Authors Note: Chapter 11

Soo I'm starting this at my friends house, but I'm probably gonna finish it at home..but eh, it's still a chapter to read.

Raiding Deningrad

The group stood together on the outskirts of Deningrad, just behind the city walls.

"Meru how many of them were there?" Dart asked.

"Only two, but when I was leaving I felt a lot more Wingly Magic arriving at the castle. There is probably a lot more Wingly soldiers inside." Meru explained.

"Great." Tristan sighed.

"Okay. We need to get inside and get Miranda. Everyone be careful, we're probably going to have some trouble getting in there quietly." Dart said.

Everyone nodded before they entered the city. They ran through the city, stopping just short of the castle entrance. Everybody ducked into an alley to hide from the expected site at the castle doors. Two guards that were not normal Crystal Palace guards, adorned in exotic silver armor.

"Winglies." Darian said quietly.

"Wait here." Meru said.

Meru walked over to the two guards, holding her hammer calmly at her side. The two guards looked at her and instantly drew their weapons.

"Hey you're-" the guard tried to say but was interrupted by a large hammer colliding with his head.

Meru spun the hammer around and hit the other guard upwards on the chin.

"All done." Meru said.

Dart and company walked up behind her. The others were amazed by Meru's strength despite her small size.

"Ok everybody, be ready." Dart said, unsheathing his sword.

Everyone else drew their weapons and followed Dart inside the castle. At the top of the crystal palace Chaos stood, looking down at the group from the glass windows.

"They're here." Chaos said to himself quietly.

He removed the Dragon Buster and waited, stifling a laugh as he heard Miranda's cries for help.

Inside there were dozens of Winglies waiting on the stairways for them. They all brandished their weapons.

"It looks like we were waited for." Tristan sighed.

The Winglies charged, screaming battle cries as they lifted their weapons to attack.

"Let's go guys!" Dart said as they too charged.

Dart lifted up his sword to block an incoming slash. He spun around and cut into the Wingly, his sword moving easily through the metal of the Wingly armour. Dart punched the dead Wingly off of his blade, quickly lifting it up again to deflect another swing.

"Damn there are a lot of them." Dart grunted, pulling back his sword and swinging for the other Winglies head.

Tristan ducked underneath two blades that would have moulded themselves into his skull. He thrust his spear forward, the blade piercing one of the Winglies stomachs. From there Tristan quickly moved on to the offensive. He spun his spear around and thrust it backwards, stabbing the other Wingly before it could swing again. He watched as the two Winglies fell dead.

"Anymore!" Tristan sighed, resulting in him receiving a punch to the face.

Shane spun around, swinging his sword upwards. The sword dug deep into the chest of a Wingly. Blood fell to the ground, followed by the Winglies body. Shane avoided another blade, cursing briefly when he realized he was outnumbered three to one.

"Shit." Shane cursed.

Darkness rippled over his body quickly as he focused on the dragoon spirit in his pocket. The dark energy separated as the transformation completed. Shane grunted, spreading his wings before lunging forward. He plunged his sword straight through one of the Winglies ripping out the sword fast enough to block an incoming Wingly blade. Shane flew forward, kneeing the Wingly in the chest forcing him to the ground. Shane grabbed the last Wingly, stabbing him three times through the chest. Dropping the dead Wingly Shane hovered over the Wingly that had fallen to the ground. He grunted before stabbing him through the chest as well. Shane smirked before lifting off and flying into the other Winglies to finish battle.

Connor had been managing two Winglies at once. Using his dual blades he had deflected the many strikes from the Winglies. He sidestepped out of the way of one blade, the sword going underneath his arm. He spun around, plunging one blade straight through the arm of one of the Winglies. Using the other sword he stabbed through the Winglies chest. He sheathed one sword, pulling his other out of the Winglies arm just in time to block the others slash. He stabbed the sword into the Winglies knee, causing it to drop to the ground. He stepped on the Winglies back, pulling out his bow. He knocked an arrow and pulled the string back, releasing it, sending an arrow into the skull of the Wingly. He picked up his other sword, sighing as he watched more Winglies pour down the stairs.

"This is insane." Connor said, removing the Violet dragoon spirit from his pocket, letting its energy surge through his body.

Tara had transformed early in this battle. She rapidly let loose many arrows into the bodies of the approaching Winglies. She noticed a rather brutish looking Wingly coming her way. She pulled the string on her bow back, taking aim and letting light energy flow to the arrow.

"Starlight Arrow." She said quickly, releasing the string.

The light infused arrow soared past many Winglies and struck the big one, tearing through his body. Tara continued to fire arrows until she was cornered by four Winglies. She started to use Starlight Arrow again but fell to the ground, suddenly exhausted. Her armour faded away as she fell to her knees. Having not had her dragoon spirit for long she was not used to the transformation. The four Winglies slowly approached her.

"Not..good." She said while trying to get back to her feet.

"Back off!" A voice yelled.

The closest Wingly too the voice turned its head but was quickly rammed out of the way by a strong shoulder. A flash of brown hair spun, slicing into the next Wingly in line with his sword. The next Wingly was grabbed and spun in front of the blur, being used as a human shield. The last Wingly tried to stab at him but was blocked by the human shield. Dropping the human shield, the owner of the voice slashed across the chest of the last Wingly.

Tara watched as her saviour took down the four Winglies that had almost killed her. The flash of silver from his sword and brown from his hair, she was almost certain who it was. He turned to her and ran over to her.

"Darian." She whispered as he helped her to her feet.

"Hey, don't get killed now. You're no good dead, right?" Darian said, smiling.

Tara smiled at his comment.

"Right."

The fight lasted a long time. The Crystal Palace stairs were dripping with blood by the end of it. In the end all the Winglies had been killed, many bodies littering the ground. Everyone wheezed, exhausted from the long battle. The only ones that hadn't used their dragoon spirits throughout the fight were Dart and Darian, having stuck it out in their normal forms. Everyone else's transformations faded as they began to rest from the last battle.

"So I wasn't the only one brought here?" A voice from the top of the stairs said, "But you guys are fighting for the wrong side, do you even want to go home."

Everyone turned their heads to the new voice; everyone was shocked by who it was. Tara gasped in shock.

"Sean." Tara whispered.

"What do you mean we're fighting for the wrong side!?" Dart yelled angrily.

"You've been mislead Sean." Darian said.

Sean was well built, his large muscles allowing him to carry the large axe he held easily. He had short black hair and dark brown eyes. His armour looked as if it was heavy but Sean could move nimbly with it. He wasn't in their class before everybody was brought here. But everyone knew him because he was Tara's brother.

"We need all of the dragoon spirits too recreate the rift that brought us here. We need to have all of them!" Sean said angrily.

"You've been lied too." Shane muttered.

"They want the Dragoon Spirits so that their master can become a god!" Connor corrected Sean.

"Don't be fooled!" Tristan said.

A single tear fell from Tara's eye.

"Believe them Sean." She said quietly.

Sean raised his axe angrily.

"The only sensible way to get home is the way that they have explained. If you can't understand that, then I'm going to have to rip the spirits out of your hands." Sean said, removing a golden orb out of his pocket.

"A Dragoon!" Dart said.

"Get ready." Darian said.

The golden light shone and faded in an instant, revealing the bulky armour of the Golden Dragoon. The axe that Sean held had transformed into a much bigger form of itself. Sean hovered low off the ground.

"We can't transform anymore." Connor said, trying to get his spirit to work.

"After that battle, we can't anymore, not now." Tristan sighed.

"It's alright guys." Darian said, removing the red orb from his pocket.

Dart took the silver orb out of his pocket.

"We'll handle him." Dart said.

The red and silver light burned Sean's eyes as they glowed bright throughout the whole room. Dart's transformation took considerably longer than Darian's so Darian had attacked first. He struck swiftly with his sword, only to be blocked by the large axe. Sean countered with a downwards swing that Darian had avoided. Darian flew up then down, using all his weight to strike Sean. He lifted up his axe, deflecting the blow. Darian had an opening in his defence that Sean took advantage of. He lifted up his axe and swung but was stopped. Dart had sped into the fray and deflected the axe with his sword.

"Give up kid." Dart muttered.

Sean grunted angrily, swinging his axe, dislodging it from Dart's sword. Darian regained his balance and readied his sword. Dart also readying his blade. They both dashed at Sean swinging their blades at him. He deflected them both with the long shaft of the axe. Sean again swung them away but they relentlessly kept coming back. Dart swung forward, purposely planting his sword into the blade of Sean's axe. The resulting struggle gave Darian the time to get behind Sean. Darian flew forward swinging his sword full force at Sean's back.

The sword wasn't enough to cut completely through Sean's armour but it was enough to send him flying backwards into the next room, the throne room. Dart and Darian both transformed back to normal, their swords still at their sides. They could see the faint golden light of Sean's transformation back to normal through the doors.

Everyone regrouped back on Dart and Darian; they all had their weapons raised and ready.

"Alright, let's get Miranda back!" Dart said before they all entered the throne room.

Inside the throne room Miranda was tied to the throne, yelling for them to get her out. Dart ran too her but was intercepted by Chaos appearing out of thin air.

"Not so fast." Chaos muttered before conjuring a fireball and shooting it at Dart.

Shane and Meru both sprung into action as the fireball zoomed at Dart. Meru shot a fireball at Chaos's intercepting it while Shane shot multiple fireballs in Chaos's direction. The fireballs were just about to hit Chaos when they collided with the large axe held by Sean.

"Damnit." Shane said angrily.

Dart severed the ties holding Miranda, helping her up.

"Thanks Dart." She said calmly.

Chaos, Nicole and Sean were backed into a corner by everybody. Nicole smirked while charging up her teleportation spell.

"Well I guess the dragoon spirits are still safely in your hands. I guess you kids never want to go home." Chaos said, lying through his teeth.

"I told you he was telling the truth." Sean said.

"STOP LYING TO US!" Tara suddenly yelled, surprising everyone.

Sean sighed as if he was just deeply betrayed. Tara raised her bow, sending an arrow zooming at Chaos. In an instant Chaos, Sean and Nicole had disappeared.

"Goodbye kiddies." Chaos's faded voice said.

Tara fell to her knees as her brother disappeared, her tears falling to the ground. Darian was at her side, he rested his hand on her shoulder, not knowing what to say, not understanding what she must be going through. The others stood at the entrance to the throne room, exhausted from the previous battle. They were mostly thinking about where their journey would bring them next.

Dart and Meru walked over to Miranda who was standing in front of the closed doors leading to the Signet Room.

"Is that where the other captives are?" Dart asked.

"Yes." Miranda said.

"Meru, will you do the honours?" Dart said, looking at his platinum haired friend who was raising her hammer with a grin on her face.

"One sec." Meru said, smacking the large lock on the door multiple times before the lock fell off, "There ya go."

The many captives flooded out of the room, thanking everybody before they returned to their duties in the castle. Most of them had no idea what had just happened outside. Miranda took the group to the guest areas of the castle. She offered each of them a room which they took gratefully.

"Okay everyone, rest up. It was a long day today so you all should get some sleep." Dart said.

Everyone nodded before entering their separate rooms. Later in the night Dart, Meru and Miranda had met up in the throne room.

"Where are Queen Theresa and the other sacred sisters Miranda?" Dart asked.

"They are in Donau visiting. Queen Theresa won't be happy about all the blood stains on her castle steps.

"Anyways, what are we going to do about those Winglies and that Sean boy?" Miranda asked.

"I think they may be heading back to their main base, wherever that is." Dart sighed.

"Hey! If there's anyone who knows of any other Wingly hideouts its Ancestor Blano. We should go see him Dart!" Meru said.

Dart and Miranda thought about it before agreeing on the idea.

"I cannot accompany you. Since I am the only one left at the castle I must stay and watch over it until the other Sacred Sisters and Queen Theresa return." Miranda said.

"Okay that settles it then. Tomorrow we head for the Forest of the Winglies." Dart said.

Meanwhile in the room that Miranda had given to Darian all was not quiet and full of slumber. Darian stood, looking out his window at the stars. He was thinking about all the things that had happened today, the huge fight throughout the Crystal Palace, them meeting up with Sean, him saving Tara, Tara. Suddenly his mind focused completely on Tara.

He sighed. Why couldn't he get her off his mind? When she was about to be killed today Darian couldn't understand what had happened to him. It was like a blind rage, induced by Tara's life being in danger. His thoughts were interrupted by a sound coming from behind him. He turned around quickly, realizing that the sound was actually a knock on his door.

Darian walked over, opening the door slowly. He was surprised to see Tara standing outside his room. She stepped in, smiling as she entered.

"Hey what's up?" Darian asked her.

Tara turned around, her smile almost brightening up the room.

"I just came to say thanks for saving my life today. I owe you one." Tara said smiling.

She went up to Darian and hugged him, holding him tight for a few seconds before letting go. Darian was a little shocked by what had just happened. Was he just hugged or is this all a dream. Tara waved goodbye to him and proceeded to leave the room.

No. Darian thought, he couldn't let that moment end that quickly.

He chased her, catching up with her just outside his door. She turned around, hearing his rapid footsteps.

"Tara!" he said quickly.

"Yes Darian?" She said, wondering why he had sprinted out so fast.

Darian moved closer to her, the distance between them becoming very small.

"I just wanted to, uh, umm, I." Darian tried to say.

Damn stop stuttering. Darian thought.

Tara laughed at his nervousness. She moved closer to him, making the distance between them close to none. She placed her arms around his shoulders, standing on the tips of her toes to get up to his height. He almost instinctively, moved his hands to her waist.

"Just hush." Tara said.

She closed her eyes and leaned in slowly until her lips softly met up with Darian's. The kiss lasted about thirty seconds before they broke it off. Darian looked stunned, Tara happy. She turned around and walked back to her room, before she opened the door she smiled, waving to Darian and then entering her room.

Darian walked back into his room slowly. He was stunned by what had just happened but was happy of the outcome. He lied down on his bed, an undying smile attached to his face.

This day had something good in it after all. Darian thought before finally closing his eyes and falling asleep.

So like…romance scenes are hard to write. And that`s also my very first semi/full romantic scene ever..so gimme a break if it's bad. Thanks too all my reviewers, you guys are what drives me to keep writing.

R&R

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