And so....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 10230

Anina finishes the last story she has to convey, and swallows the lump in her throat as she finishes. The terrble things that the young Astra had seen......

Queen, King, and Sigin Vulpine (providing magical shield for privacy) and Count (Zero) also compose themselves after hearing such a tragic tale and they vow that they will make this newcomer especially welcome to help her get over the trauma.

"By the gods.....such tales.....tragic at turns and eldritch at others," Queen Astra says, "So...... it seems our family has grown just a bit more. I hope to meet them soon....."

"Mayhaps we can arrange a meeting at Astra and Fred 7's wedding and land grant," Probe muses, "We still have that event later on today......"

Will and Astra glance at each other.

"Well....yes, we do have that later on today," Astra says, having forgotten that in the rush of recent events. "That must be why the Herald was practically dancing around in anxiety when we told him to wait while we take care of this business."

"Aye, considering you are the one who is performing the wedding ceremony...." Will chuckled.

"Your Highness," Anina begins, only to be interrupted.

"Anina....you are like a mother to me.....and when in private titles are not needed," the Queen says softly.

Anina blinks....and swallows at a sudden lump of warm feeling in her throat before continuing. It always hit her when Astra said that. She had been like a daughter she'd never had....and now with this tale of the small Astra analog......feelings were near the surface again....and had finally shown themselves.....

"Astra," she says softly, "My mages have assured me they speak the truth. Furthermore, they examined the resurrected Fred...and found some rather interesting magical signatures...as well as a magical message hidden within this Fred's mind.....and it's from Minestus......rather.....an odd analog version of him. This one wasn't....evil."

Those who can, look at each other in surprise.

"I guess that if I can find a Seeker, now Elrondir, who is honorable and good then I can see there being a good Minestus," Probe puts in before anyone else can comment.

"We also see that the dragon had put some subtle type of guarding wards on Fred......that seemed to have blocked what they tell me were some powerful but hastily cast demonic spells of control....." Anina says. "Basically, I'm told by the magic users that without the blocking spells.....this Fred would have been under the complete control of whatever demon had apparently caught and teleported this Fred and the others to Terra Prime. They say that the teleport spell residue has similar signs as the botched control spells."

"And....what did the message say?" Sigin Vulpine asks, tail slowly swishing about to show that the owner is extremely curious about the whole of it.

A mage steps forward and taps a crystal that had been used to record this magical message for later review.

Thus, the voice of Minestus comes over the radio....

"This is the Dragon Mage Minestus.....leader of my small but hardy Dragon Circle....a Circle made of romantics and fools....myself included for bucking the tides....for being renegades.....ah, but to the task at hand.

Hopefully circumstances turn out better than I hope and the hasty spells I've cast to protect this strange lad will protect him from whatever that mad demon has in store. I'd stay and protect the boy myself, but demands are that I and my Circle must fly all over the Tiamat cursed land of this alien world.....trying to lessen and stop the chaos this Flagg character has unleashed by it's henchmen....and that evil bastard version of myself. I and my comrades have slain my evil analog brother.....no regrets there. We, however, find that we must now fight creatures called giants.....and they are everywhere it seems.

We must fly....and fly fast to block blows and strike hard and fast! I have used the last of the Altantian Cstitis item to raise this poor boy from death and undo what my evil brother has wrought on him. The spell is still working slowly to completion....and I mustn't move the slowly reforming knight....else he'll just die again. In the meantime, I've cast a few spells of mind warding to protect this prone figure.....just in case the fell demon finds and tries to use him for evil purposes. I doubt he'll find the boy....seeing that his crony had killed him in the first place....but then again the corpse's Matrix shows signs of having been altered and Anchored. I've only the smallest of knowledge of Chronomagery....but his aura shows signs of something called being time orphaned from what I can see......

Minestus' voice sighs and then continues.....

For whoever hears this let me assure you that I tried my best.....that not all dragons are evil.....that I am not like the dragon of this alien Terra I and my Circle have been sent by the Rule and Agent. I hope that through the opportunity that Tiamat seems to have given me by me and my Circle...as well as my worlds Astra (who I call friend) and my world version of this man before me (thank Tiamat that the Shoggoth was driven from him!) becoming Champions..... we can do good to undo the damage others of my kind have done....and eventually bring Dragonkind and all of the other People together in peace and harmony. If not, then let me at least be able to do some good along the way......as I go through eternity......

I've been too long and must stop an ambush my Moreau has spotted from afar while winging her way to yet another crisis.... Hopefully, I'll be able to halt it before whatever these monsters called giants can attack whatever human convey or whatever......

Wish me luck.

I hope that this message is gotten by whatever mage examines this young man.....and that the circumstances of the examination are happy ones.

I must fly. Out.

"I have trust in my mages and they assure me that what they've seen in this Fred...the magical signs conform to what this Minestus said in as far as him blocking a demonic magic and such," Anina finishes. "We have much to try to figure out....but right now I am having our newest friends put on Probe's shuttlecraft."

  1. " I'll have them as wedding guest so as to be able to see them right after the ceremony," Astra says as they break the connection. "By that time I'll have been able to somehow tell them what I know...in a coherent manner...."

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