Dark Age Legends

[Mikado]

The wolfs didn't scare Puco, she had confronted all sorts of animals in her life, and she was quite good at communicating with them. But when a skeleton looking creature appeared out of nowhere, she yelped.

Sienna and the skull-man began to talk about stuff that Puco didn't get. But she was smart enough to understand that skull-head was someone who wants to kill innocent!

He must be erased..

Puco jumped next to Sienna, and pointed at the robed man.

"I don't know who you are, and why you are here, skull head! But Sienny doesn't want to join someone who is evil! You and your wolves aren't scary at all! Leave us alone!"

Even if she looked like child, the words that she said came straight from her heart. But that wasn't the most interesting part, some weird powers began to leak from her. The air and ground around her began to deform, and the feeling around her wasn't pleasant, but not evil either. It was something weird.. something that wasn't felt on this world before.

"If you won't stop bothering us, mister skull-face, I'm gonna to kick your ass!"
Her face showed determination, but also a soft feeling of excitement.

This was no normal child.

--- ---

Shuichi raised his head. Even he could feel it now. The cat cried in agony, and Shui quickly drew something in the earth around the cat, and it disappeared in a poof.

Shuichi stood up seriously.
"Did you feel that too?" He asked.

"Yes, I did." Reigratto confirmed.

"Finally, we found her.. now to actually catch her.. "

Reigratto didn't say anything, and Shuichi was thinking deeply.

Then Reigratto interrupted the silence. "Maybe that other rune user can help you finishing your information circle?"

Shuichi slashed his fist in his open palm. "You are brilliant Rei! Let's do it!"
Then he looked at Reigratto in silence. "But ... for this I need utter concentration.. and that other person may not..-"

"Fine fine, I'll let you seal me up, but when "she" will appear, summon me back master!"

Shuichi raised his thumb.
"That's a promise, comrade!"

"..."

After a while, Shuichi drew something around Reigratto, and the man disappeared just like the cat did.

Shuichi looked around him, and took out a piece of perkament out of his bag.
"How else am I going to find that person.. I'm lucky he uses runes too. But if he wouldn't I wouldn't search for him in the first place! But I'm lucky he's using them anyway!"
He was confusing himself now.

"Anyway, let's rumble."

Rolled the perkament out, in huge circle, almost filling the whole open field in the forest.
He ran to the center of it, and took out a small sword, which was covered in crimson. Apparently it worked like a pencil, because he began to draw various things in the center.

"This bird means the move of information, and there should be written "Lost, but not forgotten in the encrypt.." Shuichi mumbled to himself while drawing.

When he finished, he ran towards the side where the perkament ended, and started, and began pushing in his soul energy.

Slowly the drawing in the middle, began to reform, and fill in the huge space which the perkament covered. A whole new rune appeared, and it was way more complicated than the other one.

"This is one of my better runes, hmm.. I guess this will be enough!"

He ran toward a part of the rune, and began to draw something with his sword. This continued for while, until Shui took out a small flask out of his jacket, and dropped a little on the drawing.

"This should do.."

I had that rune under me when I was trying to capture the virus.. the information capturing rune..
Thanks due that I have that runecasters information. This bigger rune is a existence processing rune.. I should be able to find him without any problems..

Shuichi jumped back, out of the drawing and the rune began to shine.. and suddenly it stopped.

"Hmm, so you are there.. hiding in that island aren't you?.."

He took the perkament from the ground, and the same moment he touched it, the rune disappeared with the wind.

He drew something in the air with his finger, and slowly everything around him began to dissort.. then it reformed, into something completely different. He warped into an other place..

Shuichi stood in front a huge tree. "Hmm.. so the woman I search likes ... trees?"

He looked carefully at the tree, and snapped his fingers. A high pitched scream appeared out of nowhere.

"This can wake everything, hmm."

He looked in the tree, and yelled.

"Hello, runecaster, maybe you remember me, maybe you don't, but I came here to visit you!"

[Dude Man]

"Ooo, how cute." Nex retorted to Puco's threats. "Well, I think I'm gonna to see how my pets here will handle you then." With that, he snapped his fingers and he rapidly burned away in flames. Sienna knew Nex didn't just kill himself, it's was just some fancy trick.

The wolves then stepped forward and roared. Suddenly humanoid creatures seemed to explode out of them. They had pale rubber like skin, and were covered in slime; the skin on their faces was tight enough to show almost the entire bone line. Their canine like jaws had full sets of sharp teeth. They had short pointy ears, and a very small flat nose. Their fingers and toes had dangerously sharp nails, but their armour was very light, to fit with their slim bodies...

"One of the many demonic minions I've created" Nex's voice said, from nowhere "They steal people's and animal's bodies, usually while they're still alive. I call them Gleepers."

Two of the gleepers jumped in the air and pounced at Puco and Sienna.

Sienna was tackled to the ground, and the demon's slime started dripping on her...

[Mikado]

Puco screamed when she saw these awful things coming at her.

"NOOOOO!" She didn't want them to come closer, and pounded the ground out her reflex. Huge pieces of rock were blasted out of the earth, and they split the Gleeper from Puco. Both being hit by the rocks, they rolled a little backwards, but the Gleeper quickly stood up, and attack again, while puco was still lying on the ground.

She looked above her, and saw a huge, close, slimey, ugly, scary, nasty, glooper. Some of the slime already fell on her face.

"..."
"IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The girl screamed her lungs out.
Puco quickly rolled back, and kicked the Gleeper in his chest., who was just about to impact in the place she was a second ago.
"DON'T-TOUCH-ME!" Her kick wasn't aimed, but because of the fierce power behind it, she heard some bones breaking when she kicked the chest of the slimey beast.

The Gleeper fell back a little holding it's chest, while Puco looked at what she had done.

"Nee.. don't come nearby.. or I'll do it again.." She said with a scared tone. She touched the earth once again, with her open palms.

Change the position of earth.. make pressure to blast it out..

Some spikes made out of rock flew out of the earth like lave does out of a volcano.

They aren't pointy, but with this speed!

[Xorlak]

The inky black spider creature, which no longer resembled Retan at all, took Valos' hit head on and spiraled downward into the rocky crater below, kicking up dust with its impact.  It reeled as it crawled back to its six feet, which all resembled blades now.  The monster itself was entirely black, but each blade-foot was glowing a different color: one a burning red, one a icy blue, one yellow with energy crackling about it, one a phosphorous green, one a bright white, and the last a churning black.

The thing struck the ground with the lightning-appendage, and a blast of electricity surged upwards at Valos...


Meanwhile, Retan simply floated there uninterested, the dark portal still spiraling above his head.

[Dude Man]

"Hmm..." Valos noticed the elemental legs the spider had. Lucky for him he practiced all of the elements himself, except for light, but only wimps used that. He could likely counter every attack with a different element, as well could the spider, but this was just a stupid shadow minion.

Valos summoned a vine of foliage in his hand. He wiped the foliage line at the lightning bolt cancelling it out. He empowered the foliage, giving it a green glow and he flew down towards the ground and slashed the empowered vine at the glowing yellow leg in the ground.

[ElderScrollinIt]

"Can I handle a blade!? Of course I can! I've bloody got a katana!" Atara unsheathed his sword and held it up to show the wolf emporer. He then let it drop to his side, still keeping it somewhat ready.

"Jack, might I ask what was the point of coming down here?" Arata turned to face Jack.

"If I'm not mistaken, I could have sworn I saw them flying in here not to long ago, just like those other, silvery ones. I'm sure they can do it, too!" Arata observed the Drannivolkans closely, noticing that they shared a near-perfect resemblance to the Velkens, except their fur was a different shade, and they were a bit larger in build.

"Fine... I'll fight with you if you can get me to the large airship over Tjed. Please, I need to get up there. There's someone I must keep safe!"

[Trent]

"That's probably where Anti is," said Xenai. "We're in no shape to fight him right now. Let's just go find Zion."
"He said he was going after Duilin," said Aura.
"We don't need to connect dots here. After all, we can sense energy signatures." Xenai started searching Gaian for his buddy.
"Y'know," said Tsu, "with how much we all seem to depend on that ability... It would really suck if something took that power away from us."
"Yeah, really bad. But we'd manage somehow." He soon found Zion. "Let's go. He's this way."

The three took off toward Zion.

--- --- ---

"Outburst!!!" A huge amount of energy shot outwards from Anti, revealing his location in the ocean as the water parted around him. "You annoying little fool!"

The Retan clone snickered. It charged up a dark spell, and unleashed it as Anti came in range. "Bloody Lance!" Four dark spears pierced him right there, halting him. The clone swung its sword down at Anti, and slashed right through him. "Got you. Very Happy"

Anti simply came back together. "That hurt, asshole. " Anti connected his wrists, pointing his hands at the clone. "Indignation Wave!" In a few moments, lightning energy gathered in his hands and bursted forwards at the clone. It sent him flying.

Anti then gathered all the energy he could, and fired it up in one fell swoop. "Lightspeed Attack!" He shot up to the clone, kicking it in the face and sending it downward. He then shot down, intercepting him with an uppercut, sending him upwards. He phased in near the clone and kicked it, sending it forward. He continued bounding it back and forth...

[Coriko]

Kain looked at the guard. He knew if he lied it would come back to bite him, maybe kill him. But if he said no he may not get in, and in that case Druid would most likely kill him. Kain couldn't lie but decided to word it so he could still get a meeting. So he took a stab in the dark and hoped to hit his mark.

"No, but i assume you already knew that since your leader is indisposed. Is the next ranking official present and able to make decisions?"

Kain awaited the response, pleading to himself it was positive.

---

The mutos watched as the summoned creature flew closer to them. They watched with amazement, almost terror. The creature landed on the ground in front of a muto. It bent down to be eye level. The creature tilted it's head slightly and looked at the muto. Who in return lunged forward and bit off its head.

"Of course," Said Coriko really sarcastically. "When can we ever get a fucking break?"

Coriko aimed his arrow at the once again advancing onslaught of mutos. He let loose his arrow. It made contact with the mutos who seemed stunned, yet it still advanced almost un-impeded.

"Oh for the love of God!"

Coriko un-summoned his bow and instead summoned fire balls in either hand. He summoned a barrier of fire around himself and Wilham to protect them, at least for the now, from the attacking Mutos.

"Any ideas?"

---

Baird had been at the army barracks for only a short time but he had already done most of the administrative crap he needed to. In this building was a Coloseum for training and tournaments. Then building off of the arena was barracks. He sat in the leaders chair of the stadium and the soldiers all congregated on the arena floor. Like he predicted they were about fifty-thousand strong.

"Alright," Baird announced in a loud booming voice. "Shall we get started?"

---

Druid sat with Onan in his office. They were going over political matters. They were important issues that would help to rally the people for their cause as well as make the country better. Druid thought to himself how he would unite this world for the better under his rule. People would still retain most of their inalienable rights and would celebrate him. The Shadow Empire would be marvelled, not as a victor but as a liberator. He would destroy the tyranny that plagued this world and would create a fair and just one, of course with him at the helm. When thinking about this, Druid couldn't help but smile.

[D. Ein]

-"What are you talking about?", replied the guard. "The Sovereign is in his fortress, planning the invasion of Gaian, as I'm sure you knew, and..."

The guard paused.

-"What... on Gaian... is THAT?!"

His outstretched finger was pointing to several enormous airships approaching from the south.

-"Look, mate, I don't really care at this point who you are, and besides, you wouldn't do much harm in either case. Just get the hell in. You've probably noticed the Citadel in the middle of the city - the big floating upside down pyramid with four chains at the side, and a big ring over it. Just go there, say that Rudger sent you, and ask to see either the Scribe of Unlife, or the Sovereign himself, though I doubt you'll be able to catch a glimpse of the latter. Now, go! Get in there!"

The city line appeared to shift a little. All houses containing unlife turned their tough stone sides toward the incoming airships, sticking out several pointy bones in their direction. At about the same time, the city horn sounded - alarm was officially raised.

--- --- ---

//actions by Akran were discussed with Ted Der beforehand.\

"There she is, Gros Morne in her full beauty... something wasn't right.

Then I noticed the ships, eerily creeping toward the city - my city. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Who's this idiot to try and oppose me? Looks like my minions haven't been doing a good enough job of keeping the locals in my grasp of terror. I smell an execution coming up.

Soon enough, the little ship rammed into the metal port of Gros Morne. I mercifully took the unlife out of it, letting the boat retire to the bottom of the ocean floor. Noticing Akran making it out in time and following me, I continued toward the Citadel. Best if I ask someone who has any idea what those ships are doing up there.

Entering the city, I noticed a wide state of alert. All of the Unlife houses were turned to the attackers - good - and the KAF was scrambling its troops across the city to form a defence line. Not fast enough, I'm afraid... I'll have to work on the troops' discipline.

Some man just passed the front gate guard. Wow, so it is true - people just walk into my city randomly without any obvious need to do so. Who hires those retarded guards? I definitely smell an execution coming up...

Okay, so that's that. I ran past the houses, blah blah blah, boring stuff, yeah yeah. In fact, I don't even remember entirely the panorama outside. Why would I need to? It's just my city, I see it every day, why would I need to describe it further?

What's important, however, is that after I entered the Citadel, I found my dear Scribe snooping around in the throne room. That's not like Ryleh, to be dusting my seat of power instead of lording his position over some miserable slave...

-"RYLEH!!!", I snapped. "What are you doing in here?"

-"Oh, Sovereign, you've returned! I was looking for my quill, which I left here at the last meeting. Perhaps you've seen it?"

-"You know, not many people talk to their monarch like that. No, I haven't seen your goddamn quill, now go get a slave to bring you a new one and get out of here. While you're at that, please summon Mr. Eldridge to the landing pads on the Citadel. Wait there yourself - I will be joining you shortly, with that walking pile of trash."

I threw a negligent look at Akran standing behind me.

-"Now, get lost."

-"Yes, Sovereign."

After the Scribe left, I looked around the throne room. It feels so long since I've been here, though only several hours passed. There's no place like home, they say...

-"Now, Akran, join me at the summit of my fortress, won't you?"

[Dude Man]

"Yeah, I got one." Wilham's gauntlets glowed white again and he summoned two giant green coloured wasps.

"We'll ride these dragon wasps and continue moving." Wilham said. "Or we can stay around and fight, I'm actually game for either. Heheh."

--- ---

Wyvern riders dropped started dropping firebombs onto the buildings, unlife ones and otherwise. Lizard Men landed in Gorse Morne, with their weapons drawn, greatswords, maces, battleaxes, mauls and all sorts of big weapons. The lizard warriors then began to engage to KAF already rushing in to defend the city.

Back up in the Lightning Wyvern, the co-pilot handed Gorus the orb for the ship's speaker.

"Care to say anything, sir?" The co-piolet asked.

Gorus shook his head. "I'll speak to their intestines with my boot."

"So you're ready to go down?" Xarn asked. "Do you wish to send the elites with you?"

"They can come down, but tell them to stay the hell out of my way." With that Gorus turned around and exited the cockpit...

[Xorlak]

(Velkens are foxes, Drannivolka are cats.  Not quite the same.  Heh...)

"A pleasure, sir."  Anselm returned Duilin's greeting, bowing stiffly, trying to mimic his master's level of formality.

Duilin's jab went right over Renard's head.  "Oh?  Lady Urocy is the spiritual leader of our people.  Without her, I don't know what we'd do..."

Helix caught it though, and flashed a sneer at both him and Duilin.  The taller, thinner Velken was obviously the most rambunctious of the group.

The doors flung open and Renard lead the entourage to the outside deck.  "We'll have to fly down--"

Black shadows zipped overhead.  In an instant, Virmir and the other Velkens landed just a short distance away with a series of soft thumps.  The squad leader turned, his black coat flapping in the breeze and the two swords strapped to his back clattering softly.  "You've returned."

Renard and the others snapped to attention.  "Y-yes sir."

Virmir stepped towards the group, his hands behind his back, giving them a slow lookover.  "Helix is healed, I see.  How are you feeling?"

"Well, sir."  It was always a struggle for Helix to remain at attention, as he was always prone to fidgeting, and his tail lashed about after a moment.

Virmir's eyes fell on Renard.  "There is only one person I know who could heal him that quickly... where is she?"  His impassive eyes seemed more concerned at the moment.

"She's in Helix's quarters, sir.  She's well guarded."

"I see... and everyone is safe?"

"Sir Rikarl organized everything on the other side, sir... I... I had no idea..."

Virmir smiled slightly and placed a hand on Renard's shoulder.  "You did well, Renard.  You did very well..."

It was of course impossible to tell under the silver fur, but Renard was likely blushing.  He looked at the ground and grinned.

Virmir turned to the half-demon, who seemed rather large standing amongst the short foxes.  "Duilin, I am glad we have the opportunity to meet once more.  I believe I owe you a favor..."

He spun around and flicked his hand, motioning the others to follow.

"My Lord...?  What is going on?"  Bryce ventured.

"Gamma X five."

The squad members not originally with Renard gasped at the code word.

"Where... are we going?"

"We are going to be civil about this and offer Commander Vlak a choice," Virmir said as he lead the original squad of ten Velkens plus Ko'ji and Duilin towards the large doorway that connected to the command center of the airship...

[Dude Man]

"Nice to see you again to, Virmir." Duilin replied, yet his voice didn't have a lot of enthusiasem. He still wasn't too one hundred percent on Virmir, he'd just have to see how things will go.

"I assume this Commander Vlak isn't one of the Velkens?" Duilin asked.

--- ---

The gleeper was impaled by the spiky rocks and fell to the ground.

Sienna kicked the Gleeper off of her, and took out a deck of cards from her pocket. The gleeper squealed at Sienna and then jumped at her again, yet she took out a card from the deck and threw it at the creature's throat. The card was enchanted with black magic and it stuck right in. The gleeper gargled a bit holding its throat before falling lifeless to the ground.

Nex's laugh echoed through the air and two more Gleepers jumped at Sienna and pinned her on the ground.

"Help!" Sienna cried out.

[Mikado]

"Oh no! Sienny-chan!"

Wha-what should I do!! Having those bleepers so close.. it must be awful!

She quickly ran toward Sienna, and in her sprint she began to create a long spear from all sorts of dust of the ground. The Gleeper raised his hand, and was about to pierce Siennas breasts, when he got pushed by a giant spear off her, tackling the other Gleeper away too.

She jumped over Sienna, picked up the spear, and made it sharper. She threw it at the Gleeper, who wanted to catch it since it was a easy throw aimed at his head, but before the spear reached him, Puco already head butted him in his belly. Catching his belly the spear directly hit his head.

Puco was already running at the second Gleeper then, however this one, instead of defending began to run at Puco with a beast like speed. Because Puco had no weapon anymore, before she would hit him, she would be already cut up badly by his claws. She made in her run a small spinning jump, and stamped in the ground just before the gleeper, breaking the earth, and she jumped back, and the Gleeper was caught off guard because he couldn't move properly on broken soil. Puco used this quickly at jump kicked in his chest, and spinning she made several more follow up kicks, these were all aimed, and the Gleeper was kicked into two pieces.

Using the power extract.. and inversing time on my muscles, making them fifty times stronger..

She jumped back, and sighted. Then she realized that she did all of this actually to safe Sienna, and she run quickly towards her to help her stand up.

After all of this blood shredding work, no single drop of blood hit Puco.

[Dude Man]

Sienna got up, gasping. "T-thank you..." She then noticed two more gleepers coming at Puco from behind.

Sienna took two cards out and threw them like ninja stars at the gleepers. The cards slashed right across their throats, quickly killing them. The gleepers were all dead.

"Weak at the troat. They're always weak there." She stated. She took a deep breath. "That was pretty good fighting Puco."

"Yes I'll admit you both surprised me there." Nex said appearing from nowhere.

Sienna turned and saw Nex walking towards them.

"Now, I could ask you again to join me.." Nex said "...but to be honest I'd much rather have you as meal then as an ally."

Ophelia grimaced. "You sick cannibal."

"I'm not a cannibal! Cannibals eat people of the same species."

With that Nex lifted his hands and his scythe magically appeared in hands.

"YEEHAA!!"

The demon then made a made dash towards the two and then slashed his scythe down at Sienna, who jumped to the side avoiding the scythe.

The blade stuck into the ground, but it quickly disappeared as Nex let go of it. He then shot a fireball from his right hand at Sienna, and knocked her to the ground. His scythe then reappeared in his hands and he slashed it down at Puco...

[Mikado]

"Ieee---EH!" Puco not knowing what to do, jumped forward, evading the deadly scythe itself, but she got hit by the handle.

"Ouchie.." She rubbed her head, and grabbed the scythe with her left hand, and with her side of her other arm, she pushed with lots of strength at the wood just in front of the blade pushing the blade away with her right leg at the same time.

If I'll break his weapon we'll win! Being pushed from 3 different directions, and weakening the wood were I hold it.. how is a scythe gonna survive that!? Eat that Mister Scythe!