After getting the dragons head strapped down and secure the duo start making their way down the road for a few hours until they reach a point where they feel comfortable setting up camp. Ryan and Alex set up their tent and then fall asleep.

Meanwhile that night Arcadia found herself attending a huge multi-wing dungeon with the role of healing people. She barely passed the selection process however, with her low-level gear excluding her God-Tier Staff and Flame-tierra that no one ended up asking about; She ended up getting picked last with a group of under geared-deplorable explorers to clear a particular wing while seven other groups clean house on the other wings. The plan was to sweep and clear all the zones and meet in the last zone where a magical door would unlock and everyone would rendezvous and group up together for an epic boss fight.

Arcadia would found herself getting along great with her under geared companions. They took their time to carefully sweep and clear their wing and the environment with her group was relatively peaceful. She managed complete her wing without letting a single ally in her group of seven to fall. She even managed to loot a treasure chest full of Wyonuim plate legs. She offers to trade the tank of her group her rewards, but he kindly rejects her offer for unknown “Personal” reasons. He however was excited for his new sword and offered to give Arcadia the enchanted black hair ribbon he had looted, and one of the female fire ice mages liked Arcadia’s fair and non- judgmental attitude this whole run and gave her a pair of black high-top boots that had a cute white lace pattern on them.

That was her first group she ran with.

However currently she found herself in the middle of a demon’s lair with the highly geared, overly confident cocky tanks being stupid in this final boss raid. With 18 tanks in this final wing, they all get cocky and wanted to compete and see who the real deal was. This ultimately leads to the tanks mega pulling 300 baby imps, 80 gargoyles, and 24 scythe wielding shades. The damage dealers where in complete disbelief of the actions of the tanks. The healers on the other hand were cursing and screaming at them as they were pulling so much Aggro from the mobs whose swarm sizes were too big to peel off, thus resulting in healers falling like dominoes. Arcadia who was standing in the rear of the room when this all went down was doing her best at keeping everyone alive; realized a wipe was inevitable.

Meanwhile

The next morning Ryan and Alex wake up before at the crack of dawn all sore and force themselves to get up. They take down the tent and Alex takes the last two peaches out of her bag and gives one to Ryan. They both immediately hop on the Wagon and Ryan takes the reins and begins driving toward Mt. Cheat pass that was 5 hours away from them. They eat their last piece of fruit and start sipping on the other two Monsters that Arcadia gave them last night.

As they roll down the road Ryan pulls out his phone and hands it to Alex.

“Put on Whatever you want” Ryan says to her.

Alex takes a deep yawn and says “I’m want to listen to 80’s Sax guys”

Ryan looks over at her and smirks.

“You still surprise me Alex. Okay fine 80’s Sax guy it is” Ryan responds while swinging his finger in agreeance. The two of them then find themselves jamming out to “Who Can It Be Know” By Men At Work. When the Saxophone solo comes up on the song Alex stands up on in the cart and pretends to playing the saxophone and this playful side of Alex helps Ryan get over his hidden demons of the past few days, including what happened to him last night that he didn’t want to talk about. Something that was making him mildly depressed this morning.

After that song was over Alex then decides to put on the song “Maneater” By Hall and Oates

“I Dedicate this song to you Ryan. May your terribly hot demon ex-girlfriend be forever gone and out of your life” Alex says playfully while dancing to the intro to the song.

Suddenly they see Arcadia ahead on the road waiting for them. Alex pauses the song and Ryan stops the Rig. Arcadia gets up onto the wagon with them and Ryan gets going again.

“So, how did your dungeon gig go?” Alex asks

“It was nice, I got me some cool items” Arcadia replied while slouching down in her seat and relaxing.

“So how many people did you revive last night?” Alex asked while turning her body ninety degrees toward Arcadia.

“The last fight we had was pretty bad. Let’s just say I made over a hundred revives last night” She said with a painful smile while holding her arm.

The two sit in silence for five seconds without saying anything. Alex then looks at Arcadia.

“Dick swinging tanks?” Alex blurts out randomly

“Yep, Dick swinging tanks” Arcadia replied without any emotion.

“Called it” Alex blurts out loudly while turning ninety degrees back toward the front of the cart.

“Yes, my original team I got paired up with was under geared but graceful and fun. We did our assigned wing with no problems. Then when we all meet up in the boss raid wing chamber the tanks try to compete to see who was the most “macho”. It did not go very well at all” Arcadia says while putting down her staff.

“I saw a wipe coming and decided to teleport out. When I came back into the room, I revived everyone who had purgatory on them. I ended up getting flak from some people for teleporting away, but I apologize to them. I then quickly spent a third of my accumulated faction points into learning [Purgatory] and offered everyone I was able to revive that spell. People were confused since they couldn’t scan me and retrieve my “Level” since I am unknown to them as a goddess. People apologize for “Picking me last” due to my low tier gear and decided to tip me greatly for giving them that free buff. I ended up pissing off a greedy level fifty Yuleeian healer since he was charging five hundred gold per person for that buff in the group. I kind of made his shit list; but I made over three hundred gold in tips alone” She says while putting down a gold pouch in front of them.

“Here you all can keep this.” Arcadia says while sitting upright on the bench seat.

“You sure about this sis” Alex asked her.

“Go ahead take this. I don’t need it. I just wanted to have some fun. Money really isn’t useful to me right now” Arcadia says while summoning forth a pair of Wyonuim plate legs in her hands.

Alex sees what she’s holding and she gets excited.

“I also got these from-“Arcadia said while instantly getting cut off by Alex snatching them from her.

“OHHHHH GIVE ME! GIVE ME!! GIVE ME!!!” Alex shouts in excitement.

“Ahh you likey?” Arcadia replies. While smiling at Alex.

“Yes, Me likey A LOT!” Alex shouts back while jumping up and down on the cart.

Alex then proceeds to remove her pants and throw them into the woods. Ryan who was caught off guard by this, stares at Alex standing up next to him with her panties showing on a main road. Alex then quickly slides on her Wyonuim plate legs and cheers loudly.

“I love them Arcadia! Finally, my very own pair of Wyonuim pants! No more having to repair those damn things every three months!” Alex shouts while pointing to the discarded armor she threw into the wood line behind them.

Alex then leans over to Arcadia and nearly strangles her with a tight hug.

“How long are you going to be with us today” Alex asked her.

“Not long. I need sleep. Plus, my roam time is almost up. I’m going to head back to my respawn room and rest up. I’ll try to hang out with you both tonight if it’s possible” Arcadia says while grabbing her staff.

“Well thank you so much for this gift. Take care girl” Alex says while giving her another hug.

“Your very welcome Alex. Ok guys see you later” Arcadia says while simultaneously teleporting away.

Alex who was excited for her new gear jumps up and down really hard in the cab of the trailer and tests the maneuverability of these things by lunging right and left.

When she lunges to the left toward Ryan, Alex has an idea.

“Hey Ryan, I’m so sore and tired. Do you mind if we chill out at my mountain house? It’s located at Embers Rest; it’s on the way to Mount Cheat pass. We can stop there and sleep in a real bed and maybe top off food stores. I have a whole bunch of blue berry bushes there we can collect from. I also have a few apple trees on my property. Hell, I’ll even make us an apple pie if we get there at a reasonable time” Alex says while sitting down on the bench.

Ryan thinks a little bit about this and shrugs his shoulders.

“I don’t really care. Sleeping in a bed sounds really nice honestly” Ryan replies.

“Sweet! I’ll introduce you to my girlfriend as well. She’s watching the place for me” Alex says while laying down longways on the bench seat.

“Didn’t know you had a second place” Ryan says while turning right.

“The mountain house was sort of a quest reward on my end. It’s in the middle of nowhere and its really remote. I like to go there for peace and quiet, but I personally think it’s not really suitable to live in since the nearest town to get supplies from is over twenty miles away” Alex says.

“Hang on, ANY place livable, it doesn’t matter how far away from people you are. Country life is easy, but you need to make sure you do everything yourself; be extremely independent in that case” Ryan tells her.

Alex rolls her eyes at him. “I am Independent, I’m just lazy at times” She says in a childish tone.

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Ryan looks down at her and smiles “Aren’t we all?”

The two of them then continue toward the mountain pass in the horizon.

When they arrive at the pass some time later Alex was driving. Ryan was resting and laying down sideways on the rear seat bench with his backpack propped up under his head as a pillow and was listening to some music Alex managed to find hidden deep inside his phone.

As they started winding up S-turns up the mountain Ryan spots a huge crimson colored field full of spring flowers that made the embankment look like blood. Compile that with Alex playing “Trapped In Amber” from the Halo 2 Anniversary OST Ryan starts to feel alive and happy.

“You always take me to such nice places” Ryan says to Alex.

“Dammit! You beat me to it!” Alex screams back at him.

“Haha. Off the rock, through the bush, nothing but jackal. That was a pretty badass level” Ryan replies to her while sitting up right and stretching his arms out.

“Ya, it was. I’m glad this isn’t that level though, if it we were, we would be in a sniper zone full of pissed off Palmlandian hunters” Alex says while turning the Gatorboars wide of the next left turn.

“You know what?” Ryan asks Alex.

“What dude” She responds back to him.

“I wish I still had my motorcycle. I’d be carving these turns and having a blast” He tells her.

“Ya I bet” Alex replies to him. Alex looks at the heather flowers to her left. “It must suck that you crashed it and came here” Alex says while fixating on the beautiful groves of purple.

“I really miss home to be honest” Ryan tells her while standing up and crawling over to the front bench seat.

“Of all the ways you could have died, why did you want to go out like that?” Alex asks him.

“Well lets just put it this way, I had a loan that was almost paid off on my bike. At that moment when I wanted to die my mindset was at the time was “I paid for the whole speedometer, so I’m gonna use the whole speedometer” Ryan says in comedic way.

Alex who was holding the reins in her hand’s smirks, then starts laughing.

“I’m sorry for laughing. That’s dark, yet funny at the same time” Alex tells him

Ryan then has a flashback of the crash inside his head. He then twitches his whole body at the remembrance of the impact. Alex who saw him make this “regret” twitch looks over at him.

“You Okay?” Alex asks him as they reach the peak of this pass.

“Yes I’m fine” Ryan automatically replies to her.

Ryan was now deep in his train of thought right now. He was thinking about why his chain on his bike broke after he calmed down and wanted to remain on living. He was thinking about those events that unfolded before he took off and his mind was focusing on his take off. He remembers escaping from the Resource officer by riding over a curb onto the grass. He thinks hard about that and remembers hearing a loud “crunch” after he did that. He also remembers the unusual short rebound of his suspension. He then thinks about what he did three days prior to all of this.

He had adjusted his chain a little more tightly than it should have been because that fateful day after school he was going to ride on out to Orlando for a private day at an amusement park. He over tightened the chain so he wouldn’t have to mess with it in case he wanted to double the adventure and ride on out to Tampa the next day with Victoria on the back.

This was the plan of course before she broke up with him. Ryan now realized he should have just put the chain back to one and a half inches of slack after she broke up with him. That hard transition over that curb to escape the officer had to of damaged the chain, along with the hard top speed run. If he adjusted it back maybe he’d be either in jail or in a mental hospital right now, but he’d still be alive.

“Permanent solution to temporary problem you dumbass” Ryan whispered under his breath.

Alex who was driving the rig around another “S” turn hears his mumble.

“Hmm?” She asked

“Oh, nothing Alex” Ryan replied to her.

“Hey buddy, get ready. Curtain Falls is right around this next bend!” Alex shouts.

Ryan tilts his head in curiosity and can hear water falling up ahead.

When they come around the corner that is when they see it. A breathtaking waterfall flowing up and over the side of the mountain road. They drive underneath the water fall and get off. Alex stands at the edge of the road the waterfall was overhanging and sticks her hand out. The heavy flow of water slightly stings but washes her hands off. Ryan who was amazed at this joins her and sticks his hands out as well and washes his arms and face with the cool mountain water.

“Wanna feel at home again?” Ryan asked her.

“I already do!” Alex cheerfully replied.

Ryan takes his phone and places it on the cart and switches to the front camera and sets a timer. He then walks over to Alex and puts his arm around her. Then they both smile. Alex takes the phone from the cart and rolls her eyes at him.

“No one does that anymore; we take selfies now dork” Alex shouts. She then extends her arm out next to Ryan and takes a picture that way. They then get going.

They ride for the rest of the day through the mountains then arrive at Alex’s mountain house during at dusk.

When the pair arrived, they could see a fire glowing in the backyard.

Ryan who was driving saw Alex get out of the cart with excitement and begins running to the backyard. Ryan parks the cart just outside the log cabin house and jogs over to backyard.

As he’s jogging he hears Alex scream “What the Fuck!” with an extremely angry tone. Ryan picks up the pace and finds two girls sitting on a log holding each other. One girl looked highly surprised.

“Megan! What the hell are you doing!” Alex screams.

The other girl then let’s go of girl number two and sits up right nervously.

“I am, ummm. Just sitting here with a friend. Hey, you’re here early” Megan replies to Alex.

“Just hanging out?” Alex screams. “Yes, that’s fucking bullshit you have hickeys and bite marks all over your neck”

The other girl then stands up. “Megan I’m just going go” the other girl says.

“No the hell you aren’t!” Megan shouts. “Alex. You need to leave”

“What the hell did you say bitch? This is MY house, your no longer invited to watch over it. Get the hell out of here you whore.” Alex screams while pointing toward the road.

“Umm no. This house is just as much as mine as it is yours. You forgot, it took both of us kill my uncle and take this place. I’m more related to him then you are therefore this place is rightfully mine” Megan screams back.

“I was the one who delivered the killing blow. It was also me who went through the house and got the land deed and gave it to Ian. He gave ME the house and a portion of the land in return.”

“No my brother said I could use it this place when I wanted to” Megan screams.

Ryan who was trying to figure out what was going on gasps at the realization what Alex meant when this house was rewarded via a quest.

“No, He said with MY permission! I see now what he meant when he warned me you were not to be trusted. I can’t fucking believe I fell in love you!” Alex yells.

“Ya well I wasn’t that much into you from the start. You have no tits, and I find your skin color a little bit of a turn off. I want a girl with tits and a pretty face I can fall in love with” Megan says while grabbing her girlfriend’s breasts.

“See these, these are what I want” Megan said while caressing her girlfriend’s breasts. Megan then walks over to Alex. She then places her hands on Alex chest. “You don’t have anything for me to like about you.” Megan said sourly.

Alex then drops to her knees and starts crying.

“How are you going to cuck me like that Megan! You know I’m self-conscious about that!” Alex cries out in emotional pain.

“Well maybe if you and that Elf had some common sense you all would have picked your fights carefully. Now you are a worthless flat chested ugly woman. Maybe you should take your sword and go cut yourself. Hell, maybe go jump off this cliff. It will make this world a hell of a lot better if you were gone” Megan said in a sadistic tone.

Alex starts to cry and Ryan balls up his fists up in anger. He then grabs Megan by her shirt and lifts her up in the air and starts walking forward.

“Hey let me down asshole!” Megan screams.

“You listen here you little bitch! No one shames, or insults Alex like that! She deserves more respect than that! She has amounted to so much then you have or will ever amount too. I’ve met woman like you in my life and I hate everything about them; every fucking ounce of them. You might be a fucking solid ten but what you just did brought your rating in my eyes down to a fucking one. No one fucking insults my friends like that. Girls like you don’t belong in this society” Ryan screams in rage at her as he walks to the edge of the cliff.

“Hey, wait what are you doing!” Megan screams as she looks behind her and sees the drop.

“Retribution” Ryan says as he lets go of her over the cliff.

“Noooo!” Megan screams as he drops her and she falls.

The other girl there runs up to the cliff face and screams “MEGAN!!!” she then casts [Slowfall] spell on her.

Ryan then picks her up by her shirt too.

“You’re going with her you too” Ryan shouts.

“Hey wait! I didn’t do anything!” The girl cowardly screams.

“I know you didn’t. But you don’t need to be here right now” Ryan says firmly to her.

“There are death bears down there! Look can I please beg for mercy and just walk down the mountain myself? Look I knew it was wrong to date her when she admitted she had someone originally. I am really sorry for this! Look I’m not equipped for combat right now. I really want to descend the mountain on my own terms” The woman pleads with him.

As he held that woman in his hands, he sees Victoria’s face. He then drops her. She then screams as she falls. Ryan turns his back on the cliff and walks over to Alex who had her head in between her legs and crying. Ryan then picks her up and throws her on his back and walks her inside the cabin. He removes her armor for her as she kept crying. He then turns her on her side and tucks her into her bed.

He puts on the song “The Show Must Go On Prt. 1” by Famous Last Words on a low speaker volume and places the phone by a nightstand next to Alex to help drown out Alex’s crying. He sits on the left side of the bed on the floor leaning up against the bed while holding her hand. He then thinks about what he just did to that last girl. He also thinks about the Death bear ambush he had with Alex some time ago.

Alex cries to the song, while Ryan watches the door. As a plethora of emo songs play that night Alex eventually falls asleep. Ryan does so as well.

In the morning Alex wakes Ryan up in a hurry. The house was somehow set on fire and Alex was getting dressed while dancing happily with the song “The End” From My Chemical Romance blasting on party mode. As Ryan sees the house on fire, he jumps up to his feet quickly.

“Alex what the hell happened?” Ryan screams as a flaming beam falls in front of him.

“Don’t look at me mom, my crazy emo side is showing” Alex said manically.

“Alex what happened to the house!” He screams.

“Oh nothing, I just set it on fire. Hey, I’m almost done getting dressed. I’m in no rush to leave” Alex says while dancing around the room and putting on her armored shirt.

“The Fuck we are!” Ryan screams. Ryan then casts [Detonate] on the side of the rooms Wall and a good-sized hole appears.

Ryan then grabs Alex and Her sword. He then drags her out the opening.

As he drags her, she starts singing part of the song. He gets her to cart and she starts rocking her body back and forth and laughing at the house going up in flames. He throws her sword in the cart and takes control of the Gatorboars. Ryan pulls up the map up on his phone back to Simon’s grotto and heads down the long driveway of this once great house. When Alex gets her sanity back Ryan hands her back the reins.

“Okay, what the hell was that about?” Ryan asks her

“Listening to all those emo songs last night made me crave revenge. I know Megan’s a pretty strong hunter and she might be able to handle those death bears alone. But since she was cheating on me with a pretty little Priest, odds are she will be back up here. Listening to the song “House Of Wolves” gave me an idea of what to do next” Alex says.

Ryan looks at her and tries to review the lyrics in his head. When he spots what she was talking about, he rolls his eyes at her.

“You know if we are caught were going to jail” Ryan tells her.

“Not really. If I had to, I’d be able to pass it off as an invasion from Palmlandian’s. Also, the house owner is dead. All the evidence will point to the greedy little niece who wanted the land in the first place” Alex explains.

“Okay, hang on. Thanks for reminding about that. How exactly did you get that house in the first place?” Ryan asks her.

“Look long story short, I was hired to assassinate her uncle. I fell in love with Megan while working with her on this job and her brother who was the beneficiary of the property; gave me four acres of the land along with the house. He also warned me not to trust his sister. Well I see now why” Alex explained.

“Holy shit Alex! You killed a man and took his home? That’s fucking dark and not right” Ryan says with a disgusted tone.

“Says the guy who dropped a slut who was begging for mercy off a cliff” Alex shot back.

Ryan’s eyes open up and he twitches in regret. He realizes she was right.

“Not that I’m mad that you did that though. Thanks for standing up for me Ryan” Alex says in grateful tone. While hugging him

Ryan just sits right beside her and wonders what the hell was wrong with Alex. One minute she’s burning down a house and the next minute she’s hugging and really proud of him.

“Girls are so weird” Ryan thinks to himself.

“I still can’t believe she cucked me like that. I was destroyed and turned on at the same time” Alex randomly admitted.

“Alright I’m out” Ryan shouts inside his head.

“Alex lets… just not talk for a while. I need time to process all of this. Let’s just listen to some more 80’s Sax guy music.” Ryan says in as he puts on the song “Baker Street” From Gerry Rafferty.

Alex smiles at him and randomly gives him a friendly kiss on the cheek.