The Challenge Continues

[x♦Rain♦x]

Blue eyes opened to a canopy of stone. Songa blinked the sleep away and sat up. For a minute she was confused and didn't know where she was. But then, when she saw her two friends Valineh and Kori sleeping beside her, she remembered what was going on; Kori was helping her and Valineh, illegal Maplers as they were only thirteen when you needed to be at least sixteen, go on adventures through Windia unnoticed - or so they hoped...

Songa sighed and poked Valineh in the side. She didn't want to wake Kori - she wasn't afraid of the other Mapler, but she was afraid of feeling Kori's rough side.

Sun poked Val again, harder this time. "Vallie," she whispered. "Wake up. Vallie?"

[Jaime the Space Cadet!!!]

Valineh stirred and opened her large ice-blue eyes. Her voice was slurred with sleep. "Sun? Hi Sunny."

She sat up and shook Kori awake. Kori suddenly turned, her massive gray optics concealed beneath red contacts, wide open. "I was already awake, Val," she said, her voice crystal clear. "I was waiting for you two to realize that."

"Why didn't you tell us?"

Kori rolled her eyes. "Isn't it obvious? You can never let your guard down. What if I was your enemy, and you thought I was dead? Rule number one of living in the wild."

"Sorry."

"it's okay." Kori shrugged in forgiveness. "You're learning. Next time, check and see by poking me with something. Your enemy would think that it was your hand and attack the stick."

"Oh!" Valineh smiled. "I get it!"

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Songa listened closely as Kori lectured Valineh. She shuddered as she thought about waking up in this cold place with a blood-thirsty killer beside you instead of your friends.

"We have...e-enemies?" Sun asked Kori shakily. Who in the world would be our enemies? But there were people out there, Songa reminded herself with a gulp. Bad people...

((I don't feel like roleplaying Kori; it's too hard. xD You go ahead.))

[Jaime the Space Cadet!!!]

Kori rolled her eyes at Songa's ignorance. "Of course we have enemies. The police, our old families, sometimes oven other Maplers. And obviously the monsters. Once I thought I killed this Gray Stump, and I almost died trying to take its mesos. So always be alert."

Valineh nodded, remembering how something similar had happened to her, except it was with a shroom. "Okay, now that that's been said, let's go train."

"And get some food," Kori added. "I found a few good hunting places; come on!"

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finally

IT WORKED I GOT MY ACCOUNT

(geez what a pain)

This is 2kori1 speaking saying "Muhahahahahahahha" ;D

[Jaime the Space Cadet!!!]

((Lol. Hiii! Please read the rules.))

Valineh and Songa followed Kori to the Henyses Hunting Grounds, excited about their first real hunting trip together. Val adjusted her hat so that it covered her ears, protecting them from the cold.

"So how does this work?" Valineh asked. "I never really got the hang of this. We attack monsters, yeah, but which are too strong for us?"

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"Well,it works like this."Kori replied "The monsters at the bottom are the weakest, snails and shrooms and that about covers the bottom floor."
"The next level contains squishies and the next one contains orange mush and stumps."Kori continued.
" And finally the last level before the rope contains green mushroom which are too advanced for you and the monsters I will be killing."
((how was that? ;D))

[Jaime the Space Cadet!!!]

((Poifect!))

Valineh nodded. She'd spent a month here already, so she knew that she was strong enough to go to the second level on the hill. She nodded at Songa to make sure she was fine with staying on the bottom alone. She was.

Val squared off her shoulders and leaped onto a haystack with Kori. Using it as a ladder, she climbed up to the high ledge of the hill and chose an enemy. An Orange Mushroom bounced merrily along the ledge. How many people had it killed? There was no such thing as a monster that hadn't harmed a person ((in the story)), and it was Val's civic illegal dutie ((Haha! Doodie.)) to take it out.

((Wanna do the Gaia Roleplay? It's called "Vampire."))

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((nah this is awesome))

Watching Valineh kill the orange mushroom still impressed kori, she had been there the whole time when she could barely kill a shroom.((how long have we been runaways?))And now she was killing orange mushrooms.

[Jaime the Space Cadet!!!]

((You've been a runaway for four years; me, a month. Now seriously, that Gaia Roleplay?))

Vallie stood proudly at her kill, enjoying the site of the Mush's motionless body. She pried off its cap and saw, to her delight, that it had twenty mesos stored. "I did it! Hooray!"

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((fine))

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((I'm sorry, I've been a bad member. Dx Hi 2kori1. ^^))

Songa watched in amazement as Valineh killed an Orange Mushroom and collected the mesos beneath its top. She knew soon it would be her turn, and she would really have to try unless she wanted to embarrass herself in front of her friends. ((What's a good monster to kill. Anyone? :]))

"Wow, good job Vallie!" Sun congratulated her friend, giving a smile -- the first happy-looking one she'd had ever since they ran away.

[Jaime the Space Cadet!!!]

((Good monster=Shroom. It's a mini Orange Mush, basically.))

"Thanks," was all Val managed to say before a stump snuck up on her. In a matter of minutes she was happily battling the monsters on this level, unable to speak.

[Rain logged off]

((Okez. If you haven't noticed, I love experimenting with colors. =^_^=))

Songa took a deep breath and glanced around. She couldn't see anything for her to catch. But suddenly, a little Shroom, looking like a smaller version of the Orange Mushroom that Valineh had just claimed, toddled out in front of her. For the first time in Sun's whole life, boldness swelled inside of her, and before her mind could protest she was upon the Shroom. In a split second, the little monster was dead. ((Little monster. Sounds like I'm talkin' about a kid. xD))

Songa stared unblinking at the motionless Shroom. "I...I killed it," she breathed, half to herself half to the two others behind her. "I actually did it." She ended the last sentence with a laugh of joy. Then she slowly pulled off the creature's top and collected fifteen mesos happily. She stood up and turned around, looking at Valineh and Kori with a nervous expression. "How was that?" she asked in a hopeful tone, though she tried hard to hide the fact that she was afraid of the opinions of her friends. It sounded pathetic, but sometimes Kori and Val felt like Songa's superiors...

((Sorry if some of it wasn't right; I've never played MalpleStory before, and so I wouldn't notice if some stuff didn't fit.))

[Jaime the Space Cadet!!!]

((Dammit Karlana (I've decided to use her real name because no one comes on this site except people I know), why do you never go on?!?!? Dx))

"Good!" Val panted in mid-swing. In fact, it had been more than good. At Songa's level, she shouldn't have been able to kill it so quickly ((hint-hint.)) Maybe she was very skilled--after all, she already had two semi-experts helping her. ((I've decided to show myself as a higher level, because I'm now level 25--almost 26--and it's excruciating to have to pretend I can barely kill a pathetic orange mush. Dx))

She didn't have time to congradulate her friend completely though, because a mechaturkey ((I HATE THOSE THINGS!!!)) snuck up behind her and attacked. Valineh gasped for air then fought back with a tecnique Kori had shown her: Doublestab. Although the monster's lasers hit her painfully several times, she was able to take it down in a matter of minutes with Doublestab.

When it finally slumped limply onto the ground, she triumphantly caught a gold coin that bounced out of its containment compartment. Still startled from the sudden attack, she dropped on the ground to rest and downed a White Potion.

((And since I am now using the Stinger in Maplestory...)) She was just about to move on when she saw a small blade poking out of the containment compartment. Curiously, she pulled it out and saw, to her delight, that it was a much sharper knife than the one she had been using.

"The Stinger," she whispered with a smile, then turned to battle with her newfound weapon. Louder, to keep up a conversation with her friends, "At least I got a new knife out of it! But still, the sooner the mechaturkeys go into hiding, the happier I'll be!" (Mechaturkeys only came once a year, near Thanksgiving.)

((Woot! Long post!))