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Chapter 9: Back to Maple I descended to a low hover and landed. "I feel......" I muttered and fainted. I don't know how I even stayed in Dragon form this long..... "Ivan...... Wake up! They're coming!" I awoke to the sound of people bashing on my room's door. The door had been barricaded by a few furniture I had left around. Alexis and Lacus were holding suitcases, they had apparently packed, knowing full well that we would never return. "Mei Ling and Alexis explained everything to me. That jerk Arno......" Lacus went into a silent tantrum. Mei Ling was empty-handed, but she was studying my laptop. I quickly got up and walked over to the laptop. "You sure had a long history." she remarked and stepped aside. I glanced at her curiously. "Alexis told me about your past lives." she shrugged. I put a key in the laptop's lock and twisted it open, flicking the power switch. The girls watched nervously as the door banging got more intense and the laptop booted up. Once on the desktop, I immediately pressed the "MapleStory" icon and grabbed my necklace. Its string expanded and Lacus pushed Mei Ling into the loop of the string, walking in herself afterwards. Alexis ducked into the loop as I moved the necklace towards the indent in the screen...... The door burst open and a figure stumbled in. He tripped over a table and stumbled into my necklace's string's loop just as my necklace touched the indent. "Lopez?" my eyes widened. "I saw those scientist guys banging on your door and tried to block them, but then they broke the door open and I tripped over your table, hey whats with the girls?" Lopez scratched his head, looking at the girls. "And whats with this necklace?" he looked at the string loop curiously. He almost fell over and grasped the laptop for support just as we were all yanked into the Maple world. I felt something on my foot, not my shoes. Alexis and me landed expertly on the rocky plateaus of Perion on two legs while Mei Ling, Lacus and Lopez collapsed into a heap on the ground. I then saw what had fallen on my foot. It was a parcel from my real life home! "Dear Son, I think it's time you learnt about how you arrived in this world. We found you floating in half of an eggshell towards our home 19 years ago. This meant you weren't our real baby, but we still took care of you lovingly. The eggshell half you floated to our house in is in the box. Love, Mum and Dad." a note was written on the parcel. I ripped the parcel open and found...... Half of an eggshell with a single wing on it, on which was etched the word "Ivan" Alexis noticed the eggshell and took a similar parcel from her suitcase. She ripped it open after reading the note to find HER half of the eggshell, also with a wing with the word "Alexis" etched on it. "I haven't seen the egg for so long. Surprising how we were twins in our past lives and now we're twins again." Alexis pieced the eggshells together. Perfect fits. Lacus, Mei Ling and Lopez stirred. They got up and looked around wildly. "Where are we?" Mei Ling and Lopez asked simultaneously. "We're in MapleStory." I replied loudly. Suddenly, I noticed that Lopez had fallen on something. I looked at it to find my laptop, slightly scratched but still functional. Thanks to the strong and light polymer the casing was made of. I closed it and flicked off the power switch to save energy. "I think I can install a solar panel on it so you don't need your normal adapter, seeing as we're in a totally different world." Mei Ling inspected the laptop. "How'd we get here anyway?" Lopez asked. Alexis pointed at my necklace. The string had retracted to its normal length now. "I don't believe it......" Lopez groaned. "How about classes? My parents'll be mad." he grumbled. "We can't go back anymore, I'm wanted for research and Arno would surely have told the administration that I was the dragon......" my voice trailed off as I realized Lopez hadn't heard about what had happened inside the chem lab. Mei Ling took him aside and explained. His face grew slightly white. "I suppose I don't have a choice." Lopez raised an eyebrow. "Perion eh? I've always wondered how it'd be like to be inside the game." he said. "I play Maple too." when he caught the looks on our faces. We walked towards our house in Maple and saw a few trucks moving the same way too. "I wonder whats going on." we walked faster. The trucks stopped at our house and Roy was there to welcome them. We ran towards him. "Back so soon?" he raised an eyebrow. "I'll explain everything later. What's with the trucks?" I looked at the trucks. Men were walking out. "We're moving to Kerning!" Roy announced happily. My jaw dropped. "The house isn't secure anymore. The only reason I've been upgrading the house's security is because I'm scared Saevio will come back again. And that Balrog smashed right through the wall. We're gonna have to move and hope he doesn't find us." Roy replied. "Who're they?" he looked at Mei Ling and Lopez. While Mei Ling and Lopez were looking around the house, Alexis and me went up to our bedroom to pack. "It's great to be back in a boy's body and thinking normally for once." I looked at Alexis's clothes. When my heart had been turned into a girl's in my past life, I had thrown out all my boy's clothes, and hence I don't have to pack much. I flipped open my laptop. Somehow it was still able to maintain an Internet connection with the real world. I looked at the MapleStory icon. When I pressed it, it fizzled into non-existence along with the data on my hard disk. "I forgot! Is Afrodita okay?" Alexis exclaimed, grabbing Roy by his shoulders. "I think she joined the Fidelo Gang. Somehow they persuaded her to join the bad side." his face turned slightly pink. "Great. And Jullian?" I asked, thinking back to the person that had Resurrected me. "He's an explorer now. From what I hear, he was swallowed up by a sandstorm and never heard from again." he replied glumly. Alexis tripped over a box while scrambling around to look for extra items. The box opened to reveal a few syringes. "This is still around!?" Alexis stared at the syringes. One was empty. Roy shuffled uncomfortably. "Lynx and Afrodita wanted to try some." he said. "Let's just take them along, just in case we might need them." I pocketed a strange gun and Alexis put the syringes back in the box and slipped it into her bag. When I walked down, I found Mei Ling and Lacus hogging the library excitedly. Lopez was checking out the archery range and testing one of my old bows, a Vaulter 2000. Bows...... "Archaeion, come to me." I held my hand out and concentrated. My hand vibrated for a while, then stopped. Nothing happened. "Didn't you throw it into oblivion?" Roy asked curiously. I grunted and grabbed Daniel's Golden Arund, walking off to the archery range. The house was almost entirely finished packing up. Now the men were moving into the library to take the bookshelves and the books. Mei Ling and Lacus walked out obligingly and let them do their stuff. "I wanna try something." Mei Ling snapped her fingers. A tiny flame appeared, hovering over her palm, flickered briefly and vanished. "Nice, you're an apprentice Fire Mage." Lacus grinned. "More power transferred?" I asked the Dark Dragon. "Yep." Lopez quickly found out that he could handle crossbows better than bows and was soon pulling off Sniper techniques. "Hey, Ivan, check this out!" he launched a bolt from a crossbow. The bolt froze in mid-air and ice fell out of the sky, shredding a target to pieces. "Nice." I applauded. Lopez grinned and loaded four arrows. "Strafe!" |
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