--Tamriel--
The boy landed nearby. Noting the Beta Swarm's appearance, he makes a bow with one of his swords, then pulled the other one back, aiming directly at one of the remaining arms' joint, and shot a flaming bolt right before the shadowy hands attacked again, this time attacking Erk, Serra, and Rick as well.
((You can go ahead and say your attacks hit the hands, sever them, whatever. More are just gonna come anyways.))
(('Twas more so a derivative rule I came up with; I'd ignore posts that broke the rules, or rather, parts of posts that broke the rules. If I was later mistaken about the post's breaking of the rules, it would be un-ignored.))
--Tamriel--
Rick leapt backward to avoid the Beta Swarmling's attack. "Yeah, now that's what I'm talkin' about! A real fight! Come and get some, wuss."
WHOOSH! A hand coming behind Rick was blown away by Erk's well-timed Rexcalibur. "Watch out, more enemies!"
"Hey, thanks, man!"
Another hand came to attack Erk, but Serra shoved it away with her Shine tome (which weighed as much as an Iron Lance- not joking!) and, with a cry of "FOR OSTIA!" blasted shadow hands coming at both of them with Shine, scoring a critical hit.
Rick turned around, reaching for his Rocket Launcher. He fired a single rocket at a shadow hand that was trying to attack the boy from behind. "So what are these anyway?"
((If you're talking about Rick breaking off one of the arms, he was just following what you said:
Doctor: "... while Rick, having circled in the air during his Rocket Jump, swung his Frying Pan downward in a vicious swing straight at Beta Swarmling's grate."
Pipipi: "The Beta Swarm easily blocks the frying pan with his sword, however, he accidently positions his arm so that it is in the way of where the frying pan strikes, cutting it off."
If you meant something else, then I dunno))
The boy's bow changed back into a katana as he sliced through hand after hand. However, the arms kept coming. Looking around, he noticed the source coming from a chaotic demon roaring towards the sky. He launched a giant Fireball at it, which exploded on one of it's arms.
Realizing it's under attack, the demon turned to the boy and charged, headbutting him in the chest and sending him through the ground. As he got up, the demon attempted a second headbutt, however he dodged it, causing the demon to head straight towards Erk.
== Tamriel, the plains outside of Whiterun ==
"FOR THE ORDER!" The rider cried out loud, charging at the demon assaulting the boy. His lightning-horse leaped over it's head, and he swung his sword in a one-handed arc at it's face. He landed clear, and smiled chivalrously at Serra. He slowly winked at her, rode by the demon again, pulling the boy into the saddle for protection.
"Fear not, Son. Dexterious the Demonslayer is here."
--Tamriel--
Anouther arm had fallen! The Beta Swarm tries to slam his swords onto Serra.
--The Core - Balcony--
The boy watches his sister cry. "Sis, what's wrong?" he asks. The man appears behind the boy and answers for him, which startled the boy a little. "That's only her spirit, her body is being carried away, somewhere. It is possible to find where. I presume you don't even want to face the danger required," said the man.
"But, I must find her. I don't care about any danger," lied the boy
"Don't lie, I already know. You are always scared. There is no avoiding it. You have to be brave, no matter what," said the man
"But-"
"No buts, you know this well. Being scared will get you no where. Without bravery, you wouldn't exist."
"Is there anouther way?"
"Unfortunally, no. Whenever you are scared or anything. Just think this. I am brave. I will get through this. I do not care about the consequences that will happen if I fail. If I do fail, I know I will fail doing the right thing, instead of win doing the wrong."
The boy sighed. "But I am not brave."
"You are very, just think in your mind what I said."
So the boy thought about it, and thought. Finally, he knew he was ready. "Thank you sir," he said, "But who are you and those people?"
"That is something, you will one day find out," said the man, before the boy left, to save his sister.
Dexterious jumps into the way of the sword, sending a kinetic pulse out of his sword and slamming the swords backward at the metal grate, setting the boy down before doing so.
(("Oh noes, he's controlling my char." I said people can grab, but now it's seeming a bit ridiculous, considering Malk's character(s) keep grabbing my character(s).
Also, I said the demon was heading towards Erk. The boy wasn't near it by then, thus the demon couldn't have been attacking him.))
The boy jumped back as more shadow arms came at him and Dexterious. He slashed through several of them before heading off towards the demon, who is currently attacking Erk and Rick directly.
Erk ALMOST moved to block the sword- before realizing the other guy, Dexterious, had blocked it. And then watched him proceed to make an obviously flirting wink. Well, if he kept Serra from harm, Erk would excuse it... for now. But they really would have to talk...
"Yo bro, behind you!"
At Rick's warning, Erk turned around, then quickly sidestepped the demon's headbutt; Rick himself rocket-jumped to avoid the attack entirely. Erk said, "What in St. Elimine's name is THAT HIDEOUS THING?!"
"Erk! Leave him to me! This'll be a piece of cake!" Serra, as a Bishop, gained triple weapon damage against evil creatures, elevating her Shine tome's might from 6 to a whopping 18. "Taaaaake THIS!" Serra aimed a Shine blast right at the demon's head.
"Understood!" Erk turned toward the Beta Swarmling, and watched as Rick circled in mid-air. He was going for another aerial Frying Pan attack.
Erk timed his Rexcalibur cast so that it would strike just before Rick came in to attack. The extreme wind surged forth at the Beta Swarmling, followed by Rick's vicious falling Frying Pan swing.
The demon's head was blown completely off. However, it then regenerated back to normal and roared before getting drop kicked in the face by the boy. It was pushed back a few feet, then made shadiw clones of itself and sent them after the others. The boy gripped his katanas tightly, slowly circling the demon, as it growled at him and followed through. ((More things you can destroy as they keep coming back))
They stopped, as the demon roared and launched more arms at the boy, he slashed through them and did a spiral slice towards it, knocking it back near the Beta Swarm.
Dexterious looks at the Beta Swarm, then charges at Serra. He leaped off the horse, and it dissipated into dust. He jumps over her hair, flipping in the air while doing so. As he rolled, he pulled out a rose from his pocket, tucking it into her ear as he flipped by.
He landed, firing a ridiculous amount of lightning at the Beta Swarm.
" WHAT THE...!? " A sidelined Swag God said from a distance. Then he cooked from a barrage of lightning from the Heavens.
(( Maybe the Doctor had a TARDIS malfunction, and is stranded in the 18nth century. Or he is just busy ))
((No, I haven't touched a TARDIS in a week. Waiting on Pi.))
((I've been on a adventure to anouther world that doesn't exist, you can post without me :P))
"What the heck was that?! Its head just came back!"
"Maybe that's not its weak point? I doubt such a foolish creature has a brain." Erk was stepping away from Serra, and making sure he was getting that monster's attention. "By the way, is there something in your ear?"
"Yeah, a rose."
"I see..." Was Erk merely jumping to conclusions, was that a gesture of friendship? Or was-
"Hey, stop getting distracted!" Serra pulled Erk out of the way of a shadow clone's attack. "I know what you're thinking, but you don't have to worry- just don't die!"
"U-understood! Uh... thank you, Serra."
Erk reached for Bolganone, then, spotting a clone heading toward Serra, blasted the clone with the enormous fire spell. Erk turned about and blasted the clone that almost hit him with another Bolganone. Meanwhile, Serra aimed at the main monster, centering her Shine attack on the monster's torso.
Rick, meanwhile, emptied his rocket launcher clip (that's four rockets), aiming each one at a shadow clone. "I ain't just gonna fall apart like some cheap-o crap turret! COME AND GET SOME!"
A shadow clone struck Rick's side as he was reloading, but it was a grazing hit and didn't hurt that much. In fact, it merely fueled Rick's simulated adrenaline. "Ohhh yeah, now we're getting dangerous!"
I don't have a cat.
And I don't need to use proper grammer if I don't want to.
Achievement get: BU-BU-BU-BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!
The skeletal creature that came out of the portal had a bunch of skeletons behind it.
Most of them looked like dead builders's skeletons with the builders's clothes on them.
They came with a bunch of bricks that looked like they were made of human bones, flesh, and blood as glue.
A blood-red castle was built.
The skeleton went in and ordered the skeletons to do something, but nobody heard what.
Soon the castle was ready for someone to move into, but it looked like nobody would want to be in it.
They began to build walls around the land around the castle.
Soon, he went back in.
Somebody could hear faint sounds of voices if they were nearby, and more came through.
Some skeletons that had knight's armor and a sword and shield came out of the portal, and they walked over and stood in front of the entrance to what appeared to be castle grounds.
The ground inside the outer walls turned red.
Houses were built.
A moat was dug and filled.
Spikes were put in front of the moat, which was deep.
A drawbridge was built.
The land looked like a blood kingdom.
Dexterious summons a whirlwind of dust around himself, slowly levitating upon it. His sword morphs into a bow, a golden quiver appearing on his back. His armour morphed into a pair of flowing robes, and his eyes glow a sinister-looking cyan. The glow takes up his face, and a puff of steam and smoke snorted out his nose. He fired a single arrow, not at a Swarmling but into the soft earth behind the Beta Swarmling.
The arrow glowed in the ground, and a glowing crevice begins to open up beneath it.
He then fired a arrow into the body of Toryygg. The sword removed itself from his torso, and the wound patched up. The burns on him began to fade away, and he was lifted to his feet. He picked up his sword, then glanced around. He sprung out of the way of a particularly bold Swarmling, then began to fight for his life.
Dexterious then fired an arrow, with carvings of flame and explosions, straight at the metal grill in the chest of the Alpha Swarmling.
Swag God then quietly slinked back into a portal, his vengeance would have to wait. That guy looked scary.
EDIT: Oopsies, that was the Beta Swarmling. I fixed it. :)
((Back from vacation on the forgien planet
@Sargent It's probably gonna be really hard to see the red ground with all those swarmlings covering every inch of ground, assuming it's in the Swarm Realm :P
How could you not have a cat? You're under arrest for infinite decades
@Malk The Alpha Swarm is in the Swarm Realm, not Tamriel))
--???--
It is morphing, fusing, growing. You must hurry, before it comes. Hurry, before it is too late.
--Outside the core--
As the boy walks back to the fissure, he notices something in his pocket. It's a note, which he reads and finds that at the top of the page, along with some instructions.
That -----------------> S.A.G.
What did SAG mean? Did it stand for something? He tried to think of what it stands for, but he couldn't. He followed the instructions and left to the fissure, which he jumped in.
--The Swarm Realm - The Skies--
Talonflame is suddenly hit by the Alpha Swarm and is pulled down. Talonflame struggles to escape the flaming grip but is unable to.
--Tamriel--
The wind does nothing to the Beta Swarm, who gets hit by Rick's frying pan unfortunatly because he was too busy absorbing the lightning attack in his sword to notice Rick. The Grate comes off, and everyone is free to attack it.
The Demon leapt towards the boy in an attempt to claw him in half. The boy stepped out the way as Serra's Shine attack destroyed the Demon's arm and grazed his shoulder. The scalding burn nearly healed in a few seconds and the Demon's arm regenerated as well. The boy's arms started blazing, and he shot fireballs in all directions, hitting clones and Swarmlings at random. The Demon, however, hopped around, dodging all of the fireballs.
Dexterious floats down to the ground, his cloudy horse appearing beneath him. He fired from his bow again, an arrow with holy sigils and such marked on it. It blazed with yellow light as it cut a lethal course through the air, straight at the demon. He chuckles, hoping that he would be ending an evil life. He turns to the Beta Swarmling, his broadsword re-appearing instead of his bow. It charged with lightning and he hefted it.
He charges at the monster, straight at it's leg. At the last minute, a portal opens in front of him, leading to the Swarm Dimension. He turns in the saddle, and with one hand blows a kiss in the direction of Serra. His horse jumps into the air, and into the portal. The portal remains open, however.
((So your character can create Fissures straight out of thin air?
It would make perfect sense if he was part of S.A.G. Not telling why though yet :P))
"Okay, that's it!" Erk reached for Thoron, furious at Dexterious's repeated brazen...
Wait a minute, calm down, Erk thought.
Erk turned around and aimed at the Beta Swarmling. "All right, that idiot's on my side, so I'll just kill the idiot that's NOT!" Erk proceeded to launch three bolts of Thoron in rapid succession right at the thing's gut.
And then fell over. "Whoo... too much... magic..."
"Erk, calm down!" Serra ran to Erk's side, picking him up and applying her Mend staff.
"S... Serra?"
"I haven't seen you this mad since that whole fiasco with the Black Fang! THREE lightning bolts at once! That was almost scary!"
Erk looked at his Thoron tome. "For the price of five, by the looks of it... I'm sorry."
"Don't be sorry! If he's making you this mad, it means you really care about me... AND you just threw three lightning bolts at that monster over there. That's really impressive."
"Serra..."
"Are you two done? The big ugly thing is still alive!" Rick looked as annoyed as a one-eyed space core could be, partially because he had just used up four more rockets trying to hit that demon, and missed with all of them.
Erk nodded. "Of course... we've still got a problem."
"Yeah... All right, let's see if we can catch him by surprise! ATTACK PATTERN DELTA!"
Rick set two portals- one on the ground and one on the side of a mountain- and rocket jumped into one, frying pan out and ready. Erk quickly aimed a blast of Rexcalibur in front of where the demon was jumping, while Serra aimed another burst of Shine right at it. Rick flew out of his mountain portal and straight in behind the demon, and prepared to hit him in the back of the head with his Frying Pan.
((This double post is a traitor and a scoundrel.))
The holy arrow pierced the Demon straight through it's chest. It let out one last roar of pain before falling to it's knees and collapses. All the shadow clones and arms dissipate into nothing. However, rather than bursting into light or disintegrate like most Fiends should when killed by a holy item, the Demon merely releases a faint, black vapor from it's body.
The boy walks over to it, and does something unexpected: he lifts the Demon up and hugs it. He then pulls away, taking out an ethereal knife. The boy hesitates, then carves a cross on where the arrow was. A vision of a beautiful lady appeared briefly in the Demon's place before it disappears completely.
"Goodbye, Mother...."
((How much this would fit in with the future plot I have in mind...))
--Tamriel--
Of course, firing more lightning at it was not the best idea when it could charge the lightning in it's sword and release it. The Beta Swarm successfully blocked two of the attacks, charging them in 2 more swords. He, however, missed the third one, causing him to be electricuted. The Beta Swarm slammed his three charged swords into the ground, causing a eletric current to run through it. Little did they all know, that they were being watched by someone, someone who has been sealed away since the beginning of time, someone who has been trapped in the farthest corner of the multiverse. He has no name, but he goes by X. ((Can I have Sono's aproval of something? I want to say that he was the one who cursed the boy's mother, but only if you're ok with that.))
His demon-slaying task done for now, Dexterous strides back through the portal, sealing it behind him. That should slow the monster down for now. Dexterious flies off on his horse, straight at the opened grate. He fires a single arrow, with runes and sigils of fire and death straight at it. Time seems to slow down as he takes the shot, perfectly accurate. He looses the arrow, and turns to where Erk and Serra are standing. He rides to them, and ruffles Erk's hair, condescendingly and sarcastically.
"For you, m'lady." He says chivalrously, reaching into a satchel on the back of his cloud-horse. He hands her a cylinder, with a beautiful image of a horse with a single horn on it's head.
"Opening it will summon the most beautiful creature in the universe -aside from you- to serve you. It won't leave until you dismiss it, and even then it will be at your beck and call. May I present to you..." He smiled enthusiastically "The stone of summon unicorn."
--Tamriel--
The Beta Swarm easily blocks the arrow with his sword, quite easily indeed.
--Swarm Realm--
The boy jumps through the swarmlings to anouther Fissure, which is the one he is suppost to go in judging by the instructions
Dexterious fires another arrow at the Swarmling, this one splits into several eagles, with bronze beaks and glowing green eyes. They fly over the swords, and launch at it's exposed chest.
((I didn't really have an idea as to who cursed his mother, so go ahead))
((Alright, thanks))
--Tamriel--
The Beta Swarm blocked most of the eagles except one, which hit him. The Beta Swarm is still waiting for your response to the previous attack from it.
--Tamriel - ???--
"Blasted heros," said X, "Ruined my demon, I thought they would like to have some fun, maybe I'll give some of my own fun to them sometime," he smiled, "After all, why should we have all the fun..." X dissappeared in all a sudden, into thin air.
((Hitting on someone else's girlfriend and NOT pulling her out of the way of incoming lightning? Dexterious really needs to get his priorities right...))
"Uh..." Serra stared at the cylinder. Now THAT was forward. But... she could hardly say no to a gift...
Erk's eyebrows furrowed for a moment as that knight ruffled his hair... then he stopped. Getting angry will lead to problems. I've got to handle this calmly.
Rick interrupted his thoughts with one word: "LIGHTNING!" Serra, distracted by Dexterious's very poorly timed gift and unable to hear Rick's shout over Dexterious's voice, couldn't hear it. Erk could.
In a blur of motion, Erk leapt in front of Serra, taking the majority of the lightning to block the wave from hitting Serra. "ARGH!"
"Erk!" Serra whirled around, and on instinct, healed Erk with her Mend Staff.
"Are... you all... right?" Erk stood up, gritting his teeth. The attack had lowered his health to as low as it could go without him dying; even after Mend was applied, he was still sore all over from the electricity.
"Yes! But you... between that whole Thoron thing and taking that attack... I could have survived, you know."
Rick gave Erk a thumbs-up as he landed from his rocket jump. "You've got some pain tolerance there, bro."
"I'll be fine." Erk brushed soot off of his head. "Now we have to focus on fighting... there will be time later to stop and smell the roses. Rick, Air Style!"
"Wait, what... OH. Oh YEAH!" Rick quickly drew his Portal Gun, aimed the blue portal at a high cliffside, and aimed the orange portal at the ground below the Beta Swarmling.
The boy jumps away from the shockwaves before seeing X disappear into nothing. As he's not the biggest threat at the moment, the boy keeps his focus on the Beta Swarm. He summons an energy spear and flings it straight at the chest, and fires off more sword-arrows at the arm joints.
"Enjoy your unicorn, fair maiden." Dexterous says, dropping his sword/bow. His horse dissipated into air, and he falls to the ground gracefully.
"Now, you will taste but a fraction of the powers imbued in a Paladin of the Order." He mutters, his eyes glowing again. His fists burn as fireballs appeared in them, and he screams, focussing his power into a yell. A protective bubble appears around Serra and Erk. He raises his burning fists in the air, and an army of vengeful ghosts comes out of a rapidly opening fissure.
"COME, MY FALLEN BRETHREN! YOUR TIME COMES AGAIN!" He yells, as the plains become dark and the temperature lowers a few dozen degrees. Ice lines the ground, and his horse appears again, this time with burning eyes. He cries out in anger and aggression and flame fires out in a beam, like a laser from his mouth and eyes. He makes throwing motions with his hands, hurling fireballs at the Swarmling's chest.
A huge, flaming sword appears in his hands, and he charges forward. His horse bounds forward nimbly, crushing Swarmlings and Skeletons indiscriminately. He jumps off of his horse, and over the Swarmling's sword. He prepares to plunge his burning sword into it's exposed torso. A pair of wings sprout on his back while doing so. An army of angels comes down from the sky, sending volleys upon volleys of holy arrows straight at the Beta Swarmling.
((Darn random log outs, ruining everything))
((I like how Pipipi completely ignores this thread))
(( Let's just say his Swarm-Thingy got destroyed. ))
((I don't always get a moment to post here, it's, just, complicated
I like how we always announce when we are waiting...))
((It's protocol to tell others we're waiting on them, otherwise this thread would have disappeared into the next page by now))
((Going to edit this to have the next part today
You would have gotten it much earlier, if it wasn't for glitches
Darn
Forgot yesterday because I decided to watch a movie))
--Tamriel--
Unfortunatly for them, the Beta Swarm's armor was too big for all of it to fall in, but they did successfully get his foot stuck in the portal however, preventing him from walking. Noticing all the arrows flying at him from above, the Beta Swarm stuck one of his swords in the ground and got out a big peice of earth, which he used to block the holy arrows and Dexterious, who Malkalack is probably going to say that he breaks right through. X is strangly seen on Beta Swarm's shoulder for a split second, smiling at Dexterious demonicly.
--Overun-- (see what I did there?)
The boy had arrived in Overun, which was a city seemingly filled with swarmlings. He followed the instructions and arrived at the address. The split second that there were no swarmlings on the door, the kid quickly went in, blocking any swarmlings from getting in.
Oh, sorry