The night filled the kingdom of iacon, the fire coming from the torches filled the walls of the kingdom. Inside the castle, inside the room of the Round Table stood the king and his loyal knights, they were having a serious chat.
"In the ten years of Sir optimus's death, equality and freedom has spread out the lands. Excalibur has given us the strength to stand again the whole injustices" all the knights clapped as the king said, he raised his hand as a signal for them to stop as he keep on with his speech "iacon has prospered beyond our greatest-"
The king wasn't able to finish his speech, the roof of the room where he and the knights stood suddenly broke with a loud crash, they all covered their heads in an attempt to protect themselves from the roof's parts that fell with the crash. A huge animal looking, a mix of an eagle with a lion, came flying through the room showing its huge and sharp claws to everyone in the room. His huge wings passed by the torches that lighted up the room and created a strong wind, causing the torches' fire to disappear, leaving the room covered in the darkness.
The knights quickly took their swords as the animal landed on the table softly, right in front of the king. The knights all raised their swords as the animal moved its head slowly to the left and then to the right.
"It's the Griffon..." whispered one of the knights, the griffon keep moving its head to the left and to the right, the only small light that could be seen in the whole room was the creature's green, shining optics. It stopped moving its head as he stared right to the king, its green optics staring at something in particular...the king, very slowly, started moving his right hand up in an attempt to catch Excalibur so he could fight the creature, however...the griffon was faster and moved its head forward very quickly towards the king, with its sharp beak it caught the sword, breaking the chair where the king sat and wounding the king's right arm badly in the progress.
Immediately the creature started flying up, Excalibur in between its big lion claws, most of the knights started running after it and tried to hit it with their swords, axes and spears but the griffon was too fast for them and flew outside, through the broken roof. Two knights reached the king's side, who held his wounded right arm with his other hand but he refused their help, more concerned with the sword than with himself.
"No! Not me! Find Alpha trion and go after the sword!" he ordered, a bit weak from the sudden attack, the two knights supported him. The griffon flew through the roofs, completely breaking them into pieces, his groan filling the sky, the guards started lighting their arrows with the fire from the wall's torches and threw it to the flying creature as it started flying away with the sword.
One of the guards approached his partner "Send the warning across the land! Excalibur has been stolen!" the other guard immediately obeyed and through the big sound propagator, he spread the sound through the air, the sound filled the air as the castle's bridge fell down, letting the knights to ride on their horses after the creature who held the magical sword.
Alpha trion, the king's magician, approached the castle's walls covered by his green cape, as in his left hand he held his wooded rob "Silver Wings! Protect the sword!"
Meanwhile the griffon flew through the sky, Excalibur still in between its claws; it approached a forest and flew over it calmly until suddenly between the clouds that filled the night sky, a silver twinkle shined and swiftly approached the big flying creature. In a swift moment the silver twinkle hit the griffon across its eyes causing it to blink and groan in agony, the twinkle flew up again and revealed to be nothing more than a small hawk.
Swiftly the little hawk flew down again towards the griffon and hit it on the chin, this time so hard that it was able to knock the creature's strong grip off the sword. Once it recovered from the knock, the griffon glared at the hawk as it flew again up to the clouds but then the bigger creature noticed that Excalibur had fallen from its claws, its green eyes widened and it quickly flew down, after the sword as it fell down the forest of thorns below them.
But the griffon wasn't fast enough; the sword ended up falling on the thorns and right when the creature was about to approach the thorns, black thorny hands came from the forest and started moving to catch the flying creature. The griffon stopped abruptly the fly and completely forgot about taking the sword back, the only thing that crossed its mind at the moment was escape alive from those thorny, dangerous hands that threatened to rip his black feathers off its body.
However when the creature was in middle air and safe again, the sword came across its mind once again, it stared at hands that were still moving. The griffon roared and flew down again but the hands were too fast and before the creature could reach the thorns, the hands moved towards it and caught one of its wings. More and more hands came and caught the creature but not wanting to lose its life right there and now, the griffon fought with all its might against the hands' grip, ending up being able to escape, now forgetting the sword once and for all. Who didn't seem to forget about it was the small hawk that once the hands calmed down and returned to their place, flew towards the place where the sword had fell and marked the place with a silver twinkle.
As all of this happened, the guards from iacon's castle were still sending the warning that Excalibur has been stolen through the sound propagator. The sound propagated through the air, reaching all the nearby lands. In one of the lands, a mech and a femme who were harvesting the wheat heard it. They raised their heads when they heard it.
"Excalibur has been stolen!" exclaimed the mech, the femme gasped as she dropped the wheat she was holding
The warning also reached the land where lilly lived. The girl was walking towards the henhouse to pick up some eggs for her mother when she heard the sound; she stopped in her tracks, gasped and quickly turned around. Knowing what this sound meant, she dropped the basket she was holding in her hand and run fast, back inside her house where her mother was.
"No! Absolutely not!" said Elita One as her daughter told her what she just heard. Lilly had gone to her mother to ask her, more like begging, to let her go find the stolen Excalibur. Of course her mother, Elita One, immediately refused such request as she sewed a white dress, being held by one of her maids.
"But mother, Excalibur is missing! I must go after it!" said lilly, the maid let go off the dress and walked towards the blue and white girl, she started measuring the girl as Elita walked to her daughter with the white dress
"That's a job for a knight, not for a young girl" Lilly still didn't give up and keep trying to convince her mother to let her go
"But I want to be a knight! Go on great adventures, fighting evil, rescuing damsels in distress!" she said as the maid keep trying to measure her but she found it hard since lilly didn't stop moving, then the sapphire eyed femme eyed her mother with a confused look "What's a damsel anyway?"
As she finally stopped spinning around, Elita was able to dress her daughter in the white dress she has been holding for a good couple of minutes "Now lilly, lilly. Stand still and try on your new dress" Lilly struggled inside the new dress as her head popped out
"Mother! I don't want a new dress! I want to save iacon!" she said, a bit annoyed "If you just let me, I know I could find Excalibur on my own!" a mech who seemed to be the maid's husband was picking up optimus's knight shield so he could clean it, lilly walked towards him.
Elita sighed "The knights will find the sword and they will do it by working together!" Lilly picked up the shield from the mech's hands and pointed it to her mother, the mech frowned a bit
"Well I'm working here! Doing the shores, fetching the eggs, taking care of the house...it's boring!" she said as she crossed her arms and gave her mother an annoyed look as she approached her daughter "Where is the glow in that?"
"Lilly...one day you will learn what iacon is" started Elita as she held lilly by her arms, then moved one of her hands towards her face and caressed it "Until then...you will stay here with me!"
Immediately lilly pushed her mother away and undressed her white dress "Oh, alright!" she said very annoyed, she run fast as she could out of the house, not caring about the dress that fell on the floor. Elita sighed and turned around to face the tapestry standing on the wall behind her, in there were embroidered a mech, a femme and a young femme. This tapestry represented optimus, Elita One and lilly. The pink and white femme looked worried at the embroidered mech in the tapestry
"What would you do...?"
Meanwhile, outside the house, lilly had gone back to her shore to fetch the eggs, she had an annoyed look on her face, a few chickens were outside and others were inside the henhouse. She was about to pick some eggs when she heard a noise outside, she quickly went outside just to see a chicken flying towards her, she was surprised as she caught it in between her hands, not knowing where this had come from, she sighed annoyed as she went back inside the henhouse
"How am I supposed to do great things, if I'm stuck here?" she said as she started picking up the eggs, the chicken still in her arms "With these stupid chickens..." however she didn't seem to notice the shadow that started approaching her, she only noticed this when the chicken started panicking. Lilly turned around and gasped at the person that stood before her.
At the same time, flaming arrows entered by the house's windows inside it and the main door broke down, more flames coming from it. One of the flaming arrows hit against the wooded table where Elita, the maid, the maids husband and their daughter stood, they all had horror expressions in their faces, not understanding quite well what this sudden attack was
Lots of mech's invaded the house, all of them with spears and swords, Elita gasped as a tall mech that was silver entered inside the house, she couldn't understand who this person was since he or she had a mask on, covering the face, but she knew it was a mech because of the body.
"Knock! Knock!" said the mech, Elita frowned as the maid's family shrunk in a corner with fear
"Who are you?" she asked, to answer her question the mech took his mask off and revealed sharp emerald red optics and a mischievous grin on his face. Elita gasped as she immediately recognized the mech "megatron!"
"megatron! I was walking by and decided to pay a visit!" he said as he approached her and held her chin up with his large hand "What about kiss? I heard you are still single"
The femme frowned again and slapped, hard, the silver mech's hand off her "Take your filthy hands off me, you pig!" megatron frowned; he didn't like this reaction from her
"Is that so?" he said as he walked past her
"I demand you leave immediately!" megatron chuckled
"So rude! And I came all this way, just to see you!"
"What do you want?" said Elita, mad as ever, of course she was, she couldn't forget this was the mech who had killed her husband
"iacon!" he exclaimed as he put his hands in the fire and "played" with the smoke, he chuckled as he started mumbling a song
"Let's go back to war and violence
I'm so bored with peace and..." he was cut off by the maid's husband, who was scared to death, as he dropped a cup, megatron turned around with a mad look
"SILENCE!" the mech shrunk in fear and quickly run to his family as they shrunk even more in a corner, fearing this mech a lot, he turned again to the bonfire and stared at the shield above it, he chuckled and picked it up
"Nights of evil, filled with fear
Your worst dream is my idea of fun!" he chuckled again as he threw the shield at the table, Elita immediately caught it before it could go even more farther
"You're mad!"
"I'm so glad you noticed!" he said as he put a mischievous look on his face "I have been working on it for years!" elita looked sadly at the shield in her hands and caressed it, remembering her dear, deceased husband
"Let darkness find its sad ways;
Let's go back to good, old bad days
No more foolish acts of kindness
Arthur and his kingdom will be mine!"
Elita glared at megatron, very angry, her fists tightened hard as she clenched her teeth, megatron took a sword from one of his mech's and walked towards the tapestry, he chuckled as with the sword the cut a bit the peace of tissue where the head of lilly was embroidered
"And dear Elita One...you're going to help me!"
Elita frowned and glared once again at the emerald red optic mech before her, she walked towards him as she murmured "I would sooner die!"
Megatron grinned evilly as with his hand he ripped the tissue he had cut before "I think you won't be able to resist!" and he cut with the sword the embroidered neck of lilly of the piece of tissue, at the same time two of his mech's entered in the room holding lilly by her arms, the girl struggled against the mech's grips, Elita had a horror look in her face, she put a hand on her mouth as she shook her head
"Mother!" yelled lilly, megatron laughed as he handed back to his mech his sword, the two mech's that held the young blue girl threw her, without caring if they hurt her, hard on the floor
"Don't you dare hurt her!" yelled Elita as she tried to go to megatron but two other mech's held her by her arms, megatron grinned and turned around to face her
"Follow my plan..." he started, lilly thought he had his guard down and quickly stood up from the floor, in a quick movement she took a weapon from one of the mech's that held her before and she tried to launch it at the silver mech but he easily caught, he grinned at her as the girl widened her optics in disbelief "...and she won't be harmed" elita's optics widened in shock too
Not too soon the whole family, including the maids, was outside with megatron and his mech's
"Years from now, no one will bother
To recall your good King magnus
Because all of this will be mine!
This will all be mine!"
Elita and lilly struggled against the mech's who held them while all the maids could do was stare hopeless and scared at those mech's, megatron grinned and turned around to face Elita and lilly, he approached them and caressed lilly's mother's face as she stared at him in disbelief
"I have a plan and it includes you
You, Elita, will lead me to
Iacon!
Where I will claim all that is mine
In the back of your wagons, my mech's will hide
You'll sit up front as the gates open wide"
Elita watched as the mech that held her daughter started taking her away, as she heard what megatron's plan was, she looked at him in shock and shook her head, refusing to be part of such evil plan
"Now watch me create my mechanical army with pride!"
The mech who held Elita also took her away as another mech approached megatron with a golden box, he opened it and took a green potion out of it, he grinned as he looked at it and then grabbed a nearby chicken
"With this potion I bought from some witches
A drop on this chicken;
And watch as it switches into a weapon
That I can use at will.
Now this chicken...
He put a drop of the potion on the chicken and then a few more inside the big well in the middle of the garden, he was given an ax and with that he dropped the chicken and the ax together inside the now green well
Can kill!
A huge green wave came out of the well and not too long after it disappeared a big hound came out of it, Elita and lilly stared at it in horror and shock
Ta-Dah! Behold:
A blade beak!
Stand right up and enter quickly;
I will transform the meek and sickly into iron mech with hands of steel!
More and more mech's started joining in this arm, they jumped inside the well with their weapons and when coming out they were nothing but metallic mech, infused with their weapons, dangerous weapons
Yes, into the water! Quickly! Now, go, you fools!
Next stand up straight, now! Move it along!
No, no, no, no, no that's no good!
Prepare for the dawning of a new age:
One of the mech's who went to join was the one who was holding lilly, she looked surprised at her free arms and so did her mother, who was still being held by a mech
The Drakerian age!
Year One!
One of the mech's who was now in his metallic form started approaching lilly and Elita, the young blue girl hide behind her mother as the metallic mech held her mother's free arm. Elita looked slightly behind and whispered to her daughter:
"Go to Iacon, warn magnus..." Lilly 's optics widened and she shook her head
"I won't leave you here!"
"Lilly! Megatron will reach iacon in three days. Take the main road and you will get there before us!"
Lilly saw a way out, a hole in the wall they were nearby, she quickly hide inside it but still not willing into leaving her mother alone with those barbarians "But mother!"
"Go!" Lilly stared between the hole and her mother "While you have the chance. Go, lilly...You're our only hope!" with these words the young girl nodded and left, Elita stared at the hole with a worried look "Be careful, dear" megatron and his army keep dancing around the green well as the silver mech laughed evilly
(Bring on the darkness, bring on the gloom,
We are the army of death and gloom)
(Bring on the darkness, bring on the gloom,
We are the army of death and gloom)
Only one will be revered,
Worshipped, hated, loved, and feared!
I'd just like to say a few words:
I, me, mine!
You were mistaken if you believed
Megatron was someone who'd crumble and leave
Now I am back, and I will be staying this time!
Megatron jumped from the tall boxes he has been standing in and landed in the middle of his army as he raised his arms in the air
I told you once!
I told you twice!
Everything you see before you
In the air, the green smoke formed the three rings of iacon
Every last bit of it will...
Be...
Mine!
The three rings started to form three snakes biting each other before disappearing in the air, followed by megatron's evil laugh