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Legend of Dragoon: Legend Reborn

By Red-Eyed Divine Dragoon77415

Chris' Chapter

In case you're wondering who I am, my name is Chris. I live in Blue Springs, Missouri, which is a suburb of Kansas City. I live with my mother, JoAnn, and my father, Tim. I have one older sister, Katie, but she just recently moved into an apartment by herself, so it's just my parents and I. I guess you can say I'm an ordinary guy. I go to school, I work at a grocery store near my house, I played RPG video games with my friends, and I hold a second-degree black belt in Taekwondo, so I'm more than capable of protecting myself. Did I forget to mention that I also hold an ancient power that makes the combined force of all the militaries of the world look like a joke? To understand this last part, I guess I have to go back a few weeks.

Deep in my heart, I always craved adventure in my life, to be able to actually step into one of RPG's that I loved to play, would be a dream come true. However, I'm also old enough to know that it was all a world of fantasy and it would never come true, or at least so I thought. A few weeks after the New Year started, Dad gave me a late Christmas present, a simple ruby gemstone in the shape of a perfect sphere, about the size of a small golf ball, and it pulsed with a mysterious red light.

"This little stone was found with me when I was adopted," my father told me, "I don't where it came from, but whenever I hold it I feel strength in me. Take care of it, and it should be a source of strength for you as well."

"Thanks dad, I'll be sure to take good care of it," I said, very surprised that my father would give me what was supposedly his most prized possession.

I didn't think too much of it when Dad gave it to me, but that little gem would ultimately turn my whole life upside down. One Friday night, I went up to the Independence Center to see if there was any new anime and then all hell broke lose.

This giant monster that seemed to most resemble a giant walking crab on two legs broke out of the floor on the food court and started destroying everything in its path. It was at the point that I was thinking about looking for a nice hole to hide in, but when I saw this refugee from a cheesy horror flick killing innocent people. I grew angry, VERY angry. So without any regard for my own safety, I ran headlong to face the demonic thing that was attacking everyone.

I lured it into the forest near the mall so no one else would possibly get hurt. Along the way I retrieved my weapon of choice, a katana, from my car, and prepared myself for battle. I had to avoid the crab monster's giant claws out, and could not even get a clean hit on this thing. I remembered the wanton destruction this freak caused and I felt serious power surge through me. Then a single word came to my mind.

"SUCK ON THIS YOU B-GRADE SCI-FI MOVIE REJECT! FLAMESHOT!" I yelled, creating a massive fireball from nowhere and with all my strength I flung it at that freak of nature. The fireball literally plowed through crab-boys noggin, leaving a smoking hole in its head. The creature gave off a giant howl, then turned to ash and simply crumbled to dust, a rather anticlimactic end if I do say so myself. I royally freaked out at what I had just done. So I did the most logical thing, I jumped into my car and drove home as fast as I could.

I immediately went to my room and started trying making sense out of the whole thing.

"Okay Chris, there is a logical explanation for this. I know for a fact that I was not hallucinating. Other people saw it happen too. They were screaming their lungs off at the sight of it? SO WHAT IN THE HELL IS IT!"

It was then that my gaze fell on the jewel case of a certain Playstation One game, a game known as Legend of Dragoon. Then it all clicked.

"My god, I'm the Red-Eyed Dragoon," I said, "This gem is the Dragoon Spirit of the Red-Eyed Dragon. The events of the game are real. I have to tell someone about this! But who could I trust?"

I knew I had to tell someone about this, so I called the one person that had always been there for me. My cousin Jacque.

"Jackie, it's Chris," I said, "You are never going to believe what has happened to me…"

To be continued.

Author's notes: Thus our story begins. This story is what I have termed a "semi round-robin" in that while the bulk of the story will be written by me. The authors whom I have asked to be the new Dragoons in this story will write their introductory chapters. The idea came from a fellow author, Ninmast, who will become the Jade Dragoon in my story. His reason being that if each of the Author-Dragoons writes his or her own introductory chapter, then it will cut down on the confusion of getting everyone together. The next chapter will introduce the new Dragoon of the White-Silver Dragon!