Dark Age Legends

[Haraldur]

A huge tentacle whipped out and nearly hit Haraldur, who then ducked.

"Get down! Do not let them touch you!"

He sliced off the tentacle with his sword. He muttered something and the plant which attacked him and some others in the area started to glow.

"Oh, shit!"

He crawled forward and to the left, where he saw the stem of a glowing plant. The plants could only sense things at about head height, so he was quite safe. He brought his sword around and the stem was severed, and the plant let out a wail as it died.

He did the same to the 6 other plants nearest to him.

21 left: 7 stems severed.

[Dude Man]

//Heh, looks like a started a new NPC Battleing System! I bet alot more of these will be going on...Hmm...//

Duilin then exited the cave and then looked around abit "So, is Zeros' and/or Draven back yet?" He asks.

[Cesque]

"To all storms!" - Scorch loudly said to himself. - "That demon gave Draven the blade. I knew it. Traitor. I knew it! He couldn't be trusted! Just to save life of some pathetic children... nooo..."

For a while, he considered going after Draven...

"No." - Scorch got back to his senses. - "He has the blade. He is too powerful. Propably he knows the power of this weapon... yes, Cheetah, we'll have to get it by means other than combat."

He looked around the forest, sure no one notices him.

"But now, let's just sit here and watch the action, shall we?"

[Cyber Wolf]

Seth strode over to the pile of food and picked up a peach.

"..Fuzzy.. I think it's growing a 'stache, heh.." Seth thought to himself.

Nevertheless, He took a bite and apparently liked it, as he continued to devour it.

Seth got tired after eating and slumped down on a wall, ignoring the fact that it was drenched in blood.

Seth got into meditation position and went into trance. (Elves trance for 4 hours, instead of sleeping for 8 hours like humans)

~Seth CAN be awakened, but it'll take a good deal of noise to do so~

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Nevina remembered how tired she was after seeing Seth go into trance.

Nevina headed outside to trance, seeing as the cavern was full of men, some of them perverted, and the fact that the place was drenched in blood didn't exactly make her want to sleep in there to begin with.

Nevina found a tree outside and climbed up it.

About 6 feet from the ground She found a nice, stable branch to sit on. She layed her back against the tree for support, and went into trance as well.

~Nevina also can be awakened, but it won't take too much noise because she's a light sleeper. She could also be awakened by shaking her tree and making her fall out but, doing so would most likely anger her~

[Zeros']

He sensed Scorch's anger. He knew he was close by. He said something to Scorch through telekensis (he picks up there mental frequency waves and transfers them into sound, thus allowing his feelings into words). "You really think I would give him the blade? That was one of my fakes. Draven will find out soon enough. I want you to get everyone else out of here, even my children."

He continuted to walk back to the cave.

[Dude Man]

"Hmmm...." Duilin then, just looked around inside the cave. "Damn, this place is a mess..." Duilin then walked into Iduran's room. He sees the man in the robe, he was awake now, rubbing his head.

"Hey, were did Iduran go?" Duilin asks
"Not sure, he hit me and then, he was gone...I hope he's okay..." He replies

Duilin then just turns around allready bored with the man. This one man with one tooth and an eye patch looks at him

"MY NAME'S SKIPPY!!" The man says in a booming voice

"Umm....Hi..." Duilin continues walking

"Will you be my friend?" The man asks

"Ummm....no..." He replys and continues walking.

He spots the main with the broken arm, he nods at him and the man nods back.

Duilin just continues to walk around the cave, thinking of things, thinking of his past...

-=-=-=-=FLASHBACK=-=-=-=-

"You stupid, ugly, worthless, magget!" Darion yells at him, Duilin is doing push ups and Darion is standing beside him yelling at him, there is a bunch of crates being carried from a boat, Duilin droped one and it broke open smashing the suplies inside makeing Darion very angry.

"You think your strong? You think your though? Well your wrong! Your weak! Your weak as silk! Silk that comes from the butts of chineese worms!" Darion yells

"I'm sorry, Darion, It won't happen again, it was just WAY to heavy, maybe I could just carry the small boxes..." Duilin says

"The next boxes you will be carrining is a box full of pecies with your own ass in it!"

"What's is that supost mean?"

"It's means....YAARRG!" Darion then wacks Duilin and he falls down, Darion starts kicking him repeatedly, untill Duilin starts bleeding. Darion then picks up the poor guy and then carries him over to a small bunker and then tosses him in and closes the door and locks it. "YOU SUCK!" Darion then leaves

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"I still feal like my revenge is incomplete..." Duilin says to himself "I still hate that Darion freak.....He should die 5 more times, each time for one of my family members he killed! No, 5 hundered times, each time for how many people he killed!"

Duilin then shook his head rapidly and then blink a few times

"Neech...I'm going insane here..."

[Cesque]

// Zeros, it's telepathy, not telekinezis. Telekinezis, as name implies, is moving objects from distance (like word kinetics in physics, it's from greek I believe) //

"What the...?" - Scorch suddenly heard Zeros' voice. - "Get out of my head! Fakes, all right..."

Then with whisper, he added:
"This demon is getting me really aggravated. I hate those telepathic freaks with their weird plans. We'll be in trouble when Draven identifies the blade as fake, he can't be that stupid."

Then, he noticed on some other tree trancing Nevina.

"Ah, did I mention I also hate elves and their inhuman behavior?"

Scorch didn't even notice as Cheetah behind him changed into human form and now hanged on a branch held with both hands. It seemed to be a very comfortable position for him.

"Almost everyone went into the cave. Shouldn't we follow them?"
"Shhh, you have no idea about stealth actions, spying, observation and how those things are important during war."
"You're right. I have no idea, but I guess sitting on a tree and looking at Draven flying in the sky, with the rest of people hidden in the cave, is not a brilliant tactic."
"We'll see what Draven will do..."

[Xorlak]

The point of red light that was Draven faded into the southern horizon as the sun began to set.  Draven looked at the trees pass below as he sped across the sky.  It was a tiring way of travel, but he should be able to make it to his small armada of ships shortly after nightfall.  Of course, with most of his force annihilated they would be mostly empty, but that didn't matter.  His mission was accomplished, or so he thought...

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"What in blazes are they?!"

Iduran fell backwards as a vine went for his neck, instinctively slashing his broadsword sideways and cutting the tentacle at half length, which immediately shrunk back in pain.  The severed piece fell to Iduran's right as he hit the ground himself, the green leaves turning to a dark brown and a pale yellow gas emanating from the vine as it decayed.

Iduran looked to his left and saw Haraldur taking down the vines from a crawling position and decided to try the same method on the other side of the path.  The vines flipped overhead wildly as he crawled to the edge of the path and began hacking wildly at the shrubbery, slicing through both glowing malicious vines and innocent plants alike.  After a minute, he managed to hack through 5 more tentacles.

(14 left, 13 severed)

[Haraldur]

"In the first war we had against the Dark Empire, they threw onto us a plague of these creatures. Most were destroyed, but, looking like plants, they easily hide. There are few left."

Crawling sideways over to another he snapped it's stem with his hands. He then severed the stems of four others.

9 left, 17 severed, one snapped stem

[Zeros']

//Yeah...whatever it is...\\

He looked around the cave. He saw Nevina in the tree, Seth lying in the cave, Duilin eating and he saw Qeni and Zev sleeping in Iduran's abandoned bed.

He jumped up and started gliding beside Nevina.

He tapped her on the shoulder. "Hey there sleepy-head. Just thought you'd like to know I gave Draven a replica of Idurans blade...well and he'll be here soon. Just tell everyone else for me ok?" He paused. "Could you take Qeni and Zev with you? I want them to live, so they can see a peaceful world...like it was a few centuries ago."

He landed on the ground and leaned agianst the cave, he started to meditate.

[Cesque]

"Everything is getting peaceful and quiet. Too quiet." - Scorch said. - "Cheetah, aren't you tired of hanging on that branch?"
"You bet I am."
"How about following Draven "
"How? You will fly with me and spy on him?"
"No, I'll fly ON you. I'm tired of traveling by air."
"No way!"
"Forget it. You're too weak. Head into the cave while I'll follow Draven."

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Cheetah instantly turned into wyvern and flew toward the cave. He landed on the ground, ignored meditating Nevina and Zeros, turned into human form and got inside.

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Scorch began to chant spells again. First it was haste, then a weak form of invisibility that made him look transparent. He couldn't cast full invisibility on himself while hasted, after years of mastering haste the spell was powerful enough to block most influence of further self-enchantments. The way magic worked and thousands of theories about this were confusing him, so he abandoned thinking on this subject.

He leaped into the air, elevated his position to be among tips of trees not to be so visible then began to fly after the small dot on the horizon... Draven's speed was unmatched, though, but propably he would be able to get where Draven wants to get.

Scorch had time to think for a while, "on the fly", literaly...

"What's south? A port. I visited it once already. Which gives me chance to get away from all this conflict, or to head after Draven... Or find some hideout and get some rest and think over my own plan for a while, 'what to do if Zeros' plan with fake blade screws everything up'..."

[Mark of the Dragon]

Shin sensed Draven leaving Romme and smiled to himself.

"Idiot."

He then approached the tree that Nevina was sleeping in, and leapt straight up to the branch right above hers, which coincidentally gave a pretty clear view of some of her...assets, heh. Without disturbing Nevina, Shin stared long and hard for a few moments, before his branch suddenly snapped, and he landed right on top of Nevina, feeling quite awkward...

Gyulim better not see this he thought...

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After a short trip across the seas, Gyulim arrived at Romme. After disembarking from the boat, she ran ahead of the soldiers and followed Shin's energy...but she was many miles away...

[Zeros']

Zeros' herd the branch snap and was awakened from his meditation. "Idiot." he murmered under his breath. He walked outside the cave and found where Shin was on-top of Nevina. He simply jumped up and started floating. "Need a lift?"

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(If he accepted help..)
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He grabbed Shin by the back of his shirt and set him down on the ground.

Zeros' sat down on the ground with his leg crossed, leaning agianst the tree, going back into a state of light meditation.

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(If he did not accept help..)
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"Whatever..." he simply landed on the ground, sat down with his legs crossed, leaned agianst the tree and went back into a state of light meditation.

[Xorlak]

Draven glanced at the setting sun and deep red sky to his right.  What a pain this whole ordeal was...  He had never had this much trouble with any mission before... Luckily it was all over...

(Yeah, right...)

Now what to do when he arrives at the ships?  Draven brought his army in three humongous warships, leaving 100 soldiers and crew in each and attacking with the rest.  Probably would be best to wait for him there.  Luckily he wouldn't have to explain the loss of his force, since he'll be so elated at acquiring the final weapon...

"Ugh... I hope he doesn't bring them along for the ride..."

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"Blast it!"

Seeing that the number of vines was diminishing, Iduran stood up and slashed the two in front of him.  But this motion caused the remaining seven to go straight for him.  Two entangled his right leg and the rest his torso and arms, lifting him up off of the ground.

"Gah!!!"

He stuggled violently, but to no avail, until he conjured the only bit of magic he knew. Iduran's broadsword began to glow a pale blue, charged with ice energy.  In his restricted motion, he managed to barely graze the vines grabbing his right arm, causing them to wince back in pain.  With his right arm free, he began to spin the sword around wildly, freezing and severing the remaining tentacles after a few seconds.  Iduran fell to the ground, out of breath.

[Haraldur]

Haraldur quickly shimmied accross the ground and killed the rest, and then went over to Iduran.

"You have been poisoned. It seems you will need to stay here for a little longer than you anticipated.

"I will not allow you to walk, as excercise will increase your heart rate and so speed up the distribution of the poison around the body. I am afraid I am going to carry you."

Haraldur got a grip on Iduran and stood up, holding Iduran.

"Be as still as possible," he said. He then started to walk the rest of the way to the city. He nodded to the guard as he entered the gate.