Hello, it's me again! There's this part of me that's screaming at me for starting another project while I have like three different stories that are yet to be completed but once I got this all out, I wanted so much to post it! Impatient? Maybe... Just... just a little... This is something I came up with during the summer and for some reason or another, the idea struck while listening to "Again" by Yui, which is better known as the first opening to Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Strangely enough, it has nothing to do with FMA (so I have NO idea why I dreamed it up just then...) but more relates to fantasy themed RPGs and all that (like the fan-made Hetaquest or Dungeons and Dragons). I was really excited to work on something like a fantasy themed quest story especially with Durarara because I felt like I had a good grasp on what to do with all the characters. It took a while for the plot to finally form but here it is! I'm going to have a lot of fun writing this and I hope you all enjoy reading this too. ^^

Note: the title is inspired by a song by the band Nightwish called Nightquest. I have the feeling that Nightwish's songs will help me a lot while I write this. XD

Nightquest

Prologue

A long time ago, there once was a very beautiful spirit with a woman's body. However, she was unlike any other woman that had ever roamed the earth. Instead of her head being perched on her shoulders, this spirit carried it under her arm. This female spirit roamed the night, riding on a shadowy carriage pulled by a headless, black horse.

With her head under her arm, the spirit would travel into the towns of the living and pass by many a house. If her carriage stopped at a house, it meant that one of the people inside would die in a short matter of time. After doing her duty, the headless woman would ride off into the night, head under her arm.

This head was an object of great power and many who knew the legend of the spirit known as a dullahan knew how powerful the head was. So one day, when the dullahan had let her guard down, a man stole her head and ran off with it, hiding somewhere the dullahan could never find him.

It is said that the head resides somewhere deep in the mountains, hidden in some sort of magical oasis. Anyone who can obtain the head would gain great power, power over death. And the dullahan? According to legend, she still roams the forest, looking for her missing head. Heaven help the man who has the head in his possession when the dullahan finds it, for spirits are not as forgiving as most humans…

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"Th-that's scary!" a small, black-haired boy gasped, hiding his face behind his bed covers.

"No it's not!" the boy's brunette friend protested, holding the book of myths and legends in his small hands. "It's interesting! What about all that stuff about that magic head? Doesn't that make you want to know more about it?"

"N-not really…" the black-haired boy whimpered. "M-maybe… I don't know…"

"Oh don't be such a wimp, Mikado!" the boy with the book scoffed, whacking his friend with the book. "You're interested in this magic stuff, aren't you?"

"Y-yeah…" Mikado sniffled. "But Masaomi…!"

"Just think, we could find this thing one day!" Masaomi smiled, pointing at the picture of the head in the book. "And you would be the greatest wizard in the world!"

"That would be nice…" Mikado smiled meekly.

"See? I told you," Masaomi beamed. "Wizards, knights, forest spirits, and maybe even princesses! It'll be the greatest story ever told!"