Queen Sunstar: Sorry about the crappy formatting. I wrote these two chapters on my iPad using Writer, and well, the formatting is done very differently using *. One * is italics, two ** is bold, and three *** is underline. Since I have some free time, I am taking the time to correct the formatting by copy pasting to Microsoft Word on my laptop. I have also improved a few spots in the story.
"Nothing has happened in ages!" Toxsa complained, "I'm so bored! I wish Villus would attack or something!"
"Don't mind Toxsa. He's upset that Wizard Fall's release date got pushed back, again." Chooki explained, "Villus has been quiet lately and it worries me."
"Be careful of what you wish for, Toxsa. I like the quiet." Ceylan said, "It is nice not to have to worry about getting shot at."
"You never told us you could dance like that." Chooki said.
"I had to dance or get turned into a target practice dummy. Guren, if you keep staring at that cube, you are going to bore a hole through it. They will summon us when they need us." Ceylan tapped Guren's shoulder. Guren jumped in response.
"It has been too quiet." Guren replied after a moment, "You don't think something happened where they lost the ability to summon us?"
As if they had heard him, the four cubes glowed. The four boys took off for Mr. Whites shop. A quick trip through the portal later, they stood in their knight forms on Quarton. The situation was immediately apparent. There were Corrupted soldiers everywhere.
"Tenkai Knights! You are here!" Beag rushed toward them.
"Let's move out!" Bravenwolf ordered,
"Way ahead of you!" Valorn called, slicing into a corrupted soldier.
The knights spread out to fight. Left and right, corrupted soldiers fell. Valorn tapped a soldier who turned and impaled himself on Valorn's pole arm. Lydendor took out several soldiers at once with his shuriken shield. Tributon unleashed a swarm of arrows while Bravenwolf sliced his way into the fray. None of them had titaned up as there was no need to. Slyger and Granox were absent. What could Villus's plan be? Unknown to anyone, they were being watched. A disk of yellow light shot across the battlefield. Tributon saw it.
"Incoming!" Tributon shot an arrow at the light. He didn't know why, but the light filled him with dread. The arrow met its mark. At first nothing happened. The arrow quivered, and was sucked into the disk of light. It began to spin, lightning crackling on the edges. Lighting lashed out to strike Tributon, causing him to yelp in surprise. Spinning even faster, it shot toward him. Time slowed down. Tributon heard screaming, and then saw ground flying up to meet him. His vision clouded as a distant throb made itself known. He had the sensation of someone picking him up off the ground. Everything darkened and went black.
"Ceylan?"
"Ceylan, wake up."
White light bled under his eyelashes. Slowly, Ceylan opened his eyes, and promptly shut them again. He blinked, letting his eyes adjust. Sharp pain blossomed on the back of his head. He raised his hand to feel bandages and noticed the IV in his hand. He felt a goose egg bump and winced.
"Easy, Ceylan. You are in the hospital. You have a concussion. Do you remember what happened?" Chooki asked.
"There was a disk of light that tried to kamikaze me. Did you get its number? I hit the ground and now I'm here. Where are Toxsa and Guren?" Ceylan asked.
"Toxsa is reliving our last battle. After you got knocked out, we got the last few corrupted soldiers." Chooki decided not to hold back, "It was Guren who saved you. He knocked you out of the way. He is missing."
"Did... I must have miss heard you. Guren is not missing." Ceylan heard himself start to laugh. It wasn't his normal laugh ether. "Nice try, Chooki! You had me going there for a moment! Guren, you can come out of hiding now!"
"Ceylan, stop it! This is no joke! Guren really is missing!" Chooki yelled.
"Okay, I believe you." Ceylan started trying to get out of bed.
"Where do you think you are going?"
"I'm getting out of here! I'm going to go find Guren!"
"No you are not! You are going to stay put and warm the bench until the doctors say you are ready to play again!" Chooki stopped Ceylan's attempt to get out of bed, "Toxsa and I are going back to Quarton to search for clues. We will find him."
Ceylon settled back into bed, "Find him, Chooki."
Aura hummed softly as she gathered mushrooms near her home in the Forge. The Forge was a vast canyon nestled in a deep valley known as the cut which was nestled between the Great Tenkai Range and the Little Teton Range. It was hard to believe that this place had been cut into Quarton by Bravenwolf during his last battle against Villus. Aura looked up and noticed something red and white lying in the mouth of the Forge. Curious, Aura rose and walked to the shape on the ground. She gasped upon seeing Bravenwolf. Bravenwolf was lying in a heap on the ground, fluids seeping from wounds in his leg, chest, and arm. He was unconscious. Aura carefully gathered the red Knight into her arms and carried him back to her home.
Pain throbbed from every part of his body. He was waking up, leaving the warm cocoon of pain free darkness he'd come from. His optics turned on and adjusted to the light.
"You are waking up!"
"Ugh, ah, what happened to me?" Bravenwolf's voice cracked from disuse. He started to sit up, "Ow!"
"Easy, Bravenwolf. You shouldn't be moving. You need to heal." The voice soothed.
"Who?" Bravenwolf coughed.
"Here." Bravenwolf was helped up and a cup of clear liquid was placed at his mouth. He swallowed some of the water gratefully. "I am the Guardian Aura. You are in my home inside the Forge. Rest, Bravenwolf." Aura dabbed away the water that dribbled on the corner of Bravenwolf's lip. Bravenwolf was helped to lay back and he went back to sleep.
Toxsa watched as again, Bravenwolf threw himself into Tributon, knocking the blue knight to the ground and taking the hit. He vanished in the light which blinked out, leaving a scorched mark behind. Toxsa had played enough video games to know that a scorch mark met that was all that remained of the person hit. He refused to even acknowledge the thought that Bravenwolf was gone. Guren could not be dead!
"Toxsa, any luck?" Mr. White asked, walking into the room, "I can't get a hold of Boreas. None of the Guardians are responding."
"Guren might be gone. I'm going back to Quarton. Somebody has answers." Toxsa pulled out his core block.
"I'm going with you, and I'm not leaving without answers." Chooki joined them, "Ceylan has a concussion so he is benched until he recovers." They went through the portal and appeared near the Corekai camp.
"Tenkai Knights!" Beag ran to them, "I figured you would return quickly. I have specialists working the scene. I don't think he is gone."
"Bravenwolf will come back." Valorn replied.
"Sir, Orion is here." A corekai soldier reported, stepping aside to reveal a battered red and blue bot leaning on a cane.
"Welcome, Orion. This is-"
"Lydendor and Valorn, I know them well. You seek answers. Bravenwolf lives." Orion spoke.
"Okay that is freaky." Valorn said, "I'm not talking typical Halloween freaky ether. I'm talking Rising Darkness creepy."
"Orion is a seer." Beag said, "He is connected to Quarton mentally and spirituality. He sees what the planet shows him. He can answer your questions."
"Bravenwolf lives still. He is inside the Forge. There is no need for rescue yet. Tenkai knights, you must forget about Bravenwolf. Your focus must be on the Guardians. Villus has captured them. You'll find Notus in the far south. Boreas is in the far north, Eurus is in the far east, and Zephyrus is in the far west. I see Notus in heavy chains, pleading with something hidden in the clouds." Orion continued, "Something yellow lies at his feet. That is all Quarton is showing me."
"I will not forget my leader! We need to rescue Bravenwolf before we can free the Guardians!" Lydendor screamed, "We are a team! Without Bravenwolf, we don't stand a chance!"
"You know one who can help. Bravenwolf is too injured to help you. It is okay. He is in the care of the fifth Guardian. She will nurse him back to health." Orion closed his optics, "I do not see him in the final battle."
"Shouldn't we save Bravenwolf?" Valorn asked.
"We have to pull our second string quarterback into play. We'll rescue Bravenwolf when we can. Right now we need to focus on the Guardians. Who do we gah!" Lydendor went to his knees.
"Lydendor! What is wrong?" Valorn was beside him in an instant. Lydendor turned his head toward Valorn, optics flickering and going dark. "Lydendor!"
"Villus, why did you send the army out after the Knights without me or Granox to lead it?" Slyger asked.
"You would have gotten in the way. They were just a distraction." Villus answered, "It is all part of the plan given to me by the Darkness. I do not know the full plan. You and Granox have parts to play. The Guardians are separated and trapped inside different Temples. The Knights can't go home."
"What will we do?" Granox asked.
"I don't know yet. When the Darkness tells me, I'll tell you." Villus snapped.
"Granox, I am not sure if Villus should be listening to the Darkness. He won't let us see it." Slyger fell into step with Granox, "Sending the army out to take on the Knights is a waste of bot power."
"We would not have gotten in the way!" Granox hissed angrily, "Would we?"
"I know I wouldn't have gotten in the way. I don't like this Darkness." Slyger muttered.
Queen Sunstar: chapter one done. Right now I am setting characters up and getting things moving. Bear with me, and my fight scenes tend to be epic. I decided to tone down the fight scene here to focus on Tributon's injury. He is not happy being out of action. Valorn is about to discover that the portal is not working so he is stuck on Quarton for now. Gen will be arriving with an impatient Tributon next chapter and Tributon is not going to take not rescuing Bravenwolf well and Dromus finds himself in a new role.