The Inner Gambit of Darkness - Continued (Part 2)

"Sparring." Gwene said "Although with him, its more like a real fight."

"Of course," Nuala said, continueing to follow Gwene up the mountain.

Gwene lead Nuala up to Russells forge and near where Konbei and Deserax were fighting, she walked inside "Russell, there is someone else here I was like you to....."

"Quiet!" a sudden booming voice said.

Gwene fell quiet almost instantly.

After a few moments there was a loud noise of rapidly cooling metal in water, another few moments passed and Russell emerged from the forging area, it was apparent he was working on Galenus' and Celeste's swords "Yes Gweneth, what is it?"

"This is Nuala." Gwene politely gestured to Nuala "She was the one I gave the Dark Hilt to."

"Ah." Russell said "A pleasure to meet you. Tell me, how did it feel?"

"Fine," Nuala nodded. "Very natural for a forged weapon."

Brenz looked around. "I'm pretty sure there's a little closed off garden around here with a window that looks into the throne room..."

"Good." Russel said "Then I can get started on my new project." he went to go back into the forge. "One more thing about it, if you channel your energies through it, you'll use up half as much energy, but they will still deal the same amount." he proceeded back into the forge, to continue the tempering of Galenus' and Celeste's sword.

"Come on." Gwene said "When he gets into his forging state, he gets pretty short tempered."

"Understandable," Nuala said, walking out of the house.

Gwene walked past the two fighting and left them to their brawl. She proceeded back down the mountain, she slipped on a rock and slid down the mountain, landing in a secluded area.

Deciding to give Konbei space, Nuala wandered in the same direction as Gwene.

Gwene picked herself up from the fall, she dusted herself off, little did she know there was someone else there. The wore thick armour on their chest and thick leather gauntlets, they also weilded a helix shaped sword, but they had a dark aura about them.

Nuala sensed another aura and activated her new weapon. She warped down to where Gwene was and looked around carefully. Whatever it was, it was near...

The darkness, that was their advantage here, they swung their blade fiercly and a wave of darkness spread quickly from the blade.

Nuala threw her hand out to the side and her own darkness cut through the air, countering her enemy's attack.

Whatever sent the wave of darkness at them walked towards them, the moonlight showed their appearance, they towered over both of them. Before any of them could react, a strong downward swing cut through the air at them.

At the very last minute, Nuala brought her blade up against the enemy's.

A surging strong fist covered in what appeared to be a black flame went for a strong hit at Nuala's diaphram.

Nuala warped only a metre to the side and swung her blade hard towards the neck region of her opponent.

Although its sword looked big and heavy, it moved it with ease and blocked her strike, it forced her blade off of its and swung across Nuala's chest.

Nuala forced as much energy as she could into her blade and swung it against the one coming at her.

The sword impacted with Nuala's with an incredible force, how Nuala managed to hold it back was a miracle. While it was able it took one of its hands and fired a strong blast of fire at point blank into Nuala's stomach.

There was nothing she could do; it was either drop her sword and have er head cleaved off or take the blow to the stomach. The latter was obviously the less fatal option so she took it and was thrown back against a rock.

Nuala groaned in pain and regained her stance.

Gwene had her blade drawn and leapt to help Nuala, but she was too late and Nuala was hit. "Nuala!" Gwene yelled in horror, she was about to go check on her but saw she was fine, for the most part.

Gwene held her blade with both hands, she poured some light energy into the sword and it seemed to glow in a white light, she charged and swung at the Diety attacking them, it got a deep cut across its cheek from Gwene's attack, but it didn't faze it, she went to swing again and it saw an opportunity, it sent a strong boot to her her gut and it connected, sending her flying back, winded, she impacted with the wall and slid down, she got back up to her feet and looked over at Nuala, giving her a nod as if to say 'We'll attack at the same time'

Nuala flicked her wrist around, getting her blade into position and thrust it the Diety, going for a stab.

Gwene followed suit, she charged at the Diety and planed for a heavy slash across the chest.

The Diety held its blade high above its head, it then thrust it down into the earth and its tip penetrated the earth of Death Mountain, from that powerful penetration a powerful shockwave of pure darkness erupted at the two.

Gwene was caught in it and was flung back into the side of the cliff again, she slid down and landed on the ground.

Nuala focused her energy and let it explode out from her, protecting her from the brunt of the attack, but momentarily weakening her with over-exersion.