Dragon Scales and Returning To The Base
The god of war of the Special Region had a proud smile as he saw what he predicted since the day he saw how those green people annhiliated with thier magic to the imperial army. His apostle had the her eyes wide and her mouth very opened.
Emroy laughed. "¿Qué te dije? niña, ¿no es lo más impresionante que has visto? (What did I tell you?, kid, isn't this the most impressive thing you ever seen?")."
In front of them, laid on the ground near the path, there was the corps of a Fire Dragon. It's arms, back and wings were, ironically, burnt and partially destroyed. Its scales were around to be, for the first time, to the easy reach of anyone who wanted to get one. Something funny considering how they were considered a treasure that would allow a blacksmith to creat swords or armors worth enough to buy an entire nation.
Rory Mercury grabbed one of those scales, still in disbelief. Only her master had managed to murder one of these monsters two thousand years ago!
She stood in front of one of the dragon's eyes, it died without the opportunity to close them "¡¿Q-q-quién se las arregló para lograr esto?! (W-w-who managed to accomplish to do this?!)"
The god giggled shooking his head. "Solo pudieron ser los invasores del otro mundo (They only can be the invaders from the other world)" said he, crossing his hands and feeling confident. "Quizá con la ayuda de una de sus bestias verdes que trajeron. (Probably with the help of one of those green beasts they brought here)"
The apostle was speechless. "Usted tenía toda la razón, mi señor... esto es increíble... (You were totally right, my lord... this is unbelivable...)"
Emroy raised his eyebrow and asked with an angry voice tone. "¡¿Acaso dudabas de ello?! (Were you doubting about it?!)"
Understanding her mistake, the girl quickly appologized. "N-no! Es solo que... yo pensaba que solo usted, gran señor de la guerra, podía matar un dragón de fuego... (N-no! it is only that... I thought only you, great lord of war, could kill a fire dragon...)"
She felt relief when her master laughed again and ordered her to continue walking.
Without their forest, the elves got no option but make company to their saviors in their camp. A few of them left in their green magic carts and returned a few hours later with some normal carts being pulled by the green ones, as if they were the horses. One of those northamericans and the mage that came with them asked to the elves to get inside the carts and explained they were taking them to a safer place.
It was human town as the elves expected. While they had learned the green were friendly to them. They felt uncomfortable about the citizens of the empire until they discovered these humans had been saved by the northamericans before and they were willing to give them a home if they cooperated to rebuild the place. Something easier for the male elves because of their stronger condition.
Tuka hadn't say anything during the travel. Her friend Níniel was the second one that tried to help her but she didn't care. If lossing her mom hurt very bad, lossing her father in now left without a real reason to continue living. The happy face once used be her standar expression got replaced by eyes almost lacking of life and the face showed only sadness. Niniel had to lead her since she didn't pay any attention to where she was going while they were carrying boxes.
When the northamericans decided to leave and dissapeared in the horizont, Tuka wasn't sure about what to feel... anger to them for not saving her father?, anger because of it would have been better she died with her old man? or gratitude because they had saved her?
Then she considered if even mattered if she did that question... she wouldn't meet them again... right?
Of course, when the third recon team announced they chose to return to the base after only two days of exploring, the superiors demanded an explanation. It was until Sarah explained all the incident with the dragon and her soldiers needed medical attention that their bosses decided to accept the request and even mentioned they would prepare the infirmary.
In the moment they had already returned and showed some scales of the giant beast and the burns the third team ensured they wouldn't get a punishment.
Ethan became a little famous, even though they had already killed dragons in the previous battle, their size and power was nothing compared to what was more similar to the classic giant beast of a fantasy tale.
Lelei got even more impressed about the home of her saviors. It was... in the sacred Alnus hill! She had never seen an architecure similar to some those buildings before... they were still building but the ones in construction seemed thought to be taller and were being constructed with the aid of more of those... artefacts, as she finally understood they weren't life forms. In the center of the base, a dome-shaped structure with giant versions of the same three flags she already knew so well on the top.
She knew the legend about the Gate, and know she also was sure... the northamericans came from another world! It kinda explained a lot how they were so powerful.
Unfortunately for her, Manuel and all the others who got wounds were taken away by more soldiers. It was a shame considering he was the one who could understand her the most. Her only options left were Sarah and Ethan to ask them for more details. Or that's what she thought, Sarah appearently had something important to do and she left too.
"Just look at how much dissasters you have gotten into in just two days, even if this was your first mission as captain." commented the commander while he read the inform of the mission.
Sarah scratched her hair and nervously responded. "Y-yeah... I knew a recon mission is not exactly a walking through the park... but this is ridiculous"
The man laughed while nodded. "But I have to admit the information you got from the elves is excellent, at least we already have an idea about those who are attacking us... and now we have a new purpose for the airships here, to hunt all those Fire Dragons. The last thing we need is they destroying our space plataforms."
The man stopped reading the papers and he was seeing Sarah direct to her eyes. "You did a good job, you just got a bad luck but I suppose that won't happen again."
Sarah smiled and said. "Thank you, sir."
"However..." continued the commander "Since you came back sonner than planned, so once your team is in conditions to leave, we're giving you another mission... for now just take a rest."
"Sir, yes sir!"
The imperial princess and her Rose knights had made a lot of progress in their travel to reach the sacred hill as they rode the most time possible their mounts allowed.
If all the knights were pegasus riders it would have been a lot faster since they wouldn't waste time having to climb the mountains or taking a different path when they were too big to be a real obstacle. This actually was a complaining that made much sense considering the Rose knights were formed principally by women, who were the only kind of rider a pegasus seemed to accept, with just two men as members.
Piña Co Lada was also frustrated to do not be able to go faster. For the first time since her father had "recognized" her knights as an elite group, they had an opportunity to proof they were more than just decorative soldiers. They would demonstrate they could bring some glory to the Empire.
But even all the determination they had to accomplish their goal. The fear wasn't ausent.
They knew the enemy... or enemies, were very powerful. Especially with their green beasts... their mission was to recolect information in order to understand the origin of the strenght of the invaders from the other world and, if it was possible, use that strenght against them.
The principal question was... how exactly would they do that?... and even a second question that perhaps was what originated the fear of the female members of the group... what would happen if they lost?
The last one seemed pretty "obvious", their enemies would enslave them... who knows how many villages had been destroyed by them?
Spending almost the entire day advancing caused the knights to get very very tired when the sun was hiding itself in the horizont. Because after their eighth day since they left the capital there was a town in their path, the ladies were very happy to finally sleep on a bed after a week, even if it was only a simple hotel bed.
However, when Piña, her friends Bozes, Beefeater and Hamilton, the old knight Grey and the young one called Norma were having a dinner in a local restaurant. They heard a rumor that, in case of being true, would increase the fear towards the enemy.
"¡Repite eso! (Say that again!)" Piña demanded to a comerciant that also had decided to eat something in the same restaurant she had chose.
The man proudly showed her the red scales. "Como puede ver, estas son auténticas escamas de un auténtico dragón de fuego, señorita (As you can see, these are real scales of an autentic fire dragon, lady)"
Piña didn't know too much about dragons so she asked for Grey's opinion. "Con toda honestidad, su majestad, estas escamas no se parecen a las que suelen pertenecer a un dragón cualquiera, incluso entre los salvajes (To be honest, your majesty, these scales aren't similar to those that belong to a simple dragon, even between the wild ones)."
Norma and the other were still skeptical... trying to get a single flame dragon scale was easily comparable to a suicide attempt... right?
Honestly, I couldn't imagine an actual good title for this chapter, so I just chose the most simple one I could think.
Something I wonder is why we never saw any pegasus in the Anime or the Manga... I mean, all the characters from the Special Region could perfectly be from a Fire Emblem game, so where are they? Even if I remember well, Piña identifies a helicopter as an iron pegasus... in the Manga she mentions they are similar to the Valkyries, maybe they were a myth but I don't see a good reason why their mounts wouldn't exist in this universe. I think Hamilton and Beefeater are gonna be pegasus knights in this version.
Just in case you ask... yes, Manuel took some scales to sell them.
Anyway, time to answer reviews.
Draegon75:
If my memory does not fail, in the Manga it is said some nations like China and Russia were trying to comprehend the quantum nature of the Gate to create their own. So, yes, you're right. Who wouldn't want to create a Gate?, maybe it would be useful to go to Mars (Which brings another question I suppose, Do they have already people living on the red planet considering it's the future?, yes.)
Avro683Lancaster:
Sorry my friend, but Tuka is very depressed. More because she actually saw him dying.
GhostIV:
Indeed.
Hydrangea Wine:
Is that so? Well, it works perfectly for my fic. Since Canada is like the responsable, smarter and more kind brother of them all that maintains the balance in the union. We just need to wait a little more because, of course, it would take some time until Canada's goverment approves the helping program.
GSAndy:
Oh, well, perhaps you're right. Then I will say that the Panzerfaust 3, the rocketlauncher used in the anime, was designed by Germany.
Perseus12:
In the next one they will meet each other, just wait for it a little more.
Just a Crazy-Man:
Love :3
Is there an error in the writing?