-EPIC-

[Death Dark]

Alter backed away from his new foe, he knew someone was following him, but this little...thing didn't feel to be as weak as she seemed.

"I haven't done anything, why are you bothering us here?"

Alter wasn't afraid to fight her, he just wanted to avoid it.

[Jehryn]

"I was just in town." she responded.  "makin any alliances lately?"

Her seemingly perky attitude contrasted from the dangerous glint in her eyes.

[Death Dark]

"So that's what this is about!  Well, I know I won't be able to give Sa--I mean Deck this message with you standing around, so I apologize, but unless you're willing to leave by your own will, I will be forced to fight you."

[Jehryn]

Tina laughs out loud.

"What do you think you can do about it?  Fight me? Thats kinda funny, bring it on."

[Death Dark]

Alter's timidity is suddenly replaced by a grim determination.  His hand filled with a blue energy, and he ran at Tina.  As he went, his hand brushed against the ground, and trails of energy proceeded him.  As he drew near, the energy sparked up and created earthen pillars that shot at Tina's head.

[Jehryn]

Tina nimbly jumps aside and makes a swipe at his neck.

[Death Dark]

Alter barely ducks under the blade, and uses the stone pillars to rebound off of and get a little further away.  As soon as he felt he was out of her range, he slammed his hand into the ground, and pulled out an Uzi.  He felt a little cheep for using a gun, but he felt it had to be done.

[Jehryn]

A dark form teleports beside Alter and quickly disarms him.

"Using a gun in a sword fight is not honerable."  The Uzi explodes in the Elf's hand.

[Death Dark]

In a desperate fury, Alter strikes out at the shadowy figure's head in an attempt to change it into...something, he couldn't decide.  However, the elf was too fast for him, and dodged the attack.  Alter ran away from him, and towards Tina, he knew she would be the easiest for him, and hoped that the elf would not follow him.  As he ran, he forced the air in front of him to fill with smoke, hoping it would provide him with some cover.

[Jehryn]

John watched Alter Run towards Tina then turned towards Sam.

"Greetings, shall we watch or do you have other ideas."

Tina started forward but stopped as smoke filled the area.  She closed her eyes and cast out her senses.  She had always been in tune with the Earth and used that bond now.  This Alter was lightfooted but she got a general area he was in.  She slashed out with a vertical swipe in that area.

[Death Dark]

"I do not wish to fight my son's best friend," Sam told John.

Alter was unable to see the blade coming at him because of the smoke, and it came down onto his skull.  However, right before the blade hit him, time suddenly stopped.  A transparent image of a man floated in front of him.  The man was tall, thin, and muscular with thin  pale white hair that flowed onto his shoulders.

He looked upon Alter and said, "This is where I died...but no more shall Death Dark run me, no longer shall his will become mine."

The man moved into Alter, and he began to glow.  Time continued and there was a great blast that came out of the smoke, clearing it away and knocking Tina back.  There stood the man, tall and confident.

"Get up and go join your pal over there, I have something I want to say," the man told her as he pointed to where John and Sam were standing.

[Jehryn]

"What do you wish to tell us?"  John replied as Tina came to stand by him.  Tina got into a ready position but didnt strike out.

[Death Dark]

"Your leaders deceive you.  Even as you put your lives on the line, they are interested in no more than petty revenge.  I stand before you an...Altered man, and tell you that the path you have chosen will lead to your destruction.  Abandon your ways now, or I will kill you where you stand."

[Jehryn]

"I do not abandon friends because of the word of a stranger.  You will have to give me more than that." John replied calmly as his hands moved to rest on the hilts of his katanas.

[Death Dark]

"Neither shall I abandon those I hold dear enough to put my life on the line for," Sam said.

"Then you shall all die," the man told them.

Alter, the man, stepped forward to attack his new foes, but a voice rang out "Mikatzo!" and a beam of light energy crashed into the ground before him.  He looked up to the top of the stairs to where Sam had come out, and there was another, almost the exact copy of Sam, but with bleach blonde hair.

As the man made his way down the steps towards the group, he spoke to Alter.  "Your words are meaningless to those of us with the pride to stand for what we stand for just because it's right.  We know that we die for the wills of those who simply wish each other dead, and that is the basis for all wars, hatred.  Unless you plan on changing that, you're hopeless.  But a more important point as of now, I will not aimlessly stand by and watch you attack my friends and family.  I am Orniroo, Holy Warrior, son of Sam, and I will defeat you with their aid."

"Touching, but you stand no chance.  I have already decided you to die."

Alter pointed one hand at the large building, and the top of it began to slide off into the street they stood in.  He pointed with the other hand, and the ground beneath the four began to explode.  Sam used a barrier to guard himself from both, and Orniroo evaded it all.