Chapter 8: Decisions Part 1

"Who are you?" Jeris said with a raised eyebrow to the stranger who stood before him and Edward.

The man gasped as if he was offended and then sighed, "Well, I guess no one told you about me, Twins" he said in a smug voice. After that, he turned around and started walking away from them like nothing had happened.

"This day is just getting weirder and weirder, I need to get something to eat" Edward sighed and headed for the closest restaurant. He didn't care if they originally were going to The Crawling Titan, he wanted to sit down and have something edible or drinkable.

With a yawn, Jeris took a chair opposite Edward. All the confusion and misunderstandings had made him really tired and he felt that he needed something exciting to do. A fight would've been nice, but that cloaked man had to knock all the bandits out without leaving a single one awake.

"Do really you think that we should join this guild? I mean, they seem nice, but something's off… I kind of would prefer us travelling alone again, it's much safer" Jeris asked his companion. Edward looked up from the empty plate and gave Jeris a surprised, almost angered, look.

"I thought you wanted to join a guild? Are you seriously telling me that we've, no, I've done all this searching for nothing? We can at least give it a shot!" he yelled at Jeris, who seemed to be maybe just a bit intimidated.

"Okay, take it easy! We'll join, but only temporary" Jeris said and sighed. He'd forgotten how scary Edward could be when he wanted to.

"Hah, I bet 20 they're too freaked out to even come near this place" Ranja laughed. All of the guild was talking about the two possible newcomers, even the ones who weren't quite as positive.

"30 jewels they'll join then," Nightmare said. He was always in on this kind of challenge, not for the money, but for the sake of the fun.

"40 we'll never hear from them again" Sannah grinned. She loved betting and gambling, which could be quite a problem when she gambled away all her travel money while on a mission.

"50 that Tiger will be the first one to befriend them" Alex added.

"Deal," Ranja said.

"Why am I not surprised by the fact that the four of you are betting on something like this?" Natalie sighed as she sat down beside them.

The other four looked at her, immediately knowing the problem. Bonnie and Natalie fought often, usually because of Bonnie's way of seeing things, but this was personal. A tale never to be forgotten. They had lost people that day.

"Stop looking at me like you want to say something, just say it instead" Natalie prompted, she was tired and didn't very much care about anything.

Sannah was the first to speak, "You should head to your room, it's getting dark and you look like you need some sleep" she said. This girl didn't exactly have a filter, she would say what she thought whenever she wanted to.

"That is absolutely right, see you later"

And in the matter of a second Natalie was gone. Although they hadn't known her for that many years, they were concerned. She was usually not the kind to be affected by these things.

"Well, since that's over, I bet 80 they'll join us first thing tomorrow morning"

They turned to see Zackery Orion grinning at them. Almost shoulder-long spiky black hair decorated his head, just like his light brown skin did his body. The only thing you could question about his appearance was the dark cloak he was wearing.

"Way to improve the mood Zack, you could top it off with telling us a joke," Sannah said, sarcastically of course. She

"If that is what you wish. What do you call an annoying, grumpy and blue haired girl?" Sannah glared at him, as did the others. "Sannah Zaccarihas!" he laughed, at his own joke, when no one else was laughing.

This man, or should we say boy? Either way, he surprisingly was one of the few S-class. There were five of them in the guild, each one as odd as the other. Sannah, for example, had been recruited by Alex while in a bar fight that she had started, she said it was because someone was cheating in poker, and just a month after that she was appointed the S-class title.

George liked to hand out titles whenever he felt like it, Natalie claimed that there was some kind of rules about to who, but not many actually believed that. He was quite the random man, doing what he felt like.

"Haha, very funny, I thought you were nineteen, not twelve, though" Sannah was mad, really mad.

"And I thought you were twenty, not boring"

This was the point where Sannah had enough and was ready to charge at Zack anytime. She would have, too, if it was not for the large guild doors opening.

At a closer look, they weren't opening. Someone was slowly making a hole in the doors by making the wood change shape. It was a weird thing, the doors weren't being destroyed, they were re-shaped.

In the opening, stood a short man. He had dark grey hair and a bushy dark grey moustache. His eyes were green and his expression bored. Very bored. Very, very bored. The guild was quiet for a second or two, then it returned to normal.

"Oh no, no one is even going to say hi? What's the matter with this guild?"

I am back! And then I mean proper back, not I'll-give-you-one-chapter-then-I'm-gone-again back. I've decided to wait with the rewrite and just continue the story.

- Yoshi -