DragonMon The Interesting Adventure Chapter 1: Project K.I.N.G's Failure
[A/N: Hello everyone and welcome to my first story, this is the edited version of Chapter 1, most of what was here before has been changed completely. Mostly because of text walls, cringy dialogue, and terrible pacing.]
[I may as well tell you the reason I wanted to make my own story; I have been reading stories on FFdotNet since I was 15, a friend recommended it to me since I loved to read. I decided to search in the Search Bar 'Pokémon' plain and simple, and read my first story called "Ashes of the Past" by {Saphroneth}.]
[That was the first Pokémon story I read that I still enjoy.]
[Since then, That particular story, along with "My Unwanted Life" by {Murloc Rampage} (Which inspired the usage of blood and gore, and some sexual themes), and "Flame of Life" by {Krimson Kane} (for the knowledge of how to write good battles) These stories helped inspire this story.]
[I had created this OC that will be the star of this story when I was 9, and I finally decided to use all the good stories I've read, to create... This.]
[I guess it's also to help my writing skills. I am 18 years of age now, (but when the unedited version came out I was still 17) so I am an adult, (according to law) This story will get really violent at times, and have sexual themes/Innuendos. If you don't like anything about this story, I would suggest moving on to something else.]
[Constructive criticism is much appreciated, Flamers/Trolls will be ignored. But, if you don't mind any of these things, I hope you enjoy, and I hope you all forgive me for such a long beginning Author's Note.]
Disclaimer: I own nothing related to Pokémon, the only thing I own in this story of mine are my OCs. Also you should know that the Pokémon action will begin in the next chapter, this is just an... Introductory Chapter of sorts.
Warning#1: This story may contain errors, whether they be punctuational, spelling, etc. If you do not like reading stories that have these errors, do not read any further.
Warning#2: This Chapter contains violence, if you can't handle reading about dismemberment, blood, and other such things, please do not read further.
[This Chapter started being edited on 6/03/18]
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
(Sepsilon 23rd 1525 A.R.X: Entry#1: So, this is my new log journal huh? I guess it will do. The reason I am even keeping this is because... Umm... Well, I don't really know. But I guess I can use this for some practical reasons. But all I can really write about is what happened earlier today, it was mostly the stuff same as usual, scrounging about for food, and trying not to get beaten to a pulp.)
(The nice fruit vendor, Drake I believe his name was, had helped me greatly, he was just a few hundred years older than me, but he really had a nice heart to help some random street scrak. (1) I heard over some passing conversations about the "freak" that resided in the southern district of Characon City. Most were bounty hunters, and some were just cruel minded people looking for what made me tick... He gave me some fruit to sustain myself, but he doesn't give out too much, because he needs the business.)
(He even offered me a place to stay at his parents' home, I didn't want to impose, but he claimed I would fit in just fine, I had told him I'd think about it... I better stop here, I can hear someone searching around the alley I'm writing this in... I hope I don't die today.)
From the log journal of Joshua Issac Drexico, a Dragon who was hated for something that wasn't in his control.*
(?'s PoV)
It was quiet as I walked down the side hallway of my newly obtained castle. The traps that were littered about gave me an ample amount of trouble. Not to mention the pain one of those traps caused as it gave me a long scar from the base of my neck to my stomach.
I was a genius in my field of study, and after many, many years, I finally achieved my life's dream; to capture a live dragon. My comrades often said my head was in the clouds, or that dragons didn't exist. But I finally broke a hole big enough in the "Dimensional Barrier" to jump into a different reality.
The Dragon I managed to subdue was quite an odd one. It was more humanoid, but definitely displayed dragonic powers. Fast, strong, and highly intelligent, it was my dream come true.
It was usually around this time he would start causing a ruckus, smashing the inside his cell in a futile attempt to escape, and me forcing my lackeys to re-strengthen the bars on said cell when he tired himself out.
That dragon certainly was a feisty thing, gave me ample amounts of trouble trying to subdue him. I had been here for months, and I was still finding lots of stuff in this place.
But in the end, it was worth it. Now let's see those eggheads try and top me this time. One of many things I enjoyed was rubbing my success in other people's faces.
Another thing I enjoyed was tinkering with electronics, taking things apart and putting them back together again was a good hobby to partake in.
But the one thing I enjoyed above all else was my job. I was fascinated at this creature's will to escape, all the roars, the loud noises, and the satisfaction of hearing the special shock collar activate made me feel like a god. Of course, if he were to escape, I have a special something in store that will make him listen, whether he wanted to or not.
"Report!" I said in an authoritive voice.
As I made my way to the cells, the first of the two lackeys saluted me and reported "Sir! There are no abnormal activities occurring at Project K.I.N.G's cell sir!" I had opted to bring along some of my workers to help.
"Hmm? Is that so?" I asked with a skeptical tone. Usually my prize is trying to blast the cell walls to pieces at this time.
"Yes sir! Project K.I.N.G is well contained sir! in fact sir, Project K.I.N.G has not attempted to break out today sir!" The second lackey stated.
Project K.I.N.G was the name given to the dragon I had captured. The name didn't stand for anything whatsoever, I just thought it sounded cool. And the cooler it sounds, the richer I'll become... It's not like I took the time to ask for his name anyway.
"Well that's good, but what is the reading of the collar?" I asked nonchalantly.
"There were no vital readings on the collar whatsoever sir!" The first lackey stated.
I felt my heart stop at hearing that. "What?! Oh God, Move it!" I yelled at him as I picked up the pace to the cells. If he's dead, all my efforts would be wasted.
Two more lackeys saluted me as I practically blitzed by, it was quite a distance mind you, but I made it without passing out. I looked inside of the cell to see...nothing, except the broken shock collar I forced around his neck, on the floor.
I was both furious and relieved. Furious because these idiots let my most prized possession escape! The one thing I spent my life trying to acquire, without even trying to stop him.
And relieved because he was alive, and could be recaptured.
After getting over my mini panic attack, and catching my breath, I called every last one of those idiotic buffoons, and told them to search every inch of the castle, and make sure Project K.I.N.G does not get to any of the holding chambers.
I however, didn't even see or notice the set of blood red eyes staring hatefully at me through the darkness of the cell. While every other idiot went searching for my prize, I had the two idiots that were supposed to be guarding the cell stand before me.
"Alright you two morons! Because you two couldn't be bothered to even guard something that was locked up, I'm ordering you both to clean the cell that Project K.I.N.G was in, and so help me if you two mess something this simple up, you will be sorry."
They both nodded and opened the cell door, I had already began walking towards the holding chambers to see if he had beaten me there. Took quite a bit of time, but I admired how big this castle was, I would definitely have to move my stuff in here, once I figured out how to get home. I had opened the large doors, and peeked in.
Nothing. 'He must be hiding in here somewhere'. I thought to myself silently. As I checked every nook and cranny I could check, my eyes caught the faint glimmer of the holding cell that held something odd; a girl.
She was beauty incarnate, fair skin, full lips, and a nice rack to boot. The dress she was currently wearing was silk white, I was tempted to remove it, but if I did, she would most likely wake up, since this thing is most likely keeping her asleep, so I left her be.
The things I would do to her, just thinking about it makes me want to say 'screw it' and dive in. But I held myself back. I'd have time to indulge those fantasies later.
While I was enjoying the sight of the stunning female in front of me I heard a set of shrill screams, I ran out of the storage room and back to the holding cells, out of breath, to see Project K.I.N.G brutally stabbing one of my lackeys in the neck with gold plated claws, causing blood to burst out from the freshly made wounds.
He shrieked as loud as he could, but the blood pooling up and gushing out made it come up as a desperate gargle, and once his struggling ceased, he was thrown to the ground, dead. His lifeless blood trickling to the ground.
The other lackey was being choked by a blue noose attached to the ceiling, being zapped with electricity as he tried to struggle for air, I was terrified. I frantically grabbed the communicator I had in my jacket pocket and spoke into it, "Project K.I.N.G is loose, sent in Z-007 and Z-008 on the double."
I looked to see Project K.I.N.G turn towards the poor man being choked, Project K.I.N.G slicing both his arms off, laughing, and punching through the lackey's stomach, and pulling out one of his lungs, blood was running down his body like water, and without an ounce of remorse, he threw the vital organ across the room.
I watched as the lackey's eyes rolled to the back of his head. Project K.I.N.G slowly ripped his chest open, breaking the ribcage apart, before gently pulling out his lightly beating heart, he dropped it onto the ground and stomping on it while chuckling darkly.
His body was dropped to the ground with a light thud, and I had to admit, I was a trembling in fear at how much he seemed to enjoy someone else's death.
I was still frantically trying to summon Z-007 and Z-008, but the stupid communicator must've malfunctioned.
I felt the color drain from my face as he slowly turned towards me, the piercing red glow from behind those glasses sent an involuntary shiver down my spine. But what sealed my fear was his voice, it was so... Empty yet angry at the same time.
"So... You must be the one who trapped me?" He asked.
I gave a shaky nod in reply. I was too petrified to move, it was as if I was being held in place. But he simply looked down.
"So, a mere human managed to capture me and my wife, and lock us up in our own castle." He laughed to himself, and then looked to me. "I will say that I commend your stupid bravery." He added.
"Y-yeah a-and you b-b-better g-get back in your c-c-c-cell. O-or else." My body was shaking so uncontrollably, my sentence came out stuttered.
I could see another piercing glow come from those glasses of his, that was just too terrifying, I couldn't help but reflexively shrink back.
"How interesting." He mused. "You are the one thing that has managed to catch me off guard, and assert your dominance, yet here you are, the triumphant human, cowering in fear in my very presence. Heh heh heh heh."
He walked towards me at a brisk pace, while I was struggling like an insect caught in a spider's web. Before he could reach me, he was grabbed by the back of his neck and thrown in the opposite direction smashing trough his own wall with a grunt, freeing up my movements, I saw Z-008 standing beside Z-007, staring at the wall that Project K.I.N.G was thrown into.
His hand rose up from the rubble without trouble, as he stood to his full height, I decided to get a head start on my plan. I told Z-007 and Z-008 to fight until he gives up or they are destroyed. And ran to the holding chambers.
(Project K.I.N.G's PoV)
It was just a simple day for me, doing my daily rounds as king, check the multiple sectors for any crimes in progress- thankfully and unfortunately for me, there weren't-, and see how the construction project in the north side of Characon City was faring.
After my wife decided to take a quick nap in her sleep chamber, I felt like I was being watched, even though I scanned the area around me at all, and even the entire castle at one point... Nothing was in the area, yet that basic instinct that is built into my mind was going crazy.
But it all happened too fast for me to remember, one moment, I was walking down the southeast hallway in my castle, and the next, I felt something stab me on the arm. I woke up in one of my own cells, with guards standing at attention. I tried to escape by bending the bars, only to receive an increasingly annoying shock that came from an unremovable collar around my neck.
I didn't know how long I was rotting in my own dungeon, but I had a bad feeling that my wife was either in trouble, or injured, because she didn't come to my rescue.
Each time I would try and smash through the cell bars, a painful blast of electricity went through me, and since all my powers were suddenly useless, it hurt quite a bit. And added to that, when I woke up from the pain, the bars would be re-fortified.
I figured that the only way to get my strength back was to break the collar around my neck.
After spending who knows how long, I managed to wear down the durability of the collar. Because my powers were still rendered useless, it was very tedious. I twisted a small link in the collar, and it detached silently, I felt my powers flow through my body, and I decided to wait for an opening, I decided to meld into the shadow of my cell, and wait.
The one who most likely placed me in the dark cavern came running and looked into my cell, I gave a close glare that he was too stupid to see. And after telling the people who had been close by to clean my cell, freedom was inevitable.
After he told them to clean out my cell, I would use that moment to escape, after he left, they just decided to spend a good chunk of time chatting with each other. And after the most boring conversation I've ever heard, they finally got around to opening my cell.
Once it was fully opened, I wasted no time and sprang out of the darkness and grabbed both of them by the neck. I opted to use my Illusion powers to make them believe they were going to die. Mainly because blood was annoying to clean up.
My illusion for the guard on my left, was him being strung up by one of my energy cables, while the guard on my right was still being held in my crushing grip.
Once my captor showed his face once again, I made sure he got a large helping of my illusory powers. He looked sickened... Perfect for me. I stood there, feeling the flow of air get cut off, and once they lost consciousness, I dropped the guards to the ground.
I tried to act like I just noticed him, and altered my voice to sound more or less angry. "So... You must be the one who trapped me?" I asked calmly.
When I got a shaky nod in reply, I rolled my eyes under my shades. Of course it would be a human, the one thing we actually allowed on our planet, just came here for power.
I looked down and spoke to myself out loud, "so, a mere human managed to capture me and my wife, and lock us up in our own castle." I couldn't help but laugh to myself at the silliness of it all.
I looked back to him and respectfully said, "I will say I commend your stupid bravery."
"Y-yeah, a-and you b-b-better g-get back in your c-c-c-cell or else." He stuttered, I sent out a Paralytic Glare that caused him to visibly shrink back.
"How interesting." I said with a hidden smirk. "You are the one thing that has managed to catch me off guard, and assert your dominance, yet here you are, the triumphant human, cowering in fear in my very presence. Heh heh heh heh." I altered my laugh.
I walked forward calmly, just to see how scared he would get, before I was grabbed by my waist, and thrown into one of my walls with a grunt. Once I stood up, I saw him running away, and two large robots blocking the path.
Thoughts of my wife flashed through my head as I saw which direction he went.
I had to find my wife's sleeping chamber, and nothing, not even these robots would stop me.
I let out a loud roar of anged and charged the two large robots, I grabbed ones' arm mid-swing, and threw it into its partner, causing both to fall to the ground, and summoned my blue fire. I sprayed it in an arch that covered the majority of my hallway, thankfully, I had this castle fire proofed.
The robots came out of my fire, unscathed, which surprised me... Slightly.
'Looks like my Blue Fire won't be of much use. I have a feeling that this is going to be a tedious fight'. I said to myself as I was bombarded with a flurry of bullets, large, grey, spiky, and covered in glowing purple ooze.
I pulled up a green barrier just in time as the bullets shattered one by one. However, for each bullet that shattered, a small crack would appear in my barrier.
The flurry of bullets finally came to a standstill after a long while, my barrier was practically broken and useless as smoke and silence filled the air, I decided to take a chance and put my barrier down... Nothing happened. I decided to play my stealth card, and dive into a shadow that was the closest, which happened to be a lamp.
A plain lamp that hadn't even been scratched or chipped. But I guess it was better than nothing.
The robots were looking around, scanning the area for any sign of me, they obviously didn't bother to scan the lamp's shadow I hid myself in. 'Stupid robots.' I thought.
They let out a few beeps, and began to walk away, 'perfect.' I thought to myself, I came out from the lamp's shadow fully materialized and dashed forward, only to get a large metal hand in my face, I couldn't think fast enough about the situation I was in before I got smashed into another wall, the ceiling, and the floor below, kicking up more dust in the process.
'Looks like they anticipated that...' I groaned to myself. The robot then launched a series of punches that had me skidding backwards, I let out a huff and prepared to throw a volley of Lightning Whips, only to hear a familiar voice yelling at me to "COVER YOUR EARS BUDDY!"
I quickly sent the electricity back to my crest, and put both hands over my ears without hesitation as a large blast of loud music knocked the two robots on their backs, while extinguishing any leftover fire patches that were in the room.
I took my hands off my ears as something touched my shoulder. I turned around to see my best friend, Drake Jeero. One of his hands was on my shoulder, and the other holding his Axe Guitar, and giving me a knowing smirk.
"Hey buddy, looks like you could use a hand." He told me cheerfully.
"Yeah, thanks." I breathed out.
"With all the ruckus happening, my danger senses went off, you all right?" He asked concerned.
"Fine, just ticked. I expected you to get here a long while ago." I said angrily.
"The emergency signals never went off, you were in here for a couple months and never came out, so I got worried. Did I miss something important?" He asked curiously.
"Yes, Drake. A human managed their way into my castle, and locked me in my own dungeon for months apparently!" I nearly yelled.
"Sorry. So where is this human that locked you up?" He asked.
"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling that he's close to my wife." I said quietly.
"Well, let's go. I'm guessing that time is of the essence?" He asked as the two robots got back up.
"Exactly, are you going to help me put these two robots out of commission?" I asked while cracking my knuckles.
"You know I'll always fight beside ya pal. Let's show them why we're called the 'Dynamic Duo of Chaos.'" He said with a large smile.
"Let's go!" We both roared out as we charged the two robots, who finally managed to stand.
(?'s PoV)
"Have to hurry! Have to hurry! Have to hurry!" I said quickly. I probably don't have much time to pull this off. I was trying to put everything together as quick as I could, while I was a genius, I wasn't a miracle worker, I didn't have much room for error, so I had to complete this fast. I hope those two mechs are holding that idiotic reptile up. I just need more time!
(Project K.I.N.G"s PoV)
"Cover me!" I yelled as I charged the now damaged robot. We had managed to wear them down, but these things were clearly made to counter whatever we threw at them. My right arm, and left leg had been badly cut, blood oozing like water, and whatever coated the robot's fingers, they stopped all forms of healing I had, so I was technically fighting with one arm and leg at this point.
My wings weren't faring any better, littered with holes and nearly unusable. They would naturally heal, but without flight, this may take longer than intended.
"On it!" Drake yelled back. He ran up, and swung his Axe at the robot's face, while it was a successful hit, and given the fact wires were exposed on contact, the robot shrugged it off like it was nothing. Drake however, was too busy fighting one of the mindless war machines arms' to notice a fist from the other arm being thrown towards his face.
"Drake! Right Fist incoming!" I yelled as I took the brunt of another punch to my jaw, that sent me stumbling backwards. 'Whatever this stuff is, it's affecting my senses'. I thought as I got punched once again. I couldn't think straight at all. My sight got mixed up on itself, and made most of my surroundings a blurry mess.
Drake turned just in time to see the large purple fist sailing towards his face, and thankfully, he was smart to bring his Axe up as a block. His eyes closed as the sound of cracking sounded throughout the hall. The Axe took the brunt of the attack and was destroyed with pieces scattered across the hall, and sent him falling back.
And boy did he look angry when he opened his eyes. Not as angry as I was, but it was close.
"Are you kidding me?! Do any of you stupid machines know how long this will take to fix?! Fine! You want to break something of mine." He yelled as his Emerald green eyes flashed brightly. "Then I'll break something of yours!" He roared as he threw the shattered guitar into the ground, and jumped up to grab the robot, and once he was on, he began rapidly climbing and ripping out various wires.
Even when they tried to fling him off, or pull him off, he just hung on and took it.
I rushed the enemy one more time as my only working hand began to glow. I threw my fist back, and fired a Shockwave Punch, as the punch hit, the shockwave blasted me, both robots, and Drake further back.
"Take this you glorified, Gorshiaytah!" (2) He yelled as he overcame the shock, and thrust one of his hands into the robot's head, and the other went straight through chest, causing sparks to fly before it fell to the ground rigid.
"One down, one to go." I said gripping my arm, it still stung from whatever was on those grabbers. Felt like my arm was being melted.
"Oh I'm gonna make you pay! C'mere!" He yelled as he ran and shoulder-tackled the robot.
(?'s PoV)
"Almost... Just need a little longer. Heh, let's see if you can handle what I have in store for you." I couldn't help but chuckle gleefully, the adrenaline rush finally went away, leaving me quite tired, now I was about ninety percent done, 'just need a little more time'. I thought as I continued to work.
I had to time this perfectly for this to work, if I'm even a second off, this will fail.
(Project K.I.N.G' PoV)
The final robot laid broken and sparking on the ground. We were both panting heavily. My arm and leg felt like they were being ripped out of their sockets, and the green blobs that littered my injured limbs didn't give me a good feeling.
My friend however, was gripping his stomach tightly while swaying left and right, I walked up to him and held him up before he fell, and we both noticed that his stomach was cut, 'must've happened when Drake's hand got grabbed'.
It was a pretty deep gash, and he was breathing heavily, it wasn't bleeding that bad, but I could see that even biting his lip in an attempt to stop an agonizing scream, it was helping slightly, but not too much.
"Man, I don't think I have enough life insurance to cover this." He joked lightly with a grimace etched on his face.
"Let me guess, can't heal it?" I asked.
"Nope. Same for your arm and leg?" He confirmed and asked back.
"Yeah, think you can walk?" I helped him stand up straight.
"Eh, sort of, need help though..." He said wearily.
"Come on then, we have a scrak to skin. For all we know my mate could be dead. And he might have the antidote for whatever we got infected with." I helped him up after he solemnly grabbed his broken Axe Guitar and sent it to his pocket dimension, (3) after it teleported, he put his arm around my shoulder and walked slowly past the broken and sparking robots.
"Sorry for inadvertently bringing you into another one of my messes Drake." I apologized.
"Don't worry pal, it wasn't your fault that this happened." He said with a forced smile.
It took us time, and a few breaks before I barely found the little scrak's scent. But Drake lightened the mood a bit, "looks like our enhanced sense of smell isn't as enhanced now." My friend said with a still pained smile on his face.
The pain in my arm was numbing now, I didn't feel much, but I found I couldn't move it at all, it was paralyzed from whatever toxin was on that robot's grabber. I looked at the dried caked over blood staining my arm and suit. I let out an annoyed sigh, and proceeded to move forward.
We came to a stop in front of the holding storage where the scrak's scent was strongest. This room past the large metal doors housed many weapons and traps, specially designed to capture intruders, how this random human got past them and didn't set them off made me momentarily confused, and curious since some are scattered about the castle anyway.
Drake was visibly squirming as he tried to ward off the pain. "How is it?" I asked lightly.
"It feels like something is trying to rip my stomach to shreds." Drake said as he gripped his stomach harder.
"Don't worry, we will be fine, my crest is fighting as hard as it can to get rid of whatever is in my body, once it's out, I'll help heal you. I promise." I said.
"Heh, I guess I shouldn't have let my anger mix with my fighting." He whispered to himself.
I did my best to open the large metal door, and while I succeeded, I didn't have time to see a large green beam of light to encase us both, blinding us temporarily, and making us fall backwards. Once the flash was over, we looked around at our makeshift cage, and saw the human who had captured me walk forward.
"Well now. This is a surprise, I not only caught one dragon, but two!" The human said tiredly. "And it seems like you both got the bad end of my 'Dragon Neutralizing Toxin.' You needn't worry you two, the effects will not kill you, merely neutralize your strength... If it wasn't so blindingly obvious."
Drake looked far from impressed. "Do you know how hard it is to fix my Axe your stupid robot broke? When I get out of here, I'll knock all of your teeth down your throat, and then rip that throat open!" He yelled as he collapsed to his knees with a strangled cry of agony.
The human had a smile on his face as he walked to the back of the room, laughing to himself, I tried to remember what the color of this cage meant, after going over the formulas I had made, which wasn't easy with the toxin warping my brain. Once I was sure of the formulas, the color of this makeshift prison finally made sense!
This cage was made out of my prototype Healing Ray. And while it had a 100% chance to actually heal us, it only had a 15% chance on giving us our strength back. I would use that knowledge to our advantage.
"Drake?" I asked quietly.
"What is it?" He asked painfully.
"This human error made his in plan." I said groggily. Oh joy, now it affected my speech.
"Care to repeat?" He asked weakly.
"The human made an error in his plan." I said slower, managing to achieve a fully constructed sentence.
"What's that?" He said as he groaned in agony.
"I... Need you... To... Trust... Me. Let's both... Touch the bars... On the count of three." I said.
Drake gave a confused glance, but nodded, and prepared to follow along. "Ready you when are." He said. "I... I mean, ready... When you... Are." He corrected himself.
"One... Two... Three!" I said loudly. At that we both shot our hands forward and grabbed the glowing bars, it was horrendously difficult getting my other arm and hand to co-operate, but I managed somehow.
The instant our hands grasped the cage bars, a pleasing jolt of power flowed through us, I looked to my arm to see that fortune decided to shine on us. I grinned beneath my mask as my arm and leg were healing, gently mending their cuts. Even my wings were mending, the holes were practically non-exsistant.
The green blotches were gradually disappearing, and I could now move my arm with hardly any trouble, and the metaphysical fog in my brain cleared up completely. Drake seemed happy that his stomach was mending itself as well, and he let out a loud sigh of relief. We both gave each other a nod, and let go of the bars, as the Toxin was dispelled from our bodies.
But yet, we were still slightly exhausted from fighting those robots, but being healed was more than good enough for us.
"Much better, now let's see how well this human fares now that his special 'Neutralizing Toxin' is useless." Drake said angrily.
I grabbed the bars again and let the knowledge course through my veins, I sent a special counter pulse from my crest through the energy waves, and directed it towards the main CPU. It took a few seconds, but the machine shut down with a low whirr, causing the bars to dissapear.
"That was too easy though, while it is a possibility he didn't know that was my Healing Ray, that escalated a little too quickly." I said suspiciously.
"Yeah, but we're free, and ready to go." Drake said.
"Well, looks like you got out, now I can start to have fun." The human said as he clicked two large gloves around his hands.
"So you planned for that to happen." I said boredly.
"Yep, just so I could test these new beauties out." The human slipped on a pair of brown, dust covered gloves with a different color gem on each knuckle.
"My Drudge Gauntlets." I said with a masked sneer.
"What now?" Drake looked confused.
"Those are the "special surprises" I had made for your special day." I reminded him as I kept my eyes on the Gauntlets.
"What day is so "special?"" Drake asked.
"The day you release your last song, the day you said you wanted to become my partner in helping Dragonia." I looked to him.
"You made those for me?" Drake asked touched.
"Yes. But they're still in the early Alpha Prototype phase. Highly unstable, but very powerful." I said to him.
"I found these by accident, and boy they feel real nice to wear. I feel like I can squash you like a bug." The human's eyes changed to a slight red color as a long grin formed on his face.
"Really now? I think you'll find that we have a habit of getting back up no matter how many times we go down." I said lightly.
I rushed him with my glowing hand and struck, hitting thin air, and getting blasted back by a surge of energy. I turned to see Drake blocking one hit, but getting punched in the gut, groaning as his hand shot up and grabbed the human's neck while getting punched in the face.
I blurred by, standing in front of Drake as the human hit my armor, sending sparks flying, I lashed out with a right hook that cracked his jaw, then sweeped his feet out from under him, sending him down to the floor.
Drake rubbed his face and made sure his glasses weren't broken, before he grabbed the human and unleashed his anger in many, brutal strikes. "I'm going to find my wife's chamber, can you handle him?" I asked.
"Go on, I'll be fine." He yelled as he repeatedly bashed the human's face in.
I looked around frantically, trying to find a glimpse of the white sleeping chamber. I had to throw multiple things to get through some parts. I caught a glimpse of something shiny, and ran forward, jumping over various contraptions and boxes.
I quickly made out the shiny object to be the chamber I was looking for, I swiped some of the dust off and saw my wife's face, peacefully sleeping. I ripped the door off the hinges, and threw it against a wall.
"Maria." I gently tapped her face... No response. I looked over her, and saw how bony she was, frail, and unmoving. I scanned her quickly as either the human or Drake crashed into something, and fell to my knees in shock.
She wasn't alive anymore, judging from how pale and dry her skin was, and how her stomach ate through itself... She died from dehydration, and starvation. She didn't have any food or water whatsoever to sustain her. I was way too late.
I held her lifeless hand, she was locked in her own chamber, and died slowly. I looked at her, and did something I hadn't done in many millennia...
I started to cry. I was far, far too late.
Even though I had miraculous healing abilities, not even I can bring someone back from the dead, the only thing that could was black magic, if I even tried to use that, I would've labeled myself as a necromancer, and any kind of magic, light, or black is severely illegal on Dragonia. The penalty for using any kind of magic, whether helpful or not... Is brutal execution and humiliation, and siphoning as well as destruction of the magic essence.
Not like I could use magic anyway, considering Dragon's as a species were Immune to it.
I brought my hand to her face, her skin was like ice. I gripped her hand in mine, and gently stroked her hair, I felt my tears flowing through my mask, the pain I felt in my heart was stronger than what I've ever felt.
My mind felt fuzzy, my blood was heating up, and my right eye was twitching rapidly.
Drake crash landed next to me, growling as he got up, his eyes were lightly blinking in color, he looked over to me and grimaced before getting up, forgetting about the human, and instead resorted to gently patting my back as I held my head down.
Each second was just as painful as the last. But the fuzzy feeling intensified, my blood felt like molten magma, and my right eye lost its red color. I stood up as DJeero moved back, and bent my arm at an unnatural angle, to catch an incoming punch from the murderer.
I let out a low, pain filled sigh and turned to him. "I hope you're happy." I said before I pulled lightly, and ripped his arm off. The blood spewed out as he fell to the ground screaming in pain. This wasn't an Illusion. Tears flooded his eyes as I picked him up by his neck, and received another punch directly to my face...
While the strength of the Drudge Gauntlets was excessively powerful, I didn't even flinch as I held him in place with my psychic abilities, grabbed his other arm, and ripped it off as well with little effort.
The human nearly passed out from the pain, tears rolling down without restraint, but I altered his brain waves to make him stay awake and take the pain.
I only had the power alter brain waves if I was extremely angry, that was the only time my mental powers are at their strongest.
I saw that my Dark Aura, or "Insanity Aura" as most called it, surrounded me, Drake shook his head at the human and looked over to my wife.
"You really should've thought things out better man. Killing a king's wife is quite the crime, so instead of a calm death, the thing you get is... Unspeakable torture that will make you literally beg for it. All I can add is; Sucks to be you." Drake shrugged as he rubbed his back.
"I-I didn't know!" The human choked out weakly. I brought him close to my face, and with the deepest, most distorted voice I could muster, I said to him, looking straight into his pain, and fear filled eyes.
"You will suffer for all eternity for the atrocious crime you have committed this day. I will put you through a nightmare that will never end. And if your mind somehow adapts to a nightmare of that caliber, I will create another, and another, and another until your very will is shattered."
"I will also be cursing you with the ability to never age, but will make sure you stay asleep. And no... You will not bleed out."
I gently lifted Maria's body out of her sleeping chamber, and handed her to Drake.
"Hold her for me please." I said lightly. The Insanity Aura was fading as I placed the human roughly into the chamber. "Since Maria is gone, this will be your special "Nightmare Chamber"". I said as I grabbed the human's two legs, I put my foot on his chest as he flailed and kicked wildly, screaming and crying at the top of his lungs. I stunned him with a Paralytic Glare, and pulled slowly.
The sound of bones popping out of socket, filled the room, the human screaming loudly, begging me to stop, tears streaming down his paralyzed face.
I ignored him.
He tried bargaining with me as I cracked his tibia so agonizingly slow, he "promised" riches beyond all comprehension, fame and power, and all the women I wanted.
I ignored him. There was only one woman for me.
Drake and I didn't even have a guilty look as we heard flesh being torn apart. While I was "working", I turned to see Drake thinking, his head tilted up.
"Drake. You wanna help? If you want to, go ahead." I stopped momentarily to ask.
Drake smiled and replied, "sure."
As we finished, I had sealed the door over, and welded it shut. "Goodnight. Don't let the nightmares bite... Too hard." I said calmly.
"What do we do with her corpse?" Drake asked lightly.
"We take her to Ferziolix Plains for her cremation. Then scatter her ashes across the Sepstileon River." I recalled Maria was very specific where she wanted to be cremated, and have her ashes spread.
"Alright, let's get a move on, but you know, a king needs a queen. So you need to find a new girl to fill the un-fillable position". Drake pointed out with a frown.
I fell to me knees, and cried again in realization. Drake, while still holding Maria's corpse, patted my back once again. While I was crying my heart out, I felt like I was being pulled back, I looked behind myself, and saw a wormhole had opened.
I still felt weak in my legs, so I dug my claws info the ground. Drake managed to put Maria's corpse on one of the crates, and grabbed my hand.
It didn't do much good, as the wormhole pulled us even further back. I got up on wobbly legs, and spread my wings wide, pulling Drake along, I flapped out of the pulling area of its reach.
But instead of it going away, since there was nothing it could take, it instead decided to move, and track us, I set Drake down behind a random crate, and flew over towards it, I charged my Lightning Whips, and lashed out, the attack was instantly absorbed.
I tried summoning my crest's power to stop it, only for it to do nothing, at this point, my wings weren't much help.
I was getting pulled in faster than I was flying away, when it suddenly stopped, the force I built up pushing against the pull caused me to fly into the wall in the opposite direction.
"No no no!" I pushed myself out at the sound of Drake's voice, he was jumping everywhere he could, off the walls, off random crates, and even throwing a crate at the wormhole, which... It dodged.
I ran forward, grabbed Drake, and flew as fast as I could, only to get my right wing clipped, and promptly crashing right Into the wormhole as I formed underneath us. There was nothing but darkness in my vision.
[Whew! Finally, Chapter 1 is Re-Edited. Some stuff I added was a mental train wreck, but I pulled through and finished. Now I have to do Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and possibly 8. Enjoy.]
Dragonian Definitions and Stuff.
1: Scrak: (Scr-ack) Various species of large bloated rats, that are known for giving those that come in contact with their slick, greasy fur, various deadly diseases. Often times, the Dragonians use these disease spreading rodents as a form of execution due to some of the diseases they carry result in agonizing death.
2: Gorshiaytah: (Gore-she-ah-ta) The Dragonian equivalent to a Toaster.
3: Pocket Dimension: A small empty dimension that most Dragon's have. Obviously used as a storage container. The higher the Dragon's Rank, the more Pocket Dimensions you can use.