A/N: Because of my earlier preparation of future chapters, spurred on by reviews, I am able to have this chapter ready when usually you would have to wait months. I would like to dedicate this chapter to any and all who have reviewed all of my previous chapters. I would also like to thank all of you who have directly or indirectly helped me to have ideas. (Like CrimsonFire with her short change to Fuzzy Wombat, or my brother for the idea of disclaimers which are stories in themselves.) For those of you who are authors, I wish you the greatest luck in your writing abilities. Now on with the disclaimer...
Disclaimer: Pablo/Cecil walked up to the Escaflowne complex in a suave brown detective coat. His previous plan, before he entered, was to say that he was checking up on security around the Deed to Escaflowne. But after entry, he discovered the horrors within... Someone else has stolen the deed before he got there! Well, that would explain why there were so many police cars outside, and why his favorite Chinese-food-cart wasn't outside the complex like usual... Two police officers approached him... "We need you to checka out thisa vid-yo, Detective... It recorded what happen..." Pablo/Cecil went upstairs, following the officers, into a control room, where multiple detectives were already at work watching the tape over and over, as if in disbelief... Pablo/Cecil squeezed between two of the other detectives and watched a screen. It looked like, like a wallaby? A wallaby?!?! With wings and... ONE talon? Just one?!?! "Are you sure nothing is wrong with this tape?" Pablo/Cecil asked. "Sure, nothing wrong with tape." One of them replies... At this moment, on the tape, the wallaby goes up to one of the walls and scribbles 'WALLABEE' on the wall. Then, he flew out the building with the deed in its clutches... Pablo/Cecil left the room, and exited the building. After stopping shortly at his home, Pablo/Cecil returned to the hunt of the deed, this time in a Safari Warden's outfit. (Hey, if I can almost steal the deed, than I'm pretty sure a Game Warden isn't going to miss his outfit, plus I did make a good replica of it out of cardboard and tape... And I did leave it in his closet... no chance he would notice, right?) "I'm coming to get you, wallaby," he said to no one as he left the building. Behind him, Wallabee, as it prefers to be called, chuckled evilly as it chewed on the deed in its mouth...
Chapter 30: Raging Battle
"You, there. Send Chesyul to command the fleet, and bring it to the bay at Zail's northern border! And you! Prepare 50 legions for combat, and half our guymelefs as well. Fanelia is about to fall... again. And Lord Marlon is going to tell us how to beat them!" BlackMage grinned an evil smile. Kidnapping that little Draconian brat had more uses then he thought. (From Chapter 28, if you're wondering)
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She turned to Allen. "Tell the troops we attack at dawn..."
***
Hitomi and Allen watched the battle the next morning as their troops rushed against the ramparts like a river against a dam. Few troops got upon the battlements, and those that did were quickly slaughtered. Before their attack, the odds had seemed in their favor, but as the battle progressed, ships from the south, bearing Trimu's seal, sailed in and dropped off more troops. Not only that halted their progress, but their guymelefs were being destroyed for just as the attack had begun, 7 guymelefs had landed, and it was soon realized that they contained the finest troops of Zaibach, and all of Gaea, the Dragon Slayers, and General Dilandau Albatou.
***
In the harbors of Fanelia's borders, a ship, also with Trimu's symbol upon it, landed. BlackMage rode out upon MyrkenStone, his guymelef. On one shoulder rode the prince of Fanelia, Marlon. "Lord Marlon, it is time for you to claim your birthright. I told you we would do so! But first you must kill a dragon. Do not worry, Lord Marlon!" BlackMage said to the boy. "You need not care when you are to be king! You must be strong, Lord Marlon! I am here in case trouble arises! And when this is finished, you can punish the soldiers who disobeyed you!"
BlackMage did not seriously intend for the boy to battle the dragon. He had, in fact, a small contingent of warriors weakening a small dragon close by. By the time the boy came to kill the beast, it would practically be dead already.
And it was so. The dragon slumped out of the forest, and Marlon barely hit it with a slap of his sword, and it went down. Marlon quickly did as he had been instructed, and cut out the dragon's energist. "Good hit, m'lord! On to the capital! And onto your crown!" BlackMage yelled. Soon, he thought, soon Fanelia's puppet king will be on the throne, and I shall be the puppeteer.
Marlon looked in disbelief and soon a growth of pride erupted inside him. I've killed a dragon with one hit of my mighty sword, he contemplated, no wonder BlackMage thought me ready to rule Fanelia.
The two of them both looked immensely happy, though if Marlon had known all of BlackMage's plans from beginning to end, Marlon would be doing all he could to get away from Fanelia and Gaea, including using death as an option for escape...
A/N: So close!!! SO CLOSE!!! Can you stand the suspense? I can barely do so myself! Well, let's hope I post again soon! JA!!!
Disclaimer: Pablo/Cecil walked up to the Escaflowne complex in a suave brown detective coat. His previous plan, before he entered, was to say that he was checking up on security around the Deed to Escaflowne. But after entry, he discovered the horrors within... Someone else has stolen the deed before he got there! Well, that would explain why there were so many police cars outside, and why his favorite Chinese-food-cart wasn't outside the complex like usual... Two police officers approached him... "We need you to checka out thisa vid-yo, Detective... It recorded what happen..." Pablo/Cecil went upstairs, following the officers, into a control room, where multiple detectives were already at work watching the tape over and over, as if in disbelief... Pablo/Cecil squeezed between two of the other detectives and watched a screen. It looked like, like a wallaby? A wallaby?!?! With wings and... ONE talon? Just one?!?! "Are you sure nothing is wrong with this tape?" Pablo/Cecil asked. "Sure, nothing wrong with tape." One of them replies... At this moment, on the tape, the wallaby goes up to one of the walls and scribbles 'WALLABEE' on the wall. Then, he flew out the building with the deed in its clutches... Pablo/Cecil left the room, and exited the building. After stopping shortly at his home, Pablo/Cecil returned to the hunt of the deed, this time in a Safari Warden's outfit. (Hey, if I can almost steal the deed, than I'm pretty sure a Game Warden isn't going to miss his outfit, plus I did make a good replica of it out of cardboard and tape... And I did leave it in his closet... no chance he would notice, right?) "I'm coming to get you, wallaby," he said to no one as he left the building. Behind him, Wallabee, as it prefers to be called, chuckled evilly as it chewed on the deed in its mouth...
Chapter 30: Raging Battle
"You, there. Send Chesyul to command the fleet, and bring it to the bay at Zail's northern border! And you! Prepare 50 legions for combat, and half our guymelefs as well. Fanelia is about to fall... again. And Lord Marlon is going to tell us how to beat them!" BlackMage grinned an evil smile. Kidnapping that little Draconian brat had more uses then he thought. (From Chapter 28, if you're wondering)
****
She turned to Allen. "Tell the troops we attack at dawn..."
***
Hitomi and Allen watched the battle the next morning as their troops rushed against the ramparts like a river against a dam. Few troops got upon the battlements, and those that did were quickly slaughtered. Before their attack, the odds had seemed in their favor, but as the battle progressed, ships from the south, bearing Trimu's seal, sailed in and dropped off more troops. Not only that halted their progress, but their guymelefs were being destroyed for just as the attack had begun, 7 guymelefs had landed, and it was soon realized that they contained the finest troops of Zaibach, and all of Gaea, the Dragon Slayers, and General Dilandau Albatou.
***
In the harbors of Fanelia's borders, a ship, also with Trimu's symbol upon it, landed. BlackMage rode out upon MyrkenStone, his guymelef. On one shoulder rode the prince of Fanelia, Marlon. "Lord Marlon, it is time for you to claim your birthright. I told you we would do so! But first you must kill a dragon. Do not worry, Lord Marlon!" BlackMage said to the boy. "You need not care when you are to be king! You must be strong, Lord Marlon! I am here in case trouble arises! And when this is finished, you can punish the soldiers who disobeyed you!"
BlackMage did not seriously intend for the boy to battle the dragon. He had, in fact, a small contingent of warriors weakening a small dragon close by. By the time the boy came to kill the beast, it would practically be dead already.
And it was so. The dragon slumped out of the forest, and Marlon barely hit it with a slap of his sword, and it went down. Marlon quickly did as he had been instructed, and cut out the dragon's energist. "Good hit, m'lord! On to the capital! And onto your crown!" BlackMage yelled. Soon, he thought, soon Fanelia's puppet king will be on the throne, and I shall be the puppeteer.
Marlon looked in disbelief and soon a growth of pride erupted inside him. I've killed a dragon with one hit of my mighty sword, he contemplated, no wonder BlackMage thought me ready to rule Fanelia.
The two of them both looked immensely happy, though if Marlon had known all of BlackMage's plans from beginning to end, Marlon would be doing all he could to get away from Fanelia and Gaea, including using death as an option for escape...
A/N: So close!!! SO CLOSE!!! Can you stand the suspense? I can barely do so myself! Well, let's hope I post again soon! JA!!!
