Chapter 1: theres a fourth kingdom?
Long ago on Avalice there was a kingdom flourishing with dragons of all kinds fire, water, earth , ice you name it they al lived in peaceful harmony until one day the sky turned dark on this once peaceful kingdom and one by one dragons started to die from a deadly illness while others where killed or captured by mysterious black creatures under the control of three mysterious figures. Fearing extinction the king had sent two dragon eggs one of his and one of his most trusted knight whom he had treated as a brother from this kingdom to one of the other three main kingdoms of Avalice . And as the eggs traveled the king's made it to an orphanage while the knights got lost within the forest...
...and was never found or seen since...
17 years later
'Shang tu'
A dragon named Lilac, and her friends Carol the wildcat and Milla the hound were summoned to meet with the magister for an important mission.
" So what do you think the magister
want's this time?" asked Carol
"It must be something big if prince Dail and mayor Zao are going to be there" said Milla
"Come on we don't have time to mess around girls let's just go and see what's going on" said lilac as they walked to the magister's castle.
As they entered the castle they were greeted by two of the magister's loyal guards the head general Gong and the ice priestess Neera Li.
"Hi guys" Lilac said
"Hello"gong said
"Greetings" Neera said
" So do you guys have any idea what our mission might be?" Carol asked
"No but everything should be covered in the briefing" Neera said
"Now you guys go ahead the magister's waiting on you guys" Gong said
"Ok then we'll be off " Milla said as she Lilac and Carol walked towards the meeting room
As they opened the door they were greeted by King Dail of shuigang, mayor zao of Shang mu, and the magister of Shang tu . "Greetings Sash Lilac, Carol tea ,and Milla basset. thank you for answering our summons" said the Magister
" it's no problem at all your excellency" said Lilac as she carol and Milla all give him a small bow.
" Now as for why your here we have something that might be of interest to all of you especially you Lilac" said Dail as he gave them a picture of an old castle
"Umm I don't think I follow" Lilac said confused
"It's ok we were confused at first too" mayor Zao said
" it's actually a picture of a castle that belonged to the dragon race a couple of years back" the magister said
" wow even in it's ruined state this still looks majestic " Carol said in surprise
"U-um mr. magister what does this have to do with our mission " Milla asked.
"Well the three of us have planed to send our troops to investigate but when we did they never came back" Dail said
"It is for this reason that we are sending you three to investigate not only what caused it but we also want you to do some recon on that castle" Zao said
"So will you accept our mission" the magister said
"Of course" Lilac said
"Good you three won't be on your own of course I've sent one of my top solders to join you. He'll meet you in the forest" Dail said
"Ok sir lets go girls time to do what we do best." Lilac said in an encouraging tone
"YEA!" Milla and Carol said excitedly as they headed to the forest.
Jade forest
"Ok so where is our back up we've been running for hours" Carol said
"I'm not sure but king Dail said he would meet up with us in the forest" Lilac said
"Our best option would be to keep moving" Milla said "we're bound to run into him sooner or later".
And as she said that four creatures fell from the sky shrouded in shadows with red eyes.
"Whoa what are these things?" Carol asked getting into a fighting stance.
"I don't know but they don't look friendly keep your guard up" as Lilac said that one of the creatures tried to scratch at her with its long claws only to barely miss her as she jumped to dodge it and retaliate with a mean kick to the face causing the beast to fly into a nearby tree as it made contact with the tree it faded away leaving nothing behind.
Meanwhile Carol was fighting two of these creatures as they both tried to strike her all attempts proved futile as she dodged every single strike she then threw her hop disk at one stunning it for a bit as she went to attack the next one with her wild claw shredding it to nothing and as she returned her attention to the recovering creature. She then jumped into the air and came down with a powerful kick to the monster's head causing it to fade
As for Milla she was dealing with a single black creature and it seemed to be tougher than the others evident by some shallow cuts and bruises but she had no problem dealing with it as she set a cube and shot a cube burst at point blank range destroying the monster.
"Hey Milla are you ok" Lilac said
"Yep" Milla Said
But then all of a sudden a black creature tried to attack Milla from behind " MILLA LOOK OUT!" Lilac screamed but all Milla could do was close her eyes and brace herself for the pain but then a gunshot was heard prompting her to open her eyes only to see the creature suddenly fall to its side and fade away.
"W-what was that ?" Lilac asked only to have her question answered when a figure fell from a nearby tree revealing to be a black fox with blue eyes holding a silver revolver and wearing a green and yellow striped shirt and brown shorts with extra pockets he was also wearing a satchel and a utility belt consisting of a knife, a holster for his gun and some grenades he looked pretty young no older than Milla actually.
" Oh good you guys made it I thought those creatures got to you" the fox said
"Please it's gonna take more than that to take us down" Carol said her voice full of pride
"Who might you be" Lilac said kindly
"I'm Koro Nagisa the fox and I'm your back up for this mission" He said pridefully
"WAIT YOUR OUR BACKUP YOUR JUST A CHILD!" Lilac screamed outraged at the fact that Dail would send a boy on a mission especially one with monsters like these
"Hey that's not nice I may be young but I rose through the ranks of Dail's army thanks to my fathers training not even general Gong could beat me" Koro said
"Wow" Milla said amazed at Koro's accomplishments.
After taking a closer look at Milla something flashed in Koro's mind " Hey I remember you 2 years ago" he said
"Wait you do?" Milla asked
"Yea from Brevon's spaceship" Koro said shocking everyone
"BREVON!" the girls said
"Yea on his space ship" Koro said
Flashback
In Brevon's ship (cell bay)
Koro was sitting in the cell holding his revolver close to him "Dad I wish you were here" he thought to himself
Then suddenly the ship went offline and the prison doors were opened "wow not what I expected but I'll take it "the fox said as he took this chance to run out of the cell bay and made a beeline for the surveillance room "maybe there's away off this ship through there" he said.
After fighting through the many robots Koro had made it to the surveillance room and began looking through the cameras until he finally found the escape pods "sweet now to get out of here" he said as he got ready to leave he heard screaming causing him to turn towards the monitors.
"Milla...MILLA!.." Cried Lilac hoping that her friend would wake up but she never did.
"I should go and check on them" Koro said running towards the area on the monitor. By the time he got there he noticed that the dragon was nowhere to be found but the hush basset still lies there motionless.
" Hey you ok?" Koro asked but there was no response the fox was now beginning to worry.
"Oh god please don't be dead" he said flipping the basset over and putting an ear over her chest he could feel her faint heartbeat and she was barely breathing
" Oh thank goodness I still gotta get you help" Koro said carrying the basset over his shoulder " I'll keep you safe till then" he said
As Koro carried the basset hound barely avoiding the guards as he snuck towards the escape pods he ran into Carol.
"Oh god Milla what happened!" The wildcat said
"I don't know but she isn't gonna last long"Koro said
After explaining loud footsteps could be heard heading their direction "uh oh they found us" Koro said
"What's the plan?" Carol asked
"You need to get her out of here ill hold them off" Koro said holding his gun out to the approaching solders
"Are you sure?" Carol asked
"Trust me I've got this" Koro said
"Ok then I'll leave to you umm..."
"Koro" he said finishing her sentence for her
"Right thanks Koro I won't forget this" Carol said running with Milla in her arms.
"Don't worry about it" Koro said smiling as he faced the solders
Flashback end
"Oh yeah I remember now" Carol said slamming her fist on her hand.
" But how did you escape ?" Lilac asked
"After dealing with the solders I took off in one of their escape pods and landed in shuigang King Dail found me and trained me shortly after. I became a member of his army and you know the rest" Koro explained
"What happened to your parents?" Lilac asked
"Mom died during a mission and my father's gone missing ever since the Brevon invasion that's why I chose to join this mission. My dad was doing research on the dragon race maybe his research might've brought him to that kingdom mentioned in the breffing Koro said
"Ok I understand Koro it's great to have you aboard then" Lilac said
"Likewise and I'll try not to get In your way" Koro said
"U-um Koro" Milla said shyly
"Yea Milla?" Koro said
"I just wanted to say thank you for saving me again" She said
"Don't worry about it" Koro said smiling at the hound.
"We've wasted enough time let's make some distance" Carol said as she and the others continued to move deeper in the forest.