Dragon Quest
By: BlackLiGurl
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Note: I don't really know what to say. Except...I finally decided to put spaces between my paragraphs. It IS easier to read. This was requested by Karana Belle, a reviewer from my story "Fire". Thanks !
Chapter 11: Enter the Dragon
Ruby put her hands on her hips and glared down at the other person. He seemed a little timid and was definately a little young looking but she knew better than to underestimate anyone."Who are you! Are you the curse!"
The boy Ruby had just met in Nall's subconscious smiled and looked down shyly
"Oh no, no, no! I'm sorry if I startled you. I'm Alex. Alex of Burg."
"Alex? As in Dragonmaster Alex, Nall's best friend? But you're dead!"
"I haven't heard Dragonmaster attached to my name in a while! Is that how Nall referred to me?" Alex said laughing, "I came from the Blue Star to help him. You see, a spirit can only come down once so I saved my chance until a time I knew that Nall would really need me. This is that time..."
"Well, my name's Ruby. I'm the Red Dragon of Althena. Can you help me save Nall?"
"That's what I'm here for!"
Meanwhile, Ronfar was trying to revive Sapphiren and everyone else was fighting Ryo when Nall began to wake up. He sat up and looked down at Ruby's limp body on his lap. He ran his hand through her hair curiously. His hand wandered to her face, which he couldn't stop staring at. She was beautiful, now that he thought about it, and it made him blush.
'Why do I feel like...I should be liking this? She IS very pretty. She makes me want to..'
He leaned down, closer to her face. But then, he shook his head and pushed her off of him as he stood up.
"Oh no! Ruby hasn't come back yet!" Lemina exclaimed.
"Great, now we have to hold off Nall too!"
Nall picked up his sword and looked at the group of people.
"Now...where was I?" he said.
He picked up Ruby's body and looked at her.
"You almost succeeded...in poisoning my mind with your lies...your beauty..." he threw her over his shoulder, "everyone, come with me!"
"What!? We're not going to do that!" Jean yelled.
"If you want this girl to live you will..."
They looked at each other and sighed. Nall chuckled and waved his hand, making an energy net appear over them.
"Okay...I said I'd be okay, but I would really like some help now!"
Nall looked over the ledge at Mystere and grinned mischievously. He grabbed Mystere's hand and brought him over the edge.
"Get in the net you wanna-be super hero..."
Mystere opened his mouth to speak, but just went to the net and got under it.
"Great job Leo..." Ronfar mumbled.
"I know not of..."
Ronfar grabbed Mystere's mask and threw it aside, revealing Leo's face. Leo gasped and looked around nervously.
"Wha-what are you doing!"
"Just give it up Leo!" Jean yelled.
"Shut up in there. I don't feel like hearing your annoying voices! You're...giving me a headache...Come on Ryo!"
Ryo grabbed the rope of the net and teleported both himself and the others to the castle. Nall looked around and frowned.
"This place, that girl, those people...they all look...familiar..."
The Dragon Kids that were talking to them before were still watching from the door and several more had joined them. They were all crying.
"Big Brother, why are you doing this?" he heard one whine.
He stared at them confused. Just as he was about to walk over to them and answer them, he growled and turned away. He balled up his fist as he heard them started crying louder.
'These are those kids that were talking to me before. I think that girl called them...Dragon Kids? Why are they calling me Big Brother anyway? How do they know me again? That girl said I take care of them. No..that's not true! I should destroy this place, it's making my chest..no..my heart hurt. But I can't bring myself to do it. I feel like I have to take care of them...' he thought, glancing at them over his shoulder, 'this'll be the first place that goes when Zophar is ressurected...I'll make sure of it!'
Nall shook off the feeling that he had to stay there and teleported to the castle along with the others. The kids looked at each other worried.
"WAAARGH!!!"
Ruby screamed while they were walking around. Alex stopped looked at her.
"What?"
"Where's Nall!"
Suddenly, black smoke rose before them and took the form of a human. Ruby screamed and hid behind Alex.
"What's that!?"
"That's probably the curse!"
"How are we going to destroy it? Don't we need like, a priest?!"
"I don't know..."
"I should have brought Ronfar with me!!"
The shadow person laughed, making Ruby mad. She stepped up and pointed the wand at it.
"Maybe this'll work! Fire!"
Fire wrapped around the shadow, but it was unphased. Ruby stopped the attack and looked at the wand confused.
"How come fire never works anymore!"
"We have to find Nall. Something tells me this is something he has to comfort himself."
The shadow walked over to Ruby and transformed into Nall. Ruby blinked and stared at the imposter.
"Wha..?"
"Ruby...just leave. You're too weak to help me so just go. There's nothing YOU can do...Zophar will be revived, the world will be destroyed, and it'll be by my hands."
She gasped and stepped back. Suddenly, she completely forgot that that was the shadow.
"B-but Nall!"
"You know I'm really a bad person. That's what you were thinking, wasn't it? Lucia was wrong, what does she know about my own heart? Why do you think I'm a thief?"
"Lucia's like Althena now...she knows almost everything."
"And you know that I don't REALLY love you right? I was just saying that so you wouldn't go to Hiro, who I have to admit, I hate...he annoys me..."
"W-what?"
"If you leave right now, I promise you that you will be spared and you can even rule a part of Zophar's world with me."
Ruby thought about it. Alex cleared his throat, deciding it was finally time to step in. Ruby glanced at Alex then back at Nall's imposter.
"Ruby, ignore it. That's not Nall. It's the curse remember? It's trying to make you leave so it can stay here."
Ruby shook her head and growled.
"Alex is right! Go away! I'm staying because I love Nall...no matter what..."
The imposter raised an eyebrow then shrugged.
"Can't say I didn't warn you...I always did think you were just a stupid little girl..."
He disappeared. Ruby fell on her knees and slammed her fists into the ground.
"I can't do this! I AM stupid! I am! I can't save Nall!"
"Don't say that Ruby," Alex said kindly, "besides, if you keep talking like that, you might make the curse stronger."
Ruby looked up at him and smiled. He reminded her of a more quiet, less obnoxious Hiro. He looked around for a while before gasping.
"Look!"
"Nall!"
They ran over to him. He was chained to the ground in his human form, out cold. Ruby kneeled down and shook him, but he didn't wake up.
"What's wrong? Is he okay?" she asked, "how is he here and out there at the same time?"
"That's Nall's subconscious self. He must have been fighting the curse..."
A glowing diamond appeared infront of them. Ruby looked at it confused.
"That's a locked memory. If we release some of them, we might be able to revive Nall."
Ruby touched the diamond, making it shine. A different world replaced the dark one like paint spilling on a canvas. They were in a snowy plain. She looked around.
"What's this?"
"A memory."
A white blur flew past their faces, followed by several monsters. The blur slammed into a tree and fell in the snow. From the snow, a white kitten with brown fur down his back emerged. He rubbed his head and started crying.
"That's Nall!"
The monsters surrounded young Nall and pounced on him. But, a brown- haired man came and killed the monsters. Alex smiled as the man picked up the small, half dead cat and brought him away.
"You're coming with me. Quark wouldn't want you to die so early in your life, Nall. What are you doing so far outside the cave anyway? Oh well, I'll just tell Quark I left you with Noah and my son..."
"This is when Laike gave my father Nall."
"Who's Quark? I heard Nall mention him before..."
"Quark? That's Nall's father!"
"And this Laike just said Noah and HIS son? Does that mean that your father is actually your stepfather?"
"Uh...I didn't know that...but that would explain a lot..."
The memory blanked out like a TV being cut off, and they were back where they started.
"What do we do next?" she said, completely forgetting about the fact that she had just told Alex he was adopted.
However, Alex had already shaken it off and was now worried about helping Nall. He slipped away from Ruby as she looked around.
"Hey! Come over here!"
She blinked and walked over to Alex. He was standing in front of another memory diamond nearby.
"I can't touch it..."
Ruby nodded and touched the diamond, making the world change again. This time they were in a house. Nall was laying on a bed when a little boy around 2 years old walked in. The boy pet the brown fur on his head, waking him up.
"Wake up kitty!"
"Kitty? I'm not a cat! I'm a...I don't remember..."
"That's okay. I can tell you're a kitty! Even though, kitties can't talk and they don't have wings!"
"Alex..." a man with black hair walked in the room and ruffled the little boy's hair, "This is Nall. He'll be like your brother, okay?"
"Okay Daddy! Hi Nall!"
"Hello Alex!"
"Remember, Nall's not your pet..."
The memory disappeared.
"That explains why he thought he was a cat..." she said glancing at Alex.
Alex laughed and scratched the back of his neck, nervously.
"Anyway, let's try to find more memories..."
In the outside world, everyone was in a cage except Ruby's body, which laid on the floor near Nall. He was sitting in a chair massaging his head, growling softly. Sapphiren got up and winced in pain.
"What happened?" he mumbled, touching his still bleeding, yet smaller, injury.
"Nall stabbed you, Ruby went into Nall's subconscious and is trying to break the spell, and Nall captured us and brought us to Ryo's hideout..." Hiro said.
Sapphiren looked down at his wound then at Nall. He stood up, ignoring the blood and the pain and grabbed the bars. He shook them and screamed like crazy.
"WHAT'S WRONG TRAITOR!! HAVE A HEADACHE!! WELL I'LL BE SURE TO MAKE IT WORST!! WALAHALA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
Nall glared at him and he stopped. He looked back at Lucia.
"Why is he in pain anyway," Sapphiren whispered, "what's wrong."
"Maybe this is a sign that Ruby's breaking the curse," Lucia said.
"A curse? So he WAS brainwashed..."
"I just said that..." Hiro mumbled, "how come you didn't say that when I said it?"
"I didn't hear you..."
"Shut up!" Nall roared, "before I kill you all!"
He glared at Ruby and picked up her body.
"Who are you! What have you done to me!" he yelled.
Ryo watched Nall drop Ruby and sit back down from a corner. He knew that chances were that Nall was about to be set free from Zophar's curse. He sighed.
"I can't believe Yira's gone...she was a little annoying, but she was my sister...and now she'll never get to fall in love or see the Green Earth..." he mumbled, "as soon as Nall comes to his senses, I'm killing him...and I'm making sure he suffers..."
Note: Yes...Sapphiren's alive...wow, I really don't have much to say...Read and review!