Dark Age Legends

[Xorlak]

Draven stopped running in mid stride.  He removed from his pocket the blue stone that was glowing dimly.

"That was fast..."

He chuckled, throwing the stone into the air and catching it.  He could feel the location of the other one, some 500 feet to his left and perhaps 100 downward.

"Perfect."

He dashed through the hallways, gathering energy as he ran.  His crimson flame engulfed him once more, growing brighter with each stride.  Outside he could hear some sort of activity.  Waves?  A storm?  It was most certainly Scorch.  After a moment of running he ran into a dead end.  Well, it wasn't really a dead end but it was the closest point to his target location he could get to from within the castle.  Not willing to find a way around the wall, Draven thrusted both hands forward, forcing a huge wave of concentrated fire into the stone blocks before him.

The chaos on the beachfront was augmented by a section of the overlooking castle wall exploding.  Huge stone blocks were thrown outward into the sea.  Arms crossed, cape and fire aura blowing in the intense wind, Draven stood at the center of the hole.

"Heh... ready for round four?"

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Steping away from Sigilus and Duilin, Iduran gasped at the huge wave corsing for him.  He couldn't do anything but brace himself in anticipation of impact...

[Dude Man]

Duilin then swung out the Buster sword that he swiped from Darion's copres awile ago but instead of attack Silgus he jumped and behind a large rock waiting for the large wave and waiting for Silgus to come...

[Cesque]

"Whoa, whoa! Easy, gentlemen!" - said Scorch, conjuring a whirlwind of air beneath his feet, rising into the sky, rotating around, propelled by wind like insane. Riding the stream of whirling wind, he headed toward the wave and few moments before impact "sucked" Iduran, the sword and a few hectoliters of water into the whirlwind, as the tidal waves passed through it.

"Not good." - said Scorch, somehow managing to stop rotating in the wind, looking upon the castle. - "Here comes Draven, once more. Guess our escape will be."

Then he realised Draven was of course prepparing his next mega-super-uber fire attack.

"Silence!" - screamed Scorch and the whirlwind was dissolved... dropping him, Iduran and the sword into the water, which was prodigously calm compared to the smashing wave which passed them and was about to strike the castle now.

"Wander water were wis wess wopability waven's fire wattack will wurt wus..." - said Scorch, plunging into the depths before the pressure pushed him up once more.

// Okay, let's assume I took a bit "control" over Iduran but the situation was so pathetic for him he wouldn't be propably able to do anything himself, heh... //

[Montai]

I can hear swords clashing from a distance away. Could it be that Someone got to him before i did. I sure as won't waste anymore time here!!! *Will following *Draken* Stop in the name of Our lor.... Says two soldiers.

Hmp.. I don't have time to deal with this. Lodour snaps his fingers, and a small protal of darkness appers as the two soldiers are running to him, and it sucked them in.

Fools *Lodour wispered*

How fast does the Draken guy run, even I have difficulties trying to catch up with him.

[Cesque]

// Enter the new character: Cheetah! Check the characters' section - he's gepardi shapeshifter using spear and being able to capture defeated enemies' essence to change into them, sort of Erik from DA1 //

As Scorch plunged into depths, he suddenly noticed a barracude swimming in his direction.

"Lightning! I thought we'll be safe here!"

Without thinking much, he pulled his staff, pointed toward fish and wanted to create a stream of electricity to get rid of it.

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As Cheetah swam in his barracuda form, he noticed some mad sorceror who propably forgot laws of physics and tried to use electricity in salt water, effectively burning himself all over the hands as the uncontrolled field of energy exploded in all directions... Breaking his scepter-esque staff.

Seeing the dangerous situation, Cheetah transformed to his human form and swam toward the wizard... "What's going on man?"

"You owe me a staff!" - Scorch said. - "What in the storm are you, anyway?"

"Pleased to meet you, I'm Cheetah. And pleased to meet your... friend?" - Cheetah was unsure what to say about Iduran. - "I see he's not in best condition."

"He'll be fine. I hope. Unlike my staff..." - Scorch noticed parts of wooden and metal elements swimming in the sea below him.. - "Seems I've just polluted ocean with dangerous materials. That'll anger earth-mages, they're terrible ecologists. Anyway, we have greater problem here. The sword. It has unknown power and we'll propably have to defend it from that mad guy - Draven - which just blasted apart castle's wall with his precious fireworks."

Cheetah suddenly leaped out of water, transforming into a wyvern, flapping his wings to get rid of water, flying a bit higher to see what's happening.

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"Hmm... With the wyvern form, this guy might be able to grab the sword - and maybe us - to safety... Iduran, what are you thinking on this?"

[Dude Man]

Duilin jump out from under the rock and swam over to Scorch and Iduran....

"Who's he?" Duilin asked

[Xorlak]

Iduran coughed as he struggled to keep afloat in the water.  His armor was weighing him down.  He managed to grab his sword before it sunk with his right hand, but that wasn't helping him stay up either.

"*Cough* Sure-*choke* That'll work!  *cough* Get me outta here!"

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Draven lept out of the hole in the wall, hovering in mid air some 20 feet over the oncoming wave as it slammed into the side of the castle.  Mist flew backwards, but it turned to steam as it drew close to his aura of flame.

"Maniac...  He'll kill himself before I get the chance..."

He conjured his energy in preparation for an attack, looking for his adversary to surface somewhere.  Suddenly he spotted the scaly wings of a wyvern raising from the sea and taking flight.  Below it, there were three figures floating in the ocean.  It clearly wasn't one of the Dark Empire's.

"Huh?  Where did they get that?  Tch!  No matter..."

Lowering his altitude a bit, Draven extened his right palm and supported his arm with his left hand.  He began by firing a flury of low energy, yet high speed fireballs angled downwards in the direction the flying beast and the three suspended in the water...

[Cesque]

"This guy is a maniac! What does he want?" - said Cheetah as he saw fireballs flying in his direction, instantly leaping into water, switching to his human form again. - "I'm getting mad from these all transformations. What were you talking about?"

"You see..." - began Scorch.

"Cheetah."

"Okay. You see, Cheetah, this guy over here..." - wizard noticed Iduran must have sunk a bit deeper. - "Anyway, somewhere beaneath here is a Romme soldier with sword which will need aid. Get him - and the sword - to safety. Most prefrably, some southern villages, if they're uninvaded."

"Of course."

Cheetah turned into a grey shark, located Iduran, instantly transformed into wyvern, grabbed him and his sword with claws, than with great effort leapt out of water and avoiding Draven's fireballs, flew directly at the castle, hoping the roof of it will allow him for some rest before further flight. And propably he'll be able to persuade Iduran to remove his heavy armor which slowed him down a bit.

After all - unless Draven's know how to fly, it'll take him lots of time to get to the castle roof...  Wink

[Dude Man]

"Okay then....What the hell do we do now....Kill Silgus?" Duilin said swiming around treing to find Silgus "Ever since I killed Darion...I've craved to kill some more!!"

Oh no! Duilin's turned in to a psycopath! Surprised  Laughing

[Xorlak]

The fireballs dissapated as they hit the water, but not without causing waves and steam to rise.  Draven turned his attention to the wyvern as it lifted Iduran above and to the castle walls.

"Not so fast!"

With a flash of his aura of flame, he instantly gathered the energy to propel himself some 50 feet higher.  He arched himself towards the top of the castle wall, landing with his arms folded right in front of the wyvern just as he rose over the edge.  Draven's eyes turned immediately to the sword in Iduran's hand.

"Didn't think it would be that easy, did you?"

The half drowned Iduran choked in the wyvern's talons.

"I'm getting too old for this..."

[Dude Man]

Duilin then thinks for awile and then notices that he is a stupid idiot and he should have done this way earlier. He then takes out his CROSS BOW THAT HE HAD THE WHOLE TIME! and fries it a Draven

He he...This should get him mad! Duilin thinks to himself

[Cesque]

// Duilin, surely you're gonna beat Wilhelm Tell. Firing crossbow while swimming in the middle of ocean  Laughing //

Cheetah suddenly proppeled itself higher, turned back, dropped Iduran, catched the sword alone coiling tail around it, then dived, grabbed Iduran itself with claws again (hoping poor old knight doesn't have locomotion sickness), rapidly moved forward and over Draven, throwing Iduran at sentry tower of the castle, crushing one terrified Dark Empire soldier who was sent there my some not-too-high-in-rank officer to scout the area.

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"Take care, Duilin."

Scorch saw unclearly from below what was happening and tried to focus. Without his staff, it was a bit harder. He concentrated and teleported - landing at outer wall of the castle, behind Draven, in a pool of water which teleported along with him.

"Guess we won't be able to get away from here unless we'll deal with Draven first" - he said, as usually, with post-teleportational headache.

[Dude Man]

Wile Duilin was fireing his crossbow he obviously sank underwater. He the arrows he shot at him were vary clumsy but distracting to his foe. He then decieded that he should find a rock or something like that to stand one he then sees that boulder he was hinding under and then steps onto it. The rock was slighty under water but it only made the water knee deep for him. He then noticed that he dosen't have alot of arrows so he then decieded to use them carefully. He looked around for something to kill!

[Xorlak]

Draven looked to his left as a poorly aimed arrow flew past him.  It wasn't the fact that the arror itself was distracting, but that it came from someone suspened in the water below, wearing armor (heh...)  Before he could foward one of his clever remarks, the wyvern was nearly upon him.  Draven lept backwards in anticipation of attack, but watched him as he flew past and flung Iduran to the (relative) safety of a nearby tower.  He turned once more as Scorch appeared behind him.

"New pet, huh? ...  Hey, Scorch, you're all wet..."

He thew his head up in obnoxious laughter.  Clearly he was the only one who found that amusing.  He then gave Scorch one of his slanted grins.

"That cut on your neck doesn't look too good.  Maybe I should finish it for you..."

Widening his stance, he slowly waved his hands in a sort of figure-eight type pattern.  Vermillion points of light gathered from his surroundings and followed his movement...

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Iduran rolled off of the dark soldier, who began to groan.  Realising he wasn't unconcious, Iduran gave the man a punch to the face with his metal gauntlet.  That solved the problem.

He then warily peered over the short wall around the edge of the tower to see what was unfolding at the top of the castle wall below...

[Cesque]

Scorch lifted, hovering into the air. Water was dropping from him.

"Seems you like to glow like a christmas tree, Draven. No need to finish my wounds, I'll make sure yours will be better."

Scorch, in the air, put his arms in all possible length to the sides, rised his head and formed a cross-like shape with whole his levitating body. From beneath his long, waving hair eyes shined like sparks as the clouds gathered above the castle, led by some unnatural wind.

Then Scorched closed his eyes, whispering "Ira fulgorum" and lightning strikes were unleashed from the darkened sky at great speed, striking highest points of the castle.

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"Oh great, these mad wizards are gonna kill us all..." - said Cheetah, landing near Iduran. He grabbed him, still holding sword with the tail, and thrown, along with the sword, at the outer walls as suddenly a lightning struck the tower they were previously on.

---- (back to Scorch)

And as Scorch began to focus even more, switching his position into more "combat-like" (still in the air), he - to test his new method - "magnetised" one of lightning striking, which struck him, then, passing through his body, gone our where his right hand was pointing - at one of tower, effectively breaking about half of it into bricks.