Dark Age Legends

[Dude Man]

Darak continued to advance towards the fortress. He turned his head and looked at Vincent. He seemed to look a bit tense, and acting a bit odd, mostly because of him giving the same command twice. He didn't want think too much of it and continued his way towards the fortress.

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Duilin continued to sail the ship, they were almost there. He remained pretty quiet so far.

Rink was just pacing about, and looking around at the inside of the ship. He then looked at Duilin. He seemed to be enjoying the control over the ship.

"Um, hey Duilin, how long will it be until we get there?" Rink asked

"Not to long, Rink." Duilin replied.

[Xorlak]

Vincent steadily moved the army forward...  Up close, the elevated fortress was looking enormous now...

Still nothing.  Ha!  Ajax is all bark and no bite.  They'll open the doors and submit to High General Vincent any second...

Suddenly, a shrill screech sounded from above and the sky began to darken...  It wasn't one sound, but rather a vast multitude of wyvern screams...  Thousands upon thousands of wyverns poured over the high walls of the fortress and over the heads of the approaching army...  Worse, two smaller legions of airborne wyverns flanked each side of the army as it blanketed the low ground...

Vincent's ride bucked and kicked in the confusion.

"That fool!  How dare he!!"

General Ajax appeared as one of the gates opened high above a cliff, and quite out of reach of the menacing army below.  He was a huge man, bald and with minimal black armor, with a huge battle axe to boot.

"Hah hah hah haaahh!!  If Draven truly is dead, then I shall be the new emperor!!"

[Haraldur]

Haraldur made small warps surround himself and his comrades, and they teleported back downwards, straight downwards, so there would be no scatter.

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They ended up above the rough centre of Alterna, in their exact relative positions as before. Below them, the landscape was dotted with towns and villages, and even farmsteads, with one or more black and red flags flying.

Sensitising his hearing, he could here many shouts from where the people below could see them, in several different dialects: Viva de la Revolucion! Viva el Anarchismo! Evviva il Anarchismo! Evviva Haraldur! Viva Durruti! Viva Tesla! Evviva Marshall! Viva Ein! Meurte de la Fascismo!

Durruti said, "Let us go to the Eastern Dark Continent, that furthest away from the Greys, and organise an insurgency and revolution."

Haraldur and Tesla nodded. Tesla said, to Marshall and Ein, "Do you want to come?"

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Melkoth had completed the survey, after flying about over the land, and decided to check up on his new High General. He started to fly towards his position.

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Meanwhile, Quintus had finished garrisoning the fortress Sigmund, and was now taking a larger army down the west coast and takin over settlements, and laying siege to all the fortresses they came accross.

[Trent]

"What the hell?" Xenai tried to see what was going on, though he could already tell.

"If you let us go," said Zion, "We'll help you fight."

"What? Then we can't do the prison escape thing!" o_o!
"If you want to so badly, you can flick the High General in the head or something." -_-;
"That's not gonna do it!" ;_;
"Psh... Whatever. We don't even know that they'll let us fight. They'll probably just put us back on the logs afterward, so you'll still get to do your prison escape thing." ¬_¬

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This IS just like Sigmund... I inflicted a huge blow on him, but he got one bigger on me... The Spiral Sphere... I thought it was stronger than that!

"I have a trick too," said Tsu.

He sheathed his sword. He then raised his right hand, and flung it down. Suddenly, it erupted with lightning, making the chirping of a thousand birds.

Aura started to create another Spiral Sphere... The crowd started roaring... I get the feeling this scene's been done before, somewhere...

[Zeros']

Allen looked up quizically to his mother, before the scene shifted again and now, he saw several people up in the air, with one man holding a huge ball of power, while the others tried to stop him, but they were unsucessful.

"But..." he murmured. He knew what scene this was and his eyes widened in shock and fear. This was the moment the MDAA was released. He saw the energy suddenly implode on itself, as the man and the island suddenly disentagrated. He heard screams... He heard his mother... His father...

His family...

Tears streamed from his eyes, as he hit the ground roughly, being deposited back in front of the ethernal figure. Allen looked up and glared at the hood of the monster, as he shakily stood on his feet.

"You..." he growled. He was silenced, as he struggled to talk, silenced by some other force. He settled for growling, as more scenes shifted before his eyes... All of different fears...

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Zeros' nodded in agreement. He could also sense they were close.

He just wasn't quite sure what they'd find once they arrived... Death... Destruction...

He simply didn't know anything anymore...

[Dude Man]

Marshal grinned as the people cheered his name. "Yes I shall come." Marshal replied.

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Darak narrowed his eyes. "High General Vincent. It seems that a peaceful takeover will not happen. Shall we charge!?" He asked, reading to charge to the fortress.

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Abodahon then saw Melkoth moving towards Vincent's position. He thought he would go join the fray but he felt that he could handle it. He could hear the cries of the wyverns from were he stood.

He then looked back at the ever-expanding fortress Quintus was working on.

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The ship finally arrived at the main land location. "Okay boys, we're here. Anything you need to do before we undock the ship?" He asked

Rink shook his head. "Nope." He then looked to Zeros'

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Valos was hiding in the shadows; he had cast an invisibility spell upon himself. He saw Duilin's ship arrive.

"Heh, Young Talonscar has arrived..." Valos whispered

"Now my children, go and strike when the time is right..."

A group of translucent skeleton like creatures appeared, they were red and walked on all fours, and had spider like legs, there skulls appeared to be in the shape of a human's but had a larger lower jaw and sharp teeth. The demonic creatures crawled from behind the ghosted Valos and disappeared behind trees and rocks.

[Xorlak]

"Yes!  Attack!!  Darak, I give you two thousand men.  Storm the front gate."

He pointed to a long, narrow path that lead up the side of the cliff, eventually leading to the front gate of the fortress high above.  At most points the path was so narrow, that soldiers would only be able to march two per row, with a rock wall to their right and a vertical drop off to their left...

A wyvern suddenly descended upon the two from behind Darak.  The flaps of Vincent's trench coat  opened and he produced his silver shotgun within an instant.  Holding it with his right hand, he blasted the creature down, and it barreled through the air, flying overhead and crashing behind Vincent.

"I will keep the wyverns off of you and follow once I get the situation under control here."


The wyverns began their collective attack, surrounding the grounded army almost completely.  Blast of fire and ice reigned from the sky, and blue orbs flew from the grey mages in return.


One of the soldiers laughed at Zion.

"Hah!  Yeah, right.  Like we'll fall for that one--"

*KABLAM!!!*

The soldier was instantly vaporized by a fiery explosion, knocking the other soldiers that were holding the trio off of their feet.  The logs fell to the ground along with their prisoners, and the chain binding Tsu's left hand shook lose...

[Trent]

Tsu capitalized on this opportunity, removing his left hand. "After I get you guys out, kill the wyverns! We'll do just as you said we would!"

"Now! 千鳥!!!"
(Chidori - Thousand Birds)

His hand erupted with lightning, commencing to make the sound of a thousand birds chirping. He used it to pierce through the other chains. He hopped up and and freed Zion and Xenai in the same way. The two jumped off their logs and grabbed their weapons from some nearby soldiers. Tsu looked to a nearby wyvern and charged more energy into his hand to keep the technique alive for a little longer...

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Aura and Tsu stared each other down... And suddenly, they charged each other! They thrusted out at each other...

"Holy Spiral Sphere!!!"
"Chidori!!!"

And the two attacks connected. They started to push at each other, each feeding all the power possible into their attacks... This would be the decisive exchange!

[Dude Man]

"Yes, High General!" Darak replied.

"Charge! To the fortress! Single file, along the path!" He commanded.

Darak charged his way along the pathway. He motioned for a bunch of the soldiers to go in front of him. "Watch the path it's narrow." He warned.

One of the soldiers was shot by a fire blast from one of the wyverns, Darak ran faster and swung his axe as he ran at it, cutting it's stomach as he dashed under it.

Darak continued to advance towards the fortress. "Spread out, but stay in line!" He yelled to the warriors.

[Xorlak]

The lizard Vincent was riding on bucked and reared in the confusion.  Making an adjustment to a dial on his weapon, Vincent lifted the shotgun and fired on an approaching wyvern rider, knocking him off the beast.  With a leap, he bounded to the flying wyven's back as it passed over head.  At least this one he had some experience with.

He pointed the red wyvern to a group of others now about to storm Darek's men on the cliff side and the creature obeyed, himself now souring through the air on the wyvern's back.  In transit, he removed a tall cartridge from his inner trench coat pocked, and snapped it into the slot on the top of the shotgun with a click.  Flipping a switch near the base of the cartridge to the "Auto" setting, Vincent grinned as the gun began a barely audible high pitched hum...

Directing his wyvern to flyby the group of enemy wyvern riders descending upon Darek and his men, he firmly held the gun with both hands and squeezed the trigger.  Explosion after explosion ripped from the tip of the barrel.  The enemy wyverns screamed as he flanked them, spraying them each at least once with the explosive blasts.  Ten shots in rapid succession maimed the majority of the group too badly to fly, and they fell out of the sky, the others retreating towards another wyvern group nearby...


General Ajax burst from the front gate at the top of the path.

"GRAHH HA HA HA HA HAAAH!!!!"

Hundreds of Crimson solders behind him in single file, he raced down the narrow path straight  into the first of Darak's men, knocking them over the edge of the cliff like bowling pins with his huge battle axe...

[Trent]

Tsu pulled his hand back, and leapt up at the wyvern. "It's over! Chidori!" The lightning edge made contact, and pierced right through the winged creature.

Zion darted up a nearby tree, getting to the tip and jumping off, like a gymnast, toward another nearby wyvern. He spiraled around in the air, and ended up slashing through it at the end.

Xenai just did it raw. He quickly charged up an energy blast and winged it at another wyvern. It took the hit, and spiraled down to the ground.

"Alright," said Zion. "There should still be more!"

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Suspense...

[Dude Man]

Darak charged forth, only to find the monstrous General Ajax slashing away at his soldiers. He continued moving forward, a deep breath, he then came closer and made eye contact with the General. "Prepare yourself!" He shouted. His axe was smaller, but probably faster then his opponent?s. Yet Ajax looked much stronger then him, but Darak was still an experienced soldier, probably more skilled then three of the warriors combined. He then swung his battle-axe at Ajax in a diagonal motion. "Hiya!"

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//Oh yes Ein has given me temporary control of his characters.\\

Ein nods his head. "I'll also come. I'm ready for more action." He grinned.

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For argument's sake we will assume Steorra has followed Darak and has agreed to help them out on the attack.

She casts a white light-based magic laser at a few of the wyverns attacking, taking them out.

[Zeros']

Zeros' shook his head, as he stood, cracking his neck and knuckles.

"Nope. I don't need anything. Let's get out of here," he said, as he walked slowly out of the ship. He had felt the creatures, but hadn't said anything yet. He wanted to see how far Duilin had progressed. Just recently, he had started to think of Duilin as a kid brother, unoffically.

He stuffed his hands in his pockets and waited for Duilin and Rink near the enterance of the ship.

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Allen dusted himself off and glared at Fear again. The creature just took a slow, rattling breath and Allen shivered, as the temperature dropped again. He tried to ignore the fears circling in front of his eyes, trying to settle on more pleasent emotions.

He had no idea how he could defeat someone... Such as this creature.

[Xorlak]

Vincent circled the wyvern towards the fortress wall, and pointed the beast into a quick dive.  Just as he cleared the top of the wall, an explosion hit the wyvern's underbelly from an unseen source, and Vincent was thrown from the flying creature, tumbling on top of the outer stone wall.  He caught himself in a crouching position, holding his shotgun tightly with his right hand...


Just below Vincent, Ajax slammed his axe into a Grey soldier.

"You TRAITOR!!  Now you DIE!!!"

He plunged the battle axe upwards, in an opposite diagonal motion to meet Darak's.  A spark shot from the two metal axes as their blades scraped, and Ajax's weapon was pushed backwards, causing him to loose balance for an instant, surprised at Darak's strength.  Without hesitation, he swung his axe a second time.  Clearing well over Darak's head, the blade lodged into the rock wall to his left, causing boulders to dislodge and tumble down upon his opponent and the soldiers immediately behind...

[Trent]

Tsu looked to the rocks that were starting to fall. Perfect... He could also hit that Ajax guy from here while saving Darak. He pointed his hand at Ajax... "Twilight Blast!" The sparkling blacklight shot forth, vaporizing the rocks that threatened to hit the grey soldiers, and would plow right through toward Ajax.

Zion bounced off of the mid air remains of the wyvern he just killed over to another one and killed it the same way. Another wyvern came right behind Xenai. He turned around and swung Zero Weapon down, crushing it and slashing through it at the same time.

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There was a bright flash...!