Arrival of the Actillian
Chapter 10
Guardians
"Sir, excuse me sir. Are you alright?" someone ask, Joseph slowly awakens when he heard someone speak.
He moves, and looks up at someone's face. It seems his eyeglasses fall off; it is right beside his head. All he can see is sort of a blur of white skin, blue eyes and blue hair, along with red clothing.
Joseph asks her, "Who are you?"
"My name is Karen Era, and I am a Guardian. Sir, are you alright?" Karen asks him, and Joseph remembers that name so well.
Joseph sat up in shock, causing Karen to back up in surprise. Joseph looks at his body, to see his red jacket, blue jeans, and his black boots. He turns to his right, and notices his eyeglasses. He reaches for them, and took them off the ground. He holds it in front of him, and then wipes away the dirt that is on the lens. As soon as the eyeglasses appears that the lens are easy to see through, he puts his glasses back on.
He looks at Karen, and by seeing her appearance. He realizes that he is on a world in a video game; the game is called Phantasy Star Universe. But first, he must know the timeline, so he said, "I am fine. May I ask are you training two trainees?"
Karen looks at the two humans nearby, and Joseph recognizes them to be Ethan Waber and Hyuga Wright. The one with the red hair said, "Hello sir, my name is Ethan."
"And I am Hyuga," said Hyuga, he is the one with the white hair.
"Tell me sir, did you fall from the sky?" Karen asks him.
Joseph got himself up, and they just look at him. Joseph looks at them, and quickly thinks. He played the Phantasy Star Universe, Phantasy Star Universe Two, and The Portable. Those three games referred to this time, and by the look of things. This is in the beginning of the first game, and that isn't good. He knows what will happen, and he must stay away from these three.
Then a new thought came to mind, and he quickly said, "I accidentally fell off the airship. I was checking the cargo bay, and I slip and fell straight down here."
"That's embarrassing," said Hyuga, looking at him.
"Shut up Hyuga Wright, I'm not the one who bugs pretty girls," said Joseph, than he shut his mouth in surprise.
"He got you there buddy," said Ethan, than suddenly looks at Joseph in confusion. He asks, "And how do you know that?"
"It is classified, and I must go now," Joseph said, and he turns to walk away.
"Whoa, you can't just say something like that and leave. You didn't tell us your name and rank," Ethan said.
"My name is Joseph, and I am a member of the Guardian Intelligent Section," said Joseph, trying to make it sound like the intelligent members in the Guardians. Less information about Joseph, the better for everyone…
Hyuga asks in confusion, "Intelligent section?"
"They're a bunch of Guardians who seeks information, and report them to the Headmaster and the president," said Karen, looking at her trainees. Than she turns to look at Joseph, and asks, "What is your mission here? There is nothing here for the intelligent section to find."
"Like I said before, it is classified. And I had mention I fell off my ship, now I have to rendezvous with them," Joseph replied, and he begins walking towards the forest. He doesn't know where he is going, but to get far from these three is better than nothing.
"We should assist him Karen," Hyuga said. "It looks like he doesn't hold any weapons."
"Hyuga is right, we'll help you to get you to your ship," said Karen.
Joseph turns to look at them, and shouted, "I don't need your help! I can handle it myself."
Ethan went and grabs Joseph's jacket and holds him. Ethan said, "Hey, we are only trying to help you."
"When I want help, I'll ask," said Joseph, than he glares at Ethan and Ethan glares right back. "Let go of me," Joseph said.
"Or you'll do what?" Ethan asks him.
"Ethan, cool it," Karen said.
"This," Joseph said, and at that he punches Ethan in the gut. Ethan felt the pain, and let's go of Joseph and bends down to hold his gut. Than another punch came, hitting him in the head. Ethan fall backwards, and he groans in pain.
Karen and Hyuga went to help him, and Ethan looks at Joseph. Ethan shouted, "What is your problem?!"
"None of your concern," Joseph said, and he turns around and runs off.
"Hey! Get back here," Ethan shouted, he quickly got up and runs after him.
"Ethan, wait," said Karen, but it is too late. So Karen and Hyuga follow Ethan, and Ethan is chasing Joseph.
Joseph continues running, and when he looks back. He sees Ethan following behind, and Joseph shouted, "Leave me alone! Or I shall report you to the headmaster himself!"
"I will leave you alone, only you tell me why you want it to be," Ethan shouted back, as he still chases Joseph.
After awhile, Joseph begins to tire. They came into a big plains area with a large stone cliff surrounding it half way, and Ethan jumps onto him. He slams Joseph into the ground, and tries to hold Joseph down as he tries to get up.
As Ethan tries to keep him down, he notices something different. He said, "You don't have a nano transformer." A nano transformer is a small gizmo that can store items inside, even clothing. It is like a backpack, but it is small and attached to the neck. You can activate a switch on it to get what you want, even weapons if they're stored in them.
"You got a problem with that? Because if you do, than you are no Guardian!" Joseph shouted, as he tries to get up.
"Calm down and I'll let you up," Ethan said, and Joseph did as he said. Ethan let's go of him, and Joseph slowly sat up. When he turns to look at Ethan, he saw that Ethan brought out a handgun. Ethan said, "Now don't try to run, just answer my questions."
"You're acting like those endrum collectives," Joseph said, looking up at Ethan.
Ethan looks at him with a surprise look, and then he puts his handgun away. He said with disgust, "I do not want to act like them. So please tell me, what is your problem? First you shouted at us, than you attack me. And I chased you way out here. So what is your problem?"
Joseph sighed, and he slowly stands up. He looks at Ethan, and said, "Look, my mission is classified. If I get caught by talking to you and you are a trainee. Then they will demote me…"
"Like who will demote you?" Ethan asks him.
"The headmaster," Joseph said, and before Ethan could reply. They begin to hear a strong noise coming from the air.
They both look up, and some kind of dragon is coming down at them. Ethan said, "Oh no, it's a De Ragan." De Ragan are dragon like creatures, breathes fire. It has strong yellowish green scales, two eyes, four legs, two wings and two tails. De Ragan is dangerous creatures, and will attack anyone who trespasses into their territory.
"Oh great," Joseph said, as the De Ragan came towards them.
Ethan pulls out a handgun, and looks at Joseph. He shouted, "Get your weapon out!"
"I don't have one," Joseph said, and this made Ethan looks at him in surprise.
"And you call yourself a member of a Guardian Intelligent Section!" Ethan nearly shouted that, and looks at Joseph in confusion. Then he looks up at the oncoming De Ragan, and it was about to land on top of them.
Ethan jumps to the right, and Joseph jumps to the left. The dragon turns to look at Joseph, thinking him as its next meal. Joseph looks at the dragon with scared eyes, and he would've shouted if not for his admiration of this beast. In his world, when he played the game. His favorite creature(s) of the entire game were a De Ragan and a De Ragnus.
Than the dragon turns to look to the left, and Joseph heard Ethan shouted, "Over here you big piece of flight dirt." He is using his handgun, firing at the thick hide of the De Ragan.
Joseph stands up, seeing this as his chance to get out of there. He turns around, and about to flee.
But then, the De Ragan swung its two tails at Ethan. Striking hard and sending Ethan flying into the forest like a baseball bat hitting a base ball. Then the De Ragan turns to see Joseph running, and it fires a fire ball.
As Joseph fled, a fire ball hit the ground beside him. The explosive impact sent him flying towards the small area near the cliff wall. He landed onto the ground, and he slowly got up.
He sees the De Ragan coming towards him, and as he backs away. He finds himself trap beside the cliff wall, and the only ways out is through the De Ragan or climbing the cliff. But climbing is not an option, for the De Ragan can strike him as he climbs with its teeth or fire.
The best option for him to do is to bring out his level one armor right now. But then the De Ragan towers over him and Joseph knows that once he cast the spell he'll be struck down fast.
"No. Oh, no. No!" Joseph shouted in terror.
Than words pops into his mind, but first a voice said that sounded like his own, "Listen well Joseph, to get out of this. You must say the words that appear in your head. There is no time to explain, for you are inches away from death here. Now here they are!" Joseph understands, and soon weird sentences appear in his head.
The dragon bares its fangs at Joseph, and Joseph said the first sentence, "Oh what sparkly teeth you have." He didn't want to ask that sentence yet, right now he must do say what the voice in his head told him. It never failed him before, in the last world.
The dragon growl, sounded like it heard that before but likes the compliment. Joseph said the next sentence, "I mean white, sparkling teeth. I know you probably hear this all the time from your food, but you must bleach, 'because that is one dazzling smile you got there." Very weird and confusing sentences the voice is telling him to say.
Just then, the De Ragan shows a smile. Joseph said the next sentences, "Do I detect a hint of minty freshness." Adding a smile, brighten the sentence with it. "And you know what else?"
The De Ragan lowers the head much closer, and it looks at him with a weird look. Adoring like eyes, and a sweetest smile it can make. Joseph suddenly realizes, and said, "You're a girl De Ragan!" Joseph looks at the De Ragan in surprise, but realizes what he said sounded kind of rude. So he quickly said, "Oh, sure! I mean, of course you're a girl De Ragan."
The De Ragan still stares at him with adoring eyes, and seems to be happy about something. Joseph said the next sentence in his head, "You're just reeking of feminine beauty." What is the voice in his head trying to make him do?
The De Ragan turns her head to the right, to look at him with her left eye. Than the De Ragan blinks several times with her left eye, still looking at Joseph with a smile. Joseph asks the same question that appears in his head, "What's the matter? You got something in your eye?"
The De Ragan faces him with both eyes, and than blew out smoke instead of flames. A smoke ring in a shape of a heart went around him, and Joseph coughs a bit. He doesn't like smoke, and he has a slight asthma that affects him when he breathes in smoke and hay. Joseph stops coughing, and suddenly realizes what the heart shape smoke ring meant. He said, and these words are not in his head, "Ooh. Oh. Oh." The De Ragan gives him a much sweetest smile. Joseph said, "Man, I'd love to stay, but, you know. I'm, uh," Trying to find the right words to say, as he edges to the right. Giving a bit of coughing as well, and said, "I'm an asthmatic, and I don't know if it'd work out if you're gonna blow smoke rings."
As soon as he got into a good position to run, he turns to run and shouted, "Ethan!" Just then, he felt like being pulled upwards. He felt his feet leave the ground, and he sees that he is lifted high up in the air.
Joseph turns to look behind him, and he sees that the De Ragan has grabbed his backpack with its fangs. She is holding onto the backpack with her mouth, but not tight for she thought the backpack is a part of him and she doesn't want to damage him.
This looks like a good chance to slip out of his backpack, but then he will loose his notebook that is inside. Without it, he is stuck here without his mysterious magic. So he stayed, and grips on to his backpack tighter so he won't fall. He shouted, "Ethan, where are you! Bring out your weapon!"
Just then, the De Ragan sits on her two hind legs. Flaps her wings, and leaps up into the air. She flew into the air, with Joseph hanging in her mouth. Joseph shouted as he sees that he is flying by the grip of a De Ragan's mouth, "Oh crud!"
The De Ragan flew in the air, and made strange motions as it flew with its hind legs and tails.
And inside Joseph's mind, a voice said, "Let's see how you get out of this one." It laughs sinisterly like, and Joseph didn't hear for three reasons. One, because of the flapping of the wings and the other is breathing through the noise on De Ragan's snout. And the other, he is terrified of the thought of plummeting to his death. Now he understands why his brother is scared of heights…
Ethan was knocked out, from hitting into a tree. As he looks up, he saw the De Ragan carrying Joseph in its mouth. He quickly got up, and rushes forward.
Then the De Ragan launches itself into the air. Ethan would've fired his handgun, but then Joseph will plummet to his doom. He and Joseph forgotten that Joseph survived the last fall from the sky.
Ethan watches as the De Ragan flew off, and is surprise of how it flew. He said, "That is strange."
"Ethan, are you alright?" asked the familiar voice from behind him.
Ethan turns to look, and he sees Karen and Hyuga coming to him. Ethan said, "Yeah, I'm alright."
"Where is Joseph?" Hyuga asks, trying to see where Joseph is.
"He is taken by a De Ragan," Ethan said, and both Karen and Hyuga look at Ethan in surprise.
"That is odd, a De Ragan doesn't do that to its prey," Karen said.
"And get this, Joseph has no weapons and no nano transformer," said Ethan, sounded a bit mad about it. Because if Joseph had those things, and he could've defended himself. Ethan added, "And he dared to call himself a member of the Guardian Intelligent Section."
"I had sent word to headquarters about Joseph," Karen said.
"What? Do they know what Joseph's mission is?" Ethan asks him.
"It isn't good," Hyuga said.
"Joseph is no Guardian, and with his appearance. He isn't even registered on the planets and the colony," Karen said.
"You got to be joking," Ethan said, looking at Karen with a shock look.
"Actually, it sounds truthful. You say he has no nano transformer, and pretty much everyone has one. Making him the only one without one," Hyuga said.
"And the headquarters wants him, for he isn't even from anywhere in the Gurhal system. He is from somewhere else, and he might hold the information about the SEED or something," said Karen.
"Well let's go and get him," said Ethan.
"But we don't know where the De Ragan went," said Hyuga.
"It went into that direction," Ethan said, pointing towards the east.
"The same direction where the relic site is," Karen said, and this suddenly made Ethan remembered. That must be the same De Ragan that had attacked him when they were taking a professor to the relic site.
"Let's go," Ethan said, and all three headed east. Going to go help and retrieve Joseph.
Joseph hangs on to his backpack for dear life, and he sees the ground getting closer. He smiles, for the female De Ragan is about to land. Joseph looks forward, and sees some kind of large cave beside the cliff wall. He looks to his right, and he saw the relic site. He then recognizes the area, it is the place where Ethan and his team took Dr. Daren to the relics that one time.
The De Ragan landed, and Joseph shook by the vibration in her mouth. The De Ragan didn't put him down yet, as she walks towards the cave. She moves around, and Joseph is being shaken from left to right, getting airsick.
As soon as they are in front of the cave, the De Ragan lowers her head and let's goes. Joseph lands on his feet, than on his knees. He looks at the ground, and said, "Oh thank God, it is the ground." Instead of kissing the ground, sort of spread his arms out and hugs the ground.
He sat back up, and notices the De Ragan going right past him. This is a good chance to run; to get into the relic site will be the best option. So he stands up, and turns to run.
Suddenly he is grabbed by one of De Ragan's tails, and pulled backwards. He looks behind, and sees the De Ragan sitting on its hind legs. Pulling him forward to her and her second tail wraps around him. Slowly stops and he is about five feet from her underbelly. Wrapped in her tails and he couldn't touch the ground. Only his arms and head are free from the tails.
He looks up at the De Ragan and this kind of scene sounds so familiar. Than the thought hit him, this is just like the movie Shrek. The voice in his head leads him into this kind of thing, made him say something he now regretted it. He said to himself, "Oh great, I bet I sounded like that donkey."
The De Ragan looks down at him with adoring eyes, and confused of what he has just said. Joseph looks up at her, and tries to figure out what to say and how to get out of this. He said, "Uh, I believe it's healthy to get to know someone over a long period of time." Trying to remember what the donkey in the movie Shrek said, since the words stop popping into his head. "Just call me old fashioned," Joseph said, and made a laugh. The De Ragan joins in the laugh, and then just stares at him with adoring eyes.
"I know the way you are looking at me; I don't want to rush into a physical relationship. I'm not emotionally ready for a commitment of, uh, this magnitude kind of thing," Joseph said, trying to figure what the donkey said. He cursed the day he listened to the voice in his head.
The De Ragan looks at him with a surprise look; Joseph is surprise of how the De Ragan understands him. Then she leans closer, and uses her left claw and made a little rub down on his right side of the head.
Joseph said quietly so the De Ragan doesn't hear, "Am I making it better, or worse?" He looks up at the De Ragan, with a mix look of confuse and embarrass look. A new thought came to mind, something better to say, "Okay. Let's just back up a little and take this one step at a time. I mean we really should get to know each other first as friends." He is trying to say the right line, and possibly just to make the De Ragan his friend instead of hurting her feelings and killing him on the spot.
He felt her tails sort of tighten a bit, and seeing her move her head down closer. Her nose close to his face, and she made another smile. Joseph said, "Uh, see, uh. I am on the road a lot; hardly stay in one place for long. So I don't know if it would work, but I like receiving cards." The De Ragan puts her claws together in some kind of a prayer moment, and continues smiling at him.
"I'd really love to stay, but I really must be going," Joseph said, using his left arm and points towards the forest.
The De Ragan lowers her head, touching her mouth to his left hand. Joseph flinched from the feeling, and soon felt the De Ragan licking it and pulls it in her mouth. The De Ragan loves the taste, and looks at Joseph's face as she licks the arm.
"Don't do that! That's my left hand! If you bite that hand off, I will die from the loss of blood," Joseph said, staring at her fangs in fright, his hair is nearly standing on ends. Since his fear is being torn apart, and this is getting close when he felt the fangs rubbing his left arm.
The De Ragan pulls back, removing his arm from her mouth. Licks her lips, and looks down at him with a smile. Joseph looks at his saliva covered arm, and groans as he shook some of it off his arm. When he turns to look up at the De Ragan, he sees a different kind of smile. Joseph groans and said quietly, "I bet now she prefers to eat me after that."
Then he saw her close her eyes, and puckers her lips in a kiss like way. Joseph stares in shock as the De Ragan lowers her head slowly, and made noises with her lips. Joseph shouted, "Hey, now. No way. No! No!" He tries to get out of her tails, pushing at them but than she just tightens her grip. Joseph tries to bend sideways, trying to avoid this.
The De Ragan came close to his face, and kisses him before he could manage to dodge it. She kiss him hard, and as she slowly opens her eyes to see him. She let's go, and looks at him with adoring eyes.
Just then, Joseph falls forward on her tail. The De Ragan looks at him in surprise, and touches him with the tip of her snout. Pushes him to see if he alright, and she sees he is breathing. Joseph just fainted, or pretty much pretending to be. He is awake, only faking it.
But today, he has experience a new thing. It is the first time he got kissed, and from a De Ragan as well.
The De Ragan lowers him down to the ground, and slowly removes him from her tails. She lowers her claws back to the ground, and sort of has Joseph beside her. She looks down at him with adoring eyes, and than puts her head down and went to sleep.
Nearby, under the bushes are three people. Ethan, Karen and Hyuga watches of what had happened. As soon as the De Ragan kissed him, Hyuga said, "Well that is a shocking thing."
"I never knew a De Ragan would love a human?" Ethan asks, looking at the scene with his goggles.
"It never happens, thus probably explains another reason of who Joseph is. He has managed to make a De Ragan fall in love with him," Karen said, looking at the De Ragan. It settled Joseph beside it, and soon the De Ragan went to sleep.
"It seems Joseph is better skilled at this than you Hyuga," Ethan said, making a joke.
Hyuga just said, "Except he did it with a beast. And that beast will kill us if we drag Joseph away."
"Damn it, this will be harder than I thought," Ethan said, suddenly realizes of the difficulty of getting Joseph.
Karen said, "It also shows Joseph that he is stuck with the De Ragan with the rest of his life. As I recall, once two De Ragans kisses each other they are mated for life."
"Wait a second; you're saying if we manage to get Joseph to the city. The De Ragan will follow to get him back," Hyuga asks, and Karen nodded.
"Damn it! It seems the only way to get Joseph to a safe location is somewhere the De Ragan can't follow," Ethan said, and he looks to his right to see the relic site. An idea came to mind, and said, "A De Ragan can't fit into the entrance of the relic site. So once we manage to get Joseph in there, we get him to answer our questions."
"That is good thinking Ethan, but there is still a problem. And that is of how to get the De Ragan away and wake Joseph up," Hyuga said.
"Well we best start planning," said Karen, and all three started to make a plan for this.
The De Ragan isn't really asleep, sort of taking a nap but still awake. She looks at Joseph with adoring eyes; she loves him for the way he had spoken to her instead of trying to kill her like all those humans did. She looks at him, her mate. She learns many things from her parents when she was young, that if you kissed your true love than you both are destines to be together. Her mother did say her kiss was like a knock out to her husband or something like that, and as she looks at her mate. Maybe it knocks the males out when they get kissed or something.
Suddenly she hears noises from afar, and she raised her head to listen to it much more clearly. It sounds like an animal, injured. She thought it is a perfect animal that she and her mate can have on the day they're together. She rose up on to her feet, and walks out of the cave.
She looks behind to see her mate, and just nodded. Her mate is still asleep, and he'll be like that until she returns with food. So with that, she opens her wings, and flew into the air. Headed into the direction she heard of an injured animal.
Joseph raised his head to look, and he saw the De Ragan unfolds her wings and flew into the air. He quickly rise up on to his feet, and walks gradually to the opening of the cave.
Looks to the right, and sees that the De Ragan is flying farther. He than turns to look at the faraway relic site, and said, "Best make a good start." He is about to start running, until he heard two voices close by.
Soon two figures appeared, and Joseph recognizes them to be Ethan and Karen. Ethan said, "Oh good, you're awake."
"Come with us, we'll get you somewhere safe," said Karen.
Joseph said in haste, "I know the perfect place that is safe and it not the city!" He begins running, heading towards the relic site.
"We didn't say city, but at least he is going to the one we wanted him to be," Ethan said, and both of them follows behind.
Soon they came to the front of the relic site, and Joseph just rush right inside. Karen stops, and Ethan stops to look at her. Karen said, "Keep going, I'll wait for Hyuga."
"Alright," said Ethan, and so he follows Joseph into the relics.
End of Chapter 10
Written by Josephiroth