Destiny with Dragoons: 2

By: The Water Goddess, A.K.A Crystal

--Drum roll-- Booya! I'm finally puttin' out the first chapter to the sequel of 'Destiny with Dragoons'! Yah! --clears throat-- Please enjoy and don't forget to review. There's gonna be many, many, MANY twists in this story since I'm SO good at puttin' twists in stories. Well, I'll shut up now so you can read.

Disclaimer: Now, I don't own Legend of Dragoon or any of its characters. I only own myself, the Dragoon Judges, the new creatures, the new enemies, the new Dragoons, and the plot. I don't own the plot from the actual LOD game though. I'm not gonna tell ya how many new Dragoons I added in. MWUHAHAHAHAHA!! Aren't I mean???

Chapter I: Good News and Bad News

I charged at my opponent; sword in hand. I raised the sword, only to bring it down a second later, trying to cut my opponent in half. But as the sword was coming down, he sidestepped to the left. The blade came in contact with the hard ground instead of flesh. It made a soft clang sound as it hit the ground. I quickly ducked as a black sword swung above my head, cutting several strands of my silver hair. I swung my sword at my opponent's legs, only to have him jump over the blade and land softly on his feet. His blade took another swipe for my head.

Another clang sound could be heard as our swords collided. I put my left hand on my blade as I pushed him and his black sword back. I charged and swung my sword at him.

Clang. Our swords collided once more. Not wasting a second, I took a step back, then lunged at the man, trying to stab him. He twisted out of the way and swung his sword, once more, aiming for my head. I jumped up into the air and flipped above the man and landed several feet away from him. As I stood up from my crouched position, I turned around. My opponent charged at me, his long black hair flying out behind him. Only a single black hair band kept it from flying all over the place. He kept it in a low ponytail, keeping most of the strands out of his eyes. But now several strands had gotten loose since the fight had started.

Clang. My sword stopped his from touching my face. I felt my feet fly out from under me. He had tripped me. My back collided with the ground. I let out a small scream of pain as it did so. My opponent was now right above me. His hands held my arms down and he stared down at me.

"You've gotten better." The man said to me. His breath was warm.

"Thanks." I stared back at him. "You can get off of me now, Hajeri."

Hajeri nodded as he stood up and backed up enough to give me room to stand. I stood and brushed myself off. As Hajeri put his sword back in its sheath, I retrieved mine. It had been thrown a few feet away from us when Hajeri had tripped me. As the blue flame blade of my sword disappeared and turned back into a normal blade, I slid it into its sheath, which was strapped onto my back.

'The training took longer than I thought it would.' I thought to myself as I looked out at the dark sky. The Moon That Never Sets and the stars glowed brightly. Hajeri and I quickly ran back inside Ulara. As we stepped into the dining room, a table full of food was before us. We both sat down and began eating.

Three months after I had began traveling Endiness alone, I had bumped into Hajeri. Nine months later and we're both still traveling with one another. It's only been a year after the Dragoon War, and it's been quite peaceful. Which is surprising, considering Milro is still in Endiness.

I drank the last bit of my glass of water and stood. "I'm going to bed now. We hafta get up early in the mornin' anyway."

"Fine with me." Hajeri continued eating.

I made my way to the guestroom, laid down on one of the beds, and quickly fell asleep.

I sensed someone near me and I quickly pulled a dagger out from beneath my pillow and held it up to the intruder's neck.

"Geez, Crystal. Whatcha tryin' to do? Kill me??" Hajeri pushed the dagger away from his neck.

"No. I'm not trying to kill ya, you just startled me. That's all." I still held the dagger's handle tightly in my hand. "How early is it?"

"The sun should start to rise in about an hour." He replied, heading towards the exit of the guestroom. "Better hurry up and get ready or I'll leave ya here."

"You would never do that." I smiled as I collapsed back onto the bed.

Hajeri simply smirked and left through the teleporter.

I jumped up. I found my black sweater-jacket lying on a chair nearby and put it on. I slipped into my black boots, and slipped the dagger into its sheath, which was attached to my belt.

'Better hurry or he will leave ya behind.' I told myself as I stepped onto the teleporter.

I quickly made my way to the exit of Ulara. As I was running towards the exit, hoping to find Hajeri, someone grabbed me by the back of my sweater-jacket and pulled me backwards.

"HEY!!" I yelled as I almost fell on my butt. Hajeri caught me by my arm.

"Did you get enough supplies?" He asked me.

"Uh..." I thought for a moment, then remembered that before the training session yesterday I had visited the Item shop and bought a few things. "Oh! Yeah. I did."

He let go of me. "Good." He walked off.

"Hey! Wait for me!!" I ran after him.

"So where are we going first?"

I stretch, then put my hands behind my head. "Um...Donau. If that's okay with you." I looked over at him then quickly turn my attention back to the sandy trail that we were walking on.

"Fine with me." He had his hand on the hilt of his sword, which was put up safely in its sheath attached to his belt.

"You don't hafta be so grumpy, ya know. Lighten up." I looked back over at him when he didn't say anything. 'Guess some people just never change.' I smiled as I thought of Boralo. 'And some people do change.'

We walked in silence for a long time. We were just minutes away from the Home of Gigantos.

"Do you hear that?" I heard Hajeri ask. He froze and began looking around.

"Huh?" Just then, I sensed something. 'Oh no. Not NOW.' I had that SAME feeling every time a Virage showed up. I quickly drew my sword. Hajeri did the same. I opened my mouth to say something, but Hajeri tackled me. I opened my eyes and found Hajeri holding onto me. A red Virage had just attacked us and if he had not tackled me, then I would have been dead.

"You okay?" He asked, looking down at me.

"Yeah." I stood as he let go of me. I summoned my sword back to me, and gripped its handle tightly. Hajeri charged at the Virage as it flew back towards us.

His sword went deep into the Virage's head as he stabbed the sword into it. The Virage started shaking its head violently; throwing Hajeri off to the side. The black sword was still stuck in its head though. Now was my chance. I let my wings out and flew up to the face of the creature.

"BAJIRO RASHIKA!!" An eerie blue ball formed between my hands. I hurled it at the Virage and gave Hajeri a look of warning. I quickly flew backwards as the energy ball hit the Virage right in its face. "Booya!" I raised my right fist in the air as the Virage blew up. "Complete hit!" I flew down to the ground and landed softly. Hajeri had managed to run in the opposite direction when the blast exploded. A black sword flew towards him and he caught it and put it back in its sheath. Hajeri's sword was specially designed, sorta like mine. It was impossible to break and it would come back to him when he wanted it to. Just like mine.

"So let's hurry up and head back towards Donau before another one attacks us." He began walking.

I nodded and followed.

"Hey! Look! There's-" I froze. "Donau."

The town Donau was up in smokes. Hajeri ran ahead. Once I caught up with him, he had already arrived in front of the town.

"Everything's melted or is melting." I heard Hajeri mutter.

"What would attack Donau?" Before I could stop him, Hajeri ran off inside the town. "Where is everyone?" I asked once I caught up with him again.

Hajeri looked over at me. "Well, the good news is that the Humans managed to escape on the Queen Fury, but the bad news is that the town wasn't that lucky. I don't know what attacked this town, but I have a feeling it isn't Human."

A/N: So how was the first chapter? Okay, it's only the beginning so the next chapters will hopefully be longer than this one. Yes, and Hajeri was in the beginning. I thought about putting Milro in the beginning, but I have other plans for him. --smiles evilly-- You'll see later on. I'll put out a chapter every week. Maybe every Monday.