Afterlife Online : The Frozen Bow

Chapter three- Aryis( The bedtime song )

Rebirth city is were it all started for Aryis and Mazen. On their first day in ALO it was where they had been spit out. It was where all the new players were spit out. It was the place that they chose to call their home.

When they finnaly left the dungeon they landed in the cities plaza and it was almost night time. Despite this fact, it was still pretty busy with players still running around, accepting quest, joining guilds, or buying gear from the local blacksmiths.

One of said blacksmiths was currently calling their names. Aryis and mazen walked briskly over to one of the booths that stood in the plaza. Behind the counter was the young blacksmith keno. Although he was new to the blacksmithing trade he had excellent skills with a hammer and anvil causing people to flock to him from all around the world. Coupled with his good looks, his soft brown eye's and muscularframe built from years of hard work in the forges it was no wonder he had risen to the top of the market so fast.

" Aryis-chan, Mazen-kun, welcome back"keno said with his trademark lopsided grin." I trust that you had fun on your little quest."

" OF COURSE WE HAD FUN!!!!YOU SHOULD'VE SEEN ME OUT THERE!!! I WAS ALL LIKE DIE PEW PEW!!!!" Mazen exclaimed telling keno everything that happened.
" Oh is that right" he said leaning over the counter. "Well there's just a tad bit of exaggeration on his part but it's mostly true."Aryis countered.

"well anywho" he continued,"is there anything I can do for you at the moment?"

" Nah not really. Just stoping by to say hey and to check on our favorite blacksmith in the whole wide world" Aryis said with an innocent look.

"Sure you only call me the favorite when you want something for free"

" Well were good for now! See you tomorrow at our house?"

" Well, yeah see ya soon. Bye Mazen-kun behave yourself?"

"I'll Do My Best Keno!" Mazen replied hastily, being pulled away from the booth by Aryis who was eager to get to home.

After they left the plaza they took a right onto one of the off branching streets. A few more turns later and they were home. Aryis twisted the doorknob and was greeted by the familiar cozy atmosphere that now permeated their home. It was a small two story house, on the bottom floor a foyer, kitchen, and living room. The top floor was comprised of the living spaces, which included a bathroom, armory, and small training space.

As soon as they got home Mazen ran up the stairs calling dibs on the first bath. Since in a virtual reality you can't have actual electrical appliances they just heated up water and poured it into the tub, which was good enough for them. By the time Aryis was done stripping off her armor it was already way past dark. Sleep was necessary in game since players could, after all, still suffer from fatigue.

Aryis headers upstairs to say goodnight to Mazen. When she reached the top of the staircase she was greeted by the sight of Mazen checking his profile and inventory. The screen floating infront of him said.....

[ Profile ]

Name: Mazen young
HP: 300/300
Strength: 12
Defence: 9
Agility: 59
Intelligence: 32
Dexterity: 19
Charisma: 264

Skills: none

Aryis still couldn't figure out why Mazen hadn't developed any skills yet. Ever since that day when they had entered Alo, his skills had remained blank. The only reason this didn't upset him too much was because of his uncanny ability to increase his stats at a monumentous rate. It had gotten to a point to where he could just be walking and his agility would go up. For the average player they would have to engage in combat to increase their stats but for some strange reason this room seemed to not apply to the young boy. Aryis decided to check her profile too to see if she gained anything. This is what she saw.....

[ Profile]

Name: Aryis young
HP:100/100
Strength: 58
Defence: 8
Agility: 76
Intelligence: 22
Dexterity: 30
Charisma: 2

Skills

Bowman's strength: contrary to popular belief pulling back a bowstring does take a certain amount of strength.

Increases strength by 12%
Increases agility by 1%
Cool down time of 1 minute

So far this was the only skill she had managed to learn. It wasn't much but she and her brother were proficient fighters withought skills. They simultaneously closed there menus with a dismissive flick of there wrists and then she tucked Mazen into bed. His katana was still in his hand and she had to pry his fingers of to get him too let go. The weapons were the main reason that for the time being skills didn't matter. On the day they arrived they had been seeking advice from other players about what they should know. They were told how to open there inventories and when they looked they found there respective weapons. Mazen wielded Incarceron, a katana once weilded by the Japanese god Izanagi that channels the users natural elements to boost power. Aryis discovered the ice bow frostbite once weilded by Izanami. When they showed keno their weapons the blacksmith almost passed out from exitment. He said they were " S-class weapons which means, basically they were once weilded by the gods. Aryis didn't know why these weapons had appeared in there inventories, but she intended to use them to beat the seven world bosses and return to life.

Mazen finnaly relented, letting go of the sword. Aryis leaned it against the wall next to her frozen bow. Then she sang him the song she had sung to him every night before he went to bed, because it was his favorite song.

"Close your eyes shut your mouth or my fist will put you out, dream dream, dream, dream, dream, dream."

She repeated this same line till Mazen was fast asleep. She yawned padding over too the light switch flicking it off. She was going to need energy too.

Because tomorrow is going to be a big day.

Tomorrow is the day that she would finnaly create her guild.

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