So back some years ago, when I played Maple Story, I found a community forum for Maple story I really enjoyed. This forum remade a DeathNote forum game from... ANOTHER forum that was really enjoyable. After I had been playing it for awhile, I was given the chance to host it, and so this is where this story came from.

Rating this PG-13 for the violence, and mildly implied adult content.

What is written here was based on actions people did in the game. These people were named:
Jawni, Light (the [re]creator of this game), Kitten, Nathan, ArcaneWolf, Soulless, Icarus, Holy Shadow, geminigirl, Brad, and Marc.

Each of these people were assigned roles with special abilities they could use for information, protection, killing people, or even just screwing with the game. If you are familiar with the Mafia forum games, this should not be too hard to figure out. I only am posting the "end phases" for after everyone made their moves.

Now nobody knew who was what role, but there was multiple ways to win. I think in this instance, I made it so just about anyone could win, though some had a much more difficult time than others. My story will describe what a role is doing as if it is different from who the actual people are (so not to reveal who is what). So just because I may say the Mayor is female doesn't mean the person who is playing the mayor is female, for instance.

I could go on explaining it, but I think it is better to post the story and let it explain itself. If anything is puzzling or does not make sense, feel free to ask any questions.

I may have put this under "Fan fiction" but it is only loosely based off of Deathnote.If this is the wrong place for it, feel free to correct me. ALSO, I left spelling errors (that the spell check fails to find) and grammar left in as it was written, if not only for preserving what I originally wrote, but to show how I "used to" write four years ago.
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(Intro)
The city of Timbuktu has always been a normal city. A bit of crime, a questionable mayor, and a holder of many residents with various jobs. Unfortunately all of that was about to change when one person entered this city. Some call him a monster, others revere him as a god... But he calls himself... Kira! No one knows his face but since he came to Timbuktu, mysterious deaths have been coming one by one! People heard Kira only killed those who were evil in their heart, so as long as you obey his will you will be fine. That didn't rub well with many.
A major criminal felt he might be next, so he captured some poor fool and decided he'll find this kira if it's the last thing he does! Perhaps he'll kill him, or maybe reach an agreement with him so they can control this city side by side... The poor fool would do his bidding lest he wished death and misery to himself and those he loved. However... that puppet hides himself a gun so maybe one day he can get his freedom. Maybe even help the city settle into a more peaceful affair... or help Kira's will.

The mayor is being yelled at to do something, and there threatens to be mass riots and chaos if she doesn't act right! Although she doesn't feel comfortable with it, she seeks the aid of a master detective she heard of to get to the bottom of the killings. He calls himself L. At first, this L seemed to calm down the masses, but soon, the calm was broken when the killings kept happening and L yielded no results. Thus, the mayor thought of the idea of letting the masses try to help find this kira person, and held a town meeting once every three days to vote who they think kira may be and explain their reason. This seemed to soothe the masses, but L felt this was a bad idea! He confronted the mayor, saying this would encourage a bloodbath! This irritated the mayor, however and she ordered L to stay out of her way, thus a rift between them began.

Among the masses of people attending the town meeting would be 11 rather extraordinary individuals, which included the mayor and L, as well as the criminal and his prisoner. Perhaps even kira? There also is serial murderer who is looking for new victims, but has rather mixed feeling about this Kira person... A police officer who wishes to aid the common man and stop all this chaos in the city! There also is a rather eccentric woman who dabbles into perhaps a forbidden sciences who wants to find out exactly how these murders are happening that keeps this L person baffled. A rather peculiar man who finds enjoyment in interfering with people's plans with no exact goal in mind. There also lies a kind hearted soul who simply wishes to protect the innocent... but is terribly naive, and may find themselves easily over their head. Lastly, a sleuth who is simply a mystery lover wished to try his luck out solving this one, or at least wishing to see the outcome.
With all of these people together, they decide the outcome of Timbuktu.

(First Phase)
It was the night of the first town meeting in Timbuktu. The townspeople were anxious to the least since they may end up killing an innocent individual... or find the source of their misery.

The Criminal felt an itch coming. "You!" He yelled at his slave. "Go to the town hall and make an appearance! I'm going out tonight. Time to get some hands dirty! And if you know what's good for you, you'll vote out..." a name was heard. The Criminal disappeared. As he had no other choice, the slave obeyed and made his way to the town hall.
The Mayor was especially anxious. Being the mayor, she had access to files on some of the people, and one disturbed her the most. "You..." She muttered. "I don't trust you... once arrested, not well liked around your own neighborhood... It would be better if you just disappear." Picking up the phone, she dialed a number she knew all too well. "Hello? Yes I require your services. It's the Mayor. I'll let you have another free pass if you do me a favor. Mm-hmm... The name is ArcaneWolf..." Little did the Mayor know someone was listening in on this.

"So... Killing people are we?" a voice was heard. The Mayor had barely hung up the phone when she heard this. She turned around horrified to see a man in a black mask looking at him.

"Wha-what are you doing here?!" Her voice was shrill as the Mayor backed into a wall.

The Criminal had a menacing laugh. "And people say I'm a crook!" Before the Mayor could even scream, the Criminal had lunged forth and cut straight towards the heart. He was slightly off, but she wouldn't survive. The mayor however let out a rather manly groan.
"What the..." Now the Criminal was confused. "You're no woman!"
The Mayor let a small deep voiced laugh. "I guess there's no point in hiding it anymore."
The Criminal looked over the mayor more carefully now. "Wait, you're that politician who was said to be dead! YOU'RE LIGHT!" he laughed. "Wow, I figured you'd have some skeletons in the closest, but this takes the-"
Soon, the criminal found it hard to focus. "Wha-what's..."

Light, although still dying, managed to have a look of shock as he saw his killer fall to the ground. "How... ironic" he managed to gasp. "The killer is killed. I wonder..." With much effort, he crawls to the criminal and takes off his mask. "Nathan... you..." He then collapsed, unable to breathe.

Meanwhile...

ArcaneWolf was making their way to Town Hall for the meeting, but was suddenly ambushed. No screams were heard, just a disturbing 'crack' was heard. No one heard from ArcaneWolf again. Another person was on their way to town hall as well, and was nearly killed! Luckily, he only sustained an injury, however.

The police officer was in his car, looking around. "Where is he... He must be up to no good! Ah-ha!" It seemed he found what he was looking for. "Icarus, you will be coming with me. I have some questioning for you down at the station. You don't get to vote tonight!"
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At Town hall, everyone cast their votes. People seemed to be rather confused. The Mayor was supposed to count up the votes, where was she? Soulless got curious as to what the hold up was and decided to go upstairs to the mayor's office... After seeing a most gruesome scene, he ran back downstairs, white as a ghost! The crowd noticed and went silent.

"The mayor! He's dead! And dear Nathan too!" The crowd started to go crazy! Screams and yelling were heard. Except... somewhere muffled by the noise was a man who was chuckling. It was the slave! He was finally free! But... he also felt rather lost. He didn't know where the criminal kept his loved ones... He would need to find someone to help him locate his family!

After nearly 10 minutes of people starting to accuse each other, the police officer blew his whistle as hard as he could. The crowd slowly came back to a silence. "We obviously still have this Kira to worry about. We need to deal with this rationally and calmly. Let's just follow what the mayor wanted us to do, and see what the majority voted."

The Police Officer went up to the voting box and started counting up the votes. The crowd's volume had fallen to several whispers as he counted them out. After counting them out, he looked slightly dumbstruck. "Almost a tie..." he muttered under his breath. "Good god... I doomed that man..." With a heavy heart, he announced the results. "It seems everyone believes Icarus is this Kira..." The crowd went wild and everyone looked around each other to see if they could find him.

"You won't find him here..." The police officer said. "he's at the station at the moment. I was questioning him on this and-" but he was unable to finish. The whole crowd went storming down to the station and even managed to get to Icarus. The police officer looked almost as if he could cry as the crowd left.

"and I found out he wasn't Kira..." he said to himself. He knew Icarus's life might have been saved had he not arrested him. In his questioning down at the station, he found Icarus was just a common man, and even knew his vote. And if he wasn't arrested... Icarus may have lived.

After coming back home, Kira sat down in front of his television with the news on. He smiled at all the chaos that had occurred. "It's all working out perfectly. Now to find that meddlesome L."

(Second Phase)
Three days later, another town meeting was made. After more random deaths occurred, people agreed kira must be among them. But with so many deaths occurring not many wished to go out anymore, it was a wonder who WOULD show up tonight?

Soulless was making his way to the meeting. He was a little early, but he just had to do something! Seeing that horrific scene three days ago made him unable to sleep. Instead of just moping around the house, he felt it'd be better to just head over early. He was about to cross the street when a car pulled up next to him. "You have been accused of being Kira, and therefore are coming with us to see if you truly are!" Before he could even react, he was handcuffed and dragged into the backseat. He was never heard from again.

The scientist was experimenting with some potions, and one caught her eye. "Ooh! This one should be perfect for tonight!" She squealed in delight. "I have you figured out, L. You haven't helped this town one bit! Now it's time for you to pay!" She tied her hair up and tucked it under a hat, put on a mask, then headed out the door.

As it was, The police chief and L were driving to the town hall meeting together. After finding parking that was annoyingly far from the building, they began their walk. "So what made you believe Soulless was kira, sir?" The police chief said in a hushed tone to L.

"He witnessed the murders of both the mayor and a notorious criminal," L replied as he adjusted his rather large cap. "Perhaps he saw one murder the other and felt it was time to get rid of one while he had a chance..."
The police chief looked worried. "But that's just a theory! And your interrogation team had him so confused he really started thinking he was kira!"

L shrugged. "If he proves not to be Kira, we'll let him go..." Suddenly a cell phone went of. The two stopped and L answered it. "Yes? What?! Oh no..."

"What is it?" the police chief was wide-eyed.
L hung up the phone. "That was my team... They said Soulless... committed suicide while in custody. I... was wrong..."

The scientist had been witnessing all this from nearby. "So you're L!" She cackled a little insanely. The Police Chief reach for his gun, but L didn't react at all. "You've been causing quite a problem in this town! You come and try to help us get rid of this murderer, but instead all we get is more random deaths! I swear if you and that wretched mayor had just done nothing, so many wouldn't be dead already!"
"That's enough! Let me see your hands!" The police chief had his gun pointed at her. She snickered.

"Oh, sure!" She replied all too calmly. She rose one hand, "This is my right hand!" She waved. "And this..." in an instant she threw a bottle at L and ducked as a bullet whizzed by her, "is for L! TA-TA!"

The police chief tried to chase her but she turned a corner and seemed to disappear. He cursed and looked back at L, who had been melted to a pile of goo. However, a note was right next to the puddle, which seemed unaffected. The police chief picked it up and read what it said.

"My friends... If you are reading this, then it means I have failed, and likely died. But that does not mean you should give up! Please, find this Kira, and save this town! If you give up, we all may as well be dead. With the utmost confidence in you... L... aka Kitten."

"So..." The police chief had tears streaming down his face. "It looks like I'm alone. I'll do it for you, Kitten. I will find Kira and that lunatic Scientist and get this town back on its feet!"
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Kira was in a nearby building, witnessing what the scientist did. "Hmm, interesting. So L is finally dead. Looks like I've just gotta find out who that police chief really is. Shouldn't be hard, not many people left. Let's see..." Kira looked at a list of names. He didn't realize the former puppet was lurking behind him however.

"Put your hands up... please..." The now-free man had his gun with the single bullet in it pointed at Kira. Kira was in shock. Slowly, he put his hands up.

"I heard you! You're that Kira person, aren't you! You are the one who caused me so much pain! I was enslaved because you showed you wicked head!"

Kira then smiled. "But you poor thing, don't you realize?" The man looked at kira with puzzlement. "I'm the one that set you free! I'm the one who killed Nathan!"

The man went wide eyed. "Y-you?"

"That's right." Kira put his hands down. He was safe. "I figured that dirty criminal had done something awful so I did some research. Turns out he had kidnapped this family and I have a pretty good hunch where they are."

"My family! They're safe?" The man had lowered his gun. "Oh please... you have to free them! I've been trying to find them!"

Kira's smile grew even wider. "Of course I will, but I'll make you a deal. I'll free your family, but... I'm afraid I can't let you go after finding out who I am. So I will have to kill you..."

The puppet thought this over and formed a very weak smile. "If you can ensure the safety of my family... then I can honestly die happy. But if you could somehow... please just let them know I died for them, and I'll watch over them."

"Of course," kira said sympathetically. "And your death will be simple and quick. No need to suffer."
"Thank you," the man dropped his gun, and sat down.
Kira began writing the man's name down. "M...A...R...C... it's done now. You can rest knowing you did something important before you died."
Marc simply keeled over in an instant. But... with a smile on his face.
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After all that transpired, only four people were at the meeting. Jawni, Holy Shadow, Geminigirl, and Brad all looked at each other.
"Clearly, one of us must be Kira, "Holy shadow exclaimed. "A murderer always returns to the scene of the crime."
"It must take one to know one, huh?" Jawni sneered at him.
"Got a guilty conscience there?" Holy shadow eyed back at jawni.
"Alright break it up, this won't solve anything!" Brad yelled.
Geminigirl nodded. "Why don't we just relax and think this out rationally."
"Right." Holy Shadow regained composure. "There are four of us, so even if one of us were Kira, the other three could stop him!"
The rest agreed. "So shall we vote?"
"I guess..." jawni bitterly replied. "Should we bother with the box" he referred to the box where votes are tallied.
"It might save face..." brad replied.
The four generally agreed on that, and each took a piece of paper. Then the four split up to write down who should be killed. After coming to a decision, they each put a slip of paper in the box.
"So who should open it?" gemini girl asked.
"Why don't we all open it?" Brad told her. The four got up to the box and started to count the votes, but were a little shocked.
"Wait, there's moret han four votes here?" Jawni was baffled.
brad came to a realization. "I think I know why! Some of these were mailed here! Since everyone has been so afraid, some may have taken to mail their votes in!"
"Well I guess that's fair..." Holy shadow remarked. They all counted up the votes... and then turned to who should be killed next.
"But it's not fair!" The accused cried. "If we didn't count the mail ins..."
"Now now, we all agreed, so time to die!" Holy shadow laughed at the accused.
"Wait... should we really kill him?" Brad looked at the other two. "maybe we should just arrest him! And if the deaths still occur we'll know it's not-"
Suddenly, Jawni pulled out a blade. "BACK OFF!" he laughed. The three froze up. "You're gonna listen to me before you do anything! I may be a murderer but I am NOT Kira!" he feigned a swing at geminigirl, who let out a yelp as she jumped back. "If I can't figure out who kira is... I'll just kill all of you!" He dove at brad, who jumped back and shot him in the leg with his gun. Jawni cried out in pain.

"There he's disabled!" Brad yelled. "Now he's no longer a-" he stared at the other two. Holy shadow had thrown a strange liquid at Jawni and geminigirl was just laughing. When brad looked back, he saw Jawni had become a pile of goo... just like Kitten had become.
"IT WAS YOU TWO!" Brad angrily started to pull his gun out, but Holy Shadow had another liquid ready and geminigirl had already taken out a pen and a strange book.

"Stay where you are if you don't wanna die,officer." geminigirl laughed. "We outnumber you!"

What was going to happen next? Who would decide the fate of Timbuktu?

(Final Phase)
Brad stared down Holy Shadow and Gemini girl. What was going to happen next...
Tired of waiting, Holy Shadow madet he first move and threw the caustic liquid at Brad, but he moved barely out of the way, and shot at Geminigirl. The shot however missed, and geminigirl had just closed her book. "Sorry Officer, but it's over. Don't worry, we'll take care of your city. Despite what you heard and the fact I kill people, I promise you the city will be in a better place now."
Brad cursed at her. "You... are just nothing but murderers..." His heart gave in, and he collapsed. He had failed.
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Muffled crying was heard in an apartment building way up high, as a guard was starting to get in the mood. "The boss won't notice if we have a little fun with the wife, will he?" One guard asked another.

"Heh, I haven't heard from him in awhile, I'm sure it won't matter." In front of him was a woman bound and gagged to a wooden chair, and in the background, two children in the same position but on the floor, both wide eyed and tear-stained at the men.
"Alright, I'll go first." The first guard headed towards the woman. She struggled to free herself, but it was no use.
Then, the first guard started acting strangely. "Actually it's time for us to die..." he said in a strange monotone. The other guard looked at him oddly.

"Uh... you okay, Burke?" The other guard didn't respond, only started towards his comrade. "S-Stop!" He backed up against a wall near a window. Burke grabbed his now former comrade and threw him out the window. He then spoke to the mother and children.
"What you have seen is an act of mercy thanks to your new god, Kira. You have your husband Marc to thank for such kindness. He died to protect you. Honor him and Kira." And with that, Burke jumped out the window himself to fall to his doom.

With this and conquering all that opposed him, Kira had succeeded control of the city. With Holy Shadow as her right hand man, Gemini girl started her journey for becoming god of the new world.