AC: Hello everyone and welcome to the second story in which we discover what happened to one of the demons before they became that.
It seems that I'm going to tie some of them up with one of the Cavalry Dragon to give them a motivation to join Tenbu in a more personal level, so I gave them some deepening they didn't have in the show. Also, this one is rather humoristic until the end. That way, Gao and Drum had to do something for one Cavalry dragon to join them.
Also, if some of you want to use this for your own story, you have the permission.
Story 2: The Knight and The Insane
A green biped drake with a serpentine face, amber eyes and a long green tail walked in the Green Field of a minor world called the Endless Field. He wore black shoulder plates, black plates on his knee and around his waist, an helmet with large plates pointing behind his head and two perfectly identical sword.
The Endless Field is a world is a world covered with herbs around the same size. The biped drake decided to walk toward the field to calm his nerves after being in a place with so many imperfections and unsymmetrical things. Despite that, the grass weren't symmetrical enough for his taste and proceeded to cut some of them to be identical.
The drake was a special case in Magic World, he was known as a strong warrior with great eyes, intelligence and skillful in Magic card, but also known as unstable in his symmetrical desired as a cost for his great qualities.
Some said he was dangerous as he could attack another one didn't reach his taste, other's thought he was completely insane.
The drake wasn't dump; he knew he had a problem in his mind with anything non-symmetric and infuriated him. If it was an object, he would try to correct it unless it was illegal to touch it, if it was someone; he bit his tongue and said nothing, knowing he would only sound insane or jerky. Despite that, he always vented it in the Endless Field where he wouldn't hurt anyone.
The drake continued until he was out of breath and watched the perfectly symmetrical grass.
He signed and said with satisfaction, "Finally something symmetrical."
His eyes caught imperfect grass and sighed, thinking he'll soon return in his unstable moment. He decided to keep walking and tried to ignore it. Eventually, he suddenly stopped when he saw someone else was on the Endless Field.
It was a pale blue dragon with three black horns, one on his forehead and two at the side of his head and pale pink hair. He was on his knee meditating. He wore a white armor over his scales with white boots, white bracelets with black clothing on his forearms. He had a spear with two blue pointing spikes.
The drake was about to ignore him when he noticed his spear. His eyes shined when he saw it by the side of the dragon, "Is it what I think it is?"
The blue dragon continued meditating until he heard something near him. He opened his eyes and turned to his left.
The drake was holding the spear and checked it. He delightfully yelled, "It's is! Perfectly symmetrical!"
The blue dragon turned toward him and calmly asked, "What do you think you are doing drake?"
The drake turned toward him and replied, "You have a perfectly symmetrical spear! I cannot believe it!"
The blue dragon saw stars in the eyes of the drake. He grumbled and took his weapon back, "I'll let this go since you didn't steal it. A knight cannot-"
"AWWW!" the drake yelled.
The blue dragon gasped when he saw the dragon at one inch away from him, "He-"
"You're eyes are also perfectly symmetrical! This is incredible!" the drake joyfully yelled.
The blue dragon nervously said, "Okay, but-"
"The length and size of your arms are also perfectly symmetrical!" the drake said after picked the blue dragon arms and measuring them.
The blue dragon grunted in annoyance, but remembered the chivalry code and remained calm, "That is en-"
He felt his tail rose and his cheeks turned red.
"Even your butts are symmetrical!" The drake commented in amazement.
That was way overboard for the blue dragon while whipped the drake snout with his long blue tail before turning around and yelling, "Enough! You can't stare at my butts like that drake!"
The drake grumbled painfully and shook his head before sighting, "Sorry. I just cannot resist seeing your perfection. I cannot believe anyone would be like you!" his eyes shined once again trying to check the blue dragon who slapped the drake snout. "Ouch!"
"Don't try to try looking at me again! I don't know even know you and you are losing my time with that stupid stuff," the blue dragon yelled.
"Okay perfect dragon. I am Mediator Botis. One of the powerful magical fighter of Magic World."
The blue dragon applied his code of chivalry, "Ice Lance Merak. I am a knight following the great code of chivalry transmitted by my family for many generations."
Merak saw Botis watching his body with his star in his eyes again. What is wrong in his mind? Is he crazy? The blue dragon wondered without saying it out loud. "I have to go now. I need to meditate alone," Merak said.
The blue dragon walked away, but felt someone following him. Merak turned around and saw Botis near him, to the annoyance and fury of the blue dragon.
Merak tried to ignore it until he heard, "Such symmetric way of walking with the exact same distance for each steps."
Merak had a sweat drop when he heard it, Am I that symmetric in everything I'm doing? No! I cannot let that into my mind. He took a small glance toward Botis and told himself, I have to get rid of him. I need to ran away now!
Merak dashed away from Botis, but the blue dragon heard, "Awesome! You run in a symmetric way!"
Merak knew the drake was chasing him, Will he stop with that symmetric thing? I really believe that he's crazy now.
Merak ran away across the field of the world with Botis behind him. He never got the chance to gain more distance and couldn't find a way to return to dragon world. He was alone and must deal with the drake himself. He saw the small hill to his right, knowing it was near the place he can deal with the drake.
Merak dashed through the right and ran around the hill.
Botis continued chasing the perfectly symmetrical dragon. He lost sight of the dragon around the hill. He ran around the hill and stopped at the other side.
There was a huge canyon in front of him, breaking the Endless field by putting an end to it, "Endless field my butt," Botis grumbled. He then saw Merak at the middle of the canyon, sitting on a small hill where it was impossible for Botis to reach it.
Merak had a small smile, thinking he was safe from Botis. He knew Botis could see him, but from the distance he was, he couldn't see any details on his body, because drake lacked the powerful eyes of the dragons.
He decided to continue meditating while letting the drake complained and tried to provoke him until he gave up. Those were some much known provocations for the knight and easy to wash away compare to the sudden butt watcher of a drake. He took deep breath and started to focus, but once again, "Even his breathing is symmetric!"
Merak opened his eyes when he heard it, My breathing is slow and almost invisible. How? He looked at Botis and yelled, "What?"
Botis watched him with binoculars.
"Where those are coming from?" Merak furiously yelled, losing his calm.
Botis was watching with joy and that snapped Merak large patience. He jumped in the air and charged toward Botis and yelled with all his rage, "Will you stop doing those stuff you insane of a being?" before punching the drake snout and knocking him up.
He raised his fist with content and watched the drake. Botis was unconscious on the ground, blood coming out of his nostrils.
Merak smirked and was about to walk away when he stopped. His satisfaction died in a fraction of second when he realised what he just did. I just punched a drake who did nothing wrong. I just punched it out of fury... All because I... lose control of myself. The chivalry code said that we must always remain calm and not attack an innocent. This is exactly what I did. He wasn't attacking or hurting anyone.
Merak sighed, "I guess... I have to correct the wrong," he turned his gaze to the right, "Even if he got what he was asking for."
He grabbed the drake and pulled him elsewhere.
Botis grumbled painfully as his snout ached painfully. He opened his eyes brutally when he smelt something cooking and stood on his feet. His surrounding was the same world, but the sky was dark with a hint of light far at the horizon, indicating that the night was slowly coming.
"Relax drake," Merak said on his knee and watching the drake.
Botis turned his gaze from Merak and said nothing.
Merak was currently confused on Botis behavior. He mentally prepared himself for his more archaic and crazy actions like earlier, but those weren't there. Botis tail tapped the ground nervously.
The drake lightly coughed before saying, "Did I go nuts with you?"
Merak internally replied with a 'dah' or 'obviously', but simply said, "Yes."
Botis dropped his head, "I'm sorry. Let me at least explain why I went nuts before you go away."
Merak thought about it, he was indeed a little curious to know why he went nuts with him and not now. He also had some hesitations that he would turn nuts again if he explained it. After a brief inner fight, he finally replied, "Go on."
Botis started, "You obviously know I'm crazy in symmetrical thing."
"Obviously," Merak replied.
"It's always been that way as long as I remember. I always lives anything symmetrical, but I almost never seen anything that way. Most of the time, I see something non-symmetrical and I always feel the urge to burst out in fury, but I controlled myself. I can endure this for around two months now without losing my temper. I know no one is bad and it's just me. I never want to hurt anyone who didn't do wrong, so I contain it, but when I'm the verge of losing it, I come here and release it until my fury calmed down and I return to Magic world. Only when I'm sure I won't hurt anyone," Botis explained. He took a small glance at Merak, "I went nuts when I saw you because you are the first perfectly symmetrical being I've met. I never encountered such situation, so I just didn't know how to control it."
I am an unknown event with no way to calm it down or control it. That's why he went that way. He's not as insane as I initially thought if he knows of his situation and tried to control it. He's a good drake, but with something working wrong in his mind. "Then I guess I can forgive you for your actions, but not watching my butts like you did."
Botis nervously chuckled when he remembered doing that. Even he knew it was way too extreme to invade privacy like that.
Merak stood up and said, "I have to continue my training. You made me realised I'm not a real knight yet."
Botis asked, "What do you mean?"
"The chivalry code forbidden a warrior like me to hurt an innocent or those who has no ill intentions like you. I just punched you because you annoyed me too much when you didn't want to cause any trouble. I need to follow the code more directly now and be more patient," Merak replied.
Botis replied, "Just like I have to control my temper."
Merak nodded.
"Will you teach me how you meditate?" Botis asked out of nowhere.
"Why?"
"Maybe... I won't do crazy things like I did with you," Botis replied. He added, "It took a while to break your patience, so maybe it will help me."
Merak said nothing for a few seconds, imagining how much of a hellish situation he'll be in, but eventually thought, If he ended up with anyone else, he could get himself killed. So I guess I have to help him. "Alright."
Botis lightly smiled.
Merak then took a while to show Botis how to meditate. It wasn't easy because the moment the drake looked at him, he went nuts by his symmetric appearance, which the dragon wasn't even aware to be that way. After two days, he managed to show him how to properly meditated and hoping that it will really help the drake.
Merak felt exhausted to simply teach someone like the drake how to meditate, but kept telling himself that it was all for training. He started to develop some care for the drake as he learned more about him. He knew that Botis was a nice drake with some strange behavior and isn't a treat as he was aware of his flaws.
Even so, it turned south for both of them when things changed, a few days after the drake knew how to meditate.
After a few more days, Merak found Botis to be surprisingly tolerable despite the fact he often talked about symmetric, but not always. Of course, when he went nuts, it was turning him out of his usual self. He didn't understand what made him more tolerable.
Maybe it's just that he has lots of knowledge and also a nice drake. Merak guessed. He might never know why he tolerated Botis.
Botis was sitting and meditating, his tail was twitching a lot, showing that he wasn't doing it well yet.
Merak was about to tell him to stop when a large shadow suddenly covered him and Botis. Merak took his weapon and turned around. He gasped when he faced a large monster, looking at him with his orange eyes and at Botis.
"Who are you?" Merak asked.
Botis opened his eyes and watched the giant beast letting a low grunt.
"Yamigedo?" Merak replied confused.
Yamigedo let out a loud grunt that made Merak and Botis gasped.
"I will not join you for that. I won't help you in your revenge quest," Botis replied crossing his arms, "I am not that way you know. Also, you are way too unsymmetrical for me to join you. Just look at your eyes, the left one from the center is too high compare to the right one, your fur is all wrong and don't get me started with your tails."
Yamigedo gave a confused glare, just like Merak, but it was because he couldn't believe he would reply that way to a giant demon monster. Eventually, the demon recovered for the weirdest critic of his life and let out aggressive grunts.
"Nothing you say will convince me!" Botis yelled.
Yamigedo raised his claws.
Merak understood his intentions and was in battle stance. He jumped, pointing his sword toward the demon beast before charged. Yamigedo faced him as if he was nothing and slapped him away. The blue dragon crashed on the ground and bounced away.
Merak coughed blood and stood up when he heard Botis yelled for help. He watched Botis trapped in the claw of Yamigedo.
"Don't-" Merak was about to charge when he stopped. Yamigedo gave him a glare that paralysed him in fear. He saw a murderous look in the beast eyes, showing that if he moved from an inch, he'll face a horrible fate, Move! Merak ordered himself, but his body didn't.
Yamigedo turned around and flew away.
"Merak! Help!" Botis yelled as he tried to free himself from the demon's grasp.
Come on! Move! The chivalry code said that you must help anyone in needs! Merak ordered his body, but it didn't obey.
Soon, Yamigedo and Botis were gone. Merak let himself felt on his knees when the fear was gone and punched the ground while yelled, "Dammit! All my training! All of it was to protect everyone in needed! But when it happened, I just stand there like a coward!"
Merak stopped when his right hand was too painful, "I am not... a real knight. I couldn't follow the chivalry code again. I just... failed Botis. I should have stand up and saved him. He's going to be that demon's slave!"
He remained there for one day, yelled in his mind about his failure when he was needed the most.
He only stopped cursing himself when a voice told him, "A failure isn't a defeat young dragon. It is normal that you flinch against Yamigedo. He isn't what a normal knight is trained to fight."
Merak turned around, he couldn't see well who was talking to him before it was in front of the sun, but asked, "Even so-"
"You can amend yourself and make things right dragon. If you join me, I will train you to battle against Yamigedo and awaken your endless courage that resides in your heart," Merak saw a giant scaly green hand moving toward him and continued, "Your body was scared, but not your mind young one. That means that you have the soul of a knight, but you need to release it in your flesh and I shall help you with it."
"Who... are you?" Merak asked.
"I am Tenbu."
Merak closed his eyes a second and replied, "Alright. If I can become a real knight and correct the wrong I committed, I'll follow you Tenbu."
He jumped on the green hand and said in his mind, I'll correct the wrong Botis. Hang in there.
AC: This is the end of the second story.
