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The army then rushed at the Queen and her Troops. Then, without ordering her own to attack, they rushed in as well and began to fight. Stalkid, who was looking over the crowd, stared at DarkZero. DarkZero's eyes met with Stalkid's and he grinned evilly at him. Before Stalkid knew it, he was face to face with this figure of evil. DarkZero then draws his two Katanas and said, "You will die like the others shall…" With this being said, Stalkid held his powerful sword into a fighting ready position. "It will be you who dies first." Stalkid said. The two then engage with each other. With his heavy, massive sword, Stalkid attempted to slice the evil commander into two. DarkZero then swiftly dodges Stalkid's attack and swiftly swipes Stalkid's arm with one of his Katanas. "Argh!" Stalkid groaned. Angrily, he attempts to attack DarkZero again. This time, DarkZero raised his two Katanas and blocked Stalkid's attack. DarkZero struggled to keep the heavy sword from falling on to him and pushed up while Stalkid forcefully pushed down on his weapon.
Meanwhile, DQ was face-to-face with Rollo. Holding her Bladed Staff, she glared at her friend who has been enslaved to evil. Rollo unsheathes his sword. "I shall find this rather amusing to be fighting a foolish Queen who actually believes that she can save her kingdom by fighting in a battle that she could not possibly win." Rollo narrowed his eyes. "It'll be over before you know it." The two stood there silently until DQ swung her weapon at Rollo. Quickly, he dodged the attack and swung his sword down at her. She blocked the attack by lifting her staff below where the sword was coming down. She pushed Rollo away and she swipes at him again, this time injuring his chest. He grunted and then swung his sword at her, only to fail to hit DQ. He placed his arm over his wound and grinned. "Not bad for a low-level being." He commented. "But that doesn't mean you will necessarily win this fight because you have 'some' skill to fight." The queen then pleaded, "Please Rollo. I don't want to fight you …" "But fight you must. Otherwise, I shall kill you quickly." DQ deeply sighed and raised her weapon. "Then let us battle." She muttered.
Stalkid and DarkZero were still struggling against each other as Stalkid pushed down on his large sword while DarkZero resisted Stalkid's efforts. Finally, DarkZero pushes Stalkid away and takes a swing at Stalkid, but misses him by inches. They both stared at each other, breathing hard. DarkZero then smiles again. "You are better then I thought…." Stalkid stood their, glaring at the black armored man. "Who would have known that a creature like yourself would possess such skill? Heh, if you fought like my previous challengers, you would have been dead by now, but you aren't dead, which I find to be very impressive." DarkZero then straightens his posture. "Why don't we just stop fighting each other and you just join us? Fighting me is a waste because eventually you will be killed. Plus, this battle that these creatures are fighting-" He spreads his arms out. "-They cannot win! They will all die. You will die as well if you don't join us too." Stalkid shakes his head. "I'll never join such a demonic group of people! Never!" Stalkid raises his sword again. "I'd rather battle you to the bitter end." DarkZero raises his two Katanas and grins. "You would be such a wonderful asset to 'The Dark', but you choose to stay with the weak, low-class people." He then raises his long Katana, pointing it at Stalkid. "If death is your wish, I shall grant it to you."
"HA!" Rollo shouted as his sword came down on the Queen. Though the Queen had dodged, her shoulder was scrapped by Rollo's sword. She cried in pain as she jumped back from Rollo. He chuckled in complete amusement. She looked at Rollo as she covered her fresh wound on her shoulder. Rollo simply smiled back at her. "Why Rollo? Why did this have to happen to you?" Rollo remained quiet as she whimpered in pain over her shoulder. She then, with her injured arm, grabbed her Bladed Staff. Unexpectedly, Rollo charged at her. DQ then raised her staff and blocks Rollo's forceful attack. She then jabs Rollo in the face, stunning him. She then lunges the staff at Rollo. She froze once she had realized what she had done. Rollo remained frozen as well. His eyes were filled with surprise as he looked at his chest. DQ began to breathe in a frightened way. She then slowly pulls the Bladed Staff away, to find that the blade was covered in blood.
Rollo stumbled back in to a tree. Blood painted the tree as he slid down to the ground. He coughed a couple of times and blood dripped out from his mouth. He began to wheeze as he breathed hard. DQ covered her mouth. "Rollo, I-I didn't mean to…." Rollo looked around himself, partially confused. He then looked down at his wound and the coughed some more. Rollo then looked at DQ weakly and whispered, "What…. happened? All I remember was that man holding me…. up in the air. I felt so much in pain…. then I black out and then-" He stopped speaking as he quickly put his arm over his wound and groaned in pain. "I feel it coming DQ…. I can't make it…. I know I won't live…." DQ swiftly shakes her head. "No! Don't say that! You will live! You will live…." Rollo shakes his head slowly in total disagreement. "Please Rollo…. Don't die on me…." Rollo turns his head to the right to see Stalkid fighting DarkZero viciously. Rollo weakly lifted his arm and pointed at DarkZero. "Him…. I saw him in the swamp." DQ looked up at the two fighting in the distance. She than said, "He is the one who enslaved you…." She looked down at Rollo. "DQ…. Soon I will die…but…. I will not sleep peacefully until that man… is killed. Nor will the other souls that he has claimed will ever rest… I beg you DQ…" He raised his right hand to her, "Kill the evil man. I know you can do it…you've always had something in you that I have always felt…. Please…" DQ took a step back away from Rollo, "Please Rollo don't'…." With his last words, he said, "I know…. You can … do this DQ…Crush them…with your anger…and avenge…my death…I know I can count on…you because-" He began to shake as he clinged on to his life. He then forcefully whispered, "You… hold the essence…. Of the-" He couldn't finish his last words and his head began to sway. Finally, his head then drops to the side. DQ stared at Rollo. "Rollo?" No response. "Rollo?" She repeated, but her voice quivered. DQ then dropped her staff and ran towards Rollo's lifeless body. She then slowly kneeled next to him and nudges him. After a few nudges, she then presumed, "He's dead." She then repeated this statement over and over until she eventually began to cry. She then buried her eyes into Rollo's chest and wrapped her arms around her now dead friend.
The battle between Stalkid and DarkZero raged on as they swiped at each other continuously. They both were injured badly from each others devastating attacks and began to breathe heavily as they glared at each other. DarkZero seemed to still be smiling despite the injuries he had all over himself. "This is…. VERY interesting." He stated. "You haven't died yet. I find this to be very amusing for me to have a competitor such as yourself that just won't give up."
"Be quiet for once! You never seem to stop talking!"
DarkZero chuckled as he wiped some blood off of his arm that oozed out of a large cut. "Why don't we just end this and you join me? Don't be foolish. You cannot possibly win at all no matter how hard you try." There was a long pause. Stalkid then finally answered, "I have told you this a thousand times ….. I WILL NEVER JOIN AN ARMY OF DEMONS! I would choose death then to join you!" DarkZero raised his weapons as well as Stalkid raised his. "I have given you so many chances, but you've rejected them all." He narrows his eyes. "Then you are of no use." Stalkid rushed at the pale skinned man with his sword above his head furiously. DarkZero then quickly rushed to his right before he could be cut in half by the large, heavy sword. "Tsk, tsk. You try too hard to hit me with that massive, yet worthless weapon. A common low-level creature trait." Stalkid then shouted, "WHY DON'T YOU JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND FIGHT!?"
DQ continued to cry as the two fought in the distance. She then finally raised her head up and looked around her. About half of her kingdom was engulfed in flames. She could hear the cries of pain from her men as well as from DarkZero's men. Rollo's last words echoed though her mind as she stared at the fiery surroundings. She then looked back down at Rollo and slowly got up. She began to envision DarkZero's grim, grinning face. Her heart began to pound quickly in her chest as her anger grew. "DarkZero…" She whispered. She turned and looked at him as he fought Stalkid. DarkZero fought Stalkid with extreme pleasure of it all as Stalkid became injured. DQ clasped her fists and an angry expression formed about her face. She grabs her bladed staff and quickly walked towards DarkZero.
DarkZero laughed evilly as Stalkid fell to his knees. Stalkid felt extreme weakness all over his body and looked up at DarkZero helplessly. "Only a proper death will do for a good competitor like yourself….. a nice slow one shall do." DarkZero lifted his sword, getting ready to stab Stalkid in the shoulder. Suddenly, DQ rushes in and knocked DarkZero's blade out of his hand and yelled, "YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE YOU DEVILISH FIEND!" Ferociously, she lunged at DarkZero, attempting to kill him by impaling him. He quickly hits the blade away from hit and stumbles to the ground doing so. DQ forcefully jams her Bladed Staff into DarkZero's shoulder and he screams in pain. "HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?! HOW DO YOU LIKE FEELING PAIN?!" DQ screamed manically. DarkZero kicks DQ off of him. He then pulls the Bladed Staff from his shoulder, screaming in process of extracting it. After pulling it out, he threw it to the side and struggled to get up. He only found DQ to pounce on top of him again with a knife in hand. "DIE!" She yelled as she thrusted the knife at his face. DarkZero swiftly grabs DQ's hand and struggled to keep the knife from going through his forehead. He was amazed to see that a Deku possessed such strength to cause him to struggle to keep a knife from coming down on him.
Stalkid slowly got up from the ground and dragged his large sword behind him as he walked towards DarkZero. He then stopped and looked up in the air and gasped. He saw the wicked women that he saw earlier that day. "Kalinia!" He gasped. From her staff, a bright ball of purple energy knocks Stalkid on to his back, knocking him out. She then looks down at DQ and DarkZero. She then sneers and whispers, "Pitiful DarkZero… struggling against a low-level creature." She looks at the burnt kingdom and found her army standing together in a clearing. She smirks. "Well done." She whispers. She then looks back down at her weakened warrior and the enraged Queen. "Heh, I think we have had enough fun now, dear Queen…. I'm afraid that I be taking DarkZero with me." DQ looks up at Kalinia, still pushing down on her weapon. Kalinia's eyes then glew a yellow color and she smiled. "Of course-" She started, "-You WILL need to get off of him." Before DQ could even move, she was lifted into the air. "What the--?" The surprised queen stated while she was in mid air. "Worthless creature… How dare the Gods let such a feeble race like yours to roam the planet!" Energy began to emit from the wicked woman's body. "But we, 'The Dark', have corrected the Gods mistakes by simply eliminating the low-leveled ones. Your race is a good example of a low-level race. Worthless, weak, and unintelligent." At this point, DQ then raged. "UNINTELLIGENT?! MY RACE IS CERTAINLY NOT STUPID!" She attempted to move towards Kalinia, but soon found that she couldn't move. Kalinia wickedly laughed. She then raised her arm up. "Once I have eradicated you, the Deku race will be nothing but mere legend." Her hand began to glow. "Farewell, weakling." Before Kalinia could harm DQ, an arrow flew out from the bushes and struck the sorceress in her up-rised hand. "Argh!" She groaned as she gasped her hand. Almost immediately, DQ fell from the air and roughly lands on the ground. She weakly groans and looks around for the sharpshooter that had saved her life. As she slowly moved her head around, she heard someone's voice echo through the area, saying, "Why don't cha pick on someone your own size witch?!" Kalinia looked up and saw the person standing in the dense bushes to her right. Slightly bearing her teeth, she then yelled, "You may have stopped me from killing a worthless being, but that doesn't mean that I will not stop destroying them!" She floats down to DarkZero and lifts him in to the air. Green energy then swirled around them and soon it became a portal. "This isn't the end you worthless beings!" With that said, Kalinia, DarkZero, and her troops disappeared. Stalkid had remained on the ground, unconscious, while DQ was on the verge of passing out as well. Her vision began to blur as the person walked over to her. He was saying something, but his voice was muffled and inaudible to DQ. She groans a couple of times and her head then drops to the ground.
The army then rushed at the Queen and her Troops. Then, without ordering her own to attack, they rushed in as well and began to fight. Stalkid, who was looking over the crowd, stared at DarkZero. DarkZero's eyes met with Stalkid's and he grinned evilly at him. Before Stalkid knew it, he was face to face with this figure of evil. DarkZero then draws his two Katanas and said, "You will die like the others shall…" With this being said, Stalkid held his powerful sword into a fighting ready position. "It will be you who dies first." Stalkid said. The two then engage with each other. With his heavy, massive sword, Stalkid attempted to slice the evil commander into two. DarkZero then swiftly dodges Stalkid's attack and swiftly swipes Stalkid's arm with one of his Katanas. "Argh!" Stalkid groaned. Angrily, he attempts to attack DarkZero again. This time, DarkZero raised his two Katanas and blocked Stalkid's attack. DarkZero struggled to keep the heavy sword from falling on to him and pushed up while Stalkid forcefully pushed down on his weapon.
Meanwhile, DQ was face-to-face with Rollo. Holding her Bladed Staff, she glared at her friend who has been enslaved to evil. Rollo unsheathes his sword. "I shall find this rather amusing to be fighting a foolish Queen who actually believes that she can save her kingdom by fighting in a battle that she could not possibly win." Rollo narrowed his eyes. "It'll be over before you know it." The two stood there silently until DQ swung her weapon at Rollo. Quickly, he dodged the attack and swung his sword down at her. She blocked the attack by lifting her staff below where the sword was coming down. She pushed Rollo away and she swipes at him again, this time injuring his chest. He grunted and then swung his sword at her, only to fail to hit DQ. He placed his arm over his wound and grinned. "Not bad for a low-level being." He commented. "But that doesn't mean you will necessarily win this fight because you have 'some' skill to fight." The queen then pleaded, "Please Rollo. I don't want to fight you …" "But fight you must. Otherwise, I shall kill you quickly." DQ deeply sighed and raised her weapon. "Then let us battle." She muttered.
Stalkid and DarkZero were still struggling against each other as Stalkid pushed down on his large sword while DarkZero resisted Stalkid's efforts. Finally, DarkZero pushes Stalkid away and takes a swing at Stalkid, but misses him by inches. They both stared at each other, breathing hard. DarkZero then smiles again. "You are better then I thought…." Stalkid stood their, glaring at the black armored man. "Who would have known that a creature like yourself would possess such skill? Heh, if you fought like my previous challengers, you would have been dead by now, but you aren't dead, which I find to be very impressive." DarkZero then straightens his posture. "Why don't we just stop fighting each other and you just join us? Fighting me is a waste because eventually you will be killed. Plus, this battle that these creatures are fighting-" He spreads his arms out. "-They cannot win! They will all die. You will die as well if you don't join us too." Stalkid shakes his head. "I'll never join such a demonic group of people! Never!" Stalkid raises his sword again. "I'd rather battle you to the bitter end." DarkZero raises his two Katanas and grins. "You would be such a wonderful asset to 'The Dark', but you choose to stay with the weak, low-class people." He then raises his long Katana, pointing it at Stalkid. "If death is your wish, I shall grant it to you."
"HA!" Rollo shouted as his sword came down on the Queen. Though the Queen had dodged, her shoulder was scrapped by Rollo's sword. She cried in pain as she jumped back from Rollo. He chuckled in complete amusement. She looked at Rollo as she covered her fresh wound on her shoulder. Rollo simply smiled back at her. "Why Rollo? Why did this have to happen to you?" Rollo remained quiet as she whimpered in pain over her shoulder. She then, with her injured arm, grabbed her Bladed Staff. Unexpectedly, Rollo charged at her. DQ then raised her staff and blocks Rollo's forceful attack. She then jabs Rollo in the face, stunning him. She then lunges the staff at Rollo. She froze once she had realized what she had done. Rollo remained frozen as well. His eyes were filled with surprise as he looked at his chest. DQ began to breathe in a frightened way. She then slowly pulls the Bladed Staff away, to find that the blade was covered in blood.
Rollo stumbled back in to a tree. Blood painted the tree as he slid down to the ground. He coughed a couple of times and blood dripped out from his mouth. He began to wheeze as he breathed hard. DQ covered her mouth. "Rollo, I-I didn't mean to…." Rollo looked around himself, partially confused. He then looked down at his wound and the coughed some more. Rollo then looked at DQ weakly and whispered, "What…. happened? All I remember was that man holding me…. up in the air. I felt so much in pain…. then I black out and then-" He stopped speaking as he quickly put his arm over his wound and groaned in pain. "I feel it coming DQ…. I can't make it…. I know I won't live…." DQ swiftly shakes her head. "No! Don't say that! You will live! You will live…." Rollo shakes his head slowly in total disagreement. "Please Rollo…. Don't die on me…." Rollo turns his head to the right to see Stalkid fighting DarkZero viciously. Rollo weakly lifted his arm and pointed at DarkZero. "Him…. I saw him in the swamp." DQ looked up at the two fighting in the distance. She than said, "He is the one who enslaved you…." She looked down at Rollo. "DQ…. Soon I will die…but…. I will not sleep peacefully until that man… is killed. Nor will the other souls that he has claimed will ever rest… I beg you DQ…" He raised his right hand to her, "Kill the evil man. I know you can do it…you've always had something in you that I have always felt…. Please…" DQ took a step back away from Rollo, "Please Rollo don't'…." With his last words, he said, "I know…. You can … do this DQ…Crush them…with your anger…and avenge…my death…I know I can count on…you because-" He began to shake as he clinged on to his life. He then forcefully whispered, "You… hold the essence…. Of the-" He couldn't finish his last words and his head began to sway. Finally, his head then drops to the side. DQ stared at Rollo. "Rollo?" No response. "Rollo?" She repeated, but her voice quivered. DQ then dropped her staff and ran towards Rollo's lifeless body. She then slowly kneeled next to him and nudges him. After a few nudges, she then presumed, "He's dead." She then repeated this statement over and over until she eventually began to cry. She then buried her eyes into Rollo's chest and wrapped her arms around her now dead friend.
The battle between Stalkid and DarkZero raged on as they swiped at each other continuously. They both were injured badly from each others devastating attacks and began to breathe heavily as they glared at each other. DarkZero seemed to still be smiling despite the injuries he had all over himself. "This is…. VERY interesting." He stated. "You haven't died yet. I find this to be very amusing for me to have a competitor such as yourself that just won't give up."
"Be quiet for once! You never seem to stop talking!"
DarkZero chuckled as he wiped some blood off of his arm that oozed out of a large cut. "Why don't we just end this and you join me? Don't be foolish. You cannot possibly win at all no matter how hard you try." There was a long pause. Stalkid then finally answered, "I have told you this a thousand times ….. I WILL NEVER JOIN AN ARMY OF DEMONS! I would choose death then to join you!" DarkZero raised his weapons as well as Stalkid raised his. "I have given you so many chances, but you've rejected them all." He narrows his eyes. "Then you are of no use." Stalkid rushed at the pale skinned man with his sword above his head furiously. DarkZero then quickly rushed to his right before he could be cut in half by the large, heavy sword. "Tsk, tsk. You try too hard to hit me with that massive, yet worthless weapon. A common low-level creature trait." Stalkid then shouted, "WHY DON'T YOU JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND FIGHT!?"
DQ continued to cry as the two fought in the distance. She then finally raised her head up and looked around her. About half of her kingdom was engulfed in flames. She could hear the cries of pain from her men as well as from DarkZero's men. Rollo's last words echoed though her mind as she stared at the fiery surroundings. She then looked back down at Rollo and slowly got up. She began to envision DarkZero's grim, grinning face. Her heart began to pound quickly in her chest as her anger grew. "DarkZero…" She whispered. She turned and looked at him as he fought Stalkid. DarkZero fought Stalkid with extreme pleasure of it all as Stalkid became injured. DQ clasped her fists and an angry expression formed about her face. She grabs her bladed staff and quickly walked towards DarkZero.
DarkZero laughed evilly as Stalkid fell to his knees. Stalkid felt extreme weakness all over his body and looked up at DarkZero helplessly. "Only a proper death will do for a good competitor like yourself….. a nice slow one shall do." DarkZero lifted his sword, getting ready to stab Stalkid in the shoulder. Suddenly, DQ rushes in and knocked DarkZero's blade out of his hand and yelled, "YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE YOU DEVILISH FIEND!" Ferociously, she lunged at DarkZero, attempting to kill him by impaling him. He quickly hits the blade away from hit and stumbles to the ground doing so. DQ forcefully jams her Bladed Staff into DarkZero's shoulder and he screams in pain. "HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?! HOW DO YOU LIKE FEELING PAIN?!" DQ screamed manically. DarkZero kicks DQ off of him. He then pulls the Bladed Staff from his shoulder, screaming in process of extracting it. After pulling it out, he threw it to the side and struggled to get up. He only found DQ to pounce on top of him again with a knife in hand. "DIE!" She yelled as she thrusted the knife at his face. DarkZero swiftly grabs DQ's hand and struggled to keep the knife from going through his forehead. He was amazed to see that a Deku possessed such strength to cause him to struggle to keep a knife from coming down on him.
Stalkid slowly got up from the ground and dragged his large sword behind him as he walked towards DarkZero. He then stopped and looked up in the air and gasped. He saw the wicked women that he saw earlier that day. "Kalinia!" He gasped. From her staff, a bright ball of purple energy knocks Stalkid on to his back, knocking him out. She then looks down at DQ and DarkZero. She then sneers and whispers, "Pitiful DarkZero… struggling against a low-level creature." She looks at the burnt kingdom and found her army standing together in a clearing. She smirks. "Well done." She whispers. She then looks back down at her weakened warrior and the enraged Queen. "Heh, I think we have had enough fun now, dear Queen…. I'm afraid that I be taking DarkZero with me." DQ looks up at Kalinia, still pushing down on her weapon. Kalinia's eyes then glew a yellow color and she smiled. "Of course-" She started, "-You WILL need to get off of him." Before DQ could even move, she was lifted into the air. "What the--?" The surprised queen stated while she was in mid air. "Worthless creature… How dare the Gods let such a feeble race like yours to roam the planet!" Energy began to emit from the wicked woman's body. "But we, 'The Dark', have corrected the Gods mistakes by simply eliminating the low-leveled ones. Your race is a good example of a low-level race. Worthless, weak, and unintelligent." At this point, DQ then raged. "UNINTELLIGENT?! MY RACE IS CERTAINLY NOT STUPID!" She attempted to move towards Kalinia, but soon found that she couldn't move. Kalinia wickedly laughed. She then raised her arm up. "Once I have eradicated you, the Deku race will be nothing but mere legend." Her hand began to glow. "Farewell, weakling." Before Kalinia could harm DQ, an arrow flew out from the bushes and struck the sorceress in her up-rised hand. "Argh!" She groaned as she gasped her hand. Almost immediately, DQ fell from the air and roughly lands on the ground. She weakly groans and looks around for the sharpshooter that had saved her life. As she slowly moved her head around, she heard someone's voice echo through the area, saying, "Why don't cha pick on someone your own size witch?!" Kalinia looked up and saw the person standing in the dense bushes to her right. Slightly bearing her teeth, she then yelled, "You may have stopped me from killing a worthless being, but that doesn't mean that I will not stop destroying them!" She floats down to DarkZero and lifts him in to the air. Green energy then swirled around them and soon it became a portal. "This isn't the end you worthless beings!" With that said, Kalinia, DarkZero, and her troops disappeared. Stalkid had remained on the ground, unconscious, while DQ was on the verge of passing out as well. Her vision began to blur as the person walked over to her. He was saying something, but his voice was muffled and inaudible to DQ. She groans a couple of times and her head then drops to the ground.