Chapter 14 The Dragon's Will
"A shield of light allows no darkness…"
The next day…
Ylsa woke up groaning… she stretched her large white wings and let out a deep yawn. She stood up and mumbled "Good morning, Chaos…" forgetting what state he was in.
"Good morning, sis…" a weak voice replied startling Ylsa. She turned to see Chaos rubbing his eyes… he looked horrible…
"You okay, Chaos?" Ylsa said in concern. "You look worse than the time you cast 'breath of fire'."
"I'm fine…just tired that's all…" he said letting out a tired sigh. "Remember to remind me to thank Fujitaka later…he remembered after all…"
Ylsa looked at her brother, shaking her head she asked "Why didn't you tell me earlier?" she said softly.
Chaos perched up shrugging. "I don't know…that part of my past always haunted me, I didn't know how people will react to that…so I kept it a secret. Sorry, sis I just felt some things are better left unknown."
Ylsa sighed "I'll get back to you on that one…I need to go on a mission, I want you to stay here and help the others guard the fort…although your magic powers are gone, you know the enemy better than they, understand?" She said as she put her necessities in a bag.
Chaos nodded gently "I'll be sure to keep things in one piece here…just be sure you come back alive sis…" he said as he lay down and closed his eyes.
Ylsa nodded and exited the room…
Living Room…
Ylsa walked in slowly, Fujitaka and Tomoyo were already there both prepared, Fujitaka in a full suit of armor and Tomoyo in a light blue mages robe.
"Ylsa? Is it possible for you to wear a cloak? The place we're going to has never seen a dragon…" Fujitaka started as he put grabbed he spear and put his stuff in the end of it…satisfied he swung it over his shoulder.
"I have my ways…" Ylsa said, she closed her eyes. After a blink of the eye, Ylsa was no longer dragonish instead a woman with long blue hair, gold eyes and wearing a long white robe. She still had dragonish features, like bat wings sticking out her back. She folded them inside her robe with ease. "Better?" She asked.
Everyone looked in awe…
"Yea…" Fujitaka said gulping "How did you do that?"
Ylsa shrugged "Li isn't the only dragon that has a human form… in fact I think Chaos is one of the only dragon's that can't morph in to a 'human' which always puzzled me until today." She said.
Tomoyo smiled "You look beautiful, Ylsa-chan." She exclaimed as she secretly packed her video camera (author: Tomoyo will be Tomoyo J ).
Ylsa blushes "Thank you Tomoyo…"
Fujitaka coughed softly. "Now then…we should really get going…" he said.
Ylsa and Tomoyo let out a small yelp, and nodded quickly.
Without further ado, they left after saying goodbye to the others.
Hidden Area…
"Report!!" A creature said.
"WHAT NOW?? I'M VERY BUSY YOU KNOW?" The voice boomed.
The creature quickly kneeled "Fujitaka has betrayed us…" it started.
"WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!" The voice screamed.
"I tried to warn the others but they insisted on fighting them, I don't think they survived." The creature cried out.
"GRRR!!" The voice growled. "MORONS!!" he yelled.
"I have a plan…" The creature chipped softly.
"YOU DO?? WHAT IS IT?? IT BETTER BE TO MY LIKING OR ELSE…" The voice boom deeply showing reveling a hand.
The creature nodded…it gave the voice a look… the king understood what it meant he asked everyone in the room to stand down. The creature advanced to the king and whispered quietly in his ear. The King let out a grin. "Perfect…" It said.
The creature happily nodded.
"BRING ME FUNANGI RIGHT NOW…" The voice boomed. Funangi entered eventually, then he whispered something in his ear. Funangi grinned and left quickly.
Back at the base…(Li's house)
Sakura rushed in the kitchen, she had something important to tell everyone. She rushed in the room and saw everyone looking up eagerly.
"Well…people we have a problem." She started "I think the illusion field is going to break down anytime now…" As she sat down.
"That's bad, how much longer will it last, Sakura?" Li asked.
"I think it most it will last till the end of today." She replied "That means we'll either have to come up with something soon, or just keep a low profile."
"There is one way that we might be able to put up a more permanent field…" A weak voice cut in.
"Chaos, you should be resting…" Eriol said sternly. "Your in no condition to be awake…much less be in this meeting."
"I'm fine…" Chaos said tapping the bracers that limits him lightly. "My magic is out of commission doesn't mean that I'm out of commission as well…" he gently laid down on the ground.
"You sure? Ylsa asked us to look after you while she's gone, I don't want to break that promise…" Sakura said sternly.
Chaos growled softly "I'll be fine…now we're going to have to attempt to build a strong field…" he started as he drew a map on a piece of paper… "The magical maps we cast on our palm only has the power of one…therefore it's very limited…what we need is to draw one so that everyone is in…then with everyone's power combined we should be able to put up the permanent field."
"What do you mean exactly?" Yue asked confused.
Chaos continued to draw on the paper "Well…we're going to have to make a magic pentagram… I won't be in this since I can't cast any magic… Sakura, Li, Eriol, Touya and Yue…each of you are going to stand on one point on the pentagram that I draw. Then each will release a element that will help the field…Sakura you will use the power of illusion again, Eriol dark, Touya wind and Yue light…if we place this right…the plan should work." He explained.
Sakura nodded "Sounds like a plan…everyone agree on this?" Sakura asked as she flapped her white wings gently, getting more and more used to them.
"Well…I have no objections…" Eriol said "Besides not like we have a better idea."
"Looks like a plan…" Touya said nodding.
"No objections here either…" Yue said closing his eyes.
Chaos nodded "I'll start drawing the picture on the back porch right now…everyone meet me there in about thirty minutes…" He said.
Everyone agreed on that…they went their separate ways as Chaos started to draw the magical picture on the ground…
Backyard…
Chaos scouted out the area…satisfied he started to draw on the ground…
FLASHBACK…
He sat there…nothing to see but the darkness…
"YOUR FIRST MISSION…MY DEAR KILLING MACHINE…IS TO DESTROY THE TOWN OF Joukamachi , LEAVE NO ONE ALIVE!!" a voice ordered me.
I looked up, confused "Why? They didn't do anything me…why destroy?"
"THE STRONG WILL CONTROL THE WEAK…IT'S THE WAY OF NATURE…" the voice commanded "YOU ARE THE STRONG, THE IDIOTS in Joukamachi DON'T WANT TO OBEY…THEREFORE ONLY DEATH AWAITS THEM…" it boomed.
"Strong? Why? Isn't there a better way? Why me?" I asked confused.
"I SEE…LOOKS LIKE I HAVE TO DO A LIVE EXAMPLE…" the voice growled. "CERVANT!! CRUSH HIM LIKE THE BUG HE IS!!"
A big huge three headed beast flew out from nowhere and attacked me…I gasped, good thing that they gave me okay reflexes I was able to dodge the sudden pounce.
"What are you doing? I don't want to fight…" I cried softly.
"FIGHT BACK IF YOU DON'T IT WILL SURELY KILL YOU…KILL OR BE KILLED IT'S THE WAY OF LIFE…" the voice laughed evilly, I growled… I really started hating that voice from that time…
The beast jump at me snarling…threatening to bite my wings off…wait I have wings? What am I? Who am I? Why am I here of all places?
While I was arguing with myself, a flash came by me faster than I could react, slicing across my arm drawing blood. I let out a small cry of pain as black blood started to flow out of the wound. I heard more laughter in the background as if they were mocking me…
I looked at the beast…it wasn't it that gave me the wound I could tell…I looked around the room narrowing my eyes…it was from the voice…he was trying to anger me. Then without warning the beast knocked me from behind…I winced in pain as the force knocked me on the floor.
I heard more laughter coming from the background, the beast blared it's teeth at me, I scrambled to my feet. "What should I do??" I thought to myself quickly. "If I don't think of something that thing is going to kill me…"
Suddenly, another flash a light cut me right across the leg…I stumbled down while the beast delivered another blow sending me back…
I hit the wall hard…knocking some wind out of me.
"I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS THING WAS A NATURUAL KILLING MACHINE!!" the voice yelled at one of it's underlings.
"We had to give him very high intelligence to compensate for the magic abilities, so he's in a state of confusion right now…just wait, I guarantee that it will shred the beast to pieces once he puts his mind in it…" the underling explained quickly.
"We will see about that…" The voice said quieting down a little.
I stood up slowly. The beast was preparing for another attack. "I don't have much of a choice…" I thought to myself.
The beast leapt at me, I dodged with great effort…charging my claw unconsciously, and threw a dark ball of pure magic at the beast it hit with a great boom the force knocking everyone back. After the shock resided, the beast laid on the ground motionless. The "crowd" gasped in amazement…
"HOW DOES IT FEEL?" the voice asked me.
I panted, "It feels………good…" I said as I passed out."
End Flashback.
Chaos shook his head "Damn flashbacks…" he cursed at himself while completing the picture on the ground. "Good job, no one was left alive…hahaha" that voice stuck in his head haunting him. He slammed his claw in the ground angrily. "WHY!!" he yelled to himself.
Thirty minutes after…
Everyone rushed into the backyard seeing a big huge five angled star on the ground, there was complicated writing all over the place…
"Whew…you really overworked yourself this time haven't you, Chaos?" Touya said surprised.
"I'm impressed…" Agreed Eriol. "How did you manage to do all this in such a short period of time?"
"It wasn't that hard…I done this many times before. So, everyone to they're places please…" Chaos said almost falling asleep again. Sakura and Li ran to his aid. He stood up "I'm fine…this is more important.
"Chaos, don't push it too far…you might hurt yourself." Li said a little pissed.
"I'm fine…" Chaos insisted as he directed everyone to they're places. "Now…do what I told you on my mark…NOW!!"
Everyone did what was told, a large pillar of light shot up covering everything in a mystic veil…
"Well…looks like it worked…" Chaos said satisfied he started to walk back to the room, but he didn't get that far…and fell to the ground… everyone else rushed to where he fell…
"He…he's asleep…" Li said sweating.
"Looks like he wore himself out while doing this…" Eriol continued. Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Well…we should carry him to his room." Sakura suggested. Everyone agreed to that too, and proceeded to carry Chaos to his room and they set him on his bed gently. Chaos was snoring gently as he rolled around the bed.
"Now what?" Li whispered to Sakura. As he looked at the sleeping dark dragon.
"Well…nothing much we can do now…let's go back and take a break…" Sakura suggested. Everyone was tired so no one complained.
Sakura and Li's room…
Li plopped down his bed…he sighed, too much has been going on for him to handle. While Sakura paced around the room worried…
"Sakura…" Li said worried. "Clam down…"
"I can't, this is a disaster Li…Chaos is in no condition to fight, or even lead for that matter, we're down three people, the enemy could launch an attack anytime now. This is just very very very bad." She exclaimed stomping her foot in frustration.
That hit Li like a rock. She was right, now that the illusion field is up again, there is no stopping them from attacking!! Li sat up wide eyed "Your right, Sakura! What do we do?"
"I don't know Li…" She sighed in frustration. "I just know that we have to prepare for the worst."
"Don't worry, Sakura I'll be by your side no matter what…I think everyone will." Li said.
Sakura nodded "Thank you, Syaoran…" She said voice dropping to a whisper.
They stared at each other for a long moment…
End of Chapter 14.
A/N: Here it is people Chapter 14!! Please R and R !!!