Slayde Drakeler

Full Name: Slayde Roake Drakeler
Nicknames: Boris, Hercules
Age: 28; almost 29
Birthdate: August 12, 2081(August 17, 1972 on Earth)
Height: 5’11”
Accent: Russian. Dennis Akayama would be a good voice-over ifhe can do a Russian accent, followed by Brian McKnight for a singingvoice

Appearance: Slayde is not only handsome and a genuine ladies'man in appearance, he’s also very strong and muscular, hairyaround his pectorals. His muscles aren’t huge in any way,but his body IS well-built. Mostly in the arms in the chest. His feathers are a shade darker than white, and his eyes area dazzling aquamarine blue. His hair is dark raven black, likeCalandra’s, which almost touches his shoulders. His bangsare slightly spiked downwards, with three large pieces downwards;two at the side of his left eye, and one between his eyes. Twosmaller bangs just touch his eyebrows, and one strand of hairflexes upwards. He keeps his hair tied back in a low ponytail. His appearance doesn’t go unflawed either. His chest hasvarious scars, from years of being upon the battlefield. He alsohas a horizontal cut along his beak, and from the back of hisneck to the back of his waist, Slayde has a long, narrow scar. His hair, whether tied or not, hides the scar as long as he hisclothed.

Weapons: Slayde has been a fencer before the days of the SaurianInvasion, so he uses a shrinkable made of silver. Included isa blue shield, engraved with an Allicorn(a winged unicorn), thesymbol of the Drakeler’s coat of arms. He also uses a spaceaged blaster, attached to his right leg, and the occasional knife. He also practiced acroetics as well as his younger sister, Calandra. And...unlike most of the ducks from Puckworld, Slayde possessesstrange powers; powers which he wasn’t born with. He hasthe ability to control the minds of others, as long as they’renot stupid. The dumber they are, the harder it is. He is alsoable to make anything float into his hands; a telepathic power.

Attire: No matter what Slayde wears, his muscles always showthrough. His fighting attire is a sleeveless light blue V-neck full body-suit, strapped in silver lining, with a white sleevelessV-shaped turtleneck underneath. His left arm has one silver armband,for holding his rapier when it’s not in use. His armletsare the same the ones on Duke’s left arm, except they arelight blue colored, and also have razor-sharp spikes on them. They are v-shaped near the elbows, trimmed in silver around thev pattern and around his wrists. His left wrist has a blue sapphirebuilt on on the front, which activates his shield. He also wearsa silver belt, and gray colored boots that touch his knees, foldedover. He also wears dark silver ankle bands.

For everyday, Slayde’s attire is a white v-neck muscletank and semi-tight blue jeans, which allow women to see his musclesbulging out. Or fancy gray pants, a white shirt, and a gray long-sleevedjacket pushed up to his elbows.

Personality: Slayde seems to look like a ladies’ man,since he has the ability to charm women by his wooing Russianaccent, muscular physique, and charms. But he is not the ladies’man people would think him to be. He has slept with one, andonly one woman: his late wife, Layla Icewing. He likes to flirtwith women, but he would never kiss or sleep with one. Slaydeis a man of honor, never breaking a promise to anyone unless itdetermined that person’s life. He is a man one could trustwith his life, always there to defend someone to the end, evenif it meant risking his own. He’s also a blood-thirsty fighterwhen he fights, obsessed with winning and being a glory hound. He is a bit egotistical, and stays aloof from the female race. When he fights, he’s cold, heartless, and ruthless. Healso loathes doing housework, like all people who’ve grownup living the luxurious, pampered life.

History: Slayde is the eighth of nine children in his family,being older than Calandra by three years. Unlike his sister,he loved living the rich and fancy life. Being waited on handand foot, wearing fancy clothes, and eating elegant dinners everynight he cherished, and never wanted to give up. He also lovedmoney and all types of rare and valuable jewels in his old life. Slayde was a cad in his school days, always stalking youngergirls from Calandra’s private finishing school. Even thoughhe was the smartest of his classes, he usually played hooky andplayed around the marketplace of Unistan.
Slayde and Calandra shared the best brother/sister behavior anyparent could ask for. Even though they had their occasional arguments,they were still best friends. They could share each other ANYTHING,and not worry if that person will spill their horrible secrets.Slayde was the only one who was permitted to call Calandra ‘Callie-Locks’.
Even though Slayde had a pretty sheltered life, he also had hisshare of hard times. When he was eight years old, friends ofhis from his school forced him to challenge their stupid dares. One of them was to walk along a thin wire ten feet above theground. Slayde automatically took the dare, not thinking thathe would be injured. However, he was wrong. He was about half-waydown the pole when somehow he lost his balance and fell. He landedflat on his back, nearly breaking his spine.
He was quickly sent to the hospital two seconds after his parents,Joseph and Juletta, were informed about Slayde’s accident. At the hospital Slayde was sent to, only two people at a timewere sent in. After Joseph yelled at Slayde for doing a stupidstunt like what he did and Juletta smothered him with her hugs,tears, and kisses, Calandra was permitted to see him. Being onlyfive years old then, Callie was still a bit frightened about seeingsomeone who lost blood. Slayde, knowing that Callie was too youngto endure his story about being laid up on the mat and drivenhere, made sure to keep the details about his ride to the hospitalsmall. He smiled, and assured her that he was going to be outof the infirmary in no time flat.
However, when Slayde was seventeen, he received ANOTHER near-fatalinjury. He was one of the two finalists in Unistan’s JuniorFencing Competition. Slayde’s opponent in the finals wasCaine Richfeathers. Caine had brown short cut brown hair anddark black eyes.
At first, it appeared that Slayde was about to win the competition. He had Caine’s strength worn down, due to his speed andcountless hours practicing with his eight older brothers. Cainegrew desperate to win the fencing duel, being a glory hound thesame as Slayde. Reaching the peak of his desperation and fury,Caine jammed his dueling saber into Slayde’s stomach. Theraven haired Russian was quickly rushed to the hospital AGAIN,more concerned about whether or not he won the competition thanwhether or not he would survive.
When Slayde finally regain enough of his health to be able tospeak, visitors were permitted to visit his infirmary room. Hismother was weeping even more, while his father looked sorrowfuland sympathetic. He became slightly enraged when Slayde askedif he won the duel or not. Unfortunately for Caine, he was disqualifiedfor nearly killing him, the victory granted to Slayde. AfterJoseph was able to drag his weeping wife away form her severelyinjured son, Calandra stepped in to be able to see if her favoriteolder brother would live. Slayde assured Callie he WOULD liveto see another day.
Slayde was about twenty years old when he learned of Calandra’sarranged engagement to Kirtland Quackson. He despised the verylibidious, sex-driven pampered son of Moscalovsan’s mayor. He knew Kirtland could never be a worthy husband to ANYONE, SAVEhis own baby sister, even if his own LIFE depended on it. Hetried over and over to talk his father out of marrying Calandraoff to a man she barely knew. But it was of no use. Her fatherwas to stubborn to break the seal on the marriage contract hesigned with Carlton Quackson, Kirtland’s father. Slaydebecame Calandra’s only comfort through the entire time shebecame Kirtland’s fiancé, besides her Arabian Stallion,Spirit. Slayde knew his Callie-locks would be miserable for therest of her life if she married Kirtland.
The morning of Calandra’s wedding, Slayde was the firstto discover her ‘body’ coated with blood. He screamedbloody murder, awakening up everyone in Drakeler Manor. It wasthen that the entire household discovered Calandra was dead....orso they thought. Juletta screamed and cried at the same time,while Joseph wept silently next to Callie’s arm. Slayde,enraged, took his anger out on Kirtland. It took all eight ofthe Drakeler men to pull Slayde back, who had managed to throwa few slugs onto his face. Even though Slayde was still upsetover Calandra’s death, he believed that, deep down, it wasall for the best. At least now she wouldn’t have to sufferthe rest of her life as Kirtland’s little woman, where shewould’ve been melancholy for the rest of her life.
Slayde was tending to the horses the day of the Invasion. Whenhe went to Spirit’s empty stable, he assumed that Spiritran away, or was taken away by the one who murdered her, who hesuspected was Duke L’Orange. When he finally left the horsestable, he heard gun blasts heading towards Unistan. Before hecould blink, laser blasts from Saurian ships attacked DrakelerManor, capturing everyone who lived in the mansion and destroyedthe villa, and it’s 900 year old history.
Slayde and his older brothers tried to fight off the hunter droneswith their fencing specialties, but they were greatly out numbered. There was no way nine men could fight an army’s worth ofhunter drones, with two Saurian soldiers as well. Slayde hadjust been able to kill one of the Saurian soldiers that triedto massacre his mother. Before he could try to kill the secondSaurian warrior when two drones managed to hold him back. Justwhen Slayde believed his family’s situation couldn’tget any worse, the drones and the surviving Saurian were givenorders to stop by Wraith; to prepare for the arrival of Draguanus. The Drakelers were frightened at the very site of the Saurianwarlord, but not as much as Slayde was. Draguanus took advantageof Slayde’s fear by bringing one of his massively long yellowfingernails at the bottom of his chin.
Without warning, Draguanus slashed his nail across his beak,blood coming out of his wound. His mother demanded that his injurybe treated immediately, but Draguanus only sneered at Juletta’srequest and demanded that they be taken to the concentration campsimmediately.
When Draguanus conquered Puckworld, all of the citizens of theice covered planet were put into working camps. However, someof the prisoners were also selected to be part of Draguanus’sSaurian scientists’ crazy methodical experiments. Draguanuswas hoping to create a super army of invincible duck fighters,each one loyal to him when he planned to conquer the entire universe. Slayde was one of the slaves chosen to be part of these crazyexperiments.
The Saurian scientists that worked for Draguanus were tryingto make a type of chemical that can give any of its possessorsunimaginable powers, following by warping their brains so they’donly obey those that commanded them. Slayde was given a typeof chemical that gave him physic powers, labeled X376. With theantacid in his bloodstream, the concentration camp scientistsbegan to perform wild experiments on Slayde. Within a matterof months, Slayde was able to control his new found powers.
Every week the scientists pushed him harder and harder to followtheir commands. Their demands were more imperious because Slayde’sspirit was starting to break, his heart tearing apart with everycry of pain and scream of death he heard. The scientists didn’tcare about Slayde’s inner suffering, for all that matteredto them was their experiments.
Slayde could not stand their heartlessness any longer, and finallycracked, used his new physic powers on one of the scientists,knocking them out cold against one of the walls. However, theother scientist, the one who GAVE Slayde his physic powers, wasnot going to go down that easily. He was able to muster up enoughstrength to be able to smash Slayde against the wall, his handupon his neck. Just when the scientist flashed his nails outlike claws and was about to slash his neck off, a sword was jammedinto the specialist’s stomach, killing him instantly. WhenSlayde looked up at the one who saved his life, he had quite ashock at what his savior looked like.
His savior was a FEMALE! And a beautiful female, she appearedto be. With her silvery-white feathers, she appeared to havecame from the Highlands of Puckworld; the Scottish territory. Her jade green eyes and waist length wavy ruby red hair madeher even more attractive. He could guess by her attire that shewas part of the resistance; of the first or second, he was notsure. Her fighting attire was of a sleeveless black turtleneckfull body-suit with a silver choker laced on top, with a emeraldin the center. Her belt was of a silver color as well, alongwith silver knee high boots. Her arms were complete with silverarm bands, each holding a knife on each side, with small vialsof poison surrounding the knives, and shoulder length black glovesunderneath the bands. And last, but not least, she was completewith a thin black headband on her forehead, complete with a beautifuljewel in the center. The jewel was a heart shaped ruby insertedinside a larger golden heart, with small plates of diamonds lacedinside of it, followed by small ruby stones. Outside the goldenheart were smaller ruby hearts, with emerald leaves and smallpear specks to complete the design.
The female rescuer helped Slayde and millions of other prisonersin the work camp escape, using her own powers: a physic powerthat enabled the user to shove objects backwards and lift theminto the air(it was like the Force used by the Jedi Knights fromSTAR WARS). Apparently, she too was part of the scientific experimentsthe Saurians put her through in another camp in the Scottish Highlands. She tried to enter once more to free the rest, but the camp wasblown up; obviously the work of the first resistance. Luckily,she received word that the first resistance was able to free therest of the prisoners before they blew the work campground.
Afterwards, the rescuer revealed herself to Slayde as Layla RubyIcewing, member of the resistance from the Scottish Highlandsof Puckworld. For the rest of the time Draguanus was on Puckworld,Slayde added his efforts to the Scottish resistance, who wereknown as ‘The Falcon Raiders’. Even though Canard’sStrike Force vanquished Draguanus off the face of Puckworld, therewere still miniature battles to be fought. The Falcon Raidersstole food from various Saurian facilities, freed people thatwere still imprisoned, and destroyed the Saurians’s suppliesof explosives. Finally, after two years of fighting, the warwas enfin over. To celebrate, the Falcon Raiders returned backto the Highlands to celebrate their victory. Slayde was invitedto be the guest of honor, since he helped to contribute to theFalcon Raiders victory and the freedom of his people. Slaydeaccepted, thinking that his three surviving brothers continuedon with their lives as well.
On that joyous night, everyone on the Highlands ate plentifuland danced merrily to the music of their ancestors, celebratingtheir freedom. Slayde, dressed in Scottish clothing to pleasethe Highlanders, was given the honor of dancing with Layla onthat very night. While he danced the Highlanders’s traditionaldances, the more he felt himself becoming more and more captivatedto his red haired rescuer. The more he stayed in the Highlands,the more he wanted to be with Layla. It was obvious to him, evento himself, that his emotions towards Layla weren’t out offascination, desire, or a mere infatuation. Slayde Drakeler hadfallen in love with Layla Icewing.
No one could blame the male Russian wooer for falling in lovewith Layla. She was the most beautiful woman in the Highlands;possibly, in all of Puckworld. Her hair was like fire in themorning, and roses flickering in the candlelight at night. Hergreen eyes were so radiant, that anyone would believe that a millionemeralds were drained of their color and were poured into hereyes. Her feathers were like cream hinted with the tiniest colorof silver. Every movement she made excited Slayde, making himwant her beyond the point of madness. He vowed to try to finda way to woo Layla, even if it took the very life right out ofhim.
Slayde started out by doing little praises that would make anywoman feel appreciated: surprising her with flowers, helping herto do all of her chores(that was the hardest task for him, sincehe hated housework), and other miniature surprises. One time,he even forged her a brand new sword, made out of pure gold. But Layla only saw his wooing has mere acts of friendship. Nonetheless,Slayde was patient and continued to shower her with unexpectedpresents.
However, Layla soon fell in love with Slayde. Since then, therelationship between Slayde and Layla hasn’t been the same. It was rare to find the two apart from each other, and if theywere, it was only for a few minutes. Anyone who lived near theHighlands had known Slayde and Layla to be like Clementia MacFeatherand Drake Ducaine(the Romeo and Juliet of Puckworld). After afew months of being in love, Layla and Slayde couldn’t controlthemselves, and decided to get married. Even though their weddingwas small and simple on the count they had very little money,it was fancy and elegant in the eyes of the Highlanders. A fewweeks after their marriage, Layla became pregnant with Slayde’sfirst child. Six months later(the pregnancy stage on Puckworld’ssix), Layla gave birth to Slayde’s very first child; a daughter. They gave her the name Ariel Dorothy Drakeler. Ariel was Juletta’smiddle name, and Dorothy was the name of Layla’s grandmother.
Slayde and Layla had their hands full ever since Ariel was born. When Ariel was four months old, she began to show strange abilities. It turned out that Ariel was born with the power to create firesjust by THINKING of them. Slayde and Layla had only the Sauriansto blame for Ariel’s strange new powers. One, Ariel wastoo young to control her new powers, and the Saurians were theones who injected those dangerous chemicals into Slayde’sand Layla’s immune systems, causing the strange new powersto be born into Ariel’s DNA when Layla became pregnant. All the two parents could do was keep an eye on her every minute,leave her with a baby-sitter when they couldn’t, keep thefire alarms all over in the Highlands, and keep fire extinguishershandy until Ariel learned how to control her powers.
When Dorothy was about three years old, Slayde and Layla trainedDorothy in the art of fighting and weaponry. While Slayde taughtDorothy how to sword fight, Layla trained her in archery and TanShao, the Scottish martial arts. Even though Slayde and Laylahad to train Dorothy to control her fire powers, they’vebasically lead a normal warrior life, even though no fightingwas done except for an occasional hunting.
Until one day, a viscous attack was launched upon the Highlandswithout any warning. Massive robots that were like the HunterDrones they fought before, except more advanced. They not onlyhad more weaponry upon them, they also were more well built andwere built with artificial intelligence and extensive informationon their enemies, filing their appearances into their a.i’s(artificialintelligences) and using them for research on their targets, pin-pointingtheir weaknesses. They were given the name ‘Megadrones’,for they were more reliable than the Hunter Drones used by Draguanus. They attacked the Highlands without warning, making it impossiblefor the Highlanders to be able to defend themselves properly. The only ones who were able to ward off the enemies attacks wereSlayde, Layla, and Ariel.
Even though the battle was over, the attack was a no-win situation. People were severly injured, some cottages were burned down,and Layla was dead. Slayde sank into a deep depression, angryat the drones for murdering his wife. He then realized that hehad to find the source of where the Megadrones came from, andstop the very source of their appearance. The Highlander warriorsvolunteered to embark on the mission with Slayde, but he refused;he’d only endanger their lives if they went with him. Theydidn’t have the abilities to fight off a drone like the onesthat attacked the Highlands. He was the only one who had thepower and experience with the Saurians to fight off the new Megadrones. Ariel wanted to go with her dad, but Slayde refused. She wastoo young to go with him on a dangerous journey such as this one. But she still kept on begging, knowing that he’ll run intotrouble along the way.
Slayde agreed to take his daughter on his journey, but for adifferent reason. Her powers were still in development, and therewas a risk of her burning down the remains of the village in theHighlands, even if she didn’t mean to do so. If he lefther in the Highlands by herself, she would be a threat to thevillagers, for he was the only one capable of controlling herpowers until she was older. And if he stayed, he’d stillendanger their lives if more Megadrones came to the Highlandsto make him pay for ruining their first attack. So his mind wasmade up: the next dawn, he and Ariel would leave the Highlandsin search for the source of the Megadrones and cut their supply.
As they left the Highlands, they’ve faced many perils alongthe way(too many to list; you’ll just have to read the intro.fic to find out what). Along the way, Slayde found a female Himalanx(across between a Himalayan and a Manx) feline, with three kittensfollowing her; two male, and the last female. Ariel wanted totake the mother cat and kittens with them, since it was obviousshe wanted a friend. Slayde was about to reject, thinking they’djust get in the way. But the mother cat was able to prove herselfworthy of being in their group by hunting a large deer for them,so they’d be able to have fresh venison for the night insteadof the wild mushrooms and raspberries that grew along the pathsthey took. So Slayde changed his mind and welcomed the mothercat into his group, along with her three children, knowing thatAriel wanted some friends, the mother shouldn’t leave behindher children, and knowing they would be able to perform the sametasks as their mother when they got older.
After nearly a year along the trails, eating off the paths theytook and nearly sleepless nights, more Megadrones appeared atthem, at attempts to destroy them. After Slayde and Ariel managedto destroy them, they learned that they were getting close totheir destination. They kept going the way they were going, facingoff against more and more Megadrones as they continued on thepath they took. Until at last, they reached an abandoned concentrationcamp, that was blown up after the second Invasion of Puckworld. After Slayde and Ariel dodged various security beams and moreMegadrones, they approached the source of the Megadrones’screation bay. An electric chamber was in the middle of the undergroundbase underneath the ancient camp, where all of the Megadroneswere being created.
A male Saurian, with yellow scales and red blood-shot eyes, wasworking away at one of his tables, obviously trying to come upwith another evil invention either for his own purposes or forsomeone else trying to continue where Draguanus left off. Slaydetold Ariel to hide somewhere while he dealt with the scientistthat was responsible for creating the drones that killed his lateand beloved wife. However, before Slayde could even draw a breath,the scientist attacked him full force, as if he knew he was therethe entire time. The Saurian scientist threw aside his lab coat,with a midnight black leather suit underneath and spiked black/goldarmor above his leather. The two prepared themselves into a battlestance, then prepared to fight for the death. Even though Slaydehad his physic powers and fencing know-how, the scientist he foughtwas much stronger than him. It seemed as though the scientistwas about to slash Slayde’s throat off, until Ariel peakedout of nowhere and used her fire powers to burn a hole in thecenter of his heart.
Before the scientist died, he enformed Slayde that he was alreadytoo late; he sent an unrestrained amount of Megadrones and supply/powersource to Draguanus, and he was going to use them to conquer aplanet called ‘Earth’. And the drones were so powerful,that not even the Strike Force would be able to defeat them. Slayde was then determined to go to this planet ‘Earth’and stop the Megadrone army before they harmed anymore innocentlives. After nearly an hour of searching, he found a teleporterupon a Megadrone he previously destroyed. After pressing in afew coordinates, he and Ariel were teleported from Puckworld toEarth.

Good Points: Slayde is a rough fighter, and refuses to quit. He’s lean, strong, bold, and muscular, from years of body-building,fencing, and fighting. His powers enable him to control minds,soaking up any information he could need. And his physic skillsenable him to shove any target out of his sight. And, he’sa very talented singer. He’s also loyal to his late wife,Layla, refusing to have any kind of relations with another womanin fear of betraying her. And, like his younger sister, he cantranslate Russian AND French.

Bad Points: Slayde still believes that anywhere he lives ishis own castle, therefore, doesn’t see why he needs to doany work around any facility. His ego is pretty huge, alwaystalking about how unbeatable he is. Slayde gives new meaningto the phrase ‘He talks the talk, but he doesn’t walkthe walk.’ He says he’s the unbeatable, yet he canbarely defend himself against an army of Megadrones. And physicpowers aren’t perfect. He CAN sap information from others,but that depends upon the level of their intelligence. The dumberhis victims are, the harder it is for him to control their minds. And he’s very over-protective about his only daughter, Ariel.Slayde refuses to trust Duke, on the fact that he was a thief,and he nearly raped and killed his younger sister Calandra whenshe was younger. He’s also afraid to meet other women, infear of betraying Layla.

Likes: His daughter Ariel, Calandra, swords, fencing, bodybuilding,singing, wrestling matches, gold, jewels, living the luxuriouslife, his new powers, fighting, speaking in Russian, French cuisine,and playing hockey. And he feels a strange swirl of emotion towardsone of the three new female ducks on the team(I won’t tellyou who she is; you’ll hafta find out for yourself in Clashof Fire; coming soon).

Hates: Duke, the Saurians, Kirtland Quackson, dogs, housework,the idiotic people(he can’t control dumb folks), humans(tohim, they count as dumb), Phil, Phil’s publicity stunts,hearing Jessica and Nosedive argue, Jessica’s tomboyish lifestyle,and having to look after either Dive or Jessie.

~Quotes Overheard~

Why should I trust you, Draguanus? You murdered my father,my mother, five of my brothers, AND my wife!

Ariel! Come back!

Callie-Locks?!

::hugging Calandra:: Ns, mon ryebyonok syesrta. Ya mislv tvlchdrd myortvuih. Blamdarhtb Drake Ducaine tbi ard akzfd! (Oh,my little sister. I thought you were dead. Thank Drake Ducaineyou’re alive!; translated from Russian)

I’m very glad to meet all of you. ::glaring at Duke::Except for you, L’Orange.

L’Orange, pas neant mais une salope! (L’Orange,you are nothing but a b*****d!; translated from French)

Chnoo’fd bddm skddozmyo chzts lch babch syesrta?! (You’vebeen sleeping with my baby sister?!; translated from Russian)

~Said of Him~

Duke: That guy gets on my nerves! When will he learn to trustme?!

Jessie: He’s a jerk, but he’s also a major hunk. ALWAYS a bad combo in men.

Dive: Normally I’m not happy with my I.Q. level. Butwith Callie’s bro here, I take it back.

Calandra: I love my brother; there’s no denying that. But...there are times where I wish he was killed back in theInvasion.

Ariel: I wove my daddy!

Wing: He would make a great ally. All we need to do now isget him to stop complaining about housework and trust the otherteamates.

Songs of Him:

This Is The Life” Weird Al Yankovic
Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” DavidLee Roth
Money, That’s What I Want” Beatles
Hit Me With Your Best Shot” Pat Benetar
Mr. Big Stuff” Jean Knight
Time In a Bottle” Jum Croce
Second Chance” .38 Special
Tears In Heaven” Eric Clapton
Everything I Own” Bread
All Cried Out” Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam

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