Dark Age Legends

[Mikado]

Puco noticed that he was doing something very bad..

She quickly dashed sideways around the demon towards Sienna, catching her. While her tornado was right behind the demon now, since he apparently forgot it when his own disappeared.

The tornado's way stronger now he over won his!

//This happened in a few (3) Seconds. You just forgot my tornado >D

[Dude Man]

Sienna coughed and gasped for air, but was still able to stay awake.

Nex laughed, but then noticed he forgot about the tornado which was now coming towards him.

"Oh... Hehehe." Nex didn't seem to mind so much as he was sucked into the tornado and was spun around. Parts of his robe tore off, but it didn't seem to make much of a difference to their already tattered appearance. After a few seconds Nex was able to thrust his hands down and the tornado died out, yet Nex still floated in the air.

Nex lifted his hands in air, as they glowed with an errie red lightning aura, a loud clash of thunder was heard and the sky flashed red. Then a series of red lightning bolts began raining down upon Puco and Sienna...

[Jenia]

Indher groand and grabbed the branch with her feet as she let herself slide.

Hanging upside down and with a sleepy expression, she gave the man who disturbed her a pretty distrought look.

"What..." she muttered "Can this wait? I need sleep..."

She obviously didn't like being disturbed and appeared quite uneasy.

[Mikado]

Electricity.. it hits the highest thing! Metal is nice too!

She slowed down time, and took a small ball of light metal out of her pocket, reformed it, and made it a long staff. She pierced it horizontally in the earth, and lied down together with Sienna who was still holding it.

Now lets hope that the thunder will act normally, and it will hit the metal..

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"Oh, I'm sorry!" Shuichi bowed in a sign of excuse. "But I'm in a hurry.. I'm tracking someone down which I don't know nor ever saw. I have a way to find that person, but that needs help from someone who knows runes.. good. Someone like you!"

He smiled brightly.
"If you want, I can erase the feeling of being tired.."

[Ted Der]

Brrr! It was cold in the boat. Akran had barely anything on and the inside of the boat was pretty much empty. The wind slapped against the canvas. It was a strong wind so he was going pretty fast. He should be there soon. He had made a mental note of the direction of the island as he and Kronos were travelling away from it. He was sure he was going the right way.


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“Did you lossse the trail? Idiots…”

A thin, snake-like tongue flicked through two slimy lips in obvious distaste.

“Sssorry sssir,” came a reply from the shadows in the corner. “He met thisss Kronosss… he travelled too quickly, sssir.”

“FOOLSSSS! Go out there and get him. He knowsss! He knowsss aboutsss the whereaboutsss of our preciousss Majeuri Spinel, I’m sssure of thissss…”

“Yesss my lord.” hissed a third voice.

[D. Ein]

//Roar. I don't like faulty ISPs.\

"Phah! Never trust them magic trinkets! They always mess up, one way or the other. That is why I use a nice, old fashioned wyvern. Yes, it was quite old, by the looks of it: a hundred, maybe two hundred years since its decomposition. Now that I think of it, the bones are starting to crack suspiciously... Bah, no matter.

I landed the wyvern on top of the airship, and some imbecilic Lizard Man made a lunge for me. Obviously, his hand went right through me, causing him to lose balance and fall of the ship... yes, right through me. Felt like a cold shower, it did. No wonder they call them "cold-blooded".

Now, however, I was facing other problems. There were several other Lizard Men who were picking on Vincent. Now, I'm all for bullying, but not when it is administered against a person of such value. I also noticed that I no longer needed my wyvern, so...

Putting the two together, I dismantled the wyvern, and sent the individual bones flying at the lizards. The sharp ends of the bones immediately pierced the leathery hide, and the blunter ones struck the lizards in their heads, falling off with a clunking noise. In a few seconds, most of them lay either dead or out cold.

-"You've been cut into pieces, Vincent," I remarked coolly. "Cooked, served extra spicy, and you still manage to come back. The fact that your self-preservation instinct is still working amazes me."

//DM, feel free to take charge of the GorusStalker battle. Just make sure that the outcome is that which I asked\

[Jenia]

Indher blinked at the man.

"What good is coffee when you have no energy left?"

Indher allowed herself to drop down from the tree, gracefully performing a backflip as she does and landing on her feet.

"Well, you've never met said guy, so I'm sure this can wait... In the meantime, why don't you make yourself useful?"

She turned around and started walking towards the settlment.

"Mmhm... I have an idea... Yes..." she strode slowly among the trees, muttering to herself...

[Xorlak]

While Kronos was using the crazy-bone-shard-attack, Vincent bent over backwards to dodge some of the dead-matter spikes.  He snapped back up into position as his hand turned back to normal.  "'Tis nothing."  He waved it off.

Stepping at a quickened pace towards the center of the ship, he snapped another odd cartridge to the top of his gun as fiercer, more elite-looking lizards came spilling through the central door.  He moved in front of the Sovereign and pulled the trigger, sending an intense spray of liquid flame surging from the barrel, totally engulfing the two leading lizards in flames.  The rest of the troop backed off yelping, and he moved the flamethrower left and right to maximize the area of the flame waves as the elites fell back in either direction.  All the while he kept walking towards the now cleared door.

[Dude Man]

At the end of the hallway was the squad of five. The A-Class stood in front of the group.

"You're not taking this ship!" He shouted. He took out his gun and began firing shells at a semi-automatic rate at the Sovereign and the Alchemist. As the shells flew through the air they were ignited in a green-blue flame and began to speed up. One of the shells hit the wall and exploded spraying a green-blue liquid on the floor which started to burn, but not damage the interior of the ship itself.

//It's like plasma flame or something.\

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"The Kandarinian Airship is in range, General Xarn." The co-pilot announced.

"Group up the other two airships, and concentrate all fire on it. And let's fire our Thunder Cannon. Lets make this quick!"

The two airships then moved towards the giant Kandarinian Airship, not aware of how powerful it was. They began fireing their shadow cannons at the ship, the Lightning Wyvern then blasted a thunderous bolt of Lightning, cracking the air between it and its target.

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The stalker fighting Gorus jumped off of the wall to avoid the grappling hook. Gorus simply pulled the chain back and ripped the chunk of the wall out and swung it at the fleeing stalker, but missed. Gorus retracted the hook and removed the piece of rock attached to it. Yes, the grappling hook is that strong, that's why Gorus loved it.

Suddenly Gorus was barraged by a volley of fireballs, ice shards and lightning bolts. Gorus took all of the hits, and dust and smoke clouded around the lizard general. Before it even settled Gorus jumped out of the cloud, and began running, trying to find out where the attackers were.

The mage stalkers were moving around after they fired a few times, and were able to remain hidden from Gorus due to their chameleon cloaks.

"Grahh! Fight me face-to-face you cowards!" Gorus roared.

"You got it..." Said the whispering voice of the melee stalker, who jumped up from behind him. And jabbed him kamas into Gorus' shoulders.

Gorus snarled, not even yelling out in pain. Gorus grabbed the stalker and smashed him onto the ground. However after that move he was stricken with a sharp pain. He could barely move his arms, so he stomped his foot down on the stalker, but he rolled out of the way.

The lizard general continued to be barraged by magical attacks. They didn't even hurt him much, but they really pissed him off. Gorus was taking a lot of head shots and it was difficult to keep focus. He needed to transform, but for some reason he couldn't, the cold and the kamas stuck in his back were slowing him down.

The melee stalker came up towards him with his hatchet ready to smash Gorus in the face, yet in the corner of his eye he spotted him.

"Gotcha."

Gorus shot his grappling cannon, and the hook impaled the stalker, and smashed him right into the wall. Gorus retracted the hook and extracted the dead stalker from it.

"No fear. If he was afraid he wouldn't have tried that, and he would have lived." Gorus said to himself, chuckling a bit.

Gorus pulled the kamas out of his back; his shirt was dripping with blood.

"'Tis but scratches."

He then scanned the area, trying to find the mages. He stepped towards where he thought he could sense them, but he wasn't too sure.

"Come on out..."

The mage stalkers were waiting, they had to make the right move at the right time. They already lost one man, they can't loose anymore.

Meanwhile in one of the nearby buildings Eris, the stalker was loading up her crossbow with some special bolts. She then exited the building where he could see Gorus.

"My, my, my. What do we have here?" Gorus licked his teeth. "Don't you look tasty. Let's have bite!" The lizard then dashed towards Eris, but was then shot in the leg by several frost blasts, from the mages, he fell to the ground and tried to get back up, only to see that his boots were frozen to the ground. The lizard general was then shot by a large barrage of bolts.

"Gah, you think that's going to kill me!?" Gorus laughed, he gave a forceful tug with his feet, breaking away the ice from his boots, and then stood up.

Eris shook her head, as if to reply with a 'no'.

Gorus raised one of his eyebrows, and then plucked one of the bolts out of him. He then noticed they were dipped in some sort of liquid. He licked the bolt, he recognized the liquid has a heavy form of tranquilizer.

"Oh, cute. Very, very cute." Gorus then fell to the ground, out cold...

[Drannic_Lord01]

"Harken to these words, my son, for they are what will carve your destiny into anew. Your death was... aninevitable loss, but fear not. My deploy of physical forms is nearly endless... however, the wars of mankind are exhausting them quite vigorously, especially that of the dark empire. The Draken gods from the other realm are all too powerful for us, but they are peace-loving people... all but one. Drakose, the father of the Drakens."

"What do you expect to do about it, my lord? If the Draken gods are too powerful for the human gods, than what of their mortal subjects, the Drakens?"

"Hmm... you bring up a good point, but enough of that 'my lord' stuff. I'm your father, so adress me as such, please. That, or dad, or something of that nature; I rather like being called father at this point."

"Oh yes, sorry father."

"No need to appologize, Benjamin."

"It's actually Bjendell, father."

"What? I don't recall naming you this, Benjamin... but very well. I will still adress you as my son, however, if you will allow it."

"Right, but what of the Drakens? How much power do you think one has?"

"It's far too powerful for one lone god to destroy, unless they are considerably untrained or duplicated."

"Hmm... that would explain Vraoumori... or should I say Jayce?"

"Yes, that one rests in his own realm's hell, along with his duplication."

"You avoid my question..."

"What? Ah yes, I appologize. What of those Drakens... well, if all of the gods combine their power, then I believe we could defeat him. We cannot directly influence, however, as that would spark off another war... there have already been too many casualties. Speaking of which, your new form is waiting behind you."

"What is that...? Is that a... demon form?"

"Only part demon, and part angel. I'm still working on another form. You are free to use this one for the time being."

"I think I'll just wait."

"That's not an option. They need you down there, and they have called to me again and again. This is somewhat an answer to all of their prayers. Now go, my son."

Ben's vision faded as his physical form materailized up near the mountains of Tjed. His body was both demonic and angelic, and to prove it, he had one demon wing, and one angel wing. He awoke as his spirit entered his physical shell. Strangely, he had the same apperance as he did before, except half of his body was a dark red color. He had a long, black horn jutting out of the left side of his head, where the demonic energy resided. All in all, though, he pretty much looked just like he did before.

"Heh... for better or for worse, I'm back!" The halfbreed took to the skies as he saw Tjedon below, the shield gone. Blood filled the streets like small rivers and streams, along with green chunks of flesh. Ben flew into the cityand landed right in the midst of the crimson river. He could see nothing alive for quite some time, until his eyes came upon a familiar face... Lagart.

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[Dude Man]

The red lightning shot through the metal staff and began shooting into the ground.

"That's no regular lightning, Puco..." Sienna warned.

The ground underneath Puco and Seinna started to get hotter and red lightning then shot from the ground and through the dead gleepers. The corpses then slowly got back up and started to lurch towards the two.

[Xorlak]

The stars in the sky seemed to move, though Retan and Anti were floating in the same place.

The ground rumbled and the sea groaned.  The Dark Emperor extended his left hand.  The star-field above blasted by quickly and silver mists covered the sea and island-crater below, though it was some sort of illusion giving the appearance that the two were rocketing through space.

Blackness engulfed Retan's palm and surging Dark Thunder raged from the mists below and the stars above.  The black bolts connected in a circle around the astral demon, and then flooded the interior of the magically enclosed space, hundreds of jagged streaks stabbing through the air.

[D. Ein]

-"Mmm, flames! I can't say I am much fond of the element, but it is effective nevertheless. As I'm sure you can tell, a mere dislike of something will not stop me from using it. They do remind me of Draven, though..." I shook off the unpleasant memory. "Damn showoff..."

I followed Vincent further into the airship.

-"So, do tell: how was it? The afterlife, I mean. From what I've been hearing, it's different for every person. When my human body was deceased, I was sent to the Realm of the Second Insanity. A bloody pleasant place, believe me. Large, green, moss-covered Cyclopaean buildings superimposed against a grim black sky, almost welding to the horizon in the distance. Between the stone towers - pools of glowing, delightfully acidic slime, in which one can relax and listen to the soothing sounds of wild shoggoths feasting upon their terrible prey... I really ought to visit it again sometime."

Another lizard, probably feeling awfully heroic, swung his sword at me. I dismissed him with a half-hearted lightning blast.

-"The realms of the afterlife - subsidiaries of Thanatos - quickly became my hobby after that most excellent experience. There are so many down there that it is quite fascinating. Priests and shamans recorded their otherworldly experiences, and I happened to find their writings. I don't even think that I have all of them..."

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The lightning blast hit the shimmering blue shield, largely dispersed by the barrier. The fearsome attack was reduced to little more than a static charge once inside of the shield, but it was more than enough to do some damage. The charge disrupted several glass tubes, which were mended by some sort of a magic force. The mending process went awfully slow, though - the tubes were fragile. The Enlightenment began slowly creeping upwards into the sky, firing off its defensive cannons through the shield barrier...

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Retan and that other thing were completely out of sight now. Did Damien really lose them? He hoped not. The weapons were glowing strangely for a while now, probably due to their close proximity to each other. Most interesting... Very, very interesting...

[Drannic_Lord01]

Ben flew up to the two lizards standing before the house; Lagart and Jacobie. He landed in front of them both. "Man am I sure glad to see you guys! Oh... if you're wondering about the demon thing, I can explain that later; first off, where are the others?"

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There was a great unrest inside Justin's mind, though he remained unconscious. The two forms within himself were fighting over his body. The darkness counterbalanced with the light, therefore all he could see was a severely dull grey. Grey, everywhere. His mind felt empty. Again and again, he could hear the two souls inside his body, fighting like children over a toy. He could hear a faint sound, like a raindrop falling in a pool of water, or a broken sink leaking drops of water, slowly down into a larger tub of water. The sound echoed thgough his mind and tormented him like a raging fire. Death wasn't quite near for him, but neither was life; his body in a state of coma, caused by tragety.

"Wake up, don't be afraid. Wake up, save another for a day. Enjoy the morning fresh air, for warm love is everywhere." It was a song he didn't quite forget through all these years. When he was feeling sad, his mother would sing it to him. These were her very last words as well; the absolute last thing she uttered out of her mouth before she died. The sound was almost like the song, but in one quick drop; sometimes it hurt, sometimes not...

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[Mikado]

Puco gulped.
Bringing back the dead?

"Sienna why didn't you tell me that he was very strong!" Puco said with a crying voice.

She needed to get quickly away from those gleepers. Or they should get away from her.

Puco punched the earth, and a small hole under Sienna and puco began to form. All the earth that was there was pushed aside into many big spikes around Sienna and Puco. Some gleepers were pierced, others were just bashed back, however none did reach the girls. Puco quickly turned and kicked one of the spikes, immediately all of the spikes broke, and those who were pierced were shredded into pieces and the others were killed by the rocks shooting away.

"Quickly Sienna! Let's kick this meany!"

Puco dashed point-blanc at Nex, maybe he did, maybe he didn't know, but infact that was just a clone made of earth. Puco was now above Nex falling at him with high speed with a giant earth spike in her hands.

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"Err.. sure?"
Shuichi was a little confused, so he just followed the woman.

He saw a nice white settlement build around a single fountain. There were some people walking around, and most of them were working. Childs played in the fountain, to be scolded by their mothers and forgiven because playing in the fountain could give them the flu.

This kinda reminds me of the small towns in Edharm.. It has a nice aura around here, maybe I can stay a little longer.

He turned his head towards Indher.
"Nice village, it's really peaceful in here.. do you live here?"