A/N: Don't own Legend of Dragoon as usual. The quote down there was just
something I made up, Lloyd hasn't said it, yet. The Garden and Metallic
Spirits are just things I made up, so don't freak and run around the game
trying to find them like someone did..
A Blackened Art of Necromancy
Chapter 2
"I don't remember all of it, for it was so confusing.. And blank with white. But wherever I now go, I see others like myself." -Lloyd
Bale loomed in the distance like some menacing giant. Smoke bloomed up from it as last night's attack was being repaired. When the wind had started up again the smoke drifted away from the castle. Leaving a nice view of the it and a few of the autumn colored trees surrounding the front. Albert gave a slight smile as he saw his home, and Emille felt a twinge in her stomach as she looked at him. He really was a King, just the way he walked made you feel that he alone owned the land below his feet. He'd never said it was his, never, but you knew it was.
Meru gave a slight laugh as they approached the city. Turning to Shana she said something quietly then was absorbed by a green light. Dart had an astonished look on his face, "She wasn't able to do that before. was she?" He asked Albert who promptly shook his head.
"Maybe they can use more magic now that they can drain energy from the spirits?" Emily said looking at Albert.
"Maybe."
***
Lloyd sat up and rubbed his forehead gently. He really needed to stop using so much magic. And that last fight with a Master Virage had not helped his condition either. Then with the consideration that he was on the Death Frontier..
"Doing alright man?" Asked one of the younger members of the group, Teon. He was human with short red and orange hair, two hazel eyes and some nicely decorated black leather for armor. On his back was a broad sword not that different than Dart's and at his side was a loaded crossbow. Lloyd was still amazed that the kid hadn't shot himself in the foot.
"Yeah, think I'll start doing a few less magical attacks though."
"Good idea unless you can get you hands on a Spirit."
"Of course." Lloyd said watching Teon walk calmly off to the fire where the rest of the group was making breakfast.
Lloyd still had to wonder why he'd bothered joining up with the group. Just about all of them where weak, most like Teon were trying to look cool. Half of them had been revived like himself though, was that why? No, the real reason lay in the only other Wingly in the group, Nesha, and a mercenary named Deven. Nesha wasn't truly powerful, about as quick as Lenus though. She also had an enchanted weapon, it was a funny looking thing actually. Where the blade was on most swords there was a handle, and at the handle and cross bar there was a blade. He still didn't get how it worked in killing someone. Nesha herself come from Ulara, much like Lloyd, and that was another reason for wanting to be with her, and her group. Charle lived in Ulara, and Charle knew where his mother was.
Lloyd wasn't about to let this second chance of life turn into the first. He'd find his family, make right his sins and with any luck work in Menjin with other Winglys who wanted to solve the "secrets" of magic and science. Of course all that would have to wait until the Virage had been destroyed.
"Come on Lloyd! We don't have all day to eat ja know!" He smiled and got up to go join the other around the fire.
"What I'd do with out Kira and Nesha's cooking." The two girls in the group laughed at the comment.
"Just for that you get more Colm!" Kira cried.
"Hey! I gave you a complement not an insult!" He yelled back looking at the porridge-ish thing on his plate.
"Colm I'd keep your mouth shut, or they'll shut it for you." Addle said with a smile.
Most of the group laughed at the inside joke. See, it's not always this fun to be a loner Lloyd
Looking over at Nesha he could see her smile as she pored food onto someone else's plate. Just don't get the idea that I'll hang around forever
Whatever you say
The group moved out only an hour after dawn. They were headed for Deningrad, which wasn't the wisest choice. However the main Virage populous was there, and Nesha said that in Deningrad they would find a good key to destroying the Virages. Lloyd had his own reasons for going to Deningrad too. Reasons that he suspected only he really knew of.
Sand blew haphazardly around them, and Kira said something about how nice it would be to have camels for riding. Lloyd stayed to the back of the group, with the only other person he could get along with, Deven.
Deven was a man of about 6' 2" and little build. He had a sort of natural strength you didn't see too often with humans, and because of it he was about as skinny as a stick. He had two blue eyes and blood blond hair. For the most part he used a serrated rapier, and on occasion he used a pair of daggers that were really meant for throwing. Deven was the only one besides Lloyd who had killed a Virage on his own, and that instantly got him respect.
"Did you see that?" He asked Lloyd looking up at the sky.
Lloyd peered at the sky searching for whatever it was. Then he saw a flicker of light rapidly approaching them. The others were looking up to and just about every one was talking. Then in a flash it was hovering there in front of Nesha glowing.
"W-what is this." She asked.
Lloyd and Deven push their way to her side. "Is looks like the Wind Dragoon Spirit."
She reached out and took it in her hands, "It. feels like plants. but then it must be the one they were using for the city!" She turned on Lloyd, "If the city was flying when this left.."
"They'd have power stocked away, besides didn't you say that other dragoons were on them."
"Is it really a Dragon Spirit??" Teon asked.
"I didn't know any of the Dragoons gave theirs up!" Colm said happily, he had a thing against about half of the Dragoon for unknown reasons.
Deven looked up at the sky, "It was being followed."
High above in the sky was several Dragoons with White, Black, Red and Blue armor. Lloyd quietly slipped to the back of the group, the last thing he wanted was to a have a confrontation with them now.
Landing softly on the ground Meru looked around, "So who got the spirit?"
"I-I did." Nesha said, she hadn't been expecting anything of the sort.
Zeig looked at them, "You should come with us then."
"I will not!"
"You wont?" asked Rose, "Your a Dragoon now and the Death Frontier is hardly the place we want you, or need you."
"Need me, there is a million Virage out here, and your telling me I can't do any good here?"
"Really? I hadn't heard that their are Virage are out here. Not enough of them to be in Tiberona, Serdio, Mille Seseau and out here." Miranda said glaring at Deven.
"We've killed fourteen out here so far, now not to be rude but we've seen a good hundred." He said right back.
"That's impossible, not even a hundred escaped from the moon!" Rose said looking at the group as if they were insane.
Lloyd and Zeig's eyes met, if he couldn't hide from them then he'd best make it know that he wasn't with the Virage. " It's because they're multiplying."
Miranda's head snapped in his direction, "You." She hissed at him and began to draw arrow out.
"Leave him alone Miranda." Zeig commanded.
"But he.."
"And so did I, Lloyd you said they are multiplying. How?"
For a second Lloyd was thankful he had known the man. "They are using ashes from destroyed cites to create more of themselves.'
Zeig nodded, "Then if Deningrad had been completely over run."
"It has, and that's why there's thousands of them on the Death Frontier. They want to prepare a surprise attack."
"And that's why were headed for Deningrad, If we could get there get rid of the reaming ashes and stop their numbers from growing."
Miranda stood back watching as Zeig thought the new information over. She just couldn't believe that they'd be so happy to see him alive. Who ever was reviving these people had a screw lose, and they could have at least revived people who deserved to be revived! Rose deserved it and maybe so did Zeig, but Lloyd. Not a chance in the universe!
"Miranda, would you go back to Bale and tell them that we'll be going north with these people."
"What?!"
"Just go, and do your best explain what has happened, including the fact that the Virage can reproduce. "
Miranda looked at the other Dragoons like they were all crazy. "If you get killed again it's not my fault." She took of the ground swiftly and headed back in the direction she had come from.
Zeig and Rose had taken up on training the newest Dragoon, so the group had camped in the same place all day. Meru had spent several hours taking to her newest fans, and Deven had sat with Lloyd next to a wall.
"You never told me." Deven said coldly to Lloyd.
"Would you have expected me to?"
"No. However it's because of you that all this happened," his voice grew with furry.
"No offense Deven, but you don't even know what happened, all you know is local rumors of Dragoons and evil Winglys, and the hole reason why you joined up is because you felt responsible for ensuring that Nesha and myself didn't try to destroy the world before the Virage do."
"So why don't you explain what is going on in this fucking world?"
Lloyd gave him a look like one Deven had never been given before, "Never insult this world, because what comes after is much worse."
"Your dogging the subject Lloyd."
".Melbu Frama gets his hands the three Divine Moon Objects thanks to me. The he breaks the seal on the moon the my ancestors created. The Dragoons get to the moon and attempt to kill him before he can release the God of Destruction. Shana who is the Moon Child is just about to have her second soul reunited with it's body when Frama takes the God over. I show up and try to help the Dragoons kill him and die." He paused thinking over the rest. "About two months later I wake up in the middle of Serdio, alive, from assorted people I learn that Deningrad is under attack from Virage. However this is impossible because the Virage are linked to the God of Destruction, and when it died they should have too. So I go to Mille Seseau, the land has literally been scorched, with the exception of Deningrad, and a few of the Wingly towns there. Almost every one is evacuating to Tiberona and Serdio. Less than a month latter I too go south. From what I know something Lord Frama created almost twenty thousand years ago has been reviving selected people."
Deven interrupted him, "Lord Frama?"
"Charle and Melbu Frama's father. My father worked with him on a gneiss project."
"Gneiss?"
"They were trying to create a sort of earth being that could replace the Virage. I think he said that they succeeded but some how it escaped." Lloyd
"Gneiss project, that was something strange." Zeig had practically appeared out of no where and sat down across from the Wingly. "There was another project after that one that Lord Frama worked on before he died of old age, Genosic was it?"
"First off he was poisoned," Lloyd said thinking hard about his childhood, "I thought the other on was Genosis though, because they were trying to create a sort of super Wingly."
Rose and Nesha had also walked over. Nesha shook her head, "No that was one of Melbu and Faust's projects. My father was on a comity for the Genosis project, he told me about it before he died."
"Just how old are all of you people any way?" Deven asked looking at them as Meru to came and joined them.
"Well I only just tuned twenty a while ago." Nesha said.
Meru laughed, "He meant in human years!" She said happily.
"Oh. well then somewhere around six or seven thousand years. What about you Lloyd?"
'I'm going to have to think about that. You wouldn't happen to know how many years it was from the Divergence to The Campaign would you?" He asked Zeig.
"You were born then? Man! Your only a few years short of Ancestor Blano. Well let me think ." He began to count down thousands of years on his hands.
"Rose do you know how old Charle is?" Meru asked.
"Charle, well she was born after the original wipe out and that was..."
Nesha looked over at Deven, "I really do think that was the wrong question to ask them."
"Yeah."
A/N: I'd consider that a kind of funny ending to this chapter. Just the idea of the lot of them trying to figure out how old the are is funny! Thanks for the reviews you two! Oh and people REVIEW, cause I like this fic and I it to have reviews!!
Ssp47: Thanks for the names and stuff! I tried to clear some of the stuff up and just so you know not even the people in the fic know who or how they are being revived! As you said I was trying to cram a lot into the first chapter.
A Blackened Art of Necromancy
Chapter 2
"I don't remember all of it, for it was so confusing.. And blank with white. But wherever I now go, I see others like myself." -Lloyd
Bale loomed in the distance like some menacing giant. Smoke bloomed up from it as last night's attack was being repaired. When the wind had started up again the smoke drifted away from the castle. Leaving a nice view of the it and a few of the autumn colored trees surrounding the front. Albert gave a slight smile as he saw his home, and Emille felt a twinge in her stomach as she looked at him. He really was a King, just the way he walked made you feel that he alone owned the land below his feet. He'd never said it was his, never, but you knew it was.
Meru gave a slight laugh as they approached the city. Turning to Shana she said something quietly then was absorbed by a green light. Dart had an astonished look on his face, "She wasn't able to do that before. was she?" He asked Albert who promptly shook his head.
"Maybe they can use more magic now that they can drain energy from the spirits?" Emily said looking at Albert.
"Maybe."
***
Lloyd sat up and rubbed his forehead gently. He really needed to stop using so much magic. And that last fight with a Master Virage had not helped his condition either. Then with the consideration that he was on the Death Frontier..
"Doing alright man?" Asked one of the younger members of the group, Teon. He was human with short red and orange hair, two hazel eyes and some nicely decorated black leather for armor. On his back was a broad sword not that different than Dart's and at his side was a loaded crossbow. Lloyd was still amazed that the kid hadn't shot himself in the foot.
"Yeah, think I'll start doing a few less magical attacks though."
"Good idea unless you can get you hands on a Spirit."
"Of course." Lloyd said watching Teon walk calmly off to the fire where the rest of the group was making breakfast.
Lloyd still had to wonder why he'd bothered joining up with the group. Just about all of them where weak, most like Teon were trying to look cool. Half of them had been revived like himself though, was that why? No, the real reason lay in the only other Wingly in the group, Nesha, and a mercenary named Deven. Nesha wasn't truly powerful, about as quick as Lenus though. She also had an enchanted weapon, it was a funny looking thing actually. Where the blade was on most swords there was a handle, and at the handle and cross bar there was a blade. He still didn't get how it worked in killing someone. Nesha herself come from Ulara, much like Lloyd, and that was another reason for wanting to be with her, and her group. Charle lived in Ulara, and Charle knew where his mother was.
Lloyd wasn't about to let this second chance of life turn into the first. He'd find his family, make right his sins and with any luck work in Menjin with other Winglys who wanted to solve the "secrets" of magic and science. Of course all that would have to wait until the Virage had been destroyed.
"Come on Lloyd! We don't have all day to eat ja know!" He smiled and got up to go join the other around the fire.
"What I'd do with out Kira and Nesha's cooking." The two girls in the group laughed at the comment.
"Just for that you get more Colm!" Kira cried.
"Hey! I gave you a complement not an insult!" He yelled back looking at the porridge-ish thing on his plate.
"Colm I'd keep your mouth shut, or they'll shut it for you." Addle said with a smile.
Most of the group laughed at the inside joke. See, it's not always this fun to be a loner Lloyd
Looking over at Nesha he could see her smile as she pored food onto someone else's plate. Just don't get the idea that I'll hang around forever
Whatever you say
The group moved out only an hour after dawn. They were headed for Deningrad, which wasn't the wisest choice. However the main Virage populous was there, and Nesha said that in Deningrad they would find a good key to destroying the Virages. Lloyd had his own reasons for going to Deningrad too. Reasons that he suspected only he really knew of.
Sand blew haphazardly around them, and Kira said something about how nice it would be to have camels for riding. Lloyd stayed to the back of the group, with the only other person he could get along with, Deven.
Deven was a man of about 6' 2" and little build. He had a sort of natural strength you didn't see too often with humans, and because of it he was about as skinny as a stick. He had two blue eyes and blood blond hair. For the most part he used a serrated rapier, and on occasion he used a pair of daggers that were really meant for throwing. Deven was the only one besides Lloyd who had killed a Virage on his own, and that instantly got him respect.
"Did you see that?" He asked Lloyd looking up at the sky.
Lloyd peered at the sky searching for whatever it was. Then he saw a flicker of light rapidly approaching them. The others were looking up to and just about every one was talking. Then in a flash it was hovering there in front of Nesha glowing.
"W-what is this." She asked.
Lloyd and Deven push their way to her side. "Is looks like the Wind Dragoon Spirit."
She reached out and took it in her hands, "It. feels like plants. but then it must be the one they were using for the city!" She turned on Lloyd, "If the city was flying when this left.."
"They'd have power stocked away, besides didn't you say that other dragoons were on them."
"Is it really a Dragon Spirit??" Teon asked.
"I didn't know any of the Dragoons gave theirs up!" Colm said happily, he had a thing against about half of the Dragoon for unknown reasons.
Deven looked up at the sky, "It was being followed."
High above in the sky was several Dragoons with White, Black, Red and Blue armor. Lloyd quietly slipped to the back of the group, the last thing he wanted was to a have a confrontation with them now.
Landing softly on the ground Meru looked around, "So who got the spirit?"
"I-I did." Nesha said, she hadn't been expecting anything of the sort.
Zeig looked at them, "You should come with us then."
"I will not!"
"You wont?" asked Rose, "Your a Dragoon now and the Death Frontier is hardly the place we want you, or need you."
"Need me, there is a million Virage out here, and your telling me I can't do any good here?"
"Really? I hadn't heard that their are Virage are out here. Not enough of them to be in Tiberona, Serdio, Mille Seseau and out here." Miranda said glaring at Deven.
"We've killed fourteen out here so far, now not to be rude but we've seen a good hundred." He said right back.
"That's impossible, not even a hundred escaped from the moon!" Rose said looking at the group as if they were insane.
Lloyd and Zeig's eyes met, if he couldn't hide from them then he'd best make it know that he wasn't with the Virage. " It's because they're multiplying."
Miranda's head snapped in his direction, "You." She hissed at him and began to draw arrow out.
"Leave him alone Miranda." Zeig commanded.
"But he.."
"And so did I, Lloyd you said they are multiplying. How?"
For a second Lloyd was thankful he had known the man. "They are using ashes from destroyed cites to create more of themselves.'
Zeig nodded, "Then if Deningrad had been completely over run."
"It has, and that's why there's thousands of them on the Death Frontier. They want to prepare a surprise attack."
"And that's why were headed for Deningrad, If we could get there get rid of the reaming ashes and stop their numbers from growing."
Miranda stood back watching as Zeig thought the new information over. She just couldn't believe that they'd be so happy to see him alive. Who ever was reviving these people had a screw lose, and they could have at least revived people who deserved to be revived! Rose deserved it and maybe so did Zeig, but Lloyd. Not a chance in the universe!
"Miranda, would you go back to Bale and tell them that we'll be going north with these people."
"What?!"
"Just go, and do your best explain what has happened, including the fact that the Virage can reproduce. "
Miranda looked at the other Dragoons like they were all crazy. "If you get killed again it's not my fault." She took of the ground swiftly and headed back in the direction she had come from.
Zeig and Rose had taken up on training the newest Dragoon, so the group had camped in the same place all day. Meru had spent several hours taking to her newest fans, and Deven had sat with Lloyd next to a wall.
"You never told me." Deven said coldly to Lloyd.
"Would you have expected me to?"
"No. However it's because of you that all this happened," his voice grew with furry.
"No offense Deven, but you don't even know what happened, all you know is local rumors of Dragoons and evil Winglys, and the hole reason why you joined up is because you felt responsible for ensuring that Nesha and myself didn't try to destroy the world before the Virage do."
"So why don't you explain what is going on in this fucking world?"
Lloyd gave him a look like one Deven had never been given before, "Never insult this world, because what comes after is much worse."
"Your dogging the subject Lloyd."
".Melbu Frama gets his hands the three Divine Moon Objects thanks to me. The he breaks the seal on the moon the my ancestors created. The Dragoons get to the moon and attempt to kill him before he can release the God of Destruction. Shana who is the Moon Child is just about to have her second soul reunited with it's body when Frama takes the God over. I show up and try to help the Dragoons kill him and die." He paused thinking over the rest. "About two months later I wake up in the middle of Serdio, alive, from assorted people I learn that Deningrad is under attack from Virage. However this is impossible because the Virage are linked to the God of Destruction, and when it died they should have too. So I go to Mille Seseau, the land has literally been scorched, with the exception of Deningrad, and a few of the Wingly towns there. Almost every one is evacuating to Tiberona and Serdio. Less than a month latter I too go south. From what I know something Lord Frama created almost twenty thousand years ago has been reviving selected people."
Deven interrupted him, "Lord Frama?"
"Charle and Melbu Frama's father. My father worked with him on a gneiss project."
"Gneiss?"
"They were trying to create a sort of earth being that could replace the Virage. I think he said that they succeeded but some how it escaped." Lloyd
"Gneiss project, that was something strange." Zeig had practically appeared out of no where and sat down across from the Wingly. "There was another project after that one that Lord Frama worked on before he died of old age, Genosic was it?"
"First off he was poisoned," Lloyd said thinking hard about his childhood, "I thought the other on was Genosis though, because they were trying to create a sort of super Wingly."
Rose and Nesha had also walked over. Nesha shook her head, "No that was one of Melbu and Faust's projects. My father was on a comity for the Genosis project, he told me about it before he died."
"Just how old are all of you people any way?" Deven asked looking at them as Meru to came and joined them.
"Well I only just tuned twenty a while ago." Nesha said.
Meru laughed, "He meant in human years!" She said happily.
"Oh. well then somewhere around six or seven thousand years. What about you Lloyd?"
'I'm going to have to think about that. You wouldn't happen to know how many years it was from the Divergence to The Campaign would you?" He asked Zeig.
"You were born then? Man! Your only a few years short of Ancestor Blano. Well let me think ." He began to count down thousands of years on his hands.
"Rose do you know how old Charle is?" Meru asked.
"Charle, well she was born after the original wipe out and that was..."
Nesha looked over at Deven, "I really do think that was the wrong question to ask them."
"Yeah."
A/N: I'd consider that a kind of funny ending to this chapter. Just the idea of the lot of them trying to figure out how old the are is funny! Thanks for the reviews you two! Oh and people REVIEW, cause I like this fic and I it to have reviews!!
Ssp47: Thanks for the names and stuff! I tried to clear some of the stuff up and just so you know not even the people in the fic know who or how they are being revived! As you said I was trying to cram a lot into the first chapter.