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« on: January 10, 2010, 09:04:37 PM »
He landed in the Telepitus facility, amongst hundreds of Imbellis people. He got some odd stares, but no one really noticed. Telepitus was like a central subway channel, it helped people transport all across the planet, even with low magic.

However, it's powers could be implemented even when not actually in the structure by skilled magicians like Benjamin. He made his way through the crowd to get outside.


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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2010, 09:14:12 PM »
"What!? No bagels! You have to be kidding me! It's a witch! A WITCH I TELL YOU!" A voice roared throughout the subway, followed by what seemed to be a forceful explosion. It seemed that a rather angry magic user just found out that the people of Pax have yet to create the delicious invention known as the 'Bagel'.

"Stupid primitives! Not even knowing what a bagel is! Pathetic!" The voiced continued to yell, through the smoke and the moans of pain a shadow began to emerge. Before long a man with white hair walked out from the fog.. It was Abel, leader of the Archive. And he looked angry.
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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2010, 11:56:57 AM »
That face... Looked familiar, like someone from a dream. In any case, he looked mad and was scaring the people. Benjamin didn't want anyone to get hurt.

"Hey, buddy. Calm down." He looked Human... but there was something inhuman about him.

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« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2010, 04:55:02 PM »
As the smoke of the subway cleared, behind Abel stood a man in a black cloak. His face was hidden behind the black cloth, though a gust of wind (odd that wind would blow, considering they are in a subway, hm?) blew his hood over, revealing his face as Zere, a member of the Anrufe. Here he stood right behind Abel, hand on his shoulder, smiling.
"Let's not make a scene, shall we? Mr. Benjamin here probably doesn't want his death to be the most talked about thing on all of this bizarre planet."

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« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2010, 05:09:01 PM »
People started screaming and people began to flee, whether using the Telepitus channels to teleport or running out the door.

"I don't want any trouble. I'd just rather the both of you left this place. I don't want any harm to befall this place. If you're looking for trouble, I can provide, just not here."

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« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2010, 05:12:57 PM »
"Then how about there?" asked Zere, pointing towards the ceiling. In response, a chunk of the ceiling went flying into the air, and it was revealed that Zere was pointing at one of the moons of Pax, rather it had previously had moons or not. This moon was not a moon that had always been there. Zere was.. borrowing it from the neighbors. It would make a fun place to fight, what without gravity and all, assuming all three didn't need air to breathe.

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2010, 05:23:21 PM »
"Why... Do you want to fight me? Are you Anrufe? Or Archive? I am your ally. I want the demise of the Legacy Empire. I am willing to go to any lengths to join forces with you."

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« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2010, 08:01:17 PM »
"So you heard of us? Great, now I definitely get to kill you!" yelled Zere, no longer carrying about making a scene -- that had already happened. "Yes, I'm part of the Anrufe.. And I don't give a shit about the Legacy Empire. All I want to do.. Is kill!" yelled Zere as a window shattered (do they even have windows on this thing?).

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2010, 09:14:33 PM »
(No... It's kind of a solid stone structure.)

Benjamin could feel anger seething inside of him.

"Well, then..." he twirled his staff ,taking a stance, "You live a pathetic existence! SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!" He screams, his xPod boots up. "Analyzing mood.... Reading... Done. Please enjoy the music matching your current emotions."

Within his ear buds screamed the glorious, chaotic rantings, ramblings, and passionate vocal of Emory, the beloved hardcore band from earth.

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2010, 06:22:27 PM »
(This isn't the Necromancer guy, this is Abel.)

"I'll strange you with your fucking femur!" Abel roared as his skeleton arm seemingly extending towards Zere. It was a deadly combination, the nature of Abel's limb, mixed with the arm extension spell. It was like a game of tag, except there would be a bloody ending.

What made it worse was that Chaotic fire flew down the bony arm, nothing could take this kind of attack head on.
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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2010, 08:15:12 PM »
Zere grinned, jumping into the air as Abel's hand approached him, high through the hole he had carved into the ceiling, landing on the top/roof of the structure. He called down to Abel, "I really hoped we could be friends!"
Spikes began to rise from the floor around Benjamin, all lit with a fire of some sorts. It seemed to be normal fire, though if one were to examine it they'd notice it to be paranormal. It had a tint of green in it.. The green formed a symbol of some sorts written on the fire, glowing green. This was sealing fire, a fire that sealed anything it touched within the object it was bonded to, in this case the spikes. Anything the fire touched would be trapped within the spikes.

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« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2010, 05:37:54 PM »
"Spikes, fire, can't you people come up with something original?"  A blue energy radiated through is staff, magnifying the energy rippling within. "Skeleton, watch out!" He struck the ground with his staff as energy waves tore across the stone floor, tearing up the floor and shattering the spike, shaking the whole structure as the waves spread in a huge radius around Benjamin.

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« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2010, 08:21:24 PM »
From the roof of the building, Zere could feel the shaking. What the hell was this!? Some kind of epic attack, it had caused the entire complex to shake. Who the hell was this Benjamin guy, anyway, and where did he get his power from? Zere was almost knocked to the ground by the magnitude of the shaking, before he bonded himself to the stone.

Zere smirked. Epic attacks called for epic measures, and he knew that. It was time for that one attack, then. Zere hadn't completely tested it out yet, but now was as good of a time as any. Test out his newest spell and kill a target at the same time. Truly, this attack would have to be beyond epic to even have a chance of working.

"First wall," Zere chanted as a wall began to rise on one end of the stone structure. Zere placed his hands inside the gap in the ceiling and a great mask appeared on the floor in front of Benjamin. Half of the mask was white. The other half was black. All kinds of lines and symbols ran across the mask as well. This was truly a different mask.

From the gap in the ceiling, as Zere removed his hands, dozens of doves entered the structure. They all stood perfectly still in the air, watching and not attacking. In the air around the pidgins, a green, glowing circle of energy of some sorts appeared. From out of the green circle were two twig-like 'branches', very thin. One pointed up. The other, shorter than the first, pointed down. It was a clock.

The ground of the stone figure began to change. Some kind of copper floor. There was a design in the copper of a man and a woman sharing coffee at a kitchen table. Rather it made sense to Benjamin with his culture did not matter, for it was part of an attack. A very complicated attack, it would seem, with all these measures to the attack.

The stone walls of the structure began to change in color, though remained stone in texture. One wall was red. One was blue. One was green. The last wall was shaded a great yellow color, though it was very bright if one looked directly at it, causing one to remember a star's image, even though its brightness did not occur without contact with someone's eyes.

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #13 on: January 13, 2010, 09:26:12 PM »
Benjamin knew very little about the Anrufe, only that they were very powerful sages. Benjamin was not a weak sage by any means, but the fact that he didn't know just how powerful this man was or just what the hell he was doing, scared him.

But he wouldn't run. Not this time. He'd ran too many times before, it was time for the truest test of his abilities. "Bookmark 3." He stated loudly, and suddenly a new kind of music blared through his wireless ear buds.
"What if I told you I've seen what you can't imagine?" Screamed vocalist Ron Dowald, frontman for the Vandals, a very odd band from earth, fusing jazz beats with fast paced alt-rock.

His staff began to tremble and shake, as if something great was bursting from inside it. Suddenly, the bottom exploded with Benjamin holding tight. It acted like a propelling rocket as he launched towards the gap in the ceiling. His right hand stretched out and his SPLITTER glove sprouted blades as he landed on the ceiling.

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2010, 10:28:15 PM »
(OOC: Let's wait for Orph to post.)

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2010, 10:38:09 PM »
(Ok.)

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2010, 02:02:26 AM »
Stopping in mid-attack Abel scowled, looking at Benjamin like he was some kind of abomination that sought to lecture him.. It wasn't a hospitable expression, his arm returning to it's previous state he stared at the two. "Skeleton?" He uttered, the walls around him began to twist and morph. It looked as if they were trying to get away from themselves, before long they just ripped themselves apart. Anyone could notice that the matter around Abel was beginning to distort, like an advanced type of telekinesis he was forcing the world around him to become something else..

If anyone was within the range they would be mutilated within seconds, they might grow an extra arm, or have their arm rip itself off, or have their face twist and morph. "Fucking. Pissed." Abel informed them off his current emotional state, the range of the distortion began to increase. The colored walls were effected as well changing from walls into odd shapes.

Before long energy began to swirl around Abel, slowly forming a stronger, and stronger, and stronger barrier around him. Slowly elevating above the ground he curled into the fetal position and just hung there in space, with a barrier around him and distortion magic expanding towards his enemies he was lethal to just be around.
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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2010, 08:46:29 PM »
A wave of an unknown magic coming towards him. It was not something Zere especially wanted to deal with. This Abel guy was quite the odd character, it seemed. Here he was in a sudden moodswing from being a somewhat crazy man to a very friendly one. And then off to this, a very pissed off guy using some odd kind of magic.

The distortion magic was met with a black cloud which suspended its movement. While the distortion magic ordinarily probably would have burned through the cloud in a matter of time, this cloud sealed the distortion magic. Once the magic was all sealed, the cloud transformed into a marble which disappeared. Very odd things would happen some day soon, Zere figured, because of today.

"Second wall," Zere chanted as he looked in the eyes of Benjamin, who was dead in front of him. East to Zere, a second wall began to rise from the ground, connecting to the first north wall. The second wall went well past the stone structure. The North Wall did as well. The ground around the walls was raised significantly. These walls had to be several feet high.

The walls of the stone structure were very damaged as a result of Abel's twisting and expanding of them. Zere knew that the wall would not hold him much longer. He jumped into the sky, staying there, floating just above the stone structure. He moved out of the direct proximity of the structure as what was left of it began to rise into the air, also floating there.

The mask inside the structure suddenly had a head behind it, wearing the mask. If one were to remove the mask, however, they'd see it was no normal head.. It was a skeleton. A skeleton who had a red, glowing magic inside it, in the place the eyes would have been if the skeleton (Bob as Zere had named it) were still alive.

The doves in the structure all began to spit some kind of black residue throughout the structure, lacing it. They were going wild. It was obvious that these were no ordinary doves. The flocking of the doves inside the air-bound structure was causing it to shake about as if it were a car being bounced around inside, not birds.

The green energy clock's long hand (on the six) began to move. Rapidly. When the hand finished moving, it was on the three. As it landed on the three, a great bell rang, like a clock bell. The clock bell's sound echoed, as if by magic, very far out.. And everything that was in the range of the sound found that the ground under it was suddenly growing all kinds of odd weeds and vines, sprouting up so suddenly.

The scene on the copper floor began to change, too. The scene had been a man and a woman at a coffee table. Now, in the scene, they were both still at the coffee table, but something was different. The woman was now missing an eye, while she had not been missing an eye before. In the place of her eye was a patch with an odd symbol decorated on it.

Below Benjamin, it was as if something was being painted on the stone structure's roof. It was a dark symbol of some sorts. It was a circle with several lines inside it forming an odd icon, a y of sorts with a cross in between it. As the symbol was drawn, it changed from black to glowing red, the light of the symbol (a seal) shining upwards around Benjamin. From his place in the air next to the stone figure, Zere watched.

"Open," he said blandly. Suddenly, the red's shining intensified as chains reached out from within the red light. The chain began to fly into the air, stretching out from within the red light. It seemed this chain was very long, as it kept stretching out into the air.. And then, the red light stopped. High above Benjamin in the air was a long chain which began to rush through the air towards him.
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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2010, 09:03:10 PM »
This guy was a league of his own. Benjamin had never seen such complex or unusual measures put into a spell. He saw the chain coming at him and his heart filled with fear. Ben's old fear had caught up to him.... That his new powers weren't enough. As he stood on the trembling structure, that he felt would soon collapse, he prepared for what could be his last spell. "Bookmark... 1." He said, clearly. "Reading... Done." As the chain drew closer to him, he focues on the music, entering his ear drum, rippling throug his whole body.

It was... Nikariam's voice. A clip he promised to never listen to until his last moment... "Calling to the night..." It was completely a capella. It was her voice singing. It was like the old days, when she was there with him. It soothed him, relaxes him, his inner emotions were completely at repose. He took a deep breath as his body felt at peace.

Then, through his staff rippled another blue energy, and surrounding him was a blue, protective barrier bubble. He put all his strength into it and prayed it would hold....

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« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2010, 09:50:47 PM »
The chain crashed against the barrier Benjamin had created, not being allowed to move any further. In response, the chain, holding its place against the barrier (which very much would have defied the laws of physics if this chain didn't weigh so much) wrapped itself around the barrier, causing its form to be tightly tied. A red energy was seen within the links of the chain now as it held its place.

The chain dropped to the ground. Its mere weight, especially combined with its force, caused the ceiling of the stone structure to begin to cave in. The chain itself dropped through the ceiling and into the structure, creating another gap in the ceiling.. And taking out the part of the ceiling that Benjamin was on (making him fall into the stone structure again?).

Zere laughed at Benjamin's misfortune at the third wall, south, began to rise. The ground around the wall could be heard as it was pushed out of the way to make room for the gate. The gate rose slowly, until its full extent had been raised. The gate was the same as the last two gates. It was connected to the east gate as well, and indirectly to the north gate.

Inside the stone structure, the masked skull now had grown an upper body skeleton as well. The black residue the doves had spit was no longer black, but a shade of pink, and it had covered the entire structure, moving as if it was alive.. The clock long hand began to move once more, too. Now, it landed on the nine, and when it did, the vines on the ground all reached up and grew high into the sky.. Feet tall.

On the copper floor, the scene had changed once more. The eye patched woman was now alone at her coffee table. What had happened to the man? Where had he gone? This was not revealed, though on the woman's eye patch the Y-like symbol had two crosses on it, while it originally had only had one cross on it.. Who knew what the fourth wall had in store?

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2010, 04:53:45 PM »
"Die..die...die..die..die..die! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!" An obviously homicidal like voice began to yell out, the origin seemed to be the super-intense barrier that contained Abel.. Yeah, this was going to end well. I can just tell. Within moments a skeletal hand slowly emerged from the barrier, the orb began to spin, faster, faster, faster, faster, and faster. Until the skeletal hand that was outside the orb barrier was going to fast to be even a blur. Shooting towards Zere before anyone would have a chance to blink. It looked like God was playing pinball with Abel as the ball, and sadly Zere was one of those bumper things you hit to get points..
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2010, 05:14:49 PM »
Death.

Zere had spent so much time killing. He never stopped to care about his victims, because if he did, that would make him weak, a fool, and whatever else came with human emotions, which Zere hated to admit he had. He had blocked out all empathy in his heart, mind, and spirit, and so he did not know the pain his victims felt, only the joy that very pain gave him for some odd reason. He knew it had to do with his past.. But he didn't care.

That was not true. That was not true at all. He did care, because he knew back then, at that time, he had cared, and he'd objected to the plan all along, despite assurances and blackmail from the others. He wasn't a killer then. He had erased his past. He was tired of the life sealing "Him" had bought him, and now he was going to live his youth in the city like a normal sage there would do.

The problem? He wasn't a normal sage by the Genesis Kingdom, his former home, and its standards. Because, as the name of the Kingdom would suggest, they had Genesis Magic. Zere was a normal sage in a Kingdom of dragons. He was exiled. It was that feeling of being alone, of not being loved, that made him turn into a killer -- not the guys at District 23. Of course, the guys at District 23 telling Zere to go kill the leader of the Genesis King, the man who had guided Zere in hardship down in Erebus, didn't help him not being a killer.

The truth was, Zere knew what killing was. He knew what his life was, and he knew it wasn't killing, nor was it the joy. It was gaining power and getting his revenge. Ah, yes, his revenge. Honestly, he'd forgotten all about that revenge.. But it was what he needed. He needed to get revenge against the Genesis King for sealing him in a damned orb for one hundred years of his life.. And it seemed his revenge would not be carried out, as before he could blink, he saw blackness as he slammed his eyes shut in fear of what was about to happen, when...

Clink.

The chain that had landed in the stone figure had risen and rushed up to stop the spinning of the orb, holding it in place, if only for a little bit. Zere realized he was not dead, and opened his eyes to see what had stopped the orb. The chain? Of course. The chain had the will to live with that spirit energy linking it, and Zere's magic bonded the spirit energy (not Zere's own) to the chain. If Zere died, essentially so did the chain.

Zere grinned and continued to watch the show in the stone structure as a mysterious substance began to form around him as a protective ball.. It was.. Human flesh. Human flesh was forming in the shape of an oval of sorts around Zere.. Human flesh held up by magical threads, very strong, and laced with sealing magic which would seal anything that touched the seals, except for Zere.

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2010, 05:19:50 PM »
This was no longer Benjamin's fight. There was something between these too, and he felt like he was interfering. The Telepitus facility was going to collapse at any second. He had too leave.

Though the Telepitus was losing it's power, it still had some magical ability. And with a last, curious stare, he got the hell out of there, and teleported into the great unknown..

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Re: Homecoming
« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2010, 07:28:24 PM »
With a poof Abel disappeared, seemingly teleported away.
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