Duck and Cover

(OOC: You have a curse, you can't win and you can't lose.)

*The flames die down and the dragons get up, they know what is going to happen so they clear the way for Reaper's respawn. Then a huge shard of ice flies out of the heavens and sticks in the ground, encased within is Reaper, motionless. Suddenly his eyes open and the ice starts to crack. The huge shard of ice shatters, sending smaller spikes flying in all directions.

"I AM BACK!"

"We noticed."

"This always happens. We are your guardians, we are bound to you, we obey your commands."

"You dragons talk funny."

"Well, we're dragons not humans."

"Damn you're right."

"We're not stupid you know. Just because our grand parents were dinossaurs you don't need to insult us."

"Ok, calm down i'm sorry."

"All of them were too."

"Heh, "were" guess you had lunch?"

"Heck no!"

"Dinner actually."

"Ok cool, so then how's human flesh?"

"Tasty!"

"I prefer goats..."

"Sure you do, so Reaper's prisioners ran away and left their skin behind last time you visited the dungeons..."

"Oh... Huh... Ah screw it so i like it."

*Reaper walks to his guardians having a chat. He gets on the back of one of them.

"Hi."

"Hi master."

"Bored?"

"Yeah."

"Us too."

"Yeah."

"You both lost. Which do I fight? You, or BigJack?"

*Reaper relaxes with his guardians and helps himself to some roasted mutton.

"Ah, I'm taking a little break from fighting for a while, BJ or Haplo would be happy to fight you I'm sure."

"Maybe Haplo i'm talking to Reaper's body guards, cool guys."

"It's hard to be different these days, imagine the people looking at me at the mall just 'cause of my black cloak."

"Tell me about it, i can't get in a restaurant without people running away."

"You don't get in you destroy it, and then eat the food."

"Think i'm stupid? I do that, but once i tried the easy way..."

"Hah... "once i tried the easy way" you were always the black sheep of the family !"

"Don't use me on a ray gun then... Geez."

"C'mon calm down fellas..."

"Yeah we better i roasted this sheep too much..."

"Hey, hey, i'm evil you know."

"Sure thing..."

"Once i blew up an entire city with only one blow !"

"Yeah right. You sneezed."

"Oh shut up i'm eating"

*Winks at BJ*

"You think you got problems? How do you expect a dark mage like me to get around in this armour without causing everyone to run away."

"Having us as guardians doesn't help either."

"Yeah, remember that time we all tried to get into a bar for drinks, we almost pulled it off but you went and set the bar on fire with your flaming vomit!"

"I never, YOU were the one who laughed at a joke and set your drink on fire then threw it across the room!"

"What? That wasn't at the pub! That was a castle siege, I ignited fuel and threw it at the walls!"

"Yeah, that must have been what you dreamt about after having two pints and passing out on the floor."

"THAT DOES IT! I'LL KILL YOU!"

"Cool it guys, you can't die remember."

"WE'LL SOON SEE ABOUT THAT!"

"Bring it on then! I'll take you down like I always do!"

*The red dragon rears up as the blue one lunges a him, Reaper falls off RD's neck and onto the hard floor.

"Man, that hurt."

"I understand. Haplo, shall we fight than?"

*The two immense dragons start attacking each other, they scratch, bite and tail slash but there is no visible damage and neither one seems to feel any pain. Wolf goes up to Reaper.

"So, how do they decide who wins if neither can die or feel pain?"

*Reaper looks down at Wolf and starts to explain it.

"Well, they see who is the stronger by getting the other on the floor and biting their neck, no pain and no wounds are made but that will always end a fight."

*Wolf nods in a dog way.

"So, what are their names?"

"Well, you can't really tell the difference until they speak, the one who's breath sounds younger and firey (the red speech) is called RD and the other one, who is older and more experienced, who speaks slowly and calmly (the blue speech) is called BD they seem to be okay with that because usually when I talk to them, I am talking to both. Does that help? Also, if you look closely, RD has the top half of his ear missing and BD has a few holes in his left wing, they were battle scars obtained before they were bound to me."

*The ancient spirit of a thousand warriors of legend suddenly fills Haplo. Lightning crackles off of his body as he speaks in a voice that fortells doom...

You fools! The arena is not the place for idle banter! The arena is for battle! To determine through fire and conflict who is the best fighter in the universe! I am tired of listening to your witless chatter! You must stand and fight now, or be eradicated from this place of death and honor!

*The sky for miles darkens, and the ground shakes before the fury of Haplo's power. All unconciously take a step backwards, not knowing what has brought on the sudden change. The dragons stop fighting, and look on in awe. Wolf has undergone a similar change, now his hackles are raised, teeth bared. With each second, Wolf seems to grow larger, to increase in size and strength. Power of ancient legend radiates from them both, as a long forgotten fire burns in thier eyes. Gone now are the smiles, the symbolic jokes.

You have all forgotten what a true battle is! We will show you the incredible folly of your ways! Only by fighting can you redeem yourselves! Run and you will be killed without mercy!

*Haplo draws his sword. It burns in awful fury, causing the arena to feel like a burning hellfire. Reaper, BigJack, and Slave_Master all prepare their weapons, the dragons fly to their master's side, quarrel forgotten. Haplo charges, delivering a stunning blow to Slave_Master, who sails across the arena, punches through the wall, and slides to a stop. S_M, get's up, pissed off, and runs toward the arena. Meanwhile, Haplo pivots after the attack and directs a blast towards BigJack, who manages to barely escape. The blast leaves the area of the arena behind BigJack in broken rubble. Wolf launches into an attack, and slams one of the dragons into the ground. The other dragon, angered, lashes out at Wolf with his tail, but misses by mere inches. This gives the other dragon time to recover, and he is groggy, but still in the fight. Reaper and BigJack draw thier blades and charge Haplo, but he leaps high into the air to avoid the attack. He turns to face S_M, who is sailing through the air towards him, sword drawn...

(OOC: Guys, a little too much chitchat, not enough fighting. I'm challenging all of you to a mass battle, including the dragons. No powerplaying, because I want to make this really good. S_M, since you waited to fight, I gave you initiative for counterattack first.)

SM hacks away in blind anger at Haplo. He gets a few hits in but leaves his defense open due to his rage. Haplo fires a blast that hits SM head on and shoves him half a foot into the ground. SM doesn't move at all, but suddenly he is not in the hole, in other words gone.

"Ha! I will not be killed that easily! Time for some fun, nature boy!"

SM whips out his wand and like an orchestrator yanks it down while yelling maniacally. Bolts of fire pelt down from the sky at Haplo, well, everyone almost, and during the confusion, SM pulls out two daggers (OOC: With a stun poison) and rushes at Haplo and starts swinging away, dodging his own firebolts in some sort of fiery dance of death. Haplo...

*Haplo backhands thinair, and the firebolts starting flying towards S_M. S_M, not expecting this, delays his advance to dodge the sudden offensive. Haplo materializes behind S_M...

Die!

*Haplo slashes S_M in the back, sending his plumiting into the arena, and as he crashes, he collides with one of the dragons, barely knicking it with a dagger. The dragon immediately passes out. S_M struggles to stand up, heavily wounded, and snatches off his cape which is on fire from the sword. Wolf, who has grown in size equal to that of the dragons in hiw wrath, is fighting RD with titanic blows that shake the arena. The Reaper, flying staight up, attacks, and Haplo,seeing the new offensive, flies straight down to meet him. Thier collision fills the arena with blinding light and a resounding boom that of a blow that struck like thunder. Their swords are flashing like lightning, and in the midst of this, they each land a blow with their free hand, slamming each other into opposite directions. Haplo recovers in air, and Reaper recovers in time to avoid a massive blast fired by BigJack. Haplo slashes the blast with his sword, sending the megabomb down towards the arena...

"Sorry about attacking you Reaper it was meant for SM."

(OOC:Actually i had no choice it wasn't me who wrote that action )

*BJ goes and helps Reaper in the battle.*

"I'll help you until one guy in the arena dies then i'll attack you too, k?"

*The blast fired by BJ lands in the arena, which explodes with awsome force... all manage to avoid the blast, except for the heavily wounded S_M. The last thing S_M saw was Haplo charging towards BJ...

*Haplo and BJ fight fiercely and BJ is force to light up the other edge of his lightsabre, Haplo then strikes BJ with such power that, despite the fact BJ defended the attack, he fell to the ground. It all seems over for BJ, when Haplo is going to make his finishing move he suddenly gets struck by an ice shard in his shoulder, SM is still alive and kicking ass. BJ uses that distraction to escape and prepare to keep on fighting.*

*Reaper gets up, his swords gleaming in the light of the arena and his cloak flying in the wind, here stands a true warrior. His dragons stand behind him, ready to fight.

"You did not want to challenge me, I will make sure your death is slow and painful! BD, RD, take Wolf, Haplo is mine!"

*Reaper's face is hidden by his helmet, only two small dots of red can be seen of Reaper's eyes. The dragons go to attack Wolf and Reaper stands oppostie Haplo. Reaper sizes up his opponent. He puts away his swords, people think Reaper is mad, apart from the dragons, they know what Reaper is up to. Reaper thrusts his right hand into the air and a lightning bolt hits his palm, he brings down his arm and makes a strange motion with the other hand. He swings his arms in an X shape, throwing lightning, fire and ice bolts toward Haplo. Reaper has tapped once again into his dark mage side.

(Huh? According to BJ, I'm still alive, but according to Haplo, I'm not. Oh well, I'll try to make somewhat of a compromise)

SM is dead. Or nearly so. Using one of the much lesser known tricks in the book, he siphoned just enough life force to remain alive before the blast hits him, pounding him through the wall. He would have been able to save more, had he had the time, but he didn't. He tries to yell out to Haplo, but is far too weak to do any talking. SM is dying. Only enough time for one last spell...

Much to everyone's surprise, a triangular shaped hole in the fabric of existence appears, and a multitude of burning bodies, screaming in blood curdling pain, are on the other side. The gate, if one could call it that, starts closing right as a huge demon pulls itself out and the hole collapses right as it it clear. The berserk monster goes after whoever is closest, and SM tries to get the hell out of the way, doing pretty well considering he is at the brink of death.

SM quickly tries to find a healing potion, but most of the bottles have been shattered by the heavy fighting. He licks up whatever is last, than crawls away after casting an invisibility spell on himself. Starting to use healing magic on himself, he sits down and tries to get up to fighting ability before the end of the fight, but that is doubtful. Demon summoning is very taxing on the body.

*Reaper looks to see the immense demon being spawned. He turns to his dragons, they are busy fighting Wolf. Reaper will have to do this himself. He points his right arm at the demon and starts casting a spell, keeping Haplo occupied with spells from his left arm. Reaper starts saying the words to his spell aimed at the demon.

"Beat from the dark, I am not your enemy, I am your master, I am the lord of dark magic and you will obey me." Reaper's voice raises into a shout. "YOU WILL OBEY ME!"

*A bolt of energy forms in Reaper's hand and it fires at the demon, stricking it between the eyes, the demon turns it's attention away from Reaper and goes in search of other victims. SM and BJ better beware.

*BJ in his trusty black cloack hides in the shadows thus making himself "invisible"*

*The huge demon smashes the floor with it's fist in anger, it can't see any targets so it starts punching the wall where it thinks the people are.