I'M BACK! Did you miss me? I hope you did. Anyway I want to say that I am really sorry that it took like nearly a full year to update again, but things have been...heavy lately…but none of that matters anymore because I am back and it feels soooo good to write again! Oh, and also I don't own anything, except my OC'S.
NOW LET'S GET ON WITH THE STORY!
"So, we are actually going to do this? Were really going to fight a real life fire-breathing dragon? I don't know whether to nerd out or run for my life."
Vanessa said, a little bit intimidating by the sight of the huge towering dragon flying over their heads. After Connor had finally agreed, albeit reluctantly, to their help, the team had managed to track down the creature's location and were now going to confront it.
"Remember, all you have to do is stop it. Connor will do the rest." Squire said as Ben nodded.
"Got it." He said as Squire walked away.
"Okay, this might get a little intense." Mikey stated as he saw the dragon land before them. "Sabrina, I might need you and Ship to sit this one out for us. But we might need back up, so have Ship ready when we need him."
"Okay, good luck." Sabrina said as she and Ship ran off.
"What's it going to be this time? Humongousaur?" Gwen asked as Ben shook his head.
"Nah, Humongousaur's too close to what I'll be fighting. Got to figure that thing's had a lot more experience being a dragon than I have." Ben said as he activated his Omnitrix.
"Thinking it through, huh?" Gwen asked, a little impressed by her cousin ingenuity. Ben smirked at her, before slamming his hand down on the Omnitrix as he transformed into Chromastone.
"Chromastone!" Ben yelled as the dragon spotted him and spew fire, Ben had manage to successfully blocked his attack, before absorbing it as he blast it back to him.
"Come on, cuz! Time to bring the heat!" Mikey said as he slammed down on his Anamatrix and transformed into Blazepanzee.
"Aw, I was going to say that!" Vanessa retorted as she playfully glared at her cousin, before activating her Zennatrix and transforming into Wildfire.
Mikey smirked at her as he produced fire from his hands and used it to propel himself into the air as he flew after Ben. Vanessa followed in pursuit by ripping a chunk of rock from the ground as she used it to levitate herself off the ground and flew off. Back with Ben we see him still firing at the screeching beast, before stopping as the dragon shook his head and roared, but something in his roar seemed off to the alien hero.
"Weird, but for a second there, I thought you were trying to tell me something."
Ben said as dragon stared at him, before flicking him away with his tail as he shot fire at him. Chromastone grunted as he rolled across the ground, before leaping off as the fire blast flew pass him and scorched the ground. The dragon roared at him as Wildfire flew pass it and shot a fire blast in between his eyes, the dragon roared in pain as it raised his claw and swiped at her, causing Vanessa to make an aerial retreat as Blazepanzee flew passed her and landed on the beast's head.
The dragon roared in annoyance as it reached up to grab Mikey and glared at him, Ben saw this and decided to lend a helping hand as he blasted the dragon's hand. Causing it to let go of Mikey as he started free-falling into the air, but was caught by Vanessa as she sat him down safely and flew off towards the dragon. Wildfire grinned as she raised her hands and charged up her fire to blast the giant dragon, but to her own surprise her flames started changing colors! Vanessa looked at her body in awe as her flames changed from red to green fire in an instant.
"Whoa, I didn't knew I could do this! Now this is what I call fire power!"
Vanessa said as she raised her hands and blasted the creature's chest. To the teen's surprise, the fire had actually managed to deliver some serious damage to the dragon as it roared in pain and kneeled on the ground. Not wasting the opportunity Vanessa gave them, Ben opened fire at the creature and Mikey did the same.
"Nice one, guys!" Kevin cheered as Ship beeped in agreement, before stopping as he sniffed the air cautiously and leaped out of Sabrina arms.
"What's wrong Ship?" Sabrina asked quietly as Ship sniffed the air, before pointing to the right as Sabrina looked up and saw Sir Connor carrying a rather large looking alien gun in his hands.
"Ben's too close to the dragon." Squire whispered to Sir Connor.
"Pity."
He responded shortly as he aimed his gun at the direction of the dragon and pulled the trigger. Ben could only watch in shock/horror as an energy blast appeared out of nowhere and blasted the dragon, but because he and the others were too close to it, they were being blasted as well. Thankfully, because of his absorbing powers, he was only lightly affected by the blast, but the same couldn't be said by the others as immense pain hit them like a freight train.
The pain was too intense for Vanessa to bear as she lost concentration of her flight and crashed down on the ground. Mikey gritted his teeth as he saw Vanessa crashed down and no matter how much he wanted to check on her, the pain was simply too much for him as he face planted on the ground and went unconscious.
"Vanessa, Ben, Mikey, no!" Sabrina screamed as she looked over at Sir Connor and glared at him. "Sick him, boy! Sick him!" She ordered as Ship growled at Sir Connor and leaping into his gun.
"What on earth!?" He exclaimed with a gasp of surprise as his gun was coated by green and black goo, before sparking as it blew up and he was sent crashing on the ground.
"Ship! Ship! Ship!" Ship exclaimed as he pulled himself back together and leaped on his master's arms.
"Good boy, Ship! You saved my sisters life, after this I am going to give you a special treat." Sabrina said as Ship beeped joyfully and licked her face.
"Ugh…well, that smarts." Wildfire said, while getting up from the crater as she saw the dragon glared at Ben, before flying off. "And he got away, perfect." Vanessa said as Ben ran up to her and transformed back to normal.
"You're okay?" Ben asked worriedly as Vanessa smiled at him.
"Yeah." She responded as she rubbed her shoulder. "I'm pretty used to crashing on the ground as Wildfire, so I'm okay. What happened to Mikey?" She asked as Ben gave her a sadden look and pointed at Mikey unconscious body. "MIKEY!" She screamed as she ran over to him and looked him over. "Mikey, are you okay!? Speak to me!" She said as she lightly slapped his cheek to wake him up.
"Is he okay?" Ben asked as Mikey groaned from his unconscious state and turned over.
"Ugh, Mom I don't want to go to school. Is a waste of time and all the teachers hate me." Mikey said sleepily as Vanessa smiled at him and patted his head.
"Yeah, he is okay." Vanessa said as Ben nodded, before walking over to Connor as he glared at him.
"We need to talk." He said venomously as Sir Connor got up from the ground. "You used us."
"It wasn't personal. But if you or your friends get in my way again, it will become so."
He threaten and Ben's only response was turning into Humoungousaur, and slamming Connor and Squire to their car.
"You know where the dragon's headed, don't you?" Humoungousaur asked as Connor, despite his situation, laughed at his face.
"If you're trying to scare us, it's going to take a lot more than a stripling with a fancy wristwatch, right?" He asked to Squire, who nervously nodded.
"Absolutely!" Squire answered back as he timidly looked up to the towering alien. "We taken a sacred oath!" He said as Ben grew up to 60th feet and glared at him. "…6200 Prospect Blvd, where the freeway's meet!"
"What?"
"It's where the dragon's going!"
"Squire!" Connor screamed in anger, but the young lad ignored him.
"The Knight's found a huge relic the same time they caught the dragon. They didn't know what it was or what it did, so they hid it for safekeeping. They sent the relic to our lab to see if it had any technology they could use against the dragon. When it flew across the Atlantic Ocean, we figured it was connected to the relic somehow. And that's all I know, I swear!"
He screamed, while shutting his eyes as Ben transformed back to normal and nodded in satisfaction.
"That's fine, really." Ben said as he got in Kevin's car with the others, while helping Vanessa drag Mikey over to the car as they sped off.
"Wait, I almost forgot! They think the relic is alien, but they haven't figured out what it does yet!" Squire screamed as Connor glared at the direction where the teens went.
"Pathetic."
Vanessa worriedly glanced over to her cousin, who awoken from his unconsciousness as he rested his head on the seat and sighed deeply.
"Ugh, what hit me?"
"An energy blast from an arrogant asshole with a gun." Vanessa answered bluntly. "Connor betrayed us and tried to kill the dragon, along with us, but luckily Ship saved us." She said as Mikey glanced over to Ship and petted his head.
"Well, thanks for saving my life little dude." Mikey said as Ship beamed at him and licked his face, much to his discomfort. "Ugh, gross! Cut it out!" He said as the girls giggled at him.
"I'm telling you, when it roared it, there was a pattern." He said talking this friends as Vanessa and Mikey gave him their full attention. "And something else, that wasn't fire coming out of his mouth, it was more like a laser." Ben said as Kevin scoffed at him.
"So, you're saying the dragon was trying to talk to you? No way." He said as Vanessa shrugged.
"Hey, weirder things happen. I mean, me and the boys can transform into aliens. Gwen is part-alien, you can absorb metal and my sister has an alien pet that can take over technology." She said as Ship beeped in agreement. "Besides, I heard it talk as well."
"Me two." Mikey said.
"Ditto." Gwen said, before turning to Ben. "See what happens when you listen, Ben, and think?" She said as Ben smiled at her.
"Okay, even if it was talking, what would it be saying? I'm going to chew up like bubblegum."
"I got a theory, pull over." Ben said as Kevin pulled over the car, before parking it as everybody got out. The team walked over to the trunk as Ben opened it and pulled out an alien device.
"I knew I'd seen one of these before. What is it?" He asked as he studied the device.
"Galvan Universal Translator, it translates any language into any other in real time. Pretty common alien tech."
"The dragon had something like this around it's neck, but it looked busted."
"Then all we have to do is replace the broken one with this one."
"That's all, huh?" Kevin asked as he and the others jumped back in the car and drove off.
After a few hours of driving in the desert, the gang had finally managed to find the warehouse, where the dragon was hiding. After everybody got out of the car, Ben swiftly activated his watch and turned into Spidermonkey.
"Spidermonkey!" He screamed as he ran up to Gwen and snatched the G.U.T. (Galvan Universal Translator) from her hands, before climbing up the roof.
"Ben, wait for me!"
Vanessa yelled as she activated her Zennatrix and transformed into Hellbound.
"Hellbound!" She roared as she leaped up to the wall of the warehouse and swiftly climbed up to the roof.
"Guys, wait for us! Ugh! Does two are too much alike!" Gwen groaned in frustration as Mikey chuckled.
"Yep, that's my cousin. Ever the reckless one."
He said as we cue back over to Vanessa, who had managed to land on the roof as she stayed still and used her enhanced senses to try and locate her boyfriend. After getting a lock on her boyfriend's scent, she followed it and found Spidermonkey dangling on a spider web with a pissed of dragon in front of him.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy does it. I'm trying to help."
He said as the dragon grunted and shot a laser at him. Luckily Hellbound's enhanced reflexes came in handy as Vanessa leaped towards Ben and managed to narrowly push him out of the way of the fire. Both shape-shifters grunted from the harsh landing as Spidermonkey rubbed his head and gave his girlfriend a thumbs up.
"Thanks for the save babe."
"Do something stupid like that again and I won't be your babe." She said sternly as Ben gave her a sheepish look, before getting a panicked look on his face as he looked down at his empty hands.
"Oh, no! The G.U.T.!"
He exclaimed as he turned around and saw the device laying a few feet across from him, just as the dragon shot a laser blast at it. Thankfully, the gang had managed to catch up to them as Gwen raised her hands and protected the G.U.T with her magic.
"Nice, save!" He cheered as he used his webs to catch the device into his hands. "Vanessa, I'm going to need you to throw me at that dragon. The rest of you cover her."
He ordered as the team nodded and quickly went into action as Kevin grabbed a nearby ceiling beam and absorbed it's metal. He then noiselessly picked it up and threw it at the creature's face, while the attack didn't really hurt the dragon, it certainly did pissed it off as he roared at Kevin and shot another laser blast. Gwen sprung into action as she made a mana shield that not only blocked the dragon's blast, but managed to send it back to it as it hit him square in the chest and made it lost it's balance.
"Quick, Vanessa! While it's distracted!" Ben screamed as Vanessa picked him up with her massive paws and used all of her strength to launch him over to the dragon. Spidermonkey successfully landed on the creature's chest as he replaced the broken G.U.T. with the new one and jumped off as the team waited for something to happen.
"Leave me alone! Leave me alone!" The dragon screamed as the gang couldn't helped but to gaped at the now talking dragon.
"You can talk?" Spidermonkey said in surprise as the dragon looked at him like he was an idiot.
"Of course I can talk. Why wouldn't I be able to talk?" He asked as Ben rubbed his head nervously.
"Well, I-I thought you were a, um..." Ben stammered as the dragon narrowed his eyes at him.
"A what?" He said, while huffing steam at his face.
"A-a monster."
"Yeah, well I thought you were a monkey." He retorted sarcastically.
"Oh, I don't really look like this." He said as Ben slammed his hand on the Omnitrix and turned back to normal. "See?" He asked as Vanessa transformed back to normal, while Kevin powered down.
"Sorry, all mammals look alike to me." He said as he blinked in surprise of Ben's transformation, but shrugged it off.
"I don't know if we should be offended or not." Mikey muttered to Gwen, who shrugged in response.
"It's not just you. Ben sort of does favor a monkey. Smells like one, too." He quipped as Vanessa stifled a giggle under her breath.
"Okay, enough of that." He said as he briefly glared at Vanessa, who smiled cheekily at him in response as he turned back to the dragon. "What do you want?"
"I want my ship back. My tracking signal says it's here."
"Ship?" Ship beeped in confusion from Sabrina's arms as an amused Ben pat his head.
"Not you, Ship. He means an actual spaceship, the one that is probably the relic the Forever Knights have been talking about." Ben explained as the dragon stiffen at the name.
"The Knights? Are you one of the knights?" He said, while stomping his foot on the ground.
"Whoa, there big guy!" Vanessa said, while coming in between Ben and the dragon. "We're not with those assholes, but they did ask us to help catch you."
"Yeah, back when we taught you were a monster." Ben said, throwing his two cents.
"Those 'assholes' as you put it, are the real monsters. They attacked me for no reason right after I landed, broke my translator box, then locked me up in a dungeon like an animal!" He ranted as he lowered his head at Vanessa and stared at her right in the eye. "You sure you're not one of them?"
"Like I told you before, we're are not associated with them." Vanessa said without hesitating as she turned back to Ben. "Isn't that right, Ben?"
"Y-Yeah, of course. Us, being Knight's? No way. We wouldn't be caught dead wearing that armor?"
"But didn't you say you wanted to be a knight earlier-" Sabrina said, before being stopped by Mikey as he placed his hand over her mouth and shushed her. The dragon stared at Ben and the others for a few seconds, before nodding as he looked away.
"Ok, then." He said as he turned to walk away, but Gwen stopped him.
"Wait! Your an alien, right? What were you doing here?"
"I was making an interstellar map. Why else would anyone come to this insignificant rock?"
"You can make maps? That's pretty cool." Sabrina said as Ship beeped in agreement.
"It is."
The dragon said amusedly as he looked down at the awestruck child and couldn't helped to remember his own child that used to look up to him in awe as well. The instant he remembered his family, a dark cloud stormed over his head as he turned his back against the team and started walking.
"Now, if you'll excuse me. I have business to take care off." He said, rather darkly as the team gave each other unease looks.
"You mean finding your ship and then heading home, right?" Gwen asked hopefully as the dragon glared up to the ceiling.
"Oh, I'll be heading home all right. Just as soon as there's not a single Forever Knight's left alive." He said as his eyes glowed yellow and he roared.
"Maybe his translator box is broken again?" Gwen asked as Kevin shook his head.
"Sorry, Gwen. Sometimes roar is a roar."
"Oh, boy. This is not good." Mikey said as Ben ran up to the dragon and tried to reason with it.
"Look, if you think about it, this is all just a really big misunderstanding-"
"MISUNDERSTANDING!?" The dragon roared as Ben took a couple of steps back from the intensity of his roar.
"Uh, okay. Maybe 'misunderstanding' a little too weak."
"A thousand years those Forever Knights stole from me! A thousand years!"
"How long is that in dragon years?" He asked nervously as the dragon gave him a blank look.
"That's a really long time." He said as his face soften a little bit as pools of fond memories flooded his head. "To be away from your home...your family. The baby's probably flying by now." He said softly as Mikey narrowed his eyes at the word family and couldn't help to feel that this dragon is more or less acting like he used to be.
"You know, we really don't owe this mapmaker anything, and we sure down owe anything to the knights." Kevin said as the Cunningham family glanced at him and narrowed their eyes at him as they stalked towards him.
"What are you getting at?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah, Kevin. What are you getting at." Vanessa said with a low tone as Kevin shrugged nonchalantly.
"If we just get it out of here right now, who'd say anything?"
"I would." Ben said firmly as Vanessa walked over to his side and grabbed his hand.
"Me two." She said, while glaring at Kevin.
"Me three." He said, while placing a hand on his cousin's shoulder.
"Ditto." Sabrina said, looking oddly more serious than a child should, as Ship growled lightly.
"Ship!"
Kevin sighed heavily as he looked at everyone in the group, before groaning as he lowered his head in defeat.
"Great." He said, just as an explosion occurred as the team ducked for cover and saw Sir Connor standing outside of the warehouse with some reinforcements and a new gun.
"Great. The trigger happy douchebag is back and with back up." Vanessa muttered, before ducking as Connor shot at them again.
"You guys go out their and tell them this is all a big mis-" He said, before stopping as the dragon glared at him. "Uh, tragedy." He said as the dragon nodded. "I'll work on the dragon."
"Mind if I join in?" Mikey asked as Ben nodded.
"Yeah, sure." He said as the others headed outside to confront Connor, but Vanessa stood back.
"Stay safe." She said as she gave Ben a quick kiss, before turning to Mikey as she gave him a kiss on the cheek. "You too" She said, before running off as the boys nodded to each other. Back with the others we seem them raising their hands in surrender as they walked towards the Knights, who lowered their guns at the sight of the teens.
"Stop! Don't shoot!"
"Trying to save the beast again are you?" Connor said, before lowering his gaze to Ship as wrinkled his nose in disgust. "And I advise to you little girl, if that mutt destroys my gun yet again, I will put it down." He said with a dark tone as Sabrina whimpered in fear and held Ship tighter to her chest.
"Look, its really an alien." Gwen said as Vanessa pulled Sabrina behind her and glared at Connor. "It's just trying to get home."
"No! It's not going to escape us, not this time." He screamed as we cue back over to the boys, who were following the dragon as it found it's ship and took off the tarp covering it.
"Ahh, never looked better." He said as he opened the door and they all went inside. The dragon then placed his hand on the wall and an array of really dangerous looking weapons appeared as he grabbed one.
"Weapons?" Ben asked as the dragon nodded.
"Didn't think I'd need them when I landed, too trusting." He said, while scolding himself as he chuckled bitterly. "Rather, I used to be."
"You don't have to do this."
"I know, but I want too."
"No, you don't. You don't really want to get revenge on the Forever Knights, that's just you're anger talking. What you really want to do is go back to your family and forget this mess ever happen." Mikey said calmly as the dragon huffed at him and checked his gun.
"You don't know what you're talking about, child." He said as Ben snorted.
"Yeah, you're probably right. I mean all we are just dumb kids."
"Yes, you are. Now do yourself a favor and get out of my way." He said as we cue back towards the others, who were still trying to convince the Knights to leave the dragon alone.
"All he was doing was making a map. He wasn't going to hurt anybody." Gwen said as Vanessa nodded.
"Yeah, all he wanted to do was to make a map and go home, but you jumped him and imprisoned him for thousands of years! Just leave the poor guy alone, he suffered enough!"
"He didn't even mean to scare anybody. The whole thing is just kind of ridiculous." Gwen said, trying to lighten the mood, but it didn't work as Connor glared at her and tighten his grip on his gun.
"Ridiculous? I took an Oath passed down through 50 generations. We all did."
"Yeah, but-"
"We live to destroy that dragon, and we will do it right here, before this day is over!"
"I don't think you been listening to me. I am trying to tell you-"
"Heads up!" Kevin screamed as he tackled Gwen to the floor, just as Connor's energy blast flew pass them and hit the wall.
"Okay, buddy. You don't want to talk? Fine." Vanessa said she pulled out her swords and took a fighting stance. "Sabrina, Ship, take cover and safe!"
She screamed as she charged at Connor, but was blocked by one of the Forever Knights as Vanessa smirked and slid between his legs as she then kicked him where the sun don't shine. The Knight covered his crotch in pain and fell to the ground as Vanessa coolly stood up and smirked at the nervous looking group of Forever Knights.
"Now, don't be shy, boys~ There's plenty of ass kicking to go around."
She said with a grin as she raised her swords and charged at them. The Forever Knights tried to retaliate and fight her off, but they were to slow for her as she sliced, punched and kicked them aside like they were ragdolls. Gwen groaned as she stood up and rubbed her head, she was so distracted from the energy blast that she didn't notice a Forever Knight closing in on her, until it was too late as he grabbed her from behind and threw her back on the ground.
Kevin saw this and quickly went to her defense as he ran at the Knight and threw a haymaker that knocked him to the ground. The young mutant smirked at the fallen knight, before getting a nervous look as he noticed that he was surrounded by the knights.
"Uh, time-out?" He asked as Sabrina peeked over the crate she was hiding and saw Kevin in trouble.
"Ship! Ball mode!" She screamed as Ship beeped, before morphing into a giant ball as he bounced over to Kevin. Kevin and the knights stared at Ship in confusion as Sabrina took a deep breath and yelled. "Now...expand!" She screamed as Ship bloated up like a giant balloon and blew up. Kevin watched in fascination as the Forever Knights were sent flying to the air, before falling down unconscious as he looked down at the reformed Ship and petted him.
"Good boy!" He said with a smile as Ship nodded, before bouncing back with his master as Kevin bend down and absorbed the concrete below. With his armor on, Kevin charged at the group and started punching them left and right.
"Man, who knew taking down Forever Knights was so easy?" Vanessa said mockingly as she slashed down another knight, before kicking one away as she placed her hand on her hip. "I mean, I'm kicking you're asses without breaking a sweat." She said with a grin as one tried to sneak up on her and threw a punch, which she caught nonchalantly as she judo flipped him. "Again, easy. If you small fry's wont give me a challenge, then maybe you're boss will." She said as she turned to Sir Connor and saw him blasting an armored up Kevin to the wall. Vanessa's eyes narrow at the sight of a powered down Kevin as she turned to look at Gwen and whistled to get her attention. "Gwen!"
Vanessa screamed as she pointed to Kevin and Gwen nodded as she shakily got up from the ground and used her mana powers to grab Connor. The old knight didn't have time to react as Gwen slammed him to the wall and caused him to drop his gun.
"Ship! Destroy his gun!" Sabrina screamed, suddenly appearing by her sister's side as Ship leaped at the gun and caused it to self-destruct again. Connor struggled to escape from his trapped state as Sabrina slowly stalked towards him and gave the annoyed knight a huge grin. "Now, what did you say you will do to Ship if he ever destroy you're gun again?" She asked smugly as Connor glared at her and struggled again. "Yeah, that's why I thought." She said as we cue back to the boys, who were still trying to convince the dragon to leave, but he didn't want to hear it.
"We can't convince you, huh?"
"I been waiting thousands of years for this, so, no, you can't convince me." He said as the boys glanced at each other and nodded as they bravely stood in front of the dragon and held out their arms. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Stopping you." Ben answered bluntly as the dragon laughed at this. "Don't laugh. I can turn into Humongousaur again if I wanted to, or maybe Chromastone, or Spidermonkey. But I'm not going to." He said as Mikey nodded.
"He is right. Me and Ben can turn into anything we want to and kick you're ass, but we won't and you know why? Because unlike the other baddies we come across to, you're actually a good guy. Now, look, I understand where you're coming from." He said as the dragon laughed bitterly.
"Now, do you?" He asked as Mikey gaze harden.
"Yeah, I do. I know what you are feeling, because I used to feel the same too."
He said quietly as the dragon stared at him and motioned for him to go on.
"When I was young I used to do a lot of terrible things, vandalism, stealing, street fighting is just a couple of things I done in the past, but none of that compares to the night that changed my life forever. Me and my gang were just hanging out on our favorite hang out, when our rival gang stormed in and started shooting all of us, I managed to escape in one piece, but the same couldn't be said about my friends.
He said with a low tone as Ben stared at him and couldn't help to be sorry for the guy, I mean sure Mikey may have threaten him the last time they talked, but he will let it slide since he knew that Mikey cared about Vanessa just as much as he did.
"I-I was so angry. I wanted to hurt them just like they hurt me, but I didn't know how until I found the Anamatrix." He said as he looked down at the Anamatrix and sighed heavily. "After I found out what it did, I finally had the means to get my revenge. I spend months tracking each member from the gang and when I found them, I tortured each and every one of them, before killing them." He said as he heard Ben gasped, but he ignored him as he looked up to the now curious dragon. "And you know how I felt, when I finally killed them all and got my revenge?"
He asked as the dragon nodded, now fully invested on the story.
"I felt terrible. I feel sick at myself for what I done. I don't feel terrible for what I did to them, they deserved it. No, I felt disgusted with myself because when I was getting my revenge on them...my aunt Laura died." He said, while holding back a sob as tears flooded his eyes. "I-I didn't even went to her funeral, because I was so hell bent on getting my stupid revenge. By the time that I realized what happen, I was too scared to even face my cousin's, because I didn't want them to hate me for not being there for them, but because of my cowardice...my cousin was abused. I know that she may look fine now, but every time I see her scar, it just reminds me of the time that I wasted. The time that I could have used to be there for her and Sabrina and maybe, just maybe, protect them from my uncle's wrath."
He said, before looking back at the dragon as he gave it a fierce look.
"Now, tell me. Would you rather get revenge on the Forever Knights and waste you're time like I did or would you rather go back to you're family."
He said as the dragon stared at him for a couple of seconds, carefully thinking of this, before making his decision. Back with the others, we see Gwen still holding Connor to the wall with her magic, but then a soft ruble appeared out of nowhere and caused Gwen to loose her concentration as Connor fell down on the floor. Everyone looked to where the rumble was originating and couldn't helped, but to gasp in shock as a huge ship slowly pulled out of the warehouse.
"No!" Connor screamed as the ship flew out of the warehouse and into the night sky, Connor glared at the disappearing ship as he turned around and ordered the other knights to retreat. Once all the knights were gone, the boys emerged from the warehouse and the team confronted them.
"How did you do it?" Gwen asked as Ben raised an eyebrow.
"Huh?"
"You know, get the dragon to go." She explained as Ben scratched his head.
"Well, actually it was Mikey who-"
"Don't be modest, Ben. You were the one who used you're head to managed to convince the dragon to leave, instead of fighting it." Mikey quickly said as Ben raised an eyebrow.
"What are you talking about? You were the one who-"
"Now, don't be shy. There is no reason to be embarrassed." He said as he put an arm around his shoulders and pulled him away from group.
"Mikey, what is going on? Why won't you tell them what really happen?" He asked as Mikey turned towards the group, more specifically his family, and sighed.
"Look, can we please keep what happened in the warehouse a secret."
"Why?"
"Well, because I don't my family and friends to look at me differently. I don't want them to think about all of the terrible things I did in the past. So, can you please keep it a secret from them for now?" He asked as Ben looked at him, before sighing as he nodded.
"Okay, fine. I won't tell, but you do realize you have to tell them eventually." He said as Mikey sighed.
"Yeah, I know and I will, but not right now." He said as Ben patted his shoulder.
"Okay, I understand." He said with a smile as Mikey blinked at him and smiled back.
"You know, maybe my cousin is on to something about you. You really are a nice guy." He said as Ben smiled wider from the praise.
"Thank you. So, does that mean I can date you're cousin?" He asked hopefully as Mikey thought for a minute, before nodding.
"Yes. You are allowed to date my cousin, but remember what happens if you hurt her, right?" He threaten playfully as Ben raised his arms in surrender.
"Yeah, I know." Ben said with a smirk as the boys went back to the group.
"What were you guys talking about?" Vanessa asked as Mikey grinned deviously.
"Oh, I was just giving your boyfriend the approval to date you, since I am technically your legal guardian after all." He said as he turned around and started walking away. "So, if you want to marry him and have babies. Go for it! You have my approval" He said with a laugh as both Vanessa and Ben blushed from the thought of getting married, and blushed harder at the thought of having babies.
"MIKEY!" Vanessa screamed embarrassedly as Kevin and Gwen laughed at the blushing teens
The story is not finish yet as we cue back to Connor, who standing in the Forever Knights castle as he retold everything that happen a few hours back to his Forever Knight King, Sir Patrick.
"...And then the beast flew off into the stars, headed for home." He said as he threw a file contain photos of Ben and his team. Sir Patrick studied this photos carefully as Connor clenched his fist and sighed in disappointment. "I have failed." He said, before walking away.
"Where are you going, Connor?"
"Don't know." He answered shortly. "In my entire life, I've never given a moment's thought to what I would do once this was over.
"You think this is over?" Patrick said with raised eyebrow.
"The dragon's gone, Patrick. We failed, and now there's no reason for us to exist. You, me, the Forever Knights, all pointless now!"
"Pointless?" The old king said as he chuckled at the thought. "Hardly. Now we know that somewhere in the stars there's not one dragon, but an entire planet of them. How soon before more of these beast's come back for revenge? They could be making plans even as we speak. No, Connor. The world needs the Forever Knights now more than ever! We must always stand ready to fight the dragons" He said as Connor and all of the knights cheered at him as he bends down to pick up the discarded pictures and sneered at the sight of the teens. "And the despicable traitors who helped them. SO, SAY I!"
"SO, SAY WE ALL!" The knights repeated as Connor stared at one picture in particular and his eyes widen in realization.
"Oh, that reminds me. The meddling brats had a beast with them as well, it stopped me before I could kill the dragon." He said as Patrick eyes widen at the new information. "I had the dragon in sight and I could have finished it off, but the little brat known as 'Sabrina' told the mutt to destroy my gun and it did. He also managed to take out 10 of our strongest warriors without trying." He said as Sir Patrick carefully studied the picture of Ship, before looking up to Connor as he grinned at him. "I think we had managed to find a new weapon for our arsenal, don't you think?" He asked as Sir Patrick sat back on his throne and grinned back at Sir Connor.
"I'll have the boys in the lab study this new specimen and who knows? Maybe this mutt will be useful to our organization in the near future." He said as Connor smirked and the knights cheered again.
And done! Sorry for the long chapter, but its been so long since I wrote anything that my fingers wouldn't stop typing. Anyway I wanted to say sorry again for the year long wait and can I say once again THAT IS GOOD TO BE BACK!
Anyway as always, I will talk to you all later.
