Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle: Dragon Independence
(Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut: Ryu no Dokuritsu)
最弱無敗の神装機竜: ドラゴンの独立
Chapter 1:- Leviathan
Opening Theme: INNOSENSE - FLOW
-In the far pacific of the middle eastern countries, a powerful storm had approached the whole middle eastern territory. Tidal waves and roars of the waves could be heard as the flashes of lightning could be seen from afar and the powerful roars of thunders could be heard anywhere, as the civilians in the nearby town were sheltering themselves from the storm, they could hear one sound that was completely different than anything else that they have heard of in their entire lives, a loud yet horrifying roar could be heard from the coast of the ocean as the sound of the unfamiliar roar was hurting people's ears as they heard it, though minutes later the storm had stopped and the sky was clear once more and the roar was never heard after the storm.-
-A few days later as Lux Arcadia, Philuffy, Celestia, Krulcifer, Airi, Yoruka and Lisesharte were asked to meet an important person who will change the world of Drag-Riders, Lux and his friends waited at a cliff that was facing the pacific ocean, as they all waited, they saw a bright white Drag-Ride with black outlines with a male rider that had black hair with grey outlines on his hair and had bright purple eyes, Lux and everyone's eyes widened at the sight of two abyss Diablos attacking the young male in the ocean, as Lux was about to head into battle, he noticed that the Drag-Rider had disappeared but a large white armored and mechanical serpent arose from the ocean and attacked the two powerful abyss-
Lisha(Lisesharte): W-What is that?!
Krulcifer: It has the same armor plating as the Drag-Ride from before but it's also different at the same time..
Lux: We should go and help him!
Celes(Celestia): I agree! No man would ever survive against two Diablos abyss if he were to fight alone!
Yoruka: There's no need to help him.
Celes: What? Are you telling us to abandon him and watch him helplessly fight them on his own?! I will not stand by this!
Philuffy: No. He can win.
Lux: Phi-chan?
Philuffy: That Drag-Ride is just like mine.
Airi: She's right, scanning from here, it's just like the Typhon but somewhat stronger.
Krulcifer: Is it a Divine Drag-Ride?
Airi: Yes, an extremely powerful Divine Drag-Ride, though I've never heard or seen it before.
Lisha: How can that thing be a Drag-Ride when it's in a different form?
Lux: Transformation. That's the only answer.
Celes: A transforming Drag-Ride, huh? First time I've heard of that.
Yoruka: Hmm? Wha-?! -Yoruka's eyes widened as she turned to everyone quickly and pushed them all down as the corpse of a Diablos abyss flew passed the group and crashed into the trees behind the group, everyone would stick their head up a little and look at the corpse of the Diablos as it had holes on its body and had most of its skin getting melted as steam could be seen coming out of the abyss' skin. A powerful roar was then heard from the ocean as a large white and black armored serpent slithered up to the group from down below of the cliff and from the ocean, the slim armored machined landed on the ground in front of the group and stared down at Lux and the others, its four bright purple eyes stared at everyone, though it was mechanical, it seemed more alive than it should be, as the group got slightly worried. The head of the machine then split as the machine then transformed back into its Drag-Ride form and the man appeared as he came out of the chest of the serpent. The large and long black claws and firmed standing figure had an identical look to Philuffy's Drag-Ride, which was the Typhon. The Drag-Ride had long and beautiful white wings as there was water coming out from the wing span, making it clear like a waterfall or a fountain, the Drag-Ride shined brightly as it disappeared as the male jumped down with a black and white blade on the side of his waist-
Celes: Vermilion Hiryuu, the Independent Prince.
Lux: The Vermilion son?! W-What are you doing here?
Hiryuu: I came here under the request of the New Kingdom. I came to aid the Princess into her control of this whole Kingdom. Ah yes, sorry, I should introduce myself first, I am Vermilion Hiryuu and please call me Hiryuu, Vermilion is actually my last name, since I come from a Japanese family after all.
Yoruka: So you were from the Northern Empire as well?
Hiryuu: Indeed.
-Lux stood next to Yoruka and Krulcifer as he whispered to them both-
Lux: I got the vibe that he's extremely strong and unpredictable.
Krulcifer: I got the same feeling too, Lux-kun..
Yoruka: Even with 6 Drag Knights here, only 1 can defeat him.
Lux: What?
Yoruka: Philuffy-san's Divine Drag-Ride is much more powerful than the one he is using but if he were to fight against the rest of us, we will surely perish.
Airi: U-Um! Excuse me!
Hiryuu: Yeah?
Airi: May I ask what Drag-Ride are you using?
Hiryuu: Sure. It is the one and only pure water Divine Drag-Ride, the Leviathan. -Krulcifer, Yoruka, Lux and Lisha's eyes widened after hearing the name "Leviathan"-
Krulcifer: T-The Leviathan? H-How?
Hiryuu: What do you mean?
Krulcifer: I-It is a myth! The Leviathan's name was only used in stories and legends but how can it be real?
Hiryuu: Yeah sure, Bahamut can be a thing but Leviathan can't? You're hurting me~
Krulcifer: M-My apologies but I just can't believe that the Leviathan is real.
Hiryuu: I know it's hard to believe but this Divine weapon was found in the middle east.
Lux: The middle eastern empire?
Hiryuu: Yup, I was travelling there for fun until I came across a sort of cave and I got lost in there for about 3 hours and I found a sword that was sitting on top of a rock like Excalibur or something. -Airi and Celes giggled softly- I just pulled it out and I was attacked by a few dozen abyss.
Lisha: How did you get it to transform?
Hiryuu: I just told it to.
Lisha: Eh? You told it to transform?
Hiryuu: It's like a command, though the Leviathan is very different from all of the other Drag-Rides.
Celes: It's different?
Hiryuu: Hmm~ For example! It has a mind of its own!
Lux: It does?!
Hiryuu: I can awaken it from being a sword and not pilot it and it'll still walk around like as if a ghost is controlling it.
Krulcifer: Impressive, though what about its weapons?
Hiryuu: As I said before, it is very different. It does not have lasers or blasters like the others, it uses Water Cannons instead.
Lisha: Water Cannons?
Hiryuu: Yeah, the wings are its cannons, the wings could transform and be part of the shoulder as it could fire extremely hot water at its foes.
Celes: That..Does not seem all that powerful though.
Lux: It is.
Celes: Eh? It is?
Lux: Much more powerful than a regular rifle or cannon that we'd all use. 90% of all Drag-Rides cannot handle extreme heat, especially water as our armor and weapons could rust, that includes the hot water's secondary effect, hurting the pilot with extreme heat of water could burn our skins off.
Hiryuu: Exactly, that's not the only weapon it has, the wings are weapons themselves, it does not have to transform into cannons, the water coming out of the wing spans are cold water but the temperature could be changed anytime and little pellets of water would be fired from the wing span like a machine gun, it does less damage than the cannon but shoots faster.
Lisha: What else do you have in your arsenal? -She asked with her eyes widened as the young princess was interested in learning about the Leviathan's specs-
Hiryuu: The long and large claws it has. It's similar to the Typhon's hands, though the Leviathan has more brute to its side as the claws could pierce through any shield and armor you throw at it and melt it away with the water it has.
Lisha: How do you store the water inside the Drag-Ride~? -As they were talking, they all walked back to the academy while listening to Hiryuu-
Hiryuu: The Leviathan has a special and unique ability. It uses the air around it and compresses it into steam from the inside of the body and then uses the steam and change it into water.
Lisha: Water transformation! That is really cool!
Hiryuu: I know right! Oh and also! The mouth part of the Leviathan when it is in its serpent form, there's a cannon inside the mouth that could fire a powerful pulse water at its enemies.
Celes: It's nice to see that you two get along really well but I would like to see how powerful it really is against another Divine Drag-Ride.
Hiryuu: Oh~? Is that a challenge~? I'll gladly accept! I love challenges after all.
Celes: Then I'll inform the instructor for a mock battle later on, I have to attend with some work so the others can show you around the academy.
Lux: The second male in the whole academy, huh? At least I'm not alone now..
Hiryuu: Dude! How can you say such a thing?! You're surrounded by girls, not to mention, they are all beautiful! -Some of the girls would blush from what Hiryuu had said-
Lux: I can't deny what you just said but I meant that it was lonely for me because I'm the only male in the school, knowing that you're a new male student there, it makes me happy.
Hiryuu: I'm also gonna bet that we're gonna be roommates too.
Lux: What makes you say that?
Hiryuu: Why would Relie-san put guys in the same room as the girls? Think about it.
Lux: Ah, I guess you're right. Well then, we might as well get to know each other more now, 3 years of training to fight is gonna be tough.
Hiryuu: Tell me about it. Though I'm more excited about the competitions! I'd always wished to fight against another Drag Knight.
Lux: You're a Drag Knight?
Hiryuu: From Japan I am, over here I should be one too.
-Hours later as the group showed Hiryuu around the whole academy and many of the other students were curious about Hiryuu. As the group was walking through a hallway, from the side, someone bumped into Hiryuu as the girl was about to fall but Hiryuu held the girl's hand and made sure she didn't fall, from the sight of a brown haired girl with brown eyes that had a ponytail hairstyle, the girl blushed madly at the sight of Hiryuu as he held her-
Lux: Tillfar!
Hiryuu: Hey? You all right?
Tillfar: Y-Yeah... T-Thanks.. -Hiryuu would pull her back slowly and pat her head lightly with a smile on his face as he turned to the others and continued with the tour around the school but Tillfar was staring at Hiryuu's back as he was walking besides Lux and Philuffy as the group was talking- W-Who is he..?
-Few minutes passed after the tour as Hiryuu was assigned to be roommates with Lux, the two would head to their room together and then went to the arena as Celes was waiting for Hiryuu, some students from the school went over to the arena to see what was going on as they saw Celes had suited up but had not summoned her Drag-Ride yet until Hiryuu arrived. Hiryuu walked into the arena with his Divine Drag-Ride on and all of the girls were whispering and talking to each other on who was the new male student, Celes then drew her sword and activated her Divine Drag-Ride Lindworm. The large scaled Drag-Ride with yellow, white and blue colouring shined brightly as she held onto a giant lance while Hiryuu's Divine Drag-Ride's wings shined from the sunlight and water on his wings as he looked up at his opponent who was flying in the air-
Celes: Let me test if you are worthy to have a Divine Drag-Ride.
Hiryuu: Don't go easy on me, please~ Because I won't put a handicap for you.
Celes: Your overconfidence will be your downfall!
Hiryuu: We'll see about that.
-TO BE CONTINUED-