After being chased around by the angered mob and ditching them, I felt the worst was behind me, and things were starting to look up. I had my S quest and was more motived then ever. I all had do was complete the thing, and bam! I would be a first-class hero.
With my head high in the sky, I went over to the good old dimensional gatekeeper. What's a dimensional gatekeeper, you say? I thought you'd never ask. The dimensional gatekeeper was an essential job. They were the ones that allowed Guild members to travel to different dimensions or conveniently travel to where the quest was at. But it wasn't for the public. It strictly was for Guilds and quest related work. We can't put public transportation out of business.
In the far distance, a light that took a form of a black hole swirled around in place, making weird science noises. And on the left of it, was a young dude laying on his back while using his arms as a pillow. Was that the gatekeeper? It couldn't have been. Perhaps he was just waiting for the gatekeeper?
"Excuse me…" I said as I approached him. He didn't move, let alone say anything. "Good Sir?" I tried once more, and this time he rolled over to have his back turned against me.
"Welcome to the Dimensional Gate…" He said through his groans, "if there is a place you got to go, I'm the one you need to know. I'm the…" He sighed once more as he continued to groan. "Forget it. Just tell me where you're going."
"Oh my," I said to myself. This guy really was the Gate Keeper. An eyebrow of mine raised as my mouth came ajar. I was utterly speechless. A Gatekeeper should be someone with pride and a strong sense of duty, but this gentleman…had a strong sense of loafing.
"Did she leave? Oh, please tell me she left." The fine lazy gent then peeked over his shoulder to get a view of me. "Shoot," he said when he noticed I was still there.
"Well, I would totally hate to make you do what you're paid to do. Oh, please forgive me." I said with my arms crossed as I rolled my eyes.
The sloth of a man finally rosed up as he yawned and stretched. "Okay, I see how it's going to be." He palmed himself with one hand, "Just type in your coordinates there."
"Sir, this is your job! And it's a noble one at that!" I then pushed my hand forward as if I was reaching out to the stars. "You serve the heroes of this dimension so that they can take on the request of the people." I brought back my hand and made a fist close to my heart as I closed my eyes. "Sir, without you, there would be no Guilds, no heroes, and no hope." I threw my fist into the wind as I reopened my eyes with a burning flame inside them. "So, I ask of you, to all Gate Keepers, to continue your exceptional, extraordinary, services. And may you live on, Gatekeeper, with pride in your heart, knowing your duties aren't without justification."
The gatekeeper placed his eyes on me as if he was a bit lost, but before long, he stood strong and tall. He no longer had the posture of a sloth but one of a Gatekeeper. "Wow," he said. "your words speak to my heart. It…it made me realize…"
"Yes, yes that's it! Testify!"
"How much this job sucks."
"H-hey," he then flopped his body back to the ground and closed his eyes.
"Just tell me where you want to go. You're being way too complicated."
I growled for a bit as my cheeks got a bit puffy. "Fine, but for the record, it's not the job that sucks, it's you." I then reached into my beanie and pulled out the quest form. My eyes scanned up and down the sheet, but no coordinates could be found. "Umm."
"Umm isn't a galaxy."
"Shut it! I know what I'm doing." I may have said that, but I was starting to get embarrassed. I couldn't find where I was supposed to go. Location, location, where was the location!?
My eyes were going everywhere at this point, but then, the quest form was lost from my grasp. The lazy Gate Keeper had snitched it from me. He sighed and said, "let me see it." It only took him a mere minute before he opened his mouth again. "I found it."
"Oh, you did?" I said while rubbing the back of my neck.
"Yep, it says it located in Galaxy 3C 295."
"Heh, never been to that one."
"Neither have I, and it's in the constellation of Boötes."
"Cool, so can you take me there?" The Gate Keeper then closed his eyes as he got a bit serious.
"I can, but here is just one tiny problem."
I looked at him kinda lost. "What's that? Your too lazy to take me there. Hehe"
"Hehe," Said marking me. "No, it says here this quest is an S rank."
"Yea, I get that," I said.
"But what you don't get is that it's only for an S ranking Guild, and judging how you couldn't even pinpoint the location on the form, I'd say you're not even part of a Guild.
Hearing his words was starting to annoy me, and a bad attitude was coming along with it. But I managed, and I tried to appeal to his heart. "Kind, Gatekeeper, you don't understand. I must do this quest. It's the only way I can prove myself to the world, to the people. Can't you bend the rules just this once, for me?"
He sighed while placing his hand on his forehead. "Sorry… I wouldn't be able to sleep right knowing I let a naïve idiot walk into their death, and I love my sleep."
I gasped as his words were like an arrow piercing through my heart. I didn't know what to say, nor did I know what to do. My head dipped down as I turned away from him. I was at my breaking point. No matter what I did, it just wasn't good enough. Failure was waiting for me at every corner. "That's right. Go on home." He said. "Girls like you should be baking cookies with mama."
I then stopped dead in my tracks. My eyes narrowed as my hands tightly made a fist. There was only one thing coursing through my mind at this point. Ever since I arrived at the Milky Way galaxy, there has been nothing but rude, nugatory, selfish, lazy men standing in my way! I was going to stand for this no more!
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