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"Well, that wasn't so bad." Kiako inquired as they left Bale. They had already stocked up on items and food rations and were heading to Hoax. It wasn't really that far at all. Half a days walk and they were already almost in reach of it.
"Well, my mother can be quite impulsive..." Lavitz said scratching his head, "Ah, yes. As soon as we get into Hoax we must go see Kaiser, he'll tell us what we need to do."
"Eh." was Kyles answer.
As soon as they arrived, the girls ended up noting how the place looked more like a fortress then a town. Kiako noted it'd also be kind of a perfect scenario battle field.
"Lavitz! Good to see you." Kaiser greeted, "Oh, I see you brought some friends."
"Oh yes, this is Dart, Shana, Kyle, Kel and Kiako." Lavitz said introducing them. Kaiser nodded.
"Well then, we better start planning." he said, "Shana, Kiako, could you help with the cooking?"
"NANI! (WHAT!) MORE COOKING?" Kiako burst out and quickly shrank away, "Sorry..."
"Actually, Kiako is an exceptional fighter, why not post her and Kyle near the front gate?" Lavitz suggested. Kaiser rubbed his chin.
"Hey! That's not fair that Kiako gets to fight but I don't!" Shana protested, "She's even 5 years younger then me!"
"Then again, she utilizes Alchemy, a magic that none of us have. She also knows the ways of the ninja." Kel said, "She has a wider range of techniques then you. Besides, age doesn't matter when it comes to skill and experience. Right Kiako?" Kiako nodded up and down furiosly.
"Well, if you all trust her that much..." Shana said hanging her head.
"Don't worry, you can fight in the next raid we see." Kyle snickered.
"Just make something edible." Dart said. Shana's cheeks puffed up in annoyance.
"It doesn't need to be good, just something that'll keep everyone's energy up." Lavitz said. Shana's cheeks puffed up even more.
"Salt for flavour is ok for me too." Kaiser said. Shana's cheeks looked like giant balloons by now.
"I don't like what you're all saying about my cooking..." Shana pouted.
"Just don't blow anything up ok?" Kyle said. "Last thing we need is our whole army getting sick from the food."
Kiako and Kel decided to stay silent. They both had some kind of scenario in their minds.
How to kill an army: Method 1.
Use as many soldiers as possible and fight your hardest.
How to kill an army: Method 2.
Give them food poisoning from someones (coughShanacough) cooking.
"Anyway, all of you get some rest or look around town, when you're done come to me and I'll send you to your posts." Everyone agreed and began to leave.
"Oh Miss Kiako, could I speak with you?" Kaiser asked.
"Hm? What is it?"
"I need you to leave town for a bit and scout the forests next to Hoax, if there's any soldier that aren't our own come and tell us right away." Kaiser said, "Don't engage in battle alone, just scout and report."
"Ok, but why me?" Kiako asked strapped her backpack onto her back. She made sure to leave the bells in the clump of a scarf to prevent them from ringing.
"Kel said you were skilled in ninja tactics, so you'd be able to go in and out without being detected."
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Kiako agreed and with a collection of energy, jumped past the wall into the forest. Scouting duty was boring as heck, but at least she had time to practice with her demon side. Being the half demon that she was, she could jump almost 25 feet straight up and punch down trees. She landed on a giant boulder and sat down staring around an open clearing. At least there wasn't any sign of enemies. Funny thing was...
She felt heat radiating from the boulder. She looked down seeing dark brown and what looked like oddly smooth mounds.
"What the heck? This doesn't feel like a rock at all." she said out loud standing up. Suddenly the "Boulder" moved and Kiako was thrown off into the grass and when she recovered from the shock she had a giant metal axe pressed near her neck.
"Who are you?" a voice grumbled down at her. Some giant dude with a mohawk and... AAHH! GIANT AXE! Kiako was shaking from the surprise and just managed to find her voice.
"I... I didn't think... Uh... sorry for thinking you were a rock?" she said and the giant behemoth took the axe from her neck.
"You not human. What species are you?" the giant asked, "You last of your species?"
"I think, yeah. I'm the only one of my species." Kiako said and slowly stood up, "What're you anyways? You're kinda bigger then your average human."
"Me Giganto."
"Oh I see, what's your name?" Kiako asked. Well, this guy didn't exactly look like a soldier to her. He looked more like your average Joe caveman. He seemed friendly enough.
"Me Kongol. You?" Kongol answered sitting on a real boulder.
"I'm Kiako. So Kongol, what're you doing out here alone?" Kiako asked sitting beside him.
"Kongol always alone. Kongol different, people no like."
"Yeah, I got ya. No one really likes someone that's different, it's what humans do all the time." Kiako said and narrowed her eyes, "Some humans are so unadaptable. I hate it."
Kongol grunted in agreement, "Yes. Kongol hate it too." Kiako sighed leaning back and glanced up at the trees.
"So, you hungry?" she offered, "I have some lunch with me."
Well, technically it was her friends lunch, but they wouldn't miss it.
Kongol nodded a bit and Kiako grinned opening her back pack. Let's see... Oh there! Kyle's sandwich! Kiako unwrapped it and handed it to Kongol, who took it and bit it in half. Kiako also started to eat her lunch, which was a thermos of fried rice. How it stayed hot and fresh in there along with the other food rations, no one knows.
"Hm... Food good." Kongol said gruffly finishing the sandwich in two bites.
"Still hungry?" Kiako asked, "I have another sandwich." Kongol took the sandwich and ate it in another two bites.
"Why you so nice to Kongol? You not scared?" he asked. Kiako's face scrunched up in confusion and she gave him a smile.
"Why shouldn't I be nice? We just met after all." she said and looked down ashamed, "Though, I am scared of you mostly because you're taller then me..."
"All Giganto tall." Kongol said, "But still, why you so nice?"
"Well, I try to be nice to everyone. I see everyone as an equal!" Kiako said and scratched at her cheek, "Though sometimes, I kinda think I'm either behind or below someone."
"Kongol want to make a world where all species equal. Kiako want that too?" Kongol asked. Kiako nodded and looked at her hand then took hold of Kongols examinging the size difference. His hand was like, 3-5 times bigger then her own.
"Looks like we're the same huh?" she said with a grin, "Let's be friends!"
"Friends?"
"Um hm! Even if we won't see each other much, we can still be friends!" Kiako said happily and rammaged into her bag pulling out one of her biggest, shiniest bells, "Here! It's so show you're my friend!" she placed the bell into Kongol's giant hand. He looked at it if he didn't know what to do with it. Which he didn't. Kiako chuckled and took out a long black ribbon from her bag. She threaded it though the bell and tied the ribbon around Kongol's giant wrist.
"Symbol?"
"Yup, it shows you're my friend, and I won't forget you either! I never forget!" Kiako said pointing to her neck. There was an identical bell on a green ribbon collar. She looked up seeing that the sun was slowly starting to set, throwing shadows among the trees, "Uh oh, it's getting dark. I better get back to Lavitz and the others."
Kongol grunted, "Yes. Kongol has to go too."
"Alright then! Bye!" Kiako said happily waving and she jumped up into a tree. She turned around again to wave at Kongol and hopped off into the forest.
Kongol stared at the bell and as gently as he could untied the ribbon and tucked the bell into a fur pouch at his side.
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When Kiako got back, Kaiser ordered her to meet Kyle and Kel at the front gate. By then, it was already dark and almost pitch black.
"It's really quiet." Kel said.
"Way too quiet for my comfort." Kyle said leaning again the wall with his lance over his shoulder. Kiako was silently thinking back to her meeting with Kongol. He seemed really nice. Kind of strange how he asked why she was being nice to him. Kiako started to feel sorry for Kongol.
"Kel-san, I met a new friend today in the forest!" Kiako said cheerfully to break the silence.
"Oh? Really? Who?"
"A guy named Kongol, he seemed like a really nice guy."
Kel was silent and pulled his hat over his eyes.
"I see, Kongol is it..."
"ARRGH!" the three of them jumped up to their feet and a hail of fire arrows flew down towards them. Kel drew a handful of blue and red colored disks and threw them up at the arrows. The blue disks exploded with ice and the red disks burnt the remains of the arrows into harmless ashes.
"Attack on the front and back wall!" a soldier on the tower called and was struck down by an arrow, "GAH!"
"Dammit!" Kiako drew a transmutation circle on the wall and slammed her hands into it. The wall warped around and shot up high into another good 20 feet. The would fend off the arrows, now all the had to worry about was the soldiers constantly pouring in.
"Go to the higher ground!" Kel barked at Kyle and Kiako. When they got up the steps Kel raised his Pariot into the air, "Take this, Iron rain!" a giant ball shot out from the barrel and split into thousands of needles that struck down at the Sandora soldiers wiping out half of them. Kyle used his lance as a pole vault and brought his spear down on a soldier killing him on contact.
"Hey cool! Jump? Like Kimahri huh?" Kel said and used a lance in each hand to knock away soldiers.
"Yeah, but I prefer to be compared to Kain from FF 4." Kyle replied and stabbed another soldier. Kiako was either trapping the soldiers in cages or hitting areas around their necks to knock them out. Dart gave a shout of pain from the other side of the fortress.
"Dart!" Kiako saw their opponent almost looked like a ninja, "Bastard, you're mine!" she jumped to the stairs and came up behind Lavitz. They nodded at eachother and the Elite scoffed.
"A child for support? How amsuing." he muttered a few words and split into 3 copies.
"Oh? I can do that too!" Kiako said and put her hands together into a hand seal, "Kage bunshin no jutsu! Shadow clones!" four Kiako popped up and with grins, rushed at the ninja clones. When the real one was revealed, Lavitz stepped in.
"Spinning cane!" the Elite was knocked off the wall down into the darkness. Kiako healed Darts wound and they ran down the stairs to join Kyle and Kel.
"Hey you guys ok?" Dart asked. Kyle and Kel nodded. A soldier was screaming at the top of his lungs. Everyone whipped around to see the soldier get tossed like a giant rag doll into a house.
"What is that giant?" Lavitz asked one of the knights.
"It's...Gi, Giganto!"
"Giganto? Lavitz!" Dart exclaimed trying to look for an explanation.
"I heard about it, but it's real! The ones who fought so far were no match for him!"
"Well he is still not a Dragon! Go!" he charged forward but skidded to a stop, "Get out of the way!"
"But..." Kiako had her arms spread out and was looked down shamefully.
"Move! You're going to get killed!" Lavitz shouted. The Giganto raised it's axe. Kyle rushed past Dart and Lavitz and tackled Kiako to the side just as the axe slammed into the ground.
"Are you retarded? He'll kill you!" he shouted and stood up, "Stay here and don't die!" he rushed off into the battle preforming Jump on the Giganto stabbing it's shoulder. Dart charged in and tried using Volcano but his foot skidded on some loose dirt. The blow didn't hit and the Giganto picked him up and hurled him to where Kiako was watching.
"OW! Careful, you gotta finish it or you'll be smashed by him!" Dart warned.
The Giganto tucked his axe onto his back, "Kongol needs no weapons! Kongol beats you with bare hands!" He charged at Kel and drew his fist back to punch him. Kel ducked and stuck a disk onto Kongol's chest. A giant burst of air exploded from it forcing Kongol to skid back a few feet. He growled clutching the swell that started to bleed there.
With a roar Kongol charged at Kel again and drew his axe again slashing it downwards. Blood flew into the air, some of it splattering onto his face as his axe sank into a shoulder. Seeing a small glimmer he glanced closer and saw a bell around the human's neck.
Except it wasn't a human.
"Kongol... Glad to see ya again." Kiako said looked up at him giving a weak smile. Kongol's axe had sliced through a stone shoulder pad that Kiako had transmutated at the last mintue and into her shoulder. The stone at least, stopped the axe from chopping her arm clean off. Kongol immediatly pulled his axe out and Kiako gripped her shoulder stumbling to stay standing.
"Kiako!" Kyle grabbed Kiako before she could fall over and crack her head open, "You idiot! Why'd you go and do something stupid like that"
"Cause, he's my friend..." Kiako whispered mostly to herself and chuckled, "Whoo, I'm getting woozy." Kel pulled out a small box and pulled out a needle.
"This'll stop you're bleeding, so just take it and don't complain." he said and after checking it, put it into Kiako's arm and injecting the medicene while Kiako protested about how much needles hurt and how much she hated them. As soon as Kel had finished he quickly wrapped her shoulder with cloth.
Kongol looked down at Kiako, slowly bleeding to death yet smiling at the same time saying how happy she was to see him again. He had struck at her once, only because he didn't know it was her standing there in the first place. He took a step towards her and the young one with the spear dashed out in front to face him angrily.
"You keep away!" he yelled swinging his spear. Kongol glared down at the human. Who was he to command him what to do?
"Kiako Kongol's friend, Kongol wants to see Kiako!" he snarled and swung his arm at him. The red one jumped in front blocking with his sword and getting knocked away into the wall. Kongol gripped his axe and raised it over his head.
"Dart!"
A purple light flashed and fell from the sky. A lady in purple armoured swooped down and dove past Kongol slashing him in the arm with a rapier. She landed in front of Dart and pointed at him.
"Awaken! Dragoon of the Red Eyed Dragon!"
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Suddenly a red light bursted from Dart's chest that slowly engulfed him. He then disappeared into a ball of flame that darted about until it slammed forcefully into Kongol knocking him back.
"Wha...What is this?" Dart said slowly floated back down to the ground. His body was encased in thick ruby armour and he had a pair of glittering wings on his back.
"Finally, your dragoon spirit is manifesting." Kyle said, "Good timing too."
Kongol slowly sat up groaning and rubbing his head which as a lump started forming on it.
"I'm surprised you didn't die." the lady said to him.
"Giganto don't die, Giganto pay you back!" he roared and turned to leave. Pausing in front of Kiako, he took a step towards her. Kyle quickly steeled himself incase Kongol wanted to finish the job on Kiako. Kongol kind of growled at him and after reaching into his pocket pulled out a ribbon. He tossed it to Kiako and took off through the broken gate.
"Kongol!" Kiako stood up to follow him but her knees buckled and she fell kneeling. She picked up the ribbon.
It was the one she'd given him with the bell.
"Dart!" Shana cried running out to him.
"You're safe." Dart said relieved. At that moment the armour and wings were gone and he doubled over on the ground.
"What happened!" Shana kneeled beside him, "Dart? DART"
"See Shana's face...Makes me relieved..." Dart breathed and collapsed onto the ground. Shana shook him constantly crying his name. Kiako was clutching the bell in her hand and rubbing the bell at her neck.
"Are you ok?" Lavitz asked kneeling beside her. Kiako nodded.
"Um hm..." she smiled but it quickly crumbled. She started to cry while trying to laugh it off. Lavitz sighed and put a comforting hand on her unwounded shoulder.
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"You're back." the Commander said as Kongol came through the trees, "Looks like you wee defeated." Kongol growled at him and brushed past.
"Kongol will make humans pay."
"Right right, oh by the way, you should wipe that blood from your face, you'll scare the soldiers even more." the Commander noted and left.
Kongol rubbed some of the blood off his face and stared at it. It was the same as any other kind of blood he'd seen. Dark red, sticky, the life water to living things.
His friend's life water.
Kongol decided to leave the blood.
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Authors notes: Yes! Two chapters in less then a week! Personally, I like Kongol because he's like Kiako. Just, has worse grammar, is about a billion feet taller then her and hates books. Thanks for reading, bye!