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A/N: A MapleStory three-chapter story. Just needed to go for something random so this is it.
Title: The History of Zipangu
Summary: How Zipangu came to be!
Chapter 1: 1st Victory of Invasion
"Take this! And that! And this!" After three waves of her Dragon Staff, the female priest had successfully defeated the blasted Death Teddy as it vanished into the air, leaving behind a sealed teddy bear and a red valentine rose. She went forward and picked up the two items, along with 500 mesos.
She sighed as she walked out of the Forgotten Path of Time 3. It has been months when the female magician had joined in the adventure of Maple. She had landed in Victoria Island with a hope of becoming a well-known and famous priest.
And now, Maria has done it.
Her adventures from a magician to a cleric and from a cleric to a priest were most treasured in her memories, but she feels bored. What's the fun of fighting monsters when you can defeat them easily? She sighed as she teleport all the way from every portals back to the town of Ludibrium. As she walked every step, maplers looked at her with much interest, partly because of two reasons: her clothing and her appearance.
She was elegant in terms of looks and had the rare long and blond hair that most people desired. Her eyes were of the cutest and kindest ones and her skin tone was pretty much fair. A green streak of hair also adorned on hair, most probably, the hairstylist had thought that it was the best to suit her hair and had dyed it.
Her clothes were, without a doubt, an envy to all the adventurers. Her clothes held a high status of someone of over level 90. Her Dark Varr Hat was placed neatly on her hair, and the contrast of the dark hat and her bright hair was great, making it a perfect combo. The Dark Bazura fitted her nicely and showed off her flawless figure, with the Dark Varr Shoes and the rare Dark Sage gloves completed her ideal appearance of dark and mysterious. All in all, her overall of appearance was flawless. To add on to that, the Dragon Staff and Esther Shield she held made the people's faces to be green with envy.
However, she had almost no meaning in life. She was a great priest and nothing could stop her. Even if they did, she could destroy them with her Holy Symbol. Deciding to return to Victoria Island once more after her 2-month adventures in Ludibrium, she teleported to the ticket station and went back to Ossyria. Continuing from there, she travelled to Victoria Island, and when she came out of the Ellinia ship station, she could call here her 'home' – it's the closest to what she will have; a home to all magicians.
Suddenly, a yellow creature came to her and said, "You look down. What's the matter?" Maria looked up and saw a yellow fox with a leaf between it's ears, it's tail in a form of blue cloud.
"I don't know what to do now in this Victoria Island. I've accomplished all great things but I still feel something is missing." Maria sighed heavily.
"Come with me. I know of something that might cheer you up." The fox said. Looking at its cute appearance, Maria let her usual guard down and followed the bouncing fox.
"Where exactly are we going, Mr Fox?" Maria said politely.
"A place of tranquil." The fox said and they went into a hidden cave. As they walked through, Maria lighted up the whole place with a bright tip of her staff. The tiny fox thanked her and they walked in silence, with Maria questioning this 'place of tranquil'.
"How is it exactly?" Came the same repeated question.
"You'll see. Ah, here we are." The fox said as light shone through at the end of the cave. When they walked out of the dark and cold cave, Maria's eyes shone with shock and sadness. She had never known of such a world in the depths of Ellinia and the surroundings were so pitiful. Cracks formed on the ancient grounds and everywhere were signs of coming death. Even the skies were in dull colours.
"Why am I here?" Maria demanded. "You said you'll bring me to a place that would cheer me up. This place is so sad."
"I know what you want, Miss Maria." The fox began. "You wanted to do something more, to help. Please, I'm begging you, Miss Maria. I need your help to make this place a place of tranquil. A place where life is guaranteed and not dead. Please, help us."
Slowly, more similar foxes came out from behind the rocks. Their tails were also of a blue cloud. There were more creatures emerging; foxes with purple clouds as tails, a raccoon with a fire at its back and a leaf between its ears, and also the foxes with blue cloud tail. On the faces was grieve written all over it. Their tears were still evident on their faces and sadness began to fill Maria again. Then, she came to a decision.
"I'll help you." Maria said firmly. Immediately, all the cute little creatures cheered up and replacing their faces were smiles.
Firstly, Maria used her Holy Symbol on the huge piece of land, destroying all evil creatures and dark monsters hiding in deep corners. Immediately, all forms of evil were gone and the skies returned to its blue colours with pleasant clouds. Days after days, with the help of Maria, the creatures learned to plant cherry blossoms and learned the formulas of making good food.
Slowly, they began to look up to Maria, offering what they have and what she wants. Maria's initial sadness and emptiness were gone as she spent each day happily with her friends.
But great powers came great jealousy from others.
At this time, ghosts began to discover the well-nourished land with plentiful. Thus, they begin a plan to capture the place and turn it into their own territory. For days they planned their evil deeds and practiced the whole plans. And quickly, the whole plan began to form and the fall of the great land was prominent.
At night, the ghosts secretly entered the land through the cave. They came in thousands and each sunk into the different bodies of all the creatures. Maria didn't noticed as she was fast asleep in a secret and elegant place of which the creatures made for her. They believed that there would be invaders if others found out about this rich land, and the invading started already.
Next day, Maria was confused as no creatures came to attend to her as they usually did on their own accord. Hence, she left the safe hidden hideout and went out to take a look.
"Turn this place into a cemetery!" A loud voice boomed and Maria jumped. She hided behind a rock and took a peek, shocked at what she saw. The friendly creatures were turning evil and they crashed every friendly item, replacing tombstones in their places.
"Stop that at once!" Maria shouted to them.
"Who is this girl?" The same loud voice boomed and the source descended from the sky. She looked up and saw a ghost larger than all that surrounded him.
"Who are you? What have you done to these creatures?" Maria demanded.
"Nothing. I was just invading this land." The large ghost said in a booming voice.
"Then it's your unlucky day." Maria smirked.
"Why is that so?"
"Because I am a priest and you're ghosts. Look at it, idiot, I'm on the advantage here." When the ghost heard this, he quickly retreated with a face of fright on his face. But Maria was too quick, she took her staff and created a Holy Symbol, wiping away all the ghosts in the entire land, including those who took over the creatures' bodies.
When they vanished, the creatures said sadly and bowed to Maria, "We're so sorry! We never meant to hurt you!"
"I know." Maria smiled at them and once again, peace was restored. Knowing that there would be more invaders in future, Maria had taught them skills of destroying and protecting. She also named them with a name of each species; the foxes with blue cloud tails were called 'Cloud Fox'. The foxes with purple cloud tails were called 'Night Fox', and the raccoon with a flame at the back was called 'Flaming Raccoon'.
Also, on this day, Maria had declared the land not be called 'the land' anymore but 'Zipangu'. Hence, Zipangu was born.
But as Maria grew older until she became an old lady, the descendents of the earlier ghosts swore to revenge for their ancestors. They gathered information that Maria had grew old and weak, and they took this into account for their advantage.
To be continued…
