Tearsia itself is a beautiful, rich land (although somewhat creepy in some areas) and is considered to be an almost “Perfect World“. The battles themselves alone are a testament to Tearsia’s imperfect status but other things plague this almost “Perfect World”: greed, citizen strife, theft, murder, jealousy, power hunger, monster raids, gangs, etc all plague this “Perfect World”. “Cloud. Heal the injured parties and get them back to fighting condition asap!” Shadow orders. “Got it!” Cloud_Walker (dae’s loving wife” cheerfully responds, running almost instantly to the injured Wanted Guild members to fulfill Shadow (aka Sheik’s ) order. “Serene. Take out the enemy clerics” Shadow commands SereneAurora while pointing to the annoying clerics in question. “Alright” Serene responds jumping high above the enemy clerics unleashing a deadly AOE (area of effect) attack knocking out over half of the enemy clerics and their beastie escorts. Cloud heals Serene of her minor damage, “thanks” Serene responds with a friendly wink. “No problem” Cloud answers smiling. SoulessPawn, Wanted’s chief Assassin (or “sin”) stealthily appears behind Cloud taking out an enemy wizard who was in the (long) process of attacking her with his mighty magic skills. “Thanks Soul” Dae and Cloud respond in unison. “No worries” Soul says grinning as he mercilessly slashes through more enemy wizards and clerics. “I’ll take out the Leader” Shadow informs her guild just before Shadow teleporting to the enemy guild Leaders location and slashing him to his death. Dae, Serene and Soul unleash a joint AOE attack on a lot of the remaining guild members, whilst Cloud heals them. Shadow slashes through a few guild mobs and than once through them takes out the guild director and stabs him into submission. The lesser enemy guild members seeing their leader and director fallen to their doom and the over whelming strength of Wanted they turn tail and run for the haunted hills. “Should we go after them?” Soul and Dae ask. “Nah, they no what’s good for them . So we’ll leave them be unless they come back” Shadow answers ready for a cat nap. Cloud and Serene giggle having guessed Shadows REAL motivation for calling the battle quits with the remaining enemies retreat. “What are you *aaaaahhmmm” laughing at?” Shadow questions Cloud and Serene yawning. “Oh, nothing. Nothing at all” they respond trying to look innocent. “R-aahm--ight” She says skeptically yawning, the boys join in with their own brief laughter. Shadow glares and the boys and girls feign innocent once more before bursting out laghing again. Shadow throws her head up in a defeated ‘what am I gonna do with them way’ and walks toward the Wanted guild base yawning and stretching all the way. Serene, Dae, Soul and Cloud stop laughing just long enough to notice Shadow moving on and quickly run to catch up with her. Shadow glances at them, they turn toward her smiling, she turns her head pretending not to notice. The others run infront of her feigning hurt expressions on their faces, Shadow teleports beyond them purposely giving them a hard time. Shadow, Serene, Soul, Dae and Cloud after walking for several miles reach the Archsaur north gate way. Walking through the gate the almost empty streets welcome them to Tearisia’s crowning and most busy city. Archsaur a bustling metropolis split into for sections: North district, West district, South district, and last but not least simply-Archsaur. The center of arch houses a large swimming/laundry pool where everyone washes their clothes, as well as a large platform. The platform houses a strange man who knows how to travel back in time, a school teacher (without any students) and a bounty hunter who’s always looking for rare fresh monster meat. Shadow and crew walk down through north arch, veering to their right towards and through west arch. Walking through west arch they struggle to make their way through the over active shops, shoppers, travelers and thieves. “Ok. I think I’m gonna set up a shop” Soul announces, “me too” Dae joins in. The two boys make their way through the crowd searching for a place to set up shop, “I’m going to search for a calender for my Mother” Cloud announces, “and I’m gonna shop for a new wig & top” Serene exclaims. “O aaahmm k” Shadow yawns in response, as she watches the girls wade through the crowd, finding it entertaining despite her sleepiness. Shadow very lazily and sleepily walks or rather swims through the west arch shopping district, toward South arch. Reaching South district, (South district being a medium between the ghost town-ness of North district and the busy shopping district-ness of the West district) Shadow turns left. After 4 hrs of walking (most of which took place in West district) she finally reaches Archsaur: the very poorly named East side of arch. Shadow walks past the Elder of arch (who tries to get her to stop so he can harass her) and walks on toward the harbor of arch, the harbor being the watery, liquid housing for several Tearsian guild bases, Wanted’s being one of them. Sitting close to the deck of the archsaur harbor is Wanted’s guild base that contains: thirty floors, war spoils, a guild banker, guild storage, guild wardrobe, training room, kitchen, indoor outhouse, attic, underwater basement, dungeon, sky loft, maid service, library, record room, torture chamber, gym, indoor garden, theater, armory, recreation room, living room and last but not least two thousand nicely furnished bedrooms in the sleeping quarters. Shadow enters the base and passes through the entryway and on up the stairs to the third floor, that contains the bedrooms (they would have put them higher but no one wanted to walk to the twenty-sixth or thirtieth floor just to sleep). She enters her private sleeping quarters and triumphantly plops down on her cushy, comfy and expensive feather bed made out of the finest N.Y. imported goose feathers. Tearisia imports all its finer goods from the neighboring country that bears the initials U.S (from the state of New York specifically. Indiana always just sends them corn and some useless materiel called ethanol the Tearisians have no idea what to do with). Minutes after plopping down on her bed Shadow falls fast asleep dreaming of bacon. After a wonderful one hour and eighteen minutes of sleeping, Shadow is rudely awakened by rapping at the door. She spent twenty minutes trying to cover her ears but to no avail, she gets up hoping it isn’t Dae because he forgot is key (again) “if its him, next time I’m just locking him out and making him sleep on the harbor deck (he has lost the six times this month”. Shadow traipses down the steps to see who’s at the door, she opens the door and standing in front of her is…..not Dae that’s for sure. “Do I know you?” She questions the tall (about six foot, seven), short red haired, slim, green eyed man standing at Wanted’s door. “No. Well, at least not yet” He responds politely with a flirtatious tone in his voice. “Yeah, right…Well than there’s no point in talking to you, I was in the middle of a nap anyway. So, goodbye” She says while hurriedly trying to shut the door. The man wedges his foot in the door, “now, now. Don’t be so hasty! We haven’t even gotten to know each other yet.” He says smiling. “What part of this does not sink in the fact, that I don’t WANT to know you?!” Shadow asks with an annoyed tone. “Oh, I’ve caught on to that alright. Its just….Well, I’ve seen you around arch and always thought your so pretty! Basic black really suits you” he again replies smiling. Shadow turns her head in disbelief. “Come on, now. I came all this way to get to know you and that’s the best reply you can give me? He says in a hurt tone. Shadow doesn’t respond. “Look. My name is Jon Paul aka Maverick how about I make up for interrupting your nap by taking you out to lunch? Or maybe dinner? He asks desperate for acquisition of her attention. Feeling rather annoyed and pestered, not to mention a little bit hungry: “fine. But let me change first” she answers at last rushing up to the guild wardrobe to change clothes. “Perfect” he says in a hush sinister tone with a devious smile on his face as she hurries up the stairs. After fifteen minutes she reappears downstairs, to find Jon Paul still waiting (to be honest she was a little disappointed he was still there). “Alright, I’m ready. Let’s go before I change my mind and find a better date.” She says sarcastically as she reaches Jon Paul at the door. “Funny.” Jon Paul says only slightly enjoying the playful jab about his date worthiness. Jon Paul holds out his arm for her, she flinches and reluctantly take is arm. Shadow quickly shuts and locks the door. Holding on to his arm, the two walk straight toward west arch via the path beneath the center platform. Jon Paul takes her to a middle class restaurant with decent-ish food. It was six o’clock by the time they reached the restaurant and Shadow was starved, they sat down at a back table and Jon Paul ordered them some fish. Not being much of a fish fan Shadow asked the waiter to bring her some steak pizza, extra crispy with a side of bacon and a large frie with some ice tea. Jon Paul glances at her quite obviously disgusted with her order choice, the waiter takes their menus and toddles off to fulfill their order. “So. Are you always this beautiful or does a wizard help you dress?” he asks her teasingly. “Ha, ha. Very funny” she replies un-amused. “You aren’t much for romance are you? He asks. “Oh, I’m sorry. Was that supposed be an attempt at romance? I hadn’t noticed.” Shadow replied sarcastically. Jon Paul hangs his head before adding: “See, what I mean? every time I try to compliment or flirt with you (not to mention just plainly talk to you), you come back with some sarcastic remark. Don’t my manly advances please you Shadow?” Shadow blankly stares back at Jon Paul thinking in her mind “Wow, really? “manly advances”? “Please me“? Who does he think he’s talking to? Do I LOOK like I what a boyfriend? Or *chuckle* “manly advances” from some random guy? Honestly”. Jon Paul frowns, Shadow puts her head in her hands as their food arrives. Closing her eyes for a few minutes with a sigh she finally asks: “What do you want me to do than? Fall all over, you? Someone I don’t even hardly know with sighs, swoons and passionate kisses? Does that sound even remotely sensible to you? Because it doesn’t on my side.” “And why not? He asks just before taking a bite of his fish “Its not like it would hurt you. Besides I’m not asking for sighs, swoons or passionate kisses just some reciprocation.” Shadow sighs “fine, whatever. Just don’t put the cart before the horse okay” She replies. “I won’t” Jon Paul says with a smile, sensing his charm weakening her defenses. Shadow finishes her pizza, fries, bacon and tea, Jon Paul having finished his fish long ago. “Alright.” Its been fun but take me home” Shadow tells Jon Paul. “Ok. Yours or mine?” He says with a wink. Shadow slits her eyes with a ‘you know who’s home I mean nitwit” look on her face. Jon Paul chuckles and says before just escorting her home. Jon Paul drops her off and leaves (but not before trying to steal a kiss, shadow repels him though), she walks through the door and finds Dae & Cloud making kissy faces on the entry way couch with Soul spying from behind said red velvet couch. Shadow swats at Soul “stop peeping like that it’s creepy” She yells at him. Dae and Cloud finally noticing his presence glare at him as well. Soul runs off to avoid being reprimanded, Shadow sighs just as Wanted member num. 27 (Rye) comes in holding the Archsaur tribune with a downcast look on his face. “what’s the matter?” the trio ask. “Oh, more sad reports of guilds breaking up” “You don’t think that will happen to us, do you? Dae asks worried. “Of course not. We are Wanted after all” Shadow proclaims with a smile.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wanted: Shadow of the Moon Chapter 1 "We are Wanted"
Midnight haunted wasteland: “Fall back!” Shadow commands. “Ok.” Second in command, DaemonShadow says nodding affirmatively in response to Shadow. “EVERYONE FALL BACK!” Dae yells echoing Shadows previous command. The clashing of swords, daggers, spears, axes, hammers and the ping of bows & arrows, patakas, etc could be heard on and around the area of the haunted wasteland. The famous guild: Wanted. Is battling an invading guild from a foreign land adjacent to Tearisia, their homeland. Battles like this happen frequently in Tearisia, the native Tearisians call them “guild wars”, the name stemming from the battles always taking place between two or more Tearisian guilds.
Tearsia itself is a beautiful, rich land (although somewhat creepy in some areas) and is considered to be an almost “Perfect World“. The battles themselves alone are a testament to Tearsia’s imperfect status but other things plague this almost “Perfect World”: greed, citizen strife, theft, murder, jealousy, power hunger, monster raids, gangs, etc all plague this “Perfect World”. “Cloud. Heal the injured parties and get them back to fighting condition asap!” Shadow orders. “Got it!” Cloud_Walker (dae’s loving wife” cheerfully responds, running almost instantly to the injured Wanted Guild members to fulfill Shadow (aka Sheik’s ) order. “Serene. Take out the enemy clerics” Shadow commands SereneAurora while pointing to the annoying clerics in question. “Alright” Serene responds jumping high above the enemy clerics unleashing a deadly AOE (area of effect) attack knocking out over half of the enemy clerics and their beastie escorts. Cloud heals Serene of her minor damage, “thanks” Serene responds with a friendly wink. “No problem” Cloud answers smiling. SoulessPawn, Wanted’s chief Assassin (or “sin”) stealthily appears behind Cloud taking out an enemy wizard who was in the (long) process of attacking her with his mighty magic skills. “Thanks Soul” Dae and Cloud respond in unison. “No worries” Soul says grinning as he mercilessly slashes through more enemy wizards and clerics. “I’ll take out the Leader” Shadow informs her guild just before Shadow teleporting to the enemy guild Leaders location and slashing him to his death. Dae, Serene and Soul unleash a joint AOE attack on a lot of the remaining guild members, whilst Cloud heals them. Shadow slashes through a few guild mobs and than once through them takes out the guild director and stabs him into submission. The lesser enemy guild members seeing their leader and director fallen to their doom and the over whelming strength of Wanted they turn tail and run for the haunted hills. “Should we go after them?” Soul and Dae ask. “Nah, they no what’s good for them . So we’ll leave them be unless they come back” Shadow answers ready for a cat nap. Cloud and Serene giggle having guessed Shadows REAL motivation for calling the battle quits with the remaining enemies retreat. “What are you *aaaaahhmmm” laughing at?” Shadow questions Cloud and Serene yawning. “Oh, nothing. Nothing at all” they respond trying to look innocent. “R-aahm--ight” She says skeptically yawning, the boys join in with their own brief laughter. Shadow glares and the boys and girls feign innocent once more before bursting out laghing again. Shadow throws her head up in a defeated ‘what am I gonna do with them way’ and walks toward the Wanted guild base yawning and stretching all the way. Serene, Dae, Soul and Cloud stop laughing just long enough to notice Shadow moving on and quickly run to catch up with her. Shadow glances at them, they turn toward her smiling, she turns her head pretending not to notice. The others run infront of her feigning hurt expressions on their faces, Shadow teleports beyond them purposely giving them a hard time. Shadow, Serene, Soul, Dae and Cloud after walking for several miles reach the Archsaur north gate way. Walking through the gate the almost empty streets welcome them to Tearisia’s crowning and most busy city. Archsaur a bustling metropolis split into for sections: North district, West district, South district, and last but not least simply-Archsaur. The center of arch houses a large swimming/laundry pool where everyone washes their clothes, as well as a large platform. The platform houses a strange man who knows how to travel back in time, a school teacher (without any students) and a bounty hunter who’s always looking for rare fresh monster meat. Shadow and crew walk down through north arch, veering to their right towards and through west arch. Walking through west arch they struggle to make their way through the over active shops, shoppers, travelers and thieves. “Ok. I think I’m gonna set up a shop” Soul announces, “me too” Dae joins in. The two boys make their way through the crowd searching for a place to set up shop, “I’m going to search for a calender for my Mother” Cloud announces, “and I’m gonna shop for a new wig & top” Serene exclaims. “O aaahmm k” Shadow yawns in response, as she watches the girls wade through the crowd, finding it entertaining despite her sleepiness. Shadow very lazily and sleepily walks or rather swims through the west arch shopping district, toward South arch. Reaching South district, (South district being a medium between the ghost town-ness of North district and the busy shopping district-ness of the West district) Shadow turns left. After 4 hrs of walking (most of which took place in West district) she finally reaches Archsaur: the very poorly named East side of arch. Shadow walks past the Elder of arch (who tries to get her to stop so he can harass her) and walks on toward the harbor of arch, the harbor being the watery, liquid housing for several Tearsian guild bases, Wanted’s being one of them. Sitting close to the deck of the archsaur harbor is Wanted’s guild base that contains: thirty floors, war spoils, a guild banker, guild storage, guild wardrobe, training room, kitchen, indoor outhouse, attic, underwater basement, dungeon, sky loft, maid service, library, record room, torture chamber, gym, indoor garden, theater, armory, recreation room, living room and last but not least two thousand nicely furnished bedrooms in the sleeping quarters. Shadow enters the base and passes through the entryway and on up the stairs to the third floor, that contains the bedrooms (they would have put them higher but no one wanted to walk to the twenty-sixth or thirtieth floor just to sleep). She enters her private sleeping quarters and triumphantly plops down on her cushy, comfy and expensive feather bed made out of the finest N.Y. imported goose feathers. Tearisia imports all its finer goods from the neighboring country that bears the initials U.S (from the state of New York specifically. Indiana always just sends them corn and some useless materiel called ethanol the Tearisians have no idea what to do with). Minutes after plopping down on her bed Shadow falls fast asleep dreaming of bacon. After a wonderful one hour and eighteen minutes of sleeping, Shadow is rudely awakened by rapping at the door. She spent twenty minutes trying to cover her ears but to no avail, she gets up hoping it isn’t Dae because he forgot is key (again) “if its him, next time I’m just locking him out and making him sleep on the harbor deck (he has lost the six times this month”. Shadow traipses down the steps to see who’s at the door, she opens the door and standing in front of her is…..not Dae that’s for sure. “Do I know you?” She questions the tall (about six foot, seven), short red haired, slim, green eyed man standing at Wanted’s door. “No. Well, at least not yet” He responds politely with a flirtatious tone in his voice. “Yeah, right…Well than there’s no point in talking to you, I was in the middle of a nap anyway. So, goodbye” She says while hurriedly trying to shut the door. The man wedges his foot in the door, “now, now. Don’t be so hasty! We haven’t even gotten to know each other yet.” He says smiling. “What part of this does not sink in the fact, that I don’t WANT to know you?!” Shadow asks with an annoyed tone. “Oh, I’ve caught on to that alright. Its just….Well, I’ve seen you around arch and always thought your so pretty! Basic black really suits you” he again replies smiling. Shadow turns her head in disbelief. “Come on, now. I came all this way to get to know you and that’s the best reply you can give me? He says in a hurt tone. Shadow doesn’t respond. “Look. My name is Jon Paul aka Maverick how about I make up for interrupting your nap by taking you out to lunch? Or maybe dinner? He asks desperate for acquisition of her attention. Feeling rather annoyed and pestered, not to mention a little bit hungry: “fine. But let me change first” she answers at last rushing up to the guild wardrobe to change clothes. “Perfect” he says in a hush sinister tone with a devious smile on his face as she hurries up the stairs. After fifteen minutes she reappears downstairs, to find Jon Paul still waiting (to be honest she was a little disappointed he was still there). “Alright, I’m ready. Let’s go before I change my mind and find a better date.” She says sarcastically as she reaches Jon Paul at the door. “Funny.” Jon Paul says only slightly enjoying the playful jab about his date worthiness. Jon Paul holds out his arm for her, she flinches and reluctantly take is arm. Shadow quickly shuts and locks the door. Holding on to his arm, the two walk straight toward west arch via the path beneath the center platform. Jon Paul takes her to a middle class restaurant with decent-ish food. It was six o’clock by the time they reached the restaurant and Shadow was starved, they sat down at a back table and Jon Paul ordered them some fish. Not being much of a fish fan Shadow asked the waiter to bring her some steak pizza, extra crispy with a side of bacon and a large frie with some ice tea. Jon Paul glances at her quite obviously disgusted with her order choice, the waiter takes their menus and toddles off to fulfill their order. “So. Are you always this beautiful or does a wizard help you dress?” he asks her teasingly. “Ha, ha. Very funny” she replies un-amused. “You aren’t much for romance are you? He asks. “Oh, I’m sorry. Was that supposed be an attempt at romance? I hadn’t noticed.” Shadow replied sarcastically. Jon Paul hangs his head before adding: “See, what I mean? every time I try to compliment or flirt with you (not to mention just plainly talk to you), you come back with some sarcastic remark. Don’t my manly advances please you Shadow?” Shadow blankly stares back at Jon Paul thinking in her mind “Wow, really? “manly advances”? “Please me“? Who does he think he’s talking to? Do I LOOK like I what a boyfriend? Or *chuckle* “manly advances” from some random guy? Honestly”. Jon Paul frowns, Shadow puts her head in her hands as their food arrives. Closing her eyes for a few minutes with a sigh she finally asks: “What do you want me to do than? Fall all over, you? Someone I don’t even hardly know with sighs, swoons and passionate kisses? Does that sound even remotely sensible to you? Because it doesn’t on my side.” “And why not? He asks just before taking a bite of his fish “Its not like it would hurt you. Besides I’m not asking for sighs, swoons or passionate kisses just some reciprocation.” Shadow sighs “fine, whatever. Just don’t put the cart before the horse okay” She replies. “I won’t” Jon Paul says with a smile, sensing his charm weakening her defenses. Shadow finishes her pizza, fries, bacon and tea, Jon Paul having finished his fish long ago. “Alright.” Its been fun but take me home” Shadow tells Jon Paul. “Ok. Yours or mine?” He says with a wink. Shadow slits her eyes with a ‘you know who’s home I mean nitwit” look on her face. Jon Paul chuckles and says before just escorting her home. Jon Paul drops her off and leaves (but not before trying to steal a kiss, shadow repels him though), she walks through the door and finds Dae & Cloud making kissy faces on the entry way couch with Soul spying from behind said red velvet couch. Shadow swats at Soul “stop peeping like that it’s creepy” She yells at him. Dae and Cloud finally noticing his presence glare at him as well. Soul runs off to avoid being reprimanded, Shadow sighs just as Wanted member num. 27 (Rye) comes in holding the Archsaur tribune with a downcast look on his face. “what’s the matter?” the trio ask. “Oh, more sad reports of guilds breaking up” “You don’t think that will happen to us, do you? Dae asks worried. “Of course not. We are Wanted after all” Shadow proclaims with a smile.
Tearsia itself is a beautiful, rich land (although somewhat creepy in some areas) and is considered to be an almost “Perfect World“. The battles themselves alone are a testament to Tearsia’s imperfect status but other things plague this almost “Perfect World”: greed, citizen strife, theft, murder, jealousy, power hunger, monster raids, gangs, etc all plague this “Perfect World”. “Cloud. Heal the injured parties and get them back to fighting condition asap!” Shadow orders. “Got it!” Cloud_Walker (dae’s loving wife” cheerfully responds, running almost instantly to the injured Wanted Guild members to fulfill Shadow (aka Sheik’s ) order. “Serene. Take out the enemy clerics” Shadow commands SereneAurora while pointing to the annoying clerics in question. “Alright” Serene responds jumping high above the enemy clerics unleashing a deadly AOE (area of effect) attack knocking out over half of the enemy clerics and their beastie escorts. Cloud heals Serene of her minor damage, “thanks” Serene responds with a friendly wink. “No problem” Cloud answers smiling. SoulessPawn, Wanted’s chief Assassin (or “sin”) stealthily appears behind Cloud taking out an enemy wizard who was in the (long) process of attacking her with his mighty magic skills. “Thanks Soul” Dae and Cloud respond in unison. “No worries” Soul says grinning as he mercilessly slashes through more enemy wizards and clerics. “I’ll take out the Leader” Shadow informs her guild just before Shadow teleporting to the enemy guild Leaders location and slashing him to his death. Dae, Serene and Soul unleash a joint AOE attack on a lot of the remaining guild members, whilst Cloud heals them. Shadow slashes through a few guild mobs and than once through them takes out the guild director and stabs him into submission. The lesser enemy guild members seeing their leader and director fallen to their doom and the over whelming strength of Wanted they turn tail and run for the haunted hills. “Should we go after them?” Soul and Dae ask. “Nah, they no what’s good for them . So we’ll leave them be unless they come back” Shadow answers ready for a cat nap. Cloud and Serene giggle having guessed Shadows REAL motivation for calling the battle quits with the remaining enemies retreat. “What are you *aaaaahhmmm” laughing at?” Shadow questions Cloud and Serene yawning. “Oh, nothing. Nothing at all” they respond trying to look innocent. “R-aahm--ight” She says skeptically yawning, the boys join in with their own brief laughter. Shadow glares and the boys and girls feign innocent once more before bursting out laghing again. Shadow throws her head up in a defeated ‘what am I gonna do with them way’ and walks toward the Wanted guild base yawning and stretching all the way. Serene, Dae, Soul and Cloud stop laughing just long enough to notice Shadow moving on and quickly run to catch up with her. Shadow glances at them, they turn toward her smiling, she turns her head pretending not to notice. The others run infront of her feigning hurt expressions on their faces, Shadow teleports beyond them purposely giving them a hard time. Shadow, Serene, Soul, Dae and Cloud after walking for several miles reach the Archsaur north gate way. Walking through the gate the almost empty streets welcome them to Tearisia’s crowning and most busy city. Archsaur a bustling metropolis split into for sections: North district, West district, South district, and last but not least simply-Archsaur. The center of arch houses a large swimming/laundry pool where everyone washes their clothes, as well as a large platform. The platform houses a strange man who knows how to travel back in time, a school teacher (without any students) and a bounty hunter who’s always looking for rare fresh monster meat. Shadow and crew walk down through north arch, veering to their right towards and through west arch. Walking through west arch they struggle to make their way through the over active shops, shoppers, travelers and thieves. “Ok. I think I’m gonna set up a shop” Soul announces, “me too” Dae joins in. The two boys make their way through the crowd searching for a place to set up shop, “I’m going to search for a calender for my Mother” Cloud announces, “and I’m gonna shop for a new wig & top” Serene exclaims. “O aaahmm k” Shadow yawns in response, as she watches the girls wade through the crowd, finding it entertaining despite her sleepiness. Shadow very lazily and sleepily walks or rather swims through the west arch shopping district, toward South arch. Reaching South district, (South district being a medium between the ghost town-ness of North district and the busy shopping district-ness of the West district) Shadow turns left. After 4 hrs of walking (most of which took place in West district) she finally reaches Archsaur: the very poorly named East side of arch. Shadow walks past the Elder of arch (who tries to get her to stop so he can harass her) and walks on toward the harbor of arch, the harbor being the watery, liquid housing for several Tearsian guild bases, Wanted’s being one of them. Sitting close to the deck of the archsaur harbor is Wanted’s guild base that contains: thirty floors, war spoils, a guild banker, guild storage, guild wardrobe, training room, kitchen, indoor outhouse, attic, underwater basement, dungeon, sky loft, maid service, library, record room, torture chamber, gym, indoor garden, theater, armory, recreation room, living room and last but not least two thousand nicely furnished bedrooms in the sleeping quarters. Shadow enters the base and passes through the entryway and on up the stairs to the third floor, that contains the bedrooms (they would have put them higher but no one wanted to walk to the twenty-sixth or thirtieth floor just to sleep). She enters her private sleeping quarters and triumphantly plops down on her cushy, comfy and expensive feather bed made out of the finest N.Y. imported goose feathers. Tearisia imports all its finer goods from the neighboring country that bears the initials U.S (from the state of New York specifically. Indiana always just sends them corn and some useless materiel called ethanol the Tearisians have no idea what to do with). Minutes after plopping down on her bed Shadow falls fast asleep dreaming of bacon. After a wonderful one hour and eighteen minutes of sleeping, Shadow is rudely awakened by rapping at the door. She spent twenty minutes trying to cover her ears but to no avail, she gets up hoping it isn’t Dae because he forgot is key (again) “if its him, next time I’m just locking him out and making him sleep on the harbor deck (he has lost the six times this month”. Shadow traipses down the steps to see who’s at the door, she opens the door and standing in front of her is…..not Dae that’s for sure. “Do I know you?” She questions the tall (about six foot, seven), short red haired, slim, green eyed man standing at Wanted’s door. “No. Well, at least not yet” He responds politely with a flirtatious tone in his voice. “Yeah, right…Well than there’s no point in talking to you, I was in the middle of a nap anyway. So, goodbye” She says while hurriedly trying to shut the door. The man wedges his foot in the door, “now, now. Don’t be so hasty! We haven’t even gotten to know each other yet.” He says smiling. “What part of this does not sink in the fact, that I don’t WANT to know you?!” Shadow asks with an annoyed tone. “Oh, I’ve caught on to that alright. Its just….Well, I’ve seen you around arch and always thought your so pretty! Basic black really suits you” he again replies smiling. Shadow turns her head in disbelief. “Come on, now. I came all this way to get to know you and that’s the best reply you can give me? He says in a hurt tone. Shadow doesn’t respond. “Look. My name is Jon Paul aka Maverick how about I make up for interrupting your nap by taking you out to lunch? Or maybe dinner? He asks desperate for acquisition of her attention. Feeling rather annoyed and pestered, not to mention a little bit hungry: “fine. But let me change first” she answers at last rushing up to the guild wardrobe to change clothes. “Perfect” he says in a hush sinister tone with a devious smile on his face as she hurries up the stairs. After fifteen minutes she reappears downstairs, to find Jon Paul still waiting (to be honest she was a little disappointed he was still there). “Alright, I’m ready. Let’s go before I change my mind and find a better date.” She says sarcastically as she reaches Jon Paul at the door. “Funny.” Jon Paul says only slightly enjoying the playful jab about his date worthiness. Jon Paul holds out his arm for her, she flinches and reluctantly take is arm. Shadow quickly shuts and locks the door. Holding on to his arm, the two walk straight toward west arch via the path beneath the center platform. Jon Paul takes her to a middle class restaurant with decent-ish food. It was six o’clock by the time they reached the restaurant and Shadow was starved, they sat down at a back table and Jon Paul ordered them some fish. Not being much of a fish fan Shadow asked the waiter to bring her some steak pizza, extra crispy with a side of bacon and a large frie with some ice tea. Jon Paul glances at her quite obviously disgusted with her order choice, the waiter takes their menus and toddles off to fulfill their order. “So. Are you always this beautiful or does a wizard help you dress?” he asks her teasingly. “Ha, ha. Very funny” she replies un-amused. “You aren’t much for romance are you? He asks. “Oh, I’m sorry. Was that supposed be an attempt at romance? I hadn’t noticed.” Shadow replied sarcastically. Jon Paul hangs his head before adding: “See, what I mean? every time I try to compliment or flirt with you (not to mention just plainly talk to you), you come back with some sarcastic remark. Don’t my manly advances please you Shadow?” Shadow blankly stares back at Jon Paul thinking in her mind “Wow, really? “manly advances”? “Please me“? Who does he think he’s talking to? Do I LOOK like I what a boyfriend? Or *chuckle* “manly advances” from some random guy? Honestly”. Jon Paul frowns, Shadow puts her head in her hands as their food arrives. Closing her eyes for a few minutes with a sigh she finally asks: “What do you want me to do than? Fall all over, you? Someone I don’t even hardly know with sighs, swoons and passionate kisses? Does that sound even remotely sensible to you? Because it doesn’t on my side.” “And why not? He asks just before taking a bite of his fish “Its not like it would hurt you. Besides I’m not asking for sighs, swoons or passionate kisses just some reciprocation.” Shadow sighs “fine, whatever. Just don’t put the cart before the horse okay” She replies. “I won’t” Jon Paul says with a smile, sensing his charm weakening her defenses. Shadow finishes her pizza, fries, bacon and tea, Jon Paul having finished his fish long ago. “Alright.” Its been fun but take me home” Shadow tells Jon Paul. “Ok. Yours or mine?” He says with a wink. Shadow slits her eyes with a ‘you know who’s home I mean nitwit” look on her face. Jon Paul chuckles and says before just escorting her home. Jon Paul drops her off and leaves (but not before trying to steal a kiss, shadow repels him though), she walks through the door and finds Dae & Cloud making kissy faces on the entry way couch with Soul spying from behind said red velvet couch. Shadow swats at Soul “stop peeping like that it’s creepy” She yells at him. Dae and Cloud finally noticing his presence glare at him as well. Soul runs off to avoid being reprimanded, Shadow sighs just as Wanted member num. 27 (Rye) comes in holding the Archsaur tribune with a downcast look on his face. “what’s the matter?” the trio ask. “Oh, more sad reports of guilds breaking up” “You don’t think that will happen to us, do you? Dae asks worried. “Of course not. We are Wanted after all” Shadow proclaims with a smile.
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