Dark Age Legends

[Burton_projects]

"I will protect Kronos"said Nick."I shall not let him die this time i will not let someone die becuase of my cowardness." Nick's eyes burned like everlasting flames"Not this time"He yelled. A visable energy came around him as if he was on fire.

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"Nick the first time wasn't your fault, it was mine i should have been there." Calavous walked up to his brother and touched him. nick energy grew 3 fold. Calavous backed away. "Brother stop it cool down." Calavous put his hand on Nick's Back and drained his energy. Nick fell down and Calavous hoisted him on his back.

[Trent]

//Don't hurry too fast. I'll never get to use Seijin and his connected plot device at this rate. Razz

The trio sped up to equal Zeros' speed, but the ship was still a little far off. "Damnit...!" Tsu was very worried about Aura. "I don't think we'll make it in time... Seijin... Don't let me down!"
"Wait, Seijin?" Zion looked up at Tsu questioningly.
"I told you once before..."

Seijin waited... Tensed up... Transcender in hand... "I don't like how this looks. I might have to go down there after all."

Aura's teeth and fists were clenched. She was scared, but stood her ground. "Others... Others...? No, no! I don't need Tsu! I can beat this myself!!!"

[Xorlak]

Jayce rose his head, looking past Melkoth.

"Excuse me.  I'll be back."


Though the thickness of the mist, Allen and Aura could see a towering black figure slowly approaching them...

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"Whoa, now. Slow down."

Vincent motioned for the rest to follow as he lead the group towards the front gates of Redvik while talking with Steorra.

"As powerful as Ragnar, you say?  Hmm, well I would say that's a stretch, but of course I will be watching him anyway.  Now what is this about him dying?  That doesn't make any sense.  If he would gain so much power, why wouldn't he just kill himself now?"

This art of necromancy was intriguing.  As an alchemist, he had done some research in creating human life.  He had come to the conclusion that it was not possible, as had many alchemist before.  But the approach from necromancy was completely different, it being magical rather than scientific.  Although the effect wasn't perfect and the resurrected beings were basically monsters, it was much more impressive than the disgusting blobs of flesh alchemists had produced in their failed experiments.

Passing several piles of rock and rubble, Vincent reached the front gate to the massive fortress and found it was left open, probably by those undead creatures...

[Trent]

Aura's eyes widened. "Wh-... Who are you?" She took her scimitar out, trembling a little bit, but still standing firm. "Do you come in peace?"

[D. Ein]

Steorra thought for a second.
-"There is only one other accounted record of that happening. I'd guess he doesn't want to take chances, since even he himself does not know what will happen. Now you would probably think that a megalomaniac like Kronos wouldn't care, and simply dive into this whole business head-first. Usually people like him - achieved people, with nearly infinite amounts of power - wouldn't care for death. I'd guess that he wants to do something before leaving this world... Perhaps something to do with that army? It couldn't be as simple as just destroying that temple he mentioned. Realistically, no matter how strong the temple's defences are and how powerful the people inhabiting it would be, you would not raise almost ten thousand zombies just for that. Not to mention those... abominations... did you see them?"
She then paused, and eyed Vincent suspiciously.
-"Heey... When he mentioned his name, you seemed to recognize him. Is there something that I should perhaps be aware of?"

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"I flew and flew and flew. As I was flying... an idea struck me. I was over the ocean dividing the Crimson Continent and the Kandarinian Souvereignity right now. I quickly disassembled the wyvern I was flying on, and rebuilt it to resemble a small flying platform. Letting go of the one bone I was holding onto while reconstructing the dead creature, I landed on the newly built platform, and sat upon it. This is an ideal place for a new centre of operations... Not too noticible, not too reachable, and best of all, easily defendable. The ocean beneath me was teeming with the spirits of dead creatures. If an emergency was to arise, I had much force to repel it, whatever it may be.

Well, here it comes. I slowly lowered the mental barrier separating my mind from the undeads...

VOICES!!! Booming voices from everywhere, every direction, every side, every plane, every dimension! Too loud...! Too noisy... too... distracting...

I felt myself collapse onto the platform. My mind was now fully spread across the army. Not only was I hearing voices from my troops, I also saw images from their... eyes? Whatever was left of them, anyway. At this point, I must stop writing, as I did not remember much from that point on..."

There was a small gap in the journal entries.

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//Imperial March (Star wars, Darth Vader theme melody) plays:\\
The undead army was marching across the land. Every forest they reached, they cut down. Every village in their path was destroyed. All inhabitants, children, seniles, and women alike were slaughtered, just to be raised back as a part of the army. They were simply consuming all resistance.
Only to make matters worse, Kronos got a better hold of his army, freeing some of his mind. As the army walked, new undeads dug their way out of the ground, joining the main force. The army's magnitude was quickly climbing.

[TK Game Boy]

//We are in the Crimson continent, next to Redvik. I don't know exactly who is in Romme right now. I am also somewhat at a loss where Quadricentennial is...\\

(//Quad is somewhere in the castle with the monsters and ghouls that were summoned. Though looks like the char who occupies the castle has left. I dunno.)

Siddling along, he came to a halt for the wall ended. If he wanted to presume, he'd have to be out in the open.

Oh no. In such a territory with monsters running around. What am I to do. There was a window on top of him that was open. He looked in. It was a kitchen and there was a chef, who was now leaving. He climbed up on it but did not realize there was a pie cooling on the shelf and burned his hand.

"OW! He screamed."

"HEY! Whose that?" said one of the soldiers. Quadricentennial jumped inside and hid under the table. There was nothing covering it so he could be spotted if a soldier checked. Soldiers entered the kitchen. The checked around throughly in the kitchen. They check in the cuboards, inside the walk-in freeze box. One even looked under the table.

"Did you find anything?"

"No."

"He must of jumped through the window. Let's go."

They all left. Quadricentennial was lucky enough that the soldier only looked down and didn't check the top of it, which Quadricentennial hanged on too by holding on to the sides of the table that had a piece of wood suspended around the tabletop supporting the legs. He got down from it. He waited for the soldiers to be gone. After they did he got down from the table, only to see Magnot.

"AHA!" said Magnot.

[Dude Man]

Meanwhile at the Blue Minotaur temple...

"Elder!" General Roland said "We are being attacked!" He shouts in a scared voice

"Attacked?" The elder asks "But who could have found us out...Marshal..."

"What? What about Marshal."

"I bet that fool gave out our position. If I haven't of known any better I would have got rid of that boy."

"I don't think it has anything to do with that, your greatness. The...people who are attacking us...are well, zombies. Thousands of them, I think we may have to use, the Master Crystal."

"Well, DUH!" The elder then runs to the door way of the temple.

The temple was a large building, with torches on each corner of it, on the roof was a large blue crystal on a pedestal, and lower from it was a large prism.

The elder lifts up his hands, he sees the undead army coming towards him. Roland runs to the doorway and runs past the elder outside the temple. He draws his sword and holds out his staff with his left hand and begins to summon a something.

The large crystal above blasts a large blue laser as the elder's hands begin to glow a light blue color. The laser it blasted into the prism and ten separate lasers blast onto the ground. Instantly, ten minotaurs armed with large hammers were created. They surround the temple as the undead come closer and closer.

Soldiers of the Blue Minotaur come out of the temple, prepared to fight...

//Don't worry about saving the Blue Minotaur. In fact, don't.\\

[D. Ein]

The undeads were closing in on the temple. Soon enough, the first axe was swung - and an undead soldier crumbled to bits. The undeads stopped.
-"Do not resist us... There will always be more dead than living... Succumb... Die..."
The soldier that was struck down was quickly rebuilt, and got up. The undeads were in motion again.

The minotaurs guarding the temple roared, and dove into the army. The bones of the undeads being smashed by the giant hammers soared into the air, just to be rebuilt again by Kronos in the distance. An unlucky axe swing, and a slain minotaur collapsed on the ground. A few seconds later, however, it moved... and got back up. No longer alive, though. It rushed to attack the other minotaurs, that were still alive.

[Zeros']

Allen frowns and looked close at the figure... It looked like...

He gasped. Jayce. He cursed under his breath, but made no movement to get into a battle stance or prepare anything.

While he was in Paradox, he had a revolution... He tried it out almost right before he got out and he was amazed at the results... He could now do Alchemy without a transmutation circle. It had only been recorded once or twice in histroy had alchemists ever done so.

He only stood firm and calmed himself and prepared his nerves...

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Zeros' frowned and continued forwards at the same speed. It was as fast as he could go without using any of his ki or magical reserves.

He wanted to be prepared for Retan and Jatce.

[Burton_projects]

Calavous tranfered some of Nick's energy into his body and he got up. "What shall we do General Sir?" Nick asked

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Calavous walked up and introduced him self to the group and told then everything about why Nick summoned him through that transmutation circle, and how he got like that. " I was in another demention Hell I was there after a terible accident. I opened the gate of Hell with my powers in a last resort to kill an army so big it was going to unstopable. i was part of a force to go over those mountains. He pointed to mountain far out the horizon. It was a group of half demons called the Fallongs there were hundreds of then with great power. They were marching this way a few years ago aroud when the Crimson empire started. The only way to stop them was to open Hell and suck them in, but i had to sacrifice my self. There was only one surviver of the Fallongs and i sense his power still."

// is it ok to make npcs like that?\\

[Trent]

//Now I have absolutely no doubt. Allen's based on Ed. Razz Hagane no Renkinjutsushi is indeed good stuff. That's Fullmetal Alchemist.

[Dude Man]

//Burton, didn't I already tell you the Grey Empire only recently started, as in it was not around a few years ago. The Crimson Empire however was formed five years ago.\\

"Man, I hope I'll be able to take them..." Duilin says as he continues flying

"Well, we have Zeros' and the others." Rink says

"Yeah, it's just that I usually get really hurt in situations like this." Duilin mumbled. "Well not usually, just sometimes I do. Like I got that ugly scar above my waist when I nearly got impaled by a spear, remember when I told you about that."

"Owch...yeah I remember. Interesting story that was. I almost feel sorry for that Pophin guy."

"Heh, yeah."

//In case you DAL veterans (ie: Zeros', Trent, Haraldur and Xorlak) forgot, in Chapter 3, Pophin threw his spear at Duilin.\\

[D. Ein]

//Time for an epic battle... DM, when I talked to you about it in school, you didn't seem to care much for the Blue M temple, so I'll go ahead and take control, as it's an NPC anyway.\\

The undeads were advancing. One by one, the minotaurs fell. Roland, alarmed, lifted up his arms again, and began an extremely concentrated chant. The army, having consumed all ten minotaurs, kept crawling forward.
Suddenly, a bright beam of light erupted from the Master Crystal, and hit the earth right in front of the army. A large cloud of smoke arose.
-"RAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!"
A gigantic blue dragon was now standing in the middle of the dust cloud! It took a huge breath, and exhaled a long jet of fire.
The undeads were getting fried by the hundreds. The dragon, seemingly satisfied, took flight. It flew around the temple in a gigantic circle, and then soared behind the army.
Another jet of fire brought a few hundred more zombies to a nice crispy condition. The dragon flew high into the sky, then dived right into the middle of the legion, slamming into the ground. A terrible shockwave followed, crumbling another 50 dead troops. The army seemed to pause for a moment.

Meanwhile, Kronos was getting a little unrested. The Blue Minotaurs want to play with big toys? Very well...

Suddenly, a few trees from a forest just behind the blue dragon flew up into the air, crashing into some undeads. Four horrible creatures rose up from the woods, each as big as the dragon. One was an Ogre-Dragon, wielding a long whip made of bones. The second one was an odd mix between a wyvern and a monkey, in which it had two large wings and four enormous hands. Third was an exceptionally tall creature with five legs, each ending in a spike. On top of the legs rested a massive contraption with some undead ogres inside. The last abomination was huge. It was like a bug, covered with tough bone carapace, with thousands of tiny legs underneath it.
The dragon let out a fierce roar, and charged at the newly arrived reinforcements. The bug-tank, trying to hurry as fast as it could, crashed right into the dragon. The undead creature did not seem phased by the concussion; however, the dragon stumbled back, and shook its head in bewilderment. The ogre-dragon then leaped upwards onto its blue relative. The dragon, however, regained its stability, and slammed the ogre-dragon in mid-air, knocking it back down onto the ground.
Roland and the Elder were supervising the battle from above the temple.
-"That dragon completely drained me... I don't think I'll be able to summon anything else soon.", sighed Roland.
-"You did what you could, friend. Let us hope our blue servant shall be successful."
The Gorvern (gorilla-wyvern) hurried past the army to the dragon. Just as the blue reptile turned around, it was greeted by a bony fist right on its forehead. Another shot landed on its neck; third and fourth fell onto the places where the wings met the back. The poor creature wailed, and summoned its last forces in a powerful swing of its claw. The Gorvern's head soared high above the ground, landing somewhere in the distance. The rest of the massive body collapsed onto the ground.
The dragon was nearly out of energy, as three giant spikes nailed its wings to the ground. It looked up in desperation, seeing the Marcher (tall thing with ogres on top) above it. The ogres housed in the bone cage on top were released, all falling down on the dragon, and beating it. The mighty creature resisted, then gave up.

Kronos was quite content with the way things turned. "Time to count up the damage and deal some more..."

The temple grounds were quickly overrun by the zombie army. The bug-tank, the Gorvern and the ogre-dragon were dealing massive blows to the temple, crumbling it to bits. Any resistance was swiftly neutralized. The Marcher, however, walked over to the large crystal on top of the temple, and let some of its ogres down to get it. The ogres retrieved the giant prism, and loaded it up onto the Marcher.
Soon, the battlefield was deathly silent. Crushed undeads were being repaired by Kronos in the distance, and coming back to life. The "live" ones were salvaging what equipment they could find from the temple. Even more zombies were now making up the army. Now also consisting of some undead summoners, not many forces could match its power.

Roland was fighting bravely behind the temple, fending off the undeads. The Elder was next to him, assisting him how he could.
-"Well, my friend, it seems like this is the end. I don't know if we will get out of this alive or not, but that matters no longer. I want you to know it was a pleasure working with you..."
-"Spare me the teary speeches", barked Roland. "In case you haven't noticed, we have some other problems right now." He swung his sword at an incoming ogre, and busted another one's head right off its shoulders. "Look at this - as soon as I strike one down, it is instantly being repaired by some... force... If only we knew what it is! It woud definately be this army's weakne - ARGH!!!"
Roland missed an undead minotaur wielding an axe coming behind his back. The large rusty axe was now stuck in between Roland's shoulder blades.
-"Gah... *cough*... *gurgle*..."
-"Roland?! Are you alright?!"
-"Do I... *cough*... look... alright?"
-"Oh no, what can I do?"
-"You can do... *cough*... little... *gurgle*... to ease my pain, old friend... You must... *cough*... seek out Marshal and tell him of... *gurgle*... this onslaught..."
-"Very well, old friend. May the spirits be with you..."
Roland let out a final *gurgle*, followed by a *cough*, and stopped moving. The Elder quickly summoned a wyvern and hopped onto it, urging it into the skies. He almost made it... A huge bone whip from the ground struck him down, off the wyvern. He let out a scream, and fell onto one of the temple's spikes, dying instantly. The temple of the Blue Minotaur has fallen.

Kronos was as close to being happy as he ever came in life. The raid of the Blue Minotaur temple was a complete success, and even more than that. He directed his ogres to clumsily cast a spell on the Master Crystal, enabling it to now create beings under his own command. The Marcher let the ogres out, and took the undead summoners back inside. Perfect.
He then raised some more slain Blue Minotaur followers, further expanding his army. It was indeed a perfect assault force - anything that went down was almost instantly brought back again. The army's magnitude was now almost 14,000... including the blue dragon.

//Whoo! Long-ass posts own!
EDIT: DM, I probably made a million storyline integrity mistakes in that, and for that I am sorry. But please, let's keep it that way - I love the drama!\\

[Xorlak]

"Peace?"

The brutish voice echoed through the mist.

"Heh..."

Jayce stopped some ten feet away, just enough for his features to be visible.

"You must be the ones that let us out...  Father would say to let you go.  But don't get cocky.  He knows as well as I that any puppet could have been made to do that..."

He began walking forward again, now focused on Aura.

"Yes, it's been a while... too long since I smelled human blood...  Five years in the void without a decent meal.  But what luck... the young females are the most delicious..."

He blinked his eyes as they showed slight reptilian glint, a large smile revealing fanged teeth.  He made a leap for Aura, grabbing for her arm with his left hand...

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(Nick: NPCs are fine.)

Vincent shouted back to Nick and Calavous:

"Yes, I believe I've heard of the skirmish with the Fallongs.  You must be referring to the Crimson Empire, though, since the Grey has only just surfaced.  

"We'll be going into battle shortly.  Now is your last chance to leave.  If wish to fight, then you must follow my every order...  Take your time to decide.  If you'll be joining, follow me."

He walked past the open doorway into the main hall of the crumbling fortress of Redvik, continuing his conversation with Steorra.

"Hmm, yes, those creatures did seem a tad excessive for an organization as insignificant as the Blue Minotaur...  And your suspicians are correct, my lady.  Kronos contacted me this morning through one of his beasts and we arranged an alliance.  Which is convenient, since we haven't the time to worry about anything but Ragnar right now..."

There was a Crimson solider hiding behind a statue in the main hall, who Vincent shouted to without even looking.

"You can come out now."

"G-General Vincent?  Is that you?!  We've heard terrible rumors about the Emperor..."

"No time, Captain.  I will explain later.  Prepare the remaining airships for launch.  We're evacuating everyone...

"And attacking..."

[TK Game Boy]

Magnot stood very still, as if he was commanded to.

"What is this?" asked Quadricentennial.

"I. Am. Needed. By. Master. I. Must. Go. Now."

"What?"

Magnot put his mace away and started running.

"Where is that loaf going? Shall I follow him? Do I have buisness anywhere besides my own?" Something in his gut told him to follow Magnot. As if the earth was asking for his help. He made up his mind and followed the beast.