Disclimers: i do not own maple story, i am sadly not thet awsome ^^||

also i have to thank Ryuuhana for bing willing to beta this, you are awsome and i may be more willing to wraigth more of theis story if you help me though it X3

Closer Again
Prologue
Last Regrets

Frued looked at the sky thet was finely clearing up after a long rain of the black mage and he sighed. The Mage was horribly injured and he knew he couldn't survive the curse. The others may or may not survive but he was sure they were fine. The pain of the curse froze his body and dulled his vision as Freud tried to calm down with thoughts of his friends.
Alfrien, his closest companion, was the first that came in mind. Alfrien had been there with him since before the war really broke out. Then there was Mercedes. She had Been with him a little earlier before the Mage awoke from being unconscious. Freud felt bad for worrying her like this, but he was sure she'd be alright.
'Mercedes was quite headstrong after all,' he thought with a smile.

Next in his group was Aran the Warrior. Admittedly, Freud was a bit embarrassed that he didn't know Aran like he did with his other companions. He wasn't even sure how she would take his death, but she fought well against the Black Mage's minions while they were sealing him in. Freud had a weak nostalgic smile, remembering how Aran did that on her own accord and he will always see her as a loyal companion, no matter what anyone winced a little as he thought about Luminous. Luminous probably wouldn't be too happy about the dragon master dying without him knowing. He and Freud had a kind of rivalry going between them but it was more one-sided, mostly on Luminous' side because Freud thought of all four of the heroes as his friends. He only hoped the seal wouldn't affect him too much, Freud knew it was a dangerous attempt and it could have a major effect on the sealer. Though they wouldn't know the effects would be.
The last was Phantom. Freud frowned thinking about him. Phantom maybe the only one he was worried about the most. He was the only one that could look after the thief. And without Freud around, Phantom would bury himself in vengeance, thinking he didn't need help from anyone.
This thought saddened the mage greatly, but he knew that somewhere deep in a forest was an egg that harbored a dragon, waiting for someone to accept the pact.
He smiled again and closed his eyes, tired from all the thoughts running through his head. His mind drifted into nothingness while he drew his last sigh.

Dreams of Losses

Phantom awoke abruptly from a nightmare, usually he like to think of them as a bad dream since he wasn't a kid anymore. Although he wasn't allowed to be a kid for long in his childhood, so his playful side kinda just spurred out sometimes. However, even phantom had bad dreams once in a while, mostly about Aria, but surprisingly also about the last battle against the black mage.
He still couldn't believe that after one thousand years, people still wanted the tyrant back and he also wondered if they, the black wings as they are called, was any closer to their goal and how they are planing to take over this time.

Back then he wasn't even involved in the war, before he tried to steal the precious treasure of Ereve, Skaia. But he ended up being taken himself by the beautiful and smart empress, Aria.
She had ended up stealing his heart but she never ended up returning it. Why you may ask, because Aria's life had ended abruptly trying to end the pointless war with the Black mage. The master thief had thought that it was unlikely that their enemy would just give in to words from the empress, but sadly Aria had not budged from her decision.
Phantom lifted one of his arms up to his eyes and covered them and sighed, he didn't like thinking about Aria especially when he tried to sleep. He tried to make his mind wander to other things but thinking about the loss of Aria had just made him think about others he had lost, this made him list them of.
There was many from his childhood but he never got really close with them like he did whit Aria, there was also his mentor. The master thief turn his head to the side, still having his arm resting on it.

'Who else' he thought. 'Oh yeah! Freud.'
He still didn't know what happened to the mage but if he was dead as Phantom expected, he was probably the closest to a friend he ever had.
Phantom frowned and turned to stare at the roof again thinking about what Mercedes had said, "There is a possibility he is out there alive. We have to find him so we can fight together once more."
He huffed at that thought, Mercedes may hide her feeling well but she couldn't fool him. He was usually surprised that Freud never noticed, they was quite close battling together even though he only thought of her as a friend. This surprised Phantom, since he could totally see the archery elf queen as an attractive women, maybe also why he noticed that she was indeed in love with the friend of the onyx dragon.
She had denied it of course when he had, not entirely without a flirtatious voice, asked if she had a thing for the mage. When he thought back, it was not a surprise that she would deny that he was indeed dead, but even though she was in denial, the master thief couldn't deny himself that he hoped he was alive too.
'I don't know, maybe there is an inkling of possibility that he is alive.'
An angsted feeling griped his chest, he didn't want to think about it so he tried to shake this thought out of his head and tried to sleep once more.

i hope you like it so far it wasent easy to explane how i am doing this story mostly because i like being descrite...

also this will probably be a romance... the reason i dont laible it as sucs is bekause i have read a romance fig thet i like which was called footsoldire (pokemon fig... is in my fivorits...) whish wasent labaled as romance but it followd a shipping... (palletshipping to be acept... shipping gary and ash ^^'') but enyways the reason i didnt post this earlier is because i wasent sedisfide whit the first sentens of the beta the beta tester send me... i was torn betwin using it for not beeng rude to her hard work or just go whit what i have writen to make it make more seance for the reader... (it may not be grammericly correct but i hope you understand it eather way ^^'')

i am so sorry for not jusing the first sentense but it did not make locikal seane whit the story i am realy sorry, everything else was ameysing thou... thenk you weary mutch ^^