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Velorius hurried down the steps to the temple where he was met by his two personal Shadow gaurdians who useaully accompanied him.
"My Lord, we have commited every shadow available in the region"
"Good" Velorius turned to look up the steps"I doubt it will be enough, but even the mighty heros will be challenged by that many. Oh well, they can always be replaced. Leon will be coming down here eventually, I'd best prepare for the party."


Velorius hurried into a side chamber, but reappeared a moment later.
"You two had best leave now. You.." Velorius pointed to the Shadow on the left "go visit Olaf, he won't be finished yet, but the powers that be already suspect something, collect whatevers ready, you know where to deliver it."

"Yes, my Lord" the being turned and started walking towards a wall as it reached it a shadowy portal opened and the man simply vanished into it. Velorius watched him go then turned to the other Shadow.

"Go north contact my agents, no matter what continue with my plan. And just incase anything happens to me here, take this. You know what to do with it should I fail here"

From around his neck Velorius removed a pendent, it was platinum and bore the image of a dragon protectivly holding a crystal in it's claws. Taking it the Shadow nodded his understanding and vanished like the other. Once he was gone Velorius returned to the side chamber.

Well now that, that's taken care off I have to arrange a little surprise for my guests.

Leon looked up at the shadow guards, "these enemies are jsut as strong as we are. Nexol...lets show them our trump car, shall we?" Leon stepped up to Nexol and put a hand on his shoulder. Nexol nodded lightly snd closed his eyes. There was a flash of light, and as the light faded, one warrior stood where the two once were(see picture below), "Hello. I am Nexol-Atra, and i will be providing your executions today." The newcomer smirked and lunged at one of the shadows, its katantas crossing to block the giant claymore it swung down at him, "heh...you *WORM*!" He pulled back and spun around, sidestepping to finally end up behind him. Next, the warrior made a great leap into the sky before bringing both of his katanas down on the creatures head...there was no apparent damage, "the hell!?" He pushed down with hsi katanas, useing them to get itn othe air and then backflipped twice. As soon as he landed, he rushed foward at the shadow and began to stab at him repeatedly, "YAAAH!" Finally, he spun around and sliced the creature in two..

"One down...to many more to go..." He turned and ran at the next closest shadow...

((OSHI-

I KILLED IT gonk ))

((Sad. I was having fun. :<))

((I wasn't blaming you, merely stating that the rp was lagging because you didn't have teh time to post, as you said because of your schedule. Everybody has lives outside of gaia. Still it is nice to know you haven't just forgotten about us))

((I feel like posting so I'm going to borrow the denizens of your little city for a while chibi hope you don't mind, and if you have any problems with this let me know and I'll edit it))

The fighting in the Temple Quarter had not gone unnoticed, Nexols summoned Irifit and the formation of Nexol-Atra had sent magical eddies flowing through out teh city that nearly every cleric and mage had sensed. And Velorius's Shadow servents had left a trail of death behind them as they cut down everyone who had happened to get in their way.

The fighting had spread through out the Temple Quarter, while half the Shadows battled with Nexol-Atra and Azira the rest had faned out and begun attacking anyone nearby. The Clerics of the local temples were the first on the scene followed soon after by Mages and Adepts from St. Cyrils University. Soon teh whole area was filled with a maelstrom of magics, as lightening rained out of teh sky, the earth bealched forth flames and shards of ice flew through the air.

And yet it was not enough, spells that would have devastated any normal mortal barely seemed to cause any damage to the resilient Shadows. Slowly the creatures forced their way through the barrage of spells and once close enough pounced and cut the distraught mages and clerics to pieces.

Soon however the Arrian Mage-Guard's, defenders of the city and enforcers of its laws arrived, some following the bloody trail of bodies left by the Shadows, others the signs of carnage from the battle. At first they too fell to teh murderous Shadows, but as more arrived the Shadows lost the advantage of numbers and began to be driven back.

Nexol-Atra had been forced into a stale-mate when he found simself surrounded by ten of the creatures, he was unable to press his attack with out leaving his rear vulnerable to attack, yet the Shadows couldn't approach fast enough to avoid being cut down. When reinforcements arrived from teh palace the balance shifted and the Shadows were forced to withdraw.

Through out it all though the Shadows maintained control of the alley way leading to teh hidden temple, they faught ferociously to defend it and repelled every attempt by the Mage-Gaurds to break through. The mound of bodies continued to rise with teh Shadows killing twenty for every one of their own who fell, still it was obvious that they could not hold teh line much longer...

*pokes the RP* I finally find time to post and noone posts...*sigh*