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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Chapter 22 - There's Really Nothing Worse than a Demonic, Psychotic Adolescent Ninja
Having dealt with his mirror clone, Darkblade watched as the battle between the Stephan/Daniel fused dark paladin continued.
"I've never seen mirror magic used like this before. I wonder if he will call himself Staniel or Danphan." Darkblade smiled.
"Given that he manages to beat the real Stephan, Daniel, and their friends." the Broom of Darkness added.
"I wonder how Dark Fanrico is doing." Darkblade said, suddenly losing
interest. "I noticed that someone else seemed to be traveling with him,
and that he had been forcibly turned to a darker way of thinking."
"Did you happen to notice the scar he had on his soul right on his
heart?" the Broom of Darkness said, as the two moved down the
passageway. "It would be most likely that Dark Fanrico used some form
of a spectral bladed item to inhance the evil tendances in his heart
while reversing the good."
"Very perceptive of you." Darkblade smirked. "I imagine that Dark
Fanrico managed to keep him under his heel by fear even though he has
no powers at the moment."
"Darkblade, are you sure that you have all of the nescessary items you
need for Ash's transcending?" the Broom of Darkness seemed concerned.
"Now that you mention it, I guess I should check the book of Drendar one more time to make sure." Darkblade said, stopping.
Darkblade then took out the book of Drendar and skimmed through the pages.
"Let's see now. One legendary hero, Ash. The blood of two different immortals, mine and Kotoki's...."
"She dosn't appear to be immortal, though." the Broom of Darkness interjected.
"It's her vampiric blood, and don't interrupt." Darkblade continued.
"Let's see what else. The spear know as Obake, Dark Fanrico currently
possess it. A weapon of pure darkness, that's you. One pure demon, that
is what Dark Fanrico will be turning into soon. Hair from a werewolf,
Jonas will supply plenty of that. Last and not least the ritual must be
preformed over an entrance to Hell, thankfully Dark Fanrico has parked
us here. This spot does seem to have a large significance, doesn't it?"
Darkblade seemed to be talking only to himself.
"No virgin sacrifice?"
"I did find it strange that this ritual didn't call for it." Darkblade
finally looked up from the book. "Instead, it wants a demon for the
process."
"Times are tough."
"One more crack out of you and you end up as fire wood," Darkblade
muttered. ". . .but first I must solve the problem of there being two
bystanders I'd rather not have witness this."
"Are you refering to Christydia and the little girl Gina?"
"Yes, and I must hurry with the preparations." Darkblade spoke to
himself, staring at the pages of the book, which led into a dozen pages
discussing the lengthy ritual of the spell. "Dammit, who's going to
read all this? I'll just have to wing it." he said, beginning to fiddle
with something from within his cloak. Pulling his hands out, he
produced a number of small, bug-sized imps. "Go forth and collect the
materials."
*****
Jak had been listening to Dark Fanrico's ramblings, and observed as he
jumped off the continent. It would be same to asume the moron was dead.
Of course, since he didn't actually see him die, he was probably alive.
Still, now all he had to do was fight Molokidan...although he was
putting out way more dark energy than before. Which meant he needed the
help of the others...
"Kelan, go find the others and bring them here." he whispered to the rogue.
****
"That's everything." Darkblade said, smiling as his imps returned from
their scavenging. Now all I have left is to wait for Ash to reach his
Dark twin."
"This is going to be great." the Broom of Darkness wiggled in the hallway. But what about that kid working with Dark Fanrico?"
"I want at least one person to witness this and live, so I'll leave him
alone for now. All is going according to plan." he said, for the
umpteeth time, and continued down the passageway.
****
The battle between the two werewolves had been unwavering. For every
bite that Jonas landed, his mirror self was able to gash him with it's
claws.
"You're holding back...." his mirror self taunted, "Why do resist the
rage, the lust that screams for my death, the desire for my flesh in
your stomach? You have the power to rip me to shreds, why don't you?"
"Because I don't have to!!!" Jonas yelled back. He saw his axe laying
near him on the floor, and picked it up in his paws. "I only need to
stop you!!!"
"You fool, if you will not submit to your rage, then I will!!!" he
yelled out, his eyes becoming blood red as he screamed in anger and
rage, charging at Jonas.
Jonas thought of charging himself, then remebered what he'd said earlier.
Your rage and anger are not all there is to my were-side...
He stood and waited for his adversary to come to him. As mirror Jonas
lept in the air, his claws and fangs ready to tear Jonas apart, the
craftsman werewolf stepped back, readied his axe, and brought it up and
into the mirror werewolf's stomach. "RRRRRRAAAA!!!" Jonas yelled out,
as he used all his strength to lift the clone off the ground with the
axe, and hurled him across the room. The mirror werewolf landed with a
cracking thud on the floor, and didn't get back up. Jonas was breathing
heavily, trying to calm himself back down as he went over to check on
his adversary.
His mirror form actually looked at peace, as blood continued to flow
from the large wound in his chest. Jonas was surprised when it looked
up at him, and smiled.
"I'm glad... you're not afraid of me anymore..." His wereform said, coughing up blood.
Even after all that had happened, Jonas found that he had compassion
for his mirror self. "...I'm sorry I had to do that..." Jonas told him,
reverting back to his human self.
"Don't be... I only exist... to test your heart... and you've
passed..." his mirror self told him, "Now you truly know... your own
heart and soul... so please... help your comrades... and save Gina..."
The werewolf let out one last gasp, before breathing his last, his body
changing back into shards of mirror. Jonas didn't know what to say or
do, he just stared at the pile of glass that had been his worst enemy,
yet also his savior....
"Jonas!!!" a voice called out. Jonas turned to see who it was. It was
Kelan, and he looked frantic about something. "We've got a MAJOR
problem on our hands! Mind helping me round up the others?"
"...of course, just give me a second, Ok?" Jonas asked the elf.
Kelan didn't know what had happened to Jonas, but decided it was best to allow him to do what he needed to do.
"Fine, don't be too long." Kelan told him, as he ran off in the direction of the holy and dark spells being cast.
Jonas looked back down at the pile that had been his clone, and knew
what he wanted to do. He picked up the glass shards, placing them into
a pouch. He would use them for his next craft, so he'd never forget
this day.
"Thank you... for helping me find myself..." he said, before going off to follow Kelan.
****
"So, you and I will destract Dark Paladin over there, and get him in
place so Folx can knock the Legend Blade and Vulture Spear out of his
hands, right?" Daniel asked Stephan, double checking the plan as they
ran for cover.
"Yup, I figure if I use that Holy weapon, and you use that Dark weapon,
we'll at least be able to harm him..." Stephan explained, as the Dark
Paladin just barely missed them with a Darkness attack.
"Are you nuts?!" Folx complained to Stephan, as the trio dove for cover
around a corner, "Do you have ANY idea how hard that kind of shot would
be? Especially with something a large as a spear?"
"It's technically NOT a spear..." Daniel corrected him.
"Whatever! The point is, it would be a better idea if I were to use one
of own arrows. I'd be able to aim the shot much better." Folx
explained.
"I know that, but you already told us you don't have any arrows left,
remember? Besides, we need something large to knock both of them out,
it's the only way my plan will work." Stephan told the fox.
"Well, I'm just here to help, so whatever you decide Daniel, I'll
follow." Folx told him. The Paladin didn't know what to do. He knew
from first hand experience that Stephan's plans had a bad tendency to
fail miserably. On the other hand, his life had not been at stake like
this before.
"Ok, it's not like we're doing much harm to the guy right now... let's
do this." Daniel said. "Folx, you stay back and wait for an opening,
Ok?"
"You got it." He said, getting the Phoenix Pinion ready for his bow.
"Alright, on 3 we go, ready?" Stephan said.
"Ready..." Daniel answered, "1... 2..."
"LET'S GO!!!" Stephan said, jumping the gun and running to battle the Dark Paladin.
"HEY!!! WAIT FOR ME!!!" Daniel cried out, as he ran to catch up with Stephan.
****
Kotoki wandered through the maze, humming tunelessly. "Jaaaa~ak!" she
called, her voice bouncing off the walls. "Where aaa~re you?" Rounding
a corner, she bumped into the black mage himself. "Uhhh... what's going
on?" she asked quietly. "And do I really want to know?"
Jak lowered his voice even more. "Dark Fanrico isn't here, but
Molokidan is, and he apears to have jacked into some serious dark
energy. I *could* blast him, but Christydia and Gina are there, and I'd
incinerate them, and have two very pissed off people on my back. So in
other words, its going to be a long, drawn out battle. As it always
is." He sighed. Life wasn't getting any easier for him.
Kotoki stared ahead. It was indeed Molokidan. . .even though he looked
entirely different from before. It wasn't just the demon transformation
before. . .now, the 14-year old had gone completely insane. Demondan
was glowing, and pulsating. Gina and Chrystidia were huddled in a
corner. Spikes were starting to jut out of his shoulders, and his
muscles were pulsating. .but not with blood. .with dark magic.
"Well, at least he'll be easy enough to hit..." muttered Jak.
****
Daniel ran to one side of the dark paladin, who swung the vulture spier
right before going for Stephan with the Legend sword. This wen ton for
a bit before daniel and Stephan collided, sending them both to the
ground. The dar paladin raised his weapons to strike...
"Now!" yelled Stephan, startling their opponent.
"Accuracy, don't fail me now," Folx said as he sent the pinion flying
at the dark paladin's hands. His legend sword was knocked away from
him, but the spear was still in his other hand.
"Ha! I can still take you out with one weapon!"
"But not without any!" shouted Folx as he jumped up and bit the dark
paladin's hand, making him release the spear. He knocked Folx away and
against a wall, then charged at him.
****
Ash finally reached the end of the maze, and rounded the corner, almost
running into Jak and Kotoki. "What's going on here?" he asked the two.
"Take a look Ash." said Jak as he pointed around to the doorway.
Ash crept up and looked around the corner of the doorway. There was
Molokidan, apparently he had tapped into some sort of energy that was
causing him to mutate, and Dark Fanrico was nowhere to be found. He got
back to Jak and Kotoki. "Great. Now what are we going to do?" asked
Ash.
Meanwhile, down below, in the earth, Dark Fanrico was also undergoing
another sort of transformation. He couldn't tell what was going on, but
he didn't care. Darkblade would obviously bring this somehow into his
plans. So the ticket was to make sure that he was ready for it. The
power was increasing. Flowing through his veins. It felt good to have
power again.
Darkblade stood on the tier of a different spiral, watching Demondan's
transformation below. "That other guy is starting to radiate a little
to much energy around my friend Ash's woman." he commented.
"Don't forget the young girl Gina now." the broom added.
"You're too kind." Darkblade muttered.
As Demondan was absorbing more and more evil magic, Gina and Christydia
began to shiver from the power they felt coming from him.
"I want my mommy. I want my Daddy." Gina whimpered.
"Don't worry Gina. Ash will certainly save us." Christydia repeated.
"THERE WILL BE NOTHING LEFT FOR HIM TO SAVE!" Demondan shouted,
twisting around to face the two. His body was twice the size of before
-- he definitely ceased to look anything like his original boyish form.
He raised his hand and started to gather energy for an attack, while
chanting in some language that he himself didn't know. "Now you DIE!!"
"AAAASSSSSHHHHH!!!" I flash of black light was released, a shadow
passed in front of the two girls, and then there was nothing left put a
large scorch mark on the wall.
"Damn, that was cool." Demondan laughed. "I hoped there would have been
some remains left. I suppose I better hold back a little more next
time. I can't wait for Dark Fanrico to get back up here.
MUWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA!!"
Down the hall Ash heard the cry of Christydia and rushed to the crater,
but he was too late. All he could see was a laughing Molokidan and a
huge burn on the far wall. Ash dropped to his knees and nearly went
mad. "NNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! WHY GOD, WHY!?!"
Ash then turned to the hulking beast that bore no resemble to Molokidan
at all. "I don't know what happened to you, but I don't care!" he
screamed, pulling out his old sword. "I swear you'll die for this,
YOU'LL DIE!!"
"Bring it on little man." Demondan laughed, lifting his huge arms off the ground, and began to charge another blast.
Ash began running around, desperately trying to dodge all of the
monster's attacks. 'I know you have no control over yourself. . .' he
stared, looking at the freak that was created from his own evil half.
'But. . .I just. . .can't. . .forgive you!'
Ash had a sword in his right hand and his broom in his left. He was
royaly pissed and his heart was shattered by the death of his beloved
Christydia. His eyes were glazed over. "BERZERKER SLASH ASSAULT!!!"
screamed Ash as he rushed at Demondan. He then went into a massive
slash and bash frenzy. You could hardly see him as he attacked
Demondan. It was just a fury of attacks, one after another, beating the
demon down to the ground.
Meanwhile, Christydia opened her eyes. She wasn't in the temple
anymore. She couldn't tell where she was. But Gina was with her. The
young girl was holding onto Christydia tightly and tears of fear were
forming in her eyes.
"Welcome Christydia." said a voice. She turned to see who was. It was the ever-curious demon, Darkblade.
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"Well slap a dead fish on me and call me Molokidan!" Edited by: Molokidan at: 11/10/04 6:51 am
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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Chapter 23 - Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Hellfire
"It's been awhile since I had to use a quicksilver spell." Darkblade shrugged. "I'll have to admit that was a close one."
SS"I don't see why you used such a tactic as speed when you could have
easily deflected that puny blast, Darkblade." the Broom of Darkness
said.
"This was the quickest way to get them out of there for the moment."
"Why did you save us, Darkblade?" Christydia asked cautiously.
"He's called Darkblade?" Gina asked. "Thank you Mr. Darkblade, for saving us."
"You can call me DB, little one." Darkblade smiled.
"Ok, Mr. DB."
"You haven't answered my question, Darkblade." Christydia pressed on.
"Be silent." Darkblade said, walking around the void room. "By all
accounts, you should be dead right now if it were not for Ash. What I
do is none of your concern."
"You arrogant bastard!" Christydia shouted. "Where do you get off
thinking that you can do as you damn well please to anyone or anything?"
"Because I always get away with it." Darkblade smiled.
"Why do you insist on always screwing with Ash's life, Darkblade?"
"What is this, 20 questions?" Darkblade shouted, growing impatient. "I
guide Ash's path to a great destiny, and it keeps me entertained along
the way."
"You mean to say that everything you've ever done to or for Ash was for the enjoyment of it?"
"What I do to Ash makes him stronger with each passing moment."
Darkblade turned away from the young girl. "When you become as strong
with as I am, destroying world after world becomes quite a bore. I only
want someone to hang out with time to time for the rest of eternity."
"What do you mean. . .eternity? What are you going to do to him now, Darkblade?"
"You'll just have to watch and see for youself." Darkblade turned back
to Christydia. "I'll just leave you in this room for now and you can
watch the events unfold on that mirror over there."
"Im hungry, Mr.DB." Gina piped up.
"My apologies to you, young lady, I must be a terrible host to not
offer you some refreshments." Darkblade swirled around to the young
girl, and then quickly summoned up a buffet table.
"A buffet table." if the Broom of Darkness had eyebrows, it would have
cocked one right now. "Are you feeling alright, Darkblade?"
"I have alot on my mind right now." Darkblade said, moving away. "And
if you'll excuse me ladies I'll be going now. I give you my word
Christydia, that Ash will come out of this wihtout a scratch."
"I'll remember you said that, Darkblade." Christydia spoke, sitting down to eat.
Darkblade dissapeared, and Christydia found her thoughts returning to
Ash, who was definitely suffering for her at this very moment. "My
love..." Christydia cried, both proud and her beloved's determination
and frightened of what may happen to him at Demondan's hands.
"Miss Chrissy, don't cry..." Gina said giving her a hug, playing the
role of comforter this time, "He wants to save you, just like my daddy,
remember?"
"Of course little one, I'm sorry..." Christydia apologized, trying to
control herself for Gina's sake. As Gina let go, she looked up at her
friend and noticed something out of place...
"Um... why is your dress glowing?" Gina asked her, pointing to the
small aura of light that had begun to show through her chest.
"Hmmmm? What is that?" Christydia wondered, reaching into her dress and
pulling out an amulet. It now radiated a faint gree aura.
"Oooo, it's so pretty..." Gina said, reaching out to the magical
artifact. As Gina's hands grew closer, the pendant grew brighter....
"What sort of magic is this...?" The enchantress wondered.
****
"Folx! Look out!!!" Daniel yelled, picking up the Vulture Spier and
hurling it into the Dark Paladin's shoulder. It cried out in pain and
agony, the weapon leaving a large, bleeding gash in it's shoulder. Folx
took the opportunity to rejoin the Paladin and Dark Knight. Stephan
smiled with glee, seeing that his theory was right. The weapon's dark
afinity neutralized Daniel's holy affinity. And that meant...
"Hehehehe... It's ass kicking time..." Stephan said, full of joy, as he
charged the clone and began slashing wildly into it with the Legend
Blade. The clone picked the Vulture Spier up off the ground and
attempted to fight back.
"Wow, your brother sure has one hell of a temper..." Folx commented, getting his sword ready to help.
"I know, runs in the family..." Daniel joked, "I guess I'll have to play the white mage, sorry about losing the weapon..."
"Hey, why would I object to having my life saved?" Folx told him, a
mischievous smile appearing on his face, "Now let's ruff up this clone
of yours..."
"GUH!?!?!" Stephan suddenly grunted, grabbing his chest and collapsing
to the ground, dropping the sword. Their clone was also noticibly
distracted, grabbing it's forehead.
"THE PAIN... TOO MUCH DARK ENERGY... TOO MUCH..." Stephan and the clone
both grunted. The clone, however, was still in control enough to to
raise the Vulture Spier to take out Stephan.
"BROTHER!!!" Daniel cried, as Folx rushed ahead to try and stop the
clone. Before he could reach them, his path was suddenly blocked, by a
wizard in green robes.
"ABSOLUTE ZERO!!!" Midoku voice shouted, encasing the clone in ice.
"Huya!!!" Jonas yelled out, slashing the ice with his axe, followed up
by Kelan striking the ice with his Ale Mug, shattering it to pieces.
"Midoku!!! Jonas!!!" Daniel called to the blue wizard and craftsman.
"Kelan!!!" Folx yelled out to the elf.
"Sorry we're late..." The elf told Folx, "But there's a bit of a...
'situation' going on up ahead with Dark Fanrico's assistant."
"Mr. Dark Knight, are you Ok?!" Jonas asked Stephan, helping him back
over to the group. Midoku immediately ran over to tend to him.
"It hurts... so much..." Stephan said, his face twisted in pain and agony.
"It's Ok, Stephan, I'm here..." Midoku told the Dark Knight, holding
his hand. He cast a white wind spell, hoping to alleviate some of the
pain. With his brother Ok, Daniel was determined to fight the clone,
even with his bare hands.
"Ok, now let's go get that..." Daniel started.
But before the group could do anything, the clone was engulfed in dark,
flame-like energy. The 'flames' slowly faded down into the ground, the
Dark Paladin now nowhere to be seen...
"I guess we must've destroyed it." Folx commented, while Daniel went over to retrieve his Phoenix Pinion.
"That's odd, it should have left behind shards of mirror..." Jonas
commented, noticing the lack of remains. He srugged off the concern for
now.
"Well, it doesn't matter right now," Kelan said, "We've got to help Ash and the others, before it's too late..."
"Ok then, let's go." Folx said, leading the others through the maze.
****
"...where am I?" the Stephan/Daniel clone questioned, not sure of his
new surroundings. He noticed that his weapons, the Legend Blade and
Vulture Spier, were back in his possesion. "This is not the maze of
trial. Where are the souls that I must test?"
"I'm afraid they shall have to wait for now, 'Staniel'..." a mysterious voice called out.
"Why do you give me a name?" The Dark Paladin, now being called
'Staniel', told the voice, "I do not have nor need my own identity. I
exist only to test those who dare to enter the sacred city..."
"Your purpose is in need of a minor detour..." Darkblade told him, emerging from the shadows.
"My only purpose is to test the souls that enter the temple in order to
see if they are worthy of it's knowledge." Staniel replied.
"I am giving you a new purpose in life."
"I must object to this. My purpose is only to......
"You're repeating yourself, and I'll keep you alive for as long as I
please in your current form." Darkblade insisted. "I hold the book of
Drendar, so you will obey me now."
"As you command, master."
"Your first task is to help a friend of mine deal with a character by
the name of Demondan. If you survive that, I will send you after
another target right away."
"As you command."
"One moment first, though. I'll have to replace those cruddy weapons
you have their with something more befitting your task." he turned
over, and whistled through two clawed fingers.
Floating down the passageway, came the Broom of Darkness.
"I will not fail you master." Staniel bowed.
"Hey. . .don't I get a choice in the matter?" the broom protested.
"No, you don't." Darkblade said simply. "Now get going and help Ash."
****
"Holy crap!!!" Daniel yelled out, as the group made it to the final room.
Demondan had finished his transformation. His skin was dark red, and
horns came out of his forehead and shoulders. He was wearing dark
armor, and his whole body was that of a 14-year old on massive
steroids. His face was twisted beyond belief, with fangs, and his hair
had turned into a mess of needles.
"Heh heh heh. ." his deranged, mutated voice laughed. "Now we'll have a
good fight." Demondan ran up to Ash and grabbed him by the neck. His
hand was gigantic. He threw Ash back with insane force, smashing him
into the wall. He kept coming, his veins pulsating and his eyes glowing.
"I wasn't expecting THIS when we got back..." Kelan said.
"How did he manage to get so much power?" Midoku asked the mage and sailor.
"It has something to do with this temple, that's about all we know." Kotoki answered him.
"All I know is that things are looking pretty f*&%# right now... " Jak commented.
"If Jonas was right earlier, and this was the home of some ancient
magical race," Midoku thought aloud, "There's no telling how powerful
some of their artifacts may be. This guy may be too powerful for us..."
"Then it is a good thing my master sent me to help you..." two familiar voices said in unison.
The group turned around to see the Dark Paladin from earlier, now
wielding the Broom of Darkness that Ash had possesed in their encounter
on the airship.
"I *KNEW* something wasn't right earlier!" Jonas said, as the Dark Paladin approached the group.
"Powered up villians, and now a merged version of the Dark Knight and Paladin? This is ridiculous. . ." Kotoki groaned.
"My master has called me Staniel, and I will now assist you." The Dark
Paladin told the group, the two individuals he was spawned from still
shocked to see him still alive.
"Oh really? And what if my brother and I here tell you to f*&%
off?" Stephan challenged his mirror self. Staniel's face produced an
evil smile, much like Stephan's.
"Well then," Staniel told Stephan in his voice, "I shall have to start
telling your comrades all your dirty little secrets, like the time you
and Midoku..."
"WELLGEEGLADTOHAVEYOUONOURSIDE
NOWLETSHAULASSTOHELPASH!!!" Stephan yelled back as he dragged Midoku
with him to do battle with Demondan. Daniel, however, stayed behind and
eyed the Dark Paladin suspiciously.
"I don't like this. Just tell me why we should we trust you? You tried to kill us earlier..." He asked the Dark Paladin.
"My purpose *is* to test those who enter here," he said in Daniel's
voice, "but I must obey Master Darkblade." He told the Paladin.
"DarkBlade?" Kotoki exclaimed. "Isn't that the demon we met way back in
the airship?! Why would you be following him?" Kotoki asked him.
"Because he has the..." The Dark Paladin started.
"Ix nay on the ook bay of rendar day." The Broom of Darkness interrupted.
"Oops, sorry..." Staniel apologised.
"Huh? Who the hell are you apologizing to?" Jak asked him.
"...nevermind, I have a mission to accomplish." And with that, Staniel ran off after Demondan.
"...this is the most messed up day I've ever had..." Daniel thought to himself, as he ran after his fused mirror self.
The mage and innkeeper soon followed cue.
"You shall die for love and justice!" yelled Kotoki, her can opener held high above her head.
"And you'll also die for my personal amusement!" sneered Jak, charging up a lightning bolt in his hands.
HM saw the people coming. He dropped Ash to the ground in an instant,
and brought his hands around in a huge circle, creating amount of dark
energy.
The demon ran forward, leaped into the air, and as he hit the peak of
his jump, and large lightning bolt appeared between his fists. He
grabbed it like a sword and plunged it downwards, coming towards Jak!
"HELL LIGHTNING SLASH!" he bellowed.
He came crashing down on Jak, knocking the black mage back towards the
ground. He winced as the sword sliced through his robes and cut open
his shoulder. He cursed and rummaged around for a potion.
"Hey!" yelled Kotoki in fury. "How *dare* you hurt Jak!" Her grip
tightened on the herring as she stared to scream. "LEAN MEAN STRING
BEAN ATTACK!"
Unfortuately, the attack did nothing whatsoever. "Damn." muttered Kotoki as she too was hit.
"Need some arrows, need some arrows..." Folx said to himself as he
searched around frantically for something to shoot. "Hm? What's this?"
He reached for a bundle of silver arrows on the wall. "They may not be
the best for accuracy, but they're something to shoot." He ran back to
the battle and shot an arrow at the beast, hitting him squarely in
the... foot. "I'm better off with my sword." He drew his vorpal blade
and charged at Demondan.
"He's a demon, so fire and darkness spells are out... Hey Kira, could
you enchant my blade, and Peach, could you use the enchantment to put a
holy element on it?"
"Sure," they both said at the same time. They both did what he requested of them.
"Thanks."
"No problem," said Kira.
"You're welcome," said Peach.
Cantor charged at Demondan, slashing him with the now holy elemental blade.
"AAARGH!" Demondan moved backwards, unable to take the sudden change in energy.
After helping Cantor out, Peach decided that she'd take action as well.
"Hmm... what summon monsters are in this area of thier demension? I
feel... Ifrit and Diablos, who seem drawn to this energy; Shiva, who is
trying to get away and will be gone soon; Bahamut, who seems to be
leaving after I summoned him before; Tiamat, who also seems to like
this energy that Demondan is giving off... What?! I can't believe
this... Alexander! I can't tell why he's here or what he's doing, but I
can definitely sense his presence." She held her Spirit Bead close to
her and began to emit a white aura. "This could take a bit of time..."
"AGH!" screamed Lance as Demondan hit him next. He jumped straight at
the demon and stuck his spear into him, holding it in there and sucking
a bit of blood before the beast knocked him off. The blood, being that
of a demon/human's, healed him more than a normal human's would have.
Kira decided to summon an animation to protect her, even if it wouldn't
last long against Demondan's power. After that, she started to enchant
everyone's weapons, starting with Daniel's. 'There's not much else I
can do.' she thought to herself...
"All right you big, ugly bastard..." Stephan yelled up to the
hellbeast, his dark sword drawn, "I'll teach you to upset the balance
of darkness, 'cause making me hurt is... not good!!!"
*cue collective sweatdrop of Midoku and the others*
"Ok Midoku, time for plan Alpha, all set?" Stephan asked the blue wizard.
"Yes, are you ready Stephan?" Midoku asked.
"You bet, LET'S GO!!!" The Dark Knight yelled. He ran toward Demondan, and jumped into the air.
"AERO!!!" Midoku cried, using the powerful wind spell to catch Stephan
at the height of his jump, launching him up toward Molokidan.
"HEEEEEEEEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Stephan cried, slashing Molokidan as
many times as he could before he came back down to the ground.
"Hehehehahahaha!!!" Stephan cackled, a satisfied look on his face.
"You know, he's *almost* as bloodthirsty as you Jak." Kotoki teased the black mage.
"Stuff it..." Jak told her. He turned around, staring off the side of
the tower, when he noticed something. "You guys!" he yelled. "This
place is falling apart!"
Sure enough, over the side of the tower, everyone could see the island falling apart. FAST.
There was only about six feet of land left around the tower. It was
crumbling. The reason? Demondan's original power PLUS the added was
more than the island could ever hold. It was being overwhelmed, and
dissipating.
All the fighters hit Demondan head-on. His body, although gigantic,
could not take all the power at once. It was full, kinda like trying to
fill a glass over the top. The demon bellowed, and there was a blinding
flash.
The fighers found themselves thrown back into the wall of the tower.
After the light went away, they could see the same face they saw that
day that seemed so far away when Molokidan had been bounding along with
Kotoki, eager to explore the new world around him. Things had changed
so rapidly. The world had turned into a bloodbath.
Molokidan lay on the ground, his lime green jacket and blue jeans back on him. His hair was blue like the mother ocean.
He opened his eyes.
"Wha. .?" he stood up, looking around. "Where are we? The last thing I
remember. .was. . .getting lost in the desert. . .and I took a really
long nap." he shook his head.
"What?" Everyone walked up to him, prodding him with dangerous weapons.
"What are you guys doing?!" Molokidan spoke softly. "What is going on. .?"
"You mean. .you're not going to kill us?" Kotoki said.
"Ehhh?" Molokidan sweatdropped. "Me? I couldn't kill you guys if I tried. ."
"What?" Ash spoke. "You don't remember? You were Dark Fanrico's slave. ."
"Err.. .WHAT?!" Molokidan yelled.
"And you killed Gina and Chrystidia! DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T REMEMBER!!!!"
Kotoki and Jak told him the whole story.
"Wh. . .what?" Molokidan said. "I did all that?" Molokidan stared down
at the ground in disbelief. "But. . .but I'm just a kid." he looked up
at Kotoki. ". . .right?"
Kotoki stared down at him. "It. . .it would have happened to anyone."
she stammered. "If it was anyone's fault, it's mine for leaving you
behind, meat shield." her voice cracked on the last two words.
"That's not true." Jak stepped up, putting a hand on Kotoki's shoulder.
"This is all the work of Dark Fanrico, one hundred percent." he
said,staring ahead at the edge of the crumbling tower. "We don't have
time to worry about this. Let's go."
The tower was crumbling, and there was only the top floor left. A few
more minutes, and everyone'd fall to their death. Ash had some grave
decisions to make. Without any hesitation, he looked over to the
battered Jak Snide. "Can you make another portal to get us outta here?"
asked the inquisitive Ash Fanrico.
Jak nodded. "It's a challenging task, but I think I can handle it."
replied the black mage, charging another spell as the tower continued
falling apart. ---------------
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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Chapter 24 - Darkblade Makes a Mistake
With his task finished, Staniel returned to Darkblade.
"We really didn't do anything, though." If the Broom of Darkness had had shoulders, it would have shrugged.
"It's better that you two got out of there, because stuff is going to
get a lot worse in a few seconds." Darkblade said, staring at everyone
below.
****
Back with Ash and company, the island came to dead silence. The air
became cold and everyone turned around to see.....Dark Fanrico.
He was floating in mid-air, just barely rising above the top of the
tower. Red flames crackled all around him, and he was bathed in a dark
light. He set himself down on what was left of the tower, staring at
the fourteen, all lined up in a row.
"Hello heroes." He laughed, cracking his knuckles. "Were we going somewere? The fun is just starting." he said, laughing.
"That's a new look." Darkblade smirked from above.
"Where the hell did he get that power?" The Broom of Darkness shook. "Can we go fight him. PLEASE PLEASE!"
"It is tempting. . ." Darkblade stroked his chin. ". . .but our plans have been altered."
"Is there anything I can do, my lord?" Staniel asked.
"As a matter of fact. . .yes you can." Darkblade lifted his finger,
suddenly getting an idea. He moved his hand to the inside of his cloak,
producing the recharged Darkstone.
"What are you going to do, master?"
"You have one more purpose to serve." Darkblade spoke. He inserted the
Darkstone into Staniel, bathing the mirror clone in a column of black
light.
"A fine demon." Darkblade looked at his work. "It will just take Ash a
little longer to reach a higher level of power, but he will be just at
the right level to battle his twin, at this rate."
Dark Fanrico stared at Ash. "I'm afraid that all of you aren't a
challenge to me anymore, but I'm sure that killing all of you will get
the attention of Darkblade." He raised his hand over his head,
collecting a large black ball of energy above it.
"This is going to suck!" Stephan cried, preparing for the impact.
"Come on we can take him!" Molokidan cried, dashing forward.
"Are you nuts?!" Kotoki shouted, grabbing the collar of his t-shirt and
yanking him back. "You're still not in your right of mind. Then again.
. .were you ever?"
"We must not give up everybody." Daniel said, keeping his grip on his sword.
"I vote we try to run." Midoku offered.
Dark Fanrico finished charging the orb, which, compared to the
fighters, was the size of a beach ball to an ant. He brought it down
slowly, as it began its descent towards the shaking castle.
Before the death ball connected to what remained of the small platform,
however, a figure flew down from above, catching it in his spiked hands.
"This is impressive, Dark Fanrico." Darkblade mused from behind the
collossal amount of energy. ". . .but you could have just called out my
name if you wanted to see me that bad."
Darkblade flung the ball straight up, where it shot off into space, exploding a few moments later.
"I was wondering where you were, Darkblade." Dark Fanrico said, unfazed. "As you can see. . .I have evolved."
"How did you manage this transformation?" Darkblade stepped forward.
"With a little help from down below." Dark Fanrico motioned down towards the earth.
Before the conversation continued, Darkblade formed a barrier around the island. "This should make things easier."
"That won't stop me for very long, you know." Dark Fanrico raised his arms.
"It will last long enough for me to use this." Darkblade said, removing the Book of Drendar from his cloak.
"What is this, Darkblade?" Dark Fanrico eyed the book. "Do you plan on becoming a god?"
"I'm not interested in such silly things, you idiot." Darkblade
growled, turning to face Ash. "By the ancient pact of Rudra, Geoff, and
Mystal...I summon up the power supreme to bestow the gift of divinity
and immortality...bring upon this unworthy creature know as Ash the
deific abilities...transcend him into eternity...and make him a GOD!!"
The Broom of Darkness flew into the sky, the materials hanging from a pounch on its bow.
Darkblade continued. "By the sacrifice of this demon, the enemy of the
gods. . .the Obake Spear. . .the blood of my immortal blood and the
immortal vampiric blood of Kotoki...and the hair of a manbeast...I
appease the pact of the gods upon the book of Drendar and transform
this man into a god!"
Darkblade threw a knife from his pocket at Staniel, watching it pierce
his demon's heart. A beam of light flew down from the sky, and into
Ash.
"I really hate you Darkblade!!" Ash shouted as he watched the beam of light come down to him.
"Thats gratitude for ya. I make the guy a god and he hates me." Darkblade shrugged.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" The sky darkened and white fire swirled
around Ash's body. After it cleared, he emerged holding a golden broom.
His body looked relatively the same, except for the determined new look
in his eye.
"Well my work here is done." Darkblade continued, with all the joy of a
composer finishing his latest piece. "Good luck as a god, Ash, and
don't worry about Christydia and little Gina. They'll all be safe in my
tower in limbo. Have fun with your dark half."
"You're next after this, Darkblade." Ash said, not moving his eyes from Dark Fanrico.
"I look forward to it, my friend." Darkblade laughed. "Now, if everyone
will just relax, we will be watching this battle on my crystal ball
back at my place. Help yourselves to the buffet table after this is all
over." he said, turning to the crowd of warriors behind him, and
enveloping them in a portal.
"I suppose this is called fate, Ash." Dark Fanrico said, approaching
his twin. "The battle between a Daemon and a God. We're going to have
are own personal Ragnarok."
"Shut up and prepare yourself!" Ash shouted, brandishing the golden broom.
****
"Uhg..." Daniel groaned, as he got up off the floor. At least, he
assumed there was a floor beneath him, because he appeared to be
standing at the bottom of the tower.
"Where the hell am we?" He asked, looking around. "Darkblade said he
was sending us somewhere else." He spotted some of the others on the
ground.
"Kelan!!! Peach!!! Are you two Ok?" Daniel asked, as he helped the two elves get back to their feet.
"That was very... odd..." Peach commented on the events that had just
transpired. Daniel spotted Jak, Kotoki and Molokidan also getting up,
so it appeared everyone in the group was in the void somewhere.
"Damn... I wanted to kick some ass..." Stephan moaned, as Jonas and Midoku helped him to his feet.
"So... where are we?" Kira asked, as Lance, Kelan, Cantor and Folx came over to join the group.
"No idea... but I know that sh$# DarkBlade sent us here, wherever it is..." Jak said, annoyed at their current situation.
"So, DarkBlade just stuck us here to sit around until Ash wins?" Kelan asked.
"I doubt it..." Folx said, "From what I've seen, his only concerned
with Ash's future. He may have just sent us all to oblivion for all we
know..."
"FUCK THIS!!! I REFUSE TO SIT AROUND ON MY ASS WHILE THERE'S A FIGHT
GOING ON!!! LET'S GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE, I WANT SOME BLOOD DAMMIT!!!"
Stephan yelled, his fists shaking in outrage.
"While I don't agree with the blood stuff..." Daniel said, glaring at
his brother, "he's right about sitting around. We can't just stay here
and hope that Ash can handle Darkblade and Dark Fanrico alone. We need
to get out of here."
"Well, why don't we go through that door?" Kotoki said, pointing to a single door floating a few feet away.
"How convienient..." Jak grunted.
Jak looked at the door suspiciously. It seemed way too conveniant that
it was just there...he'd have to handle this with care...Two seconds
later, the door exploded outwards. The black mage grinned, happy with
his destructive solution.
"What just happened?" Darkblade said, looking around. He had been teleported to the other side of the door.
"Looks to me like the birth of a new god has messed with your
transportation spell." the Broom of Darkness spoke. "Most of the others
on are the bottom floor of the tower, where the only physical exit is."
the Broom of Darkness had somehow propped the book open, and was
flipping through the pages with one of its straws. "You know, did you
really look at this stuff carefully enough before casting the spell?"
"Of course." Darkblade spat. "What are you getting at?"
"So, you know that this transformation only lasts until the end of the full moon?" the Broom of Darkness mused.
"You don't know anything. Let me see that." Darkblade said, grabbing
the Book from the broom and flipping through it. ".....Aw crap!"
"I was right, wasn't I?"
"We have a little problem here guys." Darkblade said, addressing the
group. "It says here that the spell for this god transformation is
temporary. We happened to cast on the night of a full moon which was
needed, but as soon as the sun rises...Ash will turn back into a
human."
"That's weak, but to become a God for just a little while is worth it, I guess." the Broom of Darkness muttered.
"Yes. . .no wonder it called for the werewolf hair." Darkblade said,
reviewing his error. "I think that we had better send Ash's friends
back to help him."
"Why, Darkblade? He has until morning."
"Did you happen to notice the time. . ." Darkblade stared at the broom. ". . .sunrise starts in about one minute."
"That would be a bad thing."
"Stop making stupid comments. I'd rather concern myself right now with saving Ash's life!"
"Dammit!!" Stephan hopped up and down. "I was hoping to fight you again! Let's get it on!"
"Perhaps another time." Darkblade said, humoring the knight. "Right now, you people must go and save Ash from his evil half."
"What?!"
"There's no time." Darkblade stared at them. "When the sun sets Ash will turn back into a human."
"That would be because of the werewolf hair, right?" Kotoki piped up.
"Clever girl." Darkblade smirked. "In any case, here we go. . ."
The floating island, which was now no more than a floating platform,
was held together only by the forces of Dark Fanrico and Ash's own
power. The party was teleported back up, Darkblade standing in the
lead. He stared at the two, currently locked in battle. Dark Fanrico
was pushing the Obake Spear forward, pulsating, while Ash was doing the
best to hold the demon off with his golden broom.
Molokidan saw what was going on, and was the first to dash out. "I'm
sorry for doing all that bad stuff!!" he shouted. "Let me help you!!"
he said, running up. "I think I still have some demon powers left!"
The boy removed his katanas from his coat, running forward to attack
Dark Fanrico. He didn't get five feet close to him before he was
blasted away by a fireball.
"Owww!!" he shouted, writhing in pain.
"You moron." Dark Fanrico said, between his fangs. "The pure hearted
can't use the powers of darkness, let alone a human. Man, you're such
an idiot. Even in your enlightened demon form, you couldn't control
yourself and took all your body can handle." He stared back at Ash,
keeping one hand on the Obake Spear. "But no matter. . .all I have to
concern myself with right now is YOU. . ."
Just then, the first rays of sunshine shoot out from the horizon.
"Look at that sunrise." Dark Fanrico laughed. "With the dawning of this
new day, I shall kill you with my bare hands....God Ash?"
The divine powers then left Ash, and he returned to his human form.
Ash said nothing, and continued to stare at Dark Fanrico.
"As you wish." the demon laughed. "But without any help, you won't last a single round of combat with me!"
As if on cue, the party stepped up to join the legendary hero.
"Damn. . ." Dark Fanrico removed his spear from Ash's sword, taking a few steps back to gain a breather.
"This'll teach me to never not care that a page is missing from a spell
again." Darkblade said. "But it was so tempting to try. Oh well, have
fun you people."
"You're running away, you coward." Ash spoke to him.
"For your information Ash, I guests to attend to in my room. Namely
Christydia and Gina. Besides, one less character in your group means
one less person to hog your spotlight."
"Always thinking of others, aren't you. . ." Ash mumbled.
"Riiight." Darkblade departed, leaving the group to themselves among the floating platform.
"Well, shall we begin?" Dark Fanrico smiled.
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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Chapter 25 - Insane We Trust
Jonas was terrified...
When he joined Midoku and his comrades, he kept telling himself that
Gina would be Ok. Knowing that he had to find her gave him the strength
to face anything that got in his way. He even faced a side of himself
he tried to hide from all his life. But once he heard she was dead, his
enraged were-form had started tearing into the demon with the others.
When the anger sub-sided, everything changed... Reality set in. Even
knowing Gina was alive couldn't shake his new found fear.
I might die today... Jonas told himself, his body shaking, Who would
save Gina? Who'd look after Lisa? I'm so scared... what can I do?
"...I can't take this..." Jonas said out loud, grabbing his forehead.
Midoku, noticing something was wrong, ran over to check on his craftsman friend.
"Jonas? What's wrong?" Midoku asked.
"I'm not strong enough... I'm just going to die..." Jonas said softly.
"...what?" Midoku answered, surprised by what the craftsman had said.
"I can't deal with this... What good can I do?" Jonas told the blue
wizards, "I don't stand a chance against this monster. I'll just get
myself killed, leave Gina without a father, my beloved Lisa all
alone... I'm going to die..."
Midoku walked in front of Jonas, seeing the sorrow and fear in his eyes...
...and punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground.
"How can you say that!? I thought you'd do anything for your family!?"
Midoku yelled at Jonas, angry and disappointment evident in his voice,
"Now you're just going to sit there and get yourself killed!? This from
the man who risked his own life to save mine, the one who faced his
greatest fear to save his daughter!?"
"You don't understand!!!" Jonas yelled back at him. "I'm not strong
like the rest of you!!! If I try to fight I'm going to die!!! I DON'T
WANT TO DIE AND LEAVE MY FAMILY ALONE!!!"
"Bullshit!!!" Midoku yelled back, his words choice reflecting the anger
he felt, "Let me enlighten you about something: WE'RE ALL AFRAID WE MAY
DIE!!! You think you're the only one with loved ones at stake? Look at
Ash, or Cantor, or Kotoki...even me."
Jonas didn't know what to say, he looked down to the ground, ashamed of himself.
Midoku got down on his knees and looked Jonas square in the eyes. "I
don't blame you for being afraid, my friend. But fear isn't going to
help you right now. If you want to live, you need to tap into that
courage you found to save me, the strength you found to face the worst
part of yourself, the love you feel for your wife and daughter." He
smiled at his friend. "We all find that strength within us in our own
way Jonas, and I *know* you have it too."
He looked up at Midoku, wiping away some small tears that had formed in
his eyes. "...I'm sorry Midoku..." He got back up on his feet, changing
into his wereform. "...you're right... I have to be strong. I have to
survive for Lisa, for Gina, for my family." He looked back down at his
feet, "I've let you down..."
"It's Ok," Midoku told him, placing a hand on the werewolf's shoulder,
"I know you're going to be Ok. You're a strong man Jonas, Gina should
be proud to have a father like you."
"...thank you, my friend..." Jonas told him.
"Just promise me you'll take good care of that ray of sunshine of yours
after this is all over." Midoku asked the craftsman, smiling.
"I will...and you take care of Stephan." Jonas answered back, smiling back with his sharp teeth.
"...I will as well." Midoku promised.
Midoku drew his mithril dagger, while Jonas stood ready with his
trusted Axe. The fate of their world was at stake... and both were
determined not to fail...
"Looks like this is it, bro..." Stephan said to Daniel, drawing his sword.
"Yep, guess so..." Daniel answered, his Phoenix Pinion at the ready.
"You know, we may not survive this battle..." Stephan told his brother.
"...I know..."
"...We're fighting together for the sake of the world. It still feels weird, doesn't it?"
"...yeah... but Dad would be proud, I think..."
"...Even with me, a master of the Dark Sword?"
"Yeah... he always said that it isn't the light or the darkness that
determine good or evil, it's the heart..." Daniel said, choking up a
little bit at the memory.
"I remember that... I miss those days..." Stephan said, as he looked at his pendant, remembering their childhood.
"Me too..." Daniel said, looking at his own pendant.
"Daniel...If anything happens..."
"...don't worry, I'll watch out for Midoku for you..."
"...thanks..."
"...And Stephan..."
"...Yeah?..."
"...watch out for the others for me..."
"...Don't worry about it," Stephan told him, "I promise..."
"...Thank you..." Daniel smiled.
The two brothers stepped forward, their weapons drawn. The future of
their world hung in the balance, and they'd be damned if they were
going to let Dark Fanrico determine their future.
We *WILL* succeed... Daniel and Stephan both told themselves.
'...We'll make you proud, father...'
Kotoki stared ahead at Dark Fanrico. "What percentage chance to we have of surviving this battle?" she asked Jak.
The black mage shrugged. "Twenty percent or less."
Kotoki bit her lip. "Oh." she said tonelessly. "That's it?"
"Pretty much, yeah." replied Jak. "Sucks to be us."
"Jak...?" asked the girl. "Considering that we'll probably die here, do
you think you could let me see your face? I mean... I'm curious..."
****
The amulet's light continued to intensify in Gina's hands, the aura enveloping both her and Christydia.
"This light..." Christydia said, reaching forward to hold the amulet with Gina, "Maybe... there's a way we CAN help..."
Gina held the amulet, which was now glowing furiously. Along with the amulet, Christydia began to glow.
Darkblade stood in the shadows, watching the two girls. ". . .interesting. . ." he muttered, making sure no one heard him.
****
Cantor began to feel power surging through him more and more. He began to emit a green aura and float.
"The amulet!" Kelan cried. "End must have gotten to the little girl, even though Darkblade interfered!"
At that time, Ash also started to emit a green aura. Same with Daniel and Kotoki.
Molokidan stood up, brushing himself off. "I'm not done yet!" he
shouted, running besides Kotoki. "I don't like it when people do weird
stuff to me while I'm asleep!"
"A singing warrior mage, a hero, a paladin, a vampire, one who has turned to and from evil..." Peach marveled at the scene.
Cantor felt the power surge through him, though his two froms still
held great dissonance. Cantor's Eyes changed from blue to green.
"You know, if we don't work together, we have no chance." Light Cantor spoke.
Now his eyes turned red.
"I agree." It was the voice of Dark Cantor. "Anyway, I'll work with you
if we can get as much power as I'm guessing we can get."
Green.
"Let's do it, then."
Red.
"Alright!"
And with that, Cantor's eyes turned blue again. He felt a new power
never felt before. ". . .this is it." He gathered magical energy, and
began to glow in a deep blue aura. His hat flew off along with his
cloak, He sword began to emit such an energy that the sheath burst.
Cantor gained full acess to all of his spells that he had been able to
use in his light, dark, and normal forms. His hair remained unchanged,
despite all of the energy, both physical and magical, that stormed the
area. In fact, nothing about him personally had changed, nor was
moving.
He slowly raised his hands.
"Let's show this guy."
"Ready with our combined power?"
"Stop with the multiple personality thing." Cantor shook his head. "I
know you two are the same, and I don't even know why I'm talking to
you."
He began to emit an even larger amount of energy. It was too much for him to hold. "Ready when you are. . .!" he shouted.
"Hmph... how touching..." Dark Fanrico sneered, charging some dark magic in his palms, "Fools caring for more fools."
"At least I *CAN* care for others, what about you, demon?!" Daniel yelled back.
Dark Fanrico smirked. "Care for others?" he asked in an astonished
tone. "Maybe I should stop being evil and help build things instead of
destroying them, and protect the weak and innocent. Why I should hang
up my demon wings and become a goody-two shoes hero, always going out
of my way and risking my life for others who are TOO FUCKING PATHETIC
AND SCARED TO DO IT FOR THEMSELVES!!!!" snapped Dark Fanrico.
Without any warning or hesitation, he threw a large fireball at Ash!
Ash leaped to the side to dodge the projectile, but Dark Fanrico was
planning on that and threw another at Ash when he landed and Ash again
dodged that one too, and the pattern continued till Ash was running
along the ground with a trail of fireballs and energy blasts following
him!
"You can't run forever, Ash!" laughed Dark Fanrico.
Just then, a can opener came flying out from nowhere and smacked Dark Fanrico right square on his face!
"WHAT THE HELL? Who did that! Who dares to do that to me?!?" he asked as he looked around. His eyes set on Kotoki.
"Damn, damn.. " she said as she then realized her plan to give Ash some time sorta semi-backfired.
"That was not a very good idea my dear. No Not at all!" hissed Dark Fanrico as he advanced on Kotoki.
Suddenly. . .a large orb of lightning hit Dark Fanrico's back! It
burned the demons backside, but not much else. He wheeled around to see
Jak Snide there with an energy orb being summoned in his hands. His
beady eyes looked pissed! "HEY! I don't think so!" he said to the
demon.
Just then the sound of a sword being unsheathed could be heard. It was Ash, with a large sword drawn.
"And I really don't think so!" screamed Ash as he ran towards Dark Fanrico.
The Demon threw a ball of energy at Ash, but he just rolled out of its
way and kept on running towards Dark Fanrico. He threw another ball of
energy at Ash, but the hero leaped over it and continued his assault.
Ash then leaped towards Dark Fanrico and slashed at the center of Dark
Fanrico's chest. He writhed in pain and screamed like a wounded animal
as he started to change as he lost his power. He eventually stood up.
But he did not change back into his regular form. His eyes were now
glowing blood red. His armor armpads were gone, and he wore cut-off
gloves on his hands. He had no shirt, but thankfully had his pants
still on. He seemed much taller too, and on his chest were strange
cultish markings.
"That HURT!" he snarled as he walked towards the heroes.
"How are you like this when he destroyed your core!?" asked Molokidan.
"Fools! I an extra boost of power from bathing in the hellfires.
But you haven't even begun to scratch the surface. . .I'm still more
powerful than any of you!" replied Dark Fanrico.
"How is that possible? I mean, you were created in the hellfire. How
can you be more powerful than before all of this?" asked Jak.
"On the very night I created, my body spent about two minutes in the
hellfire before coming to the surface. I only gained a small percentage
of power, and it was enough to survive. But since I spent the amount of
about a twenty minutes in the hellfire just now, I'm more powerful than
ever." replied Dark Fanrico.
"But you aren't as powerful as you just were when you had the Broom of Darkness." commented Jak.
"That's. . .correct." Dark Fanrico said, growing impatient. "ENOUGH TALK!" he shouted. "You're all mine!"
Jak's eyes had become slanted. "What the hell is this?! F*cking therapy
time? We may die, yadda yadda, burning death etc. But can we just get
on with it?!" he said, powering up another spell.
****
"Would you stop complaining, broom." Darkblade muttered. "I like to
watch sometimes instead of participate. I find nothing wrong with it."
"I admit that we would make short work of Dark Fanrico. . .but at least
we could do something beside just sitting on the sidelines for once. We
haven't had a single battle in this whole damn story."
"You are really starting to annoy me." Darkblade growled.
"Fine then!" the broom shouted. "But the next time you do some stupid
experiment, we had better get to kick a significant amount of ass!"
"Who are you talking to, Mr. DB?" Gina asked.
"Nobody special." Darkblade muttered.
"hmph!" The broom scoffed.
"Anyway, what is that little jewel you and Christydia are holding there
thats emitting so much magic?" he said, unable to hold his curiosity
any longer.
"Nothing." Christydia murmured.
"Don't worry yourself on my account, Christydia. You two are free to
leave any time you like. I promised Ash that I wouldn't let any harm
come to you."
"I find it hard to trust you, but I'll believe you for now." Christydia eyed the demon.
"I wonder how the battle is going?" Darkblade motioned the hudge mirror
closer to himself. "Excellent. Now all I need is some chips, dip, and
beer."
"Are you enjoying this? They need our help, Darkblade!" Christydia shouted.
Darkblade sat down in some bizzare-looking chair with the word la-z-boy
written along its side. "Now look Christydia, I wouldn't just sit here
if I didn't have confidence in Ash or his friends. If you really want
to go back then you can walk right through that door over there. Just
don't blame me if you get yourself killed." he said, creating a portal
with the snap of his finger. "The choice is yours little girl. Stay
here and be safe or go risk your life in a battle that I think is
already evenly odded."
(I just had to note this, because it's TOO funny. This is the chapter
where Dark Fanrico comes back at full power. Also notice how it's my
666th post. XD) ---------------
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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Chapter 26 - End of the Line
The battle so far had been fierce. Drawing some extra strength from
Cantor's Attack, the group had managed to at least make a dent in Dark
Fanrico's defenses. Like all spells, however, it's effects were
beginning to die down...
"GAH!" Daniel grunted, as one of Dark Fanrico's spells threw him into
the wall, his body slumping down to the floor. He was soon followed by
Jonas, who landed on top of him.
"Owww... that smarts..." Jonas said, instinctively licking the wounds on his hand.
"Uh... do you mind getting off of me Mr. Kilmett...?" Daniel groaned from under the werewolf's back.
"Oh, sorry 'bout that Daniel..." Jonas apologised, quickly getting up and helping Daniel to his feet.
Midoku and Stephan stood their ground, Dark Fanrico taking notice of their presence.
"Well well, if it isn't the 'odd couple' again..." Dark Fanrico taunted
them. "Of course, I should really be using another word instead of
'odd', like 'g.."
"Shut up 'Dark Ass'..." Stephan growled at him.
"You should really be thanking me, you know..." Dark Fanrico told them,
a look of both cruelty and delight in his eyes, "If I wasn't so
distracted by my desire for revenge against Ash, I probably would have
finished killing your friend there..."
Stephan and Midoku both let their guard down a minute... shocked by this revelation about that day on the airship...
...giving Dark Fanrico enough time to rush forward and slam the two of them to the ground with a flare spell.
"UUURRRGGGG!!!" The two warriors cried out, as they both collided with
one of the pillars in the room. It knocked the wind out of Midoku, as
he gasped for air on the ground while Stephan staggered to his feet.
"You see... you fools don't stand a chance against me." Dark Fanrico told them, "So... why don't we make a deal?"
"A deal with you? You must be joking..." Midoku told the dark demon.
"I wasn't talking to you, human-wannabe..." Dark Fanrico told the blue
wizard, turning his attention back to the dark knight, "I've seen your
skill with the dark arts Stephan, and I must admit you have great
potential. So... I offer you a deal..."
"Hmmm... and what kind of deal would this be?" Stephan asked.
"Stephan, you can't be serious!!!" Midoku yelled at him, grabbing him
by the arm, "How can you even THINK of trusting the man who tried to
kill you?! AND ALMOST KILLED ME!!!?"
"SHUT UP YOU FREAK!!!" Stephan said, knocking the blue wizard away.
"...why?..." Midoku chocked out, staring at Stephan in shock and sorrow.
"I knew my hunch was right about you Stephan..." Dark Fanrico gloated,
"So here is my deal: You help me to eliminate these fools, and I'll
help you be the most powerful dark knight in the world. The world will
fall easily with our combined strengh, so what do you say?"
"...Ok Dark Fanrico, I'll make a deal with you." Stephan told his demonic foe, extending his hand out to the hell demon.
"Hehehehe, I *knew* you'd see things my way, fellow creature of
darkness..." Dark Fanrico gloated, as he took the dark knight's hand in
his own.
"But..." Stephan told him, his evil smile appearing.
"What the...?" Dark Fanrico said, noticing the dark knight's grip on his hand had tightened.
"There's just 3 problems with that having a chance in HELL of happening..." Stephan told him, his grip getting even tighter.
"One... Don't treat me like I'm stupid, like when you used me..."
Stephan said, cutting off Dark Fanrico's hand with his sword.
"AARRGGHHH!!!" The demon cried, grabbing the wound with his other hand.
"Two... Don't treat me like I'm stupid twice, by thinking I'm dumb
enough to believe you'd share power with me, *THAT WAS STUPID*!"
Stephan yelled, striking Dark Fanrico across the chest with his sword,
following up with a downward slash. It knocked Dark Fanrico back a few
steps, leaving gashes on his chest. The dark knight raised his blade
parallel to the ground, beginning to gather darkness around it.
"You... you vile, insignificant..." Dark Fanrico growled, the anger and rage literally setting his eyes ablaze.
"And Three... Getting me pissed is..."
He kept channeling more and more dark power into his blade, slowly
raising it above his head. The blade was glowing with dark purple power
and Stephan brought it down, exclaiming:
"NOT GOOD!!!"
A large wave of darkness launched at Dark Fanrico, sending him sliding
across the floor into one of the nearby pillars, which buckled and
collapsed on top of the hellspawn.
"Woah..." Daniel and Jonas reacted to the sight before them.
The dark knight reached down to help the blue wizard back to his feet,
"...I'm sorry I hurt you Midoku... but I knew Dark Fanrico was arrogant
enough to think I'd listen to him. I could never give up on you..."
"Oh Stephan..." Midoku sighed, before getting control of himself, "...uh... I mean it's Ok, I understand..."
"Heh... was that it?" a voice said from the rubble. The two turned in
shock as Dark Fanrico slowly levitated out from under the pile of
debris, the flaming aura around him stronger than before.
"If you thought that did you any good, you're sorely mistaken..." Dark
Fanrico told them, as he raised his wounded arm to the front. Flames of
darkness emerged from the wound on what was left of his wrist, each
ember intertwining with the others to form the shape of a shadowy hand.
"Uh... this can't be good..." Stephan said.
Suddenly, Lance came crashing down on Dark Fanrico, sending the demon
reeling. Kelan came up from behind, and slashed Dark Fanrico with his
dagger.
"Watch out." Peach said, helping Stephan back to his feet. "We can't watch out for you ALL the time. . ."
Jak sighed in relief. The attacks of the others had been keeping Dark
Fanrico's attention away from the mage. He smiled in glee. This was
just like backstabbing. Except with an overly large spell instead of a
dagger. He gathered the spell's magical energy up into both hands. The
ball of energy glowed orange/yellow, slightly burning his hands.
With on brief grin, he thrust his hands forward, propelling the spell
towards Dark Fanrico. "Meltdown!" he cried, overjoyed that he was using
this spell for the first time. The beam of nuclear energy slammed into
the demon's back, smashing him into a nearby pillar.
The meltdown spell did not do much to improve Dark Fanrico's
appearance. There were now dark flames emerging from the wounds and
chunks of flesh that Jak had incinerated. It almost seemed as if Dark
Fanrico's human skin were just like clothing, hiding something even
more sinister beneath.
****
"This is better than Suday night football, and it isn't even Sunday." Darkblade laughed to himself.
"What's foozball?" Gina asked.
"Nothing to concern youself with, Gina." Darkblade took a swig of his beer. "Would you like some popcorn?"
"Thank you, Mr. DB."
"How do you live with yourself by watching people fight for their lives and enjoying it?" Christydia asked.
"I don't find this any different than watching gladiators fight it out in a colliseum." the demon shrugged.
"You're just impossible."
"Maybe," Darkblade retorted. "But I see that you haven't decided yet on leaving to help them."
"I can't leave you alone with Gina." she protested.
"I guess it will be awhile until I can get you to trust me." Darkblade shrugged. "Oh well."
"Can I have something to drink. Mr. DB?" Gina asked.
"Sure thing kiddo." Darkblade said, almost offering the girl his beer,
then quickly retracted his arm. ". . .how about some soda."
****
Ash was baffled by all the attacks from his comrades. He saw Dark
Fanrico, who looked like he was on a barbecue, since he had so many
wounds that were bursting into flames. 'He must be using some kind of
skin regeneration technique.' he said to himself. He also knew to never
underestimate Dark Fanrico, who's past actions showed that he has an
unpredictable pattern, or method to his madness.
Dark Fanrico got back up from the latest attack. He looked pissed, and you could tell that he had an idea.
"Molokidan. You fool! I still have control over you. Remember this?"
asked Dark Fanrico as he drew out an item. The item was the dagger that
he used to create Demondan. The dagger started glowing a green aura.
"You disappointed me Molokidan. You disappoint me that you could beat
these people while I was away. Not only did you fail, but you wasted
all the power I gave you. . ." hissed Dark Fanrico.
Molokidan writhed in pain as he felt as if his heart was about to
explode. He felt his powers fading and his body revert to his previous
state. "What... are... you... doing to... ME!" screamed Molokidan.
"Isn't it obvious. I'm going to kill you, you fool!" replied an engraged Dark Fanrico.
Molokidan wriggled on the floor, staring at the dagger Dark Fanrico
held in his hands. "The dagger. ." the boy shouted. "WE NEED THAT
DAGGER! That must be it!" Molokidan said, struggling to his feet
despite the pain.
Dark Fanrico sighed. "You think my power's in this dagger? No, you
fool! This is the dagger that made you my minion. And seeing as I'm
still alive, I obviously have control over your body!" he said,
punching Molokidan in the place where the scar was above his heart,
sending the boy flying through the air, almost off the edge of the
platform.
"Pathetic human mortal." hissed Dark Fanrico as he turned his attention
to his opponents. "Those were nice moves. But now it's my turn!"
announced Dark Fanrico. He started charging up the Obake Spear.
"Demonic Wave Burster!" he snarled as a large wave of dark energy hit
Ash, and hit him hard!
"That SUCKED!" said Ash as he rolled over and got to his feet. Now it
was Ash's turn to retaliate. Ash picked up his sword and pointed it
towards the clouds. "Dark Fanrico, I don't care what it takes, I WILL
STOP YOU!!!" he yelled at his super-powered clone.
He rushed towards his opponent, he stopped at an arm's reach distance.
"HELL SLICER STORM!!!" he yelled as he leaped into the air, stopped in
midair, looked down at Dark Fanrico, then he pulled out a sword and
then accelerated down towards his clone doing various cross-slashing
combos, which all cut into Dark Fanrico viciously. He then landed
behind Dark Fanrico, holding his battle pose.
Dark Fanrico staggered, but was still standing! He looked crazed as he
recovered from the awesome attack. The wounds began to burst into
flames as he recovered his composure. "Good.... attack... Fanrico." he
gasped out.
Ash couldn't believe it! That was one of his best attacks. One of the
attacks that led to the downfall of Darkblade, in their fight oh so
long, long ago. But Dark Fanrico was still standing! Ash went back to
the group. "I think we're going to have to rethink this whole
strategy." he said to the others.
Dark Fanrico's skin began to regenerate. the skin that was hanging off
his face latched back on. "You fools can try all you want, you ain't
gonna be able to tear pieces out of me." he gloated as the flames all
over his body subsided.
Ash got everyone into a huddle. "Okay, so far we can't beat him one on one." said Ash to the group.
"So what do ya propose we do?" asked Kotoki.
"Simple. We all hit him at once with various attacks in a single
chain and order. That should be able to take a good chunk out of him.
Probably even be enough to finish him off." replied Ash.
Ash got out of the huddle. Dark Fanrico eyed him menacingly. "What are you going to do now Ash?" he asked.
"Simple... Climhazacutta Slasher!!!" he shouted, rushing towards the demon.
Kira incanted her holy staff.
Kelan threw a few extra daggers that he had.
Folx and Jonas both attacked in a frenzy of claws and teeth.
Peach casted Holy.
Lance jumped straight at Dark Fanrico with full force.
Cantor dashed at Dark Fanrico with the Belthazar drawn and emitting a firey red light.
"This may leave me at low HP, but I have to do the best I can for Ash's
plan to succeed." Daniel said to himself, as he brought the Phoenix
Pinion in front of him and closed his eyes. Fiery wings began to emerge
from his back, and he was engulfed in the life giving flames of the
legendary Phoenix. "Phoenix Crash!!!" Daniel yelled launching himself
straight at Dark Fanrico.
Stephan clenched his fists, gathering a huge amount of Dark energy
around his body. Being his limit break, this would leave him with low
HP, but he knew he needed to use his strongest dark skill. "Dark
Matter!!!" Stephan shouted, extending his arms forward and launching a
column of black and violet power at their demonic foe.
"...I hope I still have enough strength for this..." Midoku said, as he
sat on the ground and used all his concentration and training to charge
the spell. Small fragments of black magic began to gather between his
palms, compressing together to form a solid orb of purple and violet.
This would take most of his MP, but he had faith in this Ash Fanrico's
plan. "Shadow Flare!!!" Midoku yelled, as he launched the ball of
darkness at Dark Fanrico's chest.
"Eyyaaaaah!!" Molokidan shouted, picking himself up and running blindly forward with his katanas.
"Well..." said Kotoki. "Now that my meat shield is gone... Jak, do you wanna team up in attacking him?"
Jak paused at the sound Kotoki's idea. Most of the 'safe' team-up moves he'd devised concentrated mainly on status effects...
A wry smile then spread across his face, eyes glowing with anticipation.
"Kotoki...take some of my blood." he muttered as he began casting a spell.
"Alright." Kotoki nodded tentatively.
As Kotoki drank some blood out of Jak's arm he finished casting the spell, merging Kotoki's vamparic powers into it.
"Red Moon Stike!"
Several blood red meteors fell from the sky, aiming towards Dark Fanrico.
The attacks combined to form one powerful blast of energy. The force of
the attack slammed into Dark Fanrico, chunks of human flesh falling off
his body. "Heh." smirked the demon as he was hit. "It seems you're
stronger then I thought. Very well. You shall now see my true form
before you die!" As his human appearance melted away, it was replaced
with something far more sinister.
Ash and the group was pretty shocked by now. All of their strongest attacks combined couldn't even cut it!
Dark Fanrico's skin melted off. Replaced by an even more sinister
looking Dark Fanrico. He was now 8 ft. tall, Demon Wings sprouted out
of his back. His hair was longer than before. Long sharp spikes ran
down his spinal chord. His eyes returned to their normal Red and Yellow
look. His face remained the same, just with some red scars running down
his eyelids. He still had no shirt on, and still had the cult's
inscriptions on his chest. "BRING IT ON!!!" hissed the devil.
This is NOT good!" said Folx. He drew an arrow and fired. It froze on contact with Dark Fanrico.
"You're going down, Dark Fanrico!" Cantor said, his eyes turning green.
His sword let off a blinding white light. "Holy sword!" He jumped at
the demon and slashed him with the now holy elemental blade, but he was
deflected even before he hit him.
"This is pointless." Lance muttered. "Something happened to him this
time. . .we're no match for him." Lance decided that he'd try something
different this time. He put his spear in it's holster on his back and
charged Dark Fanrico.
He jumped over Dark Fanrico, as he tried to hit Lance with his weapon.
Lance counter-jumped and sunk his fangs into the demon's neck.
"Hehehehe... you want to feed on my blood fool?" Dark Fanrico laughed,
"Let's see how you handle the powers from hell itself..."
"AAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!!" Lance screamed, as the demon's blood ran
through his veins, overwhelming him with it's demonic powers. He looked
over at Folx, Cantor, Kira, and the others, his eyes starting to glow
red.
"DIE!!!!" Lance yelled in rage, as he started to charge at them ,unable to control the screams in his head for blood and death.
I've got to do something! Midoku thought quickly, then began the
incantation. "CONFUSE!!!" the blue wizard shouted, hoping the spell
would leave Lance too confused to attack.
Lance was surrounded by a cloud of chocobo feathers, after which he
suddenly stopped and tripped over his own feet. He hit his arm on a
sharp rock and began to bleed. After a bit of insane babble and yelling
of "GOBLIN PUNCH!!!" he got up to his feet. He grabbed his wound. "What
happened? The last thing I remember is jumping at Dark Fanrico."
"Don't worry about it." Folx sighed.
Jak could tell the battle was going nowhere fast. Most of their attacks
had bounced off him, and now Lance had been injured. Then he noticed
something. He could sense Dark Fanrico's energy, except it wasn't
originating from him. He could feel it coming from down below. He
peered over the edge and saw where it was coming from.
"A hellmouth..." he muttered to himself. Then a wry grin spread across his face, and he allowed himself a low chuckle.
"Be right back guys!" yelled Jak as he opened up a gate to the land below the floating warzone, and next the the hellmouth.
"Daniel! I need your help with something!" he yelled over the din of battle.
"Me?" Daniel answered to the black mage, thinking he misheard him.
"Yes, you Paladin boy, so hurry up and get over here!" Jak yelled as he entered the warp.
"...What the hell is he up to? I hope we don't regret this..." Daniel
thought, as he ran over to the portal. He looked down at the half of
his father's amulet, then at Stephan. "Be careful brother..." he said,
leaping into Jak's magic gateway.
Stephan saw Daniel going into a dark portal of some kind.
"Daniel!? Where the hell are you going!!!" Stephan cried out, as he also ran over to the swirling black gate.
"Stephan, what about Dark Fanrico!?" Midoku asked, following after him.
"Sorry, safety of my foolish sibling first, the safety of the world
second..." Stephan yelled back, looking down at his own amulet before
he also leaped through the portal.
"...I guess I'll go with them..." Midoku said, as he prepared to jump through the warp.
...except the portal closed before he could.
"Damn!!!" the blue wizard cried out, falling flat on his face when he
landed. With the gate gone, he had no idea where Stephan had gone to,
making his teleport spell useless.
'Please, be careful...' Midoku thought.
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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Chapter 27 - Life or Death Decisions Are Always the Tough Ones
"Man, NOW what!?" Lance shouted to Folx. "How are we even gonna hit this guy now?"
"You could throw me at him," said Folx. "I'm not sure why I didn't think of this before!"
Lance threw Folx at the demon. Folx drew his blade and it began to
glow. 'This'll consume my sword, but it'll probably be worth it.' He
stabbed it into Dark Fanrico.
"Ha! You think you can hurt me with that thing?"
"Yes I do!" The as the sword pierced deeper, Dark Fanrico began to glow deep blue.
"What the %&*#?"
Dark Fanrico's blue aura changed to a green one and he was surrounded
by green bubbles, which all popped as Folx jumped away. The liquid
soaked the devil, doing some good damage, but obviously not enough to
do too much.
"As I said, did you REALLY think you could hurt me with that?"
"Not exactly, but I could definitely do something that you wouldn't like."
"What's that?"
"Heh, you're an idiot. That was poison. It's sucking your energy and it'll keep sucking your life away until you're dead!"
****
"WAAAAHHH!!!" Daniel screamed, as he flew out of the portal, landing on
the hard dirt with a large thud. He picked himself, dusting off his
coat as he looked around for Jak.
...Until the 2nd traveler flew out of the portal and knocked him back onto the ground.
"OUCH!!!" The two brothers cried, Stephan laying flat on his back on
top of Daniel, who's face was now firmly planted in the dirt.
"GET THE HELL OFF ME ALREADY!!!" Daniel yelled, knocking the dark
knight off his back in order to get up. The paladin looked down to see
who had knocked his face into the dirt.
"Stephan?! What are you doing here?!" Daniel asked, giving his brother a hand and helping him back up.
"Me?! I'm not the one leaping head first into strange portals like a moron!!!" Stephan yelled back.
"It wasn't a 'strage portal' dumbass, it was Jak's!!!" Daniel yelled, glaring at him.
"...oh. Well... why the hell does he need you for? And why'd did we
have to leave Mid... er... the others behind?" Stephan asked, looking
concerned.
"I've got no idea... but since he brought us here we outta go find
him..." Daniel said. He looked around. "Jak must have escaped."
"He must have had a good idea. Let's go." Daniel said. So off the two
went to find Jak, wondering what it was a black mage would need a
paladin for.
****
Jak looked down into the hellmouth. He took a whiff of the sulpherous
smell wafting up from the hole. He could feel the heat, and hear the
screams of the tormented. Just like other one.
He wondered if he should have waited for Daniel to arrive before taking
off. Eh, even that half witted paladin could find his way to him once
he bagan his job.
He charged up a lightning bolt in his hands and discharged it into the
ground near the hellmouth. A considerable chunk of earth and rock broke
off and tumbled down into the pit. If he had calculated right Daniel
should arrive about two thirds of the way through the process. He
charged another lightning bolt in his hands and sent more debris
tumbling down.
He just had to hope the paladin was strong enough.
****
"How are you doing Jonas?" Midoku asked the werewolf, noticing he was panting heavily.
"*HUFF* *PUFF* I don't know if I can keep this up... I'm really getting worn out..." Jonas told the blue wizard.
"Maybe I can help a bit... just sit tight and let me get some MP..."
Midoku told him, as he turned to Dark Fanrico and began incanting.
"MAGIC SLEDGEHAMMER!!!" Midoku cried, a massive glowing blue hammer
appearing in front of him. He grabbed the magic-induced weapon in his
hands and slammed Dark Fanrico on the head with it, causing the hammer
to dissipate and surround Midoku in a blue aura, restoring his magical
energy.
"Wow, nice hammer Midoku!!!" Kadina yelled over to the blue wizard.
"Uh... thanks for the compliment miss Kadina..." Midoku answered to the
young white mage, as he turned to his friend and called forth a 'White
Gale' spell to restore Jonas' HP.
"Thank you..." Jonas told him, getting back up and breathing normally again.
"No problem my friend..." Midoku answered.
****
Daniel and Stephan came to the end of the trail, a strong odor starting to manifest in the air.
"*SNIFF*, it smells like... sulfur?" Stephan commented, as Daniel took his own whiff of the odor.
"Uhg... didn't Dark Fanrico jump into some pit leading to hell around here? Maybe that's what's causing it..." Daniel said.
"...hell..." Stephan said, thinking back to what his mirror clone had said earlier.
Maybe you'll see your father before they send you to hell...
"You Ok brother?" Daniel asked, noticing Stephan seemed distracted by something.
"...it's nothing... let's get going..." Stephan told him, walking off
toward the sulfur smell. Daniel followed him, wondering what it was
that had scared his brother so badly...
Jak finished off the last chunk of rock around the rim, sending it
tumbling down. He turned around and saw Daniel and Stephan walking
towards him.
'Stephan? What is he doing here? No matter, I doubt he could screw this up.' he thought to himself.
As soon as Daniel was withing earshot, Jak shouted "Oi! You can seal this thing up right?"
Daniel looked over to the black mage, then to the hell pit, then back
to the black mage again. He thought about what Jak said for a second,
before responding by saying:
"WHAT!?!?"
"I think he said he wanted you to seal the pit... O' Holy and Sacred
Paladin..." Stephan said in a mocking tone, trying hard not to laugh.
"I 'KNOW' that, Stephan..." Daniel growled him, "but what the hell does
he expect me to do? Do I look like a priest? I know I have a 'Holy'
alignment... but..."
"Well, maybe if you'd finished that stupid school of yours, you'd know
what Jak was talking about..." Stephan teesed, "at least *I* kept up my
studies of the dark sword..."
"Geez, fine, maybe not staying the last year and challenging Mt.
Ordeals was a mistake..." Daniel conceeded, "But it's a little late to
worry abou that now, let's just see what Jak's got planned."
"Maybe we should call you a 'Wannadin'" Stephan said, causing Daniel to turn around.
"A what?" He answered, confused.
"You know, 'Wannabe Paladin'" Stephan snickered.
"Oh, stuff it, Stephan..." Daniel yelled back at him. "I don't know how to seal it!"
"Whadaya mean you don't know how to seal it!" yelled Jak, fury rearing
it's ugly head again. "You're a bloody paladin! It's your business to
seal/defeat evil!"
"And how exactly am I supposed to do that?" inquired Daniel calmly, trying to get a reasonable answer out of the irate mage.
"Okay, last time I was involved in something like this the procedure went like this:
1) I fill the hellmouth up with debris'
2) A holy man/woman works his holy magic on the debris in the bloody hole which acts as a holy seal.
3) We all rejoice.
Got that!?" the mage shouted.
"But..." began Daniel.
"No buts! This hellmouth is where Dark Fanrico is drawing his power
from. If we cut it off he'll have about three seconds to think "oh
fuck" before being pounded into oblivion by the rest of our team! If it
in not cut off he'll have an unlimited supply of hellish magiks and
powers at his disposal. Now do you get why I am so mad at you, you
insipid, inbred, brainless mopey and down right USELESS piece of
paladin shit!"
Normally, Daniel was a very calm and rational person. For example, had
Jak insulted him once, he would have written it off as Jak being
irritated. Five, however, was past the breaking point for Daniel's
temper.
"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME IMBRED, YOU INSANE, SMALL STATURED,IDIOTIC
PYROMANIAC!!!" Daniel yelled at Jak, his Phoenix Pinion out and ready
to poke 'n stab the crap out of the black mage.
"Calm down you moron!!!" Stephan yelled at Daniel, wacking him on the
head, "Just go over there and TRY something. You must know SOMETHING
about holy magic, right?"
"...fine" Daniel grumbled, "...I guess I could try the Goddess Prayer..."
"The what?" Stephan asked.
"It's a small prayer we used to say before training at the academy..."
Daniel explained, "but it's been awhile since I've recited it."
"Well it can't hurt to try, so get your holy ass over there and save us." Stephan told Daniel.
The Paladin walked to the edge of the pit, closing his eyes and
clasping his hands together as if to use white magic. He began to
recite the prayer:
"...'O goddess Ishtar, who watches over those who embrace the light and
conquer the darkness within, I... I... bessech... no... I... uh... crap
what was the next line?" Daniel stammered.
"Just make something up... sheesh... not like Ishtar there's gonna give a rat's ass if your asking for help." Jak grumbled.
"Ok..." Daniel answered back, then continued. "We ask for your guidance
and your assistance. Lend us your strength, so that we may stop those
who wish to vanquish the light and bring death and chaos to this world.
So please, answer my prayer..."
Daniel continued to stand there in prayer, the only answer to his request being a slight gust of wind.
"Well, that sucks." Stephan commented.
"Damn... maybe Peach or Kadina would have better luck with this..." Jak thought aloud.
"Please, help me... I can't let everyone down..." Daniel continued, his
eyes still shut, "I just want to protect everyone, and I can't do it
alone..."
Suddenly Daniel's hands began to glow a soft white, as if he were about
to use magic. A faint white aura began to appear around him, the light
traveling along the ground and around the edges of the hell pit.
"Wow, he's actually doing it..." Stephan said, in awe of the power
coming from his sibling. He watched as the holy circle began to
contract, starting to form a barrier over the top of the pit. It looked
like the pit would be sealed...
...until a large, clawed hand reached out and grabbed Daniel by the ankles.
"Holy Crap!!!" Jak and Stephan both cried out, as the Paladin was pulled off his feet and toward the pit.
"STEPHAN, JAK!!!! HELP ME!!!!" Daniel screamed, as he was dragged over the edge and down into the pit.
Two thoughts ran through Stephan's mind in that instant.
'My brother is being dragged into hell. No one fucks with my family and
gets away with it. I'm going in there.', and 'My brother is being
dragged into hell. Where there are things waiting to punish and torment
me for the sins I've committed. I'm afraid to go there.'
Stephan didn't need any time to think about his choice.
"Daniel!!! HOLD ON!!!" Stephan cried, as he ran toward the pit and leaped in head first.
"...shit." Jak muttered. The black mage now had a decision to make. He
could jump into the hellmouth after Daniel as his brother Stephan did.
Or he could sit around and wait for the duo to escape. He immediately
lay down on the ground and began to admire the clouds.
"What a lovely day." the black mage said to himself.
****
A smile suddenly grew on Kira's face. "Why didn't I think of this
before? Now all I have to do is wait for Dark Fanrico to cuss..."
"You're going to cast Watch Your Mouth?" said Cantor.
"I thought all of the silly and otherwise odd spells were over!" shouted Lance.
"Heh, that spell may be silly, but you won't care afterwords," said Folx.
Kira raised her voice, "Hey Dark Fanrico! You're just a weak little
child! You think you're all powerful just because you can cast all of
this hellish magic, but deep down inside, you're only doing it because
you're afraid!"
Dark Fanrico took quite that quite personally. "You think I'm afraid? I
have power!! I could wipe you off the face of this planet!! I could
slaughter armies if I wanted to!!! You think I'm afraid and scared? Of
what?" he asked as he bent over and looked Kira straight into the eyes.
"You?"
Kira was getting scared now, and a bit impatient.
Then, Ash Fanrico dove in from behind and drove his sword into the back
of the demon. Dark Fanrico reared up into the air, screaming like a
hellbanchee. Ash was thrown off, with the sword still stuck in th back
of Dark Fanrico. Ash knew he had to do something. But all of his
weapons were nothing to this monster now.
"This is it!" Molokidan cried, returning his katanas to chopsticks
within his coat. "I'm sick of this! I'm just gonna punch the stuffing
out of you!" he shouted, running up to the demon. "Come on, let's go!
Hand to hand, man to man!" he shouted.
Dark Fanrico laughed at the 14-year old boy who was calling himself a man. "You want to try?"
Molokidan threw a punch at Dark Fanrico, but the demon just simply
blocked it. Molo tried again with his other hand, and the same result
occured.
The two engaged into a brisk fist-fight. It was apparent that Dark
Fanrico was still as focused and as powerful as ever. Even with a sword
sticking through his back.
Dark Fanrico grabbed Molokidan's arm and bodyslammed him into the
ground. Dark Fanrico then stepped on the spinal chord of Molokidan,
grinding his foot into the child's spine.
Molokidan screamed in pain.
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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Chapter 28 - The Last Strike
Hot...
The heat was so intense it nearly burned...
PAIN...
ANGER...
RAGE...
SORROW...
REGRET...
Daniel was overcome by emotions that were not his own, as he landed
with a large thud into one of the crevices in the side of the pit.
"Enjoying your little preview of hell so far, young paladin?" A
sinister voice sarcastically told Daniel. He looked up to see something
that appeared to once be human, but warped beyond recognition. He had
charcoal black skin, with spikes all over his back and arms. His entire
body was covered with red and orange scars, which seemed to form some
kind of elaborate and warped design. He smiled menacingly with his
sharp fangs, his eyes glowing bright red.
"Your friend the black mage had a pretty good plan going, too bad I've
seen this trick before..." he walked over to Daniel and picked him up
by the throat, "You really thought you were strong enough to seal this
pit? Don't make me laugh. You're not even a true Paladin, and you hope
to contain the powers of hades itself?"
"Even if I fail..." Daniel chocked out, "Ash and the others will stop
Dark Fanrico. You'll be seeing him once they kick his ass..."
"If you're so confident in your allies, why did you abandon them?" He
told Daniel, "That's right, because you know you can't defeat him, as
long as this gateway to hell remains open." He started to tighten his
grip on Daniel's neck, "My master has much confidence in Dark Fanrico's
potential, for death and chaos in the world of the living, so I can't
allow you to interfere..."
"BACK OFF, YOU DEMON BASTARD!!!" A voice cried out from above, as
Stephan plunged down into the crevice and knocked Daniel out of the
demon's hand. Stephan stood in front of his brother, drawing his dark
sword.
"You must be joking..." The demon grunted, "You plan to fight a hellspawn with a dark sword?"
"Just shut up you ugly prick..." Stephan growled at him, "You're not
taking my brother down there." He looked back at Daniel, then turned
and looked to the ground in front of himself.
"If anyone deserves to go down there... it's... me... not him..."
The demon smiled, "You are quite correct, Stephan Hyral, there is much you have to answer for..."
He held his clawed hand forward, as it began to glow with red light. Stephan's eyes widened in horror.
'Please!!!! Don't kill me!!!'
'Mommy?! Where's my mommy!!!'
'You bastard!!! Why did you take my son away from me!!! '
'Why did you kill me? I only wanted to save my family?'
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Stephan screamed, "MAKE
IT STOP!!!!!! SSSSTTTTOOOOOOOPPPPP IIIIIIIITTTTTTTT!!!!!" He fell to
the ground holding his head, unable to stop hearing the cries, the
screams, the anger of all the people who's lives he had ended.
The demon began to laugh, "This is NOTHING, you wretched, pathetic
excuse for a human. It doesn't compare to what you will go through once
I end your life, and you join me down there..." the demon began to walk
forward, savoring every moment of misery, his claws ready to slash
Stephan to pieces. Daniel could only watch, as the fall and the demon's
grip had left him with barely enough strength to stay alive...
'...No, no, no, no...' Daniel though, unable to get up, '...I've failed
Ash, Christydia, everyone...' he began to cry, 'I can't even save my
own family... Stephan is going to die... It's all my fault...'
"...You can't give up..." A voice called out to Daniel. He turned his
head to see, and nearly screamed when he saw who spoke. A thin, frail
looking man floated in front of him, with lacerations all over his
body. Various weapons and objects stabbed him through the arms, legs,
and chest. However, it was the man's face that shocked Daniel even
more....
"F...Father?!?!" Daniel cried, horrified at the site of his father in such pain and misery,
"...This can't be real... you're some kind of illusion..."
The man who claimed to be his father, Alexander Hyral, looked down in
shame, tears starting to roll down his cheeks. "I know how much sorrow
this is causing you, Danny... and I wish you didn't have to see me like
this, but I had to see you..."
"Danny..." Daniel said, knowing there was only one person who called
him by that name. "It... really is you father, isn't it? But why are
you here? You don't deserve this..."
"I'm sorry, my son, but you know not how many atrocities I was
responsible for... before I met your mother..." He turned his head to
look down into the pit, "and now I must pay for those sins, with
punishment and torment here..." He looked back up "But... what happens
to me isn't important. It isn't your time yet, Danny, or Steph's
either... you have to get out of here..."
"...But ..it's too late for Stephan, isn't it?" Daniel sobbed, unable
to control his feelings any longer, "I... should have been there for
him... when you died... and now he's going to be kept here too... all
because of me..."
"It's not your fault, Daniel." Alex comforted his son, "Stephan chose
this path for himself, just like I did long ago..." He managed a small
smile for his son.
"Do you remember the stories I used to tell you two when you were children?" Alexander asked.
"Of course... how could I forget..." Daniel said, closing his eyes and smiling at the memory.
"Then you should know that being a Dark Knight is not what made Stephan
the way he is." Alexander told his son, "I know you blame that for his
actions, but it is his sorrow filled heart that made him the way he
was, not the power of darkness... We all have both light and darkness
in our souls, Daniel, whether you are a Paladin or a Dark Knight...
what's important is not to lose sight of your heart... and to learn to
draw strenght from both sides of your soul..."
"...I guess being a Paladin so long... I lost sight of that... I'm so
sorry father..." Daniel said back, ashamed that he'd stopped listening
to the man he'd admired more than anyone else, even King Cecil.
"...I know, Danny..." Alexander said, smiling to his son, "But... you
both still have time... Steph has hope for redemption, unlike me... I
can feel the good in his heart now... and I know you've helped him to
realize that..."
"...really?" Daniel asked.
"Yes... I know he has also done unspeakable things..." his father
answered, "but he still has time to atone while he is alive... Stephan
will realize this too, in time..."
The sound of inhuman laughter and screaming could be heard from the pit, drawing closer to Daniel and Alexander.
"...I have to leave, my son, 'they' are coming to take me back to my punishment..."
"No... don't go father... we'll bring you with us, we can help you..." Daniel told him.
"Even if you could," Alexander told his son, "you'd only be dooming
yourself to the same fate that I must endure now. And I'd rather stay
here for eternity... than see either of you suffer the same fate..."
"...I know..." Daniel chocked back, unable to hide his sorrow.
"...Goodbye Danny... You and Steph will always be in my heart...
perhaps we'll be a family again, one day..." said his father, tears
still flowing as his form slowly faded out of view, into the fiery pits
of hell.
"...I ...I'll always remeber you father..." Daniel sobbed, leaning over the cliff,
"...I love you..."
"WWWHHHHHYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!" Stephan started screaming behind him, over
and over. Daniel gritted his teeth, using every bit of will he had left
to stand up. He brought out the Phoenix Pinion, preparing for what may
be his last attack. 'I may not survive, but I won't give up... I won't
let you take my brother's life away...'
"PHOENIX CRASH!!!" Daniel screamed, the flames of the Phoenix burning
brighter than ever before. The demon barely had time to notice that the
'dead' Paladin was coming toward him before the attack struck him,
slamming him into the nearby wall, knocking him down to the ground. The
spear-like weapon dropped out of Daniel's hands, as he fell forward and
collapsed. Stephan managed to find some strength left, running over to
his brother.
"Daniel!!! GET UP, PLEASE!!! YOU CAN'T DIE HERE!!!" Stephan said,
picking his brother up in his arms, "I've caused so much pain... I
don't want you to die because of me..."
"I... It's not your... fault I... know you... have good in your heart
now..." Daniel whispered, "...I forgive you, brother... f... father
forgives you too... just promise me you'll keep following your heart...
like father always taught us..."
"I'm sorry..." Stephan cried, holding Daniel close to him, "...I'm truly sorry, brother..."
Daniel began to feel a light, a strong power coming from his heart. A
white aura started appearing around his body. Stephan also felt his own
power, fueled by his sorrow and regret, forming a dark aura of it's own
around his own body.
"W...what's happening?!" Stephan cried, the dark power around him growing stronger.
"I... don't... know..." Daniel whispered, his own holy light becoming larger and brighter.
The two warrior's powers grew until they began to press against one
another. Suddenly, their amulets began to come out from under their
armor, floating in mid-air above their chests.
"Father's..." Stephan said.
"...Amulet?" Daniel said.
The two halves of the amulet were pulled together, and as they joined,
the light and dark power began to join as well, mixing and swirling
together in a massive sphere of white and black energy.
"This... is not possible?!?!" The demon hissed, getting up from the ground. "No human can combine holy and dark power?!?!"
The sphere started to get brighter and brighter, until it finally
exploded into an expanding column of holy and dark magic, enveloping
everything in pit, including the demon.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The demon screamed, as the force of
the spell knocked him over the edge, back into the fiery pit from which
he came.
Above ground, as the light and dark column of power continued to pour
out of the hole, two figures started to slowly emerge. It was the two
brothers, still in each other's arms as they levitated out of the hell
pit. Daniel had a pair of angelic looking wings of holy light, a bright
white aura around his coat and armor. Stephan had his own wings as
well, but formed out of the darkness, his armor and cape emitting a
dark purple aura. As they descended onto the side of the pit, the
powerful attack subsided, leaving Daniel and Stephan standing next to a
huge pile of rubble and rocks, back to their normal selves...
"That was... awesome..." Stephan grunted, as he passed out onto the grass.
"...We did it..." Daniel said, smiling as he stumbled forward,
"...Thank you, father..." he whispered, before he fell unconcsious.
Jak remained in his reclining position on the ground, although his eyes
had jumped to three times his normal size. One minute he was searching
for a cloud that looked like a burning man then *KA-FOOM*, the hell pit
exploded with holy and dark energy at once. When the smoke and debris
cleared he saw Daniel and Stephan on the ground, and the hellmouth
sealed.
". . ." Jak exclaimed.
Sudenly his thoughts turned back to the battle above. Checking quickly
that no monsters were in the area, he opened up a warp up to the
floating battlefield, eager to end this overly long jaunt into heroics
once and for all.
He caught himself casting a glance over his should at the knightly due
as he walked through the gate. He quickly banished his concern, knowing
full well that there was work to be done.
****
Thunder crackled around Dark Fanrico, and was thus expelled. He knew he
was losing his power, but he couldn't let them know that.
He decided to go on the attack for once, straight for that idiot child
who had failed him. He let Molokidan scramble to his feet, and then
dashed forward.
Dark Fanrico came in fast with an uppercut. Molo grabbed it, and pushed
him backwards, miraculously. They then began in yet another fistfight,
and this time, Molokidan's fist connected crisply with Dark Fanrico's
face.
"You idiot child!" Dark Fanrico shouted. "I'm going to kill you."
"Not just yet!" Molokidan shouted, pulling out the chopsticks from his
pocket. In his hands, they transformed into katanas, and he slashed two
deep gashes across Dark Fanrico's chest. "Quick!" he shouted to Ash.
"Finish him off!"
"He actually did it. . ." Ash gasped. Molokidan had Dark Fanrico where they wanted him. Ash knew it was now or never.
Just then Christydia, appeared next to Ash. She ran up to him, hugged him and handed him the amulet.
Ash watched Dark Fanrico writhe in pain and scream like a wounded animal. Ash leveled the broom. He concentrated.
"SUPER MEGA OMNI-BROOM-SLASH!!!!" Ash cried as he ran towards his
demonic clone. He assaulted his opponent with large wide swings and
slashes with his trusty broom. Ash put everything he had into each
attack. The memories of recent events racing through his mind. Almost
losing Christydia on many occasions. Almost losing his sanity. Being
put through hell countless times this whole quest. Seeing countless
others losing loved ones, or friends. Seeing whole entire cities torn
to shreds.
Ash knew he was doing this for everyone.
For Kadina, Jak, Kotoki, Daniel, Molokidan, Stephan and Midoku, Folx
and his group, but most of all, himself and Christydia. For their
futures and the futures of their new friends, and the next generations
to come. Ash had the hopes of the entire world on his shoulders.
Ash brought down the final death blow to Dark Fanrico. The last final
hit sounded like a gunshot. Dark Fanrico flew backwards down into the
hellmouth. Ash watched as his rival plummeted down towards hell,
screaming all the way.
Christydia walked up next to Ash. He put his arm around her waist and held her close to himself.
"I'm so glad this is all over Ash." said Christydia.
Ash nodded, and kissed his beloved on the forehead. "So am I my love, so am I." he replied.
The last of the pillar was about to crumble. Ash braced with Christydia.
"What the hell are you all doing?!" Jak shouted, peeking his head out
of the portal. "Get in this, quick!" Everyone rushed in, Ash just
making it through before the last tile dissipated. They came out of
Jak's warp, and stared down into the hellmouth.
"It's over..." Midoku said, never feeling so happy in a long time...
"We've saved the world... Stephan and I actually helped save the
world..." When he saw the holy and dark spell earlier, he knew that
Stephan had something to do with it. "I knew you had it in you..." he
said, closing his eyes and thinking of all they had been though
together, "I always have..."
As Midoku went over to congratulate Ash, he noticed Jonas sitting on the floor, holding his axe close to his chest.
"Jonas? Is something wrong?" He asked the werewolf.
"...Dark Fanrico is gone... but... where is my daughter?" Jonas asked the blue wizard.
"Don't worry my friend, I'm sure Darkblade will be here with her
soon... he seems to always show up after Ash's battles..." Midoku
assured him.
Jonas tried to smile to his friend, but something stilled bothered him...
"Midoku... what will Lisa and Gina say... when they find out... what I
am?" Jonas asked, looking at his clawed hands, "...it's funny, even
after everything that's happened, it still frightens me..."
"Because they're more important to you than anything... I know how you
feel..." Midoku assured him, "Don't forget that you're not the only one
who feels that way... I'm sure you're more important to Gina and Lisa,
than anything else as well..."
"...I ...I want to believe that..." Jonas told the blue wizard, "but, part of me is still scared..."
"I'd have thought by now you'd know what you must do..." Midoku told his werewolf friend.
"I know... I have to face this, no matter how frightened I may be, and
accept whatever may come..." Jonas told the blue wizard, "...thanks for
talking with me Midoku..."
"Anytime, my friend. Now come on, there's a legendary hero we need to
congratulate..." Midoku said, smiling, as Jonas joined him to go over
and celebrate with Ash. ---------------
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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Chapter 29 - The Long Goodbye
"YAY!!! Chrissie and Ash beat up the bad guy!!!" Gina cried, skipping around the room in joy.
"Yes, young one, it looks like they've succeeded..." Darkblade agreed
with her. Gina suddenly stopped skipping, looking at the group again
through the mirror. Her face changed from one full of joy, to one full
of worry.
"But... where's my daddy?" Gina asked the ancient being, clutching the
elven amulet she still wore close to her heart, "...when is he going to
come get me?"
"Well... I think your father will be there once we pay a visit to Ash,
little one..." DarkBlade told Gina, not sure if it was wise to tell her
about Jonas' "other self".
"Really?!" she asked him excitedly.
"Of course..." Darkblade answered, gesturing his hand and producing a
warp gate to Ash and the others, "Now let us go see your father's
friends, Gina..."
"Wait, Mr. DB, can I tell you something first?" Gina asked him.
"Of course, what is it?" DarkBlade asked the young girl.
"...can you come down a little bit?" Gina asked. DarkBlade agreed and kneeled down in front of Gina...
...who gave him a small kiss on the cheek, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"Thank you for saving me Mr. DarkBlade... I'll never forget you , or
your funny friend the broomstick..." Gina told him, hugging him
tightly.
"I won't forget you either, little one..." DarkBlade told her, returning the hug.
****
Midoku noticed that Jak had returned alone, without a certain Dark
Knight. He decided to head over and calmly asked him where Stephan was.
"IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHERE THE HELL HE IS, SO HELP ME I'LL...!!!"
Midoku yelled at the black mage, waving his mithril blade in Jak's
face.
"Ok... damn, don't have stroke over it..." Jak grunted, creating a
portal back to where Stephan and Daniel were now unconcious, "there...
now stop waving that knife in my face before I wave a Fire3 spell in
yours..."
"...thank you..." Midoku grunted back, trying to be civil, "...it was nice working with y..."
"Don't go thinking we're buddies or anything," Jak interrupted him, "if
I see you again and you piss me off, it's no holds barred. Then we'll
see how well that 'blue magic' crap of yours does against 'REAL'
magic..." Jak challenged the blue wizard.
"...Until next time then, 'mage'..." Midoku sneered at Jak.
Jak peered through the settling dust, trying to spot the others. "Oh."
said Kotoki, seeing Jak step out of a warp near her. "Hey..." she
walked over. "At the end of the battle... Dark Fanrico's power kind of
went away... That was you, wasn't it?"
"Course it was me!" he boasted. "Well, maybe Daniel and Stephan helped
a "bit", but I had the idea." Jak looked down at his feet, unsure of
what to say. He had found himself in an odd moment with nothing around
to kill/obliterate.
'So...what now?' he asked her.
"I don't know, really..." replied Kotoki. "You did say you'd let me see
your face. I'd like to at least once before you leave in search of new
places to torch, or whatever..."
Jak paused for a moment. Could he do it? He'd hidden his face for the
past decade, blocking out his old, weak self and alowing 'Jak' take
control. He knew he wanted to reveal his face, just once, to Kotoki.
But...
"Not here." he muttered. Then his face broke into a smile. Not that Kotoki could see it.
"Can't have the others seeing my beutiful vissage, can we?" he chuckled, making a mock pose of vanity.
"Your inn is still, mostly, intact isn't it?"
Kotoki nodded. "I think so... If it hasn't been destroyed while I've
been gone. I wouldn't put it past anyone to burn it, anyway. The
thing's a menace." She sighed. "I guess I'll be going back there now...
do you think we get any money for just saving the world? Because it's
pretty anticlimatic otherwise."
Jak shook his head. "Nothing in saving the world really, apart from the
satisfaction of walking across the ashs of your enemies. Speaking of
which...you're not planning on going back to the inn are you?"
Kotoki looked surprised. "I... I don't know. I don't want to leave everyone, but that inn's pretty much all I have..."
"Thing is," began Jak "I'm heading up North. I have business to attend
to up there. And since the lands up there are not as hospitable as I'd
like them to be I was wondering if you'd like to tag along."
Kotoki stared at Jak, a hand pressed on her lips. "Hold on just one second!" she said, running off.
Jak poised himself, preparing for a shutdown.
"MOLOKIDAN!" Kotoki shouted, coming up behind the young warrior, who
had just decided to take an after-battle snooze. "I've got a job for
you."
"Wh. . .what?!" Molo said, waking up. "If it 's about that saving the
world stuff. . .I'm really not interested. It makes me too tired
afterwards. And sometimes, it's scary."
"It's not about that!" she said, stomping on her meat shield. "I have
to go somewhere with Jak for a while. . .on business. Anyway, you have
to keep an eye on the inn for me while I'm gone!" she said. "You know,
make sure it doesn't get burned down and stuff."
Molokidan shrugged. "Alright, sure! I'll be waiting for you, Kotoki."
"Good thing." she said, patting the young kid on the head, before returning to Jak's side.
"Well?" she said, walking in stride with the mage. "Let's be off, then."
****
Midoku turned to Jonas, "You coming too, my friend?"
"Yup, just waiting for Gina to say goodbye first..." Jonas said, as he watched his daughter speak with Ash and Christydia.
"Bye bye Chrissie!!!" Gina cried, giving her a small hug.
"Bye Gina, I'm glad I got to meet someone as nice as you." Christydia told the little girl.
"Hey!!! Maybe you and Ash can visit me sometime!!!" Gina said excitely, "Mr. Mid's going to visit us too!!!"
"It would be an honor to see you again, madam." Ash told her, as Gina ran up and gave him a hug of his own.
"Tee hee!!! Thank you Mr. Fanrico!!!" Gina told him, as she went back
over to her father. Jonas came over and shook hands with the legendary
hero.
"You're a very lucky man, Mr. Kilmett..." Ash said to the Craftsman.
"So are you, Mr. Fanrico. Until next time then..." Jonas said, as he, Gina, and Midoku departed fromt the island.
A small clink could be heard as the group entered the portal, the elven
amulet Gina had worn slipping off and hitting the ground of the
floating continent. Until the next time it would be needed...
****
"...huh? Where am I?" Stephan wondered, looking around until he spotted
Daniel, still unconcious by the side of the pit. He ran over and
checked on him, relieved to find he was still alive.
"Jeez, don't scare me like that bro..." Stephan told his unconcious
sibling. He sat down next to him, deciding to talk with him for a bit.
"You know... you didn't have to do that for me Daniel... risk your
life..." he looked away from Daniel to the former hellpit, "...I ...I
know now I've done a lot of horrible things... things I can't even
begin to wonder how I'd ever atone for... I should probably still be
down there...."
"...that's ...not true..." Daniel suddenly interrupted, his eyes fluttering open.
"Brother! Uh..." Stephan stammmered, not sure what to say to him.
"It's not your time yet, you still have your whole life ahead of
you..." Daniel told him, thinking back to what his father had said, "If
you really believe, I know you can atone, brother... even as a Dark
Knight..."
Stephan was surprised. All his life, Daniel had *hated* dark knights,
because of what had happened to their father in the war so long ago.
Now here he was, saying it was Ok...
"...thanks Daniel..." Stephan answered, "...I guess being a Paladin
ain't so bad either... especially when you're fighting hellspawns..."
"...thanks Stephan..." Daniel answered back.
****
"STEPHAN!!!" Midoku suddenly interrupted, running over and glomping the Dark Knight to the groud, "I was so worried..."
"...I'm Ok, Midoku, I'm Ok..." Stephan assured the blue mage, holding him back in his arms.
****
"Ash! Christydia!!!" Daniel shouted, as the duo came over to join them.
"Daniel!" Christydia cried out, running over to hug the Paladin. "I'm glad you're still alive..."
"I'm sorry I left you behind like that..." Daniel told her, returning the hug.
Ash smiled, nodding to his companion.
"It's ok, I knew you were alright when I saw that spell weaken Dark
Fanrico... That was so brave of you..." Christydia said, smiling to the
Paladin.
"...gee ...uh ...thanks" Daniel answered, blushing.
Ash cocked an eyebrow. 'That Paladin better not be getting any ideas. . .'
"So... what do you plan on doing now?" Christydia asked him. Daniel's smile faltered a bit, as he thought of his answer.
"...I think I'll be going on another journey..." Daniel said,
"Somewhere, I lost sight of what being a true paladin is... I need to
find the answer again..."
"Where will you go?" She asked him.
"I don't know... maybe back home... maybe to Mt. Ordeals itself... but
where-ever I go, I know I'll find the answer I'm looking for."
"I know you will too..." Christydia smiled.
"What about you?" Daniel asked the two.
"Well... we've got our own journey to complete..." Christydia told the
Paladin, "...I promised I'd complete this task for my father, and I'll
need to find the Obake spear again. There's no telling where that
explosion may have sent it..."
"I know you'll succeed..." Daniel said with a smile, "...of course
you'll probably need this..." He pulled out a folded piece of paper
from his pocket and gave it to Christydia.
"My list!!! So that's how you knew before..." Christydia said, as she gave Daniel another hug.
"I'm glad we met, Ash, Christydia... If you ever need anything, I'll be there..." Daniel promised them.
"I know... Goodbye Daniel... I'll see you again someday..." Christydia said.
"Take it easy, man." Ash said, bringing Christydia back into his embrace. "Don't overdo it, alright?"
"I won't. Bye..." Daniel said as he smiled back, a small tear running down his cheek.
*****************
"Daddy, why is Mr. Mid crying on top of that man over there?" Gina
asked her father, pointing to Midoku crying in Stephan's arms.
"Well..." Jonas said, trying to think of how to explain it, "...he
cares about him very much sweetness, like you care about mommy and
me..."
"Oh, Ok." Gina answered, as she went off to look at some nearby flowers. Jonas went over to interrupt the pair's reunion.
"*AHEM*, I think it's time for Gina and I to head home..." Jonas said to Midoku and Stephan.
"OH!! Uh..." Midoku stammered, getting off of Stephan and helping him
to his feet, "Well... I guess this is goodbye, for now..."
"Thank you for helping Midoku, Mr. Kilmett, I am in your debt." Stephan told Jonas, shaking the man's hand.
"Well, when Midoku comes back to visit, why don't you come too?" Jonas said to the dark knight.
"...I'd like that, thanks..." Stephan answered.
"Bye Mr. Mid!!! Hope you come visit soon!!!" Gina said, giving Midoku a big hug.
"I will little one, and make sure you keep feeding Tommy all that yummy food." He told Gina with a big smile.
"I will, see ya!!!" Gina said, as she took her fathers hand and they began to leave.
"Bye Midoku, take care of yourself..." Jonas said back to the blue
wizard. Midoku waved to them, then noticed that Stephan looked a bit
confused.
"'Tommy'?" Stephan asked the blue wizard.
"I'll introduce you when we go visit..." Midoku said to the dark knight.
****
As the Kilmetts make their way home, Gina decides to ask her father a question.
"Daddy, how come Mr. DB made you glow before?" Gina asked her father.
Jonas stopped, trying to think of what to tell Gina before they got
home. He wanted to make sure he told Lisa and Gina the truth
together...
"... Gina... I think you'll get the chance to thank that werewolf..." Jonas told his daughter.
"REALLY!?" Gina asked, excited.
Jonas smiled, "Really, I think I may know where he is... Mr. Darkblade was helping me find him..."
"Yay!!! Maybe I can play with him!!!" Gina said excited.
Jonas tried to keep himself from laughing, but found that he couldn't.
"Yes, I'm sure he'd love to play with you too, sweetness..." he told
Gina as he laughed.
Ash and the others were right... I am very fortunate... Jonas thought,
as he carried Gina on his shoulders, I was alwyas afraid of what I am
and what I had to lose... He looked down at the pouch he carried. I
never realized how much strength I really have... He looked at the
sunset that followed Gina and him on their journey home.
No matter what may happen when I tell you the truth, just know that I'll always love you, Lisa...
****
"Man, what's with heroes and all these sappy goodbye's..." Stephan
grunted, as he and Midoku prepared to leave, saying one last goodbye to
Daniel.
"You know, we never did apologise to you or the others for what we did..." Midoku told Daniel.
"It's Ok, I think helping to save the world is a good enough apology...
though you guys may want to avoid KingOfDoma for awhile..." Daniel
smiled to the blue wizard. He looked over at his brother. "I guess this
is it..."
"Yup..." Stephan answered.
"So... where will you go now?" Daniel asked.
"I don't know yet... but we'll think of something... hopefully nothing
in the 'evil' category will come up..." Stephan answered.
"I know... take care of yourself brother..." Daniel told him.
"...you too..." Stephan said back.
"And Stephan..." Daniel said, mirroring Stephan's trademark "evil smile."
"...what?" the dark knight asked.
"I am *SO* going to kick your ass the next time we spar..." Daniel smiled, as he walked off to his next adventure.
"Oh yeah!?! Well... we'll see Mr. OH-I'M-SO-SPECIAL Paladin!!! Just you
wait!!!" Stephan yelled, as Midoku dragged Stephan away to start their
own new journey.
Until we meet again, Daniel... Stephan thought to himself, as he continued reminding Daniel of his future ass kicking...
****
Ash sighed heavily. The conflict was over. His struggle was over... for
now. He knew something else will happen later on down the road. But he
had Christydia with him. Not to mention a whole bunch of new friends.
He knew he could face anything now. But what was he going to do till
then?
Christydia walked up next to him. "You were marvelous Ash. I'm so proud
of you." she said with a smile. Ash smiled back. He grabbed Christydia,
swung her around romantic-style, and planted a big kiss on her lips. He
hadn't done that in a long time. He and Christydia walked over to where
the others were. They shook hands, said their compliments and thanks
yous to their new friends. Then they set off. "I don't know where you
are, Darkblade. . ." he said, staring into the sky. "But I'm sure as
hell gonna find you. And when I do. . .it'll be my turn for
questioning."
****
This adventure's over, it seems," said Folx, "so I guess I'll go home
for a few days before I set off to tag along with another group. Nice
travelling wiht you again, Cantor, Kira, Peach, Kelan, Lance."
"I'm going home as well, Folx," said Kelan. "So we'll see each other more than you thought for the next few days."
"I know you, you'll only be seeing Karen," said Cantor.
"I guess this is where we say goodbye for now," said Kelan, ignoring Cantor. "See you next time.
"Bye. Maybe I'll see you guys again soon, though I know that we'll
definitely see each other again," Said Folx. The rest of them said
goodbye, and Folx and Kelan headed off.
"I'll be going back to that pub. They had good beer." said Lance. "Take care, you guys." He jumped off.
Peach was next to speak. "I'm going back to tell my friends that I
found a spirit bead. They'll be SO jealous! I'm also going to continue
my studies in white magic, but I'll concentrate more on my summoning. I
need to learn how to summon those who aren't in the area besides
Alexander and Bahamut. Those two really drain my power. You know how
many ethers and elixirs I wasted?"
"Don't worry, Peach. I'm sure you'll be able to get enough money to buy all of that back!"
"Thanks, Kira. I guess I'm leaving too, now. Goodbye. I'll see you two
if you come home sometime." She summoned a small dragon, waved goodbye,
and flew off.
"Where to now, Cantor?" Kira turned to her partner.
"I think we'll go pay the king of Doma a visit. Whaddaya say, Kira?" Cantor asked.
"Alright, I guess. Nothing better to do at the moment."
"And I have a little thing to take care of..." Cantor said, cracking
his knuckles. "I need to get my clothes back... and I mean my real
clothes, not these. These were Phil's, which he let me borrow. I hope
he doesn't mind that they've transformed with my splitting." Cantor
warped them down to the ground and called his horse, Shadow. They both
rode off into the sunset.
****
Darkblade sat in his room, watching the ending ceremonies on his mirror.
"Darkblade. . ." the Broom of Darkness inched around his chair. "What's that weird glistening on your face?"
"What are you talking about?" Darkblade growled. "Stop making stupid jokes."
"No, I see it. . .it looks wet. Kinda like a tear."
". . .?" Darkblade fingered his eyes suddenly. ". . .Hey, Broom of Darkness?"
"What?"
"Shut the hell up."
THE END. ---------------
"Well slap a dead fish on me and call me Molokidan!" |
Ash Fanrico 
Posts: 2432
(11/23/04 16:59)
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Re: The Hit (Rough Draft)
Ah yes... was fun to go back down this memory lane. ^^
It must be realized that this is what could be called the "Pre-Gaera"
Gaera world. When RPs were Freestyle to the Extreme, and the direction
of the storylines were determined by each new post. So a story can go
anywhere, all depending on the imagination of the curent poster. Also
before the planet was given a name.
This RP stands as something... of a special occurance. The first
completed RP on RPGWW. As well as sets into place many things that
would either still be in effect for the coming months or so... or
things that would be dropped soon after The Hit's completion.
Stephan and Midoku are good examples, their relationship evolved
throughout this entire story. First as the usual "Big Bad Boss and
Loyal Stooge" to "Lovers".
Not to mention that the relationship between Kotoki and Jak began
here. Which would lead them to falling in love and co-owning the Bar
& Inn together. Which, ironically, Ash and Christydia took
residence in for a long long time. Before the Inn went kablooey in the
Invasion plot.
This rp also introduced us to the Kilmetts, some of FFFan's
greatest creations. A family that's more or less still around today.
Ash as well is a good example. This was Old Skool Ash, back when
the characters and personalities within RPGWW were more or less
parodies of classic and cliche' RPG, Fantasy, and Anime characters and
concepts. Pre-Gaera Ash was still calling himself a Hero, which the
current version doesn't even dare to call himself (as he sees himself
as just a guy who happens to do the right thing). Not to mention the
whole Broom thing. The Big Broom of Death was mainly a joke that became
almost canon with the continuity.
It was just to give a goofy weapon to what was at first, a goofy
super hero/warrior, based off of a ridiculously large broom that I
found in the closet of the Theater where I had worked at that time.
Lot of this stuff was dropped more or less after the Hit. Ash
became more of a serious character (i mean, look at how he is in THIS),
and thus the Big Broom was dropped for more reasonable weaponry (Though
it WAS used at one point by Ash when he had just awoke from being
revived and being penniless). Not to mention that that whole godhood
thing (something created by Darkblade, again back to that whole "plot
being dictated by each post" thing) was immediately dropped and
promptly forgotten, which if you ask me... is a good thing.
So... While a little bit... crazy and full of holes,
inconsistancies, cliches, and rampant examples of plot hijackage (to be
quite honest, I wasn't planning on Dark Fanrico being such a main
player in this), The Hit does have some good examples of adventure and
imagination. It established some relationships (both intiment and
friendship wise), started some aspects that would hold for quite a long
time, and it was, for the most part... the first time ever in RPGWW
history that a group of "rabid posting wombats" were able to come
together and for the most part, make a semi-coherent rp storyline and
FINISH IT.
So again, this is from the "Pre-Gaera" Era of RPGWW. Before it was
decided to corral all these things into one continuity, one world, and
try to make sense of it all.
Thanks Molo... thanks for bringing back the Hit... one last time. It was fun to see how some of these characters began.
Till next time.
---Ash "Uh-Huh...
hate to break this to you... but gratuitus panty shots aren't
considered a weapon!" --Deadpool to Sailor Moon, "Deadpool vs. Sailor
Moon" |
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