Chapter 6
Summary: Modern AU! The Big Four...Guardians of the World. They say that they protect they protect the world from Darkness. So where were they when it took over? Without them, we were the last line of defense if they disappeared, but even we weren't enough and we were forced into hiding. But now that time is over. It's time to fight. For our hopes. For our dreams. AND FOR OUR DRAGONS!
(A/N: Rated T for death, swearing and teenagers)
(Story Begins)
As Shawn and Magnus ran a lone figure turned off his camcorder. The man was 6 feet tall with snow white hair, cold grey eyes and tan skin. He wore all white, from his pants boots and belt to his shirt and cloak. On his face was a white mask that looked similar to a skeleton. And like a skeleton, the eye holes were black. His sword was pure white and strapped to his waste.
A growl was heard behind. He turned around and saw a a dragon made of bones. The Boneknapper was a dragon that stole bones to increase it's defence.
The dragon's body looked similar to similar to a Titan Wing Monstrous Nightmare, and a tail the size of a Gronckle. Legend has it that the dragon will do anything to get it's missing bone back. If you return it, the dragon will forever be your friend.
The stranger than said, "Yes, Kokkaku that was necessary." He walked towards the dragon and rubbed his neck. The dragon cooned and nudges his rider.
The stranger smiled under his mask, "The world needs to know that the Guardians still exist." Kokkaku suddenly bites his collar of the man's jacket and throws him into the air! Though the man wasn't affected by it. Instead, he crossed his arms as he flipped.
He landed on his companion's head feet first. His smile turned into a malice smirk "Cmon, pal. Let's head home and train. For everyday, the stronger Shawn Kaijira gets, the harder it'll be to kill him."
His eyeholes flash blue and he and his dragon's whole body burst into white flames! The Bone Knapper roars, not in pain, but in delight as it takes off into the sky!
(Line Break)
Shawn didn't know where this adrenaline was coming from, but man does it feel good! He jumped off of buildings, flipped over rails, heck he was even faster than Magnus!
"This is AWESOME!" Shawn exclaimed as he jumped over and landed on another roof. Magnus followed behind laughing, "Yeah, if only we had music"
"Why would you want mucus" Shawn asked incredulously, "it's slimy, you could slip and fall"
"...this is gonna be harder than I thought" Magnus muttered under his breath.
"Look were almost there" Shawn said, "so how do we get down"
Magnus doesn't respond, instead he throws his spear like a javelin. The spear embed itself into the ground before extending all the way to the roof.
"Slide" he said in he slided down the make shift rail. Shawn chuckled and followed after him.
As he landed, he stumbled a bit. He laughs, "If your friends do this all the time, then I'm definitely gonna... join." Shaw trailed off as he saw the door to his house destroyed. Adrenaline is replaced with dread as he quickly ran inside.
Magnus called out his name, but he didn't listen. The dragon rider groans, "Why are all Guardians so hard headed." Shawn's house was destroyed. Chairs destroyed, books were knocked over, weapons were embed into the walls and floors.
Shawn walks down the hall and sees a door he has never seen. Magnus, who was still in the living room looked at the picked up an axe. His used his magic to enhance his eye sight, allowing him to inspect the blade even better.
'By the look of the blade...' he thought, 'it was in the wall for an hour. Maybe longer.' He opened his bag and put the axe inside. The bag might've been the size of a backpack, but it has enough storage to hide a car!
"Magnus" Shawn called. The said Guardian ran down the hall before gasping, "Oh my gods."
Magnus brushed his hands against the stone door, "This was a door to a Guardian's lair. An old one; before the Big Four disappeared"
"Who?"
"You know, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter? Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons? The Jokester, the Inventor, the Brave and the Healer?"
He looked at him blankly before blinking his eyes twice, "Who?" He could take it anymore. Magnus bashed his own head into the wall, creating a whole. Shawn backed away, freaked out, "O-oi, are you ok."
Magnus pulled his head out of the wall, looking relieved. He smiled and gave a salute, "Never better." Suddenly a growl was heard from behind the door.
"That sounds like a...!" Magnus pressed his hands against the door and channels his magic into it. The door's symbol glowed dark blue and slides open.
Shawn slowly walks inside the room to see an even bigger mess. Weapons were scattered across the floor, walls were destroyed, furniture was cracked. The trail of blood was caught in his line of vision, leading him to a room.
From within the room, the same growling noise was heard.
He swallowed his fear and slowly walks into the room and got his knife ready, 'Relax Shawn...you've fought dragons, guards, witches and redhead pirates. There is nothing you can't handle'
He peaks into the room and widened his eyes and dropped his knife, "Oh shit"
(Line Break)
Magnus inspected the room with his magically enhanced eyes, "There was a battle here." He looked up at the support beams with great interest.
He concentrated magic into his legs and jumped so high, he reached the ceiling! He landed on the support beam on all fours. He noticed claw marks and brushed his hand against it, 'Night Fury claw marks...but also a Monstrous Nightmare heat signature of Monstrous Nightmare.'
"What's a Night Fury but a Nightmare" the dragon rider muttered to himself as he floated down slowly with a hand under his chin.
"MAGNUS!" Magnus was brought out of his thoughts and dropped to the floor.
*CRACK*
He looked at the ground to see that he accidentally stepped on a already broken portrait. He moved his foot and saw a picture of a younger Shawn and a man with red hair.
He looked familiar, but he brushed it aside and ran to Shawn.
(Line Break)
Magnus ran inside the room and gasps, "What did you do?!"
Inside the room was a near death Night Flame! R's scales were pale and his fire was dying out. Shawn was crouching near the dragon, deciding whether or not to touch him.
"N-nothing" Shawn stuttered, "I-I found him like this and I-I don't know what to do"
"Of course, a Night Flame" he exclaims, "that explains the heat and the claw marks. And the rider was RandomFlame14!"
"MAGNUS!"
"Ah dammit" the dragon rider cursed as he dropped his staff and bag before inspecting the dragon, "OK...good, he's alive, just unconscious so he won't feel a thing." Shawn looked at Magnus oddly, "What do you mean 'won't feel a thing?'"
"Shawn your gonna pull the blade out, while I hold him down" Shawn quickly nods his head and gripped the handle of the blade. But hesitated, "...you sure this'll work?
"Sure, it'll be like Operation"
"What's that?"
"Never mind that" he said, "Shawn on my your gonna pull the blade out. Ok?"
"Ok"
The dragon rider sighs, "On the count of 3..." He concentrates magic into his arms and lightly presses down on the injured, "3-!"
Shawn grunts and yanks the blade out of the Night Flame's hide with all his might! The dragon's reptilian slit red eyes snap open filled with pain. He roars loudly and lights himself on fire! He spews flames all over the room causing Magnus to duck down. But Shawn didn't react in time as a fire ball hut him square in the chest, sending him flying into a wall!
"I said on the count of 3!" Magnus scolds as he tried to duck underneath the flames. Shawn groans and rubs his chest in pain, "I thought you were counting upwards."
His shirt was tattered and the scar on his chest didn't look as bad as it felt, surprisingly. The center of his chest had a burn mark that made it look like there was a hole in his chest.
Magnus rose to his feet, his eyes held a hint of darkness in them."That is enough" he spoke in the same language as he did to his dragon.
His shadow began to grow so large that it stood above him! The shadow's hands began to pat down on the flames nearly snuffing them out!
The dragon hybrid seem to have relax a little but was still on guard. Magnus' shadow returned to normal and the dark glint in his eyes dispersed, "We are not here to harm you. We would just like to know where your rider is and what happened to you"
The dragon responded in his own language and explained how his rider had fought off guards and that he was stabbed in the chest by some one that looked like Shawn! The Shawn copycat turned back into his true form and kidnapped him.
The dragon suddenly sunk to the floor, adrenaline from the pain disappearing Magnus was stunned and nervous. Stunned that a Guardian of the old was still alive and hidden from Pitch's forves for so long. Nervous on how to explain the news to Shawn.
"He's gone...isn't he" Shawn's voice said from behind him. He looked to see Shawn wakking towards the dragon with an unreadable expression, "I can't understand a thing you said..but judging by the look in your eyes, I can tell"
He kneeled in front of the dragon and placed a gentle hand on the dragon's snout, and spoke softly,"Thank you." A tear dripped down the left side of his cheek.
The dragon coons and weakly reaches behind him to grab something. Shawn was confused until he saw a brown bag similar to Magnus' in his jaw. The dragon dropped it in front of him and nudges him to open it.
He reached inside to find; black hakama pants, a white t-shirt, black combat boots, finger less gloves, a cold grey knee length sleeveless cloak with a hoodie, a jet black scarf, a book with a dragon symbol on the cover, and a cylinder device with a dragon head.
He tilted his head a he inspected the dragon head device, "What is this thing, a magnifying glass?"
The looked at the eyes of the figure and squinted. R groans softly before lighting the inside of his mouth on fire. The light from fire shined through the device, shining into Shawn's left eye!
Shawn grunts in pain and clutches his eye. He felt something pop out of it but that didn't matter. He felt nausea pass through him and passes out next the dying dragon.
(Line Break)
Shawn woke up to the sight of darkness. 'Hello darkness, my old friend' he thought amused. He sat up with a groan and rubbed his eyes.
The burning sensation was gone and his eyes felt...relaxed. Like something that was lodged in for so long disappeared.
"Is this thing working" a familiar voice said from the darkness spoke.
Shawn's eyes widened and looked around, "G-grandpa"
Randal materialize out of thin air wearing different clothes and appeared to be fixing something, "Ok good"
The old man smiled and took a step back and sat down on what appeared to be nothing, "Hey Shawn, if you are reading this, then I am kidnapped...or dead"
Shawn's eye twitch, "Watch what you say, old man."
His smile was replaced with a serious expression, "Shawn...I haven't always been honest with you"
Shawn blinked in surprise. He rarely heard his grandfather speak with such seriousness. And he was pretty sure his grandfather lied to him before. Like the time he told him that babies came from the sky. When really they come from eggs.
"I'm your grandfather"
"Well that's an understatement" Shawn says, "I mean seriously you have red hair, I have black hair. I have black eyes, you have red eyes. I'm young and your old"
"I'm your adopted father/biological father"
"...Huh"
"When I found you when you were a baby...your eyes had no pupils" he said, "Until your biological/adopted mother and i kept holding you when you cried"
Shawn didn't know what to say. He didn't even know about his mother or if he had one.
"You got your mother's hair and right eye, while you got my left eye and magic" he said. Banging can be heard in the back ground, causing him to turn around.
Shawn was getting dizzy, trying to process what was transpiring. No pupils, right eyes, left eyes, magic, hair, crying; it was just to much for him to handle!
"Sorry to pull a Httyd 2 on you, but we haven't much time" he said, gaining Shawn's attention, "my name is RandomFlame14, the Guardian of Flame and Randomness. Rider of the Night Flame. I am a member of G.M.A.D.; Guardians of Magic, Archery and Dragons. A group of heroes banded together to protect the world from Darkness and Evil"
"What I am communicating through is called The Dragons Eye. Usually it is used for giving information about dragons, but I've modified it to record messages and give humans the abilities of said dragons as long as they have a key. The one you just used unlocked the magic you inherited from me had the key to a dragon known as a Speed Stinger, one of the fastest dragon's that exist."
"Since this is a prototype, Shawn...your in permanently use of this ability, meaning that you can never turn of off and your power will be out of control...in a good way. Also it will only affect your left eye."
"Dammit Grandpa" he cursed. No wonder his left eye felt so relieved.
"Take this to G.M.A.D. Inside the bag you found this in, there's a book. It can lead you to the others, how to use the Dragon's Eye and the Big Four" he said. Crashing was heard in the background, "Shit, ok Shawn; get to G.M.A.D., give the Dragon's Eye and book to them and stay safe. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you enough and I couldn't tell you more about your mother...but know that we'll both be watching over you, always...Goodbye, my son"
"...Your not getting rid of me that easily old man" he sobbed out.
(A/N: Play Fairy Tail New Main Theme 2014)
Tears streamed down the young man's face as his grandfather disappeared into the darkness. These were tears of joy, sadness and determination.
Joy that he got to hear his grandpa's- or his father's- voice one last time. Sadness that he couldn't save him in time. Determined to fulfill his father's wish.
"Gramps, I swear on my life that I will go to G.M.A.D.!" He shouted to the top of his lungs, "and become a Guardian!" As he shouted, he didn't notice he was fading away, meaning he was waking up, "To save you! To save the world! To find the Big Four! And kick Pitch's ass!"
As he shouted his resolve, he disappeared from his subconscious.
(A/N: End song
(Line Break)
Shawn woke up to find an egg the size of a basket in front of him. He looked at it oddly before turning to the dragon. Which is nearing his end.
R looked at Shawn weakly with a look in his eyes. Shawn nods his head, "I understand, you can rest peacefully now." The dragon gave his version of a smile before closing his eyes permiately.
The corps's scale and bones soon turned to dust, and before being blown away by an invisible breeze. Shawn sighs before noticing smoke exhausting from the Dragon's Eye. He picked it and signed. He then noticed that his left eye was different. He blinked in surprise to see that it was blood red.
'So this is what you meant, huh old man' he thought as he places a hand near it. He puts the device, the egg and his other items in his new bag.
As he was about to put his new clothes on, he saw a broken frame with a picture of a younger him and his grandpa inside,smiling. He smiled and put it inside the bag and got dress.
Once he was fully dressed, he saw the sword that killed R was on the ground. He looked at the knife he carried and knew it wouldn't be enough.
He saw some sword and knife sheaths lying around and got an idea.
(Line Break)
Magnus stood outside near the garage reading a black book. He heard footsteps coming his way and turned around, holding his staff defensively.
Only to find Shawn smirking at him, "Why so serious?" Before the dragon rider could respond, Shawn interrupted, "What're you standing there for, we going to your club or what?" Magnus blinked in shock before smiling.
"Alright, let's go"
He tapped his staff on the ground three times, causing Spike to rise from the ground! "Take us home, Spike." The dragon roars in delight and digs a new tunnel, leading to the G.M.A.D.
With a run, they both jumped into the hole before Magnus closing the ground behind them.