Holly Warriors

[Cody]

Beth smiled shly as she examined Cloud, his black hair ruffled from the wind "Cloud where are we? I thought we were meeting Cody at Teyiho Mountain, why the detour?"

Cloud smiled at Beth "I figured that we might as well meet the king here. Something to do Cody wont be at the mountain for quite some time. Might as well kill some time till we head off"

Beth nodded her head and aproched the entrance "So... after you?"

Cloud laughed and knocked on the door.

[Zuki Tamaro]

Someone approached the door. You could hear clicks on the ground with each step. Claws made noises and it become closer and closer, until the door opened... And what stood behind the door was a small blue baby dragon staring at them at eye level. ~Hello?~ He goes.

[Cody]

Beth uttered a squeel and hid behind Clouds tall stature and peeked out from behind him to look at the dragon

Cloud stiffled a laugh and smiled at the babby dragon "Hello we were just around in the kingdome and desided to drop by" he inclined his body and said "I am Cloud, leader of the Holly Paladins, this here is Beth. Our Mage Paladin"

Beth again peeked from around Cloud and said "Hello" very softly then hid again.

Cloud smiled at Beth "Dont mind her shes very shy" Cloud straited up "I was just wanting to know where the king might be?"

[Zuki Tamaro]

Bluu grinned a toothy grin. ~My name is Bluu! I am King Jotie's partner. But you just missed him. He went somewhere on his own and didn't tell me where he went. But don't worry! He will be back!~ He then looked and wondered. She then walked closer to them and wanted to circle around to see Beth better. ~Why you scared of me?~ He asked as he got nearer to her.

[Cody]

Beth squeeked and moved away and behind a bush Cloud laughed hard "HAHAHAHA, ahhh im sorry Bluu, she just hasent seen a dragon before thats all. And shes a little nervious"

Beth as if in response threw a rock at Clouds head, her face turning pink "Im no that scared......." she said in a shakey voice.

Cloud easly dogged the rock and grined "HA missed" but then a ball of water hit Clouds face head on, Beth had used a water spell and she started to giggle

[Zuki Tamaro]

Bluu laughed, which sounded like a soft growl. ~She's funny! Can she do more tricks like that?~ He tilted his head and looked at her with curious eyes. He then spoke to her, ~Can you pet me please? Only on the head.~ He whined, which sounded cute in it's own way.

[Cody]

Beth gulped "S-sure..." she took off one of her gauntlets and gently toched the top of Bluu's head, and slowly stroked "H-heh... its scally"

Cloud laughed whole heartedly "Oh Beth" cloud cleared his voice "Anyway I would like to know if there are any rooms avalible for our use? You see all the Inn's down in town are full so do you think the king will mind?"

[Zuki Tamaro]

Bluu smiled happily. ~We have plenty of room in the dorms and maybe in the Royal Rooms. Not many use the beds here, and servants are real nice and brings you stuff when you need them!~ He smiled as he got petted on the head and he whined and nodded with each stroke on the head. ~She's nice.~ Bluu then said.

[Cody]

He nodded then with a serious voice he asked "And... do you have a libary?"

Beth became stiff, she knew what he was going to go try to look up, the Shadow Lords past. Why he came into existance and how

[Zuki Tamaro]

Bluu nodded. ~We have a grand selection of books in our royal library! It either has the exact copies of other books around the world to some origonal books that you may have never seen! We got so many books that it isn't even funny. There are rows and rows, from human language, to dragon language and even more other books and scrolls and lots of things!~ He finished with a laughter.

[Cody]

Cloud nodded and without another word he went inside.

Beth sighed "Please you must tell me" she said gently "If you have ever, ever heard of anything about a creature called the SHadow Lord tell me please its imperitive" she stroked Bluu once more "Remember that name Shadow Lord. His power is great but please tell me if you find out anything" she looked over the kingdomes wall to see the sky darking "It looks like a storm is aproching.... and no normal one, I dont know why but It feels..... un natural" she shruged and smiled at Bluu "Let us head inside ok?"

[Zuki Tamaro]

Bluu looked back and he too noticed the speed of the cloud. It was unnatural. He whined and nodded. ~Okay.~ He said and walked in with Beth. ~I never heard of a shadow lord. Why? Are they evil?~ He asked curiously.

[Cody]

Beth shook her head "There is only one Shadow Lord, he is very evil takeing kingdomes for his own, then turning them into nothing but runes were monsters reign, every were you will see corpse of humans or some other poor victum that hasent already joined foces with the Shadow's"

~Meanwhile~

Cloud had found his way to the libary "I wonder...." he picked out a book and started to scan its contents "Nothing.." and so he searched the area.

[Zuki Tamaro]

~You mean like the undead or the balisks?~ He asked. ~Wow, the shadow guy sounds pretty strong if he can take over the kingdom. And this may be a problem for us, because we just went through a vampire war and is just now recovering from it. We have two kingdoms nearby. One to the east that belongs to my partener's brother and this one.~ He said.

A small dragon that happens to walk on two legs appeared around a corner. "Oh wow! A holy knight! What a suprise." She said and walked up to Cloud. "Hello, I am Skela, a librarian here. I know every books that belongs to the library here if you want to look at some." She said, bowing her body carefully. Her green scales glittered with jewelry and she smiled. "So, do you need help?"

[Cody]

Cloud looked up at the dragon and nodded "I was wondering.... do you have anything mentioning a Shadow Lord of some kind? You know one with great over welming darkness?"

~Beth and Bluu~

Beth nodded "Yes, and also he creats his own monsters. I wouldent say they were undead but they are humans that have been traped in there own bodys. There skin is black and eyes yellow. Their praticaly invunable to most attacks execpt fire"

[Zuki Tamaro]

Bluu grinned. ~Will blue fire work? I can blow fire and cream those enemies!~ He said happily and grinned.

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Skela thought for a moment. "Well, we do have a folklore book about that and maybe a history behind that person. You want me to go get them for you? I'm sure there are only two books total."

[Cody]

Cloud nodded "I will be most grateful"

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Beth laughed "Yes that would be fine"

[Zuki Tamaro]

And just that, Skela dissapeared quickly like in a quick run. She ran deep into the library in the darker corners of the library. She then pulled out an old dusty book with a rusted lock on it that seemed to wear away when she opened it. She nodded and quickly ran and searched for the second book. It was a little more bigger than the other one and seemed to be refurnished. She picked it out and brought it to Cloud. She sighed, "Here's the folklore one." Dropping the newer looking book. "And here's the history." She said, dropping the dusty book.

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Bluu grinned and smiled. He then wondered, "Why do you wear so much armor? Doesn't it bother you any? It seems like it gets in the way, ecspecially if you use arrows or magic."

[Cody]

Beth was about to reply when the doors were flew open, and Cody was there "Beth Problem, get Cloud and meet me up at the upmost highest peak of this Palace, pronto, you know what we must do."

Beth nodded knowing that that storm wasent a normal one "Ill fech him" and ran off, totaly ignoreing Bluu

Cody started to climb the stairs.

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Cloud fist opened the Folklore one "It says that the Shadow Lord is nothing but mith. Says here that in the story of the old two brothers were travleing to destroy the power of the shadow lord. An old text was the thing that held the shadow lords power. The rest was unkown to the world. To this day pepole say the Shadow Lord is still a mith" he shook his head and moved on to the next one

"The Shadow Lord arrived 1000 years ago, only to be vanquished by 5 great warriors of light. They sealed away his body and put his powers in a text. And here it says the Text was some how recovered after 2 brothers seemingly tryed to destory it. The text was read and the power of the Shadow Lord was released, but hidden deep within the unkown lands to the north." he closed this book "Well this sheads some light on the matter... it still dosent expain how he gained a body again and how he came back to power...." suddenly beth rushed into the room "Cloud, follow me quickly now!"

Cloud looked at beth and understood following her

[Zuki Tamaro]

Bluu blinked and wondered what happened. He then followed them upstairs quickly. ~What's going on? Why are you moving so fast?~ He asked worriedly, like someone is dying and they are rushing to save them no matter what.

[Cody]

Cody, Beth or Cloud didnt answer him, they had other things on their mind. Once reaching the tallest point in the Palace, they formed a cirlce "Ready?" asked Cody, "Ready" both Beth and Cloud said.

Beth closed her eyes first "Magic" she placed her right hand in wich was glowing a golden white glow, next was Cody whom closed his eyes and put his right hand in wich was also glowing "Power" then lastly was Cloud whom did the same his hand also glowing "Leadership" suddenly the land shook with great foce, but the 3 didnt move, suddenly their bodys were like becons of light. This ligh shot out of the area they were in and outdside. Createing a large hole in the roof.

This light spread around the Kingdome, blocking off any and all evil presents that was sent from the Shadow Lord.... for now.

[Zuki Tamaro]

Jotie saw this strong light and he widened his eyes. He looked down at the darkness of the enemies and growled. "What's going on?" He flew back torwards them and he flew torwards where the light shot off. As soon as he landed, he saw three holy warriors standing. He smirked. "Thanks for holding them off." He said as he folded his wings.

[Cody]

Beth fell on the floor and smiled "I think we put a little too much power in that I can bearly feel my leggs"

Cloud stiffled a laugh and looked down at Jotie, "Ahh so you must be the King" he bowed slightly then looked at Joties wings "Erm.. you have wings... dose that mean?"

Cody laughed "Yeppers Cloud" he bent over to Cloud and wispered something "Cloud we cant stay here, we need to go, I have another puzzle to the past of the Shadow Lord im very certan" Cody wispered to Cloud what he invisioned.

Cloud nodded and looked at Joite "So... will you be comming with us to this far off land? DOnt worrie about your kingdome, it should be safe enough."

Beth nodded in aggrement "The barrier we put up is very strong and soon the Dark Lords foces will give up and go back for a while."

Cody nodded as well "Then once we returen we can fend off any attack that he lanches"

[Zuki Tamaro]

Jotie nodded his head. "Ya, I'm going with you guys. That makes it four of us. Bluu is going to follow. He likes to travel. I don't think he would be a burden, because he stays out of everyone's way most of the time." He sighed and nodded. "So, are you guys ready to set off?"

[Cody]

The three looked at each other and all nodded at the same time "Yes" they said in unison and smiled at Joite "So its off to the old ruins in the South" said Cody and pulled out the hilt of the great blade "And soon, another part in the Shadow Lords mistery will be solved"


~End of Chapter~