Dark Age Legends

[Dark Spartan]

Alex was slightly irritated at Ein's antics, but slightly amused as well.

"Well, I would drink some milk, but this full-face helmet prevents me from doing that. As for the rifle, I tried it earlier and it works fine. I wouldn't exactly say that I'm 'stranded' here. You see, for reasons unknown, some portal storms have kicked up above the city of Asgarnia, and they threaten to destroy the city. I'm here to find the source of the storms and stop it. Unfortunately, I haven't found anything yet."

Alex strapped the rifle over his back, obviously trusting these new visitors.

"Perhaps if you guys aren't too busy, maybe you could help me out in the saving of Asgarnia? I can see to it that you are rewarded handsomely. Just a question of how you're going to survive outside this weird bubble thing."

[Trent]

//It looks like we're all getting better. We're letting stuff happen to our characters. There won't be any story advancement if the whole time is spent in a never-ending fight, and no one takes any damage. Of course, no one wants their characters to die, but, y'know. They don't have to.

Xenai walked around the area, keeping an eye out for everyone, and especially watching out for that huge machine. It's a lot bigger in person... "Duilin! Zeros'! Are you guys alright?"

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Zion and Aura arrived in a nearby city, though still far enough to be unaffected by the blast. Zion was carrying Tsu. "Where are we?"
"Who cares?" Aura was already making her way toward the inn. "Come on!"
Zion blinked a couple of times and quickly followed.

A couple minutes later, they were in a room, with Tsu on the bed, and Zion sending a steady flow of white magic into him. "...He's alright now... He'll make it. Stay with him, okay? Don't go anywhere until you're sure he's recovered."
"...How did you guys get into this kind of mess?"
"Huh?"
"Why do you go around fighting such dangerous fights? I mean... Fighting like in sports... It's wonderful fun and all that, but this... He could have died out there. I could have died out there. You could have died out there, and so could your cocky friend."
Oh... He nor Xenai had never introduced themselves to Aura. Oops. He was done healing now... He stopped the flow of white magic and looked to Aura, pondering it. "Hmm... I've always wanted to protect this world. I don't know why. I think Tsu feels the same way. That's why we go out of our way to do such dangerous things."
"..."
"...You want him to stop, don't you?"
"...I don't know."
"He won't."
"How do you know that?"
"He knew full well what the risks were of going in attacking like he did. In spite of it, he still went in and did it. You won't be able to stop him from helping us. All you can do for him is stay with him, and grow stronger with him."
"...Okay."
"Good... Alright, take care." He got up and headed for the door. He stopped before exiting. "...Zion Ultima. My cocky friend is Xenai Omega."
"...Nice to meet you."
With that, he exited. Aura stared at Tsu. Get stronger...? She thought back on all the fights she'd had against Tsu in the swordfighting venues. She was always the weaker, and it was obvious. It seemed as if Tsu completely dominated the entire career. But then again... No one who swordfights does the stuff he does. Having the weight of the world on your shoulders... Must make you incredibly strong. She gently pushed him onto one side of the bed, and laid down on the other. She was tired. She needed rest too.

//Tsu and Aura are now inactive. Any posts I make that concern them will most likely be sidestory filler stuff, and can most likely be disregarded.

[Jenia]

Kerig walked the scorched lands of ash.
Soon enough he saw an image of a person in the distance. Looking carefully, it seemed as if there were at least two people left standing.
"That's not good..." Kerig thought "We must help them!"
"WAIT!" Weloss stopped him "Don't. The big wave might be over, but the tide is not. "
"What are you talking about?" Kerig asked, suprised.
"Look at your grappling limbs and try moving them, fish-skull..." Weloss said "They look funky on my side, a least."

Kerig looked at his arms again. He tried moving them.
The glove felt as if it doesn't fit anymore, but all four joints were working correctly...
"FOUR JOINTS!?!!" it suddenly hit Kerig "I remember only having three! And now my fingers look longers, too..."
"Whatever that blast was, the radiation it coused must be speeding up your transformation." Weloss added "By a whole lot. Now...Do you really think it's safe to go there when you look like a monster traded limbs with you?"
"I...I guess not..." Kerig was slightly diappointed "I guess we will have to go home?"
"And run into stupid humans on the way?" Weloss kept scolding Kerig "No. You are going to simply out forge a cove for yourself right here and now. Then we won't be spotted,looking a simple ash dune. Inside you'll have to fix your clothing, at least. Now hop to it!"

Kerig decided to return to smiling to himself. He begun to concetrate, and using his energies, he compressed, hardened and gave shape to the dust around him.
Soon enough he was inside a 2-layered dust house of one room and a circular corridor seperating the inner room inside the first later and the outside world through the 2nd. The open hatch to exit the room and the corridor where on opposing sides as to prevent visual detection. The structure made was very fragile however-A mere infants finger could pierce it and make a hole in it.
Kerig took out some materials he had brought with him and begun reparing his clothing.

[Zeros']

// ... I keep forgetting! \\

Because he was in mid-flight/turn, he didn't have time to get out of the way. He put up a mid-level shield the second he felt the cannon collapse. The shield would do little, though, to prevent the whole of the damage. He manage, though, to readjust his flight with his wings and go 'with' the blast.

He flew several hundred yards, finally righting himself and wincing. His trenchcoat managed to survive, only becasue of the way he had been blasted by the energy. His pants, though, didn't survive... They weren't made out of any special material. Just plain cloth. Though, he did have enough cloth left to stay decent... And his underwear was still intact!

Though... His legs were all scorched and burned. He may be a half-demon and god, but that much energy was hard to reflect from ones body all at once. He moved one leg barely and winced heavily, feeling pain shoot up his legs. He knew he wouldn't be walking anytime soon. His legs were all red and blistered, some skin starting to peel off and blood starting to pour down both legs.

// Think of it as... third++ degree burns on ALL of his legs. Both of them. \\

His hands were minorly burned, but he had worse. His wings managed to escape much damage, except for a few burnt feathers here and there. He slowly start to fly his way towards where Duilin and his angel 'friend' was.

[D. Ein]

Ein smirked.

-"Huh, the wierd bubble thing. You see that sigil on the ground? That's what's keeping it up. All I have to do now is just draw the sigil on an item that a person is carrying, and you have a perfectly good atmosphere around yourself. Perhaps I could do the same for you? God forbid if you fart in that thing..."

He scratched the sigil into the hilt of his crossbow, and a blueish shield appeared around him. He walked out of the bubble of atmosphere he conjured up earlier, and seemed to be fine.

-"Well, the portable solution seems to be working quite well, at that. Now, I need everyone to donate me something hard to write on... you could find a rock or something lying nearby, then hang onto it. All I need is something solid."

He scribbled the same symbol into a small flat stone lying nearby, and gave it to Amaya. The blueish orb surrounded her now, as well.

-"Hey, Marshall, hows about I put one of dem symbol thingies on your gun? You might need a portable atmosphere later in the future, thence you can just reactivate it."

Ein turned back to Alex.

-"Well, I don't know about Marshall, but I'll gladly help. I'm assuming we should hurry, too - this place looks like it could give mercury a run for its money, in terms of turning people insane..."

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Everyone seemed to be gone from the immediate field of view...

The small repair machines crawled out beneath the rubble that used to be Horus, and started dragging the pieces away. They only had so much power before they shut down.

[Dark Spartan]

"Hmm, as long as we're not actually exposed, the insanity will not occur. I still suggest that you watch your step, it's a long way down."

Alex looked around for something that could point them in the right direction, but to no avail.

"Unfortunately, I don't know where to go from here...we need to act fast, God knows what the portal storms are doing to Asgarnia."

Alex dug around and found a small rock.

"I would ask you to etch a symbol on my rifle, but the systems are delicately balanced, it could throw them off."

Alex tossed the rock to Ein.

"Perhaps I could use one of those protective shields. Could you be so kind as to etch one for me please?"

[Dude Man]

"Good idea, Ein-stein. Except I had to leave my gun back in that house in K.S." Marshall groaned. He looked around. "I don't see much around here for you to write something on, except for my amulet, but I'll be damned if you go vandalizing this, its worth more then the both of us."

Marshall then sat down on the ground. "Hey you know what. I just spend a last twenty minutes running around a city and I'm pretty pooped, how about you guys just go on without me, I'll be fine, don't worry. I need a break from all this world saving."

----

Aegidius looked at Zeros' as he approached them.

"Man, Zeros' is going to be pissed once he finds out that you just let Duilin take all the damage." Rink laughed.

"Meh, we don't even see on the same levels anyway. We're from different 'governments' of the gods. I serve under Zeus wile he serves under Odin (or Thor or whatever Norse god Zeros' likes)."

"Ah, so you're not such an outsider in the first place then?"

"Yeah. Well, since I haven't been the nicest person so far and I'm sure the god's won't mind me helping out Duilin, since he is half human. I know some white magic, so I can heal him it'll take awhile for him to recover however. He did take the most of the blast then anyone else did."

"Please do." Rink snapped.

Aegidius vaporized the angelic arrow, and it reappeared as a tinkling green/blue dust. He waved his hand over Duilin, the holes in his wings began to repair and his cuts began to heal. "It'll be awhile. I'd be best to stay here and rest along with him."

//So yeah, in case you didn't get my subliminal deactivation of my characters. I'm going to be out of town for the next three days. Not to long, but meh. I'm sure you guys can live without me. So my characters are inactive, so no attacking them. If you want to slow down for me then that'll be nice, but please don't feel required too. Take care people.\\

[Trent]

//Wrong. Tsu took it the hardest. Razz

Xenai soon found Zeros'. "Hey! How are you doing?" He ran over to him.

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Zion was now on his way back to the scene.

[D. Ein]

-"Eh...? Why the hell not..."
Ein picked up the stone, and scribbled the sign on it. As soon as he was done, the blue shield appeared around the stone. He tossed it back to Alex.

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Armies continued massing up, and readying for the full frontal assault on the Continent.

[Zeros']

// Zeros' doesn't really serve under any Norse gods... But, we can say his employed by Odin... Odin is cool. \\

Zeros' smiled and winced, looking down at his charred legs.

"I've been... better," he said, reaching down and gingerly touching his burnt legs. He winced again and shook his head. "I'll heal from it eventually, but the scars are going to be wicked..." he sighed and shrugged. It's not like scars were anything new to him.

"How'd you four make out with that blast? And what about Duilin and Aegidius?"

[Trent]

"I haven't found Duilin and that other guy yet. Tsu got hit VERY badly, because he was right by him when it happened... But I think he'll live. Obviously, I didn't do so well either." His shirt was gone. Pants converted to shorts. Somehow the boots survived. "Zion and Tsu looked kinda like this. But for some reason, the little lady didn't. She got burned as bad as Zion and I, but her clothes were all still there." That is the #18 Effect working its magic on Gaian, yes, that's right, girls' clothes don't tear off from batttle!

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Zion was still on the way to the scene of the crime...

[Dude Man]

//You people suck, four measly posts wile I'm gone. =P. Meh, guess I'm to important then.\\

Duilin grumbled a bit and then slightly got back up, he was more so kneeling down on the ground.

"Good, you're up." Rink said. He saw Xenai and Zeros'. "Hey guys! Over here, Duilin's awake."

Duilin stepped up. "So, um...angel dude...you uh..." He still sounded tired. His face was tilted down, due to him having a bit of a neck ache.

"Yes, I realize what I did, I'm sorry." Aegidius said.

"Uh?yeah. So...why? Aren't you supposed to be like...um...protective."

"Yes, but I've been taught for thousands of years that demons are our enemies."

"Ah, a racist angel. Gotcha." Duilin gave him a thumb up. "Nothing wrong with that. I understand."

"You're mocking me aren't you."

"Yeah." Duilin started stepping towards Xenai and Zeros'. "Hey guys. We loose anybody?"

//I'm having deja vu all the sudden with the scene...\\

[Zeros']

Zeros' shurgs and lands on the ground, wincing.

"I don't think so, but... some people were badly burnt from that explosion," he said, while looking down at his own legs. he sighed and sat down on the ground.

"Well... That didn't go how I'd of thought it might... I wasn't expecting some overpowered cannon to blow itself up and almost kill some of us."

[D. Ein]

//DM, you have a huge ego... even bigger than my... ahem. I couldn't post a lot as my grandparents from Belarus are here.\\

Horus' repair machines dragged him a fair distance out of the blast field. The cannon and converter will have to be rebuilt... for now, the machines drew their power from the light of the sun. Some were placing the armour plates back in place, others were fusing the pipes together. Some of the more essential pipes already had purplish liquid pumped through them.

//OMG! Zeros' has a working avatar now! Surprised\\

[Burton_projects]

//Still don't see it Sad \\

Nick looked towards Kronos. "Are you in a trans or something you haven't po..I mean said answered my question...we'll what ever. He folded his arms and stood looking into the sea.