Dark Guardian: Book Two
A/N: Okay, so the first chapter wasn't the best, but there is always room for improvement, and this chapter will have a battle scene in it, just because I need a battle scene. Just to be clear here, Hunchback of Notre Dame was the only story mod that I did that will follow canon in relation to Disney, not all of these stories I do are ones that I can remember. However they will end almost as close to the Disney Storyline as possible.
And just a reminder, I own nothing except the Guardians, Red Guardians, and other contributions that I create; everything else belongs to Disney Corp. Thank you.
Chapter Two: A cure all for idiocy.
Maurice looked up from his drawings in the shed to see me standing there, technically I wasn't allowed there, but I was fuming, and I figured he'd have a drink or two in storage.
"What are you doing here Kyle?" he asked, "You know you're not supposed to be here, this is the only place on the farm that's off limits, well that and my daughter's room."
"I need a strong drink," I said, "Gaston was in the village, and as usual belittling you and making crude jokes about Belle, and Lefou was there as well, if it weren't for the fact that I can't interfere, they both would be dead."
Maurice sighed, Kyle was the one man who was unpredictable in his temperament, he would rather talk with his sword and gun then negotiate, the fact that Kyle was a Red Guardian, and a Dragon Guard worried Maurice. Maurice and Belle both knew of the Red Guardians for a long time, but they hid it from Kyle when he showed up, they'd had dealings with the Guardians before, and rumor was that there was a band of men in the forest who were a bit military and both of them worried that the Guardians may have had a foothold here.
"Try to just breathe," said Maurice, "and calm down, you're here for a purpose and I doubt the Red Council would like to have to send in someone else."
I half turned and looked at him suspiciously, he was a mortal, and how did he know about the Red Council?
"How do you know about the War?" I asked.
"My wife was a Red Priest," said Maurice, "She came here once to consider installing an enclave, but found it to be impossible because of reasons due to the magic in this area with the forest, my daughter and I have traveled that road, as have others, and we've heard voices in it, human, I believe that there might be a troop of Guardian soldiers in there, or something."
"A Red Priest came here?" I asked a bit astonished. Red Priests were priests, but they never were sent as scouts, they were healers mostly, usually they stayed at the main enclave, in total there were about 200 Red Priests, they had only healing powers, but if they were pressed they could kill if they were in serious trouble, but it was something they hated.
"Yes," said Maurice, "I was suspicious of her at first, most women that travel around here have an escort, she came by herself, she had a large sword on her back, she called it Harbringer, and it was deadly. This was about 25 years ago; she died when our daughter was born, which was 5 years later."
"Interesting," I said, "I take it that she was beautiful, because Belle has then inherited her beauty."
"Yes," said Maurice, "now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to work."
"Alright," I said, "I'm going to go check out the forest, and see if there's anything there."
I turned to walk out, when Maurice tapped me on the shoulder, and handed me a scope for my gun, I normally didn't use a scope, but if I was going to be facing a group of soldiers then this might be useful.
I walked into my room and I donned my camouflage gear, picked out two shot guns, an Uzi, Excalibur, and some grenades, plus my rifle, put the scope on it. I walked to the forest through the fields. Belle saw me going and sighed; she disproved of me going out, but realized at the same time, that I was carrying on work that was beneficial.
It took me about two hours to get to the forest, I could of used my hover board, but I didn't want to attract the attention of any eyes out walking and start having questions asked of who I actually was.
I finally reached the darkest part of the forest, turned on my flashlight and attached it to the side of my rifle and brought it out. If I was right, then the soldiers would be around somewhere. I walked in a northerly direction, until I came to a four way crossroads. I put my hand down on the road and stretched out my consciousness trying to find what I was looking for. I found nothing, but then I realized that this forest was so thick that it could dampen anything. I turned to look at one of the roads, and I noticed it was the least traveled; actually it was never traveled…period. I reached out my hand and recoiled instantly, there was a very bad aura around whatever was down that way.
Then I heard a noise, like the rushing of wind, turning, I jumped out of the way, fast, before the thing that was the cause of the noise went through the area. Looking up, I saw a mecha, and a few minutes later a group of about ten soldiers all in heavy gear came to meet up with the robot, and a few minutes after that, ten more men showed up. Twenty soldiers, a robot and who knew what else was around.
I strolled out, with my rifle in position. "Greetings gentlemen," I said, "I'm Kyle Endergram, and I'm going to assume that you are all Guardian Soldiers."
20 guns pointed my way and a big red dot took position on me. Well if I was going to go out this way, it certainly was a lousy way.
"What do you want with us Endergram?" asked the lead soldier, "We're here per orders of the Guardian Council, and we will not let anyone stop us."
Pulling out my sword, and sheathing my rifle, I smiled.
"Then you're about to meet the wrath of the Red Guardians, I am the Red Dragon!" I roared charging at them, the cannon from the mecha fired, but didn't even hit the ground, it was deflected by something.
The mecha turned and tried to run, but there was something standing in the path, another man, strapped with weaponry, weaponry of this time and reality that I was in, and there was another guy with him, a short guy at that.
"I figured you could use some help Kyle," said Gaston, "I was beginning to wonder if the Council was going to send some help."
Gaston was Red Council? I was….surprised to say the least. The robot fired at him again, but the shot was deflected by whatever Lefou was using.
Suddenly I felt a mussel at the back of my head, and one of the soldiers had a gun on me, a nasty looking thing, didn't want to get into a game of tag with it.
"You and your friends will surrender now," said the soldier, "There are twenty of us, and three of you, plus a robot of ours, you stand no chance."
A boom and the robot shattered into a million pieces, I looked to Lefou and Gaston who both shrugged, it wasn't them.
"I think you need to take a new stand on things," said a voice from up above, "Like a cure all for idiocy, seeing as how you idiots have gotten your asses kicked once again."
Eight men, in regimental Red Guardian Orith Order Commando Outfits dropped down, one of them holding a quasi-gun. The RGOOC was the smallest commando outfit in the Council's use, they were all former military grunts assigned as seals before they died in the human world. This was there territory, and it was my turn to back off.
I shot the soldier holding me, and shot two more, while Gaston and Lefou dealt with the ones near them, the rest being taken care of by the RGOOC.
"Vice Commander Kalgrave at your service sir!" said Kalgrave, "How do you do Red Dragon?"
"Greetings to you Kalgrave," I said, "So I take it that you and your men have been here for a while monitoring the situation."
Kalgrave had a sheepish look on him, "No," he said, "As soon as you entered the forest, the bells and whistles at the Council went off, we were sent out to deal with whoever entered the forest, though technically they were here first, we didn't know about it."
"What do you mean?" I asked, "These punks were Guardian Soldiers."
"Yes," he said, "They were, they were also using Antioch cloaking tech, they have a base somewhere in this forest, but we can't find it, we aren't here for patrol duty, but you will do nicely for this assignment, Gaston and Lefou shall return to the village."
"If I may," I said, "I need to know what's with the forest."
"I don't think anyone knows," said Kalgrave, "and if they do, they don't talk about it, its nothing that concerns you, you're here for a specific duty."
"Then explain the bad aura down the east road," I said.
"That I can't explain," He said, "But if its bad mojo, then it isn't your place to worry."
A gun cocked, and Kalgrave turned around to find Gaston and Lefou pointing blunderbuss at him. Lefous' was modified to fit his size, small handle but large gun shaft with a telescope on it.
"I told you that I want an answer," I said as I pointed my sword at Kalgrave, "Now give me what I want."
Kalgrave smiled at me, and shrugged, "I don't take orders from you Hasrot."
I grimaced and pulled out a shotgun and shot one of the commando's in the head.
"I'm not under Council command," I said, "I'm the Red Dragon and I answer to the no one."
"Who do you answer to?" roared Kalgrave, cocking the quasi-gun and smiling a smile that seemed to say that you're dead in it.
"HE ANSWERS TO ME!" roared a voice throughout the forest, and contained only to the forest.
A bright light shone and a woman dressed in white and red appeared with a staff in her hand.
Kalgrave stood at attention as did what was left of his brigade, Gaston and Lefou dropped to one knee and I saluted.
"Vice Commander Kalgrave," said the lady, "You know very well the orders of the Council, you are never to withhold information from the Red Dragon, or any other of his associates."
"Milady," stammered Kalgrave, "If I had known that he worked for you…."
A bright and blinding light hit Kalgrave and he was no longer, his men stood at attention and dropped their weapons, the Quasi-gun also was left over.
Gaston and Lefou kept their weapons trained on the men, as they turned and marched into a light portal and were gone.
"It seems that he liked his job a bit too much," said the lady, "Methinks that he got power hungry, his men didn't notice it, but his commander Over Commander Asteroth believes that a Psi-subber got to him, offered him power and glory."
"And you are?" I asked.
"Osawrath, mesorath, naobaor," she said, code words, and suddenly I remembered.
"Lady Kestral," I said, "How are you?"
"You were right in thinking that the aura is evil and twisted," she said, "Go and search when you feel that it is time, but right now you must do what you have done up to now, your memory will be wiped again, as will the memories of Gaston and Lefou."
A few minutes later, I found myself in the forest, my sword out, I didn't remember why I was there, and the only thing I did remember was that I was pissed at Gaston and Lefou.
I turned, and looked down the roads, I felt an aura down one of them, but it was late in the day and it could wait for later.
I made my way back to the farm, things were weird. I felt renewed.
End Chapter Two.
