My version of Gaea is similar to the series in that many of its trappings are of Reiannasance Europe. Zybok does have gunpowder weaponry but only just. they have primarlly concentrated thier efforts with upgrading thier infantry as thier GuyMelefs are more then a match for any other nation's melefs.
No actuall people were hurt during this story. Nolr animals or any like other of. Enjoy.
VOE
Be careful what you wish for?
Chapter 5
The Awakening of Death
“Are you sure that your Following Vaughn’s direction’s, Merle? “ as TT was running after the cat girl. He looked back and saw Esyla was following them. Behind her was some men who were bent on trying to catch them. He stopped at a suit of armor that was on a display stand. He bent down and propped the pistol against it.
As Esyla was running , she saw TT.
“What the hell are you doing? We need to keep up with that furball. After all, without the energest, Escaflowne won’t work.” she said as stopped.
TT steady his aim and shot the pistol twice. He knew he hit one, but didn’t sit around to find out. He dropped a grenade and ran for the corner. He caught Esyla’s arm and forced her around the corner when the grenade went off.
“Let’s move. We don’t have a lot of stuff to stop them. “said TT as they ran after Merle who just ran t left down another corner.
“Hey, Merle. Wait up.” shouted Esyla. *Why do I get stuck with these two. ‘getting the energest would be the easiest of the objectives, Esyla. You should not encounter any resistance.’ Right, Bel, Klerk. * she thought as she heard some more gun shots. She looked back as TT threw something down the corridor. She kicked her running it to a higher gear as she knew that if she didn’t turn the corner in 3 seconds, the grenade was going off.
She turned the corner and nearly ran over Merle. When she got her bearings, the grenade exploded. As it did, TT hit the far wall and bounced around the corner landing on the two girls.
“TT, you dips hit. Watch out where e you are landing? You nearly got me killed.” said Esyla as she got up.
TT looked up at her. ‘Better you complaining to me of almost killing you then being dead?” he got up and ran down the corridor. Esyla ran after him with Merle right behind.
“ Hey TT, slow down, I don’t here anybody following us, now. Any ways, Vaughn’s room is near. You don’t know where he hid it, I do.” said Merle.
They came upon the room where Vaughn spared with his guardian. This was the place where he hid the energest. Esyla and TT both looked for any sign of where it was, but found none. Merle went to the far wall and moved a little to her then pushed three stones.
“TT, I didn’t know you knew how to handle those grenades. ‘ she looked at TT. Then she noticed the blood seeping from his shoulder. “Are you?”
“I’m alright. I’m just glad that Vaughn’s advisors decided that it was wise to secure those weapons form home. I really didn’t think we had a chance until Vaughn showed up that armory.” said TT as he looked at his shoulder. He was hit by some shrapnel from the grenade but it just scratched him. *
“This was supposed to be the easiest thing to do. I wonder how the other’s are doing. “ Esyla said as Merle went thru the secret doorway that had just opened.
Elsewhere in the Castle Fanellia
“Hitomi, where are you?” said Vaughn as he entered the dungeon complex. CPOK was at the door, kneeling while he was changing the clip to his MP5 while making sure there was no pursuit. While he was trained to use these weapons to kill people, it was somewhat disconcerting to him that he could. Still he had to put those felling aside as Vaughn found Hitomi but couldn’t get her out. He moved to the door and saw that a padlock was secured to the bolt.
“Move out of the way” as Klerk level his sub-,machine gun at the lock.
BANG! Now Klerk quickly opened the door allowing Hitomi leave.
“We need to get Escaflowne now, Hitomi. I need you to pilot the Dragon” said Vaughn as he rushed in to get the somewhat stunned girl out. They left the room and the dungeon without any problems.
“Are you an American, sir?” as she walked behind the two males.
“No, Ma’am. I ‘m not a bloody Yank. I’m an Australian. Klerk is my name.” as he looked around the corner to see if any of the Zybok soldiers were around. They weren’t.
“I’m sorry for the mistake, Klerk.” she offered an apology.
“No skin of my back, Ma’am. Vaughn, which way to Escaflowne?” said Klerk as they walked down the corridor.
“Not much further. It is in the temple.” said Vaughn. “We still need the eneregst to activate it. Where is the others?”
The Castle Garden
Dalindau was not happy with the report that this Sergeant gave him. It would appear that some group of warriors were running around the castle using versions of their weapons. Zybok had a tremendous advantage in the battlefield with the use of firearms that was introduced with the ascension of Dornkirk as their leader. Only was Gaea seeing the full ,might of the Zybok forces as the marriage of mystical way of Gaea and the technical genius of Earth was devasting to the enemies of Zybok. But now Dalindau was facing an unknown factor in the operation. The descriptions of the warriors and their weapons gave pause to him. He could tell that they were using weapons similar to what his force had but more advanced. Then something gave even more voice to the doubt in his mind.
*KABOOM* as a large portion of the Castle wall was destroyed by an intense explosion.
“Where was the explosion from?” said Dalindau.
“That would be the artifact room, Dalindau as Fennel steeped from the shade tree. “It would appear that your unknown force knew what was in there and decided that we could not get to use it.” He looked up at the castle now.
“Have you secured the temple, Dalindau?” said the strategos.
“I have my Dragonslayers guarding the temple, now. There is no way your brother can get in there. “ said Dalindau with pride.
A sorcerer walked up holding what appeared to a backpack of metal with some signal of a circle of black and yellow. “We were able to retrieve three of these objects from the room before the assailants entered the room, Strategos. What are your orders?” as the sorcerer bowed.
“What are those thing, Stretegos?’ asked Dalindau.
“The one thing that even the Atlanteans fear. Death. Take those to my fortress and put them in the secure room and prepare for departure. We have gotten what we came for. “As Fanel turned to walk away.
“What are you talking about, Strategos? We came her to grab three backpacks. Not for Escaflowne. What absurdity.” exclaimed Dalindau.
Fanel continued to walk away as Dalindau stood dumbfounded. The next thing that Dalindau did was be hurled to the ground as an explosion hit near him. He looked and saw one of his Guymelef destroyed, sprawled on the ground as a number of ground troops were getting up. Then another Guymelef exploded near him.
“Protect Lord Dalindau! “ said one of the ground soldiers as another /Guymelef exploded. Now Dalindau noticed that the explosion originated from the liquid metal container. A very useful weapon, but not without its drawbacks, the primary one was that it was extremely volatile and under pressure only a spark could make the entire contents explode with such force as to destroy the Melef.
Now soldiers were running towards him, trying to put out the intense fires that were started. Dalindau was ordering the Melefs to watch each other and try to fight the fire. It didn’t take long for him to realize his mistake, but this left enough time for what was needed. He had pulled a number of soldiers and Melefs off guard duty at the Temple to fight the fire. He cursed himself for such a rash action. He should have seen this.
“Men, we must go back to the Temple, our prey is very clever.” as Dalindau ordered his men to stop fighting the fire and to prepare for battle.
Inside the Temple.
Bel unsecured the line that came from the ceiling. A number of dead bodies were on the floor. He grabbed his M-16A2 and s small radio out.
“Bel to all. I have secured the Temple and cause your diversion. Get over here quick before they find out what they did.”
Bel moved to the door of the temple and opened it slightly. Before him was chaos and confusion as a number of troops were rushing toward the burning Guymelefs. This was exactly as he hoped.
“Klerk here. We just encountered some problem. Vaughn is unconscious as he took a hit. I again say the Vaughn is OOC.” said the little radio that Bel had.
“TT here. Sorry Bel, but me and Merle are stuck in one of the Watchtowers. And we don’t have the energists. We lot Esyla along the way and she has it.”
“ Klerk to TT, I’m on my to your position. Sorry, Bel. Looks like our plan didn’t work. Time for some divine intervention.”
Just as Bel was trying to figure out a way to get his friends out, he heard some shouting from the courtyard. Then he saw Esyla running for the temple, he took his gun and stared to take care of pursuers. She got into the temple as Bel was closing the doors.
“You have the crystal, E?” said Bel as he put down a small block down in the doorway and started to lay a wire from it.
“What are doing, Bel?” as she turned around.
“I’m going to teach the force of Zybok why you don’t rush headlong into battle. I’m using a Claymore.” said Bel as he dropped another Claymore down. “The others are pinned down, so we need to activate Escaflowne by ourselves. “ as Bel grabbed Esyla’s arm and ran toward the inner chamber.
They got there and saw Escaflowne sitting on its throne. When Esyla looked at it she froze.
*Who are you?*
*ho spoke to me? It wasn’t Bel.*
*I am the vassal of the god of dragons. I am known to the faithful as Escaflowne.*
*We need your help, Escaflowne. I am Alyse from the Mystic Moon. We are in dire straits.*
*Were is the rightful ruler of Fanellia, Alyse of the Mystic Moon?*
* I really don’t know. He was injured in battle and is somewhere my friends. We are trying to get out of her to safety and was going to use you to help us?*
*The other was here but is gone.*
*Huh*
*So wish to activate me to help your friends? I will allow it. It is time to see what those before me have sown.*
*Just one Question. How do I do that?*
Esyla woke up and saw Bel crouching near her checking her wrist.
“Will you get me up?” she said . She realized that she must have fainted when she was contacted by the Melef.
*Boom*
“Better hurry, E. It won’t take them long to get here.” said Bel as Esyla cut her hand. She allowed the blood to flow onto the jewel. The jewel soaked up the blood and started to glow. She then walked up to the heart jewel. She pushed the dragon energists into the heart crystal with ease. Just then the cockpit opened up, Bel moved to it. He looked and saw what was there.
“What’s wrong, Bel?” she said as applied pressure to the wound.
“You’re going to have to pilot it, as it would appear to be to small for me.” replied Bel as he offered his hand to the Female. He then pulled her up and saw the cockpit assembly.
“Looks like the helpless princess have to save the sorry asses of the noble knights today.” as she squeezed into the cockpit. Just as she was secured in Escaflowne, the west wall exploded. From the rubble came a lance of metal at Escaflowne. Esyla moved out of the seat as quickly as she could. This was not graceful but did its job as Escaflowne tripped on to the floor head first. This only jarred Esyla. She then rolled the Melef away from the next bolt of metal as it hit the ground near the Melef. She was able to get Melef into a knelling position with some effort as she tried to scan the area.
“Klerk to Bel. We are in the Northwest watchtower. We see more troops coming toward the temple. You’d better get out of there now.” said the radio n right next to Esyla. She never noticed that Bel put the radio in the cockpit till now. She wondered if he knew it was in there, when another bolt of metal was coming toward her. This time she was ready. She went and grabbed the sword that was on the back of the Melef. She swung the sword to deflect the bolt and it did. The next thing was a gunshot and then something falling against the wall. She now saw a Zybok Melef laying against the wall. She was dumbfounded as to what happen when she saw Bel run to it. He got near the head area and did something. He pulled the pilot out and got in to the Melef. Then, he was able to get the Melef up. He motioned for Esyla to take Escaflowne to the tower.
She guided Escaflowne out of the Temple and surveyed the damage to the castle. Half the castle was burning as solider were running from the fire and now her. She moved the Melef toward the Watchtower when a shot of metal was seen. She ducked as the shot sailed over her head. She then saw a metal shot toward the first one. She ran her Melef toward the tower as Bel had successfully surprised the Zybok Melefs. She looked up at the tower and wondered how she was going to get up there.
*By doing this, Alyse of the Mystic Moon.“ said the spirit of the Melef.
She was amazed of how quickly the Melef transformed to the dragon. She flew up to the top where Klerk and the other were.
“Well, it would seem that divine intervention wasn’t need then.” smile Klerk as looked out the window. Esyla looked at ground as Bel was playing hide and seek with the other Melefs. However, he was using the cloak sparingly compared to the others. She didn’t understand why he wasn’t using to make sure they couldn’t track him.
*Esyla, are you there?* said a distinctive female voice.
*Who is this?* Esyla said with annoyance. It was enough that one being could enter her mind but two was too much.
*This is Jae. Are you all right?* said the female voice in her head.
*Kinda of busy trying to save our asses in Fanellia.* she thought. “Watch out behind you, Bel” as he saw a bolt shot from a cloaked Melef to Bel’s Melef. She saw Bel’s Melef take the hit in the left arm, nearly missing the energist in the shoulder.
“Hey, Esyla, it’s time to go. We got everybody on board.” said TT as he was the last one to get on the dragon.
“What about Bel? He’s fighting all alone down there?” she said as she started to drift the Melef away from the tower.
*Get out of there, Esyla. * said the voice of Jae.
“Let’s get out of here, girl. “ said Klerk.
“We need to help…………..” Esyla was saying when a blue light engulfed her, Escaflowne and the others. When the light faded they were over a large expanse of rolling fields. Not over Castle Fanellia. She then saw four figures on a road. She flew down when Klerk motioned for her to go down.
“I don’t believe it. It’s Hellfire and Jae. I know from my stay in North America, lass. “ said Klerk as they descended toward the four. She touched down and saw that they were who Klerk said they were. She jumped of the dragon and ran toward the four wayward travelers.
“That was a great way of getting attention, Esyla. Appearing out of nowhere, flying on a dragon.” said Tau.
“Why” she said.
“Because whoever is on that floating ship just changed coarse to see what happened.” Naz pointed out in the sky.
Esyla looked up at the sky and saw the ship. Hellfire did too with his binoculars.
“Well, it would appear that the cavalry is arriving. “ He said as he gave Jae the binoculars.
“Don’t tell me.” Jae said as she looked at the ship through the optical device.
“Alright” said TT. “ Now we get to meet Allen. Now we can star kicking some ass.”
“Damn it, it had to be Allen.” said Jae in a furious tone.
“Good.” said Esyla. “ We can use him and his hip to get back to Castle Fanellia and save Bel.”
“Sorry, Lass. We can’t.’ said Klerk with some concern.
“He’s not dead.” she said. “We can’t leave him to die. Here. Alone.”
HEEEEEEELP!!
*cocks handgun and hold grenade
- Bel!!!!! How can you leave yourself stranded there! You're writing this!!!! AAAAAGGGGHHH!!
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