This story was written by 4fireking and iamboard and also later on chapters by my friend MonkeyBoy87. What I love about this double effort is that there is a chance it will be completed because with two brains no one will ever get stuck. That's why anime is much better than live action because it takes more than one person to make. Sure, moves and TV shows are the same but they can only have one screenwriter for it. Please read and review.
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A barbarian and a women in a pink microskirt were running away from danger that roared behind them.
The girl tripped over a rock and tried to get up, but by the time she was able to get up, it was too late. The roar had already cough up to her. The roar turned out to be a large praymantis looking thing trying to eat them. The barbarian went to save her as she was getting up but it was too late she was crushed and eaten by the praymantis looking thing, then he looked down and realized the barbarian was himself and he could either fight to avenge the girl or run to live another day. When he chose to fight he woke up.
The barbarian wasn't really running for his life. He was sleeping in a bed. The girl he was running with had her arms wrapped around his big strong arm. The barbarian heard something moving outside his window. Despite his giant muscles he was scared stiff of what was happening. Outside, a knight with a black Mohawk walked into the town looking for something to do. What he wanted was a quest.
The knight walked up to the barbarian and told the young man that he will do just fine as a companion on a quest, now that the night was dragging the barbarian along, the night just needed to find a quest. All of a sudden a girl in a short skirt ran into town raving something about a loud roar in the woods. The night had her come along for the quest as he needed somebody to show him where the newly found quest that was found. The night grabbed the barbarian and the girl and headed to the woods not knowing what would await them.
" This is incredible?" The barbarian said. " It's like what happened in my nightmare."
The knight stopped. " Did you say it happened in your nightmare?"
The barbarian replied in a frightened tone as he was still frightened of the knight "I... um... yes..."
The knights eyes widened while the girl paid no mind. The knight went on to tell the barbarian "that was no nightmare, that was a permeation of things that would come soon, tell me my good sir, what exactly happened in the dream?"
" I-I was waiting for someone to go on a quest with. When no one came I sat down and ate a drumstick of chicken. This girl ran into the tavern saying she needed someone's help and no one else would help her so I thought 'why not me?'. But when I followed her a big dragon appeared. It killed her and then it killed me."
A sight glance of horror danced along the nights eyes for a second before the knight fought of a plan to get rid of the up coming dragon and keep his new companions alive. Seeing that the barbarian already had a sward to protect himself with, he looked at the girl and then looked in his stuff trying to find something that she may be able to handle as a weapon of self defense. it was clear that if they were going to live they would need more then two people to fight the dragon.
" Can you swing a sword?" He asked her.
" No," she replied.
" You'll have to learn because it's the only weapon I have."
She looked frightened at what the knight had said, she was not a fighter, she was just the guide. After thinking about it for a bit, she reluctantly took the sword and put it on her back, it was a heavy sword in her opinion but she would have to manage some how. It was then that she realized she did not think this through before going into town and asking for help, though no person in their right mind would blame her since panic had filled her mind when she ran into town in the first place. Now that her mind was clear and thinking, she should have went to the local military for that was stationed in town for help, instead of hoping that some random stranger would come along and offer. Don't get her wrong, she appreciated the help, but now that they did not have reinforcements to help them do to her lack of thinking, they would now have to wing it and hope for the best.
The knight, the barbarian, and the guide walked to the two mountains divided from each other and walked to a door made of gold. In the barbarians dream this was where the dragon was hiding. He had to go through golems made of dirt, sorcerers, and reanimated werewolf skeletons. as they opened the heavy gold door, a question came to the barbarians mind as they had not encountered any of the foes in his dream on the way there but the path that they had taken had looked so familiar. Where were they, did the dragon scare them way and claim the area as his property, did the dragon eat all the foes, what was going on, where they trust passing? he wanted to ask these things but was his thoughts were interrupted by a loud roar coming from inside the newly opened door. instead of expressing his concerns, he made a comment "I guess she was not kidding about the loud roar. by the way, why were you doing all the way out here miss?"
That was also a question the knight wanted to know. No unarmed person would be foolish enough to step into a creep with a dragon in it. She was either working for someone or she was a bigger fool than the knight thought.
" I lost my father when I was a little girl. They said he went in this path to fight the dragon but he never returned. I want to know what happened to him."
Like the knight thought, she really was a fool.
The knight did not say anything about it as it was time to draw weapons, meaning there was not time to get on to her about her foolishness. The dragon was coming to the door to see who dare invade his home and they would need to be ready for a fight. He could scold her later when they survive this fight.
The dragon was smaller than the knight predicted. That made it easier for him to strike but harder for him to dodge. It's scales were orange like the sun. It snorted hot air out its nostrils.
The dragon attacked spewing hot scalding liquid strong enough to burn through the skin at the three. It was aiming for the ground. The barbarian jumped on a statue on his left. The knight grabbed the guide and jumped in the air with her.
the guide looked down and said "no wonder my father did not come back, this thing spews lava."
she looked down a bit sad that she had brought them to their doom without knowing what was really up. the knight and the barbarian briefly thought the question of what the heck lava was but did not ask and night resorted to trying to think of a strategy while the barbarian was trying to figure out a way to get around the liquid so he can just go gungho on the dragon.
The answer was clear. He had to get on the back of the dragon. It's claws were not burning from the lava. If he could kill it by slicing through its head he could push it out the door. The knight jumped on top of a chandelier in the ceiling and put the guide down.
He had the chance to kill the dragon. A fall from this height was enough to slice through the dragon's head. He fell, both hands on his sword, the dragon turned to him and breathed fire. It was more than a lava dragon; it could also breath fire. If the barbarian didn't jump in the Knights way and push him through the wall he would be dead.
The knight was going to thank the barbarian but wanted to ask how he knew to do that, but there was not time as the dragon decided to continue the on slot of fire and lava. the guild who was still not hurt yet was looking down wondering how she can fix this.
' He was trying to cut through the dragons head.'
The guide was trying to raise her sword so she could jump off and cut its head. She was having trouble lifting her heavy sword.
she forced herself to lift the sword, ignoring the pain in her arms. she looked down at what was going on to make sure everything was in place. using the men as a discretion she make the leap with the sword lifted as high as she could and and as she neared the dragons neck used gravity to swing the sword down fast, only using her straight to lift and not swing. the sword went into the neck point first, the dragon stopped breathing fire but was still alive and started to struggling she held on as tight as she could to the sword but the only thing she did was give the men an opening.
" Are you ready to save her?" The knight yelled raising his sword in the air.
" Absolutely!" The barbarian raised his giant axe.
The knight and the barbarian jumped off the hole. The knight grabbed her and carried her back to the chandelier leaving her sword behind. The barbarian was strong. He raised the sword off with one hand and prepared to cut through the dragons vertical slash mark.
the sword went though before the dragon had a chance to realize what had happened and retaliate but the body was still moving as it was slowing dying and the head made a large crash into the still hot lava. The barbarian had a hard time holding on to the dragon as it died and the knight hurried down to grab him before he was knocked off into the lava. the knight brought him back to the chandelier only to have the chandelier fall under the weight of the party. the only thing that saved them what the fact that the chandelier slowly melted with enough time for them to get to a safe spot.
" I'm only going to say this once," said the knight. " Good teamwork."
Since the dragon was killed the guide left. The knight was going to miss her. Even when he was wearing armor he enjoyed touching her soft skin. But this was the first girl he liked he had to say goodbye to. Now he and the barbarian were heading back to his house. The barbarian was feeling very tired after cutting through the head of a dragon.
as they were walking home, the barbarian asked "do you think either one of us would will ever encounter her again? she was pretty cute"
" I don't know. I know one of us might get lucky enough to see her, I just know we won't be together. I'm on a journey by myself."
"A journey to what?" the barbarian asked the knight. he goes on with "i thought you would have asked her out before she left, i saw that look in your eyes when you first saw her, you like her enough to court her." at this point it was apparent that the barbarian was teasing the knight.
" I saw how she held her sword...she lacked any strength in her hands. She had no experience fighting. I cannot bring weaklings along on this journey, they will be killed."
" Or maybe you should have given her a smaller weapon."
" That sword was the most powerful weapon anyone can be given."
"I did not say bring her with you, i said to go out on a date with her. and if that sword was so powerful, why didn't you use it yourself? you just let her have it because you like her. Admit it."
The knight blushes "N...n...no... I don't, your just making up stuff"
"Or maybe you just don't want your new found attraction to get hurt"
" I admit I had feelings of attraction towards her and I gave her that sword because I was trying to protect her, but my quest is more important than some girl I just met. I have to face a giant, shape shifter, and a queen of killer insects."
"you make it sound like your more of a monster hunter then a knight and the only way for a person to get battle experience is to actually practice and go into battle. she may have never even thought of the idea of revenge.. she just said she wanted to see why her father did not come back. besides, why do you have to kill a gianganto, a shape shiftier, and a insect queen anyway?"
" Because it's part of something called Legend of Dragoon. After I beat these three I'm said to be allowed to challenge other people for the chance to have an upgrade. I will be able to cut through mountains, run across lakes, and shatter trees just by running through them. It's the greatest challenge of the world."
"Huh? you came to this town asking for a quest all so you can join a competition? when was the last time you got laid?" as the barbarian is asking this he is looking at the knight like he grew a second head.
" Knock it off! I can't help being a..." The knight almost unveiled his most troubling secret. If he said that to the barbarian he would make fun of him until he died of embarrassment.
"Being a what?" the barbarian asked as he opened his front door. "i am sure what ever it is, it isn't that bad" the barbarian continued as he invited the knight inside his house.
The knight was embarrassed entering his home. There were women sleeping on the floor. They looked like they were sleeping after a wild party. The man sit down and waited for the barbarian to come back with a leg of meat, cooked duck, and a pig with an apple in his mouth. The barbarian offered it all to the knight.
" No thank you," he politely declined. " I'm a vegetarian."
The barbarian looked at the knight like he had grown a third head "so if you were not trying to do this competition, would you date that girl?"
Meanwhile back with the girl, she went back to the golden door to do some more investigating, like she was doing before she first heard the roar, she had an odd feeling that here was more to the place that met the eye.
