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Damn, I can't even read my own quote anymore.
Jade Staff is supposed to be "The big bad boss" (LOL!) but it won't play such a big part, just a minor part on how it came to be. I want to make the readers know that Arsenic is the focus, without giving too much attention to other cards, but still have it (Jade Staff)play a minor / big part.
In a Resume, I'm going to toss Jade Staff as a "Splash" into the story, playing a medium sized part.
Edit : I'm going to post my entry tomorrow, and if it's not okay, I'll rewrite it.
It can't be just a "Splash" it has to play a big part. Otherwise, people could just do any single rare they want, and just add in a bit of a few different cards, and that makes things less diverse. If you want to do Arsenic, you have to include another card as an important part of the story. This of a story involving two cards as a full duo, instead of a duo that uses a second element as a splash.
Am i allowed to do a story based on 2 rares that have a big part, but that are already reserved?
Yes, as long as you don't currently have a reservation, and all cards you include play a big/important part.
Understood.
On another note, I said I wouldn't do walls of text.. but damn, I did. I couldn't resist. It has around 865 words, and it would go higher if I didn't say "Stop writing"
854, cut some stuff short. Might be too long, and I think somethings might be weird, but hey.. I'll rewrite if you ask me to.
The Sword of Death.
The traveler stood there, looking around. He was holding a simple, common sword. Big sword, but who cares. The bigger the better!.. Well, so he thought. He was hearing, quietly, in the middle of a forest. He was tossed out of his city for using “Dark Magic”. From what he knew, only 12 people like him were know, and they all had their special powers. Fire, Gravity, Water, Earth, Light, Darkness, Aether, Time, Air, Entropy.
He knew them all. He didn’t get to fight them, he refused. He was on a search for a far more annoying element. The element he hated, he disliked, the one he was a complete opposite of. The element was Life.
He, as you should have guessed, was a Death Elemental.
Flashbacks are what they are, flashbacks. The man stopped bothering about that and just went on. Quiet. Waiting. Hearing. He finally saw it – The Elemental he was looking for.
Obviously, he wasn’t expecting that. The Elemental was a woman, and not a man, as all the others. But there was no mistaking it – she had a green… thing, around her, and all the Horned Frogs and Cockatrices seemed even more jumpy around her. It was her.
He leaped out of the bush, sword on hand. He charged toward the woman, but all of a sudden a single Staff appeared in front of him, blocking his path. And another one. And again. It repeated, until he saw 6 copies of one single Staff blocking his path. And the Lady asked..
“Who are you Sir, who lunges at me with a Sword above his head, thinking he can kill me? And who are you Sir, which came for me so suddenly without a warning?”
The man then answered
“I’m your complete opposite, the purple light that counters the green. I’m your complete opposite, the one that will go and finish this madness you call “Horned Frogs” or “Epinephrine”. I’m the man that takes the life from all the creatures that follow and obey you without question. I’m the Death Elemental, and you better remember it, even though you’ll never have a chance to remember it after I leave this place.”
The lady laughed. The man charged once again, but every hit he managed to give was healed a few seconds after. The battle continued and the man eventually lost. The lady then said,
“The only reason you lost is that you are not what you claim you are – a Death Elemental. I feel bad for you, the Gods and False Gods must have misunderstood the orders on who to pass the Death gift to. Search me, sir, when you have a sword that truly goes with the name of “Death Elemental.”
The man left the battlefield sad. He wandered through the lands, far and wide, until he came to a Lake of Poison. He then threw his sword inside the lake, asking
“Oh, Gods, that you may forgive me that I couldn’t do what I told you I would. Please hear my pray and make this sword a sword that can beat the Life Elemental. Oh, Gods, that you may forgive me that I couldn’t do what I told you I would. Please hear my pray…”
For hours and hours he stood there repeating the same words. He furiously took the blade out, but the poison didn’t hurt him. Skeletons and Scorpions, with bottles of poison, came out of the ground and charged at him. But they were helping.
It was night. The moon was there, standing high in the sky. No cloud to bother it. The creatures, the army of the Elemental had a small bright on their backs. And a creepy light on their eyes, too.
The man went back to where he found the lady. He didn’t attack, but walked at her and said
“You asked me to get a better blade, and so I did. I’m back, and I won’t be leaving until I win from this place.I'm back and I'll be sure that me and Arsenic get the chance to win. And if I lose, I won’t get up, as this is my last try. Let’s start the battle we never had the chance to begin properly.”
She agreed.
The Staves flew at him again, but his sword was powerful. Every hit was healed, but she was getting slower. The creatures, specially the scorpion, were dealing damage. He understood what it was – Poison. His blade was now covered in poison, poison to the very core. Every hit marked the Lady.
Eventually, she lost. She accepted defeat gracefully, saying
“You, Death Man, was right. You are sure deserving of the title “Death Elemental”. The one who needs training is me, and so I shall retreat. One day, however, I will return. To defeat you or not, I don’t know.”
She retreated to a place where she could honor her skills, and someday defeat the Death Elemental.
What happened to the man, you may ask? Once his quest was over, he started searching for the other elementals with his new sword... – Arsenic. If he got to beat them all or not… That, my friends, is a story for another day.
The End.
