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ooc- From Derscon's coronation thread.

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King John Antonette's sword- http://img165.exs.cx/img165/8076/rapier3ze.jpg
Antonettes uniform- http://www.geocities.com/maltaknight1/site_contents/knights/knight5.jpg


Francis wore a French naval uniform, and stood across from King John, in Derscon's Kremlin Square. Franci's sword was in its sheath, a French naval sword.

Antonette felt his sword. They each stepped 10 paces back. Francis then charged ast Antonette. He doged out of the way and countered with a cut at his side, whcih he blocked. They clanged swords together. Antonette cut at Francis, and slashed his arm.

"You Bastard" screamed Francis

"You are the true bastard" said Antonette

Francis was chased by Antonette to a wall, and Antonette thrust at his stomach, missing, as he dodged the blow.

"Running away, are you" said Antonette, as he thrust again at Francis.

Then, Francis knocked the sword from John's hand.

"Who is on top now" said Francis

Antonette rolled on the ground, grabbing the sword.
"I am"

But as he got up, he saw a sword in his face.

"Think again" said Francis.

As Francis slashed, he dodged it. Quickly, he knocked Francis's sword away, and stabbed his own threw his stomach.

"Go burn in hell" said Antonette.

Francis fell.

Francis said his last words,
"See you there."

"You will be seeing me in paradise, while you are burning.

King John Antonette then slashed his sword across Francis's neck. Francis I was dead.



ooc- Francis is the former Emperor of CR. He was overthrown, and the throne ascended by King John Antonette. They just fought a duel in Derscon, and John Antonette just killed Francis. Just an OOC summary.

Queen Mariah was watching the "entertainment" if some would call as such. She wasn't really looking at who would win, but the sword Antonette was using. He was constantly boasting it was made by St Michael. After the fun and games where Antonette won as expected.

She unsheathed her black sword and looked at Antonette's again. Identical blades apart from the colour and her sword had noticably started heating up during the duel. It was still warm. Antonette had the white sword of the Arch-Angels while she possessed the black one. She sheathed the sword again.

She had the "Demon-slayer" and Antonette possessed "The Light Bringer". Only angels could wield both, for humans they were one-owner till death. "Demon-slayer" was cast from the black obsidian from Hell, which was very destructive to natives to Hell while "The Light Bringer" was cast from Holy metal from the Heavenly furnaces, also very destructive to natives of Hell.

Of course over history, different names have been assigned to these weapons but they still were deadly weapons assigned to pre-destined individuals.

Alexei, unlike Queen Mariah, wasn't watching on his TV.

He was looking out the window onto the Piazza de Kremlin from the Star Office. He also was watching Antonette's sword. The Sword of the Arch-Angels. He knew the legends well. He had his Dragon Sword in his lap. One of the jewels -- the white diamond -- started to glow. The Czar smiled.

All of the weapons crafted by the supernatural are represented by jewels in this sword. He felt the diamond as it got hotter. This sword is do dangerous it was locked in the Temple of Heaven for ages, for fear that it would be used to bring about something worse than Armageddon. A war between good and evil that would end in a stalemate, wiping all life in all plains. He sighed. Yet few know of its power. Best it be kept that way.

Mariah walked back to the "The Sanctuary" and slid her Black sword back into the black rock. The rock parted like it was alive when the sword slid in. Only angels or the owner could use do this. She picked up another sword "The Sword of Charlemagne" and put it her sheath to replace the black one. It was best to wear a sword of Kings rather than one of the arch-angels in public.

OOC

The Sword of Charlemagne
http://www.myarmoury.com/images/features/pic_charlemagne4_s.jpg

After the duel was done, Alexei motioned to two of his guards.

"Get the place cleaned up, tell Antonette to come back up here."

Antonette saw the guards approaching and said,
"Where to now?"

"To the Czar"

The guards led him to Czar Alexei. Antonette said to the Czar,
"Thank you for allowing me to do that."

Alexei turned around in his swivel chair, with the armour plating in the back that would stop a .50 calibre bullet, assuming it could go through the windows, which could stand up to 20mm chain gun fire.

"No problem. Francis had it coming. Please, sit." Antonette did so as he rested his sword on his lap. "Now, about that sword." Alexei pulled out the Dragon Sword. With the proximity, Antonette could see the diamond glowing red hot right now.

"As you see, this diamond is glowing. That is because of that sword right there." A'rovich pointed to Antonette's sword, and then motioned to his own. "Around this dragon engraving in the centre, there are multiple jewels, as you can see. These jewels represent all of the special swords crafted by the heavens. As you can see, there are few of them." He smiled.

"What do you think happens when you have them all together?"

Major Janus, head of Occult affairs in the Inquisition and infiltrator of the Cherry Ridge masons, met with the Queen in the garden. Both carried swords are usual. The Knights of Jerusalem were positioned all over the garden.

He kissed her hand "Your majesty, it's always a pleasure to see you. What is the matter?". She looked worried "Did you see the Antonette's duel?". He pondered "I wouldn't miss it except for a Jeruselem soccer game, why?"

"Well, that was The Light Bringer. You know I have Demon-Slayer or the Arthurian Excalibur. Someone else has the Sword of Yaweh or Dragon Sword but there's a few lost ones." she replied. He smiled "I have the Templar's Headstick, but that sword of your's would easily destroy it" refering to the ugly goat's head relic recovered from the destroyed Monastery.

"What happens if the owner's of the heavenly blades meet?" she asked. He pondered "According to my reading's, probably an Arch-Angel might turn up because of the concentration of Holy Power on one place not in the Heavens. Also not advisable for the owners to start dueling either as the power's unleashed might require God to intervene"

"Interesting, it might happen now. As much I like the thing, it's a burden until death to keep it out of the wrong hands." she pondered and then threw her sword into the grass. "Watch this!" she smiled. She wave her hands in some weird motion and the sword flew back into her hands ready for action.

"A funny side effect of hanging around with that sword. I'm a Jedi Knight. Mind over matter. But it only works with Holy items." she winked.

"Does it bring about the apocolypse? It is said, when that happens, the owners of the heavenly swords will help St. Michael and his army cast Satan down for eternity."

The Czar picked up his phone when it rang. "Excuse me." He listened intently, had a confused look, then grinned, and put down the phone. He got up, and five minutes later, he came back with an open bag of flour. He tossed it on Antonette, and gave the bag to an attendent. Alexei sat back down in his chair and laughed.

"That's from my brother. I don't understand, but I'm sure you do. Anyways..." Alexei looked at the Dragon Sword again, and shook his head.

"No, it does not bring about the Apocalypse. There are writings, but few -- if any -- writings are true. Do you know what the Dragon Sword is?" Antonette shook his head. The Czar nodded.

"The Dragon Sword is undoubtebly the most powerful bladed weapon in all of Creation. You see, contrary to Church teaching, there are multiple realms of reality, with heaven and hell at opposite ends, and Earth in the middle.

"Long ago, all of these realms were merged together into one -- mind you, at this point, hell did not exist. The ruler was a beast appointed by God -- Damonagaashi -- the Dragon King. He was granted this sword created by God. With it, he was literally as strong as God. Well, Mr. Dragon got out of hand, so the Lord split the realms up, took the Dragon Sword, and cast the Dragon King into a rift in reality, along with creating the Nexus, which is the "gatehouse" of sorts to all of the realms.

"In the Nexus, one can open the gates to all of the realms with their respective key -- including Heaven. Heaven's key was nowhere to be found, though. Yes, it is the Dragon Sword. But it required more than that. All of the keys had to be turned, and if the Dragon Sword was inserted in the altar, not only would Heaven open up, but all of the realms would merge once more. THis was a problem, see, as there is now a hell.

"Anyways, not too long ago, the Dragon King came back -- as me. My father was in possession of the Dragon Sword at the time, as the Andropov family was appointed by God to defend it at all costs. Well, not too long ago, a big battle was fought. My father had the Dragon Sword, and I, as Damonagaashi in full form, fought to the death. He managed to stab me in the heart, but I killed him. With that fatal blow, the demonic spirit of Damonagaashi left me, and was forever cast into the Nexus, which was locked down and the portals destroyed. My father died not of a heart attack, but he died defending all that existed -- Earth, all of the realms, and even Heaven.

"Had Damonagaashi managed to kill my father and take the Dragon Sword, he would have been of equal power of God. (The Nexus drains your power to nothing.) With this, he could have waged war against him, that would end in a stalemate, eventually destroying all of existance. You see, God could keep creating soldiers, which would die, and then take Damonagaashi's side, as he ruled over hell. It would be an eternal battle that would never end, and a fate worse than Armageddon would occur. This, thankfully, was avoided." He took a deep breath and a drink.

"This never leaves the room, understood?" He took a big gulp and continued speaking.

"Now, I know little of what happens when you have all of the swords together. All I know is that there are a total of seven -- including the Dragon Sword. I also know where to activate what happens. It is a temple inside Derscon, actually. Where, I'm not sure. My brother knows more of it than I do.

"But considering what the Dragon Sword's main purpose is, I'n not positive I WANT to find out what happens, yet curiosity compells me."
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OOC: Obviously, all of that is BS, but the Dragon Sword ties in to a past RP I did with a few others, so I had to throw that in here.

Antonette spit out flour that got in his mouth. He brushed most of it off, but luaghed and said,
"A little trick I played on your brother in C.R."

He then listened on about the Dragon Sword.
"I'm not sure I want to find out either."