DDX- Well Striker, if you were listening, or.reading. Then you would know he came from Mayfil. The Divine Dragon summoned him over to Orth. He was dead before but not anymore. Aya, you will have to read to make sure Lavitz is alright. Aerena, you will have to get with it. I don't think this is confusing at all. But then of course, I am the author! Ssp47, I am sorry. I just don't get to this that quickly. Anyway, on to the chapter.

Ch.38: Struggle To Win

Dragoness, still in Dragoon form in the forest, got up on his knees, feeling the pain of weakness. Bejong and Nimbulo were behind him, along with the Jade Dragoon lying on the ground. They were all near the entrance to the Black Tower.

"This can't end here, not now" Dragoness spoke to himself

He forced himself to his feet, and then, walking as fast as possible, he made his way over to Lavitz, shuffling the soot around underneath him. He grabbed his shoulder, and helped Lavitz to stand. The mangled man managed to stand and put his arm around the Mage.

"Come on.Lavitz." Dragoness struggled

Lavitz's eyes fluttered open, and he grasped the Black Dagger from Dragoness' hands. He seemed to regain strength with the Dagger in his hand.

"Yeah.let's go"

The two limped on each other and made their way up the stairs of the tower. Upon reaching the top, Dragoness made a plea.

"If we don't do this, if Omega doesn't land in the center, then I want to know you have my back. I am not gonna waste any time waiting to see if it lived. So, do you have my back?"

"Always man, always" Lavitz replied

Dragoness and Lavitz were still very tired, and barely managed to stand. They both sat at the edge of the tower. But suddenly, two pairs of eyes jolted open as the Balrog managed to stand only an arm missing. Dragoness cursed himself.

".the hell!" he said

"Shit no! You have to be kidding me! That was one of your strongest blasts!" Lavitz claimed

"Well, it was the strongest I could make at the time." Dragoness admitted

Bejong awoke on the forest floor, due to the profoundly load roar heard from across the forest, followed by thuds. He knew the Balrog had awoken. Without even using his head, he automatically transformed and the shadows concealed him. The once gray gem turned red as it embedded itself into his armor. He drew Excalibur from his sheath. Using the shadows as his guide, he made his way toward the awaiting monster.

Nimbulo, still in his old, raggedy gray robes used his spear to help himself up.

"Where has everyone gone?"

Suddenly, he heard it, the roar of the Balrog and in a brilliant flash of light blue light, he transformed. Using his senses, Nimbulo froze the ground beneath him, and made a path of ice that he wanted to go towards the Balrog. He stepped on, and his Dragoon Armor clashed against the ice, immediately sending him along. He enjoyed the small rush of excitement he had not had in a while.

Then, a black flash whizzed by him. Caught off guard, he stumbled a little. Bejong hadn't noticed the old Dragoon and kept going on his way. Nimbulo though, noticed it was Bejong and sped up, the lime green magic emitting from his wings. He soon caught up to the moving shadow, and gave him a punch in the arm. Bejong came out of his shadow state and ran along with the Ice Dragoon, not needing to exchange words.

Soon they had reached the rampaging Balrog and were rewarded with flames starting to burn the forest. Nimbulo froze the flames over quickly.

"Well, looks like I have my job!" he stated

"I'll take it out" Bejong declared

Bejong, taking the heat, flew up towards the enemy's head. Landing safely and confidently, he took the same approach he had taken with the other enemy. Revealing his sword, Bejong carefully plotted his target, the neck. Paying no heed to the thrashing thing beneath him, Bejong drove the sword into the Balrog's neck.

Again, thrashing and more roaring followed Bejong's attack. The Shadow Dragoon was thrown off of the Balrog's body and landed on the ground. He wasn't hurt, he was surprised. A stab like that would've killed any monster he knew of, and through the neck! This wasn't going to be as easy as he thought.

Launching himself up and grabbing his sword out of the Balrog's neck, Bejong came for a second attempt. Focusing shadow into his hands, he launched that out to, the beam of darkness hitting the Balrog in the face. With a little hope, Bejong flew straight toward the abdomen and stabbed very quickly. Next, the arm that was left. He flew around and stabbed again. Now that the Balrog was bleeding in mainly all the weakspots, Bejong put the rest of the plan into action.

The Balrog had other plans though.

Altec, the new Divine Dragoon, soared above the land of Orth, the six wings beating. The Divine Dragon spoke to him.

'Almost there'

Altec had reached the very large Proba Forest. It was the biggest forest in the land, all others weren't big enough to be plotted on Altec's map. He landed into the greenery and seemed to disappear eerily.

"I am going to fly through the forest. I won't be spotted as easily"

'Ok but I warn you, there are more enemies in the forest than there are in the air' the Divine Dragon warned He ran for a little while, but soon realized that he couldn't carry all of the heavy Dragoon Armor. Then he flew. He dodged trees, fallen trees, brush, and other forest obstacles. Then for a moment, something caught his eye. A man, with silver hair and black robes was digging something up from the ground, or so Altec thought. He had only caught a glimpse.

But the strange thing was, the man had looked back at him and what he had apparently gotten from the ground was a sword. Black handle and sliver hilt, with a bottom piece attached to the handle in the shape of an octagon. The man glared at him, but all of it happened in just a couple seconds. Then Altec looked back and the man had a glowing blue force around him and was making a symbol in the air. A wink later, he vanished.

Altec had very fast and good eyes. He saw that whole thing. But he shrugged it off, not knowing if it was any concern to him. The Divine Dragon seemed to be quiet throughout the forest. Now Altec had seen what it had meant, monsters of darkness randomly started to emerge from the ground in shadow. A couple had even held him back for moments.

"How are they tracking me?"

'You my friend, are the Dragoon's last hope. Let's put it this way, hightail it before any of them capture you' The Dragon suggested

Altec burst from the forest trees, the monsters gaining. He had to stop them. He raised his left arm that had grown abnormally big since he transformed. He raised it up, focusing all the energy into it. The three gray spires at the end shifted back as the main part of the cannon widened open.

"Divine Dragon CANNON!"

With a flash, a beam of focused energy blew from the cannon face. Altec was somewhat thrown back by the power. His feet dug into the ground. The beam intensified. It showed now a white light in the middle, with edges of blue. The shadows diminished with screams of horror and agony.

He couldn't take that.

"I'm not.a killer!" he cried

Altec didn't know how to kill. The attack was pure instinct.

'Yes. You have to deal with killing, it is the only way' the Dragon reassured

Altec was silent for a while. But he regained conscience.

The Divine Dragoon advanced across the Minas Hills.
Shana had been absorbed. She was trapped inside Omega's body. They had lost a powerful asset to the battle. Jade wouldn't tolerate this though. She had completely forgotten the plan, but still Dragoness hadn't contacted her or anyone else yet. She flew up to Omega, the monster noticing. She swerved around the giant, being careful to not get caught. She finally reached the spot where Shana was apparently absorbed in. She dared to dig her out but planting her feet would mean certain destruction. Kongol kept on hacking away at Omega. Its leg though, had not been penetrated. As he was hacking, something appeared at his side. A man, in dark robes, with a sword. A silver hilt, and a black handle. A man with silver hair.

"Wingly" Kongol pronounced

The man was gone in a flash.

Meru didn't notice the quick encounter and pounded her hammer on Omega's shoulder, not causing any damage. She landed on the ground with a plan on her mind. Meru raised her hammer into the sky and water flowed out of both sides. It soon flowed all around but then she muttered something and all of the blue vanished in a flash.

"Tsunami of Dragoon!" she yelled

A tidal wave appeared behind her, collapsing its way through the rubbled buildings of the prison. It swallowed Meru and since she was a good distance away from Omega, her plan would work. Meru took control of the center of the tsunami. She flowed with it at an alarming pace. She was almost to her target.

The blue rush of waves and the Dragoon inside rushed ever so quickly toward Omega. Meru flew inside, faster. Finally, the wave impacted upon Omega. Omega was caught off guard and fell for the first time. The wave knocked Jade off path and she was swallowed up into the undying wave. The rest of the prison buildings around them were shattered and knocked down.

But Meru wasn't done yet. She burst up from the water and flew straight toward Omega.

"I use water as a path for my destruction, always flowing, never stops. Jet Stream"

She placed her hammer straight out in front of her as a huge blast of water sped toward the downed body of Omega. Another impact of water blasted onto the darkness. Finally, she had accomplished something.

The huge pool of water Meru had created had by now almost frozen from the cold air of snow and winter. Jade had little time to get up. She did, with almost no energy left, and knew she had her chance. She ran over to Omega's shoulder and used her katana to slice open the thick skin.

Shana was there, encrypted in vines of darkness, her Dragoon Spirit next to her, shimmering slightly, also encrypted. Again, using her katana, Jade sliced these also. The faint glow turned into a shining blast as Shana was lifted from the body. And just in time to, for Omega had once again lifted the red in its eyes glowing more evil.

Altec had finally reached the forest, and knew where he was. From the treetops, he could see the Balrog, and a flash of black darting all over it. Then a light blue formation lifted from the trees also, and shot a beam down at the forest before going in for the enemy.

But they are doomed. Dragoness thought
DDX- Ok this one was a little faster, I needed to strategically update AFTER Striker b/c then everyone would read his story not mine. So I figured get his out of the way, not like I'm competing or anything though. And plus, this one was easier b/c the last chapter was so boring. I needed a way to get here, to this chapter. Now I am here, the chapters will flow, and sadly this story will be over before you know it.