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A Hollow Victory
The first person at Mira's side when she and Keith walked through the castle doors was Fabia. She instantly took Mira into a comforting hug to ease the pain of losing Wilda. Mira wrapped her arms around her and clung for dear life as she broke down and cried her eyes. Everyone from Mira's group except for Hydron came to her side after. Hydron leaned against the twirling his hair with his finger and his bakugans floating next to him. He couldn't get the sight of Wilda dying from his mind. His feelings for bakugan my not be as strong as everyone else's is but the sight of Wilda's death disgusted him. He looked to Mira who was crying in the lavender skinned princess's arms. Fabia gently held her destroyed lover and whispered that it'll be okay in her ear. "Who was that? Who was it that killed Wilda?" Mira said in heavy sobs.
Elright sighed and signaled one of the guards in the room and they pulled the information Ace wanted on the screen. "That was Emperor Barodius. The ruler of Gundalia and leader of the Twelve Orders." "Twelve Orders? Who are they?" Hydron asked becoming very interested. "The Twelve Orders are the emperor's hand picked generals. Originally a year ago they consisted of six generals and six bakugan however after a year it consists of twelve people." He said as the screen showed the twelve generals. "First off is Gill, the emperor's right hand man. He is a pyrus brawler with Pyrus Krakix as his partner. Second is Nurzak. He's a subterra elder with Subterra Sabator as his partner. He's been around since the previous emperor. He hasn't taken the battlefield in some time now and we have no clue what to expect from them. Third is Airzel with Ventus Strikeflier. This man is loyal to Gill and he is the second choice of the emperor to call upon if Gill is not around. Forth is Stoica and Aquos Lythirus. These two are a bit umm out there. They are crazy but they have a way of hiding it somewhat. I wouldn't want to be left alone with them." He said feeling a shiver run up his spine.
"Fifth is Kazarina and Haos Lumagrowl. She is the science division and I here she is even experiencing on people and bakugan. She also is the lead weapons technology developer among them. She is also the emperor's soon to be bride as well." When Elright said this Mira could feel the rage boiling inside Fabia. She pulled away and placed a hand on the lavender skin of her lover to calm her down. "Last but not Emperor Barodius and Darkus Dharak. We only heard rumors of how powerful the two are but this only confirms them. If the barriers wasn't protected then they would have destroyed them all. He is the leader of the upper circle and is the worst of the worst." He said as the screen showed all the generals and bakugan in attribute order. Keith looked at the screen and then back to Elright. "And what about that Ren Krawler guy. He actually went through the trouble of trying to talk to us." He said not sure of what to make of Ren.
"Good question but I was getting to that. Ren Krawler the leader of the lower circle of the Twelve Orders with his partner Darkus Linehalt. The lower circle can for some reason that we haven't figured out can use bio-attribute energy that bakugan have. As you saw they prefer skill over power. He and the emperor have some kind of connection but we haven't figured out what but we do know that he is often called to accompany the emperor whenever he goes with his general to view the battle. He is able to use darkus energy inside his body and materialize any kind of weaponry he imagines. Ren's second in command is a girl called Lena Isis with her bakugan Aquos Phosphos. She is level headed and is the lab assistant to Kazarina. Her aquos energy can freeze anyone and anything she wish's. Then we have Jesse Glenn who can use ventus energy that can slice a building clean in two and his partner is Ventus Plitheon. He is often seen reading a poetry book on the battlefield and he is Airzil's personal student in battle. Next we have Sid Arkale and Pyrus Rubanoid. He's can coat his body in a supernova hot pyrus energy and he is the power house of then all and is often seen along side Ren at some points. Then there is Mason Brown and Subterra Avior. From what we know he can manipulate the environment around him with subterra energy. Him and his bakugan often spend their time with Nurzak and Sabator and rarely show up to fight. Last is Zenet Surrow and Haos Contestir. From what we've seen she is a near master of disguise using her haos energy she uniquely generates to shape shift but luckily the third shield keeps her from sneaking into the city. We are currently trying to figure out how to single her out from our troops when in battle. He explained as the screen now showed all of the Twelve Orders.
"God just how are we going to deal with all of them?" Ace said scratching his head. Mylene looked out the window and suggested that everyone should get some rest. They all agreed and headed to their own rooms. Fabia took Mira's hand before she could leave and had a little blush. "Umm would you like to sleep in my room? You know for company." She said. Mira blushed but smiled at this. Fabia lead her to her room. When they arrived the door had a haos crest in the center and glimmering jewels imbedded around the door. The princess held her hand to the crest and it shined and opened. Inside was beautiful. There was a crystal chandelier hanging from the ceiling a large haos crest in the reflective crystal floor. The walls had regular windows and stained windows beside them that had a rainbow light coming from them as the light from out side hit them. Mira noticed a heavenly smell and inhaled deeply and smiled. "That smell is generated by the stain windows. I figured that out sometime after I had them put in." Fabia said leading her lover into the room. Mira looked at some books her girlfriend had while she got changed. When that was done Fabia got into bed pulling Mira in and laying her next to her. The two looked into each others and kissed wishing the other a peaceful rest and fell fast asleep in each other's arms.
On Gundalia the Gundalian ship arrived and landed in the ship hander. The ramp opened and Barodius and the troops walked down the ramp heading out of the hanger. Even was the last to step off the ramp and went into the hall. He glanced around to be sure there was no one around before speaking. "Is there anything to report?" He said to his to the person in the shadows. "Kazarina has recovered and she continued to work on her dimensional teleporter. I got a look at it and she really is working on transporting large number of things or people through a large gap. Doing something like that is dangerous to who is being transported but she couldn't less. Also she came across new coordinates to world in another dimension. She wants me to be ready when she goes to try test it." Said a feminine voice as she stepped next to Ren. "Lena I want you to plant a virus in the computer that will destroy the system when she tries to us it." Ren said looking to his second in command. "Ren strangely enough she didn't test the machine right like she usually does she actually hesitated and said that it could wait for a later date." Lena explained knowing that it was out of character.
"You know she probably had some other experiment that took priority." Ren said doubting it. Lena finished her report and went to her room. She entered her room and took off her glasses and pinched the bridge of her nose. 'Kazarina has been acting strangely. She waits to test her new invitation and she has been nice to me. It's probably nothing but some reason it feels like I'm with a different person.' She thought looking up at the ceiling. She heard a ringing sound and looked to the watch on her wrist. A screen appeared that had a message on it. The message was Kazarina saying that they would be conducting the transport experiment to night. 'So much for doing it later. I won't be able to install the virus. What is going on with her?' She thought hearing a noise and looking to the side and let out a sigh. "What do you want Jesse?" She leaning back and feeling pressure on the other side of the door. "Ren wanted me to let everyone know that I will be heading to Neathia tomorrow sine Airzil is going." He said and began to walk off.
"Wait." Lena said opening the door and catching up to him. "Yes?" "I need you to do something for me." She said and started whispering in his ear.
Later on that night Lena and Kazarina were in the preparing for the test. Kazarina was at the control conceal and Lena was making sure the transport panel was working. She glanced over to see the scientist wasn't paying her any attention. She reached into pocket and pulled out a small round disk with red numbers. She placed it inside the transport panel and pressed the center starting the timer. 'With any hope this will go off before we start.' She thought before heading over to the scientist and reporting the transporters functionality. "Good. Now we just need to start with something small." Kazarina said pressing a button and a holographic image of a planet appeared. There were millions and millions of blue blimps on it Kazarina just looked on then raised her hand. "How about this and this?" She said pressing two blimps turning them green and started typing on the computer again. Lena looked at the watch on her wrist and cringed. 'Come on just a little longer.' She thought seeing the time wound down.
With a little bit more preparing Kazarina pressed a button and the machine started up. The green blimps vanished and the transport panel glow a bright rainbow color. The disk Lena set timer expired and the disk exploded destroying the panel and causing a chain reaction that destroyed the control conceal as well filling the room with smoke. Lena and her mistress choked and heaved of the smoke. Waving her had to disburse the smoke in front of her Kazarina pressed a button on the damaged conceal and fans suck all the smoke out. The two looked and saw two girls unconscious laying on top of the damaged transporter with three bakugan next to them. The One darkus, one haos,and one ventus bakugans groaned and shocking remained out cold.
Kazarina walked over and picked up the bakugans to have a look at them and then looked towards the girls on the floor. "I've never seen this species before or these bakugan." She said with interest in her voice. She tossed the bakugan at me which I caught with no trouble. "Take those to the research room and these girls to the prison cells for the time being. Would like to- AHHHHH!" She suddenly fell to her knees clutching her head. She seemed to be in so much pain Lena ran over and knelt down next to her. "Are you okay?" She asked and Kazarina looked at her and Lena was surprised. The look in her eyes were different. Different than what they were before but she just couldn't explain it. Lena was going to say something when Gill walked. "Kazarina is your little experiment finished." He said before getting a good look at the situation. He saw the look in the scientist eyes and ran over. "What happened?!" Gill demanded with fury in his eyes. "I don't know she just fell over in pain all of a sudden." Lena said as Gill lifted the scientist up. "Is there something wrong with her?" He looked back but didn't answer and just walked out the room.
Lena was left there confused and wanting to know more now. She looked to the girls and placed the bakugans in their pockets before taking them to the prison. When she shut the prison doors the girls woke up and saw her leaving. "Hey you." Lena looked back and saw the girl with shoulder length brown hair staring at her while the other one rubbed her eyes. "Yes?" "Where are we? What are you? You don't look human." She said narrowing her eyes. "You are in Gundalia. I am a Gundalian and no I'm not human." Lena answered see the human girls eyes widen. The girl with mid back length light brown hair spoke next. "May we know why we seem to be in prison?" She asked with innocent eyes. "Your in prison because I was ordered to put you two here. You won't be here for long though. Your bakugans are in your pockets but their unconscious still. Even if they do wake up I highly recommend you not try to break out cause I have a less alarming plane to get you out just sit and wait till then." Lena said walking off again. "Wait can you tell us your name?" She asked with hopeful eyes.
Lena stopped and look back to the girls and found no problem in it. "My name is Lena Isis." She said and the one with long hair smiled. "That's a wonderful name. My name is Miu and her name is Taylor it's very nice to meet you." Miu said with a smile on her face. "Something tells me your doing something you'll get in lot of trouble for." Taylor said but Lena didn't say anything other than wait until she comes back before walking off into the dark hallway.
On Neathia the sun began to rise and shine hit the stain glass and radiated rainbow colors through the room. Light hit Mira's eye and woke her up looking to the nightstand in the room. Empty. There was nothing there and that made her cry. Fabia was awoken by whimpers and she opened her eyes to see Mira with tears falling from her eyes. "What's wrong?" She said whipping the tears away. Mira looked to her and saw her caring emerald eyes. "Wilda was always the first one I saw. The first one to say good morning to me. It always made me happy to my best friend greet me. I never knew how much I would miss even the most simplest of things." She said as she covered her eyes with her arm and crying. "Please don't cry. You know she wouldn't want that." Fabia said bringing Mira into a warm hug. "Wilda and I were the first and founding members of the resistance. She had always been there for me. Always talked reason to me when I was about to do something stupid. But most of all...she always had faith in me. I miss her so much." Mira said holding onto the Neathian tightly.
The two stayed that way for a while until Mira calmed down. They got out of bed and Fabia changed into a similar dress she wore last time and the two walked out the princess's room. Heading into the throne room they saw that everyone was gathered and on the screen was a Gundalian ship. "Really this early in the morning? Gundalians truly have no life." The princess committed gaining a disapproving look from her sister. "These guys are gonna pay for what they did to Wilda!" Ace said running out the door with Percival trying to calm him down. "Wait up. I'm coming to." Fabia said trying to follow only for Mira to grab her wrist. Fabia looked back to the Vestal and smiled. She leaned in and kissed her lips. "Don't worry nothing will happen. I'll be safe and make sure Ace doesn't get himself killed." Fabia said turning and leaving out the door.
On board the Gundalian ship Airzil got up from his sear and prepared to leave out the door but stopped and turned to his student. "Get up and come on." He said only gaining a glance from Jesse Glenn. "My my you won't even let me finish my chapter." He said closing his book and getting up from his seat. "Your just going to open it back up again on the battlefield." He said walking out the door. "Very true." Was all that he had to say before following his teacher out the door.
In front of the damaged second shield stood Midnight Percival and Aranaut with Ace and Fabia on their shoulders watching the two green bakugans come closer. "Percival try and take them out with one shoot before they get to close." Ace said and Percival nodded his head. The dragon heads on top of his shoulders turned forward and opened up and formed electrifying purple orbs of energy in them. He opened his own mouth and did the same. He aimed and fired the three blast and the formed together to create a spiraling vortex of energy heading straight for the Gundalians. Strikeflier and Plitheon dodged to the with ease avoiding the shoot. "That one Plitheon." Jesse said pointing at Ace and Percival. "With pleasure." Plitheon roared and charged at Percival with surprising speed causing the dragon knight to jumped and fly into the sky to avoid him. Plitheon chased after him while Strikeflier and Airzil took on Fabia and Aranaut.
Plitheon shoot a green typhoon from his mouth and Percival formed a shield to block the attack. He created his sword with darkus energy for a blade and slashed at the green dragon who blocked the attack with the blades coming out of the back of his hands. Jesse jumped from his partner's shoulder grabbing a unprepared Ace by the throat and fell to the ground. "Ace!" Percival said glancing away from his foe who took the chance to knee him in the gut and breath another cyclone this time hitting him and pushing him back. Plitheon closed his mouth looking to his descending brawler and held out his hand. A small tornado formed around him and Ace and gently landed them down on the ground. Percival came charging towards him swinging his sword which Plitheon ducked and giving him a spin kick into his side.
"Ace!" Fabia screamed looking back to the Vestal being held by his neck. "Pay attention!" Strikeflier said coming up behind Aranaut and elbowing him in the back. "You have more important problems to watch out for." Airzil said as he and his partner stood in Fabia and Aranaut's way of helping Ace and Percival. Jesse looked at Ace and let him go. Ace gasped trying to breath and looking up at Jesse who had started to read his book. Ace got up and went to punch him only for Jesse to easily step to the side avoiding the fist without even looking up from his book. Ace gritted his teeth and ties to kick him in the side only to have the same effect as before. Growing more irritated he punched and kicked repeatedly and missed constantly . Jesse closed his book dropping it and looking up to Ace grabbing one of his arms flipping him in o his face. Before Ace could get up Jesse kneeled down in his back holding both of the Vestal's arms with one hand and keeping his face in the dirt with the other. Ace struggled trying to get free as Jesse leaned forward until he was at his ear. "Listen to me." He said causing Ace to stopped in surprise.
"There will be a Gundalian ship arriving her sometime this night carrying escaped victims of Gundalian transportation experiment. I trust you will help them." He said pulling away and looking up to Plitheon. The green dragon looked down at him and saw the look in his eyes and nodded. He kicked Percival away and the dragon knight performed his Tri-Gunner attack again and fired. This time Plitheon smiled and ran straight into the attack being nailed dead on and reverting back to ball form. Jesse got up and caught Plitheon letting the confused Vestal up. "Well it looks like you defeated my dear Plitheon." He said with a smirk on his face as he picked up his book. The two heard a scream of pain and looked over to see Fabia being electrocuted with green electricity generated by Airzil. She fell over passed and the Ventus general grabbed her. He looked seeing that Plitheon and Jesse have lost. He glanced at Strikeflier who was heaving from his hurt and exhausted body and looked to Midnight Percival who wasn't all that tired or hurt do to Plitheon not even trying. He grit his teeth and looked to Jesse. "Come on its time to pull back." He said jumping onto Strikeflier's shoulder and retreating back to the ship with Fabia.
"Damn it. Why do things never go according to plane." Jesse said causing Ace to look at him with shock. Jesse opened the back of his book and pulled out a white card dropping it to the ground. The card glow and vanished leaving a portal under Jesse that he fell into and the portal closing behind him. The Gundalian ship speed back to Gundalia and Ace looked to Percival. "Mira is going to kill me." He said and the dragon knight merely crossed his arms. "Yes she is. But what I want to know is why did that guy Plitheon throw the fight?" Percival said trying to understand what is happening. "I don't know but his brawler said something about a ship from his planet arriving sometime tonight." Ace said scratching his head. "Okay but right now you have bigger problems." Percival said looking back and seeing Mira charging through the Neathian soldiers straight to Ace completely pissed off. "ACE I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"
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