A Legend Is Born
Blaze's mother: part 2
Everything was in total chaos as people were screaming and running in fear as they scattered throughout the fair grounds. Kato and the others had quickly ducked into an alley of tents as they watched the people running around before them.
"What in the world is going on?" questioned Tim with a confused look imprinted on his face.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd say that this is the work of a LegendZ." Kim explained with a frown.
"If that's so, then why is it on Coney Island?" Kai asked as he looked at the group before him.
"I'm guessing that Ben just want to make it harder for us," answered Kato in thought as he rubbed the underside of his chin. "With this many people around, he would probably want us to be distracted while we try to save these people from this danger."
"You're probably right Kato." Shiron voiced from within the crystal of the vambrace. "We LegendZ will have a tough time in trying to fight against this LegendZ while trying not to hurt the humans in the process."
"Then how are we going to fight against this LegendZ without hurting these people?" asked Lilly in fear as she held onto her sister's arm.
Kim looked down sadly at her sister before hugging her close to her. Just then, Kato and the gang heard a scream from behind them. They turned their attention to the entranced of the alley and gasped when they saw that a young girl had stumbled and fell to the ground. The young girl looked to be around six or seven years old to Kato and the group when they first saw her. The gang looked on as she tried to get up off the ground while tears were streaming down her face. She was wearing a pink-yellow hoodie, a blue skirt and on her feet were white shoes. Her hair was a bright golden-yellow and her eyes were a bright ocean blue color.
Kato suddenly heard the sound of cracking of metal and quickly looked towards the source as he saw one of the metal bars of the rollercoaster breaking apart. He then turned his eyes on the girl again and he realized what was going to happen if he didn't act fast.
"Look out!" shouted Kato as he ran out of the alley towards the girl.
"Kato!" shouted Kai and the group as they watched the young teenager running towards the girl.
The metal bar of the rollercoaster broke as it started falling towards the young girl. The seven year old girl looked up and saw the metal bar of the rollercoaster falling towards her.
"Ah!" screeched the seven year old as she threw her arms over her head.
Kato quickly came to the girl's aid as he covered her with his body to protect her. Just as the metal poll was about to crush them the crystal on Kato's vambrace started to glow within a bright light and a strong wind started to circle around Kato and the girl. The metal bar was instantly flung away from Kato and the girl by the wind that blew around them. Kato looked up in surprise when he saw the metal bar being flung away from them by the wind that had surrounded him and the little girl before it slowly died down around them.
"W-what the…" started Kato as he blinked his eyes in confusement.
"Are you okay Kato?" asked Shiron from within the vambrace.
Kato looked down at the vambrace to look at the crystal: "Yeah, I think so, but what in the world just happened?"
"I don't know." Shiron answered. "But when I sensed you and the girl were in danger my only thoughts were to come out of the vambrace so that I can save you two. The vambrace must have somehow sensed my thoughts and tapped into my powers to form that wind barrier to protect you."
"Kato!" shouted Kida as she and the others came running towards him and the seven year old girl. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Kato answered with a nod of his head as he held the seven year old girl within his arms before looking at her. "Are you okay?"
"Y-yes," answered the little girl as she nodded her head.
"Come on!" urged Alan to the gang, "We have to get out of here before anything else happens."
Before anyone else could say anything the ground beneath their feet started to shake and it sent everyone sprawling to the ground. Kato fell to his knees as he held the girl tightly against his body. The little girl clung tightly to Kato as she lets out a small whimper of fear. Kato looked up in front of him and saw a large crack coming towards him and the others.
'No choice!' growled Kato within his mind as he turned his head towards Kai and Tailor.
"Guy's, call out your LegendZ now!" shouted Kato over the noise.
"What!?" cried Kai in surprise.
"We can't do that!" argued Tailor. "If we do, then the people around here will notice Shiron and the others."
"We have no other choice!" shouted Kato as he looked over at the crack again. "And if we don't do it now, then we'll all be swallowed up by the earth itself!"
Kai was confused on what Kato had said before noticing the huge crack coming towards them. He looked to his left and then to his right and he saw that they were surrounded on all sides with cracks coming towards them.
"Grrr…Okay, you win!" shouted Kai in anger as he lifted his arm up into the air.
Tailor followed suite along with Kato as they raised their arms up into the air.
"Shiron/Tairo/Tiger…REBORN!" shouted the three boys as their voices were carried on the wind.
The group was bathed in the three lights of the crystals. The cracks started to form a circle around the group until the ground around them started to break under the group's feet, but the gang was quickly rescued by Shiron, Tairo, and Tiger.
Shiron had quickly gathered Kato, Kim, Lilly, and the little girl up into his arms and flew up into the air. Tairo gathered Kai and his siblings onto his back as he followed Shiron up into the sky while Tiger quickly scooped Tim and Tailor up onto his back as he jumped onto solid ground and started running after Shiron, and Tairo. Tailor was holding on tight to the wolf's fur as Tiger jumped over the cracks that tried to swallow him up into the earth, and Tim was holding tight to Tai's waist as he rode behind the boy.
"Man that was close," Kato sighed within the arms of his partner.
The girl, who was in Kato's arms, looked up at the one who had their strong arms wrapped around her, Kato, and the others. She saw a white dragon with pure white wings carrying them through the air. Shiron noticed the girl looking up at him and gave her a gentle smile and that made the girl smile back at him. Kato chuckled when he saw Shiron and the girl smiling at each other before becoming serious again.
He looked down at the ground and saw that the cracks on the ground were growing larger and larger with every second.
'Just what the heck is going on here?' questioned Kato within his head as he glared down at the ground before him.
With Tiger he was having no problem in dodging the cracks at all for he was use to this kind of thing. Whenever a large gap appeared in front of the stripped wolf he would simply summon a large rock pillar to rise out of the earth and quickly leaped on it to get to the other side.
"This is getting crazy man!" shouted Tim from Tiger's back as they leaped onto the other side. "This is not how I wanted to spend my vacation at all!"
"Neither do I!" barked Tiger as he glanced over at his passengers before looking back ahead of him. "Man, just what the heck is that Ben guy planning anyways?"
"Nothing good, I'll tell ya," murmured Tailor as he gripped Tiger's fur tighter.
Suddenly, without warning, a huge fist suddenly slammed down in front of them. Tiger quickly leaped back and let out a fierce growl as he glared at the LegendZ in front of him.
Shiron and Tairo had taken the human children to a safe place that was outside of the amusement park. Kato handed the young girl to Kida before he, and Kai were to set off with Shiron and Tairo to help find Tim, Tailor, and Tiger.
"Make sure you take this girl back to her parents as quickly as you can." He ordered as he looked up at his older cousin.
"Don't worry, I will." Kim answered as she held the girl within her arms.
Kato looked towards Alan with a serious look upon his face: "Alan, I'm counting on you and Typhoon to protect the others while we're gone."
"Aye, aye sir!" saluted Alan as he stood straight up like a soldier.
"Leave it to us," spoke Typhoon within his crystal.
Kato nodded his head before turning and running over to Shiron as he leaped into the dragon's paw. The dragon lifted his human partner up to his shoulders. Kato leaped off of Shiron's paw and seated himself on his dragon partner's shoulders. Shiron unfolded his wings, and with one mighty flap he lifted up off the ground. The dragon joined the winged lion within the skies and together they flew towards the fair grounds again to find Tiger and the two human boys.
Blaze and Greedo
Blaze and Greedo were flying around the fair grounds as they looked down at the damage that was being made by the unexpected earthquake.
"See anything yet, Greedo?" called Blaze against the wind that blew within his face.
"Not yet!" answered Greedo as he turned to look at Blaze over his shoulders.
Blaze frowned as he looked down at the fair grounds with a discouraged look upon his face. Why was Ben attacking them on their day off? From what Blaze had heard from Kato, Ben had been injured within the fight and would probably not fight for about a week or month for that matter? Just then, Blaze saw something that was out of place within the fair grounds. He saw a large humanoid creature that was standing on the ground, ten feet below them. The creature was about the same size of Greedo with its body made of granite stones, the creature had two large spikes growing up out of its shoulder-blades that were shaped like shark fins. The stone creature was wearing metal rings around its wrists and baggy green pants with a metal belt encircling its waist.
"Greedo, down there!" shouted Blaze as he pointed to the ground below him.
The dragon looked down at the ground and saw the creature that Blaze was pointing to. He instantly knew what that creature was on the first glance.
"That's a Golem!" exclaimed Greedo. "What the heck is it doing here?"
"I don't know, but isn't that Tiger down there?" questioned Blaze as he looked down to see the striped wolf with Tailor and Tom on his back.
The golem let out a roar as it slammed one of its large fists down on the ground to make a large crack that headed right towards Tiger. The wolf growled before he opened his mouth.
"Earthquake howl!" shouted Tiger as shock wave emanated from his mouth.
Many pillars of sharp rocks suddenly sprained up from the earth as it countered the crack that the golem had made. Tiger smirked at a job well done, but that smirk was quickly wiped off his face as he saw the golem slamming its fists against the pillars of rocks as it broke them like toothpicks. The golem was making its way towards Tiger and the two boys that were seated on his back, but it was suddenly stopped in its tracks when it suddenly felt something hot burning its back. The golem turned its head to set eyes on Greedo and Blaze flying towards it. Tiger looked up to the sky and saw the dragon flying above them.
"Greedo!" called Tiger with a smile.
"Hurry and get out of here Tiger!" shouted Greedo to the wolf. "Me and Blaze will distract this golem while you take Tom and Tailor to a safe place!"
"Don't need to tell me twice!" barked Tiger before he quickly shot out of the scene with the two boy's on his back.
The golem noticed the wolf running away and it started to take chase, but it was suddenly stopped cold in its tracks again by another flamethrower by Greedo. The golem growled as it glared up at the fire dragon in anger.
"We're your opponents, not them!" shouted Blaze as he glared down at the rock creature before him.
The golem growled in response to what Blaze said before stomping its foot down on the ground. A rock pillar suddenly shot up from the ground as it rushed towards Blaze and Greedo. The fire dragon quickly dodged out of the way before glaring down at the stone creature down below him.
"So he likes to play rough, huh?" growled Greedo as he bared his fangs. "Well two can play at this game."
"Just make sure you don't go too wild Greedo," warned Blaze as he looked at his partner in worry.
Greedo looked over his shoulders to his partner with a reassuring smile: "Don't worry, I won't, but just hang on tight so you won't fall off okay?"
"You got it partner," answered Blaze as he gave Greedo a thumbs up.
And so the battle began between the dragon of fire and the golem of earth began.
Blaze's father
Not far away, Blaze's father was running through the fair grounds as he tried to look for the dragon that had carried his son off on its back. Blaze's father was confused on what was happening here within the fair ground. One minute everything was calm and peaceful with people riding on the rides of Coney Island and then the next the earth started shaking as if there was no tomorrow.
"Why?" Blaze's father grunted as he tried to keep his balance as the earth shook underneath his feet. "Why is this all happening?"
His question was soon answered when he saw the red dragon flying high above his head. The dragon let out a jet of fire from its mouth as it aimed the fire towards the ground, but the man's eye were laid on the figure that was sitting on the dragon's shoulders.
"That boy has a lot of explaining to do once I get my hands on him." Blaze's father growled before he ran off in the direction that he though his son was at.
Blaze and Greedo's battle
Blaze held on tightly as the dragon of fire dodged around the boulders that were sent flying at him from the ground. The Golem was growing more, angrier then ever as it started slamming its fists down on the ground repeatedly as it tried to knock its opponent down from the sky.
"This guy sure has a temper," muttered Blaze as he wrapped his arms around Greedo's neck tightly as the dragon dodged another boulder that was thrown at him.
"You're telling me," agreed Greedo as he flew higher up into the sky to avoid being hit by the boulders. "And this guy is really getting on my nerves. I like to give him a beating that he'll never forget, but I can't get close to him."
"If only we had Kato and the others with us, then they would've been able to distract this guy so that we can get a clear shot at him." Blaze exclaimed as he shouted against the wind to answer his partner.
Greedo only nodded his head before twisting in the air to avoid a much larger boulder that was thrown at him again. The Golem on the ground let out an angry roar as it kept pounding at the ground, but it soon stopped when it suddenly spotted something near the corner of its right eye. It soon smirked as it went towards the object that it spotted with its eyes.
Within the air, Greedo had stopped in mid flight as he looked down at the ground with a confused look on his face.
"What's wrong?" asked Blaze as he loosened his grip on the dragon's neck.
"I don't know," answered Greedo. "All of a sudden that golem suddenly stopped his assault on us."
"But why?" voiced Blaze quietly as he looked down at the ground below him.
All of a sudden the two of them suddenly heard a screaming below them and they quickly flew down to see what was going on. When they came towards the ground they were met with the sight of the golem standing in front of them with a person gripped tightly in his giant left fist. Blaze suddenly realized who it was that was in the golem's grip as his eyes widened in shock, and in fear.
"FATHER!" shouted Blaze at the top of his lungs.
Blaze's father was struggling within the grip of the golem's fist before he finally fainted from the lack of air. Blaze knew that his father had been terrible to him ever since his mother died, but he was the only family member that he had left in the world. Greedo was enraged to see the golem hurt his partner's father, and even thought the man had treated his son like dirt the dragon knew that if he didn't save Blaze's father; then his partner will only fall into more sorrow then he all ready was.
"You bastard!" roared Greedo as he shot towards the golem in fury with his right fist pulled back before punching the golem in the face.
That act made the golem drop Blaze's father to the ground with Blaze jumping off of his partner's back and quickly raced over to his father's side.
"Dad!" shouted Blaze as he knelt down and started shaking his father's shoulders. "Dad, come on! You've got to wake up, please!"
Slowly, the eyes of Blaze's father fluttered open as his eyes revealed the face of his son who was looking down at him with worry.
"Dad!" cried Blaze as tears started to fall down from his face. "Are you okay?"
Slowly, Blaze's father lifted his right hand from the ground as he raised it up towards his son's face. Blaze thought that his father was going to stroke his cheek like he did when he was younger, but he was wrong for instead of a gentle touch Blaze only felt a hard slap against his face. Blaze fell to the ground with shock as he turned his head to look at his father with a confused look on his face.
"How dare you!" blasted Blaze's father in anger as he glared down at the boy as he stood up in front of him. "You ran off without telling me on what that thing is that is attached to your arm. And you kept secrets from me! Once we get home I am going to beat you like there is no tomorrow until I get an explanation from you!"
Blaze was shocked by what his father had said, but that soon changed as he felt rage swell up inside of him. Blaze stood up from the ground as he glared up at his father with anger in his eyes.
"This is the thanks I get?" questioned Blaze in a soft voice that could barely be heard by anyone. "I saved your life from that golem and all you can do is just slap me on the face, and punish me for something that I was trying to protect you from? I was trying to prevent getting you and other people involved in this war that we had to protect you from."
"What war!?" shouted Blaze's father as he glared down at his son.
Blaze didn't answer his father as he only glared up at him with his emerald green eyes as a small flicker of a tiny flame started to shine within them. Blaze's father didn't like the look that his son was giving him and was about to slap his hand across his son's face again when he was suddenly knocked off of his feet by a sudden earthquake. Blaze was a little shaken by what had happened but he kept his balance as he glared down at his father who sat on the ground looking up at him with anger. Blaze's eyes were wavering as he was close to tears, but soon turned his head away from his father and started running towards the battle between Greedo and the Golem.
"Blaze!" shouted Blaze's father in anger. "You get back here right now!"
But the young boy didn't hear his father's orders for he was only focused on helping his partner and friend in the fight. The Golem and Greedo were locked hand in hand as they tested each other's strength to see who was stronger as they glared into each other's eyes.
"Greedo!" shouted Blaze as he stood five feet away from the dragon and the golem. "Show this rock-head what you're made of!"
"You got it, partner!" growled Greedo as he pushed even harder against the golem's strength.
The golem was trying to push against Greedo to gain the upper hand, but was slowly losing momentum as the fire dragon pushed against the rock creature with all his strength. Blaze's father glared as he watched his son standing behind the dragon while cheering it on as it fought against the creature that was made of rock. How could his son disobey him like this? The golem roar in fury as it glared into the dragon's face and Greedo roared back at the golem with the same anger in his eyes.
"Don't back down Greedo!" yelled Blaze in determination. "Send this guy packing!"
Greedo soon slammed the golem into the support beams and bars of the rollercoaster with his tail. This caused the rollercoaster to fall down on the golem as it collapses under the weight of the stone giant, but that also caused the whole ride to fall apart as well. The bars and pedestals started to brake apart as some of them started falling down towards Blaze. Blaze quickly turned his head to the left with his eyes widening in fright as he saw the bars of the rollercoaster falling towards him.
"BLAZE!" shouted Greedo as he quickly ran to his partner's aid.
The fire-dragon quickly covered his partner with his body as he took the force of the bars landing on his body. Blaze was curled up in a ball with his arms covering his head. Greedo was soon buried under the ruble of metal pipes as he protected Blaze from the danger that had nearly taken his life. Blaze had squeezed his eyes tightly shut in fear before he opened them to find that he was alright and slowly raised his head up to find that Greedo was protecting him from the bars with his body.
"G-Greedo," voiced Blaze with a shock look on his face.
The fire-dragon slowly turned his head to his partner and gave Blaze a reassuring smirk before winching in pain. It seem like hours to Blaze as he looked up at Greedo with a worried look on his face before he suddenly heard a roar, he quickly turned his eyes towards another rubble of metal bars and saw the golem creature bursting out of it. The golem turned its angry eye on the dragon that was buried underneath the bars that pinned him to the ground and started stomping towards Greedo. The fire dragon heard the creature coming towards him, but he could hardly do anything for he was pinned by the rollercoaster bars plus he had to protect his partner from this creature. The golem was almost upon them when it was suddenly knocked back by Tairo as he quickly flew down from the sky and body slammed himself into the rock giant.
Shiron quickly flew down to the trapped Greedo and started digging him out from the rubble. Greedo was soon able to push some of the bars off of him self before holding his injured shoulder with his left claw hand.
"Are you alright, Greedo?" asked Shiron to the fire dragon.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Greedo answered the wind dragon with a nod of his head before glaring over at the golem. "But that guy is going to be hurting soon once I'm through with him."
"You and me both," agreed Shiron as he cracked his knuckles.
"Blaze!" shouted Kato and Kai as they ran towards the red head boy. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm okay," answered Blaze with a reassuring smile. "But how did you guys find us so fast?"
"Tiger told us," Kai simply answered with a shrug. "He told us that you were having some troubles with a little pest here."
"Pest, yes" said Blaze before looking over at the golem that was fighting Tairo. "As for little, I'm not so sure."
The golem slammed his right fist into Tairo's face and sent the lion flying.
"Tairo!" shouted Kai to his partner.
Tairo flipped in midair before landing on his four legs. He rubbed the right side of his face before glaring at the rock creature in anger.
"Cheep shot," he muttered as he crouched low to the ground as he got ready to pounce on the golem again.
"Stay out of this Tairo," Greedo ordered as he stepped in front of the lion with his back turned to him.
"But why?" asked Tairo with a confused look on his face.
"This is my fight, and I prefer to finish this off by myself." Greedo simply answered without turning his head to look at the lion.
Tairo gave a sigh before sitting himself down: "Do what you want big-guy."
Kato looked over at Blaze who looked back at him: "You sure you wanna do this?"
"Yeah," answered Blaze with a determined look on his face. "I want to prove myself to the group that I can handle this battle with Greedo on my own."
Kato looked into Blaze's eyes and saw that the boy was determined to finish this battle by himself.
"Okay," Kato chuckled with a shrug of his shoulders. "But if you or Greedo need any help, then Kai and I will step in to give you a hand."
"Thanks," said Blaze before walking away from Kato and standing ten feet behind his partner. "Are you ready for this Greedo?"
"Blaze, I was born ready." Greedo grinned as the balled his hands into fists.
"Alright, let's do it to it!" Blaze shouted with a smirk on his face.
"Roger!" roared Greedo as he shot towards the golem and slammed his whole body into the stone beasts.
The two wind sagas stood on the sidelines as they watched the battle between the dragon of fire and the golem of earth while cheering them on.
"Come on guys, show that rock-head whose boss!" shouted Kai as he started punching his fists in front of him as if he were boxing his own shadow.
Greedo slammed his right fist into the golem's face and sent the rock creature flying face first into the concrete of the street. Greedo wasn't done with the rock creature yet as he quickly flew towards the golem and grabbed the creature by the shoulders and shoot upwards towards the sky. The golem struggled within the fire dragon's grip as it tried to escape its opponents hold on it. Greedo only held tighter to the golem's shoulders as he flew higher and higher into the air.
"GREEDO!" shouted Blaze from the ground as he watched his partner flying higher up towards the skies of the unknown. "SLAM THAT ROCK FREAK INTO THE GROUND!"
Greedo heard his partner and smirked: 'Blaze, you are becoming stronger when each day passes. You're not the young boy that's afraid of his father any more, and I'm proud that you are living up to the saga that I want you to be. A saga that has a fiery spirit that never backs down from a fight.'
Greedo backed flipped in the air and started to rocket towards the ground at high speed. The golem grew more frantic as it tried to escape from the dragon's grip, but no matter how hard it tried it just could escape the dragon's grasp. Greedo soon came within range of the ground as he lets go of the golem's shoulders before slamming his claw foot down on the creature's back. The ground shook as the rock creature was slammed into the ground with Greedo stepping on its back before he jumped off from the creature's back. Everyone stood in silence as they looked at the rock creature that lay motionless on the ground before them. Blaze's face was full of amazement as he looked at Greedo with surprise before glancing atthe golem that was slammed into the ground. Blaze was about to say something when he suddenly felt his arm being grabbed from behind.
Blaze quickly turned his head around and saw that it was his father that had grabbed his arm. Blaze started to struggle within his father's grip as he tried to escape from the man that had hurt him so many times within the past.
"Let me go!" shouted Blaze as he started pulling against his father's grip.
"You're coming with me!" blasted Blaze's father as he started pulling his son towards him.
"Blaze!" shouted Kato and Kai as they started running towards their friend to help him.
Blaze's father turned his gaze towards Kato and Kai before pulling Blaze towards him and held the young boy in a head lock: "Don't you come any closer, or else I'll give this kid a painful punishment!"
Blaze's father started to prove his point as he started to tighten his arm around Blaze's neck. Blaze yelled out in pain as he felt his father choking him. Kai and Kato quickly stopped in their steps as they glared at Blaze's father in anger. Greedo quickly turned his gaze to see Blaze's father holding Blaze in a deadly headlock.
"Blaze!" shouted the dragon as he turned his back on the Golem.
That was a big mistake for as the dragon turned his back on the rock creature to try and help his partner, he was suddenly slammed on the back of the head by something hard.
"Greedo!" shouted Kato and the gang as they saw the Golem slam a large metal poll down on the fire dragon's head.
Blaze tried to struggle out of his father's grasp but that only made his father hold on to him tighter.
"G-Greedo," choked Blaze as he looked at his partner with helplessness.
Greedo growled in pain as he tried to stand back up onto his feet, but the golem prevented that as it slammed its stone foot down on the dragon's back. Shiron and Tairo were about to jump into help Greedo, but the fire dragon quickly stopped them by shouting at them.
"Don't come over here! This is my battle, and I'm going to finish this off by myself!"
"Are you crazy!?" barked Tairo, "If you keep this up you'll wind up being turned into ashes in a matter of second!"
"You better do as he said Tairo," Shiron informed as he looked at the lion. "This battle is about pride for Greedo and he doesn't want anyone to interfere."
The golem kept stomping on the dragon's back while the other watched helplessly on the side lines. Blaze, still in his father's head lock, watched the battle with wide eyes as Greedo laid on the ground with the golem stomping down on his back. Blaze felt a twinge within his heart as Blaze watch his partner being stomped on by this rock creature and started to struggle within his father's arm.
"Let me go!" shouted Blaze as he tried to escape his father's grip. "I have to help Greedo!"
"Be quiet you!" growled Blaze's father as he tightened his grip on his son's neck.
Blaze started to feel lightheaded as he felt his father's arms tighten around his neck yet he still struggled to get out of his father's grip no matter what.
'Greedo, hang on!' shouted Blaze within his mind. 'I'm going to help you!'
The pendent that hung around Blaze's neck started to glow along with the ruby stone that was attached to Blaze's arm. Blaze kept struggling with in his father's arms as he tried to break free to help his partner.
"Stop struggling you little worm!" yelled Blaze's father as he tightened his grip around his son's neck even harder.
Blaze grunted in pain as he felt his father's arm close even tighter around his neck, but the boy kept struggling to get free.
Blaze had shut his eyes tightly from the pain that he was receiving from his father, but he somehow managed to open one of his eyes to keep his gaze on his dragon partner: 'Greedo…Greedo, GREEDO!'
Without warning, the ruby on Blaze's vambrace started glowing before it burst into flames and began to engulf the boy's arm. Blaze's father was so shocked by the sudden event that he quickly lets go of Blaze's neck as the boy was completely covered in flames.
"Blaze!" shouted Kato and Kai as they watched what was unfolding before them.
The same thing happened to Greedo as his body was suddenly engulfed by fire that burned the golem's foot. Everything was silent as the battle ground was bathed in the red glow of the fire that engulfed that boy and dragon.
Different dimension
Blaze slowly opened his eyes as he saw himself in a place where there was nothing but light all around him.
"W-where am I?" voiced Blaze with confusement as he looked around at his surroundings.
"Blaze…" a soft voice called from behind him.
Blaze instantly recognized the voice right away and quickly turned around to see the last person that he thought he would never see again.
"Mom?" said Blaze as he looked at the woman that stood in front of him.
The woman that stood in front of Blaze was wearing a white robe on her body with white wings mounted on her shoulders. The woman's blazing red hair fluttered behind her by an invisible wind that Blaze could not feel or sense for he was more focused on the woman that stood in front of him. The woman smiled at Blaze while nodding her head yes. Blaze couldn't believe it and before he knew it, he suddenly jumped towards the woman and quickly wrapped his arms around her waste as he started to cry. The woman wrapped her arms around Blaze while using her right hand to stroke her son's head.
"Mom, I can't believe it!" cried Blaze with joy as he turned his eyes up to look into the eyes of the woman who was his mother.
"It's really me my son," cooed the Blaze's mother with a soft smile. "I came to see you once again, but I cannot stay for long."
Blaze separated from his mother as he looked up at her with a confused look on his face: "What do you mean by that mother?"
A sad smile appeared on the woman's face: "I'm afraid that I have spent far too much time here on earth watching over you while trying to protect you from the dangers that you were in. I thought that I could go on longer if I stayed by your side and in your shadow as I tried to protect you in the process, but my job seems to be coming to an end when you suddenly became partners with that dragon."
"Mother," whispered Blaze with a sad look.
"I'm so sorry," wept Blaze's mother as she raised her hands up to her face and covered her eyes to hide the tears that were coming. "I wasn't able to protect you from your father's brutal punishments. I didn't mean for my death to make your father become so abusive to you. And I didn't mean to leave you alone within this world with him."
Blaze looked at his mother sadly before he started to smile a soft smile: "Don't worry about me mom, I'm not alone any more. I have Kato and the others now, and you don't have to worry about protecting me any more for I have Greedo to protect me now. Mom, no matter what happens I will never forget you for I will always have you with me."
Blaze soon showed his mother the golden pendent that hung around his neck with the picture of her within it. Blaze's mother had a surprised look on her face, but that soon changed into a proud smile when she saw her son's eyes blazing with courage inside of them. She cupped her hands around her son's face and placed a kiss on Blaze's forehead.
Blaze's cheeks became warm as he blushed, but he also smiled as he looked into the eyes of his mother: "You have grown so much my son and for that, you have my blessings."
Blaze smiled a sad smile as he started to watch his mother drift away from him as her finger tips brushed across the young boy's face before disappearing into the light that shone brightly around him. A stray tear rolled down his face as he closed his eyes with a sad smile on his face.
"Mama," whispered Blaze in a quiet voice.
"Blaze," at the mention of his name, Blaze turned around to see Greedo standing behind him.
The fire dragon had watch his partners reunion with his mother from afar as Blaze said goodbye to his mother before she disappeared into the light of the world they were in.
Blaze nodded his head for he didn't need to know what was going on. The young red head boy walked towards the fire dragon and stood in front of him. Greedo flared out his wing for a moment before he slowly, yet carefully, wrapped them around the boy that he was partner with from the day they had first met.
"You ready, partner?" asked Greedo.
"I'm ready," replied Blaze as he bowed his head and started to concentrate. "Elemental…Fusion."
The real world
Everyone was blinded by the light that had suddenly appeared around Greedo and Blaze for a few minuets, but it soon died down to revile a new LegendZ that no one has ever seen before.
The LegendZ that stood before the group was a red dragon with four large fiery wings on its back. Each wing was pierced with two silver metal rings that rattled when the dragon moved its wings away from its body. The dragon was wearing the same leather vest that Greedo wore with the white fur collar changing into a deep blood red color. A silver chain hung around the dragon's neck with two military dog-tags hanging down from the chain. The dragon's claw hands were in the shape of human hands with five red claws on each of its fingers. Around the dragon's ankles were two black leather bands with red rims around the top, metal wrist bands encircled the dragon's wrists, and across the dragon's chest was an X shaped scar.
Slowly the dragon opened its eyes to revile bright emerald green eyes with black slits in the middle of them.
"Is that…Greedo?" asked Kai with surprised look on his face.
"I…think it is," stammered Kato with his mouth hanging wide open.
"Greedo and Blaze somehow fused with each other," explained Tairo in a serious tone of voice. "Those two must have tapped into each other's thoughts and feelings to create such a creature like the one that is standing before us right now."
The golem roared as it charged towards the dragon, Greedo, in a blind rage. The dragon stood his ground as it glared at the rock creature running towards him.
"How pathetic can you get?" muttered Greedo with a frown of disapproval on his muzzle. "This guy has nothing but rocks in his head."
The Golem threw its stone fist right at the dragon to punch him in the face, but Greedo merely raised his right claw hand up and caught the golem's fist within the palm of his hand. Everyone was surprised by what had just happened as Greedo just stood there holding the fist within his right claw hand. The golem tried to put more of its body strength into its punch to push back, yet no matter how hard the golem tried the Dragon of fire just wouldn't budge.
"How weak," Greedo said coolly in a bored tone. "You'll never win with power alone you fool, for you are alone and you have no partner to back you up. What a pity."
Greedo tightened his grip around the rock creature's fist as he glared into the eyes of the Golem: "Ancient Fire."
When Greedo said those two words, a huge column of fire suddenly appeared around both Greedo and the Golem. Everyone was taken by surprise when this suddenly happened. Shiron quickly gathered up Kato and Kai within his arms and took to the air with them. Blaze's father was still standing in a dazed state when he suddenly felt himself being grabbed from behind by the back of the shirt and was quickly lifted up from the ground by some unknown force. Tairo had quickly grabbed Blaze's father from behind his shirt collar before he followed Shiron up into the sky.
"Shiron?" said Kato with a confused look on his face.
"We have to get out of here as quickly as we can," explained Shiron as he shot off like a rocket through the sky. "The attack that Greedo is doing right now is very dangerous to stay around and see it. The fire that is surrounding Greedo and the Golem will burn anything that touches it, but the one who is controlling that attack it will not be harmed by the flames."
"So Greedo and Blaze will be okay, right?" said Kai with hopefulness in his voice.
"He'll be fine," answered Shiron with a reassuring smile on his face.
Back with Greedo and the Golem, the rock creature was howling in pain as it tried to escape the grip of the dragon that held it hostage within the column of fire that burned at its rocky skin. Inside Greedo's mind, Blaze was watching the whole event through his partner's eyes with sadness wavering within his own. The pain of hearing someone else being hurt was ring through his ears as he watched the Golem struggling within the Greedo's strong grip. Blaze wanted the sound to stop, but he also wanted to take down this creature so that it didn't hurt anymore people.
'I'm sorry,' whispered Blaze in a soft voice within his head.
Greedo felt the pain that his partner was feeling as he listened to the Golem crying out in agony, yet the dragon also knew that he and his partner needed to stop this creature before it started hurting anymore people. The golem's screams soon ceased as its body was burned into ashes with only a small emerald crystal lying on the ground in the creature's place. The fire column died down as the red dragon looked down at the crystal which lay on the ground before him.
"It is finished," muttered Greedo in a dull voice.
"Did we really do the right thing Greedo?" Blaze asked within the dragon's mind.
"You don't have to worry Blaze," Greedo reassured his partner as his eyes were locked onto the emerald that lay on the ground before them. "The Golem is not dead; he only turned back into his crystal form."
"That's good," Blaze sighed in relief as Greedo picked the crystal up with his large claw hand.
"We better take this with us to the hideout," said Greedo as he looked at the crystal within his hand.
Blaze made no objections to that as the dragon flared his four fiery wings out to his sides and took off into the air.
In the hide out
Kato and the gang had taken they're leave from the fair once they had taken Blaze's unconscious father to a safe and had gone back to their hide out to see if Blaze and Greedo were okay. When the gang poked their heads through the door they saw Greedo, in his normal form, leaning against the wall of the warehouse with Blaze leaning against his side. Beside the boy was a green gem that glowed within the dull light of its aura.
"Would you look at that," mussed Kim in a quiet voice with a smile played out on her face. "Have you guys ever seen anything as cute as this scene?"
"Shush!" hissed Adam, "They're a sleep."
"I wouldn't be surprised," whispered Shiron with a smile. "The elemental fusion is one of the most powerful moves that a human and LegendZ can use together, but even though it is powerful it can drain a lot of the user's energy when they use it. It's very dangerous for the beginner if he or she stays in that form for too long, or if they use that form too much, but once you get more experience with it you should be able to hold that form and stay in it for an hour or two."
"So…this elemental fusion thing is something that we have to be aware of," hummed Adam in thought as he rubbed the underside of his chin. "It's already happened to Kato before, and now its happened Blaze and Greedo now. It might occur again with any one of us, if it ever happens again."
"But some of us don't even have partners," added Tim with a sour look.
"Don't worry," Kida reassured as she walked up to Tim as she placed her hand on the young boy's shoulder. "I'm sure you, me, and everyone else, will find our partners soon."
"I hope so," said Kato as he looked at the group before him. "Because we need all the help we can get."
"What do you mean?" asked Kim with a confused look on her face.
"I have a feeling that there is going to be more LegendZ like the ones that we have faced causing more trouble for us in the future." Kato answered as he explained the situation to the group. "And it's our job to make sure that those LegendZ don't wind up hurting people for they're own pleasure. We also have to make sure that Ben doesn't cause any trouble for us either."
"I don't think we have to worry about Ben for a while Kato," Tim assured with a smirk. "For you and Shiron had beaten that bully to a pulp, and he's probably crying to his mother about his boo-boo's."
"I wouldn't get too cocky Tim," Tiger advised in a serious tone as he went into thought. "Ben maybe out for the count for now, but what really concerns me is that black wind that surrounds him every once in a while. It almost feels like that black wind has a mind of its own and Ben is somehow connected to it."
Unknown location
Ben was lying in his bed with his arms, legs, torso, and head wrapped in white bandages. The door to Ben's room opened as a man started walking towards the sleeping form of Ben. It was hard to tell what the man looked liked for his body was covered in a dark shadow. The man was almost near Ben's bed when he was suddenly stopped by a black wing that appeared in front of him from out of nowhere.
"I see that his guard is still looking out for him, as usual" mused the man in shadow as he looked towards the owner of the black wing, "Just as I had suspected of you."
"Ben has given me strict orders for no one to disturb him when he is sleeping." The being answered as his cold blue eyes glared down at the man before him. "He is to be left alone until his wounds have healed."
"Hump," scoffed the man with a smirk. "I'm surprised that you are still with this boy, for he has failed me time and again on his missions. And he also failed to bring back the girl that I had wanted for my project with the LegendZ that I am trying to reborn. This boy is nothing by dirt to me, and you should feel the same way about him for I was the one that had reborn you."
"You do not have the right qualities to be my saga, old man," growled the being in anger. "And you'd better watch your tongue about what you say around me and Ben next time, because if you don't, then I will tear you into shreds with my own two claws."
The man glared at the being for a moment before storming out of the room in anger. The being gave a deep growl as he watch the door being slammed shut before turning his gaze on the sleeping form of Ben.
"You've heard everything didn't you?" said the being as he started down at Ben.
Ben slowly opened his eyes halfway as he stared up at the ceiling of his room: "That old man will never let me hear the end of it will he?"
The being turned his head away from the boy as he glared at the door with disgust as he thought of the man that had entered the room: "That man is nothing but a despicable old fool to me. He doesn't realize that the Elemental Fusion is one of the most sacred powers that have been bestowed upon us LegendZ many years ago and the only reason why we failed is because of that boy and his partner, Shiron."
Ben smiled as he gave off a light chuckle before he closed his eyes: "I have to admit that that Kato kid sure can dish out a good power punch when he wants to. I just have to get a little stronger once I healed from my wounds, and with you on my side I'll make sure that no one gets in my way ever again. I'll also make sure that I repay that runt back with my own punch when we meet again."
The being chuckled as he smirked at what Ben had said. This is what he liked about the boy. This human had a strong mind and a fiery spirit that can never be broken by any one, not even by his own father. But the being also knew that Ben had a troubled past and the being planned to help the boy brake through it until the very end. Ben was thinking about how that boy, Kato, became stronger in just a matter of days with that white dragon which had suddenly appeared out of nowhere when the boy was in danger.
'That doesn't matter anymore,' thought Ben within his mind. 'What matter's now is for me to become stronger then that runt and beat him no matter what. And I will not be alone within my battle against that runt, because I have one of the strongest LegendZ on my side. Ranshiin the wind dragon.'
To be continued