CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE ACADEMY’S COUNTEROFFENSIVE PART III: THE ENTRUSTED LEGACY PART II: THE BIRTH OF RYUGAEIA’S HEIRLOOMS PART I: KING DRAGONHAART, SOL AND STELLA SAGGEESE
On the Continent Of Novatio, a terrible battle was being fought. Roughly about a millennium ago, a terrible black dragon fell from the skies. Over the period of a millennium, it had amassed an army of Dark Dragons and was currently at war with the humans of Ryugaeia. An evil warlord by name of Irik the Devil had teamed up with the terrible black dragon and humans were on the verge of being driven to extinction.
On one of the battlefields, a trio from Saggeese were doing their best to escape the pursuing Dark Dragon Army.
"King! At this rate, we'll eventually be killed!" a girl called Stella Saggeese exclaimed worriedly.
"It's quite amazing. We come to Novatio hoping to join the main forces of resistance against the Dark Dragon Army, yet we've been forced to flee on more days here than when we were in Saggeese" a boy called Sol Saggeese said.
Sol and Stella Saggeese were twins. Moments later, Sol, Stella and King found themselves surrounded by the Dark Dragon Army.
"This is such a pointless war! Our ancestors battled that Dark Dragon Armageddon! They should have just defeated it instead of passing on the burden to us!" Stella complained.
"We fight Armageddon so that our own children would not have to carry the same burden" Sol said seriously.
"You've got guts Sol" King said.
"Yeah, I personally believe that this war will soon end" King said.
"How come?" Stella asked.
"Yeah King, we've only been able to survive this long because you possess a strange ability to sense things. Do you really think the war will soon be over? So we'll beat Armageddon right? It's kinda depressing if the end you're talking about is Armageddon's victory" Stella said with a depressed look on her face.
"The wind is changing. Help is soon to arrive" King said.
Meanwhile, Ryu was falling towards Ryugaeia at an immense rate.
"It's kinda nice to imagine that what you're saying can be true but look where we are now. We're surrounded by the Dark Dragon Army and honestly I can't imagine how we're getting out of this one" Stella said.
"I should be arriving in Ryugaeia at the time shortly before the end of the Dräkan War" Ryu said as he suddenly crashed a short distance away from King, Stella and Sol.
The impact of his crash wiped out the Dark Dragons surrounding King, Stella and Sol.
"Whoa! Something just fell out of the sky!" King said as he approached the dust concealing the figure.
A huge crater was created as a result of Ryu's crash.
"Should we really be getting close to whatever this object is considering the fact that the last object to fall from the sky was Armageddon?" Stella asked.
"Where's your sense of adventure Stella!" Sol cheered her on.
"Certainly not anywhere near objects falling from the sky and driving humanity to the brink of extinction" Stella said.
"I don't think whatever it is that just fell from the sky is evil. I mean, look at the size of this crater, the Dark Dragons have almost impenetrable scales, we don't but they were wiped out and we're still standing" Sol said.
The dust cleared and Ryu was visible. He seemed to be checking his crystal key for a timeline. Moments later, more Dark Dragons began to approach the scene.
"Hey you! We need to leave this area now! It's dangerous!" Stella screamed.
"We don't need to leave. We just got ourselves an awesome secret weapon against the Dark Dragon Army" Sol said.
"That's if we can convince him to help us" Stella said.
Sol walked up to Ryu.
"Hey" he greeted.
"What's up?" Ryu greeted.
"Think you can lend us a hand here? I mean you single handedly decimated the Dark Dragon Army just by landing here" Sol pleaded.
"Sure thing" Ryu said with a smile.
"You hear that Dark Dragon Army?! We ain't scared of you! We've got our own badass secret weapon…uh-um, I mean insanely strong comrade over here" Sol said.
"Yeah, he decimated an army of Dark Dragons just by landing!" Stella supported Sol.
"Trying to intimidate an army of Dark Dragons with a party of four just isn't a good idea" King shook his head in amusement.
Ryu walked up to Sol and Stella.
"I have just one word of advice for you…" Ryu said as he held their hands.
"What?" Stella asked.
"Run like your lives depend on it!" Ryu screamed as he took to his heels pulling Sol and Stella with him.
King followed close behind. As they ran, they noticed the sky flashing with a great number of bright lights and then they noticed what looked like thousands of comets flying across the sky.
Charging towards Ryu and Sol's party from the front were three boys.
"Huh?! You guys?!" Ryu exclaimed just as the boys passed him by.
"You can thank us later. Did you really think we'd let you go off to confront Tristran on your own? These forms should throw off Tristran's suspicions" one of the boys whispered.
"Thanks a lot Molten, Hurricane, Terranica…" Ryu said with a smile.
"For now get Sol, Stella and King to safety" a boy with fiery hair, who was actually Molten in disguise said.
His fists suddenly flamed on. Sol, Stella and King noticed the flames on his fists.
"TAKE THIS! FIRE DRAGON COMET PUNCH!" Ryu heard Molten call out and saw him streak into the midst of the Dark Dragons.
The others charged in to help.
"Who really are you?" Stella asked.
"For now, all you need to know is that I am a friend" Ryu said.
Ahead of Ryu, Sol, Stella and King was a camp.
"That wasn't there before" King noted.
Within the camp were numerous people tending to the injured. There were also what looked like schools.