The Flaming Emissary

Chapter 15

----Previously on The Flaming Emissary----- 

The large femme was amazed to this small Mech's bravery, he was quite alluring to the optics if she said so herself. Reiscorn turned to her, "Are you alright?".

His voice was almost heavenly, the accent in his form seemed too magical in her case. Her helm was blushing maddly, "Y-yes, I am. Thank you for saving me...um" she didn't know her saviors designation.

"Oh, my designation is Reiscorn. Second in Command to Lord Dragotron, at your service miss -" He bowed his helm in respect which resulted in her blushing more.

"Ashmore, I hold no rank but a mere citizen carrying out errands for my Carrier and Sire." she lightly bowed in return.

Reiscorn nodded, "I best be continuing my duties, carry on Miss Ashmore." Reiscorn turned and walked away from Ashmore, leaving her falling for him.

'What is this feeling? How am I so enwrapped by a stranger that happened to save me, and now my spark flutters whenever I see or hear him?!' Ashmore was flustered by these mixed feelings, but she continued on her day thinking only of the eventful evening.

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A couple weeks had passed since that eventful day, Ashmore still remembered his designation and his lovely voice cycling in her processor from then. Reiscorn on the other hand had forgotten and continued his life as nothing of it like his sire had, Reiscorn was requested by Lord Dragotron to his quarters for a briefing on his reports and patrols over the course of the years that they had come into position. 

Reiscorn went up the stairs and down the hall to meet two guards keeping watch of his Lord's quarter doors, Reiscorn stood up straight and walked up to the guards. "I am here by request of our Lord." One of the guards nodded and turned to knock on the doors, "Lord Dragotron, Commander Reiscorn is here as you requested." 

Reiscorn heard the all too familiar voice of his Lord and younger brother, "Let him in."  The two guards opened the two doors as ordered and let Reiscorn come in with the doors closing behind Reiscorn. Reiscorn saw his Lord looking out from his balcony that was once his sire's to now belong to him, Reiscorn bowed under his presence. "My Lord."

Dragotron turned his gaze from the view to his brother, "There is no formalities when we are alone together, you are my brother as I am yours here." Dragotron walked up to Reiscorn and pulled him up from his bow to a welcoming embrace. Reiscorn wasn't as used to these type of predicaments nor was he a people person at that because of the event that happened involving his carrier and his new power.

Dragotron felt Reiscorn's tense frame under him, Dragotron let him go and turned his gaze downward from Reiscorn.  "It seems you're still not over what happened on that day."

Reiscorn tensed more and gripped the floor under him, his expression hardened and full of guilt.

"Of course not, I never will get over that day that I...did something's that I regret. If we had gone with her, maybe we could have protected her from being murdered. If only-"

"It wouldn't have mattered either way if we would have gone with her to the market or not, we were still too young and weak to even protect ourselves and you know that." Dragotron explained getting annoyed. "Yes, but if Sire hadn't gone to serve the Primes right away and stayed with us until we were of age maybe he could of prot-"Reiscorn was harshly interrupted by an angered Dragotron.

"DON'T GO BLAMING SIRE FOR HER DEATH REISCORN!!! EVEN SIRE KNEW HIS MISTAKE FOR LEAVING US SO SOON, SO SHUT IT!!!" Dragotron yelled back, resulting with him heavily heaving from his outburst against his older brother. He sighed after realizing he had yelled out at Reiscorn, unintentionally escalating the conversation to a point of awkwardness.

It became silent for a while until Dragotron broke it, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have-"

"No Dragotron, I must apologize. I was stepping out of line, I was just feeling guilty for not being able to do anything to protect her when she was there to protect us. I-I'm sorry that I was putting the blame on sire, he too knew he wished he could've been there to protect us." Reiscorn turned his gaze away as it pained him as he remembered that day again cycling through his processor.

"Moving along from this sensitive topic, I have requested you for your files of the years patrols and reports." Dragotron casually switched the subject to prior objectives.

"Yes, of course brother." Reiscorn pulled out 5 datapads from his subspace that contained the five years of his reports starting here at crystal city. 

Reiscorn handed the datapads to Dragotron, he looked them over quite quickly until he suddenly stopped over the final datapad. Dragotron looked at his brother with his optic ridge raised questionably with a sly grin, "Why are you making that mischievous grin for? What is it Dragotron?" asked Reiscorn, he was puzzled about why his brother was making that face.

"I see that you saved a femme from rape from our very guards, quite noble of you Reiscorn." Dragotron remarked.  

"It was nothing really, I just hope what happened to that femme won't happen again in the far future."

"Let me see your footage of the ordeal Reiscorn, if you don't mind." Dragotron asked pointing to a monitor. Reiscorn merely nodded and walked up to the monitor and connected, the monitor onlined and displayed the sight of the streets of the settlement close by. There, apprehended by two guards, was a large predacon femme being pushed against a wall touching her in places. Reiscorn's vision displayed him getting closer to them and glared up to them, they were quite larger than Reiscorn.

" 'Leave this femme alone, you both disgrace the image of being a guard to the very Primes. Report back to your captain at once of your disrespect or I will personally deal with you myself.' " Reiscorn ordered them, the last bit he added with a snarl. His pipes and muzzled glowed in the warming heat, the guards shakily stepped back and retreated to the depths of the settlement.

The large femme was amazed to this small Mech's bravery, Reiscorn turned to her, " 'Are you alright?' ".

Her helm was blushing madly, " 'Y-yes, I am. Thank you for saving me...um' ".

" 'Oh, my designation is Reiscorn. Second in Command to Lord Dragotron, at your service miss -' " He bowed his helm in respect which resulted in her blushing more.

" 'Ashmore, I hold no rank but a mere citizen carrying out errands for my old Carrier and Sire.' " she lightly bowed in return.

Reiscorn nodded, " 'I best be continuing my duties, carry on Miss Ashmore.' " Reiscorn turned and walked away from Ashmore.

The monitor offlined to it's previous screen and Reiscorn unplugged his processor and turned to his brother,  Dragotron was merely smirking the whole time of the recording.

Reiscorn was even more confused, "Dragotron, is something wrong with your intake?"

"No, none of the sort. But what do you feel when you see that femme on the screen Reiscorn?" Dragotron stepped slightly closer to Reiscorn grinning like a mad mech holding back a snicker.

"Nothing much, I was just doing my duty as a public figure would." Reiscorn answered simply.

Dragrotron was shocked, 'How could he not have noticed that that large femme named Ashmore had fallen for him?!'  

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(I'm sorry this is short, I will be wrapping up the prologue very soon and then I'll continue back to the present. Cause things are gonna get spicy in the present. ^^)