Dark Age Legends

[Drannic_Lord01]

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"Skirmishers! Follow me! We're going to send a message to Tjed. The rest of you, continue to set up camp. And send a few of the slaves to clear out the city's rubble. Here, we begin anew!" Aaron began to lead 250 men from his military force. These are the skirmishers. They had plain steel spears with golden tips and Legion shields to boot. Their march was perfeclty syncronized; not a person out of place.

//Keep in mind, these are skirmishers. Their armor and weapons suck, along with there tactics, but they do look good... Hehehe...

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Justin put his right hand infront of his face extending his index and middle fingers, placing them on his brow and closing his eyes. After a few seconds, he opened them, looking up at the mountains. "There you are. Hope you can help me out." He began to sprint at a speed of ten miles per hour, but tripped over a rock and smashed his face into the mountain wall.

"Ow..." He said in a high-pitched voice, "that hurt rather... well a lot." He got back up on his feet and began to climb the mountain wall, finding loads of rocks to grab hold of. Rock after rock, his speed increased, and he sped up the wall like a professional rockclimber. After two minutes of scaling the mountain side, he was about one foot away from the peak where Ven, Zakon, and his little brother Iskatyl were standing.

"Hey! One of you up there! I can't get up this spot right here, as there appears to be no rocks around. Could one of you help me up?"

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Ben hovered down to the ground, as he didn't need to keep his beam of light anymore. The vampire was gone, to the caves by the looks of it. He could begin to help out the defense. He flew over towards Duilin and landed about two feet next to him. Blood was stained on the ground. Lizard blood. Ben ignored this and held out his hands towards Duilin.

"I give this demon my power. RECIEVE!!!" A blue beam of pure energy shot out of Ben's hands and towards Duilin. It was a bit slower than an ordinary beam, but it was packed full of magic energy. "Duilin, take this and use it well. This is every single piece of energy I have left."

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[Dude Man]

//Green energy would actually be earth magic. But it doesn't really matter what colour basic energy is, just depends on the person, I guess. Check the specializations page.

Oh and Duilin's floating in the air BTW, but I guess that doesn't really change anything.\

Duilin nodded towards Ben. "Thanks." He absorbed Bjendell's (that's Ben right?) energy into his surrounding glow of magic. His aura was massive, glowing between, yellow, orange and red. The half demon then raised his arms and the glowing magical energy flowed towards his hands, and pressed them together. He then spun the magical energy with his hands into a red-orange coloured orb the size of a softball and then held the small orb of energy out. The orb expanded into 40 feet in diameter he threw the orb high into the air.

'Dear Gaia, make this work...'

The orb then exploded into several smaller ones, and began raining down a series of lightning shaped bolts of golden magic energy at Jayce. The orbs themselves zoomed down at bullet speed towards the draken...

//This attack is kind of like an uber charged up combination of Demon Flame, Thunder Rage and Stun Orb.\

[Xorlak]

Ven ran his thumb over the hilt of his blade and rotated it once.  But it was a double edge sword, so it didn't change it's position.

"My name is Ven Hyul, High Knight of Tjed.  If we weren't in a state of crisis right now I'd arrest you myself for such a show of violence.  But as it is now there's a huge dragon I must help slay immediately."

Ven slashed his blade once, kicking a bit of dust up with the force of the wind.

"I'd leave this land now if I were you.  We don't take kindly to those who attack knights."

With that, he jumped over the side, landing an a lower cliff near Justin, who he just realized wanted a hand in getting up where he'd just been.

"I'd be careful.  There's an assassin up there."

Not willing to waste any more time, Ven leapt into the air as a gust of wind congealed into a rush of golden energy beneath his feet.  Blade held to his side, he began to fly south to resume his battle with the great black dragon, riding the wind beneath his feet.

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Jayce turned towards the forming golem, ready to snap it in half with his jaws.  But just then he was surrounded by golden light.  Orbs began slamming into his back, causing him to stagger and lose balance, each letting lose a blinding explosion that ripped away large sections of ground.  As the stream of blasts intensified, the dragon was tossed into the side of the crater, the earth around breaking up as he slammed into it, burying him deeply into the side and as a second, even greater hole was torn into the ground adjoining the first.  He bellowed as he was blasted by golden flames, the rock walls around him shattering.  A thick cloud of dust rose, and when it settled, the dragon lied buried under a mound of rubble, motionless...

Throughout the course of the battle the terrain of southern Tjed had been transformed from a serene hilly grass and forested landscape to a wasteland of deep craters and jutting rocks, this last attack making it more so than ever.

Draven arrived on scene just then, a light flame surrounding him and looking quite haggard as he flew some fifty feet above the fallen dragon.

"Perfect!"

He clenched his right fist as he sneered down upon his incapacitated foe.

"Bind him!  Bind him right there!  Quickly!!"

With that, his aura exploded and he blasted upwards into the sky, spiraling until he was parallel with the looming Crimson Captial, which remained floating in place the whole time.

Crimson aura flaring, Draven stretched both arms to the sky and held his palms upward, a tiny point of vermilion light appearing above them...  Tch, sacrificing the entire island of Tjed is a small price to pay to rid the world of the vile Draken...

Crimson-Death Annihilation Attack!! (CDAA): 10%

[Dude Man]

"How was that prince-ling?" Duilin mocked, as Jayce lay motionless on the ground.

He then saw Draven swoop over and order him and the golem to bind him. Sounded like a good idea until...

"Wait...is that...NO!!" Duilin shouted. Draven was insane; the CDAA was the attack that killed Alpha Retan and probably the entire arctic region if it wasn't for Zeros' barrier. If he used it here, Tjed would be destroyed. Duilin wouldn't allow that to happen, not after his failure to save his home town and then his failure to save Romme, he just couldn't let that happen again.

'I'll need your help on this one, old friend.' Duilin unsheathed The Iduran, the blade glistening as he rose it up. He dashed through the air towards the burning mad-man. He then stopped only a couple feet beside him and pointed the blade only inches away from the head of the Crimson Emperor.

Duilin gave Draven a deathly glare. "If you don't stop, I swear to god I will kill you." Duilin said with total seriousness.

[D. Ein]

"The ship below sank, and Hannibal was back - we were almost at the shore, in fact. Even from here I could see masses of people, many wearing the colours of Kandarin.

Soon enough we landed the gigantic transport, and my officers began loading people inside. There were two thousand people here at least, and they were taking a while to move, sadly... I ordered my officers to hurry up. People passing me by weren't looking at me, but I could see that they were doing that with great strain. Oh well."

[Drannic_Lord01]

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"Hmm... Looks like I did this for no reason. Confoundit! Looks like a big fall... I've survived worse." Justin leapt off the wall and headed straight up to the Floating Island. holding both his hands out, he just barely made it on the island's edge. He began to climb up to where Draven was. "Great... more climbing."

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Tiberius had taken the form of a golem and walked towards the great crater and pile of rubble Jayce was in. "I've got a better way to kill a Draken. Just let me rip off his head!" Tiberius jumped down into the crater and shifted through the rubble until he could see Jayce's head. He grabbed the sides and began to yank it back. "This may take a while..."

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"That power... I have to protect us all. We musn't let Tjed fall to anything! We've come too far!" Ben held his hands up above his head. "I know I gave away all my energy, so I'll have to take some back. Drannica, hear my plea! Give me your blessing, and I shal protect this world from darkness. Give me your energy!"

A great beam of light began to come down to where Ben was standing. "Is it... working?" The beam came down into his hands and fully recharged his energy. Just as his energy was fully charged, the beam shifted its position. Soon, it broke into smaller waves of light and focused on the defenders. All of the Tjed knights started to glow with a birght purple aura. A darker purple energy swirled around their swords. Their morale was restored and increased ten fold.

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"Aaron! Sir! What is that that's swirling around those soldiers?"

"It's favor. Favor from the gods. They seem to have the divine intervention that's missing in our army. Perhapse if we can just rebuild here, we could make peace with them. They could be a part of my empire!"

"That's a grand idea, sir!"

"Quit sucking up, Barbadose. I hate it when people do that. Anyways, I have to find the leader of this army. Tell the skirmishers to stand their ground; I'll be right back." Aaron raced out into the field of craters, searching for anyone who might be with the other army. Just then, he stumbled upon Duilin in the air, pulling out the Iduran.

"Excuse me, good friend. Do you happen to know the head knight of this army? I wish to have a-WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS THAT ISLAND!?!?!?"

[Xorlak]

"What is this?  Tch!  Get out of my way, half-demon, or I will obliterate you along with the dragon!"

Draven lowered his left arm and swung his hand through the air as if swatting away a fly.  A wave of flame came forth blasting in Duilin's direction.

The pin-point of light above Draven's other hand grew slightly.

CDAA: 15%

(Drannic: Duilin and Draven are floating rather high in the air, above the battlefield.)

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Suddenly, all the knights of Tjed stopped and rose their blades to the sky, shafts of light penetrating skyward as they all shouted,

"Ooooooh!!!"

in unison, their moral increased.

(Kessen 2.  Heh...)

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The cloud of wind Ven was riding disappeared and he fell, deftly landing at the northern edge of the larger crater.  It was a sight to see, the great black dragon buried in stone and the golem trying to remove its head.  Above, Draven and Duilin were in the sky bickering.  Though he didn't know the reason, it didn't surprise him.  He heard some newcomer shout out his question to the warriors above asking about the leader of the Tjed army, and that was his cue.

"These knights are under my command, sir," Ven shouted, "What business do you seek?"

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In the golem's hands, Jayce's burning crimson eyes suddenly snapped open.   His maw opened with an angry roar, spewing forth a vile black mist from it...

[Jenia]

Kerig was paying close attention to what was going on around, but he wasn't bothered by any of it. Since at the moment ntohing too interesting was being said, he was playing with his pinky, trying to bend it in various strange ways.
His right hand was completly black already. The blackness, like a stubborn stain, was spreading to his arm...

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"Can I kill him now?"
"NO!"

Zakon laughed. But he was unsatisfied, for fact.
And his brother was in the way.

-"Hey, Tyl, he said he has a 'dragon' to deal with..."
-"Yes, I think he did..."
-"I'm still hungry. You won't mind me getting us some steak and ridding them of a problem while I'm at it, right?"
-"I...I guess so..."
-"Good. Stay here. Wouldn't want you burnt by that dragon!"
-"Y-yes, brother..."

Zakon smiled to himself as he took quick leaps down the mountain.
He had gotten what he wanted... And obviously, he planned to do much more than just keeping his promise.

//Sorry guys, in a hurry\

[Dude Man]

"Don't you just Tch at me!" Duilin shouted. "Has your ego gotten in the way of the fact that if you release your attack then you'll destroy Tjed?! Jayce deserves to die, but not at the cost of all these people!"

The half demon gave even more sternness in his voice. "I'm dead serious Lars. If you don't think I will, just try to obliterate me along with him!" He narrowed his eyes, and his iris darkened. "Because I would love it..."

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Wilham, Marshall and the group beginning to head their way out of the dusty dungeon, when suddenly the entire room begins to shake.

"What's going on?" Marshall asked.

"Maybe its an earth quake." Wilham replies.

Then in the middle of the room an orange glowing circle appears on the floor, as if being projected by an amplfier of some type. The design of an inverted pentagram then appeared in a similar manner in the circle, flame then sprouted from the projection and trio of people appeared from the strange pentagram.

"We are the Talonscar Elite! Our master's resting place has been disturbed! DIE MORTALS!"

"Uh..oh..." Firstman gulped. "Looks like I'm gonna need more than just one of Coriko's fire arrows...."

[Coriko]

"On it!"

Coriko yelled to the others over the sound sound of the Talonscar Elite. He rolled over summoning his bow. He already had one of his special arrows that explodes on impact firing shrapnel everywhere loaded and ready to be fired at the leader's head. He held it there not moving a muscle, barely breathing. Coriko locked eyes with the leader of the Talonscar Elite.

"Your move tough guy!"

[Drannic_Lord01]

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"Right. Name's Aaron of the Ario empire. I was hoping to make some sort of treaty, if you don't mind. I will need your assistance in an upcomming battle. I offer you 2,000 of Ario's finest, but I need some help with something in Ariosis, my homelands, about 75 miles south of here. If you help, my soldiers will gladly join you in combat."

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The golem was not phased by the Draken's dark fire. He merely resumed to try and pull off its head. "What's the deal with this thing anyway? Rockgolem is my strongest form, and it's barely doing a thing against this neck. It's like the thing is made of steel!"

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Justin reached the top of the floating capitol and took a great leap into the air, grabbing hold of Draven's legs. He took out his demon fang and slashed upwards at Draven, aiming for his hands so that it might stop his magic attacks.

[Xorlak]

"You miserable ingrate!"  Draven was clearly irate now.  "Do you have the slightest idea what a draken truly is?  The lives of a few rejects are well worth the death of this abomination!  If you think you've hurt Jayce with your pathetic attack, you are sorely mistaken.  This is the only possible way.  He will not allow himself to be hit again.  Ever.

"By standing in my way, you are ensuring the death of every living thing on this planet.  They will enslave everyone of use and then kill the rest before moving on to the next.  That is their way.  Now move it!!"

Suddenly, he felt someone grab a hold of his legs.

"IDIOT!"

Draven faltered in the air, trying to kick Justin off.  Dodging the blade, Draven held his right palm right before Justin's face.

"If you fight against me, you fight for the Dark Empire!  DIE!!"

It was like looking down the barrel of a cannon.  A blast of flame burst from Draven's hand with a thunderous boom...

Above Draven's head, the brightly glowing orb shrank slightly.

CDAA: 10%

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Ven ran a gauntlet under his chin.

"I don't quite have the authority to aid you, however if you do help us, I'm certain King Henri will grant you aid as soon as this crisis is over."

Ven gave a warm freindly smile and extended his right hand to shake, resting the tip of his silver blade on the ground with the other.

"So then sir, consider it a deal."

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The black dragon smiled a devilishly toothy grin, his crimson eyes narrowing.  He spoke in a surpsingly deep eloquent voice...

"My hide is much tougher than the flimsy metal you call steel, I assure you..."

With that, Jayce arched his neck back, a few of the boulders falling off.  Suddenly his right claw burst forth from under the rubble, the massive blade-like claws slashing down at the golem...

Two of his appendages were free now, his head and claw...

[Jenia]

Zakon let out a devious snicker as he had reached the battlefield.
As much as he would have liked to start with whatever was closest to him, a promise held greater priority.
He will start with the dragon, and just kill everyone else afterwards. Except maybe the guy with the glowy orb. Magic users were annoying.

He dashed across various corpses, some human, some lizard, some disemboweld and some just had limbs burned off...
The land, as scorched as it was, was perfect for moving around. Kicking up dust behind him, approaching the dragon.
Should he jump on him as he dashes? No, that would be too risky. The wisest move would be to approach from behind and catch the first limb flying in his direction.

As he increased speed, he readied his reflexes for sharp, scaly things to burst from under his feet...
As confident as he was in his ability to grab whatever goes at him, he didn't realize there was a difference between the dragons and the draken...

[Drannic_Lord01]

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"WWWAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!" Justin couldn't manage to avoid the blast. He fell down at a great speed, but fortunately for him, Ben was in the air near-by and picked him up. He flew over towards the ground and placed him down.

"No, no, no! I need to fight that guy up there with that orb-thing above his head. See him?"

"Alright. Here goes." Ben kicked off the ground, holding under Justin's arms. As soon as he was at a regular height with Draven, Ben threw Justin forwards. His fang was closing in infront of his right hand. He slashed forwards, hoping for a hit.

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"Jolly good, then!" Aaron grabbed his hand and shook a few times, then he cupped his mouth to shout. "BARBADOSE!!! SEND THE MEN TO ATTACK THAT BLACK CREATURE AND THAT MAN UP THERE!

"AYE, SIR! MEN!!! Our allies are the knights in plate armor. Our enemies, that guy up there," he pointed towards Draven, "and that thing down there." He pointed to Jayce. "Archers, follow me! The rest, attack that thing down there." Barbadose took out his bow allong with half the army.

The army's weapons was evenly seperated with 500 crossbowmen, 500 longbowmen, 250 skirmishers, 250 short swordsmen, and 500 broad swordsmen. The archers followed Barbadose to an edge of a crater where he settled them in and prepared their arrows and bolts alike.

"ON MY MARK!!!" he screamed back, "READY! AIM! FIRE!!!" 1,000 bolts and arrows flew in the air, ripping up the clouds. Their target of attack was Draven and the floating capitol.

"Let me ask you something, knight. I know there has been an attack on the Arctic Region before this, and that man up there was the attacker. If the Arctic Region is still standing, then how did they divert the energy from the land? Was there someone who used some sort of barrier, or did he just hit what he wanted to and there just so happened to be minimal damage on the land?"

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After being out for a while in the dusty cave, Jacobie came back around. He stood up and wlaked forwards. "We cannot just let him destroy this island! We have to do something!"

"I'm afraid I can do nothing, but you probably could, Jacobie."

"Why not!? Nothing has stood in your way before, so why now?"

"I have made peace with the Crimson Emperor."

"SCREW PEACE!!! When has peace ever solved anything!? It might be a relaxing thing, but it's only just delaying another war!"

"How true... Fine. I'll assist you, my apprentice. If we are to strike just this last time, know that even if I die, I will be reborn again, and I will restore you as well, Jacobie. Let's go." Valimore and Jacobie raced back out of the caves. Their targets were different, but both were evil enough to be destroyed. Jacobie headed for Jayce, where as Valimore was headed for Draven.

"How'd you like this!?" Valimore took a great leap in the air and began to hover for a moment. Merely seconds later, black bat wings shot out from his back. He flew forwards, baring his fangs, ready to destroy and mabey devour Draven.

"Get a load of THIS!!!" He stuck his hand out and 6 giant, sharp pins nearly 3 feet appeared out of his palm. They grew more and more until they reached 8 feet. Each took the shape of swords. He flicked his hand forwards and a sword headed for Draven. He flicked it four more times and all headed his way.

"Sorry old mate, but I can't let you blow up anything anymore. This is gaian! It's where I keep all my stuff, so you can't do anything anymore. I hope you like the present I just gave you. Enjoy fighting the blades of Vampiric eternity! MEHHEHHEHHEHHEH!!!!!!"

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Meanwhile, Jacobie was headed for the Draken. He noticed that a huge number of troops were headed that way as well. He though if he couldraise their morale, they might have a fighting chance. As they marched forwards he yelled out "Let's kill this thing! CHARGE!!!" They all started running out at the Draken. It looked like it had just thrown back a golem, but this hadn't moved any of them spiritually. They headed in berserkly, ready to kill anything in sight, and their sights were set on Jayce.

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As stated before, Tiberius was thrown backwards by the Draken. *I have to get this guy killed! If he's dead, I can capture his essence!* "Is that all you got!? Come on, fight, weakling! Take this!" He lunged forwards at the Draken, hoping to make a hit in the jaw, possibly disabling his black fire breath.

[Dude Man]

//How does everyone automatically know that Draven's CDAA will destroy Tjed? Duilin only knows from past experience.\

Duilin was silent and he just watched Draven get yanked down. He noticed an entire army just started to attack Draven and Jayce.

"Holy crap!!" Duilin shouted, he lowered himself towards ground level to avoid the arrows. "This is going too far." He looked at the dragon, being feebly attacked by a large amount of people. Jayce just wasn't going down...

Draven was right; Drakens are the strongest being, period. They are a hell of a lot stronger than humans and even demons. If Draven doesn't use his CDAA against Jayce, the draken would just move on and destroy every other nation. But is there another way to defeat Jayce? Fighting Draven is pointless, but if he followed his way, then it would mean the death of everyone in Tjed, the last free nation. No, Draven is wrong; Tjed is needed to help fight the Dark Empire, and if Tjed is lost, then that just brings Retan closer to dominating the world.

"There has to be another way to kill this thing..." Duilin said to himself.

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Suddenly two legions of Lizard Men began rushing in; lead by a blue skinned lizard man and a large brown skinned one. They charged towards Aaron's army. Their armour was strong, and these lizard men seemed to slightly larger than the ones before.

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The Talonscar Elite shrugged and spoke to Coriko in its deep echoing voice "Okay." He then shot a flaming horned skull towards him.

Marshall shot a lightning bolt at one of the others, with his MagiPistol. The elite simply blocked it with his gauntlet. "Bad move." The elite roared. He then shot two balls of black flame at the summoner, who sidestepped to avoid the shots...

Wilham dashed towards the third one and swung his fist at its head. The elite grabbed Wilham's gauntlet with his own and twisted his fist. Wilham then swung a kick smacking his foot to the side of his foe's face, forcing him to let go of his fist and step back a few feet.

//Coriko, you can control the Talonscar Elite that you're fighting, since he's an NPC. But put into consideration that they are 'elite'.\