Be-Knighted
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"The Forever Knights have existed one thousand years, with but a single goal." A man wearing a crown and robe said to hundreds of Forever Knights who stood before him in a large castle on a hill. "Tonight, we stand on the brink of triumph," he said and the knights cheered as another man wearing armour and a cape walked up to the king. "It all must fall on you. Are you ready Conner?" he asked the man.
"I am," Conner replied.
"Throughout our history we have bought, borrowed, or stolen the most powerful weapons available. On earth and beyond," the king said as three knights walked towards Conner one of them carrying a massive alien weapon to Conner. "None of which have worked. This however we believe is different," the King said as the knight kneeled and Conner took the weapon. "You are the bravest of us all Conner, you've earned the right to wield this," he told Conner as two more knights opened a massive door. "Aim for the heart. And keep the beam steady,"
"I'll hold it steady, but how can I expect the same for the beast?" Conner asked.
"It's chained. Don't worry," the king said and Conner walked through the door and down a flight of steps when he saw broken chains on the ground which moved and a growl was heard. Conner looked up to see two piercing yellow eyes glaring at him and a tail hit Conner sending him to the ground and the beast was in actuality a massive green dragon that jumped at the door and pounded on it trying to escape. Conner fired his weapon but missed and bored a hole in the metal door, this allowed the dragon to smash through it and it jumped out the window and flew off.
"I'll destroy you. No matter the sacrifice, whatever the cost. I will destroy you," Conner promised as he watched the dragon fly away. The next day as the sun was setting, Daisuke was punching a punching bag that Ben was behind.
"It is great to have the Omnitrix again, but there might be a time where it won't be enough," Ben told her as Gwen watched.
"Yeah. I know, I can't always win with brawn alone. I gotta use my head," Daisuke said as Ben pushed the punching bag and it knocked Daisuke over and she frowned at him. "Not funny," she told Ben who shrugged.
"Okay funs over. I just set up a meeting for Dai," Kevin said.
"With who?" Veemon asked him.
"Doesn't matter," Kevin said as he grabbed Daisuke and pulled her towards the door.
"With who Kevin?" Gwen asked him.
"Uh….the Forever Knights," he answered.
"Are you mad!?" Daisuke asked. "Those jerks have been trying to take us out since we were ten," she said.
"Yeah. They tried to dissect Greymatter, and then they put Daisuke in a dream to try and steal the Omnitrix," Ben said.
"They need help," Kevin explained.
"So? We're not friends with them," Gwen said.
"They wouldn't be reaching out to you unless they had a reason. Aren't you curious to find out why?" Kevin asked.
"They paid you to come here and take Dai to them didn't they?" Gwen asked him.
"That hurts. Don't you think I ever do things out of the goodness of my heart?" Kevin asked her and Gwen frowned at him. "I traded them for some alien tech,"
"Kevin," Gwen said disappointed.
"He has a point. If the knights are desperate enough to ask me for help, it's worth checking out," Daisuke said. Soon the group minus Veemon were inside a castle. "That's the most ridiculous story I've ever heard," she said to a boy her age with blonde hair and blue eyes wearing a cape and some chainmail.
"No it's all true. Everyone believes dragons are creatures of myth, fiction. But they are real Daisuke, at least one was and is," the boy said.
"Did you just say is?" Daisuke asked him.
"A thousand years ago a handful of knights battled a giant fire breathing beast. They were the king's greatest warriors but even they couldn't defeat it. All they could do was trap it and build a stone fortress around it, years went by and dozens of far-fetched dragon myths sprang up. But all the while the knights were passing the custody of the real beast from father to son to grandson. Unfortunately the dragon was invulnerable to all the weapons we tried on it, until now. The latest was an alien quantum disassembler cannon, we had high hopes for it and we still do, but the dragon escaped," the boy explained. "Daisuke, we need you to help us,"
"You're saying you want me to be a part of this? Be a knight?" Daisuke asked.
"Yes, Daisuke. Join us in our most noble quest," the boy answered her.
"I don't know. There is still a lot I don't know. Like is there really a dragon?" Daisuke asked.
"There most assuredly is a dragon. You have my word," Conner said walking up to them.
"Daisuke, Ben, Gwen, Kevin. This is Conner, the greatest of all the Forever Knights," the boy told the others.
"At your service I guess," Daisuke greeted.
"What I say is Forever Knights do not have doubts. If you or your friends have them, you do not belong with us," Conner said.
"You're the one asking for my help," Daisuke told him.
"You insolent. The dragon will fall by my hand," Conner said.
"But sir," the boy said.
"You taint the purity of our order by bringing this….this…." Conner said.
"This what!?" Daisuke asked him.
"Milord it's the only way," the boy told Conner as an alarm blared. "We've been monitoring the military frequencies," the boy said running to a computer console as a screen turned on to show two jets flying towards the dragon and they fired missiles at the dragon but it was not affected and it breathed fire at the jets and destroyed them both and the pilots ejected and parachuted to safety.
"You sure you don't want my help?" Daisuke asked Conner. Soon Conner and the boy were inside a Humvee following Daisuke who was driving Kevin's car where they saw the dragon land on the ground and it roared and Daisuke noticed a small device on its chest.
"Remember all you need to do is stop it, Conner will take care of the rest," the boy told Daisuke as she and the others stood in front of the dragon.
"Right," Daisuke replied. "Humungousaur is too close to what I will be fighting. Gotta figure that thing's had more experience being a dragon than I have," she thought before she was enveloped in a golden light and she transformed into Chromastone and she ran towards the dragon who breathed fire at her and Chromastone crossed her arms and blocked the attack, the dragon looked at her and Chromastone fired a rainbow coloured energy blast at the dragon's chest making it roar and groan.
"Strange. I thought you were trying to tell me something," Chromastone mumbled to herself as the dragon swatted her away and breathed fire again at Chromastone who jumped into the air and dodged the attack before she fired another energy beam at the dragon and Conner walked up with the alien weapon in his arms.
"Daisuke's too close to the dragon," the boy told him.
"Pity," Conner replied firing the alien weapon at it hit the dragon and Chromastone. "The Forever Knights exist for one purpose only. So are you or are you not one of us Squire?" he asked the squire and the dragon roared in pain and Chromastone groaned, Ben frowned and fired a mana disc at Conner making him fall and the alien weapon fired and blew up a gas tanker and it blew up and the dragon flew away. Chromastone turned back into Daisuke and she walked towards Conner.
"We need to talk. You used me," she told him.
"It was not personal. But if you or your friends get in my way again and it will become so," Conner said picking the alien weapon up and he walked away with the Squire but Daisuke turned into Four Arms and she grabbed them both and held them against the Humvee.
"You two know where the dragon is heading don't you?" she asked them.
"Ha. It will take more than a stripling with a fancy wristwatch to scare us. Right?" Conner asked the Squire.
"Absolutely. We've taken a sacred oath," he answered and Four Arms frowned before she turned into Humungousaur who then grew to her full height and she leaned down and glared at the Squire.
"6200 Prospect Boulevard where the twelve and 401 freeways meet," he said quickly.
"What?" Humungousaur asked him.
"It's where the dragon's going," he answered.
"Squire!" Conner shouted.
"The knights found a huge relic the same time they captured the dragon. They didn't know what it was or what it did so they hid it for safe keeping. They sent it to our lab to see if it had any technology they could use on the dragon when it flew across the Atlantic we figured it was connected to the relic somehow," the Squire said as Humungousaur turned back into Daisuke who climbed into the driver's seat of Kevin's car and drove off with the others inside. "I almost forgot they think the relics alien but they haven't figured out what it does yet!" the squire shouted.
"Pathetic," Conner said.
"When that dragon roared, there was some sort of pattern to it," Daisuke said and then that wasn't fire more like a laser," she said as she drove the car.
"So you think that thing was trying to talk to you? No way," Kevin said.
"Hey you talk. Sort of," Ben said.
"Hey," Kevin replied.
"Kevin, I heard it too," Gwen told him.
"Okay, but even if it did talk. What would it say? I'm gonna chew you up like bubble-gum?" Kevin asked as Daisuke pulled the car over and she climbed out and opened the boot and pulled out a disc similar to the one of the dragon's throat.
"This was the same thing on the dragon's throat. But it was busted. So what is it?" she asked Kevin who looked out the window of the car.
"Galvan universal translator. Translates any language into any other in real time, very common tech," he answered.
"Then all we have to do is replace that one with this one," Gwen said.
"How hard can it be?" Ben asked.
"Don't say that. Whenever someone says that everything automatically becomes harder," Daisuke told him as she climbed back into the car and she drove off towards where the dragon was heading. Soon the car arrived outside a warehouse and everyone exited the car and Daisuke turned into Spidermonkey and she grabbed the translator and she climbed up a pipe.
"Dai! Wait for us," Ben told her. The dragon meanwhile blasted a hole in the wall of the warehouse and walked inside, Spidermonkey jumped down from the rafters and landed on the dragon who tried to shake her off but Spidermonkey ripped the broken translator off before the dragon threw her away, she shot webbing from her tail behind her and it formed a web which she landed on, the dragon opened its mouth and roared.
"Easy does it. I'm trying to help," Spidermonkey told the dragon who roared and fired an energy blast at her and she jumped out of the way and landed on the ground, the dragon then fired at her again but Ben created a mana shield in front of her and the attack bounced off. Kevin then threw some rubble at the dragon and it fired an energy blast at him but Gwen made a shield to reflect the attack back to the dragon and Spidermonkey ran up and stuck the translator on the dragon's throat and it beeped.
"Leave me alone! Leave me alone!" the dragon roared.
'You can talk," Spidermonkey said.
"Of course I can talk. Why wouldn't I be able to talk?" the dragon asked her.
"I thought you were some kind of uh….monster," Spidermonkey answered.
"Funny. I thought you looked like a monkey," the dragon told her.
"Oh I don't look like this," Spidermonkey said turning back into Daisuke in a golden flash of light. "See?' she asked.
"Sorry. All mammals look the same to me," the dragon said.
"It's not just you. Daisuke does sort of favour a monkey, smells like one too," Kevin said waving his hand in front of his nose.
"Okay enough monkey business," Daisuke told him. "What do you want?"
"I want my ship back," the dragon answered. "My tracking signal says it's here,"
"Ship? That must be the relic the knights were talking about," Daisuke said.
"The knights!? Are you one of the knights?" the dragon asked her.
"Me? No way, not after all the trouble I've had with them," Daisuke answered. "They did ask me to help capture you though, back when I thought you were a monster,"
"The knights are the monsters, they attacked me for no reason as soon as I landed. Broke my translator box then locked me up in that dungeon! Are you sure you're not one of them?" the dragon asked her.
"Positive," she answered.
"Okay then," the dragon said walking off.
"Wait. You're an alien right? What were you doing here?" Gwen asked him.
"I was making an interstellar map. Why else would anyone come to this insignificant rock?" the dragon answered.
"You're a map maker?" Ben asked him.
"And a darn good one too. Now if you'll excuse me I've got business," the dragon said walking off.
"Finding your ship and heading home right?" Gwen asked him.
"Oh I will head home alright. As soon as there is not a single Forever Knight left alive," the dragon answered before roaring.
"His translator is broken," Gwen said.
"Sorry Gwen, sometimes a roar is a roar," Kevin told her.
"Look if you think about it this is just a misunderstanding," Daisuke said.
"A misunderstanding!?" the dragon shouted.
"Okay, wrong word," Daisuke said.
"One thousand years those knights took from me. One thousand years!" the dragon shouted.
"How long is that in dragon years?" Daisuke asked him.
"It's a long time! To be away from your home, from your family. The baby is probably flying by now," the dragon said sadly.
"You know we don't own this dragon anything and we owe the knights even less. If we left right now who'd say anything?" Kevin asked.
"I would," Daisuke told him with a frown.
"Right," Kevin said as the Forever knights arrived and Conner started to fire his alien weapon.
"You guys deal with the knights and tell them this is all a tragedy," Daisuke told the others who nodded and ran out towards the knights while the dragon and Daisuke ran into the warehouse where the dragon removed a large tarp revealing a large ship.
"Ah, never looked better," the dragon said as he put his hand on the ship's hull and a hatch opened up and the dragon walked inside and pressed a button and a wall opened.
"Weapon?" Daisuke asked.
"I never thought I would need them when I landed. Too trusting, or I used to be," the dragon answered.
"You don't need to do this," Daisuke told the dragon.
"I know. But I want to," he replied.
"You're right. But I'm just a kid," Daisuke said.
"Yes you are. So do yourself a favour stay out of my way," the dragon told her as he held up a weapon, outside the warehouse the others were trying to convince the knights to let the dragon go.
"This whole thing is just ridiculous, he didn't mean to hurt anyone," Ben said.
"Ridiculous? I took an oath passed down through fifty generations we all did," Conner said. "We will destroy the dragon before this day is over,"
"I don't think you've been listening," Gwen said as Conner lifted the alien weapon up.
"Watch it!" Kevin shouted tackling Gwen to the ground as Conner fired and hit the wall, and the other Forever Knights walked towards the trio and Ben threw mana discs at the knights sending them back as Kevin punched one and four others dogpiled him and began to punch him before he absorbed the stone ground and he then punched all the knights back as Conner fired at Kevin sending him crashing into a wall, Conner then walked towards Kevin but Gwen grabbed him with a hand made of mana and slammed him into a wall and he dropped his alien weapon.
"I can't convince you huh?" Daisuke asked the dragon.
"I have waited one thousand years for this. So no, you can't convince me," he answered and Daisuke stood in front of him. "What are you doing?" he asked.
"Stopping you," she replied and the dragon laughed. "Don't laugh. I could go Four Arms, or Humungousaur or any other of my aliens. But I won't," she told him.
"Good, makes it easier on my," the dragon said pulling his arm back.
"You're not a monster. You're a map maker, what would you family think?" Daisuke asked and the dragon lowered his arm and dropped his weapon.
"You've made your point. Get going, before I change my mind," he told Daisuke who smiled at him before she walked back and the hatch closed and the ship hummed and powered up and the front of it glowed golden before it flew off as the Conner tried to hit the ship but missed he then dropped his alien weapon and walked away. Daisuke walked out of the warehouse to see the others walk up to her.
"How'd you get the dragon to leave?" Ben asked her.
"I used my head, not all battles are won by brawn alone," she answered and the others smiled at her.
"And then the beast took off into the stars," Conner told the king throwing a file down which opened up showing pictures of Ben, Gwen, Kevin and Daisuke. "I failed," Conner said walking off.
"Where are you going?" the king asked him.
"Don't know. All my life I never gave it a moment's thought what to do when all this was over," Conner answered.
"You think this is over?' the king asked.
"The dragon is gone Patrick. Without it there is no reason to exist, you, me, the Forever Knights all pointless," Conner answered.
"Pointless? Hardly. Now we know that somewhere in the stars there is not one dragon but an entire world of them," the king said and all the Forever Knights looked at him. "How soon until more arrive seeking revenge? They could be making their plans now as we speak," the king said walking to Conner and putting his hand on his shoulder. "No, Conner. The world needs the Forever Knights now more than ever. We must always stand ready to fight the dragons," the king said and the knights cheered. "And the despicable traitors who helped them." He said walked back to his throne. "So say I,"
"So say we all!" the knights all shouted and they then cheered.
The end of the chapter
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