Sorry this took so long. Computer was on the fritz. receives death glare from cast And I'm kinda lazy. glares back So there. Don't forget, I need reviews! Or Fanoc will get you.
Chapter 5
They arrived at the port town. Kerbris found out the name of it was Rotordam from one of the people who gathered to gawk at the Queen Fury III. Everyone spent the night at the inn to reaccommodate themselves to land. In the morning they gathered in the inn's lobby for breakfast. After breakfast they set out, Jack in the lead. Some time passed. Fanoc increased his pace until he was beside Jack. "We are being followed." Jack seemed interested. "Oh really?" "Indeed." "For how long?" "Since we left Rotordam." "Alright then." Jack stopped walking. The others wanted to know why the stop had occurred. Jack didn't answer them but said "Adumi, you can come out now. No need to skulk around like a thief." Adumi, wearing green scale armor the same length as the former Dark Dragoon Rose, appeared at the back of the group and was looked at by everyone. "Dad, how'd you know?" Jack grinned "I can't tell you, you'd use it against me." "Oh, rats." The group continued on with no further interruptions.
The group had made camp for the hot part of the day under a convenient large tree. Kyra, Adumi, and Ghenga were in deep conversation. Fanoc stared off at the horizon. Jack munched on some dried fruit while Kerbris napped against the tree's trunk. Two figures, a man and a woman observed this. Both appeared to be Winglies, although the woman's eyes were a cold blue instead of the usual Wingly wood flame color. The man was dressed in black pants with a sleeveless purple shirt and belt. The woman wore a sandy brown leather arm-and-leg-less low-cut bodysuit with gloves to her elbows and boots to her knees of the same material. The woman spoke. "That's them, then?" The man smiled. "Yes, Dusk, that's them. Wanna go over and say hello?" "I'd rather not, thanks." "No problem at all. Guess I'll have to do it then." "You better not, Nathan." "And why is that?" "Let them fight this next battle. After all, they're still alive." "You know as well as I do that the battles they have had so far were newbie stuff in comparison to what's to come." "Yeah, but this time we get to watch." "You have a point, lady. Let's pull up a chair." The man-Nathan-waved his hands and two chairs appeared next to them. They sat. The woman-Dusk-had one more thing to say. "We will help them if they get in trouble, right?" Nathan only smiled.
At the group's campsite, Fanoc turned to Jack. "The next battle has arrived." Jack stood. "I know. Wake Kerbris. I'll tell the others." Fanoc woke Kerbris while Jack told Kyra and Ghenga and made Adumi leave the area. Suddenly a large group of Winglies wearing the same armor as before swooped down out the sky. The Dragoons transformed drew their weapons, and flew up to meet them.
Kerbris clashed swords with one of his numerous foes. He felt several spells glance off his armor. He would have been surprised, but there was no time. There was no time for even thought. Civilized, rational human being gave way to pure savage survival instinct. Many, many weapons struck Kerbris, many, many times but they all failed to penetrate the Dark Dragoon armor. The man known as Kerbris had become a fighting machine rather than a mere swordsman.
Fanoc dodged around several energy blasts and parried yet another blade attack. He didn't even bother to see what type of blade it was, just batted it away. He screamed and all his foes backed off a bit. It was the last mistake they would ever make. Fanoc sheathed his katana and held out his right hand palm up. A blue energy ball appeared there. He clenched the hand into a fist and said, "Crystalline Assault!" A sword of ice crystal appeared in the hand and Fanoc struck seemingly only once. All of Fanoc's foes looked at him like he was insane and charged. Fanoc only smiled as the foes, with a look of complete and total surprise on their faces, crumbled into powder. The ice sword shattered when he opened his hand. Drawing his katana again, he rushed to find some new foes.
Kyra was spinning in a Holy Tornado, her foes lost in the whirling energy vortex of the spell. She stopped spinning and her foes reappeared amongst the clearing area. They looked dazed, so Lunar Rain came next, followed by much slashing and their deaths. Of course, more foes were forthcoming.
Jack finished off his second group of attackers. He looked around and saw a massive Dragoon transformation effect. "No…" He breathed.
Ghenga was fighting harder than she had ever fought before. She managed to break away and land. The gem in the center of her breastplate glowed brightly and Ghenga yelled with the strain. A giant fireball pushed itself out from the gem. She punched it and it split into innumerable smaller fireballs. She called "Flameshot Blitzkrieg!" when she punched. Each smaller fireball immolated one of her foes and the rest destroyed the second group of foes who would have attacked her next. She sat down and rested.
Kerbris finished off his first group on foes and hit the rapidly approaching second with a Dark Shot. The one who remained charged, but Kerbris cut him down with a lightning fast series of strokes. He landed and saw Jack yelling something at him. What's he saying? Look out? "Look out for what?" Jack pointed and Kerbris moved. He wasn't fast enough. The Divine Dragon Cannon clipped him and sent him hurtling far away, unconscious.
Fanoc clove his last foe in twain and checked on Kerbris, only to see him hurtling away, clipped by the Divine Dragon Cannon. Fanoc's eyes tracked the blast to its source, and he charged.
Kyra saw what was going on, but was far too into the all-consuming business of staying alive to do anything about it.
Jack saw Fanoc charge and made a decision. He transformed again. This time, the armor was shaped like tornadoes. A tornado up each leg, on each finger and up the forearm. Even the chest armor was shaped like a tornado and all of the tornadoes seemed to be moving. Jack's eyes turned green and the Supreme Jade Dragoon transformation was complete. He rushed after Fanoc.
Ghenga saw Fanoc and Jack go after what had blasted Kerbris, so she decided to help Kyra. She flew up and beheaded one, then chopped another in half from the top of his head to his waist. Kyra cut the last down and together they flew to assist the others.
Kerbris opened his eyes. A white haired and blue-eyed woman was looking down at him. A male Wingly was next to her. The Wingly swore and took a step back. A massive bolt of violet lightning struck him, enveloping him. The bolt spent itself and the Wingly was in the armor of the Violet Dragoon. With a quick "Stay here" to the woman he whipped out a trident and flew off to join the fight. The pouch at Kerbris's side glowed. He took out the Golden Dragoon Spirit and looked at it. It shone brightly. The woman took it from him and stepped back. The ground rose up and encased her in a solid soil, clay and rock cocoon. The cocoon held up for a second, then shattered with the force of the woman's poleaxe. She was now attired in the armor of the Golden Dragoon. She flew off after the Wingly and Kerbris's vision hazed and then blacked out.
Fanoc and the Divine Dragoon drew away from their latest clash. The Divine Dragoon's wings shifted and he called out "Divine Dragon Ball!" Numerous balls of energy flew out from behind him. Fanoc managed to dodge several, but then was hit and hit again. And again. And again. He had time to contemplate how much it hurt as the impacts continued. Then Sea Dragoon met ground and Fanoc knew no more.
Kyra saw was happened to Fanoc and resolved to dodge what she could and slice into pieces what she couldn't. It was a good plan, but there were simply too many energy balls. The White Silver Dragoon met ground after several hits.
Jack, being in Supreme Dragoon form, was fast enough to dodge most of them and strong enough to withstand those that did hit him.
Ghenga hid behind her giant axe. Yes, the arm and foot impacts hurt more than she liked to think about, but at least she wasn't getting pummeled like those two.
Kerbris sat up again and saw the Wingly and that woman dodging away. The woman was unsuccessful, and went face first into the dirt. The Wingly, however made it look easy, even though Kerbris knew it was nearly impossible not to get hit. He stood and flexed the wings. He picked up his sword and flew to rejoin the battle.
Jack took a second to look at his fallen comrades, and saw to his horror, Adumi was on the field. He spun around and saw, in that terrible slow motion all such events have, the Divine Dragoon aim his cannon at her and fire. Jack, feeling with certainty his daughter, his only child, was going to die, attacked viciously.
Adumi thought she was going to die. Of boredom. She could hear the clash of weapons, see the Winglies fall dead. When she saw Kerbris going flying, she got worried. After the effects of the Divine Dragon Ball, she resolved to help and ran out to do so. But now, with that huge magic blast coming at her, it seemed like a very stupid idea. She stuck her head between her legs and was about to kiss her butt goodbye when something large and red blurred in front of her.
Ghenga saw Adumi, saw the Divine Dragon Cannon, and moved. She got in front of Adumi and brought her axe up just in time. The Cannon slammed into the flat of the axe with enough force to level a medium sized building. The axe gained a hairline crack. Ghenga turned her head and gave Adumi a weary smile. "Moving might be a good idea, Princess." Adumi moved far faster that one time than any other time in her life. Ghenga returned her attention to the front. She turned the edge of the axe onto the Cannon, saw the crack, opened her mouth to swear, and—
Kerbris stared in horror as the limp form of Ghenga flew past him. The explosion was massive. He scanned the ground and saw Fanoc and Kyra lying motionless. He spotted Adumi and flew down. The explosion had flung her at least thirty feet. He landed. "You alright Adumi?" She nodded dazedly. "Good." Kerbris fell on his butt. "Think I'll wait a minute before I go help your dad." He felt something thump against his armor. He looked. Adumi had passed out against him. Not how I pictured this going at all.
Jack drew back from attacking with his lance. He twisted his lance until a tornado sharpened immeasurably its point. The Divine Dragoon let loose another Cannon. Jack stabbed into the Cannon with the lance, calling "Tornado Driver!" Amazingly, the spell was pushing back the Cannon. At least, until Nathan arrived.
Nathan was in Supreme Violet Dragoon form, but Kerbris couldn't have known. His armor was crackling with untold millions—maybe even billions—of volts. He opened the hand not holding his trident palm up. A ball of electricity and Wingly magic formed on his fingertips. He twisted his hand around to point the ball at the Divine Dragoon. It fired while he called "Thunder Blast!"
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, what followed wouldn't have happened. But, this was that one time and it did happen. The Divine Dragoon was hit and a spark jumped to the point where Divine Dragon Cannon met Tornado Driver. The explosion dwarfed anything before, and all but a very select few in the future. Jack and the Divine Dragoon hit the ground. Nathan got clipped and slammed into the ground, stunned.
Kerbris saw it. It woke Adumi. They rose in unison. Adumi looked at Kerbris. Kerbris wasn't exactly in. If Adumi had known more about Rose, she would have known who she was seeing. The Black Monster. It flew off towards the explosion site, saber glowing darkly. It grinned evilly. The Divine Dragoon staggered to his feet. The Black Monster slashed and a hole into another dimension was opened behind the Divine Dragoon. The Black Monster called "Malevolent Blitz" as the hole opened. Unspeakable black tendrils grabbed the Dragoon, with a sizzling sound. He screamed. The Black Monster laughed. It landed two feet from the Dragoon and watched as more and more tendrils dragged the screaming at the top of his lungs Divine Dragoon into the other dimension. A tendril reached out for Jack. Nathan slammed into the Black Monster. The hole closed. Kerbris was back in charge.