Dark Age Legends

[Zeros']

Genma knew Cheetah was there, he didn't even look back.

"Gepardi. Go. This is one battle you should not see."

[Dude Man]

Duilin then decieded to follow Genma and Cheetah.

"Seth stay here." He told him as he ran by. He ran to the area they were Cheetah was. "Cheetah, what's going on? Were is Iduran?"

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"Veronika, has been defeated!" Iduran says as he looks at the out cold women lieing down. "So, you are that friend of Duilin. Seth is it? Well Seth, I hope you know, that I am with the Dark Empire! I am a master spy and I know everything! I've been watching everyones very move for along time. So, why do you choose to aid the fallen Romme Empire?"

[Zeros']

Genma shot a quick, cold glare at Duilin.

"Get out. This is between me and him."

[Dude Man]

"No! I'm staying here! I'm Duilin Talonscar, remember me? And who the hell, is that!?" Duilin yells pointing at the black figure.

[Zeros']

"Duilin I do not wish you to die here." Genma leaned on his staff and silently turned his head forwards. "This is Emperor Retan. The leader of the Dark Empire. His son is Jayce, while Draven and Neptra are his most trusted officers..."

He hesistated for a moment. "I am Retan's personal guard. He shall die by my hands and no one elses."

[Dude Man]

"Emperor Retan?" He says looking at the him "I'm sorry, I didn't reconize you. But yes, I am Duilin Talonscar, the traitor! Darion's ex slave! You know Darion on of you old guards? Along with Nex? There BOTH dead!" He takes a few steps, He looks around and realzizes Iduran's dead corps. "Oh my god..." He looks at Cheetah and wispers to him "We've gota get outa here..."

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Veronika remains uncontious, but has a mental dream like thing.

"Hello" Says a fimiluar voice "This is the voice of.....god!"
"Who the hell is this!?" Veronika snaps
"I told you, it's GOD! Duh!"
"Nex?"
"Yes?" The voice was Nex
"What do you want?"
"Uhh...I'm just giveing you a mental episode!"
"Do you remember my name"
"How could I forget..." Nex wispers
"What is it?"
"Pophin!" He yells happily
"No, Veronika! Now what do you want!?"
"I want to tell you, that I'm okay, and daddy is comeing home soon okay?" He says as if Veronika was her daughter
"I thought you were alive, you can not be killed!"
"Retan and Genma wish kill the ones who have been attacking you. But we won't let him kill Duilin, right?"
"I supose so, why not?"
"Because, we need him."
"Why?"

"Let me tell you our core plan. The reason I wanted him to be kidnaped and join is because, he is part deamon, he dosen't know it, but he is. I want him to join us, and defeat the Romme!"

"But Romme is dead! Nobody from Romme is left at all! There all dead! Just kill him and get it over with!"

"Okay, fine, not Romme, umm....Retan!"

"Why? He our leader!"

"No! I shall be leader, but first, I must get the perfect group. Darion is dead, but we can replace him, we must get Duilin back, and find a replacement for Darion and together we can destroy Retan and rule the world!!"

The voice in Veronika's head stops...

[Cyber Wolf]

From the attack from the wyverns, several acid shots landed, and removed psi soldiers limbs, but did not kill them, as only striking the red sphere ithin them could kill them. However, several acids hit and killed around 8 Warriors, 10 Monks.

The Warriors Charged at the Wyverns, while Monks Praid, restoring a few limbs here and there to mutalated soldiers.

The Archers fired several rounds, while the mages conjured Poisons and flames and death curses to the arrows.

40 Wyverns die by the warriors, 60 by the archers/mages.
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"Beacuse.. Romme is there home. Their Haven. You're invading them, forcing, pushing them out of their own home. Persecuting.. I know how Percecution feels.. I've lived with it for decades. And perhaps the Gods will favor me for my deeds done." Seth said, with a proud, but saddened tone.

"Why do you work for the Empire? Knowing they do this to people. They may provide for you, but having them do so shows your weakness.. So why? Why not just live in peace? There is nothing better than to live in a forest, training your physical prowess and caring for yourself. No greater feeling of Pride and Peace."

[Xorlak]

Draven floated up slowly, assuming a battle stance in mid air.  Too weak... that blade should have cut through his flesh like butter...

None-the-less, he managed his familiar smirk.

"Scorch, what's the matter?  Is it too... hot?"

He clenched his right fist and opened it, conjuring a small fireball.

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Jayce leapt backwards before the blade neared his throat.  Perfect execution.  Not who he was aiming for, but a kill is a kill... where did she come from anyway?

Jayce ran the pointer finger of his left hand over the blood on his sword.

"Was she... important?  How delightful..."

He licked the blood off of his finger as if he were tasting icing on a cake...

"That's right... show me your hatred...  Make things... interesting for me..."

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The Dark Emperor turned his back to Genma, slowly striding to his throne.  The bleeding stopped and his wound began to heal.

"Genma.  That one was worthless.  He knew nothing.  Do not waste my time by bringing me worthless peasants.  I am growing tired of waiting..."

The four weapons on the table and the shinning spear on the ground began to levitate, slowly floating to and rotating around Retan.

"One hour... One hour is as long as I will wait.  Then it is the end..."

Voices behind him.  He turned, the five weapons circling him like spectres.  Duilin and Cheetah were behind Genma.

"Ah, you've brought guests...  perhaps one of you can lead us to the sword..."

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(Edit: Can't forget about the wyverns!)

The wyvern riders were totally outclassed by the psi army, mostly because the riders were too spread out from their search mission.

"Flank them!  FLANK THEM!!"

The captain yelled hysterically as the well organized legion smashed his ranks.  Seconds later an arrow of flame pierced his torso, killing him instantly.  Chaos unfolded as the flying warriors were left to fight independently.  In a few moments, over 300 wyvern riders were slain...

But then on the horizon, a shadow developed...  The 500 dark wyverns, the elites of the sky, organized and fresh, were rapidly approaching the fray...

[Dude Man]

"Ha ha ha! It's because they gave me a reason to exist!" He then starts paceing back and fourth wile looking at him and talking "Before I was some homless, friendless, mindless, nobody with nowere to go. Untill the Dark Empire found my gift, my gift is to be unnoticed untill I appear myself! Now let me tell you something. This Dark Empire, we are trying to find these weapons for our Emperor Retan, and he has two personal guards, Genma and Nex. Nex also has a divison of warriors that he has gathered from around, nobodys like how I was, but you see, Nex is not a person Retan should have trusted. You see, Nex wishes to defeat him as soon as the time is right, he wishes to take over the position of him, by killing him, he must have several soilders, with him to know about this and help him. He has collected people with special gifts, one was 12 fingers and extreme strenght and size, one with the abbility to understand alot of weaponary and view things in a birds eye view, one with the walking voloume of a ghost, that's me, and finaly, one who has deamon powers. However, we need a replacement for the loss of poor, poor Darion. We need somebody with great flexiblilty and pysic powers of some sort." Pophin stops and turns his head slightly at him and gives him the 'you know I'm saying?' look

[Cesque]

Scorch, not saying anything, put both arms before him and conjured two separate lightning streams, aimed at Draven, obviously.

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Cheetah turned to human form.

"I don't think Iduran is alive anymore." - said Cheetah to Duilin, pointing at the hole, through which Iduran broke through as he was killed. The situation was desperate: only Genma separated them from the mastermind of all Dark Empire, which played with levitating weapons and when he would propably realise they don't know where the sword is, he might kill them.

"Not good." - Cheetah only told himself, then added aloud: "I don't know where the sword is, but I know who can know."

That was a stupid plan, but he could not think any better at time, and if they begind searching for him, the demon might have the power to battle Dark Emperor, which might propably assure safety of him and Duilin... or something like that.

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Gelu turned directions. It might be a good idea to pay Emperor a visit. He should at least be informed about that Vikingard madman, in case he returns.

[Zeros']

Genma looked silently at the many weapons.

"I do indeed know who has the weapon you are searching for." Genma turned to Duilin and Cheetah and shot them a mental note.

Find Zeros' tell him to get away from this place as fast as possible. Zeros' doesn't know what the sword can do, but you MUST get to him. He might be the only one able to stop Retan. Tell him his old master is sorry.

Genma held up a finger in front of himself.

"You can find out yourself Retan. You should be able to tell easily."

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Zeros' looked at the limp body of Qeni at his feet, he didn't know what to do now...

Zeros' sword started shifting from the red color of anger to a blue, then to a white. The sword started repairing itself, the cracks visibly disappearing.

The sword also started to transform. It turned to the rotted color of black flesh, spikes pertruding out every 5 cm. The swords length also increased from 7 feet, to a visible 12 feet. The swords width also increased, from being a thin 3 inches, to a bigger 2 feet in width.

The sword was now twice as wide as Zeros' (instead of being thin like a katana, it was now very thick like say, Cloud's sword) and almost three times as tall as Zeros'.

"The true power of the demon sword Masamune..." Zeros' put his other hand on the hilt and the sword split into two swords that looked exactly the same, but only 7 feet long and a foot wide.

Zeros' held both swords at his sides and waited for Jayce to attack.

[Cesque]

Cheetah was now absolutely confused - the man because of which Iduran has died now giving his orders as if he wanted to stop Dark Emperor? What new hypocrisy was that?!

That was enough for him! The only truly good and kind knight in the land has been delivered to his death by this old bastard - and now he wants them to find Zeros and tell him about the fact that he must get away from his and that he's SORRY?

Cheetah exploded in anger, not really caring about Retan nearby having deadly weapons at his disposal, he ran toward Genma and made an attempt of delivering a strong blow of his right fist straight in the unpreppared old guy's face.

[Zeros']

Genma ducked under the attack and then glared at Cheetah.

"I told you to run; I was offering you a plan of escape. Zeros' has the sword and he must...!" Genma quickly put a hand over his mouth and then siged.

"Shit.."

[Xorlak]

"Nyah!"

Draven thrust the half formed fireball forward, attempting to blast through the electric streams, but he hadn't the time to gather enough energy.  He threw both of his hands forward, meeting the lightning with a shield of fire.  The force drove him backward and downward, closer and closer to the ocean...

"Arggh!!"

Draven was truly exhausted and becoming drowsier by the minute, barely able to keep his eyes open...

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"Sword tricks, huh?  Are you sure you can handle them?"

Jayce brought his own sword above his head, slashing it straight into the ground.  The strike emitted an intense wave of shadow energy the split the rock the two stood upon in half as it traveled to it's target.  A fraction of a second later he took off after the energy wave, bringing the sword to his right side, intending to follow up the attack with a horizontal slash...

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"Heh heh heh..."

Retan threw his head back in laughter.

"Ah hah hah hah haaa!!  Alas, Genma, even as a traitor you serve me well...  It is a shame, but it seems my son's prejudices are correct.  Even our most trusted allies will turn on us when given the slightest incentive above their current position."

He turned to walk to his left, his hands behind his back under his cloak.

"Yes, it seems you humans, demons, elves, outsiders, and whatever else... are most ungrateful.  You forget that your very existence is meaningless to me.  If you choose to walk beside me, then out of my own generosity I will allow you to continue to exist.  It is not out of necessity that I employ my armies, but out of compassion.  But if you choose to walk against me, then I will erase you from existence.  Simple really..."

He turned back to Genma.

"But you Genma, you seem to be wiser than most of the hundreds of traitors I've sent to death.  I hope that you are not ignorant enough to believe that you can defeat or replace me.  So why is it that you turn?"

[Trent]

Zion could feel dark energies, very strong ones at that. The Zero Weapon had to be destroyed. But it could wait. Zion took off in the direction of where the strongest dark energy was sensed (toward Retan).

The Zero Weapon glared down at Tsu. The human man backed up slowly with indescribable fear in his eyes. "H... Help!!!" He had to turn off the Zero Weapon somehow... That hole in the top of his head? Crud... It wasn't his problem anymore. He turned around and took off in the opposite direction. The Zero Weapon stood straight up and relaxed. It cracked its knuckles out of boredom. (It's not completely a machine. But it's very much like one.)

//Anyone who can use light, if you want to turn off the Zero Weapon, come up with something to do to the sword-shaped hole in the top of its head.//