Dark Age Legends

[Haraldur]

Ragnar reached the bottom. He lay down on a large flat rock, among many other rocks in this place.

Strange pale grey energy seemed to move into him in chunks: he was receiving all the (cumulative) powers of dead souls.

He lay there, screaming as if being tortured.

[Xorlak]

Zeros' slash hit the dragon's back dead on, severing his backside...

Or did he?  The form he hit was nothing more than smoke...

The sky was still blacker than night.  The dragon's voice eminated from everywhere...

"Mweh heh heh heh hehhh..."

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Genma's energy ball hit the dragon Neptra in the side, exploding with no apparent effect... She changed her trajectory in mid air, descending downward and downward upon the old master...

But at once, she was immediately slammed by hundreds of thousands of tiny energy balls from her left.  Zion's final slash knocked the beast out of the sky, slamming rather unmajesticly into the ocean and disappeared underneath, sending a great wave towards Zion and Genma...

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Retan continued to rise.  He hadn't seen the man in Iduran's thoughts, so he couldn't be the one he was looking for.  He replied calmly:

"Your end."

Time was up.  If you want something done right, do it yourself...

He opened his arms.  Three wraiths appeared around the Dark Emperor, circling in the opposite direction as his weapons...

"Make sure I am left in peace..."

They nodded, and moved away from him to begin their guard.

"It is pointless to fight opponents one-by-one looking for the sword.  I will simply eradicate the entire island and all life within...  The sword is indestructible, it is the only thing that will survive the blast..."

He raised both hands to the black sky.

(Dark Emperor Retan's Mega-Death Annihilation Attack!! -- Don't let him finish casting the spell!

If completely unopposed, Retan will use his two actions per post to charge his attack, at 10% per charge (meaning 20% per post).  Don't let him reach 100%! Mess up his charging by attacking him!

But Retan cannot be attacked if there are any guards on watch, meaning if someone is going to attack him, someone else has to be keeping the guards busy...)

[Trent]

Zion let the water splash upon him, it was some cool relief for his hot, sweating body. He rested there in the air. He looked over to notice Retan, starting to charge up a spell. "Holy hell..."
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"My end? I think not!"

Tsu ripped off one of the branches near the one he stood on, and flung it at one of the wraiths. "Come get me, you smelly beasts!"

[Haraldur]

The two Haraldurs were lying down in the parallel dimension. The hole opened up.

The elder one said: "You go out, if I leave, you will be trapped here and die... Get out above Romme. I can feel great power there through the hole. And that is where Ragnar was last seen."

The younger one nodded, and passed through the hole, which closed after him.

The elder one lay back and waited.

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The younger Haraldur fell fast towards Romme.

Directly below him, some old man covered in darkness was casting some large time consuming spell.

It seemed to be a time for an "act now, ask questions later" approach.

He accelerated downwards, and threw a bit of ball lightning at the old man.

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Ragnar screamed. He then rose hugely fast.

He accelerated up the tunnel, and left it with exploding rock around him.

He stopped, and hovered above the now colossal hole. He had an immense feeling of having new power.

Only a kilometre away he could see his old master, and recognised the Mega-Death Annihilation Attack - he had seen it used before... and used it before... once. It is such a cumbersome spell, and when you come down to it, boring.

Maybe now would be the time... Yes, now must be the time...

He threw a large fireball at the emporer, to attract his attention.

[Zeros']

Zeros' smirked to himself. Now this will be fun. Zeros' sheathed his sword and raised his index and middle fingers on his left hand up, with all his other fingers bent inwards. Zero's did the same with his right hand, but laid them across horizontally and near the middle of his other fingers. He had made a cross with his fingers in the air.

"Art of the Doppleganger!" Hundreds of puffs of smoke appeared, then reappeared showing hundreds of Zeros', each looked exactly alike. They all proceded to unsheath there swords and split them into two.

Half of the Zeros' (thats about 300) charged at Retan, while the other Half charged at Jayce. The real Zeros' was in the ground going after Retan.

The half that went at Jayce surrounded him and started slashing voilently with ki charged air blades.

The half that went with the real Zeros', started distracting Retan's guards by slashing at them, while Zeros' examined the situation.

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Genma blocked the water from hitting him with a swipe of his hand. He knew Neptra wouldn't go down that easy. He couldn't be distracted by water. Genma thrust his open palm forwards and started to charge.

 A huge ball of energy, 100 feet x 100 feet, was there in an instant before Genma realeased it towards the directed Neptra had landed.

[Dude Man]

"Maybe not, those Zombies that chased us eariler, they looked like the soilders from the cave...That means that somebody killed them, and turned them into Zombies.It must have been Nex! The vision I had, and he being a powerfull deamon." Duilin says

"I'm not sure what to do anymore....We should either find Zeros', or Nex, or Seth, or help that guy out." He points to Zion

[Cesque]

"Nex... crap." - Cheetah wondered as suddenly he noticed Dark Emperor's spell being preppared.

"Oh, great. Guess the problem of Nex' existence will be no more once this weirdo finishes his magic. I suggest... with all my honesty... get the hell out of here!"

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Gelu was unfortunately bound by rule saying he has to wait for Seth to do some action before doing anything else, but he could notice Retan prepparing a spell to destroy the island.

"Smart." - he told himself. - "Sacrifice everything for the sword." - he then noticed Ragnar trying to interrupt Dark Emperor. - "This pathetic fool again... Once I deal with this elf, I will have to stop him. The will of Dark Emperor has to be done, however destructive it is."

[Xorlak]

(Zeros':  I meant by his voice coming from everywhere that he had disappeared.  Heh...)

The black dragon appeared directly above the clone army, spreading his wings and hurling dozens of dark thunder bolts into the mass.  About 200 disintegrated instantly.  About 50 reeled back stunned, but the rest broke through an began to stab at the dragon's scales.

Jayce flew upward to dodge the strikes.

"PETTY TRICKS!  SHOW YOUR TRUE SELF, COWARD!!"

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The blue dragon regained her senses after descending into the deep for a few seconds...  Genma's giant energy ball broke the surface and was nearly upon her-- obviously intended as a finishing blow.  She flipped upright, in the process parting the ocean around her, sending two waves flying in opposite directions.  Above water, she opened her mouth and let forth a bright blue beam of ice to meet the attack head on, freezing the surrounding water and aforementioned waves to solid ice instantly...

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Wraith #1 stopped his rotation, vexed by Tsu's taunt.  It sped downwards, a razor sharp scythe appearing in it's skeleton hands.  About 10 feet from Tsu it seemed to disappear, moving lighting fast to his right side, where it hooked the blade upwards, aiming for his victim's stomach...

Wraith #2 appeared directly in front of Haraldur's ball of lightning, batting it away with its scythe.  Letting it's arms hang, it slowly began to float towards the intruder...

Wraith #3 deflected Ragnar's fireball in the same way, but this one followed up with a wild dive at his opponent, aiming to slice his head clean off...

Before beginning his spell, Retan noticed an army of identical looking winged men flying towards him.  He lowered his right hand, outstretching his right palm towards them.  A black wind blew-- then blasted...  The front 150 clones disintegrated instantly, the rest flew backwards out of control...

Above his still raised left hand, a tiny spec of darkness appeared...  Though it was no bigger than a grain of sand, it emanated an evil aura far greater than any attack used before...

(Mega-Death Annihilation Attack (MDAA): 10%

Retan's guardians:

Wraith #1: Occupied
Wraith #2: Occupied
Wraith #3: Occupied
Jayce: Occupied
Neptra: Occupied (and far away)
Gelu: Free!

The NPC wraiths will fall with 2 well formed attacks.)

[Cesque]

(Gelu free? He's occupied with Seth... unless 3 days passed and he lost counsiousness Wink)

[Haraldur]

Ragnar dodged the wraith's blade. He then passed into the wraith and tried to assimilate its soul into himself, with lots of bright green light and loud bangs. He started screaming.

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Haraldur conjured up two balls of blue energy. He threw one of them at the slowly moving wraith, which would home in on it, and follow it.

The other he threw at the Emporer, with the same intent.

[Dude Man]

"Sounds like a good idea Cheetah, so, were the hell do we go then?" Duilin asked

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Veronika and Pophin noticed the army of idental things flying towards Retan.

"We must protect!" Veronika yelled, she noticed her weapon lieing on the ground, she hops over to her Auto Shotgun and grabs it, loads it up, and runs over near Retan. She aims her Auto Shotgun at one of them and fires a few blasts at it, killing the thing!

Pophin looks over to were Veronika is. He has no weapon other then a katana and he knows no magic so he deciedes to jump into the water.
"Farewell Veronika!"

He glides down, his cape gave him some floating ness, by the way he was holding it. He splashes down into the water. He then starts swimming over towards the shore...

[Cesque]

"Well, there ought to be some remote islands around, beside this one. I pity I ever laid my foot HERE..."

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// Last CyberWolf's post on october 29... 3 days passed Razz //

After unleashing an attack against Seth, Gelu turned to see how situation of the emperor looks.

Ragnar was the greatest threat to Emperor's plan, perhaps - but he was also too strong to be messed up with... at least the frost mage thought so at time. raised the wave beneath his ice floe, rising higher to reach closer to the Emperor, then enhancing his both hands to sides, slowed down both energy balls fired by Haraldur to about 1/20 speed, giving both wraith and emperor lots of more time to react.

[Dude Man]

(I grow bored of Cyber Wolfs wait)

Nex, glares at Nevina and then speaks "I grow bored of your hesitation! Farewell!" He creates a pit in the ground and then sinks into it and then the pit goes away...

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"We need to take out Retan. That's all, we need to do..." Duilin says "Or maybe...I thought I saw Pophin jump down into the water..."

[Zeros']

The clones of Zeros' started charging agian at Retan, trying to occupy him, while the real Zeros' kills him.

(I'll be switching control to the real Zeros' now)

Zeros' used his speed and got behind the emperor. Zeros' unsheathed his sword and let it hang at his sides, gripping the hilt loosely with his right hand.

"I suspect you already know I am the real one." His sword starts glowing with a white, holy aura. Zeros' raised his 12 foot sword directly above his head, the aura growing stronger.


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Genma ignored the ice and increased the energy. He closed his right palm (which had the energy ball in it) and quickly formed into a beam as wide as the ice attack. Genma took his left arm and gripped near his elbow, infusing the beam with more power.

Shockwaves radiated from the two beams colliding, shattering some of the ice into pieces.

I have to stop Neptra and Retan...

[Xorlak]

Jayce swiped a group of clones with his tail, finishing off the remaining ones with low powered shadow spells.  The black dragon looked around, suddenly realizing the real enemy had ditched him to go for his father.

"BLAST!!"

He shot through the sky, wings outstreatched like a jet, speeding towards the Dark Emperor.

"What is Father doing, anyway...?  This is MY battle!"

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The energy surged back, now inching towards the blue dragon...

She redoubled her ice beam, pushing Genma's attack back to the even center of the two.  The stalemate reaked havoc on the surrounding ocean, sending shards of ice and waves outwards in all directions...  Surely the old man could not keep this up...

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Wraith #2 flew up and over the incoming blue orb.  But before it could return an attack, the ball changed direction and exploded upon slamming into its back.  Blue flame engulfed the specter, slowly fizzling out as its eyes burned bright red in silent rage from under its cowl.  It quickly phased out into mist and reappeared between his Master and the second orb, slashing it with its scythe, which sent it flying directly back at Haraldur.

Wraith #3 covered its head with its hands, quickly materializing some 10 feet away from Ragnar.  Its soul was not real, artificially created with shadow magic, so it could not be assimilated.  However, the attempt still took it's toll on the specter, and it reeled in pain.

In an angry retort, it spun around in the air and slashed its scythe downward, casting the Shade spell on Ragnar.  Dark orbs appeared around the traitor, spiraling inward toward him...

Retan waved his right hand once more, sending a dozen surges of Dark Thunder through the remaining 149 clones, dispatching them all.  He turned to Zeros'.  This one was in Iduran's memory all right...

"Warrior, what is your... name?"

A flash of lightning.  The speck of darkness above his still raised left hand grew to a black orb 1 foot in diameter in an instant...

(MDAA: 20%

Retan's guardians:

Wraith #1: Occupied (100% HP)
Wraith #2: Occupied (50% HP)
Wraith #3: Occupied (50% HP)
Jayce: Free (In transit)
Neptra: Occupied (and far away)

I'll let other Dark Empire members keep track of themselves (heh...) )