Dragon Quest 8: The Story with no Title
Summery: When Eight and the gang are still pursuing Leopold while he is under the control of Rhapthorne, Eight and Angelo end losing Yangus and the rest of the gang and they end up getting captured and other weird things start happening that has to do with Eight's past. Don't worry this is no guy/guy thing, no relationships.
"Don't lose sight of that damn dog!" King Trode kept on screaming.
"O shut the 'ell up, it isn't like your making' yerself useful!" Yangus yelled.
Eight said, "Enough, there's no time for this nonsense, we've got to get the dog, defeat it and somehow get the scepter without touching it and make sure Rhapthorn stays sealed inside that scepter forever." After that a "humph" and a "Sorry guv." could be heard. 'Besides I'm beginning to think that Yangus might actually have a point.' thought Eight. He would never say this thought out loud, afraid that he would get the King worked up and start another fight.
If you don't know, the heroes of this story are Eight, Yangus, Jessica and Angelo (the other two haven't spoken yet but they're there) and are traveling with King Trode and his daughter, Medea. Eight has short brown hair and it was covered under an orange bandana that he wore over his head, he also has brown eyes and carried a uber miracle sword. King Trode had barf green skin and was ugly (I'm not being mean to him, I'm just telling it the way it is). Yangus is bigger than King Trode and about the same age. Has a weird accent and a beer belly, he carried the conqueror's ax as his weapon. Jessica, one of the only girls in this group (the only one not a horse) had orange hair with eyes to match, she carried a scourge whip. Angelo had blue eyes and gray hair and was dressed in a red uniform of the Templar knights, he carried a sword called the hell saber. Medea, princess of Trodain and also King Trode's daughter was in the form of a beautiful white horse with green eyes.
They are currently running after a dog because it was possessed by an evil known as Rhapthorne, who was sealed within a scepter that the dog was carrying inside it's mouth. They needed to get the scepter back because while Rhapthorne has been possessing people and other creatures, he has managed to kill some of the descendants of the people that imprisoned him within the scepter and he also put a curse on King Trode, Medea and all of the people in the Trodainian kingdom, except for their guard, Eight, who was also there at the time the curse hit the kingdom, though no one really understands how he escaped unscathed. It's all a very long story.
While they had been tracking down the Leopold – the dog, they were running into the woods. Something they are very used to doing, only when they kept walking they finally reached the road did the group start having problems. The problem was that the road ended up dividing into two roads. Usually this wouldn't be a problem because the Dark tree leaf would have been able to track Rhapthorne because it had the ability to track evil if you put it on a map, but now it just kept twirling around on the map. The group also tried to use another item called the Godbird's Soulstone, an item that carries the soul of the Godbird, Empereaya's (might've not spelled this right) child, who helps them to fly in the sky, but for some reason the soulstone couldn't didn't work like it usually did
"I hate to say this guv, but I think we need to split up to cover more ground," said Jessica.
"You're right," stated Eight (Or guv as his friends called him), "but the questions are who goes where with whom?"
"I'm going to stick with the King Trode and Medea (the horse/princess) and go on the path on the right." Jessica said.
"Well, I'm going to follow the path on the left." Eight said.
"But why m'boy?" King Trode asked, all Eight would say was that there was something there that he needed to see and surprisingly, Trode didn't get upset and accepted what was said.
"I'll go with you guv." Angelo said. It was a surprise because everyone thought for sure that he would go with Jessica, like the pervert like he was.
"Then it's settled, Yangus will go with Jessica and King Trode." Eight declared,
Yangus said, "Aw right guv, if you think its best." And with those last words, the group finally went separate ways, but the thing they were too busy to notice was that from behind the shadows and trees they were being watched and when the party went separate on paths, the ones watching them earlier decided to follow the path Eight and Angelo took.
After a few minutes of walking, Eight decided to ask Angelo the question that was burning on his mind. "Angelo, how come you decided to come with me on this path?"
"Why do you care?" Angelo asked nastily. You could hear the anxiety coming off his voice and it made Eight worry.
"I'm sorry Angelo, I'm just a little surprised that you didn't go with Jessica, King Trode and Medea."
"Well it doesn't matter now," Angelo murmured.
"Did I do something to you that I don't know about? 'Cause if I did you could just tell me about it and make this easier for the both of us." Eight said, he was beginning to wish he went with the cart.
"Look, I'm sorry I'm just a little scared," said Angelo, "I've been scared because ever since you chose this path my bad feeling just got worse and I came with you because I felt you would need my help and when I have a bad feeling I'm never wrong guv." "Thanks Angelo that must mean that the dog went this way." Eight reasoned.
'I've been having this bad feeling ever since before we split up, like we were being watched so I don't think it was the dog this time.' thought Angelo, but he didn't want to say anything.
Eight and Angelo kept walking for a while, the strangers following them and whispering, they kept saying "It is time, it is time." The strangers decided to finally reveal themselves. They had gray skin and yellow eyes; you could just tell they weren't human. They surrounded the two, but that didn't stop Eight and Angelo from trying to fight them off. They unsheathed their swords and started to fight. Angelo used a Swoosh spell – like a tornado - to try and move the enemies out of the way and Eight was using his miracle sword to cut his enemies down to size, but it was useless, no matter how many times the two warriors defeated the enemies, more would just pop up. After the two warriors finally tired themselves out the enemies opened their mouths and a pinkish - purple gas came out.
"What is this stuff?" Eight asked, "Why do I feel so drowsy?"
"Guv, they're using the gas to put us to sleep, I don't know what they could want with us but we have to get out of here!" Angelo cried. Before they could do anything it was too late – they were already asleep. While they were no longer conscious, the strangers were talking.
"We've finally got him."
"But what will we do with the other one, the light haired one?"
"We'll take him too, just incase." So they carried Eight and Angelo and disappeared like they were never there to begin with.