Legacy.
Chapter Three:
Nosedive glared at Draganus whilst the saurian dictator spoke with one of his men. Angel was tied up next to him and was shivering like a leaf, he leant a little closer to her to keep her warm but considering she was still in the bed shirt from the infirmary it was a loosing battle, but there was no way Draganus was going to care and right now there was nothing more he could do about it save whisper the occasional reassurance that everything would be okay. They'd been taken to what he assumed was either the master tower or Maleficent's cruiser they'd been there for at least two hours if not longer and Dive was at a loss as to what to do. Neither of them had any weapons to speak of and without Angel's wrist band they weren't likely to get any. It was safe to say that at this precise moment in time Nosedive was getting more than a little worried. Draganus turned a vicious glint in his eyes.
"Take her and do what you will," he spoke to the soldier, "however I want her alive when you are done, are we clear?"
"Yes my Lord," the soldier replied then glanced at Nosedive, "and him sir?"
"He is mine alone to play with." Draganus laughed and watched as his minion advance on Angel. Nosedive struggled to get free and help her but the binds were too tight.
"Don't touch her!" Dive yelled when Angel screamed and desperately tried to get away.
"Not so tough without your toys are you little girl?" The soldier mocked when he roughly pulled her to her feet and started to drag her away.
"No!" Dive screamed again, "leave her alone!" Draganus watched enjoying every moment of the young ducks fear; he could smell it from the other side of the room. He revelled in the Nosedive's pain for a few moments after Angel had been taken and then walked over knocking him unconscious.
Nosedive woke up and grimaced at the bruise he could feel forming on the right side of his face, even his eye felt like it was swelling up. He groaned and lifted his head slightly to see where he was, it wasn't the room from before and he was no longer on the floor. He was now hanging from his wrists in a darkened room, he couldn't see anyone there but he could feel someone's presence and he couldn't suppress a shudder.
"You're going to wish you had died when I blew up your second base boy." Draganus' voice came from somewhere to his left. Dive shuddered again despite himself. Your brother can no longer help you; in fact he left without you! Not very brotherly was it?"
"He thought I was dead you scales for brains!" Dive yelled and instantly regretted it as he felt a clawed hand swipe at his chest; he let out a muffled scream and felt blood seep through his shirt and down his middle.
"You'll stay quiet if you know what's good for you," Draganus hissed, "of course you soon won't be able to talk, just scream." Dive only had a few seconds before he felt claws dig into his back a slowly rake through his skin. Draganus grinned at the scream he had caused. "I may not be able to get to your brother anymore, but you will be close enough for now, and when Wraith completes the spell my mate gave him your brother will suffer adequately."
"Leave him alone." Dive said through gritted teeth. Claws dug into his back once more and he whimpered.
"I thought I told you to be quiet?" Draganus said almost sweetly and that sent a chill through Dive's spine. A door opened somewhere and Dive turned his head from the light.
"My lord I am ready." Wraith said entering.
"Excellent." Draganus replied. Wraith walked over to another part of the room and was cloaked in the darkness until Dive heard a few muttered words and a light emanated from the same direction. Nosedive could now see some kind of altar and almost asked what they were doing but remembered Draganus' warning and kept his beak shut. The light around Wraith grew and there was a large ball appearing in front of the old lizard in which shapes were becoming apparent.
Wildwing sighed as the cheers sounded from his overly grateful people; to him he'd only done what he thought any other able puckworlder would have done. He and the rest of the team were being treated like royalty but there was an air of sadness through all of them. They'd wanted to bring the whole team home but instead they'd lost one forever and left another behind, they hadn't even defeated Draganus just made sure he couldn't come back. Wildwing had taken it the hardest and had yet to talk to anyone other than Roxy. He put on a brave face for the public as he was doing now but inside he felt like he was suffocating, he just wanted it all to end for him to go somewhere and be with his Roxy and cry until there were no tears left, he'd failed his brother and he felt that all this fuss was not deserved on his part. A large flash of light overhead caused the cheers to become panicked screams and a large ball appeared a sickeningly familiar face in its centre.
"Draganus." Wildwing growled.
"Your plan worked you miserable mallard," Draganus told him almost cheerfully making the team wonder what was up, "I can no longer find your pathetic little planet. However there was one flaw," Draganus stepped out of the way to reveal a blonde duck hanging from the ceiling just behind him. Wildwing dropped to his knees shaking his head slowly.
"It can't be him he's dead!" Mallory yelled.
"Yeah more likely that's the Chameleon!" Duke said confidently but in actual fact had a sickening feeling in his stomach. Draganus smiled at them showing all of his teeth then approached Nosedive.
"A parting gift Wildwing," Draganus tore into Nosedive's flesh causing the teen to scream harder than he ever had before, after a few minutes Draganus stopped and pulled up Dive's, who was by now unconscious, head by his hair, "don't worry yourself Wildwing I won't let him die, I'll take good care of your baby brother!" Draganus laughed as the ball began to fade.
Wildwing stared at the now empty space in the sky. All were silent and looking at him. But there was nothing he could say, so he yelled and slammed his fists into the floor.
Angel sat curled up in a ball in the corner of the cell she'd been thrown in after the saurian lackeys had finished with her. She could still feel their breath on her skin; still feel them inside her. She had never been this scared before in her life she felt so . . . useless as not only could she not help herself but she couldn't help Nosedive. She'd heard his screaming and Draganus' maniacal laughter just a little while before and had tried to block it out. Her magic was of no use, it was only white magic spells for healing and lighting, that sort of thing she couldn't remember any black magic attack spell that would get her out of here. Angel pulled the blanket closer around her bare skin fell into a restless sleep;
Angel walked along the long halls she had once called home as a small child. It was as she remembered, full of finery and elegance. Three of her sisters ran past her a little down the hall they turned and waved then carried on, Angel waved back but they had already turned a corner. She carried on down the hallway to the big doors to the ball room and smiled at the beautiful room with the tapestries telling of times gone by and the multicoloured silks decorating it and at the far end were her parents' thrones. She remembered her mother allowing her to sit on hers once and pretend to be the queen and laughed, life had been so simple then. But what would her mother think of her now? She had been tainted, used like some whore.
"You have forgotten who you are." A sad yet familiar voice told her. Angel spun around to see her mother. The queen's dark purple hair fell almost to her ankles and was held in place by a gold band towards the bottom, Angel had always wondered how that had worked but had been told that was a secret for older women.
"Mother!" Angel said and ran to her but she disappeared.
"This is only a dream my little Angel," her mother told her smiling lovingly at her child, "you are the last of my children and the direct descendent of the great Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev." Angel looked away ashamed to be mentioned in the same breath as the two who had saved her world many times over, over a thousand years before. "You have the means to escape my little one you only have to believe in yourself to do it."
"I don't understand I don't have any weapons!" Angel replied wrapping her arms around herself in self pity.
"You are the descendant of Lina Inverse Atchika, and like her you are a fey, magic comes naturally to us. You only have to remember the spells." Angel's mother walked over to her daughter and stroked her face.
"I never learnt any attack spells." Angel said dejectedly.
"You may not have been taught them but I remember how you would watch your older sister and brothers learn their spells," her mother turned and looked at the tapestries, "you must think back, and use the spells that were taught to your siblings. Then you must return home little one and find the old lands."
"I don't understand."
"You will," her mother turned as if someone were speaking to her, "I have precious little time left dear heart I will tell you this in your father's secret library there exists a journal that would be of great use to you in your journey ahead. Seek it out before you find the old lands." She started to fade, "your family and I love you very much, and may Cepheid be with you, goodbye my little Angel."
"No mother!" Angel pleaded and ran to her image, "please I can't do it alone, please don't leave me!" But her mother had already vanished and the palace was fading into darkness as well.
"You already have someone to help you," she heard her mother whisper; "you and your friend Nosedive must help each other to defeat your enemies." The voice echoed away into the darkness along with the palace.
Angel woke up to tears in her eyes. For a long time she couldn't bring herself to do anything but after a while she heaved a big sigh and began to think back to when she was a small child and watching her siblings magic lessons from the sorcerers. There was one she could think of that might work and the saurians would never expect her to use a spell their own mages used on a regular basis. She chanted a few words, hoping she'd remembered them correctly and then;
"FIREBALL!" She yelled and a ball of molten hot flames burst through the door and whoever was standing guard behind it. Angel thanked all of her gods individually along with a couple of dark lords just in case, then she set about making the blanket a little easier to escape in or at least serviceable until she could find something else to wear. Angel ignored the aching of her thighs not wanting to think about what had cause them and ran along the corridor in the direction she had been dragged. Unfortunately she was soon lost due to the fact that you don't usually pay much attention when about to be raped so she decided instead to find a computer and hack her way in to find her way to Nosedive and then to a gateway generator, a few minutes later she had his location and worked out how to get there and how to get to a nearby generator. She took off at a full run nit worried about anyone hearing her as her bare feet made little noise but she kept all her senses alert in case she ran into anyone. She had to hide from a total of six sets of guards before she found where she was looking for, at the door she paused for a moment unsure as to whether she wanted to see what was inside but then just as quickly as the thought came it disappeared and she went inside ready to cast another fireball if needed. Inside she was greeted with Nosedive's still, pale body bandaged from nearly head to toe.
"Nosedive?" She whispered as she approached him, "Nosedive please you have to wake up, we have to escape." She reached him and shook him gently, he was too warm to the touch and his feathers were damp from sweat which meant the wounds could already be infected and she needed to get him somewhere safe to help him before the infection took too much hold on his body. "Nosedive, please! I can't carry you you're too heavy!" This time Nosedive's eyes slowly fluttered opened, he looked over at and smiled weakly.
"You're okay." He said, "This is all a bad dream right?" His baby blue eyes pleaded with her.
"Yeah that's right but we have to get away." Angel said with panic etched in every word. Nosedive sat up slowly with Angel's help and leaning on her for support they slowly made their way out of the room and down the right hand corridor. Angel took him past several doors until she stopped and tried one at the end of the corridor. Both teens were relived when the door opened easily and no one was inside, Angel propped Dive on a chair and started to get the generator up and running whilst making sure the computer deleted all evidence of where they were going as soon as they had passed through the portal.
"Where are we going?" Dive asked trying hard not to pass out from pain and exhaustion.
"My home world," Angel replied and smiled when a portal opened to their right, "I have to find something." She said cryptically then ran back over to him to let him lean on her again, "come on lets go!"
They walked through the portal and landed on lush green grass, around them was what would have once been a majestic garden but years of neglect had made it a wild array of plants. Angel led him over to the biggest house he'd ever seen, it too was suffering from neglect but it was still pretty amazing. Inside Angel led him through one huge and dusty room after the other until she came to a room that looked like it had belonged to a little boy once on the second floor. She shook out the sheets and let him lie down where he gratefully fell into a deep slumber.
Another chappy up! Cepheid is a God from Slayers by Hajime Kanzaka and Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev are his oh so cool characters, if you have never heard, read or seen any of the slayers anime/manga then you are deprived people and don't know what your missing out on, forget Buffy Lina's the real slayer folks (although I do love our blonde vamp layer – oh I'm sorry I meant slayer, he he he! Although I'd drool over spike any day!) Anywho please review I love reading both the good and the bad stuff and any comment's a useful one! Toodles Angel xxx.
