Ch. 16: Trouble At The Proba Ruins

Dart and the company listened to the rest of Jade's story.

"He may use Omega in this war. I don't even know if I should call it a war. It would be more like a battle. Omega has immense power that we are inferior too. Even Dragoon magic is no match for him, mainly because there are only four of us. That is pretty much it, that's the story of the Divine War." Jade finished with a big breath

"Wow, but why are we is targets and how he know about us?" Lavitz asked "I know, he sent out some of his minions to kill me and Shana. He successfully killed Rose as she gave me her D-Spirit" Dart explained "But how could he be here in Orth when he is ruler of Endiness?" "Are these worlds connected somehow?" Shana asked "Maybe, if so, there should be a way you can get back to your own world." Jade thought out loud

The company kept moving through the forest as quickly as possible, Jade leading the way. She came to a sudden halt when she approached the ruins. She was amazed to see all that was left of the war.

"This my friends is the last fort made by Probian's, the war ended before it was destroyed"

"Wow and for it to stand here all this time. I wonder who protected it" Shana questioned

"Well, I think I might be able to read who made it and who guarded it, Probian's always put both of those names on this type of thing" Jade walked over to it

She inspected every inch of the fort. Dart and Lavitz followed. She looked for any form of writing or inscription. She finally found one. It read as follows: "Whomever is reading this has broken the magic barrier. Nimbula and Jurama have made this fort. Both have served their lives in the Divine War"

"Nimbula, sounds like Nimbulo's dad. I wonder if it is." Jade asked

Suddenly like out of the shadows came a shape and it didn't look pretty. Dart drew his spear and countered an attack by the thing. It moved so fast that Dart could not keep track of it. It never stopped. Dart had to stand his ground in order to not get killed by the blade it was slashing with. By now Shana had her blades ready and threw one at the thing. Its speed out matched that of the blade. Lavitz tried chasing it only to be cut at slightly if he hadn't turned Dragoon as he saw the blade coming at him. The blade just barely pierced his armor. Lavitz soon backed off.

Dart eyed the thing as it keep moving non-stop. Once it noticed Dart just staring at him, he took it personal and went all out. Dart could just barely keep up with it's movements. Once it was done, it went back to the shadows. These last few moments seemed all a blur to Dart, he fainted.

When Dart awoke he was in someone's house. He could hear laughing, it sounded like Lavitz laughing and Jade and Shana. He sat up and realized he was on a bed. A fairly old guy (like Haschel old but a little younger) came up and greeted him.

"Hello, I see you're awake how do you feel?" the guy said "Back off old man!"

Dart drew his spear but nothing was there (by the way Dart draws the spear by holding his hand out and black energy forms in the shape of a spear. then it emerges out of the energy into the weapon itself. it's literally impossible to lose it b/c he can summon it from anywhere)

Dart eyes beamed around the house, unaware that this was a good kind- hearted man Dart's spear flew to his hand. Nimbulo blocked the spear by putting his arm out and catching it himself. He held it out in front of Dart.

"So, you don't get that I've healed you?" Nimbulo said "Wait, now it's coming back to me, you're the guy we've been looking for!" Dart exclaimed "Yes, I believe so" Nimbulo replied

Dart's D-Spirit glowed somewhat brightly when he moved over, exposing the light from within his pocket.

"What the." Dart said confused

The Spirit shown brighter as he took it out and stood off the bed. He looked around the house. He knew that there was a Dragoon Spirit somewhere within these walls. The Spirit got brighter and brighter until Dart found the actual thing itself. It was a light blue, but different than Meru's. Nimbulo quickly grabbed it.

"That's mine, it was my fathers but I found it at the Proba Ruins as a young child. Knowing it was his, I kept it forever" Nimbulo explained "Everyone, hold out your Spirits! We have to awaken this Dragoon!" Dart yelled

They all held out their Spirit's one by one and Nimbulo became Dragoon.

(His transformation is somewhat like Kongol's but here it is: His spear was launched into the air, and he was crystallized in ice. You can see through the ice so he was crossing his arms, the spear came down in hard ice and cracked open the ice crystal that held Nimbulo. Then, a blinding flash of turquoise. After the light, Nimbulo appears with turquoise armor. He holds out spear like Rose does when she transforms)

He checked out the armor and everything. Amazed at what he had become. The Ice Dragoon (MY! Ice Dragoon). His spear had become double sided with blades three bladed tips at each end. Nimbulo de-transformed.

"The Ice Dragoon? I've never heard of it. It's like the Star Dragoon maybe they have a connection." Dart asked "I don't know but, what did I just do?" Nimbulo exclaimed

(Dart explains EVERYTHING to Nimbulo)

"So it must be a great honor to be a Dragoon" Nimbulo asked "Yeah, it is" Lavitz answered "Do you know anyone else who might have a gem like yours?" Jade asked beaming at Nimbulo for no reason "No not that I know of except you guys" Nimbulo beamed back at her "Well, we wanted to go back to the Proba Ruins tonight because we had a little encounter with something that wanted to destroy us it looked like. It was skilled in battle and had the agility and speed no actual person could have" Shana said

"Oh, I can take you there, the criminal always returns to the crime" Nimbulo stated

******2 hours later*******

Dart and the company trudged along into the forest. They could barely see where they we're going if it weren't for their glowing Spirits. Dart was the one who located the ruins first, he actually bumped into them.

"Well here it is!" Nimbulo laughed "Yeah yeah I know" Dart grumbled "Shhh listen." Nimbulo whispered

The silence of the night was all the company could hear. Or was that a bad thing. Suddenly they heard a 'swoosh, whoosh, swish' like something was moving. Dart summoned his spear and Shana took out her blades. Lavitz his spear and so on. It sounded like someone was moving through the woods at a great speed. Nimbulo told everyone to put away his or her weapons. They followed his direction. Nimbulo kept his spear and turned Dragoon. Suddenly the thing was so close that it stopped. It was shining with a grey-ish black-ish glow. The person looked so familiar to Dart. Shana too and also Jade. They just couldn't recognize who he was.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Nimbulo exclaimed "All of your heads! That's what I want" the familiar voice and body shouted out

He talked no longer and mumbled some words. Seconds later he fired a shadowy blast at Nimbulo. Nimbulo was unaware of this and got hit pretty hard. His body like a rag doll hitting the floor.

Surprisingly to everyone he got up and wiped the blood from his face. He launched his first magic attack at the shadowy figure.

"ICE BEAM!" Nimbulo shouted (ok what he does for this is he stabs the air four times to make a diamond. Then he spun around and stabbed it one final time to make the attack. The four beams guided the middle beam of ice in a zigzag motion.

The shadow was off guard because he was too busy laughing. It hit him hard and he fell this time. Nimbulo made his way to where he was laying and kept his distance. The shadow suddenly jumped up and slashed at Nimbulo. Amazingly his spear blocked the attack. Nimbulo back flipped and landed safely away from the shadow. From then on it was a dodge/block/attack battle. Nimbulo was never hit. Only once was he barely.

Dart was amazed that a man his age could move so fast and nimble (like his name). What happened next was not good. Nimbulo was caught off guard and was hit where there was no armor. His throat was just slightly slit across the middle.

"Ugh, no problem, clearly fixed up." Nimbulo said ignoring his pain

"It may be a problem, once your head is clearly chopped off your shoulders!" the shadow beckoned

It ran towards Nimbulo and slashed the blade with one clean swift.

"NIMBULO!" Dart shouted "OH GOD NO!" Jade yelled

Dart drew his spear, but Lavitz told him to hold off.

"You don't know how to use that as skilled as I do, I'll go" Lavitz decided

"Alright, you can go" Dart agreed

Lavitz rushed at the shadow who was not even paying attention to the attack. He was pinned to the ground by the blow. Nimbulo got up again.

"How can he get up again.it's like he's immortal" Lavitz told himself

The shadow got up and managed to get some words out before running away.

"I will see all of you again very very soon" it cackled

The shadow jumped off into the darkness leaving no trace of blood or showing no pain at all.