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Chapter 2: Deadly Machinery.
"Yesterday, something that really messed with the authorities of the area was the fact that last night and earthquake shook the area of Knoxville and its surroundings, causing the local Educational Institute to collapse" The local reporter said talking about James's School which was destroyed last night when he fought a giant golem. "But what is odder is that there are some witnesses that said it was a beam that came from the skies, other said it was a giant creature that did all this, we are really not sure how this destruction was caused, but we are sure this school might not be working for some weeks"
James was sitting in the couch beside his sister looking at the report of last night destruction, while their mother was getting prepared for work. James's mother took her purse and the keys of her car and turned to her son and said. "I'm going to work, I will be back at eight, so Please take care of your sister okay and don't go out no matter what." She then left the house locking the door behind her and leaving to her work.
"I she gone" James asked to Kate without looking through the window.
"I think so" She replied as she heard the car leaving the house.
"Cynder, you can come out now." James shouted as Cynder opened the door of the room and came down.
Cynder walking slowly to the coach and jumped to it sitting between James and Kate, Cynder was really amazed by the artifact in front of her; she never thought she could see images moving in a little cage.
"It's really interesting, how that cage does that?" Cynder asked as James smiled.
"It's called T.V. and not even I know how it works" James said giggling while rubbing the back of his head.
Cynder and Kate start giggling but they soon stopped, when they heard the reporter on the T.V. talking about the military enclosing the area of the school, and not letting anyone to trespass into the area. James was really confused about why the military was interesting on what happened there if everyone thought it was an earthquake, but he never mind since they will never find anything to discover what really happened there. James placed his hands behind his head and smiled confident that Cynder will be safe with him, but soon all that confidence disappeared, when he saw through the news how a military took a black scale and his medallion into a tent.
"What the heck!? It can't be!" James shouted patting his body and realizing his amulet dropped during the fight against the golem. "We are doomed, if they discover that think is mine Cynder will be in big danger."
So James stood from the couch and took a blue shirt and a red jacket and dressed to go and find the way to retrieve his medallion.
"James, where are you going?" Kate asked his older brother turning to him.
James then placed a pair of green goggles on top of his head and said. "I need to retrieve that scale of Cynder and my medallion"
When Cynder heard that she got down of the couch and said. "I'm going with you."
"You can't any human can see you in daylight, we must keep you in low profit or else those guys that took my school, will take you too, and I can't let that happen" James replied placing a pair of gloves over his hands. "Stay here and take care of my sister… Oh and don't worry I will be just fine"
Then James went to the second door and jumped through the window landing in the bushes in front of his house, and taking his bike. James then placed his goggles over his eyes and started pedaling with his top speed reaching the school in no time. James got down of his bike and took of his goggles placing them over his head and moved trying to avoid any guard. James sneaked behind the school trying to get to the tent that had his amulet and Cynder's scale but before he could get to the tent he felt a poke on his back. James stood still as he turned and saw a sixteen years old girl wearing a white long sleeves shirt and a dark blue skirt behind him.
"What are you doing here?!" James shouted slightly attracting the attention of two guards, but he and the girl hid behind a bush avoiding the guards.
"Susan, what are you doing here?" James whispered to the girl which was holding a video recorder on her hands.
"I want to know what's happening here and why did them enclosed the area of the school, it's my work as the president of the School news club" Susan replied as James sweat dropped when he heard her.
"Really, you are risking yourself for a stupid report" James shouted slightly making sure there was no guard around.
"Oh yeah, and why are you here James" Susan asked as James tried to look for an excuse for his presence there.
"You will attract the guards if you keep talking"
Both of the teenagers froze when they heard a voice behind them, but they were relieved when they saw it was another class mate. A seventeen years old boy hearing a black shirt and a purple vest, and a pair of blue pants was standing behind them. James then pulled the boy into the bush as he asked. "What are you doing here Axel?"
Axel chuckled as he pushed James and said. "I'm the captain of the football team, I wanted to see if the equipment was all right, I heard what happened and I want to make sure everything is okay"
"Seriously, you are here for some football equipment!" James shouted again, but this time a guard found them.
James laughed nervously as the guards took them and threw them out of the area. James, Susan, and Axel stood up rubbing their heads looking how many guards placed themselves in the entrance of the school.
"Next time try using a better strategy if you want to get in"
The three teenagers turned and saw another of their classmates, a boy wearing a pair of glasses, a yellow t-shirt and green pants. James sighed as he saw the boy and said. "Not you too Geek"
When a boy heard the word Geek he angered and shouted. "It's Francis you brute"
"Who are you calling brute you Geek" James shouted while he and Geek glared at each other.
Susan started to piss off and knocked both of them in their heads and shouted. "Alright you two that's enough. Besides what are you doing here Francis?"
Francis smiled at this question and said as he took his cell phone. "I got a video of the creature that destroyed our school"
"What!" James shouted thinking Francis got him on a video.
"Here, check this out" Francis said as he showed the video of a red creature fighting an invisible monster, James noticed that the red creature was him, but he started asking why he couldn't see the golem.
"Well, I guess you got evidence our school was destroyed by a monster." Axel said looking at the video.
"Yeah, that's the only reason I'm here, but the real question is, why James is here?" Francis asked while everyone turned to James.
James started laughing nervously and was about to say something when he saw a portal opening behind his friends. James watched how two gremlins came from the portal and ran away into the area of the military. Then James turned to his classmates and said. "I would really like to tell you why I am here but I really must go."
James ran away from his classmates and went directly near the tent which was guarded by two guards, giving James a little problem. "Alright, I got a problem here; I need to find a way to distract those guards."
As soon James said that a giant tank like robot appeared from a tent and started destroying its surrounding attracting the attention of the guards. "Problem solved" James said running into the tent and searching for his medallion and Cynder's scale. Then of some time looking James found Cynder's scale and his medallion on top of a table, but what attracted his attention was the blue prints of a strange machine, but he didn't paid too much attention to it and exited the tent. James was about to leave I his bike when he saw the giant robot beating the military and cornering his classmates. James sighed and said. "I do I always need to do what's correct" James ran and placed between the robot and his friends trying to protect them.
James took his medallion trying to transform into a dragon, but he couldn't activated his transformation. The robot saw this and aimed his canon at James, shooting it and impacting the ground sending flying away and causing his medallion to slip from his hand. James was about to hit the ground but in the last moment…"
"Gotcha!"
An invisible Cynder appeared and grabbed James and his medallion just in time. Cynder took James to the roof of the school and dropped him in there. James turned as he saw how Cynder appeared in front of him. "How did you?" James asked amazed from Cynder's abilities.
"I will explain later, but now I need to destroy that thing" Cynder said flying to the robot and slashing it with her claws but did nothing more than scratches to the robots armor.
The robot noticed Cynder attacking him so he knocked her to the ground and aimed his canon to her and charged it. James saw what was about to happen and felt a power growing inside him as flames surrounded his body. "Dragonoid form" James shouted clutching his medallion as it started to shine and turned into fire that engulfed him and transforming him into a wingless dragon human hybrid like last time. James jumped off the roof and landed in front of Cynder and shouted. "Wing shield!" Then a pair of fire wing appeared in his back as he used them to cover himself and Cynder from the shot of the robot.
Meanwhile Susan, Axel, and Francis regained conscious from the last hit of the robot and saw the red creature Francis videotaped fighting the machine. "This can't be, we are looking at Dragonoid in real life!"
James roared then of deflecting the shot of the machine and engulfed his claws in flames and shouted. "Ferocious Claws" James then started slashing the robot many times but doing nothing to it, then he tried jumping in the air and throwing a ball of fire to it but doing no damage to it.
The robot started to get pissed off from James's attacks so it, took all the weapons from his arsenal, consisting in canons and miniguns. The merciless machine started shooting at James, but the young boy used the Wing Shield to protect himself from the shots, but as more hits his shield received the more it weakened. James was starting to recede because he couldn't bear with the nonstop attack of the robot, and his shield was about to break when from nowhere Susan, Axel, and Francis appeared with a hose wetting the machine causing the guns to stuck, giving the opportunity to James to opportunity to attack. James charged the flames inside his mouth and exhaled causing the water in the robot to evaporate causing rust inside the machinery. James smiled at this and shouted. "Cynder, let's attack together!"
So Cynder used her Siren scream as James used his flame thrower, both impacting the machine causing it to crack in its armor. James noticed this and told Cynder to attack at the same time, so James prepared his flames and Cynder her scream. "Back off, Infernal Concert." Both shouted unleashing a fear scream surrounded it flames that impacted the robot destroying the front armor exposing the dark crystal.
"Cynder, one more time" James said charging his flames again, while Cynder charged her Scream.
"INFERNO CONCERT"
The attack impacted directly the dark crystal destroying it and the robot with it, exposing the two gremlins inside the machine. James smiled as he engulfed his claws in fire and sliced both creatures causing them to disappear.
"Hell yeah, that's how we do it" James said excited from destroying the monster, but he was unaware the soldiers where behind him.
"Freeze, you are under U.S.A. government's custody." One of the soldiers shouted while the whole army aimed their guns at James and Cynder.
James raised his hands on the air while he and Cynder glared to each other nervously thinking in a way to get out from there. James was about to shot a fire ball to the soldiers, when a brilliant idea came to his mind, James turned around abruptly throwing a fire ball to the ground, to a pond of water more specifically, and created a smoke curtain giving Cynder the opportunity to use her siren scream and stun most of the soldiers causing them to drop their weapons. James noticed it and threw a ball of fire to the weapons on the ground melting them. James turned to Cynder and hopped over her back, while she took off to the skies, taking both of them out of there.
Cynder flew as far as she could so the soldiers couldn't follow them, then when she was sure there were no soldiers around she landed on top of a nearby building. When Cynder finally landed, James jumped off Cynder's back and said. "That was a great teamwork Cynder."
Cynder turned to James and said. "I guess you are right, I'm sorry for underestimate you James, I never thought you could fight like that."
James made a cocky smile and replied. "I told you I could make a great dragon, see I can help you against Malefor."
Cynder chuckled and said. "You are right, and did you got your medallion and my scale"
James smiled while pointing at his medallion and replied. "Of course, see here is my medallion and your scale…" James stopped talking as he started checking on his pocket but found nothing. "Uh… well you see, I might have dropped you scale when we were fighting the machine."
"You what!? We did all that for nothing!" Cynder shouted while James placed his hand in front of him for defense.
James giggled nervously and said. "It was not a total loss of time; at least we retrieved my medallion."
Cynder glared seriously at James and said. "Look, if those humans discover I'm here I'm giving you flying lessons." Then Cynder turned around and extended her wings to fly away.
James noticed that and said. "Hey wait, how I'm supposed to get down of here."
Cynder turned to James and replied. "I bet you and your medallion can make it through" Then she leaped to the skies and flew away from there, leaving James alone.
James just stood there watching how Cynder left him behind. "Note for myself, never make Cynder mad."
Some hours Later
It took several hours for James to get down of the building's roof, but then of three hours he made it down through the stairs since the elevator was under maintenance. James took a quick glance to his watch and noticed it was late, seven o'clock to be precise, James recalled that her mother said she will be at eight. James took another glance to his watch and said. "I'm so grounded, it's a hour and a half from here to my house and I forgot my back at school"
James was really worried that her mother might get home and might not find him there, and worst, she could find about Cynder. James started running as fast as he could to reach his house before his mother came back from work. James was running without stopped but he suddenly stopped when he saw a bright light flying directly to him. James stopped and dodged the light and glared at it and noticed it was a bird, but it wasn't a common bird, James could notice it had yellow and red feathers and was surrounded by fire.
James receded and glared at the bird while grabbing his medallion but the bird flew directly to him and took the medallion away. The bird then stood over a light pole and said. "I'm not here to fight; I want to warn you young Dragonoid."
"I know you work for that Malefor guy, I can feel a dark crystal inside you, like the ones that golem and the machine things had" James uttered not wanting to hear any of the birds words.
The bird glared at James and said. "I'm here to warn you that if you continue getting in the way of Master Malefor's plan you will perish"
James couldn't feel anything but rage inside him so he shouted to the bird. "I will not let that Malefor conquer Cynder's home, I will fight him no matter how he threatens me I will still fight to free my friends home."
The bird shook his head and said. "You will fight even if Malefor's threatens your family, he will not care and destroy them with the only intention of stopping you." The bird then flew over James and threw the dragon amulet to him and left. "Stop now otherwise Malefor will take your family from you." The bird said before losing in the night sky.
James just glared to the skies and then turned to his medallion and picked it. James glared at the medallion and clutched it and then whispering. "I will not permit it, Malefor will fall"
Later at James' house
James got to his house and was relieved when he didn't saw his mother's car outside of the house. James opened the door of his house and walked inside and found Cynder and Kate sleeping together on the couch. James giggled and took Kate on his arms and woke up Cynder, and then he said. "Cynder, let's go to our room, my mom might come back in some minutes"
Cynder nodded at James and followed him to his room. James opened the room and placed Kate on her bed while Cynder jumped over it and laid beside James' sister. James noticed both girls fell asleep in no time and rubbed the back of his head and said. "I guess they are really tired."
James walked back to the living room and noticed the answering machine had two messages, so he pressed the play button and sat on the couch as he heard the messages.
"One new message"
"James it's me, your mom, I hope you have a good reason for you to not answer the phone, never mind, look I'm stuck here at the traffic because some dorks of the army are blocking the streets and I can't pass due to all the traffic, I'm calling because I might get home really late, remember to close the doors tightly, tell Kate to go sleep early, and don't open the door to any stranger, see you in some hours, love you."
James heard the message and chuckled when he realized he was so worried for nothing, but at least he was at home, so he lay on the couch and closed his eyes and started to fell asleep.
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