Legion

[Diablo]

The demon sitting, relaxed in a chair with his legs propped up on the nearby table simply whistles a tune to his own self and those who listen seem to feel mesmerized. They feel as if all great emotions have left them except fear, leaving them weak and scared and then it ended as the demon quit his tune and left in a grey shroud of mist. After the departure of the strange demon four others entered to see the mist flowing in the air and words seemed to whisper to everyone who was in the area, “Your too late.” was heard two to three times before things had settled down. Kira, the obvious leader reached into her pack located on her sash and pulled out a black orb and spoke into it. The orb lit up and bright purple and faded as the message was sent.


Zzyxx was sitting in his castle when he felt strange warmth coming from the black stone that was next to him on an end table. And the message rang out, “The time has come to find and save Diablo, in two weeks the Earth will have a solar eclipse and if we can get to Diablo bore then he will be saved or everything could be doomed to a dark world.. Come to the Kilted Wench and bring friends.” The black stone went cold and sat silent once again, Leaving Zzyxx with the choice to help the plea from the Demon woman or ignore the message.

[Zzyxx]

Zzyxx turned in surprise after hearing the very stone he had speak to him. He considered the message...for all of half a second before deciding to throw on his batlle gear. His armored duster, his spiked should pad, his spiked knee pad, his frozen katana, and all the nasty surprises in his duster.

Another mission for us eh, two legs?
Of course, you in?
You know me, and i know that sombody has to keep your sorry ass alive
Thanks for the vote of confience, Variah
Anytime

OOC: Better?

[Diablo]

OOC I'll have to wait untill I can get 1 to 2 more people to join. ot Azurel's ok if I can keep it moving at a decent pace but Therin and Ultra wont join from what Azzy told me. So we wait. I'll PM with the newcomers.. if I find any..

[Zzyxx]

OOC: Gotcha

[Azurel]

ooc: As a side note, Zzyxx's post wasn't really open ended, even when I do join in, that post doesn't give me an opportunity to do so

[Ultrawolf]

ooc: Since all the cool kids are doing it.

[Zzyxx]

OOC: I edited, feel free to post anything else

[Diablo]

OOC: To hell with this! I will make my story even if I have to manually do everything!

A few armed soldiers rushed into the bar barricading the door with anything they could get. There was men five in total but one was barley able to stand, a jagged bone stuck in his leg and another in his left shoulder.
“The demon knows we’re in here.” Said the leader calmly, not noticing the others. “What hell attacked us!?” another man said but in the next instant, a frightening figure surged from beneath the ground. Formed of rat bones, human bones and other animals alike, the creature stood eight feet tall, built square and broad-chested as an ape. It stood on bowed legs that were whitely visible through the clay like dirt and dim light of the bar. Instead of two arms, the bone creature possessed four, all longer than the legs. When it closed its hands, horns formed of ribs and rats’ teeth stuck out of the creature’s fists, rendering them into morning stars for all intents and purposes. The horns looked sharpe-edged, constructed for slashing as well as jabbing. Small bones, some of them jagged pieces of bone, formed the face the creature wore.
“That’s a bone golem,” The leader said. “Our weapons won’t do it much harm.”
The bone golem’s mouth, created by splintered bones so tightly interwoven they gave the semblance of mobility, grinned, then opened as the creature spoke in a harsh howl that sounded like a midnight wind tearing through a graveyard.
“You five will die for trying to stop the almighty lord!”
The bone golem swung his top right arm breaking one man’s neck and ripped another man’s jugular which would bleed him to death. The other three readied their weapons though they would do them no good. The golem sent a fiendish smile their way.
“Easy men, I may have a… No stop!”
One of the impatient men ran forward yelling but cut short as the creature brought his arms down, crushing him.
“Damn!” Said the leader angry that his men were being slaughtered by the foul demon.

Zzyxx had entered the pub an hour later to see only one man standing, fighting the golem, the man pleaded to Zzyxx for help and he did just that. Zzyxx, accompanied with his faithful wolf, Variah, jumped in the way of the golem. The golem stopped his lung attack towards the human and laughed, “The Lord tells me I am to kill you as well, elf!” Zzyxx spat the golem and charged forward, his katana readied. The golem lunged forward, swinging his top right ram towards Zzyxx’ head, Zzyxx rolled under the blow and brought his sword into the joint of the golem’s arm. The arm broke loose and fell to the ground, the creature reared back, astonished that a sword could slice through him, Variah on the other hand had made her way around back and landed abruptly on the creature’s shadow, immobilizing it. Zzyxx rushed in and brought the sword down on the head of the creature, killing it.

“Thank you warrior, you saved my life but I could only have wished you came sooner.” The man lowered his head towards his fallen team. “My name is Haulkin Stormfury, King of Ebe Crater. May I ask your name?”

ZZYXX- “I’m Zzyxx, and the wolf here is Variah, my companion.” Zzyxx gave a formal bow to the king but had a puzzled look on his face. “Tell me king, where did this creature come from?”

HAULKIN- “The beast came from the damn demon Diablo. He destroyed my kingdom as we tried to stop him on his way towards the Pandemonium Vortex. He sent that bone golem after me and what was left of my knights.”

ZZYXX- “I too am hunting the demon down, but I have help, if you wish to join me.”

HAULKIN- “I wish I could but I can give you a map to the Vortex, but hear me young one, what lies within is not for mortal eyes.”

Zzyxx soon left the pub and set out; the group of demons headed by Kira had joined him. They traveled east, past the city Keron, and the Forest of the Damned. Zzyxx had often seen Kira praying for someone called Kain, he figured he was a loved one killed or lost by the destruction of Diablo.

ZZYXX- “Tell me Kira, who is Kain?”

KIRA- “Kain was my husband; he was killed by Diablo way back when I was too weak to do anything.”

ZZYXX- “If Diablo killed him, then why do you wish to save him and not kill him?”

KIRA- “I have my reasons.”

A month had passed before the group made it to the Pandemonium Vortex. When they reached it fallen corpses lay before the entrance, dead animals, humans and demons were scattered all a around, Diablo was here, Zzyxx thought. They were hesitant at first but stepped through the portal. Upon entering the other side they were blasted by heat, it felt nearly 200 degrease but was only around 120 degrease. Zzyxx was a bit skittish at the erupting lava and horrid screams of pain and anguish. One of the demons from the group spoke out, “Is this hell?” “No”, Kira replied, “We aren’t there, yet.” The group went through untouched and unnoticed by the souls trapped and bounded to the plain, they went through different sections. As they ventured down it got hater and then grew colder and colder. The group of six stopped as they were reading themselves to enter the last level, level nine; they ventured through a huge gigantic door and entered a frozen room. Zzyxx felt right at home in the ice but even he knew it was too cold for life down here. The group walked on and stopped when they saw a throne with someone or something sitting on it, Diablo. Behind the throne was a black fire surrounded by ice that didn’t melt but inside they could see another figure, one who looked like Diablo and the other male demons.

DIABLO- “So you made it, how nice a family reunion and just before I come upon the ultimate power. Tell me, brothers, do you remember this place? Or your real names?”
KIRA- “What the hell are you talking about!?”

DIABLO- “You mean you don’t know either? Well let me fill you in on a secret everyone. A very long time ago Kain, the frozen figure behind me was created before this petty world was forged from the Eternal Flame, the black fire behind me. He was made of living stone and had evolved and flew off from his birth place, when he returned he saw the Earth had covered the fire, unknown to him that the fire was in the middle he gave up looking for his creator and decided to make his life on the planet but while he attempted to fly into the atmosphere he lost consciousness and plummeted to the ground where a young demoness found him after 400 years passed. The two fell in love and married. They cared for each other and remained happy until Kain left after he was told to seek out the vortex by a strange voice, to help him find it he made four demons from his own powers; Diablo, Mephisto, Baal, and Kornos. The four were jettisoned from Kain’s position and landed on different areas of the world, each with a unique power of their own and the ability to evolve, but one was made stronger, Kain’s equal almost, me, Diablo, the first born. But he gave me one thing the others don’t posses, freewill, the others did what they were created for, they looked for the Vortex but me, I traveled the world looking for my place, my reason, I came to Miniopia, and made a few ‘friends’ had a few adventures and left, it seems I was hot on Kain’s trail, while doing so I was posed by Kirahaad, a great Chaotic administer. He gave me more power and I was shown how much fun it was to kill, but I grew greedy and slew him stealing his power. Mephisto, also known as Agamemnon, met with Kain in one of his adventures while in the village Miniopia, Mephisto had been infected by a werewolf and became known as a lycanthrope and with Kain’s mimic power he could transform as well, the two figured they were brothers, or well that’s what Kain led Mephisto to believe anyway. Baal, on the other hand had the adventures with Alexander or Ultrawolf as he is known and for Kronos, he was the one who started the blood harvest, the same reason why he lost his sight. Kain ended up finding the Vortex and I had found him, I followed, and shoved him into the frozen ice where he now stays forever, he may be growing stronger as we speak but he can never get free only look out.”

MEPHISTO, BAAL, KRONOS— “Bullshit!” The three roared.

DIABLO- “Is it? I mean look, we all look the same except for how our bodies have evolved since the day we were made. But seeing as Kain can’t take you back I will have too do it myself but I can’t absorb you like Kain can.”

A vile grin went across Diablo’s face as he pulled a diamond sword from the frozen ice.

OOC: Fight scene, you get control here.

[Zzyxx]

Zzyxx simply grinned. He hadn't seena family reunion like this in a long time. He drew his katana and assumed the stance of the elvish samurai, last remanent of the past, the only piece of the puzzle that Zzyxx held on to, and he was the last samurai master. He looked around the room, he saw nothing but home... a little chilly, but that was refreshing. He felt that this was his grand vindication, his controbution to the world at large, his grand symphony... pity it had to be one of violence.

"Diablo, you may not have been part of the dark army that all but wiped out my people, but you want to become the one to wipe out the world? I cannot allow that."

Zzyxx began to glow with frozen energy stored in the room, blue light flicked and whisped of his body and his sword. His nature and appearence went as cold as the room.

"Prepare."

Zzyxx whipped his blade in a quick arc aimed at Diablo's head.

[Diablo]

"Whipe out the world? Never, I would rather rule it! And you never know, we, the the sons of Kain may have caused your peoples' doom."

Diablo leaped forward, he rained suprem in the underwolrd, demons gathered around, the room, watching and taunting the mortal symphisizers. There were rows upon rows of them but non dared to interfer with the Lord's fight. Diablo grabbed the katana with his bare hand, his blood flowing out, but it wasn't really blood, it was magma and it was lethal. Diablo threw Zzyxx' sword away and brought his sword towards the elf's head, it was over, or so it seemed, at the last instant an arrow hit Diablo's sword free from his hand and the other demons were on him, Kornos grabbed him from the back, Baal held his left arm and Mephisto the right. In this realm, magic was powerful, stronger and yet it was weak at the same time if not used just right. Kira lunged onto Zzyxx' sword and tossed it back to him, the magma hadn't melted the sword away, it seemed that what ever magical property was bestowed on it withstood the extreme heat. Kira readied another bow.

Kira-"You bastered! You stole him from me! I always though you were him under an alias but I was wrong, your nothing but a beast!"

Diablo- "Poor Sarha, you tryed so hard to become stronger, to proove to Kain that you could help him, when infact you never stood a chance!"

Kira- "I can help him! I will kill you!"

Diablo- "Then do it, what are you waiting for? You can't do it can you?"

Kira dropped to her knees, the demon was messing with her mind, she felt weak and lost control, the bow and arrow hit fell to the ground and was soon covered by snow. The other demons struggled to hold Diablo

Mephisto- "Zzyxx, quick! Strike him down! Hurry!"