Hello, and welcome to my humble Maple Story fafiction. Know that i do not own Maple Story, Wizet does that. Several characters and places (etc.) I did actually make up and are property of me! But some are real characters in Maple Story, therefor do not really belong to me.


Maple Story

Chapter 1. Ininja

In the eighty-fifth year of the Maple war a human was born and named Ininja. The great Game Masters, more commonly called GMs, decided he was to fight for the human army against the monsters. No one knew this young boy would become one of the greatest Maple war heroes. This is his story; this is Maple Story.

"These are desperate times," GMd said several minutes after Ininja's birth" at the start of this war every fifth child would serve the army, but now it is every other!"

"What's worse is half of them don't even qualify for any of the three classes, this is one of them." GMq said.

"True, another one for the default, bowman. It's really a shame, warriors are strong, mages are intelligent and have lots of mana, and bowmen have a keen eye. But since many since many don't apply to any of the three classes we make them bowmen because it's standards are lowest." GMd said.

'Yes, let the archives show that Ininja shall be a bowman once the eleventh anniversary of his birth arrives" GMq said.

Eleven years later a knock was heard at the front door of Ininja's home. He bounded up to the door and opened it; on the other side was a tall man with brown hair and blue sunglasses on.

"My mom isn't here if you are looking for her" Ininja told the man.

"I'm not," the man replied, "I'm here for you."

Ininja blinked. "What did I do?"

"Nothing." The man pulled a note out of his pocket. "This note will tell your mom everything. You must come with me, I am GMd and you are to serve the human army as a bowman. The rest will be explained later, for now follow me." Ininja had heard of the GMs and knew it was best not to argue. He sadly left the house and GMd tacked the note to the door.

Ininja was born and raised in the town Amherst on Maple Island. GMd's destination was on the other side of the island in a rural place called Mushroom town. They arrived at a large dome shaped building with no windows and only one steel door at the front. As the two entered the structure Ininja noticed a large crowd of around fifty kids all around his age. He felt awkward as he sat down near the end of the single room building.

GMd walked up to the front of the room and said, "Before you begin your training we must tell you what you are fighting for. Ninety-six years ago a dark cloud began gathering over Victoria, the large continent to the east of Maple Island, after a few hours the cloud began taking a form. It became a large demon; the demon had horns, three sharp claws on each hand, a short snout, and blood red eyes. The legs never developed, in their place were a long stem connecting Shadow Barlog to the ground. The creature then said 'I am the devil of ancient times, the ruler of the underworld, I am Shadow Barlog! My monsters, rise up and destroy the humans!' At that moment the monsters flashed black and, as though they were hypnotized, began attacking the humans. Our ancestors tried to ward off the monsters, but to little avail.

"When all hope seemed lost a cleric stumbled into a very large tree, the World Tree that was planted by the first colony of humans that migrated to Victoria. Emerging from the tree was the stem of darkness that Shadow Barlog grew from. The cleric focused all of his energy into a super powerful holy arrow. The arrow hit it's target dead on. Shadow Barlog's screams of pain were heard through out Scania. His final words were 'You may have defeated me for now, but I will return as long as there is evil in this world! The monsters hereby declare war on the humans!' With that he vanished. We have been fighting ever since." There GMd's voice trailed off. "All of you, form a single file line in front of the door!"

When Ininja reached the door GMd handed him a map of maple Island and a sword, he then told Ininja to hunt snails until he is strong enough to go to Victoria and hunt stronger monsters; at that time go to South Perry and talk to Captain Shanks who runs the boat.

Ininja stepped outside and noticed a crowd. Curious, he approached it and asked, "what's going on?"

"Emo is slaying red snails!' someone replied.

"Emo? I think I remember him… he was that jerk from a couple years ago!"

"Warriors, like me, are obviously the best class," Emo bragged, "We don't rely on cheap magic like magicians. And we don't hide behind rocks shooting sticks like those cowardly bowmen!"

After that remark Ininja gritted his teeth and said, "If you're so great, prove it!" Emo glared at Ininja and swung at him with an axe. Ininja reflexively dropped to the ground and cut Emo in the stomach. As he was walking away he said, "It's called Karma, and she just swung her metal bat right down on your head!"

An hour later a boy walked up to Ininja and said, "I saw you beat that jerk, Emo. I'm Lunarboy."

"Hi I'm Ininja"

"Well I better leave you to your training"

"Want to train together? It goes faster with more than one person"

"Sure!"

After much training the two were ready to go to Victoria, so they headed to South Perry to meat Shanks.