Onboard of papadragon.
Everybody onboard of the Papadragon was in a grim mood. It was logical they had lost a lot due to this mission. Carter, Ace, Rose and the dragon councilors had themselves withdrawn to review the mission.
They were in the small command room of the aircraft.
Andam rubbed his temples as he said. "Report."
"We lost 4 men. Hans, Carlos, Julia and Vladimir." Ace grimly said.
Andam nodded. "objectives?"
"All were a success." Carter answered.
"We lost great men today get some rest tomorrow we will continue this. Dismissed."
Suddenly they heard an immense bang.
"What was that? " came from several directions.
Mortis appeared. "Something just exploded in the complex."
"Did we caused that?" Andam asked.
"No someone else did." Mortis said scared.
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Several minutes earlier…
Rodriquez groaned as he awoke. He stood up and felt his chest the wound was gone. He looked around and saw Shaun lying not far away. He walked to him and kicked him in the gut. Which caused him to wake up.
"Get up, did they buy it?"
The kick in Shaun stomach made him cough. "Yes… I think they did. They knocked me out and left."
"How come I'm not wounded anymore?"
"in the bullets were medic nano-bots. They healed you from the inside." Shaun got up and dusted of his clothes.
"Do you have the evidence?"
" Yes and a little bit of extra footage of them attacking you." He said as he presented a USB-stick and a tiny camera.
"Excellent."
The attention of both men was caught by a soft groan. They saw one of the people who attacked the base. Sitting with his back to the wall. They walked to him and removed his helmet.
"A vampire?" Shaun said amazed.
"Yes but he is hurt badly and probably consumed all his energy reserves. Normally they hide their teeth." Rodriquez smiled. "Looks like we've got even more evidence. Take him, we can use him to ignite the war with those beasts."
As they reached the upper part of the base. Rodriquez threw something on the lift plateau. A Chinook landed in front of the base out of it came a soldier completely dressed in black.
"Sir we received your distress call. What happened?" He said.
"Classified. Take us to D.C I have a meeting with the president." Rodriquez said.
"You're all that's left?"
"Yes now take us to D.C!" Rodriquez exploded.
"Yes sir." The soldier said confused by his outburst.
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Several hours later….
The president was dining with another world leader as a security guard walked to him and whispered something in his ear.
"What? Now?" He said agitated.
The guard nodded.
"if you would excuse me." He said as he got up. He walked with the guard to oval office. Were Rodriquez and Shaun were waiting.
"I hope this is important I was about to tell my one of my famous jokes."
"Oh.. It is, mister President." Rodriquez said.
"Call me Ian, I'm not into that 'mister president' crap after office hours."
"Shaun would you please show the president what happened."
As Shaun showed the president the images. The president asked. "When did this happen?"
"A few hours ago." Shaun replied.
"Who did it?"
"Dragons sir." Rodriquez said as he stood in front of the window.
"Dragons? This is serious. Don't fool around now."
"Shaun would you please give the president our other folder." Rodriquez said.
Shaun laid a folder in front of the president with his name on it.
"What's this?" the president asked.
"Have a look Ian." Shaun said.
As Ian opened the folder there were several documents with all kind of details about him from his being the president and before that. As he took out the documents he saw several photos of him.
"How did you get those?"
The photos displayed him using magic and talking to several magical creatures and also his wife using magic.
"Not of importance. What is important. Is that you didn't became a president because the people wanted it. But because I needed someone who was easily blackmailed." Rodriquez said as he put a file in front of Ian.
"Sign it." Rodriquez demanded.
Ian read the file. "No… I will not sign this. I will not declare war on magical creatures."
"Do you love your wife mister president? It would be a shame if something happened to her." Rodriquez said.
"I-I…" Ian sighed in defeat. "You win I'll sign it."
"Excellent and while you're at it sign this one as well." Rodriquez placed another file on Ian's desk.
Ian's eyes widened as he saw what for this was. He gulped and begged god for forgiveness as he signed it.
Rodriquez smiled and put it into a folder with Project Huntsclan written on it.
"Better prepare a speech for the press." Rodriquez said as he walked of laughing.
Shaun took one look at the president. "I hoped you wouldn't have given in so easily sir." He then walked away.
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Two days later. Draco isle meeting hall…
Several members of the magical press were present. Carter, Rose, Jake and his team, the vampires from the mission. The last of the Spec ops dragons. Also a lot of dragons. All were dressed up formal.
"Silence." Andam boomed through the hall. "Thank you. I like to welcome our guests to this both cheerful as grim event."
"What some of you don't know is that two days ago. We saved the American dragon out of the clutches of the United States Government. To keep our secrecy to the human world. Lives of great people were lost here. The mission was a success. All of the ones who helped in this mission showed great bravery and risked their lives to keep us safe from the not understanding of human beings. We are here to celebrate their victory and mourn the ones who have fallen in this. Almost impossible campaign. A moment of silence for our brothers."
After the moment of silence Andam continued.
"Commander Ace and his crew please step forward."
Ace, Aurora and Marlijn all dressed up in Dragon council military attire stepped forward to face the council. On the left side where portraits of their fallen comrades both in dragon as human form.
"Commander Ace Valentine. I hereby offer you the medal of Bravery." He pinned the medal on Ace's chest and moved to Aurora.
"Aurora Carter I hereby offer you the medal of Bravery." He also pinned the medal on her chest. He then moved to Marlijn.
"Marlijn Verdijk I hereby offer you the medal of Bravery." He pinned the medal on her chest. He then moved back to Ace.
"Commander I know it doesn't mean much but here." Andam whispered as he handed Ace a box with two medals.
"Thank you sir." Ace said as he saluted.
Ace and his crew moved to the Portraits of his fallen members.
"Ivan Lebedev and Yuri Vassilie. Please step forward."
They obeyed and stepped forward.
"The dragon council has the cannot describe the offer your team made seeing it was a dragon we needed to rescue and not a vampire. That's why I and the council offer you both the medal of sacrifice and bravery." He said as he pinned the medals on their chests.
After this he also handed a box containing four medals for their fallen comrades. The Vampires saluted and went back to their original position.
"Hank Carter and Rose Whitman please step forward."
Rose and hank did what them was told.
"Hank Carter after saving a dragon approximately twenty years back and your performance during this mission I and the council want to offer you. the medal of Bravery and a place in our order as advisor for our councilors."
"I would be honored councilor." Carter replied.
Andam smiled and pinned the medal of Bravery on his chest. After this a dragon guard came with another medal on a cushion representing a dragon. He also pinned this one on carters chest.
"Ladies and gentlemen. The is the first time a human has entered the dragon order as a member. But were not done yet. There still is one person left to do."
He moved to Rose.
"Rose Whitman formerly known as Huntsgirl. After your help with the Aztec skulls, being the one which destroyed the Huntsclan by wishing it which meant dying for the magical creatures if it wasn't for the American dragon wish, Defeating the Dark Dragon and your performance on this mission. We offer you the medal of bravery, the Medal of Sacrifice. And a place in our order as one of the protectors of America." Andam said with a smile.
"I-I… I would be honored." She stuttered.
Andam pinned the three medals on her chest and gave her a Staff that looked like a huntsstaf only dragons were circling it their heads coming together at the top of the staff.
"Now it's time for honoring the new members and feast that we remained in secrecy."
After a half an hour a dragon guard walked to Andam.
"Sir better come see this."
Andam called Jake and the rest and they followed the guard. Which led them to a small T.V which showed the president of the united states giving a interview.
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In front of the Whitehouse…
"People of America the years you have been supportive and trusted in my guidance I hope you do now. Two days ago something terrible happened. We have been attacked. Not by a terrorist organization. But by beings that we thought only lived in fairytales. We have been attacked by dragons."
"no offence mister president but dragons aren't real. I don't know what you have been smoking but can I have some?" A reporter in the audience shouted.
There was laughter which died down as Rodriquez started to speak.
"What the president says isn't a lie we have been attacked by vile dragons who destroyed our most precious base. If you don't believe me see for yourself." Rodriquez gave a nod to Shaun who pressed a button on his laptop and on a giant T.V everyone could see Aurora trying to cut open the robot of Rodriquez.
"That can be fake." Someone shouted from the audience.
"Is that so? What about a Vampire burning to death in the sun." Shaun pressed a button and a door opened up revealing the still badly hurt Vladimir. His skin started to smoke as the sun hit him. He struggled to walk forward as he said.
"Don't Believe him we only tried to save a dragon which he captured." He collapsed as his skin started to peel of his body. "We are quite peaceful. He is a monster look what…" he stopped as he turned into ashes by the sun.
Te audience was stunned. One man shouted. "Mister president what are you going to do?"
"I'm declaring war to the magical creatures of this planet."
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Everybody in front of the T.V was shocked.
"That son of a gun." Carter said.
"What now?" The guard asked.
"You heard the man." Andam said.
"We're at war..."
The end.
Turned out longer then I thought. This wraps up my first story. I want to thank all those who have read and reviewed especially Ada, Luiz and Jakeross.
Also I want to thank Luiz for introducing Carter. this would be a whole different story if you hadn't
And thank you. Ada and Jakeross for the writing tips I got along the way…
To all of you thanks.
Please review,
Onej6