The Magic Sword

 

         Dirk is starting again his quest, now he knows that anything he looks at is sure, everywhere there can be a trap for him, everything is going to stop his journey. He's running upon the forest to the research of cavern the magic sword. A strange noise is hearing, something strange like a suffered breath is hearing, Dirk stops, the noise is changing to voice, the fog changing to three different banshees...

Three voices are talking, and the banshees are getting around Dirk: - "Wheeeeheheheeee, we are the three banshees of the forest, you are our property, you are our wood... wheheheheeee, you cannot escape, DIRK, iahahahaaaaa" After trying the sword, Dirk realizes that he must run quickly and find out where the forest ends, the three banshees are throwing magic spells to Dirk, that frenetically runs away... the banshees are everywhere, they suddenly appears in front of Dirk, so he must switch beetween trees to avoid the tree's mutation. Dirk incredibly escapes from the clutches of these fool banshees, he's out of the forest, continnues his run...

The sky is dark cloudy, something like a storm is moving cloud by cloud. The storms is coming near Dirk and tries to hit him, but with a fast jump backward Dirk is able to avoid it.

The storm creates a mirror placed in front of Dirk. Dirk reflects his image on the mirror, after that his reflection takes life and jumps out to fight him (of course, Dirk's image is zombie-like). 

 

 After two shots, Dirk kills his alter-ego. He turns right to restart his run, backward the Zombie resurrects (as Dirk does) and laughs... Dirk gets both surprised and furious at the same time.

 

 - "Hmmpf.... I have no time to play, sorry guy.... HAAAAAAA". Running fast Dirk avoids a slash, steals the sword of the zombie and takes his legs. Like a wrestling action, Dirk throws the zombie into the mirror then breakes the image with an hard sword slash. Dirk is becoming even more angry, the place is kinda changing him: - "What strange! I didn't believe i could do this...". An other way to become one of the dark creatures of the castle is to abandon the soul to basic istincts, he will also have to pay attention to his actions and keep his soul as much pure as possible.

 Dirk is finally in front of the cavern, this place looks like an old abandoned magician cavern, everything is quiet, there is a lot of mess inside it. There is a sign, Dirk reads: "PAY ATTENTION TO THE MAGICAL ALARM", after reading the sign he turns right and watches an arch with an arrow that is pointing to him, the arrow tries to kill Dirk, but with a fast move Dirk avoids it.

After the arrow all the items of the cavern start to move and attack Dirk, last of them a great flaming sword. The sword moves elegant but really fast, Dirk escapes from the various slashes of the sword until he is in front of it, a moment for studying the enemy then the sword attacks, Dirk lets his body fall on earth and fastly takes the sword, that is reluctant to its new master... It moves frenetically in Dirk's hands, until he finds a rock and hits the sword with it, the sword moves for the last time, than fells in Dirk's hands: " Now to the castle"... the place is safe, so Dirk picks up some useful magic spells and items that will help him continue his journey...

 

The Castle