Ch.20: A Sliver In Time
Dart and the others stood totally still. They couldn't move, not even blink. As a matter of fact they couldn't even see. The Dragoon's had no idea that time was stopped.
The man walked over to each of them and took their Dragoon Spirits. He took each step slowly. After he had taken all of the Spirits he made time go back to it's normal self.
Dart woke up from the trance and then drew his sword. He was just in time to go see that the man was running off with all of their Spirits. He ran after him.
"Get back here!" Dart yelled
The man obviously heard him and then stopped. Dart turned the corner to see his back facing him. He yelled at him again.
"Give me back my Spirit!" Dart held out his hand
"What are you going to do? Hurt me?" He laughed
"That's what I plan to do!" Dart yelled
"But how are you going to do it? When you don't even have a DRAGOON SPIRIT!" he jumped into the air
The man then did a couple of spins in the air. He suddenly stopped exposing his front side (not naked). Then time stopped again. Yellowish orange armor formed around him. His disc spun around him to create an orb. His wings formed with a flash. He then landed and with his touch, time returned.
Dart and the others looked at him oddly. He was also a Dragoon. But again which one? Dart rushed at the newly found Dragoon, only to find himself stopped. He needed his Dragoon Spirit and he needed it now.
When he finally had the chance, Dart ran and tripped the man off guard. He luckily dropped a couple of the Spirits. Dart frantically picked them up. He threw them to Lavitz Nimbulo and Shana. They all transformed and ganged up on him. He was too nervous to stop time now.
"Give up the rest of them!" Lavitz intimidated
"Okay, okay."
He put the last of the Spirits on the ground while Dart and Jade waited for him to be done. Everyone went back to his or her original form, including the new guy.
He was revealed to be a guy about Dart's age named Jake. He had black hair and hazel eyes. He was very muscular and fit. But what puzzled Dart was why he took their Dragoon Spirits, if he himself had one.
"Why did you take out D-Spirits?" Shana asked
"These days you never know, I work for Neen, if that makes you happy" Jake spit "As an assassin?" Lavitz tested
"Yes as an assassin, I could've killed you, if it weren't for you!" he pointed at Dart
"Well, I'd be happy to kill you, if you don't have the guts to tell Neen that you failed!" Bejong poked his throat
"Oh no, maybe I could go with you instead? After all, I do have valuable information." Jake said slyly
"Can we trust him?" Jade asked
The Dragoon's held a little conference. Dart agreed to let him in, along with everyone else. He did have good weapon skills and another Dragoon for the war would be helpful. They all agreed once again and told him he was in.
They hiked through the forest with their new companion. He stayed behind in the back of the group. What a newbee. He shined his razor disc and looked at his reflection. Dart looked back at him. He saw that Jake had a huge scar running down the side of his face, near his left ear. Another one was above his right eye. He wondered where he got them.
Jake also looked at his scars. He remembered the time where he had slipped up with his disc and got serverly cut. He remembered going into his house when he was sixteen and his parents telling him he had really messed up this time. He ran out of the house after that. That was when he was sixteen. He was older now and knew his limits.
Bejong hated him. He wanted to battle him actually. He knew his weapon was deadly. Bejong was young so he liked deadly weapons like his own. He took out his Sais so Jake could clearly see that he wanted to fight. Jake simply smiled at the kid and laughed to himself. He didn't know what Bejong was capable of, or if he was a Dragoon or not.
The sunny sky started to darken a little and the night sky again dominated the light. Everyone stopped suddenly because they heard some hissing voices. They sounded angry and mad. Nobody could make out what they were saying.
Dart and Nimbulo had stepped further into the clearing to see a bunch of Basks. They seemed to be fighting about something as they always do.
"Must be a sentry post." Dart whispered
"Yeah it probably is.but how are we gonna' get past it?" Nimbulo asked
"Don't know but, we might" he was cut off
"YAHH!!!"
Jake leapt into the air while throwing his disc at a small group of them. The Dragoon's finally had a chance to see what this weapon was all about. The disc had left a trail of blue energy from its end. The disc sailed to an unsuspecting enemy. His fate was decided as the disc cut his abdomen clean in the middle. Blood spurt from his middle half.
The disc sailed back towards Jake's hands, where he landed swiftly.
"What are you waiting for? Let's get through before reinforcements come!" he yelled
Everyone ran out into the clearing, weapons drawn. Little did they know reinforcements were already there.
They kept on running to the woods' edge. When they finally got to the edge, a line of Basks carrying bows and arrow's aimed for the Dragoons. A leader of the group came out and talked to them.
"So, you fell into our trap, Emperor Neen will be most pleased that we have captured the Dragoon's and that kid" he laughed
"You have not captured us yet!" Dart yelled
He rushed toward the first guy he could find.
"WHO DIES FIRST?" he attacked
The battle started off with the Dragoon's getting pelted with arrows. Luckily, their Dragoon armor was immune to it. The only thing they had to protect was their heads. That was an easy task, until they lit the arrows on fire.
When the wave of arrows was over, the second attack was made. Many Basks went for Bejong but only because he wasn't a Dragoon. The attack on him was not easy for Bejong.
Dart turned Dark-Flame Dragoon and his sword turned into a double-sided blade (think of this: The Scorpion King's sword and now add the same sword and connect the two bottoms of the handles. That is where Dart hold's it).
He slashed away and learned some new magic while slashing. His sword burst into a long black flame and he slashed the air.
"FLAMING SLASH!" he yelled
His sword ripped the air and created a flying flame. It headed straight towards the Basks.
The real battle was going on with Jake. As he turned Dragoon, the others noticed they had not stopped with time. Why was that?
When he was done transforming, his disc had been upgraded this time, but I t was not something you could see. It was magically changed. He threw it but this time, he controlled where it went. He used two fingers to control where it went, up, down, side to side. When he wanted it to come back, he would simply open his fingers.
The real attack was when he stopped time again. This time was for a very good reason. From beyond the forest, he could see Korma flying towards the fight. The Dragoon's continued to fight, as they were immune to the time stop. But so was Korma. He made little slivers as he moved his way towards the battle, screaming as he went along. Around him were cracks, like his foot was moving on thin ice. He finally budged from the time freeze only to find that the cracks had broken and were flying towards him.
Everyone looked at Jake. His eyes were closed like he was having a tough time holding on to the freeze. Korma made even more slivers as he moved. He ignored the pain.
Jake again made these slivers fly into him. His own pain hurting him as he went along. Blood now emerged from his arms. He screamed and opened his eyes.
Time went back to normal and the Basks that were killed in the time stop fell all at the same time. This took out all but half and Korma. This time Dart was sick of him. Now he was unleashed.
"FLAMING SLASH!" he yelled
Jake fell to the ground, his arms had now stopped bleeding. He had too many people moving in that time stop. He had to choose the immunities more carefully next time. He got up and went back to battling.
Nimbulo used some Ice Beams on a small group he was attacking. His blue armor was hit with metal.
"This has to stop!" he shouted "ICE PRISM!"
He did his magic and the prism again broke into little slivers of ice. The slivers again flew to wherever they went.
Lavitz launched his new cyclone wind and sucked up a couple of Basks. He enjoyed having the pleasure of killing so many.
Shana put her new Dragoon Spirit to the test. A large group of enemies surrounded her. She didn't know what to do and was hit hard by some swords. She didn't have enough room for magic so she bore out her blades.
Shana slashed away at the villains so they would back off. Then she used her Celestial Dragon.
"CELIESTIAL DRAGON!" she shouted
From the stars came a huge rainbow colored dragon. It burst a huge blast of stars from its mouth.
"MEGAN! GO GET THEM!" she called to her dragon
Megan obeyed and shot more stars from her mouth, hitting Basks as she went along.
Bejong went along battling. Using his armor from Sonar to good use. He stabbed with his Sais and slashed with his new dagger. But suddenly, the Sentry that spoke to the Dragoon's earlier came up behind him and slashed with his battle-axe.
Bejong was hit hard and fell to the ground. Jade flew over and gave him a heal to get him back up. Bejong just stared at the Bask.
"For that.you die" he said coldly
Bejong now rushed at the Bask Sentry, stabbing and slashed with both of his weapons. The Sentry dodged many of the attacks, but got hit with even more. Bejong showed no mercy.
Dart was fed up with Korma's flames. This time he was going down and out. Dart was furious at him. Korma spit out some poison to Dart. The poison nearly missed him and Dart rushed for the kill. His blade in hand, Dart slashed wildly at the Dark monstrosity. Korma was unable to dodge because he was so big. Black blood seeped from his scales. Dart was still not satisfied he showed no mercy.
Korma on the other hand disagreed with Dart's plan. He flew off, beating his wings wildly, creating a small whirlwind to throw Dart off. This battle was over, Dart could tell, he flew back to help the others.
Bejong was still moving swiftly with his attacks, hitting the Sentry more often now. He back flipped and threw one of his Sais. The Sai nearly hit the Sentry and posted itself in the ground. Bejong was quick to pick it up.
He went back down and ducked under the Sentry. This was a bad move. The intelligent Bask had a throwing star that he threw down at Bejong, this one had a poison that not even Jade could cure.
The star hit Bejong in the back as he rolled under him. He immediately stopped his roll and fell face flat on the dirt.
Jake and Shana saw this and yelled for Jade. Jade was also down in the dirt, next to Bejong. The Sentry started to run away.
Dart flew over to Jake and asked if there was anything he could do.
"Well there is one thing but it would be changing fate" Jake said
"That doesn't matter, we have changed fate before, we have changed Soa's will" Dart pleaded
"Fine I'll do it, but it may bring back some of the Basks" Jake replied
"Just do it, a couple won't matter"
"BACKTRACK!" Jake yelled
Everyone heard ticking and tocking. But it was tock tick tock tick. Time was going backwards. Jake and the others moved backwards physically. Their weapons moved like it was a movie rewinding.
When Jake had gotten to the spot where Bejong was about to get killed, he stopped it. Bejong's body stood still, ducking under the Sentry as he threw the star. Jake went down over to the star. He moved it over to the Sentry's neck and put it right up to him. Again the cracks formed around the star. Jake flew back away from the small fight.
"Go" he whispered
The battle raged on but the main focus was the sentry's head getting cut off. Jake smiled and Bejong looked at him flying away.
Dart went over to Jade and picked her up.
"Wake up Jade wake up" he whispered in her ear
Lavitz and Nimbulo began to take out the last of the Basks. This battle was over. They all knew it. Shana brought in Megan and walked over to Jade.
"Come on Jade wake up" Shana shook her
Jade fluttered her eyes a little and everyone gave a sigh of relief. She sat up and looked flabbergasted. She also showed everyone the bruise in which the Basks gave her.
"What would we do without you?" Lavitz laughed
She smiled and looked at him turn away. Nimbulo walked over to her and gave her a smile.
"You must rest now young one" he rubbed her forehead and made a fire next to her
"Nimbulo! Come here!" Dart called
"Yeah?"
"Where are we off to tomorrow?" Dart asked
"Oh my, I forgot, we are near White Lake, the lake of the White Tower"
"Well what should we do?" Dart asked again
"Oh, well maybe we should separate." Nimbulo replied
"We are going to separate with a war on our hands?"
DDX-The Dragoon's are faced with a new challenge. What will the decision be?
Dart and the others stood totally still. They couldn't move, not even blink. As a matter of fact they couldn't even see. The Dragoon's had no idea that time was stopped.
The man walked over to each of them and took their Dragoon Spirits. He took each step slowly. After he had taken all of the Spirits he made time go back to it's normal self.
Dart woke up from the trance and then drew his sword. He was just in time to go see that the man was running off with all of their Spirits. He ran after him.
"Get back here!" Dart yelled
The man obviously heard him and then stopped. Dart turned the corner to see his back facing him. He yelled at him again.
"Give me back my Spirit!" Dart held out his hand
"What are you going to do? Hurt me?" He laughed
"That's what I plan to do!" Dart yelled
"But how are you going to do it? When you don't even have a DRAGOON SPIRIT!" he jumped into the air
The man then did a couple of spins in the air. He suddenly stopped exposing his front side (not naked). Then time stopped again. Yellowish orange armor formed around him. His disc spun around him to create an orb. His wings formed with a flash. He then landed and with his touch, time returned.
Dart and the others looked at him oddly. He was also a Dragoon. But again which one? Dart rushed at the newly found Dragoon, only to find himself stopped. He needed his Dragoon Spirit and he needed it now.
When he finally had the chance, Dart ran and tripped the man off guard. He luckily dropped a couple of the Spirits. Dart frantically picked them up. He threw them to Lavitz Nimbulo and Shana. They all transformed and ganged up on him. He was too nervous to stop time now.
"Give up the rest of them!" Lavitz intimidated
"Okay, okay."
He put the last of the Spirits on the ground while Dart and Jade waited for him to be done. Everyone went back to his or her original form, including the new guy.
He was revealed to be a guy about Dart's age named Jake. He had black hair and hazel eyes. He was very muscular and fit. But what puzzled Dart was why he took their Dragoon Spirits, if he himself had one.
"Why did you take out D-Spirits?" Shana asked
"These days you never know, I work for Neen, if that makes you happy" Jake spit "As an assassin?" Lavitz tested
"Yes as an assassin, I could've killed you, if it weren't for you!" he pointed at Dart
"Well, I'd be happy to kill you, if you don't have the guts to tell Neen that you failed!" Bejong poked his throat
"Oh no, maybe I could go with you instead? After all, I do have valuable information." Jake said slyly
"Can we trust him?" Jade asked
The Dragoon's held a little conference. Dart agreed to let him in, along with everyone else. He did have good weapon skills and another Dragoon for the war would be helpful. They all agreed once again and told him he was in.
They hiked through the forest with their new companion. He stayed behind in the back of the group. What a newbee. He shined his razor disc and looked at his reflection. Dart looked back at him. He saw that Jake had a huge scar running down the side of his face, near his left ear. Another one was above his right eye. He wondered where he got them.
Jake also looked at his scars. He remembered the time where he had slipped up with his disc and got serverly cut. He remembered going into his house when he was sixteen and his parents telling him he had really messed up this time. He ran out of the house after that. That was when he was sixteen. He was older now and knew his limits.
Bejong hated him. He wanted to battle him actually. He knew his weapon was deadly. Bejong was young so he liked deadly weapons like his own. He took out his Sais so Jake could clearly see that he wanted to fight. Jake simply smiled at the kid and laughed to himself. He didn't know what Bejong was capable of, or if he was a Dragoon or not.
The sunny sky started to darken a little and the night sky again dominated the light. Everyone stopped suddenly because they heard some hissing voices. They sounded angry and mad. Nobody could make out what they were saying.
Dart and Nimbulo had stepped further into the clearing to see a bunch of Basks. They seemed to be fighting about something as they always do.
"Must be a sentry post." Dart whispered
"Yeah it probably is.but how are we gonna' get past it?" Nimbulo asked
"Don't know but, we might" he was cut off
"YAHH!!!"
Jake leapt into the air while throwing his disc at a small group of them. The Dragoon's finally had a chance to see what this weapon was all about. The disc had left a trail of blue energy from its end. The disc sailed to an unsuspecting enemy. His fate was decided as the disc cut his abdomen clean in the middle. Blood spurt from his middle half.
The disc sailed back towards Jake's hands, where he landed swiftly.
"What are you waiting for? Let's get through before reinforcements come!" he yelled
Everyone ran out into the clearing, weapons drawn. Little did they know reinforcements were already there.
They kept on running to the woods' edge. When they finally got to the edge, a line of Basks carrying bows and arrow's aimed for the Dragoons. A leader of the group came out and talked to them.
"So, you fell into our trap, Emperor Neen will be most pleased that we have captured the Dragoon's and that kid" he laughed
"You have not captured us yet!" Dart yelled
He rushed toward the first guy he could find.
"WHO DIES FIRST?" he attacked
The battle started off with the Dragoon's getting pelted with arrows. Luckily, their Dragoon armor was immune to it. The only thing they had to protect was their heads. That was an easy task, until they lit the arrows on fire.
When the wave of arrows was over, the second attack was made. Many Basks went for Bejong but only because he wasn't a Dragoon. The attack on him was not easy for Bejong.
Dart turned Dark-Flame Dragoon and his sword turned into a double-sided blade (think of this: The Scorpion King's sword and now add the same sword and connect the two bottoms of the handles. That is where Dart hold's it).
He slashed away and learned some new magic while slashing. His sword burst into a long black flame and he slashed the air.
"FLAMING SLASH!" he yelled
His sword ripped the air and created a flying flame. It headed straight towards the Basks.
The real battle was going on with Jake. As he turned Dragoon, the others noticed they had not stopped with time. Why was that?
When he was done transforming, his disc had been upgraded this time, but I t was not something you could see. It was magically changed. He threw it but this time, he controlled where it went. He used two fingers to control where it went, up, down, side to side. When he wanted it to come back, he would simply open his fingers.
The real attack was when he stopped time again. This time was for a very good reason. From beyond the forest, he could see Korma flying towards the fight. The Dragoon's continued to fight, as they were immune to the time stop. But so was Korma. He made little slivers as he moved his way towards the battle, screaming as he went along. Around him were cracks, like his foot was moving on thin ice. He finally budged from the time freeze only to find that the cracks had broken and were flying towards him.
Everyone looked at Jake. His eyes were closed like he was having a tough time holding on to the freeze. Korma made even more slivers as he moved. He ignored the pain.
Jake again made these slivers fly into him. His own pain hurting him as he went along. Blood now emerged from his arms. He screamed and opened his eyes.
Time went back to normal and the Basks that were killed in the time stop fell all at the same time. This took out all but half and Korma. This time Dart was sick of him. Now he was unleashed.
"FLAMING SLASH!" he yelled
Jake fell to the ground, his arms had now stopped bleeding. He had too many people moving in that time stop. He had to choose the immunities more carefully next time. He got up and went back to battling.
Nimbulo used some Ice Beams on a small group he was attacking. His blue armor was hit with metal.
"This has to stop!" he shouted "ICE PRISM!"
He did his magic and the prism again broke into little slivers of ice. The slivers again flew to wherever they went.
Lavitz launched his new cyclone wind and sucked up a couple of Basks. He enjoyed having the pleasure of killing so many.
Shana put her new Dragoon Spirit to the test. A large group of enemies surrounded her. She didn't know what to do and was hit hard by some swords. She didn't have enough room for magic so she bore out her blades.
Shana slashed away at the villains so they would back off. Then she used her Celestial Dragon.
"CELIESTIAL DRAGON!" she shouted
From the stars came a huge rainbow colored dragon. It burst a huge blast of stars from its mouth.
"MEGAN! GO GET THEM!" she called to her dragon
Megan obeyed and shot more stars from her mouth, hitting Basks as she went along.
Bejong went along battling. Using his armor from Sonar to good use. He stabbed with his Sais and slashed with his new dagger. But suddenly, the Sentry that spoke to the Dragoon's earlier came up behind him and slashed with his battle-axe.
Bejong was hit hard and fell to the ground. Jade flew over and gave him a heal to get him back up. Bejong just stared at the Bask.
"For that.you die" he said coldly
Bejong now rushed at the Bask Sentry, stabbing and slashed with both of his weapons. The Sentry dodged many of the attacks, but got hit with even more. Bejong showed no mercy.
Dart was fed up with Korma's flames. This time he was going down and out. Dart was furious at him. Korma spit out some poison to Dart. The poison nearly missed him and Dart rushed for the kill. His blade in hand, Dart slashed wildly at the Dark monstrosity. Korma was unable to dodge because he was so big. Black blood seeped from his scales. Dart was still not satisfied he showed no mercy.
Korma on the other hand disagreed with Dart's plan. He flew off, beating his wings wildly, creating a small whirlwind to throw Dart off. This battle was over, Dart could tell, he flew back to help the others.
Bejong was still moving swiftly with his attacks, hitting the Sentry more often now. He back flipped and threw one of his Sais. The Sai nearly hit the Sentry and posted itself in the ground. Bejong was quick to pick it up.
He went back down and ducked under the Sentry. This was a bad move. The intelligent Bask had a throwing star that he threw down at Bejong, this one had a poison that not even Jade could cure.
The star hit Bejong in the back as he rolled under him. He immediately stopped his roll and fell face flat on the dirt.
Jake and Shana saw this and yelled for Jade. Jade was also down in the dirt, next to Bejong. The Sentry started to run away.
Dart flew over to Jake and asked if there was anything he could do.
"Well there is one thing but it would be changing fate" Jake said
"That doesn't matter, we have changed fate before, we have changed Soa's will" Dart pleaded
"Fine I'll do it, but it may bring back some of the Basks" Jake replied
"Just do it, a couple won't matter"
"BACKTRACK!" Jake yelled
Everyone heard ticking and tocking. But it was tock tick tock tick. Time was going backwards. Jake and the others moved backwards physically. Their weapons moved like it was a movie rewinding.
When Jake had gotten to the spot where Bejong was about to get killed, he stopped it. Bejong's body stood still, ducking under the Sentry as he threw the star. Jake went down over to the star. He moved it over to the Sentry's neck and put it right up to him. Again the cracks formed around the star. Jake flew back away from the small fight.
"Go" he whispered
The battle raged on but the main focus was the sentry's head getting cut off. Jake smiled and Bejong looked at him flying away.
Dart went over to Jade and picked her up.
"Wake up Jade wake up" he whispered in her ear
Lavitz and Nimbulo began to take out the last of the Basks. This battle was over. They all knew it. Shana brought in Megan and walked over to Jade.
"Come on Jade wake up" Shana shook her
Jade fluttered her eyes a little and everyone gave a sigh of relief. She sat up and looked flabbergasted. She also showed everyone the bruise in which the Basks gave her.
"What would we do without you?" Lavitz laughed
She smiled and looked at him turn away. Nimbulo walked over to her and gave her a smile.
"You must rest now young one" he rubbed her forehead and made a fire next to her
"Nimbulo! Come here!" Dart called
"Yeah?"
"Where are we off to tomorrow?" Dart asked
"Oh my, I forgot, we are near White Lake, the lake of the White Tower"
"Well what should we do?" Dart asked again
"Oh, well maybe we should separate." Nimbulo replied
"We are going to separate with a war on our hands?"
DDX-The Dragoon's are faced with a new challenge. What will the decision be?
