Dark Age Legends

[Mark of the Dragon]

Sigilus, not wanting to be hit by the orb, leapt 10 feet into the air, dodging the orb completely. From here, Sigilus reached into his inner pockets and started throwing some shuriken stars in Draven's direction: 3 to the face, 2 to the chest, and one aimed straight for the groin.

[Xorlak]

(The temple's fine, you're free to create your own places)

Iduran looked up to the sky the with weary eyes.

"Has... someone called my name...?"

Alfred rushed over to the old soldier, who had received a wound to the arm.

"What is it, sir?"

Iduran looked in the direction he though he heard the voice, but instead, there he saw three huge dark knights slowly advancing on him-- two brandishing huge maces and the other a halberd, at least 6 feet long...  Alfred and Iduran assumed battle stances.

"Great..."

[Xorlak]

Draven made an evasive leap backward, using his energy to fly through the air at a very unnatural 30 degree angle.

"Ha!"

He threw his left arm down, and the orb that flew upward changed direction, now decending upon Sigilus from above.  Still flying backward, he thrusted his right hand forward, launching the third orb straight at the martial artist, who he was nearly even with.

[Cesque]

A lightning suddenly struck just before the advancing dark knights before Iduran, with the impact forcing them on their knees, thunder sound defening and flash blinding, as the voice was heard again.

"Defenders of Romme! Your salvation has come! I will aid you in destruction of enemy forces if only you could aid me in getting my revenge on the Empire who exiled me!"

And as he spoke, from the side of mountains, a soft breeze of wind turned into a giantic cyclone a few meters above the ground levels, effectively striking the air forces of Dark Empire.

[DarkElite]

Kail and his dragon were not but a few meters away from the cyclone.  The dragon lost most control and began to spin around in the wind's torment! All of a sudden a giant bolt of lightning flew down from the sky right at Exilis! The bolt flew into the dragon's throat and entered the stomach where the chemicals lay dorment!
They ignighted, blowing apart the inner core of the dragon, severing the beast in half! The massive explosion blew Kail off to the side and he plumetted from a hundred meters to the ground!
A Romme soldier who was standing underneath him in battle looked up at him. Kail drew his balde, and right as he hit him, he thew the blade down into the man's throat, and used the collision as a mounce to direct the impacted blow down the man, completely killing him! Kail sailed through the air and landed on the floor.

"Bastards.....I will kill....every one of you....Exilis...you will be returned....again.."

[Xorlak]

Iduran faced the mysterious man who was single handily responsible for at least a good third of the destruction of the enemy army.  He moaned and clutched the side of his armor with his left hand.  Strangely this man looked a lot like the enemy generals... could he be trusted?

He had no choice...

"Stranger!  We thank you for your help!  We will do whatever we can to repay your fine offer!"

Alfred shuffled his stance.  Not liking the situation, he looked around for his fellow elites.  They were no where to be seen.  Most of the fighting had stopped in this section of town, which was mostly a pile of smoking rubble.

Suddenly voices were heard from above...

"T R A I T O R . . ."

"S C O R C H . . ."

"H I S S S S . . ."

Three black robed apparations appeared above them, each carrying a scythe.  They hissed in a low snake-ish voice,

"We finally found you... Lord Draven will be pleased..."

"Pleased... yes..."

"Pleased... indeed..."

An orb of earth colored energy appeared around them-- a barrier to lightning attacks, and they began to circle the trio.

"Why... why did you leave us... Scorch...?"

"Yes... why...?"

"Why... indeed..."

Alfred stepped in front of the wounded Iduran, arms outstretched and broadsword in the air.  One of the apparations flew too close to Alfred and his lord.  Alfred instictively retaliated with a downward thrust of the sword, but it could not break the apparation's barrier.  During the recoil from the failed attack, the apparation responded with a quick slash from its scythe, which cut through the elite knight's armor like paper.  He fell backwards-- dead.

Iduran lept backwards, fearing a second swipe.

"NOOO!!!"

[Zeros']

Zeros', Qeni, and Zev stood by and watches the battle. Qenia dn Zev suggested that Zeros' to help on of the side. "No, its none of my business, this is between the Dark army and the army of Romme. A Demi human like myself does not need to get involved."

One of the stray lightning bolts struck right near the group, scaring Qeni out of her witts. SHe crounched and put her hands on her head, "Pwease downt wet me diwe! Pwease...I wanna hewp Zewos and Zevy!" Zeros' shook her about, trying to calm her down. "Qeni! Qeni! Please stop! I wouldn't let any of those damn bastards hurt you."

Zeros' yelled at the top of his voice.

"WHO IS CREATING THIS THUNDERSTORM! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE RIGHT KNOW!"

[Mark of the Dragon]

Sigilus rolls out of the way of Draven's orbs, save one that singed his arm. In retaliation, Sigilus rushes toward Draven, and attempted to kick him in the face with a flying side-kick.

[Zeros']

While Zeros' yell was rumbling through the mountains, he flew over to the Romme army, with Qeni and Zev in his arms. He told one of the soliders to put them safely away in the city.

Zeros' glided over toward where Draven was, with his sword unsheathed. WHen he was flying over to him, he grew two wings and they changed to angel wings. Feathers floated down to the ground. Qeni and Zev started to cry and yelled out toward Zeros'. The men pushed them in the city and told them to rush to castle and said that Zeros' would be fine.

While his wings were flapping, he noticed the three dark figures circling around the three shadowy figures . He looked over toward the figure between them. He saw Iduran avoiding one of the figures.

He stopped flying and flew over toward where Iduran was avoiding the scythe. He stopped flying and lept infront of the figures scythe, blocking it from slashing Iduran. "Who the hell are you...and who the hell is that guy!" He pointed toward Scorch and saw the dirt fluttering around him. The figure responded...

[Xorlak]

The missed orbs spiraled out of control into a building, causing two massive explosions that shook the battlefield.

Not having readied another attack yet, Draven blocked the kick with his arm.  But the martial artist retaliated with blow after blow.  Draven managed to block these, but not being trained in physical combat, the speed of his opponent got the better of him for a split second and the young warrior managed a kick square into Draven's mouth.

Draven lept back a good five feet and studied the warrior eye to eye.  Clearly toying with the boy wasn't going to work.  Perhaps this one was serious... an opportunity...

Draven wiped the blood from his mouth with his finger and folded his arms.  He began the well rehersed and well used set of questions he reserved for the few warriors that did not die 30 seconds upon meeting him... the set of questions that either appointed a new officer of the Dark Empire... or resulted in a rather gruesome end...

"Well met, warrior... but why is it that you fight?"

----

Iduran was quite in awe of this second warrior, especially because of the fact that he had angel wings...  He tried to gain his composure... but found it hard to do so when being protected by two mysterious figures.  The circling wraiths did not help.

"My thanks... but who might you be?"

His question was ingnored, as the winged one was clearly focused on the apparations and the other mysterious figure.  Iduran turned his attention to the apparations and, ignoring his wound on his left arm, swung his sword in a skillfull figure-8 motion.

"No matter, we've business to attend to..."

The wraiths, vexed by the newcomer, attacked at once, each heading for a warrior...

[Cesque]

"Your Dark Empire has no more power over ME!" - said Scorch and turned his steps toward Iduran, now clearly showing himself in the chaos of battle, yet constantly gazing upon the three figures in the air.

"Fight like a man, Draven!" - he said -  I've settled things with one of your lieutenants once, as far as I remember... and now I want to settle things with you! Unsummon your guard dogs, I want to meet you personaly and let the fate of Romme be decided!"

[Mark of the Dragon]

"I fight because I was well paid by my client" Sigilus said through gritted teeth. "I was paid to kill you, and that I will accomplish, just to collect my fee."

Sigilus didn't wait for Draven to reply. Sigilus leapt toward Draven, and before Draven could retaliate, Sigilus brought himself over and behind Draven, and performed another sweep kick, this time targeting Draven's ankles directly instead of a few millimeters above.

[DarkElite]

Kail looked into the sky, and said to his fellow Wyverns, "Go in, attack the castle, destroy any blockades they produce!"
The dragons immediately lept forward, plunging at the castle. The venom glands glowed as they did before fire was emitted, and sprayed out as the fire lept out of their stocmachs. Screaming souded from inside as massive explosions rocked the castle. Several dragons where hit down by archers inside the town.

Kail ran towards Draven and spoke, "...Exilis is dead....   .....Do you need any help with this guy?"

[Zeros']

Zeros' readied for the attack coming his way, while Iduran battled his own foe. Zeros' swung the sword around like it was a twig, skillfully slashing the apparition in half. (hope thats ok...)

He quickly looked over and saw Kali's dragon forces attacking Romme. He quickly loaded his pistols with air bullets and fired at them. The air disappeated and blew back the dragon forces. Zeros' qickly flapped his wings and rushed towards the dragons, sword extended. He came face to face with every dragon, skillfully blocking there attacks but not killing them, only wounding. "They are living creatures...I cannot kill them...but if you keep firing you weapons after Romme you will all DIE I SWEAR IT!"

Everyone heard the yell. It shook the mountains with great force. He glided there, flapping his wings, feathrs falling from his wings. It started to snow a gold snow, all the people were wondering if there savior had appeared..or if it was just an illusion, the battle would soon tell.

[Cesque]

"The life emerged from the storm of chaos, and shall return to it... Zeros!" - said Scorch, in between of awaiting Draven's answer, then emitted a beam of lightning travelling fast from his hand toward about half of wyverns, before he began regathering his powers, condemning them to shocking death.

"If I were in your place..." - he countinued - "I would rather leave Romme alone and preppare your forces in your kingdom for my vengeance!"