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Shady's Tail, Er, Tale chapter 14 - The Great War
ETTING OME O LFANDRA
Lave had managed to organize everyone, but had no idea how they would fare against things not even made of physical matter. He had gathered everyone outside the city in front of the aproaching army. The people had only a basic idea of how to fight and these shadows were trained for battle. They were heavily out numbered, Lave sighed. "If we get out of this alive the beers on me!" He shouted to the crowd and a great cheer went up.
Shady had re-appeared holding his new weapon, Lave felt a little better at having his friend there. But the future seemed uncertain. Shady stepped forward and met with The Shadow where the 2 armies would soon clash. "Well goldhero, it seems you finally got yourself together, come the real fight is up there" He looked upwards above where they were standing and then continued "Between you and me..." He ascended into the air and Shady followed him, eager to get this over with and go home.
They floated for a bit, as the armies below waited for some kind of signal to begin. When Shady shouted his battle cry "Son las Beatdown time!" and the fight was on, the 2 armies met below while the two leaders met above. Shady swung and The Shadow parried, the two danced in the air for a while neither getting the upper hand on the other. Shady knew the sword and his skill weren't enough. He began using his array of powers to help. "Yellow!" Shielding his eyes from the flash, but The Shadow was prepared and he too looked away. "Arrgh, Red!" He charges at The Shadow trying to land even one successful blow, but to no avail. No matter how hard Shady fought The Shadow was always one step higher. He decided a different strategy was in order. He flew off at full speed toward a location he knew to be suicide. Mount Avalanche, as a fundamental rule he knew to never go there. The Shadow followed as expected. "Thats right come with me, heheheh." They landed at the base of the mountain. Surrounded in various oddities that had flattened unwary trvlers in the past the pair met. *Now all I need is the right chance to..* Shady noticed a shadow spreading around him he looked up to see a refrigerator descending toward him, and the Shadow laughed.
"Guess you want a take a momment to cool off hahaha." Shady waited a second longer and mouthed the word 'grey' stepping back while invis the fridge appeared to have crushed him. The Shadow stopped laughing "Ok, I know you aren't that stupid to fall for falling fridges, show yourself!" He got his wish, Shady stabbed him through the chest, the attack broke the invisibility but it was all Shady needed.
"Sorry, had cold feet." The Shadow's form solidified, giving Shady a physical target to hit. The Shadow uttered a curse and the two became locked in combat again. Leading their fight back to the battle field Shady felt a sense of relief getting away from that mountain. "Now lets have some real fun! Purple!" Shady concetrated on The Shadow's feet with that and petrified his legs. Being weighed down The Shadow fell to the ground. Not willing to give up easily he pointed at Shady and watched in delight as Shady's own Shadow attacked him. Shady was now facing himself as The Shadow was trying to undo the effect the purple happyrock. Shady battled his darker self and felt he was getting nowhere fast. He tried executing as complex series of swings and stabs but all were deflected. He got a clever scheme, he changed to his dragon form. His shadow, being that of his human form didn't know how to handle this change of events. The Shadow looked on in a mixture of fear and astonishment.
"Since when were you a shape shifter?" He asked Shady. Shady grinned mischievously and swung his tail at his shadow, knocking it a great distance backwards. He turned back to his human form and face his more immediate opponent. The Shadow took this momment to cast another spell. "Delta Storm!" but Shady was ready with the perfect counter.
"Orange!" And the spell was returned to sender. The Shadow was now writhing in the agony of his own power. "Silver!" And another was sent his way. Shady sensed something behind him and turned to face it, but it was too late his shadow had tackled him and pinned him to the ground. The Shadow slowly rose and dispelled the stone around his legs.
"You should have finished me when you had the chance!" he taunted as he brought his sword up to pierce Shady. Shady running out of options tried a shot in the dark.
"Gold!" The Shadow seemed surprised by this and was even more surprised by the tons of gold that came raining down onto him. Shady slashed his distracted shadow in two and it returned to it's place. The Shadow was now buried under a ton of gold "Woah, is that rich, ore what? Mine your manners, I'll be right back." he punned. And took off to help in the other battle.
Both armies seemed smaller now. Lave was leading the attack, hacking away at anything dark that got too close. Shady flew over the crowd *if they were spread out better I could fry them with one big spell.* He held his houds out down toward the armies, concentrated on just the shadows and shouted "White!" his power was spread too thin and it only worked on about half of the shadows. "Too many targets for it to handle!" In a flash of inspiration he changed into his dragon form and flew over buzzing the field and making a lot of noise in general. Both sides thought this dragon for the other side and quickly began to retreat to their respective homes. Changing back into his human form Shady pulled together as much energy as he could. Mouthing 'blue' and holding his hands upward he drew more power into himself than he's ever drawn before. When he felt he would burst if he pulled anymore he threw his hands forward. "TERRA-VOLT!" that did it, thunder clapped in the air and lightning arched from his hands down to the shadows below. Razing the front line of the army before they had time to react. Holding the spell for as long as he could he ran the bolts over the now scattering shadows. Wiping the majority out before he himself colapses from the stress of the momment.