The Dark Wielder

The Dark Wielder, a.k.a. Zeo Cullen, is a fictional character. The main hero of ACDC Town, he first appeared in The Dark Wielder #01 (). The Dark Wielder was created by Bryan Alvarado.
Fictional character biography
Pre-Season One
The Dark Wielder's origin story was established in his first appearance, and subsequent appearances. Zeo Cullen was born into one of Netopia’s mysterious families, The Cullens. Moments after his birth, his father was visited by The Ultimate Power in hell and decided to sell his son's soul in order to become the most wealthiest family in Netopia.
At the age of fifteen, a strange blue fire rises out of Zeo's home thus killing his trapped parents. After an initial meeting with one of The Ultimate Power's lackeys, Zeo decides to run away from his home and decides to live on the streets for a time. At the age of 18, Zeo decides to move away from Netopia and chooses to relocate to ACDC Town.
Season One
After arriving in ACDC Town, Zeo moves into his own apartment by using his parent's money and enrolls in ACDC High School. There he meets Kari Demonia after asking her to get to the library. Once in the library the ground breaks and The Devolical Sword comes out and chooses The Dark Wielder. Meanwhile underground, a group of Warlocks are gathering power to resurrect The Great Ancient Warlocks. After succeeding a warlock is sent to collect powers for the weak Ancient Warlocks and stumbles across Zeo. After an initial fight, the warlock escapes to the cemetery and attacks Zeo. Zeo gets a rapid control of his emerging powers and destroys the warlock with his fire powers. A few seconds later, an Elder presents itself upon Zeo to make him join his elite fighters against the forces of evil.
During his next few weeks, Zeo discovers that Kari Demonia is actually a demon hired by the Ancient Warlocks to spy on him and destroy him. After their initial meeting, Zeo becomes a demon thanks to the Ancient Female Warlock and after depleting Kari of her demon powers, she grows stronger and leaves Kari powerless. Zeo manages to destroy the Ancient Warlock with Kari. They become friends and Kari moves in with in to his apartment.
During a school field trip, Kari gains control of The Book Of Darkness which helps Zeo's Devolical sword to gain more power in order to defeat a fire demon. In this same field trip, Zeo and Kari learn of the existence of SciLab. In the meantime, a new dark force shows itself as the remaining Ancient Warlock's boss, and after sending him away, he releases his second-in-command demon, Belthazor.
The Ancient Warlock attacks The Dark Wielder by cursing him with an empathy power that he wasn't supposed to have thus causing him great pain. The Ancient Warlock sends a couple of demons to destroy the town, while Kari receives help from the Elders via a new power, Visions. Zeo manages to break his curse and destroys the demons in midair. The dark force gets fed up with The Ancient Warlock and sends him to destroy Zeo personally, meanwhile Belthazor keeps growing impatient. Kari, on the other hand, begins her human life by taking a job in a local bar.
After a few weeks of training, The Ancient Warlock cast a spell on Zeo making him a girl. After going through a whole day as a girl and discovering that The Stone Of Magic has been stolen, Zeo and Kari begins to wonder what's really going on. The Dark Force reveals itself as The Blue Dragon Warlock and sends The Ancient Warlock after girl-Zeo. After a heated battle, Zeo finally destroys The Ancient Warlock thus breaking the spell over him. The Warlock manages to attack one last time after exploding and gets completely destroyed by Zeo's internal dark powers. Meanwhile, The Elders notice this and decide to send their personal guard, The Puppet Master, to hunt down and destroy The Dark Wielder. Zeo begins to feel a powerful force in the horizon meanwhile he decides that he has to find his parents, after denying their deaths.
The Puppet Master betrays the Elders by deciding to work for Belthazor and cast a musical spell on Zeo and Kari. After singing their powers away, both Zeo and Kari are in danger with The Puppet Master's minions. The Elders managed to see The Puppet Master's betrayal and send their Frozen Knight after him. After arriving to The Blue Dragon's lair, the Frozen Knight destroys The Puppet Master, releasing Kari and hers and Zeo's powers. After returning to normal, Zeo decides to stay in ACDC Town in order to attack the powerful force he felt, in which he learns that it might be named The Blue Dragon Warlock. Meanwhile, Belthazor plots his final attack.
After receiving a new power, Kari begins to wonder how much stronger she's getting without her demonic self. While Belthazor struggles with his inner love for Kari and his recent demon, The Blue Dragon sends Zeo to the past in order to release a powerful dark force. After meeting his ancestor, Zeo returns with a dark shade coming out of the time portal, to find Kari fighting with Belthazor's new water demon. Meanwhile, The Blue Dragon has discovered that Belthazor has fallen in love with Kari and decides to destroy him, but Belthazor manages to escape to the upside world and decides to hide in Beach Street.
Belthazor appears during a vampire attack on Zeo and Kari and destroys one holding a genie bottle. After opening the bottle, the essence of a genie captures Kari and transforms her into a genie. A wind demon appears and after wishing himself human, Belthazor uses his second wish to get his powers back and destroy the demon. The Blue Dragon begins to plot his inclusion into a group of mysterious hooded creatures. If he kills The Wielder he gets in their group, if not, then there's no deal. After using his last wish to return everything back to normal, Belthazor gets captured by The Dragon Warlock, using him for his final plan.
Kari appears in The Blue Dragon's lab to offer a deal, Belthazor's freedom for The Wielder's powers. After his cannon failed, The Blue Dragon decides that needs the Wielder's powers in order to power his final weapon. Kari and Zeo come up with the plan to rescue Belthazor, and while Zeo destroys the cannon, Kari hands over Zeo's powers and realizes that The Blue Dragon has mutated Belthazor into a demonic dinosaur. The Blue Dragon escapes after his lab begins to burn and leaves Kari and Zeo fighting Belthazor. After Zeo's final strike with his returned powers, Belthazor's spirit decides to thank Zeo and uses his energy to transform Zeo into a Dark Mage.
After returning from the Dark Dimension, The Blue Dragon desperately releases the storm scroll and releases the tornadoes upon ACDC Town. The Dark Mage Zeo battles against the storm while Kari returns to the world and gets caught in one of the tornadoes. The Mysterious Hooded Creatures appear to The Blue Dragon again to send him to attack Zeo personally. After being saved, Kari explains that the tornadoes came from a scroll and sends Zeo to attack The Blue Dragon. Kari destroys the scroll while Zeo uses his collected energies and destroys The Blue Dragon in one shot. After being released from his Dark Mage power, Zeo and Kari leave to celebrate. In the Sharo Land, the Mysterious Hooded Creatures find the powerful dark force Shade, that escaped from the time portal with Zeo and decide that he will be their new warrior. Zeo and Kari celebrate their victory in the place where Kari works, The Cyber Cafe. Kari decides that she wants to open her own bar, and Zeo decides to help her, thus ending it by cheering to the future.
Season Two
After two months of being gone, Zeo returns to save Kari from a hate demon who happens to be after Cupid. After discussing his unsuccessful search for his parents, Zeo and Kari begin to get annoyed by the constant appearances of Cupid, who fears for his life. After naturally dying, Cupid releases his energies and passes them to Zeo, who gets transformed into a adult version of Cupid. After being humiliated, Zeo manages to dress himself with his wings popping out and manages to get the Kari's opening night of her bar, The Pearl. The hate demon decides to attack Zeo and Kari and together they defeat the hate demon. Finally enjoying themselves in Kari's bar, Kari begins to notice that she has growing feelings for Zeo.
After a week, Shade returns with a spell that causes Kari and Zeo to switch bodies. After being attacked by a ninja demon, both Zeo and Kari plot to get in contact with the Elders. After speaking with the Elders, Zeo informs Kari that they have to travel to the Limbo realm to get a stone to reverse the spell. After escaping a sand monster, Zeo and Kari find the crystal and destroy, thus reversing their bodies back to their original owner. On the way back, Kari's strength vanishes and thus gets stuck in limbo while Zeo escapes back to the world.
Zeo finds a way to get back to the Limbo realm thanks to the Elders and after battling a giant, he finds himself trapped with a demonic priest who wants to protect Kari from him. After being released, Zeo wakes up in a sand castle ruled by the Astro Lord, who in turn makes Kari the princess of the Limbo realm. Zeo notices that the demonic priest only wants Kari for recreational purposes. After making a run for it, Kari and Zeo join forces and take down both the priest and the Astro Lord. Finally escaping the Limbo realm, Kari and Zeo decide to lay low for the next few months.
After a few months of laying low, The Mysterious Hooded Creatures begin to cause chaos around town as Kari and Zeo get ready to graduate high school. During their prom night, Zeo and Kari begin to put the pieces together as who is behind the attacks and find a member from the Mysterious Hooded Creatures, who names introduces himself as a member of The Triad. After eliminating one member, Zeo and Kari return home where Kari decides it's time to let Zeo know of her feelings. After confessing her love for him, Zeo realizes that he too has fallen in love with Kari. The members of The Triad keep attacking Zeo until finally they decide to release Shade, once again, in order to destroy them. Zeo and Kari battle their hardest until they finally link powers mentally and destroy Shade in one thought. The remaining member of The Triad plots his final revenge by exploding the whole town. When Zeo and Kari catch up to his plan, Zeo decides that he should battle remaining member by himself. After Kari joins the battle and wound the last member, he decides to escape. Zeo and Kari finally reach their graduation day and after finally graduating, the final member returns and takes off his hood, revealing his real demon self, which makes him stronger as ever. In one final battle that destroys the school, Zeo decides that he should sacrifice himself in order to protect Kari and the rest of the town. The final member then finally prepares his ultimate attack, and when he finally shoots it at an unfocused Zeo, Kari jumps in the way of the blast and knocks Zeo out of the way, causing her ultimate death. In a state of rage, Zeo uses his internal dark powers and destroys the final Triad member. By using his internal dark powers, he accidentaly woke The Beast up, thus finally taking control of the world's latest Wielder and making him fly away to a future unknown.

Season Three: Becoming The Villian
After three weeks, a mysterious man is looking into Kari's apparent death and finds a video dairy in which she confesses to Zeo that if she's dead then he should find her body. Meanwhile outside of town, Zeo finally returns after being missing for three weeks. He is on a mission to find three crystals that will release his true powers. Meanwhile in an ancient tomb, a member of the mysterious Dark Church uncovers one of the crystals that Zeo is looking for. Zeo returns to his old apartment looking for his Devolical Sword which in turn opens a portal to where the Dark Priest is traveling in. After destroying the Dark Priest and stealing his crystal, he decides that it's time to return to the Hellmouth. During Zeo's travel, The Dark Church is discussing their beliefs of Kari's apparent survival. Finally arriving in The Blue Dragon Warlock's old base ruins, Zeo digs under the ruins and finds a hidden chamber in which the hellmouth is located. Once there, Zeo places the crystal and a monstrous voice speaks to him about not needing him anymore. The Beast releases Zeo from his dark prison and sends him back to ACDC Town. The Dark Church get control of the mysterious man looking for Kari, which is revealed to be Kari's long lost demonic brother, which the Dark Church has trained to be their own opposite of The Dark Wielder, he is The Light Wielder. Believing that Zeo killed Kari, The Light Wielder finds Zeo in Kari's apparent grave. After confessing his sorrow, Zeo finds a letter in which it explains that Kari is still alive.
After reading the note, Zeo is transported to an underground chamber, missing The Light Wielder's attack on his head. The Warlock of Illusion summoned Zeo in order to help him summon the smoke demon in exchange of a machine that will help locate Kari. Zeo helps him and receives his machine and takes off to look for her. Zeo arrives at Netopia, as it is the last place where Kari was alive, where she took the blast for Zeo, and instead he finds a member of the Dark Church. He explains that he is also looking for Kari, "The Girl of Darkness", and he explains to Zeo how Kari's parents brought destruction to Yumland. After the birth of their demonic baby girl, they put her to sleep for a thousand years, until she was woken by the group of Warlocks. He finally explains that she is destined to kill someone and become the ultimate force of evil the world has ever seen. After the member leaves, Zeo's machine begins to work which takes him to a cave. He finds a note warning him that the Warlock of Illusion tricked him and is getting stronger. Finally the warlock shows himself and attacks Zeo. Zeo calls for his sword and finally slashes the warlock to death. While Zeo promises to find Kari, the Dark Church celebrate their apparent victory with a Druid.
After witnessing a water demon attack a man in Lake Crystalight, Zeo finds an old friend, Quickman, who is there to find a way to destroy the demon. The two of them join forces and find a thunder weapon in the middle of a nearby dam, which in turn wounds the monster. After following the demon under water, Zeo begins to run out of oxygen and suddenly a strong dark shadow begins to attack the demon. The shadow destroys the demon and grabs Zeo out of the danger of the incoming explosion which destroys the dam. After noticing who the shadow is, Zeo hugs Kari harder than ever, finally finding his best friend and love. Meanwhile, The Dark Church are discussing if their plan is going according to plan. Finally settled back in, Kari receives a vision of a Hellbeast while getting used to the new chance at life she's been handed. After returning home from a night out, Kari begins to kiss Zeo passionately, causing Zeo to give in on their eternal new found love.
The next day, Zeo realizes that he slept with his best friend and eternal love, but can't shake the feeling that something is different about Kari. Taking a walk in the night, Zeo finds himself trouble when a shadow demon decides to attack him. After stabbing him with his sword, Zeo begins to notice that the demon stabbed him with his nails. The shadow demon escapes back to the hellmouth, where the hellbeast decides to get rid of him, after completing his job. Zeo returns in the morning to find Kari very nervous, After deciding to listen to her, Kari confesses that she is not really Kari but a demon, a Druid. She also reveals that she is pregnant, and right when Zeo is about to grab her she gets summoned. The Beast gets control of Zeo at that exact moment and he flies away. Meanwhile, the Dark Church are furious with the Druid's behavior and decide they don't need her anymore. After escaping her death, the Druid releases the real Kari from the Dark Church's prison cells. The Druid sends Kari to Zeo, informing her that he is evil again. The hellbeast sends Zeo to Netfrica to find another crystal. Once arriving there, he finds Kari holding on to it. Kari places the crystal in Zeo's chest thus releasing him of The Beast's control and reuniting with his long lost best friend. The Dark Church decide that it's time to bring The Light Wielder back into action. Meanwhile, Kari and Zeo are finally reunited and while Kari is happy to be back, Zeo can't help to wonder what happened to the Druid.
Kari's brother finally discovers that Kari has been alive and trapped by the Dark Church and decides to stop working for them. One of the Dark Priest decides to take control of The Light Wielder's body and decides to grab a spell with him. The Light Wielder replica decides to turn Kari into stone and destroying her. Zeo is then summoned by the Elders and they upgrade his powers so he can now control thunder. They explain to him that they have restarted the day before Kari died and that he is supposed to stop the event. Finally returning to where Kari was at the moment of her death, Zeo uses his new powers and shocks the Dark Priest out of hiding and finally destroys him. The Dark Church decide its time to attack the Wielder themselves and decide to create chaos downtown. Kari and Zeo join forces to attack the Dark Church but they join forces to separate Zeo and Kari by sending Zeo to the Sharo Land. Once awake, Zeo notices that the Book of Darkness has given his sword a new upgrade, the power of fire.
Zeo returns to join Kari, who's been keeping up a fight while he was gone. Kari and Zeo join forces and destroy the church members one by one. One of the members opens a portal which he escapes in and Zeo follows him. Kari is left to destroy the remaining two members. Zeo finally uses his flame powers with his fire sword and destroys the Dark Priest. Meanwhile, Kari uses her psychic powers to destroy the remaining priests by destroying their heads. After the final explosion, Zeo returns to finally celebrate the end of their troubles. The hellbeast collects the second crystal which was inside one of the Dark Priests. The Elders grant both Kari and Zeo and day off and while Kari leaves to plan her day off, Zeo stays to talk to the Elders. When least expected his eyes turn black and begins to shoot dark fire out of his hands killing most of the Elders. The remaining living Elder uses his last bit of life energy to summon his Frozen Knight once again. Kari uses her day off to put her doubts to rest and travels to The Dark Church's library. There, she learns of the Hellbeast and how it controls Dark Wielders and finally realizes that Zeo is under The Beast's control once again.
After a week of running away from the Frozen Knight, Zeo finally decides to stop running and face him and finally sends his dark minions to destroy him. Kari reappears and finally battle him. After a fierce battle, Zeo gets bored with Kari and decides to suck her in. He opens his mouth and sucks everything around him. Kari later wakes up inside Zeo's body as some sort of bacteria. After running away from Blood Cells, Kari finds herself in the middle of Zeo's stomach where she realizes is the center of the darkness within. More blood cells chase Kari down Zeo's stomach until they disappear suddenly. Kari then realizes that she has been saved by Death itself. After explaining that the balance of life might be destroyed if still trapped, Death begins to beg for Kari's help. Finally arriving to Zeo's stomach, Death and Kari join forces to take out Zeo's Woogyman. Kari and Death travel back to Zeo's mouth and after a while Blood cells begin to chase them down. Death decides to stay and protect Kari while she saved herself. Finally escaping Zeo's body, she realizes that spitting her out took a lot of energy out of him. She lays him in his bed meanwhile Death notices that he found Zeo's brain, getting an idea. The next moment Kari knew, Zeo was standing up, as Death himself.
After finally getting used to being Death, Zeo begins to do Death's job and collect souls and transport them to the afterlife. Meanwhile, the Hellbeast summons the real Death and strikes a deal with him, his freedom for The Dark Wielder's free will. Meanwhile, Kari deals with demons going crazy in the middle of town while Zeo returns to Netfrica in order to destroy the final crystal The Beast needs to be free. Once realizing it, The Beast gets control of Zeo and finally decides to bring the last crystal to The Beast. Kari decides to travel to Netfrica after losing contact with Zeo because of her fear of The Beast. On the airplane she meets a transporter demon which transports her inside of Zeo's body to release the real Death. After finally releasing him, she wakes up outside the Hellmouth with the final crystal in it's place and the Apocalypse finally starting. The sky darkens and the sun begins to melt away as meteors fall down on earth. The Beast is finally released from his prison and as he does, he flies away in order to destroy the world. Kari stands in shock as the end of the begins.
Three weeks later, Kari has finally recovered from her shock thanks to Zeo's faith in her. But much to Zeo's surprise the Druid finally returns after being away for so long. She confesses that she was the one who left the notes at Kari's grave and at the cave outside of Netopia. She also finally confesses that she did have the child, and she introduces him as Connor. The little boy of maybe eight years old comes into the room saying that he knows how to destroy a hellbeast. Kari, Zeo and the Druid begins to plan a final attack on The Beast, as he continues to destroy the leftover of the sun and the moon. Soon the group realize that they need the Sun Mystified Objects. The Beast decides to pay them a visit and right when it was about to strike the little boy, the Druid stands in the way, thus saving her son. The Beast leaves enjoying what he caused while Connor and Zeo cry over her dying body. Kari thanks her for saving her a few months ago. Finally feeling complete and like a normal human, the Druid dies happily. Conner, Zeo and Kari decide to destroy The Beast in memory of the Druid. They find the locations where the objects are and decide to travel to Netfrica, where the Mystical Sun Temple is located. Once inside, the group deal with the traps left by the country's ancestors while trying to collect all three items. Once they have the three items, The Beast reappears finally having guessed their plan and decides to attack. The three objects give them a protective shield when they're close but separated they all have their unique abilities. Finally tired of The Beast, the group finally decide to try again the mental link Zeo and Kari used to destroy The Triad months ago. Once mentally linked, they finally find a way to use the objects to restore the moon and especially the sun, which completely destroys The Beast, right under the ancient mirrors of the Sun Temple. Finally rid of the evil, Kari, Zeo and Connor decide to move on with their lives as a family, because nothing else was going to get in the way of their new life.
Season Four: Enter The Spy
Powers and abilities
The Dark Wielder has control over dark powers. He also has control over flight, fire, thunder, ice, mental powers, freezing time, telekenesis, laser beams, etc.
 
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