Disclaimer: It's the same thing over and over. I don't own Legend of Dragoon. The only thing that I own in this story are the characters that I created and the Dragoon War.
'I'm just seeing things. That's all. It's just my wild imagination.' I closed my eyes and prayed to Soa that the person standing in the doorway was only in my imagination.
"I am not in your imagination." Bodath said as he walked inside the room.
"Yah. I'm so happy about that." I said sarcastically. I pulled on the chains.
"You can't get out." He told me.
"Well, duh. I kinda noticed that." I could see a very irritated look on his face. "Why am I here, how did I get here, and how did you get out without Rose killing you?" I asked.
"I fought my way out of Deningrad and killed anyone in my way. I then found Charle and kidnapped you because I need you to help me." He walked up to me until he was just a few inches away from my face. "And you're going to help me whether you like it or not." With that said, he turned and left.
I stuck my tongue out at him as he left. 'I'll get out of here. Just you watch. And he better not have killed Rose and the others.' I looked around the room hoping that the guy was stupid enough to leave my sword in here. But unfortunately, he wasn't that stupid. A brilliant idea popped into my head. If my sword came to me and attacked anything in its way just because of my emotions, then if I got hurt, it should come to me. I started pulling on the chains and making loud banging noises with them. A guard immediately came to see what all the fuss was about.
"Quiet down in there!!" The Wingly guard yelled at me from the other side of the door.
I was a master at making people mad. "COME AND MAKE ME!!!!" I continued banging the chains against the stone wall. The metal door swung open and a young Wingly walked in. He had a mask covering his face, so I couldn't see it.
"If you don't be quiet, I won't let you out." The Wingly told me.
I stared at him. "Wha??"
"Surprise!" The Wingly took off the mask. It was Ace.
"HOW'D YOU-" Ace quickly covered my mouth before I finished.
"Quiet. You'll get me caught. I followed you when I found out you had left. I was worried." He told me as he unlocked the chains. I rubbed my wrists, glad to be out of those chains.
"Do you know what happened to Deningrad?" I asked him.
"No. I don't. What happened?"
"Uh…Boralo got out of Deningrad. More than likely, a lot of people died. I just don't see how he could defeat all those Dragoons. I guess he does have more power than I could ever imagine." I walked over to the door. "You comin'? We need to get out of here before Bodath comes back."
"WHO???" Ace looked at me.
"It's a LONG story." I sighed and walked down the long hallway. Ace quickly ran after me. I looked inside each room quietly.
"What in Soa's name are you doing?" Ace asked me.
"I'm lookin' for my sword." I told him. "Bingo." I said as I had just opened a door and looked in it. "I've found it." There were three guards poking at my sword and examining it.
Another guard sat in a chair. "You idiots. Stop messin' with stuff you're not supposed to be messin' with."
The three guards ignored the other guard and continued messing with my sword.
'That makes me so mad.' I stomped into the room without thinking. Ace tried to grab me, but failed.
"Who are you??!!" The guard in the chair stood up. The three other guards froze and looked at me.
"I want my sword back." I told them.
"NO." The guard drew his sword. "How'd you get out?"
"That's need to know information and you don't need to know." I put my hands on my hips. "Now give me back my sword or I'll have to take it back by force."
The men laughed. "Yeah. What could a kid like you do?" One of them asked.
An energy ball appeared in my hand. Just then, Ace came through the door wearing the uniform that the guards here wore.
"Miss Frahma, please follow me. Bodath would like to speak with you now." Ace said.
I stared at him. 'Miss Frahma? What's he talkin' 'bout?'
"How is this girl a Frahma?" The man with the sword asked Ace.
"She is the grand-daughter of Melbu Frahma." Ace answered.
"Melbu didn't have any kids, so how could he have a grand-daughter." One of the Winglies asked.
"He did indeed have a daughter. That daughter died giving birth to her daughter, which is this girl here." Ace pointed to me.
'Those guys have to be stupid to believe that Melbu had a daughter.' I thought to myself.
"I am sorry then. Here. Take it back." The Wingly guard handed me my sword.
I took it. "Thank you. I will make sure I tell Bodath how good of guards you are." I quickly made my way out of the room. Ace followed and shut the door behind him.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU LET ME KILL THEM?!" I yelled at him.
"Because I really didn't want you to get into any trouble. Now come on, I know where the exit is." Ace walked off. I quickly followed him.
We had already walked quite a while, and we still weren't out of this place.
"I thought you said you knew where the exit was?" I looked up at Ace.
"I DO know where the exit is. Just be patient." Ace was looking around.
'I do believe that we're lost.' I sighed deeply. I stopped. "Maybe we missed the exit. I mean, there's so many doors here that we could've easily gotten lost."
Ace stopped too. "No. I don't think we've missed it. It should be here somewhere."
I heard a noise behind me. I spun around. A cat was a few yards in front of me. A yellow cat.
'That's strange. There wasn't a cat there earlier.' I took a step closer to it. It looked like a harmless cat, but you could never really tell if it was mean or not until it was too late. The cat immediately began to purr as it ran up to my legs and started to rub against me. I picked the cat up cautiously. It still continued purring. Its eyes had kindness in them. I was a cat expert because I had several cats of my own back on Earth. So I could tell when a cat was mad, or happy. And this cat was defiantly happy.
"Hey, Ace, look at what I found." I turned around and showed the cat to Ace.
"Put that thing down, Crystal. It could be dangerous." He told me.
"But if it was dangerous it wouldn't have come up to me and started purring, and it probably would've already bit me by now." I held the cat up to Ace. "Go ahead. Pet it and see."
Ace patted it on the head. "There. Now put it down."
"Fine. Fine." I put the cat down only to find out that it had its claws stuck deep into my left arm. "OW!! LET GO!!!"
Ace walked over to me and tried his best to get the cat's claws out of my arm. "I told you to put it down!"
"I tried to!" I looked into the cat's eyes. Pure hated now filled them. 'Talk 'bout an attitude change!' The cat let go of my arm and started to glow. When the light disappeared, the strange yellow creature that I saw in Vellweb was now standing before us. Its wings were huge. Ace and I immediately started running.
"Do you know what that thing is?!" I asked Ace while we were running.
"Yeah. She's called Thunderbolt. Its element is thunder, as you can tell by her name. She's just like Oceanus, except his element is water." Ace explained.
'I remember Oceanus. I wonder where he is right now? I know he betrayed us, but there just has to be a reason for why he betrayed us.' I noticed my vision was starting to blur.
"You look a little pale. What's wrong?" Ace asked as we turned a sharp corner.
I froze. "I…I don't know." I started feeling a bit light-headed. I could hear Thunderbolt catching up to us. Ace picked me up.
"Lloyd told me to watch you and that's exactly what I'm gonna do." He started to run. I closed my eyes. I couldn't see anything anymore. 'Thunderbolt must've done something to me when she stuck her claws in me.' I heard someone ahead of us.
"Give me Crystal, Ace." It was Bodath.
"Never." Ace growled.
"Give her to me, Ace, or you'll have more things to worry about than Thunderbolt." Bodath told him. My body felt weak. I wanted to help, but I just couldn't move. Ace turned around to run in the opposite direction, but Thunderbolt was there. He quickly turned back to face Bodath.
"Why do you want her so badly?" I heard Ace ask.
"Because she's the only one who can set him free." Bodath answered.
'Set who free?' I thought.
"There must be another way! You can't just run around kidnapping people just for your sake and his." Ace sounded like he knew who Bodath was talking about.
"Give me the girl, Ace. Give her to me NOW." Bodath took a step closer.
I found the energy in me to throw a fire ball at Bodath and knock him off his feet and laying on the floor.
"RUN!!" I yelled at Ace. Ace ran. Walls then appeared in front and behind us. We were trapped. Some strange gas filled the room. Sleeping gas. I knew this because I started to feel sleepy.
I woke up laying on the cold, stone floor. 'Oh man. I can't believe this is happening to me. Just my luck.' I stood up.
"Glad to see you're awake." Bodath walked and stood behind me.
I turned around to face him. "You're cruel, ya know that?!" I reached down for the Magical Staff. It was missing.
"Looking for this?" He held up the Magical Staff. I truly didn't know HOW many times he had gotten a hold of that. "Now, you are going to hold this and listen to me. Do you understand." He held his sword up to my neck.
I'd rather not lose my head. But then again, he wouldn't cut off my head, now would he? He NEEDS me. Or so he's been saying. "NO. I refuse to help you."
"You help me or your dear brother gets HIS head cut off." Bodath told me harshly.
"How do I even know that Lloyd's here?" I asked.
Bodath snapped his fingers. Some guards brought Lloyd out, all chained up. They held a sword up to his neck.
"L…Lloyd." I stared in horror. He was truly cruel. Using a girl's own brother just to force her to help him take over the world. How mean. But I guess it was just like a bad guy. I slowly nodded. Well, ya have to admit. The guy was persuasive. Very. "Fine. I'll help." I took the Magical Staff.
"Good. Now, look deep into your soul for the words that you have to say." He told me.
I did what he told me to do. Well, not exactly. I had a feeling that Lloyd would be okay so I just decided to focus on trying to speak with the Dragoon Queen. After a while, I thought it was hopeless. Just then, light came from the Magical Staff. 'She's helping me!' I pointed the Magical Staff in Bodath's direction to blind him, and it worked. A man's scream echoed throughout the castle. When everything went silent, I walked over to Boralo and knelt down beside him.
"Boralo?" I asked as I shook him gently. Lloyd walked up beside me.
"Wha?" Boralo sat up and rubbed his head. "Lloyd?" He looked up at Lloyd, then over at me. "Crystal?"
"Yep. It's us!" I helped Boralo stand.
"What happened?" Boralo asked us.
Lloyd and I looked at each. "It's a LONG story." We said in unison.
'Obviously Boralo doesn't remember anything.' I found my sword laying against the wall. I walked over and strapped it back on my back. 'This thing gets kidnapped more than I do.' I laughed silently. "We'd better get out of here."
We had just walked outside, when we saw Rose and the others just ahead of us.
"We need to hurry." Rose said.
"Why? Bodath is dead. We have nothing to worry about now." I told her.
"Well, we do have something to worry about." Rose pointed up into the sky.
I looked up. Dark black clouds filled the sky. Lightning lit up the sky.
"I'm not so sure you killed him." Rose told me.
"But I did kill him! Well, the Dragoon Queen did. But he's still DEAD." I looked over at Milro, who looked a little bit uneasy. "What's wrong, Milro?"
"He's coming back." Milro said, staring up at the sky.
"BUT HE'S DEAD!!!" I yelled.
"No. Not him. Someone else." Saphira dragooned. Everyone else who had a Dragoon Spirit dragooned also.
"What's going on?!?!" I shouted.
"Remember what the Magical Staff could do?" Mike asked me.
"Well, yeah, but I've got it. I used it to kill him." I told him.
He looked sad. "I'm afraid you didn't stop him."
"WHA?!?!" I looked up at the sky. "HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE??!! HE'S DEAD!!! HE COULDN'T POSSIBLY DO ANYTHING IF HE'S DEAD!!!"
"Yes. He can." Said a familiar voice. I looked over beside me to find Hajeri. Everyone except Rose drew their weapon.
"Put them down." I ordered everyone. They slowly obeyed. "What do you mean, Hajeri?"
"It appears that with the last bit of life he had in him, he summoned the ultimate evil." Hajeri dragooned. "Get your weapons ready." I nodded, confused, and drew my sword. Everyone drew their weapons too.
"Who's coming?" I asked. No one answered. The thunder got louder and the clouds got darker. It began to rain. Hard too. 'What's going on?' I looked around at everyone. They had such stern looks on their faces. A figure started to fly down from the sky. 'Who's that?' I looked up at it.
"I am back, Humans! I will get my revenge and kill you all!!" The male voice was loud and strong.
"Who's that?" I looked at Hajeri.
"Melbu Frahma." His voice was cold and harsh.
'Melbu Frahma?!!' My eyes grew wide.