Dark Age Legends

[D. Ein]

//Can't sleep... and since it's over 12 here, i'm technically posting as tomorrow Razz\\

Eventually Ein got bored of walking aimlessly around the city, so he decided to put his time to a good use. He headed back to the city square, then went the road he came from originally. He came to the wall. "God damn this wall! Where's the ladder?!" Of course, since he is so lazy, Ein decided to make his own "ladder". He simply climbed the wall. As he got up there, he walked around until he reached Tesla, who was concentrating on something.
-"Hello again, friend. I'm sorry for disturbing you, but I've yet to learn your name."

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After wondering around the town, Gerard understood that this town was not so promising, as for his skill. He only aquired a piece of stannum, and not even that much. He exited the city and continued walking.

//for those who don't know their chemistry, Stannum is latin for tin, hence the strange name on the periodic table (Sn). Oh yeah, and trent, you got the 3,000th post \\

[Haraldur]

"My name is Nikola Tesla, comrade. Now, if you would excuse me..."

Above Nikola, a patch of blue appeared in the red of the shield, becoming bright white in the centre. Suddenly, with a loud thunder crash, a long string of charge left the dome and arced upwards towards Redvik. It hits a tower (not a special tower, just any old tower) on the fortress, smashing it to smithereens, sending rubble falling onto the soldiers below (unless, of course, there is some sort of shield, but if there is, the energy has to go somewhere...)

[Xorlak]

(Audience's reaction to Haraldur's comment about Zeros' mother:)

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooh..."  (Heh...)

(Trent:  Try going down to one character.  I had to do that for a while, myself.)

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Draven placed his fingertips together in front of him.

"Yes, that would work.  Here, take this."

He tossed Salazar a small green orb.

"Give that to your commander.  I will broadcast the order to attack over that.  Now at the risk of seeming rude, I must take my leave, as I have other matters to attend to.  Good day, Generalísimo."

He stood up and began to walk towards the exit behind him.

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The necromancer's movements were very unnatural and sporadic, and he zipped through the forest while Ven began to fall farther and farther behind.  He stopped, raising his staff to the sky.

"Hehehehehehehee..."

On the surface of a large tree behind him, a portal opened.  It looked like a vortex of violet and black, and the matter around the portal began to twist and distort.

"I think not!!"

Sill in a full sprint, and some 100 feet behind, Ven slashed his sword through the air, sending a crescent shaped blade of wind at the tree, shattering it and causing it to fall   upon the opening of the portal."

"W-W-WHAT?!?!"

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Valos' kick hit Mavas in the leg, tripping him and forcing him to do a sort of summersault to avoid tumbling on the ground.  He broke away from Valos and landed on his feet about three feet away in a crouch, splintering another wooden chair in the process.  He paused for a split second.

Curses.  Have to do it fast or the rest of the camp will find out.

His form began to distort, a black aura engulfing him, and his body and armor morphed to their normal forms, his eyes burning red.

"Heh heh hehh..."

Without warning, his right hand drew the jagged blade on his back and thrust it forward.  What looked like liquid metal flew from the sword-- a half dozen droplets that molded into small knife shapes in mid air, while flying at the general...

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General Vincent watched the collapsing tower through his office window within the center of the Redvik fortress.  His hands behind his back, his eyes hidden behind the glare in his glasses.  Soldiers began busting into his office at random intervals.

"Sir!  An explosion!  One of the south towers!"

"S-Sir!  Witnesses report some sort of beam from the south!"

"Sir!  T-they're firing at us!  From Laus!!!"

"Sir!  Shall I contact the capital?"

Vincent smiled.  Just slightly.

"No, that will not be necessary."

"Huh...?"

He turned around to find some ten soldiers saluting him.  The ones in the back waiting for the chance to give their reports.

"We have just been attacked.  We require no permission for self defense.  Prepare to  return fire."

"B-but sir!  There is no way our guns can reach that far!"

Vincent pointed to the sky. (But was actually pointing through the ceiling to the very tip of the fortress.)

"Ready.  The BIG GUN."

*GASP*

"T-t-t-th-the B-BIG GUN, sir?  But i-it's still..."

"Do it... NOW!"

They all snapped to attention at once, all yelling:

"Sir!  Yes sir!"

and scattered out of the room.

Vincent turned back to the window.  Finally, after all these years... the chance he was looking for...  He shall be the one to defeat Ragnar... Oh, the fame!   The glory!  The fortune!

[Zeros']

Zeros' heard the comment, and his blood turned cold. His wings froze in mid-flap and his eyes stared ahead, glazed over. His hands dropped to his sides, and his head bowed.

Even through Zeros' calculating mind, Zeros' saw red. Blood red. His head snapped up and his hair color started to change widly, as did his wing colors. His aura expanded slowly, very slowly, interchanging between colors. Until finally... Zeros' snapped.

His aura exploded all around him. The sky that was formely red, was now tinged all different colors. Zeros' wings were mixed between black, white, red, gold and green, while his hair was a mix between it's original silver, black, and golden. His right eye was white and his left eye was black.

No one called his mother a whore, and lived to tell about it.

Time slowled down to a crawl. Zero's merely flapped his wings once, and he was speeding through the air faster then anyone could follow. He reached Haraldur in less then a second, and got infront of him.

Time speed up again, and Zeros' ghosted into view about 10 yards infront of Haraldur. His left hand crackled with a ball of pure light, while his right hand held a ball of pure destruction. He brought his hands out to his sides, and forced the two opposites into another.  His eyes were cold and hollow, showing no emotion. Not even anger.

The ball of swirling black and white sped towards Haraldur faster then anyone could see, but Haraldur. If it was stopped, it would simply implode out 50 yards in all directions. It didn't even leave an afterimage as it sped towards the crazed man who called Zero's mother a whore...

[D. Ein]

Ein saw the sky go up in insane colours.
-"Sir Tesla, don't you think that's sort of odd?"
He found a rock lying nearby, and etched a small diagram on the top of the wall, next to him.
-"If you stand in the middle of this, it should increase your mental powers, so you can support your shield for a longer amount of time and damage than usual."

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Gerard continued walking, as he heard a loud roar to the right of him. He turned around, only to see two tusks ramming into his chest. He fell over.
-"What the...?"
He looked closer at his attacker, realizing that it was a wild boar. He ripped his dagger out of it's sheath, and lunged it deep into the beast's chest.

[Haraldur]

Tesla nodded, and stood on the diagram, feeling his metal powers quicken. He sent two more beams arcing towards random places within Redvik.

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Salazar left the room, and passed the orb wordlessly to his deputy.

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"Oh, so you dispute the fact that she was a member of my father's harem? How else do you think she got those claw marks on her back?"

An odd spontaneous warping caused the two balls to curved around and down, now flying down straight into the heart of Redvik, as they were now right above it. The two energy balls hit the North wall of the fortress.

Haraldur's flying motion changed, now moving very fast but always within the limits of the city of Redvik. Yes, let him unleash destruction here, let him unwittingly assist me. He let himself fly backwards as if hit by an attack, and let himself smash through the North-East tower of the fortress, showering rubble into the city.

Haraldur turned in a movement not unlike that of a skater on ice, and seemed to skate on the air. Below him, yellow, red and black clouds of burning oil appeared and started to rain down on the city. He laughed, it had been ages since he had used that spell.

Lightning flew down from the malevolent clouds, onto the remaining towaers of the fortress. Haraldur caused a ball lightning to fly out of the clouds and go towards Zeros' and home in on him.

Below, the wooden built city surrounding the fortress burned.

[Dude Man]

Duilin used his blade to block the energy disc and the plasma blast. He realized that Zeros' was very enraged about the comment that Haraldur gave. He kept a grip on his blade of energy; he then backed away a few feet. He began to charge more power into his blade...

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Marshal, gets blasted by the ray of light, and falls to the ground; his gun goes off firing, not hitting anything in particular. He grabs his weapon, but holds it only using his right hand. He then uses his free hand to hold the gem on his amulet. The sapphire shines, and a spectre begins to appear...

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Valos, swung out his sword from its holster, and slashed at the knives flying towards him.

"Intruder!" Valos yells, to get the soldiers attention. He then charges dark energy into his sword, it then glows a dark purple. He then ghosts behind Mavas and swings his large black, empowered sword at his enemy?s back.

A few soldiers take out there weapons and dash towards the commotion.

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"Okay, well enough fun here." Rink says. "I think I have enough information now. I better fly back to Redvik." He says. And then he jumps up and flaps his wings, and flies toward Redvik.

[D. Ein]

//someone 'xcuse me for being a noob, but does Zeros' mother exist in this RP?\\

[Kahn]

Hyperion took the antidote and got on the saddle.


"Acolytes eh? This should be fun."

[Trent]

//WOOT! I have the 3000th post! Damn, this RP's old! >D I may reduce my characters to just Aura, but all four of them are entagled in conflict right now.

Tsu was starting to catch up now, breathing heavily. "My god, what is this thing?"

Zion jumped up, turned a flip, and waited for the right angle... He connected his wrists and fired at the ground... A beam jump. That would send him to his destination quickly. He righted himself, landed, and skidded to a stop.

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"Uhhh..." Xenai slowly awakened, sitting up in the bed. "That was not a good decision... Euh? Where the hell am I?"

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She dashed out of the tree, fury visible in those beautiful blue eyes. She had to finish this guy off quick so she could help Valos. She rapidly came upon the man, while charging up a short-distance teleport. What the heck is this specter? She would need to get between the two...

[D. Ein]

Ein spectated the fight, wondering whether there's anything he should be doing right now.

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The beast let out a deafening wail, and eventually stopped moving. Gerard threw the beast off his chest, dusted himself off, and kept walking towards his yet unspecified target. After a good solid walk he reached what looked like a military camp, with a lot of fights going on in it. He only saw one fight, though. The other one he had a clue about, because there seemed to be some sort of a commotion inside of one of the houses. Outside the house there was someone firing a gun.
-"Hmm... I wonder what principle that object operates on..."
He then came up closer to the two people fighting, hiding in the shadows.

[Dude Man]

//I think Zeros' mother appeared a couple of chapters ago, near the end of chapter five. But I'm not sure if that was her. \\

"You shall soon learn a lesson, a very valuable one indeed." Marshal grinned to Aura. "Have you heard about my skill of summoning?" He asked, not expecting an answer.

The blue spectre came into shape. It was large, about 20 feet tall. It was humanoid shaped, but had a bull shaped head. He was holding a large hammer, yet it could hold it in one hand. It had smooth brownish fur along its muscular body, and wore a rag around its waist, held up by a golden belt. The figure was a Minotaur. (It looked alot like the one in Heretic, or the Dark Servant in Hexen, if you have played any of those games.)

The monster roared, it stared at Aura, and deeply exhaled, wind visibility blew from its nose. It then smashed its hammer down at the ground; creating a large shockwave booming it's way towards Aura.

[Trent]

Perfect! He fell for it! She performs the teleport right before the hammer strikes, allowing the shockwave to wear off before phasing back in between Marshal and the specter.

"Shining Bind!" The same attack she used to prove her worth upon the soldiers was unleashed here. A large white circle appeared on the ground with her in the center. The energy in the circle lashed out, upwards at Marshal and the specter, several times. Then, 3 times more blows were unleashed all in 3 seconds, these being a little weaker.

That attack just drained her severely. She won't be doing that one again for a while.

//Again, link to a clip of the move <a href='http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/ToS%20PS2%20(JP)%20Abicion's%20Shining%20Bind.rmvb' target='_blank'>here</a>.

[Zeros']

//Yeah. That was his mother. It was why his eyes are green.\\

Zeros' stared and Haraldur, and idly grabbed the ball of lightning that headed straight for him. He simply crushed it, and shook his hand, getting rid of the numbness that was caused from the voltage.

"Your father was a bastard Haraldur. He FORCED her! HE FORCED HER!" he growled out between clenched teeth. He disappeared, and did one of Haraldur trick, bending space and time to his will.

Haraldur slowed down to a crawl. He was moving at a snails pace now. Zeros' ghosted, and reappeared RIGHT above Haraldur (as in a few centimeters). His fingers snapped together, and he threw a knifehand thurst, right at the flesh that covered Haraldur's neck...

Outside of reality, it simply looked as if Zeros' had disappeared, and reappeared with his hand blurring down towards Haraldur's neck.

[Xorlak]

In the middle of a stride, Ven grabbed his sword with both hands and thrust it into the ground, putting energy into the blade.  An explosion followed, sending him flying upwards and over the necromancer.  He performed a flip and landed on his feet.  The gray robed man was now surrounded on two sides, Zion and Tsu being on the opposite side as Ven.

Ven's face was different.  He seemed disgusted, even enraged...

"Last chance!  Mavas.  NOW!"

"Hsss!  DIE AWAY!!"

A raised staff produced three orbs of shadow energy, which rotated around the necromancer once before each sped of for its own target...

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Blast.  Cover blown.  Oh, well...

Mavas performed a leap backwards, tearing through the wall of the tent and landing out in the open in the middle of the camp.  Soldiers from all sides surrounded him, brandishing their weapons...

But Mavas was distracted... The sky was changing colors... two large forces quickly passed overhead northward.  One he recognized...

"You... I promised you, didn't I... Even better than before... Myeh heh hehh..."

He stabbed a soldier in his way, and barged through the rest, northward into the forest...

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Chaos was everywhere in Redvik.  Some of the attacks were being repelled, some reflected even.  Some hit their marks, causing death and destruction to rain down upon the city.

Small magic powered cannons began to fire upon Haraldur from various turrets.  A small legion of wyvern riders was unleashed to pursue.  The airships remained underground... for the moment...

A large block on the top of the fortress split, a long metallic cylinder emerging from within, with various tubes and such connected to it... some 100 yards in length and 10 feet in diameter... it was... THE BIG GUN...  A translucent red dome shield appeared around it as it slowly angled towards it's target.

"Sir!  S-should we call for backup?"

"No!  We haven't even begun to fight back...  FIRE IT!"

"But sir, we must increase the energy beyond recommended levels to reach Laus.  If we..."

"NOW!"


A deep humming sound could be heard as the mammoth gun powered up, the innards of the barrel glowing a deep crimson...


Vincent adjusted his glasses.

"Colonel, oversee the cannons.  I'm going up top."

"Up top?!  Outside?  Sir, I cannot recommend--"

He was gone, dashed out the doorway, and wound up the stairs.  General Vincent appeared on the roof.  Not the same structure as the giant cannon, but atop a fairly close tower that jutted out of the fortress, not quite as tall as the highest point, which the cannon was resting on.

Vincent adjusted his glasses and placed his hands behind his back, eyeing the destruction around him as the breeze blew his hair and flaps of his black trench coat.  There he was... flying overhead... Ragnar... the prize... and another, fighting?  Who is that?

Vincent smiled lightly...