Dark Age Legends

[Zeros']

"I was blinded by arrogance once before. Before you or the Dark Empire were formed. That arrogance cost me my family, friends and others dear to me...it cost me my own soul."

"I will not make the same mistake. I would welcome death at this point in my life. Alittle over a 1000 years of memories is jogged within my head. (Genma is 1089 years old, while Zeros' is bringing up the rear at 998)"

"Retan you know the extent of my power, or else you should not have hired me as your personal guard." Genma leaned on his staff and turned away from the emperor. "If you ever have the courage to fight me, I would like to know."

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Zeros' stood still.

Not moving.

The energy connected with Zeros', effectivly blowing his jacket behind him, but Zeros' not faltering.

Zeros' did not move, but Jayce's attack was deflected by his speed, making him look as if he didn't move. Zeros' dodged to the left and spun, delivering an uppercut like attack from his right sword, followed through by his left sword that sent two beams of energy towards Jayce.

One Black. One white.

[Cesque]

"He's getting weak." - Scorch told himself. - "But it will still cost me lots of effort to destroy him... This time I will have to accomplish my task, thought, no matter the cost..."

Scorch drew back the lightning bolts into his hands from which he casted them, and became infused with electric energy. His body was glowing extremely with light and he looked more like a white spirit through which electric energy was circulating than a living being. He entered a super-man like stance with both his arms forward and began flying toward Draven to achieve as close range as possible.

"This is the time for the tyrant to pay..."

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"What a solemn speech, pleased to hear you like to die but some folks here don't... So... perhaps we should go looking for the one who has the sword, eh?" - said Cheetah, who calmed down a bit, trying to find any way to get out of this ship.

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Gelu continued his foot journey searching for the Black Vessel near the north point of island. The ship and it's cargo were a great source of magic energy he could feel, so it wasn't too hard to find directions. As a water mage, he never learned how to fly, and he was conserving energy by not travelling in his liquidised form.

[Xorlak]

"Scorch!!! BLAST YOU!!!"

Draven brought both hands to his side before thrusting them forward, sending his last ounce of burning strength at the incoming air mage.  But the fully charged Scorch blasted through his wave of fire, splitting it in two.  The impact was colossal, sending a circular shockwave of fire and electricity outward for a quarter mile.

"Gaaahhhh!!!!!!"

Draven flew straight backwards at over 100 miles per hour, his body surrounded by hundreds of bolts of electricity.  He slammed into the water below, extinguishing whatever aura of flame he had left, and skipped off of the water surface for several hundred yards before disappearing under the waves...

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"GYAHH!!!"

The attack was too quick for the slower moving Jayce and there was no way he could see it coming... he found himself thrown into the air, spinning, receiving the full force of both energy waves.  He smashed down some 50 feet from Zeros'-- hard.

He stood up after a second, but instantly felt a searing pain across his right shoulder and chest, that caused him to fall to his knee.

"Ahh..."

His thick black armor had been sliced through.  Crimson blood dripped though the crack...

He looked up at his opponent through the strands of black hair that had fallen in his face... and smiled...

"Heh heh heh... it's about time... no... this body won't do... it won't do at all..."

He struggled to stand up, jamming his sword into the ground in front of him and leaving it.

"It's very rare that we get a chance to show who we really are..."

He brought both arms to his side.  An eerie wind began to blow...  The man emanated darkness...  stronger and stronger his aura became, forcing surrounding rocks and boulders to become airborne and blast away from him.  He widened his stance and opened his fists like claws... his eyes began to glow a bright red as the earth itself shook...

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"Alas.  But are you sure you were blinded then, or are you now?  A most unfortunate decision..."

He turned.  A shadow appeared in the doorway behind the throne.  The weapons circled Retan silently...

"Very well.  If it is death that you seek, then that is what you shall be granted.  Yes, I know the extent of your power... truly worthless, just like all the others... you are not even worth my time..."

He slowly walked up the stairs.  Neptra emerged from the doorway, arms folded and smirking.  She was clearly enjoying the show.  The Dark Emperor spoke to her as he ascended:

"Kill them all.  And be quick about it."

Neptra strode forward, an inhuman glint in her eyes...

"I'm afraid I'm going to make a mess.  This ship won't be able to handle it..."

"The ship is expendable.  In a few short hours, we won't even require such petty transportation...  I shall save you the trouble and remove it..."

Retan extended his right palm.  The walls, the floors of the ship-- everything began to burn in an intense black and deep violet flame.  The material ship became translucent, water visible below.  Streaks of darkness ran from the surroundings into Retan's hand.  In a few seconds, the entire ship simply disappeared, and the Emperor, Neptra and their opposition were suspended several hundred feet above the open ocean, farther from land then when they entered the ship...

[Zeros']

Genma hovered from where the planks of the ship were, as if he didn't even move. He turned and faced Emperor Retan and Neptra.

"Its a shame I have to kill both of you." Genma took one step and crossed the distance between Neptra and Retan instantly, standing only 10 feet from them both, his robe blowing behind him, his beard hairs blowing back behind his chin.

"It's a shame I have to kill you though Neptra. You are one of the few people I respected. Draven was an over-pompous pyro maniac, while his son Jayce had an ego the size of Romme." Genma made his staff disappear, a sign he was getting ready for a serious fight.

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Zeros' glared at Jayce intently.

"Nice trick." The ground around Zeros' seemed to flare up, dirt, grass and rocks flew from his position on the ground and soon a crater was where Zeros' now stood.

"Whenever your ready."

[Cesque]

"The Dark Empire will fall!" - Scorch screamed, still following Draven at extreme speed before he (not really thinking much) plunged into the sea after him.

The sound of thunderclap could be heard from miles as the air wizard - engulfed totally in his powerful storm aura with lightning energy flowing through his whole body - was blasted into tiny pieces when all the electricity touched the salty water. The masses of energy discharged instantly, sending a powerful lightning shock through all the nearby waters.

A lightning flashed in the distance as the wizard's soul departed to where the roaring of thunders never stops.

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Confused by the whole unexpected situation, Cheetah stood and watched as Zeros preppared himself for battle.

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Gelu arrived at the place, as suddenly the Black Vessel vanished into thin air.

"Dark Emperor's powerful magic..." - he said to himself. - "Something is happening on the ship."

[Trent]

//Hehehehe... I know what Jayce is...//

Zion watched the distant ship vanish before his eyes. He took off even faster toward the people that were now hovering in the air. He could feel Draven's life force vanish... Everything seems to be happening at once...

Tsu ran for his life, but did not know that he was endangering himself even more... He was running towards Jayce...

[Dude Man]

Iduran....dead......this his the worst thing ever!
Duilin thought, it was like a nightmare, to bad to be true...

FLASH BACK
Duilin runs at Patrick and swings his mace at him. Patrick blocks the hit with his sword. Patrick then swings back a stike and hit Duilin in the torso. Duilin then falls to the ground in pain. Patrick readies to finish him off but Duilin swings his mace at his gut knocking him down. Duilin then gets up and starts smashing his mace at Patrick. Patrick lies there is a pool of blood almost dead. Duilin stares at him. About to kill him off but then stops....

"I can't do it...I can't kill someone. I don't know why...I just can't...." Duilin sits down and starts crying. Wile Patrick screams for help! Duilin then looks at Patrick and then takes out a blanket and places it on him. He takes out a potion.
"Drink it!" He orders
Patrick drinks the potion. Expecting it to be posion but he'd rather die then stay in this pain. But he's not posioned it's a healing potion. He is almost better but he needs rest. Duilin then walks over to Iduran. He's standing over him. He then neals down and starts pokeing at him with a stick to see if he's alive...

Realizing he was being poked, Iduran conjured a bust of energy. He flipped over on his back, bringing his sword above him with two hands to point at Dulin's face.

"Back!"

But that last bust of energy took its toll. He struggled to keep his sword upright, trembling out of fatigue and pain...

Duilin looks at Iduran holding his sword at him.
"It's okay...I want to make you a deal. Now listen here." Duilin begins "Help me kill Darion and I'll join the Romme Empire and I'll give you some potions I have to help you heal yourself" Duilin looks at Iduran with an honest face. Meanwile Patrick falls asleep. And mumbles something in his sleep about Duilin being a nice person and all. And also mubles something else about fealing guilty for telling Darion were he can find a village to attack.

Iduran looked back at the dark soldier, surprized that someone in the enemy army would actually help him.

FLASH BACK OVER

My potions aren't enough to save him now... He takes out the empty potion bottle, the very one that help the chemicals he used to help Iduran, and he looks at it for a few seconds. A tear drops from his eye.

Damnit, I'm crying again, I'm a 30 year old man, and I'm crying! I'm older the Draven for god sake! Draven wouldn't cry! He then looks at Cheetah

"We've gotta get out of here some how..." He says quietly to him.

[Zeros']

//Uhh...Cesque and DM, the ship disappeared by the way...\\

[Cesque]

// I know it - that's what I meant by "unexpected situation" Cheetah was confused by, Dude Man propably doesn't //

[Dude Man]

// :blink: :wacko:  Oh, so then were the hell are we?//

[Xorlak]

(You're floating 100 feet in the air over the ocean!)

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It happened very quickly, one Jayce had gathered the desired energy...  He began to float a few inches above the ground, crossing his arms in front of him.  His muscles bulged, his arms, legs, and neck grew longer.  Two horns grew out of his black hair, which began to take on a goldish color.  His black armor changed with the shape of his body, becoming the scales of his skin.  Two wings and a tail appeared, growing longer than his body.  He touched the ground, his two feet now massive claws, the same for his hands.  His form was now a black and gold dragon, towering over Zeros' at 25 feet tall... a shadow elemental draken...

The true Jayce spread his wings outward, spanning some 40 feet.

"TONIGHT I DINE WELL..."

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Retan folded his arms, the weapons circling him slowly.

"Farewell, Genma..."

A translucent sphere of dark energy appeared around the Dark Emperor and he bolted off throught the sky in the opposite direction, heading back towards the island.

"What in god's name is my son doing...?"


Neptra floated in front of Genma's line of sight of the emperor.

"True Genma, you always seemed to be one of the nobler of us.  It's a shame our lord has such a narrow attitude.  However, I owe my life to Emperor Retan.  Though I know nothing of your treachery, an order is an order, and I will gladly follow it... Prepare yourself!"

She extended both arms outwards, bringing them up to the sky.  The water below churned violently, before jetting up skyward.  In a few seconds, Neptra and her three targets were surrounded by a circular wall of water that  pierced several hundred feet into the sky...

[Colin]

/*
You should write a book after this all unfolds, Xorlak Razz
*/

[Dude Man]

Veronika woke up and spoted that she was floating, she looked at Pophin and Seth.
She got back up and rubed her forehead

"What is going on?!" She yelled, she held her forehead again, her yell just gave herslef a headache "Somebody tell me...please?"

"Well, well, The ship has become....invisable...this is rather frightning. I belive we should remain were we are untill, things clear up, shall we?" Pophin says to Seth and Veronika

"Very well, I'm not going to attack, you, Drow, I might just fall down, to my death."
She says to Seth, she turns to Pophin "I had a vision of Nex, he's back."

Pophin smiles, he then looks at Seth. "Shall we talk?" He asks

(Veronika is back to NPC)

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"But how can we get out of here, were floating over 100 feet in the air, and I don't think Retan wants us to leave so soon." Duilin adds to what he said earlier

Hey, what's Zeros' doing here? Wait, didn't I give him the sword? Duilin thinks

Damnit, I wonder were the hell he was. Wait, I had a vison of Nex, I wonder if he returned and Zeros fought him.

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Meanwile, the area were Nex was defeated, opened up and Nex rose up from it again, the flame surronding him was gone, he had it temperalt disabled

"Well, Zeros is obiously, not one to waste my time with, I'll kill him later." Nex says to himself. "Now, were to go..."

(Um, I'm abit lost, did Scorch just kill himself to defeat Draven?)

[Trent]

//Hahahaha... I knew Jayce was a draken.//

As Zion came closer to the floating people, he watched the water walls shoot up into the sky. He stopped for a moment. He was really exhausted. He gulped down a spare Elixir, then took off toward the watery fortress again, at full speed. He closed his eyes, and burst into the wall of water. Apparently, another Dark Empire general was here. More fun for Zion.

Meanwhile, Tsu would discover something that could possibly be more frightening than the Zero Weapon... A draken. Tsu emerged into the area where Jayce was fighting, and promptly fell to his butt upon seeing the dragon. Come on, Tsu! You're not going to get any better if you just run away from everything! Well, at least this dude's shorter than the Zero Weapon... I'm sure that doesn't matter. He sucked it up and unsheathed Kuon Yaiba. He may die, but he was ready to go.

[Zeros']

//I actaully started working on that before, but I couldn't get the structure right, so I stopped on it.\\

Genma agian looked at Neptra and hopped back, putting more distance between them.

"I'm sorry it does have to end this way." Genma got into his loose stance, both arms hanging at his sides and then promptly disappeared from sight.

Genma reappeared right behind Neptra and thrust forwards with his hand, spreading ki energy outwards from his palm, forming a huge blue ball, that headed right towards Neptra's back.

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Zeros' held both swords to his sides and floated upwards to Jayce's height.

"Haha. I've been itching for a good fight for awhile now." Zeros' held both swords out infront of him, touched them together (with the flats of the blades) and slashed downwards, making an ark of white and black energy coming downwards, which was 100 feet in height and 25 feet across, heading straight for Jayce.