In the market place, there was a small food store where gamers come to buy food supply such as meat,fruits,drinks,and vegetables.Mia and Blair had long since stopped chasing each other as the other realized Blair was a tank.

"Such energy!" she thought to herself.

They arrived at the market and met a much larger crowd of people than they expected ..

" well I guess we ain't the only ones hungry"..Blair commented as he could see people sitting all over, chatting and enjoying their meals.

"I'll go get some food while you guys get us a table" mia suggested and walked away to where there was a queue. The good thing was the line wasn't that long as sooner than expected she had gotten her turn and ordered her food and was now returning with the food. It didn't take long for the boys to get a table and settle in. And after they got a table, Mia returned with a large bag and dropped it on the table.

"Let's see what we have here" Blair said as he tumbled the bag over.

"Nice" Eiko said stretching his hands forward to pick up a well wrapped meat.

They all had meat in their face holes and pretty much on their face except for Rodney, and Mia noticed this.

"Are you a vegetarian or something"? She asked,"You know it's not gonna affect you right?.. Different body and all remember? So even if you have meat it probably won't affect your health in the real world you know, atleast that's what I think" she said not sounding too sure at the end.

He began to reason what she had just said, though he couldn't be too sure what she said was the correct thing but it was worth trying anyway. Besides it wasn't like he was a vegetarian, he just wasn't sure about the food that was all.

"Hit me" Rodney said smiling and Eiko tossed a wrap at him and as he grabbed it he quickly opened the wrap and began to dig in like a  lion that hadn't eaten in a long time. And with every bite, his mouth got full and before the content in his mouth finished, he would take another bite.

"Dude calm down or you might end up choking yourself" Eiko said laughing. The others watched and laughed at this sight too.

"And to think he was calm and collected, dude you are a monster!" Blair said laughing and falling over. The others bent to look and see if he was alright and he gave a thumbs up so they joined him in laughing as well.

"Come on gyfs" Rodney tried to say but he couldn't get any word out from his mouth properly as the words just came out muffled. He just smiled knowing what they were saying was true and as he finished the meat in his mouth they all laughed.

[Group quests available]

[Survive the attack]

[Grow the legion faction]

After the message they all looked at each other in confusion and swallowed the last bit of whatever they had in their mouth which oddly took more effort than the rest . An available quest meant therewas trouble in the horizon. Something was happening or about to happen but right now there was nothing.

"What sort of.." Rodney was about to say but got cut off with disbelief of what was happening as he noticed the area getting dark and decided to look at the sky and right then he could see tiny objects coming their way. And as it approached it became more visible, a shower of arrows was blocking out the sun and descending quickly.

"Take cover!!!" Rodney shouted.

This wasn't an order and they knew it as they all quickly got under their table. It didn't take long and the arrows descended on them. The sound it made was like a rain fall and the shower lasted for almost 3 minutes then eventually stopped.

"Can this day get any worse" Blair said and almost immediately screams were being heard from all around and as they looked round they noticed it was from other players who were being killed by an army of black ninja's with an iron helmet with a black mark of awing on it.

"Darn it ...I just had to open my cursed mouth" Blair cursed himself for jinxing them all.And now the ninjas were making their way by killing anyone and getting closer to where the legion was.

"Let's get out of here!!" Rodney screamed but he knew it wouldn't be an easy one as they were now surrounded and each with swords pointing at them. It wasn't only the four of them as there were about  five people there as well, they were all standing with their backs against each other.

"I don't know you guys but we have to work together to get out of this one" a guy with a red spiky hair said.Even with the nine of them, they stood very little chance of surviving something like this.It would take a miracle for them to escape anything like this, but something of that nature was about to happen. As something strangebegan to happen  to one of them.

Rodney hadn't said anything as the red haired kid had asked for cooperation. He had remained quiet and simply just walked forward.Soon his body began to emit a black aura with his eyes completely black as night.

And in front of their very eyes, shadows had enveloped the person in front of them. Rodney was no where to be seen, only a shadow figure in sight.

"Stop or lose your lives" one of the ninja's tried to warn which in itself was odd as it hadn't given the others this choice yet. This was just to the black figure approaching them but this warning fell on deaf ears as he just kept on walking forward. With no other option,the ninja swung his sword at Rodney  but before it could hit he felt something choking him and his leg lifted from the ground all the while Rodney was seen tilting his head slowly.

"Is that some new skill?" Eiko thought.

"Who's this guy?" the red haired guy began to wonder as he wasn't sure of what was going on.

"Attack" a ninja dressed differently from the rest standing at the back with a golden emblem on his chest piece ordered.Obviously this was the commander .They all began charging in and swingingtheir weapons towards the legions and the new five. And as Eiko was ready to use his ability to the Max to parry whatever attackswould come his way, where he stood, shadows rose from the ground and held the swords in place before  they were effortlessly yanked from the wielder and disappeared into the shadow. The shadow figure then began to bend and then a sound like something w*s ripping was heard and out of no where, wings popped out.

He sprouted a pair of wings entirely made out of shadows that could arguably be as wide as ten feet on each side. He rose to the air with his wings flapping and releasing heavy gusts of wind.More arrows were fired this time with the tip of it shining a bright red. Some archers aimed at the dark figure in the air and the others fired at the group down below but just the power from the flapping of the wings would cause the arrows to be blown away before it could even hit the shadow figure.

Before reaching they that were on the ground, a large wall of rock rose and all the arrows got stuck on it. But this wouldn't stay for long as the earth wall couldn't take that much power and slowly it began to crack. The one who had made the wall rise was Johan, one of the new people who had joined them in the fight against the ninjas, he was also at level 5, he had the earth ability.

"We need to leave.....NOW" Eiko shouted as he knew the walls would soon crumble and this was  a fight they couldn't win at the level they currently were at. As the wall was beginning to crack, the shadow that encapsulated Rodney began to fade and soon after the wings retracted and as he began to descend to the ground, the black hue in his eyes cleared up.

He wasn't quite on the ground yet, so apparently he was falling. And just before he could hit the ground, Eiko used up all the stamina he had left to land him safely. The red spiked hair guy carried him on his back as he noticed that he was unconscious.

"Let's go" Blair shouted out again and  they all  began to run with Blair obviously taking charge.

Johan then stopped and raised a huge and wide earth wall to block their assailants path and then turned around and began to run trying to catch up with the others who were now  far ahead of him.Running non stop, they had eventually managed to escape the attackers but that didn't mean they slowed down for a bit as they kept on running. They eventually got to their lodge and the five from before had tagged along as well.

*****

Everyone slumped on their beds while some fell on the ground with heavy breathes of air clearly showing they were exhausted. And after some minutes past, a groan was heard from one of them as Rodney was slowly coming to. The others got around him quickly to see how he was doing.

"What was that you did at the market a while ago rodney"? Eiko asked the question that was on everybody's mind.

"Hey... Shouldn't we at least allow him some air?" Mia said clearly not pleased with how they jumped straight to asking Rodney questions when it was clear he was still a little bit out of it.

"I don't remember a thing that happened after we all got backed up against each other" he replied.

"Not even the cool wings you sprouted?...bro you should have seen it...sooo  fire!!".. Blair said as he held his face .

The other five remained quiet not wanting to say something since they didn't know who these people were.

"We should be heading back now" Erwin the red haired guy said.

"What faction are you in?" Blair asked.

"Our faction  was disbanded by the system after the death of our members and leader" he replied.

"I am Rodney, leader of the legion faction and if your willing I'll be blade to welcome you all in" Rodney said. Why he did so wasn't clear to him as it had just come out like that from his mouth. He was beginning  to think the whole leadership thing was beginning to slightly stick to him.

The red haired guy, Erwin stood for a second then looking at his team mates who were with him, gave a shrug and asked to be excused.Him and his team  went outside the legion's house for a brief talk.

"I don't think its a bad idea" Erwin spoke up first..

"Yeah they seem good" Jack a guy with two long blades said.

" And strong too" Johan said.

"Yeah ...I'm fine if you guys are.." Corey said..

"Whatever...I just hope we can trust them".. Blaze the only female amongst them all said.After few Minutes of back and forth the group was seen heading inside the house again.

Erwin stood in front of the rest and said,

"Joining your faction will be an honour".The original legion members Mia, Blair and Eiko cheered hearing this with Rodney walking up to give a handshake to the new members.

Jack, a guy with  brown hair that fell down on the side of his face, Corey another guy with  green long hair packed in a ponytail, then there was Blaze with her long black hair almost touching her heels glowing radiantly and there was Johan a huge guy almost around 7 feet tall with short brown spikey hair.

*Bing*

[Spreading your wings?. This isn't all as it seems]

[Five new players added to the legion]

[9/10]

[Quest completed]

" What's this supposed to be?... A riddle maybe?. "Not all as it seems"? Rodney pondered upon the notification that only him had gotten. The others were simply happy they weren't going to be just them four again. It was like somehow the game knew they'd meet more and provided such large space for them but with only four bed. They were all thinking along the lines that the game might have the attack all planned but then again why kill that much people, that was the basis of their confusion.

"What actually happened out there?" Eiko paused for a moment but then continued "I have played this game for months now and I've never witnessed when someone wasn't regenerated after death or met those ninja's."

"Does that mean if your Hp reaches [0] you're gone?" Erwin said as they all looked at each other in fear.