This story is where the romance starts to begin. Just to let you know, there's only one real person inside this fic that's a character in Maple Story. Can you guess? Thanks for the review SacredFrost. I haven't gotten around to read your fanfic yet but I will as soon as I finish all my work.
Theme Song: Nemuri Hime, by Minami Kuribayashi, Kimi Ga Nozumu Eien
"Come on Silver!" Cutter waved his hands in the air as Silver ran after them, "I want to get at least ten more monsters before midnight. You must be weak to run this slowly."

Silver stopped in front of them, "It's my shoes." She looked at her black gomushin, "I thought these were supposed to be comfortable."

"Why don't you buy ninja sandals? Oh I forgot," Max laughed, "You're too poor!"

"Shut up," Silver walked past him, "Let's go kill something already."

A fire boar jumped in front of them. It screeched and charged at them.

"Poison," Max poisoned the monster and pushed it back.

"Lucky seven," Silver threw two well-aimed shuriken at it.

The fire boar kept charging. Cutter jumped in front of them, "Try to keep up." He slashed at the fire boar rapidly.

Silver snorted, "Self-centered jerk," She grabbed the triangle zamadar from her pack. She rushed at the fire boar, "Disorder," She sliced at the boar, "Double-slash!"

The fire boar jumped back. Max loaded his attack, "Lightning!" He fried the boar on the spot.

Max cheered, "Now that's what I'm talking about!"

Silver smiled and stared smugly at Cutter, "I'm not a novice."

"Silver," Cutter sighed, slightly agitated.

"Are you going to admit that I'm not weak?" Silver laughed and brandished her zamadar.

"You could've gotten yourself killed!" Cutter barked at her, "Why did you do that?"

Silver placed her zamadar away, "What do you mean by that? I helped you defeat the monster faster."

Cutter pointed to the carcass of the boar, "You should've stuck to long range. You could've gotten yourself killed! Don't ever do that!"

"Why would you care about my safety? I know what I'm doing!" Silver replied.

"Aw-right," Max stood in-between them, "Break it up!"

Silver stuck her tongue out at Cutter. Cutter scoffed.

Max pointed to a small ledge that stuck out from the cliff, "Let's rest there. We can hunt tomorrow in the morning." Max grabbed the rope, "Come on,"

Cutter looked at Silver, "I don't want to baby-sit a novice."

Silver growled and pushed him aside. She climbed up the rope.

Cutter rolled his eyes and grabbed the rope, "Noob,"

Max stood by the rope, "I take it that you're not getting along well." He grabbed the rope after Cutter got onto the ledge.

"One of us should stay awake to guard us." Silver suggested, "I'll take the first hour."

"Are you sure you don't need your beauty sleep?" Cutter sneered, "How could you protect us?"

"Shut up," Silver turned to the moon.

Max yawned, "Cutter can go next. I expended too much magic. I'll be resting at the back." Max stretched out on the ground and closed his eyes.

Faint snoring sounds could be heard from Max.

Silver looked at the stars. The wind whistled through her hair. She hugged her knees to her chest and leaned her head on her knees.

"Are you sleeping?"

A startled gasp came from Silver. She turned to see Cutter behind her, "Oh," She turned back to the stars, "You should be asleep."

Cutter sat next to her, "I'm not tired." He looked at her, "You're not that bad you know. Well, you're not bad for a noob."

Silver turned her head away from him.

"At least talk to me," Cutter murmured as he took off his helmet.

"Why should I talk to you? Max and I were doing fine before you came!" She shouted at him. She gasped as she clearly looked at his face.

Cutter had soft, sky-blue eyes. His skin was slightly tanned and he had small scars on his face but his rich, coffee-coloured hair complemented his look.

Cutter looked down at the sleeping stumps below, "It could be better." He glanced over to her, "I didn't want you to get killed by that boar. It really could've killed you."

"I don't need you to care about me. I know what I'm doing." Silver murmured in a soft tone.

Max let one eye slide open, What's going on?

Cutter looked at Silver again. He noticed her body shiver slightly. He took off his cape, "Here,"

Silver pushed it away, "I don't need it."

"Silver," Cutter wrapped it around her shoulders, "I don't want you catching a cold here!"

Silver grabbed the edges of his cape. It was warm and lined with velvet on the inside. Cutter opened his pack. He sorted through his stuff. The words that he thought Silver would never say came out of her mouth.

"Thank you,"

Cutter smiled and took out a bottle of red bean soup, "This'll make you warmer. Let me heat it up." Cutter turned around to take a piece of firewood out of Max's pack.

Max immediately snapped his eye shut. Cutter took out a piece of firewood. He looked around, "No matches,"

"I can do it." Silver turned around and took out a shuriken. She gently poked Max with it.

"OW! WHAT!" Max shouted as a small fire ignited from his hand.

Cutter quickly lit his firewood with it, "How did you know how to do that?"

"Once I dropped a shuriken on him while he was sleeping. He set the dark stump ablaze." Silver explained.

They both shared a moment of laughter with each other.

Cutter boiled the red bean soup with the flame, "I guess you're not that much of a noob."

Max opened his eyes slowly, "That hurt..."

Silver chugged the red bean soup down. She looked at the half-empty bottle, "This is pretty good."

Cutter smiled at her, "I'm glad you like it."

Silver finished it and threw the bottle down on the stumps.

"Are you warmer now?" Cutter asked as he sat a little closer to her.

"I guess…" She pulled the cape tighter around her body.

Cutter wrapped an arm around her, "You can rest if you want."

"I don't need to…" She yawned, "Rest…" She leaned against his shoulder, "Maybe I do need to." She murmured tiredly.

Cutter smiled, "Goodnight Silver," He looked at her soft skin that seemed to make the moon jealous with its paleness.

"Cutter," Silver whispered.

"Yeah?" Cutter asked as he looked down at her.

"Let's not tell Max about this."

"Okay, now sleep,"

Max blinked a few times. "Cutter and Silver, I knew from the beginning." He closed his eyes.


That chapter seemed kinda cliched. Dunno why though. Please R & R