"One Bad Turn Deserves Another" Or "Elf-Interest"

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 24839

Later...

Eddie Dean

Uh, you....probably are wondering just what's going on here, who I and the others are, and how and why we are here?

.....

Well, kinda vague about that myself but I'll tell you what I can from what I know of it. It kinda happened....very quickly! Damn quick!

Roland himself knows more about it, really, since he was the one to directly and actually speak to that one Author named......Crossroad Man. Looked normal enough, dressed like a sailor (even kinda short) and all that, except I'll never call a guy who's eyes actually crackle with eletricty behind those glasses!

That and a constantly pissed off attitude he gave off....

No, no matter how much this guy looks like....however, he's not....human. Guess the crackling eyes is all part of what a happens when he comes out from Game 3....

Oh, what do I mean by "Author"?! I mean this guys was one of those godlike guys (or women) who actually rule that place that those guys named "Scott Chen" came from, Addventure Game 3!!

From what I gather this Author had been tricked by some Fey folk who had been able to pose as the Seelie court, when they were actually Unseelie on a recruiting drive. For some kind of freaky War of Shadows or whatever on another reality, two or three dozen over....somewhere and somewhen....

....

Look, don't know how they managed to pull the wool over this Crossroad Man's eyes, but they did. Tricked him into believing that that he'd be rescuing a bunch of elfin children from abusive parents and giving them into a good Seelie home....

Hey, don't now how things work exactly with this Seelie/Unseelie business so I guess that an be legit...should have looked into that before...

Whatever....

Anyway, this Author discovered too late the truth. Had already done and delivered the elfin children into some kind of haunted elfin tree town. Worse, he had to kidnap elfin children who'd been in line to become...you guessed it....Champions!

Now, in the stomping order of things, a Q is godlike in power, but is toast, individually, against an Author. Would have trouble with the whole Q Continuum, though, and Author would have if they ganged up on him. But one Celestrial (like a Rule or Agent) swatted a whole Q Continuum without even trying....

Yeah, Crossroad Man was in trouble!! Not only had he got the elves up in arms, but if he didn't do something and FAST....

Well, he can't do it directly.....for some kind of super Entity kind of deal convention stuff.....but he CAN send us MORTAL folks to take care of things....

That, by some quirk, included some reject from a place called the World of Two Moons (ala that Elfquest reality that got toasted)....that one guy that had died.... Ah, nevermind the full details. The short of it was that this Rayek (an older incarantion of the jerk) screwed up after being tricked by Randal Flagg (a demon and something of a Boss of the Unseelie). Ended up destroying his whole universe, shattering the timestream (and reality). The backlash killed him and all his other versions (created by the time- stream shattering), but in the chaotic mess afterwards this prick got swept up and resurrected by the Demons.

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Wasn't a high quality resurrection, by the way. The guy's health has..... Well, let's put it this way. He's wasting away. Needs glasses. Needs a cane. Can't use any kind of magic. Constantly in pain (sometimes too painful to keep from screaming).....

Only one reason why (besides to possibly rescue Ti'mma, the very heart of what remains of the transplanted (and transformed) elves from that destroyed realm)....was to....

....To die....

And which if finally did throwing himself in front of a poison arrow meant for Ti'mma as she and the others (all having resisted and now managed to escape THIS far).....

All storming down a rope ladder like mad....right after Fred 8 (once known as Thoabath before he got rescued and redeemed).....

Dude can STILL be rather weird at times. Can kind of figure on that, considering he had been burning in Hell before that Thoabath deal....

.....and that would explain that gibberish he said when he saw that elf.....

Please, Satanic elves?! What a joke!!

....That elf (Dark Elf) leading that one red haired elf woman and the black haired elfin man into...

.....

Okay, just had a LOOK at those two elves (who got swept up in the rush of things) to a pickup point that Eric Jones arranged (nearly highjacked a shuttle craft in his desperation....shit).

Author's Note: Eric Jone's bios can be found here, in case you don't recognize the name from the story here from awhile back:

http://www.geocities.com/ rule179 /CharacterBios /BiosMil.html# Eric

Also have noticed how much OLDER the elven children look now!! Time does....tend to pass differently in certain eldritch places.

Eighteen, all of them, by the looks.... Oh voy.

Uh, what seems to have happened here at the end (managed to do that after getting everyone into the shuttle craft and away from that anthill of an elfin compound we kicked up there).

Several years away means nothing to an elf. Time sense is different than us human beings. However, in that elfin compound (that tree house/town ruin whatever the hell it was)....time flows differently inside. They didn't break, but they didn't stop aging all those years inside....

Got a lot of surprised parents coming up here, finding there sons and daughters now eighteen (and facing being Champions and all that).

And then there is this business of the royally confused elfin pair we picked up by mistake!! They LOOK like Gilmuriel and E'eysha, but.....

Will let Eric Jones take care of this one....I'm....taking care of Rayek's mortal remains....

"What's going ON here!?" Fertal and Altizza shout at Eric Jones, finally able to make themselves heard!

  1. "Perhaps I can help explain along with you?" the ones known as Astra 8 and Fred 8 ask Eric, coming up besides him and then looking down at the shell shocked elfin couple.

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