Finding The Hideout and Rong

A green light flashed, leaving behind a portal on the ground and from it, four people emerged.

The portal vanished when they were fully out and almost immediately, one person ran behind a tree and e sound of him throwing up could be heard.

The other two guys found trees to lean on and try to caught their breaths

The female with the clicked her tongue and rolled her eyes

"Seriously, it wasn't even half as bad as your u guys make it seem" she said.

These people were Ma Vương, Shinigami, Galaxia and Night Witch.

Leaning on the tree, Ma Vương shook his head.

"And they say time teleportation was cool. I feel like my stomach was turned over" he said.

Shinigami, next to him nodded "At least we had it better than Galaxia" he said looking at where the other was throwing up.

After a few minutes and after Galaxia had finished throwing up his gut, the four gathered again.

In front of them was a wide gate, and on the gate, boldly written was Spring Heart Village.

"This is it" Galaxia said "If anyone wants to turn back, this is the perfect time to do so"

And when he got no negative reply from the others, he turned to the gate and pushed it open.

The wooded gate opened up and the four walked in.

Inside, they first thing anyone would immediately notice was the temperature.

Outside the village was warm but the inside...if anyone told them they just entered a desert, they would immediately believe.

Shinigami, who had been wearing a jacket, took it off and tossed it in his inventory.

"We should find the villages's resident permit office and get the visiting card" Galaxia said

Spring Heart Village didn't just have a hot temperature, it also had lots of beautiful plants and flowers around. The players living there wore light cloths and straw hats to protect their face from the sun.

There where less people on the outside of the Village but the further in they walked, they more people they encountered.

They soon came upon a small market, something Drifting Clouds Village didn't have, and meet more people.

Galaxia, being the more social one of the four, stopped someone and asked for directions to the resident permit office.

After a few more minutes of walking, they finally arrived a wooded building close to the center of the Village.

They went in. Since it was already the second day of the game being released, players had already gotten their resident permits and so the office was empty

They walked to a bored looking female at the front desk

"What do you want?" she asked rudely.

"Visiting cards" Galaxia replied not minding her ride tone. It must be hard, working in a place where people don't visit.

The lady looked at them, opened one of her draws and brought out four forms for them to fill

A few minutes later, they had all filled out the forms and handed it to her.

She got up from her chair and walked into another room only to return about twenty minutes later with four red and orange color cards.

The cards contained their basic informations, including name, visiting code, original town of residence, level and class.

After they left, they found a quite place to sit and discuss.

On their way, Ma Vương had purchased a map and it was now opened between them

"The map is pretty simple. It has many of the important places in the village but there is only one place where Seven Petals Demonic Flowers could be found" he said pointing and part of the map that was colored pink.

"It's at the edge of the village, at the entrance of the forest." He said and looked at Galaxia "What's the plan?"

"The time limit for the first part of the plan is an hour and it started about twenty five minutes ago " Galaxia said "The old man said his daughter wanted to pick flowers but he was killed and the daughter captured"

"I think either the gang only kidnap females or hate old men"

"Only kidnap females?" Night Witch said thoughtfully "On our way here, I heard something"

"What?" asked Shinigami

"Yesterday, two female players went to pick the Seven Petals Demonic Flowers which apparently is what everyone here has to do to get their residence permit. A guy was following behind them but when they got to the flowers, the two girls suddenly vanished into thin air" Night Witch said

"After that, people began to notice that a few other females, both NPC's and players, disappear when they go near the forest. A mission was put up by the village head chief to find the girls. So far, no one has taken that mission"

Galaxia nodded

"That confirms one two things then; only girls are being kidnapped and it happens near the forest" he said "I have a plan"

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A girl with beautiful black hair and a hour Glass figure hidden behind her boyish cloths walked through a path holding a baskets in one hand and a single sunflower in the other

Although her cloths hide her figure, it could not hid a lot and anyone with good eyes could see she was blessed by the gods in all the right places.

She had an innocent look in her bright green eyes and her steps were slow and graceful.

The girls eyes lit up with excitement when she finally saw a field of glowing red and orange flowers in front of her.

They were the Seven Petals Demonic Flowers, the most beautiful flowers in Spring Heart Village and yet the most deadly if used in the wrong way.

The girl skipped up to the flowers and immediately began picking them, stopping every now and then to take in their wonderful scent.

Suddenly, a shadow fall over her, blocking out the sun.

The girl slowly, frightened by what she might, looked up and she screamed.

Her scream echoed throughout the forest.

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"Damn it! Where did they go?" Galaxia asked, flustrated and out of breath "How did they just vanish into thin air?"

Behind, Shinigami and Ma Vương were looking around for anything that could help them find Night Witch.

Yes, a while ago, Night Witch had gone to pick flowers under the pretences of an innocent, clueless girl.

As expected, she was targeted and taken.

It all went according to plan. But, both Night Witch and her kidnapper had vanished without a trace.

This left the guys clueless and panicked.

"Calm down. If you don't calm down, we'll never find her" Shinigami said to Galaxia.

Mainwhile, Ma Vương slipped away from the others and his behind a huge tree.

"Guqi!" he whispered.

A flash of light appeared on his ring and Qiáng came out of the ring.

"Well hello to you too, jerk!" the tiny being said with a glare, obviously not happy about being locked away in the ring.

"Not now!" Ma Vương said, in voice laced with urgency "I have a problem"

Qiáng flew around the tree and saw Galaxia and Shinigami still looking for clue. He flew back to Ma Vương

"Looking for something?" he asked

"And someone" Ma Vương replied "Do you know anything about a gang who kidnaps girls in this Village?"

"Um..no" Qiáng replied unsurely "Someone's kidnapped?"

Ma Vương sighed

"Yeah, someone I know" he said "Our plan went wrong and we can't find the way to the gang's hideout"

Qiáng tilted his head to the right, focused on something behind Ma Vương

"You mean that hideout over there?" he asked

Ma Vương raised an eyebrow and looked down

"Holy shit"

He gasped loudly

The other two rushed up to him

"Found something?" Galaxia asked

Ma Vương looked up and around. Qiáng was nowhere to be seen. He looked back at the others.

"Yes, the hideout I think" he said stepping away from the tree.

The others too gasped in shock.

On the tree, closer to the ground was a hole big enough to fit a person. It could have passed as ordinary if not for the eerie black liquid that slipped out of it's edge.

[The entrance of the Brotherhood Gang Hideout]

The system supplied them with a little information and what followed left the guys in an even more urgent state.

[1st quest completed. Rong has been located and found]

[Message from Night Witch]

{I've found Rong. Are you guys ready?}

"Let's go" Galaxia said and stepped forward. He got on his knees and carefully crawled into the whole.

Shinigami and Ma Vương followed his action and they all vanished into the tree.

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Night Witch looked anxiously at the ground chat. The boys were yet to reply her and she was getting scared something happened to them and she would be stuck here.

Around her, there were seven other girls, including her reason for being here. Rong.

The other girls looked at her expectantly. She had after all told Rong she was here to get her out, a mission from her father.

Night Witch got up from the ground and tugged at her skirt uncomfortable. The freaks that locked her here forced her to change from her other clothes.

The clothes themselves weren't uncomfortable. Infact, they were just too her taste but the moron guarding the gate keeps staring at all the girls like hungry wolves.

Night Witch walked up to the person behind the gate and looked at him with the biggest puppy dog eyes she could make

"I'm tasty please, can I have some what?" she asked, he voice soft. almost a whisper

The guard, like any other male driven only by their junior brother, smiled at her and nodded.

But the minute he turned around to get the water, a thin, silver vine appeared from behind and wrapped around his neck strangling him

The guard struggling to break free but it was no use. Seconds later, his body stopped moving and he stood there, held upright by the silver vine around his neck.