Convergences and Divergences.... (Part 5)

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 15448

Malahci - This Malachi is like many of her analogous sisters from other universes in that she is a noble sort. Noble and kind. Most of the original dragons of her world got driven to the edge of extinction in a war with the dwarves, who were after the Dragon's Hoards (a dragon's lifeblood). In a desperate move, the dragon caste upon themselves a blood curse that they now can't remove. Anyone who kills a dragon and get's any of that blood in any open wounds will themselves be transformed into a dragon in a rather short order of time. It was a means to continue their race through the very bodies of their sworn enemy, the dwarves. However, the original dragons soon found it also effect other races as well! Furthermore, their was an unexpected and unwelcome side effect. The resultant dragon, most of the time, was evil! Soon evil dragons outnumbered good dragons.

Malachi was able to cure the Fred who'd killed the evil Dragon of the Southern Caverns before the curse got to the point of no return.

She and the others got magically teleported to the world of the Red Pyramid and soon get offered a chance to become Champions. She, like the others, took up the job, and now are on a Quest to neutralize the threat the Red Pyramid represents to Fred 5a's world.

The Book that had accidently swept her and others here had modified Malachi so that she could live without her Hoard and cast magic spells, still.

Fred - This is a Frederigo D'Honaire like many others Freds. He's a brave knight tasked by the King to kill the Dragon of the Southern Caverns. However, unlike other Freds, he met an Astra who was in the employment of the Dragon. This Astra was in the service to the Dragon because the beast had her sisters as hostage. Fred gained Astra's aid in his quest by helping free her sisters, and then they both went and killed the dragon

However, the dragon's blood got into an open wound on Fred and Fred found out about that blood curse that changes the slayer into dragons.

Soon he and Astra were on a desperate quest to find a rare dragon, Malachi, who seemed to have been able to overcome her beastly nature and was benevolent.

Soon, however, they got magically whisked with the others to the world of the Red Pyramid.

They soon found Malachi (who'd gotten teleported along with the others to a new world) and Fred got the curse removed before it got too far in converting Fred into a Dragon. Fred was soon returned to normal.

Soon after meeting Astra 5a, this woman revealed to her and "her" Fred that it was obvious that each had feelings for the other.

Was soon approached by a Rule and Agent and soon she and "her" Fred became Champions like the others of their group.

Astra - This Astra Thessamer is a red haired warrior maiden, a beauty amongst the beautiful warrior women of Aqualaria. She is brave, skilled, and very much like her analog sisters. However, she was in service to the Dragon of the Southern Caverns (Northern Caverns by Aquallarian maps) when she met "her" Fred. Fred asked Astra how she came to be serving the dragon. She frowned, clearly deeply unhappy. "The wyrm captured my younger sisters, Belinda, aged eighteen, and Carola, aged just fourteen, several months ago. Then he sent a message to our palace that unless I would come and lead his army, he would do terrible things to them. He didn't specify what those things would be; he didn't have to. He's a powerful mage, and if he wished he could turn them into anything that took his fancy. When the king of a neighbouring country wouldn't co-operate with him, the wyrm turned his only daughter into a snake-woman and then sent her back to him. So here I am. The only assurance I have is that I will not be required to lead his forces against my own land. I fear that the next target may be the Kingdom, though."

Fred helped her free her sisters, and then went on to help her kill the Dragon.

However, during the fight, a bit of Dragon blood got into a small open wound on Fred's hand during the Dragon's death and it soon became apparent that Fred was turning into a dragon himself.

They soon went on a desperate quest to find the dragoness Malachi who seemed to somehow overcome her draconic manners and was a benevolent creature. The hope was the dragoness could either cure Fred of his curse, or teach Fred how to overcome the evil nature of dragons so not be a threat to those around him.

Astra silently had promised herself that if it soon became apparent that Fred was losing his fight with his emerging draconic nature that she'd kill him, to spare him the pain. It would have been the hardest thing for her to do, however.

Astra 5a - Princess Astra is a royal daughter of the lands of Aqualaria. She is a young, tall, athletic and full-breasted redhead (because red hair is a rarity within Aqualaria she stands out as a beauty among beauties). Being an Amazon princess brings advantage and peril. One benefit is that she was trained early on in the soldier's art. She not only understands the necessities of life at Court, she too is a commander of skilful warriors. Though she knows the ways of death, her greatest desire is the protection of life. She finds the killing of innocents -from the child in the womb to the aged in their huts-repugnant but sees no wrong in eliminating those who spread evil.

Astra was captured by Velus, the Dragon of the Southern Caves, and imprisoned by him to serve as an amusement. It was Lord Fred who rescued her. After the death of the Dragon the beast's Master, Minestus, magically transported Astra and Fred to the Calamari Desert. After an encounter with the kind if befuddled scientist/mage Dr Vincent she was transported by the Dragonmage Minestus to a strange place. There she unwittingly stepped through a magical portal which sent her to a room with no doors or windows. She then metamorphosed into a werewolf. The dragon Minestus appeared and remade her into something else, something resembling a were-fox, and he placed her in the woods by his lair. She was reunited with Fred and had sexual relations with him. This had strange and unforseen consequences. Though the magic that affected Astra is not fully understood, she definitely became something more than just a were-fox and Fred took on similar characteristics. The pair was met by the dragon Malachi who helped them enter Minestus' lair in order for Malachi to take revenge upon the evil dragon and to find the instrument of their possible cure, the Crystallic. The two dragons fought to the death, but in her last dying breathes, Malachi instructed Astra and Fred to journey to Walants with the Crystallic in search of the one called Synizn.

Walants proved trickier than they had originally thought and the two were imprisoned the first day. They were then released under the care of their defense ttorney Master Rift who forced them to take him and his companion Tarin-Gazin to Minestus' lair. Half-way there the two accidentally used the Crystallic and regained their human form, yet still they remained the prisoners of Master Rift. One day later, however, they were taken captive by the Paine Gang and became the 'property' of said gang. They were returned to Walants -with the intention of auctioning them as slaves- when, unexpectedly, Master Rift returned and rescued them with the aid of the fighting dwarf Tarin. Astra was being blackmailed by the lawyer who knew that knowledge of her pregnancy would be detrimental to Astra's honor and bearing back in Aqualaria. Because of this she obeyed him in his quest to get the Minestus' treasure horde. Along the way, however, the barrister thought it wise to conceal her identity so as not to attract undue attention. He chose to do this by using the crystallic. The magic of the gem transformed the well-tanned red-head into an ebony-skinned woman with jet black hair!

Astra went a bit mad (arguably) at being transformed into a black woman. Her madness, though, gave her inspirations of freedom. She continued to aid the lawyer and the dwarf get to the lair of Minestus yet once there the foursome were met up with by an army of dwarves. And then an army of orcs soon followed ready to do battle! As a warrior princess the whole scenario was one of baffling simplicity, and though she knew the odds were against her, she found herself a weapon and went at the orcs with a vengeance. In the ensuing battle she was severely wounded, and because the dwarves did win, she was immediately treated with dwarven medicines. These medicines put her into a catatonic state and so when Lord Fred reappeared and when the dwarves told him she was dead, he believed them and so left her body in the company of the dwarves.

But fate stepped in and she was able to escape her captors. First was through what appears to be a vision given to her by Artemis. It basically stated that her goddess forgave her for what happened, but to be redeemed she must seek out the dragoness Malachi, and only then would she be able to live her new life with her love, Fred 5a. That, and she'd been renamed Astra 5a! That, and her new life with Fred and her children lay within what would prove to be Terra Prime!! Second was that she was able to obtain the Crystallic from her captors, and it aids her in several ways before it....died. Her skin and hair color were restored to normal. Her physical condition returned to that before her skin being turned jet black. That did wonders for her and thus she found herself whole, mind and body. Finally, she got teleported to the very world where a dragoness Malachi had found herself magically teleported to. Finally, the Crystallic had accelerated the growth of Astra's three children AND magically delivered them outside to the open world, fully grown to the size as if they'd gone the full nine months inside Astra womb.

She fell in love with those children at first sight and knows that her love knows she's alive and well. Has joined with this Malachi's group. This group has been paid a visit by a Rule and an Agent, and given a rare offer. It was a chance for Astra to join up with her love again and get to Terra Prime, so she became a Champion.

Sigourney - - Once there was a princess who'd been cursed by an evil mage and turned into a man. The transformed princess thouht she was a knight named Fred who was on a quest to kill a dragon. The mage had done one thing further by erasing all records and memories of the princess from the land she came from. A necromancer named Belboz found the transformed princess and restored her to her rightful form..... Sir Fred gapd at the mirror. Once, he had been a hulking young man, well over six feet tall, with a short brown hair, a trim beard, broad shoulders and powerful muscles. Now, thanks to Belboz, she was a dimunitive young girl, no more than 20 or so. A cascade of long blonde curls spilled down her back. Her armor been replaced with a pink silk dress which bulged in all the places one would expect a healthy young girl to bulge.

Soon, the restored princess' rightful memories came back. However, Belboz did this because the guy needed to find an available princess for a prince in search of a bride (and would pay a large sum of gold for anyone who brought a suitable princess to him)....and this woman fit the bill perfectly. The princess wasn't thrilled with this, but got turned into a stone statue to keep her from running. Belboz, under a time limit, decided the fastest method of delivery of the bride and himself to the prince was to teleport there. Belboz's spell malfunctiond.

What arrived was a set of two identical statues, both who'd prove to not have any memories of being anything but women....but would have no memories prior to waking up in this new place when turned back to flesh and blood. This last part was due to the fact that these were new people....the old washed away and gone on to wherever mortals go when they pass on. The mage who tried to reverse the stone spell also flubbed his spell, and was also turned into a young identical blonde....with no memories of being anything but what she appeared....and also no prior memories before this. In other words, this mage's spirit had also been replaced with a new spirit as well.

The three girls found the prince to be quiet a jerk, and knocked him out and left him. The girls, sisters, named themselves Thelma, Louise and Sigourney.

All were similar, but Sigourney is the kind hearted one. This is revealed when we see she can't stand to see another suffer....even when it's clear the person suffering is a vampire burning in sunlight!

She and the others soon find that this vampire is not the monster found in legend, but friendly and charming.

Soon, however, their sister, Thelma, get's separated and the remaining sisters find themselves on a new world, in the daylight.

Surprisingly enough, Count Yorga (that vampire) was also there. He'd been transformed back into a normal human being! The Book had automatically modified him so he could survive.

Joined with the others in becoming Champions so to aid them in their Quest AND to find Thelma (who they somehow knew had also become a Champion). This was their best chance at finding and reuniting with Thelma.

Louise - Once there was a princess who'd been cursed by an evil mage and turned into a man. The transformed princess thought she was a knight named Fred who was on a quest to kill a dragon. The mage had done one thing further by erasing all records and memories of the princess from the land she came from. A necromancer named Belboz found the transformed princess and restored her to her rightful form..... Sir Fred gapd at the mirror. Once, he had been a hulking young man, well over six feet tall, with a short brown hair, a trim beard, broad shoulders and powerful muscles. Now, thanks to Belboz, she was a dimunitive young girl, no more than 20 or so. A cascade of long blonde curls spilled down her back. Her armor been replaced with a pink silk dress which bulged in all the places one would expect a healthy young girl to bulge.

Soon, the restored princess' rightful memories came back. However, Belboz did this because the guy needed to find an available princess for a prince in search of a bride (and would pay a large sum of gold for anyone who brought a suitable princess to him)....and this woman fit the bill perfectly. The princess wasn't thrilled with this, but got turned into a stone statue to keep her from running. Belboz, under a time limit, decided the fastest method of delivery of the bride and himself to the prince was to teleport there. Belboz's spell malfunctiond.

What arrived was a set of two identical statues, both who'd prove to not have any memories of being anything but women....but would have no memories prior to waking up in this new place when turned back to flesh and blood. This last part was due to the fact that these were new people....the old washed away and gone on to wherever mortals go when they pass on. The mage who tried to reverse the stone spell also flubbed his spell, and was also turned into a young identical blonde....with no memories of being anything but what she appeared....and also no prior memories before this. In other words, this mage's spirit had also been replaced with a new spirit as well.

They were all Minervians. That is, they had come into being fully formed into the world, adults upon their inception. Basically.

The three girls found the prince to be quiet a jerk, and knocked him out and left him. The girls, sisters, named themselves Thelma, Louise and Sigourney.

All were similar, but Louise is the sensible one. This is revealed when we see she has her doubts about the safety of trusting Count Yorga.

She and the others soon find that this vampire is not the monster found in legend, but friendly and charming.

Soon, however, their sister, Thelma, get's separated and the remaining sisters find themselves on a new world, in the daylight.

Surprisingly enough, Count Yorga (that vampire) was also there. He'd been transformed back into a normal human being! The Book had automatically modified him so he could survive.

Joined with the others in becoming Champions so to aid them in their Quest AND to find Thelma (who they somehow knew had also become a Champion). This was their best chance at finding and reuniting with Thelma.

Count Yorga - This is that kind hearted vampire that the three sisters met before getting whisked away to the world of the Red Pyramid.

Satifies his blood needs by draining the warm blood from animals. He himself prefer a good sheep's blood, though an occasional dram from an ox or a bear was often quite invigorating.

The three ladies sat and talked to the Count for hours. He turned out to be a charming and entertaining man, far superior in every way (except for being undead) to the vain and boorish prince they had just left.

However, at midnight, they all got swept away to the world of the Red Pyramid and Count Yorga found himself standing in the sunlight....and not burning! It was rather pleasant, actually. Also, he found his heart beating (a definite non-sequitur for a vampire, who's hearts never beat) and HUNGRY.....vice being thirsty as a proper vampire should be when needing nourishment.

The Book had cured his Vampirism and turned him back to human. It was an automatic feature of the Book to optimize a person it kidnaps. Wouldn't do to have the victim die before the Book could use it, eh?

Joined the others in their Quest as a Champion because the former Vampire wanted to aid Fred 5a's world and help find the missing Thelma!

  1. Now, this all said and done....

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