As Alfrez flew through the sky, the passengers could be seen as small lumps. Dart was the only one standing up and looking out for Albert's Castle, knowing that they were approaching their destination. Before he could react, a young voice suddenly rang out "AAUUGH!!!" Dart quickly turned towards the sound, which happened to be where the others were sleeping peacefully. He quickly noticed a struggling and wide-awake Kain straining under the weight of his mother who had rolled onto him. "Dad, what did you see in her!?" Dart tried to stifle a laugh as he remembered his first night sleeping beside Shana on the same bed. It took a while, but he was able to tie her down to the bed and get a good nights rest.
Dart gave another short chuckle before he spoke in a whisper "You might as well give up on getting out from under there, you'll have to wait until she moves again in a few minutes…unless she's really comfortable" Kain paled at hearing this and suddenly yelled at the top of his lungs "BUT YOU GET HER OFF!!!!"
The yell slightly startled Alfrez, and woke up the other two sleepers. Shana woke up slowly and sat on top of Kain's chest, a few seconds later she noticed where exactly she was. "KAIN! Goddamn it! What do you think your doing?" She yelled at her now terrified son, as the Wrath of Women, especially mothers, was not an unknown concept to the boy. In order to survive he tried to find the humor in the situation "I'm not supposed to be sleeping, right?"
Kain was unsure as to what happened after that, as he blacked out from the lack of oxygen. Last thing he remembered was an insane Shana looking down at him. Jex woke up but was too busy looking at Albert's castle and Kingdom to pay any attention to the others. Dart was able to call Shana over by telling her that they had arrived. The large Kingdom was surrounded by more greenery than ever before. It was a garden plan that Albert was executing ever since they had finished with Melbu Frama.
The others soon faced the direction of the castle…well, Kain was out like a light but the rest went to see the castle. Once Alfrez landed, Kain was jolted awake. The loss of Oxygen had affected him somewhat but he said was fine and began to walk towards the castle. He soon crashed into a pole and started to reprimand it, telling it to watch where it was going.
They had arrived a bit early, with 2 hours before the party would begin. The group decided to get cleaned up before they headed into the party. Albert had stated in the invitation that the rest of the dragoons were being invited, along with a few other people that weren't specified in the invitation. The ones that had to be dressed extensively were the women. Kain had to go and replace the old and tattered shirt that he wore underneath his leather armor.
After the guys were finished getting ready, they arrived half an hour before the party began. They walked through the entrance and met up with Shana on the way, at the moment the sun was beginning to set and an orange glow filled the sky. There was no difference in how the castle looked from 16 years before. The group of four was able to find their way to the party room, inside the ballroom behind the castle.
They were surprised to find that there were already a number of people walking around, drinking, dancing, and chatting with each other inside of the ballroom. The minute the group entered they attracted the attention of every pair of eyes in the room, however most soon resumed to what they were doing before. The ones who approached were none other than the dragoons and the queen. Haschel was the first to reach the group looking over at Kain "So! How is my great-grandson? Still training right?" Kain nodded as he looked over at his great-grandfather. His tanned skin was still as dark as ever before, but his hair now held more grey strands with a few streaks of black. Haschel still wore his martial arts uniform from his school in Rouge.
Kain smiled "I'm doing just great…The only bad thing is that I'll have to tell that to everyone now since it's been HOW long since I last saw them DAD!" Kain looked directly at Dart in order to show just who he was talking about in case nobody got the clue. Dart was seen sweating bullets at the thought of what the others would do since he hadn't visited in "5 years" he finally replied.
The rest soon came along to greet Kain and his family and friend. Queen Emille came over and sighed as she looked at Kain "You've grown so much, it seems like yesterday that I would carry you with me wherever we went through the castle." Kain chuckled as he scratched his head nervously. Miranda came along and looked Kain over "You seem to have gotten stronger since I last saw you……I guess that training is helping you more than I thought it would." Kain nodded as Meru suddenly ran through and stood in front of Kain "Yeah but that's not important right now, you have a girlfriend yet?" Kain blushed at her question and sighed as he answered "No Aunty Meru, I don't" She would ask Kain all the time through her letters and Kain would answer the same each time. He then noticed what both Miranda and Meru were wearing. They were wearing an actual dress at the king's request, and they brought more than a few gazes towards them from those who passed by.
Kongol soon walked up to Kain and began to check his height "Look taller than last time Kongol saw." While he checked Kain remained quiet as he thought about what other clothes would fit Kongol if the men were supposed to change into something more elegant. Jex was visibly tiring of seeing his friend get all the attention, and soon began to walk away but was stopped to a jolt by Miranda. "Where do you think you're going kid?" She said with a menacing stare, startling Jex beyond doubt since he had no experience with these dragoons. "Oh don't be so harsh on him, he's probably a friend of Kain" Emille said with a look of worry as she tried to calm the archer down. Dart nodded as well saying that he was a good friend of Kain.
Meru jumped at that and pushed Miranda out of the way, again, in order to speak to Jex. "Do you know Kain's girlfriend?" She asked. Crash! went the floor as Kain did an anime fall. Jex began to laugh at the image of Kain having a girlfriend, "He couldn't get a girl if his life depended on it!" Albert soon came up to them with a friendly smile. "Well Kain, I certainly haven't seen you in such a long time! Will you be joining the party any time soon?" Kain nodded eagerly and Albert laughed before continuing "Good thing, you just might find the right girl for you." Kain slapped his forehead, wondering if the party was simply in order to find Kain a girlfriend.
It wasn't long before Kain noticed a group of people around his age sitting around a table in the back. Albert noticed where Kain's gaze pointed and sid "Those, I believe, are only some of the new dragoons that exist. Is you friend a dragoon as well?" Jex turned his head as his name was spoken during the conversation "Oh yeah, I'm a dragoon, but my dragoon spirit is actually this ring I have here." He said as he pointed to a promise ring on his finger. Kain soon noticed for the first time that there was a purple jewel fixed on top of the ring. He didn't care that much, but this started a conversation between the other dragoons.
Kain and Jex were suddenly left on their own. "Let's go over there and talk to the new dragoons. I think that's Michelle on the left." Kain took a quick glance and saw a blonde haired girl with green eyes. This girl was supposedly promised to Jex, but Kain was never sure just how serious it was. At the moment, she wore a long black dress with the straps hanging off her shoulder, the color contrasted with her pale skin. Kain soon shook his head "No way man, I don't think I'd start a good conversation." Kain then walked over to the punch and started to sip at it.
Jex shrugged and began to walk over to the group. From what Kain could see, Michelle was ecstatic and presented Jex with a big long kisses and a light shower of smaller kisses. Jex soon sat down in her chair while she sat on his lap. Kain couldn't read lips very well, but he was able to tell when his name was spoken, twice. He also noticed that Jex pointed to Kain, bringing the gazes of the rest of the people at the table to him. "Jex…why do you always talk so much?" Kain whispered to himself as he took a sip of his drink. He suddenly noticed another person in the group. A girl, with short brown hair and hazel eyes. Her skin also seemed to have a slight tan to it, and she was smiling…she seemed to get closer and closer in Kain's view until he noticed that she was walking directly towards him.
He began to sweat, hoping that the girl wouldn't ask him to dance. He wouldn't be able to say no, and he just couldn't dance either. When she finally got to him she greeted him, "Hi my name is Syria, you're Kain right?" When Kain nodded she continued "Will you please dance with me?" Kain coughed on his drink, and was lucky that none spilled on either person. He put the cup down and stuttered slightly before nodding slowly. Syria gave a wide smile, before taking Kain's hand and pulling him onto the dance floor.
Kain was dragged until Syria stopped and put her hand on his shoulder. Kain took kept one hand holding the other hand and placed his other hand on her waist. They soon began to dance to the slow rhythm that was heard. Syria giggled "You seem nervous" Kain gave a nervous laugh as he nodded "I've never danced before…" Syria's smile widened, "You're doing just fine, just stay with the beat." Kain gave a modest smile and loosened up as they went on dancing. Once the song ended, Syria took Kain's hand again and led him towards the table where the other young dragoons were sitting around a table.
Once they reached the table with the younger dragoons, Kain pulled out a chair so that Syria could sit. Syria giggled slightly before sitting down and allowing Kain to push the chair towards the table, before he sat down in his own chair beside Syria. Kain then looked at the 5 people present at the table, not including himself. Obviously there was Jex and Michelle, and then there was Syria, but there were two other people he hadn't noticed before. Two dark skinned people sat next to each other, a boy with black hair and silver eyes, and a girl with brown hair in pig tails and brown eyes with some freckles.
The boy with silver eyes looked over at Kain with a scrutinizing gaze, "You're the son of Dart? You sure don't look like much…you'd probably break like a twig." Before Kain could react, the girl beside the silver eyed boy gave a punch on his arm and said "Excuse him please, my name is Sharen and he is Blain, we are from Rogue." Kain nodded in understanding before an idea came into his thoughts, "So you both would know master Haschel then?" Blain responded quickly "Know him? He's beaten me in four fights with no sweat, his lineage must be the best fighters ever…" Jex tried to stifle as laugh, along with Sharen, while Blain sipped his drink unknowingly. Kain nodded before he spoke "Geez I wonder if that affects me, I mean he is my Great-Grandfather." Blain suddenly coughed his drink out onto the table before he yelled "WHAT!!? YOU CAN'T BE FUCKING SERIOUS!!!!" Kain gave out a strong laugh along with Jex, that would shut Blain up for a little while.
Blain began apologizing for what he said, when
CRASH! BANG!
Everyone at the table was up, looking around the ballroom. "What the hell was that?" Syria asked as Kain jogged over to a broadsword on a weapons rack and pulled it out. He soon ran out of the building, followed by the other younger dragoons, they picked up their weapons if they hadn't brought them before.
Syria took out a short stick that soon extended into a long metal stick. Michelle picked up a large club with spikes from the weapons rack. Sharen pulled a pair of long metal claws that went on her hands from her sash, and Blain ran to one of the guards and picked up his own weapons. A pair of shields with extremely sharp edges that were for his arms.
As soon as Kain reached the site of the sound, with the younger dragoons not so far behind, he saw what had caused the crash. It was floating on wings and the feathers were see through yet they were dark and came from black armor. And a sword of black magic was held in the hand of the enemy. Kain's only reaction to this was "A dragoon!?"
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That's all for now, If you want to review fine, it would be nice for some more criticism even though this is the remake. Well anyhow, thanks for reading.