The Three Planets: Wrath of Dromenan

## Prologue

> Dromenan was walking through the heavy rain late at night to meet up with the Shaman of Kretiol. He reached the hut which was covered with spikes except for at the entrance, and walked inside. He noticed that there were all sorts of weird things in jars and weird statues that looked kind of like some animals he knew but couldn't fully tell. He tried to find the Shaman but couldn't see him anywhere and there was no other room. He called out, "Hello, is anyone home?"
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> He heard some scuttling coming from above him and he looked up to see that the Shaman was dressed in the same cloth as the ceiling was made out of. Dromenan let out a startled yelp, as the Shaman dropped down and began to inspect him. Dromenan knew better than to disrespect the Shaman and let him inspect him. After a few minutes of the Shaman poking at him and getting very close and smelling him, the Shaman stood up in front of him and asked, "What brings you here?"
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> Dromenan responded, "Well I was hoping I could talk to you about who to pick for the next leader of Kreplo."
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> The Shaman looked surprised and asked, "What do you want with that?"
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> Dromenan replied, "Well if you could let me become the leader then I think I could rule fairly and justly."
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> The Shaman looked at him for a few minutes then ran to the other side of the room and started whispering to himself, Dromenan asked, "What are you doing?" and the Shaman didn't reply for some reason. After a minute of this the Shaman walked back and said, "After consulting with the spirits I believe you would be the wrong pick for the job, but instead your daughter would be the right pick."
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> Dromenan was shocked and said, "But Drosaga has no idea how to lead, and I should have more power than my daughter."
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> The Shaman said, "Well too bad I guess, maybe you should have a better aura."
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> Dromenan was getting angrier and shouted, "Well unless you choose me as the next leader of Kreplo I will burn down your house and you along with it!"
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> The Shaman looked terrified and thought for a moment and then said, "Fine I will let you become leader, however it comes with a warning."
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> Dromenan said, "I don't care about any warning, I will rule for as long as I live and you will tell no one about this."
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> The Shaman said, "Well I could easily tell someone and if you kill me then you will look bad towards the public."
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> Dromenan scoffed and said, "I have other ways to get you to do my bidding like I could toss you into the dungeon and torture you, I could try and bribe you and let you have money, but I trust you will not do anything so you stay safe."
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> The Shaman said, "Okay, but I trust you know you won't rule for as long as you live."
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> Dromenan rushed the Shaman grabbed him by the throat and said, "I will rule as long as I live and I will do anything to keep it that way."
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> The Shaman rasped, "Even if your daughter tries to stop you."
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> Dromenan released him and said, "Like I said I will do anything even if it means killing family."
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> The Shaman said, "Don't worry I will help you."
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> Dromenan regarded him with suspicion and asked, "Why would you suddenly decide to help me?"
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> The Shaman replied, "Well it is the only way I see to be able to prevent you from going too far and to protect your family."
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> Dromenan said, "Fine but I am expecting you to announce your choice for leader as soon as the sun rises."
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> The Shaman said, "Fine." and watched as Dromenan left, The Shaman looked to the spirits and said, "Please let Dromenan be able to be stopped without the cost of too many lives."
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## Chapter one

Drosaga was sitting in the copilots’ seat of her friends' transport ship and was thinking about how she had been just a regular citizen that morning.

Drosaga woke up and did her usual morning routine and went into the kitchen to see what was for breakfast. When she walked in she saw that most of the kitchen had been packed up and was being carried out by strangers. She went up to one of the packers and asked, “What are you doing?”

They replied, “I’m moving this stuff to the palace.”

Drosaga said, “Okay.” and moved away from them. Drosaga thought, okay what is going on why is our stuff being moved to the palace? Drosaga saw her mom, Drohima, walk in and walked over to her, and asked, “What is going on?”

Drohima replied, “Well if you had been awake earlier you would have seen the ceremony in which the Shaman picked your father as the new leader.”

Drosaga gasped and whispered, “But he will make a terrible leader.”

Her mother looked concerned and said, “Don’t say anything bad about him, he told me that I have to keep a careful eye on you so that then you don’t do anything to harm his position.”

Drosaga asked, “Well why would he have to be concerned about me?”

Drohima replied, “Apparently he talked to the Shaman and got warned about how you could stop him.”

Drosaga said, “Well I guess it sounds like I am the one who has to stop him.”

Drohima said, “Don’t tell him it won’t end well for anyone, since he said if I let something happen to him then he would hurt me.

Drosaga said, “He would probably hurt you no matter what, so really I think I need to stop him.”

Drohima said, “Can you at least wait a bit before you try to stop him, maybe he will be a good leader. We should go to his speech to see what his first action will be.”

Drosaga said, “Okay, we can see what he does first.” and left for the speech.

When arriving Drosaga could see that there was a huge crowd and saw that Dromenan was up on the stage. Dromenan looked around and when his eyes caught on Drosaga and Drohima announced, “Well it looks like all of my family is here now, so I will tell you what my first course of action as the leader will be.”

“And to do that I need to tell you all about the history of our people. Back in the ages before The Great Ordering, our people were spread across the three planets. But then the so-called friendly Huropians and Clutese decided that we needed order and that we should each get a planet. As I am sure we can all see they wanted us weaker and wanted more power. So I propose that we take back what is rightfully ours.”

The crowd started to cheer and Drosaga thought, wait, why is everyone on his side? Drosaga turned towards Drohima and asked, “Why is everyone cheering?”

Drohima said, “I have no clue he didn’t seem very convincing.”

Drosaga asked, “Well have we seen enough to know that I need to stop him?”

Drohima said, “Wait until later today at least so that then he gets less suspicious, I mean you are supposed to have your fighting classes later today so you can slip away then.”

Drosaga replied, “Fine, I guess I can wait.”

Drohima looked grateful and said, “Thank you for listening to me.”

Drosaga said, “No problem, I think I am going to go find Droguta and talk to him.”

Drohima nodded and said, “Yeah you should probably go see how he is doing.”

           Drosaga walked into her brother's new room and saw him just laying on his bed. Drosaga asked, "So, what do you think about this new development?"

            Droguta looked up and replied, "It is so great."

            Drosaga replied, "Well, I guess if you think it is so great then I won't talk to you.

            Droguta asked, "What did you want to talk about?"

            Drosaga replied, "Well I just wanted to see how you are doing."

            He replied, "Well I am doing pretty terrible, surprise, surprise."

            She said, "Well don't worry I am going to stop father."

            Droguta asked, "How are you going to accomplish that?"

            She said, "I will ask my best friend who is a pilot."

He asked, “Which friend?”

She replied, “Homina.”

            He said, "Okay, anyway, How will you get away?"

            She responded, "Well I have my fighting classes tonight so I will leave then."

            He replied, "Well I hope that you can do it. Drosaga went over to sit beside him and said, "Don't worry I will stop him."

            He sighed and said, "I will root for you but I don't see what you can do."

            She said, "I will go to one of the other planets and tell them anything I can and help fight against Dromenan."

He asked, “But what makes you think that they will help you?”

She asked, “Why wouldn’t they want to help?”

He replied, “Well, maybe they won’t believe and think you might try and sabotage them.”

She said, “I think I can stop them long enough to listen to me.”

He said, “Hopefully you can, well have you talked to Homina at all?”

She replied, “Well, not yet.” Droguta put his head in his hands and said, “You should probably go do that.”

She said, “Yeah, I’ll go do that now.” and stood up from the bed. Droguta also stood up and gave her a hug and said, “Good luck.” She nodded and said, “Thanks, hope I can help you and mom.” and walked out of the room and walked to her new room.

The second she got into her room she grabbed her communication device and typed in Homina’s name. After a few seconds of buzzing, she finally picked up and, Drosaga asked, “Hey Homina, How’s it going?”

Homina replied, “Not great your father decided that I should become a troop transport.”

Drosaga asked, “Why are you transporting troops?”

Homina said, “Well, your father has declared war on Kipu-an and Gragtyu.”

Drosaga said, “Well don’t you worry because I am going to stop him.”

Homina asked, “How are you planning on doing that?”

Drosaga replied, “I am going to go to one of the other planets and get them to help me.”

Homina asked, “And why did you call me?”

Drosaga responded, “Well, I was hoping you could fly me to one of the other planets.”

Homina said, “Well I am scheduled to have to transport a battalion to Gragtyu later today.”

Drosaga asked, “It doesn’t happen to be like two lunits after mid-sun?”

Homina replied, “Actually it is three lunits but I will probably start prepping my ship around two. Why?”

Drosaga asked, “Is there any way you can get me on that flight?”

Homina sighed and said, “I mean I wasn’t going to fly with a co-pilot since it is a short trip so I could probably sneak you into the cockpit.”

Drosaga said, “Okay, I will be there a bit before two lunits after mid-sun.”

Homina said, “Okay, I will start figuring out how to sneak you aboard. See ya.”

Drosaga said, “See ya.” and hung up. She sat down on her bed and sighed with relief. She thought about what she should bring with her and decided to just take her two laser swords she made for a science fair at school when she was around seven years old. She was still thinking about her plans when she got to Gragtyu when a stranger walked into her room and said, “The king requests your presence.”

Drosaga asked, “Why does he want to see me?”

The servant said, “I don’t know, but if you could just follow me.” and waited until Drosaga stood up to start walking through the palace.

Drosaga got led into a throne room and saw that Dromenan had changed the decor to be a whole bunch of portraits of him. Drosaga looked up and saw that Dromenan was sitting on a huge throne that was so tall she couldn’t see how you could get on it. Dromenan saw her enter and said, “Welcome daughter.”

Drosaga asked, “What do you want to talk about?”

Dromenan looked out towards the other Kreptans in the room and said, ”Everyone clear out now.” the others seemed to be worried and scurried out as quickly as they could. After everyone was out Dromenan looked back towards Drosaga and said, “Well, I am glad to finally be able to talk to you.”

Drosaga asked, “Why do you want to talk to me?”

Dromenan said, “Well, I got told by a certain someone that you are going to be trouble.”

Drosaga asked, “What would I do?”

Dromenan said, “I don’t know but I will choose to play it safe and send you to the dungeons.”

Drosaga said, “Wait, surely we can figure something out so I don’t have to be locked away.”

Dromenan said, “Why would I let you be free.”

Drosaga asked, “Can you at least let me go to my fighting lessons?”

He replied, “You can go to those lessons but I am going to send one of my guards with you and then afterwards you are going to the dungeon.”

She said, “Fine I agree with those conditions.”

Dromenan said, “That’s good, now I trust that you won’t try anything funny as your mother is going to be in the dungeon until you get back.”

Drosaga said, “Wait, you don’t have to do that.”

He replied, “Well, I just want to make sure you don’t try anything funny, since I know you care about your family deeply.”

She said, “It’s your family too.”

Dromenan dropped down in front of her and said, “Family wouldn’t plot against one member with a friend.”

Drosaga worried that he knew about the call with Homina but just managed to keep a straight face and said, “I wouldn’t want to hurt you in any way I especially wouldn’t get a friend to help me.”

He laughed and said, “I know you, I watched you grow up and know you are very smart and therefore dangerous. I also know that you will be trying to meet your friend Homina later today because I tapped into your call.”

She said, “Well it seems like you can stop me pretty easily.”

He said, “Yeah, I got all the bases covered so go leave me alone.”

She nodded and walked off to go back to her room. She waited in her room and when the guard from her father came and said, “It’s time to go.”

She said, “Okay.” and got up grabbed her two laser swords, and started walking out of the door. The guard extended his arm to stop her and said, “Leave the weapons here.”

She said, “I need these for my fighting classes though.”

He said, “Fine, but I will hold onto them.”

She said, “Fine.” and handed the swords over to him, and he took them and stashed them into hooks on his suit.

He said, “Okay, we can go now.” and just started walking causing Drosaga to have to run to catch up to him. After a while of walking, they reached a part of the city that came to a T-junction and Drosaga knew this was where she had to run away from him. She examined where the laser swords were and started to slow down some to fall behind the guard. He turned to look towards her and as he did, she rolled to the other side of him and sprang up to grab the swords.

She felt one of her hands grip on one sword but her other one missed. The guard spun around grabbing the other sword from his hilt and swung it toward her. She ducked out of the way and did a roll to his other side. She sprang up and swung the blade towards the guard to try and knock him out. The guard seemed to be prepared and brought his blade to block it.

She knew that she had to disarm the guard as quickly as possible and was eyeing him up for any potential weaknesses. He continued to swing toward her and she continued to block trying to find out how to disarm him. She tried slamming the base of the sword into his face but he was able to duck out of the way just in time.

He managed to get hit on her leg causing her to stumble to the ground and he started to stab at her. She managed to roll the right way to avoid being hit and on the last one, she grabbed the blade and held it back from her. The guard said, “Just give up already I am more experienced than you and was going to win no matter what.”

She used the time of him saying that to bring her blade close to his foot and turned on the lasers and said, “I wouldn’t be too sure that you are going to win.” and stabbed the blade into his leg causing him to fall over in pain. She turned off her blade and grabbed the other off of his stunned body. As she walked away she heard him call after her, “You will be stopped!” She ignored him and started the walk to the airport.

After a few minutes of walking, she finally arrived at the airport and saw that they were ID’ing and ticketing the people entering the port. She tried thinking of a way to get past and decided to walk around the perimeter to see if she could find a way through. After walking all the way around she couldn’t find a way through, so she found a secluded alleyway and rang up Homina.

When Homina picked up Drosaga asked, “How am I supposed to get in?”

Homina replied, “Well, I could try and get you a ticket.”

Drosaga asked, “How difficult would that be?”

Homina responded, “Well, it shouldn’t be too bad considering I am the pilot.”

Drosaga said, “Well make it happen as soon as possible, I will be waiting near the entrance.”

Homina said, “Sounds good, I will work as quickly as I can.”

Drosaga said, “Cool, bye.”

Homina said, “Bye.” and signed off. Drosaga walked over to the entrance and pretended to just be a bystander admiring the port. One of the citizens walking by noticed her and walked up and asked, “Are you Drosaga daughter of Dromenan?”

Drosaga said, “No, I am just some bystander.” and hoped that this civilian would believe her.

The civilian said, “I don’t think I believe you. Why are you here?”

Drosaga asked, “Why wouldn’t you believe me?”

They replied, “Because you look exactly like Drosaga.”

Drosaga said, “Fine you got me. What do you want?”

They said, “I was just wondering why you are here instead of at the palace?”

She replied, “Well, I was just out and walking out and about the town.”

They said, “I feel like you are going to try and escape and that I should tell someone.”

She quickly replied, “Don’t you dare try and tell someone.”

They said, “Okay, I will leave now.” and they backed away quickly. After that fiasco, Drosaga heard someone say, “Hey Drosaga come over here.” Drosaga turned around and saw that Homina was standing right there. Drosaga walked over and asked, “Did you get me a ticket?”

Homina replied, “Yep, here it is.” and handed over a ticket to her, she looked it over and saw that it said that she was just inspecting the port. Drosaga asked, “Won’t this raise suspicion when I don’t come back?”

Homina replied, “It shouldn’t matter because if you do disappear they will have no idea who was involved and then the next time you come here you will come with force to take back our planet.”

Drosaga said, “I guess that makes sense, hopefully, I can get through.”

Homina said, “No problem, now go quick so you can get in before the troops do.”

Drosaga said, “Thanks.” and backed away to get into the line going into the port. She waited until she got to the gate and then the port officer said, “Ticket please.” Drosaga gave her ticket to the officer hoping it would work.

The port officer looked over the pass and said, “I didn’t realize there was an inspection today.”

Drosaga replied, “Well Dromenan wanted to make sure everything was up to code.”

The post officer said, “Well it would probably be best to not chance angering him so you can go on your way.”

Dromenan sighed and said, “Thanks, have a nice day.”

The officer said, “You too.” and with that Drosaga walked into the port happy to finally have made it into the port. After a few steps in Homina came up beside her and said, “Follow me.” Drosaga nodded and followed Homina throughout the port. Drosaga noted that there were a lot more ships in the port than usual and that more troops were patrolling throughout. After a bit of walking Homina stopped by a ship and said, “Here we are.”

Drosaga asked, “Isn’t this ship way bigger than what you usually fly?”

Homina replied, “Well I still can fly bigger class planes I just tend to fly small transport ships, not troop transport ships.”

Drosaga asked, “Well, where am I sitting?”

Homina said, “Follow me in.” and pressed a button that opened up the ship and brought Drosaga into the cockpit, and pointed to the co-pilot seat, and said, “You can sit there.” Drosaga went and sat down and asked, “So how much longer until we take off?”

Homina said, “Probably one more lunit until we take off. But I am going to continue prepping my ship, are you going to be okay with staying here until take-off time?”

Drosaga said, “Yeah, I will probably just get ready for what I will say when we get to Gragtyu.”

Homina said, “Okay, well see ya.” Drosaga said, “See ya.” and Homina left, and Drosaga thought about everything that had happened that day for a lunit when Homina came back in and asked, “Are you ready to go?’

Drosaga said, “Yep.” and Homina sat down in the pilot's seat and they took off.