Dark Age Legends

[Haraldur]

Ranks of trolls scurried out of openings in the ground, attacking Dark Empire soldiers on sight. The Dark Empire soldiers were terrified because their swords had very little effect on the stone bodies of the trolls.

A troop of trolls, on seeing Draven, screamed and charged at him and his opponent, wishing to maim and kill.

[Cyber Wolf]

Duilin had walked into the large Cavern "room" and the scourge automatically started attacking Duilin.

 //Don't worry Dude Man, Duilin isn't getting hurt unless you want him to, sorry if I end up controlling Duilin somewhere in here, but Duilin has to combat the Scourge at least a little bit, it's attacking him..//

Duilin evaded the Scourges swings and even managed a few gashes into the monsters tail.

Seth saw Duilin battling the Scourge and thought, "What a perfect distraction.."

Seth kneels down and stares at the ground while mumbling an incantation. Then he raises his right arm out to his side and points at the target with his left hand. An aura of  red and orange surrounds his right hand, then after a few moments a ball of flames about 2 feet in diameter appears on his left hand and flys out of his palm, onto the Scourge.

The ball of fire striked the Scourge in the chest and it wailed in pain.

The Scourge was obviously weakened, but not dead.

The Scourges tail wasn't moving much because of the pain it was experiencing from the 3rd degree burns it had on her weakest spot, the human half of her body.

Seth was able to run up and get a good couple of slashes on the Scourges human half of her body and she bled badly from this.

She crumpled down, but wasn't dead.. yet.

[Dude Man]

"Whoa!" Duilin yelled as he saw the scourge, after the small battle, Duilin then punch the Scorge in the gut. Wile she was recovering from the pain Duilin ran about 10 yards away from the monster.

"Okay, hunny, EAT FLAME OF DEATH!!!" Duilin raised his hands over his head and charged up the large fire ball and tossed it at the Scourge

//That would most likely kill the thing!//

[Zeros']

Zeros' quickly tried to dodge, but barely got away. He suffered a slash starting at the top right corner of his face and going down to the bottom left corner.

"Humph..." he sighed.

Even though Zeros' was serverly hurt, he ran back at Nex, agian with full force. Blades forward, charging directly towards Nex.

//Dude Man we need to get hurt some...we can't be invincible...\\

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He looked to the right for a second and saw Qeni and Zev pounding on the barrier.

"Zewos! Wet us out!" cried Qeni.

Zeros'...Please dont die...for my sisters sake... Zev thought to himself.

//Soon Qeni and Zev will play a bigger role...but you gotta wait...\\

[Dude Man]

Zeros' blade stabed Nex, but the armor protected him from it going threw and killing him. He shed abit of blood, yet he didn't cry out in any pain at all. He then pushed Zeros' away,wile his head was turned, when he was looking at the kids. Nex then swung out both of his blades and swung one but thrusted the other, at the same time *it may not seem like much but it's accually kinda though to do, wile your fighting, because wile your fighting you need to think fast*

(Meanwile Nex's Wyverin is harmlessly sleeping)

[Zeros']

Zeros' quickly regained his senses towards the battle and blocked both attacks. Using his large katana to block the slice and his small dagger like sword to block the thrust.

The blade that was thrust quickly sparked and slipped off of Zeros' smaller sword, slashing his right side open.

Zeros' stood holding there holding his side, blood dripping onto the ground.

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Qeni and Zev were watching the battle. Qeni started to cry becasue Zeros' was hurt. Zev also started sobbing, but not as much as Qeni.

A goblin appeared behind the two children.

Zeros' sensed it and sheathed his smaller sword and threw the sheath at the barrier. At this moment the barrier open letting the sword through, then closing immediatly after.

Zev stood there hold a sword and a sheath. He knew what he had to do, fight the monster.

Zev stepped infront of Qeni and pushed her into a small cubbyhole. He whispered something to her, "Stay here...Be safe...Don't worry...I'll protect you..." he kissed her forehead and put a large rock infront of the hole.

Qeni started to cry agian. "Zewvy...Zewos'..."

Zev tied the robe attached to the sheath around his waste and unsheathed the sword Zeros' gave him.

The dim torches flikered and gave off little light, making the goblin look even more menacing. The reflections bounced off the sword.

The goblin charged at the child, Zev stumbled around, but manged to block it.

[Haraldur]

//If your "goblin" is supposed to be a troll, remember they wanted to attack the Dark Empire mostly.//

[Mark of the Dragon]

Shin glared towards Draven as his aura re-built itself.

"No. I'm alone. Those fools wouldn't even be worthy of Aritan's army."

The aura of ice compacted itself so much that it would be impossible for the flames to so much as dent it, and then it compressed itself into a sword. Shin took a leather strip from his robes and tied it around where the hilt would be.

"Lets throw the magic aside and try pure combat. What say you, vile demon?"

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Gyulim returned to the inn, only to find that a mass of drunk sailors were all gathered at the tables closest to the door and to the stairs. Sighing to herself, Gyulim headed to the stairs so she could get to the safety of her room.

But it seemed as though the sailors weren't going to make that easy...

"Hey baby...don't leave us hangin' now"

"You wanna...sail da seven seas..."

"I'll buy ya a drink; could pound all night long, hehehe..."



Gyulim did her best to ignore all of the sailors' rude comments, but when one of them smacked her from behind, she couldn't take it anymore. She grabbed that sailor by his hair, and threw him in the direction of the others.

"Now, I'm going to go to my room. If I see any of you lurking outside my door, you'll see the sea again...but you won't be sailing it."

With that, Gyulim continued to her room, and locked the door. Right there on her nightstand...was a letter from her father; one of Aritan's high lords.

"Great...now they know where I am. Can't they let me find Shin before they track me down?"

She picked up the envelope, and opened it.

Dear Gyulim,

Your running away has indeed angered our ruler, but seeing as how you have a noble cause, you will not be punished. I managed to convince him to send out some troops to help you locate Shin. They are all at the inn now, disguised as sailors so as not to draw attention. I wouldn't be surprised if they had all gotten drunk already, but if so, don't let them get to you. However, if they show any serious disrespect, make it clear to them that you will not tolerate it at all.

Included with this envelope is 10,000 units of that port town's currency. I figured you would be low on money at this point, and I knew that you would need help sooner or later.

Now be a good girl, and good luck on finding your love.


-Father

[Xorlak]

Draven raised an eye at his opponent, but soon shifted his glance to his left...  For some reason, some twenty or thirty small trollish creatures were charging at him and his opponent brandishing short swords and axes.

"Oh, for the love of..."

Lowering his crimson blade, Draven extended his left palm.  A surge of crimson energy gathered, forming into an orb.  He let the fireball charge until the trolls were some 100 feet away, then fired.  The orb rocketed through the air, slamming into the lead group and exploding on impact.  The frontmost creatures immediately liquidated into nothing, the rest flew backwards hundreds of yards engulfed in flame...  Draven had a knack of finding ways to burn things that could not be burned...

Draven turned back to Shin with a mocking smile, placing his left hand on his waist, and chopping his flaming sword in the air.

"Oh, I'm sorry, what was that?  I wasn't paying attention..."

[Dude Man]

"Hahahahaha! You pitiful fool! You rid yourself of your one of you swords, you think you can beat me with now? You never could anyways!"

Wile Zeros' was sitting there in pain, Nex swung his two blades down at Zeros' aiming to eiter cut off his arms or slice him into three peices!

[Zeros']

//Ok...its a troll then, and the cave Qeni and Zev are in is the troll's cave.\\

"Think so? Well just see about that...Qeni and Zev are more important then my pitiful life..." he said to Nex.

He grabbed his katana and block horizontally, stopping the assult.

"You think I wouldn't carry more then just two swords? Haha...!" he started laughing

He used his left hand and reached behind him, and pulled out a shuriken. The rain was making his wound hurt more, everytime a drop touched it.

He switched hands on his sword and now held the shuriken in his right hand. He then stabbed himself with it where the wound from Nex's sword was.

He gasped. Then he regained his senses. He mumbled something and then the shurkien started glowing the color of dark red blood.

He then threw it at Nex, right where is lungs were supposed to be.

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Zev was now tangled in combat, this was the first time he ever handled a weapon, other then a stick to keep away snakes.

Zev backed up alittle and regained his balance. He was the one to charge this time. The troll held out his hand hoping to block it, but instead his hand was cut in half.

The troll screamed out in pain. Hold his arm where his hand was supposed to be. Zev took this moment. He charged agian at the troll, this time aiming for his head.

Contact was made between steel and flesh.

The cave troll's head was taken clean off. Blood gushed out from his neck, staining the walls and roof of the cave.

Zev stood in the middle of the cave, the sword bloody, his clothes stained. He now has his hands stained with blood.

He went over to where the small cubby hole was and moved the rocks. Qeni was there, eyes closed, still sobbing. She cried herself to sleep.

Zev picked up his sister and put her over his back (like a piggy back ride). He put the sword back in its sheath. He then found another cubby hole, big enough for the both of them.

He took the sword, and budged a boulder infront of it. The pressure was too much, and it broke the sword in half. He fell asleep right there on the rocky cold ground, his sister beside him.

His last thought before he went to sleep, Zeros'...please.

[Haraldur]

//Er... Zeros': these trolls are made of rock. No blood, and you could not cut into them with a sword.//

A troop of about 1500 trolls approached a building surrounded by bruning, dead and wounded soldiers, all wearing the uniforms of the Dark Empire. They charged, and the troops of the Dark Empire were massacred. They found a man dozing among a heap of broken chains, and ignored him.

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Haraldur teleported to be above the island. He saw some people fighting far below, and saw that one was Draven and another was some martial artist. He went down at huge speed: flames burned around him and he seemed to cause a bow wave of flame in the air. A strange field seemed to surround him ,engulfed by flame. Winds swept all around him. Above him a tornado started forming, caused by his movement. He hit the ground. The ground exploded around him and the people fighting. The rocks underneath crumbled and magma came to the surface. The winds swpt around and caused a fire storm, which soon swept into to nearby forest.

Haraldur appeared again above the island, and saw that the forests were burning again. Annoyed, he caused rain to fall, but on the forests only. He also caused a small cloud to be 500 metres above Draven and rain on him and follow him everywhere.

He teleported so that he was in front of Draven and said, "Some people claim there is nothing better than a cold shower. And you look as if you have a hangover, so I have taken things into my own hands for your well being." Droplets of water started to drop towards Draven. Haraldur dematerialised.

[Dude Man]

//Oh and Haradular, Nex and Zeros' are fighting close by aswell, just thought I'd let you know//

The shuriken then stabed Nex right in the lung. He gasped for air, and stumbled abit, he didn't seem to be okay at the moment.

"I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!" Nex yelled in extreme rage, "Might aswell make this place have an even bigger fire problom now" he charged up a huge fire ball, and I mean huge for the size of these things and tried to toss it at Zeros' but it took to much energy for him, so then he fell to the ground and the fireball evaporated, he started gasping for air. Nex's Wyverin wakes up, because of the sound of flame, notices what is going on and flys over screeches at Zeros' and pics up Nex and flys away...

[Haraldur]

//Yes, I do know, and they would also be affected by the huge ball of wind, fire and flying rocks. And by the magma spurting out from the ground.//

[Zeros']

//Theres a twist...\\

Zeros' gasped, he held his side and he fainted.

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The troll got up off the ground. He went over to where his fake head was and smashed it agianst the wall.

The troll popped his head out and started to walk off in the back depths of the cave.