Blade Racer

Tezkarial broke free of the tesla cage as Storm's attention went elsewhere. The shots into his back had little effect on his mind, the rage bloking it out. However his attention turned to the shooter and his eyes flashed a bright white flame. Taking a deep breath, the demon launched a pillar of flame at the girl in the air. Still flaming, the demon launched into the air, his flaming sword extanding as he began to fly towards his new prey.

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The portal closed behind Blade and he was sent forward by the blast. He got to his feet and bloked an oncoming attack from demon, the claws meeting his sword and breaking as his fist came up to meet the demon's face, punching him backwards.

As the light reached Blade he covered his eyes. "Pious!? what are you doing here? actually never mind, we have to close these portals! I can explain what im doing here later!" Trying to contact Suraya outside, Blade found himself unable to reach her. He wasnt sure if it was the presence of the demons or some dark magic, but he couldnt reach her. Trusting in her skills, Blade got back to buisness, heading to the nearest Portal still in darkness.

Pious, had a spring of inspiration for assault on Barthory castle mission arcs

1. Enter via underground cave system. Demon infested, with ghoul minions, and random EB demonic court members eg Parasite Knight, Lilith, and then AV of Demon Templar gaurding the entrance.

2. Underground torture chambers and caverns. Ghost infested, also Ghoul minions, Random EBs Ghostly Court members and Ghost Templar as final AV

3. Main chambers. Humans and Humanoids. Random Human EBs and Human Templar

4. return to underground Chambers to hunt for Elizabeth herself. Werewolf infested with Werewolf EB and Werewolf Templar

5. Underground Cave system possibly leading to escape tunnel or vehicle. Vampire infested, Zombie and Ghoul Minions, EB vampire court members, AV Vamp Templar and then Elizabeth at the end as final AV

Also possible to have the Templar's seconds as AV's to be defeated. Suggest using caves and orenbega for castle and seperate villian groups for each mission. Just an idea. I can build it myself if you need me to.

And feel free to pick holes.

Blade hit the large demon coming out of the central Portalsquare in the chest, knocking it back through the portal. This had the unfortunate effect of also sending him through the portal. Sword in hand, Blade readied himself for what would come next, and looking around he saw a multitude of demons each one ready to pounce on him.

Drawing all his might he begn to strike at them. "Come on then if you think your big enough!" he yelled, sticking his sword into the large demons head, and using the sword to kick the demons back in a flurry of super speeded kicks.

Blade knew he could not returnthe way he had come, the portal's destabilisation from Suraya's Flames had already begun, besides he was drawing demons from the other portals, he could see them, blue lights the dim blackness surrounding him and the demons. Picking up his sword, he began to fight the toughest battle he had yet to come across.

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Tezkarial was looked around to see where Storm had disappeared to, the lighting flash he had used to roll away only serving to increase his rage. When the lightning bolt struke, it knocked the Chaos Demon back, staggering against the wall next to him.

He saw Storm on the building above and launched himself upwards, hovering and looking where the hero had pearched, yelling "Tell me where our book is!".

He held his hand out and sent a multitude of green hellfire at Storm, and not waiting to see if they had hit, he flew towards Storms pearch, crashing into the buildings roof ledge with an awesome force.

Tezkarial stood infront of where the Worn Cover should have been. He was sure it was here, but he could neither touch nor see it. It was then he heard a call in his head "Nighthunter engaged, we need assistance!".The call was close by, and Tez lept into the air, firery wings expanding from his back as he flew over the few streets between him and Storm.

Landing, Tezkarial smiled, "so Nighthunter, i can take some revenge for the thieft from our city" and with that he charged, his clawed feet making cracked indentations into the pavement below, his fire sword raised, heating the air and slicing through street lamps with ease. As he reached Storm, the demon brought the blade down in an arc towardsthe Nighthunter's chest.

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Elsewhere in Steel Canyon

"coming up on Second target, Portal is heavily gaurded, appears to not have hero support, will continue to engage, request back up." Said Rack Up as he fired a grenade into the buildings front door and entered, firing a wide arc at the circle mages inside, knocking them off their feet. He ran up the inside stairs, using his knife in such close quarters to fend off attacks from thorn casters and guides, demons and hell beasts. He reached the second floor and pulled his rifle up again, throwing caltraps across the floor to stop the enemy getting too close.

An arrow shot past the heads of the demons and the mages, passing just past Rack Up's own ear and thudding into something behind him. He turned to see a Thorn Caster, knife raised over his head, fall back down the stairs, with an arrow in his arm, crumpling at the bottom of the stairs. "you alright there American?" called a british voice as a wave of Ice froze the floor around the circle members.

Tez grunted at the portal as it closed "fool Bathory, we shouldnt be allied with such filth, and certainly not I, a chaos demon. Still i can sence the magic is close, i just cant see it, the rest of you, go back to the portals, i want shields and fortifications up to stop other heroes getting to us. Karz will handle the heroes at the central portal soon enough. well, get going!" he shouted at the mages and demons round his giant form as he began moving onward towards the Worn Cover's hidden location, himself alone able to see its true where abouts, even if he couldnt see the building.

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Blade scanned the streets from the sky, heading towards the central portal. over the amulet he sent the message "the circle are heading in all directions Pious, wrecking every building. i dont think its gonna matter if its hidden or not, someone is gonna find it if we dont push back the circle now!". He saw the giant Tentacles of a monstrous demon atopthe central portal building, fighting against heroes he couldnt make out. speeding up, Blade flew at full pelt right at the creatures chest.

Ammon, nice work with that writting

Pious, nice pictures, i know where you got them from hehe and i have my own Blade Racer one somewhere
and on another note, just to warn you before hand, Tez is a Chaos demon so normal magic protection isnt gonna work on him.

Blade smirked as the shockwave from the centre of the Pentagon washed over them. He didnt look round, he just stood still, a small laugh building in his chest. "good to see you back at it hun, now, lets kick some Circle" he said calmly before yelling at the top of his voice and charging at the remaining Succubi. Their surprised expressions turning to one of horror as he cut their heads from their bodies in one swing, casting them in fire as they fell back into hell. "sounds like someone needs aid at the centre portal, lets move out" and Blade took flight quickly. Over the comms, Blade spoke quickly "Storm, they must be hear for us, Open Season, get to the Worn Cover quickly, they cant get the magic stored there".

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Back at the centre portal, the Circle forces had already recovered and had begun attacking the two heroes on top of the building. Fire and Ice demons sent their balls of element at the heroes while the building rubbled and creakepd, Mages and thorn casters running to the roof to support their allies. The Portal itself reemmerged behind the heroes, a gigantic demon lord appearing through it and reaching for the heroes with tentecles of dark energy coming from its chest.

A little way away, Tezkarial crushed the head of an unnamed hero, tossing the limb body into a building as he looked back to the Portal. He smirked, it was already too late, the spell had been woven, now only magic had the chance to destroy the portals. He looked towards the Worn Cover, the bookshop less than a mile away from his current position as the crow flies. He crashed through the buildings, heading towards the bookshop, sencing the magic hidden under the shop, his followers close on his heels.

Steel Canyon, Paragon City

Blade landed close to one of the Circle's onward moving battle lines.Drawing his sword he stepped into an alley. Three succubi stood there, dancing around a group of men and women, seducing them with their beautiful bodies. Blade moved closer, one of the succubi noticing him and dancing towards him, focussing her attentions on his mind, trying to break in. Reaching out as if to touch her, Blade moved close to her, and without warning thrust his dark sword into her chest, pushing it out the other end. The other two succubi screamed at the loss of their sister as she burst into flames. the civilians ran as the two succubi moved into a battle position. Blade's armour changed to that of his dark suit, and he prepared himself for battle.

Over the comm system, Blade spoke quickly "The circle have formed a ring around the centre of Steel Canyon. There moving around the centre of the ring, raiding buildings, there looking for something, probably theNighthunter base. We have to bring their portals down and halt the advance of their lines. What forces do we have?"

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As longbow and PPD evacuated the civilians, moreand more heroesand Legacy chain arrived at Steel. Still it wasnt enough. Two arrial assults on the southern portals had left two heroes down, a third trapped in ice, a fourth covered in burns and a large number of longbow crippled. the Legacy was doing their best to hold the lines but where being forced back. The only hope was fast becoming obvious. Destroy the Portals, Defeat the Circle.

Steel Canyon, Paragon City

Tezkarial laughed as he brought his sword down, sending a wave of fire out to knock down the Policemen infront of him. He was leading the force of Thorn wielders, Circle mages and Hell demons through the streets of Steel Canyon, sending fireballs at raided and empty buildings.
"Either we get back whats ours, or we burn Steel Canyon to the ground looking for it!" he yelled at his minions. "The Nighthunters will pay for what they did to our brothers!". So far the Circle had been getting reports of Heroes striking back against them, and it had been true for Tezkarial's force too. Three small time heroes who were in Steel Canyon at the time had been brought low by his flaming sword.

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A bird's eye view of Steel Canyon revealed the true damage the Circle could cause in this attack. At five points in the city, large portals were open. A sixth had been opened at the center of the pentagon the other five formed. It was from this sixth portal that Tezkarial and his forces were rampaging. The other portals had a ring of Buildings with demons and circle mages on and in them. Fire was spreading from the centre portal and heading out towards the edges of the pentagon. Though they hadnt made much progress, they werent stopping yet. Blade watched from high in the clouds as he flew towards Steel Canyon. Only once he realised the damage did he startto fly as fast as he could.
Blade sent a message over the heroes broadcast system in Steel Canyon, relaying to all active Hero Radios in the area. "This is Blade Racer, i am entering Steel Canyon now to aid in the push back of this Circle invasion. All heroes in the area please report your situation." His voice was calm and control, but a hint of anger showed as he was finishing

Steel Canyon, Paragon City

The Circle of Thorns spread through the buildings beneath the Portals that Kazuril had summoned. Once the buildinds had been secured, demons began to come through the portals. Behemoths took up position on each of the Building's rooftops, ready to defend from arial attack. Master Behemoths waited by the Portals, gaurds against any assult. Frost demons and succubi began to move into the buildings and out into the streets, supported by a large number of mages and thorn wielders. By the time the PPD, Longbow and Legacy chain had arrived to combat the invasion, many buildings were already being raided. As fires spread through Steel Canyon, Tezkarial stepped through the portal and looked over the city. The demon lord smiled to himself. "This is going to be a good night" he said, a sword of fire appearing in his hand which he raises over his head in a roar of "charge!"

Steel Canyon, Paragon City

Kazuril moved quickly through the streets, using the darkness of the night to hide his body and the bodies of his five companions as they made their way to their allocated positions in Steel Canyon. They were the vangaurd of the Army which, even now was using tunnels and sewers to move under the city. Kazuril had no fear, for he did not care if he lived or died in the coming fight, so long as their objective was secured, it would not matter.

Kazuril left his companions to enter a side alley, climbing up the building's fire escape to the rooftops. Quietly he began to chant a spell so that his brothers below would know he was inplace. Sitting crosslegged on the roof, Kazuril made ready for the final phase of preparations to be complete before the summoning began.

The Circle will not be broken, we shall not fail this day Kazuril thought to himself. The Nighthunters will pay for their transgretions against us, we will take back what is ours, and repay them for every fallen of our brothers. As he thought this, Kazuril saw an image in his head, of Steel Canyon falling into fire and ruin, and he changed his chant. That was the signal for him to begin the summoning, and slowly, an orb of glowing blue and purple light took shape, surrounding and consuming him. In his head he smiled, he was an instrument of the Circle, and now their Portal was open, and the invasion could begin.

Well im not expecting it to be a long battle, just something that everyone with a hero can get into. since im sure some people with non supernatural villians and heros have been dying to get stuck into this.

ok i have now posted the start of the Circle's invasion into Steel Canyon, hope its ok and im not overstepping anything, if i am please someone tell me. oh and Heroes...get ready for battle

Pious, TRINNITY have infilitrated and stolen the details about the location of the NH base from the government. Not like thats completely unprecidented to be fair. And i did have TRINNITY leave a circle member alive, having warped his mind so he thinks he saw and heard nighthunters attacking. Plus TRINNITY have set a magic trace to lead the COT to Steal Canyon, though they dont know about the worn cover, they just know its somewhere in Steel Canyon, hence the "so helpful of Pious" comment. It not so far fetched and even if the COT didnt think it was the NH, they would believe the book and soul gems were taken to Steel Canyon

To answer you Tech

1) CoT think the NH have stolen a precious book frome them (see previously in open season
2) they arent helping the Court, they are being manipulated by an outside power taking advantage of Open Season (again see previously in the Open Season)
3) See 1

So i think it ties in, since the attack is being caused by someone trying to destroy both NH and Court in one go, using Open Season as the perfect opertunity to do so

Hey, what do you guys think to having the Circle of Thorns launch an all out attack on Steel Canyon on the Open Season Forum? just ive laid the background for an assult on the NH headquarters, but cant decide whether it'd be better doing it as an AE arc or on the Forum. Just figure its a major battle everyone can get involved in, and gives us a chance to see whats happening Hero side, since all the action seems to have been in the isles lately. If you think it'd be better for me to write an arc then say so, just want some opinions on the idea.

hehe, its gonna be interesting to see who or what stops Tombs, but i doubt Liz is gonna allow herself to be held to ransom like that, specially with Lucard laughing in the face of such a threat.

and incase people think i believe otherwise, a brilliant and very deadly idea, loving it and gonna enjoy possibly stealing that virus at some point

lol, CB i know that idea from somewhere but i cant remember where, it will come to me eventually but i do remember how it ends. Shall we see if my preparations for such an idea can hold up?

Lucard caught the vial in one hand, carefully placing it on the desk. "the girl is foolish, i am not an idiot, i knew what she was saying. Do not fear it Elizabeth, she is insane and unlikely to have made a working one, besides, its not like we havent countered such things before." Lucard pulled out a pistol and fired an accurate shot at the device, blowing it to pieces.

"do you want to have one of your own scientists test the samples or do you want to me to send them to the Empire's scientists?"

Lucard began to laugh loudly, evilly, his voice echoing around the room as dark tendrils flow from hi body and darken the room futher.
"you think that can threaten us little girl?! HAHAHA! you think noone has tried this before in the past? please! im going to enjoy ripping you apart, but not as much as i'll enjoy playing my little gaes with you, a virus like that wouldnt work, especially not now!"

Lucard laughs again, doubling over with glee.

"oh my dear it will be fun to have a truely worthy human for an enemy again. It has been so long since i had cause to laugh like this, so come now, and tell me your real plan my dear cause tis is rediculous".

Lucard stood silent behind Elizabeth, watching Tomb's reaction, his anger seemed to have gone back below the surface and his face had taken on an evil smirk. His body language suggest he had relax also, slouching a little behind Liz, but his aggitation showed through as his hands rested gently on his pistols.
As Elizabeth mentioned her wrath, Lucard began to shake, a grin forming on his face as he looked away from the hologram, a dark laugh welling up inside him.

lol, will do

Precisely, and what she is gonna get is Lucard, pissed off and unpleasant, this guy makes Bathory's torture techniques seem devine in their intentions. What ever Tomb does to hurt vampires, Lucard will pay it back ten times over. I do feel sorry for her.

I feel sorry for Tomb now...

Lucard's face twisted with rage as Maria fell apart. "Tomb i take it" he growled at the hologram. "good, now i know who to put a bullet in for this, what is it you want little girl? we are buisy and do not have time for the rantings of child who was never beaten by its parents"

Lucard looked to Darkleaf and Shannon saying "this is Vampire buisness, you may listen, but under no circumstances are you to repeat what you here without our permission, understand? now get in here Shannon and close the door".

Lucard turned back to Maria, his eyes flicking between her face and the stumps of her arms, anger boiling inside him.