Pandora's Box

The legend of Pandora's Box is one that has lasted until the present day. But what people don't know is that the evils in the box are not mere legends... they are very real spirits. And their power is matched only by that of the gods themselves. Zeus was able to trap them in the box twice over, the first time being aided across time by champions of the guardian he placed in the box with them, the spirit of Hope. But now, in the modern day, Hades has deceived Mercury, messenger of the gods, into bringing him the box and releasing the terrible darkness contained within. In today's world, people now more than ever have darkness in their hearts, and the evil spirits amplify and empower those with the potential to wield such nightmarish thoughts and powers for the service of evil, through either self-delusion, arrogance, or simply a slave to your own chaos.

However, all is not lost.

The spirit of Hope once again followed the evil powers to the Earth, and it too has found those with the potential to protect the cause of righteousness, justice, and hope for survival. Everyday people, from beggars to students, old men to children, and even us – yes, you – exceptional people like us have been granted incredible power, power enough to tear the world apart and yet we use it to protect from those that would.


At present, three champions of hope have been chosen:


Matthew – for his eternal tenacity and resolute devotion to the cause of justice.

Jenova – for his innate purity and moral strength of will.

Anthony – for his ferocious heroic spirit and mighty valiant heart.

Hina - for her kindness and innocence (... when fighting evil, sometimes you have to take what you can get even if it's not strictly true)


The four know their destiny, they understand their duties and they know above all the solemn burden their powers bring.

We find them taking a day off... (facepalms...)

 

One day, Jenova was sitting around. He was on the Internet watching cat videos on the Internet which isnt too shy of a day to day thing as he had an admiration for the animal kingdom above all he would look at videos of grizzly bears and their tendencies, sugar gliders as he wanted to invest in one, red pandas because of their adorableness, and Groundhogs because they were just as cute. During these events It got dark randomly one day, And the sky seemed to be drifting out something truly evil, followed by a blinding bright light that was flowing towards Jenova.

Jenova passed out and when he awoken He felt different. Not just because of what happened but also because he was surrounded by a forest, with the exact animals he loved surrounding him. But it was odd because this was also in his room. "WHAT IS HAPPENING?!" Was all he shouted. He got back up and looked out the window to see that the sky had cleared up. Immediately he went on skype and saw his friends Matt and DM were on he messaged them and asked if they had the same coincidence happen to them they all said yes and agreed to meet up that day.

Hours passed, and luggage checked they all met up at a Dennys. Because why not, And they discussed what was happening for a bit and soon after they discovered they had actual powers. The sky went black again and they saw evil spirits coming into the world. Taking matters into their own hands they held them off and successfully defended the earth.

Roughly a month later nothing was happening and they all decided to get an apartment and live together. As Jenova, Matt, and DM decided to sit down and watch The Godfather for the hundredth time. They got into a conversation. "So, out of all of us, who do you think has the strongest army?' Jenova blurted out. "I mean we're all obviously strong, but who has the strongest?"

 

It seemed like any other day for Anthony. He was sitting at home playing an RPG, completely engrossed in the storyline and celebrating his recent victory over a difficult boss battle. Because of this, he didn't even notice how dark the sky became. He did, however, notice a bright light coming through his windows and illuminating his entire room.
"W-what's going on?!"
That was all he managed to say before he passed out.

When he woke up, he quickly noticed that he was floating in the sky. This terrified him to his very core since, unfortunately, he's very much afraid of heights.
"Bad dream, right? That's what it is...bad dream, bad dream, bad dream..."
He closed his eyes tightly and tried to stop himself from crying.
"This is even worse than the glass airplane dream!"
But just then, for reasons he couldn't explain, he felt compelled to open his eyes and look straight ahead.
"..."
He was completely speechless when he saw it. A brave warrior standing on top of a hill with sword in hand. He was leading a mighty army, all of whom were in armor so bright it seemed to shine like the sun. And the weapons looked amazing, every single one of them looked like an endgame piece of gear in one of his RPGs. Forgetting how afraid he was just a moment earlier, he stared at them as if he were entranced, especially the one who looked like their commander or maybe their king.
"Unbelievable..."
The whole scene looked like a scene out of a video game or anime, two things that Anthony spent a great deal of time with. Just when he thought things couldn't get any better, he heard a voice deep inside of his soul.

"This is your destiny."

Just then, Anthony regained consciousness inside of his room. He shook his head to make sure he was really awake this time, a giant smile plastered on his face.
"Yeah, that was it, right there. Best dream I've ever had."
He got up and was about to go through his morning routine, but he still couldn't shake the feeling he had. Something in the back of his mind was telling him that it wasn't just a dream.
"That'd be awesome if it really happened but come on, seriously? If it was real then I could, like, reach out my hand and blow up this TV or something."
Even though he felt like an idiot for doing it, he reached his hand towards the TV and tried to "focus his energy" on it. Then, to his VERY great surprise, the TV actually exploded! Anthony stood there dumbfounded, pulling his hand back and staring at it with his eyes as wide as they could possibly be.
"Holy crap...that happened...that really just happened. Then...does that mean the awesome dream happened, too? Okay...I was flying in the dream, let me try that."
He focused his energy again and before he even realized what was happening, he was levitating about a foot off of the ground.
"W-W-W-W-WHAT?! No way..."
He put his feet back down on the ground and stood there in silence for a while. He was too shocked to move, too shocked to speak, in fact he was so surprised at this point that he almost forgot to breathe. When the situation finally began to sink in and he started to regain his composure, he sat down on his bed, his eyes still wide open.
"So...either I've been doing way too many games and anime and I've actually gone insane, or I really do have some kind of superpowers."

Just then, he heard the familiar ring of a Skype call coming from his computer. Hesitantly, he answered it and talked to Matt and Jenova for a while. It turned out that had a very similar experience and they arranged a meeting to talk it over. When the call was done, Anthony slumped back in his chair, took in a deep breath and let out a long sigh.
"So...I'm definitely not crazy. Which means the only other possibility is...I have superpowers."
He looked at his open right palm again, the same hand that he used to "accidentally" destroy his own TV. Then, a wide smile spread across his face and his right hand clenched into a fist.
"This...will be...GLORIOUS!!!"

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Some time after the first Pandora incident was taken care of, the Dungeon Master formerly known as Anthony, Matt and Jenova were hanging out in their new apartment. Jenova brought up an interesting question, who DOES have the strongest army? Dungeon Master took a second to think about it.
"That's a good question...I haven't really built up my forces as much as I'd like, but we're still pretty strong and I'm sure we could hold our own. And, you know, I might be overthinking it anyhow because I tend to do that in a lot of strategy games I play."
He turned to Matt.
"How about you?"

 

Matt had a strange relationship with his powers. He'd spent most of his childhood fantasizing about having powers, and as a result when he'd actually become empowered by the white light that had found him in his room, he'd grown used to them far faster than the other two. His reaction had been somewhat perplexion followed by cautious acceptance.
He was British. Understatement was part of the blood.
He'd agreed to meet up with the others immediately, wondering if they were all going some kind of induced hallucination. But when they'd met up, and his and Anthony's playful bro-fist had generated a shock-wave powerful enough to take out every street light near them, he accepted his situation almost like he'd been waiting his entire life to do so.

As of right now, in response to Anthony's question, he rolled his eyes. "I don't have an army, you know that. I've been too busy liaising with various world powers, the President, Greenpeace, PETA, Save the Whales, Stephen Hawking, Leonardo DiCaprio and the KoolAid Man. For many, many, MANY different reasons."

In regard to global affairs, Matthew was the spirit of Hope's PR guy. Anthony was always occupied with being heroic and Jenova never cared what anyone else thought of him anyways, so when the world demanded to know exactly what the hell was going on when someone got punched clean through the Status of Liberty, Matthew took it upon himself to negotiate with the necessary authorities. This generally speaking left him very little free time outside of battling evil, and he was welcoming the current break - even though he could have recited every line in the Godfather in Arabic at this stage.

"That said, I'll happily spar with you all. I need to test myself for the next psychos to show up. Last time, innocents nearly got hurt." He clenched his fist, taking great care not to let any power into the motion. "I need to get stronger. We all do."

 

Hina hated the mornings, waking up from her pleasant dreams was horrifying. She hated the way each morning greeted her: with her flatmates making unnecessary noise. From their distant conversations, she could tell that they were watching a movie, "The Godfather, again?" she mumbled to herself as she got out of bed and stretched.

Walking out of her room, she waved at Nova, Tesu and Geon and slowly made her way to the kitchen. She grabbed a glass of orange juice from inside the fridge and leaned on the kitchen island thinking "having godly powers really doesn't change anything".

 

Dungeon Master gave Hina a quick wave back as she walked through the kitchen. He nodded his head when Matt suggested that they get some training in.
"I like where you're going with this. Even though we've got these godlike powers, there's probably still some room for improvement if we work at it. At the very least, I need to figure out how to fully control it...I've almost got it down but I still feel like there's more to it."
He stroked his beard, losing himself in thought.
"If only we had our own Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Or at least a decent dungeon to do some real life grinding in."
He has a weird habit of comparing his powers to something out of an anime or video game, which often leads to some weird, stupid or sometimes brilliant ideas. That one probably wasn't going to be a winner, though. He shook his head, dismissing the thoughts in his mind.
"Scratch that. So yeah, I guess we're gonna have a little practice session? I'm down for that."

He stood up and struck one of his trademark heroic poses while clenching his right fist.
"My army of justice is ready to fight any opponent, anytime!"
He pointed to Jenova.
"You've got a pretty cool "animal kingdom army" going on, but we're totally gonna rock you...like a hurricane."
It's not that he was proud of himself or anything he did in particular, he just has an enormous amount of pride and faith in his allies that he had gathered together. He even counts some of them among his "social links", though he hasn't bothered to explain to anyone else what that means.

 

Matt cocked his head, an idea striking him.
"What if we combine our forces to breach a separate dimension where we can train in solitude? Just a thought, unless you two have any better ideas?"

 

Dungeon Master smiled and nodded.
"Hey, that's pretty good. I never even thought of trying that with our powers, but hey, I guess anything is possible. I think it's worth a shot."
On the inside, he was thinking something like...
"Hyperbolic Time Chamber!! WHOOOOO!!!"
But he kept his composure and spoke up again.
"What do you guys think about trying it out right now? If it works, we can come back and start planning out our epic throwdown-slash-training session."

 

Dungeon Master jumped a little when he heard a loud crash coming from outside.
"Huh? What was that noise?"
He turned to Matt and Jenova.
"You guys heard that, right? Let's go check it out. You never know...it could be some enemies trying to get the drop on us."
Then his mind started to wander, which was never a good thing.
"It could be a black ops agent with an eye-patch trying to sneak around in a cardboard box...or a former guard captain turned supernatural assassin with a folding sword who can teleport all over the place...or maybe it's a samurai in purple robes from ancient history wielding a giant sword. We'd better go check it out."
Without waiting for a response, DM made his way to the door and let out a battle cry.
"LEEEROOOOOOOOY JEEEEENKIIIIIIINS!!"
He threw open the door and ran outside.

When he finally made it to where the noise came from, he was surprised and maybe even a little disappointed at what he saw. It was just a young girl carrying boxes-- well, she WAS carrying boxes, but now they seemed to be scattered all over the place.
"Wow...really? The hero rushes outside when he hears a strange noise and he just happens to bump into a cute girl who just happens to be moving into the same complex that he's in. This whole thing is so cliched, it's like something straight out of an anime."
But then, just as he was starting to think rationally, his mind started to wander again.
"Hold up. This situation...DOES seem a little too convenient, doesn't it? Almost like the whole scene has been staged. Maybe she's a spy, or maybe she really is an assassin like I thought and she's using the whole "cute neighbor girl" thing as an act. I'll admit it's a little far-fetched, but we can't be too cautious when we've got a whole world to protect."
After he was done whispering to himself, he decided to lay low for a while. Although his idea of "laying low" was more or less hiding around the corner and peeking out once in a while. He saw it in a video game once and it totally worked there, so why not here?
"Come on, guys...are you gonna back me up or what?"

 

Matthew sighed, got up, walked over behind Anthony, and very firmly shoved him towards her.
"Anthony, even if she IS a potential threat, you have three people who could each split open entire countries in the flat behind you. Say "hello" to the damn girl. If you're wondering why I'M not doing it, I'm going upstairs where I can get in my daily "weep-because-I'm-single-and-masturbate-in-order-to-distract-myself-from-the-great-potential-of-corruption-my-powers-offer-me" session nice and early before we start training."
He walked off to start meditating, his mind on the training and the world around them, leaving Anthony now quite close to the girl who was now looking at him. "Have fun."

 

Jenova followed behind Matt and as he gave Anthony a shitty reason as to why he was supposed to say hello to the new flat mate, Jenova shoved him into Anthony toppling them both over. Letting out a sigh he continued to walk forward and towards the new neighbor, Standing practically nose to nose he looked in her eyes. He saw that she was Harmless in the way she stared back towards him. Reaching his hand out to shake he greeted himself.

"Hey, My name is Joshua, pleased to meet you. The landlord said something about a new neighbor I didn't expect them to arrive so soon. These are my friends and roomies, Anthony and Matt. They don't exactly deal with some situations with reason, But it's to be understood, We've had our fair share of weird shit happening. If you ever need anything, such as help carrying the boxes, feel free to bug any one of us. Mostly Anthony as he has the might of A Nordic god, but apparently not the brains of a scientist. While Matt had the charisma of a flopping fish to a group of fisherman. And I have absolutely nothing going for me. I was lucky enough to be stuck with these 2 imbeciles." Backing up a few inches from the new neighbor he smiled and rubbed the back of his head.

"That sums all 3 of us up, We have a girl living in our apartment, Her name is Hina. So at bare minimal you wont be stuck in a complex with so much testosterone. Don't be shy now neighbor, we're only a door away. You're more then welcome to stop by, even spectate the upcoming crucible we will be a part of, till next time. These 2 gentleman will help you."

Jenova turned away from Matt, Anthony, and the new neighborn, and went back into the apartment closing the door behind him. He sat back down on the coucu and turned on an episode of adventure time. Those 2 wouldn't be back for a little while, so pawning off responsibility was always a great idea.

 

When Matt first showed up, Anthony had a look of relief on his face.
"Good, I've finally got some backup--"
But just as he was thinking this, Matt shoved him out of his hiding place towards the girl. Shocked and confused at first, Anthony started feeling a little indignant when he heard Matt's explanation. Trying not to let it show, he turned to the girl.
"Well, you see, what had happened was--"
But before he could even finish his first sentence, Matt came crashing into them, knocking both of them to the ground.
"You've gotta be kidding me..."
He muttered under his breath as he started to get back on his feet. When he stood back up, he saw Jenova casually talking to the girl without a care in the world. He let out a heavy sigh.
"So much for that. But I'm still keeping my eyes on her and if she DOES turn out to be a spy, I totally called it."
As he was thinking this to himself, Jenova dumped the responsibility of helping her out on Matt and himself and left. "Way to be that guy," he thought to himself as he put on a smile and waved to the girl who was apparently their new neighbor.

"Hey, how's it going? I'm Anthony and this guy here is Matt. So, uh...welcome to the neighborhood! It's pretty quiet around here most of the time, which I kinda like 'cause it's easy to relax."
He looked around at the boxes scattered around.
"So, you need a hand? We can help you get settled in if you'd like."

 

"Screw it," he tossed his laptop to the side of his bed with a frustrated sigh. Looking at it, he pouted, his eyebrows coming together as his face scrunched up. "I'll never be able to fix it and get my artwork back." His laptop had come in contact with a virus attack and was completely void of any security. Of course, the viruses kept multiplying and little by little ate at the computer until booting it up took about 15 minutes. If only he had bought the security software to protect his computer, his precious artwork wouldn't have been corrupted.
"Hey Kiki! What are you up to? Still working on fixing your messed up laptop?" Rima bounced into the room, carrying a tray of take out food. "I brought your favorite! Chinese! I even ordered that soup you like." She headed towards his bed, leaving the door ajar. Resting the bag of food upon his dresser, Rima took out two full trays and separated the contents of each on plates. Searching with her hand, she pulled out two wrapped up utensils and tossed one at Kiki. Upon sitting beside him, Rima brought over the two plates of food and handed one to him. "Eat up. You'll need it if you want finish fixing that old shabby thing."
"Hey! IT is not OLD or Shabby....Princess is doing fine. She just...needs a little motivation. Ya know, some...inspirational words."
"Ugh, I can't believe you still your inanimate piece of nothing object Princess. It it was, in fact, a princess, I am pretty sure that she'd be able to take care of herself by now." Rima shoveled forkful after forkful of food into her mouth. In fact, she was starving. She hadn't eaten since 11:00 am.
"Slow down there, rabbit. You'll choke or get the hiccups if you don't." Kiki stole a sideways glance at Rima, still stunned by how fast she could eat and clean a plate of food.
"I'm. So. Hungry!" Rima hiccuped and stared wide eyed at Kiki. "Crap, not again," Rima rushed towards the kitchen and Kiki could hear the faucet running as Rima hiccuped continuously. Upon her return, Kiki smirked at her with a raised eyebrow. "Don't you dare...."
"I"
"Kiki. No"
"Told"
"I swear if you don't shut up, I will *hiccup* throw my water at you."
"You so."
"That's it!" With a burst of energy, Rima ran towards Kiki and began to lift up her arm to throw the water at him, but he dodged just in time and tackled her to the ground, beginning to tickle her.
"No! *hiccup* You know this *hiccup* makes it worse!" Rima laughed as she tried to pry Kiki's hands from her side. Finally, Kiki got up and helped Rima get up too.
"I hate you," she said with a laughing smile. "Hate you too, Rima."
*hiccup*

 

OOT: Hey, welcome to the RP, Turnip.

Anthony knelt down in front of the dog, though he hesitated slightly to pet her.
"Eh...it should be alright, she doesn't look like an attack dog or anything."
Thinking this to himself, he slowly reached out his hand and started petting the dog. She seemed to enjoy it, which put a smile on Anthony's face.
"Well, aren't you just the cutest little critter anyone's ever seen?"
His smile soon turned to gleeful joy and he couldn't help laughing a little. Although he didn't admit it often, he was actually quite fond of cute things. He started scratching behind the dog's ears and under her chin and before anyone knew it, he was lost in his own little world.
"Hee hee...cute little doggie."
After a few moments, he finally realized what he was doing and how ridiculous he looked and snapped out of it. He stood back up, cleared his throat and looked at Zoey.
"Yeah, so, uh...you said your name's Zoey, right? You sure you don't need any help with these boxes? It wouldn't be any trouble at all and it just doesn't seem right to leave all of this to you. Come on, we're all neighbors now so let us help out a little."
Although he still had his doubts about her, he decided to let it go for now. As a certain Spartan king from a certain movie once said, "There's no reason we can't be civil." He then felt the urge to watch said movie again and started to question why they kept watching the Godfather over and over again instead of 300, but that was a topic of discussion for another time.

 

Out of nowhere the smell of leaking gas hit Zoey and Anthony full force. Tegan, the dog, made a whining sound at the smell. The faint sound of static accompanied a bizarrely strong draft out of nowhere that blew any stray pieces of paper in the hallway around and cause their hair to fly around wildly. The sound of static grew ever louder and the lights in the hallway shorted out, plunging it into complete darkness. At the far end of the hall, electric current was gathering and a purplish blue aura was beginning to pulsate. Suddenly what appeared to be magical fire danced in the hallway culminating in a noisy explosion that blinded all those who witnessed it but left no damage. When Anthony and Zoey opened their eyes and had finished blinking away stars, they looked down the hall to a rather unexpected sight.

A purple unicorn stood staring at them. (See my sig) Looking from one person to the other, the unicorn made a small Hmph and mumbled under its breath, "I suppose they'll do." Making her way purposefully down the hall towards them, she stopped and looked up making eye contact with both of them; and down to glare at the growling schnauzer. (Ponies are roughly 4 feet tall, so about shoulder/chest height in total.)
"I am Commander Violet Sky!" The unicorn proclaimed. "And I need the two of you for a mission of the utmost importance."

 

Anthony covered his mouth, trying his hardest not to laugh at what was happening right now.
"I've seen some things since I got these powers, but this...yeah. This takes the cake."
Keeping these thoughts to himself, he managed to keep himself from busting out laughing and spoke in his normal voice. He was still covering his mouth, though.
"Well, I guess this is a thing now. What do you make of it, Matt?"
He looked over to where he thought Matt was, only to discover thin air and a sudden realization.
"Oh, yeah. He kinda ditched me."
He turned back to the...unicorn and cleared his throat.
"Okay, let's get one thing out of the way now. I don't know who you are, where you came from or how much you know about us, but if you've got some kind of "mission" to take on, let me take care of it myself and leave Zoey out of it. She doesn't need to get involved in this, I'm sure I can handle it myself."

 

"No, no." The unicorn said. "No." She looked back and forth between the two humans. "Two are needed to complete this mission."
A scroll of paper appears in midair with a small pop. After a few moments of reading the paper turned so that Anthony and Zoey could see it. "Yeah, look right there," a line on the scroll began to glow. It said, "Mission requirements: A party of two or more."
The unicorn looked up at Anthony. "So you see, I need both of you for a super dangerous mission." As her sentence ended a cartoony looking door appeared in the wall with a poof.

 

Matthew was in his room when he suddenly felt what could only be described as a tremor in the Force, so he stepped outside - and onto a landmine.
The explosion tore the side of the house apart, and he skidded across the road slamming into a nearby bakery. Slapping doughnuts and sausage rolls off his head, he got up, his injuries healing.
"Ok..."
He cricked his neck. "Whoever the hell, hit me with a landmine, I need to ask some very important questions."
He floated into the air and proceeded to levitate back towards the apartment, fixing the building as he flew. He arrived back in his bedroom, and winced as incinerated hardcore pornography pages were scattered, still flickering gently, around his room.
"That's never going to be the same..." He stormed into the complex. "LANDMINER, GET HERE SO I CAN BLAST YOU."