Chapter 1: Everything has its beginnings

Start of day 1

"A fine summer weather, even the sun was smiling up in the sky. Everything seemed so lively and peaceful deep inside a certain mystery forest that no one else have ever explored, except for the residents of the hidden mansion, or should we say, guild house? Ah, the term 'resident' doesn't fit either... it should be guild members!

This day should have been perfect if not for the presence of this certain someone. It feels like she's ready to eat me anytime! Such creepy existence, I can't believe I'm currently inside this same room, breathing the same-"

A book flew straight towards the speaking baby fire dragon as it was changing the camera's angle. Fortunately, it was fast enough to evade the book, "Are you nuts?! Why hit me with a book?" It said as it breathed heavily.

"You're noisy. I'm not forcing you to stay here." A girl wearing the usual shirt and jeans said as she kept on reading some papers on her desk, "Shoo, go play outside if you're that bored in my office."

The dragon ignored the suggestion and sneakily picked up the camera and flew near her, focusing the lenses at the papers that she was holding and also at the books that were on the table, "Hmm... it's time for that huh? I could see why you look like someone from the dead land, comb your hair at least..."

"Shh... noisy."

"New people! Oh... and the rule books!"

"Yeah yeah, now shut up. I need to finish everything fast or I won't get some sleep again."

The dragon sighed as it landed on a vacant spot on the table. It closed the camera and picked up a copy of the rule book, "Let's see... is there something new?", it flipped the pages and ended up on the first chapter.


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I. Basics

1. One must never attack people from the same guild. It's an officer's job to attack and punish rule breakers. The sparing sessions are exceptions.

2. Never harm civilians. Defend them at all cost.

3. Only accept jobs from the guild's official mission wall.

4. Never reveal the guild's location to outsiders. It's hidden for a purpose.

5. Respect everyone.

6. If your necklace vibrates, that means you are being summoned to the guild house. Please come immediately.

7. Don't use your weapons on earth.

8. Vizzed should be kept hidden on there. Don't reveal its existence to anybody else.


OOC Rules

1. It's fine to break the Basic Rules of vizzed guild for the sake of plotting stories, but it will never be fine to break OOC rules. Breaking one will risk you of a kick out from this RP.

2. Write in third person and past tense for the sake of uniformity.

3. Keep things PG-13. Obey vizzed board rules.

4. Don't god-mod. You can't control other's characters.

5. If your character hits another character, don't indicate that you are successful at hitting. We're gonna follow some rules and computations when fighting and it would be covered in the RP after some time.

6. Don't control weathers, time, animals, and other non-playable characters (NPC's) such as the officials. We could discuss these things in the thread that would be mentioned in rule number 8 though, so if you think we need a time skip, change in weather, have an NPC act a certain way, feel free to say so.

7. A day in our RP is 15 days in real life. after 15 days, I'll indicate that the date have changed. This is what we'll follow unless I've made a time skip and ended the day earlier than expected. It would be needed at some point.

8. Favorite this thread and the sign up thread. We will use the sign up thread to discuss things about the RP and for OOC purposes. With that said, read rule 9.

9. Never, ever speak OOC here. this is a place for the actual RP, not for OOC discussions. Using brackets and putting "OOC-" here is not allowed. For OOC stuff, go to the sign up thread instead. For those who don't know what OOC is... it's "Out of character". OOC's are things that are said by you and not by your character in the RP, hence the name.

10. Failure to post at least once a week will kill your character and your RP journey will end.

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The girl scratched her head as she vented out some of her frustrations, "Time for some summons..." One by one, she mentioned out loud the new members' guild ID numbers while looking at the papers in her hands. The papers contained different information about the new recruits including their names, age, ID numbers, and some other things for recording purposes.

The necklaces of the new recruits then vibrated.

Light Knight :
steel_attacker :
Fallman7 :
thephantombrain :
BluemageKyle :
Eniitan :

"And now for you, go play down there and wait for them to come... call me when they're complete," she let out a big yawn as she stood up and lay down on a sofa near the window, at the left of her view from the table. She quickly fell asleep as her tired body felt comfort, closing her heavy eyes after two restless days of work, both in the guild and on earth.

"Meh... I guess I have no choice," giving up on raising any objections, it followed her orders and left her with its bored eyes, leaving the rule books behind and brought the papers with it instead downstairs.

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MAP

Canoe City - also known as the "traveler's city" due to its complete places and facilities for travelers. It is also the nearest city from the guild's house hidden in the forest. Non-members won't be able to reach the house.

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   It had been two weeks since that pale-faced, blue eyed, mysterious man named Daji had appeared out of nowhere to convince Mr. Ayanfire to join a secretive group of soldiers on a mission he had been promised would pay well. It all seemed too mysterious to the tall middle aged man; that is, the entire series of events that had lead him to this moment that Daji assured him was “the point of no return”.

   Ayanfire took a long drink from his well used flask as he pondered over what had intrigued him the most about his short, white-haired recruiter: the way in which Daji had selected him as a prime candidate to join his ambiguous guild. During one of his smuggling operations, Mr. Ayanfire, as he was know, made a choice to endanger his life to the point of sure death to help prevent a young girl from falling to her doom. Daji had been there, intently watching as the muscular smuggler held on to small African girl’s tiny ankle with his right hand, his left jammed into a pulley which serviced the rope he had gasped to anchor both his and the child’s body from falling four stories onto the hard dirty ground. Daji had seen Ayanfire’s pursuer use his hand gun to take his first shot at the man and girl, stuck on the top of the large stony building, the bright hot Batswana sun in his eyes, and hit Ayanfire’s right upper shoulder. Had the short mysterious recruiting officer not slain the assailant, he would have had no contender to bring back to his mysterious guild hall. It was not only because he had been raised on the streets of Africa, had survived the harsh realities of life and crime, and was an intelligent fighter with a plethora of useful contacts that Daji choose this tall, white, African-raised man as his recruit, but primarily because he had proven that deep inside, he would choose to do good instead of evil.

   Perhaps it was the fact that Ayanfire was so intrigued that had brought him to this isolated ghost village, populated now only by the beast of the dessert, where he was to met with his new contact. He remembered well the instructions his saviour repeated.
“When you are in the village, and have found a secure location where you are sure no one can see you, then and only then should you put on the necklace. Once it is on… my contacts will see you, and know you are the one they seek,” Daji had said, with his smooth deliberate voice. "Oh, and don't forget, you are not Ayanfire, find an alias."

   Ayanfire turned his forgettable, but handsome face down toward the silver necklace he had just slowly removed from his left pant pocket; was this really a good idea? Why in the world would he sign up for something so uncertain and dangerous? Still, there was something unearthly about that thin man who had protected his life two weeks earlier and treated his wounds with almost miraculous skill. Besides, he had been living a life of coordinating and supervising smuggling jobs for long enough... maybe it was time for a change.

   He instinctively reached into his dusty light beige suit’s breast pocket to retrieve yet again his trusty flask, and felt a warmth of relief as the whiskey flowed down his throat, soothing the natural nervousness that had crept up as he stood in the cooling breeze of the dessert night.
Quickly, in one smooth motion, he placed the light metal chain suspending a triangular crest around his neck and onto his strong, tanned shoulders. Just then, it vibrated.

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   The tall, brown haired earthling stood less than a stone's throw away from a beautiful but bizarre mansion, his mind slightly hazy from whatever he had just endured. Was he drugged? Had the contact he was to meat knocked him out with some sleep dart, and brought him... Ayanfire then realised he had never seen anything like this gothic elegant new place before. The trees surrounding the large building grew long triangular leaves, the grass under his feet looked more like miniscule leaves than blades, and the edifice in front of him looked like something even the most unorthodox architect could not conceive. The odd sight in front his pale blue eyes was nothing compared to what would next shock them.

   There, moving awkwardly toward him was a dark red creature with wings on its back, preoccupied with whatever was found on the several light yellow pages clutched in its small scaly talons. What deception was this? Who would create such an elaborate show, and what for?

   The realization Ayanfire next came to provided him with some relief along with the uneasiness: he must be hallucinating from the tranquilizer that he was sure was injected into him back in the abandoned village. What else would explain this inexplicable series of observations?

   It was then, as the smuggler breath was finally slowing, and his headache subsiding, that the short, snouted reptile spoke. Ayanfire quickly placed his hand on his large knife, sheathed on his right hip while his eyes quickly evaluated the incomprehensible terrain that surrounded him, thoroughly and desperately attempting to assess where his escape routes were, where he could find a weapon, and how many people could be hidden within gunfire distance; but it was all very difficult. Never had he been in a situation as unpredictable and outlandish as this, and he was not prepared to loose his cool.

   "What's going on!" he stated with confidence as much to the lizard-like apparition in front of him as to anyone who might have been secretly monitoring.

It took Alicea several hours to wake up, for she still had the necklace with her. Remembering lastly what the young man told her, of what she needed to do. Then finally she came too, slowly......she woke up forgetting about the necklace for a moment. As she found out that, she was sleeping on some bushes in a forest. Then she notice that she was somewhere else, and not at home. So she pondered saying *Where am I?.....* she asked more questions to herself, as she slowly rose up. *What kind of a world is this?......* for she was afraid, and started to walk forward slowly to take the odd scene, of what she was looking at large trees, and more trees covering up half of the sky. She saw some one walk by part of the forest of where she was. And she pondered more questions  *A sword on her belt?!* she screamed and ran again.... so Alicea came out from hiding and said *What a strange world.......I don't even think that can join this guild...... Let alone fight..... it seems people here, are dressed differently, and carry swords and other weapons on their side, or belt. Is this what mother and father did too?* she decided to walk around some more in the forest. Alicea wanted to go back home but, she knew she couldn't. So she tried to bear with the shock, of what just happened to her. She looked around her and said *I may like what I am seeing after all......even though I am very scared.....* she also said more to herself *Even if it is, my destiny......I do hope for some change* then suddenly she heard something from the sky a mighty roar. And she quickly looked up and spewed out *A.....a...a dragon?!!!* then, she ran as fast as she could. Looking back at the dragon with a large body chasing after her. She panted as she continue to run and she finally looked back, and stopped saying. *Its gone.....I can't believe what I just saw......a dragon.... a real life eating, breathing dragon!!!* as she got her breath back she walked on again. But, she was caught off guard, for the dragon finally caught her. She couldn't move or stutter any words, the shock had made her to stand still. The dragon rolled its eyes and took her away, after being carried off by a dragon she fainted, wondering where she was being taken next.

A young man with messy shoulder length white hair, bright green eyes and a blue swordsman jacket with a left leather shoulder guard walked out of the guild door and looked at the man pointing his blade at the dragon. "Who are you?" He would calmly ask the man awaiting a response from him. He would then glance at the spot Apollo was hiding behind while grinning slightly making it clear that he noticed his presence there. He turns his attention back on the man pointing his blade at the dragon. "Dex, did Ellie send you out here?" He asks and must be referring to the dragon holding the paper. "Eh, it doesn't matter." "What does matter is who are you and what do you want?" He calmly asks the man in front of him as he awaits a reply.

Arnolv woke up in his bed. As if the memory of the guild officer he saved seemed as if it were only a dream. Arnolv sat up, and then noticed a necklace he didn't remember getting. "Maybe Carly got me this, and I got too hung over last night..." Arnolv thought, remembering last night was his birthday. He then gets in the shower, and gets ready for the day. The day goes by pretty normal, with him going to college and hockey. Then Braden spoke to him.  GO KILL YOURSELF.  Arnolv had become used to the voices and had learned to ignore them. Going to get Aspirin due to a migraine, he then hears his necklace begin to beep...

The door squeaked open. A shady figure crept through the door. Everyone turned to see who this figure was.

"Looks like you forgot a name," he said. "Would've expected better from someone as famous as you."

Everyone turned to see this mysterious man walk into the guild house. They seemed surprised, wondering who he was and how he had found the bastion. A 6'5" ripped man with a beard walked across the room. He held a heavy black sword in one hand, and a demonic looking shield in the other. He had a backpack on, which appeared to hold two cylindrical like weapons, although no one knew what it was.

"Hmm..." he exclaimed, looking around at the other members of the guild. "You're probably wondering who I am and how in the world I got here." He spoke with the bass unlike anything anyone had ever heard before. The depth in his voice appeared to scare a couple of people. He sighed, and prepared himself for what would seem like a long monologue.

"Hello everyone. There's no need to be worried. I am not an intruder. I am Marcus Jean-Joseph, although I go by Black Warrior. I am of the Oblivion class, but don't worry. I'm not a bad guy like most of the other guys in my class.I'm the type of person who always strives to grow stronger. My goal is to become the strongest ever, so I'm up for any and all sparring between any of you."

Black Warrior took a seat in a chair that seemed as majestic as a royal throne. He coughed, then continued. "But none of you care about me. I'm assuming you all are wondering how I'm here. it's long so bear with me until the end. Also, please don't interrupt, as I REALLY hate being interrupted."

After a momentary silence, everyone stared at Black Warrior.

"No comments? Ok then, let's begin. I was walking through Death Canyon. I may be new, but I'm not a wimp. As I strive to become stronger, I venture through dangerous regions of this world. I was gathering gold and items when I was ambushed by three Mangis. I'm assuming that you know what they are, so I won't go into detail about their appearance.

"It was a rough ambush. I had to use my Death Blade skill to kill one of them. Unfortunately, using it weakened me too much to handle the other two. They struck me with the celerity of a cheetah. Their one two combo was too much for me to handle. My strength was failing me, and for the first time in this world I was a little afraid that I wouldn't be able to win. Trust me when I say that fear is NOT something I am bothered by. If it was, I probably wouldn't have entered the Death Canyon.

"Nonetheless, back to the story. The two remaining Mangis were ready to deliver the final blow. One second, they began to strike. The next, they were cut into pieces. They disappeared, and I saw a man standing in the distance. That man right there." black Warrior pointed to a man who stood silently in the corner; it looked as if he was trying to hide from Black Warrior.

"To be honest, I wasn't sure what happened. It seemed as if he killed them just by looking at them. He slowly walked towards me. I slowly got up, holding my sword with a tight grip. I was ready to strike when he shouted 'CEASE!' I swear to you, I was frozen. He walked up and said 'You have potential. Why not join my guild?' I was hesitant, but after a little thinking, I decided to accept. He gave me the location, and here I am."

Everyone stared at Black Warrior, many intrigued at his story.

"I realize that a lot of you are shocked to see me here, but I promise you that I will be a valuable asset to this guild. You may call me Marcus if you like. That's my real name after all."

Marcus stood up. "Canoe City is a nice place. Surely beats Goliath's Cavern. Nonetheless, I think I need some rest. But first..."

Marcus read the rule book that lay on the girls desk. "Good thing there's no rules against pets," he said, looking down at the dragon. "Cuz' there's one that I saw not too far from here that I wanted, but couldn't afford. His name is Obliterator I believe. If I ever get him,we're going to be a force to reckon with."

Marcus grabbed a necklace and began making his was to the food store. "I sure hope food here is better than at the Cav. Cuz' I'm starving." Marcus walked toward the food store, waving to everybody as he walked.

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The dragon who carried Alicea off, still had her within his crutches of his claws, as he took flight and fled away with her. Alicea woke up from fainting, saying *Mmm.....what the.....I'm in the sky?!* she looked up and saw the dragon, then she looked at the position, she was in. Alicea tried to move but, the dragon was far too strong for her. She tried to budge again, it didn't work and she said *Let go of me! Someone help me!* the dragon ignored what she said. Alicea was so scared and afraid. She tried to fight back and it didn't work. So she said to herself *I don't have the strength to fight....... someone, anyone please rescue me.......* Alicea started to sob. She had no choice but, wait to be rescued by someone.

Dex (the little red dragon) almost felt like laughing sarcastically as it stared at the unknown man who looked like he was going to attack, "What's going on? Weren't you at least oriented by your recruiters? No good news for my friend," it shook its head as it kept on flapping its tiny wings. "Yes, Ellie's sleeping, she wants me to wait for the recruits," it landed on the floor and checked the pictures attached with the papers, scattering them around to give itself a better view. "Hmm... there you are, new recruit!" It pointed at the picture of the brown haired man using its tails as it showed a small hint of enthusiasm. It pointed next at the picture of the boy who just fainted near the bushes, "that one's a new recruit too..."

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Ellie's rest was cut short as she heard a loud noise coming from a dragon and a woman screaming 'help me'. She quickly opened the window and spotted the dragon flying around and glared at it while having her brows wrinkled. The dragon must have sensed it and looked towards her location. Ellie then gestured "down" with her pointing finger right after getting its attention, frustrated not because it endangered the woman, but because it wasted her one only chance for a short rest. The dragon landed in front of the mansion after letting go of the woman.

"Oh! Oh! That girl too!" Dex exclaimed upon seeing her picture and her face clearly.

Ellie wobbly went downstairs, annoyed while holding her head until finally reaching the front of the mansion.

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"You seem so talkative for a newcomer, who cares where your knives are," a hostile man said to Danny as he took a sip of beer from his beer mug made of clear glass, "We're planning for our mission. Stop bothering us with noob things and go search for that Ellie instead," the man then looked back to his companions, "... what are we gonna do about that again?" they continued their discussion and ignored Danny completely.

It seemed that it was not the best idea to talk to random people around the guild about different things. Maybe it would be wise to search for Ellie instead as what they've suggested.

After being set free by the dragon. Alicea felt dizzy a bit, as the dragon flew around in a circle, for amount of times in the sky. Then she looked at the mansion before her. Then what got her attention the most, was a bunch of people in front of the mansion. She said to herself * Who are these people.....* then she turned her head slightly as she caught Apollo, trying to sneak away. She just kept quiet about it. Alicea pondered more questions to herself saying * Maybe these are the people, that I am looking for?......Oh....I don't know....or should I just keep quiet?* then she looked at Danny who seemed to be very annoyed and angry. Alicea then looked at the young man with, a blue swordsman jacket, then she shook her head. She kept pondering more questions, to herself saying *Should I make a run like Apollo did?...... I don't want to be captured like last time......or should I go to them?* Alicea didn't know what to do. So she did the best thing that she was good at. She just kept quiet, stood where she was, and listened to the conversation that went on.

Alicea saw a person talking to her called Emmy. She didn't want to reply back to him. As she is not good at talking to people, that she has never met in her entire life. Her thoughts talked this time, and she said *Why is this person talking to me?......should I reply back?* Then Alicea continued, to stare at the person near her. Then she turned away from him, and said to herself *I don't want to talk to him....... so I think its best that I do things in silence.....* Alicea turned around and she pointed the way for him, which was the mansion before them. And to a bunch of people that is, in front of it. And Alicea did that instead of talking. She continued to watch the conversation, that was going on. She looked back and spotted where Apollo fainted, and turned around again. She just watched, and listen for what will happen next.