Chapter 3 – a new management and betrayal
Im just trying to give the Marioverse dragons some love and also hope anyone of the fandom could do a story about them. But now here is a trajedy were Giggadon's life changes forever.
In the past few months, inside the training room of Giggadon's house. Giggadon is practicing sword fighting with father. It is one of the many things Giggadon's father would try to prepare him to be the next Harbinger. The father and son routinely clashed with their wooden swords until the older drake jumps back.
"Alright son, I want you to strike me with a flourish attack!" Giggadon's father commanded.
Giggadon than makes one big leap so hard Giggadon's father's sword flew off. Giggadon looks at his hand while little Giggadon is trying to catch his breath. Giggadon's father looks at his son and boasts.
"Hahaha, good strike son! Another step in your training!"
"(Pant) that's (pant) good dad.)" Giggadon is too tired to make a proper comment.
The bigger dragon spits some fire embers to the nearby bigger torches making the training room light up even more. The training room is a large square sized dojo with a mat as the floor. On the walls are various skulls, replica weapons, and the torches.
Giggadon's father kneels down with one knee, puts his hand on the panting Giggadon. As he looks at him, he thinks about what to say to him. Should I say something? The old drake thought until knocking from upstairs can be heard.
Giggadon's father commends Giggadon to his room and rest so he could head to the front door to know who is knocking. Opening the door, reveals to be the city leader Thunker who has a nervous look on his face. "Thunker! Is something wrong?" Giggadon asks. "I got news that Bowsire has passed away!" The elder's tone in his voice is filled with worry. The Harbinger does not know why he is so nervous until if hit him.
(Half an Hour earlier)
Around the main area of the Koopa kingdom, crowds of koopas of all sizes are gathered in the castle town to await their new king. The castle town is a cluster of midlevel dark buildings with lots of statutes of members of the koopa clan. The main attraction of the city is the large castle itself which now has a bowser head instead of Bowsire's.
From the castle gates, the Koopa army of all kinds marches out in a parade to gather in front of the crowd. Behind them, a large podium is set up with all the koopa nobles who look like they had been breeding with dragons sat in their respected seats. In between them is the young bowser himself.
Even though he is now king, he had a bit of a gloomy face. It was not long that his father passed. In his heart he wants to be the baddest king as he could be. Next to him is his loyal caretaker and trusted servant, Kamek the magikoopa.
Kamek had always served the koopa clan since his younger years. First he had trained Bowsire but not he is training the new successor, Bowser. He looks at the now King Bowser and nods making Bowser announce his speech.
"Koopa pack! Today I am here to announce that I am your new king of the kingdom!"
The crowd went wild and among the crowd is a messenger dragon keeping watch. The crowd's cheer dies down allowing Bowser to finish.
"As your new king, I'm going to make a lot of big changes which will allow us to conquer the entire world! To do that first we must get rid of a cluster of parasites who have been leeching us for years! I'm talking about of course are those stupid dragons from DragoHeim!"
"But didn't we make a treaty with the…GAAAAAAAAAAH" someone from the crowed tried to protest but he is cut off by Bowser's fire ball breath. The crowd are shocked at the sudden move. "Any other objections?" Bowser squints his eyes with a hushed angry tone in his voice. The crowd stay silent making the new king smile.
"My first demand is to destroy those pesky lizards out of here! So we don't have to baby sit them anymore! We march to Dragoheim TONIGHT!"
The crowd goes wild, getting ready for battle, but the dragon within has a face of horror. "I better warn my kin!" so the dragon flies away without anyone seeing.
(Present time)
Back in Dragonehim, the Harbringer's residence, Thunker is just finishing up what the messenger told him to the Harbinger. "And that is what our messenger had told me. Bowser has become the new king and are going to attack us tonight!" The harbinger gets furious, jumping out of his chair. "Unbelievable! How and why would that brat want to destroy us!?"
"I don't know, but we have to evacuate IMMEDITLLY!" Thunkar Exclaimes.
The Harbringer sat back down on the chair. He disagrees on the elder about the evacualtion due to being cowardly by nature and he is no coward. "With all due respect elder, I say we gather all our warriors and prepare for battle. We have fled long enough."
"WHAT! But what about those who can't fight!?" Thunkar attempts to reason until a pair of doors opens with a Guard.
"ELDER, HARBRINGER, THEY ARE HERE! THE KOOPAS!"
The Harbringer and Thunker got up by the dire news. Thunkar decides to go with the guard while the harbringer stays behind. Behind him his wife the fire dragoness came up looking fearful. "We are going to be attacked are we?" The harbringer closes his eyes, than he faces his mate. "I'm afraid so, where is Giggadon?" He asks worried. His mates tells him that he is in his room so he goes there quickly.
Giggadon, who is resting a bit from the training snaps up due to his father barging into his bedroom. "Son! Come with me!" the old dragon demands. "Father? What is going on you sound mad?" Giggadon starts to look a bit scared which is not normal for him as he isn't supposed to be scared. "no time, theres something important I have to show you." The Harbringer takes Giggadon by the hand and drags him back to the Dojo.
Back at the Dojo, the Harbringer lets go of Giggadon ordering him to stay to approach the wall with a dragon skull. He pulls a switch on the horn than suddenly a door opens. Once the door opens the Harbringer takes a torch and gesture Giggadon with his shoulder to follow.
Turns out it is a secret passage to a basement. The Basement hall is dark but The harbringer with a torch on his hand lit up the nearby Candles. Towards the end of the hall, is a pedestal. On the pedestal is a big black metal dragon skull with two horns in between stretches long and a middle horn extends like a grip. The harbringer grabs it by the middle making the eyes of the skull glow. With one flick energy came out of the mouth of the skull revealing a large red blade in its place shape like a pile of file as it the skull breathing fire.
"COOOOOOL" is all Giggadon could say until his father somehow makes the blade disappear to give it to his son. "Son this sword has been with our family since the fall of the mighty Draconia empire. This sword was wielded by all the dragonlords themselves."
"WOW" Giggadon stares at the relic hilt with glee until he shakes his head, facing his father. "Wait a minute but whats going on and why are you giving it to me now?"
With a big sighing breath the Harbringer takes his son outside all the way to a large crowd of dragons waiting by the gates. Once the trio are on top of the main gates, Giggadon could just stare in horror at a large army of Koopas.
The army of Koopas consisted of the ground troop on the ground as pairs of large airships hover about getting canons ready. Among the troop a large Koopa in heavy armor takes out his bugle horn "Dragons of Dragonheim! Your by orders of the new king Bowser, your welcome here has come to an end! Prepare to face execution!."
Giggadon looks at his father in disbelief "Those jerks! I thought we had an agreement with them!?" The harbringer looks down to the young drake with a stern look "this is what you are going to do. While im fighting with the army, I need you to go some others out of here if anything happens to me or your mother head to a land now called the ruined Kingdom, there you must find a dragon called the lord of lighting, he will know ?" Giggadon nods yes than heads straight to the crowd.
Once the Harbringer, his mate, Thunkar and his fellow warriors gather, the Koopa army than starts the barrage of canons from the airships along with bombs from the portable canons destroying the cluster of buildings of Dragoheim.
"TO ARMS!" The harbringer shouts followed by the other defenders. While they fight the non-fighting dragons evacuates out of the city With Giggadon in toe. From a distance Giggadon could see his father fight the army until he got overwhelmed by a large dragon-koopa warrior in heavy metal armor is about to crush him. Out of nowhere the Harbringers mate charges in to save him but only to be crushed by the koopa than the Harbringer.
"MOM, DAD!" was all Giggadon could shout until an avalance starts to come down making the fleeing dragons fly off heading to somewhere unknown as Giggadon helpessly gets caught in.
During the battle, the Dragon defenders are starting to get overwhelmed themselves as the harbringer mortally wounded caressing his dead mate in tears. He looks up to see the koopa army pass him and other corpse enter the city to destroy it. Years of preserving a safe sanctuary for dragons is now all but lost as the canons from the ships starts to pour bombs. With one last tear, the Harbringer falls dead along with his mate.