This story will be a Yaoi.
Yaoi means GUY with GUY!
Yuri means GIRL with GIRL!
And
Straight means GUY with GIRL! Or GIRL with GUY!
You have been Warned ! Now that we're all on the same wavelength here, let's start the story!
1) mind speech is in italics
thoughts = ' insert thoughts '.
(X) Is pov switch and or time jump
Disclaimer: I don't own this
Ch,7: Illusion broken
'I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong here…' Hiead thought to himself sighing and once again looked over the whole area. He'd gotten the idiot Zero back, he'd killed off who seemed to be the bad guy, but that wasn't it. Nothing else should seem out of place, but it did.
"Gareas…stop it…." Zero groaned turning over in his sleep.
Hiead looked over to Zero to see exactly what was going on and noticed a small animal licking his face. Hiead blinked staring at him. 'Did this Gareas lick his face in the morning or something?'
"GAH! STOP IT!" Sora screamed sitting up almost hitting the animal. The animal however was too smart for this and ran away before Zero's fist hit it. "Lousy no good…hey…" Zero started looking around. "WHERE AM I!" Zero shouted then went silent seeing the fire in front of him. "Hey. Fire." He smiled and started warming up by it.
"You really are an idiot." Hiead said smirking at Zero who had nearly jumped out of his skin at hearing Hiead's voice.
"HEY!" Zero shouted glaring at Hiead. "Don't scare me like that! It's dark out, and…it's dark out!" He said growling and inched a bit closer to the fire. "So stop being mean."
Hiead rolled his eyes and looked back over to Fletz. Something seemed completely off about the place. He still just couldn't quite place it.
"You." He said turning to Zero and glaring at him. "You just came from the castle. What's going on in there?"
Zero shrugged.
"I took this medicine the doctor gave me, and kind of just passed out." He said as though it was completely normal. "The last thing I remember is staring at the floor of the balcony…and HEY WAIT A MINUTE! I SHOULDN'T BE HERE! DID YOU KIDNAP ME!" Zero screamed out crawling over to Hiead trying to demand an answer. "ANSWER ME NOW!"
Hiead rolled his eyes again and pushed Zero over.
"Stop screaming you idiot. Do you want to go back to Fletz that badly?" He asked no emotions in his voice. He wasn't quite sure why he offered to take Zero back. He'd of never done it for anyone else, but this boy just seemed a bit different. He just felt like helping him and decided that since he had nothing else to do, he might as well.
Zero nodded.
"Yes…I want to go back." Zero said quietly and looked somewhat longingly at the castle.
"Fine." Hiead got to his feet and started walking down the path towards the castle.
(X)
Zero grinned and got to his feet following Hiead off towards the castle. Maybe he could get Hiead to join them.
"Hey." Zero called after him cheerfully.
"What?" Hiead asked emotionlessly.
"Why don't you join us?" Zero asked putting his arms behind his head as he followed. "It'd be cool, and then we wouldn't have to go on some really long trip. We could just go home. "Hiead ignored him and kept walking."Please?" Zero whined trying to get Hiead to agree.
"Why would I even think about joining your group? You're trying to all kill me remember?" Hiead said still walking.
"….well…if you explain why you did it and say sorry, I'm sure they'll let you come!"
"I'm not sorry." Hiead said shrugging. "I've no reason to be sorry."
Zero glared at him.
"Why not? Why are you killing everyone anyway? These moon and sun stones. What are they anyway?" Zero growled.
Hiead went silent for a minute slowly thinking it over. He felt somewhat persuaded to tell him, but he ignored the feeling shaking his head reminding himself that Zero really had nothing to do with this.
"You killed my father…" Zero said starting to shake somewhat. "You killed my dad and the guy who seemed like a second father. I have every right to know!" Zero screamed stopping in his tracks.
Hiead frowned at this. He knew about killing Dabas, the stupid merchant from Lohan, but as far as he knew, he'd never killed any of Zero's direct family members.
"And just when did I kill your family member?" Hiead asked folding his arms across his chest glaring at him.
"…In Bale. You killed my dad." Zero said his voice starting to trail off somewhat. He'd been told the news after he'd gone Seles.
"….." Hiead shook his head and headed towards the city again. "Get over it." He told him no hint of emotion in his voice anymore.
Zero kept on growling pissed that Hiead was no longer being "nice" and ran after him.
They made it to the boarder of Fletz where they both stopped. Zero had his head down and was staring quietly at the ground while Hiead just stood there, his arms folded across his chest.
(X)
"Go." He ordered Zero getting sick of the feelings that were starting to take form inside of him.
Zero nodded slowly and they both started their separate ways.
"AHHH!" Zero screamed out flying backwards and landing near Hiead on the ground lying on his back looking somewhat burned. "Ahh…"
"What in the hell!" Hiead screamed out kneeling down next to him. "What the…?" He looked over to where Zero had just been. A wave in the air had appeared and seemed to shimmer across something and then just vanish. "….I see…." Hiead said before he started laughing.
"WHAT'S SO FUNNY!" Zero demanded death glaring him.
"I thought something was off. It's all an illusion!"
The area that had just shimmered froze and a long crack appeared down the side of it.
(X)
"Hey…" Gareas looked around the room quickly. The whole room had started to shake and he wanted an answer as to why it was doing it and now. Growling he looked around again and let his gaze fall on Yu. "What do you think is going on?" He asked in shock.
"I don't know." Yu answered truly unsure as to what was going on. He'd never had this happen to him in his life. Perhaps it was an earthquake, the ground was shaking enough for it to be one.
(X)
"Hiead!" Zero screamed out as the whole village shattered. Everywhere, the illusion of the city of Fletz went flying as though it was made of glass. Bits and pieces shot out in every direction showing mercy to nothing and slamming into the rocks that marked the beginning of the Valley of corrupted Gravity.
"I should have known." Hiead said smirking and shaking his head. "What an amazing illusion…" Zero looked up at Hiead frowning.
"What the heck are you talking about?" He asked seriously wanting an answer now. This was really starting to get to him. So many things didn't seem as what they really were.
The pieces of the illusion flew up into the night sky the normal moon vanishing leaving alone the green hue of the never setting moon. The sky shimmered and slowly started to transform from dark blue to mixes of blue and purple as the sky somewhat brightened and seemed to come alive as though the real sky had eaten the magic.
(X)
Erts and Clay looked around in confusion as the castle and city vanished and all that was left remaining was a barren land full of rocks floating and levitating for one spot to another. Some were huge land platforms that were sticking out of the air from no where. Currently Erts and Clay were hiding under a large, but flat rock that had only a few seconds ago, been the bed.
The creature that had flown through the "window" and was still looking for them so they couldn't actually explore their surroundings, but it didn't look good.
(X)
"Shit!" Gareas screamed grabbing Ernest as the "bed" he was on that turned out to actually be a rock started to float downwards. He pulled him up and over onto a larger non moving platform and stumbled backwards falling onto his bottom holding Ernest close. "Damnit…what is going on…?" He asked the darkness frowning. He'd never had to go through anything like this before!
Yu had quickly walked over to Gareas and started to inspect Ernest quickly. He nodded showing that he was satisfied that Ernest was one hundred percent okay and looked around. He froze seeing the huge lizard like creature not to far away from where they were at.
"We must get the prince away from here at all costs." He said taking a step foreword getting ready to fight this thing if need be. The creature hadn't seen them yet, but if it did, he wasn't about to let it touch Ernest even once.
(X)
"What is that thing?" Zero asked looking at the lizard thing curiously. He'd never seen a monster like this on any of his travels.
"It's a doll." Hiead commented shrugging a bit as though it didn't matter. "Someone else around here is controlling it. No doubt the same one who turned the Valley of Corrupted Gravity into Fletz."
Zero nodded slowly frowning at this and froze seeing Erts and Clay under the slab of rock.
"Hiead, my friends…they're going to get hurt! We have to save them!" He screamed grabbing Hiead's arm and tugging on it begging him as well as giving Hiead huge puppy eyes.
Hiead growled pulling his arm away causing Zero to fall back onto his butt.
"Don't touch me." He said his voice taking back on it's emotionless tone. "And I don't have to do anything. If they die, that just makes my job a lot easier." He said with a smirk.
All the blood drained out of Zero's face hearing this and a huge area of the rock in front of them exploded. Smaller rocks from the explosion showered the entire area as a gigantic hand came out from under it. Then another shortly followed by two short legs. A deafening screech sounded through the air shattering many of the smaller rocks. The Earth Dragon had been set free.
"And now. It looks like my job will be easier." Hiead said folding his arms across his chest. Zero was safe, and at the moment that's all he seemed to really care about. Why even bother thinking about those other idiots, friends of his or not?
Zero started shaking a bit now. He couldn't let his friends die, not like this. And this dragon didn't exactly seem to happy to be woken up.
"Hiead…" He said looking at the ground still shaking his voice somewhat low. "I trust you…I really want to keep trusting you….you try and murder everyone around me, but I want you to be my friend." He went on his voice calm and somehow collected. "But…you…you make it almost impossible." The sky just around Zero started shifting colors from it's mystical blue and purple to pure black. "And….why….why Hiead! Why are you making me choose!" He demanded growling looking up at him just as his eyes seemed to transform.
Hiead took a step back and lightning shot down from the sky hitting Zero's arm.
"ZERO!" Hiead screamed out going to grab him, to pull him away from what he thought was dangerous, but he stopped short not hearing Zero scream out. He frowned then and stood there memorized by what started to happen.
More lightning struck down hitting Zero, the forearm, shoulders, chest, legs. Every inch that the Lightning hit, was replaced by a fine piece of armor. The lightning died down and Zero finally shifted his gaze from the stone ground to Hiead's eyes.
"I shouldn't have to make a choice…not between my friends and you…." He answered in almost a whisper.
"Just what do you think you're going to do?" Hiead asked. He couldn't quite place it himself, but he didn't want anything bad to happen to Zero. For some reason, he wanted Zero safe.
"What does it matter to you?" He asked venom dripping from every word. "You don't care about me, you certainly don't care about my friends." He took a step foreword and stopped when Hiead grabbed his shoulder.
"Look you idiot. That's a Dragon out there. A elemental dragon. You have no chance a-"
"I won't let my friends die!" He screamed out jerking his shoulder away from Hiead. "I refuse to!" He went on yelling.
Hiead let his arm slowly drop to his side shaking his head at Zero's stupidity. He was so stupid, and yet…innocent.
"Zero…"
"No." Zero ran for the edge of the cliff and jumped. His wings unfolded and he went soaring into the sky.
Hiead watched in sheer amazement. It'd been years sense he'd seen a dragoon in flight, and Zero being no different than the others, made the spectacle look pure graceful and beautiful.
"Do you always get into this much trouble?" Hiead asked wondering how Zero managed to fly so gracefully even though it was just his first time.
(X)
Clay… Erts asked frowning and turning over to wrapped Clay in a tight embrace. This creature didn't feel right, held no thoughts of its own. He held back a small whimper and buried his face into Clay's shirt.
Clay smiled a bit at all of this and started stroking Erts' hair gently. He hoped this wouldn't get the attention of the monster, and doubted it would since they'd moved much more than this before without any problems, but didn't really like to test his luck.
Clay…can you see my brother? He asked starting to relax somewhat. He's not answering my call...one tap if you can two if you can't. He said to him through mind speech hoping that his brother was okay.
Clay peered over the blonde and looked out over the rock terrain. He wasn't completely sure if that was Ernest, but he was pretty sure he saw him. He tapped Erts' once and then sent a wave of emotion showing he wasn't completely sure.
(X)
Thanks… Erts' eyes closed and he started relaxing more. Whether or not Clay was telling the truth he didn't know, but for some reason he was starting to feel tired, and felt that he must trust his boyfriend's words.
(X)
"What the hell is that thing?" Gareas asked in horror seeing the huge dragon break apart from the rock just above the area that Erts and Clay were at. He noticed movement from below too and looked down to see the reptile like creature walking around.
Yu frowned a bit and walked over to the edge looking down to see what it was that Gareas seemed so worried about with a dragon just above their heads and froze instantly seeing the creature for himself.
"Frilled Lizard…" Yu said his frown deepening and he took a step away from the edge. This monster was quite strong and not something even Yu wanted to deal with.
"Hey wait." Gareas's voice took on a completely serious tone and the shocked look on his face was rewritten with one of determination. "That thing isn't alone." He muttered looking to the flat rock shelf that was jutting out of the huge rock behind it.
"What do you mean?" Yu asked shifting his gaze from the Frilled Lizard to Gareas' own and trying to follow it. He paled seeing the two figures under the rock shelf. "Is th-"
"Erts and Clay are down there." He answered cutting Yu off. They'd have left things alone seeing that the boys had a good hiding place, but the lizard kept getting to close to that spot for comfort.
"….We have to go save them." Gareas finally said frowning when he looked back to Ernest's unconscious form.
"Who-" Gareas closed his eyes and let out a slow deep breath.
"Keep Ernest safe. Do not let that dragon get him. I'm going to go get them." He turned and looked at Yu smirking. "Besides. It's not like Ernest and I can stay together right? He's a prince, I'm a commoner. Whether that means nothing to him or not, it will to the people."
Yu said nothing ,but nodded a bit realizing what Gareas was doing. He was trying to give himself enough courage and reason to go down there, face death, knowing there was a good chance he wouldn't make it since he had no weapons or armor.
"Take good care of Ernest for me huh? I really did like him…most of the time." He smirked and with that he jumped off landing onto the other small shelves under the top of the cliff that would lead him to the lizard.
Yu didn't watch though, he knew how brave Gareas was and hoped that he'd be able to give some time for Clay and Erts to get out of there.
He walked over to Ernest who though seemed completely out of this world, was starting to shiver, frown, and toss and turn.
(X)
Gareas landed onto the platform of rock that was under the cliff he had just recently left Ernest and Yu from. He pushed all thoughts of death from his mind and smirked staring at the lizard.
"Hey, you, overgrown lizard. Get over here. I need to distract you while my friends run." He said confidently.
(X)
Both Erts and Clay jumped hearing Gareas's voice.
Did he just say… Erts mind speech trailed off. "Yeah…"Erts whispered aloud.
The Frilled Lizard's head jerked up and looked at Gareas growling.
"So you're finally going to play eh? Let's just hope you guys can climb fast!" "Gareas screamed running head long at the lizard.
"GAREAS!" They both screamed out looking at him and crawled out from under the rock shelf.
Gareas and the lizard had caught each other by the hands and were trying to push one another back.
"Get the hell out of here! Climb up those rocks and don't look back!" He screamed trying to push the lizard back. He had to admit though, this thing was really strong.
"Bu-"
"Don't worry about me! I said I'd protect the prince, I never said which one! Now climb!" He ordered and brought his leg up kneeing the giant lizard in the stomach.
The lizard let out a loud howl of pain and extend its claws slashing at Gareas.
Gar jumped back dodging the claws with ease. Obviously this monster's speed wasn't its strong point. The monster kept on attacking though and Erts and Clay made it to the top of the cliff where Yu helped them over the edge. Then all three of them stood there watching the fight.
Gar jumped back again this time almost falling off the edge of the cliff and was forced to go foreword so he wouldn't fall. The move cost him though, for as he went foreword the lizard came in and slashed him across the chest.
Growling Gareas fought back the pain and rolled to the side dodging another slash attack. He jumped onto the rock shelf that had concealed Erts and Clay beforehand and got his balance back.
The Frilled Lizard screamed loudly slamming its hand into a bolder and smashing it to pieces.
Gareas stared at the thing wide eyed.
"Good thing I'm not that bolder…" He muttered under his breath and staggered backwards in shock loosing his footing as the lizard jumped onto the rock shelf forcing it to crack and fall apart.
"You're too heavy!" He screamed out at the lizard, but already knew it wasn't intelligent enough to listen. He didn't have much time to keep yelling at it though. He fell down into the rubble of the rocks as part after part of the shelf of rock started to break under the weight. They sliced at his arms and face, caused him to bleed and he found himself at a very bad disadvantage as a huge rock fell from above him and slammed into the back of his head. Then all was black.
(X)
Zero wasn't completely sure as to what he was doing. He just knew that this dragon could prove a threat if he didn't do something about it soon. He wasn't about to let it kill his friends. If he wouldn't let Hiead do it, he surely wasn't going to let a dragon do it.
TBC
It's been awhile, yes. I'm so very sorry for the lack of updating.