Warning...slight blood n gore...nothing too extreme but tell me if you think its too much)

Long ago...during the defeat of the Dark Masters forces and his sealing in Convexity, his four generals, dark reflections of the dragon guardians had to be punished as well.

Striker, a young fire dragon who had been fooled into the Dark Masters service,

Avarona, a sadistically cruel ice dragoness

Zorik, A cruel Electric dragon who had willingly joined the Dark Master.

and Raptor, a calculating and evil earth dragon

They were sealed away in four genstones and sealed in the furthest corners of the dragon realms.  Avarona's was sealed deep in Dante's freezer.  Zoriks was hidden in the furthest reach of Minus Forge and Raptors was sealed in Tall Plains.   Strikers stone however was lost when the teleport spell went wrong, causing it to float the interdimensional void, known to its inhabitants as 'Nullspace'.  Sadly, Nullspace is full of those that can be tempted by easy riches...such people can be manipulated easily...

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Matt and Sonya ran through the maze of crystallic mini-canyons, trying to ignore the gunshots and screams behind them.  "This is smegged up." said Sonya as the two stopped to catch their breath.  Matt silently agreed. 

A week ago, he'd joined the crew of the ship, 'Maelstrom star' as they were taking a job to retrieve a gemstone for some guy who called himself 'D M' for the tempting reward of 10 million credits.  Instead the ship had been attacked barely 5 minutes after landing forcing Matt and Sonya to run.  "Rule one of the mercenary handbook 'no such thing as easy cash'" he mumbled, dizzily.  He'd tried to grab the gemstone on the way out but had recieved a shock of some kind for his troubles. 

Sonya shook him and pointed  "Here come those ape things.  Lets go now!"  Matt needed little encouragement and the duo ran on, taking pot shots back the way they'd came to deter any of thre apes that got too close.

The path ahead finally came to a fork.  "You take left, I'll take right." said Sonya as they looked down each equally uninviting path.  "Are you nuts?" said Matt angrily.  "You want us to split up?"  two apes came round behind them and were dispatched quickly by the two human mercenaries.  "Fine...just be careful...ok?" said Matt before running down the left path.  Sonya turned to go down the right path when a energy bolt hit her in the back...

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Matt ran down the path till he was seeing stars in his vision.  He shook his head to clear it...and only just stopped in time.  The path had ended abruptly in a sheer cliff.  In view was a view of the strange mushroom forest with a river cutting through the middle, past a temple.  He'd seen this as they'd flown the ship in but it was different from the cliff, with the sound of the waterfall lower down the cliff, thundering away, supplying the river.

A sound made him tense up.  "I know you're there." he muttered, pulling his blaster out his holster.  He spun suddenly to fire and saw a blur, a flash of claws bfore pain blossomed in his right eye and he was knocked to the ground, his gun skittering away.  "Is that any way to treat your master?" said a voice that Matt could only describe as evil.  He raised his head and saw through his good eye the shape of a huge purple dragon, the claws on its left hand red with blood from where it had slashed Matt.

"Who the heck are you?" Matt said, getting up, and backing away till his feet were at the edge of the cliff.  The dragon chuckled coldly.  "You may address me as the Dark Master, human."  Matt looked behind him down at the distant river.   The Dark Master seemed to look into Matt's eyes, fixing their gazes before saying.  "So...thats where he is hiding...Return him to me." 

Matt was dizzy from his face wound and wasn't in the mood to wonder at the moment.  He came to a decision...one of his usuall kill or save him type of plans.  "Get him yourself, lizard features." he said rudely before stepping off the ledge.  He smirked as he heard the Dark Masters angry roars as the river came up to meet him and stopped as he realised this would hurt...alot  "Maybe this wasn't such a..." he said just before he hit the water.

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From the height Matt had jumped the impact with the water felt like he'd hit asphalt.  The current quickly swept Matt downstream, bouncing him off rocks and river debris.  Finally, he found the strength to head to shore, dragging himself up the bank.  He could hear voices approaching and maanged to call weakly "H...help...please." before he passed out...

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