A Legend Is Born
I do not own LegendZ just the characters that I made up. Sorry about not updating this sooner, it's just that I didn't have any good ideas for the next chapter, but I finally had an idea that came into my mind. Here is the next chapter.
Ben's past
Kato was sitting on the sandy beach that was outside near the hideout while he stared out at the water with the waves crashing down on the sandy shore. Kato was lost in his thoughts as he thought about his battle with Ben and how he had changed into that dragon LegendZ within their fight against each other a few days ago before Blaze's elemental fusion.
"I just don't understand," he voiced to himself. "How was Ben able to perform the elemental fusion without a LegendZ partner to fuse with him? Could it be that dark wind that is always blowing around him?"
"Probably," spoke a voice from behind Kato.
Kato was a little startled when he suddenly heard the voice behind him and quickly turned around to face the person that had spoken to him. He gave a sigh when he saw that it was only Shiron.
"Shiron, don't scare me like that!" scolded Kato as he glared up at his dragon partner.
"Sorry," Shiron apologized with a chuckle. "I didn't mean to startle you like that."
Kato looked up at his partner for a while before smiling at him, and then turned to look back out at the ocean again. Shiron took a seat beside his partner as he looked out at the water with him. The human and dragon shared a moment of silence together while they listened to the sound of the ocean.
"Are you still thinking about our last battle with Ben?" asked Shiron as he turned his head to look down at his partner.
"Yeah," replied Kato softly while nodding his head. "I just don't understand how Ben did the elemental fusion; I mean…we both saw that he didn't have a LegendZ partner with him when he first arrived to challenge us on the beach, but…"
"I know, Kato," said Shiron calmly as he looked down at his partner. "And I think I know the answer to the question that is going through both our minds."
"You do?" asked Kato in a surprised voice as he looked up at the dragon sitting beside him.
Shiron nodded his head before continuing: "It could be that Ben had met up with my counter part."
"Your counter part?" repeated Kato confused.
"Yes," answered Shiron as he turned to look out at the ocean. "And my counter part's name is…Ranshiin."
Ben's room
Ben was sitting at the edge of his bed as he stared outside through the large glass window of his room. The only clothing that he was wearing is his blue jeans, while leaving the top part of his body bare. Ben's upper right arm, forehead, chest and lower left arm were wrapped with clean bandages. The 14 year old boy had been really distant with people since he had been defeated by Kato and he refused to let anyone come into his room…except for his partner.
"That shrimp is going to pay for what he's done to me!" growled Ben as he clenched his right hand hard into a fist.
"I wouldn't be so eager to fight him again if I were you," warned a voice that spoke from Ben's right.
Ben turned his cold eyes on the person that stood within the shadows of his room. Ben gave the person a glare as a small frown began to form on his face.
"Are you saying that I'm going to lose to that twerp again?" he questioned dangerously.
"In that condition, yes" replied the voice calmly.
Ben smirked before giving out a light chuckle: "Always stating out the obvious, huh Ranshiin?"
A soft thudding of feet sounded within the room as the person stepped out from among the shadows to reveal his true form to Ben. The person that stood in front of Ben was actually a dragon with black feathered wings and a black patch going down from the dragon's head, back, neck and tail. The dragon was wearing black gauntlets with red ruby brooches on top of the wrist of its gloves. A black high collar vest with buckles attached on the front of it; a black and white loincloth with strange symbols running down it as it hung in front of the dragon's legs; and on the dragon's ears were two separate brass/red earrings.
The dragon had blue eyes and blonde hair that was well kept and was tied up into a pony tail. The dragon, now known as Ranshiin, crossed his arms over his chest as he smirked back at the 14 year old boy in front of him.
"I believe that the word for me would be, 'over protective'." Ranshiin corrected.
"Don't get cute with me Ranshiin," warned Ben in a joking matter. "Besides, you aren't that protective of me."
Ranshiin only smirked at Ben's words in amusement before it turned into a deep frown when he remembered what he wanted to talk about with his partner for sometime now.
"Ben…do you remember when we first met each other?" he asked calmly.
Ben started as his smirk subsided into a sad frown.
"How can I forget," answered Ben quietly as he looked away from his partner. "That was after my…my mother left me four years ago."
"And it was also the day when you were nine that you first learned the truth on what your father was really doing," added Ranshiin.
Ben's eyes narrowed when he remembered that day; for it was still fresh within his mind as if it had happened yesterday.
Flash back
A young nine year old Ben was sitting on his bed as he looked down at the floor before him with a bored look on his face. He was wearing a black and white T-shirt, blue jeans and black/brown sneakers.
"Man, I'm so bored," moaned Ben as he fell down onto his back as he lay on the bed while looking up at the ceiling of his room. "There's nothing for me to do and Dad won't let me go outside to play."
Ben had been sent to his room by his father for some unknown reason and that unknown reason only made the young boy more obnoxious to be outside then staying in his room. The nine year old was soon thinking about what his father was doing in his lab on a fine day such as this.
"Probably doing something that's even more boring than staying in my room," grumbled Ben under his breath before he sat up on his bed. "That does it, I'm going outside whether my dad likes it or not!"
With his decision made, Ben jumped off of his bed then began to make his way to the door of his room. The nine year old grabbed the handle of his door and quickly turned the knob until he heard a click from the lock as it slid out of the hole of the door frame. Ben smirked in victory as he began to pull the door towards him before stepping out of his room and into the long hallway that was part of his father's business building.
Ben's father was the CEO of a company called Dark Global Company. The company works on technology that can help improve the most difficult things that even a computer cannot do on its own. Ben looked down the hallway to his left before taking off down the hallway to his right with a big smirk on his face.
Ben kept running down the hall as he looked for the door to the stairs that will lead him down to the ground level of the building.
"I can't wait to play outside!" cheered Ben when he found the stairs and was about to grab the handle of the door.
Ben's fingers were almost touching the door handle until he suddenly drew his hand back. The reason for that was that Ben had heard a scream from down the hallway to his left.
"What was that?" whispered Ben curiously as he turned his eyes down the next hall before him.
The hallway that Ben was looking down into was slightly dark, but he could still see something there. It was a double door that was six feet wide and eight feet high made out of metal. Curiosity getting the best of him, Ben began to make his way towards the unknown door. As the boy drew closer he began to hear the screaming more clearly from behind the double doors. Ben was never the one to get scared that easily, but as he stepped closer towards the doors his body began to shake and the young boy would sometimes pause before continuing again.
Ben soon made it to the door as he started to reach out for the handle of the doors with his shaky hands. His heart pounded within his chest as the boy's fingers wrapped around one of the cold metal handlebars of the doubled doors. Ben was hesitant for a moment, but soon gained his courage and quickly swung open the door. What met the young boy's eyes was something that he wished he never had seen in real life. Scattered around the room were 20 dead bodies of human scientists with blood staining the floor, but that wasn't the only thing that made the nine year old shake with fear. No, the thing that Ben saw that made his heart stop beating within his chest was a creature that was so frightening that anyone who saw it would instantly fall over in fear.
The creature that stood within the middle of the room was ten feet tall with large spikes on its shoulders. Its body was covered with black, wire, tentacles that cracked in the air or on the ground. The creature had the body of a human but its hands and feet were completely different. Three claws grew from the creature's arms while four long hooked claws grew at the feet. Ben couldn't see the creature's face for it had its back turned towards him.
'W-what is that thing?' wondered Ben as he began to feel fear sink into the very center of his bones.
Ben was startled out of his senses when a loud scream echoed throughout the dark room as it sent pain through the boy's two ears that he had to cover them up with his hands. The screaming soon ended as Ben unplugged his ears but his fears soon grew when he saw more blood lying on the floor near the monster's feet with a human body lying in the liquid. Ben held his hand up towards his nose and mouth as he tried to smother the iron smell of the blood.
Just then the monster suddenly turned around to face Ben with a snarl and what the nine year old saw made him feel sharp coldness within his veins. The monster's face was that of a skeleton with blood red eyes staring right into Ben's soul. The monster had sharp K9 teeth producing from its stomach as a large mouth was open while it bared its fangs at Ben.
"Blood…" growled the monster as its red eyes stared at Ben with hunger. "I must have blood!"
Ben found himself unable to move as he stared into the monster's red eyes, paralyzed with fear and before he knew what was going on the monster's tentacles shot out at him.
In another part of the building
Systems were buzzing as a blue glow flashed within the dark room as scientists ran around like crazy within as they were trying to figure out what was going on with their computers. A man stood within the shadows as he stared at a large cylinder tank where a large energy of wind slammed against the sides of the prison that it was trapped in before a scientist suddenly ran up to the man in a panic.
"Sir, we can't control this thing!" exclaimed the scientist in fear as he stood by the man's side. "If this keeps up we'll be the victims of this beast as well!"
"If that happens then leave this room with the other scientists," replied the man in shadow to the scientist.
"But sir-!" began the scientist as he tried to argue with the man, but was interrupted when a woman scientist suddenly ran up to them.
"Sir!" she shouted in urgency. "We've just picked up something on the monitor in the room where experiment 2X is in."
"If its one of my employees that had wondered into that room then just leave them be," said the man in a cold voice as he stared up at the tank in front of him. "I have no use of weaklings within my business."
"I'm afraid it isn't sir." The woman said. "It was actually a boy that has entered the room."
"A boy?" repeated the man as he looked at the woman with a dark glare.
Suddenly, before anyone could speak, the glass within the cylinder tank broke open and before anyone knew what was happening the aura of the wind started to whip wildly around the people within the room.
"What out!" shouted one of the scientists as everyone within the room ducked under the strongest thing that they could find.
The man held his ground as he glared up at the wind that blew throughout the room until it slammed into the doors of the room and escaped.
"Don't let that creature escape!" shouted the man to his employees.
Back with Ben
Ben was struggling within the monster's tentacles of that grip tangled around him as he was being pulled towards the monster's gapping mouth and fangs. The tentacles were wrapped around his neck, waist, and arms while the boy dug his heels into the floor as he tried to resist the pulling of the creature. The tentacle around his neck started to tighten around Ben as it made breathing difficult for the boy. His vision began to turn white around him as the tentacle began to grow even tighter around the boy's neck.
'H-help me…!' shouted Ben within his head before he lost consciousness.
Ben's body went limp as his legs gave out from beneath him and the only thing holding the boy up were the tentacles surrounding his waist, arms and neck. The monster smirked when he saw his prey hanging helplessly within its tentacles as it raised the young boy off the ground and began to pull his dinner towards him. The distance between the two began to close when the doors suddenly slammed open. A razor wind blew into the room and cut right through the tentacles that held Ben. The monster let out a scream when it felt its tentacles being cut away from its body. The wind encircled Ben's body as it gently laid him down on the floor of the room before a shape began to form within the shadows.
The monster snarled as it glared up at the larger from that toward over it: "Who dare's disturbs me while I feast on the blood of my prey!"
The new comer didn't reply as he only glared down at the monster that stood before him with his cold blue eyes piercing into the creature's soul. The monster was suddenly struck with fear when it realized who this being was.
"I-it can't be…" started the monster as it began to back away in fear.
But the new comer didn't give the monster a chance to escape as he unfolded its wings before flapping them forward with many sharp edged fathers shooting out towards the monster. The feathers pierced into the monster's tentacle body with the beast let out a horrifying scream that echoed throughout the building before falling to the floor dead. The shadow stranger scoffed as he glared down at the monster that had once been a treat was now lying on the floor before turning he turned his gaze onto the unconscious form of Ben before kneeling down to get a better look at the boy. The stranger slowly moved his hand towards the boy's still form with the tips of his fingers slightly touching Ben's shoulders.
The response that was given to the stranger was a low groan from Ben as he began to awaken. The stranger drew back his hand as Ben slowly rose up onto his hands and knees before shaking his head to regain his senses.
"What just happened?" groaned Ben when he suddenly remembered the monster that attacked him.
He quickly stood up and looked around for the monster when he suddenly saw its body lying on the floor unmoving. Ben took a step back in fear when he suddenly heard a deep voice from behind him.
"I wouldn't worry about that abomination any more if I were you."
Ben froze for a moment before turning around quickly to look a the person that spoke to him, but what he saw in front of him wasn't a human at all. It was a huge leg with three black claws on the large foot in front of him. Slowly the nine year old turned his eyes upwards until he was looking at the draconic face of a dragon as its blue eyes stared down into Ben's eyes as if they were looking into his soul. Ben felt his heart jump into his throat as he stared at the dragon towering over him when he was suddenly started back to reality when he heard the thundering footsteps of human feet running towards the doors of the room.
Ben turned his gaze away from the dragon as his eyes shot towards the door. Ben saw his father and many of his scientists standing at the entrance of the door as they stared at the dragon that was standing before them. The dragon turned his eyes on Ben's father and the scientists before turning around to face all of them with his black fathered wings flared out again. Ben quickly started as he quickly ran up to the dragon's side and placed both of his hands on the creature's leg.
"No, wait!" shouted Ben up to the dragon as he pushed against the creature's leg to get its attention. "Please, don't hurt them!"
The dragon stopped as he folded up his wings again before looking down at Ben with his blue eyes staring into the young boy's eyes once again. Ben kept staring up at the dragon as his eyes made contact with the blue orbs again. The dragon stared at the young nine year old for a moment before a smile spread out across his muzzle.
"I'm impressed young human," spoke the dragon to Ben. "Most humans would have fled when they first laid their eyes on me, but you don't seem to be afraid of my, why is that?"
Ben blinked up at the dragon before lowering his gaze as he thought over the question that had been asked of him: "Well…um…I-I just have a feeling that you aren't really-"
"Ben!" shouted the boy's father in anger. "Get away from that monster, its dangerous!"
Ben turned to his father in surprise when he heard him shout, but quickly over came it as the nine year old countered with his own angry shout.
"This guy isn't a monster dad!" shouted Ben as he stood beside the dragon. "It was the monster that I first encounter within this room that was the dangerous one! If this guy had come than I would have been dead like the other people here!"
"Sir!" exclaimed one of the scientists as he pointed to the still form of the tentacle creature that lay on the floor. "Experiment 2X…its dead."
Ben's father turned his eyes on the monster, 2X, and only stared at it before talking to the scientist.
"It doesn't matter anymore," said Ben's father with no emotion within his voice. "That creature was just one of many failed experiments that we have created."
"Created?" repeated Ben when he heard what his father said.
"A man made creature that was mixed with a LegendZ creature and a human," answered a female scientist in a quiet voice.
"You idiot woman!" blasted Ben's father in anger as he turned to glare at the scientist behind him. "That was not meant to be answered out in the open!"
But the damage had already been done as Ben's eyes widened in shock before he dropped his hands down from the dragon's leg and turned fully to look at his father.
"Dad…is that true?" asked Ben as his voice quivered. "Is that what you are doing in your lab?'
Ben's father was silent as he stared at his son with his cold eyes before turning away and started walking out of the room: "What I am doing doesn't concern you Ben."
"Dad!" shouted Ben as he called after his father, but the man only kept walking without turning to look at his son.
Ben stood in the room as he stared at the back of the man that was walking away from him before he clenched both of his hands into fists. The dragon looked down at the boy that stood beside him before dropping down onto his left knee to get as close to the boy's height as he possible could.
"So your name is Ben, is it not?" questioned the dragon to the nine year old boy.
Ben was knocked out of his anger when he heard the dragon talking to him before looking up at the creature. The young boy nodded his head as he answered the dragon's question.
"Then allow me to introduced myself," continued the dragon as he placed his left, three clawed, hand on his chest before bowing his head to Ben. "My name is Wind-dragon Ranshiin."
End of flashback
"That was the day that my father assigned you to be my partner," said Ben with a chuckle as he looked at the black dragon with a smile.
Ranshiin smirked at the boy as he nodded his head: "I think your father thought that I was just a temporary partner for you when actually we were meant to be together."
"And boy was my father ever shocked when my gauntlet suddenly appeared on me," added Ben.
"But what he's doing right now, do you think that what your father is doing is right?" questioned Ranshiin as his smirked changed into a frown once again.
"What do you mean?" asked Ben as he looked up at his partner with confused eyes.
"What your father is doing isn't natural," spoke Ranshiin as he answered his partner's question. "He is only using the humans that are not chosen by LegendZ to fuse them with my kind for his own need, and changing their aspects into creatures that are far more fearsome and dangerous than me or any of the other LegendZ."
"Experiment 2X was just one of many victims of my father's experiments; for he is trying to do an artificial elemental fusion by forcing it on people that aren't worthy of a LegendZ powers," muttered Ben as he clenched his right hand into a fist in anger.
"And that's got me wondering on what your father is really up to," added Ranshiin as he crossed his arms in front of his chest. "What will he gain by just transforming humans into LegendZ?"
"I don't know Ranshiin," replied Ben as he closed his eyes to think. "But one thing is for sure, we have to do what my dad says until we can figure out his plan and stop whatever it is he is doing. And I have a few ideas on how we can obtain the information that we need."
Back with Kato and Shiron
"So what you are telling me is that you and Ranshiin use to be one being?" said Kato as he stared up at his partner in shock.
Shiron had just finished telling his partner that he and Ranshiin use to be the same LegendZ, but by some unknown circumstance the two of them had been split into two different beings many years ago before Kato was even born.
"That's right," answered Shiron with a nod of his head at his partner.
"Whoa…I never thought that you and Ranshiin were the same dragon," muttered Kato as he brought his legs up to his chest while he wrapped his arms around them. "Yet I some how find it hard to believe that Ranshiin and you were one person."
"Oh," said Shiron as he cocked an eyebrow at the young human boy that sat beside him.
"Well…from what you told me about Ranshiin, he sounds like he's is the complete opposite of you." Kato explained as he looked up at his dragon partner. "Where he sounds like a gentleman, you're actually more of a fighter type that could take down anyone who stands in your way."
"Are you saying that I should be more like him?" questioned Shiron as a frown spread out across his face.
"I'm not saying that!" exclaimed Kato as he jumped to his feet and held out his arms in front of him while waving his hands left to right. "All I'm saying that I…um, uh…"
Shiron cocked an eyebrow at his partner again before raising up his right glove claw hand towards Kato. Kato didn't know what Shiron was doing and only watched as the dragon brought one of his claw fingers towards his face and placed it on the young boy's forehead. Before Kato knew it, he was lying flat down on his back in the sand for Shiron had gently pushed his finger against his partner's forehead and sent the young boy tumbling to the ground. The white dragon smile as he looked down at his partner. Kato sat up as he pouted at his partner.
"You know Kato, if you keep jumping to conclusions then you might wind up with white hair instead of blonde one of these days," joked Shiron as he stared at his partner in amusement.
"Very funny Shiron," grumbled Kato.
Shiron only smiled before bursting out with laughter that boomed throughout the air. Kato looked up at his partner for a moment before a smile spread out across his face and his own laughter soon followed after that. The two of them soon calmed down as Kato stood up and began to dust the sand off of his clothing before he turned his gaze on the sun that was setting on the horizon with its light reflecting on the surface of the oceans waters.
"You know Shiron, despite the situation of LegendZ showing up and causing havoc for everyone here on earth; I still think that meeting you and the other LegendZ's was the best thing's that has ever happened to me in my life."
Shiron blinked as he looked down at his partner in surprisement before smiling at the boy.
"The same for me…Kaze no Saga," voiced the dragon as he also turned his gaze on the ocean as well. "And no matter what happens within the coming future we will face it…together."
"Together," repeated Kato with a nod of his head.
The two partners stood/sat together as they the sun's last rays of light shin upon their bodies while their shadows stretched out behind them.
To be continued
Sorry for the short chapter, but this is all I can come up with. I'll try to make the next one longer.
White Hunter, howling out to you and the spirits!