Everyone in the group except Jasper decided that group training would be a good idea during training day. Jasper was in a separate training room, dying to the red difficulty summons. Jasper had mixed feelings for James and Janica, those being jealousy, fear, and resentment. He was jealous of James being able to do better than him in a combat sense, he feared that James and Janica would bring danger to the group, and he resented them for turning the group against him. He continued to die over and over again in the training room, until the staff member told him to stop and switch to an easier difficulty.

  Meanwhile, the group was in a bigger training room, meant for group training of course, and they fought waves of orange difficulty summons. After they cleared the waves of summons, James snuck off and pressed the red color, changing all the summons to become harder. The summons were now large hulking blue giants, with huge swords that radiated electricity. There were large quantities of the giants, and started were surprisingly fast for their size.

  James felt a pat on his shoulder, and found Wade looking into his eyes.

  "James, what in the actual fuck is wrong with you." Wade flew off after saying that, and used a burst of speed spell he had to quickly stab out the eyeballs of the giants with his dagger.

  James shot at the knees of the giants, but his bullets were knocked back towards him by the swords the giants held. James used his telekinesis to swerve bullets past the swords and his shots landed on the knees of the giants anyway. The giants fell to the ground, but were swiftly picked up by Corin's wind control. The now crippled and blind giants were helplessly swinging their swords while floating in the air, unable to hit anything as Corin slammed them into the ground. Zewei used his rapid slice spell to increase the speed at which he could slice things with his gauntlet covered claws. He sliced at giants' faces one at a time, until all of them died from the wounds on their face and knees. Janica was casting healing spells on the group members to replenish any energy lost.

  "Maybe we should make the red difficulty harder," The staff member said. "Or maybe we should add an even redder difficulty! I still can't believe that you guys are clearing the difficulty that was meant for adults here to train."

  "We're just goated like that you know?" James joked.

  "I'm not a goat, I'm a tiger-hybrid!" Zewei said.

  When the group arrived back at their section, they found Jasper leaning grumpily against a wall, arms crossed.

  "Mate," James said. "Why are you always so pissy, I swear, every time we see you you're always a dick."

  "James, they don't know what being pissy or a dick means." Janica told James.

  Jasper just walked off, heading for the bunks again, not even looking at them.

  "What an odd guy." James said. "Was he always like this when new section members joined?"

  "Nope, just you guys." Corin said. "I know I said he cared for you James, but to be honest, that was just a lie to make Jasper seem like he doesn't hate you."

  "Why does he hate us for getting assassins sent after us?" Janica said. "It's not like it's our fault people want to kill us!"

  "Maybe we should give him time to get used to you two having assassins sent after you." Corin suggested. "Maybe he won't be as hostile towards you guys once he gets used to it."

  "Honestly I don't want to get used to assassins on my ass every few minutes." James said. "Janica, when are we gonna complete that quest thing we got like how long ago?"

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  James opened the quest in front of them.

  Evil Ass Guild

  The guild just tried to assassinate you, find out why and put a stop to it.

  Rewards: Level 2 Spell Unlock

  "Next free day we have," Janica said. "Let's find info about it. Speaking of which, when is the next free day?"

  "In two days there's a day off." Wade said. "Also what does that thing mean by 'level 2 spell unlock'?"

  "No clue, but I want it." James said.

  The next day, they were assigned a mission to take one of the smaller ships and deal with clearing something out on one of the smaller floating islands. The group, including Jasper, was heading towards the floating island they were assigned to.

  "While we're waiting," James said. "Jasper, to be clear, you won't be a dick to us today right?"

  "He means if you'll be rude to us today." Janica said.

  "Oh fuck off," Jasper replied. "I can act anyway to you guys, I don't care. You guys better not get more assassins sent after us."

  "You know we don't control that."

  "Of course you do, you being around us controls whether we get people sent after us or not!"

  "Man fuck this conversation," James piped in. "Jasper, fuck you. Janica, let's just ignore his rude ass comments."

  The group sat awkwardly for the remainder of the trip there, not wanting to upset Jasper further.

  When the group arrived at the floating island, they realized that this island was a really small one, only fitting a small town on it. They followed the map to a specific house in the town, where they saw a note left on the door. "Sky Guild, please clear this house out for me please. Make sure to not destroy any property inside, thank you!"

  They entered the house and found out that there were giant cats with glowing red eyes all over the house. The house was quite big, but the cats filled up the space inside. James couldn't just burn it down since this was someone's house, so he did the next best thing. He fired a few shots from his gun, startling the giant cats. He then used telekinesis to float the bullets to accurately target the cats. The bullets he shot were not ordinary bullets however, and instead were tranquilizer darts. All the giant cats were knocked out, and the group dragged them outside.

  "James," Wade said. "Why exactly did you not kill these things?"

  "They're adorable that's why." James responded.

  "They're flesh eating cats for gods sake!"

  "Purrfect, instead of guard dogs, the guild could have guard cats!" James pulled out some mysterious food the group couldn't identify, and while the cats were still sleeping, he shoved some in their mouths. Suddenly, the cats woke up, and they all looked at James wearily, before he pulled out more of the food. The cats all ate it, and allowed James to pet them.

  "See?" James said. "Is it possible to fit all these guys on the ship?"

  Back at the Sky Guild, every section now had a flesh eating cat thanks to James, who contacted the head of the guild to suggest flesh eating cats as pets. The head of the guild agreed since he too owned a lot of normal cats, and giant flesh eating cats sounded adorable. Now every section had its own cat that they fed and took care of.

  "How did you convince the head of the guild?" Wade asked James as he was petting their giant cat.

  "He's a massive cat person too, so I just told him we got lots of giant cats that need a loving home, and he agreed!"

  The giant cat, who they named Whiskers, jumped on James' lap, making him grunt. Whiskers fell asleep on James. The group looked at James silently, not wanting to wake up Whiskers.

  "Guys," James whispered. "Can you get him off of me please?"

  Corin carefully picked Whiskers up and carried him off to his own bunk, because yes they did indeed give a giant cat its own bunk bed.

  Meanwhile at the Adventurers Guild, the head of the guild was deciding who should be in the next assassination group. He eventually decided on sending a large group of battlemages to wherever his spies tell him where the siblings whereabouts were.

  "Once the spies have eyes on them, we'll send the group to the location their at, and the universe-hoppers will be no more!"

  "I'll brief the group, sir." Derek said.