Disclaimer: I still don't own Maplestory. I wish I did.

Chapter 2: Power of the Kurosaki Brothers

"Hey Kiba, explain to me why there's blood on your head…" Panda looked at me uneasily as he looked at Akamaru's feet. I wasn't paying attention to him though, because there was a very good chance that Balrog was near. I leaned against the rail of the ship and looked around, but there was nothing except for sky. The weather hadn't changed, there wasn't blood raining, and no one else seemed to notice that something very strange had happened.

"Hey, whacha guys doing?" Sara bounced up to us looking at me look at sky.

"Well, something strange happened." I said to her as Akamaru leaped off of my head to grab his half of an eel, "But nothing's happening much now."

Sara sighed, "You guys are never interesting…" She stabbed the railing with a steel hand-kunai with her left hand, and twirled a steel throwing-kunai around her finger. She threw it out into the sky, and it zoomed back behind the ship.

The following events seemed to happen in a split second.

There was a loud explosion that jolted us upwards and tilting to the right, and Panda, Sara, and I were barely caught by the railing of the ship. There was a roar that shook the ship, and two people busted out the cabin door and jumped over us, over the railing, into the sky.

We watched in awe as the two men plummet to their death, and heard a yell.

"FLASH JUMP!"

I heard a BING noise as two men jumped up on the deck of the ship.

"Who the heck are you guys?" I asked? They didn't answer; instead they put on a show of techniques and skills.

"We are…"

"The Kurosaki Brothers!"

"Haku Kurosaki!" The shorter and younger looking one bounced up with a shuriken in his hands. His Pireta hat tipped on his head. "And Takashi Kurosaki!" The much taller one waved a large Omega Spear with inscriptions on each side, and stood beside his younger brother.

"And it looks like a Balrog is here too!" Haku seemed excited to kill one of these monsters, and so did his older brother, although he looked like he's done it many times before.

"Errr…" I looked at them as they jumped off the edge again. Takashi muttered some strange words, and then looked to erupt into a ball of flames. The Balrog was below him, concentrating to make bombs where he went, but Takashi was too quick, and he struck the Balrog with his spear.

"DRAGON FURY!"

His spear waved violently at the Balrog, but Balrog was no pushover. It struck Takashi with his claws and threw him suddenly upwards. Takashi was injured at first, but regained his balance and fell threw the clouds below. I couldn't make anything more out; they were too far down. I looked at Panda and Sara as Quintus, Elric, and Maxi came with Akamaru tugging on Elric's leg.

"What the hell happened?" Elric questioned them as he looked at the smoke coming from the bottom of the ship.

Quintus tried looking at small figures below, "Balrog has probably come, and blew off the ship's engine….right?" I nodded, wondering why I wasn't concerned about crashing to whatever was below, and was more concerned about the fight between Takashi and the Balrog. Wait….where was Haku during all of this?

"Man…this is exciting! Way more exciting than any of your fights!" Sara leaned over the ship as Balrog was grabbing Takashi in his hands, and crashed into the bottom of the ship. The violent movement shook Sara off and she was screaming to her death.

"SARA!" Quintus and Panda yelled simultaneously, as the rest of us watched horrifically Sara fall. But then we saw a flash of light that shot over and came up about 30 feet above the ship, did a flip backwards and dove back down. It was Haku, with a flash disk that saved her life. Haku held Sara tightly as he came face to face with the Balrog and yelled out.

"TSUKIGAN!" He too seemed to erupt into a ball of flame, but only for the fact he was flipping back so fast, sending flash discs out with every flip. It hurt my eyes to watch him, but it was pretty cool too. The Balrog groaned in pain and descended, still with Takashi in his hands. But Haku wouldn't let the Balrog take his brother away.

"SONIC DISC!" He charged up the disc of light he was on, and it seemed to become invisible. A split second later he was on the other side of the Balrog, and a screech from the quick sonic plate and a roar from Haku hit my ears and they seemed to be bleeding. There were screams from the ship, although I don't see why the people weren't screaming before when the ship's engine exploded. The Balrog's hand was now cut off, and to add to the loud noises of before was the Balrog roaring in pain. Dark blood seemed to be raining out of the places the Balrog's hand had once been, in a strange mixture of red and black. Haku was diving down and he increased the size of the disc and grabbed Takashi. In about 3 seconds they all came back.

Takashi fell on the ground wincing in pain. Dark blood was all around him, and I guessed that may have hurt even more than the Balrog's slash through his body. Balrog disappeared in the clouds and Haku and Sara covered their ears. They were bleeding, and Sara, very disoriented, stumbled around the deck of the ship and yelled, "That was awesome!" before throwing up on the floor.

"Whoa….How did you do that!" I looked in awe at the two, but Haku paid no attention and instead shouted, "We need a medic! We need a medic! The Kurosaki Brothers Need a Medic!"

I reached in my pockets and mana box, looking for anything that could be of use to Takashi. I found something in my mana box that could help Takashi. "Here are some pain relievers, they might help." I gave him some of the pain relieving cloth and he placed it on Takashi. He gave out a scream of pain, and then settled down. He coughed up a pool of blood and said. "Well, it doesn't hurt as much."

A person ran up to him and placed his hands on parts of his body that looked to hurt the most. A green aura formed around his hands, and places healed much quicker than normal. "There, that should help." He ran off into the cabin.

"That was pretty random…" Panda said. Sara was still pretty disoriented, saying strange statements like, "The ship is spinning WHEEEE!" Haku looked at them both and said, "We're pretty well known, and we've saved lives a bunch of times. EVERYONE KNOWS THE NAMES OF THE KUROSAKI BROTHERS!" He smiled and jumped around. I looked at him thinking he was nuts.

"That Balrog….isn't done yet." Takashi got up and got his Omega Spear ready. "I've been in these situations too many times to know that a Balrog doesn't leave his work unfinished. It won't settle until we, or it, are dead." Soon after he said that, I looked over the rail to see Balrog come into view clearer and clearer.

"Ready Haku?" Takashi looked at Haku and he replied, "Yea, I'm ready."

"DRAGON'S BLOOD!" Takashi yelled and said a few strange words again. An invisible force was striking the Balrog, and dark blood spewed across the sky. The smell was unpleasant and it made the air seem foul. "Flash Jump!" Haku quickly made a flash disc and jumped from it. While in the air, he took out an Ilbi throwing-star and yelled, "Avenger!" The star increased greatly in size and it was spinning with energy flowing through it. He flash jumped again and threw the Ilbi star straight through the Balrog. Dark blood spewed out of it, and the Balrog went berserk. Haku barely jumped through the hole and grabbed one of its wings. As the Balrog got closer to Takashi, he jumped at it and stabbed it with the Omega Spear.

He hung at the end and placed his hand on the Balrog's body. Haku and Takashi both shouted, "KUROSAKI BROTHERS MANA BOMB!" and the Balrog completely incinerated. A flash disc came at the ship and Haku and Takashi jumped off, exhausted. It looked like a supernova…except…stars don't shoot out dark blood. I looked above and saw blood falling down every-

Wait…blood ahead….but I could have sworn….

Damn, I just remembered we're falling from the sky. The megaphone from the pole shouted out a voice yelling, "WE'RE GOING TO CRASH! BRACE YOURSELVES!" I could make out Orbis below, the Guild Gallery, the gates around the city, the landing dock…

"So now what…do we die?" I asked pretty stupidly. I couldn't think of anything better to say, but everyone else seemed pretty dazed out too. Even Akamaru let out a confused ARF as we got closer and closer to Orbis. Elric was thinking of something…then he slipped on his gloves, clapped his hands, and a sheet of ice was right below us.

In that half of a second I was thinking, what the hell, you're going to kill us sooner! But as we crashed in the sheet of ice, even though it damaged the side of the ship, and hurt everyone on the side of the ship, it slowed it down…

Clap after clap Elric made sheets of ice, and crash after crash we made into the ice. It definitely hurt, but it definitely saved our lives. We crashed into the clouds, and didn't get hurt at all, at least not from the final crash. The ironic part was….

We crashed where we should have landed.

Well please R&R, and is it just me or do my action chapters always suck?

Mana boxes are boxes where if you put mana into it, it opens a rug of items that you have put in it. Putting mana in the center circle will close it again. I know it's messed

Tsukigan "Moon Eyes" isn't when Haku sent all of the discs at the Balrog. Tsukigan is when the user concentrates mana in his outsides of his body, allowing them to go very fast. Although the user loses sight and most of their hearing during the time, and usually makes them disoriented CoughSaraCough it's still pretty cool. And I made that up.