I don't own BoF
A/N (pre writing) this fic is not a BoF 2 fic, or BoF4, or BoF5 or any BoF. This is my own writing using a compilation of my favorite characters from the Bof universe. (Thus far including Fou Lou, Ryu, Bow, Nina (black wings), Momo, Ursula, Teepo (most definitely)) there will be more characters, with Katt and Rei and Garr scheduled to make appearances. Lastly the Holy Dragons are coming, you must be patient.
If someone could help me, I've always wondered where the name Teepo came from.
Note: Just in case it makes no sense there was another time jump, For Ryu and Nina and Company, but not for Momo. It would go something like this. Ryu's timeline happened at 1. Momo was introduced at 8. Ryu's second part (when he Nina and bow entered the town that wasn't on the map) occurred at around 4. And his next part (in this chapter) will happen at around 7-8. If you counted time as an interval. Long A/N. Well to the story.
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Those who claim to know everything,
Know nothing at all.
Sir Norvald Wingly, Master Teacher
933-???
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//Gods it was cold down here// Niobe thought as she sat down on Teepo's old bed. The old gray cot was tiny and as neat as ever. It always seemed like Teepo had never slept in his bed, unlike Ryu's bed, which stood across the little room. Ryu's looked just as it had the day Ryu left. As if Ryu had just finished sleeping and had awaken. //My little Ryu, are you ok? Do you remember any of this?//
Niobe had sent Ryu through the time phase differently then she did with Teepo. Teepo was the next Barubary, and exactly what the Dragons needed if they were to regain their powers. //Should the council had waited longer for the Kaiser to emerge before selling themselves to the Tyrant as they had done?// The thought crossed Niobe's mind many a time. But whenever she thought of that it simply added resolve to her decision to send Ryu away with no knowledge of this. //Ryu is but a halfling, not even a true dragon, and I see how Teepo looks at him with hatred, all Teepo wanted was my love but no matter how hard I acted I knew he knew that Ryu meant more to me then he had// Niobe began to cry silently, she had lost both her sons, //So many sacrifices for the Dragon race//
Niobe stood up and walked out of the room, she could no longer bear to sit there any longer, the cold dark damp hallways proved to provide little aid in her dreary mood. Hopefully Ryu would never remember his half heritage and he would live a fulfilling life.
"My beautiful Niobe, do not shed a tear," A deep yet smooth male voice said from behind her. She had not even noticed Fou-Lou walk up behind her. Their relationship had been strained when Niobe decided to keep the child she had gotten while on the surface, especially since it was after she and he had been promised together by the council to produce the Barubary. He had not spoken a word of kindness to her ever since she had decided that the boy would remain with them in Drogen. But now.
"What is it my dear love?" She asked, placing a mask on her face as she began the dance they always played.
"Your tears always bring tears to mine own eyes, and I shall cry no more," ~~the boy shall die~~
"But oh husband, is it not the duty of a man to be with his wife tear for tear and wound for wound?" Niobe asked, waiting for a reply.
"It is, but the first duty of a husband is to assure the survival of his clan" ~~If he crosses the Dragons, He will die~~
"It is the primary duty of a mother to protect her family." Niobe replied, looking straight into the eyes of her 'lord husband'. What she saw scared her.
Grabbing Niobe by the arms Fou-Lou looked right into her eyes, bringing their faces within inches of each other. "Listen foolish woman, I've been curt to you and to the boy, but no longer. You tarnished my image before all dragons when you went out and sired this...this THING. When you removed from yourself the one gift a HUSBAND and WIFE should share with themselves and in return brought it home. I should've killed him long ago but I needed you for my plans, but Teepo is coming of age and he will lead the Dragons, I no longer need your services, the council grows fat with victories and in due time they will be replaced by more 'able' persons. I know of how you removed your sons memory of this life, and that makes my job much easier, because now not only is he a half-pup, he is a half-pup who no longer remembers how to bare his teeth. I will kill him and remove upon my honor this shame. And after that you will sire me son upon son upon son until you can no longer, then you will meet the halfling." And with that Fou-Lou straightened up, not releasing Niobe who was glad of that, she no longer felt she had the strength, or will to stand //I've murdered my son//
"Now my dear wife, do not tear, your husband shall remove from this planet the thing that makes you cry" ~~I will kill him~~
With that Fou-Lou removed her from her grasp and walked off, with the grace and beauty that made Niobe wonder if what had happened really happened //He has never grown angry with me before, never// As he walked off Niobe struggled back on weak legs to Ryu's room, collapsed onto Ryu's bed and began to cry...//Ryu, what have I done?//
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Katt walked slowly down river, towards the end of Wyndia's lands and into the lands that were commanded by the Tribes of the Woren. She had to warn her people about the viciousness of these dragons. These Dragons were not to be trusted. There was no formal declaration of war, and they attacked when wyndia was at its weakness //Not like its so much a difference from how Wyndia was at its strongest// Katt thought to herself. The sudden onset of war gave Katt a few good fights before she decided it was too dangerous even for her.
Katt had been taking part in a fighting tournament being held at wyndia. When wyndia celebrates everyone comes, and many tournaments were held. Katt was always looking for a good fight, although in essence most men outside the Woren clan posed little if no threat. Not only because of there physical...shortcomings, but also due to their mental processes.
"Hey kitty cat you lost?" Katt heard a voice say. It was as if the gods were smiling upon her. She would be able to once again prove her point, that men were weak. She turned around and saw that their were two of them, dressed in riches to rich for themselves //They took the opportunity for the war for some ransacking and now they feel that they are big strong men//
"I heard the cat people are like rabbits in bed," the second one said. From the prospective of the men Katt did seem like an easy catch. Here an attractive, curvaceous woman walked alone with no weapons at all, except for her walking stick. Dressed in shorts and a tank top she just oozed of ease. She chuckled.
Even in her seemingly normal stance she was ready fight, on the balls of her toes the two men didn't notice that she was gripping the staff differently. She struck quick, the end of her staff finding the first man between the legs, she heard a satisfying squish and a groan as the man collapsed. Turning to the second one she could see he was now in a sloppy drunken stance. //To easy// But Katt decided to have fun with him.
"Why are you so angry? I'd think that a big strong man such as yourself would be glad it was just little ol' me and he...no more sharing" She said with a coy look, and she got the desired response, dropping his guard the man thought about it for a split second, and that was all she needed, lunging quickly her foot found its resting place right where her staff was with his friend. His eyes shown surprise as he collapsed on the floor. //that's 30 men, only a million more to go. Non-Woren men would be much more of a challenge if they didn't have those things dangling between there legs//
"But maybe not these two" as she watched in disgust as they threw up the contents of the last five days.
Walking over to the second man, she bent over, fighting the stench he was now emitting //Did his bowels collapse?//she thought with a wry smile, //this one is weak// "We're like tigers in bed good sir," she said as she stood and left him to his own amusement.
//Woren men were different then them,// Katt thought with some amusement. When they wanted a woman they didn't ask on a knee, they demanded her and stole her from the parents. If the woman wanted to be taken she was taken, if she didn't want to be taken, she wasn't. Simple as that. //Maybe the men are like this because the women are weak...// Katt thought, the thought was quickly thrown out, all the women she'd met in wyndia struck more fear in her hearts then the Wyndian HighGuardsmen. And the men could fight, when it came to fighting there was none of this chivalry, there was just a fight. Women were taught to defend themselves, not rely on men, and men were taught to respect a woman who could put you on your back when you advanced to suddenly.
Katt stopped. Looking back she realized she could still see the mountain that housed the Wyndian house. //But the wyndians prospered while we dwindle. We bicker among ourselves, we are no longer a nation. We have split up into wandering tribes once more, warring between each other. And with a foe like the Dark Dragons so near upon us its time we unified. Or die.//
Katt realized that musing over the fact would not save her brothers and sisters, she would have to get there, and Katt began to run. Run towards her family, her friends, her clan, and hopefully, a future.
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"Momo, You were the last face I'd expect to see." Momo still couldn't believe it, it was Sir Norvald Wingly standing before her in the flesh.
"How...H..." Momo started to stammer, //I'm standing in the face of the most intelligent man ever//
"How did I come to ride with such a violent group of brigands?" Sir Norvald asked for her. She could here some of the men scoff and laugh at that, but Momo could think of no other words to describe this group. She had seen a sea of faces, so many of them, men women children. At least 10's of thousands. But that was in the recreation room, in this room it was her Ursula, Norvald, and two guards.
"Why, Momo I'm astonished you've yet to figure it out with all your research. Here we are, underground, large amount of chrysm, which, if I may be frank, does some freaky stuff at times...As if it's alive." Norvald sat and waited, waiting for Momo to figure it out her.
"Draegon." Ursula said. which was a shock to most, Ursula hadn't said a word for a long while. "I've known for a long time, this is the home of the Holy Dragons is it not? The Dragons of light."
"Ha-Ha, your friend is a smart one, Colleague?" Norvald asked, looking at Momo's shocked face.
"By the gods no, I'm her body guard" Ursula answered, Momo still in a state of shock. A guard had said something, which Ursula seemed not to like in response to her answer. "Give me three seconds and a Yo-Yo and you'll know first hand how it feels to be a woman beaten." She responded, the response bringing Momo back down to earth.
"Untie them," Norvald said, "they wont run, and if they do it is no problem, we are going to be on the move soon. We can no longer allow the Dark Dragons to become complacent and strong" With that Norvald rose, and turned away.
"You do know I am a sworn officer of the Dark Dragons right?" Ursula said.
"And you do know that with three seconds and a Yo-Yo I'd have so many Dragons on you you'll know first hand how it feels to be torn limb from limb. Or you'll die before you get the feeling."
"Where are your wings Sir?" Momo asked, feeling stupid. She had just realized that Sir Norvald Wingly bore no wings on his back.
"Oh those things? To cumbersome, I only wear them when I'm in the city anyway, Dragon wings are much more comfortable." He responded leaving Momo to her own imagination.
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"So Nina, exactly where are we headed again?" Ryu asked Nina as he sat across from her on the table, staring intently at his Chards Cards.
"To Wyndia," Nina answered not looking up from her cards, after finding Bow to be an unsuitable challenge she'd moved on, and upwards, to Ryu.
"I think that's the part that Ryu needs explained," Bow shouted from the head of the cart, "Ryu has a real bad memory for history."
Nina sighed. "You had me beat anyway," She grumbled as she put her cards down and stretched her legs. Sticking her head out of the window she could see some of the land they passed. There was so much of it that she hadn't seen, the country of Wyndia had so many different landmarks.
"When I had class with Norvald Wingly he told me of how the first capitol of Wyndia was utterly destroyed during the Great Drogen War, when the war was over a young princess turned queen married the hero of the war, a dragon." Nina frowned to herself as she remembered the story. "Their names were Nina and Ryu actually, but the marriage was horribly received, the people of wyndia split. Some loyal to the queen others rebelled and couldn't have them be led by a non-wyndian. They moved back the capital and are rumored to have flourished, although the two Wyndia's scarcely recognize each others existence."
"Do you think they'll help us?" Ryu asked, staring at Nina as she sat back down looking at her cards, a smile creeping on her face.
"I think they'll give us asylum, but help us? They won't. Not likely anyway." Nina shrugged, placing two cards face up onto the playing field. "'Chards' I win." Nina said with a smile. From the front of the cart she could hear Bow's deep laughter, she could feel it also, that's how deep it was. "
Ryu, forget ransoming her, take her to sin city for the tournament and she'll make millions for us." Ryu couldn't help to crack a smile, looking over at Nina, her hair, still short, was now messy, as if she'd just gotten out of bed. //She looks better then she did with long shiny hair, maybe when this is done she'll keep the style// Ryu thought to himself, //Whoa boy, you better stop thinking that way, she's not any normal woman, she's your meal ticket.//
But what a fine meal that was, she had somehow taken the rags and old clothes that Ryu had scrounged and sewed and fitted them into a respectable outfit of leggings, a short skirt, and a low cut blouse. The only thing that made her seem royal like, was her necklace, a memento of her family, or something like that, Nina had refused to take it off, //It's no matter, with me to protect he-//
"I really have to stop that way of thinking." //I'm not protecting her, I'm protecting it, our money.//
"What?" Nina asked, Ryu hadn't noticed he was staring at her //something I've been doing much to often.//
"Nothing," Ryu mumbled, as Bow started another round of laughter. Bow seemed to know everything so Ryu didn't have to tell him what he felt, Bow just explained that at the next town the two guys would take to the local brothels after the queen was asleep. Ryu couldn't answer to that, not that he hadn't frequented them before, its just that wasn't what he wanted now. He wanted something more.
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"Its no longer any fun is it sister?" The tall woman said, she was wearing tights that were supposed to zip up all the way to her neck, but Deis had taken to liking the idea of cleavage, another habit she'd picked up on her sisters planet world. "If you fail-"
"I know, I know; why must the dragons move now right when my people were flourishing?" The woman asked. She was identical to Deis in every way, except where Deis's hair was long and down to her the small of her back, Myria's hair was blond, and longer. Other then that they were identical in everything, although Deis was half a hand taller then her younger sister.
"Well I hope the war doesn't become to involved, if it does I'm not sure what will happen to those night clubs I so love to frequent. Speaking of which what time is it on planetside?" Deis asked with a twinkle in her eye. Checking a chart Myria responded.
"It's 4:24 Wyndian East time." She said looking at a large globe of her world, the data flowing from her planet's satellites had been disturbing. Great powers were on the move, some suppressed, some out in the open, all dangerous.
"Oh, that means its almost Midnight in Sin City, The party's about to get started." Deis said as she walked away, swaying her hips in an over-emphasized manner, practicing so that she could once again get every man in the club.
//She plays around to much// Myria thought, although Deis had a right to. She'd passed her test and learned the lessons of their races superior powers, but she refused to tell. Somehow by playing 'God' with the planet she would have the ability to learn something. And so far she learned one thing, //When Dragons Clash millions die.// "The Dragons will never clash, I shall not allow it."
With that Myria went over to the interface. With it she could speak to those who chose to listen in the way of a dream or a vision. She had to get the Urkans to rise up, she would have to strike the Dragons down, and this time, there would be no agreements, no passive hidings. Only massacre.
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Here is part 5, I need you to help me though, Is it good??
Will the Woren Clan stand up with Katts warnings? What will happen to Niobe? What is Sir Norvald Wingly? Will Ryu ever tell Nina his feelings? Will Katt ever find a challenging male to fight? Will Ryu and company fight any longer? Or is traveling and playing chards enough? Will Nina ever lose at Chards? All this and more at the next installment of "ALL MY CHILDRE-..." I mean DRAGONSWORN
A/N (pre writing) this fic is not a BoF 2 fic, or BoF4, or BoF5 or any BoF. This is my own writing using a compilation of my favorite characters from the Bof universe. (Thus far including Fou Lou, Ryu, Bow, Nina (black wings), Momo, Ursula, Teepo (most definitely)) there will be more characters, with Katt and Rei and Garr scheduled to make appearances. Lastly the Holy Dragons are coming, you must be patient.
If someone could help me, I've always wondered where the name Teepo came from.
Note: Just in case it makes no sense there was another time jump, For Ryu and Nina and Company, but not for Momo. It would go something like this. Ryu's timeline happened at 1. Momo was introduced at 8. Ryu's second part (when he Nina and bow entered the town that wasn't on the map) occurred at around 4. And his next part (in this chapter) will happen at around 7-8. If you counted time as an interval. Long A/N. Well to the story.
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Those who claim to know everything,
Know nothing at all.
Sir Norvald Wingly, Master Teacher
933-???
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//Gods it was cold down here// Niobe thought as she sat down on Teepo's old bed. The old gray cot was tiny and as neat as ever. It always seemed like Teepo had never slept in his bed, unlike Ryu's bed, which stood across the little room. Ryu's looked just as it had the day Ryu left. As if Ryu had just finished sleeping and had awaken. //My little Ryu, are you ok? Do you remember any of this?//
Niobe had sent Ryu through the time phase differently then she did with Teepo. Teepo was the next Barubary, and exactly what the Dragons needed if they were to regain their powers. //Should the council had waited longer for the Kaiser to emerge before selling themselves to the Tyrant as they had done?// The thought crossed Niobe's mind many a time. But whenever she thought of that it simply added resolve to her decision to send Ryu away with no knowledge of this. //Ryu is but a halfling, not even a true dragon, and I see how Teepo looks at him with hatred, all Teepo wanted was my love but no matter how hard I acted I knew he knew that Ryu meant more to me then he had// Niobe began to cry silently, she had lost both her sons, //So many sacrifices for the Dragon race//
Niobe stood up and walked out of the room, she could no longer bear to sit there any longer, the cold dark damp hallways proved to provide little aid in her dreary mood. Hopefully Ryu would never remember his half heritage and he would live a fulfilling life.
"My beautiful Niobe, do not shed a tear," A deep yet smooth male voice said from behind her. She had not even noticed Fou-Lou walk up behind her. Their relationship had been strained when Niobe decided to keep the child she had gotten while on the surface, especially since it was after she and he had been promised together by the council to produce the Barubary. He had not spoken a word of kindness to her ever since she had decided that the boy would remain with them in Drogen. But now.
"What is it my dear love?" She asked, placing a mask on her face as she began the dance they always played.
"Your tears always bring tears to mine own eyes, and I shall cry no more," ~~the boy shall die~~
"But oh husband, is it not the duty of a man to be with his wife tear for tear and wound for wound?" Niobe asked, waiting for a reply.
"It is, but the first duty of a husband is to assure the survival of his clan" ~~If he crosses the Dragons, He will die~~
"It is the primary duty of a mother to protect her family." Niobe replied, looking straight into the eyes of her 'lord husband'. What she saw scared her.
Grabbing Niobe by the arms Fou-Lou looked right into her eyes, bringing their faces within inches of each other. "Listen foolish woman, I've been curt to you and to the boy, but no longer. You tarnished my image before all dragons when you went out and sired this...this THING. When you removed from yourself the one gift a HUSBAND and WIFE should share with themselves and in return brought it home. I should've killed him long ago but I needed you for my plans, but Teepo is coming of age and he will lead the Dragons, I no longer need your services, the council grows fat with victories and in due time they will be replaced by more 'able' persons. I know of how you removed your sons memory of this life, and that makes my job much easier, because now not only is he a half-pup, he is a half-pup who no longer remembers how to bare his teeth. I will kill him and remove upon my honor this shame. And after that you will sire me son upon son upon son until you can no longer, then you will meet the halfling." And with that Fou-Lou straightened up, not releasing Niobe who was glad of that, she no longer felt she had the strength, or will to stand //I've murdered my son//
"Now my dear wife, do not tear, your husband shall remove from this planet the thing that makes you cry" ~~I will kill him~~
With that Fou-Lou removed her from her grasp and walked off, with the grace and beauty that made Niobe wonder if what had happened really happened //He has never grown angry with me before, never// As he walked off Niobe struggled back on weak legs to Ryu's room, collapsed onto Ryu's bed and began to cry...//Ryu, what have I done?//
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Katt walked slowly down river, towards the end of Wyndia's lands and into the lands that were commanded by the Tribes of the Woren. She had to warn her people about the viciousness of these dragons. These Dragons were not to be trusted. There was no formal declaration of war, and they attacked when wyndia was at its weakness //Not like its so much a difference from how Wyndia was at its strongest// Katt thought to herself. The sudden onset of war gave Katt a few good fights before she decided it was too dangerous even for her.
Katt had been taking part in a fighting tournament being held at wyndia. When wyndia celebrates everyone comes, and many tournaments were held. Katt was always looking for a good fight, although in essence most men outside the Woren clan posed little if no threat. Not only because of there physical...shortcomings, but also due to their mental processes.
"Hey kitty cat you lost?" Katt heard a voice say. It was as if the gods were smiling upon her. She would be able to once again prove her point, that men were weak. She turned around and saw that their were two of them, dressed in riches to rich for themselves //They took the opportunity for the war for some ransacking and now they feel that they are big strong men//
"I heard the cat people are like rabbits in bed," the second one said. From the prospective of the men Katt did seem like an easy catch. Here an attractive, curvaceous woman walked alone with no weapons at all, except for her walking stick. Dressed in shorts and a tank top she just oozed of ease. She chuckled.
Even in her seemingly normal stance she was ready fight, on the balls of her toes the two men didn't notice that she was gripping the staff differently. She struck quick, the end of her staff finding the first man between the legs, she heard a satisfying squish and a groan as the man collapsed. Turning to the second one she could see he was now in a sloppy drunken stance. //To easy// But Katt decided to have fun with him.
"Why are you so angry? I'd think that a big strong man such as yourself would be glad it was just little ol' me and he...no more sharing" She said with a coy look, and she got the desired response, dropping his guard the man thought about it for a split second, and that was all she needed, lunging quickly her foot found its resting place right where her staff was with his friend. His eyes shown surprise as he collapsed on the floor. //that's 30 men, only a million more to go. Non-Woren men would be much more of a challenge if they didn't have those things dangling between there legs//
"But maybe not these two" as she watched in disgust as they threw up the contents of the last five days.
Walking over to the second man, she bent over, fighting the stench he was now emitting //Did his bowels collapse?//she thought with a wry smile, //this one is weak// "We're like tigers in bed good sir," she said as she stood and left him to his own amusement.
//Woren men were different then them,// Katt thought with some amusement. When they wanted a woman they didn't ask on a knee, they demanded her and stole her from the parents. If the woman wanted to be taken she was taken, if she didn't want to be taken, she wasn't. Simple as that. //Maybe the men are like this because the women are weak...// Katt thought, the thought was quickly thrown out, all the women she'd met in wyndia struck more fear in her hearts then the Wyndian HighGuardsmen. And the men could fight, when it came to fighting there was none of this chivalry, there was just a fight. Women were taught to defend themselves, not rely on men, and men were taught to respect a woman who could put you on your back when you advanced to suddenly.
Katt stopped. Looking back she realized she could still see the mountain that housed the Wyndian house. //But the wyndians prospered while we dwindle. We bicker among ourselves, we are no longer a nation. We have split up into wandering tribes once more, warring between each other. And with a foe like the Dark Dragons so near upon us its time we unified. Or die.//
Katt realized that musing over the fact would not save her brothers and sisters, she would have to get there, and Katt began to run. Run towards her family, her friends, her clan, and hopefully, a future.
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"Momo, You were the last face I'd expect to see." Momo still couldn't believe it, it was Sir Norvald Wingly standing before her in the flesh.
"How...H..." Momo started to stammer, //I'm standing in the face of the most intelligent man ever//
"How did I come to ride with such a violent group of brigands?" Sir Norvald asked for her. She could here some of the men scoff and laugh at that, but Momo could think of no other words to describe this group. She had seen a sea of faces, so many of them, men women children. At least 10's of thousands. But that was in the recreation room, in this room it was her Ursula, Norvald, and two guards.
"Why, Momo I'm astonished you've yet to figure it out with all your research. Here we are, underground, large amount of chrysm, which, if I may be frank, does some freaky stuff at times...As if it's alive." Norvald sat and waited, waiting for Momo to figure it out her.
"Draegon." Ursula said. which was a shock to most, Ursula hadn't said a word for a long while. "I've known for a long time, this is the home of the Holy Dragons is it not? The Dragons of light."
"Ha-Ha, your friend is a smart one, Colleague?" Norvald asked, looking at Momo's shocked face.
"By the gods no, I'm her body guard" Ursula answered, Momo still in a state of shock. A guard had said something, which Ursula seemed not to like in response to her answer. "Give me three seconds and a Yo-Yo and you'll know first hand how it feels to be a woman beaten." She responded, the response bringing Momo back down to earth.
"Untie them," Norvald said, "they wont run, and if they do it is no problem, we are going to be on the move soon. We can no longer allow the Dark Dragons to become complacent and strong" With that Norvald rose, and turned away.
"You do know I am a sworn officer of the Dark Dragons right?" Ursula said.
"And you do know that with three seconds and a Yo-Yo I'd have so many Dragons on you you'll know first hand how it feels to be torn limb from limb. Or you'll die before you get the feeling."
"Where are your wings Sir?" Momo asked, feeling stupid. She had just realized that Sir Norvald Wingly bore no wings on his back.
"Oh those things? To cumbersome, I only wear them when I'm in the city anyway, Dragon wings are much more comfortable." He responded leaving Momo to her own imagination.
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"So Nina, exactly where are we headed again?" Ryu asked Nina as he sat across from her on the table, staring intently at his Chards Cards.
"To Wyndia," Nina answered not looking up from her cards, after finding Bow to be an unsuitable challenge she'd moved on, and upwards, to Ryu.
"I think that's the part that Ryu needs explained," Bow shouted from the head of the cart, "Ryu has a real bad memory for history."
Nina sighed. "You had me beat anyway," She grumbled as she put her cards down and stretched her legs. Sticking her head out of the window she could see some of the land they passed. There was so much of it that she hadn't seen, the country of Wyndia had so many different landmarks.
"When I had class with Norvald Wingly he told me of how the first capitol of Wyndia was utterly destroyed during the Great Drogen War, when the war was over a young princess turned queen married the hero of the war, a dragon." Nina frowned to herself as she remembered the story. "Their names were Nina and Ryu actually, but the marriage was horribly received, the people of wyndia split. Some loyal to the queen others rebelled and couldn't have them be led by a non-wyndian. They moved back the capital and are rumored to have flourished, although the two Wyndia's scarcely recognize each others existence."
"Do you think they'll help us?" Ryu asked, staring at Nina as she sat back down looking at her cards, a smile creeping on her face.
"I think they'll give us asylum, but help us? They won't. Not likely anyway." Nina shrugged, placing two cards face up onto the playing field. "'Chards' I win." Nina said with a smile. From the front of the cart she could hear Bow's deep laughter, she could feel it also, that's how deep it was. "
Ryu, forget ransoming her, take her to sin city for the tournament and she'll make millions for us." Ryu couldn't help to crack a smile, looking over at Nina, her hair, still short, was now messy, as if she'd just gotten out of bed. //She looks better then she did with long shiny hair, maybe when this is done she'll keep the style// Ryu thought to himself, //Whoa boy, you better stop thinking that way, she's not any normal woman, she's your meal ticket.//
But what a fine meal that was, she had somehow taken the rags and old clothes that Ryu had scrounged and sewed and fitted them into a respectable outfit of leggings, a short skirt, and a low cut blouse. The only thing that made her seem royal like, was her necklace, a memento of her family, or something like that, Nina had refused to take it off, //It's no matter, with me to protect he-//
"I really have to stop that way of thinking." //I'm not protecting her, I'm protecting it, our money.//
"What?" Nina asked, Ryu hadn't noticed he was staring at her //something I've been doing much to often.//
"Nothing," Ryu mumbled, as Bow started another round of laughter. Bow seemed to know everything so Ryu didn't have to tell him what he felt, Bow just explained that at the next town the two guys would take to the local brothels after the queen was asleep. Ryu couldn't answer to that, not that he hadn't frequented them before, its just that wasn't what he wanted now. He wanted something more.
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"Its no longer any fun is it sister?" The tall woman said, she was wearing tights that were supposed to zip up all the way to her neck, but Deis had taken to liking the idea of cleavage, another habit she'd picked up on her sisters planet world. "If you fail-"
"I know, I know; why must the dragons move now right when my people were flourishing?" The woman asked. She was identical to Deis in every way, except where Deis's hair was long and down to her the small of her back, Myria's hair was blond, and longer. Other then that they were identical in everything, although Deis was half a hand taller then her younger sister.
"Well I hope the war doesn't become to involved, if it does I'm not sure what will happen to those night clubs I so love to frequent. Speaking of which what time is it on planetside?" Deis asked with a twinkle in her eye. Checking a chart Myria responded.
"It's 4:24 Wyndian East time." She said looking at a large globe of her world, the data flowing from her planet's satellites had been disturbing. Great powers were on the move, some suppressed, some out in the open, all dangerous.
"Oh, that means its almost Midnight in Sin City, The party's about to get started." Deis said as she walked away, swaying her hips in an over-emphasized manner, practicing so that she could once again get every man in the club.
//She plays around to much// Myria thought, although Deis had a right to. She'd passed her test and learned the lessons of their races superior powers, but she refused to tell. Somehow by playing 'God' with the planet she would have the ability to learn something. And so far she learned one thing, //When Dragons Clash millions die.// "The Dragons will never clash, I shall not allow it."
With that Myria went over to the interface. With it she could speak to those who chose to listen in the way of a dream or a vision. She had to get the Urkans to rise up, she would have to strike the Dragons down, and this time, there would be no agreements, no passive hidings. Only massacre.
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Here is part 5, I need you to help me though, Is it good??
Will the Woren Clan stand up with Katts warnings? What will happen to Niobe? What is Sir Norvald Wingly? Will Ryu ever tell Nina his feelings? Will Katt ever find a challenging male to fight? Will Ryu and company fight any longer? Or is traveling and playing chards enough? Will Nina ever lose at Chards? All this and more at the next installment of "ALL MY CHILDRE-..." I mean DRAGONSWORN