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'Melbu Frahma?!!' My eyes grew wide. 'Why is he here? Isn't he supposed to be dead? There's only one possible explanation. That's who Bodath wanted to summon.' I watched as everyone attacked Melbu. I let my wings come out and I also attacked Melbu. We all attacked him one right after another, and he fell to the ground. We thought he was out, but he just got right back up. Every time we would knock him to the ground, he would just get back up. This continued for what felt like hours. Fortunately, Melbu never had a chance to attack. Our advantage was that there was thirteen of us, and only one of him. Since Lavitz couldn't fly, he stayed out of the way until Melbu landed on the ground, then he attacked.
About three hours later, we all were running out of energy, except for Melbu. He never seemed to run out of energy.
'I never thought he'd be this strong.' I landed on the ground, trying to catch my breath.
"CRYSTAL!! LOOK OUT!!!" Someone yelled. I turned around and saw one of Melbu's magical attacks coming towards me. If Lloyd hadn't had picked me up and fly off, I would have been dead. I was lucky that he was there, 'cause I had turned around just too late to fly away on my own.
"Are you okay?" Lloyd asked me.
"Uh…yeah. Thanks." I looked over at the others, who had continued fighting Melbu again. "Is that guy immortal or somethin' 'cause he doesn't seem to wanna die."
"He'd better not be immortal." Lloyd landed and put me down softly. "Come on, we've got a fight to win."
I watched Lloyd fly back towards Melbu. I flew off towards Melbu and powered up one of my strongest attacks.
"BAJIRO RASHIKA!!" A bright, blue sphere appeared in between my hands. "MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!!!" I yelled at the others as I threw the energy blast at Melbu. Melbu turned around to face me. Before he could even block the blast, he was hit. The blast threw him backwards and he hit the ground hard. Everyone else was on the ground, covering their eyes as a big explosion went off. Bajiro Rashika was Wingly language for Shimmering Explosion. I cautiously walked over towards Melbu and powered up another magic attack. Melbu looked like he was out cold, but you could never trust bad guys. "BIJIRO RA-" I was cut short as the energy ball appeared in my hands. Melbu had grabbed my neck. His grip tightened as I struggled.
'This is just my luck.' I thought as Melbu tightened his grip. I heard everyone running up towards us.
"Come any closer and the girl dies." Melbu told everyone.
'Why does this always happen to me?' I stopped struggling. I knew I wasn't gonna get out of his really tight grip.
"Let her go, Melbu." Lloyd hissed.
"Oh. I forgot. She's your sister, isn't she? Well, then I just might keep her." Melbu had a smirk on his face.
I thought for a long while as Melbu held me by my neck. I closed my eyes and screamed as loud as I could. I heard gasps just seconds later and the sound of something tearing through flesh. Melbu dropped me and I fell to my knees. I could now see what had happened. My sword had stabbed him in the back, and the tip of the blade could now be seen coming out of Melbu's gut as the sword stabbed into him even more. I walked around him, grabbed the sword's hilt, and jerked it to the right. The sword's blade cut through his ribs and came out of his right side. He was almost cut in half as he fell to the ground.
'That takes care of him. At least I hope so. Just to be sure.' I took my sword and cut his head off. 'Well, he won't be getting back up after that.' I walked back over to the others.
"He's getting back up." I heard Lavitz say.
I turned around and stared in horror. He was indeed getting back up. His hands picked up his head and put it back on.
"Did you seriously think that I'd die that easily?" Melbu asked me.
"But…how…I…your head…" I stared at him. 'HOW DID HE DO THAT?!?!' I screamed in my mind.
"I think he's immortal." Meru said.
"IT'S TIME FOR YOU ALL TO DIE!!!" Melbu yelled as he flew up into the sky. The sky above us started to darken. The only thing that lit up the sky was lightning.
"It's starting!" Rose screamed.
"What's starting?" I asked her.
"The Dragoon War." Rose answered.
"But……" Rose interrupted me.
"Just watch." She told me.
I watched quietly. A few minutes later, I saw what Melbu was doing. He was summoning something. Not Virages though. Something else. Something more dangerous.
"So this is what she meant by Dragoon War." I muttered, amazed at what I was seeing. Dragoons flew down from the sky. 'But how is he able to summon Dragoons? It doesn't make any sense. Why would he want to use Dragoons? I thought he hated Dragoons.'
"He wants power and he'll do anything to obtain that power." Lloyd whispered to me.
"So he'll use the Dragoons that he hates so much?" I looked up at him.
"I guess so." He steadied the Dragon Buster in his hand.
"This is gonna be a fight to remember." Hajeri flew up towards some of the Dragoons. Melbu had summoned what looked to be hundreds of Dragoons. All the Dragoons were of different elements.
"I thought there were only seven main Dragoons?" I asked. I noticed that there was only the seven main elements, there wasn't any Dead, Living, or anything like that in the bunch of Dragoons that Melbu had summoned.
"Yes, but obviously there are more than seven Dragoon Spirits for the main elements." Albert watched as Hajeri started to fight with the Dragoons. He flew up there, and began fighting too.
"This is gonna take a while." Zieg said as he started fighting.
'Yep. This is gonna take a LONG while.' I sighed as I held my sword tighter. 'Time to fight. Again.'
We were all tremendously wore out after five hours of nothing but fighting. Those Dragoons were sure hard to defeat. We probably already defeated well over two hundred Dragoons and there was still a lot more to go. Lloyd defeated most of them with the Dragon Buster and I used my 'Shimmering Explosion' to wipe out five at a time. Hajeri seemed to love the fighting. I had never seen anyone fight like he was fighting. Milro toyed around with the Dragoons that fought him and Phirala used her size as her advantage.
I landed on the ground to catch my breath. 'I have never in my entire life seen this many Dragoons. I guess that's what Rose meant when she said the Dragoon War was coming soon. I never would have thought that this would happen. But how did Melbu get that much power? Where'd he get enough power to summon hundreds and hundreds of Dragoons?' I quickly turned my attention to a three-headed dog ripping apart Dragoons.
"ALRIGHT!!" Ace was on the back of the dog. The dog was big enough to jump up into the air and grab onto the Dragoons and pull them down.
I then saw something blue flying towards me.
"OCEANUS!!" I would have recognized that cat from miles away. "Why are you here?" I asked him as he landed in front of me.
"To help." Oceanus flew towards the cloud of Dragoons.
"I'm glad he's back on the good side." I smiled. My smile quickly turned into a smirk. 'I'm gonna summon something of my own.' I stared at the Magical Staff that I held in my left hand. I put all of my energy into that Staff. 'Dragoon Queen, please help us.' The wind blew my hair around wildly. Everyone one, including Melbu Frahma. A woman wearing rainbow colored armor flew down from the sky. Her long, silver hair flew around her.
"You will all stop this fighting." The Dragoon Queen said in her sweet voice.
"NO!!! I control these Dragoons! You don't!!" Melbu hissed.
"I AM THE DRAGOON QUEEN AND I CONTROL ALL DRAGOONS!!" The Queen's voice was now cold and harsh.
"NO!!! THESE DRAGOONS ARE MINE!!!" Melbu yelled.
The Queen ignored Melbu and turned towards the Dragoons that Melbu had summoned. "I order you to leave." She told them. They all obeyed, and disappeared. The Queen turned back around when she heard the sound of something piercing through armor. She stared in horror. Hajeri was in front of her and Melbu was in front of him. Hajeri had stopped Melbu's attack from hitting the Queen. Hajeri gasped for air. Melbu had stabbed him with a small sword that was made specially for Dragoon armor. Hajeri fell and hit the ground. The Queen then summoned her Dragon. She and Hajeri were the only ones out of the Dragoon Judges who had Dragons. The rainbow colored Queen of Dragons came out of nowhere and attacked Melbu with one good hit. Everything went bright.
I woke up with a terrible head ache. I could hear someone's heart-beat. I opened my eyes and found myself laying beside Lloyd, his left arm held tightly to me and my head was resting on his chest. He was asleep. I closed my eyes and listened closely to what was going on in the room.
"Will he live?" I heard Rose ask.
"Yes. Fortunately, he will." The Dragoon Queen answered. I could hear something breathing hard. "He did a very brave thing." I heard the Queen pacing back and forth.
I felt Lloyd wake up. "Where's everyone else?" He asked.
"They are wandering around the town. They'll be back here in a few minutes." Rose answered.
"Where are we?" I asked quietly.
"Deningrad. The Queen here was nice enough to let us stay in her castle. Well, as long as we keep a close eye on you." Lloyd answered. I smiled as I stood up and stretched. I looked over and saw Hajeri laying on a bed, breathing hard.
"Is he gonna be okay?" I asked the Dragoon Queen.
"Yes. He'll be fine." The Dragoon Queen smiled. "He'll be just fine." She was out of her Dragoon form and her silver hair was put up in a pony-tail. "I need to talk to you, Crystal."
"Sure. Whatcha wanna talk 'bout?" I sat down beside Lloyd.
"I'm able to take you back to Earth." The Queen told me.
"Really?!" I really missed Earth, although it was a pain living there, I still missed it.
"Yes. Whenever you are ready to leave, I'll take you back. All you have to do is choose Endiness or Earth." The Queen said.
I had a huge smile on my face, but it quickly disappeared when I saw the look on Lloyd's face. "I……" I had family here, but I thought I would be happier on Earth. I missed everything there. My pets, my step-sister, step-brother, and even my step-mother. "I choose………"