Legend of Dragoon: The Pheonix Campaign
Chapter 1: Kidnapped
Maru walked through the streets of Bale with a bounce and twist in her step, heading towards the Castle in which her friend Arthur ruled Serdio in. Maru had silver hair that reached her ankles when it was tied back in her usual pony tail, wine coloured eyes that made her look almost identical to her mother had it not been that she was taller by a head and shoulders than her. The words of her 'mother' came back into her mind.
[Here. Your mother Meru wanted you to have this. Be careful and come back soon. We'll all be waiting.]
She began to walk up the stairs when a glint of shiny armour caught her eye. Sh elooked up in time to see a Royal Guard running down the stairs towards her.
"Miss Maru!"
"Where's Arthur? Is he running late again?" A smile played on her lips. Arthur was always late and falling down...Then again, they were both clumsy as if their company with each other seemed to rub off making them even worse than if they hadn't been good friends.
"He's been taken..." The guard said puffing, sweat glistening on his face.
"What?! When...Who-" Fear and panic filled her voice.
"Two days ago...By the Pheonix Knights-"
He was silenced by a tremendous slap by Maru. "And ou never contacted me?!"
"We...We couldn't get a messenger through to the village Miss Maru. It was blocked."
"Well where've they taken him?"
"New Hellena..."
Maru felt her stomach tighten, a gasp involuntarily coming from her lips. [Oh no...]
A lone warrior stood over looking New Hellena, the unescapable Prison. She laughed. That's what Hellena had meant to have been and yet the warriors Dart, Shana, Lavitz and Albert all made it from the depths of what people called Hell. Her feathery blonde hair tied back in a smiliar fashion to Shana's. Her clothing consisted off a black bodice, grey top, grey shorts and black boots. Around her arms the sleeves that once kept her arms warm were strapped on with belts, their tattered ends flying over her arms with the strong winds. Her intense brown eyes watched the Pheonixes as they flew around seemingly guarding the prison.
"Ha. Who are they after this time?"
A carriage rolled towards the entrance which banged open revealing the dark depths behind the bars. "Hurry up!"
"Yeah yeah. Hold on." The old man leading the carriage of the newest capture called approaching the gates.
[Those Knights owe me big this time...Normal people no problem...But Serdio's King? That's outrageous...]
The warrior folded her arms as she saw who was being held by the carriage. "Ha! King Arthur. They know she'll come for him..." No sooner had she spoken the words than a terrible yet probable thought sprung to her intelligent mind. "They must have something planned for her..."
Her guard had been let down and a Pheonix had spotted her, swooped down to her screeching it's find to the others.
A bottle filled with a blue liquid fell from its position on in Maru's hand. "Uh oh!" As the bottle got further to the ground, she began to panic further diving for it but only crashing face first into the floor.
A black gloved hand caught it gently. She pushed herself up onto her hands and knees, her forehead bruised and painful. [Who...?]
A man dressed in a black sleeveless vest, pants and fighting gloves held it pointing at it. "Yours?" He had silver hair which told her he was a wingly just like herself.
"Y-Yeah..." Her face pink in embarassment as she stood up smoothing her clothes back down.
He held it out for her, "Here then." She took it thankfully, but his hand didn't remove itself. "You're cute y'know."
She blushed furiously. "Flattery will get you nowhere Wingly..."
A smirk passed across his face, he leant to her ear as if to tell her a secret. "I know what colour panties you have on..."
The pink deepened to red and she brought her open hand around to his face giving him an almighty slap. "How dare you!"
The smirk never left his face. "Oh, you know you want me..."
"I ought to kick your backside right now!" She unlaced her basher from her back preparing to hit him with it when the store manager hurried over to them.
"Miss Maru...What does seem to be the matter?"
Her anger flared as she pointed at the wingly before her. "That wingly is ... A pervert! He's a panty peeker!"
The manager turned to the wingly and ushered him out. He returned to Maru who's face was still bright red. "I am deeply sorry Miss Maru. You may take what you need from my story free of charge for this inconvenience." He bowed deeply to her.
"Thankyou..." She put the bottle in her hand into her backpack, along with a few other bottles filled with green liquids before taking another blue liquid bottle. "Thankyou." She bowed before leaving the store. "Ready or not Endiness...Here comes Maru - yeow!" She tripped on the step and fell onto the ground before her.
A woman rushed over to her, "Are you alright Miss Maru?"
Maru pushed herself up and nodded. "Yeah...I just forgot there was a step there..."
In new Hellena Arthur found himself chained to a wall, in front of him stood a cloaked figure.
"A King who is friends with a wingly...Don't you know the histories? Don't you see what is in front of your seemingly blind eyes? They are slowly joining the humans again, they will gain our trust and before you realise what's happening, they will enslave all races again! That is what we are trying to prevent from happening. Do you want to see Endiness enslaved again?"
Arthur coughed before answering weakly, "No...But it is not the winglies who are wrong. It's you knights. You claim to be doing Soa's bidding, but you are wrong."
The figure slams a rod into Arthur's temple rendering him unconcious "You are a foolish King." Turning on its heel, the shrouded figure leaves, the guard locking the door quickly.
"Has he realised the truth yet?"
"No...He still refuses to believe the truth."
"Perhaps when he wakens, he may."
"Perhaps...But for the moment, his capture will bring one particular wingly..."
"One wingly? What could be so special about ONE wingly?" The guard asked incredulously.
"This wingly has something I need."
After four hours of travelling she found herself facing a forest, On the other side was New Hellena. She stepped in holding her hammer tightly. She began to sneak through the forest as though it would do her some good. A 'snap' from behind bade her spin around, swinging the hammer before landing on the ground as the hammer's momentum stopped suddenly. A dark elf dropped to the ground. Maru scrambled back up in terror.
"They're not meant to be here...They're not meant to here...Not in Serdio..."
She ran through the rest of the forest noticing more dark elves emerging. The forest ended suddenly and she was faced with the path to New Hellena. "How am I meant to get in there? It's controlled by the Pheonix Knights and they hate Winglies...And we do give ourselves away with our platinum coloured hair..."
Meru looked down to find dirt made her left leg dirty. She rubbed it off and an idea came to her mind. She grabbed a hand ful of dirt and began to rub it through her hair. Before long, her silver hair had been turned to a light ash blonde with brown streaks through it. A carriage rolled up to the end and Maru sprinted to catch up to it. She leapt on it and found that it was a band of musicians and dancers.
"Who are you?" One of the female dancers asked.
"I'm here to get a friend out...Please don't give me away..."
"Don't worry. We're just a cover ourselves to get someone out..."
Maru smiled.
"HOLD IT!" The cart jerked to a stop and a guard approached the cart. He begins to check it. He spots Maru and looks at her as though the cat that got the mouse. "Hey...She's pretty..."
"Can we go through or are you going to continue scaring my dancers?" The man sitting at the front of the carriage demanded.
"Only if your pretty little dancer here meest me in my quarters after your performance."
"Of course."
The carriage rolls into the prison, stopping in a small room. The performers then scatter, obviously taking their chance to find the person they were looking for. Maru smiled then disappeared further into the prison knowing where she'd most likely find Arthur.
Arthur woke, his head throbbing. The chains that once held him gone. Before him lay a simple white bowl with what appeared to be soup residing in it. He spicked it up and sniffed it, making a foul face before putting it back down.
"Damn...Where are you Maru?"
Maru appeared at the front of his cell as he spoke. "Arthur?"
Arthur jumps up and stumbles to the door, holding onto the bars as though his life depended upon it. "Maru? Is that really you?"
"How'd you end up in here?"
"They wanted to bring me to their side..."
Horrified she took a step away, "But you're not right?"
"Of course not! I'd be betraying you if I did!"
She smiled and unlaced her hammer again, readying it with the lock. Bringing the hammer down she broke the lock into two pieces, Arthur pushed the door open and they hugged.
"How touching...Let me guess, you're the wingly Maru..." The guard approached them from the shadows.
"Huh?" Maru turned to face the guard. "What are you talking about? I'm a performer for tonight."
A second guard approaches them from behind. "What is the King doing out then?"
"She is a dancer. I met her a few years ago. She doesn't like cages so she freed me. I've always been her good luck before a performance."
The first guard laughed. "As if we should believe you."
The two guards fall and Rose stands behind them. "Too bad you didn't."
"ROSE?!" Arthur and Maru stood in shock.
"The legendary Rose from the histories? The Dragon Campaign and Dart's Quest?" Maru asked, her eyes widening.
"Yes. That is me."
"You knew my mother Meru then..."
"Yes, I knew Meru the Wingly. The Blue-Sea Dragoon." She studied Maru. "You look like her...Only taller, probably the fact that your father was Garuha." She frowned, "And you have, brown hair..."
"It's dirt." Rose and Arthur look at her with raised eyebrows. "I had to get in somehow."
Rose shook her head. "Shall we leave now?"
Maru and Arthur nod. Arthur grabbed the javelin from the corner and they began walking towards the exit of the prison to be met with the shrouded figure who stood with two guards.
"Wingly...I believe you have something I need."
Maru crossed her arms. "Like what?"
The two guards ran at her attempting to grab her and hold her down, but she flew to the roof with her wings of light. "I thought I might have to resort to this..." The figure produced a thorned whip.
"Prepare yourselves for battle..." Rose stood with her sword ready.
Maru and Arthur exchanged worried glances. They'd sparred, but never actually fought a proper battle before...Unwillingly, They too prepared for battle.
A/N
What did you think? You like? You don't like? REviews and flames welcomed.
Chapter 1: Kidnapped
Maru walked through the streets of Bale with a bounce and twist in her step, heading towards the Castle in which her friend Arthur ruled Serdio in. Maru had silver hair that reached her ankles when it was tied back in her usual pony tail, wine coloured eyes that made her look almost identical to her mother had it not been that she was taller by a head and shoulders than her. The words of her 'mother' came back into her mind.
[Here. Your mother Meru wanted you to have this. Be careful and come back soon. We'll all be waiting.]
She began to walk up the stairs when a glint of shiny armour caught her eye. Sh elooked up in time to see a Royal Guard running down the stairs towards her.
"Miss Maru!"
"Where's Arthur? Is he running late again?" A smile played on her lips. Arthur was always late and falling down...Then again, they were both clumsy as if their company with each other seemed to rub off making them even worse than if they hadn't been good friends.
"He's been taken..." The guard said puffing, sweat glistening on his face.
"What?! When...Who-" Fear and panic filled her voice.
"Two days ago...By the Pheonix Knights-"
He was silenced by a tremendous slap by Maru. "And ou never contacted me?!"
"We...We couldn't get a messenger through to the village Miss Maru. It was blocked."
"Well where've they taken him?"
"New Hellena..."
Maru felt her stomach tighten, a gasp involuntarily coming from her lips. [Oh no...]
A lone warrior stood over looking New Hellena, the unescapable Prison. She laughed. That's what Hellena had meant to have been and yet the warriors Dart, Shana, Lavitz and Albert all made it from the depths of what people called Hell. Her feathery blonde hair tied back in a smiliar fashion to Shana's. Her clothing consisted off a black bodice, grey top, grey shorts and black boots. Around her arms the sleeves that once kept her arms warm were strapped on with belts, their tattered ends flying over her arms with the strong winds. Her intense brown eyes watched the Pheonixes as they flew around seemingly guarding the prison.
"Ha. Who are they after this time?"
A carriage rolled towards the entrance which banged open revealing the dark depths behind the bars. "Hurry up!"
"Yeah yeah. Hold on." The old man leading the carriage of the newest capture called approaching the gates.
[Those Knights owe me big this time...Normal people no problem...But Serdio's King? That's outrageous...]
The warrior folded her arms as she saw who was being held by the carriage. "Ha! King Arthur. They know she'll come for him..." No sooner had she spoken the words than a terrible yet probable thought sprung to her intelligent mind. "They must have something planned for her..."
Her guard had been let down and a Pheonix had spotted her, swooped down to her screeching it's find to the others.
A bottle filled with a blue liquid fell from its position on in Maru's hand. "Uh oh!" As the bottle got further to the ground, she began to panic further diving for it but only crashing face first into the floor.
A black gloved hand caught it gently. She pushed herself up onto her hands and knees, her forehead bruised and painful. [Who...?]
A man dressed in a black sleeveless vest, pants and fighting gloves held it pointing at it. "Yours?" He had silver hair which told her he was a wingly just like herself.
"Y-Yeah..." Her face pink in embarassment as she stood up smoothing her clothes back down.
He held it out for her, "Here then." She took it thankfully, but his hand didn't remove itself. "You're cute y'know."
She blushed furiously. "Flattery will get you nowhere Wingly..."
A smirk passed across his face, he leant to her ear as if to tell her a secret. "I know what colour panties you have on..."
The pink deepened to red and she brought her open hand around to his face giving him an almighty slap. "How dare you!"
The smirk never left his face. "Oh, you know you want me..."
"I ought to kick your backside right now!" She unlaced her basher from her back preparing to hit him with it when the store manager hurried over to them.
"Miss Maru...What does seem to be the matter?"
Her anger flared as she pointed at the wingly before her. "That wingly is ... A pervert! He's a panty peeker!"
The manager turned to the wingly and ushered him out. He returned to Maru who's face was still bright red. "I am deeply sorry Miss Maru. You may take what you need from my story free of charge for this inconvenience." He bowed deeply to her.
"Thankyou..." She put the bottle in her hand into her backpack, along with a few other bottles filled with green liquids before taking another blue liquid bottle. "Thankyou." She bowed before leaving the store. "Ready or not Endiness...Here comes Maru - yeow!" She tripped on the step and fell onto the ground before her.
A woman rushed over to her, "Are you alright Miss Maru?"
Maru pushed herself up and nodded. "Yeah...I just forgot there was a step there..."
In new Hellena Arthur found himself chained to a wall, in front of him stood a cloaked figure.
"A King who is friends with a wingly...Don't you know the histories? Don't you see what is in front of your seemingly blind eyes? They are slowly joining the humans again, they will gain our trust and before you realise what's happening, they will enslave all races again! That is what we are trying to prevent from happening. Do you want to see Endiness enslaved again?"
Arthur coughed before answering weakly, "No...But it is not the winglies who are wrong. It's you knights. You claim to be doing Soa's bidding, but you are wrong."
The figure slams a rod into Arthur's temple rendering him unconcious "You are a foolish King." Turning on its heel, the shrouded figure leaves, the guard locking the door quickly.
"Has he realised the truth yet?"
"No...He still refuses to believe the truth."
"Perhaps when he wakens, he may."
"Perhaps...But for the moment, his capture will bring one particular wingly..."
"One wingly? What could be so special about ONE wingly?" The guard asked incredulously.
"This wingly has something I need."
After four hours of travelling she found herself facing a forest, On the other side was New Hellena. She stepped in holding her hammer tightly. She began to sneak through the forest as though it would do her some good. A 'snap' from behind bade her spin around, swinging the hammer before landing on the ground as the hammer's momentum stopped suddenly. A dark elf dropped to the ground. Maru scrambled back up in terror.
"They're not meant to be here...They're not meant to here...Not in Serdio..."
She ran through the rest of the forest noticing more dark elves emerging. The forest ended suddenly and she was faced with the path to New Hellena. "How am I meant to get in there? It's controlled by the Pheonix Knights and they hate Winglies...And we do give ourselves away with our platinum coloured hair..."
Meru looked down to find dirt made her left leg dirty. She rubbed it off and an idea came to her mind. She grabbed a hand ful of dirt and began to rub it through her hair. Before long, her silver hair had been turned to a light ash blonde with brown streaks through it. A carriage rolled up to the end and Maru sprinted to catch up to it. She leapt on it and found that it was a band of musicians and dancers.
"Who are you?" One of the female dancers asked.
"I'm here to get a friend out...Please don't give me away..."
"Don't worry. We're just a cover ourselves to get someone out..."
Maru smiled.
"HOLD IT!" The cart jerked to a stop and a guard approached the cart. He begins to check it. He spots Maru and looks at her as though the cat that got the mouse. "Hey...She's pretty..."
"Can we go through or are you going to continue scaring my dancers?" The man sitting at the front of the carriage demanded.
"Only if your pretty little dancer here meest me in my quarters after your performance."
"Of course."
The carriage rolls into the prison, stopping in a small room. The performers then scatter, obviously taking their chance to find the person they were looking for. Maru smiled then disappeared further into the prison knowing where she'd most likely find Arthur.
Arthur woke, his head throbbing. The chains that once held him gone. Before him lay a simple white bowl with what appeared to be soup residing in it. He spicked it up and sniffed it, making a foul face before putting it back down.
"Damn...Where are you Maru?"
Maru appeared at the front of his cell as he spoke. "Arthur?"
Arthur jumps up and stumbles to the door, holding onto the bars as though his life depended upon it. "Maru? Is that really you?"
"How'd you end up in here?"
"They wanted to bring me to their side..."
Horrified she took a step away, "But you're not right?"
"Of course not! I'd be betraying you if I did!"
She smiled and unlaced her hammer again, readying it with the lock. Bringing the hammer down she broke the lock into two pieces, Arthur pushed the door open and they hugged.
"How touching...Let me guess, you're the wingly Maru..." The guard approached them from the shadows.
"Huh?" Maru turned to face the guard. "What are you talking about? I'm a performer for tonight."
A second guard approaches them from behind. "What is the King doing out then?"
"She is a dancer. I met her a few years ago. She doesn't like cages so she freed me. I've always been her good luck before a performance."
The first guard laughed. "As if we should believe you."
The two guards fall and Rose stands behind them. "Too bad you didn't."
"ROSE?!" Arthur and Maru stood in shock.
"The legendary Rose from the histories? The Dragon Campaign and Dart's Quest?" Maru asked, her eyes widening.
"Yes. That is me."
"You knew my mother Meru then..."
"Yes, I knew Meru the Wingly. The Blue-Sea Dragoon." She studied Maru. "You look like her...Only taller, probably the fact that your father was Garuha." She frowned, "And you have, brown hair..."
"It's dirt." Rose and Arthur look at her with raised eyebrows. "I had to get in somehow."
Rose shook her head. "Shall we leave now?"
Maru and Arthur nod. Arthur grabbed the javelin from the corner and they began walking towards the exit of the prison to be met with the shrouded figure who stood with two guards.
"Wingly...I believe you have something I need."
Maru crossed her arms. "Like what?"
The two guards ran at her attempting to grab her and hold her down, but she flew to the roof with her wings of light. "I thought I might have to resort to this..." The figure produced a thorned whip.
"Prepare yourselves for battle..." Rose stood with her sword ready.
Maru and Arthur exchanged worried glances. They'd sparred, but never actually fought a proper battle before...Unwillingly, They too prepared for battle.
A/N
What did you think? You like? You don't like? REviews and flames welcomed.