Looking into Quhark's eyes while he is waiting for an answer. "I do believe there is a dark magic inside of you but that alone does not make you evil." Remembering that I haven't checked the colour of my eyes for a while, I pull out my pocket mirror and see that they are a foggy purple. "Do you see the colours of my eyes ? The man that trained me told me that if both of my eyes were to turn the same shade of green then I'd be unable to do magic, possibly even die. My right eye used to be green which meant I was halfway there but apparently my DNA being rewritten by light magic has given me another shot, she cleansed the darkness out of me.. Would you want to meet her ? She may be able to remove the dark power out of you too. And I have a few questions for her."

"I don't know her and I don't care as long as Krahuq(evil form) is removed from me.Did you see what happened to that poor soldier back there?" said Quhark with a disgust about what happened to the soldier.

"Okay, Quhark, her name is Ms. Diela and she lives in Pior. Let me tell everyone else quick-like." Telepathically sending a message to Luna, 'Hey, Miss Luna, Quhark and I are going to see Ms. Diela. Don't wait up, we'll catch up.' and before Luna can look back, Quhark and I teleport to Pior. "She's in the shack here. I don't know how kindly she'll take to me bringing a stranger but she was rather nice the last few times I've seen her." Entering the shack, she immediately greets us without turning around, as usual. "Jamie. Quhark. I wasn't expecting you but I saw you coming a bit before you showed up. Is something troubling you ?"
Jamie responds, "I have a few questions about some things. Back when I had dark magic, and if I was in peril, one or both of my eyes would glow and I'd get a massive spike of power but then one of my eyes would change colour. But after my transformation my eyes became purple, is there any more risk of my eyes changing colour and the power spike ?"
"No," she responds, "your eyes will remain a purple, the reason your eyes changed in the first place was because the dark magic inside of you was unstable, I have only seen it in one other person before and... it was your twin." "What," Jamie quickly replies, "Scott's magic ? Do you know where he is ?" "No, he's not magic, but he has an evil entity inside of him that rivals your friend's here, like I said I can't force my way into a person's thoughts if they don't want me there. and dark power I can't penetrate, it is too powerful." "Okay," Jamie sullenly says, "is there a way to beat the King of Darkness with the power of darkness, like my old magic ?"
"No. and I will not answer any more of your questions, I can see that you are selfishly thinking of yourself rather than Upper World." "Fine. Quhark, here, had some things he wanted to ask you. I'll wait outside." Jamie steps outside of the shack and stands there, thinking about his brother. "I haven't dreamed about Scott in a long time. What does that mean..." Then as if randomly, out of nowhere. "Where is Toot ?"

VideogamemanX : You will have to ask Eirinn if you can join. It would be best to pm him. He will let you know when he logs on.

"Um, hi my name is Quhark the dragonoid. I would like to ask if there is any cure from an evil form that I can't controll."
She says: "So you have an evil personality.All I can do is merge you into one or separate you two.With meditation you can stay sane and become more powerfull. But if I separate you two then he will go massacre everybody in Pior."
"Looks like merging would be the better idea. At least I can controll the evil.You said it is dark magic, so I might have magic powers?" said Quhark.
"Your true potential is not yet known. But I did say you will be more powerfull." said Ms.Diela.

She searches for an old magic scroll and reads what it says *magic words here*.
Then Quhark starts glowing and suddenly absorbs all light in the room, making it dark for a moment.

As light comes back Quhark goes to a mirror and looks inside.
His scales are not all orange like before, he got black lines on his scales that look cool. Then he says: "Thank you.I must get back to my friends now." and he goes out and tells Jamie that they are done.

OOC: imagine the black lines, like on a sports car.

GenesisJunkie :  Ok

Alex stood next to Jabbin, waiting for the rest of the group to get together. He faced Jabbin and said "I'm warning you now...if you do anything to threaten me or anything of importance of me, I will kill you in an instant."

Alex began to walk towards his house for his belongings. "By the way..." he shouts as he walks away. "I have to get that Quhark guy back for killing my guards. So tell him to be ready for when that happens."

Alex reached his mansion at the northern end of Walsko. He went inside and packed a few items into a bag that he put on his back.

Alex's father appeared and said, "Congratulations. I know how hard it was to kill Exibus, and I know how hard you worked to protect Walsko."

Ooc: I'm going to edit the rest in.

(OoC: As you have noticed, I have been struggling to update this RP for the past few days. This is due to my current living arrangements, and I apologize. I will also be unable to post an update tonight, however I will be sure to post two updates tomorrow to make up for it. Feel free to post as you will until I get to update tomorrow afternoon. Again, I apologize, and I will do my best to make sure this doesn't happen again.)

Eirinn : Ooc. There is no reason to apologize Eirinn. Life comes first. I am sure everyone understands that if you have something to do you have to do it, you can't stop life to update an RP lol.

Sael, Alex, Juilen, Luna, Jamie, Quhark, Cross, and Jabbin

"Wow, you look different." Jamie says, as he looks at Quhark's new scale colors. "Well, if we're done here, I suppose it's time we head back to the others."

Jamie tries to teleport them back to Walsko, but finds himself unable to do so.

"Odd..." Jamie thinks aloud "It seems that Walsko is not a safe place. My power to teleport is limited to safe locations, as a means to protect the user of the power from teleporting into a perilous situation. If Walsko isn't safe...the others are in danger! Quickly, follow me!"

Rushing inside, Diela teleports them before Jamie can even say a word.

"Wow. She's good." Quhark comments on Diela's ability to read their mind.

As they look around, they see nothing amiss, which confuses Jamie even further. When they finally spy the others, they run up to them, and ask what is the matter.

"Uh...nothing?" Juilen answers, looking as puzzled as Jamie feels. "Oh Alex has decided to join us on our journey." He offers.

"Really? Well that's...unexpected." Jamie says, unsure how to react.

As Alex returns, the group he eyes Quhark and Jamie.

"And who are these two? I believe you're the only ones I've yet to be introduced to personally." Alex says.

"I'm Jamie, and this is Quhark"

Quhark...

Quhark .....

Quhark... Alex draws his blade.

"You. So you're Quhark?" He says as he steps closer.

(Battle, talk them down, whoever posts, do as you will with this. We'll roll from there. )


Toot

As Toot travels on with his new found crew, they walk up on a group of guards talking about something. At Toot's signal, the others stay put, as he leans in to hear what's being said, from behind a nearby tree.

"Mardono??" One of the guards says, shocked.

"Aye, he's come to our realm to take us over." The other answered. "He's controlling our kings and lords, one at a time, making them oppress and slowly destroy their own lands."

"So the rumors about Naviria are true?" The first guard asks.

"Hey!" The other guard shouts as he sees Toot.

"Oh boy. Cover's blown, guys!" Toot shouts, and his teammates come running.

(Toot -2 health. Care to share the battle details with us?)


Ethan

As Ethan walks out of the Walsko clinic, he sees a tense situation between Alex and some dragonoid he doesn't recognize. After debating over whether he should step in or not, he determines that he would be better off to head out of the town for the supplies that the head doctor had sent him for, to treat the wounded.

With gate still open from the earlier invasion, he heads for the woods. As he looks around, he finally sees the plant he was sent for. As he harvests it, he hears a growl behind him. He turns to see a Gowle, preparing to attack him.

(OoC:
VideogamemanX : Feel free to tell us how the battle went. You take no damage this time.)

Cross stops the two from whatever it is they were going to do ... " Wai wai wai wai wai wai wai . Ya caan;t jast show up hyear an expect to fihgt  liek that laddy. Besides ... I haven't placed ma wagers yet Now ... He is Quark .. is that going to be a prublem ?> " * draws blade in defence of Quark * 

"Hang on guys!" he yells to the two. "I don't know what is going on but I do know it is not the time to kill each other, we can do that after the quest is done! We need to figure out what is going on, put your weapons away." Those words felt funny on Jabbins lips, never before has be said to sheath a weapon. He waits to see if they will fight or take his words and back down.

"Woah, guys, calm down!" Juilen jumped back. "Alex, what's the big deal? He's on our side!" He gestures to both Alex, and everyone else, including him.

Toot shouts to stay back, away from these soldiers. It appears to be they have a little fake" magic on their hands, with their green and blue arm bands signifying the soldiers called the Ventinians. They use magic orbs, small orbs filled with magic energy. A tornado in a ball, a lightning bolt in a sphere. 

Cilia starts to glow a bluish-steel grey, and with a flash, shoots dozens of arrows from just one of her arrows, killing all the Ventinians. 

"Heh, we have ourselves an Aeromage. I have never met one before, for I thought there were none who practiced the art of magic arrows. Hmph, a nice addition after all. Anyways, still a delay. Let us steal these extra rations and head on our way." Eridor says.

"Exactly where are we heading again?" Cilia asks. 

"Who knows." Eridor responds.

(OoC: Just a reminder for myself, the word vanguard. Sounds nice, seems to fit in with any future story I have. If you want to, you can incorporate the "vanguard" however you would like.) 

Sael, Alex, Juilen, Luna, Jamie, Quhark, Cross, Ethan, and Jabbin

After a long silence, Alex sheaths his sword, then turns to face the gate.

"We'd best be going." He says calmly "No use in hanging around here doing nothing." He then heads toward the waterfall, and the others follow, confused, but none so much so as Quhark. What had he done to anger Alex so? Had Alex truly let it go that easily, or was he waiting to attack again later? These questions and more lingered in Quhark's mind for the next few miles.

"So," Ethan begins (he decided to follow this group that had rescued his town) "I hear we're looking for a Princess in distress. Who and where is she?"

That would be me." Sael answers. "They set out to find me, but I was never truly in danger at all." She then begins to recount the entire story ( click here to see the story of how they found Princess Sael safe ).

Quhark finds himself unable to focus on the discussion at hand, as his mind is still on the questions about Alex and his strange behavior toward him. Jabbin also has a difficult time focusing on the conversation, as he hasn't eaten in two hours, and everything that scampers by (or flies by) makes his stomach growl that much louder. All of this food running right past him, and he can't so much as grab a piece.

All of the joyous conversation, deep contemplation, and stomach rumbling is interrupted as Jamie freezes in place.

"They're coming again." He says in a low voice. "The things that pursued us when we stayed in the woodworker's cabin...They're coming...fast"

"What should we do?" Juilen asks.

"There is no time, and we can't outrun them." Jamie answers. "They come to consume us. We must face them this time around..."

Presently the sky begins to darken, and a strange sound begins to grow louder, only, this sound...it cannot be heard, but is rather something of a sound that is felt. The sky begins to drop with an ominous black rain, as black as the inky night sky, but somehow it leaves not stain where it lands, but rolls off like water. The ground begins to shake, but not like any Earthquake any of them have felt before. A strange odor wafts through the air, it smalls like nothing they've smelled before, but it might be something akin to rotting flesh, mingled with smell of sweet cinnamon, and laced with a hint of smoke. A high pitched, cynical laughter comes from the shadows that are moving in, and at last, the shadowy figures appear, hovering toward the group, weapons armed. There are easily thirty of them.

"Demons??" Cross asks.

"No" Jamie says "These are magical beings. I've heard of them before. They go forth only when created and ordered by a dark wizard. Our light is the only thing that can defeat them. They are pure darkness." Jamie, thinking quickly, shares the light with Ethan, whose clothes transform into a purest of white, and weapon glows faintly, as the other members' blades. Unfortunately, Alex attacks before Jamie can share the light with him, and as a result is captured by one of the dark beings.

"Noo!!!" Jamie shouts, as he sees Alex being dragged off.

"I don't think so!" Shouts Quhark, as he speeds like a bolt of lightening, to the creature, and using his light-transformed claws, pierces the dark being. It's eyes widen as it screeches.

"Master Mardono said you couldn't hurt us!" it hisses out the words, more than speaks them.

"Well he lied" Quhark says coldly, as he digs his claws in deeper, and begins ripping the creature apart. Odd thing, it has no blood or innards. It is indeed, just darkness through and through.

"You saved me." Alex says to Quhark. But that's it, no thanks follows it. It's as if Alex felt that Quhark knew what he had done wrong, and so knew that this righted it, or at least stayed his hand. Quhark is relieved, but more confused than ever.

Jamie, being faced with such utter darkness, suddenly feels a great contrast with the light he is now filled with, and something inside of him begins to quake almost violently, and as he begins to shake uncontrollably, he suddenly hears strange spells coming out of his own mouth. He says the words on his own, and though he knows not what they mean, he seems to know when and where to aim his staff as he says each spell.

(battle. No one loses health, but tell us how you handled your fight. Only kill a maximum of three of the dark beings in your description. You may kill as few as one also)



Toot

As they start to walk away, Toot spies a piece of paper at the dead guard's side.

"What do you have there, lad?" Eridor asks Toot, as he sees him pick the paper up.

"It's some sort of foreign language" Toot begins, "but it looks like a formal order of some sort."

"Let me see" Cilia says, as she reaches for the paper. "It's in the Elite dialect of Eirabor. It's an order to go to mount Taeron to meet Mardono...".

"To do what?!?" Toot and Eridor exclaim simultaneously.

"To meet Mardono. They were ordered to swear their services and alliance to him."

"So that's what they were talking about!" Toot exclaims, forgetting that his companions knew nothing of what they had said. "We must go to Mount Taeron! Who knows the way?" Toot asks.

"I do." Cilia answers, and quickly takes the lead. As the mount comes into view, they begin to see a darkness covering it, and out of it issue forth seven of the foul creatures Toot and the others had battled, just before he saw his sister, if it was indeed her. Two of the beasts instantly attack Eridor, and two attack Cilia, while the remaining three launch themselves at Toot.

(battle. Toot -3 health, Eridor and Cilia -2 health)

Luna swings her sword from her back, the dark creatures keeping their distance from her or keeping busy with the other party members. "You'll not see the dawn sun!" she shouts, the glow from her massive blade illuminating the area around her. She starts swinging it around at the enemies, hoping to either make them flee or to hit them. One tries to attack her from behind, but she hears it and swings around, cutting it in half and sending it flying backwards. "These fiends show little strength! We shall dispose of them easily!" she shouts to he allies as she continues to swing her blade around.

Juilen's hammer was glowing, the head was shining brighter than the rest. He swung into a crowd of them, causing most to jump back, except for one who hesitated, and was hit mid-swing, causing it to fly back, break in two, and dissolve, all at the same time. "Hey, this is easier than it looks!" he exclaimed as he hit another on the head, driving it into the ground like a nail. Another one of them charged straight towards him, so Juilen took his stance, and a deep breath, and swung down, hitting the head of the last one off, and straight into the charging creature at 45 mph. He then just swung his hammer around keeping the rest else back.