At 5 AM over Staug City, the air was cool and everything was peaceful. That was until Zephyr bursts through Kannell’s door and screams. “Its time for our cruise wake up Kannell!” Zephyr screams while banging on her door.

Kannell who wakes up out of surprise gets ready to cast a spell at Zephyr but thinks twice before firing at her. Zephyr laughs at her and dashes toward her and grabs her arm and pulls her out of bed. Kannell tries to resist but Zephyr drags her out of her room and toward the bathroom.

“Zephyr don’t even think about it!” Kannell screams at her.

Her scream wakes up the rest of the girls in the house, including Liz.

Zephyr smiles at Kannell who was still groggy, and jukes around her and gets her head around her legs and pushes her on to her back in one swift motion.

“Put me down!” Kannell screams at Zephyr while she rushes her into the bathroom.

“Okay!” Zephyr replies to her while dumping her into the cold bathwater she prepared for her.

When the cold water hits her skin, Kannell wakes up due to cold shock, and immediately grabs Zephyr by her shirt and yanks her into the water with her. Kannell in anger tries to drown Zephyr, but her agility in the water prevents her from getting a good grip. Zephyr lets out a little laugh and gets out of the water. Kannell who was now fully awake glares at her from within the water. Zephyr than takes off her shirt and her pants and hops in the water with her and just tries to relax in the cold water. Kannell on the other hand just keeps her soaked dress on and grabs some shampoo and puts it in her hair. The two are soon then greeted by the other woman in the house who were ready to join them in the unfavorable act of taking a cold bath. Zephyr quickly lathers herself up and washes off before the other females get in, and she then grabs a towel and heads to her room to get dressed.

In her room she puts on a bathing suit and gets herself dressed. She then grabs her back full of clothes and looks at her daggers on her dresser.

“I know I’m supposed to relax on this trip, but I’m not leaving these here” Zephyr thinks to herself.

She then grabs the daggers and puts them in her bag and smiles feeling a little more secure.

Zephyr then walks into the living room and meets up with the other girls. Everyone was shivering but was ready to teleport over to Tempo. The girls all huddle up and Kannell teleports them all over to Tempo Bay.

The group arrive at the front of the city and begin walking toward the city’s port. They all arrive at the port and talk to the captain of the ship that was taking them over to Cheetoecchi, and he lets them all know he’s not setting sail for 4 hours. The girls frown at this news bit decide to walk over to the nearest Inn and grab breakfast.

As the girls near the Inn, Liz teleports in front of them with her Staff in hand and appears to be out of breath.

“Girls! Before you go, I forgot to give you something!” Liz told them while panting.

In her hand were envelopes with names on them and she was presenting them to the girls.

“What are those?” Kannell asked Liz while yawning.

“Queen Lake told me to give these to you all yesterday. It’s your Paychecks for being on her special taskforce” Liz told her while handing her the envelope.

“Ahh our paychecks It’s about time” Zephyr said while yanking hers from Liz’s hand.

“What do you want me to do with Greena’s and Ryan’s?” Liz asked Zephyr.

“Go put Ryan’s in my room. Leave it on my Dresser and go put Greena’s on her dresser” Zephyr told her.

“Oh okay. I was going to do that first, but Just wanted to make sure with you” Liz replied,

“Ya, Greena should be back in a few weeks. She has to do things over in her hometown of Greenbriar” Misty replied while holding Zara in her hands.

“Alright. Well I hope you all have a great trip. Have fun for me. I have to listen to a bunch of B.S. from some rich assholes about then new laws we passed. Its never a dull day” Liz said while rolling her eyes.

“Ya, I know how its like. Hang in there sister.” Zephyr said while smiling.

Liz smiles back at Zephyr and turns around and heads toward the towns Courthouse. The rest of the woman keep walking toward the Inn and prepare to eat.

Meanwhile over in Faterra it was 6 AM and Ryan’s Phone was going off in Alex’s bedroom. The song “I’m Here To Take The Sky” from D.R.U.G.S Alex wakes up energized and stretches while listening to this song she prepicked to last night play to wake herself up in the morning. While jamming out to the song she hops out of bed jamming to the song and grabs her hairbrush. She grabs a match and lights up some candles in her room and starts brushing her messy hair. When she gets the desired result, she starts singing into the brush and walks out into the living room to wake Ryan up. Ryan is shook viciously while she kept dancing to the song and when Ryan opens his eyes, he can see her singing and having fun.

Feeling a little awkward, Ryan puts his feet on the ground and stretches. Before he can react, Alex stands in front of him and shacks her body and shows off her happy hyper attitude. Ryan just smiles at her and tries to hide the fact this was awkward. Alex gets the hint that Ryan was terrified of her hyper mood and walks back into her room. She throws on her armor and straps her 2-hand sword to her back. As she walks back into the living room the song was ending and Ryan sitting on the couch mildly groggy. He already took the liberty of lighting all the lanterns and candles in the living room to keep himself awake and so they both could read the map on the table that was spread across the table in front of the couch.

“You seem happy” Ryan said while rubbing his eyes that were adjusting to the new light levels.

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“Are you kidding me? I woke up with music! For once I felt like I was back on earth, waking up for a day of school. I don’t feel miserable at all anymore. This was something I really wanted Ryan. Thank you so much!” Alex said while giving him a hug.

“Your Welcome. I’m Glad I could help. But you kind of… scared me there.” Ryan admitted to her.

“I know, but I really like that song. It fits the start of this wonderful adventure between both of us perfectly, if you ask me. Hehe” Alex said giggling and kneeling down at the table.

“I would have started the day with, maybe some Hollywood Undead or Skarlett Riot myself”

“Skarlett Riot? Never heard of them” Alex asked while scrolling through his playlist on his phone.

“I have a few of their songs. We can listen to them later” Ryan said while pointing to the map that was circled from yesterday.

“We need to head over here” Ugg its going to be a long week. I hope you have everything” Alex said while putting the phone down and checking her bag.

“I got everything. Let’s get going” Ryan replied as Alex starts blowing out candles. Ryan quickly folds up the map and puts it in his pocket.

They soon leave the house and shut the door and walk to Alex’s next-door neighbor’s house. Alex knocks on the door and is greeted by a woman who was drinking hot tea. The woman who they consulted with beforehand from last night agreed to teleport them over the starting area of their quest. Alex shows the woman the general area on the map where they wanted to go and sends them off over there.

The two end up in the middle of nowhere and take out Ryan’s phone and start activating the coordinates they saved from yesterday. They were 25 miles away from the “Grotto” they were looking for.

“Hmm, Gretta put us as close as she could” Alex said with an optimistic tone.

“Wish she put us 10 miles away instead of 25 miles away” Ryan said in an irritated tone.

“Cheer up dude. We get to walk through the Black Forrest during Dawn. We get to skip the pain-in-the-ass nighttime monsters that only come out at night. Plus, it gives an amazing adventure for both of us!” Alex said while holding his hand.

Ryan who was still mildly groggy takes a deep breath and takes his phone from her and puts on a random song. The first song on the song was “my ex’s best friend” By Machine Gun Kelly and marches on with her.

Meanwhile over in Tempo Bay

The Girls were just boarding the ship and were walking over to their cabins. The rocking motion of the ship caught Misty off guard, but she was able to regain he balance with Zara on her back. In the Horizon the girls saw Citra fly past them in the horizon in her succubus form and land out of sight. Zephyr sees this and tries to distract the Captain of the ship by making small talk with him. She askes him how fast the ship goes and how the weather is going to be for the next few days. As she distracts him from giving the order to leave the port on time, A blonde haired Citra comes walking up the dock with a bag of clothes wearing here a cute feather headpiece. She walks on the ship with no worry and the captain checks her out. He then pulls out his watch and sees they are 10 minutes behind schedule. The captain of the ship orders his men to set sail and the men rush to pull all the dock lines and set the sails.

Kannell who was standing at the stern of the ship sees a few man messing up trying to hoist the sails, and proceeds to walk toward them to correct them, but realizes this is not a military vessel and she is not on duty right now. She breaks herself out of her trance and decides to take a seat at a nearby table and watch a senior sailor correct the 2 men.

In about 15 minutes the sails were hoisted, and the ship slowly starts making its way out of the harbor. Misty who was holding Zara’s hand walks her to the bow of the ship and they watch the ship start to pick up speed and cut through the waves.

Zephyr and Kannell who were sipping on Lemonade watch Citra walk by 5 sailors and notice the men look at her ass and stare at her lustfully. As Citra sits down next to Zephyr, she reclines her seat back and relaxes in the sunlight.

“Those men look really thirsty; I hope you don’t cause us to sink” Zephyr teased while lightly poking Citra in her side.

“Hopefully not, but I’ve already feed today. I should be fine for the next couple of days. I won’t have to feed on any of these animals” Citra said while poking Zephyr back.

“That’s Good, I was about to say, I saw one of the men screw up a simple procedure with raising one of the sails, don’t incapacitate any of the ship’s crew if you can. They all look short handed as is” Kannell told her while guzzling down her Lemonade.

“I won’t. I promise you” Citra replied while she sees an old man dressed in crew clothes walk toward them.

“Hey Steve! Can you get me strong drink? I want a “Tequila Sunrise” make it extra strong! Kannell ordered the man while she handed him the empty lemonade glass she just emptied.

“Sure thing miss!” The man replied while throwing the ice in the cup overboard.

The man casts an ice spell into the cup and starts making the cocktail she ordered behind the mini bar in front of them. The man comes walking by Kannell and hands her the drink she ordered and hands him 3 gold.

Kannell takes a sip and smiles and leans back in her chair. “Ahh this is the life. This is going to be a good vacation ladies” Kannell cheered while taking another sip from her drink.

8 hours later over in Faterra

Ryan and Alex were walking to the beat of the song “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” From The Proclaimers and Ryan clinches his fist in frustration.

“Alex You play this song one more time I’m gonna lose it!” Ryan screamed in rage.

“You know, after a while, this song starts to grow on you” Alex tells him.

“Raaaggggghhhhh!!! Where is this damn entrance!!! Ryan screams in agony. He then lets out a powerful blast from his hands and fires it at some giant rocks. The [Void Blast] he just cast blows up the rocks and small pebbles start raining onto them. When the dust clears, Ryan and Alex see an entrance under the rocks and look at each other in dismay. Ryan slowly reaches his hand over Alex’s and carefully takes his phone from her. He turns off the song and glares at her.

“Give me that damn map again” Ryan demands her.

Alex hands him the paper map to the Quest starting location and they all back track mentally in their head.

“Hang on, we went over the river, and did walk by that strange Exclamation point looking cliff. Is this really the location to the grotto?” Ryan asked her appearing very confused.

“I hope so. What other place would have a staircase hidden underneath some rocks?” Alex asked him.

“If that’s the case luck was on our side.” Ryan told her.

“Haha, want me to irritate you more often? Maybe we will find more treasures if I do” Alex teased.

“Don’t test your luck. I’ve heard that song 30 times already today. Please don’t ever do that again!” Ryan asked her while rolling up the map.

Alex just sits there looking at him and cross’s her arms and smirks at him. He starts walking down the entrance to the grotto and notices there was no light ahead. He turns on the light to his phone and they tread carefully underground. Alex puts her hand on Ryan’s shoulder and signals him to stop.

“Hey, I have an idea, enchant your sword with that flame spell” Alex asked him.

Ryan who couldn’t see anything really well with just the light of his phone, pulls out one of his spell blades from his side and enchants it with [Black Plasma]. This enchantment emits a black flame and lights up the room with a warm orange glow.

“What type of sorcery is this?” Ryan asks out loud seeming confused at this makeshift torch.

“Hmm I agree. A black flame that lets out an orange glow. That is weird indeed” Alex replies to him.

Alex takes out her sword of her sheath and holds her sword up to his and they both touch tips. The flame jumps to her sword and like a slow spreading fire starts climbing down her blade. With her 2-handed blade being larger, it shines light all over the chamber that they were currently in.

That’s when they all see it. All around them were massive numbers of demonic Goblins hanging from the roof of the cave looking at them both with extremely hungry eyes.

“Umm hey Alex?” Ryan asks hers.

“Yes Ryan?” She replies very terrified regarding of the new information they’ve acquired on their surroundings.

“I Hate you right now” He tells her.