Okay, I've thought about what YSYF said, or wrote, and he's right. So there will defiantly be me/Hajeri couple thing in here, as well as some other couples...well...sorta. You'll see whenever I put one of the next Dragoon Judges in here [insert evil laugh here] Can you picture how Lloyd would act if he found out that Hajeri sorta liked me?? Oh, and YSYF, you might be right about the Future Dragoon. I can't say if you are or not 'cause you won't find out until chapter fifteen. Yep, I've got that far in figurin' out what's gonna happen. Aren't ya proud of me??
Disclaimer: I only own the new creatures, the new enemies, the new characters, myself, the new Dragoons, the plot to this story, and the Dragoon Judges. I don't own LOD.
Chapter III: Am I Seeing Things?
So we were walking towards Lohan, bored out of our minds. Well, I was anyway.
I began whistling.
Selistia was the first to talk. "So, um, can ya tell me about yourselves?"
"Let's see..." I thought for a bit. "I'm fifteen, my parents are dead, my element is Water, and you don't want to tick me off."
"Oh...okay...I'll take your advice...so what about you, Hajeri?" Selistia looked up at Hajeri.
He stayed silent.
"Um...I might as well talk for him. He's twenty-eight, um, and you don't want to mess with him either." I looked at Hajeri. I had decided to lie about his age. I mean, that Human would freak if she found out that he was 11,028 years old. No normal Human can live up to that age.
"Oh." Selistia went back to being quiet.
We had finally arrived at Lohan.
"I'll ask around." I walked up to the first Human that I saw. "Excuse me, would you happen to know where I can find a short, eight-year-old girl, with shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes? She should be wearin' a light pink dress."
"Oh! Yes, yes I have. Go to the doctor and she should be there." The man answered.
"Oh. Okay. Come on!" I ran in the direction that the man had pointed in.
Phirala was indeed there. She was prancing around the room, humming.
"Phirala!" I ran up to her. She froze and looked at me.
"Crystal? Why are you here?" She looked behind me and saw Hajeri. "Hi, Hajeri and...um...who's that?"
"Oh, that's Selistia." I looked back at the teenage girl.
"I best be going now. It was nice meeting you all." Selistia headed for the exit.
"And who may you three be?" An old man walked out of a room. He was obviously the doctor. He had stopped Selistia before she had ever had the chance to leave. "You two look like warriors." He looked at Hajeri and I. "I noticed by your weapons."
"Oh. These are my friends, Hajeri and Crystal. They are indeed warriors." Selistia introduced us. "And my name is Selistia."
"Well, well, well. Then it must be my lucky day. I've been praying for some good warriors to stop by and I think Soa has answered my prayer." The doctor smiled.
"Why do you need warriors, doctor?" I asked.
"Because there's something bad going on in Kazas. Something that I and a lot of other people don't agree with but we can't do anything about it."
"What's that?" Selistia asked, now curious.
"This species called Couran are being tortured and kept as prisoners in Kazas. I don't know who's behind it all though. I think it may be a Wingly. No offense though, dear." He looked at me.
"None taken." I understood that some Winglies still thought that they were the superior race. "Well, I guess we can storm into Kazas and save these, um, Couran."
"That would be lovely. It has been going on for the past year and it would be so nice if it could finally stop." The doctor looked at Phirala. "Thank you for your services here, dear. I will miss you as will everyone else."
"No prob, doc. I was more than glad to help out." Phirala smiled, then looked at me. "I've been healin' everyone with my Dragoon spirit."
"Yes, and she has helped so many people." The doctor smiled. "Have a safe journey."
We all left the room.
"So, why'd you come to Lohan?" Phirala asked me.
"A few days ago, a Dragon attacked Donau. The Dragoon Queen asked me to gather up the Dragoon Judges and a few other people and to find out who's makin' the Dragon attack." I whispered. Selistia really didn't need to know. "So, Selistia, are you comin' with us to save the Couran?"
"Yeah. Might as well. I mean, I was just gonna visit some friends of mine but it appears that they're not here. I need to travel for a bit anyways." Selistia stopped at the Weapon Shop. "I'll be right back." She ran inside the shop.
Minutes later, she returned holding a bow. She had some arrows in a pack tied on her back. We gathered up some items, left Lohan, and made our way towards Kazas.
We had set up camp just a couple hours before we would arrive at Kazas. We needed to be well rested before we jumped into a fight.
"So tell us about yourself, Selistia." Phirala said as she laid down on the ground.
"Well, I'm seventeen. My father died when I was seven. He had died protecting my mother and I from Winglies. A few months later, my mother slit her wrists because she just couldn't handle living anymore. I've lived with my grandparents in Donau ever since." Selistia wiped a few tears from her eyes. "When I found out that Donau had been attacked, I was furious. But I was also glad that my grandparents had made it out alive."
"Oh......" Phirala looked up at the stars. "My parents were also killed, but the strange thing is, I don't know how. I was four and I had been spending the night at a friend's house. When I came back the next day, my house was empty. Except for one room. That room was covered in blood. I had never seen so much blood in my life before. I found my brother later on hiding in a tree. He was fourteen then and he looked so scared. Even now I don't know why he was so scared then."
"Who's your brother?" Selistia asked.
"His name is Milro. He's eighteen now."
It went silent again, but Selistia quickly spoke up. "So, Hajeri, what about your past?"
Hajeri stared coldly at her. "It's none of your business." He climbed a boulder and sat on top of it.
It went silent once more, and this time no one spoke up. Several minutes after Selistia had fallen asleep, Phirala crawled over to me.
"Crystal, I lied."
"Huh?"
"You see, I was eight when my parents died and Milro was eighteen. I couldn't tell her that 'cause I've been sayin' that I'm eight, not my true age. And it would probably confuse her a lot." Phirala sat down beside me. "I'm really thirteen thousand and eight."
"Whoa..." I kept myself from saying 'that's old'. It would be rude for me to say that and I really didn't feel like being rude right now. I was too tired. "So you don't know why Milro was so scared?"
"Nope." She shook her head. "He won't tell me either. But ya know what?"
"What?"
"Hajeri knows and I don't." She began pouting. "It's not fair."
"He'll tell you when the time comes." I rolled over on my side and closed my eyes. I rested my left hand on my sword just in case.
"Crystal, wake up." Hajeri shook me awake. This time, I didn't hold a dagger up to his neck, but I just stared up at him.
"Why? It's not even morning."
"Just because the sun isn't up doesn't mean it ain't mornin'." He pulled me to my feet. He reminded me of Boralo. He used to pull me to my feet at five o'clock in the morning when I was little.
"Just let me sleep." I muttered as I tried to lay back down.
"Nope." He grabbed me and threw me over his shoulder. "We've gotta continue towards Kazas."
"Aaaaawwwwww." I was still pretty tired. "Grab my sword, will ya?" I closed my eyes and tried to fall back asleep.
He bent over and picked up my sword. "Come on, you two. I'll carry sleepyhead."
Phirala stood and yawned. Selistia rubbed the sleep out of her eyes as she followed.
I opened my eyes and found me staring at Hajeri's back. I looked up and noticed he was still carrying me.
"Where's my sword?" I asked, yawning.
"Right here." He held up the sword so I could see it.
"Are we almost there?" I looked at Phirala.
"Yep." She smiled. "You should wake up now."
"Okay..." I yawned. "In a few minutes..." Hajeri obviously didn't agree with me. He literally threw me down on the ground. I landed hard on my butt.
"Hey! You didn't hafta do that!" I quickly stood back up.
"It woke ya up, now didn't it?" Hajeri smirked.
I stuck my tongue out at him and took my sword away from him. "So what's our plan?" I asked as I put the sword in its sheath.
"How 'bout we just charge in?" Hajeri seemed to like that idea.
"Well, I guess we could, but, uh, we don't know anythin' about them and they could have that Dragon with them." Phirala poked him in his chest. "And what's with you and charging in?"
"Those Humans wouldn't stand a chance against me." Hajeri looked down at Phirala. She quickly backed up.
"He's right but we're not gonna just charge in." I saw the disappointed face on Hajeri. "We're gonna sneak in."
Everyone stared at me. We had checked the area and there was just absolutely no way in without being seen.
"Sneak in, eh?" Hajeri stared at me.
"Well, um, I didn't know they'd keep the place so well guarded." I thought for a moment. "I just came up with Plan B."
"And what's Plan B?" Selistia asked.
"Um, you see, we, um, just...disguise ourselves and hope they're stupid enough not to notice us." I said.
Everyone continued to stare at me.
"Fine! So let's go with Plan C." I sighed. "Wait here." I quickly ran off.
"What was Plan C?" I heard Phirala ask as I was running off.
I zigzagged my way through the grass and stopped when I saw the entrance.
'Well, here goes nothin'.' I began walking casually towards the entrance like I owned the place.
"Hey! You! Stop!" A tall Human man ran up to me. Several other guards followed. I ignored them and just kept walking.
"Where do you think you're goin', kid?" One guard asked me.
I just ignored him and continued walking.
"Grab her, you morons!" Another guard yelled.
I froze and smirked. Five guards charged at me. I dodged all of their attacks. I began punching and kicking a guard then moved on to the next one when that guard was down. All five were knocked out in less than a minute.
"You're losing your touch." Hajeri said to me as he walked up to me.
"Oh just shut up." I looked ahead of us and saw another guard coming towards us.
"You morons! Get out there and fight!" He was obviously the commander of the other guards. Even more guards came running out.
"Should I let you handle this?" Hajeri looked over at me.
All I had to do was smile and he knew what to do. He drew his sword and so did I.
"Let's fight!" I used my speed as my advantage. So did Hajeri.
The battle wasn't at all long, or hard. The commander had been a coward and had ran away. Now Phirala and Selistia showed up.
"I thought you said that charging in wasn't gonna happen?" Phirala asked me.
"Well, I guess I got tired of just waiting around. SO, come on!" I ran inside, slaughtering guards that tried to stop me.
We had managed to make it through and now we were hiding in the shadows, spying.
"What do you want now?" A cloaked figure asked the commander.
"Well, um, sir, uh-"
"Just tell me already, Human!"
"Yes, sir. Um, a Wingly and three Humans have managed to, uh, make their way into Kazas-I mean here, sir. Many guards have died-"
The cloaked figure interrupted him. "I don't care if those pathetic Humans have died! Just get rid of those Humans and bring the Wingly to me, NOW!!"
"Y-yes, s-sir." The commander said in a shaky voice. He quickly ran out of the room.
"Pathetic Humans." The cloaked man also made his way out of the room but out of another exit.
"I wonder what they want with you, Crystal." I heard Phirala whisper.
"I don't know." I stared at nothing in particular.
"We should just hurry up and find the Couran." Selistia quietly began walking. We all nodded and followed.
A few minutes later, Phirala pointed at something. "Look."
We all looked in the direction that she was pointing in and gasped. A man with huge tan cat ears, a think tan cougar tail, and yellow cat eyes was being tortured by a Human. The Couran's short orange hair had blood stains in it. Several other Couran were up against the walls, their hands and feet tied up by chains. They all looked the same. Orange hair, tan tail and ears, fanged teeth, yellow eyes, and their tan skin.
"Those poor Couran." Selistia whispered.
Without thinking, like usual, I drew my weapon and jumped out from our hideout. Hajeri did the same.
I charged at the first Human that I saw and began stabbing him. Once he was down, I looked over at Hajeri who had already slaughtered a Human. After we had killed all the guards there, I walked up to the male Couran that had been tortured earlier.
"Don't worry. We're here to rescue you." I told him.
"Thank you." The Couran bowed. I looked over at the other Couran. A female Couran seemed to stick out. She looked like all the others, except to me, she seemed...different.
She was wearing black pants and the end of those pants were rimmed with white fur that covered her shoes. Her black shirt ended a few inches above her belly-button and was also rimmed with white fur. The end of the long sleeves were also rimmed with white fur; covering most of her hands. Her finger nails looked as if they were cat claws; which they probably were. At the end of her long, tan, thick tail, there was a pink bow. She also wore a black choker around her neck. She had chin-length orange hair. Tan ears stuck out of her head. Her yellow cat eyes just stared at me. She smiled, showing her fangs. I just stared at her.
"Crystal, we'd better hurry and lead the Couran out of here before more guards come." Selistia told me. "Crystal?"
"Let them come." Hajeri said with confidence in his voice.
"Huh? Right. Um, let's go." Just as I said that, the cloaked man from before walked in the room.
"Ah. I see we have company." He seemed to be staring at me. "Grab the Wingly." He ordered some Humans that were behind him.
I finally moved my gaze from the strange Couran to the cloaked man. He seemed...familiar to me...... I didn't know why though. I quickly snapped out of it and ran towards the exit.
"Let's go! Forget the Humans!" I was mainly talking to Hajeri, because he was just about to charge at the Humans. He sheathed his sword and followed me. All the Couran followed too.
We all quickly ran out of Kazas before the guards had a chance to stop us.
"I wonder who that guy was." Phirala said once we were out of Kazas.
'I'm wonderin' the exact same thing.' I shook my head and faced the Couran that I had spoke to earlier. "Where are you going now?"
"We have a village just a three day walk from here. Do not worry about us. We will make it safely back. Thank you for saving us." The Couran bowed, then quickly ran off. All of the other Couran followed him, except for that one female Couran. She just stood there and stared at me. Finally, she turned and left, but not without smiling at me.
'That Couran is...strange.' I sighed, then shook my head. 'Oh well. More questions are now flooding my head. Just great.' I kicked a pebble. I heard the other three walking off. Just as I was going to follow them, I saw something. A ghost. My father's ghost.
"Wha?" I cocked my head to the side, confused. My father's ghost was just yards away from me, staring at me. I shook my head once more, and he disappeared.
'Am I seeing things?' I just stared in confusion.
"Crystal! Come on!" Phirala hollered after me. I quickly ran to catch up with them.
A/N: SEE? I told ya this chapter would be longer than the previous one. Now, I'm not sure if chapter four will be long or short, but it will probably be long. Maybe. Oh, I don't know. Anyway, don't forget to review, and I'll be updating whenever I get a chapter done. There's no tellin' when I'll get done with a chapter, so I'll just stick with updating whenever I can. Oh yeah, if you haven't read 'The Legend of the Dragon Campaign', then I suggest you read it. It's like the prequel to 'Destiny with Dragoons'. It's like a series, I think... 'The Legend of the Dragon Campaign', then 'Destiny with Dragoons', then finally 'Destiny with Dragoon: 2'. That's how it goes.