Chapter Four

Someone asked me to bring in a human to the story I didn't response to last chapter because I was thinking about it, but what the hell, one more human couldn't hurt I guess.

"Anyone got a plan?" the Apes still held their ground, as if waiting for them to make the first move, the Guardians, Dramans, and human looked around each other as they thought.

"If they really do want to talk," answered Nathan. "Maybe it would be a good idea to speak to them, I mean, they are unarmed…but they could still crush us with those arms which worry me even more!" Terrador nodded his large head.

"Yes this is true; the Apes are not to be taken lightly. I say we bring two of us down to see what they want, if they wish to talk then those two will talk to them."

"I'll go," answered Brandon. "Anyone else?"

"I'll go as well," answered Spyro stepping up. Brandon nodded as he gripped his blade tighter a bit, and moved forward. He held a cloth on his back.

A grey Ape, looking very old and wearing what seemed to be light leather made its way up to the two halfway. It stopped when it saw the looks of everyone behind them, as Spyro and Brandon stopped as well.

"It's a bad choice coming here with no weapons Ape," Brandon told the furry beast. "Did your master order you to get the job done?" the Ape only looked down with a ping of fear in his face.

"You are Brandon…are you?" the Draman raised a brow at how the Ape knew his name. "And you, Spyro right?" the dragon nodded.

"Yes," answered the purple dragon. "But why does it matter?"

"We have come here…" answers the Ape. "To ask for your help!" Brandon crossed his arms while Spyro gave a puzzle look, the very things they were fighting, changed as they were; were asking for help.

"Why should we help your kind?" demanded Brandon harshly. "All you did was kill and slaughter us, even at Warfang just days ago!" the Draman glared and held his blade hilt getting ready to pull it out as he heard a small whimper from behind the Ape and tilted over to see. A small child like Ape hid behind the leg of the male Ape as he turned to see the child.

"I told you not to come young one…" the Ape spoke kindly. "Go on now," the child looked toward Brandon and Spyro one last time until it ran away toward the others. "We were told we were to get land for my clan," answered the Ape. "We are much like you dragon and Draman, we seek peace ourselves."

"Peace, yeah right." Muttered Brandon letting his blade go as Spyro gave him a hard glare.

"Brandon easy now,"

"Easy?" he asked in surprised. "These Apes sided with Malefor for what they call peace, and now they want to come to us; why do you think of that? Simple, they plan on killing us in our sleep!"

"We will not," answered the Ape as Brandon gave him a hard glare causing him to back away.

"Brandon," Spyro sigh and brought him to the side. "Listen, remember when everyone found out you were Malefor son?" He looked away as Saira told him once they were back how they reacted. "I know how these Apes were, but maybe this is good, we do need all the help we can get!"

"But Spyro…" the human sigh looking to him. "Apes…really? I mean how will everyone react?"

"They will be fine, in time sure, maybe not at once, back at time." Brandon sigh loudly and rubbed his eyes looking up at the sky for a moment as he closed his eyes and sigh again moving back to where he was.

"Alright," answered Brandon. "First tell me why you want to help us and why we should let you stay among us." The Ape let out a sigh and nodded his head.

"You see," started the Ape. "It started when Malefor wished to change some of us to stop…you easier. The one known as James made that possible…but it caused us a great deal. The one who were change, lost their soul and heart, they became nothing but empty shells made for war!"

"I thought you were already that anyway," Spyro kicked Brandon in the side as Brandon groan as the Ape sigh.

"If this was in better words, I would have taken that with pride, but not now…James started to take more of us by force, even taking our children and fusing them into worse metal monsters…" his paws clenched. "We are strong in number Draman and dragon, we will fight with you and tell you all the roads to stop Malefor Metal beast!" he started to move forward and pulled his cloth from his back and unwounded it to show a double battle axe in his hand. The flat end held the marking of a dragon, the blade part was as red as blood as the handle, black as night. "This Axe is given only to the Alpha of my clan," he moved forward more and bent down and held the axe up to Brandon with paws open. "I will give you my clan and the name of Alpha as long as we can fight along side you, and you keep my…your clan safe." Brandon and Spyro were both surprised by what was happening now, even some of the Apes behind the one holding the Axe were surprised as well as Brandon looked down at him, then to Spyro. He looked to him as well and then to the Ape.

"This is your choice Brandon," answered Spyro as Brandon sigh and closed his eyes.

"Are you sure you want a human for an Alpha?" asked Brandon. "Sure I may be somewhat of an Ape, but…"

"I mean what I mean," answered the Ape with his head still down. "Please…accept my offer…" Brandon looked down at him and then to the ones behind him; then to the dragons and Moles of the village behind him. Closing his eyes he gripped his hand around the Axe and pulled it to his side as the Ape looked up and stood to his full height.

"What is your name?" asked Brandon.

"Vloor," answered the Ape. "My name is Vloor, Alpha." He bowed his head as Brandon sigh.

"Vloor, you will be my second in command, take the rest of the clan down toward the water and camp there; also make sure some to look out in case of a attack, if one happens, sends your fastest to me and I will come. Also, come to me in two hours, we need to talk." Vloor nodded his head.

"It will be done Alpha." He banged his chest and barked a few orders to the Apes that escaped Brandon as they began to move back toward the river as Brandon held the axe in his hand looking down at it.

"You did what?" Terrador roared causing everyone to back away from him. "Are you dull in the brain, you should've just killed them while you had the chance!"

"Terrador just listen…" Brandon allowed Alpha to weird the Axe, saying that he preferred to use a blade, but he would still be their clan leader, everyone in the Ape clan thought it was weird but allowed him to do this.

"Listen?" he screamed again. "Many, many years we fought those Apes, and you allow them to stay this close to the wounded and children?" he pointed with his wing to the river Brandon had picked. "Are you a fucking idiot?"

"Shut the fuck up!" everyone went quiet at Brandon force of voice. "You're calling me an idiot? Me of all people huh, what about the mistakes you made in the past that caused lives?" Terrador snarl and turned away and Volteer cleared his throat.

"You both need to clam down," he said. "Yes it is a little…uncalled for that Brandon agreed to this without us knowing, but this may work out of us in this battle. Having Apes that know the way Malefor thinks and so froth will allow us to gain the upper hand in this war and maybe win!" again the green dragon snorted and stormed out as everyone sighed.

"He'll get over it," Saira said. "I do agree with him though, why did you become their leader Brandon?" the Draman thought for a moment then looked away.

"My mother always told me…everyone deserves a second chance, I mean," he looked toward Cynder. "You allowed Cynder to have one right?" No one said anything until an orange Cheetah wearing their clan cloak ran in.

"An Ape wishes to see you Brandon," the Cheetah told him as he nodded.

"Thank you," Saira went toward Brandon, showing she was coming with him this time as the two made their way out.

The Ape waited for the two outside the village gates, Cheetahs and dragons watched him for any sudden movements as Brandon pushed past. Vloor bowed toward Brandon as the others left to leave the three alone.

"What you have asked as been done Alpha," Vloor told the Draman looking up. "And we also found something."

"What's that then?" asked Brandon crossing his arms.

"As you know," answered Vloor. "We came without weapons save for my Axe, we will not be that well to you if we can't even defend ourselves right?" Brandon nodded to him as he listened. Vloor pointed toward the forest behind the large cliff by the river then turned back to Brandon. "It seems that some of the Robotic Apes as I heard they were called, are camped there, I think they will plan a attack soon and I wish to send a few of our own to crash them and retrieve any weapons from them; also this will be a good time to show the clan your leadership, so I think you should come as well." Saira looked over at Brandon and gave it some deep thought as he nodded.

"Alright," he answered. "Give me a moment and wait for me down by the river, do not come back until I send for you or come to you understand?" Vloor nodded and bowed as he left as Brandon and Saira turned to leave.

"You didn't have to come you know," Nathan held his double spear in his hands. He had learned how to summon it even without the golden armour now which was good, he still yet to know how to control that form and whenever he was in that form, he felt like he would kill anyone around him. "I know Snow is going to be pissed when she finds out you came."

"I know," answered Nathan. "But…" he sighed. "Brandon, you and the others had helped me so many times, and I'm the weak link of the group; I'm doing this to train myself and to better control this power. And also…do you think of me as human anyway?" Brandon turned over. He and the ten Apes who he brought with, which included Vloor stayed hidden watching the Robotic Apes from above. "I mean, can a human really change into a golden armour warrior just when he becomes angry? If that's the case the world we were born would be one hell of a broken rock right?" Brandon thought for a moment, he did have a point; no normal human could do that.

"We'll think of that later," answered Brandon. "For now, stay ready and focus." Nathan nodded, looking over at the Apes around him as they huffed and got ready for the command to attack. "Vloor," the Ape turned to him at once. "Take three other Apes and move over there." He pointed with his sword. "When I give the single, you jump out and flank them; take weapons as you go on alright?" he nodded his head as Brandon nodded back, but before Vloor could move, something caught his eye.

"Alpha," he hissed. "What is that?"

The lone being that walked on two legs walked into the camp as if not caring that Robotic apes were there, blade strapped to its back as the face was covered by the forehead and chin. When the robe moved, it showed its two guns as the first Ape went for the attack. Crouching low and unsheathing its blade it span on the ground cutting the legs off the robot and drove the sword though its chest, killing it before it hit the ground. All at once the others started to attack as they held their steel weapons toward him. Flipping the robe, the two legged warrior brought the guns out and held them in his hands shooting what seemed to be black pulse. The flesh Apes, Draman, and human watched as the robot apes started to fall one by one, bringing the guns back to his hip, and wielding the sword again, he ran and started to attack as Brandon stood up.

"Everyone, go down there and help him!" he cried. "No doubt there will be more of those robots coming, grab a weapon as well; move!" they all roared as they started to run down, Brandon was right though. More robot apes piled in as Brandon clan took their weapons from the ground and started to fight them holding them off, snarls and growls filled the air as Brandon and Nathan ran toward the robe warrior, only to stop when his blade was pointed at them. "Whoa!" cried Brandon. "Watch it man, we're on your side here!" the blue eyes narrowed as he attacked the Draman with blade up as Brandon side step out of the way holding his blade up to block. "Hey!" he cried. "What are you doing?" the hidden face person moved forward attack Brandon with blow after blow, he dodging the warrior with his blade, but were always pushed back as Brandon grunted. When the last of the robot apes killed, Vloor and the others ran to help their leader once he was pushed to the ground. "Stay back!" he ordered. "No one get in this fight!" they looked almost about to disobey that order but listened as they stood back to watch.

Brandon glared and stood up holding his blade as the one he was fighting twirl his blade around circling Brandon as Brandon copied his moves.

Could this be…? Thought Brandon. The other Draman Angle spoke of? Knowing that it possible was, he got ready, he didn't know who this Draman was, but he was strong that was for sure. The unknown Draman ran toward Brandon, battle grunts were heard as he slashed his blade toward Brandon, who weaved and leant back dodging his attacks. But one slash got him in the chest, slashing from his left hip to his right shoulder as he howled in pain. Blood splattered on the ground and hung onto the Draman blade as Brandon backed away holding his chest as best as he could kneel down.

"Give up you excuse for a Draman," the voice of the robe warrior was indeed male, deep and rough as eyes glared toward Brandon. "I have trained for years to bring my revenge on the ones who killed off our kind, and you have sided with him!" Brandon was confused at first, but knew what he was talking about.

"I have not joined the Dark Master!" Brandon cried back. "And I don't care how strong you are…" his breath was becoming heavy now. "I will keep fighting till I knock some sense into you; I will fight till I win, I…will…beat….you!" the warrior only grunted as he moved forward. Brandon's legs were heavy as he edge closer to him, blade up as he slashed down, but was stopped short by Nathan spear.

The human held up the warrior blade and threw him back as he stood over his friend with his spear held in both hands as the blade was in the middle as Nathan stood his ground. Shoving him back Nathan brought the spear to the side of his body glaring hard. The two handed blade fighter gave a hard glare back, looking down at Nathan spear then up to him. He didn't say anything as he ran toward Nathan, jumping and slammed his foot to the human chest, Nathan countered by grabbing his foot and flung him to the ground hard, causing a bit of rock to fly as Nathan glare again.

"I don't know who you are," he told him pointing the double spear at the Draman. "But if you want a fight, you got one with me."

Cliff Hangers! Okay I swear after this I'll try not to make anymore, and FYI I will work on my other story, since this chapter is done, another chapter of another story will be starting and so froth.