A Rip in Creation (DZH)

Aristo focused, his legs in the lotus position, his friend Valion beside. Both were concentrating hard, meditating to clear their mind of distraction.

“Cyno will return soon enough with the bounty, and Sudran should be back before the week ends, he is on a personal trip,” Valion muttered silently, keeping his eyes closed. Giving a grunt as a reply, the animal tamer kept his thoughts focused. The angel always told him what he needed to know in meditation, it made it so he didn’t forget about it. After a few more minutes the two stopped, their meditation finished with that day. They redressed, Valion hanging a clock pendant around his neck, Aristo a sword pendant.
They made their way to the exit of the old building, chatting about more business.

“The money is steadily piling up, we should soon have enough to start up a proper bounty hunter business within another year or so,” Valion said mildly, running facts and figure through his brain. Giving another grunt as a reply, the animal tamer fixed his gaze on the road ahead. As the angel was about to give another fact, there was a crashing noise behind him, making the two whirl round. In the middle of the room where they had just been meditating, there was a giant crater, and stood in the middle of it were two figure, each one recognized by Valion and Aristo, one was called Linda, who Valion had had a run in not so long ago, and the other was a boy called Dark Zero X, who Aristo had had several run ins with.

“You!” the two said simultaneously. The two in the crater looked up, faces of surprise.

Ooc: ok story is we all go back in time to face a group of five demons near the start of creation, who are trying to wreck creation, which is why your two characters have come to my characters time.

Dark Zero X waited in the control room for Ciel. The scientist had informed him of another code black mission. As he contemplated on what the mission could possibly be, the human scientist bursted in. The Reploid got up and stared at her face which was sweating.

"Sorry for being late!" the scientist apologized.
"What is it?" the Reploid responded.
"First, I was figuring out a way to get your original body back," Ciel explained, "I found a purple crystal on my desk. According to my notes, if we can get a green crystal, we can use the ancient art of 'magic' to reconstruct your body!"

"That's great and all, but what about the code black!" D.Z.X. shouted.

"Right. Anyway, in a long time, we found something trying to disrupt the time flow," Ciel explained, "Our transporter can't bring you back that far, but if we use the coordinates Rouge is putting in, you'll end up in a space where all of time meets. I call it the Time Vortex. From there, you can go to the mission directly and stop whatever is causing the problem."

"Let's go!" the Reploid shouted as the yellow light picked him up again.

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Linda sat in a chair as she tracked someone through time. She had already sensed the rupture in time and was tracking one of her allies, the angel named Valion. She constructed the portal to his time and was about to enter until a yellow light appeared. There stood someone she seemed to know regularly. What? I can't let him use the portals!, she thought, fully aware this was her descendant, Dark Zero X.

The Reploid looked at the woman and the protal behind her.

"Step away from there and you'll live!" he said.
"Get out! This is no place for you!" Linda shouted back.

The Reploid readied his swrod while Linda readied her gloves. The two charged at each other and clashed. Linda went easy on the Reploid while the Reploid went all out. However, Linda tripped, grabbed D.Z.X., and fell throught the portal. Everything turned red, signifying a disturbance, but she had no time to notice it. The portal's exit was in the air, so she kicked him back, turned to the ground, and punched the ground. The force of the fall and her fist created a large crater which enabled the two to land safely. Some footsteps came and two men peered into the crater. The Reploid recognized one while Linda recognized the other.

"Valion!" Linda shouted.
"Whatever your name is!" D.Z.X. shouted at Aristo.

The two got up and exited the crater. Aristo had a small arguement with the Reploid about his name while Linda spoke to Valion.

"Have you noticed the disturbances in time lately?" she asked as the Reploid crept closer in an attempt to eavesdrop.

“Yes… but my duty is not to look after the time flow, which would be your job,” Valion replied, rolling his eyes.

“Well, that’s why I came to find you, I could do with your help. Something or someone is distorting time, from near the very start of creation. If it keeps being messed with, the time flow will be ruptured.” Linda replied. The angel shuddered. He had seen what happened when part of time was ruptured, it wasn’t a pretty sight.

“Fine, but Aristo comes as well,” Valion muttered.

“Fine, shall we be going?” Linda replied, and with a wave of her hands a portal appeared in front of them, its white energy glowing.

“Who’s he,” the angel muttered to the girl as they stepped through.

“Trust me you don’t want to know,” she replied, shaking her head.

“Been a long time DZX, how’s it going,” Aristo said casually as he stepped through after the angel.

“Yep, how did you recover from our previous battle?” the boy replied.

“Dunno, my mind went blank after I got knocked out, and I can’t remember the rest,” the animal tamer replied, a puzzled look on his face.

“Me too,”

The four were now… floating in a hall, all around them was just whiteness.

“Which way?” DZX said silently, not wanting to break the silence. Not answering, the girl and the angel started tracking the disturbance, heading left down the hall, until they came to the very end of it, a small portal awaiting them.

“Ladies first,” Valion grunted.

"Thank you," Linda answered the angel as she exited the portal.

There was a barren wasteland before them.It was all dust. The entire place seemed uninhabited. Linda was confused by the fact nothing was there. The Reploid stepped out of the portal along with Aristo. Valion was the last to exit.

Above them was complete darkness. It seemed that even though light was supposed to be the first thing made, it had been delayed. This worried Linda in the sense that whatever was ruining creation was winning. The Reploid stepped up and activated his scanners. Valion flew up for recon. Aristo just wondered for a second.

"If there's no light, how can we see?" Aristo asked.
"I don't know. Maybe it's because we're from a different time and we have been connected to light so many times," Linda explained.

"Or maybe it's because of that group of white light over there," Valion said from the sky.
"How far off?" Aristo asked.
"I'd say a mle or two," he responded.
"Let's get moving!" the Reploid shouted.

Immediately, they all ran towards the light. When they got there, a fortress stood there. It seemed new. The bricks were from around the year 1995, according to Linda, and the structure would be difficult to break, according to the reploid. D.Z.X. went to the wall, but was thrown back. The same light from before had shown from that.

"A force field?" the Reploid asked.
"Probably. Is there any ay to disable it?" the Time Keeper asked, waiting for an answer.

“R.V, give me a readout of the energy signs in the field,” Valion said as he landed. There was a whirring sound and after a few moments the robot spoke.

Various energy signs, all elemental signatures present, including large trace amounts of negative energy R.V said.

“What’s negative energy,” Linda asked.

“Demon power, and if it’s coupled with elemental power I think I know the group behind this,” the angel said, his voice low and full of menace.

“Who?” DZX questioned, rubbing his arm from where he had collided with the field.

“Long after traitor angels were flung from heaven, a group calling themselves the elemental five were made in hell. These were Lucifer’s elite guard, and with powers bestowed from Lucifer himself, they could manipulate the elements. Each was given an item to help them do this, but they grew too powerful, and Lucifer cast them from hell, and none knew where he flung them, presumably this castle is what’s keeping them in. If we disable the barrier, then we run the risk of freeing them, but they are somehow messing with creation. Probably they have the…” Valion said, but cut out at the last part.

“Okay two questions, there are only four elements, and so what’s the fifth? And second, what do they have that would let them mess with creation?” Linda asked.

“The fifth is a unknown element, something called YingYang, which is essentially what holy and demon magic is made out of, it also lets people surpass time and space, and is probably the most powerful of the elements. As for what lets them mess with creation, that’s none of your business, you will find out in dew time,” the angel replied. With a swift movement he drew his sword and stuck it in the ground. At this Linda groaned and fell to the floor, moving her body into a ball.

“What are you doing?” DZX asked, looking at Linda with slight amusement. There was a thud and Aristo was laid next to her doing the same thing.

“Trust me on this, you better be doing what were doing,” Aristo said hurriedly, shoving his head into his stomach. Groaning, the boy followed suit. Focusing, the cyber angel focused as much holy energy into his sword as he dared, and then poured his cybernetic energy into it, causing a giant explosion which headed directly for the barrier. There was another explosion, and the three looked up to see a hole in the barrier, which was rapidly closing. Grabbing the other two, Linda signalled for Valion to grab her.

“Slow Time!” she shouted, and instantly time slowed, giving them the chance they needed. They got up and ran for the closing, but it was still closing faster than they could get to it.

“It’s no use!” Aristo shouted from the back. There was a sudden sweeping sound, and Valion grabbed the three, throwing them through the hole, and flying threw it just as it closed.

“That was close,” DZX sighed, and instantly time around them began to flow normally again.

The group was one step closer to thwarting the evil plans of the Elemental Five, whatever those plans were. Linda stepped forward and looked at the entrance. It was a large wooden door, like that you would find on some cheesy video game castle where the final boss lived in. The Reploid was about to rush in, but Valion grabbed him by his helmet.

"Where are you going?" the angel asked D.Z.X.
"To finish my mission!" the Reploid responded.
"Mission?" Aristo, Valion, and Linda asked in unison.
"I was sent from the year 20XX or so, I lost track of the years, to stop this mess," he explained.

"And you went throught my place why?" she said, fully aware that he had a valid reason.
"The coordinates were supposed to place me in a place where all of time meets, not some chick's place!" he responded with some resentment.

"Excuse me, but I'm old enough to be your great-great-great-great-great grandmother, and older than that!" Linda shouted, unbeknowngst to D.Z.X., it was partially true.

The doors opened before Valion could interrupt. A large amount of horned imps stood there. A larger imp stood there with a brandished sword that shocked Linda. The Reploid did not know why she was so shocked. The only thing special about it was the fact that it had one word that spoke to her. Summer?, she thought, That's one of the words on my descendant's blade!

"I am the general of this demon army! Who dares enter this province of Demonanisia?!" the large demon shouted.

"We know all about your plot to ruin creation!" D.Z.X. yelled.
"Yeah!" Aristo joined in.
"Really? I thought it was a secret. Nonetheless, drop the charades men, and kill them all!" the demon screamed.

The demons surrounded the four. He smirked at the Time Keeper.

"You like this?" he asked, pointing at the blade, "Each of us has one. I bet you figured out the Blades of the Elemental Five. I'm the fire demon, wielder of the Summer Blade! Let me show you a small taste of its power!"

The word summer glowed the red she feared it would. A flame encased the sword and shot out at Aristo. The Reploid knocked him out of the way, just in time to save them both from the flames. Linda looked intently at the blade and thought. If each of the elements is fire, water or ice, lightning, and spring, then what blade would the fifth hold. I'd guess he's be the most powerful. It always works like that. Which would mean...?!, she thought, figuring out something important.

"I'll leave my army with you. After you die, we'll fulfill our plans!" he shouted as the doors closed once more.

"There are too many demons!" the Reploid shouted.
"This is easy!" Valion shouted along with Linda.
"Then what's hard?" D.Z.X. asked in confusion.
"You don't want to know," Aristo told him as they all readied for one huge fight.

Ooc: ok I call dibs on a lightning sword for Aristo; he could do with a new weapon, and… a shield! That would be good, but it has lightning based properties. For Valion I call a broken sword’s magic (Valion will break the earth demon’s sword, causing the magic inside it to transfer to his), and another shield, this one with earth based properties. We will make it so each of the demons has a sword and one other item, that’s eight items because the last boss won’t provide us with anything, as you will find out. So there’s four items left.

Smiling inwardly, the animal tamer and the angel stood back to back, brandishing their weapons. The demons had formed a small circle around, occasionally one laughing and snorting out flames as he did. The four were stuck in the center, each preparing to fight. There was a sudden screech and one of the demons ran forward, only to have its head severed by Valion, which set off the rest of the horde, making jump wildly at the four. Screaming their battles cries, Valion and Aristo slashed out, killing many with their first blows.

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After twenty minutes of fierce none stop battling, the small group had come out victorious, but not without a few bumps and bruises. Aristo’s arm and legs were badly scratched and damaged, as was Valion real wing, which was hanging at a funny angle. Linda was cradling her left arm, which was in a sling made from Valion’s sleeve. DZX was pretty banged up, reminding Aristo of something.

“You look slightly worse than when I sent that ball of elements at you on that field,” Aristo chuckled, the vibrations from his laughing hurting his broken bones. The boy didn’t reply but gave the animal tamer a look of pure hatred.

“What do we do now? We are in no shape to go up against any demons,” Linda said silently. Struggling to his feet, Valion slowly pulled his pendant out from around his neck.

“We can heal, but if we get banged up again, then I can’t help. Plus if we need to escape, Linda’s got to be the one who opens a portal,” the angel grunted, trying to move his wing as little as possible. The group nodded, and crowded round Valion, each grabbing a part of him so they would be healed again. Focusing, the angel poured his energy into the pendant, and after a few moments, it glowed white. Instantly they were cracks coming from where bones were rejoining, and after a few moments the sounds stopped, and the pendant stopped glowing. Feeling different, he found that his sleeve had returned from around Linda’s arm. The group was once again uninjured and also rejuvenated.

“Ok now were back in fighting condition how do we break down this door?” DZX said, slowly studying it for any weaknesses. Without replying, Valion loosed of four blasts of blue energy at each corner of the door, each one striking the hinges. There was a groan and the door fell forward, hitting the floor with a deafening crash.

“That’s one way,” Aristo chuckled and followed the angel into the fortress. After a few minutes all light was blocked out, the only light coming from a square of the door behind them, which was rapidly shrinking. Muttering a few words, Aristo stuck his hand into a pocket, and when it came out it was coated with silver, which was giving off a radiant blue light, illuminating the hallway. After a few minutes of walking they came to a hall, which had 5 thrones in the middle of it, with a single door behind. But the group was interested in the thrones, because currently four of them were occupied.

“So… you beat the army, but we won’t be as easy as they were,” shouted the fire demon. The four got up and slowly walked over, each brandishing a sword containing a particular element, and other items.

Ooc: ok there is a lightning demon, both items taken by Aristo, and earth demon, both items taken by Valion, a water demon, and a fire demon, enjoy!

OoC: About Aristo's blade, you'll need to describe what happens to it. It will have the word Autumn on it. If you want to keep the word, you may do so, but the problem is that if one does not have the mastery of the elemnt that the word describes, its power is not unleashed. It is based off of Sylva's (in sig) sword. If you look up the thread "The Dimensions", you'll see the sword's power in use completely. The demons have mastered the elemental powers Lucifer gave them, so they can activate the power immediately. I thought it would be best to inform you on these matters.

I have no need for their swords. D.Z.X. will follow Valion's example, but will claim something embedded in the sword and on the shield of the fire demon. Linda will receive yet another book from the water demon. However, she will receive something else that is of no material by the end of this quest, as you shall see...

BiC: Aristo, Valion, D.Z.X., and Linda stood as the demons lined up. The fire demon had the sword from before, and now held a shield with a green crystal embedded in the middle. The water demon held a sword similar to the fire demon, but it had the word "Winter" and he had no shield. The lightning demon held the same blade with the word "Autumn" on it. He, too held a shield, but only Aristo could see it clearly. The earth demon held another sword like the others with the word "Spring" on it and he too held a shield.

"Where's the fifth one?" Linda asked.
"He's completing his plans at the top. Soon, creation will be in ruins and we shall rule over all!" the water demon shouted.

"I bet you're all eager to fight us, eh?" the earth demon asked.
"You'll be shocked when my blade meets your head!" the lightning demon shouted, aiming it at Aristo.

"You'll lose at our hand you fools!" the fire demon shouted.
"Enough talk! Fight now!" the Reploid shouted, readying his laser sword.

Aristo charged the lightning demon as the earth went to clash with the angel. The Reploid and the fire demon charged at each other while Lind and the water demon stared each other down. A bright flash blinded them all as everything faded into darkness.

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The Reploid opened his eyes to see a desert. The sun beat down on him hard, making him begin to sweat, one of the few human functions left over from the operation. He looked around and saw noone but himself and the demon of fire on the other side.

"Where am I?!" the Reploid shouted.
"In my little land," he replied calmly, "I am Flagare, Demon of Fire!"
"I'm going to cut you down!" D.Z.X. shouted.

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The Time Keeper opened her eyes to see herself surrounded by ice. The place was incredibly cold. It made her shiver a bit until she saw her opponent standing with his sword.

"So, is this your place?" she asked.
"Of course! It's just you and me now! I see you took our kinsman's Time Book," the water demon answered.

"Time Book? You mean the red and blue book?" Linda asked.
"Yes. I'll tell you some secrets if you can kill me," the water demon proposed.
"Why are you doing this?" Linda asked.

"I can tell you are interested in our blades. You also don't know how to go about using the information in the book," he said, pointing at her gloves, "Those should be gauntlets by now. You have the stone and the book told you how to change them. Those gloves are things that demons look for. From now on, you will be searched for by demons throughout time. There are things about those gloves you don't know about. I'll tell you if you kill me."

"Who are you?" the Roman asked.
"I am Glaicare, Demon of Ice!", he said, "You will freeze and die lonely here!"

OoC: You have your mission. Go and fulfill it soldier!

Searing pain penetrated every nerve cell in Aristo’s head, letting him know that he was still alive. Slowly rising, he found himself on a stone platform, in the middle of a raging storm. The lightning demons was stood a few feet away, absentmindedly swinging his sword, occasionally tapping it to his shield, making that glow white energy.

“So you’re finally awake then? A human such as you wouldn’t usually take a hit like that,” the demon shouted.

“Im not like most humans,” the animal replied casually, picking his whip up from the floor.

“That isn’t so, your magic comes from items, the others magic come from their own body, except the time traveler, but she is different. I got landed with the easiest one, which I don’t think is very fair,” the demon laughed.

“Probably because you’re the weakest,” Aristo retorted, making the demon stop laughing. He yelled, and suddenly a bolt of lightning struck the ground in front of him, leaving only a smoking circle where it hit.

“Weak! Weak! I will show you weak pitiful human! Thundra, Demon of Lightning, is not weak!” the demon shouted, and ran forward, his sword ablaze with lightning. Laughing inwardly, Aristo prepared himself for the attack.

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With slight boredom at the demons trick, Valion opened his eye to find that he was in the middle of a clearing in a forest, an impassable line of trees surrounding him. In the opposite corner stood the Earth demon, his sword balanced on his shoulder.

“So… you were the one to defeat Galio, Demon of Wind. For this we elemental five offer a small thanks,” the demon said casually, his voice carrying through the heavy air.

“Why do you offer thanks? And how do you know it was me?” Valion said.

“Galio was once second in command of the elemental five, which used to be the elemental six, and also the one who informed our lord of our supposed treachery to overthrow him. We vowed to kill him, but it looks like you beat us to it. The only reason I know this is because you bear his gifts from our lord , the crystal’s and the chest plate. Now… shall we begin?” the demon replied. Nodding, Valion unsheathed his sword. For a moment there was complete silence, no sound could be heard. Yelling wildly, the earth demon attacked.

“Earnro, Demon of Earth, shall win this battle!” the demon shouted.

The Reploid was thrown back into the sand as the fire demon charged again. The Reploid had no choice but to use his ice chip to couneract his flames. He loaded it in and now had to wait for a minute. The demon took no time and charged at him. The Reploid dodged his attacks until he knew the chip was done, so he took out his sword and blocked his attack. The demon jumped back as the Reploid charged him. The demon fired some fireballs out of his hand which now hit the Reploid and knocked him into the sand again. The demon recklessly charged him as he threw the Shield Boomerang into the air. The demon barely missed it, but it was just enough so he could get up again.

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The Time Keeper attacked Glaicare, but his sword blocked her fist. She jumped back and tried another tactic. She ran behind the ice trying to see if she could surprise the water demon. She got out and attacked, but the demon came down from above. Linda barely got away from the impact. A sword against my fist?, she thought as the demon raised his hand. Ice shout out from it, which Linda jumped away from. The cold however, started to affect her. She was slowing down in her movements. Soon, she'd freeze...

The lightning demon moved quicker than a normal eye could follow, and before Aristo could bring up his hand to block the demon, he had appeared behind. With a swift kick, he sent the animal tamer sprawling across the floor.

“I’ll show you weak!” Thundra shouted. But before he could move in to finish the job he felt something rubbing against his leg, and looked down to see the end of Aristo’s whip tied tightly around it.

“You may be able to move fast, but that doesn’t make you quiet,” Aristo shouted. With a jerk he pulled at the end of his whip, flipping the demon over. Before he recovered the animal tamer jumped, and with a sickening thud landed his leg across the demons chest, cracking several bones in the process. Expecting the demon to be dead, Aristo rose and looked around for a way out. But after he took three steps he felt a ball hit him in the back, flinging him forward.

“Pitiful attempts to stop me,” the demon chuckled, and wincing, he rose from the floor. Turning over, the animal tamer watched as the demon advanced on him.

After that blow to the stomach he should be dead! But then again… he isn’t an everyday human… Aristo thought to himself, and rolled to the left as the demon fired off another blast.

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The two warriors collided in the middle of the clearing, a wave of sound emitting from where their two blades touched. Eager to win the battle of wills, Valion pushed forward on his blade, trying to get the demon to back off.

“Why do you wish to destroy creation? You wish to undo what HE has strived to perfect,” the angel said through gritted teeth, pushing even harder on his sword.

“I… don’t know, this was not my plan. I was happy in banishment, but our leader wasn’t, he was forever plotting for revenge, against above and below,” Earnro replied silently. For a brief moment he let his guard down, which was all the angel needed. Pushing forward, he tripped the demon up.

“I win,” Valion shouted, and moved to strike the demon. But before the blow connected the demon brought up his shield. In a normal circumstance Valion’s sword would have cleaved through it as well, but before it struck several shards of earth rose up next to it, forming another layer. The blow bounced off the shield, forcing Valion back.

“We are surrounded by my element, how do you possibly think you can win?” Earnro laughed. Several plates off earth rose him off the ground, encasing him in a thick black armor.

"You are difficult to defeat!" Flagare shouted.
"So I've been told," the Reploid answered.
"Time to up it all a notch! Summer's Sun: Flaming Sword!" he shouted.

A flame covered the blade once again, but it settled as the sword turned as red as the glow it emitted. He put down his shield so the crystal faced the Reploid.

"Summer's Flare!" he shouted as his shield flew into the air.

The shield was nowhere to be seen, but soon, firballs rained down from the sky and the demon charged at him again.

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The Time Keeper was slowind down immensely as the ice demopn panted and some blood splattered the ice's perfect look. Glaicare raised his sword as anger flared in his eyes.

"Winter's Snow: Tempest Blade!" he yelled as ice surrounded the sword, causing a blue glow.

No!, Linda thought as the blue glow encompassed his sword.

"Take this! Blizzard's Mind!" he shouted.

The ground shook as icicles rained down from the sky and in fromnt of her. The Time Keeper knew what to do, though.

"Slow Time!" she shouted as everything slowed down.

Unfortunately, she was outmatched as something appeared behind her.

"Too slow!" it shouted as she was knocked into an incoming icicle.

Aristo brought his foot into the side of the demon’s face, nearly knocking him off the platform. But before the animal tamer could move in for the attack, the demon flung his shield at him, which connected with his stomach. But instead of falling off, it stuck to his chest.

“Autumns Anger!” the demon shouted, and a bolt of lightning flew from his sword, striking Aristo squarely in the chest. The shield absorbed the blow, and sent the shock straight through every part of his body. The blow flung the animal tamer back with such force that it nearly cracked a bone. Suddenly the demon was next to him, and was aiming his sword for his head. Using his feet, Aristo pushed his body forward, and the blow struck the shield, effectively dislodging it. Grabbing it, he blocked he blows that Thundra sent at him.

“Your shield is quite powerful, I think I will keep it,” Aristo laughed. The demon didn’t reply, but kept striking faster and faster. Pushing forward at the same moment the demon struck, he put him off balance, and struck out with his whip. But the demon was smarter than he had anticipated, and brought out his sword to block, making the whip wrap around it.

“I won’t let go of it!” Aristo shouted, pulling as hard as he could.

“That’s too bad,” the demons chuckled, and pulled on his sword. There was a final crack like a whip, and Aristo’s whip snapped, the blades falling from it.

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Striking blow after blow against the demon, his sword rung with high pitched rings. But it did hardly any damage, the small cuts on the armor filling up as soon as they had appeared. Laughing at the angels attempts, the demon brought up his shield to deflect the blows. Suddenly as Valion struck the shield bonds of earth flew out of it, binding the sword to the shield.

“Looks like your swords stuck,” Earnro laughed. Grunting, Valion focused, and a ball of white light shot up the sword, freeing it. The ball traveled through the shield into Earnro’s hand, the holy energy making a sizzling sound as it entered. The demon screamed, making the armor he was wearing burst off him, revealing his smoking body. His arm was greatly burnt, a horrible red color.

“You will pay for that!” the demon yelled, his eyes fixed on Valion. Not taking into account that Valion now had his shield. With his one remaining good arm he swung his sword, but before it connected Valion brought his shield into the demons stomach. With a swift follow up the angel brought his own sword down on the demons. There was a crack and the demon’s sword broke, and a green energy flowed from it, covering Valion’s sword. Finishing it, he stabbed the demon through the throat.

“Go join your maker!” the angel shouted.

The Reploid got up again as the fireballs ceased from coming down. The demon panted as well and it was shown that few cuts were visible on his skin. Flagare raised his glowing sword again.

"Summer's Flare!" he shouted.

The Reploid was ready and his ice chip was uploaded. The fireballs came up and he swung at one, somehow knocking it back at the demon. Flagare couldn't stop it and the full force of it knocked him away. The shield fell and the Reploid inspected it. He snatched the green crystal and ran a small scan on it from the communicator, showing a match sign on the screen. It was the crystal he searched for, but before he could rejoice, a voice came out of the sand.

"Summer: Raging Fire!" the voice of Flagare shouted.

The shield got up and a doppleganger of Flagare appeared. Flagare himself appeared. The copy was made out of fire completely while the other one's wounds were healing.

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Linda was facing an incredibly speedy demon who seemed to be able to bypass time. The icicles were becoming a nuisance, but she couldn't find a way to stop them until just know. An incoming icicle was stopped by Linda and was thrusted to the ice demon. Glaicare jumped, but Linda came from behind and knocked him into the ice, cracking it.

"I see the Time Keeper is better than I thought, but you won't survive this!" Glaicare shouted as he extended his hand.

What?, the Roman thought.

"Blizga!" the demon shouted as a large tower of ice appeared in front of Linda.

The sword began to glow an incredibly dark blue.

"Dark Winter's Night: Arrival of Snow!" he shouted as the ice cracked quickly.

In front of her stood a demon with pale skin and a hooked tail, who the Time Keeper knew from the archives.

"Niemis, Demon of Snow?" the Time Keeper asked before the female demon attacked her.

Aristo looked at the remnants of his weapons, his mouth open. The weapon had been more to him than he let on, it was his first gift he received when he had become an animal tamer. His sadness slowly turned to rage for the one who had done this, the lightning demon who was laughing silently at his misfortune. Getting slowly to his feet, he pushed his hands into his pockets, once again coating them with a slick silver substance that was his gauntlets. While the demon wasn’t paying attention to him, the animal tamer slowly crept up, and brought his fist up into his jaw, the gloves spiking as he did. There was a crack and the demon fell to the floor, his jaw hanging lopsided. Roaring with the anger that burned inside of him, Aristo grabbed the demon’s blade by the top.

“Fool,” the demon said, his words coming out silently muffled because of his jaw. A bolt of lightning crept up the sword, surging into Aristo gauntlets, but not moving to any other part of his body. While the demon was slightly puzzled by what had just happened, Aristo took the chance and wrenched the sword from his grasp, flinging it high into the air above them. The demon jumped up from the assault, and ran forward, attempting to use his horns to finish Aristo off. Smiling, the animal tamer side stepped him, sticking a foot out, causing the demon to fall with a thud. As soon as he landed Aristo brought a flaming foot into his face, knocking closer to the edge. He was about to strike the demon in the face again, but before he could Thundra had grabbed his ankle, and with a heave of strength threw him across the platform. Sliding to a stop near his old weapon, he stayed still to feign consciousness. There were footsteps near him and the demon picked him up, ready to throw him over the edge of the platform. As he neared the edge, Aristo twisted out of his hands, landing in front of him. Pushing his hands to his chest, he formed an ice ball and stuck it in the middle of Thundra’s chest, the blast sending him back.

“I can keep going for much longer than you, your tricks won’t help you forever,” the demon laughed, and tried to get up. But before he could there was a whistling noise, and a second later the demon’s own sword struck, the blade piercing Thundra’s head, and stuck in the stone platform.

“So much for I can keep this up much longer,” Aristo muttered, and walked over to the dead demon. With one hand he pulled the sword out from the stone, wiping the blood on the demon’s garments, and pushed it into his belt.

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The demon fell backwards, dropping the hilt of his broken sword, clasping both hands to his neck, trying in vain to stop the blood pouring out. He jerked a few times, then went still, all life leaving his body. Valion turned his back on the sight, intrigued now by what was happening to his sword. The glow was intensifying, and suddenly it stopped, a new mark etched upon his sword, the word Spring, which was now written next to the hilt. Satisfied by the outcome, he sheathed the blade and picked up the shield that lay a few feet away from him, wiping the pieces of earth from its surface.

Scanning… if hold on back is removed, shield can be fixed onto metallic arm R.V said, taking diagnostics and scans. Turning the shield over, he wrenched the small bar off, throwing it on the demon’s corpse, and laid it on his arm. There was a sucking sound and the shield formed around it, the only hint that it was still there was the dark emerald jewel near his hand.

“Now, ho do I get out of here?” the angel mused to himself, looking round for a portal or anything that would let him leave.

ooc: DZH, you need to post in Dragon's in Shadows.

The Reploid screamed as the flames hit him. It was a searing pain that no Reploid could withstand. The doppleganger and the demon both attacked while the Reploid clutched his right arm. It was bleeding profusely and everything was becoming dizzy. He couldn't tell which one was the real Flagare. He put up his sword and closed his eyes. It's over..., he thought.

Get up and fight!
Who are you?
I thought you wanted to be like me! Now look at you! You're about to give up in a battle? I never gave up the ifght as Ragnarok came down! Fight them back!

The command oppened his eyes as he slashed with his sword. Afigure fell down to it's death. It was Flagare. Happy with his victory, he broke the fire demon's sword, revealing a green chip. It looked like all of his other chips, so he put it into his weapons and instantly, they became a darker green than normal. He struck the ground, causing some vines to come up. The desert slowly faded away into a jungle as he saw the angel from before.

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Niemis layed on the floor next to Glaicare. Linda was on the ground, shivering from the freezing temperatures as the snow demon got back up. The two ran to her, but Linda got up and knew what she had to do as she put up her left glove. This will take it all!, she thought.

"Stop Time!" she shouted as everything slowed to a halt.
"Repeat Time!" she shouted again, remebering the past couple of techniques.

He gloves ignited with fire as she remebered the fire demon's technique at the gate.

"Fast Time!" she shouted as the red glow covered her.

She attacked the two severely. Time returned to normal as Niemis coughed up much blood and fell limp on the ground. Burn marks were all over her as well as Glaicare. Linda could barely stand up as Glaicare began to talk.

"Well done," he said as he threw a light green book at her, "To translate the book, you need that book. After you translate it, you'll find out more about those gloves. About your angel descendant Time Keeper... she's part demon!"

It hit Linda hard as Glaicare went limp onto the ice. The ice meleted as she saw herself on a platform as a storm went on. She saw the tamer as everything went black.

ooc: How did DZX get an earth power from the fire demon? That’s what Valion got.

Bic:

Look round for an exit, Aristo suddenly noticed a hole near the other end of the platform appear, and the girl called Linda dropped out of it. As the portal closed he saw where it led to, an icy battleground. The girl didn’t move, but slumped to the floor, but she began to move. She had landed on the very edge of the platform, and was rolling off. Running full pelt, Aristo grabbed her by her arm as she fell off, but the momentum of her body carried him off as well, sending them both into the darkness. But instead of falling for an eternity, he felt his feet hit solid floor moments after he fell. Looking around, he found himself back in the throne room, except now the lightning demons chair, the fire demon’s chair, and the ice demon’s chair had disappeared, leaving only two chairs. Resting Linda gently down on the floor, he investigated the earth demon’s chair, and found a small orb resting in the seat. As the animal tamer examined it closer, DZH suddenly flew out of it, crashing into him, knocking them back next to Linda. There was a crack and the seat disappeared, and its place stood Valion, his sword alight with green energy.

“Stay here with the other two, Ill deal with the last one,” the angel said silently without turning round. Deciding not to question him, he dragged DZH over next to Linda, watching Valion make for the door.

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Valion punched the door open, not pausing to look at the marvelous decorations on the walls. Twisting his sword around in his hands , he progressed down the hallway for a few minutes, until he came to another door. With another punch he broke it down, revealing another room, this one circular in design, a portal emitting a white light in the center, five black orbs set in the stone beneath it. Every few second one of the black orbs would shoot a black beam up into the portal.

Information indicates that those orbs are severely shaking the time stream, any longer and they will destabilize time… R.V said urgently. Looking round for the last demon, he found no trace of him. Cautiously, the cyber angel made his way to the orbs. Grasping his sword with both hands, he raised his sword above his head to strike the orbs, but suddenly something collided with him, knocking him to the floor.

Ooc: ok this is going to be a time fight, so its only going to be Linda (Linda can knock Aristo out so she can follow Valion or something) and Valion against the last demon, but don’t describe him yet, ive got a great idea for him!

OoC:It was inside the sword. It can't be activated by a fire demon.

BiC: The Time Keeper awoke to see Aristo watching over them. Next to her sat the bleeding Reploid. She looked around, but did not see Valion. However, she noticed that four chairs had dissapeared.

"Where's Valion?" she asked.
"Fighting the last Demon," Valion responded.
"Fast Time!" she shouted as she moved quickly and knocked out the animal tamer.

The Reploid was already unconscious, but she took off a sleeve of Valion's shirt and wrapped it around the bleeding section. She walked off into the hall she thought she'd find the angel and she did. She saw a figuebehind the angel as it knocked him onto the floor.

"Who are you?" she asked the figure.

Rolling over as a sword was swung at his head, Valion rolled over to see what was attacking him, and gasped at the sight. Stood next to him was another angel, its hair white, its wings covered with white feathers that shined like silk, and wearing blindingly white robes. In its hand it bore a rapier, its edge glowing silver. Around his neck there were five orbs, each carrying different colors. As the angel went to strike again, someone shouted out, distracting it. Taking the chance, the cyber angel swung his legs round, knocking his opponent to the floor. Looking up, he saw that it was Linda who has distracted the angel.

“I thought that you were with Aristo and DZX?” Valion shouted, grabbing his sword from the floor. With a swift flap of his wings, the angel landed next to the girl.

“I was, but time to help you was slowly getting less,” Linda chuckled. Sighing at the extremely bad joke, Valion focused his gaze on the other angel, who was getting up from the floor.

“A futile attempt, then again it won’t matter. In a few minutes the time stream will collapse, destroying the entire timeline. Your efforts will have been naught. But before we circle into complete oblivion, let me reveal myself. I am Ahigan,” the angel laughed manically. At the name Valion’s face contorted with shock.

“Lucifer’s left hand, so, how the mighty have fallen,” the cyber angel snarled, his face filled with nothing but hate. Dropping his overcoat to the floor, Valion pushed his hand under his shirt and pushed the diamond button in the middle of his chest plate, the armor forming in a matter of moments. The angel laughed at Valion’s comment, and slowly began to walk towards the two.

“Ahigan was one of the very few who kept his original form when he entered the abyss, and only the most powerful of angel can do that, so my holy power will have no effect on him. Do not try to engage him directly, leave that to me, attack quick and fast, strike one blow at a time, and don’t let your guard down,” Valion muttered to Linda, and readied to battle with the superior foe.

The Time Keeper took Valion's instructions to mind and readied her glove.

"Fast-" she began when a figure passed by her, taking her right glove.

"I bet you can't do anything without this," Ahigan said, holding her glove an placing it within his robes.

"He's fast!" Linda shouted.

"Obviously," Valion muttered.

The robotic angel charged at the demonic angel, who put up a sword and blocked him while Linda quickly ran up behind him and tried to deliver a punch or two, but his wings threw her back, giving him a small boost to throw off Valiond and deliver a kick.