Ch.23: The Shadow War
Dart's blade started to rise. Its black shininess was visible through the boggy rain that was bestowing the land. Drops of rain trickled down the blade to the hilt. As it rose, the tip shone across the land.
Every man, beast or Dragoon charged at the first enemy they saw. Dart was the only one who stayed where he was. He saw Korma and Neen fly straight toward him. There was no use going for the army. This was where the real war was.
Neen uttered a small spell for a Shadow to emit from his blade. The blast nearly hit Dart. Neen jumped off of Korma and flew around him, chasing Dart. Korma was caught in the mess of this. He spit fire towards which one he thought was Dart.
Bejong charged into battle, his Sais in hand. He slashed and stabbed away at everything that challenged him. His anger took quite a role in this battle. He wanted so much to be a Dragoon. Hopefully Dart would help him get his Spirit. He had grown somewhat fond of the Shadow Dragoon Spirit. But his obsession wouldn't keep him off-guard.
Shana and Jade stuck together; they worked as a team to take out groups of Basks and men. They were very surprised that any race of man would want to be one of Neen's pawns. Shana gave Jade one of her blades. She did not need two when they were working together.
Jake, Lavitz, and Nimbulo all stuck together as a group like Shana and Jade. They looked out for each other, like brothers.
The rain had started to get heavy. Nobody could really see anything until you saw the silver metal in front of your face. The Dragoon's had trouble seeing too. But that's why they stuck together in teams. Dart and Bejong were the only ones who had to extra careful.
"Give up now Dart, or my beast shall KILL YOU!" Neen shouted
"Never, a warrior who fights for fate never gives up!" Dart retorted
"Then shall I summon Omega?!" Neen smiled
"No not now" Dart said child-like
Neen got furious at this comment. He flew straight past Korma and to Dart. Metal met metal in the collision. Dart smiled at Neen. He flew away from Dart and let Korma do the rest.
"This is not the first time I have seen your technique! I will kill you now!" he yelled
Korma couldn't understand but took a swipe at the Dragon Knight. Dart nimbly dodged the blow but didn't stray too far from where he was going to attack.
"FLAME.SLASH!" he shouted
This time, Dart went straight up to him and slashed the sword. It pierced his scales and blood seeped out of the wound. As the deep red blood hit the ground, it sizzled and hissed.
"That's acid!" Dart cried
He quickly jumped away from the wound and the blood. He shot Neen a cold look that set Neen off (it seems that he has a short temper eh?)
"I will kill all of you Dragoon's, your time is up!" he shouted
"You want me? Then come and get me!" Dart intimidated
"There is no chance that I will not get you! You can't run forever!" Neen yelled
The Emperor jumped on to Korma's back, even though he could fly he needed something faster. Korma would occasionally be commanded to throw fire at Dart. Each time, Dart felt a singe on the sole of his foot.
Bejong ran to the outer edges of the war. Hopefully, nothing noticed him behind the small hill. He touched the wound on his shoulder. As soon as he did, a little bit of blood poured down his shoulder. He gritted his teeth as pain overcame his upper half.
"This wouldn't have happened if I was a Dragoon" he mumbled to himself
Minutes passed and nobody found him. What was a few moments seemed like eternity.
"I'm going to rot here and" he was cut off
A bask jumped out from over the hill. It took sight of the wounded male and smiled. It gave a hiss of a battle cry and jumped towards Bejong. Bejong gave all of his energy to lift up his one unwounded arm with a Sai in hand. He closed his eyes and waited for death to fall upon his shoulders. The cry ceased suddenly and he opened his eyes to reveal Jade wiping blood off of Shana's blade.
"You think I didn't catch sight of you?" she laughed
"No, but thanks, could you heal me here?" he smiled
"No problem that, what I'm here" she was now cut off
Bejong saw the arrow that had hit her in the abdomen. He looked around for the shooter and saw a group of men clad in black armor running towards them. They were revealed. Luckily, Bejong had been healed. He stood up, planted his feet, and then took out all of the guys who had weapons.
He ran back to Jade, she wasn't bleeding but she was rubbing her head.
"Are you ok?" Bejong asked
"Yeah when I fell, I hit my head, my stomach is fine. Thanks to the armor" Jade got up
"Ok well thanks, I'll be looking out for you ok?" he asked
"Yeah and I will too, just don't die ok?" Jade questioned
"I'll try" he smiled
Bejong ran off with his weapons in hand. Jade watched as he stabbed away at the beasts. She also flew over to Shana and helped her out.
The group of three had now fallen apart, taking their own paths. Lavitz took out a group of bowman, while Nimbulo went and followed. Jake stood alone, waiting for the right time to strike. When a couple of enemies were in a straight line, he would throw his weapon. Somehow, the disk seemed to go until the enemy line ended. He could not explain this.
Suddenly, from behind his back, Jake was attacked. But it wasn't that easy to get him down. Many things happened in the next couple of seconds. First, with a bright shine, he came out of Dragoon form. Then, he jumped up in the air and something seemed to hold him up. He flew at the attacker and used his disc instead of throwing it.
Dart was the closest to the flash so he saw it. He turned his head away from the fire that was thrown in his direction. He saw two blue wings that had emerged from Jake's back. His hair was partially silver also.
"Oh my god, he's a Wingly" Dart muttered
Jake hit himself on the head.
"How could I be so stupid? I have wings in Dragoon form!" he whispered in his head
Dart went back to his own battle, ignoring their new friend. His main focus was the huge being that was obligated to kill him. Dart flew higher into the sky, ignoring the rain that was pounding him down. He flew up past a few dull gray clouds. He threw up his sword and crossed his legs (like when Trinity jumps in the Matrix). He held out his hands in a curved form, as if he had baseballs in them.
"BALLISTIC.FLAME!" he yelled
Two black fireballs formed in his hand. He held them there until Korma and Neen were visible. When he saw just a hint of blackness, he threw both of the fireballs. He repeated the process. Fireballs kept forming and he kept throwing. Once Neen was driven back, Dart used his Flame Slash.
The sword emitted with a black flame that was as dark as night. He flew down, a rage was erupting in him all the while. Korma and Neen were still wiped out from his other attack. Dart smiled at this and held the sword out to his side. He flew right past both of them, cutting Korma on the opposite side of where he had attacked previously.
The duo fell to the ground. Korma's legs hit with a thud. Dart landed also, smiling. This was the last attack that would kill this beast. He ran over with his blade, ready to strike. As soon as he was about to deliver the finishing blow, Korma threw his hand out at him. Dart fell back and rubbed his head. The blow had knocked the wind out of him.
The rain was now coming down even harder. Jake couldn't use his Wingly wings anymore. They were not useful or even made for that matter, in this kind of weather condition. He transformed to a Dragoon. He remembered his hair then. The wings and the hair had given him away. He had dyed his hair but the wings broke the 'spell'. He ran a couple of fingers through the sliver hair that he had been cursed with.
Jake suddenly noticed a lone warrior who pushed his way through the raging war. He was clad in black armor like the others but wore a red belt. He had a black cape with armor on his shoulders. He bore a sword that was about 4 feet long. The rain dropped off of his armor to the ground. Jake knew what he wanted. The mysterious warrior rushed for the first attack.
Dart got up into a fighting stance. This time Korma had his knees on the ground.
"No stopping me now." he whispered to himself
The Dragon Knight leaped onto the back of Korma. The beast thrashed and flailed like it was seizing. Dart held his balance and drove his sword into the back of the beast. At first there was a cry of anger and hatred that came from its mouth. Then silence, some of the rain had even stopped but it was still coming down. Dart took out his blade, jumped off of him, walked over to the body of Neen. He stood over him.
"So, you think you could have won this war.well I'm going to kill you before you can summon your monster! Here is your fate Neen!" he yelled
Dart started to drive the blade down to his chest. Neen suddenly woke and tripped Dart before he could successfully hit him.
"Maybe not Dart!" he laughed
Neen rushed with wicked speed. Dart, was not paying attention. He sat up from his fall only to get hit again in the shoulder.
"Ah!" Dart cried out
"Yes, yell in pain, I love to hear it!" Neen laughed again
"You know Neen." he stood "I'm getting sick of that wicked laugh of yours!"
He got up, and attempted to attack Neen. Neen evaded all of Dart's attacks. Dart flew down to the ground, sweat poured down his face along with the light rain that was falling.
Jake's battle went on also. He found this warrior to be skilled in speed and agility. He was no Dragoon though. His attacks were hard and he was quick but he was no Dragoon. A couple of times, Jake got hit where his scars were. That was painful and downed him a bit. Occasionally the warrior would back away from Jake but Jake took it to his advantage.
Bejong wasn't having any troubles at all with the war he was fighting in. He would get hit sometimes, but was never off guard. He would only take a hit when he was against more than one. This was not a problem. He had two weapons, which helped a lot. But suddenly from behind his back, he was hit with a knife. This was a good knife to, it nearly pierced his armor, sending him to the ground. He faintly heard a man laugh at him lying on the cold, rocky ground. "Tie him up!" he commanded
"But, sir, he doesn't have a Dragoon Spirit on him"
"When I give you an order, you obey it!" the first man said
'Damn, I have to do something or this war is over for me!' Bejong thought
When the man who was ordered started to grasp hold of Bejong, he was sent back by a kick. Bejong got up and winced in pain as he found he couldn't. First he fell to his knees then face flat on the dirt.
"Fool, you were poisoned in the spine by that knife!" the first man laughed
"Yeah.doesn't mean.I can't yell." Bejong muttered "JADE!" he yelped
Jade quickly turned her head to Bejong's voice. She saw the men kicking him and throwing him down. She wiped the black blood off of her blade and flew towards Bejong.
"You know what? I'm not going to kill you lucky bastard, I'll torture you instead!" the commander laughed again
"And you know what else? In about 10 seconds, you'll be lying on the ground dead" Bejong cracked a smile
Jade flew in, her blade cutting the commander's head clear off of his shoulders. Bejong laughed at this while Jade took out the other guy.
"Thanks again" he managed
"No problem again, just watch yourself next time" she smiled
"A little healing would be fine" Bejong muttered
She healed him once again and flew back to Shana. She noticed that most of the army was drawn to the two women.
"So, what was that one about?" Shana asked
"Shana, this is not the time!" Jade snapped
"Ok FINE!" she emphasized while killing a Bask
Dart dodged a quick slash from Neen but pulled away for his second move. Dart then flew up, making his sword become a living flame. Soon after he flew down for the attack. Neen just stood there with a smirk on his face.
'What's he up to' Dart thought
As soon as Dart was about to slash, Neen kneed him right in the stomach. Spit flew from Dart's mouth as Neen kept him on his knee. Then he swatted him down onto the ground. Dart managed to get up on all fours. Anger started to take over his body. He had had enough of Neen, this war, and the anger. He was going to defeat Neen here and now.
Dart's blade started to rise. Its black shininess was visible through the boggy rain that was bestowing the land. Drops of rain trickled down the blade to the hilt. As it rose, the tip shone across the land.
Every man, beast or Dragoon charged at the first enemy they saw. Dart was the only one who stayed where he was. He saw Korma and Neen fly straight toward him. There was no use going for the army. This was where the real war was.
Neen uttered a small spell for a Shadow to emit from his blade. The blast nearly hit Dart. Neen jumped off of Korma and flew around him, chasing Dart. Korma was caught in the mess of this. He spit fire towards which one he thought was Dart.
Bejong charged into battle, his Sais in hand. He slashed and stabbed away at everything that challenged him. His anger took quite a role in this battle. He wanted so much to be a Dragoon. Hopefully Dart would help him get his Spirit. He had grown somewhat fond of the Shadow Dragoon Spirit. But his obsession wouldn't keep him off-guard.
Shana and Jade stuck together; they worked as a team to take out groups of Basks and men. They were very surprised that any race of man would want to be one of Neen's pawns. Shana gave Jade one of her blades. She did not need two when they were working together.
Jake, Lavitz, and Nimbulo all stuck together as a group like Shana and Jade. They looked out for each other, like brothers.
The rain had started to get heavy. Nobody could really see anything until you saw the silver metal in front of your face. The Dragoon's had trouble seeing too. But that's why they stuck together in teams. Dart and Bejong were the only ones who had to extra careful.
"Give up now Dart, or my beast shall KILL YOU!" Neen shouted
"Never, a warrior who fights for fate never gives up!" Dart retorted
"Then shall I summon Omega?!" Neen smiled
"No not now" Dart said child-like
Neen got furious at this comment. He flew straight past Korma and to Dart. Metal met metal in the collision. Dart smiled at Neen. He flew away from Dart and let Korma do the rest.
"This is not the first time I have seen your technique! I will kill you now!" he yelled
Korma couldn't understand but took a swipe at the Dragon Knight. Dart nimbly dodged the blow but didn't stray too far from where he was going to attack.
"FLAME.SLASH!" he shouted
This time, Dart went straight up to him and slashed the sword. It pierced his scales and blood seeped out of the wound. As the deep red blood hit the ground, it sizzled and hissed.
"That's acid!" Dart cried
He quickly jumped away from the wound and the blood. He shot Neen a cold look that set Neen off (it seems that he has a short temper eh?)
"I will kill all of you Dragoon's, your time is up!" he shouted
"You want me? Then come and get me!" Dart intimidated
"There is no chance that I will not get you! You can't run forever!" Neen yelled
The Emperor jumped on to Korma's back, even though he could fly he needed something faster. Korma would occasionally be commanded to throw fire at Dart. Each time, Dart felt a singe on the sole of his foot.
Bejong ran to the outer edges of the war. Hopefully, nothing noticed him behind the small hill. He touched the wound on his shoulder. As soon as he did, a little bit of blood poured down his shoulder. He gritted his teeth as pain overcame his upper half.
"This wouldn't have happened if I was a Dragoon" he mumbled to himself
Minutes passed and nobody found him. What was a few moments seemed like eternity.
"I'm going to rot here and" he was cut off
A bask jumped out from over the hill. It took sight of the wounded male and smiled. It gave a hiss of a battle cry and jumped towards Bejong. Bejong gave all of his energy to lift up his one unwounded arm with a Sai in hand. He closed his eyes and waited for death to fall upon his shoulders. The cry ceased suddenly and he opened his eyes to reveal Jade wiping blood off of Shana's blade.
"You think I didn't catch sight of you?" she laughed
"No, but thanks, could you heal me here?" he smiled
"No problem that, what I'm here" she was now cut off
Bejong saw the arrow that had hit her in the abdomen. He looked around for the shooter and saw a group of men clad in black armor running towards them. They were revealed. Luckily, Bejong had been healed. He stood up, planted his feet, and then took out all of the guys who had weapons.
He ran back to Jade, she wasn't bleeding but she was rubbing her head.
"Are you ok?" Bejong asked
"Yeah when I fell, I hit my head, my stomach is fine. Thanks to the armor" Jade got up
"Ok well thanks, I'll be looking out for you ok?" he asked
"Yeah and I will too, just don't die ok?" Jade questioned
"I'll try" he smiled
Bejong ran off with his weapons in hand. Jade watched as he stabbed away at the beasts. She also flew over to Shana and helped her out.
The group of three had now fallen apart, taking their own paths. Lavitz took out a group of bowman, while Nimbulo went and followed. Jake stood alone, waiting for the right time to strike. When a couple of enemies were in a straight line, he would throw his weapon. Somehow, the disk seemed to go until the enemy line ended. He could not explain this.
Suddenly, from behind his back, Jake was attacked. But it wasn't that easy to get him down. Many things happened in the next couple of seconds. First, with a bright shine, he came out of Dragoon form. Then, he jumped up in the air and something seemed to hold him up. He flew at the attacker and used his disc instead of throwing it.
Dart was the closest to the flash so he saw it. He turned his head away from the fire that was thrown in his direction. He saw two blue wings that had emerged from Jake's back. His hair was partially silver also.
"Oh my god, he's a Wingly" Dart muttered
Jake hit himself on the head.
"How could I be so stupid? I have wings in Dragoon form!" he whispered in his head
Dart went back to his own battle, ignoring their new friend. His main focus was the huge being that was obligated to kill him. Dart flew higher into the sky, ignoring the rain that was pounding him down. He flew up past a few dull gray clouds. He threw up his sword and crossed his legs (like when Trinity jumps in the Matrix). He held out his hands in a curved form, as if he had baseballs in them.
"BALLISTIC.FLAME!" he yelled
Two black fireballs formed in his hand. He held them there until Korma and Neen were visible. When he saw just a hint of blackness, he threw both of the fireballs. He repeated the process. Fireballs kept forming and he kept throwing. Once Neen was driven back, Dart used his Flame Slash.
The sword emitted with a black flame that was as dark as night. He flew down, a rage was erupting in him all the while. Korma and Neen were still wiped out from his other attack. Dart smiled at this and held the sword out to his side. He flew right past both of them, cutting Korma on the opposite side of where he had attacked previously.
The duo fell to the ground. Korma's legs hit with a thud. Dart landed also, smiling. This was the last attack that would kill this beast. He ran over with his blade, ready to strike. As soon as he was about to deliver the finishing blow, Korma threw his hand out at him. Dart fell back and rubbed his head. The blow had knocked the wind out of him.
The rain was now coming down even harder. Jake couldn't use his Wingly wings anymore. They were not useful or even made for that matter, in this kind of weather condition. He transformed to a Dragoon. He remembered his hair then. The wings and the hair had given him away. He had dyed his hair but the wings broke the 'spell'. He ran a couple of fingers through the sliver hair that he had been cursed with.
Jake suddenly noticed a lone warrior who pushed his way through the raging war. He was clad in black armor like the others but wore a red belt. He had a black cape with armor on his shoulders. He bore a sword that was about 4 feet long. The rain dropped off of his armor to the ground. Jake knew what he wanted. The mysterious warrior rushed for the first attack.
Dart got up into a fighting stance. This time Korma had his knees on the ground.
"No stopping me now." he whispered to himself
The Dragon Knight leaped onto the back of Korma. The beast thrashed and flailed like it was seizing. Dart held his balance and drove his sword into the back of the beast. At first there was a cry of anger and hatred that came from its mouth. Then silence, some of the rain had even stopped but it was still coming down. Dart took out his blade, jumped off of him, walked over to the body of Neen. He stood over him.
"So, you think you could have won this war.well I'm going to kill you before you can summon your monster! Here is your fate Neen!" he yelled
Dart started to drive the blade down to his chest. Neen suddenly woke and tripped Dart before he could successfully hit him.
"Maybe not Dart!" he laughed
Neen rushed with wicked speed. Dart, was not paying attention. He sat up from his fall only to get hit again in the shoulder.
"Ah!" Dart cried out
"Yes, yell in pain, I love to hear it!" Neen laughed again
"You know Neen." he stood "I'm getting sick of that wicked laugh of yours!"
He got up, and attempted to attack Neen. Neen evaded all of Dart's attacks. Dart flew down to the ground, sweat poured down his face along with the light rain that was falling.
Jake's battle went on also. He found this warrior to be skilled in speed and agility. He was no Dragoon though. His attacks were hard and he was quick but he was no Dragoon. A couple of times, Jake got hit where his scars were. That was painful and downed him a bit. Occasionally the warrior would back away from Jake but Jake took it to his advantage.
Bejong wasn't having any troubles at all with the war he was fighting in. He would get hit sometimes, but was never off guard. He would only take a hit when he was against more than one. This was not a problem. He had two weapons, which helped a lot. But suddenly from behind his back, he was hit with a knife. This was a good knife to, it nearly pierced his armor, sending him to the ground. He faintly heard a man laugh at him lying on the cold, rocky ground. "Tie him up!" he commanded
"But, sir, he doesn't have a Dragoon Spirit on him"
"When I give you an order, you obey it!" the first man said
'Damn, I have to do something or this war is over for me!' Bejong thought
When the man who was ordered started to grasp hold of Bejong, he was sent back by a kick. Bejong got up and winced in pain as he found he couldn't. First he fell to his knees then face flat on the dirt.
"Fool, you were poisoned in the spine by that knife!" the first man laughed
"Yeah.doesn't mean.I can't yell." Bejong muttered "JADE!" he yelped
Jade quickly turned her head to Bejong's voice. She saw the men kicking him and throwing him down. She wiped the black blood off of her blade and flew towards Bejong.
"You know what? I'm not going to kill you lucky bastard, I'll torture you instead!" the commander laughed again
"And you know what else? In about 10 seconds, you'll be lying on the ground dead" Bejong cracked a smile
Jade flew in, her blade cutting the commander's head clear off of his shoulders. Bejong laughed at this while Jade took out the other guy.
"Thanks again" he managed
"No problem again, just watch yourself next time" she smiled
"A little healing would be fine" Bejong muttered
She healed him once again and flew back to Shana. She noticed that most of the army was drawn to the two women.
"So, what was that one about?" Shana asked
"Shana, this is not the time!" Jade snapped
"Ok FINE!" she emphasized while killing a Bask
Dart dodged a quick slash from Neen but pulled away for his second move. Dart then flew up, making his sword become a living flame. Soon after he flew down for the attack. Neen just stood there with a smirk on his face.
'What's he up to' Dart thought
As soon as Dart was about to slash, Neen kneed him right in the stomach. Spit flew from Dart's mouth as Neen kept him on his knee. Then he swatted him down onto the ground. Dart managed to get up on all fours. Anger started to take over his body. He had had enough of Neen, this war, and the anger. He was going to defeat Neen here and now.
