Chapter 11: Knighted
Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. Now this one came to me from my friend masters123lfm who wanted me to bring in one of my favorite Monster High characters who never made it to the reboot. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy.
In a large castle the Forever Knights gathered in front King Patrick, leader of the Forever Knights.
"For years the Forever Knights have been the protectors of this world and today our life's purpose will finally be fulfilled." Patrick said as all the knights cheered. "Today we slay the dragon!"
Walking up a man in armor with black hair grabbed one of the Laser Lances they took from Kevin. This man was Connor.
"Connor, the honor of slaying the beast falls to you." Patrick said.
"I will not fail." Connor said grabbing the lance and making his way to the dungeons.
Suddenly Connor heard a loud scream echoing from the dungeons, readying the lance Connor makes his way in and aims it at where the scream was coming from, but before he could fire a blast of green flames shoot out melting a big hole in the laser lance.
Growling Conner throws it to the ground as the screaming gets louder. "I will destroy you, there's a weapon out there that can destroy you and when I find it you will be no more." Connor vows.
Meanwhile at Monster High, Drake was looking at the Omnitrix and tinkering with it while his parents were giving their Humanology lecture.
"Now humans have many ways of representing monsters in ways of social media or books." Drake's father said.
"For instance most humans think of monsters as nothing more than myths or stories to scare their children into behaving." Drake's mom said.
"Uh Prof. Rogers? I don't mean to sound rude, but what could humans find possibly scary about us?" Raythe asks.
"Yeah I mean look at Gob, the worst thing he can do is eat someone's lunch." Deuce said as the class laughed.
"Yes, yes I know it sounds ridiculous, but sometimes people don't understand things and will make things up." Drake's mom said as the bell rang. "Alright class, be sure to read the pages we assigned and see you all tomorrow."
As Drake walks out he was about to meet up with the ghouls when he accidentally stepped on something. Looking down he saw the girl Twyla was sitting by the lockers.
"Oh I'm sorry. I didn't see you." Drake apologizes.
"It's okay. I get that a lot." Twyla smirks.
"You're Twyla right…we met awhile ago." Drake said.
"Yeah, you're the normie with the funny watch that turns you into monsters." Twyla said.
"Drake." He introduces offering her a hand.
Smiling Twyla takes it. "So you're parents are pretty interesting. I mean teaching a school of monsters about how to handle humans."
"Yeah they're pretty awesome, but this school is awesome that's why me, Frankie and Draculaura wanted to build this place." Drake said.
"Well I'll admit as much as I prefer the shadows I do like being around other monsters." Twyla said.
"Hey Drake!" Looking down the hall Drake and Twyla saw Kevin calling for him.
"Uh I'll see you later Twyla. Nice seeing you again." Drake said walking away.
"Hey Drake good to see ya." Kevin said wrapping his arm around him.
"I'm not doing your Art Homework again Kevin." Drake said with a deadpan expression.
"That's not what I was going to ask...well not today." Kevin admits.
"What is it?" Drake asks.
"I got a deal with a client who's interested in alien tech, and when I mentioned your little predicament, he said he might have a way to get that watch off you." Kevin said getting his attention.
"Really?" Drake asks interested.
"Yep he wants to meet me at sunset, want to come?" Kevin asks.
"Sure." Drake said walking away with Kevin, but little did they know Twyla was nearby and heard the whole thing glaring at Kevin suspiciously she follows them.
In the mountains on the outskirts of Monster High, Kevin and Drake were waiting in a clearing.
"Alright when these people show up let me do all the talking." Kevin said as Drake nods.
Behind them Twyla was hiding behind some trees watching them when a van pulls up in front of them.
Stepping out was a teenage boy with blonde hair, this was Squire. Behind him were two Forever Knights.
"Forever Knights?" Drake said confused as they stopped in front of them.
"We were told you had something that could help us with our situation?" Squire asks.
"First things first, where's my money?" Kevin asks as they handed him a briefcase. Opening it a smile formed on Kevin's face. "His name…is Drake." Kevin said pushing him forward causing Drake's eyes to widen and Twyla to gasp.
"Take him." Squire said as the two knights grabbed him.
"Hey let me go! Kevin what the hell?!" Drake yells as he struggled to break out of their grip.
"Sorry Rogers, business is business." Kevin said as they threw Drake into the van and drove off.
As Kevin walked back to the school with the briefcase in hand Twyla disappeared into the shadows.
Thrown into the back of the van Drake looks up to see one of the knights deliver a punch to the face where everything went black.
When he regained consciousness, Drake opens his eyes and holds his head in pain.
"Ugh my head." Drake groans when he noticed his leg was chained to something. "What the?" Looking towards the other side of the room he heard a noise.
Following the chain, he saw that it was attached to a…a girl. She had golden scales, long green hair, a long tail and a ragged purple Chinese qipao dress, this was Jinafire Long.
"Uh hey there." Drake said making his way towards her when Jinafire opens her eyes and sees the human making his way towards her.
"Get away from me you knight!" Jinafire yells breathing a green fireball at him.
"Whoa!" Drake said getting out of the way. "I'm not a Forever Knight! I was trapped here too by them!"
As she stopped breathing fire at him Jinafire looked to see he wasn't wearing any armor.
"Wait are you a monster?" Drake asks curious.
"It's the knights who are the monsters. I had a good life before they showed up, they ripped me from my family and threw me into this dungeon where they have been trying to slay me." Jinafire said.
"That's horrible." Drake said.
"I've only survived because I am strong, but now that I have you chained to me I don't know how much longer I'll last." Jinafire said.
"Then let me help you." Drake suggests.
"No! I refuse to trust anything you humans can do. How do I know you won't kill me like the knights?" Jinafire snaps.
"Because if we don't work together to get outta here, we're both goners." Drake said.
Jinafire pauses to look at him and deep down she knew he was right. "I still don't trust you."
Back at Monster High, Draculaura was walking around the school looking for Drake. Walking around the school she saw Frankie tutoring Ben in Science Homework, Clawdeen drawing fashion designs, Lagoona doing some tricks on her skateboard and Cleo doing her nails.
"Uh hey ghouls have any of you seen Drake anywhere?" Draculaura asks.
"Not since classes." Lagoona said shaking her head.
"Did he go into town? He does that sometimes." Cleo said.
"Nah if he did he would have asked if I wanted to come to Mr. Smoothie." Ben said.
"Then where did he go? Frankie asks.
"I might have an idea." Looking towards the front door they saw Twyla pulling Kevin by his ear.
"Ow ow ow hey! Knock it off!" Kevin said as Twyla let go. "It wasn't that big of a deal."
"Kevin, what did you do?" Clawdeen glares.
"Nothing I just sent Drake to a meeting." Kevin said.
"With who?" Dracularua asks suspicious.
"Tell them." Twyla glares.
"With…Forever Knights." Kevin said.
There was a brief silence in the room, so quiet you could hear the crickets chirping before the 5 ghouls erupted in anger.
"GET HIM!"
"Uh oh." Twyla steps out of the way as the five ghouls tackle Kevin to the ground.
"Ow! Ow! Hey! Knock it off." Kevin suddenly howls in pain as Clawdeen bit his leg and Frankie zapped him.
Reaching towards the wooden floor Kevin absorbs it hoping to lessen the pain from the blows, but Lagoona's fast punches.
"Please let me explain!" Kevin said when Cleo tied him up with bandages.
"Explain what? How you sold Drake to make a quick buck." Cleo said.
"Okay you pretty much nailed it." Kevin said as Draculaura tackles him and pins him to the ground.
"Well you are gonna help us save him." Draculaura said.
"Yeah sorry, if I do, they might take their money back again." Kevin said as the 5 ghouls made the scariest faces, they could scaring the living daylights out of Kevin. "Although maybe that won't be the worst thing." Kevin sweatdrops.
"Let's go." Lagoona said dragging Kevin off with the other ghouls right behind her.
"Boy those ghouls are really scary when they're angry." Ben said.
"No kidding." Twyla nods in agreement.
Back at the Forever Knight's castle, Connor was talking to Squire.
"You actually believed Kevin when he said this boy would help us slay the dragon? I fail to see how he'll do anything other than become food for the beast." Connor said.
"Connor it was the only way, we needed help." Squire said.
"I don't need help. I can slay that beast myself." Connor said looking to the dungeon.
Inside, Drake was trying to get Jinafire's arms free from the chains so they could escape.
"Almost got it." Drake said trying to pick the lock.
"Hurry up human." Jinafire said.
"I have a name you know it's Drake."
"Well either way after this I never want to see another human ever again." Jinafire said as Drake opens one of the locks and moves onto the next one.
"You know not all humans are bad, I'll have you know I'm friends with a good handful of monsters." Drake said.
"What do you do? Throw them in your basement?" Jinafire rolls her eyes.
"No, we go to school together. It's called Monster High." Drake said.
"Monster High?" Jinafire said looking at him curiously.
"Yeah we help the monsters there learn to be able to live alongside humans so monsters wouldn't need to hide anymore." Drake said picking the second lock allowing Jinafire to rub her hands.
"Noble, but it's impossible." Jinafire said.
"Why do you say that? Just because you met a few bad humans doesn't mean you can't have a chance at making some friends." Drake said when they heard the door open.
"The Knights." Jinafire gasps as they tried to run but fell when they realized their legs were still chained together.
When the door opens two knights saw Drake and Jinafire on the ground.
"The beast is free!" One said as they grabbed their laser lances. Reacting quickly Jinafire breathes a fireball at them making the knights roll out of the way.
Drake activates the watch and was about to slam down on Four Arms when Jinafire yanks the chain pulling him out of the way causing him to slide the watch and activate it, turning into Water Hazard.
"Whoa." Jinafire and the Knights said in awe.
"Ugh I feel like this watch hates me sometimes." Water Hazard said before blasting the two knights with streams of water making them crash into the wall.
Running over he grabs the key from their belts. "Come on, let's go before more show up."
Jinafire looks at him still in shock when Water Hazard grabbed her hand and they ran out of the dungeons.
"Y-You transformed. How?" Jinafire asks.
"Long story, we make it out alive I'll tell you." Water Hazard said when they turned to see multiple knights at the end of the hallway. "Uh oh."
As the knights charged Water Hazard aimed his hands at the ground and flooded the floors causing all the knights to trip and fall.
"Oh yeah! In your faces you walking tin cans!" Water Hazard said when the Omnitrix timed out turning him back into Drake. "Oh come on! Why now?"
"Where's your monster form?" Jinafire asks.
"I don't have it anymore. This thing works on a clock and I guess I need more time." Drake said.
Jinafire looks to see a Forever Knight try to grab his laser lance but she yanks it out his hand and stomps on his helmet knocking him out causing Drake to cringe.
"Here use this." Jinafire said handing him the lance before slamming the knight into the wall.
"Stop! Killing them isn't necessary." Drake said.
"I've been trapped in that dungeon for a long time, they have to pay. You would do the same thing too if you were me." Jinafire glares about to burn him to bits.
"You don't have to be the monster they think you are, you can be better." Drake said grabbing her shoulder.
Jinafire looks into the knight's eyes she saw they were in complete fear. Growling she drops him.
"Let's just leave." Jinafire said as they made their way down the hall.
Driving through Kevin's car the ghouls were looking around frantically.
"Can't this thing go any faster?" Cleo asks.
"Maybe I can jump start the engine." Frankie said.
"No one touches my car but me." Kevin said in a serious tone.
"Shut up you, just focus on getting us to where those knights took Drake." Clawdeen said.
"Alright, alright jeez you ghouls are pushy." Kevin said looking back to the road.
"I can't believe you sold Drake for money, that's slavery." Frankie said.
"What you really thought me going to your stupid school would change me in some way?" Kevin asks.
"Now but how about making you into me and my brother's next chew toy?" Clawdeen growls.
"Uh…hey look there's the castle." Kevin said pointing across the hill to where castle was.
"Drake please be okay." Draculaura said.
In the castle, Connor and King Patrick were discussing plans when a knight ran in.
"Your Majesty, Sir Connor! The Dragon has escaped!" He said alerting them.
"It won't get far. I'll finish it myself." Connor said grabbing laser lance before walking out the door.
Drake and Jinafire were running down a hallway when they saw a fork in the fall.
"This way!" They said trying to go down a separate one, but their chain gets trapped in the middle making them both fall down.
"This way!" Jinafire said grabbing the chain and yanking Drake back onto his feet as they ran down the stairs only to find themselves in the weapon storage room.
"Uh oh." They both said.
"Quick look for another door." Drake said as they scanned the room only to find there was no other exit.
"We're trapped." Jinafire said looking around frantically.
"Come on you stupid watch, give me anything." Drake said fidgeting with it when suddenly the watch activates again. "Yes." Drake grins.
Activating it he slams down on the watch turning into Jury Rigg.
"What is this? Where is the monster that shoots water?" Jinafire asks confused.
"That's only one of the forms I can turn into." Jury Rigg said looking around at the weapons.
"What kind of human are you?" Jinafire asks as Jury Rigg moved a tarp to reveal a medieval catapult.
"Oh yes." Jury Rigg grins.
"Do you honestly expect me to get in that?" Jinafire asks.
"When I'm done it will be." Jury Rigg said gathering a bunch of weapons and getting to work. "Fix, fix, fix, fix, fix, fix, fix."
Jinafire's eyes widen as she turned the catapult into a high tech looking battering ram.
"Oh and one more thing." Jury Rigg clicks a button and a guillotine drops slicing their chain. "We'll pick the lock when I get you to Monster High."
"Wait a minute, I never agreed to go back with you." Jinafire said when they heard a banging on the door.
"Look Jinafire, I know you haven't exactly had a good life." Jury Rigg said as Jinafire rolls her eyes at him as if to say no duh. "But I'm telling you, at Monster High it's a special place where you can be yourself and can make friends."
Suddenly blaster fire shot through the door startling them.
"Please, I know you don't like humans but if you don't want to keep running from them then you have to trust me." Jury Rigg said offering a hand as he climbed onto his battering ram machine.
Jinafire looks to see the knights break through the door and then to Jury Rigg. Thinking quickly she reaches out and grabs his hand as he pulls her up.
"On!" Jury Rigg said as machine fired multiple maces and swords making a dent before it charged towards the wall.
Outside Kevin pulls up in front of the castle, across the moat and the ghouls run out to hear loud clanking and explosions coming from inside.
"Maybe it's someone else they're trying to kill." Kevin said trying to calm them down when suddenly something burst through the walls and a flash of red came from it.
Looking up they saw Drake and Jinafire racing down the castle on his machine screaming in fear.
"Or not." Lagoona cringes.
"They're not gonna make it!" Frankie panics.
As they approached the moat Drake hit the big red button activating the catapult flinging the two of them over the wall and near Kevin and the ghouls.
"I can't believe it." Jinafire said holding her head.
"Me neither…uh you can get off me? Drake asks.
Looking down Jinafire saw she had landed on top of Drake and quickly got off him.
"I am so sorry." Jinafire said as the ghouls ran over to him.
"Drake you're alive!" Draculaura smiles.
"Yeah of course I'm al—" Before Drake could finish Draculaura pulls him into a hug.
"We were so worried about you." Frankie said as the ghouls joined in making it a group hug.
Pausing Drake smiles and enjoys the warm feeling from the hug. "Oh right. Everyone meet Jinafire, she wants to join Monster High."
"Greetings." Jinafire bows. "It has been a long time since I have seen other monsters."
"Hi there, we're the Monster High Welcoming Committee." Frankie waves.
"This is Frankie, Draculaura, Cleo, Lagoona, Clawdeen and Cleo. My friends." Drake said.
"Wow, you weren't kidding." Jinafire said.
"Hey Drake, good to see ya." Kevin said walking over.
"Kevin you son of a bitch! I can't believe you sold me to the Forever Knights!" Drake snaps.
"Save your lectures for later, we gotta get outta here before the knights come chasing after us." Kevin said.
"Well maybe you can apologize when you help get these off us." Drake said gesturing to the shackles still on his and Jinafire's legs.
"Come on, let's get going." Draculaura said when suddenly a blast is shot hitting Jinafire in the leg making her scream in pain and drop to the ground.
"Jinafire!" Drake gasps before looking to the gate to see Sir Connor wielding a laser lance.
"I took an oath that, that dragon would be slayed, and I have no intention of breaking that oath." Connor said aiming it at her.
"Wait they're trying to kill her?!" Cleo gasps.
"You can't do this! It's wrong!" Lagoona said.
"Says you." Connor said firing a blast at Jinafire ready to end her life.
"Jinafire!" Drake yells.
Time slowed down as Jinafire closed her eyes waiting for the end to come but instead a shadow loomed over her. Opening her eyes she saw Drake standing in front of her as he held his shoulder in pain from taking the blast for her.
"Y-You saved me?" Jinafire said surprised.
"I told you…I look out for my friends." Drake said weakly before dropping to his knees in pain.
"Drake!" The ghouls said running to him while Jinafire was speechless.
'I don't believe it…I was saved by a human.' Jinafire thought.
"Forever Knights attack!" Connor orders as the bridge lowers to reveal an army of Knights.
"Quick get him in the car!" Cleo said as they all ran to Kevin's ride.
"What's the point? We'll never outrun them." Kevin said.
"Oh yes we will." Draculaura said taking out the Mapalogue. "Monster High Exto Monstrum!" Draculaura said as the car transported away leaving the knights speechless.
"Where did they go?"
"They just disappeared."
Connor looks out to them and turns around walking back into the castle.
Back at Monster High everyone was in the Plumber Base as they were waiting to see how Drake was doing.
As Kevin sat down Drake's parents walk up to him and his mom slaps Kevin in the face.
"Ow! What's your deal lady?!" Kevin said.
"That was for selling my son to those monsters…uh no offense girls." She said.
"None taken." They all nodded.
"Never pull that stunt again." Rook glares when Gwen walks out.
"How is he?" Frankie asks concerned.
"He's going to be fine, luckily you got him back when you did." Gwen said causing them all to breathe in relief.
"Why don't you ghouls go to your room and get some rest, we'll keep watch over him." Seth said.
"Okay. Let us know if anything happens." Clawdeen said as all except Jinafire walked out.
Sneaking into the room she saw Drake laying on a bed with bandages over his shoulder.
"Are you alright?" Jinafire asks.
"Yeah, they said by tomorrow I won't even have a bruise." Drake said.
"Why did you save me back there? Even after how I treated you?" Jinafire asks.
"I don't need a reason to help someone." Drake smiles causing Jinafire to blush slightly.
"Th-Thank you." Jinafire stutters. "G-Get better soon." Jinafire said giving Drake a hug before leaving.
As she walked out of the room, Jinafire felt her heart racing. 'What is? What is happening to me?"
Meanwhile back at the Forever Knight castle, Connor and the knights were gathered in front of Patrick.
"And then the beast disappeared into thin air." Connor said throwing a file with Drake, Kevin and Jinafire's pictures on it. "I have failed."
"You think this is over?" Patrick asks.
"The dragon is gone Patrick, we failed. It's pointless for us to even stay around." Connor said.
"Pointless? Hardly. Now we know that there are more monsters than just dragons out there and they could be planning their revenge. We must stand ready to fight the monsters." Patrick said picking up a picture of Drake. "And punish the people responsible for its escape."
All the Forever Knights cheered at this announcement, but Squire did not like the sound of this at all. It was as if he knew that something bad was about to come.