AN: Hey! I decided to submit this! Yay for submitting! Okay... It's been a while since I updated, so I'll jump to the chapter... After I write a disclaimer! Disclaimer: (Note: I like to refer to myself as Kaos... soo... Yes. I am crazy! And hyper!) Kaos say he no own MapleStory. Kaos wishes he does. If Kaos did own this, he wouldn't be living in a cardboard box on the streets. Oh, Kaos says he doesn't write this for profit, and that Kaos/Narrator better shut-up before readers go berserk from seeing the word 'Kaos' so much and an overdose on a hyper-active kid talking in third-person. Wow! Kaos just wrote his longest Arthur's Note! I mean Author's Note! If it was a Arthur's Note, it would say this: Alas, damn Crusades! At least Lancelot said he'd watch the castle while I'm away. I wonder why Guinevere was so happy when I was leaving. Nah, those weren't tears of joy! They were tears of sadness! And they weren't kissing! They were removing dirt from each other's lips... With their mouths! Yeah! And Merlin's an idiot... Lancelot wouldn't date my wife... Would he? Dammit! Horsie! To Camelot! Man I'm an igmo! To the story!
You are a monster.
No...
A beast...
No.
A beast built from the twisted ambition of your betters...
No!
You are a killing machine! Designed to harbor a demon beyond the comprehension of any being upon this mortal plane!
No... I will not be the shell of a demon of the likes of you...
Me? Bah.
Are you not the almighty demon you are speaking of?
Hell no! I am a rain drop when compared to the oceanic fury of the deity I speak of...
Then... You aren't the demon that Kronos sealed in me to use as a vessel?
Partly.
What?
I am a bridge...
What?
Nothing...
How strong is this demon that Kronos is really summoning?
I cannot express it in the casual nature of mere words. I would have to show you.
Then... Show me.
Ryker was awoken by a scream.
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Caden pounded his fists into the ground with a relentless fury. His eyes grew dark, his body went limp. He was still weak from his run in with Ryker, and he hated himself for it. No bandit should be able to overcome him...
Do you really still believe that?
Dammit! Kronos! Get out of my head!
Still rebellious?
A sharp shock erupted through his mind. He fell to the ground, writhing in pain. His body spasmed, losing complete control of his nerves. Kronos! Stop messing with me!
Am I truly? Or is your mind playing tricks on you? Maybe you're still in that cavern, unconcious from the battle with that Crimson Balrog. Maybe none of this ever happened...
Fine... Keep playing your little mind games...
Is it a game? Is this all a game? Maybe Good and Evil are sentient beings beyond our universe, playing a little game...
Dammit! Shut up!
Maybe all of this is a dream... The flickering thought of a god before being sent careening into oblivion...
Kronos! I said shut up!
Caden fell face forward into the loamy soil, trembling from a force no holy being could muster...
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Memories returned, long ago forgotten in a mist of pain. Unbidden they came at the time when he wished to forget his past, when he wished to turn to the future. His past could not be forgotten. It always returned to haunt the twilight dreams that revolved peacefully in his mind, twisting his fantasies to match those dreams that he held in the past... His memory could not be defeated.
Akuji trembled in his mind as his memories returned. Dreams unfulfilled shrieked in agony, a testament to the life he left behind. The demon locked within sighed impatiently. This was not going as fast as his master had wished. He had hoped the exhibition of the true Kronos's power would be enough to jolt him into submission, but it only caused the mortal to relive his more painful memories. He would have to improvise. There had to be a way to truly prepare the mortal to be a vessel of his master's power. If he wasn't ready, he could be torn apart in the process and the plan would fail...
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A small boy stood before a group of people. The boy held in his hands a bow, a single arrow in the quiver attached to his back. The group in front of him trembled with excitement, whispering erupting. A taller boy, resembling the smaller child in his figure and features, stood away from the crowd, his head bowed. The crowd swelled around the small boy, their whispers growing to shouts. "He can use those attacks...! Such an early age!"
"He certainly is his father's boy!"
"I wouldn't expect anything less from Arash's son!"
The tall boy fell to his knees, tears pouring down his face. 'He... he has to be the one... Dammit!'
The boy turned and fled into the darkness.
Alexei awoke. His mind was unclouded, his purpose was revealed to him fully.
He would find his brother... and get his revenge.
AN: Alright! I finished it! At least... I finished this chapter... Anyway, big thanks to Cookie Tamodachi! Cookie's has like reviewed... (Checks list) 10 times. Thats 10 outta 33... wow! Thanks! Next chapter should be up soon... More on Alexei... He was like a spur of the moment thing, but he was a character in the original story... I changed his name and stuff... Anyway, please review! It's the only thing that comforts me when I sit in my cardboard box on the side of the street typing on my laptop that has a problem with short-circuiting from the many tears I have cried over the devastating turn the country has gone through, and how emo I've turned. CURSE YOU EMO MUSIC! Alright, I've had my daily emo moment, and I finished my life-long fantasy of living in a card-board box. Review please!
