My first story. :) I hope you enjoy. Comments are welcome and highly appreciated! -Master Fearlian

Dodge here, dash there. So was the work of the thief.

The thief was no more than a beggar, a sewer rat at best. Stealing bread from the local inn and swindling gold pieces from the pockets of innocent people, the thief was as his title implied; a thief.

Wearing a light brown leather vest and the same color in leather chaps, this thief looked to be a normal hunter; one returned from the wilderness and the dangers to buy supplies. But this thief was no hunter, but merely a predator in the people's midst.

The thief was dashing, running from his stalker. While surveying the latest house he wished to burglarize, the thief felt a bone-chilling cold begin to surround him. Panicking, he departed from his target and began to slip away. Yet, the chill did not seep away, yet grow more confident in surrounding the thief. The thief, sensing that his presence was being marked, dashed from the Elven District of the Imperial City and slipped into the Market District. He turned down an alley and, upon seeing a sewer grate, leaped courageously into the dark sewers.

The sewer air was as chilled as the night air above, and the thief began to think his fleeing pointless. With dual daggers unsheathed, the thief put his back to a corner and did the only thing he knew how to do; hide and wait.

After many long, silent and cold moments, the thief was terrified that his pursuer knew where he was and was merely waiting for him. With a bold battle cry the high elf thief leaped from the shadows, daggers out, and crouched at the ready for a fight.

The Phantom stepped out from behind the thief, having waited in the same corner that the thief had put his back to, and stood in front of the thief.

The thief, instantly paralyzed from the neck down by The Phantom, stared, astonished and terrified. "Wha-..? Who are you?"

"I am the Phantom, and your Reaper." And with those few words The Phantom pulled a small knife from inside the sleeve on his midnight-black robe and silenced the thief forever...