Hey guys, here is the next chapter of this fanfic. Hope you have enjoyed the intro so far.

Anyway, enjoy the read.

Chapter Cover: Shinji seating by himself as his sword was leaning against his shoulder as both of his eyes were closed.

Chapter Two

The Conflict of Atlasia

Aesyr looked at the two in front of her for a few moments, silent about what was going on in front of her. From the way her opponent reacted to the new arrival, it was clear that they were not on the same side. However, something from what they said earlier stood out to her.

Dragon knight? What is that?

"How did you locate us so quickly?" her opponent asked.

The afro man let out a grin.

"Words on the street that someone was seen holding one of the Dragmount coin," he said, "Had to figure out that it must have been one of your rebel friends but from the looks of it, it doesn't seem that you guys are even friends at all."

Aesyr frowned lightly.

"So you're here for me?" she asked.

The afro man gave her a glance.

"I was going to come for you," he said, "But since I have a Dragon Knight here in front of me. He'll make bigger prize than most here…after all, you and your kind have been causing nothing but trouble for everyone else."

The blonde man, Shinji grit his teeth in anger.

"You want us to stop fighting?" he asked, "You want us to lay down and die. We Dragon knight doesn't surrender against enemies of our people."

"We?" the afro man repeated, "That's funny…here I was thinking that you were the last of your kind. The last Dragon knight…tell me Shinji, how does it feel to carry that title?"

Shinji seems to be getting more and more pissed off at him.

"Do you want to know how many of your comrades I slaughtered?" Afro man continued as he looked down at him, "While I can admire your tenacity but you should very well know that the battle is already lost. Your Dragon Protector has been gone for fifty years and the Dragmount is nothing but a pile of rubbles and the lands around it belong to Minotaur now…you can fight for all you like, it won't amount to anything at all."

Afro's grin seems to grow even more demented.

"All you have been doing is dying for nothing," he said, "All your comrades died…like nothing but rats."

"KARMER," Shinji yelled in anger.

Afro guy, Karmer, let out a small smirk as the young man launched at him, his sword glowing with power but his attack never reached him for he had disappeared from his spot, appearing in the air behind him. Karmer had his hand raised toward his unprotected back, a dark grin upon his features.

"You're dead," he said.

Blood exploded from his chest as a wound took place there. Shinji let out a gasp of pain as the wound took place. The young man then fell down from where he attacked landing down upon his front on the ground. Pain surged through his entire body as he laid there blood falling from his wound as well as his lips.

Karmer landed down on the ground behind him staring down at his form.

"So, end the last Dragon knight," he said shaking his head, "Given how strong you are, I never expected you to fall for such a trick. You should have known when you were beaten. Maybe we should parade your severed head around for your rebel friend to know that their efforts are futile. There is no one in your group strong enough to defeat our Commanders and even then, Minotaur is on another level entirely."

Shinji slowly started to push himself up.

"Oh…still have some fight in you did ya?"

"We will… never surrender…. to Minotaur," Shinji gasped blood falling from his lips, "Dragmount belong to our people….and to Lord Elassan…and we Dragon knight…will continue to fight until…his return…"

Karmer narrowed his eyes.

"I may…be the last Dragon knight…," Shinji continued standing up fully, "Beaten and bloodied…but my pride will allow me…to still stand…"

Shinji huffed glaring at him.

"Because…that's the bond…we share…with Lord Elassan…,"

Karmer stood silent for a moment.

"You know I was planning to take you to kill you here…but, I think it's better if we parade around your corpse rather than your head…I wonder which spirit will break first…?"

Shinji glared at him.

"You fiend…,"

Someone stepped beside Shinji, and it was that girl he was fighting against earlier.

"You…,"

Karmer blinked.

"I have no business with you girl," he said.

"But I have business with you," the girl spoke out.

Aesyr was feeling pretty pissed off right now. The young woman had both of her hands into fist as she was glaring at the man with the afro across her. She never thought that she would have found someone that was connected to her Master and she knew that he would never forgive her if she didn't step in to try and help.

And the other guy was just pissing him off.

"I can't let you kill this man," she said.

"Oh?" Karmer said raising his eyebrows, "And why is that? The two of you seems to be well on your way of killing each other just earlier."

"It's true," she said, "We were enemies but when I heard that he served Elassan, we were no longer enemies."

She heard the man let out a gasp from behind her but she didn't turn around to look at him at all.

"But you are now," Aesyr continued.

She suddenly dashed forward with a fist and Karmer's eyes widened in surprise at her speed but the punch never reached him for it slammed into an invisible wall that had appeared right in front of him.

"An attack like this without any type of magic won't ever reach me," Karmer said with a low chuckle

But then, Aesyr's fist started to glow with magic power. A silver glow shining around it appearing all around the young's woman body. The amount of magic power that was coming from within her was causing the air around her to crackle with it and that power caused Karmer's eyes to widen in shock…

"Silver Dragon…Explosive Punch," she spoke out.

KABOOM!

A massive blast of power exploded from her fist, completely engulfing Karmer entirely as the man yelled out in pain as he was blown away from the attack completely. Aesyr stood there with her fist raised as a large wave of destruction was in front of her, the young woman staring out toward the direction of where she had sent him flying.

"You just…send him flying…," Shinji gasped from behind her, "Who are…you?"

Aesyr glanced behind her, taking notice of the wound that he had.

"You shouldn't worry like that with that wound," she said, "I"ll take care of this guy."

She didn't give him time to answer as she moved forward, removing the cloak she was wearing upon her body. She didn't want to damage the cloak from the upcoming battle that was coming to her. When she was done, she revealed the short pants she had one with knee high boots. As a top she had on a elbow long sleeved shirt low enough to show the top of her cleavage, and that was just how low it went.

Aesyr continued to walk until she found her opponent again, Karmer standing there with some bruises upon his clothing. The man glared at her approaching form.

"You're picking a fight with the wrong person girl," he said, "You are going to regret crossing me."

"Is that so?" Aesyr said, "Then show me how strong you are."

Karmer let out a tching sound from his lips as he launched barriers toward her. Aesyr jumped avoiding the attack completely and then landed back down on the ground in a crouch as a barrier came from above her with the intent to crush her where she was.

"Silver Dragon Explosive Fist," she said raising her fist up toward the barrier.

It shattered from the blast of magic that exploded from her fist. Then she launched forward aiming straight toward him but was smashed into a barrier and blown backward through, causing her to grit her teeth as the barrier pushed against her.

Aesyr let out a roar as she launched her fist forward, smashing through the barrier once more, rushing forward toward her enemy but suddenly all around her, they were barriers blocking her way.

"It doesn't matter how many of them you break," Karmer said, "I can always create more of them…while your magic may be strong but there is nothing stronger than my Infinite Barrier spells….now get crushed little girl."

The barriers suddenly compressed down against her as she let out a grunt of pain slamming down upon the ground as the barrier continued to push down against her causing her to grit her teeth as she was sinking into the concrete ground…

These barriers are really annoying…then'll I'll just attack with something that they can't stop then.

"Silver Dragon…Scales,"

A blast of magic erupted from Aesyr's form as the barriers shattered from the pressure of the magic. Karmer's eyes widened in shock as the girl stood back up from where she was lying down but her entire form has changed as both of her arms and legs now had scales upon them but not any type of scales.

Silver scales…looking all too similar to the scales of a dragon…

"Try using your barrier's now, Karmer," she said.

Then she moved, her body blurring with how fast she was moving. Karmer instantly created barriers to stop her from getting closer but she simply tore through them like they weren't even there at all. The girl was completely obligating his barriers and there was nothing he could do about it at all.

"You…how can you be…My Barriers are indestructible," he yelled out creating even more barriers.

Aesyr launched a fist forward smashing through other barriers that he had made, her eyes glowing a strange reddish color as her hair shadowed her face.

"My scales were made to bring down dragons," she said, "Your weak barriers are nothing against that."

"YOU BITCH," Karmer yelled launching a barrier at her.

However, instead of trying to destroy it this time, the girl suddenly disappeared from where she was appearing right in front of him with one of her fists raised already in the process of coming down toward him. He had no chance of making a barrier in time but even at that range, there was any doubt that a barrier would have been able to do anything.

The fist slammed down upon his face with the full wrath of a dragon causing him to be thrown backward through the air and slamming unto the ground causing to shake with the force of the attack that was sent toward him.

He didn't get up for he was completely unconscious from that attack.

Aesyr stood there looking down at him for a few moments as the scales that were upon her body disappeared, returning to her original form. The young woman observed the man in the crater for a few moments before something drew her attention.

She glanced at the direction for a few moments, eyes searching for any sign that anyone was there but there was nothing at all.

Was it my imagination? She thought to herself for a few moments.

Not thinking much of it, Aesyr returned toward where Shinji the Dragon Knight was and saw that he was still there, a shocked expression upon his face as she was approaching him. when she came to stand in front of him the young man seems to be lost for words.

"We need to talk," he said after a while, "But not here…this place is about to get swarmed and we don't want to get caught up in that. Come with me, I know a place we can go."

Aesyr nodded.

"Very well," she said.

The place that Shinji led her to was deep into the woods outside of the Port city. Since the young man was bleeding, she was the one helping him walk through the area they were going much slower than normal. She had done what she could for the wound by bandaging him and cleaning it, thought he still needed to go see a doctor to get proper treatment.

"There is a base there for our people in these woods," he said, "But given the numbers we have lost over the years, they are not many of us left anymore."

Aesyr blinked.

"Then you're part of the resistance then?"

"I am…," he said, "You said you knew Elassan…was he the one who gave you that coin?"

"He did," Aesyr said, "Is that coin really that important?"

"It is a symbol of pride to the Dragon…Knights," Shinji told her, "It was made from his own scales. If he had given you one, then he must have believed you to be worthy of being a Dragon Knight…"

The young man coughed a little.

"Could that mean if you're here…that he sent you over with a message?"

Aesyr stayed silent for a moment. The duo continued to walk through the trees which were slowly starting to open up in front of them, revealing a hidden trail that was leading straight up toward a small hill in the distance.

"There is something that you needed to know," she said, "Elassan is…"

But she was interrupted when she caught the scent of someone approaching them. The young woman turned her gaze forward instantly stopping as a figure stepped out of the woods. He was dressed in some clothing as he had both of his hand at his side.

"Ellis," Shinji said.

Ellis had a beard upon his face as he looked at the two of them, thought there was a light worry in his gaze as he stared at them.

"What the hell happened to you?" he asked, "What happened to a simple reconnaissance mission?"

"Yeah…thing's got a little carried away," Shinji answered, still leaning heavily against Aesyr.

"He needs a doctor," she said, "I've done what I can for the wound but without proper medication…"

Ellis nodded lightly.

"Very well," he said, "If Shinji had led you then at least you must be trustworthy."

Shinji looked at him.

"She is."

Two group made their way through the path which was a simple road hidden between the tall trees. Aesyr kept her attention toward the two in front of her, and from the many scents she was picking up, she was getting close to the location the two were going and soon enough, when they turned the corner the group find themselves staring at what seems to be a fort build inside a mountain.

"Woah," Aesyr said.

"It's not much," Shinji said, "But it will serve as home for now."

"Stop talking and let me take you to Helen," Ellis said, "She'll want to know answer about what the hell just happened on a simple mission."

The group entered inside the fort. The entrance hall was strangely spacious, thought sparely decorated. There was nothing worth noticing to Aesyr other than the difference in architecture but then again, it was built inside of a mountain so there might not be that much difference there. She followed the two men down a series of hallways.

"Where is everyone?" Shinji asked.

"Well we heard there was something going on at the Port," Ellis said, "Most of them went to see what it was…thought of course at the time we didn't know if it was you getting into a fight."

"Karmer was there," Shinji said.

Ellis let out a swear.

"And you managed to get away," he said.

"No…she defeated him."

Ellis gave her an incredulous glance.

"You did?"

Aesyr nodded.

"Damn…that bastard was one of the Minotaur's Commander," Ellis said, "And you managed to…how?"

"Elassan send her," Shinji said, causing the man to look at him with wide eyes, "After all these years…after everything that we've suffered, the Dragon God send aid to us…Soon, he will be here and Minotaur will be the one, that will be running away."

The two men's spirit were up at the words he was saying but neither of them noticed the darkened expression that crossed Aesyr's face at their words.

They didn't have any idea as to the real reason she had come to Atlasia…

And she didn't know how she was going to reveal the truth of what happened back in Fiore.

What happened when, at the edge of victory, the Dragon of the Apocalypse as he was nicknamed these days, descended upon them all… and turned hope into despair.

A darkness lies in Aesyr's past...

Next Time: The Girl's Story

Jacques0 out.

R&R