Journey to Babylon (Part 2)

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 17249

"I believe that both Janeways are over in Nantucket to participate in diplomatic negotiations," Annafrid says, thinking aloud, "If we hurry......

"If we hurry we can get an assist from the new leader of the new Dragon Nation of Nantucket Earth!"

Maybe by giving them a speedy lift back to Nantucket or perhaps by some other means.

Outside the Voyager, near a dragon mage's transplanted house from Walants....

The female dragon in question, Empress Selania, was speaking with some of the Voyager's crew. The Voyager's second in command, Commander Chakotay (horse morph Furry), was giving a goodwill tour to her, Emperor Dreven (who still was scratching at the new anklets and such that appeared on him after that Elevation Ceremony his mate had forced him through), Lady Joshine (hired by Selania as an ambassador to the new Dragon Nation), and a few other dignitaries. Several teams of Voyager crewmembers were still stripping the damaged ship of useful equipment to set up in a town that a combined force of Nantucketers and Voyager shipmates. She and her mate had caught a glimpse of this young man of Asian descent. Selania had gasped and said that that human male was what she'd looked like.....before.

A warn glow begins to course through her draconian heart, and insane as it sounded, Selania was finding herself becoming rather fond of this one man....

She'd ordered for Chakotay to halt and bring the young man in question over so she, her mate, and her new friend (Joshine) could speak together. Alone.

Chakotay wasn't very thrilled with begin ordered about, but bowing to good will, complied.

So, next to a the glow of Synizn's still spell protect Hoard, Ensign Scott Chen met with this group. Introductions are made, and Scott found the same warm feeling that Selania had experienced coursing through him as well. Selania and Scott were analogs you see, and since they didn't instantly hated each other....then by Law of Dopplegangers (accelerated by the presence of magic in the environment) they instantly loved each other like brother and sister.

"What happened to you?" Scott asked, not exactly sure on how to phrase it more diplomatically.

Selania understood and gave off a pleasant sounding chuckle that rumbled deep within her.

"Well, it began when, after having a major argument with my ex-girlfriend Debbie," Selania begins, "I had been given one more chance to make things right with her (so generous of her), which involved me going to a costume party. If all went well there, we'd still be an item. If things went wrong and I embarrassed her....."

Selania rolled her reptilian eyes before continuing: "I hated costume parties, but hadn't figured out yet that Debbie was one of those types of people that I'd have been better off just without. I still thought I'd loved her, so I went out to a strange store for a costume to wear. Didn't find what I wanted, but found this fantastic and eerie glowing green scale dress that Debbie would have just loved. Turned out to have a magical compulsion for whoever touched, it....er....well. I just had to wear it!"

Male to female transformation as well as a change in species, Ensign Scott thought to himself, nodding, Typical for Game 3. Doesn't appear that whatever Author did this to her included the overused "sex starved bimbo" feature.

This "Selania" also seemed to be one of the few decent "Scotts" running about. So far I'm glad she managed to escape from the cesspool of a reality.

Selania continued by recounting what happened next.

What's next is from episode 15639 by Kabit

Scott begins to feel a tingling sensation on his skin. He looks to see that green-purple scales are forming all over his body, while the dress merges with them.

"What happening!" he yelled, only go unheard.

Just as the scales completely covered his body a long tail sprouts from his rear, while a pair of wings sprout into full form his back, they're bases running from the new set of shoulders behind his first ones, and ending at his hips. Sharp wicked talons form on his hands, while his feet grow and alter into draconic ones. He then falls on all-four, while his hair fell away and a long snout with sharp teeth formed, along with a long snake-like neck. His eye pupils become very reptilian, horns sprout out from the back of his head and grow the a two foot length, while a line of smaller horns begins form, and runs between hie two main horns and end short of his tail.

Suddenly, Scott feels a stronger tingling feeling at his groin and throughout his muscle structure. His body suddenly became very flexible, while a very female element forms between his hind legs. Scott saw and went to look at him/herself in the large mirror on door. He was shocked to see a sleek dragoness looking devilishly back at him/her. She stood up on her hind-legs, started to run partly webbed taloned hands over her new body. But, just as Scott thought the change had ended she felt a sinking sensation as a pair a bracelets and anklets appeared on her for-arms and hind-legs, while a long necklace appeared at the base of her long neck. Also a spiral bracelet appeared on her tail, 1/4 away from the tail tip. Then the room vanish and was replaced by a huge domed room, that was just big enough for Scott to take to wing. It was dark and filled with shadows that kept Scott from making out many details of the room, except for a one-step platform in front of her and double door behind her. She could almost see where the audience would be placed had there been one. It become obvious to her that her size hadn't change much, and this room was meant for full sized dragons.

"I had become an exact duplicate of Lady Selania ," Selania said, "Heir to the Empire on a planet called the Land. A mage had baited a trap for whoever had put that dress on, and I was that lucky person! The mage wanted to install me as a puppet ruler. If I'd agreed to his plans, the last little feature of this transformation spell would have activated, and he'd have had his puppet. But I didn't and he instead shrank me down to dragonet size so I could be a mate to his familiar, Dreven."

She smiled and reached over and brushed the blushing dragon's cheek.

"Fool figured that my hormone clouded mind wouldn't recognize royalty," Dreven sniffed, "But my love broke through and got me to see my....former friend....as the monster he was (being a familiar makes you think the world of the caster). Doing my duty, I aided Selania by killing the fiend before more damage could be done by him. With the mage dead, I and she returned to our normal size."

"We'd have headed back to the Seat of the Empire to stabilize the chaos that surely was happening," Selania said in a sad voice, "That mage had killed all of the others of the Royal faimly, and despite me having been transformed into Selania.....a copy if you will.....I still was of Royal Blood. And Royal Blood....has duties and obligations. Dare say that I like being a dragoness more that a human male....now. That matrix business the mages keep speaking about, I fear. But after rescuing a cowardly version of my old self we were knocked out by a magical spell and somehow ended up on this world. While it means that the young hatchlings of this world somehow imprinted on me due to my Royal Blood and set me up as their Empress (and Deveron as their Emperor as soon as I elevated him to the position), it also means I have no way of returning to save the Empire of the Land!"

The last was said with real anger. She calmed her and both sigh in remorse. She then looked over at Dreven, lovingly. They were still vastly young by dragonkinds' standards (only about two decades old), and while as a species of dragon like that found on TerraPrime..... love had struck!

"We fell instantly in love also soon after meeting each other," Selania added, "First we'd been something like friends. Next, with Eye meets Eye, it was no longer a matter of hormones and instinct, but the stuff of bard's tales."

"And what of your story?" Selania then asked Scott, "I take it that you escaped from 'Room 1' as I hear it called and somehow ended up with the Voyager crew?"

Scott tells what happened to him (re: 15639), adding that he'd married a female black furred cat morph Lt. Wildman not long after meeting her. He and Wildman had a new child on it's way in addition to the child that Wildman already had while stranded out in the Delta Quadrant.

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That done, they soon depart company, promising to later meet again under less hectic conditions.

They get approached by Jarlath's group and told their plight. Selania, seeing the need, is able to get Chakotay to include the group with the diplomatic team heading out to Babylon (contact had been made due to an Unseelie Afflicted, under the influence of his curse, had nearly killed that proud city's ruler and family....the Voyager search team had to beam in and stun the unfortunate down before it was too late)!

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With having no choice in contacting Nantucket, those of the Voyager felt that contact with the rest of the world might as well be as positive as possible and how positive indeed it can be when that encounter is by saving another's bacon!

Well, Selania gets them onto the shuttlecraft with the diplomatic team heading to Babylon. All mutter in awe as they see the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the city itself soon (some muttering that in their timeline this wonder had been created in the "second" Babylon, rather than the origianl). Whatever. While the city itself not as large or grand as later day cities (and some of the Voyager crew will be taken aback by the rather rank smell of a city without a sewage system), it's impressive! And do remember that the Hanging Gardens IS one of the original Seven Wonders of the World!

"It's beautiful!" Annafrid sighs, remembering the sight from the air.

While landing Jarlath is able to contact (finally) the dragons in question by magic, and dragons actually land right next to it!

This causes a bit of panic, but something strange has been happening out here while the dragons were visiting. Something not of their doing...... but related to them all the same.....

See the Church of Tiamat and the Faith of Babylon....could have been said to have been seperated in a similar manner like Protestant Churches and Catholic.... No more, here, for them here on Nantucket Earth!

Nantucket Earth was becoming much like Terra Prime in this regard. Where clergy sometimes get actual, tangible messages from the Beyond. Messages that could be arguable empirical in nature....

  1. Of course, that was debatable and something beyond the scope of today's story.....

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