Chapter 22: Death: the War Begins
(David:)
David, Risa, Theron, Windrum and Zephyrina stood around a rectangle table on board the Dragoness, Zephyrina's personal ship. It and the Majestic Prince are the flag ships of the fleet. The Dragonid fleet is moving slowly towards its destination.
David couldn't think at straight. His mind was going everywhere. But only one thought always crossed his mind. Sora. It always came back to her. She was in danger because of him. He would never forgive himself if she were to die. He was so lost in thought that he didn't realized that they were talking to him until they shook his shoulder.
"David." Theron said.
"What?" He asked. Then he shook his head. "Sorry. Got distracted."
"It's okay. We know what you're thinking. And don't worry, we'll get her back."
"I know, I know." He covered his faced then removed it. "Okay, so what were we talking about again.
Zephyrina looked at him, concern on his face. "He must really love her to be this worried. I have a feeling that he would go through an entire army of serpentine soldiers, by himself if if it means to save her." She thought.
Windrum spoke. "Our scouts have reported the Serpentine fleet was sited near Frigkian, the moon near the planet Wariaga, the nearest planet to Serpentia. We're heading there as fast as we can."
He nods.
Zephyrina then spoke. "Meanwhile were preparing 2 of newest creations for the assault."
"What are they?" He asked.
"Both of them are ships. One is a weapon why another is a speedy fortress." She click a button on the mechanical table and a virtual display pops up. They're was a display of a ship in front of them it had 3 giant size thrusters and and 4 large rods connected to a large, round tube with a large turbine looking generator connect to the large tube. It was surrounded by large cannons and 36 turrets on each side of the ship. It was a heavily armed battleship.
"This is the weapon. It's the CXRH-3521. The Trinity Dematerializer Cannon BattleShip. Also known as David's Anger." Windrum chuckled.
"Funny." He said coldly.
Windrum continued. "The the large tube connected the 4 rods is the most powerful weapon we ever created. The rods turn in a circle motion while summoning particles and focusing in to a large ball of heavily condense particles. Then a beam on concentrated microwaves is shot from the tube and hits the ball, which causes a chain reaction. When the beam connects to the ball, the ball breaks apart and the energy released merges with the beam. When that happens, the newly created beam fires at the target. When it hits, it dematerializes anything near the target in a giant blast."
Zephyrina speaks. "It's a cannon that dematerializes anything that it hits."
"Why didn't he just say that?" He asked.
"He's a geek for weaponry." She giggled.
"Hey! But it's true. But also has powerful cannons and turrets to attack and defend while it charges. The ship itself is a weapon."
She hits another button. The picture turned into another ship but this one was smaller but it had multiple turrets about 50 altogether. But it had armor plating all over it. And it had a weird machine on the back and it's connected to another weird machine. Then he realized that he was looking under an thick armor on it's it.
Zephyrina spoke. "This is the VRGX-7364 Impenetrable Speeder. It has a newly created turbine engine and a newly created shield generator. The engine can move the ship at incredible speed and it can create a forcefield that nothing can penetrate. This is our assault ship. The one which will assault their moving Fortress the Medusa."
"So this the ship that I'm getting on." He said.
"Yes. You and I are leading an army of 15,000 ESF elites who are already on the ship. We're to head towards the passenger ship to takes us there."
"Are you sure it's wise for you to go with him on this mission?" Windrum asked Zephyrina.
"It doesn't matter if it isn't. Slazer's reign must come to an end and I will help rescue my future daughter in-law."
"Wait-wait-wait. We haven't gotten to that yet."
Theron chuckles. "Dude, You're not gonna win that one."
David walks over to Risa. "I want you to pilot the Majestic Prince for me."
"Are you sure you don't need me with you?" She asked
"We'll be fine. But I need you aboard the Prince. I know you can lead them."
"Alright." She said then bows.
She leaves the room and heads to a convoy ship to take her to the prince.
Theron speaks up. "David, don't mind tagging you guys along? I want to help Sora as well."
"If you want, then I accept your help."
Zephyrina places her hands on their shoulders. "Come guys, let's go to the the escort ship."
They began to walk to the exit, when she stops and turns around to see Windrum. "Windrum, Authorization code: 65381274. Password:Dragman's Lover. You're authorized to use your secret form. Be careful."
He nodded gravely." "Yes my queen."
She turns back around and they leave the room and head towards the small ship.
(Sora:)
Sora regains consciousness. Her vision was blurry and she felt stiff. She tried the same thing she did last time. She closed her eyes and squinted then she reopened them. Her vision was clearer. She tried to get her bearings. She was in what looked to be a throne room. There was a mosaic drawings of snake people and cultures a all around. The floor was brownish yellow color while the walls were a mix of brown and green. She tried to turn her head but couldn't as much.
Then she felt it. Something hard, cold and metallic, surrounding her neck, her wrists and her feet. They were manacles. Then she saw the large chains connected to the manacles. The chains when indented within the ground."
"Not again." She scoffed. This is the second time something like this has happened to her. But there's one thing different. Apart from the situation and location and those who had her.
It was what she was wearing. Back then, she was wearing a black tank top and just an underwear and knee high socks. This time was a little different. She realized that she was wearing less clothing. She was wearing a bra-like clothing made of snakeskin and a snakeskin underwear. She wore gold armbands with snakes on her and golden sandals on her feet. She had a circlet on her head and a golden necklace around her neck under the manacles.
"What the heck am I wearing?" She astonished.
"Oh. You're awake. Good." A snaky voice said.
She turned to the source of the voice. She saw a man covered in snake skin walking towards her. He had a Pharaoh-like hat on his head and he wore a green cloak over brown armor underneath. He wore bronze gauntlets and greeves. His skin was black. He stuck his tongue out occasionally and he had Viper like eyes. He had a sword at his waist.
"Welcome to The Fortress ship Medusa. You may already know me, but I'm know as King Slazer of the Serpentine Empire."
"Why did you bring me here and why did you take my clothes?" She asked.
He smiled. "We brought you here to lure out Orion. Oh and we know that you're his lover, the way he defended you during the first infiltration. As for your clothing, we burned them. You won't be needing them anymore, since you're now my trophy."
She sneered. "You won't get away with this. David will defeat you and rescue me. You just watch."
He chuckled. "David aka Orion. We planned on him coming here to save you. For you see, you're the bait. When he gets here, we will kill him."
"What?" She shrieked.
"Yes. Then I'll claim the Jewel of Draconos. Then I'll become the Dragon King and usher an age of tyranny and death."
"He'll stop you." She glared.
"Heh heh heh. We'll see about that." He chuckled.
He then leaves her and walks out of the throne room.
(Windrum:)
The Dragonid fleet has finally arrived the location of the enemy fleet near the moon Frigkian. And it was massive. It was like a sea of ships in front of the moon.
What caught his eye was the largest ship he has ever seen. It's no mistake why it's called the Moving Fortress. The Medusa was as big as he was in his ultimate dragon form. It has hundreds of cannons all over it plus 3 huge cannons on the front side of the ship. There was a large tower that loomed above the ship. It probably was the throne room.
"Let's not waste anymore time." He said.
He clicked on the comms and contacted the Anger.
"Captain of the Anger, target the squadron of ships on the right of the Medusa and prepare to fire when I say."
"Yes sir General." The captain replied. Then he replied. "Target locked. Fire when given."
He looked at the assault ship next to him. Then back forward.
"Fire!!!"
The Dematerializer cannon began whirring. A ball of condense particles was created. Then it fired a beam that hit the ball. Then a beam was form. Then the new beam fired. It made it's way toward the ships on the Medusa's left flank and impacted the the first ship. A huge explosion was created and with it a huge ball of light expanded, as it expanded it destroyed the ships the ball impacts as it grew in size. Then the ball disappeared. With it, the ships that were on the right side of the Medusa. Most of the ships on the Medusa's left flank was annihilated.
"Wow! That's powerful. Before the assault ship heads out..." He said.
He clicks the comm and speaks to the whole fleet. "To all forward ships. Open Fire!!!"
The Dragoness, the Majestic Prince, and all the forward ships open fired their cannons. A sea of beams were sailing through space and impacted the ships. Some of the ships were destroyed.
"Launch all fighters! Assault Ship advance! The following ships: SunTreader, Devil Sun, Brakion and Firefly and their fighters, guard the David's Anger. The rest of the ships, forward!!!"
He sees all the fighters and ships moving forward plus, the assault ship moving ahead of the rest.
"Good luck you guys." He says as he leaves the bridge.
(David:)
The assault ship kicked it's turbo engines into overdrive.
"This ship can move." Theron said.
The ship moved 3 times faster than the other ships. Pretty soon, the ship was in ranged of the enemy cannons. The enemy ships launched fighters and fire cannons. The beams were going to hit the Assault ship.
"Activate force field!" Zephyrina yelled.
Around the assault ship a large force field covered the ship. The beams hit the field, not even damaging it. Some of the enemy fighters and ships that hit the for field were destroyed upon touching the field.
"Damn. Instead of calling it the speedy fortress, you should have called the Impenetrable Battering Ram." Theron chuckled.
"Stay focus. We're almost at the Medusa." David said with a stern expression.
Within moments, they were in front of the Medusa, closing fast. The Medusa's 3 large forward cannons open fired. The ship was pushed back but it didn't damage the force field. It caused a huge explosion. The assault ship just went through. They were close.
"Elites aboard the ship brace for impact and be prepare for a huge fight." Zephyrina said.
They're mere seconds from the Medusa.
"Brace for impact!!!"
The assault ship penetrated the Medusa. Hundreds of Serpentine soldiers and crew members were killed the moment the ship penetrated the walls. The forward force field was lowered. Then the forward upper and lower hatches opened. The elites charged out and confronted the enemy soldiers. Some of our elites were like General Windrum. They were shape shifters some turned into large wyverns, while turned into other creatures. Some of the enemy are shape shifters as well, turning into large snakes. Wyverns engaging snakes and the elites engaging the soldiers. The elites were wiping out the soldiers though. However, the large snakes were giving the wyverns and other shape shifters a hard time. One of the snakes strangled and killed one of the wyverns only to be killed by another.
David, Theron and Zephyrina, as well as 1,500 of the ESF looked out over the battle under them. It looked that their forces were overpowering the enemy soldiers.
David looked at Zephyrina and Theron and nodded. They nodded in return. He looked at the ESF elites.
"Let's get going."
He jumps out and begins flying towards the entrance that led to the throne room. Theron and Zephyrina and the elites followed after him.
"I'm coming Sora. I'm coming."
(Risa:)
"Open fire!" Risa yells.
The Majestic Prince fire it's forward cannons and blew up a forward enemy ship. The side cannons took out another one. The Dragoness took out 4 at once.
The battle was huge. And destructive. Fighter ships were destroying each other, battle ships were being destroyed one after another. One of the ally fighters crashed into one of the enemy ships fuel reserves and it ignited the fuel. The enemy ship blew up in an explosion that took out another enemy and destroy an ally ship. While a heavily damaged ally ship went full forward in a kamikaze attack and took the enemy with it.
"This battle is intense. Hopefully it will be over soon."
The Prince bronsided a large enemy battleship. The enemy fired it's cannons at the Prince, damaging it. The Prince counterattacked with it's large right side cannons and and the lasers. The enemy ship was destroyed.
"How are the damages?" She asked.
"The damages are minimum ma'am though one of the cannons penetrated the hull, the hull sealed itself. We should be fine." One of the crew members said.
"Very good. We shou--" she stopped when one of the crew members called her.
"Ma'am, enemy reinforcements two o'clock. Coming from behind the moon."
"Damn." She said.
She then sees a lone ally fighter flying towards the reinforcements.
"Crew, magnify on that ship."
The crew focuses the ship onto a screen nearby. The pilot of the ship just opened it's hood. She focused on the man. She saw that he jumped from the ship and the ship acted on autopilot. The pilot turns his head. She gasped.
"Windrum."
Then Windrum changed. He got larger and larger and larger. He became a very huge dragon. Her eyes widened as she remember this form.
"The queen gave him the unlock code. He's now in his forbidden form."
He flies towards the reinforcements.
"Good luck."
(David:)
After an hour of resistance, they finally reached the throne room. David shoved the door open. The room was large. The walls were brown and green. The floor looked brownish yellow. There was 1,000 soldiers in the throne room. But they look different. They look like the snake version of the ESF elites.
In the back of the throne room was large black throne decorated in serpent designs. Sitting upon the throne was a snake man who wore what looked like a Pharaoh's hat and had a green cloak over brown armor. His snaky skin was black. He wore bronze gauntlets and greeves.
"Slazer." He sneered as he summoned his blue armor and helm.
"Welcome Prince Orion and Queen Zephyrina to my Medusa. You've kept us waiting. Isn't that right my dear?" He said as he turned his head to his left our right.
David eyes widened in anger and relief as he saw her. Near the throne was indentions in the ground where large chains are connected to the ground. The chains are connected to manacles that are all attached to both arm and legs and neck of the one he came to save. The one he loved.
"Sora!!!" He yelled.
"David!!!" She yelled back.
She was wearing barely any clothing a snakeskin bra and snake skin underwear. She had golden armbands on both arms and golden sandals. She had a circlet on her head and a golden necklace on under the manacle.
"Are you alright?" He yelled.
"I'm fine. Just kill this bastard." She said.
The soldier by her struck her in the back of the head.
"Agh!" She yelled.
"You BASTARD!!!" He yells as he drew his sword and flew over soldiers. Zephyrina did as well. Theron and ESF elites charged the soldier elites.
And battle broke out. Theron killed 2 soldiers with his sword as an ESF elite killed on as well. The soldier elites were skilled. They bashed one ESF elite in his head, killing him immediately. Then they stabbed another one in the heart.
Meanwhile, Zephyrina is locked into combat with 10 soldier elites as David was fighting Slazer. David dodged an overhead slash and tried to counterstrike with a slash to the side. Slazer easily parries and kicked David in the chest, causing him to slide back.
"Pathetic." He said.
David rushed forward and did a diagonal upward slash. A diversionary tactic. Slazer parried it and got hit in the face with a blue gauntlet.
"Heh. Very good."
Then he strikes with 3 quick blows to the midsection, but David dodged 2 and blocked the 3rd. Then, with a fiery arm he punches forward to hit him in the face. Blocked the fist with his sword and pushed his fist away. But David brought his sword up and slices Slazer's armor and skin, causing a diagonal slice.
Slazer grimaced in pain. "Agh. Very good prince."
Theron killed 7 more soldier elites. But 5 ESF elites went down as well. Zephyrina killed 6 of the 10 and was locked into combat with another one.
David and Slazer inflicted multiple wounds on each other. David decided end it. Slazer dashed forward and slice diagonally upward. David used his sword to catch the hilt of the sword and with a twist of his sword, he wrenched it from Slazer's hand and gave him a kick. Then David had his sword at Slazer's throat. Ready for the kill.
"It's over Slazer. Now surrender or die."
"I'll never surrender."
"Then you'll die."
"No I won't. You either kill me or save your girl. Your choice." He said as he flicked his fingers.
David saw the soldier near Sora raised his sword over Sora's head.
"NOOOO!!!" He leaves Slazer and rushes toward Sora. The sword began falling.
"David!!" She yelled.
David reached her in time. He blocked the blow with his sword and whirl around brought the sword up and into vertical downslash. It cut the soldier in half. He then stood up.
"Thank you David." She said.
He smiled. But the smile turned into a look of horror. It felt as though a thousand pains shot through him. He looked down and saw a sword, protruding from his chest. He was stabbed from behind. He saw that it was Slazer who stabbed him.
"No, you die." He sneered.
David dropped his sword as Slazer pulled his sword from out of him. David fell to his knees.
Zephyrina killed the last of the 10. She turned toward David with a look of horror on her face.
David looked at Sora. "Sora." Was his last word. He then collapsed in front of her. Dead.
Zephyrina let's out a wail.
Sora yells as well.
"NOOOOOOO!!!"
David is dead. Slazer killed him. It isn't the end though. What will happen next? Don't forget to vote or comment.
P.s. Don't worry, it's not the end for David. Find out next time.
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