Chapter 7 Old Wounds Never Heal Or Do They?
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Back in Sakura's House…
Void continued the story…
After Chaos left, Ylsa was of course more or less
lonely, but she knew Chaos had to leave in her heart, but that didn't change
anything for her-she still missed Chaos a great deal. She spent day after day
trying to find a way to cure him.
Chaos on the other hand wasn't expecting the side
affect to be that strong, the urges of the dark was getting stronger and
stronger. Finally, the side affect consumed him, he became a servant of the
dark, doing anything the dark lord told him to do.
Finally, the leader of the twilight dragon clan
thought it was too much, Chaos had to be stopped, but with Chaos' intelligence
and his knowledge of magic it wasn't going to be easy, especially with one of
the most powerful magic spell at his disposal the 'Breath of Fire'.
The situation was getting hopeless, so they turned
to the holy dragoness Ylsa (She became holy dragoness soon after she graduated)
for help, since holy and dark are opposing forces, to see if she had an idea.
Ylsa was reluctant at first, but soon she knew that
Chaos had to be stopped, the Chaos she knew was long gone. So, she picked up
some stuff and went to put an end to the nightmare.
* * *
The Final Showdown
"Chaos, you had gone to far this time…" Ylsa yelled.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't my sis…where have you
been…" Chaos said letting out an evil grin.
"Don't play dumb with me, it won't work." She
replied.
"Me? Play dumb? Don't be ridiculous sis…" he
replied.
"Stop acting all innocent now, you probably know why
I came." She said drawing out a sword.
"Hmm…are you really willing to kill your brother,
sis?" Chaos said mockingly. "I doubt you could with your sword skill anyways."
"I have to…and Chaos do you NOT recognize this
sword?" Ylsa said determined.
"No…it can't be." He said seriously.
"Yes, it's the dragon slayer. I has the ability to
kill any dragon. Still confidant, Chaos?"
"You wouldn't…" Chaos started.
"You want to try me?" Ylsa said.
"Sis…" Chaos said snickering, summoning his staff.
"This ought to be interesting. EN GARDE!"
They both fought ferociously, neither of them yielding to each other, slowly
Ylsa was slowing down, but with Chaos' newfound powers he didn't seem to even
care.
"I won't be able to hold him back much longer, I got
to do SOMETHING!!! I have to make him remember who he is but how…" Ylsa
thought.
Chaos grinned evilly; he knew that he was in the
upper hand…but then when he charged his spell there was a necklace with a
dragon on it.
"That's it!!" Ylsa thought.
Quick Flashback…
(The day when Chaos left Ylsa)
"Goodbye, sis…take good care of yourself. I hope that someday when this side affect wears off we will see each other again." Chaos said.
"Chaos, I hope I find a way to undo this terrible side effect when I do I will find you, until then keep this to remember me…" Ylsa said removing her necklace and giving it to Chaos. Chaos took it looking at the beautiful dragon in the end of it, he put it on his neck…it looked surprisingly good on him.
"Oh, sis why don't you take this to remember me by?" Chaos said removing his ring and putting on Ylsa's ring finger, surprisingly it fit perfectly too.
End Flashback…
Chaos finished his spell and directed it Ylsa, Ylsa didn't budge instead she just held out the ring that Chaos gave her…
The ring absorbed the spell, Chaos gasped in surprise, but something about the ring made him realize something. It brought back memories and good times, he finally was able to overcome the darkness for a period of time.
"Sis!" he cried in his normal voice. "Hurry, you have to seal me with the power of the ring."
"WHAT?" Ylsa yelled. "But then I would probably never see you again."
"It's the only way, you have to seal me within the ring, when a pure hearted person need help the ring will let me out cured of this corruption…I can't hold the sanity much longer YOU MUST DO IT." Chaos yelled.
Ylsa thought fast she knew Chaos was right and it had to be done, but the thought of losing her beloved brother was too much to bear, but letting him live in misery could be the worst torture of it all. She held up the dragon slayer sword…
"Green dragon of the West, Red dragon of the East, Blue dragon of the South, Black dragon of the North, seal the essence of the one that lies before me." Ylsa chanted.
Chaos was sealed away after that. Ylsa was greatly saddened by the loss, but she was happy to know that Chaos would at least be able to live as he once did, and she was also happy that the last memory of Chaos was when he was kind not evil.
Void stopped. "That's about all anyone needs to know about that story, a few years back I heard Chaos died by a reliable source."
"Wait a minute, how did you know about that story?" Li asked.
"Li…" Tomoyo said. "Don't pry into other people's past, it's not polite, plus couldn't you see by telling that story, Void opened her past pains?"
"That's quite alright…" Void said "I know of this because…"
"Because?" Fujitaka said quietly.
"I was once called Ylsa…" Void continued.
"WHAT??" Everyone else cried in union.
* * *
Chaos and Sakura place…
Sakura felt sorry for Chaos, she didn't know he had such a harsh life, but still it didn't answer her question…
"Ummm…excuse me Mr. Chaos? I still don't see how this is related to the curse…" Sakura said quietly.
"Well…" Chaos said. "Remember when I told you Ylsa sealed me away until someone that heart is pure needed help?"
"Yes…" Sakura said.
"Well, finally that day came, someone took the ring and was pure enough to release me out of the seal, take a wild guess who that was…" Chaos replied, eyes shining with great excitement.
"A Nina?" Sakura said throwing a wild guess, she laughed at herself for thinking about that.
"Yes…" Chaos said, Sakura almost jumped up when he said that.
"YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING." Sakura yelled.
"No, I am not…take a look at your ring." Chaos said.
"Wha? Sakura said looking at her ring.
"It's the ring that was in the story, it was passed down the generations of the wing clan, I have helped all of them." Chaos said, then he stopped. "Well, almost all of them, until…"
"Until what?" Sakura asked.
"Well, until I heard someone stole my sister's powers, they offered it in exchange of my services, being the fool that I was I listened to them and put the terrible curse on the very people that I once served." Chaos continued.
"So…you said the curse was broken right?" Sakura asked.
"Yes, a while ago…" Chaos said.
"Oh…" Sakura replied.
"Well, let's get going…it might be dangerous if we stop here…" Chaos said.
"Huh…" she replied, confused.
"Do you know why I got you out of the house as soon as possible?" he replied eyes fixing on the young princess.
"I thought you were trying to kidnap me?" Sakura said eyes narrowing in suspicion.
"No, I trying to mend my ways now, I done too much stuff that I regret now that I don't want this to be one of them." Chaos said sadly, "there is a traitor in the mist, I had to get you out of there as soon as possible. Now that you're out of harms way, I can try to do a full investigation on it."
"WHAT?" Sakura yelled. "So, none of my friends are important? That means they are in danger now! How can you be selfish? How could…"
"Relax," Chaos said "if the curse is broken then I suppose there should be a dragon with you, he should be able to take whatever the enemy could possible throw at them."
"That's the problem, not one of us KNEW that the cures was broken so I never met a young dragon in the first place…" Sakura was practically yelling now, she would hate Chaos forever.
Chaos gasped. Had he miscalculated again? "NO! I CAN'T AFFORD TO MAKE A MISTAKE THIS TIME!" he yelled to himself. To Sakura he said "Come we got to go back."
"You'll get no argument from me…" Sakura said.
"Wait!" Chaos said suddenly. He felt an aura, it was very disturbing." He pointed to Sakura's pendent… "Can I see this for a while?"
"Why?" Sakura asked.
"It doesn't 'feel' right…" Chaos said.
"Huh? Alright, but be careful…" Sakura reluctantly gave the pendent to Chaos.
Chaos mumbled something that Sakura couldn't decipher, the pendent floated above his claw, then it started to emit a dark light…then a dark figure came out holding the 'rapier of wing'.
"WHO DARES TO INTERFERE WITH MY MASTERS PLAN…" it boomed.
"What?" Sakura said meekly. "in heck is that."
"Well, looks like someone booby trapped your weapon wasn't that nice? Who gave it to you, Sakura?" Chaos asked, as he prepared for the worst.
"No…it can't be!!!" She cried. No not Fujitaka, the only one in her whole life she could call 'father' be the traitor. She can't believe it, no in fact she won't. "WHO ARE YOU??" She yelled to the figure.
"I am the guardian of this weapon…" it began.
"Please tell me you didn't use this weapon too much…" Chaos said, praying that it was true.
"I only used it once." Sakura said.
Chaos felt so relieved when Sakura said that he wanted to kiss her, but they had more important things to do.
* * *
Back at Sakura's house…
The group was sitting in the living room each baffled on what to do next.
Finally, Li pounded his fist on the table…
"This is insane!" He shouted. "I'm NOT going to sit back and let this dragon
take Sakura away."
"Easy Li, we don't even know where Sakura is." Kero said.
"Well…sitting around here doing nothing isn't going to help any." Li replied.
"So, what do you plan on doing Li?" Fujitaka asked, eyes gazing at the young man.
"I'm going to find her and kick that dragon's ass four ways to Sunday!." Li replied not noticing the Fujitaka's dangerous tone.
"Li, do not underestimate Chaos…there was a time that his name brought chills to every member of the dragon clan. So, I would advise you to…" Void started.
Suddenly, Fujitaka began to laugh…interrupting what Void's warning, he continued laughing.
"FOOLS!" he cried still laughing "ALL OF YOU ARE FOOLS!!" he yelled unable to resist any longer.
Everyone jumped and stood ready, surrounding the now 'insane' man.
"He cannot be stopped, certainly not by a group of rookies like yourselves." Fujitaka said eyes gleaming with dark energy.
"TRAITOR!!" Li yelled. "So, you were in league Chaos all this time? How could you?"
"Chaos???" Fujitaka said still laughing "That pathetic excuse for a dragon?"
"Oh no…" Tomoyo said quietly, "I have this weird feeling that Chaos in his own way was trying to help us…"
"What?" Kero said, puzzled. "How is kidnapping Sakura helping us any?"
Void who was once quiet began to speak "He was protecting her from him…" she said pointing at Fujitaka.
Fujitaka summoned his spear…
"Chaos is going to be punished for betraying us, but first… I believe I have some loose ends to take care of don't I?" He said grinning.
* * *
Same Time where Chaos and Sakura is…
The fight has already begun here, the strange thing was though, Chaos was just sitting back letting Sakura fight of the guardian.
"A little help here??" Sakura asked as she parried another sword swing by the guardian.
Chaos said nothing, and continued to just 'stand' there.
"ARE YOU GOING TO HELP ME OR NOT!!" Sakura yelled, dodging another hit from the enemy.
Finally, Sakura deeded getting help from the dragon was hopeless, so she decided to take the enemy on herself.
"I HAVE to get as fast as the enemy to even stand a chance against him!! I got to find a way…THAT'S IT!. Sakura thought quickly.
"By the power granted by me from the Sakura Cards I command you, Dash Card grant me lighting speed! RELEASE!!" With her 'new' found powers she didn't need to use the staff, dash speed her up significantly, enabling her to catch up with the enemies lighting fast moves. Chaos looked in great interest, examining the princess' every move closely…
He smiled to himself "She is indeed the descendent of Nina…" he said to himself. "Maybe I should help her now, to discover her new hidden abilities…"
He flew up in the air and shot a few burst of magic around the two fighting characters, hitting the ground beside them.
"HEY!!" Sakura yelled. "If you don't want to help that fine, at least don't try to kill me now!!"
"Sakura, get up here I want to show you something." Chaos said casting another spell.
"I'm a little busy here, considering someone wasn't willing to give me a hand." She said a little pissed of.
"Doing what??" Chaos said in a playful tone grinning.
"Fighting this…" She started and then stopped…she looked at her opponent, it wasn't moving as if it was frozen by some invisible ice field. "It's like using the time card, except he doesn't use cards…he must be pretty powerful to do that."
"Why didn't you do that earlier??" She said, "Could have saved me a lot of trouble you know that?" As she flew up to where the dragon was.
"Look down there…" Chaos pointed down at the place where the enemy was standing.
Sakura looked at where Chaos was pointing, it had a picture that looked like the one that appears when she summons her staff. It had a circle, within the circle there were four points. She looked at Chaos puzzled. "What is that for?" she asked.
"It's time I told you what your hidden abilities are, Sakura. See the picture I just made? Well, it's a way to combine some of your card spells." Chaos explained.
"Huh?" Sakura said confused. "What do you mean?"
"Well, see the four points of the graph represents directions, one for north, one for south one for east and one for west." He started. "Each direction has a element its best as. North likes Wind, South likes earth, East like Water and West likes fire. Though it doesn't mean that you have to use it in that way. You can try different combinations to boost up different magic spells." Chaos explained.
"What should I do?" Sakura asked.
"The stop spell will last long enough, just take your time and choose wisely…I have faith in you Sakura." Chaos said.
"The enemy was the guardian of the wing rapier…so that
mean it's flying which is weak against wind." Sakura thought as she
remembered her first encounter with the fly card. "It's looks like it's an
enemy of dark, so the light card is also a candidate…but what shall I use for
the other two? Storm might be able to power wind up to an extent, and Lamp card
could power up light…"
"Windy to the North! Light to the West! Strom to the East! Lamp to the South! Lend me your power!!" She chanted throwing the cards on the relative spots.
The cards each hit they're mark…and released…a huge light pillar came blasting up within it were streaks of lighting (for those who don't know already lighting is commonly know as the same element as wind—Cdragon) consuming the guardian…pretty soon the only thing that was left was the scorched earth under the wing rapier, however was in perfect shape after all that, the card returned to they're mistress…
Chaos went to the rapier and picked it up… "Wow, what nice craftsmanship…worthy of the name that the legends gave it…" he continued. He threw it toward Sakura… "I believe this belongs to you, Sakura."
Sakura caught it, it merged back in the staff, and she put it away. "We got to go now!! I have to make sure all my friends are alright." She said as she flew away…then she flew back immediately… "Err…I don't know where we are…" She said sweating.
"Take it easy…I know where your house is, we can teleport there…" Chaos said.
Without another word they both teleported.
* * *
Back at Sakura's house…
Li, Void, Kero and Tomoyo fought Fujitaka fiercely, but being older and having more experience he was able to fend off all of them. They were doing pretty good, until Fujitaka lost his patience.
"Enough of this!!" He yelled, losing his patience. "It time I put you pests in your place… I'll show you my true form!!" After that, he spread his wings; as if magic they became black as midnight. He flapped them a few times sending himself up in the air. "BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE FALLEN ANGEL!!" he yelled.
Suddenly, Sakura and Chaos barged though the door…
"FATHER!!" Sakura cried. "What's going on here??" She looked at her father in
disbelief. "I TRUSTED YOU!!"
"Your so naïve, Nina…" he replied laughing bitterly. "And your father was a fool!! A fool to think that he could save the world just by saving you!! What utter nonsense!" He laughed even more. "Well…with all that said now I will tie up the loose ends!" he said charging at Sakura, he readied his spear aiming at her heart.
Sakura gasped, it was coming way too fast she had nowhere to run.
"NO!!" Li cried running toward Sakura pushing her out of the way…
The spear hit Li instead…running deep inside him. Li cried out in pain.
"LI!!" Sakura screamed running toward him.
"Hmmph, worthless." Fujitaka said pulling his spear out, blood dripped from the tip as Li fell down to the ground.
"LI!!" Sakura cried going to his side. "This can't be happening…" She cried softly. "No…"
Tomoyo was unable to hold back her tears either, Li wasn't just a friend, but she also knew in her heart that Li liked Sakura a lot and vice versa.
Sakura looked up at Fujitaka eyes filled with anger "WHY…" she said softly, "What did he ever do to you?"
Fujitaka spun his lance once more, "Hmmph!" he grunted. "Foolish human, sacrificing himself for others. In this world there is only yourself…and no other."
Sakura pulled out her rapier. "No…" she said softly. "We work together, that is what makes us strong, I will prove you wrong."
"Hahaha…" Fujitaka laughed. "You have the spirit but can you back it up? Let us see."
They were about to fight but then…
*THUMP THUMP!!!*
A heart was beating.
Everyone froze in they're tracks.
THUMP THUMP!!!
It grew louder…it was coming from Li…
"No, it can't be…" Fujitaka whispered.
"Yes…it can…" Chaos said. "Congratulations, Fujitaka…you have just awakened a dragon…"
End of Chapter 7.
End Note:
Ladon: Well well…looks like our author has finally
finished the next chapter, took him long enough didn't it?
Author: ::embarrassed:: Sorry everyone, with the
writers block and work, I couldn't get this out earlier.
Ladon: Oh well, here's a bonus that the author wanted
to put in the end of this fic.
Character Info: Fujitaka the fallen one (This is for all those RPGers out there
:D)
HP: 9999
MP: 200
Power:400
Defense:200
Speed:600
Intell:450
Special Attacks:
Dark Wind Howls
Tornado Lance
Fallen Angel Strike
Bios:
Fujitaka the fallen one was originally from Wyndia, he was the Kings most trusted knight and was sent to carry out an important mission, now it looks like he has betrayed both the king and King of Dragons. But has he truly gone from a honorable knight to a shameless traitor, or does he have his own reasons… only time will tell.