AV's various Stories and works of Fiction.
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:47 pm
First, a small story based on my all-time favorite card game.
May 14th, 2026, 12:46 Earth Time
Location: Creature Zone, Darkness Civilization, Surface Wastes.
The Dark Land, putrefied by the horrendous experiments of the Dark Lords, amongst what the eye can see, is a polluted landscape, with what remained of what was a glorious civilization. The sun was blocked by many layers of polluted clouds; it was unlikely that the lands have ever seen sunlight in over a hundred years. The pools of sludge that lined a walkway of a bridge made of bone were in front of the lone Dragonoid. “Why did I get shafted to this duty?” The Dragonoid said to himself as he trod on the bridge of bone.
Ucarn is the name of the Dragonoid, one of the most powerful from his clan. He was chosen to be the envoy of the Fire Civilization by what he would call “the worst luck of all.” He marched on through the corrupted landscape, checking to be sure that there were no signs of life ahead of where ever he went. “Not that anything here is living…”
In the quiet of an alcove, Ucarn sat down to rest for a little, his claw at the ready, gripping his gun. He had to be careful, because he wasn’t the only thing in these lands. Writhing masses of the once was living patrolled the lands, looking for sustenance for their decaying bodies. Worse, a Chimera may appear.
Things have gone into a veritable stalemate between the Civilizations of the Creature Zone, since the events twenty years ago… Twenty years from this point, an Earth Human named Shobu Kirafuda came to the Creature Zone to stop a group of evil Earth Humans from controlling the Fire Civilization. It wasn’t confirmed if the Dark Lords were behind the fiasco, but the boy awakened an energy that was felt throughout the Creature Zone.
Kaijudo, the name of the energy that binds the creature zone together, it is what the Earth Humans called this energy. Only a few Earth Humans had control of this energy, and used it to develop a Card Game in their world. Recently, a tribe of Earth Humans called the Planeswakers stared to hunt down Earth Humans that can control Kaijudo Energy. Since then, the Creature Zone has been all but forgotten.
Ucarn was sent to the Dark Lands in order to deliver a message given to him from the Light Civilization to deliver to the Dark Lords regarding the incident with the Earth Humans. But this trip would most likely get off-plan.
Hearing a rustle, Ucarn quickly readied his Gun, and pointed at the sound. It was just a skeleton of a creature that was decomposing. The bones were blackened by the atmosphere the land emitted.
“So, did you bring the stuff?” Ucarn heard nearby, it was Calm, yet harsh voice. Only the Dark Lords, Ghosts, or even some of the even more horrendous Chimeras would posses the ability to speak in common tongue. Ucarn remembered who the voice was of. General Dark Fiend, a Dark Lord who possessed the body of a beautiful maiden, yet said so himself that he was a guy.
“Sure did, I had to kill a few Planeswalkers for it.” The new voice was a voice that Ucarn have never heard of.
“Good, that’ll teach them not to mess with us.”
“Anyways, I brought some news from Earth, they say that the Returners are making a move.”
“Oh, so they’re still investigating PLOOP, eh?
“They’re linking it to the Planeswalkers that are stationed in Ravnica, stating one of the Guilds gave them funding for their experiments, they suspect the Orzohv Syndicate, but I don’t want to jump to conclusions.”
“Were you followed?”
“Were you?”
Still in the Alcove, Ucarn was alarmed to heard that me may have been noticed, cocking his gun, he turned and saw something scamper across the wastes, a Writhing Bone Ghoul was rushing towards him. Firing a couple of shots to deter the Ghoul, Ucarn made a dash for cover, hopefully a good spot to ambush the critter.
“You should pick better hiding spots, eh Ucarn?” Looking behind him, Ucarn stared directly into the mask of General Dark Fiend. “It’s been a while, Namia.” Ucan said to the Dark Lord.
“It’s Fiend, remember, oh, and this is Aleph, an Earth Human.” Fiend then point toward the Earth Human. Aleph was a Man, in his thirties, wearing a black robe, probably to be inconspicuous. He wasn’t intimidated by either Fiend or Ucarn, he probably experienced worse.
“I don’t have much time.” Aleph said, “By now, there should be a Planeswalker heading here now.”
“You better get going then. These lands aren’t the friendliest of places.” Fiend said to Aleph. “Best to get on out of here before something bad happens.”
“Alright, now your end of the deal.” Aleph said. “I need a creature to scare the hell out of command. Ucarn here would make a good match.”
“Wait… you mean Fiend, right?” Ucarn said with a startled tone.
“He said your name, so I guess it would be you after all.” Fiend Replied.
Aleph, in the deep part of the alcove, started muttering an incantation. Ucarn, wondering what Aleph was muttering about. “What is he saying?” Ucarn asked Fiend.
“An incantation for a portal, it’s a skill that used to be exclusive to Planeswalkers, but some of their info was leaked and now it’s common fact amongst the Earth Humans that travel here. Say, Ucarn, right? From what my servants tell me, you have a message for Lord Stallob.”
“Oh yeah, if you can pass it on to him, please do so. Urth has decided to follow the Doll from that one world to attempt to clear her name. Also that there’s a chance of the Returners are starting a war on Earth, and that Shinji is the key to victory.”
“I’ll make sure to deliver the message to him personally.” Fiend acknowledged.
Aleph, done with his incantation, bit his thumb and seemingly drew a rune in thin air with his own blood. The red ink then started illuminating the alcove, turning from red to a bright blue. “It’s time to go.” Aleph said as the marking became solid.
The Portal that Aleph created glowed a very bright light, blinding to most creatures, but Ucarn and Fiend didn’t mind.
“Aleph…” Fiend said. “Give them hell.”
With a nod, and a small smile, Aleph passed though the portal, along with Ucarn to another world, unknowingly, the little scamper he was trying to shoot at was following him…
“Hopefully Earth will be ready when the sundering begins.” Fiend said as he left the alcove, to what would seem, the Castle of Darkness.
Duelmasters: Returner
May 14th, 2026, 12:46 Earth Time
Location: Creature Zone, Darkness Civilization, Surface Wastes.
The Dark Land, putrefied by the horrendous experiments of the Dark Lords, amongst what the eye can see, is a polluted landscape, with what remained of what was a glorious civilization. The sun was blocked by many layers of polluted clouds; it was unlikely that the lands have ever seen sunlight in over a hundred years. The pools of sludge that lined a walkway of a bridge made of bone were in front of the lone Dragonoid. “Why did I get shafted to this duty?” The Dragonoid said to himself as he trod on the bridge of bone.
Ucarn is the name of the Dragonoid, one of the most powerful from his clan. He was chosen to be the envoy of the Fire Civilization by what he would call “the worst luck of all.” He marched on through the corrupted landscape, checking to be sure that there were no signs of life ahead of where ever he went. “Not that anything here is living…”
In the quiet of an alcove, Ucarn sat down to rest for a little, his claw at the ready, gripping his gun. He had to be careful, because he wasn’t the only thing in these lands. Writhing masses of the once was living patrolled the lands, looking for sustenance for their decaying bodies. Worse, a Chimera may appear.
Things have gone into a veritable stalemate between the Civilizations of the Creature Zone, since the events twenty years ago… Twenty years from this point, an Earth Human named Shobu Kirafuda came to the Creature Zone to stop a group of evil Earth Humans from controlling the Fire Civilization. It wasn’t confirmed if the Dark Lords were behind the fiasco, but the boy awakened an energy that was felt throughout the Creature Zone.
Kaijudo, the name of the energy that binds the creature zone together, it is what the Earth Humans called this energy. Only a few Earth Humans had control of this energy, and used it to develop a Card Game in their world. Recently, a tribe of Earth Humans called the Planeswakers stared to hunt down Earth Humans that can control Kaijudo Energy. Since then, the Creature Zone has been all but forgotten.
Ucarn was sent to the Dark Lands in order to deliver a message given to him from the Light Civilization to deliver to the Dark Lords regarding the incident with the Earth Humans. But this trip would most likely get off-plan.
Hearing a rustle, Ucarn quickly readied his Gun, and pointed at the sound. It was just a skeleton of a creature that was decomposing. The bones were blackened by the atmosphere the land emitted.
“So, did you bring the stuff?” Ucarn heard nearby, it was Calm, yet harsh voice. Only the Dark Lords, Ghosts, or even some of the even more horrendous Chimeras would posses the ability to speak in common tongue. Ucarn remembered who the voice was of. General Dark Fiend, a Dark Lord who possessed the body of a beautiful maiden, yet said so himself that he was a guy.
“Sure did, I had to kill a few Planeswalkers for it.” The new voice was a voice that Ucarn have never heard of.
“Good, that’ll teach them not to mess with us.”
“Anyways, I brought some news from Earth, they say that the Returners are making a move.”
“Oh, so they’re still investigating PLOOP, eh?
“They’re linking it to the Planeswalkers that are stationed in Ravnica, stating one of the Guilds gave them funding for their experiments, they suspect the Orzohv Syndicate, but I don’t want to jump to conclusions.”
“Were you followed?”
“Were you?”
Still in the Alcove, Ucarn was alarmed to heard that me may have been noticed, cocking his gun, he turned and saw something scamper across the wastes, a Writhing Bone Ghoul was rushing towards him. Firing a couple of shots to deter the Ghoul, Ucarn made a dash for cover, hopefully a good spot to ambush the critter.
“You should pick better hiding spots, eh Ucarn?” Looking behind him, Ucarn stared directly into the mask of General Dark Fiend. “It’s been a while, Namia.” Ucan said to the Dark Lord.
“It’s Fiend, remember, oh, and this is Aleph, an Earth Human.” Fiend then point toward the Earth Human. Aleph was a Man, in his thirties, wearing a black robe, probably to be inconspicuous. He wasn’t intimidated by either Fiend or Ucarn, he probably experienced worse.
“I don’t have much time.” Aleph said, “By now, there should be a Planeswalker heading here now.”
“You better get going then. These lands aren’t the friendliest of places.” Fiend said to Aleph. “Best to get on out of here before something bad happens.”
“Alright, now your end of the deal.” Aleph said. “I need a creature to scare the hell out of command. Ucarn here would make a good match.”
“Wait… you mean Fiend, right?” Ucarn said with a startled tone.
“He said your name, so I guess it would be you after all.” Fiend Replied.
Aleph, in the deep part of the alcove, started muttering an incantation. Ucarn, wondering what Aleph was muttering about. “What is he saying?” Ucarn asked Fiend.
“An incantation for a portal, it’s a skill that used to be exclusive to Planeswalkers, but some of their info was leaked and now it’s common fact amongst the Earth Humans that travel here. Say, Ucarn, right? From what my servants tell me, you have a message for Lord Stallob.”
“Oh yeah, if you can pass it on to him, please do so. Urth has decided to follow the Doll from that one world to attempt to clear her name. Also that there’s a chance of the Returners are starting a war on Earth, and that Shinji is the key to victory.”
“I’ll make sure to deliver the message to him personally.” Fiend acknowledged.
Aleph, done with his incantation, bit his thumb and seemingly drew a rune in thin air with his own blood. The red ink then started illuminating the alcove, turning from red to a bright blue. “It’s time to go.” Aleph said as the marking became solid.
The Portal that Aleph created glowed a very bright light, blinding to most creatures, but Ucarn and Fiend didn’t mind.
“Aleph…” Fiend said. “Give them hell.”
With a nod, and a small smile, Aleph passed though the portal, along with Ucarn to another world, unknowingly, the little scamper he was trying to shoot at was following him…
“Hopefully Earth will be ready when the sundering begins.” Fiend said as he left the alcove, to what would seem, the Castle of Darkness.
Duelmasters: Returner
Too bad, no character design for each character...
