9. The start of day 2

In the morning the next day.

Zack: 'Mike?' said quite disoriented as he did not see him in bed. He was quite afraid that all that happened yesterday was but a dream, but if not he would be in the school dormitories and not here.

So in a more impatient and scared way, he repeated?

'Mike! Mike! Where are you?' and as he was about to have a panic attack, he saw Mike entering the bedroom. So he jumped into him in a big hug while crying and continuing to repeat his name.

'Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike!!!'

...

Mike: I woke up before Zack, so I decided to make breakfast before waking him up. But as I was cooking I heard Zack calling me in quite the desperate way. I got concerned of what was happening to him as it seems as he was having a panic attack, so I went to the bedroom. And before I got to understand what was happening Zack threw himself into my embrace as he was calling me without end. So I decided that before asking what has happened to him, first I had to soothe him up so I embraced him back with my left hand and caressed his head with the right hand as I said:

'Zacky, I'm here. It's alright, I'm here with you, my Zacky.' as I repeated this words to him until he calmed down and I gave him a kiss.

'Are you alright now? What happened to you? A nightmare?'

Zack: 'I remembered the night you died, so I got scared.' He was trying to stop crying without success.

Mike: 'I'm here with you right now and I'm not going anywhere. I'm not dying any time soon. You can bet on that, I'm never leaving you alone! So you can be at ease, I'm here!' as he tried to erase his fears

Zack: 'You are right, I suppose I got too scared at not seeing you on bed that my fears got the better of me.' As he stopped crying.

I'm glad you are here and alive!' said in a relieved tone.

Mike: 'I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. Remember this time we have a head start, I'm not dying anytime soon. And I'll also make sure you are by my side all the time! I love you Zacky!'

As soon as they recollected themselves they went to the kitchen.

Zack: 'You were preparing breakfast?'

Mike: 'Yes, although it's quite a simple breakfast, I was about to wake you up to start eating together. Next time I will wake you up first and cook afterwards. I won't let you feel lonely and insecure again.'

Zack: 'As long as I don't wake up alone I think I will be alright. It seems that I haven't gotten rid of the nightmares even since I got back in time. I was in the wrong having expected to get rid of the nightmares with you here, but it seems that it got better but I didn't get rid of them completely.'

Mike: 'Why didn't you told me about it yesterday?'

Zack: 'I was too happy to be with you again that I forgot, and I guess I didn't want you to blame yourself for it. In the end the nightmares are always about the day you died.'

Mike: 'I guess we can't undo what has already happened, but I can at least make sure to stay by your side so you can get over it with time. In time I'll make sure to erase all your unnecessary worries by staying by your side forever.'

Zack: 'Thanks, I love you!'

Mike: 'I love you too, but now you should start eating before it gets cold.'

Zack: 'It's really tasty! Thanks.' said while eating the breakfast.

Mike: 'I guess it pay of to make it then.' said happy and satisfied of the breakfast results

Zack: 'Changing on the subject, today we are acquiring the rest of jobs in the workshops.'

Mike: 'Yes, we would only have time to acquire them and maybe upgrading it to 99exp, but I don't think the last 1exp to upgrade them to 1 star would be possible today. In the end, acquiring a star is the first bottleneck for any of the jobs or skills and I don't think we will have enough time to achieve it. In the end, we only need to acquire stars for the jobs we will be focusing our energy in.'

Zack: 'That's true, in my case would be the alchemy and tailor related jobs; and in yours blacksmithing and cooking related ones.'

Mike: 'Well although I would like to acquire all the skills I intended to acquire enough to complete the 3rd job quest of obtaining 25 ones if we are quick, the most probable outcome would be to only acquire the basic list to complete only the 2nd job quest.'

Zack: 'Well that depends on how quick we are at acquiring them. In my case I think I would be able to finish the 4th quest before the 3rd since to complete the alchemist related jobs I would have to acquire the herbalist, camper and first-aid of the must list, the alchemist from the basic list, and afterwards it would only have to finish with the farmer and pharmacy one from the extra list.'

Mike: 'That's true, but remember you have to acquire 99exp of the alchemist related skills to complete the 4th quest and not only acquiring the skill.'

Zack: 'Now that you mention it, it's true. I nearly forgot, but even in this case I don't think we will need much time to acquire the 99exp necessary for it. It would have been much more difficult if we needed to gain a star, as that would have taken us a lot more time. But as that is not the case it would be quite easy to accomplish its objectives.'

Mike: 'Well let's get going. Tomas has always has been a late morning person so he is waking up late as long as he can. And considering the lot of the things happening yesterday I don't think it would be many people waking anytime soon.'

Zack: 'Then let's go, it would be nice having the workshops empty. Like this we won't have to wait for an empty space inside the workshops.'

...

As soon as they arrived at the workshops stations:

Mike: 'Wow, there are less people than I thought it would! It's crazy! It's nearly empty!'

Zack: 'I guess we overestimate the shock and influence of what happened yesterday. I don't think we will be seeing much people till mid-morning and it won't start packing up till lunch time.'

Mike: 'That may be true. It should have influenced us the invasion of the Sharkdokin in our past live more than we think.'

Zack: 'That may be true as we might be the only ones desperate enough to make so many things in a short period of time. Let's start, in the basic list we have: scout, merchant, video-maker, alchemist, carpenter, blacksmith, chef, tailor and artist.'

Mike: 'We already acquired the chef job yesterday at lunch time so we have to choose from the rest. Which one do you prefer starting with?'

Zack: 'I would like to start the scout one as it would be quite easy to finish for us or the merchant one as we lived 6 years in what we called the apocalypse so the prices of different goods are something we should be quite familiar with as well what we can easily said to be an equivalent exchange or not.'

Mike: 'Then let's finish this two quickly as the rest would be much more interesting as are the main jobs of the different skills branches. The problem would be the artist one and then would be the subject of our first video since to acquire the job we will have to uploaded to the Link's net for all to see.'