Very important note: This PART of the chapter does not include anything about Thor BUT about XDreamer's Island, and it is very important to the server XDreamerMS.
This part took awhile to write!
Disclaimer: I do not own Maplestory or Nexon!
The Semi Finale part 1: XDreamer's Island?
The two brothers had a nice night in bed thinking about their actions, whatever they have did...
"Regret your actions, and you lose your happiness... Forget your regrets, live with a peace of mind. Don't live in the past anymore." Spark comforted Dark.
"We should leave this place before we do anything wrong again, and lose the whole city."
"No"
"Why not?"
"If we leave, and disaster's to come, who would be the 'Knight in shining armor' for the city?"
Spark and Dark had quite a long conversation over breakfast, the longest they had talked since they met each other.
"We have lost our friends, family and hope.. We are only left with more dangers to face... If there really was a reset button in life.." Dark feeling remorseful
"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed." Spark stood up and left the table to pack his stuff.
Dark followed shortly after finishing his breakfast. They both went out and into the balcony to look at the beautiful sunrise. Tears dripped from Dark's eyes every second he thought of his mother.
Spark wrapped an arm over Dark and said: "Leviathan was a brave soldier, he was forced into giving up his commander's position at a young age due to throwing multiple grenades at the general that he hated.. And Hilla... I never knew she was our mother, or even as protective as she was the last time I saw her, or maybe I was just under the wrong impressions.."
"Please.. Don't go on.. I have heard enough.." Dark ran into his bed and covered his face with a pillow.
-Into the dark realms of emptiness-
"This is the place where I live, and you die!" Hilla exclaimed.
She went into a fight with the Cloud Mayor, with Leviathan trying to 'swim' up into the closing dimensional vortex.
The Cloud Mayor held on to Hilla making sure she will not escape. He tried to disarm Hilla but got pushed away.
"Get lost you freak!" Hilla's staff burst into magical flames which made the Mayor unconscious.
Before the Mayor fainted, he pulled Hilla's shoe.
"Hurry! Take my tail! Hilla! The dimension is closing!" As Leviathan stretched his tail towards Hilla while gripping onto the shrinking dimension.
As Hilla reached Leviathan's tail, she was forcefully pulled back into the dimension with the Cloud Mayor, leaving Leviathan hanging onto the dimension shouting for Hilla.
Leviathan took a last peek at the disappearing Hilla, then crawled back into the real world.
"Ahhhhh! I'm falling!" Leviathan shouted.
- Into the real world! -
The scream was as loud as a roar, which can be heard by Spark, when he recognized Leviathan's voice, he gasped and flew into the air and grabbed onto Leviathan. They both safely landed once again at Dark's balcony.
"Thank you.. But wait.. I have something to ask you before you ask me about your mother." Leviathan gasping for air.
"Look.. Look up.. See that hole? It's too small for anyone to go into it or out of it now, but I think, I heard of this type of dimensions, this.. This type is a half permanent dimensional portal." Leviathan looked at the confused Spark.
"Let me explain.. Every time a person goes into it or out of it, it gets smaller and smaller, until it disappears. But, first we need to open it up before we can even start the count."
Now it made Spark understand more.
"Oh.. So that means, it isn't a dissolving dimension? As in, you don't get killed going into it?" Spark curiously asked.
"Yes, which means, we can go in for another few hundred times to try to save your mother, which will be hard, as I have not heard of anything coming out of vortex-y dimensions." Leviathan worriedly said.
"So.. Hilla's not dead?" Spark teared.
Dark disappeared this instance.
"Yes, but it will be hard to find her without special technology, which no one has ever invented before, a 'Time-Parsing' device which can track and monitor time in another dimension." Leviathan walked downstairs.
Which left Spark as confused as a dumb goldfish.
"Now, where did Dark go again.." Spark looked around and found his bag still on his bed.
- Leviathan's Library of.. computers.. -
"Now, let me google this up and see how this works." Leviathan continued typing on the keyboard.
He wrote down his googled information and then continued to sketching his blueprints out for the Time-Parsing machine - With a side note that says:
"This device may reduce the life of the user due to analyzing time - which is restricted to all living things. Also, the user may get a 'Time disease' if the device is used at another dimension, where the user may be warped into his/her fantasies and be stuck forever."
- Wherever Dark went -
Dark went alone walking down the pavements of the roads of Edelstein, looking up at the black dot in the sky, too far away for anyone to even notice it.
He was continuously thinking about his life and what is the meaning of his life. Unnoticingly, still looking at the sky, he banged into someone and fell. It was Spark.
Spark smiled at him and held out his hand to pull Dark up.
"What are you doing here? Leviathan is working on a machine, I was figuring out how to save Hilla, and here you are looking at holes! You should be doing something more productive!" Spark wrapped one of his arm around Dark and walked him back home.
"Sorry, I was just.." Dark was stopped by the embrace of his brother's arms..
"I know, we will save our mother.. I promise you, I will not die before you get to see your mother again." Spark closed his eyes and smiled, Dark did too.
- In Leviathan's Lab -
"Oh yeah! I got it working now! This prototype can last us for a good ten counts of going into the vortex. Well, besides that, I can look further into what's inside it! It might be another dimension full of creepy monsters and stuff!" Leviathan excitedly exclaimed to nobody.
He then called the two brothers to come into his lab and take a look at it.
"Woah, what a small device! So, how do we get started?" Dark curiously inquired.
"Simple, you press the green button, it starts recording all the details happening in the dimension, and decodes it into readable words on the device's main frame: the blue button shows extra information gathered by the device, and the yellow button.. Consumes a special energy which is in your body to display the characteristics of the area around you within a 10 metres radius. And and and..!" blah blah blah went the Leviathan boasting about his invention.
There was a small stop in his speech and total silence, then, with a surprising "BUT!" Which scared the hell out of the brothers.
"There are a few things to take note! Using the yellow button may reduce your life every time you use it! And don't ask me to use it! I am not going to waste a part of my life for some weird woman.. Also, you might get a Time Disease and get stuck in time, warping into another dimension and being stuck there forever, that applies to any usage of the device in the vortex." Leviathan added an evil laughter.
"Okay.. Should we go and prepare to find Hilla?" Spark asked.
"Not necessary, here's some gadgets which lets you withstand the Vortex's pull and let's you stand on 'air', so you can walk down and find Hilla safely. Here's a coat which will protect you from being ripped apart by the vortex if that ever happens. Lets go and set up a base near the hole, and quickly open it up." Leviathan packed and walked out.
- Base set up, ready to go into the hole -
"Let's open up this hole with black magic. Anyone?" Leviathan asked
"I'll try" Spark said with confidence in his tone.
He casts a spell for the vortex hole and it became big enough for people to go into it.
"It's.. Scary.. Spark.." Dark shivered.
"I'll stay outside and keep track of the devices signal sent to the computer here. If anything goes wrong, press the emergency button. If anything goes wrong on my G-U-I, I'll let you know." Leviathan added: "Oh, and, one second in the dimension, is equal to the world's three seconds, but, the device is made in such a way that it can bypass that weird thing."
"Let's go Dark, hold onto me tightly and we will get through this easily, okay?" Spark gave a convincing look.
They both jumped into the vortex hole, wearing their anti-gravity shoes which enables them to 'step' on thin dimensional air. After which they can walk down the 'stairs' by pressing a button which decreases or increases the level of gravity removal.
They looked around and saw each other, strangely being very visible to each other, even though the whole place is black.
"Testing, one, two, three, do you copy, Spark?" Leviathan spoke into his transmission device
"Roger" Spark replied.
"If you are wondering, why you both are very visible to each other, and you think that there is no source of light, you're wrong. There's dimensional fog around, they are thick, very thick, and you will feel hard to breath in the fog,which starts at level 50:15, and ends at 150:10. You're now at level 2:10, and Hilla must be stuck at around level 255:5, if not, she has fallen into the other realm, which is possible if she loses consciousness.. Be quick and travel down to that level and, at level 200:0, there will be no more transmission signal, I will guide you as far as possible." Leviathan continued accompanying them through the radio transmitter and made sure they weren't bored.
~Wooo~ A random ghost like sound was heard.
"Spark.. I'm scared.. Although I.. I am able to defend myself from real people, I'm still scared of ghosts.. Argh!" Dark felt shivers down his spine.
Dark was walking down the 'stairs' towards the start of the fog, when he accidentally got pushed back by a thick fog and it hit the gravity controller so hard it flew right to full gravity force.
"Ahhhh! Help!" While Dark was reaching out for the controller, it broke by another fog hitting him.
"My wings can't fight the fog! Help me! Ahhh-" There was a sudden stop in his voice, then Dark was nowhere to be found.
"Dark!.. Leviathan, Dark has fallen into the fogs, do you have a signal of him?" Spark anxiously spoke through the transmitter.
A few seconds of silence, and Spark tried to speak through it again.
No answer.
- Back at the control base beside the dimension vortex hole -
Leviathan was checking out the Graphical UI to see if there was any problems, and a pop out states: "End User transmission signal not found. Retrying in 5 seconds."
"They've descended fast.. Or did the systems change? Or..." Leviathan looked at his case with the device screens and his tools.
He found a glass tube labelled "Nitrogen Gas" which, in the other dimension, can be used to kill dimensional monsters.
"Uh oh, I better get a signal now and ask them to come back and get this!" He slaps the device anxiously.
Leviathan looked into the vortex again and tried shouting for them, but to no avail.
- Inside the dimension where the fog thickens quicker than ever -
Monsters started to appear right out of the fog, it looked like the souls that were previously sucked out of Hilla's enemies. They are all undefeatable in their form.
Spark started to try and hit them, but his sword just passes through the souls. He was getting surrounded by more and more of the souls. He looked up and down, and saw no escape.
He started casting an explosive spell to scare the souls away.
- The land of nowhere, maybe somewhere.. -
"Ahhhh! Where am I! Spark? Hello!" Dark frantically looked around and saw a purplish sky, a moon, and floor of lava ashes. No one was to be seen.
He tripped and fell onto the sand, when he tried to get up, he felt light and floated into the air, his wings were still resting..
There was a big castle spotted by Dark, it had white sides, a black tiled roof, and a crescent resembling a moon in purple with some clouds underneath it.
He floated closer and closer to the castle, and when he opened the door, someone from behind pulled his leg and made him collapse into the sand.
He turned back and saw..
An evil looking demon was walking slowly with a sharp blade in his hand, and having killer eyes.
Dark rolled over and kicked his leg up to the demon, but it got his leg instead and went closer to him with his blade.
The evil demon smirked at Dark.
- Back where Leviathan was -
Leviathan looked at the date and time: 27th May 2013, 7.06 pm
It was 1 minute before the dimension does something weird and.. Something weird.
He took out his Diffusion device which held multiple glass tubes of neon blue nitrogen gas, which was so that he can see the gas and not touch it.
He wore the suit and looked at the GUI once more, and set it to emergency monitor mode. He took a remote which is the same as Dark's and Spark's.
He slowly walked into the vortex and made his way down to level 50:10
- Another Dimension -
"WHO ARE YOU!? Get away from me you evil demon! You bully!" Dark backed off quickly.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. Who are you, and why are you here?" The evil demon kept his blade
"Who are you? You evil monster!" Dark grinned.
"What do you mean? I am you!" The evil demon looked confused
"I look nothing like that, you liar!" Dark walked backwards while the evil demon walks towards him.
"My name is The Clone, and I clone anybody I see, but I am not a perfect cloner, so I only can clone people's inner self. And you look like this in the inside." The evil demon, which is The Clone, said.
"I don't look anything like that! You are such a big liar! I am not bad on the inside!" Dark retaliated.
"You can lie to others, but lying to yourself is the greatest shame you will ever do, to yourself. It is because you refuse to admit you did something wrong, and that is why your inner self looks so bad." The Clone smirked.
Dark started to cower and cry, running straight, away from the mansion. "No! I did nothing wrong! I'm not evil! I am a good demon!" Tears streaming down his cheeks as he run.
"You can't escape reality, even though this place is a dream, I am your INNER SELF. You cannot deny that you're an evil demon!" The Clone looked at Dark warping back to the mansion.
"Why did I come back here!" Dark screamed
"If you are wondering, this dimension, is called XDreamer's Island, it is controlled by me, and the White Lady, be happy that you have met me and not the White Lady.. Anything that comes in here, either dies of hunger, thirst, or suicide.. No one is permitted to leave here without the White Lady's consent." The Clone explained.
"Want to know more? This place is a place where you get to see your fantasies, once you step into the mansion, you are safe from harm and immediately become immortal, and you can be able to fulfill your fantasies, inside." The Clone gave Dark a final evillish smile before asking him to enter the mansion of no return.
The Clone saw White Lady walking from a distance. He took out his blade once again and pointed it at Dark.
"You either go in, or die here."
Dark regretfully walked slowly towards the mansion, looking at the floor.
Once Dark entered the mansion, he found himself looking at a huge candy carnival with alot of people and fun things to do.
The Clone and the White Lady went into the other side of the mansion and talked about their plans.
"Do you see that Dark fella? He came from another dimension. Now he will be stuck in his fantasies and never get out for at least a few years. I still thank you for making this magical mansion that magically stops people's internal clocks and make illusions.." The Clone was interrupted by the White Lady
"Go straight, to the point." The White Lady emotionlessly said.
"Okay.. I have found a plan to make us get out of here, to the real world and capture Maple World for ourselves, which includes me cloning that Dark guy and going out of this island, shortly after, you will also be able to get out of here." The Clone pointed at his plan book.
- Back at Spark where Leviathan caught up with him -
"Spark! Spark! Here! Take this and smash it on your sword and wave it around!" Leviathan tossed a glass tube to Spark.
He smashed it on his sword as told and pierced the souls and they died off.
"I've lost contact of Dark, what now?" Spark worriedly asked
"Don't worry, but we need to find them quickly and place this Diffuser here, oh and this device temporarily stops time in this dimension, because I looked through some information and found out that this dimension will open up another dimension, which lets what is in the Hell dimension out to the real world via this dimension. The Diffuser will close this vortex once and for all and destroys it. But we need to get Hilla and Dark out first."
Leviathan and Spark then quickly descended till level 200 and shouted for Hilla. They both saw a coughing Dark appearing from the side and collapsing.
Dark had red pupils, and a dark force can be felt when around him. He was wearing his usual coat but worn and torn. His wings were straight out with smoke. He looked more evil than the black mage. He looked up to see Leviathan and Spark.
They both helped him out and Leviathan asked: "Where have you been? What happened to you?"
"I found.. Hilla." Dark pointed out towards Hilla. His voice was very unpleasant and had an evil tone in it.
"Spark, hold on to Dark while I get Hilla." Leviathan quickly walked towards Hilla and picked her up and walked back to Spark.
"I'll now set the Nitroxide Diffuser which will diffuse the gas around and stabilize this dimension so nothing goes out for now, the souls can get out anytime without this. Oh, and one more thing, this thing can also destroy this dimension, which is, if you are willing to destroy it. Hilla?" Leviathan went to set the diffuser to go off in 20 minutes.
"It is probably the best to set it to destroy this dimension once and for all.." Hilla replied.
Leviathan set it to remove the dimension.
"Let's get going! We only have 20 minutes to reach the real world! Hurry!" Spark held Dark around him and quickly walked upwards. Leviathan and Hilla followed.
In five minutes they managed to get to the vortex hole, and went out into the real world where they see their base once again.
"Spark, bring them down to Dark's house and wait for me there, I'll make sure the dimension closes." Leviathan looked at his stopwatch.
Spark flew with them towards Dark's house to let them recover from their wounds.
"Hey Dark, feeling better? Want some pancakes?" Spark asked.
"No. I want to go out and meet the mayor of this town. I am bringing Whi...lla with me." Dark said with his evil tone again.
"Why do you want to meet him? And you would never say no to pancakes.. You really don't want some?" Spark asked again confusingly.
"NO." Dark pushed Spark and jumped down his house with Hilla and went to the mayor.
- Back at the base with the vortex -
"Seven minutes remaining. Nothing's unusual.. Let's check the log." Leviathan continued to countdown till the vortex implodes.
He read through the log and found something wrong, the Log reads:
- 190603 An object: Leviathan enters the vortex
- 190607 Time seems to have stopped in the vortex
- 190607 Multiple objects found to be appearing beside object: Spark
- 190607 Unregistered object: Dark
- 190607 Found new object: Unknown
- 190607 Analyzing new object: object is female
- 190607 Sensors sensed Nitrogen Gas to be released at level 50:10
- 190608 Time seems to have restarted in the vortex
- 190613 Registered object: Dark
- 190617 [CONFLICT] Registering object: Dark. WARNING: object already registered!
- 190625 Rejected object: Dark
- 190635 Found new object: Unknown2
- 190636 Analyzing new object: Unknown2
- 190637 Object: Unknown2 seems to be a shadow object attached to vortex, discontinuing analyzing. Takes up too much memory
- 190645 Nitroxide Diffuser has started countdown
- 190711 Unregistered object: Spark
- 190712 Unregistered object: Dark
- 190739 Unregistered object: Leviathan
- 190740 Unregistered object: Hilla
- 190758 Registering object: Dark
- 190759 Unable to register object: Dark [WARNING] Due to vortex packet request unavailable. Must be because to Nitroxide Diffuser.
- 190805 User input has stopped logging
"What. The. Heck. Is going on.. Why is there another Dark, and two unknowns?" Leviathan thought. He did a simple calculation and found out that the Dark and Hilla they saved was the two unknowns.
"That means.. Dark and Hilla hasn't been rescued yet! And the time left is five minutes! Oh no!" He quickly took out his transmitter and shouted for Spark.
- In Dark's house -
Spark heard the shout and gasped. "They left to see the mayor, I will get them out of there while you try to stop the mayor from getting killed."
He went up to the dimension and took the gravity controller again and nodded at Leviathan. He bit his lips and dived into the vortex.
"Four minutes left Spark! Be careful!" Leviathan shouted into the vortex.
Leviathan made his way down and ran towards the city's hall.
- In the vortex -
"Spark! Spark! Is that you!? I'm Hilla! I'm the real Hilla! I killed the Cloud Mayor! You need to get out of here! The diffuser is set to go off in three minutes!" A familiar voice shouted for Spark
Spark recognizes that voice and know she's the real Hilla, and quickly flew down to get Hilla.
"Hilla, you okay? Where's Dark? Did you see him leave this vortex or go out?" Spark asked in a hurry
"Yes, he went into the AN other dimension! Don't worry about me! Go save Dark! To get there you need to go to the 201st floor!" Hilla explained.
"No time! I'll fly you out of here before going into save Dark! And please, try to find Leviathan and ask him to disarm the diffuser! Somehow!" Spark whooshed out of the vortex and threw Hilla out into the base, then flew back to the 200th floor.
He tried to enter the 201st floor but there's a force blocking him from entering the place. He remembered how Dark disappeared and he followed, hoping that it would drop him into the 201st floor. He went to the 50th floor and destroyed his gravity controller and pointed his arms straight down the vortex.
- XDreamer's Island -
"More candy! Yay! I love this place! Argh.. I need the toilet..." Dark walks into a virtual toilet and began unzipping his pants, and he heard a loud bang and the walls exploded.
He found Spark looking at him and he blushed.. Spark was trying to stand up straight but he saw him.
"What... Are you doing.. Dark?" Spark couldn't resist but bursted out with laughter and fell to the ground, this made Dark blushed even more.
"Ahhh.. What are you trying to do in the middle of an empty house, stripping?" Spark tried to stop laughing.
"What do you mean? Umm.. This place has a carnival outside you know.." Dark quickly zipped his pants and looked away.
Dark brought Spark out into an empty house and he began pointing at the 'carnival' and saying how fun it was and so much candy he won.
Spark was really confused and saw nothing, but an empty house with special encrypted messages glowing everywhere.
"Let's go to the ferris wheel!" Dark pointed at an encrypted message.
"I don't see anything!" Spark pulled Dark back.
"You're crazy! Can't you see? It's so big and wheely! Let's go! Stop pulling me back!" Dark tried to push Spark away.
"No! There is nothing there! There is only encryptions everywhere! Wake up! You are dreaming! Wake.. UP!" Spark pushed Dark into a corner and shook him awake.
Dark's world began to shatter apart and he saw nothing but an empty house, like Spark.
"What the.. Where am I!? Where is the carnival!" Dark cried
"There is no carnival! It is only your illusions!" Spark looked around at the encrypted messages again, they stopped glowing.
"Huh?" Dark looked around and looked very perplexed
"You're just looking at encrypted messages! You must have been hit by a spell or something, which traps you in the dream world!.." Spark grabbed his arms
"Dreams.. XDreams.. XDreamer's.. Island.." Dark began mumbling.
"XDreamer's Island..? Where dreams come true starting in a small mansion?" Spark spoke to himself.
"If that is true, why am I not warped into my dreams? Do I not have dreams?.." He continued to question himself, ignoring Dark's mumble.
Spark eyes lit up and he thought of why he wasn't able to see his dreams. "I am blessed with the powers of the Cursed Book! That is why!"
He grabbed Dark and tried to fly up into the 200th level, but heard a loud screech the moment they wanted to take off.
"Oh.. The dimension is sealed.. We are stuck here... Forever.." Spark told Dark.
End of Chapter 5 Part 1