That evening the group started heading out from the guilds homebase. They made a plan that Momo would be in the center casting healing spells in their travels if they had to fight. Will and Gale will defend the back and Larry and Fred would be at her shoulders. Robert will be in front of everyone with T who had learned necromancy and pyromancy. The group moved smoothly through the main town. When they began leaving the City of Beginnings there were guards posted up at the gates.
"Going on a raid?" one of the guards looking at the group said to them.
"We are on a mission we need to get through." T said.
"What is this mission? We can't allow passage through the gate unless we know what you are doing." said the second guard.
"Robert don't..." said T while trying to hold back Robert from grabbing the second guard. The first guard lifted his halberd as if he was about to attack them. Will walked to the guards and said, "I notice you have a weapon crafted by the Chosen ones…" Pointing at the crest that looked like that of the guild the group was from.
The guard smiled and said "Best crafters of weapons in the world. Our guild had to pay big bucks for these weapons." Will looked at the guard and smiled.
"We are the leaders of the Chosen Ones, and I can make sure your guild never receives our weapons or potions again if you do not let us pass." Will pulled up a ring with the crest symbol on the top. The guards looked terrified. "I'll send word to your leaders and let them know that you aren't letting us pass. So, we are going to strip your guild from our things." Will smiled as he knew that they could not refuse to let them pass.
The group carried onward; Larry still upset that he slowed the group down because he couldn't use magic. They followed the path leading west from the city and fought NPC bandits as they walked past 5 different towns. The group stopped at a little rundown town to catch their breath and replenish the mana they used on the first day.
"We made great time." Gale said, pointing at the map he had in his hands telling them they would be arriving at the Fairies Spring Hospital by nightfall. The group Found a decent looking tavern that had rooms for the night.
The bar keeper greeted the travelers as they entered the largely deserted area of the tavern. "Will you be staying for the night?" The bar keeper announced to the guests. The group approached the bar keeper carefully looking for any signs of danger. Momo said to the bar keeper "Sure, how much will it cost to stay for the night?" The bar keeper smiled and showed the sign on the table.
The sign read:
One night 2 gold.
Two nights 4 gold.
Three nights 8 gold.
Four nights 16 gold.
Five nights 32 gold.
Six nights 64 gold.
Weekly 100 Gold.
The group's jaws dropped looking at the prices. "This is a rip off," Will said. The bar keeper looked at Will and said, "I'm the only tavern in town that will make sure you and your belongings are safe since this is a player vs player area." The group looked again at each other and decided to pay 4 gold each just to make sure they had a head start on leaving in case anyone was watching.
Will looked at Larry who seemed to be tinkering with the crystal in his hand. Momo walked to her room and asked them to come with her to her room. The group followed her into the room. She closed the door. Then turned to Fred and asked if he could cast a spell. Fred started typing in the air and clapped his hands shut. The door behind Momo made a shiny looking barrier between the door and the room. He did the same thing to the windows of the room and then shut the curtains so that no one could peek in.
"We have been followed." Momo Said. The group didn't seem surprised.
"It was my fault." Will looked at Momo. "After I said we are the leaders of the Chosen Ones I noticed a few guys behind us tried staying in the shadows to follow us."
T looked at the group and said "I can make a group of undead and separate them from us. Once they leave we can go in the morning."
Larry stopped fiddling with the crystal and said, "It won't work man."
T disagreed and explained that if they split the undead to a party of 3 they could make all three spies split up and follow the undead.
Larry shook his head and said there are 5 guys in total and that one of the guys is a bounty appraiser. T looked confused as did the rest of the group. Larry started explaining that a bounty appraiser tracks targets down that have high value on their heads. Then relay the message to a bounty hunter. They will keep following the targets until the bounty hunter comes in. Then they will assist the bounty hunter in finding the real targets if the targets use any clones or mislead the bounty hunter.
"His Human appraisal skill is very high. He would notice that the undead are NPCs. It's not going to be easy to get rid of them either, they have 2 trackers. Both have a very high sense. Two bounty hunters will be coming shortly. Most Likely staying for two nights. Our best bet would be to teleport to the area. But I won't be able to go with you." Larry said to the group. The group considered for a moment in leaving Larry behind, but Momo told them that she wants all of them to go, and she needs Larry's appraisal skills to tell her what NPC wrote the letter.
Larry nodded and they tried to work out a plan to lose the trackers. Larry pulled out an orb and said some words to it. The orb looked high tech. The orb opened in Larry's hand revealing a playback of Larrys appraisal of the trackers and the bounty Appraiser. The data orb will show me everything that I have remembered. It will also search the games database to find out who the people are and what they have accomplished.
The orb opened up a screen and the appraisal Larry had done was now up showing everyone in the room the stats of the three guys that were currently tracking them. Larry looked at the stats and told them that they should teleport out. He explained that the guys tracking them down were as strong as Jay. "NightStalker And NightSlayers are the top trackers in the game. They only hunt big money. NightJinx is the top appraiser in the game." Larry added "Besides me. And they work with NightFallen and NightMare. This is the bounty hunting guild's best players. They Have a 100% success rate on retrieving the targets they need to capture or kill. We need to leave. I have a port crystal to base I'll take Will and Robert." Robert looked as though he did not want to leave.
Momo looked at the group and decided that it was best to flee. She reluctantly grabbed her staff and teleported to the location with Fred, T and Gale. Larry, Robert, and Will teleported to the castle with one of Larry's crystals.
Larry looked back as they were teleporting and saw that one of the trackers was decloaking from the corner of the room. He smiled at Larry while waving good-bye. Larry, Will, and Robert arrived at the Castle gates with Larry freaking out. He was yelling and screaming that he needed to get in contact with Momo and the rest of the party before it's too late. Robert made the suggestion of changing the crystal's coordinates with the world map in the room. Larry, shocked that Robert had a great idea, ran to the castle. Will and Robert behind him.
Meanwhile Momo, Gale, T, and Fred just arrived at the Hospital door. Momo looked around and noticed that they were surrounded by people. People that looked like they wanted to kill.
"I am NightMare. We have come for your bounty. You must understand we have no quarrel with you or your guild. So, either give us Your staff or we will take it from you by force." The man in a blood red Cloak said to Momo and the group.
Momo laughed at the guy in the blood red Cloak. "Why would I give you, my staff? It was the only thing that I have from Jay and when he hears what you have done, he will find your guild and rip you to shreds." The group surrounding them laughed as NightMare said "Jay is only a myth that the Chosen Ones have created to make themselves be feared. There is no proof that he existed and there is no way he would dare fight us. We are the top guild in the game currently and the most feared because our actions speak louder than words."
Momo looked very angry with what was said. She lifted her staff and started chanting a spell, but it was too late. NightMare had taken the staff from her in a blink of an eye. He laughed as he said "Thieves, as long as they can't be seen, they can take an object from a player even in the safe zones. It was nice knowing you, hope you aren't our targets again." NightMare waved his hand, and a bright light blinded Momo and the group.
The Bounty hunting guild left. Larry, Will, and Robert appeared almost simultaneously.
"It's a trap!" Larry yelled. Looking at the disappointed faces of the rest of the group. Momo Looked like she was going to kill the next person that spoke to her.
An NPC showed up and Welcomed Momo to the Fairies Spring Hospital. Momo turned and began screaming at the top of her lungs as tears fell down. She yelled out that she needed Jay back. The group, unsure of what to do, just sat down next to her trying to make her feel better. Momo told them that when Jay gets revived the bounty hunter guild will pay for the crimes, they committed against them and the guild.
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The group woke up in the hospital waiting to see if Momo was going to be called in yet. They didn't dare say a word to Momo since they did not want to hurt her feelings. A male nurse walked through the double doors. "Miss Momo," the NPC called out. She looked up. The nurse motioned her to follow him past the double doors. She followed him until they reached a long dull gray corridor. She had the feeling that this section of the Hospital was like the castle in the guild. The feeling she had was as if life or death never existed in the area. She felt goosebumps and a slight chill run down her spine. The nurse urged her to go see her trainer. She felt weak, she felt scared, but she did not want to give up. Momo took a step forward. The chilling presence she felt intensified. Her knees felt like giving out.
A voice very familiar to her called out echoing in the now dark hallway. "The power you see is just ahead." Momo pressed forward. Pushing with all her might. She was now on all four crawling. There were two doors. Both slightly opened next to each other.
"Which door will you choose?" The voice called out to her. She opened both doors and to her horror she found The Cloaked Man standing at both entrances. She turned to call for help. But as she turned the doors , The Cloaked Man was in front of her again. "WHICH DOOR WILL YOU CHOOSE!" The Cloaked Man now yelled but it seemed like he wasn't yelling as if he was talking to her telepathically.
She looked at both doors and saw a glimpse of people dying in one door, and someone being revived in the other. She chose the door on the left with the people being revived. She yelled out I want to Save People! The door on the right slammed shut and The Cloaked Man removed it to reveal a Man whose face was so bright it could not be seen. Momo tried looking up at the Man but all she could see was white. His wings looked like pure gold. It was an angel.
"Who are you?" Momo asked.
"I am a Purgatorian named The Cloaked Man. I am the meaning of life though my brother is the meaning of Death. We share the same body but have different souls. When we are one, we neither live nor dead. It is our docile form. Our Body has gone from the realm, and it will be your Duty to help me reunite our soul back to the body we have come from." The Cloaked Man said Momo.
Momo agreed as long as she could bring back anyone she could from death. The Cloaked Man agreed and touched her head with a finger, and she felt immense power fill her body. Her healing stats were 50 levels above the level she currently was, and she could keep powering herself up if she trained. With limitless healing potential. The Cloaked Man told her that the mana she has could only resurrect one person and she would need to max her manna out to proceed on reviving her allies. The Cloaked Man had said to her that the power she has obtained will be given to only 4 more people.
She looked so pleased. She asked The Cloaked Man if she had to use any material. The Cloaked Man told her that she would need a diamond forged by dragon's breath or a staff of the Ancient Fairies. Momo looked Angry and said thank you to The Cloak Man.
She returned to the group and told them all to teleport home. They all did as she said. Bright lights filled the hospital, and they all returned to the Guilds castle. She explained to the group that The Cloaked Man gave her the power she needed to help bring Jay back. She explained to them that they needed to get her staff back or that they needed to get a diamond forged by a Dragon's breath.
Larry looked Up as if he knew where to find one. Larry opened up the orb and showed Momo the Current stats of the dragon that has the chance of dropping a Diamond Forged in dragon's breath.
"Currently it has an 80 percent chance of dropping since it has been killed once. Its percentage is dependent on its age, and it was only killed once during beta." Larry smiled.
Momo looked at Larry and asked, "Who killed it?"
Larry smiled, "It was Jay."
The group teleported back to the guild. They ran up to the castle to get to where Jay's room used to be. It looked like a solid wall. "Fred, can you try manipulating the wall to bring the door back?" Momo asked. Fred began typing in midair again and clasped his hand. The wall slowly began to change into a door, but it did not look like Jay's door. The group Thought maybe they could open to see what was inside. Robert was asked to open the door since he had the most health than anyone in the group currently. Robert turned the knob slightly and began shaking vigorously. He began foaming from the mouth. T and Fred began pulling him from the door. Roberts' health dropped to 1. Momo cast a healing spell to help Robert regain his health.
"Is there a dispel magic anyone can do?" Momo asked. Fred looked up and said that he is one more level off of Dispel magic and he could learn it at level 99 but he had just reached level 98. Everyone looked disappointed. They all knew that the XP from 98 to 99 was the same as gaining the XP from 1 to 98.
"What can we do?" Momo asked. Fred and T looked at each other and Said "maybe we could ask an NPC to grab it for us." The group asked NPCS in the castle to try and obtain an object in Jay's room. The NPCs Obeyed but none of the NPC came back out of the room once they entered.
"Do you think Jay has a Guard in his room?" Gale asked.
"I know he left us a guard in our room to protect our items from intruders." Will said looking displeased realizing that he could have an army of things in his room.
"Why does Jay have to be so difficult sometimes?" Momo interjected. "He always takes things too far and now we can't save him because of it!" Momo began yelling. The group turned to look at the door opening and they were in shock to see what was inside.
It was a Creature they have never encountered in the game in any of their travels. This creature seemed to be void of life or death. It was small but it emanated immense power through its aura which could be seen around its body like a layer of terrifying lights around it. It only had a wide bloodied smile on its white face, no eyes, no nose, just a smile. Its small body was dressed in colorful jester looking clothing. And its hands were covered in blood. Bodies of the NPCs sent to retrieve the Diamond were being sent flying out by the creature with just one wave of its hand. The door slammed shut as the last body flew out. The group looked terrified.
Larry Trembling at what he just saw pulled out the orb to figure out what that creature was. The Orb took the stats of the creature that Larry appraised and pulled up three files of creatures with the stats the same as the creature. The three files read Diamond Dragon, King Graxx, and the Jester's Almighty Yell. Larry Opened the file of Jester's Almighty Yell and knew immediately that this was the creature. The description read:
No image available on file. This creature is short and wears Jester-like clothing. It is the servant of one Master. This creature can be tamed if found in the wild. It is best to avoid this creature since it will kill and eat its foes gaining the strength of those it has eaten. I.E. Eating a Diamond Dragon will make the creature gain the abilities of the dragon as well as keeping any other traits it has stolen from players and NPC's. If a player owns One of these creatures and dies in battle, the creature will search for its master if its aware of its master's death. The creature will stop at nothing to bring its master back to life and kill anything in its path to reach its body unless the creature was ordered to protect an object for the master. Its current abilities on file is Flying Aces- This ability has a 500% hit rate with a kill percentage on average players at 100%, Revival- the creature will revive its master with items if it does not have the items it will sacrifice itself to revive its master, and Prankster- This ability will Create the A players/NPCs worst fear come true.
"I swear I'm going to kill Jay when I bring him back to life!" Momo yelled. The door beside them thumped. The group got spooked and left. "What are we going to do?" Momo asked the group while pacing back and forth.
"Why we no bring Jay to Creature?" Robert suggested. Gale looked up at Robert and agreed, telling the group that they could take Jay's body to the creature and try to revive him. Momo looked at the group and said that she will bring the body back to the creature.
The group went to the underground tunnels to retrieve Jay's body. While Momo waited by the entrance of Jay's room with Fred and T.
"Do you think this will work?" Momo asked the group. Both T and Fred told her that they hoped it works. The group finally brought Jay's body up. His body was floating in midair with Robert next to the body just in case it fell. Fred and T both opened the door together by casting a spell. The door flew off the hinges and the creature had been sitting in the center of Jay's room. The creature lifted a hand and cards with the letter A appeared. Momo grabbed Jay's floating body and pushed it forward to the creature. The creature lowered its hand and appeared to be now looking at Jay's body.
The Jester Lifted its hand up with the cards and a Beautiful looking diamond appeared in its hand. The diamond seemed to have captured flames inside of it. The Jester tossed it to Momo and the group looked surprised. The Jester sat back down at the center of the room with its head pointing downward. Momo said thank you to the Jester and began casting the spell.
The diamond burst as she finished chanting and the flames that were once in the diamond surrounded Jay's body. The flames were so immense everyone covered their eyes so they would not be blinded. The flames finally dispersed and standing in front of them all was Jay.