Dragon Nest Fanfic

Nyle: Priest

Fortis: Swordmaster

Cygnus: Force User

Solus: Bowmaster

Enter the Minotaur

"Alright alright guys! Everyone got your seals? It's gonna be a wild ride to hell and back once we're in there. No point dying because we forgot something stupid." Nyle cried out at the ragtag group he had assembled.

"I got mine, but where do I put it, my head or my arm?" Fortis asked, playing with his seal, attaching it to his shoulder before removing it and wearing it like a helmet.

"If you want to wear it, do this." Cygnus laughed, pushing Fortis' "helmet" down to cover his eyes as she strutted past.

"Humans have the weirdest fashion sense... Do you always obstruct your field of vision with protective equipment before important battles? It would be incredibly hard to see your enemies, let alone fight." Solus mumbled thoughtfully to herself, studying Fortis' new look.

"It's a joke Solus! He's not supposed to look like that!" Cygnus called over her back, pushing Fortis' seal back above his eyebrows with a tiny gravity ball.

"Ohhhh..." Solus whispered to nobody in particular, nodding her head in acknowledgement.

Heading down the road to the Minotaur's Nest, Nyle took point with his wand and shield drawn in anticipation of any sneak attack or surprises that they may run along on the way.

"Uhhh Nyle, I think the traps start when you actually REACH the Nest." Fortis said, tripping a wire which resulted in a trap that nearly flattened Cygnus. "Careful where you're going you moron!" Cygnus yelled, blinking away from the trap and smacking Fortis on the head with the back of her hand as she landed.

Reaching the nest after Fortis was done 'nearly' killing all of his teammates, (he is REALLY REALLY sorry), Nyle held out a clenched fist over his head, the signal to gather.

"Right, we're in without too much problems..." Nyle said, staring in Fortis' direction, "There are only two minotaur guards that guard the entrance, one is a cavalry and the other an elite. They'll definitely wake up if Fortis or I approach them so Solus and Cygnus, you're up. Each of you pick one and take them out before they have a chance to raise any alarms."

"Sounds like a good plan." Solus said, pulling an arrow out of her quiver.

"One minor, nah scratch that, major problem." Cygnus added, pointing ahead at a blue haired streak heading for the sleeping minotaurs.

"Holy..." Cygnus muttered.

"Shit!" Nyle yelled, running at the minotaurs as well, "quick guys! Save him!"

As Cygnus shook her head while starting the ritual and calculations that brought forth a comet from outer space, Solus drew the arrow back and filled in with energy letting loose a magically laced arrow aimed at the cavalry minotaur's eye.

"Chain Lightning!" Nyle yelled, hitting the elite minotaur with a concentrated bolt of lightning, paralysing it and causing it to stagger.

"Hey... Thanks..." was all Fortis managed to blurt out until Nyle grabbed him and sent him flying backwards unceremoniously away from the axe that was now stuck in the ground where a certain swordmaster had sat.

"Stay sharp! Let your guard down and you're toast!" Nyle yelled as he slide tackled under an arrow Solus shot and hit the cavalry minotaur.

"No need to tell me that!" Fortis yelled, swinging his sword and sending a wave of air at the nearest minotaur causing it to stagger.

"Crush the enemy! Comet!" Cygnus yelled, finally dropping the comet onto both monsters, killing them simultaneously.

"Nice one Cygnus." Nyle said, wiping the sweat off his brow, nodding in the Force User's direction.

"No need to thank me, just make sure I'm well rewarded." Cygnus replied, teleporting through the gates.

"If she wasn't the most powerful sorceress around I would actually have my doubts about hiring her..." Nyle muttered to himself as he followed the rest of the group into the main nest area.

"Foolish humans. This is not a place for you!" A loud voice boomed through the nest, echoing off the towers.

"What the, who..." Fortis muttered, looking around for the source of the voice.

"Up there!" Nyle shouted, pointing to a gargantuan minotaur dressed in red armor, his axe as big as a tree.

"On it!" Cygnus yelled, charging power in her staff and letting loose a beam of energy aimed right at the minotaur's head.

"General Ummanba will not be taken down by petty tricks such as that." One of the two minotaur flanking the leader sneered, the energy simply dissipating even before it reached its target.

"Comrades, we have enemies incoming!" Solus whispered, raising her heel and slamming it into the ground, sending a shot that caused several minotaurs to stagger in its wake.

Dashing ahead of the pack, Fortis ran straight to the largest minotaur of the group, swinging his sword in an uppercut, spinning his body to send the minotaur airborne, finishing with three airborne strikes before landing, the minotaur dead even before it hit the ground.

"Outdo that!" Fortis yelled to Nyle, who eyed the minotaur that slowly approached him, circling around him.

"Divine light has no mercy on the unworthy, relic of God, bring down thine judgment on those who oppose you!" Nyle whispered, raising his wand and swinging it down roughly summoning a lightning charged relic that slammed into the ground, forming a small crater where it landed, zapping all the nearby minotaur.

"Thou who have sinned, taste divine wrath of the heavens! Detonate!"

Bringing down more bolts of lightning on the minotaurs that were already electrocuted, Nyle surveyed the most recent scene of carnage, the most recently killed corpses still smoking.

"How are the other two doing?" Nyle said, looking over as Cygnus stood still, her eyes closed as her crystal ball glowed brightly, Solus doing her best to keep the enemy back with arrow after arrow, not succeeding in doing so.

Her eyes flying open, Cygnus summoned gravitational orb after gravitational orb, covering the area around her fully with multiple orbs that crushed anything that came in contact with them, felling minotaurs and causing them to fall one by one.

"Nice! Anybody hurt? I'm ready to start treating wounds if anybody..."

"Hey look! More of them!" Fortis yelled gleefully, taking off to engage the quickly approaching line of minotaur cavalry and elites.

Nodding to Cygnus as he sighed, the only reply Nyle got was a flirty look from Cygnus as she licked her lips, starting the preparations needed to bring out the largest gravitational force available, the "Black Hole".

"Ha! They aren't so tough!" Fortis laughed, smacking cavalry and elite alike, unaware of the black circle that had appeared, the lines connecting to form one large summoning crest.

"Darkness of the world..." Cygnus whispered, checking that both the crest on the ground and the crest in the air were stable before opening the gate that created a void, a void so powerful that it sucked in all matter, a gate to oblivion.

"Who-whoa!" Fortis cried, sucked into the gaping maw of the abyss as well, using anything he could grab on to, foe and inanimate object alike to avoid getting pulled into the black hole until it finally fizzled and vanished, "That was close Cygnus!"

"You're fault for not watching the warning signs..." Cygnus said nochalantly, shooting an array of lasers while doing so.

"Comrades stand back, don't let them regroup. Allow me to stop them!" Solus said, her bowstring pulled to the limit, waiting for the opportunity.

As soon as Nyle had grabbed Fortis and leaped backwards, Solus let out a stream of arrows from her bow, some missing their mark, but a large majority raining down like hail on the confused minotaurs that were struggling to regroup and reform their ranks.

With the last porcupine like minotaur fell from the sheer amount of arrows that had pierced its thick hide, the loud voice spoke again, "

At these words, the gates on either side of the plateau he stood on opened, and instead of just minotaurs, a variety of bretheren shaman, and orcs joined their ranks as well!

"I'll thin out the weak ones. Haaaaaaa!" Fortis yelled, building up energy in his sword until it hit the supercritical point, swinging his blade with all his might, Fortis grinned, "Take this! HALF MOON SLASH!"

What happened next, was too fast for everybody to catch, even as the world continued in slow motion from the adrenaline, everyone could only gape in awe as where area the blade swung, a large trail of smoke appeared, the only marker of the large energy burst that had flattened the bretheren shaman, the orc commander and half of the minotaurs that were unlucky enough to stand in the attack's radius.

"Heh! You mess with the bull you get the horns!" Fortis taunted, earning an axe into his unprotected behind as he was caught unaware.

"Fortis!" Nyle yelled, shooting a bolt of lightning to prevent the offending minotaur from continuing the assault as Fortis somersaulted gracefully in mid air before landing face flat on the floor.

"I'm alright! I'm alright!" Fortis said happily, recovering in no time.

Shaking her head at the spectacle while Solus cocked her head with a quizzical look on her face, Cygnus was about to unleash another gravity attack when a sudden spike in power close to her caused her to look back at Fortis his blade glowing once again.

"CRESCENT CLEAVE!" Fortis practically screamed, swinging his sword twice, sending three large shockwaves that split outward dispatching the rest of the minotaurs.

What General Ummanba felt after having his forces so thoroughly defeated was anybody's guess behind his large helmet as he stabbed the blunt point of his axe into the ground, "Umnodu! Umrak! Destroy them!"

If the last few minotaur were big, these two just took the cake, a white and a black minotaur both as big as a house ran into the arena, accompanied by a dark elf escort. Roaring in challenge to anybody who dared to approach, Nyle noticed a more sinister glow behind the beasts, emanating from the dark elves themselves!

"Cygnus! Solus! Take out the elves! They're getting ready to cast their field spells!"

Nodding in acknowledgement, Cygnus quickly shot a laser beam at the nearest elf, knocking her over and disrupting her spell, but before Solus could take out her mark, Umnodu saw it fit to make a mad charge at her, causing her to lose her aim and tumble or be flattened by him.

"I got this!" Fortis yelled, shooting out 3 spinning crescent blades of light that curled at an angle, hitting the second dark elf and knocking her over as well, with the added effect of chopping off Solus' ponytail.

"Fortis! Please watch your aim in the future! Endowed with a long life I may be, but that still took eons to grow!"

Flashing Solus an apologetic grin, Fortis was also forced to dodge as Umrak made his mad rush at the swordmaster, nearly succeeding in the process.

"Guys! Concentrate your attacks one Umnodu! Also aim at the elves when they start to cast!" Nyle yelled, dropping a healing relic in the middle of the field to accelerate the recovery of his team.

"Which one's Umnodu?" Fortis asked, clearly unaware of which minotaur was which.

"That one!" Cygnus yelled.

"Which one?" Fortis yelled back, clearly confused.

"The other one!"

"Which other one!"

Shaking his head at the idiocy that was taking place, he dropped a lightning relic right through Umnodu, sending electric sparks flying in every direction.

"That one." Nyle said, a sense of finality in his tone.

"Ohhhhh. Why couldn't Cygnus just point to that one?"

"Because you couldn't hit a minotaur even if it danced in front of you wearing a tea cozy." Cygnus snapped, flinging poison missiles at Umnodu.

"Yes I can! Watch!" Fortis retorted, firing another set of crescent blades that curved upon reaching the minotaur, missing spectacularly.

"Still need it to dance with a tea cozy?" Cygnus sneered, clearly enjoying the show.

"Please, do not fight! We all share a common enemy and have a common goal! Let us work together to achieve that goal!" Solus said, trying to split the fight, narrowly dodging Umrak.

"Solus has got a point! Let's show these cows why they have something to fear!" Nyle said, his manly pose interrupted by a herd of cows that suddenly ran through the arena, running him over like a bowling ball with Nyle being the pin.

"My goodness! Did that hurt?" Solus asked, geniune concern written on her face.

"Tch, yeah, that did quite a number on me... Heal!" Nyle replied, closing up minor wounds on himself and his party members.

Charging back and forth across the nest grounds with Umrak, Umnodu started to slow as the sheer attacks that were casted, started to take their toll on him.

"He's losing speed! Grand Cross!" Nyle yelled, releasing an "X" shaped cross of light that caused the minotaur to topple and fall.

With his brother fallen in battle, Umrak roared in angiush, his eyes contorted with rage.

"Oh he's mad now." Fortis said, stating the obvious.

"Too bad it's for naught. Gravity ASCENSION!"

Holding her hand out in front of her, Cygnus summoned a large mass and started accelerating it towards the ground while holding it in place, causing the gravity in the surrounding area to increase exponentially.

"So this is the power... Of a Force User..." Fortis muttered through gritted teeth, his knee forced into the ground from the gravitational forces he was experiencing.

Umrak who was right under the summoned mass, had no choice but to release his axe and fall to the ground as he was crushed to a pulp from the sheer force of the attack.

Once the mass dissipated, Solus drew her bow and launched a charged shot right through the minotaur's head, spearing it in a through and through shot, causing Umrak to accept fate in the form of death.

Roaring at the loss of his two right-hand men, Ummanba leaped from his plateau, and landed in the middle of the adventurers, causing them to stagger from the earthquake, his hand drawn across his neck signalling the universal phrase, "You're dead."

Putting away his weapon, Ummanba immediately launched the offensive, throwing axe after axe at the party causing them to scatter lest they get hit by one of the heavy weapons.

"Nine-tailed laser!" Cygnus yelled as she strafed to the right, casting on the move, shooting nine laser beams that arced outward before curving in again to hit Ummanba.

"Use the gravity ascend thiingy!" Fortis yelled at Cygnus, dashing and weaving left and right as Ummanba focused on hitting him.

"It's a one off thing! You can't possibly think I could just spam something that powerful do you?"

Raising his foot, Ummanba slammed it into the ground, stunning the whole party as they fell to the floor, one by one.

"I require medical assistance." Solus whispered, blood oozing from her head.

"Sorry, I can't help with things as large as that, my healing abilities can only do so much." Nyle whispered in apology.

"Here, just drink one of these." Fortis said, tossing a bottle of red liquid to Solus that simply shattered in midair, "What?"

"Potions don't work in here!" Cygnus yelled as she dodged a flaming Ummanba, "Didn't you read the sign outside?"

"Then why don't these break?" Fortis yelled, waving bottles of blue liquid at Cygnus.

"Don't ask me! What do I look like? You're walking encyclopedia!"

Raising his axe into the air, Ummanba roared as he slammed the axe into the ground, making a crater and sending shockwaves all over the place.

Patching up the wound on Solus' head with some bandages, Nyle quickly got back into the fight with a well placed lightning relic that stopped Ummanba's wild charge from running over Cygnus.

"This cow just won't die..." Cygnus muttered darkly under her breath as everybody loosed skill after skill on the unbreakable red hulk.

"We'll get it eventually! Just keep at it!" Fortis yelled, leaping in, blade ready to strike.

"This foe is formidable, but every creature has a weak spot!" Solus said, shooting a magical arrow right into Ummanba's eye.

Roaring as he staggered backward, Ummanba swung his axe madly, causing the party to retreat,

Except for Nyle.

"Nyle! Get out of there! You'll get killed!" Cygnus yelled.

"It is wise to retreat out it's range for now, fighting an opponent with a blind rage does not beget any results." Solus added.

"I'm just a bastard you know?" Nyle whispered.

"What? What has that got to do with..." Fortis said, him and the others clearly shocked by what Nyle just said.

"A bastard from a noble family that lost its status... That's all I am."

"Where you are from doesn't matter! All that matters is that you're one of us!" Cygnus screamed, not quite sure of what just came from her own mouth.

"That's why I became a templar knight, I thought... I just thought I could... Gain back the honour my family's lost... I guess it's easier to make that promise than keep it."

"Nyle! Pull yourself together!" Fortis called out, held back by Solus and Cygnus as he tried to rush to Nyle's side.

"That's why... I guess... I have to finish this one... For all of us." Nyle said, closing his eyes as he raised his wand, Ummanba taking a direct swing at him.

"NYLE!" everyone yelled simultaneously, unable to stop the incoming threat.

"HOLY BURST!" Nyle yelled, eyes fueled with determination as he released pulse after pulse of holy light, robbing Ummanba of the last vestiges of his strength, causing the giant to fall.

"Nyle!" Fortis yelled, finally breaking free of his restraints, reaching Nyle easily as the girls ran after him.

"Sorry.. I just couldn't let you guys down..."

"No you idiot!" Fortis said, playfully hitting Nyle's shoulder, "Why the hell did ya steal the spotlight from me? Sounding all cool and noble's my job!"

As everyone enjoyed a hearty laugh, Cygnus' innate sense for treasure immediately picked up when she noticed a chest at the head of the nest, at the foot of the plateau, apparently the impact shook it free.

"Hey guys! Treasure!" Cygnus yelled, teleporting to the chest gleefully.

"Wait up!" Fortis yelled dashing after her.

Opening the chest, Cygnus quickly pulled out the most expensive looking item, "Cool! An epic grade destruction plate! I so consider this services well paid for!"

As everyone else fought and squabbled over the remaining prizes, Nyle couldn't help but look up to the sky, the clouds slowly flying by as if nothing had happened.

"Hey Nyle! Don't get so emotional over this! Here! Take a hat!" Fortis said, happily fitting an ancient tiara into his hair.

"Hohohoho! It looks good on you Nyle! You should wear it more often!" Cygnus laughed, as the others followed suit.

Taking a stroll back to Calderock for drinks and what would most likely be a celebration in their honour, Nyle's party was all set for their next great adventure, but that's another story.

End of Story

There! My first Dragon Nest fanfic! I might do more fanfics from this game if the reception is good!