Chapter IV: Order or Chaos?
The projectile sped though the desert. Chaos shifted to the side attempting to dodge it…but the projectile managed to cut his shoulder…making some blood spill out. Chaos emitted a small cry of pain and quickly covered up the wound.
"CHAOS!" yelled Nina. "Are you okay?" she asked as she ran to him…
"I'm fine…stay out of this, master... it's my fight…" Chaos said.
"Nonsense!" Nina cried. "You're hurt!! You can't beat him like this!"
"AHAHAHAHA!! So, who slacking off on his training now, Chaos?" laughed Deilva, "Still playing the hero, eh? Okay… soon enough, we'll have one dead hero! Chew on this, you lousy piece of junk! Wave Slash!" With that he sent yet another shockwave toward Chaos.
Surprisingly, the wave was redirected by the wind and was heading straight for Nina, Nina shuddered in fear when she saw the wave heading toward her, she closed her eyes in fear…but in never connected… when she opened her eyes, she saw Chaos standing if front of her, with another wound on his leg.
"Muhahaha! This is an unexpected award!" laughed Deilva. "Chaos, you make me sick, oh, you do make me sick… now that I know your weakness, it shouldn't be too hard to kill you once and for all."
"Chaos…" Nina started, but stopped when she saw black blood ooze down Chaos wounds, "…no it can't be!" she cried. "Chaos you never told me you were…"
"I'll explain later, master…this is really not a good time…" He pushed Nina out of the way right before another wave went right past them.
"Nina," Ryu said. "I think Chaos really need to do this alone…we can question him after the fight."
"So, Chaos are you ready to accept your fate?" Deilva sneered. "But since we knew each other before I'll finish this quick. Tanwang Slash!"
A black energy blade came out of Deilva's sword and went toward Nina. Chaos rushed in front of her and chanted. "I pray to Tolong, the earth dragon to protect us from harm, Earth Guard!!" A force field surrounded them and blocked off the move.
"No! That's impossible! No one can guard that move… this isn't happening!" screamed Deilva.
"Oh…believe me, it's happening, one thing that separates the strong mages and the weak ones is that the strong always expects the impossible. And now… let me finish you off, I call for all the elemental dragons…. Hwolong…dragon of fire, Sheilong…dragon of water…Funlong dragon of wind, and Tolong dragon of earth…grant me the power to banish the evil that lies before me!!!" With that a powerful beam shot out of Chaos' claw and it found its target quick…it blasted Deilva and left him yelling…
"THIS ISN'T OVER YET CHAOS!!! ONE DAY OR ANOTHER I WILL KILL YOU!!!" Deilva screamed, and vanished.
"Maybe, but not today…" Chaos faintly said. With that, he went and passed out.
A few hours later…
"Aurg…" groaned Chaos. The groans made their way to the heads of everyone around him. He opened his eyes slowly and saw the group looking over him with questioning looks on their faces.
"Uh…looks like I have some explaining to do, huh?" he whimpered.
"Yes, Chaos you have a lot of explaining to do," said Nina.
"Okay, I'll tell you as much as I know…since I don't know much about it myself…" Chaos began.
"You'd better tell us the truth this time, Chaos." Ryu warned.
"I'll try to explain things as much as I can… but please, I know it will be hard to believe…" Chaos began.
"Just talk…we'll be the judges of that…" Momo said.
Chaos gulped. He knew his story is going to be too hard to believe, but had every intention of making them understand. "Well everyone make yourself comfortable, this isn't going to be easy to explain, but here goes… I still don't know where I was born, or who was my birth mother or father. As far as why I have black blood, its as much a mystery to you as it is to me, but the one thing I know is that I was once connected to the masters of the elements, that's how I was able to use their powers. I think I was one of them before, and, well, something happened, and the masters started to go corrupt…first the dragon of fire, he went crazy and ended up dying, but before he died he for some reason choose me to pass on the power of fire. Then the dragon of wind went mad…and well same thing happened, then one by one all the dragons fell and for some reason they all choose me…I believe there was one who was like me immune to the madness that spread, and well since there were only 2 left…we went our separated ways…I became a familiar, and I don't know what happened to the other." Chaos finished.
"Wait!" Nina said. "If you were one of them, what element were you the master…" Nina gulped; she knew the answer before she finished the question.
"Anyways, I know I should've told you more about myself but to tell you the absolute truth, I don't remember things that well either, those were bit and parts of my memory I don't even know how much I believe. I intend on finding out one way or the other, but so far, no avail." Chaos said, looking really embarrassed.
"I don't believe you, Chaos… you're still hiding things," Momo said dryly.
"Neither do I… that's too hard to swallow... it still makes me suspicious that your nothing like Ryu or the other Dragoniers." Rei said.
"I think I can believe it…" Nina said. "It fits so far…no contradictions, and he didn't exactly lie to us the first time. What about you, dear? What do you think?"
Before Ryu could answer…"You see what I mean!! You're too trusting, Nina!" Momo yelled.
"That's enough, Momo… I choose to remain neutral in this matter. So far Chaos hasn't done anything that threaten our lives. In fact, he saved Nina today. But he still doesn't go very far to me as the trust matter goes. I'm gonna keep an eye on you Chaos… better not try anything smart." Ryu said.
"I have no intent of doing so." Chaos replied, "By the way, where are we?"
"We're camping. After that impressive battle with Deilva, we figured we should set a camp; you're in no condition to go anywhere. So, how are you feeling?" Nina asked.
"Much better… gee… Deilva actually hurt me this time." Chaos muttered.
"Did you have to kill him?" Ryu questioned.
"He's not dead…" Chaos began.
"WHAT?" Rei cried. "Your not going to make me believe someone survived that blast!"
"Actually, he got merely scratched by that blast… his master teleported him away just in time…" Chaos replied.
"Which means that his master is a very dangerous man…" said Ryu.
"Yes…but I think we should rest for today…we still have a long way to go tomorrow." Chaos said.
No one felt like arguing that, so they all fell asleep…
Some time later, about noon…
Chaos awaked and yawned. Still too damn early to get up... he thought. He lay down, but something made him get up again. He sighed; he knew where this was going and didn't like it one bit.
End of Chapter IV
Author's Note: Sorry, I ran short of the names in this chapter…if anyone is wondering what Tanwang slash is it actually a direct Chinese-English translation of High King Slash, and the elemental dragons…were also a direct translation…"To" means dirt or earth…therefore earth dragon…same as Hwo as fire, Shei as water, and Fun as wind…and long is just Dragon in Chinese…sorry but I not good at names.
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