War of the dragons chapter 2: where to begin?
Night faded unto dawn, as the moon took its turn of rest, and the sun shown as the majestic Reihards took off into the orange and black sky. While Lloyd Genis, Sheena, and Raine argued about what to do, Kratos, Martel and Yuan rode behind them, talking
" I sense something greater than the dragons at work here" Kratos said.
" I feel it as well, as though something, combined with Lloyd's over use of the crest, broke that seal" Martel added.
" Martel's right, even if Lloyd were to use falcons crest one million times, the seal wouldn't shatter completely" spoke Yuan
As the team flew high over the land, they could already see strange, flying temples, shrouded in dark clouds and protected by large beasts
"That must be a citadel of theirs" Lloyd said to a particularly large one near Meltokio.
" No Lloyd" Kratos said, "That's a draconifaction and energy transmutation plant"
Lloyd looked puzzled
"Energy transmutation is alchemy in which the dragons capture humans, elves and half elves, and drain them of their life energy, they then must be converted, or transmuted, into dragon energy, which keeps their forces going and allows them to transmute more" Yuan said
Lloyd still looked clueless
"They take our mana and transmute it into materials and energy for them" Genis said, trying to keep it simple.
" I get it now!" Lloyd said in a moment of knowledge "but what's Draconifaction?"
Kratos's face changed quickly, from a wise, intelligent look, to a grim, dead look
"Draconifaction is the process in which the dragons input their own DNA in strong warriors and they slowly mutate into dragons, losing all their good and looks, but gaining a great deal of power, my guess is…that's why there's a plant near Meltokio…for the coliseum so they can get some of the strongest warriors they can" Kratos said quietly
"So they toy with our lives…like we're they're play toys? As though we are theirs to take and use, like raw materials?" Lloyd screamed in a rage
"That sums it up" said Yuan.
By the time Yuan uttered those words, Lloyd had already made the long, slow drop to the plant from thousands of meters up, he put his swords out, as though they were wings, and soon, they glowed with flame and light, creating the sacred solar flame!
" FALLING PHEONIX!" he screamed as his whole body became surrounded with the solar fire as he neared the fortress. Meanwhile, inside said fortress, Tartarus, the dragon king of darkness, watched as his underlings fed him information on lloyd's kamikaze dive bomb.
"My lord, the impact he'd make would be similar to that of master Chaos's asteroid crush, very severe" said one underling
Tartarus sat upon his throne, as he pondered what to do, thinking and thinking, for eons it seemed to go until he gave his verdict
"Let him impact, we're over our target city, and we'd only lose minor lifeless ones, prepare for crash landing!" he roared as the underlings at the controls prayed that they would live to see the end of this day, and did Tartarus's instructions.
From their eye in the sky view, the rest of Lloyd's team flew downward to try and save him, when they saw a massive explosion right where the base was.
"No way" Sheena said
" Not a chance in hell!" Raine agreed
"Lloyd did THAT!" screamed Yuan and Genis
" His aim was off" Kratos muttered
"Spectacular" said Martel, awestruck, they at last reached the ground, where Lloyd had made a little crater of his own. He looked damn near dead but he smiled and gave thumbs up to show he was alive.
"is it gone?" Lloyd said as he got to his feet, but his eyes just widened in shock.
In place of Meltokio's great castle, stood the plant! It had braced itself and landed, absorbing the whole castle!
"DAMMIT!" he yelled, and fell, so out of energy
"Lloyd, calm down, we'll save as many people as we ca" Martel said before Lloyd cut her off
" the King's dead, so is Hilda, Zelos might be, and the world's largest city is going to fall into enemy hands, and its because I screwed up again!"
"Calm down, Stupid" Genis said in his own way of showing he was hurt too "sheena and Yuan ran in to find whoever they can, and smuggle them out of the city via the sewers, Zelos'll be fine, trust me".
The group stayed outside of Meltokio for the night, but knew Sheena and Yuan would be back by morning, and in the dead of night, they came with roughly 40 people, Zelos among them.
"It's alright, people, everything's going to be fine, we're going to take you to Sylvarant where you can hide out for a while, go to any temples you can, and split up as much as you can so they can't eliminate you all" Yuan said, and the crowd dispersed, leaving only the egotistical womanizer chosen among them, and he looked even more extravagant than before. His hair was now short, he wore a small Blade necklace, yellow baggy shorts that looked comfortable, and a Black shirt, topped off with a "Pimp Jacket", which was outrageous, purple fur with leopard print, and a matching "diamond cane" that covered his blade.
"Yo guys, wassup?" he said, giving everyone a hug, and Sheena's butt a hard squeeze, earning him a slap across the face
"So why did a giant flying machine crash into Meltokio? And what are those things running around the city?" he asked holding the mark where he was hit
Yuan explained the situation with the dragons and the mutation; Zelos took in all the knowledge like a sponge.
"The problem is now with a ground base, the dragons can spread and mutate the ground into energy, however, they need multiple bases to create a network, and they'd need to crash multiple bases, which they won't risk right now with so little forces and secrecy needed" Kratos said in his matter of fact tone.
"So what angel boy is saying is that we're all royally screwed?" Zelos asked
"Not quite, chosen" said Martel "but rather we need to figure out some way to prevent something like this from happening again"
"You mean like My pimp plan?" Zelos said with a smile
"What might this Pimp plan be?" pondered Yuan in his dry tone, making the already funny word pimp double in hilarity.
"I'll let you know once I figure it out" Zelos informed him.
"Whatever" sighed Yuan "we need to break for feeding time, who wants wieners?"
preview of chapter 3:
Yuan tells hilarious Kratos stories, Zelos's Pimp plan, Lloyd grows stupider Read and review!