Perspective of Ranter

I'm going to upload some pictures of Ranter.

Now, Ranter is obviously a fictional character raised by anime and vidyagames, so I'll be uploading graphics. I'm fucking horrible at graphic design, so I didn't do much work of this stuff myself, and it looks fucking awful for the most part, because I felt it necessary to get rid of the background on the program that did it for me, and I did a shitty job of it because I don't have the attention span to photoshop properly like the computer technology classes in high school taught me. Regardless, I went ahead over to a certain Anime Character Creator that I found on the intranets that I won't be linking because I can't be bothered to do that either. Seriously, I'm obviously not going places with this whole blogging thing, so why put fourth the effort? Regardless, I have 2 pictures of Ranter. He is standing in the exact same position in each picture, and I forgot to make the vital logo fix on his shirt that his shirt has in the first one because I forgot. Derp.

So, without further ado, I present to you, King Ranter Blackfire.

I forgot the logo on his shirt, like I said. He's a pretty simple character, and I had to work a little bit to get his eye color the right shade of dark grey. (I pressed random a couple times until I got the right non-standard color and then changed the eye type without changing the color, it was pretty straight-forward.) This is him in his standard form, his actual form, and he's not very hard to imagine. Chrono looks the same except his clothes are grey and his hair is brown. Thomas looks the same except his clothes are red except for the black stripes that go from the under part of his sleeves and down the sides of his shirt. The stripes also go down the sides of his pants, since it's sort of a uniform sort of thing. Also, Thomas' symbol is black. It's the same shape, even though I described it as different in the first chapter of the prototype book thing, but I changed my mind. Zinc does not look the same at all.

The second upcoming picture shows what Ranter looks like using the quills catalyst. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. It's one of his more useless catalysts, actually, but it allows for spinning in a ball more efficiently and using this technique as a weapon (because he can curl into a ball normally, because of a thing that happened, but this catalyst makes it easier, more efficient, and gives him some powers while in it.) So, without further ado, again, I'll show you a very similar picture of Ranter but with his quills catalyst spawned.

Don't mind the tallness of this image's canvas. I meant to fix it, I really did, but I can't be bothered. Anyways, as you can see, this picture is just Sonic the Hedgehog's middle quill in one image I pulled off the Sonic News Network, and I shooped it black and stuck it all over Ranter's back and head. That's basically what this is. I think this looks way more awesome, but for personal legitimacy reasons, I can't bring myself to make this a permanent change, so it stays as a catalyst. If I made it permanent, the Dragon Wings catalyst would be awkward to imagine, anything with a tail would be kind of weird, and he couldn't wear anything other than that suit which allows the catalysts to pass through it. Oh, also, this picture has the logo on it. And the shirt is usually more black than this.

I would seriously like to get a fucking artist in this bitch to help me with the pictures of Ranter and other characters. I'll make other characters here and there though, I have a challenge for the readers later on to help me with character development. Not that I have any readers.

KingRanter

Personal Insight: Sonic Colors

So, a few days ago, I completely finished the Wii version of Sonic Colors. I didn't go for all the S ranks or anything, although I did get a few along the way, I got all the red rings hidden throughout the levels and I grabbed all the Chaos Emeralds from the Sonic Simulator levels you unlock from collecting said rings. So, let me start from the beginning and work my way up to there.

Don't worry, we'll get to these in a minute.

So, here's the deal. Sonic Colors is a great game. There's the DS version, and the Wii version, and they vary pretty significantly, but the plot is (almost) exactly the same. I'm not going to outline it for you too much, but there ARE going to be spoilers, like usual.

Since there are a DS version and a Wii version, there are obviously going to be big changes in the gameplay as well as the whole execution of the game itself. The Wii is much more powerful than the DS, obviously, and is capable of much better graphics etc. etc. etc. That's sort of beside the point. The point is, the Wii version has a combination of behind-the-back gameplay and side scrolling, the DS version is entirely side scrolling. But that's not really fair to say, because the DS version has special stages that are behind the back. I'll get on those later, though.

I'm only trolling a little...

The Wii version is much, much longer than the DS version. By a marveling degree. Each zone in Sonic Colors for Wii has 6 acts and a boss, except for the very final zone that has an act and then a boss and then half an act. Sonic Colors for DS has 2 acts per zone, 3 optional challenge stages featuring other characters in the cutscenes made of pictures and text, and a boss. The optional challenges aren't really worth playing in my opinion, because while they are in fact, challenging, they aren't very rewarding. I've only played a few, because I can't be bothered. There are also 2 final bosses. However, there are just as many zones as in the Wii version, obviously, so the DS game is MUCH shorter. I beat the DS version with all the chaos emeralds and beat the final boss in 2 days, and with not much more than a few hours worth of playtime. I don't know the exact number, but it wasn't nearly as big as the Wii version's was (which was actually 99:59:59 because I left the Wii on for a couple of days).

The two versions had some different wisps than the others (the wisps being the aliens you are rescuing and get super powers from.) The Wii had 8, and the DS had 6. I'm not going to get into those, though. That would be completely ridiculous.

I don't have a lot to say about this game, I would highly suggest buying it on either (or both) systems. Or, at least, give them a play through. What I really wanted to get to was the red rings, and the incredible prize afterwards (supposedly).

First of all, I would like to tell the world that I cheated. I used YouTube videos uploaded to show how exactly to get all the red rings. But, hey, I never would have gotten them by myself. There are fucking 180 of them.

I didn't get them on the DS version. You get the Chaos Emeralds differently in the DS version, and I hear the red rings don't dish out a very good prize in the DS version. If it's infinite boost, then it's not necessary because you practically have infinite boost in most of the levels anyways because of all the boost you get throughout the game whilst boosting. I did get all of them in the Wii version, because you need them to get the Goddamn Chaos Emeralds.

Thank you God for these precious gifts.

In the DS version, each zone has a special stage. You play the special stage by completing an act in that zone with 50 or more rings at the end. Just like the classic games. In the special stages, you control Sonic with the Stylus along a tubular ramp of sorts, collecting colored orbs/balls/testicles, whatever you want to call them. You take 3 laps: On the first lap, you need to collect red orbs. If you touch any yellow or blue orbs, you swat them away. You shouldn't do this because you need to collect those orbs on the next 2 laps. If you touch a spike ball, which there are fairly few of, you lose some orbs. You need to collect a certain minimal amount to pass to the next lap, and when you complete 3 laps with enough orbs each time, you get a Chaos Emerald. If you don't, you lose the special stage and you have to play an act over again with 50 rings to try again. I found out that you can restart the special stage at any time, and that includes the moment you realize your about to reach the finish line and you don't have enough fucking orbs oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit. If you restart there, there's no penalty. It's so much easier to do that, but I only did that once, because after I did it once, I didn't have to do it again because the special stages here are fucking easy as pie compared to past special stages.

OH GOD WHY!?!?!?

After you get all the chaos emeralds, you get an extra final boss that you fight as Super Sonic.

In the Wii version, when you get all the red rings and unlock all the Sonic Simulator levels, you have to play through them. There are 7 zones and 3 acts each. That's as much gameplay as the DS version has alone. You get one Chaos Emerald every time you finish a zone, and when you have all seven Chaos Emerald, you can go into the options menu and turn on the option to use Super Sonic. That's exactly what it sounds like. In the 3D levels, for the first time in 3D console history, Super Sonic is available during any stage of the game.

Which, in hindsight, is pretty terrifying.

Ironically, you can't fight any bosses as Super Sonic in this game. You don't even get an extra bonus boss for Super Sonic. It's so weird. But regardless, Super Sonic is totally worth it. Right?

Not... really...

See, here's the deal. Super Sonic is awesome because he's lightning fast, completely invincible, and can burn through levels like they're made of cardboard. Usually. Super Sonic in Sonic Colors is about the same speed as Sonic. He reaches top speed a lot faster, and he has infinite boost, and that's the change in speed. Infinite boost is nice, especially when it's combined with invincibility, but it's impractical when his jumps lose precision and most levels are riddled with traps to obliterate you for running fast in a Sonic game. There are other problems in the system, too. Turning on Super Sonic in the options sort of disables you a little when you aren't Super Sonic.

First of all, lots of levels, especially the earlier ones, don't have an immediate 50 rings waiting for you at the start of the level. So, when that happens, it might take a while before you can transform in the level you want to transform in. Sometimes it's impossible because there aren't even 50 rings in the level. These things aren't usually a problem when getting 50 rings doesn't suddenly seem necessary, but there's usually a way to get lots of rings in levels anyways. That's with wisps. Wisps let you access lots of places you normally can't as Sonic, and those places frequently have rings to make it extra rewarding for getting there at all. But guess what? YOu can't use them. You know why? When you get the 50th ring, there's a symbol depicting the 7 Chaos Emeralds where the wisp's ability symbol normally would be. So, you can't have a wisp and be able to have the Super Sonic option at the same time. That's why the Super Sonic option can even be toggled. If you want Super Sonic, you can't use ANY wisps. In fact, there are some levels where wisps are necessary to finish the level, and they have to be altered slightly so you can return without having to use Super Sonic (in case you don't have the rings to transform) and without using wisps. So, there's a lack of rings, it's hard to get as much Super Sonic out of a level as you want. Basically, it's hardly worth the trouble. Most of my readers know me personally, so let me make this shout out: If you want to try out Super Sonic on Sonic Colors, I'll be happy to show you. Don't waste your time buying Sonic Colors and doing it yourself.

But seriously, buy Sonic Colors. It's awesome.

KingRanter

Personal Insight - Kirby's Epic Yarn

Sorry in advance for the enormous pictures in this post, high resolution is inconvenient and I can't be bothered to fix it right now.

So here's the thing. I liked Kirby's Epic Yarn. it had a LOT of problems compared to other Kirby games, though. Personally, I really wish they released an actual Kirby game that wasn't trying to be Little Big Planet. I have my reasons for it, too. Kirby games had a lot of qualities that were completely obliterated by this game, and it is absolutely necessary that they don't make another game and slap an unrelated franchise's name on it.

Kirby had a lot of defining qualities that other games didn't have, or couldn't have. It was unbelievably different from other games in the sense that nothing else could have pulled off what Kirby pulled off. So, let me list some original things that were ripped from the heart of Kirby when he entered the Yarn filled world of his Epic Yarn.

Abilities

This is the first thing that punches you in the face. Kirby is completely unable to inhale fuck all. Technically, if this was true, everyone living in the yarn world (I forget if it has a name) would suffocate to death. Obviously, Yarn doesn't have to breathe, so I SUPPOSE I can let that pass. The story implies that when Kirby tries to inhale, the air passes right through him. Physically, there would be no change in air direction regardless of what he did. Without lungs (or whatever the fuck Kirby used in the first place) there is no change in air pressure, and therefore no air rushing towards the low pressure area. Air shouldn't be passing through him at any enhanced rate at all.

Now, forgetting all that, let's stick to what he is left with. He can shoot a string of yarn and grab onto whatever to do whatever with. Depending on what he does with it, the yarn will do different things, usually pulling. Here's where shit gets weird

When you grab an enemy with your yarn, you do one of two things. If you hold the button, they turn into a ball of yarn. Simple enough. Then you hold them above your head and you can throw them at whatever. Kind of like other Kirby games right? Since you don't have copy abilities, you can just throw balls of yarn. Oh, the second thing is that if you just tab the button, you grab onto the enemy and rip them to shreds with your yarn lasso. That's what happens. Holy shit. Kirby games have never been so ruthless. Other Kirby games never let you see you digesting your enemies into stars. Yarn or no yarn, if you did something like that in real life, you're leaving a bloody mess on the floor.

Now, while we're on the topic of abilities, let's get a little more specific...

Mobility

Kirby hates you for this, Nintendo. Kirby's inhalation of air did more than just let him eat fucking everything, it let him fly. Now, he can't. He can, however, turn into a parachute. The working physics of a parachute is that it's large surface area pushes against the air on it's way down, thus slowing the fall significantly. What the fuck is going on here?

Some other things that you can do are turn into a car, a yo-yo, a top, and a tiny tank. If you get to a point in a level where you are required to turn into something more complicated that you can't transform into on a regular basis. Some of these things are a UFO, a dolphin, a snowboarding penguin or a giant tank.

I don't have a problem with many of these, but they are all very limited use. None of these things can be used wherever the hell you want with the exception of the car because it's just dashing but for lazy Kirby when he doesn't want to take the bus, and the occasional turning into a weight and apparently getting heavy as hell despite being made of the same yarn. Therefore, unless you're in a place where you are required to use it to get something/somewhere, you can't use it. It seems pretty useless most of the time. But here's something that's even more useless...

Scoring

Lots of games with stages and worlds have decided to score you on your performance, D usually being the lowest (Sometimes E) and S usually being the highest. It's a pretty familiar system by now, and it usually incorporates a variety of things. Sonic games usually base it on how fast you ran through the level, Mario games usually base it on score alone, but what can Kirby do? Kirby doesn't have anything that can support a functioning scoring system because of all the things you can do and all the different ways you can do it. Kirby games are so limitless that there is no plausible way to score the levels you play.

Oh wait.

Kirby's Epic Yarn introduces Beads. You need to collect lots of beads to get a good score in the level. It's completely useless to bother, but it's something you might as well do along the way, otherwise the game gets boring as hell. There are several uses for the beads, none of which are very original. You use beads outside of the levels as currency to buy more useless shit like furniture for your house that has nothing to do with anything and does nothing but look pretty while you sit around in your Yarny house not playing any levels. To bead collecting challenging, every time Kirby gets hit, you lose a shitton of beads. You can recollect them if their within reach before they disappear, and if they don't fall down into a pit. Oh, but don't fall into a pit yourself because then an angel appears and as it carries you out of the pit, you shit out all of your fucking beads and they usually all fall back into the pit, forever unreachable. Oh, and don't think that taking a hit with no beads kills you...

Challenge

Having a challenge in a video game is necessary for fun. It's not necessarily original in anyway at all, but Kirby's Epic Yarn completely erased any challenge it could have had. You can't die in this game. When you lose all your beads and take a hit, you're fine. It doesn't matter what happens, you're perfectly safe at all times. You don't have a health meter, and getting hit makes you flinch and lose your beads. Don't have any beads? Ok, let's just take out that last part until you get some beads to lose. This makes boss fights extremely easy, and boss fights that you can't figure out (if for some reason you can't figure it out) long and obnoxious. Scrambling around to collect your beads is a definite distraction, but what else is there for you to do? Nothing is out to get you for anything more than making you poor.

The final boss was disappointing. It wasn't long enough, and there was no challenge. The biggest problem you could have had was landing hits, and when you get to the last phase, it's just stupid easy. It's not necessary to make you completely invincible in a video game even if it is directed at children. Invincibility for the sake of not wanting kids to lose and have fits should be left for games like Disney Princesses and shit like that, which aren't all that legitimate. Speaking of being illegitimate...

Legitimacy

Kirby games have some noticeable patterns to them. There's always a Wispy Woods clone, even Epic Yarn stuck with that idea. There was, however, one very disappointing boss battle that I was looking forward to.

Meta Knight battles always allow Kirby to use a Sword. That's because Meta Knight is Chivalrous, and because sword fights are awesome. Of course, Kirby's Epic Yarn did not include a sword fight because there is no sword ability, and Nintendo felt it unnecessary to make a special exception for this particular part of the game. Instead, it was filled with Meta Knight throwing fireballs at Kirby from his sword, and getting them thrown back at him, never realizing that if he stopped throwing fireballs, he would be Goddamn invincible. He says later that he was sorry and that the Yarn had made him evil or something because he needed an excuse for not knitting a Yarn sword for Kirby when he made his own. What a douche.

That's really all there is to it. Now, I'm not saying that Kirby's Epic Yarn was a bad game. It was a good game. Not the best game I've ever played, and it was pretty short and didn't have a lot to it, but it was alright. You have to take into consideration what the market is for games when you think about how good/bad it is, so for a kid's game, it was decent. Compared to other Kirby games, however, it was awful. If they just went ahead and tried again on that game that was supposed to be for the Gamecube that got delayed repeatedly and then cancelled, I imagine that people would be much happier with the result. I know I would have been.

KingRanter

Blackfire Summary Pt. GTFO OF HERE

So, Jesus Christ, I'm not doing plot updates anymore. The first one should have covered way more shit, and even then, I change the rules frequently so they make more sense TO ME. Personally, I don't think about those old stories anymore, and trying to make a beginning to something that has a middle and has no planned end is confusing as hell to do. I've already changed a lot of the rules from the first summary, and I'm not going to get into what those are for obvious reasons.

So here's where we stand. Forget everything I've written plot-wise, and forget a bunch of the stuff I wrote about their powers etc. Also, while I don't plan to delete it, disregard the previous post as well, it was way too fucking general anyway. Instead, if I get th urge to write about King Ranter's adventures in my imagination, I'm going to go ahead and just do a fight or something, maybe with simple backstory. I can't be bothered to write up a fucking book if I have no inspiration to recreate old plots that are now essentially expired. A lot of it still holds water right now, but every so often I remember something I had thought up and that it doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense in the current run of things. So I change it. It's not bothering anyone else, so who fucking cares? Thats's basically my mindset for it.

I still plan to write up some new chapters, but nothing will necessarily be in chronological order. The only thing that seems to hold true are the names of the characters and what they do, but not HOW they do it or in what way or whatever. Therefore, in any new chapters I make, remember that they are not linked together with the exception of things that I want to reuse because I think they are fucking awesome. That being said, as you read, if something doesn't make sense from something I wrote in the last post, disregard what I had written in the last post. That's srs bsns everybody, because I don't plan to fix shit up so it makes sense ever again, that's the whole reason this idea is going to hell in the first place. And that being said...

I will be taking requests. If someone has a request, I am significantly more likely to actually write a story because I will have something to write about. And I will take any request as long as I find it interesting and understand it remotely. I'm serious about that. See, I do a lot of cameos in Gyronia. Ranter's been doing a lot of running with Sonic the Hedgehog int he past year, I tell you. I highly encourage requests with or without cameos of fictional or non-fictional characters, because God only knows exactly how long I could go without making a post. Everyone who has read this blog knows that I can go a long Goddamn time. I just don't like to, so keep that in mind.

KingRanter

Blackfire Summary Pt. 2 - Zondilin Power

• I'm going to try Chrono's, Rex's, and Ranter's power evolution is somewhat chronological order as well, along with other things in other parts.

Chrono is his own life signature (a life signature being like the soul of a zondilin which I will explain later), but he himself is composed of the life signatures of Ranter and Rex. Because of that, and because the relation of Ranter and Rex is exponential rather than just putting them together, Chrono is significantly more powerful than Ranter and Rex fighting together, and in a what-if scenario, Chrono would be able to defeat both Ranter and Rex effortlessly while they both fought at full strength.

Chrono's fighting style doesn't change significantly throughout the story. Aside from becoming more brutal and ruthless while fighting, he has very little change in weapon choice and in general fighting style. He often fights hand-to-hand, sometimes using a sword, and later on using a giant axe. The only energy attacks he uses are fairly straightforward, such as launching energy from his hands in beams or spheres. For his hand-to-hand combat, he begins by often using quick punches and kicks to keep his enemy immobile, or with hard hits that send the opponent flying and quickly running, flying, or teleporting to intercept with another hit, and another and another, generally ending with one final hit into the ground. This is called a pursuit attack.

When Chrono splits into Ranter and Rex, they eventually learn how to recombine to create Chrono on command. This, however, doesn't happen for a very long time, and they have both long since become more powerful that Chrono was before the split. But when they recombine, all the power that Ranter and Rex have accumulated is given up to Chrono. This makes Chrono much more powerful than he was before, and many times more powerful that Ranter and Rex. Because of the power increase during Ranter and Rex's training, Chrono's muscle mass increases incredibly, which makes it even easier for him to move heavy objects like his opponents. After the recombine, Chrono becomes much more brutal and aggressive while fighting than before the recombine. Using a power that keeps his opponent intact while he fights them, much like the suit he wears, he can inflict as much punishment as he wishes before finishing the fight. This allows him to end fights without taking a life of someone who does not deserve death. This also allows him to torture his opponent relentlessly without accidentally killing them. Chrono, while using this power, ruthlessly attacks his opponent by using extremely hard punches and kicks without letting his opponent be sent flying. He also uses old tactics, such as the pursuit attacks, but much faster and with harder impacts. He can, now with his new muscle mass, grab opponents around both ankles with one hand, or by their tail if they have one, and swing them around as if they were weightless, smashing them into the ground or other things and throwing them as well.

Ranter and Rex fight very differently from Chrono, but very similarly to each other. Both of them fight expertly with hand-to-hand combat and sword play, gun play, and virtually any weapon imaginable from swords and axes to giant spoons. They can use an extremely wide variety of energy attacks, from the standards that Chrono uses to causing spontaneous energy explosions anywhere within a large radius, firing beams of energy from different parts on his body in many different directions, warping time so he can move faster while everyone else is slow motion, and many other abilities. Rex and Ranter can also both transform and do so often as to mix things up, an ability Chrono rarely likes to use. Transformations will be explained another time. Ranter and Rex normally fight similarly to Chrono before the first split.

Chrono, Ranter, and Rex all have very similar traits on the battlefield. All of them are able to run and fly at incredible speeds, and eventually are able to use enough energy to move faster than the speed of light while maintaining a functioning perception of oncoming obstacles. They can also teleport long distances around Gyronia, but this uses a large amount of energy as well as understanding exactly where they are going to arrive. They can teleport short distances for things like pursuit attacks or simply teleporting out of the way of attacks. They can all transform, but their transformations are often specific to their own selves, but some of them have similar transformations and some transformations often go forgotten.

Another thing they all have in common is being able to accelerate energy much faster while angry. This has something to do with the fact that they don't force their self imposed limits as much so they can do more damage while angry, but they are actually more physically able to handle punishment as well as release energy in their attacks. This is what adrenaline actually does without the clouded mind and irrational thinking to quite the same degree. This is a fairly common ability among zondilins because their fighting ability is often impacted by their mood if various ways, but not all are yet known.

That was a pretty vague summary and I left a lot of stuff out. I'm sure I left some stuff out accidentally as well, so I might have to include that elsewhere if there is anything. I'll have summaries on transformations, weapons, Zinc and his inventions, and maybe a few other things if I come up with more. I'm sure I will.

KingRanter

Blackfire Summary Pt. 1 - Unravelling Chrono

So I decided a good name for the story. Blackfire. Seems pretty appropriate to me. I won't be able to pull this summary out of my ass in one sitting, as fun as that would be, and I can guarantee that there will be a lot of changes from the original story that I actually wrote, making a lot of that shit totally null. Keep up if you like, but I don't plan to actually go and rewrite the other chapters and I probably won't be editing them. If I ever decide to write a story to be published, I'm going to focus on one plot and have a planned ending. This blogging mess, however, will have final ending, I can just about guarantee that. Now, I'm going to start again in chronological order starting with some of Chrono's own shit, and work into the Ranter segment which is one hell of a lot bigger than Chrono's.

Chrono is a warrior of a race of super-humans called "zondilins" who just happens to have an incredible gift of power compared to the others of his race. The story would be less interesting if he didn't, and would be less fun to fantasize about as well. He has a dragon named Cronco who is of the Guardian Dragon race of dragons. These dragons walk on hind legs and are also humanoid, but are several times bigger than humans and stand only slightly leaned forward. They are very bulky, have two horns on their head that point straight back with the shape of their skull, and have a tail about half the length of their own body, and large wings. They also breathe fire, etc.

Chrono lived on a planet called Gyronia, which was closer to earth than mars, but unsee-able to humans. The planet itself was protected from the humans by a spirit demon god, Barcus, who took the form of a snake-like dragon, and had created a barrier around the planet to keep it from being destroyed by the power of the super human race that inhabited it.

Chrono began his career as a travelling monster hunter. Cronco flew Chrono all over the planet in search for people being attacked by giant monsters, swarms of small flying monsters, or armies of barbaric goblins or orcs attacking cities with less than competent defense systems. Chrono could move in and kill them all single handedly, or team up with Cronco and obliterate any threat to societies that existed on his planet. Chrono was a peace keeper who solved problems that could only be solved violently, and he did them better than any other man could.

Over time, he spends much of his time with his long-time friend Zinc, a zondilin who had focused his power towards his intelligence all his life. Zinc had a partner in science, Madius, and together they were able to invent many different sorts of gadgets and machines that none could have ever dreamed possible. Zinc proved to be a helpful ally in helping Chrono find where help was needed without wandering aimlessly around the planet, and he also was able to build simulators, robots and other machines to help Chrono train. He built a high-tech watch that would sync with Chrono's thoughts and could perform many different tasks designed by Zinc, which included a power inhibitor setting so Chrono could train under strained limits which gave him new limits to push so there would always be a challege. The challenge didn't last long, though, because Chrono didn't turn off the inhibitor during day to day life, and eventually got used to the burden, and in a short time achieved a state of power under the inhibitor that was greater than that of what he had when uninhibited before. Zinc had also designed light battle uniform that kept him from getting injured or killed while in battle by keeping his body completely intact under nearly all circumstances.

Word of Chrono's actions got out, and people began asking him to do personal jobs for them. After all, there were people out there that needed to be assassinated, wars that needed to be won single handedly, and bullies that needed a taste of their own medicine. But Chrono wasn't interested in that sort of work, and he rarely took up any offers made. However, he did take up work to keep zondilin threats at bay. Some were more threatening than others, and one stood out greatly.

Rumors spread that the King of Gyronia himself had been summoning many of the monsters that roamed the planet causing chaos in the cities that Chrono was protecting. When Chrono found out about this, he decided to kill the King.

Kingship in Gyronia was very systematic. The original King of Gyronia was dubbed by Barcus, and any man who chose to become King had to slay the current King in battle. This way, the King would only be replaced by a more powerful warrior. The King was kept alive by the blessings of Barcus, who protected the King from disease and natural disasters and cleansed his mind of any potential thoughts of suicide. Barcus also protected the King from accidents and assassination. The death of a Gyronian King was impossible.

Chrono trained to battle the King and slay him in order to become King himself and keep the planet safe on his own. During his training, Chrono found it easiest not to try too hard while training, so he could limit himself purposefully. This way, he could teach himself self-discipline and keep improving himself. The inhibitor Zinc gave him was limited due to the fact that should too much of his energy be unused, Chrono might not have enough energy to breathe, or allow his heart to beat. He needed energy to live, so Zinc made sure that the inhibitor could not work lower than 20%. But 20% still allowed Chrono to weild an immense amount of power, so Chrono held onto self-imposed limits and chose to never go all out during training, which was a rule that ended up carrying over fighting outside of training.

Chrono and Zinc agreed that he should turn down his inhibitor to at least 50% so he can use more of his power in the battle against the King just in case Chrono didn't understand what he was getting himself into. However, going into the battle with the King, Chrono forgot to turn down his inhibitor which left him only at 20% maximum power during his fateful fight. The King did not want to fight because he did not want more people to die by his hand, but Chrono insisted his challenge be met anyway. Despite Chrono's power inhibitor, the fight was fairly short, and Chrono came out on top as the new King of Gyronia.

Nightmares

I had a screwed up nightmare last night, and it woke me up this morning. Nightmares, for me, are rare, but I enjoy them. They make me remember my sanity. I don't really feel like writing about it, but I did explain it to one of my friends on msn, so I'm just going to laze about and post what I wrote to him, minus his comments. Please note that I write pretty casually on msn, etc, so it's not going to be as grammar powerful as usual. It's probably still readable.

So there I was

a blue cartoon bear wearing a red and brown horizontal striped t-shirt, blue denim shorts, white gloves and no shoes

(yeah.)

and I was running along

in this weird, warped cartoony place

all the doorways were curved sideways, along with the doors

because it's cartoons

and it's in some sort of mostly bright colored house thing

and There are three people there

All female

only saw the face of one

that was Alice from Disney's Alice in Wonderland

for some raisin

and then the other two were some stupid brown haired girl wearing orphan clothes or some shit

and someone wearing a black and green sumbraro or whatever, with a green feather in it, and a black and green dress

the latter two were very short

They were in a rectangular room with a little jet out at the end of the wall, and none of them were facing each other

basically what happened was Alice and orphan were standing back to back, about half the room's length from each other, and sunbraroe the mexican was standing facing the wall in the jet out

after few seconds, they all ran and switched places

then they did it again after some more seconds

then, after some more seconds, they did it again but one of them left the room instead of going into the jet out

then every time they switched places, they would proceed farther into the house

so I took a box out and pushed a button on it

remember, I'm a bear

and I pressed the button

and an anvil fell on Alice's head

And she kinda sqiushed a little, and the anvil fell off her head

and then she went back to normal as she was switching places with people

as if made of rubber

I did this for a while to the different people, with different results

a couple times I dropped a grand piano instead, which crashed onto the person but all that happened was the grand piano broke where it crashed into the person, and then disappeared

and sometimes the anvil would land on someone's head and squish them all the way to the ground, but they would still recover

so basically, they were invincible

and sometimes they would say something, like uh

"Don't you wish you know what we were feeling inside?"

as if I was hurting their feelings by dropping anvils on them

and shit like that, I forget most of it

they didn't say much

anyways, then in the dream, I woke up

I was me again

I walked outside, I was in toontown central, which is basically a big park with a pond in the middle and some stuff like shops and whatever

it's from the game Toontown Online

typical mmorpg stuff, but it's kids themed

so I was like

"Let's go to Goofy's Gag Shop!"

which is the weapon shop, btw

there was no one else in toontown central, btw

it's a huge ass place, but it was empty

then I was going to Goofy's Gag shop, and I saw a familiar username (?) and it was "Superstar" which I recognized as the orphan

but I didn't realize it right away

and then in the corner of my eye I saw a purple cartoon duck running and wearing an orange shirt and yellow shorts

but I was already going into goofy's gag shop

which, when I got inside, turned out to be my house

and I walked into the house

and I was bothered by that Superstar thing

so I was like

"Wasn't that the name of that girl?"

and then I went into the kitchen

and I saw Alice and the orphan standing back to back in my kitchen

and I woke up sort of screaming, but it was more like a "Nnngghhuuuhh..."

like, I was just making a noise, and it was pretty quiet

and I didn't even open my eyes when I woke up and I realized that I was awake for real and making a weird noise, so I stopped

I also noticed I was lying on my back, which is strange because I never sleep on my back because it's not comfortable

so I probably had a fucked up dream from lying on my back in my sleep

And thats pretty much how it went down. I hope you enjoyed reading a much more informally written blog post. Don't expect many more.

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Twitter Time

I got Twitter. You can find my feed here, but it isn't going to be extremely eventful. I'm just using it so I can follow my friend Bleskie who is moving to Ottawa and has decided to "rediscover twitter as a tool." I figure that if he's gonna be gone, I'll be able to talk to on msn like usual, but I won't be able to see him much anymore. He was my friend since Kindergarten, and I'm gonna miss the big guy/tall and skinny guy.

I don't plan to use Twitter much myself. I barely ever use the Facebook status updates at all in the first place, and this is basically that, so I don't see myself using this, but I figure I'll post whenever I have a new blog post or something. Maybe this will increase my interest in writing or something.

Not much else to say about that. On a different note, I'm not going to stop writing King Ranter's story. At least, the story aspect. I'm still somewhat interested in writing more about it, but I'm going to post a story summary instead so I can just write about whatever is going on currently. Making a story out of it won't keep going, so the plot aspect is going to be fairly shallow. However, the plot summary is probably going to be a big post because there are a LOT of aspects, and it's probably going to be written in sections, or at least categories within the post. We'll see when we get there.

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Hedgehogs

So yeah, hedgehogs. They're fucking adorable.

I've recently, and by recently I mean today, become somewhat infatuated with hedgehogs. And I mean the real ones, not the video game ones that I have also been a fan of for a few months now I think. I wouldn't buy one while I'm still living at home because, well, I wouldn't have room for it's cage or anything. Also, no one would want me to have it at the house because they would be like "Hedgehogs!? Do not want!" Well, not really. I talk like that, not them. Also, Hedgehogs are fairly expensive. apparently, they can range between $130-$150 in the US, but I think that might include the cage and shit. I mean, the cage, and the shit comes with the food you buy.

Look at his little feets!

Anyways, yeah. >_>

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1 Month Later

Gawd, I am one lazy bastard.

I haven't been feeling much inspiration for writing anything lately. A couple weeks ago I had starting writing the next chapter of King Ranter's story (which I need to think of a real title for) but I wasn't feeling it. I kept doubling back to make edits, and I got about halfway through before I had to stop. Looking at it now, it's absolutely fucking awful, and I need to rewrite it if I plan to continue. The flashback chapter is definitely dragging on too long for me and I wish I could wrap it up, so I might actually cut out the fight scene there and see if I could possibly start writing whatever the fuck I want. There's a LOT of stuff that I've come up with recently that I'd like to write about, but I've not really felt like getting on with the story as is.

I wasn't initially going to release this information directly on the blog, but I don't think anything's going to get done about it anyways. I want to start a webcomic around some of the characters in King Ranter's story. I wouldn't plan to compete with other official webcomics out there, and this would sort of just be an addition to the blog. I would still have chapters of the story and rants here and there, stuff like that, but I think a webcomic would be fun. Here's the problem.

I can't draw worth shit.

If I wanted to start a webcomic, I would need (NEED) a fucking artist. I have concept art for the characters I want incorporated, but it's not really concept art as much as it is stick figure versions of the characters with hair and a general clothes design. None of it is drawn well, and I wouldn't mind so much if I could actually draw those characters out into different positions with ease. If I could, I wouldn't need an artist. But I can't, so I do. I am opening this job to anyone. As long as you can computer draw and as long as you are reliable enough to draw shit up for me when I need it (and it won't be daily or anything, or even scheduled,) then you've got the job. It wouldn't be a paying job, mind you, but maybe you'll find it fun, too. Seriously, a long as you can sort of draw, even if you're not that good, you could probably pull it off better than me. I wouldn't be able to make myself do it without it looking really good as far as stick figures go, and it would take me a VERY LONG TIME to do that. And I don't have lots of time.

Don't expect posts too soon or anything. This is just so my readers know the place isn't closed down, it's just bored. Not that there are many readers or anything.

KingRanter

PS. The blog's got a new look that I designed. Hope you like it.

Last Day of Classes

Today was the last (full) day of classes at my high school. I graduated, so tomorrow there's a half day and then I have an English exam. Then I leave the school and never return. Today, to celebrate, I took my friends (most of them) to KFC. It was me, Josh, Victor, Ryan, Bleskie and Chris. This is a story of ungodly win, so I'm not being careful to avoid names this time.

We all walked down at lunch to KFC for the Thursday special (10 pieces of chicken and a medium fry for $12. Awesome.) I asked if anyone wanted a drink. Bleskie wanted a diet pepsi and no one else really needed anything except for Chris, who opted out of making me pay for his food and bought his own food but managed to give me 75 cents somehow. Also Ryan had gave me $4, but I gave him back 1 because I didn't think he needed to pay 1/3 of the whole meal price since there were 6 of us. Anyway, I bought the chicken and the drinks, and wit the taxes for all of that it didn't even add up to $20 so I was happy. Then I get the food and I sit down with my comrades. During the meal, I ate 3, Ryan ate 3, Bleskie ate 3, and Josh ate 1. Chris ate his own food, and Victor said he wasn't a "fried guy" or something like that. I wouldn't want to be fried either, so I don't blame him, but I still don't know why he didn't want the chicken. Oh well.

Then these 4 douchebags are sitting at a nearby table, apparently at some point one of them threw a bottlecap, but I didn't see it otherwise I probably would have told them off myself. But instead, the following took place: One of those guys goes up to Josh, who is talking to Victor about Magic the Gathering and looking through his deck I guess, and this guy goes right up in Josh's face and says "What game are you playin'?"

So Josh doesn't say anything, but he just sort of laughs, grabs his chicken bone and tries to shove it in the guy's face. This guy backs off, think's it's kinda funny, and somehow this translated to Bleskie standing up and starting a rant at them. Ryan seemed to be getting nervous, to me, anyway, and he was telling Bleskie to "cool it" and "calm down" and "leave it be" etc. I told Ryan to stop whining because there were 6 of us and 4 of them, we were all bigger (and smarter) than them, and me and Ryan had karate experience (and that also Victor is Asian). Somehow, they ragefit and leave the restaurant (if they got kicked out, I was probably talking to Ryan during.) Then Bleskie calls out to them and re-earned my respect for him several times over in one sentence.

"My family owns a stable, give us a call if you ever want to go on a date!"

It was more win than I ever experienced. That line could not have been executed more perfectly, and then Chris took it upon himself to try to come up with something better than what Bleskie said, but he could not. On our way back to the school, Bleskie told every one that if they saw those douches (as he described them) to call them gigantic faggots. It was pretty awesome.

Apparently, one of those guys was in Ryan's drama class. He apologized to Ryan for his idiot friend. Everything was so perfect. Just like the rest of my day, which ended with Dairy Queen.

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King Ranter: Chapter 2-7 - Lawful Treason

Chrono burst into Zinc's lab triumphantly, "I'm King, bitches!" he cried out. Zinc was sitting in his lab patiently waiting for him. He chuckled.

"Of course you are," Zinc said, "Not that it'll matter for long."

"Naw, but at least that phase is over," replied Chrono.

"Ready to tear down the Kingdom of Gyronia?" Zinc prompted.

"Damn right, I am. Let's recap the plan and then I'll head out."

"Alright, then, here's the deal," Zinc began, "To tear down the Kingdom, we have to eliminate the King, who is now you. If you are killed, the killer will become King, but you can only be killed by intentional means, no disease or natural occurrence can kill you. Until you are slain, you are immortal. However, if we can split you back up into Ranter and Thomas, there will be no actual King, neither of you will be immortal, and if even just one of you dies by any means, Barcus will let the castle drop into the planet and it will be destroyed. No one will be able to take it's throne, no one will be King, and there will be no more tyranny. Got it?"

"Got it," Chrono said, "But I do need to know how I was doing that. What have you got for me?"

"It's pretty straight forward, you just have to break open your Diamond Key."

"Diamond Key? First I've heard of this, tell me more."

"Your Diamond Key is just a diamond, but it normally takes on a spiritual form. You can call it with summoning magic, you should be able to pull that off no problem, and then all you have to do is release power out of it like you would out of yourself. Before you get any stray ideas, you will never be able push out enough energy to break it willy-nilly."

"Can't I just turn off my power inhibitor?" asked Chrono.

"You're going to have to, but that won't be enough. You're going to have to get real pissed off."

"Oh, you mean because I can accelerate energy more efficiently when I've got rage, right?"

"Yeah, you got it, you know yourself just as well as I do. You're going to have to accelerate one hell of an energy load to break that key, so you can't do it content. The problem is, we won't necessarily find something to piss you off so easily."

"Something will come up. I'll just start looking for some more freelance shit to do until something pisses me off. Maybe I'll just go adventuring, even."

"Sounds like a good idea to me," said Zinc, "By the way, did you remember to turn your inhibitor back down?" asked Zinc.

"No, good call, I'll do that now." Chrono looked at his watch and checked his power inhibitor. He stopped in awe, staring at the numbers that he saw.

"Something the matter?" Zinc asked, concerned.

"I dunno, uhh..." Chrono stuttered. Zinc walked over to see what the problem was. He looked at Chrono's watch which read '20%.'

"No, you changed it back," reassured Zinc.

"No I didn't... Zinc, I didn't change it in the first place. I fought the King at 20% power."

Just as bad as I thought

I'm graduating today. Pretty sweet, eh? Yeah, it is. Winning two awards: Science and alumni. The alumni award is basically for being a good student. Look it up if you need to. Just as well, prom is next Friday. I've got two tickets, and I've got no date, and I think I've got someone expecting me to sell them my ticket, which is probably going to happen. But yeah, I've got no date, big damn surprise.

I've also got school work to worry about. Last couple of weeks and I've got to get some shit done for Tech, Computer science, and (not so much) English. Basically, my three classes. My computer recently crashed on me, and I had to reformat it. Luckily, I didn't lose that much that was important. But, whatever, I have a bit to complain about, and I think I might just kinda slump around till I lighten my load a little.

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King Ranter: Chapter 2-6 - The End of a Glorious Battle

Chrono woke up in a daze. He shook his head and looked down at the staff that had penetrated his torso only moments ago. He grasped it and tugged it, but it was stuck behind him. The staff had stuck into the wall and pinned Chrono. He grasped it with both hands, planted his feet on the floor, and pushed himself up, pulling the staff out of the wall. He took a minute to breath, and then he pulled the staff straight out of himself. There was not a drop of blood on the staff, and he had not bled a drop. In fact, his shirt was still in fine condition. He forgot about his super armor that Zinc designed.

He remembered where he was. He looked ahead and saw the struggling King crawling out of the crater he created in his collision. He looked pretty intact as well. 'He must have similar armor,' thought Chrono. "Hey, Fuckface!" he roared, "I'm still standing! What are you gonna do without your staff?"

The King looked up at Chrono with a look of absolute terror. Chrono glared at him, and started walking towards him. He snapped the staff in half in his two hands and tossed the pieces off to the side, and cracked his knuckles. The King stammered to his feet and grabbed for his staff that he didn't have. Chrono closed in on the King and grabbed him by the neck through his beard and lifted him up above the ground. He was shorter than he seemed. Chrono started crushing his neck. "Any last words, you son of a bitch?" asked Chrono sarcastically. The King choked.

Chrono swung the King over his head and smashed him into the ground behind him, cracking the coloured stone panels in the ground. Chrono leaped straight up, cranked his arm back, and came down with his fist straight into the King's gut, causing him to grunt loudly in pain. Chrono grabbed him by the shoulder and threw him at the distant wall. While the King was flying through the room, Chrono shot in his direction and axe-kicked the King in the back, changing his momentum to straight down with a face-plant, leaving yet another crater in the ground. Chrono landed valiantly next to the King, and faced him. Looking forward, he saw the throne straight across from him. Then he looked back down at the King and rolled him over with his foot. "Wake up, you coward," he said, "You don't have a weapon. It looks like I'm going to have to murder you with my bare hands." He waited to see what the King would do, but he lied there motionless, presumably pretending to be dead. "Except I can't," continued Chrono, "Because your armor is protecting you as mine is protecting me, so I'll have to do things a little differently than I had planned." He picked the King up by his cloak and put him on his feet. The King looked back at Chrono, still silent, and still terrified. "King of Gyronia," said Chrono, "This is the end of you. You have chosen to say nothing when I offered, and you will never say another word again. I would like to compliment you on your powerful techniques, but your choice of keeping peace on the battlefield has not aided you well, and that was your downfall. I will no longer allow Gyronia to be ruled by one man, and to do that, I must kill you here and now. You have done your job well."

With that, Chrono landed a powerful uppercut to the jaw of the King, lifting up high into the air. Chrono jumped up and met him in the air, brought his hand back in a claw and penetrated the King's chest. Chrono forced a current to flow through his arm, and the King began to get electrocuted while Chrono held him up in midair. After a few moments, Chrono ripped his hand out of the King's chest, leaving no blood behind because of his armor, and he started punching him in the chest repeatedly, back and forth with his two fists and incredible velocities while maintaining the King's position. The room around them started to grow dark again, and Chrono put his arms into an X-block, quickly charged up a large amount of energy inside the King's body, and released his arms, causing the energy to emit in every direction. The King's body exploded, his perfect armor destroyed along with it, and the King's remains splattered all over the walls of the throne room. Chrono floated in place for a moment before dropping down to his feet. He glared around the room. The splattered flesh and blood of the King, as well as his destroyed cloak started glowing brightly. They started spiraling around the room like a hurricane, but Chrono didn't flinch. He waited for them to slow, and they collected in the center of the room right in front of him. With one last flash of light, the cloak appeared before him, floating in the air. There was no one in it.

Chrono grabbed the cloak by the collar and it went limp, no longer floating. He sent it to hammer space and took a step into the center of the room and looked around. He telepathically carried the pieces of broken stone and repaired the throne room. No one could have known a battle took place here. Chrono crossed his arms and sighed. He chuckled a bit.

"King Chrono Blackfire. I like the sound of that."

King Ranter: Chapter 2-5 - A Fight for Glory

Chrono dashed forward and brought his sword down at the King, who raised his staff horizontally and blocked the strike. Chrono pushed against his staff while the King did nothing but hold him back. Chrono jumped back and returned with a backwards spinning strike, which was also blocked by the King. The King was successfully blocking all of Chrono's sword strikes, from the repetitive slashes back and forth that lead to a leaping overhead strike straight down, which the King was able to hold Chrono up above the ground with his block, to the many stabs and thrusts that the King managed to block with perfect precision by holding his staff in front of where the sword would stab. Chrono couldn't make any strategic attacks while the King was standing so close to his throne; the footing would be too uncomfortable and close to the wall for a decisive strike. Chrono jumped back and waited for the King to do something, as he hasn't done anything yet other than block.

"What the fuck are you doing?" cried Chrono, "Fight me, you bastard!"

"I don't want to fight," replied the King calmly, "You can fight if you must, but I will not."

"Fuck you," Chrono roared. He placed his sword on his back, where it remained as if sheathed, and cupped his hands near each other next to him. A bright white orb of light energy formed in his hands immediately, and he thrusted his arms forward, hands still cupped, releasing the energy in a beam aimed directly at the King's head. The King swiftly moved his staff in front of him, stopping the beam with the head of the staff. Chrono took the sword off his back and darted towards the King with a quick thrust, which he sidestepped easily to the right, and Chrono immediately spun around to his own right to slash the King on the way around. The King blocked the attack again and spun the staff around to strike Chrono to the head. Chrono slipped forward from his feet to dodge the attack and landed on his free hand, and he pushed himself straight up and spun around quickly, swinging his sword around at the King, who kept spinning his staff and held up up side down to block the many strikes. Chrono then flipped right side up in midair and swung his blade parallel to the King's staff at his head, but the King stepped back and narrowly dodged the tip of the blade, which ruffled the King's giant mustache. The King then jabbed the bottom end of his staff at Chrono as he landed, and Chrono deflected the staff downward with his free hand and held it on the ground for a moment, which was ample time to get off his feet again while balancing on his one hand which was now holding down the staff so he could roundhouse kick the King to the back of the head. The King, still holding onto the staff, wasn't able to dodge the kick without letting go, and he received the kick in full force to the side of the head, sending him flying into the nearby stone wall, crashing into it and landing on the ground.

Chrono stepped down onto his feet, still holding the staff in one hand and his sword in the other. The King pushed himself onto his feet painfully, but recollected himself quickly. Chrono tossed the King his staff and walked to the other side of the room backwards, as not to turn his back on his opponent. He readied himself in a low stance with his legs double-shoulder width apart, his right hand over his head holding his sword, which was pointed at the King, and his other arm extended forward, his hand open, ready to block any sneaky attacks. The King walked to the side of the room opposite Chrono and readied himself in the same feeble looking stance he had before.

They both darted at each other, swinging their weapons across at each other and clashing in the middle of the room. Chrono lifted his left leg and kicked the King square in the chest through his beard, and the King stumbled back and Chrono quickly swing his blade up at him, slashing the King in the ribs before he could collect himself again. Chrono took advantage of the King's injury and quickly barrel rolled around him and slashed him straight up his back, lifting him off the ground somewhat, which lead into Chrono levitating in the air and slashing and kicking the King in the back repetitively in the back while holding him floating in such a position with minor telepathy, and eventually breaking it with a double axe kick to both of his shoulders, causing the King to slam on his back on the ground, and Chrono brought his sword straight down, penetrating the King in the chest with the long blade. For good measure, Chrono twisted the blade ninety degrees quickly and forcefully, then pulled it out, and walked around his body to his feet and stood looking at his limp form lying on the ground.

Chrono almost felt proud of himself. It was an easier fight than he had imagined. He watched the corpse of the King lie on the ground, staff lying in his hand, his arms and legs outstretched and limp, like he fell into the snow to make a snow angel. Chrono sent his sword into hammerspace, causing it to turn into a bright light and disappear. He brought his right hand up and flicked his nose with his thumb, and then crossed his arms. He chuckled a bit, tapped his toes against the ground behind him, placed both feet firmly on the ground, and said, "Come on, you dumb shit, get up. I don't care if you don't want to fight, you don't have to be a big fucking baby about it."

At that moment, the King grasped the staff in his hand and sat up, completely unscathed. He helped himself up with his staff, and stood up with his staff at his side. "Why do you insist on fighting to the death?" he said sounding very concerned, "You win. You can be King."

"I know just as well as you that it doesn't work that way, old man," Chrono snarled, "We're doing this the right way, or I will murder you with my bare hands."

"I'm sick and tired of this," the King said wearily, "I don't want to kill anymore."

"I know you don't," said Chrono, "I get that. But you aren't going to, I guarantee it."

Chrono burst forward, thrusting his fist forward at the King's head. The King sidestepped and quickly smashed Chrono in the back with his staff, sending him into a face plant on the ground. Just as quickly as he went down, he pushed himself up towards the King with his arms, forcing both his legs at him. The King sidestepped that as well, and Chrono landed on his feet at the other side of the room. Chrono slid forward quickly with a roundhouse kick, which the King blocked with his staff, and Chrono started a flurry of kicks and punches, that the King blocked or sidestepped successfully without a single counterattack. Chrono stopped, still not understanding why the King was only defending himself and not retaliating at all. He knew he wouldn't get an answer, so he stood up straight, and called his sword back into his hand. He brought it over his head and then down at shoulder height, pointing it at the King, "I've had enough of this bullshit," he said. His sword glowed with a strange black aura that looked like it was sucking in light. He swung it back to his side, arm outstretched, and he darted towards the King with his sword again. Before the King got a chance to do anything, Chrono disappeared the room started to turn very dark, and he reappeared behind the King, and slashed him again in the back, then appeared suddenly across the room from beside the King, and he dashed in and slashed him in the side. Chrono kept warping around the room and advancing into the King and attacking and very high speeds, and very often, fast enough to make one think there were multiple instances of Chrono attacking at once. The King wasn't able to block any of these high speed strikes, and started paining quickly. While he was barely able to maintain a stance while being attacked, the head of his staff started glowing bright purple and the room exploded with the purple light. Chrono flew back against the back wall, and streams of purple steam-like light were coming out of the ground around the King. The colour of the room returned, but it still remained purple around the King, who had now returned to his stance with his staff held upright, still glowing.

"I've had enough of this bullshit myself," said the King angrily, and a blast of purple light energy burst out of the staff in a huge wave towards Chrono. Just barely able to react in time, Chrono pushed himself off the ground and darted out of the way of the tremendous wave, narrowly avoiding it's colossal power as it destroyed a large portion of the wall that was behind him. "This one won't miss," said the King viciously, as he readied another blast. Chrono tried to run around and behind the King, but he slammed straight into a wall of the King's magic energy. He looked around, seeing that he was cornered between the two walls of energy, and the King was still readying an attack. Chrono hesitated, took a step back nervously and put his arms up in an X-block in front of himself. The King forced a nearly instantaneous beam out at Chrono, who acted quickly. A green sphere of energy spawned around him, pushing through the walls of energy and shattering them like glass, and the beam of energy crashed into the sphere head on, stopping it in it's tracks. The King was still pushing out energy, but Chrono maintained his sphere shield and concentrated all of it's energy towards the point that the King's blast was trying to penetrate. He uncrossed his arms, and started collecting a swirling black and orange ball of energy in his hands while still maintaining his shield. The King was still pushing more and more energy out, making the concentrated energy pushing against Chrono's shield stronger and stronger exponentially, but Chrono was ready for it. Chrono dissipated his shield and blasted his own beam of energy forward, which collided perfectly against the King's already built up energy. There was a large shock wave from the collision, which shook the room violently and caused some pieces of the floor to break and some pieces of the ceiling to fall down around them. The two beams were pushing against each other forcefully, each one getting more and more powerful by the second, and neither barely moving between them. They pushed for several minutes, neither of them tiring out from all the energy they were consuming, and occasionally causing the room to shake again. But soon, Chrono grew impatient. He grunted angrily, pulled his arms back slightly while still pushing energy forward, the let out a roar and he pushed an even greater amount of energy into his beam, causing another violent shock wave. Now, his energy beam was started to approach the King, who started trying to push his own bursts of energy forward. Sadly for him, It only sped up Chrono's energy blast approaching the King's staff. As it neared closer and closer, Chrono could see in the King's eyes that he was terrified of his power. In the last moment of the clash, the King raised his staff pointing the bottom of the staff at Chrono while the energy beam began to enter the head of the staff, and as it did, the head violently exploded with pure energy, pushing everything around it away. The King flew back and smashed into the the wall behind him breaking it into a cave around him, and the staff itself broke from the head and flew towards Chrono. Chrono saw the pointed end of the staff careening towards him, and he stopped his energy beam flow to get out of the way, but he wasn't able to do it fast enough at the speed the staff was moving, and it penetrated Chrono's chest.

King Ranter: Chapter 2-4 - Storming the Castle

Chrono ran forward and put his fist through the head of a humanoid lizard - a lizard warrior, dressed in chest and shoulder plates and equipped with a shield and sword. There were two others in the entrance of the castle that saw this, and were almost too stunned to move. Chrono ripped his fist back out of the monster's head and it's body fell to the ground. Chrono quickly flashed over to one of the other lizards, gripped it's jaw and it's snout and ripped the bottom of his jaw out, swung his leg around and stomped on the back of the lizard's neck and ripped it's head off, and then whipped the bottom jaw at the other lizard, penetrating both the armor and his chest, killing him instantly. Chrono stepped into the middle of the room and looked at the bodies of the three warriors he disassembled so quickly. 'I hope this doesn't say anything about the King,' he thought.

Chrono stepped through another door, leading into an empty room. It was very, very tall, probably a magic-induced tower. Chrono took a few steps into the room while looking up at the blackness above. The room was so high that he couldn't see the end above. What he did see was a huge dragon plummeting down the tower. Chrono jumped back and the beast crashed onto the ground on it's feet and roared mightily at Chrono. It was brown with a plate on it's head that had many protruding horns. It stood on four legs, fairly low to the ground, but was still incredibly large compared to Chrono, who was probably the size of one of it's teeth. The dragon snarled at him, lowering it's huge wings. It took up almost the entirety of the diameter of the room, forcing it to curl it around next to it.

Chrono leaped at the dragon, who snapped at Chrono, but Chrono was far too quick. He jumped off it's nose and onto the back of it's neck behind it's plate. He grabbed onto some of the horns and broke them off, causing the dragon to roar in pain. Chrono jumped over the plate and stabbed the horns into it's eyes, and as quickly as the beast could react to the pain, Chrono stomped down on the broken end of one of the horns pushing it into it's skull, killing it mid-roar. Chrono looked around for another door, but there was only the one. He walked over to a wall, tapped it with his fist a few times, and he began running up the wall. The walls themselves were not very smooth, so he was able to make good footing while running straight up. Eventually, he found the top, which had a trap door that he smashed through without bothering to look for how to open it.

In the next room, there were four more lizard warriors, all with swords drawn. The room was perfectly round, so Chrono darted to one of the walls and started running around the perimeter of the room. The four lizard warriors turned around and stood back to back with each other to avoid being attacked from behind, and Chrono started running up the wall while still circling the perimeter. Quickly, he leaped off the wall and stopped in midair above the four warriors and immediately darted straight down in between the four forcing them apart slightly. There was a flash of light and a long, black sword appeared in Chrono's right hand which had pulled back across his chest, and he spun around while swinging the blade, cutting all four monsters in half below their rib cages. He had killed three of them, but one of them was struggling to survive. Chrono looked around the room and saw two doors, and he picked one instinctively and walked through it, leaving the barely alive warrior to bleed to death.

There was nothing in the next room, and it wasn't very tall. Chrono expected a trap to be in the floors or the walls, so he stomped hard on the floor and listened to the room shake, but he didn't hear anything in the walls. There were two more doors at the end of the rectangular room that were right next to each other. He opened the right room, and all he saw was a dead man hanging from a rope tied around his ankles, his hands about a foot from the floor. All of his flesh was torn away from his head to the center of his rib cage, and most of the flesh above that was rotting. The exposed bones looked like they were scratched up somewhat, but not broken. Chrono did not flinch at the sight of this, but only thought of the failures before him who came to the castle unprepared and unaware of what they were getting into. Chrono was different. Chrono had nothing to fear.

He closed the door, and opened the other one. This was the room he was looking for. He stepped into a very large, perfectly square room with ancient looking designs on the walls and on the floor, mostly made up of green and yellowish brown colours. At the other side of the room was a man who Chrono could barely take seriously at all. Sitting in a somewhat tall throne the same colours of the room was a very wide and short man which an incredibly large, white beard that managed to spread nearly as wide as his entire body, but still come to a point near his feet. He had a massive mutache to match, which spanned to almost twice the width of his body and was probably as thick as his head was tall. But he couldn't tell for sure, because his face was almost completely covered by his beard, mustache and hat. His had was massive, and was almost spherical sitting on his head. That and his robes, or at least what you could see of them, had a colour pattern of purple and gold - the colours of royalty. He had a gold staff as well that he held upright at the throne that had a purple orb on the top that was held in place by gold bars that wrapped around it. It didn't seem like it was detachable or anything. Chrono stepped into the room and pointed his sword at him.

"You the King?" Chrono demanded.

"You are quite the fighter, sir," said the King, "I am the King, but I am not looking for a fight that will leave another dead."

"That isn't up to you," Chrono said, "It's up to me: the next King of Gyronia!"

The King chuckled behind his beard, "What is your name, sonny? Why are you here to fight me? Have I not ruled well?"

"My name is Chrono Blackfire, and I don't give a damn about how you rule. I don't live in the society you rule in, but I'm taking over from here, old man!" The King didn't respond to that, "I know that you'll be a tough opponent," Chrono continued, "I didn't come here willy nilly, ready to fight any fight for any reason. If you won't draw your weapon, then I can put mine away and kill you with my bare hands right now."

"If that's how you want to do it, then," the King sighed. He lurched forward and stood up and gripped is staff tightly in both hands, "I'll let you make the first move, then."

"It's all the same to me," Chrono growled. He swung his sword over his head and and prepared himself for the hardest battle he's faced yet.

King Ranter: Chapter 2-3 - Off to the Castle

"Before you head off," said Zinc to Chrono, "I want to make sure you're in the right mindset."

"How could I not be? I only just got back."

"This is important. I'm going to explain all the equipment you're taking with you so it's all fresh in your head when you get there."

"I don't think that's necessary-"

"It is, please be patient with me. You need to utilize your equipment to the best of your abilities. First of all, your clothes are very important. They will protect you from all sorts of attacks; stabs, slashes, beatings, burns, you name it, you're protected. You'll still feel pain, not not as much, and both your clothes and your body will remain unbroken and unscathed. It also allows catalysts like your wings to pass through it without damaging it.

Then you've got your multi-use watch. You won't have much use for it, because you won't be able to use it as a weapon in the fight with the King otherwise he might fight dirty himself, and you won't be able to communicate with us from within the castle. Make sure, though, to turn down the watches power inhibitor when you get to the castle. Make sure you don't do it on your run there, otherwise you might get tired out."

"What should I turn it down to?" Replied Chrono, "It's always maxed out leaving me at 20% power. Should 50% be fine?"

"I was thinking more along the lines of 65% at least, you don't want to risk anything with that guy," replied Zinc, "This is less about a challenging opponent and and more about a fight to the death. I would suggest turning the inhibitor off if that didn't risk blowing up the whole damn castle. You don't know your own strength without it, after all."

"That's fair," agreed Chrono, "65% it is."

"Then there's your weapon," continued Zinc, "This will probably be a sword duel for the most part, but you don't want to bring out anything fancy. I would suggest calling your elementDark sword from Hammer Space, since he will probably just think it's a painted longsword or something, and I would also advise against using any weapon magic. If you need to do anything with magic, don't do anything too fancy, either. Energy blasts should be more than enough. Just as well, try and avoid using your sphere shield if you don't have to."

There was silence for a moment. Chrono waited a moment for Zinc to continue. He did not.

"So, that's it then?" Chrono asked, "Seems pretty simple to me, I think I can handle that. Where do I find the castle."

Zinc waited a moment before answering, "You're going to have to find it yourself," he said, "It can't be tracked, and no one who's ever seen it has left to tell about it, at least if they didn't move in to become King themselves."

There was silence for another moment. Chrono snorted, and Zinc continued, "I've heard rumors that it's farthest North that you can get on Gyronia."

"You mean, It's on top of the fucking planet? I've gotta run all the way up there?" Chrono waited for an answer, and Zinc nodded. Chrono thought about how they were right on the planet's equator. Then he snorted again, "Heh, no problem."

"I'm glad you feel that way," said Zinc smirking, "Your watch has a compass, you should find it no problem."

"I wouldn't doubt it for a second. Chrono BlackFire can do anything once he knows how." Chrono marched up to the door and kicked it open triumphantly and stepped outside. Zinc followed him out. "You gonna ride along in one of your mechs till I find it?"

"I know I'd only slow you down," he said confidently.

"Damn right you would," Chrono laughed, "I'll be back for a visit when I'm done."

With that, Chrono turned around and darted north, instantly out of Zinc's sight, leaving only a cloud of sand behind. Chrono ran across his planet, Gyronia, leaving everything behind him in a flash. He ran through forest, crashing through trees and sending tiny forest animals flying in the wind he created in his mighty dash. he ran up mountains and leaped from peak to peak. He jumped between the walls of buildings in the enormous cities as not to interfere with traffic, but occasionally jumped down to taunt the cars he left behind in his wake. He ran through grasslands that contained unnatural giant pillars of stone pushed out of the ground by geomancers through history, knocking over one occasionally for the thrill of destruction. His quick, light steps, as many as there were, left no footprints in the snowy winterlands that caused the endangerment of many animals that couldn't handle the climate. He ran until the ground below him began to fade. What was below him looked like spiraling flame and smoke that he had never seen before, but the ground he was running on still existed. It was as if it was invisible. Looking forward, he could see an immense, black castle in the distance. Massive black gates guarded it, but nothing Chrono couldn't leap over. But he didn't. Instead, he crashed through them like a bull, smashing them open like it was made of cardboard. He came to a quick stop at the doors of the castle, no bigger than any other double doors he's seen before, with little orange stained-glass windows that were there just for color. He took one small step back to examine the castle that towered over him. It looked to him like it might have been thousands of stories high, with many towers sprouting off of it, each with turrets at the top, and some with roofs. He looked around at the inferno that surrounded him. Fire spurting out all around the castle reflected off it's windows, but did not add much light to the castle itself, which seemed completely black and two-dimensional from the strange lighting.

Chrono was impressed by the castle, but no at all intimidated. flicked his nose sideways with his thumb, cracked his fisted knuckles, and kicked the door in.

King Ranter: Chapter 2-2 - Preparing for a Challenge

Chrono cracked his knuckles impatiently as he sat in Zinc's lab. Today, he was going to finish his training and prepare himself to challenge the King himself. Zinc was finishing up a machine that would pose as Chrono's final challenge. Or at least, he thought he was, but it was starting to feel like nothing was going on at all.

Suddenly, an old man walked into the lab from outside wearing a white lab coat, black boots, goggles on his forehead and white, frantic hair on the back of his head. The top of his head was totally bald. "Maddy! Is it done yet?" Chrono demanded.

"Yes, yes! But you should wait here a minute or two so I can tell you a bit about the training!" Maddy said, "Obviously, the King won't be as big as what we've built for you, but just as much, we want you to fight it just as you would fight the King. We suggest that you don't use any magic or weapons; just your hands and feet, you got that?"

"Rules are rules," Chrono said shrugging, "I'm bored back here, man, can we just go?"

"Alright, alright. Come, come." Maddy led Chrono outside and onto the dessert plains.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Chrono said looking around at the empty plains. "There's nothing out here! What the fuck were you guy's doing?"

"Now, now, no need to flip your shit," laughed Zinc, coming out from the back of the building, "It's underground. It'll come out when you run over it."

"Oh, I see, ambush training?" replied Chrono curiously.

"No. Just run in that direction," Zinc pointed down the dessert, "and it'll come up behind you. Just turn around and do your thing from that point, and we'll monitor from over here like usual."

"It's too bad we can't get one of those generated training rooms, this would be so much easier."

"We'll never have enough money to get one, you fool!" cried Maddy angrily, "You aren't bringing in enough money for something like that! It's far too much money! We would need an entire organization to-"

"Hey, Fuckhead," interrupted Chrono, "Shut the fuck up. Let's not have you wasting all of our Goddamn time with you bitching and complaining about all the fucking freelancer cash I bring it not being enough to run a giant war emulator in a small room, alright? Fuck."

Maddy backed off and Zinc touched something on his watch, "Whenever you're ready, you just take off like you usually do."

Chrono nodded and boosted off down the dessert, leaving the lab behind in a flash. Chrono ran for only a few seconds before he heard a very loud crash behind him, and he immediately turned around to see the giant mass of metal behind him. What he saw was a towering snake-like beast with a very wide base that, upright and seemingly only halfway out of the ground, was about twenty stories high. Giant tentacles came out of the sand as well, as if part of the giant robotic beast, and flailed around almost aimlessly. It's head was sharp with saw blades spinning down the back of it's head. Chrono jumped towards it's head immediately at the sight of it. He spun around once and punched it right in the bridge of it's snout straight down, which dented it severely. He proceeded to nail it with punches and kicks in different directions while levitating himself at it's head level; roundhouse kicks, axe kicks, back-fist punches, hammer-fist punches, forefist punches, and the like. The one of it's tentacles suddenly jabbed at Chrono, and he quickly pushed himself around the tentacle in the air and landed one final kick straight up into the robot's chin, sending it's head flying back. Chrono landed at it's base and leaped backwards to get another good look at it, and then darted around it to it's back while avoiding it's flailing tentacles. He jumped up and heel-kicked the side of two saw blades that were next to each other, bending them both and stopping their spinning, which resulted in the rest grinding against the bent ones and eventually stopping as well. The robot's body itself started flailing much more violently, and then the whole thing spun around to face Chrono, who jumped back to keep a safe distance. The beast raised it's head straight up slowly, and a light shone in it's mouth. Chrono shifted his stance and prepared for another leap forward. The robot swung it's head forward and emitted a bright blast out of it's mouth towards Chrono, who instantly jumped over the beam of light and towards the top of it's head. He pounced on it with both feet jumped straight up, forcing the robot's head to fling down, which made it blast it's own body. It roared a loud, screeching roar and Chrono landed on it's back and pushed off of it, knocking it onto it's belly, and he rolled onto the sand and spun around to face the beast's back again. Chrono already knew what he was going to do next. As soon as the beast lifted itself from the ground, Chrono darted around it again, collecting the four tentacles and holding them together, despite their size. Then he leaped up, trying to uproot them, but failed. This did, however, throw the beast off balance as well, so Chrono decided he was going to try again. This time, a bright light shone from his back, and enormous, green, scaly wings spawned on his back, the base of the wings unexplainably through his shirt which was completely untorn. He leaped again, not getting very far off the ground, but not landing back down, because his giant wings allowed him to fly straight up without having to flap them. He forced himself upwards, tugging on the relentless tentacles that were still flailing above his grip. He glanced over at the beast again, who was preparing for another blast at Chrono. "You've got to be fucking kidding me," he muttered to himself. He looked down past his feet at the very little progress he had made uprooting the tentacles, "Fuck this." He let himself drop to the ground, still holding onto the ever-flailing hunks of metal between his arms. He began absorbing energy around him, causing him to glow somewhat. He glared up at the robotic beast, and he boosted up, casting a bright trail of golden light behind him. He pulled the tentacles straight out of the ground, ripping them out of whatever they might have been attached to under ground. The beast screamed as it shot out the to be expected blast of light that Chrono narrowly avoided in his leap, and Chrono let go of the now limp mechanical pillars and fell to the ground, landing on his feet and darting forwards to avoid the falling debris. A surprisingly small amount of wiring was exposed on the torn ends.

Chrono looked up at the tower that was what remained of the beast. It stared down back at him, almost angrily, if it were not a robot, and then suddenly lunged forward at Chrono. He shot himself into his gaping mouth and narrowly avoided the sharp, artificial teeth that it had, and sat in it's mouth for a moment, holding the mouth open enough as not to get crushed by it's mechanical jaws. He looked into the back of it's throat, and was not surprised to see that it didn't go very far back at all. 'Why would this thing have any digestive system, anyway?' Thought Chrono. The beast tried to throw Chrono out of it's mouth, but he held onto one of it's teeth for a moment and flipped around on top of it's dented face and held on. He looked into it's eyes and realized that there were cameras there. He knew that these had to be so it could register what was around it, because Zinc was monitoring him from the telescope back at the lab. Realizing this, Chrono punched through the glass of one eye that felt like it was supposed to be shatterproof, breaking the camera in the process. The monster flailed even harder, but Chrono held on enough to switch hands that he was holding on with to punch out the other camera, and then he leaped back onto the ground and watched the blinded robot try to fight off what wasn't on it's head anymore.

Chrono needed to make one final decision: how to shut this thing down for good. He looked around for the tentacles, which he saw still lying in the dirt from just a few moments ago. He picked one up from the torn side and dragged it off the others. He made some distance between himself and the beast, and he started swinging the tentacle around and around, and then he thrust himself towards the robot for one single impact which broke the beast in half. Neither half of the body moved, not even a twitch. He waited a few seconds to see if it would do anything else, and when he saw it wouldn't, he boosted off back to the lab.