribe, to rise from ashes and become stronger for thy departed friend Raiden. I shall become victorious! For the affirmation of the northern tribe shall be stated here in this Tower of Valhalla: We shall not falter, we shall not rest, and we shall not drown ourselves in defeat! For I am the first born warrior of the northern tribe-!"
"Uhh what are you doing? Who are you talking to? Why are you monologuing to yourself?"
Stacen was startled, and she turned around to see who said that.
It was May.
Stacen thought, 'It be May! Sister of Kell!'
May was walking up there with her hands in her pockets, saying, "Fucking shit it's cold out here. Why are you pretending like you're in a movie?"
Stacen turned around, "I am deeply apologetic for disturbing thy slumber, May."
"You aight?"
"Aight?"
"Slang for alright. That's another thing I have to teach you. I'm from earth, and you're from another random ass world, I'll have to show you our ways."
"Show me the ways..of thy planet earth? But doth was born this way, mine tongue speaks the ways of the world of Asteran, thy speech mirrors the speech of the northern tribe, I cannot custom myself to earth. I'm very sorry, May, sister of Kell."
"You wanna know something?"
"Hm?"
"I don't care to be honest. I mean like, dude. From what I'm looking at, you seem to focus on nothing but..seriousness. While that's all good and all, it's also disgustingly boring. It's sometimes good to take your mind off the hard shit and relax, ya dig?"
"Haha, I adore the ways of truth coming from you."
"I can't help it. But, I'll whip you into shape one of these days."
Stacen made an anxious face, panicking, "You'll..whip me into shape?"
"HAHA! You take things too literally. Definitely gotta test that for my amusement. Hmm..here's one. Hehe, when you go on a raid, break a leg!"
"*Gasps* break a leg?! That would hurt!"
May smirked with a malicious grin, and continued, "Oh? Not gonna lie, your hair is to die for!"
"Tch! I'm not worthy for anyone to die for my hair!"
"HAHAHA!! I love this. Oi, stick with me, we'll run this tower."
"We're gonna rule over thy Tower of Valhalla?"
"Huhh? I mean uh, technically. I just gotta get you to relax and enjoy being alive every once in a while and not take everything seriously. Sound like a plan?"
"Hmph. I agree if it shall make me stronger!"
"It will. Trust me."
"May, I have a question to ask of you, if I may proceed?"
"Wassup?"
"Do you..have an interest in Sho Takahashi?"
May's face blushed, and her eyes got big, replying, "Huh?! N-No! You're crazy! Never!"
"When thy mother and father got married, they made the same faces as you are performing at this moment."
"Tch! Sho is just…Sho. Pretty cool sometimes, shitty little attitude a lot as well. I haven't had a crush on anyone since I was in first grade. People just haven't been worth my time."
"So, if I may ask, does that mean Sho is-?"
"NEXT SUBJECT!!! What was your northern tribe like? What are you here for?"
"We slaughtered armies in the name of our ancestors. Armies that bathed in the lust of violent gestures, for there were people in the world of Asteran that wanted to rage war within the world, all so they could allow the strong to rule over the weak. We had split up into different tribes/armies/sects, to defeat the ones who wanted to see a villainous goal plan out. I was head of the northern tribe, full of women because..women weren't allowed to fight with the men due to likely distractions from war."
"So.."
"That is my reason for being in thine Tower of Valhalla. The war is still going on in my world; I want to be the one to gain the benefits of reaching the top floor of the tower to aid my world into winning the war against the armies of evil resting in the heart of the Asteran world."
"Well damn. Were you the only one from your world to get into the Tower?"
"No. But not all of us made it."
"Ah, gotcha gotcha."
"Thou shall explain thy reasons for being inside of the Tower of Valhalla?"
"Me? Shit. I mean, what is there to say? I like money."
"Is that it?"
"…Yep. That's it."
Stacen thought, 'I have this gut feeling that that is a lie, something is holding her tongue of truth! Very well, if she is not comfortable to talk depth, I shall not pursue.'
Stacen said, "Thy mind accepts the understanding of your words."
Stacen stuck her hand out to shake May's hand, and May asked, "What's this?"
"As I took part in the northern tribe campaigns, I found them to be very catastrophic. And here, battle is everywhere. With Odd Samson being my new team, I shall shake thy hand to declare that we are true ally's and friends."
May looked up and down at Stacen fast, and she said, "Fuck it."
May shook Stacen's hand, and then out of nowhere, Bebop appeared.
Bebop smiled, saying, "Fuck it!"
Stacen and May looked over at Bebop, and May chuckled, "That's the spirit!"
Bebop pulled out a sheet of paper, and it had a drawing of Sho on it. It was messy, but one could tell what Bebop was trying to portray.
The picture had Sho being drawn holding a butterknife, covered in blood, then on the right, it showed Sho holding a glaive blade with a horn and covered in a red aura.
Bebop smiled, "I stayed up to draw this picture! I tried to give it to Sho, but he's not in his room! Have you guys seen him?!"
May thought, 'Oh that's right. Sho left and had fought a level 3 disaster level Wave monster.'
May kneeled down to Bebop's height, and patted her on the head, saying, "It's okay, Sho just went out to fight some big ass ugly monster. He's with my brother I'm guessing, so they'll be back quick."
"Why do you guess?"
"Cause' Kell finds Sho entertaining. There's actually never been a time where someone actually rivaled Kell. Kell hates it, but loves it. I can tell."
"Ohhhh cool! Well, I'm gonna go to sleep, f-for real this time! I'll give this picture to Sho when he gets back! Oh! I almost forgot!"
Bebop dashed forward, and hugged both Stacen and May, saying, "Goodnight, Stacen and May! Sweet dreams!"
Stacen and May looked at each other, and laughed lightly, saying to Bebop, "Goodnight, Bebop."
Bebop ran away after that, heading to her room.
May yawned, "Welp, I'm finna' hit the hay too. Night, northern girl."
Stacen grinned, "You're going to call Sho Takahashi and tell him goodnight as well? That is my very bad attempt at thine joke."
May responded, "I'M NOT CALLING HIM AND SAYING NOTHING!"
[Class A raid]
[Western town in flames]
Sho was standing in front of a dozen fire monsters. They were big and buff with long flammable hair, with one giant eye on their face, and they had flaming tails.
Sho sweated, thinking, 'Kell said raid lackeys aren't that tough, saying a weak class B Fighter like me can somewhat take them, since lackeys are insanely weaker than the raid target. Kell also mentioned that lackeys in raids are intended to drain a Fighter's energy and weaken him with their numbers and annoying skills. Trying to tire a Fighter out before he meets the raid target. I kinda figured that out during my first or second raid.'
The fire monsters pressed forward a Sho, roaring and saying, "Come onnn! A little burn won't kill youuu! Hehehehaha!"
Sho responded, "Shut the hell up that's so stupid. Such a stupid thing to say."
'Since these bastards are approaching in a cluster formation, I'll use my Thunderclap skill!'
Sho bent his knees slightly, he looked forward, and exclaimed, "Thunderclap!"
In a split second, Sho blinked at breakneck speed straight through the fire monsters, destroying them. The destructive impact from that skill caused red and black bolts to blast all over the place and began to destroy other buildings, parts of the ground broke apart, and wind shot everywhere.
Sho stood there holding his glaive, with fire and wind swirling around him.
More fire monsters were jumping from the flaming buildings and leaping at Sho. But coming from Sho's back, was Red.
Red yelled, "Missed me, brat?!"
Sho answered, "Who are you again?"
"Damn you!"
Red barked loudly at the fire monsters, and they blasted backwards, crashing into buildings.
Red dropped to the ground, and red and black flames surrounded his fur.
Sho said, "Breathless. Extend: 15 feet."
Sho activated his Breathless skill, and body armor of red and black flames covered his chest, back, and arms and hands, and his eyes went fully white.
He also had made his glaive extend to 15 feet with his Extend skill.
Sho darted ahead, sliding across the ground, spinning his glaive around his head, slicing the fire monsters in half, throwing red and black flames everywhere.
Sho thought, 'I mostly used this Breathless skill because I thought it would give me an advantage against the heat. The heat was seriously boiling the hell out of me, I could barely breathe. I tried to pretend like it didn't bother me when I was standing beside Kell. Now that I have my Breathless armor, it seems to be working against it okay. I didn't choose my Beast skill with the Beast armor, because there aren't any flames with it. I had a thought that my flames could work against the flames of this raid, and it did. A little fucking bit. But it's better than nothing.'
Sho was approached by more flame monsters, and he and them started to dart back and forth on flaming buildings, going at fast speeds.
The fire monster's hands were grey and were super sharp with acidic flames in them, and they tried to cut Sho's body apart every millisecond, and Sho was dodging them while speeding around in the air.
Sho grunted, thinking, 'Dammit. These class A raid goons are much different than the ones I've come across!'
Then, Sho was stabbed in the chest, and half of his armor went away.
'Okay! They're definitely different! I can't let them hit me again!'
Sho blasted backwards because of the attack, and crashed through a flaming building.
Red yelled, "Sho! I'm on the way!"
Red was galloping through the area, eating the wood that he ran across, and he cried, "Ugh! This is so nasty! I'm gonna vomit!"
Red grew to be about 17 feet, and he said, "Since you've gotten stronger Sho, I gained a new skill also."
Red started to spin like a pinball, and the red and black flames continued to ascend from his body, and he started roll forward really fast, and as he rolled, his fur became sharp, and parts of his sharp fur shot out from his body in red and black flames, and once they hit the flame monsters, the flame monsters were sucked into the sharp fur, and the fur exploded, killing them.
Sho watched, thinking, 'So he actually does get stronger when I get stronger. Tch.'
Sho looked to his left, and saw all the fire monsters gathering up with each other, growling larger.
Sho looked up, thinking, 'They're gathering together..just like the Donghu raid lackeys did. I was kinda powerless then, and I struggled at every corner. But now..it's different.'
The giant fire monster had a large flaming sword r in his hand and slammed it downard.
Sho used the strength in his legs, and jumped up high above the spear, and the sword slammed on the ground, blowing it up.
Sho thought, 'I almost didn't make it!'
Sho was above the fire monster's head, and he stuck his hand downward. at the monster, and red orbs started forming around Sho.
Then a red orb was spiraling in formation in front of Sho's hand, and the orbs were covered in red and black flames as well.
'My skills are merging with each other?! How is it doing that? Did I do it? Maybe it's because I'm using my Breathless skill while using another skill, Black Hole. It's definitely gonna come in handy.'
Sho made the orb grow bigger, and the fire monster looked up and gasped.
Sho wasted no time, as he released all the orbs down at once, and they completely decimated the area, including the fire monster.
Sho was coming out of his Breathless skill, and he landed on the ground, sliding feet first.
Sho looked up, trying to catch his breath, thinking, 'No way I'm almost out of energy! Well..shit. This is a class A raid. Where the hell is Kell?'
Flying over Sho's head, was Kell and the raid target.
The raid target was a humanoid, by the name of Singe. Singe had dark orange skin with glowing yellow lines all over him, shoulder length red hair, and had no shirt on but flame pants and was attacking by using the palm of his hands which had black and yellow flames on them.
Singe was throwing super fast punches and kicks at Kell, laughing, "Isn't this fun?! Come on, keep fighting, human!"
Kell was blocking all the hits with his sword, but the hits he dodged created a large thud in the ground from the force of Singe's palm strikes.
Kell and Singe landed on the ground, and Singe slid on the ground spinning on one hand, flipping upward, and throwing multiple jabs while laughing.
"Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Punch! Punch! Punch! Come one, human!" Singe yelled.
Kell replied, "Oi.."
Kell leaned back, and he hit Singe in the stomach with his katana handle, and he finished, "…You're annoying me, scum."
Singe gasped, and Kell said, "New skill: Cutters Edge."
Suddenly, pink butterflies started to fly around Singe, and the wind blew peacefully. Singe was distracted by the butterflies, immediately thinking they were deadly.
Singe was punching the butterflies, yelling, "Die! Get away from me! I'm too strong for this!"
In smooth movement, Kell gently floated past Singe with his sword, and Singe's head was cut off.
Singe fell down dead, and Kell stopped, and he got a notification from his watch system, saying:
*Raid target slain. 8,000 Fighter points awarded.*
Sho got the same notification.
Kell turned around, and he and Sho looked at each other.
Kell sighed, "That's how you get it done, fool."
"I wasn't watching. Oops."
"YOU BETTER HAVE! THAT WAS A NEW SKILL!"
"So?"
"TCH! YOU BASTARD! SCUM!"
"FUCK YOU!"
"I'M EVEN SURPRISED YOU SURVIVED!"
"SAME HERE! I THOUGHT YOUR HEAD WAS GONNA GET LOPPED OFF!"
"PFFT!"
"PFFT!"
Red stood off to the side, thinking, 'Ah, here they go again. It's like music to my ears, but the exact opposite.'
[Odd Samson guild house]
[1 hour later]
Sho walked in his room, and he took his shoes off, falling onto the bed, saying, "Finally. Rest."
Red walked in there, saying, "Um..Sho?"
"What?"
"We have a guest."
"Huh?"
Sho sat up, and he saw a figure standing in front of him, standing at the edge of his bed.
Sho said, "Uhh..who the hell are you and why are you in here?"
The figure was a woman, but she had dark red skin, glowing white eyes, red hair in two buns, she had four glowing white arms, and she had two of them folded, and she had a mean face, and she was wearing glowing white scarves around her abdomen, chest, and legs.
Her name was Vaelle.
Red said to Sho, "This..is Vaelle. Your other familiar."
Sho was in shock, since this appeared so suddenly.
Sho replied, "What?!"