Maplestory- Legends
If I owned Maplestory, I wouldn't crash every two hours right in the middle of a boss battle.
Phantom POV-
I am known by little but also by many. I've taken much and given minute amounts. You can call me, Phantom, atleast thats what I'm known as. Now here is my story in Ereve...
I wander around the world traveling by my ship, the Lumious. I live with only a couple maids, a butler who's managing many of my arrivals to my... targets. My goal, to take the most treasure possible. Today I am after Skaia, the legendary crystal that is in the hands of the Empress of Ereve, Aria. Today is my first attempt. I've never failed, but this seems different... it almost felt, wrong?
In this little floating island known as Ereve, it holds the Empress and her Skaia. Shinshoo a powerful beast, and the deadliest of all, the Cygnus Knights. Nobody, touches the empress without being blinded, burned, blown, blinded again but by darkness, shocked and lastly interrogated. My objective is clear, get past them, then Shinshoo which isn't difficult. Word spread that she's alone... at night. How fit for a maiden.
I climbed onto the terrace and teleported onto the railing of the balcony, the girl had yet to leave her humble abode to go onto the terrace. Instead of looking, I waited staring at a card I held looking down at a 45 degree angle at it. The wind rustled my pink hair. Yes my hair is pink though I am a boy, deal with it.
The door clicked, a subtle gasp, but my eyes never flickered off from the card. "Excuse me?" The girl came closer to the rails. "How did you get here, not even my wizards can reach this height, nor can my warriors climb such a distance."
A smirk etched across my plain face. "I am known by one name and many titles. People have called me a thief, a lier, a rogue, a bandit. But only a thief can truly fit me. Many try to get my true name, eventually they've given up and gave me one. That name felt perfect, I am, Phantom."
"That doesn't explain why and how you're here." She bickered back. "Explain before my guards come in my room!"
Straight forward approach is it? Very well. "I am, as I said before, a thief. I am after the worlds prized treasures. I hear Skaia, your families precious gem is in the hands of Aria." She gasped at the mention of her name.
"If it truly is Skaia your after your certainly not welcome to have it. Nor should you even try," But I assumed to trick her I'll need my classical ways of actually doing things... I shouldn't. I had done another teleport to reach to her other side. "w-what hap-ppened! Your a t-thief not-t a mage!"
"Ah, fair empress I am like I said not of the other thieves. I have the ability to take their skills, although I cannot take away I simply copy, nor can I get the exact level but us the points I have gathered. Why is it that the maple universe given such ludicrous ideas of a time for levels and skill points. No matter, I desire your pendant!" I reached my hand for it...
Over the series of time...
I had done this once a month, but today, I didn't expect me to feel different. It is the first time I fell... in love. I'm once again on the railing but instead I faced the door except she was outside and faced it. "Hello Aria, fancy meeting you here."
She chuckled lightly, "Shall I call in the guards?" I'm assuming it's Mihile or Hawkeye at her front door. I simply walked closer. "If it's the family treasure it's a definite no." When I finally reached to be infront of here well next to her, her expression had not changed when she boldly stated. "I've requested an envoy of the Black Mage, perhaps peace can be negotiated, I wonder if I've made a mistake." Aria is never this down when I'm around. She'd play around about how I wanted to steal Skaia, in truth I did, but not anymore. I wanted her protection, I've found love and if I we're to lose my only true friend. I'd have nothing.
i held out a card with a simple picture on it, "I prefer a lady with a smile." I joked having the card change into a rose. She smiled and took it.
Little did I know, that the envoy...
I ran to the gazebo where Shinshoo and Aria like to hold their meetings. I looked at the results... The gazebo is broken, Shinshoo is injured and Aria...
"Phantom..." Shinshoo spoke with a withering breath, "they were too much for us. Aria had..." Earlier this week, I should have been there "Phantom, you must protect Skaia, it is the will of Aria." The rain Covered me, if you looked at me, is it the rain that is falling from my facor my my tears of losing my love?
I look up to the sky and scream "BLACK MAGE!"
Aran's POV (Female/ shorter backstory)
I ran out of the supply tent Athena at the flying boat. "Aran! There's a child missing hurry find him and run back here!" I nodded and fought my way through the dense lizards and living lizard skeletons.
The boy was crying and I hurriedly rescued him, "It's alright, your going with my best friend away from the monsters." The child hugged my abdomen as I returned and handed him to my best friend.
"Alright Aran get on. We need to leave now!" Athena yelled at me.
I shook my head. "I'm staying, I'll fight the Black Mage. Along with the others."
Mercedes POV (Female [Duh]/ shorterER!)
As my harp played I felt something, my musical harp broke and a black vision. A demon wounded, and a mage gone mad. I only said something shortly before I ran off. "Black mage..." I whispered into the trees. I looked around. No, the music in my kingdom had stopped once the music falls all elves will freeze. I however being the princess is the last to freeze, first to thaw. I rushed to the area where the Black Mage resides...
(Due to Freud not having a backstory I'll add him with Luminous)
Luminous POV
I stand before the temple of time. The lair of the Black Mage. Phantom had just dropped by to stop me from doing anything reckless. Like that'll ever happen. I walked down the temple only to find a man trying to guard me from my goal.
"Step aside nobody interferes with the mas-" He was cut of when Magnus, the man who killed the previous Kaiser killed the man.
"MAGNUS!" Magnus smirked and left in a dark fade. Ignoring it I ran in and sliced my way through, Aran seemed hurt, but she demanded I go help Freud, the magician like me but with assistance from Afrien, and Mercedes the elven(? is that correct?) queen. I nodded and she left to face the charging knights.
"Freud! Mercedes!" My friends we're badly injured. Freud and Mercedes rested on Afrien. The Demon had fallen even though he was the General Commander of the black mage, he had been betrayed. Afrain had sprained a wing unable to move, Freud was wounded and Mercedes knocked out cold.
"L-luminous..." The dying Freud said. "Y-you must seal t-the seals. With one final strike I can f-freeze time, the Black Mage forever sealed." He looked at Afrien, poor guy. "Hurry..." He tried to lift the giant dragons head and gave him a small hug.
I activated four of them, the fifth at the bottom steps. I ran to it and thus, the spell began, but not quickly enough the mage cursed us five.
Mercedes...
Aran...
Phantom...
Myself, Luminous...
Freud... (If you use Evan's name. In the current time of my story this spells Maplf, but change Afrain to Evan, it spells Maple!)
I dodged as he attempted to stop me. "I won't give up Black Mage!" I yelled finally hitting the ground as he made one final attack. Seizing the opportunity I used a ritual, goodbye friends. You can't call me a hero, after this. "If your plan is to use your magic to overcome the seal and destroy us. I'll absorb it!"
"Fool you'll become corrupted, the next Black Mage."
"It's a risk I'll take! I am Luminous Magician of Light!" I yelled taking away a large portion of magic, it crawled on my arm. "FREUD!" He sealed him off, but a curse was taken up Mercedes, Aran, Phantom, myself, Freud... Five heroes, all at lost cause...
Century(/ies) later
Phantom POV (LOVE his POV sorry it's gonna be majorly everyone except Aran and Evan for a while)
READ ON! Different then the story because 1. I'm adding things in 2. That's plagiarizing.
I had finally been removed of the curse. Darn Luminous I told you not to be so careless. I must check on Aria! Aboard my Lumiere, I had a butler, a captain, two managers both female and maids. Oddly enough I have a training room, get this, full of ORANGE MUSHROOMS! Crazy right? A hundred years or so had passed I am now only level 10. The Maple world rated people by their level. You gain it from monster spirits or EXP if you will.
Aria... although your most likely long gone and forgotten, you will always be, my love. I wonder, after all the months I've spent with you, have you realized my feelings? I've given up on being a theif since you left my life. I kept what I had and an honest living. Hired people not done things solo or with only my butler and captain.
Even though you're gone from this world, and I may never see your full self, perhaps only in dream, memory, and spirit if you truly love me back. Now that I have awakened means one thing. The Black Mage returned for he needs all his strength to fulfill it, but with our curse it was impossible. Lucky me I had not gained amnesia.
I practiced and train... I finished settling it.
"Phantom," My butler called. "There is a meeting at Ereve" I may have flinched a bit. That never happened before, maybe, it's... Aria... how I miss you. "It holds all the heroes, apparently they've even called for Mercedes, Aran, and I assume the old bowsman Athena Pierce. Lumious is nowhere to be found, and Freud has a new successor called Evan."
"Yes, I'll attend this meeting, what does it involve?" I asked my friend.
"Apparently they claim that Cygnus, the current empress of Ereve, is questioned being a fake. That the true one is Hilla." Hilla I remember that name! My butler handed me some money and announced my skills.
"I've given you money to fool the guards, there are so many they hardly make anything. The man guarding the door is letting everybody in just come up with a story why. This cloak will shroud you from the guards. If they think your nearby they'll stop moving and turn. If they know your there get out, there is no point when the guard has seen you."
I nodded and fell through the deck to the top floor. After a while the persistent guards left their post for me to climb down, if I had fallen they'd hear my landing and suspect before I could activate, and if I did the dust would surely reveal my location.
The guard didn't matter either. But the people of Ereve, doubted themselves. But I know the truth. Oh wait here comes the snake in the grass. Hilla, wait! That name! She's under the Black Mage command! Why that wretched girl.
"Everyone! How long will we let this... frail child, continue being our Empress? You are nothing but a fruad to my grandmother Arias thrown. I even have proof, this is Skaia." Hilla lifted a red gem, fool only the true empress knows I have the real one, besides its purple insolent girl. "The lost jewel of Empress Aria, don't you see that I am the true empress of Ereve?" She scoffed to glare at Cygnus.
The chatter amongst the crowd broke the empress. I can't allow that, not to the neice of my loved one. "Hold it right there Hilla. That's a wonderful story, but you seemed to have lost information." Hilla gasped as I used my magic of my eye. It glowed a faint purple under my cowl, I checked Aria's niece she had a teal circle and musical notes around her, much like Aria. "One thing, Empress Aria had no daughter but a niece known as Cygnus.
"You are nothing but a fake."
"Who dares question my authority!" Hilla yelled at the crowd, I'm not there I'm above you.
"Second, using the empresses weakness as a target. Her frailty shows how she absorbs Shinshoo's power. That is proof for her right to rule. Lastly, how can you claim to hold the treasure of this island, the lost gem Skaia? The true ruler would know that it is not lost, it is kept safe, what you claim is, is a trap, a fake, a rogue, a fraud. It's simply a necklace to be lure out the legendary hero and thief Phantom from his secluded hiding."
"What proof is this!? Where is your true claim then nobody can believe one with no proof!" she yelled aimlessly towards the crowd.
I used my teleportation to move on the red carpet that she stood on, I stand between her and the true leader. My body bent down in a bow, as I moved up nobody can see my face yet. "Set aside these pitiful jokes. The real Skaia is safe." I removed my cloak, everyone gasped at me including Cygnus herself. I held my cane out pointing at the ground and the crowd. "In the hands, of Phantom!" I announced myself in.
Hilla stared, but Athena and Mercedes smiled and gasped.
"PHANTOM!" The two elves cried out.
"Hello, Mercedes, Athena. Pleasure to meet my good friends several centuries ago." I greeted back. "And Aran aswell."
I called for a card and aimed at the shroud of a jewel causing it to shatter. With a look at her, I said, "Do you wish to continue? Hilla?" I pulled out my cane and called forth the stolen abilities and my own boosts. A locking seal, a giants blade crashes down, an elven grace. A staff, a sword, a bow changing my cane one after another before settling with the bow. "Why not let the good people of Ereve and Maple see who you truly are Hilla?"
She stared her eyes changing from brown to red. "YOU THINK YOUR FIREWORK SHOW CAN FRIGHTEN ME!" she said revealing her guards being bone skeletons. "Fine your little empress can stay, but don't think you've accomplished anything. I'll be back. Maple world already is in his hands." She said with a final laugh.
I breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the true current Empress Cygnus. Next to her is her assistant and her knight both showing grins where the empress was flabbergasted. I walked up the steps to her, still no smile even with the cheers going on. She reminds me so much of Aria, the hair color and facial features, the refusal to smile until I said the words, "I prefer a women with a smile on her face." She did so. I left for Lumiere, but not that far could I hear her.
"What the, how did he, Skaia?" She said looking at her hand.
During the night I stood at the front of my flying ship. "I suppose it's a hero they'll expect of me, better give them their wish."
Luminous's future POV
Where am I? "Is, is that a person?" A little girl said walking up to me. I finally had the strength to stand.
"What the, where are they? Freud! Mercedes! Aran! Afrien! Hey Phantom are you there?!" I called out until I noticed the girl.
"Thank goodness your not dead! You frightened me you know. You'll be okay, nobody comes here so you'll be safe too! It's located near the town of the forests Ellina and Elluel. I'm Lania!" The girl now I call Lania told me.
I then thought, "This is a forest... what kind of forest the trees never grew this big. Ellina... what is that? Can you take me to Elluel?"
"That thing in the fairy tale books? I didn't know that existed!" Oh great this isn't gonna help me find my dear friends.
Then my brain came to, "The Black Mage! Where is he?! Did he invade your home?" I questioned the girl, I'm set to keep everyone safe.
"Um... I think. I heard that in a story about these five really cool heroes well, three heroes and two heroines, defeated this really evil crazy old wizard people called the Black Mage. But that was sooo long like hundreds of years ago, but I think that was just a fairy tale to say don't go out of the house to scare me to not going." Lania said.
"Crazy talk, hundreds of years in a mere moment," I thought, but then a strange presence, "I feel... odd."
"H-hey what not on me!" Lania cried.
I shook my head, "I-i'll be fine. Are you not a bit too young to scavenge these parts of the forests by yourself. Where are your parents?"
"Beats me. Me and my cat, Penny live here for as long as I can remember! Which isn't really much like five years or so." Lania spoke. "But it's awesome! Penny's my best pal, she can talk too. I do kind of miss talking to people, Penny always badgers me."
I felt bad, "My apologizes. Although, I may be of poor company. I'm not one for small talk."
"Really? for someone bad at words you use a lot of big ones! Hey how about we go to my house! Penny and I can make you something to eat, okay maybe me, Penny doesn't have thumbs."
"If the Black Mage is gone for good, perhaps I can find a meaning in the term 'simple life'. I can't find a reason not." I decided then, "Verywell. I'll join you, if it's not a problem."
"None at all! Let's go!" She yelled bringing me there. "Oh come on!" She took my hand and taught me a few things along the way. Fishing, getting eggs, we found some snow and we played a little game too. I laughed a lot during the time I spent with her.
Several years later though...
Lania and I have grown closer together, although I find it strange that the two of us have shared a bed. Constantly I offer to sleep on the chairs in the kitchen but she never lets me. "Lumi! You remember what to get right? Winter is coming and we need those items right away!"
"Of course dear Lania, I'd never forget to get the milk, the three servings of pork, fishing bait and.."
"Thread! It'll be cold if I can't knit together something to wear around our feet and necks." she smiled.
I stuttered a bit. "Y-yes Lania of course the red and white thread. My bad, Lania it's just these headaches get in the way of my memory sometimes." "Every day, it gets more painful to bear with next thing I know theres a fire in my mind."
"Need me to penetrate the list with my claws in your arm?" Penny suggested until Lania stopped her.
Lania screamed at our cat, "Don't be mean Penny! Lumi please don't forget this time, I don't want a relapse of last year where our feet's froze."
I nodded "Oh and I'll walk you out. Guard the house for the moment Penny 'kay?"
"This that this and that. What do I ever get." she nagged back.
"If you do I'll bring the biggest fish in the river." I told our dear wonderful, naggingly wonderful cat.
"REALLY?!" Hook line sinker. "I mean, no way are you gonna... maybe... a really fat one."
Lania giggled, "Oh he'll get the best king of all fishes I bet on it! Let's go Lumi!" She clung to my arm and let us out.
"Y-yeah okay." "Why does my chest suddenly feel tight?"
"The weather seems perfectly beautiful. Let's go for a picnic before winter settles! That'd be nice huh?" I nodded and began to walk. "Fancy sandwiches with cream cheese."
That's just what I need. "Please don't take too long. I know the town is fascinating but I miss you already and your not even out of my sight yet!"
"But of course dear Lania... Um... Lania, since I've started living here, for the first time in my life I feel like I'm... ARGH!"
"L-Lumi are you alright?"
"T-THE DARKNESS INSIDE!"
"Lumi are you okay?! you don't look like yourself."
"STAY BACK! ARGGGHHH!" I yelled before an explosion engulfed the area. "What have I done? Lania... Our home... Penny... the forest... It's my fault. I can't stay here, but if I do, Lania will certainly die or hate me... what do I do? No... no this... this is the mages fault! His curse on me! My light magic is nothing but..."
I left her, I can't face her. No, I can't leave her to die... I need to settle this before that! But the darkness inside me let me out (Going by darkness. Trust me if the Global let us pick not force us in the dark, I'd do the light path in all honesty.)
Mercedes POV
I woke up today, I scream as I checked my level. "LEVEL 10?! LEVEL FREAKING 10! I'm the queen of Elves and I am not even a level higher then the dumbest training dummies!"
After a few hours however. I finally beated the dumbies. Man, this is gonna get some getting used to. A letter was found after I freed the elves from their ice imprisonment with the music box. The letter told me about something about a fake empress. I wonder whats going on. I mean it's beem obviously a long time... I wonder who the empress is. Probably Aria's neice, Phantom wouldn't shut up about it! How his precious... wow he must be sad about that. The five heroes frozen in time, Phantoms only love had died? Poor guy.
Aran's POV (So many switching and so short too I'm sorry, but Luminous and Phantom have a longer tutorial that isn't boring killing things.)
I had just been awakened by a girl on a small island known as Rein. My memory is erased though the girl had explained to me my name, Aran the warrior frozen in ice, The girl that uses the legendary pole-arm. One of five heroes, Mercedes the bowsman, Luminous the light mage, Phantom the Legendary theif turned good because of something called Skaia, Freud who died in battle but known as the first mage to make a spirit pact with the onyx dragon leader, who's left? Oh me but I already said that stuff.
Anyways I had this problem... I had no idea what the hell is going on when I got an invitation to Ereve? What kind of place is that?!
Evan's POV
I backed away from the dragon baby. "Y-your a d-dragon?!" I yelled at him.
"Yep and the name's Mir! Don't you wear it out. Anyways that mark on your arm means only one thing. That we're meant to be together and make the Spirit Pact!"
"H-how, what?!" I yelled at Mir.
"Okay, before us there are the five heroes, have you heard of them?" I nodded that story is ancient but true. "Then tell me it."
"Five heroes of Maple hundreds of years ago sealed off the Black Mage. They had only one goal, to keep maple safe. They are said to be a Pole-arm wielding female, the Elven queen, a Dragon Mage, a Light Mage, and then there was the Lengedary Thief who once, didn't get what he wanted but fell in love and joined the heroes." Mir nodded his egg shell headed um head.
"Good that is my ancestor Afrien. He's the original king of Onyx dragon that's me!" Mir exclaimed. "Okay here's the deal, you help me become stronger, I help you get out of here."
"Finally a reason not to shovel pig!" I yelled "Let's go!"
"Actually we need to kill some pigs. I'm starving!" I anime fell. (Who said anything about MOVING like in the game?)
Hey guys this is just a story I've started.
Anyways here's how it's going by gender
Females-Mercedes and Aran
Males-Phantom, Evan, and Luminous.
Luminous-Dark [Darn I wanted to pick light but it's not available to Global players. :(,]
Also here's my storyline
The Five heroes have lost their connections it's up to them and their friends to accomplish their task. Seal the mage, for good! On their journey they meet up with the Dual Blader Ryuu (Since they don't give dualbladers a set name I'll pick the gender female and name Ryuu which translates to dragon.) the Angelic Buster/Tear and Kaiser (No name it's too epic :D)
Kaiser, Angelic Buster, and Ryuu added story in next chapter: Nova Force and Second Blade.