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The third [[Comic Book]] series created by Jonathan and Joshua Luna at [[Image Comics]], ''The Sword'' is a modern-day fantasy series following the saga of Dara Brighton, a wheelchair-bound art student whose life is changed forever when one evening, three mysterious strangers with [[Elemental Powers]] enter her family's house demanding that her father, whom they call "Demetrios", return their sword. The trio ransacks the house and tries to torture the sword's location out of her baffled father, killing her mother and sister before accidentally killing him. The trio is about to kill Dara and call it a day when the ceiling collapses, knocking her through the floor. Rather than bother to kill the crippled girl, Dara is [[Left for Dead]] beneath the burning house.<br /><br />Miraculously, Dara happens to land right next to an antique sword stuck in the ground. Grabbing it heals her injuries, restores the use of her legs, and grants her superhuman abilities. Clearly this is the sword her family was killed over.<br /><br />At her family's funeral, Dara meets Justin, one of her father's students, whose fondest memories of her father involve the stories he'd tell in class; stories about Demetrios, a ~4000 year old hero who uses his mystical sword to protect humanity from Knossos, Zakros, and Malia, a trio of godlike elemental-powered siblings.<br /><br />After Dara uses the sword to dispatch some mooks sent to kidnap her from the funeral, revealing her powers in the process, she goes on the run with her best friend Julie, and Justin, determined to use Justin's knowledge of her father's stories to track down and kill her family's murderers. All the while, they have to dodge the nationwide manhunt and mass media craze that spring up once footage of Dara's superpowered exploits become widespread. Throughout her quest, flashbacks provide glimpses into Dara's life before the sword and her father's secret past as Demetrios.

* [[Accidental Public Confession]]: Malia succumbs to Type 1.

* [[Achilles Heel]]: the titular sword is the only thing that can harm the antagonists.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|The whole damn thing turns out to have been a plot by Phaistos AKA Justin to manipulate Dara into killing his siblings for him, as revenge for them manipulating her father into trying to kill him}}.

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: "you want your sword, Zakros...? Here it is." If the demigods hadn't killed Dara's family in search of the sword, she would never have found it and used it against them.

* [[Buried Alive]]: Knossos does this to one of his henchmen.

* [[Car Fu]]: Zakros throws a car at Dara

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: The focus of the plot.

* [[Take Over the World]]: the demigods' ultimate desire.

* [[The Masquerade]]: The demigods would like nothing more than to reveal their powers to the mortals and rule them as gods, but they keep them a secret, because if they don't, the wielder of the sword will hunt them down. Likewise, Demetrios kept his past a secret so the demigods wouldn't be able to get the drop on him and take the sword.

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