A/N: Now it's time for... ANOTHER annoying disclaimer! Don't own
legend of dragoon... Bla, blaa bla!
A Blackened Art of Necromancy
Chapter 14
Even now Mayfil gave Rose the most eerie felling. Though the land was akin to her, the felling of souls in the air was enough to disturb anyone. It made her feel cold and itchy all over, and no matter how hard she tried to put the feeling into the back of her mind she couldn't.
However her own comfort was nothing to her. She was much more worried about what had happened to all the hell controlling demons. She had so far only felt two, and both of them were so weak they could only take the form of mist.
If the demons were indeed not here, then where would they have gone?
*** Dilrivan awoke to the sound of people yelling and a sudden knock on his door. Groggily he stumbled out of bed and towards the door.
"Yes?" He asked opening it.
"Not to disturb, Sir, but it would be best if you got your things and left with the rest of us to Lohan." The manager said with a panicked look.
"Why?"
"The.. The knights say an army of Virage is coming this way... They say we should evacuate!"
"oh..." Did they know that I was here? Dilrivan asked him self as he grabbed his things, threw on the rest of his clothes and headed out the door.
"Knights..." He paused in thought as he looked around the hurried village. "I should go speak with them." Much slower than the crowd around him he wondered off to find the HQ of the village.
"Are you a mercenary?" Asked a man who was dressed in blue with armor over top.
"Yes..."
"Would mind coming this way? If your willing to fight that is."
"Sure." Moving through the crowd he followed the knight. Once more the knight stopped to talk to someone else. This time it was a human in black armor, and a broad sword. The man nodded and looked at Dilrivan.
"Are, are you a Wingly?" The black armored man asked.
"Yes."
"Did you escape from Ulara or Bale then?"
"Ulara."
"It's very nice to have you along then. I'm Kaiser, head of the First Knighthood."
"Your welcome..." Dilrivan smiled a bit. "So what is going on?"
"There is an army approaching us from the north. The Darkness Dragoon miss Rose informed us of this. "
"The Dragoon Rose? Is she here?"
"Oh, yes. I guess then it might be better if you talked to her."
"Yes, that would be better." Kaiser lead him off to a small building in which most of the knights were camped and there was a woman in all black and gold armor giving out orders. At first she didn't even notice him till Kaiser made a noise with his throat.
At first she just stood there amazed at seeing him, perhaps she knew about the shape shifter that had taken his place? "Dilrivan?"
"Yes? Your Rose right?" He couldn't be sure, not ever seeing her before.
"Well yes."
"Listen there are some things you should know."
"Outside." She commended of the knights, and quickly all of them dispersed.
"What is it, has your little group decided to help us fight?" Her voice was highly annoyed and cynical.
"I thought we did... No wait, Rose listen when you arrived in Omnia that wasn't me there, it was some sort of Shape Shifter that the Herosa had gotten. I was in Bale, she wanted to know about the Sacrid Sisters and Soa. You see so she imprisoned me and while I was there, this showed up and..." He pulled the Divine Dragoon Spirit out of his pocket. "What happened to it's other owner... Dart?"
"What do you mean that wasn't you? How could that switch have happened with out anyone noticing? And the Divine Spirit.. Well we don't know what happened to Dart he just disappeared."
"Alright... When sent out a group of winglies to find you it must have come through the portal. We didn't notice and then it took my spot, and had another one like it take me back to Bale. There was three of them, I think. Did anyone appear to be acting strange or clumsy?"
"Acting strange..." She pause as if deep in thought. "Dart was... And there was this one point in which you and some winglies I didn't recognize showed up. Perhaps the other Shape Shifter took his place and Dart is still in Omnia?"
"It could be possible. In any case, what is going on here. I knew the Herosa sent some demons after me, but they were making it sound like an army."
"That's because it is an army. When I arrived at Mayfil the entire place was empty, I had to follow the army south. Right now they should be at the Tiberonian boarder. I flew down here to warn Hoax, however the main army is headed for Lohan. Sha- Herosa must want the supplies."
"That would make sense."
"Yes, since the Divine Spirit chose you Dilrivan, I would appreciate it if you would stay here and fight."
"Well yes of course. You said something earlier about Omnia not giving help?"
"Yes, they basically told us that they would not get involved till the Herosa came to their door."
"The shape shifter must have convinced the council not to sent out the army with you... I'm terribly sorry about that. I had been working so long at that after everything with the moon started." He said.
Rose nodded and walked to the door letting the knights back in. "Do you have the sword too?"
"No..." He responded.
"Well I have one of them get you something." She said as Kaiser approached her and they began to talk.
***
Miranda could feel the presence of the army as the demons hit the boarder. It was the same bad feeling she had gotten in Mayfil. Being as she was, a light elemental, she could not force herself forget the irritable sensation.
In the end she left the shrine, and began to search out the source of it's evil. While searching she passed Hoax with out even stopping ask why people were nearly trampling each other to get out of the city. From there she head towards the mountain in the west. Which was where she found her quarry.
Slowly marching over the mountains was an army of about eight thousand. All clad in black armor, or so it appeared from the distance. However as she approached them, she could see what it really was. It was the demons of Mayfil, marching from their home to some place south east.
For some odd reason all this didn't trouble her as much as she expected. In fact when felt a fiery sense near her, she was almost sad that someone else had come to ruin her fun.
"So it was demons?" She heard a male voice behind her say.
"Nice of you to sneak up on me Zieg."
"No, I think you knew I was there. Besides all of our senses have been improving." He said with a measure of understanding.
"Yeah, ever since that Shana thing... I feel like a Wingly half the time with all this extra hearing and Magical understanding."
"I think the Dragons have been lending us more power."
"Whatever... So what are we going to do about them?"
"Well, they are ailed with the Herosa."
"I'm not going to be suicidal." Miranda said strongly, "I'm not for that hole sacrificial stuff. The tree didn't give us life so we could kill ourselves."
Behind her Zieg laughed, "I would think that all religious phrases would be a bit out of date."
"Shove it." Flame boy, She added in her head.
"We should pick them off. Not the main body, but the scouts and stragglers."
"Wouldn't that make them want to get going faster if they think something is behind them?"
"Not if something more dangerous is in front of them. So if none of their scouts return..."
"Ok, so do you want the back or the front?" She asked hoping he would chose the front.
"I'll take the front, can't have them running on their way can we?" He said sarcastically back.
"Spry for a corpse aren't we." She said coldly before taking off down hill towards the back of the group.
***
Albert found himself in something of a desperate situation that day. He had safely reached Neet, however after being there for less than two hours Virage appeared. The first two he had been forced to fight. Which he had defeated with little more than scratches or bruises. Unfortunately his good luck did not last long.
As evening lay in the sky and snow began to scatter in windy sweeps, he set up camp. It wasn't much, however the old basement of a long abandoned house was really the best shelter. He had his dinner well cooked on a fire, and slept well.
Some time before midnight a sound from above awoke him.
"Go away" He muttered to himself. However the sound of something clanking against the door continued. Then after almost ten minutes of trying to block it out, Albert got up. His body moving slow as he headed up the steps to the trapdoor. Pulling it down, and crawling out he heard the sound stop. Looking around he had only seconds to see a Virage swat at him.
His body went flying through the air and hit old worn stones from some deserted house. Hurriedly he stood, cursing himself for not putting on his armor or taking his spear. The Virage leapt over the trapdoor and started making a strange rasping sound in it's throat. For a second Albert thought that the beast might actually have choked on something when it hopped. However his hope was soon deluded when four Master Virages came leaping around other buildings.
The smaller Virage had been calling to it's brothers. Telling them that it had found the human who had killed the other two.
Albert sighed, so far as he could see there was only one way out of the strange predicament. It was to run, and run as fast as he could for the forest behind him.
Ignoring his bruises from the swatting he ran back into the forest. Thinking about how he could at least appreciate the warm attire he had on.
He ran through the forest wondering what else could be out in the blackness.
Albert never saw the ravine in time. In his near frantic haste to get away from the Virage he hadn't been watching more than the ground right in front of his feet. So when the ground suddenly disappeared from below him he fell fast and hard onto the stream of ice, and all it's rocks. Blood slowly soaked out of his head from where he lay, unmoving.
The only witness to these happenings had been owner of the stream, Nadine.
*** Nadine's hand reached down to touch the wound on the crazy man's head. He wasn't hurt to bad anywhere else. However the fall had caused him some damage. Who was to say how well he would have recovered if he hadn't fallen into her stream. Poor crazy man.
Nadine rocked his head over and looked at the bleeding wound. She sighed so lightly and pulled out a knife. She stared at it for a bit, almost convinced that she should let him go. Then just as she started to put it way, she saw her.
It was the lady who had come to visit her not that long ago. The angel lady.
"I know him Nadine. I'd like it if you'd save him for me." The angel lady asked.
"This fool? He ran off the ravine all by himself!"
"Nadine, he's no fool, he was being chased. Please, I really liked him when I was alive."
"If you say so Miss Shana. I guess I could."
"Thank you Nadine."
"Miss Shana?" Shana's spirit stopped dematerializing. "Is he one of them?"
"Yes he is." She said smiling.
"Okay." Nadine watched as Shana's spirit disappeared and picked the knife back up. "Well crazy man," She cut the palm of her hand, "Your lucky." Slowly she let the blood run off her hand and into Albert's wound. The reddish liquid turned silver and started to knit his skin, bone and tissue back together.
A/N: Isn't that a wonderful name? Nadine. Tis pretty! Thank you Steven King! Wee!!! Okay, now for all you worried sick Albert fans.. You don't really think I'd kill off Albert do you??? Besides, that's a sucky death! I could see it now....
Albert: Is this heaven?
Person: Yeah, name and how you died.
Albert: Well I'm King Albert if Serdio and... I think I died when I fell into a ravine... Must have hit my head or something.
Person:.... AHAAHAHAHHAHAAA King killed by vengeful ravine!
Albert: What? *blink, blink*
Dole: To think I could have save myself all that trouble and kicked you off a cliff...
A/N: Alright, just felt the need for some humor there, Well review people! I'm aiming at 100 of these things, so get with it!
A Blackened Art of Necromancy
Chapter 14
Even now Mayfil gave Rose the most eerie felling. Though the land was akin to her, the felling of souls in the air was enough to disturb anyone. It made her feel cold and itchy all over, and no matter how hard she tried to put the feeling into the back of her mind she couldn't.
However her own comfort was nothing to her. She was much more worried about what had happened to all the hell controlling demons. She had so far only felt two, and both of them were so weak they could only take the form of mist.
If the demons were indeed not here, then where would they have gone?
*** Dilrivan awoke to the sound of people yelling and a sudden knock on his door. Groggily he stumbled out of bed and towards the door.
"Yes?" He asked opening it.
"Not to disturb, Sir, but it would be best if you got your things and left with the rest of us to Lohan." The manager said with a panicked look.
"Why?"
"The.. The knights say an army of Virage is coming this way... They say we should evacuate!"
"oh..." Did they know that I was here? Dilrivan asked him self as he grabbed his things, threw on the rest of his clothes and headed out the door.
"Knights..." He paused in thought as he looked around the hurried village. "I should go speak with them." Much slower than the crowd around him he wondered off to find the HQ of the village.
"Are you a mercenary?" Asked a man who was dressed in blue with armor over top.
"Yes..."
"Would mind coming this way? If your willing to fight that is."
"Sure." Moving through the crowd he followed the knight. Once more the knight stopped to talk to someone else. This time it was a human in black armor, and a broad sword. The man nodded and looked at Dilrivan.
"Are, are you a Wingly?" The black armored man asked.
"Yes."
"Did you escape from Ulara or Bale then?"
"Ulara."
"It's very nice to have you along then. I'm Kaiser, head of the First Knighthood."
"Your welcome..." Dilrivan smiled a bit. "So what is going on?"
"There is an army approaching us from the north. The Darkness Dragoon miss Rose informed us of this. "
"The Dragoon Rose? Is she here?"
"Oh, yes. I guess then it might be better if you talked to her."
"Yes, that would be better." Kaiser lead him off to a small building in which most of the knights were camped and there was a woman in all black and gold armor giving out orders. At first she didn't even notice him till Kaiser made a noise with his throat.
At first she just stood there amazed at seeing him, perhaps she knew about the shape shifter that had taken his place? "Dilrivan?"
"Yes? Your Rose right?" He couldn't be sure, not ever seeing her before.
"Well yes."
"Listen there are some things you should know."
"Outside." She commended of the knights, and quickly all of them dispersed.
"What is it, has your little group decided to help us fight?" Her voice was highly annoyed and cynical.
"I thought we did... No wait, Rose listen when you arrived in Omnia that wasn't me there, it was some sort of Shape Shifter that the Herosa had gotten. I was in Bale, she wanted to know about the Sacrid Sisters and Soa. You see so she imprisoned me and while I was there, this showed up and..." He pulled the Divine Dragoon Spirit out of his pocket. "What happened to it's other owner... Dart?"
"What do you mean that wasn't you? How could that switch have happened with out anyone noticing? And the Divine Spirit.. Well we don't know what happened to Dart he just disappeared."
"Alright... When sent out a group of winglies to find you it must have come through the portal. We didn't notice and then it took my spot, and had another one like it take me back to Bale. There was three of them, I think. Did anyone appear to be acting strange or clumsy?"
"Acting strange..." She pause as if deep in thought. "Dart was... And there was this one point in which you and some winglies I didn't recognize showed up. Perhaps the other Shape Shifter took his place and Dart is still in Omnia?"
"It could be possible. In any case, what is going on here. I knew the Herosa sent some demons after me, but they were making it sound like an army."
"That's because it is an army. When I arrived at Mayfil the entire place was empty, I had to follow the army south. Right now they should be at the Tiberonian boarder. I flew down here to warn Hoax, however the main army is headed for Lohan. Sha- Herosa must want the supplies."
"That would make sense."
"Yes, since the Divine Spirit chose you Dilrivan, I would appreciate it if you would stay here and fight."
"Well yes of course. You said something earlier about Omnia not giving help?"
"Yes, they basically told us that they would not get involved till the Herosa came to their door."
"The shape shifter must have convinced the council not to sent out the army with you... I'm terribly sorry about that. I had been working so long at that after everything with the moon started." He said.
Rose nodded and walked to the door letting the knights back in. "Do you have the sword too?"
"No..." He responded.
"Well I have one of them get you something." She said as Kaiser approached her and they began to talk.
***
Miranda could feel the presence of the army as the demons hit the boarder. It was the same bad feeling she had gotten in Mayfil. Being as she was, a light elemental, she could not force herself forget the irritable sensation.
In the end she left the shrine, and began to search out the source of it's evil. While searching she passed Hoax with out even stopping ask why people were nearly trampling each other to get out of the city. From there she head towards the mountain in the west. Which was where she found her quarry.
Slowly marching over the mountains was an army of about eight thousand. All clad in black armor, or so it appeared from the distance. However as she approached them, she could see what it really was. It was the demons of Mayfil, marching from their home to some place south east.
For some odd reason all this didn't trouble her as much as she expected. In fact when felt a fiery sense near her, she was almost sad that someone else had come to ruin her fun.
"So it was demons?" She heard a male voice behind her say.
"Nice of you to sneak up on me Zieg."
"No, I think you knew I was there. Besides all of our senses have been improving." He said with a measure of understanding.
"Yeah, ever since that Shana thing... I feel like a Wingly half the time with all this extra hearing and Magical understanding."
"I think the Dragons have been lending us more power."
"Whatever... So what are we going to do about them?"
"Well, they are ailed with the Herosa."
"I'm not going to be suicidal." Miranda said strongly, "I'm not for that hole sacrificial stuff. The tree didn't give us life so we could kill ourselves."
Behind her Zieg laughed, "I would think that all religious phrases would be a bit out of date."
"Shove it." Flame boy, She added in her head.
"We should pick them off. Not the main body, but the scouts and stragglers."
"Wouldn't that make them want to get going faster if they think something is behind them?"
"Not if something more dangerous is in front of them. So if none of their scouts return..."
"Ok, so do you want the back or the front?" She asked hoping he would chose the front.
"I'll take the front, can't have them running on their way can we?" He said sarcastically back.
"Spry for a corpse aren't we." She said coldly before taking off down hill towards the back of the group.
***
Albert found himself in something of a desperate situation that day. He had safely reached Neet, however after being there for less than two hours Virage appeared. The first two he had been forced to fight. Which he had defeated with little more than scratches or bruises. Unfortunately his good luck did not last long.
As evening lay in the sky and snow began to scatter in windy sweeps, he set up camp. It wasn't much, however the old basement of a long abandoned house was really the best shelter. He had his dinner well cooked on a fire, and slept well.
Some time before midnight a sound from above awoke him.
"Go away" He muttered to himself. However the sound of something clanking against the door continued. Then after almost ten minutes of trying to block it out, Albert got up. His body moving slow as he headed up the steps to the trapdoor. Pulling it down, and crawling out he heard the sound stop. Looking around he had only seconds to see a Virage swat at him.
His body went flying through the air and hit old worn stones from some deserted house. Hurriedly he stood, cursing himself for not putting on his armor or taking his spear. The Virage leapt over the trapdoor and started making a strange rasping sound in it's throat. For a second Albert thought that the beast might actually have choked on something when it hopped. However his hope was soon deluded when four Master Virages came leaping around other buildings.
The smaller Virage had been calling to it's brothers. Telling them that it had found the human who had killed the other two.
Albert sighed, so far as he could see there was only one way out of the strange predicament. It was to run, and run as fast as he could for the forest behind him.
Ignoring his bruises from the swatting he ran back into the forest. Thinking about how he could at least appreciate the warm attire he had on.
He ran through the forest wondering what else could be out in the blackness.
Albert never saw the ravine in time. In his near frantic haste to get away from the Virage he hadn't been watching more than the ground right in front of his feet. So when the ground suddenly disappeared from below him he fell fast and hard onto the stream of ice, and all it's rocks. Blood slowly soaked out of his head from where he lay, unmoving.
The only witness to these happenings had been owner of the stream, Nadine.
*** Nadine's hand reached down to touch the wound on the crazy man's head. He wasn't hurt to bad anywhere else. However the fall had caused him some damage. Who was to say how well he would have recovered if he hadn't fallen into her stream. Poor crazy man.
Nadine rocked his head over and looked at the bleeding wound. She sighed so lightly and pulled out a knife. She stared at it for a bit, almost convinced that she should let him go. Then just as she started to put it way, she saw her.
It was the lady who had come to visit her not that long ago. The angel lady.
"I know him Nadine. I'd like it if you'd save him for me." The angel lady asked.
"This fool? He ran off the ravine all by himself!"
"Nadine, he's no fool, he was being chased. Please, I really liked him when I was alive."
"If you say so Miss Shana. I guess I could."
"Thank you Nadine."
"Miss Shana?" Shana's spirit stopped dematerializing. "Is he one of them?"
"Yes he is." She said smiling.
"Okay." Nadine watched as Shana's spirit disappeared and picked the knife back up. "Well crazy man," She cut the palm of her hand, "Your lucky." Slowly she let the blood run off her hand and into Albert's wound. The reddish liquid turned silver and started to knit his skin, bone and tissue back together.
A/N: Isn't that a wonderful name? Nadine. Tis pretty! Thank you Steven King! Wee!!! Okay, now for all you worried sick Albert fans.. You don't really think I'd kill off Albert do you??? Besides, that's a sucky death! I could see it now....
Albert: Is this heaven?
Person: Yeah, name and how you died.
Albert: Well I'm King Albert if Serdio and... I think I died when I fell into a ravine... Must have hit my head or something.
Person:.... AHAAHAHAHHAHAAA King killed by vengeful ravine!
Albert: What? *blink, blink*
Dole: To think I could have save myself all that trouble and kicked you off a cliff...
A/N: Alright, just felt the need for some humor there, Well review people! I'm aiming at 100 of these things, so get with it!