Chapter one! Yay! Now the story
will have some substance.
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Chapter 1: Friends Forever? I Think Not
The battlefield was ablaze,
not only with fire, but the sheer anger that flooded every body that was still
moving. The dragons torched every person they could see, while the men tried
desperately to block their flames. Garet laughed at the sight of the men
scurrying around trying to put out the fires while they were plucked off one by
one. He cackled even more as he saw their commander approaching him. 'The legendary Isaac of Vale, huh?' Garet thought as the
blonde drew closer. He raised his hand,
ready to cast a psynergenic spell.
"Inferno!" he cried to try and
slow the advance of his enemy. Isaac shielded his face, but continued forward.
Garet smirked.
"Persistent
aren't we?" the dragon prince said as he began to advance toward Isaac himself.
"Grand Gaia!" cried the
blonde. The ground below Garet erupted
with light that burned his skin. Garet held his left wing, which was now
searing with pain. Isaac took out his sword and charged for the injured dragon.
Garet pulled out his wide sword in defense.
"I thought the Blood Treaty
was still in effect!" Isaac snarled as the metal blades met. Garet's defense proved to be impenetrable and
Isaac found himself pulling back to try and attack him from a different angle.
"It was," Garet grunted as he
blocked Isaac's next attack which was aimed at his right side, "until you
rejected the woman we sent and the child she bore! You rejected the very best of the Mars clan!"
With that
statement said, Garet swung his great sword in a wide arc. Isaac barely missed being stuck as the ground
mere inches in front of him shook from the impact of the dragon prince's sword.
"She bore one son with no
defects, but the second, the daughter was deformed!" Isaac shouted. Garet's eyes narrowed as he brought his sword
back up to attack.
"You mean she was a dragon,
like me! How can Prince Felix reject his own sister! How can you reject the
girl you grew up with!" Garet cried in response. That defiantly struck a chord in the young
commander and Isaac attacked more fiercely.
When he found his sword parries would have little effect on his
opponent's defense, he resorted to the more heavy handed attacks.
"Judgment!"
Isaac yelled. Garet watched as a knight sent a giant energy beam down from the
heavens. The beam struck him head on
leaving him weakened and vulnerable.
Garet could barely stand right after an attack as fierce as that. While his guard was down, Isaac took this
time to rush him with all the strength he had.
This did not go unnoticed by the Martian prince however.
"Two can play it that way!
Meteor!" he cried. Isaac felt himself
frozen in his tracks as a giant, fiery rock collided with his then defenseless
body. The blonde struggled to regain his
senses after being severely burned. He
could barely make out Garet's figure rushing for him. He quickly raised his sword to block the next
slash.
"Eighteen years, we've been in
a feigned peace with each other. Eighteen years of learning each other's
strengths and weaknesses. Eighteen years we should have spent trying to be
friends," Isaac panted as he held his arm.
"Friends with
you? Never!" Garet yelled. The two boys began
to charge each other. Garet, being taller and stronger managed to knock Isaac
into the ground.
"You didn't just reject a
woman and her daughter, you rejected the entire race
of Mars. You rejected us all, now we want you to pay!" Garet snarled as he dug
his heel into Isaac's chest. Isaac grunted in pain, he could feel his ribs
beginning to crack under the increasing force.
"Stone Spire!" called a voice.
Garet was knocked out by a large, sharp rock. Isaac slowly turned his battle
worn face toward Prince Felix.
"Are you alright, Isaac?" he
asked as he rushed to the younger boy's side.
Isaac tried to sit up, but the pain in his ribs was just too much.
"My ribs feel like they're
going to break," Isaac replied as he lay dejectedly on the battlefield. Felix smirked and shook his head.
"Potent Cure," he said. Isaac felt rejuvenated as the warm gold light
surrounded his body. He stood up
alongside Prince Felix.
"I can't be your cleric all the time, you have to be more careful," Felix warned his commander. Isaac saluted casually.
"Will do,
your highness," he replied. He suddenly
snapped to attention as a familiar female figure ran to Garet.
"Cool
Aura," she said. Garet slowly forced himself to sit up. The red-haired female
dragon glared at them as she helped the prince to stand.
"If it
isn't my brother Felix, and my former friend Isaac," she said coldly.
"If it
isn't our dear Jenna," Felix replied, with equal indifference.
"Let's finish them Prince Garet!" Jenna said taking up her staff and standing beside the taller boy. Garet smiled cockily.
"I'm with
you on that one, Jenna," he said gripping his wide sword. Jenna raised her staff and a red aura swarmed
around her.
"Serpent
Fume!" she cried pointing her staff in Isaac's direction. The young commander was engulfed in dragon
shaped flames. The dragon prince raised
his clawed hand into the air.
"Tiamat!" Garet yelled. The dragon appeared on Garet's command and
the leaders of the Venusain army were seared with her
flames. Felix had had enough of being on
the receiving end of the attacks. He
held his hand out menacingly as it began to glow with his psynergy.
"Odyssey!"
Felix cried. Three swords lanced through Garet's body, immobilizing him
temporarily. As Felix sped forward to
strike the finishing blow, Jenna was moving to intercept him. She was interrupted by an Earthquake psynergy, causing her to loose her footing. She glared at Isaac as she cast a quick Flare
on him. Garet was struggling to stand as
Felix held his sword to strike the final blow.
"Garet!"
she screamed in desperation. The
dragon-boy looked up suddenly and held an outspread palm in Felix's direction.
"Liquefier!"
Garet cried. Felix was sent flying
backwards as the white hot magma scorched his skin. Jenna shakily stood up as she watched Garet
march toward her brother. Grief and
sadness filled her heart for she knew if Garet got to her brother, he might die,
but at the same time, the sting of betrayal was ever present. Isaac was headed over to aid Felix, but Jenna
whacked him hard with her staff. She
held it at his back as it began to glow with a psyergenic
light.
"This will not end until one
of you dies!" Jenna cried, tears streaming down her cheeks. Hurt feelings and
anger ran deep, and played a bigger part in this battle than any of their psynergy did. But then the clouds began to rumble. Jenna
and Garet's attacks were slowed to a halt.
A few drops of rain fell to the ground, and quick as a flash Jenna and
Garet took to the skies along with the rest of the Mars clan.
"The one and only thing a
dragon is afraid of..." Isaac said as the rain soaked his hair.
"Is water," Felix finished,
"Too bad the Mercury clan has power over that and not us."
The two
warriors headed back toward the castle to report of the Martian retreat.
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