War of the Gems

Riku Master2.0 · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:09 am

Intersting...intersting...

Ziku · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:49 am

Ugh, sorry guys, I've been too tired lately, I'll write a new chapter tomorrow, I promise

Ziku · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:54 pm

Being out again had little effect on the group's morale, the idea of saving our princess and ending this war was upon all of our minds, but I knew beneth what he was showing us, Lance was still staring twords a different goal in addition to our first....
"Wanna talk about things?" I asked him, when he had failed to change from the stern look on his face for over an hour.
"Leave me alone," he muttered as my horse drew near.
"You said yourself didn't you? Your pained, not just because you want your daughter..... But because you thirst for something more..... Vengence."
"Don't you think I deserve that?" he asked me coldly, "He's taken so much from me.... I want to see him die..... So slowely, begging me for forgivness before I grant it to him..... By taking his head, and his heart."
"Sometimes revenge is good motivation, but don't lose yourself in it...."
I lead my horse away as I said this, wanting to tell him more, but my life was my concern alone, I concluded. I knew about vengence..... It was a cursed, it caused those thirsty for it to become, in part or in whole, the kind of person they sought out against. I sighed and looked at the group, deciding it I had a chance to do it, it was now, I closed my eyes gently.
Since Lance had taught me I had to enduere the pain of my past, I occasionally had to lose myself in my memories, thus preventing them from destroying my mental calm if they where ever mentioned or asked about, and Lance's desire for revenge brought me back over thirty years.....
The man walked past casually, no longer interested after I had refused his offer, until I saw what was around his neck.
"Where did you get that?" I asked him.
"This?" he asked, giving me a better look, "Stole it, but I fail to see how that's your concern."
I removed my sword from my back, it a double edged black, shining like gold. "How about a little wadger? This sword is my most precious possesion, I'll bet it against your jewl."
Although I was left handed, my right was all I ever fought with. At the time, a long, pale white scar ran up my left arm, the last gift I'd ever recieved in my days of young.
"Although that blade of yours isn't worth half of my gem, I accept!" the man said, slidding a katana out from his sheith behind his belt.
Who wore that gem didn't matter to me.... But after the hell it put me through..... My happiness would come only from shattering it into a million pieces!
"Blazer?" opened my eyes as Ivan shook me awake. "You alright?"
"I'm fine..... Just..... Remembering."
"Sir, how much do you know about this other world of Yang's anyway?" Cliff asked me.
"Well, I was born and lived their through my teenage years," I retorted out of bordem.
"Born there?!" Katana asked, "But.... What in the-"
"Let's just say history doesn't exactly look kindly at my father..... May I sleep now?" I asked dryly, deciding I'd nod off no matter what their reply was. Father's..... Some love you to death, some have hated you before your even born....[/i]

Ziku · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:54 pm

Double Chapter day, I'm not paying for the ice cream this time though....

The troop stopped late in the evening, trying to calculate our next move outside the forest leading outside of Lanera.
"The more I come here, the more inviting it seems," Ziku said, I silently agreed with my cousin, remembering a time when these woods where my home.
"Dad?" Katana asked Ziku as talk began again.
"Hm?"
"Well.... I'd like to see.... My father, my birth father's, home, at least what's left of it while we're here." Katana stammered.
Ziku nodded as his foster son said this, "I don't see why not, follow me, anyone wanting to follow is free to."
I expect they all knew Katana would perfer this be a private affair, but I followed them none the less. After only about fifteen minutes we came to the remains of an old cottage, weeds growing inside, and vines running down the destroyed sides.
"Wow.... I was born here?" Katana asked, pondering how anything could have ever lived in this ruined patch of earth.
"I found you inside," Ziku said, "My estimating was a bit off, I figured you'd be born when I came, and I could see you at just a day old. Of course you where born on the same day as Ivan."
"July the twenty-first," Katana replied, "Same as Ivan, same as Krystal."
"You always seemed like more a sibling to Ivan then Krystal ever was." I commented.
"Well..... We are brothers..... Kinda," Katana said, now preparing to say outloud just what had happened on that one night, "Ivan and I exchanged blood.... Some of mine is in him, and some of his in mine.... We're..... Blood Brothers."
"Sounds like you two are willing to be like that, be a family, and be friends, to the day you die..... I have no dout, you two will be watching eachother's backs until your both die.... If the shock of being seperated doesn't kill the one who lives." I said, their willingness and care enough to convince me completely, hardly to say I wasn't before.
As I finished speaking the leaves on the trees seemed to move, and we where suddenly ambushed! A dozen armored thugs attacked us, bounding our arms behind our backs, laughing sinisterly as they did. I quickly moved my arm to my gauntlet, freezing time quickly.
"I can't afford to waste and energy, I'll be back later!" I yelled, knowing Ziku and Katana would hear it as soon as I resumed time, i jumped to a treetop and headed deeper into the woods.

The TY · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:58 pm

Nice chapter.
But the last two chapters seem sort of small...

Ziku · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:00 am

The TY wrote:

Nice chapter.
But the last two chapters seem sort of small...

Meh, compensation for doing double

Ray Fletcher · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:46 am

Ziku wrote:

Ugh, sorry guys, I've been too tired lately, I'll write a new chapter tomorrow, I promise

I get here slow so it doesn't bother me Razz

Ziku wrote:

The TY wrote:

Nice chapter.
But the last two chapters seem sort of small...

Meh, compensation for doing double

Hey a short chapter is still a chapter
Wink

Edit: lol look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Super_Heroes:_War_of_the_Gems

Katanakato · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:55 pm

WOOH it took while but i caught up again now start typing

Ziku · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:16 pm

I KNOW! Blasted Marvel!

I didn't bother trying to find where they where being dragged off to, figuring tracking down my troop would prove fairly easy. Unfortuetly, Cyrus's men had them spread all around the woods, leaving me guessing for now.
I jumped from tree to tree, hidding from detection and trying to search for Cyrus's forces in large groups, the kind that could handle my friends, only one of which was even human. I finally managed to find a large group of soldiers standing next to a tree, and enjoying the sight of their catch. The forces weren't human.... Anymore.
"Ances.... I thought..... All dead...."
I was all too familiar with these creatures, they where humans who became consumed with such coruption, they had forgotten just what they where.... They where just concerned with the thing they new best, going against God's will any way they could figure out. The Ances lifted their prey up by the bottom of his chin, I recognizing him as Katana in an instant.
"He's the one we don't need," one of the ances muttered, "Let's feast!"
I prepared to jump down and stop them, but something beat me to it.... From no where a giant blur of silver ran past, beheading several and causing the rest to bleed from the back of their necks, all of them falling to the ground as he did.
"Hey kid, you okay?" The owner of the blur asked. The blur itself was revealed to be a large, heavy sword, and it's owner a tall, gruff individual with slightly slicked scarlet hair. Around his belt he carried two katanas, and still holding his broadsword in one of his hands (though I could see the holster from where I stood) which he used to slash the rope around Katana's hands and feet.
"Ugh.... Yeah, I'm fine." Katana said, shaking his head to wake himself up.
"Those things giving you trouble? Comeon, your gonna be okay. Name's Ben by the way."
"Thanks, mine's-"
"Give me your middle name," the man instructed, "In case any of those things are listening, I did it myself."
"Alright then.... Name's Christopher," Katana replied, holding up his hand, Ben shaking it as he did.
"I don't mean to crash this meeting, but these woods are dangerous, we should find some place to hide.... My house is about a mile from here if you think you can make the trip." Ben said.
Katana laughed, slipping his hand in his pocket and pulling out a circular chain of kunai and shurriken, then refering to the blade on his back, ensuring him he was.
"Mile? Hell you won't make it ten feet!" a deep voice called out. The two turned, seeing a massive man in a body of armor, no part of his body was visible. In his hands he held two large scimitars, and a group of ances behind him. I'd seen this before.... Another man wore that armor once, immidietly I tried to make my memories fade, but this one was overpowering me....
"Dreadharth, do I really gotta deal with you again?" Ben asked, raising his sword to the titan, and in the back of my head, I was asking the same thing.

And yeah, they are a little shorter....

Ziku · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 11:01 pm

If life experience had taught me anything, it's never just jump into battle. I remaind where I stood, interested in how Katana and this elusive Ben would fair.
"Why's he after you?" Katana wispered to Ben.
"My Dad's been in hidding for years, he was part of multiple resistence movements against Dreadharth's leader-"
"Cyrus?" Katana asked, Ben nodded as he did.
"You hate him too?" Katana responded just Ben had, the two stood back to back, Katana's sword drawn, and his ring finger slipped into a kunai in his pocket, Ben remained with only his one sword drawn.
The two split up, attacking any ances around them, avoiding Dreadharth as they did.
"Wouldn't you be better off using of those other swords as well?" Katana called, as he pulled his kunai from an ance's throught.
"Their names are Heaven and Hell," he responded, "And I never use just one.... It's both, or neither!"
Just as Ben finished saying this, he found himself running right into Dreadharth brought his scimitars down, the length and size of Ben's sword the only thing stopping him from losing his head.
"Okay, time is now!" Ben tossed his giant sword asside and pulled his katanas' from his belt.
Ben dodged the next scimitar assault, then spinning in a circle, and slashing throughts as he did.
"Alright, watch me do a little trick too." Katana laughed, and in a moment his blonde hair turned a dark blue (and cleaned itself up slightly) his eyes opening to a red color, and his grin became that of a criminal's.
"What the hell?!" Ben stuttered.
"He gave into the black.... I love my line of work," Katana laughed, "It allows me to get so MESSY!"
Exclaiming this, the twisted Katana decapitated the remaining ances in short order, rushing at Dreadharth thereafter, though to a failed avail, as the monsterous swordsman caught him as he attempted to slash.
"You wanna see the darkness? I'LL SHOW YOU THE DARKNESS!" Ben laughed, and in that moment one of his katana's was envoped in darkness, and he too attempted to attack Dreadharth, still unable to pierce his armor.
"No good.... Chris, no way he could catch us if we ran, fine by you?" Ben asked.
"Not exactly my style.... But I need to get outta this wet vest," Katana replied, motioning to his bloody outerwhere. The two ran into the woods quickly, I jumped from the trees following them.

Ziku · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 11:34 am

We where all lucky Dreadharth hadn't been able to catch up with us, we could all say good bye if he had. I had known Dreadharth from years ago.... I remembered those times, allowing my sarrows to take control of me for the time being, better now then later I figured....
"Blazer!" the radient women called out, as I sat on a balcony's outermost edge, watching for enemies who may be hidding from me.
"Yes mam?" I asked, turning to her, my long, white hair even then covering my left eye.
"I must first ask.... How's your scar?" she asked.
"It hasn't gotten much better.... It still burns white hot.... But that's not important, why'd you come to me?" I asked, clenching my scar as it caught my attention again.
"Well Blazer, we finally got new information, Yang's commanding officer goes by "Dreadharth"."
"What is he in comparison to their last leader?" I asked, curious to our new foe.
"Weaker, none could have matched Yang's previous general, but Dreadharth definitly seems like a formidable foe.... Can I rely on my leader of undercover units for this?" she asked.
I grinned and stood up, "You kiddin' me Yin? I'm always ready for anything!"
Yin.... She was like purity and beauty in physical shape. She had become like a second mother to me in the short time I had served under her. She even understood the things that made me.... Well myself. Any other leader would have told me by now to comb my hair, cover that damn scar, and look presentable and all that, and would have called me by my real name..... But no, just like my real mother, Yin understood these things....
Ben and Katana finally arrived at a small shelter deep within the forest. I figured I shouldn't bother looking for the others without knowing whether Ben could be trusted or not. I waited outside, listening as best I could.
"Hey Dad, I found some traveler out there, he was taking out those beasts too, he seemed like a good guy." Ben called as they walked in.
Ben's father was an aging, white haired man, covered in scars, on his face, his hands, and his partially exposed arms. He stood as he saw Katana entering, coming face to face with the young man.
"Are we still using your middle name system?" he asked Ben, he nodding as he did, "Alright, that makes me.... Well I don't have one, so just call me Noel."
Katana and Noel shook hands, Noel then turned to Ben, "Set another seat will you? I'm sorry.... Erm-"
"Chrisopher," Katana said
"Alright Chris, we can't exactly get a whole lot out of these woods, but we can share what we've got." the old man said.
"God Dad, do you always have to talk like a saint?" Ben retorted.
As the three of them sat down to eat, I staired at Noel, wondering where I knew him.... We'd met before, I knew it, but from where....
Noel? What kind of name is that anyway?
I liked my lips as I watch them dine on the stew inside, I haden't eaten in too long, but I didn't want to reveal myself just yet.
"So then Chris, what are you doing here?" Noel asked, "I don't know many boys your age who come out into these woods."
"I'm here with some company.... I won't go into much detail if you don't mind." Katana said, Ben nodded as he said it.
"I used to adventure like that with my old friends, after everything though I ended up spending the last fifteen years of my life dodging out death." Noel reminised.
"We've had a lot going on in past years...." Katana replied, sipping a cup of tea as he spoke, "It's helped me better realized who I am.... Ben, that side of me you saw earlier? You could call that my signature "Personality disorder"."
"How'd you get that by the way?" Ben asked as Katana finished.
"Inheretance you coud say.... I'm well.... Through my blood runs.... That of angels and demons-"
Without warning Ben spat what he was drinking and staired at Katana. "It couldn't be.... Dad, you don't think...."
"What?" Katana asked, looking at them carfully, "I know it's a little unusual but-"
"What's your full name?" Noel asked, Katana still looking at the father and son strangely.
"My.... Well I guess I can trust you, for whatever it's worth.... My full name is Katana Christopher Kato."
I then knew who Nolen was, but Ben made it clear a moment later anyway.
"That explains everything..... Our real names are.... Leon and Xaviar Kato.... Your father and brother."

Katanakato · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:29 pm

holy shiz 3 chapters in FAST

Ray Fletcher · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:24 pm

WOAH that had to be one of the biggist clif hangers

Katanakato wrote:

holy shiz 3 chapters in FAST

and they were awesome

Katanakato · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:23 pm

Ray Fletcher wrote:

WOAH that had to be one of the biggist clif hangers

Katanakato wrote:

holy shiz 3 chapters in FAST

and they were awesome

indeed

Ziku · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:59 pm

I'd like to announce to all that, in preparation for the new forums (and everything here being deleted >.>) I have copied EVERYTHING IN THE STORY! So fear not, I will not allow it to be lost!

New chapter comes tonite, I promise