Author's Note: Man, I've got to stop getting so much in my hands, sorry for not updating, at least I made it longer than the last 2. I still had to divide it, otherwise it would be way too for a third chapter (at least for this story).
Chapter 3:
Reuniting, Part 1
The three of them then returned to Seles to plan their next move. "So who are you anyways?" Sen asked Lloyd. "That would be Lloyd" Dart answered instead. "Lloyd, Lloyd, Lloyd,,,, ah, you mean the guy who got fooled into helping to bring Embroyo" Sen commented. Lloyd had his traditional poker face by the time they reached the village, despite Sen's comments on how much of a fool he thought he was. Shana's normally happy expression immediately switched to a highly worried one the moment she saw Lloyd's face. "I thought you…", "I managed to teleport out before the explosion" Lloyd stated, interrupting Shana's question. "I must say I thought you would have died after the destruction of Embroyo, yet still, if the Moon Child still conserves her soul essence, than maybe…", Lloyd then through the Dark Dragoon spirit at Shana, who barely managed to catch it. Once the spirit came in contact with Shana, it displayed a wide and vary bright dark blue glow. "But Shana isn't at all like a dark dragoon…" Dart, highly surprised, stated. "Even if the person radiates happiness and joy, certain darkness in her heart can open towards the dark flame" Lloyd responded to Dart's indirect question. He went on with the explanation, "Though her nature may be good, her soul is still that of The God of Destruction, that understanding still places doubt in her heart, and burdens it with darkness. That darkness is enough to awaken the Dark Dragoon". Dart and Sen starred in surprise, while Shana stood in disbelief of how much Lloyd knew about her, about things she had decided not to think anymore.
After the starring, Sen broke the silence by reminding the original purpose for which they had returned to the village, "Hey, weren't we about to plan our next move?" "Right, Lloyd, you said Albert has already sent the message to the others, so now we need to think of a way to meet up with them" continued Dart. "The king said he'd request permission from Tiberoa to use their ship" said Lloyd. "So I guess we should head for Fletz then" added Shana. "Right, Lloyd, can you teleport us there?" asked Dart, "I'm afraid my magic is most too limited without the Moon Objects" Lloyd replied. "But with my Talisman, I think I could take us as far as Hoax, we could probably catch up with King Albert from there" Sen suddenly interrupted. "Good, than let's head there immediately" Dart finished. With those last words, Sen motioned for them to get behind him. He put the talisman backwards in front of him, and concentrated his magic on it. After some concentration, the talisman started to glow pure silver, and in a flash of light, they where encircled in a green sphere and taken to across Serdio to Hoax.
At the entrance of the rebuilt fort town, they found Albert and a group of knights just entering the town. "Hey Albert, long time no see!" Dart shouted. "Dart, is that you? I didn't think you would get here so fast, I had thought about waiting for you in Fletz" Albert explained. "Yeah we probably would've had to if Sen wasn't here" Shana commented. "Sen?", "That would be me" Sen told Albert. "I thought Winglies couldn't't teleport this far" claimed Albert, with a confused expression on his face. "It's a long story, you see I…" Their conversation was cut short by a loud roar and heavy footsteps.
Not again , Sen thought as they rushed outside the walls. Then they saw it, an enormous creature, with a medium size neck, long muscular legs that ended in four razor sharp claws, his head spouted two large horns that curved upward, it's lower jaw inclined forward, displaying an array of long sharp teeth, obviously made to rip his enemies apart. From the back of it's head started a line of spikes that ended on it's tail, which also had its point encircled with spikes. From the middle of it's back sprouted a pair of long, forward curved wings that had a spike at the middle and on each end. The dragon was covered in thick almost black gray scales. "What the, a grown up, I had only seen young ones get close to towns!" Sen suddenly exclaimed, ending the aw in which they all stood. "Three dragoons and two Winglies, this shouldn't't be all that hard" Dart stated. "You think that because you never faced a corrupted dragon" Lloyd stated. "I hate to admit this, but I have to agree with him, the last time I tried to face a full grown one, I got beaten into a pulp", Sen agreed. Then the dragoons started their transformations. Albert held his spirit in front, and was surrounded by a tornado that slowly solidified into his Jade Dragoon armor. Shana centered her spirit, and was enveloped in an orb of darkness, dark lightning crackling around it, forming the armor with which she blasted out of the orb. Finally, Dart held up his spirit, being swallowed in it's pale gray light, which molded into the form of a six winged armor, a cannon sprouting from his left hand, and a seventh wing as his sword. "Here we go!" Sen exclaimed as they charged towards the beast. Lloyd surprised the others by taking out the dragon buster and charging in first, Dart close behind preparing for a spell. Shana stayed back, launching as much arrows at the beast as possible. Albert charged his spear forward and was the first to reach the Dragon. But the dragon seemed not to care and swiped its spiked tail at Albert, who was hit flat on the back. Dart launched his Divine Dragon Ball spell and showered the dragon with the attack the Dragon took flight away from the attack, unknowing of the fact that Lloyd was waiting for him in the air. With the Dragon Buster in hand, he charged downwards at the enemy, making a large wound on its back. The Dragon roared in pain, and tried to counter with a tail slam but Lloyd teleported out of the way. Sen and Albert charged the dragon from the back, but it dived under them and faced upward, a beam of blackish-gray fire shooting from it's mouth towards the two. With no time to evade and Sen magic still exhausted from the teleporting to Hoax, They received the attack directly. Shana saw them and thought about her former powers, the healing capacities of the White-Silver Dragoon; then she remembered a spell she had seen Rose use many times. "Astral Drain!" she shouted as she concentrated her magic on her next arrow. She aimed at the head of the Dragon and shot. The arrow was stopped inches away from the head, and started absorbing the beast's health. She then drew the energy towards herself, and showered Sen and Albert with it. "Thanks Shana!" Sen exclaimed as he thought of a new idea. He charged the Dragon head on, expecting it to try it's breath attack again. Just as he thought, the dragon once again shot the blackish-gray flame; Sen placed his talisman in front and absorbed the power from the attack. "Lloyd, place this on your blade!" Sen shouted while tossing Lloyd the talisman. Lloyd understood his idea and did as he said. The pale yellow color of the magic blade changed to a pure silver while the magic almost erupted from its point. Lloyd pointed the blade to the Dragon. The blade than grew until it had pierced all the way through the enemy dragon.
"Okay, I just expected the blade to get stronger, but that works even better!" Sen exclaimed, an obvious feeling of surprise in his voice. Lloyd tossed the talisman back to Sen, "How did you know that would happen?", "I didn't, chances were, the blade blew up in your face". Everyone just starred at him with an extremely puzzled look. "Hey, better take that chance than to get eaten by a dragon, don't you think", Sen claimed, yet the others still weren't very convinced. "We should probably get going now" Albert stated. "Yeah, it's a long walk from here, we better get moving" Dart agreed.
The rest of the trip was pretty silent; they ran into a couple of monsters on the way, but nothing really tough. They stopped to camp little after the border. "Fletz should be about a half a day from here" Lloyd stated. "Yeah, but we'd better camp here, or we'll have to spend the night fending of monsters" Shana said. "It's a good thing they placed soldiers around the border, or we wouldn't't have a choice" Sen responded. Soon after, most of them were asleep, but Shana was still wide awake. So it's true, my spirit still is Embroyo's. I don't think that without the body I'm a danger to anyone, but still... Shana thought to herself, little before she too was asleep.
They woke pretty early in the morning, all except Sen, who seemed pretty tired the night before. "Hey, wake up!" Dart said while shaking Sen from side to side. "Huh...what?" Sen said, while barely managing to open his eyes. "Do you always wake up late, yesterday was the same too" Shana asked. "Only when I use the Chaos Talisman, it really takes a toll you know" Sen answered. "Well we better pick up and get going to Fletz" Albert said. They got ready and headed towards the Tiberoan Capital. After a half a day of walking and monster beating, they finally reached Fletz.. They town seemed to be in the middle of a celebration, and the group decided the Kaffy would be the best person to ask on the matter. The moment they entered the bar, Kaffy shouted out a greeting to fast for them to understand. "Hadn't seen you folks in a long time, come for the celebration?" "What celebration!?" Shana excitedly asked. "The engagement celebration, haven't you heard?" "We haven't, that's why we came here" Dart answered. "Well if it's info you want, then you came to the right place!" Kaffy exclaimed. "Normally I would've reprehended her for now, for blabbing on this long, but these new are too good to keep from spreading!" Kaffy's boss suddenly yelled out. "That's right folks, you see, Princess Lisa finally confessed to Nello, and there's a big party going on to celebrate their engagement!" Kaffy announced to them. "Princess Lisa is engaged, that's wonderful!" Shana exclaimed. "Now that I think of it, her telescope did seem pointed to the street Nello's house is in" Dart pointed out. "There you have it, the main party's going on in the castle, you outta check it out, everyone is invited!" Kaffy said. "We were planning on heading there anyways, I suppose there's no problem in checking out the party" Sen stated. With that, they left the bar and headed towards the castle.
When the reached the castle gate, they came across a familiar face. "Hey I remember you guys, come on in, everyone's invited to the party!" said the guard; it was the same one they always saw at the entrance. They went into the castle to find a large crowd assembled inside, dancing and eating at will. The Party seemed to get more formal the closer to the Sun Chamber they got. "Princess Lisa, Nello, I heard the news, congratulations!" Shana shouted to them as soon as they were inside the Sun Chamber. "Hey guys, long time no see!" Nello yelled back. "It is so nice to see you again" Lisa commented. The rest of the night was passed dancing and chatting with the other townsfolk that went to the party. The group decided to wait till the next morning to ask King Zoir for permission to use the Queen Fury, so they spent the night at the castle.
Sen was, surprisingly, the first to wake up the next morning,. "Hey guys, wake up!" Seen yelled, waking them in surprise. "Sen, I must be having early morning hallucinations, there's no way he could be the first to wake up" Dart muttered, still half asleep. "I told you, I only oversleep if I overuse the talisman" Sen responded to Dart's exaggerated statement. The rest of the group woke up in the same surprise that Dart was in. "We should go ask the king for permission to use his ship as soon as possible" Lloyd said. "Never the bright shine are you, Lloyd?" Sen sarcastically stated. "I find no joy in spending time in a human city" Lloyd answered. "Do you even have anywhere you like to stay?" Sen continued. "Well I…never mind, it's not important" Lloyd said in a hesitant voice. "Let's get going" he followed, I wonder what he's trying to hide Sen thought to himself.
They continued to the Chamber of the Sun, where they found King Zoir and Princess Lisa talking happily to each other. "King Zoir, I come with a request from Serdio" Albert said. "Sure, name whatever you want; you will always be welcome to ask here!" Zoir cheerfully said. "The dragoons need to reunite on urgent business, and we require permission to use the Queen Fury to gather the others" Albert explained. "This sounds very serious. Very well, the ship is in the castle harbor, we will call you when it is prepared" Zoir complied, calling on his royal messenger. "Send a message to the captain, have the Queen Fury ready as soon as possible" Zoir ordered. The messenger left towards the under-castle dock to inform of the King's orders. "I shall send you a messenger when the ship is ready" he told the group. "Very well then, we shall come back by then, we must go prepare in the town" Albert said before they all left.
They exited the castle and headed straight for the weapon shop. "We need to get better weapons, these are starting to get rusty, and my glaive is losing its sharpness from hitting dragon scales" Sen commented. They went in and updated their weapons. Most of them bought the same type of weapon the always used, except for Lloyd, who didn't buy a new one seeing as he had the Dragon Buster; and Sen, who bought a double sided Glaive-Guisarme. Next they went into the armor shop, since most of their armors had been wrecked in the fight against the dragon. The item shop was next, since they would need to be prepared for any possible next fight against a dragon. Once they came out of the shop, they saw Fester just coming out of the church. "Mister Fester, how nice to see you again!" Shana yelled at him. "Hey, I didn't think I'd see you folks again, came here for the party?" Fester replied. "Not originally, but we did stay at it yesterday" Shana answered. "Well, I better be going it's time for Princess Lisa's study" Fester Said as he left. At that moment, the royal messenger arrived to inform them that their ship was ready to depart. They took a moment to say goodbye to the King and Lisa and then set for the Rouge Islands, where they would find Haschel and Kongol.
I promise, the next chapter will be sooner.