Trials of Light and Dark
The First Big Battle
---In the tower...---
"Oh, son, I'm so sorry!" The White One nuzzled and licked his son, ashamed of himself for not controlling his anger to keep his son safer.
Blue-Eyes sniffled softly, "M-...my brother!" He began to wail uncontrollably in his father's sight, and it pained him that he couldn't do much to make things better.
"I... I shouldn't have pushed you two so hard. You two were too young to hang around criminals. I should have just made you two study, or train more," he got no response from his son, other than more cries. Blue didn't seem to be paying attention to The White One, "I'll punish everyone who was on Red-Eye's chain. They'll feel my wrath first-hand, up close and personal."
Ceasing to sob, Blue-Eyes quickly raises his teary face, "No! No, please. There's been enough punishing for this day..."
The White One hesitated to speak, but nodded with a faint smile on his face, "Very well, son. Sometimes, I think you'll make a wiser ruler than I one day." That got Blue-Eyes to smile, but it didn't last. He wasn't too happy about losing his brother, of course.
He sat up, and sniffled a bit, "I have a request, father."
"Speak it."
"I'd like my brother's body to be buried in the sacred graveyard of our family," Blue-Eyes had his mind set, speaking with complete strength.
His father cringed a little, "I... if I did that, it'd completely go againts all of our laws and rituals..." when he said this, he could see that his son was about to wail again, but before he could, "But, I do owe you for what I have done." He licked his son's face, "Your request is granted, but only if you bury your brother's body yourself. That is our family tradition."
The child dragon nuzzled his father, "I love you, Dad."
With a heartwarming smile, he returned the line, "I love you, too, son." He cleared his throat, and put on a more serious face, "Your brother's body has been placed in the mummification chambers. I'll guide you there, but once we reach the chambers, you'll have to go in by yourself." He got up on his feet, and began to walk, his son following behind him. They went down the staircase, and into the main hall of the mansion. They went into a door in the halls that Blue-Eyes had never been into before, and in this room were three sets of double-doors, one on the left and right side of the room, and the other on the opposite end of the door Blue and his father had entered from.
"The left one is the sacred cemetary, the right is the general cemetary, and the middle is the mummification chambers," The White One slowly explained to his young son.
Just then, a loud bang was heard, and the whole mansion shook. Without hesitation, The White One turned around and began to run out of the door, but before he left, he gave an order, "Stay here, Blue-Eyes! It's not safe to go anywhere yet, shadows are attacking. I'll come back for you!"
"Father!" But he couldn't speak fast enough, his dad had left.
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The White One had quickly gotten out on the training grounds. It was wide open space, and with his loud voice, he could yell and have every living thing within miles hear, "We're under attack! Everyone, defend the base!"
The sky was dotted with black specks, and they swooped down, coming closer and more clearly visible as they descend. Black dragons rained fireballs down onto the mansion, and The White One shot short bursts of energy to counter the blows, to protect his home. With only seconds passing, hundreds of white dragons followed by hundreds more ran out doors and windows of the mansion, all shooting their own smaller beams at the fireballs. Soon enough, the black dragons came down close enough to get accurate enough shots that they could target other dragons, rather than just randomly hailing down on the stone mansion, and at the same time they were also more easily targetted. The black dragons quickly dropped like flies, but they seemed to keep coming, hundreds fell and hundreds rose in their place.
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Blue-Eyes pushed and pushed on the large door infront of him, the mummification chambers. They were much too large for him to open, and they were made that way intentionally to keep children from running around, they'd get lost too easily in the giant mansion. He panted, tired from pushing on it so much. He took a moment to catch his breath, took a few steps backwards, and opened his mouth. Focusing, he slowly formed a blue ball of energy in his mouth, and shot it out towards the door.
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Slowly, he cracked open his eyes. Everything was black, but he could just barely make out the outlining of a being infront of him. The outline was that of some kind of animal that he had never seen before, sitting in a chair. It looked like some kind of weird jackel, and it had such an unusually shaped body. It held a staff in one hand, the other hand resting on one of the arms in his chair. It spoke to him without opening its' mouth.
"Rise once more. You do not fall this day, for you are needed. This world rests in the choices you make, young one. Head for the clocktower, and make haste."
As if it was a dream, he opened his eyes and gasped a breath of air as if he hadn't been breathing in a long time. He pushed the crate, or door, or whatever it was infront of him that was blocking the way. He looked around the room. Coffins stand againts the walls, all of them varying in size. He was at the end of a long tunnel, dimly lit by only a few torches, as if someone was afraid that lighting the area too much would stir the dead. Just then, he heard a loung crash, and a flash of blue light at the other end of the tunnel. He knew who it was that instant of light, he sensed it in his heart. He climbed out of the coffin, and scrambled to the end of the tunnel.
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Blue-Eyes took the moment to feel proud of himself for having the strength to blast an entire door down with his energy, even though he felt pretty drained from gathering that much of himself into one shot. He waited for the dust to clear, and when it did, he saw a small black dragon, around his size, standing in the doorway. The dragon had a cocky smile, and finally cracked open his eyes to look at the other.
"Miss me?" Red-Eyes asked calmly.
"Oh my God! Oh, this can't be real!" Blue-Eyes quickly ran towards his brother, sniffing him. Red's neckwound was gone, and his jaw was no longer broken. He seemed to be in perfect shape.
"As real as you, pipsqueak!" Red jabbed his brother's shouder with a claw.
"How did you...? When...? I thought you were-!" He was cut off by his brother.
"Dead? You think a measly full-grown white dragon could take me down? Puh-leez!" Red-Eyes placed both of his clawed hands behind his head, and leaned back againts them, standing on his hind legs.
"Stop joking around, Red! Serious stuff is going on," Blue explained, annoyed at first, but then hugged his brother, which meant he wrapped his neck around brother's, and licked his cheek, "I'm glad you're alright. I didn't mean those things I said and did to you before, I thought I'd never get to apologize to you again. I... I love you."
Red-Eyes hugged back, and returned the lick, "I love you, too, brother. It's alright, I forgive you." Blue-Eyes was all he had. 'He's the only person in this world who loves me,' he thought. Not realizing how much he missed him until he didn't have him anymore, he couldn't let him go, and the shadow would keep his promise.
Blue-Eyes broke the hug, "So, pleeeease tell me, how'd this happen? You're supposed to be dead."
"I'm... not too sure myself, in all honesty. I was with the chain group your father assigned me on..." Red-Eyes re-told the story of what had happened to him, and with every word, he unwrapped the hatred in him that had been covered up by the excitement of meeting his brother again.
"Wow, that's... saddening, but the dream part was amazing!" Blue-Eyes hopped up and down with joy for his brother.
The black dragon quirked an eye, "Amazing? Why?"
"You just met someone so great, who gave you a second life, and you have no idea who it is! Oh, this is grand!" The blue dragon fell to his side, kicking his legs and laughing.
Red growled down to his brother, "Now it's time for you to stop making jokes! Who did I meet?"
"You just met this world's god of the dead. You met Anubis," Blue said with great awe, though it didn't appear to have much affect on his brother.
"I'll send him a thank you card. Now, anyways, he told me to go to the clocktower. Do you know where that is?" He looked curiously into his brother's glowing blue eyes.
Blue-Eyes scratched behind his left ear with a hindclaw, "Uhm... I've only been there once, I suppose I could take you there. Let's go!" He quickly scrambled up to his feet, and began to run.
"Last one there is rotten egg," Red-Eyes yelled out to his brother, and they both giggled the entire time that they were running. Of course, though, Red had to stay behind his brother since he didn't know the way, so he could only wonder how he'd feel as being a rotten egg.
After running through the halls and running through doorways, lastly climbing the same staircase that lead to The White One's tower room, in a seperate branched room that the two dragons failed to notice before. The reason for that is because the doorway was covered by a black drape, and it had now fallen off from the outside black dragon attacks that had shaken the structure. They entered, and saw from wall to ceiling covered with dozens upon dozens of clocks, all ticking in sync, and all reading the exact same time. They couldn't tell what time it was, though, since they couldn't read clocks. Red-Eyes didn't feel much different.
"So, what now?" Blue-Eyes asked after a moment of silence.
Red-Eyes walked around the room, looking at all the clocks. All of the ticking annoyed him, and when he finally got to the end of the room, he turned around to his brother, "I don't know why he told me to go here! There's nothing but a bunch of junk in this room."
With those words, all of the clocks instantly stopped ticking. The boys looked around the room, feeling a little scared, and then an annoying, high-pitched mechanical voice echoed throughout the room, "Nothing but a bunch of junk, you say! My boy, you aren't looking hard enough."
"Who was that?" Blue-Eyes yelled out bravely, getting in a battle stance, and Red-Eyes did the same. They looked around, trying to find the apparent enemy.
"You two need to calm down. My suggestion would be to eat more veggies and less meat. That always helps my stomach," the voice then laughed and laughed, as if he made the funniest joke in the world, until Red-Eyes interrupted.
"Shut up, you stupid... stupid thing! Show your face!" Red-Eyes barked out angrily.
Then, very quickly Red felt a loud smack on top of his head. A clock that just so happened to have legs and arms held a staff, had jumped from the wall, smacked the black dragon on top of the head with a staff, and then held the staff in that same spot, holding himself up so Red could see him. It has a red body, feet with purple socks, a purple and blue cape, a staff that had a purple handle with a golden sharp pointy end, and it also happened to have a clock on the other end with golden hands. His "face" was blue and gold, and had a "mustache" that was actually two green clock hands, and many golden wheels attached his limbs to his head. He had no middle body, just a head and limbs.
"Here's my face, how do you like it? I think I'm quite cute. And I'm not as stupid as you, I read more books!" The clock began to laugh his annoying mechanical laugh again.
Red-Eyes growled, and attempted to bite the living machine, but it leaped back the second before the jaws closed in on him, and landed safely on the ground. Standing on the ground face-to-face with the children, they got a look at his height, too. He was barely taller than them.
"You're really starting to annoy me, clock," Red-Eyes warned.
"You're really starting to let your hatred rule over your actions, child. If you let it go on too soon, you'll lose everyone you love. Your brother, your mother. You already lost your father, do you blame yourself for that, too?" The clock asked in a tone that was meant to annoy the dragon.
The black dragon gasped, surprised by the clock's knowledge, "How do you know that! Did you have something to do with my parents! I'll rip you apart!" He charged at the clock, but Blue-Eyes stepped infront of him.
"No, don't! He might be able to help. Clearly he doesn't want to hurt us, or he'd have done so already, and I don't think my father would let him be here if he was an enemy," Blue tried to calm his brother down.
"Hurt us? He already hurt me with that stupid stick of his!" Red yelled.
"You should listen to your brother. He has a bigger brain than you," the clock poked Red's head with the sharp end of his staff. It didn't hurt him, just annoyed him.
'Another name on the annoying list,' Red thought. 'You win the first place prize.'
Blue-Eyes turned to the clock, "So, can you help us?"
"Why, I most certainly can! Only the top adviser of your father is a suitable ally for the situation, and the situations to come!" The clock said with pride, saluting Blue-Eyes.
"My father's top adviser is a clock?" Blue-Eyes cocked his head, and sniffed the machine.
"Don't do that, no! You're making my nuts and bolts tickle! Hehehe!" The clock fell to his side and giggled.
Red-Eyes stomped next to the clock, causing the adviser to hop onto his feet in an unrealistic amount of time, standing a safe couple feet away.
Blue-Eyes eyed his brother with annoyance, and the shadow dragon simply smiled. Blue turned back to his father's adviser, "So, tell us more about yourself, the situation, and what to do about it."
The clock stabbed his staff into the ground, and stood on the clock end of it with a single finger, having himself upside down, "Yes, young prince! I am a time wizard, which is why your father needs me so much. The rest of the machines around here are decorations of my own choosing."
"Oh, I'd love for you to decorate my room," Red-Eyes sarcastically said.
"I'd probably do that if you hadn't of blown the door up."
Blue-Eyes smacked the ground with an angry hand, which caused the wizard to lose his balance, and fall onto his feet, "You two, stop kidding around! Back to business. You're a time wizard? What's that mean?"
The wizard leaned againts his staff, "Why, simply enough, it means I can control time, but only to an extent. And even with my limited powers, there's only a fifty-fifty chance that my powers won't backfire. That's why your father doesn't let me use my powers, and only asks me for advice. But I'm afraid the time is coming that I may just have to use them anyways."
Blue-Eyes nodded, "Alright, Time Wizard. What's the situation?"
Time Wizard pointed to a window with his staff, "Look for yourself. It's quite a the sight."
At that cue, Red and Blue walked to a large window, and looked outside. The entire sky was black, but it wasn't night. Thousands of black dragons cover the sky, the land, fire blasts and burst streams going and coming from every direction, bodies of both white and black falling like flies. In the distance, Blue-Eyes could see his father fighting for his life, taking dozens of dragons out with every stream he made. Two dragons had a grip on his back, and he slammed himself into the ground back-first, crushing them. It was obvious by the look of his face that he was losing his strength, but he wouldn't go down without a fight. Even with the enchantments, much of the mansion lay in ruins. The two children backed from the window, and looked towards the wizard.
Red-Eyes asked without much hope, and with much panic, "How are we supposed to help againts all of those shadows! There's thousands of them!"
The annoying machine did a twirl, with his staff laid horizontally on his raised palms, "Why, isn't it obvious? With my help, you two could beat them!"
Blue-Eyes smiled, "All of them? We're that strong?"
The wizard laughed, slapping the side of his "head", "Pfft, all of them? What are you, nuts! Haha!"
Red-Eyes growled angrily, and considered shooting a fireball at the clock, but he decided to save his anger for the shadows outside.
"Of course not, my dear! You just have to beat the leader. Without him, they have no brain, and they'll all lose. I can make you two strong enough to do that much." Time Wizard nodded, folding his hands behind him.
Red-Eyes thought for a moment, "Does that mean I'll die when the leader dies?"
"No, because you are stronger than them. You've grown to have a mind of your own, and don't require to have your soul connected to another. Though your brain isn't very big, it's big enough to keep you alive."
Red simply growled.
Blue-Eyes ran infront of the machine, and it didn't show any sign of surprise, "Then do it! I have to save Dad!"
The most annoying clock in the world sighed, "Alright, alright! But don't blame me if this screws up because you rushed me. Alright, you two. Holds hands. Or clawed... things."
The two brothers looked at each other, and did so.
The wizard then said without a change of tone, "Okay, now kiss."
Red-Eyes barked, "Hey, what the hell! We're supposed to be saving people, not giving you a show."
Time Wizard scoffed, "I'm just joshing you! Anyways..." He floated above the ground a little, and held his staff up high. Suddenly, the clock on his staff began to spin wildly, faster and faster. Behind the wizard was a green mystical swirl, and it hypnotized the two dragons. They got dizzier and dizzier, and then they fell to the ground, with a much larger thud than they thought was normal.
Blue-Eyes groaned, and opened his eyes, "Oogh, I feel weird. Time Wizard, what did you-!" He cut himself off with a gasp. His voice was deep, loud, and powerful. He looked down on himself, and what he saw shocked him to no end. He was a fully grown white dragon, with an even more powerful build than his father's. He stared at himself, until he heard his brother groan, and looked over to him, his eyes just starting to crack open.
Red-Eyes didn't look much like his brother as an adult. Before, as children, they were much more even, and Red-Eyes even had a power advantage over his brother. But now, as an adult, he looked more frail. His maw was thin, and had a sick, sharp point, while Blue's was more oval, the power of it evenly divided, rather than being focused on a pointed end. His hands were bondy with sickeningly pointy and sharp claws. Red's entire build seemed to focus on swiftness and deathblows, while Blue-Eyes' build was much more balanced.
The mystic machine hopped up and down, "Yes! It worked! You two are now powerful enough to go out and save the day! Hurry, shoo shoo! I'll be watching in the safety and comfort of my own room."
Blue-Eyes and Red-Eyes both rose to their feet. They proudly looked at themselves, and nodded to eachother.
"Are you ready to do this, brother? I must ask you to be careful. You look much like the enemy, and the other white dragons may attack you," Blue-Eyes asked Red seriously.
"More than you are. I bet I can smack down more dragons than you," the shadow dragon smirked.
The larger white dragon scoffed, "Oh, I accept that challenge. Here's what we'll do, I'll go after my father, and you try to find the leader. I'll catch up with you as soon as I can," and then Blue-Eyes suddenly leaped out of the tower window, and began to fly with unmeasurable speed by any other creature towards his father. Red-Eyes followed behind him for a short while, but then dived up into the sky to go on his own path.
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Blue-Eyes almost reached his father, but his massive size caught the attention of countless black dragons, and they began swarming in, 'By Gods, what has attracted so many damn shadows!' Without hesitation, the white dragon opened his mouth, focused his energy for a moment, and just seconds before he was attacked, he launched a giant burst stream of energy down to the ground, vaporizing the enemies, and he twisted his head as he shot the beam, so that he shot in all directions, taking out countless dragons with that single attack. 'I think I just beat your challenge, Red,' he thought. Blue-Eyes felt drained after that attack, but he couldn't slack off now, he was too close to his father. He flew as fast as he could, and finally reached him. The White One was in bad shape, now down to only pure instinct and adrenaline. He was bloodied all over, and had a shadow dragon's maw latched onto the back of his head while another attacked his back, and another brave enough to attack from the front. Blue-Eyes landed infront of his father, and roared a roar that cracked the earth. He smacked the one infront of the leader of the whites, breaking every bone in its' body in one swipe. The other two shadows started to fly off in fear, but Blue-Eyes quickly focused his energy again, and sent an intentionally much smaller beam of energy at the two. He bull's-eyed the targets, breaking their backs on touch, and they fell to the ground, leaving a stream of smoke.
The White One stared at his son, but not knowing who it actually was. For once, Blue-Eyes saw fear in his father, "Wh-who are you?"
Blue-Eyes didn't have time to explain, he needed to go find his brother and help him, "Your savior, and let's leave it at that. You need to rest, or you'll die, and I'll never forgive myself if that happens. Leave the battlefield!"
His father shook his head, "No, I can't leave! I have a son to fight for!"
Blue-Eyes stood tall, and growled down to his father, "Don't make me force you to flee. It'd hurt me more than it'd hurt you," that struck enough fear to make The White One have second thoughts. His son then bent down and whispered into his ear, "And you'd make a poor father if you didn't remember that you had two son's."
The White One's eyes widened as if he remembered something, but then looked to Blue-Eyes in confusion, "How'd you kn-?... Oh my God..." That's when The White One finally noticed the bigger dragon's eyes. They glowed blue, and only one white dragon had eyes like that.
"Leave, father," his son begged. "Leave it to me. I can handle it, trust me."
He stared in awe at his son, and then nodded, "Alright, I shall," he turned, flapped his wings, and when he rose off the ground several feet, before he flew away into the safety of his enchanted tower, he turned his head to Blue, "Make me proud."
Blue-Eyes nodded, and then turned around to look for Red-Eyes, 'Shit, how am I supposed to find you? All of you damn shadows look the same...' He then saw the biggest fireblast that he had seen any shadow dragon make this entire battle, and then immidiately flew towards the area that the shot had occurred, 'Here I come, brother.'
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Red-Eyes wasn't as fast as his brother, and he felt somewhat jealous because of that. But he quickly shook that thought out of his head, and swooped up into the sky, so that he wouldn't have to stare at his superior friend the whole battle. Not to mention that he was supposed to find the leader, anyways.
He looked around, and formed a strategy to himself outloud, "Well, if I was a leader of thousands of pansy dragons, where would I be?... Hrm, I'd be at the end of the line to have meatshields take my orders. So, that's where I'll go. It only means that I'll have to dive into the middle of thousands of blood-thirsty, retarded brutes to get to you, but that shouldn't be much of a problem."
Red-Eyes could see reinforcements coming from the east, and so he figured the remaining dragons, and probably their leader was there, so he flew swiftly in that direction. Although he wasn't as fast as Blue-Eyes, his swift build gave him better control in the sky, and he could more easily avoid objects, which came in handy with other dragons flew past him. Very quickly, Red realized that no other dragons were attacking him. They all recognized him as their own kind. 'Haha, idiots. Oh well, makes my job all the more easy.' He quickly flew over the mountain that they apparently originally came from, and landed on a flat plane, which sure enough was a group of dragons sitting there. Thousands covered this field, and Red couldn't help but only wonder how only a eight or nine hundred dragons kept the fight at the mansion going for so long. But then again, he thought, they are infinitely more powerful when compared to a shadow one-on-one, so it only figures. Infront of the resting dragon army was the largest shadow Red-Eyes had seen. It was as if it was the evil, souped-up version of Blue-Eyes. Standing at a minimum of fifty feet, twice as tall as any other shadow, minus Red-Eyes. Red was about thirty-five feet, and Blue-Eyes was around fourty-five. 'Must be the leader. You don't look so...' he gulped inbetween his thought, 'tough.'
The leader turned around to Red-Eyes, "Yes, are you a scout? What is your report, has the white race been crushed yet, and have you gotten any more information on Exodia's location?"
Red-Eyes shook his head, "No to all questions, sir. I do have information regarding your future status, though."
The leader looked at the other dragon, though, "What the hell are you talking about? You better kiss my ass real good, or you're going to be my next meal."
"Sorry, sir, I don't have lips, so I can't kiss your ass. I guess I'll have to kick it instead," Red-Eyes said with the upmost sarcastic respect.
"Oh, why you dirty piece of shit!" The leader charged at Red-Eyes, and before he could make any reaction, he had the wind knocked out of him.
The blow cuased him to soar into the sky hundreds of feet, and the shadow leader flew up after him. Right before he was about to get a second blow, Red used his proficient evasion to barely avoid the next blow. The larger shadow looked surprised, as if he wasn't used to failure, and the mere thought of it confused him. Red-Eyes took advantage of the moment, and rushed at his enemies' back, gripping his shoulders with his claws, digging them in, piercing right through scales and into flesh. He bit down on the back of the leader's neck, crushing it for a second. Right when he thought this was going to be a slice of cake, the tail of the enemy wrapped around his leg, and pulled him off. He began to twirl, picking up speed, and Red knew what this meant. When he was released, he was lunged west, flying back over the mountain he had originally flown over. He tried to slow himself down to once again have his flight in his own control, but he failed. When he looked back in the direction of the leader, he could have sworn the very sun was flying towards him. He focused his rage, 'You think you're stronger than me, that I'll let you kill my brother? I'll rip you apart with a toothpick!' Red-Eyes felt his energy quickly built up, feeling more power in his mouth than he had ever felt before. He could only hope that it'd be enough to collide with and stop the oncomming attack. 'I'll have to wait until it's practically right infront of my damn face, or it won't be charged enough to do anything, I just know it. I'll be scorched in flames if this works, but I'll be alive.' Red waited until he could feel the heat of the coming from the oncomming fireball, until his mouth ached with the intensity of the unlaunched attack. 'Here goes nothing!' Red held his head back, and then jutted it out forward, spitting his fireball out. His fire blast was roughly fifteen feet all around, but Red-Eyes felt in the pit of his stomach that it wouldn't work. The other attack was twice as big. They collided, and a massive explosion occurred. It fried most of Red's scales to ashes and left his flesh out in the open, causing him to burn badly. He picked up even more speed from the collision, and was headed right for the ground. 'The impact will kill me. This is the it, isn't it?...'
Just then, he stopped. Going so fast and stopping suddenly hurts like a bitch, and whoever caught him grunted, and flew back a few yards, but with massive wings managed to slow down enough to gain control again.
"You alright, brother?" Blue-Eyes asked with the most sincere worry in his voice, seeing his best friend burned and bloodied hurt him deeply..
Red-Eyes coughed, black smoke coming from his mouth, "Yeah, I'm just dandy."
Blue-Eyes looked up to see a dragon larger than him headbutt his chest. He dropped Red-Eyes, who was too fried to redeem himself in the air, and fell on trees below, which crunched under his weight. Blue-Eyes shook the impact off as best as he could, and got a better look at the being before him.
At this point, Blue-Eyes had an 'Oh, shit' look on his face.
"That's right, you better be afraid." Blue-Eyes looked around, now noticing that all of the black dragons float motionlessly in the sky, forming a circle around Blue and their leader. All of the other white dragons were either dead, or had fleed.
"You're too powerful to die at the hands of my grunts, that'd wouldn't have any honor. I'd love to take you on myself. It'd be a nice warm-up, anyways," the leader cracked his neck, and grinned at his opponent.
Blue-Eyes put on a much more confident face, and stared angrily at the shadow dragon. His eyes smoked with blue mist, "You shall die for what you have done here."
"Strong words, from a weak dragon," the evil one laughed loudly, but Blue held his face. "We'll see who dies."
For a moment, they both just stared at each other in a tense, silent second. Then, before Blue-Eyes could even blink, the dark leader had flown infront of him, and his claws had dug into Blue's stomach. He gasped, spitting out blood, and the clawed hand twisted, making him raise his head and yell. Once he was out of the initial shock, he slammed his head down onto his enemy's, causing him to pull his hand out and fall back a few feet. Blue-Eyes twirled, his tail slamming into the side of the leader's face. He fell back another couple feet, but then growled angrily, and with a mighty roar, he flew towards Blue again, one of his claws slightly retracted more than the other, giving away that he planned to repeat his last attack. Blue saw this coming, and stood still. He caught the hand that aimed at his bleeding stomach, and twisted it, a loud snap heard by the two fighters. The leader yelled, and attempted to bite at Blue's jugular vein, but Blue-Eyes did a back-flip in the air, and his tail came flying upwards, uppercutting the shadow at the chin. The blow made him fly up a few yards, and then finally caught his air again, shaking off his dizziness. He opened his maw, and a faint red and black glow formed in his mouth, slowly growing brighter.
'He's too far up for me to prevent the attack, and I saw how much it screwed Red up, so I probably can't avoid it, and I'm not too sure if I can overpower it like Red had attempted... This isn't good.'
Just then, Red-Eyes flew up behind the leader, and slammed his tail on the back of the superior dragon. It caused him to swallow and choke on the ball, and then Red headbutted his back, making him grunt loudly, but not much more. He turned around, and roared in Red's face. The battle-worn black dragon roared back, with just as much rage, and his eyes fumed red, leaving a trail of mist floating high. Red knew he couldn't win, atleast not alone, but he wouldn't show fear when facing death, only power.
Then, the leader stopped, and just looked at the one infront of him, "Those eyes..."
"That's the only thing you notice when you're face-to-face with the dragon who'll make you see your maker," Red-Eyes yelled, forcing confidence to come out of his mouth.
Red received a growl, "Shut up, you mere child! I know who you are now." He began to laugh insanely, it echoing over the whole field, "I know who you are!"
He attempted to spear the stranger with his sharp muzzle, "Shut up and fight! You don't know me, you bastard!"
The dragon easily avoided it, and caused him to ram into his brother, who was about to take advantage of the fact that the shadow leader had his back faced to him. Red pierced Blue's leg, and quickly pulled out of the wound, "Shit, I'm sorry!"
Blue yelled out in pain, but said nothing in return. Instead, he kept focused on the leader.
"I know you, haha! Oh, how I could toy with you now," the savage was giggling to himself now.
Blue-Eyes roared, "Shut up and just say you who are!"
He raised his head to look into Red's eyes, "You silly little excuse of a dragon. Don't you recognize your own father?"
The hero shadow dragon's eyes widened, and he stared at the massive beast, "...Wh-what?"
Blue-Eyes looked back and foreth from the two, "You're really his father?"
The leader nodded slowly.
Red-Eyes held his head low with his eyes closed, "All my life, Mother had told me that you had died, but I knew something was suspicious. She didn't shed the same tears that I shed, none of her friends did, either. No one did, I was the only one who cared," he then raises his head, his tearing red glowing eyes looking to his father, and his voice raised to a yell, "and now you, you son of a bitch, show yourself! After the story that The White One had told me, I can now connect the dots! You bastard, Kly! How could you!"
Kly laughed loudly, "How could I go out and search for the god who gave me life? I owe it to him. How your mother managed to refuse his calling is beyond my understanding. She denied his will, and she paid for it."
Red-Eyes barred his fangs, "Paid?"
"Yes, paid. You know, died. That whole gig."
"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Red-Eyes instantly opened his jaw, and quickly formed a fireball, shooting it at Kly. His father dodged with ease, and even sighed as if he was bored.
"Oh, you're so much weaker than I had ever hoped. Though you did grow up quite fast..." He yawned out.
"Stop toying with us and fight like the bitch you are!" Blue-Eyes opened his mouth, and shot a burst stream at Kly. He danced around it as the white dragon twisted his head around to chase Red's father with the energy beam.
"Oh, but this is so much more fu-Oof!" He was cut off when a fast little blur came down and smacked him on the head.
"Boop!" With a swing of his staff, Time Wizard had seemingly fell from the sky out of nowhere, and now floats inbetween Blue, Red, and Kly.
"Why, you annoying little clock! What the hell do you think you're doing, standing inbetween dragon business, you tiny weakling?" Kly roared out at the machine.
"If you think I'm weak, you're looking in the wrong places for strength. Oh-ho-ho-ho, my friend! Looking way off!" The clock danced in the sky as he mocked Kly.
Red-Eyes whispered to his brother, "Maybe Time Wizard can annoy Kly to death."
Blue-Eyes barely held back a laugh, but responded, "Nah, they're pretty even in that department."
Kly scoffed down at the clock, "What do you think you can do? Impress me." The dragon crossed his scaled arms, and waited.
The wizard floated behind the two dragons, "Alright, you two. You may want to put on sunglasses, as this lightshow has been known to make ceasures."
Before anyone could ask what sunglasses were, Time Wizard held up his staff, and blurrs of color began to form around Red-Eyes and Blue-Eyes. The colors swirled faster and faster around the two, until their own colors began to mix with the floating pool. They both screamed in shock, and couldn't move. There was a flash of bright white light, and Kly covered his eyes from it. The screams continued. Or rather, scream. The voices seemed to have mixed into one voice, and when Kly uncovered his eyes, before him was only one dragon. One sixty-five foot grey dragon.
"Congradulations, clock. You have indeed impressed me." Kly looked amusingly at the new creature.
"It doesn't end there," Grey Dragon said.
He took a deep breath, filling his massive lungs. At first, Kly thought he was charging for his signature attack, and figured he'd rush to headbutt his gut to counter it. But before he could land a hit, Grey Dragon simply blew a gust of wind out of his mouth at the inferior black dragon, sending him flying back. That was just to give them some distance, so he actually could charge a signature move. He opened his mouth, and for a few seconds, there was nothing. Then, a blackish-blue orb formed in his mouth, growing larger and larger, but the process was very slow. This fusion was huge and powerful, but the muscles weighed him down. Half-way charged, the shadow leader rushed in for a hit, quickly getting in over two-thirds the way. He could have succeeded in countering the charge attack, but Time Wizard flew down and bopped him on the head again with surprisingly painful strength, just enough to make him wince and stop in his tracks.
"Say cheese!" Then, the wizard flew out of the way just in time for Kly to look in absolute horror as a burst stream of judgment flames flew in his way. He screamed as he fire hit him, "It's too late! You've already lost," causing him to incinerate, becoming ash, and then the ash became nothing. Grey Dragon ceased his attack, and looked up to the wizard.
"I thank you for your assistance. The world would have been doomed, if not for you."
"You are welcomed, my small pet!" Time Wizard triumphently raised his staff to the sky, using word choice that was intentionally inaccurate. "But don't party too soon! Not only do we lack cake, but the enemy is not yet vanquished!"
Grey Dragon looked around. All of the other shadow dragons had fallen to the ground, seemingly dead. What Time Wizard had said before was right. Kill the leader, and the rest have no brain.
"I regret to inform you that I do not comprehend what you say. The enemy is not gone? It appears that we have won."
"You're muscles are big, but your brain is still small! I think I did the polymerlyzation spell wrong," the wizard flew down infront of Grey Dragon's mouth, inspecting him closely. He received no reaction, "Kly was not the true enemy, but rather a simple pawn. The next trial for you two will be even harder than what has happened here."
"Ah. Exodia," the big dragon said, now understanding.
"Precisely! Good, you're catching on!"
"Where do I find him?" Grey Dragon asked calmly.
"With Red-Eye's heart. It's like a compass. It'll point this way," Time Wizard pointed with his staff to the north, "or this way," to the east, "Or this way, or this way, this way, thiswaythiswaythisway!" The machine began to spin around in a hyper blur of colors, pointing in dozens of directions. He stopped when his creation growled deeply at him.
"Very well. I can't leave this place the way it is, though, and I must rest as well. I must check on The White One," Grey Dragon explained, mostly to himself. Then he looked to his new ally, "Is this fusion permanent?"
"Nope! It's just like frozen water - it'll melt eventually. Which is sad, really, because I enjoy eating ice more than drinking water," the wizard explained cheerfully, spinning in circles.
"When will we seperate?" He asked, seemingly not annoyed by the wizard's apparent attempts to do so.
"I don't know! I've never done that before! Not only will you two seperate, but you'll also lose your age, and become young like you were before I used my magic on you," Time Wizard squeaked.
Grey Dragon nodded, having heard all he needed to hear, and slowly flew down to the mangled mansion. He landed on the main tower, passing through the enchantment of a roof since he was not an enemy. He looked down to The White One, who was staring in awe at his fused sons.
"You are who I think you are?" The White One asked.
"If you think I am your sons, yes. I am," Grey Dragon nodded.
The leader of the whites chuckled, "You did not fail, son. Or sons, whichever you prefer. You made me proud."
The larger dragon lowered his head to be at The White One's level, his eyes closed, "Thank you. Fighting for you and the people of this mansion was the ultimate honor any living thing could have asked for."
To show his appriciation, The White One licked his fused sons' cheek, closing his eyes when he does so.
When he opened his eyes again, he laughed at the sight. Red-Eyes and Blue-Eyes were unfused, and Red was balanced upside-down on Blue's head. He lost his balance, though, and they both fell to their sides, blinking in confusion.
Red scrambled to his feet, "That was the coolest thing ever!"
Blue hopped up and down, "Yeah! We saved the mansion, woooot! Can we do it again, huh? Huh huh huh, can we, can we?" He asked his father.
"I'm afraid you'll probably have to. This isn't the end of our troubles..." The White One looked seriously down at his children. "Such an enormous attraction of dragons can only mean one thing. Exodia is awake."
Blue-Eyes looked to the ground in thought, "So that's what Kly meant when he said we had already lost."
The White One nodded, "Yes..." he cleared his throat, "It's been a long, hard day for everyone. Let's sleep, and you two may stay with me."
Red-Eyes and Blue-Eyes instantly nuzzled againts their father's stomach, almost falling asleep quickly from the comforting warmth. Almost, because of one thing.
Time Wizard flew through the tower window, "Tomorrow is a day of rebuilding bridges! Big day! You need an alarm clock! Ticktockticktock-DINGDINGDINGDING!"
The White One groaned, even he sometimes annoyed by his adviser, "My wizard, I thank you for your assistance, but really, we're tired and need rest. I ask you to leave us."
Before he could even blink, the machine was jumping from celing to floor in the tower staircase, going back down to his clock room, "DINGDINGDINGDING!"
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Author's Note: Very long chapter, I know. I'm proud of it. I loved writing Time Wizard's personality. It wasn't how I planned him to be, but it's what came out of my fingers when typing, and I feel that it's perfect. It's like Yoda and lots of coffee. I hope you all look forward to the future chapters. But about that, I'm considering cutting this story short, as in ending it in another chapter or two, because I feel a bit uninspired. Is there anyone out there who's actually reading this story, and wants me to have it longer?