Thread:Maddog98/@comment-4842541-20150606031801/@comment-4842541-20150611081245

I got this idea that I'm most definitely going to use for the first 'book'.

I'm pretty sure by now you know that the first book involves a cult of mages that round up guests at an island resort to be sacrifices for the Leviathan.

And while you might not remember, I mentioned a scenario in which a group that rounds up the guests, there is one guy who leads the group (this isn't the leader of the cult, but can be considered in many respects his right hand man) and he is one who gives Mark a lot of grief.

In the scenario that I'm going to use, the cult is ready to start sacrificing the guests. One of them grabs a kid, and that kid's father will then start attacking the cultist. The right hand man, who I'll suppose I'll call Hugo for now as a placeholder in case I find a better name, then uses his Earth magic to cover the kid's father's mouth and begins suffocating the guy.

This father and his family met Mark and friends earlier in the story, and while Luke and Rick have their hearts in the right place in wanting to help, Helen will stop the two from helping because she doesn't want them to die.

But Mark is getting mad. Before this was going on he was thinking that in order to end this he should just reveal his identity as the nameless guardian. He didn't care about keeping the secret identity in the first place so he shouldn't mind. But the moment Hugo began suffocating the kid's father, Mark will get up in what first seems like calm rage, but boils down to him going berserk.

He'll begin attacking the cult, all without using his actual powers. Instead he uses martial arts skills that Luke and friends never knew Mark had. And Mark will grab a wooden chair, and use it to keep bashing Hugo in the face until the chair breaks, in which he grabs the broken leg of the chair and keeps bashing Hugo's face to the point blood splatters onto Mark.

It takes a good number of cultists using their elemental attacks on Mark to keep Mark down. And Hugo will start beating Mark down, and be that one guy who is all, "YOU BROKE MY FACE, YOU MADE ME BLEED!" guy.

This is the part where the cult will take Mark out and Mark uses the chance to transform away from the crowd and start beating up the cult for real. However, unlike my first idea in which Mark goes in all heroically in which he takes off his shirt to reveal his Guardian's birthmark, my idea is that he'll transform and in a rage, go back in and starts attacking all of the cult with the back of his Guardian Blade.

At first the cult will react in a mocking manner in which, "He's not going to kill us" but they find out the hard way that not killing equals whole world of pain that will take years to recover from, as the nameless Guardian goes in a berserk rage, basically destroying the cult.

And Mark pins Hugo down, turns the Guardian Blade around so that the blade of the sword is pointing towards Hugo, but then Mark sees the kids of the father who Mark had saved earlier, and he sees the kid's whimpering in fear.

And then Mark will remembered a promise that he made long ago. Basically I'm going to be setting up the promise he made Jack when they were kids, but of course the reader wouldn't know and I'd only display it as a vow that Mark made as a kid.

Mark's red eyes have a hypnotic look to them that causes people to be unable to recognize his face when they look at him. However during his rage, those same red eyes made him look like a monster. After seeing the kids being freaked out, Mark changes his expression, and his red eyes become kinder.

He bashes Hugo with the back of his sword instead, and this is the part in which Mark will take off his shirt revealing his birthmark, and subsequently revealing to the readers why for the whole story Mark would not take off his shirt at all.

So what do you think, you think this scenario will work? I'd like to use it so if there's something bothering you, I'd like to know so I can change it.