Speak to self
Speak to Ghost
The group exited the cellars with Keel and the other two Demi Humans. A rumble erupts in the vicinity of the Idol's town.
Joseph catches a Demi-Human who was about to fall, "easy there kiddo, I got you." Joseph said. Joseph turned his head to the group, "the hell was that?" Joseph asked. Another large rumble fills the area.
Xeno materializes out from Joseph, "I know where it's coming from, follow me!" he said. Xeno began to fly to the source of the rumbling.
"Right, lets go!" Joseph said. The group follows Xeno as he turns the corner of the building as they see a stone monument that glows in a void-like color.
"It can't be!" said Van.
"What's wrong?" asked Naofumi.
"The great heroes of the past built that stone monument to seal away a monster forever!" Van explained. "Something removed the seal!"
"But who could've- Idol…" Joseph said. "He wasn't whispering, he was chanting to summon that monster!" Joseph said.
A bright purple light fills where the monument is, and there stands a Dinosaur that is also a wingless dragon. The Dragon roars, gusts of wind hitting the party.
Joseph walks forward as he materializes Gjallahorn on his back, and a Mythril Greatsaber given to him from a blonde SOLDIER, Joseph tosses a Radiophone to Naofumi, "I'll distract this TRex while you guys plan your next move." Joseph said.
Naofumi looks at the Radiophone and back to Joseph, he nods, "Are you sure about this?" asked Naofumi
Joseph gave a thumbs up, "don't worry, I killed a dragon and a Worm God that were much bigger than this pushover." Joseph said. "I can take this guy." Joseph said.
The Dragon began to rush towards Joseph as Joseph did the same.
Joseph jumps where he is eye level with the Dragon and kicks the Dragon with an arc kick but is nearly unphased by the attack. Joseph lands and dodges the Dragon's stomp. He sees the group beginning to retreat to a safe spot.
"Good, now I can be a bit more reckless." Joseph said. Joseph takes a stomp forward, his body flows his arc energy, "Bring it you fossil!" Joseph leaps forward as he goes in for a swing. Joseph was able to land a hit but could not scratch the Dragon. Joseph uses his foot to push himself away from the Dragon and swaps to his Gjallahorn. He fires towards the Dragons head and it seems it did some damage both Dragon and infrastructure. The wolf pack rounds bagan to disperse and then track towards the Dragon, finally the Dragon seemed to be damaged by the missile.
"So explosives will do? Heh, good thing I have Gjallahorn then." Joseph said. He was about to take another shot until the Dragon rushed to him and stuck Joseph with its tail. Joseph crashes to a building as he coughs out blood, he feels his spinal cord cracking. Joseph quickly gets out of the wall and has Xeno heal him from behind.
Joseph sees the Dinosaur moving away from him, "Oi! Rex is moving!" Joseph said. Joseph gets up and dissipates his sword. He begins to chase the Dinosaur. "It seems that Rex is attracted to Naofumi, but I don't think Naofumi is into that kind of thing." Joseph said.
Xeno follows Joseph as they chase Rex, "Really Joe? Now is not time for jokes!" said Xeno.
Joseph chuckles, "Yeah yeah, anyhow, why does it want him? Does it know that he is one of the heroes due to the shield and wants revenge because the past shield hero trapped him inside the monument?" Joseph wondered,
"That's possible." Xeno said, "but we need to protect them until they have a solid plan!" Xeno said.
"Right! Let's get to it!" Joseph is engulfed in arc light as he hurls himself to the Dragon's side, the impact made the dragon stagger to the side and almost nearly fallen. Joseph lands as he sees Naofumi a few meters away, "did you guys formulate a plan yet?" Joseph asked.
Naofumi shakes his head, "No not yet, give us a few more minutes!" He said.
"Alright but hurry! He wants you Naofumi! If I get flung away by him, I won't be able to recover fast enough to get to you!" Joseph said.
The dragon then swings his tail around, making Joseph dodge his attack. He needs to give Naofumi more time, so he formulates a plan. Joseph leaps back and sends a Nova Bomb towards the Dragon.
The dragon uses his tail to take minimum damage from the attack but he falls right into Joseph's plan.
Joseph uses the Nova Bomb to cover his assault as he runs under him, he rolls forward and turns to be right under the Dragon's head and fires another Gjallahorn rocket making the Dragon stagger. Joseph submerges himself in void light and forges dual spectral blades and goes towards the Dragon's legs. Joseph swiftly slashes the Dragon's legs as blood begins the spill but the Dragon still stands tall. Joseph ran behind the Dragon and was about to send a blade barrage but the Dragon began to roar.
The Dragon's ear piercing roar and its powerful gusts of wind almost made Joseph fall to the ground, but plants his feet to the ground. "That's the best you can do Rex?" taunted Joseph, "Super Saiyan Gods can produce harsher winds than you can!" Joseph said.
Before Joseph could continue the fight, Naofumi calls for him. "Joseph! Look at his chest!" he then points to the Dragon's chest.
"Wha?" Joseph turns and sees that the Dragon's chest is glowing a bright purple, "Suits glowing?" Joseph said.
"Filo's belly is also glowing! That Dragon isn't after me! It's after Filo!" Naofumi said.
Joseph looks at Filo, who wants to join the fight, her belly is glowing bright purple just like the Dragon. "Shit, your right! So, what's your plan Naofumi?" Joseph said.
"The plan is to get on Filo and get as far away as possible! Enough where the civilians won't get harmed!" Naofumi said.
"Alright solid plan but, can we let this Dragon trash this place a bit more? This place needs some renovating," Joseph chuckles,
"Joseph!" both Naofumi and Xeno scolded.
"Fine." Joseph said, "well, I'll be on my way!" Joseph said. Joseph then throws a barrage of knives scattered all over the floor as it acts like mines. Joseph then retreats to Naofumi and the rest. He hears explosions and the Dragon roaring. "Hope he liked my parting gift." Joseph said.
"Bet he did and he might want more, so we need to hurry." said Xeno.
"Sure thing boss." Joseph said. He turns the corner as he sees that the children are being left with Van.
"Over here Joseph!" said Raphtalia as she is on Filo who is in her Filolial form. She lends out a hand as Joseph accepts it as he sits on Filo. "You okay?" asked Raphtalia.
Joseph nods, "Yeah, kicked his ass kinda. He's vulnerable to explosives so if you have any bombs or fire magic that can go boom then we are golden." Joseph. Before Filo begins to move, Joseph then grabs another smoke bomb, "Van, take this," Joseph tosses the smoke bomb to him, "another smoke bomb, throw it down to be invisible." Joseph said.
Van nods, "Thank you very much Joseph." he said.
"No prob, just keep those kids safe will ya?" Joseph said. "Right, let's move! There he is!" Joseph materializes his R-201 and begins to fire at the Dragon.
Filo begins to move as the Dragon follows behind. Filo jumped on the rooftops to run from the Dragon, She then jumped over the walls and went down a cliff while Rex followed. The group came across a village, Filo jumped on top of the roofs, jumping from one roof to another, while the Dragon still followed, smashing anything that came in contact with it.
"Well it's definitely coming after Filo." said Melty
"Yup!" said Naofumi. As he sees the relentless Dragon charging them.
"I gave away the bracelet, sorry about that." said Raphtalia
"You're free to do anything with it, I gave it to you." said Naofumi.
Joseph continues to shoot the Dragon, dumping magazines trying to blind it with a lucky shot.
As Filo jumped over the wall and into a forest, Joseph couldn't get a clear shot.
"How much farther are we going?" asked Filo
"As much as possible." Naofumi replied.
Melty then saw that they were almost out of the forest. "We're almost through the forest!" said Melty.
The group arrives at a large open area with a large pond.
Naofumi stops Filo and turns to us, "I think this'll do." he said.
Everyone hops off of Filo as they ready themselves.
Naofumi changed his shield, "Everybody ready for this?" said Naofumi
Raphtalia drew the Young Wolf's Howl that Joseph gifted her, "Let's take this thing down." she said
"I'll do my best!" said Filo,
"Me too!" said Melty.
Joseph decides to materialize the Two-Tailed Fox onto his back and materializes Leviathan's Breath, Zen Meteor, Xenophage, Anarchy and Thunderlord on the floor in a neat row. Joseph then materializes a katana on the left of his waist. He readies his R-201, "hell yeah! Let's take this Dinosaur down!" Joseph said.
The Dragon's booming footsteps became louder as it burst through the trees and charged towards Naofumi, "Air Strike Shield!" Naofumi yelled as he formed a barrier in front of Rex as it blocked it from attacking the group. But, Rex's strength breaks Naofumi's barrier.
"Not so fast!" Joseph said, he lifts his palm up as it forms a void barrier as the Dragon hits Joseph's barrier, the impact was strong that it forces Joseph to on knee. "Guh! Shit, kaioken!" Joseph yelled, a red crimson aura surrounds Joseph as his barrier hardens, preventing the Dragon to pierce through his barrier.
Filo attacked from the side and kicked the Dragon in the face.
As Filo leaps back Joseph who's still holding his barrier with one hand, he uses his other hand to unleash a Nova Bomb through the barrier. The Dragon staggers back as Melty begins to chant water magic.
Raphtalia charges in with Filo as Raphtalia slashes the Dragon, Young Wolf's Howl begins to emit a solar flame. She slashes the Dragon's legs but it had little effect on him. Raphtalia then dodges a tail whip from the Dragon. She leaps back as an orange and purple projectile whirls over her head and explodes on impact at the Dragon.
"There! It's weakened!" Joseph said. As he carries the Two Tailed Fox over his shoulder.
"What was that?" asked Melty who was astonished with Joseph's hand-held cannon.
"It's a rocket launcher, this thing shoots two rocket that burns and weakens the enemy, so attack him now before that effect wears off!"Joseph puts his rocket launcher down as he picks up Anarchy and Zen Meteor, Joseph begins to take pop shots with Zen Meteor as he moves to the side. Joseph swaps for his Anarchy as he begins firing at the Dragon. The grenades stick onto the Dragon as they electrify him.
The Dragon becomes more aggressive as it begins to roar as he storms his way to Joseph
"Joseph look out!" said Raphtalia. The Dragon begins to open its mouth, ready to consume Joseph. Joseph begins to run to the Dragon as Anarchy and Zen Meteor are replaced with Leviathan's Breath. Joseph slid between the Dragon's legs as he fired his bow two times, pissing it off even more.
Joseph rolls forward as he turns around and continues to fire two more arrows.
Filo charges towards the Dragon passing Joseph, "Take this!" she yells as she tackles the Dragon. Melty then proceeds to attack the Dragon with water spells as Raphtalia jumps up to attack Dragon's head.
The Dragon then tries to breath fire in front of Raphtalia but Naofumi blocks the fire with his barrier, "Air Strike Shield!" he yells. "Go Raphtalia!" said Naofumi.
Raphtalia lands on her feet, "Right!" she said, she charges to the Dragon's side, her sword in flames, then she hears a howl.
Time is slown for her as she sees a team of six, three wielding swords, others using an elemental launcher, one Arc, Solar, and Void. one of the swordwielder with a cloak wielding the Young Wolf's Howl. he slams the blade to the floor as a wave of flame spits out of the sword killing a Solar glowing eyeball.
She comes back to her senses, time continuing as usual, she changes stances as she raises the sword and slams the blade to the floor, a wave of flame spits out of the sword as it burns the Dragon's foot. Having Joseph astonished.
Joseph chuckles, "when did she learn how to do that?" Joseph said. He gets up and puts down his Leviathan's Breath and runs to Raphtalia. Joseph continues to run towards Raphtalia, he holds onto his handle of his katana that is still in his sheath. The Dragon was then about to tail whip Raphtalia. "Shit she's too close to that Dinosaur!" Joseph said.
Joseph draws his katana as he glows in all of the light elements, I got one chance to do this! If I fail, Raphtalia's injuries will be fatal! Joseph's katana is then infused with his light.
Raphtalia tries to leap backwards from the Dragon's tail as she sees Joseph go in front of her.
Joseph raises his sword, "times two!" Joseph yelled, using the momentum of his speed, his light and kaioken, Joseph cut the Dragon's end section of the Dragon's tail off, keeping Raphtalia unharmed but making Joseph exhausted. Joseph falls forward, his body in pain, "Well shit," Joseph said.
The Dragon lifts his foot over Joseph and everyone begins to panic,
"Joseph!" cried Melty.
Naofumi acts quickly as he places a barrier over Joseph, "Air Strike Shield!" said Naofumi.
Raphtalia spots the lonely Xenophage on the field and begins to run to the machine gun.
Filo begins to kick the Dragon, trying her best to nudge the Dragon away from Joseph.
All that Joseph could do is stay put, "Just a few seconds, and I can't warp out of this damn position." Joseph said.
"We won't have enough time!" said Xeno,
Joseph grits his teeth, "Shit, Xeno, be ready for resurrection then!" Joseph said. Joseph closes his eyes awaiting to be crushed by the Dragon. But he hears gunshots, Xenophage shots.
Raphtalia carries Xenophage as she fires towards the Dragon, she struggles to carry the heavy gun let alone controlling the immense kick from the gun.
With the combined attacks from Raphtalia and Filo, the Dragon was able to move.
"There!" Naofumi said, "Filo! Get Joseph out of there." he said.
"Yes Master!" Filo said. She dashes to Joseph and kicks him up and onto her back. Filo begins to run back to Naofumi, Raphtalia and Melty.
Joseph turns his head as he sees Raphtalia struggling to use the machine gun but was able to land some hits onto the Dragon.
Filo drops Joseph as Melty and Xeno begins to heal Joseph.
Joseph begins to chuckle, "Ah, my princess and Little Light in shining armor." Joseph said.
"We thought you were a goner! And you still make jokes?" said Melty.
Joseph sits up, "Sometimes you need to laugh at death, even though it pisses him off." Joseph said.
The Dragon then uses its tail to mask everyone's vision, Naofumi makes a glyph to shield us from the dust but doing so makes the Dragon swing its tail towards everyone.
Joseph mustered enough strength for a shield and softened the impact of the tail. Everyone gets launched back but was able to get up.
Joseph looks at the Dragon who is coming towards us, "damn, only little scratches with the weaponry I have? Heh, if only there was a soft spot where we could focus on. Even his belly is tough." Joseph said. He feebly walks to Raphtalia who struggles to carry Xenophage, "Raphtalia, my weapon." Joseph said.
Raphtalia nods, "Sorry Joseph, but, you were going to get crushed." Raphtalia said as she hands Xenophage.
"I ain't mad, I'm kinda proud that you are able to handle such a weapon with your zero experience with heavy weapons." Joseph said. "But, every weapon needs to be reloaded." Joseph proceeds to reload the gun but struggles to. He cocks the gun and is about to hand the machine gun to Raphtalia until fog begins to roll in.
Everyone looks around as their vision is becoming obscure. Joseph held Xenophage, readying to fight again.
Xeno materializes next to Joseph as he detects movement. "Guy's I detect movement nearby, like… a stampede." Xeno said.
Suddenly, a large amount of Filolials begin to rush out of the tree lines. The Dragon begins to flail and stomp around, trying to scare the Filolials off but they did not even seem phased by his action. Instead they form a large circle trapping the group and the Dragon.
"Strange… what are these Filolials doing?" Joseph asked. He spots Naofumi reaching into his skill tree then a voice is heard, not knowing the source of the voice.
Everyone looks up as Naofumi begins to yell, "Who are you?" yelled Naofumi.
The wind started to gain strength "Guys! Behind us!" yelled Xeno as the water started to rise to show a giant version of Filo's Filolial form and jump over the group.
Joseph looks up in awe, "What the hell?" Joseph said softly.
"No way! It's the Filolial Queen!" said Melty
"She's so pretty." said Filo.
The Filolial Queen put her wing in front of us, "Stand back." said the Filolial Queen as she faced Rex "The Dragon Emperor's Fragment has caused your body to grow beyond control." said the Filolial Queen "If you hand over the fragment peacefully, I shall spare your life. You have been warned!" said the Filolial Queen but the Dragon decided to charge at the Filolial Queen.
Melty begins to panic as the Dragon charges towards the Filolial Queen "Watch out!" yelled Melty
"As you wish." said the Filolial Queen, she then kicks the Dragon in the face, sending him backwards. The Dragon recovers from such a kick and begins to breath fire towards the Queen. She then swipes her wing sending a gust of wind, blocking the flames but at the same time almost sending the group in the air. "Pathetic," she says. "I'm finishing this now." said the Filolial Queen as she moved beyond the speed of sound, causing a sonic boom and another immense amount of wind heading towards the group. The Filolial Queen appeared behind Rex, as Rex started to bleed causing him to fall into the pond, laying dead where he lay.
"By the Traveler… she took her down without struggle… hehehe, glad she's on our side." Joseph said.
The Filolial Queen then picked up a purple crystal and turned to us "I take it that you're the Shield Hero. Am I correct?" asked the Filolial Queen,
"Thats right." Naofumi replied
"there is much I wish to discuss with you. But this form isn't exactly suitable." said the Filolial Queen "One moment please." said the Filolial Queen as she had her wings cover her, as she turned into her human form. She has silver hair with three cowlicks sticking out vertically from the center of her head. Her eyes are red and wears a red and white gothic lolita dress and white long boots. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am queen of all the Filolials in the world, my name is Fitoria. Nice to meet you."
Joseph watches the group as they do their introductions but then attends to his littered weapons. He picks them up and dusts the dirt off the guns. He grabs Xenophage as he dusts off the gun, "thanks Omar, if you still can hear me." Joseph said.
Xeno then scans the weapon as it dissipates he begins doing it for all of the weapons that were scattered.
After he puts away the Two-Tailed Fox he sees Naofumi analyzing the flesh of the Dragon. He walks to Naofumi and sees that he puts a piece of flesh into the orb of his shield. "What are you doing?" asked Joseph
"I'm developing my shield by using this Dragon's material." Naofumi said.
Joseph was quite impressed that he could do that, "Interesting, you consume your dead foes to develop your shield? Huh… mind if Xeno could scan your shield?" asked Joseph.
"Sure, you did want to study my shield." Naofumi said.
"Thanks," Joseph said, he materializes Xeno as he scans Naofumi's shield.
"Interesting," Xeno said as he continued to scan his shield, this began to attract everyones attention as they watched Xeno scan Naofumi's shield. "Naofumi, your shield, it has a whole other skill tree called the curse series, but I think you already know that." Xeno said, "these curse skills… they are dangerous but powerful…" Xeno said.
"Ah, so just like when we first met you Naofumi. You lost your consciousness as you succumb to the curse shield?" Joseph asked
"Yeah, like that." said Naofumi. "Taking this material will make the shield not only stronger but, it will also be more difficult to control the rage shield." said Naofumi
"Joseph this reminds me of Thorn and Xyor The Unwed." Xeno said.
"The one who corrupted Dredgen Yor? Yeah… when we killed her, we were able to wield Thorn safely. It's a shame that Rezyl didn't kill her completely." Joseph said. "Well Naofumi, you got yourself a powerful skill but that can also kill you. So beware of that double-edged sword" Joseph said.
"Already am." Naofumi said. He stands up and looks at everyone, "I'm good here, let's go with Fitoria." he said.
"Just finished attending to my guns so let's go" Joseph said.
Apologies with the late post, school projects have been kicking my ass. Three projects are due this week and man, the worst part is that I have to draw, DRAW! I ain't a good drawer but, I gotta do this before grades go down. But other than School just throwing me projects, I am doing fine, just exhausted. I hope to publish the next chapter on sunday but there is no guarantee to it.
Destiny is getting better by the by, I can't wait for transmog and crossplay. They even sunsetted sunsetting. Never had anything against it but yay? I dunno but getting excited for everything for whats to come in Destiny. For those who also plays Destiny, I hope you feel the same as well.
So, Fitoria has saved the party from imminent doom from the Dragon. Next chapter will be more on the Relaxing side than being all battle ready chapter.
I got two questions that I want to address since it caused some confusion for some of you guys,
Q: Did Xeno healed Joseph when he regrouped with Joseph?
A: Joseph succumbed from his injuries by the knight and Idol. I kinda pointed out that he was tortured for hours and the injuries that was inflicted on him.
Q: With the death of Idol, who would release the Dragon?
A: when Joseph heard the Idol whispering, it was the chant to release that Dragon, hope you don't mind that because the timing is kinda really absolutely scuffed
well, thats all I have to say, very tired but I'm always tired. Any questions feel free to ask and I will answer then next chapter!
Enjoy your Morning, Day, or Night wherever you live!
