Hey this is my first RO fanfic. Please support it.

Comments would be nice. My other fanfic is Fragment of a Shadow on Legend of Legaia section.

I also write love stories

Anyway for the legal stuff.

I DO NOT OWN Ragnarok Online. The characters are from imagination purely or from the names of my friends characters. It is not intended if your char has the same name.

This fanfic is dedicated to my friends.

Prologue

Geffen- City of magic, home of the powerful mages and wizards. Inhabited since ancient times, even by elves, it holds many secrets. One of the deepest secrets was found at the center of the city, deep underground.

The dungeons of Geffen used to be a dungeon, built by the elves to hold evil forces. When they were driven out by humans they left the dungeon to disrepair. Humans control the flow of the demons but those foolish enough to go too far will pay a dear price.

"Soul Strike"

The voice came from a lone wizard. She had wandered perhaps too deep and had just finished off a mob of Nightmares

"What was I thinking coming into this level."

Despite the fact that Ayen was heralded as one of the most powerful female wizards in midgard. She was still mortal. She had run into too many mobs and now her energy was failing… fast and even more demons had started to appear.

"This is it. I'm doomed" she whispered as she got into her fighting stance. She was ready to release all the energy she had left when suddenly the nearest Nightmare's head fell off, clearly cut by a blade. In the background she saw a swordsman.

At first she thought it odd that a swordsman could have reached this level but it soon became apparent how he did it. This swordsman was very nimble, quick and agile. She honestly thought his skill surpassed the skilled knights in her own guild.

"Thank you for saving me…"

"Don't worry it was nothing miss"

"Ayen, call me Ayen"

"What a beautiful name, I'm Elppod. If you needed help that badly why didn't you use a fly wing?" he said as he approached her.

"I got lost, I didn't think I'd end up here" she said slowly as her energy started to return. She looked up into his eyes. There was something odd about them. They were of the darkest hue, they held mystery and power, the kind of eyes that could attract any woman

"Well then take this butterfly wing"

"Thanks"

With that Ayen crushed the wing and felt herself transported outside the dungeons.

A few days later the bond between the Elppod and Ayen had bloomed into something more than friendship. It had turned into love.

Everyday it was always the same. Ayen entered the dungeons and she would meet Elppod at the entrance to the second level. There they would train. At the end of the day the would part ways. Elppod felt it was too early for them to know where each other lived.

"Elppod have you noticed something" she said after yet another day of training. "All this time we've spent in this dungeon and yet we haven't seen a trace of the Doppleganger"

"Why? Do you wish to run into him?" Elppod said in a serious tone.

"Do you know how he came to be? He used to be an ordinary swordsman, very talented for his age. One day he offered his services to the king of Glastheim. He said he would go to Niffleheim to take on the demons there. Perhaps learn secrets that would help the humans defeat the elves."

"You sure do know history quite well for a swordsman." Ayen complimented. "But that is only in books, we do not know what happened in Niffleheim. All we know next is from the writings left by elves. They said they had captured the soul of a swordsman in Niffleheim. But it was no ordinary soul it was somehow alive. They trapped it here to study it, the next thing they know is it suddenly turns bloodthirsty forcing them to trap it."

"I can tell you what happens in between. The swordsman goes to Niffleheim, there he is undefeatable, he becomes so powerful that he starts to oppose the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord then challenges him to a duel. Of course the human could not stop him. He died. But the Dark Lord wanted him to come to his side so he mutilated his soul until only a fragment of it was left. This had the effect of making him more powerful than any mere mortal. The elves then came and found him and the tale continues just like you said it.

"How can you even tell tales like that? Is that what they tell you at the swordsman guild? No one knows what happened in Niffleheim."

"No one, except the Doppleganger himself" he said slowly in a strangely hollow voice. As he said this shadows began to creep, unnoticed by Ayen.

"Don't say such things Elppod, you scare me"

"Why do you fear demons, I thought you loved to slay them, never feared them, you just run away when it's too much" as he said this shadows began to creep up his face.

The shocked Ayen suddenly let go of her hands. "You're no human you're the Doppleganger.!" With that she dived into her pockets for a butterfly wing but all she found were rocks.

"Foolish girl, do you think I would have let you escape that easily! Haahhahaha, this is the end for you my love"

The last thing people remember about Ayen was that she had entered the lowest dungeon of Geffen on the day a screams of a woman was heard throughout all of Geffen dungeon.

I know it's short. please bear with me. I am trying to make longer chapters.