The Self Referential Thread

[His Divine Shadow]

*Flowing through the very walls of his ship, HDS emerges before a strange figure, one whose very form seemed to speak of enigmas ancient and vile. He is expressionless, featureless, looking out with eyes that seem to look beyond yourself into something far beyond or, perhaps, behind. When he speaks, it is forcefull, yet calm. He has none of the anger we have seen in other demons*

HL: I have faced many, many in the service of my master, Methrobium, and all have fallen before me. But, in none of my many battles have I faced one who had the same...time...as I. I sense that we are both relics of a past age, HDS was it? Alas, reminiscing is not what I came here to do. Prepare for your end, and that of all with you, for end you will as offerings upon the altar of my siege.

HDS: We may be akin in time, but beyond that your sight seems clouded. A fall today I do not forsee.

*Both draw strange swords, inscribed with runes in a language all but the two long forgot. The High Lord's glows a dull red, HDS', a strange black. The two face each other without speaking and prepare to engage.*

 

[kurchatovium]

*Zumi cast a spell of Dark Destruction at kurch. The powerful spell knocks kurch back but does not stop his incredible concentration and continues to recite hs spell.*

Zumi: ARE YOU CHICKEN PREACHER? DO SOMETHING!!! OR ARE YOU AFRAID?

*kurch continues to recite the reflection spell and is almost done. Zumi darkness spell eats away at the ships hull slowly destroying its integrity.*

Zumi: DIE YOU WORTHLESS FOE!!!!

*Zumi begins to cast another Dark Destruction spell and suddenly kurch body glazes over glistening as if made of the purest silver. Zumi hurls her spell at kurch and it bounces off and hits her. Zumi screams in agony.*

Zumi: WHAT TRICKERY IS THIS!!!!!!!!

😀 😀 😛

 

[His Divine Shadow]

*HDS and THL launch towards each other almsot sliently, swingind their blades down at speeds such that the blades vanished for an instant. Both blades met in a firey shower of sparks and sound, with two great gouges carved in the walls of the Divine Order flagship, even though neither blade had actually touched the wall. The two pushed against each other for a fraction of a second before leaping back, launching great energy waves at each other, still soundlessly. HDS absorbed THL's wave with his cloak, which suddenly shone of a thousand stars, even as THL simply waved aside the blow directed at him.*

THL: Summons, I command thee, arise!

HDS: You wish to summon? Then let it be so. Adeat!

*Each figure became shrouded in a great form, THL's that of a firey phoenix, HDS' that of a dark kite with stars for eyes. The two birds cried and leapt at each other even as the ones who called them did the same.*

 

[kurchatovium]

*Zumi now furious cast a spell of Abyssl Disintegration ( amost powerful spell) at kurch again the spell bounces off kurch and hits Zumi causing her extensive damage and burning a hole in her abdomen. Zumi screams and the orar damges a good portion of the ship.*

Zumi: WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHAT IS THIS? BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!

kurchatovium: A time for reflection my dear. A time for reflection.

*more of the ships fritters away and Zumi prepares to cast her strongest spell. The spell of Abyssal Chaos. On a handful of dark priests and priesteses can cast this spell. She hurls the spell and kurch and the spell hits him and knocks him back through the back part of the bridge but the spell is almost entirely reflected back and hits Zumi staright in the chest. The spell burns out her entire chest and eats away at what little remains. Soon Zumi's two hearts begin to vaporize and disappear.*

Zumi: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kurchatovium: As the kids on my block use to say I am rubber you are glue Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. Nyah Nyah. 😛

*Zumi screams and her hearts disappear into nothingness as does the rest of her body. The spell she had cast on the ship now vanishes as well. Zumi is dead.*

😀 😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

Zumi is dead HDS. You need any help? 😀 😀 😛

 

[milagros317]

Zysss attempts to bite the DW's head off, but the DW is too quick for him. While Zysss is attempting this, I blast him twice with a Demon Blaster Ultimate Canon. It tears off a hunk of his shoulder, and he roars in pain. 😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

*The last materializiation takes place. Sett materializes aboard The Seraphim Queen's ship.* 😀 😀 😛

 

[His Divine Shadow]

*The two combatants and their summons collide in a great maelstrom of fire and ash, searing the walls of the engine room and burning all inside to nothingness. The two separate, breathing a little harder.*

HDS: 'Tis a good thing these walls are meant to contain the forces of many singularities. *Hearing Kurch's call* Find Sett. This one has not yet begun to fight. 😀

*Calling on forces that had laid dormant within himself for longer than many civilizations have existed, HDS called forth a coursing of shadowy figures and forms which began to flow about his sword*

THL: What is this trickery!? Such beings come from the Shadow Plane, but it has been gone for eons!

HDS: Gone, yes, but one survived. I made that realm my home long ago, and even now it lives within me. I have called it forth, and now you will feel its bite.

*HDS' eyes turn completely black as he flies at the demon, who, holding his sword out in front of him, calls great flames to surround it*

THL: Shadow plane or no shadow plane, I'll not fall this day! Taste the fires of creation itself!

*THL leaps into the air and both collide, the energies of their blades merging and melding as they glare at each other, one's eyes silver pools, the other's black as night itself can never be*

 

[milagros317]

The DW gouges out Zysss' right eye with a metal hook. Zysss regrows the eye and laughs in his face. I blast Zysss again with two shots from the Demon Blaster Ultimate Canon, and he stops laughing, a hugh chuck of flesh gone from his right calf. 😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

10-4 HDS.

*Kurch materializes on board The Seraphim Queens ship and sees Sett about to bear down on her. Kurch intervenes and hammers away at Sett with the new Demon Sweeper Cannons. The two massive guns drive Sett back and riddle him with wounds.*

Sett: DAMN YOU! YOu ARE BOTH SUPPOSE TO BE DEAD. THIS TIME YOU SHALL BE.

The Seraphim Queen: It is you that are Damned Sett. Yu have turned you back on THE CREATOR. He had such hope for you.

Sett: THE CREATOR What A joke. METHROBIUM WILL BE THE NEW CREATOR. THE NEW GOD. ALL SHALL BOW BEFORE HIM.

kurchatovium: I really think not Sett.

*kurchatovium pull out a massive staff of ttiwsts it and it shoots out amssive onslaugh on concentrated holy water compressed crystal shards. The new weapon rips through Sett's flesh and the demon roars. The demon lunges at the Queen and throws her to the ground. He jumps and tries to stomp on her but kurch knocks him away. Sett then throws kurch through the hull of the ship breaking most of ribs and limbs. The Seraphim Queen cast a spell of CREATOR's healing on kurch and instantly mends his broken bones.*

The Seraphim Queen: Are you ok my child?

kurchatovium: I am fine my Queen. This dude is royally pissing me off though.

😀 😀 😛

 

[His Divine Shadow]

*HDS and THL's, their blades meeting a second time, strain against each other. Suddenly, the fire seems to go dimmer about THL's blade. HDS smiles clightly and pushes a final time. The blade shatters and he cuts a deep swath through THL's chest, casting him backward into the engine room wall and throwing himself in the opposite direction.*

THL, grimacing: In the countless years I have been alive, those who have wounded me can be counted on one hand. You will not live for this insolence.

*THL summons a portion of his might and casts a great wave of force at HDS, invisible and inexorable. Desummoning his blade, HDS crosses his arms in fron t of him and braces, taking the blast full on. It presses him further into the wall, bucking the very material and gouging great holes to either side.*

 

[milagros317]

Zysss: You'll pay for this, Milagros, you'll die in screaming agony soon!

Me: You don't scare me, demon.

As I blast him again with the Demon Blassster Ultimate Canon, my officer and wizard Zhang shoot him from behind with a concetrated holy water grenade, and the DW bites his nose off.

Zysss: You will all pay for this!

Zysss spits out fire and we all back off from him.

😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

*kurch pulls out two more Demon Sweeper Cannons and shoves them into two of Sett's gaping wounds. kurch rattles off all the ammo ripping aprt a lot of Sett's insides. The demon roars and smack kurchatovium into the back of The Seraphim Queens ship. Sett pulls out a giant SWORD OF ABYSSAL CHAOS, forged from the Abyssal plane inner fires and lunges after The Queen. The Queen adeptly avoids many of Sett's attacks but finally cuts her off. Sett begins to shove the sword into The Seraphim Queens chest but kurch intervees taking the full force of the blow and is is severely injured. kurch's life force begins to rain away.*

Sett: FOOL NOW YOU BOTH SHALL DIE.

The Seraphim Queen: NOOOOOOOOOO KURCH NOOOOOOOOOO

The Seraphi Queen begins to cry and she plants a single kiss on kurch's cheek.

Then something begins to happen......something wonderful.........

😀 😀 😛

 

[His Divine Shadow]

*HDS thrusts forward and casts off the last of THL's assault, although not without injury. A great crack formed down his face, and a darkness poured from within it*

HDS: You've brought it upon yourself now, demon. Long has my self been locked within this form. You now have broken the seal. You have my congratulations, and my condolences. None have been able to do what you've just done, but you'll not survive what's coming.

THL: What? A shell! What are you!? Agh, it matters not what you are! I'll annihilate you all the same!

*THL, summons all his power and puts it into one final blast, one capable of rending whole solar systems asunder*

THL: You end NOW, foul wretch! I don't care what you are, NO ONE CAN SURVIVE MY FULL ABILITY! I, THE HIGH LORD, WHO STOOD AGAINST THE CREATOR, WILL BE BEATEN BY NO MERE MAN!

*Screaming an unholy scream that chilled the very souls of the crew of the Flagship, THL let lose his untilmate force, a Discontinuity Paradigm, which raced towards a strangely calm HDS*

HDS: Mere man? Heh. If that is what you wish to call me. You spell your own end with this assault.

*Still smiling, HDS was engulfed by the great forces, which passed by and through him, rending a great crack in the starship and coursing out into the universe beyond. But, within the chaos, had one been able to see HDS, they would have seen his face crack further, the spiderwebs of breaks rapidly consuming his form, consuming it until the small smile on his face was all that remains, and then even that consumed, until all crumbed to nothing, leaving behind...*

 

[milagros317]

Zysss' fiery breath sweeps over the bridge as we take cover. As soon as he runs out of fire, we all spring forward and attack.

I blast him again with the Demon Blassster Ultimate Canon, Zhang tosses a CREATOR'S CONCETNTRATED LIGHT BOMB on him from behind, and the DW shoves another such LIGHT BOMB into the hole where his nose was.

Zysss howls in agony and clutches at his face in horror.

😀 😛

 

[His Divine Shadow]

*THL allowed a smile as he examined the fire still coursing through the room, continuing to pour forth his assault*

THL: No more left. A pity. We could have reminisced about older days...wait...what is that chasm...

*Within the great river of fire doom coursing forth from THL, a shadow began to appear, coursing through the very stream of energy itself, consuming it, overwhelming it. THL continued to furiously pour energies into his assault, a look of fear for the first time on his face, as the dark cloud expanded, absorbing everything he cast*

A voice from everywhere and nowhere: Now you see what lay behind, and, lo, it will be the last thing you ever see.

*THL shrieked as the darkness that was deeper than dark filled the engine room, flowing swiftly towards THL from all sides. Shrieking again, THL put all he had into his attack, covering his face with one hand and cowering down in a corner of the room as the blackness covered him. In an instant, the shriek was cut off, the attack silenced, the room still, save for the imperceptible shifting of the darkness as that which was His Divine Shadow consumed its foe*

That which is HDS, to no one and everyone: Poor little one. He once was good, and some remained in him even now, I can feel it, but he forgets that some doers of good harbour the blackest of evil.

*Smiling a smile unseeable by any, HDS silently consumes the last of the High Lord's tortured soul, erasing him from the continuum of time and space.*

 

[kurchatovium]

*From but this one kiss something magical shall transpire, a kiss full of the very thing that makes Heaven Heaven. A kiss full of hope, A kiss full of dreams, a kiss full of courage, a kiss full of WUV. The Seraphim Queen's power has been not her ability to cast powerul spells or wield powerful weapons but that most intangible of things that one can never possible measure or understand except in moments like these. The Seraphim Queen's power has always been her unwavering Faith. Kurch's slowly dying body now almost totally drained of heprplasmic blood begins to glow. The Sword implanted in his chest falls out as Kurch is literally reformed anew. Kurchatovium is reborn.*

*Sett bears down on The Seraphim Queen again*

Kurchatovium: Sett ol' boy I belive you dropped something.

*kurch lunges the SWORD OF ABYSSAL CHAOS into Sett's Chest and through the other side.*

Sett screams in utter pain

THe Seraphim Queen: Kurch I thought you were........

kurchatovium: I am fine my Queen thanks to you.

*Sett rises again to try to attack both of them. Kurch with amazing power glows white for a second and rips out Sett's heart in an instant dropping the demon dead. Sett is dead.*

The Seraphim Queen: Ummm How did you do that????

kurchatovium: Ummm to be honest I am not exactly sure...its dd though whatever fears I had facing any of Methrobium's evil forces or whatever fears I had facing him are now totally gone. I dont think I am scared of anything evil anymore.

The Seraphim Queen: Oh Kurch (the queen cries tears of joy) You have achieved total faith.

kurchatovium: I always thought I had it......hmmm guess not

The Seraphim Queen: Dont feel bad very few ever reach that point. Even I was not completely there for a long time. This is a joyous day Methrobium's are down to a precious few.

kurchatovium: You know queen I think you are right. 😀 😀 😛

*Sett is now dead. The final battle draws near.*

 

[milagros317]

Zysss clutches at his face in horror realizing that the LIGHT BOMB has eaten his tongue away, and also his fire glands. While he is stll in shock, Zhang rips open his belly with her sharp sword. I rip out his heart with my sword, and the Destruction Warrior devours it, chewing it into tiny bits.

Zysss' heartless body decays into dust before our eyes. 😀 😛

"My work here is done," says the DW, as he vanishes into the realm from which he came.

I hug Zhang with joy. 😀 😛

Major Zhang:

 

[His Divine Shadow]

*The Darkness that had filled the Order flagship engine room slowly came together, merging, melding, morphing, coalescing into the familiar form of HDS, a grin on his face. A shimmer coursed across his form as he recreated the shell that held his true self*

HDS: A little mistruth did I tell that one. I had said that the Shadow plane was my home, but in truth it was myself entirely. The realm and this one, one. Alas that he was the only one to ever feel it. *Sighing, HDS sat down on the ruined engine room floor, laughing as he saw now the great hole rent in his ships's side*

 

[kurchatovium]

Excellent job HDS. Excellent job Milagros. I do believe that is the last of Methrobium's major forces. Level 12 is cleared. 😀 😀 😛

 

[milagros317]

It has surely been a bad day for demons around here. 😀 😛

 

[His Divine Shadow]

A bad day to end all bad days, yes indeed. Congratulations all around!

*Puts in a work order for his ship, marked priority* 😛

You were right, Kurch, when you said the High Lord was once good. I felt, even as I devoured him, a small piece of himself fly up to the place where all good ones may rest. Something good hung on in that one yet.

 

[kurchatovium]

Glad you are back with us HDS. 😀 Great job.

A bad day for demons indeed. Though I hope I dont have to take anymore SWORDS OF ABYSSAL CHAOS through the chest anytime soon again. 😀 😀 😛

 

[His Divine Shadow]

I would imagine that taking anything through the chest would be most unpleasant, a SWORD OF ABYSSAL CHAOS even more so. 😀

 

[milagros317]

That must have hurt quite a bit, Kurch. 😀 😛
I'm recommending that Major Zhang be promoted to Colonel.