I stood on the cliff looking at the fortress that floated above the glistening ocean. The wind blew lightly threw my red spiked hair that looked like dragon's breath. Soon we would go in side the fortress, fighting the villmere. Jara stood to my left, her black long hair put in a ponytail and she held her dark purple sword at her side, her black eyes glaring at the fortress itching for battle. Saxson with her golden hair and hazel eyes stood behind me with Markus at her side. Markus had black hair, black eyes, and tanned skin. Kate our healer and white magic user with short black hair and little black eyes sat on a rock a couple meters away and Noah stood on the rock. Noah had blond hair and light green eyes. TJI also stood on the rock; unlike the rest of us he was the only dragoon with black/brown skin and was bald with eyes like bottomless dirt holes.
I knew us alone were not strong enough to defeat the villmere, dragoons just weren't strong enough. The wing mere were stronger they could have helped. The others didn't know that though, Jara was just too ignorant to see how weak she was, and the others followed her without a doubt. I on the other hand was strong; I had wing mere blood in me, even though I'm a dragoon. Misa gave me this gift, her power. I hated myself for not trusting her, she could have helped us, she's a wing mere she had people that could have helped. It's too late now though, I nearly killed her last time, if her brother Sean hadn't shown up at the last minute Jara would have finished her.
And what did I do? I stood there like a dummy and watched as Jara used those spells on Misa. Jara wouldn't have used those spells if she had known they were dark magic. I didn't tell Jara, it was too late but I still could have done something besides just standing there. One more hit and Misa would have been dead then Sean showed up and saved her.
"Spike, we better get this show on the road."Jara interrupted my thoughts.
"Yes, we should."Was all I could say. It would a miracle to win, but I would happily die now after all the things that have gone wrong in my life. Trying to destroy the very things that destroyed my family and home.
"Then what are we waiting for?!"Markus ran to the edge of the cliff."Lets go!!"With that said we spread out our scaled wings. My wings were red like fire which was my magic element. Jara had violet, Saxson had golden, Markus black, Kate white, Noah white, and TJI had a light brown for earth.
We entered the dark fortress, swords held high. Our swords matched our wings. Once our feet touched the floor, a villmere jumped out of the shadows and others followed. We were now in the heat of battle. Ours weapons went through their flesh like a knife through silk. We made our way to a big hall, it was quiet, not a single villmere in sight.
"I don't like this one bit."Kate whimpered.
"No one does."Saxson said soothing Kate. Jara perked up.
"Maybe they realized they can't win"She chuckled, I wanted to punch her.
"Jara.."I muttered she was so naive thinking we already won, if only she knew our odds.
A tall figure appeared in front of us. We all stopped dead. It was a man, same height as me. As he got closer I saw he had wavy blond hair and deep navy blue eyes. I felt my heart stop. It was Nicshan.
"Hello there!!"He seemed pretty casual being in a place like this.
"So you are with the villmere!!!"Jara jumped in as usual"I knew it! See I told you Spike! That he was evil, just like Misa!!"I was stunned by the mention of Misa, I still didn't know if the wing mere were evil or not, and Jara wasn't helping.
"She's not evil."Nicshan hissed at Jara and then glared at me."And neither am I"
"Then why are you here?"Markus questioned him.
Nicshan smerked and replied "Destroying this fortress...what did u think?"
He looked away and shook his head, I could tell he was sick of the accusations and knew Jara wasn't going to back down.
"Well if you don't mind we'll being going through." Markus stepped forward but Nicshan planted himself in front of us.
"Hmmm..I'm not going to let you pass unless"He paused"You promise not to hurt Misa."
"Misa is here?!!!!" I didn't mean to be so loud, the shock was too much. I didn't know how I could ever face her again. Jealousy swiped over Jara like a heat wave.
"Of coarse she's here, she's the only one of us with enough white magic in her blood to destroy this palace."
Jara burst out laughing. "HA!!" She yelled throwing her head back. "Then how come I beat her so easily? She's weak just like all wing mere!!"I wanted to strangle her and from the looks on Nicshan's face he wanted to strangle her as well.
"She isn't good at defending herself against dark magic and she didn't have the will to fight you. If she did you and your friends wouldn't be here."
"So she's a coward than..hmm?" She was enjoying every bit of this. "Well I didn't even use dark magic anyhow"
"Yes you did."I was finally was able to speak.
"Indeed." Nicshan nodded in agreement.
She was in shock. "Wha....what? I..I didn't....Why didn't you tell me?!"
"You never told me you were going to use it till you did use it"I said grimly.
"Hmmm".well considering your no threat anyhow, follow me" Nicshan gestured us to follow him. We were led to a small shadowy room that looked liked every other room in the fortress. Abbey, Sean and Jue were standing in the middle of the room, chatting about how long Nicshan was taking.
"I'm back!!" He gave a slight wave to them. "Look what I brought"
"urgh..dragoons, great" Sean shrugged.
Jue tried to lighten the mood. "Oh well, we need all the help we can get, right?" I've never seen her before, Misa did talk about her a lot, and they seemed close. "The villmere will find us soon; we'd better get a move on."
Nicshan was looking at Misa who looked ill and weak. She didn't look like someone who could fight well alone destroy a fortress; I didn't think she could even stand well. I wondered why they brought her, maybe she was strong enough in her condition I only tasted a little bit of her power, the power that she gave me. "We should stay a bit longer." He said probably thinking of Misa. Now Sean and Jue were looking at Misa, the others stood there blankly not understanding the silence. I knew no matter how close Jue or Sean were to Misa they couldn?t help her. Only I could.
"So what's our next move?"Kate broke the silence for once, I was glad it wasn't Jara.
Sean snapped himself back into reality. "We go to the core and finish off this fortress."
"Well, then I think we?ve waited enough. We should go before we can?t." TJI said. It's amazing how he can lighten things up with his voice, it made the room seem lighter even Misa seemed lighter.
"Okay we're off."Abbey said thankful to leave the room. Misa slowly got up and we left the dark empty room.
Nicshan led the way in fast strides; Jara tried to match his pace and were now silently fighting over leadership of the group. The others walked fast and some even jogged to keep up with them. I however felt like a 1ton brick and had no will to follow, I didn't notice it at the time but Misa was walking at the same pace as me, but seemed to be in her own world and didn't notice that I was there. When I looked at her, I saw that her skin was like the moon so pale and it wasn't because she was ill, although she was paler then usual, her brown silky hair went down her back, she had a tiara on her forehead with a single dark blue jewel on it and silver lining around it and it went around her head resting on top of her hair. She was wearing a white cape with symbols on it, ones I didn't recognize. Under her cape she had a white leather battle outfit with a mini skirt and high boots it looked very native. "Hey."I said almost a whisper. I didn't know how she felt about me anymore, but I knew it wasn't good. "I'm sorry." I whispered even quieter than before, I knew the others must have been quite far away now, but I didn't know what to do but whisper. I wondered if she even heard me "I'm really sorry."I almost begged and if she kept walking I knew I would start.
She stopped walking. "Why didn't you help me?"Her blue eyes showed more pain then her voice ever could. "Why did you leave me to die?"She choked her words out threatening to cry, it felt like blows to my heart.
"I don't know I..I didn't know who or what to believe."It was the only thing I could manage to say.
"And what if I died?! Spike! Then what would you do?!"Her anger and sadness cause more pain and more pain by the minute.
"I..."Words seemed impossible to form. "I don't know, Misa I really don't."There was only one thing I could think of saying and I doubted if it would do any good saying it."I'm sorry."
"Maybe you are maybe you aren"t, I could care less."An eerie chill went through my body; how she could be so emotionless?
"Misa I'm sorry!!! Please believe me!!" I bit my tongue, why did I say that?
"Oh ya just like you believed me!!!" All she did was glare at me, it hurt me to look at her but she locked my eyes to hers, I couldn't move. I shouldn't have said that, why did I say that? Why me?
All of a sudden she started crying uncontrollably and fell on me. I wrapped my arms around her; we both fell to our knees. I sobbed with her tears, I was too manly to form tears but my sobs were more then painful. Moments later my sobs quieted and her tears subsided, she pulled away her arms to my chest and mine on her waist. It took me awhile to process the situation, I knelt their in shock as her lips touched mine. I was so confused, It felt like my brain might explode.
As soon as our lips touched our senses itched, the others were in battle and needed us. Before I could react she was dashing off like the wind. How could she run so fast? I wondered as I tried to keep up. Misa knew the way to the core a lot better than I did, she did this before when she was younger with other wingmere, they were only 15- 16 years old, most were killed by the villmere, the others were killed by dragoons.
We heard fighting up ahead. We were close, she darted ahead and I continued to chase after her. When I got close enough I stopped her, even if the wingmere were strong with magic what if this wasn't enough? She stared at me, wondering why I stopped her. I leaned over and kissed her lightly.We held it for a couple momments, it felt like the we were the universe. She looked up at me and whispered."Do you believe me now?"
"yes, I do"And then we were off running towards battle again.
When we arrived, the others were trapped in a circle with villmere all around them. I drew my sword out and Misa drew out two blades attached to each wrist. It reminded me of a pray mantis and how they have blades instead of hands.
Then we jumped into the battle, a villmere dove down at me and I chopped it in half. There must have been a million of them, flying around like black locusts. I noticed lots more of the villmere were atacking her then me. Cutting my way through seemed almost endless and pointless and my body was yearning to rest already.
I had scratch wounds all over me, black and red blood covered my body as I hacked my way trough the villmere. The only other person I saw was Nicshan who also was trying to reach Misa, who from the looks of it couldn't last much longer.
We reached her at the same time. She was on the ground curled up, her white skin drenched in her own blood and wounds. Nicshan and I fought off the villmere that tried to get at Misa. Our strength was running out fast though. I didn't know now much more we could take.
Misa then weakly got to her feet. This time she was glowing with white light; all her wounds seemed to have healed themselves. A villmere that got past us lunged at her, but the light took a liquidy form and wrapped itself around the villmere. The villmere evaporated in the light. The light spread like water in the air as it wrapped itself around every single villmere in sight, and destroying it. The villmere gave bloody screams as the light ripped into them like hands ripping paper.
When all the villmere were dead the light disappeared and Misa collapsed, I caught her before she hit the blood covered ground. I looked behind me to see every one else, I saw Kate leaning over Jara who had her throat slashed open and a deep pool of blood surrounded her."She's already dead.." She said grimly as tears came down without warning on her face. She then closed Jara's eyes which were open. Noah then helped Kate up and we left Jara's dead body lying there.I didn't feel upset about Jara, a part of me said she deserved it.
"We should move on"Abbey said "The core is just up ahead."Everyone started heading down the next dark miserable hall except for Nicshan.
"What was that light that came from Misa?"I asked him.
"As I said she's very powerful with white magic." He replied simply. He looked at Misa and then at me. "Watch Misa she'll be out for awhile... Give her this."He handed me a crystal. "Put it on her forehead." He instructed me. I did what he said. When I rested the crystal on her head it was like the crystal was an ice cube it melted and Misa's forehead absorbed it. I stood there in awe as I saw this."It should help her regain her strength."
I nodded.
"We should probably catch up with the others."I said.
"Ya" And we jogged to where the others were in the vast hallway. We didn't say a word when we were jogging to the others. The expression his face was dark and unreadable. So we jogged in silence as I wondered what he was thinking.
Another wave of silence came when we caught up to the others. Jue, Sean and Abbey must have been thinking the same things as Nicshan was thinking, but what was it? The others were probably silent because of Jara's death. We walked to the core without saying anything as I wondered hopelessly what they were thinking.
They were most likely worried about Misa, but what was it? They knew more things about her then I did. I decided to break the silence."How are we going to destroy this fortress with Misa out?" I started regretting what i said when they stopped like dear caught by a head light. I always had to say the worst possible things without realizing it didn't I? I thought again to my dismay. Kate didn't seem to care or even notice what was happening, I guess she was really upset about Jara. Noah, Markus, Saxson, and TJI stood there in confusion; they also wanted to know as well but couldn't figure out why Nicshan, Sean, Jue, and Abbey stopped like that.
"Yes, how do we destroy this god forsaken place?"TJI backed me up. I was thankful to have some one else speak. Jue and Abbey looked sad and depressed while Nicshan and Sean looked shady and grey; colourless even.
Nicshan stopped staring at me and looked at the ground."The fortress is powered by a black crystal, if we were to put enough white magic into it, it would self- destruct."He said, but there was something else that he wasn't saying.
"Where do we get enough white magic?"Markus asked.
Sean shot a glance at me, and then looked at TJI."Misa has enough but.." He trailed off.
Nicshan then interrupted."She used a lot of it in that battle; it might kill her to do it now."His words were like frost bite to my ears.
"What about Saxson and me?" Kate spoke up."We have white magic too."
"And me, I could help as well."Noah said."Sure I may not have a lot of white magic, but every bit counts right?"
"Don't forget the crystals we brought with us!!"Saxson dug into her bag and pulled some purifying crystals.
"Okay good" Nicshan said."Do you have any power crystals to wake up Misa?"
"Yep" She answered perking up.
"Let us hope this is enough."Jue said.
"It better be."Sean muttered. We entered the center of the fortress, the core. The black crystal was bigger then an elephant, in all my life I never saw a crystal so huge or anywhere near that size for that matter. Nicshan put some more crystals into Misa and she soon woke up.
"Is it time?"She asked sleepily.
"Yes, it's time."Jue whispered.
"Then what are we waiting for? Lets get this over with."She said and tried to get up, and stumbled a bit to her feet so Jue steadied her. Fear washed over me, I didn't want any more people dieing, especially Misa. I didn't have any one else left. I had to believe that Kate, Saxson, and Noah would be enough to help Misa and destroy the fortress. They just had to be.
They stood in front of the black crystal. The core room was like ice and chills kept sweeping over me like waves. It was as if they were sacrifices to some unknown evil god, but I couldn't think that way it was too horrible. Holding purifying crystals in each hand they stepped into the darkness of the crystal. Soon after I saw white spots appear and then streams of light swirled around inside.
Noah was the first to come out because he had the least white magic of all. He stumbled out and fell to his knees gasping as if he had just been in a long race. Saxson was next to come out and then Kate, both gasping for air. I could sense that all the white magic in them was nearly gone. Noah and Saxson weren't fully white magic so they would be fine, but Kate then passed out, she is a full white magic dragoon. Now all she had was her physical strength. Wingmere were mostly magic and Misa was a fully white magic wingmere if the crystal got all of her magic..I didn't want to think about it.
I started to panic when I noticed Misa was still in the crystal. What if she was trapped or worse dead? I hesitated and then jumped into the crystal. Total darkness surrounded me, I felt lost and helpless. Then streams of light broke through and wrapped around me, it was like warm sunshine to my skin and the coldness left me. Next I saw Misa who had passed out from having too much magic stripped from her. I grabbed her hand and pulled us both out.
Next thing I knew Sean picked up Misa and ran off, Nicshan grabbed me by the shoulder and ran. I stumbled along side of him in a daze.
It must have worked, the crystal was self-detonating and we were getting as far away as possible before it blew up. Noah who had enough strength was carrying Kate, who now seemed to be awake (a little atleast). Saxson was strong enough to carry herself but looked weak. We all spread out our wings (Nicshan, Sean, Jue and Abbey had black feathered wings, Misa had white but she couldn't use them right now).
We got out of the fortress just as it blew up. Except for the loss of Jara we were all good. The wars between the wing mere and dragoons were over as well as the war with the villmere. Everything was complete now, and everyone was safe.
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