Requiem of the Fallen Dragon
Part 3: Tale of the Fallen Dragon
Chapter 87: Graveyard of the Fallen Dragon
The Next Day...
Normally, some of them will get up late and got lectured by Iris (Mostly Magnus, Tyrus and Garland.), but today, everyone got up early because they are eager to end their quest.
Everyone met up at the Colorless Garden. At this place, Frostic is still waiting for them beside the tree of Yggdrasil.
Frostic gave everyone an encouragement speech, and then he opened a warp portal that led them to the Fullmoon Temple.
At the Fullmoon Temple, Rucas took out a map and looked at it.
"Frostic said that the Fallen Dragon lurked under the land of Symmetria, right? Then we must go underground." Iris looked at the map.
"Maybe we could use the Underground Passage in the Gamma City…" Kamui suggested, but Joshua shook his head no. "We will have to waste most of our power trying to dig into the underground area. Well… It would be a waste of power…"
"Joshua is absolutely correct." Leonel encouraged Joshua. "For me, I think that there must be the entrance down into the lair of the Fallen Dragon…"
"And where is it?" Tyrus asked.
"That's our problem. We have been to all areas of Symmetria already." Magnus thought.
"Hey… Every problem has an answer! So don't be that down!" Ellisk tried to cheer everyone up.
"Hm…" Rucas felt a bit strange. He senses that he knew a clue about this, but he couldn't remember it. He thought that he learnt about a place that could be an entrance to the Fallen Dragon's lair long ago… But when?
Hawkins looked around the land of Symmetria. Symmetria now is still snowy, and it became worse than before. "… I swore that once we defeat the Fallen Dragon, I will come back to make their life better…"
"How?" Magnus crossed his arms.
"Don't worry about this… Before I got corrupted by the Souleater Rod, I sometimes disguised myself as a travelling bard in order to see everyone's life in Symmetria. I had seen everyone's life before and I was planning to make their life better… But I got corrupted by the Souleater Rod before I could do it…" Hawkins explained.
Rucas nodded. He agreed with Hawkins as the first time he met Hawkins isn't the time at the Brawl Arena (When Hawkins ordered Tyrus to kill Nyxier and Skelethal.) but is the time Rucas stayed at STP. He met Hawkins that night… just a bit before the blackout…
The blackout?
Wait…
"!"
Rucas gasped. It seemed like the last piece of the jigsaw has fallen into his possession. He finally knew what was in his mind!
"Everyone!" Rucas spoke with an excited voice. "I have an idea of the entrance to the Fallen Dragon's lair! I was so careless… It was in my mind all the time!"
"Then, where?!" Nyxier asked.
Rucas turned their attention to Joshua, Anastasia, Hawkins and Ellisk. "Do you remember the time we stayed at STP and then there was a blackout because of Garland?"
"Yes. That was horrible…" Ellisk said.
Joshua nodded and continued speaking. "Yeah. If we didn't fix everything that fast, STP would falls into the valley below…"
"!"
Joshua's word enlightened everyone. They all now understood where the entrance to the Fallen Dragon's lair!
"How could I forget this? The Symmetria Transportation Port (Aka. STP) is the place that floated above a deep valley by the magnetic power…" Kamui said.
"Yeah. The valley below STP… That must be the entrance to the Fallen Dragon's lair for sure!" Garland said.
"Then… Let's check it out." Fenrir spoke after keeping silent for a long time.
At Symmetria Transportation Port (STP)
STP today is very different than before. The major difference between before and now is the number of Pokemon. Normally, STP would be crowded with Pokemon from everywhere as it is the main transportation port from and to the town around Symmetria, but today this place is empty, not even a soul can be seen.
"…I think…" Sharon spoke up. "No one wanted to travel at this time… So this place was abandoned… Poor one…"
"Then, how could we go down into the valley?" Zira asked.
"Maybe if we go to the lowest floor of STP, we would be able to find a way…" Kamui suggested.
Everyone agreed with Kamui and went to the lowest floor of STP, and Kamui was right. The only room in the lowest floor of STP contained a large clear glass floor at the center of the room, and this mirror is removable!
"S…So scary!" Zira commented as she looked at the valley below through the glass. The valley below is very dark. It seemed to be bottomless.
"Everyone, let's remove the glass." Leonel said.
Everyone did as Leonel told, and the glass floor was removed, making the way down to the valley below STP became open for everyone.
"Seeing it without the glass floor made it became scarier…" This time, Nyxier commented.
"Then, would Lady Nyxier Tundrafrost of the House of Tundrafrost be an honor guest by going down there first?" Joshua asked.
"EEHAAA! Don't treat me like that!" Nyxier screamed. This made everyone laughed despite they knew that they may not have a chance to laugh like this anymore…
But then…
"Stop right there! Hero/ine of Legend!"
A voice came from the upper floor. Everyone froze in fear once they heard it.
"W…What was that?!" Ellisk asked.
"D…Don't tell me that they still brand us a traitors?!" Kamui asked.
"Don't worry…" Iris spoke. She seemed not to concern about it.
Once Iris finished speaking, four Pokemon entered this room from the upper floor. Everyone quickly recognized these Pokemon.
"The Sword of Justice?!" Rucas spoke as he saw Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion and Keldeo.
The Sword of Justice gave everyone a smile, and Terrakion spoke up. "Well done! Everyone! You finally made it here!"
"Yes. All of you have overcome several hard obstacles during your journey…" Virizion spoke.
"Yeah! I am sure that you all are a lot tougher than before!" Keldeo said.
"However…" Cobalion spoke up. "Your final mission is right before all of you. This will be the hardest mission you all have ever faced, but do not give up."
When Cobalion finished speaking, several Pokemon went into the room via the upper floor. They are…
"Julia?!" Joshua called his younger sister's name.
"Lumiere?!" Ellisk called his elder brother's name.
"Riftblade?!" Magnus called his cousin's name.
"Blazus?!" Leonel called his half-brother's name.
"Snow?!" Nyxier called her younger brother's name.
"Skelethal?!" Tyrus called his comrade.
"M…Master?!" Rucas and Kamui called their master.
"Jormungandr?! Hel?!" Fenrir called her siblings' name.
All whom the Hero/ine of Legend called their name smiled, and then they started encouraging the Hero/ine of Legend!
"Brother… Please defeat the enemy of Yggdrasil and made this world brighter." Julia said to Joshua.
"Ellisk, I am sure that you will do it!" Lumiere said to Ellisk.
"Our grandfather would be proud if he saw you now!" Riftblade said to Magnus.
"You didn't only protect our realm, but you also protected our world too!" Blazus said to Leonel.
"Sis, the House of Tundrafrost would be proud of you." Snow said to Nyxier.
"Tyrus! I won't allow someone who have defeated me to die in that place!" Skelethal said to Tyrus.
"Sis, make our parents proud!" Jormungandr and Hel said.
"Everyone…" The Dojo Master started speaking. "The scroll I gave you… Do not bind yourself too much to it."
"Right!" The Hero/ine of Legend said and turned their face to face the dark valley at the center of the room.
"Who want to go first?" Garland asked.
"I will." Fenrir said.
Fenrir walked up to the edge of the floor. She prepared to jump down when…
"…Rucas?!"
Rucas walked up to Fenrir and then he carried her with his paw! "It would be dangerous if you go alone. Let me go with you first too."
Fenrir didn't understand Rucas's word at first, but then, she smiled and gives a nod to Rucas.
"Let's go!"
Rucas, alone with Fenrir, jumped from STP down to the deep valley!
"Alright! Zira! Come with me!"
Kamui carried Zira on his shoulder, and then he jumped down into the valley!
"Hey! Wait for us too!"
Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus and Leonel followed Kamui and Zira by jumping down into the valley once Kamui and Zira jumped into the valley already.
"Milady, would you give me an honor of going with you?" Tyrus asked.
"With pleasure!" Nyxier answered, and then Tyrus and Nyxier jumped down together!
"Well… Sharon, let's go." Garland said after Nyxier and Tyrus jumped down already.
"I will always be with you, Garland." Sharon said.
Garland smiled and grabbed Sharon's fin, then they jumped down together!
"…Hawkins, let's go." Iris said.
"Right behind you!" Hawkins said and jumped into the valley along with Iris.
At last, only one Hero and one Heroine of Legend remained.
"…Baromyteus, let's end our legend." Anastasia said.
"Right, so we could end it, once and for all!" Baromyteus roared and then he jumped into the valley! Anastasia followed him.
"Let's go! Everyone! To the Fallen Dragon's lair!"
Dungeon XII: Graveyard of the Fallen Dragon
As 16 Hero/ine of Legend landed themselves at the bottom of the valley, they found that they couldn't see anything around them! And they could have not seen their comrade if if wasn't for Leonel's tail, but they can only see within a few meters in front of them.
"Why this place is so dark?" Zira asked. She is sitting on Kamui's shoulder.
"…Because of the sunlight…" Fenrir answered. "This valley is too deep for the sunlight to shine down right here, plus the existence of STP above it too…"
"This place stinks!" Tyrus commented. "I wouldn't want to live in this place even for a day!"
"…Come to think of it…" Rucas mumbled. "I started to feel pity for the Fallen Dragon… Having to live in the place where the light couldn't reach for a long time… It must be such a dull and colorless life…"
"Hey… When did the Hero of Justice felt pity for the villain?" Garland mocked.
"Shut up, Garland." Hawkins scolded at his younger brother.
"Anyway." Iris interrupted. "It would be a bad idea to separate our group. Let's stick together from now on."
Leonel grabbed his tail and used it to look further into the darkness, but they still saw nothing because the darkness is too strong.
"Then, allow me…"
Rucas closed his eyes to use his aura skill. With this, seeing in the darkness became much easier.
"Follow me." Rucas started walking as he still kept his eyes closed. Everyone quickly followed him. Leonel and Ellisk (With his frill flared to emit a light.) kept themselves in the middle of the group in order to give the light to everyone.
"By the way…" Joshua spoke up, his arms are crossed. "What is the name of this place? Do not answer me with the answer 'Bottom of the valley'."
"Hm…" Iris tried to think of the good answer, but the one who spoke up is the black dragon.
"This place is the Graveyard of the Fallen Dragon. It is the place where the Fallen Dragon was imprisoned from the start of the legend until now. This place is filled with the dreaded air and the evil aura of the dead corpses that got the life from the Fallen Dragon. Beware, as the evil aura of the Fallen Dragon could make the strongest Fallen you had ever faced…"
"Hey…" Tyrus looked at Baromyteus. "How can you know about this stuff?"
"I knew this because I used my brain well, not liking the idiots who have a brain, but didn't use it well." Baromyteus spoke back with a sarcastic voice. Nyxier was about to counter Baromyteus's word when Tyrus told her not to quarrel with Baromyteus as the most important thing to do now is going to the place where the Fallen Dragon is and then defeats him to end the Fallen Era of Symmetria.
After wandering through the darkness for several minutes, 16 Pokemon ended up in a place that looked like an abandoned temple, but this place looked very much darker than the 11 past dungeons they had visited. This room is brighter than the dark area, so Rucas can now open his eyes and everyone could walk by their own.
However, upon reaching the first room of this place, several Fallen appeared from the ground and started the attack!
"Everyone! Do not fight them seriously! Save your energy for now! We must break through them in order to go to meet the Fallen Dragon!" Iris told everyone.
Joshua picked the Miracle Seed out and tried to use it to defeat the Fallen, but the evil aura is too strong, making the Miracle Seed's power became useless!
"Damn it! Now how could we proceed?" Magnus asked as the Fallen are now surrounding them!
The Fallen then prepared to attack everyone, but then… All of Fallen started walking away and dissolved back to the earth!
"W…What?!" Everyone spoke up. They couldn't understand what had just happened…
"W…Why those Fallen just went back to the earth?!" Leonel asked.
"Hm…A…Anyway…" Rucas spoke up. "Let's go ahead. Our road won't finish if we are still here."
Graveyard of the Fallen Dragon required all tools they found within past 11 dungeons to solve the puzzle. (Joshua's Boomerang, Ellisk's Bomb, Magnus's Grappling Hook, Leonel's Bow, Nyxier's Mirror of Nightmare, Tyrus's Hammer, Garland's Double Clawshot, Hawkins's Revealing Lens and Zira's Souleater Rod.) They had to combine their power, courage and wisdom in order to solve them.
At last, they all found themselves in a very long hall. At the end of the hall stood a huge door..
"Well… Now what to do?" Hawkins asked as they reached the door.
Anastasia and Baromyteus walked up to the door and looked at it. "It…It's here…" Baromyteus mumbled.
Anastasia and Baromyteus turned back and faced everyone else. "Behind this door is the final destination of your journey. You couldn't turn back now. Will you proceed now?" Anastasia asked.
Everyone looked at Anastasia. For some reason, Anastasia has lost her cheerful personality since when she came down into this place, and Baromyteus became much more serious than before….
"…Alright." Rucas spoke up. "We are ready to face our final enemy. We may die, but our dead would be the glorious one… Our death would bring the light back to this realm."
"…Right." Zira spoke up. "This battle would end the horror night and brought the new dawn back onto the realm."
"…This Swordman's journey may end here…" Joshua spoke up. "But his art of sword will bring the life of plant and tree back to the earth…"
"…As the lightning and a thief…" Ellisk spoke up. "My life is erratic, but what I knew for sure is this lightning will never go to the evil side…"
"…I may be a pirate…" Magnus spoke up. "But this water is not tarnished by the evil, and this water will purge this dirty soul from our land."
"…I am the guardian…" Leonel spoke up. "I have a duty to guard the sacred flame not to disappear from the earth, even at the blink of destruction."
"…Darkness…" Fenrir spoke up. "Darkness is not evil… Darkness may fight for justice as long as there is someone who accept this darkness… Then I have no regret…"
"I…I have never thought…" Nyxier spoke up. "That this fragile snowflake would come across this moment during her lifespan. Of course! I am ready!"
"I have read many scrolls of the hero's adventure…" Kamui spoke up. "But strengthens in the last moment of legend, this steel to win over the evilness."
"…This ancient is already dead inside…" Tyrus spoke up. "But the legend gave him a chance to prove himself… I won't fail…"
"…I…" Sharon spoke up. "I will be with everyone… I promise… I will stay with everyone until the end…"
"…Who could believe that a demon like me could be a hero…" Garland spoke up. "Well… I guess that it's time to repay the debt to the earth that gave birth to my life."
"…This is the second times of mine…" Iris spoke up. "I had passed this moment before… I knew that with our mind united, we would defeat the evil and brought the life back to everyone."
"…As the flawless bard…" Hawkins spoke up. "I will never get defeated here… The wind will never stop blowing… I will live… I will survive… So did everyone…. My friends…"
Seeing that made Anastasia gave everyone a pale smile, and Baromyteus nodded.
"Well then…"
Anastasia and Baromyteus turned themselves to face the door again. They raised their right arm up, releasing the aura from the Dragon Bracklets they are wearing to the door, making the seal broke and the door opened!
"…Everyone…" Anastasia looked at everyone again. "Thank you for everything… I really… Thank you…"
"…Hm!" Baromyteus mumbled. "I still didn't like you all much, but I am glad that I had a chance to meet all of you."
"…Both of you said as if you will die soon…" Fenrir spoke up.
Anastasia and Baromyteus didn't speak anything more. They turned the attention to the door and walked into the door. Everyone else followed them into their final destination, the Altar of the Fallen Dragon…
At the Altar of the Fallen Dragon…
Everyone is in the room…
This room is the circular room. This room has no wall. The thing that limited the area of this room is the darkness. (Only the room part that is viewable. The others than that is invisible.) There is a huge altar with a dragon statue there.
"…So…This is the Altar of the Fallen Dragon…" Iris spoke up.
"Yeah…" Rucas spoke up and tried to walk toward the room, but Fenrir grabbed his arms before he could do that.
"Do not go there! We didn't know what danger is lurking in front of our eye!" Fenrir warned.
Rucas nodded, but then, someone walked pass him…
Anastasia and Baromyteus walked pass everyone else. They are heading to the altar!
"Anastasia! Baromyteus! That's too dangerous!" Rucas warned.
Anastasia and Baromyteus stopped once they heard Rucas's voice. Now they are at the center point of the room…
"…It's not a problem… The Fallen won't hurt us…" Anastasia spoke while she still turned her back at Rucas and everyone else.
"What are you talking about?! The Fallen are the heartless and soulless monster! They won't care who you are and will kill you if given a chance!" Rucas spoke up.
"…The Fallen won't hurt its master…" This time, Baromyteus spoke.
"W…What?" Rucas spoke in a confusing voice.
Anastasia and Baromyteus slowly turned back to face Rucas and everyone else. However, Anastasia and Baromyteus are not the same as before… Because their eyes are as red as blood, and their bodies radiated the evil aura out!
"As the master of the Fallen and the loyal servant of the Fallen Dragon, the Fallen would do as we said..." Anastasia and Baromyteus spoke up in unison. However, their words made everyone shocked, as its meaning is something very unexpected!
"W…What did you just say?!" Magnus spoke out.
"T…This is not the time for a joke!" Joshua said.
Anastasia shook her head no. "This is neither the joke, nor the illusion. This is the reality… The cruel truth, we lived in…"
"… We have waited this moment for so long…" Baromyteus spoke up. "The very moment of the demise of the Hero/ine of Legend in the hand of us, the faithful servants of the Fallen Dragon Lord."
"Long times ago… I was born with the bad omen… That omen… It told that I would be the chaos bringer of the world, so I was exiled from my own kingdom by my own parents… A few years later, my younger sister was born… She didn't have the bad omen with her, but soon… My kingdom fell into the chaos state after my sister's birth. That's my sister's bad omen. Our father was killed during the escape. Luckily, he lived long enough to entrust my younger sister to me. I didn't know this at first, so I try to keep her away from me in order not to let her getting involved with me… At the end, she couldn't escape from her destiny, the destiny of being the chaos bringer…"
"B…But… You two are the Hero of Legend who served the good side!" Rucas said.
Anastasia and Baromyteus raised their paw and showed it to everyone. There was the Mark of Legend there, but now, there is nothing there!
"We didn't have the Mark of Legend from the start. We aren't the Hero of Legend from the day we were born. The Mark of Legend we had had was the illusion our Fallen Dragon Lord gave to us in order to gain your trust…" Anastasia said.
"We didn't inherited the Blood of Legend from our parents, instead, we inherited the Blood of Chaos from the Fallen Dragon Lord's curse he placed upon the realm. " Baromyteus said.
Things became much more complicated. The friends they believed in turn out to be their enemies?"
"…Then, all you did was your plan along?" Hawkins crossed his wings.
"Of course. Our job is to gain the trust of the Hero/ine of Legend and then stabbed them back at the final moment of their journey, and now, that moment has arrived…"
Anastasia equipped her Wyvern Sword and Wyvern Shield, and Baromyteus pulled his Dragon Fang Sword and Dragon Claw Sword from their scabbard. "This place would be your graveyard. We will kill all of you here and turned you into the Fallen, and then you could join us…"
"Never!" Iris picked her Opal Pendulum. "Although you were my comrades, we will not allow someone on the evil side of the legend to get the victory!"
Other Hero/ine of Legend did the same thing as Iris did. (Preparing their weapon.) except Rucas and Fenrir who are still hesitating to fight Anastasia and Baromyteus.
"Anastasia… I… I don't want to fight you… You were… my first comrade…" Rucas spoke up.
"Baromyteus… I… I have known you since the long time ago… Why thing had to be like this?…" Fenrir said.
"…Don't let your guard down." Baromyteus spoke and pointed his sword forward. "If you don't kill us, we will kill you. This battle will never end until one side of the legend perished!"
Servants of the Fallen Dragon
Anastasia the Goodra and Baromyteus the Shiny Haxorus
Anastasia and Baromyteus are in the defend stance. They are well-prepared for the upcoming attack from the Hero/ine of Legend.
"…Anastasia is a Goodra with high special defend, so Nyxier's Ice Beam or Zira's Moonblast won't work well…" Iris analyzed.
"And Baromyteus has a pretty nasty high attack. If we came closer, it would be easy for Baromyteus to wipe all of us out, but if we attack from afar, Anastasia could block our attack easily…" Kamui analyzed.
"Then, what should we do?" Zira asked.
"…We must use the attack from far range. Hawkins and I will attack Baromyteus with our magic. Kamui, Tyrus and Garland, attack Anastasia with your weapon. Zira, Sharon and Nyxier, healed us if we got hurted. Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus and Leonel, try to attack both of them with your move. And Rucas and Fenrir… Wait…"
Iris turned back and saw that Rucas and Fenrir still stood at the corner of the room. It seemed like they have no will to fight.
"Rucas! Fenrir, what's wrong with both of you?! Get ahold to yourself!" Leonel shouted at the Hero of Justice and the Master of Mercy.
"…I…I couldn't do it… I couldn't fight them…" Rucas spoke.
"…Both Anastasia and Baromyteus are my good friends. I still couldn't accept that they had turned their sword to us…" Fenrir said.
"Hey!" Garland roared out, but Hawkins shook his head no. "Well, if those idiots didn't want to fight, let's end the battle by ourselves."
"RRRRRR!"
Hawkins turned back and found that Baromyteus is rushing up to him, held his swords at him! Hawkins quickly flew into the sky and dodged Baromyteus, only to get hit by Anastasia's Dragon Pulse!
"Damn it!" Hawkins cursed as he tried to keep his balance. "I let my guard down and trusted my instinct too much. They would have guessed that I will fly if Baromyteus launched a surprised attack, making me vulnerable to Anastasia's long range attack."
Hawkins looked at the others. After Baromyteus failed to attack him, he is surrounded by Kamui, Tyrus and Magnus.
"We will not let you inflict any more pain to everyone!" Magnus roared.
Baromyteus ignored Magnus word. He then turned his attention to Tyrus and attacked him with his swords! Luckily, Tyrus was fast enough to block his attack by grabbing Baromyteus's wrists with his paw!
"!"
"Nyxier! Now!" Tyrus roared as he must keep Baromyteus from breaking free.
"Right!" Nyxier shot the Ice Beam from her mouth at Baromyteus, however, Baromyteus flipped his body just a bit before the Ice Beam hit him, making the Ice Beam hit Tyrus instead!
"ARR!" Tyrus roared as the cold beam pierced his flesh. Baromyteus took this chance to break free from Tyrus's grasp.
"Tyrus!" Nyxier ran up to Tyrus to heal his wound. While this happened, Baromyteus then focused his attack on Kamui instead!
As Baromyteus tried to attack Kamui, Kamui shot a blast from his bazooka to attack Baromyteus! Although Kamui was too slow to hit Baromyteus, a blast from his bazooka is enough to make Baromyteus dropped his swords!
"RRRR!" Baromyteus roared even more fiercely. He then drew his sharp claw and prepared to use the Dragon Claw on Kamui!
"Kamui! Watch out!"
Zira jumped in front of Kamui and took the damage from Baromyteus's Dragon Claw instead! However, Baromyteus's Dragon Claw couldn't hurt Zira as she is in her Sylveon form!
"Thank you, Zira!" Kamui thanked.
"Heehee!" Zira smiled and turned her attention to Baromyteus. Now Baromyteus turned his target from Kamui to Garland, who is shooting several bullets to Anastasia!
"ARRRRR!" It seemed like seeing his sister getting hurt turned Baromyteus into a real savage beast. (Much like Rucas's feral form.) All of Baromyteus's stats are doubled, but he lost his self-control!
While Baromyteus suddenly got berserked, Anastasia is dealing with Joshua, Ellisk, Sharon and Iris. Joshua and Ellisk used their high speed to attack Anastasia, but Anastasia then used her goo to slow them down!
"ARR!" Joshua and Ellisk struggled to break free from the goo that Anastasia threw at them. Meanwhile, Iris attacked Anastasia with Psystrike since it would ignore her high special attack and attack her low defend instead!
Anastasia countered Iris by punching her at her face, and then she attacked Sharon with her punch too!
Meanwhile, on the sky, Leonel and Sharon attacked both Anastasia and Baromyteus with their move. (Leonel's Flamethrower and Hawkins's Aeroblast.)
However, no matter how much they fought, this battle seemed to end in vain…
Rucas and Fenrir observed the battle silently. No matter how hard their friends fought, Anastasia and Baromyteus didn't seem to suffer from their attack. It must be the evil aura of the Fallen Dragon that protected them.
'…In order to beat them… We needed to break that evil aura…' Rucas thought. 'But…How?'
'And…Why?' Fenrir thought. 'Despite their attack didn't hurt Anastasia and Baromyteus, why did our friends continued to fight? I don't understand…'
And suddenly…
'Both of you…'
A voice echoed through Rucas and Fenrir's head. It was a calm,feminine voice. For Rucas, he seemed to recall that he had heard this voice before!
'Why don't you fight?' The voice asked.
"I…I couldn't fight them. I couldn't fight my comrades…" Rucas answered.
"…The story of living creature's existence is not fathomable, but this is too much for me…" Fenrir answered.
'Do you still have a faith in them?' The voice asked again.
"…Yes." Rucas and Fenrir both answered.
"If you still have a faith in them, both of you must fight"
"W…What?! We couldn't!" Rucas and Fenrir immediately answered.
"…As the Hero/ine of Legend, both of you must fight. Not only that, all of your friends, include those dragons, wanted you to fight and end this madness…You must…"
The voice spoke to them for the last time and disappeared.
"We…must fight?" Rucas spoke and looked at Baromyteus. For some reason, Anastasia and Baromyteus seemed a bit strange from their usual battle.
"! They didn't use their full power in the battle! They are holding back!" Fenrir grasped.
Now Rucas and Fenrir understood the answer of this secret. The secret had been hiding within their heart for the longest time… But they didn't realize this…
"…Come, Fenrir." Rucas said.
"Right behind you." Fenrir spoke.
To Be Continued…
Dragon of Vale: At last, Rucas, Zira, Joshua, Ellisk, Magnus, Leonel, Fenrir, Nyxier, Kamui, Tyrus, Sharon, Garland, Iris, Hawkins, Anastasia and Baromyteus went down into the valley for the final mission of this story, to defeat the Fallen Dragon.
And… Welcome to the 12th dungeon of this story, the Graveyard of the Fallen Dragon…
Well… Things became unexpected, right?