"Wake up sir- sir wake up," I felt something shaking me gently. Instead of trying to see who or what it was, I ignored it and tried to go back to sleep. Then the shaking suddenly stopped.
"Zero, if you don't wake up I'll mess up your hair and you know how much you hate that sir," threatened Rebel.
" . . . You wouldn't dare," I replied to her tiredly. I slowly adjust my eyes to my surroundings. The clearly amused Rebel then began to tease me.
"Oh no, my hands are moving on their own help me sir," she said dramatically.
"Rebel, don't do this." I pleaded.
As Rebel reached over to mess up my hair, my door opens revealing a slim blonde haired boy and an old man with whiskers that falls to his sides. Some people call them a hot head and an old fool, but I call them Sab and Master Heilos.
"Don't you think it's a little early to have your girlfriend on top of you like that," asked Sab.
" Hey Sab, do me a favor and get attacked by a lif. You know Rebel is not my girlfriend and you know it wasn't like that."
"Oh yeah then why are you shirtless and she's hiding in your chest?" teased Sab.
"That's not important. Now what do you two want?" I asked him.
"We heard reports of a lif attack in the town over, so get dressed Zero."
"Thank you Master, now leave so I can get dressed,"as I waved them out of my room.
"Alright man," Sab said as he and Master left.
"That means you too Rebel," I told the girl trying to shrink herself into my chest. Had she just stopped squirming I wouldn't have noticed.
"Aww but I didn't get to play with your hair," whined Rebel.
"And you never will, little girl."
"Oh really?"
As Rebel climbed off me, she ran both her hands through my once amazing silver hair messing it up as much as she could knowing how much it would anger me.
"Noo my hair, whyyy." I complained and then finally kicked her out of my room to change.
"You're no fun," said Rebel behind the door. A bit of giggling can be heard after she said that.
"Well time to get to work, this time don't let him out."
20 minutes later
Zero and his team have walked into the once lively city of Reoko, where they had found nothing but several tons of smoldering rock from the burning buildings. The city had turned from a warm inviting town to a hellish landscape that only invited the stench of death from women and children all the same.
"What the fu-,"
"Hey Sab don't talk like that in front of children," I said while holding a small boy in burned clothes, a gash on top of his head, and a look in his eyes like he had witnessed the death of his life as he knew it. In a way his eyes told a truth no lie could ignore.
"When did you get that kid?" Sab asked.
"Don't remember, but get him to Rebel she'll know how to fix him up," I commanded, Master didn't make me the leader for nothing.
"Alright man, just don't blow everything up this time," said Sab.
As he walked back to find Rebel I keep looking for survivors. Let's just say that the town people we're really good at hide-and-seek. I've fought lif's all my life and I've seen the destruction they are capable of. I was about to turn back and just see if we could get the kid to talk about what happened here. Kids are never good with this kind of stuff so it's gonna take some food to get him to talk.
"Help!"
"I'm coming," I cried out to the female voice I heard from town square.
I get there and I see the largest dragon lif I've ever seen in my life. It was holding two girls about my age. One a redhead I could tell even though she was covered in dirt and her own blood that she was breathtaking. The other had blue hair, and she wasn't as beautiful as the redhead but still attractive nonetheless.
"Shego!"
Fuck
The kid that I left with Sab must have heard the redhead's voice and left Sab and Rebel to find her. How am I the only capable person on my team?
"
Hey you, don't worry about me just get my little brother Rik and my sister Yema out of here ok," cried out Shego.
"I'll do what I can to save all of you alright. Now stand back kid I've got some work to do," I say as I activate my temp.
"Prepare your blacked heart lif for my power is made to cut past all forms of evil, Archangel Michael bless me with your swords." As I chant I feel myself being covered in power, a warm light cover me as my twin blades one as dark a midnight the one a blinding white each as long as my leg at my side. The lif knowing that this would be it's hardest battle yet placed the two girls on his wings protecting his only weak spot that I could go for to end the fight quickly.
For a lif that was pretty smart. But I can still kill this thing with out anyone getting hurt.
The size of this dragon lif was way larger than any I had ever seen. At least 25 feet tall and by all the spears in his back I could tell he was the only lif around which is strange. Most lif travel in packs only attacking travelers or places that had been attacked recently. Before I could grab the kid the lif took a huge swing with it's claws. It would have killed the kid if I hadn't parried it's strike, I hadn't spent all those years just playing soldier.
"Kid get out of here, I'll save your sister but I can't protect you too. Just trust me I know what I'm doing," I shouted at the kid. It was clear that he wasn't going to believe me till I killed this damn thing. As I had won our test of strength as I pushed the dragon off with just one sword. The beast gazed at me with a look of respect as he dropped both girls. I wondered why it would put it's prey down as he took to the air.
" Oh, so we're getting serious already. Fine let's do this," I said to the dragon as I got ready for him to dive bomb me. Just as I got ready he unlocked his jaw and shot out a stream of fire engulfing me.
"Shit I actually almost felt that," I shouted as I wiped the flames off me with a swing of my swords.
Almost surprise to see that I had lived began to dive bomb me. I was perfectly ready to kill this thing when it made contact with me but I didn't expect it to distract me while it when after it's real prey. As it passed me I realized it's plan. The dragon knew that it wasn't gonna be able to kill me. I was just too strong for him, so it's plan was to fight me long enough for me to forget I had an audience right behind me. As it open it's jaw to eat both the girls that brat Rik rammed himself into the dragons jaw. Right before the beast bit down on the boy he looked at me with a look of shame of letting myself get played by the lif. I never got that look out of my head for the rest of my life.
"Rik nooo!!!" both girls screamed.
"That's enough lif, you die now," I screamed at the dragon as I launched myself at the lif. As the lif got ready for me I was already on top of the dragon.
"You're already dead," I whispered as I slammed my swords down on the dragon's head.
"What," Shego said as the lif disappeared.
"Don't worry about it, I need to get you guys to safety," I told them both as I walked to find the rest of my team.
"YOU BASTARD, YOU LET MY BROTHER DIE" Shego cried out in between her tears as she ran off.
"You gonna run off with her?" I asked the other girl.
She just shook her head and then took my hand as we walked back to my team.
Somehow, I feel I'm going to regret letting her run off like that.