Co-Saga: Northern Pellonia, The Castle

[lionheart]

(OOC: Heh, no probs, man, it’s all good, everyone’s got a life... except me, that is. -) )

Suddenly Sysiphus spoke, and, yes, it really was him... Barnibus’ nemesis. “For this almighty powerful wizard guy... he sure sounds like a bitch to me...” Kain said, his arms crossed, clearly annoyed. He wasn’t sure if he was mocking them or whether he really was such a wuss... either way Kain was aggravated. When Sisyphus asked for their names, Kain’s small amount of patience snapped. Also, the urge to kick someone’s ass, multiplied by Zack and Gareeku’s presence was really putting a strain on his character. “A, man, fuck you! Since you’re “leaving immediately” you have no need for my name. So shut up and get the hell away from here.”

It was then that Kain noticed the cars again. They had stopped and a number of people stepped out, wearing matching red robes. “Aww... ain’t that cute? I’m sorry, fellas, but knitting class will be delayed today...”

“Look, enemies of our lord!” one of the people shouted and pulled out a quite impressive gun. Well... if Kain would be impressed by guns, that is. The noise of bullets firing filled the air as over thirty men fired their weapons at the trio in the air. Kain only snickered and stay put, the bullets seemingly going through him, when, in fact, he dodged them faster than the untrained eye could follow. After a short while of intense fire the men ran out of bullets and rushed to reload their weapons.

In the blink of an eye Kain was in the middle of the red-robed group, delivering a devastating punch to he gut of one, sending him soaring into the sky. “Don’t fuck with me now...” Kain swore, while executing a roundhouse kick to the head of one to his left, which no usual person could survive, jumping up right after, punching the guy to his right from above, knocking him down. He probably wouldn’t be getting up. His blood thirst momentarily quenched, Kain stood up straight, figuring he might as well let Gareeku and Zack have a go, if they wanted. Then again, he could just take them all down while they... be friends or something...

[damius]

((OOC: Sorry, i've been busy.))

Damius and Landvaettir were walking around the ridge towards the castle for a while now. Keeping an eye on Zack and Kain as they started getting themselves into trouble. He watched as a massive attack from Zack was dispersed as if nothing by Sisyphus' magic power, and new that this whole thing would need a new approach. He saw Barnibus and Jinx enter the area out of the corner of his eye. He then spoke quickly to Landvaettir.

"You need to go back to Barnibus and the others. From here I must go on alone."

With that he dashed off towards the men in red, who were reloading their weapons and being decimated by Kain. He didn't like his only viable way in right now, but he needed to see this Sisyphus in person. He appeared almost directly in front of Kain after he was done beating some of the men in red. He used the undoubted surprise to his advantage and moved himself quickly right next to Kain. He spoke softly so only Kain could hear, and no others.

"Give me five minutes."

Then, wasting no time, he leaped into the air and brought his fist down hard on the spot where Kain stood, purposely making his attack slow enough to dodge for even a novice fighter. When he hit ground, a massive trench formed in the ground in front of the men in red, divided them from the other fighters. Damius then rounded and spoke loudly to the men, fearing that one of the other fighters would ruin his plan.

"My name is Damius. I seek an audience with your Lord."

He then gave them all a slight bow, hoping this whole improvised plan would work.

[gareeku]

As Gareeku descended, he heard a hissing voice echo around him, announcing itself as Sisyphus.
"My name is of no importance to you, sorcerer," Gareeku called in in answer to the voice, "Your dark plans will be stopped."
With a Grim expression on his face, Gareeku then saw as what seemed to be the sorcerer's servants appear, revealing weaponry and firing upon the warriors. Acting quickly, Gareeku's aura sparked into life as the warrior moved with incredible speed, Weaving in and out of the hail of gun fire before appearing to the side of one of the servants, a kick moving in with blistering speed towards the man neck. Knowing better than to stay put, the blue tailed saiyan was off again, appearing in front of another servant as a fist thundered towards the man's chest. Carrying on moving, Gareeku decided to hold back his attacks for the moment, so that the others could make their own offences.

[drakkar]

The hooded man appeared in the midst of what seemed to be another battle. He immediately recognized Barnibus, Jinx, and Zechariah, whom he had seen in a previous date on Eden. The tranmission put him right beside of Gareeku, so close he he felt the wind when his aura sparked.

"What now?" he asked Barnibus, hoping for any kind of answer of direction.

((sorry for the short post, prom was last night))

[jinx]

The initial transportation hadn't been terrible. Though it had made Jinx a little dizzy. And now as they hopped from point to point he felt disoriented. He only hoped he hadn't lost that much blood.

He sensed some familiar life forces, ones he'd met on the beach earlier. The blue-tailed Sayian he'd watched at the tournament, as well as what appeared to be two more Sayians, he thought remembered them from the beach. Jinx new there was going to be some kind of fight with them around. He'd seen their kind in action a few times in the Gladiator ring. He'd always felt lucky he never had to face even one.

They finally stopped in front of the three, it appeared as though the hooded man had already arrived. Jinx stood silently next to Barnibus, watching their surroundings trying to conserve his strength.

[roos]

Roos arrived, a little later than he'd hoped. Roos noticed the Hooded Man and his eyes widened in disbelief,
"How 'oo beat me here?! Dat incwedibell!"
He shook his head to clear his confusion and continued,
"Hey 'Reeku! How'd da tourney go?"
He idly watched over the land-scape, looking at kain and Zack with mild interest into their rivlary. Roos shook his head and crossed his arms and legs, floating in mid-air as if he was meditating. He was specifically waiting for Barnibus to give out orders when something occured to him.
"Where da others? Fwom Genewica?"
He asked, cocking his head to the side and frowning at the horizon. He waited for the response as he re-charged, ready for the coming battle. He wondered if it was a great idea for Jinx and Barnibus to participate, especially with their wounds. But that was their decision, and Roos respected whatever choice they may make.

[yumi]

In an instant Yumi had arrived. To her surprise, she wasn’t alone. She was amongst a new group of people. Amongst these people stood a familiar face. It was the blue alien with purple hair. They looked a bit like purple dreads, but Yumi didn’t care. She gritted her teeth at the blue tailed saiyan who stood amongst the new group of people. Damn saiyan. If he so much as says something to me I will kill him! I will never forgive the saiyans for killing my parents.

Another familiar figure came down from the sky. It was the red monster. Yumi had remembered what he had said. It spoke saying, "How 'oo beat me here?! Dat incwedibell!" He had no idea how Yumi, or the hooded man had arrived so quickly before him. “What did you mean if I want a challenge?” asked the girl to the red monster.

[carniku]

Suddenly, from the sky a figure in jeans and a black loose T-shirt dropped down landing nimbly on trainers and standing close to the group. He rubbed the back of his head and laughed a little
"Hey guys! Sorry I'm late, I was kinda... bashed up." Carniku was referring to the hammering Karius gave him in the Tournement, he still had some bruises on his ribs but he looked pretty normal, his tail was hidden from view by his big shirt and jeans so he didn't look like a Saiyan or any thing special at all. Except for his power level of course, he looked over to Gareeku and his face split into a wide grin
"Gareeku! Hey man, way to GO! Winning the world tourney, I mean I'm happy with 5th place but still, WOW! Did you get like a trophy or a belt or a crown or something cool like that?" Carniku looked around their amassed forces and frowned a bit, he didn't recognise them all and he had the distinct feeling they were being shot at but he couldn't hear anything. He crouched down kicking up some dust and his eyes flicked around him. He saw Roos and Barnibus and said out of the side of his mouth
"Hey Roos, sup bud? Barnibus, can you kinda... fill me in on this?"

[barnibusquentin]

(OOC: Here you go, more tommorow!)

“Dark planssss? Funny, sssso melodramatic. And, don’t worry I will be leaving sssoon.” Sisyphus said with a smile, but the evil wizard’s expression turned to pure anger as Kain and the others dove with abandon on the cultists, decimating them with ease.

“Idiotsss,” he yelled.

He backhanded the air, and all at once the flesh poured hissing from the cultists’ bones like wax melting. The remains sunk wetly to the ground.

“I’ve alwaysss dessspisssed fanaticsss. But sssometimesss they’re the only onesss that can get the job done.”

With a tiny hiss Jinx and Barnibus appeared on the ground. The Old Man turned to the Myrmidon.

“You look like shit, young’un. You might want to sit this one out.” He said, trying his best to fake a smile, Jinx’s wounds were bad and they were going to get the best of him soon.

“Ah, Barnibusss of courssse you would be the one to lead them all here. Probably sssomehow managed to convince them that they’re precious Eden is in danger I sssee. And now you’re going to kill me again, or ssso you hope. Old Man, you’ve put them all right into a trap.”

Barnibus could feel his throat drop into his stomach. He had been reckless, hadn’t stopped to think. Had he really led them into a trap?

Sisyphus answered the question for him, “Which do you think would be eassier, to kill a warrior with one man, or a hundred? Obvioussly I can’t have a hundred of my creationsss wandering about Eden. But, out here, where there’ss no one for milesss, it’ss easily done. Your friends will make wonderful minions to destroy Home.”

Home…it was Barnibus’s planet, a place he had abandoned in hopes of saving it. A question had been worming about in the back of Barnibus’s mind since the start of this whole thing. He had wondered why Sisyphus would have any reason to attack Eden. But the necromancer never did, he intended to destroy another planet instead.

The recognition was clear on the Old Man’s face and Sisyphus smiled at it.

“The gatewaysss make it sssso easssy. Bringing back the dead iss like ssstepping through a door way.”

Suddenly, Sisyphus appeared in front of Damius; a faint lick of burning sulphur whisked across the air. He put a hand on his shoulder.

“An audience? sstrange request.” The Necromancer said. Inside Damius he could sense something; some hellish presence clamoring against the walls of the man’s soul for release. The two vanished.

In the air hung two words, “Kill them.”

It was then that the hooded man spoke.
“We fight,” Barnibus replied.

The massive oaken gates of the castle swung open revealing the courtyard packed with a seething mass of various vile creatures. As one they turned to face the Heroes of Eden and let out a roar.

Up from the ground, like undead weeds, hands shot up and slowly rotting bodies picked their way free of the ground. They grabbed at ankles and when fully free the chthonic corpses shambled forward, at least a dozen for each of those there, letting out low moans that sent a shiver up even the heartiest of spines.

That wasn’t all. The wax-like skin of dead cultists pooled together in one massive ball, as if pulled by gravity. The bones bounced and rolled end over end into the mixture and slowly formed into a recognizable shape. The flesh bulged and seethed into clawed feet the size of a man’s torso. Upon those built massive muscled legs and a similarily muscled torso. Arms ending one in a clawed hand and the other in a fleshy blade grew, and a dogish head with a spiked mane. The bones crawled like worms up the body fixing themselves onto the blade and creating massive wings. All in all the creature stood over fifteen feet high and had a wing span of near that. It looked much like a Balrog.

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Damius and Sisyphus reappeared inside a plainly furnished room inside the castle. It was icy cold and ten foot on a side. There was a stone table scattered with various objects, vials, daggers, books and the like. Sisyphus sat down in a wooden chair stacked with pillows and indicated Damius to do the same.

“You have your audience, Damius. Are you here about Elena? She asked about you often. When sshe’ll get to tear you limb from limb. Ssshe desssperately wants to live.”

[roos]

Roos watched the corpses rising up out of the ground and said to Yumi in response,
"Dis dat challenge I was talkin' bout..." Then he took off into the air, out of reach of the grasping hands of the re-animated dead. He looked down as the ground tore open for the zombies, and then yelled at Carniku,
"AAAAH! 'Niku! ZOMBIES!" He thrust both his palms forward, a Ki blal forming in both, and fired the Ki balls at some of the corpses still struggling to leave the earth. The Ki Balls were more explosive than regular Ki blasts, and Roos continued a barrage of them upon the corpses below. Roos glimpsed the gigantic creature being formed, and grinned. He yelled to Gareeku,
"Hey, champ! T'ink 'oo can take dat?" Then he glared at the beats, the cocky grin still on his face, and continued,
"Roos'll handle it..."

He raised his arms up, crossing his wrists in front of his face and tensed. His amulet shone brightly, and there was a blinding flash. Roos transformed into his Half Medallion, muscular form, with his long white hair and huge body. Still not as big as the thing that looked like a Balrog, Roos knew that size didn't matter. He flew up higher, in case any of the zombies that were below him attacked, then charged up. His aura flared into a bright shining crimson as he activated Roos Comet, then he moved his arms in the familiar Kame-Hame-Ha gesture. Concentrating on the Balrog-like creature and the bright red sphere inbetween his palms, growing and growing. Then Roos launched it with a mighty roar, the blast spanning the significant space between Roos and the huge monster. It was an enormous blast, dying the land around them red for miles once he'd launched it and the whole blast had finished it's course, Roos let out a long sigh. Then he focussed on the amassing forces below him. Keeping the distance between them, Roos used his amazing Roos Comet speed to dash around the ground, teleporting from one place to the next in the blink of an eye. He would attack one zombie with a lethal kick, then another with a huge punch, and so on, teleporting around the ground before returning to where he'd been before, panting a little, but satisfied. Depsite his huge form, he still moved quicker than ever before, combining both the added energies of his transformation and his Roos Comet powers. It was an incredible unity, and hopefully devastating to the battle-field. Roos' strategy was to take out the zombies with all his strength and as quiclkly as possible, preparing the wya for the others to finish the whole fight.

[carniku]

Carniku shifted in his fighting stance but broke out when he saw the limbs reaching out of the ground
"GAH! OK, If my memory of movies is correct... Roos! Remove the Head or destroy the Brain! We don't have a gun do we..." He shrugged in a non-caring manner "Just Ki blast it 'em. OK, on the plus side, they can't be harder than a robot like Kasumi" Carniku bent his knees and in a small cloud of dust shot forward and zipped around towards the zombies, one of them turned with cold dead eyes to look at him, his hair straggled and dirty his teeth exposed and chattering. It leered angrily at him with murder in it's eyes until the enchanted wood of Carniku's Bokken, Chiryu, was sent flying so it would smack into the side of his head and if it connect would sent the head flying off. He pivotted and did a thrust kick aimed directly at another's chest and snapped the leg round to kick a number around the head in a rapid smashing movement that could do serious damage if it hit any of them. He flipped backwards and skidded through the dirt sending up a huge cloud of dust before driving forward again with a huge battle cry in an attempt to spear a number of them against the castle's walls. He spun around again and shot up into the sky to rain down random Ki blasts, the ones that missed sent up a small explosion. Carniku flew directly up to a high point and shouted out loudly to everyone
"OK guys! This is Barnibus's fight! Somebody get him inside then help us with these guys. They don't seem that tough. But on that note" Carniku's hand was surrounded in shimmering blue energy and his yellow aura exploded into light as he aimed it, he swung his weight behind it and aimed it so it would go down on a counter angle to Roos' own beam. And the blast built power in his arm and shook violently, he shouted to Roos
"What's that? A Roos-Kame-Hame- Ha? That's awesome!" Before launching the powerful cerulean beam as it rocketted downwards and spun violently as it rushed down with screaming speed towards the big zombie Roos was attacking so it could be cross speared.
"Lets see how you like a Zer0blivion in your shoulder!"

[gareeku]

Before he could answer the questions posed to him, Gareeku stayed silent as he listened to the sorcerer speak. Looking on, the blue-tailed saiyan watched as the zombies were summoned, followed by the massive Balrog-like creature, which towered over the blue-tailed warrior. Gareeku however did not move, staying perfectly still in his firm stance, an aura of defiance glowing around his body. The blue-tailed saiyan stared straight into the creatures'; his brilliant blue eyes narrowing as they burned with determination. Hearing Roos speak, the corner of Gareeku's mouth curled upwards into a smirk.
"I'll certainly give it a try..." Gareeku replied to the red demon, not taking his eyes off of the massive creature in front of him, before his white aura suddenly burst into a brilliant golden colour, illuminating the surrounding area in a shimmering gold light.

While Roos began his attack on the undead creatures, Gareeku suddenly moved, travelling so fast that an after-image was left where the warrior was standing. Suddenly reappearing to the side of the balrog, Gareeku sent a fist thundering towards the Balrog's rib area, before suddenly disappearing once more. Reappearing once more in front of the balrog, Gareeku held out his hand, before a katana suddenly appeared in it, the blade shimmering a deep blue colour as the weapon was held firmly in Gareeku's hand. Dashing forward with intense speed, the blue-tailed super saiyan flew uptowards the creature's head, bringing his sword forward into a powerful slash towards the creature's neck, before quickly flying back downwards, flying adjascent to the balrog's torso as he travelled in a crescent fashion, holding his sword out so that it would create one large slash, beginning at the balrog's shoulder blade and ending at its hip.

[jinx]

Jinx looked at Barnibus for a moment. Barnibus smiled weakly He is right...look at me...beat to hell...ouch! He'd moved slightly and one of the slices on his torso tore open a little bit, his thick purplish blood starting to ooze down his side again.

"If nothing else, I'm protecting you at all costs. We've got to save this planet and you are the only one who can deal with Sysiphus is you"

Sysiphus continued, in his hissing manner, to threaten the group. Suddenly, through his dark magic, he destroyed his own followers by melting them. They recongiled into a great beast that reminded Jinx of dark guardians of the underworld in Myrmidon legend. As he was thinking this he unslung his spear from his back. He stepped forward in front of Barnibus swinging his spear overhead. Jinx' eyes began to glow more than anyone had seen yet. The light seemed to drift away from his eyes like illuminated smoke and his aura began to build around him.

The ground wrenched itself open and more zombies began to pour out of the ground. "What in the name of the ancenstors is this?!" Jinx saw a group of the zombies moving towards him and Barnibus, he quickly took aim on them and fired a barrage of ki bolts from his spear, the tip of the spear was glowing from the heat when he finished. Ki blasts were exploding everywhere. Roos, and a young Saiyan and the blue-tailed one had all begun the counter-attack.

He heard the young Saiyan cry out, "This is Barnibus' fight, someone get him inside!"

Jinx nodded to himself, more than anyone else. He spun his spear again and quickly reslung his spear.

"Barnibus! Lets move, I'm going to get you inside if nothing else. Wait a moment and I'll try to clear a path...."

He lifted a hand to the sky, seeming to concentrate hard. He began chanting steadily in his own langauge and then suddenly cried out two different words very loud, they'd roughly translate to shaman's rain in the common tongue. If one was looking above they would see many growing spots of light behind the clouds in the sky. Suddenly burning ki bolts began to rain down on the zombies blocking Barnibus' and Jinx's way into the castle. The ki bolts might explode the zombies, might tear off limbs, and just set them a blaze. Jinx held his hand in the air brining down as much of his deadly ki rain as he could muster. He finally brought his hand down, his body sagging a little from the effort, though he quickly straightened himself and turned to Barnibus.

"We move now! That attack won't hold them forever!" He quickly took his spear back out and moved forward looking back to see if Barnibus was following.

[yumi]

How gross! Look at these filthy creatures. “Dis dat challenge I was talkin' bout…” said the red monster known as Roos. Yumi licked her lips and got into a fighting stance. “I can’t wait!” she said to herself as she took off into the sky just behind Roos. Her clear aura flowed around her angelic body as she raced off to her targets, with a grin across her face. She had her fist out ready to strike. Two energy beams appeared in each of her hands. She fired both of then at a pair of grotesque zombies. She laughed out loud as she heard their cries of pain in response to her attack. Hugh? Yumi looked into the face of the biggest beast she had ever seen. It stood over 15 feet high and was huge. Yumi was only 16 feet off the ground, so she was practically flying at the same level of its head.

Roos was standing right beside her. On the other side of her stood the blue tailed saiyan. Yumi didn’t care about the zombies. All she was concerned about was stopping the big fish. "Roos'll handle it..."said the cocky demon. “Correction, Yumi will handle it! She responded.

She prepared herself to strike the foe. Before she could get a chance to attack the bulrog, a blast hurled towards it. The attack had come from the red demon. It was a strong attack.. Yumi used her forearms to shield herself from the rocks flying in her face caused by the blast. The blue tailed saiyan lunged at it. He slammed his fist into its side. He brought out his sword and aimed it at the shoulder blade of the bulrog. With all of these people going for the big fish, Yumi felt reluctant to attack it. Yumi had planned to defeat it by herself, but with all of the people attacking the bulrog creature it wasn’t likely that this was going to happen. Yumi slammed her elbow into the elbow of a zombie, which made its way towards her.

“I know I’m beautiful but please none of you touch me!” She didn’t care if they could understand her or not. She had a message to send across and she sent it. “Okay guys this is Barnibus’ fight” said a young boy. Like I’m going to listen to a bratty saiyan. Yumi continued her attack on the zombies, as she fired a rally of small ki blasts towards them.

[damius]

Damius watched as the necromancer placed his arm on his shoulder, and the next moment they were in Sisyphus' chamber, he guessed. He felt the energy of everyone spiking and knew that the battle was beginning. He sat as Sisyphus had gestured him to, and noted how comfortable the chair was.

"That abomination from Hell called Elena doesn't concern me. I sent her back where she belongs."

Damius leaned forward and picked up one of the daggers that were laying out gently, twirling it in his fingers. He was trying to act calm and as if nothing bothered him, but Sisyphus had an effect on his soul that he had never felt before. He could feel death again, but it wasn't his own this time. He chalked it up to all the deaths Sisyphus had manipulated over the years.

"Being a necromancer, you must have realized the oddities of my existence by now. I merely wish to know more about what happened to me, and why."

Damius then closed his eyes, ready to ask the qestion that had plagued his mind since he found out about Sisyphus.

"But most importantly, were you the one that made what I am?"

[lionheart]

All of a sudden an entire group of people had appeared, to which Kain only hissed. He wasn’t one for company, but then again, there wasn’t much he could do about that right now. So, instead he just decided to ignore them in general, it really wasn’t his problem, not now at least. Then he noticed someone and smirked. It was Barnibus, and the strange-looking guy from the beach. It seemed that most everyone was done with what they had been doing and had now arrived here. ‘Looks like things are wrapping up finally...’ Kain thought, but he realized that celebrating was a bit early. That was more than an understatement when he noticed the weaklings in red seemingly melt all around him, their flesh melding into one, slowly growing into a huge being, standing about 15 feet tall. “Ah... crap...” was all he managed before the towering beast roared over his head, nearly killing his sense of... anything. That was one heck of a loud roar. Kain just hissed and powered up, ready to see if that flesh had gotten any stronger than those crap bodies he had taken apart. But, suddenly, arms shot from under his feet in the ground, grabbing his ankles and legs, reaching higher, as the zombies came out from the ground, emerging slowly and definitely creepily. More and more hands took hold of him, until almost every part of his legs was being held.

”Kherm...” Kain heard something coughing behind him, even though the coughing sounded quite a bit more severe than the usual “*cough**cough*”, more resembling the sound of a person’s last breath. However this, obviously wasn’t the case... well... sort of not the case... ”You... are going to join us...”

Kain couldn’t not chuckle, his little laughter turning into a loud, long laugh. “You have no idea who you’re dealing with... And stay away from the goods, boys...” he said, half-laughing, then suddenly shouted, his white aura igniting more like an explosion than anything, making the huge beast take a step back, the pure energy radiating from Kain was enough to dissolve the zombie arms holding him, although that’s not necessarily saying much. He looked up just in time to see an impressive-sized foot heading straight for him, but he managed to dodge it with relative ease. “Keh... what a...” but his words were cut short, when, all of a sudden, a group of over ten zombies burst from out of the ground all around him, lunging at him with quite surprising speed, considering they all were rotting bags of flesh and bone...

One grabbed Kain from behind, wrapping its arms around him, which, needless to say, wasn’t all too pleasant. Two on his right grabbed his arm, looking like they’re about to take a bite out of it, while others grabbed his legs and other arm. “You will not live...” the zombie behind him wheezed, then opened its mouth, the unbelievably horrible odor hitting his nose and almost making his eyes tear.

“Uh... damn... now that’s bad morning breath...” Kain grimaced, then jerked his left arm, tearing off the two arms of the zombie that was holding on to it, then grabbing the head of the one that was holding him from behind. “I’m sorry... but I don’t let undead hump me on a first date...” he said, grabbed the zombie by whatever hair he had on his head, and pulled hard, hoping to bring him over his shoulder. Instead, however, Kain managed to tear the zombie’s head off, spilling rather nasty-looking guts all around. “Ugh... nasty...” Kain said and grimaced, but the zombies were still holding on to him, even the one whose hands he had torn off. “Persistent bastards... fine...” he cursed, then suddenly shot up into the air, some zombies still holding on, while others breaking up from the powerful jerk. When in the air, Kain did an incredibly fast 360 spin, tossing off whatever other limbs or zombies had still been holding on to him.

When Kain opened his eyes he suddenly noticed an enormous beam of red light, heading straight for him. “Oh, sh**...” Kain swore dashing out of the way as fast as he could. “What the hell...?” he said, but had to duck to dodge another beam. “HEY, YOU SH**HEADS!! I’M ON YOUR F***ING SIDE!!!” Kain shouted, even though it was probably him that got in the way, and not them that fired the beams at him. He turned and saw both beams hitting the big... meat thing with wings, and then Gareeku tackled it also. ‘Bah... they need to pay more attention on the more pressing matters... we don’t need three people fighting one monster...’ Kain thought, though not wording his thoughts, since, honestly, nobody would care what he thinks or says, then looked at the ground. It was virtually teeming with zombies, making it look like the earth was alive, since almost as far as the eye could see there was movement. A quite unnerving sight, but Kain just spat and shot downwards, ready to get into the thick of it.

A punch to the left, a kick to the right, he was taking them apart, one blow at a time. It really wasn’t getting him anywhere, though, and Kain picked up the pace. Luckily, his speed helped out, since there wasn’t much power necessary to do that. Suddenly Kain heard a thundering behind him and turned around to see bolts of energy crashing down on a load of zombies, opening a path for the castle. Through the large number of zombies Kain noticed familiar robes. Barnibus was headed for a castle, and he had the strangely colored guy helping him. However, from what Kain could tell, Barnibus’ helper wasn’t in too good a shape. He wasn’t in good enough shape to notice the five zombies plop up behind him, that was for sure. Reaching for the man with their hands, Kain knew that he had to help Barnibus, at least to half-make up for the blunder of his. In the blink of an eye, Kain was standing in between Barnibus and the zombies and, with a smirk, he took care of them with some swift movements.

“Barnibus... it’s good to see you alive and well...” Kain said, slightly bowing his head as a greeting. He eyed the man standing beside him. “Hello again... Looks like you might need some help...” he said, looking around. The zombies were quickly massing together again. “Alright, you keep close to him, I’ll clean out the path for you... if something happens, just shout my name. I’m Kain,” he said and gave an approving smile. Then, giving the castle a long look, Kain sighed and started tearing up anyone that came close, helping Barnibus reach his goal.

(OOC: *Sigh* Good-bye, my 69 posts... I knew thee well... XP )

[barnibusquentin]

(OOC: Sorry for the Delay)
Within short seconds hell and chaos had taken over the scene.

Seeing Sisyphus tear the lives of his cultists from their bodies like a child tearing paper, Barnibus struggled to fathom where, or from whom, Sisyphus gained his power. The Necromancer had been powerful once—a hundred times more so than young Barnibus Quentin—but now, Sisyphus’s abilities had grown almost beyond his comprehension.

The dead rose up from the ground and small melee combats rose like points of firelight.

Firelight…

Time rose over the old man like a wave. He became lost in thought. His first confrontation with the deadly necromancer was much like this one. There was more fire, and thick acrid smoke that choked his lungs: It was his doing. He was overconfident in his magic, had strode out to meet the Necromancer as he entered Barnibus’s village. Barnibus had sworn to kill him, but he was outclassed by far. When the battle finally ended most of the village flickered with points of firelight that cast long dancing shadows on the body of his dead wife; Barnibus was on his side too weak to move. Sisyphus bent down and whispered; told him what he was going to do and walked away. Slowly the corpse of his wife rose, shambled, stumbled…

A voice brought Barnibus back to reality, “This is Barnibus's fight! Somebody get him inside!”

Everyone suffers tragedy sometime in their lives. Let it shape you but not control you.

They were right: this was his fight. He needed to get inside and stop Sisyphus, but he couldn’t do it alone.

“Kain, I’m going to need your help. Follow me!”

The writhing mass of creatures inside the castle began stalking out onto the plain.

The Old Man reached into a deep pocket of his robe and pulled out a small metal cube. There was no point taking it inside, Arthengrad was simply too big. He tossed the cube to the ground and, after rolling to a stop, rapidly unfolded into a fifteen-foot tall mechanical golem.

“Arthengrad, Kill.” Barnibus said.

Gears whirred and pistons hissed, the clockwork golem nodded and stalked off towards a large group of zombies.

Jinx, Kain, Barnibus
Barnibus ran after Jinx toward the castle. They skidded to a stop about two hundred feet from the main gate. Barring their way were hundreds of angry figures of all shapes and sizes: demons of every kind. The Old Man looked behind him to see if Kain was following. Barnibus raised both arms above his head, weaving the strands of magic with perfect precision. The ground infront of the massing army cracked and split. Great jagged shards of ice shot up nearly a hundred feet in the air and froze together in an frigid wall as thick and strong as hewn stone. All around meteors of ki rained down burning ground and zombie alike, but they slowly became more and more infrequent.

“That might hold them for a bit.” Barnibus grabbed Jinx by the arm, looked to the top of the castle wall and both winked out of existence. They reappeared on the top of the castle wall; below they could see the battle spread out across the valley like pieces of a game board. Two demonic looking humans turned to regard the newly appeared people with shock. One whipped his hand back and cast a fiery ki ball at Jinx and the other charged Barnibus and swung a haymaker for his head.

Roos, Carniku, Kain
Suddenly the land exploded with red light and Roos fired an enormous energy blast at the undead Demon. As the blast shot forward it braced itself and held a clawed hand out in front of itself. The blast slammed into an invisible barrier, lighting it bright white as the energy dissipated. The Demon was sent sliding back along the dirt more than a dozen feet, knocking a side and crushing the empty cars. Another blast came in from the side and the demon stopped it with another shield in front of it’s fleshy bladed hand and slid back nearly into the castle wall. Gareeku suddenly appeared with a punch so powerful it knocked the creature back a step and it slammed into the wall, sending a rumbling shock through it. The flesh underneath the impact zone cratered, slowly reforming as the blue-tailed warrior was finishing his last attack. The katana strike for the neck cut not more than half an inch in, it hit something hard underneath the tissue. The wound smoked as the flesh around it was burned and it closed half way up. As Gareeku came in for the last attack the demon threw up its hand and the Katana collided with the Demon’s bladed arm, sending bright blue sparks flying.

Yumi
All around the zombies were falling to the Heroes of Eden, as kicks punches and ki blasts smashed through their heads and more attacks removed limbs and punched holes through their chests. Yumi’s barrage of ki incinerated more than one zombie, but for each head that rolled or bodies that burned to a fine ash another two appeared. It wouldn’t be long before the Heroes would be taken down, as weak as the walking dead were, by sheer numbers. It was then a slight feminine figure appeared not more than twenty feet to the side of Yumi, she wore a long black dress, that glinted as she walked. The woman was attractive for sure, even with the tiny horns that poked out from under her hair, and the easily torso sized rifle slung over her shoulder. The walking dead paid her no attention; it was as if she was invisible to them.

“Beautiful?” the woman called. “I think you have an ego problem little girl.”

The black clad woman’s eyes suddenly glowed hellish red, she un-slung the rifle and fired at Yumi, a long lance of flame tore across the distance between them straight for Yumi’s head.

Damius
Meanwhile, inside the castle…

“I know you sssent her back, Damiusssss, but my powersss can defy even death, as you’ve ssseen. Elena isss back on the battle field as we ssspeak.” Sisyphus said.

The wily Necromancer leaned back in his chair and listened as Damius spoke.

With a smile he said, “No Damiusssss, I did not create you. But I will be honessst. I could not have. You have life, a sssoul sso to sspeak. I do know what’sss inssside you, the sspirit of a great Demon dwells alongside yours. I can sshow you who created you, would you want that?”

Damius, took a deep breath and nodded, this was what he wanted more than anything.

The Necromancer grinned.

There was a brief moment where it felt like a great flame was tearing through Damius’s insides before he was lost to blackness.

To Sisyphus sitting there, the process was simple. Falling into a casting trance he reached inside Damius’s soul and pulled on the death magic threads that coursed through his insides like veins. The Necromancer weaved them in a pattern he had used countless times before, the spell of awakening. Twisted horns burst through Damius’s scalp, sending trickling blood down by his eyes which sunk deep into his skull and turned black. Vestigial bat wings cut their way out from under his skin and through his shirt, his nails lengthened and thickened into claws. The demon looked at himself for the first time, he was still recognizable as Damius, but the man was no longer there, no longer in control of his own body, but locked inside a mental prison with no way to escape.

“I have woken you Mephistopheles* you owe me your service.”

Mephistopheles nodded.

“Kill the Edenites.” Sisyphus said. The Demon strode from the room.


*By the way, Mephistopheles is the name of a real demon in Christian mythology. He is either a close servant of Satan or in some versions he is Satan himself.

[gareeku]

Seeing that his sword attacks were having minimal effect, Gareeku grimaced. It also seemed that something hard was underneath the creature's skin, Gareeku noticing this as he could feel the way the sword moved as the blade cut into the creature. However, instead of of losing hope, this only served to strengthen the warrior's resolve. As his sword collided with the creature's claws, the warrior wasted no time in moving, his form flickering out of view as the warrior teleported. Reappearing in front of the creature, Gareeku charged in, moving with incredible speed as his golden aura blazed furiously. throwing his fist forward, the blue-tailed super saiyan aimed a thunderous punch to the creature's chest, before throwing his other hand forward, positioning the sword to execute a powerful stab. Moving once more, Gareeku flew upwards, still moving with intense speed as a fist thundered towards the creature's chin in the form of a powerful uppercut. Not stopping there, Gareeku would then disappear, reappearing at the top of the balrog's head as he brought his sword down in another stab, aiming to drive the blade deep into the creature's skull. Leaping back, a brightly shining ki ball then appeared in Gareeku's hands, crackling with energy as the blue tailed super saiyan pumped power into it. Launching the ball of energy at the Balrog, Gareeku hoped that it would be enough to melt away the creature's skin, and expose whatever hard material was under it.

[roos]

With perfect timing, Roos made his move on the Balrog. Having seen the Roos Kame-Hame-Ha do a disappointing amount of damage, Roos charged the Roos Comet again and sped towards the giant beast. The very instant after Gareeku had made his attack to the front of the monster, Roos drew his right hand back and charged enormous strength into it for one massive punch which would hit the beast directly after Gareeku teleported away, without a moment's pause. Not only would the strength of the punch be huge, but it also followed Gareeku's attack with such precision it should add to even more damage. Roos then thrust his left hand forward in a palm strike and fired a Ki blast from it at point blank with as much strength as he could immediately summon. Then he charged up more Ki while Gareeku attacked the Balrog's head to attack the creature, firing another tremendous blast from his mouth with all the charged up energy. Then he flew up so that he was eye level with the creature and continued, turning his flight into a somersault and bringing both his feet down on the spot where Gareeku had hopefully exposed whatever was underneath the creature's skin. The force in this one drop-kick was enough to make a clear halo of force epxlode out around the top of the Balrog's head as the little red demon drove all his body weight which, now that he had transformed, was a lot more than usual. This drop-kick was also timed so well that the creature would barely have enough time to react before Roos drove his legs into it's skull. It was a surprisingly intelligent tactic for Roos, and it showed how he was becoming smarter and smarter as he evolved.

[damius]

Damius:

As Damius faded from the light in his soul, he felt the pain of the transformation he had incurred upon himself so many times before. Instantly, his mind started spinning. It wasn't right. He had always given in to the darkness, but this time the darkness overtook him. He had been fooled. Sisyphus wasn't helping, but helping himself instead. Damius should have known better.

He saw himself spiraling downward through a seemingly infinite abyss. He then saw a single bright light, though microscopic in size. His body passed by it, almost close enough to touch, but he couldn't even control his own arms. He finally collided with solid ground and opened his eyes to find the sight he least expected.

It was his village from when he was a child, untouched by the passage of time. He saw all the people he knew so long ago, including a much younger version of himself. He began to smile, old joyful memories passing through his mind. But then the child version of himself changed into the demon that shared his body, and began to massacre evryone around. Horror passed through his eyes, and he yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Stop this! This isn't how it happened!" He tried to power himself up, but to no avail. But none the less, the village dissappeared and was replaced by a large, dark room with a door on each side. He chose one and walked through it to another room exactly the same.

"This is going to take a while."


Mephistopheles:

Mephistopheles was endebted to Sisyphus for fully releasing him from the prison of Damius soul. As such, he walked out without even question this Sisyphus, and began to make his way to the front gates. Once there, he opened them and let himself through, and grinned evilly when he saw all of the Edenites, ready for the slaughter. He stretched out his wings to a massive span of almost 15 ft., roared and powered up his aura so it encompassed an area so large, it was impossible to not notice. He decided the first victim of his wrath would be Yumi. He flapped his wings and and then glided over to her, who was no fighting with Damius' adversary, Elena. He landed slightly behind Elena, who had just fired a jet of flame at Yumi.

He placed a hand on her shoulder, and grinned widely. He then spoke in a low, gutteral, vibrative tone.

"Leave her to me for a moment. I need a stretch. How about it woman? Want to try your hand against real demon?"

He then just stood there, grinning smugly, waiting for a pathetic attack from a pathetic
mortal.

[yumi]

The red flame tore its way through the zombies that made their way towards the girl. The zombies began screaming in pain as their skins bubbled, due to the woman’s gun fire. She didn’t seem to care that she took out the wrong targets, as long as she got her target as well. Yumi felt the hot temperature from the flame, as it was now inches away from her head. She placed two fingers on her forehead and disappeared, causing the burning flame to continue travelling into thin air. “That’s a pretty nice technique Yumi.” Yumi appeared in front of the woman.

“Yeah, Instant Transmission. It’s a good technique if you’re looking for a great escape. Without it, I would have been history. Remind me to kill you for that! If not for the horns on your head, I would say you’re the better looking, then again nah!” The horned head woman smiled, then teleported backwards. "This isn’t no beauty contest. I came here to destroy you."

"The you’ve obviously come to the wrong place. You must be lost! How about I give you directions to your destination? Further more, how about I direct my foot up your ass!" The horn headed woman growled. “I will make sure you pay for your arrogance!” Yumi teleported right in front of her once more and tried to chop Elena's gun in half, but the woman smacked aside Yumi's hand. "How pathetic, you have the audacity to call me a little girl, but you refuse to fight me like a real woman: hand to hand.”

A large demon with a wing span of around 15 metres flew behind the demonic woman, towering over her. “Leave her to me for a moment. I need a stretch. How about it woman? Want to try your hand against real demon?" he said with a smug look on his face. Elena frowned at his comment. “Don’t listen to him. I’m the real demon here!”

“Well what can I say, everyone wants a piece of Yumi. Well I’m not surprised, after all I am the most powerful being in the universe! My policy is first come first serve! Don’t worry, once I dispose of your girlfriend I will fight you. Besides she almost killed me, do you think I’m going to let her get away with it? I must warn you though, like the pathetic saiyan race my power increases after every fight, so what ever chances of you being even close to me in power will be thrown out the window. Now as for you, shall we do battle? Why don’t I leave you to have a 5 minute with your boy friend before I finish you! Huh? What do you say?"

Elena growled viciously at her, then a long burning fissure snaked its way past Yumi's right side. “Huh?” wondered the teen. She didn't know what to expect. There was a massive explosion that shook the entire area, as the ground in which they were located split open. The aftershock caused an eruption from the broken surface and sent both Yumi and a number of zombies flying. Yumi managed to gain control of her self seconds before hitting a tree, avoiding herself from being slammed into the wood. “The girl’s mouth slightly fell open. She couldn’t believe how much power the demonic woman possessed. The demonic woman’s eyes glowed red once more.

“Why did you kill your own people?” asked Yumi.

“They're not people. They're mindless dead, cannon fodder for Sisyphus's army. Besides they get in the way of a fight between you and me” she complimented. She was impressed by the way Yumi had handled the zombies Elena suddenly vanished from sight.
I can’t believe she killed her own people, just so we can have a fair fight. Such honour!

Yumi tracked the demon woman's energy signal and teleported to an area away from everyone else. For now her only concern was this demonic feminine. The two powered up, as they prepared for combat. The two beautiful females collided into one another sending fast punches to one another. “Is this the best you got human?” she said as she began dodging her punches. Yumi tired to punch her, but she moved out of the way once more, causing the girls fist to introduce itself into the ground. Elena chuckled. “Don’t worry, I’m just getting warmed up” said the teen as she forced her right fist out of the ground. “You can warm up if you want, but I’m going to destroy you right now!”

“No warm up? You’re no fun! Fine, let’s tangle!”

OOC: Sorry Damius but I want a one on one with Elina for now.

[glow=green,2,300]Barnibus edit: Yumi two things, you can't chop someone's weapon in half like that, that is an auto hit, I've edited it out. Second, you shouldn't be controlling Elena in any way, talking, attacks, etc. This is against the few rules we have. I'll let most of it go though, in this saga it's not a big deal. Everyone else seems to be doing it.[/glow]

[carniku]

Carniku was floating in the air and his mind was going a mile a minute as he tried to think of a way to attack this that might do some damage for them. As soon as Roos' feet had finished in their attack a heaving metal sound was heard and from almost nowhere one of the cars that the beast had sent shooting away seemed to slam downwards aimed at the creature's head. Carniku panted and growled angrily, his energy attack had done nothing, just like the others. The car was probably a less bright dea than he usually had but it wasn't just for this. He shimmered and crackled with energy for a brief time still holding the car then swung it around in a huge arc and yelled out as he hurled it with as much force as he could muster at the beast changing into Super Saiyan with and explosion of golden light and electricity. As the car flew Carniku flew past it in a zipping motion with blue electricity focusing around him. He landed a few feet far away from the Balrog and passed by Mephistopheles, he paused for a minute.
"Uhhh, Hey there." Then with a loud burst of energy and a grinding of his teeth as his power escalated Carniku bellowed[glow=blue,29,300]"EPSILON FIELD!"[/glow], with a bright blue flash he rocketted back across the ground sending up a dust cloud over some of the zombies and like a lightning bolt he shot past the Balrog's head and appeared on the other side in glowing Super Saiyan holding Chiryu. His back was to the Balrog and he didn't even think to look back, either his Bokken had smacked it's head open or at the very least bruised it, orit had done jack. If it was the latter he'd need to make a new plan. He spun around and floated down to besides Gareeku, his bokken levelled and held like a real sword as he faced the Balrog at last to see what damage their combined efforts had done. Carniku whspered out of the side of his mouth
"Hey, Gareeku, D'ya reckon we should think about bringing Carneeku into this?"

[lionheart]

(OOC: Psst, Barnibus... you meant “Roos, Carniku, Gareeku”, didn’t you? )

Kain dashed straight at the recently appeared monsters, which didn’t quite seem to be zombies, but definitely weren’t human either... then again, Kain didn’t much care at the moment, ready and willing to kick the ass of anything that got in their way. However, just as he was about to deliver a crushing punch to the first freak of nature that was closest to him, the ground under his feet opened with a thundering crack and enormous spikes of ice shot out from inside the earth, nearly impaling Kain, but he managed to jump back in the last second. This was beginning to get strange. “Oh, come on! Could at least you not try and kill me?” Kain shouted to Barnibus, half-jokingly, half-seriously, but when he turned his head, he saw Barnibus and his friend disappear, reappearing on the top of the castle wall. Kain sighed and took to the air, following the old man, then suddenly heard a roar that sent a chill down even his spine, turning to see another quite sizable monstrosity appear, spreading its wings and grinning. The beast’s aura flared in an enormous size and Kain was mesmerized. Slowly his eyes gained a tint of bright red, a sinister grin appearing on his face. For some reason that monster reminded him of Damius, the guy that simply *had* to go with him and Zack... even the better. Kain could put out all his anger on this character. The red in his eyes became more and more distinctive, until it was scarlet and glowing a little. With a shout Kain’s white aura erupted also and at grew with each second.

A blinding white flash appeared in the sky, which probably left whoever was looking at it blind for about twenty to thirty seconds, then subsided, revealing the White Super Saiya-jin Kain, his white aura pulsing around him as if he was ablaze. With a smirk, Kain was just about to shoot towards the big demon, but then heard Barnibus call him. ‘That’s right... I need to help the old man...’ Kain told himself, calming his lust for battle. He was certain there would be more to beat the crap out of, so he bulleted towards Barnibus and the other guy, noticing that they were being attacked by some guards. Just as the demon’s Ki blast was about to hit Barnibus’ other companion, Kain appeared in front of him, his arms outstretched, a smirk on his face. The blast hit and exploded in flame, creating a thick cloud of dust, which was almost impossible to see through. Meanwhile the other demon tried to hit Barnibus, but from the smoke emerged a gloved arm, which stopped his attack and pulled him into the dust. A couple of quite violent blows could be heard, a scream, and then the other demon saw his comrade fly out of the smoke, colliding with the ground, dead. He turned to flee, but as he turned around he noticed the Super Saiya-jin Kain standing in front of him. A smirk broke out on Kain’s face as he grabbed the demon’s head with both arms, holding it tight. The demon struggled and screamed, but he couldn’t do anything about Kain’s strong hands, and, with one quick movement, Kain snapped the demon’s neck.

The smoke slowly was blown away, revealing the slightly confused Barnibus and Jinx, as Kain later found out. “Don’t worry... I’ll take care of anyone and anything that comes close... just go, Barnibus, and I’ll be right behind you,” Kain said, turning his back to the old man and Jinx. Before him appeared over twenty demonic beings with wings, flapping them to keep themselves in the air. Kain snickered and took his battle stance, but it seemed Barnibus was hesitant about leaving him. “Don’t worry! It’ll only take a second, you won’t even notice I’m gone!” Kain said, turning back to his demonic foes. Kain smiled, then disappeared, appearing just above an impish-looking demon, who was short and stubby, but had rather dreadful-looking claws. But both arms Kain delivered a crushing blow from above, breaking the creature’s skull and sending him careening towards the ground.

Kain suddenly felt a flaming hot fist make contact with his face, knocking him out of the air and down onto the ground. “Damn... bast...” but Kain’s words were cut short when a human-like demon thrust his knee into Kain’s gut with such force that Kain’s insides almost flipped backwards. Kain hadn’t expected such strength from the bunch that he had been smacking around a while before. Then again, this was no zombie... The demon snickered, putting his open palm on Kain’s face, and Kain felt the intense heat.

”Struggle is futile, mortal... you have no hope...” he said, a wry smile on his face, his palm less than an inch from Kain’s skin. Suddenly Kain smiled and the demon stopped in surprise. All of a sudden Kain grabbed his arm, bringing it away from his face, then blowing it off with a Ki beam.

“The hell do you know...” he said, then suddenly sat up, hitting the demon’s head with his own, knocking the monster off him. The Saiya-jin stood up, crossing his arms, a wry smile on his face. “What hope do you have... against me?” he snickered, then suddenly was attacked from all sides by the other demons from before. Their talons reaching for him, with a smirk, a white, nearly invisible barrier appeared around him, then suddenly expanded outwards knocking anything that had come close enough away. After the shockwave Kain was nowhere to be seen. A scream was heard, then silence. Kain appeared behind each demon, taking them out in a moment. They were all dead in a moment and Kain just rubbed his palms. “Keh... what a fool... calling me a mortal...” Kain said, chuckled, disappearing in a blur, appearing right behind Barnibus and Jinx, who were making their way to the castle. “I told you it wouldn’t take long...”

[jinx]

((OOC: Sorry for the delay everyone. I had a bit of an insane weekend…))


Though Jinx’s last attack had drained his power even more he felt invigorated that he’d pulled it off. Barnibus was following his lead towards the castle entrance where a massing army of demonic forms awaited them. Jinx halted quickly and brandished his spear at the army. Jinx turned and Barnibus seemed to be concentrating on something, when suddenly the ground around the army cracked open and ice spears, a hundred feet long, shot up into the air forming a wall while strange ki balls rained down from the sky. Barnibus spoke, but before Jinx knew what was going on he was on the castle wall with Barnibus.

Before they could get their footing two demonic presences attacked them. A fiery ki ball was headed for Jinx while the other rushed at Barnibus with a nasty looking weapon. Jinx had it set in his mind that he was now the bodyguard and that Barnibus was his first priority. He was about to throw his spear at the guard attacking Barnibus when a much more powerful, but familiar Saiyan aura appeared, right in front of him taking on the attack like it was nothing. Jinx rolled back out of the blast area. The Saiyan appeared momentarily in a dust field. He had changed, his hair was white, but that wasn’t the strangest thing. He was far more powerful than he was a moment ago. His ki was raging and Jinx knew the Saiyan battle lust must be running strong in him. He grabbed the other demonic guard and their was a struggle which left both demonic guards dead.

Jinx moved to thank the Saiyan, even ask his name, when a group of winged guards appeared. The Saiyan told them he’d be right behind them in a moment, apparently confident in taking on what appeared to be similar to the demons Jinx, Barnibus, the hooded figure, and Roos had fought earlier. Jinx felt the Saiyan’s power was great, but was unsure of his victory against so many foes at once.

Jinx took up his spear and was quickly at Barnibus’ side, “We should move while we have the chance. The young Saiyan has a great power inside him, I think he can handle the demons.” Jinx spoke quickly and waited for Barnibus’ cue to move forward.

[yumi]

Both warriors exchanged blows once more. Yumi was a very fast warrior, but the other female proved to have the speed advantage. She proved this as she easily managed to block the teen’s punches once more. Yumi swung her foot towards her chest level, but she caught her leg with one hand and used her arm to swing the tuffle around 3 times. She let go of her and watched as she went sailing into the ground. She flew over towards the pile of rubble from the ground and held out her hand. A crimson red energy beam lit in her hand. She let out a laugh as she fired it. A blast erupted from the rubble as the two beams collided. Yumi’s grazed up face popped out of the ground as she applied more power to her beam. “Silly human, you are no match for me.” Elena let out a scream as her beam crashed into the girl, causing the ground to erupt.

Smoke came from a massive crater in the ground. The girl was no where to be seen. The warrior dressed in black folded her arms waiting patiently. “Come on Yumi, show yourself. I know you can withstand more than that.” Still she waited for the teen. “I’m growing impatient girl. Fine, I’ll blast you out!” All of a sudden, a giant ring of energy floated above the woman. Yumi’s clothes had been torn, and blood trickled down the right side of her face. She motioned her cut hand downwards, and the ring surrounded the demon. “What’s this?” she wondered.

“By the way, I’m not a human I’m a tsfuru-jin you bitch! She said as she put both her fists together, causing the ring to close, trapping the woman inside it. She struggled but there was no way out for her. “Why you little…! I’ll find my way out of this. You say you’re a tuffle, but weren’t they all destroyed by the saiyans?”

“Almost! My father knew his people couldn’t win so he sent me and my sister here to Eden to start a new life. He was the only way he could save what was left of our race.”

“Wait you mean your father is Tonetsu?”

“Yes!”

Elena llet out a loud laugh still trapped inside the ring. “I’m going to enjoy the pleasure of annihilating the queen of tuffles. It will definitely be the highlight of my day. Yes, this makes things a whole lot more interesting. It all makes sense now. This is why you called the saiyan race pathetic. You despise them right?” An evil grin spread across her face. It was almost as if she was up to something. “You know, there are a couple of saiyans on the battle field. I wonder how they would react knowing that you are the queen of tuffles?”

“I don’t care! I’ll just dispose them all like baby wipes, just like I’m going to do to you.” She tightened the hold. Elena let out a growl. Yumi let out a rally of ki blasts which exploded onto the demons body. Blood began to trickle from her face now. The teen smiled as she began throwing blows and kicks to her.

“Yeeeeaaar” screamed the elder female as her aura flared around her once more. She blasted her way out of the ring and began throwing punches and kicks at Yumi in a rage. She kneed her in her stomach and pot smashed her to the ground. She let out a dozen ki balls, which all exploded into the ground where Yumi was. She drew air into her hand a ball of ki was formed in her hands. The tuffle let lose small ki blasts of her own, which travelled towards the demonic horned woman, whose black dress had been badly torn up. Elena roared as she released the beam with two hands. It collided with a couple of the queens small energy attacks, but still made its way down to Yumi. She held out both of her hands as she struggled to control the beam. She finally managed to push it away from her. It exploded in the distance.

The teenager was now on her knees, exhausted. I know I can win this.
She looked up at the demon. “What is your name by the..way?”

“My name is Elena and you are?”

“Yumi!” she replied. Elena teleported to Yumi, knocking her back down to the floor. She placed her left black boot on her. “I’m intrigued. So tell me where is this sister of yours? I would like to meet your sibling. Is she also a warrior?” Yumi struggled to get up, but the demon made sure she couldn’t.

“I haven’t seen her for 12 years!”

“I see, so there are only two tsfuru-jins left?”

“Yes!”

“Good then after I destroy you, I will hunt down your sister and destroy her, and then the tuffle race would be wiped out.”