Rise of the Master: Chapter 6

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The Warriors of the Master "My god..."Justice said as he and the others stood at the edge of the forest, the desimated city before them. The wall meant to ward of invaders had crumbled. The shining gold towers shined no longer and toppled to the earth. The gardens burned, homes were reduced to dust. The great fountain, once the center piece of the city, stood in utter ruin. The home of white birch had not been spared, destroyed by a massive explosion. A fire now raged throughout the city. The flame seemed alive, burning through solid stone with ease and constantly seeking something else to devour. The monsters who once populated the city had all been slain. Many were burned to death, still others had been hacked to pieces. In a matter of minutes that which took so many years to build had been obliterated.

Justice shook his head disbelievingly, wondering how all this could happen so fast. He looked to celine who'd turned ghostly pale, tears rolling down her cheek she watched helplessly as her home burned. It was totally silent now, except for the crackling of the fires. Who or whatever had attacked seemed to have gone. Beatdown walked over to a fallen woodknight and gave a slight nudge. His head silently rolled away, now nothing more then a poor suit of armor.

The durahan approached the fountain which had been totally destroyed. He looked down at his reflection in the still water. His stare was answered by a pair of cold eyes, eyes he remembered. Then the fountain erupted as a large aqua cutter surfaced and attempted to stab justice. The durahan fell back, barely avoiding the deadly attack. The Cutter laughed, water casscading off his transparent body. He bore the crest of the eye.

"Liqua..."Justice said remembering the night of his trainers death and feeling his hatred for the cutter anew. At last the chase was over, his prey had come to him. But in his lust for vengence he'd forgoten he was unarmed. He was quickly struck down by liqua who then laughed again at his failure. The cutter then desended upon the fallen knight, egar to tear him limb from limb. This never came to pass as liqua was struck by an enegy shot followed by a mega ray. He fell backward, into the fountain.

"I will finish him off!"Cried the woodknight who lead them into the forest to battle moo."For revenge!" The knight leaped into the air and pointed his blade downward before coming down on the aqua cutter. Suddenly there was a flash of light, a ball of energy struck him before he could impale the cutter and exploded, destroying him. As the dead woodknights charred form fell to the earth a wicked laughter could be heard. It sounded very much like a joker, but the voice was a womens. She appeared a moment later, seemingly out of thin air. A Lilim, the dreaded cross between a pixie and a joker, she desended and landed next to liqua. She too wore the symbol of the eye. Before anyone could attack this new threat she was joined by yet anouther. The lorica Vor appeared, taking a quick glance at justice and his companions.

"Are these the ones who've been following you?"The lilim asked Vor. The lorica nodded silently.

"So, your all together."Claw hissed,"Just who the hell are you guys anyway?"

"We are the warriors of the Master,"Vor said, with great dignity and pride, relishing the words as he spoke."We serve him in all things. We give action to his thought, meaning to his word. We strike down any who would oppose him. We are the living extensions of his will! And when the Master takes this world, we will enforce his law."

"Who's the master??"Beatdown wondered.

"You will know him soon enough,"The lilim said"And so the entire world will know the Master as well. Hahaahahhahaha!"Her laugh was truely horrible, worse then a jokers, like the tormented crys of a thousand tortured souls.

"Shut up!"Celine ran forward, her depression turned to rage."I don't care who you are or who you serve! I'll kill you for what you did to my city, my home."

"My city, my home."Vor mocked and his comrades laughed,"You worthless tree coddler! You will be the first to sample my steel!"

"Leave her out of this!"Justice pushed celine aside"Your battle is with me. I'll kill you with my own hands if I must!!"

"Calm down old timer,"Vor said"I'd like to kill you myself today, I really would. But I have to aid my fellow warriors with our prize." He turned his back and justice became enraged. He charged Vor from behind, but the lorica heard him coming. Vor turned and slashed justice across the chest leaving a deep scar in his armor."Take that wound as a gift from me. To add to your shame of failing to protect your own trainer! Suffer this in your last moments of life! Liqua! Jakira! Kill these fools in the Masters name!"

"As you wish,"Jakira said"I'm so glad he made it a direct order. I do love mixing bussiness with pleasure." The lilim flew into the sky and began raining bolts of energy upon the burning city. The four monsters were forced to take cover amongst the ruins. Justice wanted to wait until she tired, until she had not the will to continue the relentless bombardment. That never happened and Jakira continued to turn the already destroyed city into a large crater.

"This is pointless!"Celine said stareing hatefully at the lilim."I'm going up there, somebody has to shut that witch up."

"Alright, becareful. I'll take care of liqua."Justice motioned to Claw and Beatdown"Backme up."

Celine took to the air tossing a lightening bolt at Jakira to get her attention. The lilim laughed once again and responded with a bolt of her own. As those two battled in the darkening skies, Justice made his way toward Liqua who was still in the fountain. The cutter was in an almost relaxed position.

"I likes water,"He said in a classic display of naga stupidity."You oppose master? Liqua will kill! You are lucky, Liqua will use Master attack!"The aqua cutter put his hand on the symbol of the eye and it glowed deep blue."Aqua command!" The spring behind him exploded, pillars of water surged to the surface and aimed at justice with errie accuracy. He tried to run, avoiding the first stream but was nailed by the second. The force push him into a section of wall still standing, his steel frame leaving a deep imprint. Anouther surge attempted to pulverize him but claw pulled the durahan to safety.

"Gettin slow old man,"He said with some concern"Your not gonna let him do that to you are ya??"

Justice pulled his battered form off the ground."Attack! For Vengence!" They charged, beatdown tried to attack with a her hand to hand combat moves. A wall of water errupted from the ground and knocked the fairy hare back. Claw came in with a deadly pierce but he too was hit with a powerful stream of H2O. Justice was about to attack head on as well but stopped, Liqua was'nt going to let them get close enough to even land a punch. Instead he pulled beatdown aside."I have an idea. Find my sword." She nodded and ran off to accomplish the task. Stone claw was still trying desperatly to get close enough to harm the cutter.

"Claw? Think you can pull off a drill attack?"Justice asked. Meanwhile Celine and Jakira continued to light up the sky with there battle.

"You nuts?"He panted"I'm exhausted, I'll need five minutes."

"We don't have that long....look out!"Anouther blast of icy water came at them. They both avoided it."How is he doing that?? Could it be the crest?"

"Last time I checked the power to control water was'nt on the naga list of attacks."Claw said dodging anouther surge."Just use you air slash or something!"

"I'd need my sword..."Justice said as beatdown appeared carrying his blade. She tossed it over to him and justice caught it, feeling whole once more."Now we're ready! Distract him while I kill that murdering freak!" Beatdown and claw attacked once again and liqua, still in the fountain, turned his full attention on them. Meanwhile the ageing durahan used a trick he'd learned during his many years in the tournaments. Summoning the power of lightening into his sword he took aim and hurled the blade at his target. But his target was'nt liqua, it was the fountain itself. The charged sword landed in the fountains waters, the liqua began to shake involentarily as he was eletricuted. Finally his chared body fell forward, unmoving.

Before he could check the body justice heard celine cry out in pain. He turned and saw her fall out of the sky, hitting the ground with a sickening thud. She didn't move as Jakira flew over to liqua who amazingly, still lived.

"How dare you,"She said"You dare to strike down a warrior of the master? This will not be forgotten durahan! You and your friends will die along with the rest of the masters enemies. We will not underestimate you again..." Suddenly a building in the distance exploded. Justice realized it was the same one the dryads were guarding so heavily. A large dragon like creature appeared and took to the skys carrying a huge metalic object. A smaller figure followed close behind.

"Ah, Shielka and Grapper have claimed the masters prize."Jakira said "Until we meet again..."The lilim weaved some sort of spell and the two disappeared before there eyes. Justice ran over to celine who was badly injured, and took her up in his arms.

"Justice!"Beatdown said"White birch is still alive! He told me where to find your sword. He's hurt bad though, he does'nt have much time left..."

"I'm going to get some answers,"Justice said carefully giving the dryad to Claw."Hold her, be gentle."

"Gentle?? I'm a trident if you hav'nt noticed!"Claw said"Being gentles not in my blood."

"Just don't hurt her anymore then she already is,"Justice said and followed beatdown to whitebirch. He recovered his trusted shield along the way. They found the old mock in what was left of his house. He was nearly dead already and had begun to breath his last breaths.

"Did you...stop them?"He said painfully.

"No, what is it they stole?"

"A machine from the ancient times,"The mock replied."It radiated a strange energy. I knew moo would want it so I had it locked up. I Didn't know of a way to destroy it safely....is celine alright?"

"Still alive for the moment,"Justice said.

"Take her with you, she is the last of this city."He said weakly,"I am afraid to think of what those lunatics will do with what they stole..." Justice looked up at the destroyed ceiling, night had fallen, and once again no stars shone in the sky. He didn't know what this 'Master' intended...but he knew they'ed find out soon enough.

End Of Chapter 6

Hope you like this chapter. Thank you to everyone who's taken the time to comment on my work.

-- Black Razor (Allanmontalvo@mindspring.com), April 05, 2000

Answers Nice. I like it. The only thing that disappointed me was the fact you didn't put much up about the dryrad and the pixie/joker. I thought that would have been a great fight. The logic in electricuting the fountain was cool, too. CHB

-- CHB (cyberhillbilly@yahoo.com), April 05, 2000.

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I concurr! Black Razor, you never cease to astound me. Your descriptionand narrative are top-notch, as far as I'm concerned. Once again, some minor spelling and grammatical errors, but other than that, it was done quite nicely.

-- Eagle Fierce (Eagle1@Citynet.net), April 05, 2000.

-- Eagle Dewell Fierce (Eagle1@Citynet.net), April 12, 2000


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