Author's notes: In an attempt to unify Ragnarok Online players and Ragnarok Manwha readers, I did a crossover. Yay!

The Poring

1: Big Bad Chaos

Disclaimer: Ragnarok is a manwha created by Myung-Jin Lee, while Ragnarok Online belongs to Gravity Corp.Oh, yeah… This thing is AU, because I don't think there's enough of a time gap in the Manwha story for this to fill in. Enjoy!

"Iris, goddammit! Stop dodging and attack it!"

"EEEEE! I don't wanna! It might hit meeeee!" Iris screeched as the Argiope almost scratched her heel.

"Oh, for the love of Odin…" Chaos muttered to himself as he ran over the giant centipede thing and raised his sword. "Bash!" he yelled. A very hard blow to the head caused the Argiope to pass out. It magically dissolved into thin air, and left a pretty decapitated bug's leg in its place.

Chaos looked over to Iris sternly. Iris was sitting on the ground, innocently twiddling her thumbs. "Iris…"

"Aaah! I'm soooo sorry, Chaos! I won't ever do it again! It's just that…" she shuddered at the memory of the Argiope, "Bugs scare me."

"But you won't grow stronger unless you kill these things on your own!" he said in a reprimanding tone.

"But… can't we just go down Mt. Mjolnir and… kill other things?..." Iris asked.

"Nah… I think Lidia's still hunting for something here… you know, the big pink thing with the wings…" Chaos sighed as he fell on the ground next to her, carelessly tossing Vision next to him.

Iris puffed her cheeks. "She's just hoarding more rare stuff, and using Loki and Fenris to kill the monsters for her so she can get the loot!"

"Yeah, well… sometimes, she does give us a share. And even though it's only about 10%... she still gives us a large amount of money…"

"Hmph…" Iris lay her head on the ground, her eyes closed. But when she opened her eyes again, she found herself face-to-face… with an Argos.

Chaos flinched at the ear-splitting shriek that followed.

She barely dodged an attack. If they were characters in Ragnarok the Online Game, she would have taken in 120 points of damage. "Chaos!!!" she yelled for help as she wildly swung the Chernyongdo randomly at the gigantic spider attacking her.

"You're doing great!" Chaos called out.

"NO I'M NOT!!!" Iris yelled in frustration. Hiss.Another 100 points of damage.

The Rune Knight sighed. "Hold on, I'm coming…" And he reached out next to him for his sword.

Except that what he touched was soft, fleshy and incredibly gooey.

"What the—…" he turned to look at what he supposed was his Vision turned to goo. What he saw was a cute li'l Poring, which just finished swallowing his beloved sword.

His eyes widened. "YOU MISERABLE PINK—…" he started, and he raised his fist in a move to kill the Poring.

Upon seeing this, Iris gasped and sliced the Argos' eyes off, then ran towards the Poring and nabbed it before Chaos could make it burst into useless pink jelly. "DON'T KILL THE PORING!!!" she screeched.

Chaos stopped in awe. "Did… you just kill that Argos in one blow…?" he asked, a ridiculous look on his face.

She wasn't listening; she was too busy trying to calm down the Poring which was still shivering because it just saw its life flash before its eyes. "Aaaw… little cutie… I hope big bad Chaos didn't harm you, did he?..."

"Big… bad…" Chaos stammered. "Whaddya mean, Big Bad Chaos?! It ate Vision! How am I supposed to get it back?! You think they sell that thing in stores?!"

"We'll find a way to get your Vision back without harming the Poring… I think it's just cruel to kill it just because it thought your sword was yummy!" she said.

He gritted his teeth. "Don't tell me… you're going to keep it?"

Iris looked up at him with puppy eyes.

"Aaaaaw…" he moaned. "What am I going to do with you…" From behind him, Loki, Fenris and a happy Lidia with Sessy on her shoulders with a full bag of loot walked towards them.

"Hi, you guys! Look, look!" Iris showed them the Poring. The three of them looked at it with feigned interest.

"Hah! That's nothing! Look!" Lidia took out a pair of beautiful wings from her backpack. "We found the Angeling on the way here, and Loki and Fenris killed it, and it dropped these! I put 'em on a helm, sell it to a sucker and I'm… I mean, we're rich!"

"Yeah! These babies sell good in the black market!" Sessy added jokingly.

Fenris cleared her throat. "Of course, Lidia helped us kill it…" she said with a subtle sarcastic tone.

"Sure I did! I lured those Poporings away from you guys, didn't I?" Lidia said defensively.

"… which, in turn, you lured towards a helpless Mage who got lost in the mountains," said Loki.

Lidia pouted, but she hugged Loki instantly. "Aaaaw you're so cute when you're like that! Heehee!"

Everyone (including the Poring) face-faulted.

"Chaos," Loki said, trying to ignore Lidia, "where is your weapon?"

Chaos answered by pointing angrily at the Poring in Iris' arms.

"Hey! Watch it! You're scaring the Poring!" Iris yelled.

"I wanna scare it to death, that's what I wanna do! I want my Vision back now!!!" Chaos wailed.

The Cleric lay the Poring on the ground. Fine, I'll sugar-coat it! She thought as she hugged Chaos' arm. "Aaaaw… please? We can name it after you, if you like! It's just sooooo cute!" she said as sweetly as she could.

"No, no, no…" Chaos said, blocking his ears.

Fenris sighed at the sight. Not again… she thought to herself. Why do they choose to flirt in front of me?

Her thoughts were abruptly interrupted when she felt something… glomp her… well… her butt. Her face froze. She shuddered, then let out a full-volume shriek that echoed all throughout the mountain. The party almost felt the earth shaking.

Everybody froze. The now-dangerous warlock turned around… and saw that the Poring wasn't glomping her butt at all, but was attempting to eat the Laevatein that hung at her back. "You…" she said dangerously.

The Poring swallowed her weapon, looked up at her with puppy eyes, and when Fenris' facial expression didn't change, it hastily hopped behind Iris. The next thing anybody knew, an OOC Fenris was being held back by Loki and Chaos. "LET ME AT IT! LET ME AT IT!" she shrieked. Iris held the Poring away from her now deranged friend. "No, Fenris, it didn't mean it! It's Poring Nature!"

Fenris calmed down. Loki and Chaos loosened their grips on her arms. She breathed in deeply. "It ate my weapon, Iris… what are you going to do about it?"

Iris swallowed hard. "W…ell…. We could ask the Pet Merchant in Prontera… I'm sure it's an expert in Poring care!" she suggested hastily.

"Yes… I'm sure… he is…" Fenris flipped her hair. "Well, I suggest we go now before… it gets dark…" she said as she stepped ahead of them.

"… I'm scared…" Chaos whispered to Loki.

"Well… most people have an uncontrolled emotion beneath the surface and it takes an unexpected thing like that to unleash those…" Loki's answer was cut short when he noticed something wrong.

"Loki, anything wrong?"

He looked down. The Poring was beside him. It just swallowed something.

He looked at his side. The Swords of the Shadows were no longer where they used to be.

"Uh-oh…" Sessy said softly.

Later, a very very frightened Iris carrying a burping Poring was being chased at super speed by a very angered Loki, with Chaos, Fenris and Lidia with Sessy running behind them as fast as they could.