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Begin le Chappie
"Here are the espionage agents," Koyla said as he placed them in cages and rolled the cages towards Team one. Everyone was waiting for the 'go' for their mission.
"Thanks," Rock replied as he climbed on Orinda as the rest of his team mounted their dragons. "Min, could you get Damini to help with this?"
"Sure," she smiled as her dragon grabbed one end of the rope, while Orinda grabbed the other. "Hang on one sec. My luggage is coming loose." She turned around and pulled the rope a little tighter. "Is that too tight?"
"No, it's fine. I don't want you to lose what little clothes you brought," Damini replied. Min had only packed half a bag.
"What's with your bag Min? Shouldn't it be heavier?" asked Tabor.
"I'm going shopping," she said plainly. "I need room to fit everything."
"Ok , can we go now?" asked one of the spies. Rock rolled his eyes and they took off.
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"Ready to go?" asked Netto as he and his friends stood in front of the transporter. It took them five hours to finish tests and get everything ready to go. The only two people who brought something were Netto, who had the tracer, and Laika, who had the beacon which would tell Dr. Hikari when they were ready to return, and how many people would be returning.
"Yeah," Meiru replied shakily. "I'm really nervous about this, though."
"We all are," Enzan interjected, "but we have to do this if we want our navis back."
"Ok, it's time to go," Dr. Hikari said as he gave his son a goodbye hug. "Stay safe."
"We will," Netto smiled. The transporter hummed to life, and a white light filled the room, and the five people were gone.
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"Wake up you lazy-butts!" Roll yelled up the stairs. It was past ten, and she was the only one up.
"Who are you calling a quote-unquote 'lazy butt'?" Forte yelled back. "I've been up, so don't call me lazy!"
"Lazy," Blues said as he ran down the stairs, followed closely by Forte, and grabbed Roll to use as a human, or rather hume, shield. Forte and Blues fought for a few minutes before Gutsman emerged from his room.
"Leave Roll-chan alone!" he roared. He grabbed both Blues and Forte by the scruff of their necks and threw them across the room.
"Oh that does it now," Forte snarled as he picked himself up and started to charge Gutsman. Roll rolled out of the way, and ducked into the kitchen, followed closely by Searchman.
"Wow, this is a great way to start out the day," he said as Blues entered the room.
"Five bucks that Gutsman gets his butt handed back to him," he smiled. Roll sighed.
"So, did you do that on purpose?" she asked.
"Well, he messed with my sword," he responded as Gutsman fell through the door. Forte was standing right outside, smirking.
"Revenge is a dish best served cold, eh?" he asked as he took a few steps towards Blues. "No one can get efficient revenge on me."
"Cut it out both of you," Roll said as she exited the room. "I'm going shopping. Forte is coming with me. Searchman, do you want to go with me too?"
"I'd better. Who knows what Forte might do," he replied. Forte snarled and stormed out of the house, followed by the other two.
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"Presenting the honorable Black Mages from Black Mage City," announced a fighter as they appeared before the king. The elites bowed as they pulled the spies in front.
"We found these spies in our territory," Rock said. "We have brought them back with a message from our king. The first time we find them, we return them. The second, they're ours." The king glared.
"I did not know that your 'country' had a military already," the king sneered.
"We have a military, and we are good friends with Windrust. If you attack us, we will overwhelm you with power," Rock replied calmly. "So, are we going to negotiate the terms of their return?"
"I will negotiate with you and one other. How about that one behind you," he said.
"Ok, Tabor, you're staying. What about the rest of my team?"
"They can leave." Rock turned around, rolled his eyes, and they left.
"I feel real sorry for those guys," Min said.
"Yeah, but they're taking one for the team, I guess," Lykaios replied. The two of them made it to the shopping district. "So, what do you want to buy?"
"I don't know, some spices, herbs, hair accessories, and a sword," she smiled.
"A sword?"
"Hey, when in Rome. Wait, what is Rome? I know that Rock said that it was a city from wherever the heck he's from, but what's with the saying?"
"Who knows? Hey, there's a market."
"Ok, we'll start there," she replied as they made it down the isles of food. "I wonder what's good here."
"Oh, if you're looking for some fruits, the thundermelons, kazahm peppers, yagudo cherries, and the derfland pears are good right now," said a blond white mage who was also shopping.
"Thanks," Min replied as she got the fruits. "I haven't seen thundermelons this ripe in a long time. My name is Min, by the way, and this is Lykaios. We're black mages from BMC."
"I'm Roll, and these are Searchman and Forte," Roll smiled. "Do you know a Rockman?"
"I know a Rock, if that's what you mean," she replied as she watched Roll's face light up. "Oh my gosh, you're the people that he's been looking for! Oh my gosh. -sigh- Wow. I just had a random hyper moment." Lykaios snorted. "What's your problem?"
"You are the most random lightning mage that I know," he laughed.
"And you want a beating," she threatened. Lykaios stopped laughing, and took a few steps back as Forte started to laugh. Min took one look at him, and broke down laughing. "Man that felt good."
"Exerting your control?" asked Roll.
"Yeah. I can get scary when I'm mean," Min smiled. "Tabor and Lykaios always say 'Min is mean'. So, what does the hottie think is so funny?" Forte froze.
"Hottie?" he asked as Roll and Searchman started to snicker.
"Purple hair ishot, ok. And you have a nice tan too," she said in an evil tone and sly smile. Forte just shrugged and smiled.
"I think that you are the first person who has ever hit on me," he replied. "Does she flirt with every guy she sees?"
"No. In fact, I didn't even know that she was able to flirt," Lykaios said while backing up. Min was giving him a look that meant nothing good for him. "Oh crap, I'm going to die now, right."
"Oh yeah. I'll give you a minute head start," she said as she turned around. "Ok, Rock will kill me if I don't get an address from you."
"Where is he?" Searchman asked.
"The castle negotiating the return of some spies that we caught and that I would like to rip apart limb from limb for being in our territory without permission or any good excuse. Man that was a mouthful," she said while taking a deep breath.
"I like the tearing apart limb from limb thing," Forte smiled. "We live at 49580 Nadrs Ln."
"Ok, well, I need to go and kill Lykaios. See ya!" she said as she took off after her teammate. "Get back here coward!" She ran out of the market and towards the castle while catching sight of her prey. Lykaios was frozen in front of the steps with the elite fighters surrounding him.
"So, little mage, are you going to surrender or what?" one asked as he started towards Lykaios.
"Back off freak," he growled as he pulled his own sword out of the ground. It was made of wood.
"Ooh, I'm so scared," another sneered as Min shot a bolt of lighting at him.
"You should be," she shot. "Metal conducts electricity, and all of you are wearing armor of some sort." Lykaios took this little lecture to pull a wooden crate over him. "And wood doesn't conduct electricity, so I don't have to worry that much about aiming." She got into battle mode, and started fighting all eight of them at once. Lykaios made it past the fight to find the other mages.
"Crap, we left Rock and Tabor and they've probably been attacked," he thought as he ran through the halls. After a few wrong turns and dead ends, he found the correct room. He burst through the door to find Tabor unconscious, and Rock fighting the king with his fire sword.
"And here I thought that I had you all figured out," the king commented to Rock, not realizing that there was another Mage in the room. "I never expected a mage to know how to wield a sword."
"Well, I'm not your ordinary mage," Rock spat. "In fact, I'm almost as good with a sword as I am with a ranged weapon." The king gave a battle cry and lunged at Rock.
"Now or never," Lykaios thought as he sent vines through the floor. The vines wrapped themselves around the legs of the king. "Rock, those are extremely flammable." Rock spun around, saw his friend, smiled, and then threw the sword to the feet of the king.
"Thanks. Could you see how Tabor is?" he asked as he lit the vines. Lykaios ran over to Tabor, and got him to his feet.
"He'll be out for a while, but we need to get out of here," Lykaios replied as Rock helped drag him out of the chamber.
"Orinda, we're going to the roof and we need all dragons there. Tell them to tell Min to get to the roof. We're getting out of here before we get killed," Rock thought frantically as he started towards the stairs. "We're getting to the roof."
"Aye aye el capitan," Lykaios replied as Min ran up to them.
"Holy shnikes, I nearly got killed down there, and what happened to Tabor?" she asked while going up the stairs.
"One of the 'royal guards' laid a cheap shot on him. He's out cold," Rock said as he tried to balance his weight. Min seemed to get an idea, because the next second she had sent a small electrical shock through Tabor. Before anyone could ask why she did that, Tabor woke up.
"Geez Min, what was that for?" he asked.
"You wouldn't get up. Now can we run up the stairs, we have like five flights to go," she said, annoyed.
"Yeah, lets just hope that we can get up there without incident," Rock said as they continued up.
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"Meiru-chan?" asked Roll. One second she was teasing Forte about that 'Min' girl, and the next all of the Net Op's are there. "Is it really you?"
"Roll-chan," Meiru said as she embraced her navi.
"Searchman?" asked Laika. Searchman smiled and nodded. "Where're everyone else?"
"Well I'm right here," Forte growled. "But everyone else, minus the rock-head, are at the house. Rock is somewhere where we don't know."
"That girl that thought that you were hot said that he was at the castle. We should get Blues and Gutsman and hurry to get Rock. And DON'T call him rock-head," Roll said in a dangerous voice. All of the Op's started to laugh at that remark.
"I'll go and get the other two idiots while you go and get the third," Forte sneered as he took off running. Roll just shook her head as they started towards the castle.
"What do you think that Rock is doing at the castle?" asked Netto.
"He's here on behalf of the Black Mages. It appears that he got himself roped into their elite rank," Searchman said.
"Black Mage, what's a black mage?" asked Dekao. Roll sighed.
"Ok, there are at least six 'races' I guess you'd call them here in this dimension. White mage, which is what I am, heal people; Black mage, like Rock, cast elemental spells; Fighters, like the majority of the citizens of Bastok and Blues, are swordsmen; Dark knights, like Forte, are semi-evil swordsmen; Berzerkers, like Gutsman, who go on blind rampages; and Red Mages, like Searchman, are a mix between fighters and mages," she explained. "Most are humes, which, like us, look like humans. There are also people who look like elves, called Eveleens, and some other people who I have no idea what they are."
"Sorry I asked," Dekao replied as Enzan smirked.
"Well, I got it all down. I guess it just takes a little more intelligence," he sneered.
"Oh will you two cut it out?" Meiru asked, exasperated. "They've been at it since we got here." Roll laughed and turned to look at the castle.
"It looks like there's a fight going on," Searchman said as he pulled out a pair of binoculars. "Uh-oh. Remember those black mages that we met at the market?"
"Yeah," Roll replied as Blues, Gutsman, and Forte appeared.
"Well, it looks like they're being attacked, and their other teammates too."
"What does that mean?" asked Netto.
"Rock's under attack."
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"Orinda, where are you?" Rock thought desperately.
"We're on our way," the dragon replied. Rock shot another fireball at the seemingly unending line of fighters. Everyone was fighting as hard as they could, and they were almost spent.
"Oh for the love of, how many more are there?" Min asked.
"Who knows," Tabor said as he shot another stream of water at the military and Min zapped them.
"Face it, we have you outnumbered and outmatched," one of the fighters said. Suddenly, a roar pierced the silence of a battlefield.
"Finally," Rock sighed. "Well, I'd love to finish this now, but we really need to get going."
(Change of POV)
"What was that?" asked Netto.
"It sounded like a dragon," Blues replied as four large shadows flew over them and towards the castle.
"Dragons? DRAGONS!" asked Forte. "Screw Rock. I've had my fill of dragons for this lifetime."
"Wait, those dragons have reigns on them. And it looks like, oh no," Searchman said.
"What?" everyone asked.
"They're going to jump it," he replied as they watched the figures of the four mages run to the edge and jump off. They were caught by the dragons.
"Lucky, de gutsu," Gutsman commented after the four riders mounted their steeds, yelled something, which Forte swears that Rock yelled a few cuss words, and flew off.
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"I can't believe that Rock called them f---ing idiots!" Forte laughed (A:N/ Forte believes that he said the whole word, not just the f part.)
"Neither can I, which is why I don't," Blues replied as he finished cooking dinner. "Dinner's ready."
"I didn't know that you could cook," Enzan said as he helped set the table.
"I didn't know until I got here," Blues smiled. "I can't begin to tell you how much I've missed you, Enzan-sama."
"Awww, how sweet," Forte said as he appeared in the doorway. Blues rolled his eyes and Enzan just walked out of the room. "Let's see, that's me, all of the fights, everyone else zero."
"So, has he been like this the whole time?" asked Laika.
"Guess," Roll said as Enzan entered the family room.
"Dinner is ready," he told everyone.
"Thanks," they replied as they went to the dining room.
"I wonder what Rock's doing right now," Netto said as he started to play with his food.
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"So we have that dried meat and those fruits that we bought today," Min said as they sat down for dinner.
"I made some plates," Lykaios told them as he set the platters and plates in front of each mage.
"So you found my friends just in time for us to get the boot from the city," Rock sighed. "Great, just perfect. So, what'd you think of them?"
"Well, that Forte guy was pretty hot," Min smiled. "I mean, really hot." Rock started to laugh.
"Forte is a bad guy in my world. He hates all humans," he said as soon as he got his breathing under control.
"Those are the people that help you fight, right?" Tabor asked after he got a plateful of cherries and pears.
"Yeah, but not all of them," he replied.
"Rockman-kun, what's the matter?" Orinda asked, using a mix between his nickname and his real name.
"I really miss Roll-chan, Netto-kun, and everyone else," he sighed. "Now that I know that I could have at least seen Roll-chan."
"Rock, you ok?" asked Min. "'Cause you look like you're about to cry."
"I be back later," he said as he stood up and left.
"Poor guy. He must really miss her," Lykaios sighed. "Roll looked like a sweet girl. I can see why he's in love."
"Yeah, and Forte was really hot," Min replied before smiling. "Yeah, I know, 'Way to spoil the mood Min'." The boys just rolled their eyes and finished eating.
End Chapter
Poor Rock-kun. He just seemed to miss everyone. R+R plz