Xaro
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Post by Xaro on Jul 15, 2007 21:40:43 GMT -5
Shark caught up with the Queen, "Dreadwing has already sent out her demonic forces, they are closing in fast!"
The Zora then took off, followed by Totem, then Rage, and finally, Boomer. They must've fled to prepare their respective groups. The enemy forces were indeed on the move, a black writhing mass of claws and inhuman screams in the distance.
This was going to get ugly.
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Post by Princess Zelda on Jul 15, 2007 22:00:23 GMT -5
Zelda was enraged by the news. She sat upon the floor and held her head in her hands. She screamed, "What the hell is going on?"
After a few minutes of her sitting on the floor she stood up slowly. One arm pressed against the wall as she wobbled to stand on her own two feet. When she regained her balance she walked down to the castle gates and stared up at the sky. She couldn't leave her castle or she would be killed. The most she could do is give orders from the inside.
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Post by Xaro on Jul 15, 2007 22:16:35 GMT -5
Outside, Shark's Eel Raiders, Boomer's Bomb Branch Squad, and Totem's Cliffwalker Tribe stood there, waiting for the oncoming forces to arrive. Shark nodded, and Boomer's squad lobbed large bombs over the walls, letting the first wave get a taste of explosives!
Totem cleverly followed up with a large fireball lobbed over the wall at the advancing ghouls, and his Tribe followed his example. The tiny Imp Fairy, Rage, was busy creating tiny fire devils, which were like dust devils, only they weren't dust. It seemed that the fairy was a sorcerer as well.
That obliterated the first wave. The second wave fell the same way. They were holding the line for as long as possible.
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Post by Princess Zelda on Jul 15, 2007 22:29:38 GMT -5
Zelda leaned upon a wall in a cellar. The guards had bugged the princess until she went to safety, they were afraid to lose their Queen along with their King. The princess managed to have Impa with her and a couple female servants.
"I wonder what's going on up there," the Princess muttered to herself. She pressed a cold nervous hand upon her forehead. "I feel like I'm doing nothing."
"Princess…" Impa whispered to her princess. "Without you Hyrule would loose hope."
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Post by Xaro on Jul 15, 2007 22:39:40 GMT -5
Rage watched the creatures burn, their flesh easily peeling off and charring their bones. He then realized...the fiery corpses didn't get up. The fairy flew off and told the Queen, "Dreadwing's forces are weak to light magic and fire! The first AND second waves are burning!"
He then looked back outside, "Wait wait, make that the third wave is burning..."
The wall of fire rose in front of the castle moat, protecting them from the upcoming forces. That flying fortress though was slowly getting bigger as it advanced forward though...
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Post by Princess Zelda on Jul 15, 2007 22:45:39 GMT -5
"Then I shall help you, I have magic that may help with-" Zelda began, but was cut off by her nursemaid Impa.
"Zelda no!" she objected, afraid for her princess' life.
"Impa I must go!" the princess shouted. Standing up she made her way out of the cellar to go help defeat the evil rising upon her castle grounds.
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Post by Xaro on Jul 15, 2007 23:04:46 GMT -5
Rage followed back out to the battlefield, and let loose a wave of fire, like how a dragon would torch it's enemies. That burned the fourth wave that was stopped by the wall of fire.
Shark spun around to come face to face with a large, floating lantern that had a blue glow to it. The lantern itself was fancy, too fancy to be any poe. His pupils shrunk considerably when he realized that it was about to shoot a cone of fire at him. It did, a cone of blue fire. Shark tried to use his extended arm-fins as shields, but the fire burned right through and burned him. Totem got busy putting the fire out while Boomer kept it distracted with his bombs. The groups were also having trouble with more of those same blue lanterns that just phased through the wall. One of Shark's men managed to pierce the lantern, making it fall in a blue fiery heap. What appeared was horrible!
It had no skin, no organs, nothing, just a floating skeleton. The skeleton had no hips or legs, just a ribcage and the spine, leading down to form the tail. It had claws, wings, and a dragon skull. Angry that it's lantern was destroyed, it attacked the soldier, and the soldier felled it by chopping it at the spine.
He cried out, "Destroy their lanterns, then they will be vulnerable!"
They did just that. That was just the first wave of those things...
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Post by Princess Zelda on Jul 15, 2007 23:19:02 GMT -5
The wind blew the princess's hair from her face. She looked up with large blue eyes and saw the villains floating in the air.
"Princess come back!" Impa shouted angrily at Zelda. Although, Zelda ignored her nursemaid, she continued on into the fight.
Holding out a hand Zelda whispered a few words in ancient Hylian. A light shined through the palm, a golden bright light. The triforce tattoo on the princess's hand glowed along with it. One creature got into the way of her light and blew up into pieces.
The princess smirked and lowered her hand. Watching the battle unfold before her bright blue eyes filled with sorrow.
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Post by Xaro on Jul 15, 2007 23:27:22 GMT -5
A blue lantern was coming up behind Zelda, when something made it shatter and break even further on impact with the floor. The monster appeared, only to be blown to pieces by a couple well-thrown bombs. Boomer stood there, deku slingshot in hand, and a bomb in the other. He nodded to her, then took off to go blow up the second wave.
Shark was back on his feet in no time and back in the fray, thankful for Totem's earthly healing powers. The second wave was destroyed, and the third one was coming. Totem raised his staff and howled, his tribe howling in harmony with him. They also raised their staves in the air simultaneously, the earth shaking a second later.
In front of the wall, the earth rose, rock by rock, until it took the shape of a huge humanoid-like creature, with a little head, and a huge body. It was made entirely of rock, and there was a wave of them waiting for the lanterns to approach within their range.
Earth Elementals against Wraiths.
Totem bellowed out the command to the elementals, "ATTACK!"
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Post by Princess Zelda on Jul 16, 2007 0:01:39 GMT -5
Zelda stood in her place shocked. This war was brutal and disgusting. Dead bodies lay across the floor, aimlessly thrown. Blood was everywhere, from both sides.
"I can't do this," she whispered to herself. She knew then that she must go inside; it was to dangerous for a princess. She needed to stay alive to protect her kingdom.
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Post by Xaro on Jul 16, 2007 0:32:44 GMT -5
Shark sighed, then cut through the ranks to escort the princess inside. "You can do this. What would your father do at a time like this?" He must've heard her through all the commotion.
The Zora looked back on his team. Everyone was still alive. Boomer's team were still kicking, and not showing any signs of slowing down, and he definitely knew the shamans could take care of themselves. The entire castle walls were protected by a moat, a fire wall after that, and after that, the earth elementals.
Shark himself still looked slightly burnt, but those will heal in time. His fins grew back thanks to Totem's ingenius healing, and those fins were covered in the enemy's blood. So were his clawed hands, feet, and teeth. The mark-patterns all over his body were glowing an angry red, as if they were ready to explode with electricity like they had done in a past few minutes while cutting through the enemy ranks.
"For now, let's go, before the enemy come after you."
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Post by Princess Zelda on Jul 16, 2007 13:28:27 GMT -5
The princess nodded at her head; shark was right. A war was a dangerous place for a princess to be. How could she rule Hyrule if she were dead? She whispered a, "Thank you," to Shark. Somehow through all this mess he had heard her voice.
As Zelda was back inside the castle doors she turned to Shark and smiled gratefully. It was a relief to be inside a place that felt safe to her.
"I'm going back to my cellar now," the princess muttered to him. "You be safe out there. Your people need you alive."
With that last note Zelda turned away from Shark and began to walk down the long hallways towards the cellar. Hoping that Shark would be safe in this battle.
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Post by Xaro on Jul 16, 2007 13:56:34 GMT -5
A low, inhuman roar quickly made Shark turn before he could say anything. A lantern sat there, lighting up the dark with it's blue glow. How did a Wraith get by without being seen? It attacked first, not giving the zora any chance to think. A blue fireball spat out of the lantern, but was deflected by one of his extended fins. He had something to fight for, actually several things, so he wasn't about to lose to a floating item! He found himself on the floor, his head exploding in pain. The creature had hit him directly with it's lantern! He managed to get up, despite the agony in the back of his head, but came face to face with the materalized creature. It held up it's lantern, and gently swung it back and forth, forcing the zora to look up into the creature's eye sockets. He thought he saw a pretty blue light...
It was hypnotizing him to come closer.
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Post by Princess Zelda on Jul 16, 2007 14:04:12 GMT -5
"Zelda!" Impa yelped as the princess made her way into the cellar. Zelda hugged her nursemaid tightly, afraid if she let go that the world would end. "You should listen to me more often. You could have gotten yourself killed!"
The princess smiled up at Impa, "Sorry Impa… I wanted to help."
"I know you did," the shiekah rubbed the golden hair that rested upon the princess's head. "How about you rest some?"
"That sounds nice…" Zelda yawned. Impa and Zelda lay on the floor with a few blankets and pillows. The sounds of bombs, cries, and screams moved all around them, but they could do nothing.
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Post by Xaro on Jul 16, 2007 14:35:48 GMT -5
The battle raged on, seeming endless. The flying fortress was getting closer, and the closer it got, the more likely it was going to get in range and unleash it's deadly payload. Totem knew this, and he had to do something to bring that thing down before it did get in range.
The Wraith grabbed the zora's head while he was still hypnotized, and seemed to vanish. The lantern gently dropped to the floor, and the possessed zora picked it up. It was clear he was possessed by the way his eyes were glowing a bright red.
He went down to the cellar, still holding up that evil lantern...
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