Here's the next chapter of MapleSeeds! From now own, I'll post chapter only when the next one is finished, so I'd be sure to have an accurate entry for the next chapter preview (as in, yeah, chapter three is waiting in the wings right now). Also, this chapter is going to be longer than the last. Without further a due, here we go!

Edit/Quest One: The lines from the next episode preview were not in the right order. So I fixed that along with the posting of this chapter and fixed the problem of the bold and italized text not showing up.

Disclaimer: I do not own MapleStory! That's the property of both Wizet and Nexon.

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Last time on MapleSeeds...

"But still, what job are you aiming for, meh?"

"Why that's simple! I'm going to be a warrior!"

"Is it really him?! Itachi, Akutori, let's go!"

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MapleSeeds: A MapleStory fan fiction

Quest Two: KageNoYami v.s. The Tombstones!

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As PGR and Kage Kagami were walking along a dirt road surrounded by meadows and trees with a view of the beach just within eyesight, Kage apparently had her nose stuck in a huge map of Victoria Island.

"Let's see...we should be coming up upon a three-way intersection, one path leads us back to Lith Harbor, the right path leads to Hersneys, and the left path leads to Kerning City...", Kage kept talking but didn't notice the red snail crossing her path. PGR immediately leaped forward and cleaved the snail in two with his beginners sword. The remains of the snail was covered in white smoke before it faded away revealing a red shell, and a bronze meso coin. While this was going on, Kage kept walking and bumped into PGR.

"Hey, watch where you're going PGR, meh." PGR knelt down and picked up the red snail shell and the meso coin.

"Kage! If I didn't destroy that red snail, you would have walked right into it!", PGR shouted holding the red snail shell to Kage's face as evidence.

"Well now, I guess that was the right thing to do, meh." Kage admitted, "You might as well keep that, you could use it as a projectile weapon, meh." PGR squinted his eyes as steam poured out of his ears.

"Hey! I figured that out myself back on Maple Island!" Kage walked on holding her hand out to her side and shrugged.

"Whatever, meh. Oh look..." Kage suddenly stopped pointing towards the three-way intersection ahead. "...that's it right there. According to the map, we should take the left path, meh." Well, Kage said it was a path, but it looked more akin to a series of floating platforms and ropes leading up to a steel girder gateway with a sign that read 'To Kerning City'.

"Well, what are you waiting for PGR? Let's go, meh!" As soon as she finished speaking Kage nimbly leaped from platform to platform to rope, and climbing the ropes. About halfway there, she stopped and turned around to glance at PGR, who stood starring like a deer at on coming headlights.

"PGR, get over here!" A light bulb, like those in American cartoons, showed up above PGR's head before he attempted to follow suit. Only to stumble at a couple of the platforms, causing him to fall to the ground, requiring him to start again. Meanwhile, in the shadows behind the trees...

"Master, I'm getting really bored! Come on! Let's do something exciting!" A white tiger was begging it's owner.

"Patience Itachi, I'm sure Master has a plan, right." A turkey half-droned.

"Right Akutori," said that black-winged wizard. "Apparently, this is him, but I'm not sure how he'd react to me. Considering my current appearance." her red-eyes looked towards the gate, where Kage and PGR where just passing through it.

"So, Kage, I'm just wondering..." PGR began to inquire as more of the same landscape stretched out before him without any hint of a city despite the 'Welcome to Kerning City' sign behind them, "...why aren't we in Kerning City yet!?" PGR nearly screamed at the top of his lungs. Kage, stepping out in front of him began to explain...

"Well, there's quite a distance between the towns, first we need to pass though the L Forest and then ...", when a quickly flying ribbon pig suddenly struck her square in the face, dealing massive damage. Kage quickly quaffed a red potion before turning her head to see a huge mass of monsters unnaturally squished together with more monsters flying in to join them, as though they were paperclips being drawn towards a powerful electric-magnet, all the while a archer was calmly shooting arrows at the monsters like fish in a barrel.

"Hey! What was that, meh! Are you trying to kill me!" The archer, still managing to shoot arrows, looked towards Kage before it managed to say...

"STFU! GTFO!" Now it was Kage's turn to have steam come out her ears.

"Hey! You can't hunt like that! Others could get killed, namely me!" Kage screamed at the impossible and rude archer, while drawing her own beginner sword, she lunged at the archer to attack. Yet, the archer just shrugged at the notion of a beginner attacking him, suddenly the focus point of the monster mob shifted, to right where Kage was. She was immediately swarmed and soon a gravestone fell from the sky right where Kage was and her ghost appeared over the gravestone.

"WTF!? You've got to be kidding me, meh!" She managed to shout before the tombstone and Kage faded away. The archer then turned his attention towards PGR.

"Now, you get to be pwned next n00b!" PGR was about to turn to hide in a random bush when several lightning bolts came out of nowhere and stuck the monsters, all of them being destroyed instantly while more of them re-spawned in more natural places in the area.

"Well, well, another minion of Hakka is PKing newbies..." an unknown voice spoke out loud. PGR glanced in the general direction of the voice, only to see black feathered wings, a pair of red eyes, and a purple-gloved hand holding a maple leaf. "...it's time for you to face the judgment of the red moon." At that the sky turned black as a red moon appeared in the sky.

"Tha-that leaf!" The archer stuttered, pointing towards the moon, "That moon! It's the moon watcher!" The figure with the maple leaf stepped out of the shadows, reveling her to be wearing a blue amoria shirt and a red amoria skirt, which look a lot like the clothing seen on Arabian dancers. The winged stranger pointed a bamboo sword at the archer while holding the maple leaf away from her to her side.

"Moon Watcher: Judgment of Lightning!" At the winged strangers command, hundreds of lightning bolts fell from the sky striking the archer then he disappeared in a puff of smoke and left nothing behind. Just as suddenly as the sky changed, it returned back to normal. The strange ice/lighting wizard put the maple leaf away.

"Those hackers, those minions of Hakka! I swear...They're out of control!" She declared clinching her now free hand, "Next time, run when you see one. Oh and here!" She threw a silver-colored scroll at PGR's feet.

"Here, use this to get to Kerning City. I bet that friend of yours is waiting there." The ice/lighting wizard took out a tan-colored scroll and held it in the air, while the scroll was shining she added, "Meet you in Perion, PGR-kun." before she disappeared. PGR starred at the scroll at his feet. That-that fallen angel! Could you really be...Shimohi? Nah, what are the chances of her being here of all places. And what was that she said about a friend of mine being in Kerning City, how can she be there?! She's dead isn't she? PGR picked up the scroll, held it over his head like the winged ice/lighting wizard did, and this scroll also lit up. The next thing he knew he was standing on top of a leftover sewer pipe near a barred sewer exit, where several adventurers were gathered around this lightly-dressed enchanter wielding a staff with a crystal on top. PGR looked around and noticed that there were several skyscrapers, although the buildings appeared to be in various stages of decay and the road was made of bricks, the city was still bustling and live with activity.

Out of the corner of his eye, he could swear he saw Kage Kagami go into a bar named 'Jazz Fusion'. That can't be, I saw that mob of monsters kill her! Still, PGR followed her into the bar, somehow he heard some one say 'lol u tk him 2da bar ?' Seriously! How could anyone understand that!? He saw Kage Kagami again, this time opening the door to the men's room.

"Hey! What are you doing?" PGR asked opening the door to follow her, "Girls aren't allowed in...the...men's...room." PGR ended his sentence noticing that, apparently, Kage disappeared. PGR looked around the bathroom, eventually finding a Japanese-style toilet that had a huge hole in it, he looked down the hole to find a metal rung ladder inside the hole. Throwing all caution to the wind, PGR climbed down to the bottom, where in found himself in a chamber with an underground boxing ring and...Kage Kagami talking to a vampire hanging from the ceiling!? A black light surrounded Kage before the vampire spoke.

"Congratulations young one, you are now a thief."

"Thank you, Dark Lord." Kage responded. "Hey, wait a minute, meh!" Kage noticed PGR's presence, "PGR! What are you doing here! I said that if you want to be a warrior, you should visit He-who-dances-with-Balrogs in Perion, meh!"

"Heh, sorry, it's just, I thought you died!" PGR apologized. A few seconds latter, inside the weapon and armor shop.

"Well, I did die, meh. It's just that when adventurers get Killed here, they pop up, revived, at the nearest town." Kage turned her back to PGR to buy a field dagger and proper thief armor.

"Wait a minute! If that's true, then that archer's got to be here somewhere!" Kage's face didn't show any reaction to the situation.

"So, what, did you PK that archer or something, meh."

"Huh...actually, a black-winged ice/lighting wizard did it." Kage's eyes half-closed as her mouth shrunk to a tiny line.

"Yeah right, it's aways 'the wizard that did it', meh. Let me guess, you ran for your life."

"What are you talking about!? That's the truth!" PGR tried to explain.

"Right, I bet that next you're going to say you personally know Shimohi of Khaini." Kage added, placing her chin on her palm.

"Well, that friend of mine I told you about 'did' call herself Shimohi, but I don't know this 'Shimohi of Khaini'"

"Fine, Shimohi of Khaini is a ice/lightning wizard who has an odd habit of carrying around a bamboo sword. She's the sworn enemy of the so-called 'god of hackers' Hakka..." "...those minions of Hakka! They're out of control!" "...and leader of the anti-hacker guild KageNoYami, which also opposes The Tombstones guild. Ironically, despite the fact that they fight against the forces of darkness represented by Hakka, his minions and their sympathizers The Tombstones guild; KageNoYami appears to be just as dark as they are. What with there name meaning 'Shadow of Darkness' and their leader being a red-eyed fallen angel, who some say is a hacker herself."

"Hey!" Shouted a random assassin elsewhere in the shop, "I've seen her, she stole my Maple Claw!"

"Oh yeah, there's also rumors and eye-witnesses who claim that she also steals items from drop games." Kage added. That proves it, this Shimohi can't be the same as my friend who ran here a year ago; she wouldn't steal from anyone.. But that does sound like the same wizard who PKed that hacker. Does this mean that this 'Moon Watcher' thing is a hack? At that point, PGR's self-monologue was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a white tiger.

"Hello, my master wishes to meet you in Perion, as I recall you wish to go there." The tiger walks off to drag a meso bag out of some dark corner. "Here's all you need to call a normal taxi to take you there and here's a message from my master, 'Welcome to the world of Maple, PGR-kun.'"...

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In the next chapter of MapleSeeds!

"Yeah, that's nice and all, meh. But what are you going to do if another hacker shows up?"

"Wait just a minute! I've heard things about you!"

"So, PGR, will you join KageNoYami?"

Next time on MapleSeeds!

Quest three: Warrior PGR and the Fallen Angel

"Akutori, I think it's time we introduce ourselves."

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Again, R&R, No flames, insert random mid-boss related threat.