It was with heavy hearts that the Dragoons flew towards Eevano's castle. Trying to lighten the mood, Becca stopped in midair.

"If we save Adrianne, we can go back home right?" The others shook their heads. As they flew, a figure appeared in the air. It was a Wingly.

"Dragoons, I have a favor to ask. My world has fallen under the tyranny of the Fhrama's servants. They are too cowardly to take over Endiness by themselves. They, as individuals, are very weak, but if you can get past their power, they fall easily. My colleagues and I have them all but defeated. They are never far from one or two of their flunkies. This is why you should be prepared for the worst. Lloyd! Rose!"

Lloyd and Rose appeared, and with a flourish of smoke and mirrors, they flew up to their respective Dragoon partners.

"Let us help you, we can save you and your friend," they chorused in unison. Jake and Becca nodded, and the spirits entered them. It was the most amazing feeling, like a rush of knowledge and power all at once. Jake opened his eyes and looked at Becca. They both smiled.

"Isn't that amazing?" Jake said, and Becca nodded speechlessly.

"Alright, let's go. Dragoons can open up rifts in space when trained properly." She stretched out her arm and the sky started to tear, and the fabric on the other side was a small fortress. It was cold, and it snowed relentlessly.

"This is Fort Magrad. It was the last stand of the humans during the Dragon Campaign, and it is our last hope now. Ironic, isn't it? We, that is, those remaining in Endiness, are prepared to fight the Fhramas and their servants to the end. This is where they were last defeated, and this is where we will defeat them again, with your help of course.

"This place is a natural fortress against them because they cannot stand snow. I fear, however, that they are being trained for snow combat, and this is our last chance. Will you help us?"

The Dragoons nodded, and they flew through the small hole in the sky to meet their destinies. And the enemy.

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"Sing for me, my caged songbird.

Adrianne coughed again. For some reason, Orinas refused to heal her.

'Probably because he wants me dead,' she thought, and coughed again. She held a bloody handkerchief in her hands. Most of the blood was from her hands, but some was from when she coughed up blood into it. In the corner were two other similar hankies from her earlier beating. Eevano, however, was oblivious to her beatings.

"Have you ever been in love?"

"NO! Any song but that one," Eevano yelled. "Orinas!"

"Yes Master?"

"Take Adrianne to the shower." Eevano left.

"Come on you, time for your shower," Orinas spat at her. "If Master Eevano didn't require it, I would kill you right where you stand."

"Lucky me," Adrianne coughed. "I get to shower in front of a psycho who wants to kill me."

Orinas roughly grabbed her arm and yanked her toward a small shower head with a curtain in front of it. Adrianne stepped inside and threw her clothes out over the top after she removed them.

Turning the handle with an 'H' on it, she felt the hot water start to run down her bloody body. The water turned red with the blood that flowed off her scarred form, and she finally washed her hair for the first time in what felt like days, and probably was. Trapped up in a floating castle that was always dark, Adrianne had no sense of time. Red water ran off her body and down the drain. Her body, though riddled with bruises and scars was now clean and steaming. Grabbing a towel, she dried herself off and Orinas handed her a new robe.

"Now back to your cage," he snarled. "Get in there." Shoving her in and locking the door, he walked back to his Master. Adrianne was finally clean, so she didn't complain.

"I am truly sorry that Orinas is so cruel." Adrianne turned around to find the origin of the voice. It was a redheaded girl, and her mouth didn't move when she talked. It was as if-

"Yes, Adrianne, I am speaking to you through your mind. My psychic powers have developed greatly since I was small. My Mistress wants to help you. You need not be afraid of me, for I will not harm you. I promise."

For some reason, Adrianne felt she could trust this stranger. "Okay. I'll go if you can get me out of this cage.

"That won't be a problem."

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"So, Emma, this is the Adrianne that my brother is so obsessed with," a woman in the shadows said.

"Who are you?" Adrianne asked.

"My name is Kryusa Fhrama, and my brother Eevano is my ultimate rival. The Dragoons have torn us apart from birth. Our father Melbu had weakened them, and we gathered most of the rest. This right here," she said as a nearby wall opened up. "is where we keep the Dragoons we captured."

It was the most horrible sight Adrianne had ever seen. A blonde man in red armor hung in one canister, a sword hanging at his side. Another face was also blonde, but this time, the face was that of a woman. She had a white outfit on, with small leather shoulder pads. A bow hung in her hands, with an arrow still knocked. Her gem was exactly identical to Jake's, except hers was white.

The third face was a third blonde, but this time, another man. He looked more like a scholar than a warrior. At his side hung a spear, and his hair was longer than most. He had no gem. Lastly came an old man with dark hair. He wore a purple outfit and had no weapon. His gem was purple.

"I know what you're thinking," Emma said. "But we saved these people from Eevano. He was going to destroy their souls with one of the Seven Treasures."

"The Seven Treasures," Kryusa continued for Emma. "are seven items of great magical power. They were handed down from generation to generation until the Dragon Campaign when they were all but lost from the world.

"One Treasure is called the Soul Mate Mirror. It would automatically show you the face of whoever you were meant to be with. It's extraordinary magic would see into the future and show you the face of your soul mate.

"A second Treasure is Necklace of Life. It can bring back any soul, no matter how far gone. Even from the brink of death can the magic of the Necklace be utilized. It's immense magical energies, however, can only work a select number of times.

"Another one of the Treasures is the Dragon Statue. It can call forth a creature of immense strength to destroy your enemies. It, unlike the other two previously mentioned, is one of the evil treasures. It holds the potential to destroy whole civilizations with a single attack.

"Another of the evil Treasures is the Cursed Armor. It looks like normal armor, but closer inspection reveals its true, evil intentions. It drains the soul of whoever is wearing it. It's distinguishing characteristic is the large symbol on the chest plate. It is the shape of the Grim Reaper's scythe.

"The final evil Treasure is the Gem of Fire. It reflects the fire in a person's soul, and ass we all know, fire is an ancient symbol of evil. A person can only use it with an intent to kill. What little we know about it comes from a very old text called the Toure du Madj. It feeds off of your inner evil, and nothing is more frightening than what you can't see.

"The final good Treasure is the Rainbow Dragoon Spirit. No one knows what it looks like, and no one knows where it is. Its powers are completely unknown, except that it makes you a Dragoon."

"You said that there were seven Treasures. I count three good and three evil. Which is the seventh?" Adrianne asked.

"The seventh is neither good nor evil. The seventh Treasure is the Greatsword, the Double Blade, and The Light and The Dark are just a few of it's names. It is mostly called by its original name, which the human tongue cannot pronounce.

"It has two sides of its blades. One is blacker than the darkest night. It has the power to shred a soul to the point of breaking. The other side is a blinding white. It can heal any wound instantaneously. That one sword is the ultimate torture. If one is stabbed by it-"

"Their soul is torn apart, then healed, then torn, then healed, and the cycle repeats for all time," Adrianne said. Kryusa nodded. "So where are these Treasures now?

Kryusa sighed. "I have the Statue and the Necklace, but my brother has the Mirror and the Greatsword. No one knows where the other Treasures are."

"I've been trying to find the Armor and the Ring for twelve years now," Emma chimed in. "I searched ever corner of the globe, and that's how I found the four Treasures we currently posses. My Mistress's brother stole the Mirror and the Sword right out from under our noses."

"Oh," said Adrianne. "But Doppelganger is under your control, correct? Then why did he attack us?"

"He was never intended to harm you, he got out of control. Your Dragoon friends were rash, and they attacked without warning."

"Oh," Adrianne said again, still not fully understanding. "I still don't understand but okay."

A horn sounded. "The battle for Endiness has begun."

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Jake and Becca raised their weapons and flew into the ranks of the enemy. The enemy consisted of legions of dark, soulless ex-humans who were turned into minions of evil by some dark spell, or so Jake guessed.

"Don't let your guard down," said the blue Dragoon. "These new kind of beings are pure, undiluted evil.

"I didn't think the great Meru was capable of using such big words," Jake remarked.

"So now you know," the blue Dragoon sighed. "Yes, I am Meru, the Blue Sea Dragoon. Better you find out now than in the heat of battle and it distracting you. We must drive the Fhramas from our fair land!" Meru encouraged her troops, which consisted of mostly rag-tag humans and four Dragoons.

Jake raised his sword and cut off the arm of one of the soulless warriors. The creature cried and ran off. Meru smashed her hammer into the front of their ranks. Two more creatures flew with each stroke.

"Withdraw!" Meru yelled, and her troops backed up as the sunken eyes of the enemy were focused on them. Becca took out at least eight with a few strokes of her giant halberd. Ben was going crazy with his sub-machine gun, he took down at least ten in a few seconds. Greg wasn't faring quite as well, with only one or two every fifteen seconds. His spear was weak and slow, being more the weapon to be used by scholars than warriors.

Jake fired his Divine Dragon Ball, and very few of the enemy survived.

"DIVINE DRAGON CANNON!"

"EXPLOSION!"

"WING BLASTER!"

"DIAMOND DUST!"

The four spells connected into one highly concentrated beam of energy at the remaining enemies. It took out all but three. The remaining three charged Meru, but her deadly hammer took care of them. She swung her hammer in an arc to the left, and one fell. The other fell to a right swing, and the final one fell to the return swing.

"Do not rejoice," Meru said. "For this is only the first battle. They will be back."

Just as she said those words, a new wave of ghoulish creatures slunk toward Meru's little fortress. Sure enough, the second attack had begun.

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"I still don't understand why we have to fight these people," Adrianne said.

"I told you," Kryusa explained for the third time. "They have one of the Treasures. They may have the Rainbow Dragoon Spirit. These primitive people cannot stand against us, so they might as well surrender."

"I don't understand," Adrianne yelled. "You would sentence an entire planet, no, an entire world to death just for a small jewel."

"IT IS MORE THAN A SMALL BAUBLE!" Kryusa roared, and the air around her fizzled into a flame. "I DO NOT TAKE ORDERS FROM WEAKLING HUMANS!"

"I AM NO WEAKLING!" Adrianne yelled. "I would rather rot in HELL than see you destroy all these people!"

The section of the castle that held the prisoners glowed a blinding white. Adrianne felt an enormous power engulf her body, and white armor appeared on her. A giant crossbow materialized in her hands, and another bow slung across her back. Her delicate white wings fluttered nervously when she raised the crossbow.

"Let's dance."

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Miranda's eyes fluttered open as she saw a hole in her containment unit. Using the power of the White Silver Dragon, she managed to crack open a big enough hole for her to fit through. Stepping out, she saw Dart and Albert through the glass, and tried to free them too.

"Ugh," Albert said as he stepped out. "Where are we?"

"I don't know," Dart said, grabbing his sword. "But I intend to find out."

The small group ran down many corridors and many hallways looking for the exit, but found only dead ends.

"Man, why can't we get out of here?" Dart asked no one in particular. Through the walls, he heard someone yell "DIAMOND DUST!"

'Meru,' he thought. The three companions rushed over to the wall. They then called on their respective dragons.

"RED EYE DRAGON!"

"JADE DRAGON!"

"WHITE SILVER DRAGON!"

And with that, the three dragons appeared, but smaller than usual. Much smaller. And they could speak the language of Humans.

"What is going on?" The voice of the White Silver Dragon was much like Shana's own voice, soft and clear.

"I don't know," said a gruff voice said. "But I intend to find out." This voice was obviously the Red Eye Dragon.

"Well," said a slightly nerdy voice. "This is obviously a disruption in the cosmic order. The forces of good are divided. Our power is limited because there is more than one of each of our respective Dragoon powers here."

"So you're saying that there is another Red Eye Dragoon here?" said Dart.

"And another Jade Dragoon and another White Silver Dragoon," answered the smaller version of the Jade Dragon in his nerdy voice.

"So," Dart said, resuming his natural role of leader. "Where are the others?"

"For all we know, they could be dead."

"Shana."

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"The second wave has begun," Meru said to no one in particular. "Come on, let's move!"

The evil soldiers this time looked bigger. Tougher. Harder to beat. They were more muscular. And there were more of them.

'Unfortunately,' Jake thought. 'There are more of them and less of us.'

They lost about fifty men in the last battle.

"We must not hold back!" Meru yelled. "Hit them with everything we've got!"

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A/N: Sorry this chapter was so short. I got pressed for time. I have three fics 2 update every weekend