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Legend of Dragoon: Legend Reborn

Dragoons Assemble!

By Red-Eyed, Divine Dragoon77415

It is a bright summer's day in Kansas City, Missouri. Life moves on a fairly normal pace. The focus is on a certain house in the suburb of Blue Springs, specifically a house with white siding and green shutters, there is nothing out of the ordinary about this house… right? EEHHH! Wrong! Inside this simple home, live two young people with a great destiny, although they don't have any clue about it yet. The sun streams in through the closed beige blinds of one of these two people. Cerulean blue eyes open and a frown lined his face.

"Another perfect day!" Chris muttered as he fell out of bed, and turned on his radio to Johnny Dare, a local radio host that had a very twisted, yet humorous outlook on life. Hanging around his neck was the Dragoon Spirit of the Red-Eyed Dragon, an ancient artifact with a ton of power.

"I've got to figure out how to use this thing!" Chris thought, "Once I've done that, I can start looking for the other Dragoon Spirits and their bearers." Chris walked down the hall towards the kitchen to make breakfast. A few seconds later a door swings open and a young Asian woman drags herself into the kitchen still half asleep. She promptly takes the slice of toast on Chris' plate and eats it herself.

"I'm glad you enjoyed my cooking, do you want my chocolate milk to complete the meal?" said Chris.

"Oh, shut up! I'm suffering from latte withdrawal! I can't believe that you don't have a Starbucks in this town!" moaned Azrael.

"You're wrong Azzie! There IS a Starbucks near here. It will just take a little while to get there and back." Azrael then grabbed Chris by his shirt and stared at him with bloodshot eyes.

"I don't give a shit!" she screeched, "I NEED A LATTE FROM STARBUCKS RIGHT NOW!"

"Okay! Okay! No need for the built in microphone, I get it! We'll stop by Starbucks on our way out, and we'll get you a latte. Give me some time to check my email first and then we can leave. Okay?"

"Fine, but be quick. The sooner that I get my latte, the happier I will be. I need my latte to be a proper bitch. You of all people should know that." said Azrael.

"You don't need to tell me twice. I realized that a long time ago, sweetheart," said Chris.

Chris tromped down the stairs to the basement, turned on the computer, and immediately logged into his email account. After clearing away the normal bulk mail and crap, Chris opened his inbox to see an email from David Christiansen, also known better as Ninmast, Chris' jaw proceeded to unhinge from his skull as he read the contents of the seemingly harmless message:

Hey, Chris! It's me, Ninmast! I've got a bit of a problem on my hands, and you're not going to believe a word of it! I'm here in KC with a friend of mine, and we were in the mall, when this troll attacked the store from out of no where. Everyone managed to get out safely, but that's not the most amazing part. For a while, I've had this green marble that I carry around with me for a good luck charm. Well, it came through for me. I think it's the Wind Dragoon Spirit! I know I probably sound like a nutcase, but when my friend was in danger, it started glowing, and I could feel all of this energy inside of me. Green flames came up around me, and I jumped what must have been 10 feet into the air, and sent the walking stick I had been fighting with through the thing's head! Then, it just disappeared in a cloud of dust! I'm not pulling your leg, man! It's the truth! Please, if you have any idea of what's going on, you've got to tell me!

Get hold of me as soon as possible!

Ninmast

Chris immediately hit the "reply" button and began typing furiously back to his friend. The email that Chris sent to David read a little something like this:

You're not a nutcase my friend, not when something very similar happened to me back in February! It was just a few days after my birthday, and I had gone up to the mall to find the new Yu Yu Hakusho DVD that was just released. I was in the video store when I suddenly heard mass screaming and then the next thing I know this huge monster came up out of the ground on the food court. I went to fight against it and I conjured this giant fireball and it plowed through the monster's head, it turned to ash and disintegrated! It was the weirdest thing I had ever seen! It wasn't until I saw my "Legend of Dragoon" case that I realized what I had and what I had killed at the mall. What I had was nothing other The Dragoon Spirit of the Red-Eyed Dragon! The monster that I had killed was a Virage, a monster that you fight in the game. I just knew that sooner or later that the other DS' would appear. If what you are telling me is true, then you have been chosen as the new Dragoon of the Jade Dragon. Tell you what, I'm going to visit the Liberty Memorial with some friends of mine today, meet me near the central tower, and we'll compare notes together.

See you soon.

Chris.

"Godspeed to you" Chris said as he clicked on the "Send" button and sent the email through cyberspace to where David was, "I really hope David gets it"

"Chris, what's taking you so long!" said Azrael, "I thought you said you were going to check your email"

"I'm coming! I got caught up in something and I needed to send a reply to someone!"

"So is it just the two of us going to this memorial?"

"No, My cousin Jacque, whom you've met, and some of my friends are going with us, my best friend and fellow martial artist, Nick Barton, a guy I play video games with, Bud Johnson, and a girl I work with, Jennifer Allen. All of them are coming with us. Jennifer and Nick had great-grandfathers that served in World War I and they want to pay their respects to them. You know Liberty Memorial is the only WWI memorial in all the United States, so as you can imagine it's a very sacred place."

"I'm looking forward to seeing it" said Azrael.

"You won't regret it," said Chris, "It's an experience that you don't forget. You walk away from that place with a deeper appreciation for those that died during that war."

Chris and Azrael stopped by Jacque's house and from there headed to Liberty Memorial, Bud, Jennifer, and Nick had told Chris that they would meet them there.

"Hi, Chris! How are ya?" Jennifer chirped, at 17, Jen was the youngest of Chris' little group, her curly dirty blonde hair framed her very cute face.

"I'm good Jen. As you can see, I brought a friend along with us. This is Azrael, she's been staying at my place for the past few months, and I wanted her to see the Liberty Memorial," Said Chris.

"Every time I come to this place, I get a lump in my throat," said Nick, "Knowing that my great-grandfather played a part in this."

"I know the feeling", said Jen, "It's just so amazing seeing everything they have here."

"This is nothing Jen, this is just a small sample of the thousands of artifacts that the Liberty Memorial has in its collection, That's why they're building that extension downstairs, They have so much because they can't show all of it" said Jacque.

As the six friends wandered from exhibit to exhibit Bud noticed that Azrael's was constantly sneaking glances at himself, Jen, and Nick. As they left the museum Bud decided to raise the question.

"Excuse me guys, I need to bring something up," said Bud, "Azrael, can I ask you a question?"

"What is it you want?" said Azrael in a bored tone, stopping at the tower, not wanting to bother with Bud's somewhat scruffy looks.

"I noticed while we were in the museum that you kept staring at me, Nick, and Jen. Is there something about us that fascinates you?"

"You were staring at us?" said Nick and Jen, slightly perturbed that they were under scrutiny.

"Actually, yes I do find you three fascinating," said Azrael, "What I find so fascinating, is that I have seen you guys somewhere before. I couldn't put my finger on it then, but now I know that I've seen you before."

"Really?" said Jen, "As far as I know we've never met before."

"Same here, I never forget a face and I would remember yours if we had met. You must be imagining things" said Nick.

"No I'm not," said Azrael thoughtfully, "I know I have seen you before, because I have. I saw all of you in a dream I had the night after I arrived in Kansas City. We were all flying around wearing this weird armor and it was some kind of fight."

At the mention of the armor, all the color drained out of Chris' face as he realized that Azrael had seen herself as a Dragoon, and that she has also seen all of them as Dragoons as well.

"That's crazy, we were fighting in some kind of war?" said Nick, "I'm sorry that's really farfetched."

"It's not Nick," said Chris, "Azrael is absolutely right. I will ask you this, Azzie. First off what color was the armor we were wearing? Second were there seven people in you dream? Because if what you saw of us was true. There will be seven."

"To answer you questions, first, your armor was bright red, Jacque's was white, mine was a blackish purple. Bud's was a yellowish gold, Nick's armor was purple, Jen was wearing armor that looked like a light blue, one-piece swimsuit, and the last of us was wearing green armor. So to answer your second question, there were seven of us," said Azrael, "Why do you ask?"

"You'll find out soon enough", said Chris, "If I'm right, then the guy in the green armor should arrive here momentarily and I will explain everything to everyone assembled then." It was at that moment the Dragoon Spirit of the Red-Eyed Dragon began to glow, and everyone's attention was drawn to a young man in his early twenties running toward them, a glowing jade green stone hung around his neck.

"I take that's him?" said Jen.

"That's him alright, I recognize the face" said Azrael.

"Sorry I'm late Chris. I almost missed your email. Uh, can we go somewhere private?" said David, noticing all those assembled, "This is kind of between us, and I don't want anyone else to hear this."

"There is no need for that David" said Chris with a big grin on his face, "Remember how I said sooner or later all of the Dragoons would appear? They all did just that, and we didn't even have to lift a finger!"

"So what is this all about?" said Azrael, "Care to enlighten us Chris?"

"Okay guys, here's the whole story," said Chris.

Author's note: Bet you thought I had given up on this huh? Very wrong! In the next few chapters or so. Jacque, Jen, Nick, Bud, and Azrael will learn of how David and Chris received the Dragoon Spirits of the Red-Eyed and Jade Dragons and how they are meant to take up the White-Silver, Blue Sea, Violet, Golden, and Black Burst spirits in some unknown quest, and Chris and David will finally become Dragoons. Stay tuned!