| Myrddin pulls aspects of Astra from a timeline in which she was
transformed into an elf by a strange shaman, and.......oops!
Princess Astra of Aqualaria felt a strange tingling as the ceremony
continued. She should have felt memories pouring into her head,
memories that she had never had before in her life, and yet they felt completely
natural to her. She should have remembered this:
She remembered being freed by Lord Frederigo D'Honaire, going to
Doctor Vincent's tower, and being sent to a strange place by a miscast
spell, just as she had in her own reality. But, in the other reality, instead
of walking into the grandfather clock, she had walked through a demon-ornamented
archway into astrange passage which lead to an underground river. And that
had made all the difference.
She dove in, knowing that it would lead to freedom and, her strength
finally gone, she'd washed up upon a beach and found Frederigo, evidently
marooned her. She smiled a faint smile as she passed into unconsciousness.
Later, she awakens and both she and Fred head away from the water,
into the woods in a vain hope that they will be able to find some shelter
and signs of civlization.
Instead, they find an elven path that leads deeper and deeper into
what turns out to be the fell Forest of Xythryx, home of strange magics,
monstrous spiders and other less desirable creatures, and often a place
of no return and tragedy. Fred accidentally walked head on into a nearly
invisible giant web, and Astra had gotten ensnared also as she tried to
get Fred's sword to drive off the maker of the web.
She SHOULD HAVE remembered this alien memory.
She should have remembered Fred desperately activating a magical ear-ring
that summoned the wizard (shaman to some of his friends) Pronklezilch.
She should remember tricking the indifferent wizard into helping them
against the approaching monster spider. She should remember the wizard
turning them into elves (she and Fred) and leaving them to their own fates,
still deep within the Woods. She should remember basically everything that
is told in episode 7366!. Should remember meeting strange people and eventual
friends. Should remember meeting an odd person who travels in a blue box
that's larger inside than out AND travels through time/space and between
several universes. She should remember becoming immortal due to her and
several others becoming Champions to beings called Rules and Agents.
These memories should be coming from her twin from the other time stream,
but due to the special nature of a Champion, such information is not forthcoming!
On the conscious level, that is. Some parts do get through.
Most doesn't due to the fact that the Agents and Rules take care of
their own. They do not allow tampering with their Champion's personal Timeline
in anyway, shape, or form. In doing this, they protect the very integrity
of their Champions lives and existence from those who otherwise could reach
back into time, somehow, and erase what is a most vexing obstacle. This
protection is wide and broad, and even prevents what COULD, if used for
other......less benign and more malign.....means to majorly screw with
their Champions (how, exactly, is a tale for latter, if ever).
Instead in memories, Astra is puzzled in the extreme when the arcane
phrase of ACCESS DENIED!! flashes through her mind as her
body tingles and changes.
She changes. Her child frame blurs and shifts, losing the form of childish
youth and taking on the curves of majority.....of womanhood. She does not
grow much in size, for the elves of present day do not grow over four feet
in height. She does lose a bit of mass as her musculature turns from human
to elfin, becoming stronger than what her small stature suggests, but much
lighter. Her hips widen and she finds herself filling out her silk chamise
in a manner that has become routine since the onset of puberty. Her hair
shitfs and changes, grows. But that is only true for the hair on her head
(elves don't have any body or facial hair of note). Her hair takes on the
tufted, but beautiful form, that her analog has chosen. She finds that
her ears wiggle and then grow in size.....then become extremely pointed.
She revels in the immensity of the new sounds, smells, and sight her vastly
increased sense bring her....much in excess of anyting she's known before
as a mere human. She'll find that her reflex have increased dramatically.
Shell find that she needs not sleep, only rest to regain stamina (sleep
is for humans). She'll find she's unaging (death only from unnatural causes).
She finds her outfit shifts from the silk chemise she came in with have
changed into the well fitting outfit of green and brown leather jerkin,
pants, and boots. She'll find her ears have been pierced and she's wearing
golden hooped ear-rings. She'll find she's equipped with the equipment
that her counterpart is presently carrrying over in what some would call
a Whoniverse.
Presently, she staggers right now as the transformation reaches in and
begins to change her mind from human to elfin. The transformation doesn't
change her fundamental nature. Astra is still Astra, but it's an Astra
who's an elf with a few human quirks....but will react and act like the
elfin lass she now is.
The transformation reaches what some call the "heart." It is not the
organ that pumps life giving blood. Rather, it reaches into the part of
the mind that feels love. Her human "heart" changes from human to the fey
thing that all elves have.....and the fey, wild thing reaches out (like
it's twin inside the one who had been called Astra in another universe
before a "shaman" had transformed her).....and suddenly screams in horror
as it finds that it's other part.....the animus to it's anima......the
other part that is found in this world version of Fred......isn't where
it thinks it should be!
Astra's heart had mirrored her other sister's heart, and had reached
out to find Fred's heart and soul......
Problem is, that Fred is back uptime....and is in a bit of a pickle.
The cry of Astra's elfin heart begins to reach out, magically and psychically,
to find it's other part....
"Fred...." Astra whispers softly, weakly, as she falls to her knees.
Myrddin, meanwhile, knows very well that something is amiss, and is
fighting desperately to stop what he thinks is imminent disaster for Astra.
Why isn't his spell working? He'd said it was a dodgey process, but it
seemed to have been working....until just a few seconds ago!
A flash of light and a tremendous tug is the last thing that both the
now elfin Astra and the seer feel as an alerted Rule responds to a frantic
alarm caused by what appeared to have been tampering.....
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 Meanwhile,
the elfin heart of Astra is still reaching out throughout time (piggybacking
on the very process that Myridden had been trying to use in his search
of a timeline to use) and reaches forward.....and finds Fred.
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