Dark Age Legends

[Cesque]

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Gelu's robes caught fire a little at the bottom. A fierce wind then came, looking to blow Gelu back a bit.

We should check some midrash and determine whenever controlling of character's clothing is against the rules or not...

You're far overpowered anyway... You're like one character who marches in with thousands of rock trolls, telepathy, ability to kill whoever he likes etc... There's some sort of fun associated with combat, while you prefer kill-in-2-posts technique.

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With mere look, Gelu instantly put off fire on his robes before snow could do it for him. He raised his head and looked at Haraldur with his red eyes shining among the snow storm. He seemed unaffected by the wind.

"The Dark Empire shall soon control most of the known world anyway. The Emperor has arrived and his will shall soon be done. Fighting is futile, the only way to survive is to unite with the strongest force of this world."

"I guess." - he added, after a short pause, as if he weren't sure about what he was saying. With the signs done with his hands, he began to gather freezing cold air before him.

[Haraldur]

"I do not have time for this."

With that, the younger Haraldur rose up in the air. He cast a stasis spell on Gelu, in hope of causing him to stay still for long enough for him to find Iduran. He then started flying, against the wind, and then with the wind (because the wind spins) towards the northern point.

Where could Iduran be?

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The status of the opening was becoming such that the elder Haraldur could now look on a general view of the map, and see large objects. Soon he would be able to see closer.

Hmmmm... a large ship near Romme, larger than normal in that region, a lot larger than normal. Probably a Dark Empire ship. He cursed his hastiness at getting to the Dark Empire's heart too early.

He hoped his namesake was OK.

[Cesque]

// DAMMIT, Haraldur! you're truly going too far - spell/far escape/leaving Draven without answer to your attack... ehh teenagers these day with their viking temperament //

Gelu didn't even look at Haraldur, he raised his hand in the air and the spell was blocked.

"When I served Dark Empire, I was a master of counterspells..." - he said calmly then turned to see what happened to Draven.

Yes, he recognised Draven, and he couldn't say he liked him - but with Draven on his side, he might have been able to return to the ranks and be elevated in his position. Unless Draven screwed something up what Dark Empire wanted to achieve...

[Haraldur]

Having got to the Northern point of the island, the younger Haraldur stopped. Iduran could be anywhere. He did not know where to start looking. Iduran could be in the forest, the port, or a thousand miles away.

He should probably help those resisting that Dark Empire, especially since it seems a large contingent of high up people from there have been gathering here, which is strange.

But, he did not know where to look for them either. He should just wait until the elder namesake returns.

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The elder Haraldur looked at the portal. It was now completely open. With it, he appeared miles above the surface, and not very far south of Romme.

He descended slowly to a height of 100 metres. Then he started going north.

[Dude Man]

Duilin just sat in the tent, he saw a bunch of locked crates, he also a small unlocked box, it had a lock but it was open, so he limped over to it, and opened it up, it was full of papers, mostly lists of names. He also say some Journal papers, writen by Pophin, they were about suical thought, Veronika, things he found on scouts and past days. He fliped threw them, he noticed the name Nex and Darion come up in a few of them.

Pophin herd the fliping of papers so he jumped into the tent and swung his spear right infront of Duilin, he looks at him in rage!

"What in the hell do you think your doing!" Pophin yells

"I...was...just..." Duilin's mind went blank

"I outta KILL you, for reading my personal notes!"

"Well...what do you THINK would happen if you left somebody in here alone with an unlocked box?" Duilin blerted

"Hmph, I supose you have a point...I'm going to stay in here with you untill you have an answer for your question...I don't even know why Veronika is keeping you alive however."

"Umm....I remember now....I wanted to find Zeros' because he knew were....my magic scroll was." Duilin lied

"Magic Scroll? What kind of Magic Scroll??" Pophin asked

"Umm....It has the directions for useing the Explotion spell...."

"Well, that wouldn't be to good if you got it back, because if you learned how to use that then we would all be in trouble." Pophin then turned away to go get Veronika but turned back "Wait a minute! Nex taught you Flame Of Death, and that basically dose the same thing, so why the bloody hell would you want to know EXPLODTION! You are lieing my friend!!" Pophin pointed his spear at Duilins neck
"What dose Zeros' have!?"

"Ummm......I'm not telling....Kill me...go ahead. Death would only be a blessing for me! Come on do it...." He smiled at Pophin "DO IT!"

Pophin swung his spear back to stab Duilin in his neck but then Veronika grabed the edge of his spear.

"NO! Don't kill him...." Veronika ordered Pophin

Pophin noded and then sat down beside his box of notes

"Duilin my dear," Veronika said "it's okay to tell us, you see...If you do then everything will be better, you can come back with us, we will heal you up, and you can come back and join the Dark Empire, we'll even make you a Commander, what do you say?"


Duilin though for a moment. He used the Dark Empire so he could train up to defeat them, so why not try again, but he would have to tell her that Zeros' had the Iduran's Sword and that would be bad....

"Uhhh......give me some time to think about it...." Duilin said

"Very well, come out side, it's getting dark, we'll have a fire, Hmm?" Veronika smiled at him

Why was she being so nice to her all of the sudden? Did she like him or was she useing him so he would join the Dark Empire...

[Trent]

The two opposites continued to charge, all their hate for each other going into their magic. The spells were completely equal, and were completely synchronized.

"I guess we should see which of our allies are stronger..," said Xenai.

"Indeed," came Zion's response.

Xenai phased out, then back in behind Zeros', yanking him away from Jayce, and flinging him a few feet away.

Xenai aimed for Zeros', and Zion aimed for Jayce. The two opposites were synchronous in the launching of their spells.

"Consume all, flash of death!"

The black bubbles appeared around their targets, and the gravity increased again, this time, shooting higher than before.

Xenai was very confident now... He knew for a fact, that Zion would be severely fatigued, as neither of them could cast Omni more than twice.

[Xorlak]

(Oops, I meant by "doing nothing", that the blade did not even pierce Draven's armor.  Sorry.)

(Rules: Maximum of 2 posts per day, 2 actions per character per post.  Thanks.)

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Much to Draven's surprise, rather than stop the raging storm at the threat of his friend?s life, the boy opened up in a rage of attacks.  But the first move Draven recognized-- a short range teleportation spell cast on Iduran.  Iduran began to fade and disappear in Draven's hands, but so did Draven.  The spell caused both of them to disappear and reappear right behind Haraldur, a few hundred feet back, for a teleportation spell will carry all people that touch the castee with it.  From this view Draven could see the boy follow with an intense ice spell right where he was previously standing, which kicked up such a cloud of mist that it was impossible to tell that Draven no longer stood there.

The boy was a talented no doubt, but obviously inexperienced.  Draven could hold his laughter back no longer.

"AH HA HA HA-- oooggh!!!"

Draven suddenly felt a sharp pain in his side, and he dropped Iduran, who fell on his knees in the snow.  Haraldur had somehow managed to charge Iduran's broken sword with ice energy as well, and the old knight gave him a good stab in the right side.  If the sword were not broken, it might have been fatal.

"You miserable old wretch!"

Draven stepped on Iduran's back, forcing his face into the snow.

"Gah!"

The blue aura of the broken blade faded.  Draven extended his right palm and angled it downward at the old knight's head.

"Well, he didn't listen.  I guess you die..."

But he paused for a moment, looking up to the sky.

"Hmmm... I have another idea..."

He scooped Iduran off of the ground, placing him in the same head-lock position as before.  Iduran struggled.

"Unhand me, you blasted--"

"Silence!"

He applied some pressure to the old man's neck, and he became limp...  The two began to float into the air.

During this, Haraldur was being attacked by a warrior Draven did not recognize.  Haraldur left at once, apparently he was unsure where the teleportation spell was meant to go.  Draven shouted down to the frost mage, assuming him to be an officer of one of the other generals' divisions.

"Many thanks for the distraction.  I'll see to it that you are rewarded once our goal is complete..."

The force of the blizzard began to wane, turning more into a heavy snow.  It was clear that the boy had his mind on other things, rather than focusing on keeping the storm at full strength...

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"What the--?!"

Jayce suddenly found himself under the force of a gravity attack.  Unlike Draven, Jayce had seen this type of spell before, and instead of fighting the force from all sides, he put his energy into a single thrust of the sword, effectively "popping" the bubble encasing him.  It was that green haired guy again.

Jayce held his sword horizontally in front of him, the long curved blade resting on his left hand.

"You've made it clear that you want to fight.  Hmmm... perhaps you can tell me where the sword is..."

His blade began to emanate darkness, rather it was the effect of rays of light not being capable of escaping from it...

[Zeros']

Zeros' was about to block the energy when Xenai pulled him away and incased him in a gravity ball. The gravity was increasing and he could feel it.

Zeros' managed to move and thrust his katana through the barrier and make a small hole in it, which he managed to slip out of.

"Nice try..."

Genma, Zev and Qeni looked at the battle in silence. Genma was the first to break the silence.

"Zeros' and Jayce are far more powerful then they both preceive...and Draven also."

Zev looked at Qeni and spoke to her mind. You think this old martial arts master is telling the truth?

Qeni only nodded to Zev's question, they also noticed Draven and Iduran float off behind them.

Lets go Zev... Qeni said to her compainion. Zev nodded and they started floating off slowly towards the direction of Draven and Iduran.

"Good luck. The wheel of time is turning, and now we might not be able to stop it." Genma said to the two figures.

[Dude Man]

A few mintues past. Pophin, Duilin, and Veronika were sitting around a camp fire.
Duilin has had no treating on his womd but a small bandage, that won't help much, so he is still in pain, and the spear went very deep in him anyways. So if he tried to run away, he would move to slow and he would be shot down to death by Veronika if he tried.

Pophin just stared into the fire. Veronika was lieing back, leaned against a rock, with her shot gun in her right hand, and her left hand inbetween her head and the rock. Duilin was sitting across from Veronika and a few feet away from Pophin, he was holding his cut, it had stoped bleeding, but if he had pressure on it, it wouldn't hurt as much. Duilin wasn't sure why, but she had her eyes on Veronika.
Then he started thinking
I wonder if I should re join the Dark Empire. Like, there evil and all but, what if there my only hope to a good life? But if so, wouldn't it make lives bad for others? Like, they go from place to place, wipeing them out, stealing there stuff, getting magical weapons for some reason only god knows, and kill people, and the lucky ones get forced to join, like me.....and...Pophin? Why is he so loyal to the Dark Empire? He could sneak away! There had to be a reason....

"Pophin?" Duilin says

"What!?" He say sounding annoyed, not even looking at him

"Why do you want to stay with the Dark Empire?"

Pophin turned to him "Because! They helped me, they made me feal good about my gift of sneaking, they gave me a purpose in life. You my friend, could easily have been made a purpose in life to, but you see, joining Romme was a poor idea, because we are going to kill every last one them! The Kingdom is nomore" He smiled "You see, if you choose to stay with Romme, you shall die my friend! You shall die on the battle feild, by getting killed by some soilder. But you see, if you join the Dark Empire, you may die, but you will have a far better chance of survival, you shall have the greatest victory. Veronika even said you will become a low rank Commander. That's better then me, and only one step lower then Veronika."

Duilin thought for awile, he was abit scared to hear that he accually had a point. He wanted to find out more however.

"Who are you people? Like you and Veronika? What divison are you?"

Veronika then decieded to answer that "We a small group of people hired by The Emporer himself, to make or enemies join us, and work seperately from the others. It was originally, me Darion and next, but those two decieded to join Draven, because they knew he needed help finding the sword. So Darion brought you. You see, Darion was accually under my command this entire time! You just failed to notice."

"But why did Darion tell Draven to turn agaisnt me?"

"Darion is a fool, I'm glad you killed him. Nex however was alot better then him, he wanted to kill you because he knew that you would turn against us someday, so he told Darion. That's why."

Duilin had made his choice, now, he didn't want to re join, not after what happened the first time, he may die, but at least he'll die proud, he'll die fighting for the good guys. It is better to die happy then to live sad...

"Do you know were we can find Nex?" Veronika asked

Duilin smiled "Yeah...And I've made my choice, I'll re join you guys, I only wanted to get back at Darion, now let's get back at Romme!"

"Excellent! Excellent! Now first I want you to go find Nex, Pophin you go with him!"

Veronika passed Duilin a potion. He drank it and his cut started to heal! He and Pophin headed over to the cave....

[Cyber Wolf]

Tsar was angered by the ineffectiveness of his attack.

"I wasted a perfectly good staff.." he said, with kind of a sad tone.

He then took some Psi from his body and focused it into his hands.

Slowly, a stick formed, about 2 feet long, but Tsar was not finished.

He added more Psi to the object, and slowly, he formed chain link, 15 feet long.

He continued, and added a sphere to it, around 2 feet in diamater.

He then focused closely on the sphere, and spikes popped out of it.

He had formed a Morning Star, entirely out of his own Psi.

It was bluish in color and it phased a bit, slowing it was not a true solid.

Tsar smiled a bit.
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Seth was starting to bleed pretty bad from his gun shots, and had a hard time staying concious.

He got to the point where he couldn't distinguish reality from his hallucinations, and began babbling something along the lines of, "Where is he? Help him!"
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Nevina continued her onslaught against the soldiers.

She cloed her eyes and prayed, removed her necklace and wrapped it around her blade. It then glowed with the intensity of a star and she screamed as she slashed at the soldiers.

[Haraldur]

The younger Haraldur suddenly noticed something: his namesake was somewhere to the south of him. He flew directly south.

The elder Haraldur saw him. He flew to him.

"How are things?" said the elder one. "I seem to have lost Iduran," said the younger one.

"Hopefully he is OK. However, it seems that the Emporer has his ship here. Hopefully we can destroy it. Do this with me."

Haraldur the younger caused burning oil to rain onto the ship, and the elder one brought forth a hurricane centred very powerfully on the ship, and only affecting the area immediately around the ship. This resulted in there being a swirling wind of hot burning oil, which destroyed all the trees it touched, making them disappear completely. The trees were on the outside however, the ship was suffering the full force of the nightmare. Surely it could not survive this?

//I think you should decide the ship's fate Xorlak.//

[Mark of the Dragon]

Shin left the camp, following Nevina's intensified aura. It was a fair distance from his current location, so he figured that he had better leave now. He nodded toward Sigilus as if to say 'You better take good care of her' as he was leaving, and he entered the maze of green leaves and newly arrived white snow. He intensified his ice aura so as to allow him to fly a short distance unaffected by the snow. As he rose, Shin saw Nevina locked in combat. He didn't stop to watch; he zoomed in and landed behind the soldiers. As he landed, he formed his ice sword and slashed through one of the soldiers, cutting his head clean off.

Sigilus and Gyulim were busy enjoying their dragon meat with Nameless...even if Dragon's meat isn't very tasty.

[Zeros']

Zeros' saw that the effect of Jayce's opposer.

"Gravity magic...nice try girl. Out of my way." Zeros' flapped his wings and flew past Xenai and towards Jayce, his sword at his side, slashing downwards, hoping to hurt him or catch him off guard.

[Cesque]

// hmm... I got a bit confused - when was Haraldur when Draven/Iduran got teleported? was he escaping already toward the northern point or what? and did Gelu got teleported as well? //

"Very well." - answered Gelu. - "The Romme knight has been taken care of. I guess I should look for this ... foreign warrior, an enthusiast of weather amnipulation..."

[Xorlak]

(Since long range teleportation is illegal, Draven and Iduran simply teleported a few feet behind Haraldur and Gelu.  Heh...)

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"Hyah!"

Before Zion could answer, Jayce raised his sword to meet Zeros'.  The swords met hard and Jayce flew downwards a few feet.  He held his sword loosely to his side.

"What fun...  HA!"

He waved the blackened blade over his head, emitting three large pulses of dark energy.  Two headed straight for Zeros', the third for Zion.

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Draven rose higher and higher with his hostage.  Soon he was in full view above the four locked in battle-- Zeros', Jayce, Zion, and Xenai, and the three onlookers-- Genma, Qeni, and Zev (yet still below Tsar).

He voice boomed as he shouted his threat to Zeros':

"Listen up, flyboy!  Hand over the sword or the geezer gets it!"

He pressed his fingers to Iduran's temple as he did before, his hand becoming red hot with flame.  He then spoke softly into Iduran's ear:

"Let's hope this one's more cooperative.  I really don't want to get blood all over my cape... heh..."

Iduran regained consciousness.  The blurriness faded from his eyes to revealed a great battle in the sky... it was the winged man that appeared before him while he was sick in the cave.  Apparently he had the sword...

Iduran struggled with all his might:

"Zeros'!  Don't do it!"

Through the flight upwards he had still managed to clutch onto the broken broadsword.  He began to frantically jam the blade into Draven's armor once again, but to no avail.  After the third attempt, Draven raised his knee and caught it between his elbow (for he had no free hands), snapping the flimsy metal in half, where it fell harmlessly to the ground.  He tightened his grip on the old knight.

"Any quick moves and he's through!  You hear?"

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A great wave covered the entire ship... the collossal vessel seemed to entirely dissappear... for a moment...  But the sea of water fell off of it as if it were encased in a massive glass bubble...  The mist surrounding the ship circled violently, in the opposite direction of the hurricane force winds, making the ship's surrounding air calm.

However, the conditions just a few yards from the ship were extremely violent.  Although protected, the ship was immobile and landing troops would be impossible as long as the storm raged on.

Deep within, in a dark room...

"What is this?"

Neptra bowed low.

"It appears we are under attack."

"They attack us with water... how ironic."

"They seem to be using some type of flame attack as well..."

"Does that matter?"

Neptra smiled.

"Not at all."

"Deal with it."

"As you wish..."

She stood up, moving a strand of hair from her face, and strided out the door...