Darkest Sun

**Date Started:** September 2nd,
**Date Completed:** Ongoing
**Previous Role-Play:** N/A
**Users Involved:** User:Felosr231, User:Imnotfallen,User:TheGoldenBuddha

**Setting**: Eden
**Characters Involved:**
* **Kai Elio**
* **Kentaro Kira**
* **Veleno**
* **Azzerad**

## Orders From the Captain

Two figures were walking through a massive forest which had terrible dense and thick air. The mana here, it felt more alive than most places, it was Eden, a Grand Magic Region. The two figures were dressed in large all black cloaks with their hoods on, one easily much larger and dwarfing the one on the left. Strands of blond hair can be seen just under the cloak's hood with the other carried a giant broadsword.

"It looks like we're just a few miles away from the site the info told us the 'Dragon' was supposedly seen." The voice came from the shorter of the pair. His voice calm and cool, in control but also welcoming. " what do you say Ken? Any truth to the rumors?"

"We will see when we get there, we don't know it's size or power so be careful." Ken's voice was very rough and straight forward. "I do remember hearing some town folks that about it, they said it was taller than the biggest of buildings in the Clover Kingdom." Ken shrugs for a second. "I'm excited."

"You and me both." The smaller figure replies, "but i mean between the two of us, should you really be the one to tell me to be 'careful'? You're the more savage one between us. Also we can't take the word of people who were too scared and couldn't handle following it here." The mana in the air continued to get thicker the deeper they got. The plants life thriving and greatly lush.

Ken bursts out in laughter as he grabs the smaller figure's head. "You're so funny, kid! You are my partner after all so I wouldn't want those small legs of yours to get hurt". Ken begins to laugh even more as they go deeper into the forest. As they walk, the air keeps getting thicker the deeper they went and Ken's demeanor began to be a little more serious.

"Not all of us can have an ogre-like body like you." the second figure says as he pauses as well, a shift in the air made the difference to him. "You sense it too right? That surge of magic power? It's different from what we've been detecting and from what we've been surrounded by on the way here. It's all gathered to a specific point too, almost like something's...eating it."

"That was so sudden." Ken grabs his big sword with both of his hands, ready to go at any moment. "You think that's it! It must be, right. Such a sudden change couldn't just have been something small. It feels....huge." Ken begins to get a huge grin on his face, he hadn't seriously fought anyone for a while so he was excited to say the least.

After letting out a heavy sigh the figure began, "Relax, there's a difference between being careful and overly excited to fight." After a few seconds the sensation faded from the air s it reverted back to normal. "Whatever it was, it left. We should report this to the captain before moving any forward." He then threw a small golden device to Kentaro "Catch, your turn to call the man."

Kentaro sighs for a straight minute. "Fiiiine, I will call him." Kentaro clicks a button on the golden device. "Yo, captain! We found this thing that has huge mana and seems to eat the natural mana in the air. It's nothing that we can't handle." Ken then throws the device back at Kai. "Ok, there you go! You can deal with him from now on"

"y-you, haaa!" Kai then looks at device, "Old man, did you hear Ken?" He asks waiting for a reply from their mighty captain.

"Captain it's Kai and Kentaro making their report" A voice that sounds exactly like Alana Merle was heard through it as she connected the call to her crystal ball.

They hear the sound of liquid pouring out of a glass bottle followed by the sound of gulping. "Gahhh. sounds like you made it pretty far. Eating mana hu? Well thats a new one. Never heard of dragon doing that." He said followed by more sounds of liquid in a bottle with more gulping "Gahh, this rumor has HQ pissing their pants and its sure not putting them to rest knowing we're the ones doing the investigation, If this does end up being a big deal im counting on you two, my vice captains, to settle the matter. Go wild and hold nothing back." He encouraged

"*Why was i expecting some type of words of inspiration?* Kai thought to himself, "Well we'll try to keep you posted on progress of the mission. So far though Ken's right, this doesn't seem like something we can't handle. I feel like the stories about dragons may have been overexaggerated."

"Hahaha well they are mythical creatures even for this world so who can say. Well regardless continue your investigation. Report back when your finished." He said followed by the sound of liquid with gulping again before he hung up.

"Think they'll be ok out there captain?" Alana asked, concerning.

"Hahaha those two together are the least of my worries. They'll be fine." He said as he laughed and began chugging from his bottle of booze.

Back at their base, Takato was sharpening his sword. As the last sparks rung off and he noticed another's presence, he didn't think before he spoke. “Korag, tell me what mission the Vice Captains went on. Why was I not invited? Am I not strong?"

He lowered his bottle and rest it on his lap "Nah trust me Takato this has nothing to do with being strong or not. The Magic Knights have been hearing rumors of a dragon sighting spreading across the kingdom. Naturally the Headquarters think that this could result in wide panic, so to make it easier for them, they gave me specifically the mission to investigate this rumor and if its true, take care of it before it becomes public to avoid putting it on the records if the reports are true. But Honestly since their just rumors i didn't think it was necessary for me waste time looking for it, however if it turned out to be true i shouldn't risk sending people who aren't prepare either. So i chose them take my place to investigate this so called rumor and handle it themselves. He said as he lifted his bottle again and began drinking from it.

"Oh really?" Alana interrupted. "Are you sure you didnt send them so you'd have an excuse to sneak out and flirt with women?" She said sincere smile.

Korag, while still drinking from his bottle was shocked that he had been caught, causing him to choke from the liquor as he had to cough it up.

Kai put the communication device away in his pocket and removes his hood. "Seems like the old man doesn't take this all too serious. But hey if he did i guess he'd be here huh?" Kai asked his fellow Vice Captain.

Kentaro would laugh a little at Kai's words. "That lazy bastard, always flirting with woman and drinking." Kentaro laughs ones again and turns his head a little to whisper to himself. "I wish I was flirting with woman and drinking right now."

Kai looked over, "You know even if you whisper I can still hear you right? You're like just a few feet from me." the blond mage points out and looks around their surroundings. "*My squad...is filled with idiots.*" Turning to his left the lingering trail of a purple colored mana was seen, "That way, something's around down that way."

"Hmph, feels like it." Kentaro shrugs for a moment to reposition his sword on his shoulder. "If you have anything more to say then say it, if not then let's get a move on." Kentaro then begins to walk down the trail that Kai pointed out.

"*Maybe a thank you, ya troll. Your magic sensing isn't even half as good as mine and knowing you, you would've gotten lost*" Kai thought to himself as he placed his hood back on and continued onward. "*The mana here is rich but the gravity is also intense, that's why these cloaks were needed. They allow the mana to slip past us and thus make it that the enhanced gravity doesn't effect us. In a way it replicates the effects of mana skin, this way we don't drain ourselves dry navigating on feet*"

As the two walk deeper onto the trail, Kentaro takes his hood off to see what they are working with. As he did, he could feel the weight of his heavy armor double if not triple, and it was getting hard for him to walk. "The gravity is so intense, I love it." The more and more that Kentaro and Kai would walk, the more he would get excited and his lust for battle would get more intense. "I can't wait to fight this beast."

"You should've kept that on you ogre." Kai said as he saw his fellow vice captain throw off the specially made cloak. He then turned his head and felt a shift in the air. "Well now, looks like we're not as alone as I thought." The duo were quickly surrounded by a large pack of wolves. "Magic Wolves, roughly twenty of them. Shall you or should I?"

"hmph! I'll leave ten for you." Kentaro then grabs his big sword with his right hand and begins to step back a little. "Here we go." Kentaro throws his sword at an insane speed at one of the wolfs that gets cut completely in two. One of the wolfs jumps up in the air and tries to bite Kentaro. He grabs the wolf in the middle of the air and brings it down onto his knee breaking its ribs, spine, and multiple other bones, in turn, killing it. " two down, eight to go."

As five hungry and ravenous wolves jumped up and pounced at the young blonde vice captain he threw his cloak in the air! "*The cloak surpresses and hides my magic but sadly it also limits how much I can use which is next to none. Hope I dont burn it by accident.*" He thought to himself as he saw the beasts coming at him he delivered a chops and punches directly at their throats and necks, sending them flying and crashing through trees. "*They're using their own magic to increase the strength of their fur coats. I'd need to add some of my own if i wanted to kill them. But a few enhanced strikes should do it.*"

Kentaro looks over for a second to see how his fellow vice-captain is doing. "Not bad kid, your keeping u-." His words were cut short as two more wolfs jumped at him and bit him in his left arm. "These annoying creatures." He brought his arm up and slammed them into a tree that was right next to him. The wolfs whined in pain but Kentaro was merciless. He took his other arm and shoved it right through one of the wolf's chest and grabbed the other one with his right arm. He took it by the legs and slammed it into the ground. "Oh, I'm not done." Kentaro then raised his right leg and kicked the wolf right in the throat.

The remaining five wolves around Kai followed along and surrounded him before attacking again! They jumped and attempted to land a heavy bite but Kai side stepped and dodged again. He then slammed both hands to the floor and spun around to kick the wolves. Though he looked down at the the hurt and beaten animals, pulled out his grimoire.

"Don't make me regret this." The spell book then began to flip through pages. "**Sun Magic: Aura Curativa,**" a small pink flame appeared and wrapped around the beaten wolves and healed their injuries. "Feel better?" The wolves then got up and took to a sitting position with a kind and calm aura coming from them.

"You were just scared huh? Something around here must be messing with your habitat and us coming here made it worse." He spoke to the wolves who were nodding their heads agreeing as if they understood him. "Something big has moved it's way here, so I don't blame you all for attacking me. If you could, mind showing us the way?" Again the wolves agreed and some even rubbed their face against Kai.

Meanwhile, Kentaro wipes the blood from his face and spits on the ground. "Man those wolves were annoying." He then looks over at Kai that just befriended the beasts. "What's going on here. I just slaughtered half of them and your just sitting here petting them." Kentaro shrugs as he walks over to get his sword that had flung through four trees and is halfway into another. He then puts his cloak back on and can feel his armor getting much lighter. "Dammm, I love this cloak."

"Not everything needs to be done with bloodshed or bloodlust. Some times all you really need is to understand what's going on. Course an ogre like you wouldn't understand." The wolves then began to lead the way for Kai and Kentaro. "let's follow these guys, they should know more than us on where to find our target." Kai then throws his cloak over himself and started to follow the wolves. "*These cloaks were made especially for us to navigate the Grand Magic Zones. But that woman will never let me live it down for asking for her help on making these.*" he thought to himself.

"Pfff, whatever." Kentaro goes over to pick his sword out of the tree. "*That damm monkey is gonna tell me what to do, we all well know that I'm stronger than him*" he thought to himself. "Let's just get this fight starting so I can have fun. I'm getting bored."

## A Dragon's Furry

As the young men followed the wolves, massive claw shaped footprints on the floor can be found along with tumbled trees. Some of the wolves started to turn back while one who appeared to be the Alpha continued to lead the way for the two knights.

"It looks like we're getting close." Kai begins as he feels some traces of a foreign magic in the air. "Like the wolves I already started to detect some type of Magic from around here. The beast isn't too far but it's magic power...I can already feel it's weight around here."

At that moment the wolf whimpered and looked back at Kai with a scared look on it's face. "I see, it's okay little guy. Just head on back, you leaving just means It should be nearby." Kai says while the wolf runs away from the two who reach a giant clearing. It was filled with craters and foot prints. what looked like a lush forest was now more of a wasteland, a river into a mere puddle. It was devastating sight to see.

"Just scared small pups, how pathetic. Didn't even dent my armor." Kentaro says and looks forward to the craters. "Now this is something that I like, I can't wait to fight this beast and slay its head." Kentaro's mouth drools a little as his thirst for battle kicks in once again.

Kentaro then jumps down the craters, sliding down its side and begins to walk towards the center. "Now where is this thing, so boring." He says and begins to scream, "Come out and play, I'm bored and ready to kick your ass."

"your friend there seems eager to lose his life." A frail voice emerged next to Kai's ears as an old man dressed in beaten and dust covered robes appeared next to Kai. "Sorry did i startle you young man?"

"No." Kai replied unfazed that the man random appeared. "I could feel you magic power approaching about half way the wolves led us here."

"Ho? To be able to follow those wolves, detect my minimal magic power and keep an eyes on your environment. You do appear to be a magic knight, and a great one at that."

"So mind telling me what someone with so little magic power doing around here?"

"Well my cabin home used to be in this clearing. Of course that was before that monster arrived here."

"How long ago was it since he showed up? What exactly was it that showed up?"

"You already know what it is young man, a dragon. It's a raging beast and when it showed up the land I and those wolves used to call home no longer exist. The woods, the trees, the river, even the wild magic in the air was destroyed and left only in scraps." The old man then looked over towards the craters were, "It should be back soon, if you two were wise, you'd leave." He then turned around and walked away.

"You didn't answer when he came back you know? Which means it's either to devastating to talk about or it wasn't too recent. Take your own advice old man, leave. Things are going to get a lot more hectic."

The old man chuckled and walked away, waving at Kai. "Try not to lose your lives kids.

"Try to come back in a few days, who knows, maybe by then your problem will be gone and you and those wolves can come back 'home'.

"hahaha! Who knows, who knows."

"Yo Kai, who was that old grump," Ken says as he turns back and looks up at where the old guy just stood. "Hmph, well whatever." He says and turns around again to now facing away from Kai. "Get down here already, your so god dammm slow."

Ken walks to the center of the crater and slams his sword into the ground. "HEEEEYYY, WHERE ARE YOU, STUPID LIZARD!!!!" He screams while trying to look for the dragon. He then sits down on the ground while sitting against his sword and sighs. "So boring out here."

Kai jumps off where be was standing and landed next to Kentaro. "Would you keep it down you ogre? No need to piss it off." Kai says as he looks around the disastrous area, "this is truly sad sight to behold. The trees, the river, the very floor we stand on, its all left ruins. At least try to show some respect and sympathy. The animals and people who live here had to run, leaving their homes behind or die."

He then looked forward and suddenly "wait...the mana directly in front of us is thin, feels almost...normal levels." Kai began as he finally put pieces together. "What if it's literally absorbing tbe mana into itself, and what if it's making it's choice of where to go because of the amount of magic power?" Kai then quickly removed his cloak and forcefully pulled Kentaro's off!

The release of two heavily powered Magic Knights was quickly noticeable! So much so that the very floor itself began to shake violently! The trembling force from up ahead can be felt as a monstrous, vicious, blood curdling roar was heard! A massive shadowy figure then shit inti the sky miles ahead and approached the two mages as incredible speeds.

"So young man...will you survive? Or will you fall victim to its wrath?" The old man whispered to himself as he watched from a far.

Ken would look up as the giant beast flew over their heads. "Holy shit, that's huge." Ken gains a massive grin on his face and looks over at Kai. "You ready kid, this battle is going to be so good." He says while grabbing his sword from the ground with his right hand and puts it on his shoulder. "let's see what you got kid, try to keep up"

The massive dragon land down in front of both the young mages. The beast was towering over the two magic knights, it was grand in every way possible. It's height, the mana coming off of it, the roars capable of shaking the floor itself! It opened it's wings sending a huge wave of intense air against them. It then swatted it's razor sharp claws at the black Bulls!

"Come at me you ugly beast", Ken said as he made contact with the dragon, sending him flying back about ten feet before landing on the ground again. "*This ugly fucking bastard, I can't wait to kill this thing.*" He thought to himself as he quickly got back up and began to run at the beast, raising his sword in the air, ready to strike at any moment.

Kai's eyes widened as the claw came swinging at him and unlike his comrade he decided to dodge! But only just barely did he manage to avoid a strike from the raging beast! The claw carried so much for e the air pressure that followed behind it forced Kai a good distance away! As the mage did his best to keep his focus on the claw, a long whip like tail appeared from seemingly no where slammed against Kai and sent him flying! He crashed through tree after tree!

"*This thing's strength alone out classed both me and that damn ogre!*" Kai thought to himself as it was revealed he managed to add a thin layer of mana skin to reduce the damage but not nullify it. "*For now let's try to size him up magic wise!*" Kai then drew his grimoire and the pages began to flip through until landing on his desired spell.

"**Sun Magic!: Sol!**" Upon calling the name for his spell a wave of fire shot from his spell book and quickly whirled together and formed a sphere of flames, taking the appearance of miniature sun! The sun floated above his hand which was raised above his head, Kai then threw the spell and it shot at great speed!

As the dragon began to flap its wings to evade, the purple beast felt a pull, a force pulling it closer to the miniature sun! Unable to evade the dragon slammed both hands against the spell and stopped it in its tracks! Out of no where a purple color emerged on and began to spread all over the vice captain's attack as it withered away to nothing.

"Kai you little dwarf, try not to get killed this early in battle!" Ken screamed over to Kai before he lifted his sword in the air and got ready to swing at the beast. Sending the heavy blade down, barely cutting through the dragon's scales enhanced with mana skin, Ken could feel his hairs stand up as the dragon was about to attack.

Sensing the attack in advance, Ken barely dodged out of the way of the dragon's thick claws and got hit with one across his chest plate. Cutting right through the armor and across his chest, a little blood begins to pour out as it drips on the ground. As blood makes contact with the armor, it begins to repair itself and close up a little of the hole in the armor. "This is nothing but a scrath, it'll take more then that to defeat me hahaha!"

Kai cracked his knuckles and a flame ignited on his forehead. **Sun Magic:Diedad Del Sol**. His eyes were much sharper than earlier. Flames emerged on his fists and feet as well before he took off flying towards the raging beast. "Now then..." The pages flipped through his grimoire as he landed on his desired spell, "**Sun Magic: Mancha Solar**" kai releases an intense wave of intense flames followed by a powerful gust slammed down into the face if the dragon!

Despite the sheer power from his spells the beast opened it's claws and formed a ring of magic and sent it flying at Kai and it quickly surrounded and wrapped him up! Quickly the flames that were attacking the beast faded and the flames he had on died out. Before Kai could react the dragon swatted him to the floor!

As he crashed to the floor his grimoire opened wide and what seemed to be a giant bird made of flames emerged and caught Kai from falling! "D-damn. Thanks Azoth." Kai muttered as he grabbed his ribs in pain. "This magic power, its no joke. It's eating away at my spells one by one! What kind of magic is it?!"

"Come on Kai, you already running awa-" Ken's words were stopped short as the dragon slammed its mighty foot down on Ken, seemingly crushing him. The foot began to lift as Ken stood there, bloody as all hell, but alive. "Goddammit, this thing is heavier than your mom Kai hahaha!" He says as he is holding the dragon's foot.

The dragon lifts its foot and proceeds to slam it down, but Ken managed to dodge out the way. His sword was trapped under the dragon's foot but Ken seemed to not care. He smirks and cracks his knuckles. "I guess I'll have to kill you barehanded."

Kai simply shook his head as he saw Ken's actions, his approach to taking the dragon on. It did match what Kai claims as Ken's 'simple' personality. Suddenly the massive dragon flapped its wings sending powerful gusts against the two vice captains! Kai tried to block but the current was too strong to brace himself for!a light purple aura lit up around the dragon and swatted Kai away!

"Sh-shit!" Kai yelled as he crash landed on the floor! "His strength...it doubled!?!" He was in complete shock of the new developments. "It's using mana skin?! How!?" Kai then looked st Kentaro, "Move you idiot!!" He yelled as the beast spread its wings and purple aura like cracks appeared around the beast spreading in the air before disappearing.

"The Mana..." Kai thought as he could feel a foul taste to the mana in the air. "It's...been poisoned???"

Getting pushed back by the wind, Ken could feel something strange with the air around him, just as Kai had called for him. A drop of sweat ran down Ken's cheek as he saw the mighty dragon flap its wings. "*I should move, I should really move!*" He thought to himself as he began to jump back over to Kai.

"Alright, you bastard. I suppose you've something planned, or at least I hope." He says as he made his way over to Kai.

## Two Bulls and a Dragon

"For now we need to stop taking in mana from the air." Kai orders as he grabs his cloak and tosses Ken's over. "Don't wear it, just keep it on your person. It keeps our magic sealed when we wear it but just holding it keeps us from taking in natural mana." Kai says as he ties the cloak around his arm.

"*This thing...it's not just been absorbing the mana from these parts but also causing it to rot away. We try to run and this thing will catch us no problem. We'd have to sacrifice one for the other to get away and to hell with that. Our best chance is to fight and those alone aren't that great.*" He then noticed the trees slowly dying around him. "*Anything taking in the mana seem to die quickly. So we only have our reserves to use...*" Kai then walked next to Ken.

"All we can do is fight. We can only use our own mana reserve so many everything count. Hit him fast and hard." He then looked over at his fellow Vice Captain, "I assume that won't be so hard for you ya damn ogre. We rush at him, we do what we can, we'll keep scanning around him, look for a weakness we can exploit."

"Sounds good to m-" Ken was cut short by the sudden pain from his right eye, he falls to his knees. His armor begins to morph, his fingers turn into claws, his feet into paws, and his helmet, into a beast. "NO, NOt now!" He screams as he struggles to keep this morphing from happening. Looking up at his fellow vice-captain, his face itself is morphing with one half smiling, and the other in pain. "Kai, attack first. I'll come later, understo-" He says before getting cut short, once again. Covering his right eye, and crapping his blade, he tries to stand up but is barely able to with this amount of pain.