A.N:Finally another review,no that I don't appreciate your's Anesha...well since there's nothing else to say. Let the story continue. By the way,thanks for the kind review Elina
Disclaimer:I don't own anything in the story that is related in any way to Winx Club and Star Ocean:Till The End of Time,I only own the Ocs,and the plot line..along with anything else inside that's made up.
(Location:Unknown)
Argus was dressed in his royal clothes,it looked dashing on Argus,the clothes looked oddly similar to the Red Fountain uniform but it seemed tailor-made for royalty,his garbs were richly decorated with golden trimmings,a metal sword in place of the tech-blade,and to finish the ensemble off was a crimson cape with the coat of arms of both Sparks and Eraklion,symbolizing the mutual relationships between the two worlds(sorry,had to do it to save space in later chapters)
He seemed to be asleep until a voice called to him, "Argus.....Argus...wake up Argus.....wake up..." the voice was soothing and yet compelling,which was why Argus woke up immediately and found himself in a weird place,and to add further to the weirdness,Argus was in the air and yet still felt solid ground. "Whoa!Where am I and why am I dressed in my 'Princely' outfit!" Argus tried to crack a joke to lighten the mood and the only response he got was a muffled giggle and Argus quickly got up to see a figure in the distance. "Who are you..?" he slowly walked towards the unidentifiable figure to see who the person could be but all he could figure out was that the person was a woman,that was picked up his pace and ran despite the feeling of vertigo of running on thin air,but as he ran the woman disappeared. Losing his goal,Argus slowed down and decided to look in his surroundings,all he could see were nothing at all,only the strangely rainbow-mixed sky..swirling around constantly,creating a feeling of even more vertigo.
"Ughh...I feel like I'm gonna puke...glad my stomach's empty." when Argus took another step,the 'ground' he stood on flashed brightly and momentarily blinded him. When the blindness wore off,Argus saw a sight so amazing,that he just stood there with his mouth agape. There he stood,on a platform with the most beautiful artwork he had ever saw,a gigantic fiery dragon was holding an orb of fire and from the orb,flowed out life, "Dragon Fire..." Argus said naturally and continued admiring the Dragon's 'gift' to the Magical Dimension,as he studied the orb further,he saw portraits of the Protectors of the Sacred Dragon Fire,the most famous of them all,Bloom,Queen of Eraklion,Princess of Sparks and heroine to the Magical Dimension and he also saw King Skye of Eraklion,embracing his beloved queen. Beside the 'perfect couple',was a portrait of Daphne,the Nymph who gave her life and her responsibility of the 'Flame' to save Bloom,her story's still told as an tribute in memory of the nymph. All of a sudden,the portraits of Bloom and Daphne began glowing and all three of the people inside the portraits came to life and got out of it but not in a physical sense but more of a apparition of sorts and Argus was somewhere between surprised and shocked the transparent form of Bloom giggled at Argus' facial expression and he quickly recognized it as the one who laughed at his earlier joke.
"Now sister,you're scaring him..change into a more suitable form." Daphne had materialized completely as well as the regal King Skye with his Red Fountain uniform instead of his royal garbs and following the two,Bloom also completed her 'materialization' and she was in her fairy form. The protocols he learned from his court lessons had kicked in and tried a pathetic attempt at showing respect as when he tried to bow down,his shoe-buckle got snagged on the linings of his cape and fell down. Skye walked up to Argus and helped him up and went back to Bloom's side.
"Please dispense the formalities Argus,we have something to tell you..." Bloom seemed hesitant to tell him something but continued anyway, "As you know,you are the current keeper and guardian of the Dragon's Fire,the most powerful magic in the Magic Dimension." Argus nodded and kept silent so as to hear more. "Well as you also may know,the Codex is the most powerful magical artifact ever created,meaning it's powers could easily rival the Dragon's Fire.....to counteract this effect since the Dakkar incident,I have created something that far exceeds the Codex in every aspect,but-" Bloom was interrupted when the platform glowed brightly,and after the glowing faded away...it had left a new part to the platform mural,a portrait of Argus wearing strange but powerful-looking armor and surrounding the picture of Argus were several frames filled with figures clad completely in armor,each one a different color and all of them in a fighting stance.
"I see the cogs and gears of Destiny and Fate have begun to turn(corny I know but hey I couldn't resist)." The portraits of the mysterious knights began to glow and each and every one of them came to life and got out of their frames, and stood proudly before Argus. One of them,whose armor was of a fiery-crimson approached Argus and he stood a good 3 feet taller than the young prince and Argus' hand was fingering the handle of his sword,ready for a fight...if the knight should proved to be hostile. The knight inspected Argus through the dark slits in his helmet and pulled out his sword,a gigantic red broadsword with the tip of the blade widened for the purpose of slashing instead of of stabbing. "You are a puny mortal,but a mortal who has potential to be my new master...now,take out your sword and let's test our mettle in battle!" he brought down his sword just as Argus stepped sideways and took out his sword,a longsword made of mythril and went into a fighting stance, "I don't understand what's going on right now but....I won't lose!" and both of them charged at each other while Bloom,Skye,Daphne and the rest of the knights watched the duel in anticipation....
(Wildlands,Forest trail)
Fayt was walking at a slow pace ,with a backpack slung over his shoulders and a checklist-device for well checking, "Alright,that's 11 Physical Enhancers,Check!8 Mental Enhancers,Check!.....hmm..the rest isn't as important but to speed things up,we have a total amount of food and water that should last us for 2 weeks and a half,and if my calculations are correct and if we pick up our pace a bit,we should reach the town I saw before we crashed." Cliff and Albel were a bit behind him both carrying backpacks and some extra baggage which was actually a big coffin-like box,fortunately it floated with the help of hover packs so all they had to do was push it around and maneuver the thing, "Hey Fayt,what's in this big ol' box that's so important to ya anyways,I'm not complaining or anything but this might attract some attention...if ya know what I mean."
Albel spoke up when Cliff finished "Although as much as I hate it but I have to agree to the big Oaf's words." Cliff glared at Albel but kept silent because if they got into a fight,it would attract unwanted attention from any monsters in the area. While Cliff and Albel were having a 'stare-off' Fayt walked up the the 'coffin' and opened up a panel and push a sequence of commands into the keypad and the 'coffin' opened up to reveal a person inside,a man in his mid to late twenties,short raven-black hair in a trimmed-looking style,he was wearing casual-looking clothes which consisted of a black shirt underneath a red leather coat along with a pair of blue jeans but the odd thing was,he wasn't breathing...at least until his eyes opened up instantly,scaring the heck out of Cliff while Albel was ready to pull out his sword.
The sounds of machinations came from the man before his eyes glowed a bit and turned from blue to red and his hand somehow turned into a gun and pointed it at Albel and spoke in an emotionless tone, "Mr Nox. If you would please refrain from drawing out your weapon,or I'll be forced to disintegrate your weapon and if required,you as well." Fayt stood in front of the 'man' and called out "Stop it,you know the mission....now assume program alpha." "Affirmative." suddenly the man's 'hand-gun' reverted back to being a hand and a almost silent hum was heard then a cold greeting was given from the man,
"Greetings,I am the prototype fighter-droid, IZ1,at your service." IZ1 saluted at the three and Fayt started his explanation "Well,as you could guess by now...or in this case Albel has guessed..this guy's an android,Jake sent it to me before we launched from the Diplo...he wanted me to test out his latest project ." Albel snorted before lowering his 'claws' and continued walking away but stopped and turned around and shouted at them "Hey maggots!Are we going to move now or until next week!"with that the android's eyes flashed and the 'coffin' folded up and turned to something that's similar to a suitcase and followed Albel's lead before the rest ran to catch up.
(Space-Battlefield,Diplo II)
The entire crew that were able to see the battle outside had their mouths agape,but the one most surprised was Kevin Stromwell he saw the effect of the Striker's transformation and uttered these words, "Mode A......'Aries,Roman God of War'."(I think it's how it's spelt,tell me if I'm wrong)
(Space-Battlefield,Outside)
The Striker had indeed transformed,it was now a massive robot of sorts with it's long limbs,the thrusters had become the legs with the base of it as the feet and acted as boosters while the arms came from a compartment where it was already attached the upper-torso was comprised of the Fighter's main body,the same went for the lower-torso. Suddenly all three enemy ships stopped their assault and moved in to converge on the Striker but the giant mech remained ,the three ships started firing on the immobile mech.
Suddenly,without warning...the eyes of the mech flashed a moment before the entire mech started to change to the color red as according to the red armor of it's namesake and pulled out two metal rods one in each hand and both immediately emitted a red aura of energy,one turned into a laser sword while the other one emitted more laser streams and spread out and then connected to create an energy shield which absorbed the enemy's shots. The Striker quickly charged at the closest enemy and slashed at it,at first nothing happened but it suddenly split in half and exploded,the remaining enemy vessels remained on the offensive,shooting a continuous barrage of lasers which were either absorbed by the shield or deflected back at the enemy which by chance caused the destruction of the second enemy cruiser,leaving only the last target for the Striker.
Inside the cockpit,Jake was getting tired...and sleepy by the second but he shook his head and with an inner battle cry and pushed a random button which showed a picture of a rifle which was just what the mech brought out, "Alright...time to..finish...this one off.....with a bang." Jake activated the controls for the trigger and just at that moment,the enemy managed to shoot the Striker's power pack and it completely shut off but the last jolt of energy surged to the hand and it pulled the trigger and the rifle unleashed a burst of energy which hit the enemy hard and again another explosion occurred the only problem was that the Striker had no power and the unknown fact that Jake was unconscious and was bleeding from an injury caused by the power pack being blasted which caused him to crash his head against the dashboard...hard...really hard....
(50 Lightyears away from the Battle,Aboard the Dilpo)
"LET ME GO!!!!!" a woman's cry was heard throughout the entire ship stopping every crew member in their tracks. The source of the cry came from the biggest room on the entire ship,specifically,the room of Mr&Mrs Leingod. Currently sounds of a struggle was heard inside and the door was opened by curious crew-members trying to satisfy their curiosity and satisfy it they did.
Maria was being held back by a young brunette girl and another girl who was struggling with Maria's legs which were kicking wildly about. "I said,Let me go!I've got to help Fayt!" her words only caused both girls to double their efforts to hold her down. "Stop it Maria,'punch to the face' Oww!Peppita!Get Mirage!" Peppita looked at her friend with wide eyes and said, "But Sophia,she might get away..'kick to the gut'..owie...I get it..." Peppita quickly ran to find Mirage,leaving Sophia with Maria whose mood swing had just turned to anger and despair which was bad since she could easily pulverize anyone with her bare fists,fortunately she wasn't thinking straight and never thought of it..well at least until she flipped Sophia over her and slammed her down onto the hard metallic floor. "Maria!" there stood at the doorway was a beautiful blond woman with Peppita behind her with her terrified expression on her face when she saw Sophia's aching form on the ground.
"Maria...what are you doing..?" Mirage spoke in a motherly tone trying to calm down Maria as best as she could,Maria just collapsed onto the floor and began sobbing "But...Fayt....I saw his ship...crash...." and she cried even harder,startling Mirage who knelt down so she was eye-leveled with Maria, "Maria...you know Fayt will be fine...he always is...after all Cliff and Albel are with him....so don't cry honey." Mirage continued soothing the sobbing Maria until she fell asleep,where Mirage promptly carried her into her bed.
"Alright Sophia,let's get you to the infirmary...Peppita...please remove any potential weapons from the room....it's a wonder what space could affect early pregnancies.."Mirage helped Sophia to the door and towards the infirmary...the crew members who were watching the entire scene dispersed to do their duties again...but two people remained,Leiber,a security personnel aboard the ship and Marietta,his girlfriend and the navigations officer. All they saw was the serene look on Maria's sleeping face before walking away, "Poor Maria,Fayt better come back safe and sound." Marietta nodded as she leaned into his arm, "I know,but all we can do is to do our duties and pray for the best."
(Alfea,Hallway outside the Nurse's Office)
Knutt was strolling down the hall,pushing his cart of snacks when he heard a noise coming from the nurse's office. "Hmm...what's going on,...better check it out." Knutt's hands reached for the door but it burst open and someone or something crashed into him, "Knutt!Quick,hold that thing down..Now!" Palladium had dashed out of the door with his saber in his hand and a disheveled look on his face.
"Okie-dokie,now come here you-gotcha!" Knutt had pinned the unknown attacker with his massive hands to the ground. "Alright,tell me!Why are you here..." Palladium threatened the person who he could see was wearing an outfit that resembles a ninja but of a more techno-pro style,the outfit covered practically his entire body to give him stealth and that included his face which the professor removed to find something that was unexpected, "Huh?Another Professor Palladium..?Oh,let me get out my glasses!"Knutt pulled out a pair of square-rimmed glasses from his front pocket and put it on but in doing so,he had released the 'prisoner'.
"Ahh..that's much better..." Knutt's vision cleared to see another elf but he didn't look anything like the teacher at all,the only thing that could even resemble Cedric was the distinctive long-elven ears and the long hair which was of a more platinum-blonde than Cedric's golden locks and also the obvious thing was that the person's skin was icy-blue. "A Night-Elf..?" Cedric was shocked at his discovery and the Night-elf just took Cedric's saber and was prepared to decapitate the 'stunned' professor and the fact that Knutt had somehow tripped over his cart...the elf was helpless...that is until a shout came from down the hall, "Incandescent Sphere!Light!" a ball of fire wrapped in an aura of light came at the Night-Elf but he evaded the blast.
Fortunately,Cedric quickly recovered and countered the spell with his own spell."Reacticus!" the fireball simply went out in a puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared,the mysterious Night-Elf was gone leaving no trace of him ever being there except for the 'mask' Cedric pulled off him. Cedric turned towards the direction of where his rescuer had cast the spell and there stood...or rather floated Rosalina Divina Erakliones a.k.a Rosa in her fairy form which was a two piece,a silvery top with her midrift showing and a pure white skirt that reached just below her calves and a pair of high-heeled silver boots,the outfit also sported golden trimmings giving Rosa,a look of elegance. "Rosa,am I glad to see you." Cedric walked up to the fairy just as she transformed back to her normal attire, "What's up professor ?" "I've got a message for you to deliver to Faragonda,now hear it is..."
(Grounds outside Red Fountain)
Trevor Pyris was patrolling the area with a squad of junior Specialists which consisted of 3 girls and an equal number of boys and as if by coincident all of them were paired up as they were boyfriends and girlfriends,Trevor felt slightly sad and frustrated, "It sure is nice to be in love....but I couldn't even protect my first love.....some boyfriend I was..." Trevor sighed in regret before he heard marching coming from the direction of King's Cross.
Trevor wanted to find out what was coming so he jumped up to the lowest branch of a nearby tree and made his way up by jumping from branch to branch until he was at the top and saw something...an energy blast coming right at him. "Oh come on!Not again!" Trevor whined just as he leaped off the tree and took out a small blaster and started shooting at the enemy and shouted to his squad "All of you!Get help from the others,I'll hold them off!" the juniors seemed uncertain and wanted to stay behind to help but an angered battle-cry from their senior told them otherwise as they saw him charging the enemy alone with gun and sword in hand,and as they already know,whenever Trevor let's out a battle-cry...he is not to be trifled with. In accordance to their senior's order,they got onto their hovercycles and retreated back to the school for help,hopefully they'll be on time before Trevor tires himself out.
Author's note:So...what do you the readers think of this chapter,hopefully your comments would be positive like my current reviewers:Anesha and Elina. Well..since I've nothing more to comment about the chapter. This is Argus456,signing out.