| "Well, even if it did happen," Fred said. "You wouldn't have an ogre
for a husband. I happen to know and like Zular. A real man of honor and
courage.....and a real brain inside his head! Fact is, I owe him my life
when he came up with an antidote for a slow poison that some enemy to the
House D'Honair slipped in my food!"
"But I'm glad that the marriage didn't happen....for else I'd be heartbroken
right now," Fred mutters softly to himself, heartfelt. All eyes turn to
him and smile, and Fred feels like dying! He'd said it softly enough that
human ears wouldn't have heard or understood that....but the others AREN'T
human!
Astra, feeling something warm rush through her heart, gave Fred
a fond pat on his hand (sending a jolt of pleasure through both) and the
returned to her tale.
"So....as a service of equal importance to Aqualaria to substitute for
the arranged marriage I went off to slay the Dragon of the North Cavern,"
Astra finishes up, silently cursing the Greek philosophy duty to state.
"The lore books I had read on this vile dragon were erroneous and I was
capture....and used as bait for other adventurers."
"And to make you a more....effective bait Vellus stripped you naked,"
Fred sighed. "And quiet an effective one, frankly. Vellus almost got the
drop on me!"
Seeker makes a mental note that, sometime in the future, to find
out just how many Earth phrases and concepts seemed to be floating around
such a remote Mirror world.
"But you killed it...and that should have been the end," Astra sighs.
"Vellus' mentor banished us via magic into the desert... We survived to
find a mage tower of the....er...eccentric Mage cum Scientist Dr. Vincent.
He magically whisked us inside his tower, only to have disaster befall
Lord Fred when the magic creation known as Bobo injured Fred terribly."
"Aye, that purple toaster headed ape did indeed," Fred muttered darkly.
"And that mad mage healed me...HAH!.....by turning me into a freak with
scissors for hands! Only when I and Astra begged did that idiot try to
turn me back."
"And then disaster struck when I sneezed at an important point," Astra
said, puzzled. "Funny, there wasn't anything around that should have made
me do that. Say what you will of Vincent....that was the cleanest mage
laboratory that I've ever seen!"
"Actually my brother Charles' lab was better than than Vincent....but
I see your point." Fred put in, wondering if he would ever get to see his
sometimes zany....but brilliant brother again!
"Perhaps you were allergic to Bobo?" Torres conjectures. If all that
had
happened to hadn't happened, then she'd have thought Astra and Fred
mad for the tale they were telling.
As it was, it just made her head spin a bit.
"I ended up in the dark caverns of the dragon again and was able to
find my way to freedom," Astra says. "I had thought of using the magical
ear ring that Vincent had given me to call forth Pronklezilch, a friend
of Vincent. But I'd had a funny feeling about Vincent, about how stable
he was. I didn't want to risk calling forth another mage to somebody who
I had grave doubts about."
"Birds of a feather flocking together, huh?" Seeker put in. "You figured
that since Vincent was a little mentally unstable that the same might be
for his friends?"
"Right," Astra said. "Nice turn of the phrase, by the way. I've never
heard it, but it fits!"
"Er....thanks," Seeker said. That phrase was hundreds of years old back
Home.....but never had been born apparently back where Astra was born.
"I went through a passageway with demons carved on it and then swam
through an underground river and came to the beach of the river. Fred soon
found me, and we then made our way out to try to find our way to civilization
when we ran into the fell forest of Xythryx. We were entrapped by a giant
spider's web and knowing the deadly nature of those monsters, we had to
call upon Pronklezilch...else we'd be a spider's dinner!"
"But the damn mage turned out to be not only mad....but...horny,"
Fred ground out. "He appeared, found us in danger, but wouldn't have lifted
a finger to help unless Astra did some sexual favors for him. She tricked
him into freeing us....and killing the giant spider that was approaching....and
that REALLY got the mage angered. He used the ancient Atlantian Crystal
Staff on us....and transformed us into elves! And since....by some strange
sense of...alieness to this land around us....we've been teleported to
some other world! Meaning, I and Astra are now elves forevermore."
Elves have a connection to the land around them....and can tell
things instinctively about it that a human is blind to. Fred's senses are
telling him that Terra Prime isn't His Tera!
"Is that so bad?" Astra says softly. "We don't age...and we could
be together forevermore.....forever young and in love?"
"I'd....like that very much," Fred said softly....fully surrendering
to the demands on his elven heart. They kiss softly and tenderly for a
few minutes until a soft cough by Torres breaks the moment.
Astra soon renamed herself E'eysha to reflect her changed form.
Sigin 2 - One day his best friend Synizn showed up and asked
for a boat ride to Atlantis. He said yes. Maybe he shouldn't have (but
then again, he's just happy as a clam as he is now...). Carradene and then
a sudden shifting of the dimensional fabric of space/time sent him straight
to Terra-Prime. Once there, he took on some apprentices and are he is now
running around with a magic using female cyborg, several elves, two human
woman, and one Time Lord named the Doctor. Due to the fact that this Synizn
no longer believes in Tiamat (i.e. went "native" while blending in with
the humans). Fact of the matter is, he converted to Christianity so had
no qualms whatsoever in just adding a "2" after his name to make matters
easier. That had been deadly dangerous back on his homeworld since Dragons
must worship Tiamat, the state religion of the Dragon Nation. Now, things
have a lot better outlook for this dragon.
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