Fantasy [Tartarean Chronicle] Needle Through an Eye

[Garbage Pail Kid]

Baldra-Kai
-Lacmos Village-
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The southern coast of Baldra-Kai was one of the last few regions on the island that wasn't besieged by undead and necrotic plague, but Vyradeign was a shrewd leader of a vast army of the undead, and Rigor Mortis was bent on claiming the entirety of the territory. Lacmos Village was one of the largest wheat farms in Baldra-Kai, and provided many of the populace this side of the island with food for their families. Rigor Mortis was a cult primarily made up of corpses and abominations of undeath save a select few so the value of denying food to their enemies far surpassed the need for it themselves. Vyradeign was all too happy to send forth a small army of nearly four hundred and fourty zombies, lead by an exceedingly cruel Hobgoblin known as Conflager Charrback. He could unleash flames freely like he were an elemental of fire; Arson a churlish passion as he sought to raze this entire village and it's desperate necessity for 'food'. If it delighted his mistress; he'd set the whole world on fire!


"Kill em all to yer content yabuncha freaks; as long as we get twenty five percent of them added to the corpse army. Mistress Deign won't mind if I set the rest of 'em on fire eh?" He called, cackling to his heart's content as the brave, foolish, and strong tried to stand up against them. Fire belching from his laughing maw and catching buildings around him ablaze. Two swordsman who tried to catch him off guard being caught in his sweep of searing flames, and screaming as they dropped to the ground in attempt to put out the flames.

"Better than eat alive I say! Hey answer a question if yer done screaming, do you start to like the smell of yerself cooking afterall awhile?" His question getting no response from the charred corpses, still lit by flame "Guess smell isn't a concern no more is it?"

The zombies had the hundred or so defenders completely surrounded. The strongest among them doing his best to try and keep the men around him standing. The Lizardfolk was a mercenary who had been just blowing through town, and was caught up in worst stroke of bad luck he had. He was strong, but this was just too much. Could a lizard be turned into a zombie? he didn't know and really didn't want to find out

"Bogmire, help they're-AHHH"

Bogmire turned his thickened neck to see the small stringbean of a cadet get overwhelmed by a dozen gnashing mouths. A ruinous sound of squelches and tearing causing Bogmire to practically have a panic attack.

"Ahm sorreh! ah haven't fought a zombeh before! What if it bites meh?" He hollered, swinging a fist into a zombie's head and causing it to erupt into a fountain of vile juices. "The damn death freaks are attackin this far in? they haven't done that befer, this ain't good! We gotta protect thissun town otherwise folks will starve ta death out thare" He shouted, hoping there were still defenders out there alive, in a sea of the undead.

 

[NeramoDJI]

Sage Valla

Sage had been staying in this village for a little while, just another step on his little adventure. He had come here in search of some kind of food, which people didn't really feel the need to deny since the smallest shaving from an apple was more than he could eat, being only 6 inches tall. One of the perks he supposed. Though, he did get quite a few looks from people, but he was used to that, most people haven't seen any fairies before.

However, that was a few days ago. The attack came almost out of the blue, undead and goblins running through the town killing everyone they could. Sage clutched the sword he took from home, looking around with scared eyes. However, he knew he couldn't just let the people who fed him and let him stay in the village get hurt by these bullies. So despite the fear in his heart, he ran towards the zombies and monsters, pulling the sheath off the blade and throwing it, the force behind his finger tips giving enough oomph to the throw to drive it clean through the zombies skull.

"I won't let you huwt these people you bullies!" He called out, unable to pronounce his R's properly still, fluttering through the air and carving up Zombies, needing to do flips around his blade and full body swings to move it in the same way that a human would, though to those far enough away, it looked like a sword that was moving on it's own like a ghost.

Seeing Bogmire, he didn't know the mans name, but he fluttered towards them, immediately fluttering towards the horde of zombies, the fear in his heart drowned by the sound of battle, the fire, the adrenaline, all of those factors making his body almost shut down emotionally. The only focus he had was killing the zombies hurting all his 'friends'. "Mistew Lizawd! Get the nice people back! I'll hold off the zombies!" The gleaming blood soaked sword spoke to the lizardman with the voice of a child, the fairy wielding it flying towards the zombies, the scent of fire drawing the fairies attention towards the goblin in the back leading the zombies.

 

[LadyOfStars]

Sade

Desperation had brought Sade to the shores of Baldra-Kai, a place so near to the origin of undead that she dared not bring her sisters-in-arms. So alone she journeyed to this forsaken place, driven by her need for redemption and a mother's love. While her sisters remained in The Pact, Sade arrived to Baldra-Kai just hours before this attack would decimate the village. The smell of smoke and burning flesh made it clear what was happening and as she climbed out of her small boat she threw a few silver coins at the man. "Get to safety, but do not abandon me here." She spoke as if giving the man a command in a tone that threatened him should he choose to disobey her wishes.

She climbed ashore and like a professional athlete sprinted towards the town where she was not surprised to find undead wandering the streets. "The hobgoblins have grown complacent it seems." Her encounters with the undead were few and far between, but Sade feared very few things and wouldn't let a walking corpse stand in her way. She moved through the town like a bulldozer; making weapons of carts and structures, damaging the streets, and destroying anything that got too close.

That was when she heard the voice of a panicked figure calling out. "I don't think this village is of value to anyone anymore." She declared as she made her approach, dragging a zombie with her right hand. Her eyes then spotted a sword moving through the air seemingly by magic? "You should evacuate and let the proper authorities deal with this situation." She advised the poor lizardman.
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[Garbage Pail Kid]

Baldra-Kai
-Lacmos Village-
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Bogmire threw the corpses around with ease, smashing their skulls under heel, but they were just so damn many. He couldn't use a portion of his martial arts because he didn't want to get their blood and flesh between his jaws. They piled onto him and tried to bite through his scales, swarmed momentarily until help came in the form of two strangers. An strong woman and a small being wielding a magic sword.

"Ahm just glad help came, ya'll came at the right time. Ah can get the folks onto boats and get 'em floatin outta here, but if they can turn us, they'll sink us. That there death cult is ruthless." Bogmire warned, turning toward the woman and nodding earnestly.

"Home is where ya make it, ah'll keep the folks safe. Thank ya kindly" He said, focusing on evacuation as he scooped up four or five children and started to hustle.

Zombies started to attack the barricade where three defenders were jabbing outward with their spears; two of these zombies were charred and currently on fire; sweeping themselves across the barricades and set the planks alight.










"Looks like some heroes want to step up to the plate; here I thought we'd put all of thems in the ground here in Baldra-Kai" He howled, slobbering with delight as he saw new flesh arrive to the battlefield; one such morsel was some turkish delight swinging a sandwich skewer. Charrback wanted to savor this, and it had been such a long time since he got to enjoy a good raid.

"Let's make this fun otherwise you'll just burn to death and I'll be bored to tears" He cackled as he stretched out his hand and caused a font of fire to sputter from the ground, rising to meet his palm.

"[Flame Forge; Heater Shield]"

A small wave of heat erupted from his font of flame; enchanting the five zombies around him with three floating shields that started to set fire to carts and produce as the zombies lumbered passed.

"Careful punching these missy; they bite and burn" He said

 

[NeramoDJI]

Sage Valla

Sage looked over at the zombies, slowly bringing his blade up to bear. He saw the zombies approaching the barrier wreathed in flame, before throwing his sword up and kicking it towards the zombie closest to himself, knowing that touching the zombie wouldn't be a good idea, deciding to test how viable projectiles were, chasing after his blade to catch it in case it rebounded, or to wrench it to the side to kill the zombie should it get embedded. However, he was not content to sit idly by, he would make the charge and challenge the zombies, and would try to fight that goblin off.

 

[LadyOfStars]

Sade

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She watched Bogmire take off with the civilians, a sight that put her mind at ease and signaled to her that she could now fight without having to hold back for the safety of others. Having gotten closer it was clear now that the sword was held aloft by a fairy, a rare sight. But he had some fight in him which brought a smile to Sade's face as she witnessed him hurl his blade and rush the enemy. "I'm right behind you, Little One." She assured Sage before she weaponized one of the carcasses' and launched the zombie body at one of the incoming enemies.

Then her feet would press into the ground, cracking and embedding her footprint in the stone right before she leapt skyward, sending herself several feet into the air. Her hair and the thin, blue fabric that comprised her skirt whipped around in the wind as she moved through the air and started her descent towards the center of the zombie assault. "Herculean Strength!" The Amazon called out as she crashed down, her fist driving straight into the earth to shatter the ground and scatter the enemy.

Abilities:
Herculean Strength - Ferocity //// - The user summons all of their physical might to their fists and and assails their target with crushing force.

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[Garbage Pail Kid]

Baldra Kai
-Lacmos Village-

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The fire had grown far worse; smoke filled the streets as embers spread and swallowed more and more of the village in flames. There were still dozens of villagers who were running for their lives; Bogmire carried the infirm and young on his back as he tried to shepherd the panicked crowd.

Sage's blade saw purchase on the zombie it went for; piercing a tough and grimly crispy exterior before it made a high pitched whistling sound; it was one of the zombies given the eerie blessing by the goblin, and seemingly upon death, exploded in a ten foot radius. His sword was unharmed, but the zombie left a scorch mark where it was once stood.

"Behold the blighters after my own bright burning heart! 'splode when they die, taking most fools with 'em. What'eva' yee are don't matter, little morsels are the first ta go-" He crowed before interrupted by the woman he wasn't paying attention to. She landed and caused the compacted dirt path to erupt alongside three enchanted zombies; erupting as they died and causing Sade more than a little discomfort as the equivalent of three airbags on fire racked her body.

The Conflager, however, had indented in a nearby building where debris caught ablaze fell in melancholic heaps. Charrback growling as the [Heater Shield] Had absorbed some of that impact, but it's sheer force shattered it entirely.




"Opposition is futile Pulgrush" He said, spitting out a tooth and bloody phlegm onto the ground as he pulled himself from the brick and mortar his armor had dented in.

"Do you understand the pond you're sticking your snout in? eh? Baldra-Kai already belongs to Rigor Mortis, I'm just cleaning up for beloved Vyradeign, I do that an she's sure to make me a Capitulate" His eyes ablaze with twisted determination to serve his mistress. He rose his hands and shouted with unforeseen conviction.

"Lord Anaag, Lady Vyrdeign; Hear me! [Mace of Conflagration]"

Charrback rose his hands and summoned forth a two handed beast of a mace with molten spikes, glowing with blistering heat. The central orb made of molten rock and oozed onto the ground behind him. He slammed it into the ground; giving Sade an unprecedented moment to react before the ground beneath her erupted with a font of fire and lava.

Spoiler: Mace of Conflagration

 

[LadyOfStars]

Sade

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"Argh!" Slammed on all side by fire and the shockwaves of the explosions, Sade let out a yelp of agony before she fell to the ground. The pain was well beyond a five, but she took out some of the more dangerous undead and that was what mattered. She knelt on the destroyed ground for a moment, trying to steady her breathing as she mentally assessed the damage she'd done to her self. But there was no time. her eyes opened to the sight of the goblin as he channeled his dark god and whoever else he served. They widened when she saw the weapon that he held in his hands. "Hah!" She exhaled loudly as she managed to roll out of the way of the attack. It was all she could do to evade at the moment and not be consumed by the fire and lava.

"Your dark lords will not save you here." Sade promised before she pressed her hand against her knee and pushed herself into a standing position. "Do you know any healing magic, Fairy Boy?" The amazon called to Sage as she took another fighting stance with her fists raised. Battered but not beaten, she had a look of determination in her eyes to match Charrback's own. Fighting that goblin with his new mace would be incredibly dangerous, especially if it had more tricks like the one it just pulled. "We need a plan." She declared while bidding her time.

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[NeramoDJI]

Sage Valla

Sage began to flutter around, wiping his eyes a bit from the smoke and smog all around, the small boy coughing at the intensifying fire. He gripped his sword tight, looking at Sade, immediately fluttering towards her, putting his sword behind him as he fluttered down and caught her in the roll, flying away from the explosion before setting her down with his own massive strength. "I-I'm sowwy pwetty lady! I don't know any magic at all!" He said, whimpering a little. He was only a child and was being thrust into the darkness of the world far faster than most, and was still reeling from the bodies and the destruction.

He listened to her say they needed a plan, before nodding a bit. "I-I think I have an idea pwetty lady!" He said, before looking at her. "I'm weally fast! I'll distwact him in a fight, and you thwow the boom boom zombies at him, and we'll get him that way!" He said, picking his sword up from where he left it, unable to await a response as he saw the zombies starting up again, clutching his sword and flying towards the goblin himself to put the plan he had into motion.

 

[Garbage Pail Kid]

Baldra-Kai
-Lacmos Village-
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Charrback felt such a rush of righteous purpose that it surged through his veins like adrenaline. His eyes bulging as he seethed with sheer zealous delight. An aura of fire licking at his corrugated armor as he hefted the mace over his shoulder with ease; manic eyes bouncing between the warrior and the...fairy? It had to be, that could be the only thing that small with such potential. They would make valuable vassals, perhaps the woman could even be a prize for The Mistress, Vyradeign,

"This land will be ours soon; Rigor Mortis has choked the life out of this country and this is merely it's death rattles!" He cried, beating a fist against his flanged cuirass. The fairy choosing to put their sword in the ring, and The Conflager was all too happy to reciprocate. His skin beginning to bubble from the intense heat that swole around his form. The blistering aura radiating from the mace; He was charging it.

a group of nearly ten zombies shambled around Sade's position; four of them were ablaze. It didn't help that the crossroads they were locked in battle on, was filling with smoke. Sade had a chance, if she chose to follow the fairy's rather vague plan, to toss a blazing corpse before the smoke obscured her view of Charrback.

The Conflager gripped his mace with both hands; digging his heel into the ground and lurching the hammer forward. Sage being met with a force of heat and wind as the mace ruptured the floor; The goblin zealot drug it across the ground with destructive force. The ground around him pooling into molten rock.

"[Hammer of Conflagration; Mektahl!]"

 

[NeramoDJI]

Sage Valla

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Sage flew towards the goblin with a cry, brandishing his blade as he saw the mace swing down to the earth once more, heat and wind blowing sage back a moment before he regained his stride, glaring down at the goblin. "Whatevew youw wigow mowtis is, I won't let you huwt mowe people!" He said, barely understandable through his lisp, but diving down with his blade to the goblin while he had his mace facing downwards, trying to get at the goblin while he was presumably vulnerable, gripping the leather of his hilt firmly. He dove faster towards the goblin, folding his wings behind him to stop the wind resistance from the heat rising towards him.

 

[LadyOfStars]

Sade

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She asked for a plan, but Sade had to admit, she did not enjoy the idea pitched by the little fairy. It didn't become clear to her until after she'd heard him speak that the tiny thing was just a child and that was probably while his plan did not sit well with her. Before she could object to the plan however, the fairy had taken off and rushed into battle head first. "Damn it." She swore as her blood began to boil and not from the heat produced by the flames around her. Children were always too eager and too shortsighted. While she respected the fairy's courage and enthusiasm for battle, he'd certainly get himself killed.

But she had her own threats closing in around her and these were not enemies should could shrug off. She pulled her right arm back and inhaled deeply as she set her gaze upon the floor. Pillars of steam rose from the ground as the flames and heat evaporated Sade's falling beads of sweat and dried the ground. "Hah!" In the blink of an eye she brought he fist drown with all her might, hoping to shatter and splinter the ground so that the zombies might become trapped or their paths blocked.

Abilities:
Herculean Strength - Ferocity //// - The user summons all of their physical might to their fists and and assails their target with crushing force.

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[Garbage Pail Kid]

Baldra Kai
-Lacmos Village-​

The heat and fire that Charrback emitted was sublimating the air around them into steam, but it was also a slow attack that slagged the ground as he carved his swing through it. Sage was strong, but the overwhelming force and heat of The Conflager's swing caught him in a devastating position. The swing ended in a eruption of fire that swirled around the two of them. The fairy's body so small, sage didn't even have time for regrets before he was consumed in flame. Charrback cackling as the mace fizzled, his conjuration reached it's limit.

"Burn away, for a better world, one where life will no longer interfere!"

Sade pulverized the ground, causing giant plants of earth and cobblestone to jut out like massive tombstones. The zombies who didn't just outright fall into the massive split in the earth, were caught in the rubble and debris that fell from disheveled earth. Sade managing to immobilize nearly fourteen altogether, though it seemed stamina was of no concern to them as they would tirelessly try and free themselves.

The sound of an eruption pulled Sade's attention toward her cohort in this fight; a sliver between broken pieces of street allowed her to see the grim results of his confrontation with the mad goblin; as if things couldn't get worse, a few pillars of smoke dotted outside regions of the village, where Bogmire had escaped with the villagers.

"It seems the fleet of flesheaters I sent through the sea, finally arrived! What a jubilant day! For every body on your side that falls, another on ours, rises! rises! RISEESSS!" He screeched, his shrill voice mixed with distant screams. A choir of hell resounding through a once peaceful village.

 

[LadyOfStars]

Sade

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Sade's chest visibly rose and fell with every breath as she surveyed the area and took note of the responses of the undead. They weren't beaten, not yet. But her gaze swept to the scene of the burning fairy and the twisted goblin. It was a gruesome and brutal sight behold, but such was the cost of impatience and overconfidence.

The sound of rubble falling with fill the street as the Amazon raised a piece of displaced earth up over her head, clearing it from her path and granting her access to Sage and Charrback's arena. "Do not celebrate before you've won!" She declared in a booming voice before she hurled the sizable debris across the battlefield at the green-skinned pyromaniac.

As it flew she rushed to Sage's side and with her hand attempted to smother out the flames that consumed him. She was angry with the fairy for being so reckless and wished that this was not a real battle so that she could scold him and teach him better. To know and respect his limits. But that was the general and leader in her, perhaps even the mother in her. "Wake up little fairy." She whispered to him, hoping that he was still alive.

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[NeramoDJI]

Sage Valla

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Sage felt the fire consuming his small form, tears forming as he cried out from the pain, only for it to be instantly evaporated. He looked through the orange tinted world, seeing Sade's silhouette above him. His charred skin crisped and flaked some when she touched him, his breathing rasping, out of breath from the screaming. However, as he closed his eyes from exhaustion, suddenly, something flashed before his eyes and mind. A massive hole in the sky, eating everything around it in the stars beyond.

"You will not die. I will not let us. We cannot die... Until all. life. ENDS. So get up, boy. Get up, and FIGHT. FIGHT! FIGHT...!"

With the vision flashing before his eyes, the flame burst away from his body, Sage changing before Sade's very eyes. His hair parted as a red gem protruded out slowly, His eyes opened slowly, his previously blue eyes now crimson. His flesh had a small orange glow before the charred and ruined sky peeled off him, revealing completely healthy skin beneath. His wings flared out, vanishing from her hands. He appeared in the air above them, now around 5 feet tall, a dark aura pouring off of him. "Too long I've slept. I knew they'd forget me. But now all creation will remember me." He said, looking up to the sky as he raised his hand up, the skies above seemingly bending as a constellation appeared above his hand, the lines defining themselves more and more before he gripped it, a Zweihander blade forming above him. "You're both holding your heads too high. Come, fight me and lose them." He said, a crimson glow rising from his Zweihander as he looked out over them. "This childs form fights for control, but I will destroy all I see before he reclaims it." He told, his sword pointing towards the goblin. "NOW DIE, UNLOVED AND FORGOTTEN BY THE STARS." He shouted, flying down towards the goblin with a manic look in his eyes. He struck towards the goblin with a [Critical Mass Blade, strength 3], an ability that left a gravitational pull towards the blade from the sheer might behind it.

Spoiler: Quasaro

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