I awoke from my sleep with a slight weight on my chest, when I looked down I saw the most serene beautiful face adorned with a small adorable smile on Sarah's face.
From my perspective I could not see it but, a small wet puddle formed and ran down along under my right pec. I continued to drink in this peaceful sight before I had to wake her.
10 minutes later I gently shook her by the shoulder until I saw her eyes struggling to flutter open. I knew this old habit would happen which I let out a soft chuckle that her sharp and cute ears picked up. Simultaneously both her eyes and ears twitched, her ears twitched after hearing my light chuckle, and her eyes after I caught her trying to fake being asleep. I then blew on her ears.
Her ears twitching enough to be consider flapping like she wanted to take off shot up with a angry glare towards me. "WHY!" She said in a whiney voice with a pout to match, "Well, I just thought all the twitching was kinda cute and adorable, so I was curious to see what happened if I blew directly on them." I wouldn't tell her it was to see her like this of course.
Glaring at me with an intensity so strong that it's could be cut with a knife. Around 2 more minutes of this and Sarah just "hrmpf'd" and walked over to Sasha to wake her up.
Looking over to where Sasha lay, I could see a peacefully sleeping 'angel,' her white as snow angel wings curled up together with her transparent fairy ones. Though I could only see her back which was the most beautiful back I had ever seen, I could tell that she was truly sleeping peacefully with a small smile that painted her sleeping face.
"hey, Sasha, it's time to get up," Sarah said with a slight shake of her shoulders. "MMmm, 5 more minutes please mom," Sasha responded with out've habit. Sarah giggled the most melodic and beautiful giggle any women could possibly make, but sadly that giggle and smile that now fades away into sadly squinted eyes and a frown that contained only sadness.
Quickly before Sasha could see it, Sarah wiped away that expression and replaced it with a caring smile. "I'm sorry Sasha, but you must get up now, we have things that needed to be discussed and planned," Sarah said allowed so Mike could hear, the former wasn't directed at him but the latter sure was.
Forcibly sitting Sasha up, Sarha gave her a few more shakes and a good ole' "wakey wakey," before becoming a little louder. Thankfully Sasha did not need to be yelled at basically to be woken up. After sitting up she rubbed her eyes to get the sleep out of them and wake up a bit.
"uuhh, no coffee this morning," Sasha said absentmindedly. After no response from her sister, she decided to fully open her eyes and the realization of what she had just said hit her. "No, this couldn't have been all real! I thought it was just a dream!" Seeing that Sasha was about to have a panic attack, Sarah came over and satdown beside Sarah to easy her mind.
"Shhh, it's ok to act like this, just know that I am still me and that Mike is still Mike. Even if our outward appearances have changed, that doesn't mean who we are at our core has changed." During the one-sided conversation, more for Sasha to listen than respond to, Sarah heard a sound...
{Ding}
{Skill: Hurricanes Rupture}
(Hurricanes Rupture: Hurricanes Rupture allows the person in possession of this skill to calm the raging wind and waves of the mind and soul of any person. close to them. Only helps with the calming of the emotions and the mind.).
Unconsciously using this skill, Sarha has helped Sasha in lessening the impact her shocked state had on her mind and emotions which were caused by the weight upon after realizing nothing that has happened was a dream.
Having Sasha's mind be put at ease, she started to visibly tremble less and less. Finally she had calmed down to where her trembles were nearly non-existent, looking up Sasha saw Sarah's gentle smile which made her smile in return, she held sasha in her embrace for a little longer before seperating from her and looking over in my direction.
When our gazes met, I noticed her already red-rimmed eyes starting to turn moist again while she just stared at me. I just opened my arms and wore a smile on my face that showed my gratitude and appreciaiton for what she had done to help me, but there was another emotion hidden in my smile, an emotion that I never really showed towards anyone, and that was worry.
The worry I had when I heard what had happened to her after she had finished her healing process on me I nearly rush over to her myself to make sure she was ok, but sarah had kept insisting that she was fine and I did not have a reason to not trust sarah so I let her be.
Sasha bolted right to me and crashed into my chest and hugging me tightly and for a second, I noticed both of them did the same exact thing after realizing I was ok. After about a minute of silence I spoke aloud, "I'm sorry to cut this short sasha but we need to try and make it out of here, so, can you release me please?" Noticing that she had a bear hug on me that I could remove myself I choose to allow her to pull herself away.
*Inhale* *exhale* *clap*
"OK," I said with a bit of enthusiasm, "I know you want to talk to me about what happened to me and other things but, right now we have to put that on the back burner so we can focus on the main mission right now." As I finished speaking for a moment, Sarah asked me a question, "Is this about going back to take out those monstorous beasts and finding that door?" "Yes, it is," I answered back and before either one of them could utter a sound I held up my hand to postpone there questions for later.
"To try and answer your unasked questions, I have to say some things. For one, that severed arm over there is gonna be key in the upcoming battle with those reamaining monsters." Both Sasha and Sarah looked over to the severed arm resting by the arm close to where mike was laying. "Another thing to mention is that I have a quest I guess is what you can call it."
*A/N: I updated the chapter that gave the quest, this works out better in wrapping up this little start to my story before we really get started*
"In this quest it states that we have to find the hidden door guarded by the supposed boss of this private dungeon to be able to leave. What I do not like about this whole thing is that the quest was given to us a little late in my opinion. I say that because we were trying to break a wall in which we successfully failed at doing, followed by searching for a 'weak' point in said wall but further in. What I am thinking is that those monsterous beasts were or if not the boss of this private dungeon.
I was starting to formulate a plan in my mind utilizing the strength both Sasha and Sarah rely on. For Sarah she has the makings of a Magical Archer, unlike Magical swordsman who use magic to strengthen there attacks using their sword only since they need a medium, a Magical Archer or in this case, a Magical Grandmaster Archer who can utilize every element known to create unqiue spells without a material medium, only there will, intent and body are required.
For sarah to be able to utilize this ability in a short time frame is unachievable, but she can probably ustilize a single element for either offensive, denfensive or support. Sarah being a long distance offensive attacker to deal damage and distract the opponents even if its for a fraction of a second, her build just makes for the perfect archer.
For Sasha she will obviously be support and for a good reason, her ability (Divine Heal) is an amazing skill but takes awhile to use properly, but not only that, her potential is beyond any support member should be capable of. The combination of 3 different races that actually perfectly fit one another. The three different races that she is mixed with are
3 whole races combined into one new and unique one is something no one would ever think is possible but Sasha made it happen. Sasha being a support type caster does not necessarily mean that she can not attack, since if on one was ever able to attack then that would never allow a party to function properly. For her lack of physical strength, she made up for it with a really high mana pool, but this type of mana pool can grow with natural treasures.
The growth of anything will always require either insight, either by a life or death battle, by repeated trial and errors like with alchemy tests, and even just reading a book but there are numerous ways to actually advance and grow without gaining levels. The process of advancing without gaining levels with be the best over a long period of time due to refining everything that has been learned and continuing to learn and refine more of what you have already learned.
That does not mean gaining levels is bad but the oppisite. Gaining levels is best when it comes to immediate gains in any aspect, but in the long run the earlier 10:1 ratio that normally happens will slow down and start to turn into a 1:10 via any stat and skill being used. When you have lets say 20 strength at level 4, and you have 47 free points availiable and all of them are put into strength. Now you have a lop-sidded build that is good for the immediate situation but bad for once you are out of it. Min-Maxing is a real bad thing to do especially when your life is on the line.
And for me, well lets just say my build is more towards a charismatic warrior king. I do not see myself sitting behind people I can protect, my pride will not ever allow that. I may be a sovereign but my class is ruler, and if I have figured out one thing about classes its that it makes you who you are supposed to be. I am a Ruler, Monarch, or King first or whatever else you want to call it, before a sovereign. I must protect the people under me to be able to 'Rule' over them, to have sovereignty I must have subjects, and to have loyal subjects I need to protect them, and for protecting them they will hopefully in return follow me as my loyal subjects and see my as a respectable enough person to be their King.
This is the main reason I will be the vanguard for my little party, I will not allow anyone that serves me suffer any pain, because I will shoudler it for them to live happily and peacfully under my protection.
"Ok, let me make on thing clear between us," I said towards Sasha and Sarah whos attention I now had. "I will be the vanguard while Sarah will be the ranged support and distractor if needed. For you Sasha, you will be our healer, cleric, or support mage mainly since you can heal and do recon is that understood," I said in a clear and authoritative tone without room for discussion. They both nodded at me seriously and then I smiled at them, "Great, now before we get a move on lets rest for awhile longer to make sure we are all in tip top shape ok." I said to both of them.
Finishing up the briefing I ushered both of them to go and sleep for a few hours while I kept watch. Both eventually went a little bit away to do as they were told albeit a bit reluctently. I on the other hand did not sit still, as they were walking away to go and sleep for a bit I walked over to the severed arm and picked it up.
I scanned it, *GASP* I noticably sucked in a really big lungful of air after I saw the length of the screen that had popped up..... and after I read the first few lines my face started to turn ghostly white.
{Item: Severed Arm of Kapalonos} -->*A/N: (Ka-pal-O-noose) pronunciation*
[Rarity: Special]
(The severed arm of the guardian of the Kapalonos is a extremely rare thing, its only rare for the sole reason that the guardian boss was is its seperate form. If this arm is in your possession then you best be prepared for Kapalonos has only vengence on its mind for when you return. Beware of the beast for it has its eyes on you.)
*Durability - Only breaks to be absorbed by its origin, or upon the death of the owner.
*Strengths - Extremely Sharp and unbreakable
*Weakness - Extremely rancid and will randomly move violently
"Holy Fucking Shit," I said with a white face. I was not ready for any of what I had just read, and on top of all that, we accidentally faced off against the guardian boss without even knowing it and almost died. "Now we really need to be careful," especially me I thought to myself, since it will have its sights set on me for removing its arm during my near death fight with it while trying to escape.
* About 4ish hours later *
"hey," I softly spoke and shook both Sarah and Sasha awake. It has been a few hours since they had fallen asleep and about time they woke up so they can take watch.
After waking both of them up, we swapped duties and I went to sleep for a few hours while they kept guard.
Not much had happened within those few hours I was asleep for so when I woke up about 3 hours later, I had decided it was better to tell them what I had come across with my findings.
Only s shocked and fearful expression could be seen on both of there beautiful faces. Upon laying my eyes on those expressions I could understand it, really I could but, something was telling me not to. I had moved on past all that at this point now and wanted to get a move on to finish up the stupid dungeon.
"Ok, to make sure we are all on the same page, what have I told both of you to do if things get really bad for me," I said in a questioning tone like I was a teacher asking his students to recite an entire page they had just read, but this important. "We will not panic and rush towards you, we will try to distract the boss for as long as we can without getting hurt and putting ourselves in harms way if possible," Both of them had started and finished at the same time." Sasha then continued, "I will then try to get to you and heal you as fast as possible so that you can get back into the fight." I nodded my head in delight upon hearing that.
"Ok, now thats settled, come on lets get a move on and finish this stupid dungeon." I said with cheerful expression. While turning around to head off towards where we accidently encountered the boss, while turned away from the girls my smile that I had on my face turned from one of compassion, empathy, determination and resolve was deforming into a twisted and demented smile.
This smile could be seen normally on battle crazed maniacs and sadists. Trying not to show it to much outwardly, I was really looking foward to my rematch with the so called Kalaponos, and this time, ohhhh this time I will come out the winner even if I have to lose the little remnants of humanity I still had left.