//------------------------------// // Aftermath // Story: The Adventures Paused // by Dragon Shimmer //------------------------------// After three hours, the Team finally came back to the Guild. Jezz and Karen open the door and see that Ken is here with Eldaro. Ken turns her head and sees the kids. He immediately rushes at them and hugs them.  "My kids," Ken hugs them tightly, his tears falling down, "I'm looking for you everywhere. Please don't scare me like that again."  "I'm scared too, Dad." Then the kids cry out loud.  Ken comforts them, "Don't cry. I will buy you some ice cream, okay?" The kids nod. Ken stands up and turns to the team, "Thank you all of you. I will pay you for this later."   Sunset sighs, "You should take your kid to go somewhere now. You can pay us later."  Ken nods, "See you again." and Ken goes out  The dragon sits down on the chair beside the table while Jezz and Karen go out of the guild because they have something to do with their home. Sunset takes a bottle of orange juice and pours it into the cup while Eldaro just looks at her.   "So, we don't have any income from this quest?" Eldaro takes the book, "Bet that our guessing is correct right?"  "Yep, you're right. Some bandits want to operate the robot and sell the "F" and "E" adventurers." Sunset flies to the second floor, "Now I want to go home and rest. See you tomorrow."  Eldaro nods as he opens the book, "See you tomorrow."   ----------The next day--------- Eldaro wakes up and does his usual work. After he is done, he goes to the empty main room and sighs. He comes down and sits at the table. Hearing the knock on the door, he opens the door and sees many people who are standing in front of the door.  Eldaro confuses about this. 'okay... what happens here?' he looks at them and counts the people, It's above twenty people there. 'okay what happens here?'  A violet-haired girl wearing a white robe pokes Eldaro, making him turn his head to her. The girl asks, "Is this Fantasy Guild?"  Eldaro rubs his head, "Yeah... but what happened here? I thought my guild was not popular like this."   "Oh, that's just before your members help the police destroy the information base of the "Sea" clan." the violet girl takes out the paper. "There, your guild has a headline on the paper."   Eldaro grabs the newspaper and sees the headline title is "Fantasy guild help police destroy the "Sea" clan." and have the picture of the team that went to that place last night. Eldaro's mouth hangs there and looks at the girls. "How is that possible? Our mage just accidentally slams them down but... there is no reporter there. How can this be possible?" Eldaro goes inside the guild, "Can you ask them to wait for me for a moment? I have something to do though"   "Sure. Take your time because not anyone wants to wait for long," The violet girl points at the crowd, "My name is Violet by the way, just hurry in thirty minutes." Eldaro closes the doors and runs to the second floor, he goes to his room and takes a magic crystal to start talking to the king. Sunset teleports inside the guild like usual and looks around. She feels weird that Eldaro is not downstairs like normal. She opens the doors and goes to step out but she sees the crowd after that. One of the people in the crowd yells, "Hey, that is the dragon that help the police," then the crowd rushes at her. Sunset quickly takes out the staff and slams it to the ground, an ice wall appears, making the crowd have to stop and stand there.  Sunset asks, "Okay, what in Tartarus is this?" Sunset glares at them, "Are you all affected by some kind of control spell?" All the people in the crowd shake their heads, Sunset faceclaws, "Okay, tell me what happens here and why all of you want to meet me."  "I think you are a famous dragon," Violet says behind Sunset, making her turns her head back, Violet pulls out the newspaper, "Here, take a look."   Sunset takes the newspaper and looks at it, then she puts the paper down and stares at Violet, "How ... How does this happen?" Then she looks at the crowd, "Okay.... let me calm myself first," Sunset takes a deep breath then breathes out, "Right... So people come here just to meet me and others?"  Violet looks at the crowd, "Well... it is." Then she looks at Sunset, "They maybe want to join the guild just to meet you and your team."  "Well, let me ask," Sunset yells at the crowd, "Who wants to join our guild, raise your hand?" and only some of the crowd want to join the guild, Sunset looks back at Violet as she is raising her hand. Sunset rubs her chin, " You want to join this one right? That is if you pass the interview and the checking."  Eldaro goes out the door and sees the crowd still there. He sighs and announces to everyone, "All right? Who wants to join the guild, please step in a line and I will call one by one. Who just came here just for the interview, please go out." The crowd starts separating and half of them are going out while half of them step in line. Eldaro sighs and goes inside, he sits at the chair and starts, "Okay, first." After two hours of interviewing, Eldaro finally interviews, but no one can join the guild, except Violet, because some of them just join the Guild to meet their idols, while some of them are just spying to get information. Eldaro leans his back to the chair and sighs in relief because it is finally over.  "Thanks to you, Sunny," Eldaro wipes his hand over his forehead," Your spell is working perfectly, although I'm so tired here. But it will electrocute someone who lies, I found that... quite a violence"   "Your welcome," Sunset rubs her head, "honestly I get electrocuted a lot when I create this spell. It's like when I was learning to fly though."   "Oh, you used to struggle with flying too?" Violet sits down on the chair. "So tell me how hard it is?" "Well...." ----------------Flashback------------------- Sunset jumped out of the hills and tried to flap her wings furiously but it was not making her fly and she slammed into the ground. Sunset faced down to the ground and grumbled, she didn't know that learning flying is so hard for her. Then she had an idea and went to the town's library.  When she went into the library, she asked the librarian about the books on learning flying for the birds. The librarian led her to the flying book zone, Sunset started to collect them and put them on the library's table, then she started to do exploratory to find the best ways for her flying. After two days, she finally completed the exploratory and put the books back in the zone that she just took and she left the library.  Teleported back to the hill, Sunset took a deep breath and jumped out of the hill, tried to flap her wings like she was exploratory but it was not working and her body was once again slammed into the ground. She grumbled and threw away the paper. She got up to the hill and tried again and again until she succeeded.  -------------- End of flashback-----------------------  "Well, that cost me one week to make me fly and two more weeks to master it." Sunset rubs her head, "Well at least I don't give up."   "I see," Violet turns to the wooden board and takes an "E" rank quest, "Well I should do the mission right?"   "Sure," Eldaro points at the "D" rank quest. " But I highly recommend you do the higher rank though. And this is just slaying "Giant Snails" in a garden in Ochna village."   "Eh sorry, I don't think I can't do that." Violet takes out her blue knife, "My weapon can't pierce their shell though,"   "Well, just stab their head before they go into the shell," Sunset looks at Violet, "You should spot your weakness and focus on attacking it though, that is your weapon work."  "I see," Violet nods, "So I should stab it right?" Violet takes the "D" rank quest paper, "Okay if it doesn't work, I will shave your scales out," Sunset smirks as Violet goes out.   Sunset stands up and stretches her body, "I should clean the board right?" Then she turns to the wooden board and sees many quests, mostly just cleaning the garden, slaying the "Bush" monsters, guarding the merchant, etc... Sunset looks up and asks, "Okay since when do we have many quests to do? Don't they know that we are just four people?  Eldaro takes the newspaper, "Well, since you take down that base and help the police grab much important information to destroy the "Sea" clan that police have spent many years with but they are still growing up. Honestly, You should be in "B" or "A" rank just for this help." Then Eldaro pours the apple juice into the cup, "Normally, "B" or "A" rank has a test to prove that they deserve or not but... I just let you pass it because I know you too well."  Sunset points at herself, "Then now I am a "B" rank?" Eldaro nods as he is drinking the apple juice. Sunset rubs her forehead and throws her claws over her head, "Great, that's great. I wish I was in the lower rank but now I am in the higher rank." Then she sighs, "But even in higher rank, I don't see any "B" rank quest though. So I will... " She takes three "F" ranks quest, "start cleaning the board. See ya." Then she steps out the door and starts doing some quests.   Eldaro sighs and just sits in the building. But he is feeling fun because the guild is just larger. Eldaro grabs the screwdriver and starts setting the TV that he just bought with the rewarded money.  -------2 hours later --------- Eldaro wipes his arms over his forehead and steps back, he looks at the TV with the wine bar and he sees it fit. He smiles and throws his arms over his head. Then he starts looking at the wine bar and arranges them but he hears the door knock. Eldaro has to run to the door and open it, he sees a brown-haired man who is wearing heavy armor and a pink-haired girl wear a mask and dress like a rogue.   The brown-haired man asks, "Is this Fantasy Guild?" Eldaro nods and the man introduces himself, "Sorry for disturbing you, my name is Javen, "S" rank of the Eagle Guild," Then he points at the girl, "This is Sakira, another "S" rank."   "Nice to meet you." Eldaro shakes Javen's hand, "Anyway, why are you here? You should be somewhere special and this guild is not enough for you because it's just established."  "That's ok. I don't like to bully the weak guilds though but I will destroy the guild that does many things that harm the people ."  Javen takes out his shield, "Anyway, I want to talk to your dragon."   "Sorry, she isn't here now. " Eldaro shakes his head, "How about we go inside and start talking?"   "Sounds fine to me." Javen and Sakira follow Eldaro to go inside and start talking with him.  -------- Three hours later----- It's afternoon when Sunset finishes all of the quests, she flies back to the Guild to rest there.  When she opens the door, she sees Jezz and Karen are currently at the wine bar while Eldaro is eating with Javen and Sakira. They are talking happily with each other. Sunset smiles at this scene and goes to the wine bar, asks Karen to make her a mocktail. Karen nods and goes grab some juices to mix. Jazz, Karen, and Eldaro see Sunset, they turn back to each other to talk. Sunset feels weird about this but she decides to ignore it. After a while, Eldaro asks Sunset to come there.   Sunset sits near the trio with a cup of Karen's mocktail, "Okay why are you calling me?" Then she turns her head and sees the familiar faces, "Oh, you are the adventurer that we met in the bandit's base right?"  "You don't forget me? I'm just afraid you don't know me though?" Javen rubs his head, "Ahem.... ok, sorry that I don't introduce you yet. I'm the "S" rank of the Eagle Guild," Sunset nods as Javen points at Sakira, "Well, me and her though."   " I see," Sunset picks up the cup, "Sorry for standing your way to destroy that base though."   "No need to apologize because that clan makes many people suffer."  Javen waves his hand to deny, "I got to say they are lucky because if I am there instead of you, I will kill them all, not just make them faint."  "I see. Anyway let's stop discussing the past, the clan is erased now." Sunset drinks the mocktail and puts it down, "So, why are you here? This guild is just established in about.... one week, nothing to check though."   "Oh sorry, we have something to check anyway," Sakira points at Sunset, "Tell me which rank you are in now?"   " I'm in "B" rank," Sunset put her fist to her cheek, "Is that okay?"  Javen shakes his head, "No, it is not okay." Javen eats some meat as he continues, "Because one week to raise into "B" rank is impossible. So I came here to check your ability." Eldaro interrupts them, "But I follow the king's rule to rank up her though."   "I know, Eldaro," Javen turns her head, "But I want to check her ability if she deserves to be a "B" rank or not,"   Sunset glances at Sakira then looks back to Javen, "You are suspecting me to check right?" Javen nods, Sunset smirks at them, "All right, I will vanish your doubt. So shall we do it right now? I am ready to go."   "Tomorrow because it's night already." Sunset turns her head to the window and sees that it's night, Javen laughs at her," Disappointed right?  Don't worry, I will stop if you are down."   "All right, see you tomorrow." Sunset flies to the second floor, "I will wait." Then she steps on the magic circle and teleports back to her house. Javen and Sakira admire her when she can do that. Eldaro leads the guests into two rooms to let them rest but Javen says no need, they only need one room. Then they close the room and start resting, preparing the tomorrow's fight.