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Gandalf-0

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The brave soldier gasped from the pain of his wound, but continued on. He knew that the accursed demon had fallen here, but where was it? Wait, here was a leg, and a ribcage, and, OH! The demon was found! But, where is the claw...

Two more soldiers join the first, and helped him try to find the demon’s claw under the pile of bodies. The carnage of the battle surrounded them, but they were being carefully protected by the archers and mages. And as another group of tormented demons was charging at them, the first soldier gave out a cry, “I found it!”

“Quick, drop it on the ground where I can see it!” shouted a mage hanging out of the window above.

The soldier quickly tossed the shining object into the open, and the mage cast a tele-grab spell. Taking it in his hand, he applied the crystal back to where it belonged.

“Finally! Now we are safe from those ogres! Huzzah! Send word!”

The word was yelled from man to man, until finally someone screamed out at the top of his lungs, “THE CRYSTAL IS REPLACED!!”

The group of about a hundred knights, watchmen, wizards, and warriors which were fighting the ogres immediately turned and ran back to Yanille.

Now that the crystal had been replaced in the Watchtower, the ogres could not attack the city, and the men attacking the ogres could now focus on fighting the undead army.

As they returned, the knights of King Arthur teleported to Yanille, and ran through the streets of the city, destroying creatures as they ran. The enemy was still strong outside, but they were demoralized by the fact that their ogre allies could no longer come. Their general rallied them, and another wave charged up the siege towers and through the many holes in the wall, but behind each weak point stood a Knight of the Round Table, and the city was prepared for any onslaught.

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21-Mar-2012 01:24:51

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Ardougne was on its knees. Everywhere Hazeel walked, devastation followed in his wake. His army was looting every home, opening every prison, killing every civilian. Only about five hundred knights and paladins were left; all the guards had been killed, and the few heroes had been on the front line in every encounter: certain death.

The undead army fed its hunger on the dead bodies, ripping off the armour, ravenously chewing, and leaving them so mutilated so as to be unrecognizable.

The few remaining were afraid of their fate, and some surrendered, only to be eaten alive instead of dead. The entire city was occupied, and the last remnant of men were crowded in the main palace, much the same as the situation had been in Falador.

As before, the Mahjarrat walked up to the last defense to gloat, and as before, Gregory appeared in a flash of lightning.

But Hazeel was not a coward. Khazard had run after receiving his first stroke of pain, but Hazeel was smart enough to both not run because of the pain and not to get hit in the first place.

The two fought incessantly, swords clanging and the buildings around splintering or bursting into flame as spells were cast back and forth.

Suddenly, Gregory stopped. He froze still, and stared Hazeel right in the eyes.

Cowardly thoughts began creeping in. Hazeel thought, “Why are you fighting him anyway? You can’t defeat him, even if you win this battle, but what if he destroys you, or conquers your army? Far better to make a dignified retreat then to deal with this. Or I could make an alliance with him, or...”

21-Mar-2012 01:25:11

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Gradually, Hazeel’s thoughts became slower and slower, and his mind began to drowse. He was so stupefied that it did not seem strange for Gregory to just stand there looking at him with gleaming eyes, when it would be just as easy to swoop up and kill him. But his thoughts suddenly redirected themselves. *What reason would he have for staring at me like that? People only do that when possessing other people, or...”

The thought ran through his head, “THAT’S it. He is possessing me! NO NO NO!!*

Hazeel ripped himself out of his stupor, and Gregory gave a disappointed look.

“Nearly had you there. Oh well...”

Gregory jumped into the air, and slashed his weapon sideways across Hazeel’s skull, and the battle continued.

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“The Staff... is too strong...”

Merlin was lying on his side on the ground, panting, and conjuring up a last spell in his hand. Lucien, too, was exhausted, and surprised at how powerful a wizard could be. He was leaning on a tree in pain and fatigue, and as he was ready to finish off Merlin, he saw a figure.

Zemouregal was walking toward him in his cloaked form, with about ten armoured zombies following him.

“I am glad to see you Lucien. How is the siege going?”

“Well, I have just discovered just how powerful some wizards can get; this one has exhausted me. Would you mind finishing him off? Oh, and how did it go at Camelot?”

“It went fine! I burned the castle, and the village is also in flames. My zombies are now seeing what they can do about Catherby.”

“But we defeated you!” yelled Merlin, “and you ran away!”

“Ah, yes you did the first time, due to your great numbers, but I simply came back after you had all gone.”

21-Mar-2012 01:25:28

Gandalf-0

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“Argh!”

“Good job Zemouregal. You may do the honors.”

“Thank you. I will make it quite dramatic.” Holding his hands in a ball shape, he charged a spell. It formed a purple-green swirling ball, and the charge grew greater and greater. He charged it for over a minute, and Lucien began to grow impatient.

“Hurry up, and get on with it!”

“Very well, it is ready now.* With that, the Mahjarrat held the ball up, turned around, and cast it.

The swirling sphere of power flew through the air, and its receiver gasped.

As the spell struck, Lucien screamed, and fell to the ground. Gregory instantly changed his form, drew his weapons, cast a teleblock, and stood over Lucien. Merlin drew a sigh of relief.

“Lucien, I have you now, and you will not make a single move to attack, before you are dead!”

“You have tricked me once again, Gregory, so what do you want now?” he gasped.

“I want the Stone of Jas and the Staff of Armadyl.”

“Ahh, you want the only things I cannot give you. You see, I gave them both to Zemouregal before I left.”

“No you did*’t, you were using the Staff just now, and the Stone is in your base.”

“Hand them over? Never. Especially when there is no reason to.”

As he spoke, a shadow passed over them, and there was a rumble. Khazard landed, from out of the sky, just behind Gregory, and before he could react, he was stabbed in the back.

The blade stuck right through his ribcage, and came out his front side. Knowing that Khazard was still holding the sword, Gregory touched the tip of the blade with his hands, and shot a bolt of power through it. Khazard yelled in pain, and let go of the blade.

Gregory made not a sound, but his friends on the wall could tell by his look on his face that he was in the greatest pain imaginable. He felt dizziness flood through his mind, and almost fell.

Reaching around, Gregory took the blade out and attacked Khazard, and this time Khazard stayed to fight, sensing the weakness of his rival.

21-Mar-2012 01:25:38

Azigarath

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Well, I decided to stop by, as that's the least I could do. I won't bother talking about what I dislike, as this is outside of my reviewing, but I would suggest a TV series known as Weapons that Made Britain (the entire series is on YouTube) when you have the time, if you want. It is an excellent documentary that includes real swordsmanship and even horsemanship, showing viewers combat that included swordplay, wrestling, disarming, and even using the hilt of a sword as a weapon (hitting your opponent with the hilt is called murder stroke, for example, and this could knock a plated knight off his feet).

If you can get a general idea of how real Medieval combat was, you can implement that into fiction and create polished action. Of course that is just optional, but I thought I'd mention that, just in case you were interested.

The development of your storyline and idea was going through a steady expansion, and although this is relatively common, you keep it large-scale and maintain that level, something I rarely see in the RSF. But then again there seems to be lots of inactivity during the spring. Even my own works are stalled, and my own fans seem to have disappeared.

"Seeing as no one has posted, I will not continue posting the story."
For the ten years of my time in RuneScape, that does seem to be the best philosophy. Why waste time on a place that will end inevitably anyways? If you feel it's time to move on, that's ok too, you are not a slave for a bunch of faces on the left. Inevitably, we all must move on life, this is just how it is.

With all that said, as mentioned above, activity is very low during early spring for some reason. Maybe due to school beginning and such like that. But I've done my part, as I am not the kind of person who simply forgets and goes away as if nothing has happened.
Sometimes we simply need to be happy about what we have or have accomplished in the limited environment that is the RSF.

02-Apr-2012 00:12:45 - Last edited on 02-Apr-2012 00:13:21 by Azigarath

Azigarath

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Woops, I forgot to include the proof of reading.

The story goes from assassins, knights fighting, talking with Khazard, Sliske, Zemouregal and other Mahjarrats, some description about besieged cities, and ogres, zombies and demons, a few characters like Sarah popping, and such happenings to continue the rising action.

There we go, hope that's enough to show I did continue reading from page 27.

02-Apr-2012 00:22:33 - Last edited on 02-Apr-2012 00:22:51 by Azigarath

Gandalf-0

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I'm back. Took a week break, so I didn't see your posts at once.

@Azigarath: Very interesting idea. I might look at the videos of which you speak, but the story isn't quite focussed on the combat as much as the story line.

I'm not too concerned about the thread being so inactive because I've noticed an overall trend of inactivity for the Runescape story forums. Whenever I look, the most people I see viewing this forum at once is 2, while other forums have up to 80 at regular times and 700 max right after an update or other event. Too bad that the Runescape community has become disinterested in fiction storytelling...


@flaming noms: Sorry! Story coming up...

12-Apr-2012 04:38:51

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