The Next Day...
Logue Town
"WAKE UP YOU LAZY BUMS!" Adrianna shouted to her teammates as she kicked open the door of the boys' room.
Voltz groaned and covered his ears with a pillow while Aaron and Izaya are still sleeping wether they haven't heard of what she said or they just completely ignored her. Adrianna sighed and pondered for a solution. She snapped her fingers once she thought of one. "GUYS! WAKE UP! THE DRAGON'S HERE!" Adrianna shouted in a panicking voice.
And it actually worked, Aaron grabbed his metal staff on the side of his bed and stood up, Izaya quickly stood up while Voltz fell on the floor then stood up. "Where!?" They all asked in unison.
Adrianna burst out laughing. "You should've seen your faces!" Aaron furrowed his brows slightly and shot a bolt of ice at Adrianna which she barely dodged. Adrianna stopped laughing."Ow! Hey, I didn't know that you were that sensitive!" Adrianna said in a defensive voice and Izaya chuckled at her response.
Aaron gave her a blank look. "We need to get ready and find a boat-"
"The ship that we're gonna ride on's already set up." The she-mage informed them, interrupting Aaron. Adrianna left the room and gave the key to her room to the innkeeper and the innkeeper said a small thank you. "By the way, my things are still here so take good care of it."
The inn keeper smiled. "Will do."
"She's a little excited, isn't she?" Izaya said with a smile.
"Little? That's underestimating her excitement. I'll say extremely excited." Aaron said with an exasperated sigh.
"Tell me about it." Voltz said as he grabbed his backback and slung it over his shoulder. Izaya grabbed his and did the same. The three men went out the room and gave their room key to the innkeeper who muttered a small thank you.
"What's the ship like?" Voltz asked Adrianna, who was leaning on the inn's door frame waiting for them. Adrianna smirked which didn't get unnoticed by them.
"You'll see, you'll see." She answered.
"I like surprises." Izaya said.
"Hee~! That's why I like you!" Adrianna said and high fived Izaya. Team Devil Shocker left the inn and followed Adrianna to where they were heading to. The silver haired she-mage suddenly came to a stop in front of a pirate ship.
"Please tell me that that is not our ship." Voltz said, knowing well that Adrianna is really fond of pirates and she, herself, is even like a pirate. Adrianna grinned, showing her pearly white teeth. Voltz already knew the answer but prayed to the Gods above and hoped that what he thinks her answer was is wrong.
"It is where we're riding on!" Adrianna exclaimed happily.
"This is the most horrible ride, I'll be on." Aaron mumbled under his breathe.
"This is interesting." Izaya said while grinning.
"What are we waiting for? Let's hop in!" Adrianna said and ran to the deck of the ship, Izaya walked behind while Aaron and Voltz are having second thoughts. Well, one way or another, they knew that even if they protest, Adrianna would still get them to ride on it.
...Later...
"So where are you guys going to?" The clown-like pirate captain asked the pirate-like mage. He has blue hair and an odd natural big red nose, his attire is that of a pirate captain but too colorful to be a pirate captain's.
"Turtle Island." Adrianna simply said while admiring the beautiful blue ocean that was sparkling under the day light.
"WHAT!? ARE YOU CRAZY!?" The captain exclaimed, shock was lacing his tone. Adrianna looked at him.
"Crazy as I oughtta be." Adrianna smirked.
"YOU'RE GONNA GET US ALL KILLED!"
"Of course," Adrianna turned to the ocean and closed her eyes then turned to him again and opened her deadly electric blue eyes. "I'm going to burn you all alive if you don't get us there." Her sudden change of aura made the captain shiver and, well, she didn't actually mean to burn them all alive, she can't really make herself to do it.
Izaya chuckled lowly to himself. "So that how she got us a ship." He said with arms crossed. "Never knew that she can be that deadly."
"That's how she grew up." Aaron shrugged. A moment of silence passed between them.
"Don't you think the nose of the captain is too round, too red and too big for a normal nose?" Izaya asked. Aaron nodded his head in agreement. The captain of the ship overheard them and turned towards them.
"Shut up or I'll walk you to the plank!" He argued although Izaya and Aaron doesn't seem to be affected at all.
Adrianna leaned forwards to his ear. "Just a simple warning: You're already cold dead before you even walk them to the plank~" Adrianna whispered to his ear, evilly and lleans back. The captain froze and shuts his mouth shut which earned the laugh of Izaya and Adrianna.
Adrianna then looked up to the crow's nest, to see Voltz staring at the blue horizon, deep in thought then looked back at the captain. "It's too silent, can't you guys sing?" She asked.
"A-Aye! We're on it!" He said rather quickly and turned to his crew. "You heard her! Now sing you, pieces of garbage!" The pirate crew sang. It was a good song but their voices were like... a dying pig being chopped to death...
"Stop! Stop! I think silence is already a good music!" Adrianna said and they stopped. 'Ugh... my ears...'
Voltz was staring at the blue horizon while deep in thought if Team Tenrou was still alive since it's already been 7 years ever since he's seen her sister and he misses her very much. His thoughts about her got cut off when he saw a turtle- no, wait... it was an Island shaped like a turtle!
"Guys! Turtle Island is ahead!" Voltz shouted from above. Adrianna nodded.
"Land ho!" Adrianna shouted to them. The pirate guy who was stirring the wheel look at the turtle-like island and stirred his wheel for the island ahead.
As soon as they were only a kilometer away from turtle island, the ship stopped. "As much as I hated to die in your own hands, I hated it more to be killed by a dragon." The captain said.
"I understand. But do you have any row boats?" Adrianna asked, the captain pointed to where the row boat is and it was on the side of the ship.
The captain ordered his crew to set down the row boat on the ocean's surface and they obeyed. Then Team Devil Shocker went down to the row boat.
But as soon as they got on the row boat, a canon was faced directly at them. "I don't want to see your faces anymore so bye bye!"
Aaron sat down and leaned his metal staff on his shoulder, not bothering to attack the pirates or defend themselves from the cannon. Voltz sat down and watched the scene unfold while Izaya smirked a little.
"Inferno Devil's Rage!" Adrianna let out a massive blue fire out of her mouth and burned the ship but not the people on it. After doing so, she wiped her mouth and sat down. "Row the boat!" She said and they rowed quickly so the pirates on the ocean wouldn't catch up to them. When they were only half a meter to the island, Adrianna began to sing:
"Row Row Row Your Boat,
Gently down the-"
"Don't sing, it's making my ears bleed." Aaron said although Adrianna's voice was actually sweet as an angel's. He just doesn't like the song because it's for children.
Adrianna huffed and puffed her cheeks. "That's okay, Adrianna. I'm sure a kid would appreciate that song." Izaya laughed.
"You still owe me a box of pizza." Adrianna said to Aaron.
...Turtle Island...
When the boat touched the land, Adrianna hopped off the boat and stretched. "Land, at last!" Adrianna said as if she's been stranded in the ocean for years. When she's to reach for her wagon, she suddenly remembered something. "Oh, right... I left it in the inn." She said to herself. "Hey, where are your stuff?"
Realization hits Izaya and Voltz. "U-Uhh..." They both stuttered.
Adrianna went to them and slung her arms on their shoulders. "That's okay! We'll just buy new stuff, now off we go!" Adrianna said as she stepped forward to what seems like to be a large metallic gate that has small frozen crystals and sctatches. "Is it seriously a dragon we're gonna face or is it a monster?" She asked to no one in particular.
Adrianna went forward and pressed the red button beside the gate. It buzzed but nobody answered the call. She repeated doing it over and over again. "Anyone there!?" She shouted but no answer camr.
"Adrianna step aside." Aaron said. Adrianna went beside Izaya while Aaron readied himself for the spell. "Ice Devil's Rage!" Small pieces of ice shards, snow and wind went out of Aaron's mouth and hits the gate. His rage completely demolished the gate and as well as some houses, it also made a little crater from where the houses are standing.
Adrianna opened her mouth to say something but shuts her mouth close when she saw that most buildings were already wrecked and that there were large shards of ice everywhere. They all stepped inside the town. Words couldn't form themselves from their mouths because they couldn't really voice out of what they are to say about the place they were in.
Then a small rock hits the back of Adrianna's head. "Who was that?" She asked, looking at her teammates with an irritated look.
"Who was who?" Izaya asked as he looked at her.
"Never mind." Adrianna said and looked at the path straight away. At the corner of her eye, she saw a shadow that is shaped like a human. She dismissed it as her imagination but the shadow seems like to be following them. "Robe of the Gaia." Adrianna glowed brightly and when the brightness died out, her appearance changed, she now wore a red tattered scarf covering half of her face, brown baggy pants, a red cloth tied around her waist, a brown bikini top, two curved blades that is strapped by a leather belt around her body on her back, black fingerless gloves, and one bandaged dagger at both of her sides, strapped by the red cloth.
Voltz let his guards up, knowing that if Adrianna requipped into something, there was a 99.9% possibility of danger. He knows it because he's her first partner in Guilty Crown before they even partnered up with Aaron and Izaya. "I'll go around the island, just in case the dragon's around." Adrianna said but before she make her leave she gave a look at Voltz and he nodded, knowing exactly of what she's planning to do.
"Wait, where-" Aaron cuts off his sentence since Adrianna sprinted off already. "Never mind." Aaron sighed.
After a few moments, aloud crash was then heard somewhere. "Gotcha!" A familiar feminine voice said.
"Let me go!" A voice of a boy was heard, not too far from where they were. Two figures then stepped out in between the destroyed houses. One was Adrianna and the other was a boy with shaggy auburn hair. "I said, let me go!" He was struggling with the strong grip of Adrianna on his wrist.
"Not until you tell me of why you hit me with a rock first!" Adrianna said.
"Because you're clearly a pirate!" The boy exclaimed which made Adrianna raise a brow.
"And how are you sure that we're pirates?" She asked.
"Because you wore a pirate outfit!"
"Woah there, kid. Don't judge a book by its cover and if we were pirates, we shouldn have not went to an obviously wrecked place." Adrianna rolled her eyes. "Is Ta-?"
Adrianna was cut off by an army of people surrounding them with weapons pointing at the group. "Leave the child be." A man's voice said as he steps in. The man was old, he wears brown shorts, a pair of brown slippers, a Hawaiian shirt, a straw hat and glasses. "Or we'll slay you."
Adrianna did as she was told but she knew that the four of them could easily beat normal people like them but she wanted them to know that they mean no harm to the people. Adrianna raised her arms in surrender. "We mean no harm?" Adrianna mentally facepalmed since her sentence came out more of a question than an assurance that they weren't gonna hurt them.
"Who are you and what are you doing here in my land?" The old man asked.
"I'm Adrianna Heartspade and they are, Izaya Ryjinki, Voltz McGarden and Aaron Templar." Adrianna pointed to each person she says the name of. "And we're here to find Tanaka for this S-Class mission about slaying a blue dragon."
"Your mages?" The old man asked and Adrianna nodded her head. "From what guild?"
"G-Guilty Crown, sir." Voltz answered.
"The guild that has a se-?" The man was cut off by Adrianna.
"Don't even continue it or we'll abandon this mission." Adrianna said with obvious irritation. The old man chuckled and nodded his head.
"Put down your weapons, they're not foes." The old man ordered and the army of people with weapons did as they were told. "I am Tanaka and follow me in my office." Tanaka said and walked to where his office was. The four mages shared a look before trailing behind Tanaka.
While walking to Tanaka's office, they went down to a basement that has a metal door. The basement was lit with torches and has metal walls and floors. Pillows, clothes, livestock, children and weapons can be seen everywhere.
As they entered his office, what they noticed first was that it was brighter than the outside and instead of torches lighting his office, it was a light bulb.
Tanaka sat down on his chair. "The mission is to slay a blue dragon." Tanaka started. "This blue dragon that's destroyed this island doesn't nest here. It's habitat is on the nearest island from here, Lost Isle."
"Wait, isn't Lost Isle a legend?" Adrianna asked.
"It isn't but it is said that it was already erased by Acnologia." Izaya answered.
"Lost Isle is," Voltz paused for a moment then continued, "-in the deepest and darkest part of the ocean so how is that possible?" Voltz butts in.
"But from what I've heard, Lost Isle's inhabitants are chaotic demons that was sealed in that island and the exact location is erased on maps to prevent people from entering the place." Aaron said.
"All of those are nothing but falsity." Tanaka stated with a serious expression. "Lost Isle wasn't disvovered by other people. Only me and my ancestors knows of the location. Lost Isle is a vast island, dragons used to live there in harmony until the war between dragons broke out."
"So the blue dragon stayed there and never left?" The only female among them asked with curiosity and interest.
"No." Tanaka's answer made Adrianna even more curious. "My great grand father said that only Fire, Water, Earth, Nature and Lightning dragons inhabited Lost Isle, so that Ice Dragon must have found it and made it its territory."
"When does the dragon show up?" Izaya asked.
"Every midnight. It keeps on going here and hunts on us, humans. We are its livestock so we need you to slay the dragon." Tanaka said. Adrianna grinned.
"Even better than that!" She exclaimed which made Aaron and Voltz sweat drop while Izaya chuckled in a low voice. Tanaka doesn't know of what she meant but he smiled anyways.
The group stayed in the basement until the clock lands on exactly 6 pm.
Time passes by and only about two and a half hours more until midnight. Adrianna and friends were waiting patiently and impatiently, in Adrianna's case, outside the freezing night. The only people who actually didn't felt the cold was Aaron and Adrianna. Voltz didn't actually mind the cold since he was close to falling asleep whilst Izaya was trying warm up.
Adrianna noticed them and gathered some debris then burned it. Izaya went in front of it and sat down. "Thanks." He said while looking at the blue fire.
"Anytime." Adrianna answered and turned to look at Voltz. "You do know that if you fell asleep while standing would make you fall and that you'll have a 50-50 chance of having a concussion, right?" Voltz kept his eyes open and went beside Izaya and in front of the bonfire for some warmth then slowly fell asleep. "This is taking toooo loooooong..." Adrianna groaned as she crossed her arms. "I feel like dying than waiting."
"Then do something worth while." Aaron shrugged which earned another groan from Adrianna.
"There's nothing to do than sleeping and sleeping is contagious!" Adrianna said.
"It isn't unless you're sleepy." Aaron replied.
Adrianna sighed since there was no actual hope for making her not bored and by now, she was still not changing back into her proper clothes since her Earth Robe makes her feel more presence on ground and a little bit of the air. Although, it does consume her magic slowly.
"Shouldn't you change back now?" Izaya asked while he was facing the burning debris.
"I would but this Earth Clothing makes me feel more presence on ground and on air." Adrianna said behind the red scarf.
"What about that Nature Robe?" He asked once again.
"Too many elements and too much magic to use." Adrianna answered then silence again. Seriously though, sometimes she just wish that she was teamed up with different and more fun people instead, since she couldn't really stand the silence because she did grew up in a noisy place or was it just because the people were too close to her before? Whatever the answer is, she still can't stand the silence for too long with people around.
A heavy sigh escaped her lips. "Something wrong?" Aaron asked.
"Nah, just having these thoughts." Adrianna replied then Aaron went silent again.
Midnight came and still no sign of the dragon. Adrianna sighed since she was almost losing hope of waiting and went beside the bonfire she made. Then a large ice shard hits the bonfire which made Voltz wide awake. The four stood on their guard and saw a dragon on the sky.
Even in the soft glow of the moon, they could clearly see the majestic appearance of the dragon. Its scale was sky blue, shards of ice were around its neck, a scar is on its left eye from its forehead to its cheek, sharp pearly white teeth, two horns on its muzzle, a twisted horn on each side of its head, spikes that were like ice shards runs from the back of its long neck up to its tail, its wings were pure white like and is like an angel's, it is as tall as the castle on Crocus and is 300 yards long.
"Well this should be easy." Adrianna said with a little bit of sarcasm hinted in her voice.
"This is no time for sarcasm." Voltz said to Adrianna.
"No time for chatting." Aaron said to them as he gripped his metal staff tighter. "Ice Devil's Ghelgath Spear!" Aaron gathers ice magic into his hands and separates them to form a double headed spear. The raven haired mage stuck his metal staff on the ground and threw a spear at the dragon but the dragon dodged it then the dragon landed on the ground, crashing a few more houses. Aaron threw his other spear at the dragon but it flew on the sky and opened its mouth to perform its roar.
Swirling ice shards with snow and air came towards them. Adrianna removed the scarf around her neck and did her rage stance. "Inferno Devil's Rage!" Massive blue fire with a mixture of a little earth (which is the result of her ReQuip clothing she is currently wearing) came out of her mouth and melted the ice of the dragon but the height of her rage wasn't enough to hit the dragon that was high in the sky. "Darn it, I should've trained my devil's rage." Adrianna said under her breath.
The dragon went down by a few meters from the ground and attempted to claw them, Voltz dodged it easily, Izaya almost got clawed but, nonetheless, he dodged it and was okay, Aaron luckily shielded him with his ice while Adrianna ReQuipped into her 'Robe of Fujin' and dodged the attack of the dragon.
The of Robe of Fujin is purely black with silver trims, a beaked hood which makes Adrianna's eyes shadowed, long sleeves with white fur on the end, a leather brown belt on the waist line, a long triangular metal on each hand that has five holes that can show five claws at the user's will, a black pouch that has throwing knives on her right side and black combat boots.
"Shock Burn!/Shock Make Lance!" Both Izaya (shock burn) and Voltz (shock make lance) shouted. Izaya sent an extremely high voltage electricity at the dragon aiming at it its head while Voltz sent a massive wave of electricity to the dragon.
"Ice Devil's Frozen Spike!" Aaron gathers magic energy in both of his hand then slams them on the ground making spikes of ice erupt around the dragon.
The attack of the three hits the dragon but it seems like it has no actual effect on it.
Adrianna exquipped two curved blades and ran closer to her opponent even though she knew that there's a high chance of dying but there's nothing wrong in trying. Adrianna stopped since she was now a little closer to her opponent, she jumped and spreads her arms as she spinned, she forms a tornado that was as sharp as blades and went to the dragon. The tornado made contact with its scales and when Adrianna felt dizzy already, she stopped and landed on the ground with a thud but her legs were a little bit of wobbly.
When her world wasn't spinning anymore, the dragon roared. It was deafening that it made the team off guard and cover their ears with their hands. The dragon stopped roaring but the Guilty Crown mages' ears didn't stop from ringing then the ice dragon hits Adrianna with its gigantic claw which resulted her to be sent flying on a few houses with a deep cut across her stomach and when she stopped flying, she hits her head with a rock and fainted with blood on her head and stomach. Adrianna requipped back to her normal clothes when she fainted.
"Adrianna!" The three mages ran to Adrianna's aid that they didn't notice that there was a stubborn little boy on the area.
A rock hits the dragon's head and it turns around to see a boy, the dragon roared again and grabbed the little boy with its claw and flew away to the Lost Isle. The conscious mages only noticed the boy when the dragon flapped its wings and when someone screamed.
"The boy!" Voltz pointed.
"Dammit!" Aaron grunted and tried to reach for the boy but the dragon was too high from the ground already.
Izaya clenched his fist tightly. "We shouldn't have let our guard down."
"We'll save the boy later but for now, let's worry about Adrianna." Aaron said as she looked at the figure of Adrianna. Voltz noddes his head and carried Adrianna while Izaya grabbes Adrianna's pirate hat, all of them headed to the basement.
A/N: I know that this took a while for me to update so please do forgive me, life's just been really hectic because of school and stuff. Also, I don't really mind if constructive criticisms or criticisms are thrown at me as long as it is honest and English isn't my first language so please do point out any spelling or grammatical mistakes.
Penumbro, onixdragon4 and SoulSavior71: please do tell me if I made your characters OOC or if you didn't picture them the way you picture them to be and I'll re-write this right away!
While the rest whose OCs aren't mentioned in this chapter, just a little more and your characters will appear sooner or later =]
One more S-Class slot is open ^-^
Accepted OC:
klbubblepop786 - Juliette Kibble