I hate waiting, I really do hate waiting around with nothing to do.
I had figured out how to use the food synthesizer after three hours, and I was half way through a bowl of gumbo and some wings. To be honest I expected the food to have no taste or something to it but this stuff was the best I had in years. I leaned back in my chair looking out the window, the sun was on the other side of the planet so the surface was shrouded in darkness.
I was just about get up when the ship rocked violently keeling to the left, red lights began flashing and sirens began to blaring. The doors to the food hall closed, and blast doors dropped down over the windows. The room turned to red tint due to the only light being red alarm lights. I tried to get up but as soon as I got to my feet the ship shuck violently throwing me roughly into the floor, the ship listed to the left some more i slide across the floor my left side impacting a wall taking the breath from my lungs.
'what the fuck is going on' was I could think as the ship began vibrating and rocking as though an earth quake was coursing through it. The vibration was increasing drastically, and I had to remain laying on my back so I would get thrown to the floor.
There was sudden impact, and I was lifted from the ground and slammed into the floor. Pain shot up my side as I felt some ribs break and it got rapidly harder to breath, with every breath my chest got tighter. But I wasn't conscious long enough to worry about it, a bone jarring impacted threw me into another wall knocking me out cold.
(Author's note: This is the end of the first person writing, as dragon outcast has kindly let me use an OC of his, so this is where Cameron and his friends step into the picture.)
Cameron sat on the walls of Warfang his blue cybernetic eyes looking up at the night sky. The moon light reflected of his dark black scales and crimson under belly. The night sky gave him comfort, away from the world, he always wondered what was out there among the stars. 'such beauty' he thought smiling.
It was well past midnight Cameron spread to take flight, but he stopped a strange light flashed behind a patch of clouds in the night sky. He tilted his head, 'it can't be the sun, that's hours away' he thought. Suddenly a flaming spire broke through the cloud cover, Cameron's eyes went wide at the size of the spire, it was easily larger than Mt. Malefor or any other mountain he had seen.
It descended with all the grace of a breaching whale, the spire slammed into the Tall Plains region, the horizon was lit up by a bright flash from the impact. Cameron himself miles away felt the impact along with everybody within a 1,000 mile radius of the impact zone.
Cameron did take long to get into the air and start winging it towards the impact zone.
It only took Cameron an hour to reach the impact zone, well at lest the beginning of the valley it carved into plains. Cameron followed the valley until he reached the monolith, the spire was massive, and as far as Cameron could tell it was built by somebody. Since the exterior was obviously metal which was cherry red on the front and radiating heat from across the rest of the outside. He scanned over the top of it and found something that seemed like a door of some kind.
Cameron dived down and landed on the spire, he looked at the door above it was written "Air Lock". Cameron tilted his head 'Odd... wonder what it means' he thought, but his mind wanted to know what was inside this thing.
Cameron tried to find a door handle but couldn't locate one, so he opened his maw and began to focus his fire element into a short white hot flame. He traced out the door, sparks flying left and right. when he completed the loop and over lapped the cut, the door fell effortlessly.
Cameron looked down in to the small room, nothing was in it. he dropped down to be confronted by another door, but this one sensed him and opened. He entered into a hall. The walls and ceiling had caved in, it was a wreck. vines of some kind hung from the ceiling sparks jumping from cuts in them, Cameron looked around the hall for second.
"Hello there"
Cameron jumped at the voice, he turned ready for a fight. Standing before him was an ape, but was dressed unlike any ape Cameron had seen, wearing a strange leather armor with fur on it collar and a strange flag with red and white strips. The one thing that stood out the most was the fact that you could almost slightly see through him.
"Don't be scared, I can't hurt you" The semi-transparent ape said holding his hands out for Cameron to see.
Cameron looked at him with squinted eyes, looking for even the slightest bit of deceit, he saw none and began to relax slightly.
"Neb, Basic, Carmine, Oz, come out we have guest." The ape called out into the hallway.
Cameron heard the sound of movement, two metal apes came out of a room to his right and another two from his left. They all four stood eight feet tall but had a head wedge shaped head the corner pointing towards him with two 'V' shape glowing lines one on of the other on either side connecting to the blade like center of the face.
"Sir we found Daniel, he is in bad shape and the med bay got hit bad in the crash." One of the steel apes reported, Cameron presumed to be the leader. "We have to get him to a local doctor or he'll die from pneumothorax, his breathing is rapidly failing, by Basic's calculations he has only four hours"
Cameron went into deep thought, 'the temple is only three hours away, but can I trust them. how do I know they aren't going to kill anyone or the Guardians.' Cameron kept fighting himself, but it came down to the fact that a life was on the line he could never live with letting someone die when he could help.
"I know where we can get him help, the temple is only one hour away" Cameron spoke his voice low and deeper than one would expect for his size, and it sounded as though two voices were speaking at once.
The semi-transparent ape knelt in front of Cameron, "Daniel needs help bad, can you lead us to this temple?" Cameron paused before nodding his head "Good, Neb you can carry me let the others take care of Daniel."
The steel ape by the name Neb nodded and pulled out a glowing blue disk and held it out. The semi-transparent ape burst into floating particles and funneled into the disk. Once all of the Particles were in Neb repositioned it onto his hip.
Cameron sat there dump struck, his mouth agape, then he turned to find two of the other three steel apes holding a strange looking ape that looked like the transparent one but not transparent.
Neb knelt down in front of the dragon, "Lead the way he said"
Cameron nodded and rain back the way he came and up the hole he had cut in the hull. He could here Neb and the others following closely behind, he took flight looking back to see that Neb and the others were close behind and keeping pace with his flight speed.
Cameron spotted the walls of Warfang in the distance, and winged it in that direction. He looked back to see if Neb was following, he was, and keeping good pace with him.
Cameron retreated into his mind for most of the flight pondering how the Guardians would react. Cameron never really liked attention or being popular, this was going to get a look of eyes on him and he hated the thought of it. He growled 'The next thing I'll know fan girls will swarm me like Spyro, just because I found some spire and strange ape looking things'
Cameron had to stop his thoughts as he landed in front of the gates, the moles above saw him and opened the gates. They didn't notice Neb and his comrades burst from the woods and follow Cameron in. Cameron took flight again leading Neb and his group through the city, staying along the most unused paths. It wasn't long before Cameron landed at the base of the massive set of stairs that lead to the Dragon Temple.
Cameron let Neb catch up before leading them up the stairs and into the Temple, 'Now to explain this to the guardians' Cameron thought, as he lead them through the twisting hallways to the Pool of Visions where the guardians normally resided.
Cameron turned a corner coming face to face with a pair of large double doors, he knocked hard on it and waited for an answer.
"Come in!" a deep voice boomed from in the room.
Cameron opened the door and entered "Cameron? what are you doing up this late?" a green dragon asked, the other two a light blue and yellow dragon looked up from an argument they were having.
All three of the Guardians mouths dropped open when they saw the four steel apes with the strange ape in the arms of the last one. Cameron got a glance of the strange apes injury a large tube was sticking from his side, blood was also dripping onto the floor.
"Cameron- who are they, what are they, and why are they here?" The light blue dragon growled obviously seeing their similarities to apes.
The dragons growl got a reaction out of Neb.
Neb pulled his shock pistol and pointed at Cyril, "I don't care who or what you are, my men and I have faced down worse, if you want a fight, I will gladly oblige, but that's not what I'm here for, now what say we act mature and get down to business?"
Cyril went to growl, but found his maw firmly muzzled in stone. He death glared at Terrador, the great earth dragon chuckled and returned his attention to the lancers.
"Yes let us discuss our situation, but first Cameron can you take our wounded guest to the infirmary." the Earth guardian requested.
Cameron nodded and walked over to the steel ape and looked up at him, his eyes asking the question, Neb motioned towards his comrade.
"I'll carry him, just lead the way" The steel ape said.
Cameron turned and wordlessly lead the way out of the room, his thoughts were on the wounded ape and his steel friends. 'what could they possible be, golems of some type? No... their to intelligent' he sighed 'Time will tell, it always does'.
Cameron lead them down a floor and near the sparing ring, the infirmary was close to the rings due to the fact that most injuries happen during fights. Cameron and the lancer entered the infirmary and the AI set Daniel on the nearest table for nodding farewell to Cameron and heading back the way he came. A few cheetah nurses came out and began assessing him, Cameron observed quietly from a corner, people had tendencies to over look him.
Cameron heard a female voice call his name
"Cameron, you in here?"
Ok a nice long chapter to hopefully solidify my idea, also if there are any questions about the story don't hesitate to put them in the review section.
Also I have two shout outs my first one goes to dragon outcast for letting me use Cameron, and My second goes to Surge753 my real world friend and co-writer for letting me use the Tecarian Lancers.
Thank you all and please R&R,
Shadows of the Kasrkins sighing out.