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Sardonyx stepped to a safe distance from the edge, and overlooked the forest. It was quiet, and motionless; and indeed, a degree of chaos loomed upon it in all it's tranquility. He closed his eyes and reopened them, fixated upon one spot of the forest that was no different from the rest. "It's there. If you can help to destroy it, do so." And on this, Sardonyx's eyes started to glow faintly; a torrent of black whisps started to fly and gather into his open jaws from everywhere around him, forming a powerful black light that would doubtlessly incinerate the portion of the forest he was aiming for, beyond the point of anything growing there ever again.

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Zelas had to rub his eyes just to make sure the dots were real. "Why are you showing this to me?" He asked, suspicious... clans liked to keep their locations secret from each other, and this map seemed perfect for wars and attack plans. "This map is dangerous."

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"RAAAAAHH-! HOW DARE THEY?" Carnage was furious- she could fight, and yet that b*****d teleported her back! She vented her frustration by punching the ground once with all her strength, creating a small crater in the light blue dust. She squinted as the dust seemed to gather back in place and fill the hole. "-Eh?"

*star moved her hands from the crystall, and the iamge was gone* "no worries, I'm the one that holds the map... even if you got this tower to work under your own power it whould show you nothign ebcasue it alone has nothing to show, nothing more then a amss of magic crystall... unless it's told other wise.. I use it as a stand to projected cramed memorys... and I use it to help me sence much father and wider... but what this comes down to... zelas.. you are part of a group known as TADA... a group made to keep peace in the realm crottect me if I'm wrong.. and you unlike many of that group have a strong magic aura around you... that shows you chould understand such things as I'm showing you..."



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*Halo star noded, His blue stars on his body glowering softly in the night Air* "that I shall"


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*holy flames looked at the dust too, utterly puzzled by it...* "dirt doesn't normaly do that..." *she still looked at it wided eyed*

Riddle frowned. The only thing he hadn't known was the true size of the realm. He had known everything else. If this was a big leap, Riddle felt that he had taken a small step.

After his black light had gathered so much energy he could barely hold it in his jaws, he released it, a giant black lance striking down on the forest with amazing destructive power for several moments before it thinned, and stopped- the air everywhere had become full of the clouds of dust that had come up, and when it finally settled down enough to see, all the trees in sight had withered and died, and in the center of the catastrophe was an enormous crater, where the soil was bare and turned to a dusty gray color. Sardonyx stumbled a little to the side, but caught himself and nodded, satisfied. "That should do it." He said, but something wasn't right- for some reason, he felt that the target was far from being dead- and had gotten even closer.

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Carnage stomped on the dust, creating footprints, and watched as dust settled back to fill them up as if moved by a very light, invisible wind. "Your ground's all crazy. What do-" She stopped as a loud booming noise could be heard in the distance, and the trees on the horizon darkened and turned to brown, all their leaves falling off. "-What's up with this place? Hurr..." Still not having forgotten her anger, she scanned the environs. "That Star person could probably defeat Dread. Let's go get her." She suggested to Holy Flame, determined.

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Zelas understood, and nodded, a little embarassed again. "The Arcane Diversity Alliance. It is not exactly to create peace especially- more to create a safer world for dragons wherever they go in the Realm. Probably- probably, although I don't know of these places myself- there are already members of the Alliance spread thoughout this entire map. We can speak to each other through a link, that is maintained by our guardian gods, Hymen and Tyche if you have heard of them- but the closer we are to each other, the stronger the link is. We can send messages with the mind, although we can't really have conversations beyond basic instructions and emotions..." He stopped, noticing that he had been talking for a long while now. "Um! I'm sorry milady, I rambles off. I tend to do that sometimes."

Riddle thought about it a moment. He wondered something.
"Could you create at least an image of a loop shield, and what one with a dent looks like?"
Riddle wanted to find out if he could see the shields himself, along with the dents, with his Cats Eye.

Carnage nodded gravely and then headed to the tower, trying to open the door- but it was locked. She sighed and shrugged, frowning. "All right then-" she backed up a few paces- "Here we GO!" Lunging forwards, she kicked the stone entryway and a large whole burst into the stone, then the rest of the door cracked and crumbled into rubble. Carnage smirked at Holy Flame, satisfied. "After you." That legendary strength of hers wasn't for nothing...

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Zelas was about to comment, but he had to stop as Carnage seemingly destroyed the door and came stomping in. "What the-?" He said, arching his brow.

((I'll reply to the rest later twisted ))

"Knocking, what is this... knocking you speak of?" Carnage asked comically, feigning innocence- and then she grinned. "No, this isn't stress. It's anger. Dad's out fighting Dread with Halo Star or what-his-face there, who teleported Holy Flame and I back against our will. But we all know that Dread's crazy to fight with, since you can't see him lest you end up like I did most of a day ago. Us two were wondering if you could help. And... whoah, what's that... map?" Carnage was already working to memorise it as well as she could, thinking that such a map was just about the handiest thing she'd ever laid her eyes upon, and hoping to use the knowledge in a future for less-than-commendable purposes involving blood and battle.

Zelas, knowing what Carnage was probably up to, was about to scold her- but then again, she had just said something terribly grave. "Fighting that... Dread? I knew I'd forgotten something." He said, anguish on his face. If his father died... he'd blame himself for not having teleported him. "We have to find them as quick as we can. Where is he?" Zelas asked Carnage, hoping the encounter hadn't taken place yet. Little did he know it was about to.

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((G0ld, everybody with a body has to be affected by Dread too, kay? No matter how powerful Halo Star is, Dread is made of the primal instinct of fear that all animals are born with, without question. It's the fear that comes before the mind and soul- it's the body's fear. As long as you have a body, you can't prevent your body from fearing, even if your mind or soul isn't afraid at all. :3 It's like pain- you can block it out with your mind, but it will still weaken your body, despite any of your feelings. So ya- if anyone with a body sees Dread, their body will numb the mind away and the base animal of the body will flee. Only powerful dragons can truly survive the sight of Dread anyways, because weak ones die of fear because of a total system shutdown of the body the moment they see him, or they go crazy or retarded because their brain got thrown into chaos.

So yeah, Dread is REALLY good for a bad-guy role for you guys- because I was thinking that all these charas like Riddle and Star are too insanely powerful, and that I needed to find a way to create a "bad guy" that will be very difficult for even them to defeat. twisted ))

Dread slowly gathered from the shadows, and loomed behind the two dragons soundlessly. One of them had closed his eyes and tried to bite him- Dread evaded that easily, having shifted from one place to another, and lifted a claw, aiming to stab Halo Star through his little chest.

Silence reigned after Halo Star's words, and as the dust thinned, a shadow advanced from behind he and Sardonyx- that of a dragon, resembling an earth dragon in implied shape, but much larger, larger even than a dark dragon. "CLOSE YOUR EYES- TELEPORT!" Sardonyx shouted to Halo Star, feeling the fear that was the creature behind them creep into every fiber of his being- his legs were about to bolt, his focus was shifting itself around- but he lashed out at the body of the shadow, but his fangs snapped shut on air- nothing was there.