Seeds of Origin
Intro:
Each chapter will probably take a while for me to complete. I'm not the best at typing. I'll get better. I'll try and write another chapter each other week or so. No promises.
Disclaimer: I do not own the original character and so forth.
Chapter Three: Heart of Healing
Gailu and Edge had managed to collect three more Star Dusts before the banquet started. When it did, Edge sat down and began to stuff himself with stake as soon as everyone else was eating. Gailu stuck to fruits, vegdebles, and nuts. He didn't touch any of the meat. Edge looked over with friend with amusement.
"You call that food?" Edge teased.
Gailu blinked, not understanding Edge's humor."Of course its food."
Egde burst out laughing. "You must have a small belly than."
Gailu shrugged and went back to eating his a carrot. Edge looked about. "Petal!"
Petal turned towards the sound of Edge's voice. She looked forward to his company. Events her father held were normally boring. Her eyes lit up when she saw him but then she saw who was next to him. Petal remembered the other Winglies, the ones that were so unlike Meru. They always insulted Meru and everyone else within their sights. That boy claimed to be Meru's kin. But Petal was still didn't like him. He looked a lot like Meru but he looked more like someone else she had met. Gailu looked like Winsune. The leader of the group of Winglies that Meru had brought to visit wnen Petal was a little girl.
Petal smiled at Edge and took a seat beside him. "How's your meal Edge."
"The stake is the best, as always." Edge replied.
"Gailu," Petal said. "What's this I hear about Meru missing. You'r looking for her, right? Did Winsune make you?"
Gailu choked on his drink and fell into a coughing fit.Edge patted his back until he stoped. "No," Gailu rasped. "How do you know Winsune?"
"He came here once. You act so much like him so I figured he was your father." To Petals surprise a look of horror spread across Gailu's face.
"He is my father," Gailu said. "If you will excuse me."
Gailu stood up and walked away with all haste. Edge and Petal stared after him. Petal was shocked. She had expected Gailu to boast of how great his father was. Instead he went completely white. Edge counldn't understand how Petal knew who Gailu's father was.
"You know Gailu more than I do." Edge remarked.
"No, I never met him bedore he came with you."
"But I could never get under his skin like that. You had him fleeing in terror."
"I didn't thinl I could. I only guessed who his father was."
***
While Edge and Petal were sitting around at the banquet, Gailu was indeed fleeing in terror. He didn't know what scared him more, the fact that Princess Petal knew who his father was or that she had said they were alike. Once Gailu reached his room he tried his best to calm down. With little success. He decided to get some fresh air and opened the window. A cool wind blew gentlely past his face. 'I'm not like my father,' thought Gailu. 'She's wrong.'
Gailu gazed at the stars and finally calmed dowm. The stars reminded him of the Star Dust he and Edge had collected. He pulled the wish-sparkles to compare them to the tiny lights in the sky. Then a childish thought crossed his mind. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone could throw Star Dust into the sky and it would expode and spread millions of stars to decorate the darkened sky. Gailu laughed at himself and held the Star Dust to the stars again.
Suddenly a sharp pain ran up Gailu's arm. He cried out and fell back from the window. Gailu's right had was covered in blood. It took only a moment for him to figure out that his Star Dust and been taken by his attacker. Gailu climbed out of the window and flew after the shadow beast who was fleeing with the sparkling Star Dust in his clawed hand. Gailu drew on the power of his spilled blood and shot a red beam from his wounded hand. The Bloodbeam hit its target and the evil monster shrieked in pain.
The winged demon turned and faced Gailu. It's slit eyes glowed yellow. "Foolish Wingly." It said in a rumbling voice. "You shall meet the same fate as the one before you."
The demon launched itself at Gailu, smashing the young Winly into the ground.
***
Edge jumped upfrom his seat with a gasp.
"Whats wrong?" asked Petal.
"A red beam of light just flew past that window!" Edge pionted to the only window in the room.
Before Petal could say that it was rediculous Edge was openning the window. Then she heard a scream as well as a shriek that couldn't be human. Petal ran to the window next to Edge. Gailu and a flying demon were fighting in mid-air. And it all to clear that Gailu was losing. Edge leaped out of the window.
"Edge!" Petal sceamed.
Dart's son was falling fast. He glowed red as armour and a pair of wings appeared at the same time. With one flap of his mighty wings Edge halted his fall then flew with great speed to Gailu's aid. Edge stabed the Demon in the back with his flaming sword. The monster's skriek deafened both Edge and Gailu. The demon pulled away from the fiery sword and howled with rage.
"Your still alive!" Edge exclaimed.
"HUMAN DRAGOONS! Filthy things!"The demon's growl boomed across the sky.
He drove towards Egde and he raised his sword to meet the demon. Claws met steel and sparks began to fly. The demon backed away and rose up above Edge. He sooped down on the red dragoon. Edge swung his sword and sent a wave of flame. The midnight demon flew throught it without a flinch and drove his claws into Edge's armour. The claws as sharp as they were did not penetrate the dragoon armour. Edge countered imidiatly with his sword. The cut landed on the demon's shoulder and crimson blood splatered on the green jewels of Edge's armour. The demon strieked agian but quickly recovered. The hell beast swiped his claws across Edge's unprotected face. Edge screamed. Fire bursted out of his body, throughing the demon away.
"Edge!" Gailu cried.
Gailu flew towards Edge as he fell. Gailu caught the falling dragoon and lowered him to the ground. Gailu stood up and confronted the demon. The scaled monster looked down at the Wingly with cold yellow eyes. An evil grin spread on it's narrow face.
"Your friend is one of the most toughest opponents I have ever faced. But you are no match. I could easily deal with you."
Gailu face turned red with anger. "Mayhaps I'm not as good as the Dragoon Hero's son but you are wounded. I didn't wamt to do this but I no longer have a choice."
With that Gailu began to glow and icy blue color and dragoon wings and armour appeared. Gailu launched himself into the air. Ice shards formed around Gailu's right hand fingers and he swung them at the demon's smug face. Three shards dealt the same wound that Edge had suffered. The demon grunted and backed off. The cruel smile left his face.
The demon growled. "I cannot face one dragoon after another." Then he disapeared in black smoke.
Gailu had just took the Star Dusts back but didn't really care about that at the moment. He rushed to Edge's side. Dart's son was not mortally wounded. Three gashed were cut onto Edge's hansome face. One went right over Edge'd left eye.
"My face..." Edge moaned.
"Be still." Gailu said.
Princess Petal came running down with her father and many any other people were watching from the windows. "Edge!" Petal cried.
"Help me carry him," Gailu said. "His eye is really bleeding."
Petal and Albert where both lifting Edge in a matter of moments. The rushed him to the king's healers. After waiting for hours finally one of the healers came out of the sick room. He had a sad expression painted on his face.
"I am sorry Your Magesty, but we cannot save the boy's eye. His face will be forever scared and he will not be well for week's to come."
Petal gasped and began to cry on her father's shoulder. Albert tried his best to comfort his daughter and himself. Petal's sorrow turned to anger as she spun and glared at Gailu.
"Wingly!" she cried. "What were you doing! If you had changed into a draggon sooner this wouldn't have happened!"
Gailu took the blows of her words without protest. The princess was right, of course. If he had transformed, Dart's son would still have the use of his eye. Guilt sat on Gailu's hunched shoulders. He had promised Shana to bring Edge back in one peice. But Edge had already lost an eye.
"Well," Petal continued her verbale attack. "Aren't you going to say anything. Aren't you going to do ANYTHING.
"Do what?" Gailu said bitterly. "I can't do a blasted thing."
"You a Wingly! Where's your magic. Heal him!"
Gailu head jerked up. Heal? He couldn't heal. All Winglies could heal. But he couldn't. Shame filled Gailu. His father had never taught him how to use healing spells. When Gailu had asked him, Winsune's infamous temper was unleashed. 'Only weaklings use healing spells!' Gailu turned and began to leave, fighting the tears that were ready to burst.
"You bastard!" Petal yelled. "Come back here! You owe him!"
Gailu ignored Princess Petal and kept walking. His steady stide turned into a paniced run. Hot tears streamed down his face. He ran to the only place he would fell welcome. A garden. The king's garden was lit up by several lamps. In the middle was a statue of a knight. Gailu sank to his knees below the statue and looked up at it's stern face. The knight represented everythig that Gailu was not. Brave,strong and an oath keeper. Gailu had broken his promise. He wept in self-pity until despair swallowed him.
* * *
"Hey.....hello.....wake up already!"
Gailu's eyes fluttered. He peered up into the stern faced knight. The knight was alive. Gailu screamed and jumped to his feet. "Your...can't...be..."
"Alive?" the knight smiled. "I'm not."
Gailu stared.
"Its your dream. This isn't my fault." The knight rubed his chin. "But how the hell did you sommon me?"
"I sommoned you? How?"
"Didn't I just ask that?"
"But your a statue! You shouldn't have a spirit."
"It's your dream, man."
"I've lost my sanity. It just shattered into a million tiny pieces."
"Well than, We're both insane. I could have sworn I was having a drink with my old man a moment ago."
"But your a statue!"
"I am not."
"What?"
"I'm a knight."
Gailu couldn't stand it any more. None of it made sense. The knight was rubing his chin again and staring hard at Gailu.
"Come to think of it. You look a lot like someone I've seen before. Very pretty girl with icy hair. She was wearing the oddest clothing.
"Meru?" Gailu said, "You know Meru?"
"Who's Meru?"
"Where did you see her?"
"Ummm...I think she was with my friend Dart and His Malesty but-"
"You know Dart too!"
"Yeah Dart, baby face...red armour.
Gailu stared at the knight again "Who are you?"
The knight lifted his chin. "Sir Lavitz."
Gailu was stunned. He couldn't believe it. "I must be crazier than I thought."
"So how is Dart?"
"He's fine. Its his son who's in trouble.
"Son! Dart had a son!"
Gailu nodded.
"I wish I was still alive. What's his son like? Does he look anything like Shana?" Lavitz paused for a moment. "Did you say he was in trouble?"
"He's hurt."
"Than heal him.
"I can't."
"Get Shana to do it."
"Shana?"
"The dragoon of light. Unless you know of some other draggon that can heal?"
Gailu froze. Meru's dragoon spirit could heal. Why didn't he think of that? He could heal Edge himself.
"No, you'd fail."
"What? I didn't say anything."
"You didn't?"
"What did you mean. Why would I fail?"
"Shana once told me that you had to empethize to heal."
Suddenly Lavitz began to fade.
"What going on?" Gailu gasped.
"I have to go. They're calling me back. Heal Dart's son. You can."
"Lavitz! Wai-"
The world went black.
* * *
Gailu awoke below the statue of Lavitz in the king's garden. The sun was just rising over the walls of the caslte. Rememdering what Lavitz had said, Gailu rushed to Edge's room. To his great relief the healers where allowing visiters. And to his suprise Princess Petal had beaten him to the sick room. Petal looked up at Gailu as he ran in. She was sitting in a chair next to Edge's bed. She stood up and gave Gailu an unreadable look.
"You should look after him now," she said bitterly."After all, you owe him that much."
With that, she left the room. Though Gailu knew she was rigt he still hated her. She had labled him as a monter from they're first meeting. But he had to give her credit, she was right about a lot of Winglies in the forest.
Gailu sat in the chair beside Edge and looked down at his wounded friend. There were blood stained bandages wraped around most of Edge's face. Gailu placed his hand on Edge's to find it burning. Edge's fever was high and by the condition of the sheets Edge must have been raving all night. Gailu moved his hand to Edge's forhead. The healing did not require Meru's draggon spirit. If he couln't empethize as a Wingly he wouldn't be able to as a dragoon.
Gailu stood up and raised his magic arua and centered it on Edge. Nothing happened. Through his power Gailu could sense Edge's pain but could do nothing about it. Gailu raised his power even more but it wasn't enough. He droped his inner mind shields to raise more magic. Then he felt it. With all his inner shields gone, pain hit with intensity that almost wiped out Gailu's thoughts. Being surrounded by both power and pain was to much. He poored his strength into Edge while Edge's pain flowed into him. When the preasure eased Gailu stoped. The pain he had absorded from Edge was gone, leaving him exhausted. Gailu was asleep before he hit the floor.
Conclusion: I'm not sure the battle sene was any good but I tried. I'm thinking I made this chapter a little to long. Sorry. The next chapter will intoduce the bad guy.
Intro:
Each chapter will probably take a while for me to complete. I'm not the best at typing. I'll get better. I'll try and write another chapter each other week or so. No promises.
Disclaimer: I do not own the original character and so forth.
Chapter Three: Heart of Healing
Gailu and Edge had managed to collect three more Star Dusts before the banquet started. When it did, Edge sat down and began to stuff himself with stake as soon as everyone else was eating. Gailu stuck to fruits, vegdebles, and nuts. He didn't touch any of the meat. Edge looked over with friend with amusement.
"You call that food?" Edge teased.
Gailu blinked, not understanding Edge's humor."Of course its food."
Egde burst out laughing. "You must have a small belly than."
Gailu shrugged and went back to eating his a carrot. Edge looked about. "Petal!"
Petal turned towards the sound of Edge's voice. She looked forward to his company. Events her father held were normally boring. Her eyes lit up when she saw him but then she saw who was next to him. Petal remembered the other Winglies, the ones that were so unlike Meru. They always insulted Meru and everyone else within their sights. That boy claimed to be Meru's kin. But Petal was still didn't like him. He looked a lot like Meru but he looked more like someone else she had met. Gailu looked like Winsune. The leader of the group of Winglies that Meru had brought to visit wnen Petal was a little girl.
Petal smiled at Edge and took a seat beside him. "How's your meal Edge."
"The stake is the best, as always." Edge replied.
"Gailu," Petal said. "What's this I hear about Meru missing. You'r looking for her, right? Did Winsune make you?"
Gailu choked on his drink and fell into a coughing fit.Edge patted his back until he stoped. "No," Gailu rasped. "How do you know Winsune?"
"He came here once. You act so much like him so I figured he was your father." To Petals surprise a look of horror spread across Gailu's face.
"He is my father," Gailu said. "If you will excuse me."
Gailu stood up and walked away with all haste. Edge and Petal stared after him. Petal was shocked. She had expected Gailu to boast of how great his father was. Instead he went completely white. Edge counldn't understand how Petal knew who Gailu's father was.
"You know Gailu more than I do." Edge remarked.
"No, I never met him bedore he came with you."
"But I could never get under his skin like that. You had him fleeing in terror."
"I didn't thinl I could. I only guessed who his father was."
***
While Edge and Petal were sitting around at the banquet, Gailu was indeed fleeing in terror. He didn't know what scared him more, the fact that Princess Petal knew who his father was or that she had said they were alike. Once Gailu reached his room he tried his best to calm down. With little success. He decided to get some fresh air and opened the window. A cool wind blew gentlely past his face. 'I'm not like my father,' thought Gailu. 'She's wrong.'
Gailu gazed at the stars and finally calmed dowm. The stars reminded him of the Star Dust he and Edge had collected. He pulled the wish-sparkles to compare them to the tiny lights in the sky. Then a childish thought crossed his mind. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone could throw Star Dust into the sky and it would expode and spread millions of stars to decorate the darkened sky. Gailu laughed at himself and held the Star Dust to the stars again.
Suddenly a sharp pain ran up Gailu's arm. He cried out and fell back from the window. Gailu's right had was covered in blood. It took only a moment for him to figure out that his Star Dust and been taken by his attacker. Gailu climbed out of the window and flew after the shadow beast who was fleeing with the sparkling Star Dust in his clawed hand. Gailu drew on the power of his spilled blood and shot a red beam from his wounded hand. The Bloodbeam hit its target and the evil monster shrieked in pain.
The winged demon turned and faced Gailu. It's slit eyes glowed yellow. "Foolish Wingly." It said in a rumbling voice. "You shall meet the same fate as the one before you."
The demon launched itself at Gailu, smashing the young Winly into the ground.
***
Edge jumped upfrom his seat with a gasp.
"Whats wrong?" asked Petal.
"A red beam of light just flew past that window!" Edge pionted to the only window in the room.
Before Petal could say that it was rediculous Edge was openning the window. Then she heard a scream as well as a shriek that couldn't be human. Petal ran to the window next to Edge. Gailu and a flying demon were fighting in mid-air. And it all to clear that Gailu was losing. Edge leaped out of the window.
"Edge!" Petal sceamed.
Dart's son was falling fast. He glowed red as armour and a pair of wings appeared at the same time. With one flap of his mighty wings Edge halted his fall then flew with great speed to Gailu's aid. Edge stabed the Demon in the back with his flaming sword. The monster's skriek deafened both Edge and Gailu. The demon pulled away from the fiery sword and howled with rage.
"Your still alive!" Edge exclaimed.
"HUMAN DRAGOONS! Filthy things!"The demon's growl boomed across the sky.
He drove towards Egde and he raised his sword to meet the demon. Claws met steel and sparks began to fly. The demon backed away and rose up above Edge. He sooped down on the red dragoon. Edge swung his sword and sent a wave of flame. The midnight demon flew throught it without a flinch and drove his claws into Edge's armour. The claws as sharp as they were did not penetrate the dragoon armour. Edge countered imidiatly with his sword. The cut landed on the demon's shoulder and crimson blood splatered on the green jewels of Edge's armour. The demon strieked agian but quickly recovered. The hell beast swiped his claws across Edge's unprotected face. Edge screamed. Fire bursted out of his body, throughing the demon away.
"Edge!" Gailu cried.
Gailu flew towards Edge as he fell. Gailu caught the falling dragoon and lowered him to the ground. Gailu stood up and confronted the demon. The scaled monster looked down at the Wingly with cold yellow eyes. An evil grin spread on it's narrow face.
"Your friend is one of the most toughest opponents I have ever faced. But you are no match. I could easily deal with you."
Gailu face turned red with anger. "Mayhaps I'm not as good as the Dragoon Hero's son but you are wounded. I didn't wamt to do this but I no longer have a choice."
With that Gailu began to glow and icy blue color and dragoon wings and armour appeared. Gailu launched himself into the air. Ice shards formed around Gailu's right hand fingers and he swung them at the demon's smug face. Three shards dealt the same wound that Edge had suffered. The demon grunted and backed off. The cruel smile left his face.
The demon growled. "I cannot face one dragoon after another." Then he disapeared in black smoke.
Gailu had just took the Star Dusts back but didn't really care about that at the moment. He rushed to Edge's side. Dart's son was not mortally wounded. Three gashed were cut onto Edge's hansome face. One went right over Edge'd left eye.
"My face..." Edge moaned.
"Be still." Gailu said.
Princess Petal came running down with her father and many any other people were watching from the windows. "Edge!" Petal cried.
"Help me carry him," Gailu said. "His eye is really bleeding."
Petal and Albert where both lifting Edge in a matter of moments. The rushed him to the king's healers. After waiting for hours finally one of the healers came out of the sick room. He had a sad expression painted on his face.
"I am sorry Your Magesty, but we cannot save the boy's eye. His face will be forever scared and he will not be well for week's to come."
Petal gasped and began to cry on her father's shoulder. Albert tried his best to comfort his daughter and himself. Petal's sorrow turned to anger as she spun and glared at Gailu.
"Wingly!" she cried. "What were you doing! If you had changed into a draggon sooner this wouldn't have happened!"
Gailu took the blows of her words without protest. The princess was right, of course. If he had transformed, Dart's son would still have the use of his eye. Guilt sat on Gailu's hunched shoulders. He had promised Shana to bring Edge back in one peice. But Edge had already lost an eye.
"Well," Petal continued her verbale attack. "Aren't you going to say anything. Aren't you going to do ANYTHING.
"Do what?" Gailu said bitterly. "I can't do a blasted thing."
"You a Wingly! Where's your magic. Heal him!"
Gailu head jerked up. Heal? He couldn't heal. All Winglies could heal. But he couldn't. Shame filled Gailu. His father had never taught him how to use healing spells. When Gailu had asked him, Winsune's infamous temper was unleashed. 'Only weaklings use healing spells!' Gailu turned and began to leave, fighting the tears that were ready to burst.
"You bastard!" Petal yelled. "Come back here! You owe him!"
Gailu ignored Princess Petal and kept walking. His steady stide turned into a paniced run. Hot tears streamed down his face. He ran to the only place he would fell welcome. A garden. The king's garden was lit up by several lamps. In the middle was a statue of a knight. Gailu sank to his knees below the statue and looked up at it's stern face. The knight represented everythig that Gailu was not. Brave,strong and an oath keeper. Gailu had broken his promise. He wept in self-pity until despair swallowed him.
* * *
"Hey.....hello.....wake up already!"
Gailu's eyes fluttered. He peered up into the stern faced knight. The knight was alive. Gailu screamed and jumped to his feet. "Your...can't...be..."
"Alive?" the knight smiled. "I'm not."
Gailu stared.
"Its your dream. This isn't my fault." The knight rubed his chin. "But how the hell did you sommon me?"
"I sommoned you? How?"
"Didn't I just ask that?"
"But your a statue! You shouldn't have a spirit."
"It's your dream, man."
"I've lost my sanity. It just shattered into a million tiny pieces."
"Well than, We're both insane. I could have sworn I was having a drink with my old man a moment ago."
"But your a statue!"
"I am not."
"What?"
"I'm a knight."
Gailu couldn't stand it any more. None of it made sense. The knight was rubing his chin again and staring hard at Gailu.
"Come to think of it. You look a lot like someone I've seen before. Very pretty girl with icy hair. She was wearing the oddest clothing.
"Meru?" Gailu said, "You know Meru?"
"Who's Meru?"
"Where did you see her?"
"Ummm...I think she was with my friend Dart and His Malesty but-"
"You know Dart too!"
"Yeah Dart, baby face...red armour.
Gailu stared at the knight again "Who are you?"
The knight lifted his chin. "Sir Lavitz."
Gailu was stunned. He couldn't believe it. "I must be crazier than I thought."
"So how is Dart?"
"He's fine. Its his son who's in trouble.
"Son! Dart had a son!"
Gailu nodded.
"I wish I was still alive. What's his son like? Does he look anything like Shana?" Lavitz paused for a moment. "Did you say he was in trouble?"
"He's hurt."
"Than heal him.
"I can't."
"Get Shana to do it."
"Shana?"
"The dragoon of light. Unless you know of some other draggon that can heal?"
Gailu froze. Meru's dragoon spirit could heal. Why didn't he think of that? He could heal Edge himself.
"No, you'd fail."
"What? I didn't say anything."
"You didn't?"
"What did you mean. Why would I fail?"
"Shana once told me that you had to empethize to heal."
Suddenly Lavitz began to fade.
"What going on?" Gailu gasped.
"I have to go. They're calling me back. Heal Dart's son. You can."
"Lavitz! Wai-"
The world went black.
* * *
Gailu awoke below the statue of Lavitz in the king's garden. The sun was just rising over the walls of the caslte. Rememdering what Lavitz had said, Gailu rushed to Edge's room. To his great relief the healers where allowing visiters. And to his suprise Princess Petal had beaten him to the sick room. Petal looked up at Gailu as he ran in. She was sitting in a chair next to Edge's bed. She stood up and gave Gailu an unreadable look.
"You should look after him now," she said bitterly."After all, you owe him that much."
With that, she left the room. Though Gailu knew she was rigt he still hated her. She had labled him as a monter from they're first meeting. But he had to give her credit, she was right about a lot of Winglies in the forest.
Gailu sat in the chair beside Edge and looked down at his wounded friend. There were blood stained bandages wraped around most of Edge's face. Gailu placed his hand on Edge's to find it burning. Edge's fever was high and by the condition of the sheets Edge must have been raving all night. Gailu moved his hand to Edge's forhead. The healing did not require Meru's draggon spirit. If he couln't empethize as a Wingly he wouldn't be able to as a dragoon.
Gailu stood up and raised his magic arua and centered it on Edge. Nothing happened. Through his power Gailu could sense Edge's pain but could do nothing about it. Gailu raised his power even more but it wasn't enough. He droped his inner mind shields to raise more magic. Then he felt it. With all his inner shields gone, pain hit with intensity that almost wiped out Gailu's thoughts. Being surrounded by both power and pain was to much. He poored his strength into Edge while Edge's pain flowed into him. When the preasure eased Gailu stoped. The pain he had absorded from Edge was gone, leaving him exhausted. Gailu was asleep before he hit the floor.
Conclusion: I'm not sure the battle sene was any good but I tried. I'm thinking I made this chapter a little to long. Sorry. The next chapter will intoduce the bad guy.