Dark Age Legends

[Dude Man]

//Burton you going to update Steph and Jason, or can I since they're NPCs?\\

"Haha." Rink made a slight laugh. "Well, they're trying to make everyone equal and such, with no rulers or anything, but they also want to expand the use of technology with magic." He points at the machine. "And well that looks like a fine example of it."

He looked at the soldiers. Their equipment wasn't nearly as advanced as the Aspyes, plus the Aspyes fought much better. Most of these warriors looked quite sloppy in fighting, except for the one fighting Zeros', looked more experienced.

"No, those can't be the Aspyes, I'd be able to tell. The Aspyes are nothing like this." Rink said.

//EDIT: Oops forgot Marshall.\\

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"Now I wonder where this palace would be. I've got to find out what these creeps are up to, and see what they've got." Marshall says to himself. A few people look at him suspciously as he walks by.

He comes up to some lady simply just standing in the middle of the road, with a big grin like she's pretending to be happy.

"Excuse me my lady, but do you know where I might find the palace?" Marshall asks her.

She points near the general direction of a large building, which was clearly visible towards everyone seeing how gigantic it was. "There!" She says sounding like she just helped out an extremely important person in a very dear way.

"Uhh...thanks." Marshall walks by, and shakes his head, trying to get that deranged person out of his mind.

A man quickly runs up to the happy woman, like he needs to go somewhere, and fast. "Um, hey, erm, do you know where the rest rooms are?"

She points in a random direction. "There!"

[Trent]

//Nah, they don't do that. By the way, is the cannon hatch open?

"What's these guys' problem?!" Xenai had stopped casting. He was using up too much ether and decided to stop.
Zion stopped too. "That's a really good question."
"I'm gonna go find out!" He cracked his knuckles and ran in the direction of Zeros' and Frenier.

[D. Ein]

"I saw Nick wreaking havoc upon the small village.

-"FOOL! Get back! We're about to deploy the rest of the Gattling guns, so if you don't want to get ripped to pieces, you'd better find a spot somewhere around here. Otherwise, I'm not collecting your brains for you!"

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//The hatch is closed right now, and it's not really a hatch, it's more like an iris or an aperture - like in a photo camera, you know?\\

Horus sensed motion behind him, but did nothing to avoid it. Chances are that they will not attack him while he is being repaired. The cannon was almost overcharging, and the air was hissing at a slightly lower rate now.

[Burton_projects]

Nick heard Kronos from afar as the orcs set up the guns. Nick ran back towards Kronos and the army. "Sir why don't you just let me destroy the village by myself?" Nick distingished a ball of energy in his hand. and put his sword back in his sheath.

[Dude Man]

Steph and Jason were both kicked in the face by Duilin. They dropped their weapons and held their faces in pain.

Duilin landed on the ground and grabbed both the warriors by the back of their heads and smashed them together knocking them both out cold.

Aegidius noticed that his arrow was able to knock his arm off. He could probably do a lot more damage if he were able to charge more power into it, however he'd likely get attacked in the process. There were the others around him, yet there were also those warriors around. Well, maybe he could talk something into the demon/human.

He sent a telepathic message to Duilin, assuming he was familiar with that sort of thing. 'Excuse me, but I don't mean to pry but could you distract the machine for me? Just ignore those stupid warriors. Please?'

Duilin chuckled. "Allrighty then." He flapped his wings and he jumped into the air, and landed closer to the machine.

"Yoo hoo!" Duilin called. He then tossed a fireball at Horus' head to get his attention. "Over here!"

[Jenia]

"But..." Kerig wondered "What's the point of making a machine of mass destruction?"
Weloss has already returned from his small expedition.
"Where were you?" kerig thought.
"I looked into what's inside." Weloss said "From what I see, a bunch of fools and a few non-fools are fighting some life-eating souless entity."
"That's interesting..." Kerig kept thinking "But the scene is getting boring. Why don't you spice it up a little?"
Weloss was startled "You want me to do WHAT!?"
"Sure" Kerig kept thinking "You won't be detected, it is impossible to harm you, and it would be funny to see some of the weaker ones suddenly going into blind rage and have their weapons engulfed in celestial flames just because you struck your finger at their soul..."
"I guess you are right..." finally agreed weloss "I haven't had this kind of fun in years. I might not have another chance."

Weloss was quickly off again, and pretty soon soldiers started going into blind rage at random. Their eyes shone in a mysterious tone of red, green or purple, and their weapons were ungulfed in otherwordly looking fire.

Kerig sighed. "What a sight!"

[Trent]

Xenai arrived at the scene of the fight. "Yo!" Projected in Frenier's direction. "You in charge of this circus here?" Gestured to the other soldiers. "'cuz if you are, I want to know why the HELL you attacked us!"

His dark blue wings appeared, and his true power was now released. He'd need it if he didn't want to look like a total weakling compared to Zeros', which he wasn't anyways.

Zion noticed that Tsu was rather intent on Horus' cannon. "...You do know that you're probably going to take very heavy damage if you attack that part, even with your wings out, right?"
"Yeah, I know. I don't care if I get hit, as long as I hit first."
"You'd better brace for impact then, as soon as you go for it."
"..."
Idiot... I guess I'd better watch out for him.

[Zeros']

// Since Burton hadn't updated Fenrir in three days... \\

Zeros' sighed as his attacks hit and he turned towards Xenai. He shrugged and pointed towards the man who had just been knocked out by his attack.

"I think I knocked him out with all those punches..." he said and shrugged again. "Oh well," then, he turned back towards Horus and narrowed his eyes.

"That man... That cannon on his back is containing more energy then it can handle," he said, eyeing the place where the cannon was supposed to be.

[D. Ein]

//Zeros', unless Zeros' can see through metal, he can't see the cannon yet - it's beneath a hatch.\\

Horus dismissed the fireball as it were made of leaves. The Kao didn't even change its shade.

His arm fused back to the axle. He moved it around a bit, flexing it and seeing if it was fully operational. It seemed to work fine.

He stood back up, and froze. There was an aura nearby... a rather strong signal coming on a low frequency. Probably a hidden entity... however, it appeared to be in phase-shift, so he could most likely not harm it. On the flip side, the Kao in the glyphs would prevent any such entity from harming Horus, so he didn't worry about it too much. He turned around facing Aura, and lifted his hand up in a "halt" manner.

The air stopped hissing, and the aperture opened. Almost instantly, her blades were blasted at her at an incredible speed, propelled by the compressed gas inside the arm. Without moving his arm, he turned around to Tsu and shot the Zero Weapon at him, then to Zion shooting the Eternity Weapon. Finally, he turned around to Xenai, and sprinted towards him, stopping just behind his back and aiming his hand at his head. He hated attacking people from behind... //just to clear up, this attack was not shot yet.\\
The cannon in his back emerged in an upright fashion, and blasted a black lightning at Kerig nearby. Less enemies, less trouble...

//Please respect both of these attacks - the sword-flinging one was charged for four posts, and the cannon for five. That should've been enough to take out a small village.\\

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"-"Don't blow up the village. I need to see what my army can do. After I'm finished with testing out the new battlefield equipment, you can clean up whatever is left of it. On another notice... I believe it is time for our arachnid friends there to deal some damage..."

The clockwork scorpions began crawling forward, firing as they moved. The tail-mounted cannon worked great, even if it was somewhat primitive - using a crossbow-like method to propel a heavy projectile. The shots landing onto buildings shattered them into individual chips of wood."

[Ulmec]

//JEEZZZZ i have been gone a while\\

Ulmec decided to take a while off from science and simply inspect his site. There was a main wall that was finally finished covering the beach of the island. another wall was being build atop the plateu that Huget created. Not many of the goblins thought that the castle would be created succesfully on the top of a plateu but Huget and Ulmec proved them wrong.

"Goblins, what is the castle's status?" Said Ulmec, One goblin replied

"Foundation is complete and construction on the outer walls has begun"
Ulmec made no reply and continued to stroll along the side of the plateu looking at the work being done below. He was sure that son the army would be ready to move onto mainland and secure the mountains in the middle of Gail, as the Goblins called the land in which they live.

"Sir, we have 10,000 goblins returning from the north"

Ulmec looked puzzled for he knew by heart how many were sent to scout for gold and other riches(2,354 to be exact).

"How is this possible?" The Goblin Cheif looked just as confused as Ulmec and started to ask the soldiers what happened.

"Sir, they claim that another army unbound from any far-out kingdom joined them while scouting a valley."

Ulmec gave a sign that the cheif took as an "ok" and walked to his temporary barracks at the base of the plateu. It was very simple, a carving into the stone wall of the mountain. There was one room in the middle, a bedroom to the right, and a study to the left. Not much but good enough for now. Ulmec walked into the study and began looking up books on "crystalization", the art of creating objects into crystal. This is how he willl create the greatest armor any army has ever ahd, but he has yet to find the book on which to do so. Ulmec, after 3 good hours of searching came to his senses an knew that the only place that such a book would be kept would be at the ancient goblin city, but that is on mainland and it is not safe there.

"I will find a way" Ulmec muttered to himself, and he walked away into his bedroom.

[Jenia]

Kerig was innocently enjoying the show as he had noticed Weloss rushing back to him.
"What's wro..." was the first part of a chain of thoughts he would'v have if he hadn't noticed the large concentration of energy flying at him from the speeding robot man.

Kerig didn't find it nessecery to get up. When the bolt of blackness had reached him, he had simply closed his eyes for a moment. The bolt missed him, passing the right side of his head, turned right and, from the left side of Kerig's head, turned back towards it's source.

"That wasn't very nice of him, was it? Attacking spectators, that is..." Kerig thought.
After many years of training to control his spiritual and bodily energies, Kerig had adapted quick thinking as well as good reflexes.
Kerig was tought by Weloss that, in the spiritual level, energy is like matter, and behaves similiarly. The black lightning that flew at him might not have been a spiritual attack, but it was quite energy-based, and therefore should be swayed by strong enough "winds". Kerig did nought but spin his own energies around himself to couse that effect.
He knew...That, combined with his speed, made him all but imprevius to long-range attacks.

"This isn't a game anymore!" Weloss angrily told Kerig "I can't have you cought in the crossfire!"
"No, Weloss..." Kerig said, replacing his frown with a renewed smile as he realised he let himself doze off for a moment "Let's assume that it was a mere error...I do not want to miss something so beutiful over some silly misunderstanding."
Kerig returned to his relaxed state, but this time Weloss refused to leave his side.

[Burton_projects]

"I don't clean up messes I make them." Nick looked at Kronos. "So is this a Aspyes town?" He watched the town being destroied by the Scorpions.

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Frenier got up and went to grab Zeros' ankles, looking to throw him into the cloud.

[Zeros']

// No, he can't see through metal, but he knew about the cannon before-hand and he knew that it was charging because he could sense the energy. \\

Zeros' sighed and shook his head, merely lifting his feet up and out of Frenier's reach.

"Well, theres your man, Xenai. You want to question him now?" he asked, floating a little bit higher then he had last time. "He fully concious and well... fiesty, if you could say," he said.

He wasn't concerned with Frenier that much, unless he pulls some super attack out of his ass. He was more concerned with that man and his cannon.

[Burton_projects]

Frenier looked at zeros' "How dare you not fall to my power." He charged his energy while flaping his wings. His power started to grow. He looked towards his depleting army and the unconcoius Jason and steph. "God damn you!"

[D. Ein]

//It's just that it said that Zeros' looked at the cannon...\\

The blast came around Hours, who skillfully caught it in his cannon. It was fully charged again, and he retracted the cannon back inside, not bothering to overcharge it. He was still staring at Xenai's back, hoping that he'd notice him.

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-"You make messes, eh... Well... if you want to be a part of this army, you might want to learn to follow orders. If not - you can go rampaging through the villages as you wish, as long as you mention my name in there somewhere.
As for your question, I have no idea who this village belongs to. It was in the way. Now it is not."

My army smashed through all of the frontal defenses, and began to pillage the rest of the village. More screams followed. The buildings around me were splattered with people's brains. The soldiers were amusing themselves by writing "He is coming" in blood, as well as "Kandarian Sovereignty FTW", whatever that means, and "You can't hide". None of them had the guts to write my name... good..."

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Meanwhile Kandarin buzzed with activity. Soldiers were drawn from all across the land into Undecimus. Qim was at its peak of activity, spewing out all sorts of clockwork devices. Clockwork scorpions, gigantic crossbows, steam catterpillar-like machines... The preparations for war were underway.

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Ein and Amaya, having finished their... business... were now talking as if absolutely nothing happened. Well, almost.

-"Ein, I love you."

-"I love you more."

-"No way."

-"Hey, when me and Marshall get out of here, want to come with us?"

-"Sure!"