Disclaimer… I do not own Maple… Aeons do not own maple!


Aeons. The name every child grew up with, the name attributed to the greatest warriors in all of Bellocan. Aeons. From noble crusaders who charged fearlessly forward in battle to the silent assasins of the night, they were heroes, one and all. Aeons. Every little adventurer grew up knowing the name, and every little adventurer dreamed to one day don the sapphire dragon, wings outstretched and breathing flames into the air, onto their hands, the symbol of Aeons. Though the original heroes were long dead, their legends lived on. But for every white end of the spectrum, there is a black...

High up in the canyons of Perion, a statue of a boy sat facing the sun on a cliff, so vividly carved it seemed almost real. But no real boy could sit as still as that. He sat cross-legged, with faded black hair and closed eyes. He wore simple garments, rough robes of green and brown put on after the statue's completion. He had a traditional oriental bamboo hat, brown in color and slightly lopsided. He was barefoot, and a fine amount of dust and earth lay over him. A gang of boys stalked up to it, attempting to have a bit of fun demoralizing the area. One of them, a can of graffiti in his hand, walked over to the statue, laughing and chatting raucously with his friends. He was about to press the trigger, when, suddenly, the statue came alive. Punching the boy in the stomach, the statue grabbed the boy's arms, pulling him over and pushing his legs out from beneath him, succesfully flipping him over the cliff. All of this was done in one fluid motion, and the boy's screams echoed off the canyon walls. It was a long way down. The other boys ran, not even bothering to scream, and the statue impassively sat back down, resuming its meditation. Turns out a boy could sit that still after all. From that day on, the cliff came to be known as "Howler's Peak".

Several years later, the boy was still there, meditating as always. As a human, he was Nathaniel. As a monster, he was the Silent. Though he gave the appearance of a teenager, he was, in reality, over five centuries old, tasked with the job to protect the only known pathway to the binding place of the demon Aeons had sealed away, such a long time ago. That demon's name was Laeigh...


Kevin wrote this chapter.... Hitorihyuuga...