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Post by Anti_Hero on May 24, 2003 17:10:10 GMT -5
I went back through and added spacing, tell me if I missed anything...
...arggg, so typing takes forever, the next update might be tommorow morning..
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Post by Anti_Hero on May 24, 2003 18:54:12 GMT -5
Just a short one today, enjoy!
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Part One: Morning
Soapy was sleeping in a hammock, silk sheets wrapped around him. He opened his eyes and yawned, he could hear waves washing over the sand in the distance. It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, he rolled out of the hammock, threw on a blue shirt, a pair of black pants, and some palm tree decal flip-flops. He brushed the hair away from his eyes and began to concentrate.
He closed his eyes, pulled up his mental browser, accessing the menu and selecting “Map”. A 3d image of the Islands popped up, he zoomed onto “POS Village” and selected “Transport Link”.
As he reopened his eyes the city opened before him, and he took a step forward. The village was arranged in a small oval, with 15 huts forming the perimeter, there was a fairly large mansion across from the building Soapy was currently located in. The mansion was the main POS page, where most of the POS citizens hung out, and where any visitors could get information about the site. Soapy was standing at the Forums, a large adobe villa, three stories tall, with 13 Video walls inside, one for each forum. It wasn’t actually necessary to be in the building to check up on the forums, as it could easily be accessed with and Mental Browser.
Soapy walked out to the fountain and watched his reflection ripple. Footsteps came up behind him and a familiar face appeared in the water. Long black hair slicked back, large round glasses shrouding the eyes, and a black mask pulled up over his nose, then continuing down into a tight fitting black shirt. “Klo…”
Soapy flipped backwards over Klo, just as a set of Throwing Knives flew by below; He landed and “accessed” a Scythe quickly. Klo reached back with another knife, Soapy leaned back while thrusting the butt of his Scythe into Klo’s spine, knocking him into the fountain. Soapy jumped on the chance to freeze the water, trapping Klo’s legs inside, “Heh, I have you now!”
“Yeah right you idiot…” Klo said as a wave of darkness melted the ice, and Klo disintegrated.
Soapy took a step back and a knife shot into his kneecap, which buckled. Soapy fell onto his back and another knife stuck into his ankle. Soapy wretched his arms up and slammed them into the ground, water jets erupted all around and they started to fizz and fill the air with giant bubbles. A knife sunk into one, it hit the inside wall of the bubble and ricochets around harmlessly. Many other knives shot desperately into the bubbles, all of them meeting the same fate, encased in the resilient spheres.
Soapy ripped out the knives and washed his wounds in healing water, he jumped up and snuck away, watching for movement. Klo was standing on top of the fountain and Soapy started talking, “Klo, what are you doing here?”
“Where are you, show yourself!” Klo demanded.
“I’m right behind you, now tell me why you persist in coming here, even though you don’t like us!”
Klo turned towards Soapy and replied, “Can’t you tell, I’m after something.”
“What?” Soapy was confused, “but there isn’t anything here.”
“I’m afraid that there is, I’ll leave as soon as I get it.”
“Tell me what it is…” Soapy wanted Klo to leave quickly.
Klo was clearly delighted, “Do you know that each piece of elemental equipment gives off an energy signal?”
“I do now…”
“And did you know that there are not one, not two, but three ‘Legendary’ elements here, on this island?”
“What… what do you mean by ‘Legendary’?”
Klo started laughing, “what I ‘mean’ is that these elements are so powerful and dangerous that they could spell the end of the Internet as we know it.”
“I see… who has them?”
Klo hopped down into the lower basin of the fountain and crouched to look Soapy in the eyes, “The first one is called ‘Tiamat’ The ‘Grand Fire’ and I believe A…” Then he let out a blood-curdling scream.
A bolt of lightning had streamed down through Klo’s skull and into the water of the fountain, sending electric recoil through his entire body, he started to convulse and span around, finally laying still face down in the water. He evaporated and his black mist floated up into the sky.
Ky came walking towards Soapy, whose eyes were wide open from the alarm of seeing Klo stricken down, she came up next to him and asked, “What?”
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Next Chapter: Part Two: Tiamat
The truth behind Klo's words, who has the "legendary" Elements?
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Post by Static2007 on May 24, 2003 19:03:06 GMT -5
Yay! ;D Goooood chapter!!
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Post by Soapy on May 25, 2003 19:09:32 GMT -5
Heh, neat. I like rain.  |
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Post by Anti_Hero on May 25, 2003 20:51:02 GMT -5
what did I call em' Tiamat and who else? I know Seraphim, ugh... I forgot the other two
Help mae!
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Post by Static2007 on May 25, 2003 22:17:08 GMT -5
Itzan and Solos I believe.
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Post by Anti_Hero on May 25, 2003 22:52:11 GMT -5
Fanks'
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Post by Anti_Hero on May 27, 2003 17:10:19 GMT -5
Part Two: Tiamat
A meeting was being held for all the members of POS and #melee, and they were expectantly buzzing inside of the channel. Static was standing in front of a podium, her hands tightly clenched over the sides. Soapy was to her left, with a very rare frown upon his face. Anti stood behind Static, his arms draped around her, kissing the top of her head. The only people who hadn’t arrived were Domon and Mother, but no one seemed to notice.
Static cleared her throat impatiently but the room continued at a dull roar. Anti quickly yelled out, “Stfu!” and turned +m on, a wave of white noise washed over the room and everyone who wasn’t an operator fell silent. Static began to speak, “Klo was here today, and before I accidentally killed him, he told Soapy that there were three ‘Legendary’ elements on this island. He said the first one was named Tiamat, but we don’t know the names of the other two.”
Anti interrupted, “I have Tiamat.”
Static turned around and whispered in his ear, “Why didn’t you tell me this before?”
He ignored her. “Rick, Walrus, check the ID names on your elements!”
UWA spoke immediately, “Squall.”
Rick looked around blankly then asked, “How do you check again?”
Anti sighed, “Check your mental browser for ‘Element’.”
“Ah, it says ‘Solos’ Anti.”
Anti stepped forward and announced, “Good, that’s the second one, and Static has the third one, Itzum, Right?”
"Yes, but…”
“Well, that’s everything, resume your normal conversations,” He reached for the +M shutoff, “Oh, wait, watch out for bounty hunters, ad I’m sure there will be quite a few coming to our island soon.”
The mode was deactivated and the room started to talk among itself fervently. Static grabbed anti by the hand, and led him outside, “How did you know all that Anti?”
Anti took a step away from her and looked down, “I talked to Klo before I arrived here, he told me all about the situation. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before, but I had to spring it upon everyone at the same time.”
“I still don’t understand, who are these bounty hunters, why do we have these ‘Legendary’ elements, and how are they any stronger than normal?”
Soapy had been listening from the door, “Let me see if I’m right, these bounty hunters are look to steal our, sorry, your elements, and these elements are on the island because… well, maybe luck, but I’d like to believe its because we have such a strong community, and are they perhaps stronger because they are ‘Raw’ elements, like I’ve noticed that you three are the only ones who have the regular elements, like Rick can control the wind plainly and easily, while everyone else can only use a ‘side’ of that elements power, like, I can only use the bubbles and Ice of my water element, and UWA in his Snirj form is obviously ‘Dark’ but he only uses the Psychic part of his element but not the light control or matter destruction that I’ve seen Klo use before.”
Anti grinned, “you’ve almost got it.” Then he looked away, “but theses ‘Legendary’ elements are even more powerful than you have assumed. It will all be revealed in due time, oh, and these bounty hunters are too powerful for anyone to face alone, I suggest you take Scott with you at all times.”
Soapy spoke up, “Scott doesn’t have an element…”
Anti sighed, “then try to protect him, and try to get Sommie’ or UWA to help you.”
“Maybe everyone should just stay at the Mansion, that way….”
“Good idea, uh, Ky,” She looked up, “Rick is going to be staying with us for a while,” Static was about to say something when Soapy asked, “You aren’t going to stay at the mansion?”
Anti started walking back into #melee, and he patted Soapy on the shoulder on his way past, “We can handle ourselves.”
Anti found Rick and they headed home with Ky. Later that night anti was staring up at the sky from the second story balcony, when Static walked out and sat on his lap, “Are you okay?”
“I’m just worried, you aren’t going to be safe you know?”
“I’ll be okay, do you think Rick can handle himself with this new power?”
Anti pulled her in closer, “He’s much stronger than anyone suspects…”
“I’m glad,” She rested her head against his shoulder, “Tell me what extra powers our elements have.”
“Yeah, okay.” Anti got ready to speak when an explosion rang out from inside the house, “Rick!”
Static jumped up as Anti melted through the floor, then jumped broke through the glass door that led to Rick’s room. It was full of smoke and covered with ash, with a small crater filled with rubble where Rick’s bed had once been. A tall man in a black body suit stood over Rick, ready to slash at Rick’s chest. Anti took two quick steps and pulled the man up over his head by the neck and studied his face. He had thin white lips, and a few strands of white hair protruding from under a facemask, but the strange thing was that the man had no eyes, just one empty socked with a strange looking white light coming from the center, and in the other eye an emerald sphere, which constantly quivered and twitched. Anti threw the man out the door head first, and then looked down at the recovering Rick, who was standing up, rubbing his forehead. Anti spoke very clearly, “Are you ready to see true power Rick?”
Then Anti took off and knocked the man backwards into the grass leading up to the house, calmly strolling up to him again. The man crawled backwards on his elbows, but Anti grabbed him by the top of his skull and heaved him strait up, and sent six flares to follow. They circled around the man in an ‘Atom’ like shape and held the man motionless in the air. Below, Anti plunged his fist into the soft soil and a ring of fire burst up through the earth, then Anti lifted up off the ground slowly, his head cocked and watching the man carefully. Then the fire circle, which was about 20 meters in diameter, shot up an immense pillar of flame, all the way up into the clouds, which opened up and revealed a glorious red light from the heavens.
Anti and the man were engulfed in the inferno, and a fissure opened beneath them. A grand dragon wretched its head up from under the island, then it pushed free and the land around it broke into three separate pieces. It flew strait up, mouth open and clearly swallowed Anti and the bounty hunter. As the dragon reached the sky it flipped upside down and split in half at it’s waist, a disk like Rick of fire spread out from it’s center and burned through the sky until it reached the horizon and disappeared from sight. Then a million more ridges flashed out in a blinding flash, creating a pool of flame to appear in the sky.
Rick stood at the main door to the house, mouth open, mumbling a string of random cusses and religious terms. Static stood beside him, equally amazed. Rick turned to her, “Static, where’ Anti, is he dead?”
“I don’t kno…” then she broke off and turned away, Rick thought he saw a tear run down her cheek.
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Yay, Comments piez!
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Post by KingRick on May 27, 2003 17:21:26 GMT -5
Oh man teh suspence .....its killing me
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Post by Static2007 on May 27, 2003 17:26:00 GMT -5
Ooooooooooh! GAHHHH!! The cliff hanger!
Nice chapter!
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Post by Soapy on May 27, 2003 17:30:31 GMT -5
Ohnos, klo is involved....
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Post by Anti_Hero on May 28, 2003 12:44:13 GMT -5
Expect the nect part up when I get home from school
It's a good 6 pages long this time, and it has a bunch of crazy deahs and stuff too, i'm sorry that you die Rick....
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Post by KingRick on May 28, 2003 14:13:50 GMT -5
well that just sucks.....  |
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Post by Anti_Hero on May 28, 2003 17:46:55 GMT -5
This one is pretty jumpy, so sorry if it's hard to undestand or anything...
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Part Two: Solos
Rick suddenly grabbed at his ear, “there is a message incoming from Walrus, and uhhhh, he says that the mansion is under attack, wait, there are bounty hunter there, uh, he needs us to go right away,” he turned to static, but she was gone.
Soapy had covered the mansion in a thick bubble, but it wasn’t enough to keep the intruders out. He had two of them knocked out at his feet, and was staring up at the sky from a second story opening. It was still like a lake of fire. A man had burst through the door and Soapy ducked just as a spear of ice crashed through the windowpane. UWA appeared behind the man and broke his mind with a great tug on the area surrounding them, “Soapy, why are you in here, everyone is down in the labyrinth waiting for you, please we need you.”
“Walrus, come look at this,” And UWA came and peered out the window, as an orb of fire was lowering into the fountain, and as it reached it’s destination the fountain split into third, except for the main faucet, which stayed in place and continued to spout water.
The orb settled into on of the thirds and delivered a beam of red up into the air. A lone hunter came dashing into the plaza and tried to snatch the orb, but as his hand grazed it he exploded into a plume of fire, “What could that mean?”
“I don’t know Soapy, but I’m going back to the others,” UWA walked back to the door.
“Tell them to stay away from the fountain.”
UWA dashed down a hallway, turned down a fleet of stairs, turned to his right and slew down another set of stairs into the entrance of a grand maze, everyone had gathered in front, “Soapy isn’t coming, now follow me to the end of this maze, then we’ll think of a plan, yeah?” He calmly jogged into the maze, the others following.
Static was standing on top of her roof, slowly shaking and crying, “Surely no one could live through could live through such a… Blast,” She told herself. She sat down again and wrapped her arms around her knees, looking for some answer within herself. After a while she stood again, and stopped crying, “There are other people who need me now, I have to help my friends!” she said aloud to nobody.
“You need the help right now, girl,” A big man was standing behind her, with olive skin and thick lips, he stood with his fists ready to strike, “Pleased to meet you.”
Rick’s heart was racing, he ran as fast as he could, hoping that he wouldn’t be too late to save the Manor from the hand of the enemy. As the village finally appeared in the distance he quickened his stride, reaching the area a few seconds later, only to be tackled by a uniformed man, who started to press the air out of Rick with his knees.
Rick couldn’t move, his only hope lay in someone rescuing him from this impossible situation. Nothing came. At the brink of demise, he pulled out a last ditch effort, He breathed in, pulling oxygen from his assailant’s lungs and blood, into his own. The man slowly relaxed his muscles, his eyes rolling into the back of his head, and rolled off onto his side. Rick lie still, regaining his strength.
He only got to rest for about 15 minutes before he heard another man coming from the path beside him. He half walked, half crawled to the Forums door, but he stopped when he heard talking inside, “How can we remove that sphere from the fountain?”
“I do not know, but we definitely cannot allow those other beacons to be lit,” A man who sounded like the leader spoke.
“Sir, I don’t see how this Seraphim can truly be as strong as you say!” A third voice inquired.
“You fool, this is a god, it could kill you a thousand different ways, a thousand different times, and you wouldn’t event realize that you were in danger!”
“I’m sorry Sir.”
“You see that sky?” the leader asked of his underling, and there was a short silence, “A god did that, and it killed one of the strongest men I have ever known, worthy of any battle, strong enough to split continents in twine!”
Rick was so intent on the conversation that he didn’t have any time to react when an enemy had snuck up behind him and knocked him out with a kick to the skull.
Soapy had been watching, and he was waiting for a good time to help Rick, if he should need it. That seemed like a good moment; he leapt from the window, down onto the concrete below. He rushed up to suffocate the man who attacked Rick, he placed a constricting bubble around the man’ throat, the man yelped lightly and the three men inside the forums came running out into a field of bubbles, one of them ran face first into one of the spheres, it engulfed him, and started to fill with water. The other two stopped and discussed something between each other. The one lower in rank let out a roar, “Freeze!” and every bubble crystallized, and crashed into the ground, shattering into a sharp array of slivers. Their comrade met the same fate as the watery balloons.
Soapy had pulled Rick off into the bushes, but his location was now revealed, he steeped forward to face the two hunters, “Leave now!”
They met his stride and stopped before the fountain, “But we are your guests.”
Soapy leapt forward and extended his hand out before the second in command, who flinched, but reopened his eyes and laughed, “What are you doing, ah you are a weird little fool, do you expect my blood to curdle from this pathetic attack?”
“I expect your blood to flow like tears!” then Soapy accessed his scythe into his extended arm, it extended out and appeared inside the mans face, splitting his eyes in half.
Soapy pulled back and the man fell forward, the crown of his skull toppling off on contact with the ground.
The leader continued to smile, “Well, I bet we look like a bunch of idiots don’t we?”
“None of you are worthy to battle, a group of morons like you are only suitable for creating new attacks to dismember you with!”
The man sent a flashing punch into Soapy’s shin; it melted the pant leg into Soapy’s skin, which blistered underneath. Soapy reeled, then spun around and slashed at the man’s chest, but the blow deflected off, and Soapy was forced to push the man back with the butt of his Scythe. The man nearly fell back, but instead flipped over and pushed a gleaming jet of steam into Soapy’s chest, crippling him.
Static was doing her best to avoid the man’s brutal advances, he was completely un affected by her electrical shocks, so she was trying to keep him at bay with her hook shot. She fired it into his cheek, but it ricochets off with ease, then she aimed for the structure behind him, but as she flew by he caught her by the arm. He tossed her up and delivered a megaton punch to her stomach on the way back down. She huddled over in pain, her breath short.
She decided to roll off the side of the building, and plunged down into the brambles below, she tore off the sleeve of her shirt to escape the thorns, and ran off away from the house.
As she scurried away the man summoned a rock cage around her, trapping her securely, “You wont be able to escape, don’t try…”
Soapy flew back, bending his spine on a large palm tree, and tumbling into the foliage below. Rick was startled awake, and he rose up slowly, head throbbing, body sore. He saw the leader heading his way and Soapy crumpled on the ground next to him. He summoned his Katana and ran forward, impaling the man on the tip of his blade, hurting himself a little in the process. The leader spit on to Rick’s face, “it’ll take more than that to kill me!”
Rick screamed back, “It will take more than words to save your life!”
Then the battlefield grew silent, until a howling wind funneled down from the sky, pulling the man up off of Rick’s blade, holding him in the center of the tempest, rotating slowly, the man sighed and screamed, “Have you come to take my life Solos?”
The wind tightened into a pillar, which soon became a tornado, sucking the dust from the ground, and rubbing the man’s skin off and pushing him back towards the ground. The tornado then bulled the water from the fountain, and it’s winds chilled to artic temperatures, freezing the man into a perfect cube of ice, still spinning slowly. A thousand splinters ripped out of a nearby tree and plunged into the ice, cracking it from within, and cracking the man’s raw flesh underneath, the ice broke off and the Tornado turned red with blood.
Rick could feel the man’s pulse; the wind was keeping him alive, making him suffer, but still healing his wounds. Then the debris was shot up into the air, leaving only the man there, spinning more and more rapidly. His head began to fold from side to side, faster still, his limbs ripping from his body, then it kept going, until the man was spinning so fast that his bones grinded to dust, and his blood a whirlwind of plasma.
A wave of blood washed over Rick, and he fainted.
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You're Welcome Rick....
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Post by William on May 28, 2003 17:51:45 GMT -5
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