Dark-birdie: I've decided to get my lazy behind into working mode and realized I haven't updated this fic in a DARN long time…so, yah, here we go
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Chapter 6-
The three knights enjoyed their time in the swords; Rath, getting to kill as many demons as he wanted, Thatz, eating as much food as he wanted, and Rune- well, he never really talked about what he did although his fellow knights did pester him about it a lot.
They were reaching the night of their seventh day from turning into dragons without a single clue as to how to turn back. And what was worse, they were to be sent out on a mission tomorrow. The dragon tribe still had no clue about the switch, and the knights weren't about to tell them. So, they had no choice but to accept the mission.
"We're going to die…pinch me, am I dreaming? Please say this is really REALLY long nightmare…" whined Rath amidst his pile of strawberries again.
They had realized during the exploration of the swords that they could enter each other's realms. The knights were all currently inside Fire's sword, with Rath.
"Ow! What the hell, Thatz!" piped Rath when he was rudely pinched by the Earth Dragon Knight.
"You said to pinch you, so I did," said Thatz innocently.
"Yes, but I didn't mean it literally! And your earthy-skin-thingy makes it hurt more!" complained Rath making a pillow appear so he could pound the living daylights out of it. "I WANNA BE ME AGAIN!"
Rune, who had been sitting quietly next to him made a pair of earmuffs appear on his head to block out the noise. He was quite used to Rath's complaining now, seeing as he did so about ten times a day. "Oh, shut up, we're trying out best, there's just nothing in the books about changing switched bodies back. And shouldn't you be happy we're going on a mission tomorrow?"
"No!" said Rath sorrowfully, "I have no clue how in the hell we're going to be fighting demons like this! I can barely lift a sword with these stupid claws! And so we're going to get KILLED!"
The stayed motionless and unsurprised as their body parts began to disappear. It simply meant that their dragons we're summoning them out of their swords. "See you on the outside," Thatz said to them both, as he disappeared completely.
A moment later Rath let out a small yelp as he landed face first into the covers of his own bed. Sure, he had been summoned out many times, but he never quite got the landing right. "What now!" he asked to his double looking down at him, quite annoyed. "Did you figure out anything useful?"
"Well, actually," said Water, his master on his shoulder, "We thought of the only way to get ourselves back to normal."
Rath perked up, enthralled, "HOW!" he asked excitedly.
"Well…" said Earth, munching on an apple and sitting on the windowsill. "We have to find Kharl."
The three knights-in-dragons stared at their counterparts.
"WHAT!" they yelled all together.
"YOU WANT US TO FIND THAT DEMENTED ALCHEMIST!" cried Rath.
"THE ONE WHO PUT US IN THIS SITUATION FIRSTLY!" shouted Rune.
"AND RISK GETTING SCREWED UP EVEN MORE!" yelled Thatz.
"Well, who else knows the reversal spell?" asked Fire bluntly, crossing his arms. "He's the one who made us like this in the first place, and he'll be the only one who knows how to change us back."
"But," started Rath. The alchemist was the last person he wanted to see for a very, VERY long time. "I mean, geesh, there's no one else?"
"Not if you know any other deranged wizards out there who are strangely all-powerful," said Water, leaning against the bedpost. "So, are you with us?" he asked, "To go find Kharl?"
The three knights stared at each other for a moment, wanting very much to be back in their original bodies.
"Fine…" they mumbled together, looking at the ground.
"Great!" said Fire cheerfully, "And the mission we've been given will be a great cover up as to why we're leaving the castle!"
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"Why oh why oh WHY did I agree to find this damned loony-bin!"
"Rath, shut up, I'm quite tired of your complaining," hissed Rune, pressing himself lower onto Water's shoulder for fear of being swept away by the terrible wind.
"Hey Water, Fire! We have to make sure not to lose each other!" came Earth's shout from somewhere in front of them. "Damn, I can barely see in all this wind."
"Earth, I really think we should find some shelter," said Thatz nervously, clutching to Earth's shirt. "This might turn into a tornado or something."
"Oh, c'mon, you worry too much," said Earth, pressing onward into the haze.
But, as Thatz said, the wind steadily began to get more forceful.
"Someone knock some sense into Earth! We're all going to fly away!" yelled Rune over the howling wind. But no one heard him, because it was shortly followed by a shrill screech as something zoomed over Rune's head.
He soon realized that it was Thatz who had unluckily been pulled from Earth's shoulder and into the slowly forming tornado.
"Thatz!" cried Rune, putting in a useless effort to grab him before he zipped away. Bad choice, though, because letting go of Water's shirt made HIM fly away, too."
"Rune!" shouted Rath, seeing his fellow dragon knight fly away. 'Damn…' he thought to himself, trying harder to stay on Fire. Him, being the smallest of the three, had a much harder time of doing so. "Dammit, Fire, I'm gonna be blown away!" he said to his dragon, who couldn't hear him. 'Crap, crap, crap, crap…' he thought repeatedly as each of his claws began to remove themselves from the cloth. "FIRE!" he shouted as a last attempt before he, too, was swept away.
But the dragon heard too late. He turned his head just in time to see his master blown into the oncoming tornado.
"Crap!" he called at the last minute, grabbing hold of Water in front of him, "Water, all our masters are in that damned tornado!"
Earth ran up to them, shielding his face from bits of dirt and gravel. "What do we do!" he called over the howling wind.
Water looked nervously around, "Not much we can do, it's impossible to see them in this wind. The only thing left is to wait until the tornado calms down. Then we can see if we can find them."
"I hope you're right…" said Fire uneasily, watching the tornado float farther away.
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dark-birdie: gee, this chapter was kind of…uninteresting…but oh well! I swear it will get more funnier/interesting later, because the knights are gonna end up somewhere funny anywho, don't forget to review!