Chapter 3

"Wow, Estella, I can't believe, Chaos and Epione accepted to helping us level up. I mean, hell, we're 75. The downside, I look like a fool in this armor. But, Estella, you look great. And Azzure, still up to the challenge with that armor i see." Azzuma smiled and started to get ready to leave Darkon Town, "Ready for the swamp and the forest guys?"

"Hell, yes!" Azzure said, "I was born ready!"

"I guess I'm ready too." Estella said

The trio of young heroes set off into the caves towards the swamps of Darkon Three. The first thing they met on the way out was a couple of the Hoppre, roaming around. Azzuma challenged the first on, beating it senseless with his knuckle. Azzure, in another fight, in the middle of a water spell, froze his hand to the back of the Hoppre that jumped at him. It was running and hopping crazily as Azzure hung onto the Hoppre's back. "Will somebody freaking help me!", he yelled, "This thing is too fast!"

Estella tangled its legs up with her yo-yos while Azzuma tried to stun it. "Your welcome, Azzure the all mighty." Azzuma mockingly bowed to Azzure with a smile on his face, "Now I think we're ready for the forests. While you were playing rodeo with that thing, Estella and I were able to get us enough experience. Ready to head out guys?"

"Sure thing, General Azzuma," Azzure said, "Lead us to the forest."

"I'm ready too." Estella said.

And they started to walk off to the jungle.

"This place sucks..." Estella commented, "Can we hurry up and find those dumb tikis. We're almost eighty."

"They should be down this pa... There we go." Azzuma said, "Down the path."

"Those things don't look to nice", Estella said, "I think it's time they learnt their manners."

After finishing her sentence, she lounged at the Watanka nearby and strangled him with her yo-yos. The others, which were surrounding them, noticed and rushed in to attack. "Nice going." Azzure whispered, "Now we have to fight off all of these-"

Before he could finish his sentence, all the watanka dropped dead or were weakened extremely from some a volley of arrows. There was rustling in the trees and Azzure caught a glimpse of a figure jumping from tree to tree. They saw the giant watanka fall and die as it arrived with a sword in it's back. They started hearing something running fast through the forest, stepping on dry leaves. Another volley of arrows, and another pile of dead watanka. Their drops were everywhere on the path. The last watanka standing was killed by a mix of arrows and a shadowy figure who charged straight at it. "Holy Sh-" Azzuma was about to say when the two figure dropped from the trees. There was a ranger and a blade, both glowing with blue aura. Out of nowhere stumble a billposter.

"Who are you two?" Estella mumbled, "Why is that billposter looking so sick?"

"We'll explain later." The ranger assured, "We need to get out of here quick though, we have a couple of murderers on our tail."

With that, they followed the mysterious figures through the forest to a cave, which looked like it was man-made.

"So, would you mind explaining what's going on?" Azzure asked, "Because i would really like to know."

"My name is Ankou, known for my boss-related name. This blade is Aiden." The ranger said, "We were part of a group of heroes who fought in the Great War. The Great War for those of you, who don't know, was between Darkon, Flaris and Saint Morning. It all started when the Pkers came along, they caused the war through lies and the mayors, foolish minds. They had murdered many people in all three nations and if caught had told them that they were sent by Flaris and so on. The Darkon mayor was so pissed off at the other nations for this "Assassination attempt" that he ordered his top builders to build a second clockworks, this time he added in a control system to it so what happened last time wont happed again." He paused, took a drink from his canteen and continue, "After it's construction, he used it on a test run of the once beautiful Garden of Rhisis which was destroy after the first clockworks. The mayor had a power craving, so he ordered two more clockworks to be assembled and upgrade his first one to "Lord Alpha Clockworks". In about a month he had his own little army of clockworks and decided it was time to attack. Only three groups saw through the mist of lies, TheLightningShard, Hypersound, and FifthDivinity. We all took stations in the various nations. The awful part was that the mayor was attacking his own land. TheLightningShard took Flaris, FifthDivinity took Saint Morning and Hypersound took Darkon. Many innocent people died because of the clockwork attacks and the mayor almost had world domination in his grasp. Until-"

"Until what?" Azzuma asked, extremely interested

"-Until, 'Lord Alpha Clockworks' got the lust of power. He destroyed the mayor and took his army to cause mass destruction. Alpha had burnt down saint morning and injured most of the FifthDivinity members. Epione and Kingchaos were the only ones at good health and fought to get the citizens out. Epione was going crazy with all the healing she had to do at the time. The invasion in Saint Morning lasted a week. A week of fear and suffering. It's next target was Flaris, where Aiden, Themuffinman and I were positioned with whoever we could get to fight. Alpha struck hard and killed most of our fighters but Aiden and I learnt a secret to the clockworks, They had a weak point in their armor, the only issue was getting on their shoulders and shooting the point. They were fast but we were faster, we had climbed the clockworks minions and hit them where it hurt. They fell with a loud creak and broke to hundreds of pieces. In a day we had taken out eight of the monsters, leaving only 3 and Alpha. They retreated to Darkon, which, the group defending it, Hypersound had the weakest amount of members. FifthDivinity and TheLightningShard headed for Darkon for the final fight and it was amazing-"

"We were 'chased' into the forests by the Remaining Clockworks and their Alpha. They were getting cocky and felt a fake victory. Once in the forests, my band of rangers attacked from the trees, which was a good sniping point for their weak spots. The beasts fell as soon as the came, Alpha remained, firing all his weapons and stomping up an earthquake. Aiden sprung from a tree and landed on its neck delivering the final blow. It fell and it caused an amazing earthquake, causing the ground in darkon 3, south from here, to open and pour lava."

"What was the weak spot anyways?" Estella wondered.

"A small hole in their neck where the main wires were." Aiden commented

Ankou got up and walked off to go refill his canteen. Azzuma was stunned by the story. "I- I've had dreams just like that one. Only there was another thing in my dreams. The Pkers were hunted down and killed by a mysterious group of blades that wore nothing but a Cash shop suit."

"How do you know of that group, they were killed afterwards when they went exploring new lands, all records of them were lost."

"I don't really know." Azzuma admitted, "But I also had a dream of an elementor burning down a city and a billposter punching down buildings..."

"I wonder what those mean."

"It means you're a loon, Azzuma." Azzure said smiling.
Ankou has just returned from his water run "Can we use any of you blinkwings? We need to meet up with Epione. She can heal, Damien, here. Oh and buy the way, you three should head to the Deadwalderness, the Pkers won't find you guy there for a long while."

"We will." assured Azzuma

"Oh and if you run into a fairy, don't draw any weapons or she'll shoot you dead. If you guys come back to me when your masters, I have cash shop set rewards for you three."

"Oh joy." Azzure said, "I can't wait. Heat, bugs and dirt everywhere."

The group set off through the marshes to the desert where they were to be safe from the roaming Pkers.

"This place sucks," Azzuma, commented, "we've leveled up at least 20 times, we should use those Azria tickets, Azzure, got us."

"I guess." Azzure said, "But what about the Pkers?"

"Bah, not like we're gonna run into them now are we?"

"I guess not."

And they teleported to Azria

"Finally masters!" Azzure yelled as they left the volcano, "Did you guys ever wonder why Rhisis lives in there? Kind of weird isn't it?"

"I think we'll be ready for the upcoming war Ankou and Aiden speak of. Oh! I just remembered I ended up spying on the three main PKers' conversations. The elementor is Inkky, the billposter is Cookie, and the blade, which seemed like the leader, is known as Doughboy. They're planning to start the 'Second Great war' starting with flaris. What's worse is I overheard them saying two words... 'Unleashing' and 'Alpha'."

"This means we're all as good as dead, just great" Azzuma frowned, "Ankou and Aiden are busy hunting down the giants of Shaduwar, Damien is rallying the troops, and we're here, trying not to be dead weight."

"Don't be so negative", Estella laughed, "Themuffinman is gonna help us level to heroes soon, shouldn't be hard, maybe, seeing as there's an event going on, we'll get to ninety in a couple hours."

"Here he is now", Azzure said, "Let's go, I can't wait to kill some PKers soon."

After hours of leveling up, they got to heroes and began to train harder for the war.

They made it to their goal and were rewarded with new armor, ready for the Great War II.