Dan's Wheel of Magic Ch. 22

Those with Dan

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Ella - witch - fire

Bell - witch - water

En'tra - Dark elf - dark magic

Kim'ta - Light elf - light magic

Cre'sa - Dark Elf - dark magic

Tygan - Light elf - light magic

Gre'ta - blue dragon - electricity

Marlena - mer-maid - sound

Shae'ten - harpy - air

Danea - Felych - Nature

Anna - Golem - Earth

Helena - Succubus - Time

Aspects Dan has:

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10 of 12 total

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Fire-- 8 spells

Water/ice-- 8/7 spells

Dark Magic-- 8 spells

Light Magic, Life-- 8 spells

Light Magic protection --7 spells

Air -- 7 spells

Nature --7 spells

Electricity -- 8 spells

Time -- 7spells

Sound -- 3 spells

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Dan pointed at the leader as the man was obviously still trying to break free of the elf king's influence. Dan smiled, then his face got a serious look as he heard the elf king scream then several snaps.

"Enjoy the present I sent you, just like the rest you received. Remember that I have hurt you more than even got close to me," Dan said as he cut the tether.

Dan shook his head as he and the females stared at the troops that were left. Ampliphing his voice, Dan shouted, "If the rest of wish to live, I suggest that you leave NOW!"

There were a few moments of confusion, then almost all of the remaining troops started to run. Dan smiled, as there were hardly any left that were facing them.

The rest that were left looked at each other a few more moments, then turned and fled. Dan released the breath that he'd been holding as he relaxed.

He wasn't above killing, though those that didn't deserve it, needed a chance. He watched as the last of the opposing troops left.

They traveled on the rest of the day, reaching further north than they ever had. Not that far behind them, Helena the Succubus was starting to panic, she couldn't seem to get the male alone.

What she had to tell him was vital to the whole business that was occurring now. She also knew that she had to tell him alone as the news would cause those with him to abandon him.

From everything that she had seen, he had to arrive at the end with all twelve. Though at the moment she had only seen eleven, she was sure that he'd meet the last soon.

She was very worried that she had messed up the chance to meet the last. Nearly shaking, she wished that she was important like the others with him.

A sigh escaped her lips as she wished that she was important, she was just a nothing succubus. She had never amounted to anything, and she was afraid that she never would.

Helena pressed on as this was the first, and she was afraid her last mission that she'd ever be sent on. Was her mentor, the greater Succubus, really sure that this information would aid the human?

She shrugged as she saw that she finally had a chance to talk to him. It appeared that the male was going alone to a wooded area, though what was he doing opening his pants?

It wasn't until she came upon him and a stream of liquid was escaping the front of his pants that she gasped. Was the human male actually urinating? What was that?!!!

Dan whirled at the sound of the gasp, his penis hanging out and forgotten as he drew his sword. Helena was scared speechless as she stared at what was hanging out his pants, then the tip of his sword.

"You are the hardest," here she gulped at Dan's sex, "and the sexiest, uh... the most important," Helena said.

Dan crossed his arms, still forgetting he was hanging out the front of his pants. "Yeah right, I am just a human that seems to have power now. Plus, I don't feel welcome in either world that I am obviously from."

Helena's eyes grew huge, he felt like she did? "You, you feel like you are nothing, not important, not wanted?"

Dan started to nod, then noticed a slight breeze lower, looking he spun and zipped up. "I apologize," Dan said, "I forgot I was indecent."

His face was a lovely shade of red to the succubus as he blushed. "I," here, she hesitated, "I didn't find it indecent it was actually a compliment."

Dan could only shake his head as he didn't see how it could be a compliment. "Wait, you have never seen a male naked?"

Helena could only stare at Dan slightly confused, "Naked, What is that?"

Dan could only shake his head as he stared at the young Succubus. "It means without," he shook his head, "Never mind."

Helena suddenly shook her head as she finally remembered why she was here. "I am here to relay information that the greater Succubus said that you need to know. The most important thing is that you are related to the Elf king," here, she sighed. "He is your brother, and you can not kill him unless you have no choice."

OK, Dan thought, he already knew a tiny bit of this, but in no way did he expect that. He then thought about it more and fell to his knees and evacuated his stomach.

"That damn piece of shit is my brother! I should kill him just on principle! After all that, that bastard has done, he deserves no less than death," Dan said.

"There's more," Helena started as Dan looked at her like she was crazy. "More! As if that piece of news wasn't enough!"

"Uh yes," a hesitant Helena said. "There are rumors that both of your fathers are still alive. As is your mother, and."

"Yes, I know our mother and sister are still alive. I just spoke to them less than an hour ago," a frustrated Dan said.

He shook his head as he felt that all of this was a dream, and he'd wake up at any moment. He was just a damn gamer, he wasn't a hero or a mage or whatever the hell he was.

Helena was starting to feel like a harbinger of doom or something. She suddenly broke down as she also fell to her knees as tears started to fall.

"I knew that she chose the wrong one for this mission. It's like you said, I am nothing and am completely worthless, at least you have a destiny and future, ME? There is nothing waiting for me when I return," Helena's head fell forward as her grief deepened.

Dan sighed as he felt like the biggest loser in the world. At least he felt that someone had truly believed in her and gave her a chance.

It wasn't like him, and he had fallen into all of this. How had he survived this long? He was so unsure, but he hoped that who was at the end the compulsion would explain.

Then he thought about it and he wasn't sure if he wouldn't kill them also. They had screwed up his head quite a bit and had truly pissed him off greatly.

He finally stood as he looked at the young succubus and nodded. "Look, damn, I don't even know your name," Dan said.

"It's Helena and I know that all those with you are truly important, so," Helena was saying, then stopped when Dan held up a hand.

"All of the females that are with me had issues when they joined me. As it appears that you also have issues, then I think that you'll fit in rather nicely with us," Dan said with a smile.

Dan helped her to stand and led her to the others. "Oh, you can't tell the others, they will leave you, and they can't," Helena spoke up suddenly.

Dan stared at her for a moment then thought it over. He suddenly started to nod his head as he figured it was normal for this place.

Eleven pairs of eyes were staring at him when Marlena opened her mouth and emitted sonic scream. Dan shoved Helena out of the way as the sound waves washed over him, knocking him off his feet.

Marlena's eyes got larger as she sprinted to Dan, tears falling as she thought she had hurt Dan. "Oh god! I'm so sorry Dan. I thought that she had taken you prisoner and was going to kill you."

Dan groaned and turned over looking at Marlena. "Damn, that packs a major punch, doesn't it." Dan was about to say more when a message came up :{you have gained sound aspect.}

Marlena was kissing him as he was shocked that she thought she had killed him. He was about to speak again as the message appeared: {you have gained the spells, Loud yell, Sonic wave and Sonic scream}

"Hmm," Dan said, "three sound spells not bad."

Marlena sat back from Dan, her mouth open, "You, you have my power?" She then threw herself at Dan again, tears of joy on her face.

The look of shock on Dan's face was almost comical. "What's going on?" he asked.

Marlena eased back a moment and whispered in his ear. "I am finally a part of you."

Dan drew back even more as he stared at her. "A part of me? What in the hell are you talking about?" Dan asked.

"You have the powers of almost all of us, so we are a part of you as you are of us," Marlena said.

Dan nodded as he thought about this, then he turned serious. "Still, why did you attack Helena?"

Almost matter-of-factly, Marlena said, "She's a succubus, they are naturally evil. They enjoy killing males."

Dan rolled his eyes as he stared at Marlena, "You were with us when we saved the succubi village. You saw that they weren't evil."

Marlena was staring at the ground as she almost whispered, "It was the way we were taught." She looked at Helena as she softly said, "I'm sorry it was how we were taught that all your kind are nothing but evil."

Helena smiled as she nodded, "We were taught almost the same thing about the mer-folk. How they ate my kind and drowned then as soon as they saw us."

Marlena's mouth was gaped open as she took this in. "Who in the hell started these rumors? It's a wonder we haven't killed each other."

"I think that we are lucky that our two people don't see each other very often," Helena said.

Marlena was nodding, then stopped a moment, seeming to listen to the air, then nodding again. "Father says that this information is a great relief to him and our people."

Helena was nodding, then she stopped suddenly like Marlena had. She started to nod, agreeing to what only she could hear.

Her eyes cleared after a moment, then she looked at Dan and Marlena. "My mentor, the greater succubus, said almost the same thing. This was started a great many years ago from rumors, basically from here say."

Dan's eyes narrowed as he thought about it. It seemed that it was a great way to drive aggression between the races. He could feel and see the hand of the elf king in this.

It was when he turned toward the others that he grimaced. He saw that all the other ten females were bowing to him, worse when he looked at Marlena and Helena.

He put his hands on his hips, "I thought I told you not to do that, I am not a god geez!"

"Lord sir, we are only paying respect to you, after all, you are an arch mage now," Gre'ta said, the others nodding in agreement.

"I told all of you," he said to both groups. "I am just a regular guy I don't deserve," Dan started, then was interrupted.

"Sir," Tygan said, "I have been with you from the start of all this. You are the epitome of what we all consider a hero, a savior."

Dan blinked at these words, then he could almost see why they had had sex with him. Was it true that all of them wanted a child with him?

That, in itself, was the hardest thing to believe that they wanted a loser like him. He looked at each of the females, especially his two friends, seeing the want in their eyes.

Back at the palace of the Elf king, he was finally able to stay awake as his arms were healed. His own healing had indeed started to kick in.

He'd seen the puddle of dead flesh that was left of the general who had tried to usurp his power. A small smile crossed his features as he thought that was one thing he didn't have to do.

Even so, the same hatred returned as he thought of the human. No matter what the ass had done, he had to rid the world of the human filth and pestilence.

He was afraid that he was going to have to bring up all his power, as the human was beyond all but him. Why in the hell was this feeling a lot like back during the last human battle that he'd had?

He nodded his head, he had to avenge his father and the rest of the family. His mother and sister, he still held out hope that they were still alive and he could save them.

Soon he thought to himself, soon he'd get the vengence for them and destroy all the humans. With them all eliminated, this world would never have to fear them again.

His plan to rid the world of the rest of the minor and worthless races had stalled for a bit. He had another poison out there just as deadly.

The only other thing was the dragons, they were a pest also. They commanded four major elements and were extremely powerful to boot.

Though nowhere as powerful as he was, they were still a niche that he needed to eliminate. The accused human had healed almost all of them, and there were thousands of babies now.

Then there was the fact that they were immune to the first deadly poison that he'd used. The mer-people were also healed, as was the king's son, that was a major problem.

He had all the scientists working as hard as possible to come up with a poison like the first. One that could kill all but the white elf people, the only ones he felt deserved to live.

He had a sudden thought that many of the nobles were becoming a problem too. Perhaps he needed to rid the kingdom of a few of them also.

They had started to demand more lately and that seriously pissed him off. He was the king, not them, and they should show him more respect than they did.

He nodded his head, the more he thought about it, the more he liked the idea. An almost evil smile came to his lips as the idea took a firm hold of his mind.

Dan and his party were still making their way closer to where the pull was coming from. All but the twins and Marlena had seemed to keep a further distance, afraid of Dan's anger.

They were attacked not too long after topping a hill, several trolls among their attackers. The orcs were also numerous, as were the ogres, the both driving a large amount of goblins forward.

Dan sighed as he looked at the small army that was advancing. "You know one would think that after all this time and the losses, they'd have learned."

Gre'ta and En'tra walked to him as they also shook their heads. "It appears that the king is more afraid of you than we at first thought," Gre'ta said.

"I know that the white elf king was stubborn, but I thought that even he would see the error of pursuing this. He's lost a huge number of troops soon, I'm afraid that he won't have many. We've already seen a great number that have deserted," En'tra said.

Dan looked at the two of them and hesitantly agreed with them. He looked at Masrlena and called her over, after speaking to her, he nodded.

He then opened his mouth and let out three sonic screams that seemed to confuse all that were before them. The females with him held back as he asked them to as he waited.

After a few minutes, a few representatives moved halfway to Dan and the females. The largest Orc and Ogre moved forward, stopping before Dan.

"Make good deal," the large Ogre said. "Let you go and two females. We take and use the rest for all here. Not hard you got many, let us sate ourselves with them, they are females after all of no use but babies."

Dan's face twisted into a look of pure hatred, right before his hands started to glow blue and red. His eyes started to cycle through several colors before both the leaders started to scream, shake and smoke.

Through gritted teeth, Dan hissed. "If that's how all of you feel, then I will kill all of you as painfully as I can."

Many of the Orcs and Ogres were starting to feel uncertain looking at each other. The two leaders dropped then dragged themselves back to the group.

"Use all your spells to kill all that you can. I will take as many as I can, though this is the most we have ever faced," Dan said as his anger was still growing.

A moment later there was a yell as the entire hill was suddenly covered with fighters. Dan fired several fire blasts, several magic swords slaughtering thousands.

Dan shook his head as they still kept coming 'til he heard a scream as a few had gotten through. Marlena, Shae'ten, Anna, Helena were all down.

Dan's anger went as white-hot as his hands did as the attackers were disintegrated. He saw that there were still a great number that were coming as he felt the one spell he had to use.

A gigantic dark area in front of almost the whole long line of enemies appeared. Dan had tears in his eyes as he opened the portal to a very dark place.

Dan started to weave his hands into ancient Glyphs that he suddenly knew. A few moments later, the screaming started as thousands and thousands of the enemies were dragged in.

As more and more were taken, Dan felt as if a part of himself was ripped lose. The screams of pain and terror got heavier and heavier as time passed.

When the portal closed, Dan fell to his knees, the sheer amount of lives lost seemed to drive him lower. He fell forward onto his face as it was all too much for him.

"DAN! Ella screamed as she rushed to him, getting him off his face. "Dear god! He used all he had and then some, EN'TRA! His eyes are vacant, please help him."

Both En'tra and Cre'sa were next to Dan and Ella immediately. "By all the dark spirits and power, I have never seen a shadow death portal that large before! He wasn't completely concentrated on it, but he was enough to hurt his mind," Cre'sa said.

"I haven't either, that's why it was banned all those centuries ago," En'tra said. It was then the ground started to shake violently."

"By all the spirits of the world, Dan may have broken the balance," Tygon said as she looked at Kim'ta. "I'm not sure if the both of us can halt this."

"We are both far more powerful than we were, we have to if this world is to survive. Put all you have into it, that's all we can do," Kim'ta said.

Tygon nodded as she raised her arms, as did Kim'ta they both released a huge amount of energy. For a few minutes, nothing happened much, then Kim'ta dropped depleted.

Tygon bent to Dan as she whispered in his ear, "I love you and I sacrifice myself for you freely."

En'tra and Cre'sa had also been trying to pull as much of the dark energy out of the ground. They had all been at it for a few minutes as the ground shook fiercer.

Dan suddenly sat up as Tygon started to feel her life energy slip away. Dan put both hands on the ground as one went white and the other went black.

Dan's whole body started to shake and convulse as the white arm grew brighter and the black arm went darker. The three, still barely conscious, fell away as Dan seemed to grunt as his power grew.

All of the other females were trying to get to Dan but were rebuffed back, though they kept trying. None of them noticed that the shaking had almost stopped, as worried as they were.

It was when Dan's arms stopped glowing, and he pitched forward that they were able to reach him. The seven that were still able to move held Dan to their chests as they cried in extreme fear.

Several then checked Marlena, Shae'ten, Anna, Helena and Kim'ta, who was sitting up. She looked around, seeing that Dan was unconscious, then the other four females that were also.

Tygon had managed to start withal healing, but it was a short burst on the four females. She was slightly dizzy when she finished as she almost crawled to Dan.

She tried to cast Elucidation on herself and almost passed out, though she got a partial answer. She could help Dan some, but her power was far too low at the moment.

She conveyed this to the others, then laid down. Her tears started a she knew that this time, without help, Dan's mind might be lost.

Kim'ta slowly walked to Tygon as she extended her hands. For a moment, nothing seemed to happen, then Tygon felt the energy start to infuse her.

Tygon's eyes opened wide as she felt Kim'ta's life energy and managed to push her away. "I can't allow you to sacrifice yourself," Tygon said.

Tygon managed to get to Dan as a light green glow started from her hands. Dan suddenly started to thrash as the energy permeated his head.

Tygon could feel Dan so far away as she tried to anchor him. It wasn't a lot, but if it worked she could do more later, at least she hoped.

In the light elf king's palace, the shaking was of more concern as the entire building was threatening to break. He'd felt the imbalance that had occurred a frown crossed his forehead.

What has that idiot human done now, the king wondered? With the power that he now possessed, the human could shatter the world.

The king reached out feeling the imbalance, then felt the thousands that had been snuffed out. By the ancestors, this human was far more dangerous than he first thought he was.

He was going to have to get the production of the second poison going faster. With all the allies that the human had, they needed to kill almost all of the other races.