Shadowblade Vol.1 No.2
When we last left off, Toby (aka Shadowblade) was trapped in a dark orb, an orb that generates darkness, pure darkness. Darkness that was created when the apple of Eden was bitten by the first humans, Adam and Eve. Toby was chained in chaotic chains that glew with the dark substance that it was made out of. Toby was crying. Even when his father mysteriously disappeared and left him fatherless for all his life, he had never cried. Never cried when bullies took his money every single day and left him hungry until dinner time. Now Toby was crying. He was crying because he had failed to save the world when he took the job of saving the world. He had barely become a hero for 2 days before getting caught by the first super-powered bad guy he had faced. Well, it wasn’t his fault because Toby’s true potential was undeveloped and un coordinated enough to face off more challenging and dangerous enemies. The most important thing, however, Toby was crying because he had failed to save the people he had cared about the most, his mom and Hope, the people that he had grew up with. Anyway, Toby was just there thinking about his failure and how he would never see his loved ones again when he heard a voice that he recognized completely, having to hear the voice in his dreams. “Why are you here, sulking away, Chosen One?” asked the mage of Hope. Toby snapped at him viciously. “You’re the one who got me into this mess!” Toby exclaimed. The mage of Hope sighed, he first snapped the chains that were imprisoning the child and asked, “Now do you trust me, child?” Toby sighed and thought over the decision of trusting this stranger that had brought him all this mess and danger to his family and loved ones. Himself, he had not cared about at all, for he had learned that it was important to live a life of unselfishness, he thought this because he was a true believer of God. He was a believer of God that no one had ever seen in a long time.”Fine!” Toby spat. The mage looked at Toby uncertainly. “Well, in order to free yourself from this dark orb, you will have to craft an ancient weapon that purifies all darkness and all dark material, in order to do this, you will have to travel back into time to get the pieces for you can not venture into the real world for multiple reasons, you will have to travel to the time of Blackbeard to collect the pieces in the Caribbean.” The mage flashed his staff and everything started to become fuzzy. “Also, just a tip, make sure you show Blackbeard as much respect as possible because, I’m just telling you that Blackbeard has a bad temper mind you.”
Toby landed in a tavern back to full costume. The only thing that Toby’s costume that was different was that he was now wearing a cloak and a cowl that shadows his face. He landed inside the tavern just in time to see Blackbeard rush in with Spanish guards right behind him. “Freeze, Blackbeard!” said the captain of the group that was chasing Blackbeard, hoping to catch him. The mage of Hope said in Toby’s mind, “The weapon that you are looking for is the legendary twin jade blades. They are a pair of blades made out of pure and solid jade, the jade is purified since the beginning of time, when evil and sin was unleashed into the world. Blackbeard is part of the chosen warriors of his time, he is the model of Anger, he is the only one with the map to the jade pieces and the only one with the knowledge of where you must take the pieces once you have all the pieces. You must protect Blackbeard at all costs until he tells you the secret cave to where to craft your weapon/tool.” “What a coincidence!” thought Toby as he threw knives dipped in sleeping potion at the guards and yelled at the guards exclaiming, “You don’t touch him!” Once all the guards were down and doused with sleeping draught, he looked at Blackbeard and said, “Blackbeard, I need your help. I also need to tell you all about what I need you to do in private.” Blackbeard looked surprised at this remark and replied, “We can talk this through on board of the Queen Anne’s Revenge.”
Once they were on board, Toby told him about the mages and the test he had to take to prove that he was the Chosen One, as much as he didn’t trust the pirate, he had to remember that Blackbeard was also a representative of the older mages and he had to pass a minor test in order to prove himself worthy of the title. Blackbeard listened through all this and he nodded and recalled some parts of this himself. He was not sure of whether or not to trust this stranger that had coincidentally appeared at the tavern and exactly at the right place at the right time and took out all the guards that were chasing him. In his opinion, nothing but a trained member of the Temper could do that, he was about to attack, acting to his thoughts before he saw what was on the stranger’s hand, it was the Legendary gauntlets of Eden, gauntlets that can create anything out of image. He relented and took his hand from his sword, he said, “Aye, mate, but first you’re going to need a new set of swords, I have any extra set of rapiers, the lightest and the most fastest ones.” He then came out with Toby and announced to the crew of Queen Anne’s Revenge, “Attention! I have recruited a new member to our crew, The Shadow Warrior! Congratulations to this warrior for becoming a member of this cheerful crew!”
Indeed did Blackbeard keep his word, he started immediately raiding ships that contained pieces of the jade pieces. He took ship after ship. He took a variety of ships and prisoners and along the way of helping Toby gain his jade pieces, Blackbeard became richer and richer and richer. He was known all over the seas for his cruelty to his prisoners, and he gained an even bigger reputation after he took the ships that were containing the jade jewels so easily and effectively that the governments started sending convoys to guard the ships and escort it safely to their destinations. Yet, the government still did not succeed, it just gave Blackbeard more and more loot to gain. He was known to be the richest pirate of the seas. Most of the effort was thanks to Toby, for every ship that Queen Anne’s Revenge handicapped, Toby was the first to board the ship and take down the fighters that were trying to kill him. Even though the enemy on the ships were trying to kill him, Toby never killed anyone that he was fighting, he would aim for his enemies’ arms and legs, injuring and handicapped them enough not for them to resist the raiding and the boarding of the ships.
Finally, Toby and Blackbeard had captured all the jade pieces except for one. That one was the biggest and the piece that contained the most of the twin rapier’s powers. However, that piece was located on the most powerfulest ship that the British could ever supply. It was a man o war, a ship with twice as many cannons and shots as a frigate, Queen Anne’s Revenge was nothing compared to it. When Blackbeard found out that that was the ship containing the next jade piece, he was so delighted! If he was able to capture that ship, he would be the terror of the seas. He then later found out that the government had authorized the same ship that they were looking for to go and capture him and the Queen Anne’s. Blackbeard was happy beyond relief. This meant that he didn’t have to go over to the ship and fight them on their own homeland, they would have to come over to him and the Queen Anne’s and fight them on their own turf. This meant that now, Blackbeard would have the home field advantage. However, when Blackbeard finally saw the man o war coming towards them and he considered the size if the ship, he looked at the ship that was probably their doom with awe. Then all of a sudden, the ship rocked and the sails ripped and caught on fire, the mortars on the ship had fired and hit the ship. He gave the orders to fire back with his own mortars, hitting the ship and taking a large chunk of their mast. The battle raged on, the Queen Anne’s was almost handicapped and taken down and the ship was low on ammunition. However, using the ship’s last heavy shot, the Queen Anne’s finally took down the enemy ship. Toby boarded the ship, cutting and injuring every single sailor he saw. Blackbeard himself came on board to fight. Several pistol shots rang out and Toby was too busy fighting to see a black shot hit Blackbeard, Toby looked on in shock as Blackbeard looked down and saw that he was hit, sure, he was hit at least 6 times in multiple places but it never really hit him critically. With Blackbeard’s last breath, he took out something from his pocket and threw at Toby. Toby caught the piece of paper and saw that it was a map with a note attached. He was still in shock when a sailor knocked him out with the butt of his sword.
Toby woke up in a dungeon just as a warden appeared and said, “C’mon you vermin, it’s time for your hanging. Toby wearly went outside and grimaced as the sunlight hit his face. He brought and tied with a noose around his neck and his hands tied up behind his back. The prosecutor said, “We come here this evening to witness the hanging and the execution of a traitor and a pirate. We hang this pirate for the murder of millions of sailors. We now will unleash the loose.” All of this while he was talking, Toby slowly cut of the rope that was binding his hands together with a hidden blade generated by his gauntlet. He then threw a knife at the guards making them crazy and making them fight themselves. He then ran to the port/dock where there were countless numbers of frigates guarding the dock. He silently boarded one of the ships, took out the guards and sailed away, freeing the frigate’s prisoners, making them his crew. He appointed part of his crew as advisors for the safety and welfare of his crew. He explained what he was going to do as he was captain. He called a meeting one night and pulled out Blackbeard’s map and pointed at an island that was containing the last piece of the jade swords and said, “I want a plan to capture this fort and destroy this legendary ship. You idiots might think I’m crazy but I’m not, I’m really serious about raiding this fort. I will accept any plans to raid this fort.” Then the ground shook. “What was that?!” exclaimed one of the advisors. His name is Eye. Toby climbed up the stairs of the cabin into the ship’s main deck and exclaimed, “What the hell is going on here?!” He stopped in mid-sentence when he saw the sea monster that was angry because of some carelessly thrown harpoons that were supposed to catch dinner for the crew members of the ship. Toby immediately took action and exclaimed, “Well what are you waiting for, fire the cannons!” The cannons fired but shocked the whole crew when the sea monster ate the cannon shot and looked fine. However, after a few moments, the sea monster exploded, causing sea monster gore to splatter over the ship. “Well, now that that’s over, every one to bed, so set the anchor!” Toby exclaimed. “We have a long day tomorrow and our first fort raid will be tomorrow!” Everyone onboard the ship went to their quarters while Toby sat down near the wheel and examined the map that Blackbeard gave him. You might wonder what the note said but all it said was. The crafter is on the island. That was all the note said. Toby sat there thinking what the note might mean.
The next morning, Toby started off steering the ship towards the direction of the fort that they were trying to take. The journey took 1 month and that 1 month was peaceful, no ship raids, no more bloody monsters that come out of nowhere and attacking the ship. Toby also gave the ship a name,The Hopeful Journey. One month later, Toby started activating his ultimate plan. First he threw multiple rockets in the sky once he was near the fort. Then, the rockets attracted the legendary ship, making the investigation to find out what the noise was all about. Then, The Hopeful Journey attacked the man o war, handicapped it quickly and they set out to fight. Toby boarded the ship along with his crew, for he knew that they were outnumbered and out-gunned and that they would need all the help they can get to defeat the crew of the man o war. You might wonder how the Hopeful had taken out the man o war so quickly and effectively that it was like the man o war was a sailor boat instead of a 7 yard tall and 89 ft long warship. It was the determination of Toby and the spirit of the crew that enables them to work effectively as a perfect team. Toby and the crew took out all the crew and took them prisoner planning to free them as soon as they had captured the fort that the pieces were fully complete.
The next part of Toby’s plan was that he had to take out the nearby warships which he did by dividing his crew and controlling his new man o war that he had just captured. The man o war would distract the nearby warships while Hopeful would go on and attack the main fort. The plan was a brilliant and effective plan as the crew and the captain worked in perfect union to take the fort. They say that hard work pays off, well that was true because Toby took the fort and took the fort in a matter of 2 hours. The next step of Toby’s plan was to go to the mage and representative of Balance to craft the sword. The whole process took 3 days. When the sword was complete, Toby addressed the crew, “Crew, I have to say goodbye for I am to go my separate ways and complete my own different quest.” The crew sniffed with anxiety for they had only succeeded in taking the fort with Toby’s leadership. Toby continued, “I’m putting in charge of The Hopeful Journey Eye who has the nerve and leadership to control a man o war and taking on hundreds of warships and destroying them in a matter of hours. For the man o war, I’m naming it Graceful Warbird and putting in charge of it, Unbi Walker who has shown intelligence by helping carry out my plans to take this fort.
With that, Toby appeared back at the orb of darkness, with the chains at his feet. The mage of Hope appeared, “Congratulations Tobias Astroson in completing your quest to obtain the twin jade rapiers. In order to escape this prison, you must cut the chains, in order to show defiance and your courage. Now, I must leave you to do the rest of the job by yourself and good luck. And Toby…. I’m proud to have chosen you and that you and no other is the Chosen One. You are a real model of courage and spirituality.” These words that the mage spoke of gave Toby hope and comfort as he took a deep breath and cut the chains of darkness in half and felt comfort as he appeared back in the real world. As he escaped, his costume changed into a more stealthier costume and suit. Toby smiled and thought of Hope as he sneaked to the whereabouts of the Illuminati Champion. He appeared bravely when he appeared and challenged him. “We shall settle this with one blow.” The Champion smiled in approval and drew his dark blade as Toby drew his rapier. They charged at each other determined to settle this with one fatal blow. The Champion’s blow was full of rage and anger while Toby’s blow was calm and peaceful and defensive. Toby’s blow was true and the blow that Toby gave to the Champion destroyed all of his dark power, for the sword had the power to purify darkness and anger. Then, Toby held up his sword and sealed the Champion away, never again would he use his dark powers and Toby smiled and knew everything was alright as he transformed back and walked home anxious to tell his mom everything that had happened.
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