Chapter 25: Fabia
Without much more to say to each other, Dan and I went on about our tasks, I left first as I was to make my way to where they were keeping all Castle Knights' uniforms in storage for those who weren't assigned missions taking them away from the Castle or into hostile environments. I was able to weasel past the guards with my excuse being that I ordered to fetch mine as I needed to gather up preparations for a possible mission. Dan's uniform wasn't hard to fetch either as my excuse for having them bring it to me was that my sister had changed her orders and that I was to take care of it until needed use. As strict as the guards were it wasn't hard to suede them in my favor. I hated tricking them, but it was for a necessary cause. I made my merry way to the garden as planned to meet at the spot of where most of our make out sessions took place at. I giggled slightly at the thought as I quickly changed into my uniform and then Dan, Drago, and Aronaut all showed up. We all waited a moment more as Dan changed into his uniform.
The packs were well stocked and I felt proud as I had expected him to mostly fill them with food. I teased him a little about it before Aronaut urged us to make haste. Drago summoned forth a portal and Dan grabbed my hand dragging me through it.
As we neared the end of the portal that lead out to New Vestroia, both Drago and Aronaut changed into their larger forms. Aronaut was caught a little off guard, but Drago reassured him.
"On New Vestroia, we can be in our true forms." Drago explained to him.
"I see." Aronaut said as we landed a few feet outside of the portal, "So this is your home world?"
The Dragonoid wasn't able to get out an answer as we were suddenly caught within a terrible sandstorm. I quickly crouched down and covered my face to protect it from the harsh weather even with our Bakugan shielding us, Dan even placed himself protectively over me. I was expecting it to last longer than it did.
"Is that normal for sandstorms here?" I asked as we all dusted ourselves off and examined our surroundings.
"I dunno, Drago?" Dan asked his partner as he shook loose dirt and sand from his hair.
Drago nodded, "Of course, it's just a natural occurrence we accidently dropped into. Especially since this place is a desert so why wouldn't it have sandstorms every once in a while."
"Alright, so now what?" Aronaut asked as he looked to Dan who was finishing dusting off his shoulders.
"Well," Dan replied with a smirk, "now we just gotta track down a few Bakugan pals of ours."
"Oh, that's a good plan, do you even know where to start looking?" Aronaut replied curtly.
Dan frowned for a moment and then smiled as he ignored Aronaut's chide question, "Hey, Drago is that who I think it is?"
Dan pointed towards Aronaut and then I realized he was pointing to beyond the Haos warrior, up in the sky was a dark silhouette. Drago squinted and then chuckled as he seemed to recognize this Bakugan up in the sky.
"It's Ingram!" Drago said before he flew up to greet the being.
"Ingram? Who is he exactly?" I asked Dan as he was smiling like he had just won first prize in a competition.
"He's an old friend, just one of the allies we've been looking for." Dan explained.
"Oh, you'll have to tell me all about this sometime." I insisted as I came to stand next to him as Drago and the Bakugan came in for a landing.
Upon seeing this being up close I realized it was a Ventus type Bakugan with a body type mix of humanoid and bird. A warrior bird man.
"It's good to see you old friends, but who are these people and where is Shun and the others?" Ingram greeted as he looked me over before returning to look between Dan and Drago.
"These guys are some new friends of ours Ingram." Dan explained and I raised an eyebrow slightly as I noticed he wasn't introducing me as his girlfriend nor explaining that I was an alien.
The Bakugan hadn't noticed so as I had my disguise on just in case, plus I wasn't keen on showing my true form to just anyone. He apologized through thoughts and I nodded ever so slightly as I approved of this action. They may be his friends, but it wasn't certain I would be well received or this could be a trap as it was impeccable timing that we managed to meet up with an old friend. I guessed my defensive instincts were starting to transfer to him.
I came out of my thoughts as the conversation had moved to finding the rest of their old friends and Drago was getting ready to carry Aronaut. Dan invited me to ride on Drago head, with Aronauts approval first though.
"Try to keep your body parts out of my line of sight and it should all be smooth flying." Drago instructed as we climbed on with Dan and I sitting on either side of his nose horn.
As we took flight I finally decided to push Dan for some more information about these friends.
"So care to explain to me now who all we are gathering up and who this gang of Vestals that you keep talking about are?" I asked in a pushing manner.
Dan chuckled, "Sorry for holding off on that, first off the Bakugan we're looking for are known as the Six original fighting Bakugan. Drago was a part of them when we had our first major battle for the existence of New Vestroia."
"Original plan was to repair Vestroia, but because of Naga it had to be remade." Drago filled in.
"Yeah, Naga was this non attributed Bakugan who was all bent on gaining the ultimate power, he went so far as to corrupt a friend of mine and her grandfather as well as to killing his own sister. It was all because Vestroia's core was split in two and all the attributes put onto separate planes. Naga stole the Silent core while his twin sister Wavern was given the Infinity core. Wavern refused to fight him so some of my friends and their Bakugan helped defend Wavern along with Drago and I go after Naga." Dan explained.
"So Shun and Marucho participated, but who else?" I asked, interrupting him a bit.
"Well, Shun and Marucho were there, but they had different Bakugan partners back then. It was our first team set. We had all the attributes. Shun and Skyress were our Ventus fighters, Marucho with Preyas as Aquos, Drago and I as the Pyrus team, Alice and Hydranoid with the Darkus attribute, next was Julie and Gorem our Subterra brawlers, and then my ex-girlfriend, Runo and her partner Tigererra as our Haos. Together we took down Naga's army and then Drago and I commenced the final battle against Naga himself. Drago had the infinity core at the time so it was a piece of cake." Dan continued smirking at the end of his explanation of the first major battle he was involved in.
"Piece of cake? Naga wiped the battlefield with me at one point. So I wouldn't say it was that easy, now stopping the Vestal invasion seemed easier than Naga." Drago commented.
"Hey!" Dan grumbled as the truth was exposed.
I laughed at the two of them arguing about how easy the final battles were and then a thought crossed my mind as I realized that his human ex-girlfriend battle with a Haos.
"So, Runo is a Haos brawler as well? You aren't setting a trend are you?" I asked testing him.
Dan paused and smiled sheepishly, "Yeah she is, I mean was, but no, it's just a coincidence."
"So she's retired now?" I asked getting curious.
"Yeah, ever since the whole problem with New Vestroia getting invaded by not so nice people." Dan replied as I could tell he wanted to switch the subject.
I decided not to pry anymore as the Ventus Bakugan interrupted us.
"Look it's Mira and the others!" Ingram exclaimed as we all spied a giant RV parked in an oasis.
There were people outside of it, they looked human, but as we got closer I noticed the difference as their eyes didn't have black pupils, but rather a lighter color of the iris as the pupil. There were two boys, one dressed in pastel yellow shirt and white pants with a red hairband keeping up his fuschia hair out of his face, the other was adorned in a purple and black tailcoat with black trousers tucked into black boots. He brushed a pale green lock out of his face as he eyed me curiously when Dan and I were getting down from Drago.
"DAN!" a female voice called out as another person ran out from the large RV to tackle Dan with a hug, "It's so good to see you!"
"Whoa! Nice to see you too Mira." Dan replied and then quickly warned me to not worry as she was only an old friend.
I wasn't threatened by her show of affection as I understood that it had been a long time since they last saw each other so I wasn't necessarily bothered. Maybe…
Not much to say except sadly my summer break is over and life happened with house work attached. Anyway I hope you all are enjoying your summer.