Introducing. . . Belboz X!

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 29143

“Tie me to that chair and imprison me in this room for a day. That should be enough.”

That's what Fred said. It was a pretty good idea idea, actually, but that's when he showed up.

A bright flash of light filled the room, nearly blinding both Fred and the future incarnation of Belboz. When it subsided, a threadbare man with two heads and a slimy mass of slithering tentacles passing for it's legs was revealed to be in their midst.

"Hey there," said the left head.

"Hi there," said the right.

"Ho there," said a...third!? head. Fred had thought the chartreuse, bulbous mass of flesh protruding from this freak's torso had just been a tumor...or something. "We're Belboz X," they all said in unision.

"You're a freak of nature," Belboz V muttered disdainfully. "I refuse to believe that you could be of my lineage."

"Well, we are!" said the head in the torso. "We come from 200 years in the future. You must become an evil King, Fred. Though the dark chapter of your reign does have disastrous consequences, they are only in the short term. However, if you let the terrible dragon within this hellhole live, then tragically there will be no other Hero within a thousand years to confront it. In my time, the dragon has tainted the genetic code of humans, and we are now all unsightly evolutionary atrocities. To make a long story short, we have travelled to this crucial point in time to tell you that you must kill the dragon!"

"Utter nonsense," Belboz V snorted phlegmaticaly. "I come from an age of misery and despair. I will not let you influence this hapless knight!"

"Wait, Belboz, I think Belboz may have a point," voiced Fred.

Belboz V looked confused. "Which Belboz?"

Fred shook his head. "You, of course!"

"I have a point?"

"NO! Wait!"

"He's a tentacled monster! He can't have a point!"

"True, true," Fred indulged the fifth Belboz. "But I like the 'no other HERO coming along for another thousand years' idea."

"Just trust us," said a...@#$%ing fourth head? What the @#$%!?

"Where did you come from!?" gasped Belboz V, poking the new protrudement from the tenth Belboz's side with his dagger.

"Ow!" the head yelped. "Stop that!"

"Good point," mused Fred. "Why didn't you introduce us to this head!?"