Chapter 3: Practice
"Thank you for coming on such short notice!"
It was the next day. Approximately around 9AM. Upon seeing two orbs of blue surround two players in the central town of GGO, the black beauty along with her partner stood eagerly, waiting for their two other comrades to spawn into the game. When they did, The pink chibi was the first to respond. "It was no problem Pito. Besides we're doing it for the squad jam." She declared. Pitohui giggled and lifted a closed fist into the airs. "We definitely are! I'm looking forward for this third squad jam actually. I wonder how much of a bloodbath we'd be able to turn it into." She trailed off her voice at the last phrase. Much to Fukaziroh's dismay. She only gave a disapproved headshake. "How about we focus on our actual strategies instead of the killed players count?" She suggested. There was a brief moment of hesitation for the demonic woman. Until, "Hm....Yeah why not. But don't expect me to go 'easy' on the competitors this time. Last squad jam was just a warm-up." she boasted with much confidence and in a careless manner. LLENN's jaw dropped. She certainly wild last game and now she admits that the second SJ was literally play-time mode for her?
The pink chibi turned to M, who didn't say very much ever since they logged on. "Hey M, where will we be practicing today?" She inquired and the man immediately responded to her question. He was dressed in his usual camo green vest that seemed to be for track-running. He stiffened up. "We'll be reserving the entire desert for the whole morning. If you see any players, feel free to kill them." He instructed. Fukaziroh backed away at that. " Woah, don't hesitate to kill others? Now I kind of feel bad." She gave out her own opinion.
LLENN placed an arm around the golden-haired player. "Relax, not like they'll die in real life if you killed them, right?" She grinned. Only to have her comrade narrow her eyebrows in a competitive manner. "Alright, let's do it."
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The four comrades walked through town, trying to avoid getting held up by admirers and fans. They were known as the infamous: LF & PM4. To their surprise, those two team names will unite into one whole team. LPFM will show the players of GGO who are the kings and queens of Squad jam. Fukaziroh and LLENN raced eachother to the desert while dodging each other's bullets as they decided: "why not practice shooting, dodging and agility in one go?" A straight bloodshot red bullet line passed right beside the pink chibi. "Hyaaaaaa-" LLENN screeched as she rolled to the side and recovered by landing on her right shoulder. "That was close Fuka!" She chimed, getting back up and brushing dust off her pink attire. The golden-haired chibi blew some smoke vaporizing away from her pistol's muzzle. Just a few weeks ago, she had some training with Pito, who agreed to show her how to aim a pistol properly. She was lucky enough to not get into close-encounters with anyone aside from Pito herself during the second SJ. Since she was primarily trained with shooting grenades, she didn't really know how to shoot an ordinary yet according to the likes to LLENN 'puny' live-ammunition gun.
"You always were good at dodging LLENN!" The grenade-launcher main retorted back in a jokingly frustrated tone. It was then M piped in the conversation. "You're actually pretty good yourself Fukaziroh." He formally informed her. LLENN giggled and put her P90's sling around her shoulder and wrapped an arm around the camo clad chibi. "He's right Fuka! You're getting better. I hope you'll be able to maintain those skills for the third squad jam coming up." The pink p90 wielder encouraged. The four of them soon arrived in a total wasteland. Right under the captured red skies of GGO. It was a beautiful sight even though a player could literally spot it everyday despite the time of day. If one had the time, they could have framed the stratosphere.
M observed their territory before looking at the girls who were currently following him from behind. They stopped right in front of him. Their boots brushed against the pink sand. "Coast is clear." The big man declared and took out his infamous M14 EBR. Fukaziroh placed her pistol back in her waist's plastic holster and took out both of her MGL 140's. The only person left that didn't have their weapon out was the demonic woman. She faced her friends with an amused look due to their perplexed expressions. She leaned her arms back and captured her head in them. "What are you guys giving me that look for?" She questioned, playing the oblivious one.
LLENN coughed to get the black beauty's attention. "Excuse me, Pito. If you want to be apart of this team, you'll need to have your weapon out for training." She informed the woman. In which, Pito just snickered. There was a minute of silence between the four friends until Pito moved to walk circles around LLENN. Observing her current stance and beloved P90. She whistled and laughed again: "Look at you, squad-leader LLENN! Already making rules for our team?" She teased. The pink chibi's face flushed into a deep pink, similar to the colour that was painted on her battle uniform. "That's not it! I was just being rational!" She shot back at the teasing friends of hers. However, she didn't expect this rather well-thought out response from Pitohui. "Oh? Rational? Then explain to me my case then? You can ask M what happened during our battle against those seven teams." She snickered then shut her eyes and got into a shrugging posture. She whispered the following. "The ten minute massacre, that's what I like to call it."
Despite surrendering to Pitohui's twisted logic, LLENN sighed and turned to the others. That's when M spoke up in the chibi's defence. "Pito, just don't make us wait any longer and take your gun out already. You're slower than the instant death you received when you entered your first match of BOB." He spoke back with immense satisfaction. Fuka and LLENN stood still between the argument that would commence between the two. "Well damn." They both muttered to eachother. Upon hearing this, a blinding rage filled up inside of Pitohui. "You huge ass! Take that back!" She growled and stormed towards M. She lifted her curled fist and just when she was about to struck him, the man grabbed her arm, stopping the attack mid-air. He looked at the woman severely. During the three months since the second squad jam, Karen advised to Goushi to learn how to fight back against Elsa's attacks. At first he was hesitant but now he was practically used to it. Though, there were times where he would allow himself to get struck by her. He was a masochist. He was used to getting beat up by this gorgeous woman.
Pitohui looked away and slung her fist back, in order to recover it from his grasp. Next, she opened the game menu with her palm and summoned her precious KTR-09 out of storage. "There, I have my weapon out. Can we get started with training please?" She inquired with a high-level of hostility. M, LLENN and Fuka nodded at their responses and let Pitohui storm off way ahead of them. The four walked along the desert and made a halt when piercing screams interrupted them. LLENN turned to M and Fuka. "Guys, what was-" her question was interrupted by a report from Fukaziroh. She squinted her eyes and could have just made out red bullet lines bouncing off several monsters that were in the vicinity. She had her finger ready on the trigger if needed. "I can confirm to you that it's people fighting a monster." She affirmed. Hearing this, M turned his head in the north's direction. "Pito wait-" he warned. However, the woman in front of them began sprinting at the sight of the other monster hunters out here.
M began running after her as well. Causing LLENN and Fuka to abruptly follow after the big man. "M don't just run in there!" The pink devil retorted and readied her aim on the P90. "Besides, Pito's got this." She looked down, almost out of breath. Even though she really wasn't in real life, there was the feeling that she was in, in GGO. Technology sure impressed the real player behind LLENN these days. To her surprise, the sniper didn't really respond to LLENN's overall question. For those confused, he didn't respond about Pito's safety. Instead he responded with. "No no I'm not worried about that! I just don't want all of the practice and EXP to go to that woman after all!" He exclaimed and started shooting from a considerably far-away distance. "*Bum *Bum* " sniper bullets were fired in the direction of the gigantic monster. It was in the form of a massive plant creature. About the size of 6 meters in the sky. It was currently towering over the team of five that desired to take out this beast and LPFM.
"*dundundundundundundundun*" "*ponponponponpon*"
Bullets mixed with grenades were set off in direction of the plant creature. LLENN's P90 bullets made holes into the leaves that were used as hands for the monster. When hearing M, LLENN and Fuka's shots, Pitohui turned around and gave an overwhelmed expression at the amount of red lines being shown in direction of the monster and sky. "Woah just-" she noticed the golden haired girl's bridge-like bullet lines closing in on her. Pito growled and began sprinting away as far as possible from the lines. The grenades came crashing down on Pito. One after another, smoke clouds formed. Fukaziroh, who now understood what happened through the communication-device, whispered a soft apology.
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Pitohui panted and looked around. She was safe from the explosions. They all stopped and thankfully, missed her by a short inch. "That..-" The black beauty gasped out, out of breath from the 'little' run she had to do. LLENN and Fuka worriedly waited for her response. But they weren't off-guard. For two reasons actually, the first and obvious one, M would pierce their eyes ont if they didn't focus on taking down that monster. Second, it wasn't like them to give up on their comrades nor on some free kills. Their ambition levels were slowly raising ever since the third squad jam has been announced. They were thirsty for their enemies' blood. They may look like cute chibi's exploring Glocken. Though they're rather deadly with a P90 or grenade launcher in hand.
"That was fun! Aha! Darn in, I shouldn't have moved so quickly! I wanted to enjoy the thrill of being this close to a grenade explosion! One minute, you feel your heart beat accelerate due to a grenade being launched, the next, you're within the vicinity itself!" She exclaimed out in pure overjoy. The two appalled chibis tried to find the motivation to respond to something like that. "Seriously? Don't act all happy if you actually died in SJ3!" LLENN warned Pito. Fukaziroh, who was at a loss for words, simply nodded out in agreement. The three girls quickly joined up a few meters away from the team of monster hunters and the plant creature itself. The only person who didn't join them was M, for pretty obvious reasons to the team, he was a sniper. He liked his distance.
"Alright, I spot five players in our way! Let's take them down!" LLENN pumped her free fist up in the air. Her cheeks flustered in a soft pink as enthusiasm and determination sparked up in the small girl. Pitohui and Fukaziroh nodded with an eager smile. "Roger!" They both responded to LLENN's instruction. Right after, the three girls on the team charged into the danger zone. The five players who they would be up against, all carried different weapons. Three had assault rifles and the two others had machine-guns. Recklessly, they pounded away their bullets at the plant creature. "*dumdumdumdum*" What they didn't realize was the fact that three players came sneaking up on them.
When they were about 2 meters away from the players. LLENN let out a battle cry and began mixing in her own gunshots in the vicinity. Her aim has gradually gotten better during the three-month grace period. Despite her gun being a sub machine one, her bullets didn't go flying towards the ground. "*dundundundundun*" P-chan resonated among the gunshots caused by the other guns. LLENN managed to shoot the back of one of the players. But she didn't receive an instant kill since the hit damage was pretty low. Around 8% of your hit points would go down if you got shot by P90 bullets.
"Enemy! Behind us!" The injured man warned his comrades before being shot again by LLENN's P90 bullets. The pink chibi huffed and was about to defend from the rock that she took vantage of to shoot properly. Like her targets in archery class. The four players that heard their now dead comrade's warning, spotted the three girls by their left. They gave angered looks. "This is our kill! Move out of the way!" A man shouted at them. However, what seemed to be a scared comrade of his, tugged his sleeve. Meekly, he spoke. "Um...Sir. Those are the previous runner-up's of SJ2. As well as the previous champion of SJ1." he informed the other man, who seemed to be the leader of the small group. After hearing that, LLENN smiled sweetly, showing her fangs. "Im glad you recalled. But sadly, this is our kill now." She spoke mercilessly. LLENN's behaviour also gradually changed during the three months that passed. The experiences in SJ certainly made her more ruthless than usual. The four remaining men stood still without a word. The plant creature roared to grab their attentions. The pink chibi, LLENN turned to the golden-haired girl. "Fuka, let's give them a meteor-shower." She ordered, referring to Fuka's grenades.
All came crashing down, Fukaziroh released all 12 grenades from both of her MGL 140's rotation-like stock. The four remaining members of the so called monster hunter team reacted immediately. "Run! Gyahhhhh!" A man shouted and picked up his assault rifle from the ground and started fleeing. But what they didn't realize was that among the smoke, a silhouette stepped in and chased after them, trying to be as subtle as possible. "You guys are too slow!I'll be taking care of these kills." Pito sneered before jumping off the sandy concrete platform they were on and reloaded the magazine of her KTR-09 when she was mid-air. Being quite a pro at these kind of executions, she prepared to tuck her head into the top part of her chest so that she can roll into a ball. Almost reaching the ground, the black beauty kicked her legs in and her head as well. It seemed that the top of her head was gonna be slammed first, but instead, the momentum gave the roll enough force to allow her to get back up. She tucked her head back and flipped her body entirely so that her legs were the first part of her body that touched the sand ground. Having perfectly executed the roll and not even daring to touch the ground with her head when she was in that position, Pitohui recovered immensely quickly and began looking for her prey. Meanwhile with the other team, the golden-haired girl's grenades got to the screaming man first. In total of the explosion, one man was down and another one was injured, there were red fragments present at his bottom lip and right palm, it was pictured as blood. As for the two others, they were behind rocks. "Is everyone alright?" A man with blonde hair asked, he was one of the refuges behind the rock. His comrade, the one wielding a machine gun huffed and took a second to check the top left corner of his screen. Where it was displayed all of their team's hit points. "Those grenades got one of us. But the other escaped." The other man, that had brown hair informed the blonde.
"I'm here. Around 100 meters away from you guys." The injured comrade of theirs responded weakly. He as well was hiding behind a rock. The monster searched around for its prey. Yet, it couldn't find anyone. It roared out in fury and began fleeing away after the explosions. M, who was at a far away distance, noticed the scene. He called out to his own comrades. "LLENN, The monster's escaping. I think you should deal with it." He informed the pink chibi, who was ironically once again the leader-or decoy, take your pick. The rabbit girl nodded and turned to Fukaziroh. "Pito said that she'll handle the rest of that team. Come with me, I think I need backup with this monster." She instructed and using her agility, she sprinted forward, leaving Fuka in close range with the edge of the platform. As LLENN was running, she spoke through her communication device: "Hey M, If it's possible, do you mind backing me up with those sniper shots of yours?" She requested and was now only 10 meters away from the monster. LLENN gulped. From his spot, M nodded and didn't respond with words, instead he fired a single bullet from his EBR and unsurprisingly for a precised sniper like M, the bullet pierced through one of the monster's 'leaf hands.'
LLENN smiled and hopped off several rocks that were in her way. "Thanks! Now leave this battle to me! Fuka! Let's show this monster that LPFM means business!" She directed and charged at the monster when she was off the rocks. Fuka, aimed one of her MGL's towards the sky. A parabola-like bullet like was fixed 2 meters short from where the monster was. The girl gave a concerned look. "Wait LLENN, Wouldn't you get hit as well?" She questioned, hesitating to fire. But instead of an agreement, LLENN reassured her that she would barely get hurt. "Trust me, if I survived SJ1 and 2, I can make it out alive of a small explosion like this." She raised her free-hand thumb and even though she was far away from Fuka, the golden-haired girl was already calm when LLENN confirmed that she would be fine. Fukaziroh got closer to the edge and stopped when she was at the literal edge. If she took one more step, she'd crumble down and probably die from fall damage. She wasn't trained like Pito, M and LLENN who could just recover in a roll. "2 meters crossed, ok, firing right now." Fuka reported to LLENN. As she said that, two grenades were fired from one of the grenade launchers. The pink chibi watched as abruptly stopped when the grenades landed near the monster. She stepped away slightly, but to the normal human eye, she got out pretty quickly due to her ability. "Sweet." LLENN chimed, watching the explosions being set-off from behind a massive rock.
The monster emitted a loud roar out in pain as one of its arm leaves completely ripped off due to the explosion. Causing it to go limb. Someone such as M, noticed that it had trouble getting back up wen it fell on its back due to the imbalance. "I think it's mostly relying on its body weight to stay balanced. If you guys could cut off its other arm, that should do the trick to completely keep it on the ground." The sniper suggested and fired another bullet. The leaf monster was trying to get up, but unfortunately, M's bullet hit its forehead, causing a headshot. It growled and slammed the back of its fragile head back down on the sand. Fuka reloaded both of her empty rotaries. She just pulled a strap from her backpack which allowed a fresh grenade ammo to land on her gloved palms. "Shoot off its other hand huh? That is literally a cake-walk." commented a rather eager Fukaziroh. LLENN on the other hand, was already pounding away her P90 at the shoulders of the creature. She huffed and cried out: "Why won't you die already?!"
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The three remaining men were still behind rocks. The injured one used up a med-kit and sighed as he saw his hit points being restored. The explosion got him down to 20% and now, all he had to do was sit here in safety while the two other comrades of his went out and tried to slaughter the invading team for stealing their mob. "Hey, how are you doing over there?" The blonde asked the man who just used up a med. The one who was previously injured, replied, he was still leaned against the wall. "My health is slowly increasing. I think I should be fine. It judged entered the yellow zone right now." He reported. However, the blonde retorted. "No, that's in no condition to fight just yet. Just stay put. We'll see if we can take those bastards down." He vowed determinately. The man who took the med-kit smiled to himself when hearing the words from his teammate who offered to risk their life in trying to take the enemy out and steal the EXP points all to themselves afterwards. But,
"Hey, you, you know what's sad? " a female speaker was heard from behind the injured man. When the man did turn around, his pupils widened when he was greeted by a disturbing smile. The figured placed their palm on the shoulder of their enemy. "It's the fact that you can't watch your comrades defeat the other team. You'll be dead." The woman with a tattooed frontage threatened while slowly removing her palm from the now trembling man's shoulder and clenched her fist. The man gulped and with his left hand, tried to reach down his holster for his small arm pistol. He could easily just aim his gun at her. But Pitohui was already aware of his plan just looking at his posture. She punched the man by slamming her fist inside of his neck. "That's very petty of you, boy." She whispered and with an inhuman force, ripped through the man's skin with only her fist. The man's head was disconnected from the bottom half of his body, causing his corpse to disappear into an immediate fit of sparkling mist since this wasn't SJ nor BOB. Pito smiled and just when she was about to walk off, she spotted the man's pistol laying on the sand flooring. She stepped on the black gun in spite and nudged it with her foot. Causing more sand to be pressed against the weapon.
"What the hell happened?" It was the turn of the brown haired boy to start whining. Just a minute ago, his comrade was perfectly fine he was in, taking in the regeneration remedy inside of that cylinder-sized med-kit. Now, he had come to realized the hit points of his comrades and saw that he, too was taken out. "Damn, this enemy team is tough." The blonde interrupted with a tremble. The brown-haired boy nodded in agreement. "You see, there's nothing to expect with this team. They're previous runner-up's of SJ." He stated with no hesitation. But the blonde didn't agree to that. "At this point man, I don't think we can sit around and call them 'runner-up's'. It just isn't right with the amount of skills they have. They're the king and queens of SJ." He corrected his teammate. Soon, the two of them were met with a voice coming from the top of the rock they were using for cover. The muzzle of a shotgun was aimed at them and the owner of it was smiling wildly. "King and queens of SJ? Now that's not too shabby." Pito complimented with true honesty. The blonde man jumped at the sound of her voice. He trembled and stuttered with his response. "U-Um...s-so you'll spare us?" He questioned with cowardice rising up just by his voice. The black beauty thought for a minute. "Errr....hmmm..." she blurted out and her eyes darted down at the magazine inserted into the gun. The woman's amused expression didn't change at all. Right after she thought about it, she chuckled and raised her weapon swiftly. "*BAM**BAM*" She fired two consecutive shots at the two men's chests. Aiming straight for the heart. Her smile was never wiped off her lips. "How about no?"
When Pitohui killed the two remaining men from the monster hunter team, she wiped off a bit of sand off her mantle. She let out a bored sigh and reported to her comrades. "I wiped off our enemies. The monster should be left right? Heading to you right now." She addressed to her squad's leader. Having enough of just taking immense satisfaction into her kills, Pito sprinted away from the rocks, still holding out the shotgun in her hands. She wanted to surprise the last members for the final kill so she put away her beloved KTR-09 into storage for now. By LLENN and Fuka's place, they continued aiming continuously at the leaf limb of that monster. It was particularly easy for them since the monster was still until now, laying on its back. "How is it not dead yet?" LLENN complained for the fifteenth time. "*dundundundundun*" her P90 was still at it. One thing that LLENN had to look out for was the amount of bullets she was using. She had just reloaded, using her third magazine. Which makes it that he has 300 bullets left. But the good part is, she has 5 more submachine gun magazines in her storage. Pitohui came up behind her and aimed her shotgun. "How did you not kill this thing already LLENN? " Pito teased and adjusted her aim. Flustered, the pink chibi stopped shooting and stepped back. She said. "If you think you're so smart, why don't you help the team?" She requested. But Pito yawned. "I already did. You know those three remaining members of that squad? They're probably back at Glocken, getting better gear and coming back here to kick our asses." She said all of that in a big amused smile. There was a moment of silence, Pito was on the verge of getting bored and LLENN was unimpressed. The black beauty huffed and extended her finger to shoot her gun. "Sheesh, you're mighty hard to impress, LLENN." She mentioned before the gun swung forward then back, it pressed against Pito's bottom part of her chest. It was only the momentum of the bullet being fired. With just one shot from the shotgun, the leaf head of the monster completely came off. It felt to the sandy ground and vanished into bits of code. The shotgun-user shrugged, pretending to be oblivious. "Watch and learn, you amateurs." She backed away from the feral beast and changed out the shotgun for her main weapon.
LLENN faced the monster and lifted her P90 once more. "It shouldn't have much health left." She guessed and once again, more gunshots were heard. Fukaziroh fired one more grenade since she heard earlier that LLENN didn't have much bullets left from the magazines that were already out of storage. Pitohui began pounding away her KTR-09, matching along with the pink chibi's gunshots. The three girls were at it with their shooting. All of them wielding different guns. How incredible that a team consisting of a: submachine-user, grenade launcher, ace of weapons and sniper could all work together to form the strongest team in GGO? "M! You're missing out!" LLENN giggled, giving the man a teasing reminder. From his spot, M growled and looked through his scope. "Yeah i know, but not for long." He gave her a heads-up before aiming for the monster's forehead. With all their shooting combined, their bullets piercing through the monster's insides, the monster let out a defeated battle cry and exploded into those same polygone-shaped polygones. The four all panted in relief. The P90 wielder squinted as the sun was right above her knit-hat. She raised a pumped fist to the skies and it blocked the view of the shining sun. "We did it!" She cheered.
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After defeating the monster hunting team as well as the leaf creature in general. The team continued to train like always. They installed the training session by a tiny cave and the cliff to a painful fall-damage death. But LPFM was a team that was supposed to take any risk. LLENN, Fuka and M were all resting by a rock. They were sitting down and drinking water. Well, LLENN and M were but Fuka was drinking a fresh mango smoothie. She took a sip and turned to face the two others. "I wonder what the third squad jam will be like. I just hope it'll be fun. That's all." The golden haired girl expressed her opinions. Pito, who refused to take a break for her stamina was pretty high, was at the edge of the cliff, gave out her exchange of opinions. "Are you kidding me? I'm sure that bloodfest will always be fun. " she blurted out with honesty. M looked at Pito and inquired: "Aren't you gonna take a break? You look pretty tired." The woman faced him with pink cheeks. No, they were red because she was blushing, rather because she just ran around to find this safe spot to take a break. The girl responded with a headshake. "Does it look like I'm tired? I feel energized!" She chuckled. Though her thoughts were snapped when she heard a bottle of water being shook. It was M who waved his bottle out in front of her. She growled and advanced forward towards the sniper who had his bottle out to her.
She grabbed the camo-printed water bottle and prompted herself up so now she was sitting on the massive rock along with the others. LLENN and Fuka were curious of what just occurred. The first thoughts they had was: She just grabbed M's bottle, is she actually gonna drink from it? M watched her as she popped the cap off and brought her hand out to her lips and began drinking the fresh cold liquid from inside. Pito closed the bottle when she heard a squeak from LLENN's direction. She turned her head, now curious as well to why the girls reacted in such a way. "What? Did this huge jerk do something wrong?" She asked, ready to punch M if he did do something that caused this uncomfortable atmosphere. Luckily for the man, LLENN shook her head. "Not at all. It's just, wouldn't you mind sharing a bottle from M?" The chibi asked her question, a tad perplexed on the situation. Pitohui lifted a brow at that question and put the bottle down. M grabbed it and put it away in his storage. "Its a game remember, I practically don't mind." She shrugged and bounced off the rock. Then LLENN added to that. "Don't you have an issue or grudge against M?" She questioned, a bit confused on what their actual relationship was with eachother. "That jerk? Sometimes, when he disobeys me. But he's not a bad guy but hell, he's not good either." She responded and chuckled at the end. The pink chibi shifted slightly. "Then wouldn't the fact that you drank from M's bottle make it an indirect kiss?" She broke out her confusion out to the tall woman. Pitohui, surprisingly didn't growl out in anger or disgust. That was the initial reaction that the other girl thought she'd have. Instead, the woman just laughed it off again. "An indirect kiss huh? Never heard such a thing. But it's not that bad, surprisingly. Hey, We should try it out sometime! " she offered to LLENN. In which, she immediately refused. "No thanks!"
Feeling rather disappointed, Pito stretched from behind. "Sheesh, fine then. I'll do it with that idiot of a man then. Since you and Fuka would refuse to hand me your bottles anyways. Real life and GGO." She sneered and clapped afterwards. "Breaktime is over. Come on, let's work." She encouraged her team to stand up from the rock and begin practicing their skills. The first hour started out with Fuka and LLENN training together. They were practicing dodging while M and Pito were firing tens of sniper shots every 5 minutes.
LLENN huffed as she just dodged another one of Fuka's grenades. The golden-haired girl who was undoubtedly having fun, chuckled and put down both of her MGL's on the ground. Then walked over to LLENN, who decided to fall backwards and rest her small figure a bit. She was laying down on the sand flooring and exhaled what seemed to be her whole GGO life out of her system.
"Not bad, LLENN. You know, you're actually getting faster. Weren't your stats in agility maxed out?" The other girl inquired and raised a hand out to her, instructing her to get back. The pink chibi refused to take her hand until 2 minutes sunk in. When she was back into her normal breathing, LLENN responded: "Yeah they are. But I guess you're just picturing things." The pink chibi joked and brushed the sand off her pink pants. Fuka shook her head and watched as LLENN walked off into the desert. "I'm not. But I guess we can do a few more rounds before it's my turn to dodge." She suggested and on her own, Fuka walked back to her MGL's. The whole 25 minute exercise restarted again.
M and Pitohui were at the top of the cave. They found a way to get ontop of it. It was the perfect view for sniping. Not only was it high up, but they could also keep an eye for any suspicious activity if any team wanted to take them down in the desert. Both were laying on their stomach, next to eachother. Pito had the nostalgic M107A1 and her left eye was currently indulged into the scope.
That was their main sniper weapon used in SJ2. The black-dressed woman growled as another bullet of hers darted towards the left once again instead of straight. She cursed herself and the gun. "What' the hell's wrong this bastard of a gun?! I was a perfect sniper in SJ2! Tell me, what the hell happened?!" She raged and violently pushed the burly figure away from her. M, being solid as a rock, didn't move a muscle. Instead, he sighed and and slid his palm ontop of Pitohui's free hand. "You don't hit the shorts if you're so hellbent on hitting the targets without a maximum of 3 tries." He informed her and pointed at the targets that were 1200 meters away. During SJ2, Pito was able to brush off that Platoon operation's leaders at a distance of 1000 meters. M challenged her to practice 200 meters more for this month's squad jam. "Trust your gun, trust yourself and trust your comrades." He whispered. After having have said that, a bullet was loudly fired in direction of the north. M placed his binoculars on his eyes and observed the trajectory of the sniper's bullet. It soon reached the target and snapped the wooden sign in half. He pulled the binoculars away. He saw Pito glaring at him. Giving him an impatient look. "Well?" She asked for a status report. The man glanced away and frowned. "Bullseye."
The day continued until Team LPFM had trained enough for several hours. Their training finished 3 hours later. It was now 12PM when they were spotted by a spectators from the bar of the previous squad jam, entering the saloon not too long. The skies were still a beautiful shade of a flamboyant red. The deserts still contained the small pebbles of sand all over. The monsters were roaming around the world of GGO, in search for any more players they could try to defeat. Everyone was satisfied with today. It boosted their hopes up due to the fact that the third squad jam was announced. But who might be the one who prevailed? That's the big question every player should have asked themselves.
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Next time: Comrades
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LillaSmolBean: Hiya! Thank you guys for reading this super-long chapter for Meteors! If you enjoyed it, please leave a vote and comment down below your thoughts! Me and the co-writer of this book would love to hear them. Also, I'd you'd like to discuss your theories for the real third squad jam, go ahead! We'll be here to listen! Alright, I have a lot to say in this author's note, so bear with me. First thing, this chapter is the first chapter I've written in which contained more than my usual limits before becoming lazy in writing a chapter. So this is the first book that has my first longest chapter I've ever written! I'm pretty proud honestly! I usually never enter the 6000 words zone. It's usually 1000-3000 words. But now me and RumiVoid tripled the amount! Hopefully it wasn't too long for you guys. I assure you, the chapters will be shorter next time. We just wanted to try fitting in some events that could have been used in chapter 4 or not at all. Second thing, my favourite scene to write? Ooh, that's a tough one to think about. I have two actually. The first was the whole battle against the monster hunter team and LPFM. I just thought that LPFM completely recked the other team in terms of fire power and skill. Admit it, no team stands a chance with LPFM. It's that obvious. The scene took much time to write than usual ones since this is the first fight we've had in GGO, Meteors? I'm pretty proud with how it turned out. RumiVoid was the one who suggested having Pito kill off the other members of the monster hunter team. Originally, they would have just been too afraid of stopping the others that they'd just watch safely. But now that I think about it, I like Rumi's idea since it fits Pito's character really well. That Maou~Chan indeed. The other scene I enjoyed to write was the "indirect kiss" Asozaki scene.
There's something that occurred relating to the subject in my life so I wanted to add that in for the giggles. Now, originally, Pito would have been completely flustered when LLENN mentioned the fact that she drank from M's water bottle. But I changed that idea myself since that was unlike Pito's character. So basically in short, Pito gave us a hard time with the interactions and scenes. Lol. Alright! That's my note done! Bye guys!
RumiVoid: Eya Rumi here. So here is chapter 3 of Meteors, I really hope you guys enjoy it! If you did, make sure to help ya authors out and leave a vote to this book! Feel free to comment down below what you have to say! Me and LillaSmolBean will surely listen to ya! Now now, let's see. Looking for our author's notes' usual organization. What part was my favourite to write? I'd have to say the scene between Pito and the three members of the monster team. Me and Lilla were discussing until that idea came to mind. At first, we wanted LLENN to finish them off since M wouldn't let Pitohui get close to any team members after her fun at the Ten-minute massacre. But scrapped it off since Pitohui doesn't take orders from anyone. However, to make up for that, it is subtly shown that Pitohui still has somewhat respect for this man(proved at the sniping practice scene.). That's my nite done guys. I'm like legit hyped to write chapter 4. But for now, I'll consider taking a break. This is ya author: RumiVoid, signing out! Byeeeeee!
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