The Hunt for Eden
Chapter Two, Leviathan's Heart.
Eddie collapsed against a rock in the wilderness outside of Balamb, the huge city with its emerald lights still clearly in sight. Eddie guessed that the festival was not really over yet.
Eddie took a second to try and catch his breath. He had been running for nearly half an hour trying to put as much distance between him and Balamb as possible, but even with his high stamina he couldn't run another inch without at least resting for a moment. As he looked back at the city he estimated that he had run about two miles from Balamb before he stopped.
Eddie, are you all right? Bahamut asked inside his head sounding generally concerned.
What have I done Bahamut.What have I done? Eddie replied, his emotions collapsing down upon him like a ton of bricks.
What am I going to do Bahamut? What is there to do? No doubt they're searching for me right now. Who knows what they're going to do to me as soon as they find me.
Eddie, you're not thinking clearly, just stretch your senses a bit and you'll know that there's no one outside the city.
Eddie tried to do as the great GF suggested but found that fatigue and pressing sadness would not allow him. Eddie knew that he was falling closer and closer to sleep every passing moment.
Bahamut, I'm sorry I let you down. I should have. Eddie started.
Eddie, forget it. I'll stick with you till the very end. You know, that in the many years I have had many masters, even before Tyranis, but you are by far my favorite. There's nothing you could say or do that would make me think otherwise.
Thanks, Brother.
You're very welcome, now get some sleep, I know that the emotions running through you right now combined with the amount of stress from that mad run from the city have left you tired. I'll keep watch for monsters, and people from the city.
Thanks bro, but I can't sleep right now. My stomach is twisting in so many different knots I'll never get any sleep.
Oh you'll sleep, I'll see to that.
What do you mean. Eddie once again started but was cut off. When all time has gone by, Bahamut sang, his deep dragon-like voice sounding soothing, when all things are said and done, I will be here, with you, protecting you, keeping you safe, from everything.. but you.
Now for my sake, and yours, please keep strength, for should you fall, I'll be without you.
.and I cant do that.for I cant do that.
When the sun has all burned out, and the stars, are all dim, keep at heart, what I said.
Cast all thoughts aside, and remember.
Eddie was shocked, but happy, Bahamut, you sang the very same song.he thought, before he fell into a deep sleep.
Sleep tightly bro. Bahamut said, starting his watch while his "brother" slept in a peaceful bliss.
*** The morning light covered the wilderness outside of Balamb in a blanket of warmth that only it could provide, and that's how Eddie awoke in warmth and happiness.
Morning Eddie. Bahamut greeted upon Eddie arrival on consciousness. Sleep well?
Fine thanks. How was the night?
It was fine, no major problems, though your father was outside the city this morning looking for you, he didn't come anywhere near us..
All right. Thanks bro.
Eddie stood up and began to survey his surroundings in the light of day. Last night he had been too frantic, and he hadn't really gotten the chance to look around. Upon further inspection of he are he saw that he had slept within a grove of wild apple trees.
Eddie dusted himself off, and picked a few apples to eat for breakfast and went out in search of water. He knew from other visits outside the city that there was a stream somewhere outside it, and he knew that he was in the general direction of the stream when he ran outside the confines of the city. After about half an hour of searching he heard the noises of running water, because he had found the stream.
Eddie, without any thought, gorged himself on the water, letting all sense of caution leave him. Eddie drank deeply, feeling refreshed quickly. He was about to get up and leave when he felt something tap his back. With reflexes born of intense martial arts training since he was four, he jumped around ready to have to defend himself, but instead he found his young sister Octavia looking back at him.
"Oci? What are you doing here?" Eddie asked dumfounded, wondering how his sister got so close to him without him sensing her presence, or being alerted by Bahamut.
Bahamut, why didn't you tell me she was here? Eddie asked.
I didn't know she was, Bahamut replied, its like she appeared out of nowhere.
"I saw you do magic last night," She said quietly, "I saw you use it to fix mommy."
"Oh."
"I wanted to let you know that it's not your fault. She shouldn't have been so mean to you, it's her fault."
"All right." Eddie said.
"What are you going to do now?" She asked.
Eddie kneeled down to the water and splashed some on his face, "I don't know, I guess I will think of something."
"You're not going to come back home are you?" It was more of a statement then a question. For such a little girl she was no fool.
"No, how can I after what I did."
"Tell me something Ed, how did you do magic? Are you a sorceress?"
Eddie laughed, than replied, "No Oci, I'm not, and besides a Sorceress is a girl. I would be a Sorcerer."
"Oh, then you're not like me?" Octavia said.
"Like you? What do you mean?" Eddie asked.
"Mom told me not to tell you, but I can do magic too. I am a Sorceress."
Eddie's brain didn't quite register what she had said. As soon as it kicked in what she had said his mouth fell open in a state of shock.
"You're a Sorceress." Eddie said in shock. He really didn't quite know what to say to that, so he just put it out of his mind for a while and waited for Octavia to continue her words. She didn't, not on the matter he had expected. "So how can you do magic if your not a Sorcer- whatever."
"Well, to tell you the truth I have a GF."
"A GF?" She asked skeptically.
"Its an abbreviation. It stands for Guardian Force."
"Oh." She said, still having no idea what it is.
Eddie sat down and tried to explain to the youth what a GF was, to little successes. Just as he had given up on explaining to concept to her Bahamut screamed into his mind, A Group of Ruby Dragons are coming this way.
Ruby Dragons?! Eddie shouted back, but those aren't native to the Balamb Continent.
I don't know quite why, but ever since last night they have been flying over in flocks from the Island Closest to Hell.
No! At that level of power they are too strong for the city guard to fight off!
"Eddie, you sense them don't you? Those monsters coming this way." Octavia said.
"How did you-" Eddie started but, "Come on we have to protect the city!" Ocatvia cut off.
"But, I can't go back, not now." Eddie said full of embarrassment for what he had done.
"You have to."
You'll never get there in time, they're too close to the city by now.
Eddie didn't know what to do. He was at a complete loss for ideas. While Eddie was lost in thought, Octavia had grabbed his hand, and pulled it lightly. Before he could even think of what she was doing the two disappeared, and reappeared in the center of Balamb City, near the train station.
"What the hell?" Eddie said aloud.
"Its one of my skills as a Sorceress, I can warp us to places I have been before and can picture in my mind."
"Oh..what are you doing taking me here?" Eddie said.
Octavia was about to answer when a large group of Ruby Dragons appeared overhead. Before Eddie could even move to act all six dragons in the group let down blasts of fire, destroying the train station.
People began to run everywhere for their lives, but Eddie knew that unless he and Oci did something, the city would be completely destroyed. Eddie looked over at Oci, and the look in her eyes seemed to speak to him. He knew that he had to do something to save his home for fifteen years
Just as Eddie decided to return fire on the dragons, one of them sent a blast of fire hurtling down toward them. Eddie had just enough time to cast 'Protect' upon himself before he was hit with the blast head on. He closed his eyes quickly, in shock of being attack so quickly, but then, he opened them and saw that the 'Protect' spell he had cast absorbed almost all of the damage that it would have taken, and soon the fires cleared.
A few people around him had stopped running for a moment in surprise that Eddie was still alive, but then continued running for their lives. Another blast of fire came his way, but this time instead of relying an already failing 'Protect' spell, he jumped out of the way in a spring, and while mid air he countered with a spell of his own.
"DEMI!!!"
The spell hit its target, and the dragon was knocked down in surprise of the deadly hit. It seemed severly hurt, but Eddie knew that it takes only about a forth of the dragons total strength. He didn't want to give the Dragon any time to recover.
"ULTIMA!!!"
The sheer power of a head of 'Ultima' blast hitting the dragon made it fall to the ground, already dying.
I'll finish it then, Eddie thought, "HOLY!" He looked on as the dragon died, this time for sure.
Eddie began to hurl 'Ultima' blasts at packs of dragons with so much magical energy in them that the dragons would fall in one hit, or scatter out of few, but the battle was intense.
Eddie also saw, to his surprise that Octavia was slamming her own array of Sorceress spells including 'Maelstrom' and 'Holy'. It also caught Eddie off guard how she was able to follow his movements almost exactly and avoid the continuous oncoming fire. Eddie could flip, or crouch or do high speed combinations of these and she would be right behind him.
"Oci, I'm running low on 'Holy' spells, you have any I can use." Eddie called over.
"Plenty, 'Draw' from me." Oci replied.
Eddie did so in the standard flash of pink and blue lights, while flipping out of the way of another huge blast of fire. As Eddie turned his head to avoid the blast, he saw that a group of the Dragons had landed and were now trying to get to a group of small children huddled under a porch.
"QUAKE!!!"
The spell crossed the ground and hit the Dragons just as they were about to get to the kids, the spell distracting them enough to move away from the kids.
They were coming from everywhere now. By now all of the town guards were dead or fleeing, and most of the town's people that didn't get away were either dead, or hurt so bad they couldn't call attention to themselves.
I count at least 200 of them inside the city already, with more still coming. Bahamut said.
There's no way we can stand up to so many. We'll just have to kill what we can.
Well, there are about 50 or so of them grouped closely together down the block, and I was kinda getting bored, I mean I haven't been summoned in a few days.
I swear, sometimes you're even more bloodthirsty then a butcher with a cleaver.
You should meet Diablos. Bahamut laughed.
Eddie ran down the street, Octavia not to far behind. Bahamut was right, there were at least 50 of them, their red hides glowing slightly.
"What are they doing, I've never seen monsters glow like this." Oci asked.
"I have no idea. I face these things from time to time when we go on vacation to Deling, renting a car and getting as close to the Island Closest to Hell as possible, but I've never seen them glow like this before."
"What do we do?"
"You wanted to know what a guardian force is, did you not?
Oci smirked as Eddie turned around and screamed the name of the attack that would summon Bahamut to the battlefield, "MEGA FLARE!!!"
Eddie shimmered for a moment and then disappeared, Bahamut appearing. As the sparkling blue Dragon took flight high in the sky, them coming back down to Earth through a few clouds, yellow electricity bolts dancing around him as he unleashed the first four Mega Flares, killing a few of the Ruby Dragons, and then shooting the huge charged up one, killing what was left of them is a huge sparkling blast of power.
Oci was stunned for the moment at the awesome power a GF had, but was quickly forced to continue, as what was left of the Ruby Dragons in other areas were on their way. By now Eddie had also reappeared to the battle.
"So, What do you think?" Eddie yelled over to his sister as he put down another Ruby Dragon with a combination of 'Stop', 'Bizzaraga', and 'Thundaga'.
"About what? The GF? Well, that was one of the more spectacular things I have seen in my life, but I have only been alive for seven years so, that's ok."
Eddie smirked, until he saw a huge group of Dragons swooping down toward him. They were just beyond the city limits and he could only see them through sensing with Bahamut, but there must have been hundreds of them at least. Eddie grabbed Ocitavia's hand and ran for it.
When the two had stopped behind a fallen building Eddie finally let go of her hand, and she attempted to go back into battle.
"Why did you pull me away, we have to save more people!!!" She wined.
"Don't you sense them?" Eddie asked.
"Sense what?" Oci said, he eyes looking confused.
"Sense the area around a bit and you will see."
Oci looked at Eddie strangely, but did as she was told. Her expression was of sheer fear when she noticed all of the oncoming Dragons.
"How come I didn't sense them before?" She asked in shock.
"Your concentration was on the battle."
"What are we going to do?"
"I'm not going to lie to you, there's no way we will be able to fight them off. Not without help."
"So then what do we do? Just sit here and die?"
"Of course not, we take as many of them as we can with us."
"All right."
They ran back into battle.
"Octavia, lets fight our way toward the Town Guard Armory. Maybe they will have a few things that can help us."
Oci nodded and both of them ran off, unleashing a few simple spells to distract any oncoming Dragons. When they arrived at the armory they saw that a few of the towns guard had gathered what they can of the armory and were build up any defense they could scrap together from half burned wood and metal. There were about 20 men in all.
Eddie walked up to one of them that seemed to be the commander of the platoon and asked him, "Do you have any idea what's going no here? Do you know what's making the monsters act so strange?"
"No Idea. Something is calling them here like a beacon. We hold 'em off as long as we can though."
Could it be us? Eddie asked Bahamut, Our magical signatures?
Not likely, they would have come sooner, we have used magic before.
You're right.
"Me and my sister can help out." Eddie offered.
"At this point we will accept anything. The dragons got the city surrounded so there's nothing else you can do. Can you se this?" The Commando said handing Eddie a rocket launcher bazooka that was a common weapon used by G- Solders.
"Ya. Sure." Eddie said taking the weapon and a box of rockets he handed to Oci, "You keep reloading me ok?"
"OK!" she said.
Eddie and Octavia took their positions behind on of the scrap barriers set up. They had sat down next to a woman wearing a G-Soldier Uniform, without the helm. She had beautiful long back hair falling to about her waits and stunning black eyes that seemed to be blue at the center instead of the black pupil, but Eddie had no idea. There was something about her though, that was strange, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
The Soldier notice Eddie's gaze and smirked, "Nice to meet you too Eddie. My name is Rita."
"How do you know." Eddie had said, but a flock of Ruby Dragons had appeared overhead. Everyone started to scream. Eddie forgot about Rita for a moment and turned to firing rockets at the enemies. The rockets seemed to be made of titanium plating which made it possible to pierce the skin of the Dragons, and their charges were depleted uranium cores, the best of the G- Army handheld rockets. They had a good chance of injuring a dragon enough to keep it out of commission.
The battle seemed to last for hours, when if fact it was on a few minuets when they had sadly ran out of rockets. All of the normal men had died almost instantly. When Eddie and Octavia ran from the seen only Rita had been alive and she soon fallowed them at surprising speed. All three of them his behind a crumbling building.
"What do you think is drawing them here?" Octavia asked Eddie as they tried to get their breath.
"That.," Rita said, "Would be the fault of myself."
"What?" Eddie asked.
"I should have known that the power signature would be to high if I can here, that it would draw their attention, but I had to come."
"What signature?" Eddie asked.
"The magical one that the three of us put out."
"What?" Oci asked.
"Oh please. You should have been able to figure it out buy now. I hold Leviathan the GF."
Eddie's mouth dropped open.
Authors Note- I tried my hand at song writing. I want to know if it sounded to romantic to convey the brotherly message. I know it sucked, but I tried. Oh and you all know of my lack of Editor, bear with me please. CLIFFHANGER!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!
Eddie collapsed against a rock in the wilderness outside of Balamb, the huge city with its emerald lights still clearly in sight. Eddie guessed that the festival was not really over yet.
Eddie took a second to try and catch his breath. He had been running for nearly half an hour trying to put as much distance between him and Balamb as possible, but even with his high stamina he couldn't run another inch without at least resting for a moment. As he looked back at the city he estimated that he had run about two miles from Balamb before he stopped.
Eddie, are you all right? Bahamut asked inside his head sounding generally concerned.
What have I done Bahamut.What have I done? Eddie replied, his emotions collapsing down upon him like a ton of bricks.
What am I going to do Bahamut? What is there to do? No doubt they're searching for me right now. Who knows what they're going to do to me as soon as they find me.
Eddie, you're not thinking clearly, just stretch your senses a bit and you'll know that there's no one outside the city.
Eddie tried to do as the great GF suggested but found that fatigue and pressing sadness would not allow him. Eddie knew that he was falling closer and closer to sleep every passing moment.
Bahamut, I'm sorry I let you down. I should have. Eddie started.
Eddie, forget it. I'll stick with you till the very end. You know, that in the many years I have had many masters, even before Tyranis, but you are by far my favorite. There's nothing you could say or do that would make me think otherwise.
Thanks, Brother.
You're very welcome, now get some sleep, I know that the emotions running through you right now combined with the amount of stress from that mad run from the city have left you tired. I'll keep watch for monsters, and people from the city.
Thanks bro, but I can't sleep right now. My stomach is twisting in so many different knots I'll never get any sleep.
Oh you'll sleep, I'll see to that.
What do you mean. Eddie once again started but was cut off. When all time has gone by, Bahamut sang, his deep dragon-like voice sounding soothing, when all things are said and done, I will be here, with you, protecting you, keeping you safe, from everything.. but you.
Now for my sake, and yours, please keep strength, for should you fall, I'll be without you.
.and I cant do that.for I cant do that.
When the sun has all burned out, and the stars, are all dim, keep at heart, what I said.
Cast all thoughts aside, and remember.
Eddie was shocked, but happy, Bahamut, you sang the very same song.he thought, before he fell into a deep sleep.
Sleep tightly bro. Bahamut said, starting his watch while his "brother" slept in a peaceful bliss.
*** The morning light covered the wilderness outside of Balamb in a blanket of warmth that only it could provide, and that's how Eddie awoke in warmth and happiness.
Morning Eddie. Bahamut greeted upon Eddie arrival on consciousness. Sleep well?
Fine thanks. How was the night?
It was fine, no major problems, though your father was outside the city this morning looking for you, he didn't come anywhere near us..
All right. Thanks bro.
Eddie stood up and began to survey his surroundings in the light of day. Last night he had been too frantic, and he hadn't really gotten the chance to look around. Upon further inspection of he are he saw that he had slept within a grove of wild apple trees.
Eddie dusted himself off, and picked a few apples to eat for breakfast and went out in search of water. He knew from other visits outside the city that there was a stream somewhere outside it, and he knew that he was in the general direction of the stream when he ran outside the confines of the city. After about half an hour of searching he heard the noises of running water, because he had found the stream.
Eddie, without any thought, gorged himself on the water, letting all sense of caution leave him. Eddie drank deeply, feeling refreshed quickly. He was about to get up and leave when he felt something tap his back. With reflexes born of intense martial arts training since he was four, he jumped around ready to have to defend himself, but instead he found his young sister Octavia looking back at him.
"Oci? What are you doing here?" Eddie asked dumfounded, wondering how his sister got so close to him without him sensing her presence, or being alerted by Bahamut.
Bahamut, why didn't you tell me she was here? Eddie asked.
I didn't know she was, Bahamut replied, its like she appeared out of nowhere.
"I saw you do magic last night," She said quietly, "I saw you use it to fix mommy."
"Oh."
"I wanted to let you know that it's not your fault. She shouldn't have been so mean to you, it's her fault."
"All right." Eddie said.
"What are you going to do now?" She asked.
Eddie kneeled down to the water and splashed some on his face, "I don't know, I guess I will think of something."
"You're not going to come back home are you?" It was more of a statement then a question. For such a little girl she was no fool.
"No, how can I after what I did."
"Tell me something Ed, how did you do magic? Are you a sorceress?"
Eddie laughed, than replied, "No Oci, I'm not, and besides a Sorceress is a girl. I would be a Sorcerer."
"Oh, then you're not like me?" Octavia said.
"Like you? What do you mean?" Eddie asked.
"Mom told me not to tell you, but I can do magic too. I am a Sorceress."
Eddie's brain didn't quite register what she had said. As soon as it kicked in what she had said his mouth fell open in a state of shock.
"You're a Sorceress." Eddie said in shock. He really didn't quite know what to say to that, so he just put it out of his mind for a while and waited for Octavia to continue her words. She didn't, not on the matter he had expected. "So how can you do magic if your not a Sorcer- whatever."
"Well, to tell you the truth I have a GF."
"A GF?" She asked skeptically.
"Its an abbreviation. It stands for Guardian Force."
"Oh." She said, still having no idea what it is.
Eddie sat down and tried to explain to the youth what a GF was, to little successes. Just as he had given up on explaining to concept to her Bahamut screamed into his mind, A Group of Ruby Dragons are coming this way.
Ruby Dragons?! Eddie shouted back, but those aren't native to the Balamb Continent.
I don't know quite why, but ever since last night they have been flying over in flocks from the Island Closest to Hell.
No! At that level of power they are too strong for the city guard to fight off!
"Eddie, you sense them don't you? Those monsters coming this way." Octavia said.
"How did you-" Eddie started but, "Come on we have to protect the city!" Ocatvia cut off.
"But, I can't go back, not now." Eddie said full of embarrassment for what he had done.
"You have to."
You'll never get there in time, they're too close to the city by now.
Eddie didn't know what to do. He was at a complete loss for ideas. While Eddie was lost in thought, Octavia had grabbed his hand, and pulled it lightly. Before he could even think of what she was doing the two disappeared, and reappeared in the center of Balamb City, near the train station.
"What the hell?" Eddie said aloud.
"Its one of my skills as a Sorceress, I can warp us to places I have been before and can picture in my mind."
"Oh..what are you doing taking me here?" Eddie said.
Octavia was about to answer when a large group of Ruby Dragons appeared overhead. Before Eddie could even move to act all six dragons in the group let down blasts of fire, destroying the train station.
People began to run everywhere for their lives, but Eddie knew that unless he and Oci did something, the city would be completely destroyed. Eddie looked over at Oci, and the look in her eyes seemed to speak to him. He knew that he had to do something to save his home for fifteen years
Just as Eddie decided to return fire on the dragons, one of them sent a blast of fire hurtling down toward them. Eddie had just enough time to cast 'Protect' upon himself before he was hit with the blast head on. He closed his eyes quickly, in shock of being attack so quickly, but then, he opened them and saw that the 'Protect' spell he had cast absorbed almost all of the damage that it would have taken, and soon the fires cleared.
A few people around him had stopped running for a moment in surprise that Eddie was still alive, but then continued running for their lives. Another blast of fire came his way, but this time instead of relying an already failing 'Protect' spell, he jumped out of the way in a spring, and while mid air he countered with a spell of his own.
"DEMI!!!"
The spell hit its target, and the dragon was knocked down in surprise of the deadly hit. It seemed severly hurt, but Eddie knew that it takes only about a forth of the dragons total strength. He didn't want to give the Dragon any time to recover.
"ULTIMA!!!"
The sheer power of a head of 'Ultima' blast hitting the dragon made it fall to the ground, already dying.
I'll finish it then, Eddie thought, "HOLY!" He looked on as the dragon died, this time for sure.
Eddie began to hurl 'Ultima' blasts at packs of dragons with so much magical energy in them that the dragons would fall in one hit, or scatter out of few, but the battle was intense.
Eddie also saw, to his surprise that Octavia was slamming her own array of Sorceress spells including 'Maelstrom' and 'Holy'. It also caught Eddie off guard how she was able to follow his movements almost exactly and avoid the continuous oncoming fire. Eddie could flip, or crouch or do high speed combinations of these and she would be right behind him.
"Oci, I'm running low on 'Holy' spells, you have any I can use." Eddie called over.
"Plenty, 'Draw' from me." Oci replied.
Eddie did so in the standard flash of pink and blue lights, while flipping out of the way of another huge blast of fire. As Eddie turned his head to avoid the blast, he saw that a group of the Dragons had landed and were now trying to get to a group of small children huddled under a porch.
"QUAKE!!!"
The spell crossed the ground and hit the Dragons just as they were about to get to the kids, the spell distracting them enough to move away from the kids.
They were coming from everywhere now. By now all of the town guards were dead or fleeing, and most of the town's people that didn't get away were either dead, or hurt so bad they couldn't call attention to themselves.
I count at least 200 of them inside the city already, with more still coming. Bahamut said.
There's no way we can stand up to so many. We'll just have to kill what we can.
Well, there are about 50 or so of them grouped closely together down the block, and I was kinda getting bored, I mean I haven't been summoned in a few days.
I swear, sometimes you're even more bloodthirsty then a butcher with a cleaver.
You should meet Diablos. Bahamut laughed.
Eddie ran down the street, Octavia not to far behind. Bahamut was right, there were at least 50 of them, their red hides glowing slightly.
"What are they doing, I've never seen monsters glow like this." Oci asked.
"I have no idea. I face these things from time to time when we go on vacation to Deling, renting a car and getting as close to the Island Closest to Hell as possible, but I've never seen them glow like this before."
"What do we do?"
"You wanted to know what a guardian force is, did you not?
Oci smirked as Eddie turned around and screamed the name of the attack that would summon Bahamut to the battlefield, "MEGA FLARE!!!"
Eddie shimmered for a moment and then disappeared, Bahamut appearing. As the sparkling blue Dragon took flight high in the sky, them coming back down to Earth through a few clouds, yellow electricity bolts dancing around him as he unleashed the first four Mega Flares, killing a few of the Ruby Dragons, and then shooting the huge charged up one, killing what was left of them is a huge sparkling blast of power.
Oci was stunned for the moment at the awesome power a GF had, but was quickly forced to continue, as what was left of the Ruby Dragons in other areas were on their way. By now Eddie had also reappeared to the battle.
"So, What do you think?" Eddie yelled over to his sister as he put down another Ruby Dragon with a combination of 'Stop', 'Bizzaraga', and 'Thundaga'.
"About what? The GF? Well, that was one of the more spectacular things I have seen in my life, but I have only been alive for seven years so, that's ok."
Eddie smirked, until he saw a huge group of Dragons swooping down toward him. They were just beyond the city limits and he could only see them through sensing with Bahamut, but there must have been hundreds of them at least. Eddie grabbed Ocitavia's hand and ran for it.
When the two had stopped behind a fallen building Eddie finally let go of her hand, and she attempted to go back into battle.
"Why did you pull me away, we have to save more people!!!" She wined.
"Don't you sense them?" Eddie asked.
"Sense what?" Oci said, he eyes looking confused.
"Sense the area around a bit and you will see."
Oci looked at Eddie strangely, but did as she was told. Her expression was of sheer fear when she noticed all of the oncoming Dragons.
"How come I didn't sense them before?" She asked in shock.
"Your concentration was on the battle."
"What are we going to do?"
"I'm not going to lie to you, there's no way we will be able to fight them off. Not without help."
"So then what do we do? Just sit here and die?"
"Of course not, we take as many of them as we can with us."
"All right."
They ran back into battle.
"Octavia, lets fight our way toward the Town Guard Armory. Maybe they will have a few things that can help us."
Oci nodded and both of them ran off, unleashing a few simple spells to distract any oncoming Dragons. When they arrived at the armory they saw that a few of the towns guard had gathered what they can of the armory and were build up any defense they could scrap together from half burned wood and metal. There were about 20 men in all.
Eddie walked up to one of them that seemed to be the commander of the platoon and asked him, "Do you have any idea what's going no here? Do you know what's making the monsters act so strange?"
"No Idea. Something is calling them here like a beacon. We hold 'em off as long as we can though."
Could it be us? Eddie asked Bahamut, Our magical signatures?
Not likely, they would have come sooner, we have used magic before.
You're right.
"Me and my sister can help out." Eddie offered.
"At this point we will accept anything. The dragons got the city surrounded so there's nothing else you can do. Can you se this?" The Commando said handing Eddie a rocket launcher bazooka that was a common weapon used by G- Solders.
"Ya. Sure." Eddie said taking the weapon and a box of rockets he handed to Oci, "You keep reloading me ok?"
"OK!" she said.
Eddie and Octavia took their positions behind on of the scrap barriers set up. They had sat down next to a woman wearing a G-Soldier Uniform, without the helm. She had beautiful long back hair falling to about her waits and stunning black eyes that seemed to be blue at the center instead of the black pupil, but Eddie had no idea. There was something about her though, that was strange, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
The Soldier notice Eddie's gaze and smirked, "Nice to meet you too Eddie. My name is Rita."
"How do you know." Eddie had said, but a flock of Ruby Dragons had appeared overhead. Everyone started to scream. Eddie forgot about Rita for a moment and turned to firing rockets at the enemies. The rockets seemed to be made of titanium plating which made it possible to pierce the skin of the Dragons, and their charges were depleted uranium cores, the best of the G- Army handheld rockets. They had a good chance of injuring a dragon enough to keep it out of commission.
The battle seemed to last for hours, when if fact it was on a few minuets when they had sadly ran out of rockets. All of the normal men had died almost instantly. When Eddie and Octavia ran from the seen only Rita had been alive and she soon fallowed them at surprising speed. All three of them his behind a crumbling building.
"What do you think is drawing them here?" Octavia asked Eddie as they tried to get their breath.
"That.," Rita said, "Would be the fault of myself."
"What?" Eddie asked.
"I should have known that the power signature would be to high if I can here, that it would draw their attention, but I had to come."
"What signature?" Eddie asked.
"The magical one that the three of us put out."
"What?" Oci asked.
"Oh please. You should have been able to figure it out buy now. I hold Leviathan the GF."
Eddie's mouth dropped open.
Authors Note- I tried my hand at song writing. I want to know if it sounded to romantic to convey the brotherly message. I know it sucked, but I tried. Oh and you all know of my lack of Editor, bear with me please. CLIFFHANGER!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!