[colour=fff200][b]'And you three fine darlings, yaranaika?'[/b][/colour]
Try as he might, Alex didn’t get the reference, and he doubted that he wanted to, judging by the tiny tank’s grin. Suggestive smiles aside, it seemed they were getting more people, which was good. It also reminded him that he had ‘people’ to add to the group as well. Alex activated <<Summon animal companion>> and a very familiar, very annoying bird was summoned. Alan the annoying joined the party. The first thing Alan did was fly onto Steven’s head (who was on Alex’s head) and started pecking at him.
“Stop that.” Alex said, flicking the annoying crow’s forehead.
Alan backed off, but only for a little bit. Out of all 3 of his companions, Alan was the most annoying to deal with. Sure, he followed orders, but when he didn’t have to follow them, he didn’t. Alan settled onto Steven’s head, thankfully refraining from assaulting the sleepy cat.

Alex turned his attention to the spontaneously grown 6 person group, which he could’ve sworn was just 3 before he looked away. He quickly studmied their user names. The new additions included a cat archer called Arina, a solo salamander shield bearing swordswoman by the name of Athena, a small cat tank by the name of Fuyuko and a spriggan swordsman (Ugh, more S. Anymore alliteration might alter Alex’s understanding) by the name of Kite. And Alex, of course. And there was the girl who was still on the shoulders of another guy (who’s username was Shishirou). There was a good amount of variety, and there were few things he was concerned about.

[color=fff200]"Nice to meet you, Da loli! I am Shishirou, but you can just call me Shirou if you want. Or the other loli."[/color]
[color=red]"I'm Arina by the way. Nice to meet you all!"[/color]
Members of his party started introducing themselves, so Alex followed the gesture.
“Yeah, hi. My name’s Tim, but with a 1 instead of an i. Tim was taken, you see.” Alex shrugged. 
“This is Steven, by the way, and on his head is Alan.” He said, pointing out Steven on his head.

His attention was drawn to the door as their leaders began speaking again.
[color=red]"This is it I suppose.."[/color]
 “You bet.” Came Alex’s unenthused reply.
The cooldown on <<Summon Animal Companion>> had gone down, so Alex used it again, summoning his slightly-larger-than-usual turtle, Thomas the Tank Turtle.
“Hey, Thomas.” Alex grunted.
The turtle grunted back, happy to be summoned for a fight.
The 3 leaders opened the way, and the party followed them as they walked in.

The first thing that hit Alex was the stench.
“Ueh” He said in surprise.
Okay, sure, the dungeon had zombies in it, but he didn’t expect [b][i]that.[/i][/b] A hulking mass of rotting corpses held together by chains. A massive butcher’s knife in its hands, which were made of arms. [i]His fingers were made of arms.[/i] Candles burst to light around the arena, showing off the boss in all of its grotesque glory, the monster letting off a monstrous roar.

[i]Well, this is something.[/i] Alex thought.
[b]"Tanks! Hold it's aggro while our DPS does their job! Healers! Keep an eye out and have your spells ready! This boss has a small move set for close range attacks and virtually no ranged attack except for one. But that's no threat to use if his aggro is held! Let's go!"[/b] The leaders said.
The spriggan swordsman, Kite, ran off straight towards the rotten monstrosity.
“Well, he's certainly got guts. Steven, wake up.” Alex said, flicking him in the forehead.
Steven yawned and stretched on his head, Alan still pecking him.
“Alan, you’ve got a new target.” He continued, grabbing the crow by the head and making him face the boss.
He let go and the crow flew into action.
“Thomas, on me. You’re tanking, as usual.” Alex told the turtle, drawing his sword.
Steven jumped off his head and landed in a battle position. He felt himself being buffed, and turned to the source. The small blond girl, Shishirou.
[color=fff200]"That should be enough for us. Now, for that guy.... I wonder if debuffs work on that thing? Err, things? Whatever."[/color] She said.
“You won’t know until you try.” Alex said, getting ready for battle.
[color=red]"Don't die. Any of you."[/color] Arina whispered to herself.
“Don’t worry about it, we won’t die.” He told her reassuringly.
With that, Alex leaped and his companions leaped into the fray.