A Fairy's Tail Idiot

Chapter 2 Ruins

Irene was happy today wasn't playing out as she thought it would.

Hiding from her own soldiers in alleyways, on rooftops, even buildings. All the while in the arms of the man who single handedly rescued her, hurt her tormentor, and is currently fending off any aggressors was straight out of her old romance novels! It was certainly a reprieve from her time in the dungeon.

She also really appreciated how some of her citizens still try to protect them from the soldiers. Unfortunately her guardian angel Caboose armor was too heavy to go up wooden stairs. She suspected his armor was heavy, but not that it weighed one ton!

She was glad that her city was used to having dragons lounge on top of people's homes. Really inconvenient when a dragon accidentally crashes into someone's living room because of poor structure support. Though building and repair costs were often costly.

"Take a right here." Irene said.

"Ok."

"The other right." She says bemused.

"I knew that. I just got turned around, that's all." Caboose responded as he turned down another alley.

'Guess the saying about being strong if your not smart is true.' Irene thought to herself. She adored Caboose, however his lack of intelligence could prove detrimental. At least his heart made up for it.

"Where are we going again?" Caboose asked her.

Irene took a pause at that. She never really considered where she would go when she escaped. Deep down she wished her people would just overthrow Rung and put her back as Queen. She saw the state he left her kingdom in.

Color on homes faded, buildings closed on main streets, trash littering every street, and all of the citizens seem to be skinner now. How could Rung let things fall into such a state of disrepair?

"Let's stop here for a moment." Caboose said as walked over to the back end of what appeared to be a bar. "A Lot has happened since we left that dungeon. So let's take a break."

"Very well. It should give us a chance to talk about each other some more." Irene said with a smile.

"Neat."

"Very. Let's start with introductions then. I am Irene Vermilion Belserion, Ex Queen of Dragnof."

"Wow! I didn't know you were a queen! That's so cool!" Caboose exclaimed excitedly. "I bet everyone likes you."

Irene chuckles a bit at that. He wasn't wrong, considering how her people seemed to be trying to protect her and get her out of the city. Yet the still persistent soldiers never stop their chase.

From the empty parks, to the expanding slums. No dragons in sight thanks to Acnologia, buildings in decay, with even dead grass seemingly growing everywhere.

"I can say that isn't fully true anymore." She said to him, "The soldiers-"

"Are under orders." Irene turns her head to Caboose.

"Considering how things are, they probably just want to make sure their families are fed. They can't help it that a corrupt person is in charge." Caboose explained. "Also, because you're a dragon girl, they worry you might seek revenge on them and their families for allowing you to be locked up for years."

Irene stared at Caboose for a moment before sighing. "Angel-"

"I know, this isn't really the time because we're trying to escape, but I just want to say it before we probably accidentally kill some soldiers as we escape." Caboose said with slight sadness. "I just want to make sure any killing that may accidentally occur, was because it was absolutely necessary. Not for any other reason. Right Freckles?"

"Affirmative."

Irene recognized that voice. It was the one guiding them to avoid paths that had many soldiers.

"I see. But, I must ask, where is this, Freckles? I assume you're not talking about the ones on your face." Irene asked.

"Oh I'm sorry. I still haven't been able to introduce you to my pet. I'm sorry." Caboose said as he brought a strange weapon off his back. "This is Freckles! Say hello Freckles."

"Greetings. I am YGGDRASIL Mark IX Armor Defense System, unit 2403 now under the designation Freckles. It is a pleasure to meet you." A voice echoed from the strange machine.

"I see... I believe it wasn't always in this form?" Irene carefully asked.

"Wow! How did you know that!?"

"Let's call it a hunch." She said with a slight smile.

"Neat. So Freckles used to be this big ole robot that I fixed up. He was buried under debris and body parts after our ship crashed on chorus."

"Sounds like quite the tale." Irene says to him.

"Yeah, but that's another story. So I then moved all the stuff out of the way and fixed Freckles up. However his body got wrecked during a battle, so we put him in my gun until we could get him a new body. So now he is my gun." Caboose explained to her. "The end."

"Quite the story. I wish you would tell me some more though." Irene requested.

"Yeah, but maybe after we get you to safety. There's a few too many not so nice guys around."

"It's fine, I can wait." Irene said with a smile. She waited this long to be saved, why not wait a little longer to hear some more stories.

"20 hostiles approaching." Freckles informed dutifully.

"Speak of the meanies. Let's head into this bar." Caboose said to her, princess carrying her inside. Unbeknownst to them, some of Irene's scales fell off.

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Meanwhile, in some forgotten ruins deep underground, an ancient tower began to stir into motion. The tower, built by the Precursors, reactivated by energy from use of Precursors storage cubes that teleports objects into another dimension for easy storage.

Energy surge through its ancient circuits, activating an even older being. The AI of Earthland coming back online, ready to serve the Precursors Protectors and Strongest warriors.

However it was greeted with the sight of it being buried deep underground. Where were the warriors? Where were its creators? Something was wrong. Why were all the ancient temples buried underground?

The AI had a lot to figure out. However, it seems the key that it protected had left to find its new master. Perhaps they would know.

A/N Okay this chapter was going to be longer, but character development was needed more. Especially world building. Next chapter explains some more, but not the AI. That comes later.

Because next I plan on having Caboose fighting Rung. After some more world building/ character development.

Rung will be a lot more crucial in terms of developing Irene's character