Heroes of the Arks
ESKK: Well here we go a new chapter let's get this chapter started.
(Start Unknown Location)
A young woman who looked like Malty was in a sever situation. Her clothing was covered in blood as she was trying to crawl away from her undertaker. She was scared beyond all belief as she crawled away leaving a trail of blood as she did so. Behind her a man in black was seen walking torts her glaring at her with nothing but contempt for her. "No... Please mercy." She begged while trying to walk away.
"Sorry I am fresh out of it Spawn of Medea." The man said as he glared at the woman who even now had no idea why he kept calling her that. "I don't tolerate insurgencies or any attempt to usurp or undermine my command." The man said as he then grabbed the Malty look-a-like. "I let you live for this long because I took joy in watching your strings of failures mount up. I allowed you to think you were in command when you were not." He said with the area around them ruined or destroyed before grabbing the girl by her neck showing the gaping wound she had.
"But I've grown bored of you so let us end this." He said before he began to squeeze cutting the air circulation.
"P-please. D-don't kill me. I don't want to die." She begged and thus the man glared at her.
"You should have thought of that earlier Spawn of Medea." The man said and then with one quick flick of his hand the girl's eyes went full white as blood shot out of her mouth. The woman went limp before he let go allowing her to fall into a heap on the ground. "Let this be a warning the next time anyone thinks to overthrow me." He said before walking to a nearby chair and taking a cup of scotch for himself.
"Fools." He said glaring out at the world around him. "The reason you won't come here yourself Medea is because you fear me." He said looking to the world outside. "Well then I suppose I'll just have to come to you after this latest stunt of yours." He said knowing why that girl was here to begin with. After all Medea created her spawns to cause chaos and that was what that other girl was doing before he killed her. "Now all I must do is wait." He said while admiring a nearby mask knowing what was to come.
(Scene Break Jun Forest)
The moon was high in the sky as the sound of battle echoed across the area. On a nearby cliff Jun slashed through a Dire Wolf as she had her eyes closed. "If you want to curse anyone curse yourselves." Jun said calmly before glaring at her foes which were a pack of Dire Wolves. "If you had kept your noses clean I would have no reason to even hunt you and your bounties." Jun said showing she was ready for combat by taking a battle stance with a long sword in her right hand and a dagger held in a reverse grip in her left hand. "Come on!" Jun roared out in challenge.
In turn Jun then heard movement behind her and sliced through the Dire Wolf coming at her. She then kicked another jumping at her and then sliced at it with her Dagger. Just then Demonicon jumped in and slammed his Halberd down decapitating the Dire Wolf sending its blood spewing out. Nearby Pete punched one Dire Wolf and then grabbed the other before slamming it into the ground crushing its skull with a powerful strike.
Clearly the trio had been at this for a bit as a great deal of Dire Wolf corpses were gathered about. The last two recognizing a losing battle when they saw one opted to make a break for it. "Hey Boss we got some runners!" Demonicon said and thus Jun glared at them.
"After them now!" Jun called out grabbing her sword from one of the corpses while giving chase.
"On it!" Demonicon said and thus Pete slammed his fist into the ground causing the ground to shake and the wolves to lose their footing. In turn Jun took the chance and sliced through the two Wolves ending both of their lives with ease. The Job was done as Jun was breathing hard to catch her breath.
All was calm but for Jun as she regained herself knew it was simply the calm before the storm. "You feel it can't you, boss?" Demonicon asked as he looked to Jun.
"Yeah... the Wave... it's almost here." Jun said and knew where she had to go next. "Let's clean up and get our reward once we do that we'll be heading off to Melromarc." Jun said knowing full well what needed to be done. She had a promise to keep after all despite not wanting to be in that country or that city.
"Right!" Pete and Demonicon said as they followed after Jun.
(Scene Break with Taiyo and Rino)
It was morning as Taiyo and Rino were leaving the Inn they stayed the Night at. After taking a small trip to Erhard's Taiyo got Rino set up with some new gear to get her back into looking like an Adventurer. As they got ready Taiyo looked out the window and felt the tension in the air.
"Taiyo?" Rino asked as she looked to Taiyo with concern.
"Looks like we'll be getting the gang back together." Taiyo said with a smirk on his face to which Rino knew what Taiyo meant.
"The Wave." Rino said and with a nod from Taiyo she knew it was time to get ready.
(Scene Break Tsubaki)
Tsubaki was on the road heading to Melromarc as she wanted to get there by the time the others got there if not earlier. "Come on Conan time to go." Tsubaki called out knowing they had to be ready to face the Wave.
"Coming!" Came an older voice as Tsubaki knew who it was. From down the road Conan had caught up but he was different now clearly he had aged up by several years in a brief time span. From what Tsubaki could tell or was told when Demihumans leveled up they grew up no doubt it was their young bodies adapting around their new strength. Despite this this meant she didn't have to care for him anymore since it was clear he can look after himself now.
"Don't waste time we need to make it to the Capital before the next Wave hits." Tsubaki said and in turn Conan nodded in understanding knowing they had very little time to waste if they wanted to make it on time.
"Got it, Tsubaki." Conan said as he stuck close to the Moon Maiden's Pactmaker. As they walked Tsubaki was clearly excited to see her friends again wondering just how strong they had become since they parted.
(Scene Break Shiro and Raphtalia)
"Ow. Ow. Ow. Ow." Taiyo was heard as he was removing quills from his body. "Ow." He said getting another one showing he got careless.
"Wait! Come back here!" Raphtalia cried out from the tall grass as she chased after the monster who did this.
"Jeez how can I be so careless?" Taiyo asked remembering how that damn thing blindsided him. It's been a week since the battle in the mines where he had used the White Knight and so far he had learned a lot of things. For starters his Shield has gotten a new ability thanks to that little prickly jerk to add to all the other abilities he got within the week. But due to all these abilities Shiro had lost count of them all. For that other monster he faced it seems thanks to it he gained a new ability called 'Shield Cannon,' which transformed the White Knights Shield into a combination of that shield and Pyredeamos's magic cannon. It seems fodder from those massive monsters not only enhanced his own shield but also provided the White Knight with a new Shield as well.
In fact he can still remember when he first used that weapon.
(Flashback)
"Shield Cannon!" Shiro was heard as he was currently in the White Knight from. Just then the Runic Shield transformed and morphed before turning into a Cannon/Shield combination. The Shield had become more like the monster the cannon came from in design with its face making up a good portion of it. The Cannon itself was attached to the White Knights Left arm that now had a contraption attached to it and the shield. When Shiro took aim with it the Shield went to the front to cover the White Knight as it opened fire.
Nearby Raphtalia was wide eyed at this amazed that the White Knight was able to do this. When Shiro had given it a test shot the blast was huge not like the Pyredaemos Rex but more like a Gundam or any Mobile Suits own bazooka weapon from the Gundam franchise. Shiro was also wide eyed in shock to this as many animals ran for cover from the blast and sound as Shiro created a crater where the blast had made impact.
"Wow." Shiro said clearly not expecting something like this.
(End Flashback)
From what Shiro understood almost any Monster originally found in White Knight Chronicles became fodder for the White Knight instead of his Shield. So far it seems only the larger monsters became fodder for the Knights while the smaller ones became fodder for his actual Shield with a few exceptions. Mainly those exceptions came when the Ability of the White Knight needed said monsters to help create it for battle. Shiro began to wonder if it's only restricted to the Shield or if can also be used for the Knights Sword as well. That train of thought left Shiro's mind wander to the White Knight coming in like a Gundam with a Knights version of a beam rifle in one hand and the shield in the other.
Just then a familiar voice called out dragging Shiro from his thoughts. "Shiro!" Raphtalia called out getting Shiro's attention.
Acting fast Shiro quickly got to work on dealing with this monster. "Shield Prison!" Shiro invoked and in turn trapped the monster inside the Shield Prison. Once that was done Raphtalia jumped in with her sword raised high ready to take down this foe. She sliced the monster in two causing its blood to spill as it was clear she didn't fear blood anymore or at least not as much as she used to.
Once it was done Shiro sighed and looked at the blood stain on his outfit. "Well guess it's time to upgrade our equipment." Shiro said more to himself then anything.
"Shiro!" Raphtalia called as Shiro looked and saw that Raphtalia had become quiet the beauty thanks to the leveling she had done. "I did it!" She called out while smiling and holding the dead monster in her hands.
(Scene Break Erhards shop)
"Wow I hardly recognizes you," Erhard said as he looked at Raphtalia as she grow into a woman she is now as he went on saying, "You turn into a pretty little lady."
Shiro smile at this as roll his eyes to the side as he thought, 'She may look older, but she still think like a kid at times.'
"I've haven't seen you in a while, what have you been up too?" Erhard asked with Raphtalia said to him, "I finally learn correct table manners from the Inn keeper. I wanted to eat my food properly like master Shiro does."
"Raphtalia, what did I say about calling me master?" Shiro said as Raphtalia she rub her head a bit and said, "Sorry I forgot, not to call you that."
"Man you really grown up, nothing like the pipsqueak you use to be," Erhard said as Shiro said to him, "Your mostly right, but she still have some growing to do."
"Shiro!" Raphtalia said as she pouted to that as Shiro and Erhard laugh to that as Erhard soon asked, "So what can I do for you guys."
Before Shiro could answer, the door open with the bell ringing and the first thing he hear calling out was, "Shiro my man!"
"Hu? Hey Taiyo!" Shiro called out as the two guys came up to each other and fist bump each other as he asked, "Good you see you again."
"Same to you brother." Taiyo said as suddenly a female voice called out as she said, "You have a brother, Sir Taiyo?"
Shiro is surprise to hear someone else as he look behind Taiyo and saw a beautiful blonde hair woman and asked, "Hey Taiyo, who this?"
"Oh, sorry about that, Rino this is my best friend Shiro," Taiyo said as Shiro wave to her and said, "Hello there."
"And Shiro, this is my companion, Rino," Taiyo introduce Rino to Shiro as Rino give a small bow to him and said, "A Pleasure to meet you."
"She and I meet when I took up a quest from the Adventurer guild, and save her from some bandits and their leader which you would not believe what he had," Taiyo said as Shiro said to him, "Let me guess, he was also a slaver and there were many others?"
"Well no, but what the guy had was a gigas card," Taiyo said as Shiro looked surprise and said, "Really a gigas card here? Wow, and you beat him right?"
"That's right and then some, as the guy got what he deserve," Taiyo said as suddenly Raphtalia came up and said, "Shiro?"
"Oh right sorry Raphtalia. Hey Shiro meet my companion , her name is Raphtalia and she's a demi-human if you didn't see at first," Shiro said as Raphtalia heard what they were saying as she came up to him and said, "It's nice to meet you sir."
"Call me Taiyo, and nice to meet you, as I see Shiro had found a beautiful companion himself," Taiyo give a kind gesture to Raphtalia a she smiled and said, "Thank you."
Suddenly the door opens again with more footsteps coming in as Jun voice came up and said, "Well I see Taiyo beat us here first then."
"And he's not alone either," Tsubaki voice came up as both guys turn to see their other two friends, Tsubaki and Jun as they both said, "Hey/what up- you two."
Soon enough the group of friends had meet up with each other once more and they started to introduce their companions to the group as well as Tsubaki said, "This is Conan, he's a pretty tough guy who had travel with me when he was kind of small."
"Cool so he's a demi-human as well, nice to meet you Conan," Shiro said as he greeted the guy as Conan nodded as he said, "Thank you Sir Shield hero and it's an honor to finally meet you."
Next up was Jun as she said, "These guys are Demonicon, and Pete, my companion and fellow mercenaries."
"What up/Hello," both of the mercs said as Tsubaki said, "You teach up with Mercenaries?"
"Well didn't want to at first, but they sort of grew on me and turn out Mercenary work does pay well and I don't have to deal with all that red tape crap," Jun said as Tsubaki soon said to her with some dislike tone in her voice no doubt her dislike for mercenaries after dealing with them when she meet Conan, "Good to hear, but I thought you would done something better than becoming Merc yourself."
"Hey, we just hunt down monsters, find rare stuff to grab, and take care of some assholes that seem to like stealing girls underwear," Jun said as Demonicon turn his head a bit and said to himself, "I still wonder why we even taken that job in the first place, but hey it did pay well."
"True." Pete said as the massive guy nodded to his smaller counterpart.
"Still I don't like it." Tsubaki said as she still had a bitter taste about Mercenaries.
"Well the gang is back together again and then some!" Taiyo cheered as he looked to their group which went from being a group of four to a band of nine. "So I gotta ask, where did you find her to begin with?" Taiyo asked with a smirk on his face.
"Trust me, it's a long story." Shiro said and thus Taiyo snickered.
"A story that is none of our business." Rino said as the blond then yanked Taiyo's ears causing him to yelp in pain.
"Ok I'm sorry, uncle! Uncle!" Taiyo cried out and thus Rino let him go.
"Well glad to see you found someone to keep your dumb ass out of trouble." Jun joked as Rino snickered to this.
"He actually has a Quest Woman who keeps him in line too." Rino said with a small snicker.
"Jeez you guys are mean ganging up on me!" Taiyo defended but Shiro then looked to Erhard.
"So since we're all here any recommendations for armor?" Shiro asked as he looked to Erhard.
"He's right Shiro will need some new armor if he wants to face the Wave." Raphtalia said as Shiro looked to her.
"Wait what? No we're here for your equipment." Shiro said and thus Raphtalia looked shocked to this.
"Shiro! I appreciate the thought but its time you protected yourself first for once! I'd rather you not leave me the White Knight so soon if it can be helped!" Raphtalia said as the group was surprised by this. "You just got hurt in the plains after all or have you forgotten." Raphtalia scolded him as Jun smirked a bit while leaning on the wall with her arms crossed.
"I haven't forgotten those pins hurt like hell." Shiro said remembering getting stuck by them.
"In that case you need to stop messing around with your life." Raphtalia said as she then walked over to one of the swords nearby and drew it. "Or you will die." She said holding her finger on the blade making sure Shiro face was reflecting on it.
"Heh." Jun began smirking to this. "I like her." Jun said seeing Raphtalia may be worth keeping around.
"Wow Boss this sword seems real sharp." Raphtalia said as she looked to the sword and Erhard.
"Yeah that's magic iron. You feel like trying it out?" Erhard asked as he looked to Raphtalia.
"What kind of discount can give us?" Raphtalia asked as Taiyo heard this.
"Well don't worry about that, miss anything for you." Erhard said until Taiyo jumped in.
"Does that offer go all round or just to the cute girls." Taiyo asked and thus he had his ear pulled by Rino again yanking him back with a yelp.
"Since we're here can you show us some armor?" Tsubaki asked until Demonicon spoke up.
"Also while we're on the subject do you do repairs?" Demonicon asked as he needed to get his equipment fixed up as did Pete.
"Of course." Erhard said as it was clearly all-round for the answer.
"The most Shiro and I can pay is a 180 silvers." Raphtalia said as she looked to Erhard.
"We're under similar budgets." Tsubaki said as Taiyo nodded next to her.
"My budget is open for debate mainly if these two need some new equipment." Jun said gesturing to Demonicon and Pete.
"No we're good just repairs." Pete said as Jun nodded to the big guy.
"Well can't say it's much but any of you interested in that one?" Erhard asked as he looked over to a large suit of armor.
"Nope." Shiro said with a bored look.
"Sorry already got an armor the size of a house." Taiyo said as Tsubaki saw this.
"No thank you." Tsubaki said as Jun simply did a thumbs down for this.
"Wow that was cold." Demonicon said as he saw the resounding no's. "Pete?" Demonicon said and thus Pete looked.
"No thank you will slow me down." Pete said as he was already heavy enough as is.
"No problem then I whip up something that's made to order." Erhard said getting everyone's attention.
"Made to Order seriously?!" Taiyo asked with a grin.
"If you guys don't mind me using whatever materials I've got on hand I can finish by tomorrow with the repairs to your equipment." Erhard said until Shiro spoke up.
"Can we get a bit of say on the armors design?" Shiro asked as he looked to Erhard.
"Huh?" He asked only to have a varying set of images pushed torts him. "Feel free to make any needed modifications just keep it as close to these as possible." Shiro said as he didn't want the guy to make him or any of his friends to look like bandits.
"Same here." Taiyo said as Jun nodded to this.
(Later at the Pub)
The group of 9 later arrived at the pub as Raphtalia was holding her brand new sword in hand. "Wasn't it nice to give us a discount on this sword?" Raphtalia asked as Demonicon walked with them lacking his armor yet was wearing a spare helmet with only his hair shown revealing he had spikey hair. "He was so sweet to help us like that, don't you think?" Raphtalia asked as she walked with the group.
"No kidding." Rino said with her own newly acquired sword.
"Meh normally I'd be suspicious but this guy doesn't seem to have any ulterior motive." Demonicon said only trusting him because the Boss Jun trusted him.
"Oh don't be like that." Conan said as he walked with the group.
"He's right." Pete said as they gathered at the largest table they can find ignoring the looks people were giving them.
The waiter came around as he came up to the large party as he asked, "Are you ready to order?"
"Cheap meals and drinks for everyone, and a basket of bread too," Shiro ordered as the waiter nodded as he wrote it all down, no one was complaining as they understand they don't have the luxury to order great food at the moment, but at least they can have some bread with the waiter said to him, "1 silver and 15 copper."
"Here's two silvers, keep the change as a tip," Shiro gave the waiter as he nodded and took it before went off to put in their orders and bring a basket of bread and drinks as he did, everyone grab their mug with Shiro said to the group, "Well then here's to us, join back together and with new friends, cheers."
"Cheers!" everyone said as they clung their mugs together and entire their time that nights.
(The next day)
Coming back to Erhard shop, the Merc duo got their gear back with Demonicon gotten his full skeleton armor gear back, and Pete gotten his things back too before giving everyone else their new armor equipment.
With Shiro as he look at his armor, as he didn't think Erhard could do it but he did as he made him the white armor from with much of its detail almost matching perfectly that he is really looking like a true hero now as he said, "Wow, nicely done Erhard."
Taiyo Hero armor was just as good too, as he flex his arms a bit as he said, "Well fitted too, it's a good thing we gave you our measurements."
Tsubaki was next as she was wearing armored heels and armor on vary spots of her arms as it pretty much make her stand out and more. She also had what appeared to be a duster of sorts with her breast being held back by strips of leather no doubt Erhard had to go to a tailor to get the detail just right on her outfit.
With Jun outfit with provided parts she given Erhard, she was wearing an outfit similar to Falis outfit from Murder princess before the whole body swap happen, with black dragon scales on it giving it a more badass mercenary/hunter look to it with Jun smile to this as she said, "I'm happy."
"Looking good boss," Demonicon said with Pete nodded in agreement to him with Conan said to Tsubaki, "IT looks nice but is that good for combat."
"Have a bit of faith in me Conan," Tsubaki said to him as Rino looks at Taiyo and said, "Well it certainly bring out a better look to you sir Taiyo."
"You think so? Sweet I've been hoping it would," He said happy about that as he flex his muscles again with Rino sweat drop a bit as she said, "Maybe I should have not said anything?"
"So cool! You guys look absolutely amazing! You as well Shiro," Raphtalia said as she looks at the four friend's set as who knew they would look so great and heroic as Erhard smile to his work as he said, "I put my heart and soul into making these sets you guys look like real heroes now, You guys rock!"
"Thank you Erhard, we'll try and keep them as good as when you made them," Shiro said as suddenly there was a sound of a horse calling out, with everyone turning to see knights, guards, and some adventures preparing for the wave as it drew near with Raphtalia said, "It clear it see everyone in town is on edge now."
"Well that is to be expected with the Wave drawing near," Rino said with Demonicon said, "After what happen in the first wave I don't blame these people a lot of people die during it, nothing so bad for me and Pete here but still."
"True," Pete said as Shiro spoken up saying, "Yea, and if only we knew where and when the wave will hit, it could be easier to handle it and we can plan out something for it."
"Wait hold on you don't know?" Demonicon said as the four friends looks at the skeleton theme guy as Shiro asked, "Don't know what?"
"You guys telling us you don't know about the clock?" Erhard said as Taiyo said, "There was a clock that counted down for the waves?"
"Yes there is, I thought you knew sir Taiyo. Isn't that why you came here and rejoin with the shield Hero?" Rino said with Taiyo said, "Well, no really, I came back because it felt like it."
"And besides I think not many people would told us anyways sense we were friends with Shiro who is the shield Hero, as for some reason… he not very liked before coming here," Jun said as Rino eyes widen a bit as she forgot that detail and said, "Oh… I'm sorry about that."
"So where is this clock?" Conan asked as he wonder about the clock too as Demonicon came up and said, "Well me and Pete came here a few time to know a thing or two, the Clock is located at the large church called the Church of the Three Heroes as it has 3 weapons up top of it can't miss it, with the inside there supposed to be a huge hour glass that has a dragon look to it."
"Then I guess that's where we will go," Shiro said as Erhard said to them as they were about to go, "They say when the last grain of sand falls, the hero and their party are sent to where the wave begins at.
"Thank Erhard," Tsubaki said to the guy before the entire party move out and headed towards the church.
(Later)
Upon arriving with the group looking at it, with Shiro giving a frown as he saw why they were call the church of the 3 Heroes as it had the bow, the spear, and the sword representing the cardinal heroes, all but the shield as Shiro said, "Is this one of the reason I'm not like as much before coming here?"
"Sorry to say but yes," Rino said as Shiro sighed to his as Taiyo came up putting a hand on his best friend shoulder and said, "Hey don't let it get to you, once we do this and get things done we can try starting a church of the knights we have, then maybe people won't look down at you because you have a shield."
"Very encouraging there," Jun said in her normal tone that no one can tell if she was being serious or not as Tsubaki said, "Lets head inside and see when the wave starts." With that as the party soon headed inside.
(Inside the church)
The group was guided by a Nun as they got to the sight of this massive oddly designed Hourglass. "Come this way." The Nun said and thus the group made their way in.
When they saw it the group was wide eyed at it. "Wow so this is the Dragon Hourglass that jerk talked about." Taiyo said as he saw the massive item.
"No kidding." Shiro said as he saw the Hourglass. When they approached it Shiro saw a glow from his Shield before it shot out a beam that hit the Hourglass resulting in a large golden glow. Then to Shiro's shock in his vision he saw a timer appear as it counted down on how long they had until the Wave. "20 hours left." Shiro said and thus they knew that meant early tomorrow morning the Wave would arrive.
"Is that Shiro I see?" Motoyasu was heard and thus Rino hid behind Pete who was the largest of their group.
Shiro and the others looked and thus Demonicon and Jun glared at the thief who stole their bounty.
"Hey what's this, you're not still fighting with that flimsy equipment are you?" Motoyasu asked as he noted Shiro had new gear now.
Raphtalia saw him as Conan was confused to see this. "Do you know who these people are Shiro?" Raphtalia asked as he looked to Shiro.
"Unfortunately." Shiro said not even bothering with Motoyasu before taking his leave. "Come on guys we got what we need here." Shiro said while he began to take his leave.
"Hey wait up!" Taiyo called out chasing after Shiro.
"Hey! Sir Motoyasu was talking to you Shiro." Myne said as Tsubaki was oddly quiet with Conan both having agreed to keep what Fitoria told them a secret for now.
"Yeah but I don't care." Shiro said as Jun smirked a bit.
"And here I thought I was cold." Jun said with a smirk while walking with Pete and Demonicon.
"Hi there." Motoyasu was heard as he was speaking with Raphtalia. "I'm Motoyasu Kiramora the Spear Hero nice to meet you." Motoyasu said only to feel cold steal against his neck. He looked and saw a dagger was held against his neck and saw Jun was there.
"I'll give you to the count of 3 to step away from you... sempai." Jun said as she said 'sempai,' in a taunting way adding a bit of a Yandere like tone. Motoyasu froze up and stepped away from Raphtalia said as Jun then let Motoyasu go. "Ignore him next time ok, him and his red haired harpy over there will try to steal you away from Shiro just to spite him." Jun said as she looked to Shiro.
"Right." Raphtalia said as she looked to Jun and went to regroup. "Sorry but I made it my sworn duty to fight side by side with Shiro." Raphtalia said as Motoyasu was surprised to hear this.
"Are you kidding that's insane if you stay with Shiro you'll be in danger?" Motoyasu said only to find a Halberd at his neck.
"The girl said no to you so respect her decision you blond haired thief." Demonicon said as he glared at Motoyasu.
"It's not like I'm wrong." Motoyasu said only for Rino to have enough of his crap.
"Would hardly be the first time." Rino said and thus Motoyasu looked and was surprised to see Rino here.
"R-Rino-chan?" Motoyasu gasped when he saw Rino here.
"W-What the hell are you doing here?!" Myne bellowed, shocked to see Rino here after she was sold off especially among two of these Pactmakers.
"I'm here because I wanted to fight by Taiyo and his friend's side during the Wave." Rino said glaring at Motoyasu in contempt.
"W-Wait, so you left my party to join up with Shiro? Why would you do that are you insane?!" He asked shocked to see that Rino was taking Shiro's side.
"Because you're an idiotic scumbag who left me to rot all because you believed that two faced lying bitch!" Rino accused as she glared at Malty.
"I did no such thing! Take it back right now, you whore!" Myne prepared to slap Rino in the face for her insults only to find Jun's with a dagger at her neck glaring at her.
"If that's true why so defensive about it?" Jun asked almost taunting Myne to act further.
"W-Why is this happening…? What did that bastard White Knight do to you?!" Motoyasu asked only for Rino to act and proceed to Slap Motoyasu in the face.
Motoyasu was wide eyed when this happened as Rino glared at him in contempt. "He didn't do anything to me, in fact I just met him yesterday while traveling with Taiyo." Jun said showing that this was in fact the second day of interacting with Shiro.
"R-Rino-chan, you seriously don't hate me, do you? You had so much fun with us, didn't you?" Motoyasu sheepishly asked, "I mean, sure you weren't around for too long, but you didn't need to feel like you had to leave because you didn't fit in. You loved being around me, didn't you?"
"Sure, I would have, had you not been so stupid." Rino retorted, "As for why I really left the party, why don't you ask that two-faced Princess what really happened? Assuming what she says is the truth instead of a bald faced lie, that is." Rino said causing Myne to glare at her again for her insults.
"Myne would never-" Motoyasu said glaring at Taiyo but Taiyo was yawning a bit while watching not wanting to be a part of this.
"Stop. Just stop." Rino shook her head, "Leave us alone. I hate you so much right now, and I especially hate everyone in your party!" Rino cried out as she glared at Motoyasu and most of all Myne.
"T-That has to be a lie!" Motoyasu said still deep in denial.
"You know I heard the Nile was in Egypt." Taiyo said adding his two cents even though Rino needed to do this.
"Shut up!" Motoyasu snapped but Taiyo smirked and took his leave with the others close behind Shiro. Rino gave one last glare before she took her leave as well to regroup with her allies.
(Scene Break that Evening)
That evening everyone was either asleep or getting ready for bed. Luckily they all managed to split the bill for the in between them all. The girls had their own room to share since it was just Tsubaki, Jun, Rino, and Raphtalia. The boys comprised of Shiro, Taiyo, Conan, Pete, and Demonicon were the same more or less. Regardless Taiyo saw Shiro working on medicine as he grinded some herbs for it.
"Hey Shiro." Taiyo began yet Shiro kept working. "You doing ok?" Taiyo asked while Shiro continued to work.
"Yeah I'll be fine." Shiro said as he kept working.
As Shiro kept working Taiyo felt it was time to ask an important question. "You know you could still try to defend yourself." Taiyo said and thus Shiro stopped what he was doing for a moment.
"Even if I did." Shiro began getting Taiyo's attention. "That girl has more power they'll take her side more than mine." Shiro said knowing Myne or Melty had political power and thus would be able to deny his claims as lies with no backlash to herself. Only Jun had the best chance at beating her because as much as Jun hates to admit it she's been in the mindset of Myne in the past so she knows how she thinks.
"Look I'm just saying even if it's a losing fight its sure beats just laying down and taking it." Taiyo said before he yawned. "Well I'm going to bed so goodnight." Taiyo said and thus he opted to go to sleep leaving Shiro to his work. Shiro really wanted to make that girl suffer but even if he used the White Knight to make it so... it would all be pointless.
(The Next Morning)
The sun had just barely rose up as the group had awoken to face the Wave together. "Well here we are everyone is up and we're all about to go into a huge ass avengers style battle." Taiyo said as Jun walked out.
"Well then I guess that means you're the extra." Jun said passing by causing Taiyo to scowl a bit.
"Don't let her get to you." Rino said patting Taiyo to help him calm down from Jun's insult.
"Shiro," Raphtalia called out to him as he turn to her and said, "What is it Raphtalia?"
"I… just want to say, I'm grateful I met you," she said as everyone is surprise she is saying that as Shiro thinking she said that because of what he said before in that cave, that one of them could die and on the day of a wave is a good chance he could, while Raphtalia went on saying, "You cured my illness and fed me warm meals. You taught me how to live… And you gave me a reason to fight, a reason to fight the waves."
As the Sun rise higher as it shine on them with Raphtalia went on saying, "I am your sword! Wherever you go, I will go with you."
With everyone surprise by Raphtalia devotion to Shiro, as he could not help but smile a bit as he said, "Thank you Raphtalia."
Shiro quickly added everyone to his party before the count down soon reach the 30 second mark as Shiro began to say to everyone, "Listen up, to those who are joining us, we may not know what we could be facing during this wave… so I'm not going to say good luck or do your best, as if we die, we die… but before we do… let's give our all and hope out for the best as this is the start of our chronicles!"
Taiyo, Tsubaki, and Jun nodded to this as they understand what he meant with everyone giving a smile and felt motivated to fight as they know they may not survive, but that won't mean they are going to die lying down, as they will fight and die on their feet fighting the wave.
As the countdown reaches Zero, the sky turns red, a magic circle appeared below everyone before glowing as they were instantly transported to the wave, with everyone blinded for a moment.
(Elsewhere)
After being transported, everyone open their eyes and look around to see they are in the middle of a forest now with Taiyo asked, "Where are we?"
Raphtalia and Rino gasp out a bit as they all look up to the sky seeing the wave has come, as everyone gotten ready to fight with Shiro said, "There it is... The wave of Catastrophe."
In the sky many magical vortex portals are seen as they all move together in some cloud, moving like the name describe it as, a wave and from those vortex monsters are seen coming out from them.
Suddenly everyone heard a small stampede of footsteps are the party look and saw the other Heroes parties are headed out to battle as Jun said, "They heading out."
"Let catch up then," Shiro said as before he could follow Raphtalia called out, "Shiro look the village of lute!"
He look and to his surprise to see that Lute village was near them as Shiro asked, "Did they evacuate yet?"
A flare pop out from the village, letting anyone they needed help, as it seem Shiro got his answer as he said, "This isn't good, the castle is too far away for the knights to arrive in time."
"The village will be wipe out before they could get there," Tsubaki said as she know what Shiro is thinking, heck all the friends do as he said, "Lets head out to Lute village."
"Right behind you," Jun said with the two guy giving a nod as Tsubaki said, "Let us make haste."
"And take out the monsters," Taiyo said as soon enough the entire party went out to the village to help the people as the fight as begun.
(Lute village)
The gate to the village was already broken down with an army of the undead pass through it with many bee or hornet like creatures flew around, with a skeleton knight was about to cut someone down, Shiro came just in time to block it before using his sword and stabbing it in its head.
Raphtalia came in and started to cut down any other undead around before she called out, "Are you alright?"
"Raphtalia, go help the villagers to evacuate," Shiro said to her, as Raphtalia turn to him and asked, "But what about you Shiro?"
To the sound of fighting all around as Shiro look and see his friends and their companions were fighting and very well as the two mercs were fighting with great strength and speed, Conan was very skilled with a pair of dagger he had, to say he seem to on pair with Raphtalia speed with the sword, and Rino shows her skill why she is an Adventurer.
"I got plenty of help here Raphtalia, just help the people out first," Shiro said as Raphtalia nodded as she help the guy Shiro just saved and get him to safety, with Shiro seeing more hordes of undead coming he soon said, "I've better draw their attention."
Over where some villagers were at fighting with pitchforks and other farming tool, with one guy soon saw someone coming, as it was Shiro holding up his shield to push enemies aside as he called out, "Hey it's one of the Heroes!"
"The shield Hero is here for us!" another person said, as Shiro soon came up to the group, drawing his sword and cut the head off of an undead knight before he called out, "Listen up everyone! My friends and I will keep them occupied! Get out of here while you can!"
Cutting down a few more undead with ease, as either the undead were really that weak or he had slightly improve with his sword skills during the last few weeks, drawing the other undead attention towards him as he ran for it.
The undead soon walk away from the villagers as Shiro took the agro of the undead and turn it on him, with the villagers relax a bit knowing the danger wasn't on them anymore, but Shiro was far from done.
Coming up to a guy with a large backpack as it seem he was trying to make a run for it but didn't get out in time as he was about to be cut down Shiro called out, "Air strike shield!"
The green magic shield appeared and block the monsters attack from hitting the villager before Shiro came in and cut it down quickly as he said, "Hurry up and run for it!"
His attention was soon pulled somewhere else as he hears a little girl crying as he turn to see a mother and daughter trap in the middle of a mob of monsters with the hornet monster coming at them he quickly called out, "Shield prison!"
the ball of shield form around the two protecting them from the monsters while Shiro slashed at a few of them to draw their attention on him as well with the mercs came up with Demonicon swing his halberd as he called out, "Duck!"
Shiro did so as Demonicon cut down all the hornet monster down with ease, with Pete grab some undead and swing them around knocking others away as Shiro called out, "Thanks guys!"
Pete and Demonicon nodded just before another voice was heard. "Pete!" Tsubaki called out and thus Pete looked and saw Tsubaki running his way. "Give me a lift!" She called out getting the message and thus Pete opened his hand. Tsubaki jumped and put her foot in the hand allowing Pete to throw her through the sky.
As Tsubaki flew she fired off multiple arrows at her foes hitting many of them at once. Once she landed Jun ran on by with her sword and dagger in both hands and proceeded to slash her way through her foes. Their flesh were cut as she made brutal yet quick work of them as best she could. As Jun did this she jumped over a Zombie and used her dagger to sever its head from its neck killing it.
Jun growled and thus kept fighting as she was clearly not in a good mood right now. Then again it was always hard to tell if she was angry or not considering how a majority of the time she's scowling or giving a blank calm look. Jun then jumped up and sliced into a monster cutting it in two before spinning around and stabbing another with her dagger.
Just then another large monster was coming at her but before she could act Taiyo jumped in and stabbed his spear into the monster. The Monster cried out in pain giving Rino a chance to slice at its legs causing it to fall to its knees. Taking the chance Jun jumped up and sliced the monsters head off with her sword where it fell down dead.
"Great teamwork!" Taiyo called out as he took his spear out of the monster.
"Don't celebrate just yet we still have all these guys to take care off." Shiro said as he slashed at a few more monster that were coming for them all.
(Meanwhile with Raphtalia and Conan)
"Everyone come this way!" Raphtalia called out as she helped guide the village's people to safety.
"Hurry!" Conan added as he also played guide for the Villagers. But from where they stood the fires were as clear as day to see for them.
"Please all of you be ok." Raphtalia said hoping they would make it out alright.
(Back with Shiro's party)
"Get the Hell out of here! Just stay back!" Came the voice of an Adventerur as he and his partner were surrounded and afraid.
Just hen the monsters were hit with arrows followed by a blade slash from Rino. "Hurry get to safety!" Rino ordered and thus the Adventurers nodded and ran for it.
Nearby Jun saw the amount of monsters that were attacking and knew they needed a way to stem the tide. "Tsubaki!" Jun called out as she looked to Tsubaki. "I have an idea get a fire arrow ready!" Jun called out and thus Tsubaki nodded.
"Got it." Tsubaki responded and thus Jun got to work.
Jun was slicing her way through monsters left and right as she use bot her weapons to get the job done. She ran over to the watch tower and sheathed her sword on her back. "Shiro boost me!" Jun called out and thus Shiro heard this.
"On it! Air Strike Shield!" Shiro invoked and thus the Shield appeared and Jun jumped onto it.
As Jun ran up the shied she jumped onto the ladder and climbed up it. When Jun got to the top she then run the bell getting all of the enemy's attention on her and the tower. They in turn began to surround it as Jun got ready for the next part by grabbing the lamp for its oil. She poured a trail on the ground and to the ledge before the place shook. Jun looked down and saw the large amount of Undead swarming up the tower causing Jun to smirk. She then poured the rest of the lamp oil down the edge and then got serious.
"Tsubaki now!" Jun called out and thus nearby Tsubaki fired a fire tipped arrow and shot it at the tower where the oil then caught fire setting the entire tower ablaze.
Seeing now was her chance Jun jumped off the edge and torts where Pete and Demonicon was. "One of you catch me!" Jun ordered and in turn Demonicon and Pete look only for Demonicon to go wide eyed. Pete was about to catch Jun but Jun was then hit by a random hornet monster causing her to land on Demonicon who broke her fall. Demonicon cried out in pain as Pete then looked down on him.
"You don't catch so well." Pete said as Demonicon glared at Pete.
"Shut up!" Demonicon yelled showing he did not want to hear it.
"Focus!" Jun ordered a she got back up and drew her sword again.
(With Shiro)
As Shiro saw this he then got ready for the next bit of combat until a voice called out to him. "Sir Hero!" Came a villager as Shiro looked and saw the Villagers coming is way.
"What the heck you guys need to go it's too dangerous!" Shiro scolded the shocked to even see them here.
"We all changed our minds and came back after seeing how courageous you and your party are fighting." The man said as he looked to Shiro. "Lute is our home it's all we have we can't just run away and abandon it." The man said and thus Shiro sighed to this. "We decided we'll fight with you." The Man said and thus Shiro sighed.
"Alright keep the enemy pinned down until we can finish the evacuation." Shiro said and in turn the two heard a roar of a monster and saw a large undead coming here way. Before it could attack Pete pushed them out of the way and blocked the attack.
"Die monster!" A villager called out stabbing it with his pitchfork. Pete kept it at bay as best he could pushed the monster away from the villager.
"Stay away from them!" Tsubaki called out firing off multiple Arrows at the monster having them climb up the monsters arm.
The monster glared at them until a pair of voices were heard. "Shiro/Tsubaki!" Raphtalia and Conan cried out as they charged in to attack. Raphtalia came in with Conan and thus Shiro saw the chance.
"Hurry on me!" Shiro called out and thus smashed his shield into the Monsters face. Once that was done Raphtalia and Conan worked together to slice up the monster killing it with ease.
"Way to go!" Taiyo called out as he saw this causing the trio to smile.
"Hurry we have everything covered go stay with your families." Jun ordered the civilians to which they nodded to the party. Jun then directed her attention to the others. During this the party had managed to level up thanks to the larger monster.
"Alright but be careful all of you!" The leading villager said and thus the villagers took their leave.
"That was first large monster we face more are sure to follow." Jun said as she looked to the group knew what this meant.
"Yeah I can tell." Shiro said knowing they may need to bring out the big guns soon. "And since their numbers aren't going down it's only going to get worse." Shiro said as they were all in agreement on this.
Just then from the edges of the village magical fire shot up into the sky around them. "What?!" Jun asked when she saw this.
"Oh no." Taiyo said as he recognized this spell. "Everyone take cover now!" Taiyo called out and thus did as told and got to whatever cover they could. Shiro used his shield and cloak to protect Raphtalia while fire rained down on them. As everyone got to cover the entire area was covered in flames before cocky laughter was heard.
"We burned them all with a single strike." The Knight Captain said as Taiyo came out of a house he and Rino ran into.
"Oh great that dick again." Taiyo said as he glared at the man.
Said Captain took notice to Shiro as he was still hiding under his shield and cloak with Raphtalia. "Oh the Shield Hero you're pretty tough." The Knight said as Shiro growled at this and stood up.
"Were you trying to kill us?!" Conan yelled as he pointed his twin daggers at the Knights.
Hearing this Raphtalia got up and pointed her sword at them. "If you were trying to kill Shiro then you will die!" Raphtalia said as Shiro heard this.
"Damn Demihumans how dare you point your swords at the Royal Knights." The Commander said but Taiyo stepped in.
"They wouldn't have to if you guys actually did your damn job!" Taiyo yelled accusingly at the supposed Royal Knight.
"He's right what kind of Knight neglects the people he's supposed to defend." Raphtalia added as she glared at the Royal Knight.
"Guys that's enough!" Shiro called out as the Knight smirked only for Shiro to continue. "We got bigger problems to deal with then a bunch of sorry excuses for Knights." Shiro said as he then got ready. "Like that Gigas coming up behind the Captain." Shiro said not even looking and thus the Captain went wide eyed and saw a large wolf like monster with a demonic axe attacking him. Shiro acted and blocked the attack and thus glared at it.
With a roar Taiyo came in and slashed at it with his spear near the eye on its chest pushing it back. "The Gigas isn't our only problem it seems." Jun said as the group looked and saw the flyers were being joined by what looked like the monsters from White Knight Chronicles 2 the Wyvern's.
"Guys! Its time!" Shiro called out and thus they all sheathed their varying weapons.
"Come on lets buy them some time to summon them!" Raphtalia called out knowing what was coming next.
"What are they doing?" The Captain asked but thus they all bore witness to it.
"O Wizel White Warrior Wielder of the Ancient Sword." Shiro began with the dagger in one hand and his left arm covered in the gauntlet.
"O Dinivas Deliverer of Dark and Dread, Ruler of the Ancient Shadows." Jun invoked with the Black Knights Sheathed sword based ark floating before her.
"O Larvain vermillion Drake, Leveler of Ancient Lands!" Taiyo invoked as he threw the Belt and allowed it to fly around him.
"O Luthia Ardent Goddess and Beacon of the Ancient Knight." Tsubaki invoked as the Moon Maidens Ark floated before her.
"GRANT ME YOUR POWER!" They all invoked and thus one by one they had their Arks at the read. "VERTO!" They all invoked as Shiro's gauntlet opened, Jun drew the sword from its sheath opening the wings for her Ark, Taiyo took a Henshin pose and had the Dragons Head of his Lasso Belt chomp down on the crest causing it to glow, and Tsubaki drew and arrow before the crest opened up and she fired it into the sky.
A blinding light covered the entire area and soon the sound of clanking armor was heard as the Light died down. Then to the Royal Knights shock they saw not one nor two but FOUR massive Knights standing ready for battle. They stood side by side as all their eyes flashed to life showing they were ready for combat.
The white knight soon struck first, against the Gigas that attacked first with a few good slashes it was brought down fast, with the moon maiden took to the sky and raise her bow, pulling back the string and fire down, not at just one but a few Gigas around in the distant.
The dragon knight took care of another Gigas that was coming near them using his trident spear and send it back away from the village, with the black knight soon taken off herself and taken a Gigas down with a slash of her sword.
With the royal knights bore witness to this while the rest of the party were in awe to the site of the four knights fighting as Shiro turn towards them as he said, "You guy try to take care of the smaller ground forces while we take care of the Gigas, there are still a lot of villagers still in the village itself fighting, back them up and protect them, that mean you and your squad of knights and prove you are knights."
Soon enough as the dragon knight took off as well with the white knight running off into battle being the only one that can't fly out of all the knights and fought against the forces of Gigas with some younger the knights looked impressed and expiring, as the captain saw this just scoffs a bit as he said, "Let their party deal with this. We're heading to where the three Heroes are!"
Some of the knights were walk off as the vice-captain watch as the four great knights fight against the giant monsters while their party members taken care of the ground forces, as skilled as they are, they were still outnumbered as the vice-captain order out, "Support the Shield Hero's party! Phalanx formation!"
Most of the knights smile to this order as they all group together and yell out, "Phalanx!"
"Charge!" the vice-captain order as the knights went out and attack the monsters around the village as a team, helping out the party to take them down as Raphtalia said, "Look the knights."
"They are helping us," Conan said as he smile to this with Rino speaking up adding in her own two cent as she said, "I'm glad there are those with honor still."
"Yep, but can't say the same thing to that prick over there," Demonicon said as he look over at the captain of the knights as he was just left with few knights that stood by his side as the captain said, "Forget them. Let's go!"
With the battle against the Gigas went on cutting their numbers fast, with the white knight saw the numbers of the Gigas had decrease which was good but the number of monsters still seem the same and not going down anytime soon, as he knew there was a boss character that you have to beat to end this wave and it seem the so call Heroes were taking their sweet ass time as he call out to the others, "Jun, Taiyo, Tsubaki! Go find the other heroes, they maybe at the boss monster right now."
"You want us to help them or something?" Jun asked as she came flying near him as he calls out, "No, just take out the boss soon as you can so we can end this wave now, just go and I'll take care the rest of these guys."
"I'm down for that! Let's see who can get their first!" Taiyo said as he flew off with Tsubaki came up behind and said, "I'll shoot the monster down before you can even touch it!"
"You guys are so immature," Jun said as she follow behind as well, as she agrees with Shiro in this as this wave needs to end now, with Shiro seeing the remaining Gigas coming up to him as he said, "I think it time to really try this new weapon out. Shield Cannon!"
From his white knight's shield, suddenly change into the Pyredeamos's cannon weapon, as he held it up like a normal missile launcher, taking aim at the remaining Gigas and said, "Time to go sleep for good."
He fire the cannon as it let out a huge bang sound with the shot flew and struck two Gigas bringing them down quickly. "Boom!" Shiro taunted as he stood up with his Knight while holstering the Cannon a bit. Shiro then noted his MP had taken a toll with that weapon and opted to avoid using it if he can. "Better avoid using that one. Takes a toll on my MP." Shiro said as the Shield Cannon reverted to its base Runic Shield Form. He then saw several other Gigas getting back up glaring at Shiro with murder in their minds. "Ok then... let's rumble." Shiro said while taking a battle stance.
In turn the battle once more began. Shiro started off with a shield bash as he managed to cause a Gigas to stumble before he ran it through with his sword through the demon eye it had. Once he did this he avoided another attack and blocked a second attack with his shield. He then pushed his foe back and slashed through both attackers at once. Once he did this he spun around and stabbed another Gigas through the side before using his shield hand to bash it back. Shiro didn't end it there as he then bashed the Gigas once more and then slammed its head into his armored knee. Once this was done Shiro then decapitated the Gigas with ease.
"Great I'm farming EXP and farming Shield Fodder." Shiro said with a grin on his face to this despite being in the White Knight at the moment. He then saw more coming his way and proceeded to take a battle stance. "Well here we go!" Shiro called out before charging into battle to fight off his foes. Shiro let out a mighty battle cry as he charged into the fray intent on winning this fight no matter what. He then slashed another monster and allowed its blood to spew seemingly tainting his pure white armor a crimson red as this happened. He then glared and then continued the onslaught intended on winning this battle.
(In the Sky)
The Black Knight was seen flying through the sky as Wyverns chased after it. Jun had started turning this into a dog fight of sorts as she flew around. She then turned to face her foe and in turn summoned forth crimson magic in the form of daggers. She then spun around and fired them off at the Wyvern on her tail. The Results were as expected causing Jun to smirk in response to this. She then spun around the air as the tip of her wings left cloud trails while she spun.
Nearby more Wyverns showed up only for one of them to be stabbed by Taiyo and his Dragon Knight before he threw it over to its friend. This caused the second Wyvern to stumble giving Taiyo the opening he needed to attack the reptilian beast. He then grabbed it by its neck and got ready to skewer it on his Trident. That was until Arrows pierced into it ending its life instantly.
"Hey not cool kill stealer!" Taiyo called out as Tsubaki grinned through her Knight.
"Sorry you snooze you lose." Tsubaki responded with a smirk on her face despite it being hidden under the Moon Maiden's form.
"Focus you two!" Jun called out as she flew by to help with combat while slashing through a great number of Wyverns as she passed them by. She then flew up and performed a quark screw and shredded her way through multiple monsters at once.
In turn Jun flew upward and spread her wings about glaring down upon all of her foes. "Show off!" Tsubaki called out as Jun ignored the archer and returned to the job at hand.
"Hey look down there I spy three idiots trying to be heroes." Taiyo called out as they all looked and saw the Three Morons taking on Three Gigas with absolutely no clue on how to fight it. "We have to help them don't we?" Taiyo asked clearly tired from the day they had been having thus far.
"Yes we do." Jun said clearly not liking it but they had no choice in this.
(Down with the Three Heroes)
The three were trying to fight off the Gigas to the best of their abilities but these things were powerful. "Dammit what are these things?!" Motoyasu yelled as he glared at the foes.
"I don't know but their powerful." Itsuki said as he glared at the monster with another arrow at the ready.
"Look out!" Ren called out as two of the Gigas came down on them with weapons raised. Just then Taiyo in the Dragon Knight appeared and blocked the attack with the shaft of his Trident.
"Sorry these dumbasses are off the menu!" Taiyo called out as he pushed the Gigas back. Just then Jun flew in hard and landed on her feet grinding against the ground before spinning and slashing through the two attacking Gigas. Just then the two Knights proceeded to hack and slash into the monsters causing them great harm as they did so. Once they did this they stepped back and clenched the fists of their free hands. Then then proceeded to uppercut the two Gigas causing their defenses to be left wide open.
The two then roared out in challenge and proceeded to charge the monsters before lifting them up to the sky where they flew upward. Once they were airborne then knocked the two monsters to the sky where in turn two magical arrows were shot curtesy of Tsubaki and the Moon Maiden. The arrows in turn killed the Gigas just as they landed on the ground once more.
Ren, Itsuki, and Motoyasu were shocked as not long after Jun, Tsubaki, and Taiyo landed. The trio were standing over their defeated foes looking like heroes with how they were covered in blood at varying spots. "Piece of cake." Taiyo smirked as it was clear they won this fight.
(Meanwhile back in Lute with Shiro)
Shiro was breath heavily, as he went through ha tough battle as he was standing on a mountain of Gigas corpses like a might warrior that slayed all of his enemies while standing over their fallen foes cover in their blood as well when he fought against them, it wasn't an easy battle, but he did it.
The monsters has stop coming, the wave had started to vanish from site, and the sky itself soon return back to its normal blue color, the wave was over and the shield party was victorious as the white knight look up into the sky despite being cover in blood still as he said, "They did it… finally."
The party look at the amount of enemies that Shiro had taken care of and they were quite surprise of how many Gigas were there in this fight, everyone knew the next wave was going to be a challenge.
(The other heroes)
Jun, Tsubaki and Taiyo had already left the 3 Heroes and their parties as Motoyasu said, "So much for being a walk in the park."
"I'm sure we'll do better next time, we just have to get stronger," Itsuki said as if it was that simple with Ren said, "If the giant monsters were this tough, we would have to gain greater power."
"I wonder, where was Shiro during all this, as it seem his friend seem to have plenty of time to help out," Motoyasu as Malty came up to him saying, "Let's not focus on him as it was good that he wasn't here. He'd just hold us back."
"Haha, I guess so," Motoyasu said as if it was true, with Ren and Itsuki had a different thought on this entirely as both of them knew they didn't even hurt one Gigas and there were great amount of them before those three knights showed up, and practically saved them from certain death as they wonder if they can surely be strong enough to fight against these creature?
"Heroes!" the voice of the captain of the royal knight is heard as he and the few knight that was with him had finally came and were extremely late with all three heroes and their party members look to see the captain of the guard coming up to them and out of breath before he said, "Well done!"
"The knights" Ren said with Motoyasu said, "A bit late to show up now, right?"
"Now, now, don't say that. His highness has rewards for each of you," the captain said to cover his ass of being late, as he knew the king would reward them anyways as the captain went on saying, "Let us go see him."
(Scene break at lute village)
After the battle of the wave, with the four knights had taken care of the Gigas bodies, as they strip the bodies of weapon and other stuff to keep to the sides, and help Shiro loaded them into his shield, breaking down their bodies into particles until they were gone before joining with the rest of the party that were helping the village.
Shiro had given away the last bit of his medicines to the villagers to help them best he could but there were so much he can do with the little skills he had and supply he made while looking over to the vice-captain and the other knights who were also helping out the villagers before they gotten order to return back to the castle, as Shiro gave the vice-captain a look before a nod in his own way of saying 'Thanks' with the captain return it and soon went on his way with the rest of the royal knights following him.
"We killed all the monster left in the village." Rino said with a smile on her face.
"Good work," Shiro said as he knew she could do it with the help that came with his friends as Raphtalia went on saying, "Did we...win?"
Before he could answer, someone called out to him saying, "Shield Hero!" turn to see the noble of the village bowing down to him while saying, "Thank you so much. We couldn't have made it without you."
"Don't thank me, thank yourselves and your people bravery to holding out as long as they did, as me and my friends just fought off the monsters the best we could," Shiro said as one villagers that Shiro had saved in the start of the battle said, "no, your presence is what helped us survive. We'll never forget what you've done for us."
Shiro stood there looking at them for a moment before turning around and said, "Whatever you say."
The villagers soon bow to him with the noble once again giving a silent thank you to him, as he hasn't done it out of fame or power, but just to help those who were helpless, their thanks were good enough to know he did good as the villagers soon walk off and go on with their work as Raphtalia said, "They looked truly grateful."
"I guess," Shiro said to her with Tsubaki coming to him and said, "Hey be proud of what you did for them, while we went off you stay here and defended them like a hero."
"Yeah man, stand proud of what you did. You did what you said you were going to do and did, as Shiro you re the man," Taiyo said as Jun said to him, "You inspire them take it where it counts."
"They were truly grateful." Conan said as Rino nodded to the young Fox Demihuman.
"You were the only hero willing to help them." Rino confessed as she looked to Shiro getting everyone's attention.
"And thanks to that we saved some kids from going what I did." Raphtalia said as Shiro knew what she meant.
"I guess that means we're heroes then huh." Shiro said but Raphtalia began to shed tears.
"Still... I killed so many monsters." Raphtalia said showing she had seen a lot of blood today.
"It's ok." Demonicon said as he made sure his helmet was still on his head.
"You get used to it after a while." Pete added as he put a comforting hand on Raphtalia's shoulder.
"Still the Waves will only get stronger." Shiro said as he looked to his Knights Ark with wonder. "The Question is... when will it end? When can we stop being the Cardinal Heroes?" Shiro asked knowing there had to be an end to this somewhere. The question was where it was and how to get to it.
"Still the way we fought together." Tsubaki began as she walked in getting everyone's attention. "Ever wonder if the Three Weapons made the wrong choice?" Tsubaki asked opting not to reveal what she found out from Fitoria because there was still a chance it was not true.
"Every day since we got here." Jun said to which Taiyo nodded in response.
"It doesn't matter." Shiro said as he looked to his friends. "What does matter is that we get stronger to face the next wave." Shiro said as he held his ark up to his face.
"Yeah." Taiyo said holding his own Knight Ark up.
"I couldn't agree more." Tsubaki said holding her own Knights ark to the other two. Jun seeing this smirked and added her own in showing she was in on this as well. Shiro seeing this nodded and added his own Knights ark to the mass as for a second it was like they were the Four Musketeers minus the rapiers and the all for one and one for all chant.
Their party members saw this and in some of their minds the Cardinal Weapons did choose wrong because so far Tsubaki, Jun, and Taiyo have proven more worthy of the Cardinal Weapons than Itsuki, Ren, and Motoyasu have done so far. Rino began to wonder if there was a spell that can transfer the weapons to more worthy hands. Conan shared similar thoughts to Rino but more along the lines as transferring the weapons to their true owners. But the question remained how long can, they last against the Waves before it grows too much for them.
(Scene Break Melromarc)
Aultcray arrived at the lab he had provided for the researcher and his two assistants. The two little girls were on carrying spots with the louder one on a container swinging her legs back and forth. The quieter one was next to the Doctor as he was doing the finishing touches on something.
"I was told you had finished a prototype?" Aultcray asked to which the Doctor nodded.
"Of course glad to see my message was received though it pains me to admit it it's a bit late to face the Wave." The Doctor said as he sighed a bit in defeat.
"As long as it's done I don't see the problem." Aultcray said but the Doctor begged to differ.
"No I had hoped to test it against the Wave but alas now I must wait for the next Wave or send it out against a powerful Monster." THE Doctor said as Aultcray looked to the Doctor. "As you may have heard I used the heart of a Dragon to fuel its power, alas I have yet to replicate the method in which it can be summoned and controlled so it will have to have someone actively inside it to be of any use." The Doctor said revealing it was controlled by magic. "I've already constructed weapons for it to use made from the bones of powerful monsters and magical ores." The Doctor added as the armaments included a spear, a sword, and a bow. "The Bow is still a work in progress regrettably until I can create magic Arrows its ammunition in that regard is still on the testing table." The Doctor said as Aultcray looked to the massive spear before him.
"Doctor would you say this Knight is ready for combat in a controlled environment?" The King asked and thus the Doctor heard this.
"Why yes do you have a suggestion?" The Doctor asked to which Aultcray then looked to the Doctor.
"If the Rumors I've been hearing about the Shield are true then I may have just the place in mind." Aultcray said to which the Doctor smirked and nodded.
"I'll get to work in prepping it for battle." The Doctor said and thus Aultcray nodded but had one more thing to add.
"Good just be wary of our... other project." Aultcray said referring to the alternate summing ritual.
"Of course my King." The Doctor said with a small bow and with a nod Aultcray took his leave of the room. "Does he suspect anything?" The Doctor asked as he looked to his two assistants.
"Not a thing Doctor." The louder girl said as she then hopped down from her spot. "The only problem is keeping the First Princess form snooping where she isn't wanted." She added as so far the First Princess was the issue.
"The Shadows are also hard to keep at bay." The Quiet girl added as she looked timid to this. "They keep trying to learn what we are actually doing and they won't leave us alone." The Quiet girl said as she looked to the Doctor.
"Troublesome but we must endure until we can bring him here." The Doctor said referring to their Lord and Master whom is awaiting their summons. "It's for our lord so his plans may come to fruition." The Doctor said and thus the loud girl smiled.
"Of course all of this so the Sun may once more rise upon Yshrennia." The girl said as she was looking forward to it. "And with it the leadership of its one true Emperor." She added and thus The Doctor smiled knowing that soon Madoras would arrive and with it the True King of the Sun will bring down divine judgement upon these fools. Thus they went back to work so they may summon their lord and provide for him an army to command. After all Conquests can't be won without an army to be lead into battle.
(Meanwhile the other World)
Looking upon an hourglass with crimson red sand the unknown man sat and waited. In front of the hourglass was a diorama of what looked to be Valgander as he looked upon it like a Dark God. "Soon... a little longer and soon I will rule once more." He said as behind him the mess that dead girl left was cleaned up while he observed the destruction going on outside. "Now Medea what's your next move?" The man asked wondering what Medea will try to do to get him out of her way.
For this man Medea was an annoyance that he wished to be rid of. But to do this he had to draw her out or go to her and after what he did to one of her fragments he wasn't very vested on a cold war. "You believe yourself my equal Medea but only Mureas has the right to call herself my equal." The man said as he then stood up with a glass of red wine in his hand. "So to you Queen Mureas let us watch as this false God comes to regret crossing me." The man said toasting to Mureas and to Medea meeting a cruel fate by his hands. One thing was certain powerful forces were on the move and a shadow of the past will make itself known to all, a Shadow with the King of the Sun at his disposal.
(TBC)
ESKK: Well here you go the newest chapter I hope you all enjoy it and join us next time. So until then I say Ja-Ne.
