Sharing a Nightmare....

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 12924

Ti'mma, upon awakening to her Timmain half, had rediscovered one ability that had translated from the elf that she had been to the elf she was now. It was the ability to Send. Sending was a combination of empathy and telepathy. It was superior to mere speech, since it conveyed exactly the concepts and feelings the broadcaster was trying to convey. But since it was mind numbingly hard to Send to those not able to Send naturally, she'd not bothered to try since the day of her awakening.

But the situation with Thanti'Falc and the other awakened elves in this room was very different. They could very well Send to each other with little to no difficulty.

Thus, in order to convey the utter horror that Curthis'el is wishing upon this other elf (that Thanti'Falc had no real idea is), he shares (seeing just how serious the hatred was within his friend) the dreadful memories. Disturbing as they are Paladin in training knew that it was necessary, else he feared for Curthis'el's immortal soul!

He shares the memories that now stirs deep regret and anger aimed at himself of the days he'd been named Kuriel.....and very cruel and callous. He'd even go as far as to saying having a psychotic disregard for the lives of others!

He shared the memories of the joy he'd inflicted upon the elves that had defeated his band of hunters of Blue Mountain, the Eight.....the revenge he inflicted on the others for the humiliation of it all. He'd directed his large mount, a giant hawk that on another world would be a Roc, to grab an elfin and human child and smash them into the rocks below. He'd turned, laughing, ready to do it again when a Wave of fire engulfed the world...the universe....everything and all went black!

Later, he'd learned from reading a strange black and white comic book that he'd been seconds away from being killed by the swift arrows of the father of the elfin lad he'd dashed into the rocks when the Wave had hit. At the time, still unaware of his true origins, Thanti'Falc exclaimed upon seeing that outrageous act of this "Kuriel" that he was glad that this evil elf got what he'd deserved.

In hind sight it and in memory of it all, the others feel Thanti'Falc cringe in a bit of loathing at his old self.

He awoke to the sadistic prodding of what he now knew was a Demon and then screamed in mind numbing terror as the Demon gleefully showed the injured elf just WHERE it planned on taking him.

Looking into the face of Hell will make even the bravest mortal shudder in horror and fear. Thus none of the elves who see Kuriel scream and piss in his pants can fault him. Some of the less hardened elves squeek and also piss themselves in fright!

The Demon is then joined by a rather annoyed looking Agent of Chaos as the Demon drags the terrorized Kuriel along. What happens next is recorded by on Melissa (later known as the Empress of the Elven Nation, Li'reth):

She nearly screams as suddenly the room seems to surge and grow around her, and then the scream sticks in her throat as a wave of mind numbing terror sweeps out from the opening door.

Standing at a mere four foot nothing, Melissa looks on in silent terror (with her now too large clothing puddled around her) at the figures who walk through the door. One is a man with a slightly mischievous smirk, decked out in leather jacket, chains (looking very much like a biker she once dated....only with a LOT more menace to him). The other is.....what Melissa can only call a DEMON! It looks to be the classical demon she's seen in various artist renditions, but a million times....uglier! As for the last, it's a humanoid figure that's as tall as a man, but is what Melissa would call reed thin! From the looks of his ears and the delicate build of his face (with it's silvery eyebrows and hair), Melissa's mind insists that.....this is some type of male elf!

That's ridiculous....but that's what it looks like.

At the moment the "elf" is being dragged bodily by the "biker"....and is silently crying and saying something over and over again. He's being dragged, because apparently either due to obvious injuries and/or gut wrenching fright....the guy's knees are as week as water! Melissa's still scared stiff by the OTHER beings in front of her, hears the elf say something.

"I'll be good....I'll be good....I'll be good," the elf keeps whispering over and over again, weeping.

"It's too late," the demon says with obvious relish, reaching for the elf....who screams in terror.

The biker sighs and suddenly the "demon" finds himself slammed up into a row of tools (the room that Melissa is in is a mechanics garage). The dazed demonic beings looks up at the glowering figure who had "thrown" him their, looking almost silly as wrenches and other mechanic tools rain down upon his head.

"We had this discussion already," the biker says in a cold voice. "This Thanti'Falc's fate is to be different than those of his already departed bretheren in the Palace. In fact, you should NOT have even awoken him at the time when your....friends took those time shard twins down to the bowels of the Infernal region!"

The biker waves a hand at the shivering elf, who's backed himself into a corner and is whimpering.

"You scared the living piss out of him....you can still smell the urine!" the biker continues, looking sadly at the shivering elf.

"But you're an Agent of Chaos, Agent 4!" the demon protests. "That makes us...."

"Nothing," Agent 4 interrupts. "Evil and chaos are NOT the same. Same for Order and Good! They may meet in some cases.....or may not.

"Now, as for your argument that says that this Kuriel's case is like your boy Thoabath," the biker pauses, and gives off a deep...hollow laugh. "Now, while I care nothing for rules laid out in a universe .....the rules covering his case are different ....the rules of the soul and such. He had.... and always HAD ....one last chance at redemption. RF did NOT make him sign the usual contract in his own blood, since our little demon wanted the profits of that little venture all to his lonesome. That meant that once that Frederigo D'Honaire - who RF called Thaobath - could have redeemed his own soul, could have gone on to gain a positive place in the Here After."

"Ancient history," the demon hisses, picking himself off the floor. "He didn't....and his brother's fate back in his home universe....."

"Is very much in question....even with the question as to whether or not he has the same chance at being something more than a charcoal briquette when he dies again.....unlike that stupidity with the Brazen Man......" the biker finishes.

"But the elf went and tried to murder his own kind!" the demon protests, seeing an opportunity slip through it's claws. "He had his bird mount grab that elfin child and smash it and a human child unto the rocks below. He laughed in delight and......"

"Turned and went to do it again....." Agent 4 said. "Just like in the Elfquest comics by Warp Graphics (characters and such trademarked) that his universe mirrored.....before Rayek went and....killed his universe by combining his Palace with that other Palace."

The demon tries one last time to make a grab at the elf, and is again slammed up against the wall.

What the Agent says next isn't clear to Melissa. It seems to sound like "Go to Hell" or something to that effect (Melissa isn't sure just what infernal region is mentioned.....the word was to......alien.....to understand).

The demon disappears in a flash of flame and brimstone, and with his disappearance goes ninety percent of the fear.

"Kuriel.....you've seen and heard much....that will effect you even after what happens next," Agent 4 says gently to the shivering elf, who is beginning to have a look of hope in his haunted eyes. "If I know my mortals.....this will make a total 180 with your personality as far as behavior.....even without your memories for eight years. Learn and make up for what you almost did."

Kuriel suddenly shrinks down to a fraction of his normal size, and a reedy crying sound can be heard from where he had been. Then the now infantized Thanti'Falc disappears in a flash of light (to whereabouts unknown to Melissa).

After exclamations and questions (and one of his fellow friends, a brown haired boy named Lo'taxe, grasps his hand and begs his forgiveness for killing him!). After confusing the heck out of the others with that one, Lo'taxe explained via Sending that in his earlier life his name had been Strongbow, the very elfin father who'' Kuriel had attempted to kill! This elf, however, had clear memories of actually KILLING Kuriel (something that Thanti'Falc had no memories of). Seemed that the act had been eating up this Strongbow and only by seeking forgiveness could he be whole again (elf killing elf isn't good for emotional and mental well being....at least their old species, that is).

"That one teacher of ours, Doctor Who, told us that something like this could very well happen," Curthis'el thinks aloud. "That the timeline could have broken into smaller parts something similar to parallel universe where things could stray from 'true' as it were. I count something like eight different versions of reality in all here."

The other elves agree.

The former Kuriel forgave the former Stronbow for his act, but then added that he really shouldn't be begging for forgiveness.....since he (as Kuriel) had it coming!

He then asked for Lo to forgive HIM for what he'd done to his son! Forgiven, both turned back to the task at hand.

"That aside, I then continued to shrink down and down to the size of a single.....'cell' as that humans call it," Thanti'Falc continued verbally. "And then I was reborn as I am now. But that aside, I believe we all see just WHAT you were wishing on this Rayek chap....."

"I....I can't wish that on him," his friend shuddered, white as chalk, "Lord above, I can't!"

"But....I do remember one thing that the Demon mentioned in passing to a strange event," Thanti finally says, remembering, "About how the first Rayek....the youngest version of this villain of yours.....that the demons had revived and were planning on having fun with him later. Maybe if we can Go Out to that Plane and see if he's still alive and whole....we can save him? I think that this earliest version of Rayek can't be held accountable for crimes he hadn't committed yet......"

"I talked with my Uncle about such a spell," an unnamed female that was in a former life had been of a elfin Tribe called the Go-back, "Frankly, until recently with what you showed me about the true nature of Hell, Hades, or whatever Infernal region you showed us....I'd have said let the blighter rot."

Rayek and the Go-backs had parted ways on less than friendly terms. Long story that's not important right now.

  1. The elfin children, still suddenly filled with childish enthusiasms that overrode their adult common sense, giggled and pulled out various spell components that they kept on belts.

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