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Chapter 3: explanations
"I really hate when he does that." Ian grumped as he destroyed yet another granite. Derak nodded and also destroyed another. "What was that sword?" Myra asked as they finished up and demorphed. "The Dragos blade." Derak said as they all trudged up the ancient stairs they had missed on the way down. "Isn't that the sword sensei told us about?" Ian said as they walked. "Yeah." "Some one wanna clue us in?" Antionette asked, her loathing of being left in the dark apparent. "There's a legend behind that blade, but I don't really know the whole thing, so I'll do my best." Ian replied.
Long ago, there was a warrior named Drago. He was the most powerful warrior of his age, unbeatable in battle. This was due to the fact that he had been blessed by the three Gods, Indra, Lord of the storm, Oberon, ruler of flames, and Mim, the master of ice, to destroy a terrible dragon that was ravaging the land. Upon doing so, instead of offering it to the gods, he tore out its fangs and melted them into a sword, and ripped the sclaes from the slain beast to give his wicked blade the dragon's power. Upon the hilt he fixed one of the eyes to guide his strikes in battle, ingesting the other. The beast's evil then burrowed itself in his once good heart, which when coupled with his pride, made him rise against the gods. The three gods' rage poured down on drago, and the two sides engaged in a battle the likes of which the world had ever seen. It was unsure how, but Drago managed to destroy Mim in the struggle, granting him all the powers of the Ice God, and forcing Oberon and Indra to flee. Next Drago hunted Oberon to his hidden temple in the heart of a volcano, and slew him and took his powers as well. With his two comrades defeated, Indra traveled to the underworld, where he had the Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu forge for him his own dragon wrought blade, inlaid with the power of a raging storm. Then he left and confronted Drago on the moutain called Zagala(Dragondoom). The two clashed fiercely, and in the end, Indra unleashed all of his powers, causing a maelstrom to ravage the mountain. As the storm raged, Indra defated Drago, but was grieviously wounded, and imparted the last of his powers into his own sowrd and seal Drago's evil soul within his wretched blade. It was the hidden from the world, and called the DragosBlade.
"You're jerking my chain, right?" Antionette said disbelivingly as Ian finished his story. "You're the one who wanted to hear it, not me." Ian said with a shrug as they exited the darkness, blinking in the sunlight as the emerged from the cave. "Where are we?" asked Myra, sheilding her eyes as she stared down at the desert valley in front of them. "Satan's Ridge." Jason said as he too looked around. His gaze fell on an old building. It couldn't be...
Dave emerged from the shadows in a dark room the size of the school's gym. It looked like a coliseum of sorts, devided into quadrants. In one quad, there was a wrestling ring(all manner of cages amd other items included). In another was a dueling strip with all manner of weapons on darkwood racks, from swords to maces. In the third was a regular ring, set up for martial arts. and the final part, where Dave stood, was obviously for meditation and other social events of a dojo. Dave smiled humorlessly. As he took a step forward, he saw that there was a man in the ring in the far corner, going at it with another man. The larger man was currently holding the other man in a headock, whoch he converted into a bulldog by running forward and diving so his opponent hit the mat face first. The man who had been bulldogged merely rolled through and leapt back to his feet. Dave spotted a woman with waist length brown hair in a white dress standing by the ring, looking on with interest. The pair stopped when they heard the sound of some one clapping sarcastically. "Nice, dad, you really showed the mat who was boss that time." he said sardonically. The three whirled. The larger man groaned and front flipped out of the ring. "Dave, I thought you were in school." he said disapprovingly. "Nah, took the day off uncle." he said with a shrug. The woman pursed her lips and made a sound that made it clear what she thought of his skipping school. "How's the wild zords, mom?" he asked her carelessly. the other man vaulted over the top rope. "Dave, what did you do?" he asked. Well, demanded actually.
"So let me get this right. That thing Dave was using was an evil sword that holds the soul of a godslayer?" Myra asked, clearly not buying a word of it. The four of them didn't notice how Jason was staring at the ruins of an old building. As they continued their arguement, Jason began walking down the steep embank. "Coach?" Ian called after him as he noticed. The other three turned and looked as well. The four hastened after him. "What was it?" Derak said in wonder. "it was the first command center. Where I became the earth's first red ranger. I had no idea that it was still standing after Divatox blew it up." he softly replied as he sat down, the force of it all just hitting him full force. "Wow. It must've been a sight when it was still standing." Antionette said softly. "It was." Jason said with a sigh.
"What makes you think I didn't just come here to ask uncle Chang for a match?" he said a little too quickly. Chang folded his well muscled arms across his massive chest. "You know I won't face you again after you damn near killed yourself trying to use my technique." he said, his red eyes glowing alightly behind his sunglasses. Merrick blanched. "you tried to do the maelstrom's bolt?" he said increduously. Dave shrugged. "Knew everything else, and was gettin a little tired of the ark blast anyway. Too unfocused and widespread." he explained. "What did you do!?" Shayla demanded. Dave sighed. "I found the Dragos Blade."
"I wonder if any of the old stuff in here still works?" Derak said as he continued to stare up at the building that had once housed the legendary mighty morphin, zeo and turbo teams. "Probably not. Coach Scott said it had been a long time since anyone used this place. Besides, it got blasted to smithereens, ne?" Ian said as he knelt by an old standard. Divatox's, no doubt. there had been way too many to begin with, seeing as she was an ego maniac. "Yeah, but what if..." Derak's voice trailed off. The two turned and jumped down the hole, Jason yelling at them angrily the whole time. The others followed shortly as Derak went to one of the consoles and started trying to fire it up. "It still has a little power, but not much." he tossed over his shoulder to Ian who was doing likewise at another console. "Ya know, if dave was here he wold've probably already powered the whole place up to the max and downloaded all the tech onto another computer." Jason looked thoughtful at this.
"YOU WHAT!!" Chang bellowed like a wounded ox. "I found the Dragos Blade. In the tomb on Satan's ridge. And, I used it." Merrick went pale. "You-hang on. How could you've used it? Only the-shit." Chang swore as he relized what had happened. "Why can he use it, Chang?" Shayla asked, almost scared of the answer. After all, her son was differant. Chang and Merrick had both trained him from a young age in the ways of the warrior and the light, but there was always something dark about him. "The only people who are able to wield that cursed blade are dragoons and the like. You know, people who are aligned with dragons?" he said as he saw their confused looks. "HEEELLO! I'm kinda right here!" Dave yelled, infuriated that he was being talked about like he was still in the tomb.
"You say he could get all the data here to another computer?" Jason asked as Derak toyed with something. "Basically. If Anthony was here he would've done it already, he was a computer genius, kinda like the first blue, I think." Ian said absent mindedly as he went over the old archives he had managed to dredge up from the bowels of the morphing grid. "Yeah, Billy was that damn good." Jason said as he went all misty eyed. "I think I can get us back, I just need a disk or something so I can download some of the stuff onto it and-" Ian was cut off as Myra shoved a disk at him. "What? I'm taking a lot of computer classes!" she stated defensively. "It'll work." Derek said. witha few minutes work, Jason felt the familiar tingling feeling of teleportation all over his body.
"Have you been meddling where you shouldn't be?" Merrick asked Dave. "Define where I shouldn't be. If you mean that big floating turtle mom lives on, no. Anything else, guess. You two left me on the doorstep of the Thunder Ninja Academy, after I tried to do the Maelstrom's Bolt. Then when I leave there, you send me back to Dogtown! And to make matters worse, now I gotta take on the school honcho and his cronies in two different kinds of matches!" Dave bellowed. "When." Shayla said. "Tonight and tommorrow. At the school gym." Dave said. "Then we'll be there!" Shayla declared, Merrick and Chang wincing. "Cool. I have to go." dave said as he hugged his mom. With that, he melted back into a shadow. "He shouldn't be able to do that." Chang grunted as he leapt back into the ring, Merrick following him.
Dave reappeared in the room with Zordon, just as five blurs of light appeared. On instinct, Dave fired off a blast of energy, only to have it slashed on half by one of Annie's chakra whips. "You really gotta work on that, bro." Derek said as they all materialized from the light. "Sorry." he muttered as he sat down. "What kept you lot out on Satan's Ridge?" he asked as he telekinectically moved a few knick-knacks that Jason kept lying around. "We found the ruins." Ian said simply. "Oh. Anything still work?" he asked before anyone else could interrupt. "We need your help to get it up and running but, yeah, it still works." Ian replied.
Olrox paced back and forth in his lavishly decorated chamber, the Dragos Blade clutched in his left hand, and an ancient scroll, depicting the great battle 3000 years ago between the wild force and orgs, when drago had aligned himself with orgs after turning on the gods. "How do I unlock your powers?" he hissed in frustration. The blade glowed a slight red, but it had been doing that for the past hour. He set the blade down and demorpisized to his true form. "If only you knew how easy you have it, dave..." he said in broken english. Dave would never find out what he was until it was too late.
Jonathan stood outside the ring as Damon and Tyson both grappled with each other. Damon grunted and hurled Tyson against the ropes, and clotheslined him on the rebound. Tyson rolled on his back and climbed to his feet, and caught the second attempted clothesline, and cionverted to a suplex, which he changed at the last minute to a front slam. Jonathan smiled evilly. That Dave would never beat his two cronies, not without cheating, somethingit looked like he had an aversion to.
Later that day, Merrick sat in a clearing in the forest he had roamed as Zen Aku, playing a huanting melody on his flute, thinking about what Chang had told him. "He shouldn't be able to do that." Chnag said as Dave melted into a shadow. "What? He always does that, Chang." Merrick said as he grabbed Chang in a headlock an tried to bulldog him, only to have Chang lift him straight off the ground and piledrove him backwards. The Northern Lights Driver. "Only denizens of darkness can use the shadows as their own personal highway. That must also be why he could use the Dragosblade...and why the Maelstrom's Bolt almost killed him." Chang said as he helped Merrick up, who judo threw Chang across the ring in return. "Merrick? Are you okay?" Shayla asked. Merrick looked up to see her dressed in street clothes. "Where-Dave's match. Right." Merrick said with a sigh.
"You nervous?" Derek asked dave as he limbered up a bit. "No. Just concerned." he said quietly. "Why, afraid to let Annie down?" Ian teased. Dave glared. "Definately not. Just nerves. First matchn a long time." Dave explained as he did a few warm up punches and kicks. "Gonna take Jonathan to the frontline?" Ian asked, refering to Dave's devastating finisher. "Most likely. Maybe the Buzzsaw Bomb." He said witha galnce at Derek. "I think not. you are not using my moves." derek said angrily. "The Mountain Crush?" he asked innocently, with a sidelong glance at Ian, who shook his head vigorously. "How about the Atomic Shot or the Tornado Spear?" "I don't think Anthony or Justin would be very happy if you did that, bro." derek said as he watched Dave jump five feet into the air and do a tornado kick. "Yeah, well, i thought I would pay them some respect, that's what sensei said doing a friend's move was." dave said as he returned to his orignial stance.
As the student body filed into the gym and took their seats in the bleachers, Annie and myra both stood by the doors., watching for Jason. "There he is!" Myra exclaimed, only to see that he was with three other people. One of them was the legendary Son Chang Aikido, the dojo master of Dog Town. "Those must be Dave's parents." Myra breathed. "How would you know, chica?" Annie asked. "derek told me they would be here." she shrugged. their attention was drawn to the centre of the room, where a WWE like ring had been set up. In the centre of it, stood Jonathan with a supreme look on his face. Well, he WAS the champ, after all. "Ladies and gentleman, tonight, we see my challenger in action, against your school tag team champs, in a handicap match! And if he survives, we see him in action again tommorow night against yours truly, in the most barbaric match ever seen: HELL IN THE CELL! And if he survives that, he'll be the first!" he roared, amid the appluase from all populars, and the boos from the outcasts.
The lights dimmed as the Crazy Frog Song hit and Damon and Tyson emerged from the back, clutching their title belts and looking ready to kill. As the piar climbed into the ring, Merrick looked at Princess Shayla. "He has to take both of them at once?" she asked. Chang shook his head. "No. only one of them can go against him at a time. the other has to be tagged in as if it was a tag team match, which by the looks of things, is their specialty. So dave definately has his work cut out for him." "it seems we have a dignitary among us!" jonathn's voice rang out. Chang cringed as a spotlight shone on him. "Would please welcome the legendary Son Chang Aikido!" Jonathan cried. Chnag stood amidst the applause, waved a bit, and sat back down. Before anything else could happen, Pillar's song Frontline hit and dave came out, a murderous look on his face, clad in a pair of black Cargo shorts and sneakers. As he climbed into the ring, he sized up both of his opponents, then waved at them to "just bring it".
Next chapter, Dave finally has his first of two matches. sorry about the long delay in updates. Any way, review!