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Post by Ponic on Sept 29, 2014 21:05:50 GMT -5
(This takes place after Rem's arc during the filler time)
Wherever Neon was currently in the cabin he would sense something. His mental link with Ponic, though long unused, would suddenly pulse with a sense of danger. The feeling was subtle but unmistakable...something was wrong wherever Ponic and Keera were in the Shadow Realm...
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Post by Neon on Sept 29, 2014 21:10:23 GMT -5
Neon was currently in the sanctuary of his room as the serge suddenly went through his mind. " Something isn't right..." He said as he sensed the issue somewhere from Ponic in the shadow realm. " I do not know the Shadow realm very well...It will take me too long to find him myself." Neon then creeped out of his room and searched for the other shadow wielder that occupied their home. Markov
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Post by Ponic on Sept 29, 2014 21:13:35 GMT -5
Markov was currently hanging upside down from the ceiling by a shadow, eating a waffle. When he saw Neon walk in the room he said to him, "People know I'm here..." Ok no they don't but still... he finished mentally. Markov knew Neon well enough to tell when he seemed to have something on his mind
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Post by Neon on Sept 29, 2014 21:15:45 GMT -5
The dark human saw the hanging shadow as he walked over to Markov and put his hand on Markovs arm lightly pulling him down to his own level as they were face to face. "I need to know where your brother is in the Shadow realm..."
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Post by Ponic on Sept 29, 2014 21:17:05 GMT -5
Markov paused thinking and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, same place as Keera? If he hasn't moved anywhere from where he told me he'd be, then that would be our old village. He's probably where the three of us grew up, I'm guessing, why?"
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Post by Neon on Sept 29, 2014 21:18:36 GMT -5
"I think something is wrong...Can you make me a shadow portal to his location so that I can find him quicker..." Neon said releasing his grip on Markov relieved that he at least had an answer
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Post by Ponic on Sept 29, 2014 21:19:49 GMT -5
Markov blinked, "Well I can try," he was thrown a bit off balance by what Neon had said, his brother in trouble? That was bad. "Maybe I should go with you?"
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Post by Neon on Sept 29, 2014 21:33:23 GMT -5
"No. its better that you stay here and tell anyone that I am currently training. If the situation is more then I can handle I will let you know..." Neon said as he folded his arms. "I need that request done now...And I am serious Markov, swear to me you will not tell anyone where I am...the last thing I want is everyone involved right now.."
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Post by Ponic on Sept 29, 2014 21:38:08 GMT -5
Markov paused looking at Neon for a moment. Neon wouldn't need to be a psychic to read that Markov was actually a bit worried. Ponic and Keera were like his mother and father, and Ponic was the last person of blood related to him. It hurt him to think that Ponic was hurt. After a moment he sighed and said "OK, I promise, but don't take too long, and be careful! The Shadow Realm isn't the safest place, really..." Markov knew that Neon and Skylos had known Ponic the longest, he trusted them.
Markov then summoned a shadow and had it convert itself into a portal. He seemed to be concentrating deeply and his deep breathing emphasized this. The portal crackled with energy and power of shadow. "I can't really sense shadows across dimensions, but I think your mental link with Ponic should help get you to him. Be careful,and come back safe, Neon. Who will I play pranks on if your gone?" The portal pulsed and opened, ready to admit Neon entrance...
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Post by Neon on Sept 29, 2014 21:40:39 GMT -5
"I will make sure your brother and Keera are safe..." Neon said as he merely eyed Markov with an annoyed face before stepping into the portal into the shadow realm location
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Post by Ponic on Sept 29, 2014 22:32:57 GMT -5
As Neon stepped into the portal he would instantly transported to the Shadow Realm, however the movement was very odd, and uncomfortable. It would feel like going over a very bumpy road on a low car, a bouncy and unenjoyable ride that would make one almost feel sick from the serious jerks and rough manoeuvres. Was Markov just bad at opening a portal to the Shadow Realm? Apparently this was unique because suddenly Neon would notice a large shadow creature block his path.
It was horribly disfigured. Where Ponic, Keera and Markov's shadows were smooth and cool, this one looked as if it was dripping shadow and was terribly jagged, like a monstrous entity. It pulsed and howled moving its great arms, all four of them, upon his disgusting square head and three legs. The creature, whatever it was, howled and struck at Neon, it's shadow ripping across the Darkness Human's body would feel like a violent strike with an axe and would likely knock the wind clean out of him. This disrupted Neon's transportation to the Shadow Realm as he was violently knocked off course and pass through the barrier of the realms, sending him to the Shadow Realm, yes, but not where he had planned to go.
Neon would awaken to find himself in a village, it was not easily identifiable, but if he looked around he would see that it was a sea-side village, well what passed for sea in the Shadow Realm. The Shadow Wielders around Neon would all be looking at him, a look of puzzlement on their faces as he looked nothing like them. Not only was he from out of dimension, but he likely would have appeared very abruptly and out of no where in the middle of the street.
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Post by Neon on Sept 30, 2014 20:08:55 GMT -5
As the very uncomfortable transfer had begun Neon sighed inwardly to himself. Did Markov do something wrong again? It was very hard to concentrate on everything happening when out of nowhere the strange behemoth revealed itself. Before Neon had any time to react he was swatted away by the creature and thrown into the unknown depths of the shadow realm.
recollecting himself in the shadow village Neon pulled himself up to his feet and realized that he was being stared at by all sides. He quickly brushed himself off and looked around walking through the village to gather where he was exactly. "I could possibly find out where Ponic is with our mental link...But I not know this place as well..." Neon shook his head. "If that Markov did something wrong I am going to..."
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Post by Ponic on Sept 30, 2014 21:30:56 GMT -5
As Neon would walk through the village there were quite a few stares from various Shadow Wielders at him. Then ahead, Neon would notice someone that he knew, though probably did not like. Izerion turned when he sensed Neon's shadow. "Oh for...what do I have to do, walk our of this plain of existence? What do you want, and why are you here?" Izerion seemed more annoyed to see Neon than hostile, actually...
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Post by Neon on Sept 30, 2014 21:35:19 GMT -5
Walking through the village Neon ignored all the staring, if there was anything he disliked or considered a pet peeve it was being stared at. Only multiply by that by one hundred when it is more then just one person staring at him. As he moved forward he sensed a certain aura, a far more familiar Aura then he wanted.
As Izerion turned and expressed his annoyance at Neon, the dark human didn't even bat an eye or blink back at him. "Don't flatter yourself...I'm not here for you...I'm looking for my friend." Neon said narrowing his blue eyes at Izerion. "If anything your in my way."
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Post by Ponic on Sept 30, 2014 21:37:23 GMT -5
Izerion rolled his eyes. "Of course you are. Damn, don't you get tired of saying that same old line over and over again? It's like something out of a crappy TV show, seriously get a hobby outside of each other. I assume you are searching for Ponic?"
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Post by Neon on Sept 30, 2014 21:48:31 GMT -5
Neon merely shrugged at Izerions harsh words, he honestly didn't care and didn't have time to argue back and forth with the shadow wielder. "Yes," He responded to izerions question. "Because I actually have friends that I look out for. Not all of us are so lucky as to be completely alone like you are."
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Post by Ponic on Sept 30, 2014 21:58:34 GMT -5
"Indeed, cursed is your fate to have such pests around all the time," said Izerion. "Well, he's not here, in fact you're not even in the correct village, so good luck finding him around a place you've barely been to." With that Izerion turned to leave...it was Neon's choice if he wanted to move on by himself or try to get more info out of the angry Shadow Wielder.
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Post by Neon on Sept 30, 2014 22:01:59 GMT -5
Hearing this Neon got very frustrated but didn't show any of it. He was thinking to himself that he could possibly try and find Ponic himself but he really didn't have time to look place to place while Ponics safety was in question...
A small wall of darkness then rose up in front of Izerion stopping him from taking another step forward. "So if this is the wrong village...Do you know exactly where he is now..?"
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Post by Ponic on Sept 30, 2014 22:07:33 GMT -5
Izerion stopped suddenly from the wall of darkness. Slowly he turned to Neon with a look of contempt in his eyes. He knew that all he had was his shadow powers and he was there when that Nemaine augmented the group. Once there was a time when Izerion was certain that he would've been able to take them, but not he wasn't so sure, and that burned him! Also, frankly he wanted them gone. Izerion rolled his eyes and walked to Neon. "You're in the village of Nictucs, each village is somewhat different from the last. Now if it'll make you go away faster and keep more of your idiot friends from showing up, I'll tell you where you want to go." Izerion pointed to some mountains that were in the distance. "Do you see those mountains? Ponic's village, the Veluts, is on the other side of them locked at the base of their land mass, but you don't want to go there right now, trust me." Izerion laced the last phrase with a mild laugh that was not humorous in its slightest. There was an irony in him asking Neon to trust him.
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Post by Neon on Oct 1, 2014 21:13:18 GMT -5
As Izerion finally gave Neon the answer he wanted the dark human walked past Izerion and began to head towards the base of the mountain. Darkness wings formed on his back as he looked back at Izerion. "If something is wrong where Ponic is then it will take more then a pointless warning to stop me..." Neon said turning his attention away from Izerion now.
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Post by Ponic on Oct 2, 2014 22:44:02 GMT -5
"Ok, but don't say I didn't warn you," said Izerion, not really giving two shits about if Neon lived or died on his journey.
As Neon flew toward the mountain and began to go over it he would see the landscape of the Shadow Realm around him. The Nictucs were different from the Shadow Wielders in they seemed to use shadows in a more naturalized style of way. Ponic, being a Velut, tended to use Shadow and manipulate it to his will, while the Nictucs' use of shadow more summoned it as a pure shadow energy. As such the shadows that were formed were more mist like in their appearance, overall these Nictucs seemed to be more peaceful and solitary than warrior like, like Ponic's race, it was clear from the small village they had made. Likely just as clear from the fact that despite there being a perfect stranger in their village, everyone seemed content to watch from afar, not approach.
As Neon moved out of the village he'd see the rolling plains of the Shadow Realm. They were vast and wide, with a grey/white tinge to them that seemed to mix light and darkness, just as a shadow does. Neon's sight would only go so far as the near perpetual fog of the Shadow Realm would obscure his vision to further distances, but he would likely be able to make out an ocean just at the border of the fog. The waters were a deep black and grey, that on Earth may have looked horridly polluted, but here was perfectly natural. The water's dark colours swirled and played off the light, giving it a light twinkle that gleamed and glistened creating a unique contrast of darkness and light, again like a shadow.
Eventually Neon would find himself flying over the mountain side, a thicker fog was at this altitude and Neon's vision would begin to get obscured. The lack of sight combined with the high altitude might serve to make Neon somewhat disoriented as he would have near nothing to focus on in his flying. If he was paying attention around him, although he may not be able to see it, he'd get a sense that he was not completely alone...
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Post by Neon on Oct 7, 2014 22:02:46 GMT -5
Flying through the air neon understood time was of the essence as he tried to search for Ponic every moment he got closer to his destination. If he could sense something or anything he'd at least know whether he was injured or not currently...
Feeling his vision become obscured Neon had to quickly rely on his other senses as he closed his own eyes while flying...He did indeed feel there may have been a presence or more around him. "Whose there." Neon called out.
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Post by Ponic on Oct 8, 2014 20:12:37 GMT -5
There would be a quick double pulse in Neon's mind. The first one was that he was getting closer to Ponic, although there was still a great distance to travel, but still a feeling of distress and no answer. It was nearly as if Ponic and Neon's full mental link was being disrupted somehow, which considering the strengths of Neon as a Darkness Human and Ponic as a Shadow Wielder, would be a very difficult feat.
The second pulse came in response to Neon's question. It was the mental equivalent of a scream that would surge through his mind. Suddenly a large shadow creature, not unlike the one that Neon had encountered when he attempted to enter the Shadow Realm would materialize form the fog. It shot toward him and swiped its sharp claw at the Darkness Human after emerging suddenly from the fog.
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Post by Neon on Oct 9, 2014 18:54:59 GMT -5
" What could this mean..." Neon thought to himself feeling the amount of worry in his heart increase as he picked up the pace and shot through the air as fast as he could.
This travel was then interrupted by the mental scream infecting Neons mind and actually making him grab his head in pain. The appearance of the creature then happened as Neon narrowly avoided the swipe from the large creature. The force of the flash however pushed Neon back as he regained his stance with his wings. "You again..." Neon said with an annoyed hint in his voice. "You merely caught me off guard the last time we met...That won't happen again."
He then flew at the creature with two darkness orbs forming in both his hands as he released them. One orb was aimed directly for the center of the creatures face while the other was heading for its large stomach
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Post by Ponic on Oct 9, 2014 21:07:21 GMT -5
The shadow creature swiped its large wings and absorbed the orb, and then flew at Neon, cawing a horrid sound that would shoot through Neon's brain like an ice pick and hammer through his ears like a loud speaker. The creature extended it's four large shadow claws, and from them dripped that same shadow that looked horribly disfigured and nearly infected at Neon. Quick blasts fired at Neon of shadow, accompanied by the large creature's attack.
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Post by Neon on Oct 9, 2014 21:14:56 GMT -5
This strange shadow like creature had completely absorbed his darkness attack? That couldn't be good...As it let out its next blood thirsty roar Neon mentally prepared himself for it. Figuring that his darkness would most likely not stop the blast like attack Neon quickly dove out of the way of the blasts and also avoided the large train like body of the creature.
Neon shot a long black chain directly towards the creature aiming for its head with a long spike at the tip of it.
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Post by Ponic on Oct 9, 2014 21:21:22 GMT -5
The chain intercepted with the creature. It was at its core a blood thirsty animal and incapable of higher reasoning like a regular opponent. This worked against Neon in that the creature seemed to attack randomly, but it worked for Neon in that it would be too stupid to out-think him. The creature took the chain around it's head and felt the spike claw at it, letting out another scream. It writhed in the entanglement and pulled at Neon, trying to outfly the Darkness Human and ram him into the mountain. It began to send out a pulse of shadow down the chain to destroy it. Neon would likely sense a power in it, his darkness orbs that he had just fired, infected by this odd type of shadow...
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Post by Neon on Oct 9, 2014 21:50:32 GMT -5
As the chain made contact with the creatures head Neon was pulled with the creature. Seeing that the creature was attempting to ram him into the mountain Neon quickly detached himself from the chain but however did leave it still stabbed into its head while the creatures shadow ate away at it. " I sensed some of my darkness in his shadows...its almost like he is a type of infection...Could it be another abomination..?" Neon thought to himself.
" Either way I have to find ponic whether this thing stands in the way or not..." Neon quickly tried to think of some strategy to destroying this thing...
He thought of something as he descended straight down towards the mountain with hopefully the creature attempting to follow him out of pure anger...Neon would come to a stop and begin merely flying a few feet above the ground of the mountain. He fired a darkness orb a head of him that planted itself in the ground in front of them...
As Neon passed by it the darkness would begin expanding on the ground, once the creature would hopefully flew above it multiple spikes would shoot out of the ground to impale parts of the creature. Its head, its arms, its torso, anything to penetrate. Hopefully this would end the creature or at least get it stuck for some time.
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Post by Ponic on Oct 9, 2014 21:55:09 GMT -5
The creature did indeed take Neon's bait and was impaled from the very sudden impact. It writhed and wriggled and slowly stopped moving, its gargantuan size run through from the large darkness spikes. Slowly the shadow of the creature would begin to leak, as if the thing was melting, beginning to mix with the darkness spikes and fall to the floor. It was not clear if this was how the creature died or if it was trying to heal itself in some way...whatever shadow this thing was made of, it was clear it was not like the shadows Neon would be used to seeing Ponic, Keera, and Markov using.
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Post by Neon on Oct 9, 2014 22:06:12 GMT -5
Neon was glad to see that his trap had worked on the creature even if it was temporary. He wasted no time as he shot back up into the air and continued in his direction towards Ponic. Trying to find some sort of clue at his exact location..."Hopefully there isn't any more of those things..."
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