I'm ba-ack. And I bring another MS fanfiction! Can you believe that? Now, if anyone would review my stories I just might continue them longer, rather than start new ones. But nooooooooo! Ok, I'm done.
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On with the Show!
A Necessary Evil
I have to know what happened to Ellinia.
Realn stood on a cliff in Perion that overlooks the rest of Victoria. Directly to the south stood Sleepy Wood. Beyond that was Henesys. To the southwest lay Kerning City. To the East was Ellinia, or at least what was left of it. In place of the usual green forest was a blackened wasteland that made Perion seem full of life.
A voice from behind Realn said "You still out here?"
Realn turned around; a slight breeze shifted his blond hair. His friend Nack stood behind him. "Yeah, I can't get over what happened to Ellinia."
"Sitting Bull won't tell us anything; either he doesn't know himself, or something happened down there that he doesn't want us to know about," said Nack.
"I'm going to go down there."
"Sitting Bull said it was off limits to everyone, including Maplers like us."
"Forget what Sitting Bull said. My brother was down in Ellinia the night before it was reduced to that!" Realn pointed towards the ruins of Ellinia.
Nack seemed surprised, "Laer was in Ellinia?"
"Yeah, and whatever happened to Ellinia may have happened to him. I have to go see!"
"I'm with you all the way Realn!"
"Great, now how do we sneak past the security guys?"
Realn stabbed his broadsword into a green mushroom, killing it. Realn picked up the mushroom's cap and put it away.
"You think we're ready to see sitting bull about advancing to the second job?" He shouted to his younger brother, who was training several platforms below him.
"Maybe. Let's keep training for a few more minutes, just to be sure," Laer shouted back.
After a few more minutes of training a blond haired boy carrying a crossbow walked in from the upper entrance to the cave.
"Oh, I didn't know anyone else was here. I'll go find a different cave." Nack said.
"Wait," Laer called as he jumped up to the top of the cave. "We were about to leave to make our job advancements."
"Really? I just went, but Athena said I wasn't strong enough yet. What jobs?"
"Page," Realn said.
"Spearman," Laer replied.
"Say, you want to train here with us until we can all go make the advancement?" Realn offered.
"Sure, why not?"
"What's up with you?" Nack asked, breaking the silence. He and Realn were walking down from Perion to the ruins of Ellinia. Neither had said a word since they snuck past the security guys.
"Huh? Oh. I was just thinking how we would have never met if not for Laer." Realn replied.
"How do you figure that?"
"Well I wanted to leave to make the advancement that day in the cave. But Laer said we should wait a while longer. If we had left when I said we should you would have arrived at an empty cave."
"Huh. I guess you're right."
The two were left to think as they neared the wasteland that is Ellinia.