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The Dead; Complete medium quest
Topic Started: Nov 10 2008, 10:05 AM (133 Views)
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The Dead

Location: Earth

Difficulty: Medium

Reward: +500 zeni, +2 DP, +30 all stats, +2 Rp Credits. +3 alignment.

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The coastal city of Veltin once prospered. Until people began to mysteriously die from a powerful virus. The city was quarantined quickly, but it was to no avail as four dark figures arrived and began to raise the dead using dark necromancy. Your job is to enter the city and cleanse it of this threat so that peace may be restored once again.

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A single brown leaf tumbled along the sidewalk, crackling with every rotation before it met the opposition of a white and gold plated boot. The breezy air was salty and cold due to the infusion of changing seasons from fall to winter and the nearby ocean that bordered Veltin. The city itself was still alive and kicking with commotion, though. Veltin's streets were filled with bustling people already starting on their holiday shopping or merely traversing around to view the lights and decorations adorning buildings, lampposts and walkways.

The dried leaf began to shake once the wind caught underneath it, on the verge of being carried off into the city. That same boot from before shifted and crushed the leaf to pieces with a healthy crunch as its owner stepped away from the wall he was leaning against. Vegeta, the Prince of Saiyans, had come to Veltin a few days ago to take up the activities the city offered, desperately seeking escape from the plaguing monotony of his empty residence. Although he wasn't known to be much for festivities or appearing at joyful occasions, there was something refreshing about being so near the chilling ocean that provided reason enough for him to stay.

His miniature vacation spot was still close enough to Master Roshi's that he could continue his training underneath the self absorbed hermit, although he didn't believe he was learning anything new from the old man.

Vegeta still remained set in his old ways, of course. For the majority of his stay in the city, he wouldn't associate with citizens or other visitors. He mainly kept quiet and went about his own routine of training and observing. That is, until the people of Veltin began to unexpectedly drop like flies and by that time, the Prince wished he had never stepped foot in the city at all.
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It was during the middle of the week, just after everyone was getting off from their jobs, when the first body hit the ground. Vegeta had just returned from his training in the deep forest and was wandering though the city in search of sustenance when a shrill scream pierced the veil of busy crowds. He looked up from the spotty sidewalk but remained standing in line for the noodle cart, perking his ears to pick up the following conversations that took place.

"Someone call an ambulance, this woman needs help! She's not breathing!" screamed one woman.

"Call another one! This guy over here isn't moving either!" crowed a deep voiced guy.

A total of five people had to be shipped to the hospital that evening. All of which were announced as dead on arrival at the medical facility as reported by the evening news but no further information was released. Everyone was suspicious and scared but it wasn't until later in the week when previous fears multiplied horribly.

Day after day, the death count in Veltin rose. Every night on the live evening broadcast, the current number of deceased citizens was reported by the news anchors. Vegeta watched the show intently until the moment when one of the two reporters silently dropped forward and collapsed onto the desk. The Prince sat up in his bed and slid off onto the floor, soon dressing himself and preparing to face the dangers outside.

From what was gathered through toxicology reports and informed speculation, an invisible agent was released into the air at a department store three days ago. It was believed to be a virus that was targeted to infect only certain people, although what factors the virus looked for in a host had not been determined. It was also said that the infected suffered no pain, they would simply just die.

Vegeta believed it was up to him to take up this problem and find a solution. The usual means for him to deliver resolution was through his cool intellect and the blunt force of his fists. He was hoping this issue would require the usual means of solving.
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The streets were filled with the terror of a thousand people fearing for their lives, the lives of their children, and the lives of everyone they cared for. Vegeta could barely make it out the door of his rented cottage, for he was immediately met by a massive crowd of screaming individuals trying to work their way out of the city. They were taking it upon themselves to evacuate the city to escape the contagion but there seemed to be forces at work that would prevent them from escaping.

The main road out of the city was being blocked by two lone figures. Each one was cloaked by impenetrable black robes, appearing more like a void in space than an actual path blocking entity. It was hard for anyone to discern facial features out of either one, even for Vegeta's focused and trained eyesight.

The deafening screams surrounding the Prince started to dwindle with each passing minute, though only momentarily before another series of cries would erupt like an unstable volcano at the realization that people started to drop to the pavement. Citizens would pass in mid scream and fall lifelessly, eternally silenced. There didn't appear to be a mass concentration of deaths in one particular area, rather spread throughout the large congregation of panicking victims. The toll was quickly rising one way or another.

Vegeta pushed and pulled his way toward the front of the crowd to confront the pair of shadows that prevented passage out of the city. The people before him spread easily to the manipulation of his powerful Saiyan arms until he finally was brought face to face with the two ghastly individuals. With a grin, the Prince took another step forward and spoke, his words laced with his signature, condescending tone.

"Listen punks, you're going to move out of our way or I'm go—"

One of the phantom-like figures raised his hand to Vegeta in mid sentence, releasing a small gust of air from within his cloaks that blasted the Saiyan directly in his face.
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The Prince of Saiyans stumbled backward a few steps after his exposure to whatever unknown was released upon him. He shook his head to clear it and gather his thoughts but he was immediately suffering from some form of confusion. Vegeta brought a hand to his forehead to wipe away perspiration that presented, his face growing red and flustered in a matter of moments. His throat felt thick and full of heavy fluid and his ability to swallow properly was stripped from him. Panic began to overwhelm him as he gripped his throat and staggered around, dropping to one knee before blackness descended upon him and he unwillingly dropped to the ground.

"Am I dead?"

It felt like an eternity before the darkened clouds hovering in Vegeta's mind lifted. His eyes gradually fought open, although his sight was still very blurred and the high noon sunlight hurt his eyes. His arms scraped across the ground and came underneath him, using what little strength that had returned to him as a tool to sit up. A frightening vision filled him as soon as he regained clarity, seeing nothing but countless bodies littering the once bustling street. The serenity presented was nothing short of eerie.

Vegeta looked to the sky and guessed by the position of the sun in the day sky; he had been out all through the night. He rose to his feet and glanced through the nearby area for any survivors of the believed virus, occasionally even going as far as checking pulses and breathing for signs of life. His search rewarded him with nothing positive.

In the distance, he could still hear the bustling and cries of the living. He guessed that these people were ones who hadn't been infected by the virus or were immune to its danger. For one reason or another, Vegeta had been able to fight off direct exposure to the virus. Perhaps it was due to the strong Saiyan blood that flowed in his arrogant veins?
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Before he could conclude the thought, he heard a weak groan behind him. The sound was barely rising over a raspy whisper, hoarsely catering itself to Vegeta's alert but surprised ear. He turned quickly upon his heel to search out the source of the sound but his attention was quickly captured by a different threat. Beyond the small field created of bodies, the Prince noticed one of the shrouded figures standing with an outstretched hand, encompassed completely in a vibrant green aura.

Vegeta was still incredibly weak but he mustered the strength to take a few steps back. If he were to make it out of this alive and have any hope of ensuring the safety of those that remained, he would have to take flight for now. He turned roughly and stumbled forward a pace into another obstacle.

A loud groan crossed the air between Vegeta and the man he bumped into. A bruised and gaping jaw cocked to the side, as he bellowed a jagged scrap of stained bone pierced black and blue flesh yet no blood flowed. He stared at the startled Prince blankly from sunken eye sockets, his eyes appearing to be drained of all color. Unsteady hands quivered relentlessly, stretching forward and reaching for Vegeta's throat. No, he was nothing more than the appearance of a man; his soul had already been stripped from him.

Vegeta quickly intercepted the pair of hands with a deflecting backhand. However, the result of his retaliation was highly unexpected. The force of his swiping blow completely wrenched the walking corpse's arms out of their sockets, leaving one to dangle helplessly in front of him while the other stuck out backward in a rigid fashion. It was absolutely repulsive and the Prince of Saiyans had never dealt with something of this unbelievable nature.

He jumped forward and pushed into the zombie, knocking it clear off of its not so agile feet and out of Vegeta's way as he hurried for sanctuary in his hotel.
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Vegeta had been holed up in his room for the better of three hours. He spent what time he could gather recuperating and uncovering what information he could about the events that took place. The news was now being governed by the military and Vegeta found out that the entire coastal city had been quarantined. By the sound of things, it wasn't looking good for Veltin. There currently wasn't any form of vaccine against or cure for the mysterious virus that was plaguing everyone.

The Saiyan Prince was actually more curious about the hooded men and the horrible creature he was face to face with out on the street. He had never seen anything of the sort before outside the power of the Dragonballs. Occasionally looking out the window, Vegeta witnessed numerous drones now shuffling along the city streets, and behind them a black cloaked wraith would follow. Were the hooded men the ones responsible for bringing these damnable creatures back to the world of the living? In Vegeta's eyes, it would appear so.

All contact to the outside world had been severed by the military and it would take Vegeta a while to gather any of the other fighters to help him clear this town out. Unfortunately, he didn't have that much time and before long he guessed the city streets would be completely overwhelmed with the reanimated corpses of the dead. He also had to take into consideration any survivors that remained.

"How do I always find these messes? It isn't my responsibility to take care of these fools," he muttered quietly, rising from the edge of the bed. He couldn't delay action any further, even if he hadn't fully recovered from the effects of the virus that might still be inside him. Vegeta took one last look out the window before turning to the exit and proceeding out.

"It looks like its time for a little ghost hunting."
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Weakened legs worked hard as Vegeta barreled down the final flight of stairs and into the lobby of the hotel. He could clearly see through the blood stained and rotten flesh smeared glass doors marking the entrance and beyond them was a massing congregation of zombies, banging their arms and legs relentlessly to gain entry. The Saiyan Prince shook his head as he decided what action to take but quickly came to the conclusion that the best defense was an all out offense.

Vegeta raced closer to the lobby doors and threw his hands out to his sides. His strong fingers flexed and combed the air as they gathered up wells of ki energy, preparing an enormous attack to clear the entry way of opposition. With a powerful scream he threw his hands forward repeatedly, one after another like a pair of pistons, launching a large ball of produced energy with each action. The enormous glass doors were completely destroyed, blown off their hinges and shattered glass exploding outward.

The zombies met the devastation of his Renzoku Energy Dan maneuver head on. Their slow nature was attributed to the rigor mortis that plagued their diseased bodies, often times giving them a whole world of trouble when it came to quick evasion. Vegeta’s energy blasts cut through the undead legion with ease, completely disintegrating some victims while others suffered the loss of decaying limbs and heads.

With a path cleared to the outside, Vegeta leapt out into the streets and the first thing he noticed was the sun setting below the ocean’s far horizon. He was beginning to feel like he had stepped onto the set of a horror movie. A group of hungered groans arose soundly to his side, to which he turned and noticed another fleet of zombified remains approaching him. Beyond the small army was one of the shadowy hoods, weaving his brightly glowing hands through the air in front of him. It appeared they were the ones commanding these poor, soulless fools.
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The walking dead continued to near him, still ravaging the silence with their pitiful moans and cries. Vegeta snarled as he looked over the oncoming figures, obviously displeased at their persistence and the sheer count of their numbers. He stepped closer to them but before they could reach out to snag him, the Saiyan leapt into the air and burst forward in flight towards the commanding Necromancer.

The Necromancer’s face was completely void of expression, as noted by Vegeta once he was close enough to distinguish notable characteristics. White eyes lacking pupils stared blankly at the Prince as he closed the distance between them, carefully plotting his next moves to deal with the threat. In one fluid motion, the shrouded figure pressed his hand forward and exposed his pale open palm, from which a green bundle of energy shot out toward Vegeta.

This Saiyan wasn’t about to let another unexplainable spell from one of these mysterious Reaper-like men get a hold of him. Just before the blast was to hit him, he took a swing at the energy with his swiping backhand, successfully deflecting the beam into the starry sky as he continued his flight forward.

Vegeta collided with the Necromancer and the tackle that ensued brought them both down behind the zombie lines. Once the Prince had his prey pressed to the concrete, he laid into him with his lethal fists, pounding a combination of blows across his cloaked face and body. His knuckles felt like they were sinking into undead commander, the force of his attacks not meeting the usual defense of flesh and bone. Although the soft sounds of ribs and cheekbones cracking were heard, they seemed to give away too easily.

One final punch was ignited with energy and driven straight through the head of the Necromancer, following through until his Blast Punch hit the paved street beneath. A look of surprise overwhelmed Vegeta’s face at the feat of strength but only until he realized that underneath the black robes, was nothing more than a heavily aged man not suited for such fighting.
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Vegeta leapt up to his feet and spun around to meet the wave of zombies previously behind him, bringing his dangerously pointed finger forward in preparation of releasing some charged up Dodonpas to eradicate his opponents. He was again surprised to find that those summoned by the Necromancer had returned to their original state of death, scattered about the pavement and unmoving. Before he could settle his mind to think about the situation, a girlish scream raged through the air from a couple of streets over.

“It must be some of the survivors,” Vegeta thought as he burst into action. The Saiyan put the figurative pedal to the metal as he raced through narrow alleyways and hurdled trash cans and dumpsters until he was closer to the source of the yelling. Soon he was found approaching a mass of undead from the side. The group of zombies had a small collection of unaffected citizens surrounded and were closing in on the fresh human flesh.

The Saiyan took a side step forward and produced his finger at the zombies, like pointing a gun at his singled out targets. The blast that was released from his fingertip was enormous, a highly powered version of a simple Dodonpa ray that completely consumed a wide row of walking corpses. Few released cries of agony as what little life they still felt was stripped from them, their rotten flesh and cold hearts evaporating in moments. The air already reeked with the spell of decomposing bodies but the assault on the senses was multiplied due to the zombies that now burned.

Vegeta ignored the stench as he leapt into the middle of the fray, taking a broad swing at a single zombie that bowled backward and into a group of his companions. The domino effect knocked a good number of undead to the ground and effectively cleared a path for the remaining humans to escape from their deadly clutches.

“Come on, fools! Hurry up and get out of here!” The Prince beckoned them with his free hand while the other was constantly firing off volleys of smaller dodonpa rays, hoping to keep the mindless beasts back.
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From the corner of his eye he noticed another hooded Necromancer hovering above the field of death, and from him a machine gun blast of green energy was released and targeted towards the surviving citizens who attempted to retreat.

Vegeta moved with incredible speed to intercept the attack, in fact it appeared that he had completely vanished from sight momentarily as he transported from one point to the other. In his prideful defiance, the Prince of Saiyans unleashed a tremendous roar that reached out to the energy blasts and completely dissipated them from existence.

Without wasting another passing second, he moved to confront the zombies and their caller. Vegeta swiftly pierced their ranks like lightning, dodging in between clawed swipes and lethargic bites to disassemble their numbers one by one. In the middle of the action, he once again disappeared from sight until he came to be seen behind the unsuspecting Necromancer. The Saiyan gripped his hands together and arched a blow down against the back of his frail man’s neck, to which he immediately dropped to the ground in unconsciousness.

Still, the waves of zombies continued to move and now approached Vegeta, clearly signifying that there was only one true way to eliminate their presence. With little remorse, he pointed a single finger down to the weary, unmoving body of the Necromancer and released a quick dodonpa that pierced his skull. His eyes never left the wandering zombies as he did so, watching as they fell to the pavement in unison and proving to Vegeta that the deed was done.

A sharp pain suddenly overwhelmed Vegeta’s back. The affliction spread through his muscles and flesh like wildfire, forcing him to cry out in pain as he too was stricken from flight. His feet collided with the ground and he crashed over rigidly, squirming uncontrollably as the pain continued to eat away at him. As he flopped onto his back, he gained sight of his attacker. It was a third Necromancer.
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“How.. how foolish!” Vegeta screamed as he writhed, helplessly clutching his gloved hands against his chest as if trying to rip his skin straight from his bones. The Saiyan winced and closed his eyes tight, shutting out the hazing veil that seemed to cover his vision.

Silently, the Necromancer hovered and drew closer to the fallen Prince, his pale hand stretched out and commanding the illness that he combated. No sense of joy or pleasure marked his expression, only the blank monotony that was seen on his two predecessors that Vegeta quickly dealt with. The tail ends of his cloak billowed from the energy Vegeta was putting out, his consuming pain being battled with all the energy he could muster from his already weakened state.

He could feel his heart beat slowing as the disease took full effect. His ears thumped loudly with each passing of blood his sound heart weakly pumped. The thoughts in his mind were growing disoriented, stretching out far and wide beyond his own comprehension until he could no longer decipher what it is he was trying to accomplish. As suddenly as the pain had come on in the first place, it ceased to be.

For a long moment Vegeta could hardly tell it had retreated but soon his thoughts began flooding back to him and the strength in his body slowly returned. Once he opened his eyes, he noticed the Necromancer above him and his attention had been diverted elsewhere. The shrouded attacker was focused on the group of humans that Vegeta had rescued, who were taking up stones from broken buildings and whatever miscellaneous trash they could find and were throwing it at the minister of undeath.

What little time they gave him was all that he required. The Prince slowly lifted his right arm and extended his index finger toward the Necromancer, pooling together his remaining energy into a single, full powered dodonpa that ripped through the elder from bottom to top. His remains, consisting of an arm and a leg, fell to the ground around Vegeta and that was the last thing he noticed before he passed out.

Days later, he awoke in the hospital under the care of a few doctors, who cheered and praised Vegeta upon his reentry into the conscious world. He spent the evening in his hospital bed recovering his strength and it was from the night time news that he learned there was a fourth Necromancer, but he had retreated from the city of Veltin once he realized his companions had been eliminated.

The city was still be cleaned up from the mass amount of corpses but it was looking considerably better than the last time he had seen it. Though, he still wondered what happened to the remaining Necromancer. Vegeta had won the battle but he had a feeling that it still wasn’t over yet.

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