(A/N: Hi everybody I'm still alive but Cynder and Luna are still pissed off which is why they have hooked to a fishing line ten feet in the air…with a lot fangirls waiting for me to drop. (Looks over to Cynder and Luna) Please I'll do what ever you want.
Cynder: Anything? How about scream a little louder?
GD: please I don't scream I shout.
Luna: (Lets go of line)
GD: Help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! (Pounced on by Fangirls) Start the chapter, Start the Chapter
Blood and SteelChapter 25
Waiting at the docks Spyro and Fury were sitting on the edge of the railing waiting for the others to arrive while King swam in circles in the water under the two brothers. Waiting a few minutes in comfortable silence the two had fell asleep leaning their backs to one another as everything was silent around the two except for the sound of moving water from the ocean currents being sent against the boat they were on. After an hour or so of their peaceful sleep, King rocketed out of the water and landed right beside the two dragons who still sleep and began to slither his head up into Fury's lap letting out a hiss before closing his eyes.
After a while of blissful sleep the sound of three pairs of feet walking on the boats upper deck woke the serpent up and made him look to see it was Lora, Kushina, and Felicia walking onto the boat into a deep conversation. King slithered over to Kushina sense he was more familiar with her and hissed to get her attention as Lora having seen King for the first time in her life yelped and jumped onto Felicia's shoulders and sat on top of them looking at the serpent that was right next to Kushina hissing in satisfaction as she ran her hand over his head.
"Don't worry King's nice to be around but don't let your guard down if you have food in your hand." Kushina said before turning her head toward the brothers who sleeping leaning against each other, breathing at the same time, "What are they doing?"
"Sync sleeping." Kurama answered from on top of a sail, before dropping down to the boat landing lightly on his feet in front of them, "They all ways do that to keep in sync with each other in tough situations."
"That actually works with those two, last time I checked they leved the courtyard into a wasteland." Lora said.
"Trust me when I say this if you think those two against each other is scary that will look like a tack when they fight together." Kurama said deadly serious remembering what they did to some bandit apes that took both of their swords, and when they found the apes Fury and Spyro literally ripped them apart while he and the others watched. The last ape they saw holding their ninjatas they each took a leg and pulled the ape in half…by his legs.
Seeing Kurama shuddering Felicia asked if he was okay as he replied he was fine. After a while of waiting they saw Shade, Raven, and Rastaban walking up to the boat holding their weapons and respective instruments bringing it onboard the ship. Lora seeing Raven walk on to the boat with a black guitar with a blood red wolf painted on it in his hands. As the others went and put the instruments in their respective rooms Raven went to a barrel and sat down on top of it and tuned the guitar to his liking. Lora then went up to the wolf and sat down next to him as she sat next to him as he finished tuning it.
"Raven, I didn't know you played the guitar?" She said as her eyes scanned the beautifully made design of it, truly a work of art in her eyes.
"Yeah, it became one of my favorite pastime things to do over the years." Raven said as he got in a comfortable position, "Now lets see if I can still play it and hope I didn't get rusty, because I haven't played it in a year."
(Bear Calvary/Skrillex –Scary monsters and nice sprites)
As Raven played the song Lora was amazed at how well he played as he seemingly played the song as if it hada special meaning to it. As he played he caught the attention of some of the sailors as they seemed to be mesmerized by the Raven as he played the guitar putting his heart and soul into it as everyone listened to the wolf. He even had King swaying to the song the way a cobra sways to a flute as he listened Raven play. While this happened the rest arrived just in time for to hear Raven play, while Spyro and Fury woke up at the same time hearing him play the guitar.
After he put the guitar down everyone clapped at the performance Raven had did making the wolf smile in satisfaction, "yep, I still got."
"Damn dude that was awesome." Shade said as he wrapped his arm around Raven's shoulders and pulled him into a headlock ruffling the fur on his head.
"Thanks man, I've been practicing a few years ago." Raven said getting out of Shade's headlock.
Hunter then came along side the two with his modified bow strapped to his back with a four duffle bags two in each hand. Before they said anything they noticed Hunter had changed his outfit from the robe he always wore to more fashionable ones that Felicia did not minding feasting her eyes upon. Hunter wore some dark blue jeans with what seems to be a three claw marks stitched in a brown color on his left thigh near his pocket. Next, was a tan yellow shirt with claw marks on his ribs that were black and three claw marks on his shoulders with a necklace that had three sharp teeth from an animal Hunter had killed with the largest fang in the middle with the shortest on each side. Finally, if Hunter turned around one could see what looked like a moon on his upper back with two words above it "Hunt well".
Seeing his choice of clothing Flame raised an eyebrow at the cheetah in his new attire, "So finally out of the robes huh?"
"If I had to say that would be an improvement on his part." Felicia said walking around Hunter before wrapping her arms around his shoulder making him raise an eyebrow at her sudden forwardness.
"Thanks…I'm glad to see you approve." Hunter said casting her a smile while fiddling with the necklace on his neck a little before putting his hand inside his pocket, "Well, is everyone here?" Hunter asked receiving a nod from Flame.
Confirming that everyone was here Hunter went off to tell the captain they were ready. The captain that was an old cheetah with dull blue eyes started throwing orders around the ship setting the sailors into motion. While this happened Spyro and Fury woke up at the same time to see that they were leaving the docks, freaking the others out on how they woke up at the same time. Paying them no mind the brothers hopped down from the railing onto the floorboard heading for their separate rooms. With King following behind them seeing them move from the corner of his eye, slithering after them just in time to slip through the door.
As the three made their way through the halls Spyro noticed something to his right to see Rastaban holding on to something in his hand. Looking closer it looked like an amulet with a red jewel that could be worth a lot of money but, looking at the dragon holding it a brief flash of regret shown through his eyes not even noticing the brothers and King looking at him through the open door. Deciding to leave Rastaban alone they continued on to their rooms while King slithered inside of the dragons room and onto his bed and coiled around his waist under his arms. Jumping at the sudden contact from the snake Rastaban turned his head to the right to see King looking at him with curiosity before turning his head to the necklace in his Rastaban's hand. As the serpent went forward and examined the jewel King nudged it with his nose before quickly losing interest in it before turning back toward the brown dragon. Setting the necklace down on top of the desk beside the bed Rastaban rubbed King's head softly as the sea serpent nuzzled his head into the dragons hand.
Seeing this brought a smile to his face as the snake hissed in satisfaction looking outside the window Rastaban saw the moon in all its glory shine in the sky with a halo around it. With that being the last thing he saw Rastaban laid down after King uncoiled himself from around his waist before coiling up on the foot of the bed.
(The next morning)
Having woken up due to a stray sunray shining through the window into his face, Rastaban opened his eyes. Feeling some weight on his chest Rastaban looked down to see King had his head laid on top of his chest waking up a little groggy. As the serpent yawned showing off his fangs before slithering off the bed towards the closed door waiting for Rastaban to open it while he stood up and popped his joints back into place. Walking over to the door, Rastaban opened it to find Leiks standing there with her hand raised in a knocking position only to bring it down to her side.
"Morning Leiks, slept well?" Rastaban asked cracking his neck to the side.
"Yeah it was nice I just came to get you up its one in the evening." Leiks said with a tilt of her head, "Are you ok, usually you and the guys are mostly the ones to wake up early then anyone." her voice lacing with concern.
"Well I geuss I stayed up a little later than I thought." Rastaban said with an "oh well" shrug.
As they made their way to the deck Rastaban, Leiks and King made it to the door putting his hand around the knob of the door Rastaban heard the sound of steel clashing against steel outside. Opening the door Rastaban saw a bunch of dogs wearing pirate uniforms ransacking the place. Unsheathing his blades Rastaban and Leiks followed by King who was hissing showing off his fangs as they charged into the fight. Seeing some sailors cornered by ten of the pirates, Rastaban and Leiks set to work cutting them down as he cut two of them separating their body from the waist. Seeing the two fall to the ground while their legs kept them up, Leiks took advantage of the pirates shock to use her hook swords and hack one of the pirates leg off and spin bring her other sword to cut part of the pirates head off, before bringing her other sword in a stabbing motion into the others heart ending both of their lives.
Thinking the last ape could take them out he raised his sword preparing to strike Rastaban down, King pounced on the pirate coiling around him and bit into his neck making him drop the sword in surprise before he was crushed by the sea serpent as every bone in his body began to pop from the weight King exerted into crushing the pirate. When King was sure the pirate was dead he released the mangled corpse to reveal blood that came out of his ears, eyes, and mouth with a few bones poking out of his skin. Looking around they saw that the pirates were using the sailors as hostages holding their swords against all of there throats.
"Drop yer weapons or we end their lives." One of the pirates said pressing the blade harder against a sailor's throat drawing a little blood.
"Damn cowards!" Shade said as he begrudgingly took off his gauntlets and dropped them on the ground.
"Well life ain't fair boy." The same pirate laughed as he watched the all of them drop their weapons on the ground, "Now turn around."
Looking at each other everyone turned around but Rastaban, as he looked the pirate in the eye, " Before I turn around you can take us but leave everyone else alone they have nothing to do with this." Rastaban said trying to be reasonable with the pirate who looked him in the eye.
"Ok but turn around before I change my mind." The pirate said looking at Rastaban with slight annoyance, "You'll be fine entertainment in the arena." As the pirate said this, a ship ten times the size of the one on the one they're riding on descended from the sky before everyone was hit in the back of the head knocking them out.
(An hour later)
Waking up with a groan Rastaban opened his eyes to see King in his face with a sad look in his eyes before they turned into joy as the serpent went about licking Rastaban's face.
Gently pushing the sea serpent away from his face before patting King on the head. Checking himself he bit back a curse to find that they took all of his hidden weapons off of him. Looking around he saw a prison door in front of him with one medium sized dog standing in front of it facing him with a mocking grin on his face looking at Rastaban.
"Hey fellas, sleeping beauty's awake." Said the mutt before laughing at him as other snorted at the comment before going on about their business.
Narrowing his eyes at the pirate in front of him, "When we make our escape, I'm going to enjoy snapping your neck from those shoulders of yours." Rastaban said with a growl.
"I like to see you try rusty." The ape said before walking off.
Seeing the mutt walk off Rastaban looked around and noticed their was a lot more people here than just him and the others. In this cell was at least fifteen different species of people in there from foxes to moles also seeing a few kids inside the cell with him trying to find comfort with their parents. Seeing Kurama leaning against a wall with Kushina tending to a cut over his right eye that begun to heal with a sizzling sound making everyone turn their heads to the kitsune in fascination as the cut fully sealed up.
"Glad to see you're finally awake Rastaban." Kurama said when the dragon was in range.
"Good to see you to plushy." Rastaban said jokingly before looking around, "Where are we anyway?"
"One of the prisoner said this was some guy named Skabb ship, they say he would capture people and put them inside the arena and watch them fight to the death for his amusement." Kushina said with a hint of disgust for the place already.
Before they could continue Spyro and Fury who were chained together by their wrist were thrown into the cell after they had took the chains before shutting the door quickly and walked off. Going over to help the brothers up they noticed a bruise around Furies shirt had been torn off at the waist along with a bruise on his stomach and back. Spyro who was perfectly fine was worried about his brother as he helped set him down on a bench.
"What happened to Fury?" Kurama asked catching the attention of Cynder and Luna with worried looks on their face.
"A Scorpion that's what." Fury said bitterly as they began to tend to his wounds.
"That can shoot cannon balls out of their tails… really fun fighting them notice the sarcasm in my voice when I say that." Spyro said sitting down beside his brother.
"Well at least you didn't fight the ripper." Said a cheetah that sat not to far from them.
"And why is that what so bad about fighting him?" Flame said who just joined the others a few seconds ago listening to the cheetah.
"They brought a dragon in two weeks ago, he was a murderer, no a monster, he killed four people in that arena without a regret." The Cheetah said looking them in the eyes as his shown fear, " But one day on his fifth fight they sent him back to the arena, that day none of us in here will never forget it." The cheetah said as he began to shake before he calmed himself down before he continued on, " A minute or two had passed when he left as we waited in this cell to see the outcome of his fate." The cheetah paused trembling a little.
"What happened to him?" Fury said as they waited to hear what happened to the dragon.
"Then we heard the most agonizing scream in our lives go through out the ship, we thought it was the person he was fighting, but we were wrong when we realized it was his screams of agony coming from the arena as the seconds turned to minutes and the minutes turned to hours." The cheetah said shaking like a leaf unable to hide his fear, " He screamed for five hours straight nonstop, as time went by he screamed louder and louder, before long it just suddenly stopped." He said trembling with a shaking hand running over his face trying to calm himself down, " Instead of bringing us peace the silence only brought more tension than peace of mind, fifteen minutes later we hear five pirates coming down the hall looking like they've seen death itself, everyone of them carried a bucket, when they reached this cell…one of them stumbled on a loose piece of wood before he caught him self…something fell out of the bucket and everything just went silent, for the object on the floor was the hand of the same dragon that went out there just ripped apart no sword wound…it looked like someone literally ripped the dragon apart piece by little piece." The cheetah said as he closed his eyes trying to forget the gruesome sight.
"Hey shut up will ya, I'm trying to eat here." Said a pirate who over heard the conversation while eating some bread, "and you are having a meeting with the ripper." The dog said pointing towards Rastaban as he continued to eat the bread.
"Well I'll be meeting him sooner than I thought." Rastaban said before he looked over at the others with a grim smirk on his face, "Lets go meet mister ripper." Rastaban said as the pirates came to escort him toward the arena.
Before the brown dragon could take a step Leiks grabbed him by the shoulders, turned him around before giving him the most passionate kiss he had ever experienced in his life before she broke it and said four words he heard loud and clear, "Come back to me."
Looking her in the eyes Rastaban smiled before he pecked her on the cheek before he replied, "I always do." Before he left the cell with most of it's occupants looking at him with a look of sympathy. Before he made it to the door the sound of scales brushing against the floorboard caused Rastaban to stop and turn around to see King following him. Letting out a sigh Rastaban kneeled down and placed a hand on top of Kings head, "Sorry buddy you can't follow me this time." Rastaban said making the serpent hiss with disapproval, "Look after the others for me okay and I'll be back and that's a promise." He said standing up and walking out the cell doors.
"You done with yer sappy moments yet you making me sick." One of the pirates said before he received a glare from the earth dragon making him shut up the rest of the way.
Coming up on a huge gate Rastaban and the pirates waited for a minute before he heard some fancy sounding prick introduce him as an newcomer before being pushed forward into a large arena. Looking around the arena he noticed cannons placed into the walls with a pit between him and wall filled with spikes at the bottom. After taking this in Rastaban looked above the wall to his right to see the captain, wincing as he did before muttering, "you are one ugly mother fucker."
Standing there was the biggest dog there about nine or ten feet tall with a sword on his hip and gold hook where his right hand should be. Looking down he could see a golden turret replacing the foot also on the right side as well. He also wore a red shirt with a strap leading behind his back to a huge treasure chest, between two golden pads that protected his shoulders. Lastly looking at his face having a scar that went across his face, and his left eye being disturbingly larger than the other. Seeing his tongue hanging out of his mouth almost as long as the beard tied into three ponytails.
"Now get ready for a world of pain fool cause its going to be body parts scattered all over the place…mostly yours so kiss this world goodbye." Said what looked to be a purple parrot with a voice that slightly made Rastaban want to go up there and snatch his beak off.
Before Rastaban could say a British voice had spoke in the arena that came from the orange parrot sitting on Skabb's shoulder, "My fellow Skavengers, it is time we brought out the snake from hell itself, the embodiment of fear, the last thing you see before you die…" as the parrot said this a gate to Rastaban's right opened up that revealed nothing but yellow and red hellfire eyes that seemed to glow in the dark with narrowed slits of death, "The Ripper." The parrot finished as a humanoid snake as tall as Rastaban with his scales being camouflage giving him the advantage of surprise on his side, having the head of a python with what looks to be a birth mark over his right eye that was somewhat unusually red in the form of a snake coiled around a crown.
"Ancestors do those parrots every shut up?" Said a hauntingly familiar voice Rastaban hasn't heard six years.
"Vex, is that you?" Rastaban asked in curiosity causing the python like saurian to look at him curiously.
"Depends on who's asking." Vex said raising an eyebrow towards Rastaban.
"It's me Rastaban." Rastaban said taking off the mask showing the snake like saurian his face, "Oh and I still have your amulet you gave to me…until we crossed paths again, so in other words." Rastaban then threw the amulet toward Vex who caught it and examined it looking for the same crest that was above his eye. "I always keep my word."
Seeing the crest on the back of the amulet Vex looked up and smiled at his old friend, "It's a good thing you do to, otherwise I would have kicked your ass for losing this." Vex said walking toward the dragon before patting him on the back.
As the crowd of pirates saw this they all started yelling in disapproval at them not tearing each other apart, only for Vex to flick them off with a smirk on his face as Rastaban chuckled at the sight of it. Scratch having seen enough of the two being all "buddy buddy" with each other, yelled down at the two, "Hey, this aint no time to be having a tea party ya fool, now quick hugging and get to killing." Scratch yelled erratically only for the two of them to cross their arms and look the purple parrot in the eyes in defiance.
Seeing that the two were not going to do anything Sniff quickly put something together in his head before setting it into action, "So it seems that our combatants won't fight each other." Sniff said amongst the Skavengers bringing the crowds attention to the purple parrot, " Then lets see how they fair against the hive." Sniff said motioning to a gate behind the two.
Vex and Rastaban turned around to see a gate hearing the sound of hissing as the gate opened. Getting into their fighting stance ready for whatever monstrosity that lies within the darkness. After a few seconds of silence something came out of the darkness slow but steady. When they both got a good look at the thing while it looked around the arena. It had no eyes on its face or a nose. The only thing it did have was a mouth full of razor sharp teeth for them to see, as it had no lips to hide them from the world. It had blackish purple skin that seemed to shine in the sunlight, and looking at its arms they saw what seemed to be little spikes laying flat on its arms. Following the arm all the way down to its hands the saw three long and deadly claws the size of a dagger meant for tearing its victim apart. As if seemingly looking toward the two the things spikes on its arm stood up and began shaking rapidly while it hissed at them hungrily. After a few seconds later nine more came out of the gate also hissing at the two ready to eat.
"Hey, Vex are these things poisonous?" Rastaban asked looking at some saliva drop from one of their mouths.
"Nope." Was all Vex said before continuing "But I am."
No sooner had he said that the eyeless creatures began to charge shrieking as they went. While Rastaban and Vex prepared them selves for the fight for their lives again in their overly violent life. As soon as the first one was able to reach them Vex dished out a kick to the face knocking a few of its teeth loose as it stumbled back before shrieking angrily at the saurian before it started slashing it's claws at Vex. While that was happening Rastaban elbowed one in the chest while it was charging at the earth dragon ready to tear him apart, but from the force of the elbow Rastaban had caved in a few of its ribs into vital organs as it fell on its back, letting out a weak shriek before it died half way through the shriek. Vex being fed up with his, he grabbed its wrist before ripping its hand off and stabbing it in the face with its own claws causing some blood to spurt out on his hand and arm before ripping it out. Seeing this the rest of the hissing monsters began to slowly circle around the two fighters looking for an opening to attack.
"Well my old man had a saying for a situation like this." Vex said watching the shriekers
that surrounded them.
"Yeah, what that might be?" Rastaban said tensing his muscles ready to spring into action.
"Its time to let it rip." Vex yelled out springing forward at the same time Rastaban did.
Catching a shrieker off guard Vex ripped off a claw from the ripped off hand in his before taking that claw and stabbing it in the throat and twisted until he heard a loud popping sound knowing he killed the thing from internal decapitation. Letting the body drop to the ground a shrieker lunged at him from the side and swung a clawed hand aiming for his head only for Vex to duck under the swipe and uppercut it in the chin before grabbing a hold of it by its shoulders to spin the shrieker around switching places with so he wouldn't be on the receiving end of claws to the back by its own brethren. As the saurian was going to strike down the Shrieker struggling to get the body off of its arms seemingly stuck, another shrieker had tackled him to the ground catching him off guard.
Quickly reacting the only way he knew how by positioning his feet to its stomach and kicking it off sending it flying in the same direction and into the pit as the sound of blades piercing flesh followed shortly after. As Vex stood up he was met with two claws digging in to his shoulders before grabbing its mouth ready to eat his face off. Feeling its teeth dig into the palm of his hand and the sound of Skavengers cheering in satisfaction of seeing mindless bloodshed. Seeing his blood drip into the shrieker's mouth made it push a little harder ready to taste more of his blood. As Vex saw this he began to push back with more strength than before and looked at the shrieker.
"Say ah for me." Vex said as he grabbed the shrieker's bottom jaw with his other hand
and began to forcefully open its mouth wider and wider until it couldn't open any wider. As everyone in the arena including Rastaban, who killed his half of the shriekers with a fury, painfully watched as the shrieker's head was slowly being ripped off from the jaw.
As the entire arena watched Vex finally ended the shriekers misery ripping its head off at the jaw letting blood splash in his face as he threw the head away before taking the claws out of his shoulders letting the body drop like a sack of potatoes.
After witnessing the brutal display of violence Rastaban grabbed Vex by the shoulders and began to leave the arena and it's occupants in stunned silence as the gate opened letting them through. While the saurian and the dragon walked toward the cell with some of the skavengers following them from a distance, escorting the blood covered gladiators towards their cells but, upon seeing Vex walk pass his cell they decided to let it be as they did not want their heads ripped off. They walked made it to their intended cell the skavenger at the cell doors shakily but hurriedly opened the door letting the two walk in keeping his eye on the both of them.
As the cell door closed Vex and Rastaban were met with stares from everyone within the room as everyone just stood their in awkward silence until Leiks walked up to the to Rastaban and asked, "Rastaban are you okay and who's this?"
"Yeah we're fine just a few scratches here and there." Rastaban said with a smile.
"Okay but still who is he, did he help you defeat the ripper?" Leiks asked looking over at the saurian as he began to laugh.
"Yeah…about that…" Rastaban said before Vex interrupted him.
"I'm the ripper!" Vex said causing everyone in the cell to stiffen, while the cheetah that told the story about him fainted instantly. Seeing that happen Vex began to laugh uncontrollably on the floor.
While Spyro face palmed and muttered, " This is going to be a long week."
(A/N: Hi every body this is Kurama GD a little preoccupied (Looks over to GD in fetal position in a corner)
GD: I f-feel s-so violated. (Shake uncontrollably)
Fury: thank god we got to him in time.
Spyro: yeah man they already had his shirt and pants off.
Vex: Well GD wanted to let you know hope you enjoyed the chapter… Now lets get him to the hospital I think he's traumatized.