Dragon World: The Beginning [Open to ALL]

[A m e n r i a]

The twins Camellia and Camilla followed Jesse into the castle and through the portal, which revealed a magnificent city of gold, remindimg them of an Aztec-themed fantasy movie they watched last year. The view was breathtaking, with people of all shapes, sizes and species living in harmony on this golden plane of existence.

A female figure then appeared, no less regal than her surroundings. She introduced herself as Jesse and Alexis' mother. The twins thought about how old she could've been, and whether she was some sort of goddess or other ageless being. Living in Amenria, they find nothing surprising anymore. After all, their father was a one-of-a-kind being and their mother was a vampire who used to dabble in the dark arts.

Their thoughts were put back on focus at the task at hand when the old being asked the party to come with her. Resolves steeled, they prepare themselves to listen to her plan.

[Draganisia]

As they walked further into the city towards what they guessed was a Palace Mei was kind of surprised that Jesse and Alexis didn't seem to have many questions about her and why she was not there for them. Sure Alexis had a few questions but Jesse didn't seem to have any at all and that was what really surprised her.

"You are meeting me for the first time Jesse. When I imagined you first arriving here I thought you would have questions about me. So why are you not asking anything as we walk to the palace of the Queen?"

Jesse was angry that she was not there for them when they needed her and that their father had to raise him and Alexis himself without her ever being there. If she was really going to ask him that than he wasn't going to hide his anger.

"What do you want me to ask? Why did you leave us shortly after giving birth to us? Why did you never go back to our father even with what is happening now? Why does it seem like I don't care about it? When the truth is that I am so angry that I have killed others who haven't made me as angry as you have.

"Ok I get your point." Mei said as she lowered her head in shame.

"You have no idea how much I am holding back right now." Jesse said as his eyes glowed red a bit like they are in his dragon form. "At this point the only thing I am focusing on is finding out how to stop Gladius once and for all before he and his forces hurt anymore innocent people. As well as a way to change back Alexis's son who was changed into a dragon as well."

"Yes I see that little dragon with you." Mei said as she pet the back of Sammy's head a bit going with the direction of his scales. Something that he really seemed to like, "I am not sure. Even at his age he should instinctively know how to change back into his human form back the fact he didn't shows that there is either something really wrong with him or he hasn't changed back because he doesn't want to."

Jesse was still angry but he did chuckle a bit. "Knowing Sammy I wouldn't be surprised if it really was just that. Let's hope that it is just that because if there is something wrong with him because of this than let's just say things might get violent if the Queen can;t or won't help us."



Meanwhile back at the Castle,

Jake found a good spot in the front of the Castle to cover the main entrence in case it was ever attacked. "OK I found a good position here." Jake said to the Gatekeeper.

"I don't know exactly how you fight so at this point just go into whatever position makes you most comfortable and let me know where it is when you find it. We probably won't get attacked but at this point you never really know what could happen."

[Crimetopolis]

Pensacola. Florida
New OklaTexas Republic
9:17 a,m.

The air force major captain picked up a secure telephone. "Civil Defense Command? We need an air raid for Pensacola and all surrounding areas." Sirens blared and as radio and TV broadcast stations spread the alarm. Fallout shelters were opened. Hospitals, animals, and fire rescue were readied. Military preparations were done, also.

Nike Hercules Missiles and automatic flak cannons. Gephardt flak panzers rolled for mobile base defense. A unarmed F-4 phantom followed by two squadons of F-104 starfighters was airborne. "Recon Phantom to Central Controi, we have vgisual contact." "Central control, go ahead" "DRAGONS!" The phantom pilot screamed before a fire blast from a dragon incinerated him." "All fighters engage the enemy."

30 air to air missiles lashed towards the horde of dragons.. But would it be enough to stop the attack?

[Draganisia]

While one or two of the missiles might hit the rest would be easily dodged by the other dragons who might not have been as fast as the jets but they could out maneuver them a lot better which at this point was their main goal.

They were simply there to provide a distraction so that no one would be able to stop Gladius in his human form from getting what he came there for. As the battle raged above him Gladius walked into a local museum which held a medallion which had been recovered at an excavation of one of the many Ancient Empire ruins located all over the world.

With the dragons attacking the city any guards and local police forces would be distracted fighting them. Gladius would easily be able to break the glass of the display case that held the medallion and smiled as he picked it up. To the humans that brought it to the museum they thought it was powerless but if Gladius combined it with other Ancient artifacts it would give him the power to do what he believed would make the world much better for everyone in it. So if a few had to die in order to make that dream a reality than it was worth it.

"I have what I came for Makarov." Gladius said in his communicator to his second in command who was leading their forces in the battle above. "Tell our forces to fall back to the rally point and await further orders. As for me I have another place I need to go to and get the next piece needed."

Meanwhile at the Draganisian Imperial Palace

When word of the Dragon attack made it to Draganisia many people worried if that was related to the attack in the Capital City earlier that managed to turn many normal people into dragons as well.

Brian knew that at this point it was going to get much harder to hide what was really going on but he knew that if Gladius was going to complete his plan he needed an artifact that was hidden long ago before the fall of the Ancient Empire. The one thing he didn't know was why Gladius would attack them directly. He would never do anything like that unless he had a good reason to so Brian feared that one of the artifacts was located in that city. "I can't let him get the next medallion. Jesse won't get there in time which means if Jesse can't stop him than I need to do it myself."

"What should I tell everyone else sir?" His butler and best friend asked him.

"Nothing." Brian said as he opened the large windows of his room and transformed into his Crimson colored Dragon form. "If Jesse returns tell him that I went to the island of the Fallen King. He will know where that is."

"Yes sir."

Brian then flew out the window and towards the ocean as the lights of Draganisia City glowed below him. To anyone looking up he looked like any other Dragon which was a normal sight to them given Dragons were known as their state animal. Sometimes Brian wondered if things would be much better if people knew the actual truth about them.

Was Gladius right? Would things get better if everyone had the powers to turn into either Dragons, Vampires, Werewolves, or other Ancient creatures like they could? Brian knew it was probably best not to think about that and instead focus on getting to the Ancient Island before Gladius did.

[Crimetopolis]

Pensacola air station battle.....

After losing six fighters, they switched over to 20mm chain gun attacks. These were vastly more successfully with dozens of dragons falling in death. The fighters were inflicting in fifteen to loss rate on the dragons. On the ground, massed tank fire killed a half dozen wise and ancients before the dragons with drew. The accompanying melee' foot warriors simply were obliterated by massed automatic weapons fire from M-14 rifles, Beretta Model 4 submachineguns, and belt fed MG-3 machineguns. AA fire kept reinforcements from lsnding . Several naval ships began blasting AA fire at the dragons from offshore. From a nearby Air National Guard base , a fleet of Huey Cobra gun ships landed near as air assault troops joined the army trooop there, also. It was a rough battle.

[Shwe Tu Colony]

Jake found a good spot in the front of the Castle to cover the main entrance...

The Castle
"I consider myself a highly adaptable combatant," The Gatekeeper said as he moved to stand in front of the main entrance, "I may not nearly be as mighty as stalwart as a paladin or as quick as a ranger — the two usual metrics for those sorts of traits — but I have my own library of spells & equipment for whatever situations I might encounter. I have learned that some of the beasts I tame are often able to counter one thing or another." After saying this, he kneeled down & began to move his staff just above the surface, his green orbs of eyes half-closed in concentration as his tool scattered a white powder. "But if I might make my own preparations..." he suddenly said before returning to creating what seemed to be a magical circle, with the powder remaining stuck to the ground despite his constant movements through it. After around a minute of careful movements, he put his staff next to a wall & put his fists together, bathing the nearby area in a rainbow light that danced forth from the circle like an elaborate water fountain.

After a short while, Seiryuu lifted his head up as well & exhaled a purple ring that expanded slowly, just enough to surround The Gatekeeper when it made contact with him & vanished, only for the magical circle to burst into a white fluid in a short radius around it. Where they landed, new & prior plants would suddenly grow to around The Gatekeeper's knee height, at which point the tips of them began to form what looked to be droplets of water, only the droplets continued to expand into bubbles of a fair size, at which point they burst & floated gently around him as blue lights. "A gentle bubble-producing plant from my world, but don't worry for the environmental effects. They will decay soon & rejoin the earth, & will not grow beyond this state since it is my magic controlling them," he explained as Seiryuu lifted his head all the way up to taste the lights with his tongue, "But for dragons & many beasts, it is an irresistibly delicious treat. It has other uses though, namely with the blue lights you see here — a sort of further processed magical energy that this plant makes to attract creatures to hopefully spread its seeds around — being antiseptic & capable of moderate regeneration, thankfully only to allies. But any creature can eat it or taste its lights."

"A bit like honey," Seiryuu added after rolling his tongue back into his mouth, "Only just a little bit sweet. The fresh taste it imparts is wonderful, though... hmm, I ought to visit Sousundowa soon. Their salad with this is truly a wonderful dish."

[Dragonisia]

After everyone was through the portal.. it activated again.. but from where? Click click clack... click click clack.. Jesse knew the sound of those talons. The planes walker Maelstrom Vortex had gated in behind them. Perhaps he sensed some level of disturbance. Or perhaps, as almost always.. he sensed there was power to be had and he was here to try to claim it for himself. Who knows what brought him to this place? His motives were as a confusing dazzle as his diamond scales or his green, radiation hazed, eyes.

He carried few weapons He was robed in his normal planes-walking garb, adorned in the uniform of Pacifica,only a pair of very special flintlock pistols sat on his hips. He was in his biped form, a mere 6'3 tall.



"Hello Jesse." A single lip curled back in a half-smile showing a fang. "Figured you might also be here. I felt them after the medallions to, after all.. I was their creator." Did he though? Or is this a different Maelstrom from an alternate reality? That's the trouble with planes-walkers, you never knew which version of creation they came from. "All the same, someone is seeking toys they should not have. Who is our quarry?" Maelstrom's mane and wings shimmered with the motion of the air disturbed by his mere presence. The storm dragon was building energy for the coming encounters.

[Draganisia]

Jesse looked at Maelstrom, Sighed, and then kept walking towards the Palace knowing exactly what everyone else was going to ask him.

"Jesse how do you know him?" Alexis asked him as they continued walking.

"One of the very first missions me and Jake went on was to protect a group of archaeologists who were under attack by terrorists who wanted to destroy the whole place. It was almost too much for me and Jake to handle and we would have died if Maelstrom didn't show up and save us. I knew he was different from other dragons but I never really knew how different. When he first talked to me and Jake he said that we each had big parts to play in the future of our world and we never really knew what it was. With him showing up now I guess this is it. If anything it shows even more why we need to stop Gladius once and for all along with all those who might be supporting him."

OOC: Sorry for the short post. Will have a much bigger post up soon that will have their conversation with the Queen as well as Brian confronting Gladius on the island of St Abbaddon.

[Crimetopolis]

Contrails arced from the ground as Nike Hercules SAM missiles raced toward the attacking dragons.. Their proximity fuzes made them explode near enough to their targets to make them deadly to Dragons. Yet the Dragons came. Near the army air assault positions, A police helicopter approached the museum Gladius was raiding. The SWAT team rappelled down cables and landed on the Museum's roof THey were armed armed with Beretta Model 3 SMGS and HK33A2 automatic rifles.

BOOMMM! and explosive charge blew out a sky light followed a tear gas genande after they team had donned gas masks. They repelled down ropes again. And they now faced Gladius.

OOC: I don't want to God mode, so I'm letting GLadius respond.

[Draganisia]

OOC: I don't want to God mode either but this is an important part.

Gladius simply looked at them and gave an evil grin and the tear gas did not effect them at all and the weapons they had would not be any different. "I am here on very important business that will actually benefit you all in the end but that is only if you do not resist and let me out of here. Let me leave here in peace and I promise that no one else will die. However if you don't than I promise that all of you will die."

As if it was planned many dragons then broke through the walls of the room they were in. If they were fired upon they would show no mercy to the soldiers but if they didn't fire they would surround them. Either way the choice of what happened next was now with the leader of the human soldiers.

[Crimetopolis]

THe SWAT team pulled out and radioed the military. they all pulled back about 15 miles... Offshore, a navy submarine got the word... "Code Polaris Code Polaris Code Polaris. " Atomic missiles were aimed at the portal-AND FIRED!!!! The sub flank speeded out to to sea. But, would the sneak atomic strike stop Gladius?

TAGS GLADIUS

[Draganisia]

After the SWAT team pulled out and let them leave he ordered the other dragons to make their way back to the portal. He didn't know about the nuclear strike that the humans had planned for where the portal was but in the end it wouldn't matter as long as they got through it before the nuke hit.

Just after Gladius went through the portal was when the missiles finally detonated right next to the portal. Luckily for those that made it through there were failsafes in the portal system to make sure that explosions and other things like that could not harm those on the other side but those that did not make it through in time were not so lucky and were most likely incinerated when the missiles detonated.

"The humans still want us all dead." Gladius's second in command told him after they made it through the portal and saw it close behind them when the part on the other side was destroyed. "Why do you still want to help them by changing them into one of us?"

"In order to show them that they are wrong about us. The worst fate that an enemy can suffer is to be turned into the very thing that they hate the most and that is exactly what we will be doing to them. This is how we get our revenge for the Fall of our Empire. And at the same time create a better world for everyone."

The place where they were now was known as the island of the Fallen King because its great king died during the Great War that destroyed the Ancient Empire but the island also had another name.

It was called St. Abbaddon

[Crimetopolis]

While no hospital or animal clinics were harmed, entire residential communities were obliterated by the shockwave of the atomic blasts. THose in underground shelters and armored vehicle safely were safe. The military returned to the burning city. Ambulances, fire trucks and civil defense prowled the residential streets. The scream s of the dying and wounded were awful. A medic shook his head at the six dead babies while their badly wounded parents. were loaded into an ambulance. A veterinary medic found a mother cat with her kittens in a open door cyclone cellar. She radioed it in. "We'll set up a field animal clinic there was the response. She found several injured and frightened they meekly obeyed. within an hour they were all safely resting in cages, Surgery and treatment center there was kept busy there for months.

Happily, the blast destroyed all the nuclear fallout. Of a city of seven million, Pensacola lost 556,000 dead and 1.1 million wounded. But because the industrial, commercial, communications, and transport were not badly damaged; the buses were running by dark and the factories reopened a week later.

Enraged at the attack, citizens of OklaTexas were mass volunteering for both the military and police. The junior national guard was mobilized and issued HK33A2 assault rifles and Beretta Models from 12 on up. Other mass donated and helped, too. Gladius was about to learn the meaning total war.

Communications Bunker, Oklahoma City capital of OklaTexas. A radio technician detected the signal it contained a repeating message. After pressing the RECORD button of keyboard. The radio tech called the duty officer. He took the message to State Department. An emergency conference was called. On no Atlas could a nation called Uryad Blayat be found.

TAGS Uryad

[The Orion Islands]

Fantastic images straight out of Harry Potter were being broadcast on state broadcasters OBC News and VOI News. Live video of Dragons had been shot and the public was in total disbelief, yet glued to their TV screens. The National Assembly had spent all night debating what to do, as had the Cabinet. The newly seated Nationalist-Unionists demanded that the government try and destroy the so called "infestation". The Liberals attempted to adopt a wait and see attitude. The Conservatives carried the day. They feared who was controlling the dragons and worried that Orion's archenemy, the People's Republic of China would get their hands on these creatures and use them to attack Orionite allies or even the archipelago itself. It was decided by the President that the military, especially the Orionite Republican Air Force was to be placed on DEFCON 4 and be ready to defend Orion at 4 hours notice. A team of Orionite Bureau of Investigation and Orionite Intelligence Agency agents was sent to find the portal reporters said the dragons came from. Once across and to some sort of official building where humans were, the leader of the team showed his identification and announced "Meriwether Clayton O'Kane, OIA. We heard reports of a man named Gladius who wants to take over the world and we are here to stop him".

[Draganisia]

"Dad can you please tell me a story tonight?" A young Draganisian Prince Jesse asked his father as he tucked him into bed for the night.

"Sure my young prince. Which one do you want to hear?" Brian asked him.

"The one about the two Dragon Princes who's job were to protect their Empire from any and all enemies. The two that could do almost anything as long as they were together."

Jesse still remembered when he asked his father to tell him those stories. Only now did he finally figure out that the two Dragon Princes from those stories were his father Emperor Brian and Gladius. They were the two Dragon Princes of the Ancient Empire and those stories were really mission's that his father and Gladius went on together before and probably during the Great War that caused the Fall of the Ancient Empire.

"You ask me how to find Gladius and yet you know much more than you think." Queen Mara told Jesse after he asked for her help in locating Gladius and stopping him before he completed his plan.

Once the team arrived in the Golden Throne Room of the Palace he wasted no time in getting right to the point. They didn't have the time to go through formalities and while the Blue Dragon Queen might not have liked it she did understand their urgency.

"There is much more going on than you know young Prince. And before you try asking anything of me I must ask you something? Do you know who I even am? Has your father said anything about me?"

"Besides being my grandmother and the current Queen of the Ancients. I am sorry but I do not really know much else about you."

"Than perhaps it is time for another history lesson. My original title is was Supreme General Mara Soveneia of the Ancient Empire. When your Grandfather was the Emperor I was the Commander of the Empire's Military. I tried to warn him about the threat that humanity and those allied with them posed to the Empire but he never listened to me. He didn't want to believe what they were truly capable of and never considered them a threat until it was too late. Both he and your other grandmother died fighting against them in the last great battle for the Empire. That palace of yours in the middle of your Capital City was built on top of the spot they made their final stand. Built by your father who betrayed them in their final hours."

"No. You are lying. My father would never have betrayed his parents like that. Not unless he had a very good reason to do so. If you are telling the truth than you must also know that reason."

"Even if I did it is not something for me to tell you. That is something you will have to ask your father yourself. That is if he lives long enough to tell you."

"What are you talking about?" Jesse said as his eyes started glowing a slightly bright red in anger.

"Your father has gone to confront his brother about what is going on now. On the island of the Fallen King is where they will meet and unless your father joins him I don't expect Gladius to let him live. Or anyone else who tries to stop him from completing his plan to make all humans exactly like my people here."

"The island of St Abbaddon. Yes I know where that is. And yet you speak as if you want him to do it?" Jesse asked her.

"While I will not stop you from trying to stop him I won't be mad if he does complete his plan. By doing so he will fulfill the last true promise he made to his father which was to end humanity once and for all. By changing them into the very things they tried to destroy. Vampires, Werewolves, Dragons, and many more species which are better than humanity in every way imaginable."

At that moment Jesse finally figured out Gladius's true motive for what he was doing. "And it will be his revenge for the Fall of the Ancient Empire."

Alexis then looked at the others and told them what Jesse was already thinking. "We need to get back to the portal now! That meeting our father is going to on St Abbaddon is a trap!"

[The Orion Islands]

A team of OIA agents had located the Golden Throne Room and noticed some of the dialogue. It was decided to bring the whole OBI and OIA team to the room and find out how they can help.
"Hello everyone. I am Meriwether Clayton O'Kane. I represent the Republic of the Orion Islands, a powerful human nation that seeks to stop this Gladius figure from carrying out his evil plans for humanity. Let it be known that we have many friends among the community of nations, other powerful nations that will come to our aid should we need it. I have 42 men ready to try and stop the Gladius, but I need to know what his plan is. Could you please tell us?"

[Draganisia]

Seeing 42 soldiers from a different nation show up like that made Jesse and the others a bit uneasy until he asked Queen Mara about them. "Do you know these guys?"

Mara simply smiled and answered him. "Yes. In fact I was the one who contacted them before you even arrived. As I told you I can't help you against Gladius directly but I can give you others who do want to help you."

"I know that there is more to it than that. There is always more to it."

"Yes there is young dragon. I was reason the community of nations was formed. After the war against the Demons I knew that there were many more threats to our world so the community of nations was formed to help combat those threats. While Gladius is no threat to me the Change would effect the humans and so that is why they are going to help you fight it."

"What do you want us to do?"

"Guide them against your enemy my Young Prince. It is all up to you now."

Jesse looked at the leader of the Agents. "Gladius plans on killing my father on the island of St Abbaddon and so we are going to stop him! I hope your transports are fast because we need to get there before it is too late."

[Crimetopolis]

On a shortwave radio frequency, the OklaTexas state department send. "Attention Uryad Blyyat. We wish to negotiate with your leaders. Please and we will arrange a meeting, too." Hopes were high. But would they respond and could they help defeat Gladius, too?
TAGS : whomever.

[Dragonisia]

Maelstrom had lingered in Pensacola.. not leaving before the missiles arrived as the others left via the gate. He looked up at the missiles and shook his head, "Why do they always resort to those things? They're wrecking their planet every time they're used. There are other more efficient means of destroying the enemy." His nictitating membranes on his eyes closed as the missiles hit. He absorbed the radiation thrown off by them in his direction. "Lets see.. that makes.. 136 across four human inhabited worlds or dimensions." Some debris smacked him as the blast wave went by bouncing or shattering on his diamond scales.

"Estimated yield based on damage and radius.. somewhat less than a megaton." Maelstrom changed into his ancient dragon form.. and inhaled the remnants fallout of the nuclear blast in the air as he had so many times in the past.. eliminating the fallout and charging his alternate breath-weapon. Once done, he compressed himself to a biped shape again by exiling his extra mass into a pocket dimension. Only the soil remained irradiated, but the government could handle that pretty easily. All the above, probably made national headlines. He quietly vanished through a portal he cut open in the air with his talons and would appear back beside Jesse, eyes glowing uranium green.

"Sorry for the delay.. I was having a bit of a snack. So.. what's the plan now?"

[The Orion Islands]

Seeing 42 soldiers from a different nation show up like that made Jesse and the others a bit uneasy until he asked Queen Mara about them. "Do you know these guys?"

Mara simply smiled and answered him. "Yes. In fact I was the one who contacted them before you even arrived. As I told you I can't help you against Gladius directly but I can give you others who do want to help you."

"I know that there is more to it than that. There is always more to it."

"Yes there is young dragon. I was reason the community of nations was formed. After the war against the Demons I knew that there were many more threats to our world so the community of nations was formed to help combat those threats. While Gladius is no threat to me the Change would effect the humans and so that is why they are going to help you fight it."

"What do you want us to do?"

"Guide them against your enemy my Young Prince. It is all up to you now."

Jesse looked at the leader of the Agents. "Gladius plans on killing my father on the island of St Abbaddon and so we are going to stop him! I hope your transports are fast because we need to get there before it is too late."

"I can have an ORAF transport plane here within two hours that can fly at 550 miles per hour. I also can get modern machine guns and hand grenades and gas masks. I have the full backing of my Republic." Just then a call came through from the Orionite Department of Defense.
"Hello Mister O'Kane. So you can get what you need to stop this evil, I am comissining you as a Colonel in the Orionite Republican Army. Now what is the situation?"
"A trap was set for our allies on an island called Saint Abbaddon. We need an ORAF transport plane through the portal within two hours. We need modern weaponry. Things like hand grenades, AK-47s, and machine guns. OBI agents are not that well armed. I also need gas masks. Apparently, the dragonification is done by some sort of special gas. We don't have a sample to test."
"Alright I'll give you the plane, five boxes of hand grenades, 5 machine guns, 20 AK-47s and 84 gas masks. I have a battalion ready if you need it."
"Thank you sir."
He turned to the prince.
"I have a fast transport and loads of hand grenades and better guns and gas masks to protect ourselves from dragon gas. We will help."

[Crimetopolis]

Communications bunker, Oklahoma CIty, Republic of New OklaTexas. The telephone finished jotting the message from Norman, Oklahoma. "Sir! Intercepted transmission from Orion Islands Republic. They seem also to be at war with this Gladius and his dragons, too. Minutes later... ""Attention Republic of Orion Islands. We are the Republic of New OKlaTexas. We will help you against Gladius. If you come Daytona Beach Air Force base, we will have truckloads of weapons ready for."

Daytona Beach airforces . Truck loads of HK 33A2 assault rifles, M-14 battle rifles, grenades, Beretta Model Three submachineguns were lined up. Tanks, AA guns, Nike Missles and F-104s provided security. But would the Orions respond?

TAGS REpublic of Orion.

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[Draganisia]

OOC: Sorry it took so long. Have a bit more free time now if others post a lot as well.

Beyond the jegged edges of war there were still some Dragons who refused to join Gladius's lunacy. Dragons who were willing to stand against the tide and help us take out Gladius and end this. However in order to get to where they were it meant that our father would have to wait a while for us or confront Gladius alone and you didn't have to guess which one he chose to do.

Brian was in his Crimson colored dragon form as he approched the Tomb of the Fallen King on the island of St Abbaddon which was named after King Abbaddon. During the time of the Ancient Empire the island was home to one of the largest Ancient cities at the time second only to the Empire's capital city. There were many versions of the island's history, some true and some not, but the one thing that was consistent through the stories was the reason King Abbaddon was killed.

Brian remembered what he told his son Prince Jesse and daughter Princess Alexis.

“Hailing from the distant land of Trutina, a young Hero (Ancient humans with magical abilities) named Rydiafan was dismayed at the recklessness of what the King wanted to do in order to show his loyalty to the Emperor of the Ancient Empire. He set sail to the newly risen Islands to confront him during the Fall of the Ancient Empire. There, he learnt a terrible truth that Abbaddon was the prophesised Harbinger, the arbiter of the world's doom who in order to bring balance and peace to the world he had to destroy it first.

Determined to stop this, Rydiafan began raising an army and turned the world of heroes upside down. A rift opened up between those who supported Rydiafan, and those who supported the King, and the islands plunged into war.

Finally, Rydiafan and his army of heroes marched to defeat Abbaddon and a great battle ensued. Though Rydiafan was brutally injured, he was able to cast Abbaddon's trident from his hand, and defeated him. With Abbaddon's fall, the world once again saw peace, but at a cost. Many great heroes of diverse backgrounds and histories fell, and those of Abbaddon's supporters who survived would live with the guilt of defeat for the rest of their days, some even committing suicide in order to restore their honour.”

Rydiafan would eventually return to Trutina where he came upon his throne as a widely respected military leader.

His Empire would reign for a thousand years, but like any civilization his would eventually fade with time like footprints in the sand. The Isles of St Abbaddon remained however, a testament to the products of narration that built it. The descendants of the heroes who fought at that Last Battle lived on, carrying with them the legacies of the Isles. The story of St Abbaddon.”

Of course over time Brian was able to learn the real truth. Abbaddon was not necessarily the Harbinger of the stories but he was the one that would end up giving the real Harbinger what he needed in order to complete his plan.

“It took me too much time to finally figure it all out.” Brian said out loud to Gladius whom he heard land right behind him.

“And what is it that you figured out?” Gladius asked him even though he already knew what he would say.

“Abbaddon was not the Harbinger trying to bring about the end of the world in order to save it. You are.” Brian said as he turned around to face his brother.

“And you are right.” Gladius said. “What I am doing will destroy humanity. But instead of killing them I will be changing them all into things much better than they are now. Abbaddon holds the key to unlocking the power needed in order to start The Change on a worldwide scale.”

“Abbaddon's Trident.” Brian said.

“The Ancient powerful energies that Trident contain are needed in order to power the device which will give turn all humans into Ancients. Werewolves, Vampires, Dragons, and so many more. The world of the Ancients will be a peaceful glorious place but in order to make it a reality the world of humanity will have to be destroyed.”

“You know I cannot allow you to do that.”

“The truth is Brian that I never expected you to allow it. Especially after you betrayed our parents and left them to die because of what they wanted to do.”

“Our father was the original Harbinger. He believed that a united humanity would be a threat to his reign and in the end he was right. He wanted to destroy humanity by changing them into what everyone else already were. Sure at the time it was peaceful in the way he wanted to do it but if he was truly worried about the people rising up against him than it only showed he did not deserve to lead the Empire at all. And an Empire without it's Emperor does not deserve to stand at all.”

“Are you willing to let the same thing happen to your precious Draganisia just so you can try and stop me? If I kill you here and now Draganisia will be left without an Emperor.”

“You are wrong about that.”

“Oh yes your son and daughter. Your son Jesse does not even want to become Emperor and Alexis does not have what it takes even if she did want to be Empress. Without you Draganisia will fall and then so will the rest of humanity.”

“We'll see about that.” Brian said as he attacked Gladius. He knew that with Gladius's men surrounding him even if he did manage to kill Gladius they would more than likely kill him after. However Brian also knew that the longer the battle went the more time Jesse and the others had to get there and reinforce him.

“One way or another it ends here!”

[Draganisia]

OOC: Sorry for taking so long with this. Need to end this part soon so I can begin the next part which begins after their battle against Gladius ends.

The one on one battle between Brian and Gladius went on for a while and each time one of them gained the upper hand the other would quickly counter. They were trained together and during the time of the Ancient Empire they fought side by side until that final battle. They each knew each other's moves so the battle went on just like Brian wanted it to but he also knew it wouldn't be too long until Gladius got tired of fighting himself. "Whatever you are doing Jesse please hurry up."



Meanwhile Jesse told them that they needed to split up. He told O'Kane to go to Daytona and get the weapons from Crimetopolis before meeting them on St Abbaddon.

Jesse and the others then got on another transport and went back to the Capital City of Draganisia after recovering Jake and the Gatekeeper from the Castle. "How was it there Jake."

"I could see shadows moving outside of the Castle. I think Gladius's forces were watching us waiting for a moment to strike but luckily they never did. You guys didn't see anything from the air?"

"No but that doesn't mean they were not out there. We need to pick up some people from the Capital City before we head to St Abbaddon."

"The island of the Fallen King? How does that place fit into this?" Jake asked.

"It holds an artifact that Gladius needs to power a machine that can give all humans in the world Ancient powers at once. We believe the machine is located in the main city of the island but the artifact is Abbaddon's Trident which was buried with him in his tomb at the center of the island."

As Alexis told Jake this he then saw that their son was sleeping in Adria's arms as she sat next to the kid's mother. Sam was back in his blond haired human form. "So they did help him."

"Our mother did. We are dropping him off at the Palace before heading to St Abbaddon. Adria agreed to stay there with him until we get back."

"This is your fight." She told them. "I have already seen my fair share of combat and will probably see more as I get more control of my new powers."

"Which is why she should be fighting with us instead of..."

"Jake I will not stay there while my father and the rest of the world is in danger." Alexis told him. "This is our fight probably more than anyone else's. I am going to help save him and you will not stop me." She said as her eyes glowed red a little bit just as Jesse's did when he got angry.




After dropping off Adria and Sam they stopped by a nearby military base where others who had experience fighting against stronger overwhelming enemy forces joined them. One of them was named Jordan and he was no stranger to overwhelming odds. "Good to be with you again Prince Jesse."

"Odds here are probably lower than our other battles." Jesse told him. "But there is still a chance we can save him and end this."

"Just like old times. Lets do this."

[Crimetopolis]

Daytona: as the foreigners came, a delegation came to Jesse and his people. "Greetings. I am General Clayton Lemay. These truck s contain the first military aid we can send you. We wish also to send troops with tank and air support to help you fight Gladius."

[The Orion Islands]

To: OklaTexas Foreign Department
From: Defense Department of the Republic of the Orion Islands
Security: TOP SECRET
"We accept your offer of armament to go toward fighting Gladius. We will be sending 5 ORAF transport planes to pick up the material, as well as an armed escort of 500 Republican Guardsmen to protect the delivery. We have also secured top secret agreements for Great Britain, France, and Japan to provide aid to our fight with men, while India has agreed to provide intelligence and logistical support."
To: Dragonasia Foreign Department
From: Orionite Defense Department
Security: TOP SECRET
"Our government has agreed to lend 40 fighter planes, 15,000 men, and 25 tanks to the fight. We have also secured agreements in principle with Great Britain, France, Japan, and India to provide aid to this fight. Britain, France, and Japan are providing 5,000 men each, while India is providing logistics. The support of the people is behind you. The House of Deputies voted 349-11 to support the fight, and the Federal Senate voted 62-2 to support it."