The Last Stand

Hey guys, im final here and its my first time writing a fanfic and i thought about doing one regarding the black mage while crossovering to other series. I've changed some of the stuff in Maplestory for more imagination space, i think it will become apparent in the future chapters or even this one. Hope this one interests you guys. By the way, I Do Not Own Maplestory or any other series that appears in this fanfic.

Brief Character Description:

Viper: A man in his late twenties and Descendant of the Original Aran. He has pushed himself to superhuman levels both mentally and physically and is also well versed in the arts of brawling, stealth, and archery. A cerebral person who is cold to almost everyone and is both the Protector of Rien and Vigilante in Kerning City.

Ace: Childhood friend of Viper and wields the Thunder Gauntlets which allows him to harness the powers of the Lightning Elemental, which can normally only be obtained through rigorous training at the Knights of Cygnus. An outgoing person who is also slightly cocky but has the skills to pay the bills.

Onii/Omni: The last practitioner of the arcane magic, the earliest and most potent form of magic in Maple World. He has slept for a thousand years and has awoken 2 years back. A mysterious person

Jack: An awkward young man aged eighteen. He has the strange ability to assume the forms of others and wield their abilities, albeit to a certain extent….

Evil Unbound Saga

Chapter 1: The Foreshadowing

[Kerning City: Random alley]

"Hey, you got the stuff?"

"Yeah, now make it quick, this ain't a safe place for us to do this yo, not with…that guy prowling around."

"He he, chickening out? Relax, I've brought my own guys to make sure this deal goes off smoothly."

"I assume you mean those people who apparently slept through their jobs?"

The two men whipped their heads around and in that instant, they immediately recognized who that voice belonged to. It was a buff man with a cowl over his face,in a dark armor complimented with a cape, with a F symbol plated over his chest, it was the famed vigilante of Kerning City that 'hunted' in the night, known as Final.

"Holy..!" As they turned tail to run, the vigilante immediately swooped over and what followed would surely leave a deep scar in the two. Permanently. Seeing as his work was done, he left the thugs for the Maple Police Force and left the scene.

[Rooftop of said alley]

Viper stared out into the city forlornly, observing the streets of the ever gloomy Kerning to ensure that no harm would befall upon its inhabitants. He thought to himself: "How long have I been doing this, has anything...changed? Ever since I decided to start the crusade against crime, as..." Before he could finish his thoughts, a sudden burst of energy fell behind him, with purple smoke in its wake. A levitating young man appeared from the smoke and finished Viper's thoughts "Final".

Viper remained indifferent and without turning back, said with disdain "I told you never to read my mind. That aside, why are you here, Omni?"

"Come now, don't be so cold to me, I believe I asked you guys to call me Onii, and for the record, teleportation spells take quite the toll on me you know, shouldn't you be concerned about me?" When Viper shot him a sharp glare, Omni gulped and hastily added on: "Ehem, well that aside, I do have something of upmost importance to inform you." Noticing the sudden change in Omni's tone alerted Viper of the graveness of said issue.

"When I was admiring mother nature out in your hometown, Rien, just moments ago, I detected an anomaly in the area." Then, Omni gave a smirk, "That said, your hometown sure has beautiful flowers and lush greenery everywhere does it not?"

"!" Viper was about to make a cold remark about Rien being a land of ice but soon realized the hidden meaning behind Omni's words. Rien never had any beautiful flowers or greenery for that matter, in fact, they wouldn't even last for long there.

This strange occurrence alerted Viper of some impending danger, with impatience, he asked Omni: "Tell me everything you know, and don't waste my time."

"But of course, that is why I am here, is it not?"

"I don't have time for your whims; give me everything you know, now!" Viper demanded.

"My my, temper temper, anyways, apparently, there has been a disturbance with the time space continuum and everything is slowly starting to get distorted, as a matter of fact, as things stand, I'd say we have about 7 days till the whole of maple world gets distorted."

Viper coldly stared at Omni, as if he wasn't surprised to hear that. After a short pause, he spoke up with a grim look on his face: "I know that can't be all you're here for, something of this level wouldn't warrant usage of your exhausting teleportation. Tell me, what is it that your truly worried about, ancient magus."

"My, you sure aren't the feared vigilante for nothing, nothing truly escapes your eye." After making that joke, he heaved a deep sigh and after a short pause, continued. " The disturbance isn't natural, I can feel a terribly powerful force acting behind it, its malicious intents seeping through the distortions….and.. I…through usage of my arcane magic, traced the origins of that force, and…. Found out it not only came from Rien alone, but trails off to other worlds, other dimensions…"

"Hold it, Other Worlds!? What do u mean by that, that's blasphemy, there is no way anyone can break through dimensions with just distortions." Viper was bewildered by this. There was just no way.

"You..are correct, there is no way for a distortion in space and time in this world to be connected to multiple dimensions. Time and space are parallel to each other in every world, this holds true no matter where you are. They run linearly, endlessly in the…area known as the space time continuum. Even if they should be polluted and start to go off course, into each other's trajectory, it would still be happening only in that world, the space time continuum ensures that…and yet…." Omni's voice starts trailing off.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I must have confused you with all that talk, my sincere apologies…Viper?" Omni turned to see what he had least expected, Viper in deep thought, instead of being confused by the current state of affairs. After all, they were talking about things far beyond the reach of mortals, it is to be expected that they cannot comprehend the issue.

Viper then started mumbling to himself: "… So if that's the case, it must mean that there are multiple entities doing the exact same thing in their respective dimensions, though it would be more logical to conclude that they come from the same entity, but not a single entity alive could do all this on its own…unless...no, it can't be him."

"Um ... Viper? Might I suggest we do research on this problem somewhere else, after all, it is getting a little cold out here and I am 1000 years old, so my body is kind of…"

"Not now Omni!" Viper sternly said. "But you are right though, we need to do some research to investigate deeper, we lack information as of now. C'mon, let's go."

"Where to my friend?"

"Somewhere my friend, somewhere."

"That's not exactly an answer Viper."

[Kerning City, Viper's Hideout]

Viper's Hideout had the state of the art technology, protected by armed drones, equipped with a retinal scan and surveillance cameras; one had to wonder how much money was put into building the place.

Once through the security, at the interior of the hideout, there's a supercomputer and several other equipment which resembled instruments of sorts.

"Come Omni, we have work to do."

"Pardon me for saying this, but I don't think that small shelf could possibly contain information we require." Said Omni as he pointed to a shelf filled with books.

"This isn't from your era Omni; we are going to use this." Viper said with pride as he showed Omni to the supercomputer.

"Er, Viper, I understand that this is cutting edge technology, but you couldn't possibly find what we are looking for, it's spiritual power, not some powder you people call chemicals."

"Silence Omni, just sit back and watch." With that said, Viper then went on to operate the other machines and a digital map was displayed onscreen with a purple coloring over Rien in contrast to the bright blue of the map.

"This, is what technology can do Omni, this machine allows me to keep track of all spiritual, or ethereal matter."

"How did you do that?"

"I…have my means, regardless, this energy signature, can u decode it in a sense?"

"Hold on…..yes, it is indeed the one at Rien, as well as the one plaguing the other dimensions, but woe is me, technology sure has improved by leaps and bounds, back in my day…." Viper leaves Omni to his ranting and starts searching through the records.

"Here, come and tell me who this energy belongs to." "Alright, as you wish." Omni starts utilizing his magic to decode the energy and searches for the perpetrator.

After some time, Omni suddenly points to a name and as soon as Viper laid his eyes on that name, his face went pale and he fell back to an armchair. He trembled in fear. "Noo…this… can't be."

Fear the one who is feared by the fearless..the Black Mage.

Well, thats it for now folks, hope you enjoyed it and if possible do give me some feedback on improvements or what you think of the story so far.