Chapter 4

From DALpedia

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday November 26th, 2004

Cold… so cold… can’t breathe…

Why…? Is this death…?

No… impossible…

You miserable insects are going to pay… all of you…

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One month later…

The streets of Laus were in an uproar. Petty thieves, low class warriors, pirates, merchants selling supplies and weapons… They were trekking northward, across the border to the north to try and join in the pillaging of the villages and fortresses of what used to be the Dark Empire, now a land without laws…

A dark figure strode through the crowds, unintimidated by the mobs, his face hidden under his hood and his black cloak blowing in the wind. A smoke hung over the lands to the north. So, the rumors are true…

The shrouded man entered a tavern, which was just as bustling, and proceeded to an empty table in the corner. Here he stroked his chin, lost in thought, while eyeing the odd passerbyers…

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday November 26th, 2004

Duilin was siting in the tavern, he noticed the robed man in there, he looked at him and then turned away.

Duilin was wereing all black, he didn't have his armor on, he still had his back pak, yet it showed the showed up tears on it, and it seemed to have something alive in it, but it never moved much, and nobody ever asked about it. His eyes werem't glowing anymore, he seemed to look almost normal again, yet he still had that Gothic look to him.

He glaced back at the man, and decieded to go talk to him. He got up and started to walk over to him, but suddenly he was intercepted by somebody.

"Duilin! I've got to tell you something! I think, that your story is totall crap!" He was drunk, the man was somebody Duilin had met a few days ago, and he told him the story of fall of Romme.

"That's great!" He pushed him away and then sat down at the table with the robed man.


"Hello, there I'm Duilin, who are you?" He asked

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Meanwile, up in the cold freezeing moutains...

"Frost...wake up!"

"Huh? Oh. Why?"

"Were going down to Laus to pick up some suplies."

They were two men, looked very simular,one wore icy blue armor and seemed to be more, gnashy looking, the other seemed to look smarter.

"Okay Bite just a second." Frost, was the smarter one, and Bite, was his crazy twin brother, the both were part of a clan called the Ice Warriors.

Frost got up and put on his armor, looked just like Bite's but had the colours in different order. He grabed his Ice Sword and Pick Axe.

"Let's go." Frost said

"Allright, let's go to the stables..." Bite replied

They headed toward the stables...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday November 26th, 2004

A cloak figure slowly entered the tavern in Laus at where Duilin resided. He stalked through the shadows, seeming to be enveloped by them. He shifted out of the shadows and looked up at Duilin. He had his hood down, as not to show his face.

"Duilin I presume?" Said the figure as he pointed at Duilin with his left hand.

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About 200 miles near Laus on a small remote island...

Zeros' looked down at the rock in disgust. He reached behind his back and slowly traced the place where Iduran's sword stood. A couple days ago he had sensed the risidual energy coming from this place.

He knew what it was.

Zeros' slowly reached out from where he stood and touched the rock, but quickly pulled back his hand. Black sparks erupted from where the boulder stood, as if not wanting to be touched.

"Too much dark taint." He growled under his breath. He slowly reached to his swords hilt and gripped it tightly. He didn't even know if this would work. He unsheathed his sword and cut the rock in half, faster then anyone could see.

He walked slowly into the enterance to the cave where the rock once stood, carefully treading.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday November 26th, 2004

Ellenna said her last good byes to her adoptive father, and left the Temple of Kala.

She had set herself a mission, to help liberate the formerly oppressed peoples north of Laus.

She entered the Green Dragon tavern, in search of warriors who might help her in her cause. She entered the room with Duilin and the and robes and cloaked fugures were.

She knew people would pay attention, for she was wearing the colour of the goddess Kala.

She stood up on top of the bar and said: "I come here to look for warriors to assist in spreading freedom in the lands north of our city!" And, because she knew the mentality of the average person in the crowd, she said: "You can take all the loot you can find within ethical limits!"

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Haraldur was a little south of Laus harbour. The wind blew through his hair.

A lot had happened in the last month. He had had a lot of fun causing complete chaos and fear on the east coast of Tjed, near the place where two of his previous parts had destroyed a Posidon. The carcass was still there. The place became boring after a while though, so he destroyed it. There is only a barren wasteland left, and the rest is under the sea.

He felt bitterness and anger well up inside him, from some ancient grievance which he could no longer remember. He would make anyone he met pay... For what, he did not know.

Fear first, it is much more fun to play with the emotions of your victims.

He screamed a terrifying scream that could be heard in the farthest part of Laus. many people were scared for no apparent reason, knowing not what and where caused the noise.

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Posted by: Aminaga on Friday November 26th, 2004

Crap, I'm late!

Aw well...

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Posted by: Dippy on Friday November 26th, 2004

Back at the stables...

"Frost! there he is!" Bite said pointing at a large two headed hairy creature (not dudman)
"Here Gungun!" frost says.
the beast comes closer...
"AAAAARRRRGGGG!!!!"
"AAAHHHHHHHH!" Frost & Bite scream
"HA HA scared you! nananana nana!" says Gungun
"don't do that!" Bite wines "Okay lets go to laus and get supplies"
so they hook Gungun up to the carrage and hed down the mountain.

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Posted by: Trent on Friday November 26th, 2004

Tsu slowly opened his eyes. He sat up, and looked around, to see Zion standing over Xenai, who was still asleep. Tsu got to his feet and walked over. "How long has he been like this?"

"Since I woke up," came Zion's response.

"When was...?"

"2 hours ago. I never noticed the mark you destroyed until now." Zion turned Xenai's head to look away from him, and looked at the white area where the black mark was.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday November 26th, 2004

//Dippy: I'm not hairy!!!
DMM: Stop spamming the RP//

"Yes, I am, Duilin, who might you be?" Duilin replys to the other robed man, he ignores the women in the coloured cloths, assumeing she is drunk.

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(It's cool that me and Dippy control each other's charas aslong as there not actions?)

Frost, Bite and Gungun, arive down near by Laus.

"Okay, we'll leave Gungen hear" Frost said "I don't think people will aprove of a 2 headed 13 foot Yettie stomping threw the city, with two Ice Warriors."

"Yeah, I supose so." Frost replied "We have been raiding this town every now and then. But not as much, since the past month."

"Bite, why did you tell me that?"

"I wasn't telling YOU that, I was telling THEM that." *Bite points to you*

They enter the town, and then spot a girl wearing the colour of the goddess Kala (Ellenna) entering a tavern.

"Hey, let's go in the Tavern!" Bite sugested

"Okay, somethings fishy about that women, let's go!"

Frost and Bite enter the tavern, and hear what Ellenna says, the then turn around to talk.

"Okay, you think the Ice Warrior Commanders would mind if we joined her?" Bite asked

"I guess they would be cool with it." Frost replyed they then turned around and looked at Ellenna

"Were with ya!" They both said at the same time

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday November 26th, 2004

"My master wishes to see you again. He says something about his past catching up to him." Kami-ryu reached up with his left hand and pulled back his hood, revealing his face.

"He had mentioned something along the lines of "weapons of destruction". He wanted to see if any of his old comrades were still alive. He is afraid the Dark Empire might rise once more." He said shaking his head.

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Zeros' carefully shifted his gaze back and forth. He didn't want to fall pray to any of the magical traps that might have lingered in this cave. He made a ball of ki and carefully held it in his palm.

He casually walked forwards, his one wing folded behind him. The cave was damp and musky. She had to keep her senses sharp, or he might be surprised.

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Posted by: Cesque on Friday November 26th, 2004

The tavern was a busy place. The Kismet was drinking water (his religious conduct forbode him alcohol, altough he didn't care too much about it, anyway) as suddenly some priestess of Kala entered and screamed her propagandous texts about starting a campaign somewhere in the north.

"Chill out, sister!" - said Kismet, smiling and standing up. - "Freedom? North offers nothing but death for those who seek loots there!"

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Cheetah, tired and weak, reached the shores of Laus. As he jumped from beneath water and landed on land after turning into human form, he quickly hurried from the docks to the tavern, folling some strange stranger in strange robe...

But as he entered, he could not believe his eyes - there, speaking with some ninja-esque stranger, was Duilin.

"High heavens! Duilin! Lucky son of a wyvern!" - he screamed aloud, realising he might have drawn some attention to himself - but who cares? He didn't.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday November 26th, 2004

Kami-ryu turned and saw the strange Gepardi. He raised an eyebrow at this, but didn't give it much as a second thought. His master told him about his comrades in the war.

His master said there was a human named Duilin, who was a former Dark Empire soldier; a Gepardi named Cheetah; A sorcerer named Scorch, although he had been informed he had been deceased, and also various other people such as: Qeni, Zev, Genma, Iduran, Zion, Tsu and a few others.

He had been informed that at least half of them were deceased. He master had seemed depreased, so he didn't push the subject much.

Kami thought for a moment. He could ask the Gepardi if he was Cheetah, but he didn't want to preasure him much, if he was wrong, he might be thought of as crazy. He turned his attention back to Duilin.

"So would you know anything about these weapons? My master said he wasn't sure about what they did, only that the form Dark Empire emperor needed them to take over the land." He looked back to Cheetah and though for another moment.

Since this man he is speaking to has been confirmed as Duilin, then the Gepardi might be Cheetah. Only if his luck could be that good...

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Zeros' dashed through the cave and lost his ki orb, but as of right know, he didn't care much. He was more involved in dodging the balls of magical energy that rushed past him. He didn't want to destroy them, as not to set off the power of the weapon that might be sealed.

He brought up another ki orb and quickly dashed to the right, going onto a smaller fork. He watched as the orbs passed harmlessly by and let out a sigh of relief. He walked at a more casual pace as he continued down the cave.

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Posted by: Trent on Friday November 26th, 2004

Zion stood up and felt for anything unusual. There seemed to be dischord in the main city of the Dark Empire. He turned to face Tsu.

"You might want to learn to fly."

"Fly? No way, I'm just a human!"

"You saw all the other humans do it. You can too, somehow."

"Uh uh, no way. It would take me years."

"I'll have to take you to see someone, then." Zion looked up into the sky. "That cloud should be passing overhead any minute now..."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday November 26th, 2004

Duilin turned to the shrouded man "I'm sorry, I have somebody I need to speak to."

He smiled as he spoted Cheetah "Well, Cheetah, you son of a gun! What has it been a month? Yeah, it has. Geez, well I'm just talking to this guy here, I think he's a friend of Zeros' or Genma" He then turned to Kami-ryu "So lost weapons..." He smile then quickly fades "Listen, I'm not sure if I want a part of this anymore.." He strokes his hair abit and turns away but then looks back at him "Okay, I'll just have to talk to Zeors'."

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Frost and Bite then look at Kismet and then they turn around again and start talking "Okay, what do you think we should do?" Frost asks
"Well, we came here to get suplies is all!" Bite replies
"Yeah, but an adventure really dose sound fun!"
"Yeah, but these people seem abit werid, I don't think we should go off traveling with strangers, I say we should go and, buy drinks for people, and then get them drunk, take them outside and beat the loot outside of them!" Bite says abit to loudly, a few people turn and glare at him. Bite then lifts up his Ice Thrower and points it around and makes a animal like growl at them and then the people turn away.
"Dude, that's a pretty crazy idea!"
"Well, then let's just buy some food then!"
"Okay." Frost says and then turns around"Were, just gonna buy food, we mean NO harm!"
They both then walk over to the bar and order some food...

(FYI: The Ice Warriors are well known bandits, but they have started to be more peacefull now)

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Kami-ryu bowed politely to Duilin. Some people may think of it as strange, but learning the ways of a ninja tended to inflict proper manners to anyone. Even his master didn't like him bowing and calling him 'master' or calling everyone 'sir' or 'ma'am'.

"I'm sorry to say, but Master Genma has been deceased for about two weeks. I can understand your reluctance to join in this journey. I have heard what you have seen in the past times." He closed his eye for a moment before bowing again.

"I am deeply sorry if I have bothered you Sir Duilin. My master just wanted me to ask if you wished it." He bowed and went to a table near the far corner and sat down.
He noticed to two ice warriors outburst at the threat and sighed to himself. He pushed his chair out behind himself and walked to where the two Ice warriors were sitting.

"Sir, I'm afraid your outburst has angered many of the residents of this tavern. I must ask you refrain from further outbursts." He said politely.
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Zeros' crouched down and unsheathed his sword, cutting a magical barrier down in an instant. He strolled forwards again before smiling at the sight. A spear lay imbedded in a rock covered with wards, residual magical energy jumping off the spear.

He walked over and stopped near the spear. He reached out with his right hand and gripped the spear. He focused his ki into his hand and concentrated. The ornate decorated spear started to remove itself from its prison, the magic growing stronger every minute.

He put his other hand on the spear and concentrated one last time and pulled with all his might. The tip of the spear came out of the rock and the dark tainted aura burst free, throwing Zeros' back into the wall. He gripped the spear in his left hand and unsheahted his sword, transforming it.

He charged his ki again and slashed upwards, creating a cut just long enough for him to fly through. He sprouted his other wing, which gave him the effect of being a black angel, sent to punish all who oppose him. He concentrated his ki in his wings and blasted forwards with a powerful gust, breaking the sound barrier.

He appeared above the island seconds later before blasting in the direction of Laus, a huge tidal wave behind him and at his sides as he wanted to reach there as fast as he could.

Seconds later, the islands Zeros' was on collapsed into the sea, never to be seen again.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Bite then turns and looks at Kami-ryu and then looks at Frost, they both burst out laughing.

"Well I didn't know the circus was in town!" Bite laughs

"What are you suppose to be, volunteer street watch!?" Frost laughs

"So, Kung-Pow" Bite begean "How, bout, you refrain from bothering us? Huh?" He pokes him in the chest and then gives him a mean look. Frost then stands slighthy to the left side of Bite, but still behind him.

"Yeah, listen, Mr. Poltie Ninja Boy, we are the Ice Warriors, NOBODY tells US what to do!"

Bite cracks his knuckless and then and then smiles evily at Kamu-ryu "So, you gonna stop bothering us?!"

Duilin then spoted the two 'bulling' Kami-Ryu. He then walks over toward them

"Hey, the guy told you to SHUT up, I subjest you do so!" Duilin ordered

"Who, the hell are you, tellin' us what to do?" Frost snaped, walking up to Duilin

"I'm somebody, who melt your frozen ass out of existence, Icer Boy!"

"Nobody talks to us like that!" Frost and Bite take out there weapons...

Frost swings his Ice Sword at Duilin, but he slides out of the way, barely makeing any expression on his face. Duilin then lifts his pointer and ring finger upwards in front of his mouth and the blows, that causes a light blast of fire and smokes Frost right in the sword welding arm, and it catches fire

"Help! Get it out! Get it out!" Frost cries.

"Here this I'll help!" He grabs a near by ale glass and poors the remains on his arm, makeing the flame bigger. Frost yells in pain, his sword starts melting. Duilin then, blows out the fire with a single blow of his breath. Fortunatly for Frost the flame didn't get past the armor, so all he has it black burnt blotch on his arm. His Sword, didn't fully melt, and is still useable.

"What are you man..." Bite asks, in fear...

"What's life without mysteries?" Duilin says and then walks away and leaves the tavern...

Frost and Bite then sit down back at bar with extremely shocked faces, they then look at Kami-ryu. "We're sorry...."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday November 27th, 2004

"Don't worry about it. Life is indeed full of mysteries, some better left unanwsered." He bowed to them again and proceeded to follow Duilin outside the tavern. He spots him moving through the crowds and tries to catch up.

"Thank you Sir Duilin." He said shouting amongist the hustle of the crowds. He walks back into the tarvern and finds a spot.

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Zeros' sped forwards even faster. He gripped the handle of the spear tighter and started to exceed speeds of Mach 3. He could see the city of Laus in the distance and smiled. Kami-ryu should have the right equipment to seal the power of this evil attrocity away for good.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Ellenna sagged, people had taken very little notice. He watched ad listened to the conversation between a group, and saw others leave.

She jumped off the bar, and sat down beside Kami-ryu.

"I could not help but overhear your conversation. May I be of any assistance?"

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Haraldur decided that this time, it might help to be a little more subtle. He made his aura disappear.

He landed on the docks, near a tavern, and went towards it. There he saw Duilin ad Cheetah, seemingly remembering at least one of them from one of his previous lives.

He stopped a little way away from them and stared. He was fully visible.

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday November 27th, 2004

"Duh..." - Cheetah only said, casting a look at Frost and Bite. - "Zeros is alive?" - he turned back to Duilin. - "That's good news. Do you know where he is, or maybe this ninja knows?"

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Kismet refused to leave Ellenna alone. He followed her, looked at Duilin, Kami and Cheetah and thought for a while.

"Watch out, you guys. Never trust a priestess of Kala. Sure, now she talks big about battles, loots and conquest, but I wonder what was she doing when the Dark Empire occupied the northern land?"

The tavern has surely became a crowded place now.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Kami-ryu glanced at Ellenna for a moment and sighed. He knew there was nothing anyone could do.

"No Ma'am. I don't believe there is anything you could help with." Kami-ryu raised from his seat and walked over towards Cheetah. He weaved in and out of the crowds with a grace only a few could carry.

"As to anwser your question Sir Cheetah, yes Master Zeros' is still among the living. His master is among the deceased, as much as I hate to admit." He gave a bow to Cheetah, causing a pouch to fall out of his pocket. He reached down with his right arm, revealing his metal limb.

He quickly withdraws his hand into his sleeve as collective gasps come from many of the lesser warriors of the bars.

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Zeros' slowed down and soon the town of Laus came into view. He grasped the spear tighter as he used his ki to hold down the dark aura that threatened to leap out from it. He flapped his wings and slowly glided down to the land, barely managing to land. This spear is managing to sap away his ki.

He reached out with his senses, trying to get a lock on Kami-ryu. He located him a couple miles away and quickly hurried. He would not die from this ordeal, but he would be serverally drained. He also noticed three farmiliar auras: Duilin, Cheetah and one that felt like a mix between Ragnar and Haraldur.

He hoped that Kami would be able to help him recruit those two. If not, he would hold no grudge.

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Posted by: Kahn on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Kahn burst into the cavern and went straight for Ellenna.

"If I correctly heard someone say loot, may I be of any assistance?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Ellenna said to Khan: "Yes, you may be of assistance. Who are you?"

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Haraldur walked up to Duilin and Cheetah.

"I see that you have also been drawn here, by some strange fate. Do you have any purpose here?

"Don't you recognise me?"

Laughing, Haraldur slowly walked away, and faded from view.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday November 27th, 2004

(Gah... knew this would happen, heh...)

"You may call me... Lars."

The shrouded man replied just before Duilin left. He silently watched as the aforementioned scenes unfolded, listening intently on the conversation between Duilin and Kami and watching Duilin fend off the two troublemakers. After the scuffle, Lars left his seat and followed Duilin out of the door paying Kami no mind as he nearly bumped into him.

The shrouded man moved through the crowds like a ghost, catching up with Duilin after a few minutes. He walked right behind the man, speaking softly:

"These weapons... none of them have the slightest clue what they really are..."

He stopped walking, folding his arms under his cloak.

"There are but two paths to destruction... the two bringers of disaster are on their way here at this very moment... they may already have arrived. Their paths may conflict, or they may coincide... Either way spells certain doom. And you, my friend, are going to help one of them. I have seen it..."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Duilin stops, not even turning to look at Lars.

"Me, help one the bringers of disasters?" Duilin then looks at him "I thought the weapons were just some thing the Dark Empire wanted to use to control the world some how? I also thought, that the weapons were destrioed, but I supose there still around." Duilin then strokes his chin "Okay, Lars, who exatatly are you? And how do you know this information?"

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"Dude...That guy...." Frost says "He blasted fire at me! Did you see that!?"

"Uh, no, I just thought I imagine it!!" Bite snaped sarcasticly

"Man, I think there's something going on here. Wait a minute, do you know about the story of the  ?"

"No..."

"Well, about a month ago the Dark Empire died, trying to get this one last weapon, the was owned by some Knight dude, but he was help out by some people, and one of them, was said to be..." he takes a deap breath "liveing in this town, he knew fire magic and I think it was that guy....that guy...is a deamon!"

"A...deamon?" Bite said "Are you sure?"

"Maybe....we, have to like, flash a cross at him or something and if he gets scared away from it, then we know he's a deamon!"

"Then, we should try and send him back to the underworld!"

"Yeah!"

Frost and Bite look around and then pick up a chair, they give the bartender some money, then brake the chair and put a few peices back together to make a cross and then sneak outside, they hide behind a building near by Duilin and Lars, listening in to there conversation.

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday November 27th, 2004

"This all doesn't look good to me..." - Cheetah thought, looking at the ninja guy with metal limb.

"And who are YOU?"

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Kismet knew trying to converse with Ellena was pointless, so he instead kept an eye on the two troublemakers - Frost and Bite. He didn't like them from start. And what were they planning to do by following the two strangers with a cross formed from chair pieces?

"What are you two up to? Espionage?" - he asked them as he followed them out of the tavern.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Frost and Bite turn around startled and spot Kismet.

"Hey, uh, We're not spying on anyone." Frost says

They walk by Kismet, but still face him

"What are YOU up to?" Bite snaps at Kismet, he cracks his knuckless.

Frost then hides the cross. "Bite, how about we ask this guy for help." He then speaks to Kismet "So, you appear to be a priest. Well, he have abit of a problom, with." He then jumps up in front of him "A DEAMON!" he says is a scary voice

"And, maybe YOU could get rid of it, with your, holyness-nes!" Bite chips in

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday November 27th, 2004

"Demon, huh?" - Kismet surely didn't like the two guys. - "Give me a single reason why should I trust you!"

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Posted by: Kahn on Saturday November 27th, 2004

kahn looked around and then back at Ellenna.

"My apologies you may call me kahn. I'm willing to do any job if I get something good in return and from what I heard this one sounds promising.

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Posted by: Trent on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Zion continued to stare, until... There it was, a cloud shaped like a sword. "Tsu, prepare to meet Seijin Mugen." He grabbed Tsu and took off, straight up, at exactly 77 mph. He burst into the cloud, exactly at the center of the sword's hand guard, and looked around. He had gotten the attention of a blue-haired man sitting in a chair. Zion put Tsu down and looked at him. "'Lo, Seijin."

"Hello, Zion. How is Xenai?"

"Unconscious."

"That's too bad..."

Tsu recognized the voice. That was the guy who kept coming into his head! Tsu pointed at him, and before he could really say anything, Seijin spoke out. "Yes, I am the man who was speaking into your mind. I have a very important task for you, Zion, and Xenai."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Zeros' walked down the streets calmly, his wing out, people parting in his wake. Zeros' pushed the door to the tavern where everyone else is and looks around. He folded his wing behind him and kept his grip on the spear.

Kami-ryu walked over to Zeros' and bowed.

"Hello master. I see you found what you wished?" Zeros' nodded and held out the spear. Zeros' walked over to the ice bandits and looked them straight in the eye.

"You have a problem with DEAMONS? So are NOT that bad you know." He asked in an icy tone. He knew who the ice warriors were by there reputation, which wasn't very good. Kami-ryu walked over and stepped to the right side of his master.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Ellenna said: "We will be travelling towards the north, in an effort to ensure an good outcome in the now unstable areas formerly of the Dark Empire. Hopefully we will be able to aquire a guide."

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From a little way away, Haraldur saw the entrance of Zeros' into the tavern. Interesting. What has he been doing this past month? Giant-killing? Searching for the lost weapons? Trying to bring peace to the region?

It might be interesting to find out. Or not. Whatever.

He entered the tavern. His aura reappeared.

"Ah, how are you in Laus this fine day, Zeros', adversary of Jayce and Retan, Lords of the Dark Empire?"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Zeros' turned and looked at Haraldur.

"Hello Haraldur. Not TOO bad actually. I am sad to say that my master passed away a few weeks ago." He said in a sad tone. I hadn't really liked talking about it at all. "So anyways, why are you here?" Kami-ryu shuffled his feet. Zeros' noticed this and handed him the spear he had.

The second it left Zeros' hand, the dark aura burst forth, threatening to consume all. Kami-ryu quickly focused himself as his cape lashed out, reething with dark power as it quickly enveloped the spear and held down the dark taint the emperor consumed it with during his stay with the weapons.

The special cape had a special power to lock down dark taint. The cape itself wasn't very strong, but prevented most major injuries that threatened to kill him instantly, unless he receives imediate medical attention. The dark cape also had the power to shift into any form he desired. The cape retracted back, placing the spear on Kami-ryu's back.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday November 27th, 2004

Bite then decieded to talk to Kismet and Frost chose to talk to Zeros'

"Well, if you don't" Bite said to Kismet "Then, we might just be killed off by this guy, and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you?" He says this wile pointing to his Ice Thrower.

"Well, this deamon, could very well, defeat us." Frost was about to ask why he was aiding deamons but then he spoted his wing "So...your a deamon to?" He turned to Kami-ryu "How could you trust a deamon, they're things, from HELL, that's were evil stuff in made and the reason why there is pain and suffering, and the reason why there is evil in the world. I know about you guys trying to find these dark weapons of evil, your trying to wipe out the world, but this world belongs to the Ice Warriors, and you can't take it from us!"

//Oh, and could you not bug, Duilin, because he need to talk to Lars//

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Kami-ryu was starting to grow impatient at this man. He was insulting his master, who has saved his life countless times.

"There is something called sterotyping. That is what you are doing. People believe all that originates out of evil must be evil. I swore my life towards my master till his or my death." Kami-ryu sighed and turned back to his master, who didn't look too mad.

"I would give my life for his. He has saved my life countless times. You want proof?" Kami-ryu held out his right arm, which was metallic. He also pushed his left leg forwards, which was also metallic. "There is your proof! The Ice Warriors are only a bunch of egotistical bastards who believe they can rule everything with power! Go back to your mountain guild and wither and die. The ways of the Ice Warriors are outdated." He spat in Frost's face.

Zeros' turned and placed a firm hand on Kami-ryu's shoulder. He calmed slightly, but was still slightly mad at them.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Frost, then glared, he wiped his face and then took out his pick axe.

"Bite, looks like we got a couple of people who want to bath in there own blood!"

Bite then looked at Kismet "Stay outta this!" He took out his Ice Thrower and fired a blast of ice crystals out of his weapon, at Zeros', it would cause some serious frost-bite if you got hit. Frost then swung his pick axe in a side ways motion, at Kami-Ryu.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Zeros' blurred from sight, the only indication of him standing there was his after image. He already had his sword out, transformed, as 12 feet of steel was pointed directly at Bite's throat.

"Do you yeild?" He said with ice in his voice. Kami-ryu was already ready. He lashed out with his cape, transforming it into dozens of spikes, as they headed directly towards Frost's vital parts.

He materialized several kunai in his right hands and held them inbetween his right hand's fingers as he blocked the pick axe with his arm, causing a slight dent.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Frost spots all the spikes and then croches down and turns away extremly quickly they stick into his back but mostly consumed by his armor. He then spins around wile swing his pick axe at Kami-Ryu's legs.

Bite eye's are wide open, he's in total shock, he's never seen anything like this before.

"Yes, I yeild, I yeild!" Bite cries, he then makes a high pitched wistling sound...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Zeros' pulled his sword from Bite's throat and sheaths it. Kami-ryu meanwhile pivots on his foot as he deflects the blow with his metal leg. He saw he didn't have time for fooling around. He nodded to Zeros', who disappeared. Zeros' quickly came back and stepped on the pick axe near the handle. Zeros' made a gun with his thumb and index finger and gathers his ki, forming a small ball in front of him.

"I don't like needless killing. Do you yield?" He said. He folded his wing back down, which revealed Kami-ryu gone. Kami materializes behind Frost and points a kunai at the backl of his neck.

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Posted by: Cesque on Sunday November 28th, 2004

"Stay outta this?!" - Kismet said with a nervous tone. - "Outta this?! I HATE stereotypes!"

He put his arms each in direction of one of ice warriors while others care more about engaging them in closer battle, and two streams of flames headed toward Frost and Bite (one stream at one ice warrior).

He did not really care much about incinerating the tavern...

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Cheetah threw a look at the small battle taking place with ice warriors, then turned toward barman, ordered a beer, drank it, and returning to his senses, realised he had no money.

"Well, yeah..." - he said. - "I'll pay the debt one day."

The situation in tavern wasn't looking good. Cheetah never liked crowds too much - whenever too many people gathered at one place, usually argues and battles happened.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Ellenna quietly slipped out of the tavern, and waited for Kahn.

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"Why am I here? Oh, so many reasons. One of them is the chance for revenge against the Dark Empire. Another is a general bitterness agaist the human race, such as it is. Those weapons are also of great interest to me. I see you have one. You are going to destroy it? I hope you destroy them all. Yours best not to reason why. That is why you are here, is it not?"

He then heard the words of the two Ice Warriors, and saw the resulting violence. Then he threw two fireballs at them saying, "You best be careful about who listens in on your conversations. I am not well pleased."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday November 28th, 2004

"I yeild!" Frost cried, and then the fire blast hit him "AHH! Not again! Owch! Geez!"
Frost had some serious burns that needed aiding

Bite, just kept makeing high pitched wistling, over and over. He luckly still had his gun out and he shot the fire blast and the flame melted it instead of hitting him, he then droped his gun.

(Kami-Ryu, dosen't really seem like a level 1)

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Posted by: Dippy on Sunday November 28th, 2004

"GUNGUN NO LIKE!! MAKE GO AWAY!! <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /> "
Gungun says as he runs thrugh the street armed with a shotgun cannon arm and a large ice hammer.
First he runs over to Kami-Ryu and rips him off of Bite and fires his shotgun cannon at Zeros' <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ohmy.gif' />

(first boss of chapter 4)

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Lars looked over his shoulder, noting the entrance of Zeros' and Haraldur into the tavern behind him. A grin appeared on his face, hidden under his hood.

"They're here... quickly, we mustn’t let them see us..."

He grabbed Duilin by the arm, moving him into the shadows of a nearby building as sounds of a fight began to emanate from the tavern. He spoke softly:

"I am but a simple prophet... I have studied them from afar... yes... and I have looked into their souls... The winged one. He claims to fight for justice, but his true desire is power... He is centuries old, a half-demon. He has all the time in the world, and he is waiting for the right moment... He will stop at nothing to obtain the weapons... He very well may be the strongest fighter in the world...

"The other one, the prince of Víkingagarð... He is truly mad... He has spent the past month destroying an innocent country by himself... He has acquired some new sort of power, I am not sure what or how... He seems angry and confused. He is more dangerous. At least the other has focus. This one could go ballistic at any moment...

"I am looking for some men to help me stop them... before it is too late. Let us pray they do not decide to join forces at this moment... Before you answer, I beg you not to be fooled by their guise... What say you?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Ellenna saw two men moving quickly and heard mentions of two strange people, and of violence.

"What is going on?"

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Haraldur caused the massive shotgun pellets from Gungun's shotgun cannon going towards Zeros' to reverse direction and to glow with red flame, so that firey balls of metal went hugely fast towards the sasquatch.

At the same time, his aura starts to glow a tint of red, rasing the temperature of the room to close to 40 degress Celsius. And then flame went outwards in all directions from him, with the sasquatch and the two ice warriors in the full force of the blast, which went outwards just 3 metres: it was being kept in check, and most of it only went towards the troublesome three.

Haraldur screamed in anger: "Why must I be interrupted?!"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday November 28th, 2004

(Like I said before, he is a ninja which lets him melt into the shadows, but it takes time. That's why Zeros' wing was in the way. Kami-ryu may have alot of special abilites, but he is also physically very weak.)

Kami-ryu redirects his body so he pivots and lands on his feet. He looks over towards Haraldur and then his master. He bows to them and leaves to find Duilin.

Zeros' sighs. He quickly pivots on his foot, turning towards the monster and fires of the ki, in a shallow, concentrated beam. He unsheaths his swords and splits it into the two 7 feet long, 1 foot thick swords.

He charges the aura with both light and dark auras, using the powers of love for all and the hate he has for his enemies.

"Hey Haraldur. You might want to get away after this." Zeros' has a grin on his face. He first thrusts the swords outwards, holding them at a ready position. He spins them around backwards and then slashes forwards with both in a upwards arc. Both of the slashes of dark and light energy head straight towards the monster.

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Kami-ryu, meanwhile, looks throughout the crowd for the people that escaped.

He hears the prophet talking about his master and the prince. He slips near where he saw them and quitely listens, hiding in the shadows near them.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Haraldur teleported himself 2 metres behind Zeros', and a little to the side, and breathed flame from his mouth, dragon like, towards the two ice warriors and their "pet".

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Tsu was put down on the cloudy floor of the... whatever it was. Seijin walked up to him. "You need to learn how to fly, don't you?"

"Uh... Uh-huh..."

"See that door?" Seijin pointed to a white door that was inserted among the cloudy walls. "Walk in there, and go all the way to the tip of this cloud. There's an item there for you. Get it, and you'll be able to fly."

"Uh... Okay." Tsu opened the door and walked in.

"Now you, Zion..." Seijin turned to face him. "Go to Laus."

"Why?"

"Because Zeros' has one of the weapons. Actually, he might have two."

"The... weapons?"

"Weapons of great magical power... Blah dee blah dee blah... All you need to know is that no one person can have more than one of these! It throws off the balance of power! The worst thing to happen is for one person to have ALL of them! If that happens, they can obtain inconcievable power, and only one thing would be able to stop them, if anything CAN stop them!"

"What would that be?"

"A spell that involves you, Tsu, and Xenai. Light and Dark work together, and using a neutral medium, perform a nearly unstoppable spell. All 3 of you would have to take some time to charge up, and then you and Xenai would give your charged energy to Tsu... Then he would use the energy the best way he sees possible, using his own to make it stronger."

"Whoa..."

"Now go down to Laus, and get those weapons from Zeros'!"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Kami-ryu notices something strange. He felt powers shifting. He felt the evil shifting the balance and the good was losing. The imending conflict would worry many. He couldn't let this happen. He listened to the prophet speak about his master being evil. He shook his head. He knew it wasn't true.

Kami-ryu knew he had the spear; he would be a target. He knew his master had another one of the weapons of legend. He saw it ocassionally when his master took a bath after a workout. He had asked him about it, but he only said that he melted it with his body in order to kept it with him.

He never understood it now, but now he knew what it means.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Sunday November 28th, 2004

//Sheesh guys, slow down at least a little... It's barely started and I'm behind already! XD//

Nevina had been sleeping through the night, tired from her levitation training. After the past month, and being so helpless due to being landbound, she had been trying to learn to defy the laws of gravity in order to make herself a greater warrior.
Suddenly, she awoke, sensing disturbances in the peace. Not the normal disturbance, like a hoodlum raiding an old ladies house, but a fight. One of a magical caliber. She hadn't sensed anything like this in a month.
She threw back her covers and flew out of her bed, snatching her clothes and tossing them on hastily. She lit a candle so she wouldn't dress herself poorly, and the light revealed her small cottage. A modest 1 bedroom house with a living area/kitchen. The walls were of wood and brick, a wire hung from her bedroom, allowing a pull down ladder to a loft.
Nevina went out the only door leading out, and stepped into the cold Laus, night air.
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Jakk rode his ship, continuing towards Laus' Port.

"Arr, fowards ye go ole' ship! Go, Go!" He bellowed in his silly pirate dialect, lowering his sails and going entirely on his water power.
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Armic awoke, hungry.
He headed out into the night, searching for prey to feed himself.
Qor taught him that young souls pleased the body better than old, so he set off to an orphanage he hit occassionally. Qor allowed him to lure a young girl out f her bed and into the night, and she followed Armic a' Kahrr all the way to his abandoned Crypt in the Laus Grave Yard. The Tomb door shut, and a muffled scream could be hear through out the court.

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Posted by: Kahn on Sunday November 28th, 2004

Kahn left the tavern after Ellenna

"What's wrong?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday November 29th, 2004

"Nothing is wrong," said Ellenna, "It just seems it will be impossible to find a guide in a tavern where people are throwing fire at eachother."

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Posted by: Cesque on Monday November 29th, 2004

Kismet was suddenly struck by some sort of strange shock. It was as if something evil was going to happen. At his times at the headquarters of his sect, he learned the ways of determining evil.

Leaving Frost and Bite, he sped out of tavern at great speed.

The graveyard...

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Cheetah turned around and noticied Kahn leaving. Wasn't he, with that girl, who wanted to organise some sort of " joy trip" north?

He thought for a while about joining them...

But, nah. With their forms of organisation, they shouldn't be able to get far anyway. And the tavern was far nicer place for him know, beside the fact that some people tried to attack and burn one another.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday November 29th, 2004

//I can't keep up with 3 characters. Let's just say Jakk wrecked on a sandbar and washed up on an island far from Laus//

Nevina gathered herself, took a good wiff of the cold air, and headed down the streets.
She briskly headed towards the pub, in a fast walking manner. No reason to run when she wasn't sure it was that important anyways.
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Armic breathed deeply as he devoured the young girls soul.
He did not do this often, only once a week on average, but Armic had been in an unconcious state for decades. The arousal of possible end to humanity awakened him, and he must do Qor's bidding.
Armic's formerly tired being had been revived, and he now was at the peak of his power.
{//|| Armic a' Kahrr increases [1] Level!||\\}
He threw the girls souless body into a Coffin in his Crypt.
Armic's Crypt was a stone building, in the very back of the Graveyard. Outside of it several Minataur Statues stood, near the only entrance to the Crypt. A few feet from from the structure a Fountain sat. It had a winged demon spewing dirty water from its mouth.
The interior of the Crypt was filthy, covered in grime. The only light came from two bon fires in the back, and the flames were green, giving the Crypt a pukish tint. In the center of the Crypt sat several Coffins, some empty, some full of Skeletons, and one had the young girl's remains.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday November 29th, 2004

Duilin thought for a moment and then spoke"So you mean, Hardular and Zeros' are both evil? Zeros' is my friend, and he fought greatly and he saved many lifves inculeding mine. Now, I never got to know Haradular so much, and maybe your right about him being crazy, but I'm sure he's a good person."

He then gave him a good look

"I think your just lieing to me, I think you don't even know, who or what I am, am I right?"

His backpak starts moveing...

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(I may have not made this clear, but Frost and Bite are on the reverse sides from Gungun, faceing each other and are several feet away, and couldn't possilble to hit Gungun as well as Frost & Bite)

As the flame blasts at Frost and Bite. Frost quickly tosses his sword down and it sticks into the ground, Bite then blasts his Ice Thrower at the blade, this causes the Ice Sword to create a wall of ice, that just melts down as the fire hits him.

"God, people! We give! Gungun is trying to get ya! Learn to stop fighting guys...geez..." Frost says extremley annoyed "Bite lower your weapon..."

(Frost and Bite, can't call off Gungun, because Gungun is CRAZY [so Dippy says]

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Posted by: Dippy on Monday November 29th, 2004

"AAARRRGGGG!!!"

Gungun falls to the ground and passes out <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

"No!" Frost & Bite cry

aproximitly 3 seconds later....

"I am up I am up" Gungun says as he rises to his feet

"Now I really mad!"

Gungun gives Zeros' a good smack in the face with his hammer (note the hammer is half the size of Zeros' <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wacko.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wacko.gif' /> ) then he opens his mouth and readys a bite...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday November 29th, 2004

Zeros' shrugs off the blow and sidesteps his bite. He recombines his sword and sweeps down at Amaguriken speed, sending hundreds of Yamasen-ken ki blades in a radius all around Gungun.

Many of the pedestrians dodge to the side to not be hit by the blades as they tear through the tavern and into the street.

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Posted by: Cesque on Monday November 29th, 2004

Cheetah turned around once again as he heard sounds of combat and decided to step in.

"People!" - he shouted as he left his seat in the peaceful tavern and approached Frost and Bite. - "Could you please NOT begin hostilities when regular people and Gepardis try to get some rest after long travel?!"

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Kismet lost all his zealousness when he finaly reached the graveyard. The statues and darkness all around weren't making him feel too comfortable. He raised both his hands forward and a dim light began to emanate from him, guiding his way toward the dark, stone crypt.

"Must be here." - he thought.

Knowing he has little chances of getting in unpreppared, he stopped several meters before the crypt doors and began to chant a spell, gathering energy.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday November 29th, 2004

"Okay...." Frost say "Bite, let's get outa here..I'm really hurt man! We'll come back and get Gungun later on..."

"Fine, I'll drop you off at the Infermetary, but I'm comeing back here!" Bite says back, and He helps up his brother, picks up his Ice Sword and they walk over to the Infermetary.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday November 29th, 2004

//Dude Man: I hope you realise who the current Haraldur is (as in, you read the end of Chapter 3, and his bio. I think I might have confused a lot of people). However, if it is just you character who is (possibly) confused, then that is fine, and makes a lot of sense.//

Ellenna said: "Come, let us go."

She waled for a few seconds and then saw Nevina.

"Hello," she said. "Who are you?"

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Haraldur says to Frost and Bite: "You give in, now you must apologise."

Then he sidestepped behing Gungun, who was attacking Zeros'. He conjured a long, dark venomous poisoned sword in his hands, the poion was literally dripping off, and he attempted to stab Gungun in the side below the rib cage. (This is where you decide Dippy, just in case you think it means he fails automatically).

At the same time, he attempted to kick Gungun behind his right knee, in order to get him to fall on to his knees.

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Posted by: Kahn on Monday November 29th, 2004

Kahn follows behind Ellenna, and glances at Nevina.

"looks like some kind of elf"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday November 29th, 2004

Kami-ryu silently stepped out of the shadows and walked towards Lars position and stood behind him.

"Phophet as well you know, my master means no harm. You sense the taint in his soul. As well as you should know, well have all been tainted by darkness." He said and sighed. "There is no absolute good or absolute evil."

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Posted by: Dippy on Monday November 29th, 2004

Gungun blocks the swords with his gun arm leaving only a sharp *PING* <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />
and reterns with a blast from his gun (unless you can run 850 meters per second or have a bulletproof head this should hurt).

Dut due to Hardalers attack he begins to fall on to him, all 450lbs of pure two headed sasquatch to would cause serius damage to him.

He is now poisoned.

FOOP <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' />

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday November 29th, 2004

Zeros' wasn't fast enough to dodge the bullets, but he erected a ki shield in front of him to deflect the projectitles away from the innocents and harmless back into the air.

He sheathed his sword and started charging his ki. A blue aura enveloped the whole room. He cupped his hands and a blue ki ball formed inbetween them. He pushed the ball forwards towards Gungun.

"MOKO TAKABISHA!" (Translation: Arrogant Tigerblast) A huge ball of blue ki speed towards the lumbering form of Gungun. Not as fast as the bullets, but still faster then the human eye.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Monday November 29th, 2004

"Heh..."

The shrouded Lars replied to Kami-ryu without looking behind,

"So you may think... You shouldn't be so quick to equate darkness with evil and light with good. You don't have any idea what actually is going to happen when all the weapons come together, do you?"

He took a few steps forward, approaching Duilin's side.

"And you, Duilin, shouldn't be so quick to judge. You're basing you're alliance with this man on a single event or two. As I said, he seeks power. And if the opposition has it, and his goal is to take it from them, then why not help the other side while doing it? That is, until they get in the way...

"But if you still insist that I am a liar, so be it. The truth will become clear soon enough..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday November 30th, 2004

Kami-ryu narrowed his eyes under his hood.

"Don't worry, that won't happen. My master has saved the world more then once. If it was not for him and a few others this world would belong to the Dark Empire as we speak." Kami-ryu reached up with his right hand and ran it through his hair under the hood.

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Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday November 30th, 2004

Cheetah stopped before Gungun.

"A sasquatch." - he thought. - "A sasquatch. A creature... possibly I should be able to learn to transform into one if I manage to..."

As he understood that Gungun is pretty much surrounded by opponents, he also joined them in the fight by quickly turning into cheetah and leaping at Gungun's throath.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday November 30th, 2004

Haraldur sidestepped away so as not to be squashed by the enormous sasquatch, but his arm was caught, so he fell to the ground. Unharmed, he stood up. He then stepped out of the way of a Gepardi in cheetah form rushing at the throat of the prone sasquatch, and decided to leave him and Zeros' to it for the moment.

He stood back, and watched.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday November 30th, 2004

"I just find it hard to belive that such a person as Zeros' would have such an evil goal. He just wishes to find the weapons to keep them away from evil, and I don't wish to belive he wants to use them for evil, unless you have prove, I'm sticking with the fact that your a liar." Duilin stares at him "And why should I trust a person who won't even show his face?"

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Frost and Bite arive at the infermitary, Frost stays there to get his burns aided and then Bite hurries back to get Gungun....

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Posted by: Trent on Tuesday November 30th, 2004

"Right... To Laus!" Zion took off through the hilt of the sword cloud, and full-speed toward Laus.
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Tsu stared down the long hilt. It seemed like it was just a hallway. He could see what was at the end... A bright light orb... He knew that he couldn't just run. That would be stupid. Something was obviously gonna happen, so he took a coin out of his pocket and flung it down the hallway. His task then became evident as the floor before him shattered the instant the coin touched the floor. There were just cloud-like platforms in a difficult arrangement.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Tuesday November 30th, 2004

Nevina stopped in her tracks and replied, "I am Nevina, last of the Jin Elves, so the SeaDog is correct. Who might you two be? Quite an odd couple, to be sure."
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Armic sensed a good energy in 'his' Graveyard, as he often called it, but did not fret. Qor's presence saturated the area. Anyone apposing him would be at quite a disadvantage.
Armic laid almost against the grimey wall, next to the door, as his enchanted Crypt door moved back, allowing access to his lair.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

• Sigh...*
  
  Lars bit his tongue, trying to hide his irritation...
  
  "As you wish... If you change your mind, I'm heading north, to the border..."
  
  He flipped his cloak and set off down the street, disappearing into the crowds.
  
  Blast, where did that metal-limbed punk come from anyway? No matter. That mere soldier would have been useless... A good man is so hard to come by...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

Kami-ryu melted back into the shadows to do some recon. He watched Duilin and Nevina in particular. Ellenna a Kahn were also interesting, but Zeros' made it clear the other two had survived during the war.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

Ellenna said, "I am a mage, who has lived and been taught in the temple of Kala and my name is Ellenna, and this is my hireling. We intend to got north to do good there."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

Duilin then watched Kami-Ryu disappear.
Apparently, Zeors' is either in big trouble or is the big trouble. I belive it's the first thing, but I'm not 100% on that, I haven't even known anyone for very long.

He then walks choose to walk over to wer Zeors' is....He notices him fighting, He see's Cheetah there

"They can him on his own, I'll step out of this one." Duilin waits

//I'll get Dippy to post soon, k. And also, You guys need to start getting hit by him, you haven't even taken a hit, and he's the same level as you, and you guys have to, stop trying to kick Dippy out.If I know Dippy (and I do) He'll quit the RP soon enough, also knowing Dippy, he probally won't read this note that I'm giveing you! <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> //

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Posted by: Dippy on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

"Ha Ga! YOU DIE!!"
he smashes Cheatah with his hammer into the Ki blast at the right presure so that both Cheatah and the Ki, blast at Zeros'.

"BOOM!!!"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

//Er... Dippy... Gungun is either on the floor or still falling to the floor, remember? He is also still poisoned. How would he be able to do what he did while falling/prone and poisoned?//

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

//Dippy loged out now but he said: The posion takes awile to take effect and also he forgot to say he got back up and also because it's fair because everyone's playing god. He says things he useally wouldn't type!//

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Posted by: Trent on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

Zion arrived at Laus, arriving where the commotion with Gungun is.

"Well, what do we have here?"

He unsheathed his Eternity Weapon, and started gathering energy from the stars.
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Tsu started jumping the platforms. (4 posts, and he will be done.)

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

"Oww..." Said Zeros' as he went crashing when the ki blast and Cheetah crashed into him. He was slightly dazed as he got up, his trench coat was blasted in the front, only leaving the sleeves and the back intact and his undershirt was disentergrated, showing his scared body.

As said before, Zeros' could heal the scars he has, but he doesn't. Scars covers 99% of his body, save one across his face and on his groin area. Everywhere you look, if he has his clothing off, there is some kind of scar.

Zeros' looked at Gungun and scowled.

"No more mister nice guy." Zeros' sheathed his sword and invoked his Umisen-ken.

The Umisen-ken is a pure stealth and speed technique. This technique allows the user to disappear from sight, erasing his physical presence and ki presence, leaving no trace he was even there.

Zeros' immediately appeared behind Gungun in a matter of 0.82 seconds and rained thousands of ki enhanced punches on the two headed yetti.

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Posted by: Dippy on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

The punches hit him but he still stands.
He turns around and throws a punch at Zeros' but it misses by 2 feet and he saggers forward "Gungun feel dizzy whooo i tired tiereereredidjnfjkv" The poison takes effect and he passes out in front of a near by general store.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

//Yeah Dippy kinda broke the rules there a little bit, but hey, Cesque, Cheetah will be okay, Nevina could heal him or something. Just not to mess up the story let's just leave it be.//

Duilin appears from the shawdows.

"Good job my friends." He looks at Cheetah "You okay? That thing's had some nasty hammer." He looks at Haradular "Good to see you again."

He then looks up, and scans his eye's at Zeors', he could feal the energy around him, he was clearly more powerfull then he was last time.

"Zeros', I was haveing an interesting conversation with somebody. The name Lars mean anything to you?" Duilin asked

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Frost has recovered finally and he and Bite are now near by the area outside. There hideing from the others.

"Oh no...." Frost cried "That deamon beat Gungun."

"Who is that Viking mage like guy? And is that a giant cat?" Bite asked

"I don't know..." He then scans the area and spots a fimiliar person, in robes, totally shrouded "Hey, I saw that guy talking to the younger deamon."

"Wanna see what he's all about?" Bite asked

"What about Gungun?" Frost replyed

"He's done for man, listen, we just have to accept the loss, we'll get our revenge, someday." They noded at each other and started to sneak around buildings, eventually they found there were and spoted Lars....

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Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday December 1st, 2004

Away from the bustle of the market and central district, the northern part of the town was a bit quieter. Lars walked through the city's north gate and followed the path into the forest. He stopped a few hundred yards in and took a look around, as if to make sure no one was looking... someone was there, though. Apparently he was being tailed by two... interesting looking characters. He folded his arms and leaned against a tree.

"Off to pillage the northern lands, I presume?"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

Zeros' shook his head and then glared at the body of Gungun.

"Damn yetti's. And I have no idea who Lars is. I'm guessing that he was that hooded guy." Kami-ryu suddenly appeared 1 foot behind Zeros' left ear.

"Yes that would be him master." Zeros' sighed. Great another problem to deal with.

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

"Huh? Anyone got number of that truck?" Cheetah asked, standing up, dizzy, after being struck with a hammer and threw at Zeros. The shock on his mind caused him to intuitionally revert back to human form.

He spat out some blood and realised that

"Bastard..." - he said, and began to slowly move toward fainted sasquatch in attempt to finish him with his bare hands, altough he was still moving in waving manner due to damage he took.

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Kismet made a deep breath and entered the crypt. Darkness. What foul evil could lurk here?

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

Haraldur stared a short while at Dulin, then remembrered him from one of his previous incarnations.

"Good to see you... Duilin."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

"Uh, well accually." Bite began "We were just wondering, I overherd something that your an enemy to that big ki blasting deamon, and well, we're just wondering if we could help each other out on defeating him."

"And his friends" Frost chiped in "They have made us very angry, and we need aid on over throwing them!"

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Duilin ran over to Cheetah's aid. He help him with his ballance. "Just leave him be, we should lock up the dang thing and leave it to live in missery. That would be better for it." He then looked over at Zeros' "You appear to have somebody after you, my friend, He said something about the weapons have the power to unlock some disaterfull spirts of some sort. He said you are trying to summon them, I have a difficult time beliveing that, it's not true by any chance, is it?"

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

Cheetah looked at Duilin.

"Ah, you." - he began, slowly returning to his senses, as suddenly a maniacal grin appeared on his face. - "Why not finish damn creature, and consume it's essence to gain ability of turning into a sasquatch?"

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(Kismet, walking through the crypt, left the first move to the dark priest of Qor <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />)

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

//Dippy will be home soon, Cesuque, I'll ask him if it's okay, it probally will be <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> //

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Posted by: Trent on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

Zion looked at Zeros', astounded by the expertise with which he dispatched Gungun. He sheathed his Eternity Weapon, leaving the energy he had gathered inside it.

"How many of the weapons do you have?" inquired Zion to Zeros'.
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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

Armic stood very close the Kismet, but hidden in the darkness. So close he could smell Kismet's horrible pure essence. Armic refrained from spitting at the priest's Holiness.

Armic Stepped up, and quickly rammed his forearm into the back of Kismet's neck, and put his leg out in front of the Priest, in hopes of tripping the man over.

//Wether or not Kismet falls, the following happens//

Armic runs back into the security of the shadows of his dwelling.

"Who are youuu...?" He rasps, trying to sound worse than he really does.
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"Ah, a Holy Missionary, I presume? Anyways, I felt something happening... a bit further down this road. Do you have any idea what is going on? " Said Nevina.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

Zeros' looked over towards Zion and then back towards Kami-ryu.

"2." He pointed towards Kami-ryu's back, which held a spear inveloped in the darkness of his cloak. He tore off his trench coat, revealing his well-defined muscles. If there were any horny females around, they would of gotten a nosebleed or fainted from his muscles.

"There's Iduran's sword." Zeros' pointed over his back towards the sword shaped indentation. It was hard to tell where it was because every inch of his body was covered in scars. There was also part of his back where his wing extended from it, revealing that his dark angel wing on his left side was indeed real. Why he chose a dark angel wing, nobody knew.

He actually had six dark angel wings, but he only kept one out because it was much easier to manage. There were two other spots below his wing on his right side that were indented and three parts on his left side that were indented, indicating that he could pull out the wings anytime he desired.

"And no Duilin, I'm not trying to summon some evil spirit shit. I'm trying to destroy them." Zeros' sighed. Now he didn't have his trench coat anymore.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

//What did I tell ya, Dippy chose to leave the RP. And you all doughted me! <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> //
"Well, Cheetah, I supose your right. The animal would get very dangreous if left alive." Duilin steped away from Cheetah, and allowed him to do his job.

Duilin then turned over to Zeros'. "So, your trying to find the weapons. And you came to this town just to see me? You fought a two headed sasquatch, and made a huge scean."

Duilin then scatched his chin "So, let me see what's going on here. The weapons contain the power of these disasters, you are trying to find the weapons to defeat the disasters. I'm basically trying to make a liveing here, but not haveing much luck, those damn Ice Warriors kept stealing my food when I opened a fruit stand, and locals never followed my foot steps when I attempted to open up a church. Most people just don't trust deamons." He then pondered for awile "Well, if you need help, I supose I'd be willing to help you out."

My revenge might not even be complete yet, the reason why I have given such pain is not yet gone...

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Posted by: Trent on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

Seijin, are you sure this guy's gonna do anything bad with the weapons?

No.

...

"Hm. I was told that the weapons gave incredible power. We don't want anyone abusing it. So I'll be keeping an eye on you, if you don't mind."
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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday December 2nd, 2004

Lars folded his arms under his cloak.

"Hmmm, so you have some beef with winged one? Interesting... I could use a few good men, that is if you're good. You'll be paid well, if you pass my test that is..."

The wind blew his black cloak.

"Show me what you've got. Both of you attack me at once."

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Posted by: Cesque on Friday December 3rd, 2004

Cheetah came closer toward the unconious beast and looked at it from closer range, then put one leg against Gungun's body and with full force dragged the hammer from it's hand.

Altough somehow returning to his proper senses and feeling a little pity, he did not allow this feeling to overcome him: with full force, he smashed the hammer at beast's left head, left the grasp of his tool and turned around.

Whenever it was some sort of honor or interior spiritual rule or maybe even a disguist - Cheetah did not really cared about gaining the ability to assume form of such a being. He looked at Duilin and Zeros.

"Weapon, eh, Zeros? Is there some specific form of evil spirit you're trying to destroy this time?"

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Kismet, obviously lacking experience in real battles, tripped over and fell on his face as Armic began his question.

"Gods damn it!"

"I am Kismet, the priest of Milintica! What are you, foul excuse of a living being?"

And as he finished speaking, still kneeing on the dark floor, he silently began to chant a defensive spell.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 3rd, 2004

"Actually the spirit of the weapons is made of pure dark aura." Zeros' pondered for a moment before continuing. "The spirit of the weapons, other then the one held by Iduran, had been taninted by the use from Retan. Right know the other four or so are locked away somewhere. I suspect people that seek absolute power wish to use the weapons for evil.

"Me, on the other hand, I believe in obtaining power through hard work and training. I haven't lived over 900 years for nothing." He chuckled under his breath.

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Posted by: Kahn on Friday December 3rd, 2004

Kahn looked at Nevina.

"Probably just drunks causing trouble, ye best pay no attention.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday December 3rd, 2004

Ellenna said: "There was a large magical fight, a loud one."

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Haraldur induced the soul of the deceased sasquatch to leave the body. Screaming, he caused the shimmering blue soul to merge with him with a small flash of light. His aura flickered and was larger than normal for a few seconds, before resuming its normal size.

Haraldur said: "I would like to assist you Zeros', because that is my goal also."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday December 3rd, 2004

"Zeros'. I'm only 31, but am half deamon, would I live an extreme ammount of time also?" Duilin asked

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Frost and Bite looked at each other they shruged and then frost threw his pick axe at Lars and Bite blasted his Ice Thrower at him.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Friday December 3rd, 2004

"My name is Armic a' Kahrr, the one and only priest of the glorious immortal, Qor. Why hath ye trespassed upon my dwelling? Kahhck..." He finished, spitting at the downed man.
The spit was venomous, though not appearing any different than normal saliva...
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"Ah. I presume it's over, then? I sense very little happening now... I guess I should just turn back and head home... Unless you could use my assistance." Said Nevina.

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Posted by: Trent on Friday December 3rd, 2004

"Woo, 900 years. You don't look it."

Zion felt around for any unusual energy. He knew that somewhere, a fight was starting.
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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday December 3rd, 2004

Ellenna said: "I would greatly appreciate any help with helping those to the north."

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Posted by: Cesque on Friday December 3rd, 2004

"Qor... Qor..." - Kismet stood up, and he began to glow in dim light, the venomous spit dropped down on the ground, flushed from his skin. - "Whatever evil you are and whatever greater evil you serve..."

Wait a second. This wasn't looking any good. He standing there alone, before some servant of a powerful god or demon, who could kill him any second.

"...I prefer not to come in your way without any serious aid!"

You idiot, you idiot, should have thought about this previously, Kismet kept telling himself in his thoughts as he turned around and in darkness, began to run toward where he believed was the exit from the crypt through which he entered it.

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"Damn those long living people... I can't understand how after so many years you can still enjoy life." - Cheetah said, rubbing his aching head.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 3rd, 2004

Zeros' turned to Duilin and pondered for a moment.

"Yes I would imaging you could, but my master was even older then me. I imaging it was because of his imense ki control. He could use it to mend minor wounds, get rid of scars and mend broken bones." Zeros' sighed and looked at the destroyed tavern.

"At least we didn't kill anyone...except for the yetti. Oh well." Zeros' started walking away, Kami-ryu following on his heels. He stopped for a moment and turned back towards the group.

"Uhh...do anyone of you know where the other four weapons are anyways?" He said while scratching his chin. Kami-ryu sighed and shook his head back and forth slowly.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday December 3rd, 2004

//I have an Idea, but first, are we allowed to make up the locations of the weapons?//

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 3rd, 2004

//I would ask Xorlak first.\\

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday December 3rd, 2004

//Nye, forget it for now//

"Hmmm...I don't know really." Duilin answers "Maybe that Lars character knows...but he left, and I don't trust that guy. If only there was a way to detect them or something..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 3rd, 2004

Zeros' frowned. From what he heard about that guy, he didn't favor him much.

"I don't think a show of faith would do it. The power of each weapon rivals my power and Haraldur's."

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday December 3rd, 2004

(You characters can discover where the weapons are, as long as it looks good story wise, and you don't do them all at once. i.e. let's stretch it out for a while.)

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Lars grabbed the spinning pickaxe in mid air and threw it backwards with his right hand, simultaneously whipping his left arm from under his cloak, tossing a wave of flame at the impending icy blast, neutralizing it.

He shook his head at the ice warriors.

"... Not particularly impressive... I'll give you one more chance."

The pickaxe landed some twenty feet behind him, sticking into the ground.

(C'mon! Put some effort into it!)

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 3rd, 2004

Zeros' thought for a moment.

"I think that Lars character you were talking to is letting off more then he believes us to believe." He looked over at Kami-ryu, who just shurgged and nodded slowly. Kami-ryu took back the hood of his cloak with both hands. He revealed his face once again. What was one a stern face, was now wraut with discord.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday December 4th, 2004

Haraldur looked thoughtful for a moment. "I think I remember seeing a weapon flying at great speed towards what used to be Aritan, which is now under the sea. That seems to me to be very easily picked up by an evil sea creature. Where it is, will take ages to find out, especially since after the destruction of Aritan the sea there has very strong and unpredictable currents."

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday December 4th, 2004

"Evil sea creature sounds like fun to me." - Cheetah said. - "I can freely travel underwater, currents shouldn't play too much role, altough the only problem would be recovering the weapon itself, if it's guarded. Alone, I don't have much chances..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday December 4th, 2004

"Well your not alone anymore are you? I can also freely travel underwater by projecting a ki shield around myself." Zeros' crossed his arms over his chest for a moment and appeared thoughtful. "Also a giant evil sea ceature wouldn't be much of a problem with all of us. I guess we will have to just try huh?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday December 4th, 2004

"I will come. The water poses little problem for me."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday December 4th, 2004

"I'm not sure if I can travel under water freely, I'm only half deamon, and I don't have any sorse of ki. Zeors' would I be able to travel in the ki shield, if not...I'll just stay out side of the water..." Duilin asks

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"Okay...effort in it eh?" Frost then swung out his Ice Sword, he held it far away from him he stood in front of Lars, but wasn't faceing him, Bite was faceing him and he had his weapon aimed at the Ice Sword.

Bite removed the ice crystal from his weapon and tossed it away, he then loaded in another one, he then pulled back a small switch on the weapon, a clack sound could be herd and followed by a magic sounding ice crack, he then fired the weapon, a farely lage blast flew at the Ice Sword, and then the Ice Sword blasted a huge ion ice beam laser at Lars.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday December 4th, 2004

//Whoo... Nevina finally learns to fly and now everyone has gils. She won't help much in this chapter either I suppose.//

"Ah, a journey to the North sounds interesting. I shall join. But first, what is our objective?" Nevina asked.
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Armic a' Kahrr allowed Kismet to leave, for Armic was no longer hungry, but Armic set out of his Crypt, drapped his face under his hood, and set out into Laus.

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday December 4th, 2004

"Sounds like a nice plan to me, and an interesting adventure." - Cheetah concluded. - "So... when are we departing?"

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Kismet ran out into the graveyard, grasped breath of fresh air, then sped like a torpedo toward the city.

"Demon! No, evil priest! Hell! Whatever it is, get rid of THAT!"

He noticed a group of people he knew form the tavern - the priestess of Kala debating with some others.

"Priestess!" - he screamed, still running, from time to time turning back to see whenever the priest follows him. - "Uh!"

He stopped, tired, and breathed out the air.

"We have a problem, I guess. Some dark priest... at the graveyard crypt... he propably murdered someone, and now he might try and come to the town."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday December 4th, 2004

Zeros' folded his arms and closed his eyes.

"I could carry everyone in a ki shield if I wanted to. To make the shield, I use my own ki and also the elemental ki." He said as he looked around at the people.

"There are many elemental ki's, such as water, air, earth, fire and such are just some of the basic ones. Master martial artists, such as myself or my master, could control out ki and infuse it into the elements, such as what I do with my Yamasen-ken blades or my sword. The same goes for my ki blasts, except I use my emotions to control those." He said while gazing around the room.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday December 4th, 2004

Duilin ponders abit about the ki energy. "This stuff sounds interesting....The only thing I've been able to do is control heat and throw it at people, and that's a basic fire technique." Duilin then rubs his chin and then looks at the others "Well, I supose we can get going now."

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday December 4th, 2004

Lars jumped straight up into the air, his cloak unfurling like wings... The huge blast of ice blazed underneath him as he rose, crystallizing the trees and shrubbery behind him. Suspended in air, he held both hands above his head.

"Much better... now let's see how you handle a little heat."

He closed his fists and then opened them, a crimson orb of flame appearing in each, swelling to about a foot in diameter. He flung his right hand downward, sending the first fireball diagonally downward, hurtling straight at the ice warrior with the sword. The second ball he threw to his left. This orb would arc around, attacking the other warrior from behind...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday December 4th, 2004

Zeros' looked around and then back towards where the door *used* to be. He furrowed his brow in frustration.

"Where's the Artiastian island anyways? Or the general direction?" He looked to Kami-ryu, who just shrugged. He looked back towards the group.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday December 4th, 2004

"I hate fire!" Frost cries, as he jumps away dodgeing the fire ball flying at him.

Bite saw the fireball fly around so he quickly dove to his right avoiding that fire ball.

Must be some sorta mage... Frost thought This is good....I think...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday December 4th, 2004

Ellenna said: "I am afraid that due to the collapse of the Dark Empire, small evil and competing territories will emerge, and that there would be looting, and bandidacy, resulting in further suffering for the people of Laus and of what used to be the Dark Empire. I hope to do my part in stopping complete chaos."

She then saw Kismet running towards her, and heard what she said. She quickly trod the road towards the graveyard. She then saw Armic walking down the road. She took out her holy symbol, of a yellow sun on a silver back, and held it out at arms length towards Armic. Light glowed from it.

"Stand back! If you be of evil intent, return to your crypt or dust from whence you came!" She shuddered, she had never had to do this before. She wished she had paid more attention to this part of her training.

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Haraldur said: "I know where Aritan is. I was there, briefly, before it was destroyed. I think I could find it again. It lied far in the east, and used to be a continent by itself. I could lead you there, but at a running pace the journey would take many months, and many days at fast fight. We will also have to go at the pace of the slowest, since I am the only person likely to know the way."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday December 4th, 2004

Zeros' looked thoughtful for a moment before gazing around the room.

"Well then, looks like it's going to be awhile. I hope everyone can fly." He looked around the room. He wasn't sure if Nevina could fly or not. Kami-ryu could always fly with him. He knew Cheetah could turn into a wyvern and Duilin gained flying capabilities after learning of his demon heritage again.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday December 4th, 2004

"Well, I'm sure we all can." Duilin scatches his head "So, I supose we can go...or if we should prepare a little or something."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday December 4th, 2004

"Im ready as I'll ever be." Zeros' put his right arm on his left shoulder and worked out the kinks. He walked out of the tavern and into the streets and put his arms down to his sides. He closed his eyes. His back seemed to reeth, as if it was alive. Five other wings burst forth, 2 from the right side and 3 from the right.

Black feathers feel from the wings as he slowly raised into the air, his six wings flapping slowly, kicking up dust as the people watched and awe and started murrmuring. He floated for a moment before turned to the east.

Kami-ryu looked up at his master and nodded to him. Kami-ryu crouched slowly and concentrated his ki. His cape reethed with power as his ki infused into it, making two black bat wings burst forth. He jumped and flapped his wings and landed on his master back.

Zeros' spread his ki and enveloped Kami-ryu, his bat like wings slowly recieding back into the cloak. Kami-ryu jumped off his masters shoulders and landed beside him in mid air, seeming to float on air.

"Cmon guys. Lets go!" Zero's called down to his compainions.

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday December 5th, 2004

I'd better follow...

"Wherever you're going, I'm going with you!"

Zion floated up into the air, ready to go.
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Now on the other side of the platform, Tsu walked over to the energy orb, taking hold of it. Not knowing what else to do with it... He ate it.

Suddenly, he was floating. He tested his new ability out by floating all the way back to Seijin. He landed on his feet and looked at the blue haired man.

"You're a smart one. Everyone else spent 10 minutes thinking about it." Seijin looked up at Tsu. "Laus is this way..." He got up, walked over to Tsu, grabbed him, and threw him through the cloudy wall. Tsu fell a couple of feet, and then started flying in the direction Seijin threw him.

I will let you and Zion know when I figure out how to wake up Xenai.

//I need some way to get one more character point...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday December 5th, 2004

The area around Haraldur seemed to warp for half a second, then went back to normal, and he hovered up to be beside Zeros'. He then moved east slowly, walking on the air, waiting for the others. He then stopped 50 metres away, saying "It is this direction, if you would like to follow me."

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Posted by: Cesque on Sunday December 5th, 2004

"Sure thing!" - Cheetah said and turned into wyvern, then flew to meet up in the air with the rest of companions.

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Kismet ran after Ellena.

"I hope at least SHE paid attention to the priest training." - he thought as he watched the priestess perform some sort of exorcism.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday December 5th, 2004

Zeros' nodded and flapped his six wings, flying after Haraldur with Kami-ryu seeming to be standing on mid-air.

"So what can you tell me about what happened to Artista after the war? I ventured there many times during my martial arts training, but I never took in the sights really." He said while looking out towards the expansive mountains.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday December 5th, 2004

Duilin followed Zeros' out, and then he backpak started to rapidly move, he then removed it from his back revealing to wings, that were curled up, they cracked abit as the spung open.

"Ow, it's been a week since I've been arborn.." Duilin then soared up in the air with the others...

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday December 5th, 2004

(EoN: Make it a good quest for an item to wake him up, and I'll consider your extra point.)

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"That is enough."

Lars' cloak ceased to blow in the wind as the prophet floated downward, landing in between the two ice warriors.

"You're able to execute as well as dodge basic attacks. A good start. You two may go somewhere with proper training..."

He reached into a sack tied to his belt under his cloak, pulling out two glimmering gold coins, tossing one to each warrior. The coins were quite heavy and thick, a good inch and a half in diameter. They were crudely stamped with the insignia of the Dark Empire... Their value was at least 100 of the tiny diluted gold coins used for trade in Laus.

"When you work for me, you do exactly what I say and I pay you well... very well. You do otherwise... then other things happen... There is no partnership. Take it or leave it."

Lars was facing Laus as he spoke, and he noticed several figures take to the sky and speed off to the east.

"Well, well, quite the following we have..."

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Sunday December 5th, 2004

Nevina chased after Ellena and Kismet as they ran.
Her eyes gazed upon the figure, and could feel evil pouring from it, but she said nothing...
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Armic starred at the symbol, and it seared his eyes, but, he held the pain.
He spoke in his normal voice, one he did not use on Kismet in the Crypt. In a charming, enchanting voice he spoke, "My dear lady, have you gone Senile already in your young age?...."
Armic with held an urge to hiss at the 3 Holy People, as he continued his stroll towards Laus.

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday December 5th, 2004

//Mmyes... Okay then... I'll start thinking about that then.

Zion flew after Zeros' and the other people with him. Tsu saw the crowd and caught up to them. Zion was happy to see Tsu in the air. "Your timing's perfect."

"Or lucky."

Tsu would fly next to Zion.
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Meanwhile...

//This is just for comic relief... Nothing useful really happens here.

Seijin stood over the sleeping Xenai Omega. "Hm... What to do with you?"

Seijin's first idea was to slap him. And slap him he did, rapidly across the face. He backed off after it didn't work.

"Hm..."

Next, he would grab his legs and drag him around a bit. After that didn't work, he shouted loudly into his ear, "Wake up!"

"COME ON! WAKE UP!" exclaimed Seijin with fury as he jumped up and down on Xenai's chest.

"Grr!" He stood Xenai up, and performed a move he invented that he dubbed 'Rock Bottom'. It still didn't work.

"I give up!" Seijin flew off, trying to come up with any bright ideas.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday December 5th, 2004

"Yes sir!" Frost and Bite both said

"Aw man, look at these coins!" Frost wispered

"I know, we'll be rich in no time!" Bite replied

They both grined

"I bet that's were the deamons went to, Were do you think there going, boss?" Frost asked

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday December 5th, 2004

Haraldur started flying fast towards Aritan.

"Aritan was destroyed on one of my visits. I was going through one of their teleportation tunnels, when the whole country and its people collapsed and exploded around me."

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"Stand back!" shouted Ellenna.

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Posted by: Cesque on Sunday December 5th, 2004

Cheetah followed Haraldur.

"Country and it's people exploding? Strange times that we live in..." - he thought.

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"That's him, gods damn it! The accursed... whatever he is!" - Kismet said, pointing at Armic. - "Don't you even dare try to excuse yourself!"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday December 5th, 2004

Zeros' continued to follow Haraldur, while Kami-ryu seemed o be deep in thought or meditating.

"At least you were still strong enough to survive the blast. The same thing happened to me when I took the spear from the island it was at. The whole island crumbled around itself and into the ocean."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday December 6th, 2004

Haraldur said: "I do not know. I managed to escape... somewhere... before finding out if I could survive it."

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday December 6th, 2004

"This... this, abominiation... It lies! I can feel it..." Said Nevina, studdering at the evil she was in the presence of.
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Armic hissed.
"Arrgghh... Sharp, are we? The Holy one finally has some not-so-dull followers...".
Armic began to turn around, when he lunged, jumping onto Ellenna and atempting to bite her neck.

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Posted by: Kahn on Monday December 6th, 2004

Kahn noticed Ellenna and Nevina had ran off.

He went after them.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday December 6th, 2004

Ellenna jumped back, attempted to hit Armic on the head with her staff, then ran behind the other people.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday December 6th, 2004

Zeros' nodded to Haraldur.

"I see...most of my adventures were...less involved. I mostly further honded my martial arts, becoming stronger every day." Zeros' looked around at his companions. "Let's pick up the pace." Zeros' flapped his six dark angel wings harder, reaching up to 70 m/ph. He could go faster, but he wanted not to get ahead of himself.

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Posted by: Trent on Monday December 6th, 2004

It wasn't too horribly hard for Zion to catch up, but it was harder for Tsu. Xenai was on Zion's mind, and he needed to find a way to wake him up somehow...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday December 6th, 2004

Haraldur accelerated to 400 m/s.

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Posted by: Trent on Monday December 6th, 2004

//400 meters/sec? That's a little too fast, don't you think?

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday December 6th, 2004

Zeros' put more speed into his wings, infusing them with ki and bursting through the sound barrier and catching up with Haraldur.

"Don't you think we should slow down a bit?" Zeros' pointed backwards towards the ground, who was slowly vanishing. Kami-ryu didn't look fazed in the slightest.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday December 6th, 2004

Duilin glared as Haradular started warping ahead, Zeros' was also going faster, he then picked up the speed and caught up with Zeors'.

"We there yet?" Duilin asked

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday December 6th, 2004

"No...not really, or Haraldur would stop." He glanced at Haraldur for a moment before picking up speed again, reaching faster and faster, slowly going towards Mach 2.

Zeros' sent Haraldur a telepathic message, knowing he would be able to pick it up with his ki and magic, one more so then the other. He knew Haraldur had a good amount of ki, but he also had as much magic as he had ki.

Haraldur. I think we should slow down. I don't think the other would be able to keep up for long. Zeros' glanced backwards at the rest of the group, who were slowly falling behind.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Monday December 6th, 2004

(Just because MotD pulled out, doesn't mean his entire country had to explode. Heh...)

(400 m/s = 895 MPH
Mach 2 = 680.58 m/s = 1522 MPH
Gah!)

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Lars replied as the group disappeared on the horizon,

"They're after the Six Weapons of Retan... They think they're doing the world a favor... Idiots."

He turned around and began to walk down the path through the forest, expecting his new recruits to follow. He spoke as he walked,

"One thing's certain. It's not going to be pretty if they succeed... Our best bet would be to find one of these weapons and hold on to it. Five are useless without the sixth. I have an idea where we can get some more information..."

The forest began to open as they strode down the path, taking a left fork in the road. In a few minutes the trio would be upon Armic, Kismet, and co.'s location...

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Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

// according to my calculations, 400 m/s = 666 km/h, rounded down... //

"Damn!" - Cheetah thought as suddenly Haraldur sped up to extreme speed.

Cheetah, unlike the others, didn't even try to catch up - it was impossible for him, so he slowly continued following Haraldur and Zeros visible in the distance at his own speed, hoping that they won't sped fast enough to erase from his view too soon...

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Kismet made a step back, seeing attack on Ellena and her dodge.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

Haraldur stopped suddenly. "Fine then. We will wait for them to catch up. We simply are not 1/100 of the way there yet, though. And we have no enough time for this to take months."

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Posted by: Trent on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

Zion grabbed Tsu's arm and sped up. As he did so, he recieved a message.

Find whatever gave Xenai the mark and destroy it.</span>

Huh? Do you know what or where it is?

No.</i>

Seijin's presence faded out of Zion's head. <i>Great... Now what? Zion stopped about 25 feet away from Zeros' and Haraldur. "Tsu, what did Xenai's mark look like?"

Tsu thought for a moment. "Uh... Like an upside down, demonic looking cross. Like it was made of flames."

Zion looked to Zeros'. "We have to take care of something! For now, I'll trust your word that you're not doing anything malicious!" Zion turned around and took back off toward Laus with Tsu.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

Duilin noticed Haradualr has stoped, he then sped up abit untill he caught up with him.

"Damn, your fast! Hey, you think you could like, carry the rest of there, if were so damn far away!" Duilin asked, half jokeing

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"The Six Weapons of Retan..." Frost repeated

"What are they?" Bite asked

"I told you, 6 weapons the Dark Empire was looking for a month ago."

"So, were gonna help this guy find them, and he helps us ice Duilin and Zeros'?"

"Duh!!" Frost smacks Bite in the back of the head


"Hey, It's that priest dude we saw awile ago, the one who didn't help us!" Bite yelled

"Yeah! It is, Boss, can we kill ice him to?" Frost asked Lars

//Note, "ice" is what they use for "kill", now, just to give them character//

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

"I could carry at least two of you there, if you you like."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

"Well, I'm one of the slower ones, I supose Cheetah is to, Zeros' your fast, maybe you could carry the others or something."

(Eon's characters are here right? If not ignore the fact that I mentioned 'the others')

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

//Realize, Ellenna is a level weaker than. Armic. Without add from Nevina, Kahn, or Kismet, Ellenna will succome to one of Armic's attacks//

Armic dunked down and shifted to the right.
He then pulled his cursed long sword from his coat, and as he dodged the blow, coming back up, he slashed at Ellenna's side.

~Total Time: 1.222 seconds~

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

"I can carry Cheetah with me. All he has to do is get inside my barrier and shrink down to human form like Kami-ryu." He pointed to his assistant ninja.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

"I will carry you then, Duilin," said Haraldur.

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//Ellenna is hiding behind the others, so I assume you have dodged around them.//

Ellenna stopped the blow with her staff and again attempted to hit Armic on the head.

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Ellenna is level 0? No, she is level 1, the same level as Armic:



You have Nevina, 2, Jakk "Ass" Tyric, 1, and Armic, 1, making up your four.

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//Is Nevina not going to do anything against this evil priest thing which goes around her?//

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Posted by: Trent on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

//Zion and Tsu took off.

Zion and Tsu arrived at Laus and started looking around for the nearest library.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

"Okay, let's go then." Duilin says, to Haradular.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday December 7th, 2004

"Don't worry. I shall catch up with you later. I can sense the residual ki and will be able to follow you without much problem." He looked at Cheetah's wyvern form aproching him and waited.

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Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

// Karmic leveled-up to level 2, and Cyber un-activated another character, Haraldur, read through all the previous posts before making your judgement... //

"Carry me? ME?" - Cheetah thought, then to say what he wanted, he turned into human form, began to fall in the air, screaming "NO WAAAAAAAY" and turned back to wyvern form, then raised up with a headache...

Uh...

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Seeing another attack on Ellena, Kismet decided to react somehow. He formed an orb of burning light and threw in direction of evil priest.

Simple. And wasn't too hard to learn at the priest's training.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

Zeros' shook is head and extended his barrier father, engulfing Cheetah in it.

"Try now..." Zeros' said. "Once you shrink to a smaller form I can lower my barrier to accompany it. It saves my ki energy."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

Haraldur picks up Duilin and goes towards the remains of Aritan at 20,000 m/s.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

Zeros' sighed and extended his six dark angel wings. He looked over towards where Haraldur had departed and charged his ki into his wings. Soon his wings were glowing bright blue as he flapped them once and then again, speeding forwards, letting off a sonic boom as he passed through the sound barrier and proceeded from Mach 1 to Mach 3 in a couple seconds.

"Cheetah, If you could, please shrink. As you can see you are fine now." Zeros' reassured.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

Duilin was shocked at the extreme speed. He was speachless, motionless, he was frightend, like the first time you ever road a roller coaster. He just closed his eyes and hoped for the best...

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Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

"This demon is literaly a speed demon!" - Cheetah thought, still distrusting extreme speeds.

Shrinking? Hell no! He liked his wyvern form, no matter how long could it take him to reach remains of Aritan...

He was also pretty much sick of hearing word "ki" so frequently during one day. Again, he denied Zeros' offer.

// We're over ocean, I presume? //

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Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

Lars studied the group as he approached. Apparently they were fighting. One of them attacked another with a ball of light.

"This isn't a pleasure trip. There will be no icing of people just because you don't like them... Well, not yet, anyway..."

He stopped and folded his arms under his cloak, standing where he could get a good view of the battle.

"It is unwise to jump into a battle that has nothing to do with you. Sit back and watch. See, the one with the silver hair's putting on a good show..."

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

//Well, seeing as it's 4 against one, I figured Nevina could stand and do nothing. Surely 3 level 1's (or is Kismet L.2? o.o) can take Armic down alone... Armic needs back up. Everyone is this RP is currently on the "good" side with the exception of Armic//

Armic dodged Ellenna's attack in a way similar to the way he dodged the first, but Kismet's energy ball struck, and sent Armic behind the foursome by about 3 feet.
Armic slid into the ground, uprooting the grass as he plowed back, hissing from the horrible burning sensation the holy energy caused him..
The Qor Cleric then spun, his jacket flowing in the wind, and appeared to dissapear, but really, he had ascended upwards, out of sight, and began chanting an incantation in Slythin, the language of Demons and Seperents, also known as a common language for Qor to be summoned in.
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Nevina had drawn her Sanctified Bastard Sword, and gripped it tightly in both hands, but before the elf could strike, Armic was gone.
She began to speak, but was quickly cut off as the ground began to rumble a bit.

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Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

// Kismet is level 1... //

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Posted by: Kahn on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

Kahn looks around.

"Hah! The fool ran away."

Notices the ground rumbling.

"what now?"

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Posted by: Trent on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

Tsu and Zion step into the library, and walk over to some podium like thing. There were many others in the area.

"Ok," said Zion, "draw the cross right here with your finger."

Tsu obeyed, drawing the inverse cross with as much detail as he could. The podium flashed a bright flash, then it started glowing, with light fading in and out.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

"Yes sir." Frost said. He then kneeled down and watched the fight, Bite sat down beside him, he started polishing his gun.

"Hey, wanna bet on the fight?" Bite asked

"Dude, we pool our money!" Frost replied

"Oh yeah....Gentlemen's bet?"

"No, what are you...a...gentle man?"

Bite, then shook his head and continued watching the fight.

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Posted by: Trent on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

The podium stopped glowing, and a book appeared, entitled "Kurayami X." Zion opened it.

"Whoa..." Zion saw a painting of the creature upon moving the cover. Tsu looked at it, and took on the same astounded expression as Zion. The demon looked like a humanoid in a black fire form.

"The cross... I see it on its hands!" Tsu pointed to the crosses on the demon's hands.

Zion turned the page and started reading. "Kurayami X is a demon that implants an inverted cross symbol onto victims with strong presences of darkness in their soul. This turns them evil. When the cross is removed, the victim falls into an eternal sleep and does not awaken. The victim sleeps until death. Of course, victims who are still alive will be awakened if Kurayami X is destroyed. But the cross must be removed in order for the victim to stop being evil. Kurayami X is located in a forest near Romme."

"So that means...-"

"-...We have to go to Romme."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 8th, 2004

//Yes were over the ocean.\\

Zeros' sighed as he noticed Cheetah wasn't shrinking. Oh well. He focused his power through his wings again. The ocean and air ki started swirling around his wings, the colors changing from a green air, ocean blue, a blue of confidence and so on.

The colors kept changing as he ascended through the sound barrier once again and proceeded to reach Mach 4, leaving a sickening sonic boom as tidal waves reached astounding heights as Zeros' continually poured his ki into his wings, moving faster and faster.

The waves parted in his wake as he proceeded to fly after Haraldur as he steadily came into view.

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As the ground continued to shake where Armic disappeared, forms slowly appeared, glowing black globs started to appear as shapes started to poke out. Daemon's reached the arms out as well as snake like creatures started appearing, slowly ascending on the do-gooders.

//As Cyber Wolf said, he needed allies so I'm making NPCS.\\

Black bolts of energy started to shoot out towards the ascended group as the Daemons started to show there full bodies, some slim and agile while others bulky and muscled.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday December 9th, 2004

"Ha! Demonic summoning. Not bad."

An eerie wind blew Lars' cloak as the creatures appeared out of the points of darkness, descending upon the four in front of him.

Suddenly, several dark orbs appeared around Lars and his two recruits, demons of varying shapes emerging. A winged gargoyle-esqe creature appeared faster than the others, and brandishing an axe, swooped down upon Lars and the Ice Warriors from above. Lars instantly responded, thrusting his left hand from under his cloak, sending a crimson orb into the demon's chest, causing it to literally explode into burning peaces right in front of Frost and Bite's faces.

"It appears they want a piece of us as well..."

Five other demons circled the trio...

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday December 9th, 2004

Cheetah lowered his flight, and dived into the over, as suddenly turning into water drake he raised his head above the water line.

"Far more comfortable." - he thought and began swimming much faster, keeping track of the rest of group in the air.

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// NPCs unconnected with your character... huh... strange new trend <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> //

Kismet made few steps back again as he noticed how Karmic dissappeared and demons appeared out of nowhere. He turned and noticed Lars observing him. This man wasn't looking too trustworthy as well.

Turning back to Karmic, Kismet began to gather energy for a spell to deal with the demons.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday December 9th, 2004

"Holy smokes!" Bite yelled as the deamon spirts suronded them.

Bite swung a kick at one of the spirts knocking it away...
Frost slashed the same one with is Ice Sword, finishing it off...

"More like UN Holy Smokes..." Frost replied

Bite then armed his Ice Thrower, he held down the trigger and it started to charge up, Frost then held his Ice Sword a few feet away from his weapon...

(It's the Freeze Beam attack I did earlier, but now that it's a real battle, it takes a post to do it, since there only level 1s)

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday December 9th, 2004

//Ah, thanks Zeros'. I had something similar planned, but Demons is a better idea. ^.^//

Armic screamed with glee, as 6 deamons flew up to him. Armic and the demons then headed straight down, diving towards Ellenna, and Armic's sword began to swarm with darkness. The very feeling off it was enough to turn a Holy man's stomach.

Armic swung his damned long sword at Ellenna's neck, while the Demon swarmed over her, trying to get in a strike.
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Two bulky deamons arose from the the crevase in the Earth, bearing long swords.
Both of this sadistic beings flew at Nevina at once, one aiming high, one aiming low.
Nevina used her newly-found flying abilities to help her lunge upon the lower flying deamon and decapitate him, forcing him to nose dive into the ground.
The other deamon dived down to Nevina.....

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday December 9th, 2004

Zeros' saw Cheetah descend and shrunk his barrier down, only covering himself and Kami-ryu. The proceeds to pump more ki into his wings, almot reaching Mach 5. Haraldur and Duilin can be seen over the horizion.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday December 9th, 2004

Bite blast his Freeze Thrower at the sword and the sword blasts a freeze beam at 2 deamons freezeing them to soild ice!

"I think deamons can survive that, if the ice unthaws. Boss, maybe you should melt em." Frost subjests

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Posted by: Trent on Thursday December 9th, 2004

Zion and Tsu darted out of the library and took off in the direction of Romme.

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Posted by: Cesque on Friday December 10th, 2004

// Errr... Romme was sucked into the black hole, and the remains sunk underwater, as far as I get it //

Cheetah continued swimming toward Aritan...

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Kismet turned after the demon and released a beam of light directly at it as it attacked Nevina.

(the light spells generally only deal harm creatures of purely "evil" origins - demons and undead - but they could blind or fry a bit anyone else as well)

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday December 10th, 2004

Lars whipped out a broadsword from under his cloak, just in time to parry a stab attack from a goblin-like creature with a rusty sword. The cloaked man pointed his sword to the ground as it began to emanate a crimson aura, slashing it left and upwards to knock the weapon out of the creature's hand. He immediately followed with a stab to the demon's right side, sinking his blade in deep as the creature squealed in pain. Placing his right foot on the monster's chest, he pulled his blade out as the demon fell limply to the ground.

Lars spun around, sticking his sword into the ground in front of him.

"Stand back!"

He thrust both hands forward towards the demon trapped in the ice, then brought them in for a series of quick hand motions, gathering crimson energy in front of his chest, before thrusting them forward again, sending a bright red ball of light hurtling towards the ice statue, shattering it to pieces in a fiery explosion.

"These demons really are the dregs of the earth..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 10th, 2004

Zeros' gained more speed, breaking the sound barrier once again and proceeding to Mach 5. He could now see Haraldur and Duilin plainly, but still fuzzy.

Haraldur, How much longer? Zeros' asked the magic man.

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Posted by: Trent on Saturday December 11th, 2004

//I know. I just mean the general area of Romme.

Zion stopped where he thought Romme used to be. "It should be somewhere around here."

A black blur shot by Zion. He spun around, then turning in the direction the demon was speeding in, just in time to see it coming toward him.

"Here it comes!!!"

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Posted by: Kahn on Saturday December 11th, 2004

"guess I gotta help her"

Kahn withdrew his dagger and ran towards Armic and Ellenna.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday December 11th, 2004

Lars removed his sword from the ground, wrapping it in fire once more, and stabbed through the final demon's armor with a forward lunge. He stopped as it fell, the flame disappearing from his blade.

All of the demons that attacked the trio had been felled. He returned his sword to its scabbard under his cloak, watching the other group deal with the silver haired one and their set of demons...

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday December 12th, 2004

"HAAAAA!!!"

Zion let out a yell that flared his ki and powered him up as he unsheathed his Eternity Weapon and traded a few blows with Kurayami X. The demon phased out then in before Tsu. "You have darkness in you... You are my next prey!"

The demon's palm lunged out at Tsu's forehead. Tsu held up Kuon Yaiba just in time to block the palm. "Holy cow..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday December 12th, 2004

Zeros' frowned as Haraldur wasn't listening to him. He continued on at his current pace. He could still see Haraldur, so he had no reason to speed up.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday December 12th, 2004

(Gah! 2 posts? What happened?)

The wind blew through Lars' cloak as he waited...

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday December 12th, 2004

//Wha?

Zion slashed downwards at Kurayami X. It turned around and grabbed the sword. "You are composed of too much light. You mean nothing to me."

"Can't say the same to you, buddy!" Zion started slashing rapidly at the demon, who had no problem parrying him. The demon snickered at Zion when he stopped slashing. "Wasted effort, kid. I could parry you all day."

"Kuon Yaiba Ryu - Kuon Suisei!"
Translation: "Eternity Sword Style - Eternity Comet"

Tsu sped forward toward Kurayami X with his blade pulled back to his gut. As he came up to the demon, he thrusted the blade out, and ended up tearing right through the demon. Tsu whipped around, shooting up into the air. "Kuon Suisei Nishiki!" (Eternity Comet Third form) He then tore through the demon vertically. The demon was now in 4 fragments. Tsu turned around just in time to see it merge back together, laughing the entire time. "What the crap is this thing?!"

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Posted by: Xorlak on Monday December 13th, 2004

(3 days... you know what that means.)

Suddenly, the demons began to circle the group at an alarming speed, chanting something in their demonic language:

"Šhą-đôw-Đěŝ-ŧŕöý-ëŗ!!" (Shadow Destroyer!)

In a flash of violet and darkness, a massive explosion ensued. Lars covered his face, a red orb surrounding him. When the smoke cleared, the demons were gone and everone around Lars had been knocked cold, lying on the ground covered with dust.

"Hmm, that was... unexpected."

He began to float in the air, as something had caught his attention. There was a battle some distance from here. Near the former location of Romme...

"Can't be the winged one and his merry men. They're hundreds of miles away by now... Let's have ourselves a look."

A crimson aura enveloped the shrouded man and he shot off towards the direction of the battle like a rocket.

(Kahn: The explosion doesn't have to effect your character, since you posted two days ago.)

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Posted by: Cesque on Monday December 13th, 2004

// Not fair! You made a confusing comment and left us to explain what it means while you really counted days til we all lose consiousness! <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> //

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday December 13th, 2004

"Whoa!" Frost yelled after the comotion stoped, he then ran after Lars trying to keep us.

"Hey! Dude wait up!" Bite yelled as he followed...

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Posted by: Trent on Monday December 13th, 2004

"...What can we do to destroy this thing?" Zion glared at Kurayami X, then looked over at Tsu. "There's one thing we could try, but I can't guarantee it will work." This sentence was said as he slowly floated nearer to him.

"What's that?"

"Do you know how to use ki?"

"Not in the way that you do... I can use ki with my attacks to strengthen them a little bit, and suck a little bit out of the air."

"Gather as much as you can. Oh, and hold your breath." Zion grabbed Tsu's arm and pulled him downwards. The two fighters went into the ocean, trying to hide from Kurayami X. Zion shot forward as fast as he could. All the while, Tsu was trying to charge up, and making sure he didn't breathe. Zion stopped and started to charge up, as did Tsu. He and Tsu watched as Kurayami X ignorantly fired energy blasts and casted Shade spells at the location where Zion and Tsu entered the water.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday December 13th, 2004

//I'd like to argue against the unconciousess of all the characters. We were waiting on Haraldur, who didn't update Ellenna. Kismet and Nevina shouldn't suffer due to that. =/ //

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday December 14th, 2004

(Folks, all your characters have to do is sit up and dust themselves off. Heh...)

Lars stopped in mid-air, sensing motion behind him.

"Hmm, tougher than I thought."

He turned around and dropped to the ground in front of Frost and Bite.

"Let's see what these folks are about, shall we?"

He walked in between the icy duo, down a small incline, and to the dirt road where the battle had taken place. Some of the victims of the blast were stirring. Lars folded his arms under his cloak. What is this? A priest? A pirate? She looks like an elf of some sort. There's another woman over there.

"Now, what is such a motley group doing in such a dangerous forest?"

Lars' eyes shifted back and forth. Where did that ghoulish silver haired one disappear to...?

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday December 14th, 2004

//Sorry, I lost the internet for a few days.//

Ellenna woke from her unconsciousness and got up from her prone position. She had a cut on her neck where Armic had struck. Somehow she had survived. She charged at Armic and tried to hit him on the head with her white staff.

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After a while, Haraldur suddenly stopped.

"We are here," he said, and threw Duilin out in front of him, who floated in the air.

They were above a patch of see, full of floating trees and other debris.

"Now I must rest."

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Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday December 14th, 2004

// Happens... //

Cheetah hurried seeing floating trees and other things like that.

"Must be here."

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Kismet sat up and began to dust himself off.

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Posted by: Trent on Tuesday December 14th, 2004

Zion noticed that there was still energy charged into his sword, from when he was about to use Hyperion on Gungun. He nodded to Tsu, then shot out of the water.

"Consume all, flash of death!"

Kurayami X turned around just in time to become immobilized by the omni-directional 1-ton push of Omni. It screamed out in pain. Tsu shot out of the water. Ok, how can I nail this creep without getting pounded by that spell? Tsu stopped about 20 feet in front of Kurayami X. Tsu sent the energy he had gathered into his blade. And that white light that powered him up came again. Kuon Yaiba could cut once again.

Tsu shot past Kurayami X with his sword out to the side, cutting him into two halves. He then floated above him and came down, Braver style, cutting him in half once again. Kurayami X had been cut into quarters. The white light faded, and Tsu backed off as Zion unsheathed his Eternity Weapon.

"By light, you shall fall! Hyperion!"

Zion slashed in Kurayami X's direction several times, unleashing several energy balls toward it that tore it up even more, then he sent the last of his charged energy down at him in the form of a giant white energy ball, that would vaporize the many pieces of Kurayami X.

Tsu floated there for a moment. "Is that it? Did it work?"

Zion just floated in silence, watching for any trace of Kurayami X. Nothing showed up. "It's dead. But whether or not Xenai wakes up is a different matter entirely."

//Will that do for the point? Or should I do some more stuff?

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday December 14th, 2004

Duilin seemed abit dizzy from traveling at such speed.

"Whoa..." Duilin rubed his forhead, he sat down to, not even noticeing the floating trees...

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"Don't know boss, sorry." Bite said

"Whoa, hey, that one chick got up!" Frost pointed at Ellenna, "What shall we do sir?"

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Tuesday December 14th, 2004

Armic had been blown off from his mark by the blast, making him miss the vital shot at Ellenna's neck, but still scathing her. He was knocked into the ground, out of sight, but jumped up as Ellenna swung herr staff at him.

He grasped her staff in his one hand, his other crutching his sword. He twisted as he yanked at the staff, trying to pull it from the Priestesses grip, and he swung his sword at her side.
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Nevina got up from the shake, and discovered the deamon attacking her o be dead. She brushed herself off, spotted her Bastard Sword, grabbed it, and charged towards Armic, but was not in striking reach just yet...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday December 14th, 2004

Ellenna wrenched the staff out of his burning hands: the staff would burn all those of evil intent who were not powerful in a god-like manner. She then blocked his shot with the staff. She then stepped aside, out of the way of Nevina, and then aimed to strike Armic in the side, below the ribs.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

(Okay EoN, you can have your point.)

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"Ah, there he is... patience, my friends."

Lars stepped up to Kismet as he was sitting up, holding an outstretched hand as Armic, Ellenna, and Nevina fought in the background.

"You folks seem to be having a bit of trouble. My warriors and I can offer aid if you require. That is, if you're willing to return the favor..."

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Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

Cheetah got to the sunken Aritan site.

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"Favor?" - Kismet turned toward Lars, still keeping away from battle. - "WHAT favor?"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

Zeros' passed the area by a few feet and suddenly cut off his ki, abrutly stopping him in mid-air. The release of all his ki causing it to be pushed forwards, creating a massive tidal wave of 100 feet to be pushed in all directions.

"That was refreshing..." said Zeros' as the water washed over his body. Zeros' released his ki barrier while above on of the floating trees. Kami-ryu put his feet out below him and landed on one of the branches with grace. Zeros' calmly floated down while retracting four of his wings, leaving the two closest to each of his shoulders out.

"I need to rest also..." Zeros' said while his body started to be surrounded in a multicolored mist, washing over his whole body, replenshing his ki sources.

"Well now..." said Kami-ryu while looking around. "So this is where Artian used to be. I've always wanted to visit this area, along with the long dead area of Romme."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

"There's nothing there to see really." Duilin told Kami-Ryu. He was better now. "All there is, is a big hole hold of nothingness, the most you would find would be an old rival of mine's skeleton, but I dought that's still intact after the blast."

Duilin then looked around "Floating trees? I'm standing on air?" Duilin reached into his pocket and took out a water cantine, he opened it up and took a sip of it, closed it and then put it back into his pocket. "Yeah, this is Artain allright." Duilin had herd of this place, back in the Dark Empire, herd it was a strange place. "I to, have wanted to see this place."

Duilin then relized he didn't have his weapons with him, yet he relized he probally won't be needing them, and now he is trying to improve his skills. He's mastered the deamon fire technique (new name for Fire Ball Of Death) and he wishes to try it out more, anyways.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

"Hmm..." He noticed the face Duilin made and finally figured out what he was distreased about. Kami-ryu reached to the hilt of his sword, the one with the ruby eyes, and slashed with it, sheathing it after. He was quite speedy, but not at the ungodly speed off Zeros, Duilin (sometimes) or Haraldur.

He reached up in his hand as a branch he slashed above him fell into his extended hand. It was about two feet in length and about 6 inches thick. Kami-ryu held out his extended hand that held the branch, his metal hand.
On the back of his hand, in the middle, there was a Star of David-esque type design that reached out past the edge of the circle, which was reinforced by another circle a few centimeters in.

The symbol on his hand started to glow and spark with a blue lightning, as well as the stick in his hand. There was a bright flash of light and the branch he was holding was replaced by a five foot wooden MALLET that looked very heavy and duriable.

He hopped down from his pearch and appeared beside Duilin, holding out the wooden mallet.

"Need a weapon?" He said with a smirk.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

//Ah great. The demons are all dead, and the side opposed to Armic grows in size...
L.2 (Nevina), L.1 (Ellenna), L.1 (Kismet), L.1 (Kahn), L.1 (Lars [I'm correct about level, right?]), L.1 and L.1 (Frost and Bite), 8 Levels! C'mon guys... Do you really need that many to take down a L.2? =/ //

Armic screamed as the staff seared the flesh of his hands, and he jumped as Ellenna swung her staff, but not quick enough. The staff banged him in the shin.

Landing on all fours at Ellenna's feet, he heard Nevina charging towards him. The man screamed again. A blood curtling, lustful, glass shattering banchee scream, and black energy flew from his being, Darkening the air to an almost pitch black tint.
Armic flipped his silver hair back a bit, revealing his red eye, and with this eye, he could see through the darkness fog.
He ran, heading out of the fog.
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Nevina heard the shriek and fell to the ground, her ear drums thumbing, all she could here now was a ringing in her ears.
She picked herself up, now temporarily deafened, and blinded by the fog, she began to lose her grip on reality. She thought he saw or heard things that weren't there, tried to block strikes that were never aimed. The fog was robbing her of her sanity, and her senses.
//All characters within the Fog (basically anywhere within a 30 yard radius of Armic, with the exception of Armic himself, should be affected in a way similar to the way Nevina did.//

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Posted by: Trent on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

//Woot! Awesome!

"I guess there's only one way to find out if he's awake..." Zion turned in the direction of where he was sleeping, and took off, thinking that he had felt a spark of life force. Tsu followed as well.
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Xenai slowly opened his eyes, and got to his feet. "What the hell... Where am I? All I remember is the kid slashing me, and I conked out!"

Xenai crossed his arms and tapped his foot. "I suppose I owe those guys an apology... I suppose... Whatever." He snapped his head to the right and spit at the ground, then starting to wait.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

Duilin grined. "Sure." He took the wooden mallet. "I'm used to chained weapons, but this shall do. Thank you, Kami-Ryu." He went back to his normal exprestion.

He swung the mallet around, getting used to it.

(Yeah, Duilin's equipment, has accually totally changed now)

"So, Kami-Ryu, wile the others are resting do you want to explore the area?" He asked

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 15th, 2004

"Eh...no idea actually." He said while crouching down and rolling back on the balls of his feet, surprisingly graceful.

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Posted by: Trent on Thursday December 16th, 2004

Zion came up on the island where Xenai was left. He was glad to see that he was awake. Zion and Tsu landed in front of him, then silence. Everyone had straight faces.

Xenai was the first to speak. "I'm sorry... I guess. Whatever."

Zion's expression didn't change. "Apology accepted."

"Are you lamers just going to stand there with dull faces, or are you going to follow me to Seijin's cloud?" Xenai walked past them and looked up, waiting for it.

Zion relaxed a bit. "Sure, I'll follow."

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday December 16th, 2004

(Heh... Lars is a level 2.)

"I'm merely looking to hire a few good warriors..."

Just then, there was a blood curdling scream and a dark mist formed about the area...

"Gyah! What is this?"

A red protective orb appeared around Lars as the black mist engulfed the battlefield. Even under the barrier, the fog was choking... To escape, Lars shot straight up into the air some 50 feet, where he dispersed the barrier and breathed the fresh air heavily...

"Blast. Ruined my shot..."

Lars' eyes darted around before he noticed Armic shoot out of the fog, making a break for it.

"Forget them. He's perfect..."

Lars began to glide over and past the mist, following just behind the man as he ran. He shot Armic an eerie telepathic message:

"Running is not necessary, my friend... I've been searching for one of your caliber for quite some time... I have a proposition for you, if you would listen..."

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday December 16th, 2004

Kismet jumped back as suddenly a fog began to emanate, dsome dark spell by Armic...

He covered himself with hand and repelled the fog from himself (hge was quite distant from the fight anyway), but still he could not see what was happening inside.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday December 16th, 2004

Armic continued his run for his Graveyard home, but felt a telepathic message go through mind, and he stopped dead in his tracks.
At first he thought it was Qor, but quickly realized it as being a Mortals voice.
He wasn't sure where the message was from, but he traced the source, and sent a message of his own back to Lars.

Who are you? Where are you? And what is this proposition you offer, my good sir?
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The ringing in Nevina's ears finally subsided, but she was still blinded by the Fog, and the air seemed to be getting heavier, and she started to choke.
"*Cough* ugh.... I gotta *cough* outta here!" She managed to say, inbetween coughing fits.
She desided the Fog must have a barrier, and if she ran in a staight line, she would certianly get out eventually.
Nevina attempted to create a sphere of Holy Energy, to help her guide herself out, but the fog seemed to block her connection to her God, she was rendered spell-less!
"Dammit!" She yelled, as she ran blindly, trying to get out of the fog. (She's heading north, towards the city of Laus, While Armic was running south, towards the Graveyard, by the way.)

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday December 16th, 2004

"Gah!" Frost cried, he started coughing

"Geez, What's going on?!" Bite asked

"Black..mist...." Frost then starting running, Bite followed, they fell to the ground, still contious, they looked up and spoted Lars, with the barrier, and the floating up in the air.

"I wonder what the boss is up to now?" Bite asked

"We'll just have to wait and see..." Frost replied

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"Very well." Duilin replied. He then started paceing around.

He then looked around. "This is such an odd place..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday December 16th, 2004

"Indeed." He muttered.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday December 20th, 2004

Ellenna recovers from the fog. She then stands up, gets overpowered by it again, and collapses for a third time.

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Haraldur returned to the surface, strangely, since noone had noticed him going under. He was glowing slightly more than before.

"Zeros', having aquired two of the weapons, you should by now be able to detect the general direction of the nearest weapon. If you can, where is is, roughly? It should feel like a pins and needles sensation, with a direction, but very faint. I know this, because of... research."

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Posted by: Trent on Monday December 20th, 2004

The trio took straight up, at the sword cloud. The three burst through right where they were supposed to, simultaneously, and almost in formation. Seijin noticed this as he looked over at them.

"Well, well, well! Good morning, Xenai."

"Feh..."

Seijin got up and walked over to the trio as they landed. "You three were perfectly synchronized, and in formation, you know that, right?"

The three fighters' eyes widened as if to say that they didn't. Sejin danced around in one place with teeming excitement. "Oh, you three are perfect for New Forever!"

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday December 21st, 2004

The shrouded Lars flew over Armic's head, flipping in the air, and landed in front of him before folding his arms inside his cloak.

"I'm looking to assemble a group of warriors with... unique talents... Your demonstration back there impressed me, outnumbered as you were. I'm wondering if I could hire you for your services... the pay will be well... very well. Or if it is not gold that... er... your kind desires, I can ensure that I can make your deepest desires come true once our mission is complete..."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday December 21st, 2004

"Trust him man." Frost says

"The pay is great!" Bite chips in "Really great."

They show Armic there coins, that Lars gave them.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday December 21st, 2004

"A tingling sensation..." Zeros' remembers what it felt like before with the spear. Zeros' closed his eyes and concentrated. He slowly opened his eyes and touched his back with one hand and lifted up his shirt and coat to where Iduran's sword was. He turned around towards his three other companions.

Under his skin, there was an impression of a sword, covered by hundreds of scars on his back. There were also six parts on his flesh that were covered by his wings. The impression of the sword was glowing a soft blue aura.

"The sword is reacting to the other weapon...the dark aura that eminates from it draws the sword..." Zeros' slowly pointed in a direction which was deeping into the forest of floating trees. Zeros' crossed his arms across his chest and slowly flew towards that direction.

Kami-ryu nodded and started tree hopping towards the direction. His cloak rised everytime he jumped, showing his metal right arm and metal left leg.

"Be wary." Zeros' warned. "There is a great power here...that is not the weapon..."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday December 21st, 2004

"Well, then we must be carefull." Duilin swung his mallet in a clockwise derection down to the ground. "But are we gonna find that weapon or just sit around here like a bump on a log?"

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday December 24th, 2004

(Gyah! They uploaded an out of date forum backup. Here's the posts that didn't get transfered over.)

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Posted by: Kahn
Kahn crawled along the ground hoping he could find a familiar face, but after having no success he decided to wait for the fog to disperse.


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Posted by: Zeros'
Zeros' sighed and started flying off in the direction Kami-ryu had tree hopped, his senses on full alert.


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Haraldur followed Zeros'.


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Posted by: Cesque
Cheetah dived and looked around. Yeah, it seemed that in the depths, Zeros' guiding would be nice. He followed him swimming on the surface of water.

Hopefully, the force or being Zeros felt won't kill him. Hopefully.

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Kismet moved out to safe distance. A deal between the strange prophet and the evil priest? This wasn't looking good.


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Posted by: Xorlak
Lars nodded to Frost and Bite as they approached.

This should be all that is neccessary for now, if we can get him that is...


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Posted by: Dude Man
"Oh, and now we leave!" Duilin says, getting annoyed, he ignores it and jumps up and starts flying, following Kami-Ryu, Zeros', and Haradular.

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//I talked to Cyber Wolf on MSN and the fourms aren't working for him at the moment, so it might be awile //


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Posted by: Zeros'
"Haradlur, just out of curiousity, what did this great sea dragon that was supposed to be here?" He said while glancing over his shoulder towards Haraldur. Zeros' slowled his flying down, as did Kami-ryu's tree hopping.


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Posted by: Haraldur
Haraldur said: "I did not mention a specific creature, I just said that it might be picked up by one, and they can easily be attracted by the weapon's power... as were you, since you have inevitably been slightly tainted by the weapon. You had a slight tingling sensation. For an evil creature it would be much stronger."


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Posted by: Dude Man
//Gack, the fourms keep not working for me, every now and then, so if I just sorta stop posting, you know were I am, sorta.//

"Monsters?" Duilin says "I've delt with quit a few of them, big snakes, gel monsters, back when I was with the Dark Empire, me and Cheetah took down a giant serpent once, that's how he got his serpent form." Duilin relizes that nobody would care so much so he just shrugs "So what kind of weapon is it?"



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Posted by: Zeros'
"Hmm...tainted? Maybe, maybe not." Zeros' said while strokin his chin.

"Most people consider daemon's mosters as well Duilin. Some might even consider Haraldur or Kami-ryu monsters. Haraldur due to the immense magical power he possesses and Kami-ryu for his metal limbs and alchemic abilities." He said while shrugging.

"People's views and beliefs have changed from all the centuries I've lived. At one point, monsters and humans coexisted peacefully. That was well over 600 years ago though." He said while glancing around. "You can see how people's beliefs change."


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Posted by: Dude Man
//Uhhh, It's Duilin, NOT Dude Man, geez, learn to read //

"I supose so, but us deamons, are not really monsters, in my belief. As you said peoples beliefs change, since I used to belive deamons were monsters." Duilin responds.


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Posted by: Haraldur
Haraldur suddenly visibly had a spasm, shuddered and fell on top of the water, before bringing himself back up, wet. The weapon was so close now, the sensation he was getting was almost too much for him to conceal, almost too much for him to stop himself from rushing towards it to take it for himself.

He saw the others staring at him so he said: "Sorry, I have not eaten yet since gaining my true form..." He hoped his excuse would work. He conjured up a large leg of lamb, raw, and consumed it quickly without it being cooked. He looked visibly healthier. He was now controlling himself much better.

"We are very close," he said, "Soon we will be directly above it."

His hands twitched just a bit, before he regained full control.


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Posted by: Xorlak
(Thanks for the intel, DM)

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Lars bowed slightly to the silver haired man.

"Take all the time you need to make your decision. You will find us north of here, past the borders of the former Dark Empire in the city of Redvik. You shouldn't have much trouble finding us..."

He turned and began to walk away, motioning to Frost and Bite.

"Come. We have... work to do..."

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(Yeah, it seems at random times the forums are inaccessible for 30 minutes or so, but the rest of the site works. Not sure what's going on there.)


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Posted by: Cesque
// Dude Man, he propably meant you're demon as well as your character //

"Above?" - Cheetah thought, trying to stay away from the thing. - "Sure, flying hypocrites..."

He was afraid to dive and see what the creature looks like, since propably Haraldur waited with the description of it until it attacks.


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Posted by: Zeros'
Zeros' looks at Haraldur falter and smiles. Not one of those kind, gentle smiles, but more of "I there's something more" smiles.

Sure Haraldur... He thought to himself.

"The weapon is indeed close though." The glow from underneath his shirt and trench coat gave off a brighter blue glow.


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Posted by: Haraldur
Haraldur smiled sarcastically at Zeros'.

He then dropped gracefully into the water.

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Below the water the area was crowded completely with various evil creatures, glowing sharks, other aberations, aquatic demons, krakens, and the like. They backed away from him, as slaves back away from a deadly master who has discovered their disobediance.

Haraldur smiled a strange smile, then chanted some strange words, more sounds than words. There was a bright flash, and the water around him evaporated and became plasma, killing all the creature near him, causing all but a few of the survivors to flee.

He looked at the defiant ones, and smiled. They looked back, attacked him. His hand became a claw, and he disembowled one, leaving just 23 left.

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Above the surface could be seen water disappearing in a 20 metre radius, revealing Haraldur on the seabed with 24 other creatures, and the bodies of many more. Then the water flowed back in.


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Posted by: Zeros'
Zeros' smiled and stopped flying, plunging him into the water. He bonded some of his own ki with the ki of the ocean, forming an oxygen shield around himself.

He drops fast into the water and lands right besides Haraldur.

Well know, whats do we have here? Zeros' said telepathicly to Haraldur. Zeros' unsheathed the Masamune, erecting itself into its 12 foot long, 2 feet wide form, complete with the apperance of rotting flesh and all the spikes.

One of the glowing sharks made a lung for Zeros', but with a flick of his wrist, charging his blade with ki, cut the shark cleanly inhalf, also resulting in the water being split, making a slight slash in the water as it slowly seeped back in.


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Posted by: Haraldur
Haraldur conjured up a flaming sword, still burning under the water, causing steam to rise in bubbles.

He slashed it at a kraken many times, leaving it in singed slices.

It could be noticed that he was not breathing, despite the huge amount of activity. It was not necessary.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday December 24th, 2004

(That archive script sure comes in handy. Heh...)

Lars continued walking, coming to the outer reaches of the forest. This mode of transportation was clearly too slow. He shouted back to Frost and Bite:

"If we are to arrive in due time, we need to hurry..."

A red aura appeared around the shrouded man as he levitated a few inches above the ground. At once he burst down the path, flying just above the ground, kicking up great amounts of dust as he went. He speed was only 30 MPH or so, but it beat walking. He glanced behind him to see if his two mercenaries had enough magic power to keep up.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday December 24th, 2004

Frost and Bite ran to keep up with Lars, they were pretty fast for people with no magic speed and carieing weapons and armor.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 24th, 2004

Zeros' quickly sheathed his sword and thrust both his palms forwards. Two balls of glowing blue energy started small as a baseball at first, but quickly grew. Zeros' cocked back both his palms and clenched his hands into a fist and turned towards Haraldur's direction and towards the Kraken and threw both balls with a side-arm pitch, weaving past Haraldur and hitting the Kraken in the sides of the head.

The kraken roared out in pain as the two ki balls connected with its head. causing a blinding flash. When the flash disappeared, the kraken stood there with pieces of his scales falling off and floating up towards the water, blood seeping out of the now enlarged wounds that the ki blast and sword slices made.

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Above the water, Kami-ryu stood on a tree above the battle ground with a smile.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday December 24th, 2004

Haraldur stuck his hand into the kraken's head, and ripped out its brain. He then killed a second one in a similar fashion.

20 evil creatures left. //You can choose what they are.//

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Friday December 24th, 2004

//Nyah ha, I'm back! =P//

Armic, who had his head pointed downwards at the time, brought his hea back up and looked at the trio that stood before him.

"Mm... I have no desire for riches, but, youwill fufill ANY desire of mine if I comply?What must I do?" Armic said, with a sly grin on his mug.
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Nevina breathed a sigh of relief as she exited the evil black cloud, and her vision began to return.
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The cloud starts to dissapate....

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday December 25th, 2004

Zeros' sent a mental message to Haraldur.

Don't use too much power. The energies could cause a chain reaction with the weapons, casuing a hell of a strong burst of ki and magical energies. Maybe as strong as the blast that destroyed Romme a month ago.

Zeros' took out his sword and split it into its 7 foot long, 1 foot thick form, splitting it into two swords, while the appearance remained the same. He flapped his six wings and used the water ki to propell himself forwards into the group.

Zeros' was met with heavy resistance as he tore into the group, killing a smaller kraken with ki induced strikes towards various points with presencion. He was forced to block as the strikes of what looked like Jayce's draken form, but more serpantine and blue scaled attack him.

Zeros' fought with him for awhile and landed various strikes on his arms, chest and stomach, but he shrugged off the blows. He threw a couple Yama-sen-ken into the crowd, killing three of the smallest monsters instantly.

Zeros' was forced to dodge again as the draken-like monster came at him with his claws and feet, forcing Zeros' on the defensive while he kicked at him.

16 left, 1 being engaged.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday December 25th, 2004

Haraldur told Zeros' telepathically, If it pleases you, but I would easily be able to escape if I knew what was going to happen, and to carry a couple of others.

Haraldur stepped around the draken-like thing, going behind it, and whispered something in its ear. A look of fear came over its face, before it collapsed, dead.

Haraldur then stuck his sword through the stomach of an aquatic demon, which died because of the poisoning. A second one attempted to hit him with his claw, but he dodged.

14 left, 1 engaged.

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Ellenna started to wake up.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday December 25th, 2004

Zeros' dodged to the left as two shark creatures flew past where he was. He clapped his hands in front of him and put the sword back in its sheath. Zeros' then clapped his hands in front of him and started to slowly move them away, a ball of ki forming in between his palms. He slowly started circular motions with his hands around the ki ball, expanding it and making it corse with energy.

Zeros' looked his head around back and forth before smirking at a small group of monsters. He quickly did another circular motion, causing the ball to pulse with energy and then threw it at the group of smaller monsters. They looked shocked for a moment before they noticed the ball heading towards them. Three more monsters were obliterated.

11 left, 1 engaged.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday December 25th, 2004

(Gah, Lars and co. took off while waiting for Armic to reply. But we'll improvise, heh...)

Lars stopped short, dispersing the crimson aura. The silver haired one had caught up with the three and stood before them. Excellent, he's interested...

"It's quite simple, really. I need backup for a little... operation. It's a raid of sorts. There is... a certain thing I require in the fortress of Redvik of the former Dark Empire. Since the fall of the empire, I'm certain the former chief of the fortress has commandeered what military was located there for his own personal uses. So it is likely to be heavily guarded. I simply need a few good men to aid in its infiltration. If you enjoy a good battle, I promise you will not be bored..."

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday December 25th, 2004

"Ack, sounds fun, as long as we aren't stopping the Armegeddon, or anything... " Armic said, rather gruffly.
"Do we 'ave all we need, or must we seek more... (Armic looks suspciciously at the people surrounding himself)... individuals?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday December 26th, 2004

Haraldur slashed off the head of the demon, killing it. He then said some words in a strange language, to the monsters, and all but 4 fled.

He killed a kraken by making it choke on its own ink.

3 left.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday December 26th, 2004

Lars nodded to Armic.

"Excellent... The three of you shall do. Though we are likely to meet much resistance, they will be weak and undisciplined. Come, we've no time to lose."

Lars levitated a few inches above the ground once more and began to speed northward along the path, his cloak blowing in the wind...

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday December 26th, 2004

//Need to come around here more often. Merry XMas.

Xenai spit down through the hole in the floor, and looked at Seijin. "What's this New whatever yer talkin' about?"

"Well, it's-" Suddenly, Seijin vanished, right there and then, within an instant. That couldn't have been good. Well, not for them.

"Uh..." Zion stared at the empty spot and binked a couple of times. "Crap. I suppose we have to find him. But we can't do it right now... We got some weapons to find... Xenai, where's Zero Weapon?"

"Beats me." Xenai shrugged. "What's it matter?"

Zion scratched his head. "Well, I felt a dark, suspicious energy in Laus... I don't want him getting ahold of it."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday December 26th, 2004

Zeros' unsheathed the Masamune again, leaving it whole. He vanished from sight and reappeared directly behind them. Zeros' looked at the monsters and smiled. He cocked back his arm again and slashed in an upwards arc, using his ki to obliterate the last 3 monsters. He twirled his sword and smirked to Haraldur.

What now?

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday December 26th, 2004

Now, we find the weapon, it is around here somewhere. You would probably have the best idea what we are looking for. All the other creatures will not be returning here anytime soon. This Haraldur told Zeros' telepathically.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday December 27th, 2004

Zeros' looked around briefly in all directions. Trying to sense where the weapon went. Zeros' dropped to the seafloor and started walking towards the northeast.

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Above the sea, Kami-ryu took a deep breath before jumping into the ocean and swimming in the same direction Zeros' went.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Monday December 27th, 2004

Lars lead the small group to a river, with a forest on the opposite side. The trees were visibly more twisted and decayed than those previously passed, and the forest and even sky was darker...

"Beyond this river is the beginning of the land that was once of the Dark Empire. A month ago, this border would have been heavily patrolled."

He crouched to the ground and sprang up, performing a massive bound over the 20 foot wide murky river, landing on the other side. He turned and looked back over the river, waiting for Frost, Bite, and Armic to cross.

On the northern horizon, past the forest, a dark fortress loomed...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday December 27th, 2004

Haraldur followed Zeros'.

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Posted by: Cesque on Monday December 27th, 2004

"Oh cool, you guys, the way's clear." - said Cheetah cheerfully (altough it sounded a bit more like roar due to his form change), then dived, following Zeros.

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Kismet looked at Armic and the prophet departing.

"Oh well." - he told himself. - "Better not anger them now."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday December 27th, 2004

"My head aches..." said Ellenna, clutching her head.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Monday December 27th, 2004

Armic stared at the disgusting river, and knew he couldn't make the jump.

He raised his head, and looked at the land next to Lars, and focused upon it.

After a few seconds of staring at the patch of dirt, Armics body faded away, feetfirst, leading up to his head. You could see the particles of his body flying through the air, as pure energy. The energy gathered next to Lars and reassmilated, forming an Armic.
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Nevina was now completely out of the Fog, and she turned around, facing it. It was starting to clear out, and she could actually see into the cloud a small way.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday December 27th, 2004

//Yikes, sorry for being away, Aww, I missed out on all the action <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> , oh well, I'll improvise why he was gone//

When the monsters arive, one of them smacked him and he started to barrle roll away...

He gained control again, and shook his head a few times, he then starts to follow Zeros' and Haradular.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday December 28th, 2004

(Shall I just assume Frost and Bite are following us? Heh, don't worry, things are going to get interesting for the Lars group in just a few posts...)

The cloaked man continued into the depths of the twisted dark forest, walking this time. It was just a short while until they arrived on the other side. Before them lied an open field with tall yellow grass. A winding path lead up a shallow hill. At the very top was the fortress known as Redvik. It was a bleak building, with tall brown walls encasing a small outer town. At each corner there was a guard tower.

Lars lead the group up the dirt path, straight up to the closed metal gate of the outer wall. The doors were much bigger up close, possibly 40 or 50 feet high. The clocked man banged on the doors with his fist.

The response was quick, since they were easily spotted from afar in the open field. The door creaked open slightly, and a soldier peered out, still in the old battle armor of the Dark Empire.

"What'd ya want?"

Lars responded eloquently, "We are mere travelers seeking to rest for the night. We were wondering if you could accommodate us?"

"King Wallace doesn't want any foreigners in his city. Get lost!"

"King? ... I insist you reconsider. You see, we bring gifts..."

"Huh? ... Hold on. I'll go check."

The door slammed shut.

Lars folded his arms and leaned against the door, a smirk emerging from under his hood as he turned to his group.

"We'll progress as far as we can quietly. I doubt that will be very far, however... Hmm, I never did catch your names, did I?"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday December 28th, 2004

Zeros' stops his stroll underwater and looks around curiously. He looks behind and notices Cheetah, Kami-ryu, Haraldur and Duilin still behind him.

It's here. Zeros' points to the ground while sending a message to Haraldur. Zeros' slams his palm into the ground, shaking the ground violently. After a few moments, the ground collapses to reveal a pair of ornate covered doors surrounded by an invisible bubble. Zeros' walks down the stairs and into the bubble, which surprisingly allows them to breath.

The stairs descend at least 20 feet into the ground, lined by torches where the door sits, decorated in the purest gold, gemmed with sapphires, emerals and rubies along the sides.

Near the right of the left door, theres is a depiction of a man in a cloak, surrounded by six weapons (Guess what they are?), holding a ball of darkness above his head. Behind him, there is a great mechanical machine ready to strike at any moment. Above him, the draken form of Jayce floats while Xenia is below him, looking towards the right door.

Near the left of the right door, there is a depiction of a image that looks like Zeros' holding out his sword, split in both forms, with two wings extended. Above him, Haraldur from one month ago is hovering above him and towards the ground, Tsu is looking at the machine with his sword.

Along he edge of the left door, each other warrior that formerly worked for the Dark Empire stands there ready with there weapons or magic at ready. While along the edge of the right door, everyone that fought against the Dark Empire, weither on Romme's side or not, stands everyone else with there magic, weapons or transformations at ready.

Zeros' looks at this and laughs.

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Kami-ryu sees this and goes up for air before returning downwards and swimming towards the stairs that appeared.

//The reason Zeros', Retan, Xenia, Tsu, Haraldur and Jayce are explained are because if I remember correctly, they were the main ones in the last parts of Chapter 3's last battle.\\

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday December 28th, 2004

//In fact, two parts of Haraldur were there: the younger Haraldur and Ragnar.//

Haraldur looked at the pictures with amused interest, before carrying on.

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Posted by: Trent on Tuesday December 28th, 2004

//That's "Xenai", not "Xenia." No biggie, though. Jus' type it right next time.

Xenai turned around and looked at the hole in the cloud. "Come to think of it, it's about time I should reprogram the Zero Weapon... It was supposed to work only for the Dark Empire, and the Dark Empire is now gone. Which means it is now hostile to everything."

Tsu gulped. "We're going to actually go FIND that thing?"

"Yep, we are," said Xenai, "and we're gonna fight it too, 'less you aint got the balls." Xenai jumped through the hole and took off toward where his gut feeling said the Zero Weapon was. Zion jumped out and followed a foot or two behind, and Tsu would hesitantly bring up the rear.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday December 28th, 2004

Duilin walks down the stairs and the looks at Haradular and Zeros'.

"What's going on?" He asks, he then spots the pictures.

"Whoa, I wonder who did those. They didn't really capture my hair right, and the yellow in my eyes are abit to bright." He laughs

I wonder if they'll have more pictures like this. For some reason I want to find more about Nex

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Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday December 29th, 2004

Cheetah follows Zeros, and amazingly suddenly realises he has trouble moving on land in his water drake form.

"Oh well." - he thought and turned into humans, catching a deep breath of air.

"What the heck...?" - he asks himself, looking at the depiction.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday December 29th, 2004

The soldier entered the dining hall. It was a complete mess, broken dishes, half eaten food spralled across the long table. There was only one man sitting at the end. He was rather plump and gruffy, with a scraggly beard and dingy clothes, gnawing on a chicken leg like a dog.

The soldier saluted.

"Sir Wallace!"

"Idiot!"

The soldier was promptly smacked with a chicken bone.

"I'm the KING of Redvik now!"

"Ermh... yeah..."

Wallace, the former overseer of the weapons development facility deep within the fortress, had taken over the entire establishment, naming himself king when the Dark Empire fell.

"What'd ya want?!"

"Some people want to be let into the city. They say the bring gifts..."

"People? What people?"

"A man in a black cloak, a sliver haired man, and two weird knights in blue armor..."

"Huh? Yeah right! Tell 'em to get lost! That's the oldest trick in the book!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Dolt! That's sire! Or majesty! Or something..."

"Ermh... yeah..."

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The door creaked open again, the soldier peering out.

"No. Go away!"

"That's a shame..."

Lars grabbed the soldier by the collar and ripped him from the doorway, throwing him on the ground behind him. With the other hand, Lars reached into his cloak and produced his broadsword, which he proceeded to ram through the soldier's flimsy armor. The shrouded Lars then propped the massive door open, motioning a polite bow to his mercenaries as he extended his arm to the open doorway.

"Coming?"

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday December 29th, 2004

Armic smiled. "I'm Armic a'Kahrr, by the by..."
He admired Lars quick desposal of the incompitant infidel, and followed, making sure to stomp on the dead soldier.

Armic walks into the room, grabs an uncooked (yet half-eaten) chicken leg from the table, guzzles the small amount of blood leaking from it, and then stands by for Lars' orders.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday December 29th, 2004

"Yes sir." Frost replied to Lars
"Sure thing boss." Bite replied

They entered the building.
"So we gonna get to iceing people?" Bite asked, raiseing his Ice Thrower. Frost placed his hand on the handle of his Ice Sword, prepareing to swipe it out on Lars' comand.

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Duilin looked at Cheetah as he entered. He then looked back at the picture.

"Yes, very interesting. I say we should probally find the weapon." He subjested

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday December 29th, 2004

//If someone grabs the next weapon, make sure there is something standing in the way. It would only be fair. The only reason I didn't put anything up for the first weapon was to set the story going. Looks like it works.\\

Zeros' smirked and entered the building.

Inside, is a giant shrine. The length is a massive 500 feet in length, shined to perfection. If one could, the would be able to eat off the floor. The heigth is around 200 feet, which extended with a dome shape. On the roof, there is another depiction of the battle one month ago. On the left walls were pictures of past Dark Empire rulers, while on the right were the rulers of Romme. Momuments for the other three countries can be seen, but they are not as spertacular.

Every 10 or so feet, a giant pillar reaches up to the dome to support the huge shrine. The room is lighted in an eerie way, with no visible light sources.

From the door to the back, a red carpet is laid out, streching the entire 500 feet. At the end of the path, there is a gaint altar decorated with gems, golds and silvers that are shined to perfection.

Floating slowly ontop of the altar is an ornate covered staff made of pure gold with an outcroping that elongates into a C shape with a circular sapphire floating in the middle for the head of the staff. From there down, the staff is perfectly cindrical slowly thinning into a point that floats above the altar about 3 inches.

"There it is. That's the legendary staff. We already have the sword and spear. I fear they won't be easy to get a hold of, especially because of Lars and his group, not to mention the others." Zeros' said while slowly walking forwards, his six feathered wings pointed outwards.

"These are the Dark Empire's rulers." Zeros' gestures to the left side of the room. "As you can see, some one keeps track of all this. The Romme rulers are on the right side." He said while gesturing to the right. Kami-ryu took this all in shock and awe as he slowly followed his master.

"I fear that the ones that are on neither side could determine who wins the power struggle. And also who has the weapons, but those alone are not enough." He said as he looked towards his companions.

"I should also mention that this space lives inside a pocket deminsion. A place that exceeds the boundries of our world and the laws of time and space." He said with a smirk.

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday December 30th, 2004

"Weird." - said Cheetah. - "Very weird. One who made this place must have been totally insane..."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday December 30th, 2004

//I thought Retan founded DE...//

Haraldur turned to Cheetah and said: "Yes, he probably was. He also created the weapons, if you must know, at the same time. He was my father, the god Melkoth. He used to control the whole world, and before he was defeated by his enemies he forged six weapons to help continue his legacy..."

He ignored the shocked faces of some around him.

"Are you taking it Zeros', or do you think another should?"

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday December 30th, 2004

(Yeah, Retan technically founded the "Dark Empire", heh...)

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"Right now."

The foursome found themselves in the guard room inside the outer wall surrounding the fortress. Some ten guards burst through the door before them.

"Looks like the quiet way is out the window..."

Lars began a mad dash at the enemies, the sword out to his side glowing a faint red.

"Follow me! We haven't the time for these insects!"

He proceeded to perform a huge leaping horizontal slash, sending four of the guards airborne, colliding into the wall behind them. Lars then broke through the door, which lead to the inner town, and took off down the path, heading straight for the main fortress at a full run.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday December 30th, 2004

//Well even if Retan technically "founded" the Dark Empire, that doesn't mean he hadn't passed the throne time to time...Heh.\\

Zeros' shook his head. "No. I already have two of them. One of you guys should take them. Iduran's sword is already bonded with my flesh." Zeros' looked towards the staff and shook his head back and forth.

"I had a feeling there was more to you then meets the eye Haraldur. Heh..."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday December 30th, 2004

//Hey, can I decied were the next weapon is? I got an idea!//

Duilin pondered for a moment, weather or not he should take the staff.
No...not this one...

"I think Haradular should." Duilin subjests

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Frost took out his sword and pick axe, incase anymore soilders attack. He ran following Lars' on the guards swung his sword at him, but he block the attack, he stabed the guard with his sword and then swung his pickaxe behind the guards shoulder and then pulled him foward with it, he then pushed the dead guard back and started following Lars. Bite followed Frost, and started running backwards and shooting away at 2 of the guards chaseing him. The two were frozen soilded, they'd die withen a few minutes. He turned around and continued following his brother, following Lars.

3 guards left

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday December 30th, 2004

"God... Melkoth?" - Cheetah said. - "Yeah, I fit pretty well in this team. Two demons and a son of god."

"And you'd better be careful with these weapons... I have evil feelings about this place." - he added.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Thursday December 30th, 2004

Armic was a tad angered by the sudden change in plan, but he liked the chaotic method better than the peaceful way. He looked around him, and as the soldiers began to close in on him, he resonated a black glow. His shadow had disapeared from the ground and engulfed him, forming a black tint all around him.
It was merely an amusing trick, but the soldiers were of a supersticious type, and they backed up from him in fear. He motioned for a soldier to move out of his way, but the soldier was fear-stricken. Armic drew his Cursed long sword and decapitated the man, holding the head in his hand, and beckoned the men off as he followed Lars out of the room, in a slow walking pace, quite over confident in himself.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday December 30th, 2004

"Well...lets see...I'm the son of a demon and an angel, Haraldur's the son of an ancient god, Duilin's a daemon, Cheetah's a shapeshifter that, with enough power, can copy any form and Kami-ryu is a ninja with metal limbs and a cloak that can change shape..." He counted off.

"But I agree with Duilin on who should pull the staff. Haraldur seems the best choice, considered his usually means." He said nonchalantly. "If were lucky, we'll be able to get all the weapons before anyone else can and dispose of them."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday December 30th, 2004

"OK, then. I will take it. However, be ready for something to happen: in the majority of cases, my father liked to have guardians for his treasures."

Haraldur walked up towards the alter, and pulled the staff away, backing away quickly.

Where the staff was there was a flash of flame, revealing itself to be a Balrog, a spirit of fire, a servant of Melkoth.

"Of all the chances we have to have this now..."

//When in doubt, plug in Tolkien. As well as the Balrog, there is Melkoth (Melkor + Morgoth). I love being cheap.//

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday December 30th, 2004

// I knew the name "Melkoth" sounded familiar <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> //

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday December 30th, 2004

Zeros' stepped forwards and vanished with his emense speed and reappeared by Haraldur's side. Kami-ryu was back by Cheetah and Duilin.

"So...a Balrog? Interesting..." Zeros' commented as he pulled out his sword, willing it to transform. Zeros' held the sword forward in his right hand, pointing at the chains at the fire spirits neck. His sword slowly took on a bluish haze as he gathered his ki, using his sword as a catalyst. The aura slowly conensed around the sword as tendrils of blue flowed around it, lashing wildly in the air.

"Let's get it on." Zeros' swiped his sword at the creature. The blue aura left his sword as a crecent shape flew outwards and struck towards the Balrog. It roared its flames and the crescent lessened before dissolving.

Meanwhile, Kami-ryu calmly flipped his wrist towards the creature as five kunai flew outwards from his hand towards the creature, surrounded by the same bluish glow. The balrog extended its hand and clenched the kunai beneith its huge hands.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday December 30th, 2004

"Holy crap!" Duilin yells, he jumps up into the air, dose a back flip and lands down on the ground

I like these wings.

Duilin closes his eyes for a few seconds, he then opens them, and they are glowing yellow, like they were when he first revealed his deamon form.

He then raised his hand pointing toward the Balrog, he then blasted a fireball at it.
The Balrog didn't even flinch (You know, fire vs. deamon, no use). Duilin then made a stupid look, noticeing his stupid idea. He then took out his new mallet and then jumped into the air, his feet pointing at the Balrog, but as soon as he came closer to it he swung his mallet infront, flipping him over and smacking the balrog right in the chest, the creature roared in pain, and smacked him away, he flew back a few feet and slid on the ground a few feet more, he droped his mallet as he hit the ground, it layed there a few feet away from him.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 31st, 2004

Zeros' sheathed his sword and vanished from sight. He reappeared right behind the Balrog's head and forced hundreds of open palm strikes down on his cranium. The beast roared in pain as it flew several meters, landing on its stomach with a halt.

Zeros' touched the ground gracefully and tunred on the monster, only to see it expand its flaming aura as it charged at Zeros'. Zeros' grinned and avoided the blows while casually hitting the monster when he saw an opening.

Kami-ryu clasped his hand together in front of him before slowly spreading them and then slamming them into the ground, causing tendrils of energy to shoot out towards the Balrog. Kami-ryu smiled inwardly when the ground started to crack with each step the monster took. He also noted that the aura expanded to its maximum, no longer able to keep its control.

Zeros' thanked the ninja and unsheathed his sword and launched a barrage of Yamasen-ken blades at the Balrog. The monster dodged as the blades caused gashed in the marble floor to grow. Zeros' sheathed his sword and stood firm, waiting for the monster.

The monster blinked, but kept charging. Zeros' smiled as he pulled back his right arm and uppercutted in a corkscrew motion.

"HIRYU SHOTEN HA!" The clash of temperatures immediately made a giant tornado fueled by the hot ki the Balrog poured out. The monster didn't have time to react as the tornado grew larger in diameter and sucked the monster into its clutches while absorbing the hot ki.

It felt like hours watching the tornado, but it only took moments before the ki tornado disappeared and the monster hit the ground, a web of cracks and a slight crater.

"It's not over yet." Zeros' stated. Sure enough, the Balrog got to his feet and roared while expanding his aura out again to full. Althought if one looked close enough, the aura was slightly smaller.

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Posted by: Cesque on Friday December 31st, 2004

Cheetah began transorming to the ice serpent form.

"FIRE IN THE HOLE!"

Standing back not to get too burned, Cheetah breathed out a stream of cold air which clashed against the flame aura of Balrog. Angered demon turned in his direction and began charging at him.

"Not good."

Still standing firm, Cheetah went on with the cold attack trying to slow Barlog's progress a little, and then, when the beast was pretty close, he tried to jump to the side.

It didn't worked too well in his serpent form - the burning leg of Barlog stepped at the tip of his scaled tail, causing fire damage. Cheetah screamed with the pain which was enough to turn him back to human form and ducked to his right, banging his head on the floor as the beast went on charging, a bit confused, waving it's muscular arms as if trying to fend the intense cold from ice serpent's attack away.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday December 31st, 2004

Haraldur said: "If you cannot breathe underwater, hold your breath now."

From his left hand large shards of ice as big as your arm flew forth into the Balrog, and from his right a huge rush of water came, pushing him slowly backwards. It covered the monster.

Due to these attacks, the Balrog only had a little flame left, but its body of shadow and darkness was unharmed, and it would still survive after losing its flame.

"We need to completely quench the flame so it does not reignite quickly."

The water was already up to his knees.

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Ellenna said "I think I must be blind, where is everybody?"

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday December 31st, 2004

Duilin saw the water quickly raise, above him. He then started to fly to the top of the room above the water. He watched the Balrog's flame die...

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Posted by: Cesque on Friday December 31st, 2004

Cheetah, still in pain, turned back to water drake form and with his tail smash formed a tidal wave that clashed on Barlog.

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"Everybody?" - Kismet heard voice of Ellena and looked around, noticing her. - "No idea. The dark priest left along with the prophet. I don't think they were going to have a coffee so expect them to cause mess somewhere else."

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday December 31st, 2004

"Uh... sir..."

"WHAT?!"

"In... intruders..."

The soldier meekly pointed to the dining room window. The fat man broke away from his meal and wobbled to the window, which overlooked the paved road that lead though the town to the main fortress. A man in a black robe was running straight towards them, seemingly wrapped in flame, smacking random soldiers and bystanders out of the way with his sword.

"Idiots!! Kill them! KILL THEM!!"

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Lars made his way down the street, striking down anyone who so much happened to be standing in his way.

"This is... ridiculous... Perhaps I should... no it's too early..."

He stopped in front of the huge metal doors of the main fortress. These made the doors of the outer wall look like a broken wooden gate... Hmmm...

About twenty soldiers, armed with various weapons, poured from the subsidiary buildings on his right and left side, completely surrounding him with his back to the doors. He was alone, since his mad dash had lead him to the fortress ahead of the others...

Lars held his sword with both hands above his head, a faint crimson aura engulfing his body and blade. No one moved...

"Gentlemen... would one of you happen to have the key to this door?"

An authoritive soldier pushed his way through the crowd.

"How did you get in here? Is there anyone with you?"

The man stepped too close... In a red flash, the soldier was severed in two, diagonally across the chest. Lars' sword was now pointed towards the ground. Bits of armor clanged upon the stone street.

"I asked but a simple question..."

A sinister smirk flashed from his shadowed face...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday December 31st, 2004

Kami-ryu saw the water and quickly made two claws appear on both his hands and started scaling the nearest pillar.

Zeros' stood firm. He watched the water slowly quench the flames. He cocked his right arm back and slowly heat started to build in his hand, making it glow a faint red. He grinned and punched outwards towards the Balrog.

"HIRYU SHOTEN HA REVISED! HORIZONTAL STRIKE!" A tornado immediately flew outwards from his fist and went straight towards the Balrog, taking any water near it and crashing into the Balrog.

The water clashes and immediately freezes then dissolves back into water.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Friday December 31st, 2004

Armic eyed the group of Soldiers, and spotted one with a ring of keys hanging from his belt.
Perhaps YOU know where we could obtain the key, Sir?" Armic said viciously as he turned to face the soldier.
The head Armic was holding began to pump and bulge at random parts of it's skull, it opened it's mouth wide.
Armic tossed the head onto the key-barring soldier, and it began to devour the mans flesh as he screamed in grotesque horror.
The other soldiers backed away, fearing the head would leap upon them.
Armic quickly snatched the keys from the dead/dying ma, and tossed them to Lars.
"Try the different keys. One of em' is bound to open the door."

Armic seemed to go into a daze, his eyes went blank, and his hair flailed upwards from his head. He opened his mouth wide, showing his vampiric teeth as he devoured the souls of the fallen Soldiers.
[Armic retains his Level 2 status]-(He requires souls to keep his abilities)
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The dark cloud has now completely vanished
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Nevina watched as the cloud dissapeared, and now she could see Kismet and Ellenna in the distance.

She ran over to Ellenna to re-group,

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Posted by: Trent on Friday December 31st, 2004

//Oi! I REALLY need to come around more often.

Xenai stopped, waited for a minute, and pointed straight down. "There." He was above the ocean.

Zion and Tsu stopped behind him. Tsu asked the first question. "Why don't you just summon it?"

"And risk him stomping through the planet killing everything in sight? I don't think so. Let's go." Xenai started to drop, and Zion stopped him. "Wait."

Xenai whipped around, irritated at Zion. "What the hell is the goddamn holdup?!"

"I have an idea... Start without me. I'll be back in about... 1 hour."

"1 hour? Are you (Editor: Censored)in' nuts?"

"Maybe." Zion took off in the opposite direction.

Xenai looked to Tsu. "Looks like it's just you an' me." He dropped into the ocean.

Tsu gulped, and followed.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday December 31st, 2004

Frost and Bite were right behind Armic. Bite then warned off a few soilders with his gun, as he back steped towards the door, standing a few feet away from Lars'. Frost was following him, warning off a few soilders with his weapons aswell. "Nobody, make a move, or, uh, you'll end up, like, uh, that guy." Frost ordered and pointed to man who was attacked by the head.
"We got ya covered boss." Bite said to Lars.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 1st, 2005

Haraldur saw that the flames were quenched, and they would not reignite for hours.

He sucked up the water from the same hand as put it there, his right hand. From his left hand a bright light started to fill the room, causing the Balrog to back away in pain, obviously a little weakened.

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Ellenna said: "Hi, who are you? I think I must have been hit on a head by something in the dark..."

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday January 1st, 2005

Cheetah, weakened, turned back to human form and stood back, watching the ongoing offense on barlog.

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"I'm Bond." - Kismet answers. - "James Bond."

//When in doubt, plug in James Bond. As well as Bond's quote, there is Kismet (Goldfinger + Scaramanga). I love being cheap.//

And after these words, Kismet looked weirdly at Nevina.

"I mean, honestly... you're having some trouble with memory? My name is Kismet. I'm the one who began the brave assault on that evil sorceror or priest or whoever he was, you know."

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday January 1st, 2005

Lars caught the keys with one hand, examined them, and choose a longer one with a bluish tint. He calmly inserted the key into the hole, turning it. It worked, the very first one he tried...

"See now, that wasn't too hard."

He pulled the huge door open, walking inside.

A gruff voice barked from a window high above:

"IDIOTS!! Kill them! KILL THEM ALL!!"

The soldiers snapped out of their dumbfounded trance, raised their weapons, and made a dash at the intruders, about five rushing at each one.

Lars barely stepped into the main fortress hall when he noticed this, turning around without warning with a glowing left hand. He fired a quick crimson ball of flame into the group coming at him, which exploded on impact with the three nearest soldiers, sending two airborne flaming bodies right back out the door, and a third into the wall on his right.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Saturday January 1st, 2005

"Fools! May the posessed head devour you all!"
The head, satisfied with the damage he did to the first man, killing him, lept onto one of the soldiers running towards Armic, and ate his face off.
It then continued to eat the man.
Armic drew his Cursed Sword once again and lept into the group of 4 approroaching him.
He raised the black sword to the sky, and it pulsed with energy. Armic brought it down, and with one arc of his blade, he smite 2 of the soldiers, dicing them in half at the torso.
Armic turned to face the remaining 2 soldiers, one who appeared to have gotten a slight gash from the blade attack.
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Nevina said to Ellenna jokingly, "I am God. Kiss my foot."
She quickly pulled her foot away, afraid Ellenna might actually do it.
"So uhmmm.... I think we better go after that... thing. It certainly won't be doing anything positive for the community, ecspecially with that other weirdo. We better get going.. Are you alright, Ellenna?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 1st, 2005

"Did you see how I hit him on the head? Then it was brown, brown, all brown..." said Ellenna, before falling unconscious again.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 1st, 2005

Duilin jumped back down onto the floor. He stood a far distance away from the Balrog.

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Bite, quickly reloaded his weapon with a new ice crystal. He then pulled the switch, to set it to rapid fire. He blasted ice beams at all five soilders, running at him.

Frost swung his Ice Sword at one soilder, sliceing him in the gut. He then swung his pick axe down at him, finishing him off and imedently swung it back at another soilder, causeing him to fly back, bleeding, landing on the 3rd soilder. He jumped down at the two, stabbing the 2nd one and the sword went threw all the way to the 3rd one, killing them both. The other two ran at him, Bite then helped out by freezeing one of them, the 5th one, was shocked as somebody beside him was motionless, and all blueish. Bite then swung his pick axe at the frozen soilder's head, causeing it to fall off and hit the other one in the head breaking his neck.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 1st, 2005

Zeros' raised his right palm upwards and started to gather energy. In an instant, a pinprick of blue energy started to form, tendrils shooting out in every direction as it expanded.

Kami-ryu, seeing this, decided to brace his feet against the pillar. He then jumped off and landed near where Duilin was. He then looked over towards Cheetah, who was father away.

"I suggest we move farther away." He then started jogging towards Cheetah with his hands behind his back.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 1st, 2005

"Good idea!" Duilin responded
Duilin then jumped all the way to Cheetah, with the help of his wings.
"Let's hope he dosen't get himself killed."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

The ball of energy instantly turned from blue to green to white to black then settled on red while expanding, while Zeros' chanted to himself.

"Darkness from twilight, crimson from blood that flows; buried in the flow of time..." The ball expanded and soon became the size of a baseball.

Keep him busy. This spell takes awhle to charge, Haraldur.

//When in doubt, rip of a popular anime series...\\

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

Haraldur jumped at the Balrog, pushing him to the floor, and the two of them grappled and rolled around, trying to strangle eachother, but failing.

Happy?

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Posted by: Cesque on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

"Now I'm fighting barlog. Ow ho ho." - said Cheetah, collapsing on his back, then holding himself on his arms, ending in sitting position on the cold, wet floor.

// When in doubt, throw in Die Hard //

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"Brown?" - Cheetah looked at collapsed Ellena. - "Not good. We should heal her, or take to the healer, or something..."

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

Lars quickly grabbed his blade with both hands, performing an upward slash on the nearest soldier, sending him flying into the air. He continued with a vertical leap, slashing at the airborne soldier and sending him crashing diagonally downwards, wrapped in flame, into a second solider. The crimson aura around Lars and his blade was slowly growing stronger...

"Quickly! We must make it to the lower levels. There'll be hundreds of them down our throats in a minute..."

He took off running deeper into the main hall. Slashing at random soldiers who stood in his way.

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Posted by: Kahn on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

Kahn got to his feet and saw Ellenna, Nevina, and Kismet in the distance. He started in their direction.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

Armic ran to the doorway after Lars, but stopped before he went down the stairs.
He turned around, swished his left hand index finger through the air, and the undead head's animation magick ceased. It fell down to his victims side, blood still running down from it's mouth.
Armic turned around again, and went down the stairs as soldiers ran after him.
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Nevina thought over it a bit. Brown she thought.

"Ellenna is a holy woman. That.... thing... is tainted with the curse of Qor. You can smell it on him. Ellenna came in close contact with him. Perhaps his curse is aling you. We must get her to a Holy temple so she may have the curse lifted from a higher being." Nevina said.

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Posted by: Cesque on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

"Holy Empire?" - Kismet asks. - "Where the hell is this? I'd sooner say we should take her to the headquarters of my believer group, the Milintica, and maybe the High Priest will be able to do something... At least it's on the same continent as we are."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

"...in Thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness! Those who oppose us shall be destroyed by the power..." The ball in Zeros' hand expanded even more while wild tendrils shot off in every direction as he became inveloped in a red aura. The ball now was the size of a basket ball.

Move!

"You friend really should get out of there..." Kami-ryu idly commented.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

Haraldur jumped away, keeping the Balrogs attention away from Zeros' by causing bright light to spring forth from him, making the Balrog flinch.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

Duilin took a few steps backward, he was standing beside his mallet he droped abit earlier, he leaned down and picked it up, and stood back up again.

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Frost and Bite followed the others. Frost swung his weapons at soilders that attacked him, knocking them away. Bite blasted his Ice Thrower at them, hitting the occanional soilder, but mostly scareing them off.

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

Tsu floated down and down and down with Xenai... Xenai snapped his fingers. The environment was changing now... It looked like some kinda warp... Xenai halted, feeling around for something. He touched a solid object, then feeling around a bit. He found a doorknob, which he twisted to open the door. He and Tsu walked in to see it.

The Zero Weapon stood right in front of them. Its eyes shot open.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 2nd, 2005

"...you and I possess! DRAGON SLAVE!!" Zeros' pushed his palm down as the globe expanded one last time, becoming bigger then Zeros' body as it flowed with red tendrils of energy (No, its not a fire spell). He thrust his palms forwards in the direction of the Balrog as it was distracted, sending a beam of energy towards it and impacting. For a brief moment, there was nothing, but silence. Then, the Balrog roared in pain as a red sphere extended from the point it was hit and in a flash of light, covered the entire room.

There was only silence as the light dimmed and the Balrog's body disappeared into nothingness, leaving the staff on the ground, undamaged. Zeros' then collapsed to one knee and wiped the sweat of his brow.

"Damn...that takes alot out of you." He said while pushing himself up.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday January 3rd, 2005

Haraldur picked up the staff, and he put it under his cloak.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday January 3rd, 2005

"Ok...we have 3 of the weapons. Where next?"

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday January 3rd, 2005

Duilin noticed something. That the tile on the floor were the mallet droped, seemed, removeable, and was a lighter color. He knelt down, and then lifted in up, from the floor, he turned it around, it was this strange drawing on a person pointing to his left, at the end of his hand was the number 7 in Roman Numerals,and there was a compass in the corner.

"Hey guys..." He said holding the tile. "I think found something..."

He rotated it, to the area, were he remembered was north, so the man was pointing west (I got that correct, right?)

He then looked west. And then back at the tile. "Seven..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday January 3rd, 2005

Zeros' walked over to where Duilin found the tile, as well as Kami-ryu. They both looked at the roman numerials then around then back.

"Either someone is playing a very good joke or this is too much of a coincidence." Kami-ryu said. Zeros' then turned his attention to Haraldur.

"You father wouldn't happen to have relations to the Norn Goddess of the Future, Skuld, would he?" Zeros' asked while stroking his chin in a contemplative manner.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday January 3rd, 2005

"My father created the future when he was in charge of the running of the world. In all likelihood, yes. He was also a womaniser. Who knows?"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday January 3rd, 2005

Zeros' shrugged. Then he looked at the tile in the floor. The "I" was pointing towards him while the "II" is pointing towards Kami-ryu and the "III" towards Haraldur.

"Ok...thats just unnerving." He said pointing towards each roman numerial.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Monday January 3rd, 2005

"Insects! Out of our way!!"

Another slash sent a soldier tumbling down the spiral staircase, crashing into several more who were on their way up. Another group of soldiers appeared behind, and began to climb over the bodies trying to get to the intruders. Clearly the stairwell was becoming too crowded.

Sword in hand, Lars leapt over the rail and fell down the open center a good hundred feet or so, crouching as he landed on his feet at the bottom. Some of the soldiers who were making their way up the stairs turned around, clumsily making their way back down in pursuit. As he stood back up, he thrust his left hand forward, sending a blast of flame into the closed wooden door before him, completely unhinging it.

They were effectively in the basement. On the other side of the door was a long dark hallway. But rather than a cold stone dungeon-ish environment as one would expect from looking at the exterior of the fortress, this area was well kept up, the wall seemingly made of metal, and a red carpet flowing forth down the hall.

"Hmmm... This must be it..."

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"WHERE?! Where did they GO?!"

The slovenly "king" appeared on a balcony that overlooked the first floor.

"They... seem to be making their way down stairs, sir..."

"Huh? They couldn't be after... that... !!"

"No way. We can't even start it ourselves..."

"Right! That means there's no way out! Hurry up, we'll trap 'em!"

"Indeed!"

"Gyah ha ha ha ha!!"

"Ah ha ha ha ha!!"

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Posted by: Trent on Monday January 3rd, 2005

"Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man!" Tsu was flipping out as the Zero Weapon stood up to its full height.

"Shut the hell up." Xenai glared at his creation as he pulled his huge sword out from nowhere, and slid into a ready stance. "This is what you do: Repeatedly attack one spot until the armor breaks, then go for the hull underneath it. That's the only way you can really damage it. I'd say to go for the chest armor... It's strongest there, but its core is under the armor."

Tsu was confused. "Shouldn't we attack the head instead? We don't want to destroy it, only to obey us. Its brain would be in the head, right?"

"Oh yeah, I'm sure it's just gonna obediently stand there while I, no longer with the Dark Empire, try to reprogram it. Attack the core and shut it down!" With that, Xenai leaped toward the towering demon's chest. Tsu gulped, and flew toward the chest as well.
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Zion returns in 10 posts.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 4th, 2005

Frost and Bite who were not to far behind from Lars, were just a few feet behind him.

"This is, it?" Frost says, steping beside Lars.

"What's, it?" Bite asks Lars


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"Is it, now is it..." Duilin says. "Well you see, the guy seems to be pointing east, but, not entirely at the seven, because his hand seems to pass it abit..."

Duilin then ponders for abit. "Seven, east..." Duilin then turns to Zeros. "Now what's all this talk about the future?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday January 4th, 2005

"Well, I think I have a few ideas. I was once in three, you were the first to claim a weapon with even an inkling as to its identity, and Kami-Ryu is your second."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday January 4th, 2005

Zeros' nodded at Haraldur's explination.

"So apparently each of these numbers make out a certain weapon." Zeros' said while tapping his foot and closing his eyes. "So if we follow these numbers we can find each weapon, right?" He said glancing at Duilin then to Haraldur.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday January 4th, 2005

"The advanced weapons development facility... I'm willing to bet what we're after is right down this hallway..."

Lars took off running once again, his feet clanging on the metal floor...

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 4th, 2005

"Advanced weapons development facility!" Frost and Bite both said, likeing the sound of that, the smiled at each other evilly and then ran off following Lars, there feet also clanging on the floor.

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"Yes, I supose so." Duilin responded. He then thought of the east part. "My old village was to the east! That means that a weapon must be there. I hope I'm right." He takes the tile and puts in in his inside pocket. "So, shall we go?" Duilin asks the group, almost dashing off.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

Haraldur said "Weren't there only 6 weapons?"

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Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

"Yeah?" - Cheetah added after Haraldur.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

"Wait..yeah....Hmmm...Seven, must mean something else then....or there is another weapon? But I think it might mean, 7 east, we have to do something 7 times in east? We have to go 7 miles east, or we have to take seven...steps east..." Duilin was pretty sure that his last guess was right. He steped back onto the empty tile space and took seven steps to the east...nothing.

"Hmm..." He then looked down "Ah ha! The tile is a different colour." He leaned down and lifted it up.

"It's a map...to ONE of the six weapons, by the looks of it, and I was right, it seems to go to my old village..."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

"Well, then. That should be our next logical stop. Lead the way."

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Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

"Yeah". - said Cheetah, standing up, having some trouble moving due to his slightly hurt legs. - "Anyone eager to carry me? You know, getting hurt by Barlog surely isn't any good for health."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

Duilin nods, the ditchs the old tile, because it's only weighing him down.

Duilin then runs off, half flying, up to the over ground...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

Zeros' disappears from sight and reappears near Cheetah.

"Need a lift?" Kami-ryu come up behind Zeros' and smiles. Zeros' then concentrates and expands a bubble of ki, enveloping both of his charges. He then crouches and jumps, flapping all of his six wings after the direction Duilin left in.

//Note: The bubble that Zeros' uses allows people who cannot breath, fly, hover ect. to follow Zeros' without having to do anything. Much easier then carrying someone.\\

"It's possible that the "VII" stands for something else..." Zeros' comments while flying behind Duilin.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

"It could be, but this is a reasonable guess."

Haraldur started flying after Duilin and Zeros'.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

"Hmm...I never thought of that...But it did lead me to the map, however...I could be just coincidental." Duilin replied...

"Okay, so, judgeing to this map were are going to need some of that extreme speed stuff going on, because judgeing by this rate we should arive there in about 1 month and a 15 days, I guess. Haradular, wish to help us out agian?" He says "I think I've gotten used to the extreme speed now."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

Haraldur picked up Duilin from the air and sped forward at such a rate as to take 3 days, so others could catch up.

"You direct, OK?"

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Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

Lars slowed his pace as he neared the end of the long hallway; yet another set of large metal doors... He stopped and looked behind him, waiting a second for Frost and Bite to catch up. He had apparently left Armic behind, as the silver haired necromancer was nowhere to be seen. Screams of agony from the stairwell behind suggested he was not yet finished with the soldiers-- a perfect distraction...

Lars took one more step towards the door, immediately the glow of two red eyes on each side of the door became apparent-- the eyes of two dragon-esqe statues, barely visible in the darkness. The statues were perhaps ten or twelve feet tall, each of a gray scaly winged lizard sitting on a pedestal. At once they sprung to life, each dashing to opposite sides of the trio, snarling as smoke emanated from their mouths...

Lars readied his sword, clutching it with two hands as he faced the beast on the right...

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

Frost spun his weapons in a circle, and Bite pulled the switch to it's 2nd highest setting (has 5 settings), they both faced the dragon on the left.

Bite then charged for a large blast and Frost knew exatly what he was thinking, he dove down on the ground, being a safe distance from the dragon, enough for it to put on some speed.

"Come here dragon!" Frost taughted, then raised his Ice Sword, pointing upward wile he was lieing on the ground, belly down. The Dragon then began to run at them, giveing a deep roar. "NOW!" Frost yelled

Bite then blasted a large beam at the Ice Sword, prisiming out of the blade, causeing the Ice Wall effect. The Dragon smashed right into the Ice Wall, spliting the wall and giveing it a spliting head ache...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

Zeros' smiled and immediately charged ki into his winds, breaking the sound barrier and disappearing from sight, immediately reappearing beside Haraldur.

"So what know?" He asked above the wind resistance. It sounded more like a shout then a question.

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Posted by: Cyber Wolf on Wednesday January 5th, 2005

//Eh.. I ended for Armic to have been following Lars the whole time. He'd followed for about 34 posts so I figured "Why bother repeating?". I'll play along though. Fighting the remaining soldiers sounds fun//

Armic hit the floor, did a spin kick, and knocked 4 soldiers to the ground, knocking their feet out from under them. He withdrew his staff, chanted and waved it through the air, and the floor turned to quicksand under the soldiers, too slow to get up, they were drowned in the floor, which hardened after they went under.

Armic then raised his blade, sliced another soldier in half, vertically, then after finishing the split, quickly ran the blade around, seperating another soldier from his legs.

6 down, 5 left
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"No, not to a Holy Place far away, just to a chapel of some sort..." Nevina said.

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday January 6th, 2005

"Cool, and thanks." said Cheetah and began checking the bubble walls in amazement.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday January 6th, 2005

"We follow Duilin's directions. I am speeding up now."

Haraldur accelerated so that they would be there in a few minutes (posts).

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday January 6th, 2005

"Okay, were not far now, just turn left when you get near that moutain and keep going that way untill we get near and then turn right!" Duilin derectes Haraldur.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday January 6th, 2005

"We go right when we get near to what?"

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday January 6th, 2005

"The beach! Sorry...Dude Man forgot to type that I said that." Duilin replies

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday January 6th, 2005

Zeros' smirks and accelerates even more, breaking the sound barrier and matching speeds with Haraldur easily.

"Ok so we turn right when were near the beach?" Zeros' spies a beach and starts banking right, heading towards the village.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday January 6th, 2005

Haraldur does the same, and lands a little way away from the village, about 100 metres away from the wooden wall around it, and drops Duilin onto his feet.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday January 6th, 2005

(Not much time today...)

Lars gripped his broadsword with both hands, a crimson flame circulating around it. He dove towards the beast. The dragon lashed with its left claw, which Lars parried before jumping and aiming a stab to its underside...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday January 6th, 2005

Zeros' lands nearby Haraldur and Duilin and released the bubble, causing Zeros' to fold his wings back in.

Kami-ryu looked around for a moment before smiling and walking ahead of everyone at a steadly, slow pace.

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Posted by: Trent on Thursday January 6th, 2005

Xenai let out ki-empowered yells with each slash of his great sword, making extremely forceful contact with the same spot over and over. After his stamina was zapped, he floated upward, shouting an order to Tsu. "Attack now, while the pressure's on it!"

Tsu flew in at maximum speed, executing the same technique he did to Kurayami X. "Kuon Suisei!!!" He pushed through as hard as he could, but he did not make even a crack. Tsu started slashing in a frenzy, and Xenai gave him a bit of energy to empower his slashes. But still, the armor seemed completely impenetrable.

With a swing of the Zero Weapon's arm, Tsu and Xenai were forced into invisible walls with inconcievable force. They were not dead, but Tsu was hit extremely hard, for his level of strength. "This isn't... good..."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday January 7th, 2005

The dragon blasted a river of flame, at the ice wall the brothers made. The wall melted almost instantly. The dragon then jumped at Frost who was closest to him, the monsters claws grabed him, and put him in lock. Bite then blasted an Ice Beam at the dragon's face, causeing it to flinch and drop Frost. The dragon then blasted another ball of flame, but it was derected at Frost. He saw the flame flying at him, and he threw his Ice Sword away, and his pick axe at the flame, but it didn't help, the pick axe, just flew back down, and the flame fell down on Frost..

Frost's armor was all burnt, and his skin was all dusty and black, he felt weak, with his last ownce of strenght he yelled "I HATE FIRE!" and then he passed out...

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The village was still busted up, nobody ever took the time to fix the damaged buildings, there were burnt buildings that look as if they have been like this for many years. The only sign of civilization was a metall shed and an old building that looked like a bunch of peices from old buildings nailed together.

"This place hasn't changed abit." Duilin says. He walks around the old buildings...

"Darion, a Dark Empire Commander, leaded an attack. They killed so many people, and took the rest that seemed worthy of liveing..." Duilin said softy

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"Somebody is here?" A rhaspy voice says

"Nobody has been here for 10 years!" A different deeper voice says

"Well it's about time some more people came, it's been getting pretty boreing..." Says the first voice again

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday January 7th, 2005

Zeros' walked up to Duilin and layed a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"I know how you feel. My village was burnt to the ground, the women and young girls raped then klilled. My brother, sister, mother and father were among those killed...I was the only survivor of the attack that day." Zeros' said as he remembered painful memeories. His eyes grew dark and a grimce passed his face.

"But that's not the reason were hear. We needn't retell painful memories of the past." Zeros' looked over to Kami-ryu, who has a similiar expression on his face as Zeros' had a moment ago. He was remembering how he was forced to slaughter the enemy clan and the one he loved. All for the sake of his clan. He wished he could go back and stop it...

"That's right." Kami-ryu said finally. "Were hear to find that weapon and stop there melevolent powers." Kami-ryu's cloak unwrapped, showing a 5 foot spear. The handle was made from a fine dragon hide, the shaft made of pure gold while gems lined the handle and base of the spear, a ruby studded in the very bottom. At the head, a 3-pronged silver spear crafted from the finest mithril shown in the sun's light.

"Now..." Zeros' said after a moment. "Where do you suggest we start?"

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Posted by: Cesque on Friday January 7th, 2005

Cheetah bowed down on the ground and vomited with full force.

"Blegh!" - he said. - "No more sound barrier crossing again!"

He then stood up and looked around. It surely wasn't looking good. He just hoped the rets know what they're doing.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday January 7th, 2005

Duilin rubed his chin, and then looked around the area. "I think we should check out those houses, they might have somebody in them." Duilin walks up to the one with, the parts of old houses. He knocks on the door. There are two voices talking and then finally somebody answers the door.

The man is bald, with the symbol of the Dark Empire as a tatto on his head, he is wearing bits of Dark Empire armor aswell, but not the full suit. He has a nose ring and there is a scar down his lip. He looks almost 40 years old, and was abit taller then Duilin.

"Yes?" Asks the man, in a rhaspy voice. (Like that werid voiced fat guy from Independence Day)

"Uhh...We're, um..." Duilin seems abit shocked that a man from the Dark Empire is standing right in front of him, stareing at him.

"What?! What?" He asks again, impatient with his hestation

"We're travellers, and we are looking for some sort of weapon, a map lead us here."

The man turns around, he seems to be talking to somebody else in the room
"Somebody here, is asking about *ahem* a, 'weapon'."
The person who is talking to says something Duilin couldn't quite make out.
"Sorry, your map must be wrong." He closes the door, and the sound of a lock is herd

"No luck..." Duilin says to the group

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Posted by: Trent on Friday January 7th, 2005

"Are you sure I'm fit for this?" Tsu was extremely weak from the hit that he took. The Zero Weapon didn't even hit them with the arm... The force just came from the shockwave that the arm sent out with its swing.

"No. But try anyways." Xenai tossed an elixir to Tsu, and started charging up Omni. "Drink that, and then gather some energy."

"Uh... Ok..." Tsu gulped down the elixir and started gathering energy.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday January 7th, 2005

"I think they are hiding something," said Haraldur, who went up to the door and kicked it in with one kick, then shouted "Do not be rude, there are rules on hospitality you know, you must offer hospitality to guests for at least three days, unless they damage you, but you have broken this law."

Haraldur picked up the bald tattoed man by his throat, and threw him so he landed in fron of Duilin. He then started to kick and punch and bash the man against the wall in a mad frenzy, in pure bloodlust.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday January 7th, 2005

Zeros' walked over towards where Haraldur was beating the man. He grabbed Haraldur's arms.

"No sense in him being dead Haraldur." Zeros' said. He sniffed his nose and wrenched when he caught a scent. He let go of Haraldur's arms and walked past. He stops in the darkness and mutters under his breath. Soon, a ball of fire formed in his palm and he froze.

Around the door, several other men stood huddled in the house. Most are older, around 30 to 40 years old, while one or two look to be about 16 or 17. Each wore pieces of blackened armor, all of which was donned by a cape that hung on the far wall with the Dark Empire symbol etched into it.

"Who are you people." He stated. Behind him, Kami-ryu looks on in mild interest.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 8th, 2005

Haraldur stopped beating the man up, and gave him to Duilin saying "You question him."

He then followed Zeros' in, and glared at the men inside.

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday January 8th, 2005

"Chill out, Haraldur!" - Cheetah said beginning to slowly realise he's in the middle of bunch of freaks trying to get a weapon of extreme potential.

"Please excuse this guy." - he said to other people sitting in the house.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 8th, 2005

"You didn't have to beat me up like that! Your trust passing!" The bald man said

"Your right, but we need to talk..." Duilin said to him, he knelt down to him "What's your name?"

"My name is Lash, who the hell are you?"

"I'm Duilin, an ex Dark Empire soilder, but now, I'm trying to find the 6 lost weapons, were are they?"

Lash coughed abit, he didn't want to get hurt anymore so he chose to tell him "We found one, you see that metall shed over there, it leads to an underground cave, we hid it down there. I wouldn't go down there, because the people who hid it down there never came back..." Lash coughed and hack again.

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One stood up, he looked older then the rest, he was a quite big person (Not as big as Darion) he had brown skin, dark hair, a scar along his eye, he held a large double bladed axe.

"We should be asking you that..." He spoke in a deep voice "But for arguments sake, we are the soilders that stade in this area, after we wiped out this city 10 years ago, we had many camps, but most of our men were killed, we served for the Dark Empire! We rule this land now. We will not harm you, only if your here to cause trouble, just state your reason of being, here, and we may talk of it."

"We can't trust them, they took Lash!" Yelled one soilder

"We will worry about him later...I think I know who these people are..." The Commander said

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 8th, 2005

"If you were once of the Dark Empire, then there is one of us whom you should remember, probably in infamy, unless you have a very bad short term memory."

He walked forward, and his appearance changed, to the crazed, dark appearance of Ragnar.

"You will cooperate, totally and with no trouble. Otherwise you are mine."

He then reverted back to his normal appearance, and stood beside Zeros'.

There was a look of fear and loathing on the faces of the ex-Dark Empire soldiers.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday January 8th, 2005

Lars's blade bored deep into the dragon's chest. It tore back in pain, smoke billowing out of the hole. In a roar, it countered with a massive ball of flame, which Lars caught with his left hand. He thrust his hand forward, sending the ball into the dragon's head. An explosion ensued, and Lars shielded his face, his cloak blowing back from the force. When it was over, no trace of the dragon was left...

Lars turned to his left, noting the injured Frost and the second dragon looming over him...

"Blast..."

Lars made a mad dash through the air at the beast, his glowing blade over his head in striking pose...

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 8th, 2005

The dragon was struck by Lars, drawing blood. It roared in pain, and then prepared to blast a large fire ball at him, but Bite quickly blasted the dragon in the mouth with his Ice Thrower, causeing his flame to explode in it's mouth, blowing it's head to peices, the dragon fell to the ground dead.

"No! Frost!" Bite cried after he killed the beast. Frost was out cold. "Boss...we gotta do something..."

//Frost will be inactive for awile//

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"We herd of the great battle that had the Empire fallen, yet we took no part in it." The Commander Said "My name is Commander Darak, I belive you must be the great Haradular, and Zeros', many stories have been told of you. Now, I'll admit my forces aren't strong since we have not been in battle for many years, so I have agreed to help you find the weapon down in the caves, in the metall shed..."

The soilders were so frightned of them that they said nothing, even the Commander was afraid, yet he did not show it...

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday January 8th, 2005

"You mean this freak is known worlwide?" - Cheetah asked Darak, ponting at Haraldur. - "And how do you know where the weapon is, anyway?"

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 8th, 2005

"Well, a month ago, the weapon flew this way,"Darak begins "it landed in the middle of town. We knew that soon somebody would be comeing for it, and we knew that the Empire must have fallen, so we hid the weapon down in the caves, the soilders that went down with never came back, they were most likely killed by monsters."

"Yeah..." Said Lash, getting up off the ground "They attacked us, and went down in them, so we built that metall shed, and locked it up, just to make sure they didn't get loose, we also, hide our, 'valubles' in there to..." He rubs hsi neck, for it is still hurting.

"Well we have to get the weapons, Darak." Duilin says "And your comeing with us."

"Very well, young deamon." Darak noded, and then looked at Lash "Lash! Your comeing to, but don't get in the way to much."

"Yes sir..."

Darak walked over to the metall shed, and unlocked the door, he looked inside. "It's clear...Well, come along..."

//No, Lash won't be become a main character, He's still an NPC, if you want to set him up to die go ahead, but Darak, might become more main, if things go cool//

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 8th, 2005

"Actually Cheetah, were probably all considered freaks to normal people..." Zeros' said with a hint of sarcasim in his voice. Zeros' shrugs and follows the ex-Dark Empire soldiers to the shed and down into the cave.

"Oh yes. Try anything and you die..." Zeros' said leaving his threat unfinished. All the soldiers gulped and nodded.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 8th, 2005

Darak chose to lead the way, since he had abit of an idea of what the cave was like. He climbed down the ladder, it has bite marks on it. Duilin followed, then Lash, then...umm...you guys, in whatever order <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> .

"I've slept in worse..." Duilin says (See Chapter 2 and 3) He arms himself with his mallet "I can hear something...."

"Keep your wit's about you!" Lash says (Heh, Frap says that in JOD)

Suddenly, a set of 25 rodents creep up, they groan at the group, they seem very hungry

"Those aren't small animals..." Duilin says, the rodents run at group, Duilin smashes his mallet down on one, breaking it's spine, killing the beast. "Save your energy guys, these buggers will be a piece of cake!"

(There about the size of a cat or something)

Darak slices one in half with his axe. And Lash takes out his wip and starts wipping away at few....

23 Rodent's left....

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 8th, 2005

Zeros' looks on at the rodents with interest before shrugging. He jerks his hand backwards suddenly, gathering a strange brownish, green glow, before he slams it into the ground, breaking the sound barrier and causing a crater and spider web of cracks to form outwards. This also causes a sudden earthquake, rocking the cavern as small rocks tumble to the ground.

"DUG HAUT!" The energy he gathered in his palm pulses outwards in an amazing arc of energy across the ground, rushing towards the rodents. Suddenly, giantic spikes stab upwards, catching 6 of the rats off guard before the spikes of earth pierce them through there chest,blood exploding out of the tops as blood slowly seeping down the spikes.

Kami-ryu calmly throws his hands forwards. 10 kunai materialize out of nowhere, stabbing two rats in the head, blood flowing down there faces as they sceamed out in pain.

15 Rodent's left...

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 8th, 2005

A rat jumps at Lashes faces, scratching him.

"YAAA!!!" Lash yells (it sounded werid with his voice) "Duilin, get it off me!" Duilin shrugs and then swings his mallet the rodent on his face, but it quickly jumps off, and the mallet hits Lash in the face, knocking him over...

"Ooops..." Duilin laughed, Lash didn't find it so funny...

//I just felt like posting that because it seemed funny <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> //

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 8th, 2005

Haraldur grinned at Cheetah.

"What, save my energy? Fine then."

He then pulled out the staff, it seemed to appear from nowhere. He held it in front of him in both of his hands, and rushed in front of the others. At the front, huge lightning bolts flew from the staff, killing the remaining rodents.

"That is just a taste of this weapon' power, my friends..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 8th, 2005

Zeros' shrugged and looked in Haraldur's direction.

"Are you trying to scare the guys spitless? We still need there help. Keep the destruction down to a minimum..." He said and started walking again. He stopped and looked towards Lars.

"Uh...where are we now?" Zeros' asked as Lash sweatdropped.

"Just follow me..." Lash grumbled under his breath. "Stupid daemons..."

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Posted by: Cesque on Sunday January 9th, 2005

Cheetah, not having too much chance to join battle because of his laziness and 2 post limit, made a short gesture with his hand devouring essence of one of the rodents - it looked perfect. Not too small, fast animal to transform into and run the hell away in case Haraldur plans something evil.

"All right. If you hid the weapons not trying to use them, I guess we can trust you." - he said, then followed Lash.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday January 9th, 2005

Lars lowered his blade and looked over the injured warrior.

"We need to get him out of here."

He turned to the thick metal doors blocking their way. Holding his weapon with both hands, he brought it to his right side, the tip pointing towards the doors. The sword began to flow with bright crimson energy. In a flash, he leapt at the doors with full force, attempting to thrust his blade into the crack in between the two doors and pry them open. He struggled for a bit, trying to force the blade in, but to no avail...

"Blast!"

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"Gwa ha ha!! We got 'em now!"

King Wallace ran into the stairwell, brandishing a sinister jagged sword, along with some fifty heavily armed soldiers. Many were Dark Knights, a slower yet much better equipped version of the common soldier.

The mini army stopped and gasped at the sight-- dead bodies strewn about the stairs leading down. Most obviously were not killed by something human...

"M... maniacs!!"

(For clarification, they're at the top of the stairwell. Not quite at the basement level where Lars and co. are at just yet.)

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday January 9th, 2005

Xenai stopped his charging. He then forced all the energy from Omni to the tip of his sword. An extreme force pushes in all directions, but to apply it to one spot and one direction, is that power times 360 ^ 3!

Xenai swiped the energy Tsu was charging by putting his hand on his back as he shot past, for an extra power boost, and charged toward the Zero Weapon, preparing for a Hirazuki (Thrust) with his massive Omni-charged sword.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday January 9th, 2005

Bite takes Frost's Pick Axe, and swings it into the crack between the doors, to open them.

"Toghther, now boss." Bite subjested

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"I think we are almost there now..." Darak says. "I told them to put it down in this old chamber..." They come across, a large stone door, it looks as though with medium efforet somebody chould push down the door.

"I got it!" Duilin says, he pushes at the large stone, and it then falls down to the ground, revealing an large room, with torches along the walls.

"I've been here only once before, we do not know how this room got here, but we chose to put it in here..."

"You know, I wonder how those Soilders died anyway..." Lash says

At the end of the room, is a large torch with yellow flame, under it is a large smooth stone with a mace on it, and a dead body lieing next to the stone.

"This must be it..." Duilin says, walking up the weapon, his hands prepare to pick up the glowing mace...the dead body's head turns to Duilin's lead, and it's jaw falls...

//Okay guys, I got some bad news. We wiped our hard drive, but apparently it lost the information of our modem and graphics card. I am useing the computer at my dad's house. We don't have the install disc for them, so I won't be able to get online. Maybe, my mom and older bro. fixed the computer. But if it dosen't, I won't be able to post much, so if so, I'll be setting all my charas to NPC status, so you guys can control them if I don't post in 3 days after today. It would be best if Xorlak controled Bite and the guys with Duilin controled him and Darak, you can leave Darak at the town however, just don't go messing up any mayjor details about any charas, Do whatever with Lash, he is just an NPC I made//

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 9th, 2005

"Necromancy." Zeros' whispered as he watched the dead body. "I knew it wouldn't be that easy." Zeros' turned to look at his companions.

"What should we do?"

"No idea..." said Lash. Darak nodded his head while Kami-ryu shrugged.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday January 9th, 2005

//This may be my last post for awile//

Duilin then grabs the mace, it shines it an aura as he lifts it..

"4 down 2 to go..." Duilin says with a grin...

The dead body then grabs Duilin's leg and bites, it...

"Holy shit!" He yells, his swings the mace at the zombie, smashing his head in, but the the thing still lives, suddenly from the shawdows, multipule zombies start groaning and makeing sickening noises. The headless zombie starts strangling Duilin. Duilin then shoves his hands into the zombie, and casts fire into the body burning the undead creature. Several more zombies, start crawling in from nowere surronding our heros.

Darak swung his axe at one sliceing it in half, but the top half just jumped up at him at started punching him in the face and the legs started kicking at him. Darak pushed off the necromancer, and sliced the legs apart makeing them imoble, but the top half grabed on to one of it's destroied legs and grabed Darak's leg with his other hand, and beating him with the leg.
39.5 Necromancers left...

//Well guys, you know the drill. I MIGHT be posting tomorrow, but I guess we shall have to wait and see. Well bye, guys <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sleep.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sleep.gif' /> ...//

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Sunday January 9th, 2005

//Sorry, changed comps and was net-less for several days//

Armic ran towards the door, threw his staff in the middle of the room as he exited, and behind him in the room, a large explosion accured, killing all the remaining soldiers. His staff then regenerated in his hand.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 9th, 2005

//Actually, Necromancy is an act of minipulating the dark arts of the Death along with anything of the sort. Nothing short of death, gore and blood.\\

Zeros' searched the room with his senses. Zeros' eyes fell on the beatiful golden mace. It had a leather grip along with a grape sized gem studded in the bottom. The tips of the maces spikes seemed to shine, indicating the diamond tips of the weapon.

"There's something going on here..." Zeros' muttered to himself. He noticed how the weapons were going around. He collected a sword, Kami-ryu had a spear, Haraldur has a staff and Duilin a mace.

"I think someone is seriously playing with us..." He said under his breath. Ryu (Kami-ryu) heard him and looked at Zeros' strangely before considering it.

Zeros' unsheathed his sword and held out its transformed state. He spread his wings and shifted his stand to the left suddenly, only after images fluttered after him. He thrust his sword out in his hand, catching a zombie in the abdomen before ripping upwards and bringing the sword downwards, sending a crecent wave of energy, destroying 3 more zombies.

He shrugged and reached behind him as his crimson cape fluttered before the ornate spear dropped into his left hand. Ryu twirled it for a moment before holsting it in both his hands, left hand on the grip while his right focused near the middle.

He dropped into a strange stance, his right foot ahead while his left foot stood behind him. He pointed the spear towards the nearest zombie as blue tendrils arced across the weapons length, making the weapon glow an eerie blue. He disappeared from sight, using his speed and the shadows to his advantage.

He ducked under and attack and parried a zombie armed with a sword by bring up his metal leg, snapping the top half of the sword off. Ryu wasted no time before stabbing it through the stomach and ripping upwards with all his might, splitting it down the middle of his head. The zombie dropped to the ground as a balck smoke slowly raised from it.

Ryu shifted the spear into his left hand as his right hand flicked outwards, sending a barrage of 10 kunai towards a zombie. It struck in its face, roaring in pain, but abvously not dead. Ryu then lashed out with his cape upwards, attaching himself to the celling.

34.5 Zombies remaining...

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Posted by: Trent on Monday January 10th, 2005

Xenai came up to the Zero Weapon, thrusting out at it with all of his might, making contact with extreme force, that sent cracks through the torso armor.

Tsu blinked a couple of times, then flew forward at the armor. With a couple of powerful slashes, chunks of the armor fell, and the skin was exposed.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday January 10th, 2005

A group of 10 zombies were all bunched up under a crack in the rock ceiling.

Haraldur shouted a few unintelligable words and very fast lifted the staff up with one hand to point at the crack, and it seemed to lengthen. It then hit the ceiling with a huge noise, causing the ceiling to cave in on top of those 10 zombies.

He then smashed a zombie's head to piece when bringing his stick fast down from its high point.

23.5 zombies left.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday January 10th, 2005

//False Alarm boys. I'm back! Read Topic.//
Darak, then sliced the top half zombie, into two quaters of a zombie, and that seemed to be the end of it...

Duilin then, admired the mace, for a few seconds. "It seems so dang werid...."

"Hey Duilin!" Lash yelled angrly "Wake up!" he shook his head "Stupid deamons.." He muttered under his breath. Lash then wiped away at two zombies that were lurching toward him, yet the wip barely made them flinch. The zombies then tackled down Lash and started biteing him and clawing at him. Duilin then jumped at the zombies attacking Lash, and blasted a fire ball at one of them. The zombie then started trying to beat the flames out, but it didn't work, Duilin then picked up the other one and threw it at the burning one. He swung his mallet down at the two burning zombies.

"Eat that!" He yelled..

Lash, starting coughing, un controlably..

21 zombies left.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday January 10th, 2005

Zeros' dodged to the left as a muscled zombie came at him. It nicked his left arm some. He looked down at the zombies and at his arm.

“KIJIN RAISHUU DAN!” Zeros' swung his sword at blinding speed, making vaccum blades appear off of his sword. 11 zombies feel from his sword.

Ryu's cape let go of the ceiling, propelling Ryu downwards. He lashed out with his right fist, causing a zombie's head to cave in. Behind him, a zombie came up with a club and bashed Ryu in the back. He roared in pain as he hit the ground, a spider web of cracks forming. Ryu quickly did motions with his spear, cutting the zombie that attacked him into 5 clean pieces.

8 zombies left...

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Posted by: Xorlak on Monday January 10th, 2005

Lars jammed the blade into the crack once more at the same time as Frost. This time it worked, and the sword plunged through the door a few inches. He pushed the sword to the left with such force that it snapped in two, causing him to lose his balance. But at least the force was enough to creak the door open.

Lars tossed the half of the broken sword to the ground in disgust.

"Useless metal..."

He reached into the now widened crack with his hand and pulled the door open slowly, until it widened enough for a person to fit through. He turned to Frost and motioned to his fallen comrade.

"Grab him. We're outta here..."

He then shouted to Armic, who he could now see down the darkened hallway, silhouetted by the flames of the explosion:

"Coming, Armic?"

He turned and strode into the doorway, which lead to yet another darkened room…

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Posted by: Cesque on Tuesday January 11th, 2005

"Zombies. I hate zombies." - said Cheetah, watching others fight.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 11th, 2005

Bite helped up Frost. His eyes opens and looked at him, he closed them again. Bite then started to carry, him. He attached his equpment onto his belt, he was quite ecumbered so Bite was moveing abit slow, considering he was carring an Ice Sword, a Pick Axe, an Ice Riffle, and his brother that was equal his weight...

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2 Zombies lurched toward Lash, one from infront and one from behind. They started gnawing on his neck, and limbs. He yelled in pain, Darak ran to help his comrade, but he was tackled by another zombie, he droped his axe. The zombies attacking Lash finished him off, Lash lay there dead. Duilin then came to Daraks aid. He karate choped the zombie, with flame flowing threw his hand, burning the zombie, he pealed it off Darak, and kicked it in the neck, knocking it's head off. The body then burnt to a crisp. Darak nodded at Duilin. Then they both ran to Lashes aid, only to find out it was to late. Darak then ran at one of the zombies in rage, and sliced it diagonally in half, it's blood splatered on Lashes wounds. Lashes eyes opened, they were totally black, with red pupals, he then rose up, with one hand pointing to Darak. Lash grabed Darak's neck and started punching him in the head, the other zombies then clawed at Duilin, but he swiped his mallet down at the zombies head, knocking it down, and then casted more flame on to it, since fire seemed to be very effective...

Darak, then swiped his axe at the Lash zombie's wasit, cutting it in two, but Lash kept punching him, but his grip grew weaker, so after 3 seconds he fell to the ground. Darak, then sliced him down in a vertical motion...

5 Zombies left.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday January 11th, 2005

Ryu quickly dodged to the left as a zombies fist impacted with the ground. He kicked there legs out from underneath it, causing it to fall to the ground. He lashed out with his cape, catching the zombie in the head three times, chest five times, feet and arms twice. He then used the body as a spring board, cutting it diagnolly across the chest, killing it.

Zeros' sheathed his sword and formed two ki balls in his hands and blasted at the last four zombies, killing them.

"Well now..." Zeros' said. "That was interesting."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 11th, 2005

"We lost Lash." Darak said sadly

"Yeah, sorry about that." Duilin says symapathectly "Okay, my friends...behold." He holds up the shineing golden mace, it's spikes were sharp and clean, the leather grip was still in good condition, it infact was the most beutifull weapon to Duilin's eyes. "I'll carrie this with pride, and take good care of it..." He said softly. He sliped it on his belt, and fasend it tightly. He looked at the cuts and brusies on him, his cloths were stain and sligtly torn. "Darak, do you have any spare equipment? I could use a new wardrobe."

"Yes. Come now, we must go to the surface." Darak began to lead the way back up to the lader, followed by Duilin, and you guys <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> .

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday January 11th, 2005

Lars waved his hand. Torches lining the walls immediately began to ignite in succession, revealing a massive underground room...

In reality, it was more like a ship dock, with long platforms extending out into the void of the gargantuan enclosure. It took several seconds for enough torches to light to reveal what was in the center of the room...

There it was. It was a black ship, yet there was no water. Its structure was very similar to that which Emperor Retan rode to Romme: The Great Black Vessel. Yet this one was much smaller. Still, it spanned over 100 yards in length. It's black metallic sides eerily reflected the red light of the torches...

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Tuesday January 11th, 2005

Armic ran faster, picking up pace. He ran straight into the room, almost running into Lars.

"Ooh, are we to commendeer this vessel?" Armic said with glee.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday January 11th, 2005

"Well mass assassination and killing are all good and well, but we need to find the last two or three weapons." Zeros' said quietly. Ryu just nodded behind Zeros', his spear held behind his back, sheathed in his cloak.

"If we can all use our weapons, doesn't that mean's Iduran's is useable too?" Ryu asked after a moment of silence.

Zeros' shook his head. "I have no reason to use it. I have my own sword." Ryu only nodded in response.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 12th, 2005

"Anyone have any ideas where the other weapons are? It is useless for us only to have those we have. They were created at the same time, and they will have to be destroyed at the same time.

"Since all the weapons we have found had returned to their original homes, why should we not go to the Dark Empire capital? That is where such records would be kept. I know, I have been there before."

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Posted by: Cesque on Wednesday January 12th, 2005

"Dark... Empire... Capital?" - Cheetah asked. - "Good joke. Now, where should we really go?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 12th, 2005

"It really should not be too hard, since the Empire has collapsed into many squabbling factions. The only downside I can see is that it is a warzone now."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday January 12th, 2005

"Great. That should be LOADS of fun." Zeros' said sarcasticly. Ryu just nodded.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday January 12th, 2005

"Indeed."

Lars lead the group up the ramp into the ship, which was also pitch black at first. But upon their entry, various touches and candles lining the walls ignited, lighting the way.

Lars turned to Armic and Frost, pointing to a ladder.

"That should lead to the navigation deck. Go there and see if you can steer it, once I activate the core, that is..."

He turned, flipping his cloak, and ran down the hallway in the opposite direction.

(It won't do anything until Lars turns it on!)

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"No way! They're gonna try and steal Prince Jayce's prototype ship!"

"Ha! Impossible! Even we don't know how to activate it! They're cornered now! KILL THEM!!"

Some fifty warriors burst into the torch-lit docking bay, running at the black vessel at full speed...

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 12th, 2005

"Yeah, maybe after we got to the Dark Empire capital, I could see if I can fit the mace ball into my mouth." Duilin chiped in.

We shurged and then went into the wooden building. Darak derectied him to the armory. He got a new jacket, abit darker then his old one, he then got some knee pads, and he washed his hands and face, from the water pump. He looked at his new jacket, it had the symbol of the Dark Empire on it. He didn't seem to mind so much. But he decieded to scratch, the Romme symbol on his mallet. Also in wight ink he had the Romme symbol on the front of his jacket.

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//FYI, Xorlak, it's Bite who is active and Frost who is KOed//
"Whoa...that's quite a ship..." Bite commented, then he turned around and spoted the small amry of troops. He aimed his Ice Riffle at one soilder and froze him, he then blasted another ice beam at another one, then the Ice Crystal ran out of juice..

48 Soilders left...

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Posted by: Trent on Thursday January 13th, 2005

Xenai thrusted his huge sword once again, now into the demon's skin. The sword pierced the skin, and brought an enormous roar from the Zero Weapon.

It immediately retaliated with a full force punch that sent Xenai into the wall of the confined dimension, and caused him to tear through it. Tsu immediately followed him as best as he could. As he found himself in the normal dimension, he saw Xenai falling. He immediately flew over to catch him, and put him down on land. He was unconscious. "Oh, shit!"

Tsu turned around to watch the Zero Weapon leap out of the tear, landing onto a nearby remote island and causing extreme tremors. The Zero Weapon had done exactly what Xenai wanted to prevent: escaping.

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Posted by: Cesque on Thursday January 13th, 2005

"Oh well. Your will." - said Cheetah. - "Where is that capital anyway? Somewhere in the mainland?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday January 13th, 2005

"The capital is on the mainland near the coast. It is in the North. It has a large port.

"However, it will be long and hard to get there. And we will have to go on foot. There are many traps against flyers, including invisible, moving walls. Even coming from the sea, the walls start immediately once you get above land. We will have to walk. And we will have to walk from Laus: it is closer than here, despite being further south."

Haraldur hovered above the ground.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday January 13th, 2005

"Sounds like a plan." Duilin says to Haradular "Might be a bit crazy...but hey, what isn't now a days." Duilin now had something like sword holster, but it was designed for his mallet, he was holding the mace in his right hand.

"Well, I wish you the best of luck." Darak says to them "We are hopeing to turn this into a fully functional base, someday, not nessicarly for the Dark Empire...."

"Well allright, good luck to you to, hope your not to upset with us takeing your weapon and all!" Duilin smiled at Darak

Darak glared at him, and looked at the golden mace. Darak might have even attacked him, if Duilin hadn't of saved his life, and if Haraldur and Zeros' were not so powerfull.

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Thursday January 13th, 2005

Armic looked at Bite sheepishly, "Can you pilot a ship?"

'If not, I could definately have fun trying to learn..." Armic said with mischievious grin, as he grabbed the steering wheel.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday January 13th, 2005

//Please, people, remember that Ellenna is still unconscious on the ground...//

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday January 13th, 2005

"No, I can't but Frost, can, here." He places Frost down on the ground infront of Armic. "I spent all the time learning to fight, he's the smart one. Try and find some healing potions, wile I hold off these losers!" He tells Armic, as he loads up his gun. He stands in the doorway, blocking the enterance so the soilders couldn't get in, he starts blasting away at the soilders, freezeing them soild!

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday January 13th, 2005

He notices Darak's look in his eye. Zeros' stared at the man for a moment. Darak suddenly started sweating and looked around frantically.

"Well...I'llbegoingbye!" Darak said sheepishly while dashing off, far away from the party. Zeros' just shrugs and walks over to Cheetah, Ryu right behind him.

"Well. It looks like were going back to Laus. Oh joy!" Zeros' exclaims happily while setting up his ki shiled, enveloping both Cheetah and Ryu. "I'll get a head start and meet you at Laus. See you there." He said while flapping all six of his wings and flying off southword.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday January 13th, 2005

(Oops... Yes, Bite, I mean. Heh...)

Lars continued down the narrow hallways of the ship, but stopped suddenly, sensing an incredible force enter the dimension far away...

"Hmm... I wonder..."

Realizing he hadn't the time to ponder it, he continued on, finally reaching the reactor room, which contained a dark orb in the center of an extravagant looking mechanical device. The shrouded man walked up to it, waving his hands over the orb, chanting a spell in his mind. Slowly the orb began to emit a yellow glow, various translucent "wires" visible on the walls throughout the ship displaying the same aura. The ship seemed to come alive...

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Various lights and levers began to emit light in the ship's control room. Sensing the awakening of the ship, the "roof" of the underground enclosure began to slowly open...

(Weapon systems activated!)

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday January 14th, 2005

Haraldur picked up Duilin and flew to Laus.

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Posted by: Cesque on Friday January 14th, 2005

// As far as I get, Cheetah is in Zeros' shield again? Kewl. Leet. //

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday January 14th, 2005

// Yeah. Right know there flying towards Laus. \\

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Posted by: Trent on Friday January 14th, 2005

Tsu was completely pale. How was he going to fight such a monstrous demon? He was only human. The Zero Weapon pointed his hand at Tsu.

"Gah!" Tsu jumped into the water holding Xenai, and swam as fast as he could, as deep as he could, as the demon shot a huge red beam of energy at where he was before.

Zion, what are you doing?

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday January 14th, 2005

Lars ran backtracked through the hallways of the black ship as it began to emit a humming noise...

He reached the ladder to the control room and ascended to a chamber slightly above the deck, with glass windows on all sides but the rear. Seeing Armic at the wheel, he approached from behind.

The roof above was almost completely open, revealing the overcast sky above.

"When the roof is open enough, find the switch that activates the vertical lift and hit it full blast. Once the rest of them figure out what's going on, they're not going to be happy..."

He stepped to a panel to Armic's left and began to fumble with some odd controls. On the exterior of the ship, one of the cannons began to move, aiming directly at the approaching horde of soldiers. After a brief charge, it fired a concentrated orb of shadow energy into the mass, scattering them through the air with an explosion that rocked the docking bay. About half of them were vaporized instantly...

King Wallace turned and began running like a scared child.

"H-how d-did they?! Just who are these guys?!"

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 15th, 2005

"Hahahahah! Look at him run!" Bite laughed, he then fired a few blasts at more soilders, trying to atemp to reach him...

"Uhh...." Frost groand

"Dude, your awake?" Bite said, turning his head for a second

"Give me a (Editor: Censored)ing potion! I'm really hurt!" Frost yelled

"Yeah, sure, the Boss, seems to have things taken care of with the ship's cannon."

Bite then ran of into the infirmatary (it has one of those, right?) , he found a small cabnet on the wall, he broke it open, with Frost's Pick Axe, it held two potions, he quickly swiped them and then dashed back to the others, he triped, but kept the potions in his hand. He placed them down on the floor, and got back up and then picked them up again. He helped Frost drink one, and then another.

"Feal any better?" Bite asked

"No, it still hurts...but that's potions..." Frost got back up, Bite gave him his weapons, he cracked his knuckles, and he grined "I'm back!"

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday January 15th, 2005

// This is getting boring you guys <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> No interaction for us, we're all fighting NPCs we are controlling ourselves <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> //

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 15th, 2005

//I think it's still fun.But we just have to wait, soon Duilin, Zeros' and the group, will bump into Lars and his group, and then we can have a cool battle...just...we need to wait. Unless, maybe if get more villans, because currantly we have 4.//

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 15th, 2005

//That is exactly why we are going to be going north from Laus, so that we are more likely to meet them in a logical way.//

They were nearing Laus.

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday January 15th, 2005

// Oh well, I wasn't tracking what was Lars and the rest doing <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> //

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday January 15th, 2005

(The rules do state you should read EVERY post, ya know... Heh...)

Lars turned around, seeing that the fallen Ice Warrior had recovered, partially at least.

"Excellent. You should be wary of those of the fire element. Leave them to me."

He then turned to Bite.

"You found those downstairs? Excellent. How well stocked are we? I don't think we'll have time to muddle around for additional supplies."

Lars ran to a window and noted that their pursuers had all fled in terror.

"This is a prototype ship intended for use by the former Dark Emperor's son. Former ships of this design were capable of flying some 50 to 100 feet high. But, due to their design, they were required to be over a water source such as a lake or ocean to work."

He turned around, his hands behind his back, behind his cloak.

"However, this ship is quite different. It does not require proximity to a water source, meaning it can travel anywhere. Quite a bit higher, too... Also, I hear this one is built for speed, that is, if everything actually is complete and working..."

A large clanking sound echoed throughout the chamber. The roof above them had opened up completely, revealing the open, overcast sky.

"Hit it, Armic. The switch should be on your right."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 15th, 2005

Zeros' suddenly stopped in mid-air. He looked towards Laus. His eyes became unfocused as he shivered for a second. He shook his head and grimced. Ryu looked over worried, but Zeros' waved him off.

"I'm...fine...It's nothing..." Zeros' looked towards where Lars group is and frowned.

Haraldur...you feel that? There trying to revive the Dark Empire...we need to pick up speed. Zeros' said to Haraldur thought a telepathic link. Zeros' flapped his wings once, rocketing him ahead, breaking the sound barrier repeatedily.

"I'll kill you all..."He said quietly.

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Posted by: Cesque on Saturday January 15th, 2005

// Oh noes!!!11 I abused the rules, I'm banned <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /> //

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Saturday January 15th, 2005

//Well it's your fault for having her pass out and giving us no real clues as to how to help her... I made a suggestion, but it didn't go anywhere. =/ ///

Armic hit the switch as he was told, and the ship shook a bit, knocking Armic to the deck suddenly, as it began to ascend.

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"Well, are we going to take her to a Temple, or do you have a better idea, Kismet? She needs help.." Nevina said.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 15th, 2005

"Dude, the boat's like flyin' and stuff...." Bite says

"Good job for finding that out, Bite!" Frost sneared "Hmm, I bet those deamons and there friends won't know what hit em, after we show them this thing." He smiled

"So, uh Boss, you think we should take this thing to Laus?" Bite asked

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Even Duilin could feal the presence of evil, once he became a deamon, he has had strange fealings and sences, that he never had before. He still wasn't used to this deamon mumbo jumbo, but he acepted it.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 15th, 2005

//Well, an unconscious person will not exactly be in the position to be giving clues, will she?//

They will die. You can count on that. The bastards will die... I will have my revenge...

Haraldur rocketed towards Laus, and landed at the north edge of the city. He dropped Duilin gently to the floor.

We will need to stop so the others can rest and eat.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 15th, 2005

"Finnaly, were here. I'm starveing...I also need to tell Nevina were I've been, I told her that I went out for a drink, and that was a week ago!" Duilin says, he then streches "Hey, Haradular, I'm gonna go to my place for awile, I'll meet back here, okay." He then walked off, his wings then totally folded down and sliped under his jacket.

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Posted by: Trent on Saturday January 15th, 2005

Tsu just floated there in the water as long as he could. The Zero Weapon turned in the direction of Laus and started walking.

Tsu popped his head above the water, noticing that the demon was walking away. He put Xenai onto the patch of land he was on, and then realized where the demon was going. "Crap! Not to Laus!"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 15th, 2005

Zeros' stopped in mid-air and litterly fell, his wings still extended. He dropped right by Haraldur and gave him a glance before letting down his barrier.

"You guys go rest. I have some...duities to attend to." Zeros' said before crouching and jumping straight into the air. After he reached over the top of the city, he retracted the bottom four wings and kept two of his out. He floated in mid-air, the beating of his wings the only sound coming from him as he turned his head in the direction of the evil.

"And so...it comes." He looked in the direction the Zero Weapon was heading from and sighed. "An old foe comes..." He then turned to where Lars's group was coming from an sighed again. "A new enemy comes..."

Haraldur. Lars and his group have come into contact with a great evil force...it feels like the time we fought Retan directly...there using the same magic. Zeros' turned in the direction of the Zero Weapon and sighed.

An old enemy also rears its ugly head: the Zero Weapon. I shall deal with the monstrosity. I have to pay him back for Qeni and Zev. With that, Zeros' spread his two wings wide and flew off in the direction of the Zero Weapon.

"I shall see you dead..." He muttered under his breath.

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Meanwhile, Ryu was looking off towards where Zeros' flew off. He turned his attention towards Haraldur.

"I suppose we should find something to do. In awhile, Laus will become a war zone. I'm sure you remember the war almost a month ago...things might become like that again: absolute destruction. I know that you, my master, Duilin and Cheetah were all involved in the war." Ryu sighed as he glanced at the unsuspecting peopel. "He once told me what happened. If that is any indication, we should stand by." With that, Ryu walked off towards a tavern to wait for the conflict.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 15th, 2005

Haraldur shouted to Ryu: "In that, case, start organising defences. I have things to do."

With that, Haraldur pulled the staff from nowhere, and held it in front of him. The staff lengthened fast, pushing him 100 metres upwards, and then shortening to normal length, with Haraldur floating on air.

He looked around, and saw Lars' ship.

I sense the presence of those Ice Warrior scum with Lars. I will harry thim.

He flew towards the ship.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 15th, 2005

Zeros' looked forwards and stopped in mid-air, his wings beating against the wind as he looked onwards towards the Zero Weapon.

"It's him..." Zeros' stood and waited for the Zero weapon to come closer. At this distance, any attacks would fail as the weapon would dodge it or deflect. All he could do is wait.

He started going forwards at a much slower pace, inching closer towards the being known as the Zero Weapon as it inched closer towards him.

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Ryu looked around breifly before he spotted Duilin. Ryu immediately ran and walked by Duilin.

"Sir Duilin; be ready. They come. The people from the tavern come as well as a new threat, something my master and Sir Haraldur recognize. Sir Haraldur said to organize defenses to protect agianst the foes, but what can we do?" Ryu said to the older man.

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Posted by: Trent on Saturday January 15th, 2005

Tsu slapped Xenai around a bit, then remembered he had an Elixir on him. He nearly drowned Xenai with it, and he woke up coughing.

"What the hell are you trying to do, kill me!?" Tsu jumped back, startled. Xenai turned his head to look at the Zero Weapon. "He's going to Laus!" Xenai took off toward him. After a bit of hesitation, Tsu followed. After catching up to him, Tsu asked a question.

"Why couldn't you have just left it in its little dimension?"

"There's a function it has that would really help us. Has Zion come back yet?"

"No..."
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If I'm counting correctly, Zion should return in 2 posts.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 16th, 2005

Zeros' stood about 100 meters away from the Zero Weapon as it trudged forwards. Zeros' hand rested on its hilt as he stared forwards at the monstosity. He kept his left hand rested on his sword hilt and raised his right palm, aiming directly at the Zero Weapon.

Zeros' remembered a great pain, a great anguish. He reopened scars that have long since been dead, buried in the stream of time as tendrils of a sickly green color coursed across his body. The green aura grew as he remembered times when his friends and family were killed, murdered and he watched as his friends grew old and died, as his master died by his own foolishness.

The sickly green aura increased as thousands of tiny tendrils coursed across his body. He pushed all these emotions forwards as the aura disappeared and a green ball of energy slowly formed on his outstreached palm. In a whisper, "Shi Shi Hokodan.", was heard as it carried across the winds wings.

The green ball suddenly pulsed with energy and grew into the size of a compact car and rushed forwards towards it prey. The green ball of depression ki slowly gained speed as green tendrils arced across its form, heading towards the Zero Weapon as it was only a few meters away.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday January 16th, 2005

Duilin nods at Ryu, in agrement
"Hmmm, well, if we can find my friend Nevina, she could help." Duilin says "I bet we could find alot more, this place is packed with old warriors looking for adventure, I also recall some sort of priest like person, the Ice Warriors were picking on. We should go find find, them, let's go."

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Posted by: Cesque on Sunday January 16th, 2005

Cheetah died from his lethal disease, Bublogamia Pygmendosium.

He never told anyone of this disease, thinking it will scare the others.

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Kismet spontanously combusted and died.

Aaa! Looks like I have no more characters left now!

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday January 16th, 2005

Haraldur was a few hundred metres above and away from the ship.

In his hands a ball of balck smoke compacted to the size of a basketball, getting darker and darker.

He threw it down at the ship, covering it and the area around it for many kilometres it thick, black smog.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday January 16th, 2005

What the hell!?

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Posted by: Cesque on Sunday January 16th, 2005

// Didn't I tell you about Cheetah's disease previously? Must have forgotten. //

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday January 16th, 2005

(Aww come on, Cesque. You, Dude Man, and I are the only ones left from the original cast!)

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Lars ignored the Ice Warrior's question for the moment, peering out the window with a sinister grin... His gaze was fixed to the south, to Laus...

"What a splendid machine... Even acting on its own, it provides the perfect distraction..."

The ship rose higher and higher into the gray sky. Soon, a black smog engulfed the exterior of the ship.

"The prelude is over. Let the first act begin... That's right, you ignorant fool, come and get me..."

He turned, calmly walking to the door that lead to the outside deck.

"Ice Warriors. Steer the ship northward at 10% speed. Once you're out of the fog, figure out how to operate the cannons... Armic, come with me when you're prepared, this particular one's a handfull..."

He opened the door and walked out onto the deck. The thick black smoke reduced visiblity to a minimum. Lars began to float straight up into the air, his arms folded under his black cloak. In a second, he was above the smog. Haraldur was in plain sight...

"Ragnar... Yes, I'm surprised I didn't recognize you then... But then again, you are more notable for your actions than your face... So now, tell me, what interest does this great destroyer of nations have in saving the world alongside a bunch of demon-winged freaks?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday January 16th, 2005

"Saving the world? You think that is my motive? My plan comes into action immediately after the destruction of the weapons. If you do not know, then you evidently have not thoroughly studied them. Maybe this will give you a clue."

Haraldur held out his staff in front of him, and it lengthened to 100 metres. He then tapped the ship with it, by lengthening it further.

"These weapons are part of me. They are prisons for part of me. Surely then, you can see my motive for their destruction. I want my full self which I never received. This will be the retributive strike of retributive strikes.

"You have your own choice of what stance on this is."

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday January 16th, 2005

The Zero Weapon took the hit in the exact spot where its skin had been exposed, sending it flying for a few yards. Tsu and Xenai narrowly dodged the monstrous being, and flew up to Zeros'.

"I know you probably don't trust me," said Xenai, "But don't completely destroy it. Just shut it down."

Tsu nodded his head at Zeros', as if to help influence him to trust Xenai.

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Zion held up his Eternity Weapon, from high above the clouds. It had a light cyan gem on it between the hilt and the blade. "It's done."

Zion will return next post.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 16th, 2005

// Actually, Zeros' was in the First Chapter, he just didn't finish it. \\

"Shut it down huh?" Zeros' stroked his chin thoughtfully. "Guess I could do that." Zeros' hand rested on his sword before he vanished from sight using pure speed. Next, he reappeared near the Zero's Weapon's head, his sword transformed and poised for a thrust.

He charged his weapon with an aura of blue ki and thrust it downwards at the Zero Weapon's head...

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Sunday January 16th, 2005

"I come ready..." Said Armic with a big smirk on his face.

He quickly jumped to Lars' side and said indestcreetly, "Who's this freak?... Qor's followers should've destroyed your kind long ago..."

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Nevina slowly backed away, then turned around and fled, running from the burning Kismet and unconcious Ellenna.

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday January 16th, 2005

The armor on the Zero Weapon's head had not been removed, but Zeros' was quite strong. Many cracks were sent through the armor, and part of it even broke off. The Zero Weapon looked up at Zeros', its eyes glowing red, as if it were about to go Cyclops on him.

"Stop right there!" Zion was floating about 5 yards away from the Zero Weapon with his new sword drawn. "The problems with your creation, Xenai, are 1, it's too permanent, and 2, it's too freely controlled."

Zion held his sword into the air, the new gem glowing. "Come, Eternity Weapon!" A new demon //demon does not necessarily mean evil// appeared behind Zion. It looked much like the Zero Weapon, except it was more streamlined, not evil looking, and about 3/4 its size. "This baby is faster than yours, but not as strong. And to prevent any screw-ups, it only stays out for about 15 minutes to a half hour. It's not really exact."

Xenai whistled at the new creation. "Woo, that's nice! Does that one have a merge function?"

"Yeah, but it only lasts about 8 to 15 minutes. I assume you wanted to fix the Zero Weapon just so you could get to its merge function?"

"Yep."

"I don't blame you. It would help us out a lot. The Zero Weapon can't possibly beat each and every one of us. Attack, Eternity Weapon!"

//This is a big power, so I figured I should put some limits on. First, Zion must charge for 2 posts. The Eternity Weapon can only stay out for 3 posts, and can't come back out until after 10 posts. And the merge function lasts for only 2 posts, and causes the Eternity Weapon to go away after the merge is over. After Xenai fixes the Zero Weapon, it will be the same way. Are these limits okay, or should they be adjusted? I'm wide open to any suggestions of adjustments. I'll show off the merge function next post.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 16th, 2005

Zeros' smiled and flew gently backwards, sheathing his katana as he went. He turned towards Xenai and looked at him straight in the eyes.

"When the Zero Weapon is fixed, if I ever hear it killing innocents, unintentionally, I will personally come and kill you and your weapon." He siad this with no malice in his voice, only truthfulness. His look vanished as he gazed into the eyes of the Zero Weapon. He understood the creature completely, but something as powerful as it couldn't go unpunished if it started to rampage.

"I'll hold it off: somehow." He said, bearing no emotion in his voice. He was aware that all three of them knew the extent of his power. "I'm going to use an old trick. I'm sure you three will recognize this. If you can, make fire to throw into my attack." Zeros', of course, was talking about the Rising Dragon Ascension attack. The tornado of hot and cold ki increases with power if an opponent readily fed a hot aura, or even fire, into the tornado. The only way its stopped is if the opponent stops generating heat or the source of fire is stopped.

Zeros' vanished in an after image, which stayed for a few moments and reappeared right beneath the Zero Weapon. He scanned the weapon with his senses, of course it had no ki, but he could sense a heat coming from it.

"Hey Xenai, I hope your machine shuts down after awhile. The Hiryu Shoten Ha's winds reach up to Mach 1 if enough heat is fed. If you can keep the Eternity Weapon cooled enough, it won't be affected by the tornado. Same goes for you all. Even if this doesn't work, the circuts should be visible after this attack, so it works both ways." Zeros' flapped his wings and drew back his fist. He looked upwards at the stomach carapace of the Zero Weapon and sighed. It was a magnificent creation, but it was too dangerous.

Soon enough, Zeros' right hand became impowered by hot ki, a reverse technique he discovered for the Rising Dragon Ascension. Instead of drawing a person into a spiral and using the Soul of Ice, he instead concentrated his ki to heat up, forming the hot battle aura needed in his fist. When he released the heat in a form of a corkscrew punch, as soon as it is met with a cold air, the tornado forms this way. Still, heat is the main soruce of power for the tornado.

"HIRYU SHOTEN HA! (Rising Dragon Ascension!)" After a few moments of quiet, the water below Zeros' extended fist started to swirl and not soon after, a magnificent tornado formed. The ammount of hot ki Zeros' used almost covered the entire weapon. "You guys might wanna get away! This tornado can get rough! Just remember to stay calm!" He shouted to the three over increasing winds.

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Posted by: Trent on Monday January 17th, 2005

"Hey, if you gotta kill me, that's fine. Just bury me with 100 girls." That last sentence said jokingly. His soul comprised of darkness, but that is in no way evil, even though that's what darkness was most associated with. Now that the evil mark had been freed from him, he was just a real laid back guy and a smart ass, but a good guy. Xenai used a large amount of his magic force to cast a high-level fire spell to coexist with Zeros' attack. "Zion, show me your merge function!"

"Will do. Eternity Weapon, merge!"

Zion and the Eternity Weapon glowed a perfect white, as in 255 255 255. The two bodies came together. There was a bright flash, and there stood the merged form, Eternity Ultima. It was like Zion wearing the Eternity Weapon as armor. White metal covered Zion's entire body, actually, it was his body. Except for his head and hair, which were normal, except for a headband-esque piece on his forehead. Zion gripped a more majestic Eternity Weapon sword in his metal right hand. "Let's shut that thing down fast."

//Hm... I don't think Eternity Weapon or Zero Weapon should be able to merge for one summon after merging. That sounds good.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday January 17th, 2005

Duilin then dashed off, hopefully followed by Ryu, but it didn't matter to muhc to him. He then went near the area were Kismet, Nevina and Ellena were. He then spoted Nevina

"Hello there!" Duilin called to her "Come, here, this is important."

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

(All those rules sound good, EoN.)

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"Ha ha ha ha!! So in the end it all boils down to the same thing. It's power, isn't it? Prisons, huh? You think destroying the weapons will give you more power. Some think collecting the weapons will give them power. It's all the same..."

Lars nodded to Armic, before begining to slowly float towards Haraldur, arms still folded.

"What if this part of yourself isn't what you think it is...?"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

"Oh, it is not power. I have all the power I will ever need. It is part of myself. When the weapons are destroyed, I will have nine of my parts recovered: I have three recovered now.

"There is no power in the weapons themselves, however it might seem so. Those weapons have actually been leaching off me, for the whole of my existance. Apart from that, the only thing they have is part of my mind.

"Why should I let this continue?

"Anyway, how else do you think I have the ability to use this staff so easily? It is part of me, with no skill needed to control."

He paused for a moment, and looked thoughtful.

"All my life my self is lost, and I am vengeful."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

Frost sets the speed to 10% north. "Bite, figure out how to work the cannons!" He says

"Fine, then." Bite replies, he then looks at a bunch of switches and buttons. "I wonder what would happen if I pulled this switch, the ship the started to move back wards.

"Bite, you idiot! Pull it back!" He yells

Bite then pulls the switch back. He then looks at all the others, he then remembers what Lars did to fire the weapons, he then looked around untill he found the controls, the cannon then fired a shot, just flying by Haraldur.

"Guess, that's it!" Bite says.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

The tornado picked up speed, growing and growing in size and gale as the they pumped it full of warm ki/magic. Soon, the tornado reached as big as the Zero Weapon while going just around 500 mph. The wind howled against the Zero Weapon's massive machine plates, seeking to destroy it.

//EoN whenever you feel like it, you can stop the tornado by stopping the flow of hot ki/magic.\\

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Ryu looked around where Duilin stopped at the three other people.

"Interesting...preiests..." Ryu mummbled under his breath.

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

As Haraldur ranted on, Armic jammed his left hand into his robe and began charging dark energy into it. It was not visible, as the energy itself was black, and Armic was taking care not to let it be seen.

He muttered incantations over and over in his head, and it began to burn in the back of his skull, as his entire arm began to pulse with energy.
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"Duilin?!" Nevina shouted in relief.
"Finally, someone familiar who doesn't blow up!" Nevina said, rather offbeat from the conversation.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

"Okay, listen. There's this huge ship in the sky, it has somebody who I belive served the Dark Empire. He's looking for the 6 weapons, and I have one." Duilin says, he shows her the mace "Zeros' still has the sword, Haraldur and a new friend here have, one." He points to Ryu "Nevina, this is my Kami-Ryu, Zeros' aprentice. Kami-Ryu, this is Nevina, a friend of mine that I met on the Romme Island. Okay, now Nevina, we might be needing your help."

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Posted by: Trent on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

//I'm glad you're content with the limits, Xorlak-sama.

The Zero Weapon's armor shattered, due to the intense assault made by Zeros'. Tsu flew around, catching as many pieces as he could, knowing that they would help repair it. "Yeah, it's working!" Xenai was very impressed by Zeros' strength. The Zero Weapon's vitality now started to fade. Xenai cut off the flow of heat. "Zion, attack!"

Ultima Eternity flew forward, pulling its sword back in Hirazuki posture. The Eternity Weapon alone was 3/4 as strong as the Zero Weapon. With Zion merged, Ultima Eternity's strength was equal to the Zero Weapon's. Ultima Eternity thrusted its sword at the Zero Weapon's core...

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EW: Merged, 1 post left
ZW: ---

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

The winds died down to a gentle breeze as Zeros' retracted his fist and gentle flew back and crossed his arms over his chest. The caught his hair as it gentle shuffled in the wind. His trench coat remained in a still position as he watched.

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Ryu bowed to Nevina.

"Hello Lady Nevina. It is a pleasure to meet you." Ryu raised from his bow and put his hands behind his back. "Zeros'-sama mentioned something about a 'Zero Weapon' that's coming towards Lars." Ryu commented nonchalantly.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday January 18th, 2005

Lars raised his hand, signaling Frost and Bite in the ship to hold their fire.

... Just who is this guy anyway...?

Lars' path curved as he floated, so that he was now approaching the opposite side of Haraldur. In a minute Haraldur would be directly between Lars and Armic.

"Hmmm, interesting... Yes, I do believe that is a new one. Well then, if you are after destroying the weapons, then you have no business with me, as you should clearly be able to tell that I have none..."

A smirk became visible behind his shroud.

"However, I can't help but get the feeling that you are going to get in my way..."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 19th, 2005

"And you in mine, I do not doubt. I will not allow anyone to keep the weapons in existance, and I suspect that is your wish: to leach off me, as Retan tried before.

"If, however, you have no interest in the weapons, and no interest in my companions as yet, then I can happily bid you farewell, and fair weather.

"What is your stance on the weapons?"

Haraldur edged so that both Armic, Lars and the ship would remain in his field of view.

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Posted by: Kahn on Wednesday January 19th, 2005

Kahn walked towards Ellenna and saw Nevina with others in the distance.
"She's none of my concern."
He stood over Ellenna.
"Hmm unconscious. Well you still owe me a job, but I'm afraid that if the Jin Elf isn't going for help, then I may have to leave you here.

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Wednesday January 19th, 2005

Armic, still charging his pssible attack, began to smile, but it was a painful smile, as his mind began to burn. But, he tried to speak. "Well... Why are yo-ou still here then...?" Armic said, trying to hide his pain.
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"Uhmm... weapons, flying ships, I'm not really getting it here. Maybe you could explain on the way." Nevina said. As she finished speaking, she bowed in return to Ryu's bow. As she came back up, she lifted her body of the ground and began to float, ready to fly.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 19th, 2005

"Hmm, odd, I don't recall you being able to fly. Anyways, Nevina. Possibly an old member of the Dark Empire, is flying around in an advanced prototype of Retan's ship. Haraldur has confronted them, and Zeros' I belive is battleing this, Zero weapon, I don't know much about it at all. So shall we go?" Duilin asked, as he flaped his wings and began to float in the air.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday January 19th, 2005

Ryu frowned for a moment and glanced between Duilin and Nevina. He could indeed make wings out of his ki, but it took so much he was usually readily exhausted from the expendxure.

"Yes we shall." Ryu said while following Duilin on the ground.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday January 20th, 2005

"Heh..."

A faint crimson aura surrounded the shrouded man...

"As far as the weapons go, I intend to let sleeping dogs lie... I would suggest you and your 'companions' do the same...

"It's a shame though. I'm afraid I cannot allow your 'companions' to live for other reasons... If you insist on defending them, then you'll simply have to be removed. It's especially convenient since you've taken the trouble to come down here all by yourself. Nothing personal."

Lars extended his right arm, a bright crimson orb appearing before it.

"Also, I've heard so much about Ragnar, the traitor of traitors... The uncontrollable enigma that was once not a bad general. I'm simply dying to see what you're made of..."

The first orb fired like a cannon, straight at Haraldur, the recoil of heated air blasting in all directions. Lars continued with a continuous stream of explosive fireballs, rocketing one off twice a second...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday January 20th, 2005

Haraldur saw this, and acted a split second before the first could hit.

He split into 4, the two Haraldurs, Ragnar, and the staff, which warped into the shape similar to Ragnar.

The fireballs went through the middle of them. Then they reformed, leaving Ragnar as the outside image.

"Oh, indeed..."

Haraldur fired a grey orb at the ship, which hit, releasing a cloud of knockout gas.

He then formed a shield around himself, which would survive a few hits before being destroyed.

"Spoiling the fun already? I wanted to explain my feud with the Dark Empire, if you would be so kind..."

//Treat the shield as an NPC, which can withstand around 10 (give or take) average hits, and fewer powerful hits.//

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Posted by: Trent on Thursday January 20th, 2005

The Zero Weapon fell backwards, into the ocean as Ultima Eternity pulled its sword out. "It's ugly with its armor off, ya know..."

Tsu floated over to the tiny island, putting down the last piece of armor.

Xenai grabbed all the armor and went underwater, commencing to repair and re-program the Zero Weapon.

"Now that's done for. We have 2 great powers on our side... So long as the Zero Weapon is reprogrammed right. We'll be glad to join you in destroying the weapons."

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EW: Merged, 0 posts
ZW: ---

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday January 20th, 2005

Duilin looked down at Ryu. "Kami-Ryu, if you wish to come with us to the ship, I'll carry you, but if you wish to help out Zeros', I'm afraid you'll have to walk, the choice is yours."


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"Frost, looks like Lars, is fighting that dude, who...just....multiplied..." Bite called "Should I fire at him?"

"I dunno, wait for the...wait, what the hell is this stuff?" Frost replied

"Uhhh....I don't kno..." Bite then passed out, followed by his brother...The knockout gas got to them...

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday January 20th, 2005

Lars began a dash at Haraldur, moving faster and faster as he neared the man. It was not a straight line, but rather more sporadic, as Lars' image blurred as he approached, appearing to the left and right at irregular intervals.

"Surely a man of your caliber can speak his life story while parrying attacks from a simple mage as myself..."

He shouted the words as he fired three low energy fireballs in succession at the barrier, which because of his movement, came from three different directions.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday January 21st, 2005

//Barrier at 7 hp.//

"Simple? I doubt you are simple...

"The Dark Empire would use me to further their own power, to leach off me. It took me a while to realise this, but as Ragnar I realised the truth first: they were part of me and would be used to leach from my power, my self, my consciousness. So I rebelled."

Haraldur caused the barrier to explode, releasing the energy of 7 fireballs on Armic and Lars. He then caused a poisoned knfe to appear in his hand, which he threw at Lars.

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Posted by: Trent on Friday January 21st, 2005

Zion came apart from the Eternity Weapon, which got sucked into the gem on the sword. Xenai floated out of the water with a similar gem on his sword in the same place, except his was red. "I think we're good to go."

"I agree."

Tsu nodded his head slowly, though he was of little use.

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EW: 10
ZW: 10

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday January 21st, 2005

Zeros' looked up at the three warriors and sighed.

"Come on then. We have to stop Lars and his party." Without waiting for a reply, Zeros' folded his wings outwards and brust forwards towards the position Lars was in, breaking the sound barrier.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday January 21st, 2005

"I guess, we have no choice, let's go Kami-Ryu!" He picks up Ryu and flys off to the location of the ship.

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Frost and Bite will wake up in a few posts.

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Friday January 21st, 2005

Armic was consentrating souly on the preperation of his attack, and his head was throbbing in pain. One of the energy balls hit him square in the chest, knocking him down, but his consentration was so great, his spell did not fizzle.

He lept up, his spell finally complete. His arm had become black steel, just as his sword, and it resonated dark energies. He charged at Haraldur, then as he thought Harauldur was about to counter or Parry, he teleported behind him, and swung at the "God's" side.

//Level 2 + Spell Preperation of 2 posts = 4 VS. Player Level of Target: 3//
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Nevina followed Duilin and Ryu.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday January 21st, 2005

Lars threw both arms in front of his face, forming a quick barrier. Three of the fireballs slamed into it, destroying the barrier and sending Lars flying backwards several feet, though he quickly regained his balance.

"Hmm, fair enough. I suppose I would do the same in your position..."

Lars moved his head to the left, the knife whizzing past his cheek, barely missing it. At this point he noticed Armic was ready to attack.

"One final question..."

He extended both arms to his sides. His palms erupted in flame as he gathered the energy for the spell, though his tone of voice did not change as spoke casually.

"This plan of yours... the one you mentioned that goes into effect once you've destroyed the weapons... It wouldn't happen to involve ridding the earth of that vile winged one now would it? You know if you try anything drastic, he's going to get right in your way... And knowing you're style, that's exactly what's going to happen. If so, I can see a mutually beneficial alliance between our causes..."

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Posted by: Trent on Friday January 21st, 2005

Zion grabbed Tsu's arm and took off after Zeros', putting all his energy into matching his speed. Xenai was right next to him, doing the same.

"Oh, by the way," said Zion, as he came up on Zeros', "who's Lars?" Neither 3 of them had met Lars yet.

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EW: 9
ZW: 9

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 22nd, 2005

Haraldur was hit by Armic's blow, but it was just a minor scratch, which healed before Armic's eyes.

Haraldur grabbed Armic's arm while the blade hit, and tries to throw Armic at Lars.

"I do not think that far ahead."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 22nd, 2005

"He's a guy I met awhile ago who thought I was a threat to the world if I regained all the weapons. 'S probably why we split them between Haraldur, Ryu, Duilin and I. So far we have 4 of the weapons: sword, staff, spear and mace." Zeros' said while heading towards the boat.

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Posted by: Trent on Saturday January 22nd, 2005

"So which ones 'r left?" asked Xenai.

Zion could see something up ahead...

(Not counting this one... Didn't do much anything 'cept talk.)
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EW: 9
ZW: 9

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday January 23rd, 2005

Lars immediately dispersed the energy he had gathered, and used his now free arms to "catch" the thrown Armic so neither of them would substain any damage. He let go of his ally, assuming he would be able to fly under his own power.

"Hmm, unfortunate, yet somehow unsurprising..."

He moved his fists to his sides. The faint crimson aura surounding him began to grow more intense.

"I had intended to keep this guise a bit longer. But a small reordering of plans really won't make a difference..."

At that instant, a violent explosion of fire burst forth from the shrouded man. The sky turned from grey to blood red... The withered trees below burst into flame... The man in the center of the fireball exumed an inhuman aura of power... Lars's dark cloak began to burn off... morphing actually. It took slowly the shape of black armor, lined with vermillion. The cape was black, with a crimson dragon upon the back... The hood that masked his face was gone. The man's face was young, handsome perhaps. His long black hair was tied back neatly at the shoulder...

Wrapped in a flame of intensity never seen before, Draven folded his arms and smirked his usual smirk...

"... after all, traitors cannot go unpunished..."

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Sunday January 23rd, 2005

Armic was sustained by Lars and slowly hovered onto the ground.

He seemed to be having a conversation with himself, but no one could really make out the words.
Armic: "W... What just happened to Lars?"

Qor: He has finally shown his true form. I had seen this all along... but I thought it best not to let you know before it required knowledge.."

Qor: "Why, that is the lord of the Dark Empire, Draven, my child. I have watched him from his birth. He is no ordinary man, my Qorling. If you do not bring upon Armeddeggon, this man certainly will..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Sunday January 23rd, 2005

Zeros' twitched slightly and sped up even more, breaking the sound barrier and proceeding top Mach 3.

He watched as the sky changed colors and the trees wither and burst into flame. His face scrunched up into a grimce and he involuntarily clenched his fists. Heading at such high speeds he soon came upon the scene of Draven, Haraldur and Armic.

He stopped near them and stood there, crossing his arms over his chest.

"Hello...Draven. Long time no see." Zeros' spat.

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Posted by: Trent on Sunday January 23rd, 2005

Zion and Xenai stopped near Zeros'. Zion let go of Tsu, who fell for a few seconds, then suspended himself. "Draven," said Zion. "Long time no see."

Xenai snickered. "THIS is the dude I was about to work for? Psh!"

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EW: 8
ZW: 8

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday January 23rd, 2005

"Ah, Draven, how nice to see you again... May I please thank you for failing to aquire the sword. Incompetance does, indeed, have its own virtues. Even spectacular incompetance, in your own case. Especially now."

A blue orb appeared in each of Haraldur's hands, and they grew. He then threw them bth at Draven, them exploding into small shards of ice once within the aura of flame.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday January 24th, 2005

Duilin arives up to the ship in the air. He then looks at Lars. Draven? No...can't be....Draven's dead.

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Frost raises his head, he looks at his brother. "Bite, you awake?"

"Yeah, what the hell was that?" Bite asks

"Knock out gass..." He replies wile getting up. His brother dose the same.

"I see...Hey, I think we got more guests to the party!"

"Heh, looks like those deamons, that Kung-Pow guy, and some elf chick."

"I'll re-boot the weapons system...Let's get iceing!"

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"Kami-Ryu, You think you could make it to the ship? The Ice Bros. are in there, perhaps if your able to defeat them, you could shut down the ship?" Duilin wispers

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday January 24th, 2005

"Maybe..." Ryu whispers quietly. He looks at the ship and shrugs. "Let me see..." Ryu struggles out of Duilin's grasp and plumits towards the ocean. Ryu closes his eyes and concentrates. Soon, he is enveloped in a faint blue aura. The aura shifts towards his back and two leathery dragon wings sprout. There are both about the size of Ryu with rune symbols on various area's etched in. He gives them a flap and starts flying quietly towards the black boat.

He glances over at the assembled grew and shivers. He knew who Draven was from the stories of the wars, but he never thought he might actually met him. This is almost too unreal, but its happening. He never actually thought he could be involved in saving the world, but here he is.

He quietly grasps the edge of the boat, about twenty yards away from where the ice warriors are. He disengages his wings and gasps for breath. He always had the ability to use those wings, but it takes too much of his ki to even fly a short distance. He shakes his head and grasps tighter with his left hand.

He looks back towards Duilin and gives him a thumbs up with his right hand. Ryu steadies himself on the edge of the boat and flicks his right wrist. Five kunai imbeed themselves in the side of the ship. Ryu reaches up and grasps one with both his hands. He steals a glance towards Draven and clears his mind.

Ryu steadily makes his way up the ship, throwing kunai whenever he needs a hand or foot hold. Soon enough, his right hands grasps on the edge of the starboard side. He steadies himself once more and flips up onto the top of the ship. He rolls and quickly grasps the hilts of both his katana's, ready to fight off anyone, but so far no one has noticed him.

He quietly does a set of handseals with both hands, moving in a blur as he soon shimmers and then disappears from sight, making his ki, chi and chakra non-visible to people. Luckily he never used magic in his life, so his magical abilites are scratch at best.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Monday January 24th, 2005

"Weapon's systems are engaged!" Bite tells Frost.

"Allright, wait, for Lars' signal to fire!" Frost replies

"Hey, I think somebody just jumped onto the boat!"

"Yeah, stay here, Bite. I'll go check it out..."

Frost, armed out, his Ice Sword and pick axe. He walked slowly to the deck of the ship.

"Well, well, if it isn't Wang-Chung, or whatever your name is supost to be, I don't give a sack of Albatros dropings!" Frost calls as he sees Kami-Ryu "Let's get to the iceing part! Come on!"

He runs at Kami-Ryu and swings his Ice Sword at his torso...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday January 24th, 2005

Ryu slips out of his jitsu (technique) and jumps slightly over the sword, making it pass under him. He lands slightly on his feet, on the flat of the blade facing Frost.

Ryu reaches behind with his left hand and pulls the spear out of its sheath, resting it lightly on his left shoulder.

"So...you wish to fight." Ryu commented as he stepped off the sword. He held his spear steady as he jumped back and flicked his right hand, causing several kunai to fly towards the ice warrior.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Monday January 24th, 2005

(Just in case: The black ship is an airship, floating several hundred feet above ground with everyone else. There's no ocean nearby!)

Draven's eyes shifted to the left, fixing on Zeros' and the other new arrivals.

"The pleasure is all mine. Don't worry, you'll get your turn..."

Arms still folded, the burning man returned his gaze to Haraldur.

"Oh, my. Was that an insult? I'm so terribly hurt..."

Draven waved his left arm outwards, sending a wave of fire into the oncoming orbs, melting them before they could come close. The flame continued on at a downward angle, spiraling into the dead forest below, wreaking havoc on the twisted trees...

At the same time he extended his right arm before him, a crimson orb appearing before his palm. The bright sphere quickly swelled to two feet in diameter before he blasted it at his opponent with enough force to mangle a stone wall...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Tuesday January 25th, 2005

Haraldur caused a giant oak to be uprooted from the ground, and to fly upwards at huge speed. It hit the fireball, obliterating it, and catching fire before falling to the ground, setting the nearby drought blighted forest alight.

Haraldur threw at Draven a large dark red swirling orb, which, if it hit, would cause Draven to fall to the ground like a stone.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 25th, 2005

Duilin then looked at Draven It is him....But how could he have survived when the island exploded? He then look down at Armic That guy is going to get really hurt, if he falls all the way down.. He then looks at the ship That's a big ship...

Hmm....I think I'll stop looking at everything and thinking about it

He then looks back at Draven "Ah, what the hell..." He then raises his arms over his head and then starts aborbing heat, the famous deamon fire ball appears, it's about 1 meter in diameter, he then tosses it at Lars.

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Frost, swings his weapons, slashinh away at the kunai, one hits him in the torso, but he keeps his balance. He then dashes at Kami-Ryu jumping into the air and swinging a kick at Kami-Ryu's head...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday January 25th, 2005

Ryu turns his head sideways so the kick grazes his left side, causing his hood to be cut off, revealing his face. The bandages suddenly started to fall off, causing Ryu to jump backwards and try to hold them in place with his other hand. He looks towards Frost and shrugs. He drops his hands, causing the bandages to fal away, revealing his face.

Under the bandages was a horrific scene to say the least. Where there was once an eye was now a blood red eye with a white pupil. The whole area around his eye had viens poping up, looking as if his face has a spiderweb growing outwards from the eye. All the skin where the bandages were was dark rotting flesh that leaves nothing to the imagination.

On top of his head, you can clearly see where some of the skull is supposed to be. In various places, chunks of rotting flesh and some parts of his skull are ripped off, showing of the brain or muscle tissue.

Ryu stays back with his spear and throws his left arm outwards. A blue ball of ki about the size of a beachball fly's outwards and towards the ice warrior positon.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 25th, 2005

Frost stares blanky at Kami-Ryu's face, it was freakiest thing he had ever seen in his life. "Holy fu-" Frost yells but get's cut off as soon as the ki ball hit's him, he stumbles to the ground, in pain. He rubs his face, and then recovers himself back up.

"Your dead, Nerco-Chung!" Frost yells. He then runs at Kami-Ryu and swings his Pick Axe at Ryu's legs, atempting to hook his target's legs causeing him to fall...

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Tuesday January 25th, 2005

Nevina hovered down towards the ground until she had solid earth beneath her feet.
She glared towards Armic and automatically felt a feeling of repulsion.
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Armic stared at Nevina, and had a similar feeling. He could not tolerate the Holiness surrounding her.

It was driving him mad, he was forced to escape somehow. He chanted, speaking to Qor in a foreign tongue. He was surrounded by a red aura, and he floated upwards a bit. His eyes were rolled back in his head, and he screamed, "All hail Qor the Veil!!" And he quickly went to the ground, through the ground, sending himself into hell.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday January 25th, 2005

Ryu stumbles as the pick gets him in his right leg, gasing it slightly. Blood poured down his leg as he removed it with force and stumbled back. He kicks the pick away with his metal leg and stabs forwards with his spear.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday January 25th, 2005

The spears stabs Frost, and he yelps in pain, as he lowers abit to the ground. The spear is slightly stuck into him, he then swings his Ice Sword in a vertcal motion at Kami-Ryu's right shoulder.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday January 25th, 2005

In a flash of red, Draven shot up into the air like a rocket. Haraldur's and Duilin's energy balls collided underneath him, the opposing magics causing a thundering explosion.

"Tch! A tad too crowded..."

Draven brought both hands to the sky, his aura of flame flaring.

"Ragnar, my apologies. I'm afraid I'm going to have to postpone our little duel... Do try to stay alive until we next meet..."

Several dozen points of red light pushed though the overcast sky, high above...

Where in blazes did Armic go...?

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

"Oh, I could not disappoint you in that respect..."

Haraldur sees Frost fighting Ryu.

"Hmmm... Ice Warrior..."

He threw a fireball at Frost, just to get his attention.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

Ryu lets the weapon hit him in the right shoulder. His cloak his split, but his right arm his unharmed, other then sparks where the Ice Sword hit his metal arm. Ryu looks to the sky and sees the ball. Ryu twists his spear, hoping to cause more pain (its a three-pronged spear) and jumps back quickly, blood staining the blade.

He stuffs the spear back to somewhere, making the weapon disappear. His right hand reaches inside his robes and throws several shuriken towards Frost while his left hand unsheaths the katana with the sapphire gem, Ocean Breeze, out of its sheath. He holds it loosely by his left side as he waits for him to strike.

He glances back at Bite and flicks several senbon (metal needles) towards vital points in his left arm.

Zeros' also glances at Ryu's battle, but turns away. He glances at Haraldur then to Duilin and the three others nearby.

"We need to find Draven again. He could quickly become a pest." Zeros' unfolds his arms and cups his hands around his mouth.

"RYU! YOU HANDLE THE ICE WARRIORS!" Ryu looks towards Zeros' and gives him a thumbs up with his right hand, singling an (OK).

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

The attack caught Bite by surprize. Most of them hit him, yet he kept his balance. Bite then blasted at the door way of the control deck, freezeing it shut, fortifing himself in there.

The fire ball missed Frost as he fell to the ground. He was bleeding very baddly. He looked at Ryu and glared. "DIE!!!" he then threw his pick axe at him.

Duilin looked around, and then at Haraldur "Haraldur, we should probally blow up the ship, I need to to distract Bite wile I try and get into the control area, okay?" Duilin subjested.

He got sick of waiting and blasted the weapons system at Haraldur and Duilin. Duilin drove to the right dodgeing the blast...

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

Ryu looked towards the Duilins yell and then to the weapons system's firing. He didn't have time to react as the pick axe gashed him in his left side. He screamed in pain as the pick dug through his skin. He looked at the wound and gritted his teeth. He pulled on it with his right hand and screamed in pain again as the pick left a 3 inch gash on his side, bleeding all the way down his metal leg.

He threw the pick axe towards the side of the boat and reached inside his cloak, pulling out banadages. He grimced as the wound started to freeze, but managed to tear off the parts of the flesh with his blade, staining it red. He made sure the bandages were sercure and walked towards Frost, his blade still held by his left side.

"I hope you like death." He said to Frost. He raised the blade high in his left hand while his metal arm just hung down his side. Ryu quickly flipped the blade in mid-air, the hilt pointed skywards and the tip towards Frost and rammed it straight downwards.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

Frost screamed blood murder in pain. He started to cough out blood. His body could take it anymore. He gave Ryu the evil eye, and took his last breath, and died...

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

Around Armic swarmed a dark, hideous plane of existance. Battered souls screamed in agony as they are currupt, mortals residing here are tortured horribly, having them die by removal of organs, only to ressurect them afterwards. Those are just the fortunate ones of this planes residents.

The land itself is black, but much is covered by never dying flames. As Armic passes, the very Deamons and Hell-Hound Archons themselves salute him. He walks through the flames without so much as a blink, hears the most hideous banchee wails without a cringe.

He continues through the open lands and reaches a fortress, close to a grove of odorous dead trees. Before reaching for the door, a cloaked figure appears. Armic expected this.

He (Armic) bows.
"Master..." he says, on bended knee.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

Frost falls down on a stone bord and a fimular dark deamon arives. He then starts ripping out his organs. He then goes to the table beside Frost's and starts doing the same to Darion.

"And a rip, rip here! And a rip, rip there! Here a rip! There a rip!"


//Heh, just a post for fun. Cookie to the person who guess who the deamon is!//

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

//Uh... Nex? <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='happy.gif' />//

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

//Nex.//

Haraldur said to Zeros': "We should not trouble ourselves about Draven at present. We should destroy the weapons first, and not get slowed down by him, which is probably his aim. The weapons are potentially a source of power for him, and we should destroy them as soon as possible."

Haraldur saw the bridge of the ship, and threw a couple of fireballs at it, in aim of panicking Bite.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

Zeros' looked over towards Haraldur and he did have to agree with the logic.

"Leave the Frost Warriors to Ryu. He is plently strong enough to take them out...I hope."

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Ryu calmly stepped back and flicked his sword, sending the blood to the ground before he sheathed it. He looked up towards Haraldur and sighed. He softly touches the wound to his side and grits his teeth in pain.

"Damn..." He mutters as he limps towards Bite's positon.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

//Gives cookie to Cyber Wolf and Haraludar//

Duilin then sored of over to the ship and then landed on the deck. He then walked over to Kami-Ryu. "Whoa, are you allright, maybe Nevina could patch you up..." He then looks at his face, he dosen't bother to comment.

The fire ball startled Bite as it hit the ship. With Armic and Lars gone and his brother dead, he relizes he's going to die, but he's not going to give up without a fight!

"I'll never give up! You guys are dead you hear! Dead! Ahahaha!" Bite yells. He then starts sealing every posible entry of the room, with the ice thrower. He then reloaded his weapon.

"Only 2 crystals left..." He then searched threw the storage cabnet's. He found a cross bow and some arrows for it. He then loaded an arrow into the crossbow, and held it his right hand and his Ice Thrower in the other. "Come and get me suckers!"

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Posted by: Xorlak on Wednesday January 26th, 2005

Flying higher and higher, Draven brought both hands down. The red points of light above pierced the clouds. Great balls of fire began to rain from the heavens, massacring the already ravaged terrain. Draven angled the attack so the meteors would not strike his airship, but rather the area where he and Haraldur were previously dueling and beyond. This consequently divided his enemies in two: those who had made it to the airship and those who had not...

Draven flipped in the air, flying in a wide arc, and landed on the far rear deck of the ship, just barely escaping his own attack. The ship had been set at 10% speed a while back and was slowly trekking northward. Time to see how this thing really moves...

Draven turned and began to fly towards the control room, which was situated above the deck near the front of the ship, skimming inches above the black metal floor as he went. He noticed a few other figures were on board up ahead as well...

"Looks like we'll have to flick a few flies off first..."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday January 27th, 2005

"Boss!?" Bite cries "They killed my brother! Those wormeaters killed my brother!"

He straped his ice gun over his shoulder, and then fired the cannon again at Zeros' and Zion (I'm not 100% sure if I'm able to hit them, if I can't just ignore that part then)

"You stupid jerks are gonna pay!"

Duilin then looked at Draven and then Haraldur "Let me take him, you destroy the ship!" He then looked back at Draven "So, I guess you are back. Remember me? Like the new look?" He smiled and then trusted his left hand out, blasting a fireball at Draven.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday January 27th, 2005

Haraldur flew down very fast towards the ship, landing behind Draven, causing the deck to crack under the huge force of the blow caused by his huge speed.

He threw two large fireballs into the control room: they would not affect Draven much, but he would destroy the Ice Warrior first if he could, to make an easier fight.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday January 27th, 2005

Bite looked at the fire ball in shock, he fired his cross bow at it, instead of his Ice Thrower. The fire ball hit him, he was still alive, but the other to burnt him to a crips...

//Ice Warrior Bros. defeated!//

//Will Duilin be upgrade to Level 3? No! <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> //

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Thursday January 27th, 2005

"Master... Draven and I need your assistance on the mortal plane..." Armic said, still on his knee, bowing to Qor.

The omnipotent force merely nodded, and he became a black vapor, entering Armic through his nostrils.

The mortal lept up and screamed in pain, his eyes bulging, pupils rolled back in his head. He raised his arms to the fiery sky as he inherited Qor into his own body. He burst into a purple flame, emitting a black smoke.

His body was medamorphosing under the veil of fire.

The fire began to subside, as did Armic's screams. And there stood. A near perfect blend of God and Mortal. He opened his eyes, red fire emitted from his optical orbs, which were pitch black. He waved his hair out of his face, revealing gray, corpse-like skin. Yet it was rock solid. Lumps began to strain on the top of his cranium, and on his back. Then outbursted horns. Somewhat blunt, and only about 1 1/2" long, they only added to his fearsome look. From his back emerged wings. Glorious red wings, 4 feet in length each, gave him an overall wingspan of 9 feet. He folded his wings, crossed his arms, and as he spoke, 2 voices spoke, in eerie unisen, "We're Ready..."
\~|~[Armic becomes level Three]~|~/

Armic brought his arms together, twisting his hands in a somatic spell, became translucent, then disappeared.

He reappears in the exact same locale he had occupied before his descention into Oblivion, with a dark smirk on his face.
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As Armic returned, Nevina suddenly felt the energy drain from her body. She fell to the ground, shaking franctically.
"H-he's too.. vial..." She managed to sputter, before completely collapsing and blacking out.
\~|~[Nevina becomes level One]~|~/

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday January 27th, 2005

Zeros' looks at Draven and then to Armic. He curses silently and flaps all six of his wings and burst forwards, disappearing from view as he blasts through the sound barrier, reappearing in front of Armic and Nervina's unconcious state.

Any trees were uprooted violently as the sudden burst of air caused dust, rocks and any thing that could not survive the super sonic blast flew backwards in a massive surge of trees, rocks and dust.

Zeros' stood there, arms crossed, facing towards Armic as he cast a protective barrier around Nevina and slowly levitated her away from the battle field.

"Qor. Never thought I would see you agian or any of your minions. Quite a surprise." Zeros' starts to chuckle. "Trying to revive a long dead religion? Amusing isn't it? I thought Genma's destruction of your cathederal and banishing you to an alternate realm would of destroyed you forever. Guess not."

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Ryu looks at Draven and curses under his breath. He knowns he's not near powerful enough to even hurt him. Ryu releases a heavy sigh as he stumbles forwards towards the sealed door.

He looks at it and sighs again. He starts a complicated series of handseals and soon a fireball imerges and burns away the ice. Ryu stumbles in and starts to look for anything to stop the ship.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday January 27th, 2005

Draven stopped, smacking Duilin's fireball away with his left hand. At that instant Haraldur's two fireballs whizzed past him from behind on both sides, smashing through the outer windows of the control room ahead. Draven could hear the scream of the last surviving ice warrior...

He turned halfway and gave Haraldur a raised eyebrow.

"Gentlemen, I'm going to have to ask you to kindly get your rotten carcasses off my blasted ship..."

The yellow energy that visibly coursed through the wires embedded throughout the black walls of the airship suddenly turned red... flowing from Draven's intense crimson aura as he stood in the center of the deck. With a mere hand gesture, all the cannons fixed to various points along the deck began to move independently... At once, hundreds of rounds of concentrated shadow energy began to fire at the trespassers standing on the outer deck from various directions...

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday January 28th, 2005

Duilin quickly thrusted his hand at one of the energy blasts, he aborbed the heat from it, and then blasted a fire ball at it, makeing it desolve into nothingness. It took quite abit of stamina for him to do that some more times. So he swung his mallet out at an other blast. It worked, but his mallet was blown to pieces.

"Damn..." Duilin relizes that he'll have to use the mace, but he dosen't just yet. Instead, he flys at Draven, trying to aviod the energy blast, prepareing a double kick at his head and torso...


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Meanwhile...what appears to be robed man, approaches Ellena. He looks down at her unconscious body. He kneels down, and shakes her lightly.

"Hello?" He says in ghastly voice...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday January 28th, 2005

3 cannons shot their beams of shadow energy at Haraldur, who just let them hit him. Blue points of light went up them towards the canons, which exploded. Haraldur was unhurt.

Haraldur smirked, then shot the energy he had absorbed from the canons at Draven.

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Ellenna remains unconscious. She looks slightly green and very ill.

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Posted by: Kahn on Friday January 28th, 2005

Can looks at the robed man and draws his dagger.

"What do you want?"

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday January 28th, 2005

"Oh, nothing I'm just a simple travler. Why aren't you helping this girl, lying on the ground, she looks very ill." The robed man says to Khan.

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Friday January 28th, 2005

Armic merely hissed at Zeros' and his face twitched at the name of "Genma".
He turned towards Haraldur and spat. Qor recognized his bloodline immediately, but said nothing. [I refer to Armic by his name and by "qor" now, since they haven merged]

He turned his back to Zeros' and Haraldur and extended his wings, raised fro the ground, twisted his hands in a rigerous fashion, and let out a Banchee-like scream. The earth cracked, and a rip appeared in the air. Out of both locales spilled hellish deamons, a few even favored Zeros' in appearance.

--Deamons continue spewing from the holes even after the end of this post--

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday January 28th, 2005

(I love how you two keep timing your attacks. Heh...)

Draven leapt straight up into the air. Haraldur's energy blast was nearly upon the location he stood an instant ago, right where Duilin was heading...

Draven brought his right hand above his head, a bright crimson orb forming above.

"What's with all these freaky half breed humans with wings nowadays, anyway?"

From his position above the airship, Draven could see the ground below beginning to swarm with demons. In the center was a demonesque figure that seemed half familiar and half stranger...

Armic...? How very... interesting...

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 29th, 2005

Duilin then noticeing what Draven has done, flips himself in the air, landing on the ground, the energy blast flies right by him, he stumbles backwards almost looseing his balance.

"That was close, let's try and be more carefull next time." He says to Haraldur. He then blasts a wave of flame around himself crateing a shield of flame, a few cannon energy blasts hit it, and then the sheild fades away....

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Posted by: Trent on Saturday January 29th, 2005

//Sorry for my absence. I got Ubuntu Linux recently and was playing with it. <img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/happy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='happy.gif' /> Internet doesn't work on it. >_< Also got my normal computer set up with a new 80GB hard drive and was playing with it too.

Zion, Tsu, and Xenai snapped out of their little trances, watching a ball of fire shoot down in front of them.

"What the heck happened to us?" asked Zion, dazed and confused.

Xenai had recovered from his trance much faster. "That's not our problem right now. The main problem is tall, dark, and evil." Obviously in reference to Draven.

Zion and Xenai took out their swords, and went into ready stances while Tsu just floated back to watch.

//Taking 3 posts instead of 1 because of being gone so long. Hope that's okay.
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EW: 5
ZW: 5

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Posted by: Kahn on Saturday January 29th, 2005

Kahn puts his dagger away.

"well mabye I was planning on helping her, but I don't really know my way around."

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday January 29th, 2005

Floating above the airship, Draven brought his left hand up. The controls inside the navigation room began moving independently. The ship began a diagonal climb, the nose pointing higher and higher into the air. The speed increased dramatically as well. The formerly horizontal deck now became 45 degree incline, which alongside the drastically increasing wind speed made it nearly impossible to stand on without flying off into the open sky...

Just incase that was not enough to rid his ship of these meddlesome pests, Draven threw the ball of crimson energy he gathered earlier straight down at the deck, which exploded an instant before striking it. Eight smaller balls shot out in all directions, four changing their trajectory and heading towards Haraldur, and four towards Duilin...

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 29th, 2005

"Oh, no! What's going on?" Duilin cried, as the ship began to move at great speed. He grabed on tight to the ship, but suddenly three fire balls shot by Draven fleu right at him, him have half immunity to fire was not burnt a great deal, but lost his grip, and fell of the ship, flying into the air...

Frost and Bite's corpses also flue off fadeing into the distance....

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"Well, then my friend. I find it very odd, that somebody who stand here, doing nothing in the presence of a sick girl, wile a large ship is flieing in the air..." He then looks up into the air...

"Oh, it seems to have dissappeared...Anyways, What is your name?" He asks Kahn

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday January 29th, 2005

Haraldur's aura became watery, and he then shot upwards, to collide with Draven, and to grapple him. At the same time it caused him to dodge the fireballs. He spirt water above him to hit Draven before he did.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 29th, 2005

Inside the interor, Ryu stumbles abit as he was thrown off balance and collided with a wall. He screams in pain as his wound is hit by the ship. He struggles to remain upright. He breaths heavily and concentrates the chakra to his feet, allowing him perfect grip.

He trudges along and soon he is met with the controls of the ship. He looks at them and sighs. He takes a running dash backwards and flipps though the air while turning around and throwing out dozens of kunai at high speeds towards the control of the ship.

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Zeros' calmly levitated the body of Nevina to a safer place while extending all six of his wings outwards while the demons poured from the surface of the earth.

He shot up, breaking the sound barrier while some of the nearby demons stumble. Zeros' stops about 250 feet in the air and grasps his katana and unsheaths it, transforming it into its 12 foot form, and holding it towards the demons.

"Time to unleash my true aura..." Zeros' said to himself. He raised the blade high above his head while a sickly black aura enveloped Zeros' along with his swords. Tendrils soon started lashing out in the air, wreathing with pain.

"Kijin Raishuu Dan Advanced." Zeros' said calmly while he swiped his sword dowards. In one attack, five sickly black blades of ki flew towards where all the demons were. They cried out in agony as they were enveloped in the ki attack, leaving nothing more then death and destruction in its wake.

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Here is an explination of his aura, this combines demon and angel auras. Zeros' is also a character in another one of my stories, so this description is from it.

[Instead of a cocky aura that most expected to expose, they stood in shock and awe as he expanded an aura easily 30 times his own size that was black as night. His aura emanated pain and torment for anyone that crossed him. Sympathy was only in the slightest traces. The aura was also cold and spiteful, saying that he had experienced much grief throughout his life.

There was also love and caring present under the dark and grimy interior of the cold, spiteful aura. It showed that this man had the power to hate and to kill without remorse, but could be the most caring person in the world. There were also undertones that promise anyone to hurt his friends, family or someone very close to him, say a girlfriend or wife, he would promise that they die a slow and very painful death.]

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 29th, 2005

"Must...get...back...." Duilin groaned wile spining in the air. He then thought for a moment, he was still experementing with his deamon abilities, it was time to try another one, he then charged flame in his hands, then pionted them behind him, he then spread his hands out, keeping the fire in his grip, he then blasted the fire, and flew at the same time, somehow this made him fly much faster then normal. As he was flying he spoted Zeros' and Nevina. There were a bunch of deamons, around him.

"Zeros'!" He called, glad to see him. A few of the deamons noticed him, so he then swung out the mace. He spun it around afew times to intimiate his openents. He then dove down into the air, and swung the mace at one of the deamon's faces, smashing it in and flue back up. He looked back at Zeros' "Is Nevina okay!?"

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Saturday January 29th, 2005

--Demons continue coming through the portals--

A pack of 10 demons rush at Haraldur, all acting independantly.

Armic warped from his station on the ground, and came to the control room.
"Draven, speed this thing up! The Deamon portals won't stay open forever!" Armic cried in his creepy 2 person voice.

As Ryu's attack sped towards the controls, Armic ran out in front of them and cast a black-glass shield in front of himself.

It stopped all the attacks, but one. One came slower than the others, and as Armic let his shield down, it struck him in his left wing.

Armic wailed in pain as the blood dripped from the rip in his wing.

//Keep in mind, these Demons have over a milienia of training under their belts. Disposing of an entire army of them seems a bit.. unrealistic, without it being some sort of Demon's-bane attack or something. I'd say killing about 5 a post would be fair, but not more than that. That's up to Xorlak's judgement though. BTW, 1 post= 15 deamons spawn. There are currently 5 unnocupied deamons, and 10 attacking Haraldur.//

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Posted by: Trent on Saturday January 29th, 2005

"What are these flippin' demons?" Zion finally noticed them all. "Spread!!!" A large water pillar shot up underneath a bunch of demons, taking them out.

"How the hell should I know?" Xenai looked at a bunch of demons coming toward him. "Eruption!!!" A pillar of fire similar to Zion's water pillar met the demons with the same fate.

Tsu was surrounded, meanwhile. "Crap... I don't need to die yet. I'm only 18!" He started spinning around rapidly with his sword extended. "Kuon Kaiten!!!" He would take out any demon that was around him, and all those that charged at him while he was spinning.

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EW: 4
ZW: 4

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday January 29th, 2005

A deamon flies at Duilin, and starts blasting fireballs at him. He trusts his hand out infront of the fireballs and aborbs them, he then tosses it back at him, but it had no effect.
Pure deamons...damn...
Duilin then swung the mace at one of them, but he grabed the chain. Duilin then pulled the mace, and punched the deamon in the face, causeing it to let go of the mace, he swung the mace back at the deamon, smashing it apart.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday January 29th, 2005

"Duilin take care of Nevina. She fainted from the dark taint Qor expended." Zeros' said while dropping to the ground, his sword held in his grasp. He dropped the the ground and lashed out with his sword, taking one demon by surprise, slicing its head clean off.

Zeros' didn't waist time as he sheathed his sword and brown tendrils of magic started crackling across the surface of his right palm. He raised his hand and slammed it hard into the ground, causing a crater a few inches deep to expell a spiderweb of cracks as brown tendrils shot across the ground and under the demons.

"DUG HAUT!" With that said, spikes of earth erupted from where the tendrils stopped, causing several demons to become impaled on the spikes, but not dead. They roared in pain and started to throw fireballs. Zeros' calmly swept his hand in front of him, making a shield of ki, blocking the fireballs as he disappeared from sight.

He reappeared behind the demons and smashed there heads in with his extreme strength. Black blood flowed down his fists as he worked his way across the battle field.

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Ryu grimced as he noticed the occupant of the room. He knew he wouldn't be able to leave here alive if he stayed.

"Kage Bushin no Jitsu." He muttered under his breath. Instantly, a 100 Kami-ryu's appeared in the room and glared at Armic. They all drew kunai from there sleeves and started hurling them in tandem towards the demon.

Meanwhile, the real Ryu managed to slip out unnoitced and slowly made his way towards the deck.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday January 30th, 2005

//How can 10 daemons attack me when I am moving up at high speed about to crash into Draven?//

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday January 30th, 2005

Duilin flue down towards Nevina's position. He picks her up and then lands down on tge ground. Several deamons spoted him and began running at him, but he just ran off. They were cataching up, so with one hand Duilin casted a fire ball down at the ground before the deamons, causeing an explotion, once it cleared up, Duilin and Nevina were went off into the city....

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Sunday January 30th, 2005

//The deamons goal is to be a distraction and allow an escape. If they're unable to attack you now, they're chasing you. They have wings, and they're hells-spawn for gods sake. They aren't exactly turtles....//

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Posted by: Haraldur on Sunday January 30th, 2005

//OK, they are chasing me.//

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Posted by: Kahn on Sunday January 30th, 2005

Kahn looked at Ellenna then back at the robed man.

"My names Kahn, she's Ellenna. How bout you"

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday January 30th, 2005

Draven brought both arms to his side, charged for a second, then thrust both forward, sending an intense wall of flame towards the impending Haraldur. He then shot downwards, dodging the his adversary's charge just as the ship below flew past.

Landing on the ship's deck, he performed a polite bow, bringing his right arm before him and his left out.

"'Till we next meet, Ragnar..."

The speed of the ship increased exponentially, slicing through the thick clouds ahead and disappearing into the distance...

Draven turned and began to walk towards the control room, seemingly unaffected by the torrential winds...

(Chapter 4 ends one week from today -- Feb. 6th)

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Posted by: Dude Man on Sunday January 30th, 2005

The robed man, steped closer, revealing part of his icy blue face...

"Scumfreeze..." He grined

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Duilin keeps flying his way towards the city, he'll be there in one post...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Monday January 31st, 2005

Haraldur dodges the wall of flame, causing him to stop, and then the ship is out of his view. He does not know where it is.

"Damn!"

The wall crashed into the pursuing daemons, killing five of them. There were five left.

"Ooohhh... fun..."

He took the staff part of himself and lengthened it, and it came to the daemons. From the staff came many blades which cut them up, and then entered the staf again, which melded back into Haraldur.

He then looked around to get his bearings and to see if there was anyone else around, and to rest on the air a bit.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Monday January 31st, 2005

Ryu quietly slips out of the ship and stumbles as the winds push him back. He steadies himself with chakra and starts running, not worrying as he passed Draven and jumps off the ship, arms spread. He concentrates and his two leathery wings sprout from his back and he floats downwards towards safety...


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Zeros' stops and glanced towards the sky and sees Ryu falling. He crushes the skull of the demon he's fighting and readies his wings, spreading them and then taking off at supersonic speeds towards Ryu.

Ryu is breathing heavily now as his ki is being effected by the wound in his side. He managed to use chakra and ki to close it and stop the blood flow, but the exhaustion coupled with all the ki and chakra he's been using and is steadily going towards conciousness. He stumbles in the air and starts falling, loosing the concentration on his wings.

Zeros' speeds up against and dives, reaching Ryu in an instant as he breaks through the sound barrier. A light sheen of sweat now comes across Zeros' brow as he catches Ryu and holds him in his arms and flys off towards where Duilin disappeared, flying at a slow and steady pace now.

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Monday January 31st, 2005

Armic dunked down and covered himself with his cloak and it became a shade of steely gray, absorbing the blows of Ryuu's attack.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Monday January 31st, 2005

Draven turned as he noticed a figure bail off the side of the deck, but he flew past too quickly for Draven to take note of who he was. Probably not important.

He continued to the control room, where he found several dozen images of that same man wildly attacking Armic.

"They are but illusions..."

he said, as one leapt towards him. He got a good look at it: a man with a mauled face, blood dripping from his wounds, and metallic limbs... like a ruined man pieced back together. Quite disgusting really... The image disappeared in smoke as it aimed a punch at Draven's chest...

Draven placed both hands before him and let lose two low energy waves of flame at groups of remaining images on either side of Armic, taking care not to damage to control room instruments.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday February 1st, 2005

All the illusions disappeared with a *POP*.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Tuesday February 1st, 2005

Duilin arived at Laus. He walked threw the city, carring Nevina.

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Meanwile Scumfreeze noticed that something flew into town.

"I bit you farewell for now, I must check on something..." He then dashed off.

Scumfrezze, then molded himself into a pile of slime, when nobody was watching, he then slithered around, following Duilin.

Duilin senced something was near him, so he turned around, he saw nothing. Scumfreeze, slithered around a near by house and got infront of Duilin, wile his back was turned. He then splated himself out, allowing Duilin to walk over him. A foot print was made on him.

Got it! He then slithered off, over to the area, of the pub. He then spoted, huge foot prints of a Yettie, and some of some other people. He found, pair of two foot prints, matching the Ice Bros. and one pair matching the one he collected

Yes, this is the deamon I am looking for. That means I can the Ice Bros. if I follow him!

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Posted by: Kahn on Tuesday February 1st, 2005

"If I follow in Scumfreeze direction he may lead us back into the Laus"

Kahn picked up Ellenna and ran in that direction.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Tuesday February 1st, 2005

With the ship finally secure of enemies, Draven walked over to one of the control panels and flipped a switch. A yellow barrier engulfed the airship, masking the great magical aura that the ship exuded as well as the auras inside... It would be difficult to track the ship from afar. The barrier also served to reduce the exterior wind, making for a quieter, smoother ride.

Draven turned to the newly transformed Armic and approached the intimidating demon-esque figure, stroking his chin curiously.

"Hmmm... you're much more than a simple dark-cleric, aren't you?"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Tuesday February 1st, 2005

Zeros' landed on the outskirts of Laus and gently expanded his aura and magic, willing it to heal Ryu. A gentle glow surrounded Ryu as his wounds visibly healed. Zeros' smiled at him.

Zeros' started walking, his six wings folded behind him as he walked. He didn't know where he was going, only that he let the good spirits guide him. He searched out with his senses and found Duilin and Nevina, apparently alive from the conflict. He smiled and began walking towards their positon, glad their alive.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Wednesday February 2nd, 2005

"Zeros!" Duilin called happily, "I should have know you were able to beat those deamons. Nevina hasn't been moveing much, be she's still alive. We need to heal her."

Meanwile Scumfreeze was watching them from not to far away...

Ah, ha! It's the other deamon! Perfect! They are both there.

He then senced that he to was being followed, it was Kahn. But he was no matter, he must find out what happened to the Ice Bros. He then slowing creeped closer to Duilin and Zeros', still appearing as a semi-large frozen puddle...

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Posted by: Haraldur on Wednesday February 2nd, 2005

Having rested a little, Haraldur gently floated towards Laus.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday February 2nd, 2005

"Yeah..." Zeros' sighed as he held Ryu. "Ryu's pretty shaken up. He had to use almost all his chakra and ki to escape from Draven and Armic." Zeros' said.

"If it was just Armic, Ryu MIGHT of been able to handle himself at full power, but even I would have a very hard time beating Draven. Both me and Haraldur would." He said while looking around. Zeros' looked in Scumfreezes direction for a moment, narrowing his eyes slightly.

"I could of...nevermind." Zeros' sighed.

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Wednesday February 2nd, 2005

Armic, now standing fully erect, let out a sickly gleeful laugh.
"No Draven, I am not just a simple Dark-Cleric. At least... not anymore."

Armic then turned his attention from Draven to his ripped wing. He bowed his head, put his hands into a praying position and enveloped himself in white and red aura. His body quivered as the rip began to shrink, finally disolving into nothingness. No scar, no blood.

"Hmmph. The darkest force the this world has given birth to, yet I still have powers more divine than a holyman could dream of. Irony." He said with a smirk.
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Nevina began to stur, but was still unconcious. She was finally recovering from her shock.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Wednesday February 2nd, 2005

Zeros' stepped over the road and towards Duilin and Nevina. He gazed down at Nevina's smaller form and sighed. He carefully reached out with one finger and lightly tapped several points near the neck, shoulders and spine, willing the body to come out of unconciousness and slowly come into the waking world by speeding up the ki and chakra flows of the body.

"There. That's all I can do for her." Zeros' said shaking his head. "I could heal her with my ki, but the malice and hate would potentially grow over time and consume her soul." He said sadly while gazing upwards at the clouds.

"The amount of hate, anger, malice, grief. Its spiteful and cold. No mercy while it slowly consumes your soul, taking all your painful memories and embracing them with vigor while the only joyful ones were slowly cast away to the side - to be forgotten and never to be remembered." He said with a sad, wistful smile.

"The only reason I hadn't gone mad is because of my incrediable control over my emotions. I never let my weakness show, no matter how unlucky a situation I am in. Sometime I wonder when can I finally die and rest in peace." He said slowly. He gazed at Duilin through half-lidded eyes.

"Duilin, remember to always embrace happier memories. Never let the anger and hate overcome you. Embrace your human side, but never forget your demon side." He said to the half-demon. "I have two sides myself; half-angel and half-demon. I embraced the demon side for revenge while my angelic side sat by and watched me."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday February 3rd, 2005

"Thank's I'll keep that in mind. I supose I'll just stick with the control of fire to protect myself and others."

"I used to think I had a bad life, but now I relise I haven't really suffered much at all. But sometimes it difficult, when a bunch of people you knew for ever, just started dieing all around you..." Duilin took a deap breath "But hey, I avenged them. Darion and Nex are dead." He looks down at Nevina, as he is holding her. "Think she'll wake up soon?"

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He wishes to die, eh? Well I supose I might aid him in that, after I find out were the Ice Bros. are

Scumfrezze then turns himself back into humen shape and puts back on his robe, he then slowly walks toward Duilin and Zeros'.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday February 3rd, 2005

Haraldur was above Scumfreeze when he changed, and came to the conclusion that he was sneaking up on his companions. He rushed down towards the ground, throwing two fireballs at him. His eyes were in a frenzy.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday February 3rd, 2005

Scumfreeze, changed himself into a blob and tossed himself away, the fireballs only burning the robe. He then formed back into a humeniod shape, and then threw is fist in Haraldur's derection but it swung it formed into a tentacle and wraped and atempted to wrap around Haraldur.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Thursday February 3rd, 2005

Haraldur grabbed hold of the tentacle that was trying to wrap around him, threw a fireball at a nearby wooden thatched house, which burst into flame, and threw Scumfreeze at it, because he was holding the tentacle.

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Posted by: Zeros' on Thursday February 3rd, 2005

Zeros' set Ryu on the ground and turned on Scumfreeze at a very slowly. He had a hand on his katana and very slowly unsheathed it, making it seem dramitc as the wind blowed at his back, making his hair and coat shift menicingly.

In one swift, blurring motion, a sickly black crescent blade of hate, grief, malice, pain and anger headed towards Scumfreeze. As it traveled along the ground, it created a gash in the road that yeiled to its will while any grass around the area suddenly withered and died, along with various plants in planter boxes.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Thursday February 3rd, 2005

Scumfreeze shrank his arm back to normal size, bringing Haraldur into the fire aswell.

"Ack, you freaks! You must have killed the Ice Bros. Now to deal with the real power of The Ice Warriors!"

Scumfreeze formed into a flying creature and soared out of the way of Zeros' attack. He then dove down at Duilin. Duilin quickly, but gently laid Nevina down on the ground. Scumfreeze then formed his wings into blades and slashed at Duilin's legs, cuting them very badly.

Duilin fell to the ground...

//Okay, for a litte wile, Duilin will only be level one, because of his damage, and now Scumfreeze will be Level Three, here is the next 'boss fight'//

Scumfreeze, then form himself back into a humeniod but kept his blade arms, he then dashed at Zeros' swinging one blade at his oppents neck and the other at his torso.

//I have a fealing this guy will last about as long as Dippy's character....uhh....the Yettie guy....//

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Posted by: Xorlak on Thursday February 3rd, 2005

Draven nodded to Armic, responding in his philosophical Lars tone:

"If opposites were not identical in all but a few aspects, they wouldn't be opposites now, would they?"

He turned and walked to the main navigation panel.

"I see you know who I really am, unsurprisingly. Saves some explanation..."

He took hold of the airship's "steering wheel", which resembled the large rudder wheel of a classical ship, and made some minor adjustments to the course. The airship was now silently blazing through the clouded skies, heading north. A setting sun broke the monotone greys of the western sky.

"Me unveiling myself serves as a double edged sword. I hadn't planned on doing it so soon... On one hand, we won't have to worry about fighting former Dark Empire officers anymore. Anyone who knows me will submit to my command, which is what I intend on capitalizing right now...

"On the other hand, Fly-Boy, Mr. Split-Personality-With-Issues, and their merry men will undoubtedly be down our throats every corner we turn...

"However, the remnants of the Dark Empires forces combined with your demonic army should be more than enough to rid the earth of the likes of them...

"The Dark Empire is dead. The time for a new era has begun... not a dark one, but a very bright one indeed... the light of my flames shall engulf the entirety of this dark continent at first, then the remnants of the word... witness the birth of The Crimson Empire... MU HU HA HA HA HA HA HAHHH!!!"

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday February 4th, 2005

Haraldur summersoulted and stood on the air. He made a huge orb of fire appear all around Zeros', to protect him. He would not be affected, but the heat was enough to quickly melt Scumfreeze.

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Posted by: CyberWolf on Friday February 4th, 2005

"Hmm... a bit color/shade obsessed are we?" Armic said with a grin.

"So, what is our next course of action, my good sir?"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday February 4th, 2005

Zeros' blurred with speed and captured Scumbreezes blade wings with his hands and held them, grinning.

"Oh? Another copy cat." Zeros' said mostly to himself. "But...you have no Gepardi blood in you. Your origins revolve around the ice?"

Zeros' held out both feet towards Scumfreeze while his wings held him aloft, sending embers from the fire dome spiraling into the air. Zeros' pushed his ki into his feet, sending a shockwave of ki faster then the speed of sound towards Scumfreeze as he held his hands.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday February 4th, 2005

Haraldur's flame began to melt away, Scumfreeze, and slow him down...

The ki blasts from Zeros' were to fast for his agility, because of the melting....he then harded himself, and as soon as the blasts hit him, he shatered and crumbled into a pile of smashed ice...



"Ack...." Duilin said, sittting up "My wounds seem to healing pretty fast..Perhaps it one of the benfits of being a deamon....I could still use some aid however..."

///Duilin is back to level 2//

Duilin picked up Nevina, and walked towards the others. "I don't think we'll be seing much of him anymore..." He then looked down at the remains of Scumfreeze. "A spy for the Ice Warriors I guess...they must be up to something those guys...But I don't think we should worry, so much...."

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Posted by: Haraldur on Friday February 4th, 2005

Haraldur landed, and said nothing. He started jumping on Scumfreeze's remains in absolute delight.

//I will be leaving the UK for France for four days on Sunday, leaving very early, so I will have one day of posting here before that. Then I will get my character to a situation where he rests for a while. Ellenna is unconscious anyway, so that is fine.//

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Posted by: Xorlak on Friday February 4th, 2005

(Good timing. Chapter 4 ends this Sunday, anyway.)

Draven responded to Armic, his gaze fixed on the clouds before the ship.

"First we're heading to the capital of the former Dark Empire. Partially because that will likely be the place with the largest force to commandeer. And partially because... well, you'll see..."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Friday February 4th, 2005

Zeros' walked over to Ryu and pulled him over in a fireman's carry, staring at the remains of Scumfreeze.

"He was weaker...guess I put too much power in that blast." He mused to himself. He shrugged and started to walk in a random direction.

"Know anywhere we can rest Duilin?" He asked over his shoulder.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Friday February 4th, 2005

"Yes, accually. I rented a house over here, I have a far amount of funature." Duilin says, leading the way. "I was heading my way over, accually....It's should be right..." He turns the conner "Here!" He points to think reqular sized house, with a dark yellow roof and a red door.

"I have two beads, a sofa and two chairs. I think's it only fare to let Ryu and Nevina have the beds. You and Haraldur can fight over the sofa." Duilin smiles "I'm gentlemen enough to let you guys choose, but Nevina and Ryu, should get the beds..."

He then opens up the door to his house "So, will this do?"

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday February 5th, 2005

Zeros' peered inside the modest house and nodded. He'd had much worse then this.

"Yeah. I've had worse." Zeros' shrugged. He walked over towards one of the beds and sat Ryu down, making sure to cover him with blankets as he covered his right eye back up with bandages. He walked over to a chair and pulled it beside the bed, kicking his feet up and closing his eyes while crossing his arms, all six of his wings folding into a more comfortable position.

"You can have whatever. This is fine enough more me." Zeros' said without opening his eyes.

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday February 5th, 2005

"You've had worse? What is that supose to mean?" Duilin says, without expecting a reply

He then places Nevina down on the other bed, and then sits down at the other chair.

"The couch is all yours Haraldur." Duilin says, folding his wings down.

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Posted by: Haraldur on Saturday February 5th, 2005

//Ah, good. When will it start again?//

Haraldur lay down on the couch, and floated up a metre and a half into the air, so as not to hit the roof.

"The couch is all yours Duilin, you have your own injuries to rest."

Haraldur fell to sleep, his dark aura shimmering around him.

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Posted by: Xorlak on Saturday February 5th, 2005

(Usually put up the signups after a week or two, then another week for people to post their profiles.)

Draven continued peering into the clouds as the ship speed though the sky. Just a few minor details to work out... No matter... they don't stand a chance...

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Posted by: Kahn on Saturday February 5th, 2005

Kahn arrived in Laus and went to the tavern. He handed Ellenna over to one of the staff.

"Make sure she gets some help."

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday February 5th, 2005

//Heh, I have a great idea for a cool character allready. Hopefully, I'll find the will to have him last//

"Now that's just werid..." Duilin says, as Haraldur floats up into the air...

"Well, have it your way..." He then lays down on the couch, but dosen't fall asleep just yet. Just to relex.

"Let's hope they wake up soon, err, well ever." Duilin says to Zeros' "After we rest we should really start to find Draven, or the rest of the weapons...."

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Posted by: Zeros' on Saturday February 5th, 2005

"Draven's a minor nusance compared to the to the threat of the weapons could insue, since they use parts of Haraldur's power." He said without opening his eyes. "We don't want another Retan incident. That is entirely possible, but on a much larger scale. Possibly the entire continent if were not careful."

"But for now, I will rest. I'll see you guys tomorrow. I expect we have a long day ahead of us."

"Oh and Duilin, to anwser your question about having worse, I've had to sleep under rocks sometimes." Zeros' said before drifting off into a meditive trance.

[End Chapter for Zeros' and Kami-Ryu.]

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Posted by: Dude Man on Saturday February 5th, 2005

Duilin continued to just lie down at the couch. He took out the golden mace and looked at it, for awile. He then placed it down on the table, near him. He then looked at his jacket he had over his shirt. He then glaced at the Dark Empire symbol, and thought about Draven's return. He then riped off the jacket and then tossed it away, into the fire place. It was not currently burning however. He then scratched his right wing and then folded them back in and then fell asleep on the couch.

[End of Chapter for Duilin]

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Posted by: Trent on Saturday February 5th, 2005

"Yeesh... Somethin' big is afoot. I can feel it." Zion looked up into the sky.

"This ain't good, man." Xenai looked up into the sky with Zion.

"Whatever," said Tsu. "You guys come home with me. I'm sure neither of you have a place to stay."

The trio flew off toward Tsu's little cabin.

//End of Chapter for me. Keeping EW/ZW post count...

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EW: 3
ZW: 3

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Posted by: Xorlak on Sunday February 6th, 2005

Thus the day ended... but it was just a beginning... a mere hint of the true chaos to come...

To be continued...