82328 - Tea, Timegates, and Recapping Tales.... Part III

Before we proceed one must know that this particular woman had . . .bad experiences with religion before while she had been a human princess in Aqualaria. Kind of related to the reasons why she and her mother did not see eye to eye on things and leave at that. It carried over and was the reason why the manipulative entity (self styled “Moon goddess” of the Wood Elves) failed to sway her to become one of her shaman. Why it failed to be able to wipe her mind clean an remake her into a loyal minion and some such.

. . .

Weird place this fantasy world Nightfall comes from, eh?

Freed, that would still come back to bite her and her friends later on when they get captured by some slavers, but that’s later.

Soon enough they manage to get talking and the giantesses are a bit surprised to realize that this elf not only is from the land they’d heard about in their dreams as Astra D’Honaire but happened to be related to the woman in their dreams. Related to the memory of their former selves.

Gilda, the brown haired giantess, tells the elf about their dreams. About Astra and the shocked elfin woman looks at her. Her elfin Heart looks into Gilda and . . .something went snafu. The magical nature of Nightfalls’ elfin heart got mixed up and mystically detected that Gilda and Hilda were her long lost sister, Astra!

Now, both of them couldn’t be Astra but Nightfall’s heart couldn’t be swayed. All three were now sisters, in mind, body and soul complete and forevermore.

And since the Mark had played a part in this mess, now Nightfall was Marked as well. Hilda’s and Gilda’s sister she was now and loved it. Oh, and that dear Braveheart? Darling little thing!

Yeah...and top it off that Spirit of the Wolf, back to nature curse? It was starting to hook it’s claws into Gilda and Hilda’s mind and souls as well. They’d soon become more and more Wood elf like as time went on, soon wanting nothing to BE nothing else but wood elves. Find a mage and beg him to release them from these overgrown, gross giant bodies...

But first. . .

Anyway, now the new sisters had to go and get Nightfalls’ stolen children back from the Dragoness because family does not abandon family.

They had enough money as it were to start, as it turned out. Using all the money they’d gotten from this debacle they tracked down and found quickly a mage for hire and use him.

Hm, they’d needed him anyway for other things anyway. Needed to get a few needful lessons in having a familiar. One gets to be able to transform into the form of their familiar, and garner the abilities of flight and such in this case. However, it must be said Hilda and Gilda were rank amatures at this new thing and it could come to haunt them. See, left unattended too long and it backlash upon, this new ability and transform them into on them female griffons in season.

That be . . .distasteful the results off that . . .if they ever came OUT of it, anyway.

. . .

Just one more incentive now to find the mage and fix things.

And after that? Well, not to bore you even MORE with a long winded rehash the mercenary mage was able to help them with their familiar problem. While not willing to go WITH them into the caverns of the dragoness, the merc mage was willing (for the right amount of gold) to give them the magical tools needed to track down and find the children turned dragonets. That and use his magical skills to confirm they’d been dragonised and all that. Also used his skills to track down their location and such.

That was a plus, knowing where to look, eh?

They got teleported to the lair’s entrance and they managed (after some effort) to sneak in, avoid initial detection, and take back their kidnapped children. Was a “by the skin of their teeth” escape near the end, what with having to use the dragon mate’s unconscious form --it had a magical hiccup and transformed itself into Belinda’s old human form for whatever reason . . .don’t ask--as a hostage near the end.

Killed the hostage as well before they teleported away to where they all would be meeting Rei Quatermain for crimes it had committed as s rampaging monster (and putting the dragoness on a slow march to the grave). But that’s later.

They didn’t tell the mage the unconscious woman/hostage was anything more than a willing flunky to the dragoness because . . .he’d toss them out on their ear with no more help. Money or no.

The dragoness would be scouring the world magically for her mate, you know. And they wanted to get OUT of here and done with this business (transformation and all that) asap!! A panicky mage would ruin that chance for them and surely it wouldn’t take long enough for this business to be done and the mage to transport the mate (transformed or killed for being a willing minion) somewhere far away from him?

Well, that was what they told themselves...in their desperation.

Once back safely, the mage transformed the hatchlings (they’d hatched from their eggs) into elfin infants. Tender moment there when mother was rejoined with her infant daughters and that elfin Bond thing happened....

And the giantess were transformed into twins of Nightfall (the call of the Wood Elf was too strong to resist).

The mage didn’t care. He was being paid well enough from the money before and the loot the elves had grabbed to help pay for the rest of this stuff.

The problem happened when the mage was setting up for the magical teleportation away to parts unknown.

Plan had been for the grownup elves to have their looks altered and come up with new identities to hide from any wrathful female dragons after this business was done. The mage had transformed all the adult elves into silver haired triplets and the elves had been discussing what to call themselves after this when the dragoness finally tracked them down somehow. The mage had been in the process of setting up the teleportation spell to dump his customers to a place even he couldn’t retrieve (so random was this particular spell work). It wasn’t completed totally. It would teleport the elves to a land with Wood Elves in it . . .but not their kind of Wood Elves by far!

Oh, before you start thinking bad thoughts about the elves for having run from the fight between the dragoness and mage you DO remember the infants? Think that they’d be spared in this battle? Not really. So they ran to keep their little ones safe.

Managed even to rekill the dragoness’ mate (much to her rage) just before leaving. However, they arrive in a new world (with two suns in the sky) and enslaved by a traveling tribe of Wood Elves off to bet in some God forsaken Game of some such.

Oh, and lets not forget their Shaman got Orders from on High (that Moon goddes entity) to "dispell" the Wolf Spirit within the Nightfall's group, robbing them of it's blessing....

Felt terriblely sickening getting that taken, but soon enough after recovering they had to wonder why it had been so wonderful and. . .

Nevermind. Not important right now.

Irony here though still. Having gotten rid of their magical collars only recently they’d gotten magically slave collared and . . .

Nevermind.

Well, the Wood Elves tried to sell their new slaves to a traveling trio of mages. And they sold the slaves . . .but at a loss because Rei bargained them down fiercely. And Rei and her sisters only paid money instead of blasting the merchants for this insult (and freeing Nightfall and family in the process) because again of one thing: the infants.

Well, Rei and her sisters because of their history of COURSE freed Nightfall and her family, much to their surprise with all the fierce derogatory comments Rei and her sisters used to beat down the price on them.

And they even hired them on as servants to help them get back on their feet (what with them having only the clothing on their back and such in an alien land).

1. But who are Rei and their sisters? Why are they here and all that?

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