I get ready, putting on my white gloves, my top hat, and my illustrious cape of course.
I peek behind the stage curtains, a somewhat empty crowd, the people of willow brook are not interested in my show.
I get my wand out and adjust my suit to look somewhat fine, making sure my glasses won't fall off during my performance I put some honey on it to make sure it stays.
"Show time" I whispered to myself
The curtains open.
"Hello! Everyone you all look so fine this morning! I am Tron the great and powerful wizard!"
I look around, only around 12 members in the audience, I thought having the stage in the middle of the town would draw more people.
"For my first trick, I will pull a rabbit out of my hat!" I take off my top hat and show the crowd it's empty, I then put my hand into it and pull out a large rabbit.
"Tada!" I exclaim proudly I grab the rabbit by its ears and show the crowd.
The rabbit then proceeded to bite my thumb. "Yoooouch!" I yelled out, dropping the rabbit, this, of course, made the crowd laugh
"All part of the show folks!" I then perform a few more tricks on them.
an hour has passed, "For my final trick I will now perform myself levitating!"
I put a large sheet over me, I then start to float above, the crowd gasp and starts to clap.
suddenly "Fake I see the strings! you phony!"
I then stop floating and fall on my back, I pull the sheet off me and yell
"What strings my good sir?" I look around who said that.
I then spotted a big bald man who looked grumpy
"You sir shouldn't judge a magician like me!" I point my wand at him and a bouquet appears on his bald head
"What the!?" the man was taken aback by this. He throws the flowers off his head and climbs on stage. He pulls his sleeves up and rears back a punch, I get ready to get punched.
Just then a man in dark black armor which I had never seen before appears and tackles the man to the ground, he had dark hair, and light somewhat olive skin.
The bald man was knocked out due to the impact, my savior looked concerned at the man
"Did I uh kill him?" he asked he then gets up
"I'm sure he's fine, just need some ice to go on that head!" I reassured him.
"I thank you for saving my face, it's very valuable to not let it get damaged, what's your name kid?"
"James, James Gold" he then puts his hand out
"Well, mister gold let me treat you to a drink, on me" I shake his hand we then leave.
"I think not!" someone said.
"I looked behind us" An angel was behind us, she had golden hair and golden eyes
James groaned, "C'mon heraaa it's just a drink!" he threw up his hands in frustration
"No you know very well we have a quest to do!" she starts to argue
"Please hera just one drink?" he starts to plead
"No!" she yells
"You're such a pain in the ass..." he groans
"A pain in the ass?! Listen here you piece of shit I will fucking destroy you again like last night!" she barks back
"oooh, I see. you guys are a couple" I say piecing things together.
"What!" both of them say at the same time.
They then get closer to me.
"I would rather clip my wings than ever share the same bed with this mortal!" she yells while poking her finger at my chest to prove a point
"Yeah I would rather upright die than be in a relationship with her" he shouts
"What!" she took offense to his comment
"Let's go man" he pulls me into the bar
"Stop I said stop!" she yells but we are already in the tavern
we sat down by a booth "Two ales please!" I asked the bartender.
"So what's your story with her then?" I asked curiously
"It's a long story but I'll tell you"
a couple of minutes pass as he finishes up.
"Never thought of meeting a Last Order boy huh... so you have to find this life crystal?" I asked
"Yep and the bitch outside won't let me leave"
I then notice a black box on the table that has a rope thing connected to his armor
"What's that?" I point out
"Oh, that's what I was at the reactor for, it's a battery to give this suit enough power to be able to use."
"oh... what's a battery?" I asked
"Oh yeah... think of the sun, it's a battery and the plants need it to charge up"
"oooooh make's somewhat sense"
we then start to drink.
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Hera pov.
I was sitting down on the roof of the tavern while waiting for them to leave she heard a familiar voice
"Anahera" the voice called out of nowhere
"Goddess?" I call out
"It seems that my brother Baros the god of darkness and destiny has been jealous of the humans of the last order worshipping me, so he made a prophecy that A man will cause destruction in the nation."
"Wait so this has been his dealings?" I asked shocked
"Yes it seems so, he Is quite pissed to know that James is going to retrieve another life crystal so he is sending one of his best angels to deal with him"
"So what am I suppose do then?" I ask
"Protect him as you did with the first hero" she responds
"But he's insufferable! Could you not just send down a life crystal to the last order?" I proposed.
"You know that we deities could not, its part of the rules we were given by him. so I ask please do protect him even though he might be a bit annoying "
Sighing "As you wish my goddess"
"Thank you, Anahera maybe in time you would grow to like him" She then leaves
I retch "No I won't" I then drop down and enter the bar
I spot them drinking together, and I approach. "Hey we need to leave," I tell him urgently
"Why come? He asked stupidly
"Because there is another angel that is coming for your head if we don't leave now."
he looks surprised "ah"
He then gets up and starts to leave
"I see so we're going" Tron starts to speak.
"What why are you coming?" I ask suspiciously
He gets to his feet "Well I have proven to take a liking to this fine gentleman besides I owe him my service for saving my precious face from getting rearranged earlier!"
Sighing "Fine lets g-"
"CRASH!"
a sudden amount of weight makes me fall, and everything around me goes dark
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James pov
The tavern ceiling collapses and Hera gets buried under the rubble, the dust from that clouds the whole place.
I quickly check my suit's power, It was at 100% but not wanting to drain its power I used the screen on the bracelet to store my entire suit in the pocket dimension.
when the dust settles I see, A woman angel standing, her hair dark, golden eyes and a small scar on her forehead that resembles an X. Her dark armor was vastly different from Hera's silver armor, it was more pointy while it has some robes covering the inner legs down to feet.
She was staring right at me, she pointed her blade at me, it was a floating blade that wasn't connected to the hilt but between the spaces was a star.
"James Gold of the Last order, I command thee kneel and take thy destined death upon my blade" she speaks out.
I pull out one of my inventions, It was called a Pew. I used Pew and shot a blast of energy at her head. The shot hit but she remained unfazed, she then dashed towards me sword ready for plunging. Tron then said something
"Abracadabra!" a whole bunch of rabbits then appear on top of her, and the weight sent her crashing to the ground.
I pulled out a Taser and used it on her. I then looked up at Tron "Let's run"
We both ran out of there.
A loud crash erupted behind us, she broke through the wall of the tavern and she spots us, in seconds she catches up and holds me by the neck.
She then knocks Tron back with one punch.
"You dare to mock me? Devanna the blade of Baros!" she clutches her blade and slowly presses it against my stomach
I had something in my mouth, a small ball, I bit down on it and gas sprayed directly on her face, she inhaled it without thinking.
the gas was an experiment to weaken the person overall, it's a temporary effect.
She starts to cough "You mortals are crazy!" she then thrust the blade into my gut
from across the distance I spot someone else flying towards us, Hera,
Due to her senses being dulled down she couldn't react in time when she got hit straight in the back of the head.
Tron got up and cast the flowers around us to restrain her, I pulled the sword out of me and used a healing agent to repair my wound.
Hera was beating down on her, each hit was sickening to hear. "CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!"
I was too busy closing up the wound that I failed to notice the sword floating up, it then flew towards the back of Hera but stopped midway, Tron was preventing the sword from piercing her.
I pulled out a device while walking towards them, I called this one the T sword, my magnum opus.
This device was just a hilt but when powered on it can shoot out a continuous burst of energy that resembles a sword, the best part was it cost-efficient, powered on by double A batteries.
I pushed back Hera slightly and pointed the sword at Devanna's chest and turned it on.
"Shunk!" the blade pierced her heart killing her in an instant, I then turned it off.
Hera Sighed "So shall we go?"
I tried to pick up Devanna's sword but it slowly disappear in a golden dust, and so too the rest of Devanna.
I looked at Tron, "Let's head out of here"
We walked off out of town, The nearest town was a place called Mist Haven.
You know, I never told Tron this but I was the one who called out his magic.
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Short Tales
At the far northwestern side of Eryndor laid a sealed-off town called Blightmoor.
Blightmoor was once a prosperous city of the great nation Arvandor.
Blightmoor was stricken with a cursed disease, it infected the populace turning them into cannibals but the ones who get eaten by the infected came back to life stricken with hunger.
Eventually, it was sealed off until they invented a cure for them. The infected gain sanity but their bodies are still rotten, missing flesh only alive because of their infection.
The once proud citizens were feared by the rest of society, shunned, and sealed off.
Unfortunately, a wizard who was infected taught them blood magic, it acted like a substitute for their damaged bodies, and with the remaining pride they have left they guard their imprisoned fortress against outsiders.