Dark Age Legends

[Haraldur]

//Sorry. I got ahead of myself.//

Tesla saw the soldiers, and bared his teeth. He tugged at the hole. There was a ripping sound.

Those closest to the hole just landed near Haraldur. Howver, those further away were thrown out, with the magnitude of the force increasing proportional to the increase in the distance from the hole.

The result of which was that Haraldur was suddenly surrounded by his followers, some with bruises from being thrown a little way. On the other hand, the soldiers did not fare so well. They had been flung out at very high speeds, and there was much bone breaking and they smashed into nearby trees, dead.

Haraldur sighed, he would have to transport them a different way. With a click, all of them except Tesla became very small, and were in his hand. He put them into suspended animation, and then into a small box, which he deposited in his clothing.

Tesla turned to Haraldur, pointing towards Draven, saying, "We do not have time to delay with matters such as this. You should converse with him later."

"Indeed," said Haraldur. He turned to Draven. "You can have it when it is next unused, which will never happen."

Tesla shot at the ground, causing dust to fill the area. He then grabbed hold of Haraldur, who shot south east at great speed. It would be useful to run into Zeros', if just for a few seconds, if Draven follows.

[Xorlak]

The soldiers who were thrown from the portal (and who were not dead) stumbled around confused, looking at their leader.

Draven watched Haraldur and Telsa take off as a crimson aura surrounded him.

"More fleeing and chasing, huh?"

Draven shot into the sky after the two and was hot on their heals within seconds.

"I do hope you've learned a few more tricks in the past five years, comrade."

Crimson blade in his right, he extended his left hand, opening his palm quickly.  A bright flash of light appeared about a half mile directly in front of the escaping duo, followed by a rapidly expanding ball of flame.  The explosion blasted apart the trees directly underneath, setting many more ablaze.  At these speeds, Haraldur would fly directly into  the blast within seconds...

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"Sir Valos!!"

A fourth and fifth soldier approached the officer, carrying a haggard bearded man in prisoner's clothing who had his hands tied.  The prisoner was forced to his knees and a sword held to the back of his neck.  The prisoner struggled a bit before scowling at Valos.

"My lord, all the prisoners assigned to D Block escaped... except for this one.  He had be assigned toilet duty this morning and was separated from the group.  He tried to run when the explosion hit, but we stopped him...  Your orders sir?"

A distinct tattoo of one man surrounded by ten smaller men was on his right arm...

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"Copy your attack?"

Ven drew his blade.  Mavas continued slowly moving closer and closer...

"That infernal gem does something different every time..."

"Hah hah hah hah!!"

His black cloak blowing in the breeze, Ven targeted his silver blade at Mavas and began to slowly sidestep to the right.  As he moved, he glanced at Zion and Xenai and nodded his head in a way that any experienced warrior would understand as 'One of you go around left and one of you stay in the middle'.

The last branch and shrubbery fell off of Mavas and he stopped.  A few dents and scratches spotted his armor, but he seemed physically unaffected.

"Heh heh... three for the price of one..."

[Trent]

Zion pulled out Eternity Weapon started to circle left, staying aligned with Ven. Xenai remained in the middle, pulling out Zero Weapon.

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Tsu didn't feel right. Something was going down with Zion and Xenai. He ejected his wings and took flight, in an attempt to find him. It would be kinda difficult since he couldn't yet feel ki.

Aura saw him, her blue eyes widening. She decided to follow him... Unfortunately, it would have to be on foot.

[Haraldur]

Spotting the blast in front of him, Haraldur split, leaving Tesla in the middle. In order to protect Tesla from the blast, sparks of energy went from the ten Haraldur's to Tesla, shielding him from the blast. The ten Haraldur's were in a circle, which expanded to surround and avoid the blast. The ten Haraldur's smiled at the symbol this created.

The ten Haraldur's morphed into what they had been before, the six weapons, older and younger Haraldur's, Ragnar and the boy. Ragnar grinned at Draven before they all converged again, holding on to Tesla as they merged to form Haraldur again.

Tesla shot at Draven with his ray gun, shooting plasma towards the Crimson Emporer. After he did that, Haraldur did two things: he made holograms of himself and Tesla, occupying the same space as themselves so it would not be noticed, and then made both him and Tesla invisible, and with suppressed auras. They then wheeled off to the north and then north west, leaving the illusions moving south east.

Haraldur hoped that they would reach the ruins of Vikingagarð without any more hitches, both the drop off the prisoners, and to see what Tesla and the others had done in the years he was away.

[Zeros']

As Zeros' flew in the air at speeds exceeding Mach 1, he passed the Crimson Empire, but decided to ignore it in favor of following Draven and Haraldur's power spikes.

Look's like they already found each other. That's not good. With their battles, they could destroy half the world. He mused silently to himself. He, then, felt Haraldur's and Tesla's aura disappear suddenly. He cursed mentally.

Damn. I doubt that Draven can even sense aura's. No doubt more of Haraldur's trickery. He flapped his wings harder, putting on another burst of speed. He nedded to each them. And fast.

[Dude Man]

Rink flapped his small wings, and hovered infront of the Air Mage, and smiled at him. "Oh, we want nothing of you. Infact we want you to be, nothing!" Rink then raised his right arm and opened his palm, a cyclone of fire began to swirl around and become bigger, untill it became nearly twice Rink's size (so about 3 feet in diameter). He then blasted the fireball at Air Mage, burning him alive.

"You're sick Rink." Marshal grunted "We'll the whole army has proboabbly gotten in alert. He then patted the Albatrash on it's back. "We might need more help."

"Allright guys..." Duilin said quietly "Just try and not make to much noise, watch out for each other. Rink, you taught me how to use my powers, and now I want you to try and do them yourself."

"Hey," Rink began "It's not the fact that I don't know how. It's the fact that I can't."

"Just, try. Marshal, summon something, big if they come." Duilin ordered

"Were are you going?" Marshal asked conserned "I didn't like it when Zeros' told me I might die, and then went blasting off."

"I'm just going to search around. I might be able to gain more information, and I'll be able to defend myself if they find me." Duilin then dove down silently onto the castle's wall and then sneaked along the side, folding his wings down.

Marshal bit his lip and looked at Rink. Rink, gave a look of concern.

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Valos turned around and looked at the prisoner. "So you tried to escape..." Valos said calmly. He then drew his sword. The black blade was clear but dark. He shook his head. He then looked into the bearded man's eyes. He then lifted his sword and readied to swing, sudden he stopped and looked around. He then looked at the fourth and fith soilder "Take him in for questioning." He then pointed at the other three "Follow me...I sence something." He said quietly. "General Nex told me what it should be like..."

"Um, General Nex? Sir, Valos, didn't he die five years ago?" One of the soilders said.

Valos turned his head, and narrowed his eyes and nodded, he turned back and started walking around. "There is a demon here..." He said loud enough for all three soilders to hear, clearly.

[Haraldur]

The prisoner looked livid at the idea of being questioned, and he concentrated for a few seconds. And explosion of energy emanated from him, as his life force literally exploded away from his body, knocking down a few nearby walls, leaving just a burning body. A sort of destructive suicide.

[Xorlak]

Draven slashed his blade before him, deflecting the plasma energy in two directions.  He squinted at the brightness of his explosion, but quickly spotted his targets fleeing southeast.

He brought his left arm before him and blasted an intense pillar of flame at the two.  They vaporized in the heat, and the flame traveled on to a group of trees below, decimating them in a fiery explosion.  Obviously those were illusions...

He closed his eyes, not allowing himself to be fooled by such optical tricks, searching...  He turned northeast, but a much larger power was approaching and he opened his eyes while turning to his right.

"Well well, what a day of happy reunions..."

It was the distinctive aura and the unmistakable wings of Zeros' headed his way.

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Something jumped out of the burning tree, shooting in the air high above Marshal and Rink.

"TRY AND OFF ME, HUH?!?!"

The air mage's face was slightly charred, and his armor smoking.  As he fell downward upon the two, the sky opened up and pillars of lightning began to strike the ground near Marshal and Rink in rapid succession.

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"Hey, yo."

The three dark bodyguards were suspended some 500 feet in the sky, side by side, watching the large firey explosions appear over the southern forest.  But the flying lightning bolts to their left that just appeared were much closer.

"Looks like someone ticked off Hans."

"Who doesn't?"

"Think we should give 'im a hand?"

"Might as well.  Ain't gettin' nothin' done 'ere."

The black, green, and blue auras shot through the sky.

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Ven continued circling until the three warriors had Mavas completely surrounded.

Mavas chuckled.

"It's not fair."

"Life's not fair," Ven snapped back.

Mavas turned his eyes towards Ven.

"It's not fair, considering how badly outnumbered you are..."

"Uhhhhhhhhh...."

Ven turned his head.  Some thirty zombies were rising out of the ground around the the tree warriors and Mavas.

"Heheheheheheeee!!!"

The short gray robed figure nearly fell out of his perch high in the tree, laughing.

Roars emanated from under the ground, and three much larger things began to dig their way out...

[Zeros']

Zeros' narrowed his eyes as he spotted Draven floating in the air. He gave another flap of his black wings and gained another burst a speed, a sonic boom reverberating behind him, causing the water to wave behind him.

When he reached Draven's position, he flapped his wings and stopped suddenly. Water came up from behind him in a gaint tidal wave, hiding him from view.

As the tidal wave disappeared, Zeros' stood their, flapping his wings gently with his arms crossed and feet dangling down. His hair was drenched, sticking to his wet trench coat and dripping with droplets of water. His face was emotionless, hair spilling over his forehead and obscuring his eyes from view. Water dripping down from his hair and down his face, evaporating before it could hit the water agian.

"Hello Draven, pleasent day, isn't it?" he said, seeming casual about seeing on of his greatest opponents after five years of absence.

[Haraldur]

At long last, Haraldur and Tesla reached Vikingagarð, or at least what used to be its ruins. There appeard to be a fortified settlement here, and there were a few flags and banners, and they all had a revolutionary feel: the background was a blood red and in the the top left corner was the same symbol of Haraldur surrounded by his ten copies. On the main gate was the same symbol.

It was good that even now they had managed to keep the aura of the town completely suppressed, Haraldur thought.

They landed on the empty pedestal in the centre of the main square. Immediately, many people huddled around the pedestal, and there was shouting and people leaving buildings to go to the pedestal. Eventually some hundred individuals were in the main square, three quarters of them male, given the nature of their bundle of gifts, abilities and disadvantages, the vast majority of those with such gifts were of the male sex. It was visible that all those with bare arms had the same tatoo as Tesla.

Tesla jumped off the pedestal, and Haraldur took a box from amongst his clothing, and deposited the former prisoners amongst the crowd, who handed them cold food.

"Citizens of Aspyes, those who I have taken from Romme, Tjed, Aritan and the Dark Continent, those whose minds are like my own deemed abnormal to those formerly around you, those scorned and mocked by ignorant simpletons who both underestimate and envy our abilities, and shun our social weaknesses, we will soon be making our existance known, and we will do what we have thirsted for for years. As I speak, already the first blow has been struck. The Crimson Capital, formerly the Dark Capital, has now been highly damaged with the deaths of thousands of our enemies.

"We will not fail, we will never stop until we have been avenged of our collective persecutors, and we have established a world order where peace can reign, with equality of income and rights for every one of us, in a sustainable system of distribution of goods and services. Those who oppose us will be crushed, for they deny progress, and deny the advancement of our species beyond our current stage.

"Soon, we will raise our light house, to attract those similar to us, and make our presence known. Let them tremble with fear!"

The crowd shouted, "Aspyes!"

Haraldur jumped down and said to Tesla "Get the defence turrets up, and armed, and make sure that we are prepared for any attack. We must not falter at the first hurdle, it will cost us valuable time and lives."

Tesla bowed and scurried off to do as he was asked.

Haraldur jumped back on to the pedestal, and it rose high up, and he used it to survey the surrounding area while preparations were busily commenced in the town below him.

[Dude Man]

Marshal spotted the Air Mage jump down. He saw a lightning bolts blast down, he quickly jumped off the bird, as a bolt zapped it to death.

Rink, pointed his middle and index finger at the Air Mage and blasted to fire bolts at him. "I thought I killed you!" He yelled.

"Rink!" Marshal yelled "Stay on the ground, if you go in the air, you'll have a greater chance of getting struck by lightning. Rink nodded. Marshal then ran further away from the tree. He lifted his staff and it blasted a blue humen shaped specter, but it was much more burly and sloucched. It materialized into a large club weilding ogre. The ogre ran at the air mage, yelling, it swung it's large club at the Air Mage.

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Duilin, slid down the wall, and hid behind a small building. He took out his mace. I hope I didn't make a mistake leaveing Marshal and Rink alone. He knew that somebody was looking for him. He could sence a strong power, it reminded him of somebody.

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The three soilders followed Valos around.

"What, the hell is he lookin' for?" the first soilder wispered

"I dunno, this guy is even more confuseing then Draven." the second one wispered back

"He...He is close..." Valos said he pointed to a building. "There..." He said quietly.

Duilin closed his eyes, the power that he senced was accually preety strong. "No sence of hideing, I can take em..." He said to himself. He then stepped away from the building and revelied himself.

Valos raised his eyes, and grinned. "Heh, my my you have grown. Nice wings to." He laughed

"What the hell?" Duilin asked "Have we met?"

"I senced you were comeing, I have been watching you for awile, I should have acted sooner, when your power was stronger, but I can tell that you are getting more...rage...and hate."

"Who are you!?"

Valos, took out an old piece of paper, it appeared to be an old document. He looked at it and read. "Name: Duilin Talonscar, Rank: Leutenat, Status: Terminated from the Empire, for betrayle, treason, and murder of several soilders and officers."

"How the hell do you know me?" Duilin asked

"Nex...Before you went to war to fight in Romme, Nex told me that he expected the place to bring you rage and hate, he knew that you would 'evolve', the stronger you get the closer you get into coruption. But oh, it's not bad at all, soon, you shall bring victory to us, all we need is, your father!"

"My father! Nex, told me, he was a demon, he became insane and corupt. He ran away a few weeks before my home city was destroied. He's dead! I'm certain of it!"

"Hah, not really. I'm surprized Rink hasn't told you everything. I herd he found you. But this is no matter, you must come with me, there you will obtain extreme power and control. You can crush, the people who you belived to be stronger then you, even...Draven."

Duilin's face went to netruel. "I...can become...stronger....No! I don't need it, Zeros' is strong enough to protect me and all of my friends, Rink, Zion and rest."

"You won't need him. Rink has taught you to use your powers, but he is holding you back. Zeros' isn't protecting you, but he is preventing you from useing your powers, so you can stay weak..."

"I...am not...weak!" Duilin lifted his mace and ran at Valos. The tree soilders ran at him with there sword, Duilin swung his mace at one of the soilder's heads, smashing his skull knocking him down, he swung a punch with demon flame flowing threw at the second one, and jabed his hand right into his stomach, burning the soilder from the inside, wile he smashed the third soilders skull in aswell.

Valos drew his large black sword and pointed it at Duilin. "Bring it on!" The two ran at  each other clanging there weapons together...

[Xorlak]

Draven replied as sarcastically as possible.

"Yes, just lovely..."

The burning blade disappeared and he folded his arms, turning towards the northeast.

"So, he's been trailing you on too, huh?  Unfortunately, our problem seems to persist, which means our agreement remains as well..."

He shifted his eyes towards Zeros'.

"But it is obvious that he wanted us to meet.  I saw his symbols in the sky.  They were meant for you, weren't they?  He wanted us to find each other... He wants his enemies in one place..."

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"Hyaah!"

Landing on the ground, the air mage met Rink's bolt with shield of electricity... but he didn't see the club.

"Ooof--!"

The ogre slammed him hard, and he flew backwards some ten feet into a tree and tumbled to the ground.

A long, slender blast of shadow energy flew from the sky, piercing the ogre's back.  It wailed as a black burning aura engulfed it and it disappeared.

"Heh heh heh, who're these guys?"

The three bodyguards landed in a row, in between Marshal and Rink and their fallen comrade.

"Terrorists tryn' ta screw up the peace..."

"Clearly the terror alert level must be increased to teal."

"Indeed."

The big one took a step forward, smashing his right fist in his left palm.

"Well, better get started..."

A blue aura engulfed the short one on the far right.

"Allow me."

The water mage thrust his right hand in the direction of the ground.  Immediately the ground began to freeze and jagged shards of ice crept towards Marshal and Rink.  A green aura engulfed the burly earth mage...

"HRRRAAAGH!!!"

He punched the ground with his right fist, shattering the ice and the frozen dirt below, sending both large cracks through the unstable ground and airborne razor sharp blades of ice at the two...

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Ven spun around, lopping off an arm of a zombie that was nearly upon him before finishing it off.  He quickly brought the blade before his face and it began to shed a silver light as he prepared the spell...

[Trent]

Xenai handed an Elixir to Zion. "Drink up, buddy. I've got an experiment to try." Zion gulped it down.

Xenai started to charge up Omni. "You too, kid." Zion obeyed and did the same.

[Haraldur]

As the pedestal shunk back to normal size, and Haraldur lowered down, Tesla nodded to him, the weapon systems had been prepared. Good.

The people stood in a circle around the pedestal, holding eachother's hands. Haraldur stood up. The circle turned around in the opposite direction to the world's spin, pouring energy into the pedestal. The pedestal got taller and wider, and carried on doing so, shaping itself into a massive light house.

Haraldur was now standing next to the light house beacon. He stood on it, and sat down, and meditated. He began to slowly spin, speeding up to a steady pace. From his forehead then cam a broade swathe of red light, a spinning beam.

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Accross the world, the sky would turn red, and there would be curious symbols in the sky. Suddenly, many people would notice odd tatoos on their arms the same as the symbols in the sky, and would be thrown out of their villages, towns and cities.

With each sweep a force tugging them towards the lighthouse would increase in strength, eventually making them fly towards the light house at high speeds.

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The main square not occupied by the light house was starting to fill up with those people who had been marked by the light house. They would be told by residents what they were here for, and the ideology of Aspyes, and all stayed, and were in agreement.

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A strange small flying creature flew up to Draven, unfolding itself into a note, its paper red. OIt's header is the same as Tesla's tatoo. It landed in Draven's hand.

It reads:

"Greetings, Lord Draven:

The revolutionary government of the new nation of Aspyes, demands diplomatic recognition from the Crimson Empire recognising its existance and its right to existance. For reasonably obvious reasons you are not going to be informed of its location. Please reply on the back of this note, it will then fly back to me,

your comrade,

Lord Haraldur, former High General and Governor, Northern Territories, of Azure Empire, Blue Empire, Green Empire and Dark Empire

PS. Nice work, keep the line going.

[Dude Man]

Rink, blasted two fireballs from his hands at the ice blades headed toward him and Marshal.

"Hmmm, mages of each element." Marshal said "Well, I am a mage of summoning. Giveing me no elemental strength yet no weakness." Marshal backed up abit "Rink, I'm going to try something, protect me for a little wile."

Marshal then bent down on one knee and raised his staff, a large figure began to materilze.

As the mage did that, Rink created a flame in his palm, and lifted it up to his mouth he blew at the flame and created a large firewall melting the ice on the ground.

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"Haha" Valos laughed "Your friends are in danger, and because of me, you cannot help them."

"You bastard! I'll just kill you and your mage buddies!" Duilin yelled. He blasted a lightning bolt at Valos, knocking his target back a few feet.

"Ha! You think your magic can out do mine!?" Valos, casted dark shade at Duilin, knocking him to the ground. "Ha, weak. Rink has done more damage then you!"

"How the hell do you know so much about me!" Duilin yelled as, he crawled back up.

Valos blasted another shade at him, knocking Duilin back to the ground, he then lifted the hair above his forehead revealing a tatto on his forehead.

Duilin looked at it, at first he expected the Aspyes' symbol. But it was a tatto of what appeared to be a bird talon making a cut upon skin. "A talon...makeing a scar..." Duilin relized that it seemed to be symbol representing his last name.

"Talonscar was a cult name. Your father ran it, he married your mother, saying it was his last name, and hid the fact that he was half demon." Valos explained "You are the key, to helping your father. Join, me and you and your father, can rule the world. Wipe out, the Empire, and every force that wishes to conquer the world."

"No." Duilin cried "My father, just wants me to become courput so I can join him as a servent in Hell!"

"Oh, no my friend." Valos grinned "A ruler, you can make it whatever you want. You can change the world..."

Duilin narrowed his eyes, they began to glow redish orange. He then blasted a ball of red flame that seemed to have orange electricity flowing threw it. The blast knocked Valos several feet away and down to the ground. Duilin slowly got up from the ground, and turned his head, he looked at the dark mage, turn, and get up.

Valos smiled evily at him "Good, very good...". Duilin looked at his hands and arms, they went back to how they were before, when he killed the enitity clone. He touched his forehead, he could feal two slight bumps.