Enter the Gemstone Blades(OPEN)

[eagleyes20]

Fidelis Topaz woke up that morning feeling stiff. He worked off that stiffness by working with Goldtalon and Silverplume. By the time he had relaxed his muscles, the usn had risen, and was behind schedule. "Darkstones!!" he cursed, as he got his gear on and ran out to the Marketplace to get some breakfast.

Along the path to the Marketplace, Heartless Neoshadows appeared, barring his path. "They never learn, do they?" he said to himself as he drew Goldtalon and Silverplume to take them on. Doing an even half-slash throught the first, he proceeded to continue the fight.

[Shinn]

The Heartless would soon be the least of his worries. Right then a thick beam of positron energy shot from the northern direction where the marketplace was, destroying several of the Neo-Shadow Heartless. Another two beams would follow right after taking care of the remainder Heartless.

If Fidelis looked over in the direction of where the beams came from, he would see a young man holding a gun in his right hand walking down the stairs that led to the marketplace. He put away his futuristic looking gun in a hand held weapon rack and headed over to where Fidelis was at. After passing through the tunnel he looked around the nearby houses, then he looked back over at Fidelis.

"You need to get out of this world while you still can."

Before he could explain any further, three all white portals appeared in a triangular position surrounding the two. What came out from the portals were human-like creatures all wearing black oval shaped masks. They had on a pair of withered tan cloaks on that covered their entire body with the exception of the openings in the hands, feet, and head. Their body type was long and slender, their skin was a pale gray color. Soon there were half a dozen of these masked creatures surrounding Fidelis and the other man.

"Damn." the mysterious young man said to himself as he pulled out a sword from the weapon holster. He activated the sword which emitted a beam of energy where the sword blade was at. He looked over at Fidelis, "Leave now."

[eagleyes20]

Fidelis turned to mysterious fighter and said, "I'm not leaving until I can bring the Keybearer to my homeworld to dispose of the Heartless there. So, no can do!" Using his senses, he did a quick spin and caught two of the new creatures in their chests and destroyed them.
((What exactly are these things, Shinn? Nobodies?))

[Shinn]

[They are something far different than your Heartless and Nobodies. In time you will soon find out what they are.]

The two creatures that were caught by his blade were hit, but not vanquished. They flew backwards landing on the ground but they would soon recover. One of the masked creatures that was near the other two had managed to avoid being hit by ducking out of harms way. It immediately pounced for Fidelis with its right knee bent forward aiming for his face.

The mysterious young man had other things to worry about now than this guy. He didn't even have enough time to explain what these creatures were because just as he was about to, the other three masked creatures rushed him. They began a series of fast punches and kicks. He summoned his shield of light to block most of the attacks but his back was left unguarded and the young man was sent flying forward to a nearby stone wall. He shook off the pain and spun around with his weapon forward to catch any of the masked creatures that were planning on pummeling him while he was facing the wall. Luckily he caught one off guard knocking it backwards the way a baseball batter would hit a home run.

"Normal weapons won't work on them!" he shouted out so the boy could hear him. "These things react on a persons heart. You're gonna have to fight with a whole new game plan if you want to cause some hurt on these things."

[eagleyes20]

Fidelis sent another one flying as he answered, "What do you mean by that?"

[Shinn]

"Don't attack it with the intent of killing it. These things feed on a persons darkness. It makes them strong and pretty much indestructible to attacks."

Two of the masked creatures dashed towards him swinging their arms wildly. He evaded their punches and countered with a strong horizontal swing knocking them backwards. He looked angry now which probably didn't help the situation he was in.

He looked over at Fidelis, "But it's easier said than done."

He was going to get tired soon and he knew that he would eventually start to get his dark urges soon. There weren't that many people around and these things gave off a different form of darkness that was unfamiliar to him. He had decided it was best not to try anything with those creatures.

The two that he had knocked back were now recovered and they instantly dashed towards Fidelis. The one that he had just hit flew upwards for a brief moment before vanishing in mid air and reappearing behind Fidelis performing a swift kick to his back.

[oblivion]

Somewhere nearby, but completely oblivious to the surely epic battle going on, was a figure clad in an all purple robe. He stuck out like a sore thumb in this world with it's mostly grey cobblestone, but that was the point. Once again he was on the roadside with his makeshift venue, all manner of junk piled up around him at insanely low prices. Why did he keep doing this? He couldn't remember, but no one ever bought anything so he saw no reason why he couldn't keep the store up.

However, nearby he heard the sounds of battle. "Ooooh, people!" he squealed excitedly as he left his little stand completely unattended, caring little about the junk and confident that it would all still be there. Running down some stairs, Weirdlo paused to take in the sight of two guys fighting off some strange creatures. What were these things exactly? He didn't know. They didn't looke like heartless or nobodies.

One of the people were getting double teamed with one aiming a kick at his back! That just wouldn't do at all he thought as he pulled out a comicly large bazooka from behind his back. Not even bothering to aim, he fired the unwieldy weapon and sent a cow hurling at the creature aiming at Fidelis' back. Weirdlo fired another one at one of the other creatures by mistake, the second shot sending him off balance and tripping backwards over some inconviently placed boxes. "I meant to do that..." Weirdlo murmered poking his head out from behind the boxes to see what had happend.

[Shinn]

The unknown swordsman looked over to see a cow of all things come flying towards one of the masked creatures that had appeared behind Fidelis. It smashed the creature straight into a stone wall dealing massive damage to it. The other shot barely missed the masked creature by a hair since it had been running towards Fidelis. The two creatures were now within striking range and the both of them began to rapidly swing their arms and legs

He looked over at the person who had fired the cows at the masked creatures. There were so many questions to ask at the moment, he couldn't even think of where to start. The physics itself seemed to make that feat impossible. When this was all over he could figure that out but right now there was still the matter of taking these things down.

The crazy antics that Weirdo performed did manage to calm the other man down somewhat. With his heart calmed down and focused on the prevention of these things from winning, he was now able to do some damage to these things. As the two creatures came rushing for him once more, he bent down and brought his sword upwards in a vertical slash slicing the masked creature in half. He came straight back down in a curved downward motion cutting the other masked creature in half. Both creatures began to fade away into nothing but dust particles vanishing in the wind.

[eagleyes20]

Fidelis withdrew his two swords and shouted, "Taos Siriu Proteg!" to bring up extreme concentration and inner protection, and then calmly drew Wingblade. Bowstring appearing on the bow, he drew an arrow, nocked it and fired at the creature with the intent of crippling it.

[Shinn]

The arrow flew straight at the masked creature piercing it right in its left shoulder. The masked creature looked down and saw a small stream of darkness come pouring out from the arrow wound. This did manage to slow one of the two that were rushing towards Fidelis, but the other one came right at him as he finished firing the arrow. It bent down and landed four hard punches right into Fidelis' stomach with the last punch having enough force in it to knock him backwards.

The creature that had been hit by the cow, had finally recovered and had now set its sights on Weirdo. It moved the large cow that was still lying on top of it out of the way and it suddenly vanished. It reappeared right where Weirdo was and looked at him. It then removed its mask revealing its horrible mutilated face. It began to open its mouth out wide preparing for some kind of attack. But just as it was about to do this, a sword came flying towards it and impaled it right in the creatures mouth. The unknown man ran over to where he had thrown his swords and pulled it out from the monsters mouth. It soon began to fade away into nothing but dust particles vanishing in the wind.

"You're a strange one you know that right?" he said as he offered his hand to help the Weirdo up on his feet.

[eagleyes20]

Fidelis flew backward at the last of four punches from the mystery creature. Somersaulting, he landed and his feet, and drew out Silverplume and Goldtalon once more. With that, he said, "You'll pay for that," and dashed back to the creature and sliced through it's shoulder to slow it, like his arrow had done to the other.

[oblivion]

Weirdlo had been completely oblivious to the creature that had been about ready to eat his tasty brains, all until he heard the sound of a sword cleave through it. "Who what when where?" Weirdlo blurted out, flailing about as if something was going to fall on him; when nothing happend he calmed down and accepted the help up. "I've been called worse before..." Weirdlo added as he pulled out a rubber duck. He then ran over to one of the creatures, either oblivious of the danger they posed or simply incapable of caring for his safety.

"Hey ugly. Here's to being so ugly..." Weirdlo said handing it a rubby ducky. He then ran away again moments before the duck exploded. A creature then broke off and chased after him. "Eeeek! I have no change! Leave me alone!" Weirdlo said ducking under a swipe, tripping the creature as he passed before he remembered his helper. Whistleling loudly, a figure poked his head out from over one of the walls.

"Hello? Who iz eet?" the figure called down with a french accent.

"It's Weirdlo! The uglies want my change!" Weirdlo said running around in circles, ducking or jumping over the swipes of the creature chasing him.

"Oh is that so? Hey! You down there!" the frenchman called down at the creature. Surprisingly, the creature looked up expectantly. "I fart in your general direction, your mother was a hampster, and you father smelt of elderberries!" the frenchman taunted the creature before it was flattend by a comicly large hammer.

"You have been banned by Weirdlo!" Weirdlo said charging at another creature with his big hammer.

((and the insanity ensues))

[eagleyes20]

Fidelis' blades took the creature in the shoulder and it went all the way through, taking it's arm off completely. Satisfied, he turned and took Silverplume through it's right shoulder. He then did a backward somersault and took another shoulder with Goldtalon.

[Shinn]

The mysterious man stood there motionless and speechless after witnessing what had just happened. Never had he seen such strange things like what just happened. He looked back at Weirdo who was now chasing one of the masked creatures with a large hammer. The giant Frenchman managed to destroy one of the creatures with his insults and hammer.

There were only three left. One was being pursued by Weirdo while Fidelis was cutting down the other one piece by piece. After his last strike at its arm the creature began to vanish in a cloud of dust particles. The one that he had impaled with his arrow was now on the offensive once more rushing after Fidelis just as he had finished vanquishing the masked creature.

The other one that was being pursued by Weirdo turned around and raised its mask just enough to have his mouth exposed. It then let out a terrifying scream that sent out a wave of sound towards Weirdo.

[oblivion]

Weirdlo had not been expecting that and was about to make a comment about it being so ugly again when he was knocked off his feet by the wave of sound. Despite the ringing in his ears and the fact he landed on his back Weirdlo was fine as he jumped back to his feet. "Alright, now I'm mad. Prepare yourself!" Weirdlo exclaims as he pulls out a small booklet and clears his throat. The Frenchman seems to know what is coming and so hides behind his wall as Weirdlo speaks in a seemingly incorherant spial of beeping obscenities for a full minute before finally stopping.

For a moment nothing happens, but then the ground suddenly starts to shake and tremble as the sky above literally rips at the seams; spilling out radiant light that streaks the sky and parts it even further to reveal an eternal oblivion. The wind howls and blows as the ground shatters in places and cracks, fire jetting out from the cracks as pillars of energy rained down and blasted the remaining monsters. After the rain of energy, the world pieces itself back together as if nothing had happend in the first place.