Chapter 10: the war against Reconquista and the power of Booster
After having the flying machine delivered to the academy, everyone was at awe seeing it. But Colbert took it from their eyes since he will be taking his time studying the machine to his hearts content.
Days have passed and with war being declared on Tristain most of the lodgers left the academy; leaving me, Colbert, Osmond, Kirche, Louise, Tabitha and Guiche as the only people remaining. Siesta had to go back to Tarbes since her family is in danger and wished to be with them until the war ends.
I was in the courtyard thinking about what the professor said to me, the day of the solar eclipse where my world was connected to this one…
'What am I going to do?' I held my head in frustration 'I would like to go back there, but if I do that then Louise would be alone.'
I was about to rip my hair out. Thankfully Derflinger rescued me from my dilemma
"Easy there partner" my sword spoke "you may have an issue here, but screaming can't help"
I was able to calm down after that
"You're right Derf" I said calmly "but can you blame me? War is coming to Tristain"
"I know" Derf sighed "but it's not good to worry about this now"
I sighed, Derf is right about this 'maybe checking on Louise can keep my mind of things'
Once I entered the room, I saw that the bed was empty, no basket of clothes for me to wash, but there was a note on a table. Which I could say Louise left for me to read.
I took the note and read it. The paper said I was fired about my contract with Louise as her familiar.
"So Louise thinks that by firing me" I chuckled "she can handle the burden of this war"
"Seems to me that girl thought you decided to leave her thanks to Colbert's theory" Derflinger snickered
Speaking of the professor I planned on visiting him about the dragon's raiment and see if he got the machine working by now.
While walking there, I looked at the runes of my left hand and remembered my first encounter with Louise but my thoughts stopped when I heard a familiar explosion
Boom!
I ran to the wooden shack and entered to see the man coughing while waving the smoke out the window
"Everything okay professor?" I said in concern
"I'm fine Peter" Colbert replied "I was just testing out the dragon's blood"
'Dragon's blood?'
I looked around the room to see a vial with a strange liquid on the table. Feeling curious, I took the vial and examined it. When the aroma came to my nose I finally knew that the liquid is gasoline
'It seems that professor Colbert discovered this by chance' I smiled 'this means he can get it to fly'
"Professor" I called "is there any chance that you can make big batches of the dragon's blood"
"I could, but it would give me less time to rest" Colbert nodded "why do you ask?"
"With war against Tristain" I gritted my teeth "the dragon's raiment must be ready to fly"
Colbert stayed silent for a while, but I know that he wasn't going to let lives be ridden just because of some tyrant's desire to control. He nodded making sure that he will accomplish the task I had asked.
Moving back out to the courtyard where the Japanese zero or the dragon's raiment is displayed. Even though it was a dark time to bear, I just can't stop myself from being excited at flying this plane.
I went into the cockpit of the machine and my runes glowed in dim light giving me the information of the controls around me.
'I can't believe that I will fly this' I grinned 'I just hope professor Colbert's studies can help him fix this'
After making sure that I know how to use the plane, I walked around with my mind returning to the question of me going back home
'Do I really want to go back?' I asked myself 'I've made a lot of friends here'
My thoughts stopped when I bumped into Kirche
"Oh darling" Kirche greeted
"I'm sorry about that" I apologized "I just had something in my mind"
"What's wrong?" the girl was starting to get worried
"It's just that…" I paused on the right words to say "I was told that I could go back to my world during the solar eclipse"
Ok that was a poor choice of words, cause Kirche pushed against the wall with her arms wrapped around me, and before I realized it…SHE WAS KISSING ME!
I felt her lips against mine with her tongue invading my mouth. It felt like hours when she did that, after she pulled away to get some air, I could feel desperation in that kiss and she looked at me with sad watery eyes.
"Please don't go…" Kirche pleaded
"Huh?" I blinked
"PLEASE DON'T GO!"
Kirche tightened her hold on me, I felt a sense of Déjà vu coming to me, it felt like I was with Louise when she felt heartbroken from the traitorous Wardes of his side with Reconquista.
I wrapped my arms around her feeling the girl's warmth and she pressed her head at my chest feeling comfortable, like her worries are swept away
After some time we pulled away with me looking at her sad eyes
"Is there something wrong Kirche?" I asked
Kirche then told me of her time in Germania… apparently, her time as a student there, she fell in love with one of the teachers and during their secret relationship someone found out and it would have been a scandal if it weren't for Kirche's parents stopping it before spreading throughout the kingdom.
Since then Kirche moved to Tristain and felt so heartbroken that she would flirt around to hide the pain and emptiness in her heart. It would've continued on if she didn't meet me.
But my actions pulled her heartstrings and now I was her one and only… and it pains my heart as well as hers that I would be leaving.
I pulled back a bit, looked at her face with a smile
"Tell you what Kirche" I spoke calmly "since I haven't decided to leave yet, why don't we spend our time together now"
The fire mage smiled happily at my words and we went on spending the next hours together…
Sunrise came through the window waking me up from Kirche's bed, that's right…I slept with Kirche in her room, but since this moment was to heal her heart, there wasn't anything intimate that night, just us in each other's arms savoring the warmth we share.
I stretched my arms from the comfort of the mattress, it has been a while that I felt so relaxed, Kirche followed up yawning first before looking at me.
"Good morning darling" she smiled "did you enjoy your sleep?"
"I did" I smiled back "since it's early, let's get some breakfast"
I walked beside Kirche to the kitchen with the girl holding my hand, inside everything sparkled, since news of war all of the staff were home with their family and friends so that they won't have regrets of not seeing them when they survive.
Thankfully Marteu left a note of the recipe for me to make if he was busy. While I was making the stew, Kirche set the table for us to enjoy the meal together. As we ate in silence Kirche leaned her head on my shoulder enjoying the moment.
After breakfast and cleaning the dishes, the two of are at the courtyard basking sunlight enjoying the breezy atmosphere.
But as we enjoyed our time together Tabitha without her book suggesting that something happened…
"Tabitha?" Kirche blinked "what's wrong?"
"War…" the bluenette spoke "Tarbes"
Those two words were enough to piece it together
'Siesta's in trouble!' I realized and ran to Colbert's wooden shack
"Darling!" Kirche shouted "where are you going?"
"To see a man about a dragon" I replied
I reached the place in kicked the door open
Wham!
Jean Colbert sprang up from his short sleep and looked at me
"Oh Peter" the professor yawned "What is it?"
"Reconquista" I growled
That was enough to get the man awake, he used a levitating spell and lifted 4 barrels filled with gasoline and ran with me to the flying machine.
While the professor was filling the plane with the combustible liquid, I saw Kirche and Tabitha running toward us
"Darling" Kirche panted "are you really doing this?"
"I have to Kirche" I answered "Tabitha, get Sylphid and take Kirche with you, I'll see you two at Tarbes"
I placed the acceldriver on my waist, went into the zero-fighter and flew into the sky going into battle with Reconquista as my target.
At Tarbes Reconquista entered the area firing their cannons at the small village showing their power to those who will oppose them. Henrietta came in with Louise right next to her along with a small behind them and a few Griffon knights at the sky.
At the airship Wardes was growling at Gandalf for his failure at the assassination attempt, he was now left with doubts from Cromwell. But he remembered something, he reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a light green Gaia memory with a letter R labeled on it, he smiled when he remembered the man who gave it to him.
"Daido"
After the failed attempt to kill prince Wales, Wardes was walking around trying to clear his mind of the failed mission
'Why did that woman have to interrupt me' he growled 'now I have to find another way to get back on Cromwell's good side'
His thoughts were halted when he heard a familiar voice
"Did I do well master?" a familiar voice asked
"Yes Emily" another voice spoke "you did very well"
Wardes followed the voice to see Emily with a man whom she called his master
"YOU!" He growled "I finally found you!"
"Oho" Emily smiled at Wardes and readied her whip "it seems that little Wardes still needs to learn his lesson"
But before she was about to attack her master placed his hand on her shoulder
"Stand down Emily" he spoke "let him rest after his humiliation of his mission"
Wardes growled at being reminded of his failure and without thinking, he pulled his sword-wand and dashed forward while the man stood still.
Wham!
When he tried to attack, the man pulled Wardes' arm forward and he fell to the ground and his hand was stomped the ground making him lose the fight
"You'll pay for this!" he growled
"Don't underestimate master Daido" Emily giggled "he's done this before you could reach the rank you are now"
"She's right" Daido smiled "I hope that you calmed yourself now"
As the man lifted his foot and Wardes lifted his injured hand tried to remove the pain by rubbing it
"Now that everything is calm" Daido looked at Wardes "why are you siding with Reconquista? I've heard that you are doing well with the Griffon knights at Tristain"
"Who cares about that weak kingdom" the rebel spat "my only goal was to reach the top and nothing else"
"I see" the man nodded "even if it meant losing everything?"
"YES!" Wardes shouted "all I care is being the one who takes charge and nothing will stop me from my goal!"
Rocket
A small bright light glowed in Daido's jacket he pulled out the item and Wardes' eyes widen
"It seems that this memory found you worthy to carry its power"
He tossed the item at the rebel's feet, Wardes looked at it before looking back at Daido
"I'd keep it secret from Cromwell if I were you" Daido suggested "after all, you wouldn't want to lose your chance to be powerful"
Wardes would be thankful at his new power but his thoughts stopped upon seeing a strange green dragon coming their way and saw a particular someone riding it
"Gandalf" he growled as he saw his enemy take down the dragon riders of his group "I'll take care of you myself"
After taking down the last fire dragon in front of me I looked up to the sky to see the solar eclipse at work
'It finally came' I thought looking at the eclipse 'should I really go through?'
"Partner look out!"
I barely dodged a small hurricane above me, I looked up to see Wardes riding a grey dragon moving fast at me
"My wind dragon may be fast but it lacked power" Wardes smiled "but my wind spells will be enough to take you down!"
I dodged another wind spell and looped around Wardes giving me the chance finish him
Clack!
"Oh just great!" I panicked "a fine time for you to run out of ammo!"
"It seems your dragon lost its flame" Wardes smiled smugly "too bad that you won't live long!"
He made another wind spell and struck me
Boom!
I opened the hatch and saw that Wardes struck the tail of my machine, Wardes struck me again and the wing of my plane was cut off. I kept my hands on the lever making sure I kept my altitude to lighten the crash, Colbert just started studying this thing and Takeo made sure that this machine stayed in good condition.
'I better transform now!' I pulled out my Accel memory
Accel
Louise was surprised when she saw Peter fly the dragon's raiment but she was shocked when Wardes struck him and made sure that he was useless now. But then she saw Sylphid come here with Tabitha and Kirche riding the dragon
The tanned fire mage instantly got off looking panicked and looked around for someone, she then saw Louise and grabbed her shirt surprising the girl
"WHERE IS HE VALLIERE!" Kirche shouted "WHERE IS DARLING?!"
Crash!
The three of them saw the dragon's raiment hit the ground looking worse than before
Louise gaped at the destroyed dragon but Kirche took it harder, she fell to her knees with tears dripping down her face
"NOOOO!" Kirche cried "DARLINNGGG!"
"Look" Tabitha pointed at the wreckage
They saw a hand pulling out of the dragon
I pulled myself up from the hatch feeling dizzy at the crash of the plane. I was able to get the machine in a big piece and luckily it didn't explode when I struck the ground, the fuel must've been removed when Wardes cut the wing off.
"You okay Peter" Derflinger asked
"I'm fine" I rubbed the pain of my head to get my vision back
"DARLING!"
I saw a red blur before being tackled to the ground. I looked to my front and saw Kirche hugging me tightly
"Oh darling" Kirche sobbed "I thought you were a goner"
"I'm fine Kirche" I pushed her away and stood up "I need a way to get back up there"
"Sylphid" Tabitha suggested
"That's good and all Tabitha" I smiled "but I need something that makes me fast in the sky"
I looked backed at the broken plane and saw a small gleam in a crack near the engine, feeling curious I reached out and placed my hand inside and pulled it out, my eyes widened at seeing the object in my hand…it was the Gaia memory enhancing adapter!
"What's that?" Louise questioned eyeing the item in my hand
"The key to end this war" I answered before running to an open area
Henrietta felt her hope crash down when the strange green dragon crashed to the ground.
Accel…upgrade
The princess looked up to see a familiar red figure
"Peter" she gasped
Booster
Yellow engine pistons appeared spinning above him, they positioned vertically and slammed against the ground shattering the red armor, changing his look.
Peter was now bright yellow with metal plating on his chest, back, arms and legs with blue light glowing on his visor before metal blinders covered it.
He is now Accel…Booster!
I felt the power course through my body, smiled feeling the power of booster. I ran forward and the turbine on my back powered up letting me feel body jolt at the sudden increase of speed and the jets on my feet flared sending me up.
I took Derflinger when I saw Wardes above me, I slashed the dragon's neck killing the creature and kicked the man to his death.
'Goodbye and good riddance' I smirked reaching the flying airship
Wardes was panicking as he falls, but then he remembered the Gaia memory in his coat, it will save him and give him full power.
Rocket
I got rid of the men around me as I landed on the deck, most of the rebels from Albion are falling to the ground I entered the insides of the ship to see a man sitting on a makeshift throne wearing priest-like clothing smiling at me with his right hand covered by his left hand.
"Cromwell I presume" the man nodded "then I need to take that ring from you"
"You want it" the man smiled "then try and take it!"
He pointed the ring at me and the jewel was shining brightly
"Ugh" I struggled feeling the ring's magic affect me "coward!"
"This is power young man" Cromwell smirked "you should be honored to see it in front of your eyes"
I growled at him for being too dependent on the ring, in fact… I was so furious that I stood up surprising him. I stepped forward fighting the magic controlling my body. I almost got through and was a few feet away almost reaching to the ring.
Ka-boom!
The ship rocked by the explosion, the magic holding me was gone and I was able to get my body move freely again
"It seems that your ship is going to crash now" I smirked
I was about to move out but Cromwell's arms snared my legs
"Please save me!" he pleaded
I looked down to the pitiful man scared for his life and it angered me
"Save you?" I questioned "GET REAL!"
Bam!
I punched him in the face and ran out to the to see a monster covered in metal, it had a conic head, metallic padding was on his right arm and left leg since there were thrusters covering them
"Gandalf" Wardes' voice spoke from the creature "I'll be the on to kill you"
'Seems like Wardes has one last trick left' I scoffed at his desperate attempt "Let's see if you can really beat me!"
I jumped of the ship and flew towards my target and the Rocket Dopant did the same.
Tabitha used her wind spells to divert the cannonballs being fired at them and Kirche used her fire spells to burn the wooden surface, Louise was looking around for Peter. The young girl was feeling worried for him since he flew to the sky.
But when they got higher something fast flew past them, surprising Sylphid and the girls
"What was that?!" Louise eyed the flying object
"Wardes" Tabitha replied
'Wardes?' Kirche hummed then her eyes widen "darling!"
I clashed with the Dopant many times, I was getting winded feeling the doubt take me
'He's really using the memory to it's full potential' I shook my head 'I must fight him and win… I will stop him, I WILL WIN!'
My left hand was shining through even though it's covered up. I smiled at that, it seems that the runes showed it's potential as well
"Time to end this!"
"Ready when you are partner"
I flew up to the sky, opened the engine blade and placed the Unicorn memory inside
Unicorn Maximum Drive
The engine blade was surrounded by clear cone energy ready to pierce anything, I threw my weapon to the air, flew higher and dropped down pushing the weapon with my feet.
Wardes saw what I was doing and he came up with the same idea, his body started change into a rocket and flew straight at me with all his power
'Your not the only one' I held onto the clutch reaching the limits of my upgraded memory
Accel Maximum Drive
All the thrusters on my body flared up pushing me faster through the speed of sound
"TASTE YOUR LOSS MONSTER!"
While Peter and Wardes prepared their final assault, Louise's eyes went blank, she felt herself a strange power.
The girl stood up from her seat while Kirche panicked and held her in place to not make her fall. Louise started to chant a spell while she held her wand out, after finishing the spell bright light covered the sky signaling the end of the war.
Louise groaned a bit, when she got up she saw that the room was marble instead of wood
'How did I get here?"
"Louise!"
The girl was surprised to see Henrietta hug her tightly
"I'm so glad that you're awake!" The princess smiled brightly
Louise stayed quiet for a few seconds until she realized it
"The war!" she gasped "what happened?!"
"Relax Louise" Henrietta gestured "the war is finished" she then hummed "I wonder if Peter is alright?"
"Peter!"
Louise jumped out of bed and dashed out of the room leaving the princess inside
"Was is something I said?" Henrietta blinked
The girl ran out the halls and stopped in front of the door, but before she went in, she heard voices
"How do I look darling?" Kirche's voice asked
"Good as always Kirche" Peter's voice replied
I was sitting on my bed wearing a tuxedo that Kirche ordered for me today, the girl was wearing a slim form fitting dress that showed her curves with the straps on her shoulders
"How do look darling?" she asked
"Good as always Kirche I smiled
Wham!
We looked at the door with Louise outside
"Oh hi Lou-oof!" I couldn't finish when she tackled to the bed
"Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!" Louise cried with tears streaming down her cheeks "why didn't you leave after I fired you!?"
I smiled at her while rubbing her back "I can't actually leave you behind when you're in danger"
"Oh Louise" Kirche sighed "would you please let go of darling, you're ruining his clothes"
After hearing Kirche's voice she jumped back pointing a shaking finger at Kirche
"I-I will not allow this wedding ceremony to be engaged!" Louise shook in anger
"Wedding ceremony?" I blinked
Kirche did the same but then smiled and jumped to my back
"That's a great idea!" the girl smiled "after the awarding ceremony let's get married"
"Awarding ceremony?" Louise now blinked
I explained to her that after the war, Henrietta decided to award those who bravely went against Reconquista
Louise's eyes widened and ran back to her room getting ready for that, while I was alone to deal with Kirche's advances
Inside the throne room there were court officials, and guards at the sides while Guiche, Tabitha, Kirche, Louise and me are waiting for the princess to arrive. I couldn't help that most eyes are on me…
I couldn't actually blame them, I'm not really a noble of any kind I was just someone that came out of nowhere and helped the princess in stopping this war… all-in-all I was the odd one
The doors opened revealing the princess herself with two women behind her; one was holding her majesty's scepter, while the other was carrying a pillow with medals above it.
Henrietta smiled as she walked toward us she stopped with Guiche first…
"Guiche de Gramont" Henrietta smiled as she pinned the medal on him "you have made your ancestors proud by aiding us"
The blond mage beamed as the princess praised him
"Tabitha de Chevalier Ivaldi" Henrietta placed the medal on her dress "you have helped us in our time of need and we're grateful to you"
The young girl nodded with her cheeks turning slightly red
"Kirche Agusta Fredricha von Anhat Zerbst" the princess pinned her medal "Germania and your family would be proud of your accomplishments"
The Germanian smiled happily as Henrietta moved to her childhood friend
"Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Valliere" she smiled to her as the princess pinned the medal "you have been blessed with a gift by the founder, may it help in the future"
Louise smiled so wide that it was like she had been saving it for this moment
"Peter Lionheart" Henrietta spoke with utmost sincerity as she pinned the medal on my shirt "you may have come here unexpectedly, but you have helped Tristain by stopping the war before it could spread through the kingdom"
I nodded at her as she clasped her hands on mine surprising everyone
"I hope that you will continue protecting us from the dangers ahead"
I nodded at her words while she presented us as the heroes of Tristain, Everyone was cheering loudly
Whether this world is filled with more danger or not…
This is my home now…
End of season 1
Author's Notes:
Finally finished with the 1st season, HOORAY!
Okay you might be wondering if I will be separating the stories…I'm not. The story will be continued on.
But it will be on hold since this story and it had me forget some other stories
So for now enjoy the alternate version of the final battle of this chapter
W vs. Wardes
I pulled myself out of the broken plane, I looked at the wrecked machine and sighed
"There goes my dream of flying the machine"
But then Kirche tackled me to the ground
"Oh Darling" she whimpered "I thought I lost you"
"ZERBST!" Louise screamed as I saw coming at us "Let go of him this instant!"
"It's okay Kirche" I reasoned "I'm fine"
The girl pulled away from as I stood up and looked to the sky in anger
"Got anything to get back up there, partner?" my right eye blinked
I thought about it for a second and slapped myself for not having it sooner
"Oh I'm an idiot" I pulled out my stagphone and entered the code
Honk! Honk!
The Revolgarry came to view and it opened revealing the Hardboilder inside I closed my buckle, pulled out the memories and replaced them
Heat Trigger
The 2 halves of my body changed from green and violet to red and blue, I jumped on my ride and the back half changed from a green wheel to a pair of red wings
"I'll see you girls in the sky!" I shouted as I prepared my trigger magnum to fight against Wardes
I flew past him surprising the man as I fired a barrage of small fireballs at him
"Gandalf!" he growled
"Let's see if you can take the heat Windy"
I pulled out the trigger memory and placed it inside my gun and pushed the barrel up
Trigger Maximum Drive
I stood up from my and aimed my gun at Wardes
"Trigger…EXPLOSION!"
I fired a stream of flame at him, like I predicted he jumped off his dragon and falls to his doom
I sat back down my machine and flew to the airship aiming to get that ring from Cromwell, but as I got closer a volley of cannonballs were flying at me. I dodged and swerved around the cannon fire, Tabitha came in and diverted the metal balls and Kirche using her fire spell to melt the cannons on the ship
"Thanks girls" I smiled but it fell when I heard something familiar
Rocket
A stream of smoke flew by us, I can already tell who is the Rocket Dopant
"Wardes" I looked back at the girls "You will take care of the ship, I'll fight Wardes myself"
Tabitha nodded and rode her dragon to distract the airship while I fly up to face my enemy
I looked at Wardes with disgust "So you finally snapped huh?"
"I will be the one to finish you" the Dopant replied
I was shocked that Wardes was shape shifting, and before long he looked like an actual rocket. I barely dodged the attack and decided to go full assault myself, I closed my driver and replaced the Trigger memory with Metal
Heat Metal
The left half of my body changed and I followed Wardes to the clouds and looked at him from above
"Let's end this" I grinned
"Agreed"
I pulled out my Metal memory and placed it in my Metal shaft
Metal Maximum Drive
Wardes changed into his Rocket form and dashed at me with all his might
I held my weapon tightly as one end ignited with heavy flame
"Metal Branding!"
The two us clashed which resulted in a big bang
Boom!
I slumped back onto my seat feeling exhausted
"You okay Peter?" Derf asked
"I'm good" I replied in pants "just tired at the moment"
Just then I saw a bright light in the sky, I partially covered my eyes with my left hand
"It seems like Louise finally found her element huh partner?" Derf laughed
"That's right" I smiled 'welcome to the world of respect. Louise, the void'
And that's that