Dark Age Legends

[Xorlak]

The dragon blasted upward, its maw cracked open in a wide grin.  A mammoth blast of shadow energy billowed from Jayce's mouth, surging upwards straight at Draven.

Draven clenched his teeth and lowered his right hand, immediately summoning a bright red orb of flame.  The fireball blasted downwards, striking the stream of darkness head on and lighting the sky with a brilliant crimson flash.  The dragon tore through the explosion though, the flames wrapped around his body for only an instant before they were replaced by a black fire that trailed behind the beast...

Draven lowered his other arm, summoning a translucent red half-dome shield under him.  Jayce was upon him quickly, slashing his multi-bladed claw at the Crimson Emperor.  Sparks flew as he hit the shield, and Draven was thrown backwards, streaming upwards, right into the fifty foot orb of raging fire floating directly above him...

"Ahhhhhhhh~!!!"

He did not fly into the flaming globe, but rather was forced against it.  Draven held his arms to his sides, using all of his might to keep the delicate balance of energy from backfiring.  The gigantic ball of flame warped, becoming more of an egg shape than the sphere it formerly was.  The ground below rumbled and the sky turned black, red flashes of lightning spinning around.  The attack was unstable and faltering... The clouds that once spun clockwise around the orb shifted in an instant, spinning in the other direction with increasing speed, along with the surging wind that blew about...

CDAA: 72%

[Drannic_Lord01]

// CPU crashed... again...
// Still not too much to write...
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Aaron looked out at the battle raging on. He looked around and noticed his men were finished, and heading towards him. "What's our status, Barbadose? How are the men holding up?"

"They're heading back. We've done as much as we could here. Let's-"

"No. We have to let them stay, they're no longer part of our army. They're staying here in this colony we've established on the port. By the looks of it, it's almost ready. These people will have their port back and also more support."

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[D. Ein]

//Only 1, but it takes him 17 episodes - like Draven's CDAA Razz \

The transport has landed, and the majority of the people were let out. Immediately, they started to construct small temporary shelters out of the chunks of the disassembled transport, fortifying the walls with packed snow. The occasional trees were used for firewood to keep the people warm. Scouts were heading out in all directions, looking for more trees, and possibly, a rocky outcrop to make more permanent shelters out of. Meanwhile, Kronos was making his way to the closest of the numerous battle sites.

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"Very soon I was at the battle location. I whiffed the rich, potent air, which was full of the delicious smell of death. Yes... many have met their end here. Preparing to awaken my first minion, I interrupted myself, as a brilliant idea crossed my mind. Instead, I sent a missive back to the camp requesting about half of the current populace. They need practice, and all of us need extra forces to help with the rebuilding... What a perfect coincidence..."

[Jenia]

Getting off the transport, Kerig yawned and stretched his arms.
"Don't you dare fall asleep now" Weloss warned him, remembering how he slept for months in the past.
Kerig nodded, calming his partner by saying "I'm not tired, really."

As he walked around looking at the people work feverishly, he noticed the lich wasn't there.
Just as he was about to ask where he had gone to, he noticed several people started walking off somewhere.
"Follow them" Weloss told him, letting Kerig realize they were all going to see Kronos.

All of a sudden, Kerig noticed one bit which he should have noticed earlier-
His hand wasn't black anymore.
"Don't worry, I'm just finished." Weloss said "You can throw away what's left of the amulets."

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Fire. Fire. Light, scales and flames.
Zakon barely noticed all the flames he was surrounded with as he climbed the draken's back, and didn't even bother to consider that he can easily die by being slightly cought in any of these.

He climbed and climbed, holding unto the scales so hard his fingers bled.
When he reach the neck, he grabbed it with his left hand and drew the knife with his right.
Quickly finding a line, he slashed, but was not to be satisfied...

[Dude Man]

"Good thing Draven's drawing more attention than I am." Duilin said to himself as the dragon swooped at Draven. He did however keep his eyes fixed of Draven and Jayce, he chose to keep a closer eye on Draven, as since he's being attacked by Jayce he might release the CDAA at any time. He noticed that Draven's attack was weakening but he still kept up the pace...

Uber Shield: 85%

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Wilham's dragon flew the group towards the estimated location of the hidden White Chimera temple. The green dragon swooped past a cave in a small mountain, a pair of glowing eyes opened from within the cave. The swooshing apparently woke up a dark dragon sleeping in a cave. The dark dragon then glided out from the cave, turned in the direction the green dragon was flying and flew towards it...

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"Tonight, I will make my first strike on Lizaberg." Vandrin said to his servant.

"Shouldn't you be rallying troops then, Lord Vandrin?" His servant asked.

"No, I'm having my commanders organize my mutants for me." Vandrin said. "I will only have my mutants on this attack. These lizards are about twice the size of a human, and most of them know magic. None of my human followers are mages, however I have my mutants. Plus I also have my mutants which could match most of these lizard-men in physical strength. I also have my flying mutants, they have wyverns, which are just dumber lizards."

"I see, Lord Vandrin. Very good, Lord Vandrin." His servent said, sucking up as usual.

"Indeed." Vandrin said, grinning his dirty teeth. "Heheh, yes indeed."

[Xorlak]

(Of course.  Heh...)

Draven managed to get the massive spell under control, yet just barely.  His teeth were clenched and droplets of sweat formed on his brow, despite the aura of flame surrounding him at all times.  He knew well what happened to Retan's MDAA when that spell was interrupted so many years ago, and was not about to let that happen to him...

Jayce knew better as well.

So with a sneer, the mighty black dragon shot in the opposite direction, performing a flip in the air before blasting upward.  Higher and higher he went, flying well above the mammoth orb that glowed like the sun.  He spread his wings wide, arriving some hundred feet above Duilin and Draven very quickly, and very much out of range of their attacks...

"You thought you could bind me..."  He indicated the human form Duilin below.  "And you thought you could hit me..."  his attention now on the burning man with his hands out toward the red sphere.  "Utter failures.  How does it feel?  To have your very lasts hopes dashed?  To see your very last chance of survival ripped away from you?"

He flapped his wings.  They seemed to cut through the clouds that were rotating around the orb, the clouds dispersing as if they were repulsed by his very existence.  Lightning struck around him, but all seemed to bounce away, the blackness burning about him far more menacing...

"And now you are trapped, unable to move without destroying your pathetically crafted spell weavings...  What will you do?  Abandon the spells you've wasted so much time building?  Or die as you cling to your feeble plan?  Either way is equally entertaining..."  He smiled a devilish grin at the last part, opening his mouth wide as a deep black energy began to form within.

Suddenly, his crimson eyes went wide.

"... AHHHHH~!"

The dragon roared a deafening screech, throwing his head back in pain.

"OFF!!  GET OFF!!"

He bellowed as his huge claws dug behind him, trying to rend free whatever caused that sharp pain at the base of his neck.

Draven's eyes went wide at this.  The dragon twisted and squirmed high above, performing sharp turns and twists in the air.  Draven could just barely make out a man clutching to the dragon's back. He shook his head, as there was no time to gawk.  He focused his full attention on the burning sun he held in place with his palms above.  It must be complete.  It must!

The orb was now over eighty feet in diameter.  The ground rumbled and the sea on either side of the island was cast back and forth in large rippling waves.

CDAA: 92%

[Drannic_Lord01]

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"You fool! Hurry up, Lord. I cannot wait to taste his blood..." Valimore licked his lips and poured more and more of his energy into the CDAA, until he gave it all. His form started to grow back to normal. His features returned to him in a flash, and he suddenly looked like... a normal human.

"HURRY UP!!! AAGGGHH!!!" He pushed more and more of his energy into the great orb, and as he did, he felt more human. "No... NO!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" As Valimore put his last bit of energy back into the CDAA, he fell back. For once in his life, he looked young again, like a mere 20-year-old. Before he hit the ground, Jacobie came in and caught his falling master.

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"What in god's name... happened? Master, what's wrong with you; you look even younger than me!" Jacobie placed the young form of his master down on the ground. Valimore opened his eyes and looked back up at Jacobie. His face caught a glimps of shock. "Get away from me, you beast!"

"What the hell's the matter with you!?"

"Ahh! S-s-stay away! G-g-go!"

"Master...?"

"Who are you calling master, you fiend!" Jacobie let go of Valimore and backed away slowly. He took one last gaze at the man who yelled in his face. He raced back out and took a ferocious leap upwards, grabbing hold of Jayce's tail. He took out one of his katanas and battered away at the Draken, thinking that this monstrosity... was his fault.

[Jenia]

"Ungh...!"

Zakon rolled to the side.
Although he wasn't trying to dodge the claws, he rolled to the side, almost falling off the large scaley being. He wasn't fast enough, however, and was slightly wounded to the right of his stomach.

He did not feel the pain, however...
With one hand using to hold himself unto the draken and the other to hold the knife, he began to laugh and whisper various things about socks and cold coffee.
In the midst of all this he attempted to get back up. At first he pulled, but decided that it was just to slow, so he used the neck as hold to swing himself back up, still laughing for no apperant reason.
He began to do what appeared to be sniffing as he further climbed the draken's neck in search for more lines.
He soon found one and grabbed his knife in both of his hands, as if trying to put more force into it. Not that it mattered. Using only his feet to hold unto the neck, he swung his knife.

However, due to bleeding quite badly, he slipped right after swinging his knife, resulting in him hanging upside-down the draken's neck, knife in hand, still laughing.

[Dude Man]

"This is gonna to be big." Goldolf said, looking at the massive crimson orb. "I think we should leave the island."

"I don't think there enough time." Lagart stated.

"Don't worry guys." Rink assured. "We've got to have faith in him. He can do this...I know he can."

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"This is gonna to be big." Goldolf said, looking at the massive crimson orb. "I think we should leave the island."

"I don't think there enough time." Lagart stated.

"Don't worry guys." Rink assured. "We've got to have faith in him. He can do this...I know he can."

---

Duilin noticed the large black dragon fly above them.

"Definaly going to have to change the location of the shield." Duilin said to himself. He ignored Jayce's words trying to bring him down. He didn't need them; his new power didn't come from hate and rage.


He noticed the dragon was then attack, by somebody on his back. "Who is that?" Duilin asked. He was a bit worried about the person, but then again, he must be willing to die, if he jumped on the back of a monstrous dragon.

The glow on the ground disappeared as Duilin moved his hands skyward. The crimson in the sky was being countered by a pure white light at the bottom of the horizon, and the water below him began to glow white. This shield had to be at least just as powerful as Draven's attack. He looked at Draven, he seemed just as, if not even more stressed then he was, despite the fact, that he had a orb with the power the destroy the entire island. It is a lot of power for Duilin to compete against, will his shield even work?

'You can do this Duilin. Don't give up.'

Duilin nodded, and began to charge more energy, the orb turned to a pure white and the size increased, yet not as big as the CDAA, the orb was still impressive at a 30 feet in diameter, and the power inside was even bigger...

Uber Shield: 92%

[Xorlak]

Draven clenched his teeth (again) as he watched the dragon flutter about.  The spell was nearly complete but there was simply no way he would be able to hit the black Draken while he was moving around like that.  He had never considered using the attack against an airborne target, but he supposed it would work well enough if it were a direct hit.  That opportunity was not presenting itself, however.

He turned and flashed Duilin a quick glare.  Had that stupid half demon not interfered when he began constructing the spell, he would have been finished before Jayce got off the ground and this whole mess would have been over.  That idiot's ridiculous ideals may very well cost Draven his life, as well as the lives of every else involved. And that thought made the burning man seethe.

Of course he didn't have the time to dwell on it.  Right now he needed to figure out a way to actually hit the beast...

Above, the raging sun-like sphere was a gigantic one hundred feet in diameter.  The clouds raged around violently, crimson lighting streaking about...

CDAA: 100%

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(That is one huge jump.  Heh...)

Jayce flipped his tail around, trying to dislodge the lizard that had latched on.  The pain in his neck was lessening, and he began to regain control of himself.  Alas, the first uninvited rider's knife did little more than a mark this time for the black aura around the dragon intensified three fold, threatening to rot away the flesh of any touching him...

That man did accomplish one thing, though.  The Shadow Draken was now ANGRY.

With a deafening roar that laid trees upon their sides, the dragon opened his maw wide, spewing forth countless orbs of blackness.  Each ball of black flame seemed to draw the light around it, as if it were stealing it from the very air itself.  Stealing it and destroying it.  The shadow orbs flew in all directions as the dragon lashed his head around.  They slammed into trees below, splintering them into nothing, while the near-misses merely withered away, dying instantly and turning to dust.  They slammed into the mountains to the north, reducing surrounding circles of vegetation to much the same state while boring deep craters into the rock, though it was not evident where the debris went.  Some errants were strewn far back into the still burning town of Kesnar, and before they struck the burning buildings, the flames seemed to leap into those black orbs, forever disappearing into that darkness before they struck, obliterating solid structures into nothingness.  And some flew as far as the seas on either side of the island.  The water boiled where they hit, giving way to heavy columns of thick black smoke surrounded by rings of jagged ice...

And several of those orbs were aimed directly at Duilin and Draven...

[Jenia]

//Whoa, Xorlak, did you completly ignore the second attack? Oh well, no matter. I was planning to let him drop when either ability reaches 100% anyway\

Zakon still hanging upside down from the dragon's neck, somewhat like a necklace, came to realize the neck is too slippery with his own blood to swing himself back.

Snickering, he found a line at the front part of the dragon's neck.
He managed to lift himself up just enough to swing, but that swing had cost him his hold.

Mere moments afterwards, one of his legs slipped and he began to fall.

[Dude Man]

Duilin noticed Draven glare at him, but paid it no mind. He continued to focus his energy into his soon-to-be shield, until it could (hopefully) be strong enough to stop both a CDAA and an enraged Draken...

"Aw, shoot." Duilin groaned, as the shadow orbs flew towards him and Draven. Duilin flew from side to side avoiding the orbs of darkness that smashed into the water below...

If Duilin wasn't so close to having his shield fully charged, he'd likely have to continue, after dodging the shadow orbs. Duilin simply finished off charging the shield, until it was ready for launch. Now just to wait for Draven to attack...

Uber Shield: 100%

--- ---

Meanwile back in Terian both the armies of Lizaberg and the Vandrin County began to prepare, yet unbeknownst to either of them, they both plan to attack each other, and the question is who will attack first?

Count Vandrin was fitted with his own armour, coloured lime green and crimson. (See his face shot). He kept his current cape, and had his lost katana replaced with a new one. He didn't wear a helmet of course, as the tradition for all military leaders to never cover their iconic face (unless their icon is having their face covered, ie: Retan).

--- ---

"Umm...Wilham." Firstman, said sounding rather worried.

"Yes?" Wilham responded.

"Uh, I think I see one of them, dark dragons."

"Oh, great!" Marshall exclaimed sarcastically. Marshall turned himself around, so he could see the black scaled dragon flying towards them. "Yeah, it saw us. Maybe we should speed up."

"But if we speed up, we might fall, off. We don't really have to best grip on this thing." Wilham stated. "Maybe we should slow down, and fly right towards it. At least we'll have a fighting chance."

"No, I have a better idea." Marshall said. "I'll summon a wyvern and try to distract it."

"Good idea. Unless, you have a better one?" Wilham said looking to Coriko.

[Coriko]

Coriko was thinking for a seond. He was thinking fast.

"Get me on the Wyverin. If you summon one I'll ride on it and distract it. It won't follow the wyverin unless something draws it. If I'm on its back firing arrows at it, it is bound to follow. C'mon we don't have time! Either I do this now and catch up to once I've dealt with this beast, or we all die! Just tell me where to meet you and I'll be there. C'mon what is it gonna be!?!?"

[Drannic_Lord01]

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Jacobie sitll held on the draken's tail with all of his might, slipping just a little, but still having a firm grip. He began to climb the draken's scales like a mountain, using quick thinking to speeden his pace. "I'll kill you if he doesn't..." Jacobie muttered under his breath, "know this while you still can, death will bacome you this day, foul beast..."

He climbed higher and higher until he reached a bloody spot. He stood and leapt off higher into the air, landing on the draken's head. He pulled out one of his katanas and held it up, blade facing down. "Take this!!!" He thrust his blade down with all of his might. "Valimore's spirit, make this work..."

---

"No one is to touch what's left of that thing until me!" Tiberius yelled, now in human form. he dashed over and jumped into the sky, slowly taking form of a wyvern. As he did, Tiberius flew up in the air and made for a fierce bite towards Jayce's neck.

[Xorlak]

(The second swipe did not get through due to his increased evil aura.)

Draven's arms were becoming very heavy, and he was exhausted from gathering energy for so long.

And then the black orbs came his way.

"Blast it!!"

He lowered one gloved hand and shot forth a few plumes of flame, destroying the errants before they came within striking distance of the giant globe of flame that he so painstakingly crafted.  He was hunched over in the air now, trying to keep the massive energy stable.  Blast it!  He couldn't hold it much longer...

Jayce's movement was no longer erratic.  In fact, he was headed straight for the Crimson Emperor and his giant sphere of flame.  More warriors were hanging on the dragon, feebly beating on his hide with their weapons.  But it seemed none of them could pierce the aura of blackness that surrounded him.

Draven considered throwing the attack right then and there, but another issue immediately presented itself...

The energy above him suddenly became extremely volatile, as if he were holding back a dam of water that suddenly bore hundreds of cracks.  Looking up, he could see a black hole forming in the center of his burning sun-- one of those black orbs had hit!

The clouds spun faster, and the ground rumbled anew.  It was now or never.  The attack could not be held together in this state...

"You're on your own now," he said to Duilin though with the intense winds and noise he doubted his voice carried.

Draven then clenched his fists in the air, as if grabbing onto some invisible handle, then pulled them forward.  Slowly at first, as if moving a great weight, then with the speed of a heavy heave.

And the gigantic ball of flame moved forward...

The black dragon ignored it, opening his maw wide and continuing on his path as he raged through the sky, mere feet from meeting the ball off flame.  It was like a mountain of fire was thrown on top of him, and he intended to cut through it...

Draven turned tail and ran, blazing eastward through the sky.  He had no intentions of seeing how this turned out first hand...