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Post by hermes on Jun 25, 2009 16:43:39 GMT -5
Bogarth smiled his creepy smile, "There will be little, if any ground fighting. We live on top of solid stone like this, because of the things that live under the surface. Ground bound demons here tend to try to find their way into the air, and most demons have wings here anyways." Bogarth said, stretching his. "But as I said, the human form armor here grants certain useful abilities, including the ability to fly." He said, leading them both into the armory.
It was a massive room, not cavernous, but still extremely large and absolutely stuffed with weapons and armor. Bogarth slowly led them to the back of the storage, and showed them the human form armor. It was partially organic, came in a variety of colors, and included a set of great demonic wings. Prime raised his eyebrow at the things, "Well those are interesting." Arya was blushing again, and muttering.
"I can't believe I was beaten by a wingless weak thing like a human." She muttered, and Prime reached out to grab her shoulder. "Death God, remember?" He said, looking at the armor. He shrugged, he could jump high, and the stuff was creepy. Reason enough not to wear it, but then, he may need it. So he sighed, and picked a suit that was black with red highlights. "Whats your color Al?" Prime said, as he stepped into the armor. It closed around him firmly and gripped him comfortably. The wings entered his mind as being near second nature, and he supposed that his ancestors had been winged at some point in the past.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Jun 29, 2009 2:34:01 GMT -5
Al picked an armor suit, and it was probably one of the largest ones there. It had large metal shoulders, and a thick metal plating for the chest and abdomen, with a wide spread waist guard, extending outward like a Japanese samurai. He had large metal boots, that were thickly laden with metal, and with each step, it sent a slight shake through the ground. Large metallic wings burst outward from the back of the suit of armour, giving him the ability of flight. His halberd was attached to a chain now, for a quick return.
"Well, heavily clad, but I can fly," Al said underneath a large metal helmet.
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Post by Kuroboom on Jul 2, 2009 5:20:06 GMT -5
Kuro had been asleep having the most wonderful dream when he sprang awake. He instinctively leaped to his feet and got in a fighting stance before his mind was fully conscious.
When his mind finally came in to focus, he realized he wasn't under attack but there was an eerie red glow around his shack which he had mistaken for an incoming blast. He peered out his window and there were strange glowing symbols everywhere as well as a circle of people surrounding his shack. He had little patience for magic and therefore little understanding of it, but even so he knew they weren't there for anything good. Kuro spread his fingers apart and a ball of energy formed on his fingertips. They were gone as soon as they appeared however, and with a fine red mist ten of the people surrounding his home fell dead to the ground with a large crater where their faces used to be. Kuro turned ninety degrees and with a blast knocked down the north wall of his small home and repeated the process. Ten blasts, ten fallen. Another ninety degree turn. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Kuro blasted down his front door. Another ten stood there. He fired his ten beams again but they slowed down shortly after leaving his fingers and hovered in midair. With a look of confusion on his face, a wall had appeared directly in front of his blasts and they faded away to nothing. "Ah fu--" Kuro began when everything suddenly seemed to be pulled in every direction. Reality was altering around him leaving him stunned and disoriented until with loud boom everything stopped moving and he plummeted down with what was left of his shack.
The tiny building collapsed on top of him but he just stood up, debris falling off of him. He didn't like where he was. There were dead lizard-esque bodies everywhere and everything was wet too. Blood was spackled here and there and Kuro surmised he was in some sort of arena. Kuro pulled the roof off of his dresser and got his clothes out and quickly got dressed. Being in an arena, the last thing he wanted to do was fight in his boxers.
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Post by hermes on Jul 2, 2009 5:27:00 GMT -5
Prime was just about to compliment AL's sense of style, when a loud boom outside caused them both turn their heads sharply to the door. Waisting no time, they charged out the door, along with Arya and the guard captain on their heels.
As they arrived in the courtyard, they beheld what appeared to be another human, surrounded by the remains of a small shack. Prime raised an eyebrow, looking at the chaos the blast had caused. It'd even killed some of the unconcious demon guards that had fallen in the courtyard earlier.
"Hello." Prime said, "I assume you to, were the unwilling recipient of a visit from several mages and a large red circle of stomach thrusting qualities?" He asked, gesturing for the guards to clear away the trash in his courtyard. They set to work quickly at his gesture, it seemed indeed that the chaos of strength ruled the day.
Prime put his hand to his temple, trying to stave off another bout of pain.
"Well, you're welcome to join us. We seem to be at war however, so we'll have to deal with that first, before we can seek a way back." Prime said, scowling harshly as the pain briefly throbbed through his forehead.
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Post by Kuroboom on Jul 2, 2009 5:44:45 GMT -5
Kuro looked at the man before him with a look of confusion. "Primus?" He looked remarkably similar to the being Primus he had met once before, but was somehow... different. He couldn't put his finger on it. Looking at the lineup, he noticed Al whom he knew only by reputation, an important looking lizard demon man-thing, and a woman demon-thing whom seemed slightly clingy on the man who Kuro believed to be his one-time ally Primus.
To answer the question though, "Yeah. I managed to take out thirty of them, but the last ones banished me here before I could take them out." Kuro was still off from the lurching and the nagging in the back of his head as to what was different about this person. Still, putting that aside, he voiced a concern he had. "I have to wonder though what's going on on Earth for them to banish us here. I haven't been active in ages and no one really knows where I live... I get the feeling something big is going down soon."
Kuro paused for a moment, "I'm good for any battles you got going on if it means getting home. I swore to protect Earth, so I'm at your services here if you can get me home."
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Post by hermes on Jul 2, 2009 5:54:26 GMT -5
"Well I can honestly say that I mean no harm to Earth, and I would indeed vigorously defend it if it were to be put in harms way. But I also have no issue with fighting when I think its nessisary." Prime said, "And I think at the moment it'd nessisary, or we'll all be viciously brutalized, probably raped, then killed in immensely nasty and creative ways." Prime furrowed his brows again, and tried to ignore the once more building pain in his forehead.
"In any case, I'm not Primus. My name is Prime, though I think we do share some kind of history, I can't never quite remember..." He trailed off, in though, trying to recall where he'd known Primus before...well, before he'd known him.
His rapore was interrupted when he sensed a projective flying at him, in an instant his sword was out and he cut it from the air. The two halves blazed past him, with a forced that tried to pull his hair out, and slammed into the ground with heavy thuds.
He looked up to the roof, and saw a band of lightweight but obviously strong demons, black colored by streaked with blue, holding several dangerous looking horn bows, many times the thickness of what a normal human would use. Prime could fathom the immense force they generated, seeing as how they'd flown past his head.
"I believe we have some visitors. Would you like to do the honors Kuro? Strength is respected here, it could win you a position of power, and having such a thing here is not a disadvantage." Prime said, sounding somewhat distasteful of the idea, but recognizing the seriousness of the situation.
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Post by Kuroboom on Jul 2, 2009 6:20:35 GMT -5
Kuro grinned. It had been ages since he fought and he wanted to do this properly. With a flash and a surge of energy, he was instantly a super saiyan. The speed at which he transformed suggested he was both very comfortable with this form and that he had much more in store. An arrow shot at his face, but at this level it was moving far too slow to hit him.
He rocketed up and ripped it from the sky and flung it back at the firer. Before it impacted with the demon's skull, Kuro was on top of the group. He counted no more than ten. He grabbed the one nearest to him and tore him in half, blood and organs spraying and splattering everywhere. As soon as that demon was in pieces, Kuro had already released him and had karate chopped down the second demon's head, instantly removing his hand from the demon's brains to launch a punch through the third demon's face with his other hand. With a spin, the now faceless demon went flying and Kuro fired a beam clean through two of them standing in a row. The arrow was now pressed against the firer's skull and slowly digging in. Kuro teleported next to one of the other archers and ripped the bow from his hands. The demon must have had a firm grip on the bow because his hands came with it. Kuro swung the bow and decapitated him with it as the severed hands finally released their grip on the bow as they went limp. Plucking both hands from the air, he launched them through the hearts of two other demons as the arrow made its exit from the first archer's skull. Looking at the one furthest away, he was glowing. Kuro reasoned that one must be the commander because he was faster than the other ones. Kuro rushed to him to rip his spine out through his abdomen, but with a flash he was gone. Teleported away.
To a normal being, it would have simply looked like the demons exploded into a mess and Kuro was suddenly covered in blood. But it was a grisly showing to anyone who had enough strength to watch his movements. Kuro wasn't fucking around today.
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Post by hermes on Jul 2, 2009 6:34:21 GMT -5
"Oh good you're finished." Prime said, looking up at Kuro as he slowly pulled his blade from the last enemy standing before him. Or in this cast, slightly behind him. Seven bodies of light weight swordsmen lay at his feet, their blades dripping with a strange glowing fluid.
"My guess would be assassins, Al is about mopping up. There are more of them around, but they're trying to stay hidden and strike from the shadows." There was a loud clang, and suddenly another body was lying at Prime's feet. For all the world, it looked as if he had never moved, but Prime knew Kuro has seen the demon move in, make his initial strike, only to be parried, his arm and head suddenly missing as Prime's sword flung the demons guard wide, and dipped under to decapitate him.
It hadn't even taken a millisecond, but Prime was standing exactly as he was before, now with eight bodies at his feet. He took some pride in the fact that his kills were much cleaner and more merciful than Kuro's.
Prime's head turned sharply as a blast of red energy lit the courtyard. One of his guards had found a spy, and reacted by killing him in a rather messy manner. A small smirk curved Prime's lips, and he looked up at Kuro. For a moment, his eye's were clearly visible. They were still hazel, but his iris had and iris around it, and that iris had another iris around that. They looked unnatural but focused fluidly.
"Good, its nice to see that those demons can hold their own in warfare. They didn't do so well against myself and Al, though I have no doubt that they could overpower me in numbers." Prime said, adding in a mutter "Great numbers..."
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Jul 3, 2009 2:14:49 GMT -5
Albatross finished off one of them, and rejoined the group. "I see you're here Kuro, glad to see you could join us?" Al said laughing underneath the armor.
"Troops, I want you to secure a perimeter, it seems that we are under attack," Al said commanding his lizard troops.
"Prime, these are just foot soldiers compared to what they can send... we need to strategize, and come up with a formal plan of attack." Al said tossing his spear, impaling an enemy. He yanked his hand back, the chain forcefully ripping the spear from the gut of the victim, and gracefully landing back in Als hand.
"I predict that there are more going to be coming, and I assume from the sky, if the head honcho there is correct."
Al paused and looked at Prime, "What the hell happend to your eyeballs!"
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Post by Kuroboom on Jul 12, 2009 16:12:58 GMT -5
"Yeah, I figured I'd drop in to say hello," Kuro replied sarcastically as he scanned for any stragglers from the puny assault party. Confident there were no more within range and a bit startled by Al's comment to Prime, the warrior turned to look at Prime's eyes. They were slightly grotesque in Kuro's opinion; the multiple irises focusing in unison was a bit disgusting. Knowing Prime couldn't (or rather shouldn't be able to) see his own eyeballs, Kuro called out for someone to get a mirror over to Prime.
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Post by hermes on Jul 16, 2009 18:20:27 GMT -5
Prime took the mirror, and examined his eye's. He scowled as he looked at himself, his own eye's. They were still the right color, save for the two extra iris' that now encircled his origional iris and pupil. They seemed to flex and focus independently, and he suddenly noticed that he was seeing a whole new range of things. He could only assume that his eye's gave him a greater sense of radiation wavelengths, extending his sight beyond light wavelengths.
He could now see, as well as sense, the energy in and surrounding the demons around him. See the blood pumping through his companions in its complex circulations. He could see the vague glow of life in tree's, and the insects buzzing around and below them. He could see even more than that, but it was more vague and hard to describe.
It didn't feel as though his eye's, traditional eye's, were picking these things up. It felt as though the extra iris' did that, and only fed the information to him when he asked of it. It was really quite an odd feeling. The guard who'd brought the mirror bowed, "My lord, we did not know that you were of the Trigendo demon clan, our apologies for any initial rudeness you may have experienced."
Bogarth slapped the guard, and sent him packing with a flea in his ear. "He isn't a trigendo you moron! The eye's are similar sure, but everything else is wrong!" Bogarth growled, but looked at his lord with different consideration now. "I didn't know that you were one of us, or do you now stand on the precipice of becoming something else? There are many strange things in the world."
Prime agreed mutely, and looked over at Al. "I think you'd better prepare our troops for battle, this advance won't be the last we hear of this demon lord." Prime said quitely, still pondering his eye's, and now wondering at the cause of his splitting headaches...
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Jul 23, 2009 3:00:36 GMT -5
Al nodded agreeingly. "I am not sure how long it will take for us to make the proper preperations for battle, but I am sure that if we step in, we can take a decent number of them..." Al said, reassuringly, gripping his javeline tightly.
Al's metallic wings spread widely, and he began to circle around the soldiers, barking orders, and going over formations.
OOC: Not really sure what to do =_=
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Post by hermes on Jul 24, 2009 2:29:46 GMT -5
Over the next two days, Prime, Albatross, and Kuro all worked hard to mobalise Prime's 'armies', of which he apparently had a surprising number. By defeating his dark mistress in combat, Arya apparently held sway over about half of her fathers holding, being around 400 years old now.
Prime wasn't sure exactly what happened on the other continents of this hell world, but he was acutely aware that he suddenly found himself ruler of about half of one of them. He was also quite surprised to discover the demon's habit of riding extremely large flying demons to get around. Some of them so large, in fact, that they had towns on them. Some of them, in fact, roosted beside the plateau he now commanded from. They increased the size of the plateau by about half again its current size, and were really quite magnificent beasts.
The only issue being the unholy stink they created. Prime had literally ordered all the windows in the manor nailed shut, and had the guards set at the doors flapping their wings in place to keep the manor ventilated. He might've felt bad about that before, but it was their own fault for not inventing an eletric, or magical for that matter, fan.
Prime sat at a long table, Arya beside him, with Al and Kuro to his respective left and right. They'd been pouring over maps of the local area's for a few hours now, and the fighting had already begun between the borders of the former daughters land, and her fathers. A unique spell of Bogarths devising constantly updated the position of the Demon Lords amassing armies, and Prime's own.
"There's no choice then," Prime said finally, scowling at the map. "We'll have to march up the western coast, if thats the only place the Arcane Storms subside. If the main mass of the continent at the center is a mass of jagged peaks, host to old and brutish demons, we could lose as many men there as fighting the Demon Lords armies." Prime said, tracing a line along the coast with his dagger.
Prime had cracked open his armor, letting his chest and sweat vent. The assassination attempts had finally let up, but more than likely that was because the Demon Lord had finally run out of teleporting demons. Or run out of one's brave enough to come and kill him.
"Do we have any other options Bogarth? You should know the terrain better than I do." Prime said, casting a glance in the sadistic demons direction.
"We could take the Asmodoth beasts, and fly our entire army onto his doorstep, they wouldn't be bothered by the peaks, as they can fly far higher than most demons can. However, the King would see us coming from a great distance, and possesses enough power himself to vaporize the beasts, and us along with them." Bogarth said, shrugging. "This is absurd to the point where I'm forced to think that any confrontation is futile, but you don't seem to have an option."
Prime frowned, thinking carefully, then slowly looked across the table at Kuro and Al. He knew their reputation, and had witnessed some of their power. If the Demon Lord didn't know about them, they could be quite an advantage. They could fly onto his doorstep, with those two shielding the armies advance from the Demon Lords likely casual and lazy attacks, and take him by the throat...
He quickly outlined his idea to Al and Kuro, "But then the problem is the Demon Lord himself," Prime eventually trailed off, "Once we get there, the greatest issue we have is killing him. I don't think any of us have the stacking to do it at the moment, and I'm not even sure about working together. This crazy bastard is from the circle, literally Lucifers circle. Normally I'd call it out of my league, and go find a stone to hide under. But, you know, even the stones here try to eat you sometimes..." Prime sighed.
"I guess what I'm asking is, exactly how badly do you want to go home? I'm not sure where it would get us, but if we spent a few years here, we might be able to train outselves up closer to the bastards level. What are your thoughts?" Prime asked.
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Post by Kuroboom on Aug 12, 2009 22:32:59 GMT -5
Kuro looked into Prime's odd eyes and spoke, "I didn't exactly have much going on on Earth, but I'd still like to get back. If only to find out why I was banished here and by whom... We might not stand much of a chance at the moment, but there is a chance. I'm willing to take it." Kuro paused for a moment wanting not to offend Prime with his next remark. "Plus, we don't know what being here can or will do to us. This isn't our home."
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Aug 13, 2009 22:40:16 GMT -5
Al placed his hands under his chin, thinking quietly to himself. "I would say that Kuro, and I could sneak in, while we did a circular ambush? The ambush would distract the guards, and army, while Kuro and I go for a swift, and quick kill to the Demon Lord."
Al paused, then thinking about Kuro's statement, "And yes, Earth is our home, and I desire to be back in it's grace, in one piece. I am willing to do what ever is deemed necessary for action! You have my halberd, and my powers. I am sure that all three of my summons would happily agree to that as well. The black dragon would be our best ally, it is large powerful, and could take out large heaps of the army as well."
Al pounded his fist on the table, "Lets strategize, I am ready for some action!"
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Post by hermes on Aug 18, 2009 18:26:46 GMT -5
"Alright then," Prime said, "I think its about time we got going then." He said, gesturing to the other two, and walking outside.
"If one of you wants to organize a force to try and assassinate Arya's father, I suggest you do it now, before we leave." Prime said, "As he should be distracted by the marge larger force heading for his doorstep.
Prime then turned to Bogarth, who had was Prime now recognized to be an exasperated expression on his face. Prime grinned wolfishly, "Now now, buck up, you would've died anyways right? Order our forced to move out, and give them the flight path."
Prime looked to the sky critically, "I believe we've already been in one place for to long. But it seems your father is overconfident," Prime said to Arya, "Whats your take on this anyways?" He asked.
She smiled at him, almost sadly. "You're going to die." She said simply, before walking away.
Prime shook his head, she really could have a haughty, arrogant attitude sometimes. Prime stretched under his armor, and quickly took to the skies, heading for one of the beasts now powering its way up into the atmosphere.
"Really," He muttered, "They alone should be enough to obliterate armies."
"Be ready!" Prime called back to Kuro and Al, "He'll likely attack as soon as we're on his horizon line." It was only two days travel after all, Prime could see that far, even if he couldn't move fast enough to cover the distance in a day. If not for the flying beasts, however, the mountain range would've been an impassable barrier.
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Post by Albatross Trevelyan on Aug 21, 2009 0:42:21 GMT -5
Al followed suit, and followed Prime. "It seems," Al said leaning on his halberd, "That we can rest tonight, and tomorrow we will have to travel fast and hit hard. Kuro and I can sneak in, and the majority of the forces will be a distraction... I'm not a trained Assassin, but I will try."
Al looked at the ground, deeply in thought. "I am hoping that our power will be enough. I know that I am strong, and know that we can take on a large army, but are we really ready to overthrow one of the strongest overlords of this land? They could have a completely different perspective on power, than we haveon Earth. He could practically be a god." Al said.
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Post by Kuroboom on Aug 21, 2009 17:14:17 GMT -5
"It's take a chance or be stranded here. I don't like not having any idea how strong my opponent is, but I like less that I was banished here to die. I can either die here or die trying to get back to my home."
Kuro was frowning. Al was right, of course, but they had to press on. "Al, there's a chance that we'll get slaughtered but what else can we do other than train and train and pray it was enough? We just have to give it everything we have. I don't think you will, but I wouldn't hold it against you if you decided you didn't want to do this."
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