Welcome to chapter 3 everyone. I've decided to make the third story take place between the first and second one during Rikaru and Zola's adventure. Also, the new vehicles in this story are the ones from Jak X so I don't own them and if you don't know what they look like then you can look up the names. I don't really have a big imagination when it comes to cars unless I'm painting them or something but I did change the names on some of them little. I did use some weapons from the movie Death Race in here so I don't own those ether. It's not really my area of expertise. In this story, the Krimson Knight army has transitioned from swords to guns so you see how things will get more dangerous. Now read on!
"Who did it? Is Konrad okay?" Shu asked.
"Calm down Shu. We're going to head over there to find out." Zola said.
"Did Rye say who did it?" Kluke asked and Rikaru shook his head.
"No, he was flying too high in the air to tell." Rikaru said.
"Then let's head out." Kristina said.
"As much as I'd love for you to join us sis, you can't neglect your responsibilities as Werewolf Queen." Rikaru said and Kristina cursed under her breath.
"I'll be glad to take over for her." Sam said and everyone stared at him.
"Are you sure maro?" Marumaro asked and Sam nodded.
"I'm Kristina's advisor and second in command." Sam said.
"Awesome now let's go." Shu said and they left the palace. They rushed over to the huge garage and found Rei working on a new desert car. There were several new desert cars lined up next to him. Kristina, Shu and Marumaro's jaws dropped when they saw the new cars. Jiro, Bouquet and Kluke just stared in awe at them and Rei closed the hood on the last car. He tossed his wrench in the air like a baton and used his small gray towel to wipe the sweat of his face. He turned around and waved at them.
"Hey Rikaru! Zola!" Rei shouted and they walked over to him. "I finished working on making the adjustments to these vehicles so go ahead and knock yourselves out.
"What are these cars?" Bouquet asked.
"And where did you get them?" Jiro asked and Rei walked over to the first car.
"Rye said that he aquired some new vehicles for us to use. Of course since he's still a merchant, these cars don't come free." Rei said and he pointed to Rikaru with a large grin. "However, Rikaru came along and managed to buy all of them from Rye."
"Seriously?" Kluke asked shocked that Rikaru was able to buy even three of these expensive looking vehicles, let alone fourteen of them. Rikaru looked at her and grinned.
"Okay bro, how in the freakin hell were you able to buy fourteen of these cars?" Kristina asked.
"Well, I've been saving up money from each job ever since Nene first found me. Plus, Rye gave me the 'close friends discount' so I was able to buy all of them." Rikaru said.
"Even I was surprised." Zola said shrugging and Rei cleared his throat.
"This is the Anvil RTX. It has a good speed, moderate handling, turbo quality and it's armor can withstand practically a truckload of missiles." Rei said and everyone glanced over the orange and black paint on the armor that had M134 miniguns mounted on the hood.
"This next one is called the Earth Basher. It's not very good when it comes to speed but defense is where this vehicle shines. It can take at least double the damage that the Anvil RTX can handle. It's very capable of handling a hell of a lot of damage and can still keep going." The car was painted violet and white with Russian RPG-7 rocket launchers on the roof and a pair of M61 Vulcan gatling guns mounted on the sides. (a/n: Called Basher in Jak X)
"This one is called the Dragonfly. It's good in both speed and defense but it has a slow turning speed so watch out for that." It was painted forest green and black with M1919 machine guns on the hood.
"This one is Rikaru's personal favorite, the Lightning Wolf. As the name suggests, it's the fastest car among all of them. It's also good when it comes to defense but because it goes so fast, your timing when it comes to turns needs to be flawless." It was painted a dark blue with black stripes with a pair of MG34 machine guns on the hood, twi Uzis mounted on the grill. (a/n: Called the Street Grinder in Jak X)
"This is Rye's personal favorite, the Steel Rhino. This has the same low speed level but it's the best in the group when it comes to defense. It can take even more damage than the Anvil RTX and Earth Basher combined." It was black with a large gold strip across the middle. It also had Russian RPG-7 rocket launchers with MG42 machine guns and flamethrowers mounted on the trunk. (a/n: Called Hammer Head in Jak X)
"Sorry Rei but we don't have time for you to introduce the other cars to us. We need to get to Jibral." Rikaru said and Rei nodded. Then Rikaru turned to Kristina.
"Can you drive yet Kristina?" Rikaru asked and Kristina puffed out her chest proudly.
"Yep! Rei taught me how to drive on my sixteenth birthday." Kristina said and she hopped in the driver's seat of the Wolf Blade. It was painted a dark red with silver stripes. There were FN MAG machine guns mounted on the hood with an M37 machine gun with a turret shield on the roof. (a/n: Called Road Blade in Jak X)
"The Lightning Wolf and Wolf Blade can hold four people each." Rei said and Rikaru hopped in the Lightning Wolf. Zola, Jiro and Marumaro hopped in with Rikaru and Shu, Kluke and Bouquet hopped in with Kristina. The garage doors leading out into the desert opened and the two cars raced off.
In Jibral...
"This isn't good." Rye said to himself as he looked around. The castle walls had claw marks all over along with some housed and the ground. "Sadly, there's only one supernatural breed that can do this much damage."
"This is horrible!" a voice shouted and Rye turned around to see Rikaru and the gang walking towards him with the two new desert vehicles parked side by side. Shu and the others looked around in shock at the amount the blood coating the walls and ground.
"Who could've done all this?" Bouquet asked hiding behind Shu. Rikaru, Zola and Kristina smelledthe same scents and growled at the same time.
"Werewolves." Zola said and they looked at her.
"She's right. Only werewolves can do damage of this magnitude." Rye said and Kristina stared at him.
"What? What happened to the 'pervert guy' that goofed around and flirted with every woman?" Kristina asked and Rye looked at her, slightly offended.
"Hey, I can be serious when the situation calls for it." Rye said and Rikaru walked around the now deserted city.
"Where's Konrad?" Shu asked worried and Rye pointed to a house next to Rikaru.
"He should be resting in that safehouse right now. Konrad and two other Jibral soldiers were the only survivers from the army. There are also some civilians there while most were being evacuated." Rye said and Shu rushed to the house. He knocked on the door and it opened slightly.
"Who is it?" a voice asked.
"I'm Shu. My friends and I are here to see Konrad." Shu said and the door closed. Then it opened completely, revealing a tall brown-haired man in Jibral armor.
"You and your friends may come in." the man said and he walked others walked inside and gasped when they saw a badly injured Konrad sitting on the couch with two women changing his bandages. Shu, Kluke and Bouquet rushed over to him.
"Konrad, are you alright?" Kluke asked and Konrad weakly smiled at her.
"Don't worry about me Kluke. I'll be just fine after some rest." Konrad said and Shu sighed in relief. Then Konrad looked up at Rikaru and glared at him. He shot up from his seat and grabbed his sword. Shu, Kluke and Bouquet jumped back from his sudden action and Konrad pointed his sword at Rikaru. The sword stopped a couple inches from Rikaru's face but the white werewolf didn't even flinch.
"Konrad what are you doing?" Shu asked.
"He's the cause of all this Shu! He sent those werewolves to attack Jibral!" Konrad shouted and the two Jibral soldiers drew their weapons.
"Whoa hold on here Konrad." Jiro said. "Rikaru didn't order anyone to attack Jibral."
"How would you know Jiro? Have you even been around him very much?" Konrad asked and Jiro was silent. Rikaru and Zola were gone for four years so he couldn't think of a comeback. "Besides, I was told all about this guy from a werewolf I defeated. He betrayed you guys, he betrayed Nene and now he's betrayed Jibral! What makes you think that he won't betray you all again?"
"Because...because I trust him." Kluke said and Konrad stared at her in shock.
"I do too." Bouquet said and the others nodded.
"He's our friend maro." Marumaro said. "He won't betray us."
"He's earned my trust as well." Jiro said.
"I can assure you that Rikaru did nothing of the sort." Zola said.
"I don't control werewolves like that." Rikaru said and Konrad stared at him. "I can only control regular wolves which would've been no match for your army. Besides, there's no point in attacking Jibral because I value our allies' support."
"Yep, big bro wouldn't do something like that without MY permission." Kristina said smirking and Rikaru sighed. He walked over to Shu and patted his head. "Any friend of Shu's is a friend of mine."
"So Rikaru's innocent." Kluke said and Konrad lowered his sword.
"However, the fact still remains that Jibral was attacked by werewolves. Who would have enough power and authority to make order werewolves to attack? I highly doubt that this would be a random attack." Zola said and Konrad sat back down on the couch.
"Rye, don't you have Homeron's number?" Rikaru asked and the others, except Zola, looked at Rye in shock.
"You have Homeron's number?" Jiro asked and Rye grinned.
"Of course. Homeron comes to my shop for the latest gadgets to help in his business. I'll step outside and give him a call." Rye said and he walked outside.
"Awesome. Homeron should be able to find out what's going on." Shu said.
"Hopefully before something like this happens again maro." Marumaro said
"In the meantime, we should all just split up and investigate the castle. There might be some clues left around." Rikaru said and the others nodded.
In Jibral castle...
"This is so creepy." Bouquet said holding her nose. Her, Rikaru, and Kluke were searching in the throneroom for clues. "Did you two find anything?"
"Not yet." Kluke said holding her nose too. The room reaked of blood and they had to hold their noses. "Are you okay Rikaru?"
"Besides the splitting headache I'm getting from the smell of blood in here, I'm great." Rikaru said sarcastically and Kluke looked over at him. He was standing in the middle of the room glancing around in every direction. He was sensing danger somewhere but wasn't able to pinpoint it yet. His white wolf ears appeared and twitched when he heard very slight growling. He swiftly turned to the large curtains and backed away from it slowly. "Kluke, Bouquet, run for it."
"What are you talking about?" Bouquet asked and Kluke noticed him staring at the curtains.
"RUN NOW!" Rikaru shouted and Kluke nodded. She grabbed Bouquet's hand and raced for the door. As soon as the girls ran, three werewolve dashed out the curtains towards them. Rikaru cursed and swiftly shifted to wolf form before racing towards the girls. Rikaru, having trained practically all his life, made it to the girls first and pushed them out the door. One of the werewolves raked its claws across Rikaru's left side and the force of the attack knocked Rikaru out the room and he slid on his right side across the hallway.
"Rikaru!" Kluke shouted and Bouquet stood their frozen in fear.
"DON'T STAND THERE! RUN AWAY NOW!" Rikaru snarled, emphasizing the huge amount of danger they were in. He glanced at the three werewolves and their very appearence shocked him to the core. First, these werewolves had no fur on them; they were completely bald. Second, their scleras were completely black and they looked completely blind. Third, their mouths split opened four different ways and revealed what was completely inside. Finally, they had meter long snake like tongues and their skin was falling off, revealing the muscles, blood and bones underneath.
"W-What are they?" Bouquet asked frozen in fear and Kluke grabbed her hand to make a run for it but stopped when she saw three more of the same type of werewolves walking towards them. Kluke and Bouquet backed away until they were next to Rikaru. He stood on his paws and looked to see the 'werewolves' moving closer.
'Shit.' Rikaru thought and the werewolves roared.
I decided to end it there to keep you in suspense, BWAHAHAHAHAHA!. If you've noticed, there are elements of Resident Evil in this chapter that I couldn't resist putting in but don't worry, this won't be a survival zombie horror thing. Anyway read and review!