DragonZ Chapter 15 --End of Act II--
Sorry fans. I have been really busy with personal things lately and I couldn't find time to really sit down and work but here is 15! Enjoy
--The Signal and The Follower--
>UGAC Capt, Adrian J. Raines
>DragonZ Squad
>09:27:07
>70 miles outside of Castle Ragnarok
--3 days later--
The forest was like a massive oven baking my scales, the added heat sun the sun and my new body was almost overwhelming. How did they stand this I asked myself, I looked at my display in eye cybornetic right eye and it shown 107 body temp and 104 degrees in the forest. 107-113 is a regular internal body temp for a dragon but the sun isn't helping shit.
"Kiddo...is your body always this fuckin' hot?" I panted swiping the sweat from my brow and neck.
"Oh Adrian thank you hehe" He joked.
"You know what i mean asshole."
"Hehe yeah it is. You'll get used to it, now come on we're almost to the target."
Selina picked up on a strange fequency about where we are now so we went to investigate. It was a very strange sound, like a series of clicking with screaches. It seemed like the signal teared right through my skull and bleeded through my brain.
"Hey! We're here." Gun was atop of a hill, looking out into a wide plane. "Come on quick."
"Alright, alright." Sasha was breathing heavily. We marched up the hill to see barren wasteland, the sight of dead trees and schorched ground, the smell of burned earth blanketed the land. "Oh god...what happened
"Holy shit..." Kiddo was gazing at the horrific sight.
"What could have done this?" Fox looked to me.
I stared at him, "Jeremey Bain and The Darkness. This has them written all over it." And there was no doubt about it. Kiddo and I growled low and deep. We walked out onto the blackened dirt, ashes kicked up as the wind blew. "Duststorm's brewin'. Visors up." We put up our visor except me, mine was still designed for my human head and not my dragonic head. Sasha giggled a bit. "Well at least the mood lightened up a bit."
We trotted on for about 30 minutes and stopped to take a breather. Kiddo refused and kept looking. He heard the sensor chimed rapidly, the signal grew at it's strongest and was very close. "Hey guys we're here!" We all got up and rushed over.
We looked around and saw nothing but the same wasteland. "Well...what is it?" Falco was irritated.
"How the hell am I suppose to fuckin' know what it is?" Kiddo argued back at him.
"Well your the all mighty Dragon King. It's your land you ought to know."
"Yeah well I don't fucking know so why don't you back off ok?!" Kiddo stood his ground and expanded his wings to show his anger.
"Calm down you two. Last thing we need is us fighting each other." I put myself between them. I felt my power grow a bit. Hmm it must be activated by emotion I thought.
"So...now what?" Wolf asked openly.
"Maybe we can dig?" Kelsey asked shrugging.
We thought about what to do. The Signal was here at this spot but, what to do we haven't got a clue. We stood there wondering then I felt a presence beneath us, it was coming up to us and coming fast.
"Adrian?" Sasha looked at me puzzled.
"LOOK OUT!" I roared. We all dodged out of the origin of the Signal. A worm-like creature bursted out of the ground and begin to fly.
"QUAZECOTAL! TAKE COVER!" Kiddo screamed. We had no where to go but run for 30 miles back to the castle. The beast's war cry echoed, reached the inner depths of our minds and bleed us. This thing was about the same size as The Sword of the Star, feathered wings that seemed to blot out the sun and the sky, and armor. Lots of armor, rock-like armor. Teeth sharp as razor blades and eyes that burned of orange fire.
"I thought the legend weren't true?" Wolf looked to Kiddo confused.
"Apparently they are now! Now run fucking run!" Gun turned to sprint the other direction. We followed her running as fast as we could with Fox at the head of the group, I knew foxes could run like the wind but dam. Falco turned his torso around and hip-fired at Quazecotal's face but hit air.
Sasha tripped over her own feet and I turned around to pick her up, "Come on Sasha! On your feet! Move move!" Quazecotal came closer and closer with jaws wide open ready to engulf us, I threw Sasha clear out of the way and stood my ground.
"ADRIAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" She screamed. Honestly I didn't know what I was doing but, I'm doing something. I roared back at Quazecotal, spread my legs, balanced with my tail, and wings extended. I felt the power coming to me and I noticed that my scales were turning black and white, I held my arms back with my palms open and thought of the element Earth since I was surrounded by it.
Now Quazecotal was less than 500 feet away from eating me so I threw my arms up and giant walls of solid thick stone formed in front of me. My arms felt exteremly heavy, seemed like I was trying to lift 20,000 pounds above my head, and each wall Quazecotal crashed through I was pushed backward by a unknown force.
Finally Quazecotal hit the ground hard and was scraping toward me fast. I stood my ground and watched as it stopped at my feet, and pass out. I walked up to it and looked at its eyes, it nearly melted mine just to look in them.
"Holy hell! Adrian, how the fuck did you do that?" Fox was amazed I was still alive.
"You expect me to know that how?" I return his question with a smart-ass question. "I've only been in this body for 4 days, I'm still trying to figure things out."
Kiddo approched Quazecotal calmly and began to pet it gently. "Oh wow...this one is old. Wow, Adrian can you heal him?"
"Why it tried to kill us." I answered.
"Please just do it." I walked and placed my hands upon it and thought to myself 'how the hell am I suppose to do this?' I tried to think about healing it but nothing happened. I tried saying "Heal" but still nothing. Then I thought of peaceful thing like the wind brushing against my mane and how soothing it felt, the soft warm ground beneth my feet, and suddenly it awoke.
It lifted its head and looked at me, "So. Azur you have returned to the Plane of the Living once more." Its voice was deep and old but its mouth did not move.
"Dude...it talked!" I heard Falco whisper to Wolf. Wolf replied with a head nod.
"Uh. My name is Adrian. I am not Azur." I told him.
"Wait you are not Azur." It seemed surprised.
"Yeah that's what I said."
"Forgive me. It must have been his time to pass on his power. I am Masaif, a demigod, but your kind know me as Quazecotal."
"Uh...hi. I'm Adrian Raines and..."
He cut me off, "So you the new Twilight Dragon. You were not of dragon blood from birth though. Hmm...curious."
"Yes I was once human until I died..."
He cut me off again, "By the hands of the puppet," His voice rose but went deeper. "The master of the puppet has returned, Obscurum."
"Obscurum?" Gun asked.
"Obscurum is the Dragon God of Darkness, banished for infiity for causing a great war between the living and the Gods 10,000 years ago. But it seems someone has opened his cage and set free Obscurum." He spoke as if he knew The Darkness.
"How do you know this?" Kiddo asked him.
"Because I was there, fighting along side the first Dragon Gods. That one being Azur." He sniffed at the air and his eyes dialated then returned to normal. "Azur is still here. I can smell him right here with us." He leaned down to out level and sniffed all of us out and locked on to Kiddo.
"What?" Kiddo seemed confused. I looked at him in surprise.
"My leige! So you are the son of Azur. But strange...he didn't pass his power to you. This is very strange indeed."
Kiddo looked at me not in anger but confused still. I didn't know what to tell him, "Kiddo I...didn't know he was."
"It's ok. I know you didn't." Kiddo face showed no confusion but content.
"Anyway. I am surprised your mother made it off the planet in one piece. And a new question arises, how did you survive for 10,000 years and look like a young male? Aw well. I guess the answers will come in time." Masiaf said with remorse.
"So...will you help us?" Fox asked him.
"Help you? With what?"
"The invasion of the Dinosaurs of course." Falco out bursted.
"What?" Masiaf didn't seem to know what was going on at all with Ragnarok. How did he not know? "They formed a truse with the Dragon race, why did they break it?" He gasp in sudden realization, "The Carrier...they must think he is some sort of Prophet! Oh this is bad indeed."
"Will you help us?" Kiddo persisted to get an answer.
"I answer only to the call of a Dragon God...Azur I mean Adrian, do you need my assistance?"
I answered without hesitation, "Yes we all do."
He took in a deep breath and hovered above us, "So be it. I will answer your call. I will help you until I fall in battle or of age." His voice seemed angered but not toward us, "We will drive the betrayers off our planet!" With that he roared into the air.
"Thank you Masiaf." I told him.
"It will be an honor to fight by your side again, thought not Azur."
"Hey if it's not too much to ask uh, can you fly us back to Castle Ragnarok?" Wolf asked.
He lowered himself and dropped his left wing as a ramp, "Hop on." We all got on his back and sat down, "Hold tight!" He arched backward and threw his snake-like body forward. With such intensity and force we could barely hold on to his scales let alone catch our breath.
>>36 minutes later<<
We arrived at Castle Ragnarok finally and was greeted with cheers and praise because we came back with a great new ally and better moral. Thats what I thought about war, the more moral the better your troops will perform and the faster the war ends. Here on Ragnarok, within one week we have set-up a outstanding relationship with the locals, died once, came back from the dead and became a dragon god, found a mythical creature, this was working out over all.
Masiaf touched down with grace of ease and lowered his wing to let us down but we decided to show off for the heck of it. We all jumped off one-by-one and landed, I waited and flung myself up high into the air and thrown my body down to the ground behind the group. Slippy came out of nowhere and took a picture of our pose. "Gotcha all. I'll send this to Commander Taliues to let them know who we are doing."
"AH! SLIPPY!" Fox and Falco yelled in union with laughter in their voice and chased after him playfully. "Get back here!"
"Ha ha ha! Look at them go!" Wolf was pointing and laughing at them so were the locals. This seemed to perfect right now. Peace in the city. Just like before, I jinxed it.
The Dinos came with furry. They stormed the main gates and started their bloody massacre and this time they brought their Overlord. General Galrog. He was a T-Rex but with battle scar all across his muscular built body, part of his tail seemed bitten off, and wielded a great double-sided axe twice the size of him. "For The Darkness!" He roared.
"SON OF A BITCH! EVAC THE CITY NOW!" I yelled to Kiddo.
He nodded and few high into the sky, "EVERYONE GET ON QUAZECOTAL!" He turned to Masiaf, "Get my people out of here and into safety please!"
Masiaf did not answer but did as he was wished of. The locals all gathered on his back with haste. "Is that all?" Masiaf called out and everyone answered.
"Where is Fox and Falco?!" Kelsey yelled fighting off two raptors. Suddenly they dropped dead in front of her and she looked around. "What the hell?"
We looked up and saw two fighter jets wooshing by. "Fox to Adrian over."
"HOT DAM YOU TWO! Thats the way to take the inisiative right there!" I shouted into the mic.
"Yeah thanks Adrian. Orders?" Falco asked.
"Escort Masiaf and the rest of the dragons out of here and to cover."
"Roger over and out." Fox acknowledged and banked left to circle around Masiaf who was already taking off.
"Selina!"
"Yes sir." She answered promptly.
"Follow them and provide extra air support."
"Copy that sir." The Soul Calibur lifted out of the gorunders holding it and followed close behind Masiaf. Mean while we were still fending off the blitzkreig of Dinos. There were too many of them, and General Galrog being there was chaotic.
2 raptors, 3 stegs, and 1 rex circled around me. "What ever happened to a fair fight!" I dropped to my knees, spun my entire body like a top and used my talons to cut at their legs and my elbow bone of my right wing to knock them down. As they fell I stood up, swooshed my tail in a hook grabbing them and threw them out of my way. "Ha Ha what'chall got huh?!"
Kiddo and Kelsey were back to back. "Kiddo! Grab onto my tail and spin me!" She shouted.
"Got it!" He grabbed onto her tail and spun her around. Kelsey bellowed out a constant flame that formed a whirlwind of fire. The Dinos around them were caught in the 350 degree flames, scorched, and burned alive. Their screams of pain was our pleasure.
Wolf had one rex in a head lock, while he kicked any other Dino out of he way. "HA HA! IS THAT ALL YOU GOT YOU BASTARDS?!" What Wolf was doing was pretty obvious but still halarious to see.
"You Adrian. You stole our lord's power from him. Return it to him and I might let you live." General Galrog offered in the midst of the massive brawl.
"Fuck you!" I yelled and gave an intimidating roar toward him.
"Hmm hmm. Such a pity, now I take it from you." He sung his axe high above his head and brung it down swiftly. I dodged to the right and came up with my right knee to his face, then pulling my leg back I gave a round house kick his left side of his head, disoriantating him. He shook his head and brought his axe up again and swung horizantally. I slid under the axe as it came by and kicked him in the crotch, nothing. He didn't even flintch.
"What the fuck?!"
He was now outraged and landed a slash from his claws across my face. I yipped in pain and held my hand to the bloody cut. "Now you die." He brung his axe up high and thrown it down but was shot out of his hands.
Sasha held a .50 magnum with triple barrels. She had fired off all three at once. "Adrian you ok?"
"Yeah! DragonZ retreat!" The order I had hoped to never give. Everyone listened and hesitated. "Retreat!" Time seemed to slow as we began to run for our lives. We formed up in a group and pushed through the endless horde, "Take flight!" Kiddo, Kelsey and I grabbed onto Gun's, Sasha's, and Wolf's arms and flew high into the sky. We had been defeated.
"We will kill you and your entire race Adrian!" Galrog shouted as we flew away.
After a few miles of flying we caught up to Masiaf, Fox, Falco, and The Soul Calibur. The only sounds made was crying from the women and hatchling, and out bursts of anger from the males. I had lost their moral.
"Adrian where are we going to go?" Selina asked quietly.
"I don't know..."
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