Dark Age Legends

[Xorlak]

Draven blasted into the vortex and disappeared for a few seconds...

Then the portal began to close and he reemerged from it, appearing back outside  before it became too small.  He clenched his fist as it disappeared behind him and the others arrived.

"Blast it!  He's gone..."

Draven folded his arms as he floated where the rift was, his aura dimmed a bit as he tried to detect his adversary's energy signal... Nothing...

"Probably skipped to another one of his side dimensions... the coward..."

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Ven arrived below on his ice jet ski spell/thing.  He was getting the hang of it, but he heard the commotion above.

"Must have lost him.  This is the leader of those people in that town, right?"

He said it more as a thought to himself, since he was likely to be too far away for anyone to hear, with the waves and all.

[Dude Man]

"Dang..." Valos sighed. "Don't supose we can travel to the demention he's hidden in."

Rink crossed his arms. "I'm sure he'll turn up soon..."

"Perhaps he turned off his aura." Duilin said "Wouldn't that make him indectecable?"

[Zeros']

Zeros' stopped behind Valos, Duilin and Rink silently.

"We could travel to his dimension... But, I can't sense his aura. Therefore, I cannot located what dimension he's in. There are millions of possiblities of where we would appear. We might appear a thousand years into the future, or, we could travel two years into the past. Another posibility, is, we could travel to a dimension where Retan was never defeated... There are so many posibilites that the chance of find Haraldur is astronomical," he said.

Suddenly, his hands flew into a series of seals too fast to see. He thrust his hand at the water, his hands glowing with a bright white flame, and suddenly, the raging sea calmed. Now, it was still.

[Trent]

And the two caught up.

"What the hell are you doin'?" to Zeros.

[Zeros']

Zeros' turned his head and looked at the two.

"What's your question, Zion and Xenai?" he said.

[Haraldur]

//I apologise for not posting, but I temporarily lost internet.//

Tesla said, "Inaccurate legends? I will accept that. You may now ask your questions."

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Haraldur had cut open a slit in the fabric of that dimension's reality, and arrived back in the dimension of Gaian, in the settlement. Some residents bowed to him as he passed. He sensed Tesla's presence, and that of another, in the conference room. He entered it.

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"Good morning, Tesla," he said.

Tesla bowed. Haraldur turned to Marshal, "I do not believe we have had the pleasure? Your name? I am sure you already know mine, you being obviously a member of Blue Minotaur."

Around Haraldur was a field suppressing the auras of everyone in the settlement.

[Xorlak]

Draven's aura disappeared.

"Hmph.  He'll likely try and strike back at me, since none of you have countries of your own.  I'm going to return to my capital.  We shall continue this the next time he shows his face...  In the meantime, you may enter my empire freely, for I have shown my generals images of you, and they will not attack.  Just don't do anything they might view  as suspicious..."

He turned and began to fly westward, back to the Crimson Capital.

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Ven leaned on the ice, listening intently to those above.  Luckily the waters were much calmer now.  It looks like the battle had been averted, for now...  Maybe he could use this time to get a few more answers... or maybe he should continue looking for what he was in the first place...

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Draven raced through the sky, the wind in his face.  The sky had regained its blue color after the intense battle, and it was almost nice.  Almost...

"My my, what a lively one you are..."

Draven stopped immediately in mid air, and addressed the shadow that was now floating before him...

"What did you say?  Do you wish to die?"

Mavas appeared in full view now, the pendant ruby around his neck beating a crimson light.  He held his right hand to his chin, and the other at his hip.

"Heh heh heh... death?  What is death, exactly...?"

"I'll take that as a yes."

Draven extended his right hand, pointing his index finger at the man's head.  A brilliant red light appeared at the tip of his gloved finger.

Mavas began to laugh.  He threw both arms outwards to his sides.

Before Draven could execute his attack, hundreds of white points of light appeared around him.  They began to shoot inwards towards him, reforming their shapes into the images of knives.  Drave clenched his extended right fist (and the red light within it) and brought his left hand out from under his cape, which made his cape spread out behind him, snaping his hand outwards and then to the sky as if he were batting away a single ball of energy.  All of the knives immediately ricocheted off of a sort of invisible barrier and disintegrated...

[Dude Man]

Marshal looked at Haraldur. It was amazeing to see him in person, he was slightly frightened, yet he didn't seem so evil. "Marshal Royle..." He replied to Haraldur. "Yes, I am indeed a member of The Blue Minotaur. I have read many legends, includeing ones about you, and the others. I wish to ask you a few things." He paused for a moment and then continued "Friends of mine, have reason to belive you are a threat to the world. They have told me, you nearly destroied it five years ago, and now you return. You appear to be, in no dought, up to something. May, I know what is exactly your operation?"

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"Zeros'?" Duilin asked "Would you be able to sence Marshal? I know he is not very strong, yet summoning creatures is a powerfull talent."

"Well, if he can't sence Haraldur how the hell can he sence Marshule, or whatever the hell is name is?" Valos asked

[Trent]

Zion looked down again at the sea. "Exactly what he said... What are you doing?"

Xenai grumbled. "I feel Draven's energy. It's fluctuatin', as if he was fightin'. I feel that freaky guy with the gem, too."

"What?!"

[Xorlak]

"Heh heh heh HA HA HA HAAH!!"

Mavas thrust his right hand towards Draven, sending a dozen orbs of black energy at the man.  Draven waited until the last second, then his aura exploded from his body, sending the orbs spiraling into the sea below.

"Little hint:  Laugh when you're winning."

"Heh heh heh... perfect!  You shall be mine!!"

Mavas drew his jagged sword and began to dash madly at Draven.  Again Draven didn't move, this time bringing his right hand before him, unveiling the bright crimson energy at the tip of his finger he had stored before.  An intense red laser shot forth very quickly, which seemed to pass through Mavas' right shoulder.  It was over in less than a second...

"Gaahh..."

Mavas lost speed, then lifelessly dropped from the sky, splashing into the sea...

Draven eyed the body as it fell.

"Idiot."

Draven's aura disappeared and he continued flying towards his capital, not really caring what that was all about...

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Ven stared at the western horizon.

"Mavas... no..."

He cast the wind spell behind him, and directed the ice-raft in the direction Draven flew...

[Zeros']

Zeros' shook his head.

"Marshal's aura is undetectiable. It's quite possible Haraldur might have cast some spell to make everyone's auras around him undetectiable," he said, before he turned towards Zion," As for what I'm doing.. I'm trying to help destroy, or at least, expell Haraldur from the planet and this demension.. forever," he said.

[Dude Man]

"Were the bloody hell is he off to?" Valos asked as he saw Ven ride off

Duilin watched him as he left "Hey, you be carefull now!" He warned

Rink seemed interested when Zeros' told them his plan. "Expell Haraldur from this demention, eh? You know you can do WAY to many different things..." He laughed

"It won't work..." Duilin sighed "He'll be able to sence that you're doing it." He said to Zeros' "But it is worth a try...But it might put us in danger..."

"God, this 'senceing' shit is annoying." Valos groaned.

"Well you can do it to, right?" Duilin said

"Yes, but...don't talk to me about magic. I remember refuseing to use it..." Valos said, as if begining something, but then stopped, and realize that he might accually be bonding with his enemies. He rapidly shook his head and crossed his arms and then seemed to lay back abit. His hair flew back abit revealing his tatto on his forehead, of the talon makeing a cut on flesh.

Duilin looked at it, reminding himself, that he was but a spawn of evil, destined for damnation.

[Xorlak]

Ven turned around and waved at Duilin, shouting back:

"Don't worry about it!"

He continued onward...

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"Mwa hah hah hah haaah...."

The calm sea began to churn.  Bubbles rose from the depths...

Then, it was like a guyser that burst forth from the ocean.  The waves parted around him, repelled by the intense heat.  The man who rose from the waters... looked... like... Draven...

But he was overall darker in appearance, and his burning crimson aura was laced with black, and of course there was the red pendant...  Just as he had copied Zion, Mavas was emulating Draven, and his powers...

"So good of you to give me a taste.  Now I shall take the rest!!  Heh heh heh hah hah HA HA HA HAAH!!!!"

His dark-crimson aura exploded, and Draven-Mavas blazed through the sky after his target...

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It was like a flash-- very sudden...

Draven stopped in mid-air, turning to find a shadowy replica of himself stopping before him...

"What in blazes are you...?"

[Trent]

"Zion, let's MOVE!!!" And Xenai took off in that direction.

"..." And Zion followed.

[Zeros']

"It is possible to expell Haraldur from this dimension, but it will take almost all of my power.. which is, quite alot.." he mumbled under his breath. He looked in the direction Draven flew off and stared.

"Well, it seem Draven might have his hands full," he said. He shrugged and took off in that direction, at a slow, steady pace.