Dragon Bound

Chapter 36

Arcs of electricity danced about, licking the walls, hitting the light bulbs, magnetizing metals all about, the arcs came out of Ryoka’s body and as she looked around at the sprawls of guards on the floor she couldn’t help but feel a bit of remorse, she hoped they were only knocked out and not dead because the output that followed her screams had been electrifyingly explosive, as she screamed a form of electrical pulse had grew from within her and exploded outwards, hitting and shocking the hell out of all the guards that had surrounded her.

Now she stood alone in their unconscious midst, ‘So it was the electricity that had been storing in me’ she thought to herself as she moved along towards the cell grounds, the electric arcs still flickered about her, hutting walls and metals and light bulbs as she moved along.

Getting to the area she saw that about all the prisoners were already gathered in the center, wondering why their cell was open and the cause for the commotion that followed the fire alarm, as they saw her approaching, a few gasped and most of the surprised to see such an entity, glowing and pulsing like a light bulb herself and arcs of electricity shooting out from her every few seconds.

The prisoners formed a sort of semicircle, partly because they were kind of scared of her and partly because the didn’t know yet what her mission was, Ryoka counted roughly twenty-five of them, the reports from Adrian’s Mom had said forty, this meant some had been moved or some had died or something else, she knew what she had to do though, to placate their minds and let them know she is on their side.

“My name is Ryoka, I’m an Eldrian like some of you here, I’m the daughter of commander Dante, I’m sure you all know him cos he might very well have been responsible for some of you being here, directly or indirectly” Ryoka started, she needed to build a base of trust hence why she told them about her father, she saw their mixed reactions as well when she mentioned his name, damn she wished her name could get such recognition.

“I am here as part of a fight effort, a fight against the WIC in an effort to end them and their tyranny, my colleagues are right at some other facilities right now freeing other people from the clutches of the WIC, we are here to give you your freedom, once you’re free you’re free, but we would also ask you, plead with you to sacrifice that freedom and join us in this struggle, let us work together and liberate ourselves once and for all from them so we wouldn’t have to live the rest of our lives in constant fear that they might come for us anytime they wish it, so once we are out of here everyone has a choice to either stay and help with the revolution or go and live out their lives as they wish it” Ryoka said to them.

At that point Christine’s program worked and the collars around their necks popped open, another surprised murmur rang out from amongst them before they quieted once again, Jaime moved away from their back where he had brought those from the special cells and cane to stay beside her.

One of those from the special cell came forward, a man in his middle thirties although that didn’t mean it was his true age, “You are Dante’s daughter uhn, well, well, well, like father like daughter isn’t an understatement right about now, I fought alongside him as did some of us here, and I believed in his cause too at the time before the WIC stomped us out, I hope you have a better plan this time around, as I followed your father and fought for him, I will follow you as and fight for you” the man said and some who were with him nodded as well.

Two persons came forward as well, a male and female, they looked alike, and seemed to be middle aged as well and if they hadn’t been in this bad condition, then they would have looked like royalty, it was even obvious in the way they walked and carried themselves.

“If you’re Dante’s daughter, then you are Laura’s child too, isn’t it?” the man asked to which Ryoka nodded, the lady then continued, “We are relations to your mother, cousins in a direct link in our family tree, so it is our niece that asks for our help and support and we will surely offer it, we are with you” she said and some others nodded as well.

From where she was Ryoka could see that the majority had agreed to fight with them, she was really glad and could almost cry, “Ok people, let’s move out, today we regain our freedom!” she yelled and the people hailed after her as well.

On their way out Ryoka used the last of the stored electrical energy in her to blast the huge gates of the prison down after which they all poured out and move to the location that the team had marked out to be the best for taking flight in dragon form.

Ryoka shifted first, took flight and led the way and about thirty dragons took flight after her, some originals and some new generation, with Jamie and Christine bring up the rear, there were no humans in this horde, Ryoka noticed this when she was talking to them when she saw that they all had the collar on them.

Ryoka had a lot on her mind though, first was the success of the mission, she really hoped the others had been successful as well, her mind was on Letty too, she couldn’t wait to see her again, then there was the thing with her powers, could dragons store and conduct electricity? She thought, but she knew the answer to that was no because the guards mostly had electric stun guns which must mean that it was very effective against them, not to talk of the collar which job was to discharge electrical currents into them to control them.

So how come she could do all that back there?

Getting to the safe house at England (which was an expanse estate with a mansion in it) they discovered that the team of Hugh and Han Soek were back already with twelve others, another reduction in numbers, they had been expecting at least twenty, everyone gathered together and greeted and got settled, most hit the showers straight away so as to wash off the dirt and grime of prison and get clothed in the clothes of freedom and revolution.

Hours went by and there was no sign of the last team, Ryoka couldn’t stop pacing and couldn’t eat or do anything else, Adrian, Letty and Javier, what if something had happened and they were in trouble, she had wanted to take flight and go in search if them but she was strongly advised against that sort of action, as agreed before during the planning, there would be no backup or assistance from any other team until a day after, it was then they’d be sure that there really was trouble.

A few more hours went by and finally they were spotted flying in, about forty in all, upon shifting back to human, Ryoka rushed at the team, Javier, Adrian and Letty, they weren’t really surprised by her actions, they knew they had taken longer than expected, in fact there was a mischievous grin on Adrian’s face.

“Will you wipe off that grin and explain yourself, there’s way too many people than expected from your location where we actually expected the least number of people, or is that where those moved away from the other locations where moved to?” Ryoka asked the team members as the freed prisoners they brought also went in to get accustomed and refreshed, in truth they had expected no more than fifteen people from that location but it was more sophisticated in its security measures which was why this team had to be the one to go there.

“Well” Adrian replied “We got there and freed ten people, they were all eager to join in the struggle, and then about half of them had other people, relatives in other holding facilities, so with our might, we hit two other facilities in succession, you should have seen the battle at the last one, it was glorious, I believe we have a prospect of a commander in Letty, she handled the battle and led like a true warrior” Adrian said beaming up with a wide grin that was infectious.

Ryoka trued to keep a straight face so she could chide Adrian for such a reckless and unplanned action, but she just couldn’t help but smile as well especially when she saw Letty’s proud look too.

“Well then” She said instead “Let’s get to recruiting and setting up of the operations of the revolution