Dark Age Legends

[Xorlak]

Iduran looked around.

"Uhhh... now that you mention it..."

The bolders on the sides of the cave began to shake loose as a large aqua-marine serpent slithered out of the hole, complete with two gleaming black horns on its head.  A guess at its body length was impossible, as most of it was still inside the cavern, but its large head reared over ten feet above Duilin as it began to hiss at him...

[Dude Man]

"HOLY CRAP!" Duilin yelled. He then took out his cross-bow and fired an arrow at the monster's head.

[Cesque]

Seeing Iduran jumping at him, Scorch coul only rise both hands above, conjuring stream of energy between them as Draven was about to get to him.

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Cheetah ran toward the serpent, leaped at it's face and scratched it a few good times with claws, then fell back, turning to human and escaping now the creature's attention was pointed at him.

"You used to store supplies here, uh?"

[Xorlak]

Draven slashed downward, cutting through the streams of electricity before him.  He landed in front of Scorch, waves of fire swirling around him.

"'What us?', you say?  That's right, you never rose high enough in my ranks to see them.  The Emperor's other two head gernerals of course... each with a separate army like myself... you didn't give much thought to the size of your opposition when you traded now, did you?"

Lowering his blade, he extened his left arm and let lose an orb of fire, barreling straight for Scorch's head...

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"Gah!  Wrong cave!"

Iduran drew his sword and began to step sideways.

Duilin's arrow wedged into the creature's neck, although no blood appeared to flow.  Vexed by Cheetah's attack, it opened its mouth and spewed a cold icy substance accross the nearby sand, which instantly turned to hard ice...

[Dude Man]

"Huh? That's werid" Duilin said as the arrow hit "I then going to have to kill with this sword then!" Duilin then slashed his Buster Sword at the monster's neck

[Cesque]

"But you will all lose in the end." - said Scorch, as the ball of fire exploded straight at his face. The pain of fire burning his hair and skin now was unspeakable. Screaming, wizard stood up, throwing bolts of energy at all directions like at random. As the fire was taking him over and he felt his end might have finally come, he headed toward Draven.

"Who plays with fire get's burned!" - screamed in agony the living man-torch, overtaken by the fire almost completely, running with all his torment at the one he hated so much, with his hands glowing from storm magic, jumping in the air toward Draven, desperate to grab his opponent by the neck and electrocute him to death or incinerate before fire ends his existence...

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"Not good." - said Cheetah. - "Iduran... Your sword is said to have some unspeakable powers... Maybe with it, the hide of this vicious creature will be harmed!"

He preppared his spear, too, and began to follow Iduran slowly toward the beast.

[Xorlak]

Draven lept backwards, avoiding sparks of lightning on the way.  Many of the soldiers who had not yet escaped the room fell victim to the random blasts.  Draven stopped in the middle of the room, hovering about five feet above the ground.

"Ha ha ha!  It hurts doesn't it?  Taste the reward of teachery!"

Extending his left palm downwards in the same fashion, he let loose two more balls of flame.

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The serpent moved itself out of the cave completely, revealing it to be over 25 feet long.  It reared it head upwards and outwards, so Duilin's blow struck it mid-body.  Rearing in pain, it flicked it's long tail in Duilin's direction.

After inching closer, Iduran let out a yell and dove and slashed at the beast.  His blade only grazed the monster's side.  Hissing, it opened it's mouth and spewed its icy mist at Iduran.  Unable to dodge completely, Iduran found his legs frozen to the ground...

"Ergh!  Blast!"

[Dude Man]

The tail hit Duilin causeing him to fly back 5 yards. He then gets back up and then pants a bit and then closes his eyes and starts to focus his energy

//You guys probally allready know what he's gona do now heh//

[Cesque]

Scorch landed at the floor, as he tried to stood up he noticed he just got blasted by 2 more fireballs. Knocked backward, he was now on the floor, lying at his back, flames consuming his body. Altrough the knock put out the most fire on his back, his head and few parts of torso were still on fire and he couldn't nearly think. As he tried to open his eyes, he noticed he can't see nothing. "Propably some brain damage from the heat" - he thought, altrough thinking came hard to him as he was now slowly passing away. The pain was only motivation to do something about it.

Screaming, first grabbing his head with hands to do something with the flames (which wasn't too effective), he stood up, directied his open hand straight forward (obviously not even knowing where is Draven in his blindness), creating a wave of air charging forward, high from the floor to the room's roof.

"I hope one day you'll taste reward for... tyranny!" - screamed out Scorch despite his heatstroke headache.

Thinking about some escape route, Scorch desperately ran along the wall edge knowing there were stair doors there. He headed toward them, hoping no remaining soldiers nor Draven will stand in his way at least now.

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"Ack, not too good, sire!" - said Cheetah, striking the hard ice with tip of his weapon. - "Take this, freakish monstroisity!" - throwing his alabaster spear pointed at the eyes of the creature.

[Dude Man]

Duilin then raised his hands above him and charged up his good o' freakishly huge fire ball and tossed it at the monster and then fell down in exhaughtion.
"Uhhh...This is tireing doing this...I abuseing my powers...nighty night..." Duilin said as he passes out and falls asleep

[Xorlak]

Draven folded his arms and continued his billowing laugh.  He shielded his face from the on-coming wind attack.  When uncovering it, he noticed his opponent had made it off the floor and was now on the other side of the room, staggering in the direction of a doorway.

"What's the matter?  Don't want to play anymore?"

He floated downward until his feet hit the ground.  He then began to slowly advice upon the traitor, smirking.  No rush-- he was savoring the moment.  Scorch obviously wasn't going anywhere fast...

By the time Scorch had found his way to the hallway which lead out of the room, Draven was halfway upon him.  But he stopped in mid stride, hearing a very unsettling creaking sound...  The stones of the room itself seemed to ache...

"What...?"

A large slab of stone fell from the ceiling and landed before Draven, separating the two.  The stone room could not bear the force of two powerful sorcerers battling and was beginning to fall apart?  that last wind spell was the clincher.  The floor split in three.  Draven leapt in the air and began to hover, surrounding himself with a shield of flame.

?BLAST!?

Immediately, boulders the size of small automobiles began to rain from above. The walls followed, three of them caving inward upon the maniacal wizard.  The last wall, the one with the doorway Scorch was heading through, began to crack?

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The serpent hissed at Cheetah, opening its mouth to spray its icy blast once again.  But the Gepardi?s spear hit it?s mark perfectly-- straight in the left eye.  As it reared its head back in pain, Duilin?s fireball stuck it in the mouth, causing the upper portions of its body to explode.  The rest of the tail fell limp.

Iduran, still stuck in the ice, shielded himself from the debris.

?*Cough*!  I?m getting too old for this??

[Dude Man]

Duilin woke up and coughed "Hell....I'M geting to old for this" He says as he gets up

He then looks at the serpent's dead body and cracks his knukless together

"Well, the great Duilin saves the day agian!" He says with his arms up in pride "Now what are we gona do about Iduran...Hmmm..."

[Cesque]

Feeling the quakes and the stones falling, Scorch jumped forward, ducking on the stairs through the open doorway as the huge block fell just behind him. Floor was breaking apart behind him. He quickly stood up, ran still touching the wall to his left until he got to the room he knew so well.

Not thinking much, feeling the castle could crumble apart, hearing cries of soldiers from somewhere far behind him, he jumped out the broken window (the ain of few pieces of glass stuck in his legs and arms was a mere sting compared to the fire) and after flying through the air, he sank deep into the sea, putting out the flames, vomiting from the pain and feeling some relief altrough he didn't knew how long will it last.

At some point, he bounced on some corpse of drowned dead between the waters, which he quickly identified as Sigilius'.

"Lightning damn it, the poor freak still here!"

Now the pressure was taking him up. He was tired, drained of energy, everything was hurting him and he knew he has absolutely no chances of doing something now.

The wizard fell unconsious from the lack of air and tiredeness (a nice mix, isn't it?), only hoping the waves will wash him on the small beach next to castle left after the tides returned to the sea (taking Sigilius) after he conjured them, which might give him a small chance of actually waking up again.

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"Yes!" - said Cheetah, taking the alabaster spear out of beast's eye, as it's body fell.

The Gepardi raised his arms as if he wanted to greet someone. He closed eyes and concentrated. He felt the stream of powerful spiritual energy entering him.

"Yes!" - Gepardi said, finally opening eyes. - "Another transformation added to my disposal, whatever this enemy was! My village chief would be proud of me if he saw me."

"Now, who's gonna separate Iduran from the floor?"

[Xorlak]

The upper levels of the castle began to collapse, the roof on the west side began to sink in over the missing floors.  One of the towers leaned over the mess, only to collapse upon it with tremendous force.  A huge cloud of dust rose into the air...

When it was all over, about one third of the castle was rubble.  Although the rest stood, it showed deep cracks and other signs of extensive damage.

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Iduran chopped at the ice with his blade.

"Arrgh!!"

After a few moments he managed to free his right foot, but his left was much more deeply rooted.

"Blast it!  Doesn't any one know a fire spell?"

[Dude Man]

"Heh I do, but I got exaughted from the one I just did and if I used it on you then it would kill you" Duilin says. He then realizes the the dead serpent was killed by flame and so it's burning body could be usefull, he took out his broken mace and set the wood on fire and then ran back to Iduran and then started melting the ice.
"Okay, say when to stop..."