Evils There Be

"You gotta be kidding me!" said Princess Exotica. "How can you believe that I, a prisoner of the Dragon, chained up and stripped nude, fed disgusting fish eggs and lukewarm snails on unleavened crackers, and not even allowed to pee in peace, how can I be an agent of forces so evil they make the Dragon look like little Mary Sunshine?!?"

"Ruff, ruff, rowr, growl!" said the dog-speaking Velus-of-the-present. But, of course, the Velus from the future was able to understand the whole thing: "You gotta be kidding me, she's hot, really hot! I mean how could someone so HOT be that evil?!?"

Then an idea struck Fred. "Ouch!" said Fred. "Hey, wait a minute... If you are really Velus from five minutes in the future, and within these five minutes Belboz the B*st*rd will arrive here, how come he sent you here now? Why do the time spell? Why isn't he talking to us right now... I mean five minutes from now... I mean when he got here, uh, gets here?"

Before the human-voiced future Velus could answer the lights went out!

about five minutes later...

Belboz the Necromancer walked down tunnel number thrity-two, whistling as he walked, and thinking. ~~Ah, the life of a spy! Nothing quite like it. Good King Emry should give me quite the commendation after this stint is over, yesiree, a house by Lake Lattice I should think. Why not? If all goes as planned my ambassadorial days with the disgusting Dragon shall be over within a fortnight. I must tie up some loose ends, however... entrapping that succubus from the Elfin DredGate was quite a feat, now to kill her and be done with that altogether~~

Belboz the Mage, Wizard Ambassador of the Dragon, Secret Agent of King Exultaine, turned the corner with the expectation of finding the quasi- human thinge chained to the wall, instead he saw a revolting red puddle to the right of the now empty chains, made all the more grotesque by the lone eyeball floating in its center. Steeling his stomach the mage/secret agent carefully scanned the area for clues. He saw footprints, human, small, barefoot, as well as prints of boots, large in size, human- looking. Throughout were the pawprints of multiple animals, probably dogs or wolf cubs thought Belboz.

Elsewhere at more-or-less the same time...

Exotica was walking stealthly accompanied by a stunned and rather dazed Lord Fred. "Wha' just happn'd?" he asked with a slur. Exotica shushed him and added: "Be quiet, very quiet. Those demon-dogs nearly killed us, who knows what else might be awaiting us within these demented tunnels." ~~indeed, thanks be to the Powers-that-Be I am safely out of the clutches of the Dragon and that betraying son Belboz. O Masters mine, I shall take this man-knight and make of him Your loyal servant...just get us out of here!!!~~

1. Oh my! Will Fred be turned by the Dark Side? Will the wiles of the beauteous Agent of Evil confuse the Honorable Knight into random acts of depravity? If the future Velus already lost one eye, to whom did the new eyeball belong? Stay tuned to find out!

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