Chapter 2
Liberation Begins
In all his years as a Tenno Draco has been shown different kinds of graduate, sometimes it was credits, supplies and sometimes blueprints for weapons and Warframes…but never in his life has ever had a whole feast made for him. Sure enough the people of the village had thrown a whole celebration for him to say thanks for saving them and while strange it was nice. So here he was sitting at some very large tables with a huge array of food and drinks before him and not mention outside of his Warframe. Another thing was that when the people saw his true form everyone was shocked to see a "child" save them all, still hate being called that, but they were quite accepting of that thankfully enough…but they had to swap out all there alcoholic drinks for juices and such.
"Are you enjoying the festivities young Draco?" the elder asked, who he learned was named Geb
"Yes, thank you again for all of this" Draco replied, taking swig of his drink, "But if you don't mind me asking, what happened to this place?" he asked
Geb then went into details about what had happened to the land of Eostia. Turns out the land have been in pervious war between them and the dark elves, fighting for supremacy over the land. The battle got so bad that the queen of Eostia decided to hire mercenaries to fight their battles. Sometime later the same mercenaries named the Black Dogs declared war on Eostia and in a week they over took the land and turned the Seven Shield Alliance into sex slaves for their usage.
"…So, this Vult decided to make his little Empire because he got too big for his own ego huh?" Draco said to himself
Honestly the whole thing sounded ridicules to him, I mean taking over a whole country for something as simply as sex sounded very farfetched. Also hiring mercenaries for battle was a huge mistake, there nothing but back stabbing fools that care for no one but there selves so of course they betrayed the Alliance. Even so Draco could not let this injustice continue for the people of Eostia, they did not deserve this treatment much like others back home.
"I hope Vult is enjoying his little empire because I'm about to bring it all down on top of him" Draco said standing up from his seat
The villagers then saw this and had all eyes on him, wondering what there savior was doing. Draco then used his Transference to return to his Warframe and started to walk to front gates, now fully repaired thanks to Draco and the people couldn't help but be curious.
"What do you plan to do young warrior?" Geb asked
Draco then stopped in his tracks and looked behind him.
"I'm going to crush an empire" Draco replied and continued walking
Hearing this, everyone started to cheer with glee, happy to hear that there suffering will be over and peace may be restored at last. Draco was now in front of the gates and ready to exit but before he did, a small child ran up to him, holding a small rolled up piece of paper.
"Here sir, a map so you can get around the land better" the small girl said
Smiling behind his Warframe, Draco then crouched down and took the map from the little girl, ruffling her hair which made the girl giggle.
"Thank you young one, this will certainly help" Draco said
Draco then opened the gates and on the other side of the gates was Draco's ship, hovering off the ground and its hatch open for the Tenno. Everyone was shocked by the flying vessel, some thinking it was a creature of some kind but they pushed those thoughts aside so they can say goodbye to their savior.
"Good luck, Tenno, bring peace at last to this land!" Geb shouted as Draco entered his ship and flew off into the sky.
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Once Draco was on his ship he then Transferred out of his Warframe and scanned the map of Eostia into his ships system so he can get a lay of land.
"Welcome back Operator, how was your trip to surface?" Ordis replied
"Quite informative by the way implement this map into the Navigation Console, were going to need it" Draco said
"Reason being Operator?" Ordis asked
"This land is under the rule of an oppressive Empire and were going to crush it" Draco replied
"Oh I see, I'll integrate the map now" Ordis said
In no time at all Ordis scanned the map into the navigation systems and looking at it he saw the land of Eostia and its many cities, including the Dark Fortress of the Dark Elf queen.
"So Operator where shall you go first?" Ordis asked
Looking over at the map Draco had many options to choice from but he knew he needed to tactical with this. Back during the days of the Old War, the Tenno were able to over throw the Orikin Empire with ease but they had an army of Tenno at the time and this time it was just him here so he needs to be smart. He's first order was take out there military HQ or whatever counts as one on this planet, so looking over the map he then set his eyes on the Dark Fortress. It made sense since it was their first conquest before the main Capital of the land became the center of the Empire, so it makes sense to turn it into a military outpost to send out attack units.
"Ordis head to the Dark Fortress" Draco ordered
"Right away Operator" Ordis said
And as soon as he said that, the Orbiter then flew off into the sky heading to our next destination.
(*)
In no time at all we had arrived at our destination, hovering above castle fortress and out of eyesight of any guards.
"Ordis scan the fortress; I want to know what we're getting into" Draco said
"Already done Operator" Ordis replied, "Scans show several enemies in fortress…and two female life signs as well" Ordis added
Okay that was a problem, now that civilians were involved it made things harder. His first order of business was get there prisoners out first to avoid any hostage situations but do that he need to go the stealth option, not hard for Draco but it does limit his Warframe usage. Sure there were some Warframes that can do stealth and dealing with enemies but there weapons were meant for silent takedowns not large groups.
"To bad I can't switch Warframes in the middle of a battle" Draco said, frustrated about this
"That reminds me the Lotus sent you something before we…got trapped… sent into this world" Ordis said
Surprised I then opened my inbox and true to Ordis' words, there was a message from the Lotus. In it she sent an experimental Warframe gear to help in the heat of battle and he was first one to test it. Attached to the message was a blueprint for said gear and looking at the recipe he saw he had all the pieces he needed to make it. So quickly Draco then crafted the gear and luckily for him the build process took no more than ten seconds to make, once it was done Draco was gifted with a silver bracelet with the Sigil of the Tenno on it.
"What is this anyway?" Draco asked inspecting the bracelet
"According to the blueprint, this bracelet will allow a Tenno to instantly swap out Warframes on the fly in battle, a way to counteract any tactic the enemy throws at us or to swap out for support Warframes to assist teammates" Ordis read
Draco was quite surprised by this with this ability he could swap any loadout he had currently on for a different one to handle any quick changes in missions in the blink of an eye.
"How does it work?" Draco asked
"It simple actually, all you have to do his Transfer out our current Warframe, call out the loadout you want and it will transport that loadout to you." Ordis explained
Staring at the new bracelet on his wrist he couldn't help but be amazed, this was revolutionary for Tenno across the system and now that he had it, getting those prisoners out that castle was going to be a lot easier.
"Alright Ordis take us down and prepare my Loki loadout, time to get to work" Draco said as the ship descended downward
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Within the Dark Fortress, two Orc guards were walking down a long hallway, large clubs slung over there shoulders and looking quite bored.
"Ugh, I hate guard duty" one Orc said, groaning
"Yeah me too, here we are walking through some empty corridors looking for any supposed "intruders"" the second Orc replied
Suddenly the first Orc then gained a mischievous smile and turned to his partner and when he did, it was obvious what he was thinking.
"I'm pretty sure they won't mind if we help ourselves to our prized whore" the first Orc said
Then with a chuckle the two Orcs then made their way to the dungeons where they held one of their most precious prisoners of their conquest, but then the second Orc caught something in the corner of his eye causing him turn around. To his confusion he saw nothing but just an empty hallway, filled with nothing but flickering lights of torches and creeping shadows.
"Weird, I thought I saw something" the Orc said scratching his head
But seeing as he was too focused on his need to use what's between his legs he then follows after he's comrade to the dungeons. Unknown to them however, stepping out from shadows, was Draco and equipped with his Loki Warframe. A sleek grey body with two curved horns curving behind him, for the Warframes weapons he was equipped with the Dread bow, Spira throwing knifes and Fang twin daggers for his melee of chose.
"That's right boys keep leading me to where I want to go" Draco said quietly
Draco then activated Loki's second ability, Invisibility, to make himself unseen and quickly followed the two guards from behind. Not long after they arrived at the dungeons and like most prisons cells Draco has seen it was dark and dreary with no life to speak off. In some cells there chained up skeletons of past prisoners, old cobwebs that stuck to corners and of course, to his disgust, there were white stains on the walls and floor of random cells.
"Disgusting" Draco mumbled
The Orcs then stopped at one of the cells, drooling quite a lot as well, so curious Draco looked into the cell. Inside he saw one prisoner being held up by their arms by chains and looked very exhausted. She was female obviously but she was not human, evident by the long ears she had, along with her chocolate colored skin and long blond hair. As for her outfit…well it was quite unorthodox, she had a very reveling uniform that revealed her front side for all the world to see and only seemed to cover her shoulder, arms and her breasts, blue leggings, brown boots and brown gloves. Just looking at her Draco could see that this woman was meant for quick combat and agility, even with her odd choice of clothing, but those thoughts had to be pushed to the side for now because those Orcs were getting ready to open the cell door and he could guess what they were going to do to her.
"Alright Chloe, hope you're ready for another round" the Orc said, licking his lips
"Yeah we'll be sure to fill you up nice and good" the second Orc added
But just as the Orcs were about to open the door they then stopped when they heard someone scoff behind them.
"Wow…you guys make ghouls look smart and that's not a complement."
The two Orc then looked behind them and found Draco leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. Of course seeing the Tenno the two Orcs then quickly grabbed their clubs and ran at Draco to crush him. One Orc swung down at Draco, expecting the small creature to splatter against the ground like a bug but instead his club went right through the Tenno like he wasn't their which he wasn't.
"You missed"
The Orc then turned around again but once they did they found two Spira darts embedded in their foreheads, easily killing them as they slumped over backwards. Draco couldn't help but smirk at the sight, seeing these two idiots fall for Loki's first power, Decoy, honestly it was really embarrassing.
"Now, let's get our prisoners out of here" Draco said to himself
Draco then snatched the key from Orc's corpse and unlocked the cell, he then walked over to the elf girl and did a quick once over to make sure was okay physically. He saw no injuries on her which was a relief so he took his Fang daggers and easily cut the chains that held her up and easily caught her in his arms.
"Miss Chloe, are you okay?" Draco asked
At first the woman said nothing, just laid in his arms with limp limbs, but then he heard a groan from her causing her slowly open her eyes.
"What…what's going on?" she said in a weak tone
Chloe then laid eyes on Draco and once she did she instantly grew fear in her eyes and started to thrash around in Draco's arms.
"No! No! I will not be defiled by a monster again!" She shouted, trying her best to get away from the Tenno
Honestly this was a first for Draco, he never meet someone who he rescued being scared of him but when he thought about it his Warframes did have an unnatural look to them so she must have mistaken him for a monster.
"Relax Miss, I'm not here to hurt you, I'm here to get you to safety" Draco said to the girl calmly
Hearing this Chloe then stopped thrashing about and looked at Draco, with confusion and surprise. Once she calmed down, Draco then put her back on her feet as Chloe stared at him with caution.
"Who are you?" she asked
Draco then bowed slightly to the woman, showing respect to female before him, "My name is Draco and I'm a Tenno, I've come to save you and the other that resides in this Fortress" Draco said
"Tenno? I've never heard of such a thing" Chloe said, curious
"I would expect so, you see I am not of this world, I come from the stars" Draco replied
Chloe's eyes then widen in shock at hearing this, a warrior from the stars? Impossible! But the proof was standing right in front of her, he's armor was unlike anything she has seen before and his weapons seemed to be crafted in a way no other Halfling could possibly be able to accomplish.
"You truly don't look like you're from these lands" Chloe said
Suddenly the two then heard a bell going off throughout the castle and while Draco was confused, Chloe gained a look of horror.
"Oh no, not again" she said, catching Draco's attention
"What, what's happening?" Draco asked
"There planning to rape my queen again, a show of power and lust for the monsters to enjoy" Chloe replied
Tightening his hands into fists he then he's way out of the cell, Chloe following behind him.
"Make your way outside and wait for me, I'll be back with your queen and get you two out of here" Draco said
Chloe then frowned at this and placed her hands on her waist. She walked in front of the Tenno and gave him a firm scowl.
"She is my queen and I will not leave her safety in the hands of a stranger, even if you did save my life" Chloe said
Draco couldn't help but groan in his head; clearly she was loyal to her queen but is also stubborn which was something he could not deal with right now.
"Not a good idea, we're more likely to get caught with two of us traveling together and besides I work better alone" Draco said, trying to convince the girl
"Doesn't matter I'm going and besides I know this castle like the back of my hand and you do not" Chloe said, gaining a small smirk on her face
Unfortunately she was right, Draco barely knew his way around this place and with someone's life in danger he can't afford to explore and hope to find the second captive. So with a sigh Draco then detached his Spira daggers from his Warframe and handed them to Chloe.
"Alright I'll let you come with me but as soon as we get your queen out of danger, you and her head for safety understood?" Draco said, Chloe nodded in understanding
So with that cleared up the two warriors then made their way out of dungeons and started to traverse the long hallways of the Dark Fortress. According to Chloe, the monster held this little celebration in the throne room, a way of showing their might by defiling a queen in her place of power. So thanks to Chloe's directions the two made their way to the throne room but had to be careful to avoid any monsters walking the halls, they too making their way to the throne room. They then arrived at doors leading to the throne room but Draco then pulled Chloe behind a corner as he spotted two Ogre guards standing in front of the doors.
"Wait here" Draco said to Chloe
Chloe wanted to object but was shut down when Draco used Invisibility, shocking Chloe and stopping her retort in her throat. Draco then made his way into the hallway quietly and aimed his Dread bow at one of the guards, arrow notched and ready. Once had his target in his sights Draco then let the arrow fly but unlike other arrows that pierce through their targets, the Dread's arrows were meant to slice through their targets, evident when the arrow cut the Ogre's head off its shoulders with ease. The other ogre didn't have time to react to his compatriot being killed before he too was decapitated by Draco's arrow. Chloe was very impressed by Draco's skills, having taken down two monsters with such ease, truly a warrior with much battle experience.
"If only I knew what he looked like truly" Chloe said to herself
But she was brought out of her thoughts when she saw Draco heading towards the door to the throne room, so Chloe quickly followed after him. Slowly opening the door, Draco and Chloe snuck into the throne room and quickly hid in the shadows of one of the many support pillars in the room. Draco then surveyed the room and saw multiply monsters in the area, ranging from Imps and goblins, Orc and Ogres and even a cyclops and Minotaur. The monsters all stood in a circle around something or someone, because Draco could see a person on their knees and looking quite sorrowful and scare. She had chocolate colored skin like Chloe and pointed ears but instead of blond she had long black hair that reached her waist. Like Chloe her outfit was quite reveling as well, having a purple corset that barley covered her showing off her breasts for all to see, a black thong that seemed to be made of thin strips and on her head was a crown of thorns.
"Who is that?" Draco asked
"My queen, Olga Discordia" Chloe answered
The monsters then started to move in on the queen and Chloe was about to jump in to save her but Draco held her back.
"What are you doing?! I need to save her?!" Chloe said, struggling against the Tenno
"If you go in there, you'll just get caught too" Draco said
This caused Chloe to stop struggling and calm down but her fear was still present, staring at her queen, feeling helpless to save her.
"What do we do?" she asked
Draco said nothing to her, instead he was surveying the area, counting the amount of enemies he had, the distance between them and what types there were in the area. All of this was needed so he can decide his next move and what Warframe loadout he needed. Then with a nod he then turned to Chloe and looked her dead in the eyes, showing how serious he is in this situation.
"Okay Chloe listen, I'm going to switch places with Olga and once she's safe you get her and yourself out of here got it?" Draco said
"But what about the monsters?" Chloe asked, which caused Draco to scoff
"Leave that to me, just get ready to run" Draco said
So Draco then stepped out from his hiding place slightly so he can get a better view and once he had his sights on Olga he then activated Switch Teleport and true to it's name Draco switched places with Olga and himself. Due to this quick trick some of the monsters were surprised, seeing that there prize just disappeared in front of their eyes.
"What the…? An orc said
But before another word can be uttered Draco unsheathed his Fang daggers and quickly cut down ten monsters in rapid succession. This attacked enraged the monsters and started to swing at the Tenno, thus forcing there attention on him and away from the queen. Said queen was behind the group of monsters, right next to Chloe who looked quite relieved.
"My queen! You are safe!" Chloe exclaimed with joy
"Chloe? What happened, how am I here?" Olga asked confused
"No time to explain, we must leave now!" Chloe shouted, ushering her queen out of the throne room
With Draco he was busy evading the multiply monsters attacks with ease due to Loki's trickster abilities. It wasn't until he landed on the throne that the monsters stopped, breathing heavily and exhausted from trying to hit the Tenno.
"Tell us, where is the dark elf queen?!" a monster shouted at Draco
"Far from your reach" Draco replied, crossing his arms
"Who are you to get in the way of our fun?!" another monster shouted
Draco then stepped off the throne and gave all the monsters a hard glare behind his Warframes visor, a glare that was felt by everyone in the room making them all scared.
"Fun? You call hurting and defiling innocent people fun?!" Draco shouted, fury very evident in his voice, "You all make me disgusted, even more then the Orikin that imprisoned us, you all deserve to scream, to be tormented, and to feel the pain that you inflicted upon the innocents of this world!"
"Who…who are you?" a small Imp whispered
Draco then stood in place and seemed to become a stiff statue, and then a glow then appeared around his Warframe and stepping out it was Draco's true form, surprising all the monsters.
"A…a child!" a monster shouted, causing Draco to growl
"I'm no child, my name Draco, a Tenno warrior, wielder of the Void, peacekeeper of the Origin System and crusher of Emperies but right now…I'm your executioner."
Draco then pressed a button on his bracelet causing it to light up, to which he raised it to his mouth and spoke.
"Nova, deploy"
As soon as he said those words Draco's Loki Warframe and weapons were gone in a spiral of Void energy and in their place was Draco's new Warframe, Nova. Unlike Loki, Nova was female in design, with a sleek, roundish shape to her and being mostly white in color. For its weapons of choice Nova was equipped with the Opticor Vandel, Atomos and her melee being the Broken Specter.
Once he's Warframe was behind him he then used Transference again, thus "entering" his new Warframe and taking control of it. Draco then pulled out his Opticor Vandel flipped off the safety causing it to charge up and activate.
"In the name of Justice, I hereby condemn you all…to the Void."
Then with simply trigger pull, the Opticor let lose a beam of energy so powerful it completely obliterated a large portion of the monsters with ease. Then after that blast the monsters then charged again to take Draco down but said Tenno then jumped over the group with a powerful jump, stowing his Opticor on his back and switched out for his Atomos. Once Draco landed back on his feet he then pointed the beam gun at the group and fired and out of it came a stream of super-heated plasma that easily disintegrated them to nothing.
Draco then noticed some flying monster coming at him, that being gargoyles by the looks of it, so Draco activated Null Star to create several orbiting spheres of Anti-matter around his Warframe's body. The orbs then flew off and attacked the flying monsters, tearing them apart with ease do to the interaction between the opposing matters. Just then several werewolf creatures came at Draco to tear him to shreds but Draco quickly pulled out the Broken Specter and started to swat the monsters away with many bone crushing hits with the staff, each strike causing any part that it hit to cave in and be shattered apart like their skulls and ribs. But after the wolves came several large monsters that being Minotaur's and cyclops so Draco swapped out for the Opticor again and fired several beams at the large monsters causing them to be filled with gaping holes in their torsos or heads.
"Is this all you have, I got to say I'm disappointed" Draco said reloading his weapon
Draco then say a huge group of Orcs and Ogres charging at him but Draco was extremely calm as he activated Nova's Antimatter Drop, creating a ball of slow moving energy at the group.
"Ha, you think were scared of an attack as slow as that!" a monster yelled
Draco didn't listen and just aimed at the orb with his Opticor and let lose a beam at the orb and the orb absorbed the beam, then he fired another one, and another, and another until he ran out of shots and reloaded. The monster still didn't mind the orb and kept on charging but as soon as the orb made contact with one of them it exploded in a brilliant display of light and power, releasing all the energy that Draco put into it thus eradicating the entire group in a single blow.
"Idiots" Draco said
Just then more monsters then entered the room, all of them mad and some of them lustful, most likely due to Nova's feminine looks.
"This is getting tiresome, time to end this" Draco said
So Draco activated Nova's final ability, Molecular Prime thus causing a huge wave of Antimatter to be sent out and coated every enemy in his area. Then Draco then raised his Atmos at one of the monsters and firmly placed his finger on the trigger and pulled, sending out the beam at the enemy and struck him.
"Boom"
Suddenly the enemy exploded in giant flash of energy thus causing a chain reaction, causing every other monster that was coated in Antimatter to explode. As they died and blew up, Draco calmly walked out of the throne room, leaving the monsters to their explosive fate.
Not long after, Draco found his way outside and standing at the front gates was Olga and Chloe. As he approached them Chloe was confused at first seeing the feminine Warframe but then realized one person with weapons like that.
"Draco?" She asked, as he nodded
"Yeah, it's me" Draco replied, surprising the girls at hearing a male voice come out of a female's body, "we need to leave, I have transportation ready to take us to a safe location" he added
"What about the monsters?" Olga asked
Just then a huge explosion went off causing the two to jump slightly and making Draco chuckle a bit.
"They'll be…busy for a while" Draco said as walked to the gates
As he did, Olga and Chloe couldn't help but be surprised and amazed by the warrior before them, wielding power and weapons that are truly not of this land.
"A Tenno…what kind warrior are you?" Chloe said to herself, watching there savior walk into the grassy fields.
And Chapter 2 is complete! I would like give a thank you to Dktv9 for his Warframe Suggestions. I hope you all enjoyed this Chapter and once again I ask what Warframe(s) would you like to see next. But until then please leave a review telling me what you think and Happy Thanksgiving!