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Dawn of Destiny

II – The First Night

"Everything went just as we had expected?"

Rob appeared out of thin air and gazed around to see that he was now in a dark room with no light. The only thing that he was able to see was the white haired woman dressed in white that was sitting on the floor in front of him.

"Yes, Princess Hinoto" he bowed his head, "Everything is ready for upcoming war. They were all very eager to start things off quickly."

"Well, that's humanity for you" a voice came out of the darkness around the two.

Rob turned his head to see another woman coming up on his right.

"Mistress Kanoe" he bowed again, "Glad to see that you could join us in our meeting."

Rob glanced over at Princess Hinoto a moment and could see that the presence of her sister was making her a bit uneasy.

"I guess I should go down and meet with my group then" Kanoe had a pleased look across her face, "I would like to see what I have to work with after all."

As she started to walk away, Rob spoke again, "I thought you said that you two were going to stay out of this. The deal was that you would each have a group of humans that would fight for your cause."

Kanoe stopped and started to turn red when she saw Rob glaring at her.

"That wasn't what I meant" she tried to explain herself, "I just want to take a look at them. They all have a right to know who it is they are fighting for."

"You can't fool me" Rob continued, "As the Seer of Dreams, I have already seen that both of you are going to play your own part in this battle. But as your pawn, there is nothing that I can do to stop that."

There was a silence for a moment in which both Hinoto and her sister Kanoe said nothing. This wasn't something that they expected to hear when they appointed Rob as their Seer of Dreams and had him act as the overseer of the war.

"I will be going then if there is nothing else that you two needed."

Rob bowed once more and then disappeared into the darkness. Silence once again filled the room and the two sisters waited for someone to say something.

"This could have all been avoided if you didn't want to kill off the human race" Hinoto said bitterly.

Kanoe rolled her eyes and then laughed a little, "I don't want them dead, dear sister. I only want to start the human race over. If they weren't destroying the very place in which they live, everyone could just live in peace. But even the Earth itself should have a say in the matter."

Before Hinoto could argue, Kanoe followed Rob's lead and also disappeared from sight.

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Chuck sighed as he found himself once again up on top of the Lehigh Valley Mall. He was actually surprised to find out that no one fixed it up after the fire that burnt it down four years before.

"You really picked this place as your hideout?"

"No where else I could think of" Chuck smirked, "I have to admit that I'm not the best leader in the world. But I am going to do what I can."

Rob came over to where he was and then sat down to watch the cars passing by in the distance.

"Don't know why, but this seems to be my hobby lately" Chuck stared ahead of him, "Maybe it's to take my mind off the things at hand."

"You're not cold out here? You do spend a lot of time doing this."

Chuck wondered how he knew something like that but then remembered that he was able to see the future and other things in his dreams.

"You have to stop doing that" he told Rob, "It really throws me off."

"But it helps me to understand everyone better and to offer a hand to someone that is in need."

Chuck sat there for a moment and then realized that he was aiming his words directly at him.

"Someone in need? What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

Rob could feel that Chuck had become as cold as the night air around them. It wasn't hard to tell that this was becoming a touchy subject.

"When are you going to wake up? I have seen the dreams and know that you are at least aware of this problem."

"Shut up!" Chuck snapped, "I have chosen the side that I want and have every reason to do so. I have known the answer to that question since the day that you informed us of our destinies."

"As much as I want to believe that" Rob continued to push the matter, "The fact is that you really haven't chosen yet. It is still written down as undecided."

"Written down where? You are seriously going to lay this bull shit on me? I think I've known what I have done!"

"Everything all right?"

Rob and Chuck stop arguing and turned to see a tall woman with black hair hanging down her back.

"Kanoe?" Rob raised an eyebrow, "What are you still doing here? Didn't you say that you were only going to take a look at them?"

Kanoe walked over to them and then glanced at Chuck intently as she past by. Her gaze than rested upon Rob as she spoke.

"I was trying to, but it's harder to find this boy than you think."

Rob smirked, "I seem to find him quite easily."

"Well," Kanoe returned his smirk, "Not all of us were given dream seeing abilities."

Rob looked at Chuck first and than to Kanoe before bowing and disappearing. A cold shiver than ran down Chuck's back as he caught the woman glaring at him.

"So you are the Kamui?"

"I am" Chuck told her, "Is there something that you wanted to ask me?"

"Not ask," Kanoe grinned, "I wanted to actually test your power for myself. After all, you are the leader of the Dragons of Earth."

It was than that Chuck figured out that his shivers weren't from the cold. When he looked up, Kanoe was already in his face.

"SHOW ME YOUR POWER!"

Her fist connected with his face and launched him back a few steps. As soon as Chuck came to a complete stop, he tried to regain his composure but felt dizzy a bit.

"Her punches hurt a lot more than I figured they would" he thought to himself, "It didn't feel that bad but for some reason I can't regain my balance."

"You're fighting a God after all" Kanoe laughed as though she could read his mind, "This isn't going to a walk in the park. And I have no intentions of making it one, little boy!"

Another punch was thrown but this time Chuck was able to block with his arms crossed. It felt as though he didn't receive any damage but he soon felt his right arm beginning to hurt.

"I really hope that this isn't it" Kanoe continued to taunt him, "Can you really call yourself the Twin Star of the Dragons of Earth?"

This seemed to set Chuck off. Kanoe could feel an invisible force starting to take over the entire roof.

"I will call myself whatever I want!" he growled, "Is there any special reason that you came up here? Because I highly doubt the reason was to die!"

Chuck disappeared into thin air and then reappeared right behind Kanoe. He swung his arm to strike her but right before his fist connected she disappeared too.

"A simple swing of the arm isn't going to beat me" she laughed from the other side of the rooftop, "Come on child. You are the Kamui."

"Calm down" Chuck told himself, "You aren't going to be able to hit her if you lose control."

Chuck's eyes grew wide when he saw a pair of feet setting right behind him. He whipped around and took a swift kick right to the face.

"Come on!" Kanoe growled, "I don't need someone as weak as you! At this rate, I might as well ask Adam if he'll reconsider and switch teams with you!"

Chuck landed on the front of his body and then slid to a stop. He couldn't believe how ridiculously powerful the woman was. He wasn't even able to sense her sneaking up behind him.

"What do you want from me?" he moaned as he got to his feet, "You really expect me to match a God?"

"No" she said honestly, "But I want to see a fight. I want to see that you have both strength and smarts. I'm sorry Chuck but I'm greedy and I want the biggest advantage I can get in this fight."

A small distance away from the JCPenny's roof, Rob stood on one of the lampposts, watching how the battle was going. He then glanced over for a second when he felt another presence join him.

"What are those two up to?" Teti asked, standing on another nearby lamppost.

"Kanoe is testing Chuck to see if he is exactly what she is looking for. Basically she is trying to lean the odds in her favor a little bit."

As the two of them continued fighting, Teti jumped up and down a little bit and laughed.

"I never realized how cool it could be to be able to stand on a lamppost."

Rob looked at him for a moment and then buried his face in his hand trying not to laugh.

As the two of them stood there again, Rob decided to keep the conversation going, "So what made you want to be a Dragon of Earth? In the end, you looked like the kind of guy that would fight for the human race."

Teti thought about it for a moment and then laughed a little, "Honestly…life was just too boring. I went to medical school and did everything that I needed to do. Even got myself a pretty good wife."

"She isn't that good, is she Teti?" Rob raised an eyebrow, "Do you feel like you are settling for what came your way?"

Teti held a look of disgust, "That really isn't your business."

"But it is" Rob continued, "When you go to sleep at night and have nonstop dreams and visions about your friends all the time, it kind of becomes your business. I just want you to admit that your reason for being a Dragon of Earth is because you think your life sucks."

"It doesn't suck!" Teti snapped, "I have…"

"Lots of money, a wife and came out in life with exactly what you were expecting? Doesn't really matter when you cry yourself to sleep, does it?"

Teti had no idea what to do. His first reaction was that he wanted to attack the boy. But he knew that it would have been a bad idea to do so. Instead, he just chose to continue watching the match between Chuck and Kanoe.

"My job right now, is to make sure that everyone is where they should be" Rob explained to him, "To make you think why you are there."

Teti was going to try to make a smartass remark but he noticed that something was happening over where Chuck and Kanoe were.

"Rob?"

"I see them" he replied, "I don't remember something like this happening. We should get over there, Teti."

Chuck picked himself off the cold rooftop and dropped his jaw when he realized that the two of them were now surrounded by an endless amount of dark figures. Taking a good look at them, it looked to Chuck like the figures actually were made out of the darkness itself.

"What is this?" he growled to Kanoe, "More of your tests?"

Kanoe pressed her back to his, "I really have no idea where they came from. This isn't something that I did."

"Princess Hinoto?"

"I don't think my sister would do something like this either. She wouldn't do something that breaks our rules this much."

A random enemy jumped out of the crowd and tried to reach them. He was quickly shot down by a blast of fire that met him halfway in the air. Chuck then used his fire abilities to make two swords out of the flames.

"You did even use your powers during our fight" Kanoe suddenly realized, "Were you holding back?"

Chuck grinned, "I wanted to see just how strong I had gotten over the years. I figured it would be a challenge if I tried to beat you with no powers. Prove something to myself."

Two more figures tried to get to them but Chuck used his psychic power to rip them apart.

"There are a lot of them but they can be beaten fairly easy" Chuck told Kanoe, "You think you can handle your share of the two thousand?"

A huge amount of the dark soldiers leapt into the air and then started to create a pile on top of the two. But almost as quick as they appeared, a blast of light exploded and completely wiped out half the enemies around them.

"I think I'll manage" Kanoe grinned.

Chuck knew that Kanoe was a God but seeing the amount of power she used in a split second was still really impressive to him. He wondered what her punches would have felt like if she wasn't playing around with him.

"Got you covered guys!"

Teti launched himself through the air and then shoot lightning bolts out of his hands. The two blasts of electricity ripped across the roof and took out more enemies as they disappeared into thin air.

"Are you all right?" Rob asked Kanoe as he appeared where they were standing.

Kanoe took out five more guys and then turned to him, "Yeah, I'm fine. This really doesn't seem too be too much of a threat."

"Who ever it was that did this…" Rob thought out aloud, "Probably expected Chuck to be alone. They didn't realize that you were going to be here."

Kanoe destroyed three more, "I'd say you're right there, which would exclude my sister since we both know that we are meeting with our Dragons tonight."

Teti and Chuck both began to fire beams of electricity through the group of dark figures and tried to take out as many as they could. By the time that they stopped, they could see that there were still hundreds left.

"This is too much" Teti said while trying to catch his breath, "Do we even knew if there is a solid number. They are probably respawning as we kill them."

An angry expression appeared on Kanoe's face as she leapt into the air and came down on one of her high heel shoes. The whole roof actually caved in under her force and then came back up, sending all the dark soldiers into the air.

She then stood back up and lifted her index finger above her head. Every one of the enemies around them all exploded and disappeared right before their eyes.

"No way" Chuck picked up his jaw, "You can really do that?"

Kanoe smirked, "God."

Rob looked around at the shattered roof and then frowned, "But who would be able to create those things and why?"

"One of the Dragons of Heaven?" Teti asked, "Maybe their powers are able to do that."

"If so, then I don't know about it" Kanoe explained, "I could ask my sister but I don't want her to know about anything."

"Then we won't worry about it" Chuck told them, "Nothing happened to any of us. So we'll worry about it another time."

"That's it?" Teti crossed his arms, "That is the only thing that we're going to do?"

"Do?" Chuck smiled, "I said that we would WORRY about it another time. What we are going to DO is find the home base of the Dragons of Heaven and hit them tonight."

"Tonight?" Rob frowned, "Right after the war began?"

"Exactly" Chuck stated, "The last thing that they expect is for us to attack right away. And since it looks like they might have been responsible for the attack on us, it only seems fair."

"A full on attack?" Teti asked.

"Damn straight!" Chuck laughed, "Get the others together. It's time that we let them have some fun. Will show those bastards that we mean business!"

As Teti disappeared to get the other Dragons, Chuck turned around to face Rob and Kanoe.

"Attacking all out in the beginning of the war" Kanoe had a smile on her face, "I do like this daring plan of yours."

Chuck nodded, "Can you feel where your sister is right now?"

Kanoe's eyebrow raised a little, knowing exactly why Chuck wanted to know.

"That's a little sneaky" Kanoe whispered to Chuck, "But I do like the way you play the game."

To Be Continued…