Megaman ZX Archangel
Me: And here we are, on a new chapter of MMZX Archangel!
Amy: Why did you make me look like a power addict in the last chapter?
Me: oh, no reason. I just wanted to get the feeling in. Now...Disclaimer!
Amy: DON'T BOSS ME AROUND! BladeofMoonlight does not own MMX/MMZX, but she does own just about everything else.
Chapter 4: Explinations and the Legacy of the Meta Scorpion
/Iris's P.O.V.
I've been training for hours, and I feel great. I don't know why, but then again, I'm getting used to not knowing things, as frusterating as it is. I blasted another golem with a beam of light before landing on my feet.
"Hey Iris! Dinner's on!" Tammy announced, poking her head in the door. Both me and Amy, who had somehow managed to trash more golems than me while learning to control her Spiritmetal, Dragon Sky, paused and turned to her. I had totally forgotten the time.
"About time." Lucas grumbled, appearing from the next room with Heather and Jade. "I'm hungry."
"What's on?" Amy asked as we demerged and headed in.
"Come and see." Tammy replied. We got to the dinning hall. "Pasta & sause with cresent rolls. Yum." (a/n: that's my favorite meal...dang it! Now I'm hungry!)
We all sat down and dug in.
"Dark;" Amy began after she finished chewing "do you know what the Meta Scorpion is?"
Dark paused and gave us all a long look. "Are you sure you want to know?"
"YES!" Amy hissed in exasperation.
"It's hard to fight an enemy we know nothing about." Heather said.
"Please?" I asked innocently, putting on my best kitten-eyes expression.
"Alright." Dark said seriously. "The Meta Scorpions are a race of mutant scorpions who live in the cave in the Outlands. When they first mutated, they were filled with hate of their new bodies, so they began to rampage, destory cliffs and towns, anything to provoke reaction or bring them into death, to escape their wretched forms."
"They tried to destory themselves?" Lucas asked, bewildered.
"Yes. Luckily for us, the Dark Hylian army managed to hold them back. That's when the trouble really started." Dark hesitated, and then went on. "Among the Meta Scorpions rose a leader. He alone did not detest his new body. He did not try to destory himself. Instead, he rallied the Meta Scorpions together. He blamed their transformation on the experiments the Hylians were doing in the labes. He claimed the meltdown of one of our power plants spread the liquid that changed them so dramatically. He then declared himself king and war on the Hylians. He is the King Meta Scorpion."
"The one our elders were talking about." Heather said softly, her eyes bright with fear. I put a hand on her shoulder and looked at Dark.
"So what happened next?"
"For years we fought the Scorpions. It went on for years and no one was in control. Families fell apart and we all lost friends. Then, something occured. A lone ship landed on Gilme, intent on discovery. It held in it's hull several humans, who were caught in the crossfire of a battle between us and the Metas. They fled, except for one, who was too badly injured to leave. She learned our customs and our language. And it was she, with the help of your elders, Amy, who foraged Biometal Model I."
I felt my eyes widen, and my mind shot back to when I was on that hunk of metal, hurt and confused. The girl who had appeared before me and given me Model I...that was her, wasn't it?
"She was the one to face the King MScorpion, and after a long and costly battle, she crippled him and forced him underground."
"What happened to her?" I asked tentitivly, almost afraid of the answer.
Dark lowered his eyes. "She...She died from her wounds after the battle. But before she died...before she died, she said that she had a vision that another human would appear on Gilme. The images are hazy, she had said, and I cannot see her that clearly. But I know that some day, she will fall here. She is Model I's true chosen one...she...she can save you. I promise to guide her as best as I can from the afterlife."
I wasn't stupid. "You mean that person is me?"
Dark looked at me, and I could tell his expression held either grief or hope. "If you can here Model I, and if your transformation is stable, then yes, it is you."
I put my fork down. My food had gotten cold, but suddenly I wasn't hungry anyway. I mean, I know, I promised to defeat the Meta Scorpion, but knowing that Model I's previous chosen one had died trying made my stomach flip over, and suddenly I wasn't so sure of myself.
"But if that's true, then why did the elders try to sacrifice Iris to the King MScorpion?" Amy demanded.
"The elders were weary of war after the girl died." Dark replied stiffly. "They blamed us for it. They claimed that if we had not been so hungry for battle, so eager to expect the call for war, there would not have been so many deaths. That's when the Dark and Light Hylians became seperate unions. The elders got us peace, but shameful peace it was. They promised that every 12 moons, several young hylains would be brought to the cave as sacrifices."
"And when it was their turn," Jade growled, "they tried to put Iris in their place."
"Yes." Tammy said. "The king knows Iris has the power to destroy him, so he would have happily excpeted her in their place."
I stared at my plate.
"Iris?"
"I'm going to get some air." I announced, standing up and heading for the roof. When I got there, I sat down and kicked my feet over the side, gazing down at the happy town. I looked upwards and outwards. There was a darkness-enshrouded land there, and I was pretty sure that was the direction of the Outlands.
So the King Meta Scorpion lives there... I closed my eyes. What if I can't beat him?
End chapter
Author's Note: Ah, doubts. All heros/heroines have those every now and then. And I should mention, Meta Scorpions are about as big as an eight-story building, pure black from head to claw, and they have long tails with wicked spikes at the end. I figured I should discribe them, so we all know what Iris is dealing with.
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