Usual disclaimer, I don't own Legend of Dragoon, only the characters made
up for this story.
That said, here is the structure for this chapter. The first was sort of an intro chapter with some simple romance; this chapter will be more of an action oriented piece. We will see where it goes from there. ________________________________________________________________________
Yun awoke, for once, with a smile upon his face. He had slept peacefully that night, the dream that had haunted him for months had disappeared and his mind was finally able to get rest.
If that wasn't enough to put him in a good mood, laying within his arms was the woman who had haunted him every night in those dreams, the lovely figure in white-silver armor.
Yun looked up, checking the position of the sun in the sky. It was maybe eight or nine hours past midnight. He then returned his sights to the woman in his arms.
Her jade eyes were still closed, her fine black hair giving a purple sheen in the morning sun. So peaceful was her sleep, that he knew that the smallest movement would wake her, which he dared not risk. Instead he watched her with a smile.
He didn't know how long he watched her, maybe five to ten minutes, but finally her eyelids fluttered opened and she was looking right back at him.
Yun pulled a hand up and brushed a few strands of hair away from her face, and gave her a smile.
"Good morning, Marina." He said, "Did you sleep well?"
"Yes," Marina said, nodding slightly. "Better then I have in months." She took a deep breath, then let it out in one long, happy sigh.
"We should get going," she said, looking into his eyes a moment, "My father is probably going to be furious that I didn't come home last night. I told him about my dream, and he thought it was rubbish. Then when I told him I was having them for so long, he said I might have been losing my mind. Maybe this will change that."
Yun nodded, "Alright, we will get going soon." He smiled, touching his nose to hers gently, "But first, we need to get up. I don't know about you, but I am pretty comfy at the moment."
Marina giggled, "True. I guess we will have to force ourselves up."
Grumbling slightly, Yun pulled back the flap of the sleeping bag and stood, helping her up as well. He put his shirt back on, as well as his boots, and put the sleeping bag and blanket back into the travel bag, returning it and his sword against his back. This reminded him.
"You know, I don't see you with a weapon, so if we get attacked just stay back and let me deal with things."
Marina smirked to him as she walked over to the tree she was pinned at the day before, "A weapon, hmm? Like this?" she knelt down and picked up an oaken quarterstaff.
Yun chuckled, "Let me guess. The bandits surprised you, so you dropped it?"
Marina nodded, "Exactly. Well, let's get going. It's about an hours walk from here."
They started the long walk back to the city. It wasn't very eventful, till they were about a quarter mile from town, which could be seen on the horizon. Yun stopped, and held out a hand to stop Marina.
".Something isn't right." he said, looking at the town. Billows of dark black smoke loomed above the peaceful town. "Either no one in your town have cleaned their chimneys, or."
A gut wrenching scream stopped him short.
"Come on!" Yun said, running full speed to the town.
The town was in ruins; Fires had been set to barns and houses, people were being slaughtered in the streets.
As Yun and Marina ran through the front gate of town, they spotted a group of 3 soldiers, ones neither had ever seen before, surrounding a group of children.
"Nope, none of these are the one." One of the soldiers said.
"Then get rid of them and keep looking!" said another, obviously the commander. They all drew their swords, the children cowering and quivering.
"Stay back, Marina. Let me handle this." Yun stepped forward just as the commander was about to strike. "You will do no such thing!" He drew the bastard sword from his back, standing in a ready pose.
"What? Someone still has some fight left?" the soldier turned to his commander, "I'll take care of him." He turned back to Yun, a long sword drawn from its sheath, its silver blade glowing red in the dying blaze of fires.
"You will take care of nothing!" Yun yelled, running straight at the soldier.
Yun brought his sword down in a two handed swing, which the soldier parried with his own blade and jumped back. Yun swung again, with as much fury as the first blow. Again metal clanged as the soldier's sword blocked the longer one. The soldier cursed, knowing Yun's Bastard sword would keep him at a distance, too far to reach with a long sword. Yun smirked then, and drove his sword forward in a stab, keeping the sword out enough that the soldier couldn't get a good hit.
The soldier did exactly what Yun wanted him to do. Instead of try and dodge, he tried parrying the blow again. It worked, the blade was deflected, but the soldier received a knee to the stomach, making him keel over and drop the sword. Yun flipped his blade underhand, and stabbed the soldier through the back, making him slump to the ground, dead.
"This one has some skill," the commander said, "Lets take him toget." the man fell over, unconscious. Standing behind him was Marina, who had apparently snuck around behind the commander during the fight, and knocked him out. The second soldier, without waiting for another moment, drew his sword and attacked.
He brought his blade low, in an uppercut type slice, but this was blocked by the heavy oak staff. Marina stepped back, flipping the staff once, then held it ready. Again the man struck, bringing his sword right to left. Marina blocked with the tip of her quarterstaff, and spun. As she spun, and the soldier moved forward, she brought the staff right against the back of his helmeted skull, making him stagger forward. A blade protruding from his back showed he had been knocked right into Yun's sword.
Yun wiped the blade off, then looked to the commander. He knelt beside the man and felt for a pulse.
"You must have hit him pretty hard." Yun said, "He's dead."
Marina nodded, "I've.never killed anyone before." Yun walked stood, giving her a small hug. ".You might have to kill more often." he said, looking to her again.
".I know.but." There was no time. Another scream returned them to where they were. Yun was off, sprinting towards the direction of the scream, Marina close behind.
Another group of soldiers, about six or seven, were slowly closing in on a group of survivors. Yun had nothing to do, he couldn't get to them before they were slaughtered. Instead, he did the only thing he could think of doing.
"Awaken," he yelled, startling the group of soldiers into looking his way, "Dragoon of the Red-Eyed dragon!" The fire produced from his inferno was brighter then one ones burning in the buildings. The soldiers, startled by this, began to back up. Their faces were lit with shock and amazement.
Before them all was the form of a Dragon Knight, the Dragoon. In his right hand he held a magical sword, that looked to be the tooth of a dragon. In his left, he had begun to gather the burning flames from the city, putting them out, and placing them into a single ball. Within moments the fires of the city were gone, and a ball of pure fire hovered about Yun's palm.
"Unknown soldiers, I am Yun Nightseer, Dragoon of the Red-Eyed dragon. Leave now, and I will spare your lives!"
Over their initial shock, the soldiers looked at each other and, instead of running away, charged at Yun. In their minds, a group of 7 could beat one any day. How wrong they were.
Yun spread his emerald wings and hurled himself into the air, above the group of soldiers. "Your choice!" He took the fireball he had been gathering and cut through it with his sword, allowing it to erupt into flames, the flames that had killed the town, the flames that destroyed the buildings, the flames.that they had created.
The soldiers had stupidly gathered into the center of that area, away from any captives that would hinder Yun's attack.
"TAKE THIS!" He charged toward the ground in the middle of them all and, before any could get away, struck the ground between them with his sword, creating a devastating explosion in the area of the soldiers.
Marian, who had been watching the whole time, covered her eyes as the bright explosion rocked the area. The bodies of the soldiers were strewn about the area, some on balconies, most in impossible positions on the ground.
The center of the explosion was a lot of smoke and dust, and Marina was scared something might have happened to Yun. A flapping sound gave her hope as the smoke began to blow away, Yun standing in the middle of a crater. He walked toward Marina, the dragoon armor disappearing in a flash.
Marina ran over to him, giving him a hug, then led him to the group of survivors.
It took a few moments to convince them he was on their side, but everyone finally settled down.
"Ma.rina." someone said from an ally.
".Who?" Both Marina and Yun walked to the ally. Laying there on his stomach, not far from the opening, was a man.
"Father!" Marina yelled, kneeling before the man and taking him into her arms.
".Marina.they took.your sister." the man said, gasping for breath. He was badly burned, and was bleeding very badly from his side.
"Shhh..I will find her, father."
The man looked weakly to Yun.
".The one.from your dream?" he asked. He didn't need an answer. ".take care of her." He weakly lifted a small silver box, trying to hand it to him, ".and.th.is." his eyes rolled back, and he went limp, his arm collapsing back onto his chest.
"FATHER!" Marina screamed, tears running down her cheeks. She held her father's dead body, shaking it gently. "No.don't go.please."
Yun sat in silence, placing a hand gently on her shoulder, before taking the box from the dead man's hand. He opened it and gasped, before closing it again. He looked to Marina, and gave her a gentle hug. ".it's ok, Marina."
"No it isn't!" she yelled, "I should have been here."
"No.it was meant for you to go to the grove. If not, you would be dead and never get.this." He opened the box again and showed it to her.
Inside the box were two things. One was a silver engagement ring, her mother's engagement ring to be exact. But it was the second object that made her gasp. A small white-silver ball.
"It's.one of the orb things." she said, "Maybe I could bring him back with this, or." Yun stopped her.
"No.your father is gone.but you can still save your sister with this."
Marina nodded, eyeing the orb once before reaching to take it. The orb flashed and began to glow a bright white.
"Say the words, and you will have the power of the dragoon."
Marina stood up and stepped out of the ally. Huddled in a group were all the survivors, looking like they had given up all hope. Yun followed her out, and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Show them there is still hope." He stepped back, letting her do what she had to do.
"Awaken, Dragoon of the White-Silver dragon!" Yun watched in awe, Marina's transformation more brilliant then his own. Instead of bright flames, there was pure light, a light that brought hope into the eyes of those survivors of the attack.
Yun looked back to Marina, her nude form wrapped in pure light, then her delicate features became covered in the White-Silver armor Yun remembered from his dreams. Her quarterstaff transformed into a white- silver version of its oaken counterpart, capped at one end by a dragon's claw clutching an orb, the other a rounded tip.
Yun smiled as she stepped toward the survivors. ".She looks like an angel in the slums of a city.so pure."
Marina looked down to a small child, kneeling down to look into his face.
".Miss Marina? Issat really you?" the child asked.
"Yes, it is really me." He looked up to the others, "I have to go away to find who did this. Take care of each other, and rebuild your lives. I will return as soon as possible, with my sister, and together we will finish rebuilding the town.
Yun smiled as she continued talking to the survivors, and looked to the box again. He looked at the engagement ring, taking it from the box, and holding it in his palm.
Marina stepped away from the survivors and began to walk towards Yun, when in a flash of light her Dragoon armor was gone. ".They said the soldiers went that way," she said, pointing towards the road out of town.
"Then let's get started."
As they began walking, Marina's face was less then happy. Yun looked at her and thought a moment. He glanced to his right hand, which still had the ring in it, and got an idea.
Marina felt Yun take her left hand, but she didn't change her pace or the look on her face. Then she felt something slip onto her ring finger. She gave a small smile, clutching his hand a bit tighter.
".When we get back." Yun said, still looking forward.
".Yes.when we get back." Her smile brightened a little as she thought about the future. ________________________________________________________________________
That's the end of the second chapter. R&R, please. I know it is still clichéd a bit, but I will work on that, I promise.
That said, here is the structure for this chapter. The first was sort of an intro chapter with some simple romance; this chapter will be more of an action oriented piece. We will see where it goes from there. ________________________________________________________________________
Yun awoke, for once, with a smile upon his face. He had slept peacefully that night, the dream that had haunted him for months had disappeared and his mind was finally able to get rest.
If that wasn't enough to put him in a good mood, laying within his arms was the woman who had haunted him every night in those dreams, the lovely figure in white-silver armor.
Yun looked up, checking the position of the sun in the sky. It was maybe eight or nine hours past midnight. He then returned his sights to the woman in his arms.
Her jade eyes were still closed, her fine black hair giving a purple sheen in the morning sun. So peaceful was her sleep, that he knew that the smallest movement would wake her, which he dared not risk. Instead he watched her with a smile.
He didn't know how long he watched her, maybe five to ten minutes, but finally her eyelids fluttered opened and she was looking right back at him.
Yun pulled a hand up and brushed a few strands of hair away from her face, and gave her a smile.
"Good morning, Marina." He said, "Did you sleep well?"
"Yes," Marina said, nodding slightly. "Better then I have in months." She took a deep breath, then let it out in one long, happy sigh.
"We should get going," she said, looking into his eyes a moment, "My father is probably going to be furious that I didn't come home last night. I told him about my dream, and he thought it was rubbish. Then when I told him I was having them for so long, he said I might have been losing my mind. Maybe this will change that."
Yun nodded, "Alright, we will get going soon." He smiled, touching his nose to hers gently, "But first, we need to get up. I don't know about you, but I am pretty comfy at the moment."
Marina giggled, "True. I guess we will have to force ourselves up."
Grumbling slightly, Yun pulled back the flap of the sleeping bag and stood, helping her up as well. He put his shirt back on, as well as his boots, and put the sleeping bag and blanket back into the travel bag, returning it and his sword against his back. This reminded him.
"You know, I don't see you with a weapon, so if we get attacked just stay back and let me deal with things."
Marina smirked to him as she walked over to the tree she was pinned at the day before, "A weapon, hmm? Like this?" she knelt down and picked up an oaken quarterstaff.
Yun chuckled, "Let me guess. The bandits surprised you, so you dropped it?"
Marina nodded, "Exactly. Well, let's get going. It's about an hours walk from here."
They started the long walk back to the city. It wasn't very eventful, till they were about a quarter mile from town, which could be seen on the horizon. Yun stopped, and held out a hand to stop Marina.
".Something isn't right." he said, looking at the town. Billows of dark black smoke loomed above the peaceful town. "Either no one in your town have cleaned their chimneys, or."
A gut wrenching scream stopped him short.
"Come on!" Yun said, running full speed to the town.
The town was in ruins; Fires had been set to barns and houses, people were being slaughtered in the streets.
As Yun and Marina ran through the front gate of town, they spotted a group of 3 soldiers, ones neither had ever seen before, surrounding a group of children.
"Nope, none of these are the one." One of the soldiers said.
"Then get rid of them and keep looking!" said another, obviously the commander. They all drew their swords, the children cowering and quivering.
"Stay back, Marina. Let me handle this." Yun stepped forward just as the commander was about to strike. "You will do no such thing!" He drew the bastard sword from his back, standing in a ready pose.
"What? Someone still has some fight left?" the soldier turned to his commander, "I'll take care of him." He turned back to Yun, a long sword drawn from its sheath, its silver blade glowing red in the dying blaze of fires.
"You will take care of nothing!" Yun yelled, running straight at the soldier.
Yun brought his sword down in a two handed swing, which the soldier parried with his own blade and jumped back. Yun swung again, with as much fury as the first blow. Again metal clanged as the soldier's sword blocked the longer one. The soldier cursed, knowing Yun's Bastard sword would keep him at a distance, too far to reach with a long sword. Yun smirked then, and drove his sword forward in a stab, keeping the sword out enough that the soldier couldn't get a good hit.
The soldier did exactly what Yun wanted him to do. Instead of try and dodge, he tried parrying the blow again. It worked, the blade was deflected, but the soldier received a knee to the stomach, making him keel over and drop the sword. Yun flipped his blade underhand, and stabbed the soldier through the back, making him slump to the ground, dead.
"This one has some skill," the commander said, "Lets take him toget." the man fell over, unconscious. Standing behind him was Marina, who had apparently snuck around behind the commander during the fight, and knocked him out. The second soldier, without waiting for another moment, drew his sword and attacked.
He brought his blade low, in an uppercut type slice, but this was blocked by the heavy oak staff. Marina stepped back, flipping the staff once, then held it ready. Again the man struck, bringing his sword right to left. Marina blocked with the tip of her quarterstaff, and spun. As she spun, and the soldier moved forward, she brought the staff right against the back of his helmeted skull, making him stagger forward. A blade protruding from his back showed he had been knocked right into Yun's sword.
Yun wiped the blade off, then looked to the commander. He knelt beside the man and felt for a pulse.
"You must have hit him pretty hard." Yun said, "He's dead."
Marina nodded, "I've.never killed anyone before." Yun walked stood, giving her a small hug. ".You might have to kill more often." he said, looking to her again.
".I know.but." There was no time. Another scream returned them to where they were. Yun was off, sprinting towards the direction of the scream, Marina close behind.
Another group of soldiers, about six or seven, were slowly closing in on a group of survivors. Yun had nothing to do, he couldn't get to them before they were slaughtered. Instead, he did the only thing he could think of doing.
"Awaken," he yelled, startling the group of soldiers into looking his way, "Dragoon of the Red-Eyed dragon!" The fire produced from his inferno was brighter then one ones burning in the buildings. The soldiers, startled by this, began to back up. Their faces were lit with shock and amazement.
Before them all was the form of a Dragon Knight, the Dragoon. In his right hand he held a magical sword, that looked to be the tooth of a dragon. In his left, he had begun to gather the burning flames from the city, putting them out, and placing them into a single ball. Within moments the fires of the city were gone, and a ball of pure fire hovered about Yun's palm.
"Unknown soldiers, I am Yun Nightseer, Dragoon of the Red-Eyed dragon. Leave now, and I will spare your lives!"
Over their initial shock, the soldiers looked at each other and, instead of running away, charged at Yun. In their minds, a group of 7 could beat one any day. How wrong they were.
Yun spread his emerald wings and hurled himself into the air, above the group of soldiers. "Your choice!" He took the fireball he had been gathering and cut through it with his sword, allowing it to erupt into flames, the flames that had killed the town, the flames that destroyed the buildings, the flames.that they had created.
The soldiers had stupidly gathered into the center of that area, away from any captives that would hinder Yun's attack.
"TAKE THIS!" He charged toward the ground in the middle of them all and, before any could get away, struck the ground between them with his sword, creating a devastating explosion in the area of the soldiers.
Marian, who had been watching the whole time, covered her eyes as the bright explosion rocked the area. The bodies of the soldiers were strewn about the area, some on balconies, most in impossible positions on the ground.
The center of the explosion was a lot of smoke and dust, and Marina was scared something might have happened to Yun. A flapping sound gave her hope as the smoke began to blow away, Yun standing in the middle of a crater. He walked toward Marina, the dragoon armor disappearing in a flash.
Marina ran over to him, giving him a hug, then led him to the group of survivors.
It took a few moments to convince them he was on their side, but everyone finally settled down.
"Ma.rina." someone said from an ally.
".Who?" Both Marina and Yun walked to the ally. Laying there on his stomach, not far from the opening, was a man.
"Father!" Marina yelled, kneeling before the man and taking him into her arms.
".Marina.they took.your sister." the man said, gasping for breath. He was badly burned, and was bleeding very badly from his side.
"Shhh..I will find her, father."
The man looked weakly to Yun.
".The one.from your dream?" he asked. He didn't need an answer. ".take care of her." He weakly lifted a small silver box, trying to hand it to him, ".and.th.is." his eyes rolled back, and he went limp, his arm collapsing back onto his chest.
"FATHER!" Marina screamed, tears running down her cheeks. She held her father's dead body, shaking it gently. "No.don't go.please."
Yun sat in silence, placing a hand gently on her shoulder, before taking the box from the dead man's hand. He opened it and gasped, before closing it again. He looked to Marina, and gave her a gentle hug. ".it's ok, Marina."
"No it isn't!" she yelled, "I should have been here."
"No.it was meant for you to go to the grove. If not, you would be dead and never get.this." He opened the box again and showed it to her.
Inside the box were two things. One was a silver engagement ring, her mother's engagement ring to be exact. But it was the second object that made her gasp. A small white-silver ball.
"It's.one of the orb things." she said, "Maybe I could bring him back with this, or." Yun stopped her.
"No.your father is gone.but you can still save your sister with this."
Marina nodded, eyeing the orb once before reaching to take it. The orb flashed and began to glow a bright white.
"Say the words, and you will have the power of the dragoon."
Marina stood up and stepped out of the ally. Huddled in a group were all the survivors, looking like they had given up all hope. Yun followed her out, and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Show them there is still hope." He stepped back, letting her do what she had to do.
"Awaken, Dragoon of the White-Silver dragon!" Yun watched in awe, Marina's transformation more brilliant then his own. Instead of bright flames, there was pure light, a light that brought hope into the eyes of those survivors of the attack.
Yun looked back to Marina, her nude form wrapped in pure light, then her delicate features became covered in the White-Silver armor Yun remembered from his dreams. Her quarterstaff transformed into a white- silver version of its oaken counterpart, capped at one end by a dragon's claw clutching an orb, the other a rounded tip.
Yun smiled as she stepped toward the survivors. ".She looks like an angel in the slums of a city.so pure."
Marina looked down to a small child, kneeling down to look into his face.
".Miss Marina? Issat really you?" the child asked.
"Yes, it is really me." He looked up to the others, "I have to go away to find who did this. Take care of each other, and rebuild your lives. I will return as soon as possible, with my sister, and together we will finish rebuilding the town.
Yun smiled as she continued talking to the survivors, and looked to the box again. He looked at the engagement ring, taking it from the box, and holding it in his palm.
Marina stepped away from the survivors and began to walk towards Yun, when in a flash of light her Dragoon armor was gone. ".They said the soldiers went that way," she said, pointing towards the road out of town.
"Then let's get started."
As they began walking, Marina's face was less then happy. Yun looked at her and thought a moment. He glanced to his right hand, which still had the ring in it, and got an idea.
Marina felt Yun take her left hand, but she didn't change her pace or the look on her face. Then she felt something slip onto her ring finger. She gave a small smile, clutching his hand a bit tighter.
".When we get back." Yun said, still looking forward.
".Yes.when we get back." Her smile brightened a little as she thought about the future. ________________________________________________________________________
That's the end of the second chapter. R&R, please. I know it is still clichéd a bit, but I will work on that, I promise.
