Dark Age Legends

[Xorlak]

A blinding light emanated from behind one of the walls of the crumbling fortress which caught Draven's attention.  Flying lower, Draven weaved through the towers that were still standing with interest and saw Nevina in the distance.

"Well, what do we have here...?"

However, before he could come close, he noticed a party of three approaching him and immediately lost interest in the elf girl.

Draven stopped suddenly and dropped down to land on the peak of a mound of rubble.  Aura still burning brightly, he folded his arms and smirked up at the three specks as they came into view.

Hum, more winged fools... we'll just have to clip them...  Let's see... Teal-head's back for more... as is Duilin the loser... and... hmm?  Is that Xenai?

"Xenai, Xenai, don't tell me you're ignorant enough to renounce your obligations as well...  How unfortunate.  Yet another to be added to the long list of traitors, done in by their own misjudgment...  What a shameful end."

[Zeros']

Ryu eyed the battlefield warrily as he slashed upwards with his sapphire sword, sending a demon sprawling towards the ground, a deep cut from his abdominal to his jugular vein, blood steadily leaking out. He flipped the sword in his hands, holding them so the point of the blades face behind him and quickly formed several complicated handseals.

[This is because if the hand seals in a NinJutsu are not performed correctly, the Chakra will be released wrong and a different effect will occur, probably failing the Jutsu. As a result, Hand Seals need a lot of concentration, which is why techniques cannot be interrupted, or the technique will definately fail. In the lines below, we have gathered images of all of the most frequent hand seals.]

"Mugensajin Daitopa no Jutsu!" He yelled. He held his hands up to his mouth as a vicious stream of wind and sand exploded from his mouth, catching the demon by surprise. Ryu kept the stream going as the sand started to form into sharp-like blades, using his chakra to minipulate them, cutting at the flesh of the demon.

[Haraldur]

The Great Prophet was blinded, and disappeared, saying "Damn, why do the runes always have to scuff?"

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For want of anything better to do, Ellenna smashed an unsuspecting demon's skull, before blocking a hit from another.

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A hole opened up in the dimension of Haraldur's. Hmmm... strange he thought. That is unusually fast. Well, it is random, so it must do this some of the time.

He should land close to his companions: now that five of the weapons were found, finding the last would be easy, very easy.

He entered the hole.

He was going through a gleaming blue waving tunnel, at huge speed, he moved into a side alley an came out above the world, 500 metres above the ensuing battle.

He watched to see what was happening, while keeping himself invisible.

[Dude Man]

"Draven!" Duilin called in rage "What did you do to Haraldur?" He landed on the ground standing about 5 feet away from Draven "What did you do to him?" He repeated. Yellow electricity seemed to flow threw his hands for a split second, and his eyes gave a slight glow.

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Rink turns around, and shifts his eyes "Were's Duilin?" He asks himself, he then spots him abit further away, with Zion and Xenai and some other person. "Must, be that Draven, person." Rink then scratches his chin "Hmm...Duilin is supose to destroy the castle, but it dosen't look like he's getting much of a chance, he keeps on getting attack...Why is that? Because he makes so much of a scene! He's got those huge wings and glowing yellow eyes when in attack mode, who wouldn't notice a guy like that. Yet! There a abunch of little Imps, alot of them probally don't even know that I'm not with the rest of them...So....Hahaha!" Rink then happily runs off, into the derection of the castle, the demons not seeming to notice him.

[Xorlak]

Draven glanced down at Duilin from atop the mound of rubble.

"You mean Ragnar?  That miserable wretch of a coward.  You put too much trust in your allies..."

Draven pressed his hands together in front of him and slowly brought them apart, a pillar of fire surging in between them.  When he was satisfied with the length, he grabbed one end with his right hand, the flame forging into a burning sword.

"He has one goal only.  And it doesn't involve the safety of you or your friends..."

The fortress was burning in several places. The intense auras of the fighters, combined with the disterbance of the open gate to the underworld was causing tremors and random fissures of exploding lava to blast apart the ground...

Crimson blade in hand, Draven leapt off the mound, dashing madly at Duilin.  The burst from his crimson aura caused the rocks from the top of the rubble to fly into the air, disintegrating half of them cause the rest to rain down as burning meteors.

As he flew towards Duilin, Draven brought the blade above his head and slashed to the side, causing a crescent shaped wave of flame to fly ahead of him, straight for his new opponent...

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A blood-curdling roar emanated from the dimensional rift that the demons were pouring from...  Something was coming...

[CyberWolf]

//Oi. I thought someone attacked Nevina, but wasen't sure. Oh well, I'll fix that.... and yeah, it's fine you killed a Golem. They're lasting longer than I was expecting. But did you kill the sword-barring one or the other?//

Armic had trouble seeing the attack, but Qor caught it quite easily. Armic having no idea what had happened, he noticed Qor had guided their hand into the direction of the blade, grabbing it to a stop.
The blade obviously damaged their hand, but only slightly. Between the gloves protection and his dead stone skin, he took relatively low damage to his hand. Hardly enough to make him wince.

After grasping the blade, Armic held onto it, keeping Zeros' in place, he swung out his own sword in a quick stabbing motion, aiming to run Zeros' through.
//While it may seem Armic has too much resistance, you have to take into account the resistance is only versus melee attacks. Armic is extremely vulnerable to Holy Magic, which makes up for his melee resistance.//
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After the blast, Nevina appeared to be colapsed on the ground, victim of a bolt attack from an unknown (to her) attacker.

[Trent]

Xenai smirked at Draven as the trio landed. "Renounce my obligations? I've just come to my senses."

Zion cracked his knuckles. "This time, the fight won't be so evenly matched."

The roar was noticed by the trio, and caused Tsu to take a hit, but come back two times harder. Zion and Xenai were focused on Draven.

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EW ------- 7
ZW ------- 7

[Dude Man]

Maxwell grined as he saw, his target, knocked down on the ground. "And that my friends is what I want you damn soilders to do!" He walked over towards Nevina, to check if she was alive...

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Duilin curled his fingers into a fist, as he did it more yellow electric energy flew threw his hands, but lasted abit longer. His eyes also began go glow more...

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Rink then came up to a castle wall, he began climbing it, there was nobody there but a single guard, all the rest were out on the battle feild being slaughted by others most likey...

The guard spoted the small red imp. "Hey! Your not supose to be here!" He fired his cross bow at Rink, but he blasted the bolt with a small blast of firel, knocking it off corse, and it fell to the ground burning. "Uh oh..."

Rink gave a badass grin and then arived at the top of the wall. The guard droped his weapon, obivously he was a cowardly soilder.

Rink picked up the cross bow, it was quite to big for him to be carrying around but he seemed to be able to lift it very easily, he threw it at the soilder. The weapon hit the soilder in the head, knocking him out. Rink rubed his hands together "Allright, they gotta have something here!" He then ran across the wall, untill he spoted a trap door. He opened it up and then hoped down. It was a small room, with barrels of gun powder, and cannon balls and various weapons and armor.

"Hahah! This should do!" Rink laughed

[Zeros']

Zeros', using his incrediable speed, dodged to the side while Armic still held his sword. He smirked as he watched the reactions.

"I see." Zeros' said quietly as he looked Armic directly into the face. "So, the little one is only a pawn in your plans, Qor. How dispicable. Using your followers lives, giving them power so you can control them. This one must have stronger wills then the ones before." Zeros' commented. He then spread all eight of his black angel wings out and concentrated on using his god/goddess heritage.

Soon enough the sword glowed with holy energy, white enough to blind any who look into it.

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Ryu backflipped away from an attack, only to have a demon hit him in his left side, right where the gash was. He gasped in pain as the wound reopened, blood flowing freely down his side, but he concentrated his chakra and ki, stopping the bloodflow, but not closing the wound.

He then stabbed backwards, catching a demon in the stomach, causing it to gasp in pain and grab its middle, doubling over as he wrenched his ruby sword.

"We need to get out of here, miss." Ryu shouted towards Ellenna as he pushed off an attack made by a demon to his right arm, which luckly was made of metal.

[Haraldur]

Ellenna said to Ryu "Where should we go?"

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Haraldur saw and heard the exchange of words between Draven and Duilin, and saw the crescent of fire flying towards Duilin.

With a burst of noise, like a cannon, a wall of ice dropped between the two, causing an explosion as it intercepted the fire crescent.

"Ah, Draven, I see another has caught your attention. I am glad to see you have been affected by my timely tactical retreat."

He moved his hands as if fondling a sphere, and a hollow icy one surrounded Draven, and started to shrink, like the Big Bang in reverse. He hoped it would last for a while.

[Zeros']

"I have no idea" He said while ducking under a swipe, "but we need to get out of here. I cannot hold them off forever."

[Kahn]

Kahn walked over to Ellenna and Ryu and withdrew his gun.

"You two best escape while you can. I should be able to hold em off till you're gone."

[Dude Man]

Duilin touched the wall of ice, as it fell between him and Draven. He then sees Haraldur "Your alive!" He then walks back abit and then jumps into the air, and flies up 65 feet. "I herd something...." He then looks at the dimensional rift "Whatever it is....I'll protect my friends from it, Haraldur can take care of Draven...."

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Rink then rolled around the barrels of gun power all around, he pointed a cannons at servel spots in the room, he attached the wicks on the cannons together. "This should be fun to watch!" Rink laughed. He then blasted fire at the wick, and then flew off, out of the tower and landed on the ground a safe distance. Then a huge explotion takeing several soilders, blowing away neary a quater of the huge castle, peice of the castle flew off in many directions, makeing tiny craters at they hit the ground. Rink held his hand in salute as the explotion went off.

"Long, live the Empire, my ass!" Rink laughed "Hahaha!"

[Xorlak]

"Eh?"

Draven made a dead stop, planting his foot a good several inches into the ground as the sphere of ice surrounded him.

"Wonderful..."

As the sphere shrunk around him, he jammed his crimson blade above and to the right, weakening the attack in just that one spot enough for him to break though.  As he dove through the small hole, the rest of the icy sphere collapsed upon where he was, creating a small blue explosion that knocked him away before he could land.  He spun through the air and rolled once on the ground before catching himself, balancing on one foot and one knee.

Draven leapt backwards several feet, so that he may keep Haraldur in the air and other adversaries on the ground in his view.  Assuming a sort of martial arts stance, he spun the crimson blade in his right hand and held it above his head, extending his left hand before him.

Not again!  Where are all the soldiers?!  Where are all the demons?!  BLAST IT!!  With teeth clenched, the burning Draven shifted his eyes from warrior to warrior with glaring hate...

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Another hideous roar from the dimensional rift...  A few more demons began pouring out, but these did not have the look of battle ready killers, rather, they were terrified...

Suddenly, a huge dragon-esque skull jutted out of the opening, glowing crimson orbs for eyes in it's empty sockets.  Skeleton claws clasped the two sides of the rift, ripping it open wider.  The hole was not big enough for the thing to fit through...

When it managed to pull the rift open to twice its size, it jumped out, the earth quaking as it landed on the ground.  It was a complete skeletal dragon, over 30 feet tall, though it's posture was hunched.  Tremendous spikes of bone jutted from its back.  It was a Necrodragon.

(Yes from DA2. Heh...)

[Dude Man]

"Holy crap!" Duilin cried, as he spoted the Necrodragon. He landed on the ground, near by Ryu, Ellena and Kahn.

"Ryu, get the girl out here!" Duilin tells Ryu, he then looks at Ellena "Miss, Haraldur, is okay, you should be re united with him shortly..." He then looks at Kahn "If you wish to live by all means, run. But I wouldn't mind some back up fire..."

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Rink turns around as he spots the Necrodragon "Aw, man, now why the hell did they let that guy loose?"

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Maxwell then gasps as the Necrodragon appears. "Ahhh!!!" He then forgets exactly what he was doing, all his coruage seems to drain from his body...
"RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!! DON'T LET THAT THING HURT ME!"

The soilders then begin running back to the castle, scared for there pointless little lives. Maxwell runs by Draven "IT WILL KILL US ALL, DRAVEN! RUN!"

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Duilin then tilts himself in a fighting stance, and walks abit closer to the Necrodragon. He then closes his eyes "Focus...just focus...." He then cluches his right hand, and then trusts it out, the yellow energy begins to flow threw his hands. His eyes go to there full glow, as like they were when he battled Pheonix. He then opens his hand, fire and energy begin circle in his hand, it froms a large ball of fire and energy. It grew to 15 ft in radious, and then he tossed the energy blast at the Necrodragon...

//It's an NPC, right?//