Upon hitting the ground with Zephyr on his shoulders, Ryan runs across the Hard-packed snow with his night vison buff engaged. Ryan turns off his music that was on speaker and runs into a heavy cover of trees scraping against branches and hiding down low. He gets Zephyr off his back and pulls out his phone and lifts up her shirt without explanation. He puts his phone underneath it to hide the screens light and fires up his map app on his phone. He sees the town Migraine is not that far away.
Having suspicion that the town in front of them was his target of interest from the air he puts his phone away.
“You detect anything?” Ryan whispers as he puts her shirt down.
“Nothing” Zephyr said while in a Scanning like mode looking around them.
“Kannell thought of everything didn’t she?” Ryan whispered to her as she got back on his shoulders.
“She sure did” she whispered back to him.
Ryan and Zephyr then carefully make their way toward this city.
The idea to seize these targets of interest was to split the team into 2. One team would seize a bomber dragon that could carry this target of interest, while the other team or in this case; they would get the device rigged up for a quick getaway.
Kannell predicted in the event that they get separated because of a situation like this, that they keep moving forward with the mission. She even provided a Plan B and Plan C if things didn’t go right. They were only 2 miles away from a city of interest. Ryan starts jogging with Zephyr toward the town, but also perpendicular to it. They wanted to skirt around the town and make their way to the River where these devices were last seen. As they skirt around the town, they could see battalions of men charge out the city and toward the invading army that was charging toward Manatee.
Ryan ducks down into the cold snow and Zephyr activates [Stealth]. They both wait 10 minutes for the opportunity to move again. When everything was clear Zephyr reappears and gets on his back and they keep running west.
Meanwhile near Chimera
Greena, Noodle, Kannell and the Pilot got their bird shot down by some extreamly gifted fire mage from 10,000 feet . They all jumped out with [Slow Fall] put on them by Greena and Kannell and were gliding toward the city. At the height they got shot down at they could “Glide” for about 2 miles and only have to travel about 2 miles to get to the Airfield of interest. As soon as they all hit the ground, they were met with a Palmlandian squad that was charged with capturing any invaders from this operation.
Surrounded by hunters carrying crossbows, everyone puts their hands up. Relying on her military training, Kannell takes a deep breath and with her hands over her head slowly starts walking backwards toward the most nervous soldier that was aiming a crossbow at her. He gets nervous as she backs up to him and the commander orders him to restrain her. As soon as he took one hand off his crossbow to grab her arms she pops up [Mana Shield] and blasts him and the commander with [Arcane Shockwave]
Then she swiftly grabs his crossbow and shoots another man in the chest. This gives Noodle enough time to raise his shield and bash another man near him. The other 3 get ready to fire at the group but Kannell gets between them with her shield and tanks the 3 shots. Noodle then takes care of them on their reload. The pilot picks up a crossbow and some bolts.
“Damn! How do they cock these things back with such ease!” The pilot said as he was struggling to pull back on the Charging handle that was sticking out from the left side of the Crossbow
The man put the bow down on the ground and used two hands to pull it back and prime the string to get ready to fire.
“How can 8-year-old girls from this country can do this with ease!” The pilot said as he loads up the cross bows magazine bay with 10 bolts. He then hits a button on the side of the trigger guard, and it sends a bolt up onto the firing rail.
“I don’t know, but this is Mother Palmlandia, people are…. Weird here” Noodle told him while they start jogging off toward the river.
Meanwhile Ryan and Zephyr were outside their place of interest and were hiding under a Tree. Ryan gives Zephyr a boost and she climbs to the top of the tree to get a better look into the Small village That was just outside the town of Migraine. She sees a Siege weapon of Interest toward the front of the Village and then climbs down.
“I saw 2 experimental siege weapons. They are toward the front of the village. We have like 15 people guarding it” She tells Ryan.
“Well then let’s get to work” Ryan told her while smiling. Zephyr smiles at him and mildly limps toward him. She gives him a kiss and then pulls out her daggers. She then activates [Stealth] and disappears from his line of sight. He then feels her slap his ass.
Ryan carefully walks into the village and immediately takes a back alley out of sight and sees 2 people talking. He then hears a bird call coming from 1 side of the men. Ryan then pulls out his sword and rushes one of the men from behind. He stabs him from behind and injects [Detonate] into him while Zephyr slit the other mans throat. Zephyr then disappears again, and Ryan carefully starts moving forward into town. He sees 13 men around the siege weapon, and they all were having an emergency meeting.
Ryan hides behind the corner and starts charging up [Void Blast]. He then lets the spell loose and it goes flying toward the leader giving the meeting. The bolt hits him and explodes and an Area of effect spell debuff effects all his soldiers around him and reduces their Spirit by 10%. Ryan then fires up [Ball Lighting] in lightning mode and sends it flying into the middle of the crowd. He then detonates the spell in mid flight and stuns all the members around him. Zephyr then pops out of nowhere and starts killing men while they were all stunned. Ryan also sends in another [Ball Lighting] Spell but in Fire mode and blows everyone away. The commander while he was on the ground dying shoots up a flare with his crossbow and then Zephyr finishes him off.
“Let’s get to work on this!” Ryan said as he pulls off his backpack and pulls out some chains and straps.
The two of them then go over to a mini cell phone tower like structure that was about 10 feet tall.
The Structure had on it had what looked like a large satellite dish on it at the top and a weird looking scoop in the middle of the base that came out 90 degrees. Ryan who was feeling a little confused took several pictures with his phone of the Tower and everything thing around it. Ryan and Zephyr then quickly climb up to the top of it and start rigging chains to this weird thing. Halfway through the rigging process a Fireball flies past Ryan’s head. He turns around and sees some men behind him.
Ryan then realized that flare gave away their position.
Zephyr and Ryan quickly hop down, and Zephyr runs away from him and gets the attention of most of the men. Ryan then fires up [Ball Lightning] in Lightning mode and gets ready to stun them all while Zephyr vanished away from him. He lets loose the spell and they all get stunned and Zephyr joins in behind him and starts attacking.
Out of nowhere Alex comes running in behind them and starts cutting down the men with them
“Long time no See!” Ryan jokes with her as he stabs a man in the chest and injects him with [Detonate]
“I was going to say the same thing dude!” Alex said as she did a sweeping attack with her 2-hand sword and takes out 4 people. Zephyr then uses [Throw Knife] and hits a man in the chest while she stabs 2 men at once. After the last man was down Ryan climbs back up top and finishes his rigging.
“What are you doing over here Alex?” Ryan asks her from up top the tower and securing some bridals.
“My country has had me moving in supplies to the border all day. But 4 hours ago I was tasked with a mission to slay Fire mages staged throughout the area for our boys to safely fly over this place and pave an opening for an attack on Mriya” Alex explained to him as he hopped down.
“You know you missed one, right?” Ryan said with laughing and crossing his arms and pointing up at the sky.
“Sorry about that. These Anti Air mages are all spread out” She told him while looking at the body of dead Commander. She steals a map from his pockets and looks at it.
“So, what are you all doing?” Alex asks him while reading the map.
“Stealing shit from the USSR” Ryan said while laughing.
“Ahh cool you noticed that too!” Alex said while smiling at him.
“Palmlandia is like exactly modeled after Russia, how could I not notice that?” Ryan replied to Alex while looking up at the sky waiting for his team to arrive.
“I don’t know if you have been there, but Faterra is kind of modeled after Germany too!” Alex told him pulling out a marker and circling something on the map she had in her hand.
When she said that something clicked in Ryan’s head.
“Hang on, if Faterra is like Germany, and its Invading Palmlandia… then this may not end well” Ryan told her seeming concerned.
As soon as he said that Alex remembers learning about this in history class.
“Oh My God! Your right!!! This is Just like Operation Barbarossa!” Alex said while remembering how it played out.
“That’s the name of the Operation!” Ryan said in defeat while jumping up and down upon all hyper upon remembering the name of that operation he’s been trying to remember throughout the flight here.
“If history repeats itself Nazi Germany is going to get their ass handed to them” Ryan told her.
“Oh, Faterra isn’t that kind of Germany. They are cool as fuck. They may be a little too crazy for Yulee, but other then that its pretty peaceful” She tells Ryan while looking up at the sky with him.
“But you are Right, if History repeats itself this is going to be an epic fehler” Alex said with a smile.
As soon as she said that 10 Palmlandian soldiers run around the corner and fire a Barrage of fireballs at Ryan, Zephyr and Alex. Alex could see another 20 men from behind them and smiles at Ryan.
She snatches Ryan’s phone from his hand and Quickly opens up offline YouTube and hides behind Ryan.
She puts in “Afrosword – Afrojack” in the search bar and plays the song. When she does so, she turns the volume all the way up and switches it to God mode. She then takes out her 2-hand sword and starts charging toward the incoming wall of soldiers.
Ryan who was puzzled by the familiarity of this song, snaps out of the trance he was in and starts firing up his [Ball Lightning] Spell on Lightning mode. Zephyr then disappears from sight and they all proceed to give them an ass-beating.
“Why does this song sound so familiar!” Ryan screams over the rumbling of the earth this song was producing.
“It’s from Final Fantasy XV! That’s why!” She screams as she starts deflecting fire spells with her sword and starts dishing out attacks.
Ryan then starts supporting her from the rear and casts [Void Blast] at the men to reduce their magic resistance and starts spamming [Ball Lightning] in fire mode at them. Ryan gets shot in the arm by a Crossbow bolt and the person who fired it gets their throat slit by Zephyr. Ryan screams in pain and removes the bolt. He then casts [Drain Health] on somone and makes them scream in agony. He restores 11% of his health and notices a wall of more incoming men coming their way. This income wall of about 90 soldiers scares Alex and makes her back up and join up beside Ryan. Zephyr also sees this and gets scared.
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“Shit were done for!” Alex screamed as she casts [Amber Light] on Ryan.
“No, we are not!” Ryan screams over the music
Ryan then closes his eyes and takes a deep breath he then starts casting a small black flame from his hand. He then drops down to the ground and smears this black flame around him in a Circle and is now standing in a circle of black flame.
He then hops out of the circle and an explosion of orange fire comes out of the Circle.
Citra could be seen standing in the flames. She looks over at Ryan confused in her Sexy human form and sees the approaching army. She smiles at Ryan and pulls out 2 swords out of the ground she was standing in and flies off in her succubus form to greet these men.
Zephyr who saw him summon her doesn’t know what to say but gets back on track. She activates [Stealth] and starts moving forward. Alex also moves forward as Ryan sends another [Void Blast] their way. Followed by a Spam of [Ball Lighting] rounds on Stun mode and Fire Mode.
Citra tanks the attacks of these men while Alex behind her backs her up. They start cutting down men as the village rattled with this song in god mode. Ryan then decides to move in closer and pull out his sword and charge in with them.
He starts Parrying attacks and injecting [Detonate] while Citra flew up and over the crowd to the archers in the rear. He gets hit by 3 attacks and Zephyr kills 1 man with [Throw Knife] and he runs back away from the men and casts [Drain Health] on a soldier to heal himself up and then immediately fires back with another [Ball Lightning] attack in Stun mode. He ends up stunning 5 people and Alex gets behind them and with another sweeping attack takes them down. He then casts [Drain Health] on another target and keeps this focused on him.
As Citra cuts down the rest of the others, Ryan and Zephyr sees 2 Dragons coming in from the Horizon. The dragons fly over the next wave of enemies and unleashes a fiery Napalm-like bombing attack on them. The dragons then get lower and Noodle and Greena glide down off of them and get in the fight.
Greena immediately heals Ryan up with [Shadow Heal] and this doesn’t sting as bad as he thought it would be. Kannell who was up top flying one of these bomber dragons they just stole from an Airfield, fly’s a Holding pattern around the village and begins assisting with bombing runs.
After about 5 minutes of fighting the area was clear The Faterrian pilot and Kannell land in the village. Ryan hooks up the rigging to the Pilots Dragon and he immediately Takes off and starts and starts carrying this thing off.
“What took you so long?” Ryan asked Kannell as she hopped off her Dragon and gave Noodle a hug.
“Oh, we ran into a small problem, but we took care of it” Kannell said as she let go of Noodle. As she let go of him, she looks behind him and sees a weird building that she bombed earlier that was on fire. She quickly walks over to it and opens the doors to this building. Inside this huge hangar like building was a massive bumble bee the size of an attack helicopter inside of it.
The wings of this animal had a glowing pink spell around them that prevented it from being able to Fly. Kannell who knew exactly what spell was cast on it smiles.
“This looks like something of interest we should bring back” Kannell suggests to Ryan and Zephyr.
When she said that Zephyr got to work guiding this animal out of this hangar and while she did that Ryan saw some weird tubes that was by the animal. Ryan takes pictures of these weird tubes that looked like Lances and then takes a bunch of pictures of the building. He then runs outside and throws a Strap under the belly of this beast and Zephyr helps him with the other strap. Kannell then runs the Straps and connects them to the saddle of this Dragon. They all then hop on in a Hurry and realize it’s another Déjà vu situation. Not enough space up top for all of them.
Ryan and Zephyr instead decide to hop on top of this soft furry Bumble Bee. After everyone was on Kannell then gets the Dragon to start flapping its large wings and takes off almost vertical. When the dragon takes off, it gently lifts up this bumble bee and they all fly toward the river. While they were taking off Ryan had the song “Runnin’ Wild” from Airbourne playing on party mode.
Alex and Ryan were jamming out to this along with Zephyr who was getting a little jealous of Alex. As they start climbing Citra flies past them and salutes Ryan.
“Hey Ryan, you know what this Reminds me of?” Alex said while popping her head over the side of the Dragon and shouting down at them
“No what does this remind you of?” Ryan shouts up at her.
“Ever heard of Operation Mount Hope III?” She asked.
“No, I haven’t” He Replied.
“Well Look it up on your phone! I literally did a Book report on this!” Alex shouted excitedly while tapping on the side of the dragon.
“I will later! I just want to enjoy this song!” He tells her.
“Well I’m about to hop off when we cross the border into Ala-Ash I need to report back to HQ in Faterra. It was fun kicking ass with you again dude!” Alex said while head banging to the song.
“Greena Slow fall me!” Alex shouts at her.
“Wait your leaving? But you just got here!” Greena said sounding sad and depressed.
“I’m sorry but I have a tight schedule to keep up with” Alex replied back to her.
Greena sighs and closes her eyes and shakes her head in anger. She buffs her and then Alex secures her sword to her back. She then jumps out headfirst and starts guiding herself toward the ground and toward a mountain peak. She was jamming out to the song as she was gliding down.
Zephyr who was laying down on the fuzzy fur of this Giant Bumble with Ryan gives Ryan a pissed off look.
“Ryan, how exactly do you know her? You never went into detail about her” Zephyr said while crossing her arms.
“I met her while I was out and about one night. I saved her ass actually” Ryan told her while he laid back onto her chest. Zephyr then pushes him gently off her chest indicating there was a problem.
“You and her seem to get along great. I’m a little threatened by her” Zephyr told him while sitting up and crossing her arms.
“Oh, theres nothing to be worried about dear. We get along because were from the same World” Ryan told her.
“Umm that’s not helping!” Zephyr told him in jealous tone.
“Ha your funny. Shes also like 16” Ryan tells her.
“So? You can get married here at 16” Zephyr replies to him
“Umm Look I’m from a world where when you hit 18 it’s EXTREAMLY frowned upon to date someone under 18. In my eyes shes a little to young for me, plus even then I’m dating you Zephyr I have no intention on replacing you” He tells her.
“Aww I needed to hear that” Zephyr said while smiling at him.
“Your Welcome” Ryan tells her.
“Its just you and her have that “Emo-Style” in common and you both are from the same world. I been a little jealous because you appear to have a lot of things in common with her” Zephyr tells him still seeming jealous.
“Well Yes shes an Emo girl. Shes kind of a rare breed of Emo girl. Shes a Black Emo girl which is Incredibly rare. But she doesn’t see herself as a black girl. She see’s herself as a white girl which is kind of awesome” Ryan tells her.
“Well To be honest shes a hell of a fighter. I like her for the most part, but I was just worried you and her were going to develop a “Thing” since you and her are from the same world” Zephyr told him sincerely.
“I wouldn’t worry about anything baby. You’re my girlfriend. You’re the only girl I will think about” He told her as he gently grabs her by the shirt and pulls her to him while he gives her a Kiss.
“Baby this is so Hot!” Zephyr told him while kissing him all over his face and biting his neck.
“Ugg this feels so nice!” Ryan tells her as he enjoys the pleasure coming from this.
“Let’s smash right here right now” Zephyr told him while giving him a crazy look.
“No baby. Were not out of the woods yet. We can be intercepted at any minute and we need to be ready” Ryan tells her.
“Oh, fucking come on! When I want it you always shut me down!” Zephyr said while shoving him away from her. He falls backward onto his back and grabs a hand full of Fur on the Bee to prevent himself from falling off the bee.
“I’m sorry but I’m still not ready Zephyr” Ryan told her.
“Hold up. That reminds me. You summoned Citra back there when we got cornered. Why is she bound to you?” She asked her seeming pissed again.
“She’s being hunted. We made a deal. She’s my “familiar” until things calm down. Then she is free to go. I’m only her master for Teleportation purposes. If shes in trouble I can get her out of a sticky situation. Also, she in turn will help me if we get ourselves in trouble like what happened down there” He told her.
“Why didn’t you tell me this earlier? Now your keeping secrets from me” Zephyr told him while giving him another crazy jealous look.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t think about telling you when I bound her to me because I didn’t think I would ever need to summon her” Ryan replied scratching his arm nervously.
“Shes an extreamly attractive succubus dude. I’m kind of really uncomfortable about this. Her aura calms you down. That’s not cool with me because that’s supposed to be MY JOB!” Zephyr told him in anger.
“Look I’m sorry. But shes stuck with us for a while” Ryan told her.
“That’s not the answer I’m looking for! How do I know your not smashing her behind my back!” Zephyr yelled at him.
“Umm you would know. I’d be weak all the time and or dead” Ryan told her
“I’m not very happy about you keeping this secret from me” Zephyr told him with her arms crossed.
“Look I’m sorry. I can guarantee nothing is going to happen between us. She’s just a temporary team member. Plus, she really hates being controlled. She loves her independence and she knows I won’t take advantage of her like her last master did. She is free to come and go as she pleases.” Ryan explains to Zephyr in a calm tone.
“Well I hope so. Because I don’t want to lose you” Zephyr said while turning around and laying her head on his lap
Ryan then just smiles at her and puts both arms around her and massages her shoulders.
She then grabs his arms and places them over her breasts and makes him squeeze them. This calms her down and they both cuddle and watch the mountains peaks fly past them as they fly semi low over the Ala-Ash mountain range. The heat from the bumble bees fur was warm and kept them warm while everyone up top suffered.
They all fly at a cruising speed of 150 miles an hour for about 4 hours that night. The extreme cold induced so much fatigue on everyone up top that Kannell decided to get Ryan to call Queen Lake on that crystal she gave him and get her to arrange a safe place to put down this cargo so they can get some sleep for a few hours in a warm place.
Queen Lake then arranges something for them and tells them to Fly to Athens, Sivika. She tells them she sent word over there, and that they are expecting them so they all can just land there and they will have a security team ready for them.
Ryan relays this message to Kannell who is just about ready to pass out. She then changes her course a little bit and fly’s for about 15 more minutes and sees a huge capital town in the horizon. She sees a Huge field that was lite up by Fire mages and she begins her approach to land this big dragon with this fragile giant bumble bee that was suspended underneath it.
As soon as she came in, she got the dragon to hover and slowly lowered the bee down to the ground until the legs of it made contact with the ground. Then Ryan, Zephyr, and a few Troops from the Sivika army quickly unhook the slings from underneath the dragons saddle and give Kannell the thumbs up. She slowly hover taxis the dragon away from bee and puts it down next to it. As soon as she lands, she screams in joy.
Not less then 30 seconds of her landing the Faterrian pilot comes flying in with the Tower like weapon. He too hovers over the ground and Ryan and Zephyr rush over to it and unchain it and he puts the dragon down next to it.
Ryan then rushes over to him and checks in on him.
“They called me and told me to put this thing down in Athens, whats wrong?” He asked them.
“Oh, our pilot is just exhausted and cold. We are camping out here for a few hours” Ryan tells him.
“Oh, alrighty sounds good to me!” He tells him as he climbs onto one of dragons wings and slides down it like a slide onto the ground. He then heads over to the Sivikian Base commander and greets himself while Ryan walks over to Kannell. She along with everyone else slides down the back of the dragons incredibly long wings onto the ground.
Kannell as soon as she hit the ground kissed it. She then forced Noodle to give her a back and shoulder rub. She then meets the base commander, and everyone gets escorted by her over to some tents that were set up for them.
Ryan and Zephyr then crawl inside the tent and cuddle. Zephyr then closes her eyes and falls asleep while hugging Ryan really tightly. Ryan on the other hand couldn’t really fall asleep. The ground he was laying on was cold and his blanket he was laying on wasn’t really that thick and didn’t provide that much insulation. He gets up carefully and takes his pillow and his blanket and escapes from Zephyrs arms and walks outside to the Bumble Bee. He looks this thing in its eyes, and it looked mellow and tired. Ryan pets it and it lays down on the ground. Ryan then crawls up on top of it and rolls out his blanket and pillow on it. The warmth from its body was so comfortable on this 41-degree night. He pulls out his phone and looks at the time. It was 5:30 AM.
He then yawns and closes his eyes and falls asleep quickly.
In about 20 minutes however he gets a visitor. His mother comes walking into the Base and talks to her Generals.
“So, I heard we got some visitors. Where are they at Yani?” Bunnell asks one of her Generals.
“They are all sleeping in their tents your Grace. They will be out of here in a couple of hours” Yani told her.
“Thank you dear” she tells her while she walks toward the tents.
Bunnell then looks around and sees her son sleeping on top of a Bumble Bee. She walks over to the tower first and looks at it. She examines it and wonders why Yulee made her own version of a Cellphone tower. She then walks over to the bee and examines it. The bee wakes up and looks at her but doesn’t do anything, it just remains Docile. She then climbs up top of it and looks at her son. As she was doing this Zephyr wakes up and notices Ryan wasn’t beside her. She peaks her head out of the tent and then notices a tall woman in the distance on top of the Bumble Bee. She immediately grabs her daggers and activates [Stealth] She then moves in closer and figures out what shes doing. She sees Bunnell running her hand through Ryan’s hair that was mildly messy and sees her examining him. Zephyr balls her fists up in stealth form when she realizes that it was Bunnell, and instantly wonders what she is doing to Ryan.
His mom gently rubs his arms and Examines his health. Ryan was at 80% health from his recent fight and she feels his forehead and smiles at him. She then gives him a kiss on the cheek and Heals him up with a powerful healing spell of hers and pats his head. She also buffs him up with a spell that gave him more Health. She then climbs down humming “Carry The Weight” from We Came As Romans.
She can see Zephyr in her stealth form but pretends to not see her. As she walks away Zephyr notices Bunnell was wearing her French hair comb. She hurries back to her tent and goes through her stuff and notices that it was missing. She then wonders how the hell she was able to get a hold of it, and also wonders why the hell Bunnell was acting so caring around Ryan while he was asleep and why she kissed him on the cheek. Zephyr knows that Ryan is following Arcadia but was puzzled why she healed him up and gave him a free buff.
Feeling extreamly tired from the ride here she decides to just go to sleep and talk to Ryan in the morning about all these questions shes being overwhelmed with right now. She then grabs her blanket and pillow and rushes out to the Bumble Bee and climbs on top with Ryan and cuddles with him.