Berend Fury
long before the Rikti War, Berend Patriarch was just a normal man, who did normal things. he had friends, family, all of which have since been lost to memory, leaving only a shadow of a thaught.
Patriarchs life was drasticly changed one day, as he was captured by one of the few surviving elements of the Fifth Collumn. tested and experimented on. given no food, no water, no rest. if you asked him about his experiences now, hed not even register your question. for those few he lets into his secret mind he will tell them only one thing. "project Fury.............thats what they called me.......thats what i am.". the project involved some form of mind control, now believed to be linked with one "Nosforatu". but patriarch broke free of this control. he rebelled. destroing the secret bunker, leaving half a city block in ruin. noone was hurt though.........the base was in baumtown, and only by being buried so far beneath the earth and tumbling stone did the base even survive the catastrophic explosion that destroyed the city zone.
a routine sweep of the zone, by the then plentiful Freedom Phalanx, revealed the location of the base, and to them what seemed to be the body of a fallen warrior. Clad in dusk grey armour, a torn cowl and mask covering his black-as-night hair, and chiselled fetures. the Phalanx also found some records of the secret project, finding that it aws some form of nanite experiment, designed to increase the strength and toughness of their soldiers.
after a week of recovering, the hero now known as Berend Fury disclosed information that he could actualy produce armour and weapons from his body, due to the properties of the nanites.
in an interview Hero-1 said "i can sense great power in this one, hidden in his being".
Shadow Fury
Berend Patriarch led the team of heroes known as 'The Lords of Fury". straight into a battle, straight into a surprise, and straight to their graves.
instants before the Rikti War began, the 'lords' were headed on their way to stop a powerful circle of thorns mage from unleashing a powerful demon upon the world. he was a master of death, and any who walked close to him felt as though Hades himself had his hand on their shoulder.
as the lords decended on the ritual, a strange light lit the night sky. an eerie green glow, that drew the gaze of both the heroes, and villains there that night, unseen enemies stared in confusion,as did the dark, orbless eyes of the archmage. recovering from the spectacle of the object emerging from nowhere in the sky, he began to cast his greatest spell.
from within the glow, what can only be described as a flying saucer emerged. as the thing finished its extraction from the portal, the green light faded, and all was again dark. in the night it was clear to all that energy was building in its centre. it was then that Fury gave the order to attack it, disrupt the energy ball before it formed fully. but the order was given too late. at the same instant, tha mage released his killing spell, and the alien ship opened fire. both energies struck fury. only the alien energy struck the rest of the lords.
bones clattered to the scorched and stripeed floor, the flesh stripped clean from them. heroes and villains alike, destroyed in an instant. but one survived. a warrior clad in broken, shattered armour. the colour of blackest night. his body in a state of ruin, eyes open, unseing, staring at the decimation around him. Berend Patriarch, a hero among heroes fell.
an instant response from the combined forces of the original Goonies, the Pariahs, and the Freedom Phalanx destroyed the alien craft, soon to be recognised as a rikti destroyer, which crashed into the abandoned whitefields.
recovered after the distruction of the spacecraft, Fury was taken to the cities finest hospital, later to be joined by sister psyche, and many injusred heroes who were lucky enoug to survive.
after many months of recovery, missing out on many major events of the war, but awakening for a final farewell to omega team, which compromised of many friends. Fury discovered that he had only survived by a hairs breadth, but was granted new life, and new powers by the magic, and technological energies assaulted against him.
his armour now of blackest black, his hair a shock of white, and with the abiity to summon the shadows to aid him, Berend took a new name, Shadow Fury.
Blasted Fury
when Berend Patriarch was captured by the fifth collumn, they took the oppotunity to test their cloning methods. the idea being to not only enhance their existing soldiers, but to create an army of Supersoldiers. five fury's were created, the original, 3 clones, and a female. to the knowledge of man, only the original fury survived his rampage trhough the base. but another lived, and his will was bent by the mind control, into something of evil.
escaping in the fray, still unsure of his own power, an biding his time until he could destroy his brother, and name himself as the original.
Blasted Fury(under the guise of Bellagorn Patriarch) was at the battle of the lords against the circle mages, shared a part in the same curse tht allowed his brother to survive, shared in the rebirth, shared in the power awakened within.
dazed and badly wounded, the evil fury fled the battlefield, but was captured by a police drone, on his way to the rogue isles.
broken out of the zig by rachnos troops, and added to the list of 'destined ones' Blasted Fury learned to harness the nanites within himself to construct powerful war machines. now heading one of Recluses higher projects(project Aurora) Blasted fury is well on his way to taking over the rogue isles.
Shining Fury
the tale of Bered Patriarch is a sad one. one that changes greatly in each telling. it is one that can be used as an example of the things that one man can do, one that shows that truly one 'normal' man can start things that can change the world for the better.
returning from what would become his final mission Shadow Fury was greeted with the news that scientists believed the sun was dying. that the destruction of the sun would also destroy the world.
remembering words told to him many years past. "one good deed can change a life, one selfless deed can save the world". Berend PAtriarch, hero, friend, proud member of the Pariahs, and friend of many others, took it upon himself to act as martyr for the sake of the world.
gathering the energy writhing within himself, the power to end lif, but also the power to give life. releasing all the energy in a single, horific stream of death and life, sending it skyward toward the waning star. armour shattering under the release of the energy. cape, cowl and flesh burning as one. the sun was reborn. the world was saved. a hero fell. as his teammates at the last moments of his existance, including those such close friends as Jackie Sparrow, Mazos, Dark Corona, Fastkast, Kremmlin, Silver Spirit, and nightfire rused to their friends aid. he collapsed. bursting into the shadows for which he was so well know, leaving only his worn and broken blade as proof of his existance. Shadow Fury, Berend Patriarch, left the world.
a memorial was erected, along with many other heroes who had given their lives in service of the world. his blade rested on its top, fused with the stone.
a year passed, heroes gathered in rememberance. as the last of his friends arrived at his memorial, both a shadow and a blinding light emerged over the crypt. fusing into one, the light descended into the blade of the fallen fury. the blade, no longer broke, rose from the stone, and from it a body was revealed, still clad in the scortched and shattered armour he died in, Fury knelt before all that were gathered. his armour, no longer the night black of his old days, but now a radiant white. rising he spoke "i return to you now, when need is great, and when your greatest trials wait to greet you"
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