Chapter Nine

Strike

After the death of Lawson and his son, they all continued on towards Mille Seseau.

"We'd better be careful," Vallen warned, "because there is a Water Dragon around the area. I'm surprised that Feyrbrand hasn't showed his dragon face yet."

"Feyrbrand," Lance said, "isn't that the dragon of wind?"

"Yes, and a powerful one too," Vallen told them. "The only known dragons to be able to defeat it are the fire dragon, Red-eyed Dragon, and the dragon of divine forces, Divine Dragon, the king of them all." Then, cries from the trees beyond the trees were heard! At that, they all gasped.

"Come on," Lance said as he ran towards it, pulling out Scorcher as he went. Then they all followed. When they finally got there, the cries were gone, and nobody, not a single soul was in sight.

"Prepare to meet sudden death," a male's voice cried from behind the trees.

"No escape, murdering you will be easy," said another male's voice. Then, Dark Assassin Cory, and Paladin-General David emerged!

"Who are you rouges," Alexis asked.

"We are the ones who kill the ones who interfere with Emperor Zeig's plans," Cory yelled. "We are Cory and David."

"So DIE," David yelled as he slashed Alexis with his Dark Sword. Alexis had pulled out Kashadou just in time to cut the damage in half. She was shot backwards and sprained her ankle. Then Lance felt power, and then, an orb of light surrounded his body. It was a green color, and when it died down, Lance was wearing all of the same armor that Shawn was wearing. Scorcher, instead of red, turned green. Lance had transformed into the Dragoon of the wind. Cory ran towards him, and tried an attack known as Silencer. Lance countered by using the newly acquired dragon spell, Wind Blaster! The spell forced Cory into a tree. David then attacked Vallen, who was watching Cory at the time. Although, Cameron shot a Silver Arrow out of her Silver Bow, and hit David. Then, David fell off his horse, and his horse ran into a tree. Apples started to fall at that so his horse started to eat. Candice started walking up to David.

"Hey, I know you," she said gleefully as David got up. He gave her a sort of dirty face. "Yeah, we met in some town in Mille Seseau once!"

"Oh really," David cocked off, "Well in that case, I ask you, tell me what I created in a game that we played with fake weapons?"

"Uh, hmm," she thought, "it wouldn't be the weapon triangle now would it?"

"Correct," David said, looking away and holding back a smile.

"I got that right, so you have to join up with us," Candice said, starting to pull on David's sleeve.

"But you–I–we–what's going on," David asked.

"Shut up and probably I'll tell you later," Candice countered. David joined the team. Then Cory got back up.

"David, come here now," he ordered. David turned and faced him.

"I'm sorry, but no," David replied.

"What are you doing," Cory yelled. Lance was readying another Wind Blaster. "Get your ass over here right now!"

"No," David countered, "now these people are my friends! If you want to kill them, you'll have to go through me!" Then, he readied his Dark Sword which turned white and became the Light Sword. Even his cloak turned white. His soul was purified. Lance diffused from the Dragoon Spirit that he temporarily used. Everyone watched the two friends face off.

"Fine, so be it then," Cory said, pulling out the bloodstained Assassin Daggers once again. "Hurrrahhh!!!!" He dashed towards David, and just before impact, he disappeared. David lowered his sword, and everybody else put their weapons away. They looked in the trees, up at the sky, off in the eyesight distance, and on the ground. Cory was nowhere, but then he did reappear behind David! Everyone turned and gasped at David! David turned his head slightly and was then stabbed in the back with Cory's Assassin Daggers!

"AAAHHH," David screamed; his eyes wide open as he fell to the ground. Before he fell, Cory pushed his daggers up David's back leaving a larger cut than the blade would normally leave. Blood was dripping down both the daggers and David's sides.

"Now you know what you're dealing with," he had finally said to Lance. "Now I will leave you, but mark my words. You, dear boy, will be my next victim if you follow me, or try to interfere with the Emperor's plans!" Then, a snapping noise was heard, and the Dark Assassin disappeared, leaving no trace to where he was going, or which innocent life he would take before taking Lance's...