AN: Hello, this is my first fanfic. I hope you enjoyed reading this.
There is no Action genre, so... yeah.
Many thanks to Loyal Lady Pisces for being a very helpful beta.
Disclaimer: I don't own Future Card Buddyfight.
Chapter 1: Final Breakthrough
Standing on top of a cliff, a large white dragon look ahead to a large door where various demonic creatures poured out, from little creature such as skeletons, to large beings like black scaled dragons.
His outfit consists of a mask that covers his head, only his eyes are visible. Armor which covers only his upper half, leaving his lower torso exposed alongside spiked shoulder guard and gauntlet. On his lower extremities, all he wears is a pair of leg guard which and a black loincloth clasped by a metallic ring around his waist. His wings too, have a metal guard on the top section. All of this is colored in black, with golden trimming on the edges. On his right hand is his weapon, a large scythe, about as long as him, with black and gold trimming on its handle. Even just looking at him alone, one could easily see that this is an intimidating dragon through his looks.
It is only so, for he is part of the legendary knights of the Dragon World that consists of white armor dragon, the Purgatory Knights. Originally, he is known as Death Scythe Dragon, for his trademark scythe he always carried with him. These days, he is known for Death Sickle to make him less...scary, despite the word 'Death' is still there. Perhaps due to the fact that his enemies always feel like they are staring at the Death itself.
He is also known to be a stoic dragon, rarely talks, prefers to communicate via nods, or grunt. As far as anyone knows, no one ever know his real name, yet all he ever revealed is one word 'Cronus', which everyone believe is his name….a year after he is known as Death Sickle Dragon.
The entire group have just been separated when a large black dragon attacked their home base. Fortunately, the black dragon is dispatched quickly. Unfortunately, the battle attracted a lot of demons, forcing them to separate in groups and reunite at their destination.
Silently, he surveyed his surroundings. Pitch-black sky, demonic creatures are everywhere, signs of destruction too. He knows this will be a long and tough battle, but he remains confident, for he is not alone.
Standing beside him is another armored white dragon, this dragon have similar appearances to him, except his horn, which is long like a bull. His weapon is a wide thin sword. Despite a little smaller, this dragon is the leader of the Purgatory Knights, Demios Sword Dragon, known his quick and relentless assault on his enemies.
They knew that the time of their greatest battle is at hand. This time, they are fighting to protect their homeland. Demios, giving his companion a silent nod, began to spread his wings and soar towards the demon army. Cronus quickly followed suit, wielding his large scythe with both hand.
Long ago, a door leading to the Dragon World opened, allowing demonic creatures to pour out from the Darkness Dragon World, plunging the world into a state of chaos.
Demios quickly cut down a few demons in the way, while Cronus mows down a large number them with a swing of his scythe. Together, they rushed forward towards their destination, the door to Darkness Dragon World.
What caused such event remain unknown, yet the only thing that is remembered, that day is known as 'The Invasion'.
Not far, another two white armor dragon also fly alongside them, defeating various demons along the way. One of them is a white armor dragon with 3 pairs of thin green wings on his back, wielding a pair of black sword, which he wield backhand, he is known as 'Blackknife Dragon', while his real name is Aeolus.
The Invasion quickly decimated many kingdoms, rendering them powerless to fight back.
After he cut down a few Death Rulers, he was caught off guard when he suddenly came into contact with a black dragon, jaws opened wide, trying to devour him. Before he could react, a bolt flied off, hitting the black dragon square in chest.
Behind him, a small white armor dragon wielding a crossbow, who just finished shooting at said black dragon, within Purgatory Knights, he is known as Crossbow Dragon. "Are you alright Aeolus?" The dragon in question turned around and sees his small companion looks a little worried. "I'm alright Cross, let us make haste. We cannot lose any more time." With that, both quickly resume their flight, catching up with Demios and Cronus.
In response to the state of distress, the mightiest knight of Dragon World, the Purgatory Knights gathered to disperse the demon army.
"Aeolus, Cross. It is good to see you two all right." Demios greeted his teammates, while Cronus simply nod at them. Four of them, fly together at incredible speed, continuing to defeat any demons blocking their paths.
This is their greatest battle... that will go down in history of the Dragon World... as 'Heroes of Dragon World: The Purgatory Knights.'
A bit far from there, another three white armor dragons are currently fighting against another black dragon. His entire body is wrapped around black tendrils, covering his blood red colored body, his wings have blade embedded at them.
Yet no battle is won without sacrifices. For the cost of war is always too high.
"What is this 'creature'?" One of them, a muscular dragon with long brown hair wielding a pair of sharp knuckle looked at their current enemy, he is known as 'Knuckleduster', known as Dusk to other members. Beside him, a lightly dressed female dragon looked intensely at the dragon, her weapon is a wand, she is known as 'Selene' for her expertise in magic attack, and her healing abilities. "I am Black Dragon, Death Hang! I will show you how meaningless 'Living' is." As Death Hang declared himself, Selene cast a spell, 'Dragoenergy' at both of her companions, Dusk, and a large dragon wielding a spiky chain with a spiky metal ring at the edge; he is known as 'Iron Gerd', known as Gerald by his teammates.
Death Hang began to start his assault by unleashing his tendrils at three of them. "Dusk, Gerald, look out!" Looking at the incoming attacks, three of them quickly dive out of the way. As Selene dive to the left, she saw a red core exposed at his chest when the tendrils began their assault. Gaining her footing, she began her attacks by casting ice bolts at Death Hang, attempting to hit the core, but it simply cut a few of his tendrils. Gerald also throw his chain, attempting to bind his enemy with his chain, while Dusk tries to get closer and strike him, but the tendrils caught Gerald's chain, forcibly pulled him closer to Death Hang, himself prepared to claw his victim. But Dusk used the moment to stab him in his core.
The attack caused the dragon to roar in pain and make the tendrils let go of the chain. "You, puny dragons..." His voice is filled with anger, and he began to spread his wings, blades pointed at them, ready to shoot.
"I will show you that resistance is futile, that 'Living' is meaningless!" The tendrils began to pull various blade embedded off his wings, and fling it at them. Selene and Dusk managed to evade, but one of the blade scratched Gerald's right arm, drawing out a little blood.
Unfortunately for them, immediately after flinging the sword, the tendrils rushed forward and caught three of them, the closest victim happen to be Dusk.
Before he is able to react, Dusk feels an incredible pain at his chest, making him scream loudly. Looking down, he saw that the tendrils have used a pair of blades to cut a section on his body, leaving a bloody X mark on him.
"It's painful isn't it?'Living' is meaningless. Especially when all you can feel is pain." hang taunted his victim. Dusk can only panted as he continues to withstand the pain. "So, allow me to end your life. Be grateful, for after this, you won't feel any more pain." With that, Death Hang prepares to finish his victim off, while both Selene and Gerald can only helplessly watch, which he would succeed not for an agonizing pain in his chest. The pain causes the tendrils to drop three of them, with Gerald quickly rush ahead, catching Dusk in his arms before run back to Selene.
Looking down, Death Hang saw a black, halberd-scythe hybrid weapon lodged at his core. The lodged weapon suddenly moved, dislodging itself from him, causing him to roar in pain as the weapon returned to its master.
While Selene desperately tries to heal Dusk with 'Dragonic Heal', Gerald looked at their savior, and surprised that it is their third in command, Anima.
The dragon most noticeable feature is the fact that he is legless, making him similar to a naga. He silently slithers forward. The weapon that he thrown earlier has returned to his left hand has a small blood on the edge. He looked at Death Hang, his face is emotionless. "If 'Living' is meaningless because of pain, then let death be a more painful experience for you."
After saying that, he throws his weapon once more at his core. This time, it struck deeper than before; piercing him completely. Blood seeped through the wound, puddle the ground below. Death Hang can only roared as he feels his life spirited away. Eventually, he drop dead, his tendrils melted showing his blood red skin. Anima looked at the corpse for a moment before head off towards three of them.
"How is he?" Anima looked at Dusk. Selene just finished healing Dusk, "A little better." Dusk simply chuckled lightly at his own condition, while Gerald simply stayed silent; after all it is normal to be injured while in battlefield, but not this common to suffer such wound. Dusk tried to get up, but his condition doesn't allow him to do so.
"This is troubling..." Anima shakes his head at current predicament. One hand, they need to reach the gate as soon as possible. On the other hand, they can't just leave him. Purgatory Knights never abandon each other.
Gerald silently carries Dusk in his arms. Anima quickly recognized the solution and nod in approval. "Take care of him Gerald. Make sure you didn't drop him during our run. We have wasted enough time, let us go." With that three of them began running towards their destination.
After everything that went through, will you say it was worth it?
Meanwhile, the sky team isn't faring to well compare to the ground team either. The sheer numbers of demons in their way caused them to stop for a few times. Not helped by the fact that right now, they are locked in a fight against a seven headed black dragon.
"Argh! Just when we are so close..." Aeolus grunted in frustration over their current predicament.
"The time for your demise is near! I am Samael Apocalypse, for I am the embodiment of apocalypse itself!" The air vibrates with such declaration, shaking four of them. Using this moment as an opening three of the head spew a wave a blue flame at them. Aeolus and Cross quickly flew out of the way, while Cronus and Demios use the chance to get closer. Yet three other head began to attempt to bite them. Demios attempt to led the heads around in circle, hoping that he is stupid enough to fall for the trick.
It worked; three of the heads are in a loop, unable to move due to their current position. Cronus took advantage and cut off one head, while Demios and Aeolus used their speed to get closer to the other two head, beheading them, the heads that has been cut off burst into flames.
Samael roared in agony as he feels 3 of his head has been cut off. Angered by the turn of events, he began to spew fire randomly, in hopes to incinerate them, wherever they are.
The fire breath injured Demios and Cross, each suffering a burn mark at their arm and wings respectively, while Cronus suffered a burn at both his arms, and Aeolus blocked the incoming fire with his large shoulder guard.
Not too far from them, a large muscular white armor dragon, wearing a big cape, wielding a spear in left hand, and a blade that curved forward in left hand looked at the battle going on with interest. "It appears that I'm late to the party. Heh, this won't take long." With incredible speed, he rushes to Samael.
As four of them continue to dodge, a figure rushed through them, catching them by surprise. He rushes through Samael, piercing the base of his neck with his spear. Samael roared in pain as he looked down on his assaulter. Still holding the spear, he performed an X slash with both of his weapon, cutting off the main head. The remaining head, can only roar in pain and defiant as the main has been killed. His body dropped to the ground below, where he lay dead. The dragon simply scoffs at his now dead opponent, "Too weak," before turning around to the four armor dragons.
"I see that four of you have enjoyed some 'warmth'. How lucky." He chuckled in amusement watching them. "Very funny, Phobos." Aelous, completely unimpressed at his joke, brushed his shoulder guard. "That's vice captain Phobos for you Aeolus!"
"All right, that's enough. We must head on, we almost arrived." With that, Demios began to resume his flight with the rest followed suit.
Cronus silently looked at Cross's singed wing. The burn mark isn't pretty bad, but it definitely looked hurt as Cross has to ride on Aelous back, compared to his arms, which suffered only a light burn. Turning forward, he sees that they have arrived. The gate to Darkness Dragon World...
No, the answer will always be 'I wish I could do more to help.'
To be continued...
AN: Well, how's the first chapter? Constructive Criticism is welcome. It helps me to improve my writing since this is my first time writing a fanfic.
Soundtrack that inspired me;
Bayonetta - One of a Kind
I also notice something interesting, all of Purgatory Knights have red eyes, yes, even Lunacy Wand, it's there. Probably it's there after got corrupted, but Death Sickle? It gives me an odd feeling that he was a spy for DDW...
Well, never mind that.
On a side note, explaining the names, my theory is that, their names are changed after being converted into DDW. This is a mere speculation for their original names, mostly based around Greek gods:
Cronus: From the twelve titans, also associated with scythe or sickle. Real name will be revealed soon. From Death Sickle Dragon.
Aeolus: Wind god of Greek mythology. From Blackknife Dragon
Cross: Shortened from crossbow. From Crossbow Dragon
Selene: Personification of moon (Greek). From Lunacy Wand, no relation to Moon Celestial, Selene.
Anima: Latin for soul, derived from the Greek word psyche. From Cruel Command
Gerald: From Iron Gerd, it also happens to be a disease name, which is Gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Dusk: Taken after the darkest stage of twilight. From Knuckleduster Dragon
Phobos: Personification of fear from Greek mythology, twin brother of Deimos. From Malice Force Dragon