Me: Here's another chapter for the story, this one has a little history in it to help understand what happened

Ryuu: Oh great, something of me to study.

me: i know, i hate studying more than anything

Ryuu: Me too man, me too.

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Chapter 53: Steera's Tomb

Ryuu and the gang continued to descend down the stairs deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Temple. "How long does this go on?" Ryuu asked. "Don't know, I've never been down here" Reignor said. "Hmm…" Ryuu hummed. "Easy Ryuu, you still need to recover" Darla told him. "Alright mom" Ryuu said sarcastically. Just when Darla was about to say something, Hera stopped her. "Hon, let it go" she said.

Darla sighed and managed to calm down. "Look!" Wagner pointed ahead of them. Before the group was a large door, it was dull brown with age but the shapes of two dragons could be made out. 'Present the emblem of Kings and you may proceed' a voice said in their heads. "Emblem of kings?" Wagner asked. "I think it means this" Ryuu said and lifted his dragon arm in front of the doors. The symbol on his palm began to glow bright gold and the doors opened.

'You…you are the great-grandson of Draco…proceed' the voice said. "Alright, let's go" Ryuu said. The gang proceeded into the tomb; they looked and saw murals of past kings from days of old. Ryuu then spotted three murals that caught his eye. One mural looked to be about a man wielding a two-handed sword that had dragon scales on it, not to mention it looked like it had a dragon's eye in a jewel. The man was charging into a group of demons, one of the demons Ryuu recognized as Lucifer, the dark god.

The next mural looked like Dracovia under siege by the Fallen Ones with a pair of red eyes above them and three men below the eyes. Ryuu couldn't get a clear image of them due to the mural was blurry there, but the last one was what got Ryuu's attention. The mural was of a teenager wielding the same sword from the first mural fighting off against a black dragon wielding a sword made of flesh and bone and metal with a demon eye in the middle of the sword.

The landscape behind the teen was a lush and bright land while the one behind the black dragon was a desolate, burning landscape (kind of like the Burning Lands from DOTD). "Ryuu, come on" Reignor called. Ryuu turned and followed them, now being able to walk properly once he felt better. They soon reached another room; this one had a pedestal and the statue of a dragon's head above it.

The pedestal had a sword much like King on it…actually; it looked just identical to King, with the scales and everything. "That must be Steera" Ryuu muttered. 'Correct, long ago, after Laetus, the Supreme Dragon King, had defeated Lucifer, he and GOD split the sword in two, Steera was the sword he kept, while King has reverted into a regular sword, and the amulet, which was the key to bringing King back, was hidden as well. Laetus gave up his god-hood for a mortal woman of great beauty; he kept Steera and hid King away. Draco inherited Steera and gave Sedro the King sword as his rite of passage, before he died, Draco hid Steera away until someone of his blood was worthy to reclaim it.' The voice said.

'Now, with the fallen iri (Fallen Ones) returned, we ask of you, son of king, take this sword, and help us in the last great God War of the century' the voice said to Ryuu. "Wait, Last great God War?" Ryuu asked with confusion. 'You may not know this, but Xervan is taking orders from someone higher than him, the mural you saw was of the events that happened, the events that are already happening, and the events yet to come. You must stop Xervan's master from starting another God War' the voice said.

Ryuu walked up to the pedestal and looked at the sword before him. He slowly moved his hand to the sword and gripped the handle. He lifted the sword up, it felt rather light, much like King. He twirled it with the tips of his fingers then switched it to his left hand. He then began to perform complex sword strikes he had learned from his training with his dad, uncle, grandfather, and anyone who taught him.

"Now, this is a sword" Ryuu grinned as he held Steera to the light. 'Impressive, truly you are the son of King' the voice said. "Now, all we need is King" Wagner said. "Yeah, come on, let's head back up" Reignor stated. Ryuu sheathed Steera onto his back and the group walked out of the tomb and into the sun shine. "Ah, I miss the sunlight" Ryuu said happily. "Sirs! We've been looking all over for you!" one of the Spartan soldiers said as it ran to them. "What happened?" Reignor asked. "After you went into the Tomb, one of the Fallen came here, his name was Xuryu" the Spartan said.

"What?!" they all shouted. "It's true, but he looked badly wounded from a fight and blood was coming from his wounds, we have him treated up as we speak" the Spartan said. "Where?" Ryuu asked. "In the Temple's medical room" the Spartan said. "Dismissed" Reignor ordered. The Spartan saluted Reignor and left. "Come on, we better find out what happened" Reignor said.

The group all nodded and headed to the Temple, Ryuu having a weird feeling creep into his chest for some reason. Almost like he knew what would happen.

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Me: What is this creeping feeling that Ryuu is sensing? And how did Xuryu get to the Temple? Stay tuned for more on T.F.O!

Ryuu: R&R plz!