Part 6: The Knighting
"Sage!"
"What?" A guard was running up to me with a package.
"Lord Van wants you to put this on and go to the place where Lord Van became the new king of Fanelia. ASAP."
"But what about lunch?"
"Forget lunch. You have been given orders."
"All right, all right." The guard shoved the package at me. It was the size of small moving box.
"Rrasafrasatallase." I grumbled to myself as I walked quickly to my quarters. I hate missing lunch; I have an appetite like a horse. When I got inside, my Strata armor transformed into dark blue lotus leaves that blew off of me and evaporated.
"Whoa! Oh well." I extended my on one hand and sliced the lid clear off the box. I retracted my claws and dumped out the contents. There were 3 items, a suit, and a note. The note read: " The suit is for the knighting ceremony.
"Duh." Put it on and go to the knighting courtyard. Afterwards you will go slay a dragon.
"Great." To summon your guymelef. The 3 items are weapons you will find useful on your quest. After the ceremony you will be informed on the weapons. See ya there! Van Fanel and Hitomi Kansaki." I unwrapped the suit it was the same white suit Van had worn when he assumed the throne. I took off my sub-armor, vest, pants, and bands. I quickly put it on with little difficulty, shoving my tail through the hole in the back of my pants. I snapped the chest pieces together, swung the shoulders around connecting the blue cape by the rope. I tightened the belt for my waist plates. I adjusted the shirt underneath the chest plate. I pulled on the boots connecting them to the shin and knee guard. I grabbed my helmet and rushed out of my room. As I approached the knighting courtyard I put it on.
"Sage, come forth." I stepped out of the shadows and approached an old man who was on a platform, surrounded by a dozen of guymelefs and solders all on one knee. Ignoring the whispering crowd and the funny faces of Merle and Reeko.
"Come onto the platform." the old man said. I climbed the stairs onto the platform. I got down on one knee. The old man stepped off the platform and Van stepped onto it. He was dressed in the same outfit. Hitomi was behind him wearing a queen's outfit. I saw Allen in Scherazad in the guymelef ranks, and Celena in the crowds. Van pulled out his sword, tapped me on each of my shoulders and said,
"I, Van Fanel, King of Fanelia. Dub thee Sage, A knight of Fanelia, a samurai." And with that he put away his sword.
"Rise Sage, knight of Fanelia." I stood up, roared long, and loud with the crowd as they cheered.
"We shall have a feast in his honor!" Van yelled when I stopped roaring. I followed Van and Hitomi into main hall. I then pulled out a chair at the head of the table for Celena in sync with Allen for Millerna, Van for Hitomi and Reeko for Merle. Van and Hitomi sat down at the head of the table, I sat beside Hitomi, Celena sat beside me and Reeko and Merle sat down beside her, and Allen and Millerna sat beside Van. Van and I both took off our helmets, Van put his on the top corner of his chair, I blindly threw my helmet up, and it landed on the top corner of the chair.
"Very stylish." Celena said to me.
"Thanks. Celena?"
"Yes?"
"How old are you?"
"16."
"Cool. I'll be 16 on April 5."
"Oh, by the way, congratulations." She said and she kissed me on the cheek.
"Thanks, but do you know when the knights are sent to slay dragons?" I sputtered blushing. She then blushed, I looked into her eyes, and I saw she was sad about something.
"What's the matter?"
"Oh, nothing. Knights are sent a year or two after being knighted…."
"And?"
"And what?"
"How many have returned?"
"None." She said with tears bellowing up in her eyes.
"Jeez louiz! Look at all this food!" I said changing the subject. There was seriously a lot of food. There were all kinds of meats, fruits, vegetables (yuck), drinks, and desserts.
"Mmmmm. There's nothing more I like more than food, unless it's more food." I said to Van and the others as I stacked my plate. They laughed. I laughed. We ate and drank till we couldn't do either one, laughing at my jokes, my clumsiness, and crazy antics. When we all our quarters, and I slept like rock.
Dream Sequence.
As I searched for a dragon in the deep dark forest.
"Die Guardian!" Dilandau screamed from his guymelef trying to kill me by either stepping on me or shooting me with a chema-claw. I climbed up a tree, and started swinging like Tarzan. Surfing on branches, and swinging on vines. My armor was stained with the blood of my last kill. Vooooooom! A fire blast hurtled towards me and hit melting my armor to my body, and roasting me alive.
"Aaaah!" I sat up quickly in my bed, gasping, my fur was covered in a cold sweat, and matted because of it. I heard a knock on me door.
"Sage! What is it?" Hitomi said when I opened the door and let them in.
"Nothing it's just…" I shrugged and looked out the window and over the forest.
"You're worried about Dilandau?" Hitomi asked puzzled.
"Yea. I mean Celena was Dilandau, but it looked and sounded like the last one and had the same guymelef."
"Folken must have used the dark magic of the Rhinestone of Death to separate their souls." Van said walking into my quarters.
"But how? The Rhinestone of Death was destroyed by y'all." I said to him.
"True, but he could have put it back together." Van sat down on the couch by Hitomi.
"He would need lot's of duct tape. I'm also worried about the task of dragon slaying." I said to him.
"Will I be transported to the Mystic Moon?"
"Yes, but unfortunately so will the dragon. What's duct tape? Tape of a duck?" Van said back confused.
"Oh, man. Never mind." I moaned chuckling.
"You'll kill that overgrown lizard!" Hitomi said confidently and loudly it made us both jump.
"Sage?" Van said standing up.
"Yea?"
"Put on the armor that has the biggest sword."
"Righty-o! Please stand back." I said walking to center of the room, summoning my sub-armor.
"Does it make you tired?" Hitomi asked before she left.
"What?"
"Summoning your armor?"
"Nah. Not as much as it use to."
"See ya later." I turned to Van.
"Armor of Halo! DAO CHI!" I roared. The sign of wisdom appeared in front of me, exploded into light green lotus flowers, and created the Halo armor on top of my sub-armor, but without the sword. I grabbed the helmet and put it on.
"What time is it?"
"5:30. Why?"
"I usually wake up at this time at home. What about you?"
"I usually start my duties."
"Cool." I reached and pressed the button on my left shoulder with my right hand. The button spiraled opened and a tube that was 12 inches long slid out. It dropped into my left hand. It had my grip imprinted in it. I held it with both hands and gripped it hard. It triggered a button. On the bottom a 31/2 in long spear point popped out. A 3 ½ in long thick, spear point popped up on the top of the hilt.
"This is my sword? Shoo!"
The spear point fell over on its side as if it was on a hinge. SHING! The sides of the spear point broke off, slid around and over the top of the hilt, and connected to the other side. Changing the busted spear point into a 4 pointed Chinese star. The center part of the star spiraled open. I looked into the hole and saw glimmer of steel.
"Bwa!" CHSHING! A 1.7 meter (5.7 ft) curved samurai sword with a handle on the top of the blade and a curved barb on the bottom of the blade.
"Whoa. A no-dachi!" I said.
"Well let's get to work." Van said.