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not. Same as before though, don't own LOD. I don't own any of the
characters or some of the plot used in my story.
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Morning eventually arrived, and I woke up to the sound of the door creaking. I slowly sat up, and sat against the cold wall. With my vision still slightly blurry from my slumber, I could only recognize who the person was if they spoke. It couldn't have been someone I knew though. Before the person left the room, I was able to see clearly, and saw that it was only a soldier bringing in a tray of food. Not feeling hungry, I quickly suited up in armor, and walked to the north wall of the fort. Albert was fond of this wall only because it was the only direction the enemy could attack from. Albert was surprised to me up this early. "Dart, after a hit like that, I'm surprised you're still not asleep," I only nodded my head, and watched as he grabbed for his spear. As I began to spoke, we noticed a soldier running through the woods towards the first. At first, everyone at the edge of the wall armed their crossbows, but we quickly noticed the soldier was one of ours. "I could have sworn I sent at least twelve of you out."
"You did, the other eleven captured, along with the fifty from the other fort, including Miranda. I caught one of the enemy soldiers and he said they ambushed the fort last night. They were planning on holding all of the soldiers for ransom." The thought of Miranda being captured ran through my head too many times, and my anger reached a higher height than the night before. I quickly transformed, and flew off over the woods in search of some sign of an enemy fort or camp. Luckily, not too far from the ambushed fort was another fort with the enemy flag waving at the top of a tower. I went straight into a nose dive while over the fort and crashed right through the ceiling. Every soldier that was present in that room scrambled for any object that could have resembled a weapon, and I quickly drew out my sword and pulled the closest soldier towards me with my sword to his neck.
"I don't think I have to explain to you the situation. You're holding sixty one prisoners. Where are they?"
"How do we know you're not bluffing?" I turned and faced the soldier near a door. I then slit the soldier's throat that I was holding, flew towards the soldier near the door, and thrust my sword through another one while headed there. I then grabbed him, and put my sword to his neck.
"Does anyone else here think I'm bluffing?" every soldier stood silent except for one. While shaking nervously, he pointed to the door behind me. I released the soldier, and flew through the door and down the corridor to the very end. With no where else to go, I bust through a door on my right. Everyone in the room was creating or fixing some type of weapon. Two soldiers came charging after me, and I quickly thrust my sword through the one soldier on my right side, and threw the soldier on my left through the stone wall. I removed my sword from the soldier's chest, and took another soldier hostage. "Where are prisoners being held?"
"Out of this door, back down the hallway, fifth door on your left," I then released him, and flew back down the hallway, counting doors on my way. At the other end of the hallway, a group of armed soldiers were prepared for battle with me. I rushed through all of them, and rammed through the fifth door, and took the first soldier I saw hostage. Everyone in the room dropped their weapon and slowly backed away. As I turned around and looked in the hallway, the men who were once prepared to give their lives lost their drive and stepped away from the door.
"Judging by how everyone seems so passive right now, I'm assuming you must be a high ranking official."
"Yes I am, a general to be exact. Don't hurt me; just tell me what you want."
"You have prisoners. Sixty one of them."
"Yes yes, we have prisoners."
"I want all sixty one safely released. If hear any of them don't make it out of this fort alive, I will kill everyone of you Doel loyalists in this fort, starting with you, "he then look at one of the soldiers out in the hallway.
"Alkavaz, move!" The soldier quickly ran from the doorway. Within seconds he returned. "Your comrades have been safely released. Go take a look outside if you do not believe me," reluctantly I freed the general, and flew through the stone ceiling to see if he had told the truth. Looking down at all of the soldiers, couldn't find Miranda anywhere out of all of them. I could feel myself slowly losing control of my anger, and I flew back down through the stone ceiling and caught the general as he was trying to arm himself. I threw him into a wall, and put a sword by his side. A soldier tried to attack me from behind, but I quickly formed a fire ball and shot it at him which knocked him through a wall.
"Where's Miranda?"
"I don't know a Miranda."
"Where is she?!" a soldier standing behind a table to the right of me spoke up.
"She, along with two other of your comrades is scheduled for execution in the west tower." No longer being able to tolerate any of the loyalists, I beheaded the general, and flew out of the room leaving and exploding flame. Hoping to reach the west tower in time, I flew through the wall and found the executioner with his axe raised high. I threw my sword through the executioner's chest. I slowly walked over, and pulled it out, and freed Miranda and the other two people. As we began to leave the room, I hurt a crossbow fired, and an arrow struck Miranda in the back of her leg. I quickly turned around before the person had a chance to re arm the weapon. I jammed the handle of my blade into the persons face, and shot him with his own crossbow. I quickly then checked back with Miranda and the other prisoners to see if Miranda was ok. She claimed she was fine, and the other two prisoners helped Miranda out of the fort, as I covered them. When they had made it safely out of the fort, I gave them all room as they helped Miranda across the field as they began to walk, I noticed a soldier lying on the ground struggling to raise his crossbow, and managed a final shot before his death. The soldier helping Miranda on her right side was struck in the back with the arrow and quickly fell. Sadly, I knew the person struck by the arrow. With overwhelming rage, I stood in the air with my fists clinched tightly; tight enough that I could feel the nails dig into the skin. Everything began to grow silent and still. A huge roar then sounded all through out the woods. A red dragon slowly began to fly through the sky and came to a complete halt. The dragon the picked up a huge burst of speed and flew through the sky towards the fort. Every soldier, enemy or friend, began to scurry and try to escape the striking range of the dragon. With the dragon not too far from striking the ground, I was again knocked out of the air only twice as hard into the ground. I tried to pick myself up, but collapsed back down into the dirt, and completely went unconscious.
Eventually, I resumed semi-consciousness, because I heard voices, but couldn't open my eyes. I heard Albert speaking to someone, "This is the second time I've had to stop Dart from doing something like that. I wonder what's wrong with him." At that moment, I managed to open my eyes, but I instantly transformed into a Dragoon and charged after Albert. Albert, catching my movement from the corner of his eye quickly transformed and drew out his staff to defend my overhead attack. Continuing to strike and swing at Albert, forcing him to move out of the room, he only defended all of my attacks. Once I forced him to defend himself into the atrium, I took a step back, and charged to thrust my sword, but my Dragoon armor began to fade in and out from Dragoon to human, and eventually I found myself in my human armor. Albert then began to swing his staff towards me, and I dropped to the floor to dodge it. When I looked up, I found that I was back in my Dragoon armor. I quickly rolled from underneath Albert, and jumped to my feet. Albert came running towards me, and I put my arm up to block his attack and my armor faded back out to normal. Albert was already halfway through his swing and couldn't stop when he noticed. His staff struck me in the arm, breaking it instantly, and I dropped to the ground in pain. Albert quickly transformed back to human, and ran forward to check on me. "Dart, my god are you ok? I didn't know that you weren't a Dragoon."
"Albert, its fine, just help me back to the bed for now," and Albert and a few soldiers helped carry me back to my room, and laid me in the bed. Albert quickly laid my broken arm out as straight as possible and told me not to move it. I was so worn out from everything that happened I immediately feel asleep. When I woke up, Shana was sleeping next to me. I was glad to see her because I didn't have the chance to talk to her for days but I didn't want to wake her up. Albert then walked into the room to check up on me.
"Dart are you sure ok?"
"Albert, I'm positive. It's just weird because I didn't mean to transform into a Dragoon and attack you."
"What do you mean?"
"Well what I mean is that I didn't purposely fly out of bed and start swinging my sword at your. It's almost as if I was still conscious but I didn't have control over what I was doing."
"But that would make no sense."
"I know, because that's what's scary about it."
"Well either way, you need to go back to getting some rest," Albert then left the room, and quietly closed the door behind him. At that point, I didn't have a clue about what was going on anymore. It was scary because during the fight with Albert, I phased in and out of Dragoon with no control over it. Then I remembered that in the morning, I had went on the rampage of freeing Miranda, and had summoned my dragon for a second time, with it being closer to making contact with its target this time. The only thing I knew at this point was that I was losing control of my spirit.
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Morning eventually arrived, and I woke up to the sound of the door creaking. I slowly sat up, and sat against the cold wall. With my vision still slightly blurry from my slumber, I could only recognize who the person was if they spoke. It couldn't have been someone I knew though. Before the person left the room, I was able to see clearly, and saw that it was only a soldier bringing in a tray of food. Not feeling hungry, I quickly suited up in armor, and walked to the north wall of the fort. Albert was fond of this wall only because it was the only direction the enemy could attack from. Albert was surprised to me up this early. "Dart, after a hit like that, I'm surprised you're still not asleep," I only nodded my head, and watched as he grabbed for his spear. As I began to spoke, we noticed a soldier running through the woods towards the first. At first, everyone at the edge of the wall armed their crossbows, but we quickly noticed the soldier was one of ours. "I could have sworn I sent at least twelve of you out."
"You did, the other eleven captured, along with the fifty from the other fort, including Miranda. I caught one of the enemy soldiers and he said they ambushed the fort last night. They were planning on holding all of the soldiers for ransom." The thought of Miranda being captured ran through my head too many times, and my anger reached a higher height than the night before. I quickly transformed, and flew off over the woods in search of some sign of an enemy fort or camp. Luckily, not too far from the ambushed fort was another fort with the enemy flag waving at the top of a tower. I went straight into a nose dive while over the fort and crashed right through the ceiling. Every soldier that was present in that room scrambled for any object that could have resembled a weapon, and I quickly drew out my sword and pulled the closest soldier towards me with my sword to his neck.
"I don't think I have to explain to you the situation. You're holding sixty one prisoners. Where are they?"
"How do we know you're not bluffing?" I turned and faced the soldier near a door. I then slit the soldier's throat that I was holding, flew towards the soldier near the door, and thrust my sword through another one while headed there. I then grabbed him, and put my sword to his neck.
"Does anyone else here think I'm bluffing?" every soldier stood silent except for one. While shaking nervously, he pointed to the door behind me. I released the soldier, and flew through the door and down the corridor to the very end. With no where else to go, I bust through a door on my right. Everyone in the room was creating or fixing some type of weapon. Two soldiers came charging after me, and I quickly thrust my sword through the one soldier on my right side, and threw the soldier on my left through the stone wall. I removed my sword from the soldier's chest, and took another soldier hostage. "Where are prisoners being held?"
"Out of this door, back down the hallway, fifth door on your left," I then released him, and flew back down the hallway, counting doors on my way. At the other end of the hallway, a group of armed soldiers were prepared for battle with me. I rushed through all of them, and rammed through the fifth door, and took the first soldier I saw hostage. Everyone in the room dropped their weapon and slowly backed away. As I turned around and looked in the hallway, the men who were once prepared to give their lives lost their drive and stepped away from the door.
"Judging by how everyone seems so passive right now, I'm assuming you must be a high ranking official."
"Yes I am, a general to be exact. Don't hurt me; just tell me what you want."
"You have prisoners. Sixty one of them."
"Yes yes, we have prisoners."
"I want all sixty one safely released. If hear any of them don't make it out of this fort alive, I will kill everyone of you Doel loyalists in this fort, starting with you, "he then look at one of the soldiers out in the hallway.
"Alkavaz, move!" The soldier quickly ran from the doorway. Within seconds he returned. "Your comrades have been safely released. Go take a look outside if you do not believe me," reluctantly I freed the general, and flew through the stone ceiling to see if he had told the truth. Looking down at all of the soldiers, couldn't find Miranda anywhere out of all of them. I could feel myself slowly losing control of my anger, and I flew back down through the stone ceiling and caught the general as he was trying to arm himself. I threw him into a wall, and put a sword by his side. A soldier tried to attack me from behind, but I quickly formed a fire ball and shot it at him which knocked him through a wall.
"Where's Miranda?"
"I don't know a Miranda."
"Where is she?!" a soldier standing behind a table to the right of me spoke up.
"She, along with two other of your comrades is scheduled for execution in the west tower." No longer being able to tolerate any of the loyalists, I beheaded the general, and flew out of the room leaving and exploding flame. Hoping to reach the west tower in time, I flew through the wall and found the executioner with his axe raised high. I threw my sword through the executioner's chest. I slowly walked over, and pulled it out, and freed Miranda and the other two people. As we began to leave the room, I hurt a crossbow fired, and an arrow struck Miranda in the back of her leg. I quickly turned around before the person had a chance to re arm the weapon. I jammed the handle of my blade into the persons face, and shot him with his own crossbow. I quickly then checked back with Miranda and the other prisoners to see if Miranda was ok. She claimed she was fine, and the other two prisoners helped Miranda out of the fort, as I covered them. When they had made it safely out of the fort, I gave them all room as they helped Miranda across the field as they began to walk, I noticed a soldier lying on the ground struggling to raise his crossbow, and managed a final shot before his death. The soldier helping Miranda on her right side was struck in the back with the arrow and quickly fell. Sadly, I knew the person struck by the arrow. With overwhelming rage, I stood in the air with my fists clinched tightly; tight enough that I could feel the nails dig into the skin. Everything began to grow silent and still. A huge roar then sounded all through out the woods. A red dragon slowly began to fly through the sky and came to a complete halt. The dragon the picked up a huge burst of speed and flew through the sky towards the fort. Every soldier, enemy or friend, began to scurry and try to escape the striking range of the dragon. With the dragon not too far from striking the ground, I was again knocked out of the air only twice as hard into the ground. I tried to pick myself up, but collapsed back down into the dirt, and completely went unconscious.
Eventually, I resumed semi-consciousness, because I heard voices, but couldn't open my eyes. I heard Albert speaking to someone, "This is the second time I've had to stop Dart from doing something like that. I wonder what's wrong with him." At that moment, I managed to open my eyes, but I instantly transformed into a Dragoon and charged after Albert. Albert, catching my movement from the corner of his eye quickly transformed and drew out his staff to defend my overhead attack. Continuing to strike and swing at Albert, forcing him to move out of the room, he only defended all of my attacks. Once I forced him to defend himself into the atrium, I took a step back, and charged to thrust my sword, but my Dragoon armor began to fade in and out from Dragoon to human, and eventually I found myself in my human armor. Albert then began to swing his staff towards me, and I dropped to the floor to dodge it. When I looked up, I found that I was back in my Dragoon armor. I quickly rolled from underneath Albert, and jumped to my feet. Albert came running towards me, and I put my arm up to block his attack and my armor faded back out to normal. Albert was already halfway through his swing and couldn't stop when he noticed. His staff struck me in the arm, breaking it instantly, and I dropped to the ground in pain. Albert quickly transformed back to human, and ran forward to check on me. "Dart, my god are you ok? I didn't know that you weren't a Dragoon."
"Albert, its fine, just help me back to the bed for now," and Albert and a few soldiers helped carry me back to my room, and laid me in the bed. Albert quickly laid my broken arm out as straight as possible and told me not to move it. I was so worn out from everything that happened I immediately feel asleep. When I woke up, Shana was sleeping next to me. I was glad to see her because I didn't have the chance to talk to her for days but I didn't want to wake her up. Albert then walked into the room to check up on me.
"Dart are you sure ok?"
"Albert, I'm positive. It's just weird because I didn't mean to transform into a Dragoon and attack you."
"What do you mean?"
"Well what I mean is that I didn't purposely fly out of bed and start swinging my sword at your. It's almost as if I was still conscious but I didn't have control over what I was doing."
"But that would make no sense."
"I know, because that's what's scary about it."
"Well either way, you need to go back to getting some rest," Albert then left the room, and quietly closed the door behind him. At that point, I didn't have a clue about what was going on anymore. It was scary because during the fight with Albert, I phased in and out of Dragoon with no control over it. Then I remembered that in the morning, I had went on the rampage of freeing Miranda, and had summoned my dragon for a second time, with it being closer to making contact with its target this time. The only thing I knew at this point was that I was losing control of my spirit.
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