Dragon Quest Ch 8

Everybody looked at the ball of light while it floated in front of each one of them. Quatre looked in awe as the small ball of light hovered over him, a sense of peace radiating from it as it seemed to inspect him.

"And what is this supposed to be?" Duo asked while trying to poke it with his finger. Suddenly, the small ball of light chuckled. Chuckled?!

"Welcome, Dragon Knights." The Light moved to the center of the room to hover over the altar. "I'm pleased to see that you have passed your trials." The voice said.

"Who are you and for whom do you work for?" Heero glared at it wishing again for his gun.

"I am everything and I work for myself. I think you have heard of me young Heero. I am the Spirit of the Universe." The light said floating near Heero.

"The Spirit of the Universe? Weren't you the one that sent those dreams to the dude about something?" Duo asked it confused.

"Yes child, it was I who sent those dreams about the prophesy to my priest so humanity would be prepared for what it is to come." The Light said.

"OK.so what are we doing here?" Minako asked it when it came near her.

"To fulfill the prophecy." The Light responded.

"But how? What are we supposed to do?" Mamoru asked it.

"You have to go find the spirits of the Dragons and bring them back to their bodies. That is the only way to put everything in order once again." The Light dimmed a little.

"So where do we get started?" Usagi asked looking at her surroundings.

"The Dragons have taken human bodies to go through the world unnoticed." It said.

"What? You're telling me that they're on this world?" Wufei looked bewildered at the light.

"Yes, they are. However they are not gone too far, they have gone through the different provinces of this region. They're scattered away from each other but not for much." The Spirit of the Universe hovered again over the altar.

"Ok, if they are human, how do we recognize them?" Ami asked trying to figure out a way to get them together.

"You will recognize them when the time comes. First you have to go to the temples of each of the dragons to collect the Dragon Tears. Each one of you will have some of their powers, when the powers come together, it will give out a kind of beacon that will take you to them." The Spirit of the Universe responded.

"But, if you knew that this was going to happen, why didn't you try to stop them from leaving in the first place?" Rei frowned.

"We knew this was going to happen, but not when. Also, we couldn't do anything to prevent it. This had to happen one way or the other, it was written before Kali created Sol and before the children of Gaia knew of the Dragons, that this day would come." [1] The Light dimmed once again.

"Ok, let's say that we find the Dragons, how do we make them come with us? And of what powers are you talking about?" Trowa asked looking at the tiny sphere of Light.

"Oh yeah, that." It chuckled again brightening a little. "Great Kali has left you some gifts as a token of her confidence on you." It said before hovering over each one of the balls of light that were on the paws of the Dragons. "Come and receive what was yours from the beginning of time." The Light said moving to the altar. "Reach to them, the powers will respond to the pair of which they belong." It said, waiting for them.

Giving a deep breath, they moved to the statues.

"Lets see." Minako and Duo moved to the Wind Dragon statue. "Ready?" Minako asked. Receiving a nod from Duo, both of them reached to it at the same time. An orange light shoot from the ball surrounding both of them, and after a second the light disappeared, leaving Minako dressed on her sailor fuku and Duo blinking in confusion.

"What, that's it?" Duo asked confused.

"You'll discover your powers when the time is right." It said solemnly.

"Excuse me, but I already had this." Minako looked down at her fuku.

"Don't worry child, more powers had been added to the ones that you already had, while you, young Gundam Pilot will receive the powers of the Wind Dragon." The Spirit of the Universe said.

"'Powers that you already had?'" Duo raised an eyebrow.

"Long story, I'll tell you later." Minako winked at him. "Ok, next!"

Nodding, Makoto and Trowa moved to their Dragon statue. Putting their hands on the sphere of light they waited until the green light engulfed them. Makoto too found herself on her sailor fuku while Trowa seemed unaffected from the light. With that, both of them moved aside.

"Shall we go?" Ami asked Quatre who nodded. The others looked as the process repeated itself once again. "Well, that was interesting." Ami said looking herself over.

Mamoru looked at Heero who didn't seemed too happy about the whole 'touching the egg thingy' part, shaking his head, he moved to it noticing that Heero followed him. Both of them put their hands over the sphere and waited for the light to get out. However, instead of light, a mist of darkness fell upon, engulfing them. After it disappeared, Heero opened his eyes, flexing his arms trying to see if everything was in order. Looking to Mamoru, he noted that he hadn't changed of outfit as the girls had.

"Hey, what happened to your TK outfit?" Makoto asked looking at him up and down.

Shrugging, Mamoru looked at the floor where he found a red rose. Kneeling to pick it up, he stared at it for a second before with one swift move he made it disappear.

Looking besides her, Usagi moved to the statue of the Light Dragon. Frowning, she turned to the Spirit of the Universe. "Umm.I don't think I can take it. I'm missing its other part." She said quietly.

"Don't worry about that, descendant of Selene. Everything will be alright." The Light said. Nodding, Usagi put her hand over the egg-shaped jewel. Immediately, two lights came out of it, one of them surrounding her changing her clothes to her fuku, wings and her staff. After her transformation was done, Usagi saw as the second light left thru the ceiling of the temple.

"But, where is it going?" Usagi asked confused.

"The light is returning to its true owner." The Spirit of the Universe responded.

"Well," Rei motioned to Wufei to approach the sphere. Both of them touched the red ball. Immediately, two lights shoot from it engulfing Rei transforming her into Sailor Mars, then the other light stopped in front of Wufei resting in his hands. After the light subsided everybody was curiously looking at a big egg shaped jewel on Wufei's hands.

"What's that?" Minako asked curiously.

"Yeah, what's that?" Duo tried to get closer to Wufei to see it.

"I don't know, that light just AAAHHHH!!!" Wufei yelled letting it drop.

"What? What happened?" Quatre asked worriedly looking at it on the floor.

"IT MOVED! That thing is alive!" Wufei yelled as everybody watched the egg move on its own. After hearing a cracking sound everyone saw as it started to hatch. Little by little a small beak kind of thing came out, followed by.a lizard's head, the body came next, a large reptilian body with leathery wings and sharp claws came slowly out of the shell. Lazily, the small reptilian opened its eyes looking at everyone and at last resting on Wufei. Chirping happily, it extended its wings and moved to Wufei who looked down at it, not moving.

"Hehe, he thinks you're his father Wu." Duo snickered.

"Go ahead Wufei; the great Kali has been very generous with you giving you a great honor. Take it." The Light said with mirth looking at Wufei's incredulous face.

"WHAT? Everybody gets powers and lights, and what do I get? An over sized Iguana!!!" Wufei's face turned red as it pointed the large lizard on the floor.

Giving an undignified chirp, the lizard shoot a small amount of fire from it's mouth, making Wufei's pants to caught on fire. With a rapid movement, Wufei was able to put down the fire before it did any real damage to his pants.

"Be careful with what you say young one, that 'over sized iguana' as you call it is the youngest and last born of the Dragons on this world." The Spirit of the Universe said seriously.

"Hmph, it doesn't look that impressive to me. Can he do something else asides spitting fire?" Wufei picked it up from the wings just to find himself with a line of sharp teeth and a growling dragon. With a loud screech, the dragon freed itself from Wufei's hold.

"I don't think she likes to be called a 'he'." Trowa said.

"How do you know is a she?" Ami asked. "You're too far to tell." She said skeptically.

Trowa seemed in deep thought, frowning he looked at her. "I think she told me." He said confused.

"She told you? Do you think that's your power?" Makoto frowned looking at the dragonling on the floor as it looked at Trowa. With a hesitant movement of the wings, it took a leap to Trowa's shoulder. Then it looked at Wufei and chirped again.

"She's still young and her powers will increase as she grows." The Light said again.

"Great, just great, everybody gets powers and I get a weak onna which is supposed to be a dragon. Injustice!!!" Wufei shook his head.

Again, the dragon screeched as she sent another jet of flames to Wufei who barely dodged it.

"She says she's not weak, just young." Trowa tilted his head and then shaking it as if trying to make out something.

"Are you sure you're hearing this and that you aren't imagining things?" Duo asked.

Shaking his head Trowa took the dragon in his hands, putting its face in front of his. "I don't know, I just feel it, as if I can hear her on my head." He frowned "Can you say something?" He asked her. Happily, the little dragon chirped opening her wings and flexing them.

"So, what did she said?" Usagi asked intrigued.

"She said that she wants to be outside to fly." Again he tilted his head looking at the dragon.

"Very good Trowa." The Spirit of the Universe said. "I see you'll be able to master your power in no time." It said. "So, since all of you have your new powers, it's better if you start your journey. The Elder of the Dragon Cult will make the necessary arrangements for your quest. Now go, Dragon Knights and may Kali be with you." The Spirit of the Universe said before disappearing, leaving them on the room alone.

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"She is so cute!" Minako said patting the dragon's head.

"So, how are you gonna call her Wufei?" Quatre said looking at her being petted by all the girls.

"I don't know." Wufei frowned. "Don't they already come with names?" He looked at her.

"She was just born Wu-man. Geez, cut her some slack here." Duo joked.

"How about.Lili?" Makoto offered.

"Nah, maybe.Relena!" Duo laughed, seconds later, the tip of Wufei's katana was pressed against his throat by a very angry Heero, while Wufei blinked at the speed of said pilot. He didn't even feel when Heero took the sword away from him.

"Omae o korosu if you do." Heero said sending him a death glare.

"Ok, ok I get your drift." Duo raised his hands laughing nervously, receiving weird looks from the girls.

"No, I know it's an onna, but it has to have a strong name. A name dignified for a dragon." Wufei said seriously. Duo, Quatre, Trowa and Heero looked at each other before grinning.

"Nataku!" Four voices said at the same time, making Wufei blink several times. At the other end, the dragonling's head snapped up and chirped walking on its four to Wufei and chirping again.

"See, even she likes the name." Duo laughed.

"Is not funny, Maxwell." Wufei growled, while with his left hand he signaled her to come to him. Happily, she complied and climbed until she rested on his shoulder.

"I think we should go." Mamoru said looking at the only door left.

"Yeah, the sooner we finish this, the sooner we go home." Duo nodded moving to the door.

"Ummm.are you." Quatre stammered while blushing pointing at the girls' short skirts. "Are you going to go out on that?" He blushed even more.

"Oh, of course not." Usagi smiled. Closing their eyes all five girls were surrounded by bright lights, seconds later they appeared on their regular clothes. "Well, let's go." Usagi said while turning to look at the boys. Heero's face was as always, impassive while Trowa's face was slightly flushed. Quatre was covering his eyes and Duo snickered while handling Wufei a Kleenex for the biggest nose bleed that she had ever seen while Mamoru shook his head with a blush of his own. Frowning, she wondered what had happened when a little light bulb went on, widening her eyes, she gasped. "Oh dear goddess, I forgot all about the transforming and detransforming in front of people." Usagi blushed.

"Never minds, lets' just go now." Rei said. And with that, they crossed the door into the other room.

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The newly appointed Dragon Knights came out of the solid rocks almost ghostly-like, scaring the priests that were waiting for them half off their skin while two of them ran to the other room to get Cyaran.

"God, I though we would never come out of there!" Duo said stretching.

"Yup, that's an experience that I never want to repeat." Makoto said leaning on a wall next to Trowa, while all the others nodded.

Cyaran came back walking from the other room, his hair disheveled while some ink stains adorned his tunic and hands "Young lords, ladies, you came back safe, thanks the gods you are ok!" He looked relieved to see them.

"Of course we're ok." Minako smiled confidently.

"You didn't have to worry about us." Quatre said feeling the strong waves of a mixture of relief, worry and surprise coming from Cyaran, which surprised Quatre. He had always been able to feel other's emotions, but not this strongly.

"But we had to, " One of the priests said "His Holiness and all the others had been prying for your safety ever since you didn't come out the first two days." He said looked at their shocked expressions.

"The first two days?!?" All echoed dumbfolded.

"How many days did we spend in there?" Heero frowned looking at the priest.

"F-five days." The priest shifted uneasily under Heero's glare.

"But how can that be? I only felt as if we stayed there for a couple of hours?" Mamoru said.

"Maybe time passes differently inside." Ami said looking back at the door.

"So," A youth eyed them warily. "Are you them?" He asked shyly.

"Boy!" Cyaran looked at him sternly.

"No, it's ok." Usagi looked down at the boy. "Yes we are." She smiled at him.

"Really?" He asked his eyes wide as saucers.

"Yup, that we are." Duo got closer to him.

"C'mon Wu-man, show them what you've got!" Duo grinned from ear to ear while Wufei kept murmuring something under his breath. Shaking his head, Wufei stretched his hand, when from behind him Nataku climbed until she was perched on his arm.

All traces of laughter left Duo and the rest when they saw that all the people in the room had paled, some were kneeling until their foreheads touched the floor while some others had fainted. The ones still standing kept chanting something on languages that none of them understood.

"Well, you certainly got their attention." Rei whispered to Wufei while looking nervously at them.

"Umm.I think they're not taking this the way we thought they would." Trowa kept staring.

"Cyaran, could you tell us what's going on?" Ami moved to him.

With a final sign, Cyaran stopped his prayers and smiled at them. "You truly are the Dragon Knights. You have found the Last Dragon born on this planet." He said signaling Nataku.

"Yeah, pretty little thing isn't it?" Minako giggled making Cyaran chuckle. Just then, a man with a green coat entered hastily in the room, quickly scanning until he laid his eyes on Cyaran.

"Your Holiness," He said approaching them, "I have a message from the priest of Zaideth and Keno." He said handing two envelopes sealed with wax and two different Dragon imprints on them.

"What happened?" Cyaran asked breaking the seals.

"The Silence Forrest, on the Chaos realm-" The messenger said before his eyes widened and went pail. For the first time he had actually seen the room and the people next to them. "D-d-d-d-d.Dragon!" He exclaimed numbly.

"Yes man, that's a dragon! Now spit it up!" Duo tried to hurry him up.

"Come" Cyaran directed them to another room. "We'll talk better on my chambers." He led them to a room with a desk and several chairs, on the far end a double door separated them from what they thought to be his room. All of them kept quiet while Cyaran read in great haste the letters, noticing his eyes going wide, his hand began to tremble and the paper fell to the desk. Everybody held their breaths until the tension in the room was too much to bear.

"So, what are the bad news?" Mamoru asked quietly.

Cyaran snapped out of his thoughts and stared at the youths in front of him. With a sigh, he slumped into his chair. "The Silence Forrest has grown two miles since last week, and the Amazons have started to come out, making raids on nearby towns. And not only that, but the priest from Keno says that monsters are started coming out of the swamp from the Water realm." He said massaging his forehead.

"All the temples are doing whatever they can to keep peace, but it's not enough." The messenger said regaining his wits.

"Then we have to hurry before this situation gets worst." Quatre turned to see Cyaran and the messenger. "We have to go to the temples and help them stop this from getting out of hand. Anyways, we were supposed to go there for the beacons."

"But, are you sure you're up to it? The monsters can get you killed, and you'll have to ride thousands of miles to get to the temples!" Cyaran exclaimed.

"Of course we can deal with monsters." Makoto smiled.

"We're used to killing monsters." Usagi confirmed what Makoto had said. "Right you guys?"

"Right!" The inners replied while Mamoru nodded.

"So do we accept the mission?" Trowa turned to the G-boys.

"Of course." Wufei nodded.

"Yup, the Shinigami is ready for anything." Duo smirked.

"We'll do everything we can." Quatre nodded.

All turned to Heero for his approval.

With a short nod, Heero turned to Cyaran and said, "Ninmu ryoukai"



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Fire Dragon "Well, what do you think? I hope you liked it. Now, remember to review. Until next chapter, Ja ne."