Shadowfall

[gloryKAT]

Shard chuckles, but she still stays tense and ready to attack, in case.

[Ellebelly24]

Snowfall: "whew, for a second there I thought he jinxed us."

[Blewcheese]

Joseph still remains on guard.

"Yeah... So, where's the beacon?"

[Battal]

Viti-Mortos sighs.  "The Beacon is miles away.  This is just a stop, as there may be equipment here.  Look around, but stay on guard."

[Blewcheese]

"Alright."

Joseph begins scavenging the area, looking for anything of note.

[Ellebelly24]

Snowfall: "There is something cold in the hut right next to you Joseph. I'm gonna check it out."

*Snowfall floats towards the hut, almost shaking as if someone was watching her*

[Battal]

Walking into one of the houses, Jakob finds a multitude of notes, all burned beyond legibility.  He also finds the shattered remains of a purple amulet.

 

"Huh.  Weird stuff these people had."  Jakob says, looking at a sketch of a humanoid figure in dapper purple clothing standing next to a odd-looking girl.

[Blewcheese]

Joseph finds a couple of gravestones, their inscriptions illegible. He also finds a worn hut, who's walls are covered with rusty old swords.

"Old swords. Weird."

[Ellebelly24]

*Snowfall goes in the hut finding a glowing blue trident*

"Woah, cool."

[Battal]

Jakob climbs up the tree to the remains of an old treehouse.  He immediately gags as he sees a human skeleton hanging by the arms in the middle of the tree.  What makes it peculiar is that a pair of bladed skeletal wings, glowing dimly, are attached to the skeleton's back.

[Blewcheese]

Joseph continues to wander around. He finds more graves, but most of them are illegible. That is, except one. Joseph looks at it, and the name is recognizable. Wesley Polak. He falls to his knees and utters a word, one of the first he had ever said.

"Pops."

[Ellebelly24]

*Snowfalls picks up the staff and turns it over to see the engravement "Starling"*

"Star?"

[gloryKAT]

She walks around in one of the houses. It looks familiar... like her old home.

Home.

[Ellebelly24]

(The walk of memories...)

[Battal]

"Quite nice, isn't it?  A trip down Memory Lane."

 

The group spins around to see Shadowfall, standing in the clearing, tendrils of shadow eminating from his boots.

[Ellebelly24]

Snowfall: "why are you doing this to us bro?"

[Blewcheese]

Joseph snarls at Shadowfall.

"What is the meaning of this?"

He gestures at Pop's grave.

[Battal]

Shadowfall laughs.  "Joseph, look at yourself.  You're already - as they say - 'losing it'.  Sanity only requires a little push to be pushed over the brink...which is what I'm doing."

 

The demon gestures at the clearing.  "Originally, this was the home of the Demon General of Terror and his friends.  They saved an entire city from destruction,  fought an army single-handedly, and killed a gigantic hydra-beast from the dawn of time."

 

"I ripped each of that general's bones out of his body one by one.  Then, I put it back together, slaughtered every one of his friends, and destroyed this place.  That was long ago, now.  But why break tradition?"

 

The tendrils at Shadowfall's boots begin to detach, turning into shadow monsters.

 

"Scindete eos seorsum!"

[Ellebelly24]

*Snowfall breaks the trident in 2, creating mini tridents, glowing yellow and blue. She slashes through some of the shadow monsters, in rage*

[Blewcheese]

Joseph glares at Shadowfall, outraged. He summons his light blade, and it glistens blood red to show his anger. He lets out a feral scream and charges into battle.

[Battal]

The shadow demons simply warp away from the groups attacks, assaulting them from behind and then leaving when they turn around.

[Ellebelly24]

*One Knocks Snowfall down, and one of the tridents skids away from her*

Snowfall: "DAMN YOU SHADOWFALL!!!!"

[Blewcheese]

Joseph scowls, and lunges straight for Shadowfall instead. Although his blind rage significantly increases his power, his decision is rash.

[Will]

Will begins to prepare for battle when he falls to his knees in pain. Some of the veins in the front of his neck are turning different shades of purple and blue. Dark Will takes Will's pack from him.

"Sit back, you seem to be ill."

Dark Will rummages through the pack, trying to find something he was comfortable with. Eventually, he withdraws one of Will's spare daggers and his bow.

"Alright, demon powers. Work your magic."

The two weapons collide into each other, forming an entirely new weapon. It is a bow that, on the edges, are individual daggers. The bow itself is made of a dark purple metal. Unsatisfied, Dark Will also takes the revolver. He removes the ammo inside, and fuses the ammo with the bow. Around the string is an orange circle.

"I suppose this will work. Now, time to take flight."

Dark Will's (I need a real name for him. Any suggestions?) wings from before sprout once again, as he begins lending air support.

[Battal]

Joseph passes straight through Shadowfall, and falls face-first to the ground.

"Fool!  You think I would come here physically?"