Come on, people. Name the dragon! I love dragons, this part of the story rules!!!

How about, Laurana?

You got that of Men in Black 2 didn't you. Sorry but Den's the winner.

A lot of IPs being ripped off, lately, huh?

Just messin with ya.

Long update, lots of time workin on this one, almost all today.

Sev gathered speed as he fell towards certain death; he put his arms out in a futile attempt to slow his fall to a survivable speed. Suddenly he felt his fall brought to a sudden and jarring halt, there was pressure on his wrist. Sev looked up, Jade was hanging from a strap on the dragon’s leather harness, her feet hooked into it. Sev quickly grabbed onto the harness as Jade had obviously hurt herself catching him. Jade climbed back up with Sev and nursed her arm. “You hurt?” Sev asked.

“Just pulled a muscle or two,” Jade replied. IT hurt be she had pulled plenty of muscles before, it would be fine in a couple of days. “I’m coming with you this time, just to make sure you don’t screw up again,” Jade said, drawing her battlestaff.

“I don’t make mistakes” Sev said shortly.

“Then what was that just then?” Jade teased. “Secundo, we need your help”

‘”What can I do mia bella?” Secundo asked as the holographic avatar appeared. Secudo appeared as usual with short grey hair, a gray goatee, red sleeveless shirt with blue jeans and trainers.

“Keep Elora here Secundo, I’ve told you how to fly her”

“No problemo senorita!” Secundo said in a confident Spanish voice. The holographic Spaniard piloted the dragon close under the other skiff, dodging gunfire as he did so.

“You ready?” Sev asked, he drew his other sword, a straight bladed medium length weapon.

“I’m fine let’s go” jade said shortly, she felt like Sev was asking if she was capable of doing this. She was tougher than Sev thought ‘I’m no damsel who needs protecting boy.’

“I never said that” Sev’s voice floated through Jade’s mind, their telepathic link was still strong. “I’ve got an idea” Sev took hold of Jade’s arm and without warning leapt up and over the skiff’s railing. They hit the deck and Sev covered jade while she drew her battlestaff and powered up the blades. He leapt forward and stabbed the first Alpha, using him as a springboard to leap over the next and slice the unfortunate soldier’s gas tank off.

Behind him Jade sliced through an Alpha’s armour, reversed her grip and buried the blade into a second soldier. She ducked a burst of gunfire from two SMG armed Alphas and kicked one over the edge, using her momentum Jade buried her battlestaff’s blade into the other Alpha.

Sev cut down a pair of Alphas in two split seconds and found the commander, cowering behind a shaking laser pistol. Sev kicked the weapon out of his hands and hauled the unarmoured officer to his feet. He was about five six, a few inches shorter than jade with short black hair, brown eyes and a matte-black Alpha Section’s uniform with numerous medals, epaulettes showing he was a Lieutenant and a badge reading Richardson. “Well Richardson, at the risk of sounding clichéd this can be painless or it can be painful, it’s your choice.”

“Screw you punk!” Richardson snapped. It earned him a right hook that sent him crashing against the railing.

“What did I say?” Sev asked calmly, dragging Richardson to his feet again. “Now tell me, who sent you, why are you here and were are you based?”

“I’ll not tell you anything” This time Sev gave Richardson an uppercut, as Richardson was lying on the deck Sev rasied his sword. “All right I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you!” Richardson whimpered.

“What’s he got to say?” Jade appeared on the behind Sev, having finished looking for survivors.

“You were saying?” Sev said to Richardson.

“Some DomZ rep, called itself Marshtolvan, it ordered our CO Caldwell to send us out here. We were to capture the woman, Etheria they said.” Richardson blurted out quickly.

“Thank you for your co-operation” Sev said in the same flat tone those Alpha robots used. He raised his sword to finish the job.

“No!” jade yelled, she threw herself in front of Sev as he swung. The blade made contact with her shoulder but stopped instantly.

“We can’t leave him alive” Sev said coldly.

“Safe and sound in its shell the precious pearl is the slave of the currents” Richardson hissed.

Sev’s eyebrows disappeared into the hair hanging over his face. He brushed it away “Who is your contact at IRIS, we need to get to the nearest base.”

”Die terrorist” Richardson snarled, his hand dove into a pocket and whipped out a small canister, a thermite detonator.

“Oh frag!” Sev grabbed Jade and dived off the skiff, the crashed onto the dragon’s back.

“Go Secundo go!” Jade shouted. Without asking Secundo jammed his holographic fingers into the dragon’s exposed nerves. Elora shot forward as Sev and Jade rapidly strapped themselves in. “How much time do we have?” jade shouted over the wind.

Sev was about to answer when Etheria cut in “none”. At that moment the whole world turned bright, blinding white and the world around Sev ceased to exist but for whiteness…

“Sev! Sev! Can you here me? Wake up!”
…I open my eyes, I am standing in a cube shaped room with no doors or windows, and the walls are constantly moving with strange patterns.

“My brother, you have arrived”

I spin around and find myself face to face with a figure who for some strange reason I recognize as myself. But he does not look anything like me, his skin is black like charcoal and his eyes glow an evil green. “Who the hell are you?!” I demand.

“Why, I am you” the ghoul replies using my exact voice.

“Last time I looked I wasn’t that ugly” I reply. The ghoul laughs like some kind of predator taunting its prey before finishing it.

“Why so stubborn Sev? If you weren’t this would be so much easier, and so much less painful for you” The ghoul is all business now.

“What do you want?” I ask shortly, I am preparing my attack; if this creature truly is me he will know all my tricks, all my moves. I decide to return to the basics.

“Shauni, bring me Shauni and kill her host”

“What are you talking about you freak?” I ask, trying to distract this horrific mirror of myself.

“Ask her about Shauni, the pretty one. Ahh what was her name, Jade that was it, yes she is a pretty one” The ghoul taunts me.

That’s it, my hand shoots to the hilt of my sword and I swing down from the sheath. My doppelganger does exatly the same and our identical swords clang in a shower of sparks. The sound echoes around the room. The doppelganger effortlessly pushes me back and I crash to the floor against a stone alter that wasn’t there before. There is a body on it, Jade lies peacefully in a white an green gown with her arms folded across her chest, eyes closed. A deep sword wound I recognize mars her appearance. The wound is exactly the effect my sword has. “You bastard!” I roar.

“Yes I did this, but I am you, which means you did this” my doppelganger laughs as he blocks my furious diagonal swipe and grabs onto my hand. He twists my hand until I hear the bones snap, as my sword is slowly re-directed. My doppelganger has twisted my hand around until my own sword is pointing back at my chest. He pushes and the razor sharp blade enters through my chest. It is the worst pain I have ever felt, the blade cuts its way through my body and pushes out through my back, blood, my blood dripping from its length.

“Sev! Can you hear me, its Jade, come back now, this is not your world, follow me.” Jade’s voice floats through the room.

I feel new strength, just as my doppelganger moves to twist the blade I kick it I the stomach, sending the creature flying backwards. I pull my sword from my body, nearly collapsing to the renewed searing pain. I run to Jade, in her white and green gown as she turns and enters a black archway, I follow, running headlong into the darkness…

…When Sev woke up he was still staring at whiteness, but he felt warm and comfortable. He looked around through unfocused eyes as the blurry shapes around him began to become more defined. He was in a hospital, lying down o a bed surrounded by several people and a couple of basic life sign monitors for every day use. They showed his heartbeat, brainwaves, EKG and about a dozen other facts concerning his health, all showed he was fine.

“Ah you’re awake” A scrawny Taurus Sapiens clad in a white lab coat and scrubs said in a surly Russian accent. “You’ve been out for a week or so I’m told.”

“A shrah! hila ni cri?” Sev said, it was Furion ‘A week! Are you sure?’

“Excuse me?” The doctor said, his name badge said he was Dr. Krysnl G.D (general Doctor).

“Speak Trade Standard Sev not everyone understand Furion” another voice said, this one with a different but still very European accent. Sev looked around, jade was in her usual clothes the white tank top, green jacket and trousers plus what looked like a brand new headband holding back her short hair. She was leaning against one of the monitoring machines, obviously trying to relax. The other around him were a nurse, Wilco, Thunderpants and Hub.

“What is this a welcome party?” Sev asked dryly.

“Yeah a welcome back to the land of the living party” Thunderpants got out before he was interrupted.

“Shutup Pants, what happened Sev?” Wilco, the dark skinned fighter squadron leader asked.

“How the hell should I know I’ve been unconscious for a week” Sev said.

“I can fill that part in,” Jade said louder than usual to stop an argument breaking out. “The self destruct sequence at that temple was activated to prevent those Ashtons from finding anything inside. That bag Etheria was carrying held as much of the important knowledge kept there as could be carried. We were planning to leave soon, just not that soon. The temple is little more than a pile of dust at the centre of a highly radioactive zone.”


“So where do I come into all of this?”

‘I’ll tell you in private” Jade said to Sev then to the gathered crowd “Out!”

As soon as the disgruntled crowd had left and jade had closed the curtains she continued “They were planning to move because hey knew you were coming. Shauni wouldn’t allow you to find me”

”Shauni?” This was getting strange, ‘She said it was nothing, clearly it isn’t’ Sev thought.

“Shauni is a being of pure energy who chose me as her carrier when she fled from the DomZ. It happened before I can remember but I’ve always been different, I can produce a shockwave of pure energy just by focusing on it. I don’t have any nanite implants or anything technological that allows me to do it. Its Shauni giving me that power, without her I’d just be an ordinary human. But when the Beluga was destroyed Shauni survived, she took me with her, I had been her most successful carrier in centuries. Now we are two separate bodies, Shauni has her own physical body now and she doesn’t need a carrier. But something happened while I was her carrier, we forged a link and now I can feel her presence and her thoughts. I think I may have absorbed some of her power while I was her carrier” Sev listened in silence; he had know from the moment he saw jade that she was different somehow. She had some inner fire and energy, which was what had made him fall in love with her in the first place. But this, Shauni? It was all too strange for Sev, he was a soldier, used to believing only in what he could see, touch and kill.

“I think I had some control over Shauni, she told me that I was here most powerful host, that even on my own I had superhuman abilities. Maybe sometimes I was able to take Shauni’s powers and use them myself. I don’t know, none of it makes much sense to me” Jade hung her head, showing just how tired she really was.

“How long has it been since you got some sleep?” Sev asked, concern leaking into his voice.

“About half a week” jade said in an offhand voice, the effect was slightly ruined by a huge yawn.

“Where are my clothes and equipment?” Sev asked.

“Check the locker” Jade answered tiredly.

Sev found the locker and pulled it out, inside were his clothes, cleaned as well as his equipment and weapons. Jade left quickly as Sev pulled on his clothes and clipped his belt and sheath back on. He walked out to find Jade and Doctor Krysnl telling the various members of the crowd that he would be fine “I’m not dead yet” Sev growled.

“We thought you were, you look good” Pants said cheerfully, it wasn’t clear whether it was ‘you look good for a dead guy’ or not.

“Either way I’ve signed your discharge papers, you’re free to go” The moment was ruined by a distant series of cracks, sounding like gunfire. The cracking came again, much closer to the hospital…

Kind of crappy ending but it was kind of a rush job.

Yes! He's not dead yet. Who else isn't dead that you haven't brought back?

Sev's just being smart there.

I now have a forum, the link is my my sig so go sign up if you can be bothered.

A few changes I have recently made to the story:

JADE'S CAMERA
“My camera!” Jade yelled, she rushed over ad grabbed it, examining her precious camera from every angle, she flicked it on and took a picture, realizing just how much she had missed that whir and click that her camera made. Pey’j had given this thing to her when she was just a little girl; he had said it was from her parents. From that day on the camera never left her side. As the only thing she hade to remind her of her parents, Jade always kept the camera close, these past few months were the only time when Jade had been separated from her camera and now she realized again just how much the precious little device meant to her. She stored it away in her S.A.C, making sure it was safely digitized. She looked up at Sev unable to think of anything to say.

BATTLE PLANS:
The first thing Sev saw when he walked down the ramp into the square room which provided the Iris base of operation on Hillys was a brief glimpse of a figure dashing towards him before Jade crashed into him and winded him. She pulled him into a tight hug and Sev wrapped his arms around her shoulders, he was starting to run out of oxygen “Jade, I can’t breathe” he wheezed.

“Sorry” jade apologized and loosened her grip.

“Thanks” Sev gasped, sucking air into his lungs.

TAKING A BULLET:
“No!” He roared tearing towards the gunship at full speed. The gunship started to rise; as it rose Sev stood watching helplessly. Then it came he heard the unmistakable sound of a gun firing, two shots, Jade cried out. The Alphas reappeared over the side of the gunship and tossed something out. It hit the ground with a thud, Sev dashed over, praying it wasn’t what he thought it was. He skidded to a stop and threw his sword aside. He felt tears stinging his eyes, what he didn’t noice was the fact that Jade was wearig a bulletproof vest under her shirt. Sev felt a soft breath of air on his cheek stirring his hair, but the grass around him wasn’t moving. He felt Jade’s wrist, a pulse! She wasn’t dead! “Jade! Jade!” Sev shouted shaking her gently. Her eyes fluttered open, she looked up at Sev, a slightly confused expression in her large green eyes.

“You should be happy if that’s all you feel, you took two bullets to the chest and fell 20 meters of a gunship. Most people would be feeling a whole lot worse,” Sev said dryly.

PEDESTRIAN DISTRICT AGAIN:
He reached over and pulled, Jade up with him. They lay facing each other on the wood catching their breath. Sev looked over at Jade, who’s face was red from exertion and glistening with water “There has got to be a better way to make a living.” He said in between taking breaths of air.

“I’m sure there is” Jade panted back. She rolled over and on to her hands and knees; she crawled over to Sev who was still lying on the ground. “Thanks for the ring Sev” She said, stood up and walked away.

Sev watched her go and said to himself “I could get used this”. He rolled over, stood up and joined Jade as they walked back to the Akuda Bar for he second time.

REJOINING THE GROUP:
“Good” Jade replied, sge walked past Sev, giving him the cold shoulder. “Let’s go, we probably shouldn’t get caught here with the Alphas like this….”

See if you can spot the changes in the story that I've made.

Onto more recent times:

“Either way I’ve signed your discharge papers, you’re free to go” The moment was ruined by a distant series of cracks, sounding like gunfire. The cracking came again, much closer to the hospital, “What, they’re attacking again!” Dr. Krysnl shouted.

“Who’s they doc?” Sev asked.

“Terrorists who still support the Alpha Sections” Krysnl spat in disgust while Sev arched an eyebrow in confusion.

“I though the Alpha Sections were still in power” Jade said in surprise.

“They were until you were murdered ma’am” Noting Sev still looking suspicious Krysnl continued “When Jade here was killed by the Alpha Sections the population rose up one again and in one night we drove the Alpha Sections off our planet, we killed hundreds of them.” He added viciously.

“Nice, now they’re really pissed, good idea” Sev commented deadpan.

“We have our freedom!” Krysnl snapped.

“Let’s go meet them,” Sev growled, drawing his long, katana-like sword. It was then that he noticed several things that had escaped his attention before, he had new clothes, a new green jacket and short sleeve black shirt, his trousers had survived though. He looked quizzically at Jade.

“Oh come on your old gear was falling apart, so I bought you some new clothes and I don’t know when your birthday is but…” Jade summoned something from her S.A.C. it was a brand new, chrome plated 2430 Desert Eagle SE with a laser sight, bright and gleaming with a snakeskin holster.

“What can I say, thanks Jade” Sev said, stunned, he couldn’t recall the last time he had been given something which didn’t have some kind of bomb hidden in it. The gun must have cost a fortune; Desert Eagles weren’t heap plus the chrome plating and snakeskin holster. Jade must have put a pretty penny into.

“Don’t ask how much it cost” Jade said simply. That answered Sev’s question, the answer being: a lot.

OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL
It seemed that the Alpha Section supporters just wanted to make a scene, a grand ‘up yours’ to the galaxy. It wasn’t long before a local garrison set up a mounted machine gun and cut the crowd of gun toting fanatics as they marched on the hospital. Just a few minutes and the whole scene was over, not long after that people began to come out of their hiding places, it seemed that this sort of thing was not uncommon. People were used it crowds of fanatics being shot up by now ‘Strange what people can get used too’ Sev mused to himself.

Jade looked at the thirty or so bullet riddled bodies once before walking away, looking somewhat shaken by the whole event. “You alright Jade?” Sev asked once he caught up with her.

“I’m fine, I just never thought I’d see Hillyans dieing for the Alphas, after what they did to us, maybe some people think I was right. I don’t know, I just want to see my family again” Even Jade herself was surprised by the torrent of emotion ‘I can’t be weak, not in front of Sev, or anyone’ Jade shook her head and when she looked up again any trace of shakiness was gone “I’m fine Sev!” She snapped when she saw Sev was still watching her. “Look lets get a taxi home”

“Home? Jade may I remind I don’t have a home” Sev said quietly, so other people on the street wouldn’t hear the slightly sad tone. He almost felt okay in confiding in jade but not anyone else, he was a mercenary after all.

“You can come to our home” Jade said instantly, Sev might put up the façade of a cold, tough mercenary but to her he was just someone who just as human as the rest of the world.

“I’d like that” Sev said, still in a quiet voice…

LIGHTHOUSE ISLAND
The small yellow taxi touched down outside the lighthouse and its two occupants jumped out, one paused to pay the driver while the other ran inside. Sev glanced inside the doorway of the twice-rebuilt lighthouse at the shouts coming from the doorway; he followed them inside to find Jade on the floor under a pile of children and a massive white dog. Everyone was shouting and the dog was giving of deafening barks. Jade managed to stand up, spilling kids in every direction; she spotted Pey’j, just standing there as if to overcome to actually do anything. She leapt into her uncle’s arms, laughing and crying at the same time, Sev stood in the door looking out of place.

Pey’j put Jade down and saw Sev in the door “Well two years is long enough, I suppose I could bury the hatchet” He said in his usual gravelly American accent.

“Now Pey’j, Sev saved my life, without him I would have been killed” jade chided.

“You would’ve…”

”Pey’j” jade said, a slight warning tone in her voice, Pey’j backed off straight away, like any man, he wasn’t game to pick a fight with Jade.

Sev noticed something new; a shiny MDisk player sat in the corner of what appeared to be a living room. Carpeted floor, fireplace and a radio, plus the shiny Mdisk player that suddenly started beeping, accompanied by a small hlogram appearing depicting an Earth 21st Century telephone.

“Pey’j when did you get that?” jade asked, crossing over to the beeping player.

“When the people of Hillys helped rebuild the lighthouse they gave us this” Pey’j waddled over to join Jade and hit a button.

The Hillyan governor’s face appeared on the screen “Pey’j thank heavens I…My goodness Jade! I heard of someone of your likeness landing in the spaceport but is it really you?” The governor appeared understandably flustered, the people’s dead heroine, alive.

“Yes governor it’s me, what do you need?”

“Well I was going to ask Pey’j if he could find someone but, you don’t need to hear my problems. I need someone to locate and destroy a shipment of weapons that some benefactor is bringing to Hillys to support these terrorists’ the governor explained.

“What do they have at the moment, weapon-wise?” Sev cut in.

“Mostly small arms, assault rifle and machine guns, some rocket launchers and RPGs. My sources tell me that this shipment, along with small arms carries a supply of plasma weapons. With them the terrorists will be able to cause untold destruction. They hold all Hillyans responsible for the defeat of the Alpha Sections” The governor was still looking flustered and tired, Sev saw immediately that the terrorist attacks were no the small time activity that everyone seemed to want to believe it was.

“I’ll do it” Sev said immediately.

“Sev…” jade started to make an argument but was cut off.

“Jade you just got back to your family, spend some time here, a pack of cargo shippers will be no match for a Furion Swordmaster” Sev said reassuringly “Relax, catch up with everyone, I’ll be fine”

“Governor?”

“Yes Sev, what can I get you?”

“Some Pyrite explosives and nine beef flavour dinners-to-go…”


Tell me what you think of the new humour element, Next episode: Sev's back in action and more kick-*** than ever

How many things does he get to blow up now? This will be fun.

Well I'm back, after reading that the website is expiring and seeing that not much has changed here anyway I wonder why I'm bothering but I'm still working on the story, we recently wiped the PC so I'm only just getting back to work on it. Update soon.

This community is still active as hell and I'm still interested in good stories. So bring it on!

Here we are, the fruits of about stuff all effort over a long time:


NEW EDGE
“A Furion Sword Forge is a marvelous machine, using just a tiny amount of minerals and a tribute of the prospective wielder’s blood, it can create an utterly unique weapon. This weapon is perfectly balanced for the user, the Forge using the DNA gained from the tribute of blood to determine the perfect weapon. Though swords, especially Katana are the most common, spears and halberds are also formed. Only those that are from a noble family are granted access to the Forge, although there are exceptions to be found in Furia’s Great Library history files. …It is a demonstration of the Furion obsession with fine, bladed weapons; they would never use something so crude as a hammer, as some cultures do. Truly a magnificent device and no doubt partly responsible for the grace and deadliness that Furion warriors show on the field”-Historian Lorhkans Tylor in his 1000 page study of the Furions, The People of Furia: Two years spent amongst a warrior people.

“I watched a Furion Swordmaster and his pupil spar today, their grace was amazing. They are like modern-day Samurai, leaping and twirling, spinning and slashing in a fighting style that seems less like a battle, but more like a graceful ballet performed by the most artful of dancers.”-Historian Lorhkans Tylor in his 1000 page study of the Furions, The people of Furia: Two years spent amongst a warrior people.




KARNAK TRADE LANE-Altitude: five thousand kilometres-12/4/2437

Sev sat in Daggermouth’s pilot couch, scanning the Karnak Trade Lane for his target, just yesterday he had found out from one of the governor’s contacts that the weapon shipment would be coming in using this high altitude lane. He glanced over at the photos stuck on the bulkhead just above one of his ships’ readouts, it was a cluster of photos and maps showing the sky train itself, various ports it was stopping in and a map showing its flight path. According to what he had found out the train would be passing his location fairly soon. I just a few minutes to be preci…There it was! The long, ponderous bulk of the sky train burst through the clouds, a boxy train, little more than a set of huge engines with a bridge somewhere on top trailing a long series of boxes held together by steel cables. Sev made his move, he cloaked his ship and moved in, the gunboat left nothing but a ripple in the sky as it moved. Sev leveled the gunboat alongside the sky train and remotely opened a side hatch. He walked to the hatch and leapt across the gap toward the waiting sky train, the wind blowing him well off mark and he landed fifty metres back from where he was aiming. Sev drew his katana and rammed it into the sky train’s hull, the Etherium edge easily sliced through the thick durasteel…

SKY TRAIN BRIDGE
…”Hull breach!” a crew member shouted.

“Where?” The captain snapped.

“Near a store room!”

“Seal it now, we can’t loose our cargo!”

“On it, dispatching repair teams to sector 551A”

“Right, tell them to report back on what they find”

“Yessir”

SECTOR 551A-STORE ROOM
Six overall wearing men examined the hole in this side of the sky train. It was triangular in shape, there was something suspicious about it, the shape was to regular to be an accident. Team captain Grenn spoke ito his comm. “Sir we’ve found the breach, it looks like something on the hull cut through, I think we have an intruder”

“Alright, be careful, we’re dispatching search teams. Seal that hole” came the reply.

“Yessir, we’ll have this fixed in a jiffy” Grenn looked at the hole “Get a large patch over that boys”, the team sprung to work, pulling out the hull patch and holding it in place while two other members of the team welded it in place. It was a fairly makeshift repair, but it would hold until they could fix the hull properly at the next stop. Unfortunately that next stop was not to be, courtesy of one Severus Angelo Caravera, who had sliced through the hull and was busily sabotaging the sky trains massive reactor…

SKY RAIN ENGINE ROOM
…Sev was surrounded by the blood-spattered corpses of the engine room’s guards and crew, he had told them to get against the wall but they had attacked him instead. They never stood a chance against a single Furion, especially as he had become a SwordMaster, evidenced by the small tattoo above his left eye. Sev stood up from the control panel as a door at the far end of the engine room opened, he walked through into the reactor room, it was about three stories high, he was o the middle one. IN the center of the cylindrical room were three reactors, each a cylinder and ringed with dozens of walkways and control panels tended by servitor droids. Around the outside of the reactor room were three wide walkways, their surfaces covered in grease and oil, with pipes in the wall leaking their contents onto the grilled surfaces. It reminded Sev vaguely of the IRIS landing pad on Atlas. He quickly walked across one of the bridges that linked the outer walkways to the inner ones, when he reached a console his jaw dropped. It was not actually a console but a Furion Sword Forge, the device used by a new Furion to craft him or herself a unique weapon perfectly suited to their style of combat.

“I thought I’d find you here”

Sev spun, a dark figure with glowing eyes had appeared on the bridge, covered in a black cloak that hid all of its features, it reached up and pulled the hood back. Sev recoiled, charcoal black skin and glowing green eyes, hair identical to Sev’s, even the scar over the right side of his face and the tattoos were mimicked. The dark creature threw his cloak aside and drew a sword identical to Sev’s. Sev reached for his own sword, it was gone, mysteriously vanished, somehow he recognized that the sword in his mirror’s hand was his own, the creature had somehow taken his sword. Sev drew a small short sword and leapt forward with a vicious swing, the short sword shattered against his own blade, several small shards burying themselves in his skin. The mirror kicked out at Sev, sending him crashing against the reactor room’s wall. Now almost unarmed Sev drew his Desert Eagle and fired, each time his mirror dodged the shot.

“You are pathetic Severus, in time you will be strong enough to provide sport for me, but for now you are unworthy of dieing by my hand” Sev’s mirror spat “But remember this!” it flung a knife at Sev, too fast to dodge, the blade buried itself in Sev’s side. White-hot pain shot through him as Sev collapsed to the ground. “And remember this!” the creature took the blade of Sev’s sword and snapped it, then tossed the two halves off the walkway. Sev tried to move, but the creature vanished as if it was never there. Sev took a hold of the knife’s hilt and pulled it out, snarling with the pain. He flung the knife away. Sev stood and walked back to the Sword Forge, his hand clamped over the bleeding wound. At the Forge, Sev looked over it ‘Well a warrior without a weapon is like a starship without fuel. I suppose I have no choice’ with that Sev activated the console. The Forge flickered to life as Sev punched in the commands he remembered from when he first used them device. A small panel opened up and Sev held his bloodsoaked hand over it, his blood dripped onto the panel, which soon retreated. A long box rose from the top of the Forge as an image appeared on the console’s screen. The image was of a three-foot Katana, a hilt long enough for it to be used two handed even though all Furion swords were light enough to be used with a single hand. The guard had a wolf head over the blade on the long edge. A long, thin, slightly curved blade that tapered all the way into a razor point point. There was an inscription on the blade that Sev recognized as name, the name his blood had given the sword.

Shenroshi

It meant ShadowShield, the shield of the outcast that defended the one he still loved in the cark of the night, so they would be safe but never know it was that outcast who protected them. On the pommel was a small crown surrounding a sphere. The Forge slowly created the blade; tiny particles of light were sprayed over the holographic image now in the clear box atop the Forge. When the particles reached the sword the solidified, becoming a small speck of the sword. The process to just a few minutes and when completed, the clear box opened and folded back into the Forge, leaving the sword hanging in midair. Sev took it by the reinwood hilt and held the blade up in the light to examine it. Just as it had appeared on the screen it was a Katana, though somewhat heavier than Sev’s old sword he could still use it one handed. The reinwood in the hilt made it almost unbreakable while still giving it plenty of grip, the guard had the top half of a wolf’s head, with its upper jaw open over the blade. A intricate pattern of glittering, gold-like metal was inlaid in the blade, surrounding the name and extending all the way to the very tip of the blade. It was something that was reserved only for those who would become the greatest of warriors. Sev was humbled by the honour he had received with it, he had never even met another who had received a Gilded blade, as the term was. Sev put the blade in is nano-sheath and turned away, his wound was already healing and would soon be just another scar, but he would be slightly weakened for a few days until he made a full recovery. It did not take him long to find the reactor and set it to overload. By the time anyone realized what was going on he had reached the storage room he had cut through to get into the sky-train.

SECTOR 551A-STORE ROOM
The first guard never even saw it coming, a flash of silver amidst the darkness in the storeroom and he fell to the ground, a thin gash in his chest. The next guard had time to raise his Mag-12 before it was sliced in half, along with his arms, he fell to the floor as Sev sliced his head off. Sev spun and impaled the next guard, then swung again, slicing his blade out of the body and cutting a thin gash through the last guard. All to easy Sev though, just as the reactor overloaded. A deafening boom rocked the whole sky-train, a massive explosion blew out one side, throwing the several hundred-ton airship over and splitting it in half. Through the falling wreckage one dragon-like red airship rocketed to safety, piloted by one Severus Angelo Caravera…

HILLYS-Seaview-Volgograd District.
Sev put Daggermouth down in a private landing bay IRIS had secured for his own personal use. As he walked down the landing ramp to meet the group of guards and reporters that apparently wanted to talk to him Sev noticed something. There was a lone, green-clad figure standing in the entrance to the landing pad. Sev shoved through the reporters ‘accidentally’ breaking a camera.
“Corpse-picking vultures, I hate reporters” Sev thought to himself.

“Oh really? Guess I should have know this would never have worked out” Jade’s voice invaded Sev’s complaining, she put o a hurt tone just to make Sev feel guilty.

“All right, I hate all reporters except for one” Sev shot back.

“Could it be me?” Jade asked in an amused voice.

“Perhaps”

“Let’s ditch this lot,” Jade said as Sev reached her. As the two walked off, no doubt to the sound of reporters inventing a story about the two Sev filled jade in on what happened. He left out the part about the wraith that had attacked him. As they turned down an alleyway to take a shortcut Jade threw an arm around Sev, he complied, putting his own arm around her shoulders.

“Its good to be back here, this is the first place I’ve felt at peace since…since Furia” Sev still found it hard to talk about the destruction of his race, but he had felt enough trust in Jade to confide in her the tale. Jade had felt tears in her eyes as he told her the story. As they turned down another alley about a dozen shadows detached themselves from the walls and surrounded them.

“Well, well, well what have we here?” The shadow became clear; it was an Alpha Section Guard.

“Looks like a couple of lovebirds out for a stroll” Another one said.

“How about we show them what traitors get” A third added.

“I like the sound of that” The first growled. As one they drew their T-Hammers. Sev stood back to back with Jade, but she was unarmed, she hadn’t brought a weapon. This was the worst kind of fight, one where the fighter had to protect someone who would not be able to defend themselves. It reminded Sev of the tale of Caius and Erusha, Caius had died defending Erusha from Count Morgath and his soldiers, the story paralleled Sev’s own in more ways than one. Never the less, he had to defend Jade, he drew his Katana and took up a combat stance, blade held high and level with the ground, pointing at the ringleader. He was outnumbered and at a sever disadvantage, but maybe it would buy time for Jade to escape. Sev’s eyes flicked about, surveying his enemy and the battlefield, then he noticed a black figure at the end of the alleyway, a very familiar one. He lost his concentration and seeing this, the lead Alpha swung his hammer. Sev never drew himself back to the battle in time to stop the blow hitting home…

Admittedly this is in far better order over at www.fanfiction.net, but I wanna see soe replies or no more Sev!

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Nice comeback after such a long time, man. It's always such a joy to read it, it really is. Just remember that there's also the other forum to post your story and to get replies. I really want to know what's going to happen to Sev right now, he has been thropugh so much and now there's a dark clone of him and he's about to get a hit from just a stupid Alpha soldier. What's up with that? Sev must win!

No! Run get away! He can't die and neither can she! Kill the Alpha section Kill him!

Why always killing???