Author's Note: Writer's block is.... There are no words in the English language that can describe how horrible writer's block is. The want to write something, but the inability to make it sound right makes it horrible. Absolutely horrible.
Alas, I'm not seeing that many updates for this in the future. The Sam college thing has got me not motivated for the next chap.
Disclaimer: I do not own. Pwease don't sue.
The large dark dragon looked down to a figure next to him in the gloom. A mental command was all the other creature needed to give an affirming screech and fly off into the mist.
The creature flew down from the very edge of the Northern Mountains over the pitiful human settlements. It snarled and flapped its wings harder and caught an updraft, shooting it towards its next destination.
A small, ordinary looking base on the edge of the sea came into the creatures sharp sight. It angled itself towards the base, flying fast and low, avoiding the puny humans' pitiful attempts of radar. It landed on the beach, out of the sights of the guards and shook itself to be rid of the moisture of the lower atmosphere. Feathered wings folded against a smooth furred backside, powerful panther-like hind legs coiling with barely restrained strength. A thick strong beak of an eagle snapped forward at a bug that dared come close to its maw. Sharp, red eyes focused on the base built slightly into the hillside.
The griffin sunk low to the ground to stay out of the view of the guards. It moved over to the vents. Pft, some high-security place this was.
It ripped off the cover of the vent and peered down into the darkness. Huffing in a satisfied way, it opened its maw to let little brown balls fall into the now open vent.
The balls fell through the vent, tumbling over each other, making little clicking sounds every time they collided with each other and the sides of the vent. Finally they all started to pour out of the vent through a vent cover, clicking as they rolled across the floor. Once the balls stilled, they moved, unfurling into little beetle-like creatures, each with wicked glowing red eyes. After glancing around to affirm they were alone, they began to converge on one another, piling up until they were all seemingly one creature. The thing moved with surprising agility over to the glass container at the center of the room, away from all of the other equipment around the walls.
In the center of the glass container, sitting on a little pedestal, was the Cube fragment.
The combined-bug-thing jittered excitedly at the fragment, examining the glass surrounding it. It extended a claw and broke through the surrounding glass in one swift movement.
Alarms blared immediately, warning of the intruder, but said intruder actually wanted that to happen. It grabbed the fragment just as humans armed with an assortment of weapons poured into the room and fired on the creature. It avoided all attacks and--again, with surprising agility--leapt for the wide open door and freedom.
The bug creatures escape was covered by the griffin; it fired red hot flames at the pursuing humans before allowing the bug creature onto its back and flying off, leaving weapons fire in its wake.
The griffin landed safely sometime later at the edge of the Northern Mountains. It ruffled its feathered wings and the bug creature took its cue to get off. The creature handed over the Cube fragment before disintegrating into individual bugs again and re-entering the griffin's mouth. (um, eww) The griffin grabbed the Cube fragment in a fore-claw and swooped down to a meeting cliff below.
There stood five dragons, all shrouded in the darkness of the shadows created by the Mountains. They stood up from their various relaxed positions once they spotted the griffin. Seeing the shard clutched in the griffin's claws there were exclamations of happiness. One happily snatched the fragment from the griffin. Then with no visible cues, all the dragons then jumped off the cliff and into the open air, the griffin following.
Down, down they went, picking up speed, diving further away from the cliff. They leveled out briefly into a deep valley in between one of the 'true' Northern Mountains (one of the ones that humans had never been able to climb) and one of the 'wanna-be' neighbors (one of the mountains that, while large, was not on the same zomg-thats-huge-scale as the 'true' Northern Mountains). Deep in this valley, was the Pits.
Surrounding the huge, deep series of holes were human outposts positioned right on the rim. Occasionally a large combat Flying-class would soar over the largest and deepest of the Pits, checking to make sure all was as it should be.
However, these dragons weren't the most, ah, discrete. Two of the largest landed on one of the largest outposts, killing all inside. Their heavy landing cracked the rim where the outpost was, sending the crushed human building tumbling into the Pit, destroying any hope of survivors in the wreckage. The two large dragons smiled sadistically at the carnage they caused, while their comrades simply dived past them into the dark abyss below.
Down, down, further and faster they dived into the dark hole. Flying down this creepy place it was understandable why the humans called it 'the Gateway to Hell' and even appeared in the dragons' mythology as a place where no good things dwell.
Occasionally, a dragon would send a long thin steam of flame ahead to light up some of their gloomy surroundings. These little bursts of light only at first scared bats from their dark hidey-holes but soon they ventured too deep even for those nocturnal mammals to venture. And still deeper they went.
Finally, when the darkness grew suffocating, the dragons sensed the ending of their journey. Their large wings unfurled to slow their descent. Another questing burst of flame showed the bottom of the Pit, and the bodies buried within it. Blackout. Bonecrusher. Barricade. And the object of their search.
Megatron.
The flame was quickly swallowed up in the blackness, plunging the dragons into darkness once again, the only source of light the dim glow of the dragons eyes.
Another flame, this one different. The dragon kept the fire contained within its mouth, keeping the fire fueled constantly by its internal furnace, thus preventing it from guttering out, providing the proceedings with a constant light.
The five dragons moved towards their fallen leader, the griffin moving off to explore the caves with its own light.
The light eliminated the badly wounded form of the Mighty Megatron. His powerful chest normally covered in thick plates was wide open and mangled horribly, even melted in some places, showing his very empty internal furnace. Well, they were there to change that.
The one who had taken the shard from the griffin stepped ahead of the others and looked at the remains of the relic in his claws. Uttering a silent prayer to Primus (and Unicron, to finish Starscream off) the dragon plunged the the fragment into his leaders extinguished internal furnace.
After a horribly long moment, were all the loyal 'Cons held their breaths, nothing happened. Then the furnace roared to life with newfound power and energy.
"Energy, he needs life energy. Energy of the furnace..." Hissed a small dark dragon, the Decepticon's version of a medic, "Him..." It pointed a clawed finger at a grunt standing at the edge of the group. The look of horror on the grunts face only lasted for a moment before he was ripped apart by his comrades. His internal furnace was forced open and the energies inside siphoned to the Decepticon leader.
His red eyes re-opened with a new fiery light. Knocking over his subordinates, not caring nor even giving them a simple thanks for his re-birth, he opened his huge wings wide and with a huge swoop down that knocked his subordinates down for a second time, he shot up out of his dark and gloomy prison. Under a breem later he shot out of the Pits, knocking over a combat Flying-class on patrol and into the dark abyss below.
Megatron was back.
And he was pissed.
Heh heh. Megsy is baaaaack. *evil laugh*
Next up: (when I want to write it) is Sam at Princeton. Joy.
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