Chapter 7: We're off to see the King! The wonderful King of Serdio!

Yep, I'm back. I love writing this. I can't help it. Zeek. Rose. Aron. Hmm. Any questions? Well, to answer some anyway, Aron is a bandit lecher. He uses the staff. Hint hint. Green clothes. HINT HINT. Yeah. And Zeek's being a jerk for the moment. You'll see a softer side . . . one day. Yeah. This isn't in the description if you can't tell. I'll say something like CH.7 or something. Why? BECAUSE I JUST GOT THROUGH UPDATING!! yeah. I thank you guys for reading((namely water goddess for her reviews are what show great reader skills. . .)) Hope you enjoy!

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I raised the weapon in preparation for a real fight. Right. Gotta get a move on. No one was gonna mess with my man. Well, he wasn't exactly my man, but who gives a hoot, eh? The serpent Urobolus kept Zeek captured in his tail as he looked Aron and I down. Aron had obviously decided to make his move.

Aron ran up to him and spun his staff. He hit the ground with it, building up speed as he launched himself at the creature. And that's when I decided I liked his weapon a whole lot. Why? Because with the right touch, there was a spear head at the end of it. And in D&D we would call this move a call shot to the eye. As I marveled in what Aron had just done, the serpent was throwing a hissy fit. It threw Zeek to the back wall. He got up after a moment and grabbed his sword from the ground.

I ran to the snake and started to slice at it. I remembered from the game . . . wasn't it More and More? Well, that's what I said anyway. The snake now had large red welts across it's belly and then it plunged down into the water again. Zeek looked at the rippling surface for a moment and then started to walk to our side of the cave. Then the serpent came back up—with two others. Oh, you had to be kidding me. We had a snake a person. I looked down into the water to see more eggs. Why me?

I grinned, though. Aron and Zeek had their hands full, but hey, I was gonna kill all of the snakes. I backed up to the wall as the snake came up close. Snakes had stinky breath, might I add. I slowly put my sword in front of me and the snake. I waved it around slowly, the snakes eyes were distracted for a few moments. Snakes can't hear. The snake charmers used the repetitive movement to make the serpents sway. Okay, so good so far. Once the snake fell into rhythm, I slowly got a dagger from my boot, and let it fly to the middle of its forehead. It hissed and tried to dislodge it, but it didn't work. Duh. I leapt up into the air, swirled and cut it three times in the same spot. I forced my sword into the beast's chin and through its head in a swift movement, and then retreated.

"Demon warning." I said,"Bye."

The serpent fell to the ground. Okay. Next large serpent ready to die? Oh right, the eggs!

I smiled and decided to turn into a dragoon. Oh yeah. That's right! I put my sword up to my chest as black lights came from my chest and back. My clothes disappeared, I wondered if I were really naked or not. I felt scales forming along my shoulders and light weight metal armor covering my pelvis, breast, and shoulders. Tattoos lined the rest of my body, all in the colors of black and dark purple. I placed my hand on the ground as I watched dragon like claws form and gloves form out of metal. My face started to change, I felt it. My eyes became more sensitive, I could see better. Dragonsique eyes. I crouched with my back up turned skyward as a wing burst through the left side of my back. It stretched and then another came from the other side. And yes, this hurt like hell. Then I felt a warm silver glow coming from my wings. I looked up to see a mirror. Rose, the original was looking at me. She placed her hand on the mirror and smiled at me. I placed my hand where hers was. The mirror shattered and I was back in the limestone cave.

Zeek and Aron stared for a few moments. Haven't they ever seen a Dragoon before? I rolled my eyes, which were like a dragons and then flew above the water surface. I had my sword in my hand as I came upon the serpents. They aimed for me, but they were so damn slow! I easily sliced their heads off. Then more snakes came from the lake. Wouldn't they ever stop? I started to fly around them, creating a magic barrier. I hoped that Death Dimension would help here, because I was gonna use it. I felt my body go lax as a dark seed came from my stomach it opened up a portal. It was centered on the barrier and sucked the snakes, their eggs, and a couple of rocks into it. When it closed, it sounded like a door from an old mansion slamming shut. I smiled and looked around. I landed and took a deep breath. My wings started to come into my back as the armor dissipated while my clothes reappeared.

Zeek was giving an oppressive look. Aron was measuring me up. I smiled.

"Cool. Let's get a move one, people. Time waits for no man!" I said, walking out and into the next room. We journeyed through the rest of the limestone cave. And out into a short field of wheat. There was a worn road leading to a large city. Looks like someone had been adding to Bales a little bit.

I looked at the city with sleepy eyes. Jeeze. It was getting dark. We'd been on the Prairie all morning and the Limestone Cave took up enough time. I smiled at the prospect of a nice warm bed to sleep in.

"Uh, you were going to Bales? The Capital? Where the King resides?" Aron asked, seemingly nervous.

"Yeah, didn't I tell you that?" I said. Zeek trudged forward without any recognition to either of us.

"Well, what do you plan to do there again?" he asked.

"Um, well, we're gonna see King Albert. Yeah, that's about it."

"Oh . . . I might join up with you later, at the bar. I don't really like the castle . . ." Aron said nervously.

"Okay! I'm not really up for all high and mighty royalty but I have to speak to the King, so I'm forced to." I said. Zeek glanced back at me as we reached the entrance of Bales.

Aron waved goodbye and went off to a bar. Zeek rolled his eyes at me as we walked through the crowds.

"Why did you invite him along?" he asked me.

"Oh, because we needed him. And he's a lot more friendlier than you are at any rate." said. He huffed a little bit and went faster. If he wanted to go and leave me behind, fine. I took a turn into more building walkways. There was a library around here, I knew it! I could find out a lot more about Endiness. And I could sort out my feelings about Zeek. I walked into a large building that smelled like old books. It wasn't all that bad, ya know? I9 looked around for an hour at least. The darkness of night came and candles were lit. I walked into a corner and saw an old man. He had piles of books around him along with several instruments.

He was short but old and wore goggles that magnified his eyes. He was mumbling to himself and studied the anatomy of trolls and robots, I guess taht's what they were. I looked over his shoulder. He didn't notice. I watched his hands move over the instruments, glowing lights being emitted and put out. He kept on working. I read the hand writing.

Organic Regenerated Corpses. oh. Taht's all . . . hey . . . O . . . R. . . . C

"ORC!" I yelled. The man jumped back in his chair and looked up at me.

"What are you doing here?" he asked.

"Um, I just saw you here and I thought it would be okay . . . ?" I replied.

"Get out of this place! This is a private library!" he yelled, jumping on the desk. He was only four feet tall.

"But, I need to find out about Dragoon's—"

"Get out! Before you get into trouble for being here with me!" he said, trying to push me out. Just at that moment the big double doors flew open. A man in great big armor walked through with two soldiers on his right. Sandora Elites? What the hell?

"Ah, you girl, I see you've found Raymond, the scientist for the Sandora army." said the man in large armor. I thought the Sandora army was depleted and Sandora was under King Albert's rule. WHAT THE HELL?!

"Go away, young lassie!" he whispered to me. He seemed unwilling to go back. They were forcing him to go? The bastards. I drew my sword and smiled.

"I'm sorry, he's my uncle. You're gonna have to get through me to get to him." I said. Why did I have to be a hero? I could feel my devil beating the shit out of my angel.

"You really don't want to be messing around with the Sandora Army. Now hand over the old man" said the commander.

"No."

"Hand him over!"

"Okay, you didn't understand me. Hell No."

"Dammit, get her!" he yelled.

The soldiers came at me, there were only two. Cool. I swung my sword to complete the Whip Smack on both of the soldiers, they fell, knocked out. I smiled at the Commander.

"Come and get me." I taunted. He drew his sword and growled. Oh yeah, it was on. He yelled and started to run towards me. I waited patiently. And then the doors swung open again.

"I think you will put down our weapon Commander of the Sandora Army." said a quite familiar voice.

The Sandora man stopped and was taken aback. He climbed and scurried to a window and busted through before the speaker could come get him. The Scientist cowered behind my back.

And the King of Serdio stepped in front of me. Albert had aged very little. There were only signs of gray hair around his temples. He motioned for someone to come forth.

"Is this the young woman known as Rose?" he asked Zeek.

"Yeah that's her." he said.

"Hmm, I see she's found the scientist of the Sandora Army."

"Hey! He was forced to work!" I yelled.

"I know, Miss Rose," Albert said, holding his hand out to the frightened Scientist.

"He will not be hurt or punished." he said. The Scientist Raymond straightened his tunic and huffed.

"Thank you, your majesty! I hope it would be okay if I stayed in your kingdom for safety in exchange for the information that I shall provide." Raymond said.

"You are very good at negotiations, Raymond." Albert said.