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I had talked with now a new friend of mine, Lzos, and he had given me loads of new ideas. A lot of the talk was about perspective and Aqua Road. So, I started to think of a way to piece Aqua Road with Ludibrium, and here's the result! It features the whale from the map Two Palm Trees. I have four trees on the whale though, haha. Mir, Robinson, and I are on the whale looking over to Korean Folk Town and the tree/tower. Michelle (TvvedIeDee) is in the water swimming to shore.

Storytime...but this will be different. I'm connecting the story from the picture, Now This Is A View, to this one.

We had blacked out. The last thing I remember was watching the stars and falling asleep. When I woke up, I was free falling from what looked like the bottom of Ludibrium. As it was getting farther and farther away, I looked over and saw Michelle was awake and flailing in the air...it probably would have been funny if it wasn't a serious situation! Brad and Len were missing for some reason. I felt a tug on my head, and it was Mir. Mir was a baby again! He was flapping his small wings trying to pick me up from free falling. This is bad...the water is getting closer, and when we hit it, it's going to hurt, if not kill us. I reached over to Michelle, who was yelling at me, but I couldn't hear her from all the wind around us. I started to make a small barrier around us, and Mir helped me out. His magic was weaker than it usually was, but way stronger than it was when he was actually that small. I guess I should consider us lucky, because that barely saved us. We hit the water....HARD. The barrier shattered and I saw Michelle swimming over to me. I was starting to pass out from the impact, and all I heard was Nathan, wake up...then, everything went black again. When I started to wake up I heard tossing waves, but I felt...dry? I opened my eyelids, and in between palm trees I saw Ludibrium up in the sky. I sat up and heard Michelle. "Glad to see you're awake, Nathan!" She ran over and hugged me. I asked where we were, and I heard a raspy, gruff voice from a man sitting under a different tree sharpening a stick with his knife. "You're on a whale, kid." He had shaggy hair, a beard, and looked too thin. "The name's Robinson. I'm the one who fished your party of three out of the water." Michelle nodded at his statement and before I could ask, she said "When I woke up, we were being thrown out of the bottom of Ludibrium by these Spirit Vikings. On their ship, I saw Brad and Len tied up. They....are still up there. That's when you woke up during our graceful fall." This is bad. If they threw us out, I can only imagine what Len and Brad are having to deal with. I guess our first plan of action would be to get to land. "Since flying isn't an option, I suggest we go to one of the towers holding up Ludibrium!" That's when I saw Mir fall out of a tree chewing on a coconut looking at me, right before Michelle tackled Mir saying how cute he was. "Help me.." I smirked and said stop reading my thoughts, and we'll see. Robinson pointed in a direction with his knife and said, "I don't know much about it, but I'm dropping you off at a small place called Korean Folk Town. They are pretty close to one of them towers. That will take you back up to the place you fell from." Robinson was very hospitable on his...whale. For the next three days, we traveled on Robinson's whale. We were regaining our strength, and Michelle, Mir, and I were putting our heads together trying to figure out how to change Mir back. When our results were inconclusive, Robinson later mentioned that a giant library existed somewhere near the Korean Folk Town. I figured that would be a great place to find a spell to get Mir back to normal. We eventually saw a tower come up into the distance, and soon we saw land as well. It looked like the tower wasn't connected to the ground, but used magic that came from the tree. I frowned while looking at the oddity, while Robinson's whale stopped. Robinson said this is as far as he'd take us, and wished us well. Michelle dove into the water and started swimming to land. This place was different from the blocky surroundings of Ludibrium. I looked over to Robinson one last time, who was staring at the water in deep thought. I asked him to come with us, because we could always use another hand in this next upcoming fight to get our friends back. His eyes lit up, and his voice went monotone....like he was programmed to say what he said next. "The mission comes first. Nothing gets in the way of the mission." I gave him an odd look before he shook his head and smiled at me and said it was nothing and I should forget what he said. I jumped into the water with Mir behind me. As I started to swim, I began to worry about Robinson, the man with more secrets than I could ever know from a first glance. People were on the shore waiting for Michelle, Mir and I. It looks like this journey has just begun..

March 3, 2012

5 Comments • Newest first

pastel

I love your imagination and your perspective on the Maple world.

I used to think the background maps of Ellinia, Omega Sector, Nautilus Harbor, and the Temple of Time were pretty, but you take all the maps to a whole new level.

Reply August 15, 2012
Tushie

I LOVE the story! ITS TOO CUTE <3!

Reply March 3, 2012
thenvs

Yeah I figured you guys wouldn't read. That means you didn't read the other story stuff or even attempt to read the first paragraph...which explains the picture. The rest is just story, because people who do read it like it

Reply March 3, 2012
lexuslx570

Bleh, wall of text. *didn't read*

Reply March 3, 2012