Ranger24: Well I'm back from texas. I tell you it was preety crazy. Espacilly when you have two dogs in the car one of whom can't stop whining about wanting to go out side and see all the people. And man can my grandma make a mean smoked turkey! But enough about that. On with the story!
See if you can spot our dragons name in this 3000 word chapter! This is the longset chapter yet!
Warning!: This chapter contains pokemon slaughter.
A/N: It's only dittos and those suck.
Warning!: This chapter contains a lot of important information please pay close attention!
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Chapter 6: Fire side chat
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
The next few days followed in an eazy manner. Naruto had taken the dragon out into the woods to live while he worked on the farm. He buried the egg fragments in the back of the barn. Edward and Hohenheim took only a little notice to the fact that he was spending a lot of time out side. He also found it easy to hide the mark on his palm with dirt and grime.
The dragon however was growing at an enormous rate. In the first week alone it tripled in size! He would often take it on little walks through the woods. It was an unbeleivably bright shade of blue! The strange little link he had with it was growin as well. He discovered he could transmit images to it and in this manner and it seemed to begin to understand what he was showing. Slowly however and with many stumbles. He also tried to find out wether it was a male or female but he found no distinguishing marks.
He often considered showing it the rest of the family just to get it out in the open. It hunted only in the spine but it was leaving stuble traces. Such as giant dung heeps. However he wanted to do two things first. One he wanted to give it a name. And two he wanted to learn more about dragons in general. That meant he needed to speak with Ranger master of epics and legends, the only places where dragon lore survived under Xemnas's rule. So when Edward went into town to get a chisel repaired he voluntered to accompany.
The night before they left he went to visit the dragon. With a flicker of his thought it came. It was now larger than a horse and its wings were like a thunder. There was also a small notch in its neck spikes that was large enough for him to sit. He took it for a walk then spoke.
Naruto: Okay I have to go into town tomorrow.
The dragon grunted in discomfort. He tried to soothe it with a calm mental picture. However that didn't help at all. He impressed upon it that he had to leave but he would come back. After about a minute its face grew solomen. The a voice floated through his head.
Dragon: Naruto.
He stood there his jaw wide open then he ran for it. In a matter of minutes he was out of the woods and racing back to the farm the voice floating through his head.
Dragon: Naruto.
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The next day Naruto strolled up to Rangers cabin passing Jairyia who was still in the trash can wedged in to tightly.
Jairyia: Hello. A little help here? I need to eat.
Rangers cabin was small with a shingled roof and round windows. The door knoob of brass was just below the iron knocker fashioned in the shape of an egale. He reach for it only to hear a gruff voice behind him.
Ranger: What do you want boy?
Naruto whirled around to see Ranger standing a few feet away leaning on a wooden staff with a wooden dragon carved into it. His hair was messy and very grey he looked at least twenty years past his prime. His dark brown eyes had circles around them. However apart from his hair and eyes he seemed to be in his early thirties with. He was wearing a dark green cloak that was wrapped around him to keep out the cold. It was patched and frayed with age but some how the orginal color was still visible. He was normaly really grouchy but he always was willing to take time out of his day for Naruto.
Naruto: Ummm... I want to ask some questions about the dragon riders and dragons in general while Edwards getting a chisel fixed.
Ranger sighed and walked over to the door fumbleing with a ring of keys.
Ranger: Well come on in then this will take a while.
Ranger unlocked the door and they steped in side. To say the least the house was a mess. Scrolls were piled on chairs. A desk in the corner was buried in a massive mountian of papers and books. The one book shelf was over following with books and papers. On a small rather empty table was a mid size sword and a small clump of knives. Naruto eyed the weapons closely. They were of the finest make. Ranger went over to the fire place and threw a lit match onto the old logs and they ignited instantly. Then he set a kettle of water to boil while he cleared off a pair of chairs. In one of these Naruto sat down in. Naruto glanced at the fire place and saw a long thin something wrapped in clothe on the mantel.
Naruto: Man Ranger have you ever heard of a spring cleaning?
Ranger popped a peice of bubble gum into his mouth and he gave Naruto a very cross look.
Ranger: You want me to answer your questions or not?
Naruto: Shutting up now.
Ranger: Good.
He blew a bubble until it popped.
Ranger: Well before we start I need to know what exact areas you want to know about. The subject of dragons is a very complex subject. If you wanted to know the whole story, with every minor detail noted, we would still be here when winter comes a knocking again.
Naruto: Umm... how about how where dragons came from, why were the riders formed, and what made them so speacil?
Ranger: Well that shortens the search request. Scholars have devouted entire lives to decerning fact from fiction in dragon lore. If you believed everything you hear about the riders in the stories you'd think them to have the powers and abilites of a lesser god! Luckly you've shortened the range of the topic to the key topics and the base of it all. However you should get comfortable this will probably take almost all day. I shall start with the first item as it is an important base for our other topics.
Naruto sat back in his chair while Ranger gazed into the fire then he spoke.
Ranger: Dragons have no begining unless it lies in the creation of this land itself and if they have and end it will be when this world is no more. They along with the dwarfs and a few others are the true inhabitants of this land. It was like this for centuaries until the elves came over the sea on their silver ships.
Naruto: Where did the elves come from, do they really exist, and why are they called the fair folk?
Rangers eyes flashed with sudden venom at being interupted.
Ranger: Don't interupt! If you want to explore every obsucre peice of information we'll be here for one thousand years.
Naruto: I'm sorry.
Ranger smiled.
Ranger: Oh don't bother. Its alright to be curious. Not many people want to know about our history. And those that do often are disuaded by religous authorities or the monarchy. If you must know the elves are not myths. And they are called the fair folk because they are on average very good looking. Often their men are mistaken for very hot human females.
Naruto had an anime sweat drop.
Naruto: Okay to much information there.
Ranger: Ditto... Oh shit!
A Ditto jumps through a window breaking, the glass, and turns into a replica of Tom Cruise. Ranger sighed.
Ranger: Close your eyes this will be bloody.
Ranger drew out the short sword and swung it just before Naruto could shut his eyes.
SLICE!!
Naruto opened his eyes to see Ranger throwing the dead Ditto out the window. Wiping his sword on the window sil he slid it back into its sheath.
Ranger: Cursed Dittos, now I need to... oh double shit.
Another Ditto jumped another window, breaking more glass, and transformed into Rosie O'Donald. Ranger drew out his sword again. This time Naruto closed his eyes in time.
SLICE!!
Ranger threw the second Ditto on top of the first and sat down.
Ranger: Take to heart this advice. Never make a pokemons name into an everyday word or else you'll have to start killing it on a regular basis and they can't be easily disposed of.
At that moment the kettle sang and Ranger sighed.
Ranger: Interuptions. Interuptions!
He got up again and poured the water into two seperate mugs of hot choclate and handed one to Naruto.
Ranger: Drink up. Nothing like coco by the fire.
Naruto took a sip but it scoled his tounge. Ranger set his own mug down.
Ranger: The elves come from what they call Allaleia. Though no one but they knows what or where this place is.
Now the elves were a proud race and strong in magic. In those days they percieved Dragons as just animals. From this beleif rose a deadly mistake. A brash elven youth hunted and killed a dragon as he would a stag. Angered the dragons massed together and killed the elf. But the blood letting did not end there. The dragons launched a full scale attack on the entire elven nation.
Dissmaed the elves tired to put an end to hostilites but could find no way to communicate with the dragons. To put it in short of a rather large series of unfortunate events, there was a very long and very bloody war that both sides later regreted. At first the elves fought only to defend themselves but the dragons ferocity eventually forced them on to attack.
This continued on for five years and would have gone on for much longer if an elf named Naruto hadn't found a dragon egg.
Naruto was shocked to hear his own name.
Naruto (thinking): Why was I named after an elf?
Ranger: Yes Naruto your namesake was the first dragon rider. Now no one knows why that egg was abandoned. Some say its parents were killed in an elven attack. Others say that the dragons left it on perpose. Naruto saw the value of raising a freindly dragon. In secert he cared for it and in the custom of the anceint language he named it Bibdaum. When Bibdaum was fully grown they traveled together amongst the elves and the dragons. Until finnaly, thanks to Naruto and Bibdaum peace treaties were formed. To ensure that war would never break out again the riders were formed. Inationly they were only meant as a means of comunication between the elves and dragons, however over the years they were given ever more power.
Naruto couldn't help it he had to ask a question.
Naruto: I don't understand where were we when this all happened?
Ranger raised an eye brow and blew a bubble then popped it.
Ranger: We?
Naruto: You know all of us.
He waved his right hand.
Naruto: Humans in general.
Ranger chukled.
Ranger: We are no more native to this land then the elves. It took our ancestors another three centuaries to arrive here and even longer to join the riders.
Naruto: That can't be! People have always been here. We've always lived in Palencar.
Ranger: That may be true for a few generations but beyond that no. Ask around you'll find that their aren't that many people who have been here very long. It isn't even true for you Naruto. Even though you consider yourself apart of Hohenheim's family and rightly so, your father was not from here.
Naruto however couldn't accept that. This was his home no matter who his father was or where he was from.
Naruto: Were the Sangheilli here when the riders were formed?
Ranger: No. They followed the elves across the sea like ticks seeking blood. It was partly because of them that the riders were so valued for their battle prowess and their ability to keep the peace. Now I beleive I have answered two of your questions.
Naruto: Were the dragons very smart?
Ranger: What do you think they were morons? Who could the elves form alleinces and peace treaties with dumb brutes.
Naruto: But they were animals.
Ranger: They were no more animals then you or I. For some reason people credit the riders and forget all about the dragons reguarding them as an exotic method of traveling from one place to another. But the riders great feats were only possible because of the dragons. Who many men would draw sword when they knew a giant fire breathing lizard, one with more natural cunning then a king can even dream of, would soon be there to end the violence? Eh!
When Ranger calmed down and sat back in his chair Naruto asked his next question.
Naruto: How long did they live?
Ranger: They could live on for thousands of years and even longer unless their riders were killed.
Naruto: But how does anyone know that! If they only lived as long as the riders they could onlly live to be sixty or seventy.
Ranger: You forget that the dragons were magical. They affected everything in strange ways. A human rider might develop pointed ears though they were never as prominanent as those of an elf. The most common side effect was extended life or imortallity..
Naruto almost had to wrentch his hands to his chairs arms to keep himself from touching his ear tips. The dragon wasn't just affecting his mind but also his body. He also couldn't imagen watching those on while he just carried on with life.
Naruto: How big did they get?
Ranger: No one is queit sure. The dragons nevered stopped growing, the oldest among them could have passed have passed as large hills. That is before the empire killed them. The basterds.
Naruto gulped. How was he going to hide his dragon in the years to come. He still had a lot of questions.
:Naruto: How many Dragons are left?
Ranger furrowed his brow.
Ranger: That is a very big mystery to day. How many dragons escaped Xemnas's murderous slaughter? He spared those that joined him but those were only the twisted dragons of the forsworn. And even those are now dead. If there are any dragons left in these lands they will have hidden themselves in places and ways so that the emipre will never find them.
Naruto: I know I heard your story last time I was in town.
Ranger: Story!
His voice was filled with indgination and anger.
Ranger: If it was just a story then the rumors of my death are true and you are speaking to a ghost! Respect the past. You may never know how it will affect you.
As soon as Ranger had calmed down Naruto spoke.
Naruto: I heard their hides sparkled like gemstones.
Ranger's eye brows drew very close together.
Ranger: You heard right. A group of them might look like a living rainbow. But who told you that?
Naruto searched his mind for an excuse.
Naruto: A trader in Moe's tavern.
Ranger: Hmm.
Naruto decided to try his luck on the trader charade.
Naruto: I also heard that the riders could hear their dragons thoughts.
Ranger's eyes flashed.
Ranger: That isn't true. Its not in any of the stories and I know them all. Who is this trader who claims to know so much about Dragons.
Naruto: I don't remember.
Ranger sat back in his chair giving Naruto a little more room to think.
Naruto: I really need a name for it.
Naruto: I've been trying to remember the name of a certain dragon but it keeps sliping away. Could you help me out?
Ranger shrugged.
Ranger: There was Spyro, Skyran, and Fang who fought the giant sea snake. Then there were Lou, Mushu, Jake...
He listed off along list of names. Then at the last he whispered one more very quietly.
Ranger: And Cortana.
Naruto downed the last of his coco. As he did he noticed that snow was falling through the broken windows.
Naruto: Umm... I think you need to get those fixed.
Ranger: Eh... I'll board them up until I can find some glass to replace them.
Naruto: Yeah those Dittos are... OH SNAP!
A third Ditto jumped in and turned into Micheal Jackson. Ranger swore and drew out his sword but before he could Naruto threw his kunai knife into the Ditto's neck. Ranger dragged it out front then came back in slamming the door behind himself..
Naruto: Well I had better get going.
Ranger: What? No questions about dragon mating? No requests for breath taking areil combat? I thought we'ed be here all week.
Naruto: I got what I wanted. So see yah! And good bye.
Ranger: Alright get going if you must. Come back anytime. Also tell me if you remember the name of that trader. I wouldn't mind having a little chit chat with him.
Naruto: I will thanks!
Naruto steped out into the snow, avoiding the bodies and the small pool of blood.
Ranger24: And that feels like a good place to end this chapter. If you must know those three Ditto celibrties were later eaten by Jairya for food due to the fact he is stuck in that can.
Any ways I have a lot of work to do so the updates may come slowly. But anyways read and reviews. Still wishing I could get a copy of assassin's creed, looks awesome. But anywho! Read and review! And never say Ditto! Oh snap!
Ditto 4: Ditto!
Ditto 4 turns into Britney Spears. Ranger pulls out his sword and beheads the evil woman/Ditto.
Ranger24: Okay agian. Read and review. Please! I wrote and reworte this chapter three times to get it just right!