Dark Age Legends

[Dude Man]

Duilin, followed Zeros' out and appeared next to him, Ryu and Rink.

"So, that's him..." Duilin said softly.

"Do you think you guys can defeat him?" Rink asked

"I sure as hell hope so." Duilin replied. He straighted his hand and lifted his arm half way up, demon energy began to flow around his arm, he looked up at Alpha Retan. And waited along with Zeros'

Rink nodded. "Well...good luck with that, I'm going to go over and hide under a rock with The Prophet, now." He said with a serious tone in his voice, he then flue off and sheiled himself under a rock...

[Trent]

The trio was flung out into the other dimension to find the real Alpha Retan, and everyone going in to strike.

"Should we bring 'em out?" asked Xenai.

"One moment," said Zion.

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EW + ZW Ready!

[Xorlak]

The old man spun around, ceasing to gather the white points of light, and thrust his staff before him, creating a translucent red shield which deflected the burst of magma.

"Heavens, child.  Did I make you angry?  But that begs the question, can something artificial have emotions?"

His wrinkled face contorted in a devilish smile.

That's right.  Perfect.  Show me more...

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An explosion of red appeared far on the horizon.

"So it begins..."

"You orders, my Lord?"

"Full speed ahead."

[Trent]

"Ok, now! Eternity Weapon!"

The Eternity Weapon fell from the sky, landing in front of Zion.

"Zero Weapon!"

The Zero Weapon shot out of the ground, landing in front of Xenai.

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EW + ZW ------ 3

[Haraldur]

"You tell me."

Haraldur conjured two swords, one in each hand, each sheathed in furious energy. He pointed one at Alpha Retan, shooting a blue orb of energy straight at him. With the other, he turned the gorund below to large rising spikes, which detached from the ground and flew upwards, looking to impale the old man from below.

"Goodbye, earthly parent. You will be destroyed."

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As spikes began to rise around him, The Great Prophet screamed in fear, before rushing  out from under the rock and flew to a high position away from the vertically moving projectiles.

[Dude Man]

"Now!" Duilin yelled. Seeing that Haraldur was attacking it would make a better probabilty of one of the attacks hitting. He then blasted a yellow bolt at Alpha Retan.

[Xorlak]

A red orb surrounded the old man, deflecting the blue and yellow bursts of energy sent his way.

"You shouldn't attempt to do more than your fate deems, child.  Why would you--- GAH!!"

The sharp pain in his leg snapped his attention.  A sharp spike had penetrated his left thigh, which was now streaking with red blood...  He slowly lowered his altitude as he recovered.

"Now you see... You've forced me to defend myself..."

Black lightning thundered around.  The sky grew dim.  The ice below began to crack...

His posture straightened as he brought his arms to his side, his cape blowing in the intense wind.  Color returned to his decrepit face, his eyes glowing a bright crimson.

He addressed Haraldur in the voice of Melkoth:

"I have been destroyed many times, my son.  Each time I learn from my mistakes.  Each time I become stronger... Each time I become closer...  No matter the outcome, this is a victory for me..."

A blinding flash glazed the eyes of all those present.  As it faded, the outline of a scaly black dragon became apparent...

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The lieutenant's armor began to clang as it shook.

"W-What's th-that...?!"

Draven leaned far over the deck of the airship in disbelief, his breath fuming from the cold climate.

"That brazen fool...  He let loose another one!!"

He turned around, his new cape flowing with the motion as he clenched his fist.

"He'll try to absorb it just like last time.  And those idiots are just going to stand around and watch!"

He flipped around again and pointed at the spectacle in the distance.

"GO!  Kill Ragnar!!  Kill that dragon!!  And kill any who stand in your way!!"

The force of nearly 25,000 wyvern riders, many of them atop advanced forms of the species, along with several hundred dark dragons, began to make a wide circle and surround the crater, with Draven's airship at the lead.

[Dude Man]

"Amazeing..." Duilin said. He stared at the black dragon for awile. "Well let's see, we killed a Yetti, a Belroth, an army of zombies, a necrodragon, the Dark Empire and the spawns of hell. This shouldn't be to different from anything we haven't fought before."

Duilin looked at Zeros' "But how are we going this?"

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Rink steped out from his hideing spot and took on look at the dragon "Well I'll be sleeping in a pile of Vile Lizard shit..." He shook his head rapidly "Okay back behind the rock for me..."

[Haraldur]

"Ah, so both my parents are here..."

Haraldur changed form without first splitting. He changed into a huge humanoid form of himself, but covered in armour and spikes, and weilding two huge swords in either hand.

One sword slashed at the Dragon, at it did so it left a trail of the blue energy it was sheathed with.

The other was thrust deep into the ground: he was so large that from 500 meters up, he could stick the sword, which was of normal size relative to his body, into the ground. He cut through the deep crust of the Earth, letting magma rise up as from a Geyser, leaving a roaring sound as it rose.

[Trent]

Xenai looked in the direction of the wyvern riders, then up at Zero Weapon. "Take care of 'em."

A huge sword appeared in Zero Weapon's hand, and it started to circle around the crater, taking out the Wyvern riders.

Zion looked at the transformed Alpha Retan. "Get him."

Eternity Weapon rushed forward at the dragon, pulling its fist back and sending it forward at its head upon coming in range.

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EW + ZW ---- 2

[Zeros']

Zeros' flipped Ellenna over on his back, making her wrap her arms around his neck and her feet around his chest. He then used spells to affix them to his body, but made sure he still had full movement from his wings, legs and arms.

The black glow that appeared around his right hand disappeared briefly before a glowing white flame of chi appeared, small black tendrils flying from the flame. He also dodged the land spears as they came up towards him, using his wings to manuver himself expertly.

When he stopped, the flame around his right hand now streched across his whole arm, burning a blinding white light while black embers flew from the white flame.

He stood there, silently flying and dodging while the white flame of chi grew stronger and the black embers started to dance in the air as they gained more power from the ambient chi that lingered in the air and the area.

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Ryu dodged despretly as they earth spikes began to come up from the ground. He winced in pain as one of the spikes scratched his right leg, causing it to flow blood. His metal limbs were starting to become sluggish as well, his strength draining.

He started breathing albeit more heavily as he reached the Trio's position.

"Damn spikes..." he murmured under his breath as he unsheathed his dragon katana's, the ruby on in his left hand, the sapphire one in his right. He held them at his sides loosely as he turned to face the wyvern rides head on.

[Dude Man]

Duilin, continued to hover in the air. He raised both arms and began to charge a large orb yellow/orange demon energy. He prepared it for Alpha Retan. He shifted his head around. Rink's still cowareing around...Something tells me we might even need his help.

He fouces back on his target, and continues chargeing his attack.

[Xorlak]

(Grand Finale time!  Chapter 5 ends in 10 days.)

"I am Alpha Retan, heir of the universe.  Foolish mortals, your insignificant struggles mean nothing..."

The dragon blocked the blue blade with his left arm, slightly denting his armor like scales.  The magma did not seem to effect him, but the Eternity Weapon smacked him dead in the temple.  He road threateningly, spinning around and sending his long spiked tail towards the Eternity Weapon's chest.  At the same time, he spewed forth a stream of shadow energy at Haraldur from his gaping mouth...

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The wyverns began to swarm the mammoth Zero Weapon like bees, hundreds of them clawing at its thick armor.  Several of them took note of Ryu and began to dive bomb him, spewing forth flame and ice.

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The few wyvern riders that made it close to Haraldur and the black dragon held off in fear, waiting for more allies to attack with.

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"Move in close and fire at will!  I'm going in."

"But, sir...!"

Draven dove off of the deck of the airship, a crimson aura engulfing him after he fell a few hundred feet.  He began to fly at a low altitude straight for the chaos ahead...

[Zeros']

Ryu looked towards the sky and swore, dodging expertly as a stream of flame flew past him. He spun around wildly and jumped into the air, launching several ki charged blades from his sword tips and dodging the spew of ice and flames.

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The wyvern's tried to move out of the way, but they couldn't. Several had either one or two of the dragon's wings cut off, someone even had thier heads cut off, while other killed both the dragon and the rider.

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Zeros' glanced down at his hand and smirked. His while arm was now enveloped in a white flame of chi, burning brightly, while black embers crackled. He looked towards the dragon and nodded to himself and phased  out, reappearing right near the dragon's neck, behind the head.

He lifted his hand up and pointed it towards the dragon's neck, like a claw posed to strike. When he fired the shadow energy at Haraldur, he snapped his wrist and plunged his hand towards the dragon's neck.

[Dude Man]

What? Draven's here? Looks like this is going to be a three way war... Duilin thought. He then finished the energy orb "This better hit!" He tossed the demon energy orb. The orange/yellow orb flew like a rocket at Alpha Retan.

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Rink peeked up over the rock. "I'm sick of hideing! Enough of this! I'm going kick some ass!"

Rink flies off, and blasts a series of fireballs at the wyverns swarming around. "Hiiayaa!!"